Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
Speaker 1: George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty.
Speaker 2: Arm Strong and Getty and he.
Speaker 3: Armstrong and Yetty. Wow.
Speaker 2: Dude posted that on Facebook. That's what drone missiles sound like.
Speaker 2: This guy in his apartment in Ukraine, that's what Russian
Speaker 2: drone missiles sound like. Can you imagine living like that?
Speaker 2: We can't as Americans. No, just the idea that, yeah,
Speaker 2: a own missile, whatever that is. I don't know what
Speaker 2: that means. Do you know what that means? I mean
Speaker 2: missiles are unmanned anyway, So well, right, you know, it's funny.
Speaker 2: I was thinking that very thing.
Speaker 1: I just I think they're delivered by drone anyway, most
Speaker 1: of their own engines. Yeh.
Speaker 2: Can you just imagine living somewhere where you hear the
Speaker 2: hum of drones and think, okay, here comes attack, and
Speaker 2: you've grown used to the fact that there are going
Speaker 2: to be some explosions and you hope it's not you. Yeah,
Speaker 2: just insane that that can happen. But it's always been
Speaker 2: the world and always will be the world. Here's a
Speaker 2: little report on where we are on that, and we'll
Speaker 2: fill in some more holes.
Speaker 4: Ukrainian President Voloni Verzelinski got fifteen minutes with President Trump
Speaker 4: this weekend at the Vatican ahead of Pope Francis's funeral,
Speaker 4: and Trump now appears to be losing patience with Russian
Speaker 4: President Vladimir Putin.
Speaker 3: I was very disappointed that missiles were flying bye Russia,
Speaker 3: but that missiles were flying very disappointing.
Speaker 4: As the Trump have been a tries negotiating an end
Speaker 4: to the war in Ukraine, Russia continues attacking Ukrainian civilians.
Speaker 4: This weekend, President Trump wrote quote, it makes me think
Speaker 4: that maybe he doesn't want to stop the war, He's
Speaker 4: just tapping me along. Then Trump floated additional sanctions on Russia.
Speaker 2: Right, and so then Putin floats this whole three day
Speaker 2: ceasefire thing for their victory Day celebrations. Zelenski says that
Speaker 2: there are still Russian missile attacks happening in Kiev and
Speaker 2: that Moscow has no interest in piece whatsoever, which is
Speaker 2: probably true. It's worked for Putin over and over again
Speaker 2: throughout well quite a few years now, where he claims
Speaker 2: he's going to stop or a ceasefire, and he just
Speaker 2: keeps firing missiles and the idiotic media or various European
Speaker 2: countries jump at it, and then you got this Putin
Speaker 2: and North Korea confirming for the first time yesterday that
Speaker 2: North Korean forces are fighting with Russia in its invasion
Speaker 2: in Ukraine. We already knew that, but now it's been
Speaker 2: admitted by Russia. Earlier in the day, Kim Jong un
Speaker 2: announced the construction of a monument honoring the North Korean
Speaker 2: soldiers that have been killed in the Russia Ukraine war. Okay,
Speaker 2: great wow. That was shortly after Putin thanked North Korean
Speaker 2: soldiers for their heroism and fighting alongside Russian forces against Ukraine.
Speaker 1: This is all because of the threat Ukraine poses, of course,
Speaker 1: to North Korea. Weren't anyone, They don't pose a threat
Speaker 1: to anyone, No, on any level. South Korean officials say
Speaker 1: there are about twelve thousand North Korean troops there deployed
Speaker 1: to the Kursk region. I remember at one point somebody saying,
Speaker 1: if North Korean soldiers are actually involved in the fighting
Speaker 1: and not just doing support, that would be crossing some
Speaker 1: sort of red line. Well that was crossed a long
Speaker 1: time ago, and now everybody admits that on all sides,
Speaker 1: and nothing changes, right, this is interesting just as a
Speaker 1: complete aside, I just rebooted my iPhone for instance, reasons
Speaker 1: that are not at least been interesting. And now I'm
Speaker 1: getting power spammed by one account. I've gotten eight messages
Speaker 1: in the last thirty seconds. I hope this is not
Speaker 1: somehow dangerous anyway, Moving along back to yeah, I'm under
Speaker 1: attack from whatever the hell list is. So a couple
Speaker 1: of thoughts on the Ukraine situation, a couple of correspondents,
Speaker 1: and then an interesting perspective something else that's happening Russia wise.
Speaker 1: But Paolo points out militarily, the only way Ukraine could
Speaker 1: win the war with Russia was with enough US support.
Speaker 1: Didn't want to do that for fear of escalation. Judge
Speaker 1: that giving them enough support to win is too risky,
Speaker 1: not in our best interests. Hard to accept, but apparently
Speaker 1: that's the case. Given that reality, continuing support them as
Speaker 1: we have will eventually end with They're losing their entire
Speaker 1: country plus a lot more lives. If we're not willing
Speaker 1: to do what's necessary for them to win. The best
Speaker 1: we can do is help them to minimize their losses.
Speaker 2: Easier for us to say than for them.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, well, this is what I was talking about yesterday.
Speaker 1: Convincing Ukraine to come to the table is harder than
Speaker 1: Russia because Ukraine wants to fight to the death to
Speaker 1: protect their homeland. So that's why Trump is being harder
Speaker 1: on Zelensky. And I'm not saying that's right or I'm
Speaker 1: arguing in favor of it, but that's the case I
Speaker 1: think right.
Speaker 2: For some reason, this popped into my head. I watched
Speaker 2: the movie Rocky with my son the other day. If
Speaker 2: you remember the original movie Rocky, toward the end, he's
Speaker 2: getting the but Jesus beaten out of them. They both
Speaker 2: are anyway, he says to his trainer, Mickey says, you've
Speaker 2: stopped this fight, and I'll kill you.
Speaker 1: He still wanted to fight, no matter how beat up
Speaker 1: he was. And that's where Ukraine is right now there.
Speaker 1: You stop this fight and they'll kill you. They just
Speaker 1: want give us more stuff and we'll keep fighting.
Speaker 2: We as you know, sovereign nation and taxpayers to decide
Speaker 2: whether we want to arm them or not. I think
Speaker 2: it's a good idea, So you don't.
Speaker 1: Matt points out, he well, he says, now I preface this.
Speaker 1: I'm an armchair foreign policy observer if even that. Although
Speaker 1: you know, Matt, if you're a man of logic and
Speaker 1: reasonable intelligence, most foreign policy does come down to fairly
Speaker 1: simple motivations, so you know, feel free to weigh in.
Speaker 1: As much as the deal Trump proposed to Russian Ukraine
Speaker 1: makes no sense to me in terms not only of
Speaker 1: fairness but even the optics, I feel like the administration
Speaker 1: has two things in mind. One thing is that it
Speaker 1: may be a matter of attempting to soothe the beast
Speaker 1: to not go for total conquest. Back to Powlow's point,
Speaker 1: and that's if he honors the agreements and doesn't decide
Speaker 1: to continue.
Speaker 2: That's a huge if with Putin.
Speaker 1: As much as I don't like it and don't agree
Speaker 1: with how he's handling it, I think Trump wants to
Speaker 1: avoid further military and monetary involvement in this war. And
Speaker 1: then he gets to his bigger point. I think Trump
Speaker 1: is away of what may be on the horizon with
Speaker 1: China and would rather save his capital for what may
Speaker 1: come from that.
Speaker 2: Maybe that's why the tariffs too.
Speaker 1: He wants to begin the steps to bring manufacturing back
Speaker 1: so he can be ready for you know, when the
Speaker 1: great to severing with China.
Speaker 2: Occurs.
Speaker 1: Just to summarize his thoughts, I would if there is
Speaker 1: a whole of administration understanding that conflict with China, be
Speaker 1: it merely diplomatic and economic or maybe trade and ordinance
Speaker 1: or whatever it is, that is the one thing we
Speaker 1: must be ready for. What are lesser priorities that are
Speaker 1: detracting from our ability to get ready for China?
Speaker 2: Yeah, here is the list. As listening to some really
Speaker 2: smart people talk about Trump's foreign policy vision and you know,
Speaker 2: whether he has one or not, or a worldview or not,
Speaker 2: and they seem to settle on this, and this makes
Speaker 2: sense to me. I don't know that it's a good idea,
Speaker 2: but this makes sense to me that this is the
Speaker 2: way he sees the world.
Speaker 1: Look, Taiwan is right next to China. Of course, China
Speaker 1: is gonna take Taiwan. Ukraine's next to Russia, and they
Speaker 1: want it more than the rest of the world wants
Speaker 1: to stop them. Of course they're gonna take it. Canada
Speaker 1: should be ours, Greenland should be ours. That's the way
Speaker 1: he sees the world. And kind of an old timey
Speaker 1: just like theirpower spheres of influence, since they say in
Speaker 1: the business, Yeah, just very on the ground reality sort
Speaker 1: of way. Yeah, yeah, and that might be the way
Speaker 1: he looks at it.
Speaker 2: It seems to be, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: I would love to know what he said in that
Speaker 1: private meeting with Zelenski the other day as we were discussing.
Speaker 1: And then finally this I found very very interesting, Thomas
Speaker 1: Grove writing in the Journal. With President Trump and many
Speaker 1: other world leaders preoccupied with war in Ukraine, Europeans are
Speaker 1: growing alarmed about what the Russian army has been doing
Speaker 1: much more quietly along other stretches of its borders with Europe,
Speaker 1: someone hundred miles east of its border with Finland in
Speaker 1: the Russian city of Unpronounceable, military engineers are expanding army
Speaker 1: bases where the Kremlin plans to put a new army
Speaker 1: headquarters to oversee tens of thousands of troops over the
Speaker 1: next several years. Those soldiers, many now serving on the
Speaker 1: front lines in Ukraine, are intended to be the backbone
Speaker 1: of a Russian military preparing to face off with NATO.
Speaker 1: According to Western military and intelligence officials, You.
Speaker 2: Think Premlin actually believes NATO would preemptively attack him, I mean,
Speaker 2: because that's what a lot of you say. Ukraine started
Speaker 2: this war talk of being in NATO when we put
Speaker 2: NATO right on their doorstep and that blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: Putn't think NATO is going to attack him, an, I
Speaker 1: think you know more about this than I do. But
Speaker 1: I know that through the years, through the centuries, there
Speaker 1: has been a certain paranoia that's run through Russian defense
Speaker 1: and just their leadership because they don't have natural barriers
Speaker 1: to invasion, right, But in the modern world, NATO's never
Speaker 1: going to it just preemptively invade Russia. No, it doesn't
Speaker 1: matter whether that's true or not. If he believes it's true,
Speaker 1: I guess I wouldn't think so. So they get into
Speaker 1: the way, I'm sorry, into the fact that Finland has
Speaker 1: joined NATO, and there are a couple more examples, but yeah,
Speaker 1: the Russians are definitely projecting some of their power toward
Speaker 1: Europe in a defensive slash saber rattling way, which has
Speaker 1: the Euros somewhat on edge.
Speaker 2: There you go, freaking those You know, the saddest people
Speaker 2: on earth might be those poor North Korean soldiers. You
Speaker 2: got the miserable life back home in your country with
Speaker 2: your family starving, and to try to help them out
Speaker 2: in some way, or because you got a gun at
Speaker 2: pointed at your head. More or less there you are
Speaker 2: in Russia. You probably don't even couldn't even put it
Speaker 2: on a map. You had no schooling. The slightest idea
Speaker 2: where you are what you're doing, dying for for Putin
Speaker 2: and whatever he's it's good lord. So maybe your family
Speaker 2: gets a few shekels. So when you get killed back home? Yeah,
Speaker 2: just miserable miserable existence. Yuck. You know see what this.
Speaker 2: Here's a tip for you, young listener. What's that, Mike Jack.
Speaker 2: I'll do my teas after you say this. Okay, ah,
Speaker 2: what was I gonna say? Eh?
Speaker 1: Oh, for you young folks, it is possible there will be
Speaker 1: another period of peace and prosperity on the war in
Speaker 1: the world won't last long, but we would urge you
Speaker 1: when that moment comes to remember our wise old words
Speaker 1: and say to yourself, Wow, this is weird and great.
Speaker 2: It's like spring vacation. It's not gonna last.
Speaker 1: Yeah, based on my reading and history, it could be
Speaker 1: like two hundred years.
Speaker 2: Before that happens again. Before it's like you know, the nineties.
Speaker 1: Well, eat your sorghum and avoid saturated fats if you
Speaker 1: want to live that long. I find myself wondering what
Speaker 1: the answer to the age old question is if you
Speaker 1: pitted one hundred unarmed men against a single eight hundred
Speaker 1: pound lowland gorilla, who would win?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: I'm glad according the answer according to science and artificial intelligence.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, among other things we got on the wails.
Speaker 2: Stay here? Can AI answer all questions? Can you just
Speaker 2: plug in? Could twelve third grade girls take on a beaver?
Speaker 3: Or?
Speaker 1: I mean, there are all kinds of AI questions we
Speaker 1: can answer.
Speaker 2: Now. What was the uh?
Speaker 1: Would you rather have a horse sized duck or one
Speaker 1: hundred duck sized horses?
Speaker 2: Something like that? Yeah? I always went to duck sized
Speaker 2: horses because I think they just be cutere neck. Oh
Speaker 2: my gosh, it'd be amazing.
Speaker 1: You could You could have like tourism constantly coming to
Speaker 1: your tiny little horse farm. Speaking of little girls, were
Speaker 1: charge of anything you wanted?
Speaker 2: Where is a horse sized duck?
Speaker 1: Would have you soil in your pants?
Speaker 3: Bro?
Speaker 2: Put the duck back? Please?
Speaker 1: The thing decided to pack you? Could you know, remove
Speaker 1: your head? Speaking of which, this guy Mark, what's his name?
Speaker 1: He's a software and AI guy and he likes to
Speaker 1: pose various questions to AI and parse out the information,
Speaker 1: and one of his questions has gone slightly viral. Apparently
Speaker 1: there's a wild debate blowing up online. He says, can
Speaker 1: one hundred unarmed men defeat a single gorilla in a fight,
Speaker 1: and he breaks it down step by step. First, let's
Speaker 1: take a look at the combatants, starting with the gorilla.
Speaker 1: These beasts are insanely strong. A silver back that's you're big,
Speaker 1: mature like lowland gorilla, and they range from six to
Speaker 1: like eight hundred pounds that proverbial eight.
Speaker 2: Hundred pound gorilla. They can lift.
Speaker 1: Now, this guy's a brit So he uses a kilograms,
Speaker 1: but a silverback can lift up to seventeen hundred pounds
Speaker 1: seventeen one hundred pounds.
Speaker 2: Almost a ton. That's amazing. Run it twenty five miles
Speaker 2: per hour. Wow, and.
Speaker 1: Has a bite force of thirteen hundred pounds per square inch,
Speaker 1: enough to crush bones.
Speaker 2: I have a feeling I'm going to quibble with the
Speaker 2: result of this, but yeah, go on, quibble away. That's
Speaker 2: what we're doing here.
Speaker 1: One swing of its arm could kill a man instantly.
Speaker 1: So the whole clothes line A giant silverback gorilla clotheslines you.
Speaker 1: It could kill you. I'm sever of your spine, traumatic
Speaker 1: brain injury.
Speaker 2: Whatever.
Speaker 1: Gorillas are also agile and tough. They can charge fast,
Speaker 1: dodge attacks, and they're thick skulls and bones make them
Speaker 1: very hard to injure. They're built for combat in a
Speaker 1: way that humans simply aren't.
Speaker 2: I believe all of this.
Speaker 1: Keep in mind, Jack, that the life of the average
Speaker 1: male gorilla is gonna include a handful of fights, if
Speaker 1: not to the death to one guy saying I've had enough,
Speaker 1: I've had enough. You can mate with her. I'm going
Speaker 1: I'm leaving. I'm heading off into the jungle. You can
Speaker 1: have her.
Speaker 2: I don't want her.
Speaker 1: Now, let's handicap the humans. You'll be sicker for soon enough.
Speaker 1: With one hundred men, they have sheer numbers. Clearly, if
Speaker 1: they swarm the gorilla all at once, they might restrain it,
Speaker 1: but it's risky. Many would get seriously hurt or killed
Speaker 1: in the process.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's where I'm gonna quibble. After you get through this.
Speaker 1: Now, we the humans have intelligence and endurance. We can
Speaker 1: plan strategies like distracting the gorilla while others attack from behind,
Speaker 1: might even wear it down over time. But it's not
Speaker 1: easy and without deppens, it's brutal. Humans lack natural defenses,
Speaker 1: we're soft. Speaking for myself, the gorilla could break bones,
Speaker 1: are killed with a single blow. Coordination of the human
Speaker 1: team absolutely critical. Any mistakes and it's chaos. By the way,
Speaker 1: we'll post the link to this Twitter thread because it
Speaker 1: includes AI generated videos.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, not the violent part. I'm sorry. Good. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you're sticking of.
Speaker 3: Thirty eight.
Speaker 1: So you got a picture of the fight. The gorilla
Speaker 1: charges and scatters the group. The first few men to
Speaker 1: engage would likely die fast. The rest would need to
Speaker 1: swarm and pylon without hesitation to have a shot. Even
Speaker 1: if they pin the gorilla, killing it unarmed is tough.
Speaker 1: They'd have to suffocate it or cause massive trauma, which
Speaker 1: could take time and lead to more casualties.
Speaker 2: It would be a grim struggle, to say the least. Jack. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I wouldn't want to see it because obviously the animal
Speaker 2: doesn't have a vote and whether or not it wants
Speaker 2: to participate in this willa.
Speaker 1: Seeing the gorilla's consentant and actually the guy points out,
Speaker 1: this is not a fight anyone would want to see.
Speaker 1: So could one hundred men do it? Possibly? But with
Speaker 1: heavy losses. It's a meaningless victory at best. The gorillas
Speaker 1: of powerhouse humans outmatched without weapons, the costs staggering.
Speaker 2: Wow, AI continues to benefit us all with things like this.
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty ups to slash twenty thousand jobs on
Speaker 1: weak Amazon deliveries over the Trump tariff thing.
Speaker 2: Because you know, practically everything you ordered through Amazon comes
Speaker 2: through UPS, and they're delivering on less packages. I guess
Speaker 2: there are that many fewer packages already. UPS slashing twenty
Speaker 2: thousand jobs. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, YOUPS had severed their relationship with Amazon. I remember
Speaker 1: reading that a while back. Interestingly enough, we mentioned earlier
Speaker 1: that Amazon is going to show a tariff fee. Essentially,
Speaker 1: how much of this price is the tariffs on your
Speaker 1: transactions coming out of what soonish? The White House slamed
Speaker 1: Amazon's reported plan. This is a hostile and political act
Speaker 1: by Amazon, said White House spokeslady Caroline Levitt.
Speaker 2: Political political obviously, and they have, you know, every right
Speaker 2: to be not in favor of the tariffs and how
Speaker 2: it affects their businesses. Hostile. I don't know if it's hospital.
Speaker 1: Well, just to go on quoting Caroline Levitt, because it's interesting,
Speaker 1: why did Amazon do this when the Biden administration hiked
Speaker 1: inflation to the highest level in four years. It's not
Speaker 1: really a surprise because Amazon has partnered with a Chinese
Speaker 1: propaganda arm. Oh shoot, Trump v Bezos. Now, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: mind if this caught on. Of course, there'd be all
Speaker 1: kinds of fact checking that would have to occur.
Speaker 2: But I wish more gas stations in California would have
Speaker 2: a sign that says this five dollars and ten cent
Speaker 2: gallon gas. You're paying for eighty cents of it? Is this,
Speaker 2: sixty cents of it? Is this? Blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: I would love that, you know, or yeah, it should
Speaker 2: I happen during inflation. This costs this much more because
Speaker 2: of the Inflation Reduction Act. Now, we did have the
Speaker 2: pictures of a goofy looking Biden pointing at the price
Speaker 2: and saying I did this, which essentially the same thing. Right,
Speaker 2: that was fantastic.
Speaker 1: How is that not happened in cal Unicornia with a
Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom's face next to gas pumps.
Speaker 2: I'm kind of surprised. I don't know. I loved that
Speaker 2: period of time though, when you go around and have
Speaker 2: the smiling Biden. Let's come Brandon good time. I wanted
Speaker 2: to get this on before we get further into the
Speaker 2: one hundred days of Donald Trump. So this is a
Speaker 2: person Trump did an interview with the Atlantic, including Jeffrey Goldberg,
Speaker 2: because Trump's that kind of guy. AnyWho, Maybe we'll get
Speaker 2: to that a little bit later. Here's one of the
Speaker 2: Atlantic journalists cold calling Trump on his own cell phone.
Speaker 2: I don't know how he had Trump's number, but this
Speaker 2: is how it went.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: This is Michael Hello, this is President Trump.
Speaker 1: There.
Speaker 2: This is Michael Sheer. I'm a reporter for the Atlantic.
Speaker 2: You wrote, oh, I know who you are. Michael, I
Speaker 2: know who you are.
Speaker 3: I never write you never write good about me, Michael,
Speaker 3: you never ever wow.
Speaker 1: So so Trump like old people, I guess, answers the
Speaker 1: phone for random numbers without somebody texting first. Those of
Speaker 1: us who are younger, we will not take a phone
Speaker 1: call unless you have warned us for a long time
Speaker 1: ahead of time, when we know exactly who it is,
Speaker 1: because it's so scary to answer the phone, I guess
Speaker 1: or something I don't know. Short of spouse and best friend, Yes,
Speaker 1: we all now react with why are they calling me? Oh?
Speaker 2: My god, what is this? Trump still edges the bone?
Speaker 2: Who is it? I know who you are? You never
Speaker 2: say anything nice about me? Wow?
Speaker 1: Wow, So we have to Oh, you know what, you
Speaker 1: got to do your your quibble about the gorilla.
Speaker 2: Versus the Fellas thing we're discussed.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna throw that one hundred unarmed men best an
Speaker 1: eight hundred pound.
Speaker 2: Gorilla in a fight. How about I throw that into
Speaker 2: the One More Thing podcast that we do every day
Speaker 2: after the show you can tune in look forward to
Speaker 2: wherever you get your podcasts. The more I think about
Speaker 2: that idea, the more I like it.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, we do an additional segment that never airs
Speaker 1: on the radio, and therefore sometimes there are swears. So
Speaker 1: if you're excited by that prospect, Oh, that reminds me.
Speaker 1: There's a great piece. A couple of folks have commented
Speaker 1: on this, the Democrats new strategy of swearing a lot. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're all going to start swearing at the same time
Speaker 1: to prove how authentic and like regular people we are
Speaker 1: ready begin and reflect your anger right exactly, and it's
Speaker 1: just it's pathetic. So we have declared aloud and repeatedly
Speaker 1: that the first one hundred days and there's generally theme music.
Speaker 1: The first one days of the Trump administration is a
Speaker 1: completely silly and arbitrary measuring stick.
Speaker 2: It is the pseudo. It is a pseudo event is
Speaker 2: created by the media and then the report on it
Speaker 2: like it's not something they invented.
Speaker 1: Right, It's like Black Friday, which never was what it
Speaker 1: claimed to be.
Speaker 2: Ever, it's entirely made up. Anyway.
Speaker 1: Having conceded that, it is a decent enough chance to
Speaker 1: look at some of the pros and cons and ups
Speaker 1: and downs. Kim Strasse a little Wall Street Journal, one
Speaker 1: of our favorite writers, very reasonable woman. She says, when
Speaker 1: Trump is right, he's right, and vicey versy. And she
Speaker 1: points out that the opening two months of the administration,
Speaker 1: we're mold breaking, the policy equivalent of shock and awe.
Speaker 1: And now it has slowed somewhat definitely.
Speaker 2: And is a little more mixed as the.
Speaker 1: Many many court battles which the administration had mostly intentionally provoked,
Speaker 1: are working their way through the system. You've got a
Speaker 1: little strm and drawing at the Pentagon, although that seems
Speaker 1: to have died down. The one point she makes that
Speaker 1: I think is pretty interesting was that and she goes
Speaker 1: through and it's absolutely fair to do this because we've
Speaker 1: criticized Trump for some of the things he's done, the
Speaker 1: tariffs and the rest of it, but not only has
Speaker 1: the victory on the border been just astonishing, and we're
Speaker 1: moving toward figuring out how to deport all the people
Speaker 1: who should not be here, which is you know, it's
Speaker 1: not done yet, obviously, but it's an amazing victory. You
Speaker 1: got the Education Department holding student bar wers accountable for
Speaker 1: their debt. You've got women's sports and private spaces being
Speaker 1: protected aggressively. We haven't won all those battles, but great
Speaker 1: progress is being made. Marco Rubio has made a sweeping
Speaker 1: and overdue restructuring in the State Department.
Speaker 2: That's Kim Strassel's words.
Speaker 1: Trump has slapped down the idiotic populist idea of a
Speaker 1: so called millionaire's tax by various Republicans. There's a long
Speaker 1: list of stuff that's pretty good. But the point that
Speaker 1: she made that I thought was really interesting was if
Speaker 1: you look at the first term, Trump's first term, which
Speaker 1: got him reelected, the positives of the first term, because
Speaker 1: the chaos of the first term was a you know,
Speaker 1: it faded in time and didn't seem as bad and
Speaker 1: b A lot of people realized, Oh, Trump didn't cause
Speaker 1: that chaos. He didn't say, Hey, you know, I might
Speaker 1: be a Russian agent. Let's argue about it for the
Speaker 1: next two years.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: No, that was entirely from the left. But she says,
Speaker 1: dig under the surface, there's a common foundation of some
Speaker 1: of the missteps. Mister Trump's first term success came largely
Speaker 1: down to his reaganesque agenda, and it's those policies deregulation,
Speaker 1: tax cuts, peace through strength that still resonate best with voters.
Speaker 1: Yet his decision in recent years to draw closer to
Speaker 1: his party's new breed of uber populists and neo isolationists
Speaker 1: and to seed them, excuse me, through his government is
Speaker 1: causing real backroom power struggles. A team of rivals sounds great,
Speaker 1: but absent Abe Lincoln, it usually produces a mess.
Speaker 2: That's interesting. I always wonder about that that that book
Speaker 2: unfortunately or fortunately and fine book, but got so much
Speaker 2: attention that everybody thinks having a whole bunch of people,
Speaker 2: you know, in your staff and your work team or whatever,
Speaker 2: that disagree wholeheartedly is the way to go. And I'm
Speaker 2: not sure that's true.
Speaker 1: No, I think you need agreement on certain critical concepts.
Speaker 1: I mean, there was a reason Lincoln put together the
Speaker 1: cabinet that he did. Read the book if you want
Speaker 1: to know, it wasn't like entirely high minded idealism. You
Speaker 1: know what I shall know, I shall Listenmber most of
Speaker 1: my opponents into the nose, trying to co opt their
Speaker 1: support and their coalition.
Speaker 2: Get them on his side to win the election. Blah
Speaker 2: blah blah. And then you might take it might take
Speaker 2: a genius running that to make it work out.
Speaker 1: Also, yeah, perhaps one of the greatest geniuses ever to
Speaker 1: hold the office. Yeah, indeed. Yeah, you've got to agree
Speaker 1: on certain fundamental principles of domestic and foreign policy. I
Speaker 1: think the key is to have advisors who are willing
Speaker 1: to say either a here's the weakness or risk of
Speaker 1: what I'm proposing, or a cabinet where you say, all right,
Speaker 1: Jim has come out with a really good idea. Let's
Speaker 1: take a look at the weaknesses and risks of his argument.
Speaker 1: Let's make sure we understand this thing from three hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty degrees.
Speaker 2: As opposed to you know, a JD.
Speaker 1: Vance Marco Rubio, who might disagree violently on foreign policy
Speaker 1: just they might.
Speaker 2: It's difficult to tell with those two fellas, but yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm repeating some of my favorite pundits who have been
Speaker 2: saying this for years. Every president gets elected and thinks
Speaker 2: that they have a mandate for just maximum change to
Speaker 2: all different parts of the way we run our country.
Speaker 2: And it's kind of odd if you think about it,
Speaker 2: that we would every four years need major changes in
Speaker 2: tax structure, healthcare, border, whatever it is. Just seems unlikely,
Speaker 2: doesn't it, as opposed to, you know, tweaking the course
Speaker 2: of the ship of state? Right, Yeah, you know, yes,
Speaker 2: I was just going to say, I think if Trump
Speaker 2: had rolled in and and I know he's been talking
Speaker 2: about tariffs since he was a young man, but if
Speaker 2: he had rolled in the border and then just kind
Speaker 2: of tend to, you know, other things, I think he'd
Speaker 2: still be at fifty five percent.
Speaker 1: At the risk of various young populists writing angry emails,
Speaker 1: which I chuckle at, what would Reagan do is not
Speaker 1: a bad standard just for the big stuff of domestic policy,
Speaker 1: especially economics. I'm going to violently restructure trade in the
Speaker 1: economy to bring it into conformity with what we need going.
Speaker 2: Forward is a great, great goal, but you've.
Speaker 1: Got to be realistic about the enormous amount of discontent
Speaker 1: that's going to cause and understand that you're going to
Speaker 1: get shellacked in a historic way in the midterms.
Speaker 2: I hope I'm wrong, but it's possible. We have no
Speaker 2: idea what discontent about this looks like that a month
Speaker 2: from now, it's going to it'll be the only thing
Speaker 2: anybody talks about.
Speaker 1: Right, And what really bothers me about that is the
Speaker 1: good stuff that's happening is so good, I mean so good.
Speaker 2: The awareness of the rot in the American education system. Right.
Speaker 1: Imagine if that was just cut off after two years,
Speaker 1: I mean, Trump would still have his bully pulpit. But
Speaker 1: if that progress ended. What to do about the universities?
Speaker 1: You know, what to do about elementary education that is
Speaker 1: so incredibly important. Protecting women's rights and slapping down the
Speaker 1: radical gender theory lunatics, bringing back Columbus that's another big one, certainly. Yeah. Yeah, Again,
Speaker 1: if you stay in your lane and maybe one lane
Speaker 1: on either side, enormous amounts of good can be done.
Speaker 1: As if it's getting over ambitious, that's going to bring
Speaker 1: everything down.
Speaker 2: As we've said multiple times, if if, if it turns
Speaker 2: out Mark Alpern's got his piece today he said, don't
Speaker 2: judge any of this stuff yet. Judge is the war
Speaker 2: between Russia and Ukraine over and settled six months from now.
Speaker 2: If in quarter four we've got strong growth in this country,
Speaker 2: then judge the tariffs. Not today.
Speaker 1: I'd be perfectly happy, perfectly happy with no qualms whatsoever
Speaker 1: six months from now. To say, man, that was a
Speaker 1: brilliant move that really worked. If it works out well,
Speaker 1: and I didn't think it would, but I don't think
Speaker 1: it's going to d and I think this is going
Speaker 1: to go down as one of the historically own goals
Speaker 1: in presidential history. I hope, I know you really get
Speaker 1: it wrong. I really want to be wrong for all
Speaker 1: kinds of reasons. Financially, personally, I want to be wrong.
Speaker 2: I want to be wrong.
Speaker 1: For the fact that if it is an historic own goal,
Speaker 1: the Democrats are going to win like several elections in
Speaker 1: a row over it.
Speaker 2: I don't want that to home. Oh yeah again.
Speaker 1: Having run on immigration in the economy and hit like
Speaker 1: a towering nine hundred foot home run on immigration, to
Speaker 1: mess up the economy.
Speaker 2: Would just be tragic. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, let's hope not yeah again. I'd be happy to
Speaker 1: say I'm wrong. Any thoughts in that text line four
Speaker 1: one five KFTC.
Speaker 5: Strong Paul land Security second in Christy Noan reportedly had
Speaker 5: her perse stolen while dining with her family at a Washington,
Speaker 5: DC restaurant. And you would now believe how many Dalmatians
Speaker 5: it took to make.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 2: That's unfair but funny, I would say.
Speaker 1: So.
Speaker 2: I got a weird fomo fear of missing out thing
Speaker 2: about when when I when I find out this popular
Speaker 2: meme and then I read about it and I think, Hi,
Speaker 2: I missed that, and uh. Part of it is this job,
Speaker 2: like I don't want to miss out on popular trends
Speaker 2: that people are talking about without bringing them to you.
Speaker 2: Part of it's just fomo, I guess. But somehow I
Speaker 2: missed out on this viral video from a while back
Speaker 2: about this guy in his early morning routine that apparently
Speaker 2: has caught on. The four am wake up is not
Speaker 2: just for Superman's CEOs anymore, says The Wall Street Journal,
Speaker 2: and a quest to be ever more productive, the morning
Speaker 2: routines of American men hit new extremes, and it's about
Speaker 2: how It's become a big deal, whether you're Disney CEO
Speaker 2: Bob Iger who starts super early in the morning, or
Speaker 2: CEO Tim Cook of Apple getting up at four AM.
Speaker 2: I guess is the thing. And I didn't know about
Speaker 2: this Ashton Hall, who posted a video his morning routine
Speaker 2: that involved mouth tape. Do you know what that is, Katie?
Speaker 2: What's mouth tape?
Speaker 3: Hey?
Speaker 2: You put it over your mouth when you sleep.
Speaker 1: It's supposed to force you to breathe through your nose,
Speaker 1: which is better for you.
Speaker 2: I think my kids would discover my lifeless body if
Speaker 2: I did that. But all right, and I think Almighty
Speaker 2: God probably came up with a decent plan for how
Speaker 2: you got to breathe while you're asleep. But thanks anyway.
Speaker 1: This guy, he got his mouth tape an ice bath
Speaker 1: filled with bottled Saratoga water because the kind of water
Speaker 1: cold water in your bath obviously makes a huge difference.
Speaker 1: A banana peel rubbed across his face, and most importantly,
Speaker 1: it all starts. It's what is sense the oils or something,
Speaker 1: And most importantly it all begins at three point fifty
Speaker 1: five am.
Speaker 2: I kind of like this sin lives late at night.
Speaker 2: According to this post, that got so much attention. If
Speaker 2: you're dealing with a weak mind, bad decisions, or lack
Speaker 2: of productivity, go to sleep early. You do tend to
Speaker 2: make bad decisions at night. Eating a relationship.
Speaker 1: Wise shortly after he took the tape off of his
Speaker 1: mouth that Benjamin Franklin said, early to bed, early to
Speaker 1: rise makes man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
Speaker 2: In the days that fall, that video going viral.
Speaker 1: Seemingly half of the Internet, from Ed Shearan to somebody
Speaker 1: I've never heard of, posted clips parroting the Hall's routine
Speaker 1: about getting up at four o'clock in the morning anyway
Speaker 1: that sounds entertaining. I feel like last week we were
Speaker 1: talking about how I feel like I don't feel like
Speaker 1: I know this is true. Extroverts get to like run
Speaker 1: the world and act like that's the only way to
Speaker 1: do things.
Speaker 2: Because they're extroverts. They're they're loud and proud and are
Speaker 2: willing to get in your face and say it, whereas
Speaker 2: we introverts.
Speaker 1: Are kind of, yeah, I don't, I don't really like
Speaker 1: it a whatever, and so you get all the attention.
Speaker 2: I feel like people who are built to get up
Speaker 2: early kind of dominate that conversation.
Speaker 1: It works for you because that's the way you're built. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it doesn't work for everyone.
Speaker 2: And the sort of person who is more productive, maybe
Speaker 2: as productive as you, but does it getting up later
Speaker 2: and staying up later.
Speaker 1: So right, exactly, But there's no Look what a hard
Speaker 1: guy I am aspect to that.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: For some reason, that is kind of interesting. I don't
Speaker 1: know why it is. I get up at ten am,
Speaker 1: but I don't go to sleep until four in the morning,
Speaker 1: and I'm productive the whole day gets no attention.
Speaker 2: But yeah, here you've seen as a sloth or something
Speaker 2: like that. Yes, kah, Well, there's nothing more manly than
Speaker 2: rubbing a banana peel on your face or making sure
Speaker 2: you have Saratoga water to jump into as opposed to tapwater.
Speaker 2: Good lord, ugh, oh my skin, my poor skin.
Speaker 1: Hand me another banana peel quickly it's all dried or
Speaker 1: something
Speaker 2: Armstrong and getdy.