Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2: Jack Armstrong is Joe Getty Armstrong and Jetty and he
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3: Minus eleven where my parents live in Salina, Kansas today.
Speaker 2: So there's some cold weather out there in the country.
Speaker 2: That's chili. Oh yeah, all sorts of historic cold and
Speaker 2: ice and snow all across the country. Musk Global Colding.
Speaker 3: Musk and Trump were on Hannity last night for a
Speaker 3: sit down interview together. I think it's the first interview
Speaker 3: to gather. We got a bunch of clips from that,
Speaker 3: some interesting stuff in there. I've decided I'm going to
Speaker 3: adopt the Elon uniform.
Speaker 2: I think I think that's going to be my uniform
Speaker 2: going forward.
Speaker 3: Do tell the black jeans, black cowboy boots, black sport
Speaker 3: coat with some sort of T shirt.
Speaker 2: That's clearly his uniform.
Speaker 3: It's the only thing I've seen him wear in the
Speaker 3: last two years, and that's very comfortable.
Speaker 2: You need a look and it's swimming. I support you
Speaker 2: in this. And speaking of Doge very briefly before we
Speaker 2: get into some fairly critical talk of the current potus,
Speaker 2: the Doge guys building momentum creating excitement might be cutting
Speaker 2: American taxpayers in on the savings. As I pointed out
Speaker 2: earlier with the help of alert listener whoever it was, Josiah.
Speaker 2: If they save a dollar and cut out like a
Speaker 2: third of that and write a check to the American
Speaker 2: people and say, hey, some for savings, some for y'all
Speaker 2: you paid these taxes, doge will become a national craze.
Speaker 2: It will have a following like the Yankees and the
Speaker 2: Kansas City Chiefs and whatever else combined. It'll be the
Speaker 2: most popular thing ever done by the government. We'll cut
Speaker 2: till there's nothing left to cut. The federal budget will
Speaker 2: be three hundred dollars, but will more on that to come.
Speaker 2: That's very to me, a very positive thing. A couple
Speaker 2: of mistakes around the edges, but very so. Why did
Speaker 2: Trump say what he said yesterday? Well, we have talked
Speaker 2: for years about how he is the most easily butt
Speaker 2: hurt man who's ever lived, and Trump had said some
Speaker 2: of this stuff are hinted at it over the last
Speaker 2: couple of days that Zelensky was unpopular, that they needed
Speaker 2: to have an election, Zolensky needed to go. Zelensky made
Speaker 2: bad decisions Ukraine started the war. These kinds of things
Speaker 2: were out there, and Zolensky said some.
Speaker 3: Fairly, I mean pulling his punches critical things of Trump
Speaker 3: about being bubbled in that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2: Well, Trump is not going to take an insult.
Speaker 3: Well, it was brought up in the press conference yesterday
Speaker 3: and that's when Trump said he likes the Zelensky as
Speaker 3: a person.
Speaker 2: But he launched into this I want to see piece.
Speaker 1: Look, you know why I want because I don't want
Speaker 1: all these people killed anymore. I'm looking at people that
Speaker 1: are being killed, and they're Russian and Ukrainian people, but
Speaker 1: they're people, doesn't matter where they're from, on the whole planet.
Speaker 1: And I think I have the power to end this war,
Speaker 1: and I think it's going very well. But today I heard, oh,
Speaker 1: we weren't invited. Well, you've been there for three years.
Speaker 1: You should have ended it three years. You should have
Speaker 1: never started it. You could have made a deal.
Speaker 3: Yeah, particularly around the Zelensky unhappy that he wasn't invited
Speaker 3: to the peace talks. The guy who's the president of
Speaker 3: the country that was attacked, wasn't that the talks.
Speaker 2: Okay, fine, but.
Speaker 3: He complained about that and Trump didn't like the complaint,
Speaker 3: so he said, you you could have you should have
Speaker 3: negotiated a deal, You shouldn't have started it.
Speaker 2: What the hell does that mean. I'm tempted to say
Speaker 2: Trump just shot off his mouth and or he's got
Speaker 2: this just his belief in himself as a deal maker.
Speaker 2: That's a bit over the top in my opinion, probably
Speaker 2: the short version of just that last part. You got
Speaker 2: to get the wording right here.
Speaker 1: And I think I have the power to end this war,
Speaker 1: and I think it's going very well. But today I heard, oh,
Speaker 1: we weren't invited. Well, you've been there for three years.
Speaker 1: You should have ended it three years. You should have
Speaker 1: never started it, you could have made a deal.
Speaker 2: No, No, that's absolutely not true. None of that. You've
Speaker 2: been there for three years, you were invaded by a
Speaker 2: hostile totalitarian regime.
Speaker 3: I don't get it. Six times your population or something
Speaker 3: like that. None of that is even close to true.
Speaker 3: So I don't know what that is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm highly troubled by it and mystified it by it.
Speaker 2: Where I am on this is that there have been
Speaker 2: quite a few times during Trump's time on the scene
Speaker 2: and in office where I've thought I have no idea
Speaker 2: what he's talking about, how could this possibly work out?
Speaker 2: And either it's abandoned or he pivots in a much
Speaker 2: more sane direction. The truth about Trump is he shoots
Speaker 2: off his mouth and then the reality comes down the
Speaker 2: road a little bit and it's different. There are a
Speaker 2: number of things he said, a very real politicky about
Speaker 2: the Ukraine situation that I agree with. As we were
Speaker 2: talking about last hour, Biden and Blinking and his whole crew,
Speaker 2: and even Obama and all they would say one thing's
Speaker 2: with the one thing with their mouths, but then their
Speaker 2: actions would be lie their words and what Trump, like
Speaker 2: Pete Hegsath said the other day, which I thought was premature,
Speaker 2: but they're just saying out loud what is the truth
Speaker 2: about some of the stuff. So I'm not saying Trump
Speaker 2: is completely off base on this. That little screed was
Speaker 2: utterly indefensible. It gained nothing and just to unless well, no,
Speaker 2: there's no excuse for what he said. I think he
Speaker 2: just shut off his mouth. He thinks. I think that
Speaker 2: Putin is in a very weak state right now with
Speaker 2: the mind boggling casualties, the incredible hit to their treasury.
Speaker 2: I mean Putin's had to recruit North Korean cannon fodder
Speaker 2: and Colombian mercenaries. And he's getting finance from China. So
Speaker 2: he's now China's pet and dependent on China. It's a
Speaker 2: terrible situation to be in. It could be that the
Speaker 2: shark Trump thinks, you know what, let's go in and
Speaker 2: negotiate with Putin right now. Let's cut all sorts of
Speaker 2: deals with Putin right now. He wants an endo, the
Speaker 2: bloodshed and a little bit of territory. We give it
Speaker 2: to him and get whatever we can get. I don't know.
Speaker 2: That's the best spin I can come up with.
Speaker 3: So the New York Post editorial board blasts what Trump says,
Speaker 3: and says in many many words what we basically just said.
Speaker 3: None of what he said there is true or even
Speaker 3: close to it. I mean not even close. There's no
Speaker 3: fud room on that. It's the opposite of true. In
Speaker 3: a lot of cases, they could have cut a deal. Hey, Vladimir,
Speaker 3: you want to talk deal. Yeah, the deal is I
Speaker 3: get your whole country. I'll be in Kiev tomorrow by
Speaker 3: dinner time.
Speaker 2: That was Putin's only offer.
Speaker 3: And I'm gonna keep bombing schools full of children and
Speaker 3: raping women until you submit, that's all kidnap.
Speaker 2: But your children, by the way, and you'll never see
Speaker 2: them again. We'll make them royal loyal Russians who hate
Speaker 2: your country. So that's our terms. And then the whole
Speaker 2: he should have never started it. So how do you suppose?
Speaker 3: And the Wall Street Journal editorial board is besides himself
Speaker 3: with horror over that, also.
Speaker 2: As is Jim Garrity, very very reasonable commentator for the
Speaker 2: National Review, for instance.
Speaker 3: Yeah, commentary magazine who is often friendly to things Trump
Speaker 3: is doing foreign policy wise, called it despicable what he said.
Speaker 3: How do you suppose Marco Rubio reacted to that? I've
Speaker 3: been watching Marco on the Sunday shows for the last
Speaker 3: couple of years. I know how he feels about this
Speaker 3: whole thing, and and what a danger to the world
Speaker 3: allowing putin to you know, emerge the victor in this
Speaker 3: isn't and all that. How do you when he heard when
Speaker 3: somebody told him this is what your boss just said,
Speaker 3: he must have sat there with his head.
Speaker 2: In his hands. What am I going to do?
Speaker 3: As Yeah, do I resign? Do I try to clean
Speaker 3: this up? Do I call him? Do I pretend he
Speaker 3: didn't say it.
Speaker 2: Anybody who's had a successful career in anything knows what
Speaker 2: the expression managing up means. And if you work for Trump,
Speaker 2: you're going to have to do some serious managing up,
Speaker 2: and it's going to be a challenge.
Speaker 3: Marco Rubio is way more He's way closer to the
Speaker 3: I am than a lot of the you know, most
Speaker 3: MAGA loyalist non inventions crowd is and Marco Rubio, I
Speaker 3: guarantee you thinks I'm better off in this job trying
Speaker 3: to manage it than if I leave and somebody who
Speaker 3: actually believes, like the Maga crowd believes, takes over.
Speaker 2: I'm sure Marco Rubio thinks that. So again, I'm trying
Speaker 2: to as usual. If you're new to the show, wait
Speaker 2: a minute, are they pro Trump or anti Trump? Now
Speaker 2: we're just trying pro trying to figure out what's actually
Speaker 2: happening and what's likely to happen next. I can picture Trump,
Speaker 2: who can be extremely transactional. Thinking at the beginning of
Speaker 2: the thing, they should have called up Putin said hey,
Speaker 2: we see your mashing all those troops. Tell you what
Speaker 2: you can carve off a little of the don Boss,
Speaker 2: you can have crimea in the land route to CRIMEA
Speaker 2: don't invade, We'll just cut you that deal. I could
Speaker 2: see Trump believing that would have been smarter than allowing
Speaker 2: hundreds of thousands of people to be killed and injured
Speaker 2: and abducted in the rest of it. It's a very reptilian,
Speaker 2: real politic way to look at it. It's not completely crazy.
Speaker 2: On the other hand, if that is Trump's point of view,
Speaker 2: what he doesn't get her two things. Number One, as
Speaker 2: the old expression goes, Putin's appetite will grow with the eating. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he will just want more and more and more. And secondly,
Speaker 2: if somebody tried to take like the practice green at
Speaker 2: Bedminster Golf Club, one of Trump's properties, saying yeah, the
Speaker 2: city dump needs to expand, we just need like a
Speaker 2: thousand square feet, Trump would fight it until he was
Speaker 2: in the grave, and then he would task down Don
Speaker 2: Junior to fight it till he was in the grave.
Speaker 2: He wouldn't give away an inch of this country or
Speaker 2: his properties or whatever. Not an inch. But Zelensky's supposed
Speaker 2: to say, yeah, the cost to be too high so
Speaker 2: you can bully us into having part of our I
Speaker 2: don't get it. Here's a little more of Trump from
Speaker 2: that same press conference.
Speaker 1: I could have made a deal for Ukraine that would
Speaker 1: have given him almost all of the land everything, almost
Speaker 1: all of the land, and no people would have been killed,
Speaker 1: and no city would have been demolished, and not one
Speaker 1: dome would have been knocked down.
Speaker 2: But they chose not to do it that way.
Speaker 1: And President Biden, in all fairness, he doesn't have a
Speaker 1: clue what he was so bad for this. He was
Speaker 1: so bad, so pathetic, so sad. But with all of
Speaker 1: that being said, look well it is what it is.
Speaker 3: Zelensky could have offered up a little of his land
Speaker 3: and putting it said okay, good, we'll call it good,
Speaker 3: as opposed to I want more and you can't stop
Speaker 3: me that second one as well, obviously, and then and
Speaker 3: then Trumble goes on to say this.
Speaker 1: But when you see, uh, what's taking place in Ukraine,
Speaker 1: with millions of people killed, including the soldiers, millions of
Speaker 1: people killed, a big percentage of their cities knocked down
Speaker 1: to the ground, I don't know how anybody even lives there,
Speaker 1: you know, when they say they took a poll and
Speaker 1: Zelensky is at four percent, who's living there, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, people are It's hard to believe that people
Speaker 1: live there. Their cities are being knocked down, and this
Speaker 1: is something that would have never happened, and by the way,
Speaker 1: for four years it didn't happen, was never gonna happen.
Speaker 3: Their cities are being knocked down by an evil war criminal.
Speaker 3: I just I don't even understand what he's talking about.
Speaker 3: But uh, what was that first part there? I already
Speaker 3: lost the first part of that where he jumped in the.
Speaker 2: Y, A million is killed, cities knocked downs, Zelensky's unpopular approval.
Speaker 2: Nobody that that. Nobody knows what poll he's referring to.
Speaker 3: The latest polling from two weeks ago had Zelensky at
Speaker 3: fifty two percent. He's way down from the ninety percent
Speaker 3: he had like the first two years of the war.
Speaker 3: It's gone down, but he's not at four percent. But
Speaker 3: Trump's calling for new elections that clearly the people want
Speaker 3: a new leader. I don't I don't know what the
Speaker 3: strategy is here. Uh, I get and I know a
Speaker 3: lot of you. I don't know if it's a lot,
Speaker 3: but you text and you tweet a lot that the
Speaker 3: war's got to end and wars are evil, and do
Speaker 3: you want more people to die?
Speaker 2: And wars do need to end. And I don't want
Speaker 2: more people to die.
Speaker 3: But if you reward Putin, there's going to be even
Speaker 3: more people dying in the future.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're going to prevent war by showing weakness, good strategy,
Speaker 2: good luck. Let me know how that moved to a
Speaker 2: parallel universe. Please and try that stra and let me
Speaker 2: know how it works.
Speaker 3: I will be interested to see if Marco addresses this
Speaker 3: at all. Well, he's going to be asked that first
Speaker 3: time he ate, first time he sits down for an
Speaker 3: interview somewhere, they're gonna ask him this. So he's got
Speaker 3: to have an answer ready to go, right, I mean,
Speaker 3: first time Western press gets a chance to ask him questions.
Speaker 3: President Cheff said Ukraine started the war. Do you agree
Speaker 3: with that? What's he gonna select? He'll say there were
Speaker 3: missteps on both sides. It could have been prevented. Do
Speaker 3: you think Trump's gonna walk this back at all? Yes,
Speaker 3: like he's like he maybe he even thinks he shouldn't
Speaker 3: have said that.
Speaker 2: I don't know that, but I think he will walk
Speaker 2: a pack.
Speaker 3: What do you think text line four one five two
Speaker 3: nine five KFTC. We've been saying for a while. You
Speaker 3: can't do parody anymore or satire. It's impossible because he
Speaker 3: can't tell real from satire. And it got a great
Speaker 3: example of it coming up.
Speaker 2: And Joe Getty's grand unifying theme of global politics.
Speaker 3: Wow, Joe's gut grand unifying theory.
Speaker 2: Stay with us until it explains everything.
Speaker 3: Gonna make loud Einstein and Feinemannoppenheimer. We're trying to pull
Speaker 3: off with the theory of relativity and quantum physics. Putting
Speaker 3: them together seemed like nothing.
Speaker 2: Tinker toys anyway. Oh, stay tuned if you can. If
Speaker 2: you can't, grab the podcast. Have you heard about gut pop?
Speaker 2: This is the sort of thing, Katie, you'd probably be
Speaker 2: interested in. I don't know if you are. Have you
Speaker 2: heard the term gut pop?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 5: And I'm wondering why you think I should enjoy this?
Speaker 2: Pop is in soda, Yes, exactly. It's it is a
Speaker 2: soft drink, phizzy soft drink that is probiotic.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, probiotics are so hot right now?
Speaker 2: Yeah there, yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3: People say it's just changed their lives to start taking
Speaker 3: some sort of probiotic pill or food or gut pop
Speaker 3: or whatever.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I'm not a big soda person. I have maybe like
Speaker 5: three a year.
Speaker 3: Hanson, our executive producer, says it has changed his life. Really,
Speaker 3: we started taking a probiotic.
Speaker 2: What do you take? A pill?
Speaker 3: Or wheat germ or something? Hands on, what do you take?
Speaker 3: He takes a pill and it changed his life. He
Speaker 3: was telling me this or they are they?
Speaker 2: Hey, no details placed. Nobody wants to hear these details.
Speaker 2: I'm very happy that you have gut health, but I
Speaker 2: don't want to hear about it. Could use some myself,
Speaker 2: Me and my dog are both a bit too stopped up.
Speaker 5: Okay, so you stop now too, you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, and you're off base. You're narrowing it down
Speaker 3: to just that part of your functioning. It's all it's you.
Speaker 3: It's your energy, it's your skin, it's your it's just
Speaker 3: all kinds of different stuff.
Speaker 2: It's not just the sophomore things you want to talk about.
Speaker 2: None and blotchy, by the way, my energy and my skin.
Speaker 2: So I do need to look into this, Hanson. You
Speaker 2: gotta recommend what you take.
Speaker 1: Anyway, he said, he bring there this depository to the studio.
Speaker 5: All right, I'm going home.
Speaker 2: Yeah you should. I'm so sorry, Katie, you're gonna feel
Speaker 2: a little read in your career choices. Oh boy. But
Speaker 2: all the big name pop companies, the sody pop companies
Speaker 2: with soda sales gone flat, which is not a pond,
Speaker 2: it's a business thing, are jumping into the probiotic soft
Speaker 2: drink market, dominated by upstarts. Olipop and Poppy, both cocin
Speaker 2: pepsi are formulating versions they aim to sell. Now, these
Speaker 2: are not like a probiotic product that actually introduces new
Speaker 2: bacteria into your system to beef up your your biome,
Speaker 2: but it has fiber that's specifically designed to feed the
Speaker 2: bacteria already living in our system to beef them up
Speaker 2: and make them healthy and do their job.
Speaker 3: I want to get one of those trains plants where
Speaker 3: you take somebody else.
Speaker 2: Oh back to the sophomore, here we go. Unbelievable. Yeah.
Speaker 2: One of the most fascinating things I've ever learned is
Speaker 2: that the human body is not an animal. We're an
Speaker 2: ecosystem with millions of tiny creatures living in us.
Speaker 3: And the belief you're a planet, and the belief is
Speaker 3: with a lot of modern food and diet and stuff
Speaker 3: like that that are our ecosystems are all in a
Speaker 3: whack and it's got a lot to do with this.
Speaker 2: That's why I'm going to get the fecal transpont oh night.
Speaker 5: Okay, Wow, I liked what you tried to do there, Joe.
Speaker 2: That was too bad the segments of her.
Speaker 5: Well, arm strong and getty.
Speaker 2: Are you definitively getting rid of the penny Brett?
Speaker 4: I've got to say the President Trump wants to make
Speaker 4: the penny extinct, and that's part of the call savings.
Speaker 4: Custa bet three cents to make one cent and the
Speaker 4: even a Washington that math don't work.
Speaker 2: So it's going going soon. It's going.
Speaker 3: So the fact that it's lasted this long is is
Speaker 3: the crime.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's probably some name for this tendency that humanity
Speaker 2: has among I don't know thinkers or academics that something
Speaker 2: clearly needs to be changed, and change will be ninety
Speaker 2: percent positive, but the ten percent complications stop you from
Speaker 2: gaining the ninety percent. Maybe it's just per perfect being
Speaker 2: the enemy of good or good enough. But yeah, it'll
Speaker 2: cost some complications and things that need to be adjusted for,
Speaker 2: but who cares? It will be fine. We survived World
Speaker 2: War Two, We'll survive the penny going away but I
Speaker 2: thought this was thought provoking. Rick from Dallas formerly the
Speaker 2: San Francisco Bay Area writ's the following. You've been vocal
Speaker 2: in your sport for getting rid of the penny. How
Speaker 2: you can't understand why it took so long. Let me
Speaker 2: offer some concerns. It is one thing to get rid
Speaker 2: of the coin itself, that's not a big deal. But
Speaker 2: without the existence of the penny, you now have to
Speaker 2: choose from one of the following two societal changes, both
Speaker 2: of which are a big deal. Either one. Nobody is
Speaker 2: now allowed to price anything in denomination smaller than five
Speaker 2: cent increments. This includes sales tax needing to be rounded
Speaker 2: up or down to the nearest five cent increment, or
Speaker 2: people must use non cash payment method. It's for some transactions.
Speaker 2: If you get rid of number one, then every gas
Speaker 2: station in the nation is going to have to not
Speaker 2: only get rid of the nine tenths decimal at the
Speaker 2: end of its gallon price. No'll be cares, but we'll
Speaker 2: have to move up and down our whole five cent increments.
Speaker 2: I think that's what's going to have to happen for decades.
Speaker 2: Stations of differentiating themselves by advertising two cents less than
Speaker 2: the guy against the street. That whole option will have
Speaker 2: to go away, as will all of the point ninety
Speaker 2: nine percent pricing or sense pricing that some stores used
Speaker 2: as a pricing code, with ninety nine representing new merchandise
Speaker 2: and ninety five representing clearance, et cetera. They'll have to
Speaker 2: find a new method.
Speaker 3: Well, they'll be fine, I'm sure, But I think that
Speaker 3: first thing is the clear answer. Just everything's going to
Speaker 3: have to be in in you know, a zero. Everything
Speaker 3: will end in a zero, a five. We're just going
Speaker 3: to have to go in increments of that. It's kind
Speaker 3: of like I remember the first time I traveled down
Speaker 3: to Mexico after they changed their money. Their inflation had
Speaker 3: been so bad for so long that they moved the
Speaker 3: decimal point over one. And the first time I was
Speaker 3: down there, you're constantly running in new money or old money.
Speaker 3: So this would either be one hundred dollars of old
Speaker 3: money or ten dollars of new money. Ours has our
Speaker 3: inflation hasn't been so bad you have to move a
Speaker 3: whole destmot point. We're just like carving off, you know,
Speaker 3: we're going from increments of a one to increments of five.
Speaker 2: I don't think that's a big deal, right, I don't
Speaker 2: think it easy. It is either Rick, you know, great
Speaker 2: job pointing out things that would have to be adjusted
Speaker 2: but will be fine. And you know you could also
Speaker 2: and I think this is the winning argument. Take a
Speaker 2: look at say, I don't know, fifty years ago, seventy
Speaker 2: five years ago, the buying power of a penny is
Speaker 2: at that point was now probably greater than the buying
Speaker 2: power of a nick, oh guaranteed. So to have a
Speaker 2: penny now would be like having a fifth of a
Speaker 2: penny coin correct in nineteen seventy And who was suggesting that. Nobody.
Speaker 2: It's it's merely an adjustment because the numbers mean different things.
Speaker 2: That's what inflation is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, sure, Joe's going to have his grand unifying
Speaker 3: theory of international something or other here in just a second.
Speaker 3: You know, the most important thing we've discussed today is
Speaker 3: probably this gut health thing. I mean, in terms of
Speaker 3: like affecting people's lives. You brought up probiotics, and there's
Speaker 3: a new probiotics soda out there, and we talked about
Speaker 3: Hansen has been doing it.
Speaker 2: He loves it.
Speaker 3: I know a few people that are taking either the
Speaker 3: pills or they eat yogurt every day or whatever we got.
Speaker 3: Somebody here said, for your gut, just eat a tablespoon
Speaker 3: of pure puaid pumpkin every.
Speaker 2: Day, all right. I know, I don't know where you
Speaker 2: get done, done and done. I don't know where you
Speaker 2: get that.
Speaker 3: Is zambuka the same thing? Or is that a different thing?
Speaker 3: I know somebody it swears by that for there?
Speaker 2: Is that the name of it?
Speaker 3: Or I might have the wrong name of a product.
Speaker 3: But somebody that walks around and drinks you know, Katie,
Speaker 3: are you talking about kombucha?
Speaker 2: Yes, that's it. Yeah, yeah, that's the same thing.
Speaker 3: So I know a number of people women that like
Speaker 3: carry around here at work that carry around a bottle
Speaker 3: of that all the time. M h.
Speaker 2: And that's supposed to be for your gut health yet,
Speaker 2: and yogurt's supposed to be good for it.
Speaker 3: I eat a fair mune yogurt, so I think you
Speaker 3: have to have a certain kind of yogurt. So don't you,
Speaker 3: I don't know. Don't asks me. I'm not a doctor,
Speaker 3: you're not what.
Speaker 2: I'm a DJ. Go ask your disition jobs. That's weird, Okay.
Speaker 2: So I liked this.
Speaker 3: I thought this is really good as We've talked many
Speaker 3: times about I'm actually giving away the joke here.
Speaker 2: Maybe I shouldn't give away the joke.
Speaker 3: First, I came across this uh person that has quite
Speaker 3: a few followers on Twitter, and she tweeted out my
Speaker 3: husband told me today that Elon stole his social Security
Speaker 3: number and credit card number from a government database with
Speaker 3: his Doge powers and bought a bunch of subscriptions. Is
Speaker 3: this true? Has this happened to anyone else? How do
Speaker 3: I contest these fees? Then the responses to that were unbelievable,
Speaker 3: and eventually she follows up with the tweet of I
Speaker 3: want a social media website which tests people's capacity to
Speaker 3: detect sarcasm, and only people who pass are allowed to
Speaker 3: create accounts, finally muting this post JFC, which is a
Speaker 3: reference to our savior and his middle name, which isn't accurate.
Speaker 3: She had one point one million views on this tweet
Speaker 3: and retweets and the replies taking it seriously are making
Speaker 3: me despair for our country. Yes, the number of people
Speaker 3: who responded that completely bought it one hundred. Of course,
Speaker 3: Elon and Doge are taking your social security numbers so
Speaker 3: they can buy stuff.
Speaker 2: Of course, that's happening. Wow. Wow. The filter that was
Speaker 2: actual existence as most of virtual existence, a virtual life.
Speaker 2: The filter that that the community and reality, the workplace,
Speaker 2: everything you heard, everything you experienced, other than flipping open
Speaker 2: the paper maybe in the evening, went through the filter
Speaker 2: of oh, that's bull crap, and something that ridiculous wouldn't
Speaker 2: get to the weak minded people. There's no way to
Speaker 2: get it to them without going through the filter of
Speaker 2: the town, the community, the press, whatever. But now there's
Speaker 2: a direct line from the fraudster to the defrauded in
Speaker 2: a way that's never existed before.
Speaker 3: Lord knows, I hate mainstream media, but when we had
Speaker 3: gate keepers, they didn't allow that sort of stuff through,
Speaker 3: like pre cable news. Yeah, I gotta go way back.
Speaker 3: Now you do get this kind of stuff. I mean,
Speaker 3: Joy Reid would say that on her show on MSNBC.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah yeah, and everybody would suck it up, everybody
Speaker 2: being like one hundred thousand viewers.
Speaker 3: Did you have a comment on that, Michaels, Now, okay,
Speaker 3: you look like you're a chomping at the bit. I
Speaker 3: thought maybe Elon took your social Security number and bought
Speaker 3: some subscriptions with it, and you're wondering how to fight back.
Speaker 2: Wow, what are outside?
Speaker 1: God dang it.
Speaker 3: The fact that there are many people out there that
Speaker 3: believe that that could happen, would happen, would fly under
Speaker 3: the radar, and they'd get away with it.
Speaker 2: It's just so disturbing. Yes, it is. It's incredibly discouraging.
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Speaker 2: you want to do your grand unifying theory when we
Speaker 2: come back or now? Now, okay, We'll just get it
Speaker 2: out of the way. I'm tired of waiting. I'm tired.
Speaker 2: I've been kept in the on the sidelines too long.
Speaker 3: Then I will do the new rules for the baseball season,
Speaker 3: perhaps when we come back, because I want to hear
Speaker 3: your opinion on it.
Speaker 2: But so I've just been reading and reading and reading
Speaker 2: about JD. Vance's speech is two speeches in front of
Speaker 2: the EU, one about Europe needs to step up and
Speaker 2: quit acting like a bunch of fat, lazy babies, and
Speaker 2: the other one about free speech and if you're not
Speaker 2: going to embrace democracy and freedom, why do we have
Speaker 2: an alliance to protect democracy and freedom? Twisting their arms
Speaker 2: on a couple of different things. And then the situation
Speaker 2: Ukraine with Putin and then Trump and the things he said,
Speaker 2: and look, my grand unifying theory. People are going to
Speaker 2: be shouting at the radio. Thucydides or Cicero or some
Speaker 2: He wrote a book about this five thousand years ago. Yeah, dope.
Speaker 2: But it's as simple as this, and it reminds me
Speaker 2: what I've always said about American policy, domestic policy, and
Speaker 2: that is that it veers from guardrail to guardrail, and
Speaker 2: you hit the sweet spots somewhere in between the guardrails,
Speaker 2: but you have no idea you're in the sweet spot,
Speaker 2: So you just keep going to the left, say, releasing
Speaker 2: criminals and saying we've overincarcerated roar on drugs, blah blah bloah,
Speaker 2: until your streets are just teeming with scumbags and junkies
Speaker 2: and everybody's under threatened. Society sucks and all the walgreens
Speaker 2: are closing, and then the targets and you got to
Speaker 2: ask somebody to get us socks out from beyond lock
Speaker 2: a gay blah blah blah. Then we'll crack down like
Speaker 2: crazy and lock up people and blah blah bah. And
Speaker 2: good international relation, Yes, I just said good international relations.
Speaker 2: Geopolitics has a similar rhythm to it, an ebb and flow,
Speaker 2: in that the results of war and conquest lead to
Speaker 2: a desire for peace, trade and prosperity and peace, trade
Speaker 2: and prosperity over the long term create the situation that
Speaker 2: calls for conquest and war, especially because the victors become
Speaker 2: so weak and comfortable, and those who perceive that they've
Speaker 2: been getting the short end of the stick, be they
Speaker 2: China or Russia or North Korea or whatever, seize opportunities
Speaker 2: they exploit them. The globe or regions explosed into terrible
Speaker 2: wards wars. Do yourself a treat and read for half
Speaker 2: an hour about what's happening in Africa right now someday
Speaker 2: where it's absolutely wars of conquest and control and resource
Speaker 2: grabbing and all are fully continents on fire. Nobody talks
Speaker 2: about it. But so anyway, post World War Two, we
Speaker 2: built this order to protect freedom and democracy. We've become
Speaker 2: fat and lazy. We've started to doubt the dynamics of
Speaker 2: democracy here in a place like Germany, they barely ever
Speaker 2: had them. Honestly, they're so freaked out and guilt ridden
Speaker 2: over the Nazi thing, although they basically did what we
Speaker 2: told them to do, and the minute we gave them,
Speaker 2: we gave them or they took control. No, no, no,
Speaker 2: this is how we're going to run a democracy in
Speaker 2: the German way, they got way off base and are
Speaker 2: now being torn asunder by conflict, and stability in Europe
Speaker 2: is about over. I don't think Ukraine's a blip. I
Speaker 2: think it might be another several years until the real
Speaker 2: storm hits. But I think prosperity has created the playing
Speaker 2: field for chaos. Yeah, and there's no avoiding it.
Speaker 3: Won't get into it now, But there are some statistics
Speaker 3: that were I came across somewhere after JD. Vance's speech
Speaker 3: of just how little Europe has put in to their
Speaker 3: own defense over the past many years. We care about
Speaker 3: Europe being stable way more than they care about it
Speaker 3: being stable because they think, will we'll keep it stable,
Speaker 3: all right, And I've got the quotes around here somewhere.
Speaker 3: But going back to Barack Obama and Robert Gates in
Speaker 3: twenty twelve saying, hey, Euros, you've got to take an
Speaker 3: active role financially, you got to build up your military,
Speaker 3: You got to act like you're serious about this, because
Speaker 3: we are not going to carry you.
Speaker 2: Get serious. And they said, yeah, yeah, well up there
Speaker 2: spending by half a percent, Yeah, it'll be fine, and
Speaker 2: they just they do not pay heed. And now that
Speaker 2: the wolf is at their door that they don't know
Speaker 2: what to do about it.
Speaker 3: So there are some new things you're gonna try in baseball,
Speaker 3: which I find interesting for you a baseball fan. If
Speaker 3: you're not, I would like to hear.
Speaker 2: If you use the phrase golden at bat, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: punch you like you're a Canadian hockey player.
Speaker 3: We'll have to explain what that is, because that's an
Speaker 3: interesting concept. Anybody else having real luck with some sort
Speaker 3: of yogurt or probiotic pill or something like that change
Speaker 3: your life gut health wise?
Speaker 2: Did it give you a place? Abia? Right? A text
Speaker 2: line four one, five two nine to five KFTC. So
Speaker 2: we got on the.
Speaker 3: Topic of probiotics, and they're being advertised everywhere, and I
Speaker 3: know people who swear by them and are drinking What
Speaker 3: is it to you?
Speaker 2: When did you say that zambuka? What are kobucha? What
Speaker 2: is that katie?
Speaker 3: Which I guess in some cases has some alcohol in it.
Speaker 3: I actually know some alcoholics who have gone back to
Speaker 3: drinking because of drinking that stuff and not realizing there's
Speaker 3: alcohol in it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they card you now to buy it?
Speaker 2: Really okay? Yeah?
Speaker 3: I know two people with long term sobriety who've gone
Speaker 3: back to drinking because of that. Oh no, and that's
Speaker 3: something that's awful. Anyway, we're getting more on these, and
Speaker 3: you know, I'm not I had got issues per year.
Speaker 3: My wife and I are making your own keifer and
Speaker 3: it's done.
Speaker 2: Wonders. I have no idea what keifer is, Okay, I reckon.
Speaker 3: My doctor recommended sour crowd as a probiotic and it's
Speaker 3: been fantastic.
Speaker 2: Okay, So you don't have delicious and three meals a day.
Speaker 3: You don't have to rub in your fine, you don't
Speaker 3: have to buy some sort of fancy pill or anything
Speaker 3: like that. You just our crowd on top of your
Speaker 3: morning cereal in the morning. So we got a whole
Speaker 3: bunch of different texts of different stuff people are doing.
Speaker 3: And then also this probiotics are a giant scam but
Speaker 3: apparently provide some psychological comfort to the gullible.
Speaker 2: Okay, so your mind age may by very got to
Speaker 2: admit I've I'm running it through that filter. I am too.
Speaker 3: We got several texts that I will not get into
Speaker 3: detail on about how it can cause you to have
Speaker 3: bodily functions that you've not had before.
Speaker 2: Fantastic, Well, very restrained descriptions. Thank you.
Speaker 3: Well, then that you or whoever's writing in the car
Speaker 3: with you or not pleased able.
Speaker 2: Oh you had.
Speaker 5: To keep it off. You started off doing all right there, Jack?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, wow that bad? Huh.
Speaker 3: So new baseball seasons starting here real real soon. And
Speaker 3: here's something they're gonna try during preseason.
Speaker 2: I guess.
Speaker 3: So is the golden ut bat happening or not? That's
Speaker 3: where you get to bring in somebody you can bat more,
Speaker 3: You can bat out of order basically like you could
Speaker 3: bring sho hey Otani in. You know, you got three
Speaker 3: on two out and maybe he batted three batters ago,
Speaker 3: but you could bring him back in for the golden
Speaker 3: at bat. Correct you get one per game or something
Speaker 3: like that. Okay, so that's not gonna happenserable this horror? Yeah,
Speaker 3: I don't like it either.
Speaker 2: Oh no, I could see how a lot of casual
Speaker 2: fans it makes you be more interesting to watch. Well,
Speaker 2: those casual fans might allow, uh might enjoy a little
Speaker 2: beast reality on the field as well, or perhaps a
Speaker 2: ritual sacrifice of a sixteen year old virgin girls. We're
Speaker 2: into the volcano that goes off when you hit a
Speaker 2: home run. Why don't you?
Speaker 3: Seems like an odd argument from your standpoint, But here's
Speaker 3: something they're gonna try, and I think I know where
Speaker 3: this is going. I wonder how umpires feel about this.
Speaker 3: So they're gonna go to the replace you for the
Speaker 3: first time ever. You'll be able the challenge a call
Speaker 3: is a batter, the pitcher, the catcher or the batter.
Speaker 3: There are only three players in the field can challenge
Speaker 3: a pitch. Was it a ball or strike? So the picture,
Speaker 3: the catcher or the batter can say no, no, no, no,
Speaker 3: that was a strike. And then they go to the computer,
Speaker 3: which they're going to have set up like they do
Speaker 3: in tennis now, which has got the box there, and
Speaker 3: they say they'll be able to do it quickly.
Speaker 2: It won't be like the.
Speaker 3: NFL where we all stand around for eight minutes and
Speaker 3: then they say rolling on the field stands and you.
Speaker 2: Don't remember what even happened.
Speaker 3: But they'll be able to put it up on the
Speaker 3: screen and like within thirty seconds you'll say, the crowd
Speaker 3: will go, oh, that was a ball. And you'll only
Speaker 3: get two per game, and if you challenge one and
Speaker 3: you'll lose it.
Speaker 2: And blah blah, blah, how do you feel about that
Speaker 2: in the minor leagues? And it can be done very
Speaker 2: very quickly.
Speaker 3: If you can't do that, why don't you just get
Speaker 3: rid of the umpires and do it all with the computer.
Speaker 2: Yeah? I don't know. The whole thing makes me uncomfortable,
Speaker 2: and I'd have to get into some like really baseball
Speaker 2: leg conversation. But if the catcher sets up inside and
Speaker 2: you know, for a fastball inside or something, and the
Speaker 2: picture just wildly misses his mark and the catcher has
Speaker 2: to dive for the ball, and it's just it's a
Speaker 2: terrible pitch, but it catches the corner. I've had many
Speaker 2: baseball people tell me nobody wants that call to strike.
Speaker 2: It's just not the way the game works, which seems
Speaker 2: crazy just to a casual fan. If it crosses the plate,
Speaker 2: it crosses the plate. Or if the catcher botches a
Speaker 2: low curveball or something, because you can't tell where that
Speaker 2: caught it, I don't you know. I say, try it
Speaker 2: on a more basic level, though.
Speaker 3: Aren't they stating that we have the technology to call
Speaker 3: balls and strikes accurately? Yes, And it's better than the
Speaker 3: umpire because if they're going to take that ruling over
Speaker 3: what the umpire said.
Speaker 2: Aren't they just stating that it's more accurate than the umpire? Uh? Yeah,
Speaker 2: then I wonder why they aren't just doing it. I
Speaker 2: don't like it. I don't like the idea of it.
Speaker 2: I like human beings doing these things. But oh, that's why.
Speaker 2: It's just such a radical change to the game. I
Speaker 2: have a feeling it's coming, though it will be more.
Speaker 3: I don't like more replays. I don't like slowing down
Speaker 3: any of these games more. And it seems like they
Speaker 3: get them wrong just as often as they used to.
Speaker 2: These can be done in ten seconds, though, it's not
Speaker 2: like did the ball come loose while the receiver was tackled.
Speaker 2: That's really hard to call. Any need cameras and stuff.
Speaker 2: This is a lot easier.
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