Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm Strong
Speaker 1: and Getty and he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2: President Trump out of sight as his words sent the
Speaker 2: stock market into free fall, Wall Street suffering its worst
Speaker 2: day of the year, the Dow closing nearly nine hundred
Speaker 2: points down after the President refused to rule out that
Speaker 2: the US could be heading into a recession.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, a lot of negative headlines about Wall Street yesterday.
Speaker 1: I'm always interested in that. In that a lot, a lot,
Speaker 1: a lot of Americans aren't in the stock market, and
Speaker 1: it's I'd like to know what percentage of the audience
Speaker 1: that watches mainstream evening news is in the stock other?
Speaker 1: Are you including four one ks in that m Maybe
Speaker 1: maybe not. I don't know investment, but certainly the average
Speaker 1: person watching the evening news is not into the daily
Speaker 1: ups and downs of the stock market. True, they're in
Speaker 1: the the long you know, the long game, and and
Speaker 1: and very little context ever around any of this stuff anytime.
Speaker 1: And I'm not just like now just always there's almost
Speaker 1: no context. Biggest point drop whatever. Sometimes they use points
Speaker 1: because it's more dramatic sometimes these percentage whatever and they
Speaker 1: go back and forth and it's all very it's it's
Speaker 1: it's designed to make it sound as great or as
Speaker 1: awful as possible, to make it more exciting. But anyway,
Speaker 1: New York christ and known this has been a big
Speaker 1: down for the last week and a half or whatever
Speaker 1: since the Tarif announce But no doubt about that. New
Speaker 1: York Post headline today, buckle up NASGA, DAX suffers biggest
Speaker 1: loss in three years. Dow falls eight after Trump recession
Speaker 1: dodge after Trump didn't absolutely just flat out say no
Speaker 1: to the recession question. It's amazing how much news that
Speaker 1: made that one answer. And he knew that, Like I
Speaker 1: said yesterday, he's aware of that, and he doubled down
Speaker 1: on air Force one essentially. Oh, the significance of it
Speaker 1: is he didn't say we will do everything we need
Speaker 1: to to avoid a recession. That's why that's significant, right,
Speaker 1: which gets to what we were saying last hour. I
Speaker 1: wish he would give some sort of speech where he
Speaker 1: explains what his long game end is and why I
Speaker 1: think he can get more people on board or calmed down.
Speaker 1: I think that is so obviously a great idea it
Speaker 1: is shocking to me. It hasn't happened yet. Drudge hates Trump,
Speaker 1: but his headlines economy cracks, stocks lose four trillion dollars.
Speaker 1: Oh that That's one of the things about the news reporting.
Speaker 1: I feel like it's for people who don't understand that
Speaker 1: that money didn't actually disappear, never to come back. It's
Speaker 1: the stock is down and yet adds up to four trilli.
Speaker 1: But unless you sold yesterday, you didn't actually lose the money,
Speaker 1: and it could be back up in two weeks and
Speaker 1: nothing happened. I mean, well, and you quote unquote lost
Speaker 1: the money from if you would have sold it three
Speaker 1: weeks ago. So it's all, yeah, imaginary, it's not even
Speaker 1: on paper. It's in the ether. Any who. So, getting
Speaker 1: to Mark Alprin's newsletter today, I think he is a
Speaker 1: fair arbiter of these sorts of things. He and he
Speaker 1: gets a lot of h He has a lot of
Speaker 1: connections in left and right, Republican and Democrat. He wrote
Speaker 1: this Monday when job boning by all Trump economic advisors
Speaker 1: could not stop a market selloff or deter business leaders,
Speaker 1: economic analysts, analysts, Paul's and Trump supporters from calling, texting,
Speaker 1: and emailing me to say the sky is falling, and
Speaker 1: it is in their collective you explicitly and unambiguously Trump's fault.
Speaker 1: In my career, I don't recall anything quite like Monday
Speaker 1: as whoosh, Team Trump lost the confidence of a bunch
Speaker 1: of key actors in one fell swoop. Thought that was
Speaker 1: interesting that behind the scenes, a lot of people that
Speaker 1: normally really really big on Trump, we're calling Mark Apperton
Speaker 1: and saying, what the hell is he doing? The business world,
Speaker 1: the American business world, was absolutely confident that Trump would
Speaker 1: slash regulations and make permanent tax cuts and that would
Speaker 1: be his main thrust. This whole call it protectionism, you know,
Speaker 1: seeking a new global norm for trade, whatever you want
Speaker 1: to call it, is surprising to them and it's led
Speaker 1: to a great deal of uncertainty. Business hates uncertainty, right.
Speaker 1: And then got to get to what I was talking
Speaker 1: about yesterday, which I fully fully believe. I mean, don't
Speaker 1: feel like the Wall Street journal crowd has your best
Speaker 1: interest in mind. They have the best interest of like,
Speaker 1: what's gonna make the Dow close higher today for a
Speaker 1: lot of the crowd who actually does day trade, or
Speaker 1: certainly this quarter, not what's best for America long term.
