1 00:00:11,039 --> 00:00:15,320 Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 2 00:00:15,360 --> 00:00:20,280 Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe, Katty Armstrong, and get 3 00:00:20,800 --> 00:00:22,000 Speaker 1: and Key. 4 00:00:24,440 --> 00:00:37,360 Speaker 2: Arm Why from the studio say signor a dimly lit 5 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:39,960 Speaker 2: room deep with them the bowels of the Armstrong and 6 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:41,519 Speaker 2: Getty Communications Compound. 7 00:00:41,560 --> 00:00:45,199 Speaker 3: We've made it to Wednesday. Thank god. Today we're under 8 00:00:45,240 --> 00:00:48,800 Speaker 3: the tutelage of our general manager. It's a Sepcom classic. 9 00:00:48,920 --> 00:00:52,760 Speaker 4: Jack, those wacky next door neighbors, India and Pakistan. 10 00:00:53,479 --> 00:00:55,640 Speaker 3: That's our general manager. That's right. 11 00:00:56,160 --> 00:01:01,240 Speaker 4: And why Indian Pakistan, Well, they're never ending simmering conflict 12 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:03,680 Speaker 4: has grown a good deal hotter in the. 13 00:01:03,760 --> 00:01:04,759 Speaker 3: Last couple of weeks. 14 00:01:04,760 --> 00:01:07,640 Speaker 4: And indeed, India bombed a bunch of sites in Pakistan 15 00:01:08,120 --> 00:01:11,800 Speaker 4: in response to a terrorist attack that the Indians believe, 16 00:01:12,200 --> 00:01:18,520 Speaker 4: with good reason was at least at least there was 17 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:22,840 Speaker 4: sympathy in the Pakistani government to the terrorists who perpetrated 18 00:01:22,880 --> 00:01:27,480 Speaker 4: the attack. What are they fighting about, Oh, gosh, religion, 19 00:01:27,560 --> 00:01:29,880 Speaker 4: mostly religion and power. 20 00:01:32,240 --> 00:01:38,479 Speaker 3: It's not a cricket thing, No, not in this case cricket. 21 00:01:38,959 --> 00:01:42,479 Speaker 4: There's some fourteen year old cricket phenom who's just set 22 00:01:42,480 --> 00:01:45,399 Speaker 4: the world a cricket on fire, really Indian fella. He 23 00:01:45,440 --> 00:01:48,880 Speaker 4: had thirty battings in his last inning and in a 24 00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:50,800 Speaker 4: quarter of the tea time. 25 00:01:51,160 --> 00:01:53,080 Speaker 5: There are enough Indian people in the town I live 26 00:01:53,120 --> 00:01:55,360 Speaker 5: in that every Saturday afternoon they have an all day 27 00:01:55,400 --> 00:01:58,760 Speaker 5: cricket match at the park and they wear all the 28 00:01:58,800 --> 00:02:01,160 Speaker 5: white and everything, and there's a crowd and everything. And 29 00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:04,040 Speaker 5: I've watched that for a long time, trying to figure 30 00:02:04,080 --> 00:02:05,800 Speaker 5: out even the slightest what they're doing. 31 00:02:06,160 --> 00:02:07,480 Speaker 3: But I can't, can't grasp it. 32 00:02:07,960 --> 00:02:10,119 Speaker 4: I get to the guy hurling the ball doesn't want 33 00:02:10,160 --> 00:02:11,880 Speaker 4: the guy with the whacker to whack it, and the 34 00:02:11,919 --> 00:02:13,359 Speaker 4: whacking guy wants to whack it. 35 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:16,919 Speaker 3: But once he whacks it, I don't know what happens. Then, well, right, but. 36 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:19,560 Speaker 4: See he's whacking it because the guy hurling it is 37 00:02:19,560 --> 00:02:21,839 Speaker 4: trying to knock down his sticks. And evidently the guy 38 00:02:21,880 --> 00:02:24,280 Speaker 4: with the whacker is really fond of those sticks and 39 00:02:24,320 --> 00:02:27,600 Speaker 4: really resents it when the hurler whacks his sticks, and 40 00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:30,240 Speaker 4: so he's trying to protect his sticks. And when he 41 00:02:30,280 --> 00:02:32,919 Speaker 4: does whack the ball away from the hurler, he runs 42 00:02:32,919 --> 00:02:33,959 Speaker 4: back and forth. 43 00:02:33,720 --> 00:02:38,079 Speaker 3: Like he's completely confused. And I think that scores points. 44 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:39,800 Speaker 5: And we all work in a kitchen and a fancy 45 00:02:39,840 --> 00:02:43,960 Speaker 5: restaurant right afterwards. So that's why we're dressing this with exactly. 46 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:44,800 Speaker 3: And it's very hot. 47 00:02:44,919 --> 00:02:47,240 Speaker 4: Yeah, so we're in all the way I'm told actually, 48 00:02:47,320 --> 00:02:50,840 Speaker 4: and this will be my final thought on cricket, having 49 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:52,120 Speaker 4: you know, should have stopped. 50 00:02:52,120 --> 00:02:53,760 Speaker 3: Probably one thought earlier. 51 00:02:53,440 --> 00:02:56,400 Speaker 4: Is I had not realized there is a new, souped up, 52 00:02:56,480 --> 00:03:01,080 Speaker 4: twenty first century version of cricket that so compresses the 53 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:03,960 Speaker 4: all day affair where you break for tea and lunch 54 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:07,960 Speaker 4: and crumpets and what have you, into much a much 55 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:13,160 Speaker 4: more conventional professional sports, you know framework, and that's gotten very, 56 00:03:13,240 --> 00:03:13,800 Speaker 4: very popular. 57 00:03:13,840 --> 00:03:15,000 Speaker 3: I'm told I would. 58 00:03:14,760 --> 00:03:18,080 Speaker 5: Fly to Kashmir and try to broke her a piece 59 00:03:18,120 --> 00:03:20,480 Speaker 5: between India and Pakistan, but I can no longer fly 60 00:03:20,639 --> 00:03:22,280 Speaker 5: for the first time in my life because I do 61 00:03:22,320 --> 00:03:24,919 Speaker 5: not have a real id. It turns out, though I've 62 00:03:24,919 --> 00:03:26,640 Speaker 5: got all the stats in front of me, I'm not 63 00:03:26,720 --> 00:03:30,440 Speaker 5: alone in the people across America who've decided, yeah, I'll 64 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:31,720 Speaker 5: get he around to it when I get around to 65 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:35,240 Speaker 5: it or something. So, uh, that's kind of funny. Got 66 00:03:35,240 --> 00:03:39,400 Speaker 5: a bunch of information on that for you. That's the 67 00:03:39,480 --> 00:03:43,080 Speaker 5: problem with phony deadlines. It's like if people catch on 68 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:46,200 Speaker 5: to that meeting that starts at seven actually kind of 69 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:48,960 Speaker 5: starts when everybody gets there, well, then people trickle in 70 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:50,840 Speaker 5: at seven point thirty doomed. 71 00:03:51,040 --> 00:03:51,400 Speaker 3: Doomed. 72 00:03:51,520 --> 00:03:53,520 Speaker 4: I've known a couple of leaders in my life who 73 00:03:53,880 --> 00:03:58,240 Speaker 4: sting that second hand hits that time that's appointed they start, 74 00:03:59,040 --> 00:04:02,280 Speaker 4: and that takes at once right before everybody gets the 75 00:04:02,320 --> 00:04:05,720 Speaker 4: idea right, and it's a service to everyone, but it's 76 00:04:05,720 --> 00:04:06,400 Speaker 4: not popular. 77 00:04:06,440 --> 00:04:09,560 Speaker 5: So like the first six times you delayed the real 78 00:04:09,600 --> 00:04:11,720 Speaker 5: ID thing in my life, people like me, you just 79 00:04:11,760 --> 00:04:14,920 Speaker 5: sent the message, Yeah, you're not serious, you don't mean it. 80 00:04:15,440 --> 00:04:17,560 Speaker 5: And then I saw one report today on. 81 00:04:19,080 --> 00:04:19,640 Speaker 3: News Nation. 82 00:04:19,880 --> 00:04:23,440 Speaker 5: They were at any your East coast airports and they said, 83 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:26,000 Speaker 5: we don't have the details, but they have a special 84 00:04:26,040 --> 00:04:28,040 Speaker 5: line for people that don't have the real i D. 85 00:04:28,480 --> 00:04:31,760 Speaker 5: But you will get extra scrutiny, but you will probably fly. 86 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:34,200 Speaker 5: And they're not telling us the story. So it makes 87 00:04:34,200 --> 00:04:36,960 Speaker 5: it sound to me like they're saying, you have to 88 00:04:36,960 --> 00:04:38,400 Speaker 5: have the real I D, but if you get there 89 00:04:38,440 --> 00:04:40,480 Speaker 5: without one, they'll still let you fly. 90 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:40,800 Speaker 3: Okay. 91 00:04:40,880 --> 00:04:42,520 Speaker 5: Now you've just sent the message to the me of 92 00:04:42,560 --> 00:04:45,160 Speaker 5: the world that okay, so I don't even really have 93 00:04:45,240 --> 00:04:46,320 Speaker 5: to do it anyway, all right. 94 00:04:47,080 --> 00:04:50,000 Speaker 4: So if your name is Osama Ben Hitler, and you 95 00:04:50,080 --> 00:04:56,120 Speaker 4: went through the gymnastics of getting the real ID, which 96 00:04:56,160 --> 00:04:59,880 Speaker 4: were so minor and insignificant, I don't even remember doing it. 97 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:03,800 Speaker 4: There's not a lot too, then then by God you 98 00:05:03,839 --> 00:05:07,000 Speaker 4: can fly. But if you didn't, we can't have a 99 00:05:07,040 --> 00:05:09,440 Speaker 4: repeat of nine to eleven twenty four years later. So 100 00:05:09,720 --> 00:05:11,919 Speaker 4: you will sit in this line and we'll give you 101 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:17,839 Speaker 4: extra scrutiny, right, but your steel still fly, Yes, eventually 102 00:05:18,400 --> 00:05:22,320 Speaker 4: after being cussed out by an hourly employee wearing a 103 00:05:22,360 --> 00:05:29,080 Speaker 4: blue uniform, right, belittled by somebody who and it's honest work. 104 00:05:29,080 --> 00:05:31,760 Speaker 4: And there are very fine folks are in the TSA. 105 00:05:31,880 --> 00:05:35,880 Speaker 4: Don't fault them for this. But I'm not sure you 106 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:37,480 Speaker 4: need to be lecturing me. 107 00:05:38,360 --> 00:05:41,480 Speaker 5: Right, Yeah, I've been thinking about this a lot, This 108 00:05:41,640 --> 00:05:43,599 Speaker 5: lesson about how to live your life that I've learned 109 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:45,920 Speaker 5: from the TSA. Remind me to talk about that, Michael, 110 00:05:46,200 --> 00:05:48,800 Speaker 5: What I've learned from the TSA. Okay, I've talked about 111 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:50,599 Speaker 5: this before, but I've really nailed it down in my 112 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:51,440 Speaker 5: head since then. 113 00:05:51,839 --> 00:05:55,280 Speaker 4: Oh, wisdom can come from anywhere. Clearly, I'm fascinated by 114 00:05:55,279 --> 00:05:55,760 Speaker 4: this faith. 115 00:05:56,040 --> 00:05:57,719 Speaker 5: The other thing that I can't do now that I 116 00:05:57,720 --> 00:05:59,520 Speaker 5: don't have a real idea, is I can't go into 117 00:05:59,520 --> 00:06:02,200 Speaker 5: a federal biding now. I was planning to visit the 118 00:06:02,200 --> 00:06:04,560 Speaker 5: Department of Interior because I had a few things I 119 00:06:04,640 --> 00:06:07,240 Speaker 5: wanted to tell them, But I can't get in there anymore. 120 00:06:07,240 --> 00:06:09,120 Speaker 5: I no longer can go into a federal building without 121 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:09,599 Speaker 5: a reality. 122 00:06:10,480 --> 00:06:12,280 Speaker 3: You'll just have to pick at them. 123 00:06:12,880 --> 00:06:15,960 Speaker 4: Chu's back and forth outside with your placards decrying the 124 00:06:15,960 --> 00:06:20,279 Speaker 4: treatment of buffalo or mountains. 125 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:22,960 Speaker 5: Or change from they do there. It's really changed my 126 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:25,320 Speaker 5: summer plans. So I got to look into that we 127 00:06:25,360 --> 00:06:28,080 Speaker 5: should start the show officially before we get into more 128 00:06:28,120 --> 00:06:30,239 Speaker 5: than news the day. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty. 129 00:06:30,480 --> 00:06:31,039 Speaker 3: I think. 130 00:06:33,360 --> 00:06:36,000 Speaker 4: These are a cough button. There is a button. 131 00:06:36,240 --> 00:06:38,640 Speaker 5: These are my final days, o buttons, These are my 132 00:06:38,720 --> 00:06:42,320 Speaker 5: last days. It is Wednesday, May the seventh, or twenty 133 00:06:42,320 --> 00:06:44,359 Speaker 5: twenty five. We are armstrung in getting and we approve 134 00:06:44,400 --> 00:06:45,000 Speaker 5: of this program. 135 00:06:45,600 --> 00:06:48,080 Speaker 4: All right, Let's begin then officially according to FCC rules 136 00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:48,719 Speaker 4: and regulations. 137 00:06:48,760 --> 00:06:50,560 Speaker 3: Here we go. We will. I mean, this is going 138 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:52,160 Speaker 3: to be so good, and it starts at mark. 139 00:06:52,360 --> 00:06:55,800 Speaker 6: Americans have been scrambling to motor vehicle departments to get 140 00:06:55,800 --> 00:06:59,839 Speaker 6: the ID that meets extra security standards, facing long lines 141 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:03,920 Speaker 6: frustration before the federal deadline goes into effect Wednesday morning. 142 00:07:05,680 --> 00:07:09,240 Speaker 4: All right, because of the Vietnam War, I mean Watergate. 143 00:07:09,560 --> 00:07:12,720 Speaker 4: I mean, oh, that's right, nine to eleven. Not to 144 00:07:12,760 --> 00:07:15,120 Speaker 4: minimize the horror of that day for many folks, but 145 00:07:15,280 --> 00:07:15,840 Speaker 4: come on. 146 00:07:15,800 --> 00:07:17,640 Speaker 5: I actually read a pretty good breakdown of all the 147 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:20,680 Speaker 5: delays and how this all occurred in terms of something 148 00:07:20,720 --> 00:07:22,559 Speaker 5: last night while I was laying in bed coughing. 149 00:07:22,600 --> 00:07:24,440 Speaker 3: It's really pretty interesting, and really. 150 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:26,760 Speaker 5: It just points out the way things work in the 151 00:07:26,800 --> 00:07:30,920 Speaker 5: world of government. I mean, you know, take that that 152 00:07:30,960 --> 00:07:32,960 Speaker 5: we've been working on for twenty years and really something 153 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:37,280 Speaker 5: pretty minor, and turn that into you're gonna redo the 154 00:07:37,480 --> 00:07:40,600 Speaker 5: entire air traffic control system that you've been putting off 155 00:07:40,680 --> 00:07:41,280 Speaker 5: for decades. 156 00:07:41,360 --> 00:07:43,720 Speaker 3: How long will that take? I'll be long well, I'll 157 00:07:43,720 --> 00:07:44,520 Speaker 3: be dead by this weekend. 158 00:07:44,560 --> 00:07:47,480 Speaker 5: But like other people who are younger, you'll be long 159 00:07:47,560 --> 00:07:50,559 Speaker 5: dead before they actually rehab this system. I mean, based 160 00:07:50,600 --> 00:07:52,560 Speaker 5: on the way the relafe, the real idea doesn't even 161 00:07:52,600 --> 00:07:53,920 Speaker 5: require anything. 162 00:07:54,760 --> 00:07:58,480 Speaker 4: Right, right, And I wish I were more adept at 163 00:07:58,600 --> 00:08:04,400 Speaker 4: describing the two different approaches, but I probably don't need 164 00:08:04,440 --> 00:08:07,840 Speaker 4: to very accurately because people know what I'm talking about 165 00:08:07,880 --> 00:08:12,880 Speaker 4: when I say there is an incrementalist The bureaucracy is 166 00:08:12,920 --> 00:08:18,360 Speaker 4: our priority approach to government and government reform. You know, 167 00:08:18,440 --> 00:08:20,960 Speaker 4: call it the swamp if you want the permanent bureaucracy 168 00:08:21,040 --> 00:08:25,200 Speaker 4: whatever the turf protecting and budget protecting class in DC. 169 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:30,680 Speaker 4: And then there are the disruptors, be the Doji types 170 00:08:30,720 --> 00:08:33,040 Speaker 4: from the World Attack or Donald J. For all of 171 00:08:33,080 --> 00:08:37,160 Speaker 4: his sins, he doesn't mind disrupting things. And to the 172 00:08:37,240 --> 00:08:40,440 Speaker 4: extent that we let the disruptors do their thing, I 173 00:08:40,480 --> 00:08:43,800 Speaker 4: think we win. And to the extent that we go 174 00:08:43,840 --> 00:08:47,199 Speaker 4: with the same old incrementalist bureaucracy. 175 00:08:46,600 --> 00:08:48,559 Speaker 3: First types, you get a result like this. 176 00:08:48,760 --> 00:08:51,200 Speaker 4: I can't wait to hear you describing the steps the 177 00:08:51,280 --> 00:08:54,800 Speaker 4: history of it, because it's unintentionally hilarious. 178 00:08:55,280 --> 00:08:59,760 Speaker 5: So Katie's back. We got our headlines. What's that radio 179 00:08:59,760 --> 00:09:02,120 Speaker 5: show you're listening to? Armstrong and Getty? 