Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Arm Strong and Jetty and now he arm Strong and Yetty.
Speaker 3: The corner said it was an accident, but it was
Speaker 3: no accident. It was a monkey. When I was a kid,
Speaker 3: my twin brother and I found something that loved to kill.
Speaker 4: We have been chosen to witness its power over life
Speaker 4: and death in its most devious ways.
Speaker 5: So that's part of the that's part of the trailer
Speaker 5: to the movie The Monkey, or if you member with this, Katie,
Speaker 5: it's a it's like a little toy monkey, but it
Speaker 5: did murders people and stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, my husband said he wanted to see this, and
Speaker 2: I hadn't looked at it. This thing's terrifying looking.
Speaker 5: It's it's it's an interesting combination. Sounded like a parody, Well, it's.
Speaker 5: It is a clearly killer in questions a toy monkey.
Speaker 5: It's clearly a combo horror horror movie, kind of comedy
Speaker 5: ish parody, satire of horror movies. But it's pretty well
Speaker 5: stream movies kind of. Yeah, it looks really really well done.
Speaker 5: My son actually wants to take a girl to it.
Speaker 5: I don't know if the he said she likes horror films. Oh,
Speaker 5: she'll clutch his arm and that's all.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 1: That's the whole point, right, many a fine international protect
Speaker 1: you from the movie monkey.
Speaker 5: Oh, because it's all the excuse to lean in and
Speaker 5: you're cuddling.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's win win, Thank you monkey.
Speaker 5: I didn't even they didn't even think of that's a
Speaker 5: clastic movie.
Speaker 2: He's ahead of me on this one.
Speaker 5: In other news, in other non evil monkey news, evil
Speaker 5: toy monkey news. Trump was on the phone with Zulensky
Speaker 5: yesterday for a while and it seemed to go fairly well.
Speaker 5: Here's a news report about it, and then we'll fill
Speaker 5: in some more details.
Speaker 6: That call between Presidents Trump and Zelensky lasting nearly an hour,
Speaker 6: the Ukrainian leader agreeing to the same partial CEASEFI ideal
Speaker 6: as Putin, pledging to stop attacking energy infrastructure. But in
Speaker 6: a stunning development, Trump also offered to take ownership of
Speaker 6: Ukraine's electrical supply and nuclear power plants, saying America could
Speaker 6: offer the best protection. It could include Europe's largest nuclear
Speaker 6: plant at Zaparisha, which Russia currently occupies at least initially.
Speaker 6: Ukraine seems open to the idea. There'll be further talks
Speaker 6: this weekend.
Speaker 5: So everybody's trying to guess what Trump's angle is on
Speaker 5: this whole piece plan thing. I mean, everybody, I think
Speaker 5: is a little confused. Yeah, starting to get a little
Speaker 5: clearer to me. Well, okay, so here's the reporting. Trump
Speaker 5: said that the US could be very helpful in running
Speaker 5: all the power plants, electric and utility plants in Ukraine.
Speaker 5: American ownership of those plants would be the best protection
Speaker 5: for that infrastructure and support for Ukrainian injury energy infrastructure.
Speaker 5: So is this similar to the rare earth metals mind
Speaker 5: that we would run. Also, is it just we're gonna
Speaker 5: happen so much economic intertwined reason to care about Ukraine
Speaker 5: that'll be like, hey, Putin, don't be attacking basically the
Speaker 5: United States his interests.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's becoming more clear to me, I think in that.
Speaker 1: You know, Trump famously is transactional, and whether it's like
Speaker 1: an actual philosophy of international relations.
Speaker 2: Or just his ego.
Speaker 1: Needs to be seen as getting something when he gives something.
Speaker 1: And so the framework is we will be so entwined
Speaker 1: with Ukraine economically especially, but you know, on a human
Speaker 1: level too, because obviously we'll have lots and lots of
Speaker 1: people there that that is Ukraine's security, and he can
Speaker 1: go on about and now we have cheap electricity and
Speaker 1: access to rare earth minerals and blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: It's a win for both sides.
Speaker 1: It's an interesting way to go about it. And you know,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't bet my life savings on it working. But
Speaker 1: if that's what he's thinking, that's not nuts.
Speaker 2: But it's different.
Speaker 5: So yeah, So it's different than like having a NATO
Speaker 5: guarantee with Article five, where an attack on one is
Speaker 5: an attack on all. So if you have NATO troops there,
Speaker 5: instead of doing that, you just make it more much
Speaker 5: more well transactional in that No, we have a bunch
Speaker 5: of businesses there. There are billions at stake, dollars at steak.
Speaker 5: Don't be attacking a country where we have billions of
Speaker 5: dollars of business at stake.
Speaker 2: I was worried at.
Speaker 1: First because of Trump's you know, characteristic, oversimplified over belligerent
Speaker 1: rhetoric that he was thinking more in terms of like
Speaker 1: war reparations and having Ukraine's economy under our heel and
Speaker 1: exploiting them for the rare minerals and the rest of it.
Speaker 1: But like so often with Trump, that was the big
Speaker 1: blustery opening, and it's starting to sound more like, you know, partnership.
Speaker 2: My actual partnership might be both.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, because I don't want to be a
Speaker 1: colonial power at this point. I think that's a terrible idea.
Speaker 1: He might want to be in. Well, yeah, well, i'm
Speaker 1: he works for me, especially in the twenty first century
Speaker 1: in a part of the world where they are armed
Speaker 1: to the teeth.
Speaker 2: I don't think we want to a colony.
Speaker 1: But if it is, here's how we bring him to
Speaker 1: the West and put them under our umbrella through enormous
Speaker 1: commercial interaction. I don't know, it's an intriguing idea.
Speaker 5: Well, he wants to make Canada the fifty first state.
Speaker 5: He seems to be fairly serious about figuring out a
Speaker 5: way to get Greenland. I don't know. By the way,
Speaker 5: I came across this tidbit yesterday, and then I'll be
Speaker 5: done with this. But surely he understands the Canada thing
Speaker 5: will never happen.
Speaker 2: Right, we get more.
Speaker 5: Oil from Canada at an incredibly discounted price, and with
Speaker 5: no fear of disruption because it's right on our border
Speaker 5: like all the other.
Speaker 2: And there are buds.
Speaker 5: We get more oil from Canada than the next five
Speaker 5: foreign sources combined.
Speaker 2: I had no idea of that.
Speaker 5: I couldn't have told you that we get fifteen times
Speaker 5: more oil from Canada than from Saudi Arabia.
Speaker 2: Didn't know that. So interesting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, King of Ukraine, Western allies are meeting as we speak,
Speaker 1: or just did. No, it's today to hash out a
Speaker 1: bold European idea. When was the last time you heard
Speaker 1: the phrase bold European idea? I know, let's make our
Speaker 1: acconemy even more socialist than wreck it. That was really
Speaker 1: the last one I heard. They're thinking of sending ten
Speaker 1: to thirty thousand troops to Ukraine to help enforce any
Speaker 1: eventual peace deal with Russia. Defense officials from dozens of
Speaker 1: Western nations, not America. We are not involved. Zuos met
Speaker 1: in the UK today. They met today, Yes, it's later
Speaker 1: today over there to hammer out details of the so
Speaker 1: called Coalition of the Willing, led by the UK and France,
Speaker 1: that could help Ukraine deter Russia from attacking in the future.
Speaker 2: No US troops would be involved.
Speaker 1: Again, the Eastern Euros are saying, yeah, well, we're right
Speaker 1: next to Russian. We don't want to piss them off,
Speaker 1: and we need them for our own defenses. But Britain, France, Sweden,
Speaker 1: Denmark and Australia have all said they're considering putting boots
Speaker 1: on the ground.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 5: So this is being portrayed, of course by the Trump haters.
Speaker 5: As look, Europe is in such a desperate situation since
Speaker 5: we've abandoned them that they feel like they need to.
Speaker 2: Act on their own.
Speaker 5: Okay, that's one way to look at it, or another
Speaker 5: way to look at it would be it's their freaking continent.
Speaker 2: Why aren't they doing it instead of us or with us? Even?
Speaker 1: You know, I see the world through metaphors and I
Speaker 1: find it illustrative.
Speaker 2: I hope you do too. But it's like we had
Speaker 2: a totally.
Speaker 1: Dysfunctional relationship with a clingy, weak partner who is nothing
Speaker 1: but clingy and weak, and we said, nope, you're on
Speaker 1: your own.
Speaker 2: We kicked them to the curb.
Speaker 1: They learned about themselves, jack, as they say these days,
Speaker 1: they worked on themselves and now potentially they are a stronger,
Speaker 1: more self reliant partner worth having.
Speaker 2: I mean Europe was getting damned close.
Speaker 1: To just as a useless ally, just weak paper tiger,
Speaker 1: just clinging to us.
