WEBVTT - Backin' Up the Claims 0:00:02.520 --> 0:00:06.800 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.880 --> 0:00:08.319 Washington Broadcast Center. 0:00:08.480 --> 0:00:13.200 Jack Armstrong, Joe Kaddy, I'm strong and Jackie and now he. 0:00:16.040 --> 0:00:16.840 Arms all. 0:00:23.280 --> 0:00:29.360 Well, I've been abandoned. Joe abandoned me. He and his 0:00:29.400 --> 0:00:30.320 wife Judy are on. 0:00:30.320 --> 0:00:35.440 A fortieth anniversary vacation starting today. 0:00:35.920 --> 0:00:38.040 He might check in at some point as they are 0:00:38.080 --> 0:00:39.480 going on a cruise. 0:00:41.120 --> 0:00:46.400 In Alaska to Alaska, around Alaska, not exactly sure, and 0:00:47.200 --> 0:00:52.199 Scott Alaska and even Heather Myers or a newsperson has 0:00:52.200 --> 0:00:52.720 abandoned me. 0:00:52.760 --> 0:00:54.840 So I'm completely alone. 0:00:55.360 --> 0:00:57.720 I feel rejected. I feel like I did in high school. 0:00:57.720 --> 0:00:59.440 Actually that's what I do. I feel like I did. 0:00:59.320 --> 0:01:02.560 In ice school. Nobody likes me. I'm all alone. 0:01:03.560 --> 0:01:05.920 We do have some I hadn't planned on starting with 0:01:06.000 --> 0:01:07.920 a ran the war with Iran, and we are going 0:01:07.959 --> 0:01:09.880 to talk to I think Mike Lyons a little bit 0:01:09.920 --> 0:01:11.760 later in the show about that. I also want to 0:01:11.760 --> 0:01:14.119 talk to him about Ussia and Ukraine. Is there some 0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:19.840 even more developments showing that Ukraine might actually win this thing? 0:01:20.080 --> 0:01:20.560 Anyway? 0:01:22.720 --> 0:01:26.480 Got to say something about Iran, some major breaking news 0:01:26.520 --> 0:01:30.600 around that. So the question for the past several days 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:35.440 had been jd Vance and Donald Trump making all kinds 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:38.200 of claims that nobody can back up, and the Aranians 0:01:38.240 --> 0:01:41.000 are saying we didn't agree to that, and everybody wondering, 0:01:41.000 --> 0:01:44.880 are they just lying or what is going on here? Well, 0:01:47.080 --> 0:01:50.080 guy at the head of the IAEA, man, does that 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:52.880 bring back memories talking about Iraq way back in the 0:01:52.960 --> 0:01:56.480 day weapons inspects? That was all the talk back in 0:01:56.520 --> 0:01:58.680 two thousand and three. We went on the air in 0:01:58.760 --> 0:02:02.400 San Francisco in March of two thousand and three, thank 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:07.200 you gladys, because the Iraq war wasn't coming, and lots 0:02:07.200 --> 0:02:11.120 of talk about weapons inspectors and were their weapons of 0:02:11.120 --> 0:02:13.000 mass destruction and all that sort of stuff, and the 0:02:13.000 --> 0:02:15.120 IAEA was right at the center of it. 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:17.480 And the guy from. 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:20.320 The IAEA came out today and said, yeah, yeah, we're 0:02:20.320 --> 0:02:22.680 going to be back on the ground in Iran. It's 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:25.000 part of the deal with Iran, and we've seen it 0:02:25.040 --> 0:02:27.040 with the language and we will be on the ground 0:02:27.360 --> 0:02:32.160 inspecting or attempting to suss out whether or not they've 0:02:32.160 --> 0:02:35.760 got a nuclear program or not. So the IAEA is 0:02:35.840 --> 0:02:39.200 on board. Why Iran continues to say we didn't agree 0:02:39.200 --> 0:02:42.359 to that. I have no idea. I don't know if 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:46.040 they just like jerking Trump around, jerking the world around, 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:52.000 being naughty as they signed on to disagreement to show 0:02:52.040 --> 0:02:54.840 their I don't know what it is, or if they 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:58.399 have to say this for their domestic audience, not the 0:02:58.600 --> 0:03:01.079 college kids that were in the street before they got 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:03.640 mowed down by machine guns who want the regime overthrown. 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:05.799 But you know the people that wear all black enchant 0:03:05.800 --> 0:03:08.080 and death to America in the street. Maybe they and 0:03:08.200 --> 0:03:12.120 because there's still the millions of those people, uh, maybe 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:14.320 they have to to that crowd say we didn't agree 0:03:14.320 --> 0:03:16.920 to that. The United States is not going to dictate 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:21.120 that we give up our nuclear program. According to the IAEA, 0:03:21.360 --> 0:03:28.920 the International Atomic ia Enforcement Administration, I think that's what 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:32.040 it is. According to the IAEA, they are going to 0:03:32.040 --> 0:03:33.600 be on the ground and that's part of the agreement. 0:03:33.639 --> 0:03:36.000 So that's big news. That is big news. JD Vance 0:03:36.120 --> 0:03:38.440 wasn't free lance, and it wasn't making it up, wasn't lying. 0:03:38.840 --> 0:03:40.880 Neither was Trump when they said no, no, Ran doesn't 0:03:40.920 --> 0:03:43.280 know what they're talking about. That isn't part of the agreement. 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:45.600 So maybe that other stuff is part of the agreement too. 0:03:46.240 --> 0:03:49.320 I don't know. So we can talk about that later. 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:53.440 The thing that is pretty big news is the clean 0:03:53.680 --> 0:03:57.720 sweep of socialist candidates there in New York backed by 0:03:58.320 --> 0:04:03.680 Zoran Mandan Mom Dunny, the Communist mayor of New York City. 0:04:03.720 --> 0:04:07.960 He backed to some socialist candidates. This is a primary, 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:11.240 so this is Democrats running against the Democrats. Is one 0:04:11.280 --> 0:04:16.120 of those deals where at least in three races the 0:04:16.160 --> 0:04:18.560 Democrats came out and said, no, we want somebody way 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:21.640 to the left of the person that's currently in charge. 0:04:22.839 --> 0:04:25.960 And is this a really really big deal? I think 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:28.279 it certainly could be. It's a big deal in New York. 0:04:28.279 --> 0:04:30.000 Could it be a big deal for the whole country? 0:04:30.240 --> 0:04:32.880 I guess we'll see over time. But I was reading 0:04:33.120 --> 0:04:43.160 Mark Hauprin's analysis today in his newsletter. Well, a couple 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:47.359 of things that happened. So ha, King Jeffries, who's the 0:04:47.480 --> 0:04:50.880 current leader of the Democrats and the House of Representatives. 0:04:50.880 --> 0:04:53.440 He will be the Speaker of the House when the 0:04:53.480 --> 0:04:55.600 Democrats take back the House in November. I think it's 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:57.680 a when, not an if. It's just by how much 0:04:58.440 --> 0:05:00.680 he will be the Speaker of the House. They put 0:05:00.760 --> 0:05:04.680 him on the screen to congratulate one of those Socialist 0:05:04.800 --> 0:05:06.720 candidates last night after they won and the. 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:07.800 Crowd booed him. 0:05:08.760 --> 0:05:12.400 That's how far out of step with the mainstream Democrat 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:15.560 Party some of these people that won yesterday are they 0:05:15.640 --> 0:05:17.200 booed the guy that's going to be Speaker of the 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:20.919 House and their own party. Kim Jeffreys had endorsed the 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:24.200 other person in that race, and another one of the races, 0:05:24.320 --> 0:05:28.200 Nancy Pelosi had endorsed the guy. It was actually the 0:05:28.240 --> 0:05:32.440 guy that was the leader of the prosecution in Trump's 0:05:32.520 --> 0:05:38.760 first impeachment. Forget his name, Goldman, I think, but anyway, 0:05:39.400 --> 0:05:43.160 established big deal, you know, a ranking Democrat, and he 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:47.719 lost to Nancy Pelosi had backed him, and he lost 0:05:47.760 --> 0:05:51.680 to one of the Mamdani socialist candidates. So Mark Alprin 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:57.000 writing today that the most important implication of what happened 0:05:57.120 --> 0:06:00.760 yesterday is the continuing failure of the establishment of the 0:06:00.800 --> 0:06:04.240 Democratic Party in the media to accept, acknowledge and understand 0:06:04.279 --> 0:06:09.279 a simple historical fact. If the establishment had not rigged 0:06:09.320 --> 0:06:13.520 the rules and mobilized an inside game, Bernie Sanders would 0:06:13.520 --> 0:06:18.200 have been the party's presidential nominee in sixteen and twenty. 0:06:18.560 --> 0:06:22.680 The Democrats rigged the game to stop Bernie from being 0:06:22.720 --> 0:06:27.400 their candidate. Oh my god, the Democratic Party is way 0:06:27.440 --> 0:06:31.839 to the left of where the media and the leading 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:36.760 Democrats think they are. The energy is way left of that. 0:06:36.920 --> 0:06:41.839 And he compares it to how the Republicans ignored, for instance, 0:06:41.960 --> 0:06:45.680 Ron Paul and Pat Buchanan and the and these movements 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:48.320 went in the Republican Party for years and then got 0:06:48.360 --> 0:06:52.159 blindsided by Donald Trump when he comes along and found 0:06:52.160 --> 0:06:56.320 out that, Wow, most Republicans are really happy, unhappy with 0:06:56.480 --> 0:06:58.320 what we've been doing for a long time, and are 0:06:58.360 --> 0:07:00.760 willing to try something different. That is what has been 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:02.800 happening in the Democratic Party for a long time. They 0:07:02.839 --> 0:07:06.599 wanted to elect Bernie the establishment Democrats rigged the game 0:07:06.640 --> 0:07:08.680 so he couldn't get in there. But they pretended that 0:07:08.680 --> 0:07:13.200 that whole movement, you know, wasn't there. Well, lo and behold, 0:07:13.240 --> 0:07:16.160 it turns out they're still there. They're very energized. There's 0:07:16.320 --> 0:07:19.960 more of the young end of it electing these socialist candidates. 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:22.320 And is this going to start sweeping the country. And 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:27.080 what does this mean when the Democrats take back the 0:07:27.080 --> 0:07:29.400 House of Representatives, that they're going to have a really 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:36.600 loud wing of their caucus that could be quite loud 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:39.160 in terms of make a noise for socialists. We'll play 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:40.600 some of the clips a little bit later. But the 0:07:40.600 --> 0:07:43.960 people that won last night chant and free, free Palestine, 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:52.280 eliminate ice, eliminate prisons, government owned grocery stores. I mean, 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:56.800 you know, all that sort of stuff, and wow, I say, wow, 0:07:57.240 --> 0:07:59.760 So that's a pretty big deal. We've got a couple 0:07:59.840 --> 0:08:03.280 of political pundits we'll talk to over the next forty 0:08:03.280 --> 0:08:06.520 eight hours about what that means. We got some foreign 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:10.280 policy military people about what's going on with the war 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:13.440 and wars I should say, wars and all that sort 0:08:13.480 --> 0:08:15.960 of stuff. And then I'll have charming anecdotes from my 0:08:16.040 --> 0:08:19.560 life also that I will throw in. My youngest is 0:08:19.600 --> 0:08:22.559 headed off on a boy scout trip tonight. I dropped 0:08:22.600 --> 0:08:24.000 him off at the airport and he's gonna be gone 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:26.960 for a week. He's actually gonna be gone for three 0:08:27.280 --> 0:08:32.079 weeks out of like twenty four days, so he's only 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:34.880 going to be home for a couple of days in 0:08:34.920 --> 0:08:37.360 a twenty four day period. In three week period, he's 0:08:37.400 --> 0:08:39.200 going to go on these week trips, come back for 0:08:39.320 --> 0:08:41.160 like a day, do laundry, go back on a boy 0:08:41.200 --> 0:08:44.160 scout trip, and stuff really involved with the boy Scouts. 0:08:44.160 --> 0:08:46.360 But it's gonna be very weird for me because I 0:08:46.400 --> 0:08:49.000 have been having him around pretty much every day of 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:51.679 his life, because he's been homeschooled mostly every day of 0:08:51.720 --> 0:08:52.559 his life for. 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:54.920 Since he was born. And he's fourteen, And how am 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:56.120 I going to adjust this? I don't know. 0:08:56.160 --> 0:08:57.720 Am I gonna sit in the corner and cry, I'm 0:08:57.760 --> 0:08:59.960 gonna have a party? Haven't decided yet. Maybe I'll have 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:01.440 a party where at the end of it I will cry. 0:09:01.920 --> 0:09:05.319 I've had that experience also, So we got lots to 0:09:05.360 --> 0:09:08.200 talk about. I have a big list of headlines that 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:11.600 we can mention. A'll run down some of the early 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:13.720 guests we're going to have. We'll get to some of 0:09:13.760 --> 0:09:16.320 those sound bites from the people that won last night, 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:20.440 and how scary that is. As socialism sweeps at least 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:22.280 New York City, we'll see if it's going to start 0:09:22.280 --> 0:09:25.120 sweeping the whole country. Anyway, we've got to start the 0:09:25.160 --> 0:09:26.920 show officially before we get in trouble with the FCC. 0:09:26.960 --> 0:09:28.400 I don't want to end up in the goolog I'm 0:09:28.480 --> 0:09:31.000 Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this. It is Wednesday, 0:09:31.920 --> 0:09:34.280 June twenty fourth. The days are getting shorter the year 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:37.120 twenty twenty six, Armstrong and getting we approve of this program. 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:42.079 What's beginning the show roughly at mark. 0:09:41.960 --> 0:09:45.720 Oil prices falling Brent crue the global benchmark is now 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:48.200 below seventy six dollars a barrel. 0:09:48.200 --> 0:09:49.079 You can see it right there. 0:09:49.120 --> 0:09:51.920 And this is notable. This is a milestone. This is 0:09:51.960 --> 0:09:55.360 the lowest level since the day before the war with 0:09:55.480 --> 0:09:58.480 the Ron began four months ago. So basically oil is 0:09:58.559 --> 0:10:02.559 now lower than it was at the time right before 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:05.680 the war. And also diesel has dipped below five dollars 0:10:05.720 --> 0:10:07.240 for the first time since March. 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:13.480 How about that that's what Trump wanted. I mean, if 0:10:13.480 --> 0:10:16.560 there's a reason Trump made this what I think is 0:10:16.600 --> 0:10:20.640 a bad deal, it is because he needed to get 0:10:20.679 --> 0:10:23.360 oil down, gas prices down for the global economy and 0:10:23.400 --> 0:10:25.720 for the summer in the midterm elections and his approval 0:10:25.800 --> 0:10:27.560 rating and all that sort of stuff. And oil is 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:31.000 now cheaper than it was before the war started. 0:10:31.559 --> 0:10:32.240 How about that. 0:10:32.559 --> 0:10:36.080 I did hear some analysis that I missed this, and 0:10:36.120 --> 0:10:38.920 if this is accurate, this could be a big deal. 0:10:40.440 --> 0:10:44.040 So Trump took a hit from a lot of people 0:10:44.160 --> 0:10:47.040 left right and center over the fact that Iran can 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:52.080 now sell oil in dollars US dollars hard currency for 0:10:52.120 --> 0:10:55.840 the first time in some areas of the energy production. 0:10:55.920 --> 0:10:58.600 It's been decades, so that's sincely been allowed to do this, 0:10:59.440 --> 0:11:01.920 And a lot of people, including me, were calling that, 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:03.000 why would you give in on that? 0:11:03.040 --> 0:11:05.040 Why would you allow that? What is this gift? 0:11:05.960 --> 0:11:10.760 The idea is Iran had been selling oil under the 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:15.480 table to our enemies for a long time at a 0:11:15.640 --> 0:11:22.400 pretty dang high price because they had some They had 0:11:22.400 --> 0:11:25.640 some leverage there over China, for instance, our number one 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:29.959 enemy on our adversary on the planet, call him an enemy. 0:11:29.720 --> 0:11:33.560 They could charge Iran a certain amount of money, say yeah, well, 0:11:33.600 --> 0:11:35.640 we'll get you some oil under the table, but you're 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:37.959 gonna have to pay for it. Now that they're allowed 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:41.280 to sell it on the open market at the market value, 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:44.800 they're actually going to make less money than they were 0:11:44.840 --> 0:11:48.640 making before selling it under the table. Now, if that's true, 0:11:48.720 --> 0:11:51.679 and it certainly could be, that's a really interesting idea, 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:55.200 and I certainly had missed. That also shows you how 0:11:55.280 --> 0:12:00.680 all these sanctions just don't work. Been saying in Iran 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:04.080 forever sanctioned, in North Korea, forever sanctioned. Lots of countries forever. 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:05.800 They often end up getting to do whatever they want 0:12:05.840 --> 0:12:09.439 to do. But if Faran has to sell oil at 0:12:09.559 --> 0:12:12.640 the global price as opposed to they're jacked up under 0:12:12.679 --> 0:12:13.000 the table. 0:12:13.040 --> 0:12:14.120 I'm a drug dealer. Price. 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:17.680 Wow, maybe that is maybe that is a good thing. 0:12:18.040 --> 0:12:19.680 I have to talk to somebody about that. I found 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:21.400 that very interesting. We'll come back with some of the 0:12:21.400 --> 0:12:22.280 headlines next. 0:12:22.280 --> 0:12:32.320 Stay here. I ordered donuts, Michael, donuts are on the way. 0:12:32.480 --> 0:12:36.679 Oh boy, you're happy about that? No, you got the diabetes? 0:12:37.640 --> 0:12:39.360 Can you eat a donut? Or you usually can? But 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:41.120 I eat a little at a time. That is what 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:43.840 I do. How does that help? Eating a little at 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:45.559 a time because I'm not taking a bunch of sugar 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:47.920 in my body at one time, So I don't know 0:12:47.920 --> 0:12:48.560 anything about that. 0:12:48.960 --> 0:12:52.800 So you if you take in sweets, you should take 0:12:52.800 --> 0:12:54.360 in a little bit at the time so your body 0:12:54.360 --> 0:12:57.960 can like, yeah, metabolize the sugar as you go exactly. 0:12:58.040 --> 0:13:00.480 And also all interest I drink water, I'll have protein 0:13:00.559 --> 0:13:02.880 with it and so it's not just pure sugar going 0:13:02.920 --> 0:13:03.800 into my bloodstream. 0:13:04.240 --> 0:13:06.000 I didn't know that. Shouldn' y' all be doing that? 0:13:06.160 --> 0:13:06.640 Or is that only? 0:13:06.679 --> 0:13:10.199 Does that matter to me? Should I eating my doughnut slowly. 0:13:10.360 --> 0:13:12.200 That's what I would do. I tend to jam the 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:14.000 whole thing in my mouth and then show it like 0:13:14.040 --> 0:13:17.439 a beaver or a squirrel or something, and then swallow 0:13:17.440 --> 0:13:18.360 it in giant chunks. 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:20.199 But that's one option. 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:25.560 Interesting, I didn't know that. Okay, to go through some 0:13:25.600 --> 0:13:28.120 of the headlines, as I mentioned, Heather Myers also abandon 0:13:28.440 --> 0:13:30.640 abandoning me this week, I'm on my own. 0:13:31.760 --> 0:13:33.559 Everybody had headlines last night. 0:13:33.679 --> 0:13:36.880 I was looking at the Washington Post, New York Times, 0:13:39.360 --> 0:13:41.200 Wall Street Journal, La Times. 0:13:41.240 --> 0:13:41.840 Everybody. 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:47.240 Mayor Zorn Mamdani emerges a power broker as three of 0:13:47.280 --> 0:13:53.840 his socialist backed candidates win against mainstream Democrats. This definitely 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:55.920 could be a big deal, and we'll talk more about 0:13:55.960 --> 0:13:58.240 that later. As I said earlier, a couple of other 0:13:58.320 --> 0:14:01.960 things is from the New York Times, The War the 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:04.880 World Forgot. You probably don't even know this is going on, 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:08.840 but it is brutal, overshattered, overshadowed by conflicts in Iran, 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:13.800 Ukraine and beyond, the fighting in Myanmar's isolated heartland has 0:14:13.840 --> 0:14:16.280 reached new depths. And I read some of the paragraphs 0:14:16.280 --> 0:14:19.560 about this, and there are places on this earth where 0:14:19.600 --> 0:14:23.000 people are fighting for their lives, giving up their lives 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:25.040 to defend their families. 0:14:26.880 --> 0:14:27.760 In wars that. 0:14:27.960 --> 0:14:30.240 Nobody is paying any attention to man. It is the 0:14:30.320 --> 0:14:34.240 history of mankind. This has always existed, probably always will exist. 0:14:34.280 --> 0:14:38.000 But it's just brutal, brutal, brutal, brutal. I don't know 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:41.000 if there's any advantage in Actually don't know if there's 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:45.160 any advantage in knowing about that or not. Does that 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:47.720 help them any if I know what's going on, Does 0:14:47.720 --> 0:14:49.280 it help my soul any. 0:14:49.200 --> 0:14:50.880 To know that's going on? I don't know. 0:14:51.240 --> 0:14:54.040 That's a good question right there. I'll ask a philosopher, 0:14:54.080 --> 0:14:58.160 a priest, and a hobo, and I have give them 0:14:58.200 --> 0:15:02.960 give their opinion. The TSA has a new idea, according 0:15:03.000 --> 0:15:04.000 to the Wall Street Journal. 0:15:04.040 --> 0:15:04.520 Listen to this. 0:15:06.080 --> 0:15:08.720 You go through your security in the suburbs. They have 0:15:08.840 --> 0:15:12.920 some sort of TSA checkpoint far away from the airport. 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:15.360 You do your security there, then you take a bus 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:17.800 to the airport. They're trying this in a couple of 0:15:17.800 --> 0:15:20.920 different places in the country. Wall Street Journal tested it out, 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:22.880 and we'll get to what they thought of it coming 0:15:22.920 --> 0:15:24.560 up a little bit later. I'm trying to picture that 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:31.720 uh SO is this just like I assume you'd be 0:15:32.080 --> 0:15:36.040 parking there. Yeah, so were they going to have to 0:15:36.080 --> 0:15:38.720 have new parking lots or you're parking. I don't understand 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:41.360 the parking aspect of this, but you go through your 0:15:41.360 --> 0:15:43.120 security out in the suburbs, get on a bus and 0:15:43.120 --> 0:15:44.880 it takes you right to the airport. So at the 0:15:44.920 --> 0:15:47.880 airport itself there are no long lines. I guess that's 0:15:47.880 --> 0:15:49.720 what they're trying to deal with, is the hubbub there. 0:15:51.760 --> 0:15:53.520 If you want a little glimpse into what it's going 0:15:53.600 --> 0:15:56.880 to be like when the Democrats take the House in November. 0:15:58.000 --> 0:16:00.440 Senate Democrats. I don't think they're going to take the Senate, 0:16:00.440 --> 0:16:02.800 but they will take the House. Senate Democrats are calling 0:16:02.840 --> 0:16:06.320 for hearings over a secret five hundred million dollar investment 0:16:06.400 --> 0:16:10.360 in the the Trump family's crypto ventures. That is going 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:13.240 to start day one when the Democrats take over the House. 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:17.240 All kinds of investigations into the Trump family finances and 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:22.000 won't that be fun to watch. The advice about solar 0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:26.520 panels is changing. Forever it was known. You may have 0:16:26.560 --> 0:16:29.560 known this. It was seen as if you buy it outright, 0:16:29.720 --> 0:16:31.760 it can come out ahead. But the whole leasing thing 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:34.840 not so much. It may have flipped completely on its head. 0:16:34.880 --> 0:16:37.240 Now that federal tax credits are over, we'll have to 0:16:37.280 --> 0:16:38.960 look into this. If you're buying a house, you might 0:16:39.040 --> 0:16:42.280 want to know that leasing your solar now makes more 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:44.200 sense than buying it outright. I'll get into a few 0:16:44.200 --> 0:16:46.240 of the details of that. And then this one tied 0:16:48.040 --> 0:16:51.600 Remember the tide pods became a big deal. They're hoping 0:16:51.640 --> 0:16:54.680 you're going to enjoy tied tiles. Tied tiles are the 0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:57.520 new way of doing your laundry. Very exciting stuff. And 0:16:57.560 --> 0:17:02.000 then finally from the Babylon Bee. I liked this one 0:17:02.640 --> 0:17:05.200 and it has disappeared from my phone and never mind, 0:17:05.359 --> 0:17:07.320 that was pretty funny though I thought, oh, here it is. 0:17:07.640 --> 0:17:11.240 Man on deathbed deeply regrets not spending more time arguing 0:17:11.280 --> 0:17:12.040 on Facebook. 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:13.119 I like that one. 0:17:13.240 --> 0:17:15.680 We've got a little more in depth on some of 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:18.080 the stories and some good guests coming up. If you 0:17:18.119 --> 0:17:20.840 missed the segment, get the podcast Armstrong and Getty on. 0:17:20.800 --> 0:17:23.119 Demand Armstrong and Getty. 0:17:24.520 --> 0:17:29.560 It's been quite amazing that during a war, and a 0:17:29.640 --> 0:17:34.920 war that in particular had a ton of unknowns throughout it, 0:17:36.040 --> 0:17:39.960 the stock market continued to set records a lot of 0:17:39.960 --> 0:17:41.920 the reasons the stock market has been setting so many 0:17:41.960 --> 0:17:44.760 records over the last couple of years is the all 0:17:44.800 --> 0:17:49.520 the AI tech stuff. The biggest companies in those top 0:17:49.560 --> 0:17:52.240 tier stocks that are driving so much of the gains 0:17:52.400 --> 0:17:55.639 tech companies, and they all got scared about AI just 0:17:55.680 --> 0:17:57.919 the other day, all of a sudden at the same time, 0:17:58.480 --> 0:18:01.399 Which is kind of interesting how that would happen like that. 0:18:01.480 --> 0:18:05.880 The NASDAK dropped two point two percent on Tuesday alone. 0:18:06.480 --> 0:18:10.280 The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index fell nearly eight percent in one day. 0:18:10.720 --> 0:18:14.600 Stocks like Navidia, AMD, Intel, Marble, Micron, sand Disc all 0:18:14.600 --> 0:18:15.280 got hammered. 0:18:16.200 --> 0:18:17.200 What is going on there? 0:18:17.240 --> 0:18:18.679 I wanted to talk to an expert because I am 0:18:18.720 --> 0:18:22.000 certainly not and Stephen Kates joins this. He is a 0:18:22.080 --> 0:18:26.600 finance expert clock Tower Financial Consulting. Stephen, thanks for taking 0:18:26.640 --> 0:18:27.760 a little time for us today. 0:18:28.280 --> 0:18:30.440 My pleasure. Happy to talk about this kind of thing. 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:36.159 Uh great, because well, is this the bursting of the 0:18:36.160 --> 0:18:38.359 tech bubble that a lot of people have been worried about, 0:18:38.480 --> 0:18:39.840 or a mini burst or. 0:18:39.840 --> 0:18:40.280 What is it? 0:18:41.560 --> 0:18:45.000 Honestly, it's me there, It's not a bursting at this point. 0:18:45.000 --> 0:18:46.879 I mean, we can look at the what the market 0:18:46.880 --> 0:18:50.320 has done. Just in the first six minutes of the 0:18:50.400 --> 0:18:54.080 market open, Nasdaq is up half a percent. Obviously that 0:18:54.080 --> 0:18:58.480 doesn't erase yesterday is drop, but you know it's not 0:18:58.560 --> 0:19:03.040 a continuation. We're not careeming lower on the second day here. 0:19:04.960 --> 0:19:06.080 Yesterday was just a bad. 0:19:05.960 --> 0:19:10.560 Day, just just a singular bad day, like with no 0:19:10.720 --> 0:19:11.800 greater significance. 0:19:13.119 --> 0:19:14.800 I mean, that's what it seems to be. I mean, 0:19:14.840 --> 0:19:17.679 you can look at you know, where the market's moving, 0:19:18.040 --> 0:19:21.560 and you know, if we were careening lower opening another 0:19:21.680 --> 0:19:25.320 two percent down, well that would certainly show some signs 0:19:25.359 --> 0:19:30.679 that there's continued concerns, you know, a risk off attitude 0:19:30.680 --> 0:19:33.960 from investors. But you know, I think we've all been 0:19:34.000 --> 0:19:37.480 conditioned over the last couple of years to expect that, 0:19:37.760 --> 0:19:41.800 you know, if the market is not going straight up, 0:19:42.000 --> 0:19:45.000 that something is wrong, and that doesn't happen. You know, 0:19:45.040 --> 0:19:48.760 sometimes we do just have bad days. Yesterday, you know, 0:19:49.359 --> 0:19:55.600 there was a catalyst for that. Semiconductor stocks were down 0:19:55.680 --> 0:19:59.280 and down a lot, and going into yesterday's open in 0:19:59.320 --> 0:20:05.680 the US. South Korea, which is incredibly exposed to semiconductor stocks, 0:20:06.040 --> 0:20:09.679 was very negative. It's sell ten percent uh in their market. 0:20:10.119 --> 0:20:12.720 That happens before the US market opens and so that 0:20:12.840 --> 0:20:15.160 did affect us, and that was one of the reasons 0:20:15.200 --> 0:20:19.720 that you know, investors were a bit skittish yesterday. Micron 0:20:19.960 --> 0:20:22.600 has earnings at the end of the day today after 0:20:22.640 --> 0:20:26.000 the market closes. That's a big earnings announcement. They're a 0:20:26.040 --> 0:20:29.080 major player in the semiconductor space. So there are some 0:20:29.119 --> 0:20:32.199 things going on that investors are concerned about. But you know, 0:20:32.240 --> 0:20:35.320 this doesn't appear to be the bottom falling out of 0:20:35.359 --> 0:20:38.159 the market. It was a bad day. We seem to 0:20:38.160 --> 0:20:42.399 be slightly recovering today across the Nasdaq, the S and P, 0:20:42.920 --> 0:20:45.240 you know, the Russell two thousand, which is small cap stocks, 0:20:45.320 --> 0:20:47.360 and that's good to see that, you know, we're seeing 0:20:47.400 --> 0:20:48.240 a little bit of a bounce. 0:20:48.520 --> 0:20:52.600 I just a couple of weeks ago opened a index 0:20:52.680 --> 0:20:55.680 fund for each of my teenagers, the high schoolers, and 0:20:56.080 --> 0:20:58.840 you know, to get them into the got the app 0:20:58.840 --> 0:21:00.480 on their phone and they can follow it on a 0:21:00.520 --> 0:21:02.560 regular basis and put their Christmas money in there and 0:21:02.600 --> 0:21:05.399 all that sort of stuff. And I thought, maybe we 0:21:05.480 --> 0:21:07.280 get a crash and they maybe that would be a 0:21:07.320 --> 0:21:10.000 good thing to have. Their first lesson of investing be 0:21:10.160 --> 0:21:11.440 that it doesn't always go up. 0:21:11.760 --> 0:21:13.320 I don't know well, it's. 0:21:13.400 --> 0:21:15.840 A bad lesson, it has, and I think to have 0:21:15.960 --> 0:21:20.520 those lessons early on is ideal. I learned that lesson 0:21:20.560 --> 0:21:25.280 firsthand actually in the industry watching the great you know, 0:21:25.520 --> 0:21:28.640 coming out of the Great Financial Crisis. I didn't love 0:21:28.640 --> 0:21:31.159 that lesson, but it was it was a valuable one. Nonetheless, 0:21:33.200 --> 0:21:35.800 you know, for a lot of people, understanding the way 0:21:35.840 --> 0:21:39.320