WEBVTT - Your Beef Is Weak 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:06.160 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:10.880 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty arm Strong and 0:00:10.960 --> 0:00:23.960 Jettie and now he Armstrong and Jetty. So there are 0:00:24.760 --> 0:00:29.280 three or four books coming out this spring with the 0:00:29.320 --> 0:00:33.680 behind the scenes on the whole Joe Biden, he's senile 0:00:33.720 --> 0:00:35.319 and we're hiding at Kamala Harris thing. 0:00:35.479 --> 0:00:39.000 You probably that's right wing conspiracy theory, You lunatic. 0:00:39.360 --> 0:00:42.240 He's got a stutter. You probably remember that whole story. 0:00:42.240 --> 0:00:46.320 He's got a stutter. I'm right, And there's another one 0:00:46.880 --> 0:00:49.000 out in the Guided An Interview. We're gonna play some 0:00:49.040 --> 0:00:50.680 clips here in a second, but before we get to that, 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:55.720 this hasn't gotten much attention, I guess partially because what's 0:00:55.760 --> 0:00:58.680 the point now? But Miranda Devine, pointing out in the 0:00:58.720 --> 0:01:05.240 New York Poe New FBI chat logs, revealed the extraordinary 0:01:05.400 --> 0:01:08.920 gag order that senior leadership used to shut down the 0:01:09.000 --> 0:01:13.160 Hunter Biden laptop discussion. Oh yeah, and it's just you know, 0:01:13.280 --> 0:01:17.000 it's it's all in the history books now. But and 0:01:17.040 --> 0:01:19.200 then you know everybody always claims, well, that sort of 0:01:19.240 --> 0:01:20.040 thing couldn't happen. 0:01:20.080 --> 0:01:22.000 Now, Well, I was gonna say. That's why you pay 0:01:22.000 --> 0:01:25.120 attention to it. You've got to understand what the the 0:01:25.240 --> 0:01:28.600 dangers are and work to build systems that won't allow 0:01:28.680 --> 0:01:29.760 them to happen again. 0:01:30.440 --> 0:01:33.520 The conversation's withheld by the FBI under Director Chris Ray 0:01:33.560 --> 0:01:36.959 show that senior leadership issued an internal gag order on 0:01:37.000 --> 0:01:39.400 the laptop. Here's the key thing you need to know. 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:41.840 When everyone in the country should know, but only half 0:01:41.880 --> 0:01:47.360 the country knows. The FBI was in position of Hunter 0:01:47.440 --> 0:01:52.360 Biden's laptop for ten months before the story broke in 0:01:52.400 --> 0:01:56.040 the New York Post. They'd had it from the you know, 0:01:56.080 --> 0:01:58.840 the computer owner or whatever like that, and their analysts 0:01:59.200 --> 0:02:02.760 quickly to determined right after they got it that the 0:02:02.840 --> 0:02:05.880 laptop did belong to Hunter, had not been tampered with 0:02:05.920 --> 0:02:08.840 in anyway, and and could be used as evidence in court. 0:02:09.120 --> 0:02:11.519 It was the real deal. All that stuff was true. 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:14.400 Nobody had messed with it. It was They decided that 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:19.880 ten months before the story broke, and then was immediately 0:02:19.919 --> 0:02:23.000 turned into a this is a misinformation can't be printed, 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:25.280 you know the whole thing there. FBI kept their mouths shut. 0:02:25.360 --> 0:02:27.560 We're not gonna waste our time or our listener's time 0:02:27.560 --> 0:02:29.920 with this story. Yeah, I wish they'd told those fifty 0:02:29.960 --> 0:02:33.280 three whatever it was intelligence professionals that indeed it was legit. 0:02:34.040 --> 0:02:37.560 That's too bad and almost I don't know about certainly, 0:02:37.680 --> 0:02:40.200 but you can make a decent argument that Trump would 0:02:40.200 --> 0:02:43.280 have won if that story had been pursued the way 0:02:43.280 --> 0:02:44.160 it should have been pursued. 0:02:44.200 --> 0:02:47.800 Well, it's a change so massive in the landscape that, yeah, 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:49.440 you can't say that's not true. 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:53.720 And even if you hate Trump a lot, you can't 0:02:53.800 --> 0:02:57.960 be in favor of hiding the fact that the sitting 0:02:58.080 --> 0:03:02.520 president's son was all kinds of a crook and had 0:03:02.520 --> 0:03:05.000 all these business dealings with all these different companies and 0:03:05.040 --> 0:03:07.000 the money and it's all very confusing and it doesn't 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:10.800 look good. So the hiding that, you can't be in 0:03:10.840 --> 0:03:13.080 favor of that, even if you hate Trump, Right, we 0:03:13.080 --> 0:03:14.760 can't have that in a presidential election. 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:18.080 Yeah, the FBI ought to be restrained about releasing details 0:03:18.080 --> 0:03:22.680 of ongoing investigations, obviously, but so selective they leaked like 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:27.480 a sieve. If it was detrimental Trump, just unforgivable. 0:03:28.280 --> 0:03:32.040 Any who. So this is a guy named Jonathan Allen, 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:34.560 respected reporter, got a book out called Fight. He did 0:03:34.600 --> 0:03:37.240 an interview today on Fox and Friends about what he 0:03:37.320 --> 0:03:39.840 has learned or didn't know, or is telling us now 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:43.400 about the whole Biden Kannalla hairr selection thing. Here we go. 0:03:43.600 --> 0:03:46.240 You know, there's this incredible moment on the day that 0:03:46.320 --> 0:03:48.680 Joe Biden decides to get out of the race. He's 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:50.440 been getting all this pressure, and he calls her up 0:03:50.480 --> 0:03:53.480 and it's been reported, the very broad outlines were reported. 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:55.160 As he tells her he's getting out, she says, are 0:03:55.200 --> 0:03:57.720 you sure? He says yes, and that's it. There were 0:03:57.760 --> 0:03:59.920 actually two phone calls between them because she had to 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:03.600 beg Joe Biden to make a quick endorsement right as 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:06.040 soon as he gets out. She's got to get the delegates, 0:04:06.120 --> 0:04:07.960 she's got to get her whip operation, call all the 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:11.280 members of Congress, the governors, whatever. And Biden's like, I'm 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:14.280 getting out. I might endorse you like on Thursday, like 0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:16.400 a few days later. I want to take a victory 0:04:16.480 --> 0:04:19.680 lab but soak in my moment. And she's like, Joe, 0:04:19.680 --> 0:04:21.359 you have got to endorse me. And so they go 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:23.080 back and forth on this before Biden does it. 0:04:23.320 --> 0:04:26.000 If you remember the timeline of this, I mean from 0:04:26.360 --> 0:04:30.560 the debate until he finally stepped down. There are many 0:04:30.640 --> 0:04:34.640 days that she knew he is stepping down. Everybody knew 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:37.440 it was gonna happen, just when, so she wanted to 0:04:37.440 --> 0:04:38.919 be lined up for that. Let's roll on. 0:04:39.279 --> 0:04:42.080 Obama definitely did not think she should be the Democratic nominee. 0:04:42.120 --> 0:04:43.640 He would not endorse that day either. 0:04:43.680 --> 0:04:46.040 He would not endorse that day either. She talked to him. 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:48.279 He said to her, I don't want to put my 0:04:48.360 --> 0:04:52.200 thumb on the scale. She was disappointed, but not necessarily shocked, 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:54.719 because he's been behind the scenes trying to undermine her 0:04:54.960 --> 0:04:57.240 for the last several weeks before Biden even got out. 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:02.920 Funny, I'm torn because you could make the argument, Well, no, 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:07.400 they withheld the endorsement because they believed rightly that there 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:11.320 should be a vigorous, if short, primary process to let 0:05:11.360 --> 0:05:13.359 the strongest survive and become their candidate. 0:05:13.400 --> 0:05:15.599 They wouldn't have believed that it was Josh Shapiro that 0:05:15.640 --> 0:05:16.360 was the vice president. 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:16.440 No. 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:18.920 No, the reality is they withheld the endorsement because she's 0:05:18.960 --> 0:05:23.320 a half wit and has no talent, no political talent whatsoever. 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:28.159 Wow, So she knew Obama was working behind the scenes 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:31.359 to try to Yeah, she should probably get some credit 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:34.000 for organizing the way she did to manage to get 0:05:34.040 --> 0:05:34.720 the Uh. 0:05:34.839 --> 0:05:37.279 Oh, you know what, Yeah, she and her team I 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:40.320 stand corrected. They have that much political talent. They knew 0:05:40.320 --> 0:05:42.400 how to whip up support in a big hurry to 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:45.120 make it look like she had to be the nominee 0:05:45.400 --> 0:05:47.960 to avoid all the chaos. They did a good job 0:05:48.000 --> 0:05:50.640 of that. Yes, means a good job to the point 0:05:50.640 --> 0:05:56.760 that they like convinced their party that this dope should 0:05:56.800 --> 0:06:01.160 be the nominee. You know what, I stand seriously corrected. 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:02.760 You gotta tip your cap. 0:06:03.200 --> 0:06:05.120 Well, yes, so she's She and her people are good 0:06:05.120 --> 0:06:08.960 at this, which book was after the one of these 0:06:09.000 --> 0:06:11.440 sort of tell all books came out by real reporters 0:06:11.520 --> 0:06:15.480 after the twenty twenty election pointing out what a great 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:19.359 job she did of knifing When it was when Biden 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:22.200 was trying to decide who to be his running mate, 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:27.400 anybody's name popped up, she had an operation in plan 0:06:27.680 --> 0:06:30.440 to get them knifed in the public press, get a 0:06:30.480 --> 0:06:32.520 story out about him, a negative story that would just 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:37.680 you know, ruin their chances. Yeah, and she was able 0:06:37.760 --> 0:06:40.400 to and Biden at that time. I guess his brain 0:06:40.560 --> 0:06:42.880 still worked enough, having been in DC his whole life. 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:45.080 He knew that's what was going on. So if somebody's 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:47.599 name popped, got floated and then they got shut down, 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:49.839 he knew Kamala Harris was working behind the scenes, and 0:06:49.839 --> 0:06:52.359 that's what he liked about her. He thought, Okay, she understands, 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:54.479 you know, how this whole game works. But how has 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:59.880 she got that talent but nothing else? Or maybe she 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:03.080 people with that talent and she can't she has nothing herself. 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:05.719 I don't know. Let's hear a little more from this reporter. 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:09.440 Yeah, he needed a fluorescent tape on the Florida Show 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:13.240 where to Go. He needed telepropters to talk to small groups, 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:16.400 small donor groups. He would put on makeup early in 0:07:16.400 --> 0:07:19.000 the morning to do cabinet meetings and then sometimes do 0:07:19.040 --> 0:07:23.080 the makeup and not do the meetings right. So they 0:07:23.080 --> 0:07:25.040 all knew that there was a level of decline. I 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:28.480 think there were varying appreciations for that. We talked to 0:07:29.560 --> 0:07:32.080 one person who said it was particularly steep in early 0:07:32.120 --> 0:07:36.480 twenty twenty four. But they were doing risk mitigation. How 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:39.680 do we make it less likely that Joe Biden falls 0:07:39.680 --> 0:07:43.360 apart in front of the world. And look, if you 0:07:43.480 --> 0:07:46.520 like the train wreck of what happened on the Democratic 0:07:46.600 --> 0:07:49.080 side with all these cars piling up and all these 0:07:49.080 --> 0:07:51.800 political leaders at odds with each other and being wrong 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:52.880 about a lot of things. 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:57.200 This book's for you. So when I originally heard that 0:07:57.200 --> 0:08:00.160 he put on makeup to look less old, well, everybody 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:01.760 on TV does that. But if he was doing that 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:03.680 to go into his cabinet meetings for like, for the 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:06.840 other people in the room, yeah, that's a slightly different thing. Well, 0:08:06.880 --> 0:08:10.960 and I saw him on TV plenty and it didn't work. No, 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:13.440 maybe he looked less old than he would have, but 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:15.920 he looked like a man in the very final stages 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:18.080 of life. How about they put on the makeup and 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:22.040 then he doesn't go to the cabinet meeting because somebody realizes, yes, 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:25.120 isn't the day media, He can't go be around people today? 0:08:25.280 --> 0:08:28.200 Right, Yeah, Jonathan Allen didn't mention that. But there's a 0:08:28.240 --> 0:08:29.120 real day to day. 0:08:29.400 --> 0:08:30.680 What kind of day is it going to be if 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:34.559 anybody's dealt with the tragedy of you know, mental deterioration 0:08:34.679 --> 0:08:36.319 with age, I think we got one more. 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:39.160 Yeah, it's sort of this amazing talent that Trump has 0:08:39.320 --> 0:08:43.160 for being in the moment and also seeing it from outside, 0:08:43.280 --> 0:08:45.640 sort of being a stage manager, if you will, and 0:08:45.720 --> 0:08:48.240 he's watching Joe Biden fall a party, seeing these answers 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:51.360 go terribly. I think people will remember that moment where 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:53.719 Trump says, I don't know what he just said, and 0:08:53.760 --> 0:08:56.719 I don't think he does either. It's sympathetic, I mean 0:08:56.760 --> 0:09:00.000 for Trump with an opponent on stage, you know, typically 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:03.120 he's not particularly sympathetic, but in this case, he's looking 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:05.880 at Biden. He's like, this looks harrow and he starts 0:09:05.880 --> 0:09:08.840 thinking to himself, how do I keep hitting this guy 0:09:09.320 --> 0:09:11.880 without looking like a jerk because the media is going 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:14.880 to talk about how I went off the rails, and 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:17.120 I need to just kind of keep it in and 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:19.559 not not look like a jerk, not come off poorly. 0:09:19.640 --> 0:09:21.839 And so he reins it in. But that's what's going on, 0:09:22.120 --> 0:09:24.760 according to our sources, in Trump's mind as he's on 0:09:24.800 --> 0:09:25.960 the stage with Joe Biden. 0:09:26.000 --> 0:09:29.480 Wow, that's really interesting. And he played that well because 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:35.280 if you remember when one of the Castro Brothers yelled 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:38.040 at Trump during a debate, all right, Biden. 0:09:38.160 --> 0:09:41.000 Appropriately named communist Castro Brothers. 0:09:41.040 --> 0:09:43.559 Yes, he yelled at Biden during a Democratic debate. So 0:09:43.559 --> 0:09:45.920 did you forgot already, you forget already, and he just 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:49.559 he came off as an a hole, right. Yeah. Trump 0:09:49.760 --> 0:09:52.240 let it hang out there and didn't because he could 0:09:52.280 --> 0:09:53.920 have jumped in and said that sort of thing. Look 0:09:53.960 --> 0:09:56.760 at him, he's senile, he's a mess. He just let it. 0:09:56.800 --> 0:10:00.520 He knew because he understands TV and media. He knew 0:10:00.720 --> 0:10:03.160 all the damage was being done right there next to him. 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:05.839 He didn't need to do that. Yeah, that is pretty 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:10.320 well played. Yeah. Oh wow, Well, Gollie G. Turns out 0:10:10.360 --> 0:10:12.640 everything we were saying was exactly correct at the time. 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:16.520 Soon anyway, has there ever been a more exciting couple 0:10:16.520 --> 0:10:22.360 of weeks since I don't know, Ford Theater in the 0:10:22.720 --> 0:10:26.360 United States politics? Because all that happened so fast, the convention, 0:10:26.640 --> 0:10:29.320 Trump being shot, the debate and all that sort of 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:30.559 stuff was just, oh my god. 0:10:30.679 --> 0:10:33.760 And now, speaking of exciting weeks, we have giant changes 0:10:33.800 --> 0:10:36.079 in trade policy, for instance, the tariff thing. We will 0:10:36.120 --> 0:10:39.040 get back into that in a few moments. First, though, 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:42.560 you've been delightful in eating your vegetables, so we've got 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:46.280 dessert next segment. Do you have the original Clipmichael that 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:47.520 we talked about, Go ahead and hit that. 0:10:47.960 --> 0:10:50.920 I'm just curious just to better understand your ruling. If 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:55.959 someone on this committee then starts talking about somebody's bleach blind, 0:10:56.120 --> 0:10:59.840 bad built bush body, that would not be engaging in personalities. 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:06.959 What now, Chairman, I make a motion. We'll go ahead. 0:11:07.000 --> 0:11:08.760 We'll leave it there for now. We'll play the whole 0:11:08.800 --> 0:11:11.360 thing coming back. Well, evidently somebody has made a song 0:11:11.360 --> 0:11:11.760 out of them. 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:13.800 Of course they have. I think this a required by 0:11:13.800 --> 0:11:16.160 the constitution. So we've got that on the way. Stay here. 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:22.560 Armstrong Wakefield High is a guinea pig of sorts. Students 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:25.560 are expected to store their phones in this magnetic locking 0:11:25.679 --> 0:11:29.720 pouch throughout the day. At first there was resistance. 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:33.360 People were putting dents and holes in the wall, like 0:11:33.760 --> 0:11:36.760 there are tables we had to get fixed. 0:11:36.520 --> 0:11:38.880 Right after we got them. When I walked into the cafeteria, 0:11:38.920 --> 0:11:41.719 all you hear is like the like it's sounded like gunshots. 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:45.600 Greg Cabana, a government teacher at Wakefield, noticed it too. 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:48.960 The fact that they're banging pouches around the cafeteria trying 0:11:49.000 --> 0:11:51.679 to unlock their phone. This is proving our point right 0:11:51.720 --> 0:11:54.480 here of how meaningful and how powerful that phone is. 0:11:55.320 --> 0:11:59.920 There are different versions of no phones in schools, I've noticed, 0:12:00.480 --> 0:12:02.679 and it makes a difference. I want it to happen 0:12:02.720 --> 0:12:06.040 at any school my kid ever goes to. But some 0:12:06.120 --> 0:12:08.240 of them it's no phone in the classroom. You can 0:12:08.280 --> 0:12:11.280 still like look at it in between classes over lunch hour. 0:12:11.360 --> 0:12:13.840 I like this. You put it in a some sort 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:15.800 of lock box the beginning of school and you don't 0:12:15.800 --> 0:12:17.080 see it again to the end of the day. 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:19.760 So that was the early reaction of the policy. They 0:12:19.800 --> 0:12:23.760 were trying desperately to get them out. But what happened next. 0:12:23.640 --> 0:12:26.080 Student care in Mine says it's led to a new 0:12:26.240 --> 0:12:27.960 kind of engagement. 0:12:27.880 --> 0:12:29.960 Even just like at lunch you like talk to each other, 0:12:29.960 --> 0:12:31.920 you know, like people bring games to class. 0:12:32.120 --> 0:12:34.640 You never experienced that kind of engagement. Well, it was 0:12:34.679 --> 0:12:37.480 just like and maybe not since kindergarten, maybe not since preschool. 0:12:37.679 --> 0:12:40.679 When the students and teachers here say, less isolation has 0:12:40.760 --> 0:12:42.920 meant less interpersonal conflict. 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:45.559 There were a lot less fights. I haven't seen any 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:46.080 of this year. 0:12:46.600 --> 0:12:49.840 The movement to restrict cell phones in classrooms is growing, 0:12:50.000 --> 0:12:53.280 with nine states having already passed a ban or restricted 0:12:53.280 --> 0:12:54.640 cell phone use in schools. 0:12:55.040 --> 0:12:57.480 Do it everywhere immediately? Yeah, there's a difference between the 0:12:57.520 --> 0:12:59.520 restriction and the band though. I want the ban I 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:01.160 want the you lock it up when you get there 0:13:01.200 --> 0:13:03.000 and you won't see it again until the end. Because 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:05.920 that lunch hour thing. I don't doubt that a bit. 0:13:05.960 --> 0:13:08.960 And the fights aside, even without that, I don't doubt that. 0:13:09.360 --> 0:13:14.600 Day one. It's obviously different. Yes, with the kids interacting, 0:13:14.679 --> 0:13:17.719 it hurts my heart to hear them. And kids were 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:21.520 talking and playing games. Yeah, we all freaking did for 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:24.400 all of human history. Oh back when we had fun, 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:26.079 and even if you were a little down, you wouldn't 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:31.599 contemplate suicide anyway. Oh yeah, I know, I know. Technology 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:34.960 is a double edged sword. Anyway. 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:37.640 We can talk about that all day. I feel strongly 0:13:37.679 --> 0:13:40.040 about it, but let's move on. I would love to 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:45.079 play the entire verbal battle between Jasmine Crockett and Marjorie 0:13:45.120 --> 0:13:47.240 Taylor Green a year or two ago, whatever it was 0:13:48.760 --> 0:13:51.920 during a house hearing. It was one of the most 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:57.600 entertaining Miao miow Congressional cat fights in American history. 0:13:57.640 --> 0:13:59.000 Here's a little bit of it. 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:02.400 I'm just is just to better understand your ruling. If 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:07.480 someone on this committee then starts talking about somebody's bleach blonde, 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:11.360 bad built, butsh body, that would not be engaging in personalities. 0:14:11.400 --> 0:14:12.840 Correct, what now. 0:14:14.840 --> 0:14:17.679 Chairman, I make I make a motion to strike those 0:14:18.160 --> 0:14:21.520 I don't think that's all trying to find clarification on 0:14:21.640 --> 0:14:23.200 what qual emotion. 0:14:24.440 --> 0:14:24.680 Said. 0:14:25.240 --> 0:14:27.040 We're not gonna We're not gonna do this like you 0:14:27.080 --> 0:14:28.240 guys earlier. 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:29.240 Literally just you. 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:38.200 Just remember an MTG said something about he probably is 0:14:38.240 --> 0:14:41.520 you can't see through your false eyelashes or something. 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:43.680 And that's good stuff. That's good stuff. 0:14:43.760 --> 0:14:46.960 Anyway, here's an artist by the name of King Wallonius, 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:49.280 and there is a twist coming up, but first dig 0:14:49.360 --> 0:15:15.000 his soulful sounds. 0:15:24.640 --> 0:15:31.640 I find this depression. Don't don't play with me. Why 0:15:31.640 --> 0:15:35.280 didn't you explain why you find it depressing? Because it's Ai. 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:39.840 It's AI, that's right. Barry Gordy is considered one of 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:42.800 the great musical geniuses of all time for coming up 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:45.280 with that kind of music and recording it. Apparently you 0:15:45.280 --> 0:15:47.720 can just tell AI to do it, because that is 0:15:47.920 --> 0:15:48.600 really good. 0:15:48.720 --> 0:15:53.440 And Aretha Franklin slash a young Tina Turner maybe were 0:15:53.560 --> 0:15:57.040 once in a generation talents in a computer just essentially 0:15:57.800 --> 0:16:03.800 made them again. Oh singing that song and Supremes the 0:16:03.880 --> 0:16:08.480 background singers there. Uh yeah, that's that's just weird man. 0:16:09.160 --> 0:16:11.960 So what I'm interesting because our producer Hanson was talking 0:16:11.960 --> 0:16:16.040 about this guy does it? So what is his talent? 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:18.840 Because I don't understand this. I haven't messed around with 0:16:18.880 --> 0:16:23.840 AI enough. What is Does he have a marketable talent 0:16:23.960 --> 0:16:26.480 for being able to put together AI music? Well? Could 0:16:26.480 --> 0:16:27.400 anybody do it? Yeah? 0:16:27.400 --> 0:16:30.880 That's we were momentarily confused because Hanson's like, in guessquad, 0:16:30.880 --> 0:16:33.640 it's AI. I've got a link to the artist who 0:16:33.800 --> 0:16:35.880 produced it, and I'm like, wait, which one is it? 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:38.960 This guy, evidently, and this is based on the little 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:42.840 I know about it, is skilled enough in manipulating the 0:16:42.920 --> 0:16:49.200 prompts to, through various iterations, perfect the idea he has 0:16:49.200 --> 0:16:51.520 in his head of what the song ought to sound like. 0:16:51.840 --> 0:16:54.000 I wonder if it'd be like, make it a little 0:16:54.040 --> 0:16:56.920 more like young Tina Turner, No, no, no, a little 0:16:56.920 --> 0:16:58.520 more it would it be like that? Yeah? 0:16:58.680 --> 0:17:03.240 Yeah, a little arethau and then you know, equing it 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:06.480 and doing the things music producers do. But yeah, well 0:17:06.560 --> 0:17:09.080 wouldn't It'd be great when we're freed up by AI 0:17:09.160 --> 0:17:10.840 to never have to create any more art. 0:17:11.760 --> 0:17:16.000 That's good? What Armstrong and Getty? 0:17:17.440 --> 0:17:20.840 The President announced that baseline ten percent tariff on all 0:17:21.040 --> 0:17:25.159 US imports effective April fifth, and then nations that the 0:17:25.160 --> 0:17:29.359 President considers to be bad actors are facing additional duties. China, 0:17:29.400 --> 0:17:32.520 for instance, gets a total of fifty four percent, Vietnam 0:17:32.600 --> 0:17:36.000 forty six percent, thirty two percent for Taiwan, twenty four 0:17:36.040 --> 0:17:39.840 percent for Japan, and the EU was hit with twenty percent. 0:17:39.920 --> 0:17:42.960 The baseline ten goes into effect on Friday, while about 0:17:43.000 --> 0:17:46.000 sixty countries facing those higher reciprocal tariffs will see those 0:17:46.040 --> 0:17:49.159 rates going to effect April ninth at twelve oh one am. 0:17:49.200 --> 0:17:55.000 Sixty countries deemed bad actors. You're a bad actor, pushing 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:59.400 the US overall weighted average tariff among the sixty countries 0:17:59.400 --> 0:18:02.000 to twenty five four percent. That's the highest and over 0:18:02.080 --> 0:18:05.600 one hundred years, and likely headed to hiss high as 0:18:05.680 --> 0:18:09.680 twenty seven percent once more expected moves are made. 0:18:09.800 --> 0:18:14.919 And it is literally those numbers you threw around half 0:18:15.280 --> 0:18:19.359 of what those other countries charge our manufacturer not mentioned enough. 0:18:20.640 --> 0:18:21.960 Why isn't that mentioned more often? 0:18:22.600 --> 0:18:26.680 Because it absolutely undermines the Trump is an idiot narrative 0:18:26.840 --> 0:18:28.439 or Trump is a maniac. Well, I just think it 0:18:28.440 --> 0:18:30.879 makes it way more interesting, so I agree completely. I 0:18:30.880 --> 0:18:33.320 didn't know Europe was hitting us with dang near fifty 0:18:33.320 --> 0:18:36.240 percent tariff on everything all these years, and so when 0:18:36.280 --> 0:18:39.240 we raise it to half that it's a trade war. 0:18:39.640 --> 0:18:42.480 I honestly, I mean, I'm not advocating a position. I 0:18:42.480 --> 0:18:44.800 don't know enough about this topic to advocate a position. 0:18:45.000 --> 0:18:48.359 I just don't understand as a novice, why Europe hitting 0:18:48.400 --> 0:18:51.000 us with almost fifty percent tariffs and then US coming 0:18:51.040 --> 0:18:52.639 back with twenty or whatever. 0:18:52.359 --> 0:18:57.000 It is is a trade war as opposed to I 0:18:57.000 --> 0:19:01.760 don't know it. It's not. A German economic minister just 0:19:01.800 --> 0:19:05.240 said Trump will quote buckle under pressure if Europe hits 0:19:05.280 --> 0:19:08.600 back at tariffs. You've already hit us with tariffs like 0:19:08.720 --> 0:19:12.320 high tariffs. Yeah, you've been hitting us with fifty, We're 0:19:12.320 --> 0:19:15.680 gonna hit you with twenty. You're gonna you're gonna lash 0:19:15.720 --> 0:19:20.040 back at us and punish us for that. I I 0:19:20.080 --> 0:19:24.879 hate what this is doing to my savings and investments. 0:19:24.960 --> 0:19:26.520 I haven't looked at I haven't I should go to 0:19:26.520 --> 0:19:28.040 four oh one k dot com and see what it 0:19:28.080 --> 0:19:28.480 is today. 0:19:28.520 --> 0:19:30.920 And I'm a tad concerned about how this plays out 0:19:30.960 --> 0:19:32.919 in the medium term. And honestly, even if Trump is 0:19:32.920 --> 0:19:35.679 one hundred percent right about everything. That doesn't mean it 0:19:35.760 --> 0:19:39.000 is going to work out the way he says it's 0:19:39.040 --> 0:19:42.720 going to not clear if he has enough time, and 0:19:43.000 --> 0:19:45.120 and like like so many things. 0:19:44.960 --> 0:19:48.600 Why you need that third term? Right, Like so many things. 0:19:48.640 --> 0:19:51.480 The fact that it's executive orders as opposed to congressional 0:19:51.600 --> 0:19:56.080 you know laws, Uh, it means that it could be 0:19:56.119 --> 0:19:58.359 reversed pretty quickly and easily by the next guy to 0:19:58.400 --> 0:20:03.800 come along or gal theoretically. So having said that, though 0:20:04.240 --> 0:20:06.720 I hear the arguments in favor of what he's doing, 0:20:06.760 --> 0:20:09.040 and I find them much much, much more persuasive than 0:20:09.080 --> 0:20:13.560 the arguments against. At this point, we are getting hammered 0:20:13.760 --> 0:20:18.360 with unfair tariffs, have been since WW two is over 0:20:18.480 --> 0:20:22.080 for good enough reasons. We had to get the world's 0:20:22.119 --> 0:20:24.560 economies back on their feet. Otherwise we would have had 0:20:24.560 --> 0:20:29.040 nobody to sell our stuff to. But my question would 0:20:29.040 --> 0:20:31.199 be when was when is that supposed to go on forever? 0:20:32.480 --> 0:20:32.600 Well? 0:20:32.680 --> 0:20:35.720 Right, yeah, exactly, That's that's where I am too. Now 0:20:35.760 --> 0:20:39.080 that I've seen the actual numbers, let me click over 0:20:39.160 --> 0:20:43.480 to them. Your opinion, Union on average charges US thirty 0:20:43.520 --> 0:20:46.240 nine percent we'll call it forty percent in tariffs on 0:20:46.400 --> 0:20:50.600 US goods now, The new Trump's trade war punitive tariffs 0:20:50.600 --> 0:20:54.840 is twenty percent half that Vietnam hits us with ninety 0:20:54.880 --> 0:20:57.560 percent tariffs. We're saying, okay, we're hitting you with forty 0:20:57.600 --> 0:21:01.040 six percent. Taiwan, our good buddy, hit with sixty four 0:21:01.080 --> 0:21:05.480 percent tariffs. They depend on us, so I said before, 0:21:05.600 --> 0:21:09.200 to keep shesen Ping from nude sunbathing on their beach 0:21:09.320 --> 0:21:10.240 with the Red Army. 0:21:11.680 --> 0:21:13.280 Were it not for us, he'd be doing that. 0:21:13.359 --> 0:21:16.840 Today they hit us with sixty four Trump said, okay, fine, 0:21:16.840 --> 0:21:20.000 We're gonna hit you with thirty two. That's the trade war. 0:21:22.400 --> 0:21:27.439 Is it disruptive? Oh hell yeah. Is it shaking up 0:21:27.440 --> 0:21:29.600 all of Wall Street's expectations and plans? 0:21:30.080 --> 0:21:31.920 Oh yeah. 0:21:32.040 --> 0:21:34.760 Are people getting out of stocks at least temporarily because 0:21:34.760 --> 0:21:36.280 they're betting on them going down? 0:21:36.400 --> 0:21:36.600 Yep? 0:21:37.680 --> 0:21:39.800