Speaker 5: Well, right, I had that quote from the leader of
Speaker 5: Poland last week that I thought was really good. He's
Speaker 5: more on our side by saying, how are we supposed
Speaker 5: to convince three hundred million Americans that they need to
Speaker 5: protect five hundred million Europeans from one hundred and forty
Speaker 5: million Russians.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I like to cut his jib. It's worth
Speaker 1: mentioning that. A defense expert at King's College, London, Bence Nameth,
Speaker 1: said the chance of this force ever heading to Ukraine
Speaker 1: is a long shot. European leaders say they'll only send
Speaker 1: troops if there is a lasting piece in Ukraine. Wow,
Speaker 1: I'll go kick his ass as long as he says
Speaker 1: he doesn't want to fight. Russian President Vladimir Putin is
Speaker 1: so far ruled out signing piece deal that includes Western
Speaker 1: forces in Ukraine, other than that it's a terrific idea.
Speaker 1: Among other ideas floated were to get around Russia's opposition,
Speaker 1: perhaps include troops that Russia SEESUS friendly from China or India,
Speaker 1: for example, So you're gonna have like joint patrols of British,
Speaker 1: French and Chinese troops to keep Vladimir Putin out of Ukraine.
Speaker 5: China is not putting troops in Ukraine? Is there a
Speaker 5: ghastly can hear?
Speaker 1: Or what are you okay? How many fingers am I
Speaker 1: holding up? Seriously?
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Speaker 5: Interesting perspective here.
Speaker 1: Trump's Yemen campaign is promise to avoid quote unquote forever wars,
Speaker 1: which is a term I hate. It's a catchphrase in
Speaker 1: search of an argument. Nobody wants forever wars. Well, the
Speaker 1: military industrial complex does you know what? You have a point,
Speaker 1: But just because something takes a little while doesn't mean
Speaker 1: you get to smugly call it a forever war on Twitter.
Speaker 1: But there is no doubt that Trump's vale We're gonna
Speaker 1: whoop the hell out of Hoothy's if they don't stop
Speaker 1: their their horseplay, and we're gonna do it as long
Speaker 1: as it takes, if it takes forever. That's, you know,
Speaker 1: very much in contrast to what he's talking about during
Speaker 1: the campaign. But you know, campaigns are all about oversimplification.
Speaker 1: It'll be interesting to see, though, what his actual philosophy
Speaker 1: is this time around, because it's already clearly not quite
Speaker 1: as pat as was suggested during the campaign.
Speaker 2: Not a shock. The question is does it make you happy?
Speaker 5: The United States has fallen to its lowest ranking ever
Speaker 5: in the World Happiness Report, which makes me unhappy, among
Speaker 5: other things we've got to talk about on the waistate here.
Speaker 7: Well, Khalil's not exactly an easy one either, because it's
Speaker 7: some judge, you know, dlamdon de him. But the Democrats
Speaker 7: last meek because of the stupidity of you know, they're
Speaker 7: back in these ninety percent negative things. From the standpoint
Speaker 7: people that hate Israel want to destroy it, people that
Speaker 7: are murderers, people that are horrible.
Speaker 2: That was a little hard to untease.
Speaker 1: But what Trump was saying is that the Democrats lose
Speaker 1: because they back things that nobody likes, and that brought
Speaker 1: me to a chart that I saw. Steve Kernaki, who's
Speaker 1: the head polster for NBC, puts this out recently, and
Speaker 1: as he says, white non college men a more blue
Speaker 1: collar demographic, and white college or plus women more upscale
Speaker 1: one have come to exist in two polar opposite political
Speaker 1: and cultural universes. And I think we knew that, but
Speaker 1: looking at the polling, you look at Donald Trump positive
Speaker 1: or negative, White men no degree plus forty one, white
Speaker 1: women college or grad school minus thirty eight. With just
Speaker 1: a little rounding, it's an eighty point gap. Wow, that
Speaker 1: that can't exist in a single culture. I mean, if
Speaker 1: you're talking about norwayan Yemen, I could see that sort
Speaker 1: of gap existing. Jadie Vans, those are two very big groups. Also, well,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, that's one of the points Karnaki gets to.
Speaker 1: I'm you know, as long as you know you're right,
Speaker 1: that's a better way to prove in.
Speaker 5: Native Americans and Arizona are really polar opposite in their
Speaker 5: political views.
Speaker 2: Either are two giant voting groups.
Speaker 1: Well said, to quote mister Karnaki, both groups pack a
Speaker 1: formidable punch. Eighteen percent of all voters last year were
Speaker 1: non college white men, and seventeen percent were college educated
Speaker 1: white women. So damn near twenty percent on each end
Speaker 1: of the electorate. A little less so anyway, jd Vance
Speaker 1: is only five points less polarizing. Elon Musk is a
Speaker 1: seventy three point spread. Doge, as you might have guessed,
Speaker 1: is eighty point spread. The Republican Party is a sixty
Speaker 1: point spread. DEI is a seventy one point spread, with
Speaker 1: white college plus women still plus thirty one on DEI.
Speaker 2: Well, I clearly need.
Speaker 5: To date a non college graduate dude if I want
Speaker 5: to be.
Speaker 2: In math checks out.
Speaker 1: And the Democratic Party it's a fifty four percent spread.
Speaker 1: White men no degree minus fifty eight, almost minus sixty
Speaker 1: in approval, and white college women is actually minus minus
Speaker 1: four because they don't think the Democrats are radical enough.
Speaker 5: But so if you get this, almost twenty percent of
Speaker 5: each group, so that's forty percent of the electorate total, right, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: and they're that far apart. Is that ever happened in
Speaker 5: our history? I wonder.
Speaker 1: I doubt it very very much, only like in eighteen
Speaker 1: sixty one, and I don't know if you've heard, things
Speaker 1: went very poorly for several years after that. Yeah, it's shocking,
Speaker 1: and I'm trying. You know, I certainly have my point
Speaker 1: of view. We have our point of view, and we're
Speaker 1: trying to litigate it and convince more people. For instance, conservatism, localism,
Speaker 1: you know, not teaching your kids porn in school, all
Speaker 1: this stuff is better than the alternative. On the other hand,
Speaker 1: I really try to understand what's happening before I go
Speaker 1: into litigation mode, and I can't come up.
Speaker 2: With anything other than.
Speaker 1: The constant indoctrination of progressive ideals into students and particularly women.
Speaker 1: For the socio psychological reasons We've talked about why women
Speaker 1: are more easily in doctrinated than men a lot of times,
Speaker 1: and the fact that women are not marrying and having
Speaker 1: children so biologically they have a desperate need for a purpose.
Speaker 1: They've been indoctrinated that their purpose is Marxism, essentially progressivism,
Speaker 1: and that's why we're seeing this mind boggling and unprecedented spread.
Speaker 5: Well, I wonder if we crossed some sort of line
Speaker 5: into a tipping point where it'd be hard to dig
Speaker 5: out of this, Like what would be appealing about college
Speaker 5: for a lot of men when all you see is
Speaker 5: women who have a completely different view of the world
Speaker 5: than you.
Speaker 2: Well, in so.
Speaker 1: Many degrees are worthless, and the youngsters barely learn anything,
Speaker 1: and it's suffocatingly expensive.
Speaker 2: Who could resist? Yeah, well that's interesting. Yeah, it's not good.
Speaker 2: It's not healthy.
Speaker 1: I got a lot in so many emails from young
Speaker 1: men saying, dude's the reason I don't date is because
Speaker 1: women are out of their freaking minds.
Speaker 5: But not in the usual way in the college women
Speaker 5: to be saying they're a bunch of maga idiots.
Speaker 2: That was why it don't Yes, yes, correct, good?
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Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 5: Coming out your next segment. One of the funnier things
Speaker 5: Trump has ever said. That's saying something, but pretty funny. Also,
Speaker 5: the big case against green Peace. Have you heard about this?
Speaker 5: Really interesting saw the headline Menendez brothers continue to be
Speaker 5: a thing.
Speaker 2: Who are you? Who are you.
Speaker 5: People who are fighting to get the Menendez brothers out
Speaker 5: of prison? But or even talking about it?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Do you not have a like, any interests or hobbies
Speaker 1: or family to care about?
Speaker 2: Anyway?
Speaker 1: So what is Trump trying to do with the tariffs
Speaker 1: and why is he going about it the way he's
Speaker 1: going about it. Now, this might be two completely different questions,
Speaker 1: but what's the plan. I have called for a Ronald
Speaker 1: Reagan esque speak to speak to the nation saying, Hey,
Speaker 1: this is going to be disruptive for a little while,
Speaker 1: but here's what we're hoping happens. Here's roughly how long
Speaker 1: it'll take. And that's why I'm doing what I'm doing.
Speaker 1: You know, he constantly communicates with the press to the
Speaker 1: point that any individual explanation, I think kind of gets
Speaker 1: lost and it might illustrate the need to be a
Speaker 1: little more selective in how often you speaking on what topic.
Speaker 2: But you know he's going to do him. But jd.
Speaker 1: Vance did an interview recently in which he addressed the
Speaker 1: very questions of trade policy and what they're trying to accomplish.
Speaker 1: It is in three chunks, Michael, we'll just begin with
Speaker 1: first and to discuss as needed.
Speaker 8: There were two conceits that our leadership class had when
Speaker 8: it came to globalization. The first is assuming that we
Speaker 8: can separate the making of things from the design of things.
Speaker 8: The idea of globalization was that rich countries would move
Speaker 8: further up the value chain, while the poor countries made
Speaker 8: the simpler things. You would open an iPhone box and
Speaker 8: it would say designed in Coupertino, California.
Speaker 2: Now the implication, of course, is that.
Speaker 8: It would be manufacturing, eng engein or somewhere else. And yeah,
Speaker 8: some people might lose their jobs in manufacturing, but they
Speaker 8: could learn to design, or to use a very popular phrase,
Speaker 8: learn to code. But I think we got it wrong.
Speaker 8: It turns out that the geographies that do the manufacturing
Speaker 8: get awfully good at the designing of things. Their network effects.
Speaker 8: As you all well understand, the firms that design products
Speaker 8: work with firms that manufacture. They share intellectual property, they
Speaker 8: share best practices, and they even sometimes share critical employees. Now,
Speaker 8: we assume that other nations would always trail us in
Speaker 8: the value chain, but it turns out that as they
Speaker 8: got better at the lower of the value chain, they
Speaker 8: also started catching up on the higher end. We were
Speaker 8: squeezed from both ends. Now that was the first conceit
Speaker 8: of globalization.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's good stuff. Why don't we get talked to
Speaker 2: like that more often from politicians? Yeah?
Speaker 1: This I can't remember precisely or he was he was
Speaker 1: speaking too. Folks who are you know, probably more hip
Speaker 1: to this sort of thing. Than the average voter. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I agree with them as far as it goes. Some
Speaker 1: of it's a little overstated, I think, And you just
Speaker 1: can't argue with Yeah, if I manufacture it over there,
Speaker 1: I can offer the same product for thirty percent less,
Speaker 1: because that is just too compelling in a free market
Speaker 1: to pass up.
Speaker 2: It's too attractive.
Speaker 1: On the other hand, in the second clip, he gets
Speaker 1: to cheap labor, and I think.
Speaker 8: The second is that cheap labor is fundamentally a crutch,
Speaker 8: and it's a crutch that inhibits innovation.
Speaker 2: I might even say that it's a.
Speaker 8: Drug that too many American firms got addicted to. Now,
Speaker 8: if you can make a product more cheaply, it's far
Speaker 8: too easy to do that rather than to innovate. And
Speaker 8: whether we were offshoring factories to cheap labor economies or
Speaker 8: importing cheap labor through our immigration system, labor became the
Speaker 8: drug of Western economies. And I'd say that if you
Speaker 8: look in nearly every country from Canada to the UK
Speaker 8: that imported large amounts of cheap labor, you've seen productivity stagnate.
Speaker 2: And I don't think.
Speaker 8: That's not a total happenstance. I think that the connection
Speaker 8: is very direct.
Speaker 2: I assume he's getting to his ultimate point here in
Speaker 2: a little bit. Yeah. I don't buy that argument, by
Speaker 2: the way. Okay, yeah, I do.
Speaker 1: The idea that we've become less innovative because we have
Speaker 1: cheap labor over there. Well, but again, if you are
Speaker 1: five percent less innovative but can drop your price by
Speaker 1: thirty percent and you're innovating pretty well, that's just not
Speaker 1: a compelling argument in a free market.
Speaker 5: We've been doing the cheap labor thing for quite a while,
Speaker 5: and we're the most innovative country on earth with all
Speaker 5: the smartphone, computer AI, all that technologies come out of here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there are some leaps of logic there that I
Speaker 1: don't think are like super compelling, But all right, bring
Speaker 1: it home, JD.
Speaker 8: Now, one of the debates you hear on the minimum wage,
Speaker 8: for instance, is that increase in the minimum wage force
Speaker 8: firms to automate, So a higher wage of McDonald's means
Speaker 8: more kiosks, And whatever your views on the wisdom of
Speaker 8: the minimum wage, I'm not going to comment on that here.
Speaker 8: Companies innovating in the absence of cheap labor is a
Speaker 8: good thing. I think most of you are not worried
Speaker 8: about getting cheaper and cheaper labor. You're worried about innovating,
Speaker 8: about building new things. About the old formulation of technology
Speaker 8: is doing more with less. You guys are all trying
Speaker 8: to do more with less every single day. And so
Speaker 8: I'd ask my friends, both on the tech optimist side
Speaker 8: and on.
Speaker 2: The populace side, not to.
