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Speaker 2: Live.
Speaker 1: I'm from studio. See say you signor is it Little
Speaker 1: Friday already?
Speaker 2: That's he's any or we're deep within the bowels of
Speaker 2: the Armstrong and Giddy Communications compound. And hey, y'all were
Speaker 2: toiling under the title of the show. What is the
Speaker 2: Democratic Party? Ask the Democratic Party? Or if you'd prefer,
Speaker 2: what is the Republican Party? Asks the Republican Party. Not
Speaker 2: that we're going to talk.
Speaker 1: About politics all day, but upheaval is the theme. Upheaval
Speaker 1: is the theme. That's right.
Speaker 2: Here's an interesting thing for you. I didn't know this
Speaker 2: till this morning as well. And legal experts on the TV.
Speaker 1: Fauci might actually go to jail.
Speaker 2: There's a serious chance Fauci's gonna end up in jail
Speaker 2: to tell they're having a contempt hearing right now. And
Speaker 2: so I was just whenever I hear contempts anything, Congress whatever,
Speaker 2: it's just symbolic meaningless.
Speaker 1: Who cares happens comes of goes? Yeah, put it on
Speaker 1: your resume. I guess it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: Usually this carries a uh one hundred thousand dollars fining
Speaker 2: year in jail for not answered any questions when he
Speaker 2: had a pardon. And apparently there's a tension here and
Speaker 2: this is likely to go to the Supreme Court. We
Speaker 2: got a couple of constitutional rights and tens, the presidential
Speaker 2: pardon power and the uh, you've been pardoned and we're
Speaker 2: not asking about anything that could cause you to have
Speaker 2: criminal problems. These are just, you know, things that happened
Speaker 2: during a big an event that you were in. We
Speaker 2: need information and you're not answering the question. So there's
Speaker 2: that that somebody will have to figure out. And then
Speaker 2: the other one is he did sit down and blast
Speaker 2: Rand Paul and the committee and then do the Fifth Amendment,
Speaker 2: which some legal experts say you waved your right by
Speaker 2: doing the big You're an SOB. Now I'm not going
Speaker 2: to answer any questions. You got to do one or
Speaker 2: the other. You either got to not say nothing or
Speaker 2: you gotta talk. If I might interject a note of caution.
Speaker 2: Second note of caution. I read this and it amused me.
Speaker 3: Somebody said, other constitutional experts disagree, which is.
Speaker 1: What they do best.
Speaker 3: That was rightly entertaining, because yeah, sure enough, you get
Speaker 3: five lawyers in a room, etcetera, Sir, but yeah, it's
Speaker 3: not out of the realm of possibility and his contention.
Speaker 3: The more I think about it that look, rand Paul
Speaker 3: has the red ass for me, and and he is
Speaker 3: gonna work like crazy to twist what I say and
Speaker 3: cite how it's slightly different from something else I said,
Speaker 3: and call that, but you'd never get a conviction for that.
Speaker 2: He's guilty, because he's guilty. But this is so frustrating.
Speaker 3: I came across an account in the Wall Street Journal,
Speaker 3: the two lady writers they have on this story. I
Speaker 3: only put a point out their sex, because women tend
Speaker 3: in larger numbers to be more left politically than men,
Speaker 3: not uniformally, but tend to be these days. They said,
Speaker 3: And I'll have a quote in front of me in seconds.
Speaker 3: They said, oh, what was the quote? You know what,
Speaker 3: let me get the exact quote, because the words matter.
Speaker 3: I will be back with that in seconds. So I
Speaker 3: wasn't listening to a legal expert on Fox.
Speaker 2: If I was listening to legal experts on Fox, I
Speaker 2: would think, of course they're gonna throw out there to
Speaker 2: the audience that Fauci might go to even if there's
Speaker 2: a one in eight million chance of it.
Speaker 1: I represent science.
Speaker 2: This guy saw on news nations seemed pretty even keel
Speaker 2: not disagreeing with the idea that different legal experts would
Speaker 2: have a different opinion, but the fact that it could
Speaker 2: go to the Supreme Court, it just seems to me.
Speaker 2: So you said he's guilty, well, guilty of a crime,
Speaker 2: guilty of lying to people, guilty of bad judgment or
Speaker 2: what are you talking about? Are you talking about guilty
Speaker 2: of crime? I think we gotta don't. We have to
Speaker 2: have some sort of system where we get information from
Speaker 2: a guy who has more information about a giant event
Speaker 2: than anybody else. Okay, your pardoned, you're not going to jail,
Speaker 2: you're not paying any fines. Now tell us what happens
Speaker 2: so we can make decisions going forward in the world
Speaker 2: with the best information.
Speaker 3: I hate to make this concession, but if it were,
Speaker 3: I mean, just from a public policy standpoint, if you
Speaker 3: were to say, all right, look, we'll give you a
Speaker 3: preemptive pardon against perjury in front of this panel, all right,
Speaker 3: now everything, give us everything. But the problem is is
Speaker 3: I putted it up several times, And I'm the only
Speaker 3: person I've heard say this. His civil liability is incomprehensible
Speaker 3: because he and Eco Health Lines and Peter Dazac funded
Speaker 3: the gain of function research at the Wuan Institute of Virology,
Speaker 3: and it was sloppy and it escaped the lab and
Speaker 3: millions of people died. And how is that truth escaping
Speaker 3: the rest of the media. I don't get it.
Speaker 2: So you think he'd be on the hook for that,
Speaker 2: even though he was doing his government job. He could
Speaker 2: claim the best I could that knew how as a scientist.
Speaker 3: Well even very at least there's enough of a case
Speaker 3: there that it would cost zillions of dollars to defend. True,
Speaker 3: you think mon Santo spent a lot of money on
Speaker 3: the roundup nonsense? That place place, it would dwarf that.
Speaker 3: Here is the quote I couldn't find that I wanted.
Speaker 3: This is in the Wall Street effing Journal. Pardon me,
Speaker 3: I'm so fired up about this because the human kind
Speaker 3: has a right to know exactly what happened with COVID. Anyway,
Speaker 3: here's the journal. Fauci played a central role during the
Speaker 3: Trump administration's response to the pandemic. In twenty twenty publicly
Speaker 3: contradicting President Trump at times and urging more public caution
Speaker 3: than some political figures, which made him an enemy of
Speaker 3: Trump loyalists.
Speaker 1: That's fair, and that's.
Speaker 2: Why they're holding the hearings, according to the Wall Street Journal. Meanwhile,
Speaker 2: over on the editorial board, they're saying, you know, roughly
Speaker 2: what we've been saying, but the.
Speaker 1: Refusal.
Speaker 2: They don't have a paragraph in that particular version where
Speaker 2: they say his diary entries contradict his public statements one
Speaker 2: hundred and eighty degrees.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, don't mention it. They do mention that
Speaker 3: he's a The HHS, led by Robert F. Kennedy Junior,
Speaker 3: is a fierce Fauci critic, is leading the charge as well.
Speaker 3: So it's about Trump urging caution and that crazy rfk Jr.
Speaker 3: According to The Wall Street Journal, it's absolutely insane. As
Speaker 3: I started to say, the refusal slash psychological inability for
Speaker 3: the mass media to admit that they were wrong in
Speaker 3: their complicity and the things that were done that were terrible,
Speaker 3: It will not go away. I've given up on it happening.
Speaker 3: I was hoping that because the sheer weight the importance
Speaker 3: of all this moving forward, as a country, and is humanity.
Speaker 3: It's so important we get this closer to right next time.
Speaker 3: But no, that is not enough to break through their
Speaker 3: pride or their delusion or whatever it is that keeps
Speaker 3: them from saying, wow, I got that wrong. Here's how
Speaker 3: it goes Wall Street Journal. And let's see Liz Esleie
Speaker 3: White and Sabrina Sidiki, who wrote this piece. I was
Speaker 3: fooled in the early two thousands by the Bush administrations
Speaker 3: group think an oversimplification of the challenges in Iraq. They
Speaker 3: claimed it was one thing, it turned out to be another,
Speaker 3: and I wish I'd known more because it would have
Speaker 3: changed my opinion.
Speaker 2: See that's how you do it. It's okay. My head
Speaker 2: didn't explode, my wife didn't leave me. There are not
Speaker 2: police on my doorstep as far as I know. You
Speaker 2: can say that, but these people won't. And they disgusted me.
Speaker 2: End of screed. So Jonathan Turley, he's the law school
Speaker 2: professor that they always have on Fox, he said, Fauci,
Speaker 2: this area is rather murky, and the Supreme Court is
Speaker 2: never nailed down the whole Can you stay silent under
Speaker 2: the Fifth Amendment if it's not like they're not trying
Speaker 2: to get you in crime. They're just trying to get
Speaker 2: information about something important that's not been completely nailed down
Speaker 2: by the Supreme Court. Jonathan Turley says, it is murky,
Speaker 2: it'll probably be challenged. Fauci likely has the advantage in
Speaker 2: any litigation. So that's a different opinion slightly than the
Speaker 2: expert I saw on a diffferent channel.
Speaker 1: And as you said, everybody expert has a different opinion.
Speaker 3: But and I would love to see Fauci in the
Speaker 3: stocks in the public square being celted with overwrite vegetables.
Speaker 1: That's right, doctor Cardi.
Speaker 3: But that's not my main point is I've tried to
Speaker 3: make clear we have to know what happened with the
Speaker 3: gain of function the Chinese communists cover up the fact
Speaker 3: that Fauci and Dajac are guilty as well of the
Speaker 3: cover up and the sponsoring dangerous research.
Speaker 1: That would be very very good to know. But as humanity,
Speaker 1: we need to know what happened.
Speaker 2: I think we need to know did he get more
Speaker 2: pictures with Beyonce or Bruce Springsteen. I think that's an important.
Speaker 1: Issue to him. It certainly was. That was the key issue.
Speaker 1: You know, they got his phone.
Speaker 2: Now that's a new Yes, they have his phone now
Speaker 2: so and also there's no not a lot of I
Speaker 2: haven't read enough for me on how'd.
Speaker 1: You get the diary?
Speaker 2: How'd you know he had a diary? How'd you physically
Speaker 2: get it? Oh, it's because it was on government computers.
Speaker 2: It was his journal essentially, he kept it on the
Speaker 2: government computer. Well, yeah, the term diary, I don't think
Speaker 2: I would do that. Yeah, the term diary is fine,
Speaker 2: it's accurate.
Speaker 3: But it was also a journal of public, official records
Speaker 3: of stuff that happened.
Speaker 2: But so if he had a fake alligator skin leather
Speaker 2: pleather book that he kept under his pillow with a
Speaker 2: little lock.
Speaker 1: And key and wrote it's so cute.
Speaker 2: He had one of those with that the image that
Speaker 2: has still been a government record that he had to
Speaker 2: turn over.
Speaker 1: I don't know the law. I kind of hope not.
Speaker 1: I don't think so.
Speaker 2: I feel like you ought to be able to jot
Speaker 2: down some memories for yourself that don't automatically have.
Speaker 1: To turn over to the government.
Speaker 3: But right, right, because there's no criminal case going on
Speaker 3: at this point, it's a government inquiry into government policy.
Speaker 1: I assume it's his government phone. They have.
Speaker 3: I believe so, or at least a phone on which
Speaker 3: he conducted government business, and the record keeping laws are
Speaker 3: quite clear, and he violated these. Now this is criminal liability.
Speaker 3: I think I would lot typically ordered people smash it
Speaker 3: with a hammer. He specifically ordered people to delete emails
Speaker 3: after reading, which is against the law. But the government
Speaker 3: doesn't enforce the law on the government except in rare case.
Speaker 2: I would have accidentally dropped my phone behind my rear tire.
Speaker 1: At some point, I think before I would turn my face.
Speaker 3: It happens, and they're back over it a couple of
Speaker 3: times accidentally.
Speaker 2: We better start the show officially. We're running out of time.
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Speaker 1: Iran maybe behind cyber attacks targeting water and wastewater utilities
Speaker 1: in more than a dozen states and prepared for them
Speaker 1: months in advance.
Speaker 2: There are some places where they're recommending you boil your
Speaker 2: water because of these Iranian hacks in the water treatment plants. Yeah,
Speaker 2: becoming a problem. We'll have to talk more about that.
Speaker 2: In fact, we've got more headlines on a whole bunch
Speaker 2: of different issues. Iran says the Strait's going to be
Speaker 2: open today, and Trump says the Strait's going to be
Speaker 2: open today.
Speaker 1: That's the first time.
Speaker 2: That's the first time they both said that on the
Speaker 2: same day. Peace in our time, Straits for everyone, lots
Speaker 2: on the way, stay here. So I know we're supposed
Speaker 2: to get into headlines, but I think this is interesting.
Speaker 2: One thing that I think is maybe a blind spot
Speaker 2: for Trump being a billionaire, even though he has the
Speaker 2: greatest common touch of practically any politician in the modern era,
Speaker 2: as a billionaire, he does. I do think he doesn't
Speaker 2: understand that many, many people don't pay any attention to
Speaker 2: what the stock market did, like tens of millions of people,
Speaker 2: it might be hundreds of one hundred million plus people
Speaker 2: that pay no attention to what the stock market closed
Speaker 2: at today. And because he's been doing probably sitting around
Speaker 2: the kitchen table with his dad since he was four,
Speaker 2: he just assumes that's what everybody does about the stock market.
Speaker 2: So he does so many things to make the stock
Speaker 2: market go up or down, and then can't understand why
Speaker 2: people are, you know, telling polsters they think the economy
Speaker 2: is bad. I base that statement around this was yesterday
Speaker 2: or today when the stock market set records.
Speaker 1: It's a lot we set records.
Speaker 2: The S and P two days ago said it's twenty
Speaker 2: fifth record high of the year, the Dow it's twenty
Speaker 2: second record high of the year, and the Nasdaq gets
Speaker 2: twenty fourth record high of the year. I mean, that's amazing.
Speaker 2: But in terms of those if that's the way you
Speaker 2: look at the economy, that's incredible.
Speaker 3: I think you're more right than you even made the
Speaker 3: case though, because you have the significant percentage of Americans
Speaker 3: who don't follow the market much or at all, and
Speaker 3: then you've got a pretty significant chunk.
Speaker 1: And I'll bet a lot of you folks answer to
Speaker 1: this description.
Speaker 3: I know I do who see these record highs are
Speaker 3: aware that they're almost entirely fueled by AI and how
Speaker 3: that's juicing the economy and thinking, oh man.
Speaker 1: This feels precarious.
Speaker 3: So the president citing the record highs falls on your
Speaker 3: death or semi deaf ears too, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, and that.
Speaker 2: We're in week thirty one of the year, so we've
Speaker 2: had thirty one weeks and twenty five record highs, twenty
Speaker 2: two record highs, twenty four record high practically a record
Speaker 2: high more often than not. Yeah, every week now in
Speaker 2: those indexes. And I think for Trumpet's like, how can
Speaker 2: people possibly be saying the economy's bad?
Speaker 1: Are they not looking at their stock portfolio?
Speaker 2: No, they're not. They're filling up their gas tank like
Speaker 2: I am. And it's two forty in California to develop my
Speaker 2: diesel tank, and then you get one hundred and forty dollars,
Speaker 2: and you can get a couple of groceries and it's
Speaker 2: three digits.
Speaker 3: Concerned in Oklahoma, they thought you meant two forty a
Speaker 3: gallon two dollars and four cents. Yeah, is anybody else
Speaker 3: considering getting a shiny new shovel from your big box
Speaker 3: hardware store and maybe a bunch of gold.
Speaker 1: Bars and going into your backyard.
Speaker 3: It just feels so bubbly, you know, Michael, it's such
Speaker 3: dark humor. But if you wanted to play the bubbly
Speaker 3: sound every time we talk about stock market, I do,
Speaker 3: like not I would not argue, I would not yell.
Speaker 2: At I'd like that as a theme because it's going
Speaker 2: to happen, and then we'll look smart for having predicted
Speaker 2: it every single time.
Speaker 1: There it is. There's your market report.
Speaker 2: Uber is up against thousands of lawsuits right now. Four
Speaker 2: thousand lawsuits, a lot of sexual assault, sexual harassment sort
Speaker 2: of stuff that is going to upend that company, and
Speaker 2: they're going to spend a lot of time fighting battles
Speaker 2: in the courtroom.
Speaker 3: Maybe we can get into that a little bit later.
Speaker 3: I have a bunch of Rando's. You're gonna get some
Speaker 3: Rando results.
Speaker 2: The Washington Post is reporting, and you never know what
Speaker 2: the wappo because they had lots of Russia Russia ust
Speaker 2: stuff that it was not true for many years. But
Speaker 2: Washington Post is reporting that Trump and Hegxath got into
Speaker 2: it the other day at Camp David over the whole
Speaker 2: Trump saying to Hexath.
Speaker 1: What's the deal? How are we out of munitions? Why
Speaker 1: didn't you tell me this?
Speaker 2: Why am I not aware of the fact that we
Speaker 2: were this low? And all these different sorts of things
Speaker 2: to defend ourselves. This is around the story Axios and
Speaker 2: others reporting that one of the reasons Trump called off
Speaker 2: the big attack over the weekend was finding out we
Speaker 2: ain't got a lot of defense stuff left. Whether that's
Speaker 2: true or not, I don't know. We've talked to some
Speaker 2: people who said, no, that's not true. It's horrifying.
Speaker 1: It is.
Speaker 2: If we actually had to back down to Iran because
Speaker 2: we don't have enough stuff left to defend ourselves the
Speaker 2: way we think we need to, that's a horrifying situation.
Speaker 1: It is.
Speaker 3: I also read an account in the Free Press that
Speaker 3: said the what do they call him? A constrainer wing
Speaker 3: of the advisors, including JD Vance, are really pushing that
Speaker 3: story out to the media because they want that as
Speaker 3: an excuse not to finish the job in Iran, or
Speaker 3: particular to be you know, prolong the conflict. Who knows
Speaker 3: what's true.
Speaker 2: JD could have been behind the crowd that talked to
Speaker 2: the Washington Post about that story, because the White House
Speaker 2: denies that it happened at all.
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Geddy.
Speaker 2: Four people that they can they they can afford housing
Speaker 2: in Berkeley.
Speaker 1: I don't know how well.
Speaker 2: My understanding is that the property owners who have properties
Speaker 2: there too, just not to print it at all. Yeah,
Speaker 2: kill them, kill those murder those in the street, let
Speaker 2: the streets, Let the streets soak in their red capitalist bloods.
Speaker 2: Maybe we just need like that little that second half
Speaker 2: they're kill them, kill the m efforts. Let him soak
Speaker 2: in the capitalists blod because we need a drop for
Speaker 2: Hassan Piker every time his name comes up on the
Speaker 2: show between now and November. Yeah, because I can't believe,
Speaker 2: I mean, we're less than twenty four hours in not
Speaker 2: gonna labor this because we talked about it a lot yesterday,
Speaker 2: the whole socialist thing, and then labor the hell out
Speaker 2: of it. Okay, it's a burden, are gonna think? Boy,
Speaker 2: he's really belaboring that. But I can't believe that every
Speaker 2: single person who has come out and said I back
Speaker 2: l si ED hasn't had to account for that. The
Speaker 2: guy was on stage the night before with a Sonpiker,
Speaker 2: the dude that just said, let the streets run with
Speaker 2: capitalist blood?
Speaker 1: Did you get away? Are we to a point where
Speaker 1: you can.
Speaker 2: Say that and you don't have to to make a
Speaker 2: statement of whether or not you support that in the
Speaker 2: position or not. That's crazy on the left, Yes, Holy cow.
Speaker 2: So I just I think that's got to be a
Speaker 2: focal point I should have to get If elseiad wants
Speaker 2: to become a senator from Michigan, he should have to
Speaker 2: distance himself completely from this guy, or a Sonpiker would
Speaker 2: have to come out and say, look, as in the past,
Speaker 2: like Dan Bongino, you know in the Epstein files, I'm
Speaker 2: just saying stuff to get rich and I did.
Speaker 1: I don't mean that at all, right, you know, or something?
Speaker 3: Or what's his face with the frog two seas of genitals, right,
Speaker 3: Alex Jones? Yeah, yeah, Oh, that's just an act. You're honor,
Speaker 3: he said when it was all on the line. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but some people still believe me. So I want to
Speaker 3: make one thing infinitely clear. And Michael, I will yell
Speaker 3: at you over this. I got something to look forward to.
Speaker 2: A carefully constructed his historically sound reference to the Chancellor
Speaker 2: of Germany in the nineteen thirties and forties should not
Speaker 2: earn the Hitler dang, okay, the Democrats and this will
Speaker 2: be my final topic.
Speaker 3: Then we can move on to I'm sorry my final comment.
Speaker 3: Then we can move on to a bunch of other headlines.
Speaker 3: The relationship between the Democratic Party and the DSA and
Speaker 3: the nut jobs like Hassan Piker to their left, to
Speaker 3: the radical left reminds me so much of the conservative
Speaker 3: establishment in Weimar Germany and what they thought of the
Speaker 3: Nazi Party and Hitler specifically, and how they thought he
Speaker 3: was a Kukla nut job. But then he started to
Speaker 3: make incursions into the group that usually kind of supported them,
Speaker 3: and then they thought, wow, that's really supply and energy
Speaker 3: to the right in general. So yeah, why don't we
Speaker 3: kind of put our arm around him because we can
Speaker 3: control him, that won't be a problem. And before they
Speaker 3: knew it, their whole thing was taken over by the
Speaker 3: nut job and is super energized radical little movement happens.
Speaker 1: Over and over again in history.
Speaker 3: Trumpet, Oh yeah, yeah, not nearly as toxic in my opinion,
Speaker 3: But you know, certainly MSNBC would disagree. But anyway, and
Speaker 3: I made this point the other day, and I think
Speaker 3: it may be one of the most important ones that
Speaker 3: I can make.
Speaker 1: We in America think we're immune to everything bad.
Speaker 3: We think because we're so successful and our institutions are
Speaker 3: so strong, there's no disease that can threaten us. Arthur Brooks,
Speaker 3: who writes for the Free Press, he's a professor of psychology.
Speaker 3: He writes about happiness a lot, and he's writing a
Speaker 3: really thought provoking column these days for the Free Press.
Speaker 2: His peace today is something like, Hey, don't worry about
Speaker 2: the Democratic Socialists. It's a fad, like every other political
Speaker 2: fad that's come and gone in America, and the blindness
Speaker 2: of people like Arthur Brooks. And I want to write
Speaker 2: a reply to his column because I think it's important,
Speaker 2: But I have a tea time this afternoon now, so
Speaker 2: you don't know you'd like to weigh in on the
Speaker 2: issues of the nation in a critical time, but you
Speaker 2: do have a tea time, so I understand, like to
Speaker 2: save America, but I.
Speaker 1: Got a tea time anyway.
Speaker 3: What I want to point out to him is there
Speaker 3: has never been a political movement that could count on
Speaker 3: the incredibly fertile soil of we let our schools be
Speaker 3: taken over by that ideology. Now for a couple of
Speaker 3: generations of kids, they have been learning that ideology in
Speaker 3: our freaking schools.
Speaker 2: That's not been the case in the past. This is
Speaker 2: a new situation.
Speaker 3: And saying, hell, I remember in the sixties with a
Speaker 3: hippiees and that kind of went away. Oh, my god,
Speaker 3: you people are blind, all right. I said I'd wrap
Speaker 3: it up. I've wrapped it up. Elon Musk attacked the
Speaker 3: Moon for some reason me and not me, having just
Speaker 3: invested in Elon.
Speaker 1: Oh, you fool.
Speaker 3: Stray SpaceX rocket booster slammed into the Moon at roughly
Speaker 3: fifty four hundred miles per hour, carving out a crater
Speaker 3: that could be one hundred feet wide and sixteen feet
Speaker 3: deep according to moon crater estimating scientists.
Speaker 2: Okay, so we had this story Monday before it happened,
Speaker 2: saying it was going to happen. So it's happened now,
Speaker 2: and could you see it because there was some belief
Speaker 2: that you were going to be able to see it
Speaker 2: from if you had a telescope. The impact was confirmed
Speaker 2: through a debris plume spotted by a telescoping Chile.
Speaker 1: I have no idea whether it was like.
Speaker 3: A seventy nine dollars best buy telescope or something that
Speaker 3: cost forty million dollars.
Speaker 1: I do not know.
Speaker 3: Scientists say, this is a rare opportunity to and you
Speaker 3: want to talk about your niche fields study how the
Speaker 3: lunar surface responds to collisions. Huh, I was gonna get
Speaker 3: into that area. What do you want to be when
Speaker 3: you grow up? Johnny a cowboy baseball player?
Speaker 2: I want to study lunar surface collisions. Well, good luck son.
Speaker 2: Do you have any of those apps because I was
Speaker 2: using mine last night. It's on my mind where they
Speaker 2: tell you what all the stars are?
Speaker 1: Yes, I do.
Speaker 2: I have the skyplus app. That thing is so cool. God,
Speaker 2: I would have loved that as a kid. And when
Speaker 2: I'm walking at night and the stars start coming out,
Speaker 2: and I wonder, what's that?
Speaker 1: What's that? What's that?
Speaker 2: And you hold up your phone and it's just it
Speaker 2: names them all. It's just it's awesome. That is Venus
Speaker 2: or whatever.
Speaker 1: It's fantastic. I was taking a walk the other night
Speaker 1: and I said to my buddy, look it's.
Speaker 2: Uranus, which wowly Michael.
Speaker 1: It was just it was hanging there like, yeah, why
Speaker 1: you had to do it? I had to pick it.
Speaker 2: Uranus was hanging there like a ripe pump. At is unfortunate. No,
Speaker 2: see that's no no, you know what, I opened the door.
Speaker 2: I have no one to blame but myself.
Speaker 1: Anyway. Yeah, those apps are super super cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, love them. Yeah, do you get into the animals?
Speaker 2: I don't I turn off the mythology stuff. I'm not
Speaker 2: into that. The fact that the Greeks were so bored
Speaker 2: because they didn't have Netflix that they would take three
Speaker 2: stars and turn that into an archer.
Speaker 1: I just I don't get into that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and my wife and I are practically fanatical about
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Speaker 2: Just to follow up on what we started this hour
Speaker 2: with the Senate panel did just vote along party lines,
Speaker 2: of course, because that's how we do everything in the
Speaker 2: modern era. To hold doctor Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress.
Speaker 2: Whether that turns out to be a meaningless symbolic gesture
Speaker 2: that disappears into history or he ends up in jail,
Speaker 2: I don't know. I know how I would bet usually
Speaker 2: meaningless symbolic gesture.
Speaker 1: Yeah. A couple more quick headlines.
Speaker 3: A Republican who is running for reelection for the House
Speaker 3: in North Carolina's dropped out after evidently he was creeping
Speaker 3: out on his young female staffers allegedly, and so he's dropped.
Speaker 3: The Miller character, who may well be a wife and
Speaker 3: child abuser and unfit serve according to his father in law.
Speaker 3: The US Senator is still hanging on Wow. Meanwhile, Ukraine
Speaker 3: is playing catcher without a mit. In effect, they're out
Speaker 3: of interceptor missiles and are begging the world for more.
Speaker 3: But unfortunately, at this point Vladimir Putin, the monster, has
Speaker 3: free reign to just slaughter civilians at will.
Speaker 1: More or less.
Speaker 2: Didn't think this war could turn uglier. So we mentioned
Speaker 2: a little bit yesterday that drone video that came out.
Speaker 1: If you haven't seen it.
Speaker 2: It's some poor old dude and his van where he
Speaker 2: sells fruits and vegetables out of it, him and his wife.
Speaker 2: And then out of nowhere comes this is a Ukrainian.
Speaker 2: Out of no where comes this Russian drone like the
Speaker 2: size of a first base or something like that.
Speaker 1: It's pretty big, and starts chasing him around the van.
Speaker 2: And the guy's running around the van and the drones chasing,
Speaker 2: and then all of a sudden, the drone, which is
Speaker 2: packed with explosives apparently or the ability to blow up,
Speaker 2: dives at him, and the guy jumps under the van
Speaker 2: somehow miraculously doesn't die, but the thing blows up. This
Speaker 2: drone chased him around the fan. Why is somebody, some
Speaker 2: Russian chasing his fruit vendor around his van to try
Speaker 2: to kill him.
Speaker 3: To terrify the populace into capitulating.
Speaker 1: To terrify the population.
Speaker 2: A couple of days after, Ukrainian drones hit a beach
Speaker 2: in Russia. If you haven't seen that video, that's pretty horrifying.
Speaker 2: You got all these people in bikinis laying on the
Speaker 2: beach someplace where they feel completely safe, and they're drinking,
Speaker 2: and there's boats and stuff like that. And a Ukrainian
Speaker 2: drone slams into the beach kills seven people. Now Ukraine
Speaker 2: is saying that that was an accident or it was
Speaker 2: shot down by the Russians or whatever. I don't know
Speaker 2: if I believe that or not. If I'm Ukraine and
Speaker 2: I'm in charge, this is we're fighting for a survival.
Speaker 2: You're doing it, We're doing We're all doing it. So
Speaker 2: I have no idea what actually happened there, but I
Speaker 2: have a feeling that Putin feels like it was on purpose.
Speaker 2: And his response is, Okay, we're just gonna hit this
Speaker 2: guy in the street, and it's ramping up. And then
Speaker 2: you add in what Joe just said that they're out
Speaker 2: of defenses. All the stuff that came in the other
Speaker 2: night toward Keev. They didn't they couldn't even try to
Speaker 2: shoot one of them down.
Speaker 1: Right, the big missiles. Yeah, so it's not good.
Speaker 2: Possible, which I didn't even think was possible, that this
Speaker 2: war is about to get uglier than it has been
Speaker 2: the previous four years.
Speaker 1: Well, here's it for instance for you.
Speaker 3: You remember back in the day when Iranian nuclear scientists
Speaker 3: had a life expectancy of about well TikTok TikTok ten
Speaker 3: minutes because guys who would pull up to him in
Speaker 3: traffic on motorcycles or what have you, and the Israelis
Speaker 3: would set back their program. Guy by Guy Well, the
Speaker 3: head of a Russian military drone factory, was critically wounded
Speaker 3: when his car exploded near Yakatt reckon Berg, killing his
Speaker 3: driver in the second attack targeting and Russian drone maker
Speaker 3: within a week. No one has claimed his onsibility, but
Speaker 3: I have my suspicions. So now Ukraine is gonna terrify,
Speaker 3: terrorize drone makers. You're gonna kill our people. Keep your
Speaker 3: head on a swivel, or comrade.
Speaker 2: Well, And you've got the major air base in Germany
Speaker 2: where they found a drone next to a plane packed
Speaker 2: with explosives, where some of the stuff that gets shipped
Speaker 2: to Ukraine comes out of that air base in Germany.
Speaker 2: And so the United States were there looking at that
Speaker 2: drone trying to figure out where it came from. But
Speaker 2: once again, similar to what you were just saying, I
Speaker 2: think I have a guess it's CDID, the Iranians or
Speaker 2: the Russians. And that's that was seen at least on
Speaker 2: ABC News last night. Is a major possible escalation that
Speaker 2: you had a European airport, major European airport, with an
Speaker 2: explosive drone sitting there from Russia.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well it's really something.
Speaker 2: Okay, we've got mail bag on the waist to hear
Speaker 2: both Iran and Trump say the Strait is going to
Speaker 2: be open today. I think that's the first time they've
Speaker 2: both said that. So we'll have to get into the
Speaker 2: details of that.
Speaker 1: Hour two.
Speaker 3: Here's your freedom loving quote of the day. It's a
Speaker 3: bit long, but I thought it was absolutely brilliant. Peggy
Speaker 3: Noonan was writing about Anthony Fauci the other day. We
Speaker 3: quoted some of it, but this is such a good comparison.
Speaker 3: She talks about a lot of the things that happened,
Speaker 3: and she's such a wonderful writer, but she says it
Speaker 3: all came together and yielded a little societal Chernobyl. You
Speaker 3: remember the Chernobyl disaster in the Soviet Union, right, The
Speaker 3: reactor blew, causing a calamity. The politicians lied and couldn't
Speaker 3: be trusted. The bureaucrats lied and couldn't be trusted. The
Speaker 3: government scientists lied about the data in front of their eyes.
Speaker 3: The national press was a propaganda machine. As much as anything,
Speaker 3: Chernobyl contributed to the toppling of the Soviet Union. Looking
Speaker 3: back on the COVID crisis, a lot of professionals were
Speaker 3: trusted beyond the point they deserved. So were many politicians.
Speaker 3: As people on the ground in America rose up against lockdowns,
Speaker 3: closed schools, mask mandates, closed churches, they were often unheard
Speaker 3: or heard slowly, reluctantly, and disrespectfully. The medical and scientific
Speaker 3: establishment didn't seem to be part of the public anymore
Speaker 3: but handling the public, and by the end a lot
Speaker 3: of people thought they couldn't trust the politicians and couldn't
Speaker 3: trust the scientists. My fears that next time, and there
Speaker 3: will likely be a next time, regular people will think
Speaker 3: there's no one to trust, We're on our own. That
Speaker 3: won't be a good thing. I'm not sure that won't
Speaker 3: be a good thing, Peggy, because I think that keeps.
Speaker 1: The official honest. Well, it's talked about this the other day.
Speaker 2: One open piece of that is the next pandemic won't
Speaker 2: be the same.
Speaker 1: The disease will be different.
Speaker 2: It could spread among a completely different population, kill people
Speaker 2: at completely different rates, right, right, But human nature will
Speaker 2: be similar anyway, food for thought mailbag. No. My point was,
Speaker 2: if it's killing kids and it's easily transmissible, I'll be
Speaker 2: wanting everything lockedown. It's just people are going to react
Speaker 2: based on reality. For should right, they should, And I
Speaker 2: think a lot of people did anyway. Drop some note
Speaker 2: mailbag at Armstrong and Getty dot com on the.
Speaker 3: Topic of the high stock market. To Tim Wrights, guys,
Speaker 3: I've been saying it is precarious for ten years and
Speaker 3: have missed out on the greatest rise in history, right.
Speaker 1: I said that to my stock guidea to day.
Speaker 2: I was saying, you know, I would have gotten out
Speaker 2: a year ago or two years ago. If I was
Speaker 2: gonna go with the trying to time it, I'd have
Speaker 2: thought there's no way this can last.
Speaker 3: I think it was probably five years ago. I first
Speaker 3: said to my guy, this is way overheated, and he said, yeah,
Speaker 3: hang in there anyway. And this on the similar topic,
Speaker 3: whord I put it her there? It is Richard, retired
Speaker 3: marine living in Las Vegas. Here. My investment story began
Speaker 3: in the late seventies. My first duty at Camp Pendleton.
Speaker 3: Gladys can jump in with her harp if she likes.
Speaker 1: He said.
Speaker 3: It was nineteen seventy six and Richard was in Camp
Speaker 3: Pendleton attending a college class on investments, and all my
Speaker 3: readings the name Haliburton kept showing up. Then talked to
Speaker 3: a class to a roommate learned his dad worked at Haliburton.
Speaker 3: So with all this buzz around me, I decided to
Speaker 3: buy about twenty shares at sixty dollars a share. I
Speaker 3: remember the price because that was all the money this
Speaker 3: young marine had.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: Problem was Mom and Dad had to buy it for
Speaker 3: me because I wasn't twenty one. Well, I'm sent overseas
Speaker 3: to Okinawa. There, I kept tracking Halliburton by reading the
Speaker 3: Asia version of the Wall Street Journal. Within the year,
Speaker 3: the stock split at least three times, so my twelve
Speaker 3: hundred dollars investment was now worth seven eight thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: Not bad for a year overseas. Now the twist.
Speaker 3: During one of my visits with Mom and Dad, I
Speaker 3: told him about the value of the investment and suggested
Speaker 3: it was time to sell. Well, they told me they
Speaker 3: didn't have the investment anymore. They sold it because the
Speaker 3: price had dropped briefly to around fifty dollars and they
Speaker 3: didn't want me to lose all.
Speaker 1: My money, so they sold it. Uugh boy.
Speaker 3: Moral of the story, follow your gut instinct and don't
Speaker 3: let mom and dad make decisions for you.
Speaker 2: Thanks Chard to punish ourselves. Yesterday ran through some of
Speaker 2: the most exciting versions of investing in the stock market
Speaker 2: in history. Apple and video tesla that if you'd gotten
Speaker 2: at the right time and gotten out the right time,
Speaker 2: what would have happened? And of course practically nobody does that,
Speaker 2: Tim bad Tim and Phoenix rites. Greetings, men and Katie.
Speaker 2: I have a suggestion.
Speaker 3: If you remember back in the thirties and forties, there
Speaker 3: was a group of national socialists who called themselves the Nazis.
Speaker 3: I suggest we call the modern democratic socialists the Datzis.
Speaker 1: You folks can make this happen.
Speaker 3: The doatzis interesting, but I think the Islamist faction is
Speaker 3: more dangerous.
Speaker 1: Anyway, we'll think about it.
Speaker 3: The topic everybody's talking about after the show yesterday was
Speaker 3: my neighbor justified in trapping an opossum Aaron Wrights. They're
Speaker 3: nocturnal and tick eradicators. They even eat mice. They have wicked,
Speaker 3: sharp teeth, but just want to be ignored. Stop trapping apossums. Yeah,
Speaker 3: let them. Let them live their little life with their weird,
Speaker 3: hairless tales.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna chew my neighbors out. Oh, let's see how
Speaker 1: about this? Oh.
Speaker 3: On the topic of what is common sense? What's the
Speaker 3: definition for it? Jeff Wade in a little late from Fontana, California.
Speaker 3: Here's my definition of common sense. The ability to understand
Speaker 3: cause and effect, which in turn is the ability to
Speaker 3: discern truth. I think truth might be an interesting topic
Speaker 3: for a deep dive on the show, maybe some learned
Speaker 3: guests to add to the discussion and my ability. In
Speaker 3: my opinion, the inability to discern the truth is what
Speaker 3: causes most of today's problems. Yeah, we talked about that
Speaker 3: ideology trumping truth.
Speaker 2: What is truth? We'll make that a whole day someday.
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