Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Kaddy.
Speaker 2: Arms Strong and and he is Armstrong. And what kind
Speaker 2: of New York Times headline is that for today? Global
Speaker 2: stocks plungey?
Speaker 1: You know what are you gonna be saying that they have?
Speaker 1: It's accurate, That's what it is. Way gotta be a downer.
Speaker 1: Come up with.
Speaker 2: Something more positive to say, live from studio. Scene says
Speaker 2: in a dearly lit room deeper than the bowels of
Speaker 2: the Armstrong You getting communications compound.
Speaker 1: Starting a brand new week, Yes, new week, pregnant with possibilities.
Speaker 1: This might be a week you can meet.
Speaker 2: Mister Wright Niss's writer, get the big promotion. Or it
Speaker 2: might be a week a global depression begins. You don't know,
Speaker 2: Wait what now? You don't know at this point and
Speaker 2: today we're under the tutelage of our general manager. The
Speaker 2: Connecticut team. I'm not gonna say their names, it's inaccurate.
Speaker 2: They call themselves the Lady Huskies. It's the proper term
Speaker 2: as bitches. Bitches, if you will. Who beat the even
Speaker 2: more ludicrously named girl Rooster from South Carolina really ought
Speaker 2: to be the beaches.
Speaker 1: Versus the Hens.
Speaker 2: The winner of the women's final four is our general
Speaker 2: manager today?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Why not, ladies, But going at it hard, that's you
Speaker 2: looking for man's achievements as opposed to going with global
Speaker 2: stocks plunge. How about excellent opportunity. Excellent buying opportunity presents
Speaker 2: itself exactly exactly, market correction avails many of buying opportunity.
Speaker 1: That is the way to present this. There we go, Yes, by.
Speaker 2: The nip so, I saw Goldman Sachs raise their chances
Speaker 2: of a recession up to forty five percent. Well that's
Speaker 2: still less than half, so it's more likely there's not
Speaker 2: a recession. You're still saying, even after this, So come on,
Speaker 2: what do you glasses a half full?
Speaker 1: People? Let's let's be glasses half full people.
Speaker 2: What's really interesting about the situation, clearly, is that number
Speaker 2: rests on a desperate attempt to calculate the thinking of
Speaker 2: one human being in a way it.
Speaker 1: Never has before. Donald J. Trump, Donald J. Trump.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Golden Sachs guys are saying, do you think
Speaker 2: he's going to hang in there? Does he really want
Speaker 2: to like restructure the world's economy or is this a
Speaker 2: bargaining tactic for a little while.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they don't know. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Maybe the most interesting thing about this whole deal is
Speaker 2: that he could at any point decide this is not
Speaker 2: working out the way I thought and pull the plug
Speaker 2: at any point. I think, I don't know how quickly
Speaker 2: things would bounce back. Probably pretty quickly. I'll just I'll
Speaker 2: go with this, And I'm not trying to be negative.
Speaker 2: But Mark Alprin in his newsletter that I read every day,
Speaker 2: he takes in a whole bunch of people with different
Speaker 2: political points of view to try to get like, what
Speaker 2: is the consensus thinking right now, here's this consensus thinking
Speaker 2: in DC, which doesn't mean it's right, but he says,
Speaker 2: most elites in the United States and around the world
Speaker 2: believe we are witness sing an historically misguided plan, poorly
Speaker 2: executed by incompetent people. Well that's a little negative. That's
Speaker 2: what I thought. Again with the negative.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so hopefully, hopefully that's not the case.
Speaker 2: Yeah, coming up later, and I look forward to this myself,
Speaker 2: and I hope you good folks do too.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: The good people of the Free press have asked Neil Ferguson,
Speaker 2: who thinks kind of what you just said. The great
Speaker 2: brilliant conservative historian who thinks this is ill can see
Speaker 2: blah blah blah, and Victor Davis Hanson, another fantastic conservative historian,
Speaker 2: but thinks, now I see what he's doing, what Trump
Speaker 2: is doing here, and we'll compare and contrast those two
Speaker 2: points of view.
Speaker 1: Okay, cool, Well, I hope it works out. That's absolutely fantastic. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I absolutely hope it works out.
Speaker 2: You know, you know how many times you live? How
Speaker 2: many times I've asked my son, yes, yesterday? How many
Speaker 2: times do you live, Michael?
Speaker 1: How many times? Scenario? No, you're not a Buddhist, you
Speaker 1: just sor okay, Michael? How many times do you live? Three?
Speaker 2: Well, I generally agreed upon number Yolo you only live once?
Speaker 2: And do you want to spend your day worried about
Speaker 2: this sort of thing?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: I don't, and I didn't, and I didn't spend worried
Speaker 2: about it either. I did lots of other stuff. So
Speaker 2: are you whistling past the graveyard?
Speaker 1: There? You have it? Is this?
Speaker 2: Everything will be fine. You're gonna wake up dead broke tomorrow?
Speaker 1: Is it what broke? Homeless? But is I hope I'm
Speaker 1: not homeless?
Speaker 2: By tomorrow. That would be quite the turn of events. Wow,
Speaker 2: my kids say Dad, and he'll change your turn.
Speaker 1: Tune. Turn, you'll turn your tune.
Speaker 2: No, I was actually talking to Hanson in the elevator
Speaker 2: about this very thing. I can be calm about it.
Speaker 2: I can think about it all day. I can I
Speaker 2: can do lots of different things, and I have no
Speaker 2: effect on it. So is it whistling past the graveyard
Speaker 2: if you, if you have can have no effect on something?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, I'd like to think this is a maturity.
Speaker 2: I had a travel nightmare over the weekend. It's about
Speaker 2: a coin slip. Chance you'll have a travel nightmare if
Speaker 2: you travel by air, Yes, And I just just refuse
Speaker 2: to get stressed now.
Speaker 1: It helps that.
Speaker 2: For instance, if a flight is canceled as it was,
Speaker 2: and I had to stay overnight in a hotel, it
Speaker 2: doesn't really matter to me financially. If I was I
Speaker 2: have to sleep in the terminal person, I think I
Speaker 2: would have been a little less calm. But yeah, trying
Speaker 2: to take this all in calmly. This too, show pass
Speaker 2: saith the good book. I just hope it passeth faster
Speaker 2: than noteth.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: I thought it was interesting that because Neil Ferguson, who
Speaker 2: you just mentioned, who thinks this is a huge catastrophe
Speaker 2: of a mistake. He's been pretty big and back in
Speaker 2: things Trump does. Oh yeah, so as Ted Cruz. As
Speaker 2: we all know, Ted Cruz, even though Donald Trump had
Speaker 2: said that his dad assassinated Kennedy and his wife was
Speaker 2: ugly still head back to Trump pretty hard on a
Speaker 2: lot of conversial things. Sure, and he said on his
Speaker 2: podcast over the weekend, and the Republicans are going to
Speaker 2: face a blood bath because of Trump's tariff gamble in
Speaker 2: the MIDI because there are now seven Republican votes in
Speaker 2: the Senate for a law that says this terror stuff's
Speaker 2: got end. It will not get through the House, according
Speaker 2: to all learned observers. But if that number grows substantially,
Speaker 2: that'll be a pretty loud message. Well, and doesn't that
Speaker 2: just seem like a good idea that one person can't
Speaker 2: change the world economy this much?
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't care who you are, well.
Speaker 2: Right, and this may horrify the hardcore Trump fans among you,
Speaker 2: and that's fine. We horrify everybody sooner or later. But
Speaker 2: power of this magnitude exercised by quote unquote our side
Speaker 2: will be exercised and more by the other side. Right.
Speaker 2: I heard a great example of this in a podcast
Speaker 2: over the weekend. The idea of being able to declare
Speaker 2: emergencies and use some of the powers the president has.
Speaker 2: And as we learned during COVID, a lot of your governors,
Speaker 2: a lot of your county health commissioners and who who
Speaker 2: the hell knew who they were, had the power wits,
Speaker 2: with no wisdom or in some cases knowledge or expertise
Speaker 2: about anything. They got to do all kinds of things.
Speaker 2: They closed down schools, close down businesses, all these different
Speaker 2: things governors, health commissioners and progress windsurfers and threat they pose.
Speaker 2: And presidents have huge powers too. The idea of being
Speaker 2: able to, uh, you know, throw in these tariffs by
Speaker 2: one guy is to deal with wartime situations and all
Speaker 2: kinds of different things similar similar to what we're doing
Speaker 2: with immigration. That's that's an emergency situation. So they gotta
Speaker 2: say that we've got a fentanyl emergency. So Trump can
Speaker 2: do what he's doing. AnyWho, somebody used the example of
Speaker 2: do you want the Democrats to be able to if
Speaker 2: AOC is president, for instance, declare an emergency around income inequality.
Speaker 2: This this has reached emergency levels. You could find plenty
Speaker 2: of people that would back up that point of view,
Speaker 2: you know, with PhDs or whatever. And so you've got
Speaker 2: to do all kinds of nutty, crazy things that we
Speaker 2: would hate because there's an income inequality emergency, right right,
Speaker 2: great example or people have used the example many times,
Speaker 2: particularly after George Floyd, perhaps that we have got a
Speaker 2: police hunting black men emergency.
Speaker 1: There's all kinds of things we need to do around
Speaker 1: guns or police.
Speaker 2: I mean, you can come up with endless examples of
Speaker 2: you don't want one person to be able to do
Speaker 2: this sort of thing with emergency powers. And I heard
Speaker 2: it argue that if Trump can justify what he's doing
Speaker 2: with it's an economic emergency because we've been cheated by
Speaker 2: our trading partners for a long time. You could absolutely
Speaker 2: say we have a labor emergency. We don't have nearly
Speaker 2: enough labor, and so we're going to throw the borders
Speaker 2: open again. Joe Biden's style. I mean, that's a bit
Speaker 2: of a stretch. But if there are two words and
Speaker 2: it doesn't matter, you see what you think of Donald
Speaker 2: j because there are a lot of things he's doing
Speaker 2: that are I couldn't love them more. But if there
Speaker 2: are two words that ought to frighten you as an American,
Speaker 2: it's emergency powers no kidding, that would be oo. That
Speaker 2: would be our system working the way it's supposed to work.
Speaker 2: If the Congress said no, we're going to change the
Speaker 2: rules here so somebody can't do this again in the.
Speaker 1: Future, and quite probably the courts as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, let's start to show officially I'm Jack Armstrong,
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Speaker 1: Here we go at Mark Knipple fifteen seconds.
Speaker 2: Lock.
Speaker 1: Now it's fly fix this move flag pack, hit flag short.
Speaker 1: Here's a power three point four. When they called the
Speaker 1: found Houston storming back in the final moments.
Speaker 2: That is the best player in college basketball is going
Speaker 2: to be the number one pick in the NBA draft
Speaker 2: next year, missing possible game winning shot, ending his career,
Speaker 2: Fire him, get rid of him, Expel him as if
Speaker 2: he's a Hummas protester.
Speaker 1: So I didn't watch a lot game. You watch a
Speaker 1: game that's the men's semi final.
Speaker 2: I didn't watch the game, so I, but I did
Speaker 2: see everywhere the horrible foul call over him reaching over
Speaker 2: somebody's back or whatever in the final seconds, that it
Speaker 2: was a terrible call, horrible way from Nando's career.
Speaker 1: Yes or no, quickly, So I don't watch a game
Speaker 1: because I didn't.
Speaker 2: I think it was a good call, but not to
Speaker 2: sort of call you make in the final seconds.
Speaker 1: You gotta let him just play.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And then I was thinking of the thing you
Speaker 2: always say. Your dad said, you know where you point
Speaker 2: the mistakes you made, so it doesn't come down to
Speaker 2: one call. They didn't score. They scored one basket in
Speaker 2: the final ten and a half minutes. If you score
Speaker 2: one basket in the final ten and a half minutes,
Speaker 2: you're supposed to That was a terrible call. You're supposed
Speaker 2: to lose. How about you put yourself in a position
Speaker 2: you're up eight points, then it doesn't matter. We've got
Speaker 2: Katie's headlines on the way, we got some mail bag,
Speaker 2: and we got some news of theday. We'll see where
Speaker 2: the Stark market is and all that sort of stuff,
Speaker 2: and we'll hear from you on the text line four
Speaker 2: one two nine five Kftclay, I have.
Speaker 4: A total of about six hours invested in trying to
Speaker 4: get my son's computer to work with the help of
Speaker 4: geek squad people I learned.
Speaker 2: I learned a fair amount about that over the weekend
Speaker 2: that I look forward to talking about from various computer experts.
Speaker 2: I also want to talk about the Minecraft movie, which
Speaker 2: is quite the phenomenon. Holy cow, my son went on
Speaker 2: Friday night and lines around the block all day long. Oh,
Speaker 2: we should have talked about it on Friday. I kicked
Speaker 2: myself that we didn't. But anyway, and a bunch of
Speaker 2: other stuff. In addition enough, Neil Ferguson, in his brilliant
Speaker 2: essay about the Tariffs, begins with.
Speaker 1: A Minecraft movie description.
Speaker 2: Right, because he's got his finger on the pulse. We
Speaker 2: gotta have our finger on the pulse. Well he's got
Speaker 2: seven year old son anyway, Yeah, get your finger on
Speaker 2: the pulse. Katie, who's the reporting what it's the lead
Speaker 2: story with Katie green Jack?
Speaker 1: You do what are you gonna interject there? Yeah? No,
Speaker 1: the Minecraft movie. One of the reasons it's so huge.
Speaker 1: It's huge with little kids who still play Minecraft.
Speaker 2: Then it's it's popular with like my son's crowd who
Speaker 2: remember fondly playing Minecraft when they're younger. Similar all the
Speaker 2: way up to like thirties and forties. Yeah, my thirty
Speaker 2: two year old daughter absolutely loved it as a kid,
Speaker 2: the primitive version of it.
Speaker 1: Blah blah blah.
Speaker 5: Katie Green, starting with ABC, Trump's top economic advisor, says,
Speaker 5: fifty countries have reached out to negotiate tariffs.
Speaker 2: That's what they're leaning on on Fox is that all
Speaker 2: these countries, hey, they're they're coming in saying what can
Speaker 2: we do? Which hopefully that's the way it works out.
Speaker 2: I am certainly not rooting for this to fail.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you that.
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 2: I hope Trump is amenable to it. And but the
Speaker 2: other thing is he said, no, I'm not. We're gonna
Speaker 2: restructure world trade for the rest of all time. So
Speaker 2: which I'm going to restructure world trade for all time,
Speaker 2: which is the heck of a thing. One guy gets
Speaker 2: to restructure world trade forever. Yeah.
Speaker 5: From NBC, visas revoked for more than three dozen California
Speaker 5: University students and alumni.
Speaker 1: I saw that from the new York Times.
Speaker 2: You know Andy McCarthy speaking, I've learned to commentators talking
Speaker 2: about how he's in favor of a lot of this,
Speaker 2: but there's got to be due process. We don't want
Speaker 2: to unleash an era of the government just gets to
Speaker 2: do stuff without saying here's why we're doing it.
Speaker 5: From the New York Times, judge calls mistaken deportation of
Speaker 5: Maryland man a quote grievous error.
Speaker 2: Now, one judge had said that the guy was an
Speaker 2: MS thirteen gang member, So we that's correct, right, that
Speaker 2: the dude was an thirteen gang member, just not quite
Speaker 2: the level we thought.
Speaker 1: Is that the story?
Speaker 2: It's the facts are slippery in this case, don't I
Speaker 2: guess the point would be, if the facts are slippery,
Speaker 2: don't send him to one of the most horrifying prisons
Speaker 2: in the world. And now a judges said he's got
Speaker 2: to come back. Well, do we have the ability to
Speaker 2: reach into horrifying prisons in other countries and pluck people
Speaker 2: out and bring them back. Well, oh yeah, we could
Speaker 2: call the president of El Salvador and tell him, hey,
Speaker 2: Joe Jones over there.
Speaker 1: You got to send him back. We'll buy him.
Speaker 2: The ticket, and you have to remember that the problem
Speaker 2: was not whether he was an MS thirteen guy or not.
Speaker 2: There was a specific order that he not be deported
Speaker 2: because of danger back in his country, and they just
Speaker 2: missed that. Evidently, there's more on that story to come to.
Speaker 5: From CNN, Russian attack on Zelenski's home city kills nineteen people,
Speaker 5: one of the deadliest strikes so far this year.
Speaker 1: That's brutal. How is the ceasefire going? Oh?
Speaker 2: Please, doesn't exist, even the energy stuff, the provisional We've
Speaker 2: gotten them to quit attacking each other's in infrastructure.
Speaker 1: That lasted like a day. From brightbart dot com.
Speaker 5: Pregnant woman seriously injured by rock thrown through Tesla windshield.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, how you people are crazy? You are
Speaker 1: so crazy.
Speaker 2: That video Katie sent us to the team. Maybe we'll
Speaker 2: play some of it. These people are completely unhinged. They
Speaker 2: don't make any sense. They're like wild animals.
Speaker 1: From The New York Post.
Speaker 5: Inside gen Z's obsession with quote tweakments the plastic surgery
Speaker 5: trend to create a natural beauty.
Speaker 1: Look, why is it called tweakments? Like it's a little
Speaker 1: bit at a time.
Speaker 5: Because you can't tell you had anything done well.
Speaker 1: The botox that. Yeah, you know, that's the.
Speaker 2: Way all cosmetic things should be. You should barely be
Speaker 2: able to tell. Yeah, they're like, crap, what happened to you?
Speaker 1: Twenty five year olds?
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you don't want to have something you don't
Speaker 2: want to look twenty seven.
Speaker 5: And finally, the Babylon Bee fair child dominates Pinata at
Speaker 5: birthday party with torpedo bat.
Speaker 1: Yes, well that's on fire. He got all the candy.
Speaker 1: He is the torpedo bat.
Speaker 2: We had some more news coming up. I shaved over
Speaker 2: the weekend and Yada's too violent. I shaved over the
Speaker 2: weekend and learned something about myself. Also important, important life lesson.
Speaker 3: So oh boy Armstrong and Geeddy, don't you think your
Speaker 3: party needs to acknowledge that President Biden was not up
Speaker 3: for the job of running for reelection and that this
Speaker 3: was a major mistake.
Speaker 1: But he made that.
Speaker 3: Decision, I know, but you all went along with he
Speaker 3: he was up for it and he wasn't, and everybody
Speaker 3: saw it and the country rejected it.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, I look, history will tell us to go back
Speaker 2: on that.
Speaker 1: That very well could be the case, Jake.
Speaker 2: What I'm concerned about is learning from those lessons.
Speaker 1: I would hope we would never do it again.
Speaker 6: For me to gauge what they're the closest advisors of
Speaker 6: the president we're seeing at the time, I can only
Speaker 6: speak to the interactions that I had with him, which were,
Speaker 6: you know, in the months leading up to his getting
Speaker 6: out of the race, largely ceremonial occasions.
Speaker 1: So that's Schiff Senator from California.
Speaker 2: Unfortunately Tim Walls, who was too close to being vice
Speaker 2: president for my comfort. Oh, historytic on that? What does
Speaker 2: what the hell does that mean? Your words don't even
Speaker 2: make sense before we even get to the validity of
Speaker 2: your opinion. I can't figure out what it is. You know,
Speaker 2: he called the Republicans weird. He's got a real folksy charm.
Speaker 2: Is what a great choice. I give it an a
Speaker 2: plus for like a week. The guy's a numbskull. I
Speaker 2: hope we learned from the experience and don't make the
Speaker 2: mistake again. What running a senile ancient man and pretending
Speaker 2: he's okay? You hope you hope you learn from that.
Speaker 2: History learns from that. Okay, History will go back on that.
Speaker 2: What found that funny?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 2: Becket Adams, who writes for the National Review, wrote a
Speaker 2: great piece over the weekend about the opportunistic end of
Speaker 2: the Biden cover up. Now everybody's gone from he's great.
Speaker 2: In fact, he's better than ever. Oh he was so
Speaker 2: senile now that there are book deals and profits to
Speaker 2: me made, or putting yourself in a position like Adam
Speaker 2: Shiff where my only interactions with him was were ceremonial.
Speaker 2: So I didn't have any knowledge of Okay.
Speaker 1: You're right, you're right.
Speaker 2: Everybody in America who doesn't live in Washington, d C.
Speaker 2: Eighty five percent of us knew he wasn't okay. But
Speaker 2: you living in DC and hearing all the rumors and stuff,
Speaker 2: you thought he was fine. Because whatever, Adam Schiff is
Speaker 2: one of the great liars of our generation.
Speaker 1: You know any other This is a per the smallest
Speaker 1: and his neck I've ever seen. Oh yeah, yeah, and
Speaker 1: it's the neck too. I left that out.
Speaker 2: I got highly annoyed yesterday. I could end I could
Speaker 2: end the sentence there. I could end the sentence there.
Speaker 2: I got highly annoyed yesterday. And you could fill in
Speaker 2: any number of things that led to that. Over this,
Speaker 2: a friend of mine sent me this, a long New
Speaker 2: York Times article about Orwell and how we live in
Speaker 2: such Orwellian times. And it was very long and interesting,
Speaker 2: and I'm a huge Orwell fan, and it had a
Speaker 2: lot of nuggets about his life in it and everything
Speaker 2: like that. But every example they used in the New
Speaker 2: York Times about how we live in Orwellian times came
Speaker 2: from the Trump side of things.
Speaker 1: It was uh.
Speaker 2: And there there were some perfectly good examples of uh.
Speaker 2: You know, Ukraine started the war, and you know, things
Speaker 2: like that that were that are highly troubling to me,
Speaker 2: but not even a mention of for instance, the biggest
Speaker 2: spending spree in US history being called the Inflation Reduction Act.
Speaker 1: I mean, what could be more Orwellian than that? You
Speaker 1: gave it a name.
Speaker 2: The opposite was or people walking around pretending that what
Speaker 2: we're seeing with our own eyes is not true, that
Speaker 2: the doddering old president was senile. That's highly Owellian because
Speaker 2: they didn't have any samples of that. Only things that
Speaker 2: Trump does, the rewriting of history, the redefining of common words,
Speaker 2: the canceling people who did not use their new speak.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm not an Orwell authority, but I'm a
Speaker 2: hell of a fan, and trust me, there's plenty to
Speaker 2: despise on the left.
Speaker 1: That's obscene. Just to throw this God, just just admit
Speaker 1: what you are. That's all I ask of these people.
Speaker 2: Just say, look, I advocate for leftist causes. That's what
Speaker 2: I do. I am the New York Times. Fine, okay, great, let's.
Speaker 1: Get it on.
Speaker 2: I'll throw this line out there from the writer about
Speaker 2: the oroil piece, just so you'll know it. It's similar
Speaker 2: to how pointless the word fascist is at this point,
Speaker 2: which I think Orwell actually said, the word fascism had
Speaker 2: ceased to have any meaning. The word orwell has ceased
Speaker 2: to have any meaning. This person said, Orwell fills a
Speaker 2: hole for anyone who wants to establish any kind of
Speaker 2: intellectual pedigree. So wherever you are on the political spectrum,
Speaker 2: you can throw a little orwell which fits in. It's
Speaker 2: not inappropriate, but it's just so easily used for so
Speaker 2: many different things. I don't know what it means any more. Well,
Speaker 2: I did that hints that one ought to refrain from it.
Speaker 2: That would be to pass up on one of the
Speaker 2: great arguments ever made in favor of liberty. So I
Speaker 2: will not be acceding to that that author's request. I
Speaker 2: think it indeed he can make love to himself.
Speaker 1: Although I see his point, I only like when it
Speaker 1: becomes hitler, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I mean. It becomes like calling people
Speaker 2: a fascist or hitler. It's just everybody does it all
Speaker 2: the time, and the problem is you need to accept
Speaker 2: we live in our willion times on both sides of
Speaker 2: the aisle. If you're going to go with its only
Speaker 2: one side, then if you you're just come on, who
Speaker 2: what are you trying to claim here?
Speaker 1: Well and Orwell would hate.
Speaker 2: You for it, Yes he would, And frankly, I would
Speaker 2: rather earn the respect of Orwell in heaven than any
Speaker 2: current commentators now. But that fitting perfectly with the Tim
Speaker 2: Waltz thing there in the Adam ship there where you
Speaker 2: know you're telling people to not believe what they're seeing
Speaker 2: with their own eyes.
Speaker 1: That's exactly what that was.
Speaker 2: And to that point, I love this from Peckett Adams
Speaker 2: on Morning Joe last week, where host Joe Scarborough boasted
Speaker 2: not long before the disastrous debate performance, this version of Biden,
Speaker 2: intellectually and analytically is the best Biden ever well. He
Speaker 2: has had Jonathan Allen Namey Hill Barnes rather on to
Speaker 2: discuss their new book, which details the lengths to which
Speaker 2: the former presidents in her circle reportedly went to keep
Speaker 2: his deterioration a secret from voters.
Speaker 1: And then the cute part.
Speaker 2: Scarborough and chirpy little Mika nodded along as if they
Speaker 2: were mere spectators to the efforts to hide the president's condition,
Speaker 2: not themselves active participants. You know, said Scarborough. We always
Speaker 2: look back in retrospect and think things were a certain way,
Speaker 2: but just because it's the way the media at the
Speaker 2: time to find it.
Speaker 1: Oh, I mean there's more.
Speaker 2: But and then Adams says, for the record, in the
Speaker 2: years leading up to Biden's disgraceful exit from the White House,
Speaker 2: even as everyone with working eyeballs could tell you something
Speaker 2: was definitely wrong with the chief executive, Scarborough is sure
Speaker 2: viewers that the president was fit as a fiddle and
Speaker 2: more energetic and vital than men.
Speaker 1: Half his age. It goes into detail.
Speaker 2: You people, when somebody tries to tell you who they
Speaker 2: are five thousand times, believe them. Start your tape right now,
Speaker 2: because I'm about to tell you the truth, and that
Speaker 2: you if you.
Speaker 1: Can't handle the truth.
Speaker 2: This version of Biden, intellectually, analytically is the best Biden ever,
Speaker 2: I'm embarrassed for him. I'm embarrassed for him. Well, Adams,
Speaker 2: I'm honestly thinking, here, have I ever cheerleaded something that
Speaker 2: badly where I was that far off of reality? I don't.
Speaker 2: I sure don't think so. Gosh, I would hope that
Speaker 2: if you think I have pointed out I hope not either.
Speaker 2: I mean, because it's it's horrifying. I would if I
Speaker 2: if I realized I had been I you know, I
Speaker 2: still think like the the Iraq War, if anybody had
Speaker 2: had any idea how half cock the implementation of the
Speaker 2: occupation was going to be, I think it would have
Speaker 2: changed perceptions immediately. But there was no way for me
Speaker 2: to know that. Although you could say, well you trusted
Speaker 2: government too much in George W. Bush and rumsfeldt okay,
Speaker 2: fair enough, But that wasn't delusional.
Speaker 1: It was just lacking information.
Speaker 2: And Beckett Adams points out that if you can believe
Speaker 2: that Scarborough's co host was somehow worse, insisting after the
Speaker 2: debate that Biden still had what it would take to
Speaker 2: win the election, quote, he's the man for this moment
Speaker 2: that bat Care addressing directly the chorus of Biden Dowters.
Speaker 2: Good lord anyway, and we beat medicare what okay?
Speaker 1: Coming up?
Speaker 2: The former president of Columbia getting grilled in a Justice
Speaker 2: Department hearing and her sudden and catastrophic memory loss is
Speaker 2: she can remember anything that happened in any circumstance, even
Speaker 2: though she's said to be a brilliant scientist. Also, giant prostitution,
Speaker 2: high end luxury brothel scandal shaking Boston, luxury brothel in Boston. Yeah,
Speaker 2: well right outside. But yeah, the way the business was
Speaker 2: run and the people caught up in it really interesting.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Cool.
Speaker 2: I also want to talk about it may be the
Speaker 2: end of sports gambling. AI is way too good at it.
Speaker 2: Oh wait a minute, Yeah, and it's pretty damned interesting.
Speaker 2: I'll have to talk about that later. And it's already
Speaker 2: way too good at it, and I wonder where it
Speaker 2: might go, and you know, the obvious problems to go
Speaker 2: with that. I had to go ahead. I was I'm
Speaker 2: a half whit. How did that not occur to me?
Speaker 2: And everybody writing about AI seems pretty obvious, like right
Speaker 2: this moment, that was going to be a problem. Yeah, oh,
Speaker 2: I don't know how they're going to handle that. And
Speaker 2: then quickly before we go to break. I had grown
Speaker 2: a winter beard to keep my face warm over the
Speaker 2: last month and shaved it off over the weekend, but
Speaker 2: left my sad fifteen year old freshman in high school
Speaker 2: like mustache behind.
Speaker 1: And it's just it's.
Speaker 2: Really opened myself up to mockery, so I should shave
Speaker 2: that off today. Some people just not built for facial hair,
Speaker 2: and I'm one of them, right, Yeah, it's not a
Speaker 2: matter of character.
Speaker 1: It's fine. It might be.
Speaker 2: It might be, oh, one of those thick Freddy Mercury
Speaker 2: and Queen mustaches. Certain announcement you'd like to make. You
Speaker 2: don't have to be okay to have a mustache. As
Speaker 2: you know, in the nineties especially, I was desperate to
Speaker 2: have the big guitar player sideburns, the big right down
Speaker 2: to the jaw line, alt countryside burns.
Speaker 1: Nope, Nope, couldn't do it. Yeah, dang it. You either
Speaker 1: have it you don't. What are you gonna do? And
Speaker 1: don't taking a shave?
Speaker 2: Oh my god, it gets me every time. So we
Speaker 2: got Joe's mailbag on the way and we'll get in
Speaker 2: some of those stories. Seriously, what's gonna happen with sports betting?
Speaker 2: If AI is as good or better than the very
Speaker 2: best humans, stay tuned if.
Speaker 4: You're catching this live as opposed to later. Somehow, we
Speaker 4: are officially in a bear market, which is when wild
Speaker 4: bears run the streets of New York and people fear
Speaker 4: for their lives.
Speaker 1: I think that's what that means.
Speaker 2: Appropriately, yes, but yeah, there's are released by the zoos by.
Speaker 1: Decree of law.
Speaker 2: Nasdak down five hundred some points, the dow down between
Speaker 2: twelve hundred and sixteen hundred, depending on when you look
Speaker 2: at it.
Speaker 1: That's after a couple of really big down days already.
Speaker 2: Wow, I wish I had a little more cache laying
Speaker 2: around by the dip, by the might be buying it
Speaker 2: on it's way down though, by the depression, by the depression.
Speaker 2: Here's your freedom loving quote of the day, sent along
Speaker 2: by Kevin in beautiful scenic Placerville, California. Hey, big freedom
Speaker 2: and simple Jack. Here's a topical freedom loving quote of
Speaker 2: the day candidate from Friedrich Hayek.
Speaker 1: Always appropriate quote.
Speaker 2: The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men
Speaker 2: how little they really know about what they imagine they
Speaker 2: can design. Yeah, and then he says, just by way
Speaker 2: of comment, Kevin says, no person or group of persons
Speaker 2: designed the modern globalized economy, and we should be very
Speaker 2: skeptical when a small group of people attempt to radically
Speaker 2: change it anyway. Owing to Yeah, I would agree with
Speaker 2: that sentiment. More on that later on. Mail Bag, Would
Speaker 2: you like to communicate exchange views? Our email address is
Speaker 2: Mailbag at armstrong and getty dot com. You can also
Speaker 2: text us four one five two nine five KFTC. Besides
Speaker 2: show Bob Wright, I think Donald Trump is one hundred
Speaker 2: percent right. Now is the time to buy up all
Speaker 2: the stock you can and get filthy rich. And I
Speaker 2: will as soon as I get my Doge check.
Speaker 1: That's exactly what I'm going to do.
Speaker 2: I'm sure the Doge checks have gone out yet. Let's see,
Speaker 2: this is from Mark Interesting hearing you guys talking circles
Speaker 2: about what drives Ezra Cline and that sort of person,
Speaker 2: and if he believes what he says, especially after so
Speaker 2: clearly recognizing what Katherine Mayer was doing, that's the NPRG wolf.
Speaker 2: Ezra Kline is a communist and lies. Sure, he crafts
Speaker 2: his outward image a little more intelligently than Mayor, but
Speaker 2: he's the same thing same.
Speaker 1: With all the das you guys are aware of.
Speaker 2: He's only espousing those theories because they want useful idiots
Speaker 2: and want to be intellectuals to believe it, and it's
Speaker 2: all ideological subversion is odded by Yuri Besmanov in that
Speaker 2: fabulous sentimental interview from the eighties that many of us
Speaker 2: have watched online. We ought to just roll that and
Speaker 2: comment on it as a podcast someday if people haven't
Speaker 2: heard that. It's incredibly you know, just wise and informative.
Speaker 1: Anyway.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there are activists who know precisely what they're doing.
Speaker 2: Then they're useful idiots, and I'm just we're just sometimes
Speaker 2: curious which one somebody is. Love this total change of
Speaker 2: topic from Brian, Hi Joe, and he addresses me because
Speaker 2: he says, I imagine an interesting conversation with your brother,
Speaker 2: who is a career naval officer, would be asking him
Speaker 2: what it takes to keep a ship operational in the fleet.
Speaker 2: A marine environment is very harsh and it is a
Speaker 2: complex and expensive endeavor to keep a ship operational. My
Speaker 2: understanding is for every one day operational, it requires three
Speaker 2: days in port for inspections, maintenance, refitting. The US Navy
Speaker 2: has two hundred and fifty years of experience and the
Speaker 2: Chinese Navy has maybe two decades at best. So the
Speaker 2: Chinese can build as many ships as they want keeping
Speaker 2: them operational. As a whole nother story, the ussr two
Speaker 2: or three times as many subs as the US, but
Speaker 2: couldn't put as many out to see as the US
Speaker 2: Navy leaves one the thing the Chinese are in a
Speaker 2: use it or lose its situation. Good excuse to call
Speaker 2: your brother. Thank you for that family advice. That is
Speaker 2: an interesting point of view. And I'm especially excited or
Speaker 2: enthusiastic about that email because on the advice of a
Speaker 2: respected colleague, I'm reading for the first time The Cane Mutiny,
Speaker 2: which is about the Navy in World War Two and
Speaker 2: is fantastic.
Speaker 1: I've never read that. I've never seen the movie.
Speaker 2: It did not become a classic, accidentally. It is just
Speaker 2: brilliantly written and compelling, and it's a novel of bad
Speaker 2: things happening, and I am constantly uneasy while I'm reading it.
Speaker 1: It just sucks you in.
Speaker 2: Anyway, let's see a couple of AI epic fails. You
Speaker 2: remember last week, Jack, that I was trying to remember
Speaker 2: on the behalf of a couple listeners when we'd talked
Speaker 2: about an illustration of economics using a dairy farmer, not
Speaker 2: the if you have two cows in communism as well,
Speaker 2: it's something different. It was actually a conversation with Tim
Speaker 2: Sanderfer we had and AI found it immediately and even
Speaker 2: could site the day that we.
Speaker 1: Talked about it. Amazing.
Speaker 2: Well, here's a different Kevin who says I was trying
Speaker 2: to find the specific discussion about the comic book guy
Speaker 2: that got busted for posting ripped off comics on eBay,
Speaker 2: and I tested the AI theory and he let me
Speaker 2: down tragically. The answer was, you're likely referring to the
Speaker 2: podcast Armstrong and Geddy in their discussion about a comic
Speaker 2: book Seef. The podcast hosted by Joe Armstrong and Bob
Speaker 2: Getty often covers various topics blob blah blah. Wow, that's
Speaker 2: really interesting, and that was it. So Jack Armstrong and
Speaker 2: Joe Gedty, not Joe and Bob. So we had the
Speaker 2: example of somehow AI digging into the archive and coming
Speaker 2: up with the correct answer in moments, and then you've
Speaker 2: got that's full on hallucination, isn't it even better. Here
Speaker 2: is alert listener Norman, who lives in beautiful Elk Grove, California.
Speaker 2: There was a power outage. He used AI to see
Speaker 2: what the answer for how it happened might be, and
Speaker 2: I could how much time do we have? Michael Okay.
Speaker 2: The power outage and Elk Grove last night was called
Speaker 2: by a tree falling on power lines. According to reports,
Speaker 2: the tree fell on power lines near Midway. Driving east,
Speaker 2: Lessie rode around eight thirty.
Speaker 1: Blah blah blah, bah blah.
Speaker 2: He says, I thought this was awesome, such a detailed answer.
Speaker 2: Why do I need to search for answers myself in
Speaker 2: the future. Then it occurred to me that I had
Speaker 2: never heard of either street in Elk Grove, So I
Speaker 2: looked it up in Elk Grove, Elk nor any other
Speaker 2: city in northern California has a combination of both street names.
Speaker 1: Wow, so it made it up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what Norman figured, let's see And then then
Speaker 2: he re tried and said, sorry, I didn't find any
Speaker 2: news stories about the cause of the power outage and
Speaker 2: Elk Grove. Frequently power outages occurred from trees downing, but
Speaker 2: there was a specific story that he'd read, so not
Speaker 2: quite ready for prime time, or it will always be
Speaker 2: that way. Nobody's sure. Wow, that's that's pretty damned interesting. Huh.
Speaker 2: The AI gurus don't know why the hallucinations occur, which
Speaker 2: is going to make it tough to get rid of them.
Speaker 2: So the dow down dang near six thousand points in
Speaker 2: three days because of this new restructuring, which, as we.
Speaker 1: Were talking about earlier.
Speaker 2: Hey, when I when I did chemotherapy, it made me
Speaker 2: sicker for a while before it made me healthy again.
Speaker 2: Maybe the medicine of the tariffs is going to make
Speaker 2: the market sick for a little while, or it's gonna kay.
Speaker 1: Ya ya ya ye, yeah No, Getty
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty