1 00:00:09,480 --> 00:00:14,800 Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 2 00:00:14,840 --> 00:00:18,840 Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty. 3 00:00:18,840 --> 00:00:31,960 Speaker 2: Arm Strong and Jack and He arm Drawn live from 4 00:00:32,280 --> 00:00:36,440 Speaker 2: sto C. I'm sorry it's early alive from studios. It's 5 00:00:36,479 --> 00:00:39,360 Speaker 2: a bad start. Clinging to life from studio se. 6 00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:46,400 Speaker 1: Right right, honored on my deathbed from Studio CE dimly 7 00:00:46,520 --> 00:00:47,040 Speaker 1: lit room. 8 00:00:47,600 --> 00:00:48,040 Speaker 2: I don't know. 9 00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:51,920 Speaker 1: This might not work today. We're under the tutelage of 10 00:00:51,920 --> 00:00:53,279 Speaker 1: our general manager. 11 00:00:53,280 --> 00:00:55,280 Speaker 2: The United States Military. 12 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:58,440 Speaker 3: A couple of big military stories today I want to 13 00:00:58,440 --> 00:01:01,760 Speaker 3: talk about and Bye Gully. The nation that can't defend 14 00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:04,480 Speaker 3: itself will not be a nation for long, high priority. 15 00:01:04,560 --> 00:01:05,880 Speaker 2: We'll get to it. Yeah, I love that. 16 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:08,080 Speaker 1: Did we figure out yet why that plane rolled off 17 00:01:08,120 --> 00:01:09,440 Speaker 1: the aircraft carrier into the sea. 18 00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:11,759 Speaker 2: Do we know the answer to that yet? Not too much? 19 00:01:11,959 --> 00:01:14,080 Speaker 3: Well, I forgot this. That's the parking break, and I 20 00:01:14,080 --> 00:01:16,560 Speaker 3: feel terrible about it. But yes, it's on me. 21 00:01:17,240 --> 00:01:18,840 Speaker 2: I don't care if we get lied to. 22 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:21,520 Speaker 1: I mean, if the Huthi's shot at us and somehow 23 00:01:21,560 --> 00:01:23,560 Speaker 1: cause that to happen and we don't want to admit that, 24 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:27,440 Speaker 1: I'm fine with that. I'm pro fog of war. The 25 00:01:27,480 --> 00:01:29,000 Speaker 1: other side, does it we get to do it too, 26 00:01:29,920 --> 00:01:33,319 Speaker 1: but not fog of stupid But yeah, no, I want 27 00:01:33,360 --> 00:01:35,480 Speaker 1: to know if it was incompetence of some sort that's like, 28 00:01:35,600 --> 00:01:37,840 Speaker 1: oh my god, we shouldn't be making mistakes like that, 29 00:01:38,480 --> 00:01:42,040 Speaker 1: right not go discipline, et cetera. I found this. I 30 00:01:42,080 --> 00:01:45,440 Speaker 1: came across this yesterday. Funny you brought that up the ten. 31 00:01:45,920 --> 00:01:48,360 Speaker 1: It's actually a list of the eight most powerful air 32 00:01:48,360 --> 00:01:52,760 Speaker 1: forces on Earth. Hm. Four of the top five or 33 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:58,160 Speaker 1: the US. How many air forces do we have total? 34 00:01:59,040 --> 00:01:59,560 Speaker 2: I got y. 35 00:01:59,760 --> 00:02:01,840 Speaker 1: Yeah, number one air force in the world is the 36 00:02:01,920 --> 00:02:04,560 Speaker 1: United States Air Force. The number two air force in 37 00:02:04,600 --> 00:02:07,600 Speaker 1: the world is the United States Navy. The number four 38 00:02:07,640 --> 00:02:09,520 Speaker 1: air force in the world is the Army. In number 39 00:02:09,520 --> 00:02:12,000 Speaker 1: five is the Marines. So for of the top five 40 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:15,120 Speaker 1: air forces in the world are US and then in 41 00:02:15,120 --> 00:02:17,040 Speaker 1: the middle Therey you get the Russian Air Force, which 42 00:02:17,080 --> 00:02:18,680 Speaker 1: I'm kind of surprised by that. 43 00:02:18,720 --> 00:02:22,200 Speaker 2: It's bigger than China. China is down at seven. Hmmm. 44 00:02:23,720 --> 00:02:27,400 Speaker 1: Interesting, Yeah, well good for us, Yeah, exactly. I liked 45 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:30,080 Speaker 1: a little shot of Hey we're number one. I needed 46 00:02:30,240 --> 00:02:30,720 Speaker 1: I needed that. 47 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:33,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, we need to beef up the navy. 48 00:02:33,560 --> 00:02:35,880 Speaker 3: Part of our navy certainly, although that is one of 49 00:02:35,919 --> 00:02:38,480 Speaker 3: the defense stories. We're going to be talking about a. 50 00:02:38,160 --> 00:02:41,360 Speaker 1: Major infusion of what seems to be some fairly well 51 00:02:41,360 --> 00:02:44,320 Speaker 1: directed cash. The Pentagon's way, well, I heard what at 52 00:02:44,360 --> 00:02:47,760 Speaker 1: least been proposed by Congress. It's tough with the Pentagon 53 00:02:47,960 --> 00:02:52,400 Speaker 1: and reports like this, because it's the money spigot of 54 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:53,360 Speaker 1: all money spigots. 55 00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:55,120 Speaker 2: If you can, if you can, and. 56 00:02:57,280 --> 00:03:00,480 Speaker 1: Not that you know, we are in a country patriots 57 00:03:00,480 --> 00:03:02,320 Speaker 1: wanting to do our best, but there are also you know, 58 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:04,000 Speaker 1: there are plenty of people then think, you know this 59 00:03:04,080 --> 00:03:08,280 Speaker 1: weapon system over here that I benefit from, Here's why 60 00:03:08,320 --> 00:03:11,200 Speaker 1: you should spend the money on this instead of that one. 61 00:03:11,240 --> 00:03:13,120 Speaker 1: And there was a report out yesterday that we are 62 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:20,200 Speaker 1: not prepared for the new drone world of fighting, which 63 00:03:21,840 --> 00:03:26,240 Speaker 1: the Ukraine in Russia have you know, changed warfare probably forever. 64 00:03:26,520 --> 00:03:28,720 Speaker 1: And I mentioned yesterday I was listening to a podcast, 65 00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:31,959 Speaker 1: this Great Daily Ukrainian podcast, where it was quoting a 66 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:36,280 Speaker 1: number of Ukrainian leaders about how like, for instance, armored 67 00:03:36,360 --> 00:03:41,280 Speaker 1: vehicles are irrelevant now after are years of tanks, armored 68 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:43,720 Speaker 1: vehicles are irrelevant now. They did have other guests on 69 00:03:43,760 --> 00:03:47,160 Speaker 1: who said that's not true because, for instance, Great Britain 70 00:03:47,320 --> 00:03:52,000 Speaker 1: is working on an anti drone weapon that will make 71 00:03:52,080 --> 00:03:54,880 Speaker 1: drones useless. And this might just be a little blip 72 00:03:55,240 --> 00:03:58,000 Speaker 1: of little mass drones coming in taking out your tanks, 73 00:03:58,080 --> 00:04:00,480 Speaker 1: and the ability to shoot them down will over take that. 74 00:04:01,120 --> 00:04:02,920 Speaker 1: You know, it's a constant back and forth. Who knows. 75 00:04:02,960 --> 00:04:05,280 Speaker 1: I certainly don't know, but that wouldn't surprise me. 76 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:07,480 Speaker 3: One of the updates I wanted to share a had 77 00:04:07,480 --> 00:04:12,640 Speaker 3: to do with the US in absolute overdrive developing our 78 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:13,640 Speaker 3: drone program. 79 00:04:13,760 --> 00:04:15,640 Speaker 2: So that's an interesting light to shed on it what 80 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:16,320 Speaker 2: you just said. 81 00:04:16,360 --> 00:04:18,760 Speaker 1: Certainly, but they're talking about the front lines in Ukraine 82 00:04:18,880 --> 00:04:22,520 Speaker 1: and how the drones have just changed that warfare. So 83 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:25,960 Speaker 1: it's trench warfare, World War One style, but you add 84 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:28,680 Speaker 1: in drones and you're in that trench and you hear 85 00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:32,600 Speaker 1: a buzzin and here comes, you know, two hundred drones. 86 00:04:32,640 --> 00:04:34,919 Speaker 1: Whether you're they're coming at you as a Russian or 87 00:04:34,920 --> 00:04:37,000 Speaker 1: North Korean, or whether they're coming at you was a 88 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:41,560 Speaker 1: Ukrainian maybe, soon to be Frenchmen, Englishmen in German maybe, 89 00:04:41,960 --> 00:04:45,200 Speaker 1: but anyway, you hear the drones coming and they hunt 90 00:04:45,240 --> 00:04:49,159 Speaker 1: you down. You take off running and one drone will 91 00:04:49,200 --> 00:04:51,719 Speaker 1: chase you until it catches up to you and shoots you. 92 00:04:52,440 --> 00:04:53,800 Speaker 2: Right, How brutal is that? 93 00:04:54,920 --> 00:04:58,760 Speaker 3: I suspect strongly that the good folks at Boston Dynamics 94 00:04:58,800 --> 00:05:02,560 Speaker 3: and wherever DARPA is spending its money, are frantically working 95 00:05:02,600 --> 00:05:07,719 Speaker 3: to replace the aforementioned human being with yet another drone, right, 96 00:05:07,880 --> 00:05:10,039 Speaker 3: some sort of R two D two looking thing with 97 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:13,960 Speaker 3: a machine gun. And so there's no need to have 98 00:05:14,160 --> 00:05:18,600 Speaker 3: much of a trench and food and water and sanitation 99 00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:20,640 Speaker 3: and the rest of it, because it'll be drones firing 100 00:05:20,720 --> 00:05:21,440 Speaker 3: at the drones. 101 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:22,040 Speaker 2: Right. 102 00:05:22,960 --> 00:05:25,640 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's all really interesting stuff. I just hope we're 103 00:05:25,680 --> 00:05:27,240 Speaker 1: on the cutting edge of it, in the front of it, 104 00:05:27,279 --> 00:05:32,080 Speaker 1: and not you know, a power leaning on the force 105 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:34,520 Speaker 1: that would have been dominant twenty years ago but is 106 00:05:34,600 --> 00:05:38,240 Speaker 1: no longer that dominant because technology has changed. And you know, 107 00:05:38,360 --> 00:05:42,000 Speaker 1: you know what kills off in big countries or any 108 00:05:42,080 --> 00:05:45,279 Speaker 1: organization is you just you get big and slow and 109 00:05:45,480 --> 00:05:48,200 Speaker 1: stuck in the past, and bureaucracy does not allow you 110 00:05:48,320 --> 00:05:50,719 Speaker 1: to innovate and change because there are a bunch of 111 00:05:50,839 --> 00:05:53,039 Speaker 1: corporations that want you to still build the same plane 112 00:05:53,080 --> 00:05:53,440 Speaker 1: in tank. 113 00:05:54,120 --> 00:05:55,080 Speaker 2: Sure. Yeah. 114 00:05:55,240 --> 00:05:59,599 Speaker 3: One of the great uneasy tensions in any government, and 115 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:02,520 Speaker 3: certainly out of a superpower. And if you go around 116 00:06:02,600 --> 00:06:06,239 Speaker 3: spouting spouting only one half of this, you're the classic 117 00:06:06,320 --> 00:06:11,479 Speaker 3: example of knowing just enough to be dangerous. A the 118 00:06:11,560 --> 00:06:18,360 Speaker 3: need for a robust, powerful, overwhelming, terrifying defense. Okay, but 119 00:06:18,480 --> 00:06:22,039 Speaker 3: that costs zillions of dollars. Has Jack put it earlier, 120 00:06:22,400 --> 00:06:27,480 Speaker 3: It's an enormous money spigot constantly flowing full. Well, what 121 00:06:27,560 --> 00:06:34,760 Speaker 3: does an enormous money spigot attract? Greed heads, fraud, corruption, 122 00:06:35,560 --> 00:06:38,760 Speaker 3: the rest of it? But where are the military industrial complex? 123 00:06:39,120 --> 00:06:41,200 Speaker 3: And so we've got the never ending need for the 124 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:44,200 Speaker 3: giant money's picket, and the never ending need to protect 125 00:06:44,200 --> 00:06:49,440 Speaker 3: ourselves against those who would, you know, drain us unjustifiedly 126 00:06:49,640 --> 00:06:54,120 Speaker 3: or dishonestly. Just it must be ever ever vigilant. It 127 00:06:54,240 --> 00:06:57,360 Speaker 3: never goes away that challenge. Yeah, Russia, this story came 128 00:06:57,360 --> 00:07:01,159 Speaker 3: out yesterday. Russia is helping North Korea with planes and boats, 129 00:07:02,160 --> 00:07:05,480 Speaker 3: beefing up their air force using my finger quotes and navy, 130 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:08,599 Speaker 3: and in exchange for giving you a bunch of young 131 00:07:08,640 --> 00:07:09,240 Speaker 3: men that we. 132 00:07:10,920 --> 00:07:16,240 Speaker 1: Waste horribly as Russians do. But one other thing, and 133 00:07:16,280 --> 00:07:18,800 Speaker 1: all that is the story that broke yesterday afternoon. It 134 00:07:18,840 --> 00:07:23,760 Speaker 1: did happen as predicted that. Apparently, when Trump and Zelensky 135 00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:25,440 Speaker 1: got together to the Vatican the other day, they were 136 00:07:25,440 --> 00:07:27,600 Speaker 1: talking about that mineral rights deal and it has come 137 00:07:27,640 --> 00:07:31,320 Speaker 1: together and gotten signed. So we're now invested in Ukraine. 138 00:07:31,960 --> 00:07:35,960 Speaker 1: And does that mean we're invested invested like, hey, Russia, 139 00:07:36,160 --> 00:07:39,320 Speaker 1: don't be messing with our investment. Is that what's happening here? 140 00:07:40,160 --> 00:07:42,000 Speaker 1: Or what is it just a money grab? 141 00:07:42,080 --> 00:07:42,520 Speaker 2: Is it both? 142 00:07:43,720 --> 00:07:46,400 Speaker 3: It could be one of the most brilliant and innovative 143 00:07:47,120 --> 00:07:51,040 Speaker 3: diplomatic moves I've ever witnessed. Could be We're not, but 144 00:07:51,160 --> 00:07:53,400 Speaker 3: we will absolutely talk about that. 145 00:07:53,960 --> 00:07:57,280 Speaker 2: Yeah. If it's a no, we're not getting involved in 146 00:07:57,320 --> 00:07:57,640 Speaker 2: the war. 147 00:07:57,680 --> 00:07:59,200 Speaker 1: We have no interest in fighting you, but we do 148 00:07:59,240 --> 00:08:01,560 Speaker 1: have a big finance interest in these minds, so you 149 00:08:01,720 --> 00:08:02,679 Speaker 1: better stop. 150 00:08:03,520 --> 00:08:04,360 Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. 151 00:08:04,440 --> 00:08:08,360 Speaker 3: Speaking of long unproductive wars, Jack, one war that we've 152 00:08:08,400 --> 00:08:11,720 Speaker 3: been fighting for some time is starting to look better 153 00:08:11,760 --> 00:08:14,000 Speaker 3: and better like we might win it. That is the 154 00:08:14,200 --> 00:08:19,640 Speaker 3: war on the penny by partisan support for eliminating the penny. 155 00:08:19,880 --> 00:08:23,360 Speaker 1: Wow of my minor gee, Hods, this one time change 156 00:08:23,400 --> 00:08:25,440 Speaker 1: is next. We get this taken care of, then it's 157 00:08:25,440 --> 00:08:27,800 Speaker 1: on to the time change. That's pretty much at the 158 00:08:27,960 --> 00:08:30,200 Speaker 1: end of your long ge hot day. You look up 159 00:08:30,200 --> 00:08:32,440 Speaker 1: at the clock, you got six seven minutes left in 160 00:08:32,480 --> 00:08:34,080 Speaker 1: the day, and what's. 161 00:08:33,840 --> 00:08:36,439 Speaker 2: A LoVa penny? Damn pennies. 162 00:08:36,960 --> 00:08:39,040 Speaker 3: You're not gonna spend all day railing about it, but 163 00:08:39,200 --> 00:08:40,600 Speaker 3: it's worth a few minutes, Michael. 164 00:08:40,880 --> 00:08:42,680 Speaker 1: I just think it's a wonderful time to be alive 165 00:08:43,120 --> 00:08:45,360 Speaker 1: and see the penny go penny going possibly, you know, 166 00:08:45,440 --> 00:08:48,840 Speaker 1: daylight saving time. It is wonderful. Let's start the show officially. 167 00:08:48,840 --> 00:08:50,960 Speaker 1: I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty on this it is 168 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:53,200 Speaker 1: Oh boy, it's Thursday. It's May first. The rent is 169 00:08:53,280 --> 00:08:58,160 Speaker 1: due your twenty it's too damn damn right, man. I 170 00:08:58,280 --> 00:09:00,760 Speaker 1: have my rent set auto pay like you probably do. 171 00:09:00,840 --> 00:09:02,960 Speaker 1: And so you get the email saying my rent's what? 172 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:06,480 Speaker 1: I forgot it so much? Why is rent so damn high? 173 00:09:06,679 --> 00:09:08,840 Speaker 1: The year twenty twenty five were Armstrong and getting we 174 00:09:08,840 --> 00:09:09,840 Speaker 1: approved of this program. 175 00:09:10,120 --> 00:09:12,920 Speaker 3: Let's beginning then, officially according to the FCC rules regulations. 176 00:09:12,920 --> 00:09:14,360 Speaker 2: What a show it's going to be. Here we go 177 00:09:14,480 --> 00:09:18,680 Speaker 2: at mark Hi everyone, Thank you all, thank you, thank you. 178 00:09:21,559 --> 00:09:23,599 Speaker 2: And Dougie's here too. 179 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:30,160 Speaker 4: Why oh please have a seat, please have a seat. 180 00:09:31,480 --> 00:09:35,280 Speaker 2: Oh oh, it's wonderful to be home and thank you. 181 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:40,920 Speaker 1: Oh my lord, I thought I remembered how off putting 182 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:41,400 Speaker 1: she was. 183 00:09:42,160 --> 00:09:43,720 Speaker 2: It in faded in my memory. 184 00:09:44,240 --> 00:09:47,559 Speaker 1: Kamala Harris with her comeback speech for some reason, no 185 00:09:47,800 --> 00:09:55,320 Speaker 1: Ah and Douggie's here too. Where did they find people 186 00:09:55,360 --> 00:09:57,400 Speaker 1: willing to cheer her like she was missed? 187 00:09:58,280 --> 00:10:02,120 Speaker 2: That was my first question. Explain your enthusiasm to me, 188 00:10:02,360 --> 00:10:03,040 Speaker 2: take your time. 189 00:10:04,920 --> 00:10:07,040 Speaker 1: Where did those people come from? Here's my favorite thing 190 00:10:07,240 --> 00:10:09,120 Speaker 1: before we take a break from Charles C. A. Cook 191 00:10:09,120 --> 00:10:12,360 Speaker 1: about Kamala's speech, because he was responding to some article 192 00:10:12,360 --> 00:10:15,000 Speaker 1: about there's a clamoring for her voice right now, and 193 00:10:15,080 --> 00:10:15,720 Speaker 1: Charles CW. 194 00:10:15,840 --> 00:10:17,320 Speaker 2: Cook wrote, there is not. 195 00:10:17,920 --> 00:10:20,440 Speaker 1: There has, in fact, never ever been less of a 196 00:10:20,480 --> 00:10:22,920 Speaker 1: clamoring for anything that is on off er. In the 197 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:25,920 Speaker 1: history of clamoring, no people has ever clamored less than 198 00:10:25,960 --> 00:10:28,640 Speaker 1: the American people are clamoring for Kamala Harrison's voice. 199 00:10:28,720 --> 00:10:31,080 Speaker 2: She is clamorless. She has a hollow clamor. 200 00:10:31,160 --> 00:10:38,080 Speaker 1: Ee who wrote the original line with a straight face, 201 00:10:38,200 --> 00:10:41,160 Speaker 1: I guess that American's clamoring for her voice? 202 00:10:41,400 --> 00:10:41,480 Speaker 2: What? 203 00:10:41,840 --> 00:10:46,760 Speaker 1: Oh, that is funny. We got Katie's headlines on the way. 204 00:10:46,800 --> 00:10:48,520 Speaker 1: More news of the day, lots of stuff. Hope you 205 00:10:48,520 --> 00:10:54,200 Speaker 1: can stay here. I'm gonna steal a headline from you, 206 00:10:54,280 --> 00:10:56,840 Speaker 1: Katie that you probably don't have because it just came across. 207 00:10:57,240 --> 00:11:02,160 Speaker 1: Mark Halpern, who has tremendous sources, is tweeting out. He 208 00:11:02,240 --> 00:11:05,600 Speaker 1: says three sources tell him that Mike Waltz, the currently 209 00:11:05,720 --> 00:11:10,000 Speaker 1: National Security Advisor, and the deputy Alex Wang are out 210 00:11:10,080 --> 00:11:14,400 Speaker 1: the door as early as today. Yeah, so be kind 211 00:11:14,400 --> 00:11:17,880 Speaker 1: of interesting to see. Why not shocked. 212 00:11:18,040 --> 00:11:20,600 Speaker 2: I hate that because I like Walltz. He's a good 213 00:11:20,640 --> 00:11:21,400 Speaker 2: guy and a smart guy. 214 00:11:21,440 --> 00:11:26,079 Speaker 3: But yeah, it was that whole Jeffrey Goldberg a signal 215 00:11:26,200 --> 00:11:30,040 Speaker 3: chat thing. But Trump's too strong willed to get rid 216 00:11:30,080 --> 00:11:33,439 Speaker 3: of him then, like it's a reaction to criticism. 217 00:11:33,559 --> 00:11:36,120 Speaker 1: He'll just wait and then shove him out the door 218 00:11:36,400 --> 00:11:40,240 Speaker 1: when somebody's looking in the other direction. Okay, well he 219 00:11:40,320 --> 00:11:43,200 Speaker 1: is more of a traditional we need to support Ukraine 220 00:11:44,320 --> 00:11:47,240 Speaker 1: attack Iran guy, and maybe they didn't want his voice 221 00:11:47,240 --> 00:11:47,680 Speaker 1: around on that. 222 00:11:47,800 --> 00:11:51,000 Speaker 3: I don't know, I wonder. Yeah, all right, so much 223 00:11:51,040 --> 00:11:53,280 Speaker 3: to talk about today. Let's get started to figure out 224 00:11:53,600 --> 00:11:56,360 Speaker 3: who's reporting what. It's the lead story with Katie Green. 225 00:11:56,320 --> 00:11:58,440 Speaker 2: Katie, starting with ABC News. 226 00:11:58,840 --> 00:12:02,960 Speaker 4: Trump says he's not in a rush to make trade deals. Quote, 227 00:12:03,280 --> 00:12:05,720 Speaker 4: they want us, we don't need them. 228 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:06,200 Speaker 2: Yeah. 229 00:12:06,240 --> 00:12:08,240 Speaker 1: I saw part of the town hallidd on News Nation 230 00:12:08,400 --> 00:12:10,400 Speaker 1: last night and he said, yeah, we're in the catbird seat, 231 00:12:10,440 --> 00:12:12,720 Speaker 1: he said several times, which we either we are or 232 00:12:12,720 --> 00:12:15,680 Speaker 1: we aren't. But from a negotiating deal, acting like you 233 00:12:15,720 --> 00:12:18,040 Speaker 1: can take it or leave it is always a good 234 00:12:18,080 --> 00:12:18,560 Speaker 1: place to be. 235 00:12:19,240 --> 00:12:23,920 Speaker 3: Trumpian strategic chaos in the midst of negotiation yep USA. 236 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:29,360 Speaker 4: Today, Ukraine and United States sign long awaited minerals. 237 00:12:28,920 --> 00:12:30,600 Speaker 2: And reconstruction deal. 238 00:12:31,480 --> 00:12:34,640 Speaker 3: How it develops and what it means ultimately a really 239 00:12:34,640 --> 00:12:35,560 Speaker 3: interesting topic. 240 00:12:36,960 --> 00:12:40,600 Speaker 2: From the Washington Post, China Signal. I'm sorry, can I'm skinned. 241 00:12:40,600 --> 00:12:41,040 Speaker 2: I jumped in. 242 00:12:41,280 --> 00:12:45,240 Speaker 3: The one thing that offended me as an American was 243 00:12:45,360 --> 00:12:47,800 Speaker 3: the idea and Trump expressed this several times that they. 244 00:12:47,679 --> 00:12:50,720 Speaker 2: Need to pay us back for what we spent. 245 00:12:51,600 --> 00:12:55,640 Speaker 3: You can't retroactively convert a gift into a loan, and 246 00:12:55,679 --> 00:12:58,360 Speaker 3: I mean that's despicable on a human level and certainly 247 00:12:58,400 --> 00:13:01,040 Speaker 3: in conducting foreign policy going for nobody would ever take 248 00:13:01,080 --> 00:13:01,680 Speaker 3: us seriously. 249 00:13:01,800 --> 00:13:03,320 Speaker 2: Again, that's been dropped. 250 00:13:03,360 --> 00:13:05,560 Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm glad to part of the deal, even according 251 00:13:05,559 --> 00:13:06,559 Speaker 1: to NPR this morning. 252 00:13:07,160 --> 00:13:11,840 Speaker 4: All right from the Washington Post, China Signals ever so 253 00:13:11,920 --> 00:13:15,080 Speaker 4: obliquely that it's more open to trade talks. 254 00:13:16,360 --> 00:13:20,040 Speaker 3: Well, it better be there. They're sinking quickly to their knees. 255 00:13:20,200 --> 00:13:25,600 Speaker 3: More on that to come. Major economics update, including how 256 00:13:25,640 --> 00:13:29,160 Speaker 3: misleading some of yesterday's economics were that everybody was talking 257 00:13:29,200 --> 00:13:33,680 Speaker 3: about all day long. We will remove the scales from 258 00:13:33,679 --> 00:13:35,560 Speaker 3: your eyes. To paraphrase the Good Book. 259 00:13:35,600 --> 00:13:37,400 Speaker 1: Of course, your daughter might have to get by with 260 00:13:37,679 --> 00:13:39,880 Speaker 1: just one dollar this year, according to Trump, So we'll 261 00:13:39,880 --> 00:13:40,760 Speaker 1: have that for you later. 262 00:13:40,880 --> 00:13:42,440 Speaker 2: That's quite there. Quite the statement. 263 00:13:42,480 --> 00:13:45,240 Speaker 3: If you haven't heard it, doll shortach, Yes, stay tuned. 264 00:13:46,360 --> 00:13:47,160 Speaker 2: From Breitbart. 265 00:13:47,720 --> 00:13:53,520 Speaker 4: Kilmar Obrego, Garcia's wife filed second protective order in twenty twenty, 266 00:13:53,840 --> 00:13:57,960 Speaker 4: said he's made murder threats and quote, my kids are afraid. 267 00:13:58,080 --> 00:14:00,760 Speaker 2: Oh that's horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible. 268 00:14:01,040 --> 00:14:04,480 Speaker 3: And he's now the Rosa parks of the Democratic Party. 269 00:14:04,920 --> 00:14:07,959 Speaker 2: Good strategy from NBC. 270 00:14:08,559 --> 00:14:14,320 Speaker 4: Judge rules Palestinian activists mcmood Khalil can fight wrongful detention 271 00:14:14,600 --> 00:14:16,000 Speaker 4: case in federal court. 272 00:14:17,800 --> 00:14:20,040 Speaker 3: You had to contradict what I said seconds ago. Yeah, 273 00:14:20,040 --> 00:14:21,760 Speaker 3: we do have to follow the rules. I mean, we're 274 00:14:21,800 --> 00:14:22,600 Speaker 3: a nation of laws. 275 00:14:22,720 --> 00:14:24,800 Speaker 1: Do you see all the detainees there at that place 276 00:14:24,840 --> 00:14:29,080 Speaker 1: in Texas that made an SOS for planes flying overhead yesterday, 277 00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:30,200 Speaker 1: No miss that. 278 00:14:30,360 --> 00:14:31,880 Speaker 2: I don't know who came up with that idea. 279 00:14:32,040 --> 00:14:36,600 Speaker 1: That was a great, great play into the hand of 280 00:14:36,680 --> 00:14:37,840 Speaker 1: the Trump Hayton media. 281 00:14:37,960 --> 00:14:40,160 Speaker 2: They just loved that. Of course, look. 282 00:14:39,960 --> 00:14:42,280 Speaker 1: At all those detainees making an SOS in the dirt 283 00:14:42,280 --> 00:14:45,120 Speaker 1: in Texas to try to save their lives. 284 00:14:46,480 --> 00:14:49,720 Speaker 3: Great vicial too, Yeah, we love, we love a good visual. 285 00:14:49,880 --> 00:14:52,760 Speaker 3: In fact, no story matters on TV news unless there's 286 00:14:52,800 --> 00:14:53,440 Speaker 3: a good visual. 287 00:14:55,160 --> 00:14:59,239 Speaker 4: From the Wall Street Journal, US Army plans massive increase 288 00:14:59,320 --> 00:15:00,960 Speaker 4: in its use of drones. 289 00:15:01,720 --> 00:15:02,880 Speaker 2: They're saying the shift to. 290 00:15:02,880 --> 00:15:06,160 Speaker 4: More small unmanned aircraft is based on lesson to learn 291 00:15:06,360 --> 00:15:07,800 Speaker 4: from the Ukraine battlefield. 292 00:15:07,880 --> 00:15:10,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, we're just talking about that. Gotta major look into 293 00:15:10,480 --> 00:15:11,480 Speaker 2: that coming up as well. 294 00:15:12,560 --> 00:15:16,800 Speaker 4: From the New York Post, team charged in Tesla firebombing 295 00:15:17,480 --> 00:15:23,160 Speaker 4: released from federal custody to continue gender affirming medical care. 296 00:15:23,560 --> 00:15:27,920 Speaker 1: Yeah right, all right, samany it was amazing how many 297 00:15:27,920 --> 00:15:30,920 Speaker 1: of these jobs burning up Tesla's were. 298 00:15:31,160 --> 00:15:35,360 Speaker 2: Gender bending lunatics. What's up with that? Wow, that's charitable. 299 00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:38,600 Speaker 2: From the New York Times. 300 00:15:39,520 --> 00:15:46,600 Speaker 4: In an uncertain economy, McDonald's is seeing a spending decline. 301 00:15:46,880 --> 00:15:50,360 Speaker 1: Yeah, I just saw a thing up on the TV 302 00:15:50,600 --> 00:15:54,160 Speaker 1: snack foods go stale on the something about sales for 303 00:15:54,240 --> 00:15:54,920 Speaker 1: snack foods. 304 00:15:55,080 --> 00:15:55,920 Speaker 2: So we eating less. 305 00:15:55,840 --> 00:15:58,520 Speaker 1: McDonald's and crappy food so in store for some reason, 306 00:15:58,760 --> 00:15:59,200 Speaker 1: I'd be good. 307 00:15:59,400 --> 00:16:00,720 Speaker 2: I have Key k Jr. 308 00:16:00,960 --> 00:16:04,840 Speaker 3: Is making America healthy again. Jack, he's successful. He's doing 309 00:16:04,840 --> 00:16:05,160 Speaker 3: his thing. 310 00:16:06,600 --> 00:16:12,120 Speaker 4: From page six, Kanye West doubles down on being wife 311 00:16:12,200 --> 00:16:16,240 Speaker 4: Bianca's quote master after they get back together. 312 00:16:16,320 --> 00:16:19,760 Speaker 2: I didn't realize they'd gotten back together. Wow. 313 00:16:20,880 --> 00:16:25,920 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a shock that both ends of that relationship 314 00:16:25,920 --> 00:16:26,760 Speaker 1: are a little nutty. 315 00:16:28,760 --> 00:16:33,640 Speaker 4: And finally, the Babylon be global birth rates hit historic 316 00:16:33,760 --> 00:16:37,320 Speaker 4: lows as Elon Musk is busy with Doge. 317 00:16:38,760 --> 00:16:42,560 Speaker 1: Les less busy starting yesterday, I guess so had the 318 00:16:42,600 --> 00:16:46,880 Speaker 1: headline break on my phone last night, Tesla board searching 319 00:16:46,920 --> 00:16:51,040 Speaker 1: for Musk's successor, wanting to replace Elon Musk for running Tesla. 320 00:16:51,440 --> 00:16:53,760 Speaker 1: But then the Financial Times with the headline today Tesla 321 00:16:53,800 --> 00:16:56,880 Speaker 1: board denies launching search for Musk's successor, which doesn't mean 322 00:16:56,920 --> 00:16:58,560 Speaker 1: it's not happening, but they are denying it. 323 00:16:59,240 --> 00:17:01,760 Speaker 3: Yeah, they might have just trying to be trying to stare. 324 00:17:02,240 --> 00:17:04,040 Speaker 3: I'm sorry, Can I have a second take on that, Michael, 325 00:17:04,160 --> 00:17:05,720 Speaker 3: They're trying to scare him straight. 326 00:17:06,480 --> 00:17:08,240 Speaker 1: Hey, you might want to pay attention to the most 327 00:17:08,280 --> 00:17:09,600 Speaker 1: valuable car company in the world. 328 00:17:10,840 --> 00:17:13,560 Speaker 2: Yeah, if you get a minute, Yeah, exactly. 329 00:17:14,320 --> 00:17:16,280 Speaker 1: So all that stuff Joe teased, and a bunch of 330 00:17:16,280 --> 00:17:18,200 Speaker 1: other things coming up. If you missed a segment, get 331 00:17:18,200 --> 00:17:20,160 Speaker 1: the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand. 332 00:17:22,800 --> 00:17:24,000 Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty. 333 00:17:25,440 --> 00:17:28,159 Speaker 1: President Trump and Bortally spoke on the phone yesterday with 334 00:17:28,240 --> 00:17:31,800 Speaker 1: Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. But even he doesn't know how 335 00:17:31,800 --> 00:17:33,440 Speaker 1: to cancel your prime membership. 336 00:17:34,640 --> 00:17:36,719 Speaker 2: It because I don't think I need it anymore. 337 00:17:37,680 --> 00:17:40,760 Speaker 1: Well, because I'm the president, so the savings matter less. 338 00:17:43,840 --> 00:17:47,840 Speaker 2: I don't think I need any more. That's it. That's 339 00:17:47,880 --> 00:17:49,160 Speaker 2: pretty amusing, that is. 340 00:17:49,240 --> 00:17:52,919 Speaker 1: And so that was the whole tariffs on Amazon stuff, 341 00:17:53,760 --> 00:17:55,560 Speaker 1: to show why the prices went up, And did the 342 00:17:55,560 --> 00:17:59,560 Speaker 1: tariffs have anything to do with the shrinking of the 343 00:17:59,560 --> 00:18:03,560 Speaker 1: econo that came out yesterday? People saying yes, people saying no. Maybe, 344 00:18:03,640 --> 00:18:05,200 Speaker 1: Jokin tell us, I will. 345 00:18:05,800 --> 00:18:10,400 Speaker 3: I will share with you the product of my reading 346 00:18:10,560 --> 00:18:13,600 Speaker 3: far too much yesterday about all of this and this 347 00:18:13,640 --> 00:18:16,760 Speaker 3: morning as well. So, first of all, to belabor the 348 00:18:16,840 --> 00:18:19,760 Speaker 3: fact that the drive by media are terrible at their 349 00:18:19,840 --> 00:18:22,960 Speaker 3: jobs and biased seems unnecessary at this point, Can we 350 00:18:23,040 --> 00:18:25,439 Speaker 3: just stipulate that your honor, so be it? 351 00:18:25,760 --> 00:18:26,479 Speaker 2: Moving along? 352 00:18:27,040 --> 00:18:29,399 Speaker 3: Of course, what most of us heard yesterday did not 353 00:18:30,440 --> 00:18:33,160 Speaker 3: enlighten us much and in fact obscured the truth. Here's 354 00:18:33,200 --> 00:18:35,960 Speaker 3: what you need to know. So the GDP on an 355 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:39,359 Speaker 3: annualized basis shrunk the announced yesterday right the first quarter? 356 00:18:39,600 --> 00:18:42,040 Speaker 3: Is that Trump's economy or not, blah blah blah doesn't 357 00:18:42,240 --> 00:18:45,080 Speaker 3: really matter much, not yet. 358 00:18:45,600 --> 00:18:48,040 Speaker 1: Here's the one thing you need to know. How do 359 00:18:48,080 --> 00:18:50,600 Speaker 1: we figure the GDP? I was trying to remember. I 360 00:18:50,760 --> 00:18:53,320 Speaker 1: learned that ages ago and have to be reminded of 361 00:18:53,400 --> 00:19:01,640 Speaker 1: a few years. GDP is calculated by adding consumption, government expenditures, investments, 362 00:19:02,240 --> 00:19:06,679 Speaker 1: and exports together and subtracting imports. 363 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:09,200 Speaker 2: That's how you get the GDP. 364 00:19:09,640 --> 00:19:12,040 Speaker 1: Now, the reason that last part is so significant G 365 00:19:12,760 --> 00:19:14,040 Speaker 1: for gross domestic product? 366 00:19:14,080 --> 00:19:15,200 Speaker 2: Did we say that it is? Indeed? 367 00:19:15,280 --> 00:19:18,000 Speaker 1: Yes, thank you, that's excellent. Let's not be too hip 368 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:23,960 Speaker 1: for the room. So the reason that is significant is that, 369 00:19:24,080 --> 00:19:26,080 Speaker 1: as the headline from the journal puts it, the rush 370 00:19:26,160 --> 00:19:29,159 Speaker 1: to beat tariffs is distorting the economy. 371 00:19:29,520 --> 00:19:33,200 Speaker 2: And there's more to come. Short version, there. 372 00:19:33,119 --> 00:19:38,159 Speaker 1: Was an enormous, mind boggling surge in imports in the 373 00:19:38,240 --> 00:19:42,880 Speaker 1: first quarter because of the anticipation of a big, giant, 374 00:19:42,960 --> 00:19:47,760 Speaker 1: god knows what's going on tariffs. So I actually kind 375 00:19:47,760 --> 00:19:50,560 Speaker 1: of pushed up the purchase of a automobile that may 376 00:19:50,600 --> 00:19:55,720 Speaker 1: be of German origin, Yaavol, because. 377 00:19:55,359 --> 00:19:57,080 Speaker 2: I thought, well, if there's a giant terriff, I might 378 00:19:57,080 --> 00:19:57,560 Speaker 2: as well do it. 379 00:19:57,600 --> 00:20:00,920 Speaker 3: Now, evidently many, many, many people and corporations thought the 380 00:20:00,960 --> 00:20:01,320 Speaker 3: same way. 381 00:20:01,440 --> 00:20:03,200 Speaker 2: US imports surged more than. 382 00:20:03,320 --> 00:20:07,359 Speaker 3: Forty percent year after year over a year in the 383 00:20:07,400 --> 00:20:11,280 Speaker 3: first quarter of this year, and that drove down gross 384 00:20:11,280 --> 00:20:16,200 Speaker 3: domestic product by zero point three percent annualized one point 385 00:20:16,240 --> 00:20:20,320 Speaker 3: two whatever. Now, there's a great deal of uncertainty going 386 00:20:20,359 --> 00:20:23,399 Speaker 3: forward about how the tariffs and the uncertainty over the 387 00:20:23,400 --> 00:20:26,320 Speaker 3: tariffs is going to affect the economy. But that's why 388 00:20:26,359 --> 00:20:30,240 Speaker 3: the economy shrank. It didn't our production didn't shrink, our 389 00:20:30,280 --> 00:20:33,119 Speaker 3: spending didn't shrink, our investment didn't shrink. 390 00:20:33,400 --> 00:20:34,280 Speaker 2: It's that we had. 391 00:20:34,160 --> 00:20:39,840 Speaker 3: An enormous amount of imports in anticipation of the tariffs. Now, 392 00:20:39,880 --> 00:20:42,520 Speaker 3: having said that, Goodness knows what the next quarter is 393 00:20:42,560 --> 00:20:44,280 Speaker 3: going to be like, I mean, because all of these 394 00:20:44,359 --> 00:20:50,359 Speaker 3: numbers generally chug along in a reasonably predictable way because 395 00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:53,320 Speaker 3: of economic inputs and outputs. But this is you know, 396 00:20:53,359 --> 00:20:55,200 Speaker 3: Trump has thrown the whole thing up in the air. 397 00:20:55,440 --> 00:21:00,440 Speaker 3: So anyway, don't worry about the GDP number yes yesterday. 398 00:21:00,480 --> 00:21:04,280 Speaker 3: In fact, as greg Ip writes, forget the GDP, it's 399 00:21:04,320 --> 00:21:08,720 Speaker 3: the job report that matters. The first quarter decline economic 400 00:21:08,760 --> 00:21:12,000 Speaker 3: output tells us almost nothing about the economy's actual performance, 401 00:21:12,359 --> 00:21:16,080 Speaker 3: which through March was fine. It tells us even less 402 00:21:16,080 --> 00:21:18,840 Speaker 3: about the broader impact of President Trump's tariff's federal cutbacks, 403 00:21:18,840 --> 00:21:21,080 Speaker 3: and immigration crackdown. For that, we'll have to await the 404 00:21:21,160 --> 00:21:25,320 Speaker 3: April data, starting with jobs and unemployment, which, as we 405 00:21:25,359 --> 00:21:30,679 Speaker 3: are jabbering now, are released tomorrow, Friday, the second. This 406 00:21:30,760 --> 00:21:34,080 Speaker 3: will be the first hard data since Trump's April second 407 00:21:34,160 --> 00:21:40,280 Speaker 3: tariff announcements, plus the federal cuts by Elon, by the DOGE, 408 00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:44,000 Speaker 3: or in full swing deportations have messed a little bit 409 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:47,960 Speaker 3: with labor market. Weak job numbers could vindicate Trump's critics. 410 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:51,000 Speaker 3: Strong number could shut them up, at least for now. 411 00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:55,679 Speaker 3: And he goes on to say he suspects, though, that 412 00:21:55,760 --> 00:21:58,240 Speaker 3: the April report won't tell us a lot. 413 00:21:58,320 --> 00:22:00,399 Speaker 2: It's early etc. Se. 414 00:22:00,480 --> 00:22:02,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, the job's remember coming out tomorrow. A great deal 415 00:22:02,840 --> 00:22:07,720 Speaker 1: will be made to that. Interesting one of my favorite 416 00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:12,320 Speaker 1: numbers floating around out there. Sort of separate from that, 417 00:22:12,600 --> 00:22:16,800 Speaker 1: but in the same realm with bringing back manufacturing and 418 00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:19,680 Speaker 1: everything like that. We have one hundred and forty thousand 419 00:22:19,920 --> 00:22:24,080 Speaker 1: plus empty manufacturing jobs right now that people don't want 420 00:22:24,640 --> 00:22:25,280 Speaker 1: or won't take. 421 00:22:26,280 --> 00:22:29,080 Speaker 3: That's why we need to bring half a million more back. Jack, 422 00:22:30,200 --> 00:22:32,520 Speaker 3: So I'll have six hundred and forty empty jobs. Well 423 00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:36,000 Speaker 3: that's the question. Would they be higher paying or different 424 00:22:36,160 --> 00:22:37,200 Speaker 3: or something. 425 00:22:38,200 --> 00:22:42,800 Speaker 1: Or can we reform our freaking safety net so that 426 00:22:42,920 --> 00:22:46,000 Speaker 1: able bodied men all over this country aren't sitting at 427 00:22:46,040 --> 00:22:49,600 Speaker 1: home smoking pot, playing video games and either faking a 428 00:22:49,640 --> 00:22:53,280 Speaker 1: disability or or whatever other method they've found to suck 429 00:22:53,320 --> 00:22:58,120 Speaker 1: off the government teat get their ass into a job. 430 00:22:59,240 --> 00:23:01,760 Speaker 1: I've been desk. Trust me when I say it's a 431 00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:02,840 Speaker 1: hell of a motivator. 432 00:23:03,240 --> 00:23:03,480 Speaker 2: Uh. 433 00:23:03,480 --> 00:23:06,480 Speaker 1: Well, we've made a turn where we think. I can't 434 00:23:06,480 --> 00:23:09,000 Speaker 1: believe most of America thinks this? Does most of America 435 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:11,240 Speaker 1: think this? Where there are just jobs you shouldn't have 436 00:23:11,280 --> 00:23:14,080 Speaker 1: to do. If you're like a twenty six year old dude, 437 00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:16,520 Speaker 1: I mean, you went to college you got a degree, 438 00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:17,879 Speaker 1: you shouldn't have to go do that. 439 00:23:18,640 --> 00:23:20,600 Speaker 2: Who decided that? I don't know. 440 00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:26,320 Speaker 3: With the craziest domestic not domestic, Progressive America is really 441 00:23:26,359 --> 00:23:33,280 Speaker 3: pushing that idea, and infrequently it either takes the form well. 442 00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:36,000 Speaker 2: White people shouldn't be doing those. 443 00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:39,880 Speaker 3: Jobs, which is unbelievable, or you know, if you want 444 00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:42,720 Speaker 3: to broaden it a little bit, native born people and 445 00:23:42,840 --> 00:23:45,080 Speaker 3: citizens shouldn't be doing these jobs. 446 00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:48,480 Speaker 2: We need to import third worlders. They'll do the jobs. 447 00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:50,679 Speaker 1: It's you know, when you say it out loud, and 448 00:23:50,720 --> 00:23:54,040 Speaker 1: I don't think I'm being unfair with that characterization. 449 00:23:54,359 --> 00:23:56,439 Speaker 2: When you say it out loud, it's repugnant. 450 00:23:56,880 --> 00:23:59,200 Speaker 3: Absolutely is When was the last time you had heard 451 00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:03,320 Speaker 3: a mainstream met a useless, dumb ass weasel. I'm sorry, folks, wow, 452 00:24:03,320 --> 00:24:05,600 Speaker 3: I'm getting in passion my language is. 453 00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:09,840 Speaker 1: I'm sorry it was over the top. I apologize anyway, 454 00:24:10,040 --> 00:24:12,080 Speaker 1: But when was the last time you heard somebody enunciate 455 00:24:12,080 --> 00:24:14,960 Speaker 1: that it's crazy? A couple more e count stories I 456 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:18,359 Speaker 1: found interesting. Home builders are piling on discounts. They're struggling 457 00:24:18,359 --> 00:24:24,000 Speaker 1: to entice buyers. The spring season is huge for home builders. 458 00:24:24,040 --> 00:24:26,800 Speaker 1: Your biggies, your d R Horton, your PULTI Group, your 459 00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:32,960 Speaker 1: lg I homes Lennar, and they are down fifteen percent 460 00:24:34,760 --> 00:24:38,240 Speaker 1: spring over spring a year ago. A couple of them are, 461 00:24:38,320 --> 00:24:40,159 Speaker 1: others are down a little bit less, but they're offering 462 00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:44,720 Speaker 1: big incentives. People are feeling very very cautious and very 463 00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:49,040 Speaker 1: very stretched economically already, and so the homebuilders of America 464 00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:50,919 Speaker 1: are waving at the White House saying. 465 00:24:50,680 --> 00:24:53,120 Speaker 2: Hey, hey, can we ease up a little bit. Then 466 00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:53,720 Speaker 2: finally this. 467 00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:56,880 Speaker 3: Trump was right, he said in a couple of different 468 00:24:56,920 --> 00:25:01,800 Speaker 3: forms yesterday. China is really feeling of pain. They are 469 00:25:01,840 --> 00:25:05,880 Speaker 3: trying to act all stoic and tough, like a boxer 470 00:25:05,880 --> 00:25:08,360 Speaker 3: who's just been tagged with a right cross to the chin. 471 00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:12,040 Speaker 3: But cracks are starting to show. Riot su is this 472 00:25:12,119 --> 00:25:16,320 Speaker 3: I like to give credit words due lingling Way and 473 00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:19,880 Speaker 3: Raphael Huong both foom sound like they know their way 474 00:25:19,880 --> 00:25:23,720 Speaker 3: around China. That Chinas singled a signaled that as a 475 00:25:23,760 --> 00:25:26,159 Speaker 3: nation it's better able to tolerate the pain of a 476 00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:30,200 Speaker 3: prolonged tariff war than the fat decade in US. I'm 477 00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:33,480 Speaker 3: kind of enhancing their article, But cracks are starting to show, 478 00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:36,240 Speaker 3: suggesting how deeply that pain is already settling across the 479 00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:39,480 Speaker 3: Chinese economy. Plunging trade across the Pacific is leading to 480 00:25:39,480 --> 00:25:43,080 Speaker 3: production halts and threatening to undermine job stability for millions 481 00:25:43,119 --> 00:25:47,280 Speaker 3: of Chinese. On Wednesdays, China's economy showed its first big 482 00:25:47,359 --> 00:25:49,800 Speaker 3: signs of damage from the trade war, with a drop 483 00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:52,440 Speaker 3: in export orders in April and the weakest production of 484 00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:53,880 Speaker 3: the country's factories in. 485 00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:54,440 Speaker 2: More than a year. 486 00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:57,000 Speaker 1: A lot of the numbers look like the beginning of COVID, 487 00:25:57,400 --> 00:26:00,399 Speaker 1: when China is starting to groan a bit wow. Speaking 488 00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:02,880 Speaker 1: of which, did you see the statement China put out 489 00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:04,560 Speaker 1: about how COVID started in the United States. 490 00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:06,080 Speaker 2: We'll have to read that later. That was something. 491 00:26:06,119 --> 00:26:09,960 Speaker 3: Oh, no, you're kidding there, you know, I wanted to 492 00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:12,680 Speaker 3: bring this up. There is a great new book out. 493 00:26:13,080 --> 00:26:16,720 Speaker 3: I think I can find the type quickly. That's not it, 494 00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:21,520 Speaker 3: Actually there it is, Yeah, it's it is a book 495 00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:29,639 Speaker 3: interestingly by two liberal Princeton professors, self described progressive academic 496 00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:32,960 Speaker 3: and gay activist. And this other guy's work has been 497 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:36,400 Speaker 3: praised by liberal thinkers like Ezra Kline. But they wrote 498 00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:40,240 Speaker 3: a book called in COVID's Wake, How our Politics Failed. 499 00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:44,399 Speaker 1: Us, and it is scathing. It's like we and Sean 500 00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:49,120 Speaker 1: Hannity teamed up to write a book. It is brutal, 501 00:26:49,119 --> 00:26:49,920 Speaker 1: and I haven't brought it. 502 00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:53,080 Speaker 3: Up just because I could go over and over the 503 00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:57,480 Speaker 3: horrible mistakes and the lack or the vanishing of liberty 504 00:26:57,520 --> 00:26:59,440 Speaker 3: that happened during COVID for the rest of my life. 505 00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:02,240 Speaker 2: Be bored. I think it's that important. 506 00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:05,679 Speaker 3: But yeah, they just hammered the Jesus out of it, 507 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:08,640 Speaker 3: and including the lab leak thing and how the lab 508 00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:13,400 Speaker 3: leak theory was silenced, and it's just it's inexcusable. 509 00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:15,760 Speaker 2: I'll read that statement from China later. 510 00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:21,400 Speaker 1: It's galling finally economic note, price of eggs is down 511 00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:24,200 Speaker 1: eighty percent. The Great egg Crisis is over. I've had 512 00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:27,800 Speaker 1: seventeen eggs already today. Oh, Great egg crisis is over. 513 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:30,480 Speaker 1: Just you know, pop them like they's nothing. Walk around 514 00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:32,119 Speaker 1: with a bag full of eggs, popping them in your 515 00:27:32,119 --> 00:27:35,480 Speaker 1: mouth because they're they're cheap and easy again. Yeah, so 516 00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:37,879 Speaker 1: has the bird flu been more or less corral? 517 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:39,880 Speaker 3: Speaking of dread disease, I don't know why the price 518 00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:41,159 Speaker 3: of eggs sound big factor. 519 00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:41,959 Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. 520 00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:45,200 Speaker 1: Let's just hope there's not some sort of toast pox 521 00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:46,160 Speaker 1: that pops up. 522 00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:48,439 Speaker 2: Next to ruin breakfast for all of us. You know. 523 00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:52,800 Speaker 1: Oh my god, he'shost. We've got the mail bag on 524 00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:54,240 Speaker 1: the way. We got to get into some more news 525 00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:59,960 Speaker 1: of the day. The our military is going more high tech, 526 00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:02,600 Speaker 1: I guess, to deal with the changing landscape of wars 527 00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:04,840 Speaker 1: on the ground. We'll get to that story probably an 528 00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:06,040 Speaker 1: hour or two. Lots of stuff on the way. 529 00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:06,399 Speaker 2: Stay here. 530 00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:13,879 Speaker 1: Washington Post has a inside look at some of Sean 531 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:18,640 Speaker 1: Combe's lifestyle. Is parties and everything like that, laying out 532 00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:20,639 Speaker 1: in a way I'd never heard before. We'll have to 533 00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:22,399 Speaker 1: get to that a little bit later. God, he is 534 00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:28,240 Speaker 1: so much baby oil. Just what a degenerate lifestyle. What 535 00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:32,160 Speaker 1: a horrible way to chase happiness. It's never regula, never 536 00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:33,960 Speaker 1: worked for anybody in the history of the world. 537 00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:35,480 Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, Wow. 538 00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:37,600 Speaker 1: Here's your freedom loving quota of the day, sent along 539 00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:40,400 Speaker 1: by Jerry. We've used this one more than once, but 540 00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:42,000 Speaker 1: it's one of my all time favorites. 541 00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:47,000 Speaker 3: From Alisa Zenovievin, now better known to the world of 542 00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:50,920 Speaker 3: letters as ein Rand. When you realize that to produce 543 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:54,320 Speaker 3: you must obtain permission from those who produce nothing, When 544 00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:56,440 Speaker 3: you see that money flows to those who deal, not 545 00:28:56,520 --> 00:28:59,320 Speaker 3: in goods but in favors. When you notice that many 546 00:28:59,360 --> 00:29:02,680 Speaker 3: become rich through bribery and influence rather than buy their work, 547 00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:05,200 Speaker 3: and that the laws do not protect you from them, 548 00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:07,120 Speaker 3: but instead they are protected from you. 549 00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:10,080 Speaker 2: When you discover that corruption is rewarded. 550 00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:12,720 Speaker 3: And honesty becomes a form of self sacrifice, then you 551 00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:15,800 Speaker 3: can confidently say, without fear of being wrong, that your 552 00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:17,120 Speaker 3: society is doomed. 553 00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:18,680 Speaker 2: Ding ding ding. 554 00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:23,760 Speaker 1: A little close to home there, Ian Baby, Yeah, Mailbag, 555 00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:28,760 Speaker 1: she said that what in the nineteen thirties or forties. 556 00:29:29,840 --> 00:29:31,680 Speaker 3: You can drop us a note anytime you like. Mailbag 557 00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:34,959 Speaker 3: at Armstrong and Getty dot com. On the topic of 558 00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:39,240 Speaker 3: the Wisconsin judge who is helping an illegal wife beater 559 00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:43,240 Speaker 3: escape justice because she's so mad at ice or something, 560 00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:48,080 Speaker 3: Adam Wrights, guys, let's cut that judge some slack. Maybe 561 00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:51,280 Speaker 3: they help that violent illegal alien escape the domestic violence 562 00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:51,720 Speaker 3: hearing and. 563 00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:53,480 Speaker 2: Ice in a moment of panic. 564 00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:55,920 Speaker 3: I mean, come on, we've all been trapped in a 565 00:29:56,040 --> 00:29:59,320 Speaker 3: vestibule once and used any means to escape in a. 566 00:29:59,280 --> 00:29:59,920 Speaker 2: Moment of panic. 567 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:01,960 Speaker 1: I was trying to escape a vestibule. 568 00:30:05,120 --> 00:30:07,600 Speaker 3: That is one of my favorite tapes of all time. 569 00:30:08,280 --> 00:30:11,000 Speaker 3: AOC told us it's even okay to pull a fire alarm. 570 00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:13,400 Speaker 3: Good point, Adam Good callback. 571 00:30:13,120 --> 00:30:14,760 Speaker 1: She was asking about whether she wants to run for 572 00:30:14,800 --> 00:30:17,520 Speaker 1: president yesterday. We'll have the answer later. D. 573 00:30:19,280 --> 00:30:22,800 Speaker 3: On the topic of the Harvard bigots, and more on 574 00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:26,600 Speaker 3: that to come, the Harvard's own report is scathing. 575 00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:29,480 Speaker 2: I've dug into it. Let's see, Sean writes. 576 00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:32,960 Speaker 3: Maybe the Harvard Muslim students who reported like they could 577 00:30:33,040 --> 00:30:36,680 Speaker 3: not speak freely, they were like, I'd like to say, hey, let's. 578 00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:38,800 Speaker 1: Cool it with the Jews stuff, but I'm scared of 579 00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:43,640 Speaker 1: all those crazy white chicks. That is a funny thought. 580 00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:47,600 Speaker 1: The Muslim students are terrified of the woke white girls. 581 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:50,080 Speaker 2: Let's see. 582 00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:58,320 Speaker 3: On the topic of whether some transient tampered with your tesla, Jack, Yeah, 583 00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:01,240 Speaker 3: let's see this guy writes, if you didn't hear, I 584 00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:03,080 Speaker 3: told the story on one more thing, brief story is 585 00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:05,440 Speaker 3: some guys, some guy who's. 586 00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:07,760 Speaker 2: Transient adjacent. 587 00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:09,440 Speaker 1: I don't know why I allowed this, but he said, 588 00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:12,000 Speaker 1: I parked my cyberbeast and he said, hey, I've never 589 00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:13,360 Speaker 1: seen one of those before. 590 00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:14,800 Speaker 2: Can I take a look inside? 591 00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:18,800 Speaker 1: And I hesitated, and yeah, I would have been uncomfortable 592 00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:22,520 Speaker 1: to say, no, I don't know, and he he stuck 593 00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:25,280 Speaker 1: his head in there like weirdly far and low for 594 00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:26,200 Speaker 1: too long a time. 595 00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:27,000 Speaker 2: It was strange. 596 00:31:27,280 --> 00:31:29,280 Speaker 1: And now my door makes a weird sound when I 597 00:31:29,360 --> 00:31:31,200 Speaker 1: close it, and I don't know if he did something 598 00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:32,440 Speaker 1: to my car or what. 599 00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:36,480 Speaker 3: I just forwarded you an email to your personal account 600 00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:38,640 Speaker 3: from a listener who said, not for air. 601 00:31:38,760 --> 00:31:40,760 Speaker 2: You might want to take a gander it. Well, yeah 602 00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:41,040 Speaker 2: I will. 603 00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:45,280 Speaker 1: Yeah, let's see it anyway. Is it a DP or 604 00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:49,200 Speaker 1: is it related to this story? I'm sorry, a what now? 605 00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:52,000 Speaker 1: A Richard pick? Or is it related to this story? 606 00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:55,800 Speaker 3: No, you idiot, No, it's directly related to the story. 607 00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:57,320 Speaker 2: Anyway, let's see. 608 00:31:57,320 --> 00:32:01,080 Speaker 3: Sean writes, I think Jack was paranoid and describing that incident, 609 00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:02,160 Speaker 3: but it's not like he. 610 00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:02,880 Speaker 2: I don't know. 611 00:32:02,960 --> 00:32:07,280 Speaker 1: Once reported some Italian caterers as Islamis terrorists to Homeland 612 00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:10,160 Speaker 1: security in Las Vegas. I mean, if you'd done that, 613 00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:11,440 Speaker 1: I'd question this judgment. 614 00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:13,880 Speaker 2: That was Jean Baby. 615 00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:16,880 Speaker 1: That was New Year's Eve two thousand and two, I 616 00:32:16,920 --> 00:32:20,480 Speaker 1: mean one turning into two. Yeah, yeah, man, that is 617 00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:24,760 Speaker 1: a throwback. Sean, Well, that's embarrassing in retrospect. Yea. 618 00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:26,520 Speaker 2: So we were. 619 00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:30,480 Speaker 3: Talking also yesterday about these AI apps that record every 620 00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:34,120 Speaker 3: word you say for the purpose of giving you reminders 621 00:32:34,360 --> 00:32:37,040 Speaker 3: and summaries of the things that you decided to do 622 00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:38,280 Speaker 3: and accomplished. 623 00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:39,520 Speaker 2: And blah blah blah. It's intriguing. 624 00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:42,200 Speaker 3: My takeaway was, Yeah, let's give it a hear or too, 625 00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:43,960 Speaker 3: and see how these things work out. 626 00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:45,240 Speaker 2: But that's our topic. 627 00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:47,520 Speaker 3: A couple of notes, this one from Michael and Washington 628 00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:49,800 Speaker 3: State guys. I don't think i'd be a fan of 629 00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:52,920 Speaker 3: the AI wristband voice recorder. Seems like a slippery slope 630 00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:55,760 Speaker 3: and could be hacked and so on. But my Samsung 631 00:32:56,480 --> 00:32:59,560 Speaker 3: phone has a new feature that records calls. It does 632 00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:02,680 Speaker 3: make all parties aware of the recording. It's very useful 633 00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:06,400 Speaker 3: when disputing financial charges with insurance, phone, utility, or other companies. 634 00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:08,240 Speaker 3: Now I have the power to record the lies and 635 00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:11,239 Speaker 3: false promises. Most everyone listening to your show has had 636 00:33:11,240 --> 00:33:13,560 Speaker 3: a phone company or insurance company admit to making a 637 00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:16,120 Speaker 3: mistake and promise to fix it, or just flat lie 638 00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:19,440 Speaker 3: about an accurate account charge. Fast forward a month, you 639 00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:21,800 Speaker 3: receive the same bill in the mail. Now you have 640 00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:23,680 Speaker 3: to call the company back and get told we never 641 00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:26,840 Speaker 3: said any of that. Blah blah, blah, Well that's over interesting. 642 00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:30,640 Speaker 3: These sends them the voice recording and makes them fess up. 643 00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:31,680 Speaker 2: Yeah. I love that idea. 644 00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:33,920 Speaker 3: And if you're in a one party state, you don't 645 00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:36,040 Speaker 3: even have to bother telling them, although if you're not 646 00:33:36,360 --> 00:33:40,440 Speaker 3: hit them with the exact for purposes of quality. 647 00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:43,040 Speaker 1: Control the phone, this good call will be recorded. We're 648 00:33:43,080 --> 00:33:47,120 Speaker 1: trying to serve you not have evidence against you, right exactly. 649 00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:50,600 Speaker 1: And on the similar topic, we mentioned that you could 650 00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:53,760 Speaker 1: win an argument with your wife if you'd recorded the 651 00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:57,240 Speaker 1: phone call. You never told me we had dinner Friday night. 652 00:33:57,680 --> 00:34:00,240 Speaker 1: I told you when we are talking about the tennis turn. 653 00:34:00,440 --> 00:34:01,120 Speaker 2: Then you go back. 654 00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:04,320 Speaker 3: You got the whole tennis tournament, the conversation, you play 655 00:34:04,320 --> 00:34:08,680 Speaker 3: it for not there. Well, Caleb was a thinking man rights. 656 00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:11,359 Speaker 3: I don't think that recording device with aid from AI 657 00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:13,919 Speaker 3: would change anything about a disagreement to what was said 658 00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:16,320 Speaker 3: with the wife. Even if AI came back and confirmed 659 00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:18,720 Speaker 3: nothing was said about subber with friends, for example, then. 660 00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:24,920 Speaker 2: You and AI would be wrong, all right. 661 00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:27,200 Speaker 1: I think what would be disturbing is finding out that 662 00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:29,920 Speaker 1: you are regularly told stuff and completely forget it. I 663 00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:33,000 Speaker 1: think that would be the outcome that would be highly disturbing. 664 00:34:33,560 --> 00:34:37,560 Speaker 2: Uh yeah, perhaps what do we have Michael one minute? 665 00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:41,560 Speaker 3: This is this is distasteful and I'm I regret to 666 00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:45,440 Speaker 3: even reading it, much less reading it to you. Mikey 667 00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:48,600 Speaker 3: Loke writes recently on his podcast that no one listens 668 00:34:48,640 --> 00:34:52,120 Speaker 3: to Governor Gave Newsom was comparing himself to Elon Musk 669 00:34:52,160 --> 00:34:53,480 Speaker 3: by saying we. 670 00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:55,320 Speaker 2: Were dog before doage existed. 671 00:34:55,880 --> 00:34:58,080 Speaker 3: Oh my god, like he's been good for California music 672 00:34:58,120 --> 00:35:00,880 Speaker 3: economy in the government. Rather than compare baring himself to Musky, 673 00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:03,799 Speaker 3: should be comparing himself to Donald Junior because they both 674 00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:04,880 Speaker 3: had Kim Gilfoyle. 675 00:35:05,080 --> 00:35:10,839 Speaker 2: Oh wow, that's not a that's not modern thing to 676 00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:11,560 Speaker 2: the discussion. 677 00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:17,400 Speaker 1: That's no, no, Mikey, do better be better? Could sixty 678 00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:18,480 Speaker 1: guys be a crocodile? 679 00:35:18,520 --> 00:35:19,000 Speaker 2: Do we have that? 680 00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:22,239 Speaker 1: We got a lot of that stuff I mentioned an 681 00:35:22,239 --> 00:35:23,800 Speaker 1: hour too. If you don't get to get the podcast 682 00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:26,480 Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty on demand Armstrong and Getty