Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm Strong
Speaker 1: and Jack Kid and No Armstrong and Eddy.
Speaker 2: The reality is it's the most complex supply chain in
Speaker 2: the world and they're able to make him at one
Speaker 2: thousand dollars is because of the supply chain that's really
Speaker 2: been built over the last decade. You build that in
Speaker 2: the US, there'll be thirty five.
Speaker 3: Hundred dollar iPhones.
Speaker 2: It will take Apple thirty billion dollars and three years
Speaker 2: to move just ten percent of the supply chain to
Speaker 2: the US.
Speaker 4: Who is that giant tongue human dan ives tech head,
Speaker 4: whatever that is. I had trouble understanding him.
Speaker 1: Um okay.
Speaker 4: That party through it at the end because I was
Speaker 4: about to say, oh, well, yeah, if starting today you
Speaker 4: had to make iPhones in the United States, they would
Speaker 4: cost thirty five hundred dollars. This is not hard to believe.
Speaker 1: But there'd be all kinds of adjustments.
Speaker 4: Around a variety of things to make it as cheap
Speaker 4: as possible that I'm sure Apple would come up with something.
Speaker 4: No doubt they'd be more expensive than I don't know,
Speaker 4: child slave labor in China or whatever we're using to
Speaker 4: get our BRANCT. You can't beat slave labor for cheap goods, folks,
Speaker 4: there's just no denying that. Oh my god, our tech
Speaker 4: industries have shown us the way it would be substantially
Speaker 4: more expensive closer to the big number than the current
Speaker 4: number from everything I've read. But yeah, well that is
Speaker 4: take many years again, as he mentioned, so we got
Speaker 4: some people that are going to some boosters for this
Speaker 4: plan you'll hear from in just a second. Not a
Speaker 4: booster David Sanger in the New York Times today. Of course,
Speaker 4: he's a lefty, so he's going to be against this.
Speaker 4: So are a lot of the conservative economics I've seen,
Speaker 4: like practically all of them. But this whole Chinese tariff
Speaker 4: thing that kicked in last night on China one hundred
Speaker 4: and four percent tariff on Chinese goods coming into the
Speaker 4: United States starting at midnight last night, And as David
Speaker 4: Sanger points out in the New York Times today, that
Speaker 4: is everything from car parts to iPhones to practically everything
Speaker 4: that's on the shelf at Walmart or on Amazon's app.
Speaker 1: That's a lot of stuff.
Speaker 4: And if he points out, if you remember how quickly
Speaker 4: the supply chain problems showed up during COVID. You have
Speaker 4: a little bit of knowledge of how short the turnaround
Speaker 4: is on shelves. Shelves were empty at Target and Walmart,
Speaker 4: like within days when the whole COVID thing hits. So
Speaker 4: it's not going to take long before these tariff things
Speaker 4: kicked in, or the tariff kicks in and you're paying more,
Speaker 4: or there's just not stuff there. I think it'll be
Speaker 4: pretty noticeable, like next week.
Speaker 5: One of the great developments of the modern world, which
Speaker 5: has saved all of us money is the just in
Speaker 5: time delivery system, the computerized inventory systems. You don't need
Speaker 5: gigantic warehouses full of say, paper towels. You know, in
Speaker 5: case there's a problem, you've got six months worth of
Speaker 5: paper towels. As a retailer, No, you just you order
Speaker 5: them when you need them, they show up just before
Speaker 5: you need them.
Speaker 3: You put them on the shelves.
Speaker 5: On the other hand, if there's a big disruption, obviously
Speaker 5: there's a big disruption. I just I believe, as I
Speaker 5: indicated last hour, with pretty good certainty, not great, that
Speaker 5: with the exception of China, all the trade war stuff
Speaker 5: is going to be very short lived. Now the China stuff,
Speaker 5: which I admit is a huge issue in and of itself.
Speaker 3: I have no idea how long this lasts.
Speaker 1: Well wow, And.
Speaker 4: If it lasts very long, I mean you talk about
Speaker 4: the heart of Trump's voting base, that crowd that shops
Speaker 4: at Walmart, and if they start seeing things much more
Speaker 4: expensive or not there quickly, it'd be interesting to watch
Speaker 4: how the politics plays out on this. So what people's
Speaker 4: tolerance for pain is with the belief that it's worth
Speaker 4: it for long term manufacturing coming back, we make this
Speaker 4: stuff here in the long run.
Speaker 1: Blah blah blah. We all know that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Donald Jay is in the White House thinking China,
Speaker 5: you need us more than we need you, and Shijin
Speaker 5: Ping is saying you need.
Speaker 3: Us more than we need you. Let's get it on.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's interesting. One thing that David Sanger mentions in
Speaker 4: this piece.
Speaker 1: Is that.
Speaker 4: There were all this happened. I mean, this is a
Speaker 4: pretty big deal because China has retaliated. That's breaking news
Speaker 4: today if you haven't heard it. Eighty four percent tariff
Speaker 4: on US goods going into China, whatever that's going to do.
Speaker 4: All of this happened without by American and Chinese accounts.
Speaker 4: According to The New York Times, there was no conversation
Speaker 4: between Trump and Xi or engagement senior aides before the
Speaker 4: country's plunged into this trade war, So there is no
Speaker 4: conversation to try to derail this. They heard about it
Speaker 4: in the news. We heard about it in the news.
Speaker 4: We're not talking to each other over.
Speaker 3: This, right right.
Speaker 5: Well, Trump obviously decided to go with his playbook that
Speaker 5: he's been using on all countries lately, well almost all countries,
Speaker 5: in all instances of No, we're going to institute the
Speaker 5: draconian tariffs and you're going to back down. We're not
Speaker 5: going to talk about it to avoid it. No, I'm
Speaker 5: going to enact them, and then you're going to back down,
Speaker 5: and chess and things said.
Speaker 3: No, I'm not where it ends. Nobody knows.
Speaker 4: So here's Senator Tom Cotton, Republican hawk on China, talking
Speaker 4: about this.
Speaker 6: I think one of the best things President Trump has
Speaker 6: done in the tariff announcement is what he's done with China,
Speaker 6: not just starting with twenty percent, adding thirty four percent,
Speaker 6: threatening them that if they retaliated, he would do more,
Speaker 6: which they've done. He's moved it now to fit another
Speaker 6: fifty percent, and he's closed the Domnimus loophole which allowed
Speaker 6: companies like tim Timu and Shane to exploit American businesses
Speaker 6: to ship goods here that are a cheap jump without
Speaker 6: paying any tariff whatsoever. So I think that's part of
Speaker 6: the most important thing President Trump has done in these tariffs.
Speaker 4: Tom Cotton a smart guy. He's on the side of
Speaker 4: this re China. So I'm happy to hear that. You
Speaker 4: want to hear somebody else bringing the fire in support
Speaker 4: of these ideas. Kevin O'Leary. Maybe you know him if
Speaker 4: you ever watch Shark Tank. He's one of your big
Speaker 4: venture capitalists of super rich, powerful dudes, and he was
Speaker 4: on CNN saying this one.
Speaker 7: Hundred and four percent tariffs in China are not enough.
Speaker 7: I'm advocating four hundred percent. I do business in China.
Speaker 7: They don't play by the rules. They've been in the
Speaker 7: WHO for decades. They have never abided by any of
Speaker 7: the rules they agreed to when they came in for decades.
Speaker 7: They cheat, they steal, they steal ip I can't litigate
Speaker 7: in their courts. They take product, technology, they steal it,
Speaker 7: they manufacture.
Speaker 1: And sell it back here.
Speaker 7: Never has an administrator four. I want, like Chi on
Speaker 7: an airplane to Washington to level the playing fielding.
Speaker 1: Let's see a little more from him and then we'll
Speaker 1: discuss it.
Speaker 7: Says not about tariffs anymore. Nobody has taken on China yet,
Speaker 7: not the Europeans, no administration.
Speaker 3: For decades.
Speaker 7: As someone who actually does business there, I've had enough.
Speaker 7: I speak for millions of Americans who have ip that
Speaker 7: have been stolen by the Chinese. I have nothing against
Speaker 7: the Chinese people. They've brought great literacy, art, and tech
Speaker 7: to the world. The government cheats and steals. And finally
Speaker 7: an administration. You may not like Trump, you may not
Speaker 7: like his style or his rhetoric. Finally an administration that
Speaker 7: puts up and says enough four hundred percent tariffs tomorrow morning.
Speaker 1: How about that.
Speaker 5: I love that we are such a heroin junkie for
Speaker 5: cheap Chinese crap and labor and the rest of it.
Speaker 5: You know, the the argument that I could hear the
Speaker 5: gall on CNN starting to make was that, well, you know,
Speaker 5: if we give up this heroin, we're gonna pew can
Speaker 5: sweat for days, and it's going to be really uncomfortable.
Speaker 5: And what Kevin O'Leary's saying is this is way beyond overdue,
Speaker 5: and he's right. We cannot be utterly dependent on an
Speaker 5: overtly hostile regime that's also powerful enough to bring the hurt.
Speaker 3: It's insane.
Speaker 5: So putting aside the whole Britain in Canada and Mexico stuff,
Speaker 5: which a lot of it I think is way more
Speaker 5: damaging than it needed to be by Trump, I'm with
Speaker 5: him one hundred percent on the Chinese stuff. We've been
Speaker 5: talking about this for years. It's got to play out.
Speaker 5: It's not optional whether we decouple to the greatest extent
Speaker 5: possible with China. It is not optional. It's begun.
Speaker 4: It's interesting that he talks about how much China breaks
Speaker 4: the rules. You know, there are all kinds of trade,
Speaker 4: international trade rules, and they break the rules all the time.
Speaker 1: They pay no price work.
Speaker 5: Anybody who's ever done business for an extended period can
Speaker 5: think of, you know, a business relationship, maybe an employee
Speaker 5: or employer or a client or whatever. It was a
Speaker 5: scumbag and just you didn't like them personally, but you
Speaker 5: did so much business with them it was a net positive,
Speaker 5: so you just dealt with it. That's China China is
Speaker 5: a scumbag as a trading partner, as a manufacturer, as
Speaker 5: an everything. But it was so profitable and so attractive,
Speaker 5: so cheap, you just thought, you know what, it's still
Speaker 5: a net positive. But you know, you get farther far
Speaker 5: enough down that road and you find yourself just all
Speaker 5: sorts of vulnerable to the aforementioned scumbags.
Speaker 3: China As important as all this is.
Speaker 5: Jack, I think this might be more important to good
Speaker 5: longtime friend of the Armstrong and Getty show just texted me.
Speaker 5: I'm traveling and noticed dudes are now wearing yoga pants.
Speaker 1: W A TF, I haven't seen that.
Speaker 3: Men wearing yoga pants to fly? Come on in.
Speaker 5: China, come on in the Axis Powers. We never would
Speaker 5: have warred in World War Two? And yoga pants, Jack,
Speaker 5: There's no arguing with that.
Speaker 8: Yes, Katie, if I saw a dude wearing yoga pants,
Speaker 8: my gadar would explode. H I could not think of
Speaker 8: a straight man that would put on a pair of
Speaker 8: yoga pants.
Speaker 5: There are pants of various styles so comfortable and flexible
Speaker 5: and light you don't even know you're wearing them without
Speaker 5: donning the yoga pants.
Speaker 1: How comfortable do you all need? To be.
Speaker 4: I just don't understand the I have chafing issues, never
Speaker 4: ending pursuit of maximum comfort, like you're laying in bed
Speaker 4: for everything you do, work or travel.
Speaker 1: I just I don't quite get it.
Speaker 8: Okay, uncomfortable though, because yoga pants are tight well.
Speaker 5: Right, and I don't know how much you know about
Speaker 5: the male anatomy, but there are things that don't respond
Speaker 5: well to tight, or maybe they're not there anymore. Maybe
Speaker 5: these are, you know, mid transition fellas. Certainly the feeling
Speaker 5: you're giving out if you are rocking the yoga pants boys, seriously,
Speaker 5: one man to another, cut it out.
Speaker 4: My son and his friends with there's some sort of
Speaker 4: slip on shoe and like pajama pants, the big switch.
Speaker 4: It's like everybody rolls out of bed and does their
Speaker 4: life every day. I don't know if it's going to
Speaker 4: last forever.
Speaker 8: That was that was big in high school. A lot
Speaker 8: of high schoolers where pajamas out.
Speaker 3: It's like the Cottar high schools.
Speaker 5: Katie back in the day, combat boots, double sick jeans.
Speaker 1: Just in case, three piece suit with vest. Oh she stops.
Speaker 5: Fighting, gloves, brass knuckles. That's the way we went to
Speaker 5: algebra class. Thank god, we can't go any further down
Speaker 5: the comfort road. I mean, we're at the maximum end
Speaker 5: of it, I think.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I mean I was gonna say other nakedness, but that
Speaker 5: is distinctly uncomfortable in a variety of weather conditions and
Speaker 5: or the presence of insects.
Speaker 1: Park bench.
Speaker 5: Well, that's another excellent point. So yeah, I think we
Speaker 5: are at the height. So our Trump's tariffs legal What
Speaker 5: are the the court fights that are about to start?
Speaker 5: Trust me, what are they going to look like? We'll
Speaker 5: hit that a little later in the show. Maybe this hour,
Speaker 5: maybe next hour. If you don't get next hour, grab
Speaker 5: it via podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand. Idaho has
Speaker 5: become the first state to legalize firing squads for convicted pedophiles.
Speaker 3: Wow, stay with us for live team coverage.
Speaker 4: And I just saw this breaking news. Defense Secretary Pete
Speaker 4: Hegsath's top advisor is recommending the Defense department cut ties
Speaker 4: with the boy Scouts for being too woken. I hate
Speaker 4: to hear that.
Speaker 1: I do too. I'm a grand a scout of that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna look into that anyway.
Speaker 4: He got more on the waist to hear Armstrong, that
Speaker 4: is a guy demonstrating how to fold a fitted sheet?
Speaker 4: Is the crowd chance fold that sheet? And apparently he
Speaker 4: can fold a fitted sheet? And how do you do that?
Speaker 4: Because I've never been able to do anything other than
Speaker 4: more or less watt it up in a ball and
Speaker 4: shove it in a closet. To me, the operative question
Speaker 4: is more, uh, why was there a crowd?
Speaker 7: There?
Speaker 5: Some decent questions. Well, I marvel at his skills. Indeed,
Speaker 5: what was going on there?
Speaker 3: Katie?
Speaker 1: I have no idea. I think that Michael was that you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he could fold the sheet though.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's a guy who used social media and got
Speaker 8: seven hundred people to gather around and uh, but.
Speaker 4: Does he have a skill for actually folding the sheep?
Speaker 4: That's what we care about because it's one of the
Speaker 4: great annoyances of life.
Speaker 3: I assume.
Speaker 1: So I just thought it was a good audio.
Speaker 3: You know, you haven't seen it, okay. No, I haven't
Speaker 3: seen it.
Speaker 4: No one's seen it, okay, So that takes the fun
Speaker 4: out of it. I have question isn't whether he's good
Speaker 4: at sheets.
Speaker 1: The question is the pill hundreds of people doing that's.
Speaker 4: There was a guy within an hour's drive that could
Speaker 4: show me how to fold a fitted sheet.
Speaker 1: I would drive there this afternoon.
Speaker 3: Oh stop it.
Speaker 8: I have seen a few women that actually lay it
Speaker 8: out upside down and they lay down in the middle
Speaker 8: of it and stick their hands in and then fold
Speaker 8: their body together.
Speaker 1: And I've seen that work, but I have not tried it.
Speaker 4: And then do you have to stay in it like
Speaker 4: a mummy or do you get to leave? You get
Speaker 4: to leave after she does that?
Speaker 1: Or what fighter out?
Speaker 3: Wow?
Speaker 5: Okay, did you have a story about the military? I
Speaker 5: often have time.
Speaker 4: I was gonna mention that, Yeah, this is breaking from
Speaker 4: NBC News, and I don't know how big a deal
Speaker 4: this is. I'll look into it more later, but it
Speaker 4: just came out. Senior advisor to Pete Hagzet, who's the
Speaker 4: Secretary of Events, is for the military to cut ties
Speaker 4: with scouting America.
Speaker 1: They're tied quite closely. I don't know if you know this.
Speaker 1: My son just got into scouting.
Speaker 4: And there is a fairly consistent line for a lot
Speaker 4: of people, especially like Eagle Scouts, who end up in
Speaker 4: the military and do well. And there are benefits to
Speaker 4: getting into the military if you've got the scouting background
Speaker 4: blah blah blah blah. But the second death is being
Speaker 4: recommended to not give a speech he was supposed to
Speaker 4: give to scouting, that it's been captured by the woke
Speaker 4: and we'll look into this.
Speaker 1: I had hate for that to be true.
Speaker 4: I mean, then changing their name. That doesn't bother me
Speaker 4: as much as does a lot of you. I realize
Speaker 4: it's like giving into a certain sort of attitude. It's
Speaker 4: the it's the inside, behind the scenes DEI stuff. I'm
Speaker 4: more worried about than the changing of the name.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I would like to know more about why that
Speaker 5: advisor that. My initial reaction is, Hey, Pete, go in
Speaker 5: there and deliver a barn burner fire the boys up,
Speaker 5: talk to them about patriotic values and service and the
Speaker 5: rest of it.
Speaker 3: Let's not leave scouting to the lunatics.
Speaker 4: Well, I, my son is signed up for a day
Speaker 4: long DEI training session, and I'm not just using the
Speaker 4: term DEI like it looks like DEI to me. That's
Speaker 4: what they're calling it. God help us as part of
Speaker 4: the boy Scouts for some sort of badge you get.
Speaker 4: So I'm a little concerned about it.
Speaker 3: A little.
Speaker 5: Well, I'm going to stay out of it because it's
Speaker 5: you and your son. So I'll let you speak any
Speaker 5: words that are spoken on the topic. Myself, I am
Speaker 5: horrified by the idea.
Speaker 4: But as I said last week, so many amazing volunteers
Speaker 4: that make that whole thing work. I mean, just amazing
Speaker 4: people dedicating their time. But let me say, build fires
Speaker 4: and you know, float around in canoes and learn to
Speaker 4: climb mountains and stuff.
Speaker 1: No DEI.
Speaker 3: Speaking of the Defense Department.
Speaker 5: There have been a couple of headlines that have gotten
Speaker 5: very little attention in recent days. In the news, a
Speaker 5: judge has said, no, you can't ban transgender folks.
Speaker 3: From various jobs.
Speaker 5: Good news is pete hegseeth went away and said, or
Speaker 5: went ahead rather and said men and women's same physical standards.
Speaker 5: Of course, we'll talk about that coming up, Cool, Armstrong
Speaker 5: and Getty.
Speaker 4: When does the average person panic with their phone battery percentage?
Speaker 4: And it's according to CBS Evening News, it's thirty four percent.
Speaker 4: That's when the average person panics. Thirty four percent getting
Speaker 4: kind of low. Can we talk about the word panic?
Speaker 4: I don't know if panic is the feeling that I get.
Speaker 4: I think it's more of a I should probably plug
Speaker 4: this in soon, which.
Speaker 5: Is I remember when a guy with a knife was
Speaker 5: chasing me through city streets.
Speaker 3: That was something like panic. My cell phone's down to
Speaker 3: thirty percent. That is not much.
Speaker 4: And the latest on the Chicken Jockey phenomenon, what is
Speaker 4: it now? It's growing. I might actually go this weekend
Speaker 4: and participate with my son.
Speaker 5: I have an important story in just a moment, but
Speaker 5: I can't resist this big day in college baseball yesterday
Speaker 5: in Teaneck, New Jersey, where both of my parents grew up.
Speaker 1: Layman College. Did they meet there.
Speaker 3: In high school? Yep.
Speaker 5: Layman College, with its forty two game losing streak, came
Speaker 5: up against Yeshiva University and their one hundred game I'm
Speaker 5: sorry at the time, ninety nine game losing streak.
Speaker 1: Well, how many seasons is that? Combined?
Speaker 5: One hundred and forty one straight losses between the two teams.
Speaker 5: Here's the exciting part, Jack. They played a double header.
Speaker 5: Layman won the opener, but Yeshiva stormed back in game two.
Speaker 3: And captured the victory. They both have a win.
Speaker 5: I tell you what you got, the two losing his
Speaker 5: college teams in the country.
Speaker 4: You've got to play. Wow, how many seasons is a
Speaker 4: one hundred game losing streak? That's gonna be years.
Speaker 3: It's gotta be a couple.
Speaker 1: Yeah, three tah.
Speaker 4: That's tough on the kids, tough on the coach, tough
Speaker 4: on the fans, the parents because my son's volleyball team
Speaker 4: just went through a losing streak and it's got you know,
Speaker 4: the players get down, parents start to think, what am
Speaker 4: I doing here?
Speaker 3: Yea, the all time losing streak two and twenty eight? Sick?
Speaker 3: Can you give games?
Speaker 5: The cal Tech Beavers lost from two thousand and three
Speaker 5: to two thousand Tech has sports teams.
Speaker 1: That's the first long conference. Why do you.
Speaker 4: Have sports teams at Caltech? You're all a bunch of
Speaker 4: Nobel Prize winning scientists.
Speaker 5: Final note, Yeshiva alumnus and comic Ititon Levine called the
Speaker 5: matchup quote statistically the worst baseball game of all time. Anyway,
Speaker 5: congratulations to both the teams capturing a win. So this
Speaker 5: is the sort of self evidently reasonable thing that should
Speaker 5: be completely unremarkable. But we had gotten as a country
Speaker 5: so far off track, the track being common sense and reasonableness,
Speaker 5: that this seems notable. Pete Hegzeth the other day, I've
Speaker 5: been wanting to get to this for several days. Signed
Speaker 5: a memo ordering the military to adopt the same standards
Speaker 5: for men and women serving in combat roles on Sunday,
Speaker 5: which is again so self evidently reasonable.
Speaker 3: I can't believe there's an argument over it.
Speaker 4: If you can perform the same require whatever the requirements
Speaker 4: are set by military people that know how many push
Speaker 4: ups you need to be able to do, or how
Speaker 4: fast you need to run a mile or whatever to
Speaker 4: be fit to serve in battle. If you, as a
Speaker 4: woman can do that, I don't care. If it's all
Speaker 4: women army, don't make any difference to me. But you
Speaker 4: all got to meet the same requirements.
Speaker 5: You know, unless there's a disruption of troop cohesion because
Speaker 5: of the sexual dynamics, which has been a part of
Speaker 5: every military in the history of the world. Don't tell
Speaker 5: me it doesn't matter, because it does. But I agree
Speaker 5: with you in principle one hundred percent. And the argument
Speaker 5: from the women should be in combat people all along
Speaker 5: has been they're up to the task.
Speaker 3: They're up to the task.
Speaker 5: Okay, Well, if there are standards for the task, which
Speaker 5: is what those standards are, then they have to be
Speaker 5: able to meet them. Anything any conclusion other than that
Speaker 5: is bizarre. It's idiotic, it's unsupportable, and it's dangerous for
Speaker 5: both the men and the women in question anyway, So
Speaker 5: well done, Pete. A judge said, Now the transgender thing,
Speaker 5: you can't do that. They try to ban transgender people
Speaker 5: from serving in the US military. It's a preliminary injunction
Speaker 5: that will be fought through the courts for a while,
Speaker 5: I would imagine.
Speaker 4: So there were two assassination attempts on Trump, as we remember,
Speaker 4: the one where he actually got shot, the scary to one,
Speaker 4: and then that other one at the golf course, which
Speaker 4: anybody downplays that just doesn't even understand.
Speaker 1: He had no.
