Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Arm Strong and Jetty and he Armstrong and Eddy. I
Speaker 2: want to pull up on the security changes. Is there
Speaker 2: talks about you potentially wearing a bulletproof vest moving forward
Speaker 2: given you have now been shot at. I don't know.
Speaker 3: I can handle looking twenty pounds heavier. Somebody's got there's
Speaker 3: somebody these guys in physical specialties.
Speaker 2: There's some of these guys drop. I don't want to
Speaker 2: be here.
Speaker 1: The lighter side of assassination attempts. Trump is a unique guy.
Speaker 1: He is psychologically.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't know what his brushes with death did to
Speaker 1: him or for him. You know, it's funny, Just a
Speaker 1: quick departure. The bit of Scott's email we didn't squeeze
Speaker 1: in before the top of the hour break was why
Speaker 1: was the shooter so calm taking his selfies before walking
Speaker 1: into his almost inevitable death. Excepting that you're already dead
Speaker 1: is calming and liberating. I've heard that, and this is
Speaker 1: certainly I don't claim any personal knowledge, and it's probably
Speaker 1: not universal, but I've heard guys who've dealt with combat,
Speaker 1: say the only way you stay sane and you lose
Speaker 1: like your fears to accept all right, I'm gonna die,
Speaker 1: so let's get the job done. So I wonder, anyway,
Speaker 1: I wonder if there's an aspect of that in Trump's personality.
Speaker 1: Well remember when we had we had Corey Lewandowsky on
Speaker 1: and when we were at one of the conventions. That's
Speaker 1: Chirstyn Nolam's old man and the one that doesn't wear
Speaker 1: the big balloons under his shirt. And Corey lind Lewndusky
Speaker 1: said one of the things about Trump, he said, he
Speaker 1: is fearless. He is absolutely fearless. And there I think
Speaker 1: there is some and maybe he's got like some something
Speaker 1: wrong with his brain where he cannot be It's weird
Speaker 1: that he can be, on one hand, so easily butt
Speaker 1: hurt by the slightest insult by a meaningless character that
Speaker 1: he needs to respond immediately, but like be fearless about
Speaker 1: lawsuits being shot at, about you know, his his personal
Speaker 1: life falling apart in public. Oh, that stuff just doesn't
Speaker 1: seem to phase him. You know, a comedian you've never
Speaker 1: heard of saying something about its hair will make him,
Speaker 1: you know, go Berzerko, it's the same time. So it's
Speaker 1: an and completely step on his own messaging. Yeah, to
Speaker 1: his own detriment. I mean it's not harmless.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right, what a duck.
Speaker 1: We don't have to do a deep dive on this now.
Speaker 1: Just wanted to put this on the plate for a
Speaker 1: conversation later.
Speaker 2: It's a it's a big.
Speaker 1: Deal obviously in California, then for the rest of the country,
Speaker 1: the entire bullet train thing.
Speaker 2: But you should be aware.
Speaker 1: Of this just from a the fact that it happens
Speaker 1: over and over again, these government projects that balloon did
Speaker 1: and get out of hand.
Speaker 2: The California High Speed.
Speaker 1: Rail Project put up their new projection yesterday, to which
Speaker 1: The California Post responded to the editorial board said, it's
Speaker 1: time to end the high speed rail disaster.
Speaker 2: That's got to be the fiftieth.
Speaker 1: Time they've written that piece, the call for the end
Speaker 1: of the high speed train. But they put out their
Speaker 1: new cost projection two hundred and thirty one billion dollars,
Speaker 1: seven times now the original estimate, seven times what voters approved.
Speaker 1: Now two hundred and thirty one billion dollars. There's still
Speaker 1: as sixty minutes showed us a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1: Ain't no dang train, hardly any There ain't no actual track.
Speaker 1: There's just a couple of cement things in the middle
Speaker 1: of nowhere, little track bed, you know, keeping million dollars.
Speaker 1: Keeping in mind when they said it's now going to
Speaker 1: be about one hundred billion dollars, when was that two
Speaker 1: three years ago? I was screaming, there's not a chance
Speaker 1: in hell it'll be less than two hundred billion, your
Speaker 1: ridiculous stop line. And here they've exceeded my estimate. So
Speaker 1: one one critic actually did the math on this. The
Speaker 1: amount of money involved in here. At current demands LA
Speaker 1: between San Francisco, you could fund roughly two hundred years
Speaker 1: of air travel before the money would run out. Holy crap.
Speaker 1: Well that was back when it was one hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty six billion. The California Post points out that now
Speaker 1: you can double that, So you've got four hundred years
Speaker 1: of flights that you could pay for for the for
Speaker 1: the current demand of people that fly back and forth
Speaker 1: between LA and San Francisco, four.
Speaker 2: Hundred years worth. That is a stunning number, which is interesting.
Speaker 1: The whole thing is stunning, Gavin, and what makes us
Speaker 1: insane although I've had to just kind of put it
Speaker 1: aside and accept it is that it is an utterly
Speaker 1: how do I put this guileless crime? The crime is
Speaker 1: happening in the open, it's openly discussed, it's undeniable.
Speaker 2: Millions of people are acutely aware of it.
Speaker 1: But there are enough people who are either in on
Speaker 1: the scam or are so ignorant they have no idea
Speaker 1: of it. The same scammers get elected over and over again,
Speaker 1: or they hate Trump so insanely they just keep voting
Speaker 1: for dese who continue the scam. You've just got to
Speaker 1: take a deep breath and accept that this is the most.
Speaker 2: Glaring, bright spotlet.
Speaker 1: Example of the failure of democracy perhaps in our nation's history.
Speaker 1: It might actually, in fact, if it's not, I want
Speaker 1: to know, it's a bigger, uglier illustration. Yeah, it might
Speaker 1: be the biggest disconnect between taxpayer and money spent.
Speaker 2: And that is a heck of a thing to say
Speaker 2: in our nation's history.
Speaker 1: As is pointed out, they don't even claim anymore that
Speaker 1: it's a train between San Francisco and LA It's not
Speaker 1: even close to that. It gets you, like within an
Speaker 1: hour and a half drive of each of those towns
Speaker 1: at right glass speed of two hundred and thirty one
Speaker 1: billion dollars. Since we're on it, might as well finish
Speaker 1: this off. This is I mean, you thought that was outrageous.
Speaker 1: Here you go, and if you accept that number, I
Speaker 1: got some magic beans. I'd like to sell you a
Speaker 1: dumb dumb.
Speaker 2: Right, you're right, that's not the ending number anyway.
Speaker 1: So the bosses at the California High Speed Rail are
Speaker 1: weighing currently giving the CEO even more power to make
Speaker 1: decisions on his own without any other input whatsoever. The
Speaker 1: board of Director's mulling and granting. Ian I don't know
Speaker 1: how to pronounce his name.
Speaker 2: Do you know his name? Chordryuz.
Speaker 1: He's a villain. I don't care what kind of guy
Speaker 1: he is. He's a villain for not coming out and
Speaker 1: saying we got to stop this. It would give him
Speaker 1: more authority over spending in operations. For instance, he can
Speaker 1: approve contracts worth twenty five million dollars without any board
Speaker 1: approval whatsoever. One guy. Now, how do you think he'd
Speaker 1: keep corruption out of that? If you got one individual
Speaker 1: who can approve contracts up to twenty five million dollars,
Speaker 1: and you've got two hundred some billion dollars to spend.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I know it's astonishing. You know, I've
Speaker 1: got a great piece around here somewhere. Oh there it
Speaker 1: is California. Fraud is not a bug, it's a feature.
Speaker 1: It's the way the system is supposed to function according
Speaker 1: to the people running it. The fraud is on a
Speaker 1: massive scale. I mean the the bullspit train is just
Speaker 1: one example, and I have half a dozen other examples.
Speaker 1: Thousands of inmates Murder's rapist death Row inmates received up
Speaker 1: to a billion dollars on unemployment benefits. An estimated one
Speaker 1: hundred and forty six billion was lost to fraud from
Speaker 1: medical At least thirty two billion was lost in fraudulent
Speaker 1: payments from the Unemployment Department under Gavin's leadership. By the way,
Speaker 1: he's spending nineteen million dollars of taxpayer money on a
Speaker 1: New York PR firm to dust off California's image, which
Speaker 1: is just lovely. How about the thirty seven billion dollars
Speaker 1: since twenty nineteen to curb homelessness.
Speaker 2: The results homelessness.
Speaker 1: Bums and junkies increased, while the funds disappeared without so
Speaker 1: much as a mechanism to measure their effectiveness.
Speaker 2: It is sickening.
Speaker 3: Thanks for taking the money.
Speaker 2: I agree.
Speaker 1: Well, back to the that young woman is the voice
Speaker 1: of the taxpayer. Back to this guy running the high
Speaker 1: speed rail. However, your pronouncer's name Ian Chudry Thief mcgrafty,
Speaker 1: well is the proper pronunciation.
Speaker 2: He might be a decent, honest man.
Speaker 1: I would say he's kind of by definition, not because
Speaker 1: if he was, he would be out in front of
Speaker 1: microphones and cameras saying, look, I've looked at the numbers.
Speaker 2: This doesn't make any sense. We need to end this today.
Speaker 1: And since he's not saying that, I'm going to assume
Speaker 1: he's a bad guy. But you've got somebody one hundred
Speaker 1: percent true who on his own can sign off on
Speaker 1: a twenty five million dollar check, and the board is
Speaker 1: trying to give him more power so it could be
Speaker 1: contracts up to one hundred million dollars.
Speaker 2: That one guy. Now, if you have the ability to
Speaker 2: give one hundred.
Speaker 1: Million dollars to this guy, this guy, or this guy,
Speaker 1: and you can do that without any favor toward one
Speaker 1: of them, because they tell you they'll give you this
Speaker 1: or that, or help out your kid here or your
Speaker 1: wife that, or give you a car or whatever. You
Speaker 1: should get sainthood, because I'm not sure there's any human
Speaker 1: being on earth that put in that position could do that.
Speaker 1: Keeping in mind that there will never be any accountabilit
Speaker 1: for what you decide, So go on. I imagine the
Speaker 1: sort of personality you'd have to have to be able
Speaker 1: to be completely fair when you have the on your own,
Speaker 1: with no oversight decision making on one hundred million dollars.
Speaker 2: But that one, that one, they're that one over and
Speaker 2: over and over again.
Speaker 1: Is it the largest peace time theft of government funds
Speaker 1: in the history of humanity?
Speaker 2: Very well could be, Yeah, it could be. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Putin has got to be looking at that singing, jeez,
Speaker 1: what is the deal?
Speaker 2: I thought I was good man, that's good. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: just don't want I think I'm for the grace of God.
Speaker 1: This guy should be Now the guy has the balls
Speaker 1: to run for president. Gaby who when he was a
Speaker 1: lieutenant governor right was like this math doesn't work, this
Speaker 1: train will never run, this is a boondoggle. But then
Speaker 1: he got his cut and so now he's part of
Speaker 1: the theft machine. And now suddenly, oh no, no, we
Speaker 1: got to do this, This proves California is on the
Speaker 1: lad edge oh greatest theft of taxpayer funds in human history.
Speaker 2: I'm sticking by that claim. I used to live.
Speaker 1: Next door to a woman, her and her husband, but
Speaker 1: she was one of those medtech sales people, you know,
Speaker 1: medical sales, and she would take doctors out and schmooze
Speaker 1: them to try to get them to buy their version
Speaker 1: of medicine. And they take them out to ridiculously expensive
Speaker 1: dinners and give them stuff and everything like that. And
Speaker 1: that's for a tiny, tiny fraction of the kind of
Speaker 1: money we're talking about here. Can you imagine what these
Speaker 1: companies do to try to get this guy to make
Speaker 1: the choice to go.
Speaker 2: With them for one hundred million dollars. Keeping in mind
Speaker 2: again there's no accountability.
Speaker 1: Yes, I imagine that that would be something to see. They
Speaker 1: got to make a documentary out of that. Well, this
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Speaker 2: Man oh Man.
Speaker 1: So many things came together in a bad way for humanity.
Speaker 1: The falling a part of the media world, the news world,
Speaker 1: the actual investigative journalism world, newspapers going away.
Speaker 2: You know, Craigslist destroyed.
Speaker 1: Newspapers to talk about consequences that you don't think about.
Speaker 1: And then so like I almost dropped an s bomb.
Speaker 1: Crap legs can go on and there's just nobody around
Speaker 1: to report.
Speaker 2: On it anymore.
Speaker 1: Yeah, clickbait has has has a displaced journalism in a
Speaker 1: very real way. Plus you've got Trump arrangement syndrome. If
Speaker 1: Gavin says that's Trump trying to ruin our California dream,
Speaker 1: people would be like, oh, dare Trump call for text
Speaker 1: hair accountability?
Speaker 2: I hate him so much, And.
Speaker 1: It enables the criminals to perpetrate this astonishingly big crime.
Speaker 2: I like you do your colargarly line, I laughed.
Speaker 1: In Okay, we had a lot more other ways there.
Speaker 4: According to a new survey, thirty percent of respond and
Speaker 4: said that they have removed a friend or family member
Speaker 4: from a group chat in the last year. And for
Speaker 4: those who aren't in a family group chat, it was you.
Speaker 1: Here's my here's the headline of the day off to
Speaker 1: look into this story more Iran eyeing mine, carrying dolphins
Speaker 1: to attack US warships and straight up.
Speaker 2: Her home or moves.
Speaker 1: Oh Iran is going to use mine carrying dolphins, and
Speaker 1: then did they train the dolphin to go by the ship?
Speaker 1: How do you do? Dolphins are complete slots for a mackerel.
Speaker 1: They'll do anything, So yeah, they train them like they
Speaker 1: train them to leap up and hit the little orange
Speaker 1: thing at the dolphins show.
Speaker 2: Really yeah, how do you do that?
Speaker 1: Did they do that ahead of time or do you
Speaker 1: do it all of a sudden or does it only
Speaker 1: take five minutes?
Speaker 2: Or I don't understand this, well, it takes a while.
Speaker 1: I remember reading fascinating stuff as a youngster, a teenager
Speaker 1: about how both the US and Soviet Union were experiment
Speaker 1: with training dolphins and whales to accomplish various underwater skullduggeries.
Speaker 1: So yeah, that reminds me of last year when we
Speaker 1: went to Florida and Henry got to do the thing
Speaker 1: where he's in the water with the dolphins and put
Speaker 1: his hand on both their fins and they pulled him
Speaker 1: across this little pond really fast.
Speaker 2: What a cool thing to do. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, My headline of the day is actually incredibly discouraging,
Speaker 1: so I'm going to leave it out for now. Please
Speaker 1: do I will unleash my righteous biblical profit screed on
Speaker 1: ye later on oh, speaking to the Bible.
Speaker 2: That's right, mister president.
Speaker 1: I realized something about myself last night that I really
Speaker 1: don't like. Still trying to be a good person, like
Speaker 1: healthy psychology at my advanced age. Sorry, youngsters, it never
Speaker 1: ends if you have any self awareness. So I'm going
Speaker 1: to admit it. It's unflattering now or later. It's part
Speaker 1: of my healing process. I don't think I have time now.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna Michael, maybe we could do all that one minutes,
Speaker 1: because I've always got two minutes. I've got my two
Speaker 1: things I got wrong this week that I need to
Speaker 1: apologize for us.
Speaker 2: Oh, we'll call it confession is good for the soul. Yeah,
Speaker 2: maybe we'll do that. Yeah, okay, sounds good.
Speaker 1: And talk to Katie about maternity leave and Katie's last
Speaker 1: day before she goes. And you said he got the
Speaker 1: bedroom all decorated and everything.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's all done, thank god. With the thing being
Speaker 2: baby Zoo animals babies are so cute. A classic, and
Speaker 2: it's a classic for a reason. That's perfect. Did you
Speaker 2: tell a boy or a girl? Is that a secret?
Speaker 2: That's a boy. It's name is Jack, Joe, Mike Mike. Remember, Okay,
Speaker 2: we know.
Speaker 1: That Judy and I've been referring to him as JJ
Speaker 1: just to save time, because Jack Joe Mike Mike's a
Speaker 1: little cumbersome. Such a good name, though, Yeah, that's a
Speaker 1: good name. Okay, Well, just do we get to reveal
Speaker 1: the name? You know, you let us know and we'll
Speaker 1: make the big announcement or uh, I kind I already did,
Speaker 1: but I think it went in one ear and out
Speaker 1: the other.
Speaker 2: Like like a week ago. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, assuming everything goes okay, uh, you know, God willing
Speaker 1: and it's always the case. How soon after the baby
Speaker 1: is born? Will we be on the air five minutes? Yeah, hell,
Speaker 1: I'll be on there while it's happening.
Speaker 2: I don't care.
Speaker 1: Live team coverage, yeah, oh my god, Live team coverage
Speaker 1: from a birth. Yeah, Katie's giving birth.
Speaker 2: We go to Katie. Yes, you gotta, we gotta.
Speaker 1: We're up against a hard commercial, Katie, You're gonna have
Speaker 1: to hold it. Okay, we'll be back after this break.
Speaker 2: You gotta do a live a live spot. You hang
Speaker 2: on a second, but we have to talk to you
Speaker 2: about Yeah, there are four human beings in the room.
Speaker 1: When we come back, there will be five say half
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Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 1: Oh so on a totally different topic, uh, chat bot
Speaker 1: addiction scientists as Science Science have now identified three di
Speaker 1: thinks kinds of chatbot addictions. Okay, interesting and you might
Speaker 1: have them. I hope, I don't. I use the general
Speaker 1: a lot, but not for the weird reasons I don't
Speaker 1: think anyway. All on the way, including apologizing about a
Speaker 1: couple of big news.
Speaker 5: Stories Armstrong and Getty, we got the first big update
Speaker 5: on this story since President Trump told us a couple
Speaker 5: of weeks ago that the White House and the FBI
Speaker 5: were going to be investigating possible links between these scientists
Speaker 5: that have either gone missing or turned up dead over
Speaker 5: the last two years.
Speaker 3: Well, so far, I mean their individuals somewhere said some
Speaker 3: left this earth self inflicted. But so far we're finding
Speaker 3: that there's not much of a connection.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the whole why so many scientists disappeared or died.
Speaker 1: Story that is fascinating from like a logic standpoint or
Speaker 1: I don't know what the right term is, Joe explained.
Speaker 1: It's the only person I've heard explain it anywhere, is
Speaker 1: that you could make it about you know who's killing
Speaker 1: the great chefs of Europe. You could make it about chefs,
Speaker 1: or baseball players, or any large group you wanted, especially
Speaker 1: over three year period. Do you know how many former
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball players have died in the last three years?
Speaker 1: You have disappeared, and a lot of the disappeared are
Speaker 1: right over here.
Speaker 2: Nobody looked right.
Speaker 1: And then you dig into it and you realize, well,
Speaker 1: two of those guys never made it past double A,
Speaker 1: and one of those guys is still alive.
Speaker 2: It's utter crap. You know, it's funny as well.
Speaker 1: See the reason I wanted to bring this up was
Speaker 1: I saw the other day China is having the same
Speaker 1: problem this. Many Chinese scientists, nuclear scientists have disappeared or
Speaker 1: died in the last three years. Well, yeah, it's because
Speaker 1: you can extrapolate it to really any large group of
Speaker 1: people and make it seem like something exciting happened. Right, Also,
Speaker 1: Chinese farmers and performance artists and wet bat dealers from
Speaker 1: the web market exactly speaking with dealers, speaking of which
Speaker 1: I was deep in thought listening to that clip, and
Speaker 1: as Jack was starting to talk, I'm gonna I'll just
Speaker 1: present it as Joe Getty's what do you performance art?
Speaker 2: Modern world performance art?
Speaker 1: Guys? The house is on fire, Honey, we really need
Speaker 1: new drapes.
Speaker 5: Dad.
Speaker 2: Why are we out of peanut butter? The house is
Speaker 2: on fire? Hey, Dad, I need a ride to soccer.
Speaker 1: The effing house is on fire. All of these stupid,
Speaker 1: stupid stories and objects of conversation. Nobody's paying attention to
Speaker 1: the house being on fire. But I'm not gonna bring
Speaker 1: it down with that.
Speaker 2: I'm not. I'm trying to sound like Trump there when
Speaker 2: he starts to get reflective. It's a crazy world. Aren't
Speaker 2: you afraid crazy things happen?
Speaker 1: Anyway, Let's just hit a couple of headlines that are
Speaker 1: worth mentioning Jack. We need to call our fabulous agent,
Speaker 1: Eric and he'd do a better job. Elon Musk's Tesla
Speaker 1: compensation last year surpassed one hundred.
Speaker 2: And fifty eight billion dollars.
Speaker 1: He had a good twenty twenty five, clearly according to
Speaker 1: regulatory filing, and indeed, his ten year deal could be
Speaker 1: worth a trillion dollars. If Musk hits every milestone, which
Speaker 1: includes growing Tesla's market cap to eight point five trillion dollars,
Speaker 1: he almost certainly is going to become the world's first trillionaire.
Speaker 1: Part of that is because of the whole inflation thing,
Speaker 1: because a trillion dollars a day, just like one hundred
Speaker 1: dollars today ain't close to what it was in the
Speaker 1: year two thousand and that was the screen I'm holding
Speaker 1: myself back from. Maybe we'll get to it next hour.
Speaker 1: You will be second and horrified and angered, disappointed, but smarter.
Speaker 1: It were here ruin every possible positive thing that could
Speaker 1: happen this weekend. It will crush your joy like an
Speaker 1: elephants stepping on a grape.
Speaker 2: But you'll be smarter if you have any arms. Yes,
Speaker 2: But the most depressing radio.
Speaker 1: Shot, it's not even close.
Speaker 2: Are you kidding anyway? Uh so yeah, elon musk. Although
Speaker 2: if you missed this, we just posted it.
Speaker 1: I think at Armstrong and getty dot com under hot links.
Speaker 1: The absolutely fabulous piece by a French economist to whoever
Speaker 1: he is, jotrist.
Speaker 2: So it is.
Speaker 1: I'm describing how quote unquote billionaires they don't consume that money.
Speaker 1: They allocate it where they think it's going to be
Speaker 1: the most productive, which spawns zillions of jobs, and it's
Speaker 1: so good for society in every single way compared to
Speaker 1: if the government says we're gonna put a tax on
Speaker 1: billionaires and we're gonna take that money out of equity,
Speaker 1: how they just squander it and hand it out to
Speaker 1: their cronies and it becomes utterly unproductive, really really good
Speaker 1: informative stuff. It's at Armstrong and getty dot com under hotlinks. Anyway,
Speaker 1: dr moving along. Oh, here's one of the stories that
Speaker 1: got obscured. It is becoming more and more clear that
Speaker 1: the Biden administration, Anthony Fauci and his dominions engaged in
Speaker 1: utterly bold faced and illegal cover ups of the various
Speaker 1: aspects of COVID, whether it was the side effects of
Speaker 1: the vaccine, or the needlessness of vaccine mandates, or the
Speaker 1: lab leak, et cetera. They were violating all of our
Speaker 1: government transparency laws for reasons that are infinitely clear, but
Speaker 1: practically nobody's talking about it. Yeah, this should worst cataclysm
Speaker 1: to hit the world since World War Two. There was
Speaker 1: a giant cover up and nobody's talking about it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it should get more attention. So somebody's being charged with
Speaker 1: something or investigated with something. What's the actual headline? Yeah,
Speaker 1: this character doctor David Moran's form or National Institute's a
Speaker 1: health official is being charged with essentially a fraud and
Speaker 1: cover ups and violating government transparency laws.
Speaker 2: And what's so.
Speaker 1: The trial that that that could hopefully when it actually
Speaker 1: a trial actually happens, no way learn more about it.
Speaker 1: He gets more attention because it should, Like you said,
Speaker 1: this is a big deal. Yeah, but what what makes
Speaker 1: me insane and I got to take deep breasts and
Speaker 1: deal with and just accept, is that the press, the
Speaker 1: media is portraying it as political retaliation because Trump headed
Speaker 1: in for Fauci, so it's more of the law there.
Speaker 2: They're charging them with this silly stuff.
Speaker 1: Well, we don't help your case when you do crap
Speaker 1: like the Seashell's.
Speaker 2: James Comy thing or exactly.
Speaker 1: And that's the That's yet another example of Trump stepping
Speaker 1: on his own messaging. He was so intent on punishing
Speaker 1: Comy for his law fare, which I get that he
Speaker 1: stepped all over this gigantic style. This ought to be
Speaker 1: they ought to be Every cabinet member ought to be
Speaker 1: talking about this because it was so important to our
Speaker 1: civil liberties, our economy, our health, are armed forces. It's
Speaker 1: it's difficult to fully describe how enormous this was. But
Speaker 1: it's gone in the noise of the missing scientists quote
Speaker 1: unquote and the coomy seashells and the rest of this
Speaker 1: horse craft. Again, guys, the house is on fire. Well,
Speaker 1: never mind, nobody cares.
Speaker 2: I'll move on. Want you want another Houses on Fire headline?
Speaker 1: I won't.
Speaker 2: I won't go into it.
Speaker 1: I really don't, but yes, guest essay in The New
Speaker 1: York Times Today by Robert D. Kaplan, who I'm a
Speaker 1: big fan of his writing and stuff like that. He's
Speaker 1: nanailist US military stuff, writes a lot of good books.
Speaker 1: The Tragic Decline of the American Navy, and it is
Speaker 1: really an interesting piece and how the world has benefited
Speaker 1: so much from the dominance of first Great Britain and
Speaker 1: in the United States of keeping the oceans free for
Speaker 1: commerce ninety percent of commerce even now in the age
Speaker 1: of aeroplanes, ninety percent of commerce going around on the
Speaker 1: seas at some point, and keeping the seas open and free.
Speaker 2: And it's over.
Speaker 1: Those days are over, according to him, we just don't
Speaker 1: have the navy to do it. As soon as China
Speaker 1: flexes their muscle down where like forty percent of commerce
Speaker 1: goes through they're going to control that. We're seeing what's
Speaker 1: happening with the straight of horn moves, So those days
Speaker 1: are over. Yeah, I remember I formulated Joe Getty's unified
Speaker 1: theory of civilizations a number of years ago in that
Speaker 1: civilizations veer from one guardrail to the other and have
Speaker 1: no idea that they've hit the sweet spot when they
Speaker 1: hit it, and they just keep going until they hit
Speaker 1: the other guardrail. Great example of that, We with our
Speaker 1: incredible military and naval might in particular, said no, the
Speaker 1: world's going to be open to commerce. You're not going
Speaker 1: to choke off the commerce of the nations to extract
Speaker 1: you know, it's piracy essentially, whether it's literally stealing the
Speaker 1: goods or just exacting tolls and that sort of thing.
Speaker 2: We're not gonna let that happen. Yeah, you can.
Speaker 1: You can say that. You can say that all day long.
Speaker 1: You have to be able to enforce it, and we could.
Speaker 1: Well that's what I'm saying. Yes, precisely my point. And
Speaker 1: much like a society that beefs up pits policing, it
Speaker 1: has a robust justice system. If you break the law,
Speaker 1: you get arrested, you get tried, you get convicted, you
Speaker 1: get jail, blah blah blah. All of a sudden, people
Speaker 1: look around and say, there's no crime. We don't need
Speaker 1: all these cops, we don't need this Dracconian iniquity sentencing.
Speaker 1: We don't need a giant, powerful navy. There's no threat
Speaker 1: to international shipping. And so you dismantle your navy and
Speaker 1: you hit the guardrail, and you know, God help us all.
Speaker 1: Speaking of defense, this is a big headline, very important.
Speaker 2: I'm a claw fan. I gotta hit you at these numbers.
Speaker 2: Just be front of me.
Speaker 1: I do I love about the navy, and then I'll
Speaker 1: shut up. This is interesting. At the beginning of World
Speaker 1: War Two we had eight hundred ships. At the end
Speaker 1: of World War two, we had seven thousand ships. And
Speaker 1: that's how we have dominated the sea all this time.
Speaker 1: Seven thousand ships. We now have currently at latest measurement,
Speaker 1: latest gentlemen act in at ships, two hundred and ninety ships. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we had seven thousand at the end of World War two,
Speaker 1: and obviously you don't need to keep that number, but
Speaker 1: two hundred and ninety now currently the Chinese navy has
Speaker 1: about four hundred.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, I think we're the second largest
Speaker 1: navy on Earth. Wow, we made the neighborhood too safe.
Speaker 1: We fired all the cops, We dismantled all the locks
Speaker 1: on the doors.
Speaker 2: We we went there's the guardrail.
Speaker 1: We went with the AOC defund the police plan, because
Speaker 1: the Navy is the police. We defunded the police. For
Speaker 1: the world think and everything's fine.
Speaker 2: Seas will look like the suburbs. No they won't. They
Speaker 2: look like good one, A good one boy, oh boy. Well,
Speaker 2: we're going to try to break on time. As if
Speaker 2: this hasn't dispe what is it with us?
Speaker 1: A mental problem? Should we see a shrink a show
Speaker 1: together on the air. Should we have a therapist come
Speaker 1: on the air with us and talk to us about
Speaker 1: what a downer show we are and how maybe we've
Speaker 1: gotten in some sort of like doom loop or something.
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think we are, though. I think we're walking
Speaker 1: we we all of us. Hello, friends, we're all walking
Speaker 1: through a coal mine with dead canaries scattered everywhere. You know,
Speaker 1: we have we've experienced this in some workplaces.
Speaker 2: I won't say what workplaces.
Speaker 1: We've experienced this in the workplaces where people are trying
Speaker 1: to go with the positive attitude it's like there are
Speaker 1: no solid, real indications that we should be positive, right,
Speaker 1: the needle's pointing south on everything.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, and it always turns out to be true.
Speaker 1: Sometimes a bad attitude or negative attitude is just realizing
Speaker 1: the facts on the ground. Sure, But at the same time,
Speaker 1: if you're the biblical prophet, say, who's just constantly yelling
Speaker 1: at people that they're doomed. After a while, people are like,
Speaker 1: oh my God, there comes to your Here comes Jeremiah again.
Speaker 2: Just turn to act like you don't see him. I
Speaker 2: guess that's what we don't want to be.
Speaker 1: We don't want to be to show that's the guy
Speaker 1: on the standing on the corner with the end is
Speaker 1: near sign. Just yeah every day. Yeah, agreed. So I'm
Speaker 1: I'm ashamed of myself. I have a confession to make.
Speaker 1: Next segment. I have a flaw in my personality, terrible
Speaker 1: flaw and I.
Speaker 2: Will you want us to point it out or you're
Speaker 2: going this will be great. Why don't I save you
Speaker 2: the trouble and go ahead?
Speaker 1: Okay, all that's on the way. We have a lot
Speaker 1: of stuff to jam in today. May first, by the way,
Speaker 1: happy may Day or.
Speaker 2: Something. All right, So we need to get right into this.
Speaker 1: This is a quirk of human psychology that we've actually,
Speaker 1: I'm well aware of it. We've talked about it on
Speaker 1: the show several times. So Judy and I have just
Speaker 1: gotten done with a big remodel of our house. We
Speaker 1: love our house, have We're just so happy where we are,
Speaker 1: love the view. Blah blah. Our new ish neighbors had
Speaker 1: us and our other neighbors over for a couple of
Speaker 1: drinks some you know, dead orders, that sort of thing
Speaker 1: last night, and it was a hoot. It was great, wonderful.
Speaker 1: People really like them, lucky to have them as neighbors.
Speaker 1: Their house is beautiful, it was beautifully designed, and their
Speaker 1: view is at least as good as ours.
Speaker 2: Blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: I get back home, I look around, I think I
Speaker 1: don't like this house.
Speaker 2: Wow. I wish I had their house. Wow.
Speaker 1: While fully aware of what was going on in my brain, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's like I woke up later and thought,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, I.
Speaker 2: Should be grateful.
Speaker 1: No, as it was unfolding, I'm like, what the hell
Speaker 1: is the matter with you? The whole people are happier
Speaker 1: making eighty thousand if the people next to them make
Speaker 1: seventy thousand, then they are making one hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: thousand if the people next to them are making one
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty thousand. Yeah, which is definitely a flaw
Speaker 1: in our personalities, right, it's a flaw in the programming.
Speaker 1: What anthropologically is going on there? To win the mate,
Speaker 1: your mate, you have to be like the best warrior
Speaker 1: to make you a striver. Maybe it's that it's just
Speaker 1: so you're not not satisfied. You'd see a strive, but
Speaker 1: in terms of a happiness thing, it's Oh, it's a
Speaker 1: horrible flaw in the programming.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Our our old producer positive sean complicated dude, but he
Speaker 1: had this collection of sayings that he'd accumulated through his life,
Speaker 1: bits of wisdom, and one that really knocked my socks
Speaker 1: off was comparison is the thief.
Speaker 2: Of joy, No doubt. Boy.
Speaker 1: I was thinking about that last night. What is it
Speaker 1: with humans? But anyway, I'm gonna work on it. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna ask my counselor Claude to talk me through gratitude exercises,
Speaker 1: perspective because there's always somebody richer sher Elon Musk with
Speaker 1: a nicer, a better wife, what you're gonna make yourself insane,
Speaker 1: plus the knowledge that the incrementally better this or that
Speaker 1: doesn't actually make you happy anyway. So right, I mean
Speaker 1: you've had if you've been able to run that experiment
Speaker 1: a few times. Somebody pointed this out to me when
Speaker 1: I was way younger. I don't remember who, but uh,
Speaker 1: just I was talking about cars driving down the road
Speaker 1: Like everybody else. You know, this car or that car.
Speaker 1: You only notice the ones that are better, are cooler
Speaker 1: than yours. You don't notice the gazillions you pass that
Speaker 1: are probably less than yours.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's just that is a flaw in the programming.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think just understanding it, naming it is
Speaker 1: good and trying to understand where that comes from, because
Speaker 1: it's obviously it is part of our programming.
Speaker 2: That doesn't make it good.
Speaker 1: I see a good looking woman walk by, and I
Speaker 1: want to have sex with her and impregnate her.
Speaker 2: It's the way we're made.
Speaker 1: I don't well good, probably because you wouldn't have me,
Speaker 1: but also because that would be a moral and a
Speaker 1: betrayal of my beautiful wife. Yeah, there are aspects of
Speaker 1: human character that don't fit the modern world.
Speaker 2: Obviously yeah wow.
Speaker 1: And of course, obviously for the umpteenth time, Facebook, Instagram,
Speaker 1: all that sort of stuff has made it more available
Speaker 1: to compare yourself to more people you know or went
Speaker 1: to high school with or whatever than has ever existed
Speaker 1: in the past. Not to mention Zillow as I had
Speaker 1: to give up real estate porn because that's what it's
Speaker 1: all built on. I mean, I'm interested in real estate
Speaker 1: and design and neighborhoods and trends and just because I'm interested,
Speaker 1: but it's also a bit of porn, which is.
Speaker 2: Why I call them my plan.
Speaker 1: I plan to never have a permanent address once I'm retired.
Speaker 1: I don't know that I'll ever have a permanent residence,
Speaker 1: just a string of victims left behind as you moved
Speaker 1: from town to town that the FBI will put together eventually.
Speaker 2: Anyway, women I've sucked the money out of and then
Speaker 2: I move on to the next one.
Speaker 1: Exactly sad now broke widows, Yes, yes, exactly.
Speaker 2: Yes, they call him the mobile jigglow.
Speaker 1: Boy, the geriatric jigglow That's what I was draining their savings,
Speaker 1: and then onto the next trailer park.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, there will be podcasts about you and.
Speaker 1: Photos up on the you know, on the bulletin board
Speaker 1: at the post office. Keep changing your appearance exactly too
Speaker 1: smart for that, Yeah, I will change my appearance.
Speaker 2: Glasses no glasses, go te no no, go to ecke.
Speaker 1: Sure sure drained your savings before you realize it's me.
Speaker 1: So you wanted to issue a few corrections in RATA Yes.
Speaker 2: News stories this week.
Speaker 1: One that I was way wrong on I don't even
Speaker 1: know what I was thinking that day pisses me off.
Speaker 2: But we've got more on the way.
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