Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: I'm strong and Gatty and Key Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3: WNDA players are sending a very frank message to the
Speaker 3: league during a very pivotal time. The All Stars warming
Speaker 3: up in these T shirts last night that read pay
Speaker 3: us what you owe us the game, later drawing chance
Speaker 3: from fans echoing pay them.
Speaker 2: This comes a mid negotiations ran I really need out
Speaker 2: of that.
Speaker 4: So the w NBA players came out on the court
Speaker 4: for their All Star Game, which I did not see,
Speaker 4: wearing shirts that said play us what you pay us,
Speaker 4: what you owe us, and that caused a lot of
Speaker 4: online chatter. Is that sort of thing will? A lot
Speaker 4: of people pointing out the fifty dollars the league lost
Speaker 4: most recent season According to the NBA, which owns the WNBA,
Speaker 4: The WNBA is supported by only exists really because of
Speaker 4: the NBA finally subsidized by Yeah. Others are claiming that
Speaker 4: all that math has changed since Caitlin Clark came in
Speaker 4: and their ratings are up. The average attendance is up
Speaker 4: all across the country. I don't have any idea the
Speaker 4: numbers of that, but at least historically it has been
Speaker 4: a league that would not exist on its own if somebody,
Speaker 4: if the NBA wasn't for some reason thinking it's in
Speaker 4: their best interest to have a woman's version out there.
Speaker 4: There's not enough of an appetite to make it a
Speaker 4: profitable business at least a pisted.
Speaker 5: Two main motivations in doing that is far as I've
Speaker 5: been able to gather. Number One, it's a decent idea
Speaker 5: because like women's soccer is pretty big and profitable, and
Speaker 5: they thought maybe there's a market for this. The second
Speaker 5: thing is they are a league that has had problems
Speaker 5: with guys who don't treat women very well, and especially
Speaker 5: during the hashtag me too era when it was for
Speaker 5: that two and a half years or whatever it was,
Speaker 5: you had to desperately signal that you were good with
Speaker 5: women and up with women and down with domestic violence
Speaker 5: and rape and the rest of it, and aren't we
Speaker 5: all I'm differentiating frantic virtue signaling with actual morals. That's
Speaker 5: part of it. They just thought it was really good
Speaker 5: for their image. I points it was like buying carbon
Speaker 5: credits or something.
Speaker 2: As I was just.
Speaker 4: Reading one article preparing for this. Apparently the NBA purposefully
Speaker 4: makes the books on this pretty murky, so it's pretty
Speaker 4: difficult to figure out how much they subsidize and how
Speaker 4: much money the WNBA makes or dozen or whatever. But
Speaker 4: it is worth pointing out that the players, and they're
Speaker 4: voting for other players on the All Star Team had
Speaker 4: Caitlin Clark at ninth. You're out there wearing shirts for
Speaker 4: the All Star Game and says, pay us what are worth?
Speaker 4: If you get a raise, it's because of Caitlyn Clark.
Speaker 4: I mean, so I wouldn't be hating on her too much.
Speaker 5: Stadium was full for the All Star Game, Jack, do
Speaker 5: you know where it was held?
Speaker 2: Guessing apples? Guessing where she plays? Right?
Speaker 5: Yeah, coincidence. That's kind of funny, isn't it.
Speaker 4: I mean you don't have to like her, I suppose,
Speaker 4: but you ought to realize that if you make more money,
Speaker 4: she's entirely the reason.
Speaker 2: Right now.
Speaker 4: Might not be fair, of course, but you know where
Speaker 4: does fair come into entertainment? Well, for instance, as I
Speaker 4: just spent an unholy amount of time watching the British Open,
Speaker 4: or the Open Championship as we prefer to call it
Speaker 4: in the golf world over the weekend.
Speaker 2: Tiger Woods was a prick.
Speaker 5: But every single guy with a golf club in his
Speaker 5: hands playing on TV will tell you, oh man, our
Speaker 5: sports just exploded because of Tiger. We're all making a
Speaker 5: hell of a lot more money because of Tiger.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah.
Speaker 4: Back in the day, I would have watched. I would
Speaker 4: have known the tournament was on this weekend. I didn't,
Speaker 4: and would have watched some if Tiger was playing, and
Speaker 4: because I would have pulled in people like me.
Speaker 2: Yeah exactly. Anyway, coming up later, I.
Speaker 5: Was gonna I've got a bunch of economic like a
Speaker 5: kitchen table, you know, economic dollars and cents stories to
Speaker 5: touch on real quickly.
Speaker 2: That's why I wanted to do this. Getting into it.
Speaker 4: The Caitlin Clark thing is just because it's all it's
Speaker 4: almost so many things are not presented as a dollar
Speaker 4: and cents sort of way. It's not nothing to do
Speaker 4: with fairness or whether women deserve a platform, but blah blah.
