Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
Speaker 1: George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong
Speaker 1: and Jetty and he Armsrong. Oh my god, I just
Speaker 1: gave across the story about a lip reader who has
Speaker 1: read the lips of McCrone and his wife President McCrone
Speaker 1: and his wife on the plane what they were saying
Speaker 1: as she was shoving him in the face, and has
Speaker 1: its justified backed up my theory that it was an
Speaker 1: actual angry conflict. Stay tuned live from the studio, C
Speaker 1: say signor a dimly lit room deep with them the
Speaker 1: bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications Compound. And hey,
Speaker 1: it's you know what you like about these short weeks.
Speaker 1: It's all ready in the middle of the week. Today
Speaker 1: we're under the tutelage of our general manager, Vladimir Putin,
Speaker 1: author of World War three question mark hanging in the air. Jeez,
Speaker 1: you dropped to World War three right at the beginning
Speaker 1: of the show. I figured you'd be excited about that.
Speaker 2: Hey, he cats has been predicting the onslaught of World
Speaker 2: War three for many years now.
Speaker 1: One of our favorite lines from the Great Larry Sanders
Speaker 1: television show. You can't show. You can't start the show
Speaker 1: with the show stopper. That's a show stopper. Yeah, don't
Speaker 1: start the show with a showstopper. World War three is
Speaker 1: a show stopper. Holy crab. Yeah, that's some good stuff.
Speaker 1: I've been reading this book or listening to it, but
Speaker 1: counts as reading called appeasement about all of Europe in
Speaker 1: the world, letting Hitler get more and more powerful and
Speaker 1: do whatever he wanted to do because nobody wanted to
Speaker 1: have to go to war again. And it's it's really
Speaker 1: damned interesting. And while I don't constantly look for parallels that,
Speaker 1: you know, mean, this is the new Hitler or the
Speaker 1: new Germany or whatever, because that's all ridiculous, I usually
Speaker 1: think it is amazing how many of the similar things
Speaker 1: are happening, with the way Putin is being looked at,
Speaker 1: just little by little. Crimea was the Rhineland. I mean
Speaker 1: it was the same sort of thing. Go into Crimean.
Speaker 1: Nobody barely does anything. Okay, cool, they don't have the
Speaker 1: DUTs to to stop me. So I guess I'll try
Speaker 1: to take all of you, great Hitler. Hitler Invaded to Rhineland,
Speaker 1: Part of Germany that he was not allowed to have
Speaker 1: after World War One, so there's a buffer between them
Speaker 1: and France. He made up a reason, just like Putin does.
Speaker 1: He just make up a reason. He went in and
Speaker 1: the world went, yeah, I don't want to go to war.
Speaker 1: Do you want to go to war? I don't want
Speaker 1: to go to worr either. Let's just let him have it.
Speaker 1: He probably won't go any further.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a bit of a head scratcher if you've
Speaker 2: studied this sort of thing for a while. But if
Speaker 2: you do something completely horrific, just do it. The world
Speaker 2: will condemn you and sanctions and who knows what sort
Speaker 2: of opposition will arise. But if you do that same
Speaker 2: horrific thing and float some ridiculous fish story about why
Speaker 2: it's justified, people rub their chins and spend a great
Speaker 2: deal of time debating it, and a certain percentage of
Speaker 2: people will say, you know, it kind of has.
Speaker 1: A point is if it's because you don't want to
Speaker 1: have to fight, yes, that you will go ahead and
Speaker 1: take their excuse. And Hitler knew that, and Putin knows that,
Speaker 1: and lots of people have known that. If you come
Speaker 1: up with me summarize offer them a threat and an
Speaker 1: excuse to back down, and they will accept the Yeah,
Speaker 1: offer them an excuse to do what they really want
Speaker 1: to do. That's what Putin does, and the world accepts it,
Speaker 1: at least so far has. And one other element of
Speaker 1: this that I just wanted to throw in, this weird
Speaker 1: thing that was going on in between England and Germany.
Speaker 1: And I'd never heard this before, and I don't think
Speaker 1: I'd have picked up on it if I hadn't lived
Speaker 1: through all the Tucker Carlson stuff that's been going on.
Speaker 1: How England after World War One, there was a belief
Speaker 1: that they're young people today, no longer you know, cared
Speaker 1: about England and blah blah blah, and they really admired
Speaker 1: the elites in England, really admired how energetic the Germans were,
Speaker 1: how much they cared about their country, how willing they
Speaker 1: were to fight, how how much they cared about Christianity.
Speaker 1: Exactly the same sort of stuff that the Tucker crowd
Speaker 1: says about Russia's boutin. Well, they're the manly men, They're
Speaker 1: the ones that you know, they're they're reinventing manhood over there.
Speaker 1: Look at us, we're weak and soft and turning all
Speaker 1: kinds of weird. True, and England did the exact, had
Speaker 1: the same theory towards they kind of admired what Germany
Speaker 1: was doing. And yes, you had that crowd also, yeah,
Speaker 1: helping helping push the idea that, yeah, we were a
Speaker 1: little hard on Germany after that whole World War One thing. Besides,
Speaker 1: look at them, they're better than us. Right.
Speaker 2: So Trump made those ridiculous statements the other day on
Speaker 2: the tarmac of hod what happened to Putin?
Speaker 1: He's changed? I thought we were bodies.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm paraphrasing, and I said yesterday, I thought
Speaker 2: that was nuts, because Putin hasn't changed a bit. I mean,
Speaker 2: his appetite has grown with the eating, as they say.
Speaker 2: But other than that, no, he's the same cold hearted
Speaker 2: KGB trained crocodile he's always been. But he is a
Speaker 2: absolute genius when it comes to, you know, carrying out
Speaker 2: the sort of plans were discussing. He is a student
Speaker 2: of history, he is a student of human nature. He
Speaker 2: has been schooled at the highest level in the arts
Speaker 2: of deception and persuasion and flattery and threats. And you know,
Speaker 2: even as you hate him, you've got to admire seeing
Speaker 2: him operate. And Hitler, who is way over referenced in
Speaker 2: society these days, was likewise a somewhat mad genius. Obviously
Speaker 2: his heart was rotten with hate. But the two of them, actually,
Speaker 2: what they haven't come in is incredible effectiveness. But Hubris,
Speaker 2: that's just running a bit hot. I mean, Putin's whole
Speaker 2: COVID fueled dreams of re establishing the Russian Empire and
Speaker 2: being the new Peter the Great, little Nutty little third Reiki. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: Nutty and third Reichi.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I'm not a fan of Hitler. But the understanding
Speaker 1: that your opponents don't really want to fight. They would,
Speaker 1: they would, They will keep backing up and backing up
Speaker 1: and backing up rather than actually fight.
Speaker 2: Well, that's why this is such an incredible pivot point
Speaker 2: right right now.
Speaker 1: That is exactly what the Wall Street Journal says today,
Speaker 1: We'll have to read from their editorial board, lady that
Speaker 1: all the tweeting and talking and then theorizing and get
Speaker 1: is up like very soon, like maybe this week, maybe today.
Speaker 1: Trump's gonna have to either decide to continue to arm Ukraine,
Speaker 1: support the new sanctions that Europe is signed on to
Speaker 1: et cetera, et cetera, or not or send a message
Speaker 1: similar to not the same, as there are plenty of differences,
Speaker 1: but similar to Biden backing down in Afghanistan that there's
Speaker 1: disastrous running for the exits withdrawal, the signal being we
Speaker 1: will not hang in for the long term. So if
Speaker 1: you're an evil doer, go ahead, give it a try. Right,
Speaker 1: let's start the show officially because there's conversation will stem
Speaker 1: from our opening clip. I'm Jack Armstrong, he's Joe Getty
Speaker 1: on this. It is hopefully not the beginning of World
Speaker 1: War three. I hope this isn't a date that lives
Speaker 1: in infant Wednesday, May twenty eighth, year twenty twenty five,
Speaker 1: were Armstrong in Getty and we approve of this program.
Speaker 1: It's probably worth mentioning when the Chinese turn off the
Speaker 1: electric grid and the power grid and the cell phones
Speaker 1: in the water and the rest of it. We'll be
Speaker 1: working on getting back on the air and doing a podcast.
Speaker 2: It could be wild, though, just keep checking in. Okay, Well, anyway,
Speaker 2: good lock up. It doesn't come to cannibalist.
Speaker 1: Thanks for three. I hope it doesn't come to cannibalism. Look,
Speaker 1: you gotta be mentally prepared. Oh god, yeah, why do
Speaker 1: you drill? Why do you practice so it doesn't freak
Speaker 1: out when the pooh hits the fall for the best,
Speaker 1: prepare for the worst. At least put it in the
Speaker 1: back of your head. You might have to eat your neighbor,
Speaker 1: right right, have two weeks worth of water on hand, cash, weapons,
Speaker 1: and mental preparedness for cannibalism. Here we go, officially now
Speaker 1: according to FCC rules and regulations, which will also be
Speaker 1: off when the dystopia begins. Here we go at Mark
Speaker 1: medative rights. Regarding Trump's words about Putin playing with fire
Speaker 1: and really bad things happening to Russia. I only know
Speaker 1: of one really bad thing, world War three. I hope
Speaker 1: Trump understands this. How's a response to Trump saying you're
Speaker 1: really playing with fire? They shot back, Oh yeah, how
Speaker 1: about world War three? Drop the World War three on Trump?
Speaker 1: So what do you make of that?
Speaker 2: It's another example of Putin's posturing throughout this whole thing,
Speaker 2: that this will escalate beyond your control and cataclysm and
Speaker 2: you'll be in a blame. It hasn't happened so far.
Speaker 2: Is it a completely hollow threat? I don't know it
Speaker 2: worked on Biden. This is the reporting. There are a
Speaker 2: lot of folks on the right in America, some of
Speaker 2: whom are listening, frustrated and red faced right now, who
Speaker 2: think we're playing with that sort of fire for no
Speaker 2: supportable reason. We've heard your arguments. I don't agree with you,
Speaker 2: but we've heard them.
Speaker 1: Well. I do agree with you, just in a different way.
Speaker 1: I think he let Putin win, and you get closer
Speaker 1: to World War three, not further from World War three,
Speaker 1: as he's right on the board of border of NATO
Speaker 1: countries and he is going to try to take one
Speaker 1: of those little NATO countries under some trumped up something
Speaker 1: or other.
Speaker 2: Any if you would like to drop us a note
Speaker 2: saying why we're wrong, please do mail bag at armstrong
Speaker 2: in getty dot com. Again, that's mail bag at Armstrong
Speaker 2: in getty dot com. You are not allowed to use
Speaker 2: the term neocon nor forever wars because though they don't
Speaker 2: mean anything, those are just catching phrase. Are they allowed
Speaker 2: to use the phrase be better at the end of
Speaker 2: their screed?
Speaker 1: Certainly?
Speaker 2: Or why don't you guys do a little studying before
Speaker 2: you shoot off your mouth?
Speaker 1: Yes, that would be better. Yeah.
Speaker 2: My final thought on this is and perhaps address this thought.
Speaker 2: What we're talking about is the difference between telling Sheshin
Speaker 2: Ping invading Taiwan, or telling Vladimir Putin invading Estonia or
Speaker 2: going full on Nukan, Ukraine or whatever. It's the difference
Speaker 2: between this will cost you one thousand dollars or one
Speaker 2: hundred thousand dollars. What will it cost them to try
Speaker 2: to realize their expansionist aims?
Speaker 1: Will it cost a little or a lot?
Speaker 2: If it costs a lot, they reconsider it's been true
Speaker 2: for all of human history. Well, Richard Engel is reporting
Speaker 2: on NBC News what intelligence sources tell him Putin's strategy is.
Speaker 2: We can get into that later because I'd been wondering,
Speaker 2: and this actually makes sense. So uh, one of Elon's
Speaker 2: rockets blew up yesterday, and the media once again treating
Speaker 2: it like he's obviously a failure of a rocket engineer,
Speaker 2: which makes me insane.
Speaker 1: They're stupid, stupid idiots. We got Diddy trial updates, We
Speaker 1: got all kinds of stuff for it. I hope you
Speaker 1: can stick around. We get some oh, including let's talk
Speaker 1: about the bond market. Ah, yeah, he wants to talk
Speaker 1: about bonds. You World War three and bond markets. What
Speaker 1: what the hell? Come for the horror? Stay with for
Speaker 1: the snooze. I got it all, so we got a
Speaker 1: lot on the way. I hope you can stay here.
Speaker 1: Here's our text line four one FIFTC. Okay, I'll make
Speaker 1: this deal with you. We can go through some real
Speaker 1: headlines if you promise to leave me time to get
Speaker 1: to the reader on McCrone and his wife from the plane.
Speaker 1: Somebody was reading the lips of the video. We now
Speaker 1: know what they said to each other, according to the
Speaker 1: slip reader when she shoved him in the face.
Speaker 2: I will agree to that bargain if you let me
Speaker 2: talk about the bond market.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, can we have an egg timer on
Speaker 1: that or something?
Speaker 2: Seriously, I came across an explanation of how it works,
Speaker 2: and I thought.
Speaker 1: Oh now I get it. Oh okay, well yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: if it helps us understand, that's fantastic.
Speaker 2: Well come on, how many of us have not heard
Speaker 2: various financial the bond market reacted, yields were then you think.
Speaker 1: I guess that's bad without really getting it. And it's
Speaker 1: actually quite simple. So that's coming up in a little bit,
Speaker 1: believe it or not. By the nip so.
Speaker 2: You got a handful of headlines about Trump at war
Speaker 2: with Harvard and foreign students and visas and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: A lot of this is going to get knocked down
Speaker 2: by the courts. Some of it's silly. It's all about
Speaker 2: the awful state of our universities, and that's fine, and
Speaker 2: we can dig into it a little bit.
Speaker 1: I was shocked.
Speaker 2: I was looking at the numbers of how many foreign
Speaker 2: students there are in the US and universities and how
Speaker 2: much money they're worth to the university.
Speaker 1: So foreign students, yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean everybody makes noises about well, it's diversity and
Speaker 2: different perspectives, but no, it's an efing money spigots and
Speaker 2: they pull that and they pay that full rate that
Speaker 2: practically no American kid does. So I heard a couple
Speaker 2: of times yesterday the White House officially changed COVID vaccination guidelines,
Speaker 2: with RFK Junior croaking out that healthy children and pregnant
Speaker 2: women no longer need to be vaccinated. On ABC News,
Speaker 2: it was reported or you know, described last night as
Speaker 2: overcoming the opinions of the experts, are ignoring them. AREFK
Speaker 2: Junior changed national COVID policy? Can anybody explain to me
Speaker 2: why the hell healthy children and pregnant ladies were getting
Speaker 2: the shot anyway, especially late date.
Speaker 1: Right, And as was pointed out only on Fox, they
Speaker 1: had an expert on said European countries gave up on
Speaker 1: making kids get inoculations several years ago. So we're noring
Speaker 1: the opinions of experts, right, please. So on the financial
Speaker 1: side of things, the stock market, maybe you're paying attention
Speaker 1: yesterday was up yesterday and looks like it is again today.
Speaker 1: Wall Street. This is from the Wall Street Journal. Their
Speaker 1: headline wall Street BET's the worst of Trump's trade war
Speaker 1: is behind it. It looks like that's what the smart
Speaker 1: people are thinking. And also that consumer confidence number that
Speaker 1: came out yesterday that we didn't really talk about, up
Speaker 1: twelve points or something like that in one month. Can
Speaker 1: you explain that Why did it go up so high? No? No,
Speaker 1: I cannot. Either. I need to explain why it went
Speaker 1: down so low or why it went up so high again.
Speaker 1: I mean, one of those two needs to be explained.
Speaker 2: The best I can offer is that those two stories
Speaker 2: are related. It's become more clear that the we're going
Speaker 2: to become some sort of isolationist smoot Hally tariff protected
Speaker 2: fortresses of domestic economy. It's just it's not going to happen,
Speaker 2: and he wasn't serious about it as posturing.
Speaker 1: That's true. I feel that way, but I guess maybe
Speaker 1: this makes me an elitist. I didn't assume that most
Speaker 1: people paid enough attention to to know both of those
Speaker 1: things happened, the threat of the whole Terraf war and
Speaker 1: then the back and off of it. I didn't know
Speaker 1: most people paid attention to that. Yeah, I was struck
Speaker 1: a couple of times.
Speaker 2: I can't remember if we talked about it on the air,
Speaker 2: And it doesn't really matter, I suppose, But there were
Speaker 2: a handful of polls about the tariff policy, and I
Speaker 2: was surprised how few no opinions there were. People seemed
Speaker 2: to be paying attention to it. To your point, a
Speaker 2: couple more headlines real quickly, US military has begun to
Speaker 2: strengthen its presence in Northern Europe in the face of
Speaker 2: increased Russian activity. We're going to get more deeply into
Speaker 2: some of the interesting things being said by Trump. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he gets all the attention by my major figures in
Speaker 2: his administration and by an overwhelming number of United States senators.
Speaker 2: There are now I believe eighty two co sponsors of
Speaker 2: a bill to crush Rush's economy with oil sanctions, roughly speaking,
Speaker 2: more on that to come.
Speaker 1: Well, that's interesting based on huge consensus. This Wall Street
Speaker 1: Journal headline, which is actually at the top of their
Speaker 1: online right now, Putin has retooled his entire economy to
Speaker 1: focus only on war. Right.
Speaker 2: I was going to cite as an exhibit of why
Speaker 2: you know we must stop the killing Vladimir stop is
Speaker 2: just right.
Speaker 1: It's doomed right, He's put all his chips on the table,
Speaker 1: So I blame myself. We have run out of time
Speaker 1: and we're not going to get to the McCrone wife
Speaker 1: lip reading thing. We got to guarantee we're going to
Speaker 1: get it at some point, because I know the first
Speaker 1: thing we do next second. This is the sort of
Speaker 1: thing I would wait in my car to here. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's pretty good too. Look gloom, doom and horror that
Speaker 1: will be there afterward. Yes, get to that. But a
Speaker 1: spat between a Russian president and his old wife, uh
Speaker 1: who was his teacher when he was a kid, which
Speaker 1: is weird.
Speaker 2: Especially the passionate French, oh you know them in their tempers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she shoves him in the face with both hands.
Speaker 1: They're just a playful couple, or's a real animosity in
Speaker 1: the air. We'll get that mere day out of here,
Speaker 1: she said. We'll ask the lip reader some real news
Speaker 1: all on the way, So stay tuned, Armstrong and Geeddy.
Speaker 1: The video of the show quickly going viral. The President's
Speaker 1: team initially called it a fake, but later Macron acknowledged
Speaker 1: it was real, down playing the incident, saying he and
Speaker 1: his wife were bickering and joking. Who originally called it
Speaker 1: a fake? Uh? The President? Did he? Cron? Did he? Really?
Speaker 1: It is lit? Sheep say, sheep say, wow, wow wow.
Speaker 1: All right, So you've probably seen the video by now
Speaker 1: of Macrone that the plane, the big plane like his
Speaker 1: Air Force one lands, door opens, whatever whatever was going
Speaker 1: on between him and his wife. She shoves him in
Speaker 1: the face with both hands. He turns, sees the doors open.
Speaker 1: Then it's a big smile and waven He tries to
Speaker 1: turn it around real quick and hope that nobody saw
Speaker 1: that other part. They did, And everybody's been speculating was
Speaker 1: this an actual fighter? They did? They just being playful
Speaker 1: and that's the way they're playful or whatever. I've seen
Speaker 1: people do that playfully. I'm not at that age. Yeah, true,
Speaker 1: this is more of a twenty somethings sort of plan
Speaker 1: in face shove at age sixty or whatever. Well, anyway,
Speaker 1: so The New York Post went to a lip reader
Speaker 1: to try to figure out what was being said. As
Speaker 1: the aircraft door opens, President McCrone is seen turning toward Brigette.
Speaker 1: In an unexpected moment, she pushes him in the face.
Speaker 1: After the door open, Macrone noticed that the cameras were
Speaker 1: on him, then he said hi before raising his hand,
Speaker 1: even if out that part saw the video. Emmanuel then
Speaker 1: steps closer to his wife before composing himself and crossing
Speaker 1: to the other side. Moments later, he signals for her
Speaker 1: to follow him with let's go, the lip reader says.
Speaker 1: He thanks the pilot and waves at the camera, trying
Speaker 1: to recover his public facing image, but at the top
Speaker 1: of the stairs things turn icy again. He offers his arm,
Speaker 1: she ignores it, choosing to cling to the Rali instead.
Speaker 1: We all saw that. To me, that was the indication
Speaker 1: that it was an actual anger thing. I mean, because
Speaker 1: that was pretty evident. As she passes, she appears to mutter,
Speaker 1: I won't try to say it in French translated in
Speaker 1: English stay away you lose her. Yeah, I don't know
Speaker 1: if I to gageous piece de loser stay away loser.
Speaker 1: Moments later, the lipreader claims Macrone said esion silte plate,
Speaker 1: which translates to let's try please. Oh God, I've been
Speaker 1: there before. That's the worst. Then she responds none, which
Speaker 1: I assume means no. We his closing expression and the
Speaker 1: phrase lip red as javos translate in englishes. I see,
Speaker 1: al right, that's the direct translation. Alright, great, okay, oh fantastic.
Speaker 1: So you're not even gonna for everybody in the cameras
Speaker 1: and everybody down there, even though we got you know,
Speaker 1: we're dealing with a war and peace here. Can't let
Speaker 1: this happen at home, a trumble.
Speaker 2: In economy, trying to cut a trade deal with these
Speaker 2: nice communist people, and you can't even try.
Speaker 1: Ah, right, Of course, it depends on what they're fighting about.
Speaker 1: Maybe she's hardcore support Ukraine and he's more temperate on it,
Speaker 1: or it's something incredibly stupid like can happen in the relationship,
Speaker 1: or yeah, she's sick.
Speaker 2: And tired of being the first lady of a country
Speaker 2: because he's been right, isn't it for a long time?
Speaker 1: Right? It's just like, oh my god.
Speaker 2: Another plane ride so I can smile, dignitaries. I don't
Speaker 2: even know who these people are. I'm gonna go off
Speaker 2: to a hotel room. You're gonna have your stupid meetings.
Speaker 2: Our economies crumbling, our empires a one hundred years in
Speaker 2: the past. Oh ivey schlepping around the world.
Speaker 1: I'm sick of it. I feel like she's aged out
Speaker 1: of the incredibly short skirt. But she apparently thinks her
Speaker 1: legs are her best feature and wants to make sure
Speaker 1: everybody sees them.
Speaker 2: Wow, listen to you judging. Plus they're French. They have
Speaker 2: different ways they do. God, if that is the translation,
Speaker 2: does that not fit beautifully with all the body language?
Speaker 1: No way, you lose her? Can we try? Please? No? Oh? Great,
Speaker 1: get away? Well to get away, get away from me?
Speaker 1: You lose her? Oh jeez, So there you go. Eh.
Speaker 1: I don't remember what we're gonna talk about. Next. Rocket tree.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, I was watching that on the television. So
Speaker 1: the SpaceX just launched some more satellites into space. Only
Speaker 1: Fox was covering it. I think that was Fox wanting
Speaker 1: to have something successful elonish on TV because the media
Speaker 1: went so huge yesterday on another one of Elon's rockets
Speaker 1: failing at a certain points. It's an experiment, it's an
Speaker 1: effort to make the rockets better and better and better.
Speaker 1: We've talked about this a thousand times. Elon has a
Speaker 1: completely different way of doing this than NASA ever did.
Speaker 1: NASA being a government program and for a variety of reasons,
Speaker 1: they wanted to make sure everything was perfect, and it
Speaker 1: would take many, many years before you'd ever try anything
Speaker 1: because you couldn't handle the disaster of a mis launch
Speaker 1: or something like that. I guess, yes, there was a.
Speaker 2: Mishaf It was seen as a horror, an utter disaster.
Speaker 2: Whereas as SpaceX, their motto is fail fast, learn faster.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you do it, you do it right now.
Speaker 1: You see how far you get and then it fails
Speaker 1: and you say, okay, so what was the failure part?
Speaker 1: And you fix that and then you go again, you
Speaker 1: go a little further. This one went further than the
Speaker 1: last one. It was presented on the media last night
Speaker 1: once again SpaceX rocket fails to blah blah blah without
Speaker 1: understanding the concept of what he's doing at all, or
Speaker 1: they understand the concept and like pretending that Elon is
Speaker 1: a failure. Then they mentioned the boot let me jump in.
Speaker 1: These dumb bastards if they were on the if they
Speaker 1: were on the beaches of Kitty Hawk, they'd be the
Speaker 1: right brothers failed again to launch their arrow plane. The
Speaker 1: bicycle repairman who believed they could equal the birds that
Speaker 1: fail again, right right, You could apply that to a
Speaker 1: zillion different great breakthroughs in human history, I'm sure, all
Speaker 1: kinds of medicines and everything else where. You tried this,
Speaker 1: it didn't work. Tried this, it didn't work. You tried
Speaker 1: a thousand times it didn't work. But each time you
Speaker 1: got a little closer until you figured it out. That's
Speaker 1: why it works. You freaking morons. You did bastards.
Speaker 2: To quote the great and crazy Pete Townshend of the
Speaker 2: WHO typewriter tappers, you're all.
Speaker 1: Just crappers anyway. Then they mentioned on ABC Evening News
Speaker 1: I'm watching last night about how the booster part then
Speaker 1: came down and was grabbed by the arms again, which
Speaker 1: is one of the most amazing technological feats that has
Speaker 1: ever happened on the planet. And you kind of YadA YadA,
Speaker 1: yachta that. Yeah, shot a skyscraper into space, then brought
Speaker 1: it back and parallel parked it right any who, so
Speaker 1: there you go. Yeah. Oh, speaking of Elon Musk, Oh,
Speaker 1: I just knocked my mouse into the garbage? Is that
Speaker 1: a metaphor? Is that an omen?
Speaker 2: He used my finger now like it's I don't know,
Speaker 2: like it's nineteen ninety here it is.
Speaker 1: So.
Speaker 2: Elon Musk, in an interview, came out strong against djt's big,
Speaker 2: beautiful spending bill. He was being interviewed Sunday CBS Sunday
Speaker 2: Morning quote. I was disappointed to see a massive spending bill, frankly,
Speaker 2: which increases the budget deficit, not just decrease it, and
Speaker 2: undermines the work that the Doge team is doing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's a businessman and he's big on the debt
Speaker 1: and understands that it's just unsustainable. As Rand Paul said
Speaker 1: on Sunday, is my favorite line on this. We spend five,
Speaker 1: we spend seven, and we take in five trillion. We
Speaker 1: spend seven trillion, we take in five trillion every year.
Speaker 1: We can't continue to do this. It's that simple, Ladies
Speaker 1: and germs. Well, right, all right, Musk went on to say,
Speaker 1: of the horrible betrayal bill, it's big but not beautiful.
Speaker 1: I think a bill can be big or it could
Speaker 1: be beautiful, but I don't know if it could be both.
Speaker 1: And they talk about some of his doge goals and
Speaker 1: how much money's actually been saved and how many jobs
Speaker 1: have actually been cut, and he said, in the grand
Speaker 1: scheme of things, I think we've been effective, not as
Speaker 1: effective as I'd like. I think we could be more effective,
Speaker 1: but we'd made progress. I'm glad to hear him coming
Speaker 1: out against this horrific bill. And again Mike Johnson would say, dude,
Speaker 1: the best we can get, Well, we don't have the
Speaker 1: votes for anything more responsible. What do you want me
Speaker 1: to do? It's our system of government, right, Well, we're
Speaker 1: fair enough. What we need and are going to have
Speaker 1: to have at some point, whether we like it or not,
Speaker 1: is a new electorate. Is a big, painful bill that
Speaker 1: is going to include all kinds of cuts to all
Speaker 1: kinds of things and tax increases because we got no choice.
Speaker 1: But you know, you kick the can down the road
Speaker 1: as long as you can. I guess. Yeah.
Speaker 2: One of the great truths of politics, and this is
Speaker 2: going to make you want to stick your head in
Speaker 2: the oven, don't bother. The truth is, if you are
Speaker 2: looking at say four year terms, just to keep it simple,
Speaker 2: we'll go with presidents because everybody's fixating on the president.
Speaker 2: You got the president who screams toward the cliff for
Speaker 2: four years, and the next one of screams toward the cliff,
Speaker 2: then the next one who streams toward the and then
Speaker 2: on day three in office, the next guy or girl jack.
Speaker 1: It's legal under the constitution, it could be a woman.
Speaker 1: A woman president three days into their term we go
Speaker 1: over the cliff. They will be blamed right or at
Speaker 1: the very least, they will be tasked with fixing the problem.
Speaker 1: And the negative effects, the punishment, the imprisonment or beatings
Speaker 1: or fines that ought to go to the previous people
Speaker 1: we've talked about, those will never exist. For the opposite,
Speaker 1: historians will continue to rate them very highly for growing
Speaker 1: these various programs over the years that put us in
Speaker 1: the cataclysm that we got into. Back to stick in
Speaker 1: your head in the oven, Yeah, you alerted me to
Speaker 1: something a while back I had never thought of in
Speaker 1: my life. So I've used the phrase makes me want
Speaker 1: to stick my head in the oven, which is really
Speaker 1: a pretty dark graphic sort of aside to say in
Speaker 1: a semi humorous fashion, it's a like saying I'd like
Speaker 1: to put a gun in my mouth. Yeah, it's a
Speaker 1: suicide reference, and none of us take it seriously. But
Speaker 1: thought I had never really thought about the I guess
Speaker 1: I had thought the stick your head in the oven
Speaker 1: to make it so hot that you're you die. But
Speaker 1: you're saying it's a gas thing because you said that
Speaker 1: would do no good because most people have an electric oven.
Speaker 1: Until then, I had never thought that it was a
Speaker 1: gas thing. I always thought it was a heat thing.
Speaker 1: So you stick your head in the oven, turn on
Speaker 1: the gas, and then the fumes kill you. It's not
Speaker 1: because you're cooking your head, yes, exactly, Okay, cooking your
Speaker 1: head would be a slow and patience requiring effort to
Speaker 1: to offer yourself. Probably want to preheat the oven, like
Speaker 1: you're making a baked potato or something. Yes, Like turning
Speaker 1: on your car in the garage, yeah, like I can.
Speaker 1: It'd be be the equivalent now of me parking my
Speaker 1: Tesla in the garage and closing the door and sitting
Speaker 1: there until I got turning it up, sitting there until
Speaker 1: I need to pee or got very hungry, and then
Speaker 1: going back in the house right till you just wander
Speaker 1: out out of bordo. Like you know what, Now my
Speaker 1: hope is rekindled and I'm just really bored. So that's hilarious. Douck.
Speaker 1: You know what we're gonna do today. We're going to
Speaker 1: leave enough time for mail bag because we never do,
Speaker 1: and we got plenty of stuff. And man, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of news today. Stay here. Joe Tani, who has
Speaker 1: not pitched in almost two years, is about to pitch again.
Speaker 1: It'll be very soon, according to the Dodgers, and he
Speaker 1: looks fantastic as one of the best pitchers in baseball
Speaker 1: and one of the best hitters in baseball will be
Speaker 1: back doing both soon for the La Dodgers. So that's exciting.
Speaker 1: I gotta get it. I gotta get to a game
Speaker 1: at Dodgers Stadium and see him, because Eve, once in
Speaker 1: one hundred years player, I.
Speaker 2: Would agree, Yeah, that sounds really great. I wonder if
Speaker 2: he just bagged I want to pitch, come on, I
Speaker 2: really like pitch in here's your freedom loving quote of
Speaker 2: the day. Loved this from Daniel Webster. God grants liberty
Speaker 2: only to those who love it and are always ready
Speaker 2: to guard. And liberty is not a marble edifice. It
Speaker 2: is a garden. If it is not tended, it will die.
Speaker 2: Very easy to take for granted. Oh yeah, definitely, I
Speaker 2: think about that A lot mailbag drop us a note
Speaker 2: mail bag at Armstrong and Getty dot com. Got this
Speaker 2: from Sean on the topic of perseverance, which we were discussing,
Speaker 2: I believe later in the show yesterday. I used to
Speaker 2: tell my corporate coworkers that the healthiest way to approach
Speaker 2: work challenges is to stop asking why are they doing
Speaker 2: this and start asking why are they doing this to me? Yes,
Speaker 2: make it personal, Sean, You're so.
Speaker 1: Right about you to me right, do the same thing
Speaker 1: like in traffic all the time. Anytime relationships, your spouse
Speaker 1: is and you know, living their own life and expressing
Speaker 1: their field, they're directing it towards you. It's about you.
Speaker 1: They don't have their own stresses and needs. They're doing
Speaker 1: it to you. Right.
Speaker 2: Holding along Kevin the Texas Marine with the thought about
Speaker 2: the night versus morning shower question, The answer is both.
Speaker 1: I have a job.
Speaker 2: Mike Crow might would approve of so I need a
Speaker 2: shower after work. I also have a girlfriend, so I
Speaker 2: shower in the morning, hopefully with her. Wow, well, good
Speaker 2: for you.
Speaker 1: There you go. Uh, but my real answer is shower never.
Speaker 2: You want spend literally weeks in the field without being
Speaker 2: able to do much more than rag cleaning, surrounded by
Speaker 2: other guys who haven't been able to shower in weeks,
Speaker 2: you will never.
Speaker 1: Want to be stinky again.
Speaker 2: As comedians Kevin the Texas Marine, who was stationed overseas
Speaker 2: obviously on more than one occasion.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I got to come in on that. As the
Speaker 1: comedian Sarah Silverman once said, if you shower with your boyfriend,
Speaker 1: your boobs will be very clean. Oh that's true. Yeah,
Speaker 1: my brother went a whole month, might have been more
Speaker 1: without a shower in Iraq. I think the first door
Speaker 1: and has never been right since he showers like six
Speaker 1: times a day. Yeah, yeah, who can blame him.
Speaker 2: Moving along a different topic from frequent correspondent Pallo, guys
Speaker 2: inspired by the story from the Wappo from the comment section,
Speaker 2: you might consider it nutpicking finding people who spout off,
Speaker 2: which is so easy to do. Nonetheless, I think it's
Speaker 2: perfect in this case.
Speaker 1: So I had to send it.
Speaker 2: Here's what a Wappo commentator had to say about illegal immigration, quoting,
Speaker 2: I'm happy with people that want to come here and
Speaker 2: mow my lawn and pick my crops, whether they're.
Speaker 1: Here legally or illegally.
Speaker 2: I certainly don't expect you in the MAGA bigots to
Speaker 2: be volunteering for those jobs. It just gives you a
Speaker 2: reason to spew your bile.
Speaker 1: That is the dumbest sentence or sentences I've ever heard. Right,
Speaker 1: and how do you think this person feels about equity?
Speaker 1: Paolo wants to know.
Speaker 2: They'd probably have a big moralizing lecture for us on
Speaker 2: the subject. Do you think he she is volunteering for
Speaker 2: those jobs or feeling superior and relegating them to the
Speaker 2: lesser among us. I could respond to the comment in
Speaker 2: lots of snarky ways, but none better than you could
Speaker 2: come up with yourself, I'm sure, so I'll just leave
Speaker 2: it at that. Well, I don't know, Pallo, try your
Speaker 2: hand at it. But oh my god, the great progressive
Speaker 2: who believes in equity, who also believes in importing a
Speaker 2: brown underclass to do the ugly jobs that we're too
Speaker 2: good for, that.
Speaker 1: Can't even recognize their hypocrisy. They amaze me. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Another frequent correspondent, JT and livermore the media didn't fail
Speaker 2: on Tuesday's final Hour, and the topic of the media's
Speaker 2: failure probably imported on Biden's metal ink capacity. Jack said,
Speaker 2: and I quote, oh, and there's more on this, believe
Speaker 2: it or not. More really good info on the media.
Speaker 2: Cover up'll cover up. But anyway, JT writes, Jack said,
Speaker 2: it's the biggest failure of media in the nation's history.
Speaker 2: Except from their point of view, it was not a failure.
Speaker 2: It was the goal since the twenty twenty primaries. They
Speaker 2: were biased against Trump and biased for Biden. Their goal
Speaker 2: was to be political propagandists and partisans, and they succeeded.
Speaker 1: Yeah. What's crazy about that, as others have pointed out,
Speaker 1: is they got Trump elected. You moron, you'd have been
Speaker 1: waiting if your goal was to stop Trump, you'd have
Speaker 1: been way better off pointing out Biden's failures earlier and
Speaker 1: having a longer period of time to for Kamala Harris's
Speaker 1: campaign or for them to run somebody else or whatever. Right, Actually,
Speaker 1: and JT disagrees.
Speaker 2: He says, just because they weren't able to pull off
Speaker 2: the impossible, ie get Biden reelected. Doesn't mean they failed
Speaker 2: because they accomplished a lot. But no, I think you
Speaker 2: win that mini argument.
Speaker 1: They were so unwilling to let the chips fall, the
Speaker 1: chips of democracy, which I mean, for God's sake, the
Speaker 1: Washington Post, with their hilariously self important democracy dies in darkness.
Speaker 1: I mean, these people are howling about democracy to constantly,
Speaker 1: but they didn't trust it in iota. They had to
Speaker 1: fix it in favor of Biden getting the nomination because
Speaker 1: he was well, I guess the obvious guy. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: because you didn't let the prime this work. So yeah,
Speaker 1: absolutely a miserable failure morally, ethically, and professionally. If you
Speaker 1: may be covered in the slime of their own shame,
Speaker 1: may be you may you be covered in slime of shame. Yes,
Speaker 1: I like that. Well, you almost got it right. If
Speaker 1: you miss this late in the day last night, uh,
Speaker 1: Trump and Russia trading barbs about World War three and
Speaker 1: threats and that sort of thing that are pretty freaking
Speaker 1: big deal. We're at a major inflection point historically, ball
Speaker 1: is still in Trump's court as far as I can
Speaker 1: tell on this whole thing. We'll talk about that an
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