Speaker 8: See the failure of the logic of globalization as a
Speaker 8: failure of innovation. Indeed, I'd say that globalization's hunger for
Speaker 8: cheap labor is a problem precisely because it's been bad
Speaker 8: for innovation. Both our working people are populists and our
Speaker 8: innovators gathered here today have the same enemy. And the solution,
Speaker 8: I believe is American innovation.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not untrue what he's saying.
Speaker 1: I just think he's really grossly exaggerating his point or
Speaker 1: inflating it. I mean, if I'm running Joe's tires and
Speaker 1: Jack's running Jack's tires, and.
Speaker 2: Rounder you're gonna like him.
Speaker 1: If you've shot for tires lately, you realize you could
Speaker 1: about buy anything anyway, because we're you know, maybe this,
Speaker 1: and we're selling essentially the same good. We both have
Speaker 1: good service but you're importing tires that are thirty percent
Speaker 1: cheaper than mine. Jd Vance would say, well, Joe, you've
Speaker 1: got to innovate. You got to innovate your way because
Speaker 1: now that you're not relying on cheap you gotta innovate.
Speaker 1: But you can't innovate your way to not going out
Speaker 1: of business. It's just not possible. In a lot of fields.
Speaker 1: We're not all designing AI. Some of us are selling
Speaker 1: tires or lumber, or washing machines or whatever. I and
Speaker 1: I wanted I actually had only heard part of one
Speaker 1: of those clips. I wanted to agree with them. I
Speaker 1: wanted to be persuaded because you could simply say, hey,
Speaker 1: the United States government exists to protect the rights of
Speaker 1: the American people and to you know, seek the welfare,
Speaker 1: seek out the best possible welfare for the American people.
Speaker 1: To what extent you want them to do. That depends
Speaker 1: on how libertarian you are. And I get that. And offshoring,
Speaker 1: like all the good steady manufacturing jobs, has been an
Speaker 1: enormous negative in a lot of ways.
Speaker 2: But I just I'm sorry I didn't buy those arguments.
Speaker 1: What am I missing? Why am I wrong? Mail bag
Speaker 1: at Armstrong and getty dot com. In the words of
Speaker 1: Agent Molder on the X Files, I want to believe I.
Speaker 5: Don't think you're going to change the incentive when it
Speaker 5: comes to like having stuff built in Mexico or India
Speaker 5: or wherever the heck my socks are made.
Speaker 2: You know, it says Indiania, you need to have more
Speaker 2: innovative socks.
Speaker 5: But uh, China, that's going to take care of itself.
Speaker 5: Because there's such an enemy of the United States, people
Speaker 5: aren't going to want to make stuff. I can't believe
Speaker 5: that Apple is still making iPhones in China.
Speaker 2: They got to be scared to death on a daily basis. Yeah,
Speaker 2: well that's why they opened.
Speaker 1: What is it they're having fifteen or eighteen percent of
Speaker 1: their manufacturing done in India now, I think, but you know,
Speaker 1: fifteen to eighteen percent eight much?
Speaker 5: No, but that that's what's going to take care of
Speaker 5: the cheap Chinese goods. Is it just we're going to
Speaker 5: reach the point of rupture with that enemy of the
Speaker 5: United States one of these.
Speaker 2: Days, I suspect.
Speaker 5: So, yeah, so the chatting of our young people, which
Speaker 5: I'll explain what that means coming up in a little bit.
Speaker 5: And one of the funnier things Trump has ever said.
Speaker 5: Is it chatting with a te chatting as in the
Speaker 5: name Chad. Oh, I don't know that I've invented this term,
Speaker 5: but oh, all that I don't know.
Speaker 1: You're innovating yourself ahead of the competition. I am getting
Speaker 1: ahead of cheap Chinese talk shows exactly.
Speaker 2: It's on the way.
Speaker 5: So I'm trying to fit all this into this little
Speaker 5: segment here. I got an idea, I got a plan. So,
Speaker 5: first of all, came across this. If you have allergies
Speaker 5: at all. I didn't have allergies in my entire life.
Speaker 5: Moved to California, got allergies, which I guess happens to
Speaker 5: some people.
Speaker 2: We get shots for years.
Speaker 5: Paulin expected to surpass historical averages in thirty nine states
Speaker 5: this year, So for four out of five states, it
Speaker 5: is going to be a worse than average allergy year
Speaker 5: or something to look forward to, record setting.
Speaker 2: Good lord, the sneezing, so much sneezing.
Speaker 5: President Trump calls on Congress to pass stable coin legislation
Speaker 5: during his address at the Digital Asset Summer Summit.
Speaker 2: Well, you talk about something I don't understand.
Speaker 5: We're ending the last administration's regulatory war on crypto and bitcoin. Okay,
Speaker 5: this is either great or horrible or something in between.
Speaker 5: I have no idea, don't ask me.
Speaker 1: Not super comfy with Trump playing around with the meme
Speaker 1: coin industry, by the way, I haven't talked about their.
Speaker 5: Okay, and a lot has been made over since Trump
Speaker 5: came on the scene politically about his sleeping.
Speaker 2: How he let me sleep like five hours a night
Speaker 2: or something like that.
Speaker 5: He's one of those people, Max, Yeah, got it, his age,
Speaker 5: his level of stress. Anyway, he said something funny. Laura
Speaker 5: Ingram asked him about his sleeping.
Speaker 2: You do when you.
Speaker 8: Can't sleep because you don't sleep, You're like me, you
Speaker 8: don't sleep at all.
Speaker 2: I know you just don't need a lot of sleep.
Speaker 2: But when you can't fall asleep, you wake up and
Speaker 2: I'm like, how do you go back to sleep?
Speaker 7: Well, the only thing I totally admired about sleepy Joe
Speaker 7: Biden is the following. He'd go to a beach, he'd
Speaker 7: lay down in a cut, barely able to get his
Speaker 7: feet through the sand. He'd lay down, and within minutes
Speaker 7: he's sleeping, and you have cameras watching him.
Speaker 2: I could never do that. I would never be able
Speaker 2: to sleep like that.
Speaker 7: That's about the only thing I think that was wonderful.
Speaker 2: Uh. He was a disaster. This man was a disaster.
Speaker 2: I don't sleep much. You don't sleep much.
Speaker 7: A lot of people that love what they're doing don't
Speaker 7: sleep much, I find, and so far it's been okay.
Speaker 2: That's a decent point. If you can, in the middle
Speaker 2: of the day, with.
Speaker 5: Cameras everywhere, shuffle on out to the beach, laid out,
Speaker 5: sound asleep, that's a gift.
Speaker 2: Or you have dementia, well yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well you can sleep on airplanes like a ring
Speaker 1: and a bell. For me to sleep ten minutes straight
Speaker 1: on an airplane, I'm more likely to pull vault eighteen feet.
Speaker 5: I couldn't if I had cameras on me. Let's all
Speaker 5: watch Jack sleep. I couldn't do that enough. Yeah, well,
Speaker 5: you don't have the dementia. As you mentioned, the chatting
Speaker 5: of America. I've been wanting to talk about this. I
Speaker 5: see Pete Davidson has a new girl, hot young actress girlfriend.
Speaker 5: Pete Davidson of SNL fame. He is involved in this.
Speaker 5: He plays a character on Saturday Night Live name Chad,
Speaker 5: and I kind of got it liked it over. It's
Speaker 5: been going on for years. It's a recurring character's when
Speaker 5: they do their little films. It's a recurring character until
Speaker 5: I got a high school boy who is very much
Speaker 5: like Chad, and I just wonder, and there's a reason
Speaker 5: it's a popular character on Saturday Live.
Speaker 2: My kids act in that way.
Speaker 5: It must be like something in the water or the
Speaker 5: air or culture right now. And the whole thing with Chad,
Speaker 5: if you've never seen it, is they put him in
Speaker 5: different circumstances like j looaks coming on to him in
Speaker 5: one episode, or the place catches on fire, or just
Speaker 5: whatever's going on. Whatever you say to Chad itsways okay,
Speaker 5: I don't know, all right, the place is on fire,
Speaker 5: Oh okay, we really should get out of here, all right.
Speaker 5: Or j Lo's coming on, I think I've fallen in
Speaker 5: love with you and have sex with you.
Speaker 2: Cool. That's what he responds to everything, And that's whay.
Speaker 5: My son is with anything, and it's just does it
Speaker 5: any breaking out of it? And I don't know if
Speaker 5: that's fine or normal, or or if the younger generation
Speaker 5: is just so comfortable and like numb from smartphones that
Speaker 5: just nothing has an effect on them.
Speaker 2: I don't know what it is. I don't know if
Speaker 2: it's a crisis or just funny.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's the disease you get from calling everything awesome.
Speaker 1: A sunrise is awesome, this taco is awesome. The Allies
Speaker 1: triumphing in World War two is awesome.
Speaker 2: Everything's awesome.
Speaker 5: Why do we had a producer I won't name his name,
Speaker 5: guy I really really liked for a while who had
Speaker 5: a bit of that himself. And it's just kinda you know,
Speaker 5: you know, if you do this, that's gonna happen. Okay,
Speaker 5: I mean just I don't care. Doesn't matter to me.
Speaker 5: I mean, as long as I got a roof over
Speaker 5: my head and a smartphone to stare at all, right, cool?