Speaker 4: Vision of the president yet well, in five minutes he
Speaker 4: would have he need to put a bullet.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he would have killed the president.
Speaker 4: He was laying in the bushes with his gun pointing
Speaker 4: out and thank god a Secret Service agent's on. But
Speaker 4: there's some new information on that dude that came out yesterday.
Speaker 4: This is from ABC News Brian Ruth's apparent obsession with
Speaker 4: assassinating President Trump before he allegedly stalked Trump on his
Speaker 4: Florida golf course. Prosecutor say Ruth, a fierce supporter of
Speaker 4: Ukraine who had visited the war torn country multiple times,
Speaker 4: reached out to an associate there his request send me
Speaker 4: an RPG, rocket propelled grenade or Stinger's surface to air missile.
Speaker 4: Prosecutors claim Ruth desperately wanted to blow up then candidate
Speaker 4: Trump's plane, writing I need equipment so that Trump cannot
Speaker 4: get elected. And now the FBI says Ruth could have
Speaker 4: had an even more powerful weapon after he first tried
Speaker 4: to buy a fifty caliber rifle capable of piercing body
Speaker 4: armor and slicing through car doors.
Speaker 1: That would have been something.
Speaker 4: I don't know how easy it is to mail an
Speaker 4: RPG or a shoulder fired missile, whether that can get
Speaker 4: through the mail or not, but you can get a
Speaker 4: hold of fifty caliber.
Speaker 1: Guns in the United States. And I'm glad he didn't,
Speaker 1: and I'm.
Speaker 4: Glad he got caught before he was able to pull
Speaker 4: anything off, right right, this is.
Speaker 1: A dumb story before we go to break.
Speaker 4: As y'all know, Hooters has filed for bankruptcy and Hooters
Speaker 4: is ditching bikini knights, which I didn't know they have.
Speaker 4: I don't know if the waitresses were bikinis or the customers.
Speaker 4: The customers, I'm not feel pretty. Hooters is ditching bikini
Speaker 4: knights in favor of charity, family friendly dining. Oh boy,
Speaker 4: to some sort of charity night for families to come in.
Speaker 4: I guess this is before you go before the bankruptcy judge,
Speaker 4: you know, for better treatment or I don't know what
Speaker 4: that is. I was gonna say, show hands, everybody who
Speaker 4: thinks this will work.
Speaker 3: Anybody, show of hands.
Speaker 4: I think you hope the judge is a guy. And
Speaker 4: you have the chicks and the weird nylons like it's
Speaker 4: the seventies, and those weird shorts, and I don't know
Speaker 4: whoever came up with those outfits in the first place.
Speaker 5: Well, as you've pointed out many times through the years,
Speaker 5: every damn sports bar, at least half of them in
Speaker 5: America have attractive young women dressed in a provocative way,
Speaker 5: serving the drinks and the wings.
Speaker 3: I mean, Hooters is utterly not unique.
Speaker 1: On an oracle of the genre.
Speaker 4: One more thing I wanted to jam in before we
Speaker 4: take a break, and then we'll learn more about chicken jockey,
Speaker 4: and then something of substance.
Speaker 1: I don't remember what it was.
Speaker 4: Yes, it is true Chinese troops were caught fighting for Russia.
Speaker 1: In Ukraine. That has been nailed down.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 4: I remember when that was a red line for the
Speaker 4: Biden administration. The idea of Chinese troops fighting. I don't
Speaker 4: know if it's a red line for Trump or we're
Speaker 4: all just going to kind of ignore.
Speaker 1: This seems like kind of a big deal.
Speaker 4: The China's actually providing soldiers right now.
Speaker 5: The Chinese stance, the government's stance was, oh, we've warned
Speaker 5: our people to stay far away from any war zones.
Speaker 5: These are not our soldiers. These are misguided souls.
Speaker 4: Getting a little less proxy in a little more war.
Speaker 4: When you actually have Chinese soldiers fighting, when North Ausrians O, geez,
Speaker 4: that's writing.
Speaker 5: Because North Korea doesn't go to the grocery store for
Speaker 5: milk without asking China whether it's okay. That's a bit
Speaker 5: of an exaggeration. But yeah, the fact that there are
Speaker 5: thousands and thousands of North Koreans there's that's not gone
Speaker 5: unnoticed by China.
Speaker 3: They permitted it.
Speaker 4: So I got one kid that went to the Minecraft
Speaker 4: movie in one that hasn't seen it. And if you're
Speaker 4: a kid and you haven't seen the Minecraft, especially a boy,
Speaker 4: if you're a boy and you haven't seen the Minecraft movie. Well,
Speaker 4: you're on the outs socially. You just you got to
Speaker 4: see it because it's the biggest phenomenon going. Well, if
Speaker 4: you're planning to go to this weekend, you're gonna drop
Speaker 4: your kid off, you might have to go in with
Speaker 4: them because they're changing the rules that a lot of
Speaker 4: movie theaters explain that coming up, stay here, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 9: So what is a chicken jockey? The official definition a
Speaker 9: child zombie who rides a chicken. Of course, this morning
Speaker 9: that craze around chicken jockeys, causing one movie theater in
Speaker 9: New Jersey to take matters into its own hands, instituting
Speaker 9: a new policy. Miners will now have to have a
Speaker 9: parent or responsible adult with them if they want to
Speaker 9: watch the film. The Township Theater in Bergen County riding
Speaker 9: in a statement that a group of boys engaged in
Speaker 9: completely unacceptable behavior, including vandalism. They also received multiple complaints
Speaker 9: from other moviegoers who are trying to enjoy the film
Speaker 9: with their families.
Speaker 3: The manager called us and said that the theater was
Speaker 3: in badscame.
Speaker 4: Okay, so that's one theater, although there are theaters all
Speaker 4: across the country where during the biggest movie of the
Speaker 4: year so far, the Minecraft movie. During that particular scene,
Speaker 4: people start throwing popcorn and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: I think that's going to grow.
Speaker 4: I anticipate this weekend to be coast to coast popcorn throwing.
Speaker 1: Which I could feel like I could participate in myself.
Speaker 4: Popcorn throwing is not the same as like throwing a
Speaker 4: pop very different thing.
Speaker 1: You sweep of the podcorn, you know.
Speaker 5: So you don't think America's adolescent boys will heed the
Speaker 5: call from Network News to calm down.
Speaker 1: I just think it. I was thinking about this yesterday.
Speaker 4: Uh, the most common thing in the world with teenagers,
Speaker 4: and you just hope you have it at the right level.
Speaker 4: I guess young people need to feel like rebels, and
Speaker 4: most of the time they're rebeling is so minor and
Speaker 4: nothing and really laughable.
Speaker 1: But you know, you want to let them have their
Speaker 1: moment of being a rebel.
Speaker 4: I mean, I've heard so many teenagers in my life
Speaker 4: brag about the rebellious thing that did that was just
Speaker 4: some nothing, it's just a nothing, big deal, but but
Speaker 4: they have to do it. It's something the way we're
Speaker 4: built human beings, and good if if this may if
Speaker 4: this gets your I'm a rebel out of your system,
Speaker 4: and as far as you go, that's fantastic throwing some
Speaker 4: puzzles as.
Speaker 5: A big fan of free range parenting and let them
Speaker 5: grow that great organization and that sort of thing. Uh yeah,
Speaker 5: I don't quash that rebel impulse, just help them channel
Speaker 5: it into a way that's non destruct.
Speaker 1: I think it's funny.
Speaker 4: I don't know if it's because the town I live
Speaker 4: in or whatever, or maybe it was because you could
Speaker 4: mostly hear my son and his friends who are all
Speaker 4: very like, too cool for everything, But he whipped out
Speaker 4: his phone at the movie the other night and recorded,
Speaker 4: and it was more like chicken Jockey, Like.
Speaker 1: They're already tired of it.
Speaker 5: Oh that's so yesterday, yelling chicken Jockey night lame o.
Speaker 4: Three days later, idiot, here today, gone today. A couple
Speaker 4: things for you really quickly. I'm gonna read this whole
Speaker 4: story because this could be huge. Dating apps mess with
Speaker 4: your hormones, they think, and can even send libido levels plunging.
Speaker 4: Wouldn't that be something If there's something about dating apps
Speaker 4: that makes people not want to have sex and get together,
Speaker 4: that kind of is counterproductive. Since you got on the
Speaker 4: dating app. I assume originally to get together with someone
Speaker 4: makes you not want to get together with someone.
Speaker 3: Weir, Yeah, I can't imagine.
Speaker 4: No, it's not impossible to believe that could be true though,
Speaker 4: that there's some element of the I hate to use
Speaker 4: word chase, toxic masculinity or something wrong, but some element
Speaker 4: of the chase that gets lost.
Speaker 5: There and or after the first rush of the thrill
Speaker 5: of what you're doing, it starts to become soul deadening
Speaker 5: and disgusting to you. I mean, because how many folks,
Speaker 5: young folks have we heard saying, yeah, I'm done with
Speaker 5: the the whole online dating thing. It's it's well, soul
Speaker 5: deadening and disgusting.
Speaker 4: I've heard so many people say that. Well, if it is,
Speaker 4: you know, some sort of pheromones thing or whatever that
Speaker 4: we've all long believed that causes the fall in love
Speaker 4: and all this sort of stuff, well you're not getting
Speaker 4: that online. So maybe you get the your human nature
Speaker 4: to procreate drives you to get onto a dating app
Speaker 4: and do all the thing, and then you match with something,
Speaker 4: discuss a few things, and it's like you're not getting
Speaker 4: in India pheromone stuff. So it's just like, eh, I
Speaker 4: don't even feel like it right the end of that, right.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 4: You tell me those of you of online dated and
Speaker 4: this this is out from our Secretary of the Treasury, bessent'
Speaker 4: Is that how you say his name? Wall Street has
Speaker 4: grown wealthier for four decades. For the next four years,
Speaker 4: it's main streets turned.
Speaker 5: Oh god, the whole Wall Street main Street thing. Not
Speaker 5: from either party, please, I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: I believe that it's mainstream.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Again, the idea that Trump is going to reshape global
Speaker 5: trade for the next couple of decades, and that the
Speaker 5: American economy will be restructured to reemphasize domestic assembly and
Speaker 5: manufacturing and the rest of it. How is that going
Speaker 5: to happen If his term ends in three and a
Speaker 5: half years, Well JD Vance will win two terms and
Speaker 5: blah blah blah. Well then it could happen conceivably. But
Speaker 5: I think it's all just posturing to get better trade
Speaker 5: deals done, which again, I would be in favor of.
Speaker 4: A response to that comment from the Secretary of the
Speaker 4: Treasury from the Dispatch, which admittedly is a Trump hating organization,
Speaker 4: is best for real Main Street is about to get
Speaker 4: a beating thanks to you geniuses. And wait until the
Speaker 4: Wall Street crisis turns into a recession or a financial crisis,
Speaker 4: higher interest rates.
Speaker 1: And all won't be helping Main Street.
Speaker 5: Well. To his credit, Trump has said, look, there's going
Speaker 5: to be some tough times, but we've got a restructure.
Speaker 5: And I honestly, I said earlier, I was two thirds
Speaker 5: convinced that this is just posturing to get better trade deals,
Speaker 5: and he has no intention of long term trade barriers,
Speaker 5: you know, isolationist economics. But there's a third of me
Speaker 5: that thinks, you know, Scott Besant is expressing what the
Speaker 5: boss thinks.
Speaker 3: I don't know. There's what's bothering Wall Street so much
Speaker 3: nobody knows.
Speaker 4: Maybe the biggest problem with this whole thing is it's
Speaker 4: all discussed as a whole, the tariff thing, when China
Speaker 4: is such a different situation than all these other countries.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, they should be completely separate.
Speaker 5: Conversations and and very you know, customizable to various countries
Speaker 5: with various realities.
Speaker 4: Taylor, Taylor, Trump's going with tailored. These are not off
Speaker 4: the rack.
Speaker 1: They are tailored.
Speaker 3: Good good.
Speaker 5: Some impoverished African Republic, I'm fine if we treat them
Speaker 5: a little differently than say, you know France, how.
Speaker 4: About some island full of penguins? Have They've been sticking
Speaker 4: it to us for decades?
Speaker 5: Right, taking our mackerel and giving us nothing back in return. Oh,
Speaker 5: that would be a trade surplus, never mind throwing their
Speaker 5: mackerel at us and taking nothing in return.
Speaker 4: You strut around in your little tuxedos. You own that
Speaker 4: rock as if you can fly.
Speaker 3: You can't.
Speaker 1: You're fightless.
Speaker 4: And the headline around that, in case you have heard,
Speaker 4: is one hundred percent tariff on China kicked in midnight
Speaker 4: last night.
Speaker 1: Look for it soon on a Walmart shelf near you.
Speaker 5: Gallup did a poll recently what do you think foreign
Speaker 5: trade means for America? Do you see foreign trade more
Speaker 5: as an opportunity for economic growth through increased US exports
Speaker 5: or as a threat to the economy from foreign imports.
Speaker 1: I think that's a pretty.
Speaker 5: Fair way to ask the question, don't you? And interestingly,
Speaker 5: it was like asking about what do you think of
Speaker 5: boys playing in girls sports? Is eighty one percent say
Speaker 5: I see foreign trade more as an opportunity for economic
Speaker 5: growth to fourteen that see it as more of a
Speaker 5: threat eighty one to fourteen. How populist is the idea
Speaker 5: of seriously reigning in foreign trade.
Speaker 1: Wow, we'll have to say.
Speaker 4: May you live in interesting times. They say, here's one
Speaker 4: thing you can be thankful for. Night clubs don't fall
Speaker 4: on your head in the United States. You go out
Speaker 4: to a nightclub at night, it's not just going to
Speaker 4: fall on your head because there are no rules whatsoever
Speaker 4: for building. You know, I'm a lower rules guy to
Speaker 4: any regulations, but at least nightclubs don't fall in your head.
Speaker 4: I don't know if you've seen any of those videos
Speaker 4: from the Dominican Republic, but that's brutal, just a nightmare. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I'd say absolutely. Next hour, more protests in Gaza. These
Speaker 4: people are brave against TAMAS and John Kennedy and Lindsey
Speaker 4: Graham said some interesting things about Iran and AOC. So
Speaker 4: we'll get into all that in our form.
Speaker 1: Oh by Armstrong and Getty