1 00:00:01,840 --> 00:00:05,640 Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the 2 00:00:05,720 --> 00:00:11,560 Speaker 1: George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty, Armstrong and Gatty, 3 00:00:11,640 --> 00:00:17,239 Speaker 1: and he Armstrong and Getty. 4 00:00:22,160 --> 00:00:26,119 Speaker 2: So McCrone, the leader of France, was meeting with Starmer, 5 00:00:26,200 --> 00:00:28,440 Speaker 2: who sounds like he should be the leader of Germany 6 00:00:28,440 --> 00:00:31,680 Speaker 2: but is the leader of Britain. Mccron was in London 7 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:36,600 Speaker 2: yesterday and getting the full uh you know, treatment of 8 00:00:36,680 --> 00:00:40,160 Speaker 2: a carriage ride down the street and horses and people 9 00:00:40,159 --> 00:00:41,680 Speaker 2: applauding and all that sort of stuff. But anyway, the 10 00:00:41,680 --> 00:00:46,000 Speaker 2: important stuff is really making some significant announcements about how 11 00:00:46,159 --> 00:00:50,320 Speaker 2: Britain and France are united in a way that they've 12 00:00:50,400 --> 00:00:57,800 Speaker 2: never been before, particularly nuclear arsenal wise, announcements aimed directly 13 00:00:57,840 --> 00:01:01,960 Speaker 2: at Russia, like don't think we're not ready for you. 14 00:01:02,320 --> 00:01:05,759 Speaker 2: We can talk more about that later. It's something, yeah, 15 00:01:05,840 --> 00:01:08,800 Speaker 2: I would say. And I want to get to get 16 00:01:08,840 --> 00:01:11,560 Speaker 2: our all purpose theme music ready there, Michael, I'm going 17 00:01:11,640 --> 00:01:13,399 Speaker 2: to need that in a second. I got to read 18 00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:19,600 Speaker 2: this this email from Tim addressed to Jack, and I 19 00:01:19,880 --> 00:01:22,840 Speaker 2: hate to be critical via Tim, I'm sure you do, 20 00:01:23,600 --> 00:01:27,560 Speaker 2: Tim wrights that. Earlier in the show, Jack described how 21 00:01:27,920 --> 00:01:31,960 Speaker 2: in the near assassination of Donald Trump America dodged a bullet, 22 00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:36,280 Speaker 2: then pointed out that the war in Ukraine might explode. 23 00:01:36,680 --> 00:01:40,600 Speaker 2: What's next, Jack describing a tuzzle between two knines at 24 00:01:40,600 --> 00:01:44,039 Speaker 2: a dog park as a real dogfight, or as a 25 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:48,280 Speaker 2: collision of two locomotives as a real train wreck. You 26 00:01:48,400 --> 00:01:52,240 Speaker 2: need to go to metaphor school, son, Tim, Tim, that 27 00:01:52,560 --> 00:01:56,400 Speaker 2: is unnecessarily Oh boy, it was a train wreck when 28 00:01:56,480 --> 00:01:59,040 Speaker 2: the cow trans ran into Amtrak yesterday. 29 00:01:59,200 --> 00:02:04,320 Speaker 1: What a train I tell you what. There's a huge 30 00:02:04,440 --> 00:02:06,160 Speaker 1: trash receptor reciprocal. 31 00:02:06,360 --> 00:02:11,040 Speaker 2: You know, a big container outside the back door that 32 00:02:11,080 --> 00:02:12,640 Speaker 2: it was caught on fire. 33 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:14,440 Speaker 1: I tell you it was a dumpster fire. 34 00:02:15,720 --> 00:02:20,600 Speaker 2: You you can't know, No, no receptacle. 35 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:23,239 Speaker 1: That was the word I was looking for. Michael. It's 36 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:26,760 Speaker 1: time for jobs in the economy. It's our frontet. 37 00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:32,360 Speaker 2: All kind of loosely related, but I found all of 38 00:02:32,360 --> 00:02:35,320 Speaker 2: them interested. How about this headline, think work life balance 39 00:02:35,400 --> 00:02:39,280 Speaker 2: is overrated. You're hired, You're hired. Employers are getting brutally 40 00:02:39,280 --> 00:02:42,960 Speaker 2: honest with applicants, warning them of long hours and few boundaries. 41 00:02:43,320 --> 00:02:47,080 Speaker 1: Companies are in control. Again. I'm not. 42 00:02:49,080 --> 00:02:53,160 Speaker 2: Anti at least taking a look at work life balance, 43 00:02:54,160 --> 00:02:58,280 Speaker 2: but every successful person I know put quite a bit 44 00:02:58,320 --> 00:03:02,080 Speaker 2: into their work. Yeah, there's kind of a sliding scale. 45 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:05,079 Speaker 2: I think a lot of people are willing to really 46 00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:08,840 Speaker 2: really get after it when they're young, and then maybe 47 00:03:08,840 --> 00:03:11,400 Speaker 2: as their career matures cut back a little bit. But 48 00:03:11,560 --> 00:03:13,160 Speaker 2: you know, it's up to the individual, you know, Yeah, 49 00:03:13,200 --> 00:03:15,240 Speaker 2: it is up to the individual. You do you but 50 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:19,560 Speaker 2: recognize that the person that emphasizes work over life is 51 00:03:19,680 --> 00:03:22,160 Speaker 2: likely to get ahead of you, and you know, just 52 00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:24,800 Speaker 2: accept that. If you're fine with that, fine, But that's 53 00:03:24,960 --> 00:03:28,639 Speaker 2: just the reality. Well, I tell you what, I am 54 00:03:28,680 --> 00:03:30,680 Speaker 2: familiar with a couple of different people who I love 55 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:32,560 Speaker 2: very much. You may or may not be the fruit 56 00:03:32,639 --> 00:03:36,640 Speaker 2: of my loins A terrible phrase. Oh my god, anytime 57 00:03:36,680 --> 00:03:38,640 Speaker 2: you mention your loins, I feel like I want to 58 00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:39,440 Speaker 2: run from the room. 59 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:42,520 Speaker 1: I have lovely loins. What are you talking anyway? 60 00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:49,160 Speaker 2: Anyway, one is extremely driven and ambitious and the other 61 00:03:49,200 --> 00:03:54,480 Speaker 2: one is fine with kind of minimal success and financial means. 62 00:03:54,520 --> 00:03:57,080 Speaker 1: I think I'm raising one of those myself. Yeah. 63 00:03:57,120 --> 00:04:00,880 Speaker 2: Anyway, back to this article, Shopify wants a product manager 64 00:04:00,880 --> 00:04:05,320 Speaker 2: who can keep up with an unrelenting pace. In one ad, Solus, 65 00:04:05,360 --> 00:04:08,200 Speaker 2: a healthcare marketplace, tells job seekers, if you're looking for 66 00:04:08,240 --> 00:04:11,440 Speaker 2: work life balance, this isn't it. A job posting for 67 00:04:11,480 --> 00:04:14,760 Speaker 2: a senior engineer at software company Rilla urges applicants quote, 68 00:04:14,840 --> 00:04:17,440 Speaker 2: please don't join unless you're eager to work seventy hours 69 00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:18,599 Speaker 2: a week in person. 70 00:04:18,920 --> 00:04:20,200 Speaker 1: We worked for a radio station. 71 00:04:20,400 --> 00:04:24,040 Speaker 2: Actually we worked we worked for a building that had 72 00:04:24,080 --> 00:04:26,560 Speaker 2: several radio stations, and we were luckily not on the 73 00:04:26,640 --> 00:04:28,520 Speaker 2: radio station I'm going to talk about, but this one 74 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:30,880 Speaker 2: radio station that was the dominant radio station in town. 75 00:04:31,160 --> 00:04:32,120 Speaker 1: They worked their. 76 00:04:32,040 --> 00:04:35,960 Speaker 2: People insanely, like you worked all week long and all 77 00:04:35,960 --> 00:04:40,640 Speaker 2: weekend long, year round, and they had great success with it. 78 00:04:40,720 --> 00:04:45,039 Speaker 1: But I mean you had to be crazy dedicated to it. Yeah. 79 00:04:45,120 --> 00:04:48,520 Speaker 2: And some of it was not like completely paid either. 80 00:04:48,640 --> 00:04:50,560 Speaker 2: That was just the dues you'd have to pay if 81 00:04:50,560 --> 00:04:52,760 Speaker 2: you wanted to rise up. Oh yeah, yeah yeah, oh no, 82 00:04:53,160 --> 00:04:55,080 Speaker 2: most of this stuff I would be talking about you 83 00:04:55,080 --> 00:04:57,720 Speaker 2: wouldn't get paid for. It's just like I had I 84 00:04:58,440 --> 00:05:01,320 Speaker 2: when we were in Charlotte, North Carolina. That's a big 85 00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:03,280 Speaker 2: banking city. I don't know if you know that or not, 86 00:05:03,320 --> 00:05:06,240 Speaker 2: but it is. And I knew a number of people 87 00:05:06,279 --> 00:05:08,480 Speaker 2: that went off to New York, which is like a 88 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:11,480 Speaker 2: move up the banking capital of the world. And I 89 00:05:11,560 --> 00:05:14,359 Speaker 2: knew one guy in particular who was working for Chase Manhattan, 90 00:05:14,880 --> 00:05:19,040 Speaker 2: and he was twenty four years old something like that. 91 00:05:19,160 --> 00:05:20,880 Speaker 2: He was working one hundred. 92 00:05:20,480 --> 00:05:21,279 Speaker 1: Hours a week. 93 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:23,279 Speaker 2: He would be in a suit and tie in the 94 00:05:23,320 --> 00:05:26,240 Speaker 2: office at seven am on a Sunday, knowing he was 95 00:05:26,279 --> 00:05:28,320 Speaker 2: going to work all day long, and he was happy 96 00:05:28,320 --> 00:05:29,640 Speaker 2: about it because he was going to be a go 97 00:05:29,680 --> 00:05:30,720 Speaker 2: getter and climb the ladder. 98 00:05:30,760 --> 00:05:32,520 Speaker 1: But that's what they expected out of you. 99 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:36,640 Speaker 2: Google co founder serge Ay Brinn in February told employees 100 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:38,880 Speaker 2: that sixty hours a week was the sweet spot of 101 00:05:38,920 --> 00:05:44,880 Speaker 2: productivity and the back at that Rilla company, they tell candidates, 102 00:05:46,880 --> 00:05:49,280 Speaker 2: we don't have any strict work policies, but we tend 103 00:05:49,320 --> 00:05:52,680 Speaker 2: to work sixty to eighty hours every week. Don't lie 104 00:05:52,680 --> 00:05:54,640 Speaker 2: to yourself if you have a gut feeling that you 105 00:05:54,720 --> 00:05:58,599 Speaker 2: don't agree with the culture. Yeah, like this guy I 106 00:05:58,680 --> 00:06:00,360 Speaker 2: was talking about, and I've known a few other they 107 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:02,520 Speaker 2: were proud of the fact that they were part of 108 00:06:02,560 --> 00:06:05,320 Speaker 2: the group that worked this hard, like where the alphas 109 00:06:05,360 --> 00:06:08,200 Speaker 2: were the people that are gonna get somewhere right. The 110 00:06:08,279 --> 00:06:10,000 Speaker 2: sons of a couple of friends of mine are doing 111 00:06:10,880 --> 00:06:12,440 Speaker 2: of mine or doing something similar. 112 00:06:13,240 --> 00:06:14,880 Speaker 1: Meanwhile, Oh, that's right. It was gonna have you get 113 00:06:14,880 --> 00:06:15,520 Speaker 1: some Beach. 114 00:06:15,320 --> 00:06:18,000 Speaker 2: Boys music ready, Michael, do you have any Beach Boys 115 00:06:18,120 --> 00:06:19,280 Speaker 2: music that jo surfing? 116 00:06:19,400 --> 00:06:22,680 Speaker 1: Now everybody's learning how VON and the Sun means the 117 00:06:22,800 --> 00:06:26,360 Speaker 1: v W micro Boss. The good times are back. Don't 118 00:06:26,360 --> 00:06:28,239 Speaker 1: worry about it, Jack sang for us instead. 119 00:06:29,760 --> 00:06:32,280 Speaker 2: It was only a couple of years ago that the 120 00:06:32,440 --> 00:06:35,720 Speaker 2: head of v W hopped onto a Huntington Beach, California 121 00:06:35,800 --> 00:06:39,360 Speaker 2: stage flank by surfboards to announce the rebirth of an 122 00:06:39,400 --> 00:06:42,960 Speaker 2: automotive icon, the Volkswagon micro Boss. 123 00:06:43,040 --> 00:06:45,160 Speaker 1: Yeah those are cool. I saw one in behind me yesterday. 124 00:06:45,960 --> 00:06:49,080 Speaker 2: Oh you did well, you saw the only one many 125 00:06:49,080 --> 00:06:51,480 Speaker 2: in the United miserable failure. Well, I thought they weren't 126 00:06:51,480 --> 00:06:53,440 Speaker 2: allowed in you in the United States. It's funny. It 127 00:06:53,440 --> 00:06:54,919 Speaker 2: came up with my son. I said, hey, there's one 128 00:06:54,960 --> 00:06:58,280 Speaker 2: of those volts Wagons behind me, and he said, yeah, 129 00:06:58,320 --> 00:07:00,760 Speaker 2: they don't. There aren't many in the United States for 130 00:07:00,760 --> 00:07:03,360 Speaker 2: a variety of reasons, which I am about to talking 131 00:07:03,400 --> 00:07:08,760 Speaker 2: to you. Indeed, number one, their range is pathetic by 132 00:07:08,880 --> 00:07:12,720 Speaker 2: electric vehicle standards. Well that's saying something because even the 133 00:07:12,720 --> 00:07:14,360 Speaker 2: ones that do well don't do that. 134 00:07:14,400 --> 00:07:14,640 Speaker 1: Well. 135 00:07:15,240 --> 00:07:18,120 Speaker 2: Yeah, and then they had a recall, a big recall. 136 00:07:18,160 --> 00:07:21,280 Speaker 2: It was a huge pain in the ass, but it's 137 00:07:21,600 --> 00:07:23,600 Speaker 2: a plus. Now you've got tariffs and all, and so 138 00:07:23,640 --> 00:07:26,280 Speaker 2: they're way too expensive that they look start at sixty 139 00:07:26,360 --> 00:07:27,240 Speaker 2: thousand plus. 140 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:29,360 Speaker 1: But they look super cool. They are cool looking. 141 00:07:29,400 --> 00:07:31,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, if you know, if you have nostalgia for that 142 00:07:31,520 --> 00:07:33,520 Speaker 2: sort of thing, I think that helps. 143 00:07:34,080 --> 00:07:36,840 Speaker 1: But I thought you would find this very interesting. Jack. 144 00:07:36,880 --> 00:07:41,360 Speaker 2: The very expensive and incredibly inconvenient recall was that the 145 00:07:41,560 --> 00:07:48,680 Speaker 2: third row seats were too broad, too comfortable. That would 146 00:07:48,720 --> 00:07:51,840 Speaker 2: allow three passengers to squeeze into a space equipped with 147 00:07:51,880 --> 00:07:55,720 Speaker 2: only two seat belts. So the federal government made v 148 00:07:56,080 --> 00:08:01,560 Speaker 2: W insert like plastic parts to make that third row 149 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:05,880 Speaker 2: less wide and comfortable, so three people couldn't possibly evade 150 00:08:05,880 --> 00:08:07,880 Speaker 2: the seat belt laws, or. 151 00:08:07,840 --> 00:08:11,280 Speaker 1: One person couldn't. God, I hate that sort of crap 152 00:08:11,320 --> 00:08:11,760 Speaker 1: so much. 153 00:08:12,160 --> 00:08:15,480 Speaker 2: We rented a Toyota Siena Van, which is like the 154 00:08:15,520 --> 00:08:18,920 Speaker 2: best minivan you can get, fantastic fan but the safety 155 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:19,920 Speaker 2: stuff on this. 156 00:08:20,400 --> 00:08:25,400 Speaker 1: Oh my god, it was oppressive. Quick will you I'm okay, 157 00:08:25,840 --> 00:08:32,400 Speaker 1: I don't need to be reminded of these nine different things, righting? Wow? 158 00:08:32,559 --> 00:08:37,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, another jobs of the academy. Sorry, if you 159 00:08:37,520 --> 00:08:39,520 Speaker 2: want to get crazy rich, I would work as hard 160 00:08:39,520 --> 00:08:41,920 Speaker 2: as you can to become an AI expert. 