Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Jetty and no, he Armstrong and Hetty. It
Speaker 2: wasn't let go.
Speaker 3: He is being made ambassador to the United Nations, which
Speaker 3: of course is a Senate confirmed position. I think he
Speaker 3: can make a good argument that it's a promotion. But
Speaker 3: we brought Mike on to do some serious reforms of
Speaker 3: the National Security Council. He has done that. I think
Speaker 3: the media wants to frame this as a firing. Donald
Speaker 3: Trump has fired a lot of people. He doesn't give
Speaker 3: them cenic confirmed appointments afterwards. What he thinks is that
Speaker 3: Mike Waltz is going to better serve the administration most
Speaker 3: importantly of the American people in that role. And I
Speaker 3: haven't agree with him.
Speaker 2: That's a decent point.
Speaker 4: It's not that Donald Trump's afraid to fire people, regardless
Speaker 4: of their relationship or how it will look or whatever else.
Speaker 2: He's done it many many times.
Speaker 4: But it's not of promotion because you're no longer in
Speaker 4: the inner inner circle.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're talking about Mike Waltz, former National Security Advisor,
Speaker 1: now going to be the Ambastor to the un A couple.
Speaker 2: Of Pope killer jd Vance There, Oh boy.
Speaker 1: Jd Vance's interview with Brett Barre last night, another excellent interview.
Speaker 1: A couple of reactions. Number one, Jack, You're one hundred
Speaker 1: percent right. He's been moved from the inner circle to
Speaker 1: the outer circle. It's a good gig and a reasonably
Speaker 1: high profile gig. But yeah, it just wasn't working out
Speaker 1: for reasons I'll get into in a second. Also, the
Speaker 1: thing that struck me and I used to really really
Speaker 1: like jd Vance, There are aspects of his worldview I
Speaker 1: find kind of troubling, and he's pretty slick. I mean,
Speaker 1: he is a good bser like right there. I mean
Speaker 1: Waltz was shoved out and everybody knows it, but he
Speaker 1: protected the man's dignity, which I kind of appreciate.
Speaker 4: I would like it if you said that about me,
Speaker 4: if I got moved to a different job. Right exactly.
Speaker 4: It's actually a promotion that he now is the male guy.
Speaker 1: But the one thing I just kept thinking about, Oh
Speaker 1: and Michael, you might want to get.
Speaker 2: To forty two ready clip forty two.
Speaker 1: As I was watching him talk to Bratt, I was
Speaker 1: thinking what an enormous upgrade brain power wise, from the
Speaker 1: last vice president to the current vice president. I mean,
Speaker 1: good lord, from a mouse to a tiger.
Speaker 2: Go ahead, Michael, who saw that video from a couple
Speaker 2: of weeks ago, the one of the elephants at the
Speaker 2: San Diego Zoo during the earthquake.
Speaker 5: They got in a circle and stood next to each other.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's enough. You know that was an edit. That's interesting.
Speaker 1: That was an edit of the clip we'd played the
Speaker 1: other day that had included all of her giggling because
Speaker 1: accommodation of her giggling. And then when she went to
Speaker 1: bring home the point about like the elephants, we need
Speaker 1: to stick together, she laid it as a du trumpet
Speaker 1: of agreement. There she laid it on us.
Speaker 2: Like it was the words of the world's greatest philosopher,
Speaker 2: when the philosophy was suited for like second graders.
Speaker 4: Right, if you're an adult, you picked up on where
Speaker 4: she was going before she laid out her very slowly.
Speaker 4: Now let me hit you with the with the punchline here, people,
Speaker 4: because you haven't figured it out ahead of me.
Speaker 2: They worked to get yeah, I get it. Yeah, we
Speaker 2: know anyway, all right, So onto.
Speaker 1: A slew of stories about the White House and what
Speaker 1: it's done in the last couple of days. And I'll
Speaker 1: tell you this, we don't talk about politics exclusively around here,
Speaker 1: and you know, I don't stoke outrage constantly. It's a
Speaker 1: little different approach to talk radio, just because I don't
Speaker 1: know it's unhealthy to just fixate on politics all the time.
Speaker 2: But a lot has happened.
Speaker 1: The Waltz getting shoved out, Yes, it had to do
Speaker 1: a signal gate. Of course, Washington is more gossipy than Hollywood,
Speaker 1: and the minute the guy was out the door, all
Speaker 1: the Trump aids ran to their favorite media contact and
Speaker 1: let him know what was going on. So Trump and
Speaker 1: senior administration officials, including the Chief staff Susie Wilds, had
Speaker 1: been frustrated with Waltz even before the signaled debacle. Walls
Speaker 1: hired aids that his critics said did not appeal to
Speaker 1: Trump's magabas, and he struggled to relay the president's national
Speaker 1: security priorities on television, which Trump thought would be a
Speaker 1: strength of Waltz because he is very intelligentic and a
Speaker 1: good talker.
Speaker 2: But there was a little discomfort with.
Speaker 1: The more Trumpian worldview and Unlike Marco Rubio, who's managed
Speaker 1: to become a forceful advocate for views he didn't hold
Speaker 1: in the past, Waltz wasn't really doing that on Ukraine
Speaker 1: and Iran.
Speaker 4: Especially according to insiders, there's no way jd Vance likes Walls.
Speaker 4: I mean, he might like him as a person, but
Speaker 4: he doesn't like him being around because they disagree completely
Speaker 4: on there how interventional we should be.
Speaker 1: Some on Trump's team also found him imperious and condescending names.
Speaker 2: I've always been imperious.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm condescending, idiot, particularly to White House staff, administration
Speaker 1: officials set So that's enough of that. I like Mike Waltz.
Speaker 1: I was glad he was in the position. I wish
Speaker 1: he still was. But on we go the ship of
Speaker 1: State saiales on and now Rubio is going to do
Speaker 1: both jobs. Yeah, temporarily. Here's another headline. Trump to propose
Speaker 1: slashing one hundred and sixty three billion dollars in government
Speaker 1: programs in the budget blueprint. You know how the president
Speaker 1: the White House puts out their budget proposal, which is
Speaker 1: odd considering the fact that Congress as the power of
Speaker 1: the purst blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: But it's been going on for years and years.
Speaker 1: But Trump's proposal, for what it's worth, and this will
Speaker 1: change a lot cut one hundred and sixty three billion
Speaker 1: dollars targeting environmental, energy, education, and foreign A programs. The
Speaker 1: skinny budget aims to cut what the Trump administration considers
Speaker 1: wasteful programs, encourage state control as opposed to federal control amen,
Speaker 1: and reduce clean energy funding. Proposal also cuts the EPA's
Speaker 1: Environmental Justice Initiatives, which is just woke DEI stuff closing USA.
Speaker 1: It has been discussed cutting NIH and NSF funding and
Speaker 1: also cutting the funding to PBS and NPR as we've discussed.
Speaker 2: So yes, like a lot of that. Finally, will that
Speaker 2: actually happen?
Speaker 1: Do you think m do?
Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't know if it'll be total. I don't
Speaker 2: know why it hasn't happened in the past.
Speaker 4: I've heard, you know, Republicans always talk about cutting funding
Speaker 4: day NPR, PBS, but they never do it.
Speaker 2: Why Who are you afraid of?
Speaker 1: The maybe the upper krusty voters, moderates and Republicans who
Speaker 1: really like NPR.
Speaker 2: For instance, I listen to MPR every day.
Speaker 4: There's some of their stuff is great, but I want
Speaker 4: their funding freaking cut yesterday.
Speaker 2: Ridiculous.
Speaker 4: They get a dollar a taxpayer money to spew completely
Speaker 4: progressive bs on so many topics.
Speaker 1: In his order, Trump said, and I quote, neither entity
Speaker 1: presents a fair, accurate, or unbiased portrayal of current events
Speaker 1: to tax paying citizens.
Speaker 2: Not even close your lips to God's ears. I don't
Speaker 2: know if it was.
Speaker 4: I mean, was it in the seventies and the eighties
Speaker 4: before I started paying attention.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: But in my adult life it's been not just left
Speaker 4: leaning like the CBS Evening News.
Speaker 2: Was for so long or whatever.
Speaker 4: I mean, just out and out like the most progressive
Speaker 4: stuff in America. If I flip it on after work,
Speaker 4: which I do almost every single day, they're always talking
Speaker 4: about some trans illegal who got contained by ice or something. Nothing,
Speaker 4: anybody for stealing insulin off the shelves. Anybody in like
Speaker 4: eighty five percent of America cares about, right exactly.
Speaker 1: I think the there we need to come up with
Speaker 1: a code for what I'm about to say. Maybe it's
Speaker 1: the mar effect. When NPR was a left the organization
Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty nine, they were slightly left of Republican
Speaker 1: organizations in the way that most of America is squarely
Speaker 1: in the middle, maybe a little right or a little left.
Speaker 1: Now in pr is lined with the furthest left faction
Speaker 1: of leftism, which is swung Chaye Guevera would say they're
Speaker 1: too radical.
Speaker 2: So that's it. Michael, did you have a comment you
Speaker 2: were gonna make?
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I grew up on PBS Sesame Street, mister Rogers Electric Company,
Speaker 6: and it was nothing like PBS today.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's absolutely true.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we didn't leave PBSPBS left us, So I like it.
Speaker 1: How about this one President Trump is going to He
Speaker 1: says he's going to rename Veterans Day is Victory Day
Speaker 1: for World War One and designate May eighth as Victory
Speaker 1: Day for World War Two.
Speaker 2: No, no, he's posted. No I don't either. He posted
Speaker 2: on Truth's social late yesterday quote, we won both wars.
Speaker 1: Nobody was close to us in terms of strength, bravery,
Speaker 1: or mill terry brilliants, but we never celebrate anything. That's
Speaker 1: because we don't have leaders anymore. We are going to
Speaker 1: start celebrating our victories again. I think he's seeing what
Speaker 1: Putin's doing with their big week. They do this week
Speaker 1: around World War two and they.
Speaker 4: Have parades and drive their military stuff through the streets.
Speaker 2: He probably likes the idea of that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm uncomfortable with this. A bit more information then
Speaker 1: i'll comment. But May eighth and forty five was the
Speaker 1: day on which fighting against Germany officially ended in WW two,
Speaker 1: although the conflict continued to rage for four months in
Speaker 1: the Pacific, claiming hundreds of thousands more lives, including American lives.
Speaker 1: Not one hundreds of thousands of American lives, but quite a few.
Speaker 1: Many US allies celebrate May eighth this V day, marking
Speaker 1: Germany's unconditional surrendered to the Allies in World War Two.
Speaker 1: There was no executive order accompanying the announcement, and Trump
Speaker 1: didn't say whether he planned to make May eight day
Speaker 1: federal holiday. You know, very uncomfortable with this, because I'm
Speaker 1: all for, you know, celebrating our victories. You know, good lord,
Speaker 1: how long ago was that?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 1: Eighty years ago and one hundred and seven years ago,
Speaker 1: or whatever date you want to use. But all military
Speaker 1: veterans deserve the recognition of Veterans Day.
Speaker 4: Sure, Oh, I think we got it right. I think
Speaker 4: we handled it absolutely correctly.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, after the wardend all wars, World War one,
Speaker 1: we had Armistice Day to celebrate the end of it.
Speaker 1: We had another ward end all Wars, and then several
Speaker 1: other terrible, bloody conflicts, and it was decided, hey, you're
Speaker 1: not going to single out the brave men and women
Speaker 1: of these conflicts. So I hope you backtracks on this.
Speaker 1: It's just silly moving along. Trump invests in Ukraine's future
Speaker 1: the mineral deal. I'm not sure we have time to
Speaker 1: actually get into this, because there's a fair amount to it.
Speaker 1: Under the the US gets first choice to either acquire
Speaker 1: these large supplies of uranium, natural gas, lithium, and other
Speaker 1: rare earth minerals valued at some one trillion dollars, although
Speaker 1: about a third of them are in territory currently occupied
Speaker 1: by Russia. But we get first choice to either require
Speaker 1: those resources for ourselves or designate the purchaser of our choice.
Speaker 1: For the first decade, the fund's profits will be reinvested
Speaker 1: in Ukraine to rebuild. After that, both countries get a
Speaker 1: share of the return, according to the Ukraine's Ministry of
Speaker 1: the Economy. Here's the other detail that I found really interesting.
Speaker 1: Ukraine US will have equal representation on the board that
Speaker 1: makes decisions on how to allocate the fund's resources. Ukraine
Speaker 1: will pay into the fund half of the revenue it
Speaker 1: earns from royalties, license fees, and similar payments for new oil, gas,
Speaker 1: and critical mineral projects. The text of the deal says
Speaker 1: if the US delivers new military assistance to Ukraine, it
Speaker 1: will get credit for a capital contribution to the fund.
Speaker 1: In other words, you can even you can either have
Speaker 1: the ammunition and air defenses that they're running low on now,
Speaker 1: or you know, you come to a piece agreement and
Speaker 1: it'll be rebuilding funds up to you.
Speaker 4: Well, I took in a lot on this yesterday. The
Speaker 4: biggest thing for a lot of people was the fact
Speaker 4: that the agreement uses the term after Russia invaded Ukraine,
Speaker 4: when Trump had been saying quite for quite some time.
Speaker 4: He just referred to it to those the Russian Ukrainian
Speaker 4: conflict remember, and as various times suggested that Ukraine started,
Speaker 4: the fact that the paperwork actually says Russia invaded Ukraine
Speaker 4: is seen as a pretty big deal.
Speaker 2: Maybe it is, Maybe it is, I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, So the deal's real significance is although there's
Speaker 1: no specific security guarantees, that signals the US is not
Speaker 1: abandoning Ukraine. White House said the partnership sends a strong
Speaker 1: message to Russia. Well, the United States has skin in
Speaker 1: the game, et cetera. The Kremlin seems to uh.
Speaker 2: Blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: The Vladimir Putin Factotem Dimitri Midyetyev said, Trump wore down
Speaker 1: the Kiev regime and he mocked a deal with what
Speaker 1: he said would soon be a disappearing country.
Speaker 4: So people wonder what the chatty in the vattie was
Speaker 4: really about when Zelenski and Trump got together there at
Speaker 4: the Vatican.
Speaker 2: Please call it that again under any circumstances.
Speaker 4: And if maybe Trump said, you know, away from cameras, look,
Speaker 4: we're we're invested in this thing that we're invested, So
Speaker 4: Russia is not going to be able to do this
Speaker 4: or that if we got trucks and personnel and money
Speaker 4: at stake.
Speaker 2: All right, so that's your guarantee.
Speaker 4: Maybe, Or I've heard people who are like Trump less
Speaker 4: say what if Putin, you know, takes more ground and
Speaker 4: says I'll give you seventy five percent. You're gonna get
Speaker 4: fifty percent. Now you get seventy five percent if you
Speaker 4: let us keepe the land. Yeah, do you just call
Speaker 4: it Russia. Yeah, more on the way, stay here.
Speaker 7: He Yet, according to the New York Post, Bill Belichick's
Speaker 7: twenty four year old girlfriend's mother manages a sex shop
Speaker 7: in Massachusetts. This checks out since her daughter as Bill's
Speaker 7: nuts and advice.
Speaker 1: Wow, wow, Wade, you got it. That was awfully frank.
Speaker 2: Is that a joke?
Speaker 1: Yes, it could have been run by the co hosts
Speaker 1: before we heared that one. Yeah, I would agree that
Speaker 1: that is. That is into the territory of we should
Speaker 1: have heard.
Speaker 2: That ahead of time. But yes, we apologize friends, if
Speaker 2: you're an interesting piece of information though.
Speaker 4: So, first of all, I love the fact that the
Speaker 4: Bill Belichick fifty year younger, hotting young girlfriend a girlfriend's
Speaker 4: story has blown up and become a national obsession.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 4: We need more of that in America, not less. We
Speaker 4: need stuff that's not Trump or polarized politics or whatever.
Speaker 4: We need more of this stuff. Just a good old
Speaker 4: soap opera about a couple of people.
Speaker 1: You and your progress, a neighbor can come together and say,
Speaker 1: fifty years, holy cats, well.
Speaker 4: What's going on here? So that's pretty interesting. So his
Speaker 4: hotty girlfriend's mom runs a sex shop. Okay, that's not
Speaker 4: everybody's lifestyle probably means something about our relationship to It's
Speaker 4: an sternal aid retailer. Huh okay, And so the story.
Speaker 4: You probably know this, and if you don't, you don't care.
Speaker 4: But they did an interview on CBS last Sunday morning.
Speaker 4: CBS aired the part that didn't make the cut or
Speaker 4: wasn't supposed to make the cut, where she kept.
Speaker 2: Jumping up and stopping questions.
Speaker 4: She's twenty four years old and they're asking maybe the
Speaker 4: most successful football coach in history, rich very successful guy
Speaker 4: fifty years older, questions, and he can't answer on his own.
Speaker 2: She's got to jump up and defend him or something
Speaker 2: that was weird.
Speaker 4: So two days ago, Charles Barkley, the analyst and Hall
Speaker 4: of Fame basketball players, said on an interview, I'm starting
Speaker 4: to get real worried about my friend Bill Belichick, and
Speaker 4: I guess they're really really good friends, going way back
Speaker 4: for many, many years. He said, from what I'm hearing,
Speaker 4: it's starting to be a very slippery slope. And I
Speaker 4: never talk about people's personal relationships. That's funny because now
Speaker 4: he's about to. That's another rule I got. But I
Speaker 4: will admit i'm a little concerned with some of the
Speaker 4: stuff that's going on. I might actually reach out to
Speaker 4: him to make sure everything's good, but I'm concerned from
Speaker 4: what I'm hearing, it's not a good look right now.
Speaker 2: I'll admit that what is he hearing from people? He
Speaker 2: said that, Wow, what is.
Speaker 4: He hearing from people who personally know Bill Belichick? That's
Speaker 4: got him actually worried for his friend.
Speaker 1: The odd thing, if you're not a sports fan, is
Speaker 1: that mister Belichick is known for being utterly self possessed, stubborn, smart,
Speaker 1: tough to the point of being mean. The last guy
Speaker 1: on earth anybody's ever walked over.
Speaker 4: The fact that Barkley's actually word So is he losing
Speaker 4: is he loosing it?
Speaker 2: Or I wonder what he's concerned about. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I love this story. It's got to continue. More legs.
Speaker 2: We need more drips and drips on that story.
Speaker 1: Hey, good news, everybody, Cocaine's back and how we'll explain
Speaker 1: in a moment.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 6: If you're asking what do people make of the last month?
Speaker 6: All all things in what you're seeing is sort of
Speaker 6: certainly there was a lot of volatility and disruption initially,
Speaker 6: but things have really calmed down since then.
Speaker 4: So there's an economist they had on CNN yesterday on
Speaker 4: Jake Tapper's show.
Speaker 2: I have heard a number of.
Speaker 4: People who aren't in the business of getting on certain
Speaker 4: kinds of shows who have been a lot calmer about
Speaker 4: this whole thing. Then I'm hearing, you know, from people
Speaker 4: who have partisan interest or just trying to get on
Speaker 4: certain kinds of shows. That's the hardest thing with media.
Speaker 4: There should be a special channel for Hey, I'm not
Speaker 4: trying to get on a show. I'm not trying to
Speaker 4: become a household name. I'm not trying to push a book.
Speaker 4: Here's what I actually think.
Speaker 2: I'm not trying to get hired by any administration. Now
Speaker 2: we're in the future, right.
Speaker 4: Here's a little more also from CNN on where we
Speaker 4: are with the tariff thing.
Speaker 5: Any cargo that was loaded from China on April ninth
Speaker 5: and onwards, it's going to be carrying that higher tariff
Speaker 5: of one hundred and forty five percent. Not only will
Speaker 5: the prices be higher on those cargo ships, but there
Speaker 5: will be fewer ships at sea carrying less volume because
Speaker 5: for many importers it is simply too expensive to do
Speaker 5: business with China.
Speaker 4: I still think it's possible this turns out to be
Speaker 4: like one of the biggest disasters in history, Like people
Speaker 4: are talking about this hundreds of years from now sort
Speaker 4: of disaster.
Speaker 2: Again, as I've said.
Speaker 4: I hope I'm wrong. I'll be happy to be wrong.
Speaker 4: Love being wrong. I'd rather be wrong than right in
Speaker 4: this case by a thousand times. Right, So, in what
Speaker 4: sense would it be a disaster politically, economically or you
Speaker 4: think in short term or long term? I'm picturing him,
Speaker 4: I'm picturing its starting to have the results that the
Speaker 4: critics say are possible, inflation, shortages on shelves, all that
Speaker 4: sort of stuff, and him sticking with it with the
Speaker 4: belief that, hey, we got it. We got to live
Speaker 4: through this pain. It's you know, it's built in.
Speaker 2: Be patient for a long time. Yeah.
Speaker 4: So, politically just insanely damaging and then economically quite damaging.
Speaker 2: Right right, you know it's funny, go ahead.
Speaker 4: I was just gonna say, economically, I think we could
Speaker 4: we could bounce back eventually. You know, sure if Congress
Speaker 4: steps in, the court, step in and say you don't
Speaker 4: have the power to do this, Congress steps in and
Speaker 4: passes some laws. Whatever, we end the high tariffs, we
Speaker 4: get back to normal, things will sort out over top. Politically, though,
Speaker 4: I think it'll be talked about two hundred years from now.
Speaker 2: I hope not. It could be.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Trump could relent himself too, decided it's not working out.
Speaker 2: We got some deals. We're better off than we were before. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So yesterday I mentioned that according to analysts who know
Speaker 1: what they're talking about, the Chinese are already suffering millions
Speaker 1: jobs at stake, plants shut down, orders canceled, and the
Speaker 1: pain is beginning to spread in China. Therefore, they are
Speaker 1: much more vulnerable to a trade war than we are.
Speaker 1: The awesome trade surplus side always more vulnerable than the
Speaker 1: trade deficit side in a trade war. But then it
Speaker 1: was pointed out I came across another learned piece today
Speaker 1: that pointed out, well, jes In Ping can can inject
Speaker 1: an enormous jolt into his economy with you know, debt
Speaker 1: financed stimulus, and well, which is a bad long term strategy.
Speaker 1: We've been doing it for quite a while here. It's
Speaker 1: a bad long term strategy. Go to works in the
Speaker 1: short term.
Speaker 2: And oh that's right.
Speaker 1: He's a cruel, all controlling dictator with the most sophisticated
Speaker 1: surveillance and control state ever crafted on planet Earth. So
Speaker 1: it's not like the Chinese people are going to go
Speaker 1: to the polls and vote him out, whereas there could
Speaker 1: well be a blood bath forming up us politically speaking
Speaker 1: in the midterms.
Speaker 4: Joe Jenny promises a blood bath if Trump loses. That's right,
Speaker 4: That's exactly what I said.
Speaker 1: So you know who's got the upper hand, who's in
Speaker 1: the more comfortable seat to ride this out?
Speaker 2: It depends who you ask.
Speaker 4: Well, let's ask jd Vance or at least Brett Baird
Speaker 4: it on Fox last.
Speaker 2: Night, and he'll tell us what's going to happen. People
Speaker 2: are pointing to the tariff policy. There are people looking
Speaker 2: at their four to one k's that are worried. What
Speaker 2: do you tell them? Is this going to work?
Speaker 3: So the first thing is when you talk about the economy,
Speaker 3: this is Joe Biden's economy. And we inherited two trillion
Speaker 3: dollars of debt, the highest peace time deficits in American history,
Speaker 3: a one point two trillion dollar trade deficit, which fundamentally
Speaker 3: means we're not making enough of our own stuff. And
Speaker 3: the President came in and he said This is not.
Speaker 2: Always going to be easy.
Speaker 3: It would have been very easy for Donald Trump to
Speaker 3: do what administration's pass to done, which is borrow a
Speaker 3: lot of money and continue fueling the national debt. He said, No,
Speaker 3: we need a reset. We need American workers to have
Speaker 3: better jobs. We need to protect the jobs that they
Speaker 3: have right now, and we need to be more self
Speaker 3: reliant as an economy, which, by the way, will drive
Speaker 3: down those skyrocketing levels of debt that we've seen. That
Speaker 3: is what he promised he was going to do, and
Speaker 3: he came in and we've started that process.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you can't.
Speaker 4: One thing you can't say about Trump is that he's
Speaker 4: just doing the politically expedient thing because he ain't.
Speaker 1: Right. Yeah, and a lot of folks are impressed at
Speaker 1: his courage to put the long term priorities over the
Speaker 1: law short term comfort. By the way, I'm scanning the
Speaker 1: horizon of the show, and I'm thinking maybe our four
Speaker 1: a discussion of because I've got some really interesting points
Speaker 1: on both sides, a discussion of what jd Vance just said,
Speaker 1: got a trade deficit, we need to make more of
Speaker 1: our stuff, and Trump, you know your kid's gonna have
Speaker 1: two dollars and not thirty and it's gonna cost a
Speaker 1: little more that when I you versus well, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: we have an incredibly high standard of living. Everybody's lives
Speaker 1: are good and happy, and we're prosperous. We have to
Speaker 1: work a week to afford a major appliance, whereas twenty
Speaker 1: five years ago we had to work for three months.
Speaker 1: Our standard of living is incredible. Do we want to
Speaker 1: mess with it? So we'll discuss that during our four.
Speaker 1: If you don't get our four, maybe you can grab
Speaker 1: it later via podcast. It's always available Armstrong and Getty
Speaker 1: on demand. You ought to subscribe to the podcast wherever
Speaker 1: you like to get podcasts.
Speaker 4: So you tease this idea that cocaine is making a comeback.
Speaker 4: You said it with a very cheerful voice too, like
Speaker 4: you're excited about this.
Speaker 2: I don't know what's going on there. I was let
Speaker 2: me wipe under my nose a little bit.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: I was being ironic or trying to be anyway as
Speaker 1: a musician in the eighties, I will tell you what.
Speaker 1: There was a lot of cocaine about and and and
Speaker 1: if you want to pick one drug that turns everybody
Speaker 1: into pardon me, but an a hole man, it's cocaine.
Speaker 1: Oh really, it makes you into overly aggressive, babbling, selfish.
Speaker 2: Just cokehead.
Speaker 1: Then what makes it so popular Because it makes you
Speaker 1: feel like you're the king of the world.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love to feel like the king of the world.
Speaker 2: Get from and.
Speaker 1: God, oh my gosh, the number of like there you
Speaker 1: go coffee and God anyway, and and so my, hey,
Speaker 1: good news cocaine is back. Was was completely sarcastic. Interestingly enough,
Speaker 1: the resurgence of cocaine is the result of a couple
Speaker 1: of advances in science and and not advances, but changes
Speaker 1: in politics, specifically in Colombia. And this article in the
Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal is talking to Caesar Roseero, who's a
Speaker 1: farmer in Colombia, has got a ten acre spread coca
Speaker 1: bushes and neat rose grow as tall as six feet.
Speaker 1: He says, quote, We're totally thankful for this plant, Rosera
Speaker 1: and other local cocoa farmers. Coca farmers brag their plants
Speaker 1: are pest resistant and yield more of the psychoactic alkaloid
Speaker 1: compound that keeps the world's twenty million or so cocaine
Speaker 1: users coming back for more. A standard twenty five pound
Speaker 1: bag of dried coca leaves can produce twenty five grams
Speaker 1: of the alkaloid.
Speaker 2: It used to be eighteen grams in the past.
Speaker 1: So the coca plants are much more potent, pest resistant.
Speaker 2: They're growing better.
Speaker 1: They've figured out how to fertilize them and irrigate them
Speaker 1: in a way that's much much more efficient. And cocaine
Speaker 1: supplies at a historic peak worldwide, according to US in
Speaker 1: you and anti drug officials. The UN last fall estimated
Speaker 1: Columbia's annual cocaine yield.
Speaker 2: It was three thousand tons.
Speaker 1: Now that's cocaine, not coca cocaine, which is about eight
Speaker 1: times what it was in twenty twelve, when interdiction efforts
Speaker 1: were at their peak, as the US and other countries
Speaker 1: were working with Colombia to try to cut down the
Speaker 1: scourge of cocaine and crack cocaine and the rest of it.
Speaker 2: That all started around the year two thousand.
Speaker 1: One of the big programs they sprayed chemicals from aircraft
Speaker 1: to kill coca crops, an aggressive agrarian campaign that Columbia
Speaker 1: ended in twenty fifteen. Supply has since grown so large
Speaker 1: that the price of coca leaf has been at record
Speaker 1: lows because they're so efficient. Despite the record supply, retail
Speaker 1: prices for a kilo of cocaine have reached highs oddly enough,
Speaker 1: probably because of the risk you take in distributing it,
Speaker 1: but anyway, particularly in far flung corners of the world,
Speaker 1: including Hong Kong.
Speaker 2: And Saudi Arabia.
Speaker 1: I would not want to get caught selling a kilo
Speaker 1: of cocaine in Saudi Arabia. I don't know what they
Speaker 1: cut off. It's probably several of my favorite parts, and
Speaker 1: or they just hang you.
Speaker 2: Anyway.
Speaker 1: So that's just human beings desire to alter their consciousness
Speaker 1: in ways that range from somewhat unwise to extremely unwise.
Speaker 2: Just seems to have no end.
Speaker 1: So coming up a gender bending madness update. Also a
Speaker 1: major economic change not many people are talking about that
Speaker 1: have to do with the tariffs, and a great think
Speaker 1: piece on sanctuary cities and the people who push them
Speaker 1: and what nut jobs they are. They're acting like they're
Speaker 1: part of the underground Railroad rescuing a fugitive slaves, but
Speaker 1: they're not at all.
Speaker 2: They're just dopey.
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Speaker 2: It is a big event.
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Speaker 2: Uber.
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Speaker 8: Why not try Uber? All right, that one's pretty good.
Speaker 1: But suggesting that subways tuna sandwiches are horse mate, that
Speaker 1: is right out of line. By the way, we were
Speaker 1: talking about the resurgence of cocaine and how Columbia is
Speaker 1: cranking it out like crazy and the profits the drug
Speaker 1: cartels are making ariostounding I left out of the discussion.
Speaker 1: I apologize. Picture what a drug smuggler is. Specifically, they're
Speaker 1: smuggling some drugs over the water in the ocean, right
Speaker 1: from Colombia to wherever it's going. What are you picktureing? Okay,
Speaker 1: now try to picture in this. In October, the US
Speaker 1: Coast Guard found five tons of cocaine ten thousand pounds.
Speaker 1: Stuff is stowed in a ninety foot long submersible vessel.
Speaker 1: It looks like like a really low, low, low profile boat,
Speaker 1: kind of like a submarine. It mostly skims along surface
Speaker 1: because that's a lot more easy to pull off. It's
Speaker 1: a lot easier to pull off engineering wise, but it is.
Speaker 1: It can dip below the surface to hide if it
Speaker 1: needs to. But again, a ninety foot long submersible vessel
Speaker 1: skimming the ocean on a nine thousand mile voyage from
Speaker 1: Colombia to Australia. Authority said the load was worth hundreds
Speaker 1: of millions of dollars.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: That is some technology. The profits are that great, and
Speaker 1: their supply is that great. If they lose a shipment,
Speaker 1: they just don't care. Anyway, a complete change topic. People
Speaker 1: will occasionally ask or write letters or seek guidance and say, guys,
Speaker 1: I'm concerned about all this stuff, but I can't do
Speaker 1: everything at once. I'm not a congressman or not a
Speaker 1: senator or whatever. I'm looking to get active in perhaps
Speaker 1: one realm of politics, one cause, one issue, and you know,
Speaker 1: certainly getting sane district attorneys or accounty attorneys or whatever elected.
Speaker 1: We've found out is a big thing. As George Soros
Speaker 1: and company have elected or goten elected as many Marxists
Speaker 1: as they can, or turning criminals loose and twisting our
Speaker 1: society in the name of DEI woke garbage. So that's
Speaker 1: that would be a good one. Become more aware of
Speaker 1: who's running for you know, the prosecutor in your area.
Speaker 1: And But the other one that I'm really really enthusiastic about,
Speaker 1: because this is the source of so much of the
Speaker 1: rot that's affecting America, is education issues, whether it's local
Speaker 1: school boards issues in your state, presuming you have a
Speaker 1: state where that sort of thing is in play and
Speaker 1: you're not in a one party state. But school choice
Speaker 1: programs might be an excellent choice. I'm looking at this
Speaker 1: report on Ohio's school choice programs and it's looking really good.
Speaker 1: A study released earlier this week by researchers at the
Speaker 1: Urban Institute found that students who used vouchers to attend
Speaker 1: private school saw substantially improved long term academic outcomes, which
Speaker 1: is what it's all about. Oh, these monster conservatives want
Speaker 1: to defund public schools and balance the budget on the back.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, we want the kids to learn.
Speaker 1: They're not learning in the terrible, terrible government schools, especially
Speaker 1: poorer kids who the left fault false claims to be
Speaker 1: standing up for all the time. How about the outcomes
Speaker 1: you're getting for those people. Huh, my Democratic friends, they're
Speaker 1: awful anyway. Ohio's Educational Choice Scholarship program began in two
Speaker 1: thousand and five as a state funded voucher program for
Speaker 1: students in lousy public schools. In twenty thirteen twenty fourteen,
Speaker 1: it began to serve low income students regardless of school.
Speaker 1: So before you had to be in like an identified
Speaker 1: crappy school. Now it's just low income folks. Since twenty
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three twenty twenty four, it's been open to
Speaker 1: all students. Although more affluent Ohio families don't get the
Speaker 1: full scholarships, they get a share of it. So a
Speaker 1: handful of researchers studied more than six thousand Ohio students
Speaker 1: who use the ed Choice scholarships to attend private schools
Speaker 1: between twenty eight and twenty fourteen. They compared this group
Speaker 1: with more than five hundred thousand students who remained in
Speaker 1: public schools, selecting for similar demographics and academic characteristics. Scholarship
Speaker 1: recipients were found to be fifteen percentage points more likely
Speaker 1: to attend college than public school counterparts, and nine points
Speaker 1: more likely to graduate. Students in the program for at
Speaker 1: least four years, and that was about sixty percent of
Speaker 1: them had even higher college enrollment and graduation rates, Meaning
Speaker 1: the sooner the kids got into these programs, the greater
Speaker 1: effect it had. Now, you know, I'd love to hear
Speaker 1: that it was, you know, forty percent more likely to
Speaker 1: attend college, assuming that they wanted to and we're cut
Speaker 1: out for college, and twenty five points more likely to graduate.
Speaker 1: But those are significant gains in a pretty damn short
Speaker 1: time for real human beings. And that's what the teachers'
Speaker 1: unions always try to make you forget, is that as
Speaker 1: we generate, as we graduate, generation after generation of kids
Speaker 1: who can't read, they can't do math properly, they are
Speaker 1: very very poorly suited for the workplace. They're doomed in
Speaker 1: a lot of cases to a really, really difficult life.
Speaker 2: I don't need to go into detail. You can picture
Speaker 2: for yourself what a difficult life means.
Speaker 1: But if we can elevate you know, fifteen to twenty
Speaker 1: to twenty five percent of kids just through this voucher
Speaker 1: program the ed choice program. Man, we need to get
Speaker 1: this going as soon as we can. The starfish on
Speaker 1: the beach, you can't save them all, Well, I just
Speaker 1: save that one. How about if it's one hundred thousand
Speaker 1: kids in your state you save from ignorance and poverty, crime,
Speaker 1: discouragement because they were turned out of public schools without
Speaker 1: an education. That's an awful betrayal, by the way, never
Speaker 1: mind policy, just on a moral level. That is an
Speaker 1: unforgivable betrayal of these beautiful little children and their parents
Speaker 1: who counted on the government to deliver what they said
Speaker 1: they want an education, and they're not. Anyway, if you
Speaker 1: wanted to back one particular thing, you want to become
Speaker 1: an activist on one thing in your state, your your county,
Speaker 1: or your country, school choice would be a heck of
Speaker 1: a good choice anyway. Jewish ce Fit got a big
Speaker 1: hour coming up. Next hour, Gender Bending Madness Update.
Speaker 2: Stay tuned, Armstrong and Getty