Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong.
Speaker 2: And Jetty and he arms who live from the studio
Speaker 2: c a dimly lit room deep with in the bowels.
Speaker 3: Of the Armstrong and Getty Communications Compound. And hey y'all
Speaker 3: today on Friday, Oh my god, it's Friday. It's Friday, Friday,
Speaker 3: getting down on Friday, partying, partying. Yeah, today we're under
Speaker 3: the tutelage of our general manager.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, just a clarifyer.
Speaker 1: Are we going to party in the front seat and
Speaker 1: party in the backseat?
Speaker 2: Absolutely?
Speaker 4: Are?
Speaker 1: Oh my lord, you're gonna hate me for this. But
Speaker 1: our general man today's inescapable.
Speaker 2: Trump Trump, Trump, Trump Trump Trump.
Speaker 3: I got all day Trump? Why always Trump? And that's
Speaker 3: the President of the United States?
Speaker 2: Why?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 2: Why is he our general manager of all?
Speaker 1: I've got, like you know, as usual, twenty seven different
Speaker 1: topic slash stories slash headlines to discuss. And of those
Speaker 1: twenty seven, I would venture to say roughly twenty four
Speaker 1: of them begin with the name Trump. Trump, names, Trump, declares,
Speaker 1: Trump changes, Trump nominates, Trumps signs, Trump defense. I'm scrolling
Speaker 1: through right now, there's literally all the big news stories
Speaker 1: of the day, including an inexplicable change to Veterans Day.
Speaker 2: More on that to come. Do you think it should
Speaker 2: be that way?
Speaker 3: Or is it the media obsessed and the clickonomics that
Speaker 3: drives that?
Speaker 2: Ah, but partly both.
Speaker 1: I think in the case of the things I'm looking at,
Speaker 1: it's pretty legitimate. There are a number of significant moves, changes, nominations, assignings,
Speaker 1: et cetera. The pace of change is a bit much,
Speaker 1: I think for a lot of folks. Uh, did we
Speaker 1: need to shake up Veterans Day? Do I need to
Speaker 1: think about that right now? There's not enough plates in
Speaker 1: the air.
Speaker 2: Anyway.
Speaker 3: My favorite thing is I saw him. I will have
Speaker 3: to get this clip. He spoke to the graduating class
Speaker 3: of Alabama yesterday and he said, you're the first class
Speaker 3: to graduate in the New Age of Prosperity or something
Speaker 3: like that, to the Golden Age of America.
Speaker 2: That's what it was, the New Golden Age of America.
Speaker 2: And everybody cheered and everything.
Speaker 1: All right, there go, those poor kids are going to
Speaker 1: graduate to a world where you don't have thirty dollars,
Speaker 1: you have only two, and they cost a little.
Speaker 2: More where AI does all the jobs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just to explain myself briefly, Trump said he issued
Speaker 1: some sort of proclamation, yes yesterday he would rename Veterans
Speaker 1: Day as Victory Day for World War One and designate
Speaker 1: May eighth as Victory Day for World War Two celebrate
Speaker 1: US military victories. And he posted on truth social explaining himself.
Speaker 1: We can discuss later. But it is curious.
Speaker 2: Huh. Yeah, I'd like to hear the explanation.
Speaker 1: What about like Vietnam vets and Korean War vets.
Speaker 3: I think the way we took the armacist of World
Speaker 3: War One and turned it into a day to celebrate
Speaker 3: all veterans, particularly people who've served in wars, it was
Speaker 3: a pretty good idea.
Speaker 2: I would agree. I don't have a problem with it.
Speaker 3: So I want to try my new thing. So I'm
Speaker 3: at home because I'm sick. Because I'm a very weak man,
Speaker 3: I'm sick all the time. I installed a new cough
Speaker 3: button on my microphone so I can cough it out.
Speaker 3: So I'm going to try it out right now. I'll
Speaker 3: start coughing. I'll press the button in the midst of
Speaker 3: my off to see if it This is.
Speaker 2: Exciting, and it works quite beautifully.
Speaker 1: The only regrettable part is the first establishing that you
Speaker 1: are coughing part, which I think is you know, probably unnecessary.
Speaker 2: Well, we've heard your coughing enough to believe.
Speaker 1: Okay, it was like the American worker jack a productive cough.
Speaker 2: Oh god, well we had to listen to it. Oh god.
Speaker 3: We got the jobs numbers out, So how do we
Speaker 3: read these? Left to right? That's always the best way.
Speaker 3: US beat expectations with one hundred and seventy seven thousand
Speaker 3: jobs added in April.
Speaker 2: Take that, stupid expectations. I don't you know, I don't.
Speaker 3: We don't quite get the whole expectations game quite But
Speaker 3: so the unemployment rate stays at four point two percent.
Speaker 2: But is this good enough?
Speaker 1: There is no less meaningful number in America or perhaps
Speaker 1: the universe than the unemployment, right. It is so fraud
Speaker 1: with the dishonesty and the hidden people, and also lots
Speaker 1: of reasons, including if you're not looking for work, it
Speaker 1: doesn't count. So all the people that are home who
Speaker 1: aren't looking for work aren't unemployed.
Speaker 2: I guess yeah.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna smoke pot and play video games and
Speaker 1: exist off the hardworking taxpayers generous teat. All right, well,
Speaker 1: you're not unemployed, or.
Speaker 2: My parents or my girlfriend. I'm not women do crimes.
Speaker 1: I empty out CVS's in cities and resell the goods.
Speaker 3: I've known a few women who've got to boyfriends slash
Speaker 3: husbands who are just always looking for a job but
Speaker 3: never seemed to get one. I married the opposite kind,
Speaker 3: the generous teat.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's not a bad band name.
Speaker 1: I don't know what our music would be, generously generous teat,
Speaker 1: the generous Tea. Yeah, it's like one of those bands
Speaker 1: that's not the Beatles. It's one name. How do you
Speaker 1: decide whether the alarm, for instance, whose leader passed away.
Speaker 2: The other day?
Speaker 3: But how do you decide whether or not to put
Speaker 3: a the in front of name? I say the for
Speaker 3: every band, just to have an all encompassing take.
Speaker 2: Care of things.
Speaker 3: But why do some bands decide not of the because
Speaker 3: it's more artsy and cool, because.
Speaker 2: You're the Rolling Stones, you're the Beatles? Correct? Correct? Yeah,
Speaker 2: but you are for instance Eurythmics.
Speaker 3: I would say the Eurythmics show you. I've said it
Speaker 3: ten thousand times introducing songs from it. Here are the
Speaker 3: rhythmics I know, and it's annoyed me every single time.
Speaker 2: And the counting crows, I'm sorry, counting. I need an article. No, no, see,
Speaker 2: you're not hip.
Speaker 3: I need to know that we're not in the effort
Speaker 3: of trying to figure out how many crows are amongst us.
Speaker 3: I need to know this is a title.
Speaker 1: Yes, and your sort of unhip type extends to It's
Speaker 1: always funny to hear old timey announcer like on the
Speaker 1: BBC who could not have been less him announcing the
Speaker 1: new record from the Pink Floydference.
Speaker 3: I've never said the Pink Floyd that one I've not done.
Speaker 3: We should start the show officially on this Friday, and
Speaker 3: I can test out my cough button during it. I'm
Speaker 3: Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this. It is Friday,
Speaker 3: May second, the year twenty twenty five, where I'm strong.
Speaker 2: You're getting we approve of this program. Let's leap into action.
Speaker 1: Then officially, according to FCC rules and regulations, the show
Speaker 1: starts officially at.
Speaker 4: Mark First, they came for the Latinos outside of the
Speaker 4: home depots, and I didn't say anything about it because
Speaker 4: I'm not a Latino at the home depot.
Speaker 3: Amen, So I think it occurred to him. He's like
Speaker 3: laying in bed, methought. You know, Latino and a home depot. Ryan,
Speaker 3: There's got to be something I can do with.
Speaker 1: That, Yeah, Congressman, thank Johnson. At Georgia.
Speaker 2: They came at the home depots and I said nothing.
Speaker 1: Continuing to search for some sort of hook to drag
Speaker 1: the American people back to their warm embrace on the
Speaker 1: d side of the aisle. I think he was riffing
Speaker 1: on the whole. They came for the Catholics and I
Speaker 1: said nothing. They came for the Jews and I said nothing.
Speaker 2: Yeah. When they came for me, there was no one
Speaker 2: left to say anything, right, they came in. They came for.
Speaker 1: The Latinos at the home depot and the Blacks at
Speaker 1: the Nordstrom Racks.
Speaker 2: We can keep going, but we won't. Yes, I don't know.
Speaker 2: It's kind of looking forward to it.
Speaker 3: Here's the most interesting thing I've heard today. I should
Speaker 3: start every day with this. What's the most interesting thing
Speaker 3: either one of us have heard today? Since we go
Speaker 3: through so much news from when we wake up to
Speaker 3: when we start this show, the most interesting thing I've
Speaker 3: heard today is that, oh, Mike Wallas who got moved
Speaker 3: from National Security Director to ambassador to the UN, which
Speaker 3: we found out later in the day yesterday, which moves
Speaker 3: you out of the inner circle. Still a real job,
Speaker 3: but you're not in the inner circle anymore. It's uh
Speaker 3: jd Vance trying to claim, tried to claim it was
Speaker 3: a promotion, but it's definitely not. You're you're out of
Speaker 3: the the inside. You're in the room for the big decisions.
Speaker 3: You're not that person anymore.
Speaker 2: You're moved outward exactly.
Speaker 3: But the most interesting thing is it is a confirmation position,
Speaker 3: and they are going to have the full Signal Gate
Speaker 3: investigation is going to be his confirmation hearing. That is
Speaker 3: going to be quite the delio getting to the bottom
Speaker 3: of that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I heard Democrats talking about it in salivating
Speaker 1: over it. And it will, uh, it will be purely
Speaker 1: an effort to oppose Trump, to deal a couple of
Speaker 1: bruises his way to well just true claim a claim
Speaker 1: a scalp.
Speaker 3: I don't true, but I would I would like to.
Speaker 3: I would like to have this. You know Republicans will
Speaker 3: be there to push back. Can can we freaking nailed
Speaker 3: down once and for all? What's classified what's not. What's
Speaker 3: a secure.
Speaker 2: Way of communicating what's not.
Speaker 3: If everybody's using signal, then let's decide signals okay. If
Speaker 3: it's actually not okay, then decide it's not okay. But
Speaker 3: let's figure that out once and damn for all. He
Speaker 3: was sitting in the meeting yesterday or day before, two
Speaker 3: days ago, the big cabinet meeting.
Speaker 2: He played clips from.
Speaker 3: He was sitting in that cabinet meeting with his phone
Speaker 3: out on signal with a whole bunch of different people. Now,
Speaker 3: a number of uh, former and current people in government
Speaker 3: have come forward and said, that is completely out of bounds.
Speaker 3: You cannot be in a cabinet meeting with your phone
Speaker 3: out on a non government communication device. You just that
Speaker 3: is just absolutely outbound or it isn't. Let's figure that out.
Speaker 2: M you got it? Uh? I don't know.
Speaker 3: Uh. He must think it's fine if he is sitting
Speaker 3: there in the cabinet meeting once again using the same platform.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I am so befuddled by this.
Speaker 1: I've kind of given up on figuring it out because
Speaker 1: somebody or everybody is lying or obfuse skating, and I
Speaker 1: just thought it.
Speaker 2: I don't have the bandwidth, as they say.
Speaker 3: Right, so you got that. That'll be exciting. There is
Speaker 3: way too much scoring points for my team that always
Speaker 3: goes on in this stuff. Just yay, we damaged the
Speaker 3: other side a little bit woo. Or yay they tried
Speaker 3: to damage just and we held firm.
Speaker 2: Woo.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, what does that do for us? The American
Speaker 1: people want anything, anything, not.
Speaker 2: A damn thing.
Speaker 3: Let me try my cough button again. Oh lord, it worked.
Speaker 1: They came for the Brits and Abercrombie and Fitch as
Speaker 1: harder than it looks.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So we got the headlines on the way. We got
Speaker 3: clips of the week. We got a big hour here
Speaker 3: in lots of news of the day. I hope you
Speaker 3: can stick around. Remind me to talk about the new
Speaker 3: scale at the doctor's office. I have a doctor's appointment
Speaker 3: this morning, but he's my doctor I've had forever.
Speaker 2: Moved to a new office. They got a new scale
Speaker 2: that got an interesting facet to it.
Speaker 1: Really, huh, I've only encountered two kinds of scales at
Speaker 1: doctor's offices in my life. I think now I want
Speaker 1: to steal your thunderous thunder. We will discuss a lot
Speaker 1: of good stuff to squeeze in this hour, Big show guaranteed,
Speaker 1: why is Trump changing Veterans Day?
Speaker 2: Among less significant questions, but bringing that Columbus Day kick ass.
Speaker 1: Yes, finally and all its traditions, it's beloved traditions. Let's
Speaker 1: figure out who's reporting what. It's the lead story with
Speaker 1: Katie Green.
Speaker 5: Katie, Well, it's the top story from the Washington Post.
Speaker 5: Employers added one hundred and seventy seven thousand jobs, a
Speaker 5: solid showing amid tariff uncertainty.
Speaker 2: So who wrote that headline? What publication is that?
Speaker 6: Washington Post?
Speaker 2: That's Washington Post. So they used a good positive word.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so Washington Post goes with solid.
Speaker 2: That's good. I mean that's the certain thing we're looking for. Right, Yes,
Speaker 2: solid is good, excellent. Wall Street Journal is fairly.
Speaker 3: Flat on THEIRS added one hundred and seventy seven thousand
Speaker 3: jobs in April despite tariff uncertainty, no real positive.
Speaker 1: York Times says US job growth remained strong.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's interesting.
Speaker 3: The Wall Street Journal is the one that didn't have
Speaker 3: a positive word in mad Life.
Speaker 6: From the Washington Times.
Speaker 5: Judge rules Trump can't use Alien Enemies Acts to port
Speaker 5: trend a Ragwa gang members.
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, it was always a bit of a stretch, honestly,
Speaker 1: looking at the reasoning. This one will bounce back and
Speaker 1: forth in the courts for a minute. I'm sure a
Speaker 1: Trump appointed judge.
Speaker 2: By the way, m HM from.
Speaker 5: ABC Trump said he's quote taking away Harvard's tax exempt status.
Speaker 2: Bunch of phonies.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Harvard is despicable, absolutely despicable. I don't think that
Speaker 1: can be done by executive fiat. In fact, I'm certain
Speaker 1: it can't be politically.
Speaker 3: All are my lawyer friends only care about legally, and
Speaker 3: they're probably right, But politically this is a huge win,
Speaker 3: not even close the percentage of people who want Harvard
Speaker 3: to get.
Speaker 2: Their come up ins versus people who want to stand
Speaker 2: up for him.
Speaker 1: Sure, the more I read about, for instance, Harvard's own
Speaker 1: recent anti semitism report, the more I read, the more
Speaker 1: disgusted I become. Every time I think I'm as disgusted
Speaker 1: as I'm going to get, I come across.
Speaker 3: More information just utterly unforgivable. I mean, I don't want
Speaker 3: to get off on this now. Maybe we'll talk about later.
Speaker 3: But the realignment of the political parties that we've all
Speaker 3: seen happening over the last couple of seconds do you
Speaker 3: think the average working class dude gives a crap about
Speaker 3: people standing up for you know whatever.
Speaker 2: Harvard needs to be stood up for in their tax
Speaker 2: exempt tatus right.
Speaker 6: From the New York Times.
Speaker 5: Marco Rubio, Secretary of everything.
Speaker 3: Yeah he's now Secretary of State and National Security Advisor.
Speaker 3: Makes you wonder if that one job is needed, if
Speaker 3: one person could do it.
Speaker 1: Uh. He is the first to hold those two jobs.
Speaker 1: Since does can anybody to remember anybody? Now?
Speaker 2: Hk hint, that's right, that's right, since Henry Sinja. But again,
Speaker 2: Ois talker.
Speaker 3: Ever, if one guy could do both jobs, I'm not
Speaker 3: sure one of those jobs is necessary.
Speaker 5: From NBC, Trump signs executive order to stop federal.
Speaker 6: Funding for NPR and PBS.
Speaker 2: Yes, I love that.
Speaker 3: Then always is we barely get any funding, Okay, then
Speaker 3: let it go.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, if.
Speaker 3: You don't get much, then I guess you don't need it, so.
Speaker 2: You'll operate on your own.
Speaker 1: Fine, But America needs are unbiased in thorough journalism.
Speaker 2: Ah response America.
Speaker 6: From the New York Post.
Speaker 5: I felt insecure about being tall, but now I get
Speaker 5: paid ten million dollars a year as an OnlyFans model.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's My least favorite clickblaite bait is I'm so
Speaker 3: hot that it's caused me problems, right whatever.
Speaker 5: This one's also from the New York Post. Purse is
Speaker 5: made from t rex. This company claims leather made from
Speaker 5: sixty six million year old dinosaur DNA is coming.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it makes the dire wolves running around. Announcement look legit.
Speaker 2: Oh really, I want to hear about this cool and
Speaker 2: it's it's it's it's bull duty.
Speaker 5: And finally from the Babylon b bad Timing Kilmar Obrego
Speaker 5: Garcia honored with MS thirteen's Employees of the Month award.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 3: And so we got clips of the week coming up.
Speaker 3: And also changes at scales and doctors' offices at least
Speaker 3: at mine. And it was overdue actually, so we'll get
Speaker 3: to that coming up.
Speaker 2: Bag.
Speaker 3: Also lots of news in the day. It's gonna be
Speaker 3: a huge Friday. Like Joe said, what did you say
Speaker 3: something about how great.
Speaker 2: This was gonna be. It's gonna be a huge price's
Speaker 2: probably a long.
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3: Speaking of things the working class does not care about,
Speaker 3: which is an important voting group. Reading this article in
Speaker 3: the New York Times about the Kennedy Center, and which
Speaker 3: symphony orchestras, for instance, refused to perform. Now that Trump
Speaker 3: has weighed in on the Kennedy Center, blah blah blah,
Speaker 3: and uh, of course it was fine for decades to
Speaker 3: have a bunch of liberal musicians, actors, whatever, get up
Speaker 3: there in bad mouth, all conservative principles, right, But now
Speaker 3: that Trump's involved in the Kennedy Center, Oh, you can't
Speaker 3: perform there?
Speaker 2: What a bunch of crap.
Speaker 1: And not only you know, disagree with what we might espouse,
Speaker 1: but call us monsters, troglodytes, and what was Hillary's basket
Speaker 1: of deplorables and the rest of that? Yeah, okay, great
Speaker 1: Peggy Noon, and amen to that. Peggy noonan brilliant editorialist.
Speaker 1: Another great piece today in which she takes aim at
Speaker 1: a number of different folks, including Trump, with some fairly
Speaker 1: legitimate criticism, I think. But one of the things she's
Speaker 1: pointing out, as we have and others have, is the
Speaker 1: utter miserable failure of so many of our elites are
Speaker 1: so called elites, education, health, establishment, governments, you know, politicians,
Speaker 1: the arts, just just lying to us, abusing us, playing
Speaker 1: us for idiots, etc.
Speaker 2: And the idea that Trump caused.
Speaker 1: Trump is perhaps the most idiotic notion I've ever come across.
Speaker 1: He was a reaction to America looking at all of
Speaker 1: the elites, and Jack, you mentioned a couple of them,
Speaker 1: the Harvard's of the world, and saying, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: Not only are these people not looking out for us,
Speaker 1: they're contemptuous.
Speaker 2: Of us, and they abuse us on a daily basis. Well,
Speaker 2: I would like to put my thumb in their eye.
Speaker 3: Sure, And for all these years we've had to just
Speaker 3: sit there and take it, watching TV, go into concerts,
Speaker 3: whatever you do, get lectured about how awful you are.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Peggy noon, And I will just summarize, very
Speaker 1: very briefly. She comes to a point where she thinks
Speaker 1: there may be a transition from normal people like ourselves
Speaker 1: saying they had it coming to oh they didn't have
Speaker 1: that coming, and whoa, we didn't have it coming.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, that's.
Speaker 1: Good talking about the economy and tariffs and stuff like that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I thought that was really good and clever. As always,
Speaker 1: so much talk about that. First, it's the Friday tradition.
Speaker 1: Let's take fond look back at the week that was.
Speaker 1: It's cow clips of the Week.
Speaker 2: America wants our land, our water. I need a lot
Speaker 2: of water.
Speaker 1: Tick.
Speaker 2: That's just stupid. Hoder. The week President Trump and President
Speaker 2: Volodim Zelenski reunited at his funeral, I read President Trump's move.
Speaker 2: They aren't to make a needle.
Speaker 6: Pewton thinks that America has taken the bullet train to chumptown.
Speaker 1: We are over the shock of the American betrayal, but
Speaker 1: we should never forget the lessons.
Speaker 5: But this is really stunning news that Mike Waltz, the
Speaker 5: National Security Advisor, pushed out.
Speaker 1: But now in as the nominee for the United Nations Ambassador.
Speaker 1: President Trump's call to the founder and executive chair of Amazon.
Speaker 3: Peeve, maybe the children will have two dolls instead of
Speaker 3: thirty dollars. You know, they have ships that are loaded
Speaker 3: up with stuff, much of which they're all of it,
Speaker 3: but much of which we are. Milwaukee County Circuit Judge
Speaker 3: Hannah Dugan faces multiple charges for allegedly obstructing ICE.
Speaker 2: Agents while a state prosecutor and victims of domestic violence
Speaker 2: are sitting in the courtroom.
Speaker 3: It is a sad reflection on the state of our
Speaker 3: media that you obsessively try to shill for this MS
Speaker 3: thirteen terrorists.
Speaker 2: Let's move on.
Speaker 6: Wait a minute, Terry, he did not have to let.
Speaker 2: Or MS one.
Speaker 3: It is MS one.
Speaker 2: Three and that was a photoshoph. Hey, they're giving you
Speaker 2: the big break of a lifetime. You know you're doing
Speaker 2: the interview. I picked you because frankly I never heard
Speaker 2: of you. But that's okay.
Speaker 3: But I also was on the ticket quite honestly, you know,
Speaker 3: because I could code talk to white guys watching football
Speaker 3: fixing their drug.
Speaker 6: Here too. Yutta Dieyetta die.
Speaker 3: Robert De Niro's twenty nine year old child, Aaron, has
Speaker 3: come out as transgender.
Speaker 2: When the press asked her for comment, she said, you're
Speaker 2: talking to va them. How did you guys meet?
Speaker 6: Not talking about this?
Speaker 3: No, no, thank you?
Speaker 6: With our next meeting right here, man, Yeah, let's be less,
Speaker 6: but you're gonna have to wait a little bit long enough.
Speaker 2: I just had a really good idea.
Speaker 1: Let's start another United States somewhere else, same constitution, same principle,
Speaker 1: same Declaration of Independence, but have a careful screening process
Speaker 1: before people can come into it, because the you know,
Speaker 1: in principle, this is still.
Speaker 2: An amazing, amazing country.
Speaker 3: So I've got a doctor's appointment today during the show,
Speaker 3: I'm going to disappear for a brief amount of time.
Speaker 3: Doctor's office happens to be right by my house, so
Speaker 3: I'll be gone long. I'm filling out the paperwork during
Speaker 3: the commercials, you know, the you don't have the preregistration?
Speaker 2: Yes, And then when you get there, they ask you
Speaker 2: the same questions again, Yes, and you wonder why you
Speaker 2: did it, and.
Speaker 1: You ask them why and they say it says something something,
Speaker 1: and everybody's eyes glaze over you and you never get
Speaker 1: a straight answer.
Speaker 3: This is kind of gross, and I apologize. If you
Speaker 3: don't like gross, tune out for two minutes. But I'm
Speaker 3: filling out the paperwork and it says, how would you
Speaker 3: describe your cough?
Speaker 2: Here are the options?
Speaker 3: Oh boy, dry cough, wet cough, wet cough with brown discharge, Oh,
Speaker 3: wet cough with blood tinge to discharge, Oh wet.
Speaker 2: Cough with puss like discharge. There's oh good god, or
Speaker 2: wet cough with bloody discharge. I feel like there's three
Speaker 2: different than the other one. I feel like like at
Speaker 2: least three of those.
Speaker 1: You should be at the er. You shouldn't be home
Speaker 1: filling out this paperwork. Yeah, I agree completely am horrified
Speaker 1: by this. Oh my god, if you have those oh
Speaker 1: yeah symptoms, get to.
Speaker 2: The doctor yesterday.
Speaker 1: Yeah, go to the talk in the box or your neighbors,
Speaker 1: a nurse or something. Don't wait for your appointment at
Speaker 1: three this afternoon. If some of those things are happening
Speaker 1: to you, geez, the.
Speaker 2: Here's the one. Your symptoms, Well, I've been coughing up blood?
Speaker 2: Really how long? Yeah? Six weeks?
Speaker 3: Blood, among other things. So here's I think I played
Speaker 3: this bit on the ars. He's talking about my doctor moved,
Speaker 3: got a new doctor's office, and one major change that
Speaker 3: I've noticed is the new scale.
Speaker 2: And I think we played this a year or so ago.
Speaker 2: It's a bit Louis c. K had. It was all
Speaker 2: about this woman who is really overweight, and she went to.
Speaker 3: The doctor and they needed to weigh her, but they
Speaker 3: didn't have any scales that could handle her weight, and
Speaker 3: so they took her to the zoo. Then wait her
Speaker 3: at the zoo, and he was talking about how just incredibly,
Speaker 3: you know, just bad for your juju it is to
Speaker 3: have to them to say to you, I'm sorry, we're
Speaker 3: gonna have to drive.
Speaker 2: You over to this and weigh you we don't have
Speaker 2: any scales that can handle you.
Speaker 1: Right right, not even like the freight yard or you know,
Speaker 1: somewhere else that weighs heavy things.
Speaker 2: No, the zoo.
Speaker 3: And uh. And his his main point, which I thought
Speaker 3: was really good, is it's like everybody's overweight and we
Speaker 3: still have the old timey scales. He said, there are
Speaker 3: two trans people in America. We changed every bathroom in
Speaker 3: the country. But if you're overweight, you have to go
Speaker 3: to the zoo to get weight at the door, which
Speaker 3: is a decent point.
Speaker 2: But I didn't notice that the doctor at the new
Speaker 2: doctor's office, they have.
Speaker 3: The big giant pull your semi up on there and
Speaker 3: get it weighed, empty platform for laying people. Now at
Speaker 3: the zoo, the thing is the size of a table. Yes, right,
Speaker 3: the doctor's office.
Speaker 2: Uh. Scale is now the size of a card table.
Speaker 2: It used to be tiny.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: You stepped up on there.
Speaker 3: Your two feet barely fit on there, like the scale
Speaker 3: I've got at home. But now it's the giant lumber
Speaker 3: up there, six hundred poun person scale.
Speaker 1: Wait wait, wait, wait, wait, you don't necessarily lumber up there.
Speaker 2: They wait.
Speaker 1: Everybody on that scale. They don't have two lines one
Speaker 1: for the not immense and one for the immense.
Speaker 3: I feel we're getting on there because I walk, you know,
Speaker 3: I take several steps, stop and rest and then wait
Speaker 3: until I get to the middle of the scale and
Speaker 3: stop and weigh myself because it's so giant. But you know,
Speaker 3: I suppose that's a change that needed to happen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's funny.
Speaker 1: My doctor's offices have had those for years and years,
Speaker 1: kind of a big platform.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what you know, well, it beats a trip to
Speaker 2: the zoo. Huh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sorry. We're gonna have to wait till they're
Speaker 1: done with the rhinoceros. All right, step right up.
Speaker 2: Did you like some ay while you wait?
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, yeah, for the indignity of being taken
Speaker 1: to the zoo of courses, Yeah, I'm against that.
Speaker 3: And they've had to reinforce you know, Gurney's beds, all
Speaker 3: kinds of stuff that were made really for nobody over
Speaker 3: two hundred and fifty three hundred pounds, which almost didn't
Speaker 3: exist when I was a kid.
Speaker 2: Right toilets too, Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's fine. It happens.
Speaker 1: Food here is going to take care that you're going
Speaker 1: to get rid of the food dies and the ultra
Speaker 1: processed stuff and will he be healthy again?
Speaker 2: It's the freaking seed oils. Yes, Ka, do you have
Speaker 2: a comment on this?
Speaker 5: I just I went to the doctor recently and I
Speaker 5: noticed that our our scale, they're doing it in kilograms
Speaker 5: instead of pounds, so it looks a lot lower, which
Speaker 5: I appreciate.
Speaker 2: That's pretty good.
Speaker 3: Now, congratulations, you're only sixty kilograms? Yeah right, Wow, that's weak.
Speaker 3: We're Americans. First of all, what are you going to
Speaker 3: some weird fur and Canadian doctors.
Speaker 6: Terri, No American doctor, just giving it to me and kilograms.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm completely sympathetic to her this because I have
Speaker 3: friends and family who are on the heavier side, and
Speaker 3: as so many people are, and.
Speaker 2: Certainly the idea that the doctor's office can't weigh you
Speaker 2: is crazy, right right us to adapt and overcome.
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Speaker 3: So we talked to some yesterday about the minerals agreement
Speaker 3: the United States and Ukraine has come to. I listened
Speaker 3: to some great podcasts where people really broke that down
Speaker 3: in a couple of things I did not know that
Speaker 3: are crucial to the agreement. We can talk about in
Speaker 3: the coming hours. A fair amount of news of the
Speaker 3: day is there, always is. How about we get to
Speaker 3: mailbag next.
Speaker 2: Stay here.
Speaker 3: We don't usually do random crime stories for you, it's
Speaker 3: not our thing, but I got a great, great one
Speaker 3: for you later.
Speaker 2: Maybe I'll get to among other things to talk about
Speaker 2: today and the.
Speaker 3: Usual swirl of Trump that was Joe's general manager today,
Speaker 3: Trump and.
Speaker 1: Everything, a list of things he's declared, signed, changed center,
Speaker 1: Some of.
Speaker 2: It great, some of it. What.
Speaker 1: Here's your freedom loving quote of the day, sent along
Speaker 1: by Alert listener Brian.
Speaker 2: I like this. It's from nab Nasim teleb Well.
Speaker 3: I was just reading about a fascinating guy, the wickedly
Speaker 3: talented Nasim Selet.
Speaker 1: Different, different fellow. He's actually a mathematician, writer, thinker. It's
Speaker 1: written some groundbreaking, universally worshiped books about probability and lack
Speaker 1: swan events and how I love that sort of thing.
Speaker 2: Be prepared for me. Yeah, you know what, I will.
Speaker 1: Well, we'll see if we can post like his Wikipedia
Speaker 1: page to hot links at armstrong and geddy dot com
Speaker 1: just so you can read more about him.
Speaker 2: I'd love to read some of his books. I'm not
Speaker 2: sure how realistic.
Speaker 3: Is it it is.
Speaker 2: I'll get round to them and stick with them.
Speaker 1: But anyway, he wrote a quote, I'm a libertarian at
Speaker 1: the federal level, a Republican at the state level, a
Speaker 1: Democrat at the local level, and a socialist at the
Speaker 1: family level.
Speaker 2: That's pretty good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, you could quibble with that a little bit,
Speaker 1: but his point being it reinforces the very idea of
Speaker 1: our country. Federal government ought to do as little as possible.
Speaker 1: They're not there to do much. State okay, little more,
Speaker 1: but stay out.
Speaker 2: Of our affairs all right.
Speaker 1: In your town, okay, let's talk about solving some of
Speaker 1: the problems that make our town less pleasant. And in
Speaker 1: the family obviously you're sharing based on love and blah
Speaker 1: blah blah. But the problem is when it gets turned
Speaker 1: on its head you have the federal gun pointed at
Speaker 1: your head to try to enforce some misplaced notion of socialism.
Speaker 3: I say it at the dinner table every night, people
Speaker 3: will receive according to their needs, based on according to
Speaker 3: their means or whatever that's saying is.
Speaker 2: To each, according to their needs, from each, according to
Speaker 2: their ladies, or whatever it is.
Speaker 1: Whatever.
Speaker 2: Yes, now did you wash your hands? Go wash your hands? Mailbag,
Speaker 2: let's phones at the table? No phones at the table.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 1: You got this note from our old friend and colleague,
Speaker 1: Paul Jack. Some encouragement for Jack on the topic of
Speaker 1: disappearing fingernail clippers.
Speaker 2: Question.
Speaker 1: Yes right, our daughter's denied losing many many fingernail clippers
Speaker 1: through the ears.
Speaker 2: When our oldest daughter was.
Speaker 1: Emptying a room and packing her stuff up for college,
Speaker 1: she sheepishly came into our room, opened her hand, and
Speaker 1: handed us six fingernail clippers. Very satisfying, Sick. I was
Speaker 1: great to hear from you, Paul. Fine fellow Brian and Chico, California.
Speaker 1: Dear Jack and Joe today got into something that's been
Speaker 1: bothering me a bit confusing, mean and median Ah this
Speaker 1: topic in He's traightened it out a bit today, but
Speaker 1: maybe not entirely.
Speaker 2: Two thirds of all people.
Speaker 1: Could be better looking than average, likely but possible, two
Speaker 1: thirds cannot be above the median of looks. Consider for
Speaker 1: the example you yourselves have used. It's a it's a classic.
Speaker 1: My friend and I are sitting in a bar. Jeff Bezos,
Speaker 1: in a bizarrely small T shirt walks into the bar.
Speaker 2: Well done, Brian.
Speaker 1: Suddenly the average net worth of the bar is approximately
Speaker 1: fifteen billion dollars, yet nine out of ten of us
Speaker 1: are below average.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's good. That's a good one right there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, love your show, but sometimes not your math. Well,
Speaker 1: you can't have everything, Brian. I don't feel like we were.
Speaker 2: We were fine on that. I think we were.
Speaker 1: Indeed, I think maybe Brian has a waxy ears needs
Speaker 1: to clean them out. Let's see how about this from
Speaker 1: Oh Joe and Buffalo, New York. Absolutely love this, Joe,
Speaker 1: thanks for reaching out. We're talking about non tariff trade barriers.
Speaker 2: Specifically.
Speaker 1: A couple of nights ago, Brett Beaar was talking to
Speaker 1: our our head trade representative guy and he was holding
Speaker 1: up a look of non tariff trade barriers for each
Speaker 1: country and it's absolutely dizzying because every country has their
Speaker 1: own thing and you have to figure them out and
Speaker 1: get around them, and it's all meant to limit your
Speaker 1: exports to them in a way that Donald Jay would
Speaker 1: say is unfair trade, and I think he's quite correct.
Speaker 2: But anyway, so Joe from Buffalo wanted to illustrate this.
Speaker 1: He says, Guys has shipped a bunch of material to
Speaker 1: Europe for a trade show. The peace parts included screws,
Speaker 1: bold swashers, other metal parts you know you're putting together
Speaker 1: your trade show display. I had European import people from
Speaker 1: our company reach out to me and ask me for
Speaker 1: information to comply with the so called Carbon Border Adjustment mechanism,
Speaker 1: the SEABAM. This was implemented by EU regulations in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three, and he gives the specific regulation. I had
Speaker 1: no idea what half of this information was, and I
Speaker 1: was certainly not going to call a US distributor and
Speaker 1: ask them to provide this information for screws and washers.
Speaker 1: In the end, our company will have to pay a
Speaker 1: fee for some sort of non compliance. Thought you'd find
Speaker 1: this interesting, and indeed I do. So he sent the
Speaker 1: actual form to US for his nuts and Bolts quantity
Speaker 1: of goods, easy enough, country of origin, easy enough installation
Speaker 1: data installation where the goods were produced, including un low code,
Speaker 1: company name, address, geographical coordinates of the main emission source of.
Speaker 2: The installation for his screws and washers.
Speaker 1: Directed mission emissions, yes, specific direct embedded emissions need to
Speaker 1: be reported, Production routes, the production roots need to be reported.
Speaker 2: This could be iron or steel products.
Speaker 1: Blast, furnace, roos, blah blah blah, emissions, qualifying parameters, indirect emissions,
Speaker 1: data quality and.
Speaker 3: Carbon price do makes me tired thinking about it. And
Speaker 3: of course a big giant corporation can hire somebody to
Speaker 3: get all that paperwork going.
Speaker 2: If you're a mom and pop shop, then it's just it's.
Speaker 1: All right, right, As Joe and Buffalo points out, if
Speaker 1: you are a giant company and you're going to be
Speaker 1: doing the sort of volume that would pay for these
Speaker 1: compliant costs compliance costs, then yeah, you would do it.
Speaker 1: But as a small, medium, average, even fairly large company thinks,
Speaker 1: screw it, I'm not exporting to the EU.
Speaker 2: This is impossible. That's what Trump is talking about. So
Speaker 2: we will get into more news that Ukraine minerals.
Speaker 3: Right deal, there's some stuff in there that's pretty interesting,
Speaker 3: among other things, coming up an hour or two, Armstrong
Speaker 3: and Getty