Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and jettiet and now he Armstrong and Jetty. We
Speaker 2: can probably retouch on the big Binance story. A word
Speaker 2: that I'm not sure I'd ever heard in my life,
Speaker 2: or if I had, it didn't register with me. It's
Speaker 2: a big deal, the Binance story. Wall Street Journal exclusive.
Speaker 2: Not only is Iran getting plenty of money through Binance allegedly,
Speaker 2: but also might factor into the Trump family getting money.
Speaker 2: So not those two things aren't connected, Like that wasn't
Speaker 2: on purpose? But or are they? Probably not? Speaking of Israel,
Speaker 2: I want to do this a little bit later, inside
Speaker 2: Israel's high tech campaign to track down and kill every
Speaker 2: last person who took part in the October seventh attack.
Speaker 2: If you're old enough, you remember they've done this a
Speaker 2: couple of times. For instance the seventy two Olympics, when
Speaker 2: a bunch of their athletes were murdered by radical Muslim
Speaker 2: nut jobs. Israel spent decades hunting down everybody involved with
Speaker 2: that and taking them out, including some people that weren't
Speaker 2: involved with it by accident. But they don't mess around. Yeah, boy,
Speaker 2: I saw that October seventhiece and who. I also read
Speaker 2: part of the documentation of the sexual violence that happened
Speaker 2: on October seventh to twenty three, and I do at
Speaker 2: least want to touch on that, and how the animal Hamas,
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, some of the most horrible things I've
Speaker 2: ever read in my life, and how the Hamas friendly
Speaker 2: New York Times at least Nicholas Christoff, that's his name,
Speaker 2: Nicholas right two days before the report came out, concocts
Speaker 2: this ridiculous Yeah. Israeli's regularly rape people in prison, including
Speaker 2: trained rape dog's story to cloud the water. So everybody's thinking, God,
Speaker 2: everybody's accusing you, everybody of rape. I don't know what
Speaker 2: to think. It's obvious that that's what they were doing.
Speaker 2: Is utterly despicable. That's uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: It is uncomfortable. A quick question speaking of money, not
Speaker 1: binance and not trillions of dollars. So as a plan
Speaker 1: in a golf tournament, nice weeaking. And I was staying
Speaker 1: with my friend Parski not his real name, nickname, and
Speaker 1: he had this unbelievable coffee machine. And Jack, I know
Speaker 1: you're a coffee fhreak. But then so, oh my god,
Speaker 1: this coffee is so good. It's just a cut above
Speaker 1: anything I've ever had at my home, and I really
Speaker 1: am lusting for it. It's expensive, It's like take a
Speaker 1: deep breath expensive, right, But I know I love it.
Speaker 1: But I couldn't pull a trigger because I thought, no, Joseph,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you about me. You want to know about me.
Speaker 1: I can be decisive in the face of danger, fear,
Speaker 1: and uncertainty.
Speaker 2: Danger, fear, and uncertainly. All three of those are bad
Speaker 2: at oh please two of them. I lafe at all three.
Speaker 2: I guess still I write through it.
Speaker 1: But the downside of that is occasionally decisiveness turns into hastiness.
Speaker 2: I am, I have been.
Speaker 1: You have been guilty of being a tad hasty once
Speaker 1: or twice in my life. So I thought, all right,
Speaker 1: I know I love this machine. I know it functions great.
Speaker 1: He's had it for five years, it's been problem free,
Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah blah. But shouldn't I like look
Speaker 1: at a bunch of different competitors and read reviews I
Speaker 1: benefits and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: I ascually, Actually, I was like the first time I
Speaker 2: ever really used chatbots, you know, in this price range.
Speaker 2: Give me the best four and the upsides and the
Speaker 2: downsides and blah blah blah. That's right, that's what I'm
Speaker 2: gonna do. You can justify the price. You don't drink
Speaker 2: coffee out, so it doesn't work for you. But for
Speaker 2: anybody like me who occasionally fairly regularly would get a
Speaker 2: Starbucks or stop at a coffee shop or whatever, if
Speaker 2: you stop doing that and do it at home, it
Speaker 2: pays for itself fairly quickly. Sure, yeah, yeah, but I
Speaker 2: make coffee at home now with this machine, and I haven't.
Speaker 2: The really cool people don't have automatic coffee machines. You
Speaker 2: go through all the work, you tamp it down and
Speaker 2: you do the thing, and you may I have a
Speaker 2: job exactly. You do it manually, and it's very very cool.
Speaker 2: And oh, there are endless videos about this way, if
Speaker 2: you want to go onto YouTube, endless people that are
Speaker 2: so good with the reviews and really quite entertaining. Actually, AnyWho,
Speaker 2: I got an automatic machine, but you pour the beans
Speaker 2: in the top and it grinds the beans and then
Speaker 2: it makes the I do an espresso shot every in
Speaker 2: the morning and then in the afternoon and almost every
Speaker 2: single day I say, God, this is good. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's not just okay, it's just this is fantastic. And
Speaker 2: part of it is because I don't drink anymore, so
Speaker 2: I don't have anything like that. I can't try new
Speaker 2: wines or beers or anything.
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, okay, thanks for that excellent consumer advice.
Speaker 2: That's all I will do. I was at any point though,
Speaker 2: what did I do this for?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, I will like drink it every single
Speaker 1: day of my life. So all right, It's not like
Speaker 1: I've decided I'm going to be a surfer and I,
Speaker 1: you know, spend five thousand dollars on a surfboard and
Speaker 1: I try it once and hate it.
Speaker 2: You know, it's not one of those make it to
Speaker 2: becoming a free solo climber. I'm gonna need a lot
Speaker 2: of gear, not one of those.
Speaker 1: So I think you know this that the world, the
Speaker 1: face of warfare is changing very very rapidly, and we,
Speaker 1: the greatest superpower on Earth, are trying, I think bravely.
Speaker 1: It's one of the things I think Pete Heath is
Speaker 1: doing very very well is getting rid of the hide bound, stubborn,
Speaker 1: slow pentagon culture. Trying to anyway, so we can adapt
Speaker 1: to technology a lot more quickly and wads.
Speaker 2: That's the great piece. Pete Heggsath from Saturday Night Live impersonation.
Speaker 1: Ah uh yeah, Pete's well, I won't get into that
Speaker 1: tangent because it's less interesting than this.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Walter Russell me to freakqu he writes for the Wall
Speaker 1: Street journalis and editor at large. I think they call
Speaker 1: him really smart, interesting wise guy got some years on him.
Speaker 1: I love reading stuff. But he just spent a bunch
Speaker 1: of time in Ukraine, and it's reporting on all the
Speaker 1: aspects of the war, including how there has been fatigue
Speaker 1: and discouragement, but there ain't really now. In fact, you
Speaker 1: have kids enlisting to operate drones and stuff like that,
Speaker 1: and they really feel like they're on the front foot
Speaker 1: and they're going to keep their country, and there's patriotism
Speaker 1: and they're cleaning out the last of the kleptocrat class
Speaker 1: that they inherited from the Soviet Union. They're really really
Speaker 1: positive things happening, which I thought was cool. But he's
Speaker 1: talking about I'm just going to read a little bit
Speaker 1: of it.
Speaker 2: First.
Speaker 1: The nature of war has changed and is changing much
Speaker 1: faster and more radically than most observers and most of
Speaker 1: the world's militaries yet understand. Rifles, mortars, and tanks appear
Speaker 1: to be going the way of sword fights and cavalry charges.
Speaker 1: Evacuating the wounded from the ever expanding drone infested gray
Speaker 1: zone that separates opposing armies can take weeks, in some
Speaker 1: cases up to two months. It's because teams have drone
Speaker 1: and unmanned ground to vehicle operators must struggle to maneuver
Speaker 1: coffin shaped evacuation platforms against swarms of hostile drones on
Speaker 1: a winding path through the war zone.
Speaker 2: I had a warm one. I don't think you were here.
Speaker 2: I think I was talking about this when you weren't
Speaker 2: here on Thursday. Did you see the video. There's lots
Speaker 2: of videos out there like this, but it was a
Speaker 2: video of a couple of Russians being chased by the drones.
Speaker 2: I just saw a series of those videos. Oh my god,
Speaker 2: that sound, I'll bet if in warfare in the future,
Speaker 2: that's gonna be the sound of Holy s. I'm gonna die.
Speaker 2: Because they were out in a field and it was
Speaker 2: nice and quiet, and then you hear that and they're
Speaker 2: all like, why right, other they say things in Russia
Speaker 2: and they start running as fast as they can, and
Speaker 2: it just gets lighter. More of these drones catch up
Speaker 2: to them in a holy crap.
Speaker 1: Why I saw a series of them that were discovering
Speaker 1: Russian barracks and Heidi holes and going into buildings and
Speaker 1: guys running behind rubble and the drone just pulls up
Speaker 1: to him.
Speaker 2: Then kurb blewis over and over again. There's something about
Speaker 2: it being not human that makes it more terrifying than
Speaker 2: if a guy were with a gun. We're chasing you.
Speaker 2: Oh you can elude a guy with a gun. That's
Speaker 2: the terrifying part of it. Drone, You're You're just screwed anyway,
Speaker 2: so he writes. More fighting is done on screens, un
Speaker 2: less in the trenches. Almost every assumption about what armies
Speaker 2: are and how they fight is being challenged and reshaped daily. Second,
Speaker 2: the changing technological balance of war is tilted for now
Speaker 2: in favor of Ukraine or defenders. In short, the fundamentals
Speaker 2: of drone warfare favor of the defense over the offense,
Speaker 2: meaning that Ukraine's smaller armed forces can hold off larger
Speaker 2: numbers of Russian attackers while extorting a high price for
Speaker 2: every acre of ground gained. That could change overnight, as
Speaker 2: both sides are adapting as quickly as they can, but
Speaker 2: the costs of gaining even a small amount of territory
Speaker 2: are astronomical now. And I came across this blog post
Speaker 2: from a guy who writes about military technology has for years,
Speaker 2: years and years. Actually.
Speaker 1: He includes a twenty thirteen post a link to it
Speaker 1: about the advent of drone warfare that he says is
Speaker 1: still probably the most prophetic thing I've ever written, and man,
Speaker 1: did he nail it. So I've become a fan of
Speaker 1: this guy, Noah Smith, and he's talking about the next
Speaker 1: step is going to be something I have been talking
Speaker 1: about for years because I'm so fascinated and terrified by it,
Speaker 1: and that is the swarms of quote unquote drone insects,
Speaker 1: microdrones that can be controlled through AI that are are
Speaker 1: practically unseeable. They're so small, they're certainly unhittable, and as
Speaker 1: long as they have enough battery power to sustain themselves
Speaker 1: over long flights, they'd be an unstoppable weapon.
Speaker 2: Anyway. And just you know, the mind war weres thinking
Speaker 2: of the possibility release them into a building.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh my god. Well, and the scenario I
Speaker 1: was raiding, and hell, it might have been this guy
Speaker 1: who wrote it. Come to think of it, the time
Speaker 1: is about right. He got these microdrones that might be
Speaker 1: the size of house flies. It's you know, it remains
Speaker 1: to be seen where the technology goes. They could they
Speaker 1: could fly in the ventilation system of a building anywhere.
Speaker 2: But then what do they do because they cracks under doors,
Speaker 2: they can't carry guns or whatever. What do they do
Speaker 2: to you? Oh? They could explode?
Speaker 1: They could depending on you know, how small they are
Speaker 1: and how many there are. The one scenario I read
Speaker 1: is that they would fly into your lungs. Well that's nice,
Speaker 1: yeah yeah, and then kerblwi just flow up your lungs.
Speaker 1: It wouldn't take a lot of them to kill you anyway.
Speaker 1: So yeah, this is absolutely horrifying. But I wanted to
Speaker 1: get to this part. And he mentions interestingly that in
Speaker 1: the second Nagorno Karabak War in twenty twenty, drones were
Speaker 1: used extensively but nobody was really paying attention. But Ukraine's
Speaker 1: intensive use of drowns has allowed them to inflict casualty
Speaker 1: rates as high as five to one on the Russian
Speaker 1: Army in recent months, well, giving up little or no territory,
Speaker 1: and about ninety six percent of those casualties are estimated
Speaker 1: to be caused by drones. I didn't realize that ninety
Speaker 1: six percent of a five to one ratio five but
Speaker 1: I didn't know is practically all of them. And in
Speaker 1: just the past year, Ukraine went from using just a
Speaker 1: few thousand FPV drones per day to using around sixty
Speaker 1: thousand a day.
Speaker 2: Sixty thousand drones a day. And remember the sixty minutes
Speaker 2: piece from a couple of weeks ago. They update the
Speaker 2: technology weekly, right, I mean, what they're doing today is
Speaker 2: different than what they did last week.
Speaker 1: Then he gets into the fact that they are incredibly
Speaker 1: inexpensive compared to traditional armaments, and that China has the
Speaker 1: capacity to build two point eight billion or two point
Speaker 1: zero eight billion of them per what month year? I'd
Speaker 1: have the roll the video, But we need to increase
Speaker 1: our manufacturing capacity for the tools of war, but quick
Speaker 1: in a way that mankind has never needed to do.
Speaker 1: You can convert a Ford truck factory to a tank
Speaker 1: factory in the course of quite a few months. In
Speaker 1: nineteen forty one, two but fast enough for the war
Speaker 1: of that kind. Can you imagine if tank technology was
Speaker 1: changing every six weeks, what then.
Speaker 2: What does that even look like? It barely changed in
Speaker 2: six years? Probably? Yeah, yeah. Anyway, there's a lot to read.
Speaker 1: I will post this wheel, post this at Armstrong and
Speaker 1: getty dot com if you want to read more about it.
Speaker 1: It's long and detailed. But if you're into the sort
Speaker 1: of stuff, it's absolutely fascinating.
Speaker 2: Holy cow, and that's scary. Yeah. I hope we're as
Speaker 2: good at it as China and Russia and whoever else
Speaker 2: or some you know, three hundred pound guy sitting on
Speaker 2: his bed like Trump once said about hackers. Hi, for one,
Speaker 2: welcome our insect, drone overlords, individual criminals trying to do
Speaker 2: whatever they want to do. Yeah, that's some good stuff.
Speaker 2: Let me check my phone, rope think stand by. I
Speaker 2: promise something that's not right.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 2: We're going to talk to Katie Green, our newsperson, who's
Speaker 2: a new mom coming up in a little bit. I
Speaker 2: hope you can stick around. I don't know if you
Speaker 2: know who Chris Silisa is. He's mainstream slash left columnist. Anyway,
Speaker 2: and I'm not gonna get bogged down in this story
Speaker 2: because I got some funny things. But he tweeted out
Speaker 2: yesterday about the so called d NC autopsy report. It's
Speaker 2: one hundred and ninety two pages long, and he's a Democrat.
Speaker 2: There's not one mention of Joe Biden's advanced age or
Speaker 2: the strategic decision to shield him from a public that
Speaker 2: thought he was too old to continue as president. Unreal. Yeah,
Speaker 2: pretty much all you need to know about the autopsy.
Speaker 2: There's no commentary about the whole trying to pretend something
Speaker 2: wasn't true that everybody knew. So maybe maybe it's so
Speaker 2: big it doesn't need to be commented on, I don't.
Speaker 1: Know, not likely to be repeated, don't I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm making excuses, I mean, and Kamal is incompetent and
Speaker 1: just transgender stuff. None of it's in there.
Speaker 2: AnyWho. A couple of Babylon b things that I came
Speaker 2: across that I thought were pretty funny. You can just
Speaker 2: check in with them anytime you want if you want
Speaker 2: to laugh. Pretty much. Zillow adds a new feature for
Speaker 2: California homes, showing whether they're currently on fire or not.
Speaker 2: He's got a picture of a one point three million
Speaker 2: dollar home and says this home is currently on fire.
Speaker 2: I like this one, and this is based on I
Speaker 2: gotta admit I fell for this from myself. So as
Speaker 2: commenting on this, what do you call it? Survey chart?
Speaker 2: Good survey? What's a pole poll that came out and
Speaker 2: it showed that the youngest and poorest among us, which
Speaker 2: goes together because when you're young, you tend more likely
Speaker 2: to be poor are the ones who eat out the
Speaker 2: most and use door dash the most. What the hell
Speaker 2: is that you got no money? You're complaining to everyone
Speaker 2: about you can't come inequality, can't The American dream is dead, man,
Speaker 2: The American dream is dead. But you're eating out and
Speaker 2: door dashing. Okay, not exactly sure how that fits together,
Speaker 2: but but this is pretty good from the Battle on
Speaker 2: b and it's got a whole bunch of old people,
Speaker 2: gray hairs, men and women with the arms crossed with
Speaker 2: a scolding look on their face. Generation that put Nation
Speaker 2: thirty nine trillion dollars in debt, condemns gen Z for
Speaker 2: spending irresponsibly, no devastating. That is pretty good. Boom headshot,
Speaker 2: that is pretty good. Yeah, where do we get? Hey?
Speaker 2: I know how to handle money. I eat at home.
Speaker 2: I'm not eating out every meal. I'm also voting for
Speaker 2: people who continue to spend more money than we take
Speaker 2: in cycle after cycle, my whole life, all right, finally
Speaker 2: vote for whoever promises me the most of it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and then finally this from the Babylon B. I didn't
Speaker 2: read the whole thing, or I'm not going to read
Speaker 2: the whole thing, but it's pretty darn funny. It was review.
Speaker 2: It was a review from a one year old, and
Speaker 2: it's got a picture of the one year old city
Speaker 2: sitting there in a shirt like in the corner. Bathtime
Speaker 2: review a torrid, pointless affair from a picture the one
Speaker 2: year old with the blank expression you through the reviewer.
Speaker 2: I try to keep an open mind. I'm always trying
Speaker 2: new experiences. But it goes into how they didn't like
Speaker 2: the bath and at the very end, uh, I rate
Speaker 2: the Bathtime one star, though I wish I knew of
Speaker 2: some concept lower than one to rate it. I'd love
Speaker 2: to hear that whole thing. That sounds cute. It is
Speaker 2: pretty funny. And speaking of that sort of thing, we're
Speaker 2: gonna talk to Katie Green, part of the Armstrong and
Speaker 2: Getty Show. Who just had a baby a week ago. Uh,
Speaker 2: coming up a little bit. I wonder if they've had
Speaker 2: their first bath yet. I don't remember when you have
Speaker 2: your give the baby the first bath, do you. I
Speaker 2: don't remember.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's cleansing, certainly, but a quote unquote bath. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't remember when that starts.
Speaker 2: Put them in that little plastic thing that you buy
Speaker 2: that sits kind of over your big sink. One hand
Speaker 2: on them in old times because they're slippery as a seal.
Speaker 2: And the first the first time you give your first
Speaker 2: baby a bath, you're like horrified at the getting the
Speaker 2: temperature of the water right, and then falling out and
Speaker 2: all kinds of things. Oh stressful. And then you know,
Speaker 2: as more kids come along and by the time you
Speaker 2: by the time you're Elon Musk and you got your
Speaker 2: twelfth kid, you're giving a bath in the sink. Anything, guys,
Speaker 2: is nothing our third kid, do you l any? We
Speaker 2: just sprayed her with a hose. You're clean enough, Get
Speaker 2: back to work. Sorry, it's cold. Life is cold. Get
Speaker 2: used to it. I wish you were listening, right, So
Speaker 2: we'll talk to Katie. Coming up a little bit, and
Speaker 2: then we got a lot more stuff a lot more
Speaker 2: news to get into. We got to explain to you
Speaker 2: binance if you don't know, because that's going to be
Speaker 2: v word of maybe the next two years. If you
Speaker 2: miss the segment, it's podcast Armstrongandgeddy dot Com Armstrong and Geddy.
Speaker 2: Gavin Newsoon, the governor of California, just posted on Twitter
Speaker 2: that all Californians should boycott Chevron and not buy their
Speaker 2: gas there. And the pushback is quite enjoyable and hilarious.
Speaker 2: Oh I can't wait, So stay tuned for that.
Speaker 1: But first, the most important interview we will do today.
Speaker 2: Nay, this week, Nay, this month, nay, he says, like
Speaker 2: a horse this year. It's Katie, Katie, the baby lady,
Speaker 2: joining us from her home. Hello Katie, Hey, going guys.
Speaker 2: Easiest interview question in the hy for your mankind. How's
Speaker 2: being a mom?
Speaker 3: It's so great. It's one it's exhausting, but it's so wonderful.
Speaker 2: Yeah, man, Yeah.
Speaker 3: He's he's he's growing quick, which is really good. The
Speaker 3: doctors are happy about it. And I am healing. My
Speaker 3: doctor what he called me a wolverine the other the
Speaker 3: other day.
Speaker 2: He's like, the hell cool?
Speaker 1: But you know that's funny. I'd not been fully considering that.
Speaker 1: I remember our third was delivered via c section, and
Speaker 1: there you've got a new baby and you're recovering from
Speaker 1: major surgery.
Speaker 2: That's a hell of a hell of a deal.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's been difficult, but luckily enough, Drew has
Speaker 3: been so wonderful and he's been, you know, kind of
Speaker 3: making me rest because I was getting really frustrated. I
Speaker 3: don't I don't rest well. So, uh, he's been taking
Speaker 3: care of a lot of the stuff. But I've been
Speaker 3: helping out, and little Donovan's doing great, so great.
Speaker 2: When when when one was Donovan born?
Speaker 3: He was born at seven fifty seven PM on.
Speaker 2: The twelfth, the twelfth, so it has uh, it's been
Speaker 2: ten days and we're trying to remember, because you forget
Speaker 2: these things. When do you give a baby their first bath?
Speaker 2: Have you done that yet?
Speaker 3: You can do sponge baths right now. His umbilical cord
Speaker 3: is still attached. You can't like put them in the
Speaker 3: back yet, all right, Yeah, so just a little sponge bath.
Speaker 2: And you got a cinder with the hoods that.
Speaker 3: Have animal animal faces on them.
Speaker 2: Oh man, so cute.
Speaker 1: You got to send her that The link to the
Speaker 1: Babylon b article one year old reviews bath Time.
Speaker 2: Yes very funny. Yes, yeah, the baby did not give it.
Speaker 2: The baby gave it one star. Oh no, yea, what
Speaker 2: is happening to me?
Speaker 3: He has that look on his face constantly. What the
Speaker 3: hell are you doing?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: It's like a permanent face.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I'm used to a much quieter, more placid joint than
Speaker 1: this one.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: I don't know what kind of crazy ass house you
Speaker 1: people are running, but my old place very dark and quiet.
Speaker 2: I didn't ask to be born, yeah, exactly. So ten
Speaker 2: days into parenthood, anything surprised you so far?
Speaker 3: You know what? Honestly, his ability to recognize certain things.
Speaker 3: So I noticed the other day that when Frankie barks,
Speaker 3: he doesn't even react, And so I was talking to
Speaker 3: the doctor about that. He's hurt Frankie in the womb.
Speaker 3: So there's like little little things like that drew in
Speaker 3: my voices. And his ability to like see us. I mean,
Speaker 3: he can't see a whole lot, but when you bring
Speaker 3: him real close to our faces, he smiles.
Speaker 2: Frankie is Katie's younger brother. If you are not a
Speaker 2: he barks for some reason. Right, Katie has a rare condition.
Speaker 2: Katie has a dog named Frankie obviously, Okay.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, sorry, my dog Frankie. When he barks, Donovan
Speaker 3: recognizes it. And then also my body is I mean,
Speaker 3: it's incredible. Since the tent or since the twelfth, I've
Speaker 3: lost thirty pounds.
Speaker 2: Wow, yikes. Yeah, just I.
Speaker 3: Mean just that it was all water weight, blood volume
Speaker 3: obviously the baby and all the stuff going on, but
Speaker 3: just kind of the ability to like bounce back.
Speaker 2: How is most of that transferred to me? I wonder
Speaker 2: over the last ten days.
Speaker 3: It was, Yeah, I signed a piece of paper, I said, give.
Speaker 2: It to that. Yeah, does little Donovan have a nickname yet?
Speaker 2: What's the go to for you? And Drew? And we've
Speaker 2: been called grandma and grandpa.
Speaker 3: We've been calling him Van.
Speaker 2: It's cool, that's that's a cool well, I love that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Van, Or currently, whenever he's feeding, mister mad monkey
Speaker 3: Man has been the uh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's funny.
Speaker 3: Takes his arms out and he shakes his head real
Speaker 3: hard and goes a to get licked the milk. It's
Speaker 3: very funny.
Speaker 2: I hope you're only giving that baby baby formula from
Speaker 2: the grocery store. Like Joe and I grew up on
Speaker 2: because the government wisely told our parents that the worst
Speaker 2: thing for a baby is the natural breast milk from
Speaker 2: mother's milk. No, use this from a factory instead.
Speaker 1: The twentieth century. Yeah, yeah, so go ahead.
Speaker 3: Sorry, Oh no, no, that that's what we're doing, just
Speaker 3: straight out of the box, not even mixing it with liquid.
Speaker 3: We're just giving him powder.
Speaker 2: There you go, so mad monkey man? Is that what you.
Speaker 3: Said, mister mad monkey man. Yeah, when he's feeding, he goes,
Speaker 3: he goes crazy, and it's very funny. I'll try to
Speaker 3: get a video of it because it's Yeah, it's wonderful.
Speaker 2: Our oldest Kate was born tightered in the Watchspring and
Speaker 2: and we always we often refer to her as Bel's
Speaker 2: a baby. Oh boy, that's pretty good. The pictures you
Speaker 2: had yesterday, Katie of a little van in various beanies
Speaker 2: was fantastic. In it reminded you have babies and baby
Speaker 2: clothes or toddlers in their little clothes. There's nothing cuter
Speaker 2: than that. It just it's absolutely fantastic.
Speaker 3: Oh, I got an absolute kick. So we've been having
Speaker 3: him in like onesies and stuff just because it's it's
Speaker 3: super easy. But the other day, well, Yeah, that doesn't
Speaker 3: surprise me.
Speaker 2: It has little ducks on it. That's sweet. Yeah, oh
Speaker 2: are they?
Speaker 3: Is it a footy Onesie does that little duck?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's cozy, cute, cute.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we've been sticking to the onesies. But the other
Speaker 3: day I came out of the nursery and I held
Speaker 3: him up because I put pants on him, and I
Speaker 3: thought it was the coolest thing.
Speaker 2: Absolutely pants, He's got pants on. That's fantastic. That's hilarious.
Speaker 1: So back to the whole recognizing Frankie's bark in you'r
Speaker 1: and drew his voices and stuff like this. I know
Speaker 1: you don't need to hear this, but you know, just
Speaker 1: to anybody who's who's gonna have a kid or might
Speaker 1: have a kid or whatever, the best and most thing
Speaker 1: you will ever do is, instead of staring at your
Speaker 1: phone when you take him for walks or whatever, to
Speaker 1: look at everything and name everything and talk about everything
Speaker 1: you see, the trees and the flowers and the birds
Speaker 1: and the squirrels and the grass and everything. It's just
Speaker 1: it's the best thing you can possibly do for your kid.
Speaker 1: And it's it's more fun. I think it was more
Speaker 1: fun for me than it was for the kids. I
Speaker 1: just loved doing that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's actually that's really I love that we did.
Speaker 3: We did a little bit of that yesterday. What was
Speaker 3: our first big outing without you know, a doctor's appointment involved.
Speaker 3: And we took him to the grocery store and everything
Speaker 3: he was looking at we were like, oh, yeah, those
Speaker 3: are cookies. Those will make you fat, but.
Speaker 2: Get some, you know, fantastic protein. My body protein is
Speaker 2: what you want exactly.
Speaker 3: Yeah. But he's he's just he's wondering. Oh. And that's
Speaker 3: the other thing, the amount of sweet little old ladies
Speaker 3: that stop and talked to us, and yeah, talk to Donovan.
Speaker 2: What's hilarious, that's awesome.
Speaker 3: Oh there he goes, he's yelling. He just said hi, guys.
Speaker 1: Oh fantastic. Well say hi to him for us and
Speaker 1: grandma and grandpa and the whole family.
Speaker 2: All right, say hey to Drew.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, we'll do. And I miss you guys. He'll he
Speaker 3: will keeps sending pictures of the baby and hats.
Speaker 2: Cool, thank you, gay and pants if possible. Michael's got
Speaker 2: a question, Frankie, is he jealous of the baby or
Speaker 2: is he like like him?
Speaker 3: Frankie has been amazing at first he wasn't too sure
Speaker 3: what the heck we brought home. But now I mean
Speaker 3: for feeding, for changing anywhere we take Van, Frankie follows
Speaker 3: and he sits there and he likes to kiss his
Speaker 3: little toes, which is very Yeah, but like right now
Speaker 3: I'm sitting on the couch and Frankie is leaning up
Speaker 3: against me with his face kind of drooped over the
Speaker 3: bath net, just looking at Van at the moment.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've had that experience with babies and dogs where
Speaker 2: the dogs completely get into the hole. Okay, this is
Speaker 2: something I need to protect and watch after mode just automatically.
Speaker 2: It's really cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah, part of the past, and that's exactly what's going on.
Speaker 3: And I was, you know, every I think that's something
Speaker 3: that every new mom worries about too, you know, like,
Speaker 3: oh god, how's the dog gonna ring?
Speaker 2: I was going to tell this later, I'll throw it.
Speaker 2: And now we had two dogs. One did that, the
Speaker 2: other one did not. And then we had to put him,
Speaker 2: put him down, my dog, Boguard, who was at the
Speaker 2: end of his life and kind of losing his mind
Speaker 2: and everything like that, and he was a danger around
Speaker 2: the baby. And there's there's no there's no wiggle room
Speaker 2: on that. So wow.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that I didn't think that that was going
Speaker 3: to be the outcome. But I also, you know, you
Speaker 3: never know, because that's you know. They there are sometimes
Speaker 3: where Frankie will get like real piss around the house
Speaker 3: and I was like, oh my god, this can't happen
Speaker 3: with the baby. He is he's completely in love and
Speaker 3: it's it's really nice. It's very gooch.
Speaker 2: It's a good boy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a good boy.
Speaker 2: All right. Well, great, great to talk to you. Go
Speaker 2: take care your kid and stay in touch.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, absolutely you guys, I'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 2: Say. Yeah. I remember my dad saying when Sam was born,
Speaker 2: our first keep them away from those animals, because you know,
Speaker 2: we had several dogs in the house. And uh, and
Speaker 2: the one was not doing well at that point. Great
Speaker 2: dog his whole life, but he was at the end
Speaker 2: of his life and and and I probably shouldn't even
Speaker 2: have waited to see, but uh, he was not going
Speaker 2: to work out. Tried him outside for a while, but
Speaker 2: he tried to bite me. And so anyway, so but
Speaker 2: the normal behavior of the dog, the dogs that I've
Speaker 2: seen now twice is yeah, they fall right into Okay,
Speaker 2: this is a member of the pack. We need to protect.
Speaker 2: Lay there next to him when they're sleeping, alert you
Speaker 2: sometimes when something's wrong. It's fantastic.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've learned a lot in recent months about dog dementia,
Speaker 1: which is.
Speaker 2: A real thing. Clearly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're trying to figure out what some of Baxter's
Speaker 1: symptoms and tendencies were at the end of his life,
Speaker 1: and we're investigating that possibility. But yeah, it's absolutely a thing.
Speaker 1: The poor dog is full of fear and confusional. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's why bullet was. He was terrified, and that's when
Speaker 1: he tried to bite me. It's just like, you know,
Speaker 1: who are you? Why are you in this house or
Speaker 1: in the garage or whatever? And uh and like happens
Speaker 1: with people physically perfectly fine, even though he was old,
Speaker 1: but his mind is no longer worked. Yeah, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: too bad anyway. Uh he turned on a sad note.
Speaker 1: But that's a happy note. Her dog is protecting the
Speaker 1: baby like it's supposed to. Like normal things happen right
Speaker 1: again to review. She's got a dog named Frankie and
Speaker 1: her brother's name is mister Wolf Wolf.
Speaker 2: I was trying to come up.
Speaker 1: With a good ridiculous dog name. What's a good ridiculous
Speaker 1: Only a dog would have it name? Michael, help us.
Speaker 2: Out here, Fido?
Speaker 1: Yeah, can that's my dad came up with that one too.
Speaker 1: But I don't know, mister Spingles. Most of the people
Speaker 1: I know who have dogs, they name it with a
Speaker 1: person's name these days, yep, and.
Speaker 2: So lots of Maxes. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: My neighbor Lee was smart. He named his dog Buddy
Speaker 1: because he realized that I called back. I called the
Speaker 1: Baxter Buddy all the time. You might as well call
Speaker 1: the dog buddy if you're gonna say, call here.
Speaker 2: Buddy, right. You know, I had a friend whose dogs
Speaker 2: name was already already already the one dog party. Now
Speaker 2: that's branding. Okay, we got more in the way to
Speaker 2: stay here. So we did not get into the fact
Speaker 2: that the governor of the biggest state in California, where
Speaker 2: Silicon Valley is and all the tech that you've heard
Speaker 2: about is based the AI stuff, he signed some sort
Speaker 2: of governor executive order putting companies on the hook for
Speaker 2: laying people off if they're using AI. Can't even imagine
Speaker 2: how that's supposed to work. This meaningless grand standing drivel,
Speaker 2: it's unimplementable. It is. I'm yeah, Well, just imagine in general,
Speaker 2: the idea of you're going to make it illegal for
Speaker 2: companies to use the latest technology that will make things
Speaker 2: more efficient. That'd be good for America. Virtue singling nonsense.
Speaker 2: So is this Gavin Newsome, Californians, if you're hitting the
Speaker 2: road this weekend, be sure to avoid Chevron. And that
Speaker 2: headline got me like, wow, you're telling people to You're
Speaker 2: boycotting a big giant gas company. Suit now Chevron now
Speaker 2: pro tip. Unbranded gas comes from the same refinery, storage tanks,
Speaker 2: and pipelines, and it meets the same state standards to
Speaker 2: keep your engine running clean, even if it doesn't have
Speaker 2: a fancy name like Techron. I've never paid any attention
Speaker 2: to that stuff. I turn into the gas station that's
Speaker 2: on the corner so I don't have to make a
Speaker 2: left turn. I've never paid any attention to it made
Speaker 2: with Techron or has this additive or whatever. No, I've
Speaker 2: never paid attention inout my life. Gavin goes on to
Speaker 2: say big oil is already making billions off of Trump's
Speaker 2: Iran war. Don't let them rip you off even more
Speaker 2: by overpaying for the brand name. Among the pieces of
Speaker 2: pushback Kevin Dalton, who is great at his commentary. First
Speaker 2: of all, I asked Grok. He said, hey, Grok, is
Speaker 2: it the tekron or the taxes in California that make
Speaker 2: gas significantly more expensive than everywhere else in the country.
Speaker 2: He goes on to post Californians, if you're hitting the
Speaker 2: road this holiday weekend, be sure to avoid California. Gavin
Speaker 2: Newsom and the Democratic super Majority gouge you at the
Speaker 2: pump and literally make more money than the oil companies
Speaker 2: do off of these gas taxes. Gavin Newsom is already
Speaker 2: making billions for the state off the gas tax and
Speaker 2: wasting the money. That is true. That's so good, And
Speaker 2: lots of people are hammering him just for the idea
Speaker 2: of boycotting a perfectly legitimate company out there that has,
Speaker 2: among other things, I personally am always willing to pay
Speaker 2: if you know it is true about that. I try
Speaker 2: to avoid left turns and traffic. I'll do the one
Speaker 2: on the right. But if I can do one of
Speaker 2: the big name brands that it's clean, and I know
Speaker 2: they've got a working bathroom and they're actually paper towels
Speaker 2: in the holder and liquid in the windshield wiper thing.
Speaker 2: I'll pay three cents extra for that. And that's what
Speaker 2: Chevron is or has better selection inside the store if
Speaker 2: you go in there to bike rap.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's not leave out the fact that Gavin Newsom
Speaker 1: and his buddies have been demonizing the oil industry in California,
Speaker 1: including the refineries that grew up the special blend that
Speaker 1: California has to burn, been demonizing them and driving out
Speaker 1: of business, thereby necessitating importing oil and gasoline at a
Speaker 1: much greater expense to the environment from some of the
Speaker 1: dirtiest extracting regimes on Earth.
Speaker 2: I forgot to mention that a lot of horrify, a
Speaker 2: lot of the pushback was the California Chevron actually responded with, Hey,
Speaker 2: the gas in California that Gavin Newsom wants comes from
Speaker 2: other countries and is actually dirtier than blah blah blah
Speaker 2: blah blah.
Speaker 1: What you were just saying, Yeah, we wish we could
Speaker 1: refine good clean oil extracted cleanly locally, so it's not
Speaker 1: happening to be transporting around the world. But Gavin won't
Speaker 1: let us anymore. If people want to hurt you signal.
Speaker 2: If people pay a couple cents more because they want
Speaker 2: a nicer convenience store, which is what Chevron is, and
Speaker 2: everything else that goes with it, then then that's the
Speaker 2: free market of work, and people either will or they won't. Gavin.
Speaker 2: But as some political people pointed out and their replies,
Speaker 2: this is just a it's pretty clever. Actually, it's to
Speaker 2: make it about Chevron and gas companies and big oil
Speaker 2: and all this sisister's different sort of stuff to distract
Speaker 2: from the fact that California is so much more expensive
Speaker 2: with their gas in any other state, and they waste
Speaker 2: the money on crap, goes into the general funding just
Speaker 2: gets wasted. Yeah yeah, but sure, make it makes Chevron
Speaker 2: the bad guy, not the the high tax blue state
Speaker 2: that California is the whole preemptively clouding the water strategy.
Speaker 2: We've excited it a couple of times.
Speaker 1: The ridiculous Israeli rape dog story that came out a
Speaker 1: couple of days intentionally just before the Humanitarian Group released
Speaker 1: the horrific, practically unreadable review. Never mind the videos of
Speaker 1: the systematic rape and sexual torture of Israeli women, men
Speaker 1: and children by the forces of Hamas and the Palestinians.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they trotted out this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, israelises Israeli uses systematic rape in the prisons story
Speaker 1: just to cloud the waters before that release. It's it's
Speaker 1: a strategy now, Yeah, and as you said, it's disgusting,
Speaker 1: but it is fairly effective.
Speaker 2: Can be Gavin Newsen releasing this boycott Chevron thing the
Speaker 2: Friday of Memorial Day weekend, when people are going to
Speaker 2: drive and fill up their tanks. Is this Yeah, it's
Speaker 2: a preemptive move. Yeah. So you're standing there at the
Speaker 2: gas station angry at big oil and not or the
Speaker 2: war in Iran, as he pointed out, and not California's
Speaker 2: ridiculous taxes.
Speaker 1: If Gaffy and his evil henchman wife Jennifer sebel Nuisance, Uh,
Speaker 1: if they had the power to jail dissidence, they would,
Speaker 1: Oh heck, I'm quite certain of that. They would brew
Speaker 1: up some context. She would she would write out the uh,
Speaker 1: the uh, the indictment or the you know, disappearing papers
Speaker 1: about you know, transphobia, islamophobia, god knows what else, and yeah,
Speaker 1: we would be in dissident prison right now.
Speaker 2: So on the waning seconds of this hour. You talked
Speaker 2: earlier about you might buy a fancy coffee machine. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you gotta try that civic cat stuff I keep swearing to,
Speaker 2: but I keep forgetting to. I'm you know, just a
Speaker 2: small amount because it's super expensive. Well, I don't have
Speaker 2: to worry about that.
Speaker 1: I have my own civit cat, and I feed at
Speaker 1: coffee beads and then squeeze it to get it to.
Speaker 2: And then you go to the letter box and ye
Speaker 2: dig through the sand exactly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, kind I use a little strainer and then
Speaker 1: pop them right in the coffee machine.
Speaker 2: Wow, I'm getting I'm getting notes of I'm not even
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