Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
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Speaker 3: We are in a dimly lit room, deep within the
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Speaker 4: We got some focusingly inexpensive when you buy them in bulk.
Speaker 5: And today we're the tutelage of our general manager. Good times, Okay,
Speaker 5: good times, our general manager?
Speaker 1: What does that not? The wellove it seventies hit sitcom
Speaker 1: and or anything. It's funny.
Speaker 4: As I was preparing for the show, I came across
Speaker 4: a number of different stories, ideas, issues that all were
Speaker 4: connected by the sinew of the fact that good times, affluence,
Speaker 4: comfort lead to debauchery, self indulgence, laziness, softness in general.
Speaker 4: And I was thinking, it's as inevitable as a sine wave.
Speaker 1: I don't know anything about me. I wasn't good at math.
Speaker 5: But it's as inevitable as the sunrise and the sunset as.
Speaker 1: Inhaling and exhiling.
Speaker 5: I don't know if anything can be done about it
Speaker 5: except around the margins. When you have affluence in good times,
Speaker 5: you lose your edge as a society, as a person.
Speaker 5: Often not debauchery. Yeah, it's all about the debauchery.
Speaker 1: Hold on it. I'm enjoy the debauchery. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you can hear this or not. What is that?
Speaker 5: Huh?
Speaker 1: What is that?
Speaker 5: I'm dropping my Alka Seltzer plus cold medicine into the
Speaker 5: water and letting it fizz so that I can drink
Speaker 5: it during the show. See the only cold medicine I
Speaker 5: feel like, does anything? Of course, it might be Placebia.
Speaker 5: I have no idea of it. Hopefully not come out
Speaker 5: of hue. It is a weird color. It doesn't look
Speaker 5: like something you should drink. Surprisingly, have not come up
Speaker 5: with better cold medicine. It must be really hard because
Speaker 5: there would be a tremendous amount of money in it.
Speaker 5: Everybody gets a couple of colds per year. The profit
Speaker 5: would be just insane. But they really haven't moved the
Speaker 5: mark much on cold medicine as far as I can
Speaker 5: tell in my entire life, and one of the main
Speaker 5: cold medicines that have existed for the past quite a
Speaker 5: few years. Was announced by the FDA what two years ago.
Speaker 5: It doesn't do anything. Not only is it go off
Speaker 5: and in, not only is it not very effective, it
Speaker 5: does nothing. And every cold medicine on the shelf stillfenerin
Speaker 5: or whatever it is. Uh, however, you say that every
Speaker 5: single Okay, this one right here, al ca Celtzi cold
Speaker 5: medicine has a couple of things in it that must
Speaker 5: actually do something. Then the fenlephron, which does nothing, every
Speaker 5: cold medicine still has.
Speaker 1: So why do they still put that in there if
Speaker 1: it was announced that it doesn't do anything.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the name of that one is similar to something
Speaker 5: that does do something, and I can never remember which
Speaker 5: is which.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 4: I mean, you've got epinephrine, and that's good stuff. Pseudo epinephrine, sure,
Speaker 4: oh absolutely, pseudo fat Yeah, decongested, but you know, to me,
Speaker 4: it's a little tilan all, little ibuprofen whatever, and the
Speaker 4: grin Barrett, that's how you deal with a cold.
Speaker 1: Well, most of this stuff almost always has a tileanol
Speaker 1: in it, So I think that's the only thing you're
Speaker 1: getting out of it.
Speaker 4: I got a question, Maybe you're just tarten up your
Speaker 4: tile andol with a bunch of stuff that doesn't do anything.
Speaker 4: Almost certainly, I don't know that that's true. I just
Speaker 4: want if I had to bet, I would bet you're slutty,
Speaker 4: slutty tile and all. I got a question. So, if
Speaker 4: you're a news junkie, you almost certainly have seen the
Speaker 4: video of us blowing the Jesus out of the eleven
Speaker 4: drug people in the boat off a coast of Venezuela cartel.
Speaker 5: Terrorists. That's right, terrorists. Okay, that's interesting that you say that. Well,
Speaker 5: I'm quoting the administration, right. So the term narco terrorist
Speaker 5: has become a thing now, so if you bring a
Speaker 5: lot of drugs into the country, you're considered it a
Speaker 5: narco terrorist.
Speaker 1: And terrorists, in our.
Speaker 5: Minds, sounds like people that were allowed to kill wherever
Speaker 5: the hell they are, because we've been killing terrorists for
Speaker 5: a long long time. I did see some pushback online.
