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Speaker 2: We are in a dimly lit room deeper than the
Speaker 2: bowels of the Armstrong in Getty Communications Compound, so close
Speaker 2: to the weekend you can smell it, and today we
Speaker 2: are toiling under the title of the show, a.
Speaker 3: Return to bita bitza. We will explain in a moment
Speaker 3: if you're not familiar with that term it goes backaways,
Speaker 3: or if you prefer nice moon. That's what she said,
Speaker 3: she Xi Chairman, we are in a race for the moon.
Speaker 2: I hadn't realized the true significance of it. We will elaborate, Okay, cool.
Speaker 2: We talked a little bit about that yesterday.
Speaker 4: I was complaining that that angle of it was getting
Speaker 4: no coverage. It was, as usual, the identity politics of
Speaker 4: the astronauts as opposed to the strategic reason that we're
Speaker 4: going to the other side of the moon. Well, and
Speaker 4: if the United States is in some sort of contest,
Speaker 4: even with the most evil, oppressive regime on Earth, obviously
Speaker 4: we're the bad guy. According to virtually all of the media,
Speaker 4: so they would never taken us versus them stance.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Interesting, I want to hear more about that. Definitely, the
Speaker 2: uh I'm I guess I shouldn't be amazed at this
Speaker 2: point five weeks into the war, four and a half
Speaker 2: weeks into the war, somehow we decided we're going to
Speaker 2: judge the war entirely on gas prices. I don't know
Speaker 2: how that got started, but apparently. I mean, that's every
Speaker 2: media oil jumped after the presidents. It's either a good idea, dear,
Speaker 2: it's not. The price of gas really doesn't have a
Speaker 2: lot to do with it. You know, when I had
Speaker 2: to get my completely ravaged joint replaced, they knocked me unconscious.
Speaker 1: Then they dislocated my leg and it hurt for weeks. No,
Speaker 1: it had to be done.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the interim's painful and uncomfortable, and then the job
Speaker 2: is done. So the way the world works sometimes, God,
Speaker 2: they're so dishonest. You can't hate the media enough.
Speaker 1: Well, you can still be against the war.
Speaker 4: It just doesn't seem like the best angle to me
Speaker 4: is to gas went up okay after the speech, because
Speaker 4: the whole goal apparently is to keep gas at a
Speaker 4: certain price as opposed to keeping Iran from beating a
Speaker 4: nuclear weapon. I came across a couple of things yesterday
Speaker 4: that finally it all made sense. I never understand why
Speaker 4: the Trump White House can't or doesn't communicate these things
Speaker 4: more clearly. What's going on? But around all the rockets?
Speaker 4: Why we got to take out the rocket capability?
Speaker 1: And why that why?
Speaker 4: Marco Rubio said the other day the war ends when
Speaker 4: we've taken out the rocket capability. Everybody's like, what, Well,
Speaker 4: it makes sense to me now, so maybe we can
Speaker 4: get to that little later on a couple of our
Speaker 4: different articles I read. So we got lots to talk
Speaker 4: about today. How's the Moon mission going? I heard about
Speaker 4: the floaters? Did you hear about the floaters? I don't
Speaker 4: know about the floaters. Oh, it's a little gross, Adie,
Speaker 4: are prepared for gross to start the show?
Speaker 1: Dang it?
Speaker 2: What else is now into the sore already? The show
Speaker 2: just started. Well, it's the only problem reported on the
Speaker 2: space launch so far. They some sort of problem with
Speaker 2: the fan in the bathroom, which apparently h OH keeps
Speaker 2: the defecate in the bag and from floating around the
Speaker 2: space capsule. So they had to fix that, because if
Speaker 2: you don't want that, if you go number two in space,
Speaker 2: it just floats off on you apparently, which makes sense perfect, definitely, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: to capture it. Yeah, it's not your standard bathroom. It's lovely,
Speaker 2: that is. It's uh yeah, it draws the deficate, is
Speaker 2: you so delicately and sophisticatedly put? It draws the deficate
Speaker 2: into the storage unit.
Speaker 4: Right, because otherwise, again it's just kind of floating kaka
Speaker 4: good exactly.
Speaker 5: Well, I'm glad they got that figured out.
Speaker 1: An asteroid if you.
Speaker 2: Will, Hey, folks, I get paid for this.
Speaker 1: Excellent.
Speaker 4: My kids were younger, I would tell them that joke,
Speaker 4: but I'm afraid they're too old for it.
Speaker 2: Oh boy, I'd like to apologize. You should No, you
Speaker 2: should not.
Speaker 1: Oh where were we?
Speaker 6: You know?
Speaker 2: We could start to show officially a little bit sure early.
Speaker 2: That seems like a good idea, especially executive producer Hansen says,
Speaker 2: Floating Deficate is the name of my new free form
Speaker 2: dark metal band.
Speaker 1: I'd go to your show, yeah, just as party.
Speaker 4: That's interesting problem to have right off the bat, though,
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Speaker 2: Let's commence then officially according to FCCU rules and regulations
Speaker 2: and explain the bit of bitsa reference at mark.
Speaker 6: We're going to hit them extremely hard over the next
Speaker 6: two to three weeks. We're going to bring them back
Speaker 6: to the Stone Ages where they belong.
Speaker 1: There you go in the wake of nine to eleven.
Speaker 2: The phrase bummed them back to the Stone Age was
Speaker 2: so common we just came up with the abbreviation bit
Speaker 2: of BITSA. I guess it's an acronym, isn't it.
Speaker 4: So Oil jumps almost immediately during Trump's speech last night,
Speaker 4: I guess as soon as the market's got the inkling
Speaker 4: that he wasn't going to announce basically that it was
Speaker 4: over markets. Perhaps he was going to come out and
Speaker 4: say we have won the we will be ending operations
Speaker 4: within the next He did not. You went risk to
Speaker 4: settlement with the new leaders. That would have been lovely.
Speaker 4: We are going to bomb them back to the Stone
Speaker 4: Age if they don't come around, which is an indication
Speaker 4: this could go on.
Speaker 1: For a while.
Speaker 4: I have been taking in more information on this whole project.
Speaker 4: Wall Street Journal has got a good article on it.
Speaker 4: To go in there and grab the enriched uranium and
Speaker 4: get it out of there, that would be one of
Speaker 4: the all time most difficult military maneuvers of my lifetime.
Speaker 1: Has everybody thought.
Speaker 2: This completely through to what it would take here, This
Speaker 2: is what I asked last week when we were talking
Speaker 2: to my clients. Wouldn't you need to like secure an
Speaker 2: incredibly large area for like a month and bring in bulldozer.
Speaker 1: Yes, you would have to do all that sort of stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it would take a.
Speaker 2: Lot of people, and you'd just be a such a
Speaker 2: sitting duck target. And then the transportation of the stuff,
Speaker 2: they'd have to bring in trucks. Where are the truck's
Speaker 2: gonna drive to exactly?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 1: How vulnerable would they be? Good?
Speaker 4: Gracious the border with a rack it's a little more
Speaker 4: friendly or Saudi Arabia I guess I don't know, but uh,
Speaker 4: it very well might be one hundred percent necessary to
Speaker 4: do to get that enriched. Your enemy can't just have
Speaker 4: it floating around like space defecate.
Speaker 2: Right, and it's going to be Although one of the
Speaker 2: takeaways from the speech last night was that Trump didn't
Speaker 2: state this, you know, just in black and white. But
Speaker 2: he hinted heavily that no, that's all. The uranium is
Speaker 2: buried under tons of rubble. It would take them ages
Speaker 2: to get it out and use it. We're going to
Speaker 2: keep an eye on it, suggesting that no, we're not
Speaker 2: going to go get it.
Speaker 4: According to the Wall Street Journal, he's the one that
Speaker 4: suggested a project to get it out of there. So
Speaker 4: maybe he's been convinced by the military that is practically undoable. Perhaps,
Speaker 4: I hope so it sounds like a and well, I
Speaker 4: hope what he's saying is true, because I don't want
Speaker 4: the world to be able to get their hands on
Speaker 4: a whole bunch to uranium that has been enriched.
Speaker 1: But if it's buried under gazillion pounds of.
Speaker 2: Rocks, no it ain't going anywhere, right, right, And life,
Speaker 2: as well as presidencies, are full of things that sound
Speaker 2: like good ideas until you learn exactly what's involved.
Speaker 1: I brought into a few of those in my life.
Speaker 1: Oh lord, yes, my alpack of farm for instance. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: your out pack of farm. Us talk about that all
Speaker 1: the time.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, I bought three hundred hat. I thought,
Speaker 2: go big or go home, right, terrible mistake. Right, he
Speaker 2: got in early, got out late. Why I bought high
Speaker 2: and sold low. It was terrible.
Speaker 4: And you still have what three al packs in every
Speaker 4: bedroom still waiting find them good homes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, free, free, I'll give you a hundred bucks whatever.
Speaker 2: Just please take my alpacas. They're getting old now. Their
Speaker 2: vet bills are even worse. Okay, speaking of defect stop
Speaker 2: Scott Katie's headlines coming up next. You want to comment
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Speaker 1: How y'all do it? Good? Glad? Eric nice?
Speaker 4: Good Friday tomorrow. My son who goes to a private
Speaker 4: Christian school has the day off because they treat it
Speaker 4: like it's something there. I remember when we when when
Speaker 4: we worked in Charlotte, North Carolina, it was a very
Speaker 4: very I mean it was it was people didn't work,
Speaker 4: people went to church, people, the whole thing.
Speaker 2: And then you live in godless California. Right, it's still
Speaker 2: in the same way because it's exploded in size. I
Speaker 2: don't know about Charlotte. When I mentioned the rural areas
Speaker 2: certainly are oh yeah, absolutely true. Yeah, yeah, they are
Speaker 2: not godless in that part of the country where Jennifer
Speaker 2: Seebel Newsom takes her children to see the horrors of
Speaker 2: racism and bigotry and misogyny and who knows what else. Actually,
Speaker 2: if you missed this, she took her kids on a
Speaker 2: tour of the Red States of America so they could
Speaker 2: see the horrors like it.
Speaker 1: Was a Republican zoo, right zoo.
Speaker 2: She's hilarious. Oh the gift that just keeps giving. All right,
Speaker 2: so much going on. Let's figure out who's reporting what.
Speaker 7: It's the lead story with Katie Green and Katie also
Speaker 7: fun fact.
Speaker 5: I was born on a good Friday?
Speaker 1: Were really I was? Look at you? Well, it was
Speaker 1: an extra good Friday that day.
Speaker 7: All right, let's go to the alphabet networks.
Speaker 5: NBC. Trump makes his case for.
Speaker 7: Iran war, saying you will and shortly, but more strikes
Speaker 7: are ahead.
Speaker 2: Wall Street Journal by the way, gave this speech a
Speaker 2: very high grade.
Speaker 1: CNN gave it.
Speaker 4: An fly depends on how you look at it.
Speaker 7: ABC US Embassy tells Americans to leave Iraq and cites
Speaker 7: terror threats, and CNN oil prices surge on Trump's vow
Speaker 7: to hit Iran quote extremely hard.
Speaker 4: I would just say briefly on the speech, I'm not
Speaker 4: sure those things matter that much anymore. It's not like
Speaker 4: the old days if everybody waits around for the president
Speaker 4: to give a primetime speech and otherwise doesn't hear anything.
Speaker 4: I mean, we get a drumbeat of Trump talking every
Speaker 4: single day. It was just another hymn talking. I don't
Speaker 4: know why it would matter that much.
Speaker 2: Well, I think the material mattered, or it could have
Speaker 2: mattered a lot more than it did, just because the
Speaker 2: message last night is we're going to keep doing what
Speaker 2: we're doing, and everybody was looking for some pivot point.
Speaker 4: Okay, well, do you want to bet abage to whether
Speaker 4: or not he says something today that.
Speaker 1: Makes you wonder why he said what he said last night.
Speaker 1: Oh no, that's one hundred percent true.
Speaker 2: What you said is one hundred percent true unless he
Speaker 2: had a major pivot point announcement to make.
Speaker 1: That's a better way to statement.
Speaker 7: From the New York Times, Key justices appear skeptical of
Speaker 7: limiting birthright citizenship.
Speaker 1: I have a feeling can be disappointed by this decision. Yeah,
Speaker 1: me too.
Speaker 2: We're going to talk to one of our friends from
Speaker 2: the Pacific Legal Foundation about what he thought of the
Speaker 2: oral arguments and little tea leafreedom from Reuters.
Speaker 7: Russia plans to send second ship with oil to Cuba.
Speaker 4: So we're trying to strangle Cuba unless it makes oil
Speaker 4: too expensive, or it makes them fall before we're ready
Speaker 4: to deal with it, or something.
Speaker 1: It seems to be the case.
Speaker 7: From the Wall Street Journal, US lifts sanctions on Venezuela's leader,
Speaker 7: opening the door to deals.
Speaker 2: That's an evolving situation, clearly. It's the weird relationship we
Speaker 2: have now with the new dictators is somewhat.
Speaker 1: Troubling, but they go wait and see attitude.
Speaker 5: From the Chicago Tribune.
Speaker 7: Universities pressured to strip names of Epstein associates from campus buildings.
Speaker 4: I like that headline Epstein Associates. So what does that mean?
Speaker 4: Is that just your name showed up somewhere in an email?
Speaker 4: And these universities that are lousy with communists and America haters. Please,
Speaker 4: you're going to cleanse yourself with the evildoers, are you?
Speaker 1: That's cute?
Speaker 7: From the New York Post, Red Lobster to revive a
Speaker 7: disastrous endless shrimp deal.
Speaker 1: Really, I thought that's what forced them into bankruptcy.
Speaker 5: That is what forced them into bankruptcy.
Speaker 1: They're bringing back the endless shrimp.
Speaker 7: Apparently they will be rolling it out on like a
Speaker 7: month to month basis, so like it'll be a promotion.
Speaker 5: Okay than like in all the time sort of thing.
Speaker 7: Right, And they're also hoping to put more of their
Speaker 7: products into stores.
Speaker 2: Okay, I can buy in retail red Lobster branded products.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I know, like right now, you can buy the
Speaker 7: their biscuit mix. M.
Speaker 1: The biscuits are pretty good. The bestcits are good.
Speaker 5: Studdy vines.
Speaker 7: Thinking positively about getting older may shape how you age.
Speaker 1: I'll be darned. Attitude matters who knew that's stupid? Shut
Speaker 1: up breaking this? Yeah, no kidding.
Speaker 5: And finally from the Babylon b.
Speaker 7: Christy No asks her husband if there's anything he needs
Speaker 7: to get off his chest.
Speaker 1: Oh, simple, but delightful. Well done, Seth and Crew.
Speaker 4: So Mark Hawpern, who has a lot of sources in Washington,
Speaker 4: d C, said there is a lot more shocking stuff
Speaker 4: to come on that story.
Speaker 1: Oh, I can't imagine what it's going to be.
Speaker 2: Credit where it's due to JT from Livermore, who pointed
Speaker 2: out that the story is probably more significant than it
Speaker 2: seems because of the blackmail threat Yeah, of a cabinet official,
Speaker 2: and then more importantly, speculated did she shoot the dog
Speaker 2: because he knew too much?
Speaker 1: I heard somebody say, did the dog shoot himself to
Speaker 1: get out of the family? Oh? Too dark? Too dark?
Speaker 1: I like it. Yeah.
Speaker 4: The whole security risk thing is damned interesting because she
Speaker 4: was the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, and
Speaker 4: any sort of terrorist group or anything like that that's
Speaker 4: got any sort of black maleble material on her.
Speaker 2: Husband that could have been a big deal. How did
Speaker 2: How did I assume they do the most thurrough of
Speaker 2: background check on you when you're gonna be the DHS
Speaker 2: secretary because I just assume you have the absolute top
Speaker 2: clearance that exists. But who's they in this scenario the Senate?
Speaker 2: I guess whoever does the background checks? I think the
Speaker 2: FBI does the background checks. Didn't we learn that through
Speaker 2: all this? Right?
Speaker 1: But in service to the president? Right?
Speaker 2: So if Trump says it, I don't care if her
Speaker 2: husband wears big fake boob, since pays five dollars a
Speaker 2: minute to pro skanks to talk to them.
Speaker 4: But there's no news that Trump was Noe knew that
Speaker 4: and said that's okay, right, you just no.
Speaker 2: I'm just saying, even if the FBI uncovered something kinky
Speaker 2: like that. The president could still say, Okay, great, I
Speaker 2: still honor. I guess you wouldn't though you wouldn't think so.
Speaker 4: No, no, no, But that is that is a very
Speaker 4: blackmailable situation. I mean, that's way beyond having an affair
Speaker 4: or something like that. Uh, you could have gotten to
Speaker 4: him and put him in a position where, hey, I
Speaker 4: need you to kind of go take a look at
Speaker 4: your wife's phone and.
Speaker 1: See who she talked to today or something.
Speaker 4: Ron he's thinking, yeah, I don't really want the world
Speaker 4: to know about my whole bimblification finish, And.
Speaker 2: They're not asking me to go more than like half
Speaker 2: an inch over the line, right, And that's the way
Speaker 2: they get you. Yeah, once you're half an inch over
Speaker 2: the line, they say, oh, we've got proof you went
Speaker 2: over the line and we could have you arrested.
Speaker 1: So we need you to do.
Speaker 4: This now, oh something to get off her chest. And
Speaker 4: he had the big giant okay, now I get it.
Speaker 2: Oh boy, Michael Traumas to Armstrong a picture.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 4: If there's some more more shocking stuff to come out
Speaker 4: on that, I'm having trouble even imagining what it would be.
Speaker 4: But okay, we got more news of the day coming up.
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Speaker 1: On demand Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 6: Thanks to the progress we've made, I can say tonight
Speaker 6: that we are on track to complete all of America's
Speaker 6: military objectives shortly, very shortly. We're going to hit them
Speaker 6: extremely hard over the next two to three weeks. We're
Speaker 6: going to bring them back to the Stone ages where
Speaker 6: they belong. In the meantime, discussions are ongoing. Regime change
Speaker 6: was not our goal. We never said regime change, but
Speaker 6: regime change.
Speaker 1: Has occurred because of all.
Speaker 6: Of their original leader's deaths.
Speaker 2: They're all dead, possibly replaced by people that are every
Speaker 2: bit as hardline or even more so.
Speaker 1: So. It's hard to tell.
Speaker 4: Man, I was listening to somebody who clearly had more
Speaker 4: information on this than me yesterday talk about how there
Speaker 4: is a battle going on between the revolutionary Guard, who
Speaker 4: are bloodthirsty warlord businessmen more than anything else, and the
Speaker 4: religious zealots, and who you're hearing from on a regular basis,
Speaker 4: when you hear Iran said varies, and that's why it
Speaker 4: seems kind of all over the place, and maybe why
Speaker 4: Trump's responses seem all over the place because you're responding
Speaker 4: to two different factions.
Speaker 1: What a situation, who do you pick in that fight?
Speaker 4: And this particular pundit and I thought this was damn interesting, said,
Speaker 4: Iran might not be able to open.
Speaker 1: The strait of horror moves.
Speaker 4: I mean, if one of those groups makes a deal
Speaker 4: with Trump that the other group doesn't like, they might
Speaker 4: keep the straight of horror moves closed to try to
Speaker 4: end up being deep power in Iran. Right, So just
Speaker 4: their internal battle which could turn into an actual open
Speaker 4: bullets flying internal battle at some point.
Speaker 1: Interesting.
Speaker 4: But to the price of gas thing, which we'll talk
Speaker 4: more about later. In the price of oil thing, I was
Speaker 4: reading a piece by Mark Penn. If you don't know
Speaker 4: his name, he was Hillary's campaign manager back in two
Speaker 4: thousand and eight. He's a big time Democrat strategist polster
Speaker 4: back when Democrats were like, you know, left but normal,
Speaker 4: which that boat sailed a long time ago.
Speaker 1: But anyway, he had an article in the New York Post.
Speaker 2: I'll read about it later about how Gus was this
Speaker 2: high under Obama for like three weeks during this period
Speaker 2: and nobody said a word and blah blah blah, and
Speaker 2: how we can't be basing the war around the price
Speaker 2: of oil.
Speaker 1: And all the sort of thing that we were just
Speaker 1: saying not long ago.
Speaker 4: So I thought that was interesting from a Democrat speaking
Speaker 4: of the Democrats. This polling came out yesterday. Who was
Speaker 4: this polling? It was at CNN, I think as CNN Politics,
Speaker 4: and it fits in with most other polls. This is
Speaker 4: not an outlier. It's kind of confirming other poles that
Speaker 4: are out there. Trump's numbers are down in a whole
Speaker 4: bunch of different areas. There will be polls coming out
Speaker 4: soon where he's in the twenties. They would be outliers
Speaker 4: at this point, but you know that'll get a lot
Speaker 4: of attention the first one that has him at twenty
Speaker 4: nine percent, because that's damnlow his approval rating handling of
Speaker 4: his presidency. And this is since January of this year.
Speaker 4: We just ended March, so basically how the first quarter
Speaker 4: go for the president. He went from thirty nine percent
Speaker 4: approval to thirty five percent approval. His handling of the
Speaker 4: economy is down eight points since January, and it wasn't
Speaker 4: that high to start with. From thirty nine to thirty one,
Speaker 4: you're almost in the twenties. On your handling of the economy.
Speaker 1: I was just reading some stuff fight Who was it,
Speaker 1: Phil Graham? I think.
Speaker 2: The old timey senator, an economist and moderate, who was
Speaker 2: talking about how the terriff have been so bad for
Speaker 2: American business, specifically manufacturers, because all of their inputs have
Speaker 2: gotten so much more expensive they can't compete. And so, yeah,
Speaker 2: I've been shocked at how not focused on the economy
Speaker 2: the second Trump uh go around sight.
Speaker 4: And that's specific reality you're talking about. People's perceptions can
Speaker 4: be well, they can be the opposite reality or an
Speaker 4: exaggeration of reality. They don't have to be right on
Speaker 4: and people's perceptions right now, economic conditions in the US
Speaker 4: are poor, say seventy percent, seventy seven percent of Americas.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's terrible.
Speaker 4: Economic conditions in the US are poor, say seventy seven
Speaker 4: percent of Americans. That's up eight points since the beginning
Speaker 4: of this year. And we are already through the whole
Speaker 4: tariff thing, and people, you know their attitudes about tariff
Speaker 4: at the beginning of the year.
Speaker 2: I will double down on my oft made statement that
Speaker 2: if inflation is high, nothing else matters. And the ugly
Speaker 2: sister of inflation is uncertainty, and there's you know, it's
Speaker 2: that's thick in the air. So you take those two
Speaker 2: things together and people are really worried.
Speaker 4: And then in specific Trump's policies have worsened economic conditions.
Speaker 4: It's now up ten points since the first of the
Speaker 4: year to sixty five percent, So two thirds of Americans
Speaker 4: think Trump's policy specifically have worsened economic conditions. Those are
Speaker 4: not good numbers, and he had unbelievably great numbers his
Speaker 4: first term around everything economics. That's what got him reelected. Really,
Speaker 4: there's people remembering how great that was.
Speaker 2: But as CNN themselves point out, as bad as that,
Speaker 2: all that is, the Democrats are doing just as bad.
Speaker 2: In all the polling, there is little sign that Democrats
Speaker 2: are capitalizing on what Americans see as Trump's shortcomings, writes
Speaker 2: their analysis, and CNN with an even broader seventy four
Speaker 2: percent of the public saying Democrats in Congress have the
Speaker 2: wrong priorities. Four percent of Americans Democrats have the wrong priorities.
Speaker 1: That's one of the reason.
Speaker 2: I've been so fired up when Trump is either an
Speaker 2: idiot or an a hole, pardon me, is.
Speaker 1: That the fruit is absolutely ripe to pluck.
Speaker 2: From the tree of not losing the House and Senate
Speaker 2: in the midterm, of upsetting that tradition because the Democrats
Speaker 2: are so nuts and so weak, and the Republicans just
Speaker 2: keep scrowing it up.
Speaker 4: Democrats are much more likely than Republicans to be unhappy
Speaker 4: with their own party. If you want to look at Independence,
Speaker 4: who are apparently all the smart people go because you
Speaker 4: get more of a sense that these people are actually
Speaker 4: thinking about things and making a decision, as opposed to
Speaker 4: always going with their party or against the other party,
Speaker 4: which I think is probably pretty true.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm sorry who made that characterization.
Speaker 4: I think most smart people, when you look at Independence
Speaker 4: and polls, you think that's the crowd that's not going
Speaker 4: to always root for their side and root against the
Speaker 4: other side.
Speaker 2: Okay, I just I think that the way you put
Speaker 2: that was a little hurtful toward people who say I'm
Speaker 2: a Republican.
Speaker 1: Uh, they're not smart people. Okay, that's not what I meant.
Speaker 4: But well, I think in polling though, in fact, you know,
Speaker 4: if you look at Trump's approval rating among Republicans, it's
Speaker 4: like ninety eight percent or something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would I would say it's more interesting to
Speaker 1: look at Independence. I don't know if.
Speaker 4: You'll learn anything when when if you if you take
Speaker 4: an issue, you know, go with the Democrats. You present
Speaker 4: an issue to the Democrats and one hundred percent of
Speaker 4: the Democrats say it's great what Joe Biden just did
Speaker 4: and zero percent of the Republicans.
Speaker 1: Do you learn anything from that? I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you do well?
Speaker 2: No, no, indeed, I'm just my only never mind. I
Speaker 2: think I made myself clear.
Speaker 4: Independence. Both parties are seen as equally off topic. About
Speaker 4: three quarters of independents say that say that each of
Speaker 4: the parties have the wrong priorities. So to your point,
Speaker 4: say that because it's true to your point, though, the
Speaker 4: fruit is right for the picking for some party. If
Speaker 4: you got three three quarters of the independence out there
Speaker 4: saying I'm not happy, they didn't want to be. If
Speaker 4: one of those parties could break through with a you know,
Speaker 4: we're trying to.
Speaker 1: Help your lives right, you could make some hay.
Speaker 2: If the Democrats could unload their absolutely not you know,
Speaker 2: leftward flank, they'd be in great shape. If they became
Speaker 2: a party of moderates like rum Manuel and Rui tieshera
Speaker 2: trying to get going.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you know Ruy.
Speaker 2: He's a big time Democrat for a long time and
Speaker 2: he writes for the Free Press. But he's had to
Speaker 2: shut down his blog now because all of the energy
Speaker 2: and all of the money has gone out of moderating
Speaker 2: the Democratic Party. That that moment came and went apparently right.
Speaker 4: There's one other thing I want to add to this,
Speaker 4: just since she talked about taking back the House, which
Speaker 4: is an obsession of a media which normal people just
Speaker 4: don't think about. The Sunday talk shows constantly will they
Speaker 4: lose the House?
Speaker 2: Will so and so when the House? Normal people don't
Speaker 2: think about this stuff. Normal people worry about if they'll
Speaker 2: lose their house.
Speaker 1: Jack, that was just too perfect. I couldn't pass.
Speaker 4: It was really good, Thank you, sounds fantastic. But I
Speaker 4: wanted to point this out to the whole losing the House.
Speaker 4: When the House, and when Trump loses the House, which
Speaker 4: he probably will, they'll.
Speaker 2: Talk about, oh, what are repute reputed going against everything
Speaker 2: that Trump stands for.
Speaker 4: And blah blah blah. The twenty ten mid terms, for instance.
Speaker 2: Barack Obama, the Great Barack Obama first election after he
Speaker 2: was elected president, they.
Speaker 1: Lost sixty three House seats, sixty three and six Senate seats.
Speaker 1: I'll bet Obama wore out his per mat that night.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh my god.
Speaker 4: He was just going with back to the fruit analogy,
Speaker 4: low hanging fruit today.
Speaker 2: This is it's cheap shot at the Armstrong and Kiddy show.
Speaker 1: Wow, I don't know what's gotten into me. Back to
Speaker 1: you if you.
Speaker 4: Wanted to have a grown up conversation about mid terms
Speaker 4: and people taking the House.
Speaker 2: We're kind of a uh, I don't know, emotionally flighty electorate.
Speaker 2: We get all excited about somebody and then within months say,
Speaker 2: oh they suck and go completely the other direction, urage
Speaker 2: that I just voted for his garbage. No need to
Speaker 2: counterbalance them, no matter who it is.
Speaker 1: Yea, even Barack Obama, who had.
Speaker 2: Endless positive coverage right those first couple of years. I mean,
Speaker 2: he had the entire media outside of Fox as a
Speaker 2: cheerleading squad, and he looks like watching a couple make
Speaker 2: out on a street corner. It was hard to watch
Speaker 2: the tongue bath they were given in and they lost
Speaker 2: sixty three House seats. They're talking about Trump losing like
Speaker 2: a dozen. Yeah, yeah, So just keep that in mind
Speaker 2: whenever they get all excited about that stuff.
Speaker 4: It is kind of weird that we do that, though,
Speaker 4: get all excited about somebody there that's oh my.
Speaker 1: God, they've changed everything.
Speaker 2: Everything's gonna everything's gonna be different for the rest of
Speaker 2: all time now that this party just got the presidency.
Speaker 1: And then within months we go completely the other direction.
Speaker 2: The Blank Party may never win another election according to
Speaker 2: these Democratic triads.
Speaker 1: Oh god, again, you can't hate the media enough.
Speaker 2: I mean, they're they're they're incurious, they're biased and don't
Speaker 2: even know it. They're coddled, they're limp wristed simpletons. They're
Speaker 2: just despicable and virtually every way you can.
Speaker 4: Think of, well, that's the media. And then to the politicians.
Speaker 4: Remember when they get up there in the podium when
Speaker 4: your party takes it back, you know, every couple of years,
Speaker 4: and they get.
Speaker 2: Up there and talk about how a new era has
Speaker 2: dawned and blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: Blah, Send me money, send me money. That's what the
Speaker 1: going ding ding Yeah, whatever.
Speaker 2: Okay, we got the email worked for two hundred and
Speaker 2: fifty years. That's not a bad one. We're gonna check
Speaker 2: in on the moon mission. See how things are going.
Speaker 4: We're gonna check in on the Supreme Court oral arguments
Speaker 4: an hour two and we got mail bag next.
Speaker 1: Yo, yo, welcome to the show.
Speaker 4: Glad you're here. Lots to talk about. That isn't the Warnerran.
Speaker 4: But some interesting stuff with the Warnerran.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Speaking of war, let's have a freedom loving quote of
Speaker 2: the day. Getting back to our series on the theme
Speaker 2: of war. So many interesting ones and good ones. I'm
Speaker 2: tempted to go with my favorite of all time from
Speaker 2: Winston Churchill, and I can't do it the way he
Speaker 2: did it, but or I shouldn't anyway. We shall defend
Speaker 2: our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight
Speaker 2: on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds.
Speaker 2: We shall fight in the fields and in the streets.
Speaker 2: We shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And I just learned from a recent book that I
Speaker 4: was reading that in personal conversations he believed it was
Speaker 4: likely that it was a law lost at that point
Speaker 4: when he got elected Prime minister.
Speaker 1: It was too late, the proverbial last ditch effort. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Is that the five days in London that you recommended? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's really good. Yeah, I've got a note to pick
Speaker 1: up a copy of that.
Speaker 2: By the way, for the emptienth time we've been harassed
Speaker 2: to please just post a list of the books you
Speaker 2: guys recommend Moby Dick. Start with Moby Dick, read it
Speaker 2: four times, then get back to us. Cover to cover mailbag,
Speaker 2: drop us a note mail bag at Armstrong and geddy
Speaker 2: dot com. I have for now. I was putting mail
Speaker 2: bag together. Separated out all of the emails we got
Speaker 2: about your frustrating experience at the doctor's office where your
Speaker 2: doctor your pa physician's assistant asks you to leave the
Speaker 2: room so they can be alone with your son and
Speaker 2: find out what's really going on and where that comes
Speaker 2: from and people's reaction to it.
Speaker 1: Got a ton of email on.
Speaker 4: That, Yeah, got it so from a friend in Tennessee
Speaker 4: who said, they don't.
Speaker 1: Do that here.
Speaker 2: No, indeed, they don't do it everywhere in It's a wow.
Speaker 2: There are state guidelines, but then it's mostly the individual
Speaker 2: practice or hospital or whatever that chooses to adhere to
Speaker 2: those our guidelines.
Speaker 4: Now I'm really ashamed for going along with it. Oh,
Speaker 4: don't be ashamed.
Speaker 1: Moving along.
Speaker 2: Here is the correspondent's proper nice note from Jerry. Guys
Speaker 2: have been a long time listener. Always enjoy your conversations.
Speaker 2: Thanks Jerry.
Speaker 1: Did you happen to catch the rocket launch today? I
Speaker 1: absolutely did.
Speaker 2: It immediately brought to mind the Apollo fore mission, So
Speaker 2: Jerry's got a couple of years on us, I guess.
Speaker 2: But and the way Walter Cronkite described the Saturn five
Speaker 2: lift off, how it shook the building so violently that
Speaker 2: he had to hold the glass with his hands to
Speaker 2: keep it from falling. It was a moment that captured
Speaker 2: just how amazing space flight truly was. This launch carried
Speaker 2: some of that same sense of wonder. Some things never
Speaker 2: lose their ability to take your breath away. In fact,
Speaker 2: I went back and rewatched that Apollo launch on YouTube.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'd like to see one of the big launches sometime.
Speaker 2: It's tough, though, because they get delayed for weather a lot,
Speaker 2: and like you know, unless you live nearby, Yeah, you
Speaker 2: take some vacation days and hope for the best.
Speaker 1: I guess. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Somebody once explained to me that a rocket launch is
Speaker 2: an extremely powerful bomb that goes off, but it all
Speaker 2: goes off in one direction.
Speaker 1: So the rocket goes up.
Speaker 2: And that's a pretty good description of the amount of
Speaker 2: energy involved.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it was an amazing launch and we wish
Speaker 1: the astronauts. Well, let's see.
Speaker 2: On the topic of the president's speech, we got a
Speaker 2: handful of emails, including this one from Don President Trump's
Speaker 2: speech was brilliant, save for one emission. He neglected ad
Speaker 2: live from New York. It's Saturday night, April fool would
Speaker 2: have worked just as well. PPS to quote the great
Speaker 2: bugs Bunny, what a maroon. Not impressed by the President's speech.
Speaker 1: I don't know that I was.
Speaker 4: I don't know if it accomplished anything, which I assume
Speaker 4: you do it to try to accomplish them.
Speaker 1: I think it did.
Speaker 2: One of the main takeaways was trying to bring a
Speaker 2: little perspective to a TikTok world about these things take
Speaker 2: a lot little while, so quit with your endless war talk.
Speaker 1: After four weeks. I'm guessing.
Speaker 4: I'm guessing as to the way people take in media,
Speaker 4: and I don't know how many people still wait for
Speaker 4: a prime time address to I don't know.
Speaker 1: Fair point.
Speaker 2: Moving along, JT and Livermore, listen to our Armstrong and
Speaker 2: Getting One More Thing podcast yesterday about the New Democratic
Speaker 2: Party getting started in Canada, and how hilariously in their
Speaker 2: own way they were.
Speaker 1: It really is entertaining.
Speaker 2: You can go for Armstrong and getting on demand for
Speaker 2: April first, or just subscribe to the on demand podcast
Speaker 2: and I'm sorry, one more thing automatically downloads. Anyway, he says,
Speaker 2: here's my problem with the Canadian political meeting. In the
Speaker 2: name of enlightened inclusivity, they're literally creating a new cast
Speaker 2: system via their equity cards, in which the person with
Speaker 2: the most intersectionality points gets to cut in line and
Speaker 2: speak before others. Quite literally, true friends, And how do
Speaker 2: they use this newfound power. They use their time to
Speaker 2: rail on the lower casts for daring to.
Speaker 1: Speak before them.
Speaker 2: Remember, these are the self proclaimed compassionate, inclusive people. Yet
Speaker 2: these moral exemplars of inclusivity can't wait to exercise their
Speaker 2: newfound privilege over the lower cast. Those who simply support
Speaker 2: inclusivity but are straight, cisgender don't get to speak at all.
Speaker 2: Talk about a classic oppress or paradigm. New boss, same
Speaker 2: as the old boss. You just have to understand though,
Speaker 2: if you actually study, you know, the neo Marxists, the postmodernists,
Speaker 2: they do that on purpose. They don't actually mean that
Speaker 2: stuff about inclusivity. Inclusivity means more people who believe what
Speaker 2: I believe.
Speaker 1: Anyway, it's still a good point. And Scott from Pleasant
Speaker 1: Hill on the.
Speaker 2: Topic of space aliens, Oh jeez, let's see, and whether
Speaker 2: we should contact them, he says dark forest theorists, those
Speaker 2: are like Stephen Hawking, who believes why would we call out.
Speaker 1: Hey, I'm a fat, slow beast here in the dark forest.
Speaker 1: Who else is out there? Perceptions will ooo?
Speaker 2: That would be a stupid thing to do. Anyway, Scott
Speaker 2: Wright's Dark Forest. Forest theorists would say that aliens monitoring
Speaker 2: millions of planets said yesterday, Wow, they're at war on
Speaker 2: the surface of their planet, and they continue to desperately
Speaker 2: get off the surface to inflict their war into the
Speaker 2: universe enough of this time to exterminate them.
Speaker 4: Let's hope that that's not true. Shall we more to come?
Speaker 4: An hour or two if you use it. The podcast
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