Speaker 2: Blah, none of that has anything to do with anything.
Speaker 5: Major league shortstop makes forty million dollars a year when
Speaker 5: a school teacher makes eighty thousand. Yeah, that's correct, that's
Speaker 5: absolutely correct, and that's precisely the way it should be anyway,
Speaker 5: unless we as a society decide to reprioritize. But we
Speaker 5: haven't anyway. So a couple of things worth noting. Economically speaking,
Speaker 5: here's a little ab for you. Headline A from the
Speaker 5: Wall Street Journal, the US economy is regaining its swagger.
Speaker 2: Consumer spending again.
Speaker 4: Consumers spending again after spring's tariff chill. But some expect
Speaker 4: growth to be slow. But there doesn't seem anything. It
Speaker 4: seemed to be anything that can slow down the economy.
Speaker 4: Then this headline, it's like the next story, Europe prepares
Speaker 4: for a US trade fight. We're about to start a
Speaker 4: trade war with our biggest trading partner over Trump's whole
Speaker 4: tariff thing and.
Speaker 2: Trade imbalances and the rest of it.
Speaker 5: And although in his defense, Europe has had very very
Speaker 5: one sided in their favor rules and rags about trading
Speaker 5: with the US.
Speaker 4: It does confuse me somewhat that I feel like I've
Speaker 4: heard five to and different entities.
Speaker 2: Are our biggest trading partner.
Speaker 4: That stat seems to get thrown around a lot. Our
Speaker 4: biggest trading partner, Mexico, our biggest trading partner. You're up
Speaker 4: our biggest trading partner, China, our biggest trading partner.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: If it's just like which version you use of the
Speaker 4: way you slice it.
Speaker 2: I don't know. That's an interesting thought. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 5: So one of the points that they make in the
Speaker 5: second article about the alleged trade war is that nobody's
Speaker 5: really sure if any of the stuff is ever going
Speaker 5: to happen, the tariffs and the trade wars and the
Speaker 5: sturm and drong, and as markets tend to do, they
Speaker 5: get used to things.
Speaker 2: There's a more technical term for that.
Speaker 5: But now they're like, oh, yeah, Trump' shooting off his
Speaker 5: mouth about a trade war again. Huh interesting? What do
Speaker 5: you want to have for lunch? In a way that
Speaker 5: you know six months ago people go in nuts? And
Speaker 5: then finally this I thought this was really interesting. Now
Speaker 5: not a political thing because I don't care. Yeah, go ahead,
Speaker 5: Oh Lutnick his main spokesman on the whole thing. Oh Lutnick.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Howard Lutnick was on one of the shows yesterday and
Speaker 4: I should have had Hanson grabbed the quote. He said
Speaker 4: something like, in the next two weeks, Americans are going
Speaker 4: to see the best something or other they've ever seen
Speaker 4: in their lives economy or business climate, or stock market
Speaker 4: or something. But anyway, he's claiming, in the next two weeks,
Speaker 4: we're gonna it's gonna be the most amazing you've ever
Speaker 4: seen in your life.
Speaker 2: Okay, cool.
Speaker 5: That's during the heels of the ninety deals in ninety
Speaker 5: days and there was like one and a.
Speaker 2: Half m.
Speaker 5: Show me, don't tell me, eh and then this, and
Speaker 5: again I'm not trying to make any point.
Speaker 2: I just found it interesting.
Speaker 4: It's a entirely economic strategy.
Speaker 2: Here's it.
Speaker 5: For instance, in January, a Campbell's New England clam chowder
Speaker 5: can of soup costs less than two bucks on Amazon.
Speaker 5: A this month can of So you're ordering your clam
Speaker 5: soup on Amazon to have delivered rights to your door.
Speaker 5: What a time to be alive. What a great country.
Speaker 5: And it's less than two bucks. And you can be
Speaker 5: in a part of the country where you haven't seen
Speaker 5: a clam since you know, but you can get it
Speaker 5: delivered to your door the next day, maybe the same day.
Speaker 5: And this month, that same soup costs two sixty on Amazon,
Speaker 5: a thirty percent increase in the five months since President
Speaker 5: Trump first announced sweeping tariffs. Amazon has quietly raised prices
Speaker 5: on low cost products, a bunch of them. Deodorant, protein shakes,
Speaker 5: PetCare items, blah blah blah. Wall Street Journal analysis and
Speaker 5: nearly twenty five hundred items.
Speaker 2: Found on average.
Speaker 5: Prices on inexpensive goods increased five percent by July. So
Speaker 5: it's not a ton, but it's some. In April, Amazon
Speaker 5: said they would hold the line on prices, but indeed
Speaker 5: they have raised them on thousands and thousands of items.
Speaker 5: Walmart lowered prices on the same items by nearly two percent.
Speaker 4: Okay, let's say items. What's going on there? Different business strategies.
Speaker 4: Here's what Lutnick said, how do you reverse public opposition?
Speaker 6: Oh, they're going to love the deals that President Trump
Speaker 6: and I are doing.
Speaker 2: I mean, they're just going to love them.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 6: The President figured out the right answer and sent letters
Speaker 6: to these countries said this is going to fix the
Speaker 6: trade deficit. This will go a long way to fixing
Speaker 6: the trade deficit. And that's gotten these countries to the table.
Speaker 6: And they were going to open their markets or they're
Speaker 6: going to pay the tariff. And if they open their markets,
Speaker 6: the opportunity for Americans to export to grow their business, farmers, ranchers, fishermen.
Speaker 6: This is going to be the next two weeks are
Speaker 6: going to be weeks for the record books.
Speaker 2: President Trump is going to deliver for the American people.
Speaker 4: Next two weeks are going to be weeks for the
Speaker 4: record books. I hope it's true as juicy as Trump steaks.
Speaker 4: That's right, It's going to be fabulous. Why that was
Speaker 4: just why its Why do you need to do that?
Speaker 4: Because I'm a realist, I demand realism. I think you
Speaker 4: should put on your Trump shoes and walk that back.
Speaker 2: Take a look at my Trump watch and it's not running.
Speaker 2: That's on.
Speaker 5: So here's here's one of the difficulties in speaking of
Speaker 5: these things quickly. It reminds me of the end of
Speaker 5: the last hour. Jack said something about the Epstein thing,
Speaker 5: and I said, well, it depends what you mean by
Speaker 5: the Epstein thing.
Speaker 2: As we are discussing last week.
Speaker 5: There are many different sizes you can order of the
Speaker 5: Epstein quote unquote conspiracy. Some are very modest, fact based.
Speaker 5: This guy was a perv. He was getting underage girls
Speaker 5: for other pervs. Who are they? Why have so few
Speaker 5: charges been filed? That is a perfectly reasonable, fairly conservative
Speaker 5: way to look at it.
Speaker 2: Then you got your.
Speaker 5: Full blown the Jews are running a worldwide sex pizza
Speaker 5: under see Hollywood driven sex cabal thing.
Speaker 2: Different version of the Epstein thing.
Speaker 5: When you're talking about the tariffs and the trade wars
Speaker 5: and the agreements, you almost have to talk about every
Speaker 5: country or every set of countries differently, because it's absolutely
Speaker 5: true Europe has all sorts of trade barriers against us
Speaker 5: that are the legacy of the post WW two era
Speaker 5: when they were decimated, and we were smart to help
Speaker 5: them grow their economies so they would become customers again
Speaker 5: and become trading partners again, and ally is worth having again,
Speaker 5: that was smart.
Speaker 2: It needs to end now.
Speaker 5: The only reason their economies are weak is because they're socialists,
Speaker 5: and we've been defending them against foreign adversaries for the
Speaker 5: last seventy five years. Having said all that, the whole
Speaker 5: trade deficit thing is just silly. That's not a problem
Speaker 5: except in very rare cases.
Speaker 2: Here's a for instance.
Speaker 5: This is another Trump is silly thing. Sorry, I'm piling
Speaker 5: on a bit. I love what he's done on the
Speaker 5: border and cleaning up the woke in the universities.
Speaker 2: Couldn't love it. Anymore. But this stuff is just silly.
Speaker 2: Love that the Oval Office now looks like a Chinese restaurant. Absolutely.
Speaker 5: Finally, so Trump announced last week that he's ordered Coca
Speaker 5: Cola to put cane.
Speaker 4: Sugar ben right, that's right, finally, that's what I said
Speaker 4: of cord, the issue I voted on.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and uh, here's the problem. Though, we have a
Speaker 5: huge shortage of sugar in this country. We don't produce
Speaker 5: nearly as much as we eat because we're.
Speaker 2: A fat, fat people. We produced about.
Speaker 5: Four million tons of cane sugar four million. We consume
Speaker 5: twelve and a half million.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 5: The rest is made up by imports and sugar source
Speaker 5: from sugar beets, which is a little bit different. And
Speaker 5: so we would have to have an enormous increase in
Speaker 5: sugar imports from.
Speaker 2: Brazil and Mexico.
Speaker 5: Okay, those are country is that face Trump administration tariffs
Speaker 5: of fifty and thirty percent respectively on August first, allegedly,
Speaker 5: so your coke could be about three dollars and fifty
Speaker 5: cents for one thing. And secondly, all of a sudden,
Speaker 5: out of nowhere, we would have enormous trade deficits because
Speaker 5: they have something we want that doesn't hurt us my grocery.
Speaker 4: I have an enormous trade deficit with my grocery store.
Speaker 4: I give them way more money than they give me.
Speaker 4: I can't in fact, I can't find any record of
Speaker 4: them giving me any money. But that money filters its
Speaker 4: way through the economy into my pocket and it's fine.
Speaker 4: So it's just it's a silly way of looking at it.
Speaker 4: Big sugar or something. Yeah, I just I don't get
Speaker 4: his strategy.
Speaker 5: Maybe it's just his his I'm crazy hardball and it
Speaker 5: yields great agreements.
Speaker 2: I hope that's the case.
Speaker 4: It may be getting a pet psyche could help your
Speaker 4: dog's life. Also, I want to be a billionaire. Work
Speaker 4: ninety hours a week. That's the answer. Among other things
Speaker 4: on the way.
Speaker 8: TVs announced they are indeed ending the late night comedy
Speaker 8: show The Late Show with Stephen Colbert next year.
Speaker 2: Jimmy Kimmel blasted.
Speaker 8: The decision with a foul mouth post on Instagram. He
Speaker 8: would have done it on his show, but he wanted
Speaker 8: people to see it.
Speaker 2: That's kind of funny. Wow.
Speaker 4: So Tulsa Gabbert, the skunk striped National Security National Director
Speaker 4: of Intelligence or whatever she is, made some explosive claims
Speaker 4: yesterday about information she has about the Obama administration purposefully
Speaker 4: fabricating stuff about Russia, Gates, et cetera, et cetera. That
Speaker 4: including Barry himself, if true, would be a really big deal.
Speaker 2: So we'll explain that coming up. Yep.
Speaker 5: Indeed, a couple of really cool stories from the world
Speaker 5: of science, one being that, and I became aware of
Speaker 5: this because a friend is involved in this. But can
Speaker 5: new blood tests really detect cancer early? A federally funded
Speaker 5: study will research whether a new generation of cancer blood
Speaker 5: tests are ready for patients.
Speaker 2: It's a big giant study. Yeah.
Speaker 5: These multi cancer, multi cancer early detection tests are designed
Speaker 5: to flag the aeron genetic signatures of more than a
Speaker 5: dozen cancers. Wow, how doctors and medical practices are already
Speaker 5: using them?
Speaker 4: How often do you think we'd be jabbing ourselves? Would
Speaker 4: we start doing it at home? Because it's so we're
Speaker 4: going in like every How often would you do it?
Speaker 2: Probably every couple of years would be enough. Right? No, God, No.
Speaker 4: When I got when I had my cancer, I asked
Speaker 4: him how long do you think I had this? They
Speaker 4: said it could have been nine months, or it could
Speaker 4: have been a couple of weeks depends on how fast
Speaker 4: it grew. But yeah, I think you'd have to go
Speaker 4: in every month, or you'd want to if you could
Speaker 4: catch this gieminy. I don't want to get jabbed every month.
Speaker 5: I don't cancer either, But you know, I wonder, you know,
Speaker 5: obviously we're way early to be discussing that with any
Speaker 5: you know, authority, But I wonder how expensive the test
Speaker 5: will be or you know, because some things are much
Speaker 5: more you know, expensive than others in the world of
Speaker 5: blood testing. And the other interesting story is they're making
Speaker 5: find out more and more about dog's ability to actually
Speaker 5: smell that somebody has Parkinson's disease. Wow, yeah they can.
Speaker 5: That's been known for quite some time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Parkinson's causes changes in your skin and has a
Speaker 4: unique sense signature linked to the disease.
Speaker 2: And and you know, the.
Speaker 5: Dogs, let's see what was their actual success rate up
Speaker 5: to eighty percent sensitivity and ninety eight percent by sniff
Speaker 5: skin swabs, but in the field it's more like eighty
Speaker 5: percent in the early testing.
Speaker 2: So I mean that.
Speaker 4: Between the blood tests and like dogs, might we be
Speaker 4: able to nip these dread diseases in the bud in
Speaker 4: the future.
Speaker 2: That'd be amazing. What Tulsi Glack gab Well is rough.
Speaker 4: Tosy Gabber claims she has Armstrong and.
Speaker 2: Geeddy fuzz on this. Whatsoever.
Speaker 1: The Russians interfered in our election during twenty sixteen cycle.
Speaker 1: They did it with purpose, They did it with sophistication,
Speaker 1: They did it with overwhelming technical efforts.
Speaker 2: The Great James Comy, the hero of every story he
Speaker 2: ever tells, or.
Speaker 4: They did not a whole lot other than run a
Speaker 4: bunch of Facebook ads, which is ultimately kind of everything
Speaker 4: they found for the most part.
Speaker 5: Right well, interestingly enough, over the weekend, Tulsa Gabber the
Speaker 5: DNI made a statement that we're about to essentially saying
Speaker 5: Barack Obama was intimately involved in the Russian collusion hoax
Speaker 5: and everything that flowed from it.
Speaker 2: In that and I'll let her.
Speaker 5: Speak, but that the cast of characters, those names we know,
Speaker 5: Comy Clapper, Brennan, Susan Rice, John Kerry, they are all
Speaker 5: in on it. Indeed, it is criminal what they did here,
Speaker 5: is miss Gabbard.
Speaker 2: It's not a Democrat or Republican issue.
Speaker 9: This is an.
Speaker 7: Issue with such significant impact that it should concern every
Speaker 7: American because it has to do with the fabric and
Speaker 7: integrity of our democratic republic. There was a Moller investigation
Speaker 7: that went on for years, cost taxpayers nearly forty million dollars.
Speaker 2: There were two congressional impeachments.
Speaker 7: President Trump and almost every member of his family were
Speaker 7: smeared and attacked face lawsuits, depositions, high level officials were
Speaker 7: Investigated's foundational to it all was the fact that we
Speaker 7: had in President Obama and his leadership team, people who
Speaker 7: did not want to accept the will of the American
Speaker 7: people in electing Donald Trump in twenty sixteen, and therefore
Speaker 7: cooked up this treasonous conspiracy to again try to effectively
Speaker 7: and they did effectively launch a year's long coup against
Speaker 7: the sitting president of the United States.
Speaker 4: I didn't see the interview with her. Where did where
Speaker 4: did she come up with new information?
Speaker 5: I just think it's continuing to dig after months of
Speaker 5: investigation into this matter. She says, Yeah, Trump's only been
Speaker 5: president for six months and there's been no way to
Speaker 5: look into it.
Speaker 2: A news since twenty twenty.
Speaker 5: I'm scanning her statement real quickly. The long and short
Speaker 5: of what she says is that there is overwhelming evidence
Speaker 5: that demonstrates how, after Trump won the twenty sixteen election
Speaker 5: against Hillary Clinton, president Obama is national security Cabinet members
Speaker 5: manufactured and politicized intelligence to lay the groundwork for what
Speaker 5: was essentially a year's long coup against the president.
Speaker 2: And she goes into a fair amount of detail.
Speaker 4: Now, I'm pretty jaded on this sort of stuff, and
Speaker 4: I come by it honestly. I think in that, for instance,
Speaker 4: the whole Russia hoax, all kinds of people, including my
Speaker 4: current Senator Adam Schiff, claimed all kinds of crap for
Speaker 4: years that they just did not have and have paid
Speaker 4: no price for not having it. Then you got James
Speaker 4: Comer on the Republican side claiming all kinds of crap
Speaker 4: that he apparently has not had in a couple of
Speaker 4: different things recently.
Speaker 2: And I don't have a.
Speaker 4: Lot of faith in Tulci Gabbard. I do have a
Speaker 4: fair amount of faith in Matt Taiebe, though he is
Speaker 4: the leading non right wing journalist on being upset about
Speaker 4: the Russia hoax.
Speaker 2: He hates Trump.
Speaker 4: He's lefty if he's anything, but he hates being lied
Speaker 4: to by the government more than anything else. And he
Speaker 4: has believed the whole Russia thing was nonsense from the beginning.
Speaker 4: Has been writing about this for the Rolling Stone and others,
Speaker 4: and I guess now he's a substack guy.
Speaker 2: This is what he tweeted out today.
Speaker 4: Though Barack Obama now squarely in the Russia gate crosshairs,
Speaker 4: Former President Obama is now the center square of the investigation,
Speaker 4: and documents suggested legacy, maybe even his freedom are in jeopardy, right, iibi.
Speaker 4: I mean, according to the documents that are out that's
Speaker 4: a hell of a thing to say. Here's a very
Speaker 4: basic fact outline that is the spine of this whole thing. So,
Speaker 4: in the months leading up to the November twenty sixteen election,
Speaker 4: the intelligence community consistently assessed that Russia is probably not
Speaker 4: trying to influence the elect the election by using cyber means.
Speaker 4: And in December of twenty sixteen, after the election, after
Speaker 4: the election, talking points were prepared for d n I
Speaker 4: James Clapper stating quote, foreign adversaries did not use cyber
Speaker 4: attechs a cyber attacks on election infrastructure to alter the
Speaker 4: US presidential election outcome. On December ninth, twenty sixteen, President
Speaker 4: Obama's White House gathered top National Security Council of principles
Speaker 4: for a meeting that included Clapper and Brennan and Rice
Speaker 4: and Carry, etc. After the meeting, D and I, Clapper's
Speaker 4: executive assistant, sent an email to intelligence community leaders tasking
Speaker 4: them with creating a new IC assessment per the president's request.