Speaker 5: There's always pushback online about everything, of what right do
Speaker 5: we have to kill kill drug smugglers? It's not a
Speaker 5: capital offence in the United States. If you get caught
Speaker 5: as a major drug dealer, we don't execute you. So
Speaker 5: how are we executing people out in a boat in
Speaker 5: the ocean. Do you know the answer to that? I'm
Speaker 5: not worried about this. I just thought it was an
Speaker 5: interesting question. I would agree completely. And that is the
Speaker 5: question that leapt to my mind as well. Can you
Speaker 5: kill somebody pre arrest for something? You can't kill them
Speaker 5: after you've arrested them for well? And then am I
Speaker 5: right that this narco terrorist thing is a way to
Speaker 5: make it sound like something that we're all in favor
Speaker 5: of killing. Sure, it's spin.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think the term terrorist in general is has
Speaker 4: been rendered useless through overuse. Plus, this is not that
Speaker 4: useful term honestly doesn't tell you enough. I think this
Speaker 4: is a really interesting and intriguing question. You have a
Speaker 4: criminal enterprise that is bent in its very purposes in
Speaker 4: doing evil. They are murderous, they are selling death, They
Speaker 4: have zero redeeming qualities, and their activities will inevitably lead
Speaker 4: to many, many deaths.
Speaker 5: So how does that How does that differ from a
Speaker 5: military force and its effects? I realized it's.
Speaker 4: It's purpose, it's reason for being why they get up
Speaker 4: in the morning, is different, but in its effect, it's
Speaker 4: remarkably similar to a military attack.
Speaker 5: It's just a little more indirect. So well, then to
Speaker 5: them now and again to keep them away from your shores.
Speaker 5: I've got a great deal of sympathy for the strategy,
Speaker 5: but I can't really explain why it's Okay, Well, if
Speaker 5: you're gonna make that argument, then would couldn't you make
Speaker 5: that argument for every Uh? You know, a group of
Speaker 5: six dudes that make meth in a trailer somewhere and
Speaker 5: put it out on the streets because it's gonna kill
Speaker 5: people or maybe whatever drug something? Yeah, Now, I know
Speaker 5: that if you directly can link a person to the
Speaker 5: pill that killed somebody, you can charge them with murder
Speaker 5: and should Uh, But you don't just preemptively assume they're
Speaker 5: a bunch of murderers and and and then kill them
Speaker 5: before you arrest them.
Speaker 4: Right this, by the way, is not some sort of
Speaker 4: editorial against it. We're just flipping the thing over and
Speaker 4: trying to figure out what it is. Oh yeah, how
Speaker 4: is I'm worried about today?
Speaker 5: US taking out drug lords in Venezuela, and whether or
Speaker 5: not it's legal is not on my list.
Speaker 4: Right Well, yeah, drug lords lords would be a different case.
Speaker 1: Though.
Speaker 4: These are drug lackeys, These are just runners. These are
Speaker 4: hourly employees, so which makes it more work. It's a
Speaker 4: good point. I'm not sure about the legalities, but grammar wise,
Speaker 4: you're absolutely correct. So now obviously they're outside the US
Speaker 4: is supposed to inside the US.
Speaker 1: Uh. And I'm not an expert on this.
Speaker 5: But if you had a guy a guy walking down
Speaker 5: the street and you threw undercover operations, you know, wearing
Speaker 5: a wire or whatever, you knew with certainty he was
Speaker 5: selling fentanyl to.
Speaker 4: I was gonna say teenagers, but let's not prejudice it.
Speaker 4: He's selling fentanyl. Fentanyl lays drugs to young people in America.
Speaker 4: Can I as the government gun him down in the
Speaker 4: street because he is delivering fentanyl to the homeland homeland
Speaker 4: or at.
Speaker 1: Least the people as the people in the boat differ
Speaker 1: from that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know, delibered talking about we do it
Speaker 5: seven or eight times and have an incredibly quick decline
Speaker 5: in the number of those boats bringing fentanyl into the country.
Speaker 1: I think that's the goal.
Speaker 5: I think the goal is as Marco Rubio said, I
Speaker 5: heard it the smile the lawyers argue about it. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I heard Marco Rubio say it on the news. The
Speaker 5: days of just with impunity, loading up a boat full
Speaker 5: of drugs and taking them. The United States are over,
Speaker 5: Those days are over. Well, that's the message we're trying
Speaker 5: to send. That will greatly curb the drug traffic as
Speaker 5: they realize, not a lot of people are going to
Speaker 5: take the job if you're just rolling up there in
Speaker 5: the ocean, beautiful day, not a cloud pow.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 4: One final thought on this, And if I were a
Speaker 4: more ambitious fellow, I would have written some sort of
Speaker 4: book about this that people would have ignored propatly. But
Speaker 4: and I used this phrase for the first time, ages
Speaker 4: and ages ago, and it had to do that's funny.
Speaker 4: I remember it was something Hillary Clinton was pitching. I
Speaker 4: don't remember specifics of it, but it's the question of
Speaker 4: necessity versus nicety. And this goes back to the whole
Speaker 4: good times create soft people. Soft people create bad times.
Speaker 4: Bad times create tough people. Tough people create good times.
Speaker 4: You know, circle that I think is impossible.
Speaker 1: That's right. Our general manager was good times. That's right.
Speaker 1: Ain't we lucky? We got them good times? Anyway?
Speaker 4: Eh So we as a got to the point and
Speaker 4: the woke thing and just the you know, the old
Speaker 4: school lefty thing when it was really really in charge,
Speaker 4: emptying out the prisons in California, for instance.
Speaker 1: California is a great example of it.
Speaker 4: The policies of California as a state right now, or
Speaker 4: a great example of You are so comfortable and affluent,
Speaker 4: you go after that final percent and a half of
Speaker 4: just fairness and goodness and gentleness and equity and whatever,
Speaker 4: and blah blah blah, and you completely forget the stuff
Speaker 4: you're supposed to do. You got criminals running wild in
Speaker 4: the streets, you got people shooting up and crapping in
Speaker 4: parks in front of children.
Speaker 1: You are so obsessed with.
Speaker 4: Nicety, you completely forget about necessity.
Speaker 6: Ah.
Speaker 4: And I don't have an answer on this. I'm noodling
Speaker 4: it through. And I find it really interesting.
Speaker 5: Is that snuffing of that boat full presuming their intelligence
Speaker 5: was excellent.
Speaker 1: There's always a chance of getting it wrong too right.
Speaker 4: It was guys going out tarp and fishing, but presuming
Speaker 4: that their their intelligence was as excellent as they say.
Speaker 5: That feels a little bit like a return to let's
Speaker 5: deal with necessity.
Speaker 1: That's an interesting one.
Speaker 5: We'll talk more about that later. And if you haven't
Speaker 5: seen the video, it is. Well, it's about what you'd expect. Well,
Speaker 5: we'll have no time to talk about it later. We've
Speaker 5: got to talk about the Epstein file release, the controversy
Speaker 5: and the hearings, and we need this, like God, we
Speaker 5: need to start the show officially. We got a fun
Speaker 5: little clip. I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty on this.
Speaker 5: It is Hey, my dad's birthday Wednesday, September third of
Speaker 5: the year, twenty twenty five. He's eighty eight years old.
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Speaker 5: Happy birthday, Jacks.
Speaker 1: Dad. Haven't seen you in ages. Hope you're well. God
Speaker 1: bless you.
Speaker 4: All Right, let's begin before the FCC drones us from
Speaker 4: the sky for starting late.
Speaker 1: Is that here we go? Oh yeah, now under Trump,
Speaker 1: here we go. At Mark, we had.
Speaker 2: Met up because I was going to sell him my sneakers.
Speaker 2: He just wanted to sniff my feet and I didn't
Speaker 2: feel comfortable with that. I mean, you could have my
Speaker 2: sneakers all you want. I mean, I don't care. I'm
Speaker 2: not wearing them. You know, they're just stinky old sneakers.
Speaker 2: But people like weird things. And I met him down
Speaker 2: in the parking garage, he did a three point turn
Speaker 2: and actually hit me with a car ran me over.
Speaker 2: I've met a lot of people who have foot fetishes.
Speaker 2: Nobody has ever done anything to this caliber. Mary.
Speaker 5: There's a lot there, and we don't get her, so,
Speaker 5: you know, I thought there was plenty there.
Speaker 1: And then the whole running are over thing.
Speaker 5: We don't have time to break it down now, we
Speaker 5: don't have to play that again later and point by
Speaker 5: point break down the whole guy says he wants to
Speaker 5: buy your sneakers online, you meet him in a parking garage.
Speaker 4: Not sure that's the best idea. And I'm sorry my
Speaker 4: headphone s glitched out, Michael. Did she say she was
Speaker 4: or was not comfortable with that hole?
Speaker 1: Rain? She wasn't.
Speaker 5: I was not. Ah, we'll get to that story later.
Speaker 1: In a hole?
Speaker 4: Where are you going, Jenny? I got a guy sniffing
Speaker 4: my feet in a parking garage? Oh my god, Oh
Speaker 4: my god.
Speaker 5: How about that parade that China put on that was
Speaker 5: one of the biggest military parades, maybe the biggest military
Speaker 5: parade in world history. As a little scary, and we
Speaker 5: got that a whole bunch of other stuff to talk
Speaker 5: about today. I hope you can stay here.
Speaker 1: Hey, hey, I is.
Speaker 5: Not going to take over the world and force all
Speaker 5: of us out of our jobs, at least as long
Speaker 5: as I can type into a computer the whole nine yards.
Speaker 1: And if I accidentally write mine yards, it.
Speaker 5: Just thinks that's what I want because it's completely unfamiliar
Speaker 5: with the phrase. So until they can fix all that,
Speaker 5: or if I write the word, if I write this
Speaker 5: happened either day, happy birthday, and it was birth bu
Speaker 5: day or something like that, and.
Speaker 1: It can't figure out what I want.
Speaker 4: It's not going to take over the world yet, right, Yeah,
Speaker 4: you know, it's funny, the ebb and flow of the
Speaker 4: it's going to take everybody's jobs by the end of
Speaker 4: the year. Oh no, it's not not even close. It'll
Speaker 4: be fine. Yeah, nope, nope, nope, nope. Entire restructuring of
Speaker 4: the economy, what's that. No, everything will be fine. I mean,
Speaker 4: back and forth.
Speaker 1: It's just right. Oh my god, it's nuts.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I'm I'm less concerned than I was six
Speaker 4: months ago that there will be massive changes to the
Speaker 4: workforce and therefore society, therefore our politics, therefore everything in
Speaker 4: the short term.
Speaker 1: But who knows.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't claim to. I think the timing is
Speaker 5: different than I thought it might be. I think it
Speaker 5: will happen, but it might be twenty five years from
Speaker 5: now instead of next June.
Speaker 4: I wonder interesting piece that came across about how China
Speaker 4: is approaching the whole AI thing differently. They are not
Speaker 4: going hardcore at the generalized artificial intelligence is that the
Speaker 4: term people use. We're the things learned to think for them.
Speaker 4: Else they're just like really concentrating on applications of what
Speaker 4: we have right now.
Speaker 5: You can talk about that more later. Quick rundown of
Speaker 5: the headlines. Katie is off today.
Speaker 4: And we'll love to have her back as soon as
Speaker 4: possible as she deals with and I don't I think
Speaker 4: we're cool. I always want to protect her privacy, but
Speaker 4: she's been so open about the fertility thing. And I
Speaker 4: will just tell you this. I feel like a reasonably
Speaker 4: well informed guy. But I did not have a single
Speaker 4: clue as to the difficulty and complexity of the whole
Speaker 4: IVF thing.
Speaker 1: No, it's funny.
Speaker 5: It was such a political football there for a while
Speaker 5: with JD Vance and something he said or whatever during
Speaker 5: the presidential campaign. No, I had no idea IVF is
Speaker 5: so complicated and longed and not always pleasant. I didn't
Speaker 5: know any.
Speaker 1: Of the stuff.
Speaker 4: Yeah, in fact, damn near always unpleasant. But you know
Speaker 4: so quickly look at headlines. We mentioned the US military
Speaker 4: struck of Venezuela and drug vessel in the South Caribbean, Kirkblowie.
Speaker 4: We'll talk about that more to come, I'm sure, especially
Speaker 4: if it keeps happening. Let's see. You know what, I
Speaker 4: don't have the bandwidth for third world disasters in these
Speaker 4: god forsaken as whole countries. I'm not happy it happened
Speaker 4: Landslide and darfour, but I just don't have the bandwidth.
Speaker 5: How about this one, on which I don't quite understand.
Speaker 5: Google avoided harshest penalties and landmark search monopoly ruling.
Speaker 4: What happened there? Candid course case been dragging on for
Speaker 4: a court case. I've been dragging on forever about Google's
Speaker 4: relationship with Apple and it buying its way to being
Speaker 4: the default search engine. And the net result is Google
Speaker 4: has to share a whole bunch of their info that
Speaker 4: they've gathered over the years with other companies, which is interesting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a slap on the wrist.
Speaker 4: Is the wrong term for a civil settlement like this,
Speaker 4: or a civil judge like this, but it was a
Speaker 4: fraction of the worst case scenario. Jony Ernsteiowa not going
Speaker 4: to run again at the end of her turn, probably
Speaker 4: because it's useless being in Congress at this point, or
Speaker 4: the Senate fat dopey communist Jerry Nadler also going to retire,
Speaker 4: go away. Let's see another headline. We talked about this yesterday.
Speaker 4: Seventy percent of Americans say it's no longer true that
Speaker 4: if you work hard you'll get ahead.
Speaker 5: And here's the important thing. Then one point three billion
Speaker 5: dollar powerball drawing tonight. Wait a minute, I have a
Speaker 5: new plan. Armstrong and getty.
Speaker 7: A massive show of force by China America's top adversaries
Speaker 7: attending a military parade in Beijing, sending a strong message
Speaker 7: that there's an alternative world order now competing with US domination.
Speaker 6: Chinese President Jean Shinping is hosting world leaders, including russia
Speaker 6: Is Vadimir Putin and North Korea's Kim Jong un. Kim
Speaker 6: arrived on a train so heavily planted with armor, it
Speaker 6: reportedly moves on average just thirty seven miles an hour.