161 00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:46,520 Speaker 1: Right now, boy, all of the big companies are. 162 00:08:47,880 --> 00:08:52,560 Speaker 2: Raiding each other's employees to whatever extent contract law allows, 163 00:08:53,120 --> 00:08:56,600 Speaker 2: like hot, heavy, and hard, to the point that Meta 164 00:08:56,760 --> 00:09:01,760 Speaker 2: is offering huge pay packages a hundred million dollars for 165 00:09:01,920 --> 00:09:04,839 Speaker 2: some to attract talent to their unit. 166 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:08,240 Speaker 1: And the the. 167 00:09:10,760 --> 00:09:13,440 Speaker 2: Yeah, the the unit has valued at like twenty nine 168 00:09:13,559 --> 00:09:16,480 Speaker 2: billion dollars. The quest to be the leader of AI 169 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:19,240 Speaker 2: is so intense. Oh yeah, if you're one of these experts, 170 00:09:19,280 --> 00:09:22,880 Speaker 2: they will offer you fifty seventy one hundred million dollars 171 00:09:23,120 --> 00:09:26,560 Speaker 2: to cross the street. Yeah, I'm not surprised by that. 172 00:09:26,800 --> 00:09:31,000 Speaker 2: I mean, if you become the Google of AI, the Kleenex, 173 00:09:31,080 --> 00:09:35,679 Speaker 2: the Xerox, if you will, there's so much money in that. 174 00:09:36,520 --> 00:09:37,000 Speaker 1: Yeah. 175 00:09:37,280 --> 00:09:40,040 Speaker 2: Yeah, So I don't know, get to chat GPT going 176 00:09:40,120 --> 00:09:41,839 Speaker 2: and learn to like plan a trip with it, and 177 00:09:41,920 --> 00:09:44,040 Speaker 2: maybe Mark Zuckerberg will hire you. 178 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:45,720 Speaker 1: For one hundred million dollars next week. 179 00:09:46,040 --> 00:09:49,439 Speaker 2: There's probably more to it than that. I think you 180 00:09:49,520 --> 00:09:52,679 Speaker 2: got to know something about code or something. Man, everybody's 181 00:09:52,679 --> 00:09:55,760 Speaker 2: guessing on the whole AI thing. It's so much every 182 00:09:55,800 --> 00:09:59,440 Speaker 2: aspect of it. Yep, yeah, yeah, yeah. I can't wait 183 00:09:59,480 --> 00:10:01,600 Speaker 2: to watch it unfold. Even though I think it's going 184 00:10:01,679 --> 00:10:04,760 Speaker 2: to be disastrous. I maybe it's just my personality. I 185 00:10:04,800 --> 00:10:07,320 Speaker 2: expect it to be more negative than positive, even though 186 00:10:07,360 --> 00:10:09,560 Speaker 2: I've been loving and using chat GPT. I mean, it's 187 00:10:09,600 --> 00:10:12,080 Speaker 2: one of a great thing that has happened in my 188 00:10:12,120 --> 00:10:14,920 Speaker 2: life in the last month is chat GPT. But ultimately 189 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:18,199 Speaker 2: I think it's going to be horrible. So complete change 190 00:10:18,200 --> 00:10:20,880 Speaker 2: of topic, just very briefly. I'm excited about this because 191 00:10:20,920 --> 00:10:24,920 Speaker 2: I just finished editing it came across was reminded of 192 00:10:25,360 --> 00:10:29,280 Speaker 2: one of the great pieces of writing ever that completely 193 00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:35,160 Speaker 2: dismantles the stupidity of DEI an affirmative action and that 194 00:10:35,320 --> 00:10:35,840 Speaker 2: sort of thing. 195 00:10:35,920 --> 00:10:36,160 Speaker 1: Hmm. 196 00:10:36,960 --> 00:10:39,520 Speaker 2: This happened to be in reference to colleges, but it 197 00:10:39,559 --> 00:10:43,160 Speaker 2: almost doesn't matter. It was a concurring opinion by Neil 198 00:10:43,280 --> 00:10:47,240 Speaker 2: Gorsuch in the famous Harvard case a couple of years ago. 199 00:10:47,720 --> 00:10:54,600 Speaker 2: It is eloquent, easily understandable by anybody, and a complete 200 00:10:54,720 --> 00:10:59,679 Speaker 2: dismantling of the moronic hypocrisy of these programs. I want 201 00:10:59,679 --> 00:11:02,280 Speaker 2: to shore that with you next hour, our four of 202 00:11:02,320 --> 00:11:03,520 Speaker 2: the Armstrong and Getty show. 203 00:11:03,520 --> 00:11:06,080 Speaker 1: You're thinking, good God, you people do four hours. That's right. 204 00:11:06,440 --> 00:11:08,280 Speaker 2: If you don't get it or you can't stick around, 205 00:11:08,360 --> 00:11:11,400 Speaker 2: just grab it ya podcast. Subscribe wherever you like to 206 00:11:11,400 --> 00:11:13,679 Speaker 2: get podcasts at Armstrong and Getty on demand. 207 00:11:14,120 --> 00:11:16,960 Speaker 1: I'll hit you with that. It's terrific. 208 00:11:17,679 --> 00:11:20,640 Speaker 2: Hey. According to the La Times, Gavin Newsom is mulling 209 00:11:20,679 --> 00:11:24,400 Speaker 2: a twenty twenty eight presidential bid. Oh really I heard 210 00:11:24,520 --> 00:11:28,959 Speaker 2: that stay with us more in the way. 211 00:11:28,440 --> 00:11:31,760 Speaker 1: He don't understand this correctly. 212 00:11:31,800 --> 00:11:36,760 Speaker 2: That the back seat in the Volkswagen minibus they made 213 00:11:36,920 --> 00:11:40,200 Speaker 2: nice and comfortable to fit the modern American ass so 214 00:11:40,240 --> 00:11:42,200 Speaker 2: two people could sit back there and have plenty of room. 215 00:11:42,880 --> 00:11:45,319 Speaker 2: And the federal government and all its wisdom decided, no, 216 00:11:45,559 --> 00:11:49,160 Speaker 2: three people might sit back there if it's that wide 217 00:11:49,200 --> 00:11:50,960 Speaker 2: and there are only two seat belts, so you got 218 00:11:50,960 --> 00:11:57,640 Speaker 2: to make it smaller. That sort of stuff makes me insane. Yeah, 219 00:11:58,040 --> 00:12:02,120 Speaker 2: the worst sort of nanny status. The right stop they made, 220 00:12:02,160 --> 00:12:08,160 Speaker 2: connecting else from ourselves. They made VW. Bolton plastic to 221 00:12:08,200 --> 00:12:13,040 Speaker 2: make the seat less wide. Good Lord, that's sort of 222 00:12:13,040 --> 00:12:15,040 Speaker 2: thinking prevailed in the Biden administration. 223 00:12:15,160 --> 00:12:18,400 Speaker 1: We we remember Joe Biden, don't. We don't mess with 224 00:12:18,520 --> 00:12:20,800 Speaker 1: them in a work unless you want to get the back. 225 00:12:22,240 --> 00:12:25,360 Speaker 2: And though his presidency and soon his breathing will be 226 00:12:25,480 --> 00:12:28,559 Speaker 2: in the past, that was insensitive and I apologize for it. 227 00:12:28,720 --> 00:12:32,400 Speaker 2: Come on, there are a couple of notes on the 228 00:12:32,440 --> 00:12:35,199 Speaker 2: Biden administration I'd like to squeeze in partly so I 229 00:12:35,240 --> 00:12:42,040 Speaker 2: can close these tabs. First of all, the current US 230 00:12:42,120 --> 00:12:44,440 Speaker 2: Secretary of Energy, who we all know is of course, 231 00:12:44,520 --> 00:12:48,880 Speaker 2: Chris Wright, is slamming the you know, the Biden administration 232 00:12:48,920 --> 00:12:53,040 Speaker 2: for what he calls an absolutely infuriating last minute spending spree, 233 00:12:53,080 --> 00:12:58,520 Speaker 2: revealing that more than ninety billion with a b ninety 234 00:12:58,559 --> 00:13:01,440 Speaker 2: billion dollars in green energy loans were pushed through by 235 00:13:01,480 --> 00:13:04,720 Speaker 2: the Department of Energy's Loan Program's office in the weeks 236 00:13:04,720 --> 00:13:10,000 Speaker 2: between Trump's reelection and the inauguration. That is what Trump 237 00:13:10,120 --> 00:13:13,240 Speaker 2: was talking about yesterday. Okay, I just saw a clip 238 00:13:13,280 --> 00:13:14,640 Speaker 2: of him talking about what they did at the end 239 00:13:14,720 --> 00:13:17,960 Speaker 2: is criminal. Well, line in this green New Deal crap 240 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:21,760 Speaker 2: that nobody wanted, so they revealed it. More than ninety 241 00:13:21,840 --> 00:13:24,000 Speaker 2: billion dollars in loans were closed or committed in the 242 00:13:24,040 --> 00:13:26,559 Speaker 2: seventy six days between election day and inauguration day. 243 00:13:26,600 --> 00:13:27,080 Speaker 1: Listen to this. 244 00:13:27,520 --> 00:13:31,800 Speaker 2: That amount exceeds the total loan volume issued by the 245 00:13:31,840 --> 00:13:35,520 Speaker 2: office over its entire fifteen year history. 246 00:13:35,720 --> 00:13:36,600 Speaker 1: Wow. 247 00:13:37,440 --> 00:13:40,120 Speaker 2: To put that in context, over fifteen years we had 248 00:13:40,240 --> 00:13:42,240 Speaker 2: we'd put out forty three billion dollars. Then we had 249 00:13:42,240 --> 00:13:46,000 Speaker 2: an election on November fifth, Right, President Trump won that election. 