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 Jetty and he.
Speaker 3: Arms My coffee maker was on the fritz at home,
Speaker 3: so I'm about to take my first sip of coffee
Speaker 3: of the day courtesy of the company's coffee machine.
Speaker 2: Well, very nice, this special feeling, isn't it. Man, That's
Speaker 2: just as good as I remember from yesterday. That's just
Speaker 2: as good. Live from studio scene. He said, your dilly
Speaker 2: lit room deeper.
Speaker 1: Than the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications Compound. Today, Friday,
Speaker 1: we're under the tutelige of our general manager co general
Speaker 1: managers today Jack number one, Vladimir Putin number two, three
Speaker 1: point one, four, one, five, nine, et cetera, et cetera,
Speaker 1: et cetera. Pie It's National Pie Day. I always to
Speaker 1: prefer to go with twenty two seventh, since it's easier
Speaker 1: and shorter. One of the greatest inventions mankind ever came
Speaker 1: up with figuring out a number that would allow you
Speaker 1: to figure out the area of a circle.
Speaker 2: Brilliant.
Speaker 1: The guy who came up with it had to think,
Speaker 1: let me check that one more time. It's just too
Speaker 1: good to be true. Yeah, and it's named after the
Speaker 1: most delicious of desserts or a Greek letter. If you don't, yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess you haven't caught on. So today is March fourteenth,
Speaker 1: three one four, three one four the number we all
Speaker 1: we're all on board here, Yes, sorry, I should have
Speaker 1: explained ry clever easier, Thank you, Michael Easier in print.
Speaker 1: The fact that it's called pie and it helps you
Speaker 1: determine the area determine the area of a circle. It's
Speaker 1: just it's it's serendipity, it's it's it's God's harmony.
Speaker 2: It's it's something, you know.
Speaker 1: I was just thinking as I took my first sip
Speaker 1: of coffee the day and it hit me like it
Speaker 1: I mean, it hit me like not all the way there,
Speaker 1: but like a percentage of your baby being born, having sex,
Speaker 1: being on vacation, I mean, and it made me think
Speaker 1: that this is the only drug I'm addicted to that
Speaker 1: I take at this point in my life, a caffeine
Speaker 1: and you know, it's fairly mild. And we're gonna play
Speaker 1: a clip later of a drug addict on the streets
Speaker 1: of San Francisco and talk a little bit about these
Speaker 1: people and why they can't get their lives together or whatever.
Speaker 1: But a fentanyl is, you know, whatever, it is a
Speaker 1: million times this in terms of you need it so
Speaker 1: bad and when you finally get it.
Speaker 2: It's just, oh, thank god.
Speaker 1: You know, I understand because like this, I am really,
Speaker 1: really a lot happier now than I was five minutes
Speaker 1: ago from this zip of coffee.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I my minor drug addiction. I hear you talking.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just endorphins. So on the other hand, axation.
Speaker 1: If drinking coffee was going to absolutely ruin my life,
Speaker 1: kill me, ruin my life, ruin other people's lives, I'd.
Speaker 2: Work pretty hard to quit it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, sure you have to, or society will take care
Speaker 1: of your every need.
Speaker 2: No, wait a minute, that's all. We were a little
Speaker 2: off here. Exactly. You have to quit.
Speaker 1: You better quit, or we'll provide you housing and food
Speaker 1: for the rest of your life, but make.
Speaker 2: It as easy as possible not to quit.
Speaker 1: So there, Well, they'll give you all the perfermalion you
Speaker 1: need to take the drugs, so you don't have to
Speaker 1: find it on your own, but we allow you to
Speaker 1: be completely lawless. But we might even provide the drugs
Speaker 1: and look the other way when you stealed by other
Speaker 1: stuff you want, but really thinking you need to quit.
Speaker 1: That's not an exaggeration either. That that little fanciful comedy
Speaker 1: skit you just heard is not even an exaggeration.
Speaker 2: It's the reality in some places. Yes, yeah it is.
Speaker 1: That was serious political commentary masquerating as a clever little comedy,
Speaker 1: an impromptu comedy skit. That reminds me at some point. Well,
Speaker 1: I'll give the example.
Speaker 2: First.
Speaker 1: There's a piece that appears in cal Matters. It's actually
Speaker 1: a letter to the editor from a so called queer
Speaker 1: parent in Sacramento, California, the capital of the great state
Speaker 1: of cal Unicornia. And this person, I don't have the
Speaker 1: verbage in front of me, says essentially the Gavin Newsom saying, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's unfair to have what he would call trans women,
Speaker 1: trans girls dudes in girls sports. You know, when he
Speaker 1: was talking to Charlie Kirk the other day on that podcast,
Speaker 1: and this person reacted saying that this was a travesty.
Speaker 1: He has abandoned the lgbt Q. I a barbecue over
Speaker 1: the power of three community, and it's akin to I
Speaker 1: can't remember genocide or wiping them off the map or
Speaker 1: killing them with his own hands. And at some point
Speaker 1: don't we have to look at a disconnect from reality
Speaker 1: that profound as a mental illness.
Speaker 2: I mean, if you think you.
Speaker 1: Guys saying yeah, it's probably not fair, is all of
Speaker 1: those things. And again I'll get the specific verbage because
Speaker 1: it's so over the top, it's cuckoo nuts. But that's
Speaker 1: a person who is unwell in their brain. And were
Speaker 1: you relating that to the attitude towards drug addiction or
Speaker 1: we well, yeah, I'm sorry, Yeah, yeah, I guess I
Speaker 1: assumed it was self evident. But you're right, it's not
Speaker 1: failure to recognize the plainly obvious dynamics of what's happening
Speaker 1: with drug addicts at this point. It's maybe not quite
Speaker 1: as cuckoo nuts, but it's I don't understand if you're
Speaker 1: at all familiar with any of the verbiage of addiction,
Speaker 1: including being an enabler and the rest of it, and
Speaker 1: tough love and all of it. How is how do
Speaker 1: we as a society, and at enormous expense, ignore all
Speaker 1: of that accumulated now just seems crazy?
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, we'll probably talk about that more later.
Speaker 1: We're going to play some clips of a one guy
Speaker 1: interviewed on the street ventonl addic because.
Speaker 2: He had one bill too many in housing.
Speaker 1: He did talk about because rent is too high and
Speaker 1: he had Yeah, well he became a ventyl addic on
Speaker 1: the street. Yeah, that's hilarious that that's even a thing.
Speaker 1: We should start the show officially. Am I crazed being
Speaker 1: the first person even bringing this up. But just the
Speaker 1: government shutdown is not going to happen now, not that
Speaker 1: I care. I don't care. Shut it down, don't shut
Speaker 1: it down, whatever, shutdown for two ours, whatever, that makes
Speaker 1: no difference to me. I'll never remember it after it happens.
Speaker 1: They'll figure it out tomorrow morning. But it's most likely
Speaker 1: not going to happen now, I guess. I guesses.
Speaker 2: Whatever. That's enough of that. I'm still making preparations just
Speaker 2: in case.
Speaker 1: Sorry Fox and Friends in MSNBC, who've spent their entire
Speaker 1: three hours on it this morning.
Speaker 2: Uh, that's all I need of it. Michael.
Speaker 1: Your preparations include chains on your tires, I'm sure, and
Speaker 1: whate else boarding at my house when I see your
Speaker 1: wearing a helmet as well, so I apply what over
Speaker 1: your windows? Yeah, Gettlement shut down. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's
Speaker 1: Joe Getty on this it is Pie Day. It is
Speaker 1: March fourteenth, Her twenty twenty five. We are armed Arms
Speaker 1: Throng and Getty and we approve of this show.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's begin.
Speaker 1: Then officially, according to FCC rules and regulations, here we
Speaker 1: go leaping into action.
Speaker 4: Mat Mark, the federal government has set to shut down
Speaker 4: on Friday at midnight, so to make some quick cash,
Speaker 4: it's now PEPSI presents the Gulf of America.
Speaker 2: That's good.
Speaker 1: I just saw a headline. So today is Friday during Lent.
Speaker 1: You're not supposed to eat meat on Friday as a Catholics,
Speaker 1: particularly during Lent. But alligator meat is okay to eat,
Speaker 1: does count, does not count as meat. A ruling has
Speaker 1: come in from somebody. So if you're planning on, oh.
Speaker 2: Thanks signed alligators. When I was a kid, I don't know.
Speaker 2: They probably don't do this anymore.
Speaker 1: When I was a kid, even at our public school,
Speaker 1: they always had fish sandwiches on Friday to accommodate the
Speaker 1: people that didn't eat meat on Fridays. Yeah, yeah, which
Speaker 1: I didn't mind. I like a nice cod Sando didn't
Speaker 1: matter to me. They're probably gonna have a fish sandwich
Speaker 1: one of the days. The fact that he put it
Speaker 1: on Friday.
Speaker 2: Whatever. Does McDonald's even still have the fleo fish?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I was just there the other day.
Speaker 1: I did not look. Maybe I'll have to go back
Speaker 1: today do more research. That was my order for ages
Speaker 1: when i'd go to McDaniels. I was a fish guy.
Speaker 2: Really, I don't know.
Speaker 1: If I've had an fof ever, I don't think so.
Speaker 1: Oh man, that was my go to Huh. I turned
Speaker 1: my nose up at the burgers right for the fish,
Speaker 1: which is probably every bit is unhealthy for some chemical reason.
Speaker 1: My son, my oldest son, announced last night he does
Speaker 1: not like beef and he is well, he's an orphan now,
Speaker 1: he's living on the streets. I kicked him out of
Speaker 1: the house. Don't tell his grandfather. We've got no kidding. Well,
Speaker 1: he just heard it because he listens. Hello, Mom and dad.
Speaker 1: So we got Kati's headlines on the way, we got
Speaker 1: mail bag this hour. We'll get you up to date
Speaker 1: on a little of the news. Well, for instance, why
Speaker 1: was Vladimir Putin our general manager? Oh, the quote unquote
Speaker 1: peace talks right and his I agree to the Sea Spire,
Speaker 1: depending on the details. Well, okay, that's that's a funny phrase.
Speaker 1: But we'll get into that and a bunch of other things.
Speaker 1: Here's our text line four one five nine five KFTC.
Speaker 1: I agree to the sea Spire. It just depends on
Speaker 1: the details. Oh okay, I got to remember that tact
Speaker 1: for future negotiations. Yeah, I agree to go to the ballet, Honey,
Speaker 1: it depends on the details. Got a lot to come,
Speaker 1: very exciting clips of the week, freedom of a quote
Speaker 1: of the day mail bag, Katie's got. Our headline is
Speaker 1: what the Let's do it right now? Is a fun
Speaker 1: look back of the week that was It's cow clips
Speaker 1: of the week, and.
Speaker 2: I guess we're gonna find out who was right.
Speaker 1: We're going to release the animal spirits to any other questions.
Speaker 2: Which of the week. Hello everybody, it's jav and say
Speaker 2: them Maritard local pronouns here in Ireland. Moved here in
Speaker 2: January fifteenth.
Speaker 5: I'm still battling with some of that guilt and that
Speaker 5: shame in that dysphoria that was projected onto me during
Speaker 5: that time.
Speaker 2: This is a tornado.
Speaker 6: Seek shelter immediately get under your desks, guys, anchors under
Speaker 6: the desks.
Speaker 7: Oh, I needed to cancel it before I got the
Speaker 7: service to get the discount.
Speaker 1: You're only eligible for the discount if you're uninsured.
Speaker 8: No president in modern American history has had a more
Speaker 8: eventful and consequential first seven weeks.
Speaker 7: Canada should honestly become our fifty first seed.
Speaker 2: It makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 1: The Canadians are always ready when someone else drops the gloves.
Speaker 8: President Trump has a clear message for those that are
Speaker 8: in our country illegally.
Speaker 4: Leave now.
Speaker 1: The consumer Price Index shows annual inflation at two point
Speaker 1: eight percent.
Speaker 2: Why are you expecting a reception this year? I hate
Speaker 2: to predict things like that.
Speaker 9: I'm not like a block.
Speaker 2: They just I won't delay. I have it's called flexibility.
Speaker 2: If you look at China, they have one hundred year perspective.
Speaker 2: We have a quarter. We go by quarters. And I
Speaker 2: think he's right about that.
Speaker 6: Our interest payments are higher than our defense department budget.
Speaker 6: That's I think was the real wake up culp for me,
Speaker 6: which is most of the federal spendings and titlements. That's
Speaker 6: that's like the big one to eliminate.
Speaker 1: Tesla is a perfect example, what we're calling the Tesla
Speaker 1: Chainsaw massacre.
Speaker 9: Musk says his social media platform acts or formerly on
Speaker 9: his Twitter, was hit by a cyber attack.
Speaker 1: A woman was arrested for throwing molotov cocktails at the
Speaker 1: dealership and spray painting the word Nazi on the cars.
Speaker 2: He didn't have to do this, He didn't have to
Speaker 2: go through this. Look on the right side. I mean,
Speaker 2: what you doing this?
Speaker 6: Boys?
Speaker 2: Looked on the right side of life. Elon's a very
Speaker 2: special person. He is a trust around Trump's. Now, now
Speaker 2: here's the bed news.
Speaker 7: I'm not allowed to drive because if I haven't driven
Speaker 7: a car in a long time.
Speaker 9: You've got to come down to White House, Tesla Auto Mall.
Speaker 2: I love Tesler.
Speaker 9: You gotta come down to White House Tesla Auto Mall.
Speaker 2: This is really amazing.
Speaker 1: That fake Tesla ad is so funny and it's got
Speaker 1: it's all computer, it's all computer. Let's bring that back.
Speaker 1: Let's play it early in the show. I thought it
Speaker 1: was late yesterday. Yeah, a little that next segment. If
Speaker 1: you haven't heard it, it's pretty good. Uh yeah, very
Speaker 1: very funny. Here's a quick question for you before we
Speaker 1: get into the headlines. The gal and other people who
Speaker 1: have been arrested for painting graffiti, but throwing molotov cocktails
Speaker 1: for a political reason. That is political terrorism by definition. Yeah,
Speaker 1: by the very legal definition. Will she be charged with
Speaker 1: that or some pittily ass a little you know, the
Speaker 1: hurling a flaming bottle in a commercial zone. Mister Reiner, Right,
Speaker 1: I wonder, All right, let's figure out who's reporting what.
Speaker 5: It's the lead story with Katie Green Katie, Hey, you guys,
Speaker 5: let's start with ABC. Schumer announces he'll vote to keep
Speaker 5: the government open, likely avoiding a shutdown.
Speaker 2: And I guess some Democrats.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm gonna call my children and tell them the
Speaker 1: national nightmares over. Yeah, you all enjoy gathering around the
Speaker 1: cable news station and listening to people talk about that.
Speaker 5: NBC Nearly one hundred protesters arrested after sit in at
Speaker 5: Trump Tower to demand release of Khalil.
Speaker 2: We watched that happen yesterday. It was all so performative.
Speaker 2: They sang and danced and had snacks and then lined
Speaker 2: up to be arrested by the police who were like
Speaker 2: barely paying attention. Also, it was all just a dance.
Speaker 1: You gotta send an eight foot barren with a big club,
Speaker 1: and clearly that place out the old way.
Speaker 2: This is why tower.
Speaker 1: And if they're just arrested and not arrested and charged,
Speaker 1: who cares. That's nothing, It's performative.
Speaker 2: As you said from the.
Speaker 5: Washington Post, Columbia expels the students over building takeover in
Speaker 5: pro Palestinian protests.
Speaker 1: So it looks like the Trump crowd pulled back four
Speaker 1: hundred million dollars of federal funding to Columbia because you're
Speaker 1: outside of our rules. And then Columbia expelled a whole
Speaker 1: bunch of those students, had closed down stuff, finding various people,
Speaker 1: all kinds of the things that a lot of us
Speaker 1: wanted to happen, and now they're going to get their
Speaker 1: four hundred million backs.
Speaker 2: So it looks like it worked.
Speaker 1: There is a lot of progress on the trying to
Speaker 1: bring sanity to the college's frontie. It's going to be long,
Speaker 1: long fight, as I've said many times, but yeah, this
Speaker 1: is absolutely progress.
Speaker 2: And what a lot of.
Speaker 1: These actions by the administration have done is they've empowered
Speaker 1: the sane people, the few sane people on campus to say, hey,
Speaker 1: he's right, this place is breaking down.
Speaker 2: Let's fix it. Love it. Love it. From USA Today.
Speaker 5: Ukraine says that Putin's response to US ceasfire plan is
Speaker 5: quote very predictable and manipulative.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've seen so many headlines suggesting that it means something. Again,
Speaker 1: you know, it's a joke, but it's real. He has
Speaker 1: agreed in principle to the ceasefire. It just depends on
Speaker 1: the details.
Speaker 2: Means nothing, It doesn't mean anything. From Fox News.
Speaker 5: Hamas agrees to release a Don Alexander, the last living American.
Speaker 1: Hostage, and they're releasing five hostages for dead, one alive.
Speaker 5: From The Wall Street Journal Generation Xanax, The dark side
Speaker 5: of America's wonder drug.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I read this. I was going to bring it
Speaker 1: to everybody's attention a little bit later. On America's near
Speaker 1: automatic faith in turning to a pill. I'm on a
Speaker 1: variety at different topic. Makes valarian root look like a
Speaker 1: flimstone vitium vitamin.
Speaker 2: I would have been good if I could have said it. Yeah, good, idea,
Speaker 2: damn it? From page six.
Speaker 5: Tiger Woods secretly dating Vanessa Trump?
Speaker 2: Do you hear this? They're a good match. Vanessa Trump
Speaker 2: and Tiger Woods are a couple and have been for
Speaker 2: quite a while. Which one's Vanessa. I don't know, I
Speaker 2: don't know. I'm one of the hot ones. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 5: And finally the Babylon b NBA to allow Lebron James
Speaker 5: to play in Giant hamster Ball so other players can't
Speaker 5: touch him.
Speaker 2: That sounds about that. Oh wow, Yeah, I swear.
Speaker 1: The Trump family raises hot little girls like piglets.
Speaker 2: They have big.
Speaker 1: Barns full of them, and they bring them upright and
Speaker 1: turn them loose on the world. First of all, if
Speaker 1: you only procreate with supermodels, that helps the genetics. And
Speaker 1: then secondly, if you're not quite perfect, you start getting
Speaker 1: operations even in your teams to fixity flaws.
Speaker 2: So that's the way that works.
Speaker 1: We got a whole bunch of stuff on the way,
Speaker 1: including that fake Tesla ad which is pretty funny. Armstrong
Speaker 1: and Getty.
Speaker 9: Going on now with the White House Tesla Auto Mall.
Speaker 9: It's the biggest sale of the year.
Speaker 2: Very safe, it's very strong, heavy, it's all steel. Staler's.
Speaker 9: Yeah, come on down to Pennsylvania Avenue just off Route
Speaker 9: twenty nine to get our best deal ever on a
Speaker 9: brand new Tesla.
Speaker 7: I want to make a good deal here if they
Speaker 7: have one, which is.
Speaker 2: Thirty five thousand dollars, which is pretty low.
Speaker 9: Get a model one with a different panel, and everything's computer.
Speaker 9: This is a different panel to Everything's computer. So don't
Speaker 9: waste your time going to those other Tesla dealerships with
Speaker 9: riots and flaming cyber trucks. You gotta come down to
Speaker 9: white House Tesla Auto Mall.
Speaker 2: I love Tesler.
Speaker 9: You gotta come down to white House Tesla Auto Mall.
Speaker 2: Everything's computer. That is funny.
Speaker 1: I was on a Tesla Reddit thread last night doing
Speaker 1: research on something, and the number of people that have
Speaker 1: to throw in a caveat apology for I bought my
Speaker 1: Tesla before and knew who Elon was, but I was
Speaker 1: wondering if you could you know that sort of thing
Speaker 1: have to throw in a little disclaimer because they're so ashamed. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't care what tribe you're in. I'm just asking
Speaker 1: about how to get more trouble out of the stereo,
Speaker 1: you know exactly.
Speaker 2: It's so tiresome. Ah. Speaking of business, I am struggling.
Speaker 1: To find someone of heft in the business community or
Speaker 1: an analyst who says, hey, this tariff thing, it's gonna
Speaker 1: work out great. Everybody's gonna really appreciate it. I'm not
Speaker 1: saying there's nobody, but I'm struggling to find that. Well,
Speaker 1: we got word jd Vance, He of the articulate tongue,
Speaker 1: has more or less explained from strategy, and we are
Speaker 1: going to play that for you in a moment or two.
Speaker 1: But first let's start with Jackie Heunrick in forty Michael.
Speaker 2: I didn't say we're not concerned. I'm not concerned about
Speaker 2: a little bit of volatility.
Speaker 1: Over three weeks, another day of market turbulence.
Speaker 10: Investors unnerved as twenty five percent tariffs and foreign aluminum.
Speaker 1: And steel went into effect, prompting protest from the European Union.
Speaker 2: We call them the US to immediately revoke.
Speaker 10: The terraces and retaliation, the EU imposing its own charges
Speaker 10: on American imports, including bourbon.
Speaker 1: Here's Senator and noted lawn debris scatterers, Rand Paul in
Speaker 1: forty one.
Speaker 7: The tariff wars are a big mistake and not good
Speaker 7: for my state. From bourbon distillers to car manufacturers, to
Speaker 7: the maker's of fences, to the builders of homes, to
Speaker 7: our farmers, Nobody in Kentucky's coming up to me and say,
Speaker 7: please put tariffs on things.
Speaker 1: Horse meat, exporters in Kentucky. I'm assuming, right, But so
Speaker 1: you've got it. As always with any issue, it's tough
Speaker 1: to find a a fair broker on their thoughts because
Speaker 1: politicians have to show they're reacting to people's immediate needs.
Speaker 1: Wall Street or the stock market reacts to business's quarterly needs.
Speaker 1: And Trump's play is very long term, like decades. Maybe,
Speaker 1: so that's the way it needs to be discussed, but
Speaker 1: it's hard to find anybody wants to discuss it that way, right,
Speaker 1: And it's difficult to find a political analyst. And I'm
Speaker 1: one hundred percent open to this notion because I love
Speaker 1: the idea of thinking beyond the next election, actually planning
Speaker 1: for the future in a way that benefits America. But
Speaker 1: I can't find many, if any political analysts who say
Speaker 1: yes in spite of Trump's extremely short runway because it'll
Speaker 1: be out office in you know, three and a half
Speaker 1: years roughly. A super long term play will work for
Speaker 1: these reasons, because the problem is, as much as I
Speaker 1: might want them to work, it won't bear enough fruit
Speaker 1: to gain public support in the time he has, or
Speaker 1: perhaps even the time he and his successor have. But again,
Speaker 1: I've got a completely open mind about this stuff. I'm
Speaker 1: just I'm not I'm not finding that answer. Well, and
Speaker 1: help if the Trump White House stopped saying things that
Speaker 1: are completely ridiculous, like we're going to pay off the
Speaker 1: deficit with this or things.
Speaker 2: Like that that laughable.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, Well, and then there's the circul circular logic
Speaker 1: of well, you've pointed out the fentanyl thing is just
Speaker 1: a pretext. This really doesn't have anything to do with
Speaker 1: punishing people for fentanyl. It's country specifically. It's just about
Speaker 1: restructuring trade. One more forty four. This is Vickynwinn on NBC.
Speaker 10: Between new steel and aluminum tariffs and twenty five percent
Speaker 10: tariffs on auto imports from Mexico and Canada set to
Speaker 10: start in April. One estimate says car prices could soon
Speaker 10: increase by as much as twelve thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: WHOA, that's a good example of how the media operates.
Speaker 2: One estimate, right.
Speaker 1: I estimate it'll pick them up by fourteen thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: Really quote me now, right, So they're going for the
Speaker 1: most exciting number they can. It's like weather forecasts. They
Speaker 1: never underestimate how bad storms are going to be. But
Speaker 1: there's a damn good chances you've been saying now for
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks that these new prices set in
Speaker 1: and everybody's like, holy crap.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, well absolutely gone here.
Speaker 1: Well and particularly if the trade war endoors for more
Speaker 1: than a couple of weeks, right, Yeah, exporters and manufacturers.
Speaker 2: Are going to get murdered in the short term.
Speaker 1: But again Trump's saying long term, and I'm not pooh
Speaker 1: poohing the idea of a horizon price of car car
Speaker 1: prices because aluminum steel are incredibly important to manufacturing cars,
Speaker 1: and we get most of it from or a lot
Speaker 1: of it from over six cars there could wow wow,
Speaker 1: bring back it's the woodie surf in USA. Man, good
Speaker 1: times anyway. Ah, but it will have an effect, no doubt.
Speaker 1: So setting the scene by describing all of the angst
Speaker 1: here he is the eloquent, the educated, the articulate JD.
Speaker 2: Vans.
Speaker 8: First of all, I think the President's been very clear
Speaker 8: he wants to impose tariffs on foreign importers because he
Speaker 8: wants to bring investment and jobs back to the United
Speaker 8: States of America. So what I'd say to those business
Speaker 8: leaders is, I think the President has actually been quite
Speaker 8: clear about what he wants to accomplish. Build more in
Speaker 8: the United States of America, invest more in the United
Speaker 8: States of America, raised wages for workers in the United
Speaker 8: States of America, and you don't have to pay these
Speaker 8: tariffs at all. There is, as the President has said,
Speaker 8: a recognition that we have to accept, which is that, Look,
Speaker 8: Joe Biden left this economy in a disaster. He ran
Speaker 8: the highest peacetime deficits we've ever had in this country.
Speaker 8: He left us with a significant debt crisis. And the
Speaker 8: President has come in and said, look, we have to
Speaker 8: accomplish a lot of things simultaneously. We have to bring
Speaker 8: down inflation, which I think we're making some good progress on.
Speaker 8: We have to actually ensure critical government services like social
Speaker 8: Security and the military function for the American people. And
Speaker 8: we also have to force businesses to invest more, not overseas,
Speaker 8: not in Chinese workers, but in American workers.
Speaker 1: So Mark Alpern wrote in his newsletter today that was
Speaker 1: one of Vance's best moments as a vice president so far.
Speaker 1: Trying to explain the tariffs to Maga, Wall Street and
Speaker 1: the suburbs. He doesn't, you know, maybe politically you just
Speaker 1: can't get into the long term pain.
Speaker 2: It would take yeah, to accomplish this. Yeah, he threw in.
Speaker 1: You know, we're doing a good job battling inflation. There
Speaker 1: is nobody, but nobody who doesn't say, even if this
Speaker 1: is a good idea and it works, it will drive
Speaker 1: up prices significantly for a very long time.
Speaker 2: Wow. You know, the.
Speaker 1: The persuadables, as they call him, the chunk of the country.
Speaker 1: However big it is that kind of goes by gas
Speaker 1: prices and grocery prices and that sort of stuff, and
Speaker 1: that's how they vote. They don't have any other ideology. Man,
Speaker 1: they could turn fast. Yeah, yeah, and again. As a
Speaker 1: guy with an open mind on this stuff, and I
Speaker 1: understand how globalization has failed American workers, and you've gotten
Speaker 1: us intertwined with the evil Chinese in a way that
Speaker 1: is completely unhealthy. So I would like this stuff to
Speaker 1: work in a good way. But there's just no arguing
Speaker 1: with the idea that globalization as we knew it for
Speaker 1: the last fifty years has brought us cheap goods, and
Speaker 1: uncoupling from that, even in a smart way, even partially,
Speaker 1: will raise the price of goods. It will make life
Speaker 1: more expensive, It will raise inflation, it will cause some
Speaker 1: pain in the pocket book, and I just wonder. I
Speaker 1: wonder a if it'll work at all, and b if
Speaker 1: the American people will put up with the it's like
Speaker 1: a version of an austerity plane that's necessary to get
Speaker 1: it up and going.
Speaker 2: I just don't know.
Speaker 1: And this is more this is still somewhat theoretical as
Speaker 1: opposed to like I was listening to a podcast yesterday,
Speaker 1: were talking about Reagan gave a big speech in the
Speaker 1: early eighties when he came in and they just jacked
Speaker 1: up interest rates like crazy because inflation was so high.
Speaker 1: And he gave a speech about how this is the
Speaker 1: way to kill off inflation. It's going to be brutal
Speaker 1: for a while, you know, hang with it and it'll
Speaker 1: bring down inflation. And his approval rating went way down
Speaker 1: there in his first term, but it worked. It killed
Speaker 1: off inflation, and then the economy roared, and you know,
Speaker 1: he won forty nine states a couple of years later.
Speaker 1: But killing off inflation you can do pretty fast raising
Speaker 1: interest rates the way they did restructuring the global economy
Speaker 1: versus China, Can you do it at all?
Speaker 2: And how long would it take? Is it well?
Speaker 1: And versus Canada and Mexico and France and England. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's not all the evildoers. It's a lot of our
Speaker 1: best buddies. And yeah, I just And if it's the
Speaker 1: idea is moving toward reciprocal tariffs or no tariffs, which
Speaker 1: is sometimes the reasoning the White House gives, then we'd
Speaker 1: be negotiating that as opposed to just putting huge tariffs
Speaker 1: on and explaining how that's going to balance the budget
Speaker 1: and bring manufacturing back. Which of those goals is it?
Speaker 1: Because those are two very different goals. I need to
Speaker 1: talk to my dad about this. He follows economics a
Speaker 1: lot more than I do. Dad, I'm gonna call you
Speaker 1: today and talk to you about tariffs, so be prepared.
Speaker 1: That'll be you know, and the grandkids TIFFs are mostly tariffs.
Speaker 6: Just you know.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to figure out, are are there magas in
Speaker 1: the stock market who are willing to feel like, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is a good long term play. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you make long term plays when you're eighty seven, Dad,
Speaker 1: but are there people out there, you know that are
Speaker 1: super maga that uh.
Speaker 2: Think I'm in? I'm in.
Speaker 1: I understand the long term restructuring of the world economy.
Speaker 1: It's going to take a while, right right, right? Uh,
Speaker 1: you know it, man, I don't because I don't want
Speaker 1: to be knee jerk negative for a number of reasons here,
Speaker 1: because I like the idea of on shoring a lot
Speaker 1: of critical industries, and we need to recognize the restructuring
Speaker 1: of the world, because it's just happening, whether you like,
Speaker 1: whether you recognize.
Speaker 2: It or not. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: The concern I have, which I have not fully articulated
Speaker 1: until this moment, is that we will go through a
Speaker 1: process of enduring the short term pain disruption and and
Speaker 1: you know however bad that pain is, and then abandon
Speaker 1: the plan and not get the long term benefit from it. Right,
Speaker 1: undergo the painful procedure and die anyway, right, I'm trying
Speaker 1: to think of some examples. Doesn't really need one, because
Speaker 1: that that spells out pretty good. Because there's lots of
Speaker 1: things you do in life, like you you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: you take maybe you're taking ozimpic and trying to lose
Speaker 1: weight or something like that. But if you don't, you know,
Speaker 1: follow through on various things, it doesn't make any difference.
Speaker 1: Thinking about people who take legal or illegal ways to
Speaker 1: like grow muscle, but don't work out. So they take
Speaker 1: this stuff, but they don't actually work out, and so
Speaker 1: you get all the way downside with this shrunken testicles.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you get all the downside with none of the upside.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll see. It's gonna be fun to watch. And no, no,
Speaker 1: it's not gonna be fun to watch. You gonna be
Speaker 1: miserb No, on a strictly academic level. Yes, uh, if
Speaker 1: you're like crazy independently wealthy, yeah, it'll be interesting. Well
Speaker 1: for the rest of us, well, imagine the way the
Speaker 1: media is going to handle it. If cars go up
Speaker 1: six thousand dollars a car on average or more, imagine
Speaker 1: the way the media is gonna hammer that well. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that's why I'm so painstakingly trying to sound neutral
Speaker 1: on this, and I am neutral on this, is because
Speaker 1: they will stoke up fear they're already doing it as
Speaker 1: fast and as hot as they can downplay any benefits completely,
Speaker 1: they'll be completely dishonest.
Speaker 2: At every moment. March madness is in full sway.
Speaker 1: Brackets get to set up on Sunday just to came
Speaker 1: across some information about legal gambling all across the country,
Speaker 1: which is a fairly new thing in the gazillions of
Speaker 1: dollars we all spend on it, and what all that means.
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll talk about that a little bit later as
Speaker 1: you head into March Madness weekend.
Speaker 2: We've got mail bag on the way. Stay here. So
Speaker 2: it's Friday.
Speaker 1: I drove to work on Friday, like I always do
Speaker 1: on Friday's jam and music instead of listening news. I
Speaker 1: had Tom Petty blaston and was really enjoying myself everything
Speaker 1: like that. So it's surprising to me that I'm saying this,
Speaker 1: but I just read an article in the Wall Street
Speaker 1: Journal about a department in the US government that is
Speaker 1: probably one you don't know anything about and I don't
Speaker 1: know anything about, and it's probably what has made you
Speaker 1: miserable more than practically anything else in your life. And
Speaker 1: the Trump the crowd is trying to reform. And it's
Speaker 1: really interesting. We all, I mean, even those of us
Speaker 1: who pay close attention, understand so little about what is
Speaker 1: going on in our contrillion dollar government. I would agree.
Speaker 1: I've got another example of that we can squeeze in
Speaker 1: Next Hour. I hope you can get next Hour if
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Speaker 2: Here's your freedom love and quote.
Speaker 1: Of the day, taking a break from our series from
Speaker 1: Teddy Roosevelt because I love John's quote from Mark Dwain
Speaker 1: that he just sent along. The two most important days
Speaker 1: of your life are the day you were born and
Speaker 1: the day you've found out why. The day you've found
Speaker 1: out why. And we're not talking sperm meats egg. We're
Speaker 1: talking about the purpose of your life interesting the day
Speaker 1: you figure out, Hey, this is why I'm here. If
Speaker 1: you have not yet made that discovery, I wish you
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Speaker 2: People, medium amusement on the radio. Is that why I'm here?
Speaker 1: That's roughly yes, Yes, Mailbag drop us note mail bag
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Speaker 2: Matt Middiful, Palm Desert.
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Speaker 2: That's right.
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Speaker 1: You can listen live on our We're gonna be on
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Speaker 1: all of them anyway. So yeah, dig the One More
Speaker 1: Thing podcast. Sometimes there are swears on it, and he said,
Speaker 1: made me realize what a wonderful time to be alive
Speaker 1: during you guys broadcasting. Then he says stuff even nicer
Speaker 1: than that. That's kind of embarrassing. But Matt, I've read it,
Speaker 1: I've embraced it. I'll sleep with your note under my pillow.
Speaker 2: Thank you for the kind words.
Speaker 1: Well, Zach, on the other hand, you got Tim Will
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Speaker 1: to no one in our climate change ignorance. That's why
Speaker 1: we totally embrace the environments worst enemy, Lee Zelden, the
Speaker 1: new head of the EPA, who will swiftly return us
Speaker 1: to the golden age of toxins and assorted pollutants. Now,
Speaker 1: of all the rotten appointments of this ministration, this one
Speaker 1: stinks more than any of them. Soon we'll be masking
Speaker 1: up again, but it won't be for COVID, dumb and
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Speaker 2: Because you're gonna do away with electric car.
Speaker 1: Mandates, among other things. Yeah, Yeah, I enjoy timse emails.
Speaker 1: He hates us and politics, but he still listens. Thank
Speaker 1: you Tim. A note from Zach here, Valerian sucks. We've
Speaker 1: been talking about Valerian root this week. Two of the
Speaker 1: greatest nights of sleep I've ever had. But then it's
Speaker 1: like being drugged all day long. Katie almost died her
Speaker 1: heart racing. We don't know if it's the Valarian root,
Speaker 1: but we suspected. Yeah, let's see, he writes, and apologies
Speaker 1: for the mild obscenities here. It gives you weird ass
Speaker 1: dreams and can be liver toxic, and additionally all the
Speaker 1: weird side effects like giving Katie's heart a panic attack.
Speaker 2: My recommenation works pretty well for me. Is a terrible sleeper?
Speaker 1: Is magnesium, glysonate, kast and nine and melatonin. You can
Speaker 1: find supplements that have all of them. Apparently I took
Speaker 1: magniqium last time. But the melatonin I worry because then
Speaker 1: then does your brain stop producing the amount of melatone
Speaker 1: and he used to, and you end up always having
Speaker 1: to take melatonin.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm concerned about. I do not know.
Speaker 1: Let's see, do we have time for this? Oh, Okay,
Speaker 1: Greg writes, guys about the guy who was shot by
Speaker 1: his dog. Can't believe you haven't figured out the real story.
Speaker 1: The girl in his bed shot him. Then they blamed
Speaker 1: it on the dog, like people do after passing gas.
Speaker 2: So why would he go along with that story?
Speaker 1: Well, obviously because he is a guy, and I can't
Speaker 1: read that because you know it's the girl in his bed.
Speaker 1: He wants her to come back, even though she shot
Speaker 1: him in the leg.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, I kind of suspected that that there's something along
Speaker 1: those lines at the beginning, and they they had to
Speaker 1: avoid some sort of federal gun charges. Blame it on
Speaker 1: the dog. Yeah, then two great emails we don't have
Speaker 1: time for. Have to squeeze them in next hour. I
Speaker 1: lost my head, You lost your head, we'd been drinking.
Speaker 2: You shot me.
Speaker 1: Let's blame it on the dog, right exactly. Hey you're hot,
Speaker 1: I'm kinda hot. Let's let's see if we can patch
Speaker 1: this thing up, or at least someone willing to have
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