Speaker 4: That's a quote that details quote the tools Moscow used
Speaker 4: in actions it took to influence the twenty sixteen election.
Speaker 4: It went on to say, oh, D and I will
Speaker 4: lead this effort with participation from the various agencies. There's
Speaker 4: a problem there, and various folks have called Tulsey Gabbard
Speaker 4: on it. I don't want to prejudge because, like Matt Taibi,
Speaker 4: I agree it was so dirty and deliberate and so
Speaker 4: many people were in on it. Whether it crossed the
Speaker 4: bounds into lawlessness, I don't know, but it's worth pursuing.
Speaker 4: But the first statement was about Russia is not trying
Speaker 4: to influence the election by using cyber means literally hacking
Speaker 4: into the systems. And then the second thing at Obama's
Speaker 4: request is tools Moscow used in actions it took to
Speaker 4: influence the twenty sixteen election. Those are two different questions,
Speaker 4: and so is this just sloppy is it equivocating the
Speaker 4: two things.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I'll tell you this, I am absolutely unwilling to say.
Speaker 5: Look at Telsey Gabbard, those two things are different. She's
Speaker 5: a crackpot. Never mind. I mean, because it was so
Speaker 5: dirty and deliberate and unfair and probably illegal.
Speaker 4: Well, certainly, the faking up of the PAISA warrants over
Speaker 4: and over again in the ways we've discussed through the years.
Speaker 2: That was despicable.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and uh, you know, it's the same crowd that
Speaker 4: went out of their way to present Hunter's laptop as
Speaker 4: a ridiculous story when they knew it was a real story.
Speaker 4: They run knew it was real. So it's the same
Speaker 4: people doing the same things in the same direction. Does
Speaker 4: it really stretch the credulity that.
Speaker 5: Much to think Obama was in on those conversations or
Speaker 5: even you know, ran it. And if it wasn't Obama,
Speaker 5: that's fine. I don't have Obama obsession syndrome. Now, it
Speaker 5: doesn't whether it go to him at all. All the
Speaker 5: other people, if they did it on their own, need
Speaker 5: to pay a price.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, I would agree.
Speaker 4: I just have always assumed with Obama mostly. I mean,
Speaker 4: this is not like a charitable view of him. Really,
Speaker 4: it's just a just always have thought he's just so
Speaker 4: into himself, and he was at the end of a
Speaker 4: two term presidency, Like I just can't imagine him caring enough.
Speaker 4: We've got a couple of Matt taiv quote clips here,
Speaker 4: Sure said talking to Bill Hemmer on Fox News go
Speaker 4: ahead with forty seven. Michael, Well, why wasn't there more
Speaker 4: urgency on this and Trump one point zero as there
Speaker 4: is now?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a complaint.
Speaker 9: I heard a lot over the weekend from people who
Speaker 9: have been following this, and even for former officials who
Speaker 9: are close to Trump. There one of them said to me,
Speaker 9: a former high ranking Trump officials said there was quote
Speaker 9: so much corruption in the last Trump presidency that this
Speaker 9: shouldn't have been overlooked, that these documents should have come out. Absolutely,
Speaker 9: But the overall sense I get is that everyone's happy
Speaker 9: that they finally are coming out, and they're looking forward
Speaker 9: to what is likely to come out this week.
Speaker 4: Matt Taibe is a guy, as a lefty, he has
Speaker 4: been one of the people screaming, hey, liberals, we're the
Speaker 4: people that are supposed to be like really worried about
Speaker 4: the CIA and the NSA and the FBI. We're the
Speaker 4: ones that's our lane to think that the FBI is
Speaker 4: somebody we should be scared of, and they all cooked
Speaker 4: something up to take down a presidency. Shouldn't we as
Speaker 4: liberals be worried about this?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: A lot of what motivates him as personal disgust that, Yeah,
Speaker 5: the lefty media started lionizing Clapper and call me and
Speaker 5: all these people the minute they were opposing Trump. And
Speaker 5: he's like, wait a minute, these are the spooks and
Speaker 5: the guys who ignore the Constitution and the Fourth Amendment
Speaker 5: means nothing to them with their legal searches, and.
Speaker 2: Now they're your buddies, left the America and cooked up
Speaker 2: the Iraq war. In his mind, right, here's another Tayebee clip.
Speaker 4: Is the allegation they were trying to influence our election
Speaker 4: or or is the allegation that they actually changed votes?
Speaker 2: I think we need to be clear on that. What
Speaker 2: can we say? So it's both.
Speaker 9: The Democrats are making a lot of hay over this
Speaker 9: apples and oranges issue that there was never any question
Speaker 9: they didn't actually change vote tallies, but they did influence
Speaker 9: the election. Actually, there was some question about whether they
Speaker 9: had the ability to to influence the election. There were
Speaker 9: quotes earlier from that from that year with the FBI
Speaker 9: saying they didn't have any evidence that they had done so,
Speaker 9: and they were uncomfortable making that statement. There there were
Speaker 9: also quotes saying that they lacked evidence that Russia had
Speaker 9: the ability to out to impact the outcome of the election.
Speaker 9: So all of this would have been passed on to
Speaker 9: somebody like Michael Flynn because presidents elect are entitled to
Speaker 9: receive the Presidential Daily Briefing. That's why this is important.
Speaker 9: It's not so much what the PDB did say, it's
Speaker 9: what it didn't say. It didn't say that there was
Speaker 9: a sweeping conspiracy to help Trump, and if they had that,
Speaker 9: it would have been a very different political.
Speaker 5: Picture going for Okay, I got to admit my overall
Speaker 5: sense of this is it's going to be really hard
Speaker 5: to nail down. There are just too many slippery facts
Speaker 5: and plausible deniability encounters and the rest of it. I
Speaker 5: think it's well worth looking into because it was a
Speaker 5: disgusting chapter.
Speaker 4: From people who for a living do slippery things that
Speaker 4: are hard to nail down in other countries. So so, yeah,
Speaker 4: and one counterfactual or alternate history that will never be
Speaker 4: able to witness in reality is if Trump hadn't been
Speaker 4: beset by that whole Russian collusion hoax his whole first term,
Speaker 4: how would that have changed his actions policies? Is just
Speaker 4: is his demeanor everything all right? And the first impeachment
Speaker 4: probably wouldn't have happened, and then the second way. I mean,
Speaker 4: you don't know if January six you don't know if
Speaker 4: he'd have won. So yeah, it's hard to say how
Speaker 4: it affected things well.
Speaker 5: Right, And even having lost. The whole January sixth thing
Speaker 5: was I think, to some extent Trump refusing to stand
Speaker 5: up for the so called institutions of our society in
Speaker 5: a way that I would have appreciated on that day
Speaker 5: because he was so disgusted with how dishonest they had
Speaker 5: been about him and his administration for a very long time.
Speaker 5: I'm not excusing it, but I think I understand it.
Speaker 4: With nobody paying a price at all, exactly, you want
Speaker 4: to be a billionaire, work ninety hours a week, among
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Speaker 4: saying in their concerts now all entertaining. So Elon Musk
Speaker 4: tweeted this out on his old platform over the weekend,
Speaker 4: which I thought was interesting. All it said was, at
Speaker 4: times AI existential dread is overwhelming. Well, I thought that
Speaker 4: from a guy who's building one of the top AI
Speaker 4: machines in the world and knows more about it than
Speaker 4: the average human.
Speaker 2: I find that a little scary.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I've got a great chat GPT story in
Speaker 5: which it has chat gpt is admitted I failed.
Speaker 4: But on a different topic from Elon Musk, he did
Speaker 4: an interview over the weekend with uh look like it was,
Speaker 4: which one is it? Axios Politico one of them anyway,
Speaker 4: talked about how much he's working now SpaceX and Tesla,
Speaker 4: and he said he's back to He had tweeted out
Speaker 4: he's back to working seven days a week and sleeping
Speaker 4: in his office whenever his kids are away.
Speaker 2: I don't know whatever.
Speaker 4: Whenever his kids away means when you have fourteen kids,
Speaker 4: different women, different places, but working seven days a week,
Speaker 4: And his quote was from the interview was seven days
Speaker 4: a week, sleeping in the factory. No one should put
Speaker 4: this many hours into work. This is not good, This
Speaker 4: is painful. It hurts my brain, it hurts my heart.
Speaker 4: That's an interesting thing to say. It hurts your brain
Speaker 4: and it's hurts your heart, and nobody should do this,
Speaker 4: but you're doing it.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 4: I'm not exactly sure what that means, which leads me
Speaker 4: to this a different billionaire who I'd never heard of.
Speaker 4: How did Lucy Guo Guo? I don't speak Chinese. Would
Speaker 4: you pronounce that goo go? I'm gonna say go.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: How did Lucy go to throwing throne Taylor Swift as
Speaker 4: the youngest self made female billionaire in the world. Act
Speaker 4: broke stay rich, she said, is one of her keys,
Speaker 4: but she's thirty years old. Recently dethroning Taylor Swift as
Speaker 4: the youngest self made billionaire on the planet. She did
Speaker 4: it with an and some sort of AI data labeling startup.
Speaker 4: I don't even understand what it was that she did,
Speaker 4: but it's involving artificial intelligence.
Speaker 2: See, you gotta label your data. Everybody knows that.
Speaker 4: The quickest way to become a billionaire or have a
Speaker 4: stock reach four trillion dollars or whatever is be involved
Speaker 4: in AI in the modern world, that's for certain. Anyway,
Speaker 4: this is the stuff I thought that was very interesting.
Speaker 4: She started this when she was twenty one. She left
Speaker 4: a couple of years later, but she still has enough
Speaker 4: control in the comp that she became a billionaire at
Speaker 4: age thirty. The coder turned founder still clocks ninety hour
Speaker 4: work weeks with a schedule that starts at five thirty
Speaker 4: am and ends at midnight every day. She credits her
Speaker 4: no sleep DNA to her parents that she just doesn't
Speaker 4: need much sleep. Her parents were Chinese immigrants who worked
Speaker 4: as engineers in the San Francisco Bay area and instilled
Speaker 4: under a strong work ethic, working every day from five
Speaker 4: thirty am to midnight.
Speaker 2: Kill me right.
Speaker 4: The fast talking Trailblazer doesn't believe in wasting time. I
Speaker 4: did like this part. She said, Well, I don't watch
Speaker 4: TV or scroll TikTok, so that gives me many extra
Speaker 4: hours a day.
Speaker 2: That's true.
Speaker 4: I mean, you also have to worry about going crazy
Speaker 4: by never doing anything that's recreation. But if you eliminate
Speaker 4: I mean, because there's certain stuff we all.
Speaker 2: Should eliminate, it's just a waste of freaking time.
Speaker 4: I mean, even if you feel like you need to,
Speaker 4: there's better ways to rest than scrolling TikTok. Yeah, but
Speaker 4: he said that gives me many extra hours in a day.
Speaker 4: I'm constantly on the go, whereas a lot of people
Speaker 4: building relaxation time, I do not. I do fill in
Speaker 4: my schedule some stuff like at ten pm sometimes I'll
Speaker 4: go to dinner with friends. We're not all built to
Speaker 4: work ninety hour weeks.
Speaker 2: She cost me at ten pm, Hey you want to
Speaker 2: grab a bike?
Speaker 5: I'm like, what the hell I'm going to sleep, I'm
Speaker 5: getting bum in bed.
Speaker 4: I only answered the phone because I thought you were
Speaker 4: at a car wreck or something. You want to go eat.
Speaker 2: So two things on this that struck me.
Speaker 4: One, I don't want to go counter to the narrative
Speaker 4: that you know to a certain extent, if you can
Speaker 4: dream it, you can do it.
Speaker 2: I mean, you can be successful just like anyone else,
Speaker 2: which is true.
Speaker 4: But a lot of like pro athletes or tech billionaires
Speaker 4: or whatever, are just built diferently than you are or
Speaker 4: I am.
Speaker 2: They're just built differently.
Speaker 4: Their minds work differently, or their bodies work differently, and
Speaker 4: it's just good for them or bad for them or whatever.
Speaker 4: But I'm not built to work ninety hours a week,
Speaker 4: all day long without doing anything else. I'd go crazy.
Speaker 4: I don't want to do that. And you know, I'm
Speaker 4: not built to be insanely competitive about one particular tiny
Speaker 4: aspect of the world, like a specific sport or a
Speaker 4: music instrument or something like that. I'm just not Also, though,
Speaker 4: the other side of it is the whole. Why do
Speaker 4: some immigrants come to this country and think, Wow, what
Speaker 4: an opportunity. If I work my ass off, I can
Speaker 4: become wealthy in this country. And some people come to
Speaker 4: this country, or some people who are born in this
Speaker 4: country with the idea that I'm not rich already having
Speaker 4: done nothing, and I'm going to blame others in the
Speaker 4: government and riot in the streets to get mine.
Speaker 2: What is that parenting school? I think a lot of
Speaker 2: it's probably chinnet the attitude.
Speaker 4: No, the attitude's not genetics, the attitude of I'm not
Speaker 4: rich yet, it's somebody else's fault.
Speaker 5: I don't think it's genetics. No, probably not, although I
Speaker 5: don't know. It's a complicated question. We have no time.
Speaker 5: But yeah, I think a lot of it's upbringing our culture.
Speaker 5: I mean, you have cultures for instance, communist cultures where
Speaker 5: being a go getter didn't do you any good, Kissing
Speaker 5: the ass of the authorities and scamming the system did
Speaker 5: you good.
Speaker 2: So yeah, becomes part of your.
Speaker 4: Well if you grow up surrounded by parents and say
Speaker 4: this is a country where you can get wealthy, or
Speaker 4: you grew up with parents saying this is a country
Speaker 4: where you're being screwed.
Speaker 2: By the rich. Those are two very different. Then sure,
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty