Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong and
Speaker 1: Getty and no he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 2: In the so called White House Press Secretary wants to
Speaker 2: lecture America and lecture us about civility. Get lost, clean
Speaker 2: up your own house before you have anything to say
Speaker 2: to us about the language that we use. The threat
Speaker 2: right now in this country to the American people are
Speaker 2: extreme maga Republicans.
Speaker 1: That's the threat.
Speaker 3: No one has ever been more dangerous to this country
Speaker 3: than Donald Trump, and he is a fascist to his core.
Speaker 4: We're to war right now to save this country, and
Speaker 4: so you have to be willing to do whatever is
Speaker 4: necessary in order to save the country.
Speaker 5: I don't understand why it's so difficult for the press
Speaker 5: to have a consistent narrative about how dangerous Trump is.
Speaker 1: Do you think Donald Trump is a fascist? Yes? I do.
Speaker 3: We have a tim ol Hitler in the White House
Speaker 3: right now.
Speaker 1: They're still going to have to go out and put
Speaker 1: a bullet in Donald Trump. And that's a fact. He's
Speaker 1: just a vile creature, the worst thing one face of
Speaker 1: the earth.
Speaker 3: Who said the bullet come in. I mean that stands
Speaker 3: out is different than the other ones.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't recognize that.
Speaker 3: What was that that? That couldn't have been anybody in office?
Speaker 3: Nobody say to that.
Speaker 5: Wait a minute, Jasmine Crockett just said it was the
Speaker 5: whole thing was faked. It was a false flag. She's
Speaker 5: in office, she's an idiot. Well, we'll figure out.
Speaker 3: Saying something is fake is different than saying somebody needs
Speaker 3: to put a bullet in the president.
Speaker 1: You couldn't get away with that. Who was that in
Speaker 1: that clip?
Speaker 6: Rick Wilson, he's a political strategist.
Speaker 3: He's the Lincoln Project. Yeah right, those people. Lincoln Project
Speaker 3: is the most embarrassing thing anyway.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 5: So what's really interesting out what's emerging from looking into
Speaker 5: the latest guy to try to assassinate Trump is how
Speaker 5: weirdly mundane, passionless, ill thought out, hardly ideological it is.
Speaker 5: I'm stealing this from Michael Brandon Doherty of the National Review,
Speaker 5: but he said it almost feels like as casual as
Speaker 5: assassination attempt as retweet. And there's a lot to this
Speaker 5: and I'm hoping I can, you know, herd it into
Speaker 5: a recognizable shape. But if you look at this guy's
Speaker 5: history online, it's interesting. He has a great deal of
Speaker 5: animosity toward Trump and the administration. But for instance, he
Speaker 5: had lately said that on the the insane islamiunist influencer
Speaker 5: Hassan Piker, he said, where is that quote? After he
Speaker 5: we mostly posted about video games, but then he started
Speaker 5: to get kind of political. But and he retweeted posts
Speaker 5: comparing Trump to Hitler the wake of the attempted assassination
Speaker 5: of Trump and Butler Pennsylvania, all and retweeted posts basically
Speaker 5: suggesting the attack could have been staged, blah blah blah.
Speaker 5: And then but then when the Hassan Piker guy was
Speaker 5: tweeting in favor of shoplifting, uh, he said, he retweeted
Speaker 5: somebody who said, I've spent a lot of time in
Speaker 5: countries where graft and drifting or the norm, and I
Speaker 5: assure you it, it's worth a truly immense cost to
Speaker 5: prevent that from taking hold in our society. You don't
Speaker 5: want to live in that kind of society. Hassan Piker
Speaker 5: is an effing idiot. And the shooter retweeted it, and
Speaker 5: then he retweeted somebody that's ae take and then he
Speaker 5: retweeted somebody else who was talking about some influencer streamer's
Speaker 5: dumb take, and he retweeted, I do not listen to
Speaker 5: any streamers because streamers are dumb. And a review of
Speaker 5: his posts on Blue Sky suggest the alleged gunman was
Speaker 5: primarily drawn to mainstream resistance figures, Democratic activist Will Stancil,
Speaker 5: Princeton history professor Kevin Cruz, democratic propagandist Aaron Rupert, New
Speaker 5: York Times columnist Jammel Bowie, Sarah Syong, the former Times
Speaker 5: editorial board member.
Speaker 1: That's who he mostly seemed into.
Speaker 5: Now, is this trying to draw some sort of therefore
Speaker 5: these people are assassins. No, not really. We all need
Speaker 5: to lower the political rhetoric. But the interesting and I
Speaker 5: think significant part of this is that this guy, in
Speaker 5: some of it, like his quote unquote manifesto, said things
Speaker 5: like administration officials, not including mister Patel, who he'd opened,
Speaker 5: who he had mentioned earlier, they are targets prioritized from
Speaker 5: highest ranking to lowest. He was armed with a shotgun, handgun,
Speaker 5: several knives. Spoke about his mission in the way someone
Speaker 5: who imagines himself a Navy seal.
Speaker 1: Might but is not actually a Navy seal, he might speak.
Speaker 5: They are targets only if necessary, Alan said of the
Speaker 5: Secret Service, and to be incapacitated none lethally if possible.
Speaker 3: Wow, have you ever watched a war movie or anything
Speaker 3: like that? I mean, I really think you have a
Speaker 3: it's childlife it is.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and then he included in his quote unquote manifesto
Speaker 5: three objections to his attack on the Washington Hilton, and
Speaker 5: his rebuttals to those objections, including number one was as
Speaker 5: a Christian, you should turn the other cheek, he replied,
Speaker 5: turning the other cheek as for when you yourself are oppressed.
Speaker 5: I'm not the person raped in a detention camp. I'm
Speaker 5: not the fisherman executed without trial. I'm not a school
Speaker 5: kid blown up, or a child starved or teenage girl
Speaker 5: abused by the many criminals in this administration. He'd bought
Speaker 5: the whole Trump is a.
Speaker 3: Pedophiles, as Nora O'Donnell mentioned the on Sixty Minutes the
Speaker 3: other night. Yeah he he. I personally know, Like I'm
Speaker 3: not just read this online. I personally know people who
Speaker 3: believe the Trump Hillary bushes all of them are baby
Speaker 3: raping pedophiles. So this guy believed that stuff, I mean,
Speaker 3: and if you believed that stuff, you could justify any action.
Speaker 3: If you believed that stuff, I mean, you could justify anything.
Speaker 5: It's also worth mentioning as both the free press, I
Speaker 5: believe it was. And a couple other people have mentioned
Speaker 5: that CNN has gone very big because again, this guy
Speaker 5: seemed to be mostly into pretty mainstream commentators.
Speaker 1: CNN's gone really.
Speaker 5: Big with a couple of those completely discredited people who
Speaker 5: came out of the woodwork and claimed they knew about
Speaker 5: Jeffrey Epstein, that there was baby eating, and that Trump
Speaker 5: was there and she saw him raping a young girl
Speaker 5: and just what I mean. The FBI under Biden, for
Speaker 5: what it's worth, you know, looked at these people and said, Okay,
Speaker 5: this is the sort of mentally ill person who comes.
Speaker 1: Out of the woodwork.
Speaker 5: But there are quote unquote mainstream outlets that are reporting
Speaker 5: this stuff gleefully because such great, delicious clickbait. But then
Speaker 5: you've got an intelligent, but again childlike in his judgment,
Speaker 5: fella who decides it's all true and he's gonna kill
Speaker 5: Trump in his entire cabinet for it. And his plan
Speaker 5: is again childlike in its completely utter lack.
Speaker 3: Of reality, so hear his marriage was on the rocks,
Speaker 3: or there's something bad with his family life.
Speaker 5: He had apologized he wrote his quote unquote manifesto as
Speaker 5: a suicide note essentially, and apologized for the pain it
Speaker 5: was going to cause his family, and also for the
Speaker 5: pain he had caused previous to that, the specifics of
Speaker 5: which I have no idea to.
Speaker 3: So there might be something we don't know about, something
Speaker 3: in his main personal relationship.
Speaker 5: Right, And though this guy was childlike, he was planning
Speaker 5: to run into a room in which the president was eating,
Speaker 5: guns blazing, he had to know he would die.
Speaker 3: Well, that's what I've wondered all along. It doesn't necessarily sound.
Speaker 1: Like he was expecting to die.
Speaker 3: I mean, if you do that experiment a thousand times,
Speaker 3: nine hundred and ninety nine times, you end up dead.
Speaker 3: I mean, the fact that he is not dead is shocking.
Speaker 3: He wasn't even shot. He just fell down, yeah where
Speaker 3: they could tackle.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I still think there's more to be learned on the
Speaker 3: bringing him down situation. It sounds like because there was
Speaker 3: a woman on the other day who happened to be
Speaker 3: in the hallway where he went down. You saw how
Speaker 3: he was running. If you've ever run like so fast,
Speaker 3: you're kind of out of control. He looked like he
Speaker 3: was running out of control. Why carrying a bunch of stuff?
Speaker 3: He just I think he fell and all his guns
Speaker 3: went flying and they were in and grabbed him. What
Speaker 3: if he hadn't fallen, would he had just went around
Speaker 3: that corner, down a couple of stairs and been in
Speaker 3: that room with a bunch of guns.
Speaker 1: Sure looks like it, And what did the It looks
Speaker 1: to me like.
Speaker 3: If he hadn't fallen, he had just been able to
Speaker 3: go right around the corner, down the stairs, and he'd
Speaker 3: been in that room full of people. Now you know
Speaker 3: what he'd been able to pull off?
Speaker 1: Then? I don't know, but people would have gotten shot.
Speaker 5: He had to recover a huge geographic space to get
Speaker 5: to the president and the people on the dais, but
Speaker 5: he certainly could have gunned down innocence and journalists and
Speaker 5: guests and that sort of thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think he fell down.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm willing to wait a couple of weeks for that,
Speaker 5: because you know, the first stuff you hear is always fake.
Speaker 5: In fact, later, maybe I've got a piece on all
Speaker 5: of the big time ish influors with influencers with hundreds
Speaker 5: of thousands or more followers on Twitter, how they were
Speaker 5: immediately out wearing their sexy keyhole dress, pronouncing what the
Speaker 5: news was and how it was all wrong, but that
Speaker 5: these people have hundreds of thousands of followers. Anyway, to
Speaker 5: get back to the main thread of this, there have
Speaker 5: been a couple of times in recent days we've quoted
Speaker 5: Jonathan Alpert, who is a practicing psychologist or psychiatrist, and
Speaker 5: he's writing a book about some of the mental problems
Speaker 5: of the modern age, and he's had a couple of
Speaker 5: great pieces printed, including in The Walls Street Journal, and
Speaker 5: he's writing about when rationalization turns deadly. The common thread
Speaker 5: that ties it would be Assassin's manifesto to a journalist's
Speaker 5: excuses for micro looting.
Speaker 1: And he's talking.
Speaker 5: About how this guy's manifesto said, do you think that
Speaker 5: when I see someone raped or murdered or abused, I
Speaker 5: should walk on by because it would be inconvenient for
Speaker 5: people who aren't the victim. Insofar as representatives and judges
Speaker 5: do not follow with the law, no one is required
Speaker 5: to yield them anything so unlawfully ordered. And he writes
Speaker 5: this reflects a pattern you see every day in less
Speaker 5: spectacular form, and he goes to the execrable, steaming horror
Speaker 5: that was the New York Times podcast with that Hassan
Speaker 5: Piker and those two giggling woman journalists indulging his islamiunism.
Speaker 5: But the logic is familiar. Large companies can absorb the loss.
Speaker 5: The system is unfair, the harm is negligible, and he
Speaker 5: says the behavior recedes and the explanation takes over, and
Speaker 5: if the explanation and I'm real summarizing quickly because we're
Speaker 5: running low on time, but he says, it's about how
Speaker 5: easily grievance turns into permission, and how feeling wronged starts
Speaker 5: to look like a reason to do wrong. And he says,
Speaker 5: in his practice that sort of rationalization he's seen throughout
Speaker 5: his entire career. Something was taken from me, so taking
Speaker 5: something back feels less like a violation and more like correction.
Speaker 5: And your question quietly shifts from is this right? To
Speaker 5: who deserves it? And once it shifts, the answer is
Speaker 5: always the same Jews. They deserve whatever I take from them,
Speaker 5: or if I hurt them or whatever. And he says
Speaker 5: it destroys relationships, and it destroys societies if it gets going.
Speaker 5: It's almost as if far leftists want to destroy our
Speaker 5: society and are teaching these values to all of our
Speaker 5: children and young adults.
Speaker 1: That would be terrible, wouldn't it.
Speaker 3: That's interesting though, I'd never thought about that, and I
Speaker 3: think that sounds true just psychologically. When you've been wronged,
Speaker 3: and we all get wronged at various times where things
Speaker 3: unfair happen, we have a desire, a need probably to
Speaker 3: balance the scales somehow.
Speaker 5: Well, right, it's just an extrapolation of he hit me,
Speaker 5: so I'm going to hit him. But when you get
Speaker 5: into human style rationalization, the hit that he did to
Speaker 5: me might be something perfectly acceptable or mundane. I can
Speaker 5: flesh this out because it's really well written. You know,
Speaker 5: maybe a little bit later, Joe, you see it everywhere
Speaker 5: and it's being taught to the kids. Do you all
Speaker 5: know about Chonkers. Chonkers, the giant sea Lion.
Speaker 1: Is the toast of the West Coast.
Speaker 3: It's a big star. You need to talk about Chonkers.
Speaker 3: I think I'm gonna take the kids to see Chonkers
Speaker 3: this weekend. That, among other things on the waist to hear.
Speaker 3: Joe and I, as of March, which was last month,
Speaker 3: have been on the air in San Francisco on the
Speaker 3: radio for twenty three years.
Speaker 1: It's amazing.
Speaker 3: That can't be right, I know. Anyway, So we're familiar
Speaker 3: to this. If you're not familiar to San Francisco or
Speaker 3: haven't ever been, you should go. One of the things
Speaker 3: you go down less bummy than it was a few
Speaker 3: years ago, definitely. Well, one of the things you do
Speaker 3: is you go around Peer thirty nine, which is a
Speaker 3: touristy area and see the sea lions who sunbathe on
Speaker 3: these floating little docks that they got out there. Well,
Speaker 3: a giant, giant one showed up the other day named Chonkers,
Speaker 3: which Katie first told us about the other day.
Speaker 1: When did Chonkers show up last week? Uh, two weeks ago.
Speaker 3: Chonkers is about three times bigger than any of the
Speaker 3: other sea lions.
Speaker 1: Yeah, two thousand pounds laying around. No joke, I've seen him.
Speaker 1: He's a BFS.
Speaker 3: I'm telling you, he's a stellar sea lion, which is
Speaker 3: not an adjective. That's actually the name of the kind
Speaker 3: of sea lions. Sounds like an adjective.
Speaker 5: They're also calling him Chonkis Maximus. I like that, but
Speaker 5: you know, I once pointed out a great egret to
Speaker 5: my son. He said, it's an alright, so it's one
Speaker 5: of those. Exactly, that's a stellar sea lion.
Speaker 3: It's okay, I don't know. Eleven feet long, two thousand pounds.
Speaker 3: They're usually only up in Washington nor Alaska, but this
Speaker 3: guy came way down further south.
Speaker 5: Can you give us a minute to contemplate two thousand pounds?
Speaker 1: It's pretty big.
Speaker 6: I just watched him jump up on one of the docks,
Speaker 6: and every other sea lion just went right into the water.
Speaker 6: The whole thing tipped.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: People are enjoying it because when he sprawls across the docks,
Speaker 3: he dwarfs all the other sea lions, and when he
Speaker 3: hauls himself up and flops down, it sounds like a
Speaker 3: tree falling.
Speaker 1: It says, I have not heard it yet.
Speaker 3: I might take the kids this weekend before he heads
Speaker 3: back up north. I guess he's described as pretty mellow,
Speaker 3: mostly sunbathing and eating.
Speaker 1: Sounds like me.
Speaker 3: Oh if this is helpful. This is what chat GPT
Speaker 3: told me. The nickname Chonkers came from social media. Basically
Speaker 3: Chonky being comically big. Okay, thank you, oh so much,
Speaker 3: comically big. I had zero idea.
Speaker 5: When if I witness a universal human reaction, it interests
Speaker 5: me and I think probably every human being on earth
Speaker 5: would look at that thing and say, holy crap, that's
Speaker 5: a big seale.
Speaker 1: Why we're impressed by it? But we all are. Yeah,
Speaker 1: look at the size of that.
Speaker 3: There is a live cam on Peer thirty nine. We
Speaker 3: should post that at the website so people could find it.
Speaker 1: I know what I'm doing is going to get nothing done.
Speaker 5: So you can watch Thenkers all the time.
Speaker 3: He usually usually shows up in the morning, but you
Speaker 3: can see him a various times through the day.
Speaker 5: As the morning, I think about it. Clearly, a beast
Speaker 5: that big from the dawn of time. Humans would either say,
Speaker 5: oh my god, that's a threat or oh my lord,
Speaker 5: that's a lot of meat.
Speaker 3: All right, Yeah, I gotta believe the the native people
Speaker 3: which we are broadcasting on lands once once owned by
Speaker 3: the subtribe probably eight time, probably eight people like Chonkers.
Speaker 3: When they showed up, It's like Chalkers.
Speaker 1: Is not there yet. I'll give I'll be back with
Speaker 1: live Chonker watch how is the how does the KM look,
Speaker 1: how's the equality? The quality?
Speaker 6: Wait, bether than what they had at the White House Correspondence,
Speaker 6: then I'll tell you that century.
Speaker 5: You know, what I'd like to do is go to
Speaker 5: elementary schools, especially in California, and make the little children
Speaker 5: cry by pointing to them, pointing out to them that
Speaker 5: a lot of the Native peoples hunted the large mammals
Speaker 5: of North America to extinction because they were big and
Speaker 5: media and delicious, so they just killed them till they
Speaker 5: were none left.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 3: I got a book recommended by our friend Tim Sandfer
Speaker 3: about the realities of the apaches that I got for
Speaker 3: my son, and he is going to do a paper
Speaker 3: for school about the realities of how Native Americans treated
Speaker 3: each other.
Speaker 5: And we will see how that goes. Maybe they could
Speaker 5: do a coloring book for younger children.
Speaker 3: Because that is an underdiscussed aspect of the people that
Speaker 3: had this land before. It's the way they treated these
Speaker 3: other It was not pleasant. It'll put the disgust back
Speaker 3: in disgust. Yes, that's really good.
Speaker 1: That's fantastic. We are more on the way. Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 4: The top college football player now Sideline Texas Tech, one
Speaker 4: of the top programs in the country, says transfer quarterback
Speaker 4: Brendan Sorosby is entering a treatment program for gambling addiction.
Speaker 4: ESPN reports, citing sources, that the NC DOUBLEA is investigating
Speaker 4: Sowersby for gambling on college football games. The NC DOUBLEA
Speaker 4: declined to comment to confirm whether he's been investigated.
Speaker 3: One of your biggest college football stars with a gambling
Speaker 3: addiction in a world where it's very, very very easy
Speaker 3: to gamble. That's not what we're going to talk about here.
Speaker 3: But there have been a number of articles I've come
Speaker 3: across in recent days about how the data is in
Speaker 3: this whole gambling everywhere is not working for society right.
Speaker 3: I don't know how you square that with libertarian views
Speaker 3: of people get to amble if they want, but a
Speaker 3: lot of people aren't handling it well.
Speaker 5: On the long list of things, I don't know how
Speaker 5: successful is treatment for gambling addiction compared to say, drug addiction.
Speaker 1: No idea, no idea.
Speaker 5: But if you know joff Us an oapmail bag and
Speaker 5: Armstrong and giddy dot com.
Speaker 3: Those stats we had the other day about people who
Speaker 3: played the lottery on how people with a household income
Speaker 3: of twenty thousand dollars a year household yearly income of
Speaker 3: twenty thousand dollars a year, by three times as many
Speaker 3: tickets as household incomes that make thirty thousand dollars a year,
Speaker 3: and they are buying a lot of them, So it's
Speaker 3: preying upon I don't know, do I want to use
Speaker 3: that perternalistic phrase. Probably not, because you get to make
Speaker 3: your own decisions. But that's who's buying. You're not wrong,
Speaker 3: that's who's buying most of the tickets, right Anyway, different topic.
Speaker 1: We've talked about this a couple of times.
Speaker 3: So the United States, it seems, is decided to try
Speaker 3: to keep Chinese cars out of America because we're worried
Speaker 3: about what that would do to our car market, which
Speaker 3: is a big part of our economy. The US car
Speaker 3: industry contributes one point three trillion dollars to the economy
Speaker 3: each year. That's a lot. And the old saying used
Speaker 3: to be so goes GM, so goes the United States economy.
Speaker 3: It's not that big anymore, but still a big deal.
Speaker 3: And we're concerned about the quality of these Chinese cars
Speaker 3: and their price.
Speaker 1: They're just so freaking cheap.
Speaker 3: Anyway, The Wall Street Journal's got a big piece today
Speaker 3: about car dealerships that are just across the border in Mexico,
Speaker 3: where people are buying them and driving them and liking them.
Speaker 3: Greeley is one of the cars that I would like
Speaker 3: to try out. They've got an EV that's supposed to
Speaker 3: be really good. It starts at twenty thousand dollars. Twenty
Speaker 3: thousand dollars is like the price of what cars was
Speaker 3: in the nineties.
Speaker 1: And not a strip down hunk of junk either.
Speaker 5: It's pretty technically advanced and impressive from every review I've read.
Speaker 3: So they say, I do have a little bit of
Speaker 3: the skepticism around. People like these stories so much. Remember
Speaker 3: when Tubuck Chuck took off. There've been a couple of
Speaker 3: those over the years. People just love the it's only
Speaker 3: two dollars, but it's really good thing. For some reason,
Speaker 3: I don't know why. That captures people's imaginations. And the
Speaker 3: two dollar line was actually pretty crappy. It was just
Speaker 3: the novelty of it and everything like that. So I
Speaker 3: wonder I'd like to sit in one of these cars
Speaker 3: before I buy in completely too. And there's a lot
Speaker 3: of you know, self hating reporters out there that would
Speaker 3: love to talk about how China is kicking our assid everything.
Speaker 1: So I would like to actually sit in one of
Speaker 1: these cars.
Speaker 3: But if they you know, if they drive off the
Speaker 3: lot and hold up at all, it doesn't even they
Speaker 3: don't even need to be great. For twenty thousand dollars,
Speaker 3: that's that is a price that I mean, we ain't
Speaker 3: got nothing like that in the United States.
Speaker 1: And I would point out.
Speaker 5: Your your citicism, I think is appropriate. But at the
Speaker 5: same time, when the head of Ford Motor Company went
Speaker 5: there and said I'm terrified, he wasn't being cynical.
Speaker 1: This stuff is.
Speaker 3: Incredibly good for the price, right, And again, it doesn't
Speaker 3: even need to be incredibly good at that price. It
Speaker 3: would just it would be a huge disruptor anyway. And
Speaker 3: the right across the border in Mexico, it's currently illegal
Speaker 3: to register these Chinese cars in the United States at all,
Speaker 3: and we're trying to put even more barriers on the
Speaker 3: ability for them to get into the country.
Speaker 1: Have we ever done that before with anything like this?
Speaker 1: Does that does that work long term? It seems pretty crazy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. There's sky high tariffs too, but yeah,
Speaker 1: it's not a good sign.
Speaker 5: Although you could certainly make the argument, Number one, you've
Speaker 5: got Communist Party subsidies going to these manufacturers, so.
Speaker 1: That is dumping right off the bad right.
Speaker 5: You can't really make the cheaper labor argument because hell,
Speaker 5: go to your local Walmart. Virtually everything there is made
Speaker 5: in a country that has cheaper labor than We'd have.
Speaker 3: To figure out why, because so Elon Musk is a
Speaker 3: genius and set out to build a great electric car
Speaker 3: at the lowest price he could, and they are not
Speaker 3: inexpensive because the tech is so so, so amazingly expensive
Speaker 3: to put in these vehicles. Why is China able to
Speaker 3: make the tech good but cheaper than we have been
Speaker 3: able to What is going on there?
Speaker 1: Sub it is the subsidies an incredibly low labor cost.
Speaker 3: But it's well then if it's if it's the subsidies
Speaker 3: especially well, then you know, like you said, that is
Speaker 3: a stumping.
Speaker 1: That's a different category of competition.
Speaker 5: Chief Exeka, a Hundai motor said, I'm telling you it's
Speaker 5: a very difficult, not to say impossible, to compete. We
Speaker 5: cannot compete at the same price as the Chinese and
Speaker 5: the markets where we operate otherwise we will be losing money.
Speaker 1: So if they were not.
Speaker 3: Doing that, where the government is subsidizing a product to
Speaker 3: try to get it in and disrupt a market, would
Speaker 3: we allow it in the United States? Would you before
Speaker 3: allowing it in the United States and competing because you
Speaker 3: know that we went through this. If you're old enough,
Speaker 3: you remember American cars were so amazingly crappy in like
Speaker 3: the late seventies, early eighties or a period. American cars
Speaker 3: were just crap. And because we did allow Japanese cars in,
Speaker 3: people started buying Toyotas and Hondas because they weren't crap.
Speaker 3: And then Ford and Chevy had to get much much better,
Speaker 3: and they did and now they're good also. So you
Speaker 3: wouldn't want to not have fair competition because we've been
Speaker 3: through this once before.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 5: This is a great gray area that has super arguments
Speaker 5: on both sides. Because to further reduce our industrial capacity
Speaker 5: for making the weapons of war, which car manufacturers are
Speaker 5: very quick to adapt to when necessary, that would especially
Speaker 5: in favor of China having enhanced capability to do that.
Speaker 5: You could make a national security argument that would hold water.
Speaker 1: It's tough one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if you've never been in a Tesla. The the
Speaker 3: the feel of a Tesla is comically cheap, I mean comically.
Speaker 1: Cheap, like it was a school project.
Speaker 7: Sometimes some of the stuff well, yet because the tech
Speaker 7: is so expensive, I mean it's so it's mind bogglingly good,
Speaker 7: the tech in my cyber truck. But like the like
Speaker 7: the little knobs and stuff like that, the little plastic
Speaker 7: thing you push down or pull up to, you know,
Speaker 7: put your window up and down, are just like so crappy,
Speaker 7: But it's the only way you could make the car
Speaker 7: even possibly close to affordable. They're almost not affordable now
Speaker 7: because the tech is so expensive.
Speaker 3: If you want a car that's like a modern Chevy
Speaker 3: or Honda with that tech, it's elucid and that costs
Speaker 3: two hundred thousand dollars and nobody's gonna buy those. It's
Speaker 3: just because the tech's so expensive, you have to make
Speaker 3: the plastic stuff so cheap to like you get it
Speaker 3: in the range of biable. So if China's come up
Speaker 3: with way to make a car that has Tesla level
Speaker 3: tech but like Honda level quality at a well, they
Speaker 3: have come up with way you have slave labor, and
Speaker 3: the Communist Party subsidizes it.
Speaker 1: Practically. Yeah.
Speaker 5: So they have three different automakers byd Geely and great
Speaker 5: Wall Motor that are among the biggest car makers in
Speaker 5: the world. They're gobbling up market share in Europe now,
Speaker 5: parts of other parts of Asia. In Mexico, Chinese vehicles
Speaker 5: account for a quarter of total sales already, and Canada
Speaker 5: is going to allow tens of thousands.
Speaker 1: Of them to be imported. Right around the corner.
Speaker 3: Do those countries not care about unfair competition? Volkswagen is
Speaker 3: the number one car maker in the world, and Europe
Speaker 3: is going to let China dump a bunch of Communist
Speaker 3: Party subsidized vehicles and undermine the number one car maker
Speaker 3: in all of Europe.
Speaker 5: I think it's going to be an enormous fight. I
Speaker 5: don't know. That's a great question. What is the gentleman saying.
Speaker 3: Yes, that's a national security issue one of your biggest
Speaker 3: industries for your entire economy. It's basically the Communist Party
Speaker 3: coming in and messing with your number one biggest part
Speaker 3: of your economy.
Speaker 1: You can't allow that.
Speaker 5: If I can get a cool car for cheap, I'll
Speaker 5: buy it anyway, say, thirty percent of American car buyers,
Speaker 5: according to strategic vision the market research firm. Thirty percent
Speaker 5: said yeah, I'd be open to that.
Speaker 3: Well, as opposed to what saying, that's a really great car,
Speaker 3: and it's really good quality and it's really cheap, but
Speaker 3: I'm not going to buy it because it's subsidized.
Speaker 5: As opposed to saying I ain't buying no communist deffing car.
Speaker 1: Yes, correct, that's interesting. I don't know.
Speaker 3: We need to figure this out. It looks like we're
Speaker 3: leaning towards we ain't gon allow them in the United States.
Speaker 3: I think that's a perfectly defendable position, unless somebody can
Speaker 3: talk me out of it.
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Speaker 3: I drove my son, well, I didn't drive my son,
Speaker 3: Tesla Elon drove my son to his orthodonist appointment yesterday
Speaker 3: in my cyber truck. And I'd never done this before.
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Speaker 5: So, speaking of consumer issues, the World Cup this summer
Speaker 5: is going to be the great return of soccer, the
Speaker 5: world's most popular sport, to America, US men's national teams
Speaker 5: hosting the tournament for the first time since the nineties.
Speaker 5: But listen at is Wicha. The first match against Paraguay
Speaker 5: on June twelfth in la should have been sold out, clearly,
Speaker 5: but instead the ticket prices are well, the cheapest cheap
Speaker 5: seat in an upper corner section is eleven and twenty dollars.
Speaker 1: A better is four thousand dollars. And those aren't resale sites.
Speaker 5: Those are the FIFA prices, And so there are swaths
Speaker 5: of stadiums unsold out.
Speaker 1: FIFA which gave Donald Trump their Peace Prize. That's true.
Speaker 1: In a moving ceremony, the cheap seat is eleven hundred bucks.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah for the opening match, four thousand for a
Speaker 5: decent seat.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 5: And as this one software engineer is a big soccer
Speaker 5: fan says, we're not talking about the knockout round. We're
Speaker 5: talking about the group stage game. It's absolutely bonkers. This week,
Speaker 5: FIFA's website showed seats available for the US opener in
Speaker 5: at least a few dozen sections of the seventy thousand
Speaker 5: seats stadium.
Speaker 1: Blah blah blah.
Speaker 5: It's especially jarring considering the surgeon soccer's popularity over the
Speaker 5: last three decades.
Speaker 3: I went merka, but apparently, I mean the the price
Speaker 3: of the seat would lead you to believe that I
Speaker 3: wasn't going to go anyway, because I find soccer unbelievably boring.
Speaker 1: You're an ignoramous you don't get the beauty of the game.
Speaker 3: I'm not a foreign with nothing else to do.
Speaker 1: Do you go to an art museums and say it's
Speaker 1: a bowld fruit? It's stupid fruit. What's interesting about fruit? Exactly?
Speaker 1: And you're kritting anyway.
Speaker 5: The July nineteenth final prices have ranged from forty two
Speaker 5: hundred dollars to eleven thousand, and the third place game, Oh,
Speaker 5: who wouldn't pay dearly to see who gets third and
Speaker 5: who gets fourth? Lower bowl corner seats are priced at
Speaker 5: ninety six hundred dollars.
Speaker 3: Wow, But but a lot of people coming from all
Speaker 3: over the world. Right, that's the whole thing, because it's
Speaker 3: it is the biggest sport in the world by far.
Speaker 5: They got six wives and half a dozen Bentleys for
Speaker 5: each you know, for each wife. Sure, I'll probably buy
Speaker 5: them up. I don't know, yeh, I know. How good
Speaker 5: is our team? How good are we going to be?
Speaker 5: Do we know we're America?
Speaker 1: Damn it? I don't know. I haven't What did that mean?
Speaker 1: I have no idea.
Speaker 5: Oh man, I've got some more consumery economic stories. Maybe
Speaker 5: we can squeeze those in a little bit later. You
Speaker 5: got AI companies buying up tens of thousands of square
Speaker 5: feet of Manhattan commercial real estate. They got two employees,
Speaker 5: but they think they're gonna have a lot soon. I
Speaker 5: came up with a great new metaphor. They're probably gonna
Speaker 5: steal this in the Wall Street Journal, and I ought
Speaker 5: to get paid for it. It may not be a bubble,
Speaker 5: but this whole AI thing is definitely inflated.
Speaker 1: Is it a bubble? Is it a birthday balloon?
Speaker 5: Or is it one of those milar balloons you end
Speaker 5: up having a jab with a knife to get rid
Speaker 5: of because it never deflates, right, bubble or my lar balloon.
Speaker 1: Stay tuned all that on the way.
Speaker 8: An attacker doesn't even need to have to have it out.
Speaker 8: They can simply just bump against your wallet just automatically
Speaker 8: steal the information through essentially a wireless radio frequency.
Speaker 5: I want, huh what was that? They call it ghost
Speaker 5: tapping jack. They can charge your card without you even
Speaker 5: leave in your pocket.
Speaker 3: Well wait a second, I tap stuff all the time,
Speaker 3: so obviously take I use my watch, but I could
Speaker 3: use my card. There's lots of us do or you
Speaker 3: just tap your card on there, so so somebody can
Speaker 3: come up and tap my card in my pocket.
Speaker 1: That makes sense.
Speaker 5: According to the written account, they can use cheap, easy
Speaker 5: to read card readers. Thieves can trigger small wireless transactions
Speaker 5: just by getting close enough to your wallet or phone.
Speaker 1: No swipe, no pin, no warning.
Speaker 6: Yes, Katie, that is why all of my loved ones
Speaker 6: and myself have what's called an RFI D wallet. It
Speaker 6: actually has a protectant in the outside layer that can
Speaker 6: block anybody from doing this.
Speaker 5: I was just at a outlet store which will remain
Speaker 5: how anameless, although if you traveled to Columbia you might
Speaker 5: see their clothes and that was like all they sold
Speaker 5: in the wallet department. I thought necessary.
Speaker 1: It's very popular. But how bulky are they? I wear
Speaker 1: very tight pants.
Speaker 6: They're not.
Speaker 1: Stop. Stop, that's my answer to that. Quick.
Speaker 6: I tried to just go right by that, you know
Speaker 6: what I mean, Just just power through it.
Speaker 1: I'm not all seen, cannot be unseen. I'm a single man.
Speaker 1: I need to have everything on display. We get it.
Speaker 1: You shop at baby gap, Okay, very good.
Speaker 5: No, no, So the scam relies on crowded spaces like
Speaker 5: transit concerts, busy sidewalks where uh, you never realize the
Speaker 5: charge is happening. Better business bureaus out and saying when
Speaker 5: you think about how convenient commonplace payment has become, and
Speaker 5: it is, it's just a matter of time before somebody
Speaker 5: takes advantage of it.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Oh, and they do really small transactions. That's an interesting
Speaker 5: aspect of this, just to see if it goes through.
Speaker 5: Then what attackers are doing is adding that to their
Speaker 5: digital wallets and essentially buying gift cards and doing other
Speaker 5: types of scams to make a quick transaction out of it,
Speaker 5: but to take as many dollars as it can the
Speaker 5: shortest period of time possible.
Speaker 1: I'm one of those people.
Speaker 3: I mean, I know I should be like my mom
Speaker 3: always was or adults are, but I'm not where you know,
Speaker 3: I go through my credit card bill every month because
Speaker 3: there's eight thousand things and I don't go through them.
Speaker 3: It would be very easy to milk me fifteen or
Speaker 3: twenty two dollars at a time, A big one I
Speaker 3: would notice, but yeah, because you know there's so many
Speaker 3: charges on there.
Speaker 5: But if it's a gift card, you know, what do
Speaker 5: you well, I suppose the credit card company has to
Speaker 5: cover that.
Speaker 3: Well no, but I mean just even noticing I'm being
Speaker 3: stolen from you could do it for a year's for me,
Speaker 3: you know, a little bit at a time.
Speaker 5: So if you, if you like the utilities and phone companies,
Speaker 5: do yes mystery charges, you'd never notice and they steal, steal,
Speaker 5: steal exactly.
Speaker 1: And you just roll your eyes and think on whatever
Speaker 1: and you go on and pay it. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So if you, if you, if you brushed up, got
Speaker 3: close enough somebody to tap ten different cards and you
Speaker 3: hit them each for you know, forty dollars a month,
Speaker 3: that'd be a quick, easy four hundred dollars a month
Speaker 3: you're making that nobody would.
Speaker 5: Probably ever know let's see, and then they go through
Speaker 5: an RFID blocking card, which is a dollar apiece that's
Speaker 5: the cheapest option and does not work. A blocking sleeve
Speaker 5: which is like twenty cents per piece. One card fits
Speaker 5: inside each sleeve, so you need one for each item,
Speaker 5: and your wallet sleeve work for both the plastic and
Speaker 5: metal cards, but was slightly inconvenient.
Speaker 1: You got your Faraday pouch, which worked very well.
Speaker 5: However, your cell phone services also need sleek and then
Speaker 5: RFID blocking wallet phone case combo extra sleek for the
Speaker 5: aging low Thario. The wallet feature worked, the cards could
Speaker 5: not be charged while inside it.
Speaker 3: I should just not carry my card. I really only
Speaker 3: need my watch to live my life at this point.
Speaker 3: If it's only I got my watch on, I can
Speaker 3: do whatever I want. Yeah, okay, Uh, yet another thing
Speaker 3: to worry about. That's what we all needed. That's what
Speaker 3: we do every day. Here's a list of things to
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Speaker 3: to worry about.
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