180 00:09:02,160 --> 00:09:03,880 Speaker 3: Oh? Is that the one with the guy with the 181 00:09:03,880 --> 00:09:05,080 Speaker 3: death rattle? Yeah? 182 00:09:05,240 --> 00:09:07,640 Speaker 5: Oh, I love that show. Is aren't that many radio 183 00:09:07,640 --> 00:09:09,600 Speaker 5: shows where the guy has a death rattle? Like I knew, 184 00:09:10,360 --> 00:09:12,320 Speaker 5: you know, you don't get that every day. So we've 185 00:09:12,320 --> 00:09:14,439 Speaker 5: got Katie's headlines on the way and more news of 186 00:09:14,480 --> 00:09:19,800 Speaker 5: the day. I hope you can stay here. One thing 187 00:09:19,800 --> 00:09:21,920 Speaker 5: about being under the weather. It makes me feel more 188 00:09:21,920 --> 00:09:24,800 Speaker 5: comfortable watching NBA action and man, there were some great 189 00:09:24,920 --> 00:09:31,679 Speaker 5: NBA games last night. Holy Cow's been fantastic playoffs. 190 00:09:29,840 --> 00:09:31,240 Speaker 3: Super Oh. 191 00:09:31,400 --> 00:09:34,880 Speaker 4: Got a lot of great news to come, discussions ranging 192 00:09:34,960 --> 00:09:39,360 Speaker 4: from the very very practical to the philosophical and high minded. 193 00:09:39,679 --> 00:09:42,240 Speaker 5: The bidens are in between. The bidens are on the 194 00:09:42,320 --> 00:09:46,000 Speaker 5: View today. Joe and Jill are on the View today. 195 00:09:46,480 --> 00:09:48,640 Speaker 4: Oh my well, we got to get plenty of audio 196 00:09:48,679 --> 00:09:50,840 Speaker 4: from that. He did an interview with the BBC the 197 00:09:50,880 --> 00:09:53,199 Speaker 4: other day and I read some of the transcript of it, 198 00:09:53,280 --> 00:09:59,240 Speaker 4: and it was incoherent, both syntactically, meaning his choice of 199 00:09:59,280 --> 00:10:01,880 Speaker 4: words and how he's strong ideas together and the ideas themselves. 200 00:10:01,920 --> 00:10:05,079 Speaker 5: But she was still she must still be running that train. 201 00:10:05,720 --> 00:10:08,000 Speaker 5: There must be evil, man, there must not evil and 202 00:10:08,160 --> 00:10:11,360 Speaker 5: nuts because anybody who had any sense would say, no, 203 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:13,280 Speaker 5: no more interviews. You're done with interviews for the rest 204 00:10:13,280 --> 00:10:15,080 Speaker 5: of your life. It will only make your life. 205 00:10:14,840 --> 00:10:22,320 Speaker 4: Worse and further tarnish your legacy, such as it is. Yeah, anyway, 206 00:10:22,760 --> 00:10:24,920 Speaker 4: much to come, but first let's figure out who's reporting what. 207 00:10:25,040 --> 00:10:27,560 Speaker 4: It's the lead story with Katie Green. Katie, great to 208 00:10:27,600 --> 00:10:28,679 Speaker 4: have you back. What's happening? 209 00:10:28,960 --> 00:10:29,360 Speaker 2: Thank you. 210 00:10:29,880 --> 00:10:30,760 Speaker 3: Starting with ABC. 211 00:10:31,320 --> 00:10:34,520 Speaker 7: Military says at least twenty six dead in Pakistan in 212 00:10:34,559 --> 00:10:38,400 Speaker 7: overnight India attacks. 213 00:10:38,480 --> 00:10:41,200 Speaker 5: Yeah, this is either one of the many skirmishes they've 214 00:10:41,200 --> 00:10:44,560 Speaker 5: had since nineteen forty seven or whatever, or you know, 215 00:10:45,280 --> 00:10:47,000 Speaker 5: it's a nuclear holocaust, one of the two. 216 00:10:48,200 --> 00:10:48,880 Speaker 3: From CNN. 217 00:10:49,400 --> 00:10:53,760 Speaker 7: Air traffic controller says Newark Airport Systems outage was the 218 00:10:53,800 --> 00:10:58,280 Speaker 7: most dangerous situation in years. 219 00:10:57,920 --> 00:10:59,160 Speaker 3: I have no doubt. 220 00:10:59,559 --> 00:11:02,000 Speaker 4: Well, want to talk more about this, as we did 221 00:11:02,200 --> 00:11:06,120 Speaker 4: somewhat yesterday, and as we have a little bit to 222 00:11:06,320 --> 00:11:09,559 Speaker 4: the nature of those who seek to actually fix problems 223 00:11:10,120 --> 00:11:14,120 Speaker 4: versus bureaucrats who pretend to seek that well to our benefit. 224 00:11:14,200 --> 00:11:15,520 Speaker 3: Maybe the fact that it happened in. 225 00:11:15,480 --> 00:11:18,000 Speaker 5: The backyard of the major media, they're paying way more 226 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:19,719 Speaker 5: attention to it than if the same thing it had 227 00:11:19,720 --> 00:11:20,760 Speaker 5: happened at LAX. 228 00:11:21,360 --> 00:11:22,880 Speaker 4: Yeah. 229 00:11:22,960 --> 00:11:27,080 Speaker 7: From the Wall Street Journal, Supreme Court lets Trump's ban 230 00:11:27,400 --> 00:11:29,760 Speaker 7: on transgender military. 231 00:11:29,280 --> 00:11:34,160 Speaker 3: Service take effect. The illegitimate Trump Court please. 232 00:11:34,800 --> 00:11:36,760 Speaker 4: Yeah, it's going to wind its way through the lower course. 233 00:11:36,840 --> 00:11:38,679 Speaker 4: But between now and then, they say, all right, you 234 00:11:38,679 --> 00:11:41,800 Speaker 4: want to keep the I don't know if I'm here 235 00:11:41,880 --> 00:11:43,600 Speaker 4: or she's out of the military for a little while 236 00:11:43,640 --> 00:11:46,040 Speaker 4: ago ahead interesting, you. 237 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:48,800 Speaker 7: Guys touched on this, but this was just sprawled across 238 00:11:48,840 --> 00:11:53,400 Speaker 7: the top of USA. Today, real idea requirement officially takes effect. 239 00:11:54,559 --> 00:11:57,240 Speaker 5: Yeah, I will get into the hony. How many people 240 00:11:57,320 --> 00:12:00,000 Speaker 5: have actually done this in some states? The compliance is 241 00:12:00,160 --> 00:12:02,600 Speaker 5: so incredibly low it's amazing. 242 00:12:03,440 --> 00:12:05,800 Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah. 243 00:12:05,920 --> 00:12:09,880 Speaker 7: From the New York Times, China agreed to US tariff 244 00:12:09,920 --> 00:12:12,880 Speaker 7: talks but is likely to play hardball. 245 00:12:14,120 --> 00:12:16,559 Speaker 3: I'm sure they are, as are we. 246 00:12:16,559 --> 00:12:21,360 Speaker 4: We have got huge, you know, practically intractable problems between us. 247 00:12:21,360 --> 00:12:23,520 Speaker 4: It's gonna be a hell of a slog in the 248 00:12:23,559 --> 00:12:24,720 Speaker 4: best circumstance. 249 00:12:24,880 --> 00:12:28,360 Speaker 5: Secretary Bess said today, we just want fair trade, not 250 00:12:28,520 --> 00:12:32,200 Speaker 5: to decouple, which is a pretty big statement. Oh, since 251 00:12:32,240 --> 00:12:35,600 Speaker 5: I think we're heading toward the coupling from. 252 00:12:35,440 --> 00:12:39,600 Speaker 4: The Washgic decoupling perhaps, but not dolls and pencils, right, 253 00:12:39,760 --> 00:12:41,720 Speaker 4: how many pencils? 254 00:12:41,760 --> 00:12:42,920 Speaker 3: From the Washington Post. 255 00:12:43,520 --> 00:12:48,280 Speaker 7: Another Navy jet falls into the sea, marking fourth major 256 00:12:48,360 --> 00:12:49,600 Speaker 7: mishap in months. 257 00:12:49,720 --> 00:12:51,600 Speaker 3: I didn't know that. Where did that happen? 258 00:12:52,480 --> 00:12:55,480 Speaker 7: A Navy fighter jet failed to land on an aircraft 259 00:12:55,520 --> 00:12:57,680 Speaker 7: carrier and it went into the Red Sea yesterday. 260 00:12:57,880 --> 00:12:58,400 Speaker 3: Wow. 261 00:12:58,640 --> 00:13:01,000 Speaker 4: Okay, well that's a little different and just tumbling off, 262 00:13:01,080 --> 00:13:05,600 Speaker 4: you know, at rest doing good though, just like the 263 00:13:05,760 --> 00:13:08,840 Speaker 4: captain of the boat, get insurance money if the plane 264 00:13:08,880 --> 00:13:09,560 Speaker 4: falls off. 265 00:13:09,960 --> 00:13:10,720 Speaker 3: What's going on? 266 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:17,920 Speaker 7: From NBC, Saint Peter's Square fills with excitement ahead of 267 00:13:17,920 --> 00:13:18,680 Speaker 7: the conclave. 268 00:13:20,600 --> 00:13:23,360 Speaker 4: You whatever floats your boat. Jack's into the NBA playoffs. 269 00:13:23,360 --> 00:13:26,600 Speaker 3: I'm not. Some people are into the conclave. It's fun 270 00:13:27,280 --> 00:13:28,680 Speaker 3: the Pope playoffs if you will. 271 00:13:28,960 --> 00:13:33,400 Speaker 4: Oh, later on, I want to get into the Vatican's 272 00:13:33,600 --> 00:13:39,120 Speaker 4: financial woes, which are extreme and I mean they make 273 00:13:39,320 --> 00:13:43,920 Speaker 4: like the federal budget deficit. Look, okay, time really, time 274 00:13:43,920 --> 00:13:49,200 Speaker 4: to sell Peter's bones. Ohh he's renting them out. 275 00:13:50,240 --> 00:13:52,400 Speaker 3: Oh please don't strike me down for that joke. Jack. 276 00:13:52,480 --> 00:13:56,160 Speaker 3: It was Jack's fault. God, he jack led me into sin. 277 00:13:58,320 --> 00:14:02,800 Speaker 7: From the New York Post, pet raccoon with meth pipe 278 00:14:02,840 --> 00:14:06,640 Speaker 7: in his mouth found in driver's seat during traffic stop 279 00:14:06,720 --> 00:14:08,000 Speaker 7: that led to drug bust. 280 00:14:08,400 --> 00:14:12,960 Speaker 5: Well that's quite a headline there, so driving metht up raccoon. 281 00:14:15,480 --> 00:14:18,280 Speaker 4: Turn your back on a methed up raccoon. Man, it 282 00:14:18,440 --> 00:14:21,840 Speaker 4: was Ohio, damn, Ohio. Ohio is a meme among kids 283 00:14:21,840 --> 00:14:23,800 Speaker 4: for some reason. It's like the state you make fun 284 00:14:23,840 --> 00:14:25,520 Speaker 4: of My kids are always Ohio. 285 00:14:26,080 --> 00:14:28,200 Speaker 5: I don't know where it came from, but here you 286 00:14:28,240 --> 00:14:29,720 Speaker 5: got a met up driving raccoon. 287 00:14:29,800 --> 00:14:31,720 Speaker 3: So here you that's not gonna help. 288 00:14:31,840 --> 00:14:37,160 Speaker 7: No, And finally from the Babylon be Bill Belichick's girlfriend 289 00:14:37,240 --> 00:14:38,000 Speaker 7: leaves him. 290 00:14:37,960 --> 00:14:45,080 Speaker 3: For Lou Holtz. What an older. 291 00:14:44,360 --> 00:14:48,480 Speaker 4: Yeah, wow, wow wow, So Florida man's got to be 292 00:14:48,560 --> 00:14:51,280 Speaker 4: wiping his brown thinking poo. Little focus on Ohio for 293 00:14:51,320 --> 00:14:53,120 Speaker 4: a couple of minutes. This is good. 294 00:14:55,320 --> 00:14:57,600 Speaker 3: So here you go. Here's some of your compliance rates. 295 00:14:57,840 --> 00:14:59,440 Speaker 3: New Jersey. We'll start with the lowest. 296 00:14:59,720 --> 00:15:03,520 Speaker 5: New has the lowest compliance rate as of today on 297 00:15:03,600 --> 00:15:10,800 Speaker 5: the Real Idea at seventeen percent. Seventeen percent of people 298 00:15:10,840 --> 00:15:12,320 Speaker 5: got the Real Idea on time. 299 00:15:12,360 --> 00:15:13,680 Speaker 3: In New Jersey, you. 300 00:15:13,560 --> 00:15:17,280 Speaker 4: Can't get one out of five, so you can obviously 301 00:15:17,360 --> 00:15:20,240 Speaker 4: that is that is a state, by the way, in 302 00:15:20,320 --> 00:15:23,680 Speaker 4: which many many folks saw the planes hit the World 303 00:15:23,720 --> 00:15:26,400 Speaker 4: Trade Center across the river, or lost people at Canter 304 00:15:26,440 --> 00:15:31,280 Speaker 4: Fitzgerald or or what have you. Since this is arguably 305 00:15:31,360 --> 00:15:34,400 Speaker 4: a post nine to eleven Thingam a jigger? You can't 306 00:15:34,400 --> 00:15:35,440 Speaker 4: get one in five? 307 00:15:36,040 --> 00:15:40,560 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's and obviously the enforcing it. 308 00:15:40,840 --> 00:15:43,320 Speaker 5: You can't, I mean, because how many people who live 309 00:15:43,360 --> 00:15:48,520 Speaker 5: in New Jersey fly for work? Tens of thousands, sure, 310 00:15:48,600 --> 00:15:50,520 Speaker 5: And so you're not just gonna say no, you can't work. 311 00:15:50,600 --> 00:15:53,040 Speaker 5: You didn't get it on time? What this stupid id 312 00:15:53,520 --> 00:15:56,560 Speaker 5: for nine to eleven that does nothing? You're not gonna 313 00:15:56,640 --> 00:15:58,440 Speaker 5: let me fly. I got work to do. I mean, 314 00:15:58,480 --> 00:16:01,120 Speaker 5: it's just ridiculous that you would. You couldn't force that. 315 00:16:01,200 --> 00:16:05,160 Speaker 5: You just couldn't. There are other states doing better. But 316 00:16:05,240 --> 00:16:08,760 Speaker 5: let's so let's go to the next rung up. Uh, 317 00:16:08,800 --> 00:16:13,080 Speaker 5: who else is in the bottom quintile zero to twenty percent? 318 00:16:13,120 --> 00:16:16,440 Speaker 3: That's just twenty to forty percent. So it's kind of interesting. 319 00:16:16,480 --> 00:16:19,400 Speaker 5: It looks to me at first glance, most of your 320 00:16:19,400 --> 00:16:22,160 Speaker 5: blue states have low compliance. Most of your red states 321 00:16:22,160 --> 00:16:25,720 Speaker 5: have high compliance. They're at damn near one hundred percent 322 00:16:25,840 --> 00:16:32,200 Speaker 5: in Nebraska, Wyoming, Georgia, like Kansas, New Mexico, Texas, states 323 00:16:32,240 --> 00:16:36,360 Speaker 5: like that are very high in compliance. You get to California, 324 00:16:36,400 --> 00:16:40,360 Speaker 5: it drops way down. Oregon, Washington, places like that, it 325 00:16:40,440 --> 00:16:43,720 Speaker 5: drops way down. I don't know if that Illinois, I 326 00:16:43,760 --> 00:16:45,840 Speaker 5: don't know if there's any you know, rhyme or reason 327 00:16:45,880 --> 00:16:46,160 Speaker 5: to that. 328 00:16:47,120 --> 00:16:50,280 Speaker 4: Yeah, I could hazard guesses that would tend to back 329 00:16:50,360 --> 00:16:54,040 Speaker 4: up my worldview. But I am curious to know why 330 00:16:54,080 --> 00:16:54,600 Speaker 4: that might be. 331 00:16:55,160 --> 00:16:58,480 Speaker 5: Yeah, but I I don't know if it makes me 332 00:16:58,520 --> 00:17:00,520 Speaker 5: feel better. That's kind of feeling like as one of 333 00:17:00,560 --> 00:17:05,720 Speaker 5: the least responsible adults in America. But me and the 334 00:17:05,760 --> 00:17:08,960 Speaker 5: other seven eighty three percent of New Jerseyans are in 335 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:09,560 Speaker 5: the same boat. 336 00:17:09,960 --> 00:17:11,960 Speaker 4: You ought to consider a move to the Garden State. 337 00:17:12,040 --> 00:17:13,600 Speaker 4: Hoevulcan's beautiful this time of year. 338 00:17:13,880 --> 00:17:14,080 Speaker 3: Yeah. 339 00:17:14,880 --> 00:17:16,920 Speaker 5: So, I don't know what those of us without a 340 00:17:16,960 --> 00:17:19,040 Speaker 5: real ID will do. I guess we're gonna get the 341 00:17:19,200 --> 00:17:22,040 Speaker 5: body cavity search. We want to get on a plane. 342 00:17:22,280 --> 00:17:22,600 Speaker 3: Good. 343 00:17:22,680 --> 00:17:24,320 Speaker 4: So for all the big stories of the day coming 344 00:17:24,400 --> 00:17:25,480 Speaker 4: up in a moment or two, so. 345 00:17:25,480 --> 00:17:26,960 Speaker 1: Much to talk about. 346 00:17:28,480 --> 00:17:30,920 Speaker 8: Let's talk about the auto industry. This is an industry 347 00:17:30,920 --> 00:17:34,720 Speaker 8: that is probably the most interconnected between the US and Canada. 348 00:17:35,160 --> 00:17:39,679 Speaker 8: GM Ford and Stilantis, the big three US automakers nine 349 00:17:40,040 --> 00:17:44,240 Speaker 8: plants in Canada alone. These are final assembly plants and 350 00:17:44,520 --> 00:17:48,600 Speaker 8: parts plants. You have parts and vehicles crossing between the 351 00:17:48,720 --> 00:17:52,720 Speaker 8: US and Canada up to seven to nine times before 352 00:17:52,760 --> 00:17:54,959 Speaker 8: that vehicle is fully assembled. 353 00:17:55,640 --> 00:17:58,600 Speaker 5: That's something we learned from this whole pair of thing 354 00:17:59,040 --> 00:18:02,080 Speaker 5: who knew. It's hard for me to imagine that that 355 00:18:02,240 --> 00:18:04,400 Speaker 5: is efficient. Obviously it is, or they wouldn't be doing it, 356 00:18:04,520 --> 00:18:07,040 Speaker 5: But it's just it's amazing that the most efficient way 357 00:18:07,080 --> 00:18:09,520 Speaker 5: to do it is to have, you know, chunks of 358 00:18:09,720 --> 00:18:12,640 Speaker 5: or the whole car pass back and forth nine times 359 00:18:12,800 --> 00:18:13,639 Speaker 5: across the border. 360 00:18:14,200 --> 00:18:18,119 Speaker 4: I read an account the life story of a particular 361 00:18:18,200 --> 00:18:21,639 Speaker 4: component of transmissions that was like the classic eye pencil 362 00:18:21,840 --> 00:18:24,080 Speaker 4: in a way. If you've never read that, I'd recommend 363 00:18:24,119 --> 00:18:26,320 Speaker 4: it highly. Just google it, you'll find it. But they 364 00:18:26,320 --> 00:18:28,879 Speaker 4: were talking about how, you know, this little widget is 365 00:18:28,920 --> 00:18:32,639 Speaker 4: then fitted into that wadget, it crosses the border, and 366 00:18:32,680 --> 00:18:35,600 Speaker 4: then the motherboard is over there, so you just ship 367 00:18:35,640 --> 00:18:37,119 Speaker 4: it back and forth across the border to get the 368 00:18:37,160 --> 00:18:38,840 Speaker 4: mother board put on blah blah blah, And it does 369 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:40,960 Speaker 4: indeed across the border a half dozen times or so, 370 00:18:41,040 --> 00:18:43,520 Speaker 4: that particular part of a car. 371 00:18:43,680 --> 00:18:47,240 Speaker 5: The point of that story being, how do you work 372 00:18:47,280 --> 00:18:49,280 Speaker 5: out a tariff system with that going on? 373 00:18:49,440 --> 00:18:50,359 Speaker 3: That makes any sense? 374 00:18:52,440 --> 00:18:54,960 Speaker 4: You can straighten out trade deals that no longer make 375 00:18:54,960 --> 00:18:57,040 Speaker 4: any sense in the twenty first century, but no, you 376 00:18:57,119 --> 00:19:00,439 Speaker 4: cannot have a functioning twenty first century on me with 377 00:19:00,440 --> 00:19:04,680 Speaker 4: that sort of tariff, especially with your most important trading partners. 378 00:19:03,960 --> 00:19:08,800 Speaker 4: It's clearly a fantasy that you could ever make that work. 379 00:19:08,800 --> 00:19:10,520 Speaker 5: We got to play more of those clips of Trump 380 00:19:10,640 --> 00:19:12,920 Speaker 5: with the Canadian Prime Minister. That was something when you 381 00:19:12,960 --> 00:19:14,520 Speaker 5: had sitting there. He said, Olle, you look at the 382 00:19:14,520 --> 00:19:16,920 Speaker 5: line on the map. It's a straight line. Somebody drew 383 00:19:16,920 --> 00:19:18,880 Speaker 5: it with a ruler. I mean you just like I'm 384 00:19:18,880 --> 00:19:21,560 Speaker 5: a builder, I'm an artist. It's just so beautiful. The 385 00:19:21,600 --> 00:19:24,040 Speaker 5: whole thing together, it just would look so much better. 386 00:19:25,480 --> 00:19:28,320 Speaker 4: Yeah, and Carney, the new Canadian PM man, he is 387 00:19:28,359 --> 00:19:31,439 Speaker 4: the master of the poker face and diplomacy. Because it 388 00:19:31,480 --> 00:19:33,960 Speaker 4: was I'd heard some of the audio yesterday during the 389 00:19:33,960 --> 00:19:36,800 Speaker 4: show and had one impression. Then I saw the videos 390 00:19:36,840 --> 00:19:41,399 Speaker 4: and longer versions of the conversation. Oh, it's uncomfortable to watch. 391 00:19:41,480 --> 00:19:44,679 Speaker 4: But anyway, more on that to come. Speaking of the 392 00:19:44,760 --> 00:19:47,600 Speaker 4: auto parts and crossing the border and that sort of thing, 393 00:19:47,640 --> 00:19:49,159 Speaker 4: I came across this the other day and found it 394 00:19:49,200 --> 00:19:54,440 Speaker 4: really interesting. The F thirty five is our most advanced 395 00:19:54,520 --> 00:19:57,959 Speaker 4: fighter jet. It is known as the most expensive weapon 396 00:19:58,040 --> 00:19:59,640 Speaker 4: in the history of the world. 397 00:20:00,600 --> 00:20:01,679 Speaker 3: It's worth I. 398 00:20:01,680 --> 00:20:04,760 Speaker 5: Don't know how many billions of dollars each that Unfortunately, 399 00:20:04,880 --> 00:20:08,680 Speaker 5: China has replicated almost perfectly by stealing all our technology. 400 00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:13,280 Speaker 3: They're among the most capable thieves ever. Oh. 401 00:20:13,359 --> 00:20:15,600 Speaker 4: With the cost of more than two trillion dollars over 402 00:20:15,640 --> 00:20:17,960 Speaker 4: the program's life cycle, the F thirty five has already 403 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:21,320 Speaker 4: been dubbed the world's most expensive weapon. But the part 404 00:20:21,359 --> 00:20:25,840 Speaker 4: that I wanted to bring up is to make one. 405 00:20:26,080 --> 00:20:30,159 Speaker 4: It is reliant for more than eighty parts on a 406 00:20:30,200 --> 00:20:34,720 Speaker 4: little known company based in a quiet Danish suburb. This 407 00:20:34,840 --> 00:20:39,959 Speaker 4: company happens to be the supplier of certain widgets that 408 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:44,000 Speaker 4: the plane needs, in fact eighty different ones. But overall, 409 00:20:44,080 --> 00:20:46,959 Speaker 4: the jet fighter made by Lockheed Martin, good American company 410 00:20:46,960 --> 00:20:52,040 Speaker 4: made in America, has more than nineteen hundred suppliers of 411 00:20:52,160 --> 00:20:56,119 Speaker 4: parts from more than a dozen countries that provide everything 412 00:20:56,160 --> 00:20:57,560 Speaker 4: from tiny chipboards to. 413 00:20:57,560 --> 00:21:00,639 Speaker 5: The ejector seat man. That is the free market. You 414 00:21:00,680 --> 00:21:03,560 Speaker 5: could never do that with central planning and pull it off. 415 00:21:04,119 --> 00:21:08,200 Speaker 4: Oh no, no, the most well, the central planning part 416 00:21:08,240 --> 00:21:10,400 Speaker 4: of it has caused it to be wildly over budget 417 00:21:10,440 --> 00:21:14,600 Speaker 4: and delayed, and the rest of it. Honestly, but the 418 00:21:14,640 --> 00:21:19,399 Speaker 4: most American of American weapons that when they roar over ahead, 419 00:21:19,560 --> 00:21:21,400 Speaker 4: you think that's the sound of freedom. 420 00:21:21,480 --> 00:21:21,680 Speaker 1: Man. 421 00:21:23,080 --> 00:21:26,679 Speaker 4: They're assembled from parts from dozens of different countries that 422 00:21:26,760 --> 00:21:28,679 Speaker 4: cross many borders many times. 423 00:21:28,960 --> 00:21:31,359 Speaker 5: Yeah, anyway, it's just posturing me. It's a sound of 424 00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:33,120 Speaker 5: some hoofy rebel losing his head. 425 00:21:33,160 --> 00:21:33,919 Speaker 3: That's what I hear. 426 00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:35,840 Speaker 4: Well, and most of the rest of the world you 427 00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:37,679 Speaker 4: hear that sound. You're about to have a very long 428 00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:42,600 Speaker 4: day moving along. There's some headlines worth considering today. The 429 00:21:42,640 --> 00:21:44,560 Speaker 4: first one was the first thing I saw this morning 430 00:21:44,560 --> 00:21:46,639 Speaker 4: when I woke up an hour and forty five minutes 431 00:21:46,680 --> 00:21:50,159 Speaker 4: before my alarm with my brain switched on, unable to 432 00:21:50,160 --> 00:21:53,640 Speaker 4: turn it off. I want to talk later on about 433 00:21:53,680 --> 00:21:56,240 Speaker 4: what I was thinking about, not now. 434 00:21:56,280 --> 00:21:57,960 Speaker 3: Now here's your headline. 435 00:21:58,080 --> 00:22:03,360 Speaker 4: US orders intelligence agencies to step up spying on Greenland. 436 00:22:03,520 --> 00:22:05,400 Speaker 3: Ah. 437 00:22:05,520 --> 00:22:08,480 Speaker 4: The effort underscores the seriousness of Trump's intend to acquire 438 00:22:08,520 --> 00:22:10,000 Speaker 4: the island from Denmark. 439 00:22:10,160 --> 00:22:13,280 Speaker 3: So we're gonna spy on fifty five thousand rock scrubbers. 440 00:22:13,320 --> 00:22:14,040 Speaker 3: What are we gonna learn? 441 00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:19,240 Speaker 4: They're fine foot rock scrubbers. That's is that some sort 442 00:22:19,280 --> 00:22:22,080 Speaker 4: of new racist term that you've read on the internet, 443 00:22:22,119 --> 00:22:26,200 Speaker 4: young man, I'll not have it. So apparently I'm woke, 444 00:22:26,280 --> 00:22:31,240 Speaker 4: right or something or something. Several high ranking officials under 445 00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:36,520 Speaker 4: the DNI. Tull Z Gabbard issued a collection emphasis message 446 00:22:36,560 --> 00:22:39,600 Speaker 4: to intelligence agency heads last week. That's kind of the 447 00:22:39,640 --> 00:22:46,160 Speaker 4: official term that that, you know, the agencies that have surveillance, satellites, 448 00:22:46,160 --> 00:22:49,160 Speaker 4: communication intercept spies on the ground. That's telling them, look, 449 00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:52,159 Speaker 4: this is a priority. You need to be aware of 450 00:22:52,160 --> 00:22:54,760 Speaker 4: this and get ready to do some stuff. But they 451 00:22:54,760 --> 00:22:58,320 Speaker 4: were directed to learn more about Greenland's independence movement and 452 00:22:58,400 --> 00:23:02,680 Speaker 4: attitudes on American resource extraction on the island. 453 00:23:04,240 --> 00:23:04,560 Speaker 3: Now. 454 00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:09,880 Speaker 4: Interestingly, James Hewett, national Security Council spokesman, said the White 455 00:23:09,880 --> 00:23:12,320 Speaker 4: House doesn't comment on intelligence matters, but added, quote, the 456 00:23:12,359 --> 00:23:15,080 Speaker 4: President's been very clear that the US is concerned about 457 00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:17,240 Speaker 4: the security of Greenland and the Arctic. 458 00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:19,840 Speaker 3: Which is a very good and positive and. 459 00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:25,040 Speaker 4: Productive way to put it, because we are quite appropriately. 460 00:23:24,800 --> 00:23:29,440 Speaker 3: How we or what we do to enhance. 461 00:23:29,119 --> 00:23:31,240 Speaker 4: The security of Greenland and the Arctic and thereby the 462 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:34,879 Speaker 4: United States. As you know, it's worth discussing. But then 463 00:23:34,920 --> 00:23:39,400 Speaker 4: Tulsey yourself said, quote, the Wall Street journals should beat 464 00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:41,600 Speaker 4: they broke the story. The Wall Street Journal should be 465 00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:45,200 Speaker 4: ashamed of aiding deep state actors who seek to undermine 466 00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:48,080 Speaker 4: the president by politicizing and leaking classified information. 467 00:23:48,359 --> 00:23:50,280 Speaker 3: They are breaking the lawn, undermining our. 468 00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:54,720 Speaker 4: Nation's security and democracy, to which I'm sure the Wall 469 00:23:54,720 --> 00:24:00,600 Speaker 4: Street Journal said, your people leaked to us. Dude, stop 470 00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:04,520 Speaker 4: yelling at us. Danish embassy declined to comment, but are 471 00:24:04,600 --> 00:24:05,840 Speaker 4: rolling their eyes violently. 472 00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:08,920 Speaker 3: I'm sure. Total change in topic. 473 00:24:09,920 --> 00:24:13,080 Speaker 4: Love this story, man, I will bang this gong until 474 00:24:13,119 --> 00:24:16,399 Speaker 4: I am My banging days are done. The headline, also 475 00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:18,479 Speaker 4: from the Wall Street Journal. The high school juniors with 476 00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:22,280 Speaker 4: seventy thousand dollars a year job offers companies with shortages 477 00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:24,960 Speaker 4: of skilled workers are looking to shop class to recruit 478 00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:29,320 Speaker 4: future hires. One kid quoted like, I'm an athlete, getting 479 00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:32,640 Speaker 4: all this attention from all these pro teams. 480 00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:35,080 Speaker 3: Isn't that something? What kind of doing? 481 00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:35,159 Speaker 7: What? 482 00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:38,600 Speaker 3: Well? This kid? They Elijah. 483 00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:40,720 Speaker 4: He won't graduate from high school until next year, but 484 00:24:40,760 --> 00:24:43,240 Speaker 4: he's got a job offer for just under seventy grand 485 00:24:43,280 --> 00:24:43,600 Speaker 4: a year. 486 00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:44,840 Speaker 3: He's seventeen years old. 487 00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:48,000 Speaker 4: He's taking welding classes at a Catholic high school in 488 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:51,280 Speaker 4: Philadelphia that works closely with companies looking for workers in 489 00:24:51,320 --> 00:24:54,720 Speaker 4: the skilled trades. They're recruiting them straight out of high school. 490 00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:59,600 Speaker 5: That's so much better a path than some nonsense degree 491 00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:03,640 Speaker 5: taking on two hundred thousand dollars in debt, delaying four 492 00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:06,920 Speaker 5: years of entering the workplace for a job that isn't 493 00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:08,520 Speaker 5: going to be as good at paying. 494 00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:11,320 Speaker 3: As that one or as secure. Yeah. Yeah. 495 00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:14,760 Speaker 4: One of the most successful people I know was a 496 00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:18,000 Speaker 4: mechanic who rose to the head of the mechanics who 497 00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:21,280 Speaker 4: rose to I understand how this technical thing works. I'll 498 00:25:21,320 --> 00:25:23,560 Speaker 4: bet I could open a business doing it, and he did. 499 00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:28,840 Speaker 4: And he knows nothing of social degrees and women's studies 500 00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:30,800 Speaker 4: and the rest of it. It's also hell a nice guy. 501 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:33,840 Speaker 4: But yeah, I'm so happy with this. I'm going to 502 00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:38,680 Speaker 4: send this to my kids, honestly, anyway. So, and he's 503 00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:44,119 Speaker 4: just one example of a number of employers in plumbing, 504 00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:47,399 Speaker 4: electrical work, welding, and other fields that are teaming up 505 00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:51,399 Speaker 4: with high schools helping kids earn work full time, earning 506 00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:54,160 Speaker 4: money as well as academic credit credit. And the employers 507 00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:57,000 Speaker 4: say that the skilled trades are becoming more tech infused 508 00:25:57,680 --> 00:26:00,280 Speaker 4: and they anticipate doing even more recruitment at an early 509 00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:02,480 Speaker 4: age because they need workers who are comfortable programming and 510 00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:07,920 Speaker 4: running computer diagnostics and doing some of the more traditional stuff. Anyway, 511 00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:09,560 Speaker 4: I thought that was a cool story, good for that 512 00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:15,760 Speaker 4: plucky young man. Another complete change of topic. EV sales 513 00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:21,120 Speaker 4: streak grinds to a sudden halt. 514 00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:25,080 Speaker 3: Drunk, yes, let me guess yanking the subsidies. 515 00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:30,040 Speaker 4: Oh yeah, oh yeah, among other things. And I have 516 00:26:30,119 --> 00:26:32,040 Speaker 4: more information on this. I'm weighing how much time we 517 00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:35,360 Speaker 4: got to spend on it right now. The politics exchanged 518 00:26:35,359 --> 00:26:37,800 Speaker 4: completely in the EV thing. 519 00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:39,640 Speaker 3: We mentioned yesterday that the. 520 00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:43,959 Speaker 4: California wild eyed we're gonna have nothing but EV's by 521 00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:48,240 Speaker 4: the year twenty thirty four program that Biden's EPA said, yeah, yeah, 522 00:26:48,359 --> 00:26:51,480 Speaker 4: good idea and a bunch of other states adopted now 523 00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:55,880 Speaker 4: was overwhelmingly kicked out by the House of Representatives, including 524 00:26:56,040 --> 00:26:59,840 Speaker 4: twenty three or something. There's a couple of dozen Democratic votes. 525 00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:04,240 Speaker 4: And so that whole thing is over. And sales of 526 00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:08,120 Speaker 4: evs in the US fell by about five percent last month. 527 00:27:08,359 --> 00:27:12,800 Speaker 3: That is the first decline. Oh I'm sorry. 528 00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:16,160 Speaker 4: Monthly EV sales in the US have only declined three 529 00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:19,359 Speaker 4: times in individual months since twenty twenty one. They have 530 00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:24,200 Speaker 4: grown every single month except for three in the last 531 00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:27,840 Speaker 4: four years. And they dropped significantly last month. 532 00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:33,000 Speaker 5: In people don't want them. People just don't want them. Well, 533 00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:37,040 Speaker 5: some people want them, not very many. No, no, and 534 00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:39,400 Speaker 5: people want them should feel free to get them. They're 535 00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:40,600 Speaker 5: very cheap right now. 536 00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:45,000 Speaker 4: You can buy a used Tesla mudde less a couple 537 00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:49,520 Speaker 4: of dozen thousand miles for in the twenties and thirty grand. 538 00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:52,280 Speaker 3: I mean they're practically new. 539 00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:56,520 Speaker 4: Declines were across most brands, from Kida Hyundai to Ford Tesla, 540 00:27:56,600 --> 00:27:59,359 Speaker 4: which accounted for nearly half of EV sales in the US. 541 00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:03,200 Speaker 4: The bidenministration never mentioned. 542 00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:04,239 Speaker 3: The whole thing is so screwed up. 543 00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:07,880 Speaker 5: So Tesla has been the only dent ever made even 544 00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:10,840 Speaker 5: a little bit and electric cars, and it got ignored 545 00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:13,520 Speaker 5: by the White House all those years because they're. 546 00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:15,240 Speaker 3: Not part of the United Auto Workers thing. 547 00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:18,479 Speaker 4: They weren't getting money from or given money through their 548 00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:19,760 Speaker 4: union goons to the White House. 549 00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:21,480 Speaker 3: That's right anyway. 550 00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:25,800 Speaker 4: Tesla reported that sales dropped nearly thirteen percent. Sales of 551 00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:30,119 Speaker 4: Rivian's two main models declined by half. 552 00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:35,040 Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I don't know. That's a tough one. It's 553 00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:36,120 Speaker 5: a lot like solar. 554 00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:39,280 Speaker 4: There's a big controversy going on in cal Unicornia right 555 00:28:39,320 --> 00:28:42,400 Speaker 4: now with solar because it used to be heavily subsidized 556 00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:45,480 Speaker 4: and then so many people did it. It interfered with 557 00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:48,200 Speaker 4: the mobbed up utilities and their profits and the grid 558 00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:50,120 Speaker 4: and the rest of it. And so now the same 559 00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:53,120 Speaker 4: people who like threaten you at gunpoint to get solar 560 00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:56,640 Speaker 4: in California are now telling you, yeah, you're thieving from 561 00:28:56,640 --> 00:28:59,960 Speaker 4: poor people, and you're like what, And so they're imposed 562 00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:02,400 Speaker 4: surch charges and taking away all the incentives and stuff 563 00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:06,760 Speaker 4: like that. It was all government bribes, right, Well, I 564 00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:13,880 Speaker 4: drove seven pounds of Nazi steel to work today, but 565 00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:18,040 Speaker 4: most people who bought teslas and stuff like that did 566 00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:20,160 Speaker 4: it because you got these giant rebates. You know, you 567 00:29:20,240 --> 00:29:22,320 Speaker 4: got seventy if you're under a certain income or whatever, 568 00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:24,120 Speaker 4: you got seventy five hundred dollars knocked off. And then 569 00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:26,320 Speaker 4: you got all this electric brakes and all these different things. 570 00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:28,440 Speaker 4: And when those go away, people aren't near as interested. 571 00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:31,720 Speaker 5: And then when you know, the whole Hitler salute from 572 00:29:32,360 --> 00:29:34,600 Speaker 5: Elon and everything, so then that took the blew them 573 00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:36,200 Speaker 5: off the rows of that part of it, and so 574 00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:42,360 Speaker 5: that crowd doesn't want the cars right right. And finally, well, 575 00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:45,120 Speaker 5: we've got a lot of like foreign policy stories I 576 00:29:45,120 --> 00:29:46,840 Speaker 5: want to get to, but I wanted to touch on 577 00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:50,520 Speaker 5: this at least briefly, how bad is China's economy? The 578 00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:54,160 Speaker 5: data needed to answer that question is vanishing. Beijing is 579 00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:58,880 Speaker 5: stopped publishing hundreds of statistics, making it harder to know 580 00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:02,280 Speaker 5: what's going on in the country, and one need not 581 00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:07,320 Speaker 5: have a PhD in comparative politics from Harvard to know 582 00:30:07,360 --> 00:30:11,520 Speaker 5: what's going on there. They're not publishing any other statistics anymore. 583 00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:12,280 Speaker 3: Gee, I wonder why. 584 00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:14,440 Speaker 5: And they've always lied anyway. I remember hearing the things 585 00:30:14,520 --> 00:30:16,880 Speaker 5: Tank people take. You either have to have or double 586 00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:18,840 Speaker 5: whatever they claim. I mean, if it's something they claim 587 00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:20,840 Speaker 5: is good, to cut it in half. If it's something bad, 588 00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:22,680 Speaker 5: you need to double it. That that's how much they 589 00:30:22,720 --> 00:30:25,120 Speaker 5: lie about them anyway. So now they're not even putting 590 00:30:25,120 --> 00:30:26,080 Speaker 5: the stats out at all. 591 00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:30,800 Speaker 4: I'm sorry. I've just got to scratch where I'm itching. 592 00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:33,040 Speaker 4: And for years and years and years I would read 593 00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:38,560 Speaker 4: like China sickopants like Thomas Friedman commenting on the consistent 594 00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:43,080 Speaker 4: five to eight percent growth when everybody knew those figures 595 00:30:43,120 --> 00:30:45,960 Speaker 4: were a lie anyway. 596 00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:49,560 Speaker 5: Who worships authoritarianism? Who who does? 597 00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:51,000 Speaker 3: Yeah? 598 00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:56,400 Speaker 4: Land sales, foreign investment, unemployment indicators have gone dark in 599 00:30:56,440 --> 00:31:02,520 Speaker 4: recent years. Data on cremations, business confidence index. All of 600 00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:05,920 Speaker 4: it has gone dark, and in most cases Chinese authorities 601 00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:08,600 Speaker 4: have not given any reason for ending or withholding the data. 602 00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:10,800 Speaker 3: Duh, I wonder why? 603 00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:14,680 Speaker 5: So we got stuff on the Diddy trial, we got 604 00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:16,800 Speaker 5: stuff on the real ID which is out today. 605 00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:19,160 Speaker 3: Joe's got mail bag coming up. All on the way. 606 00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:19,560 Speaker 3: Stay here. 607 00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:25,400 Speaker 5: We keep joking about. Now we've got the real ID. 608 00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:28,440 Speaker 5: So nine to eleven can happen a quarter century ago. 609 00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:31,640 Speaker 5: It actually goes further than back than that. The start 610 00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:34,320 Speaker 5: of this was the Oklahoma City bombing. That's why we 611 00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:38,200 Speaker 5: started the real ID program. That's thirty years ago. More 612 00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:41,680 Speaker 5: on that in hour two. It's a ridiculous example of 613 00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:44,000 Speaker 5: how screwed up government is. 614 00:31:44,560 --> 00:31:47,880 Speaker 4: Hey, mister slow and steady wins their race right thirty 615 00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:52,959 Speaker 4: thirty years Oh God help us. 616 00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:56,680 Speaker 3: Here's your freedom loving quote of the day. Love is 617 00:31:56,680 --> 00:32:00,120 Speaker 3: sent along by Joseph, who lives not far from You're 618 00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:00,920 Speaker 3: ready Orange. 619 00:32:01,080 --> 00:32:09,480 Speaker 4: It's actually a verse from the Bible from Thessalonians, Second Thessalonians, 620 00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:13,240 Speaker 4: Chapter three. If you must know, verse eleven twelve, we 621 00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:16,360 Speaker 4: hear that some among you are idle and disruptive. They 622 00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:19,680 Speaker 4: are not busy. They are busy bodies. Such people we 623 00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:22,760 Speaker 4: command and urge in the Lord Jesus Christ to settle 624 00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:27,200 Speaker 4: down and earn the food they eat. The Bible wouldn't 625 00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:28,920 Speaker 4: mind here in the King James version of that. That's 626 00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:30,600 Speaker 4: obviously a modern translation, but. 627 00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:32,760 Speaker 3: Which I will not listen to. 628 00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:35,800 Speaker 4: We command and urge in the name of the Lord 629 00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:38,760 Speaker 4: to settle down and earn the food you eat. 630 00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:42,880 Speaker 5: Yeah, the sit around and talk about other people has 631 00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:44,640 Speaker 5: always been a human nature thing. 632 00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:48,480 Speaker 4: Huh yeah, yeah, it has. Indeed, more on that to come. 633 00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:52,600 Speaker 4: Mailbag drop us now, won't you? Mail bag at Armstrong 634 00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:56,680 Speaker 4: and Giddy dot com. Here's note from Jack in beautiful Wellington, 635 00:32:56,760 --> 00:33:02,320 Speaker 4: Kansas talking to here at the radio ranch. 636 00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:02,920 Speaker 2: Jack. 637 00:33:03,080 --> 00:33:05,840 Speaker 4: Please stay strong, take it easy, and whatever you do, 638 00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:11,400 Speaker 4: don't die until sometime between nine thirty Thursday or Friday, 639 00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:14,000 Speaker 4: between eleven forty five pm and midnight. Those are the 640 00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:17,080 Speaker 4: squares I got stuck with in the bedding pool, the. 641 00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:20,720 Speaker 5: Number of people applying for the job from with me, 642 00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:24,080 Speaker 5: you know, impending death. And then of course white smoke 643 00:33:24,080 --> 00:33:26,320 Speaker 5: will come out when you've chosen a co host after 644 00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:27,920 Speaker 5: I die, exactly. 645 00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:30,360 Speaker 4: Yeah, And there's a lot of bribery going on, not 646 00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:33,880 Speaker 4: enough though, keep those checks coming well, Love this from 647 00:33:34,240 --> 00:33:36,840 Speaker 4: loyal listener Robert. All Right, what in the hell am 648 00:33:36,840 --> 00:33:38,840 Speaker 4: I supposed to do with a warehouse. 649 00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:40,680 Speaker 3: Full of these? And it's Huesday. 650 00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:43,800 Speaker 4: I obviously to create an image of a doll made 651 00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:47,200 Speaker 4: out of pencils all but as I was so counting 652 00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:50,040 Speaker 4: on each household buying a couple dozen at least, I 653 00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:52,000 Speaker 4: still have my job at the Department of Education. 654 00:33:52,160 --> 00:33:53,840 Speaker 3: Gotta go call coming in from a boss. 655 00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:56,640 Speaker 5: That is unfortunate timing that pencil dolls were going to 656 00:33:56,720 --> 00:33:57,560 Speaker 5: be so hot this year. 657 00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:01,440 Speaker 3: Oh that's funny. 658 00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:04,440 Speaker 4: Now a feature that will continue on if I remember 659 00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:07,880 Speaker 4: to do it. I'd like to call five Days of Cliff. 660 00:34:08,640 --> 00:34:11,239 Speaker 4: Cliff has written as a fairly long multipart email. I 661 00:34:11,239 --> 00:34:13,319 Speaker 4: am going to take on one part per day because 662 00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:14,959 Speaker 4: all of it it wants is way too much. Five 663 00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:19,279 Speaker 4: Days of Cliff, Five days of Actually it's four now 664 00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:22,760 Speaker 4: that I look at my highlighting. Four days of Cliff. 665 00:34:24,360 --> 00:34:27,880 Speaker 4: Jack talked about an article you guys discussed on having 666 00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:31,120 Speaker 4: the perfect day several days ago. Nowhere on the list 667 00:34:31,200 --> 00:34:33,280 Speaker 4: was bacon, so it had to be a deep fake article. 668 00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:36,200 Speaker 4: No one except possibly someone without taste Buds, would exclude 669 00:34:36,200 --> 00:34:38,239 Speaker 4: bacon from the list of the requirements for a perfect day. 670 00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:41,040 Speaker 4: Sometime with close family members and friends would be okay too, 671 00:34:41,320 --> 00:34:44,080 Speaker 4: but not over six hours in not without bacon. Ah, 672 00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:50,399 Speaker 4: that's day one of cliff fantastic freaking Correspondent Pallas says, sorry, 673 00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:52,480 Speaker 4: I don't recall the specifics, but you're talking about how 674 00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:54,880 Speaker 4: people in charge of things often have no special expertise. 675 00:34:54,920 --> 00:34:56,000 Speaker 3: Had to do Trump and Doge. 676 00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:58,239 Speaker 4: I think some people who are successful and get things 677 00:34:58,239 --> 00:35:00,600 Speaker 4: done are not necessarily the world's foremost authorities. 678 00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:02,840 Speaker 3: And what they're doing, they're no doubt knowledgeable. 679 00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:05,719 Speaker 4: But the most important quality is that they are committed, confident, 680 00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:08,680 Speaker 4: and forceful, and they are not afraid to fail. 681 00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:10,520 Speaker 3: I think that's true of Trump. 682 00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:15,200 Speaker 4: Those of us those qualities to promote something that turns 683 00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:18,080 Speaker 4: out to be good or lauded, even perhaps more than 684 00:35:18,160 --> 00:35:18,920 Speaker 4: is warranted. 685 00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:19,760 Speaker 3: Blah blah blah. 686 00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:22,000 Speaker 4: Anyway, it's the survival of the fittest in the world 687 00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:22,560 Speaker 4: of ideas. 688 00:35:22,600 --> 00:35:25,440 Speaker 3: He says, I thought that was interesting. More email to come. 689 00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:28,840 Speaker 5: We're out of time, Yeah, the real I d stuff 690 00:35:28,840 --> 00:35:30,920 Speaker 5: a couple of new wars to get excited about, a 691 00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:31,920 Speaker 5: bunch of stuff on the way. 692 00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:33,960 Speaker 3: So hope you can stay, stay here 693 00:35:34,040 --> 00:35:35,200 Speaker 8: Armstrong and Getty