1 00:00:01,880 --> 00:00:06,160 Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 2 00:00:06,200 --> 00:00:10,280 Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. 3 00:00:10,160 --> 00:00:23,800 Speaker 2: Armstrong and Jetty and no, he Armstrong and Hetty. It 4 00:00:23,920 --> 00:00:24,520 Speaker 2: wasn't let go. 5 00:00:24,680 --> 00:00:27,080 Speaker 3: He is being made ambassador to the United Nations, which 6 00:00:27,080 --> 00:00:28,880 Speaker 3: of course is a Senate confirmed position. I think he 7 00:00:28,880 --> 00:00:31,640 Speaker 3: can make a good argument that it's a promotion. But 8 00:00:31,920 --> 00:00:34,240 Speaker 3: we brought Mike on to do some serious reforms of 9 00:00:34,280 --> 00:00:37,440 Speaker 3: the National Security Council. He has done that. I think 10 00:00:37,479 --> 00:00:40,400 Speaker 3: the media wants to frame this as a firing. Donald 11 00:00:40,440 --> 00:00:42,599 Speaker 3: Trump has fired a lot of people. He doesn't give 12 00:00:42,640 --> 00:00:45,320 Speaker 3: them cenic confirmed appointments afterwards. What he thinks is that 13 00:00:45,360 --> 00:00:48,000 Speaker 3: Mike Waltz is going to better serve the administration most 14 00:00:48,040 --> 00:00:49,839 Speaker 3: importantly of the American people in that role. And I 15 00:00:49,880 --> 00:00:50,720 Speaker 3: haven't agree with him. 16 00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:51,720 Speaker 2: That's a decent point. 17 00:00:51,760 --> 00:00:55,360 Speaker 4: It's not that Donald Trump's afraid to fire people, regardless 18 00:00:55,360 --> 00:00:57,760 Speaker 4: of their relationship or how it will look or whatever else. 19 00:00:57,800 --> 00:00:59,040 Speaker 2: He's done it many many times. 20 00:00:59,560 --> 00:01:01,720 Speaker 4: But it's not of promotion because you're no longer in 21 00:01:01,760 --> 00:01:02,720 Speaker 4: the inner inner circle. 22 00:01:03,080 --> 00:01:07,120 Speaker 1: Yeah, we're talking about Mike Waltz, former National Security Advisor, 23 00:01:07,160 --> 00:01:10,520 Speaker 1: now going to be the Ambastor to the un A couple. 24 00:01:10,240 --> 00:01:14,280 Speaker 2: Of Pope killer jd Vance There, Oh boy. 25 00:01:14,840 --> 00:01:18,880 Speaker 1: Jd Vance's interview with Brett Barre last night, another excellent interview. 26 00:01:18,959 --> 00:01:20,880 Speaker 1: A couple of reactions. Number one, Jack, You're one hundred 27 00:01:20,880 --> 00:01:23,319 Speaker 1: percent right. He's been moved from the inner circle to 28 00:01:23,360 --> 00:01:26,040 Speaker 1: the outer circle. It's a good gig and a reasonably 29 00:01:26,080 --> 00:01:28,640 Speaker 1: high profile gig. But yeah, it just wasn't working out 30 00:01:28,680 --> 00:01:31,800 Speaker 1: for reasons I'll get into in a second. Also, the 31 00:01:31,840 --> 00:01:35,839 Speaker 1: thing that struck me and I used to really really 32 00:01:35,880 --> 00:01:38,560 Speaker 1: like jd Vance, There are aspects of his worldview I 33 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:43,680 Speaker 1: find kind of troubling, and he's pretty slick. I mean, 34 00:01:43,760 --> 00:01:47,240 Speaker 1: he is a good bser like right there. I mean 35 00:01:47,319 --> 00:01:49,320 Speaker 1: Waltz was shoved out and everybody knows it, but he 36 00:01:49,640 --> 00:01:52,040 Speaker 1: protected the man's dignity, which I kind of appreciate. 37 00:01:52,120 --> 00:01:53,560 Speaker 4: I would like it if you said that about me, 38 00:01:53,640 --> 00:01:56,160 Speaker 4: if I got moved to a different job. Right exactly. 39 00:01:56,200 --> 00:01:58,720 Speaker 4: It's actually a promotion that he now is the male guy. 40 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:03,120 Speaker 1: But the one thing I just kept thinking about, Oh 41 00:02:02,680 --> 00:02:04,520 Speaker 1: and Michael, you might want to get. 42 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:06,080 Speaker 2: To forty two ready clip forty two. 43 00:02:06,840 --> 00:02:08,600 Speaker 1: As I was watching him talk to Bratt, I was 44 00:02:08,600 --> 00:02:13,520 Speaker 1: thinking what an enormous upgrade brain power wise, from the 45 00:02:13,600 --> 00:02:17,520 Speaker 1: last vice president to the current vice president. I mean, 46 00:02:17,840 --> 00:02:21,520 Speaker 1: good lord, from a mouse to a tiger. 47 00:02:21,760 --> 00:02:24,600 Speaker 2: Go ahead, Michael, who saw that video from a couple 48 00:02:24,639 --> 00:02:26,880 Speaker 2: of weeks ago, the one of the elephants at the 49 00:02:26,919 --> 00:02:29,520 Speaker 2: San Diego Zoo during the earthquake. 50 00:02:29,800 --> 00:02:34,120 Speaker 5: They got in a circle and stood next to each other. 51 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:38,600 Speaker 2: Okay, that's enough. You know that was an edit. That's interesting. 52 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:40,079 Speaker 1: That was an edit of the clip we'd played the 53 00:02:40,120 --> 00:02:44,080 Speaker 1: other day that had included all of her giggling because 54 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:47,320 Speaker 1: accommodation of her giggling. And then when she went to 55 00:02:47,639 --> 00:02:51,120 Speaker 1: bring home the point about like the elephants, we need 56 00:02:51,120 --> 00:02:56,080 Speaker 1: to stick together, she laid it as a du trumpet 57 00:02:56,120 --> 00:02:59,600 Speaker 1: of agreement. There she laid it on us. 58 00:03:01,240 --> 00:03:04,240 Speaker 2: Like it was the words of the world's greatest philosopher, 59 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:07,799 Speaker 2: when the philosophy was suited for like second graders. 60 00:03:08,240 --> 00:03:11,360 Speaker 4: Right, if you're an adult, you picked up on where 61 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:14,799 Speaker 4: she was going before she laid out her very slowly. 62 00:03:14,880 --> 00:03:17,480 Speaker 4: Now let me hit you with the with the punchline here, people, 63 00:03:17,520 --> 00:03:19,080 Speaker 4: because you haven't figured it out ahead of me. 64 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:23,720 Speaker 2: They worked to get yeah, I get it. Yeah, we 65 00:03:23,919 --> 00:03:28,040 Speaker 2: know anyway, all right, So onto. 66 00:03:29,320 --> 00:03:31,200 Speaker 1: A slew of stories about the White House and what 67 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:33,679 Speaker 1: it's done in the last couple of days. And I'll 68 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:37,400 Speaker 1: tell you this, we don't talk about politics exclusively around here, 69 00:03:37,480 --> 00:03:41,080 Speaker 1: and you know, I don't stoke outrage constantly. It's a 70 00:03:41,080 --> 00:03:43,240 Speaker 1: little different approach to talk radio, just because I don't 71 00:03:43,240 --> 00:03:46,320 Speaker 1: know it's unhealthy to just fixate on politics all the time. 72 00:03:46,840 --> 00:03:49,120 Speaker 2: But a lot has happened. 73 00:03:49,640 --> 00:03:52,040 Speaker 1: The Waltz getting shoved out, Yes, it had to do 74 00:03:52,080 --> 00:03:57,440 Speaker 1: a signal gate. Of course, Washington is more gossipy than Hollywood, 75 00:03:57,960 --> 00:04:00,120 Speaker 1: and the minute the guy was out the door, all 76 00:04:00,160 --> 00:04:04,080 Speaker 1: the Trump aids ran to their favorite media contact and 77 00:04:04,160 --> 00:04:07,320 Speaker 1: let him know what was going on. So Trump and 78 00:04:07,360 --> 00:04:10,520 Speaker 1: senior administration officials, including the Chief staff Susie Wilds, had 79 00:04:10,560 --> 00:04:14,960 Speaker 1: been frustrated with Waltz even before the signaled debacle. Walls 80 00:04:15,040 --> 00:04:17,520 Speaker 1: hired aids that his critics said did not appeal to 81 00:04:17,560 --> 00:04:22,120 Speaker 1: Trump's magabas, and he struggled to relay the president's national 82 00:04:22,120 --> 00:04:26,560 Speaker 1: security priorities on television, which Trump thought would be a 83 00:04:26,640 --> 00:04:29,640 Speaker 1: strength of Waltz because he is very intelligentic and a 84 00:04:29,640 --> 00:04:30,280 Speaker 1: good talker. 85 00:04:30,960 --> 00:04:34,120 Speaker 2: But there was a little discomfort with. 86 00:04:34,279 --> 00:04:39,520 Speaker 1: The more Trumpian worldview and Unlike Marco Rubio, who's managed 87 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:42,960 Speaker 1: to become a forceful advocate for views he didn't hold 88 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:48,240 Speaker 1: in the past, Waltz wasn't really doing that on Ukraine 89 00:04:48,320 --> 00:04:48,880 Speaker 1: and Iran. 90 00:04:49,160 --> 00:04:54,840 Speaker 4: Especially according to insiders, there's no way jd Vance likes Walls. 91 00:04:54,880 --> 00:04:56,320 Speaker 4: I mean, he might like him as a person, but 92 00:04:56,360 --> 00:04:59,080 Speaker 4: he doesn't like him being around because they disagree completely 93 00:04:59,520 --> 00:05:02,120 Speaker 4: on there how interventional we should be. 94 00:05:03,240 --> 00:05:08,200 Speaker 1: Some on Trump's team also found him imperious and condescending names. 95 00:05:08,279 --> 00:05:09,440 Speaker 2: I've always been imperious. 96 00:05:09,880 --> 00:05:15,040 Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm condescending, idiot, particularly to White House staff, administration 97 00:05:15,120 --> 00:05:19,080 Speaker 1: officials set So that's enough of that. I like Mike Waltz. 98 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:21,760 Speaker 1: I was glad he was in the position. I wish 99 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:24,640 Speaker 1: he still was. But on we go the ship of 100 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:27,360 Speaker 1: State saiales on and now Rubio is going to do 101 00:05:27,400 --> 00:05:32,839 Speaker 1: both jobs. Yeah, temporarily. Here's another headline. Trump to propose 102 00:05:32,920 --> 00:05:36,640 Speaker 1: slashing one hundred and sixty three billion dollars in government 103 00:05:36,720 --> 00:05:39,960 Speaker 1: programs in the budget blueprint. You know how the president 104 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:43,320 Speaker 1: the White House puts out their budget proposal, which is 105 00:05:43,360 --> 00:05:46,000 Speaker 1: odd considering the fact that Congress as the power of 106 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:46,800 Speaker 1: the purst blah blah blah. 107 00:05:46,839 --> 00:05:48,200 Speaker 2: But it's been going on for years and years. 108 00:05:48,520 --> 00:05:51,920 Speaker 1: But Trump's proposal, for what it's worth, and this will 109 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:55,359 Speaker 1: change a lot cut one hundred and sixty three billion 110 00:05:55,440 --> 00:06:01,880 Speaker 1: dollars targeting environmental, energy, education, and foreign A programs. The 111 00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:04,760 Speaker 1: skinny budget aims to cut what the Trump administration considers 112 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:08,920 Speaker 1: wasteful programs, encourage state control as opposed to federal control amen, 113 00:06:09,400 --> 00:06:15,280 Speaker 1: and reduce clean energy funding. Proposal also cuts the EPA's 114 00:06:15,520 --> 00:06:20,839 Speaker 1: Environmental Justice Initiatives, which is just woke DEI stuff closing USA. 115 00:06:20,920 --> 00:06:24,400 Speaker 1: It has been discussed cutting NIH and NSF funding and 116 00:06:24,480 --> 00:06:30,359 Speaker 1: also cutting the funding to PBS and NPR as we've discussed. 117 00:06:30,400 --> 00:06:32,560 Speaker 2: So yes, like a lot of that. Finally, will that 118 00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:33,239 Speaker 2: actually happen? 119 00:06:33,279 --> 00:06:37,240 Speaker 1: Do you think m do? 120 00:06:37,360 --> 00:06:39,599 Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't know if it'll be total. I don't 121 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:41,039 Speaker 2: know why it hasn't happened in the past. 122 00:06:41,080 --> 00:06:43,839 Speaker 4: I've heard, you know, Republicans always talk about cutting funding 123 00:06:43,920 --> 00:06:46,720 Speaker 4: day NPR, PBS, but they never do it. 124 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:48,440 Speaker 2: Why Who are you afraid of? 125 00:06:49,880 --> 00:06:53,599 Speaker 1: The maybe the upper krusty voters, moderates and Republicans who 126 00:06:53,600 --> 00:06:54,760 Speaker 1: really like NPR. 127 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:56,640 Speaker 2: For instance, I listen to MPR every day. 128 00:06:56,640 --> 00:06:58,120 Speaker 4: There's some of their stuff is great, but I want 129 00:06:58,120 --> 00:06:59,960 Speaker 4: their funding freaking cut yesterday. 130 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:01,680 Speaker 2: Ridiculous. 131 00:07:01,680 --> 00:07:05,040 Speaker 4: They get a dollar a taxpayer money to spew completely 132 00:07:05,080 --> 00:07:07,080 Speaker 4: progressive bs on so many topics. 133 00:07:07,520 --> 00:07:09,920 Speaker 1: In his order, Trump said, and I quote, neither entity 134 00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:13,080 Speaker 1: presents a fair, accurate, or unbiased portrayal of current events 135 00:07:13,120 --> 00:07:14,320 Speaker 1: to tax paying citizens. 136 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:18,320 Speaker 2: Not even close your lips to God's ears. I don't 137 00:07:18,360 --> 00:07:19,000 Speaker 2: know if it was. 138 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:21,600 Speaker 4: I mean, was it in the seventies and the eighties 139 00:07:21,640 --> 00:07:22,960 Speaker 4: before I started paying attention. 140 00:07:23,440 --> 00:07:23,920 Speaker 2: I don't know. 141 00:07:24,880 --> 00:07:27,560 Speaker 4: But in my adult life it's been not just left 142 00:07:27,720 --> 00:07:30,480 Speaker 4: leaning like the CBS Evening News. 143 00:07:30,320 --> 00:07:31,520 Speaker 2: Was for so long or whatever. 144 00:07:31,720 --> 00:07:34,040 Speaker 4: I mean, just out and out like the most progressive 145 00:07:34,040 --> 00:07:36,040 Speaker 4: stuff in America. If I flip it on after work, 146 00:07:36,040 --> 00:07:38,360 Speaker 4: which I do almost every single day, they're always talking 147 00:07:38,400 --> 00:07:43,840 Speaker 4: about some trans illegal who got contained by ice or something. Nothing, 148 00:07:44,320 --> 00:07:47,840 Speaker 4: anybody for stealing insulin off the shelves. Anybody in like 149 00:07:47,920 --> 00:07:51,320 Speaker 4: eighty five percent of America cares about, right exactly. 150 00:07:51,920 --> 00:07:54,520 Speaker 1: I think the there we need to come up with 151 00:07:54,560 --> 00:07:57,160 Speaker 1: a code for what I'm about to say. Maybe it's 152 00:07:57,200 --> 00:08:01,640 Speaker 1: the mar effect. When NPR was a left the organization 153 00:08:01,800 --> 00:08:06,040 Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty nine, they were slightly left of Republican 154 00:08:06,360 --> 00:08:10,320 Speaker 1: organizations in the way that most of America is squarely 155 00:08:10,360 --> 00:08:12,400 Speaker 1: in the middle, maybe a little right or a little left. 156 00:08:12,680 --> 00:08:15,800 Speaker 1: Now in pr is lined with the furthest left faction 157 00:08:16,320 --> 00:08:19,920 Speaker 1: of leftism, which is swung Chaye Guevera would say they're 158 00:08:19,960 --> 00:08:20,640 Speaker 1: too radical. 159 00:08:21,720 --> 00:08:23,280 Speaker 2: So that's it. Michael, did you have a comment you 160 00:08:23,320 --> 00:08:23,720 Speaker 2: were gonna make? 161 00:08:23,840 --> 00:08:24,000 Speaker 4: Yeah. 162 00:08:24,040 --> 00:08:27,640 Speaker 6: I grew up on PBS Sesame Street, mister Rogers Electric Company, 163 00:08:27,680 --> 00:08:29,760 Speaker 6: and it was nothing like PBS today. 164 00:08:30,360 --> 00:08:31,680 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's absolutely true. 165 00:08:31,760 --> 00:08:37,280 Speaker 1: Yeah, we didn't leave PBSPBS left us, So I like it. 166 00:08:37,440 --> 00:08:40,760 Speaker 1: How about this one President Trump is going to He 167 00:08:40,840 --> 00:08:44,120 Speaker 1: says he's going to rename Veterans Day is Victory Day 168 00:08:44,160 --> 00:08:48,680 Speaker 1: for World War One and designate May eighth as Victory 169 00:08:48,760 --> 00:08:50,000 Speaker 1: Day for World War Two. 170 00:08:50,600 --> 00:08:53,400 Speaker 2: No, no, he's posted. No I don't either. He posted 171 00:08:53,480 --> 00:08:56,640 Speaker 2: on Truth's social late yesterday quote, we won both wars. 172 00:08:56,880 --> 00:08:59,560 Speaker 1: Nobody was close to us in terms of strength, bravery, 173 00:08:59,640 --> 00:09:03,200 Speaker 1: or mill terry brilliants, but we never celebrate anything. That's 174 00:09:03,240 --> 00:09:05,920 Speaker 1: because we don't have leaders anymore. We are going to 175 00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:09,640 Speaker 1: start celebrating our victories again. I think he's seeing what 176 00:09:09,679 --> 00:09:12,240 Speaker 1: Putin's doing with their big week. They do this week 177 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:14,800 Speaker 1: around World War two and they. 178 00:09:14,720 --> 00:09:18,640 Speaker 4: Have parades and drive their military stuff through the streets. 179 00:09:18,640 --> 00:09:20,320 Speaker 2: He probably likes the idea of that. 180 00:09:21,760 --> 00:09:24,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm uncomfortable with this. A bit more information then 181 00:09:25,240 --> 00:09:27,880 Speaker 1: i'll comment. But May eighth and forty five was the 182 00:09:27,960 --> 00:09:31,360 Speaker 1: day on which fighting against Germany officially ended in WW two, 183 00:09:31,440 --> 00:09:33,920 Speaker 1: although the conflict continued to rage for four months in 184 00:09:33,960 --> 00:09:39,760 Speaker 1: the Pacific, claiming hundreds of thousands more lives, including American lives. 185 00:09:39,760 --> 00:09:44,080 Speaker 1: Not one hundreds of thousands of American lives, but quite a few. 186 00:09:44,080 --> 00:09:47,720 Speaker 1: Many US allies celebrate May eighth this V day, marking 187 00:09:47,760 --> 00:09:50,600 Speaker 1: Germany's unconditional surrendered to the Allies in World War Two. 188 00:09:51,480 --> 00:09:54,559 Speaker 1: There was no executive order accompanying the announcement, and Trump 189 00:09:54,559 --> 00:09:56,640 Speaker 1: didn't say whether he planned to make May eight day 190 00:09:56,679 --> 00:10:03,160 Speaker 1: federal holiday. You know, very uncomfortable with this, because I'm 191 00:10:03,160 --> 00:10:08,880 Speaker 1: all for, you know, celebrating our victories. You know, good lord, 192 00:10:08,920 --> 00:10:10,160 Speaker 1: how long ago was that? 193 00:10:10,320 --> 00:10:10,520 Speaker 2: Now? 194 00:10:10,559 --> 00:10:16,160 Speaker 1: Eighty years ago and one hundred and seven years ago, 195 00:10:16,320 --> 00:10:21,840 Speaker 1: or whatever date you want to use. But all military 196 00:10:21,920 --> 00:10:24,319 Speaker 1: veterans deserve the recognition of Veterans Day. 197 00:10:24,559 --> 00:10:26,720 Speaker 4: Sure, Oh, I think we got it right. I think 198 00:10:26,760 --> 00:10:28,120 Speaker 4: we handled it absolutely correctly. 199 00:10:28,920 --> 00:10:29,360 Speaker 2: Yeah. 200 00:10:29,440 --> 00:10:32,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, after the wardend all wars, World War one, 201 00:10:32,040 --> 00:10:34,000 Speaker 1: we had Armistice Day to celebrate the end of it. 202 00:10:34,040 --> 00:10:36,200 Speaker 1: We had another ward end all Wars, and then several 203 00:10:36,200 --> 00:10:39,720 Speaker 1: other terrible, bloody conflicts, and it was decided, hey, you're 204 00:10:39,760 --> 00:10:41,960 Speaker 1: not going to single out the brave men and women 205 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:44,920 Speaker 1: of these conflicts. So I hope you backtracks on this. 206 00:10:45,080 --> 00:10:49,800 Speaker 1: It's just silly moving along. Trump invests in Ukraine's future 207 00:10:50,400 --> 00:10:53,800 Speaker 1: the mineral deal. I'm not sure we have time to 208 00:10:53,840 --> 00:10:57,880 Speaker 1: actually get into this, because there's a fair amount to it. 209 00:11:00,040 --> 00:11:03,760 Speaker 1: Under the the US gets first choice to either acquire 210 00:11:04,120 --> 00:11:07,600 Speaker 1: these large supplies of uranium, natural gas, lithium, and other 211 00:11:07,720 --> 00:11:12,000 Speaker 1: rare earth minerals valued at some one trillion dollars, although 212 00:11:12,040 --> 00:11:15,080 Speaker 1: about a third of them are in territory currently occupied 213 00:11:15,080 --> 00:11:18,520 Speaker 1: by Russia. But we get first choice to either require 214 00:11:18,559 --> 00:11:22,679 Speaker 1: those resources for ourselves or designate the purchaser of our choice. 215 00:11:23,240 --> 00:11:27,040 Speaker 1: For the first decade, the fund's profits will be reinvested 216 00:11:27,080 --> 00:11:33,040 Speaker 1: in Ukraine to rebuild. After that, both countries get a 217 00:11:33,120 --> 00:11:37,080 Speaker 1: share of the return, according to the Ukraine's Ministry of 218 00:11:37,120 --> 00:11:41,359 Speaker 1: the Economy. Here's the other detail that I found really interesting. 219 00:11:42,679 --> 00:11:45,200 Speaker 1: Ukraine US will have equal representation on the board that 220 00:11:45,200 --> 00:11:48,840 Speaker 1: makes decisions on how to allocate the fund's resources. Ukraine 221 00:11:48,880 --> 00:11:50,680 Speaker 1: will pay into the fund half of the revenue it 222 00:11:50,720 --> 00:11:53,800 Speaker 1: earns from royalties, license fees, and similar payments for new oil, gas, 223 00:11:53,840 --> 00:11:56,720 Speaker 1: and critical mineral projects. The text of the deal says 224 00:11:56,760 --> 00:12:00,600 Speaker 1: if the US delivers new military assistance to Ukraine, it 225 00:12:00,679 --> 00:12:04,360 Speaker 1: will get credit for a capital contribution to the fund. 226 00:12:05,720 --> 00:12:08,440 Speaker 1: In other words, you can even you can either have 227 00:12:09,120 --> 00:12:12,480 Speaker 1: the ammunition and air defenses that they're running low on now, 228 00:12:13,160 --> 00:12:15,320 Speaker 1: or you know, you come to a piece agreement and 229 00:12:15,360 --> 00:12:18,560 Speaker 1: it'll be rebuilding funds up to you. 230 00:12:18,800 --> 00:12:20,439 Speaker 4: Well, I took in a lot on this yesterday. The 231 00:12:20,480 --> 00:12:22,640 Speaker 4: biggest thing for a lot of people was the fact 232 00:12:22,679 --> 00:12:27,160 Speaker 4: that the agreement uses the term after Russia invaded Ukraine, 233 00:12:27,559 --> 00:12:30,600 Speaker 4: when Trump had been saying quite for quite some time. 234 00:12:30,640 --> 00:12:32,880 Speaker 4: He just referred to it to those the Russian Ukrainian 235 00:12:32,960 --> 00:12:37,360 Speaker 4: conflict remember, and as various times suggested that Ukraine started, 236 00:12:37,520 --> 00:12:41,040 Speaker 4: the fact that the paperwork actually says Russia invaded Ukraine 237 00:12:41,520 --> 00:12:43,320 Speaker 4: is seen as a pretty big deal. 238 00:12:44,040 --> 00:12:45,600 Speaker 2: Maybe it is, Maybe it is, I'm not sure. 239 00:12:46,600 --> 00:12:51,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, So the deal's real significance is although there's 240 00:12:51,040 --> 00:12:54,960 Speaker 1: no specific security guarantees, that signals the US is not 241 00:12:55,040 --> 00:12:58,960 Speaker 1: abandoning Ukraine. White House said the partnership sends a strong 242 00:12:58,960 --> 00:13:01,840 Speaker 1: message to Russia. Well, the United States has skin in 243 00:13:01,880 --> 00:13:05,680 Speaker 1: the game, et cetera. The Kremlin seems to uh. 244 00:13:05,720 --> 00:13:06,320 Speaker 2: Blah blah blah. 245 00:13:06,679 --> 00:13:11,320 Speaker 1: The Vladimir Putin Factotem Dimitri Midyetyev said, Trump wore down 246 00:13:11,400 --> 00:13:13,480 Speaker 1: the Kiev regime and he mocked a deal with what 247 00:13:13,520 --> 00:13:17,120 Speaker 1: he said would soon be a disappearing country. 248 00:13:17,960 --> 00:13:22,200 Speaker 4: So people wonder what the chatty in the vattie was 249 00:13:22,240 --> 00:13:25,480 Speaker 4: really about when Zelenski and Trump got together there at 250 00:13:25,480 --> 00:13:25,959 Speaker 4: the Vatican. 251 00:13:26,320 --> 00:13:29,440 Speaker 2: Please call it that again under any circumstances. 252 00:13:29,600 --> 00:13:32,680 Speaker 4: And if maybe Trump said, you know, away from cameras, look, 253 00:13:32,960 --> 00:13:36,200 Speaker 4: we're we're invested in this thing that we're invested, So 254 00:13:36,520 --> 00:13:38,200 Speaker 4: Russia is not going to be able to do this 255 00:13:38,320 --> 00:13:41,520 Speaker 4: or that if we got trucks and personnel and money 256 00:13:41,520 --> 00:13:41,959 Speaker 4: at stake. 257 00:13:42,080 --> 00:13:44,199 Speaker 2: All right, so that's your guarantee. 258 00:13:44,440 --> 00:13:47,360 Speaker 4: Maybe, Or I've heard people who are like Trump less 259 00:13:47,520 --> 00:13:50,360 Speaker 4: say what if Putin, you know, takes more ground and 260 00:13:50,400 --> 00:13:52,480 Speaker 4: says I'll give you seventy five percent. You're gonna get 261 00:13:52,480 --> 00:13:54,439 Speaker 4: fifty percent. Now you get seventy five percent if you 262 00:13:54,520 --> 00:13:56,760 Speaker 4: let us keepe the land. Yeah, do you just call 263 00:13:56,800 --> 00:14:01,200 Speaker 4: it Russia. Yeah, more on the way, stay here. 264 00:14:01,720 --> 00:14:05,640 Speaker 7: He Yet, according to the New York Post, Bill Belichick's 265 00:14:05,640 --> 00:14:09,760 Speaker 7: twenty four year old girlfriend's mother manages a sex shop 266 00:14:09,800 --> 00:14:14,360 Speaker 7: in Massachusetts. This checks out since her daughter as Bill's 267 00:14:14,480 --> 00:14:15,360 Speaker 7: nuts and advice. 268 00:14:17,280 --> 00:14:20,520 Speaker 1: Wow, wow, Wade, you got it. That was awfully frank. 269 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:21,800 Speaker 2: Is that a joke? 270 00:14:24,360 --> 00:14:27,360 Speaker 1: Yes, it could have been run by the co hosts 271 00:14:27,400 --> 00:14:29,600 Speaker 1: before we heared that one. Yeah, I would agree that 272 00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:31,800 Speaker 1: that is. That is into the territory of we should 273 00:14:31,800 --> 00:14:32,240 Speaker 1: have heard. 274 00:14:32,120 --> 00:14:35,080 Speaker 2: That ahead of time. But yes, we apologize friends, if 275 00:14:35,080 --> 00:14:37,200 Speaker 2: you're an interesting piece of information though. 276 00:14:38,440 --> 00:14:40,400 Speaker 4: So, first of all, I love the fact that the 277 00:14:40,400 --> 00:14:45,040 Speaker 4: Bill Belichick fifty year younger, hotting young girlfriend a girlfriend's 278 00:14:45,080 --> 00:14:47,560 Speaker 4: story has blown up and become a national obsession. 279 00:14:47,680 --> 00:14:48,160 Speaker 2: I love it. 280 00:14:48,520 --> 00:14:51,000 Speaker 4: We need more of that in America, not less. We 281 00:14:51,040 --> 00:14:55,080 Speaker 4: need stuff that's not Trump or polarized politics or whatever. 282 00:14:55,120 --> 00:14:56,760 Speaker 4: We need more of this stuff. Just a good old 283 00:14:56,800 --> 00:14:58,240 Speaker 4: soap opera about a couple of people. 284 00:14:58,920 --> 00:15:02,080 Speaker 1: You and your progress, a neighbor can come together and say, 285 00:15:02,160 --> 00:15:04,160 Speaker 1: fifty years, holy cats, well. 286 00:15:04,120 --> 00:15:06,600 Speaker 4: What's going on here? So that's pretty interesting. So his 287 00:15:06,640 --> 00:15:11,520 Speaker 4: hotty girlfriend's mom runs a sex shop. Okay, that's not 288 00:15:11,720 --> 00:15:17,080 Speaker 4: everybody's lifestyle probably means something about our relationship to It's 289 00:15:17,080 --> 00:15:23,600 Speaker 4: an sternal aid retailer. Huh okay, And so the story. 290 00:15:23,760 --> 00:15:25,680 Speaker 4: You probably know this, and if you don't, you don't care. 291 00:15:25,760 --> 00:15:28,520 Speaker 4: But they did an interview on CBS last Sunday morning. 292 00:15:29,320 --> 00:15:32,080 Speaker 4: CBS aired the part that didn't make the cut or 293 00:15:32,080 --> 00:15:33,920 Speaker 4: wasn't supposed to make the cut, where she kept. 294 00:15:33,760 --> 00:15:35,640 Speaker 2: Jumping up and stopping questions. 295 00:15:35,920 --> 00:15:40,560 Speaker 4: She's twenty four years old and they're asking maybe the 296 00:15:40,560 --> 00:15:43,920 Speaker 4: most successful football coach in history, rich very successful guy 297 00:15:44,320 --> 00:15:47,600 Speaker 4: fifty years older, questions, and he can't answer on his own. 298 00:15:47,800 --> 00:15:49,760 Speaker 2: She's got to jump up and defend him or something 299 00:15:49,760 --> 00:15:50,520 Speaker 2: that was weird. 300 00:15:51,120 --> 00:15:55,320 Speaker 4: So two days ago, Charles Barkley, the analyst and Hall 301 00:15:55,360 --> 00:15:59,520 Speaker 4: of Fame basketball players, said on an interview, I'm starting 302 00:15:59,560 --> 00:16:02,400 Speaker 4: to get real worried about my friend Bill Belichick, and 303 00:16:02,400 --> 00:16:04,880 Speaker 4: I guess they're really really good friends, going way back 304 00:16:04,920 --> 00:16:07,400 Speaker 4: for many, many years. He said, from what I'm hearing, 305 00:16:07,440 --> 00:16:09,520 Speaker 4: it's starting to be a very slippery slope. And I 306 00:16:09,560 --> 00:16:13,040 Speaker 4: never talk about people's personal relationships. That's funny because now 307 00:16:13,040 --> 00:16:16,120 Speaker 4: he's about to. That's another rule I got. But I 308 00:16:16,160 --> 00:16:18,080 Speaker 4: will admit i'm a little concerned with some of the 309 00:16:18,120 --> 00:16:20,120 Speaker 4: stuff that's going on. I might actually reach out to 310 00:16:20,200 --> 00:16:22,280 Speaker 4: him to make sure everything's good, but I'm concerned from 311 00:16:22,280 --> 00:16:24,040 Speaker 4: what I'm hearing, it's not a good look right now. 312 00:16:24,080 --> 00:16:27,560 Speaker 2: I'll admit that what is he hearing from people? He 313 00:16:27,720 --> 00:16:29,760 Speaker 2: said that, Wow, what is. 314 00:16:29,720 --> 00:16:33,000 Speaker 4: He hearing from people who personally know Bill Belichick? That's 315 00:16:33,040 --> 00:16:35,520 Speaker 4: got him actually worried for his friend. 316 00:16:37,480 --> 00:16:39,560 Speaker 1: The odd thing, if you're not a sports fan, is 317 00:16:39,560 --> 00:16:46,720 Speaker 1: that mister Belichick is known for being utterly self possessed, stubborn, smart, 318 00:16:47,080 --> 00:16:50,200 Speaker 1: tough to the point of being mean. The last guy 319 00:16:50,240 --> 00:16:52,720 Speaker 1: on earth anybody's ever walked over. 320 00:16:55,480 --> 00:16:58,400 Speaker 4: The fact that Barkley's actually word So is he losing 321 00:16:58,600 --> 00:16:59,360 Speaker 4: is he loosing it? 322 00:16:59,560 --> 00:17:04,359 Speaker 2: Or I wonder what he's concerned about. I don't know. 323 00:17:04,080 --> 00:17:06,960 Speaker 2: I love this story. It's got to continue. More legs. 324 00:17:06,960 --> 00:17:08,679 Speaker 2: We need more drips and drips on that story. 325 00:17:09,200 --> 00:17:13,080 Speaker 1: Hey, good news, everybody, Cocaine's back and how we'll explain 326 00:17:13,160 --> 00:17:14,000 Speaker 1: in a moment. 327 00:17:14,160 --> 00:17:15,360 Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty. 328 00:17:16,840 --> 00:17:19,919 Speaker 6: If you're asking what do people make of the last month? 329 00:17:20,600 --> 00:17:23,879 Speaker 6: All all things in what you're seeing is sort of 330 00:17:23,920 --> 00:17:27,440 Speaker 6: certainly there was a lot of volatility and disruption initially, 331 00:17:28,240 --> 00:17:30,520 Speaker 6: but things have really calmed down since then. 332 00:17:30,800 --> 00:17:34,119 Speaker 4: So there's an economist they had on CNN yesterday on 333 00:17:34,200 --> 00:17:35,200 Speaker 4: Jake Tapper's show. 334 00:17:35,280 --> 00:17:37,280 Speaker 2: I have heard a number of. 335 00:17:38,600 --> 00:17:41,399 Speaker 4: People who aren't in the business of getting on certain 336 00:17:41,480 --> 00:17:44,919 Speaker 4: kinds of shows who have been a lot calmer about 337 00:17:44,920 --> 00:17:50,760 Speaker 4: this whole thing. Then I'm hearing, you know, from people 338 00:17:50,760 --> 00:17:52,919 Speaker 4: who have partisan interest or just trying to get on 339 00:17:53,359 --> 00:17:56,000 Speaker 4: certain kinds of shows. That's the hardest thing with media. 340 00:17:56,080 --> 00:17:58,240 Speaker 4: There should be a special channel for Hey, I'm not 341 00:17:58,280 --> 00:18:00,200 Speaker 4: trying to get on a show. I'm not trying to 342 00:18:00,200 --> 00:18:02,680 Speaker 4: become a household name. I'm not trying to push a book. 343 00:18:02,800 --> 00:18:04,000 Speaker 4: Here's what I actually think. 344 00:18:04,680 --> 00:18:07,520 Speaker 2: I'm not trying to get hired by any administration. Now 345 00:18:07,560 --> 00:18:08,920 Speaker 2: we're in the future, right. 346 00:18:10,640 --> 00:18:13,600 Speaker 4: Here's a little more also from CNN on where we 347 00:18:13,640 --> 00:18:15,720 Speaker 4: are with the tariff thing. 348 00:18:16,160 --> 00:18:19,160 Speaker 5: Any cargo that was loaded from China on April ninth 349 00:18:19,200 --> 00:18:21,959 Speaker 5: and onwards, it's going to be carrying that higher tariff 350 00:18:21,960 --> 00:18:24,840 Speaker 5: of one hundred and forty five percent. Not only will 351 00:18:24,920 --> 00:18:27,679 Speaker 5: the prices be higher on those cargo ships, but there 352 00:18:27,680 --> 00:18:30,960 Speaker 5: will be fewer ships at sea carrying less volume because 353 00:18:30,960 --> 00:18:33,959 Speaker 5: for many importers it is simply too expensive to do 354 00:18:34,040 --> 00:18:35,040 Speaker 5: business with China. 355 00:18:36,040 --> 00:18:40,199 Speaker 4: I still think it's possible this turns out to be 356 00:18:40,440 --> 00:18:45,359 Speaker 4: like one of the biggest disasters in history, Like people 357 00:18:45,440 --> 00:18:48,440 Speaker 4: are talking about this hundreds of years from now sort 358 00:18:48,480 --> 00:18:49,080 Speaker 4: of disaster. 359 00:18:49,520 --> 00:18:51,080 Speaker 2: Again, as I've said. 360 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:52,840 Speaker 4: I hope I'm wrong. I'll be happy to be wrong. 361 00:18:53,440 --> 00:18:55,600 Speaker 4: Love being wrong. I'd rather be wrong than right in 362 00:18:55,600 --> 00:19:00,320 Speaker 4: this case by a thousand times. Right, So, in what 363 00:19:00,359 --> 00:19:03,560 Speaker 4: sense would it be a disaster politically, economically or you 364 00:19:03,600 --> 00:19:07,640 Speaker 4: think in short term or long term? I'm picturing him, 365 00:19:08,040 --> 00:19:11,679 Speaker 4: I'm picturing its starting to have the results that the 366 00:19:11,680 --> 00:19:19,560 Speaker 4: critics say are possible, inflation, shortages on shelves, all that 367 00:19:19,600 --> 00:19:23,280 Speaker 4: sort of stuff, and him sticking with it with the 368 00:19:23,280 --> 00:19:24,959 Speaker 4: belief that, hey, we got it. We got to live 369 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:27,760 Speaker 4: through this pain. It's you know, it's built in. 370 00:19:27,960 --> 00:19:31,880 Speaker 2: Be patient for a long time. Yeah. 371 00:19:31,920 --> 00:19:37,040 Speaker 4: So, politically just insanely damaging and then economically quite damaging. 372 00:19:37,760 --> 00:19:40,480 Speaker 2: Right right, you know it's funny, go ahead. 373 00:19:40,720 --> 00:19:42,480 Speaker 4: I was just gonna say, economically, I think we could 374 00:19:42,560 --> 00:19:45,720 Speaker 4: we could bounce back eventually. You know, sure if Congress 375 00:19:45,720 --> 00:19:47,800 Speaker 4: steps in, the court, step in and say you don't 376 00:19:47,840 --> 00:19:49,760 Speaker 4: have the power to do this, Congress steps in and 377 00:19:49,800 --> 00:19:53,480 Speaker 4: passes some laws. Whatever, we end the high tariffs, we 378 00:19:53,520 --> 00:19:56,640 Speaker 4: get back to normal, things will sort out over top. Politically, though, 379 00:19:56,720 --> 00:19:59,960 Speaker 4: I think it'll be talked about two hundred years from now. 380 00:20:00,280 --> 00:20:02,080 Speaker 2: I hope not. It could be. 381 00:20:02,200 --> 00:20:05,600 Speaker 1: Yeah, Trump could relent himself too, decided it's not working out. 382 00:20:05,600 --> 00:20:08,480 Speaker 2: We got some deals. We're better off than we were before. Yeah. 383 00:20:08,520 --> 00:20:12,639 Speaker 1: So yesterday I mentioned that according to analysts who know 384 00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:17,159 Speaker 1: what they're talking about, the Chinese are already suffering millions 385 00:20:17,280 --> 00:20:20,919 Speaker 1: jobs at stake, plants shut down, orders canceled, and the 386 00:20:20,960 --> 00:20:23,359 Speaker 1: pain is beginning to spread in China. Therefore, they are 387 00:20:23,440 --> 00:20:26,160 Speaker 1: much more vulnerable to a trade war than we are. 388 00:20:26,359 --> 00:20:30,000 Speaker 1: The awesome trade surplus side always more vulnerable than the 389 00:20:30,040 --> 00:20:33,560 Speaker 1: trade deficit side in a trade war. But then it 390 00:20:33,640 --> 00:20:37,280 Speaker 1: was pointed out I came across another learned piece today 391 00:20:37,280 --> 00:20:41,760 Speaker 1: that pointed out, well, jes In Ping can can inject 392 00:20:41,800 --> 00:20:46,920 Speaker 1: an enormous jolt into his economy with you know, debt 393 00:20:47,680 --> 00:20:54,360 Speaker 1: financed stimulus, and well, which is a bad long term strategy. 394 00:20:54,400 --> 00:20:56,920 Speaker 1: We've been doing it for quite a while here. It's 395 00:20:56,920 --> 00:20:58,600 Speaker 1: a bad long term strategy. Go to works in the 396 00:20:58,640 --> 00:20:59,080 Speaker 1: short term. 397 00:20:59,119 --> 00:21:00,240 Speaker 2: And oh that's right. 398 00:21:00,560 --> 00:21:06,360 Speaker 1: He's a cruel, all controlling dictator with the most sophisticated 399 00:21:06,440 --> 00:21:10,399 Speaker 1: surveillance and control state ever crafted on planet Earth. So 400 00:21:10,600 --> 00:21:12,320 Speaker 1: it's not like the Chinese people are going to go 401 00:21:12,320 --> 00:21:15,280 Speaker 1: to the polls and vote him out, whereas there could 402 00:21:15,359 --> 00:21:20,280 Speaker 1: well be a blood bath forming up us politically speaking 403 00:21:20,720 --> 00:21:21,440 Speaker 1: in the midterms. 404 00:21:21,920 --> 00:21:25,320 Speaker 4: Joe Jenny promises a blood bath if Trump loses. That's right, 405 00:21:25,359 --> 00:21:26,560 Speaker 4: That's exactly what I said. 406 00:21:27,680 --> 00:21:30,680 Speaker 1: So you know who's got the upper hand, who's in 407 00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:33,520 Speaker 1: the more comfortable seat to ride this out? 408 00:21:34,359 --> 00:21:35,360 Speaker 2: It depends who you ask. 409 00:21:35,800 --> 00:21:38,200 Speaker 4: Well, let's ask jd Vance or at least Brett Baird 410 00:21:38,280 --> 00:21:39,440 Speaker 4: it on Fox last. 411 00:21:39,240 --> 00:21:41,200 Speaker 2: Night, and he'll tell us what's going to happen. People 412 00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:44,640 Speaker 2: are pointing to the tariff policy. There are people looking 413 00:21:44,640 --> 00:21:47,560 Speaker 2: at their four to one k's that are worried. What 414 00:21:47,600 --> 00:21:50,399 Speaker 2: do you tell them? Is this going to work? 415 00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:53,879 Speaker 3: So the first thing is when you talk about the economy, 416 00:21:53,960 --> 00:21:58,320 Speaker 3: this is Joe Biden's economy. And we inherited two trillion 417 00:21:58,359 --> 00:22:01,760 Speaker 3: dollars of debt, the highest peace time deficits in American history, 418 00:22:02,119 --> 00:22:05,240 Speaker 3: a one point two trillion dollar trade deficit, which fundamentally 419 00:22:05,280 --> 00:22:08,280 Speaker 3: means we're not making enough of our own stuff. And 420 00:22:08,320 --> 00:22:10,240 Speaker 3: the President came in and he said This is not. 421 00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:11,240 Speaker 2: Always going to be easy. 422 00:22:11,600 --> 00:22:13,600 Speaker 3: It would have been very easy for Donald Trump to 423 00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:15,960 Speaker 3: do what administration's pass to done, which is borrow a 424 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:19,000 Speaker 3: lot of money and continue fueling the national debt. He said, No, 425 00:22:19,320 --> 00:22:21,679 Speaker 3: we need a reset. We need American workers to have 426 00:22:21,760 --> 00:22:23,919 Speaker 3: better jobs. We need to protect the jobs that they 427 00:22:23,960 --> 00:22:25,960 Speaker 3: have right now, and we need to be more self 428 00:22:25,960 --> 00:22:28,560 Speaker 3: reliant as an economy, which, by the way, will drive 429 00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:31,359 Speaker 3: down those skyrocketing levels of debt that we've seen. That 430 00:22:31,480 --> 00:22:33,280 Speaker 3: is what he promised he was going to do, and 431 00:22:33,320 --> 00:22:35,400 Speaker 3: he came in and we've started that process. 432 00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:36,399 Speaker 2: Yeah, you can't. 433 00:22:37,040 --> 00:22:39,880 Speaker 4: One thing you can't say about Trump is that he's 434 00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:42,520 Speaker 4: just doing the politically expedient thing because he ain't. 435 00:22:43,280 --> 00:22:45,439 Speaker 1: Right. Yeah, and a lot of folks are impressed at 436 00:22:45,440 --> 00:22:48,000 Speaker 1: his courage to put the long term priorities over the 437 00:22:48,080 --> 00:22:51,480 Speaker 1: law short term comfort. By the way, I'm scanning the 438 00:22:51,480 --> 00:22:54,359 Speaker 1: horizon of the show, and I'm thinking maybe our four 439 00:22:55,359 --> 00:22:58,320 Speaker 1: a discussion of because I've got some really interesting points 440 00:22:58,359 --> 00:23:02,119 Speaker 1: on both sides, a discussion of what jd Vance just said, 441 00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:04,720 Speaker 1: got a trade deficit, we need to make more of 442 00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:07,000 Speaker 1: our stuff, and Trump, you know your kid's gonna have 443 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:09,080 Speaker 1: two dollars and not thirty and it's gonna cost a 444 00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:13,439 Speaker 1: little more that when I you versus well, wait a minute, 445 00:23:14,359 --> 00:23:18,919 Speaker 1: we have an incredibly high standard of living. Everybody's lives 446 00:23:19,119 --> 00:23:23,320 Speaker 1: are good and happy, and we're prosperous. We have to 447 00:23:23,359 --> 00:23:28,399 Speaker 1: work a week to afford a major appliance, whereas twenty 448 00:23:28,440 --> 00:23:30,720 Speaker 1: five years ago we had to work for three months. 449 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:34,320 Speaker 1: Our standard of living is incredible. Do we want to 450 00:23:34,320 --> 00:23:36,480 Speaker 1: mess with it? So we'll discuss that during our four. 451 00:23:36,520 --> 00:23:38,720 Speaker 1: If you don't get our four, maybe you can grab 452 00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:42,159 Speaker 1: it later via podcast. It's always available Armstrong and Getty 453 00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:44,320 Speaker 1: on demand. You ought to subscribe to the podcast wherever 454 00:23:44,320 --> 00:23:45,359 Speaker 1: you like to get podcasts. 455 00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:48,480 Speaker 4: So you tease this idea that cocaine is making a comeback. 456 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:51,800 Speaker 4: You said it with a very cheerful voice too, like 457 00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:53,280 Speaker 4: you're excited about this. 458 00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:56,280 Speaker 2: I don't know what's going on there. I was let 459 00:23:56,320 --> 00:23:58,040 Speaker 2: me wipe under my nose a little bit. 460 00:23:58,320 --> 00:23:58,439 Speaker 4: Uh. 461 00:23:58,560 --> 00:24:01,520 Speaker 1: I was being ironic or trying to be anyway as 462 00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:05,240 Speaker 1: a musician in the eighties, I will tell you what. 463 00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:09,919 Speaker 1: There was a lot of cocaine about and and and 464 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:13,280 Speaker 1: if you want to pick one drug that turns everybody 465 00:24:13,359 --> 00:24:16,760 Speaker 1: into pardon me, but an a hole man, it's cocaine. 466 00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:25,600 Speaker 1: Oh really, it makes you into overly aggressive, babbling, selfish. 467 00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:28,840 Speaker 2: Just cokehead. 468 00:24:29,160 --> 00:24:32,399 Speaker 1: Then what makes it so popular Because it makes you 469 00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:33,840 Speaker 1: feel like you're the king of the world. 470 00:24:35,359 --> 00:24:37,439 Speaker 2: Yeah, I love to feel like the king of the world. 471 00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:39,359 Speaker 2: Get from and. 472 00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:42,040 Speaker 1: God, oh my gosh, the number of like there you 473 00:24:42,080 --> 00:24:48,160 Speaker 1: go coffee and God anyway, and and so my, hey, 474 00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:53,720 Speaker 1: good news cocaine is back. Was was completely sarcastic. Interestingly enough, 475 00:24:54,800 --> 00:24:58,440 Speaker 1: the resurgence of cocaine is the result of a couple 476 00:24:58,520 --> 00:25:01,800 Speaker 1: of advances in science and and not advances, but changes 477 00:25:01,840 --> 00:25:08,240 Speaker 1: in politics, specifically in Colombia. And this article in the 478 00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:11,199 Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal is talking to Caesar Roseero, who's a 479 00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:13,879 Speaker 1: farmer in Colombia, has got a ten acre spread coca 480 00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:16,280 Speaker 1: bushes and neat rose grow as tall as six feet. 481 00:25:16,320 --> 00:25:20,560 Speaker 1: He says, quote, We're totally thankful for this plant, Rosera 482 00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:24,399 Speaker 1: and other local cocoa farmers. Coca farmers brag their plants 483 00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:28,000 Speaker 1: are pest resistant and yield more of the psychoactic alkaloid 484 00:25:28,040 --> 00:25:30,600 Speaker 1: compound that keeps the world's twenty million or so cocaine 485 00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:34,639 Speaker 1: users coming back for more. A standard twenty five pound 486 00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:38,320 Speaker 1: bag of dried coca leaves can produce twenty five grams 487 00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:39,240 Speaker 1: of the alkaloid. 488 00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:43,280 Speaker 2: It used to be eighteen grams in the past. 489 00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:48,400 Speaker 1: So the coca plants are much more potent, pest resistant. 490 00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:49,760 Speaker 2: They're growing better. 491 00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:52,639 Speaker 1: They've figured out how to fertilize them and irrigate them 492 00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:56,680 Speaker 1: in a way that's much much more efficient. And cocaine 493 00:25:56,720 --> 00:25:59,879 Speaker 1: supplies at a historic peak worldwide, according to US in 494 00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:04,640 Speaker 1: you and anti drug officials. The UN last fall estimated 495 00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:06,240 Speaker 1: Columbia's annual cocaine yield. 496 00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:08,800 Speaker 2: It was three thousand tons. 497 00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:14,240 Speaker 1: Now that's cocaine, not coca cocaine, which is about eight 498 00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:18,960 Speaker 1: times what it was in twenty twelve, when interdiction efforts 499 00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:21,920 Speaker 1: were at their peak, as the US and other countries 500 00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:24,359 Speaker 1: were working with Colombia to try to cut down the 501 00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:28,719 Speaker 1: scourge of cocaine and crack cocaine and the rest of it. 502 00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:31,840 Speaker 2: That all started around the year two thousand. 503 00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:34,600 Speaker 1: One of the big programs they sprayed chemicals from aircraft 504 00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:38,280 Speaker 1: to kill coca crops, an aggressive agrarian campaign that Columbia 505 00:26:38,440 --> 00:26:41,600 Speaker 1: ended in twenty fifteen. Supply has since grown so large 506 00:26:41,640 --> 00:26:43,600 Speaker 1: that the price of coca leaf has been at record 507 00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:48,040 Speaker 1: lows because they're so efficient. Despite the record supply, retail 508 00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:51,080 Speaker 1: prices for a kilo of cocaine have reached highs oddly enough, 509 00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:54,840 Speaker 1: probably because of the risk you take in distributing it, 510 00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:57,560 Speaker 1: but anyway, particularly in far flung corners of the world, 511 00:26:57,600 --> 00:26:58,600 Speaker 1: including Hong Kong. 512 00:26:58,440 --> 00:26:59,520 Speaker 2: And Saudi Arabia. 513 00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:01,879 Speaker 1: I would not want to get caught selling a kilo 514 00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:05,120 Speaker 1: of cocaine in Saudi Arabia. I don't know what they 515 00:27:05,119 --> 00:27:07,680 Speaker 1: cut off. It's probably several of my favorite parts, and 516 00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:08,760 Speaker 1: or they just hang you. 517 00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:11,200 Speaker 2: Anyway. 518 00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:18,520 Speaker 1: So that's just human beings desire to alter their consciousness 519 00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:22,080 Speaker 1: in ways that range from somewhat unwise to extremely unwise. 520 00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:24,040 Speaker 2: Just seems to have no end. 521 00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:32,040 Speaker 1: So coming up a gender bending madness update. Also a 522 00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:34,240 Speaker 1: major economic change not many people are talking about that 523 00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:38,720 Speaker 1: have to do with the tariffs, and a great think 524 00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:42,360 Speaker 1: piece on sanctuary cities and the people who push them 525 00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:45,520 Speaker 1: and what nut jobs they are. They're acting like they're 526 00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:51,199 Speaker 1: part of the underground Railroad rescuing a fugitive slaves, but 527 00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:52,080 Speaker 1: they're not at all. 528 00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:54,240 Speaker 2: They're just dopey. 529 00:27:55,040 --> 00:28:01,240 Speaker 8: Stay with us, we can as the one hundred and 530 00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:02,879 Speaker 8: fifty first Kentucky Derby. 531 00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:03,800 Speaker 2: It is a big event. 532 00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:05,560 Speaker 8: So I just wanted to take a quick moment to 533 00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:08,439 Speaker 8: shout out all the companies that are sponsoring the derby. 534 00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:10,560 Speaker 2: For instance, there's baby. 535 00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:16,920 Speaker 8: Gap, Jockey's got a shop somewhere. Next up, Listenerine make 536 00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:19,280 Speaker 8: the perfect minjulipin one easy step. 537 00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:22,080 Speaker 2: Up next Subway. 538 00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:28,480 Speaker 8: Saturday's loser is Sunday's tuna sub Oh what, here's another one. 539 00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:29,000 Speaker 2: Uber. 540 00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:31,119 Speaker 8: If you want to bumpy ride it smells like a barn. 541 00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:36,080 Speaker 8: Why not try Uber? All right, that one's pretty good. 542 00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:40,120 Speaker 1: But suggesting that subways tuna sandwiches are horse mate, that 543 00:28:40,280 --> 00:28:43,239 Speaker 1: is right out of line. By the way, we were 544 00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:46,400 Speaker 1: talking about the resurgence of cocaine and how Columbia is 545 00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:49,960 Speaker 1: cranking it out like crazy and the profits the drug 546 00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:53,400 Speaker 1: cartels are making ariostounding I left out of the discussion. 547 00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:58,720 Speaker 1: I apologize. Picture what a drug smuggler is. Specifically, they're 548 00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:01,960 Speaker 1: smuggling some drugs over the water in the ocean, right 549 00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:04,920 Speaker 1: from Colombia to wherever it's going. What are you picktureing? Okay, 550 00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:08,160 Speaker 1: now try to picture in this. In October, the US 551 00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:18,200 Speaker 1: Coast Guard found five tons of cocaine ten thousand pounds. 552 00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:24,000 Speaker 1: Stuff is stowed in a ninety foot long submersible vessel. 553 00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:30,440 Speaker 1: It looks like like a really low, low, low profile boat, 554 00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:34,440 Speaker 1: kind of like a submarine. It mostly skims along surface 555 00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:37,080 Speaker 1: because that's a lot more easy to pull off. It's 556 00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:40,240 Speaker 1: a lot easier to pull off engineering wise, but it is. 557 00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:43,440 Speaker 1: It can dip below the surface to hide if it 558 00:29:43,560 --> 00:29:49,400 Speaker 1: needs to. But again, a ninety foot long submersible vessel 559 00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:54,080 Speaker 1: skimming the ocean on a nine thousand mile voyage from 560 00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:58,400 Speaker 1: Colombia to Australia. Authority said the load was worth hundreds 561 00:29:58,440 --> 00:29:59,640 Speaker 1: of millions of dollars. 562 00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:00,920 Speaker 2: Man. 563 00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:05,240 Speaker 1: That is some technology. The profits are that great, and 564 00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:08,600 Speaker 1: their supply is that great. If they lose a shipment, 565 00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:13,840 Speaker 1: they just don't care. Anyway, a complete change topic. People 566 00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:18,200 Speaker 1: will occasionally ask or write letters or seek guidance and say, guys, 567 00:30:19,080 --> 00:30:21,560 Speaker 1: I'm concerned about all this stuff, but I can't do 568 00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:23,640 Speaker 1: everything at once. I'm not a congressman or not a 569 00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:28,640 Speaker 1: senator or whatever. I'm looking to get active in perhaps 570 00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:34,920 Speaker 1: one realm of politics, one cause, one issue, and you know, 571 00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:40,120 Speaker 1: certainly getting sane district attorneys or accounty attorneys or whatever elected. 572 00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:42,720 Speaker 1: We've found out is a big thing. As George Soros 573 00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:45,560 Speaker 1: and company have elected or goten elected as many Marxists 574 00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:48,880 Speaker 1: as they can, or turning criminals loose and twisting our 575 00:30:48,920 --> 00:30:53,600 Speaker 1: society in the name of DEI woke garbage. So that's 576 00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:56,400 Speaker 1: that would be a good one. Become more aware of 577 00:30:56,480 --> 00:30:59,440 Speaker 1: who's running for you know, the prosecutor in your area. 578 00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:02,960 Speaker 1: And But the other one that I'm really really enthusiastic about, 579 00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:05,400 Speaker 1: because this is the source of so much of the 580 00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:10,880 Speaker 1: rot that's affecting America, is education issues, whether it's local 581 00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:15,360 Speaker 1: school boards issues in your state, presuming you have a 582 00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:17,080 Speaker 1: state where that sort of thing is in play and 583 00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:20,479 Speaker 1: you're not in a one party state. But school choice 584 00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:24,840 Speaker 1: programs might be an excellent choice. I'm looking at this 585 00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:29,440 Speaker 1: report on Ohio's school choice programs and it's looking really good. 586 00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:33,040 Speaker 1: A study released earlier this week by researchers at the 587 00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:36,280 Speaker 1: Urban Institute found that students who used vouchers to attend 588 00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:42,120 Speaker 1: private school saw substantially improved long term academic outcomes, which 589 00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:45,920 Speaker 1: is what it's all about. Oh, these monster conservatives want 590 00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:49,240 Speaker 1: to defund public schools and balance the budget on the back. 591 00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:51,320 Speaker 2: No, no, no, we want the kids to learn. 592 00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:57,800 Speaker 1: They're not learning in the terrible, terrible government schools, especially 593 00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:01,040 Speaker 1: poorer kids who the left fault false claims to be 594 00:32:01,080 --> 00:32:03,760 Speaker 1: standing up for all the time. How about the outcomes 595 00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:07,680 Speaker 1: you're getting for those people. Huh, my Democratic friends, they're 596 00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:12,280 Speaker 1: awful anyway. Ohio's Educational Choice Scholarship program began in two 597 00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:15,160 Speaker 1: thousand and five as a state funded voucher program for 598 00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:19,160 Speaker 1: students in lousy public schools. In twenty thirteen twenty fourteen, 599 00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:22,560 Speaker 1: it began to serve low income students regardless of school. 600 00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:25,360 Speaker 1: So before you had to be in like an identified 601 00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:29,360 Speaker 1: crappy school. Now it's just low income folks. Since twenty 602 00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:33,120 Speaker 1: twenty twenty three twenty twenty four, it's been open to 603 00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:37,640 Speaker 1: all students. Although more affluent Ohio families don't get the 604 00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:41,240 Speaker 1: full scholarships, they get a share of it. So a 605 00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:44,600 Speaker 1: handful of researchers studied more than six thousand Ohio students 606 00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:48,240 Speaker 1: who use the ed Choice scholarships to attend private schools 607 00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:51,040 Speaker 1: between twenty eight and twenty fourteen. They compared this group 608 00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:53,320 Speaker 1: with more than five hundred thousand students who remained in 609 00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:59,240 Speaker 1: public schools, selecting for similar demographics and academic characteristics. Scholarship 610 00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:03,040 Speaker 1: recipients were found to be fifteen percentage points more likely 611 00:33:03,080 --> 00:33:08,360 Speaker 1: to attend college than public school counterparts, and nine points 612 00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:11,560 Speaker 1: more likely to graduate. Students in the program for at 613 00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:14,400 Speaker 1: least four years, and that was about sixty percent of 614 00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:18,840 Speaker 1: them had even higher college enrollment and graduation rates, Meaning 615 00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:22,040 Speaker 1: the sooner the kids got into these programs, the greater 616 00:33:22,120 --> 00:33:25,240 Speaker 1: effect it had. Now, you know, I'd love to hear 617 00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:27,880 Speaker 1: that it was, you know, forty percent more likely to 618 00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:30,320 Speaker 1: attend college, assuming that they wanted to and we're cut 619 00:33:30,360 --> 00:33:34,520 Speaker 1: out for college, and twenty five points more likely to graduate. 620 00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:40,680 Speaker 1: But those are significant gains in a pretty damn short 621 00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:47,960 Speaker 1: time for real human beings. And that's what the teachers' 622 00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:51,480 Speaker 1: unions always try to make you forget, is that as 623 00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:54,560 Speaker 1: we generate, as we graduate, generation after generation of kids 624 00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:58,040 Speaker 1: who can't read, they can't do math properly, they are 625 00:33:58,320 --> 00:34:04,200 Speaker 1: very very poorly suited for the workplace. They're doomed in 626 00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:08,319 Speaker 1: a lot of cases to a really, really difficult life. 627 00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:10,320 Speaker 2: I don't need to go into detail. You can picture 628 00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:11,839 Speaker 2: for yourself what a difficult life means. 629 00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:17,080 Speaker 1: But if we can elevate you know, fifteen to twenty 630 00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:21,880 Speaker 1: to twenty five percent of kids just through this voucher 631 00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:24,440 Speaker 1: program the ed choice program. Man, we need to get 632 00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:27,560 Speaker 1: this going as soon as we can. The starfish on 633 00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:29,360 Speaker 1: the beach, you can't save them all, Well, I just 634 00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:33,440 Speaker 1: save that one. How about if it's one hundred thousand 635 00:34:33,560 --> 00:34:39,000 Speaker 1: kids in your state you save from ignorance and poverty, crime, 636 00:34:39,400 --> 00:34:43,920 Speaker 1: discouragement because they were turned out of public schools without 637 00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:48,319 Speaker 1: an education. That's an awful betrayal, by the way, never 638 00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:51,480 Speaker 1: mind policy, just on a moral level. That is an 639 00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:56,600 Speaker 1: unforgivable betrayal of these beautiful little children and their parents 640 00:34:57,719 --> 00:34:59,719 Speaker 1: who counted on the government to deliver what they said 641 00:34:59,719 --> 00:35:03,000 Speaker 1: they want an education, and they're not. Anyway, if you 642 00:35:03,080 --> 00:35:05,879 Speaker 1: wanted to back one particular thing, you want to become 643 00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:09,960 Speaker 1: an activist on one thing in your state, your your county, 644 00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:13,000 Speaker 1: or your country, school choice would be a heck of 645 00:35:13,040 --> 00:35:16,600 Speaker 1: a good choice anyway. Jewish ce Fit got a big 646 00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:20,360 Speaker 1: hour coming up. Next hour, Gender Bending Madness Update. 647 00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:25,680 Speaker 2: Stay tuned, Armstrong and Getty