1 00:00:01,240 --> 00:00:05,480 Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 2 00:00:05,600 --> 00:00:10,240 Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and 3 00:00:10,320 --> 00:00:11,880 Speaker 1: get kid, I know he. 4 00:00:14,720 --> 00:00:19,919 Speaker 2: Armstrong and yeah Getty Strong and we're at home enjoying 5 00:00:19,960 --> 00:00:21,360 Speaker 2: the gifts we got for Christmas. 6 00:00:21,440 --> 00:00:23,279 Speaker 3: I got a pony finally, so I've just been riding 7 00:00:23,320 --> 00:00:24,119 Speaker 3: it all around the house. 8 00:00:24,239 --> 00:00:26,760 Speaker 1: I'm not gonna kid yet. I got the post Christmas letdown. 9 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:29,639 Speaker 1: I'm down, man, I'm sad. I'm into the nong heavily. 10 00:00:30,040 --> 00:00:32,839 Speaker 1: Things are not going where I'm spiraling anyway. Hope you're 11 00:00:32,840 --> 00:00:37,559 Speaker 1: doing well. We've got some carefully selected a curated Armstrong 12 00:00:37,560 --> 00:00:40,680 Speaker 1: and Getty segments six the Armstrong and Getty replay. Let's 13 00:00:40,680 --> 00:00:41,400 Speaker 1: all enjoy it again. 14 00:00:41,760 --> 00:00:44,120 Speaker 4: Some breaking news just out of our newsroom here at 15 00:00:44,120 --> 00:00:46,800 Speaker 4: Fox thirteen. A man is in the hospital after being 16 00:00:46,840 --> 00:00:49,519 Speaker 4: shot in the leg overnight if his police say he 17 00:00:49,680 --> 00:00:50,559 Speaker 4: was shot by. 18 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:52,760 Speaker 1: His dog. 19 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:57,240 Speaker 4: Seriously, I don't think that's right. This happened just before 20 00:00:57,880 --> 00:01:01,320 Speaker 4: four a m at a home on Whitney Avenue in 21 00:01:01,360 --> 00:01:04,920 Speaker 4: Fraser Wow. Police say the man was lying in the 22 00:01:04,959 --> 00:01:07,600 Speaker 4: bed with a girl with a gun on the bed. 23 00:01:07,680 --> 00:01:11,640 Speaker 4: Police say his dog jumped up on the bed, got 24 00:01:11,680 --> 00:01:15,679 Speaker 4: his paul stuck in the trigger and ended up hitting 25 00:01:15,720 --> 00:01:18,640 Speaker 4: the trigger, shooting the man in the thigh. 26 00:01:18,720 --> 00:01:19,880 Speaker 2: Wow accident. 27 00:01:19,959 --> 00:01:23,560 Speaker 3: Yeah, so the dog claims you pretend to throw the 28 00:01:23,560 --> 00:01:26,160 Speaker 3: tennis ball, you stick it in the couch cushion one 29 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:27,200 Speaker 3: too many times? 30 00:01:27,680 --> 00:01:30,440 Speaker 1: Right, And Dora, I'm supposed to be there in the 31 00:01:30,480 --> 00:01:32,399 Speaker 1: bed next to you. And who's this? Huh? 32 00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:35,959 Speaker 3: You cheating bastard. When's the last time I went for 33 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:37,679 Speaker 3: a walk? Can you even remember? 34 00:01:40,040 --> 00:01:40,320 Speaker 1: Wow? 35 00:01:41,640 --> 00:01:46,160 Speaker 3: Wow, bad boy, bad dog. My dog ties him to 36 00:01:46,200 --> 00:01:49,000 Speaker 3: a chair like reservoir dogs. I'm not putting up with 37 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:49,800 Speaker 3: this anymore. 38 00:01:49,640 --> 00:01:53,440 Speaker 1: Right Wait? So, uh Jack Michael, do we have that 39 00:01:53,880 --> 00:01:58,360 Speaker 1: the two rappers were talking and gunshots went off? That's 40 00:01:58,360 --> 00:01:59,840 Speaker 1: a candidate for clip of the year. 41 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:01,400 Speaker 2: So I like the way. 42 00:02:01,600 --> 00:02:04,000 Speaker 3: Clearly this news anchor who's got a bit of a 43 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:08,840 Speaker 3: kent Brockman Will Ferrell vibe, Yes he does. Apparently was 44 00:02:08,919 --> 00:02:12,280 Speaker 3: just handed this breaking news not knowing he was about 45 00:02:12,280 --> 00:02:13,600 Speaker 3: to do a story about a man who. 46 00:02:13,480 --> 00:02:15,320 Speaker 2: Was shot by a dog at four am. 47 00:02:17,120 --> 00:02:19,600 Speaker 1: Yeah, so could happen. 48 00:02:19,639 --> 00:02:24,120 Speaker 3: It's also possible that he was messing around with his gun, 49 00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:26,480 Speaker 3: or she shot him or something. 50 00:02:26,520 --> 00:02:29,400 Speaker 2: They don't want to tell. Anybody what actually happened. 51 00:02:29,680 --> 00:02:32,280 Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, that's that's at least, although you know, it's 52 00:02:32,280 --> 00:02:35,760 Speaker 1: not implausible that if you are living the lifestyle where 53 00:02:35,800 --> 00:02:38,480 Speaker 1: you're lying in bed with quote unquote a girl who 54 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:40,880 Speaker 1: wrote that story? Do they need a woman? Quote hope? 55 00:02:42,360 --> 00:02:46,120 Speaker 1: And there's a gun laying there for some reason, you 56 00:02:46,160 --> 00:02:49,280 Speaker 1: can't put it on the nightstand even Yeah, you're living 57 00:02:49,280 --> 00:02:50,919 Speaker 1: the sort of lifestyle where your dog shoots. 58 00:02:50,960 --> 00:02:53,200 Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe he or she likes the gun pointed at 59 00:02:53,200 --> 00:02:56,639 Speaker 3: them during their romantic times. Oh good lord, remember seeing 60 00:02:57,480 --> 00:03:00,320 Speaker 3: no I remember seeing that in the Sopranos, Remember of them? 61 00:03:00,440 --> 00:03:03,239 Speaker 3: Somebody liked having a gun to their head? Turn tawdry's 62 00:03:03,280 --> 00:03:08,600 Speaker 3: way too tawdry. A dog just shot someone. This is 63 00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:11,480 Speaker 3: time for friend talk the pastor rising up. 64 00:03:13,639 --> 00:03:17,000 Speaker 1: As I predicted. Go ahead, Michael, and choices we got 65 00:03:17,040 --> 00:03:27,640 Speaker 1: in life? Those were your choices. Somebody got shot? How good? 66 00:03:30,639 --> 00:03:33,120 Speaker 1: The dirty dead? What do I want with my idea? 67 00:03:33,280 --> 00:03:41,040 Speaker 1: Don't shut me? Everybody, everybody, everybody that's the sort of 68 00:03:41,080 --> 00:03:43,680 Speaker 1: guy who's in bed with a girl and a dog shoots. 69 00:03:44,160 --> 00:03:51,000 Speaker 3: They have a much more relaxed, lighthearted view of shootings. 70 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:53,240 Speaker 1: In the room on fire, shootings in. 71 00:03:53,200 --> 00:03:58,320 Speaker 3: The room and it's not even an accidental shooting at 72 00:03:58,320 --> 00:04:00,720 Speaker 3: the range or outdoors or something. We're in a room 73 00:04:00,760 --> 00:04:03,920 Speaker 3: with a number of people. A gun gotsing. Somebody's been shot. 74 00:04:04,720 --> 00:04:07,160 Speaker 1: You good, I've been shot? 75 00:04:08,880 --> 00:04:09,280 Speaker 2: You good? 76 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:09,680 Speaker 1: You good? 77 00:04:09,720 --> 00:04:10,640 Speaker 2: Everybody good? 78 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:13,680 Speaker 1: Okay, So as I was saying, wow, you've. 79 00:04:13,560 --> 00:04:15,640 Speaker 2: Different different lifestyle than I have. 80 00:04:17,760 --> 00:04:24,159 Speaker 1: Who shot who? Somebody got shot? All right? Anyway, what 81 00:04:24,200 --> 00:04:29,440 Speaker 1: are your plans today? You guys are hungry. I'm hungry. Yeah. Crazy. 82 00:04:29,480 --> 00:04:30,919 Speaker 3: Can I want to hear that other one, just the 83 00:04:30,920 --> 00:04:34,320 Speaker 3: beginning part where the anchor gets to the oh, because 84 00:04:34,360 --> 00:04:35,400 Speaker 3: I just find this funny. 85 00:04:36,200 --> 00:04:38,120 Speaker 4: We want to get you to some breaking news just 86 00:04:38,200 --> 00:04:40,839 Speaker 4: out of our newsroom here at Fox thirteen. A man 87 00:04:40,960 --> 00:04:43,760 Speaker 4: is in the hospital after being shot in the leg overnight. 