Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Jettie and he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3: Nearly one third of Americans think they could pass themselves
Speaker 3: off as British.
Speaker 2: The other two thirds go to the dentist.
Speaker 1: What all right, Hi, y'all do? And we're gonna talk
Speaker 1: immigration a little bit here. There's some new pulling out
Speaker 1: and I got an interesting story about how, in some
Speaker 1: cases definitely going too far in booting people out. I
Speaker 1: don't like hearing those stories because I feel like, to
Speaker 1: a certain extent they cherry picked the worst examples out
Speaker 1: there and blow them up to being the whole thing.
Speaker 2: We do have.
Speaker 1: Key facts out Yeah, we have millions and millions of
Speaker 1: the people here illegally. What do you want to do
Speaker 1: about it? Hey, Congress, do something, write a law or something.
Speaker 1: And they keep going back to what other laws would
Speaker 1: you like to ignore? I mean, if you're okay with
Speaker 1: just letting it stay the way it is, I mean,
Speaker 1: what kind of a system is that?
Speaker 2: Any who.
Speaker 1: Tom Holman, he's a guy that's been leading the charge
Speaker 1: on this for the Trump administration. He got heckled by
Speaker 1: somebody who he's given a speech the other day. He
Speaker 1: said this, If.
Speaker 3: ICE officers are racists for enforcing the law, what's that
Speaker 3: make members of Congress?
Speaker 4: They wrote the damn law.
Speaker 1: If ICE members are racists, the person had screamed, the
Speaker 1: ICE members are racists?
Speaker 2: What the heckle was? Instead?
Speaker 1: If ICE members are racist for enforcing the law, what
Speaker 1: is Congress for writing the law?
Speaker 2: Again?
Speaker 1: What is a government agency that is designed to enforce
Speaker 1: that particular law? I don't know what they're supposed to do.
Speaker 1: It is complicated. And then I just wanted to get
Speaker 1: this on because it's kind of fun. We got Alligator
Speaker 1: Alcatraz down there in Florida. They op it up while
Speaker 1: I was while I was doing my long bike ride
Speaker 1: in the Everglades down in Florida, they were opening up
Speaker 1: just a couple of miles away. It even has a
Speaker 1: sign outside of it says out Alligator Alcatraze. It's a
Speaker 1: big chain link thing, and they're sending detainees illegals, some
Speaker 1: of them probably criminal, bad guys, some of them just
Speaker 1: a gardener who'd been here a long time. I don't know.
Speaker 1: And now you're in a cage surrounded by alligators? Is
Speaker 1: that what we want?
Speaker 4: It's a facility, a cage. What are you aoc over here?
Speaker 1: I saw the pictures and let's say when the pictures
Speaker 1: I saw sure made it look very cage like.
Speaker 4: It's protective to keep the alligators out. Do you want
Speaker 4: these poor people eating in the night? No, you don't.
Speaker 2: It's all about you know how you shade it. Like
Speaker 2: I remember.
Speaker 1: Talking about when my kids were little and you put
Speaker 1: them in a crib, it's a cage. When they're too
Speaker 1: little to climb out, it might as well have a
Speaker 1: lid on it because they're they're physical strength keeps them
Speaker 1: from climbing over.
Speaker 2: You put your kids in a cage at night?
Speaker 4: Right, you do? It's absolutely true? And then I remember
Speaker 4: as they grew to toddlerhood and could scramble out, you asked
Speaker 4: whether it would be ethicalt to put a lid on.
Speaker 1: It, and why wouldn't it be? And you know it
Speaker 1: would not play well in the news. Jack Armstrong, known
Speaker 1: Trump supporter, puts his kids in cages. Cages wouldn't be cool.
Speaker 1: In fact, if you find a kid in a cage,
Speaker 1: it's like a horrifying story. But if they couldn't get
Speaker 1: out of their crib when they were lot, but now
Speaker 1: they can, and you put a lid on it, so
Speaker 1: they still can't get out.
Speaker 2: I don't understand the difference. Anyway, I'm off track here.
Speaker 4: People did send us pictures of old timey cribs, though
Speaker 4: they had lids exactly.
Speaker 1: So this president's got a top on it, so you know, see,
Speaker 1: you don't get out. The top is chained link. Usually
Speaker 1: it's a roof like you're looking like I'm looking at
Speaker 1: it right now. I don't know what's the difference. AnyWho.
Speaker 1: A bunch of Democrats went and looked at Alt Gator Alcatraz,
Speaker 1: and they are horrified about it. Here's Debbie Wasserman Schultz,
Speaker 1: who I've been annoyed by for decades.
Speaker 2: Here she is, there are really disturbing, vile conditions. This
Speaker 2: place needs to be shut the hell down.
Speaker 4: There you go because it's all right? Man? Is she
Speaker 4: an annoying human being? She is utterly dishonest.
Speaker 1: So some new polling came out that is getting a
Speaker 1: fair amount of attention, the lead number being that the
Speaker 1: biggest number ever recorded by Gallup. Think that immigration is
Speaker 1: a good thing. It's now at seventy percent of Americans
Speaker 1: think immigration or I'm sorry, it's a seventy nine percent,
Speaker 1: seventy nine percent, let's call it eighty eighty percent. A
Speaker 1: record high eighty percent of US adults say immigration is
Speaker 1: a good thing for the country. This is being portrayed
Speaker 1: as and it's up from like fifty five a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago. I think what's going on there is
Speaker 1: just people finally coming to the understanding of the difference
Speaker 1: between immigration and illegal immigration.
Speaker 2: We're fine, we took us this long to get here.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I think as it's become a big topic in society,
Speaker 4: more people realize you're supposed to say, Look, I'm in
Speaker 4: favor of immigration, right, it's not illegal immigration. So everybody's
Speaker 4: making clear, yes, it's fine if good, smart, hardworking people
Speaker 4: who we let in want to come here, of course, right.
Speaker 1: And so the news media is trying to continue the
Speaker 1: conflating of the terms by acting like, how could I
Speaker 1: sert the Trump administration being wanting to remove illegals when
Speaker 1: a record eighty percent of Americans.
Speaker 2: Think immigration is a good thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, legal immigration is a good thing. It's always been popular.
Speaker 1: Legal immigration. The problem we have, I can't even finish
Speaker 1: the sentence. I know, it's just so depressing that it
Speaker 1: is even a topic.
Speaker 2: What do you want to do?
Speaker 4: Discouraging that a distinction that obvious and stupid would have
Speaker 4: to be made over and over again.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then I thought it was interesting that a
Speaker 1: Pew pole and this is in June. We're in July now,
Speaker 1: but most recent Pew poll found Americans evenly split over
Speaker 1: the administration's use of state and local law enforcement officers
Speaker 1: and its deportation dragnet and all that sort of stuff,
Speaker 1: evenly split as of mid June.
Speaker 2: It might have gone down from there. I don't know, but.
Speaker 1: I wanted to get this story on the Oh, by
Speaker 1: the way, I thought this number was pretty good.
Speaker 2: A plurality of Hispanic adults.
Speaker 1: Thirty nine percent said they wanted immigration levels to decrease,
Speaker 1: only thirty percent of the general public. Significantly more Hispanics
Speaker 1: want immigration to go down than the general public.
Speaker 4: Because they're in the communities and have the jobs that
Speaker 4: are being most affected by the flood of illegals, which
Speaker 4: depress wages. It's amazing how much agreement there is on
Speaker 4: this topic and how normal people are absolutely able to
Speaker 4: make those distinctions that we're talking about. It's really just
Speaker 4: the media and politicians who are trying to, you know,
Speaker 4: get what they want to get, who smear these distinctions
Speaker 4: as if the rest of us don't get it either.
Speaker 4: It's a giant failure of democracy.
Speaker 1: But somebody texts A person I'm friends with texted me
Speaker 1: this story because it's somebody they actually know, and I
Speaker 1: thought this was interesting and worth noting. They now have
Speaker 1: a go fundme going for this, dude, Eric, let me
Speaker 1: read their GoFundMe. Today, Eric was taken by ice. One
Speaker 1: of our best friends, Desiree, and I assume I can
Speaker 1: read this go fund me is are public?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 1: Yeah, one of our best friends, Desiree and Eric are
Speaker 1: in an emergency. What happened today to her husband Eric
Speaker 1: is not justice. It's a devastating failure of a broken
Speaker 1: immigration system.
Speaker 2: Boy. Anybody who denies our system is broken is full
Speaker 2: of it.
Speaker 1: Eric is thirty eight years old and has lived in
Speaker 1: the United States since he was eleven, and he's spent
Speaker 1: over two decades here working, building a life, paying taxes,
Speaker 1: contributing to his community, and showing up every single time
Speaker 1: for his scheduled immigration check ins. And yet during his
Speaker 1: most recent routine check in with ICE, he was suddenly
Speaker 1: taking into custody and is facing deportation because he is
Speaker 1: not a citizen. He had been trying to obtain legal
Speaker 1: citizenship all those decades, showing up till all the things
Speaker 1: you're supposed to show up to, paying taxes, do and
Speaker 1: everything you're supposed to do, and showed up for the
Speaker 1: most recent check in, got apprehended, is now going to
Speaker 1: be deported or at least that looks like the track
Speaker 1: he's on it. And so they have a GoFundMe to
Speaker 1: try to get legal fees to try to fight that.
Speaker 1: But I don't see how you can possibly be think
Speaker 1: that that's a good thing.
Speaker 4: Right right, The only answer would be we're just rounding
Speaker 4: everybody else, everybody up and shipping amount because it's just
Speaker 4: it's too many, it's too complicated, These distinctions would take
Speaker 4: too long, so we're just going blanket. We're just going
Speaker 4: willy nilly. The problem is you'll lose political support in
Speaker 4: a big hurry, and there's always a backlash to excess
Speaker 4: if you go too far in deporting the erics of
Speaker 4: the world. And again, we beat torture and take the
Speaker 4: money from anybody who dares to try to follow the
Speaker 4: rules in our immigration systems. You want to talk about
Speaker 4: mistreatment of people, But anyway, if we go too far,
Speaker 4: there will be a backlash. And this is my argument
Speaker 4: to Magnation and our fellow pro enforcement crowds. If we
Speaker 4: go too far, there will be a backlash and another
Speaker 4: Joe Biden will come in and the border will be
Speaker 4: open again. We've got to at least be semi smart
Speaker 4: about who we deport and how Steven Miller doesn't have
Speaker 4: a sense of that. I don't think I think he's
Speaker 4: an extremist. I appreciate him being there. He's the gas pedal.
Speaker 4: We need to make sure got somebody on the brakes.
Speaker 1: I'm quite sympathetic to the kick them out if they're illegal.
Speaker 2: That's the law. As I've been saying, that's the law.
Speaker 1: It's with a law you don't like it, change the law, right,
Speaker 1: And I get that because an exception. For the erics
Speaker 1: of the world, it's a it's another example of the
Speaker 1: left did something they shouldn't have done, and then when
Speaker 1: you try to get it back to normal, you're the
Speaker 1: bad guy, right, And there's so many examples of it.
Speaker 1: They put porn in your library, and then when you
Speaker 1: try to get it out, you're the book banner.
Speaker 2: Well, Joe Biden, let more.
Speaker 1: A mass migration than has ever happened in human history,
Speaker 1: happen almost entirely illegally, and then when you try to
Speaker 1: fix it, you're the bad guy because how you're going
Speaker 1: to fix it without examples like this guy.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know what. I honestly don't
Speaker 2: know what the answer is.
Speaker 1: I do think the one after the employers seems like
Speaker 1: the best idea. Is that just a non starter, because
Speaker 1: you know, big companies control the Republican Party so much
Speaker 1: and the Democratic Party.
Speaker 4: Both parties. Yeah, yeah, yeah, the Yeah, the super giants
Speaker 4: who depend on that labor are going to quietly behind
Speaker 4: the scenes say uh uh.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure how much different that would be for
Speaker 1: the guy like Eric, he's working somewhere as an illegal.
Speaker 1: If all of a sudden the company said we got
Speaker 1: to let you go, we can't have illegals here anymore,
Speaker 1: they're cracking down, then Okay, I've been here, I've been
Speaker 1: doing this for twenty years. Yeah, now I can't work anymore.
Speaker 4: Well, And there have been solutions that sort of problem
Speaker 4: before was it under the Bush administration? Or look, you've
Speaker 4: been the country x amount of time, you've kept your
Speaker 4: nose clean, you paid your taxes, pay a fine, pay
Speaker 4: this fee, and here's your green card and your path
Speaker 4: citizenship whatever. And and the problem on a lot of
Speaker 4: right America is that every time we say, okay, that
Speaker 4: seems reasonable, that seems fair. Now, let's enforce the security
Speaker 4: at the border and anybody sneaks in illegally with kick
Speaker 4: him out. Okay, okay, sign here, sign here. And then
Speaker 4: a Joe Biden comes in and an Alejandro Mayorcis and
Speaker 4: they lay the border open again with all the horrors
Speaker 4: that have ensued. It's it is again a massive failure
Speaker 4: of bureaucracy. Frustrating.
Speaker 2: So we've been waiting for it to happen. It just did.
Speaker 1: Trump is meeting with the NATO Secretary General and has
Speaker 1: made his big announcement on.
Speaker 2: Back in Ukraine. And we'll have the details next state.
Speaker 1: So Trump was announced we are going to send weapons
Speaker 1: systems to Ukraine. We're not paying for him. We'll figure
Speaker 1: out what all that means when we hear from Trump.
Speaker 1: Coming up next segment, speaking.
Speaker 4: Of deals being made, the best deals in America right now,
Speaker 4: used EVE price is a plunge. I don't borrow people
Speaker 4: to Yeah, I especially want you're cooling electrical vehicle market.
Speaker 2: I don't want.
Speaker 1: To get in trouble for I don't know, can I
Speaker 1: get in trouble for this? The I mean it's true
Speaker 1: for all electric vehicles, but especially your non Tesla electric vehicles.
Speaker 2: I just think it.
Speaker 1: You know, the Rivian's supposed to be a really good car,
Speaker 1: but what makes you think that's going to exist in
Speaker 1: five years? And what's your car gonna be worth then
Speaker 1: when that come? You know, if you want to get
Speaker 1: a new whatever part or anything, right, I just can't
Speaker 1: imagine how they will exist in a few years, any
Speaker 1: of them, but certainly the non Tesla ones.
Speaker 4: Used EV sales top to one hundred thousand for the
Speaker 4: first time in the second quarter of this year, rare
Speaker 4: bright spot for the EV industry, lackluster demand looming elimination
Speaker 4: of federal tax credits. Sales for new evs fell in
Speaker 4: each of the last three months, and used EV prices
Speaker 4: fell nearly thirty two percent from twenty three, twenty twenty
Speaker 4: three to twenty twenty four, nearly thirty two percent. That's
Speaker 4: almost ten times the drop in gas powered car prices,
Speaker 4: according to an automotive research I'm waiting.
Speaker 1: For those lucids that cost a quarter of a million
Speaker 1: dollars to get down to where I can afford one.
Speaker 2: That's the car I want.
Speaker 4: It might be soon.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know.
Speaker 4: Last year the average TV cost around thirty nine hundred,
Speaker 4: in line with the average used gas car, even though
Speaker 4: new evs sell for seventeen thousand, three hundred dollars more
Speaker 4: than a comparable gas model on average. One thing that's
Speaker 4: interesting is they go into the which saves you more
Speaker 4: money over the course of ownership or over the course
Speaker 4: of a year.
Speaker 1: I've never paid any attention to that. I didn't buy
Speaker 1: an electric car for that, but I guess that was
Speaker 1: originally that was the selling point on electric cars, right, Yeah.
Speaker 4: New electric vehicles cost about eight hundred dollars more a
Speaker 4: year to own than gas powered cars when factoring in fuel, maintenance, insurance,
Speaker 4: and fees, but removing the cost of depreciation results in
Speaker 4: a savings of more than nine hundred annually versus a
Speaker 4: gas car, according to Triple A Data. Huh, so do
Speaker 4: you increde include depreciation? I suppose you should.
Speaker 1: I I'm but serious, Like, if you own a car,
Speaker 1: it could be any kind of car, but the electric
Speaker 1: cars are much more likely to like go out of business.
Speaker 1: If you own a car and that company's completely out
Speaker 1: of business, what is your car worth? I wouldn't think
Speaker 1: it'd be worth hardly anything, because who's going to buy
Speaker 1: a vehicle that that company no longer exists?
Speaker 4: Nobody?
Speaker 1: I would thereby, because where the hell would you take
Speaker 1: it to get?
Speaker 2: If you can have you can.
Speaker 4: Have you know, ev specialists down the street. It's like,
Speaker 4: you know, European car you know specialists doesn't exist yet
Speaker 4: and I don't anticipate it. But the parts is going
Speaker 4: to be the issue damned question. Yeah, yeah, i'd say.
Speaker 4: And the everybody's got their own such.
Speaker 1: Unique software situation.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't know. Speaking of modern products and other economic
Speaker 4: story for you, Chinese vape companies are flooding the market,
Speaker 4: avoiding billions of dollars in tariff duties the Chinese. Keeping
Speaker 4: in mind every company in China is sworn by the
Speaker 4: laws to answer to the Communist Party if they ever
Speaker 4: pick up the phone. Chinese vape companies that manufacture disposable
Speaker 4: e cigarettes are on pace to avoid more than two
Speaker 4: billion dollars in tariffs on the goods this year alone.
Speaker 4: The teriff of agent scheme is possible possible because China
Speaker 4: effectively smuggles disposable vaping devices into the US by mislabeling
Speaker 4: them as toys, electronics, and even shoes. Uh. China exported
Speaker 4: about four billion dollars worth of e cigarettes to the
Speaker 4: US last year. Wow.
Speaker 1: So Trump says one hundred sent tariff on Russia in
Speaker 1: however many days. We'll get to the details on this.
Speaker 1: He's coming strong at Putin. He's tired of Putin jerking
Speaker 1: him around. And we'll get the details coming.
Speaker 4: Up, Neck Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3: One of the reasons that you hear today is t
Speaker 3: here that we are very unhappy I am with Russia.
Speaker 3: But we'll discuss that maybe a different day. We're very
Speaker 3: very unhappy with him, and we're going to be doing
Speaker 3: very severe tariffs if we don't have a deal in
Speaker 3: fifty days. A tariff said about one hundred percent, to
Speaker 3: call him secondary tariffs.
Speaker 2: You know what that means? No, Actually I don't.
Speaker 3: So.
Speaker 1: Trump's big announcement that he started teasing on Friday, and
Speaker 1: he got teased by a number of people on the
Speaker 1: talk shows yesterday. Lindsey Graham, he's gonna announce it tomorrow.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be big. I don't want to get ahead
Speaker 1: of it. Lindsey Graham kept saying, I'll let Trump announce this,
Speaker 1: but it's gonna be huge. I mean, it's gonna get
Speaker 1: people's attention. And maybe it is huge. But men, Trump
Speaker 1: laid it out in a very non showmany way for
Speaker 1: a guy who's, you know, a showman. Nobody does show
Speaker 1: biz better than him as a politician, but he just
Speaker 1: kind of dripped and dripped it out in front of
Speaker 1: the fireplace there in the Oval office. Let's hear one
Speaker 1: more Trump clip then we can get into some of
Speaker 1: the details.
Speaker 2: And we've made a.
Speaker 3: Deal today and I'm going to have Mark speak about it,
Speaker 3: but we've made a deal today where we are going
Speaker 3: to be sending them weapons and they're going to be
Speaker 3: paying for them.
Speaker 2: The United States will.
Speaker 3: Not be having any payment made. We're not buying it,
Speaker 3: but we will manufacture it and they're going to be
Speaker 3: paying for it. Our last meeting of a month ago
Speaker 3: is very successful in that they agreed to five percent,
Speaker 3: which is more than a trillion dollars a year. So
Speaker 3: they have a lot of money. And these are wealthy nations.
Speaker 3: They have a lot of money, and they want to
Speaker 3: do it. They feel very strongly about it.
Speaker 1: So Trump promises giant tariffs in do you say fifty days, Yeah,
Speaker 1: if they don't agree to a cease fire.
Speaker 4: Scrolling through the breaking news coverage of this, Lindsey Graham
Speaker 4: has co sponsored to bipartisan bill that would hit the
Speaker 4: Russian economy hard in hopes of pressuring Moscow to end
Speaker 4: the war.
Speaker 1: All right, that's been going on for weeks now, and
Speaker 1: there are eighty other senators signed onto it and they're
Speaker 1: just waiting for Trump to push it.
Speaker 2: But he didn't mention that.
Speaker 1: I thought I kind of thought that that was going
Speaker 1: to be his big announcement today. Yeah, Axios is reporting
Speaker 1: yesterday that the weapons include offensive weapons like rockets or
Speaker 1: missiles that could reach clear to Moscow. But that's a could.
Speaker 1: Trump didn't say for certain, So I don't know. This
Speaker 1: is not as clear cut an announcement as I was
Speaker 1: expecting in the build up.
Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, maybe there's more to come.
Speaker 1: I don't Maybe he's sitting there with the NATO Secretary
Speaker 1: General and Okay, well, I guess that's that for now.
Speaker 2: Did we have we discussed the gen Z stare? Did
Speaker 2: we have that? Did we talk about that already?
Speaker 4: I don't think so.
Speaker 1: I don't remember where I came across this, apparently not
Speaker 1: on this show, but they're just talking about it up
Speaker 1: on ABC. So I thought I would bring this to
Speaker 1: you if you haven't heard about the gen Z stare,
Speaker 1: which I think I agree is a thing.
Speaker 4: The gen some we're talking about a look you get,
Speaker 4: as opposed to a stair that if you put them
Speaker 4: together in a set, you can reach the top story
Speaker 4: of your house.
Speaker 1: A series of steps that allows you to get to
Speaker 1: a higher elevation to a send.
Speaker 2: It's not that kind of stare. S T A r
Speaker 2: E okay.
Speaker 1: The gen Z stair refers to a perceived blank, emotionless
Speaker 1: gaze that some older generations me associate with young people,
Speaker 1: particularly customer service interactions.
Speaker 4: Oh wow, I didn't know it had a name.
Speaker 2: I know, I know.
Speaker 1: It's described as a middle, distant stare into the void,
Speaker 1: often given when approached with a simple question or greeting.
Speaker 1: This behavior is sparked debate, with older generations viewing it
Speaker 1: as either rude or dismissive, while some gen Z individuals
Speaker 1: and platforms like TikTok suggests it's a way to express
Speaker 1: boredom or annoyance with overly friendly or repetitive customer service interactions.
Speaker 1: My son, my high schooler, is always because I interact
Speaker 1: with people a lot at stores.
Speaker 2: It's something that I don't know.
Speaker 1: When you turn sixty, it's like something clicks in your
Speaker 1: genetics or something. I am an old person now in
Speaker 1: a way that I never was when I was younger.
Speaker 4: I just get a young homeowner turning into your parents. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I just got to engage them. And my son always says, oh,
Speaker 4: she hated that, dad, She hated that so much.
Speaker 2: Want't you just buy your stuff and walk out?
Speaker 4: That is funny.
Speaker 1: The gen Z stare expresses boredom or annoyance with overly
Speaker 1: friendly or repetitive customer service interactions.
Speaker 4: All right, here's something that you on ther junior. You
Speaker 4: have few interpersonal skills because you stare at your phone
Speaker 4: all the time, and your parents put you into programmed activities,
Speaker 4: and you did not develop many of the life's skills
Speaker 4: necessary to become an adult. So how about you don't
Speaker 4: lecture everybody else with your withering stare about what interpersonal
Speaker 4: interactions are good ones and what are not. I don't
Speaker 4: think you're an expert in the field. In fact, you
Speaker 4: are the opposite r fault.
Speaker 1: I have known a couple of times, not all the time,
Speaker 1: but a couple of times it's because they got their
Speaker 1: earbut in they're listening to something else.
Speaker 2: I don't know what's going on there. Have you are you?
Speaker 1: Are you familiar with this? You've got a different age
Speaker 1: group going with your kids, but the the oh, anybody
Speaker 1: between the age of like thirteen and twenty, they got
Speaker 1: an ear piece in all the time, and I make
Speaker 1: my kids I don't know how many times I have
Speaker 1: to say, take that out of your ear. I'm not
Speaker 1: going to compete with whatever you're listening to. But right
Speaker 1: the young crowd believes, no, no, I can listen to
Speaker 1: this podcast or music or whatever I'm listening to and
Speaker 1: pay attention at the same time. No you can't, It's
Speaker 1: my response, No you can't.
Speaker 2: You think you can, but you can't.
Speaker 4: No. As science has learned, and as one of the
Speaker 4: really valuable contributions scientists have ay to society lately, you
Speaker 4: can't multitask. You just switch back and forth fairly rapidly,
Speaker 4: doing a half assed job on both. Likewise, you're attention.
Speaker 4: I've tried to do it so many times. Read news
Speaker 4: while I'm say, watching a golf tournament, I'm doing one
Speaker 4: or the other. The number of times I have to
Speaker 4: zap backward or or or reread something, or if it's
Speaker 4: vice versa, I'm reading something pleasant while cocking my ear
Speaker 4: to the news in case something I need to hear. No,
Speaker 4: you're not.
Speaker 2: The gen z Stare, So what that?
Speaker 1: So I got off on the whole earbuds thing, which
Speaker 1: it drives me nuts, but and I probably should just
Speaker 1: get used to because that's you know, we're gonna have
Speaker 1: a president in twenty years that has an earbudd in
Speaker 1: while they're giving the State of the Union address because
Speaker 1: they're listening to music while they talk, and everybody will
Speaker 1: accept it because people like me are dead by then.
Speaker 2: But back to the gen z Stair. What is that?
Speaker 1: What do you think is driving the gen z Stare.
Speaker 1: This is a lot of discomfort with face to face interaction. Okay,
Speaker 1: beginners at it certainly in terms of, like, you know,
Speaker 1: not literally it's the first time, but like a pilot
Speaker 1: if you don't have two one hundred hours of flight time.
Speaker 4: You can't blah blah blah. They just have so little
Speaker 4: flight time dealing with human beings face to face compared
Speaker 4: to every single generation that's ever existed on planet Earth
Speaker 4: since the dawn of time.
Speaker 1: Some TikTok users suggest it's a way to cope with anxiety,
Speaker 1: express frustration, with repetitive questions, or a general lack of
Speaker 1: social engagement. They just don't want to engage with other
Speaker 1: human beings at all. It's an interesting thing we're doing
Speaker 1: as a beast. I hope I live to a very
Speaker 1: old age because I'd kind of like to watch it
Speaker 1: and unfold from my you know, senior apartment where I
Speaker 1: have a bowl of jello every night and watch Fox News.
Speaker 1: Just out watch people high volume hang out alone in
Speaker 1: their apartments or even if they have roommates. They don't
Speaker 1: talk to each other. They're staring at their phone and
Speaker 1: they have an ear butt in, and they hate all
Speaker 1: interactions with other human beings.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, there are days I think this will be
Speaker 4: interesting to unfold, watch unfold. There are days I think
Speaker 4: it's too effings sad. I don't want to.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I hope I cross the line at some point
Speaker 1: into just accepting. You know, I don't control the world,
Speaker 1: and this is the direction it's going, and no country
Speaker 1: for old men.
Speaker 2: My day is done. I'm not going to change it.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 4: And if human beings got through the Dark Ages after
Speaker 4: being tortured by the Pope for instance, uh, human beings
Speaker 4: will get through this.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: Or are we usher in the planet of the Beaver.
Speaker 1: I don't know about that. I think this is more
Speaker 1: irreversible than the Dark Ages. I'm just trying to comfort you. Well,
Speaker 1: they're on your couch eating your jello, watching Fox News
Speaker 1: that excessive volume. It's literally irreversible if people stop having children,
Speaker 1: I mean, yes, yeah.
Speaker 2: The gen z stare.
Speaker 1: If you've encountered this and have any explanation for it,
Speaker 1: give us a text for.
Speaker 2: KFTC.
Speaker 4: There's an actual genocide happening on Earth, and the media
Speaker 4: is completely ignoring it.
Speaker 1: It's not is it a genocide against It's not Israel
Speaker 1: and Gaza.
Speaker 4: No, that's not a genocide, not even close. But there's
Speaker 4: an actual one going on. Okay, that other stuff on
Speaker 4: the way, stay.
Speaker 2: Here, man.
Speaker 1: Trump's big announcement massive tariffs in fifty days. If there's
Speaker 1: not a new ceasefire deal. Zelenski and Ukrainians must be
Speaker 1: thinking fifty days. You're gonna give them fifty.
Speaker 2: More days of bombing the crap out of us.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, yeah, I wasn't gonna talk about this, but
Speaker 4: Trump persists in believing he can maneuver Putin into a deal.
Speaker 4: Putin's response, through all of his actions is here's the deal.
Speaker 4: I rebuild the great Empire I dream of. That's it. Anyway,
Speaker 4: we're I got a remodel going on in the house.
Speaker 4: And for instance, if I want to have lunch or whatever,
Speaker 4: I got to remember, let's see some of the dishes
Speaker 4: in the dining in the utensils of silverware in the
Speaker 4: dining room, and then some other ones are in the
Speaker 4: laundry room. Are refrigerators in the hallway outside the master
Speaker 4: bedroom because that's where it would fit, And then the
Speaker 4: coffee and everything is in the hallway on a table.
Speaker 4: But then the hot plate, like we're living in a
Speaker 4: hobo hotel in our little college sized microwave. We just
Speaker 4: got her back in the laundry room, and blah blah blah.
Speaker 4: I get mildly vexed, but just mildly I've got a
Speaker 4: sense of humor about it. Then I look at, for instance,
Speaker 4: Nigeria where jihattists are rounding up Christians and slaughtering them
Speaker 4: by the hundreds. What do you mean, Joe, I haven't
Speaker 4: heard this story? Are you sure? And that's half of
Speaker 4: my point?
Speaker 2: If so?
Speaker 1: Standing up for Christians is the Tucker Carlson lane. How
Speaker 1: come I haven't heard this from back crowd?
Speaker 4: Maybe Well, there are a couple of different explanations for that.
Speaker 4: One of them might be that that's just an excuse
Speaker 4: to advocate for certain things or against certain people. It's
Speaker 4: a different sort of advocacy masquerading is standing up for Christians.
Speaker 4: But in rural Nigeria, for instance, a few weeks ago,
Speaker 4: jiehattists set fire to a temporary settlement housing hundreds of
Speaker 4: Christians fleeing persecution as they slept, and those who fled
Speaker 4: the fire were met with machetes and gunfire. The death
Speaker 4: soul was probably over two hundred, making it the worst
Speaker 4: attack in the region in recent memory. According to local clergymen,
Speaker 4: they're begging the government to do something about it.
Speaker 2: Is this specifically because they're Christians?
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, yeah, it is Boko Haram, you remember them.
Speaker 4: In Nigeria, there are a series of attacks around Easter.
Speaker 4: The targeted Christians there and in a similar region right
Speaker 4: next door left that left more than two hundred dead
Speaker 4: contributed to a staggering statistic in ben yuin Plateau, two
Speaker 4: parts of Nigeria, more than ninety five hundred people have
Speaker 4: been killed in similar attacks in the last two years.
Speaker 4: According to Amnesty International. They have not been caught up
Speaker 4: in fighting, they have not been combatants. They are sought
Speaker 4: out and murdered for their religion. In this part of
Speaker 4: the world. Boko Haram, whose name means Western education is forbidden,
Speaker 4: started insurgency against the Nigerian government, but since then, both
Speaker 4: Christians and Muslims who reject their radical Islamist views have
Speaker 4: faced intense persecution, just absolutely insane. I guess half this
Speaker 4: story is about the media in the US. Who if
Speaker 4: there isn't a clear victim oppressor like situation, that's so
Speaker 4: stupidly obvious anybody can follow it, like black people killing
Speaker 4: black people, that's too complicated. Who's the colonial power there?
Speaker 4: There isn't. It's been a country that's independent for a
Speaker 4: very long time. It's a strong country, big economy, et cetera,
Speaker 4: et cetera. They just won't report on it at all.
Speaker 4: But yeah, Jihanis are slaughtering Christians as fast as they
Speaker 4: can in various parts of the world. It's probably worth knowing.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: I was watching a video out of Gaza yesterday. Boy,
Speaker 1: there's a place you don't want to be whole.
Speaker 4: Oh crap. Speaking of which, there's a headline in a
Speaker 4: number of papers a US citizen was among two Palestinians
Speaker 4: killed in an Israeli settler attack. This is in the
Speaker 4: West Bank, not in Gaza. Apparently, this twenty year old
Speaker 4: who is an American, he was visiting family on the
Speaker 4: West Bank.
Speaker 2: He participated.
Speaker 4: In a demonstration against Israeli settlers who go into these
Speaker 4: Palestinian run territories and like start towns because they want
Speaker 4: the Jews to control that territory, not the Palestinians. Some
Speaker 4: of them are militants, some of them are brutes and murderers,
Speaker 4: some are not. It's very controversial in Israel as well
Speaker 4: as anywhere else. But evidently rock throwing began by the
Speaker 4: Palestinians escalated into a violent clash that included vandalism of
Speaker 4: Palestinian property Arsen physical clashes and rock hurling, etc. And
Speaker 4: this American kid was killed and it's a damn shame
Speaker 4: these formed Port Charlotte, Florida. One interesting aspect of this
Speaker 4: that tripped my trigger in reading it Israel captured the
Speaker 4: West Bank from Jordan in the nineteen sixty seven war.
Speaker 4: Palestinians and most of the world say the territory is
Speaker 4: occupied by Israel and Israeli settlements that are illegal. Okay,
Speaker 4: wait a minute, what just happened there? Did you catch that?
Speaker 4: Did anybody catch that? Israel captured the West Bank from
Speaker 4: Jordan in the nineteen sixty seven war, So presumably the
Speaker 4: people there are Jordanians, not quote unquote Palestinians. Do they
Speaker 4: just say Palestinians because they're not Jews or because they're
Speaker 4: in that large plot of ground that the Brits had
Speaker 4: temporarily designated as Palestine post World War One? Why are
Speaker 4: they not Jordanians? Is it because that muddles the narrative?
Speaker 2: Yes? That one?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I just thought that was interesting.
Speaker 1: Trying to get more out of this Trump announcement, But
Speaker 1: there's just not as much there as I thought there
Speaker 1: was going to be. I was misled by Lindsey Graham
Speaker 1: watching the show yesterday, that this was going to be
Speaker 1: a giant announcement that everybody's talking about.
Speaker 4: Okay, I don't know if you've noticed. Occasionally Trump sends
Speaker 4: his minions out to say things, particularly on the Sunday shows,
Speaker 4: and then the next day they are contradicted by the
Speaker 4: Big Man. It's happened many times. I wonder if Lindsey
Speaker 4: Graham has had been promised something that Trump changed his
Speaker 4: mind about.
Speaker 2: That's a good question, because.
Speaker 4: I kept hearing rumors and leaks about devastating sanctions against
Speaker 4: anybody who bought oil from the Russians.
Speaker 1: He just said, not sure we need the sanctions bill.
Speaker 1: He just said so that. I thought he was going
Speaker 1: to come out and say, and I will, the Senate
Speaker 1: will pass it, the House will pass it, and I
Speaker 1: will sign it in law. I thought that was going
Speaker 1: to be the big announcement today. He just said, not
Speaker 1: sure we need that bill. So I almost feel like
Speaker 1: he went the other direction today from.
Speaker 4: I'm happy about the Patriot missile batteries. But that's it.
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