WEBVTT - From A Mouse To A Tiger 0:00:01.880 --> 0:00:06.160 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:10.280 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:23.800 Armstrong and Jetty and no, he Armstrong and Hetty. It 0:00:23.920 --> 0:00:24.520 wasn't let go. 0:00:24.680 --> 0:00:27.080 He is being made ambassador to the United Nations, which 0:00:27.080 --> 0:00:28.880 of course is a Senate confirmed position. I think he 0:00:28.880 --> 0:00:31.640 can make a good argument that it's a promotion. But 0:00:31.920 --> 0:00:34.240 we brought Mike on to do some serious reforms of 0:00:34.280 --> 0:00:37.440 the National Security Council. He has done that. I think 0:00:37.479 --> 0:00:40.400 the media wants to frame this as a firing. Donald 0:00:40.440 --> 0:00:42.599 Trump has fired a lot of people. He doesn't give 0:00:42.640 --> 0:00:45.320 them cenic confirmed appointments afterwards. What he thinks is that 0:00:45.360 --> 0:00:48.000 Mike Waltz is going to better serve the administration most 0:00:48.040 --> 0:00:49.839 importantly of the American people in that role. And I 0:00:49.880 --> 0:00:50.720 haven't agree with him. 0:00:50.920 --> 0:00:51.720 That's a decent point. 0:00:51.760 --> 0:00:55.360 It's not that Donald Trump's afraid to fire people, regardless 0:00:55.360 --> 0:00:57.760 of their relationship or how it will look or whatever else. 0:00:57.800 --> 0:00:59.040 He's done it many many times. 0:00:59.560 --> 0:01:01.720 But it's not of promotion because you're no longer in 0:01:01.760 --> 0:01:02.720 the inner inner circle. 0:01:03.080 --> 0:01:07.120 Yeah, we're talking about Mike Waltz, former National Security Advisor, 0:01:07.160 --> 0:01:10.520 now going to be the Ambastor to the un A couple. 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:14.280 Of Pope killer jd Vance There, Oh boy. 0:01:14.840 --> 0:01:18.880 Jd Vance's interview with Brett Barre last night, another excellent interview. 0:01:18.959 --> 0:01:20.880 A couple of reactions. Number one, Jack, You're one hundred 0:01:20.880 --> 0:01:23.319 percent right. He's been moved from the inner circle to 0:01:23.360 --> 0:01:26.040 the outer circle. It's a good gig and a reasonably 0:01:26.080 --> 0:01:28.640 high profile gig. But yeah, it just wasn't working out 0:01:28.680 --> 0:01:31.800 for reasons I'll get into in a second. Also, the 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:35.839 thing that struck me and I used to really really 0:01:35.880 --> 0:01:38.560 like jd Vance, There are aspects of his worldview I 0:01:38.600 --> 0:01:43.680 find kind of troubling, and he's pretty slick. I mean, 0:01:43.760 --> 0:01:47.240 he is a good bser like right there. I mean 0:01:47.319 --> 0:01:49.320 Waltz was shoved out and everybody knows it, but he 0:01:49.640 --> 0:01:52.040 protected the man's dignity, which I kind of appreciate. 0:01:52.120 --> 0:01:53.560 I would like it if you said that about me, 0:01:53.640 --> 0:01:56.160 if I got moved to a different job. Right exactly. 0:01:56.200 --> 0:01:58.720 It's actually a promotion that he now is the male guy. 0:01:59.400 --> 0:02:03.120 But the one thing I just kept thinking about, Oh 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:04.520 and Michael, you might want to get. 0:02:04.400 --> 0:02:06.080 To forty two ready clip forty two. 0:02:06.840 --> 0:02:08.600 As I was watching him talk to Bratt, I was 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:13.520 thinking what an enormous upgrade brain power wise, from the 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:17.520 last vice president to the current vice president. I mean, 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:21.520 good lord, from a mouse to a tiger. 0:02:21.760 --> 0:02:24.600 Go ahead, Michael, who saw that video from a couple 0:02:24.639 --> 0:02:26.880 of weeks ago, the one of the elephants at the 0:02:26.919 --> 0:02:29.520 San Diego Zoo during the earthquake. 0:02:29.800 --> 0:02:34.120 They got in a circle and stood next to each other. 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:38.600 Okay, that's enough. You know that was an edit. That's interesting. 0:02:38.600 --> 0:02:40.079 That was an edit of the clip we'd played the 0:02:40.120 --> 0:02:44.080 other day that had included all of her giggling because 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:47.320 accommodation of her giggling. And then when she went to 0:02:47.639 --> 0:02:51.120 bring home the point about like the elephants, we need 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:56.080 to stick together, she laid it as a du trumpet 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:59.600 of agreement. There she laid it on us. 0:03:01.240 --> 0:03:04.240 Like it was the words of the world's greatest philosopher, 0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:07.799 when the philosophy was suited for like second graders. 0:03:08.240 --> 0:03:11.360 Right, if you're an adult, you picked up on where 0:03:11.400 --> 0:03:14.799 she was going before she laid out her very slowly. 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:17.480 Now let me hit you with the with the punchline here, people, 0:03:17.520 --> 0:03:19.080 because you haven't figured it out ahead of me. 0:03:20.000 --> 0:03:23.720 They worked to get yeah, I get it. Yeah, we 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:28.040 know anyway, all right, So onto. 0:03:29.320 --> 0:03:31.200 A slew of stories about the White House and what 0:03:31.240 --> 0:03:33.679 it's done in the last couple of days. And I'll 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:37.400 tell you this, we don't talk about politics exclusively around here, 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:41.080 and you know, I don't stoke outrage constantly. It's a 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:43.240 little different approach to talk radio, just because I don't 0:03:43.240 --> 0:03:46.320 know it's unhealthy to just fixate on politics all the time. 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:49.120 But a lot has happened. 0:03:49.640 --> 0:03:52.040 The Waltz getting shoved out, Yes, it had to do 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:57.440 a signal gate. Of course, Washington is more gossipy than Hollywood, 0:03:57.960 --> 0:04:00.120 and the minute the guy was out the door, all 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:04.080 the Trump aids ran to their favorite media contact and 0:04:04.160 --> 0:04:07.320 let him know what was going on. So Trump and 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:10.520 senior administration officials, including the Chief staff Susie Wilds, had 0:04:10.560 --> 0:04:14.960 been frustrated with Waltz even before the signaled debacle. Walls 0:04:15.040 --> 0:04:17.520 hired aids that his critics said did not appeal to 0:04:17.560 --> 0:04:22.120 Trump's magabas, and he struggled to relay the president's national 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:26.560 security priorities on television, which Trump thought would be a 0:04:26.640 --> 0:04:29.640 strength of Waltz because he is very intelligentic and a 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:30.280 good talker. 0:04:30.960 --> 0:04:34.120 But there was a little discomfort with. 0:04:34.279 --> 0:04:39.520 The more Trumpian worldview and Unlike Marco Rubio, who's managed 0:04:39.560 --> 0:04:42.960 to become a forceful advocate for views he didn't hold 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:48.240 in the past, Waltz wasn't really doing that on Ukraine 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:48.880 and Iran. 0:04:49.160 --> 0:04:54.840 Especially according to insiders, there's no way jd Vance likes Walls. 0:04:54.880 --> 0:04:56.320 I mean, he might like him as a person, but 0:04:56.360 --> 0:04:59.080 he doesn't like him being around because they disagree completely 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:02.120 on there how interventional we should be. 0:05:03.240 --> 0:05:08.200 Some on Trump's team also found him imperious and condescending names. 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:09.440 I've always been imperious. 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:15.040 Yeah, I'm condescending, idiot, particularly to White House staff, administration 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:19.080 officials set So that's enough of that. I like Mike Waltz. 0:05:19.240 --> 0:05:21.760 I was glad he was in the position. I wish 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:24.640 he still was. But on we go the ship of 0:05:24.720 --> 0:05:27.360 State saiales on and now Rubio is going to do 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:32.839 both jobs. Yeah, temporarily. Here's another headline. Trump to propose 0:05:32.920 --> 0:05:36.640 slashing one hundred and sixty three billion dollars in government 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:39.960 programs in the budget blueprint. You know how the president 0:05:40.000 --> 0:05:43.320 the White House puts out their budget proposal, which is 0:05:43.360 --> 0:05:46.000 odd considering the fact that Congress as the power of 0:05:46.000 --> 0:05:46.800 the purst blah blah blah. 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:48.200 But it's been going on for years and years. 0:05:48.520 --> 0:05:51.920 But Trump's proposal, for what it's worth, and this will 0:05:52.000 --> 0:05:55.359 change a lot cut one hundred and sixty three billion 0:05:55.440 --> 0:06:01.880 dollars targeting environmental, energy, education, and foreign A programs. The 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:04.760 skinny budget aims to cut what the Trump administration considers 0:06:04.800 --> 0:06:08.920 wasteful programs, encourage state control as opposed to federal control amen, 0:06:09.400 --> 0:06:15.280 and reduce clean energy funding. Proposal also cuts the EPA's 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:20.839 Environmental Justice Initiatives, which is just woke DEI stuff closing USA. 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:24.400 It has been discussed cutting NIH and NSF funding and 0:06:24.480 --> 0:06:30.359 also cutting the funding to PBS and NPR as we've discussed. 0:06:30.400 --> 0:06:32.560 So yes, like a lot of that. Finally, will that 0:06:32.640 --> 0:06:33.239 actually happen? 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:37.240 Do you think m do? 0:06:37.360 --> 0:06:39.599 Yeah. I don't know if it'll be total. I don't 0:06:39.600 --> 0:06:41.039 know why it hasn't happened in the past. 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:43.839 I've heard, you know, Republicans always talk about cutting funding 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:46.720 day NPR, PBS, but they never do it. 0:06:46.800 --> 0:06:48.440 Why Who are you afraid of? 0:06:49.880 --> 0:06:53.599 The maybe the upper krusty voters, moderates and Republicans who 0:06:53.600 --> 0:06:54.760 really like NPR. 0:06:54.800 --> 0:06:56.640 For instance, I listen to MPR every day. 0:06:56.640 --> 0:06:58.120 There's some of their stuff is great, but I want 0:06:58.120 --> 0:06:59.960 their funding freaking cut yesterday. 0:07:01.040 --> 0:07:01.680 Ridiculous. 0:07:01.680 --> 0:07:05.040 They get a dollar a taxpayer money to spew completely 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:07.080 progressive bs on so many topics. 0:07:07.520 --> 0:07:09.920 In his order, Trump said, and I quote, neither entity 0:07:10.040 --> 0:07:13.080 presents a fair, accurate, or unbiased portrayal of current events 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:14.320 to tax paying citizens. 0:07:14.600 --> 0:07:18.320 Not even close your lips to God's ears. I don't 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:19.000 know if it was. 0:07:19.120 --> 0:07:21.600 I mean, was it in the seventies and the eighties 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:22.960 before I started paying attention. 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:23.920 I don't know. 0:07:24.880 --> 0:07:27.560 But in my adult life it's been not just left 0:07:27.720 --> 0:07:30.480 leaning like the CBS Evening News. 0:07:30.320 --> 0:07:31.520 Was for so long or whatever. 0:07:31.720 --> 0:07:34.040 I mean, just out and out like the most progressive 0:07:34.040 --> 0:07:36.040 stuff in America. If I flip it on after work, 0:07:36.040 --> 0:07:38.360 which I do almost every single day, they're always talking 0:07:38.400 --> 0:07:43.840 about some trans illegal who got contained by ice or something. Nothing, 0:07:44.320 --> 0:07:47.840 anybody for stealing insulin off the shelves. Anybody in like 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:51.320 eighty five percent of America cares about, right exactly. 0:07:51.920 --> 0:07:54.520 I think the there we need to come up with 0:07:54.560 --> 0:07:57.160 a code for what I'm about to say. Maybe it's 0:07:57.200 --> 0:08:01.640 the mar effect. When NPR was a left the organization 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:06.040 in nineteen eighty nine, they were slightly left of Republican 0:08:06.360 --> 0:08:10.320 organizations in the way that most of America is squarely 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:12.400 in the middle, maybe a little right or a little left. 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:15.800 Now in pr is lined with the furthest left faction 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:19.920 of leftism, which is swung Chaye Guevera would say they're 0:08:19.960 --> 0:08:20.640 too radical. 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:23.280 So that's it. Michael, did you have a comment you 0:08:23.320 --> 0:08:23.720 were gonna make? 0:08:23.840 --> 0:08:24.000 Yeah. 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:27.640 I grew up on PBS Sesame Street, mister Rogers Electric Company, 0:08:27.680 --> 0:08:29.760 and it was nothing like PBS today. 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:31.680 Yeah, that's absolutely true. 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:37.280 Yeah, we didn't leave PBSPBS left us, So I like it. 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:40.760 How about this one President Trump is going to He 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:44.120 says he's going to rename Veterans Day is Victory Day 0:08:44.160 --> 0:08:48.680 for World War One and designate May eighth as Victory 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:50.000 Day for World War Two. 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:53.400 No, no, he's posted. No I don't either. He posted 0:08:53.480 --> 0:08:56.640 on Truth's social late yesterday quote, we won both wars. 0:08:56.880 --> 0:08:59.560 Nobody was close to us in terms of strength, bravery, 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:03.200 or mill terry brilliants, but we never celebrate anything. That's 0:09:03.240 --> 0:09:05.920 because we don't have leaders anymore. We are going to 0:09:05.960 --> 0:09:09.640 start celebrating our victories again. I think he's seeing what 0:09:09.679 --> 0:09:12.240 Putin's doing with their big week. They do this week 0:09:13.000 --> 0:09:14.800 around World War two and they. 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:18.640 Have parades and drive their military stuff through the streets. 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:20.320 He probably likes the idea of that. 0:09:21.760 --> 0:09:24.960 Yeah, I'm uncomfortable with this. A bit more information then 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:27.880 i'll comment. But May eighth and forty five was the 0:09:27.960 --> 0:09:31.360 day on which fighting against Germany officially ended in WW two, 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:33.920 although the conflict continued to rage for four months in 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:39.760 the Pacific, claiming hundreds of thousands more lives, including American lives. 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:44.080 Not one hundreds of thousands of American lives, but quite a few. 0:09:44.080 --> 0:09:47.720 Many US allies celebrate May eighth this V day, marking 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:50.600 Germany's unconditional surrendered to the Allies in World War Two. 0:09:51.480 --> 0:09:54.559 There was no executive order accompanying the announcement, and Trump 0:09:54.559 --> 0:09:56.640 didn't say whether he planned to make May eight day 0:09:56.679 --> 0:10:03.160 federal holiday. You know, very uncomfortable with this, because I'm 0:10:03.160 --> 0:10:08.880 all for, you know, celebrating our victories. You know, good lord, 0:10:08.920 --> 0:10:10.160 how long ago was that? 0:10:10.320 --> 0:10:10.520 Now? 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:16.160 Eighty years ago and one hundred and seven years ago, 0:10:16.320 --> 0:10:21.840 or whatever date you want to use. But all military 0:10:21.920 --> 0:10:24.319 veterans deserve the recognition of Veterans Day. 0:10:24.559 --> 0:10:26.720 Sure, Oh, I think we got it right. I think 0:10:26.760 --> 0:10:28.120 we handled it absolutely correctly. 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:29.360 Yeah. 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:32.000 Yeah, Well, after the wardend all wars, World War one, 0:10:32.040 --> 0:10:34.000 we had Armistice Day to celebrate the end of it. 0:10:34.040 --> 0:10:36.200 We had another ward end all Wars, and then several 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:39.720 other terrible, bloody conflicts, and it was decided, hey, you're 0:10:39.760 --> 0:10:41.960 not going to single out the brave men and women 0:10:42.000 --> 0:10:44.920 of these conflicts. So I hope you backtracks on this. 0:10:45.080 --> 0:10:49.800 It's just silly moving along. Trump invests in Ukraine's future 0:10:50.400 --> 0:10:53.800 the mineral deal. I'm not sure we have time to 0:10:53.840 --> 0:10:57.880 actually get into this, because there's a fair amount to it. 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:03.760 Under the the US gets first choice to either acquire 0:11:04.120 --> 0:11:07.600 these large supplies of uranium, natural gas, lithium, and other 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:12.000 rare earth minerals valued at some one trillion dollars, although 0:11:12.040 --> 0:11:15.080 about a third of them are in territory currently occupied 0:11:15.080 --> 0:11:18.520 by Russia. But we get first choice to either require 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:22.679 those resources for ourselves or designate the purchaser of our choice. 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:27.040 For the first decade, the fund's profits will be reinvested 0:11:27.080 --> 0:11:33.040 in Ukraine to rebuild. After that, both countries get a 0:11:33.120 --> 0:11:37.080 share of the return, according to the Ukraine's Ministry of 0:11:37.120 --> 0:11:41.359 the Economy. Here's the other detail that I found really interesting. 0:11:42.679 --> 0:11:45.200 Ukraine US will have equal representation on the board that 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:48.840 makes decisions on how to allocate the fund's resources. Ukraine 0:11:48.880 --> 0:11:50.680 will pay into the fund half of the revenue it 0:11:50.720 --> 0:11:53.800 earns from royalties, license fees, and similar payments for new oil, gas, 0:11:53.840 --> 0:11:56.720 and critical mineral projects. The text of the deal says 0:11:56.760 --> 0:12:00.600 if the US delivers new military assistance to Ukraine, it 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:04.360 will get credit for a capital contribution to the fund. 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:08.440 In other words, you can even you can either have 0:12:09.120 --> 0:12:12.480 the ammunition and air defenses that they're running low on now, 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:15.320 or you know, you come to a piece agreement and 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:18.560 it'll be rebuilding funds up to you. 0:12:18.800 --> 0:12:20.439 Well, I took in a lot on this yesterday. The 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:22.640 biggest thing for a lot of people was the fact 0:12:22.679 --> 0:12:27.160 that the agreement uses the term after Russia invaded Ukraine, 0:12:27.559 --> 0:12:30.600 when Trump had been saying quite for quite some time. 0:12:30.640 --> 0:12:32.880 He just referred to it to those the Russian Ukrainian 0:12:32.960 --> 0:12:37.360 conflict remember, and as various times suggested that Ukraine started, 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:41.040 the fact that the paperwork actually says Russia invaded Ukraine 0:12:41.520 --> 0:12:43.320 is seen as a pretty big deal. 0:12:44.040 --> 0:12:45.600 Maybe it is, Maybe it is, I'm not sure. 0:12:46.600 --> 0:12:51.000 Yeah, yeah, So the deal's real significance is although there's 0:12:51.040 --> 0:12:54.960 no specific security guarantees, that signals the US is not 0:12:55.040 --> 0:12:58.960 abandoning Ukraine. White House said the partnership sends a strong 0:12:58.960 --> 0:13:01.840 message to Russia. Well, the United States has skin in 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:05.680 the game, et cetera. The Kremlin seems to uh. 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:06.320 Blah blah blah. 0:13:06.679 --> 0:13:11.320 The Vladimir Putin Factotem Dimitri Midyetyev said, Trump wore down 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:13.480 the Kiev regime and he mocked a deal with what 0:13:13.520 --> 0:13:17.120 he said would soon be a disappearing country. 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:22.200 So people wonder what the chatty in the vattie was 0:13:22.240 --> 0:13:25.480 really about when Zelenski and Trump got together there at 0:13:25.480 --> 0:13:25.959 the Vatican. 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:29.440 Please call it that again under any circumstances. 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:32.680 And if maybe Trump said, you know, away from cameras, look, 0:13:32.960 --> 0:13:36.200 we're we're invested in this thing that we're invested, So 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:38.200 Russia is not going to be able to do this 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:41.520 or that if we got trucks and personnel and money 0:13:41.520 --> 0:13:41.959 at stake. 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:44.199 All right, so that's your guarantee. 0:13:44.440 --> 0:13:47.360 Maybe, Or I've heard people who are like Trump less 0:13:47.520 --> 0:13:50.360 say what if Putin, you know, takes more ground and 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:52.480 says I'll give you seventy five percent. You're gonna get 0:13:52.480 --> 0:13:54.439 fifty percent. Now you get seventy five percent if you 0:13:54.520 --> 0:13:56.760 let us keepe the land. Yeah, do you just call 0:13:56.800 --> 0:14:01.200 it Russia. Yeah, more on the way, stay here. 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:05.640 He Yet, according to the New York Post, Bill Belichick's 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:09.760 twenty four year old girlfriend's mother manages a sex shop 0:14:09.800 --> 0:14:14.360 in Massachusetts. This checks out since her daughter as Bill's 0:14:14.480 --> 0:14:15.360 nuts and advice. 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:20.520 Wow, wow, Wade, you got it. That was awfully frank. 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:21.800 Is that a joke? 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:27.360 Yes, it could have been run by the co hosts 0:14:27.400 --> 0:14:29.600 before we heared that one. Yeah, I would agree that 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:31.800 that is. That is into the territory of we should 0:14:31.800 --> 0:14:32.240 have heard. 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:35.080 That ahead of time. But yes, we apologize friends, if 0:14:35.080 --> 0:14:37.200 you're an interesting piece of information though. 0:14:38.440 --> 0:14:40.400 So, first of all, I love the fact that the 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:45.040 Bill Belichick fifty year younger, hotting young girlfriend a girlfriend's 0:14:45.080 --> 0:14:47.560 story has blown up and become a national obsession. 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:48.160 I love it. 0:14:48.520 --> 0:14:51.000 We need more of that in America, not less. We 0:14:51.040 --> 0:14:55.080 need stuff that's not Trump or polarized politics or whatever. 0:14:55.120 --> 0:14:56.760 We need more of this stuff. Just a good old 0:14:56.800 --> 0:14:58.240 soap opera about a couple of people. 0:14:58.920 --> 0:15:02.080 You and your progress, a neighbor can come together and say, 0:15:02.160 --> 0:15:04.160 fifty years, holy cats, well. 0:15:04.120 --> 0:15:06.600 What's going on here? So that's pretty interesting. So his 0:15:06.640 --> 0:15:11.520 hotty girlfriend's mom runs a sex shop. Okay, that's not 0:15:11.720 --> 0:15:17.080 everybody's lifestyle probably means something about our relationship to It's 0:15:17.080 --> 0:15:23.600 an sternal aid retailer. Huh okay, And so the story. 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:25.680 You probably know this, and if you don't, you don't care. 0:15:25.760 --> 0:15:28.520 But they did an interview on CBS last Sunday morning. 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:32.080 CBS aired the part that didn't make the cut or 0:15:32.080 --> 0:15:33.920 wasn't supposed to make the cut, where she kept. 0:15:33.760 --> 0:15:35.640 Jumping up and stopping questions. 0:15:35.920 --> 0:15:40.560 She's twenty four years old and they're asking maybe the 0:15:40.560 --> 0:15:43.920 most successful football coach in history, rich very successful guy 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:47.600 fifty years older, questions, and he can't answer on his own. 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:49.760 She's got to jump up and defend him or something 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:50.520 that was weird. 0:15:51.120 --> 0:15:55.320 So two days ago, Charles Barkley, the analyst and Hall 0:15:55.360 --> 0:15:59.520 of Fame basketball players, said on an interview, I'm starting 0:15:59.560 --> 0:16:02.400 to get real worried about my friend Bill Belichick, and 0:16:02.400 --> 0:16:04.880 I guess they're really really good friends, going way back 0:16:04.920 --> 0:16:07.400 for many, many years. He said, from what I'm hearing, 0:16:07.440 --> 0:16:09.520 it's starting to be a very slippery slope. And I 0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:13.040 never talk about people's personal relationships. That's funny because now 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:16.120 he's about to. That's another rule I got. But I 0:16:16.160 --> 0:16:18.080 will admit i'm a little concerned with some of the 0:16:18.120 --> 0:16:20.120 stuff that's going on. I might actually reach out to 0:16:20.200 --> 0:16:22.280 him to make sure everything's good, but I'm concerned from 0:16:22.280 --> 0:16:24.040 what I'm hearing, it's not a good look right now. 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:27.560 I'll admit that what is he hearing from people? He 0:16:27.720 --> 0:16:29.760 said that, Wow, what is. 0:16:29.720 --> 0:16:33.000 He hearing from people who personally know Bill Belichick? That's 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:35.520 got him actually worried for his friend. 0:16:37.480 --> 0:16:39.560 The odd thing, if you're not a sports fan, is 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:46.720 that mister Belichick is known for being utterly self possessed, stubborn, smart, 0:16:47.080 --> 0:16:50.200 tough to the point of being mean. The last guy 0:16:50.240 --> 0:16:52.720 on earth anybody's ever walked over. 0:16:55.480 --> 0:16:58.400 The fact that Barkley's actually word So is he losing 0:16:58.600 --> 0:16:59.360 is he loosing it? 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:04.359 Or I wonder what he's concerned about. I don't know. 0:17:04.080 --> 0:17:06.960 I love this story. It's got to continue. More legs. 0:17:06.960 --> 0:17:08.679 We need more drips and drips on that story. 0:17:09.200 --> 0:17:13.080 Hey, good news, everybody, Cocaine's back and how we'll explain 0:17:13.160 --> 0:17:14.000 in a moment. 0:17:14.160 --> 0:17:15.360 Armstrong and Getty. 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:19.919 If you're asking what do people make of the last month? 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:23.879 All all things in what you're seeing is sort of 0:17:23.920 --> 0:17:27.440 certainly there was a lot of volatility and disruption initially, 0:17:28.240 --> 0:17:30.520 but things have really calmed down since then. 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:34.119 So there's an economist they had on CNN yesterday on 0:17:34.200 --> 0:17:35.200 Jake Tapper's show. 0:17:35.280 --> 0:17:37.280 I have heard a number of. 0:17:38.600 --> 0:17:41.399 People who aren't in the business of getting on certain 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:44.919 kinds of shows who have been a lot calmer about 0:17:44.920 --> 0:17:50.760 this whole thing. Then I'm hearing, you know, from people 0:17:50.760 --> 0:17:52.919 who have partisan interest or just trying to get on 0:17:53.359 --> 0:17:56.000 certain kinds of shows. That's the hardest thing with media. 0:17:56.080 --> 0:17:58.240 There should be a special channel for Hey, I'm not 0:17:58.280 --> 0:18:00.200 trying to get on a show. I'm not trying to 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:02.680 become a household name. I'm not trying to push a book. 0:18:02.800 --> 0:18:04.000 Here's what I actually think. 0:18:04.680 --> 0:18:07.520 I'm not trying to get hired by any administration. Now 0:18:07.560 --> 0:18:08.920 we're in the future, right. 0:18:10.640 --> 0:18:13.600 Here's a little more also from CNN on where we 0:18:13.640 --> 0:18:15.720 are with the tariff thing. 0:18:16.160 --> 0:18:19.160 Any cargo that was loaded from China on April ninth 0:18:19.200 --> 0:18:21.959 and onwards, it's going to be carrying that higher tariff 0:18:21.960 --> 0:18:24.840 of one hundred and forty five percent. Not only will 0:18:24.920 --> 0:18:27.679 the prices be higher on those cargo ships, but there 0:18:27.680 --> 0:18:30.960 will be fewer ships at sea carrying less volume because 0:18:30.960 --> 0:18:33.959 for many importers it is simply too expensive to do 0:18:34.040 --> 0:18:35.040 business with China. 0:18:36.040 --> 0:18:40.199 I still think it's possible this turns out to be 0:18:40.440 --> 0:18:45.359 like one of the biggest disasters in history, Like people 0:18:45.440 --> 0:18:48.440 are talking about this hundreds of years from now sort 0:18:48.480 --> 0:18:49.080 of disaster. 0:18:49.520 --> 0:18:51.080 Again, as I've said. 0:18:51.000 --> 0:18:52.840 I hope I'm wrong. I'll be happy to be wrong. 0:18:53.440 --> 0:18:55.600 Love being wrong. I'd rather be wrong than right in 0:18:55.600 --> 0:19:00.320 this case by a thousand times. Right, So, in what 0:19:00.359 --> 0:19:03.560 sense would it be a disaster politically, economically or you 0:19:03.600 --> 0:19:07.640 think in short term or long term? I'm picturing him, 0:19:08.040 --> 0:19:11.679 I'm picturing its starting to have the results that the 0:19:11.680 --> 0:19:19.560 critics say are possible, inflation, shortages on shelves, all that 0:19:19.600 --> 0:19:23.280 sort of stuff, and him sticking with it with the 0:19:23.280 --> 0:19:24.959 belief that, hey, we got it. We got to live 0:19:25.000 --> 0:19:27.760 through this pain. It's you know, it's built in. 0:19:27.960 --> 0:19:31.880 Be patient for a long time. Yeah. 0:19:31.920 --> 0:19:37.040 So, politically just insanely damaging and then economically quite damaging. 0:19:37.760 --> 0:19:40.480 Right right, you know it's funny, go ahead. 0:19:40.720 --> 0:19:42.480 I was just gonna say, economically, I think we could 0:19:42.560 --> 0:19:45.720 we could bounce back eventually. You know, sure if Congress 0:19:45.720 --> 0:19:47.800 steps in, the court, step in and say you don't 0:19:47.840 --> 0:19:49.760 have the power to do this, Congress steps in and 0:19:49.800 --> 0:19:53.480 passes some laws. Whatever, we end the high tariffs, we 0:19:53.520 --> 0:19:56.640 get back to normal, things will sort out over top. Politically, though, 0:19:56.720 --> 0:19:59.960 I think it'll be talked about two hundred years from now. 0:20:00.280 --> 0:20:02.080 I hope not. It could be. 0:20:02.200 --> 0:20:05.600 Yeah, Trump could relent himself too, decided it's not working out. 0:20:05.600 --> 0:20:08.480 We got some deals. We're better off than we were before. Yeah. 0:20:08.520 --> 0:20:12.639 So yesterday I mentioned that according to analysts who know 0:20:12.680 --> 0:20:17.159 what they're talking about, the Chinese are already suffering millions 0:20:17.280 --> 0:20:20.919 jobs at stake, plants shut down, orders canceled, and the 0:20:20.960 --> 0:20:23.359 pain is beginning to spread in China. Therefore, they are 0:20:23.440 --> 0:20:26.160 much more vulnerable to a trade war than we are. 0:20:26.359 --> 0:20:30.000 The awesome trade surplus side always more vulnerable than the 0:20:30.040 --> 0:20:33.560 trade deficit side in a trade war. But then it 0:20:33.640 --> 0:20:37.280 was pointed out I came across another learned piece today 0:20:37.280 --> 0:20:41.760 that pointed out, well, jes In Ping can can inject 0:20:41.800 --> 0:20:46.920 an enormous jolt into his economy with you know, debt 0:20:47.680 --> 0:20:54.360 financed stimulus, and well, which is a bad long term strategy. 0:20:54.400 --> 0:20:56.920 We've been doing it for quite a while here. It's 0:20:56.920 --> 0:20:58.600 a bad long term strategy. Go to works in the 0:20:58.640 --> 0:20:59.080 short term. 0:20:59.119 --> 0:21:00.240 And oh that's right. 0:21:00.560 --> 0:21:06.360 He's a cruel, all controlling dictator with the most sophisticated 0:21:06.440 --> 0:21:10.399 surveillance and control state ever crafted on planet Earth. So 0:21:10.600 --> 0:21:12.320 it's not like the Chinese people are going to go 0:21:12.320 --> 0:21:15.280