Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, jack Armstrong and Joe, Ketty Armstrong and
Speaker 1: Jackie and now he Armstrong and Eddy. We've done Cold Turkey.
Speaker 2: That means that we're not losing you know, we lost
Speaker 2: a trillion dollars to China, a trillion dollars. That means
Speaker 2: we're not losing a trillion dollars when we go Cold
Speaker 2: Turkey because we're not doing business with him right now,
Speaker 2: and they want to make a deal. They want to
Speaker 2: make a deal very badly. We'll see how that all
Speaker 2: turns out, but it's got to be a fair deal.
Speaker 1: So well, what about my never ending lust for pencils?
Speaker 3: So we got our trade war going on with China,
Speaker 3: and Trump says, I meet the press yesterday. Your kids
Speaker 3: have twenty dollars, you have too many pencils, which was
Speaker 3: not thing to say.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know what that's all about.
Speaker 3: And I think telling Americans they have too much stuff
Speaker 3: is not the best message in the world. We got
Speaker 3: this text though, regarding the dolls and pencils. Don't you
Speaker 3: think we need to buy fewer, nicer things that are
Speaker 3: American made since wages are higher here. It's the trade
Speaker 3: off of the coupling from China. Someone needs to be
Speaker 3: the adult, and Trump is doing it. It's like giving
Speaker 3: kids joke food. A responsible parent cuts it off and
Speaker 3: gives them nourishing food because that's what is best. Trump's
Speaker 3: right on this. American needs to do hard things. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm fine with the idea that, you know, let's have
Speaker 3: slightly higher quality stuff, or just make the message. You know,
Speaker 3: whether you like it or not, we can't continue to
Speaker 3: live off China manufacturing everything. But just flat out saying
Speaker 3: you have too much is not a good statement. Nobody
Speaker 3: wants to hear that. Ever, Well, you have too much
Speaker 3: in your paying too little for it. Yeah, Now, to
Speaker 3: completely restructure our trade relationship with China, not only is
Speaker 3: that defensible, it's iron clad.
Speaker 4: I mean we must. He's one hundred percent right about that.
Speaker 3: What are you doing with all those pencils? Three hundred pencils?
Speaker 3: A couple pencils is fine, you wear to your order exactly.
Speaker 3: The presentation of the idea was was odd. I'll just
Speaker 3: say that.
Speaker 4: But yeah, the idea that the after effect of restructuring
Speaker 4: our trade agreement with China is to some extent less
Speaker 4: cheap stuff on shelves. Well, yeah, that's absolutely true.
Speaker 3: On the other handy out of more than the pencils,
Speaker 3: I find pencils funny because I just don't know a
Speaker 3: whole lot of adults that use a lot of pencils.
Speaker 3: But uh, just flat out saying your kids get too
Speaker 3: many toys for Christmas?
Speaker 1: Oh my god. Well, and just and to our our text,
Speaker 1: I would just say.
Speaker 4: The the vast, vast majority of the manufacturing that is
Speaker 4: no longer going to be in China is not going
Speaker 4: to be in the United States, going to be in
Speaker 4: Vietnam and Malaysia and India and a number.
Speaker 1: Of other places.
Speaker 4: So the idea that we will on shore tremendous amounts
Speaker 4: of manufacturing restructure the American economy, it's just not realistic.
Speaker 4: It would that would take And this is this is
Speaker 4: my objection to it as a lover of liberty and
Speaker 4: mostly free markets. And as always, we're putting China the
Speaker 4: dirty commis aside, and we're putting critical industries for defense
Speaker 4: and pharmaceuticals and that sort of stuff aside. I'm just
Speaker 4: talking about dolls and pencils. It used to be in
Speaker 4: econ classes. You talk about guns and butter right, Well,
Speaker 4: now it's dolls and pencils.
Speaker 1: Evidently that's fine.
Speaker 4: Uh. It would take to to like on shore as
Speaker 4: much as he's talking about, and like completely regrow the
Speaker 4: American manufacturing world of post w W two, which is
Speaker 4: wildly unrealistic for a number of reasons. It would take
Speaker 4: so much central planning and so much government power. It
Speaker 4: would be like living in Venezuela. You would have to
Speaker 4: dictate millions and millions of choices by millions and millions
Speaker 4: of American economic actors every single day to get where
Speaker 4: he's talking about every hour real Oh yeah, yeah, every second.
Speaker 1: It's not realistic.
Speaker 4: On the other hand, I keep going back to Howard
Speaker 4: Lutnick wrote a piece in the Journal over the weekend,
Speaker 4: and I'll quote some of it for you. Later hinted
Speaker 4: rather strongly that this is all just restructuring trade agreements.
Speaker 1: Is this is not a.
Speaker 4: Bluff exactly, because if you don't come correct, if you
Speaker 4: don't come to the bargaining table, the tariffs will stay
Speaker 4: in place. But that's what it's all about, or so
Speaker 4: Lutnik seemed to be hinting. Okay, so unless you have
Speaker 4: more on that topic. That was one of them.
Speaker 3: Get used to scrawling things with rocks or something, I
Speaker 3: guess in a pencil less world.
Speaker 4: Luckily, I've hoarded enough writing utensils of various descriptions.
Speaker 1: I think I'll be fine.
Speaker 4: So the other soup a controversial thing that Trump uh
Speaker 4: said during the Meet the Press interview, and before we
Speaker 4: get into it, is one more aside the fact that
Speaker 4: the leader of the free world wades into an overtly hostile,
Speaker 4: frequently unfair interview and interviewer and defends policies and argues points. Man,
Speaker 4: that's beautiful. That is so American. George Washington would look
Speaker 4: at that and say, at a boy, you understand the job.
Speaker 4: For all of Trump's faults and excesses, he is there
Speaker 4: to talk to the American people, and I love them.
Speaker 3: On Meet the Press for the third time in one
Speaker 3: hundred days.
Speaker 1: I know. Compare that to the Mummy.
Speaker 3: Good lord, Hey Biden Obama, anybody do Fox three times
Speaker 3: in your first under days?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Go Tototoe with Brett Bhaer, who is infinitely more fair
Speaker 4: than kristin the She Wolf Welker now she Wolf Wolf,
Speaker 4: that's what I call her. Free of first Amendment free speech.
Speaker 4: Perhaps you've heard of it speaking of the Constitution. So
Speaker 4: this little exchange caught to some ears and was troubling
Speaker 4: to some folks. Let's go ahead and play it first.
Speaker 4: Just the first clip, handsOn, if you be's a kind, your.
Speaker 3: Secretary of State says, everyone who's here, citizens and non citizens,
Speaker 3: deserved to process.
Speaker 1: Do you agree, mister, I don't know. I'm not a lawyer.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Well, the Fifth Amendment, I don't know.
Speaker 2: It seems it might say that. But if you're talking
Speaker 2: about that, then we'd have to have a million or
Speaker 2: two million, or three million trials. We have thousands of
Speaker 2: people that are some murderers and some drug dealers and
Speaker 2: some of the worst people on earth. But it is
Speaker 2: some of the worst, most dangerous people on earth. And
Speaker 2: I was elected to get them the hell out of here,
Speaker 2: and the courts are holding me from doing it.
Speaker 4: Okay, So the Fifth Amendment clearly states something Trump either
Speaker 4: doesn't know it or won't admit it. That is, you know,
Speaker 4: the mainstream media is coverage. Then the next clip, But even.
Speaker 1: Give in those numbers that you're talking about, don't you
Speaker 1: need to uphold the Constitution of the United States' Press.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I have to respond by saying, again, I have brilliant
Speaker 2: lawyers that work for me, and they are going to
Speaker 2: obviously follow what the Supreme Court said.
Speaker 1: What you said is not what I heard.
Speaker 2: The Supreme Court said they have a different interpretation.
Speaker 3: So I wish he would have said maybe he did
Speaker 3: this on purpose because it gets people going crazy if
Speaker 3: he just won't flat out say I'll uphold the Constitution,
Speaker 3: and that might be what he wants. He wants, he
Speaker 3: might want people to be going crazy with the headlines
Speaker 3: that started yesterday morning. Trump refuses to say he would
Speaker 3: will uphold the Constitution because he could have said, well,
Speaker 3: I'll uphold the Constitution, but we need to figure out
Speaker 3: what the interpretation is. And that's I mean, because that's
Speaker 3: what he's saying. Yeah, that would have been much better messaging.
Speaker 3: Just a quick aside.
Speaker 4: I'm a little stressed this morning by proxy, because my
Speaker 4: youngest kid, my daughter, is she has her constitutional law
Speaker 4: final for a second semester of law school at a
Speaker 4: You know, there are a lot of fake graduate degrees
Speaker 4: out there. The law degree from where she's going eight fake.
Speaker 4: She is working harder than she ever Hesner's life and
Speaker 4: is very, very stressed and has no idea how she's
Speaker 4: doing so.
Speaker 1: Anyway, we were just going over.
Speaker 4: Various due process, procedural and substantive due process stuff last night.
Speaker 4: She was kind of running through it to make sure
Speaker 4: it was fairly solid in her head. And again I
Speaker 4: wish Trump had said precisely what Jack just said. But
Speaker 4: the idea of who gets what due process in what way,
Speaker 4: on under which circumstances is presented by Kristen Welker as
Speaker 4: I mean, can you murder your spouse? I mean, as
Speaker 4: if it's that simple a question, can you murder your
Speaker 4: spouse because you're tired of them? She presents it as
Speaker 4: if it is just a black and white yes or
Speaker 4: no question, And at its very core, will you up
Speaker 4: hold the constitution? Do people deserve due process? The question
Speaker 4: is clearly yes, and I wish he had said yes.
Speaker 4: But the question of what do process in what circumstances
Speaker 4: and arrived at in what way is, especially to a layman,
Speaker 4: enormously complicated, full of nuance, full of Supreme Court precedents
Speaker 4: and interpretation.
Speaker 1: It is far from a simple question.
Speaker 4: And he knew she was trying to trap him into
Speaker 4: either saying we got to turn loose to trendy Iragua
Speaker 4: guys who have become this weird cause celeb on the left.
Speaker 1: It's like trend de Iragua is the.
Speaker 4: New like fugitive slaves or you know, Vietnamese refugees or
Speaker 4: something like that. Suddenly you got like radical judges taking
Speaker 4: them into their homes and raising the muon as their own.
Speaker 4: What the hell are you people thinking?
Speaker 3: Do you think he's just not good on a nuance
Speaker 3: on an answer like that, or did he want the
Speaker 3: big splashy headline of Trump refuses to say hill up
Speaker 3: old Constitution.
Speaker 4: He didn't think it was deliberate because I've heard him
Speaker 4: a struggle or or not want to engage on constitutional
Speaker 4: questions like that a lot.
Speaker 3: Because he could have so easily said, courts have been
Speaker 3: interpreting what the founders meant by the Constitution since it
Speaker 3: was signed. Yeah, and that's what we're going to do now.
Speaker 3: I will uphold what the courts decide. But that's a
Speaker 3: very open question. Would be a perfectly reasonable answer.
Speaker 4: Right, yes, but well yeah, I know, And as always
Speaker 4: I wish I could have stepped in and said, well, yes,
Speaker 4: of course, we'll uphold the Constitution? But in what way
Speaker 4: is the question? These questions are enormously complicated, kristin again
Speaker 4: century resident differing interpretations, you witch, you know, so anyway,
Speaker 4: everybody wants to jump down his throat over that.
Speaker 3: But it's what the fact that the President won't answer
Speaker 3: yes to we you'll uphold the Constitution? I mean, that's
Speaker 3: a pretty good way to get people out.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I know, I know it absolutely is, and
Speaker 4: that is a fair point. But and I would hope
Speaker 4: having criticized Trump a significant amount in the last forty
Speaker 4: five minutes of the show, we've earned some credibility when
Speaker 4: I say I could read Trump's mind and he knew
Speaker 4: because Kristen Welker is evil and a witch, but she's calculating,
Speaker 4: and he knew. She was asking will you uphold the
Speaker 4: Constitution in the manner which I'm suggesting you should? Right, Yeah,
Speaker 4: that was what that question actually meant. And I wish
Speaker 4: he was a little more skilled at parrying it, because
Speaker 4: I don't think it was deliberate, but it was a
Speaker 4: gotcha question. I get why he answered the way he did,
Speaker 4: and I can hear some of my friends and trusted
Speaker 4: advisors who are constitutional scholars howling at the radio, saying, Joseph,
Speaker 4: when you're asked if you're going to uphold the Constitution,
Speaker 4: you say yes.
Speaker 1: And fair enough. But I stand by my point of view.
Speaker 3: As Mark Halpern writes, today, we're on day four of
Speaker 3: Trump making a joke about being the next pope, so
Speaker 3: he just continues to troll people.
Speaker 1: Sorry.
Speaker 3: Sean Comb's trial starts today, the criminal trial, which is
Speaker 3: gonna be nothing compared to the civil trial.
Speaker 1: When they go after his billions of dollars.
Speaker 4: Although the criminal trial is going to be a pretty
Speaker 4: good prelude.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, might put him in jail the rest of
Speaker 3: his life too, probably rightfully. So anyway, let's talk about today.
Speaker 3: I hope you can stick around.
Speaker 1: This is what the doctor's coming to.
Speaker 5: Stephan Curry rips the Cords, Vintage Curry, the Warriors sniffing
Speaker 5: it out. Curry, buddy Heal, Hondy heel to three dugling
Speaker 5: has seen this team going a twelve run.
Speaker 3: And the Warriors win Game seven against Houston, knock out
Speaker 3: the two seed as the seventh seed, and there you go.
Speaker 1: As I'm a Warriors fan, I was very excited with
Speaker 1: that game.
Speaker 4: H Bandwagon and my lifetime was on the road, and
Speaker 4: so the heroic play is created with all.
Speaker 3: Right, I'm dying, and it's just like, I feel like
Speaker 3: it's just a little gift for me as I, as
Speaker 3: I expire comfort on your dB in the old deathbed,
Speaker 3: spend a lot of time in the old deathbed.
Speaker 4: So, speaking of preventing your demise, I read with interest
Speaker 4: a piece in the Journal over the weekend the Maha
Speaker 4: friendly app that's driving food companies crazy. It's an app
Speaker 4: called Yuca, and there are others like it that scan
Speaker 4: the barcode of.
Speaker 1: The food you're buying.
Speaker 4: And because like everything we buy has bar codes these days,
Speaker 4: it's weird. It used to be you'd go to a
Speaker 4: market and anyway and it will rate it for you.
Speaker 4: It scores it on nutritional quality, the number of additives
Speaker 4: like a process crap, organic status, which whatever. That's kind
Speaker 4: of silly, but just because organic doesn't mean a specific
Speaker 4: thing really, but I thought, what the heck, I would
Speaker 4: get it and see what it thought of. For instance,
Speaker 4: my mid show snacks, because I always have a little
Speaker 4: snack midway through the show, so I was going to
Speaker 4: scan them live.
Speaker 1: Now, first of all, I'm not going to give bread.
Speaker 3: You're talking a liquid snack like you carry around or
Speaker 3: good lord, please let's see all right here this is
Speaker 3: I will tell you this.
Speaker 4: This is like nuts and dried fruit snacks that I
Speaker 4: really like these days.
Speaker 1: Let me scan it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, excellent, seventy eight out of one hundred. Oh wow,
Speaker 4: so that quickly you can scan anything and figure out. Oh,
Speaker 4: Henry my son is gonna love this. He's on a
Speaker 4: health food kick. Now Here is my blueberry almond bar
Speaker 4: from a startup.
Speaker 1: Kind of boutiquey.
Speaker 3: These things are hard to tell any any breakfast bar
Speaker 3: sort of thing.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: The hardest thing protein or a probiotic protein bar. They
Speaker 4: really emphasize their simplicity, non gmo, that sort of thing.
Speaker 4: I'm curious scanning scanning a good fifty four out of
Speaker 4: one hundred. It's a green light, but it's it's not
Speaker 4: as high as score as I expected because it's got
Speaker 4: a very very simple ingredient list and the higher score
Speaker 4: is better. Yeah, okay, now here is my major corporation,
Speaker 4: uh protein bar.
Speaker 1: Nature Valley. I eat those all the time.
Speaker 4: Oh I can get a good brand being healthy, right exactly, Well, it's.
Speaker 1: Right in the name Nature Valley.
Speaker 3: What can be better, and it's got a healthy color
Speaker 3: on the rapper, so it's got to be healthy.
Speaker 4: Right, and rather an impressive length list of ingredients.
Speaker 3: Me and my kids have eaten a million of those
Speaker 3: with the idea that let's have a healthy snack.
Speaker 1: Oh, thirty three out of one hundred poor. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: doesn't sound like a very high score.
Speaker 4: Well, you know, I should have intentionally brought something I
Speaker 4: knew to be crap. I was just there's a rating
Speaker 4: below poor called like forbidden or don't you dare or something.
Speaker 3: I was just thinking about how like you say, when
Speaker 3: you drive through if you're driving somewhere and it's got
Speaker 3: one of those electronic signs that show how fast you're going,
Speaker 3: you try to see how fast you can get on
Speaker 3: that thing against.
Speaker 1: What its rules are.
Speaker 3: I want to do that with the food stuff, some
Speaker 3: of the stuff I eat. I want to see how
Speaker 3: low a score I can get on something that I
Speaker 3: actually regularly eat.
Speaker 1: Wow, something, it's like a five. You should never eat
Speaker 1: this underneath circumstances unless you're going to die otherwise, no
Speaker 1: wonder you're on your dB anyway.
Speaker 4: So there is all sorts of really interesting compelling news
Speaker 4: today that has nothing to do.
Speaker 1: With Trump's a hero, Trump's in an idiot.
Speaker 4: Whether a domestic or globally that I'm looking forward to
Speaker 4: getting to next segment if we can squeeze it in
Speaker 4: everything from a real victory for school choice to a
Speaker 4: real victory for sanity and dealing with junkies.
Speaker 3: And one of the world's greatest investors stepped down over
Speaker 3: the weekend, Warren Buffett, finally releasing The Rains at age
Speaker 3: ninety three or whatever he is. His outgoing speech I
Speaker 3: found really interesting in Food for Thought. We can have
Speaker 3: a discussion about like the purpose of life and all
Speaker 3: that sort of stuff that I thought was really great.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I have thoughts. Certainly. Hope you can stay tuned.
Speaker 4: If you can't, just grab it via podcast later on
Speaker 4: Armstrong and Getty on demand. You ought to subscribe good
Speaker 4: Stuff to come stay with us Armstrong and Getty did.
Speaker 3: He's going to make the argument that hey, I was
Speaker 3: a swinger with a wild light sexual lifestyle, but it
Speaker 3: was all consensual. And I mean, you know, we entertainers,
Speaker 3: we have kind of wild sex lives, so right right.
Speaker 4: And he's got a dream team OJSQUE, a legal dream
Speaker 4: team that's pretty impressive. And he turned down a fairly
Speaker 4: reasonable plea bargain, according to you know sources I've read
Speaker 4: ten days ago and said, no, let's take this thing
Speaker 4: to trial.
Speaker 3: He'd be in a lot better shape if he didn't
Speaker 3: have that video out there of him beating up that
Speaker 3: girl and dragging her down the hallway in her by
Speaker 3: her ponytail.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, since he is accused not of wild crazy sex,
Speaker 4: which is not a crime, drug them, well, exactly, drugging people,
Speaker 4: beating them, compelling them to do things against their will,
Speaker 4: that sort of thing. And you know, bringing sex workers
Speaker 4: back and forth across state lines, which is still illegal
Speaker 4: in certain places. Anyway, it's gonna be a hell of
Speaker 4: a trial. The jury selection could take forever.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you got the whole Trying to find somebody
Speaker 3: who doesn't already have an opinion.
Speaker 1: That'd be hard.
Speaker 4: And I've gone through many jury selection processes where not
Speaker 4: only do they ask you if you have a preset opinion,
Speaker 4: but the defense in particular wants to know, well, both
Speaker 4: sides really do you have certain sympathies? So I could
Speaker 4: see you're sitting there in the jury pool and the
Speaker 4: judge asks you, all right, how many of you've gotten
Speaker 4: all oiled up with friends and strangers in that group
Speaker 4: sex and people are like well as a matter of fact,
Speaker 4: and everybody looks at them all.
Speaker 1: I mean, that could be wild.
Speaker 3: About musically, They said that was going to be a
Speaker 3: thing because some people have a bad attitude about like
Speaker 3: the whole rap hip hop world, you know, just automatically, yeah,
Speaker 3: but some people have a very good, maybe forgiving attitude
Speaker 3: about the rap hip hop world.
Speaker 1: That would work the other directions. So that's kind of weird.
Speaker 1: Oh right.
Speaker 4: They these are their heroes, their musical heroes and cultural
Speaker 4: heroes on those kind of trials.
Speaker 3: Did you follow any of the Harvey Weinstein trial from Friday?
Speaker 1: Just reading about it a bit? Oh my god.
Speaker 3: One of the women on the stand who Harvey Weinstein
Speaker 3: raped obviously several times. He's already been found guilty, I think,
Speaker 3: but it doesn't matter to get into the particulars why
Speaker 3: they're going through this again. But I mean, his lawyer
Speaker 3: went at her after her heart, and she started crying
Speaker 3: and you're not gonna you're not gonna make me look
Speaker 3: like I am lying or whatever.
Speaker 1: I was raped and.
Speaker 3: They had to stop the proceedings and she had to
Speaker 3: leave for a wild But I mean, that's why people
Speaker 3: don't come forward, because you're gonna get up there and
Speaker 3: get badgered like you're just some sort of sl bloody liar, right,
Speaker 3: which sometimes you are, which is the problem.
Speaker 1: That's why you got to go through this whole process.
Speaker 3: But you know, if you're actually raped by this big,
Speaker 3: ugly monster dude and then you're getting that'd be tough.
Speaker 1: That would be tough.
Speaker 4: Well, and the point's been made many times, but it's
Speaker 4: worth making again that slutty liars get rape sure. Brutal, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: just just terrible. The like whack a dooodle rights embrace
Speaker 4: of Harvey Weinstein.
Speaker 1: Maybe we can talk about it somebody. I don't know
Speaker 1: about that. Is that a thing?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, one hundred percent? Yeah really yeah. What what's
Speaker 4: the overall theme there? Well, he was targeted by the
Speaker 4: left wing me too woke establishment, okay, and he's the
Speaker 4: enemy of my enemy, therefore he is my friend. It
Speaker 4: reminds of when we have mocked this brutally through the
Speaker 4: years of If Dick, Flip and Cheney were to come
Speaker 4: out and say I don't like Trump, he would be
Speaker 4: on MSNBC and Rachel Madow would be saying this seasoned leader,
Speaker 4: this man who guided America through the minut You criticize
Speaker 4: the other side or whatever, or become the enemy of
Speaker 4: my enemy.
Speaker 1: You're lyon I lit. Liz Cheney is the best example.
Speaker 4: She is the most conservative member of Congress statistically. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it was, but because she was on board with impeaching Trump,
Speaker 4: she was a hero. So let's hit a couple of
Speaker 4: headlines worthy of our consideration, a few domestic and a
Speaker 4: few international. Texas just to prove the country's largest school
Speaker 4: choice bill it is something. It's a billion dollar measure
Speaker 4: signed into law on Saturday, capping off a thirty year
Speaker 4: effort to bring universal.
Speaker 1: School choice to Texas.
Speaker 4: It launches at the start of next year, like next fall.
Speaker 4: It'll place a billion dollars toward education savings accounts over
Speaker 4: the course of two years. Families can receive roughly ten
Speaker 4: thousand dollars per year for each child. Children with disabilities
Speaker 4: are eligible for significantly more, while homeschoolers could receive up
Speaker 4: to two thousand dollars a year for a curriculum and
Speaker 4: that sort of thing. Families could use the funds for
Speaker 4: private school tuition and other school related expenses like textbooks, transportation,
Speaker 4: and therapy. Any almost any school age child who is
Speaker 4: a US citizen or lawfully gavin in the country would
Speaker 4: be eligible to receive funding under the program. Step one
Speaker 4: and a big one to undermining the stranglehold the evil
Speaker 4: teachers unions have on government schools. So good for you, Texas.
Speaker 4: We were talking Jack Friday, you had to step out
Speaker 4: for a minute. We were talking about Ohio passing a
Speaker 4: significant school choice measure under the fairly moderate Mike Dwine,
Speaker 4: and they've had some fantastic success in that, so that's good.
Speaker 4: This is believe it or not, from the New York Times.
Speaker 4: The headline is We've lost our way. San Francisco rethinks
Speaker 4: drug paraphernalia handouts, and they're talking about Daniel Lurie, who's
Speaker 4: the city's new thoroughly reasonable mayor, is scaling back a
Speaker 4: program that gave away clean foil pipes and plastic straws
Speaker 4: for fentanyl consumption.
Speaker 3: I saw a lot of that when I was in
Speaker 3: San Francisco two weeks ago. I saw people because, as
Speaker 3: I mentioned, I walked through the corner of the Tenderloin
Speaker 3: with my son just so you could see it, and
Speaker 3: I saw foil straws. I saw all that sort of stuff,
Speaker 3: people doing it, like just sitting on the sidewalk or
Speaker 3: on the railing, or pushing it around in their wheelchairs
Speaker 3: or all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 1: And it's because it's so easy to get. The city
Speaker 1: has been providing it. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm looking at this picture in New York Times,
Speaker 4: and I know that corner well funny. Nonprofits will have
Speaker 4: to direct people toward treatment. Wow, what a n oh,
Speaker 4: so not being a junkie anymore, not making it easier
Speaker 4: to be They want them to not be a junkie anymore.
Speaker 4: I'll be damned. But consider this. This is Heather Knight,
Speaker 4: who's their San Francisco person. Dig these the lead couple
Speaker 4: of sentences from the New York Times, and you tell
Speaker 4: me whether than the tone of the national conversation is shifted.
Speaker 4: Plastic straws are banned in San Francisco, at least if
Speaker 4: you want to drink a soda or lemonade. Those smoking fentanyl, however,
Speaker 4: have been able to get them for free at taxpayers expense. Wow,
Speaker 4: and that's not written by National Reviewer Fox, that's the
Speaker 4: New York Times.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 4: There was also a time five years ago when the
Speaker 4: city helped pay for a billboard that showed smiling, glittery
Speaker 4: party goers.
Speaker 1: Quote do it with friends.
Speaker 4: The public service message said, urging drug dealers, I'm sorry
Speaker 4: drug users to consume with others so they could treat
Speaker 4: a potential overdose. Wow, smiling glittery party goers because that's
Speaker 4: what it looks like the whole fentanyl world.
Speaker 1: Oh lord.
Speaker 4: Yeah, take a walk down Eddie Street in San Francisco,
Speaker 4: or you know, the street of your choice that has
Speaker 4: not been cleaned up for tourists and all, and to.
Speaker 1: See whether it strikes you as glittery now or if
Speaker 1: you've se any smiles.
Speaker 4: Yeah, great, Scott, speaking of the decay of society.
Speaker 1: Although let's be positive here.
Speaker 4: If San Francisco is saying this is madness, there's hope
Speaker 4: Target is pulling the plug on self checkout. There's just
Speaker 4: too much theft now. Jack and I are bitterly disagreed
Speaker 4: over self checkout. I enjoy it, Jack hates it.
Speaker 1: I do hate it.
Speaker 4: But yeah, there are so many people willing to steal
Speaker 4: so much they can't do it anymore.
Speaker 1: That's something.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's well, it's a it's an indicator.
Speaker 3: What was I at the other day. What did I
Speaker 3: want to buy something very bland? Oh, I was going
Speaker 3: to try to take a hot bath because of my
Speaker 3: whole lung situation and see if that would help me.
Speaker 3: I very rarely take a bath. As I often say,
Speaker 3: men from Kansas don't take baths. But I got some
Speaker 3: bubble bath. I wanted to buy some bubble bath, and
Speaker 3: it was all locked up. It was all locked up.
Speaker 3: I had to have somebody go get a key to
Speaker 3: unlock the bubble bath.
Speaker 1: At this the bubble.
Speaker 4: Bathing tails for thirty four ninety nine. I don't know
Speaker 4: what it costs me six dollars. Uh, yeah, that's unbelievable.
Speaker 4: Now men from Kansas will take a bath. If I'm
Speaker 4: a woman, I don't date a guy who takes a bath.
Speaker 4: You better say like a brass tub in an old
Speaker 4: timey western hotel.
Speaker 1: To get with a hole, to get with a hoe,
Speaker 1: and you.
Speaker 4: Got a scrub brush to get the accumulated grip of fact,
Speaker 4: six weeks on the prairie off of you having not
Speaker 4: had any bathing. We have a long cattle drive exactly exactly.
Speaker 4: You finally wrapped up to cattle drive, and you're gonna
Speaker 4: get with an old timey frilly sex worker back in dot.
Speaker 3: The only time you're allowed to take a bath, exactly, exactly.
Speaker 3: Here's my favorite story of the weekend, my favorite political
Speaker 3: story of the weekend. Anyway, Did you see the cover
Speaker 3: of New York magazine John Fetterman's face on it? The
Speaker 3: vulnerability of John Fetterman. They did a hit piece on
Speaker 3: John Fetterman in New York Magazine. Oh my, John Fetterman
Speaker 3: insists he's in good health, but staffer's pasted in presence
Speaker 3: say they no longer recognized the man they once knew,
Speaker 3: with a whole bunch of not on the record quotes
Speaker 3: about his brain doesn't work and he really shouldn't be
Speaker 3: a senator right now because he no longer agrees with
Speaker 3: their point of view. When he was in really bad
Speaker 3: shape and he said hello, good night to open that debate,
Speaker 3: everybody covered for him called you an able list if
Speaker 3: you criticized the fact that, hey, the dude's brain doesn't work,
Speaker 3: he shouldn't be a senator, And they ignored all that
Speaker 3: criticized you. Now that he's anti Hamas, now that he's
Speaker 3: one hundred percent anti Hamas and on the side of Israel.
Speaker 3: New York magazine does a hit piece on him with
Speaker 3: no name quotes about how he shouldn't be in the
Speaker 3: Senate and staffers are worried about his mental health. Isn't
Speaker 3: that unbelievable? I mean, that's just or completely believable.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it's pathetic, pathetic. Moving to the foreign scene,
Speaker 4: Kim Jong Owen's latest gift to Russia is migrant workers.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 4: Having supplied tens of thousands of guys for a machine
Speaker 4: gun fodder for Vladimir Putin, what is the dictator of
Speaker 4: a starving country do next? He gives thousands and thousands
Speaker 4: of cheap, hard working, starving North Koreans to Russia's labor ministry.
Speaker 4: Lack of workers is among Putin's biggest problems.
Speaker 1: Number one.
Speaker 4: They have an absolutely pathetic birth rate.
Speaker 1: More on that to come.
Speaker 4: Birth rates, by the way, it's a hell of a
Speaker 4: story and exacerbating by the war. Hundreds of thousands of
Speaker 4: Russians have died in the fighting, according to Western estimates,
Speaker 4: and countless others have fled the country. They think they're
Speaker 4: one point five million dollar I'm sorry, one point five
Speaker 4: million workers short of filling openings right now, and it
Speaker 4: could easily be two point.
Speaker 1: Four million within the next few years.
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, so North Korean laborers are pouring into Russia.
Speaker 3: Well, they've lost almost a million men from the field
Speaker 3: who are either dead or can't fight anymore, so you
Speaker 3: probably can't work either. And they're taking in many cases
Speaker 3: the dregs of society. You were probably doing the worst
Speaker 3: work out there to throw them at the front lines.
Speaker 3: So yeah, who's going to.
Speaker 1: Do those jobs?
Speaker 4: So it's mostly hard work in jobs in Russia's East.
Speaker 4: It's much more depopulated eastern parts. They're not in the
Speaker 4: big cities or anything like that, but.
Speaker 1: Enjoy the salt mines.
Speaker 4: North Koreans officials have expressed a hope that more North
Speaker 4: Korean workers could soon arrive in major cities. North corp
Speaker 4: about they're prized by local employers for their low wages
Speaker 4: and willingness to work twelve hour days without complaint. Wow,
Speaker 4: and be glad you were born in America. Yeah, and
Speaker 4: final story from the Foreign Beat. Teenage terrorists are a
Speaker 4: growing threat to Europe's security. Law enforcers are overwhelmed and
Speaker 4: warned that a new generation of extremists is being radicalized online.
Speaker 4: Terrorists in Europe are getting younger and younger, and authorities
Speaker 4: are struggling to find them. In recent months, dozens of
Speaker 4: adolescents as young as fourteen have been arrested across Europe
Speaker 4: for allegedly plotting attacks against music venues, shopping centers, and
Speaker 4: sites of worship. Here's a fourteen year old. These are
Speaker 4: all Islamists, by the way. Fourteen year old girl from
Speaker 4: Montenegro arrested in Austria last year for allegedly plotting an
Speaker 4: attack on non believers. Another fourteen year old arrested in
Speaker 4: February for plotting to attack a train station. Three Taylor
Speaker 4: Swift concerts in Vienna canceled last year after three suspects
Speaker 4: aged seventeen and nineteen were arrested for conspiring on what
Speaker 4: the CIA called a well developed plot that could have
Speaker 4: killed hundreds. While the US has long had a problem
Speaker 4: with school shooters, kind of well, yeah, yeah, it's a terrible,
Speaker 4: terrible thing, the growing teenage threat to Europe comes primarily
Speaker 4: primarily from Islamists. I'm glad to see that stated as
Speaker 4: straightforwardly as it is in the Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 3: Here's my favorite dumb story that we won't actually do,
Speaker 3: And in an exclusive interview, with Fox News, Paula Abdul opened
Speaker 3: up about the challenges she had to overcome being the
Speaker 3: only female judge on American Idol in the early two thousands. Man,
Speaker 3: there's a lot in that headline to take apart a
Speaker 3: show no longer are you talking about a quarter century
Speaker 3: ago with somebody completely irrelevant then very irrelevant? Now her
Speaker 3: challenge of being one of three people that right, that'd
Speaker 3: be right, be my all time bread sandwich headline I've
Speaker 3: ever seen.
Speaker 4: If somehow God Almighty were too because it would take
Speaker 4: God Almighty put together a list of things to worry
Speaker 4: about or think about today, where would that rank?
Speaker 3: Imagine being given that assignment. You're an interviewer, I want
Speaker 3: you to ask Paula Abdul about the challenges. We're not
Speaker 3: trying to o bring again a blah blah blah. Do
Speaker 3: you mean like back in two thousand and two? Really
Speaker 3: we got more in the way. Stay here, armstrong, hey yedtie.
Speaker 6: Authorities in Brazil on high alert after a bomb threat
Speaker 6: at Lady Gaugu's concert was a verdict, police calling it
Speaker 6: Operation Fake Monster, saying this was a coordinated attempt at
Speaker 6: mass murder and tonight two suspects, including the alleged ring leader,
Speaker 6: under arrest. Police saying this was a plan on digital
Speaker 6: platforms to commit a bomb attack with homemade explosive artifacts
Speaker 6: and molotov cocktails. It mainly targeted the LGBTQ community. The goal,
Speaker 6: according to police, terror for fame on social media, but
Speaker 6: the plan foiled just in time, keeping the more than
Speaker 6: two million people that attended the free concert.
Speaker 4: Safe Brazilian would be same seeking terrorists.
Speaker 1: Is that?
Speaker 3: What was the first story I saw on this yesterday?
Speaker 3: They made know they think even no clarity as to
Speaker 3: who it was behind it, And of course my first thought,
Speaker 3: based on what you were talking about the last segment,
Speaker 3: was okay, were these is lomists? Like has been the
Speaker 3: case a whole bunch of times with attempts on various concerts,
Speaker 3: it got caught, And this version in CNN has it
Speaker 3: closer to what you're just talking about. They wanted to
Speaker 3: gain notoriety on social media.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this is a very odd Brazilian variation on the theme.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure they're super anti LGBTQ plus.
Speaker 1: Or whatever reason.
Speaker 4: All right, fine, I think just that, you know, it's fine.
Speaker 4: I don't believe in killing anybody for any reason. No,
Speaker 4: if they don't have a coming, it's just I think
Speaker 4: this is a blip and a very weird in Brazil variation.
Speaker 4: But getting back to Europe, at least momentarily, it's a
Speaker 4: huge and growing problem teenage militant Islamist in Europe, and
Speaker 4: as the journal puts it, young people are increasingly drawn
Speaker 4: into online communities. I mean we could that could be
Speaker 4: the opening sentence to a bunch of different discussions. Sure
Speaker 4: that propagate extremist views, conspiracy theories, hello and violence. Behind
Speaker 4: the teen extremism lies a combination of factors. An unprecedented
Speaker 4: spread of extremist propaganda accelerated partly by artificial intelligence and
Speaker 4: the powerful hold on youth by social media such as
Speaker 4: TikTok with increasingly sophisticated means of retaining user attention. And
Speaker 4: then the Gazo War, which is really ramped up anger
Speaker 4: and extremism. But two thirds of the sixty Islamic extremists
Speaker 4: arrested on terrorism charges across Europe following the start of
Speaker 4: the Gods War, two thirds of the more teenagers. And
Speaker 4: then how is AI exascerbating it?
Speaker 1: Is it the bots? The fake accounts?
Speaker 4: No No, it's the algorithms, oh, that keep you addicted
Speaker 4: to TikTok or Instagram or YouTube or whatever, or feed
Speaker 4: you the stuff you want exactly. It keeps you addicted
Speaker 4: to we must kill the Jews and the Infidels in
Speaker 4: the name of Allah.
Speaker 3: It makes it feel like there's way more of you
Speaker 3: than there is. You're part of profits.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's awful. Armstrong and Getty