Speaker 1: And you know, fortunately or unfortunately, I guess Anne Ryan
Speaker 1: would say that's the way it's supposed to work. You know,
Speaker 1: they're looking out for themselves. That's what drives the whole thing.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I would say as a guy who reads
Speaker 1: practically cover to cover the journal every single day, they
Speaker 1: have a wide range of opinions and writers there. Not
Speaker 1: all of them are merely chasing quarterly profits. But I
Speaker 1: wanted to get to this and I didn't know this.
Speaker 1: So Mark Alpernan has a bunch of links to a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of different newspaper articles talking about the how
Speaker 1: much damage has been done, whether it's temporary, long term,
Speaker 1: blah blah blah. Than this team Trump came in with
Speaker 1: the theory of the case that they could rebalance the
Speaker 1: economy by shifting economic activity back to the private sector
Speaker 1: from the public sector. It's part of the whole doge
Speaker 1: thing and tariffs together. Trump advisors have said they think
Speaker 1: the government is now twenty five percent of the economy.
Speaker 1: Mark Awprin said, in reality, it's way higher, maybe closer
Speaker 1: to fifty percent. Wow, what fifty percent of the economy
Speaker 1: is the gouver with Medicare and Medicaid. No one wants
Speaker 1: to admit it, but to a large extent, the US
Speaker 1: economy has really just become the US government spending in transfers.
Speaker 1: This is evidenced by the fact that we've been running
Speaker 1: huge fiscal deficits during strong economic times. And the new
Speaker 1: Treasury Secretary is proposed fixing this by cutting government spending
Speaker 1: with musk combined with tariffs to rebounce trade, to rebuild
Speaker 1: American manufacturing, but to bring it home. He gets into,
Speaker 1: we live in a wah blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: The top ten percent. Studies have shown there's a very
Speaker 1: high correlation between their propensity to spend, with spending being
Speaker 1: you know, two thirds of our economies people going out
Speaker 1: and spending money, and where the stock prices are. For
Speaker 1: whatever reason, when the top ten percent are feeling wealthy,
Speaker 1: they buy stuff. But if they're not feeling wealthy, they don't.
Speaker 1: And this especially is true now, and this could get
Speaker 1: us into a real doom loop of uh tariffs, negative feelings,
Speaker 1: stock market going down, people pulling back, et cetera, et cetera,
Speaker 1: cutting the government, which is half the economy. You see,
Speaker 1: there's the spiral. If Doge is laying off people and
Speaker 1: cutting the government and it's fifty percent of the economy,
Speaker 1: that automatically is going to drop the economy, which makes
Speaker 1: the rich ten percent spend less, which drops the economy.
Speaker 1: And it's just that, you see, it's a cycle that
Speaker 1: could catch on. Yeah. My only objection to that theory
Speaker 1: or a question I have about it, is that what
Speaker 1: Doge is doing is nibbling around the edges of the
Speaker 1: actual fiscal pie. Sure, I don't appreciate it because I
Speaker 1: like the edges of the pie. Oh fiscal pie debitious.
Speaker 1: And it's funny because you have conservatives saying they're they're
Speaker 1: they're not attacking entitlements and that's most of the budget
Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah blah. But at the same time
Speaker 1: it might cause a doom loop. I just I don't
Speaker 1: I don't know. Nobody ever knows on any of this stuff.
Speaker 1: As we've said for years, because if you were the
Speaker 1: old thing, if you ask you know, ten economists, you'll
Speaker 1: get eleven opinions. Or there's only two people that understand
Speaker 1: the global economy and they don't agree, you know, any
Speaker 1: of those sayings. And but you know, if you could
Speaker 1: predict this stuff, well, you'd be the richest person on
Speaker 1: planet Earth, you know, immediately, so that you know, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of moving pieces and theory and everything like that.
Speaker 1: But I do find that very troubling. Yeah, all of
Speaker 1: it's troubling. I find myself imagining if Trump were to
Speaker 1: craft the sort of message you've suggested, explaining exactly what
Speaker 1: his goals are, why it's going to be worth enduring
Speaker 1: a bit of pain or upheaval for a while, be
Speaker 1: it two years or more likely five or ten or
Speaker 1: fifteen or twenty years, because that would get the popular support.
Speaker 1: Doing something difficult would require, because there's one thing democracies
Speaker 1: are terrible at. That's doing what is difficult. Like in
Speaker 1: your family, you could say, hey, we are going to
Speaker 1: severely restrict spending for this year to get a down
Speaker 1: payment together to buy the house or make the investment
Speaker 1: or open the business we've long dreamed of. People You're
Speaker 1: on the wall of a house with a pool and
Speaker 1: say this is why we're doing it. Yeah. You know,
Speaker 1: I've always been a fan of the like the thermometer
Speaker 1: thing where you actually track your savings, because it gives
Speaker 1: you enthusiasm for it. Judy and I used to do
Speaker 1: that when we were young. Anyway, as a family, you
Speaker 1: can do that. But democracies are famously horrible at saying
Speaker 1: all right, we're all going to endure some pain for
Speaker 1: a while an austerity plan. It happens. I don't think
Speaker 1: it's hard to get going. I don't think we're grown
Speaker 1: up enough for this. I think we're too used to
Speaker 1: easy sale in smooth saleing. But even if Trump were
Speaker 1: to do that, though, Wall Street would probably freak out
Speaker 1: for a while, and then people would see it, would
Speaker 1: check their four to one k's and freak out. And
Speaker 1: I just I don't know if we have the right
Speaker 1: stuff to institute what Trump's talking about before it's a
Speaker 1: horrible emergency. Well, imagine if Trump or somebody representing Trump
Speaker 1: came out and gave a speech says, look, half the
Speaker 1: economy is the government. Do you know that half the
Speaker 1: economy's the government? And that can't be that's not sustainable.
Speaker 1: And our debt is this, and our deficit is this,
Speaker 1: and you know our payments are this, and blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: And if that wasn't go ahead, sorry there's more. No,
Speaker 1: that's fine. I was gonna say, and if if that
Speaker 1: wasn't bad enough, folks, here's the chunk of the economy
Speaker 1: that would collapse and you would starve if China decides
Speaker 1: to jump ugly. So A, we got to reign in
Speaker 1: the government. B we've got to wean ourselves from being
Speaker 1: China junkies. Their economic heroin is they're gonna pull it
Speaker 1: back on us and we're gonna be on our hands
Speaker 1: and knees and our economy is gonna be puking and
Speaker 1: turning green and pooping on itself. Wow, because they're gonna
Speaker 1: pull it out cold turkey. Do you want that? Do
Speaker 1: you want that? Huh? Okay, we're going to restructure the economy.
Speaker 1: You would be a disgusting economics teacher. Yeah, but compelling.
Speaker 1: M Uh. There's no way this works because we have
Speaker 1: an election every two years. We're already like a year
Speaker 1: away from constantly talking about the mid terms and uh,
Speaker 1: and the Democrats are gonna run on He says, we
Speaker 1: can't blah blah blah. We say you you we can
Speaker 1: lose with me. Everybody says, yeah, I want everything for nothing,
Speaker 1: and there you go. So to summarize, we're toomed I'm
Speaker 1: moving along aren't you glad you tuned in? Oh boy, Well,
Speaker 1: but everybody should me and everyone we should realize that
Speaker 1: we're not retiring today. What the stock market does today,
Speaker 1: unless you are retiring today, somebody listening somewhere, and so
Speaker 1: I hope you would have restructured your you know, your investments.
Speaker 1: If somebody somewhere on our seventy stations is listening, is
Speaker 1: retiring today or yesterday, he retired yesterday, I understand while
Speaker 1: you're upset. Sorry, sorry, oh man, that's something I wanted
Speaker 1: to tease. Well, yeah, there's a yeah, my golly. There
Speaker 1: are a couple of stories that are the classic if
Speaker 1: it was if the shoe was on the other foot,
Speaker 1: they would be enormous, enormous stories. We will bring them
Speaker 1: to you so you get a better rounded perspective on
Speaker 1: life in America. Well, yeah, and the arrest of that
Speaker 1: so called terrorist Columbia student kid. That's pretty interesting from
Speaker 1: a whole free speech standpoint. We need to talk a
Speaker 1: little more about that. Yeah. I will not, and I'm
Speaker 1: sure most of you will not trade the principles that
Speaker 1: made this country great to keep it great. That's fascism
Speaker 1: and it's ugly. On the other hand. I want the
Speaker 1: jihaties thrown out on their ears. So let's strike a
Speaker 1: good balance, can we. I also want to tell you
Speaker 1: about Bernie Sanders trans rally he had over the weekend
Speaker 1: that didn't get enough attention. She had a penis No,
Speaker 1: he does not. He is, Oh, well, what did it
Speaker 1: cost to come over with venus twenty seven dollars? Stay
Speaker 1: with us? I hate spring forward so much, and this
Speaker 1: to me, this is Donald Trump's big opportunity. We want
Speaker 1: to make America great again, and this daylight saving madness
Speaker 1: will ever look up puzzles, I dare way, thank you.
Speaker 1: By the way, We'll do this all over again next
Speaker 1: year on six months. But so we want whatever we
Speaker 1: got now right permanently. Is that what we want? Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's some problems with the kids having to get up
Speaker 1: in the darkness. Scientists say, is really like I keep saying,
Speaker 1: let's try it once, let's try it once, and whatever
Speaker 1: he says. So he's choosing golfers playing in the afternoon
Speaker 1: meet and I'm happy over America's children. You must let's
Speaker 1: see if it's true. Try it once and see what
Speaker 1: all that was? Horrible? My kid couldn't get out of
Speaker 1: bed and he got run over by the bus whatever,
Speaker 1: or find a way to move school back by a
Speaker 1: little bit of time, and employers that say, oh, you
Speaker 1: got to come in at nine thirty instead of nine
Speaker 1: for a while. Okay, that's fine. Yeah, it's not like
Speaker 1: it'll cause you know, cataclysms, rains of fire from the sky,
Speaker 1: a plague of front. The fact that Arizona doesn't do it,
Speaker 1: and there aren't stacks of dead children. I mean, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't get why are there the states around Arizona
Speaker 1: and the same you know, time zone of when the
Speaker 1: sun comes up and comes down. Me and I don't
Speaker 1: get it. We've got it. We've got one state that
Speaker 1: does it, and it's not like hell there, they don't.
Speaker 1: Everybody I wanted to live in Arizona, I had to
Speaker 1: move because I don't change the clocks. I got to
Speaker 1: call my dad to make sure he's still alive after
Speaker 1: the non time change in Arizona. Oh my, you're so right.
Speaker 1: These stories would be ginormous if the shoe was on
Speaker 1: the other foot. And you know, the fun has gone
Speaker 1: out of beating up the media. Honestly, I think everybody's
Speaker 1: gotten the word. They're wildly ideological. They're uniformly left. They're
Speaker 1: just clickbait driven sensationalist cranks and should be mostly ignored.
Speaker 1: But the stories they ignore are also worth hearing. For instance,
Speaker 1: a leftist UCLA law professor, This is not some sort
Speaker 1: of gender studies dope. This is a law professor at
Speaker 1: UCLA has called from military insurrection against President Trump. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, how do you keep your job after that?
Speaker 1: Professor Peter Aronella. At this point, my only hope for
Speaker 1: the US to avoid becoming an ally to Russia is
Speaker 1: a violent resistance by our military. Tragic to say that,
Speaker 1: because the military is trained to avoid any political motivated intervention. Yeah,
Speaker 1: firing all the Joint chiefs and military leaders blah blah blah,
Speaker 1: and for good reason. Ultimately, we will get what we
Speaker 1: deserve by giving Trump a second chance to destroy our
Speaker 1: democracy armed exertion. All right, crackpot. America's law schools are
Speaker 1: absolutely as bad as any other province of the educational
Speaker 1: system right now in terms of being wildly woe. Your
Speaker 1: kid got into UCLA law school. You're paying a ridiculous
Speaker 1: amount of money, and that guy is teaching your kid
Speaker 1: right right, and accepting some really really good law schools
Speaker 1: where they point out, hey, now this is my opinion
Speaker 1: on this. A conservative scholar would tell you this is
Speaker 1: the way to interpret these laws, and where that happens,
Speaker 1: it's great. That is far from universal. An adult male
Speaker 1: brandishing a firearm was shot by US Secret Service officers
Speaker 1: near the White House shortly after midnight on Sunday. Saw that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the local police at earlier reported a suicidal individual possibly
Speaker 1: traveling to DC from Indiana. You're in Indiana, you're suicidal,
Speaker 1: and so what is your plan exactly? They knew about
Speaker 1: this guy too. They suicide by cop. They'd picked up
Speaker 1: his social media or something, so they were aware of
Speaker 1: him before he even got there. Yeah, Trump was at
Speaker 1: mar Lago, by the way, so it was never at risk,
Speaker 1: even though he wouldn't be much at risk. Don't have
Speaker 1: time for this, but Christy Noman has figured out a
Speaker 1: couple of the leakers leaking the ICE operations.
Speaker 3: How it wasn't dogs Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1: So Elon Musk, in a long ranging interview, said this yesterday,
Speaker 1: And we just did a bunch of economic stuff. Going
Speaker 1: to give you a short version of some breaking news
Speaker 1: here and then we'll fill in all the blanks maybe
Speaker 1: an hour three. But Elon Musk said this yesterday.
Speaker 3: I mean the ways important in entitlement spending, which is
Speaker 3: all of the which is most of the federal spending
Speaker 3: is entitlements. So that's that's like the big one to
Speaker 3: eliminate is that's the show.
Speaker 1: So there you go. That's all you need to hear there.
Speaker 1: Elon Musk touched, the has been the third Raila government
Speaker 1: of my whole wife. You can't talk about cutting entitlements.
Speaker 1: Speaker Johnson just came out with the big bill, the
Speaker 1: big tax cut, a giant everything thrown into one bill bill.
Speaker 1: Speaker Johnson just said, and there's no entitlement cuts on
Speaker 1: the table. Zero. So you want to make that very
Speaker 1: very clear. With Elon having said that yesterday. Then the
Speaker 1: other news is Trump has doubled the tariffs on Canada
Speaker 1: aluminum and something else twenty five percent in addition to
Speaker 1: the previous twenty five percent is now fifty percent. So
Speaker 1: more on that later. Yeah, a couple of things. First
Speaker 1: of all, I came across a really informative but really
Speaker 1: complicated analysis of how medicaid medicare work and how they're
Speaker 1: funded by the states and the federal government and what
Speaker 1: the states do determines the amount of federal government support.
Speaker 1: But the states have flexibility that the federal government is
Speaker 1: responding to. And the longest short of it is, it's
Speaker 1: so intertwined, so expensive, and there are so many people
Speaker 1: dependent on it now that undoing and Obamacare is a
Speaker 1: huge factor in it too, and compensation rates for I mean,
Speaker 1: it's all in medical procedures. It's all just a complex
Speaker 1: stew of Oh my lord, how do we untangle this?
Speaker 1: And I was trying to figure out if it was
Speaker 1: even conceivable to present it to you all, if you
Speaker 1: don't like, have the charts in front of you, and
Speaker 1: I decided probably not. But I'm telling you, it is
Speaker 1: truly a Gordian knot.
Speaker 3: So.
Speaker 1: My financial advisor said to me the other day, we're
Speaker 1: just having a just kind of sitting around shooting the bull,
Speaker 1: as they say, talking about social security, and I said,
Speaker 1: you know, if I ever get my soci security, and
Speaker 1: he had presented to me what I was going to
Speaker 1: get in social security, which is more than I thought
Speaker 1: it was going to be. But I said, well, if
Speaker 1: I ever get it, and he said, you'll get it,
Speaker 1: but your kids won't do you do you think that's
Speaker 1: the yeah, most likely outcome. That's pretty pretty good prediction.
Speaker 1: And he's a smart guy too, so I know him
Speaker 1: as well, and uh yeah, that sounds about right. Yep, wow,
Speaker 1: so yeah, I know. Wow. It's just hey, too depressing.
Speaker 1: I'm going to stop myself for once, that little self restraint.
Speaker 1: So that was the first point I want to make.
Speaker 1: The second point re Canada is I really truly don't
Speaker 1: get what Trump is trying to accomplish with Canada specifically,
Speaker 1: which is one of our closest allies. And he set
Speaker 1: the trade deal with them last time around, which is,
Speaker 1: you know, four and a half short years ago. Well
Speaker 1: I guess the trade deal itself was more than that.
Speaker 1: But anyway, I'm confused, and so are the Canadians. And
Speaker 1: I don't think this is going to help us in
Speaker 1: the long time. We're going to build an igloo and
Speaker 1: Canada is going to pay for it, all right, Well
Speaker 1: that's a plan anyway. Oh. Oh, the part of the
Speaker 1: tariffs thing that I don't quite get is the tariffs
Speaker 1: are super important to rebuild American manufacturing and steal and
Speaker 1: aluminum capacity and the rest of it, to forge the
Speaker 1: future and they're gonna go away as soon as Canada
Speaker 1: helps us with the fentanyl, or Mexico as soon as
Speaker 1: they give in to It's like, it's like a circular argument,
Speaker 1: and I just, I honestly don't get it. On the
Speaker 1: other hand, this I thought this was very, very informative
Speaker 1: on the issue of Canada and the drug trade. Why
Speaker 1: don't you say you understand from a former senior law
Speaker 1: enforcement official in northwest Montana that the numbers that are
Speaker 1: being reported regarding drug trafficking across the Canadian border are
Speaker 1: off by at least an order of magnitude. It's more
Speaker 1: like twenty percent versus the two percent that's being reported
Speaker 1: I met, writes the former senior law enforcement official in
Speaker 1: northwest Montana. I met with the local DEA folks regarding
Speaker 1: fentanyl precursors and finished products being sent across the border
Speaker 1: and being manufactured and distributed across the millions of acres
Speaker 1: of tribal reservation land as the staging area. He claimed
Speaker 1: to have no knowledge of this. A year later, it
Speaker 1: was a major priority for the DEA in Montana. What
Speaker 1: this indicates is a massive disconnect between what the federal
Speaker 1: law enforcement folks are hearing and the local sheriffs are
Speaker 1: observing in their counties. This may account for the differential
Speaker 1: and what the FEDS now know and how those percentages
Speaker 1: are being reported in the news, likely sourced from old
Speaker 1: data that is misleading. On the street, sheriff's deputies and
Speaker 1: detectives are seeing a massive increase in the quantity of
Speaker 1: fentanyl and other drugs that are definitely not coming up
Speaker 1: from the Southern border. I thought that was an interesting perspective,
Speaker 1: and I had repeated the off sited. You know it's
Speaker 1: two or three percent figure. That person seems to be
Speaker 1: in the know, I know who it is, has no
Speaker 1: acts to grind. Well, interesting perspective just from a logical standpoint.
Speaker 1: If you really crack down on the cartel's business coming
Speaker 1: across the southern border, they're not dumb. Well, what's a
Speaker 1: different way to get our drugs into the United States?
Speaker 1: How about the longest undefended border in the world right right,
Speaker 1: and vast tribal areas that are effectively not under the
Speaker 1: control of most law enforcement other than the tribal police,
Speaker 1: depending on what country you're talking about. Although while all
Speaker 1: that I think is one hundred percent true, that's not
Speaker 1: why Trump is doing the tariffs. It's part of his
Speaker 1: restructuring the World Economic Plan. He's got to use the
Speaker 1: drug thing as a emergency reason to do it, right,
Speaker 1: Oh right, that's just the legal pretext. Yeah, how soon
Speaker 1: until the Supreme Court rules on that whether his use
Speaker 1: of the emergency tariff powers is a legitimate use of
Speaker 1: executive power. I don't know. I'm always amazed how much
Speaker 1: leeway governors and presidents are given re emergency powers. It
Speaker 1: takes way freaking too much, in my opinion, not this specifically,
Speaker 1: but if you want to talk about one principle that
Speaker 1: we all ought to be rallying around, it's that when
Speaker 1: the other guys in office, they will cite often imaginary
Speaker 1: emergencies and do things we abhor, so we can't let
Speaker 1: our guy do it. I was hearing about fentanyl. What
Speaker 1: new story I hear today about fentanyl addicts? I never
Speaker 1: thought about a fentanyl addict because I just always assume
Speaker 1: you died pretty quickly. So it's not like, you know,
Speaker 1: RFK Junior was a heroin addict for what do you say,
Speaker 1: seventeen years or something like that, twelve whatever it was.
Speaker 1: It was long time, ridiculously long time to be. You
Speaker 1: can't be a fentanyl addict for that long, can you. No,
Speaker 1: you're on a tight rope because it's so easy to overdose. Yeah. Hey,
Speaker 1: by the way, back to the tariff thing, And that
Speaker 1: wasn't an argument against the tariffs per se, but just
Speaker 1: emergency powers. If the tariffs are such a good idea,
Speaker 1: and as Jack said, Trump needs to make this speech.
Speaker 1: We need to restructure the American economy because the global
Speaker 1: economy is changing so fast and not for our good.
Speaker 1: And China were addicted to the heroine of Chinese manufacturing
Speaker 1: and blah blah blah. That's screed. I on leashed earlier.
Speaker 1: Have Congress passed the laws. Have those useless cowards who
Speaker 1: are in the article one branch of government, not as
Speaker 1: Nixon said, a coequal branch. They're in the main branch
Speaker 1: of government. Have those lazy, rotten fundraising bastards do something
Speaker 1: if it's such a good idea, click baiting Instagram abusing
Speaker 1: fundraising bastards. I stand by those words. One thing we
Speaker 1: do on the Armstrong and Getty radio show, if you're
Speaker 1: new to it because we've added new stations, is we
Speaker 1: try to remember what things like are actually going to
Speaker 1: matter to you in your real life today. I mean,
Speaker 1: like the whole tariff thing in economy, obviously that matters,
Speaker 1: but like getting a good night's sleep, and that sounded
Speaker 1: like that sounded like a transition into an AD. That's
Speaker 1: why we suggested to say, I don't I don't have this.
Speaker 1: I don't have this AD really sounded like transition to
Speaker 1: it alive and dead. But that's not what I was doing.
Speaker 1: I mentioned earlier, I slept the last two nights all
Speaker 1: night long for the first time, and I don't know
Speaker 1: how long, many many many months, maybe a year, because
Speaker 1: I took Valerian root and magnesium, And I really think
Speaker 1: that's why we got this text. Magnesium is vital for
Speaker 1: sleep and also regulates melatonin production and release, and studies
Speaker 1: show this Valerian roote currently has no strong clinical evidence
Speaker 1: of being useful for sleep. Just FYI from a fellow
Speaker 1: insomnia supper. So I don't know that both have kept
Speaker 1: me asleep, and I don't know which one might be
Speaker 1: keeping me asleep. But I'm just telling you I've taken
Speaker 1: them both, and I've slept all night long, two nights
Speaker 1: in a row. And then we run into the ever
Speaker 1: present question. If you're taking like a multi vitamin, are
Speaker 1: you getting plenty of magnesium? And if you take a supplement,
Speaker 1: you're just going to secrete it right in the way
Speaker 1: that humans get rid of extra stuff. Yeah, keying, I'm sorry?
Speaker 1: What am I tap dancing around this? You're gonnat urinated out.
Speaker 4: Or not?
Speaker 1: I would like to know that because I take your
Speaker 1: standard older guy multi, then you probably get plenty of magnesium.
Speaker 1: I don't get I don't think I get any Valerian
Speaker 1: root in my diet though. So if this turns out
Speaker 1: to work, away did this is one of the best
Speaker 1: pieces of news I've had in my life in a
Speaker 1: long time. If I've stumbled upon something that is going
Speaker 1: to help me sleep all night long, this is freaking awesome.
Speaker 1: So I'm just passing along. I tried it. It work
Speaker 1: right right, good luck? Let us say your results, may Harry,
Speaker 1: let us know. So Bernie Sanders had a trans rally
Speaker 1: over the weekend in Milwaukee, of all places. He was
Speaker 1: a she, now she is a he, and we must
Speaker 1: respect that. The Democratic Party doubling down on an issue
Speaker 1: that is like ninety ten. Trump said the other day,
Speaker 1: I think it's more like eighty twenty, but still millionaires
Speaker 1: and billionaires should not be the only people to re genitals. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I got that and a bunch of other stuff on
Speaker 1: the waist. Stay here.
Speaker 4: The internet was all abuzz because at the speech, Elon
Speaker 4: Musk was there and he was sitting next to an
Speaker 4: attractive blonde woman. But it turns out that they were
Speaker 4: just seated together.
Speaker 1: It never met her.
Speaker 4: There's no connection, and her due data is in Descember.
Speaker 1: That's pretty funny. I knew where he was going, but
Speaker 1: his wording was still surprising, very very good joke. I
Speaker 1: wondered that myself too. Probably a lot of people did, Okay,
Speaker 1: who's the hot blonde sit next to Elon? What's uh?
Speaker 1: What's going on there? But just happened to be sitting there.
Speaker 1: I had to at least cross her mind. Man, if
Speaker 1: I could just get pregnant real quick, I wonder how
Speaker 1: I could do that. I wonder how that's what's the
Speaker 1: monthly support? I don't know, Grimes. I was talking to
Speaker 1: somebody about that the other day. That would be someday,
Speaker 1: Well that'll be written. What is the financial deal he
Speaker 1: makes with these women? How much is it? Is it
Speaker 1: reasonably rich? Like ten million? Dollars flat fee, which would
Speaker 1: be awesome. Obviously that's a ton of money, or is
Speaker 1: it crazy elon money? I don't know. I don't know either.
Speaker 1: Does he you know if before you get married he
Speaker 1: got to sign a pre nup? Does he have them
Speaker 1: sign a pre shtup? Hey? Now those are ryme. Hey. Oh,
Speaker 1: there's a little vaudeville humor, therefore you little cat skills
Speaker 1: nineteen sixties humor. Yeah, sort of thing Bernie Sanders would
Speaker 1: have enjoyed, as he didn't had Sanders. So a fair
Speaker 1: amount has been said and written, includes said on this
Speaker 1: show of it's shocking that the left is continuing to
Speaker 1: hang on to the trans issue despite all the polling
Speaker 1: and the fact that their party got drubbed and everybody
Speaker 1: considers the most successful ad of the entire presidential election
Speaker 1: there for they them, He's for you, you know, that sort
Speaker 1: of thing. But they, at least the Twitter left continues
Speaker 1: to go down that road. Bernie Sanders had a trans
Speaker 1: rally over the weekend in Milwaukee. For some reason, I
Speaker 1: just wanted to mention this part. Uh. The octagenarian lawmaker
Speaker 1: opened the rally in Milwaukee with a performance by a
Speaker 1: transgister transgender musician named Laura Jane Grace who built it
Speaker 1: out the lyrics and this is kind of rough. This
Speaker 1: is not for the kids. I will use initials. Does
Speaker 1: it rhyme with between us singing? No, it rhymes with rick.
Speaker 1: Oh boy? Does your God have a big fat D?
Speaker 1: Because it feels like he's effing me? Were the lyrics
Speaker 1: to the song to open the rally that Bernie Sanders
Speaker 1: was leading. You really just keep going, I keep going
Speaker 1: that good job of getting the working class back and
Speaker 1: Hispanic males and black males particularly back on your side
Speaker 1: with that you morons. Wow, it's astounding, is I mean?
Speaker 1: It's it's good for conservatism. You could be it's auto
Speaker 1: worker union member, blue collar democrat your whole life, your
Speaker 1: parents were Democrats. You never considered voting Republican in your
Speaker 1: whole life, and you see that and think I'm voting Republican. Yeah, yeah, yeah, remarkable.
Speaker 1: One of my favorite writers with a headline, don't be fooled,
Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom is no moderate on trans issues. Worth looking
Speaker 1: into that next hour maybe. Yeah. So speaking of that
Speaker 1: sort of thing reminded me of I was in bumper
Speaker 1: around Los Angeles over the weekend. With my son and
Speaker 1: his friends on their birthday. And we took an uber
Speaker 1: to the Peterson Car Museum from Burbank and so the
Speaker 1: decent ride like a half an hour and I don't
Speaker 1: remember how we got in this.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 1: So the guy, the uber driver, he said, yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: born and raised in Los Angeles. He was English speaking,
Speaker 1: which was awesome. And I'm sitting in the front because
Speaker 1: of the three kids in their back, and he said,
Speaker 1: I'm born and raised in Los ange Angelus. I said wow.
Speaker 1: He said, yeah, you know, there aren't that many natives anymore.
Speaker 1: A lot of the natives have I left. And I said,
Speaker 1: have you been here the whole time? He said, I
Speaker 1: was briefly up in the Bay Area, because he asked
Speaker 1: me where I was living, and I said, why'd you
Speaker 1: leave there? And he said that jobs just dropped and
Speaker 1: there just wasn't enough driving and everything like that. Between
Speaker 1: COVID and the crime, I said, oh yeah, yeah, I said,
Speaker 1: I was in downtown San Francisco and I'm talking about
Speaker 1: how dead it is and everything like that. He said, well,
Speaker 1: if you let crime run rampant like that, you know,
Speaker 1: And I'm always surprised to hear that sort of thing
Speaker 1: anywhere in California really, but certainly in Los Angeles or
Speaker 1: San Francisco or something like that. So, I mean, he
Speaker 1: kind of hinted toward where his thinking was on this
Speaker 1: sort of stuff, and I said, yeah, I know, between
Speaker 1: the homeless and the crime. He said, oh, don't get
Speaker 1: me started on the homeless. And anyway, we ended up
Speaker 1: at a place where we both you know, it's probably
Speaker 1: I never I've never was a pot smoker, but it's
Speaker 1: probably like the way you weed heads back in the day,
Speaker 1: sussed out whether somebody was, you know, on your side
Speaker 1: or not, with code words or with code words or whatever.
Speaker 1: I go, okay, where we're together, where we're both okay
Speaker 1: on this. So then we and I could both talk
Speaker 1: openly about how we filed about the politics at California.
Speaker 1: And he said, I never talk about this. Give it
Speaker 1: uber rides for obvious reasons, he said, but you'd be surprised,
Speaker 1: he said, I voted for Trump three times, three times,
Speaker 1: This born and raised Los Angeles uber driver voted for
Speaker 1: Trump three times, and in he said, I never talk
Speaker 1: about politics, he said, but you'd be surprised how many
Speaker 1: secret conservatives I'd drive around this town just nobody has
Speaker 1: the courage to say it out loud. And I feel
Speaker 1: like if more people said it out loud, we'd all,
Speaker 1: you know, we'd all feel like, oh yeah, there's more
Speaker 1: of us than I realized. Let's let's start saying it
Speaker 1: out loud, right, Yeah, Well, let's I remember, there are
Speaker 1: a couple of big articles right after the election or
Speaker 1: the inauguration about how the culture was changing and people
Speaker 1: were wearing their mega hats and you know, coming out
Speaker 1: as either pro Trump or conservative, which is not necessarily
Speaker 1: the same thing. And I'd love to see more of it. Definitely,
Speaker 1: we're just not as mean as the woke left. That's
Speaker 1: part of it. Does that put that a thousand times?
Speaker 1: If it's fifty five forty five liberally conservative, that's a
Speaker 1: landslide in every single election. But you can almost have
Speaker 1: the population utterly unrepresented, unrepresented and bullied. But what drove
Speaker 1: his thinking was what drives a lot of people that
Speaker 1: you know, voted for Trump who might not otherwise. He's
Speaker 1: got a couple of kids, He's got a six year
Speaker 1: old and an eight year old, and he said, I
Speaker 1: look around the city and it's too dangerous for him
Speaker 1: to walk down the streets that I used to walk down.
Speaker 1: There's almost crazy people everywhere. I mean, I got my
Speaker 1: kids in private school, which I gotta pay for because
Speaker 1: the public schools are insane and teaching them all kinds
Speaker 1: of crazy stuff. It's just I don't see this changing
Speaker 1: anytime real soon. Unless you know, you got Bernie Sanders
Speaker 1: and Gavin Newsome's scared to say that dude shouldn't be
Speaker 1: in girls' sports and all that sort of stuff. Until
Speaker 1: you recognize, like that Uber Drivers needs, you're gonna lose
Speaker 1: a lot of elections. I need to design a T
Speaker 1: shirt or a meme or something that says, policies yield results.
Speaker 1: Good policies, good results, bad policy bad results. If you
Speaker 1: are seeing bad results around you, it's probably because of
Speaker 1: bad policies. Because it's shocking to me the number of
Speaker 1: people for whom that little calculation is just they never
Speaker 1: even think about it. Yeah, as opposed to supporting whatever
Speaker 1: seems the nicest or coolest or whatever. Precisely and there
Speaker 1: are actually results from these policies. If you miss a
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