250 00:13:46,040 --> 00:13:50,680 Speaker 1: Set election that to a certain extent, rejected this sort 251 00:13:50,679 --> 00:13:51,080 Speaker 1: of thing. 252 00:13:52,080 --> 00:13:55,880 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, just absolutely stunning. 253 00:13:56,679 --> 00:14:01,920 Speaker 1: Next question, nobody pays a price for that stuff. She's 254 00:14:01,960 --> 00:14:03,680 Speaker 1: the she Wolf of Wall Street. 255 00:14:03,800 --> 00:14:07,560 Speaker 2: Nancy Pelosi raked in between seven point eight and forty 256 00:14:07,559 --> 00:14:10,000 Speaker 2: two and a half million dollars in twenty twenty four. 257 00:14:10,120 --> 00:14:15,240 Speaker 2: That's quite a spa spread meeting. Her estimated net worth 258 00:14:15,280 --> 00:14:18,880 Speaker 2: with her venture capitalist hubby is probably around four hundred 259 00:14:18,880 --> 00:14:20,040 Speaker 2: and thirteen million dollars. 260 00:14:20,040 --> 00:14:22,800 Speaker 1: But she's a half a billionaire. 261 00:14:23,760 --> 00:14:29,000 Speaker 2: Is that her portfolio outperformed every single large hedge fund 262 00:14:29,320 --> 00:14:30,840 Speaker 2: with stunning returns? 263 00:14:31,040 --> 00:14:31,240 Speaker 1: Wow? 264 00:14:31,480 --> 00:14:36,120 Speaker 2: Anti Pelosi and her husband great investors. I should ask 265 00:14:36,160 --> 00:14:38,960 Speaker 2: her about what I should buy. They might be the 266 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:44,480 Speaker 2: best investors in history. Market research term quite for quantitative, 267 00:14:44,560 --> 00:14:49,560 Speaker 2: which estimates a single figure bl blah blah bah. Here's oh, 268 00:14:49,760 --> 00:14:51,680 Speaker 2: A large chunk of the couple of fortune has come 269 00:14:51,680 --> 00:14:56,280 Speaker 2: from a sizable stock portfolio. And timely trades, all done 270 00:14:56,320 --> 00:14:57,720 Speaker 2: in Paul Pelosi's name. 271 00:14:58,160 --> 00:14:59,760 Speaker 1: For instance, timely trades. 272 00:15:00,400 --> 00:15:05,080 Speaker 2: Yeah, the former House speaker who's so infamous for trading 273 00:15:05,080 --> 00:15:08,440 Speaker 2: that Josh Hawley named a Bill Effer, and she and 274 00:15:08,480 --> 00:15:12,520 Speaker 2: her husband dumped five thousand shares of Microsoft stock worth 275 00:15:12,600 --> 00:15:15,440 Speaker 2: an estimated two point two million dollars in July, one 276 00:15:15,480 --> 00:15:18,640 Speaker 2: of their biggest transactions in years, just a couple of 277 00:15:18,640 --> 00:15:22,120 Speaker 2: months before the FTC announced an anti trust investigation into 278 00:15:22,160 --> 00:15:25,680 Speaker 2: the tech giant. Yeah, if we're being too hip for 279 00:15:25,800 --> 00:15:30,840 Speaker 2: the room, assuming too much it's it would you'd have 280 00:15:30,920 --> 00:15:35,320 Speaker 2: to work at being in Congress or the Senate and 281 00:15:35,480 --> 00:15:40,280 Speaker 2: not investing on knowledge that other people don't have. I mean, 282 00:15:40,320 --> 00:15:43,240 Speaker 2: you'd have to go out of your way, right. For instance, 283 00:15:43,280 --> 00:15:45,920 Speaker 2: they sold two thousand shares worth more than a half 284 00:15:45,920 --> 00:15:48,280 Speaker 2: a million dollars of Visa stock just a couple of 285 00:15:48,280 --> 00:15:50,320 Speaker 2: months before the credit card company is hit with a 286 00:15:50,440 --> 00:15:55,560 Speaker 2: DJ monopoly law lawsuit. But their best trade might have 287 00:15:55,680 --> 00:16:00,400 Speaker 2: been exercising a call option in December. Google it Chat 288 00:16:01,320 --> 00:16:04,240 Speaker 2: in late twenty twenty three, at an estimated premium of 289 00:16:04,280 --> 00:16:07,760 Speaker 2: one point eight million dollars, allowing them to nab fifty 290 00:16:07,840 --> 00:16:11,480 Speaker 2: thousand shares of hot Ai chip stock in Nvidia for 291 00:16:11,600 --> 00:16:14,200 Speaker 2: twelve bucks a pop, less than one tenth of its 292 00:16:14,280 --> 00:16:17,800 Speaker 2: market price. Blah blah blah, because they knew what was 293 00:16:17,880 --> 00:16:20,880 Speaker 2: going to go on. Couple also paid between six hundred 294 00:16:20,920 --> 00:16:22,520 Speaker 2: thousand and one point twenty five million for a call 295 00:16:22,560 --> 00:16:25,680 Speaker 2: option on a Cybulge security company. Same week, it was 296 00:16:25,720 --> 00:16:28,160 Speaker 2: revealed the White House brief lawmakers on a serious national 297 00:16:28,160 --> 00:16:29,600 Speaker 2: security threat related to Russia. 298 00:16:29,640 --> 00:16:32,080 Speaker 1: They were the perfect therm firm to respond to that. 299 00:16:32,120 --> 00:16:32,920 Speaker 1: Blah blah blah. 300 00:16:32,960 --> 00:16:35,000 Speaker 2: I mean that one's so obvious it's not even worth 301 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:36,960 Speaker 2: commenting on. It's just amazing that we can't get this 302 00:16:37,040 --> 00:16:39,600 Speaker 2: done away with. That's one of the reasons she hates AOC. 303 00:16:39,760 --> 00:16:44,360 Speaker 2: AOC really wants to crack down on this, the ability 304 00:16:44,360 --> 00:16:46,960 Speaker 2: for people in the House to trade stock while they're 305 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:47,680 Speaker 2: in office. 306 00:16:47,880 --> 00:16:49,960 Speaker 1: And the final note to President Chumpter just threw out 307 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:53,280 Speaker 1: a federal rule from Biden that gave collective bargaining rights 308 00:16:53,320 --> 00:16:57,760 Speaker 1: to foreign farm workers immigrants, including illegals, but denied them 309 00:16:57,760 --> 00:17:02,160 Speaker 1: to Americans working on farms. What are you trying to 310 00:17:02,200 --> 00:17:07,119 Speaker 1: do today? Thank god, it's over the Biden years, oh 311 00:17:07,280 --> 00:17:08,399 Speaker 1: Armstrong and Geddy. 312 00:17:09,440 --> 00:17:12,879 Speaker 3: Just hours after President Trump railed against Vladimir Putin, the 313 00:17:12,960 --> 00:17:16,919 Speaker 3: Russian leader unleashing his largest aerials sold yet on Ukraine, 314 00:17:17,160 --> 00:17:20,199 Speaker 3: firing more than seven hundred drones into the country. It 315 00:17:20,200 --> 00:17:22,680 Speaker 3: comes as Trump makes it clear his patience when Putin 316 00:17:22,920 --> 00:17:27,680 Speaker 3: is wearing thin, the administration now resuming weapons shipments to Ukraine, 317 00:17:27,880 --> 00:17:31,000 Speaker 3: President Trump saying He's now considering sending even more weapons 318 00:17:31,040 --> 00:17:34,320 Speaker 3: to Ukraine, including granting their requests for another Patriot air 319 00:17:34,359 --> 00:17:35,080 Speaker 3: defense system. 320 00:17:35,320 --> 00:17:40,800 Speaker 2: What is going on there? What is Putin thinking? On 321 00:17:40,840 --> 00:17:47,119 Speaker 2: the day before his top spokesman, Lavrov was going to 322 00:17:47,200 --> 00:17:50,720 Speaker 2: meet with Trumps Secretary of State Rubio. They met today. 323 00:17:51,119 --> 00:17:54,000 Speaker 2: The day before that happens. The two days before that happens, 324 00:17:54,080 --> 00:17:58,480 Speaker 2: Russia launches the biggest drone attacks of the entire war 325 00:17:58,760 --> 00:18:02,399 Speaker 2: on Kiev. So what kind of message is that sending? 326 00:18:02,440 --> 00:18:03,879 Speaker 2: As soon as he gets off the phone with Trump 327 00:18:03,920 --> 00:18:06,879 Speaker 2: the other day, he launches that seven hundred drone attack. 328 00:18:06,920 --> 00:18:08,040 Speaker 1: What is he up to? Right there? 329 00:18:08,040 --> 00:18:10,159 Speaker 2: Ian Bremer A friend of the Armstrong and get to 330 00:18:10,160 --> 00:18:13,399 Speaker 2: show who we like but don't always. 331 00:18:13,160 --> 00:18:14,400 Speaker 1: Agree with it. I agree with this. 332 00:18:14,640 --> 00:18:17,640 Speaker 2: Trump has changed his view on Putin more dramatically than 333 00:18:17,680 --> 00:18:21,400 Speaker 2: on any other foreign policy issue of his presidency. Putin 334 00:18:21,480 --> 00:18:25,240 Speaker 2: doesn't seem to appreciate or care about the strategic mistake 335 00:18:25,320 --> 00:18:29,640 Speaker 2: that he has made here. Yeah, he has lost Trump 336 00:18:29,880 --> 00:18:33,720 Speaker 2: and he must think I don't again, like Ian said, 337 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:38,600 Speaker 2: he doesn't care that the United States is going to 338 00:18:40,400 --> 00:18:44,200 Speaker 2: gradually or quickly give Ukraine way more support. And who 339 00:18:44,240 --> 00:18:47,880 Speaker 2: knows how far Trump will go if his feelings get hurt, 340 00:18:48,240 --> 00:18:51,359 Speaker 2: if he feels like Putin's really jobbing him. It was 341 00:18:51,440 --> 00:18:54,879 Speaker 2: so bad the other day the drone attack on Kiev, 342 00:18:55,080 --> 00:18:59,879 Speaker 2: NATO actually scrambled jets for the first time, with Putin 343 00:19:00,359 --> 00:19:04,160 Speaker 2: launching that large drone attack, stoking fears of Russia escalating 344 00:19:04,720 --> 00:19:07,280 Speaker 2: production of more drones. But there were so many drones 345 00:19:07,320 --> 00:19:10,400 Speaker 2: coming in that NATO couldn't be sure where they were 346 00:19:10,400 --> 00:19:11,720 Speaker 2: headed or how this was gonna. 347 00:19:11,520 --> 00:19:14,040 Speaker 1: Unfold, so they scrambled jets first time. It's happened during 348 00:19:14,119 --> 00:19:14,400 Speaker 1: the war. 349 00:19:14,440 --> 00:19:16,879 Speaker 2: But I mean, that's getting that's getting pretty dicey when 350 00:19:16,960 --> 00:19:17,919 Speaker 2: that starts to happen. 351 00:19:18,840 --> 00:19:22,840 Speaker 1: It's kind of escalating. Huh. I would say, you got 352 00:19:22,840 --> 00:19:23,600 Speaker 1: the whole. 353 00:19:25,280 --> 00:19:29,120 Speaker 2: Sanctions bill that's in the Senate, like really really tough sanctions, 354 00:19:29,200 --> 00:19:33,920 Speaker 2: five hundred percent penalty on anybody who's doing business with Russia. 355 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:39,720 Speaker 2: That Lindsey Graham authored and eighty senators of the one hundred, 356 00:19:39,720 --> 00:19:43,160 Speaker 2: which obviously includes a whole bunch of Democrats and Republicans, 357 00:19:43,720 --> 00:19:46,720 Speaker 2: have signed on to and said yeah, we're all for this, 358 00:19:46,960 --> 00:19:49,920 Speaker 2: So that's ready to go. Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House, 359 00:19:49,960 --> 00:19:52,679 Speaker 2: came out yesterday and said, we love that here in 360 00:19:52,720 --> 00:19:54,480 Speaker 2: the House. So it looks like the it would come 361 00:19:54,480 --> 00:19:57,240 Speaker 2: out of the Senate and the House would like it too, 362 00:19:57,240 --> 00:20:00,400 Speaker 2: and Trump could sign it, So that could happen like 363 00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:03,560 Speaker 2: like today, if Trump pulls the trigger on it. They're 364 00:20:03,600 --> 00:20:06,720 Speaker 2: just holding back, waiting for the nod from the you know, 365 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:08,760 Speaker 2: the the tangerine tornado. 366 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:12,120 Speaker 1: Right right. I don't want groupthink. 367 00:20:12,560 --> 00:20:17,800 Speaker 2: I love dissent, but I've got to admit I had 368 00:20:18,160 --> 00:20:22,439 Speaker 2: misperceived how much consensus there is on this issue, how 369 00:20:22,520 --> 00:20:25,800 Speaker 2: much agreement there is across the aisle that No, you 370 00:20:25,880 --> 00:20:29,320 Speaker 2: can't have Vladimir Putin invading European countries just because he 371 00:20:29,320 --> 00:20:31,560 Speaker 2: doesn't particularly like which way they swing. 372 00:20:32,160 --> 00:20:34,320 Speaker 1: We don't want that. We need to discourage that. 373 00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:36,119 Speaker 2: Yeah, a little more on the politics of that in 374 00:20:36,160 --> 00:20:39,200 Speaker 2: a second. But yesterday I keep mentioning that Macrone was 375 00:20:39,240 --> 00:20:42,119 Speaker 2: in London meeting with the Prime Minister and with all 376 00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:45,280 Speaker 2: kinds of talks all around this topic and a declaration 377 00:20:45,400 --> 00:20:49,879 Speaker 2: signed yesterday as Emmanuel Macrone of France visited London. The 378 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:52,359 Speaker 2: UK and France agreed for the first time ever to 379 00:20:52,440 --> 00:20:56,560 Speaker 2: coordinate their use of nuclear weapons, including nuclear arms, submarines 380 00:20:56,600 --> 00:20:59,160 Speaker 2: and fighter jets in the case of a major conflict 381 00:20:59,240 --> 00:21:04,040 Speaker 2: or crisis in your Some people like to portray that 382 00:21:04,280 --> 00:21:06,880 Speaker 2: as Europe has to do this because they can't count 383 00:21:06,880 --> 00:21:09,800 Speaker 2: on the United States. Well, okay, and portray it that 384 00:21:09,840 --> 00:21:11,199 Speaker 2: way if you want, But I see this is a 385 00:21:11,200 --> 00:21:14,280 Speaker 2: good thing period that NATO is upping their game and 386 00:21:14,320 --> 00:21:17,160 Speaker 2: these countries are coming together as a force. 387 00:21:18,040 --> 00:21:20,000 Speaker 1: I'm happy about that, right. 388 00:21:19,920 --> 00:21:24,400 Speaker 2: Finally bringing something to the party, the NATO party. Back 389 00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:29,240 Speaker 2: to the kind of the politics of this and Trump, 390 00:21:29,359 --> 00:21:31,680 Speaker 2: I guess because he is the politics of this. He 391 00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:35,520 Speaker 2: can he can sway the Republican Party, as we've all 392 00:21:35,560 --> 00:21:39,200 Speaker 2: seen a lot in a day by which direction he goes. 393 00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:43,440 Speaker 2: But he seems to be feeling like Putin's treating him 394 00:21:43,440 --> 00:21:47,920 Speaker 2: like a punk. If one of these days these drone 395 00:21:47,960 --> 00:21:53,200 Speaker 2: attacks work, because the goal is to overwhelm the Ukrainian 396 00:21:53,440 --> 00:21:56,080 Speaker 2: air defense system and then be able to get the 397 00:21:56,119 --> 00:22:00,520 Speaker 2: missiles through. So you send seven hundred drones off all 398 00:22:00,520 --> 00:22:03,800 Speaker 2: their different air defense and they can't keep up and 399 00:22:03,840 --> 00:22:08,560 Speaker 2: the drones get through. If that happens and they kill hundreds, 400 00:22:08,640 --> 00:22:14,040 Speaker 2: maybe thousands of Ukrainian civilians, Trump seems to really hate 401 00:22:14,160 --> 00:22:17,480 Speaker 2: death in war. How is Trump going to react to that? 402 00:22:18,320 --> 00:22:23,760 Speaker 2: And that could happen this afternoon. I just wonder how 403 00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:24,919 Speaker 2: Trump's going to react to that. 404 00:22:27,880 --> 00:22:28,080 Speaker 1: Yeah. 405 00:22:28,119 --> 00:22:31,920 Speaker 2: Wow, that's an intriguing question and the troubling one, obviously. 406 00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:34,080 Speaker 1: What do you think Putin's game is? What do you 407 00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:34,800 Speaker 1: think he's up to? 408 00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:41,080 Speaker 2: My guess is that he is probing as hard as 409 00:22:41,119 --> 00:22:44,080 Speaker 2: he can to figure out where Trump's limits are and 410 00:22:44,119 --> 00:22:48,160 Speaker 2: how he will react, because that's his history. He probes 411 00:22:48,240 --> 00:22:50,719 Speaker 2: for weakness, and where he finds it, he exploits it. 412 00:22:50,840 --> 00:22:53,040 Speaker 1: Jijinping does exactly the same thing. 413 00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:57,080 Speaker 2: It's no mystery why their buddies at this point, He's 414 00:22:58,240 --> 00:23:00,359 Speaker 2: there are two techniques you can either do that. You 415 00:23:00,359 --> 00:23:03,720 Speaker 2: can either push really hard until you trigger a response, 416 00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:09,000 Speaker 2: or you can calculate just short of that line, constantly 417 00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:11,600 Speaker 2: getting as much as you can without triggering that response. 418 00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:15,440 Speaker 2: I think Putin wants to take the measure of Donald 419 00:23:15,480 --> 00:23:21,840 Speaker 2: Trump and and and he's a megalomaniac intent on restoring 420 00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:25,639 Speaker 2: the grandeur of the Soviet Union, and and so that 421 00:23:25,840 --> 00:23:28,480 Speaker 2: is his ultimate goal. And he will by hook er 422 00:23:28,520 --> 00:23:31,240 Speaker 2: by crook get there if if you know, if he can. 423 00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:34,800 Speaker 2: I agree with Ian Bremer. I think this is a 424 00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:39,879 Speaker 2: major strategic mistake on Putin's part. I think he's misreading Trump. 425 00:23:40,520 --> 00:23:44,520 Speaker 2: Taco is not going to apply here. And you know 426 00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:49,639 Speaker 2: where where this ends. I have no idea. But different topic, Shirley, 427 00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:52,560 Speaker 2: I'm sorry. One more thought, Shirley. He took a note 428 00:23:52,560 --> 00:23:56,399 Speaker 2: of the attack on the fourtoh nuclear facility in Iran. 429 00:23:56,280 --> 00:23:56,760 Speaker 1: Right. 430 00:23:58,040 --> 00:24:00,520 Speaker 2: Right, you would think so, you would think that would 431 00:24:00,520 --> 00:24:05,680 Speaker 2: have gotten his attention. And speaking of that sort of thing, 432 00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:09,200 Speaker 2: did this happen for real or not? This audio came 433 00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:11,520 Speaker 2: out the other day. This is from twenty twenty four. 434 00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:15,560 Speaker 2: Trump is not in office at the time. I don't 435 00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:17,960 Speaker 2: even remember who he's talking to. It doesn't really matter. 436 00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:24,160 Speaker 2: He's recounting conversations he had with Vladimir Putin and President 437 00:24:24,280 --> 00:24:29,240 Speaker 2: je First his Trump recounting his conversation with Vladimir Putin. 438 00:24:29,560 --> 00:24:31,760 Speaker 2: So this is twenty twenty four Trump talking about when 439 00:24:31,840 --> 00:24:34,840 Speaker 2: he was well, it's a little mystifying as to when 440 00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:37,399 Speaker 2: he was talking to Putin, but this is what it 441 00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:37,879 Speaker 2: sounds like. 442 00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:44,640 Speaker 1: If you go in I'm telling you how. 443 00:24:52,840 --> 00:24:53,200 Speaker 2: I said. 444 00:24:53,880 --> 00:24:58,320 Speaker 1: She said no way, in a way I don't believe. 445 00:24:59,200 --> 00:24:59,800 Speaker 4: Does he believe? 446 00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:04,440 Speaker 1: It's really hard to understand. 447 00:25:04,920 --> 00:25:08,159 Speaker 2: Clearly, he's speaking in a men's room somewhere at the 448 00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:13,439 Speaker 2: far end of it, right, but he's Trump says, I 449 00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:15,680 Speaker 2: hate to use the word claims because that's prejudicial. 450 00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:18,200 Speaker 1: I find it hard to believe this conversation happened. 451 00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:23,120 Speaker 2: But he says he talked to Putin and said, if 452 00:25:23,119 --> 00:25:25,280 Speaker 2: you go into Ukraine, I'm going to bomb the s 453 00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:29,959 Speaker 2: out of Moscow. And Putin said no way. And Trump, 454 00:25:30,119 --> 00:25:37,880 Speaker 2: having seen Wayne's world, said way excellent. And uh, then 455 00:25:37,920 --> 00:25:39,560 Speaker 2: it's a little hard to hear and understand it. 456 00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:39,960 Speaker 1: I don't know. 457 00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:41,760 Speaker 2: I don't know that we need to play the president. 458 00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:45,040 Speaker 2: She portioned, because it's as hard to hear. But Trump says, 459 00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:47,720 Speaker 2: I said the same thing to President She, if you 460 00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:49,920 Speaker 2: go into Taiwan, I'm going to bomb the s out 461 00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:54,000 Speaker 2: of Beijing. Did he tell the president of China we 462 00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:57,919 Speaker 2: would bomb the s out of Beijing? WHOA That makes 463 00:25:58,240 --> 00:26:01,399 Speaker 2: mister Gorbachev tear down. This all seem like how you 464 00:26:01,520 --> 00:26:07,120 Speaker 2: do it? Trump is so prone to trying to come 465 00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:08,840 Speaker 2: off as the hard ass. 466 00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:11,560 Speaker 1: I don't know that could be. 467 00:26:13,359 --> 00:26:17,480 Speaker 2: One percent true, one hundred percent untrue, or any percentage 468 00:26:17,520 --> 00:26:20,840 Speaker 2: in between. Would Putin say I don't believe you, no way, 469 00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:28,760 Speaker 2: and Trump say way. 470 00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:27,840 Speaker 1: Party on excellent Darth. 471 00:26:29,520 --> 00:26:32,960 Speaker 2: Or I could I could see it be you know, 472 00:26:33,040 --> 00:26:38,480 Speaker 2: he was summarizing, obviously, I could. I could picture that 473 00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:45,200 Speaker 2: couched in more diplomatic language, him saying yeah, there would 474 00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:48,720 Speaker 2: be severe repercussions, even including blah blah bah, and Putin 475 00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:52,080 Speaker 2: saying I don't think you would do that. Well, clearly 476 00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:55,760 Speaker 2: Putin doesn't think Trump would do that if they had 477 00:26:55,800 --> 00:26:59,960 Speaker 2: that conversation because he he invaded Ukraine. Obviously Trump was 478 00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:03,160 Speaker 2: and President Biden was. But Trump's president now, and he's 479 00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:08,240 Speaker 2: upping his game on a daily basis. And I mean, 480 00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:10,280 Speaker 2: if Trump actually said, Tom, I'll bomb the s out 481 00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:12,640 Speaker 2: of Moscow if you do that, he must not believe him. 482 00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:17,040 Speaker 2: No no, allthough, and I don't We're not going to 483 00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:20,439 Speaker 2: bomb the s out of Moscow. Although you have to remember, 484 00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:22,960 Speaker 2: when you're analyzing Putin and what he might do, you 485 00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:25,040 Speaker 2: have to remember that he is more than willing to 486 00:27:25,119 --> 00:27:28,960 Speaker 2: sacrifice hundreds of thousands, or indeed millions of Russians if 487 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:31,840 Speaker 2: he can achieve his aims. So I'm just kind of 488 00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:35,000 Speaker 2: playing this out in my mind. I could see Putin thinking, okay, 489 00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:37,520 Speaker 2: US attacks Moscow. 490 00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:40,359 Speaker 1: Oh, that'd be full on war. 491 00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:45,960 Speaker 2: Would it overreach escalation? We mobilize our nuclear forces, the 492 00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:51,520 Speaker 2: world comes together, and I say, the only way I 493 00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:55,600 Speaker 2: don't start nuclear armageddon is if we get Estonia, Lithuanian 494 00:27:55,600 --> 00:28:02,120 Speaker 2: and Latvia back and I win, yes, bomb Moscow. 495 00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:05,600 Speaker 1: We get a lot of vote thrown at US by Putin. Well, 496 00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:07,760 Speaker 1: first of all, I hope that scenario is not going 497 00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:08,320 Speaker 1: to play out. 498 00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:13,560 Speaker 2: I'm just I'm trying to answer your question. I could 499 00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:19,200 Speaker 2: see Putin making that calculation absolutely, or President G since 500 00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:24,120 Speaker 2: he's the Chinese, are always President G is known has 501 00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:29,280 Speaker 2: said something about I'd lose a million people for that. 502 00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:34,040 Speaker 2: They don't care. We can't even imagine it. We lose 503 00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:36,040 Speaker 2: a couple of thousand soldiers, and it's you know, it's 504 00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:37,119 Speaker 2: a national conversation. 505 00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:39,600 Speaker 1: But they'd be willing to either of those guys. 506 00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:42,720 Speaker 2: Well, Putin already has lost a million guys for no 507 00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:46,120 Speaker 2: reason whatsoever, and lost a handful of thousands of North 508 00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:50,280 Speaker 2: Koreans along with them. Yeah, I I hope we're not 509 00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:55,560 Speaker 2: headed this direction. But it's certainly well I said earlier, 510 00:28:55,640 --> 00:28:57,920 Speaker 2: and I believe it. This could become the biggest story 511 00:28:57,920 --> 00:29:03,120 Speaker 2: in the world pretty quickly, if if Trump actually follows 512 00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:04,600 Speaker 2: through on some of the things he's saying, or if 513 00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:07,960 Speaker 2: he's actually had it with Putin and then he got 514 00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:10,880 Speaker 2: France in England saying we're a we're a combined nuclear 515 00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:16,520 Speaker 2: force now right right, So if it doesn't come to that, yeah, 516 00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:19,560 Speaker 2: I'd say, so, what what would what would the correct 517 00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:22,800 Speaker 2: what would the correct answer be if Putin said you 518 00:29:22,840 --> 00:29:25,640 Speaker 2: give me Estonian whatever else you said there, or I 519 00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:26,760 Speaker 2: start armageddon? 520 00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:31,120 Speaker 1: What would what would what would the world do? Estonia 521 00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:34,240 Speaker 1: sh m Estonia? Ah? 522 00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:39,160 Speaker 2: Do I have to answer that question. I'm a humble 523 00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:42,800 Speaker 2: radio host. I should not be asked these questions. What 524 00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:44,320 Speaker 2: what would the world do? 525 00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:44,840 Speaker 4: Well? 526 00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:48,240 Speaker 2: I think we might find out with Taiwan if basically 527 00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:50,800 Speaker 2: she says you want Taiwan enough to go to full 528 00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:53,920 Speaker 2: on war with China, or because I don't think we do, 529 00:29:54,520 --> 00:29:56,600 Speaker 2: and Trump has said as much, I'm not going to 530 00:29:56,680 --> 00:30:00,200 Speaker 2: go to war with China over Taiwan. I think the 531 00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:03,000 Speaker 2: only proper response is, we will obliterate you. You do 532 00:30:03,040 --> 00:30:07,160 Speaker 2: what you think you have to do, well, you will 533 00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:10,480 Speaker 2: have no empire, you will have no people, You will 534 00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:13,760 Speaker 2: have no lungs because we're gonna pull them out of 535 00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:14,280 Speaker 2: your chest. 536 00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:16,719 Speaker 1: Well, we're getting down to basic human nature. 537 00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:20,160 Speaker 2: But if you allow either Putin or she to take 538 00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:23,680 Speaker 2: anything with that threat, you think they're gonna stop with that? 539 00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:24,400 Speaker 1: Of course? 540 00:30:24,520 --> 00:30:28,959 Speaker 2: Certainly, of course not. They will grow hungrier with the eating. 541 00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:29,400 Speaker 1: Yeah. 542 00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:31,840 Speaker 2: So wow, Well, let's hope none of this plays out 543 00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:36,160 Speaker 2: over before your before your weekend. 544 00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:39,560 Speaker 1: He said, no way, And I said, wait, hey, can 545 00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:41,560 Speaker 1: you hand me some toilet paper under the stall? 546 00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:41,800 Speaker 2: Here? 547 00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:44,840 Speaker 1: I got to run out over here. What the heck 548 00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:45,280 Speaker 1: are they? 549 00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:48,840 Speaker 2: Yes, he's uh, he's in the men's room, sitting and uh, 550 00:30:48,920 --> 00:30:51,120 Speaker 2: he's just recounting to someone in the stall next to 551 00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:52,920 Speaker 2: him about ali threat in nuclear war. 552 00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:57,920 Speaker 1: Once. That's what you do when you're in the stall, 553 00:30:57,960 --> 00:30:58,760 Speaker 1: You killing time. 554 00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:02,920 Speaker 2: Woww the acoustics in his solid gold bathrooms are different 555 00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:05,800 Speaker 2: than mine? Any thoughts on this text? Line four one 556 00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:07,640 Speaker 2: five two nine five KFTC. 557 00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:15,640 Speaker 4: Harry Coleman's ex wife failed a lie detector test, leaving 558 00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:19,479 Speaker 4: many to believe she was involved in his death. I know, right, 559 00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:22,160 Speaker 4: bet right now Gary is turning over in his shoe box. 560 00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:29,240 Speaker 2: He would have laughed, Wow, Hoddie, it's just a flat 561 00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:32,000 Speaker 2: out short joke. Here's the funniest thing I've seen today. 562 00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:35,880 Speaker 2: This is an actual Washington Post headline, in which one 563 00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:39,160 Speaker 2: commentator said, if this was an Onion headline, I would 564 00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:41,200 Speaker 2: say the Onion's not that funny anymore. This is an 565 00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:43,840 Speaker 2: actual headline from an opinion piece in the Washington Post. 566 00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:47,120 Speaker 2: Oh oh, Donald Trump is not a clown. I should know. 567 00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:51,200 Speaker 2: Real clowns bring joy to the world, not chaos to Washington. 568 00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:56,000 Speaker 2: Oh mile horriden by a professional clown. 569 00:31:57,240 --> 00:32:01,880 Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, Donald Trump is not a clown. I 570 00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:02,360 Speaker 1: should know. 571 00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:06,000 Speaker 2: Can you picture a sort of person who would say, 572 00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:09,360 Speaker 2: oh my god, that would be so powerful to have 573 00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:14,120 Speaker 2: an actual clown explain how Trump is no clown. Wait 574 00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:21,880 Speaker 2: a minute, are you trying to be ironic? Wow? Wow, Wow, 575 00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:28,200 Speaker 2: we have virtually no time. Oh my god, yeah wow. 576 00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:30,880 Speaker 2: Mark Alpern had a thing last night. I almost grabbed it. 577 00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:34,120 Speaker 2: He was reading a letter from somebody explaining the Trump 578 00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:38,160 Speaker 2: phenomenon and specifically how there are so many millions of 579 00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:41,600 Speaker 2: people that supported Trump and support Trump who don't dig 580 00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:44,479 Speaker 2: all of his act I'd be in that camp who are, like, 581 00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:47,920 Speaker 2: you know, he's a crazy person on them so many fronts, 582 00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:56,160 Speaker 2: but he's the easily better alternative than the crazy he's 583 00:32:56,240 --> 00:32:59,240 Speaker 2: over there and they're complete nonsense. 584 00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:02,880 Speaker 1: Wa could do? What are you talking about? 585 00:33:03,560 --> 00:33:08,520 Speaker 2: Right? View of the world right right? Speaking of which 586 00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:14,920 Speaker 2: generation Z the useful idiot generation a powerful argument not 587 00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:19,840 Speaker 2: just disparaging the young, and some really unbelievably interesting writing 588 00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:22,040 Speaker 2: on something I've been talking about for the longest time, 589 00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:25,800 Speaker 2: the radicalization of young women, not just in the United 590 00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:29,120 Speaker 2: States but around the world. Just one quick statistic for you. 591 00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:36,080 Speaker 2: During that whole Columbia Library vandalism takeover scuffle blah blah blah, 592 00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:40,480 Speaker 2: eighty protesters are arrested. Sixty one of them were women. 593 00:33:41,240 --> 00:33:41,600 Speaker 1: Wow. 594 00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:44,800 Speaker 2: And they go through a bunch of that sort of 595 00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:52,520 Speaker 2: incident and organization and it is hugely heavily female. I'd 596 00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:54,520 Speaker 2: like to talk to that, if we talk about that, 597 00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:56,520 Speaker 2: if we get to it. But as I mentioned earlier, 598 00:33:56,560 --> 00:34:00,840 Speaker 2: I'm super excited about reading you a magnificant chunk of 599 00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:03,640 Speaker 2: Neil Gorsich's concurrence in a case from a couple of 600 00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:07,520 Speaker 2: years ago about DEI in Affirmative Action. I was reminded 601 00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:12,080 Speaker 2: of its existence the other day, and it is one 602 00:34:12,080 --> 00:34:17,000 Speaker 2: of the most brilliant things ever written on how utterly incoherent, 603 00:34:17,560 --> 00:34:23,560 Speaker 2: counterproductive and unconstitutional all of that crap is end every 604 00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:27,440 Speaker 2: DEI program everywhere wherever it exists today. 605 00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:33,799 Speaker 1: Donald Trump is not a clown I should know. Well, 606 00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:37,240 Speaker 1: that's powerful. What next? 607 00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:41,200 Speaker 2: Donald Trump is called a jackass. I raise jackasses for 608 00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:44,640 Speaker 2: a living and rent them to farms. Donald Trump is 609 00:34:44,719 --> 00:34:51,400 Speaker 2: no jackass. The jackass works hard. And this, seriously, you 610 00:34:51,520 --> 00:34:56,080 Speaker 2: are being ironic, right, the clown thing. This is a joke, right, Okay, 611 00:34:56,120 --> 00:34:58,920 Speaker 2: So we do four hours every day. That's lots of segments. 612 00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:01,120 Speaker 2: If you miss one or an you can get the podcast. 613 00:35:01,160 --> 00:35:05,200 Speaker 2: You should subscribe Armstrong and Getty on demand. I'm telling 614 00:35:05,239 --> 00:35:07,200 Speaker 2: you this Gorsuch stuff is just terrific. 615 00:35:07,239 --> 00:35:07,919 Speaker 1: That good. 616 00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:09,719 Speaker 2: For instance, if you can't grab it, you can listen 617 00:35:09,719 --> 00:35:12,560 Speaker 2: to it whenever you want via podcast. Thank you for 618 00:35:12,600 --> 00:35:14,680 Speaker 2: being here, so much more to come. 619 00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:23,120 Speaker 1: Hang around if you can. Armstrong and Getty