Speaker 5: And I just wonder if I don't know, I don't
Speaker 5: know if it's a thing.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I don't know if it's because I'm the
Speaker 1: presence of social media and electronic inputs is different than
Speaker 1: we ever dealt with. But being like unaffected by anything
Speaker 1: is It's an adolescent thing, especially around your parents.
Speaker 2: I'm independent, I'm cool. You can't affect me like you
Speaker 2: did when I was a kid. You know that sort
Speaker 2: of thing. Anie thoughts Joe just nailed at it. I
Speaker 2: think it's a total cool guy thing, you know, I
Speaker 2: don't care. It's all good. Yeah, yeah, well, it definitely is.
Speaker 5: I used to spend a lot of time in my
Speaker 5: room listening to music when I was his age. When
Speaker 5: I was a high schooler, I'd spend a lot of
Speaker 5: time in my room with my stereo on, headphones on
Speaker 5: or whatever, and I read. But that was one of
Speaker 5: the only options. I didn't have a TV in my room.
Speaker 5: My son doesn't have a TV in his room, but
Speaker 5: he's got a TV in his hand with a smartphone.
Speaker 5: But he'll get home from school and I'll try to
Speaker 5: engage them in conversation for a while and then headed
Speaker 5: to the zerom. What are you gonna do? Literally whatever
Speaker 5: I want? And he can he can kill several hours
Speaker 5: in his room because he's just texting with friends and.
Speaker 2: Yeah nothing. How's things doing? Okay? Did you see you
Speaker 2: hear about this? All right?
Speaker 1: I don't know where it goes unless it's the planet
Speaker 1: of the apes or beavers or ants, as I've said,
Speaker 1: But again, assemble Jesus and Buddha and nietzschee and you know,
Speaker 1: Thomas Jefferson and who else? John Wayne you usually want
Speaker 1: John Wayne for some reason. Heart Princess Diana, exactly. No,
Speaker 1: this is not a Franklin Mint commemorative plate. This is
Speaker 1: a meeting of the greatest minds in philosophers and history.
Speaker 1: And tell them what if we were to put in
Speaker 1: the hands of every human being a device that delivered
Speaker 1: constant pleasure without effort, do you think things would go?
Speaker 2: And then please? They'd be climbing all over each other
Speaker 2: to tell you, oh, bad idea, bad idea, And yet
Speaker 2: here we are.
Speaker 5: And you'd say that in the younger generation, this is
Speaker 5: going to destroy your motivation to do anything, and they
Speaker 5: would say, okay, whatever.
Speaker 1: Cool exactly yeah again. Planet of the Beavers gonna be charming.
Speaker 2: In its way.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they will grow to astounding size
Speaker 1: and oppress us remaining humans. That remains to be seen,
Speaker 1: but they will indeed be in charge of the planet.
Speaker 5: So my youngest he plays video games and then he
Speaker 5: gets angered himself for playing video games too much. And
Speaker 5: he doesn't even play very much. But he told me
Speaker 5: last night, he said, I'm giving this to you. Do
Speaker 5: not give it back to me under no circumstances. Give
Speaker 5: it back to me, no matter how much I beg
Speaker 5: tomorrow and tomorrow I'm gonna beg. I'm gonna say I overreacted.
Speaker 5: Don't give it back to me. I don't want it back.
Speaker 1: Wow, switch, I said Jean Wilder and young Frankenstein.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I said, You've seen this theme in lots of
Speaker 5: TV shows and movies. I know you have, where the
Speaker 5: person says, no matter how much I beg, don't let
Speaker 5: me out, or that sort of thing. But right, okay,
Speaker 5: we'll see how this turns out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, good luck with that next hour.
Speaker 1: A number of things I'm anxious to bring to your attention,
Speaker 1: including a couple of progressive states attacks on homeschooling that
Speaker 1: are utterly galling and evil.
Speaker 2: Want to call those out.
Speaker 1: Plus the two faced corporations that do business in the
Speaker 1: UK and in the United States over in Europe. Well,
Speaker 1: I said the UK, but it's the UK and Europe.
Speaker 1: Over in Europe, they're more woke than ever, even as
Speaker 1: their public face in the US is oh, we've moved
Speaker 1: beyond that sort of thing. So the Euro's gon a
Speaker 1: euro as they say, and a lot more good stuff
Speaker 1: if okay, yeah whatever, If you don't get next hour,
Speaker 1: I don't care whether I get it or not. If
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Speaker 2: cool cool cool dad? All right? Uh our four is
Speaker 2: gonna be good. Stick here Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm