WEBVTT - Burn It! Get Rid Of It! 0:00:09.960 --> 0:00:15.280 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:15.320 --> 0:00:20.400 Washington Broadcast Center, jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong. 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:31.960 And Jackie and Key Arms wrongdo Live. 0:00:32.200 --> 0:00:36.960 The Rum Studio c See Senior A dimly let room 0:00:37.000 --> 0:00:39.160 did with from the bowels of the Armstrong and getting 0:00:39.159 --> 0:00:43.560 communications compound shrouded by razor wire and Doberman's being got. 0:00:43.479 --> 0:00:47.680 Rid of the German shepherds. Doom Eller's a tariff on 0:00:47.840 --> 0:00:49.880 chermany right, they got too expensive from. 0:00:50.120 --> 0:00:53.599 Doberman's now protecting us and today we're under the tutelage 0:00:53.600 --> 0:00:54.640 of our general manager. 0:00:55.080 --> 0:00:57.480 Yeah. University of Florida. 0:00:57.160 --> 0:01:01.640 Alligators national champs, I think international chance. They deserve the 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:07.399 respect of having their full name used, the Alligators. 0:01:06.120 --> 0:01:13.080 You don't hear that very often. Oh, fantastic exciting game. 0:01:13.120 --> 0:01:15.760 If you watched it. If you didn't, that's fine too. 0:01:16.440 --> 0:01:19.480 Well, thank you. That's nice. That's very charitable. I don't 0:01:19.480 --> 0:01:21.360 want anybody to feel left out apparently. 0:01:21.880 --> 0:01:22.679 You know. It's funny. 0:01:22.760 --> 0:01:25.280 The the email that I've been going through prior to 0:01:25.280 --> 0:01:28.679 the show just rife with hostility. I mean, people just 0:01:28.880 --> 0:01:35.080 anger any particular topic, anything about Trump, Okay, yeah, yeah, 0:01:35.160 --> 0:01:40.600 one particular sort of person just enraged at any questioning 0:01:40.600 --> 0:01:44.360 of the great Man. But that's that's fine, Okay. I've 0:01:44.480 --> 0:01:48.160 responded not with anger but with kindness to all. How 0:01:48.160 --> 0:01:52.560 about the fact that the market turned like two trillion 0:01:52.640 --> 0:01:55.280 dollars up and down yesterday because of a rumor that 0:01:55.360 --> 0:01:57.680 was flying around That's what we were dealing with live 0:01:57.720 --> 0:01:59.760 on the show, where it looked like everything's come back 0:01:59.840 --> 0:02:00.720 with what's going on here? 0:02:01.000 --> 0:02:02.920 And it's because a fake. 0:02:04.680 --> 0:02:08.120 Truth social post from Donald Trump was flying around Wall 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:11.880 Street and the market like, I mean, gazillions of dollars 0:02:12.000 --> 0:02:17.600 changed hands because of that fake thing, and then and 0:02:17.639 --> 0:02:19.079 then everybody, oh, that's not real. 0:02:19.160 --> 0:02:20.600 Then other things happen. Yeah. 0:02:20.600 --> 0:02:23.240 I got a slightly different explanation as a blue check 0:02:23.360 --> 0:02:27.919 mark Twitter journalist dude who wildly misinterpreted a statement by Trump. 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:29.280 But anyway, the effect is the same. 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:31.880 It was it was it was nothing, it was vapor, 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:35.040 it was inaccurate, and the market turned trillions of dollars 0:02:35.040 --> 0:02:36.200 on It isn't that interesting? 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:39.680 Uh? Yes? Oh hell yeah? It is? 0:02:39.680 --> 0:02:43.320 Is that is that some of that computer trading because 0:02:43.360 --> 0:02:46.919 that to go crazy like that? Yeah, partly, Plus everybody 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:48.359 is just on the edge of their seat trying to 0:02:48.360 --> 0:02:52.519 figure out what's happening next in the official like gigantic 0:02:52.639 --> 0:02:55.359 trading world and you know, day traders and just all 0:02:55.400 --> 0:02:59.160 sorts of funds. It's as if, in you know, that's funny. 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:01.880 I almost said nineteen thirty nine, might as well say, 0:03:02.080 --> 0:03:07.360 two thousand and two, somebody said something really loud on 0:03:07.480 --> 0:03:10.720 Fifth Avenue in New York, and the market turned, you know, 0:03:10.800 --> 0:03:14.040 trillions of dollars because one dip ass whatever you know 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:17.639 social media platform it was on saying Trump is saying 0:03:17.840 --> 0:03:20.840 he will consider a ninety day pause when he didn't 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:26.000 say that at all. That's a guy saying something. Two 0:03:26.080 --> 0:03:31.080 point four trillion dollars of market value was added in 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:35.160 minutes when this rumor flew around, and then most of 0:03:35.200 --> 0:03:37.480 it disappeared just as quickly when people realize it was 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:37.840 a rumor. 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:40.560 But that just seems like that that just doesn't see 0:03:40.600 --> 0:03:41.520 I don't know anything. 0:03:41.280 --> 0:03:43.520 About anything, which is pretty obvious to anyone who listens 0:03:43.720 --> 0:03:45.960 about this stuff, But that just doesn't seem like that 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:49.760 should be be the way things work. What a guy 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:52.320 says something and trillions of dollars change hands. 0:03:52.400 --> 0:03:53.480 Yes, I would agree to top. 0:03:53.840 --> 0:03:58.040 Yeah, it just it seems like investing should be more. Yeah, 0:03:58.040 --> 0:04:00.320 it's the sort of thing Warren Buffett talks about. Should 0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:03.040 be more of a solid company that makes things for 0:04:03.120 --> 0:04:07.520 the long term and has good structural foundation economically, not 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:11.200 earnings trillions of dollars flying around. 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:12.720 That's what hits you. 0:04:12.840 --> 0:04:16.800 Talking about earnings and value and dividends. Oh, you're so 0:04:17.360 --> 0:04:21.000 Yesterday's ville, man, it's all about speculating. Here's today's news, though, 0:04:21.000 --> 0:04:25.840 and some of it is interesting. Politico says Trump has 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:30.000 started telling allies and phone calls that the endgame of 0:04:30.040 --> 0:04:32.320 the tariffs would be sooner than people expect, and that 0:04:32.360 --> 0:04:35.279 the White Houses and talks with multiple countries stressing that 0:04:35.320 --> 0:04:37.920 deals will be made, said one person familiar with those 0:04:37.960 --> 0:04:40.400 phone calls granted anonymity. 0:04:40.520 --> 0:04:42.279 So that's what Politico is saying. 0:04:42.640 --> 0:04:47.920 In the Washington Post, has Elon Musk appealed directly to 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:50.359 the President to ditch the whole tariff regime. 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:52.400 Uh huh. 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:56.800 Wall Street Journal headline CEOs who had been silent now 0:04:56.839 --> 0:05:00.320 speaking out against tariff plan. A number of like the 0:05:00.320 --> 0:05:03.279 super heavyweights of America, partly because they have their earnings 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:06.760 call calls in the next week where they have to 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:10.800 in a very legal fashion tell their investors what they 0:05:10.839 --> 0:05:14.040 think the prospects are. And they're saying, well, we're gonna 0:05:14.040 --> 0:05:17.320 tell our investors that we're in serious trouble because of 0:05:17.360 --> 0:05:19.960 these tariffs. So they're saying to the president, you understand, 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:24.760 we've got to say that. And Ted Cruz, Senator from Texas, 0:05:24.760 --> 0:05:28.520 who is often very favorable to Trump, tweeted out would 0:05:28.560 --> 0:05:31.840 be JFK. Assassin tweet it out ever for again, if 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:34.240 President Trump uses this moment is leverage, that would be 0:05:34.279 --> 0:05:36.480 a massive victory for the American people. But there are 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:39.799 voices in the White House that want high tariffs forever. 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:43.279 There are angels and demons sitting on the president's shoulders. 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:47.680 Who does he listen to? A Manda Crews have a 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:50.560 gift for just over flowery everything. 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:53.599 Everything he says seems a little dramatic. With angels and 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:56.680 demons sitting on the president's shoulder, who does he listen to? 0:05:57.680 --> 0:06:02.720 But I hope the angels, Ted, We'll. 0:06:02.600 --> 0:06:04.280 See how this all turns out. That's right, You know, 0:06:04.279 --> 0:06:06.160 it was funny. It was when we met him and 0:06:06.520 --> 0:06:08.120 chatted for a while. He could not have been a 0:06:08.120 --> 0:06:11.360 more straightforward and down to earth person. He's just, for 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:13.600 some reason, decided to go with that. Ah, I'm a 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:19.000 great roman orator approach to every public pronouncement. It's funny. 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:21.920 Have you listened to his podcast at all? M No, 0:06:22.000 --> 0:06:25.839 I haven't either. Oh, seek that out. So we'll see 0:06:25.880 --> 0:06:30.440 how all this turns out. And I don't know. Did 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:33.400 I just find that frightening? Two point four trillion dollars 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:34.159 in minutes? 0:06:34.680 --> 0:06:38.279 Would you hear? Bye? Bye? I mean throw millions billions 0:06:38.320 --> 0:06:41.800 of dollars at it? Bye? Oh it's not true, sell it, 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:44.320 sell it all, sell really quick, just learn it, just 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:44.920 get rid of it. 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:48.760 Just doesn't seem the way super genius financial people should work, 0:06:49.480 --> 0:06:55.159 right right, Yeah, yeah, these are spicy times. 0:06:55.640 --> 0:06:58.360 I'd say, now I have an upset stomach. 0:06:58.480 --> 0:07:00.560 We have the first direct talks with a RAN in 0:07:00.680 --> 0:07:04.120 eight years coming up on Saturday. Trump says, if RAN doesn't, 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:07.240 you know, agree to something, they'll be hell to pay 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:09.160 in a bombing the likes of which they've never seen 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:10.200 and all that sort of stuff. 0:07:10.280 --> 0:07:11.120 So that's very exciting. 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:15.480 Turns out those super advanced stealth bombers with the bunker 0:07:15.480 --> 0:07:17.920 busters and all that was for the houthis or so 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:21.800 it would seem as we're getting ready to pound them 0:07:22.040 --> 0:07:27.080 into obliteration. I say, we don't stop shooting at shifs. 0:07:27.320 --> 0:07:28.880 I thought it was for a ran. Maybe it is, 0:07:29.240 --> 0:07:30.880 but what I was thinking, so I was reading that 0:07:30.920 --> 0:07:34.960 stuff about you know whatever insider told Politico. He's telling 0:07:34.960 --> 0:07:36.760 people on the phone that they're going to wrap this 0:07:36.840 --> 0:07:37.680 up kind of soon. 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:39.559 So maybe that's the case. 0:07:39.880 --> 0:07:42.240 But the one that's going to end up hanging out there, 0:07:42.240 --> 0:07:44.440 the really really important one, I think, is going to 0:07:44.440 --> 0:07:47.120 be the whole China situation. All this other stuff could 0:07:47.160 --> 0:07:50.600 settle down and you still got the whole things with 0:07:50.720 --> 0:07:53.440 China have not changed. There are enemy I'm all fired 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:55.520 up about this because I was listened to yet another 0:07:55.680 --> 0:07:59.600 podcast with Tom Cotton on it yesterday, the Senator who 0:07:59.600 --> 0:08:02.600 has written book Seven Things You Can't Say About China 0:08:02.600 --> 0:08:04.840 But anyway, he is really a hawk on the whole 0:08:04.920 --> 0:08:05.520 China thing. 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:06.040 And should be. 0:08:07.040 --> 0:08:09.800 He says, people come to him all the time with 0:08:10.240 --> 0:08:12.520 his book and say, are things as bad as you 0:08:12.600 --> 0:08:17.280 say with Chinese? Says, no, they're much worse than anybody 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:20.320 thinks in terms of China is building to take on 0:08:20.560 --> 0:08:23.280 the United States and war. That's what they do every 0:08:23.320 --> 0:08:26.440 single day. They're planning to take us on and defeat us, 0:08:26.680 --> 0:08:30.120 and we're acting like it's not true anyway on the 0:08:30.160 --> 0:08:34.000 whole trade thing. You know, Trump China came back Friday 0:08:34.000 --> 0:08:35.840 with the thirty four percent tariff on top of what 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:38.240 we did, and then Trump yesterday said another fifty percent, 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:40.440 which put it over one hundred percent, and blah blah blah. 0:08:40.480 --> 0:08:43.720 I think that China United States thing is that's gonna 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:45.520 stay hot for quite a while, like maybe the rest 0:08:45.559 --> 0:08:48.000 of our lives. You want to hear a headline slash 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:52.000 lead that will make you say, wait, what. Many US 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:56.520 companies plan to keep China ties. Survey fines Washington made 0:08:56.640 --> 0:08:59.800 Beijing maybe heading toward the coupling, but US companies ties 0:08:59.840 --> 0:09:02.560 with China are proving hard to break. New report commissioned 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:04.920 by the US Chamber of Commerce Foundation showed that many 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:07.280 of the roughly two hundred American companies surveyed in the 0:09:07.320 --> 0:09:09.320 past couple of years planned to hold on to or 0:09:09.360 --> 0:09:13.240 increase their ties with China. That's really interesting given that 0:09:13.320 --> 0:09:15.839 Wall Street Journal article we read from last year where 0:09:15.880 --> 0:09:18.439 a lot of companies were saying they don't send their 0:09:18.440 --> 0:09:20.520 top business people over there anymore because they're worried about 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:24.120 them getting snatched up off the street. Yeah, you can't 0:09:24.160 --> 0:09:28.280 even send your your your head of sales to China 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:31.120 because you're afraid they'll be imprisoned illgally. But you're gonna 0:09:31.160 --> 0:09:34.520 keep doing business there because it's cheaper. Yeah, exactly, it's 0:09:34.559 --> 0:09:39.520 just it's crack cheap. Chinese labor is crack for companies. 0:09:39.679 --> 0:09:41.680 They think, Oh my god, I hate the communists. Look 0:09:41.679 --> 0:09:44.040 what they're doing. What Jack just said, but look at 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:44.640 the numbers. 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:47.600 Look at the numbers. If we have them assemble our whatever. 0:09:47.840 --> 0:09:50.720 Well, if Apple is being honest last week, and I 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:54.960 gotta believe they're exaggerating, but even if it's half accurate, 0:09:55.400 --> 0:09:57.959 saying that an iPhone, if they made ten percent of 0:09:58.000 --> 0:10:00.439 iPhones in the United States, an iPhone would cost. 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:05.679 Over three thousand dollars, that's extraordinary. Yeah, yeah, we. 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:08.200 Should start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe 0:10:08.200 --> 0:10:10.199 Getty on this it is How did it already get 0:10:10.200 --> 0:10:14.600 to be pulling up my sleeve? Tuesday April the eighth, 0:10:14.840 --> 0:10:16.840 or twenty twenty five, we are Armstrong in Gedty, and 0:10:16.840 --> 0:10:17.960 we approve of this program. 0:10:18.360 --> 0:10:19.200 Okay, let's begin. 0:10:19.120 --> 0:10:22.400 Then officially, according to FCC rules and regulations, leaping into 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:23.920 action at mark. 0:10:23.880 --> 0:10:29.800 From twelve down to the school's third national championship in 0:10:29.960 --> 0:10:35.920 men's basketball sixty five sixty three the final, the Florida 0:10:36.000 --> 0:10:39.319 Gators are the national champions once again. 0:10:43.920 --> 0:10:49.440 The tendency of college teams to be unable to score 0:10:49.640 --> 0:10:55.160 over extended periods at times, and the kids playing suffocating 0:10:55.200 --> 0:10:57.840 defense like you'd never see in the NBA except maybe 0:10:57.840 --> 0:11:00.119 Game seven of the finals means. 0:10:59.840 --> 0:11:02.559 That no college game is over till it's over. Correct, 0:11:02.559 --> 0:11:03.920 you can have enormous swings. 0:11:04.120 --> 0:11:07.720 Also, Florida's biggest star, uh, who's having one of the 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:11.040 greatest tournaments they said since Larry Bird back in the seventies. 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:14.800 Mm hmm. Scored eleven points and they still want none 0:11:14.840 --> 0:11:17.320 in the first half. Was not to be a scene. Yeah, 0:11:17.320 --> 0:11:19.280 it's amazing. So we got mail Bag coming up. 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:20.960 A little bit later, we get Katie's headlines, and then 0:11:20.960 --> 0:11:23.000 we got some more news of the day. I can't 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:26.000 wait to talk about the company that has brought back 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:30.800 the dire Wolf. It's been ex extinct for thousands and 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:34.080 thousands of thousands of years and they showed two cute 0:11:34.080 --> 0:11:37.719 little dire Wolf puppies on the news last night, and 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:39.679 what does this mean? They say wooe mammoth in a 0:11:39.720 --> 0:11:42.080 couple of years. And why are we doing this? This 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:44.200 is what my son said. Just why are we down? 0:11:45.600 --> 0:11:47.640 Son? Is a good which is a pretty good question. 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:50.680 Why are we doing what bringing back gigantic wolves that 0:11:50.760 --> 0:11:53.120 stand ten foot tall at the shoulder and might escape 0:11:53.160 --> 0:11:55.960 their enclosures and run rampant across the countryside. 0:11:56.559 --> 0:11:57.920 Is that what you're questioning? 0:11:58.480 --> 0:12:01.280 Uh so, that's a heck of a interesting topic. Got 0:12:01.320 --> 0:12:03.120 all that on the way. Our text line is four one, 0:12:03.200 --> 0:12:12.440 five two nine five KFTC. I got a question for 0:12:12.559 --> 0:12:14.640 NPR anybody that works over there, as if they would 0:12:14.640 --> 0:12:17.880 ever listen to us, when's the last time you said 0:12:17.880 --> 0:12:22.679 anything even slightly negative about Hamas? Tell me the last 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:26.719 news story that had one negative sentence about Hamas as 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:31.640 opposed to the negative story about Israel every single. 0:12:31.360 --> 0:12:34.640 Day, I know, I know. 0:12:36.360 --> 0:12:41.280 Four more Charlottan reporting Hamas's numbers of casualties, for instance, 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:44.800 which everybody including them, have now revised way down. Four 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:47.840 more children killed in Israeli air strikes yesterday. 0:12:48.160 --> 0:12:50.559 Hamas Ministry of Blah Blah says. 0:12:50.760 --> 0:12:54.000 Tell me one time you say something bad about maybe 0:12:54.000 --> 0:12:58.320 they did the story about how they tortured that Palestinian 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:02.560 to death the other day who led a protest against Moss. 0:13:02.640 --> 0:13:03.959 Maybe they did the story. If they did it, I 0:13:04.000 --> 0:13:10.000 didn't hear it. Yeah, wow, wow, Wow, that's heavy stuff. Jack. 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:11.719 I was going to come back and mention that I'm 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:13.880 in a game of chicken with my printer, which is 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:17.040 demanding I update the firmware and has been for weeks. 0:13:17.040 --> 0:13:19.760 But I'm not freaking updates. Oh, you're not gonna tell 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:20.200 me what to do. 0:13:20.280 --> 0:13:21.800 I didn't get to that. I'd tell you what to do, 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:24.319 and you know what you gotta do. Print. That's what 0:13:24.480 --> 0:13:25.640 I didn't get to that story. 0:13:25.720 --> 0:13:29.640 Yesterday I spent six seven hours on my son's computer 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:31.600 with Best By Geek squad back and forth and on 0:13:31.640 --> 0:13:33.480 the phone and everything like that, and I wanted to 0:13:33.480 --> 0:13:33.960 talk about that. 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:36.040 But God, that's that's one thing I wish I could do. 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:39.280 It's print, my printer's printing, or my computer's doing all 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:41.880 I needed to do, never needed to do anything beyond this. 0:13:42.120 --> 0:13:43.400 Can we just leave it alone? 0:13:44.600 --> 0:13:48.920 Not a security date? Of course, your computer. All you 0:13:48.960 --> 0:13:51.640 need is a ballpeen hammer good call him best Buy. 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:54.199 That'll take care of the problem. Get a new computer, 0:13:55.000 --> 0:13:57.720 Katie Green has the lead story. Who's reporting? 0:13:57.760 --> 0:13:57.840 What? 0:13:58.000 --> 0:14:00.920 For goodness sakes, Katie? All right, start with Politico. 0:14:01.440 --> 0:14:05.439 Their top headline, trade war chaos hits the stock market. 0:14:06.920 --> 0:14:12.480 Well, it's not very chaos c he today, so we'll see. 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:18.240 From NBC Ukraine captures Chinese citizens who fought with Russian army, 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:19.720 Zelenski says. 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:22.600 Well, you got the Chinese in there too. 0:14:23.720 --> 0:14:30.280 Yeah. From ABC, Harvard, UCLA, and Stanford among schools across 0:14:30.320 --> 0:14:34.280 the United States reporting student visas being revoked. 0:14:35.960 --> 0:14:39.360 Yeah, I quit advocating for terrorists or go home either way. 0:14:40.640 --> 0:14:44.480 From the New York Times, US to hold nuclear talks 0:14:44.760 --> 0:14:45.520 with Iran. 0:14:46.200 --> 0:14:49.880 Yeah, on Saturday, direct talks. First time in a long time. 0:14:50.520 --> 0:14:53.760 I thought Iran was denying that. Still, but who knows? 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:59.000 They're lying liars put their beards, Yeah, their beards. 0:14:59.000 --> 0:15:04.560 For instance, from Newsweek, DOJE official claims shocking fallout from 0:15:04.600 --> 0:15:09.520 Biden's mass migration millions of migrants on medicaid, thousands now 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:10.440 on voter rolls. 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:13.960 Oh my god, medicaid. You sneak into the country and 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:15.320 you get on medicaid. Wow. 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:18.480 Oh yeah, and thousands on voter rolls. To who was 0:15:18.840 --> 0:15:22.960 that story from? I was from Newsweek oh okay. 0:15:23.200 --> 0:15:27.119 From the Washington Post, the US just had its windiest 0:15:27.320 --> 0:15:30.240 start to spring in nearly fifty years. 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:32.040 I'm glad somebody's measuring that. 0:15:32.040 --> 0:15:35.960 That was our windiest starts to spring come. 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:39.200 In early, early, windy, early spring. Yes. 0:15:41.160 --> 0:15:44.840 From the New York Post, AOC flies first class to 0:15:44.880 --> 0:15:49.080 Bernie Sanders fight oligarchy rally as critic slam her for 0:15:49.240 --> 0:15:52.400 battling inequality one mimosa at a time. 0:15:52.560 --> 0:15:54.680 I saw that. I saw that story, and I thought, 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:59.680 am I to my upset about this? Shouldn't she? 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:03.680 Should she be sitting back and coach. She's very famous. 0:16:03.680 --> 0:16:04.920 It would be very hard to. 0:16:06.800 --> 0:16:07.240 Function. 0:16:08.840 --> 0:16:13.600 Yeah, she is very very famous, and you know her 0:16:13.680 --> 0:16:15.440 policies are ludicrous. 0:16:15.480 --> 0:16:17.000 She's a hypocrite and a liar. 0:16:17.680 --> 0:16:20.600 I don't need to harp on how she flies, Honestly, 0:16:20.640 --> 0:16:21.720 it just seems silly to me. 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:23.680 But if you enjoy it, enjoy it well. 0:16:23.760 --> 0:16:27.160 The average person never flies first class ever in their 0:16:27.240 --> 0:16:31.200 lives because it's so ridiculously expensive. And her doing the 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:34.600 whole I'm, you know, standing up for the regular person 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:36.600 and gets billionaires flying around in first class. 0:16:36.640 --> 0:16:39.120 I mean, then you know you understands the poor optics. 0:16:39.200 --> 0:16:45.520 Yes, and Finally, the Babylon Bee teen wondering when parents 0:16:45.680 --> 0:16:47.640 will grow out of their awkward stage. 0:16:49.400 --> 0:16:54.000 Wow, that's pretty funny. Dang it, the whole teenager thing. Geez, 0:16:54.040 --> 0:16:58.320 every day every day it amazes me. Keeps you on 0:16:58.400 --> 0:16:59.160 your toes, doesn't it. 0:17:01.320 --> 0:17:05.920 What are you so unhappy about? Your life looks pretty 0:17:05.920 --> 0:17:09.440 good from my angle? Oh boy, why are we designed 0:17:09.520 --> 0:17:13.240 like this? I don't know. That's it. How do you 0:17:13.320 --> 0:17:15.439 let go of a child because you can't stand to 0:17:15.480 --> 0:17:19.480 live with them? Anyway? It Scott's plan. We got a 0:17:19.480 --> 0:17:20.400 lot on the way, a lot of news. 0:17:20.400 --> 0:17:24.479 I hope you can stay with us Armstrong and Getty. 0:17:26.080 --> 0:17:28.800 Philadelphia Zoo announced last week that a pair of nearly 0:17:28.880 --> 0:17:32.480 one hundred year old tortoises recently welcome their first hatchlings. 0:17:32.800 --> 0:17:35.160 You may have seen the tortoises on the MTV show 0:17:35.520 --> 0:17:36.360 ninety nine. 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:43.240 And pregnant markets are surging. 0:17:44.600 --> 0:17:49.040 If you're listening to us live, so the bounce back 0:17:49.080 --> 0:17:52.480 has begun, and get into that later. Also, latest polling 0:17:52.520 --> 0:17:54.960 on the whole tariff thing. Get into that later also. 0:17:55.480 --> 0:17:59.320 And oh and I just saw the real ID deadline 0:17:59.359 --> 0:17:59.960 is a month away. 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:03.760 This is going to be my all time greatest hit. 0:18:05.760 --> 0:18:08.680 Screw up because it's been I've seen it coming for 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:13.280 so long and known the entire time for years that 0:18:13.400 --> 0:18:16.600 at some point I will be at an airport ready 0:18:16.600 --> 0:18:19.400 to get on a plane someplace I need to go, yes, 0:18:19.480 --> 0:18:21.760 and they'll say we no longer accept your driver's license. 0:18:21.800 --> 0:18:23.240 You need your real ID, even though I knew it 0:18:23.280 --> 0:18:25.760 for years. I am that is going to happen to me. 0:18:26.080 --> 0:18:28.280 I'll like your high school teacher assigned you a book 0:18:28.320 --> 0:18:31.720 report due in twenty years and you waited until the 0:18:31.800 --> 0:18:35.040 last night in you're up all life, right, that is 0:18:35.119 --> 0:18:38.399 going to happen to me. Yeah, it's funny, Judy, and 0:18:38.400 --> 0:18:41.119 I heard that report, and I have a feeling. I 0:18:41.160 --> 0:18:44.280 spoke for many, many millions of Americans when I said, 0:18:45.480 --> 0:18:47.160 do we have real ideas? 0:18:47.320 --> 0:18:50.679 I've completely lost track? Is ours real? She looked at 0:18:50.720 --> 0:18:54.119 it and said, yeah, yes we do. How that happened? 0:18:54.160 --> 0:18:56.760 I don't recall. Well, I sure don't have one? Are 0:18:56.800 --> 0:19:02.160 you sure? I'm positive you might? When did you last 0:19:02.160 --> 0:19:04.800 for New year license? I don't know? 0:19:04.960 --> 0:19:07.240 So, so your driver's license is it? 0:19:08.119 --> 0:19:09.960 Yeah? Oh it is? Well, maybe I did have a 0:19:10.000 --> 0:19:12.560 real like the updated does it have like a hologrammy 0:19:12.640 --> 0:19:18.040 looking thing? On there or yeah, yeah, there you go. 0:19:18.200 --> 0:19:20.360 Maybe I do have it done and done, sir, that's 0:19:20.359 --> 0:19:27.159 my point. Nobody has any idea it part. Yeah. So 0:19:27.520 --> 0:19:29.480 speaking of economics and that sort of thing, which a 0:19:29.520 --> 0:19:31.600 lot of people are doing these days in reference to 0:19:31.640 --> 0:19:32.200 the tariffs. 0:19:32.200 --> 0:19:34.400 But to this too shall pass, I hope eventually. 0:19:35.760 --> 0:19:35.840 Uh. 0:19:35.960 --> 0:19:39.760 And and some of the support and lack of support 0:19:39.880 --> 0:19:43.399 are coming from some interesting areas for the tariffs, and 0:19:43.480 --> 0:19:45.200 we can talk about that more later. But I'm kind 0:19:45.200 --> 0:19:48.320 of tariffed out. We brought this up kind of briefly 0:19:48.359 --> 0:19:51.400 at the end of Yes, I could talk about tariffs 0:19:51.400 --> 0:19:52.800 for many more hours. 0:19:52.840 --> 0:19:56.560 Well you should feel free. How about one room over anyway? 0:19:57.040 --> 0:20:04.120 I found this so interesting, big survey of America's employers, 0:20:04.760 --> 0:20:09.760 especially manufacturers, they cannot find reliable, conscientious workers who can 0:20:09.800 --> 0:20:14.760 pass a drug test. A good worker, like a good man, 0:20:14.840 --> 0:20:18.320 can be hard to find these days. And who is 0:20:18.359 --> 0:20:21.440 this writing in the Alicia Finley, who I think is 0:20:21.480 --> 0:20:26.800 a terrific writer. But she says, blame government, which showers 0:20:26.840 --> 0:20:29.720 benefits on able bodied people who don't work well at 0:20:29.760 --> 0:20:32.720 the same time subsidizing college degrees that don't lead to 0:20:32.760 --> 0:20:36.160 productive employment, and the result is millions of idle men 0:20:36.280 --> 0:20:39.159 and millions of unfilled jobs, what an economist would call 0:20:39.240 --> 0:20:43.520 a dead weight loss to society. So failing the drug test, 0:20:43.640 --> 0:20:47.080 is it mostly the marijuana, the Mary Jane, the lettuce, 0:20:47.320 --> 0:20:51.480 the hippie. Yeah, I don't know. I suspect so, though. 0:20:51.680 --> 0:20:54.920 Sure I think it's mostly pot. But I think that's 0:20:55.000 --> 0:21:02.280 just brilliantly simply put, we are showering benefits on able 0:21:02.400 --> 0:21:09.040 bodied people and subsidizing useless college degrees as as a 0:21:09.040 --> 0:21:13.120 people because the government is theoretically doing our work right, well, 0:21:13.200 --> 0:21:16.600 I for one, don't like either end of that anyway. 0:21:16.680 --> 0:21:19.200 Forty percent of small business owners and March reported job 0:21:19.240 --> 0:21:24.160 openings they could not fill. Construction companies fifty six percent said, yeah, 0:21:24.200 --> 0:21:27.639 we have unfilled jobs and we can't find anybody. Transportation, 0:21:27.920 --> 0:21:30.600 I have a feeling that's mostly truck drivers. Fifty three 0:21:30.640 --> 0:21:37.200 percent manufacturing, which the President is, according to many people, 0:21:37.240 --> 0:21:42.000 admirably trying to shepherd back inside the country. More forty 0:21:42.080 --> 0:21:44.879 seven percent of manufacturers say, no, we've got openings we 0:21:44.920 --> 0:21:45.480 can't fill. 0:21:45.600 --> 0:21:45.760 Well. 0:21:45.800 --> 0:21:48.400 So, according to the last week's National Federation of Independent 0:21:48.400 --> 0:21:51.800 Business survey, that might be a flaw in the president's 0:21:51.840 --> 0:21:55.840 plan that hasn't been discussed enough. He wants to bring 0:21:55.920 --> 0:21:59.119 back the fifties or seventies or whatever golden era of 0:21:59.160 --> 0:22:00.880 manufacturing we used to have. 0:22:01.080 --> 0:22:03.560