Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty.
Speaker 2: Arm Strong and Jack and He arm Drawn live from
Speaker 2: sto C. I'm sorry it's early alive from studios. It's
Speaker 2: a bad start. Clinging to life from studio se.
Speaker 1: Right right, honored on my deathbed from Studio CE dimly
Speaker 1: lit room.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: This might not work today. We're under the tutelage of
Speaker 1: our general manager.
Speaker 2: The United States Military.
Speaker 3: A couple of big military stories today I want to
Speaker 3: talk about and Bye Gully. The nation that can't defend
Speaker 3: itself will not be a nation for long, high priority.
Speaker 2: We'll get to it. Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 1: Did we figure out yet why that plane rolled off
Speaker 1: the aircraft carrier into the sea.
Speaker 2: Do we know the answer to that yet? Not too much?
Speaker 3: Well, I forgot this. That's the parking break, and I
Speaker 3: feel terrible about it. But yes, it's on me.
Speaker 2: I don't care if we get lied to.
Speaker 1: I mean, if the Huthi's shot at us and somehow
Speaker 1: cause that to happen and we don't want to admit that,
Speaker 1: I'm fine with that. I'm pro fog of war. The
Speaker 1: other side, does it we get to do it too,
Speaker 1: but not fog of stupid But yeah, no, I want
Speaker 1: to know if it was incompetence of some sort that's like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, we shouldn't be making mistakes like that,
Speaker 1: right not go discipline, et cetera. I found this. I
Speaker 1: came across this yesterday. Funny you brought that up the ten.
Speaker 1: It's actually a list of the eight most powerful air
Speaker 1: forces on Earth. Hm. Four of the top five or
Speaker 1: the US. How many air forces do we have total?
Speaker 2: I got y.
Speaker 1: Yeah, number one air force in the world is the
Speaker 1: United States Air Force. The number two air force in
Speaker 1: the world is the United States Navy. The number four
Speaker 1: air force in the world is the Army. In number
Speaker 1: five is the Marines. So for of the top five
Speaker 1: air forces in the world are US and then in
Speaker 1: the middle Therey you get the Russian Air Force, which
Speaker 1: I'm kind of surprised by that.
Speaker 2: It's bigger than China. China is down at seven. Hmmm.
Speaker 1: Interesting, Yeah, well good for us, Yeah, exactly. I liked
Speaker 1: a little shot of Hey we're number one. I needed
Speaker 1: I needed that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we need to beef up the navy.
Speaker 3: Part of our navy certainly, although that is one of
Speaker 3: the defense stories. We're going to be talking about a.
Speaker 1: Major infusion of what seems to be some fairly well
Speaker 1: directed cash. The Pentagon's way, well, I heard what at
Speaker 1: least been proposed by Congress. It's tough with the Pentagon
Speaker 1: and reports like this, because it's the money spigot of
Speaker 1: all money spigots.
Speaker 2: If you can, if you can, and.
Speaker 1: Not that you know, we are in a country patriots
Speaker 1: wanting to do our best, but there are also you know,
Speaker 1: there are plenty of people then think, you know this
Speaker 1: weapon system over here that I benefit from, Here's why
Speaker 1: you should spend the money on this instead of that one.
Speaker 1: And there was a report out yesterday that we are
Speaker 1: not prepared for the new drone world of fighting, which
Speaker 1: the Ukraine in Russia have you know, changed warfare probably forever.
Speaker 1: And I mentioned yesterday I was listening to a podcast,
Speaker 1: this Great Daily Ukrainian podcast, where it was quoting a
Speaker 1: number of Ukrainian leaders about how like, for instance, armored
Speaker 1: vehicles are irrelevant now after are years of tanks, armored
Speaker 1: vehicles are irrelevant now. They did have other guests on
Speaker 1: who said that's not true because, for instance, Great Britain
Speaker 1: is working on an anti drone weapon that will make
Speaker 1: drones useless. And this might just be a little blip
Speaker 1: of little mass drones coming in taking out your tanks,
Speaker 1: and the ability to shoot them down will over take that.
Speaker 1: You know, it's a constant back and forth. Who knows.
Speaker 1: I certainly don't know, but that wouldn't surprise me.
Speaker 3: One of the updates I wanted to share a had
Speaker 3: to do with the US in absolute overdrive developing our
Speaker 3: drone program.
Speaker 2: So that's an interesting light to shed on it what
Speaker 2: you just said.
Speaker 1: Certainly, but they're talking about the front lines in Ukraine
Speaker 1: and how the drones have just changed that warfare. So
Speaker 1: it's trench warfare, World War One style, but you add
Speaker 1: in drones and you're in that trench and you hear
Speaker 1: a buzzin and here comes, you know, two hundred drones.
Speaker 1: Whether you're they're coming at you as a Russian or
Speaker 1: North Korean, or whether they're coming at you was a
Speaker 1: Ukrainian maybe, soon to be Frenchmen, Englishmen in German maybe,
Speaker 1: but anyway, you hear the drones coming and they hunt
Speaker 1: you down. You take off running and one drone will
Speaker 1: chase you until it catches up to you and shoots you.
Speaker 2: Right, How brutal is that?
Speaker 3: I suspect strongly that the good folks at Boston Dynamics
Speaker 3: and wherever DARPA is spending its money, are frantically working
Speaker 3: to replace the aforementioned human being with yet another drone, right,
Speaker 3: some sort of R two D two looking thing with
Speaker 3: a machine gun. And so there's no need to have
Speaker 3: much of a trench and food and water and sanitation
Speaker 3: and the rest of it, because it'll be drones firing
Speaker 3: at the drones.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's all really interesting stuff. I just hope we're
Speaker 1: on the cutting edge of it, in the front of it,
Speaker 1: and not you know, a power leaning on the force
Speaker 1: that would have been dominant twenty years ago but is
Speaker 1: no longer that dominant because technology has changed. And you know,
Speaker 1: you know what kills off in big countries or any
Speaker 1: organization is you just you get big and slow and
Speaker 1: stuck in the past, and bureaucracy does not allow you
Speaker 1: to innovate and change because there are a bunch of
Speaker 1: corporations that want you to still build the same plane
Speaker 1: in tank.
Speaker 2: Sure. Yeah.
Speaker 3: One of the great uneasy tensions in any government, and
Speaker 3: certainly out of a superpower. And if you go around
Speaker 3: spouting spouting only one half of this, you're the classic
Speaker 3: example of knowing just enough to be dangerous. A the
Speaker 3: need for a robust, powerful, overwhelming, terrifying defense. Okay, but
Speaker 3: that costs zillions of dollars. Has Jack put it earlier,
Speaker 3: It's an enormous money spigot constantly flowing full. Well, what
Speaker 3: does an enormous money spigot attract? Greed heads, fraud, corruption,
Speaker 3: the rest of it? But where are the military industrial complex?
Speaker 3: And so we've got the never ending need for the
Speaker 3: giant money's picket, and the never ending need to protect
Speaker 3: ourselves against those who would, you know, drain us unjustifiedly
Speaker 3: or dishonestly. Just it must be ever ever vigilant. It
Speaker 3: never goes away that challenge. Yeah, Russia, this story came
Speaker 3: out yesterday. Russia is helping North Korea with planes and boats,
Speaker 3: beefing up their air force using my finger quotes and navy,
Speaker 3: and in exchange for giving you a bunch of young
Speaker 3: men that we.
Speaker 1: Waste horribly as Russians do. But one other thing, and
Speaker 1: all that is the story that broke yesterday afternoon. It
Speaker 1: did happen as predicted that. Apparently, when Trump and Zelensky
Speaker 1: got together to the Vatican the other day, they were
Speaker 1: talking about that mineral rights deal and it has come
Speaker 1: together and gotten signed. So we're now invested in Ukraine.
Speaker 1: And does that mean we're invested invested like, hey, Russia,
Speaker 1: don't be messing with our investment. Is that what's happening here?
Speaker 1: Or what is it just a money grab?
Speaker 2: Is it both?
Speaker 3: It could be one of the most brilliant and innovative
Speaker 3: diplomatic moves I've ever witnessed. Could be We're not, but
Speaker 3: we will absolutely talk about that.
Speaker 2: Yeah. If it's a no, we're not getting involved in
Speaker 2: the war.
Speaker 1: We have no interest in fighting you, but we do
Speaker 1: have a big finance interest in these minds, so you
Speaker 1: better stop.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Speaking of long unproductive wars, Jack, one war that we've
Speaker 3: been fighting for some time is starting to look better
Speaker 3: and better like we might win it. That is the
Speaker 3: war on the penny by partisan support for eliminating the penny.
Speaker 1: Wow of my minor gee, Hods, this one time change
Speaker 1: is next. We get this taken care of, then it's
Speaker 1: on to the time change. That's pretty much at the
Speaker 1: end of your long ge hot day. You look up
Speaker 1: at the clock, you got six seven minutes left in
Speaker 1: the day, and what's.
Speaker 2: A LoVa penny? Damn pennies.
Speaker 3: You're not gonna spend all day railing about it, but
Speaker 3: it's worth a few minutes, Michael.
Speaker 1: I just think it's a wonderful time to be alive
Speaker 1: and see the penny go penny going possibly, you know,
Speaker 1: daylight saving time. It is wonderful. Let's start the show officially.
Speaker 1: I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty on this it is
Speaker 1: Oh boy, it's Thursday. It's May first. The rent is
Speaker 1: due your twenty it's too damn damn right, man. I
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Speaker 1: And so you get the email saying my rent's what?
Speaker 1: I forgot it so much? Why is rent so damn high?
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Speaker 2: What a show it's going to be. Here we go
Speaker 2: at mark Hi everyone, Thank you all, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2: And Dougie's here too.
Speaker 4: Why oh please have a seat, please have a seat.
Speaker 2: Oh oh, it's wonderful to be home and thank you.
Speaker 1: Oh my lord, I thought I remembered how off putting
Speaker 1: she was.
Speaker 2: It in faded in my memory.
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris with her comeback speech for some reason, no
Speaker 1: Ah and Douggie's here too. Where did they find people
Speaker 1: willing to cheer her like she was missed?
Speaker 2: That was my first question. Explain your enthusiasm to me,
Speaker 2: take your time.
Speaker 1: Where did those people come from? Here's my favorite thing
Speaker 1: before we take a break from Charles C. A. Cook
Speaker 1: about Kamala's speech, because he was responding to some article
Speaker 1: about there's a clamoring for her voice right now, and
Speaker 1: Charles CW.
Speaker 2: Cook wrote, there is not.
Speaker 1: There has, in fact, never ever been less of a
Speaker 1: clamoring for anything that is on off er. In the
Speaker 1: history of clamoring, no people has ever clamored less than
Speaker 1: the American people are clamoring for Kamala Harrison's voice.
Speaker 2: She is clamorless. She has a hollow clamor.
Speaker 1: Ee who wrote the original line with a straight face,
Speaker 1: I guess that American's clamoring for her voice?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 1: Oh, that is funny. We got Katie's headlines on the way.
Speaker 1: More news of the day, lots of stuff. Hope you
Speaker 1: can stay here. I'm gonna steal a headline from you,
Speaker 1: Katie that you probably don't have because it just came across.
Speaker 1: Mark Halpern, who has tremendous sources, is tweeting out. He
Speaker 1: says three sources tell him that Mike Waltz, the currently
Speaker 1: National Security Advisor, and the deputy Alex Wang are out
Speaker 1: the door as early as today. Yeah, so be kind
Speaker 1: of interesting to see. Why not shocked.
Speaker 2: I hate that because I like Walltz. He's a good
Speaker 2: guy and a smart guy.
Speaker 3: But yeah, it was that whole Jeffrey Goldberg a signal
Speaker 3: chat thing. But Trump's too strong willed to get rid
Speaker 3: of him then, like it's a reaction to criticism.
Speaker 1: He'll just wait and then shove him out the door
Speaker 1: when somebody's looking in the other direction. Okay, well he
Speaker 1: is more of a traditional we need to support Ukraine
Speaker 1: attack Iran guy, and maybe they didn't want his voice
Speaker 1: around on that.
Speaker 3: I don't know, I wonder. Yeah, all right, so much
Speaker 3: to talk about today. Let's get started to figure out
Speaker 3: who's reporting what. It's the lead story with Katie Green.
Speaker 2: Katie, starting with ABC News.
Speaker 4: Trump says he's not in a rush to make trade deals. Quote,
Speaker 4: they want us, we don't need them.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I saw part of the town hallidd on News Nation
Speaker 1: last night and he said, yeah, we're in the catbird seat,
Speaker 1: he said several times, which we either we are or
Speaker 1: we aren't. But from a negotiating deal, acting like you
Speaker 1: can take it or leave it is always a good
Speaker 1: place to be.
Speaker 3: Trumpian strategic chaos in the midst of negotiation yep USA.
Speaker 4: Today, Ukraine and United States sign long awaited minerals.
Speaker 2: And reconstruction deal.
Speaker 3: How it develops and what it means ultimately a really
Speaker 3: interesting topic.
Speaker 2: From the Washington Post, China Signal. I'm sorry, can I'm skinned.
Speaker 2: I jumped in.
Speaker 3: The one thing that offended me as an American was
Speaker 3: the idea and Trump expressed this several times that they.
Speaker 2: Need to pay us back for what we spent.
Speaker 3: You can't retroactively convert a gift into a loan, and
Speaker 3: I mean that's despicable on a human level and certainly
Speaker 3: in conducting foreign policy going for nobody would ever take
Speaker 3: us seriously.
Speaker 2: Again, that's been dropped.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm glad to part of the deal, even according
Speaker 1: to NPR this morning.
Speaker 4: All right from the Washington Post, China Signals ever so
Speaker 4: obliquely that it's more open to trade talks.
Speaker 3: Well, it better be there. They're sinking quickly to their knees.
Speaker 3: More on that to come. Major economics update, including how
Speaker 3: misleading some of yesterday's economics were that everybody was talking
Speaker 3: about all day long. We will remove the scales from
Speaker 3: your eyes. To paraphrase the Good Book.
Speaker 1: Of course, your daughter might have to get by with
Speaker 1: just one dollar this year, according to Trump, So we'll
Speaker 1: have that for you later.
Speaker 2: That's quite there. Quite the statement.
Speaker 3: If you haven't heard it, doll shortach, Yes, stay tuned.
Speaker 2: From Breitbart.
Speaker 4: Kilmar Obrego, Garcia's wife filed second protective order in twenty twenty,
Speaker 4: said he's made murder threats and quote, my kids are afraid.
Speaker 2: Oh that's horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible.
Speaker 3: And he's now the Rosa parks of the Democratic Party.
Speaker 2: Good strategy from NBC.
Speaker 4: Judge rules Palestinian activists mcmood Khalil can fight wrongful detention
Speaker 4: case in federal court.
Speaker 3: You had to contradict what I said seconds ago. Yeah,
Speaker 3: we do have to follow the rules. I mean, we're
Speaker 3: a nation of laws.
Speaker 1: Do you see all the detainees there at that place
Speaker 1: in Texas that made an SOS for planes flying overhead yesterday,
Speaker 1: No miss that.
Speaker 2: I don't know who came up with that idea.
Speaker 1: That was a great, great play into the hand of
Speaker 1: the Trump Hayton media.
Speaker 2: They just loved that. Of course, look.
Speaker 1: At all those detainees making an SOS in the dirt
Speaker 1: in Texas to try to save their lives.
Speaker 3: Great vicial too, Yeah, we love, we love a good visual.
Speaker 3: In fact, no story matters on TV news unless there's
Speaker 3: a good visual.
Speaker 4: From the Wall Street Journal, US Army plans massive increase
Speaker 4: in its use of drones.
Speaker 2: They're saying the shift to.
Speaker 4: More small unmanned aircraft is based on lesson to learn
Speaker 4: from the Ukraine battlefield.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're just talking about that. Gotta major look into
Speaker 2: that coming up as well.
Speaker 4: From the New York Post, team charged in Tesla firebombing
Speaker 4: released from federal custody to continue gender affirming medical care.
Speaker 1: Yeah right, all right, samany it was amazing how many
Speaker 1: of these jobs burning up Tesla's were.
Speaker 2: Gender bending lunatics. What's up with that? Wow, that's charitable.
Speaker 2: From the New York Times.
Speaker 4: In an uncertain economy, McDonald's is seeing a spending decline.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just saw a thing up on the TV
Speaker 1: snack foods go stale on the something about sales for
Speaker 1: snack foods.
Speaker 2: So we eating less.
Speaker 1: McDonald's and crappy food so in store for some reason,
Speaker 1: I'd be good.
Speaker 2: I have Key k Jr.
Speaker 3: Is making America healthy again. Jack, he's successful. He's doing
Speaker 3: his thing.
Speaker 4: From page six, Kanye West doubles down on being wife
Speaker 4: Bianca's quote master after they get back together.
Speaker 2: I didn't realize they'd gotten back together. Wow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a shock that both ends of that relationship
Speaker 1: are a little nutty.
Speaker 4: And finally, the Babylon be global birth rates hit historic
Speaker 4: lows as Elon Musk is busy with Doge.
Speaker 1: Les less busy starting yesterday, I guess so had the
Speaker 1: headline break on my phone last night, Tesla board searching
Speaker 1: for Musk's successor, wanting to replace Elon Musk for running Tesla.
Speaker 1: But then the Financial Times with the headline today Tesla
Speaker 1: board denies launching search for Musk's successor, which doesn't mean
Speaker 1: it's not happening, but they are denying it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they might have just trying to be trying to stare.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, Can I have a second take on that, Michael,
Speaker 3: They're trying to scare him straight.
Speaker 1: Hey, you might want to pay attention to the most
Speaker 1: valuable car company in the world.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you get a minute, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: So all that stuff Joe teased, and a bunch of
Speaker 1: other things coming up. If you missed a segment, get
Speaker 1: the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1: President Trump and Bortally spoke on the phone yesterday with
Speaker 1: Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. But even he doesn't know how
Speaker 1: to cancel your prime membership.
Speaker 2: It because I don't think I need it anymore.
Speaker 1: Well, because I'm the president, so the savings matter less.
Speaker 2: I don't think I need any more. That's it. That's
Speaker 2: pretty amusing, that is.
Speaker 1: And so that was the whole tariffs on Amazon stuff,
Speaker 1: to show why the prices went up, And did the
Speaker 1: tariffs have anything to do with the shrinking of the
Speaker 1: econo that came out yesterday? People saying yes, people saying no. Maybe,
Speaker 1: Jokin tell us, I will.
Speaker 3: I will share with you the product of my reading
Speaker 3: far too much yesterday about all of this and this
Speaker 3: morning as well. So, first of all, to belabor the
Speaker 3: fact that the drive by media are terrible at their
Speaker 3: jobs and biased seems unnecessary at this point, Can we
Speaker 3: just stipulate that your honor, so be it?
Speaker 2: Moving along?
Speaker 3: Of course, what most of us heard yesterday did not
Speaker 3: enlighten us much and in fact obscured the truth. Here's
Speaker 3: what you need to know. So the GDP on an
Speaker 3: annualized basis shrunk the announced yesterday right the first quarter?
Speaker 3: Is that Trump's economy or not, blah blah blah doesn't
Speaker 3: really matter much, not yet.
Speaker 1: Here's the one thing you need to know. How do
Speaker 1: we figure the GDP? I was trying to remember. I
Speaker 1: learned that ages ago and have to be reminded of
Speaker 1: a few years. GDP is calculated by adding consumption, government expenditures, investments,
Speaker 1: and exports together and subtracting imports.
Speaker 2: That's how you get the GDP.
Speaker 1: Now, the reason that last part is so significant G
Speaker 1: for gross domestic product?
Speaker 2: Did we say that it is? Indeed?
Speaker 1: Yes, thank you, that's excellent. Let's not be too hip
Speaker 1: for the room. So the reason that is significant is that,
Speaker 1: as the headline from the journal puts it, the rush
Speaker 1: to beat tariffs is distorting the economy.
Speaker 2: And there's more to come. Short version, there.
Speaker 1: Was an enormous, mind boggling surge in imports in the
Speaker 1: first quarter because of the anticipation of a big, giant,
Speaker 1: god knows what's going on tariffs. So I actually kind
Speaker 1: of pushed up the purchase of a automobile that may
Speaker 1: be of German origin, Yaavol, because.
Speaker 2: I thought, well, if there's a giant terriff, I might
Speaker 2: as well do it.
Speaker 3: Now, evidently many, many, many people and corporations thought the
Speaker 3: same way.
Speaker 2: US imports surged more than.
Speaker 3: Forty percent year after year over a year in the
Speaker 3: first quarter of this year, and that drove down gross
Speaker 3: domestic product by zero point three percent annualized one point
Speaker 3: two whatever. Now, there's a great deal of uncertainty going
Speaker 3: forward about how the tariffs and the uncertainty over the
Speaker 3: tariffs is going to affect the economy. But that's why
Speaker 3: the economy shrank. It didn't our production didn't shrink, our
Speaker 3: spending didn't shrink, our investment didn't shrink.
Speaker 2: It's that we had.
Speaker 3: An enormous amount of imports in anticipation of the tariffs. Now,
Speaker 3: having said that, Goodness knows what the next quarter is
Speaker 3: going to be like, I mean, because all of these
Speaker 3: numbers generally chug along in a reasonably predictable way because
Speaker 3: of economic inputs and outputs. But this is you know,
Speaker 3: Trump has thrown the whole thing up in the air.
Speaker 3: So anyway, don't worry about the GDP number yes yesterday.
Speaker 3: In fact, as greg Ip writes, forget the GDP, it's
Speaker 3: the job report that matters. The first quarter decline economic
Speaker 3: output tells us almost nothing about the economy's actual performance,
Speaker 3: which through March was fine. It tells us even less
Speaker 3: about the broader impact of President Trump's tariff's federal cutbacks,
Speaker 3: and immigration crackdown. For that, we'll have to await the
Speaker 3: April data, starting with jobs and unemployment, which, as we
Speaker 3: are jabbering now, are released tomorrow, Friday, the second. This
Speaker 3: will be the first hard data since Trump's April second
Speaker 3: tariff announcements, plus the federal cuts by Elon, by the DOGE,
Speaker 3: or in full swing deportations have messed a little bit
Speaker 3: with labor market. Weak job numbers could vindicate Trump's critics.
Speaker 3: Strong number could shut them up, at least for now.
Speaker 3: And he goes on to say he suspects, though, that
Speaker 3: the April report won't tell us a lot.
Speaker 2: It's early etc. Se.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the job's remember coming out tomorrow. A great deal
Speaker 1: will be made to that. Interesting one of my favorite
Speaker 1: numbers floating around out there. Sort of separate from that,
Speaker 1: but in the same realm with bringing back manufacturing and
Speaker 1: everything like that. We have one hundred and forty thousand
Speaker 1: plus empty manufacturing jobs right now that people don't want
Speaker 1: or won't take.
Speaker 3: That's why we need to bring half a million more back. Jack,
Speaker 3: So I'll have six hundred and forty empty jobs. Well
Speaker 3: that's the question. Would they be higher paying or different
Speaker 3: or something.
Speaker 1: Or can we reform our freaking safety net so that
Speaker 1: able bodied men all over this country aren't sitting at
Speaker 1: home smoking pot, playing video games and either faking a
Speaker 1: disability or or whatever other method they've found to suck
Speaker 1: off the government teat get their ass into a job.
Speaker 1: I've been desk. Trust me when I say it's a
Speaker 1: hell of a motivator.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Well, we've made a turn where we think. I can't
Speaker 1: believe most of America thinks this? Does most of America
Speaker 1: think this? Where there are just jobs you shouldn't have
Speaker 1: to do. If you're like a twenty six year old dude,
Speaker 1: I mean, you went to college you got a degree,
Speaker 1: you shouldn't have to go do that.
Speaker 2: Who decided that? I don't know.
Speaker 3: With the craziest domestic not domestic, Progressive America is really
Speaker 3: pushing that idea, and infrequently it either takes the form well.
Speaker 2: White people shouldn't be doing those.
Speaker 3: Jobs, which is unbelievable, or you know, if you want
Speaker 3: to broaden it a little bit, native born people and
Speaker 3: citizens shouldn't be doing these jobs.
Speaker 2: We need to import third worlders. They'll do the jobs.
Speaker 1: It's you know, when you say it out loud, and
Speaker 1: I don't think I'm being unfair with that characterization.
Speaker 2: When you say it out loud, it's repugnant.
Speaker 3: Absolutely is When was the last time you had heard
Speaker 3: a mainstream met a useless, dumb ass weasel. I'm sorry, folks, wow,
Speaker 3: I'm getting in passion my language is.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry it was over the top. I apologize anyway,
Speaker 1: But when was the last time you heard somebody enunciate
Speaker 1: that it's crazy? A couple more e count stories I
Speaker 1: found interesting. Home builders are piling on discounts. They're struggling
Speaker 1: to entice buyers. The spring season is huge for home builders.
Speaker 1: Your biggies, your d R Horton, your PULTI Group, your
Speaker 1: lg I homes Lennar, and they are down fifteen percent
Speaker 1: spring over spring a year ago. A couple of them are,
Speaker 1: others are down a little bit less, but they're offering
Speaker 1: big incentives. People are feeling very very cautious and very
Speaker 1: very stretched economically already, and so the homebuilders of America
Speaker 1: are waving at the White House saying.
Speaker 2: Hey, hey, can we ease up a little bit. Then
Speaker 2: finally this.
Speaker 3: Trump was right, he said in a couple of different
Speaker 3: forms yesterday. China is really feeling of pain. They are
Speaker 3: trying to act all stoic and tough, like a boxer
Speaker 3: who's just been tagged with a right cross to the chin.
Speaker 3: But cracks are starting to show. Riot su is this
Speaker 3: I like to give credit words due lingling Way and
Speaker 3: Raphael Huong both foom sound like they know their way
Speaker 3: around China. That Chinas singled a signaled that as a
Speaker 3: nation it's better able to tolerate the pain of a
Speaker 3: prolonged tariff war than the fat decade in US. I'm
Speaker 3: kind of enhancing their article, But cracks are starting to show,
Speaker 3: suggesting how deeply that pain is already settling across the
Speaker 3: Chinese economy. Plunging trade across the Pacific is leading to
Speaker 3: production halts and threatening to undermine job stability for millions
Speaker 3: of Chinese. On Wednesdays, China's economy showed its first big
Speaker 3: signs of damage from the trade war, with a drop
Speaker 3: in export orders in April and the weakest production of
Speaker 3: the country's factories in.
Speaker 2: More than a year.
Speaker 1: A lot of the numbers look like the beginning of COVID,
Speaker 1: when China is starting to groan a bit wow. Speaking
Speaker 1: of which, did you see the statement China put out
Speaker 1: about how COVID started in the United States.
Speaker 2: We'll have to read that later. That was something.
Speaker 3: Oh, no, you're kidding there, you know, I wanted to
Speaker 3: bring this up. There is a great new book out.
Speaker 3: I think I can find the type quickly. That's not it,
Speaker 3: Actually there it is, Yeah, it's it is a book
Speaker 3: interestingly by two liberal Princeton professors, self described progressive academic
Speaker 3: and gay activist. And this other guy's work has been
Speaker 3: praised by liberal thinkers like Ezra Kline. But they wrote
Speaker 3: a book called in COVID's Wake, How our Politics Failed.
Speaker 1: Us, and it is scathing. It's like we and Sean
Speaker 1: Hannity teamed up to write a book. It is brutal,
Speaker 1: and I haven't brought it.
Speaker 3: Up just because I could go over and over the
Speaker 3: horrible mistakes and the lack or the vanishing of liberty
Speaker 3: that happened during COVID for the rest of my life.
Speaker 2: Be bored. I think it's that important.
Speaker 3: But yeah, they just hammered the Jesus out of it,
Speaker 3: and including the lab leak thing and how the lab
Speaker 3: leak theory was silenced, and it's just it's inexcusable.
Speaker 2: I'll read that statement from China later.
Speaker 1: It's galling finally economic note, price of eggs is down
Speaker 1: eighty percent. The Great egg Crisis is over. I've had
Speaker 1: seventeen eggs already today. Oh, Great egg crisis is over.
Speaker 1: Just you know, pop them like they's nothing. Walk around
Speaker 1: with a bag full of eggs, popping them in your
Speaker 1: mouth because they're they're cheap and easy again. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: has the bird flu been more or less corral?
Speaker 3: Speaking of dread disease, I don't know why the price
Speaker 3: of eggs sound big factor.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Let's just hope there's not some sort of toast pox
Speaker 1: that pops up.
Speaker 2: Next to ruin breakfast for all of us. You know.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, he'shost. We've got the mail bag on
Speaker 1: the way. We got to get into some more news
Speaker 1: of the day. The our military is going more high tech,
Speaker 1: I guess, to deal with the changing landscape of wars
Speaker 1: on the ground. We'll get to that story probably an
Speaker 1: hour or two. Lots of stuff on the way.
Speaker 2: Stay here.
Speaker 1: Washington Post has a inside look at some of Sean
Speaker 1: Combe's lifestyle. Is parties and everything like that, laying out
Speaker 1: in a way I'd never heard before. We'll have to
Speaker 1: get to that a little bit later. God, he is
Speaker 1: so much baby oil. Just what a degenerate lifestyle. What
Speaker 1: a horrible way to chase happiness. It's never regula, never
Speaker 1: worked for anybody in the history of the world.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, Wow.
Speaker 1: Here's your freedom loving quota of the day, sent along
Speaker 1: by Jerry. We've used this one more than once, but
Speaker 1: it's one of my all time favorites.
Speaker 3: From Alisa Zenovievin, now better known to the world of
Speaker 3: letters as ein Rand. When you realize that to produce
Speaker 3: you must obtain permission from those who produce nothing, When
Speaker 3: you see that money flows to those who deal, not
Speaker 3: in goods but in favors. When you notice that many
Speaker 3: become rich through bribery and influence rather than buy their work,
Speaker 3: and that the laws do not protect you from them,
Speaker 3: but instead they are protected from you.
Speaker 2: When you discover that corruption is rewarded.
Speaker 3: And honesty becomes a form of self sacrifice, then you
Speaker 3: can confidently say, without fear of being wrong, that your
Speaker 3: society is doomed.
Speaker 2: Ding ding ding.
Speaker 1: A little close to home there, Ian Baby, Yeah, Mailbag,
Speaker 1: she said that what in the nineteen thirties or forties.
Speaker 3: You can drop us a note anytime you like. Mailbag
Speaker 3: at Armstrong and Getty dot com. On the topic of
Speaker 3: the Wisconsin judge who is helping an illegal wife beater
Speaker 3: escape justice because she's so mad at ice or something,
Speaker 3: Adam Wrights, guys, let's cut that judge some slack. Maybe
Speaker 3: they help that violent illegal alien escape the domestic violence
Speaker 3: hearing and.
Speaker 2: Ice in a moment of panic.
Speaker 3: I mean, come on, we've all been trapped in a
Speaker 3: vestibule once and used any means to escape in a.
Speaker 2: Moment of panic.
Speaker 1: I was trying to escape a vestibule.
Speaker 3: That is one of my favorite tapes of all time.
Speaker 3: AOC told us it's even okay to pull a fire alarm.
Speaker 3: Good point, Adam Good callback.
Speaker 1: She was asking about whether she wants to run for
Speaker 1: president yesterday. We'll have the answer later. D.
Speaker 3: On the topic of the Harvard bigots, and more on
Speaker 3: that to come, the Harvard's own report is scathing.
Speaker 2: I've dug into it. Let's see, Sean writes.
Speaker 3: Maybe the Harvard Muslim students who reported like they could
Speaker 3: not speak freely, they were like, I'd like to say, hey, let's.
Speaker 1: Cool it with the Jews stuff, but I'm scared of
Speaker 1: all those crazy white chicks. That is a funny thought.
Speaker 1: The Muslim students are terrified of the woke white girls.
Speaker 2: Let's see.
Speaker 3: On the topic of whether some transient tampered with your tesla, Jack, Yeah,
Speaker 3: let's see this guy writes, if you didn't hear, I
Speaker 3: told the story on one more thing, brief story is
Speaker 3: some guys, some guy who's.
Speaker 2: Transient adjacent.
Speaker 1: I don't know why I allowed this, but he said,
Speaker 1: I parked my cyberbeast and he said, hey, I've never
Speaker 1: seen one of those before.
Speaker 2: Can I take a look inside?
Speaker 1: And I hesitated, and yeah, I would have been uncomfortable
Speaker 1: to say, no, I don't know, and he he stuck
Speaker 1: his head in there like weirdly far and low for
Speaker 1: too long a time.
Speaker 2: It was strange.
Speaker 1: And now my door makes a weird sound when I
Speaker 1: close it, and I don't know if he did something
Speaker 1: to my car or what.
Speaker 3: I just forwarded you an email to your personal account
Speaker 3: from a listener who said, not for air.
Speaker 2: You might want to take a gander it. Well, yeah
Speaker 2: I will.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's see it anyway. Is it a DP or
Speaker 1: is it related to this story? I'm sorry, a what now?
Speaker 1: A Richard pick? Or is it related to this story?
Speaker 3: No, you idiot, No, it's directly related to the story.
Speaker 2: Anyway, let's see.
Speaker 3: Sean writes, I think Jack was paranoid and describing that incident,
Speaker 3: but it's not like he.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Once reported some Italian caterers as Islamis terrorists to Homeland
Speaker 1: security in Las Vegas. I mean, if you'd done that,
Speaker 1: I'd question this judgment.
Speaker 2: That was Jean Baby.
Speaker 1: That was New Year's Eve two thousand and two, I
Speaker 1: mean one turning into two. Yeah, yeah, man, that is
Speaker 1: a throwback. Sean, Well, that's embarrassing in retrospect. Yea.
Speaker 2: So we were.
Speaker 3: Talking also yesterday about these AI apps that record every
Speaker 3: word you say for the purpose of giving you reminders
Speaker 3: and summaries of the things that you decided to do
Speaker 3: and accomplished.
Speaker 2: And blah blah blah. It's intriguing.
Speaker 3: My takeaway was, Yeah, let's give it a hear or too,
Speaker 3: and see how these things work out.
Speaker 2: But that's our topic.
Speaker 3: A couple of notes, this one from Michael and Washington
Speaker 3: State guys. I don't think i'd be a fan of
Speaker 3: the AI wristband voice recorder. Seems like a slippery slope
Speaker 3: and could be hacked and so on. But my Samsung
Speaker 3: phone has a new feature that records calls. It does
Speaker 3: make all parties aware of the recording. It's very useful
Speaker 3: when disputing financial charges with insurance, phone, utility, or other companies.
Speaker 3: Now I have the power to record the lies and
Speaker 3: false promises. Most everyone listening to your show has had
Speaker 3: a phone company or insurance company admit to making a
Speaker 3: mistake and promise to fix it, or just flat lie
Speaker 3: about an accurate account charge. Fast forward a month, you
Speaker 3: receive the same bill in the mail. Now you have
Speaker 3: to call the company back and get told we never
Speaker 3: said any of that. Blah blah, blah, Well that's over interesting.
Speaker 3: These sends them the voice recording and makes them fess up.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I love that idea.
Speaker 3: And if you're in a one party state, you don't
Speaker 3: even have to bother telling them, although if you're not
Speaker 3: hit them with the exact for purposes of quality.
Speaker 1: Control the phone, this good call will be recorded. We're
Speaker 1: trying to serve you not have evidence against you, right exactly.
Speaker 1: And on the similar topic, we mentioned that you could
Speaker 1: win an argument with your wife if you'd recorded the
Speaker 1: phone call. You never told me we had dinner Friday night.
Speaker 1: I told you when we are talking about the tennis turn.
Speaker 2: Then you go back.
Speaker 3: You got the whole tennis tournament, the conversation, you play
Speaker 3: it for not there. Well, Caleb was a thinking man rights.
Speaker 3: I don't think that recording device with aid from AI
Speaker 3: would change anything about a disagreement to what was said
Speaker 3: with the wife. Even if AI came back and confirmed
Speaker 3: nothing was said about subber with friends, for example, then.
Speaker 2: You and AI would be wrong, all right.
Speaker 1: I think what would be disturbing is finding out that
Speaker 1: you are regularly told stuff and completely forget it. I
Speaker 1: think that would be the outcome that would be highly disturbing.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, perhaps what do we have Michael one minute?
Speaker 3: This is this is distasteful and I'm I regret to
Speaker 3: even reading it, much less reading it to you. Mikey
Speaker 3: Loke writes recently on his podcast that no one listens
Speaker 3: to Governor Gave Newsom was comparing himself to Elon Musk
Speaker 3: by saying we.
Speaker 2: Were dog before doage existed.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, like he's been good for California music
Speaker 3: economy in the government. Rather than compare baring himself to Musky,
Speaker 3: should be comparing himself to Donald Junior because they both
Speaker 3: had Kim Gilfoyle.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, that's not a that's not modern thing to
Speaker 2: the discussion.
Speaker 1: That's no, no, Mikey, do better be better? Could sixty
Speaker 1: guys be a crocodile?
Speaker 2: Do we have that?
Speaker 1: We got a lot of that stuff I mentioned an
Speaker 1: hour too. If you don't get to get the podcast
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