Speaker 5: So the train is so heavy, so that it can
Speaker 5: withstand an explosion or attack of any kind, that it
Speaker 5: can barely move, kind of like the leader himself.
Speaker 1: Right, so heavy he can barely move. Anybody attacked the
Speaker 1: leader of North Korea. I don't know.
Speaker 5: I think you get pretty paranoid when you're a dictator
Speaker 5: and you're surrounded by people all the time. It probably
Speaker 5: would like to kill you. Yeah, final stray note. I
Speaker 5: like the way David Panel what's his name?
Speaker 1: Is that his name?
Speaker 4: Ian Panel? I like the way he says adversary. Yeah, adversary, well,
Speaker 4: because they're adverse to you. I like that better than
Speaker 4: the American adversary. I'm becoming a brit bit by bit.
Speaker 5: Okay, President g there at the biggest parade the world
Speaker 5: has ever seen, biggest military parade flanked by leaders from
Speaker 5: twenty six countries. Yes, that's quite a few people that think,
Speaker 5: you know, we better be kind of in the whole
Speaker 5: sphere of China is they're a pretty big power. And
Speaker 5: most importantly it was President she Vladimir Putin.
Speaker 1: And then Kim Jung un.
Speaker 5: I don't know why that seems so significant to people,
Speaker 5: but apparently it is because he doesn't usually go to
Speaker 5: these sorts of things. Trump in the midst of the
Speaker 5: whole parade, which we'll tell you more about a little
Speaker 5: bit truthed out a wish to President she and the
Speaker 5: Chinese people have a great and lasting day of celebration,
Speaker 5: before adding, please give my warmest regards to Vladimir Putin
Speaker 5: and Kim Jung Un as you conspire against the United
Speaker 5: States of America.
Speaker 1: Wow. That's it. It got a little sarcastic at the end. Wow.
Speaker 5: The military display was just absolutely if you haven't seen
Speaker 5: the videos, it's just it's unbelievable all the stuff that
Speaker 5: was there. She's speech. First of all, their rewriting history.
Speaker 5: Putin's been doing this for a long time. She and
Speaker 5: Putin together now are rear writing the end of World
Speaker 5: War two, or what World War two was, and their
Speaker 5: version which a lot of the people will only hear
Speaker 5: or be taught, World War two was Russia and China
Speaker 5: getting together to defeat Japan. That was what World War
Speaker 5: two was. And aren't they fantastic for having defeated Japan?
Speaker 5: China and Russia. That's funny, that's not the way I
Speaker 5: remember it. She's speech about that was followed by a
Speaker 5: display of the expanding military arsenal under his command, including
Speaker 5: new hypersonic nuclear capable missiles that we don't have and
Speaker 5: unmanned combat platforms that strengthened China's abilities to deter the
Speaker 5: United States to project power. They displayed for the first
Speaker 5: time their nuclear triad with the ability to attack any
Speaker 5: place in the world with nuclear weapons from sea, land,
Speaker 5: or air, which they had never displayed before. And if
Speaker 5: you mean you want to do something scary, I did
Speaker 5: just this the other day. I did a Google search
Speaker 5: on hypersonic weapons on like Washington Post.
Speaker 1: Or New York Times.
Speaker 5: Start reading the articles about where we are versus Russia
Speaker 5: and China. It's freaking frightening.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I hate the idea of us actually getting into
Speaker 4: a kinetic war at this point, and not that you know,
Speaker 4: we'd be a pushover or anything like that, but I
Speaker 4: think we are.
Speaker 1: You know, the old.
Speaker 4: Boxer who's been retired from fighting for a while and
Speaker 4: still thinks, you know, I could whoop these youngsters, but
Speaker 4: hasn't been tested in a big way. Certainly, the capabilities
Speaker 4: of our special forces and you know, the things we
Speaker 4: are involved in right now, they're the elite, they're the
Speaker 4: best in the world.
Speaker 1: Best. It's ever been. But in terms of mass, mass.
Speaker 4: Forces weaponry, I'm not sure we're as well equipped as
Speaker 4: we feel like we have.
Speaker 1: Well, I wonder I've been wondering this for quite a while.
Speaker 5: If we get attacked by someone, is the story is,
Speaker 5: oh my god, we're attacked.
Speaker 1: What do we all want ally together to do?
Speaker 5: Or is the story whoever's president caused it? And half
Speaker 5: the country is not on board with whatever the response is,
Speaker 5: and it just becomes a domestic political issue, like.
Speaker 4: And or starts wearing the T shirts of the country
Speaker 4: that attacked us in a show of how they hate
Speaker 4: the current guy.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 5: I wonder that Mark Alprin, writing in his newsletter today,
Speaker 5: if a charismatic American president can unite the nation in
Speaker 5: service of unmatchable United States economic might and global cultural influence,
Speaker 5: Uncle Sam wins otherwise dot dot.
Speaker 1: Dot Yeah, I would agree.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And honestly, I don't think Trump's the guy to
Speaker 4: do it. I love a lot of what he's doing domestically, but.
Speaker 5: But neither is going to be Gavin Newsom or Kamala
Speaker 5: Harris or whoever follows. That's a hell of a comparison,
Speaker 5: But that's.
Speaker 1: Where we are.
Speaker 5: That's who We're going to elect someone like Jady Vance,
Speaker 5: j D Maybe Vance.
Speaker 1: Maybe.
Speaker 5: Anyway, the parade was frightening on every damned level, and
Speaker 5: things are changing quickly. The world order is changing, maybe
Speaker 5: has changed. I was happy to hear on NPR today
Speaker 5: they had former ambassador to China. I think I don't
Speaker 5: remember what the guy's name was, but he said on
Speaker 5: NPR the United States cannot allow China to dominate that
Speaker 5: part of the world. He just stated that on NPR,
Speaker 5: which I'm happy to hear. I don't know if we
Speaker 5: can stop it from happening, but I'm glad that even
Speaker 5: on super progressive NPR, that was the take.
Speaker 1: That is interesting.
Speaker 4: So a quick rundown of what you saw if you
Speaker 4: were in Beijing for the big parade. They trotted out
Speaker 4: ten thousand troops, which is plenty. Beijing as the world's
Speaker 4: largest active army estimated at about two million personnel. Wow,
Speaker 4: not battlefield tested, so who knows. Formations in the parade
Speaker 4: included Chinese China's cyber Space Force and arrow Space Force,
Speaker 4: both brand new branches. They have a cyber Space Force, yes,
Speaker 4: Cyberspace Force and Aerospace Force computers in space branches of
Speaker 4: the military.
Speaker 1: China.
Speaker 4: That couple of phrases could loom large in a few
Speaker 4: years anyway, China, leader in hypersonic missile technology, showed off
Speaker 4: its new arrivals from its ying G series jack, which
Speaker 4: State me he described as a strategic hammer for defending
Speaker 4: China's maritime interests.
Speaker 1: I don't want to be condescending, nor be or not.
Speaker 1: I'll hit you with my strategic hammer, nor the opposite,
Speaker 1: whatever that would be.
Speaker 5: About hypersonic missiles, we've thrown around that term and maybe
Speaker 5: all of you don't know what those are, but those
Speaker 5: are the missiles that can fly so fast and so
Speaker 5: low that are super fantastic. Modern radar equipment can't pick
Speaker 5: them up. Yeah, can't pick them up. They could send
Speaker 5: a missile around the world so fast, so low, it
Speaker 5: could drop a nuke on loss A Angels before we
Speaker 5: even know that a missile has been sent. So they
Speaker 5: mentioned that the YJ nineteen missile features air inlets that
Speaker 5: you can see under the nose cone that appear very
Speaker 5: similar to those of Russian hypersonic cruise missiles powered by
Speaker 5: air breathing jet engines known as a scram jet. Hypersonic
Speaker 5: weapons can travel at extreme speeds to better evade most
Speaker 5: air defenses.
Speaker 1: To your point, it's an improvement.
Speaker 4: In the design blah blah blah blah, which delivers a
Speaker 4: hypersonic glide vehicle, a projectile that is propelled to with
Speaker 4: a high altitude before streaking down toward its target, maneuvering
Speaker 4: to make its path less predictable. You had your D
Speaker 4: five FC intercontinental ballistic missiles. It can strike anywhere in
Speaker 4: the world. Aerial drones were on display. Now these are
Speaker 4: the big drones, like our reaper and predator drones. I
Speaker 4: think those are the right names are they're unmanned fighter jets. Essentially,
Speaker 4: they had a bunch of those of various sorts, jet fighters, bombers, helicopters,
Speaker 4: a carrier based fighters, anti drone. Air defense systems were
Speaker 4: trotted by the appear to be laser beams, new high
Speaker 4: power laser and microwave weapons designed intercept targets such as
Speaker 4: drones and cruise missiles. You know, it's interesting, pretty Star
Speaker 4: Wars looking too. It's pretty inter cool looking.
Speaker 5: It's pretty interesting to me that we had this debate
Speaker 5: what a couple of months ago when Trump had that
Speaker 5: military parade, and whether or not that was appropriate or
Speaker 5: not war mongering in this or that our number one
Speaker 5: adversary or adversary on planet Earth just had a giant
Speaker 5: military play parade to show us what they've got. Why
Speaker 5: wouldn't we show them what we've got?
Speaker 4: Well, and the idiotic left the argument would be, well,
Speaker 4: we want to be different from them.
Speaker 1: That's not an argument. Shut up.
Speaker 4: I also think that in the real world, not the
Speaker 4: Ivory Tower of academia, which is so sick and perverse
Speaker 4: and ought to be blotted from the planet, and not
Speaker 4: in the lefty media, which is scarcely better. In the
Speaker 4: real world, when normal people look at their team and
Speaker 4: how cool the team is, and how well equipped it is,
Speaker 4: and how our taxes have been spent for stuff other
Speaker 4: than waste and crap, that makes you happy, makes you
Speaker 4: feel good, makes you want to say, look at our team.
Speaker 1: Hell yeah.
Speaker 4: As the NFL seasons about to kick off, I'm in
Speaker 4: favor of it again. We've lapped so far into this
Speaker 4: for like academic professorial seeking of being the most.
Speaker 1: Enlightened people we can possibly be.
Speaker 5: The big tough guy who does not give a single
Speaker 5: f about being enlightened is gonna kick down our door
Speaker 5: and take all our stuff and laugh as we but
Speaker 5: we blubber Geopolitically speaking, this is not a game for
Speaker 5: college professors. It's a game for big, tough, well trained
Speaker 5: guys with great gear. You saying shut up, says me.
Speaker 5: You saying shut up, that's not an argument, reminded me.
Speaker 5: I was watching a Jerry Seinfeld, a new one the
Speaker 5: other night, and he said, people.
Speaker 1: Who say it is what it is, why are you alive? Yeah?
Speaker 5: I happen to disagree with him on that point. I do, dude,
Speaker 5: I kind of like the phrase. But oh yeah, well
Speaker 5: it's it's an ancient sentiment. It means the same thing
Speaker 5: as amen essentially, so be it. I must accept it anyway.
Speaker 4: More interestingly to me anyway, about Jerry Seinfeld, I guess
Speaker 4: he got in quote unquote the Internet trouble for about
Speaker 4: a cup of coffee. Internet trouble, oh for some you
Speaker 4: know bit he did, and some columnists. I wish I
Speaker 4: had the name, because they deserve whatever slander I can generate.
Speaker 1: I think it was a New York Times guy.
Speaker 4: Somebody it was a fairly big name, said, you know,
Speaker 4: Jerry Seinfeld. I don't even find him funny. Oh goodness,
Speaker 4: I don't know Okay, all right, yeah, okay, Jerry Seinfeldt
Speaker 4: isn't funny. The Beatles didn't write any good songs. Whatever,
Speaker 4: shut up, you shut up to.
Speaker 1: Why are you alive? Okay, we got Joe's mailbag. Next.
Speaker 5: Hey, there's a new video game out called Take Us North,
Speaker 5: in which you let players players help migrants cross the border.
Speaker 5: Oh boy, why does everybody go out of their way
Speaker 5: to poke other people and create a controversy and whatever?
Speaker 5: Here's your freedom loving quote of the day. It's from
Speaker 5: Dallen Oaks, who was a religious leader and former Utah
Speaker 5: Supreme Court justice, to our scene earlier today. This is
Speaker 5: really an interesting quote.
Speaker 4: I know that relative poverty and hard work are not
Speaker 4: greater adversities than affluence and abundant free time. One more time,
Speaker 4: I know that relative poverty and hard work are not
Speaker 4: greater adversities than of affluence and abundant free time.
Speaker 1: And who said that? Dallan Oakes, who is a Utah
Speaker 1: Supreme Court justice. The idea that.
Speaker 4: Having to work hard and get ahead is a blessing
Speaker 4: compared to being affluent and having lots of free time
Speaker 4: in terms of your development as a human being.
Speaker 5: I would agree with that that's been my experience. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I do not do well with free time. More on
Speaker 5: that theme through mailbag more fairly, swiftly. I don't want
Speaker 5: to beat this to death, but bratt wrights guys. The
Speaker 5: poll you discussed yesterday regarding people's outlook on the future
Speaker 5: reminded me of this thing. This part easy times make
Speaker 5: for soft people. My kids have grown up very easy
Speaker 5: compared to me, and especially compared to my father and grandfather.
Speaker 1: I don't think my kids have ever had a blister.
Speaker 4: Their easy life has made them soft and unwilling to
Speaker 4: put in any effort.
Speaker 5: I could have written that email that would.
Speaker 1: Put my experience so far. Are you I forgot to say?
Speaker 4: Drop this note mail bag at Armstrong and yetty dot com.
Speaker 1: Moving on. Don't think my kids have ever had a blister.
Speaker 1: I don't think my kids had at either.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: Valerie Rights Jack, I loved hearing about your visit to
Speaker 4: your dad's home in Iowa. My mom was born in
Speaker 4: nineteen twenty two grew up in a small coal mining
Speaker 4: town in Wyoming. Growing up in the modern suburb of
Speaker 4: Big City, I was fascinated by my mom's grandmas and
Speaker 4: ant's reminiscences about their life. It was a hard life,
Speaker 4: but they did not complain, was the frequently spoken theme.
Speaker 4: They spoke fondly about their lives, laughed, shared memories. Mom
Speaker 4: said that at Christmas there is a community event where
Speaker 4: each child received a silver dollar and an orange, So
Speaker 4: we got a diamond an orange peel at my events. Well,
Speaker 4: or you lived like a queen and her grandma actually
Speaker 4: was a teacher at one of those one room schools
Speaker 4: like your dad attended.
Speaker 5: Well, that kind of fits in with that quote. Oh yeah,
Speaker 5: you probably did this on purpose. You're a crafter of magic.
Speaker 5: But that really fits in with that quote that you
Speaker 5: open with about affluence and you know, and leisure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's funny. Was my dad and his sister
Speaker 1: were telling all the stories. There was no that was
Speaker 1: awful or that was so hard or anything. It was.
Speaker 1: It was all kind of smiling, wistfully looking back on
Speaker 1: that lifestyle. Yeah, yeah, may be happy it was over.
Speaker 4: Just out of curiosity all all parents, especially, you know,
Speaker 4: if your kids are grown, what is your most cherished
Speaker 4: memory with each of your children? You know, you might
Speaker 4: have to think about it. I'd have to think about it.
Speaker 4: One that pops to mind is something my daughter and
Speaker 4: I did. That was very, very difficult cherish that memory,
Speaker 4: all sorts of fun times at amusement parks and stuff.
Speaker 4: You'd have to remind me that to even happened.
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 4: I didn't get We didn't get satisfaction out of it.
Speaker 4: We got amusement out of it. And I'm pro amusement,
Speaker 4: trust me. Satisfaction is different thing. Yeah, moving along unless
Speaker 4: you have more.
Speaker 5: Satisfaction is way more valuable and deeper in the better
Speaker 5: feeling long term than amusement. God, amusement is almost worthless.
Speaker 5: It's barely okay in the time and has no lasting memory.
Speaker 5: It's just a breath you take before you go off
Speaker 5: and seek more satisfaction. I think Ryan from Houston with
Speaker 5: a really good and perceved email.
Speaker 4: The title is we are Doomed, Ryan. I'm not in
Speaker 4: the mood. Maybe later, maybe another time, but good stuff.
Speaker 4: I would like to hear it. Yeah, Nick in Minnesota, right, guys,
Speaker 4: I heard you talking about how you think Trump's tariffs
Speaker 4: on India are doing more harm than good and driving
Speaker 4: them into the arms of China. Just wanted your take
Speaker 4: on what you think Trump should do about them buying
Speaker 4: Russian oil the whole reason he cranked up the tariffs
Speaker 4: over the last month or so, he was because they
Speaker 4: would not stop buying Russian oil. If, as you've said
Speaker 4: many times, we need to put more pressure on Russia
Speaker 4: to stop the Ukraine War, I don't see a better
Speaker 4: way to do it than trying to starve the Russian
Speaker 4: war machine of funds. Well, that's absolutely true, Nick, You know,
Speaker 4: I don't mean to be snarky. He imposed the tariffs
Speaker 4: and drove India into the arms of Shijin Ping and
Speaker 4: Vladimir Putin, and they're still buying Russian oil and will continue.
Speaker 1: So A.
Speaker 4: It didn't work. B. That's what makes this stuff hard.
Speaker 4: It's almost like, you know, parenting or whatever. You can
Speaker 4: only exert so much negative pressure before you've alienated somebody
Speaker 4: to the point that you have no effect on them anymore.
Speaker 5: You gotta be careful, right. There's also though the bad
Speaker 5: outcome might have been gonna happen no matter what.
Speaker 4: Anyway, that's absolutely true. Yeah, Nick, I'm not saying you're wrong.
Speaker 4: I'm just saying this stuff is hard and well, and
Speaker 4: it takes really really smart, perceptive people to do it well.
Speaker 1: And that's why they're legends of history, honestly, and finally
Speaker 1: this Margaret.
Speaker 5: Margaret went to the cracker barrel played the IQ test game,
Speaker 5: the new one. Not only Jack, everybody gets a trophy
Speaker 5: verbiage on it. No more calling you a moron.
Speaker 4: Or an ignoramus No, it's everybody's a winner in this game.
Speaker 4: But it's cheap Chinese made and the word embarrassed is
Speaker 4: embarrassingly spelled incorrectly on the game.
Speaker 5: I heard that, yeah, and it's cheap plastic now instead
Speaker 5: of the way it used to be.
Speaker 1: Oh man, the good times are long on America. Come on,
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty