Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe, Katty Armstrong, and get
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Speaker 2: Arm Why from the studio say signor a dimly lit
Speaker 2: room deep with them the bowels of the Armstrong and
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Speaker 3: We've made it to Wednesday. Thank god. Today we're under
Speaker 3: the tutelage of our general manager. It's a Sepcom classic.
Speaker 4: Jack, those wacky next door neighbors, India and Pakistan.
Speaker 3: That's our general manager. That's right.
Speaker 4: And why Indian Pakistan, Well, they're never ending simmering conflict
Speaker 4: has grown a good deal hotter in the.
Speaker 3: Last couple of weeks.
Speaker 4: And indeed, India bombed a bunch of sites in Pakistan
Speaker 4: in response to a terrorist attack that the Indians believe,
Speaker 4: with good reason was at least at least there was
Speaker 4: sympathy in the Pakistani government to the terrorists who perpetrated
Speaker 4: the attack. What are they fighting about, Oh, gosh, religion,
Speaker 4: mostly religion and power.
Speaker 3: It's not a cricket thing, No, not in this case cricket.
Speaker 4: There's some fourteen year old cricket phenom who's just set
Speaker 4: the world a cricket on fire, really Indian fella. He
Speaker 4: had thirty battings in his last inning and in a
Speaker 4: quarter of the tea time.
Speaker 5: There are enough Indian people in the town I live
Speaker 5: in that every Saturday afternoon they have an all day
Speaker 5: cricket match at the park and they wear all the
Speaker 5: white and everything, and there's a crowd and everything. And
Speaker 5: I've watched that for a long time, trying to figure
Speaker 5: out even the slightest what they're doing.
Speaker 3: But I can't, can't grasp it.
Speaker 4: I get to the guy hurling the ball doesn't want
Speaker 4: the guy with the whacker to whack it, and the
Speaker 4: whacking guy wants to whack it.
Speaker 3: But once he whacks it, I don't know what happens. Then, well, right, but.
Speaker 4: See he's whacking it because the guy hurling it is
Speaker 4: trying to knock down his sticks. And evidently the guy
Speaker 4: with the whacker is really fond of those sticks and
Speaker 4: really resents it when the hurler whacks his sticks, and
Speaker 4: so he's trying to protect his sticks. And when he
Speaker 4: does whack the ball away from the hurler, he runs
Speaker 4: back and forth.
Speaker 3: Like he's completely confused. And I think that scores points.
Speaker 5: And we all work in a kitchen and a fancy
Speaker 5: restaurant right afterwards. So that's why we're dressing this with exactly.
Speaker 3: And it's very hot.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so we're in all the way I'm told actually,
Speaker 4: and this will be my final thought on cricket, having
Speaker 4: you know, should have stopped.
Speaker 3: Probably one thought earlier.
Speaker 4: Is I had not realized there is a new, souped up,
Speaker 4: twenty first century version of cricket that so compresses the
Speaker 4: all day affair where you break for tea and lunch
Speaker 4: and crumpets and what have you, into much a much
Speaker 4: more conventional professional sports, you know framework, and that's gotten very,
Speaker 4: very popular.
Speaker 3: I'm told I would.
Speaker 5: Fly to Kashmir and try to broke her a piece
Speaker 5: between India and Pakistan, but I can no longer fly
Speaker 5: for the first time in my life because I do
Speaker 5: not have a real id. It turns out, though I've
Speaker 5: got all the stats in front of me, I'm not
Speaker 5: alone in the people across America who've decided, yeah, I'll
Speaker 5: get he around to it when I get around to
Speaker 5: it or something. So, uh, that's kind of funny. Got
Speaker 5: a bunch of information on that for you. That's the
Speaker 5: problem with phony deadlines. It's like if people catch on
Speaker 5: to that meeting that starts at seven actually kind of
Speaker 5: starts when everybody gets there, well, then people trickle in
Speaker 5: at seven point thirty doomed.
Speaker 3: Doomed.
Speaker 4: I've known a couple of leaders in my life who
Speaker 4: sting that second hand hits that time that's appointed they start,
Speaker 4: and that takes at once right before everybody gets the
Speaker 4: idea right, and it's a service to everyone, but it's
Speaker 4: not popular.
Speaker 5: So like the first six times you delayed the real
Speaker 5: ID thing in my life, people like me, you just
Speaker 5: sent the message, Yeah, you're not serious, you don't mean it.
Speaker 5: And then I saw one report today on.
Speaker 3: News Nation.
Speaker 5: They were at any your East coast airports and they said,
Speaker 5: we don't have the details, but they have a special
Speaker 5: line for people that don't have the real i D.
Speaker 5: But you will get extra scrutiny, but you will probably fly.
Speaker 5: And they're not telling us the story. So it makes
Speaker 5: it sound to me like they're saying, you have to
Speaker 5: have the real I D, but if you get there
Speaker 5: without one, they'll still let you fly.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 5: Now you've just sent the message to the me of
Speaker 5: the world that okay, so I don't even really have
Speaker 5: to do it anyway, all right.
Speaker 4: So if your name is Osama Ben Hitler, and you
Speaker 4: went through the gymnastics of getting the real ID, which
Speaker 4: were so minor and insignificant, I don't even remember doing it.
Speaker 4: There's not a lot too, then then by God you
Speaker 4: can fly. But if you didn't, we can't have a
Speaker 4: repeat of nine to eleven twenty four years later. So
Speaker 4: you will sit in this line and we'll give you
Speaker 4: extra scrutiny, right, but your steel still fly, Yes, eventually
Speaker 4: after being cussed out by an hourly employee wearing a
Speaker 4: blue uniform, right, belittled by somebody who and it's honest work.
Speaker 4: And there are very fine folks are in the TSA.
Speaker 4: Don't fault them for this. But I'm not sure you
Speaker 4: need to be lecturing me.
Speaker 5: Right, Yeah, I've been thinking about this a lot, This
Speaker 5: lesson about how to live your life that I've learned
Speaker 5: from the TSA. Remind me to talk about that, Michael,
Speaker 5: What I've learned from the TSA. Okay, I've talked about
Speaker 5: this before, but I've really nailed it down in my
Speaker 5: head since then.
Speaker 4: Oh, wisdom can come from anywhere. Clearly, I'm fascinated by
Speaker 4: this faith.
Speaker 5: The other thing that I can't do now that I
Speaker 5: don't have a real idea, is I can't go into
Speaker 5: a federal biding now. I was planning to visit the
Speaker 5: Department of Interior because I had a few things I
Speaker 5: wanted to tell them, But I can't get in there anymore.
Speaker 5: I no longer can go into a federal building without
Speaker 5: a reality.
Speaker 3: You'll just have to pick at them.
Speaker 4: Chu's back and forth outside with your placards decrying the
Speaker 4: treatment of buffalo or mountains.
Speaker 5: Or change from they do there. It's really changed my
Speaker 5: summer plans. So I got to look into that we
Speaker 5: should start the show officially before we get into more
Speaker 5: than news the day. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty.
Speaker 3: I think.
Speaker 4: These are a cough button. There is a button.
Speaker 5: These are my final days, o buttons, These are my
Speaker 5: last days. It is Wednesday, May the seventh, or twenty
Speaker 5: twenty five. We are armstrung in getting and we approve
Speaker 5: of this program.
Speaker 4: All right, Let's begin then officially according to FCC rules
Speaker 4: and regulations.
Speaker 3: Here we go. We will. I mean, this is going
Speaker 3: to be so good, and it starts at mark.
Speaker 6: Americans have been scrambling to motor vehicle departments to get
Speaker 6: the ID that meets extra security standards, facing long lines
Speaker 6: frustration before the federal deadline goes into effect Wednesday morning.
Speaker 4: All right, because of the Vietnam War, I mean Watergate.
Speaker 4: I mean, oh, that's right, nine to eleven. Not to
Speaker 4: minimize the horror of that day for many folks, but
Speaker 4: come on.
Speaker 5: I actually read a pretty good breakdown of all the
Speaker 5: delays and how this all occurred in terms of something
Speaker 5: last night while I was laying in bed coughing.
Speaker 3: It's really pretty interesting, and really.
Speaker 5: It just points out the way things work in the
Speaker 5: world of government. I mean, you know, take that that
Speaker 5: we've been working on for twenty years and really something
Speaker 5: pretty minor, and turn that into you're gonna redo the
Speaker 5: entire air traffic control system that you've been putting off
Speaker 5: for decades.
Speaker 3: How long will that take? I'll be long well, I'll
Speaker 3: be dead by this weekend.
Speaker 5: But like other people who are younger, you'll be long
Speaker 5: dead before they actually rehab this system. I mean, based
Speaker 5: on the way the relafe, the real idea doesn't even
Speaker 5: require anything.
Speaker 4: Right, right, And I wish I were more adept at
Speaker 4: describing the two different approaches, but I probably don't need
Speaker 4: to very accurately because people know what I'm talking about
Speaker 4: when I say there is an incrementalist The bureaucracy is
Speaker 4: our priority approach to government and government reform. You know,
Speaker 4: call it the swamp if you want the permanent bureaucracy
Speaker 4: whatever the turf protecting and budget protecting class in DC.
Speaker 4: And then there are the disruptors, be the Doji types
Speaker 4: from the World Attack or Donald J. For all of
Speaker 4: his sins, he doesn't mind disrupting things. And to the
Speaker 4: extent that we let the disruptors do their thing, I
Speaker 4: think we win. And to the extent that we go
Speaker 4: with the same old incrementalist bureaucracy.
Speaker 3: First types, you get a result like this.
Speaker 4: I can't wait to hear you describing the steps the
Speaker 4: history of it, because it's unintentionally hilarious.
Speaker 5: So Katie's back. We got our headlines. What's that radio
Speaker 5: show you're listening to? Armstrong and Getty?
Speaker 3: Oh? Is that the one with the guy with the
Speaker 3: death rattle? Yeah?
Speaker 5: Oh, I love that show. Is aren't that many radio
Speaker 5: shows where the guy has a death rattle? Like I knew,
Speaker 5: you know, you don't get that every day. So we've
Speaker 5: got Katie's headlines on the way and more news of
Speaker 5: the day. I hope you can stay here. One thing
Speaker 5: about being under the weather. It makes me feel more
Speaker 5: comfortable watching NBA action and man, there were some great
Speaker 5: NBA games last night. Holy Cow's been fantastic playoffs.
Speaker 3: Super Oh.
Speaker 4: Got a lot of great news to come, discussions ranging
Speaker 4: from the very very practical to the philosophical and high minded.
Speaker 5: The bidens are in between. The bidens are on the
Speaker 5: View today. Joe and Jill are on the View today.
Speaker 4: Oh my well, we got to get plenty of audio
Speaker 4: from that. He did an interview with the BBC the
Speaker 4: other day and I read some of the transcript of it,
Speaker 4: and it was incoherent, both syntactically, meaning his choice of
Speaker 4: words and how he's strong ideas together and the ideas themselves.
Speaker 5: But she was still she must still be running that train.
Speaker 5: There must be evil, man, there must not evil and
Speaker 5: nuts because anybody who had any sense would say, no,
Speaker 5: no more interviews. You're done with interviews for the rest
Speaker 5: of your life. It will only make your life.
Speaker 4: Worse and further tarnish your legacy, such as it is. Yeah, anyway,
Speaker 4: much to come, but first let's figure out who's reporting what.
Speaker 4: It's the lead story with Katie Green. Katie, great to
Speaker 4: have you back. What's happening?
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 3: Starting with ABC.
Speaker 7: Military says at least twenty six dead in Pakistan in
Speaker 7: overnight India attacks.
Speaker 5: Yeah, this is either one of the many skirmishes they've
Speaker 5: had since nineteen forty seven or whatever, or you know,
Speaker 5: it's a nuclear holocaust, one of the two.
Speaker 3: From CNN.
Speaker 7: Air traffic controller says Newark Airport Systems outage was the
Speaker 7: most dangerous situation in years.
Speaker 3: I have no doubt.
Speaker 4: Well, want to talk more about this, as we did
Speaker 4: somewhat yesterday, and as we have a little bit to
Speaker 4: the nature of those who seek to actually fix problems
Speaker 4: versus bureaucrats who pretend to seek that well to our benefit.
Speaker 3: Maybe the fact that it happened in.
Speaker 5: The backyard of the major media, they're paying way more
Speaker 5: attention to it than if the same thing it had
Speaker 5: happened at LAX.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 7: From the Wall Street Journal, Supreme Court lets Trump's ban
Speaker 7: on transgender military.
Speaker 3: Service take effect. The illegitimate Trump Court please.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's going to wind its way through the lower course.
Speaker 4: But between now and then, they say, all right, you
Speaker 4: want to keep the I don't know if I'm here
Speaker 4: or she's out of the military for a little while
Speaker 4: ago ahead interesting, you.
Speaker 7: Guys touched on this, but this was just sprawled across
Speaker 7: the top of USA. Today, real idea requirement officially takes effect.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I will get into the hony. How many people
Speaker 5: have actually done this in some states? The compliance is
Speaker 5: so incredibly low it's amazing.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 7: From the New York Times, China agreed to US tariff
Speaker 7: talks but is likely to play hardball.
Speaker 3: I'm sure they are, as are we.
Speaker 4: We have got huge, you know, practically intractable problems between us.
Speaker 4: It's gonna be a hell of a slog in the
Speaker 4: best circumstance.
Speaker 5: Secretary Bess said today, we just want fair trade, not
Speaker 5: to decouple, which is a pretty big statement. Oh, since
Speaker 5: I think we're heading toward the coupling from.
Speaker 4: The Washgic decoupling perhaps, but not dolls and pencils, right,
Speaker 4: how many pencils?
Speaker 3: From the Washington Post.
Speaker 7: Another Navy jet falls into the sea, marking fourth major
Speaker 7: mishap in months.
Speaker 3: I didn't know that. Where did that happen?
Speaker 7: A Navy fighter jet failed to land on an aircraft
Speaker 7: carrier and it went into the Red Sea yesterday.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 4: Okay, well that's a little different and just tumbling off,
Speaker 4: you know, at rest doing good though, just like the
Speaker 4: captain of the boat, get insurance money if the plane
Speaker 4: falls off.
Speaker 3: What's going on?
Speaker 7: From NBC, Saint Peter's Square fills with excitement ahead of
Speaker 7: the conclave.
Speaker 4: You whatever floats your boat. Jack's into the NBA playoffs.
Speaker 3: I'm not. Some people are into the conclave. It's fun
Speaker 3: the Pope playoffs if you will.
Speaker 4: Oh, later on, I want to get into the Vatican's
Speaker 4: financial woes, which are extreme and I mean they make
Speaker 4: like the federal budget deficit. Look, okay, time really, time
Speaker 4: to sell Peter's bones. Ohh he's renting them out.
Speaker 3: Oh please don't strike me down for that joke. Jack.
Speaker 3: It was Jack's fault. God, he jack led me into sin.
Speaker 7: From the New York Post, pet raccoon with meth pipe
Speaker 7: in his mouth found in driver's seat during traffic stop
Speaker 7: that led to drug bust.
Speaker 5: Well that's quite a headline there, so driving metht up raccoon.
Speaker 4: Turn your back on a methed up raccoon. Man, it
Speaker 4: was Ohio, damn, Ohio. Ohio is a meme among kids
Speaker 4: for some reason. It's like the state you make fun
Speaker 4: of My kids are always Ohio.
Speaker 5: I don't know where it came from, but here you
Speaker 5: got a met up driving raccoon.
Speaker 3: So here you that's not gonna help.
Speaker 7: No, And finally from the Babylon be Bill Belichick's girlfriend
Speaker 7: leaves him.
Speaker 3: For Lou Holtz. What an older.
Speaker 4: Yeah, wow, wow wow, So Florida man's got to be
Speaker 4: wiping his brown thinking poo. Little focus on Ohio for
Speaker 4: a couple of minutes. This is good.
Speaker 3: So here you go. Here's some of your compliance rates.
Speaker 3: New Jersey. We'll start with the lowest.
Speaker 5: New has the lowest compliance rate as of today on
Speaker 5: the Real Idea at seventeen percent. Seventeen percent of people
Speaker 5: got the Real Idea on time.
Speaker 3: In New Jersey, you.
Speaker 4: Can't get one out of five, so you can obviously
Speaker 4: that is that is a state, by the way, in
Speaker 4: which many many folks saw the planes hit the World
Speaker 4: Trade Center across the river, or lost people at Canter
Speaker 4: Fitzgerald or or what have you. Since this is arguably
Speaker 4: a post nine to eleven Thingam a jigger? You can't
Speaker 4: get one in five?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's and obviously the enforcing it.
Speaker 5: You can't, I mean, because how many people who live
Speaker 5: in New Jersey fly for work? Tens of thousands, sure,
Speaker 5: And so you're not just gonna say no, you can't work.
Speaker 5: You didn't get it on time? What this stupid id
Speaker 5: for nine to eleven that does nothing? You're not gonna
Speaker 5: let me fly. I got work to do. I mean,
Speaker 5: it's just ridiculous that you would. You couldn't force that.
Speaker 5: You just couldn't. There are other states doing better. But
Speaker 5: let's so let's go to the next rung up. Uh,
Speaker 5: who else is in the bottom quintile zero to twenty percent?
Speaker 3: That's just twenty to forty percent. So it's kind of interesting.
Speaker 5: It looks to me at first glance, most of your
Speaker 5: blue states have low compliance. Most of your red states
Speaker 5: have high compliance. They're at damn near one hundred percent
Speaker 5: in Nebraska, Wyoming, Georgia, like Kansas, New Mexico, Texas, states
Speaker 5: like that are very high in compliance. You get to California,
Speaker 5: it drops way down. Oregon, Washington, places like that, it
Speaker 5: drops way down. I don't know if that Illinois, I
Speaker 5: don't know if there's any you know, rhyme or reason
Speaker 5: to that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I could hazard guesses that would tend to back
Speaker 4: up my worldview. But I am curious to know why
Speaker 4: that might be.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but I I don't know if it makes me
Speaker 5: feel better. That's kind of feeling like as one of
Speaker 5: the least responsible adults in America. But me and the
Speaker 5: other seven eighty three percent of New Jerseyans are in
Speaker 5: the same boat.
Speaker 4: You ought to consider a move to the Garden State.
Speaker 4: Hoevulcan's beautiful this time of year.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So, I don't know what those of us without a
Speaker 5: real ID will do. I guess we're gonna get the
Speaker 5: body cavity search. We want to get on a plane.
Speaker 3: Good.
Speaker 4: So for all the big stories of the day coming
Speaker 4: up in a moment or two, so.
Speaker 1: Much to talk about.
Speaker 8: Let's talk about the auto industry. This is an industry
Speaker 8: that is probably the most interconnected between the US and Canada.
Speaker 8: GM Ford and Stilantis, the big three US automakers nine
Speaker 8: plants in Canada alone. These are final assembly plants and
Speaker 8: parts plants. You have parts and vehicles crossing between the
Speaker 8: US and Canada up to seven to nine times before
Speaker 8: that vehicle is fully assembled.
Speaker 5: That's something we learned from this whole pair of thing
Speaker 5: who knew. It's hard for me to imagine that that
Speaker 5: is efficient. Obviously it is, or they wouldn't be doing it,
Speaker 5: But it's just it's amazing that the most efficient way
Speaker 5: to do it is to have, you know, chunks of
Speaker 5: or the whole car pass back and forth nine times
Speaker 5: across the border.
Speaker 4: I read an account the life story of a particular
Speaker 4: component of transmissions that was like the classic eye pencil
Speaker 4: in a way. If you've never read that, I'd recommend
Speaker 4: it highly. Just google it, you'll find it. But they
Speaker 4: were talking about how, you know, this little widget is
Speaker 4: then fitted into that wadget, it crosses the border, and
Speaker 4: then the motherboard is over there, so you just ship
Speaker 4: it back and forth across the border to get the
Speaker 4: mother board put on blah blah blah, And it does
Speaker 4: indeed across the border a half dozen times or so,
Speaker 4: that particular part of a car.
Speaker 5: The point of that story being, how do you work
Speaker 5: out a tariff system with that going on?
Speaker 3: That makes any sense?
Speaker 4: You can straighten out trade deals that no longer make
Speaker 4: any sense in the twenty first century, but no, you
Speaker 4: cannot have a functioning twenty first century on me with
Speaker 4: that sort of tariff, especially with your most important trading partners.
Speaker 4: It's clearly a fantasy that you could ever make that work.
Speaker 5: We got to play more of those clips of Trump
Speaker 5: with the Canadian Prime Minister. That was something when you
Speaker 5: had sitting there. He said, Olle, you look at the
Speaker 5: line on the map. It's a straight line. Somebody drew
Speaker 5: it with a ruler. I mean you just like I'm
Speaker 5: a builder, I'm an artist. It's just so beautiful. The
Speaker 5: whole thing together, it just would look so much better.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and Carney, the new Canadian PM man, he is
Speaker 4: the master of the poker face and diplomacy. Because it
Speaker 4: was I'd heard some of the audio yesterday during the
Speaker 4: show and had one impression. Then I saw the videos
Speaker 4: and longer versions of the conversation. Oh, it's uncomfortable to watch.
Speaker 4: But anyway, more on that to come. Speaking of the
Speaker 4: auto parts and crossing the border and that sort of thing,
Speaker 4: I came across this the other day and found it
Speaker 4: really interesting. The F thirty five is our most advanced
Speaker 4: fighter jet. It is known as the most expensive weapon
Speaker 4: in the history of the world.
Speaker 3: It's worth I.
Speaker 5: Don't know how many billions of dollars each that Unfortunately,
Speaker 5: China has replicated almost perfectly by stealing all our technology.
Speaker 3: They're among the most capable thieves ever. Oh.
Speaker 4: With the cost of more than two trillion dollars over
Speaker 4: the program's life cycle, the F thirty five has already
Speaker 4: been dubbed the world's most expensive weapon. But the part
Speaker 4: that I wanted to bring up is to make one.
Speaker 4: It is reliant for more than eighty parts on a
Speaker 4: little known company based in a quiet Danish suburb. This
Speaker 4: company happens to be the supplier of certain widgets that
Speaker 4: the plane needs, in fact eighty different ones. But overall,
Speaker 4: the jet fighter made by Lockheed Martin, good American company
Speaker 4: made in America, has more than nineteen hundred suppliers of
Speaker 4: parts from more than a dozen countries that provide everything
Speaker 4: from tiny chipboards to.
Speaker 5: The ejector seat man. That is the free market. You
Speaker 5: could never do that with central planning and pull it off.
Speaker 4: Oh no, no, the most well, the central planning part
Speaker 4: of it has caused it to be wildly over budget
Speaker 4: and delayed, and the rest of it. Honestly, but the
Speaker 4: most American of American weapons that when they roar over ahead,
Speaker 4: you think that's the sound of freedom.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 4: They're assembled from parts from dozens of different countries that
Speaker 4: cross many borders many times.
Speaker 5: Yeah, anyway, it's just posturing me. It's a sound of
Speaker 5: some hoofy rebel losing his head.
Speaker 3: That's what I hear.
Speaker 4: Well, and most of the rest of the world you
Speaker 4: hear that sound. You're about to have a very long
Speaker 4: day moving along. There's some headlines worth considering today. The
Speaker 4: first one was the first thing I saw this morning
Speaker 4: when I woke up an hour and forty five minutes
Speaker 4: before my alarm with my brain switched on, unable to
Speaker 4: turn it off. I want to talk later on about
Speaker 4: what I was thinking about, not now.
Speaker 3: Now here's your headline.
Speaker 4: US orders intelligence agencies to step up spying on Greenland.
Speaker 3: Ah.
Speaker 4: The effort underscores the seriousness of Trump's intend to acquire
Speaker 4: the island from Denmark.
Speaker 3: So we're gonna spy on fifty five thousand rock scrubbers.
Speaker 3: What are we gonna learn?
Speaker 4: They're fine foot rock scrubbers. That's is that some sort
Speaker 4: of new racist term that you've read on the internet,
Speaker 4: young man, I'll not have it. So apparently I'm woke,
Speaker 4: right or something or something. Several high ranking officials under
Speaker 4: the DNI. Tull Z Gabbard issued a collection emphasis message
Speaker 4: to intelligence agency heads last week. That's kind of the
Speaker 4: official term that that, you know, the agencies that have surveillance, satellites,
Speaker 4: communication intercept spies on the ground. That's telling them, look,
Speaker 4: this is a priority. You need to be aware of
Speaker 4: this and get ready to do some stuff. But they
Speaker 4: were directed to learn more about Greenland's independence movement and
Speaker 4: attitudes on American resource extraction on the island.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 4: Interestingly, James Hewett, national Security Council spokesman, said the White
Speaker 4: House doesn't comment on intelligence matters, but added, quote, the
Speaker 4: President's been very clear that the US is concerned about
Speaker 4: the security of Greenland and the Arctic.
Speaker 3: Which is a very good and positive and.
Speaker 4: Productive way to put it, because we are quite appropriately.
Speaker 3: How we or what we do to enhance.
Speaker 4: The security of Greenland and the Arctic and thereby the
Speaker 4: United States. As you know, it's worth discussing. But then
Speaker 4: Tulsey yourself said, quote, the Wall Street journals should beat
Speaker 4: they broke the story. The Wall Street Journal should be
Speaker 4: ashamed of aiding deep state actors who seek to undermine
Speaker 4: the president by politicizing and leaking classified information.
Speaker 3: They are breaking the lawn, undermining our.
Speaker 4: Nation's security and democracy, to which I'm sure the Wall
Speaker 4: Street Journal said, your people leaked to us. Dude, stop
Speaker 4: yelling at us. Danish embassy declined to comment, but are
Speaker 4: rolling their eyes violently.
Speaker 3: I'm sure. Total change in topic.
Speaker 4: Love this story, man, I will bang this gong until
Speaker 4: I am My banging days are done. The headline, also
Speaker 4: from the Wall Street Journal. The high school juniors with
Speaker 4: seventy thousand dollars a year job offers companies with shortages
Speaker 4: of skilled workers are looking to shop class to recruit
Speaker 4: future hires. One kid quoted like, I'm an athlete, getting
Speaker 4: all this attention from all these pro teams.
Speaker 3: Isn't that something? What kind of doing?
Speaker 7: What?
Speaker 3: Well? This kid? They Elijah.
Speaker 4: He won't graduate from high school until next year, but
Speaker 4: he's got a job offer for just under seventy grand
Speaker 4: a year.
Speaker 3: He's seventeen years old.
Speaker 4: He's taking welding classes at a Catholic high school in
Speaker 4: Philadelphia that works closely with companies looking for workers in
Speaker 4: the skilled trades. They're recruiting them straight out of high school.
Speaker 5: That's so much better a path than some nonsense degree
Speaker 5: taking on two hundred thousand dollars in debt, delaying four
Speaker 5: years of entering the workplace for a job that isn't
Speaker 5: going to be as good at paying.
Speaker 3: As that one or as secure. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4: One of the most successful people I know was a
Speaker 4: mechanic who rose to the head of the mechanics who
Speaker 4: rose to I understand how this technical thing works. I'll
Speaker 4: bet I could open a business doing it, and he did.
Speaker 4: And he knows nothing of social degrees and women's studies
Speaker 4: and the rest of it. It's also hell a nice guy.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I'm so happy with this. I'm going to
Speaker 4: send this to my kids, honestly, anyway. So, and he's
Speaker 4: just one example of a number of employers in plumbing,
Speaker 4: electrical work, welding, and other fields that are teaming up
Speaker 4: with high schools helping kids earn work full time, earning
Speaker 4: money as well as academic credit credit. And the employers
Speaker 4: say that the skilled trades are becoming more tech infused
Speaker 4: and they anticipate doing even more recruitment at an early
Speaker 4: age because they need workers who are comfortable programming and
Speaker 4: running computer diagnostics and doing some of the more traditional stuff. Anyway,
Speaker 4: I thought that was a cool story, good for that
Speaker 4: plucky young man. Another complete change of topic. EV sales
Speaker 4: streak grinds to a sudden halt.
Speaker 3: Drunk, yes, let me guess yanking the subsidies.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, oh yeah, among other things. And I have
Speaker 4: more information on this. I'm weighing how much time we
Speaker 4: got to spend on it right now. The politics exchanged
Speaker 4: completely in the EV thing.
Speaker 3: We mentioned yesterday that the.
Speaker 4: California wild eyed we're gonna have nothing but EV's by
Speaker 4: the year twenty thirty four program that Biden's EPA said, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: good idea and a bunch of other states adopted now
Speaker 4: was overwhelmingly kicked out by the House of Representatives, including
Speaker 4: twenty three or something. There's a couple of dozen Democratic votes.
Speaker 4: And so that whole thing is over. And sales of
Speaker 4: evs in the US fell by about five percent last month.
Speaker 3: That is the first decline. Oh I'm sorry.
Speaker 4: Monthly EV sales in the US have only declined three
Speaker 4: times in individual months since twenty twenty one. They have
Speaker 4: grown every single month except for three in the last
Speaker 4: four years. And they dropped significantly last month.
Speaker 5: In people don't want them. People just don't want them. Well,
Speaker 5: some people want them, not very many. No, no, and
Speaker 5: people want them should feel free to get them. They're
Speaker 5: very cheap right now.
Speaker 4: You can buy a used Tesla mudde less a couple
Speaker 4: of dozen thousand miles for in the twenties and thirty grand.
Speaker 3: I mean they're practically new.
Speaker 4: Declines were across most brands, from Kida Hyundai to Ford Tesla,
Speaker 4: which accounted for nearly half of EV sales in the US.
Speaker 4: The bidenministration never mentioned.
Speaker 3: The whole thing is so screwed up.
Speaker 5: So Tesla has been the only dent ever made even
Speaker 5: a little bit and electric cars, and it got ignored
Speaker 5: by the White House all those years because they're.
Speaker 3: Not part of the United Auto Workers thing.
Speaker 4: They weren't getting money from or given money through their
Speaker 4: union goons to the White House.
Speaker 3: That's right anyway.
Speaker 4: Tesla reported that sales dropped nearly thirteen percent. Sales of
Speaker 4: Rivian's two main models declined by half.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I don't know. That's a tough one. It's
Speaker 5: a lot like solar.
Speaker 4: There's a big controversy going on in cal Unicornia right
Speaker 4: now with solar because it used to be heavily subsidized
Speaker 4: and then so many people did it. It interfered with
Speaker 4: the mobbed up utilities and their profits and the grid
Speaker 4: and the rest of it. And so now the same
Speaker 4: people who like threaten you at gunpoint to get solar
Speaker 4: in California are now telling you, yeah, you're thieving from
Speaker 4: poor people, and you're like what, And so they're imposed
Speaker 4: surch charges and taking away all the incentives and stuff
Speaker 4: like that. It was all government bribes, right, Well, I
Speaker 4: drove seven pounds of Nazi steel to work today, but
Speaker 4: most people who bought teslas and stuff like that did
Speaker 4: it because you got these giant rebates. You know, you
Speaker 4: got seventy if you're under a certain income or whatever,
Speaker 4: you got seventy five hundred dollars knocked off. And then
Speaker 4: you got all this electric brakes and all these different things.
Speaker 4: And when those go away, people aren't near as interested.
Speaker 5: And then when you know, the whole Hitler salute from
Speaker 5: Elon and everything, so then that took the blew them
Speaker 5: off the rows of that part of it, and so
Speaker 5: that crowd doesn't want the cars right right. And finally, well,
Speaker 5: we've got a lot of like foreign policy stories I
Speaker 5: want to get to, but I wanted to touch on
Speaker 5: this at least briefly, how bad is China's economy? The
Speaker 5: data needed to answer that question is vanishing. Beijing is
Speaker 5: stopped publishing hundreds of statistics, making it harder to know
Speaker 5: what's going on in the country, and one need not
Speaker 5: have a PhD in comparative politics from Harvard to know
Speaker 5: what's going on there. They're not publishing any other statistics anymore.
Speaker 3: Gee, I wonder why.
Speaker 5: And they've always lied anyway. I remember hearing the things
Speaker 5: Tank people take. You either have to have or double
Speaker 5: whatever they claim. I mean, if it's something they claim
Speaker 5: is good, to cut it in half. If it's something bad,
Speaker 5: you need to double it. That that's how much they
Speaker 5: lie about them anyway. So now they're not even putting
Speaker 5: the stats out at all.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry. I've just got to scratch where I'm itching.
Speaker 4: And for years and years and years I would read
Speaker 4: like China sickopants like Thomas Friedman commenting on the consistent
Speaker 4: five to eight percent growth when everybody knew those figures
Speaker 4: were a lie anyway.
Speaker 5: Who worships authoritarianism? Who who does?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Land sales, foreign investment, unemployment indicators have gone dark in
Speaker 4: recent years. Data on cremations, business confidence index. All of
Speaker 4: it has gone dark, and in most cases Chinese authorities
Speaker 4: have not given any reason for ending or withholding the data.
Speaker 3: Duh, I wonder why?
Speaker 5: So we got stuff on the Diddy trial, we got
Speaker 5: stuff on the real ID which is out today.
Speaker 3: Joe's got mail bag coming up. All on the way.
Speaker 3: Stay here.
Speaker 5: We keep joking about. Now we've got the real ID.
Speaker 5: So nine to eleven can happen a quarter century ago.
Speaker 5: It actually goes further than back than that. The start
Speaker 5: of this was the Oklahoma City bombing. That's why we
Speaker 5: started the real ID program. That's thirty years ago. More
Speaker 5: on that in hour two. It's a ridiculous example of
Speaker 5: how screwed up government is.
Speaker 4: Hey, mister slow and steady wins their race right thirty
Speaker 4: thirty years Oh God help us.
Speaker 3: Here's your freedom loving quote of the day. Love is
Speaker 3: sent along by Joseph, who lives not far from You're
Speaker 3: ready Orange.
Speaker 4: It's actually a verse from the Bible from Thessalonians, Second Thessalonians,
Speaker 4: Chapter three. If you must know, verse eleven twelve, we
Speaker 4: hear that some among you are idle and disruptive. They
Speaker 4: are not busy. They are busy bodies. Such people we
Speaker 4: command and urge in the Lord Jesus Christ to settle
Speaker 4: down and earn the food they eat. The Bible wouldn't
Speaker 4: mind here in the King James version of that. That's
Speaker 4: obviously a modern translation, but.
Speaker 3: Which I will not listen to.
Speaker 4: We command and urge in the name of the Lord
Speaker 4: to settle down and earn the food you eat.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the sit around and talk about other people has
Speaker 5: always been a human nature thing.
Speaker 4: Huh yeah, yeah, it has. Indeed, more on that to come.
Speaker 4: Mailbag drop us now, won't you? Mail bag at Armstrong
Speaker 4: and Giddy dot com. Here's note from Jack in beautiful Wellington,
Speaker 4: Kansas talking to here at the radio ranch.
Speaker 2: Jack.
Speaker 4: Please stay strong, take it easy, and whatever you do,
Speaker 4: don't die until sometime between nine thirty Thursday or Friday,
Speaker 4: between eleven forty five pm and midnight. Those are the
Speaker 4: squares I got stuck with in the bedding pool, the.
Speaker 5: Number of people applying for the job from with me,
Speaker 5: you know, impending death. And then of course white smoke
Speaker 5: will come out when you've chosen a co host after
Speaker 5: I die, exactly.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And there's a lot of bribery going on, not
Speaker 4: enough though, keep those checks coming well, Love this from
Speaker 4: loyal listener Robert. All Right, what in the hell am
Speaker 4: I supposed to do with a warehouse.
Speaker 3: Full of these? And it's Huesday.
Speaker 4: I obviously to create an image of a doll made
Speaker 4: out of pencils all but as I was so counting
Speaker 4: on each household buying a couple dozen at least, I
Speaker 4: still have my job at the Department of Education.
Speaker 3: Gotta go call coming in from a boss.
Speaker 5: That is unfortunate timing that pencil dolls were going to
Speaker 5: be so hot this year.
Speaker 3: Oh that's funny.
Speaker 4: Now a feature that will continue on if I remember
Speaker 4: to do it. I'd like to call five Days of Cliff.
Speaker 4: Cliff has written as a fairly long multipart email. I
Speaker 4: am going to take on one part per day because
Speaker 4: all of it it wants is way too much. Five
Speaker 4: Days of Cliff, Five days of Actually it's four now
Speaker 4: that I look at my highlighting. Four days of Cliff.
Speaker 4: Jack talked about an article you guys discussed on having
Speaker 4: the perfect day several days ago. Nowhere on the list
Speaker 4: was bacon, so it had to be a deep fake article.
Speaker 4: No one except possibly someone without taste Buds, would exclude
Speaker 4: bacon from the list of the requirements for a perfect day.
Speaker 4: Sometime with close family members and friends would be okay too,
Speaker 4: but not over six hours in not without bacon. Ah,
Speaker 4: that's day one of cliff fantastic freaking Correspondent Pallas says, sorry,
Speaker 4: I don't recall the specifics, but you're talking about how
Speaker 4: people in charge of things often have no special expertise.
Speaker 3: Had to do Trump and Doge.
Speaker 4: I think some people who are successful and get things
Speaker 4: done are not necessarily the world's foremost authorities.
Speaker 3: And what they're doing, they're no doubt knowledgeable.
Speaker 4: But the most important quality is that they are committed, confident,
Speaker 4: and forceful, and they are not afraid to fail.
Speaker 3: I think that's true of Trump.
Speaker 4: Those of us those qualities to promote something that turns
Speaker 4: out to be good or lauded, even perhaps more than
Speaker 4: is warranted.
Speaker 3: Blah blah blah.
Speaker 4: Anyway, it's the survival of the fittest in the world
Speaker 4: of ideas.
Speaker 3: He says, I thought that was interesting. More email to come.
Speaker 5: We're out of time, Yeah, the real I d stuff
Speaker 5: a couple of new wars to get excited about, a
Speaker 5: bunch of stuff on the way.
Speaker 3: So hope you can stay, stay here
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