88 00:04:43,960 --> 00:04:48,960 Speaker 4: If his police say he was shot by his dog. Seriously, 89 00:04:49,680 --> 00:04:50,560 Speaker 4: I don't think that's right. 90 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:51,080 Speaker 3: Uh. 91 00:04:51,200 --> 00:04:55,080 Speaker 4: This happened just before four a m. Yeah, you don't 92 00:04:55,120 --> 00:04:58,200 Speaker 4: know the dog Getney Avenue in the Fraser Wow. Police 93 00:04:58,200 --> 00:05:00,919 Speaker 4: say the man was lying in the bed with a 94 00:05:00,960 --> 00:05:04,039 Speaker 4: girl with a gun on the bed. Police say his 95 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:07,960 Speaker 4: dog jumped up on the bed, got is Paul stuck 96 00:05:07,960 --> 00:05:13,040 Speaker 4: in the trigger and ended up hitting the trigger, shooting 97 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:14,080 Speaker 4: the man in the thigh. 98 00:05:14,160 --> 00:05:19,400 Speaker 3: Wow, four in the morning. I ain't eating lamb and 99 00:05:19,520 --> 00:05:24,160 Speaker 3: rice anymore. Give me some real freaking food. Was it 100 00:05:24,279 --> 00:05:25,080 Speaker 3: a hunting dog? 101 00:05:27,520 --> 00:05:28,039 Speaker 1: Boy? 102 00:05:28,160 --> 00:05:31,160 Speaker 3: So there's actual and of course some background checks. We 103 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:33,440 Speaker 3: don't know any of those things. Gun loopholes, what went 104 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:33,840 Speaker 3: on there? 105 00:05:35,040 --> 00:05:37,960 Speaker 1: Wow? Wow? Well, and if I was going to make 106 00:05:37,960 --> 00:05:40,200 Speaker 1: a serious point about it, that's the very sort of 107 00:05:40,240 --> 00:05:45,360 Speaker 1: person that Democratic prosecutors would never enforce gun laws against. 108 00:05:46,200 --> 00:05:51,640 Speaker 1: They howl for more gun laws constantly, and then they confused. 109 00:05:52,200 --> 00:05:54,919 Speaker 1: You know what I walked into that didn't I? Yes, 110 00:05:55,040 --> 00:05:56,919 Speaker 1: you know, Perhaps it's best to just move on to 111 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:00,520 Speaker 1: other fair I don't know why I enjoy giving jiv 112 00:06:00,760 --> 00:06:04,320 Speaker 1: names to features sets of stories, but I do. Jack. 113 00:06:04,400 --> 00:06:09,800 Speaker 1: So you get the choice between golden state of confusion 114 00:06:10,880 --> 00:06:15,600 Speaker 1: or how markets really work. I'll go with a second one, 115 00:06:15,720 --> 00:06:19,400 Speaker 1: much more sober up, just because the lack of jiviness. 116 00:06:19,400 --> 00:06:23,240 Speaker 1: I'm just curiousity after the dog ridiculousness. Yeah, okay, So 117 00:06:23,760 --> 00:06:26,599 Speaker 1: story number one why the US keeps losing to China 118 00:06:26,680 --> 00:06:31,960 Speaker 1: in the battle over critical minerals, because everybody knows that 119 00:06:32,040 --> 00:06:35,520 Speaker 1: the minerals the rarest the metals. Everybody's talking about. That 120 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:39,880 Speaker 1: go into so much new technology. He or they who 121 00:06:39,920 --> 00:06:43,560 Speaker 1: control access to those things controls the world economy to 122 00:06:43,560 --> 00:06:47,400 Speaker 1: a large extent. And the obvious issue with that is 123 00:06:47,400 --> 00:06:51,200 Speaker 1: that if we continue to be highly dependent on China 124 00:06:51,320 --> 00:06:53,120 Speaker 1: to come up with those materials, we're screwed as an 125 00:06:53,120 --> 00:06:56,000 Speaker 1: economy the minute they decide to tweak us or bring 126 00:06:56,080 --> 00:07:00,919 Speaker 1: us to our knees. So you have this story of 127 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:04,080 Speaker 1: the effort to get a big giant New America and 128 00:07:04,160 --> 00:07:12,960 Speaker 1: our allies run graphite mine and the goal to challenge 129 00:07:13,080 --> 00:07:15,680 Speaker 1: China's dominance over the world supply of a critical mineral 130 00:07:15,760 --> 00:07:20,000 Speaker 1: used in everything from electric vehicles to submarine hubs. And 131 00:07:20,080 --> 00:07:24,440 Speaker 1: so this Australia based mining company, backed by more than 132 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:31,040 Speaker 1: one hundred million dollars of US government financing, maybe a 133 00:07:31,200 --> 00:07:34,120 Speaker 1: worthy goal. Kind of funny, there wasn't any discussion of this, 134 00:07:34,240 --> 00:07:36,600 Speaker 1: but this is what our giant government does. Opened a 135 00:07:36,640 --> 00:07:41,160 Speaker 1: mine in Mozambique and built a graphight processing plant in Louisiana, 136 00:07:41,240 --> 00:07:43,520 Speaker 1: the first of its type in the US, and also 137 00:07:43,560 --> 00:07:46,679 Speaker 1: signed a sales deal with Tesla, which has historically brought 138 00:07:46,800 --> 00:07:49,800 Speaker 1: graph height for cars from China for the battery specifically. 139 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:51,840 Speaker 1: But then things started to go off the rails. China, 140 00:07:51,880 --> 00:07:54,360 Speaker 1: which provides more than ninety percent of the world's battery 141 00:07:54,360 --> 00:07:57,920 Speaker 1: grade graph height supply, jacked up its production. How many 142 00:07:57,920 --> 00:07:59,000 Speaker 1: what did the market? 143 00:07:59,160 --> 00:08:06,440 Speaker 3: How many stories include China supplies ninety eight percent of 144 00:08:06,480 --> 00:08:08,080 Speaker 3: this or that way too many? 145 00:08:09,640 --> 00:08:14,320 Speaker 1: And whether Trump's plans bear fruit or not, and whether 146 00:08:14,360 --> 00:08:17,160 Speaker 1: He's allowed to even get the plans going fully is 147 00:08:17,200 --> 00:08:19,880 Speaker 1: anybody's guess. But this is the very sort of thing 148 00:08:20,440 --> 00:08:23,200 Speaker 1: that he and his advisors are trying to wean us 149 00:08:23,240 --> 00:08:25,640 Speaker 1: from this sort of dependence. But anyway, the gist of 150 00:08:25,680 --> 00:08:28,560 Speaker 1: the story is so China, which provides more ninety percent 151 00:08:28,640 --> 00:08:32,200 Speaker 1: of the world's battery grade graphight supply, jacked up its production, 152 00:08:32,559 --> 00:08:36,439 Speaker 1: flooding the market and driving prices so low that this mine, 153 00:08:36,640 --> 00:08:41,120 Speaker 1: this company could not mine profitably. Wow. Last May, the 154 00:08:41,120 --> 00:08:45,240 Speaker 1: Biden administration delayed new rules that would have penalized US 155 00:08:45,280 --> 00:08:49,319 Speaker 1: buyers from buying Chinese graphight for reasons that I don't recall, 156 00:08:49,400 --> 00:08:51,360 Speaker 1: probably because they were trying to get hijin paying to 157 00:08:51,400 --> 00:08:55,920 Speaker 1: do something. In Mozambique, farmers resettled from the mining company's 158 00:08:55,960 --> 00:09:01,520 Speaker 1: mind staged protests, shutting down the mining, and the Louisiana plant, 159 00:09:01,559 --> 00:09:03,360 Speaker 1: now open for a year, has yet to make its 160 00:09:03,400 --> 00:09:06,280 Speaker 1: first commercial sale, and the company's stock is plunged by 161 00:09:06,320 --> 00:09:09,720 Speaker 1: around ninety percent since the start of twenty twenty three. Wow. 162 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:15,120 Speaker 3: That's really interesting, and once again the difficulties of a 163 00:09:15,120 --> 00:09:18,560 Speaker 3: an authoritarian country where one guy can make decisions in 164 00:09:18,600 --> 00:09:19,359 Speaker 3: a democracy. 165 00:09:21,040 --> 00:09:24,440 Speaker 1: That's tough. Yeah, and as always, there's a lot more 166 00:09:24,440 --> 00:09:28,040 Speaker 1: detail and nuance to it, but we'll leave it here. 167 00:09:28,240 --> 00:09:30,320 Speaker 1: I love, love, love, love love the free market in 168 00:09:30,360 --> 00:09:33,920 Speaker 1: so many ways. It's lifted billions of people out of poverty, 169 00:09:34,160 --> 00:09:37,920 Speaker 1: on lace new medicines across the globe. It has profit 170 00:09:38,160 --> 00:09:42,080 Speaker 1: is the reason for charity. It's the reason charity exists. 171 00:09:42,400 --> 00:09:44,640 Speaker 1: You have to have more than you need to feed 172 00:09:44,679 --> 00:09:51,000 Speaker 1: yourself to give to charity. Anyway, as we retrench from 173 00:09:51,080 --> 00:09:55,000 Speaker 1: the dream of globalization, though, there are going to be 174 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:57,120 Speaker 1: some rainings in of the free market, and it's going 175 00:09:57,120 --> 00:09:58,840 Speaker 1: to be stops and starts. It's going to be really 176 00:09:58,880 --> 00:10:01,839 Speaker 1: difficult anyway not to get hung up on that, because 177 00:10:01,880 --> 00:10:03,000 Speaker 1: you could talk about it for a year and a 178 00:10:03,040 --> 00:10:05,520 Speaker 1: half and write five thousand page books on it and 179 00:10:05,520 --> 00:10:08,760 Speaker 1: not cover it. I thought this was interesting, how markets 180 00:10:08,800 --> 00:10:11,760 Speaker 1: really werek Jack The rise and fall of the Napa 181 00:10:11,880 --> 00:10:16,280 Speaker 1: Valley of Cannabis when Colorado became one of the first 182 00:10:16,280 --> 00:10:20,400 Speaker 1: states to legalize the recreational marriage. You wanna and an 183 00:10:20,559 --> 00:10:23,960 Speaker 1: enthusiastic county commissioner in Pueblo said he wanted Pueblo to 184 00:10:23,960 --> 00:10:28,199 Speaker 1: become the Napa Valley of cannabis. And they talk a 185 00:10:28,240 --> 00:10:30,280 Speaker 1: little bit in the Wall Street Journal about the situation. 186 00:10:30,400 --> 00:10:33,240 Speaker 1: Big slaughterhouse had closed years earlier, steel mill had been 187 00:10:33,240 --> 00:10:37,000 Speaker 1: shedding workers. They're really hurting for jobs and tax revenue, 188 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:40,880 Speaker 1: and a cannabis boom would do that for them. The 189 00:10:40,880 --> 00:10:43,880 Speaker 1: streets were going to be paved with gold, recalled one resident. 190 00:10:43,920 --> 00:10:46,120 Speaker 1: The elementary schools were going to be the greatest in 191 00:10:46,160 --> 00:10:51,000 Speaker 1: the country. Then they talk about, you know, the classic meme, 192 00:10:51,040 --> 00:10:56,239 Speaker 1: how it started, how it's going. In the first weeks, 193 00:10:56,320 --> 00:10:58,680 Speaker 1: the only two shops then licensed in the county round 194 00:10:58,840 --> 00:11:01,600 Speaker 1: rang up a combined one million dollars in sales the 195 00:11:01,640 --> 00:11:05,480 Speaker 1: first month, wow sending fifty six thousand dollars in taxes 196 00:11:05,480 --> 00:11:10,040 Speaker 1: to the county Colorado, pont everybody was just thrilled and happy. 197 00:11:10,040 --> 00:11:14,720 Speaker 1: Decade and high decade later, Pueblo's dreams have gone up 198 00:11:14,760 --> 00:11:18,040 Speaker 1: in smoke. A once thriving industry of retailers, growers, and 199 00:11:18,080 --> 00:11:21,720 Speaker 1: cannabis oil extractors. There were more than two hundred of 200 00:11:21,760 --> 00:11:25,520 Speaker 1: these businesses in twenty seventeen in that county, more than 201 00:11:25,559 --> 00:11:29,960 Speaker 1: two hundred. It's collapsed. Only forty five remain. State records 202 00:11:29,960 --> 00:11:33,280 Speaker 1: indicate county tax revenue plunged from more than seven point 203 00:11:33,360 --> 00:11:35,960 Speaker 1: one million dollars to four point eight million twenty twenty three, 204 00:11:36,080 --> 00:11:38,280 Speaker 1: which is still a pretty significant amount of money. And 205 00:11:38,320 --> 00:11:40,200 Speaker 1: you could argue that they're just thinning the herd and 206 00:11:40,200 --> 00:11:43,440 Speaker 1: the stronger surviving the way it goes in capitalism. But 207 00:11:43,520 --> 00:11:46,040 Speaker 1: here's the problem. In California knows this too. It's been 208 00:11:46,040 --> 00:11:49,920 Speaker 1: a huge problem because the rosy rosy promise is made 209 00:11:50,160 --> 00:11:55,000 Speaker 1: to Californians. In Colorado is alike. Even after legalization, illicit 210 00:11:55,040 --> 00:11:58,280 Speaker 1: growers and sellers thrived, even right in Pueblo. Last year, 211 00:11:58,280 --> 00:12:02,559 Speaker 1: they accounted for seventy percent of the US market, according 212 00:12:02,559 --> 00:12:06,120 Speaker 1: to research companies. The black market dealers, unlike licensed ones, 213 00:12:06,160 --> 00:12:10,000 Speaker 1: face neither Texas nor red tape, so they're more efficient 214 00:12:10,160 --> 00:12:15,880 Speaker 1: and they're cheaper, and it's bad for your brain. That's interesting. Man. 215 00:12:15,880 --> 00:12:19,280 Speaker 3: If you're if you're counting on enough people smoking enough 216 00:12:19,320 --> 00:12:22,319 Speaker 3: pot to you know, make your schools great. 217 00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:24,199 Speaker 1: And everything like that. That's just that's an interesting thing. 218 00:12:25,160 --> 00:12:28,880 Speaker 1: It is, and it's probably not a sustainable way to 219 00:12:28,960 --> 00:12:33,040 Speaker 1: run a society. Nationwide, only twenty seven percent of legal 220 00:12:33,080 --> 00:12:37,400 Speaker 1: cannabis businesses are profitable, which is two percent just three 221 00:12:37,480 --> 00:12:40,480 Speaker 1: years ago. Did not know that. Yeah, investment is dried up, 222 00:12:40,559 --> 00:12:45,400 Speaker 1: restructurings are rising, and in Pueblo, sentiment about legal pot 223 00:12:45,480 --> 00:12:48,040 Speaker 1: has swung the other way, fueling a backlash against the 224 00:12:48,040 --> 00:12:54,240 Speaker 1: county's embrace of the industry. And again, it's kind of 225 00:12:54,240 --> 00:12:56,880 Speaker 1: complicated and a lot of nuance to it, but it's 226 00:12:56,960 --> 00:13:00,559 Speaker 1: just it's not nearly the dream it was sold to be. Elo, 227 00:13:00,800 --> 00:13:02,720 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, and the one the one aspect you should 228 00:13:02,840 --> 00:13:06,120 Speaker 1: understand it's kind of intuitive is that if it's legal, 229 00:13:08,120 --> 00:13:13,400 Speaker 1: enforcing laws against the illegal stuff becomes so complicated because 230 00:13:13,520 --> 00:13:15,960 Speaker 1: you know, half of it, sixty percent of it, depending 231 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:18,320 Speaker 1: on where you are, is legal. And so what are 232 00:13:18,320 --> 00:13:19,880 Speaker 1: the cops supposed to do if they see a bunch 233 00:13:19,920 --> 00:13:23,440 Speaker 1: of guys smoking pot? Right? The Armstrong and Getty show, 234 00:13:23,600 --> 00:13:26,880 Speaker 1: Yeah or Jack or show podcasts and our hot links. 235 00:13:29,320 --> 00:13:32,240 Speaker 5: Another moment with one of these humanoid robots, this time 236 00:13:32,320 --> 00:13:35,559 Speaker 5: kicking its CEO. It as simulated face off in China, 237 00:13:35,640 --> 00:13:38,360 Speaker 5: the robot landing quite a forceful strike, appearing to knock 238 00:13:38,400 --> 00:13:40,920 Speaker 5: the CEO of Engine AI right to the ground. The 239 00:13:40,960 --> 00:13:43,440 Speaker 5: CEO covered and padded gear for the battle, appearing to 240 00:13:43,440 --> 00:13:46,520 Speaker 5: be unharmed. The company says the moment of man versus 241 00:13:46,600 --> 00:13:49,439 Speaker 5: robot was about shutting down claims that other videos of 242 00:13:49,480 --> 00:13:53,199 Speaker 5: this same humanoid robot and its capabilities were just CGI. 243 00:13:54,400 --> 00:13:57,440 Speaker 3: Okay, so the CEO got its ass kicked by the 244 00:13:57,520 --> 00:13:58,719 Speaker 3: robot to prove. 245 00:13:58,559 --> 00:14:05,320 Speaker 1: That some Ah, you're watching the video, I am. Did 246 00:14:05,360 --> 00:14:10,120 Speaker 1: you take a pretty good smacking? Yeah? Well, and the 247 00:14:10,720 --> 00:14:15,000 Speaker 1: swiftness with which this thing moves is unbelievable. I never 248 00:14:15,040 --> 00:14:19,640 Speaker 1: thought about that. Yeah. Oh boy, Chinese killer robots. Good moment. 249 00:14:20,120 --> 00:14:24,040 Speaker 3: Uh chet gpt open Aye made a giant announcement yesterday 250 00:14:24,080 --> 00:14:25,800 Speaker 3: that could have an effect on the world. We'll talk 251 00:14:25,840 --> 00:14:28,280 Speaker 3: about that later, but first, Okay, did you have a 252 00:14:28,280 --> 00:14:29,520 Speaker 3: preference and eye color. 253 00:14:29,240 --> 00:14:31,760 Speaker 1: For your baby yet to be born? No, don't care. 254 00:14:31,960 --> 00:14:36,520 Speaker 3: No, I didn't care either, but my son yesterday, I 255 00:14:36,520 --> 00:14:39,360 Speaker 3: have two blue eyed kids, or I did have two 256 00:14:39,400 --> 00:14:42,640 Speaker 3: blue eyed kids. My thirteen year old said to me, 257 00:14:42,880 --> 00:14:44,480 Speaker 3: he said, my eyes aren't blue anymore. 258 00:14:45,200 --> 00:14:48,160 Speaker 1: I said, what ah? He said they're a different color now. 259 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:51,080 Speaker 3: I guess I hadn't looked deeply into his eyes for 260 00:14:51,200 --> 00:14:52,960 Speaker 3: quite a while, because he walked up to me and 261 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:54,600 Speaker 3: he said, I think they're hazel now, and I looked them. 262 00:14:54,720 --> 00:14:56,920 Speaker 3: You're right, they aren't blue anymore. And I didn't really 263 00:14:57,000 --> 00:15:00,400 Speaker 3: knew what hazel meant as a word, so I had 264 00:15:00,400 --> 00:15:02,160 Speaker 3: to google it and I got the eye chart and 265 00:15:02,200 --> 00:15:04,360 Speaker 3: everything like that, and damn right, his eyes are no 266 00:15:04,400 --> 00:15:04,920 Speaker 3: longer blue. 267 00:15:04,920 --> 00:15:08,560 Speaker 1: They are hazel. I had amazing eyes until I was 268 00:15:08,600 --> 00:15:12,560 Speaker 1: a teenager. They were hazel. They were green and brown, 269 00:15:13,400 --> 00:15:17,000 Speaker 1: and then in adolescence they just went all brown, brown, 270 00:15:17,080 --> 00:15:19,440 Speaker 1: which is bead. I could add a completely different life. 271 00:15:19,920 --> 00:15:21,840 Speaker 3: Brown is the most popular eye color in the world 272 00:15:21,840 --> 00:15:23,160 Speaker 3: at eighty percent four out of five. 273 00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:25,680 Speaker 1: Life of the hazel eyed, I could have lived it. 274 00:15:26,040 --> 00:15:28,360 Speaker 3: Four out of five people on planet Earth have brown eyes, 275 00:15:28,440 --> 00:15:32,720 Speaker 3: is very common. The next most popular is blue, which 276 00:15:32,760 --> 00:15:37,120 Speaker 3: I have eight to ten percent, then hazel. Then only 277 00:15:37,160 --> 00:15:39,080 Speaker 3: five percent of people have hazel eyes, and then. 278 00:15:38,960 --> 00:15:40,440 Speaker 1: The room lost it. 279 00:15:42,760 --> 00:15:45,480 Speaker 3: The rarest of eyes outside of like you're some sort 280 00:15:45,520 --> 00:15:47,760 Speaker 3: of freak born with purple eyes or two different color 281 00:15:47,800 --> 00:15:48,600 Speaker 3: eyes or whatever, like. 282 00:15:48,520 --> 00:15:50,480 Speaker 1: For normal Lizz Taylor lavender eyes. 283 00:15:51,560 --> 00:15:55,280 Speaker 3: Two percent of the world's population is green eyes, So 284 00:15:55,440 --> 00:15:57,440 Speaker 3: green hazel, then blue. 285 00:15:57,360 --> 00:15:58,920 Speaker 2: Brine are blue and green? 286 00:15:59,120 --> 00:16:03,240 Speaker 1: What about bloodshell? But I got those. Is one of 287 00:16:03,280 --> 00:16:05,120 Speaker 1: your eyes blue and the other one's green or they're 288 00:16:05,120 --> 00:16:05,680 Speaker 1: blue green? 289 00:16:06,360 --> 00:16:08,960 Speaker 6: They start they start blue on the outside and they're 290 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:10,200 Speaker 6: green closer to the pupil. 291 00:16:10,560 --> 00:16:16,560 Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, so pay extra for that. I didn't know price. 292 00:16:16,880 --> 00:16:18,920 Speaker 3: We wondered if we missed something. So we went back 293 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:20,720 Speaker 3: and looked at pictures of him on my phone before 294 00:16:20,760 --> 00:16:22,320 Speaker 3: me was little. I know he had bright blue eyes 295 00:16:22,320 --> 00:16:26,400 Speaker 3: when he was little. Now they're hazel, which so. 296 00:16:26,320 --> 00:16:30,040 Speaker 1: I'm sorry they're blue and at this point blue and 297 00:16:30,040 --> 00:16:31,000 Speaker 1: what whatever? 298 00:16:31,080 --> 00:16:33,080 Speaker 2: Hazel is like a light brown? 299 00:16:33,840 --> 00:16:38,760 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's kind of brown green brown. I would say, Okay, interesting, 300 00:16:39,520 --> 00:16:40,840 Speaker 1: I didn't know your eyes changed color. 301 00:16:40,920 --> 00:16:42,400 Speaker 3: Can it happen again later in life or is it 302 00:16:42,440 --> 00:16:44,360 Speaker 3: pretty much in your teenager years and then you're done. 303 00:16:44,960 --> 00:16:47,520 Speaker 1: I'm guessing what you just said there, But I don't know. 304 00:16:47,720 --> 00:16:50,160 Speaker 1: I would like to find deep black eyes. I want 305 00:16:50,200 --> 00:16:56,320 Speaker 1: red ones, red eyes, the pupils bright red. Hello, how's 306 00:16:56,400 --> 00:17:01,160 Speaker 1: your soul? I mean? Interested in an offer? It's the 307 00:17:01,280 --> 00:17:02,520 Speaker 1: Armstrong in Getty Show. 308 00:17:14,160 --> 00:17:23,760 Speaker 7: Strong Israel has had it up to here with fighting 309 00:17:23,880 --> 00:17:28,880 Speaker 7: Iran's proxies, and the giant raid on Iran on their 310 00:17:28,960 --> 00:17:32,520 Speaker 7: military facilities, on their nuclear facilities, killed their top three 311 00:17:32,760 --> 00:17:37,760 Speaker 7: military commanders. Predictably, Hesballah, that's one of Iran's proxies. They 312 00:17:37,800 --> 00:17:40,600 Speaker 7: condemned the attack and they said they were awaiting instructions 313 00:17:40,640 --> 00:17:41,400 Speaker 7: and how to respond. 314 00:17:42,080 --> 00:17:47,280 Speaker 1: Check your pagers, guys, now. 315 00:17:48,800 --> 00:17:51,359 Speaker 3: Crowd applauds like crazy, which is kind of interesting because 316 00:17:51,359 --> 00:17:55,320 Speaker 3: I was everybody has thought this not an original thought. 317 00:17:55,359 --> 00:17:56,919 Speaker 3: I never I don't know if I've ever had an 318 00:17:56,960 --> 00:18:01,000 Speaker 3: original thought. But I'd like to go to a parallel 319 00:18:01,080 --> 00:18:03,680 Speaker 3: universe where Kamala Harris won the presidential election and she 320 00:18:03,920 --> 00:18:06,040 Speaker 3: see how she would be dealing with this whole thing 321 00:18:06,480 --> 00:18:08,399 Speaker 3: between Israel and Iran. You know that she would be 322 00:18:08,520 --> 00:18:11,159 Speaker 3: daily lecturing Israel and telling them they need to stop. 323 00:18:12,359 --> 00:18:16,560 Speaker 1: And responding to her wokeust you know, fifteen percent of supporters. 324 00:18:16,800 --> 00:18:20,840 Speaker 1: I'm sure. Yeah, I'm slightly ashamed that I didn't think 325 00:18:20,840 --> 00:18:23,960 Speaker 1: of this myself, but it's a lot going on in 326 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:30,760 Speaker 1: the world these days. Regular correspondent to JT in Livermore, California. Guys, 327 00:18:30,800 --> 00:18:33,920 Speaker 1: if China can build secret prisons within the US, they're 328 00:18:33,960 --> 00:18:38,320 Speaker 1: more like police stations withholding cells. But yeah, you know 329 00:18:38,480 --> 00:18:40,960 Speaker 1: they're going to be building drone armies here in the US, 330 00:18:41,320 --> 00:18:44,639 Speaker 1: maybe stored on those properties they're buying next to military bases. 331 00:18:45,680 --> 00:18:49,879 Speaker 1: We hope they haven't already. Well, right, obviously, the spring 332 00:18:49,960 --> 00:18:53,160 Speaker 1: board of this is the knowledge that Ukraine had facilities 333 00:18:53,240 --> 00:18:56,480 Speaker 1: within Russia in which they were constructing and or storing 334 00:18:57,359 --> 00:19:02,680 Speaker 1: drones and waiting for the right to attack. And JT 335 00:19:02,840 --> 00:19:06,480 Speaker 1: helpfully sent along a link to an article I believe 336 00:19:06,600 --> 00:19:09,840 Speaker 1: we talked about at the time. Maps showed Chinese owned 337 00:19:09,920 --> 00:19:14,160 Speaker 1: farmland next to nineteen US military bases in alarming threat 338 00:19:14,240 --> 00:19:15,320 Speaker 1: to national security. 339 00:19:16,040 --> 00:19:19,320 Speaker 3: Even if they hadn't come up with that plan prior 340 00:19:19,480 --> 00:19:22,439 Speaker 3: to what Ukraine did and what Israel just did, they 341 00:19:22,600 --> 00:19:26,320 Speaker 3: started a week ago, they're doing now. 342 00:19:27,840 --> 00:19:30,880 Speaker 1: The New York Post identified nineteen bases across the US 343 00:19:30,920 --> 00:19:34,000 Speaker 1: from Florida, Hawaii to Hawaii which were in close proximity 344 00:19:34,040 --> 00:19:36,880 Speaker 1: to land bought by Chinese entities and could be exploited 345 00:19:36,920 --> 00:19:39,239 Speaker 1: by spies working for the communist nation. And if they 346 00:19:39,359 --> 00:19:43,320 Speaker 1: can be, they will be. You know, get that tattooed 347 00:19:43,440 --> 00:19:47,280 Speaker 1: somewhere where you can look at it regularly. If the 348 00:19:47,480 --> 00:19:52,800 Speaker 1: Chinese communists can use a capability against us, they will use. 349 00:19:52,880 --> 00:19:55,239 Speaker 3: It's just the question of when I gotta admit. If 350 00:19:55,240 --> 00:19:57,000 Speaker 3: I ever took off my shirt and someone said, what 351 00:19:57,040 --> 00:19:58,000 Speaker 3: does that to tattoos? 352 00:19:58,000 --> 00:19:58,160 Speaker 1: Say? 353 00:19:58,200 --> 00:20:01,199 Speaker 3: And I say it says if the Chinese government can 354 00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:04,280 Speaker 3: exploit a situation, think will that's your tattoo? 355 00:20:05,240 --> 00:20:08,280 Speaker 1: Yes, I just don't want to forget it, don't just 356 00:20:10,200 --> 00:20:13,680 Speaker 1: Robert Spaulding retired to US State's Air Force Brigadier general, 357 00:20:13,720 --> 00:20:17,200 Speaker 1: Brigadier general who's work focused on US general relations. Still 358 00:20:17,240 --> 00:20:19,879 Speaker 1: the post. It's concerning due to the proximity of its 359 00:20:19,920 --> 00:20:27,640 Speaker 1: strategic or to our strategic location, we are a big, rich, 360 00:20:27,880 --> 00:20:31,440 Speaker 1: naive moron as a country in a lot of ways. 361 00:20:33,160 --> 00:20:35,600 Speaker 1: Contrast that with Israel, if you will. Oh, speaking of which, 362 00:20:35,640 --> 00:20:38,080 Speaker 1: on a similar theme, I was thinking of going into 363 00:20:38,119 --> 00:20:42,120 Speaker 1: this in a playful way. Uh you know, maybe I will. 364 00:20:43,119 --> 00:20:49,240 Speaker 1: All right, go ahead. What is the app Tamu's business? 365 00:20:49,359 --> 00:20:52,320 Speaker 1: Is it Timu or tamu U? Katie? Do you know 366 00:20:52,480 --> 00:20:53,200 Speaker 1: t e m U? 367 00:20:53,600 --> 00:20:56,880 Speaker 6: I've heard it both ways. I say, team Timu. Okay, 368 00:20:56,920 --> 00:21:00,960 Speaker 6: fire enough, What is Timu's real business? Okay, hang on, 369 00:21:01,080 --> 00:21:06,679 Speaker 6: now there's more. What is TikTok's real business. There's one 370 00:21:06,720 --> 00:21:07,119 Speaker 6: more for you. 371 00:21:07,480 --> 00:21:12,560 Speaker 1: It's Shine right, that's the cheap clothing. What is Shines 372 00:21:12,720 --> 00:21:14,760 Speaker 1: real business? I've never even heard of that one. Or 373 00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:20,080 Speaker 1: here's Pin Duo Duo. What is that app's real business? 374 00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:24,119 Speaker 1: A trick question. The answer for all of them is 375 00:21:24,400 --> 00:21:29,399 Speaker 1: collecting your data. They include a service along with that. 376 00:21:29,520 --> 00:21:31,080 Speaker 1: That's why you download the app. 377 00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:37,120 Speaker 3: They are data collection and surveillance apps for instanday all Chinese, 378 00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:42,159 Speaker 3: yeah okay, for instance pin Doo, although certainly the Chinese 379 00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:44,040 Speaker 3: are not the only voracious collectors of. 380 00:21:44,440 --> 00:21:51,000 Speaker 1: Data, I mean, Mark Zuckerberg, please. The Timu and Pin 381 00:21:51,119 --> 00:21:54,240 Speaker 1: Duo Duo represent themselves as e commerce apps that offer 382 00:21:54,320 --> 00:21:57,560 Speaker 1: in inexpensive merchandise, but they're also in the business of 383 00:21:57,600 --> 00:22:03,400 Speaker 1: data collection. The lawsuit, filed by Attorney General Mike Hilgers 384 00:22:03,440 --> 00:22:10,760 Speaker 1: of Nebraska says, according to an IT security report firm report, 385 00:22:11,160 --> 00:22:15,280 Speaker 1: Pinduo Duo requests as many as eighty three permissions, including 386 00:22:15,359 --> 00:22:20,000 Speaker 1: access to biometrics, Bluetooth, Wi Fi network information, and well 387 00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:28,000 Speaker 1: obviously seventy or eighty more things. As an aside, why 388 00:22:28,080 --> 00:22:31,679 Speaker 1: is TikTok still happening in America, Mister President? Because they 389 00:22:31,720 --> 00:22:35,720 Speaker 1: gave you a big giant contribution to your your campaign 390 00:22:35,880 --> 00:22:40,040 Speaker 1: or your inauguration. Them and their lobbyists are paying off 391 00:22:40,080 --> 00:22:43,000 Speaker 1: the administration get rid of TikTok. Congress passed the law. 392 00:22:43,040 --> 00:22:43,520 Speaker 1: It's time. 393 00:22:45,240 --> 00:22:47,119 Speaker 3: Isn't there a way for since Congress did pass a 394 00:22:47,160 --> 00:22:51,800 Speaker 3: lot to force the executive to do what you're supposed 395 00:22:51,800 --> 00:22:52,320 Speaker 3: to do legally. 396 00:22:53,280 --> 00:22:57,119 Speaker 1: Yeah, somebody's gotta like prove standing in that they've been 397 00:22:57,240 --> 00:22:59,800 Speaker 1: damaged by it and go to the courts. I guess 398 00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:02,960 Speaker 1: you'd think there'd be kind of a blanket. The law 399 00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:06,520 Speaker 1: said that and it's not happening lawsuit that you could 400 00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:13,240 Speaker 1: file an ex post miranda or corpus lawsuit or something. 401 00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:17,560 Speaker 1: I don't know, but crazy. Uh. An investigation found by 402 00:23:17,680 --> 00:23:20,639 Speaker 1: Montana found that the team app is designed to hide 403 00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:24,880 Speaker 1: its collection of sensitive information from users and from any 404 00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:28,720 Speaker 1: researcher who might be investigating the apps functionality. That's part 405 00:23:28,760 --> 00:23:31,480 Speaker 1: of its programming is to hide what it is doing. 406 00:23:32,840 --> 00:23:32,959 Speaker 3: Uh. 407 00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:36,800 Speaker 1: Timu also has code that quote allows it to reconfigure 408 00:23:36,880 --> 00:23:39,080 Speaker 1: itself after being downloaded. 409 00:23:39,119 --> 00:23:40,200 Speaker 2: What do you use TM move for? 410 00:23:41,520 --> 00:23:45,639 Speaker 1: What's it? It's a what dental hygiene? What do you 411 00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:46,359 Speaker 1: use for? 412 00:23:46,560 --> 00:23:46,720 Speaker 3: You know? 413 00:23:47,560 --> 00:23:49,800 Speaker 2: You can you can buy anything on it. It's it's 414 00:23:49,880 --> 00:23:50,920 Speaker 2: like China's Amazon. 415 00:23:51,359 --> 00:23:53,040 Speaker 3: Oh okay, then why do we use in the United 416 00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:54,760 Speaker 3: States Because there's just a lot of cheap crap on it, 417 00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:58,920 Speaker 3: super cheap okay, yeah wow, yeah wow. They are really 418 00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:01,879 Speaker 3: hoisting this on our own retards with the whole we 419 00:24:02,119 --> 00:24:04,480 Speaker 3: like cheap crap. Okay, so we'll develop an app that 420 00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:07,119 Speaker 3: can spy on every single American in the United States 421 00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:10,560 Speaker 3: who wants to buy extra cheap crap. And they're so 422 00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:13,760 Speaker 3: hungry for their cheap crap and it is crap most 423 00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:16,560 Speaker 3: of it, that they'll allow us to. 424 00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:20,320 Speaker 1: Spy on everybody, right exactly. And keep in mind what 425 00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:23,399 Speaker 1: I just said. Tamu has code that allows it to 426 00:24:23,560 --> 00:24:27,560 Speaker 1: reconfigure itself after you download it, so it becomes something 427 00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:32,159 Speaker 1: different than you downloaded. Blah blah blah. This is the 428 00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:34,760 Speaker 1: part I wanted to get to. The fear is that 429 00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:37,280 Speaker 1: consumer products marketed on Timu are the bait to get 430 00:24:37,280 --> 00:24:39,399 Speaker 1: Americans to download an app that gives the company and 431 00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:42,560 Speaker 1: thereby the Communist party, access to personal data, location tracking, 432 00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:46,840 Speaker 1: and other sensitive information. Article seven of the National Intelligence 433 00:24:46,960 --> 00:24:50,440 Speaker 1: Law of China is the Chinese communists on their own. 434 00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:53,240 Speaker 1: You know, I'm tempted to dig up that great piece 435 00:24:53,359 --> 00:24:57,359 Speaker 1: we had by was it? Oh, no, no, no, no, no, 436 00:24:57,560 --> 00:25:00,879 Speaker 1: who is the guy who wrote his name? Is flitted 437 00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:06,120 Speaker 1: out of my head? An unbelievable piece quoting Chinese Intelligence 438 00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:11,040 Speaker 1: Service officials on how valuable a resource TikTok is. It 439 00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:14,639 Speaker 1: quoted them chapter and verse, quote after quote after quote 440 00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:19,960 Speaker 1: from internal memorandum and meetings where the Chinese intelligence services said, wow, 441 00:25:20,119 --> 00:25:23,479 Speaker 1: TikTok is an unbelievable boon to what we're doing. But anyway, 442 00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:26,520 Speaker 1: here's article seven of the National Intelligence Law in China. Quote. 443 00:25:27,080 --> 00:25:31,359 Speaker 1: Any organization or citizen shall support, assist, and cooperate with 444 00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:34,480 Speaker 1: the state intelligence work in accordance with the law, and 445 00:25:34,680 --> 00:25:37,800 Speaker 1: keep the secrets of the national intelligence work from becoming 446 00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:41,280 Speaker 1: known to the public. They are bound by law to 447 00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:47,399 Speaker 1: report anything that Chinese communists want to know. Well, we're fools, 448 00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:51,160 Speaker 1: we are, we want we freaking are. That's very maddening. 449 00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:57,800 Speaker 1: I know, you know, we've said enough. When the pooh 450 00:25:57,880 --> 00:26:02,639 Speaker 1: hits the fan and whatever shape or array of flung 451 00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:06,639 Speaker 1: pooh results, everybody will say, how did that happen? I 452 00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:11,440 Speaker 1: don't will I be some some sort of grimly satisfied. 453 00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:14,560 Speaker 1: Now I want to just be horrified. No, just horrified. 454 00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:19,320 Speaker 1: On a cheerier note, Love this, Andy Kessler, writing in 455 00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:25,880 Speaker 1: the Journal, Javier Malay's gift for Pope Leo. On June 456 00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:29,920 Speaker 1: the seventh, the new Pope, the Chicago Guy, met with 457 00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:35,200 Speaker 1: Argentine President j Javier Malay at the Vatican. Malay gave 458 00:26:35,320 --> 00:26:39,600 Speaker 1: the Pope a historical document from sixteen forty two. Cool, 459 00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:42,400 Speaker 1: a hand woven Vicunya poncho. 460 00:26:43,119 --> 00:26:44,120 Speaker 2: That's a quargetine. 461 00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:48,440 Speaker 1: Oh did you got your machine woven vicunya? Please throw 462 00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:52,280 Speaker 1: it in the trash. You're hand woven gorgeous. And he 463 00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:56,200 Speaker 1: also gave him Friedrich Hayek's book from nineteen eighty eight, 464 00:26:56,480 --> 00:27:00,600 Speaker 1: The Fatal Conceit, The Errors of Socialism. The book costs 465 00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:02,960 Speaker 1: less than nineteen dollars on Amazon, but it was the 466 00:27:03,080 --> 00:27:06,879 Speaker 1: most valuable gift, says Kessler. And he explains with some 467 00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:10,120 Speaker 1: just fabulous quotes from the book, which I need to read. 468 00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:11,879 Speaker 1: I've read quotes from it in my whole life. But 469 00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:17,280 Speaker 1: high K's fatal conceit is that quote. Man is able 470 00:27:17,359 --> 00:27:20,000 Speaker 1: to shape the world around him according to his wishes. 471 00:27:20,119 --> 00:27:24,719 Speaker 1: That is the fatal conceit of humans. It's a hearty 472 00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:29,320 Speaker 1: defense of free markets and of classical liberalism, and Kessler 473 00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:32,200 Speaker 1: mentions that his friend and colleague Matthew Hennessy got taken 474 00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:35,399 Speaker 1: to task by Vice President Vance for defending free markets 475 00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:38,800 Speaker 1: on these pages. In twenty twenty five, Hiak pounds home 476 00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:42,159 Speaker 1: the point that markets are about price discovery, wealth creation. 477 00:27:42,359 --> 00:27:45,920 Speaker 1: Quote is determined not by objective physical facts known to 478 00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:50,080 Speaker 1: any one mind, but by the separate differing information of millions, 479 00:27:50,280 --> 00:27:54,639 Speaker 1: which is precipitated in prices that serve to guide further decisions. 480 00:27:55,119 --> 00:27:57,920 Speaker 1: Catch that by buying and selling in free markets to 481 00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:01,240 Speaker 1: determined prices, you and I and millions who are connected 482 00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:04,679 Speaker 1: but only by signals resulting from long and infinitely ramified 483 00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:07,720 Speaker 1: chains of trade, we drive the economy, and we do 484 00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:10,680 Speaker 1: it better than self selecting know it alls who really 485 00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:11,520 Speaker 1: know nothing. 486 00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:14,800 Speaker 3: And he gave that book to the pope. He did 487 00:28:15,080 --> 00:28:17,440 Speaker 3: because he thinks the pope or popes tend to lean 488 00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:18,560 Speaker 3: a little too socialist. 489 00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:21,440 Speaker 1: Yes, indeed, I think that was his purpose. Let me 490 00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:23,200 Speaker 1: hit you with one or two more quotes from Hayek. 491 00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:27,840 Speaker 1: This is maybe my favorite. One's initial surprise at finding 492 00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:32,200 Speaker 1: that intelligent people tend to be socialists diminishes when one realizes, 493 00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:36,960 Speaker 1: of course, that intelligent people will tend to overvalue intelligence. Ah, 494 00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:41,760 Speaker 1: the curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men 495 00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:45,200 Speaker 1: how little they really know about what they imagine they 496 00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:49,720 Speaker 1: can design. Planners are ill informed quote. To the naive 497 00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:52,840 Speaker 1: mind that can conceive of order only as the product 498 00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:56,360 Speaker 1: of deliberate arrangement. It might seem absurd that order and 499 00:28:56,520 --> 00:29:00,840 Speaker 1: economic growth can be achieved more effectively by decentralized decisions, 500 00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:04,200 Speaker 1: he notes, And he notes that the fallacy because quote, 501 00:29:04,360 --> 00:29:08,800 Speaker 1: decentralization actually leads to more information being taken into account 502 00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:11,800 Speaker 1: man by millions of people who don't even know they're 503 00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:12,160 Speaker 1: doing it. 504 00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:16,120 Speaker 3: Salma Hayak for the win there, that would be Friedrich 505 00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:21,240 Speaker 3: Hayek wrong, Hyak right, very different, Hyak. 506 00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:28,400 Speaker 1: I love that, Love that Jack Armstrong and Joe the 507 00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:35,440 Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty Show. So this is a really good 508 00:29:35,520 --> 00:29:39,760 Speaker 1: piece from the National Review talking about how in politics 509 00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:43,680 Speaker 1: and government, clever is not always the same thing as good. 510 00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:47,520 Speaker 1: Sometimes you use cleverness to deceive and to pull off 511 00:29:47,760 --> 00:29:52,880 Speaker 1: crap that shouldn't be happening. They're talking about the Trump administration, 512 00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:59,440 Speaker 1: the Department of Defense renaming nine major military bases. You 513 00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:04,080 Speaker 1: remember back in twenty three, the Biden Department of Defense 514 00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:08,479 Speaker 1: changed the names of all of these forts because they 515 00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:09,960 Speaker 1: were named after Confederates. 516 00:30:10,080 --> 00:30:12,200 Speaker 2: So that happened in twenty three. It's interesting because that happened. 517 00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:15,280 Speaker 3: It started under George Floyd, where all kinds of things 518 00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:19,080 Speaker 3: were getting taken off schools and rivers and statues and 519 00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:19,800 Speaker 3: everything like that. 520 00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:23,160 Speaker 2: But it took the twenty three that they changed the forts. 521 00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:28,000 Speaker 1: Well right exactly, and so they named they renamed Fort Benning, 522 00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:32,000 Speaker 1: Fort Bragg, Fort Gordon, Fort ap Hill, Fort Hood, Fort Lee, 523 00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:37,160 Speaker 1: Fort Pickett, Fort Polk, and Fort Rucker. And then some 524 00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:41,200 Speaker 1: of the new Biden era installation names were worthy individuals 525 00:30:41,280 --> 00:30:44,000 Speaker 1: General hal Moore and his wife Julia Compton Moore, who 526 00:30:44,040 --> 00:30:47,840 Speaker 1: were the same namesakes of Fort Moore, and some of 527 00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:50,720 Speaker 1: the other ones they named for some pretty good people. 528 00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:55,240 Speaker 1: Others were less inspired. Fort Bragg merely became Fort Liberty, 529 00:30:55,520 --> 00:30:58,080 Speaker 1: whatever that means. I mean, I'm in favor of Liberty, certainly. 530 00:30:58,240 --> 00:31:02,080 Speaker 1: But so now the are Army has announced and this 531 00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:05,920 Speaker 1: is the clever part. And I want to dislike this, 532 00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:08,680 Speaker 1: because I think the editors in National Review want to 533 00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:12,200 Speaker 1: dislike it too, but I think I like it. The 534 00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:16,760 Speaker 1: Army has announced it will redesignate these installations back to 535 00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:22,960 Speaker 1: their previous names, but with a twist. Fort Benning is 536 00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:26,360 Speaker 1: going back to Fort Benning, but this time it's named 537 00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:30,200 Speaker 1: for Corporal Fred G. Benning, a first no you idiot, 538 00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:36,080 Speaker 1: Fred Benning, a First World War hero instead of Henry Benning, 539 00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:38,880 Speaker 1: a general in the Confederate Army. Fort Gordon is back 540 00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:41,360 Speaker 1: to be in Fort Gordon. It's now named to honor 541 00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:45,080 Speaker 1: Master Sergeant Gary Gordon, a Delta Force sniper awarded the 542 00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:48,240 Speaker 1: Medal of Honor posthumously for his actions at the Battle 543 00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:54,280 Speaker 1: of Mogadishu. It's your Blackhawk down Mayhem. So they've found 544 00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:58,840 Speaker 1: great admirable Americans and the list, I mean it gives 545 00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:02,680 Speaker 1: you a chill, it warms your heart. Distinguished Service Cross 546 00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:08,520 Speaker 1: the recipient Colonel Robert B. Hood, who showed extraordinary heroism 547 00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:11,200 Speaker 1: in France during WW two. Oh I'm sorry he was 548 00:32:11,320 --> 00:32:16,520 Speaker 1: WW one. Fort Hood is now named after Robert B. Hood. 549 00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:21,400 Speaker 1: So they found great loyal Americans with the same last 550 00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:23,400 Speaker 1: names and change the fort's back. 551 00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:25,280 Speaker 2: Fort Lee now named after. 552 00:32:25,280 --> 00:32:27,440 Speaker 1: Peggy Lee, who's sang how much is that Doggy in 553 00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:33,080 Speaker 1: the Window? A timeless classic, no doubt? All right? So Jack, 554 00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:35,200 Speaker 1: Come on, what do you think of this maneuver? Don't 555 00:32:35,280 --> 00:32:40,880 Speaker 1: make it seems jyvy as hell if but Fort Bragg 556 00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:43,200 Speaker 1: is now Fort Bragg again, but it's a different brag. 557 00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:47,360 Speaker 3: Okay, So I guess I have to start at the 558 00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:52,960 Speaker 3: premise that we need the forts to have the same name, because. 559 00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:57,320 Speaker 1: I'm not sure i'd buy that. I get what you're saying. 560 00:32:57,520 --> 00:33:02,440 Speaker 2: And then but if I accept that, it still doesn't 561 00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:06,360 Speaker 2: it still doesn't it change the fact. 562 00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:10,960 Speaker 3: That if you are an actual racist and or fan 563 00:33:11,040 --> 00:33:14,320 Speaker 3: of the Confederacy and believe something should be named for 564 00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:17,160 Speaker 3: Robert E. Lee, that you know, Okay, I know what 565 00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:18,800 Speaker 3: we're doing. You got to say this for the other 566 00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:22,080 Speaker 3: people live. We know, we know that you named it 567 00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:25,080 Speaker 3: after the Confederates. So cool, cool, We're with you. 568 00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:26,840 Speaker 1: I mean, is it? 569 00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:28,719 Speaker 2: I mean, I hate the term dog whistle. 570 00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:30,600 Speaker 3: I think ninety percent of the time when I hear 571 00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:35,520 Speaker 3: dog whistle it's inaccurate or overbooln But Smitcher actually be one? 572 00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:40,680 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I don't know. They mentioned in the National 573 00:33:40,760 --> 00:33:45,920 Speaker 1: Review that very few Americans who resisted the changing names 574 00:33:45,960 --> 00:33:48,560 Speaker 1: in twenty three did it out of affection for the 575 00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:50,240 Speaker 1: Confederacy right. 576 00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:52,640 Speaker 2: They resisted because of the. 577 00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:55,400 Speaker 1: Spate of renaming seem to be part of the pro 578 00:33:55,640 --> 00:33:57,400 Speaker 1: woke cultural true it all. 579 00:33:57,400 --> 00:34:00,840 Speaker 3: Came with taking Thomas Jefferson's name off of school and everything. 580 00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:02,520 Speaker 3: It was all happening at the same time. 581 00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:04,200 Speaker 1: Right, which is why at the beginning of the show 582 00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:06,160 Speaker 1: I think it is, we have a recording saying from 583 00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:09,400 Speaker 1: the Abraham Lincoln Studios that the George Washington, uh you know, 584 00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:13,480 Speaker 1: broadcast complex. That was a reaction to that, and the 585 00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:15,440 Speaker 1: idea was that no, no, no, if we let you 586 00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:18,720 Speaker 1: start with the Confederate generals, you're gonna end up turning 587 00:34:18,760 --> 00:34:22,520 Speaker 1: the Washington Monument into the transsexual monos or whatever. 588 00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:29,680 Speaker 2: Sure, just the next thing, you know, that's yeah, I 589 00:34:29,719 --> 00:34:30,040 Speaker 2: don't know. 590 00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:33,440 Speaker 1: I don't know. This is clever, but is it smart? 591 00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:36,000 Speaker 1: I don't know. Well it just yeah, they'll just go 592 00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:38,640 Speaker 1: you know what, Yeah, that's that's kind of a head scratcher. 593 00:34:38,719 --> 00:34:41,120 Speaker 1: Different people have different opinions. You want to email us 594 00:34:41,160 --> 00:34:43,440 Speaker 1: about this mail bag at Armstrong e Getty dot com 595 00:34:43,760 --> 00:34:45,560 Speaker 1: or drop us a note four one five, two nine 596 00:34:45,680 --> 00:34:47,000 Speaker 1: five KFTC. 597 00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:50,440 Speaker 3: To the idea that it wasn't actually, you know, fans 598 00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:53,600 Speaker 3: of the Confederacy or racists that were fighting this. How 599 00:34:53,640 --> 00:34:56,960 Speaker 3: many people ever thought for a second about who Fort 600 00:34:57,040 --> 00:34:58,000 Speaker 3: Bragg was named after? 601 00:34:58,360 --> 00:34:59,799 Speaker 2: You just referred to it as Fort Bragg. 602 00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:01,280 Speaker 1: That's what you knew it was called. 603 00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:03,719 Speaker 3: I mean, it's just I didn't do they look back 604 00:35:03,760 --> 00:35:08,600 Speaker 3: on it, and then how how many buildings, bridges, whatever 605 00:35:09,160 --> 00:35:10,760 Speaker 3: do you encounter every day in your life? 606 00:35:11,160 --> 00:35:14,560 Speaker 2: You know it crosses the Robinson Bridge as back up today? Robinson? 607 00:35:14,640 --> 00:35:16,840 Speaker 2: Who Robinson? I don't know why it's the Robinson Bridge. 608 00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:20,319 Speaker 1: Nobody ever asks or cares, right, Yeah, Judy and I'll 609 00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:22,600 Speaker 1: actually occasionally search on that sort of thing when we're 610 00:35:22,600 --> 00:35:26,799 Speaker 1: taking road trips. Wow, the John G. Robinson Bridge, I want, 611 00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:28,759 Speaker 1: uh you figure out who John G. Robinson was, just 612 00:35:28,840 --> 00:35:31,080 Speaker 1: to make the miles go by. And it's kind of fun. 613 00:35:31,440 --> 00:35:32,959 Speaker 2: The Armstrong and Getty Show