Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong is Joe Getty Armstrong and
Speaker 1: Jetty and now he Armstrong and Yetty Iran will not
Speaker 1: have a nuclear weapon.
Speaker 2: It's a bold and dangerous mission, a gift to the world,
Speaker 2: historic courtesy of a bold and historic president.
Speaker 3: I do think it is a gift to the world,
Speaker 3: and it's bold and historic, and the world ain't feeling
Speaker 3: it that way though, no at all. Anyway. That's Pete
Speaker 3: Hegzet's Secretary of War a little earlier today.
Speaker 1: He goes on to say, not only is.
Speaker 2: The blockade growing, in fact, a second aircraft carrier will
Speaker 2: join the blockade in just a few days, but this
Speaker 2: growing blockade is also gone global. Just this week, we
Speaker 2: seized two Iranian dark fleet ships in the Indo Pacific
Speaker 2: region that had left Iranian ports before the blockade went
Speaker 2: into effect. They thought they'd made it out just in time.
Speaker 1: They did not.
Speaker 2: We seized their sanctioned ships, and we will seize more.
Speaker 3: The blockade has gone global. Wherever there's an Iranian ship
Speaker 3: on the seas in the world, we're gonna grab it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I hadn't been aware of this, But the Iranian
Speaker 4: ships are all like trying to run the blockade, because
Speaker 4: we're not blasting them out of existence. We just say
Speaker 4: it's like getting a speeding ticket. Essentially pull them over
Speaker 4: and say hey, you got to go back to port.
Speaker 4: And so there's very little risk for them, and so
Speaker 4: they go between our ships. Then they essentially they like
Speaker 4: turn off their transponders and turn off their headlights and
Speaker 4: like kill their cell phone and just think.
Speaker 1: Let's see how far we can make it.
Speaker 4: Well, you know, we've got global satellite imagery, so we
Speaker 4: say that ship right there is that got a transponder
Speaker 4: on up, I'll bet it's the ghost Fleet, and we
Speaker 4: bust them. Happens every day now, lots and lots of times.
Speaker 1: So we'll probably play some Trump a little bit later.
Speaker 3: He had a pretty contentious, as he usually does, press
Speaker 3: conference yesterday about the endless War and price of gas
Speaker 3: and this and that. But Pete Hegzeth addressed the whole
Speaker 3: endless War's campaign thingy that comes up a lot.
Speaker 2: The real endless war is the war that Iron has
Speaker 2: waged on us for forty seven years. President Trump is
Speaker 2: the only president with the guts and moral clarity to finally.
Speaker 1: Do something about it. I see it every day behind
Speaker 1: closed doors.
Speaker 2: President Trump's fortitude is unshakable and his mission is crystal clear.
Speaker 2: President Trump said it again yesterday. We have all the
Speaker 2: time in the world.
Speaker 3: I wish he didn't feel the need to talk about
Speaker 3: how great Trump is when he's giving me update on
Speaker 3: the wars.
Speaker 4: I get that if you're in Trump's cabinet or you
Speaker 4: know whatever, you've got to just just praise him, just
Speaker 4: lap his boots up and down every single day.
Speaker 1: I realize that's part of the deal.
Speaker 4: But it's humiliating and ridiculous, and we're gonna talk to
Speaker 4: my clients to kick off next hour.
Speaker 1: It makes it about Trump all.
Speaker 3: The time, right, which is not good. But I thought
Speaker 3: his original point was a good one.
Speaker 2: Though.
Speaker 3: You talk about endless wars. Iran has been waging a
Speaker 3: half century war on us, not like some sort of
Speaker 3: metaphorical paper you know what war, and of that economic
Speaker 3: no killing our soldiers' war and a constantly attacking our
Speaker 3: allies forming regional armies. Right now, there are Iranian backed
Speaker 3: milicious in Iraq.
Speaker 1: That's the next front of the war.
Speaker 4: Iraq is this thing inevitably spreads, and we're doing all
Speaker 4: sorts of financial things to deny.
Speaker 1: Them cash too.
Speaker 4: But they have vicious Islamist proxies all over the region
Speaker 4: that they used to attack us and our allies and
Speaker 4: have for half a century.
Speaker 3: So we were discussing a little last hour of why
Speaker 3: people don't care about this word, don't take it seriously,
Speaker 3: or the media doesn't take it seriously, and it occurred
Speaker 3: to me one reason might be and it's a question.
Speaker 3: They asked Donald Trump yesterday, would you use a nuclear weapon?
Speaker 2: Answer on you posted on try social.
Speaker 1: No, we don't need this. Why do I need it?
Speaker 1: Why would a stupid question like that be asked? Do
Speaker 1: you know why would I? Why would I use a
Speaker 1: nuclear weapon?
Speaker 4: We've totally, in a very conventional way decimated them without it.
Speaker 1: Now I would use a nuclear weapon. Should never be
Speaker 1: allowed to be used by anybody.
Speaker 3: I don't know where that question came from, would you
Speaker 3: use a nuke? But Trump there at the end saying
Speaker 3: a nuclear weapon should never be used by anyway.
Speaker 1: I think that might.
Speaker 3: Be part of Because we were going with the we
Speaker 3: are so comfortable and economically powerful, and our standard of
Speaker 3: living is so high for the average person that we
Speaker 3: just we can't even let minor any sort of problem
Speaker 3: around the world enter our heads. We just think everything
Speaker 3: will be like this forever and das is more expensive.
Speaker 1: Uh so we complain about that.
Speaker 3: We can't imagine there being giant, you know, disruptions in
Speaker 3: the world, and one of those would be Iran having
Speaker 3: a nuclear weapon. Nuclear weapons have only been around for
Speaker 3: what eighty years, and luckily, thank god, they haven't been
Speaker 3: used since the end of World War Two, but that
Speaker 3: could all change in the blink of an eye if
Speaker 3: some nut jobs like the Mulla's got a nuclear weapon.
Speaker 3: I just don't think the average person at all appreciates that.
Speaker 3: Pete Heggsath's saying we're doing a favor to the world
Speaker 3: if we stop and I think we are stop those
Speaker 3: crazy nihilists from having an age bos that is unbelievable
Speaker 3: as a turn of history. But I don't think the
Speaker 3: average person gets that.
Speaker 4: And a regime that is fundamentally different than say in
Speaker 4: North Korea. North Korea doesn't have a religion based, devout
Speaker 4: expansionist philosophy.
Speaker 1: Please, they just want to keep their weird ass.
Speaker 4: The Kims are the only people with money regime going well.
Speaker 1: Thank God, that was holy correct. Thank God.
Speaker 3: It's true so far with North Korea, but we've vowed
Speaker 3: they would never get a nuclear weapon over and over again,
Speaker 3: but we'ren't really willing to actually do economics stronger economic sanctions,
Speaker 3: which never ever work. Drives me nuts that people talk
Speaker 3: about them all the time, So I think that might
Speaker 3: be the crux of the whole thing. People can't imagine
Speaker 3: that anyone would actually use a nuclear weapon, right because
Speaker 3: it's just it hasn't happened.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I normally I don't like it when Trump presents,
Speaker 4: so I would ask that's just a big question. It
Speaker 4: makes him seem like it's just he's down there, he's
Speaker 4: lowering himself.
Speaker 1: But that was a fairly stupid question one.
Speaker 3: Of our mister President, what about kama Kazi pilots? Are
Speaker 3: you willing to use kamakazi pilots? What about strapping bombs
Speaker 3: to al pacas and sending them into Iran?
Speaker 4: What are you talking about? Nobody's talking about nuking anybody.
Speaker 4: We're talking about prevention, preventing nukes, you twit.
Speaker 3: One of the reasons nukes are on my mind is
Speaker 3: I'm rereading Ike's bluff, which is a fantastic book if
Speaker 3: you're into that sort of thing. But it's about the
Speaker 3: uh early part of the Eisenhower administration that I'm in
Speaker 3: right now. And Russia has just detonated their first h bomb,
Speaker 3: letting the world know that they've got it, and now
Speaker 3: there's the bomb race between US and Russia. But it
Speaker 3: was all brand new, and it had been so recently
Speaker 3: that we had used nuclear weapons, and they were new
Speaker 3: on the seed.
Speaker 1: It was still.
Speaker 3: Treated as just like a really powerful weapon, like it
Speaker 3: was on the table to use nukes. And Ike was
Speaker 3: having the conversations of and he ended up being against this,
Speaker 3: but they were having a conversation of, well, should we
Speaker 3: hit Russia the Soviet Union with nukes while we still
Speaker 3: have the edge over them, so that they don't catch
Speaker 3: up with us, like preemptively nuking Moscow because it's an
Speaker 3: arms race and this is the latest hot weapon. And
Speaker 3: over time it has become unthinkable that when anybody would
Speaker 3: use a nuclear weapon, but it's totally in our imaginations
Speaker 3: that it's unthinkable. It could be incredibly thinkable if the
Speaker 3: wrong person has it, If you are utterly to your
Speaker 3: marrow convinced that this is what the Lord God commands
Speaker 3: you to do. You would use it, boy, And you
Speaker 3: talk about the world as a different place tomorrow than
Speaker 3: it was today, like it felt after nine to eleven.
Speaker 3: Somebody uses a nuke somewhere, Holy crap, everything on planet
Speaker 3: Earth would change so much, so fast.
Speaker 1: But you don't You.
Speaker 4: Want to have to be in that position. Don't let
Speaker 4: a ran get a nuke. It reminds me of the
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Speaker 3: I promised to shut up about this. I know I've
Speaker 3: brought this up many times over the years. I just
Speaker 3: don't think people get nuclear weapons and what it would
Speaker 3: do to planet Earth if we start using them. Eisenhower
Speaker 3: when he found out that Russia had a nuke, and
Speaker 3: then he got a report from actually Oppenheimer himself wrote
Speaker 3: a report on what h bombs would do.
Speaker 1: That's another thing. People don't get what we have now
Speaker 1: are h bombs.
Speaker 3: They've never been used because the bombs we used in
Speaker 3: World War Two were the regular atomic bombs.
Speaker 1: Each bombs are way bigger deal than that. I mean,
Speaker 1: not even close.
Speaker 3: And when Eisenhower got the report from oppenheimery actually cried,
Speaker 3: thinking the world is doomed. It's amazing that we've gone
Speaker 3: all these years without blowing ourselves up. And you're gonna
Speaker 3: let Iran get a nuke because gas is a dollar
Speaker 3: a gallon higher.
Speaker 4: Wow, well said he's Jack Armstrong. All right, we need
Speaker 4: as conservatives, we need to change our strategy to win
Speaker 4: over hearts and minds. I was absolutely shocked by something
Speaker 4: I read earlier today.
Speaker 1: I'm going to share it with you. Colt All on
Speaker 1: the way, stay here.
Speaker 5: According to his studies, salmon exposed to cocaine in the
Speaker 5: water can swim longer distances. In fact, I feel like
Speaker 5: we're gonna just keep going until they find an ATM.
Speaker 1: They call the guy.
Speaker 3: Back, Oh this is a different salmon cocaine Joe. I
Speaker 3: guess yes, sir, I'm gonna buy a boat, says the salmon.
Speaker 3: You're gonna buy a boat your fish? Oh boy, So
Speaker 3: every morning is I get ready for the show. I
Speaker 3: plow through various news what do.
Speaker 1: You call him?
Speaker 4: Newsletters that have all the headline and analysis stuff like that,
Speaker 4: including the New York Times, which is sometimes interesting.
Speaker 1: US stealing other people's material to have something to talk about.
Speaker 1: That's what both please. That's what I say on my
Speaker 1: IRS forms.
Speaker 4: What do you do for a living? I steal other
Speaker 4: people anyway? And the morning editor, what's his face? Sam
Speaker 4: Sifton writes, I grew up reading Harper's Index, a collection
Speaker 4: of statistics that has run in Harper's magazine since nineteen
Speaker 4: eighty four. There's something both spare and illuminating about each one.
Speaker 4: The collected facts amount to a kind of poetry, as
Speaker 4: these stanzas from the May issue suggest. The percentage of
Speaker 4: Americans who say that as children they knew a compassionate,
Speaker 4: non judgmental adult thirty five percent.
Speaker 1: What percentage?
Speaker 4: Oh, I'm just getting started, trust me, trust me as
Speaker 4: your tour guide.
Speaker 1: I'm just getting started, all right.
Speaker 4: Percentage of those thirty five percent who say their mother
Speaker 4: was such a person, fifty percent that say their father
Speaker 4: was five percent. Oh god, And I'm like, wait, what
Speaker 4: I got to go to the original source. And so
Speaker 4: I'm reading these statistics and they are so clearly leftist,
Speaker 4: you know, lack of contest propaganda, including how much worse
Speaker 4: America is under Trump and the rest of it. And
Speaker 4: there are a bunch of statistics. Average total value of
Speaker 4: reported OSHA penalties levied against US workplaces each month between
Speaker 4: nine and twenty four, it's eighteen million since Trump's second inauguration,
Speaker 4: just ten million.
Speaker 1: So obviously workers are getting abused and beaten. It's not
Speaker 1: like port reformer, regulatory reformer or anything like that. So
Speaker 1: it's just it's just ridiculous. But I just kept going
Speaker 1: because it was so amazing.
Speaker 4: Oh and it's try to spin the yarn that we
Speaker 4: dance on the We're the puppet at the end of
Speaker 4: Israel strings, which is just the most idiotic of tropes.
Speaker 1: We just watched your theory right in. He's got a
Speaker 1: text about that. We'll have to read later. Yeah, you're
Speaker 1: too stupid to text us stop. Wow. Wow. So I
Speaker 1: feel like that was an over cafinated response.
Speaker 4: God, that was And you know what's funny is my theme,
Speaker 4: this is ironic. My theme was going to be not
Speaker 4: to people like that, but to semi delusional progressives in
Speaker 4: our lives, in our professions, in our towns, whatever, and
Speaker 4: maybe in our churches. They have no idea who we
Speaker 4: are and what we think.
Speaker 1: They have no idea.
Speaker 4: And so if they come off as like hostile and
Speaker 4: weird in a lot of cases, it's because they've been
Speaker 4: reading this steaming pile of crap type stuff.
Speaker 1: All right, here I go, I'm really getting down to
Speaker 1: it now.
Speaker 4: The portion of Republicans under the age of fifty you
Speaker 4: describe themselves as antisemitic one in four who described themselves as.
Speaker 1: Racist, three and ten.
Speaker 3: Three in ten Republicans described themselves as racist, and they
Speaker 3: cite the source of a Manhattan Institute poll.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, all right, So I go from that
Speaker 1: to a source to.
Speaker 3: The Manhattan Institute, what the hell are you people talking about?
Speaker 1: And it took me a long time.
Speaker 4: I finally got to the source material the poll, and
Speaker 4: I found that question regarding individuals who openly expressed the
Speaker 4: following what comes closer to your view regarding their role
Speaker 4: in your party, in political movement racist views? And one
Speaker 4: of the choices was of those sort of people, I
Speaker 4: am such a person, And fifteen percent of Republicans allegedly
Speaker 4: said I am such a person I hold quote unquote
Speaker 4: racist views. Okay, it was fifteen percent, not thirty percent,
Speaker 4: So what the hell just happened there?
Speaker 1: And I'm skeptical about the fifteen percent what it means.
Speaker 4: Exactly Unless they're including the twenty two percent who said
Speaker 4: I've had enough of cancel culture, this should not count
Speaker 4: against them. And I say quote unquote racist views because.
Speaker 1: We all know.
Speaker 4: If, for instance, the Manhattan Institute and they are, and
Speaker 4: Harper's and they are, have bought the whole anti racism
Speaker 4: garbage to say America is the land of opportunity bingo,
Speaker 4: that is a racist attitude. So if somebody said that's
Speaker 4: a racist statitude then asked me do you hold racist views,
Speaker 4: I'd say, well, by your definition, yes, yes I do,
Speaker 4: and I'm proud of them, and I'd like to tell
Speaker 4: you about them. So again, the people who read, for instance,
Speaker 4: the New York Times, and this is not like the
Speaker 4: Jacobin or Jacobin or the you know, mother Jones, this
Speaker 4: is the New York Times, they have no idea who
Speaker 4: I am and what I think. And so maybe we
Speaker 4: can be a little more outreachy and a little less
Speaker 4: punch in the facie for people who just think conservatives
Speaker 4: are dumb, mean eracists.
Speaker 1: What was that first one? Though?
Speaker 3: Have you as a kid, do you know anybody who
Speaker 3: is nice and compassionate or something?
Speaker 4: Did you know any non compassionate, non a compassionate, non
Speaker 4: judgmental adult just thirty five percent who said their father.
Speaker 4: Was that five percent? Well, perhaps by I don't know
Speaker 4: whatever definition you use, I would say my father and
Speaker 4: virtually every buddy who I values father was judgmental in
Speaker 4: that they're that's good, that's bad, don't do that. That's
Speaker 4: a mistake. Son, that's not judgmental, that's judgment.
Speaker 1: I can't even imagine what they mean to come up
Speaker 1: with that number. Dream World. That is why dream World.
Speaker 3: We ought to get to this text about us a
Speaker 3: dance and to the end of the puppet strings of Israel.
Speaker 1: Not on an idiot.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, I've got to try some decaf. But
Speaker 3: the space race is different than you thought. Elon with
Speaker 3: an interesting tweet today, Stay.
Speaker 6: Armstrong and getty. A major arrest tied to a suspicious
Speaker 6: thirty two thousand dollars bet that paid out in January
Speaker 6: by a trader who used the name Burdensome mix. The
Speaker 6: bet was a long shot that longtime Venezuelan president Nicolas
Speaker 6: Maduro would be out by the end of January.
Speaker 1: Shortly after it.
Speaker 6: Was placed, a covert US military operation ensued, extracting Maduro.
Speaker 6: Law enforcement now alleging that the trader who made over
Speaker 6: four hundred thousand dollars is US Special Forces soldier Gannon
Speaker 6: Ken van Dijk and that he was involved in the
Speaker 6: planning and execution of the Maduro raid.
Speaker 3: Guessing he's a young man, did they give his age?
Speaker 3: And I don't know what your salary is and the
Speaker 3: Special Forces, but it wouldn't be that much. And four
Speaker 3: hundred thousand dollars is a lot of money. It's thirty eight. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's funny. This whole polymarket predictions market betting thing is
Speaker 3: so out of control.
Speaker 1: As we're about to hear and there's there's danger in this.
Speaker 4: There's a small part of me that thinks, wow, dude, got.
Speaker 1: The word there going, he threw a little bit down.
Speaker 1: Nobody noticed. What's the harm?
Speaker 3: Well, the harm would be, I understand, I understand that.
Speaker 3: I think I said that it myself earlier. The harm
Speaker 3: would be, though people start doing things or not doing
Speaker 3: things because they've got the bet. So you don't want
Speaker 3: anybody with any decision making saying yes, we're going to
Speaker 3: Maduro even though something changed and now wouldn't be a
Speaker 3: good time, or the other way around, to make money.
Speaker 1: You don't want that happening. Well, and there's that's absolutely true,
Speaker 1: and there's more to it than that. I mean, like
Speaker 1: fixing games.
Speaker 3: It's the exact same thing is fixing basketball games?
Speaker 1: Right? Or this, let's get to seventy two Michael John Miller.
Speaker 7: This is a Q too foreign intelligence service is to
Speaker 7: watch the anomalist bets on these platforms, which is a
Speaker 7: relatively new phenomena to say, you know, do we see
Speaker 7: a clue here and can we trace these things back?
Speaker 7: Are we getting inside information by default that way? Which
Speaker 7: is just another national security risk? But it's a brave
Speaker 7: new world out there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I.
Speaker 3: Don't know about that because it would be such a
Speaker 3: short amount of time. Like I'm thinking of the one
Speaker 3: where all the people did the oil future stuff right
Speaker 3: before Trump came out and said no, we're not going
Speaker 3: to bomb them. What would if you'd have figured that out,
Speaker 3: you'd have had I don't know, fifteen minutes to do what.
Speaker 4: Yeah, in that case, I can't come up with the what.
Speaker 4: But in general, it's absolutely a terrible thing. If you have,
Speaker 4: you know, the whole Pentagon staff rushing to put bets
Speaker 4: on polymarket. If you have bet the troops arrive by Friday, No, no,
Speaker 4: we can't have that.
Speaker 3: Man, if you have one guy in a big operation
Speaker 3: who stands to make four hundred thousand dollars if because
Speaker 3: then you kind of get into the pete rose. As
Speaker 3: long as you're betting on yourself, it's a little more palatable.
Speaker 3: But what if you ever bet against yourself?
Speaker 1: Clearly?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, or you know, I'm using my imagination here,
Speaker 4: but it's not that outlandish. If you thought, oh, shoot.
Speaker 1: Was dropping this mom thatndor been funny?
Speaker 4: Oh darn it, I bet like my next four house
Speaker 4: payments that we wouldn't extract Maduro. Maybe this helicopter develops
Speaker 4: a mechanical problem right now. You can't have troops gambling
Speaker 4: on the actions of the troops. Good lord, when you
Speaker 4: break it down, No, and.
Speaker 3: I don't like that because the kind of people we
Speaker 3: picture as being in special forces, that's not a good
Speaker 3: personality Trait.
Speaker 1: Got to be more disciplined than that. Yeah, that's seventy
Speaker 1: one Michael.
Speaker 6: Fifteen minutes before President Donald Trump posted on Tuesday that
Speaker 6: he would extend a ceasefire with Iron, traders placed a
Speaker 6: whopping four one hundred and thirty million dollar bet that
Speaker 6: oil prices would drop. The trade is one of four
Speaker 6: massive bets that preceded major announcements in the US Iran
Speaker 6: conflicts since late March. Last Friday, investors bet seven hundred
Speaker 6: and sixty million dollars that oil prices would drop. Twenty
Speaker 6: minutes later, Iran's foreign minister said the Straight of Horn
Speaker 6: Moves would reopen. After the post, oil futures fell eleven
Speaker 6: percent and earlier this month, less than three hours before
Speaker 6: President Trump announced on truth Social a US ceasefire with Iran,
Speaker 6: traders had bet nine hundred and fifty million dollars that
Speaker 6: oil prices would fall. Oil futures fell fifteen percent after
Speaker 6: the post. There are no obvious ties between the trades
Speaker 6: and White House officials.
Speaker 1: That clip is not what I thought it was.
Speaker 4: It was all about market well, one of those Zeitcher's
Speaker 4: market investments, one of those.
Speaker 3: Didn't it suggest that there were inside there was insider
Speaker 3: trading around people that were in the Iranian government because
Speaker 3: they announced the strait was open, and a whole bunch
Speaker 3: of trading happened before that. See, I'm sure Mola's going
Speaker 3: in in trading from here.
Speaker 4: The IRGC remember there a corporation that is also an army.
Speaker 4: Back to the case of the gentleman, the Special Forces
Speaker 4: guy who is busted number one. He took part in
Speaker 4: the planning and execution of the mission, and he received
Speaker 4: a classified briefing about the plans, signed a non disclosure
Speaker 4: agreement that he would never reveal the information by writing
Speaker 4: word conduct or otherwise, and absolutely violated the oaths of
Speaker 4: his office.
Speaker 1: What did he get arrested for? Oh, gosh, uh, charged
Speaker 1: with commodity and wire fraud.
Speaker 4: That's the that's the charge. You hold him on and
Speaker 4: then you work up the other ones, I would suggest.
Speaker 4: But he will be drummed out of the surface on
Speaker 4: the service almost certainly.
Speaker 3: So.
Speaker 4: I wanted to get back to the polymarket thing as
Speaker 4: opposed to oil's futures markets.
Speaker 3: Because he is involved in the pl You definitely can't
Speaker 3: have somebody involved in the planning betting on this stuff.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's horrifying, It's terrible, terrible.
Speaker 4: And there's another piece in Wall Street journal that goes
Speaker 4: into some of the oil market stuff.
Speaker 1: But they also point out that it's like.
Speaker 3: Everywhere there are and there are you think the prop
Speaker 3: bets for the super Bowl or odd Evidently there are
Speaker 3: prop bets about whether the temperature will hit a certain
Speaker 3: level in Paris during the next month.
Speaker 1: You can bet on that.
Speaker 4: And the guy involved in the weather monitoring station at
Speaker 4: de Gal Airport evidently was tampering with the equipment to
Speaker 4: juice up the temperatures so that he would win bets
Speaker 4: on polymarket. So I think all around the world, anybody
Speaker 4: who's hip to this at all thinks, okay, is there
Speaker 4: a bet involving what I do for a living or
Speaker 4: what I have special knowledge of?
Speaker 1: And everybody's betting.
Speaker 3: Yeah. The more examples, the examples are starting to build
Speaker 3: up enough that I think we all realize this can continue.
Speaker 1: So is there any stopping it?
Speaker 3: Is the question off shore gambling sites, I mean, is
Speaker 3: there any way to stop this?
Speaker 1: Gosh, I don't know, I don't I don't know.
Speaker 3: First of all, who are all you people that bet
Speaker 3: on this stuff? I understand betting on it if I
Speaker 3: have a way to influence it, But people who are
Speaker 3: just betting.
Speaker 1: On average temperatures. What are you doing with your life?
Speaker 4: Well, and here's betting on whether the Russians will gain
Speaker 4: control of a Ukrainian town. And it's all based on
Speaker 4: an online map maintained by the Institute for the Study
Speaker 4: of War. And just as Polymarket's betting contract was set
Speaker 4: to expire, isw's map erroneously showed this little town to
Speaker 4: be under Russian control, even though Russia hadn't actually captured
Speaker 4: the town. The bets paid off, blah blah blah. Well,
Speaker 4: the think tank later apologized and fired an employee or
Speaker 4: the incident.
Speaker 1: So this dude, realize.
Speaker 4: Hey, wait a minute, I got access to this map.
Speaker 4: People are betting on the map. I know what I'll do.
Speaker 3: See if you're not involved, though, I mean, how could
Speaker 3: you just thinking, like from a libertarian point of view,
Speaker 3: If you and I want to bet, I don't know,
Speaker 3: pick something.
Speaker 1: Anything.
Speaker 3: You and I want to bet whether Elon Musk gets
Speaker 3: to Mars in our lifetime, how could anybody.
Speaker 1: Legally stop us? I know, I agree, right.
Speaker 3: And then you so you grow it a little bigger
Speaker 3: to where I think you know, there's a whole bunch
Speaker 3: of people interested in this bet. Take the money, and
Speaker 3: then I'll hand it out at the end when we
Speaker 3: get through. Why would you want the government to say
Speaker 3: that's illegal? But if you're involved in it, clearly it's
Speaker 3: a different thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: As a small libertarian, and I know you agree with this,
Speaker 4: I say, don't outlaw the behavior. That's a super wide
Speaker 4: net that catches people who ought.
Speaker 1: To be able to do what they want. Like yesterday
Speaker 1: you were talking about it.
Speaker 4: If you want to walk down the street with a beer,
Speaker 4: for God's sake, let people walk.
Speaker 1: Down the street with a beer.
Speaker 3: Most of the world.
Speaker 1: It's fine, But in the US we're so uptight about it.
Speaker 3: Well, we can't permit that because we might have public
Speaker 3: drunkenness and brawling and fornication in the city parks and
Speaker 3: blah blah blah. No, you put your sanctioned the illegal behavior,
Speaker 3: which all we already do. And because adults who don't
Speaker 3: engage in that exactly ought to be able to enjoy themselves,
Speaker 3: which would be ninety nine percent of people who wouldn't
Speaker 3: commit any crime.
Speaker 4: Why with the beer? So I think we're back to that.
Speaker 4: I mean, you can bet on whatever the hell you want.
Speaker 4: You can ruin your life, you can you know, bankrupt
Speaker 4: your family, I suppose, although that's despicable, but no, you
Speaker 4: can't do insider trading or bet on the movement of
Speaker 4: troops or whatever section that.
Speaker 3: But the parallels with the sports thing is so good
Speaker 3: because the reason they didn't allow gambling on a lot
Speaker 3: of these things for so long is it's really hard
Speaker 3: to police everybody, and it's so tempting.
Speaker 1: Right exactly, I'm trying to come up with right metaphor.
Speaker 4: But there's some parts of society that you'd have to
Speaker 4: make them air tight to protect them, and that's impossible,
Speaker 4: so that temptation outside of the would be air tight zone.
Speaker 1: You can't permit that because it would just go crazy.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure you can stop this as we were
Speaker 3: talking about, but if you're gonna have, you know, some
Speaker 3: lower level guy that's not involved in the planning, but
Speaker 3: he gets told tomorrow, we're going tomorrow, we're grabbing Manduro tomorrow,
Speaker 3: and he has an opportunity to make, you know, more
Speaker 3: than he makes in a year by jumping on one
Speaker 3: of these betting sites.
Speaker 1: It'd be pretty tempting.
Speaker 4: And I am not impugning nor accusing anybody specific, but
Speaker 4: there are sports trainers, many of them who work for
Speaker 4: every single major league sports team.
Speaker 1: Oh, and they.
Speaker 4: Know who's hurt, who's a little hurt, and all of
Speaker 4: that stuff. And they might not make the bets themselves,
Speaker 4: but their cousin Jimmy, is you're willing to do it,
Speaker 4: and then Jimmy's more than happy to go in fifty
Speaker 4: to fifty on that new boat.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah.
Speaker 3: If you've ever known anybody who's working for a sports team,
Speaker 3: they always have information on the injuries that isn't known.
Speaker 4: Right right, Or if the quarterback, the backup quarterback is
Speaker 4: really struggling in practice all that stuff.
Speaker 3: Or got drunk last night or whatever. Dudes, under pressure,
Speaker 3: he's gonna have a couple of drinks, stop judging him.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I don't know if this is gonna be stopped, but
Speaker 3: I really want my special Forces dudes like and if
Speaker 3: you're not just in the Special Forces, but at the
Speaker 3: level where you're involved in the planning of capturing Maduro,
Speaker 3: one of the most amazing things our military has ever done,
Speaker 3: you don't want that kind of guy to be gambling.
Speaker 4: Also, right right, that's an interesting story. Looking forward to
Speaker 4: talking to Mike Lions to kick off next hour. A
Speaker 4: great perspective on how people are taking in the war
Speaker 4: and around. Plus, we need to check in on Zoron Mundami,
Speaker 4: the islamiunist mayor.
Speaker 1: Of New York. His socialist grocery store plan is coming along.
Speaker 1: It's really quite interesting.
Speaker 4: It's absolutely hilariously incredibly ridiculous.
Speaker 3: How much perspective do you want on a Friday. Ben Sass,
Speaker 3: who's dying of pancreatic cancer, going to be on sixty
Speaker 3: minutes this Sunday night, got a couple of clips of
Speaker 3: that pretty interesting.
Speaker 4: Before he was in the straits, he's in oh man,
Speaker 4: I think I'm thinking about this exactly like you. I
Speaker 4: know I should listen to it. I need to take
Speaker 4: a deep breath and get.
Speaker 1: Ready for it. Maybe Monday is better for that.
Speaker 4: I think maybe Friday something that little brain food for
Speaker 4: the weekend, something to meditate on.
Speaker 1: We'll flip a coin. Well, yeah, we'll think about it.
Speaker 1: Can you talking to their sixty seconds? I got one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty dollars riding now. Hilarious, Michael, hilarious. He
Speaker 1: We will be right back, Andy, who would just so?
Speaker 3: CNN has a breaking news US military developing plans to
Speaker 3: hit straight defenses. So re engaging the kinetic action, which
Speaker 3: of course could be a purposeful leak to signal the
Speaker 3: bad guys. Anyway, more on that later. So this is
Speaker 3: an interesting idea. This is a husband who took the
Speaker 3: texts from his pregnant wife between him and his pregnant
Speaker 3: wife and turned them into a song.
Speaker 1: Is that what happened with He used AI and turned
Speaker 1: it into a punk rock song. Here we go, why Starving? Darving?
Speaker 2: By Hi, my back is broken and the baby is
Speaker 2: pancing myris.
Speaker 1: I'm still dying. I'm dying.
Speaker 8: Dyes, that is fantastic.
Speaker 1: That's so funny.
Speaker 3: You cheated on me in my dream. That's such a
Speaker 3: classic pregnant woman that sort of dreamed.
Speaker 4: Oh my, I'm so hungry, but nothing sounds good.
Speaker 1: You find me some food like you're on an island.
Speaker 1: Oh that is good. Hilarious, dying, he's broken, I'm dying.
Speaker 1: I've never laughed so hard attacked at the same time.
Speaker 1: That is really really fantastic. Yeah, Oh that's hilarious.
Speaker 4: Hope all the moms and moms to be enjoying that,
Speaker 4: and dads and dads.
Speaker 1: To be as well.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so this is unintentionally hilarious. Although you know every
Speaker 4: time I start to giggle about it, I realize, oh,
Speaker 4: that's right. Most young people fall for this and are
Speaker 4: about to volford again. Zorn Mumdani, the islamiunist running New
Speaker 4: York City, is out with his exciting city run grocery
Speaker 4: stores plan. He said last week that the city is
Speaker 4: going to build its first store in East Harlem. It
Speaker 4: should open by the year twenty twenty nine. Ah Ah,
Speaker 4: we could start there. And the estimated cost this is
Speaker 4: the estimated cost. And Jack, what happens to estimated costs
Speaker 4: and government programs going place?
Speaker 1: They're like speed limit signs. Ah.
Speaker 4: The estimated cost of this one store is thirty million dollars,
Speaker 4: to be done in twenty twenty nine. As the Journal
Speaker 4: Editorial Board points out, even in New York City.
Speaker 1: That cost is out of this world.
Speaker 4: You don't need to build a store from scratch when
Speaker 4: space can be refurnished or refurbished and rented. But the
Speaker 4: mayor wants a gleaming, nine thousand square foot example of
Speaker 4: what he called the warmth of collectivism in his inaugural address.
Speaker 4: He wants a store at each of the city's five
Speaker 4: burroughs by the end of his term. At an estimated
Speaker 4: cost of seventy million dollars.
Speaker 3: And what is the math that allows you to have
Speaker 3: healthy food at a lower price than other stores?
Speaker 1: What is the math on that? I just.
Speaker 4: I know the margins and groceries are extremely low. The
Speaker 4: plan is for the city to select private operators to
Speaker 4: run the stores, albeit with what will be strict rules
Speaker 4: for pricing and wage rates for the unionized of course employees,
Speaker 4: while subsidizing staples like bread and eggs. In other words,
Speaker 4: price controls, wage controls, and taxpayers subsidized to bread and eggs.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if you get it for cheaper than you can
Speaker 3: get it at a grocery store across the street, it's
Speaker 3: because taxpayers are filling in the rest of the amount.
Speaker 4: Right and the unforeseen concept quinces of the already moronic
Speaker 4: system of collectivism and socialism. Now, one advantage that a
Speaker 4: government run operation has is that they can operate with subsidized.
Speaker 1: Capital and pay no taxes.
Speaker 4: Oh and they don't need to make a profit, so
Speaker 4: the city will pick up any rental cost. So that
Speaker 4: means the Islamist or Islamiinist grocery stores will be able
Speaker 4: to undercut prices at the private grocery stores and bodegas
Speaker 4: in the neighborhoods around them, putting them out of business. Right,
Speaker 4: this kind of collectivist competition is not what the other
Speaker 4: store owners would call warm.
Speaker 3: You're right, So I did everything completely legal. I bought
Speaker 3: some land, I built the building, I follow all the regulations,
Speaker 3: I opened up a corner grocery store.
Speaker 1: Blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 3: And now nobody buys my stuff because I'm charging what
Speaker 3: you have to charge to make a profit. And that
Speaker 3: place over there gets subsidized by tax payers.
Speaker 4: During the years where it exists, including the two or
Speaker 4: three years in which it's utterly crumbling and people are
Speaker 4: begging the government to close it because it's bleeding money,
Speaker 4: but they hold on to it a California bullet train style.
Speaker 1: So, yeah, it's a miserable idea. Well, that's so unfair
Speaker 1: actual competitors.
Speaker 4: Yeah, business fall, business people, entrepreneurs, Americans.
Speaker 1: Of course, he thinks they shouldn't exist, probably so
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