Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong and
Speaker 1: Joie and he.
Speaker 2: Arms You get it. Have you been watching the four
Speaker 2: X markets? The four X markets? You haven't been watching
Speaker 2: the four x markets? You should be live from Studio C.
Speaker 2: He dimly let room beg with in the bowels of
Speaker 2: the Armstrong in any communications compound, they were under the tube.
Speaker 2: Ledge of not talking about tariffs, that's our general manager.
Speaker 2: Our general manager is the concept of not talking about tariffs.
Speaker 2: As I immediately launch into just the tiniest bit of
Speaker 2: talk to explain why we're not going to talk about Terrek.
Speaker 2: I was just reading this thing about from some supposed
Speaker 2: expert about the four X markets. It's all capitals FORI
Speaker 2: ex a phrase, I've are a word the term I
Speaker 2: guess it's an acronym I've never seen before in my life.
Speaker 2: And how you need to understand those markets. And I mean,
Speaker 2: I knew this weeks ago. I've known this my whole life.
Speaker 2: I don't know much about this stuff. And just because
Speaker 2: it's the number one story in the world right now,
Speaker 2: I've decided, you know, I'm not going to try to
Speaker 2: get my AA degree in this by reading up on it.
Speaker 2: It'll come and go as a story. I'll repeat things
Speaker 2: that other smart people say and you can sort it
Speaker 2: out on your own or whatever. It's not my area
Speaker 2: of expertise or interest for that matter, but I became
Speaker 2: aware of reading a couple of things today from smart people.
Speaker 2: It's just it's so incredibly flipp and complicated. I gotta
Speaker 2: believe the massed, the mass amount of people you hear
Speaker 2: commenting on this don't know what they're talking about. That's
Speaker 2: got to be the case anyway.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: The other one thing that is worth mentioning that happened overnight. Oh,
Speaker 2: Joe's at the Master's Golf Tournament, which is the biggest
Speaker 2: golf tournament of the year. If you're not into golf,
Speaker 2: it's a really really big deal, very very hard ticket
Speaker 2: to get. He's there today only, but he's uh, he's
Speaker 2: going to call in later, we think overnight. So Uh,
Speaker 2: Trump announced yesterday, no made a miss. People are reporting
Speaker 2: this wrong. Are tariffs on China are not one hundred
Speaker 2: and twenty five percent, They're one hundred and forty five
Speaker 2: percent or forty eight percent or whatever. It is, but
Speaker 2: it's much higher. It's a lot, very very high. So
Speaker 2: everything going into China, are coming in from China has
Speaker 2: a one hundred and forty five percent tariff on it,
Speaker 2: close to that. So China announced overnight while you were asleep,
Speaker 2: everything going into their country from the United States now
Speaker 2: has a one hundred and twenty five percent tariff on it.
Speaker 2: So it is. It was already, but it is now
Speaker 2: a full blown trade war between the two biggest economies
Speaker 2: that have ever existed on playing earth full board trade war.
Speaker 2: The analysis beyond that, I'm not capable of doing it.
Speaker 2: I'm not smart enough, but it should be exciting to
Speaker 2: watch and see what things start to cost to come
Speaker 2: in from China. That is the end of my commentary
Speaker 2: on the trade war. Spilled coffee all over myself driving
Speaker 2: to work today, and I've yet to find a travel
Speaker 2: mug sort of thing that I can drink out of successfully.
Speaker 2: I just can't.
Speaker 4: So, I mean, there are quite a few of them.
Speaker 2: The lids on most of them are built in such
Speaker 2: a way that you have to tilt your head back
Speaker 2: to be able to get the liquid to come out,
Speaker 2: and then you're staring up in the air and you
Speaker 2: can't see the road if I drink out of a
Speaker 2: regular cup, which is what I've always done, and Joe
Speaker 2: has always said, why don't you have some sort of
Speaker 2: travel mug with the lid. I just drink out of
Speaker 2: a regular coffee cup because you can just tilt it
Speaker 2: a little bit to drink. Okay, see look here, I'll
Speaker 2: show you. See this lid only flips up this far. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so it's against my nose already. Okay, so you can't
Speaker 2: get any liquid to come out. It's almost vertical. Still.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm problematic. I see that.
Speaker 2: So to get liquid to come on, I've got to
Speaker 2: get tilted at least this far. Uh.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that doesn't work, in which case I'm staring straight
Speaker 3: up in the air. Have you considered a straw hot coffee?
Speaker 2: But maybe this is an official Starbucks mug too, and
Speaker 2: it wasn't cheap thirty bucks.
Speaker 4: This is this is quite the conundrum.
Speaker 2: Thirty bucks thirty bucks. Yeah, because it's just Starbucks on it.
Speaker 4: I'm disappointed in you.
Speaker 2: I'm disappointed in me on a daily basis. The other
Speaker 2: thing I wanted to talk about is a corporate training
Speaker 2: that we all have to take. Because I spent a
Speaker 2: good hour and a half yes day on some corporate training.
Speaker 2: And I know every corporation does that. It is not
Speaker 2: a complaint about my corporation that employs me, and I'm
Speaker 2: very happy about it and the wage we agreed on
Speaker 2: and everything. I have no complaints about that. I know
Speaker 2: every corporation does this, so this is not unique. But
Speaker 2: everybody I know also complains about it. And this is
Speaker 2: the sort of thing I wish Doge could get rid of.
Speaker 2: How many man hours are wasted every quarter or every
Speaker 2: year on training for your various industry that, from what
Speaker 2: I hear from y'all, is the same as it is
Speaker 2: with ours. It's completely worthless. I mean, there's no there's
Speaker 2: no real anything to it. I've always assumed it's just
Speaker 2: it's a way to get straight with the lawyers, so
Speaker 2: that if suddenly does sexually harass somebody or steal office
Speaker 2: equipment or whatever, you can't come back and say, well,
Speaker 2: I didn't know and sue the corporation. The corporation can say, yes,
Speaker 2: we trained you in this, and you signed a little
Speaker 2: certificate that says you were trained in it.
Speaker 3: I don't understand the tactic of turning power points with
Speaker 3: words that I can read into a video that I
Speaker 3: have to sit through as the words scroll by, and
Speaker 3: I listen to someone else read them to me.
Speaker 2: I wonder, man, ours aren't as long as the governments.
Speaker 2: I have a friend who works in almost of the
Speaker 2: agency I shouldn't in one of the government agencies, and
Speaker 2: there's a really long I wonder if lawyers said, no,
Speaker 2: it's got to be at least forty minutes long for
Speaker 2: courts to believe that you trained them. I wonder if
Speaker 2: there's something like that, because it does seem, yeah, like
Speaker 2: they go out of their way to drag it out
Speaker 2: something you could read in ten minutes. They talk very
Speaker 2: very slowly to make it last longer. Yes. Yeah, back
Speaker 2: in the day, some of them you could actually fast
Speaker 2: forward that. Not that I ever did that, but right,
Speaker 2: you wouldn't do that, Oh, of course, not because he's conscientious. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's right. Early days of doing these online, you can
Speaker 2: just click to the end. Now you got to let
Speaker 2: them roll in real time. And I assume everybody does
Speaker 2: them the same way I do. You Press play, you
Speaker 2: go do your laundry, you come back. Okay, that one's
Speaker 2: that made it to the end. Press play again, come back,
Speaker 2: later until you're done. And everybody does that, and everybody
Speaker 2: knows everybody does that, including the bosses at every company.
Speaker 2: So what are we doing.
Speaker 3: It's got to be legal, I know it is, but
Speaker 3: even so it's a joke.
Speaker 2: It's just it makes me angry on that level. It's
Speaker 2: not the time it takes. I've hated this since I
Speaker 2: was a kid. I don't like pretending. I don't like
Speaker 2: everybody lying to themselves. It's like an orwell thing. I
Speaker 2: just I don't like us all sitting around and pretending
Speaker 2: this isn't silly. It makes me nuts. And everybody knows it's.
Speaker 5: Ridiculous, and your boss knows it's ridiculous, and your boss's
Speaker 5: boss knows it's ridiculous, and yet we all do it
Speaker 5: in every corporation. I don't know how many times you
Speaker 5: have to do it per year, with all the training
Speaker 5: hours and hours of it.
Speaker 2: It makes me crazy. This is the sort of thing
Speaker 2: dods should be able to get rid of. You know,
Speaker 2: they tally up every March madness. They say four point
Speaker 2: three billion dollars worth of productivity will be lost this
Speaker 2: year as people fill out their brackets at work. How
Speaker 2: many billions of dollars are productivity are lost from these
Speaker 2: training things that accomplish nothing. Actually, there are studies that
Speaker 2: show that after sexual harassment training, sexual harassment goes up.
Speaker 2: There have been multiple studies show that. I don't quite
Speaker 2: understand why that would be, because it's like a how too,
Speaker 2: you're looking hot because you can't say, oh, that's bad.
Speaker 2: You see you guys say that and you think that's
Speaker 2: a pretty good line. Is that what happens? I don't
Speaker 2: quite understand.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I haven't tried that one yet.
Speaker 2: Our main training in our industry first month, So I'm
Speaker 2: sure this is true in whatever industry you are. It's
Speaker 2: so like anachronistic or antiquated or whatever about things that
Speaker 2: used to be true years ago or or never occurreding
Speaker 2: Like luckily, Michael, Katie and I have been trained recently
Speaker 2: this week not to go down to a dock and
Speaker 2: bribe a dock worker as they unload a boat, which
Speaker 2: I was really considering doing. Yeah, I was very close
Speaker 2: until I saw that video and then I went, oh,
Speaker 2: I can't do that. I'm not supposed to go down
Speaker 2: to the dock where they unload giant containerships, bribe dock
Speaker 2: workers and bring stuff to the radio stay.
Speaker 4: I had to come up with something else. It's just awful.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not complaining about my company. I'm happy with
Speaker 2: my company. I just sang. Every corporation in America does this,
Speaker 2: and it's a waste of time and money. Yes, Michael,
Speaker 2: if bosses are listening, I find him joyful and I
Speaker 2: really enjoy this stuff. You wish there were more? Yeah,
Speaker 2: I do. Yes, it's hilarious. I mean it's It would
Speaker 2: be hilarious if it didn't take up so much time.
Speaker 2: Oh my god. Anyway, if you have those, let me
Speaker 2: know what you get trained in in your industry and
Speaker 2: how stupid they are on the text line four one
Speaker 2: five two nine five KFTC. Let's start the show officially.
Speaker 2: We got some good guests today. Whenever Joe's going, I
Speaker 2: line up some guests, and we got some good I've
Speaker 2: been wanting to talk to Mikelines for a long time
Speaker 2: because this is a bunch of military stuff going on.
Speaker 2: We haven't talked to him in weeks. I can't wait
Speaker 2: to do that official start of the show. I'm Jack Armstrong,
Speaker 2: He's Joe Getty on this It is Friday, April the eleventh.
Speaker 2: Here twenty twenty five. We are Armstrong and Geeddy and
Speaker 2: we approve of this program. Let's begin the show. Heading
Speaker 2: into the weekend at Mark.
Speaker 6: Texas is investigating Kellogg's over his healthy products containing artificial
Speaker 6: flavors and dies. Come on, please, you should know it's
Speaker 6: not healthy when they have to spell fruit with two o's.
Speaker 2: I mean, give me a smile. You're going to miss
Speaker 2: the dies when they're gone. Maybe they're all killing us.
Speaker 2: Maybe the dyes are giving us cancer and they should go.
Speaker 2: But you get rid of the dies, and everything's just
Speaker 2: kind of a gray or a brown, not appetizing. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't think people are going to enjoy that. What
Speaker 2: color would a pop tart be in its natural form
Speaker 2: and all the ingredients so that it'd be some sort
Speaker 2: of gray sludge instead of a brown crust. I think
Speaker 2: same with your fruit loops. Some of the other guests,
Speaker 2: we were going to talk to somebody about this giant
Speaker 2: legislation bill that they're trying to get through. Possibly some
Speaker 2: of this terrorist stuff is to hide the fact that
Speaker 2: they're trying to renew the Trump tax cuts, which is
Speaker 2: a really really big deal for everybody who pays taxes
Speaker 2: and for the economy and the Democrats hate it. I
Speaker 2: paid my tax bill yesterday for the year, wrote the
Speaker 2: biggest check I've ever written in my life. And I
Speaker 2: just gotta love taxes. Gotta love them. And then when
Speaker 2: you come to work and talk about all the ways
Speaker 2: that they waste your taxes.
Speaker 3: MMMM.
Speaker 2: Makes it even more enjoyable when you find out that
Speaker 2: big chunk of money that you spent is being used unwisely.
Speaker 2: M Doesn't that feel good? Warms your warms and cockles
Speaker 2: your heart. Anyway, We've got a lot of good stuff
Speaker 2: on the way text with those corporate trainings that you
Speaker 2: do please, and we've got clips of the week coming up. Also,
Speaker 2: Katie's headlines all the way stay with us. Just from
Speaker 2: the Seattle Times. Rii's new CEO has apologized for his
Speaker 2: endorsement of President Trump's Secretary of the Interior. Wow, God
Speaker 2: of world do we live in? Well? ARII is a
Speaker 2: pretty uh hippie dippy store. I really like it, But
Speaker 2: they couldn't handle Trump's Secretary of Interior. Whoever the heck?
Speaker 2: That is? All right, let's find out what the headlines
Speaker 2: are with Katy Green.
Speaker 3: All right, Well, this is the top story everywhere, but
Speaker 3: from USA Today. Tech company ceo among six killed in
Speaker 3: New York City helicopter crash.
Speaker 2: Well, part of the reason, it's the top stories that
Speaker 2: happened in New York, So things that happen in New
Speaker 2: York always end up being the top story. It's a
Speaker 2: terrible story, but it has no greater significance to anyone's life.
Speaker 4: The video is awful.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the picture I mean, I've had. I've taken pictures
Speaker 2: like that with my brothers and my parents when we
Speaker 2: were kids, and with my family. The family picture they
Speaker 2: take for you right before you get on the helicopter
Speaker 2: trip and then there are a few minutes later they
Speaker 2: were dead. What a horrible, horrible deal. The road just
Speaker 2: broke off you. That's the end of that.
Speaker 4: Yeah. From the Associated Press.
Speaker 3: US stocks dive as euphoria on Wall Street reverts to
Speaker 3: fear about US China trade war.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I'm gonna read a little thing from a Wall
Speaker 2: Street Journal's editorial board about that.
Speaker 3: Coming up From CNN, Supreme Court says Trump administration must
Speaker 3: quote facilitate release of man wrongly deported to L.
Speaker 4: Salvador prison.
Speaker 2: That's a heck of a deal. To their credit, the
Speaker 2: Trump people announced that they had made a mistake. Once
Speaker 2: they figured it out, they didn't claim that they didn't.
Speaker 2: But now the Supreme Court is saying it's on them
Speaker 2: to try to figure out how to get the guy back.
Speaker 2: So is the guy currently in that horrible prison, that's
Speaker 2: one of the worst prisons on earth. Good God, he
Speaker 2: wouldn't want to be there in there for an hour,
Speaker 2: let alone weeks. No, geez, he's gonna and you know
Speaker 2: when he comes back, Oh, he will be on sixty
Speaker 2: minutes or the you know, George Stephanopolis will have him
Speaker 2: on ABC this week, or he'll be everywhere.
Speaker 4: Meet the press.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he'll be Yeah, he'll be all over the place,
Speaker 2: just to make Trump look horrible with his whole deportation
Speaker 2: day From.
Speaker 3: The New York Times, Trump envoy arrives in Russia, seeking
Speaker 3: to rekindle Ukraine.
Speaker 2: War talks, which are nowhere.
Speaker 4: From the Guardian.
Speaker 3: Law eight olymp adds swimming and sprints to mixed gender categories,
Speaker 3: so they're gonna instead of having men's and women's and
Speaker 3: because of this whole trans thing now they're just saying, oh,
Speaker 3: you guys all do it together, not.
Speaker 2: All of them. They'll still have the men's one one
Speaker 2: hundred meter, but they're also have a mixed version.
Speaker 4: They're going to have a mixed gender version.
Speaker 2: With the same participants or different participants.
Speaker 3: I they didn't get into all that detail. They were
Speaker 3: just talking about the events themselves.
Speaker 2: Wow. Unless they go out of their way to rig
Speaker 2: it is, aren't the dudes just gonna dominate that?
Speaker 4: You'd think like they usually would?
Speaker 2: Yeah, like they do? Yeah, right, you know, in case
Speaker 2: you're not aware of this, like the best high school
Speaker 2: boys can beat the best women in the world Olympic records.
Speaker 2: It's just just a fact. I didn't know the Olympics
Speaker 2: were in LA in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 4: That's kind of yeah.
Speaker 3: This one from the Athletic MLB Insider says the billion
Speaker 3: dollar ballplayer could arrive by twenty thirty.
Speaker 2: Billion dollar contract. Wow.
Speaker 4: This one from California Globe.
Speaker 3: Former VP Kamala Harris consults with Hillary Clinton on possible
Speaker 3: governor run in twenty twenty six. She's also meeting with
Speaker 3: Biden and Butt Edge Edge.
Speaker 2: Why would you meet with Joe Biden about anything? I
Speaker 2: would think she would know better. I mean, I can
Speaker 2: understand her meet with Hillary and other people, But as
Speaker 2: she tries to decide whether she wants to run for
Speaker 2: governor in California. Basically, her thinking is, probably, is it
Speaker 2: one while I win, will I be embarrassed? Well, I
Speaker 2: absolutely embarrassed. The embarrassed and the embarrassment would come in
Speaker 2: not getting the nomination. I think other Democrats run in
Speaker 2: Californians think, yeah, you're You're ridiculous. New York Times had
Speaker 2: some pretty scathing stuff about her yesterday and how Democrats
Speaker 2: around the country don't want her around. They don't think
Speaker 2: she helps. She walks out on the stage with.
Speaker 4: You from page six.
Speaker 3: Jack Nicholson offered his home to ex wife during La Fires.
Speaker 4: Quote heartbreaking, Lee.
Speaker 2: Sweet, that was nice.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's one of my favorite actors of all time.
Speaker 3: This one from the New York Post.
Speaker 4: This sketchy drink.
Speaker 3: Order immediately puts every bartender on high alert. Quote scanning
Speaker 3: for the nearest security guard.
Speaker 2: What drink is it? Well, I yes, sir, No, I
Speaker 2: don't have a guess.
Speaker 4: The Long Island iced tea.
Speaker 2: Oh, because it's got so much booze in it.
Speaker 3: They say, people drinking those are looking to black out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I was aware of that back when
Speaker 2: I used drink if I was with somebody who's drinking
Speaker 2: Long Island iced teas, I realize you are going to
Speaker 2: get wasted.
Speaker 4: Yeah, red flag.
Speaker 3: And finally, the Babylon Bee protesters remain unaffected by Trump's
Speaker 3: shower deregulation.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I want to talk about that. That gets a
Speaker 2: lot of joking. But don't be messing with our water pressure,
Speaker 2: you nanny staters. And that's so red. That's what the
Speaker 2: founding fathers had in mind, is the federal government deciding
Speaker 2: how much water pressure you should have in your shower. Okay,
Speaker 2: we got clips of the week coming up in a
Speaker 2: lot more armstrong and getty. Thank you to the texture
Speaker 2: that had the same drinking coffee problem out of a
Speaker 2: mug I had and suggested, the yetti coffee mug is
Speaker 2: the best. The way you'd turn it to the side,
Speaker 2: you'd have to tip it up so much. There you go.
Speaker 2: That might be my answer today. Those are expensive, though.
Speaker 4: Not more expensive than your Starbucks got thirty.
Speaker 2: Bucks probably not mm got this text. I don't know
Speaker 2: if I agree with them, but it's a decent point.
Speaker 2: I would gladly stay in an El Salvador in prison
Speaker 2: for three weeks to earn the payout that he's gonna
Speaker 2: get from this lawsuit. I hadn't thought about that. It
Speaker 2: could be epic apic. He's he could be the one
Speaker 2: of the bigger payouts ever. Yeah, I don't know. It
Speaker 2: could be pretty awful. And that is Salvador in prison
Speaker 2: if you get out alive. But yeah, he is gonna
Speaker 2: get a ton of money. I hadn't even thought about that.
Speaker 2: And the interview circuit, Oh my god, get ready for that.
Speaker 2: We got a whole bunch of great texts about your
Speaker 2: corporate training that are both humorous and interesting. Got Wall
Speaker 2: Street Journal editorial board weighing in on the tariffs, maybe
Speaker 2: one aspect of it you hadn't thought of before, and
Speaker 2: a bunch of good stuff to get to some great
Speaker 2: guests today. But first we need to take a fond
Speaker 2: look back at the week that was. We call it
Speaker 2: cow Its clips up the week.
Speaker 1: The Silent Riot has begun talk.
Speaker 7: Which and that's it. Connecticut is back off top.
Speaker 2: Short. Here's the doctor KICKSI puts it up a forty.
Speaker 8: Five for topics biotech company Colossal Bioscience. It says it
Speaker 8: brought the extinct dire wolf back to life, a species
Speaker 8: that hasn't walked the earth since the Stone Age. May
Speaker 8: it please the Court, I come here today a humble
Speaker 8: proceeds for a panel of five distinguished justice.
Speaker 4: Is this hold On?
Speaker 2: Is that counsel for the case? And that ELAW's a
Speaker 2: car manufacturer. But he's not a car manufacturer, He's a
Speaker 2: car assembler.
Speaker 3: Elon Musk calling President Trump's top trade advisor dumber than
Speaker 3: a sack of bricks.
Speaker 2: We do picking cut we are. You can't pay us
Speaker 2: enough to file a plantation.
Speaker 7: On Saturday, protesters took to the streets in the city,
Speaker 7: all across the country's picking out against the Trump administration's moves.
Speaker 4: The silent riot has begun.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4: I'm telling you.
Speaker 9: These countries are calling us up, kissing my ass.
Speaker 2: There's no postponing. They are definitely stay in place. But
Speaker 2: now it's our turn to do the ripping. The s
Speaker 2: and P five hundred losing more than five trillion dollars
Speaker 2: in value in just two days.
Speaker 4: Whose throat do I get to choke if this proves
Speaker 4: to be wrong.
Speaker 2: I know what the hell I'm doing. I know what
Speaker 2: I'm doing, and you know what I'm doing too.
Speaker 3: The President announces he's putting a ninety day pause on.
Speaker 2: Most of his tariff. It's the bond market. Those markets
Speaker 2: weren't imploding last night.
Speaker 9: Well, I thought that people were jumping a little bit
Speaker 9: out of line.
Speaker 2: They were getting yippie. You know, the bond market right
Speaker 2: now is beautiful.
Speaker 3: Any of you in the media clearly missed the art
Speaker 3: of the deal.
Speaker 2: This was his strategy. Spacing off and daydreaming is incredibly
Speaker 2: important as a sleep. Hope you are well or all no?
Speaker 2: On the Oh wow, we had to relive that moment.
Speaker 2: Joe called that do you have the short version of
Speaker 2: that handy the Joe called that the worst moment in
Speaker 2: thirty years of working together.
Speaker 3: Hope you are well or all no? On the something
Speaker 3: you were trying to say, Narwals.
Speaker 2: Something happened with my mouth. I don't remember what I
Speaker 2: was trying to say.
Speaker 4: You're trying to say the word alternative.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but for whatever reason, man, my tongue like swoll
Speaker 2: to twice its normal size immediately, like I got stung
Speaker 2: by a bee or something.
Speaker 4: Are well or all no?
Speaker 8: On the.
Speaker 4: You know the we're here laughing at you?
Speaker 3: And then the amountic concern that came in on like
Speaker 3: Facebook and Twitter, like is Jack is Jack okay, you know,
Speaker 3: you know all the signs of like a you know.
Speaker 4: A medical emergency. I'm like, right, thank, he's fine.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: Remember years ago that woman that started talking really funny
Speaker 2: like that she was having a stroke on camera and
Speaker 2: I was not. But it is a little disturbing. I mean,
Speaker 2: when you when you talk for a living for whatever reason,
Speaker 2: if you're born with a brain that that doesn't happen
Speaker 2: very often. It's disturbing if it happens, because you know,
Speaker 2: some people can't do that, like if you're a if
Speaker 2: you're a you know, if I as a politician running
Speaker 2: for all, if you're in a debate presidential debate and
Speaker 2: you do what I did right there? Play that again.
Speaker 2: I hope you are well or all now on the
Speaker 2: men that happen with Joe Biden, right, but I mean
Speaker 2: that would get put to music and they'd be talking
Speaker 2: about it on Jimmy Kimmel. I hope you are well
Speaker 2: or all? No, all, my god, it almost hurts for
Speaker 2: me to hear it because I can like feel my
Speaker 2: mouth just oh that was rough.
Speaker 4: Well, it was funny.
Speaker 3: Was Michael following you into the newsroom asking if you
Speaker 3: wanted him to drive you home.
Speaker 2: I was just concerned. Oh wow, yeah, I heard about
Speaker 2: that yesterday from a few people. I'm okay, I think,
Speaker 2: and although I've never done that before, if it happens
Speaker 2: again today, I'll probably have to go see a doctor
Speaker 2: of some sort. I hate to get into this on
Speaker 2: a Friday, but I want to bring this up. Just see,
Speaker 2: have your eyeballs out for it, and you can text,
Speaker 2: emailert I was about to say, call, we haven't taken
Speaker 2: a call in years. Text or email next week if
Speaker 2: you come across this. So the Wall Street Journal pointing
Speaker 2: out this is their editorial board. What investors know is
Speaker 2: that the trade war China announced overnight they're up in
Speaker 2: They're tariffs on American goods coming into one hundred and
Speaker 2: twenty five percent. Now, so you know you're not paying that.
Speaker 2: But if that causes all kinds of buyers in China
Speaker 2: to think, well, I'm not going to buy the American
Speaker 2: good anymore. I'll buy the same version from somewhere else,
Speaker 2: then our companies are selling a lot stuff, so that
Speaker 2: less stuff, so that will have an effect. Also. Anyway,
Speaker 2: let me just read this. I keep interrupting myself. What
Speaker 2: investors know is that the trade wars far from over,
Speaker 2: and damage persists even with the ninety day pause. The
Speaker 2: tariffs that continue are the largest tax increase in the
Speaker 2: United States since nineteen eighty two. They're bigger than Bill
Speaker 2: Clinton's ninety three tax increase and George HW Bush's nineteen
Speaker 2: ninety tax increase. Taxes are antigrowth. The Wall Street Journal
Speaker 2: is saying what a lot of people say is that
Speaker 2: tariffs are taxes in effect, because when you say there
Speaker 2: is a tariff of x percent on things coming from
Speaker 2: a country, the company involved that has to pay this
Speaker 2: tariff passes it along to the consumer because you have
Speaker 2: no choice because you're already operating as leanly as you
Speaker 2: possibly can if you've got any competition. So a good
Speaker 2: chunk of it is going to be paid by us.
Speaker 2: So the reason I wanted to throw that out there is,
Speaker 2: you know, when when will you I start seeing these
Speaker 2: things showing up in products that we buy, Like you
Speaker 2: go to Amazon and pick something out and say, WHOA,
Speaker 2: I don't remember that costing that much. Remember what inflation
Speaker 2: was like every time you went to the grocery store
Speaker 2: or McDonald's or whatever, and you go, WHOA, that's how
Speaker 2: much is that going to start happening again here in
Speaker 2: the next couple of weeks with everything from China every
Speaker 2: time you go to Walmart or whatever. I I I
Speaker 2: hope not. And if it does, what is that going
Speaker 2: to do to Are people willing to hang with it?
Speaker 2: Maybe we have the clip. I don't know if I
Speaker 2: can find it quickly. It's blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: Is him Hanson? What did he call the whole thing?
Speaker 2: It wasn't growing pains, but it was a it was
Speaker 2: a term sort of like that that we're going to
Speaker 2: have to go through over the next couple of weeks.
Speaker 2: I'll find it plane. But he had a term for
Speaker 2: what we're gonna, what we're gonna, what this is, what
Speaker 2: this period is going to be like. So we think
Speaker 2: we're in very good shape. We think we're doing very
Speaker 2: well again.
Speaker 9: There'll be a transition cost, transition cost and transition problems,
Speaker 9: but in the end it's going to be it's going
Speaker 9: to be a beautiful thing. We're doing again what we
Speaker 9: should have done many years ago. We'll let it get
Speaker 9: out of control, and we allowed some countries to get
Speaker 9: very big and very rich at our expense.
Speaker 2: And I'm not gonna can't let that happen, can't.
Speaker 9: It's not a sustainable formula.
Speaker 2: Uh, transition costs, that's what he's calling the extra what
Speaker 2: we'll all be paying for a while, with the theory
Speaker 2: being his theory being that China is gonna come around,
Speaker 2: They're going to stop screwing what this the way they have,
Speaker 2: and then everything will go back to the way it
Speaker 2: was and we'll have won the battle. Wall Street Journal
Speaker 2: editorial board getting back to that quickly says, by far,
Speaker 2: the biggest problem in the global trading system is the
Speaker 2: abuse of free trade rules by the authoritarian regime in China.
Speaker 2: Mister Trump's scattershot tariff policy won't solve that problem so far.
Speaker 2: He's hurting his own cause in country more than he's
Speaker 2: hurting Chinese Communist Party. Well, I hope they're wrong and
Speaker 2: Trump is right. Since this is the world that we
Speaker 2: live in. We'll all go through this together and we'll
Speaker 2: see if this transition phase gets us to a better
Speaker 2: place and we all think it was worth it or not.
Speaker 2: And I think it will be pretty obvious to everyone
Speaker 2: which of those outcomes we get here. And I don't
Speaker 2: know if this will take week, month, weeks, months or years.
Speaker 2: It's not gonna take years, probably more like weeks or
Speaker 2: months anyway. Corporate training seems to be a thing for
Speaker 2: a lot of y'all. Some of these examples are hilarious.
Speaker 2: They're all more or less stupid in a waste of time.
Speaker 2: So we'll get to some of that coming up, and
Speaker 2: some great guests an hour too. Hope you can stick
Speaker 2: around today. Well, listen to this.
Speaker 6: Trump just signs an executive to make America's showers great
Speaker 6: again with more powerful shower heads that no longer restrict
Speaker 6: water flow. Yeah, the goodness is more powerful shower heads.
Speaker 2: Around the way. Bad news. They're home made in China.
Speaker 2: So I mean, that's just that we can't win. I
Speaker 2: don't mind the joke, but I don't understand why people
Speaker 2: mock Trump for wanting to do away with that. The
Speaker 2: federal government shouldn't be involved in how much water pressure
Speaker 2: you have in your shower head. That's insane. Why do
Speaker 2: you think that's funny that he wants to get rid
Speaker 2: of those restrictions?
Speaker 3: He should that they mocks They mock it because it
Speaker 3: is Trump. That's the only reason this was Biden.
Speaker 2: They'd be like, oh, yeah, there's plenty of people think
Speaker 2: the federal government should be involved under every aspect of
Speaker 2: your life all the time because they know better. But
Speaker 2: it's so crazy anyway, I don't want to get a
Speaker 2: hung up on that. I started the hour by talking
Speaker 2: about the corporate training I had to do yesterday, once
Speaker 2: again reiterating I love my company, h and I realize
Speaker 2: this is something you have to do. All kinds of
Speaker 2: speaking of federal laws and ridiculousness that they make companies do.
Speaker 2: Every company does it, so I's just thrown it out
Speaker 2: there to those of you who also have to do
Speaker 2: corporate training. That is a complete waste of time and productivity.
Speaker 2: And everyone knows it at every level. That's why it
Speaker 2: makes me insane that goes on. The employee knows it,
Speaker 2: your boss knows it, your boss's boss knows it. Yet
Speaker 2: we all do it makes me crazy. Anyway, We got
Speaker 2: a bunch of texts. I work in radiology in a hospital.
Speaker 2: I have to take a basic radiation safety thing every
Speaker 2: year just in case I forgot everything I was taught
Speaker 2: in college, and use every single day. The module is
Speaker 2: the equivalent of telling an orthopedic surgeon that humans have bones.
Speaker 2: Grocery store employees have it the worst, redundant, long, silly
Speaker 2: training programs that last at least an hour. Every industry
Speaker 2: thinks theirs are the worst. I'm sure yours are bad,
Speaker 2: just like ours are. They're a complete waste of time
Speaker 2: and money, and everybody knows it, and yet we keep
Speaker 2: doing them. A few days ago, our schoo district made
Speaker 2: us spend thirty minutes at a faculty meeting watching a
Speaker 2: video about the dangers of on the job indoor heat
Speaker 2: exposure for teachers. I learned that when you're hot and thirsty,
Speaker 2: you should drink some water. Yeah, but again, it's to
Speaker 2: get the lawyers off your back, because if you got
Speaker 2: woozy from being thirsty and fell and hit your head,
Speaker 2: you could go in front of a jury full of
Speaker 2: idiots and make the claim that I didn't know I
Speaker 2: was supposed to drink. The school never told me. And
Speaker 2: the school has to pay you, you know, five million dollars,
Speaker 2: and so they have these kinds of trainings. That's what
Speaker 2: drives it all. We've got to find our way out
Speaker 2: of this. I'm a technician in a small shop for
Speaker 2: a large corporation. I love this one. My manager actually
Speaker 2: takes all the mandatory training for all of us so
Speaker 2: that we don't lose actual production time. So the manager
Speaker 2: probably sits at a computer and just keeps placking, clicking
Speaker 2: play play, play play play on everybody's training, so it
Speaker 2: will show up as having taken because he understands what
Speaker 2: a complete waste of time it is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but at the end of the day, you're still
Speaker 3: losing productivity because he's sitting there doing that.
Speaker 2: True. I don't like this one. I hope this doesn't
Speaker 2: come to us soon. I work for the City of
Speaker 2: San Francisco. The mandatory videos we get now after each
Speaker 2: segment ask you questions that if you miss just one,
Speaker 2: you have to start the segment over because on our
Speaker 2: all I did it again on all our tests, like
Speaker 2: if you get fifty percent, you pass. Yeah. So I mean,
Speaker 2: I just guess. I don't listen to any of it.
Speaker 2: I don't read it. I've never listened to or read
Speaker 2: any of the training. I guess on all the multiple
Speaker 2: choice questions, and I've always passed.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I work for a large municipal water district. Yes, the
Speaker 2: corporate trainings can be extremely ridiculous. But really gets me
Speaker 2: is by company, they always start off with the reminder
Speaker 2: of the group that words can be weapons and the
Speaker 2: interest of equity, be mindful of using patriarchal terms, gender neutral,
Speaker 2: et cetera, et cetera. The speech is always used even
Speaker 2: when the subject matter isn't controversial in any way. It's
Speaker 2: my numbingly idiotic and usually causes eye rolls and laughter
Speaker 2: among the attendees. A large municipal water district and they
Speaker 2: start their training with remember not to use patriarchal terms.
Speaker 2: What the hell. I'm in low level data entry that
Speaker 2: never travels, but I had to know how to not
Speaker 2: mess with experiency reports or bribe people overseas. That's hilarious.
Speaker 2: I like this one my corporate training. I work for
Speaker 2: a Japanese manufacturer. I'm in the heating and air conditioning division,
Speaker 2: but I have to take all the training about not
Speaker 2: selling weapons to terrorists in foreign countries. It's hilarious.
Speaker 4: I can see how I can get, you know, mixed
Speaker 4: in there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because that's what I was talking about earlier, and
Speaker 2: how we have to be trained every year to not
Speaker 2: go down to the dock as they unload cargo ships
Speaker 2: from other countries and pay off dock workers or something.
Speaker 2: Hu And then you have to check. I understand not
Speaker 2: to bribe dock workers, I promise. How does this happen
Speaker 2: in every industry in the country. God, that's funny. How
Speaker 2: much time I got, Michael depends on how you keep eating? Yeah,
Speaker 2: good point. Yet two and a half do I do?
Speaker 2: I want to get to this story and not. I'm
Speaker 2: afraid it's going to sidetrack me. I just came across
Speaker 2: this and I find it astounding. This is from the
Speaker 2: New York Times. You'd think it was the New York
Speaker 2: Post or some sort of rag that says stuff like
Speaker 2: this is from the New York Times. The person who
Speaker 2: died and boarded an R train subway at around eight pm.
Speaker 2: According to law enforcement officials with knowledge of the matter,
Speaker 2: it was unclear on Thursday win or how the person died,
Speaker 2: So somebody got on the subway eight in the evening
Speaker 2: and died. A man entered the same train car around
Speaker 2: eleven at the White How South Ferry station. According to
Speaker 2: the official, within forty five minutes, the man saw the
Speaker 2: dead man and began to rummage through his pockets. Okay,
Speaker 2: so you go over to a guy that appears to
Speaker 2: be passed out or dead and you start rummaging through
Speaker 2: his pockets, that's one thing. The man then began to
Speaker 2: have sex with the body, according to officials and documents. Okay.
Speaker 2: The episode occurred as New York City subways have become
Speaker 2: a subject of national debate, with the Trump administration's Transportation
Speaker 2: secretary pointing them out as examples of poor governance. They
Speaker 2: have been on the site of several high profile random
Speaker 2: attacks that have shocked the city, but crime dropped the
Speaker 2: record blows in the first three months of the year,
Speaker 2: they say. But anyway, as Byron new York The Washington
Speaker 2: Examiner points out, sounds like the New York Times is
Speaker 2: against subway necrophilia. How in the world are there enough
Speaker 2: people willing to have sex with a corpse? Not only that,
Speaker 2: you gotta be in the mood immediately and willing to
Speaker 2: do it in public that if you come across a
Speaker 2: dead body first, here's my chance.
Speaker 4: I've been waiting for this my whole life found one, right.
Speaker 2: How crazy is that? That is?
Speaker 4: Ah?
Speaker 2: Is that? What percentage of people that get on subways
Speaker 2: want to have sex with a dead body? That's what
Speaker 2: I would like to know. Thank you, Michael. Oh my god,
Speaker 2: what a horrible story. There are more details of that
Speaker 2: I'll have to get to later. We got some great
Speaker 2: guests an hour two that I look forward to talking
Speaker 2: to about a bunch of important stuff, and they know
Speaker 2: more about it than I do. If you miss a
Speaker 2: segment of this show ever or an hour, you can
Speaker 2: get the podcast. Subscribe to Armstrong and Getty on demand.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty