Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Katty Armstrong.
Speaker 2: And Jettie and he.
Speaker 3: Arms. You got busy reading in the hallway again. I
Speaker 3: gotta quit doing that. I look up the clock.
Speaker 2: I think, kees I'm supposed to be on there live
Speaker 2: from studio scenes.
Speaker 3: Se save your Jimmie litt room deeper than.
Speaker 2: The bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications Common founding you. Hey, y'all,
Speaker 2: today we're under the tute lege of our general manager.
Speaker 4: The super heavyweight bout Donald J. Trump versus Gerald Powell.
Speaker 2: Who's Jerome Powell, Chairman of the Federal Reserve in a
Speaker 2: heavyweight slug fest that could ruin the economy.
Speaker 3: Oh boy, come on, fellas and settle down. Okay, I
Speaker 3: assume you're going to explain that to us. I will,
Speaker 3: I will. You know what I was just reading? That
Speaker 3: is blowing my mind? Hmm. That's why I got so
Speaker 3: engrossed in it.
Speaker 2: This new study that's out, Uh, that is contrary to
Speaker 2: everything else we've heard about smartphones and kids.
Speaker 3: Everything we believe about kids and phones might be wrong.
Speaker 2: A new study says done by researchers at the University
Speaker 2: of South Florida who had read The Anxious Generation, that
Speaker 2: book we've talked about so much and we're expecting all
Speaker 2: kinds of negative results and believed all that sort of stuff,
Speaker 2: and they found all kinds of things that run completely
Speaker 2: opposite of that that kids who have questions.
Speaker 3: I have questions too, I have a guess too.
Speaker 2: But the groundbreak blah blah blah blah. Middle schoolers in
Speaker 2: particularly socially benefit from having a phone. They tend to
Speaker 2: be have more friends, more outgoing, spend more time away
Speaker 2: from the house, blah blah blah, all these different things.
Speaker 3: I think it's absolutely worth considering this.
Speaker 2: I already have some contrarian thoughts coursing through my head.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, my immediate My immediate first thought was, it's
Speaker 2: a socioeconomic thing of the kind of people that kids
Speaker 2: that don't have phones. Yeah, I don't think there's that
Speaker 2: many people not getting their kid a phone because it's
Speaker 2: bad for them.
Speaker 3: It should be, but it's not.
Speaker 2: I think the kids that don't have phones are from
Speaker 2: families where they just can't afford a phone, and they
Speaker 2: maybe tend to not have as many friends or as
Speaker 2: good a life that's interesting. And I fully admit that
Speaker 2: this is a very first blush, But my scathing indictment
Speaker 2: of their conclusion based on practically no information, is that
Speaker 2: I could see that on a very surface level, the
Speaker 2: kids with smartphones, plugged in social media, et cetera, are
Speaker 2: more popular and more plugged into the popular zeitgeist. You've
Speaker 2: spoken about how the kids have to know the cash phrase.
Speaker 2: You know, if you don't know chicken jockey, you're an outcast.
Speaker 2: Blah blah blah blah blah. So you are, on the surface,
Speaker 2: in the short term, more popular, et cetera, in a culture,
Speaker 2: a technical, technological culture that is ultimately terribly unhealthy for you.
Speaker 2: It's like, if you're among the pot smokers in high school,
Speaker 2: you will be well connected among the pot smokers.
Speaker 3: You see what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not buying this study at all, but I'm
Speaker 2: just you know my other questions, who paid for it?
Speaker 2: Transferring it to you? Yeah, it'd be worth knowing. Are
Speaker 2: you measuring the rights? University of South Florida Justin Martin,
Speaker 2: the studies least researcher who referred to social He's a
Speaker 2: big fan of Jonathan Hyde's book The Anxious Generation. The
Speaker 2: survey of fifteen one hundred to Floridians ages eleven to thirteen.
Speaker 2: Kids with smartphones reported better mental health than those without
Speaker 2: smartphones on a number of different measures, including higher self
Speaker 2: esteem being less likely to feel depressed. Is finding held
Speaker 2: across the socioeconomic differences of the children being surveyed.
Speaker 3: Yeah, challenges the.
Speaker 2: Belief that kids with cell phones are more likely to
Speaker 2: be shut ins who never leave their bedroom. In fact,
Speaker 2: surveyed kids with smartphones were overall more likely to spend
Speaker 2: time with friends in person than kids without phones.
Speaker 3: Interesting. Yeah, I have to dig into it again.
Speaker 2: I have a number of contrarian thoughts immediately, but it's
Speaker 2: an intriguing look at one of the most important topics
Speaker 2: of our time. So I would say, yeah, it is
Speaker 2: one of the most important topics of the times. Well,
Speaker 2: and my biggest contrarian thing is just we all have
Speaker 2: had I think most of us just intuitively know that
Speaker 2: it's been bad for us, right, that it's bad for me.
Speaker 2: You know, you're talking yesterday about being at the Master's
Speaker 2: golf tournament. You had to put your phones away, and
Speaker 2: everybody liking it. Everybody goes camping or ends up, you know,
Speaker 2: in a mountain cabin where you don't have cell phone service.
Speaker 2: Everybody loves it. So just intuitively, I think we know
Speaker 2: that it's it's causing problems. So yeah, and I'm just
Speaker 2: I'm reminded of what does a drunk want the other
Speaker 2: guy to do? Drink get in here in the valley
Speaker 2: of sin with me. I feel better about myself, and
Speaker 2: trust me, that's not coming from a place of sober
Speaker 2: judgment of others.
Speaker 3: Again, you know, I'd like to know more about it.
Speaker 2: I am highly suspicious they're asking the wrong questions and
Speaker 2: and short term happiness slash fitting in versus long term
Speaker 2: mental health, et cetera. True, although as kid, as you know,
Speaker 2: the short term fitting in is all that matters in
Speaker 2: your life for the kid. So, my son was the
Speaker 2: last in his group to get a phone, and he
Speaker 2: it made him very unhappy. He missed, he missed out,
Speaker 2: did miss out and felt like he was missing out
Speaker 2: on things all the time, all these group conversations and
Speaker 2: meetups and stuff like that that he just didn't know
Speaker 2: about because he didn't he wasn't in on the conversation
Speaker 2: and it made him sad and feel like an outcast.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't doubt it.
Speaker 2: The Internet we've discussed through the years is like a big,
Speaker 2: busy straight and it has a number of the things
Speaker 2: that are are lovely for kids, ability to connect services,
Speaker 2: et cetera. And it also has the most dangerous scumbags
Speaker 2: they will ever encounter in their lives and the opportunity
Speaker 2: to develop terrible habits that makes them miserable. It is
Speaker 2: a big, giant, busy city straight. I don't doubt for
Speaker 2: a minute that there are positives to be found on
Speaker 2: that street. Right, that's the problem. Like, so, my oldest
Speaker 2: son has a smartphone, my youngest doesn't. So in my
Speaker 2: oldest my youngest heads out on a bike ride, I
Speaker 2: know that he can't purchase heroin, see a snuff film,
Speaker 2: or interact with a murderous pedophile.
Speaker 3: My older son when he leaves, you're a child abuser.
Speaker 2: My older son, when he leaves the house, absolutely has
Speaker 2: all of those at his fingertips. Yeah, because he has
Speaker 2: a smartphone, which is pretty crazy. I never had those
Speaker 2: at my fingertips when I left the house. Ah uugh,
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Speaker 5: The Democrats and the media in this room have continually
Speaker 5: and wrongly labeled Kilmar Abrago Garcia as a Maryland father.
Speaker 5: There is no Maryland father. Let me reiterate. Abrigo Garcia
Speaker 5: is an illegal alien MS thirteen gang member and foreign
Speaker 5: terrorist who was deported back to his home country.
Speaker 3: Well, this story is getting a lot of attention than
Speaker 3: the media. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't have a sense of how many of you
Speaker 2: actual people are paying attention to it. But for instance,
Speaker 2: I flipped on MSNBC, Fox and News Nation this morning.
Speaker 3: All three of them led with this stuff.
Speaker 2: Interesting, right, and the back and forth on whether he's
Speaker 2: just a Maryland father enjoying his kid's litle league game
Speaker 2: or if he's a wife beating a drug running gang member,
Speaker 2: and which of those is true? Yeah, and doesn't make
Speaker 2: any difference because if you're in the United States, you
Speaker 2: get due process no matter what. Yes, but what processes
Speaker 2: do One of the more interesting questions to arise from this,
Speaker 2: having let in millions of illegals, do the old processes
Speaker 2: live up to the moment or do we have to
Speaker 2: reassign them. It wasn't an intentional overloading of the system
Speaker 2: by the lunatics around the Senile Mummy Joe Biden in
Speaker 2: the Cloward Piven strategy of overwhelming the system to break it.
Speaker 2: Once you break it, your reform it to Marxist principles.
Speaker 2: It sure looks like it, doesn't it. I don't know
Speaker 2: if it was on purpose, but it did overwhelm the
Speaker 2: system well given the politics, Given that the politics are
Speaker 2: so horrible.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's an eighty five fifteen issue.
Speaker 2: To throw the borders open to murders and scumbags and
Speaker 2: hardworking folks just trying to improve their lives, but to
Speaker 2: let in millions and millions and millions of people. The
Speaker 2: politics are miserable of it. And many times you asked,
Speaker 2: I asked, what don't they see that?
Speaker 3: I think the answer.
Speaker 2: Might be there were actual radicals around Biden who talked
Speaker 2: the senile old Fruit into keeping the borders open for
Speaker 2: their own nefarious, radical purposes. If somebody has a better explanation,
Speaker 2: I'm willing to entertain it. Yeah, well we got a
Speaker 2: lot more on that story, which could could end up
Speaker 2: being a really big deal as a court has said
Speaker 2: that the Trump administration is denying them and looking for
Speaker 2: contempt charges and all these sorts of things. So you
Speaker 2: got that to get to it, got Katie's headlines on
Speaker 2: the way. Here's our text line four one five KFTC.
Speaker 3: So China said some jumpy things.
Speaker 2: About tariffs, and uh Trump people fired back, Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: it might be two hundred and forty.
Speaker 3: Oh so so there you go.
Speaker 2: This reminds me the whole parent and defiant child. Your
Speaker 2: grounded for a day. Now it's two days, three days,
Speaker 2: you're gonna keep going. Now it's a week, and you
Speaker 2: just wait for the kid to think, Wow.
Speaker 3: This is not going in a good peruction.
Speaker 2: And China finally designs it doesn't want to be grounded
Speaker 2: for six months.
Speaker 3: Oh boy, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 2: I get the whole tariff, get your own Powell feud.
Speaker 2: It's it's as a trade thing. I got a bad
Speaker 2: feeling about all this. It does not feel like a plan.
Speaker 2: I'm I will be thrilled and humbly contrite if it
Speaker 2: turns out that I am wrong. That'd be awesome to
Speaker 2: trust me. I have every interest in being wrong. I
Speaker 2: want desperately to be wrong. It's just kind of an
Speaker 2: odd position to be in anyway. A lot to get
Speaker 2: to today, I mean, just seriously, there's so much to
Speaker 2: talk about.
Speaker 3: It's so interesting. I hope you can stay around right now.
Speaker 2: Let's figure out who's reporting what it's lead story with
Speaker 2: Katie Katie, starting with Fox News.
Speaker 6: Maryland man exposed in police records as violent repeat wife beater.
Speaker 2: That's funny that didn't come up on MSNBC and their
Speaker 2: description of the loving Maryland little League code Dad. Does
Speaker 2: it make any difference though? No, and yes, okay, it
Speaker 2: depends on I don't think politically, I mean legally, politically
Speaker 2: it makes a difference.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it makes a huge difference. And I was
Speaker 3: going to get there a good point.
Speaker 4: But I don't know specifically what the due process looks
Speaker 4: like for a non citizen.
Speaker 3: Illegal alien with a final.
Speaker 4: Deportation order and his status visa vin the law.
Speaker 3: I don't know the answer to that question from writers.
Speaker 6: El Salvador blocks US senator from visiting quote wrongly deported
Speaker 6: Salvadorian man.
Speaker 2: I'm sure the Trump people are getting al Salvador and
Speaker 2: saying here's how we want you to handle this, and
Speaker 2: they're saying.
Speaker 3: No problem, whatever you want.
Speaker 2: Well, and old President Bukeley, I'm sure saying, oh, I
Speaker 2: would be delighted to help you with your democratic publicity stunt.
Speaker 3: Joink, No, I'm not to get out.
Speaker 6: Youing from the Wall Street Journal a depleted Hamas is
Speaker 6: so low on cash that it can't pay its fighters.
Speaker 3: Good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was going to be part of a multi
Speaker 2: tiered report about the situation in Israel.
Speaker 3: I want to hear there in Yeah, dire straits.
Speaker 6: From the Free Beacon, Bernie Sanders spent two hundred and
Speaker 6: twenty one thousand dollars on private jets amid fighting oligarchy tour.
Speaker 2: Wh We got to play that montage again of him
Speaker 2: saying we live in an oligarchy every year since nineteen
Speaker 2: ninety two.
Speaker 3: It's hilario.
Speaker 2: It's absolutely facuss that the longer Bernie and AOC can
Speaker 2: remain the face of the Democratic Party, the longer Republicans
Speaker 2: have to get their act together and do the good
Speaker 2: stuff we're all rooting for.
Speaker 6: From Breitbart dot Com, transgender miss main contestant will face
Speaker 6: off against Bill Belichick's girlfriend Jordan Hudson.
Speaker 2: What is Belichick's girlfriend a beauty pageant person?
Speaker 3: Yeah she is? Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, So I'm sorry,
Speaker 3: who is he facing off with? I was reading something.
Speaker 6: Relevant transgender Miss main contestant, so it trans a dude
Speaker 6: like in Miss America, in Miss and Miss Maine and.
Speaker 2: Miss Maine is So I'm siding with the legit hottie,
Speaker 2: just you know, by habit as I was looking at
Speaker 2: the Belichick Belichick turned seventy four, so because he can jack,
Speaker 2: because he was seventy four or seventy five. Anyway, she
Speaker 2: got him all these birthday gifts and did all this
Speaker 2: stuff and everything like that. So they're they're fift I
Speaker 2: think they're officially fifty years apart now.
Speaker 3: From study fines.
Speaker 2: I'm sure he's thinking, I only need one gift, and
Speaker 2: it's under your clothes right out.
Speaker 3: Seriously, we're adults, and you don't believe in love, do you?
Speaker 3: Joe doesn't believe in love? No, I got how proud
Speaker 3: of yourself you are? From study fines.
Speaker 6: Laser guided robot farmers offer hope for shrinking labor force.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'd like to actually read that. Yeah, intriguing. It's
Speaker 3: up at our hotlinks today.
Speaker 6: Cool from the New York Post, wild golf brawl erupts
Speaker 6: over slow play, ends with shirtless man getting pummeled.
Speaker 3: I watched that.
Speaker 6: I made it, I made at Katie's Corners post today
Speaker 6: and it's up there.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: That is the description of roughly every golf brawl I've
Speaker 2: ever seen online, and as a golfer, it's a It's
Speaker 2: a favorite genre of mine.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: Whether it's slow play or somebody hit into somebody else
Speaker 2: or whatever, somebody always ends up shirtless.
Speaker 3: And getting pummeled.
Speaker 2: Yeah, good, good, good idea throwing dogs on the golf course.
Speaker 3: But boys will be boys.
Speaker 6: And finally, from the Babylon b Health tip to beat
Speaker 6: those spring all geez, try diving head first into a volcano.
Speaker 2: I have felt various times the last week or so
Speaker 2: that I would have been willing. Yes, Mike, my kids too.
Speaker 2: We look out the window and we're like, oh my god,
Speaker 2: look at it out there.
Speaker 3: It's sunny and oh.
Speaker 2: Looks or sneezing wheezing and itchy eyes or the sweet
Speaker 2: embrace of death.
Speaker 3: Right, Yes, I'm dang it.
Speaker 2: It's so rough and apparently all over the country there's
Speaker 2: got to be some new plant that China snuck in.
Speaker 3: We were talking about that on Friday. That'd be pretty clever,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 2: You figure out some plant that you know, the Westerners,
Speaker 2: Americans aren't used to bad allergies, get it.
Speaker 3: Into here and plant it all over the place.
Speaker 2: I just appreciate your good, solid, cold warrior attitude toward
Speaker 2: over the thing. If there's a problem, probably the Commies,
Speaker 2: you know what it is. That's funny, you know what
Speaker 2: it is. I'm reading. I'm reading that Tinker Taylor Soldier
Speaker 2: Spy book, Oh yeah, which I'd never read before, and
Speaker 2: it's all about i mean loosely about Kim Philby the
Speaker 2: World's greatest spy, cold worst buying stuff like that. So
Speaker 2: that is on my mind. That started thing. So, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's beautiful. The Commy's snuck in a plant. So we're
Speaker 2: all sneezing all the time.
Speaker 3: That's what happened.
Speaker 2: Stay ever vigilant, Sergeant Jack. So why was Jerome Powell
Speaker 2: our general manager today? Joel explained that coming up, the
Speaker 2: battle between Trump and the Federal Relief briefly Brees tab
Speaker 2: Dry Armstrong and get.
Speaker 1: A new administration is in the process of implementing a
Speaker 1: substantial policy changes in four distinct areas trade, immigration, fiscal policy,
Speaker 1: and regulation. These policies are still evolving and their effects
Speaker 1: on the economy remain highly uncertain. Inflation is likely to
Speaker 1: go up as tariffs find their way and some part
Speaker 1: of those tariffs come to the It come to be
Speaker 1: paid by the by the by the public.
Speaker 2: Slowed down, Jerome too much energy. So I'm wondering, does
Speaker 2: do you end up in a job like that because
Speaker 2: your personality is the sort that would talk like that,
Speaker 2: or do you feel like you have to talk like
Speaker 2: that when you're in that job. Come, there's no showbiz
Speaker 2: in anybody that's in the FED. Is anyone expecting inflation?
Speaker 2: Anyone duel er, just a stone person that would get
Speaker 2: into that for a living, tends to talk like that.
Speaker 2: Or maybe it's just cultural. It's expected of him to
Speaker 2: be very dry and sober. I mean, he's not gonna
Speaker 2: talk like a gay fashion designer at the next FED meeting.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, these rates are outrageous. They're outrageous. I mean,
Speaker 4: that just wouldn't work inflation, am I right? So yes, now,
Speaker 4: Hanson producer. Hanson said he finds him very calming and
Speaker 4: reassuring in these turbulences.
Speaker 2: That's that's not the vibe. The vibe I got from
Speaker 2: him was I am scared to death. This is coming
Speaker 2: off the rails and buckle up.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Just you know, as I went into it thinking that,
Speaker 2: and I don't need him to be a cheerleader. But
Speaker 2: he is a bit of an energy suck, isn't he.
Speaker 2: There's one more clip I wanted to play my class.
Speaker 3: I'm totally I clip sixty four. He does show the showbiz. Okay,
Speaker 3: here's the bring the showbiz.
Speaker 1: As that great Chicagoan Ferris Bueller once noted, life moves
Speaker 1: pretty fast. For the time being, we are well positioned
Speaker 1: to wait for greater clarity before considering any adjustments to
Speaker 1: our policy stance. We continue to analyze the incoming data
Speaker 1: the evolving outlook in the balance of risks. We understand
Speaker 1: that elevated levels of unemployment or inflation can be damaging
Speaker 1: and painful for communities, families, and businesses. We will continue
Speaker 1: to do everything we can to achieve our maximum employment
Speaker 1: and price debility goals.
Speaker 3: That's great, Jerry, that's great, honey. I told you we
Speaker 3: shouldn't invite him to the dinner party.
Speaker 2: So now Trump wants him to go, right, So Trump didn't.
Speaker 2: Trump didn't like Powell coming out and saying inflation's going
Speaker 2: to go up. We don't know how this is going
Speaker 2: to turn out. Trump's angry down wants him to go
Speaker 2: There's too much uncertainty and the plan seems to be evolving, yes,
Speaker 2: which is what virtually everyone is saying. But Trump is
Speaker 2: lashed out at Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell in a
Speaker 2: post on social media. Powell's termination cannot come fast enough.
Speaker 2: The post read trump pointing of the guy Powell is
Speaker 2: always too late and wrong. Many many capitals and exclamation points, etc.
Speaker 2: Now a number of folks, and that number is like
Speaker 2: a lot of people are a little concerned at the
Speaker 2: idea that the chairman of the Federal Reserve would be.
Speaker 3: A day by day.
Speaker 2: Helper of the current administration to achieve their specific goals,
Speaker 2: as opposed to the sober to the point of oh
Speaker 2: Godwin's he going to be done, a.
Speaker 3: Protector of the nation fiscal health. Wall Street Journal's view
Speaker 3: of this.
Speaker 2: Powell said that he saw a strong likelihood that consumers
Speaker 2: would face higher prices and that the economy would see
Speaker 2: higher unemployment as the result of tariffs in the short
Speaker 2: room short runs, so higher prices and higher unemployment. This
Speaker 2: would create a challenging scenario in quotes for the central
Speaker 2: bank because anything it does with interest rates to address
Speaker 2: inflationary pressures could worsen unemployment and vice versa. He said,
Speaker 2: it's a difficult place for a central bank to be in. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so we could end up in a bad spiral. Maybe
Speaker 2: one of the reasons that I have not made this
Speaker 2: sort of economics my area of interest and just never
Speaker 2: have in my life. It's just it's amazing to me
Speaker 2: that so the president, one guy has the ability to
Speaker 2: unleash these tariffs on America and on the world. And
Speaker 2: then I've always been amazed that the FED chairman, a guy,
Speaker 2: I mean with input from other people, but still one
Speaker 2: guy decides to raise her lower interest rates. It just
Speaker 2: it seems so not democratic republic that issues. I guess
Speaker 2: there's no other way to do it, but I would
Speaker 2: I would quibble with the characterization that one guy can
Speaker 2: raise the interest rates like that, because they there's a
Speaker 2: board of governors of the FED from all over the
Speaker 2: country that get together and they're all like super smart,
Speaker 2: dry egg heads like Jerown Powell, and they cook up
Speaker 2: the policy together. But that's not like a congress, right,
Speaker 2: So you know, the truth is somewhere in between.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I am staunchly against anybody having the power to single
Speaker 2: handedly reshape the economy in the way Trump is doing,
Speaker 2: because I know that you will be on the other foot,
Speaker 2: and I think the Democrats are capable of enacting some
Speaker 2: of their most ludicrous you know, a borderline to full
Speaker 2: fledged Marxist ideas and tanking the economy for a very
Speaker 2: very long time. I just you know, I'm sorry if
Speaker 2: my principles annoy you, because I just I fear if
Speaker 2: this sort of power to manipulate the economy becomes routine,
Speaker 2: we're gonna see wild, insane swings and the sort of
Speaker 2: And this is what bothers me about the current ay,
Speaker 2: the sort of crony capitalism that we should be working
Speaker 2: to get rid of. Like Tim Cook is rich and
Speaker 2: powerful and connected and Apple is super important, so they
Speaker 2: can get carve outs for the tariffs that would hurt them.
Speaker 2: The average schmuck, the small to medium businessman, does not
Speaker 2: have that sort of connection.
Speaker 3: They don't have lobbyists, and so they will get hammered
Speaker 3: by the tariffs.
Speaker 2: The guy that was a drummer in the band I
Speaker 2: was playing in, he was a drum maker and his
Speaker 2: drums were made in China. He was always traveling to China.
Speaker 2: He made carbon fiber drums. Cool idea. I don't know
Speaker 2: if it's still a thing or not, but anyway, they're
Speaker 2: made in China. I'm sure he's not getting a carve
Speaker 2: out as a tiny, tiny businessman with his drums stuff
Speaker 2: coming in from China because you don't have the connections
Speaker 2: that Tim Cook has, which is your point. And I
Speaker 2: know everybody's saying, Joe, bring up Humphreys executor. Okay, kids,
Speaker 2: it's a Supreme Court president. It has to do with
Speaker 2: can the president fire certain federal officials for purely political
Speaker 2: reasons or should they be more independent and finish out
Speaker 2: their terms.
Speaker 3: It's a really interesting constitutional question. How long is a
Speaker 3: FED term? Long? Right?
Speaker 4: Ah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's got several more years. I couldn't tell you
Speaker 2: specifically outlook, but Trump wants him to go.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, If I may quote the potus, Powell's termination cannot
Speaker 2: come fast enough.
Speaker 3: Termination as in I'm going to fire him.
Speaker 2: Yes, he's not gonna snuff him. I didn't think that,
Speaker 2: certainly firing him. Oh wow, that's enough fed talk certainly
Speaker 2: for a while. Yeah, but it's not enough. I mean
Speaker 2: that there's plenty of worry talk.
Speaker 3: I just I don't know.
Speaker 2: Nobody knows how this is going to turn out. But
Speaker 2: say two months from now, inflation's the highest it's been
Speaker 2: since back when we hated inflation during COVID. You're noticing
Speaker 2: every day prices being higher than you're expecting, like during COVID.
Speaker 2: What's the political mood gonna be. Yeah, And that's my concern.
Speaker 2: And nobody really has, for many, many many months, ever
Speaker 2: accused us of being you know, never Trumpers or anything
Speaker 2: like that, because that would be ridiculous. My official stance
Speaker 2: is the only thing that can derail the great stuff
Speaker 2: the Trump administration is doing is the silly stuff the
Speaker 2: Trump administration is doing. And I just wish they could
Speaker 2: be a little more disciplined and focused and prioritize. But
Speaker 2: the scenario I just laid out though, that you can't
Speaker 2: call that and never trump.
Speaker 3: That's what Trump says is gonna happen, isn't it.
Speaker 2: High prices there's gonna be what was the term he
Speaker 2: used on Friday that we played over and over. There's
Speaker 2: going to be a he had a term for it.
Speaker 2: It's like, yeah, I can't remember transitory, but that sort
Speaker 2: of thing. It's just you know it's gonna hurt for
Speaker 2: a while.
Speaker 3: Short term pay.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's saying that's going to happen. So is Jerome Powell.
Speaker 2: So so he must be fired. I just wonder what
Speaker 2: the polling is going to be when that actually happens,
Speaker 2: if people are going to be willing to ride it out,
Speaker 2: or if people are it's easier to it's easy to
Speaker 2: say when you're not paying it well. Right, And here's
Speaker 2: my big objection, especially to the tariff thing, not only
Speaker 2: that it's been kind of haphazard in his crony capitalism,
Speaker 2: but the president's argument is if you put up with
Speaker 2: the short term pain, we will have a long term
Speaker 2: resurgence of manufacturing, fewer imports, fairer trade relationships. Now, the
Speaker 2: fairer trade relationships part I believe. I think they can happen,
Speaker 2: but there will be no long term restructuring of American manufacturing.
Speaker 3: He doesn't have long enough.
Speaker 2: If Jdvatt succeeds him for two terms, that's still that'll
Speaker 2: be like scratching the surface getting started long enough. Maybe
Speaker 2: so we're gonna have the short term pain without the
Speaker 2: long term. I just don't see how the long term
Speaker 2: payoff materializes. I looked it up from Friday. You weren't here.
Speaker 2: It transition costs. That's what he called it in the
Speaker 2: big cabinet meeting on Thursday. There will be transition costs
Speaker 2: with some inflation and higher prices.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I've just read so many stories of various small to
Speaker 2: medium sized businesses and what their supply chains actually look like,
Speaker 2: and how the tariffs and everything will affect them, and
Speaker 2: how long it would take for them to ensure their
Speaker 2: supply chains, whether the whole thing or damn near the
Speaker 2: whole thing, and what they would do to the prices
Speaker 2: of their products.
Speaker 3: And it's just it doesn't look to me like it
Speaker 3: can work.
Speaker 2: And again, I pray, either Trump adjustice sales or I'm
Speaker 2: dead wrong.
Speaker 3: I've never wanted to be wrong more in my life.
Speaker 2: Oh, and I'm perfectly happy if this turns out great
Speaker 2: a year from now. Oh. I also see stan Crow
Speaker 2: on the air. No, I'll just be the praise. Trump
Speaker 2: is brilliant. Wow, he is the only one that really
Speaker 2: understood this and blah blah blah. App again love to
Speaker 2: say that that would be awesome. Nothing would make me
Speaker 2: happier than saying that.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 2: I just wonder politically though, even with that outcome that
Speaker 2: the transition period he's talking about the transition costs. What
Speaker 2: are the polls gonna do when everything's more expensive and
Speaker 2: people start buying electronics, cars, whatever it is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2: There have been a number of poll results recently that
Speaker 2: have kind of rekindled my faith in the American people
Speaker 2: to be smart and reasonable and think long term ish.
Speaker 3: So, I don't know.
Speaker 2: We'll see. We got mail bag on the way. Want
Speaker 2: to dig into a little more into that study. New
Speaker 2: study out saying smartphones are good for kids.
Speaker 3: Hmmm, brought to you by Samsung. All that on the way,
Speaker 3: Stay here. I just read an article about AI.
Speaker 2: That makes me think the in terms of information anyway,
Speaker 2: the whole thing is.
Speaker 3: Going to be a bust. It's never going to get
Speaker 3: off really yeah, huh. I don't know how they're going
Speaker 3: to overcome this problem. Can explain that later. I am surprised,
Speaker 3: I am intrigued. I will stay tuned.
Speaker 2: Just a quick note, Well, maybe i'll say of that.
Speaker 2: Here's your freedom loving quote of the day, sent along
Speaker 2: moments ago by Dan in Arkansas. It's from Friedrich Bostiat,
Speaker 2: his classic The Law, written in eighteen fifty, and it's
Speaker 2: a little longish, but it's absolutely brilliant, and it dovetails
Speaker 2: a little bit with our conversation. Last segment I quote
Speaker 2: from Bossiat. God has given to men all that is
Speaker 2: necessary for them to accomplish their destinies. He has provided
Speaker 2: a social form as well as a human form. And
Speaker 2: these social organs of persons are so constituted that they
Speaker 2: will develop themselves harmoniously in the clean air of liberty.
Speaker 2: Away then, with quacks and organizers, Away with their rings, chains, hooks,
Speaker 2: and pincers, Away with their artificial systems. Away with the
Speaker 2: whims of governmental administrators, their socialized projects, their centralization, their tariffs,
Speaker 2: their government schools, their state religions, their free credit, their
Speaker 2: bank monopolies, their regulations, their restrictions, their equalization by taxation,
Speaker 2: and their pious moralizations. And now that the legislators and
Speaker 2: do gooders have so feutally inflicted so many systems upon society,
Speaker 2: may they finally end where they should have begun? May
Speaker 2: they reject all systems and try liberty for liberty as
Speaker 2: an acknowledgment of faith in God and his works.
Speaker 3: Amen, that's pretty good.
Speaker 2: That's good. There's a lot there. Maybe we'll reconsider that
Speaker 2: another time. Dig into it, mailbag. There are a number
Speaker 2: of topics that dominated the correspondence in the last twenty
Speaker 2: four hours.
Speaker 3: Jack, this won't surprise you.
Speaker 2: We asked for ideas and points of view of how
Speaker 2: to actually clean up the university system in this country.
Speaker 2: I got some great answers. We'll get into that later.
Speaker 2: A bunch of folks waited in on the aufie discussion,
Speaker 2: and also the question to do process for illegals. All
Speaker 2: of those things we will dig into at the correct time,
Speaker 2: as determined by our whims. Our dump us a note
Speaker 2: mail bag at armstrong a geddy dot com. That means,
Speaker 2: I don't know when we'll try it, as determined to
Speaker 2: buy our whims. On the topic of phallic travel, John Rights,
Speaker 2: I'll keep this short. Oh that was the other people
Speaker 2: are still weighing in on the uh chickstronauts. I mean,
Speaker 2: just like crazy. I'll keep this short. If a five
Speaker 2: minute excursion into space and a phallic object makes these
Speaker 2: ladies astronauts. You can start calling me anecologist. Oh lord
Speaker 2: jaw oh no, ks Cis keeps shooting celebrities into space.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I can't believe that Gail King actually said, people who
Speaker 2: think this was frivolous and unimportant.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, that's precisely what we think. Yes, thank you
Speaker 3: for summarizing it. Uh. Loyal listener.
Speaker 2: Robert writes, guys realized this morning that the Chi extronauts
Speaker 2: of this week did not constitute the first all women's
Speaker 2: space flight. That honor belongs to Valentina Tereshkova. She was
Speaker 2: the first woman in space on a solo flight. The
Speaker 2: biggest difference is she was actually the crew of the craft.
Speaker 2: Nice try, ladies, celebrate the consolation prize of best quaff
Speaker 2: to all female crew.
Speaker 3: And then he wrote back three hours later, I caught.
Speaker 2: My mistake likea the dog took the first female only
Speaker 2: space flight. This ends my report on beashes in space, Robert,
Speaker 2: He's here all week.
Speaker 3: Try the veal.
Speaker 2: Let's see Kristen from Salt Lake City Rights speaking of
Speaker 2: Gene Hackman's.
Speaker 3: A harder ish house.
Speaker 2: With all the rat faices. Oh Man, and the haunt
Speaker 2: of virus is what got his wife right? He says, guys,
Speaker 2: I always deep clean my house before a trip, not
Speaker 2: for peace of mind, but so if I die, people
Speaker 2: will think I live like a classy, put together adult
Speaker 2: and not a feral laundry monster. That's pretty fun, and
Speaker 2: she signs off scrubbing for legacy not hygiene.
Speaker 3: Kristen from Salt Lake says, that is brilliant. That is good.
Speaker 3: I thought that before too various scenarios. If I died
Speaker 3: right now, what would this look like? Equal matter?
Speaker 2: H the ladies continuing the way in it's Charlotte and
Speaker 2: Santa Clara, The guy writes, guys, in regard to the.
Speaker 3: That's what you're doing a driveway clip?
Speaker 2: You're right, it's one of the funniest clips you've ever played.
Speaker 2: It should get its own category and clips of the year.
Speaker 2: By the way, is it in the links? I couldn't
Speaker 2: find it. I need to see these people now. Can
Speaker 2: we make sure that's in today's hot.
Speaker 3: Length hot links? Guys? Uh, Katie? Is that doable?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 6: I'm I'm gonna have it in Katie's corner so you'll
Speaker 6: be able to watch it right on the website.
Speaker 3: Go Ahead Vision made a commission for Katie's corner. Why
Speaker 3: why are we sucking? Well? None, ya, we'll have a
Speaker 3: meeting later. Go ahead, Michael. You have jump cars. You
Speaker 3: drive in and.
Speaker 6: You drive out.
Speaker 3: That's why people do. Then their driveway you moron?
Speaker 2: Well, and what's that's the short version because we got
Speaker 2: to keep moving. But keep in mind the longest, the preamble,
Speaker 2: the overture to that is did you put mashed potatoes
Speaker 2: on my tesla?
Speaker 4: So?
Speaker 3: Wow? You drive in, you drive out, That's what people.
Speaker 2: Drive out.
Speaker 4: You have jump cars, that's why people do, then their driveway.
Speaker 6: More on.
Speaker 3: I swear it gets funnier. I know.
Speaker 2: Matt and Palm Desert writing on the topic of deporting
Speaker 2: the MS teen gang member love you show just thought.
Speaker 2: Because he's a legal alien, not natural citizen, doesn't he
Speaker 2: have no rights legal or otherwise. We're any defense of
Speaker 2: any kind. Uh No, I'll give you the very very
Speaker 2: short constitutional version. No, it's it's all people in in
Speaker 2: the United States are protected by due process. But what
Speaker 2: processes due It depends on the area of the law
Speaker 2: you're talking about. Due process is kind of a vague phrase.
Speaker 2: It just means the government can't behave arbitrarily, but it
Speaker 2: does say persons not citizens.
Speaker 3: Correct.
Speaker 2: Yeah, in many, many places, it's clear that if you're
Speaker 2: under the jurisdiction of the United States, meaning you're here,
Speaker 2: you will be treated like a human being, which is
Speaker 2: a beautiful and awesome part of our country.
Speaker 3: Just gets a little inconvenient.
Speaker 2: At times, especially if you let in the biggest migration
Speaker 2: in world history.
Speaker 3: Right, Armstrong and Getty