Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong.
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Speaker 2: Rid of the German shepherds. Doom Eller's a tariff on
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Speaker 1: Doberman's now protecting us and today we're under the tutelage
Speaker 1: of our general manager.
Speaker 2: Yeah. University of Florida.
Speaker 1: Alligators national champs, I think international chance. They deserve the
Speaker 1: respect of having their full name used, the Alligators.
Speaker 2: You don't hear that very often. Oh, fantastic exciting game.
Speaker 2: If you watched it. If you didn't, that's fine too.
Speaker 1: Well, thank you. That's nice. That's very charitable. I don't
Speaker 1: want anybody to feel left out apparently.
Speaker 2: You know. It's funny.
Speaker 1: The the email that I've been going through prior to
Speaker 1: the show just rife with hostility. I mean, people just
Speaker 1: anger any particular topic, anything about Trump, Okay, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: one particular sort of person just enraged at any questioning
Speaker 1: of the great Man. But that's that's fine, Okay. I've
Speaker 1: responded not with anger but with kindness to all. How
Speaker 1: about the fact that the market turned like two trillion
Speaker 1: dollars up and down yesterday because of a rumor that
Speaker 1: was flying around That's what we were dealing with live
Speaker 1: on the show, where it looked like everything's come back
Speaker 1: with what's going on here?
Speaker 2: And it's because a fake.
Speaker 1: Truth social post from Donald Trump was flying around Wall
Speaker 1: Street and the market like, I mean, gazillions of dollars
Speaker 1: changed hands because of that fake thing, and then and
Speaker 1: then everybody, oh, that's not real.
Speaker 2: Then other things happen. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I got a slightly different explanation as a blue check
Speaker 1: mark Twitter journalist dude who wildly misinterpreted a statement by Trump.
Speaker 2: But anyway, the effect is the same.
Speaker 1: It was it was it was nothing, it was vapor,
Speaker 1: it was inaccurate, and the market turned trillions of dollars
Speaker 1: on It isn't that interesting?
Speaker 2: Uh? Yes? Oh hell yeah? It is?
Speaker 1: Is that is that some of that computer trading because
Speaker 1: that to go crazy like that? Yeah, partly, Plus everybody
Speaker 1: is just on the edge of their seat trying to
Speaker 1: figure out what's happening next in the official like gigantic
Speaker 1: trading world and you know, day traders and just all
Speaker 1: sorts of funds. It's as if, in you know, that's funny.
Speaker 1: I almost said nineteen thirty nine, might as well say,
Speaker 1: two thousand and two, somebody said something really loud on
Speaker 1: Fifth Avenue in New York, and the market turned, you know,
Speaker 1: trillions of dollars because one dip ass whatever you know
Speaker 1: social media platform it was on saying Trump is saying
Speaker 1: he will consider a ninety day pause when he didn't
Speaker 1: say that at all. That's a guy saying something. Two
Speaker 1: point four trillion dollars of market value was added in
Speaker 1: minutes when this rumor flew around, and then most of
Speaker 1: it disappeared just as quickly when people realize it was
Speaker 1: a rumor.
Speaker 2: But that just seems like that that just doesn't see
Speaker 2: I don't know anything.
Speaker 1: About anything, which is pretty obvious to anyone who listens
Speaker 1: about this stuff, But that just doesn't seem like that
Speaker 1: should be be the way things work. What a guy
Speaker 1: says something and trillions of dollars change hands.
Speaker 2: Yes, I would agree to top.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it just it seems like investing should be more. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's the sort of thing Warren Buffett talks about. Should
Speaker 1: be more of a solid company that makes things for
Speaker 1: the long term and has good structural foundation economically, not
Speaker 1: earnings trillions of dollars flying around.
Speaker 2: That's what hits you.
Speaker 1: Talking about earnings and value and dividends. Oh, you're so
Speaker 1: Yesterday's ville, man, it's all about speculating. Here's today's news, though,
Speaker 1: and some of it is interesting. Politico says Trump has
Speaker 1: started telling allies and phone calls that the endgame of
Speaker 1: the tariffs would be sooner than people expect, and that
Speaker 1: the White Houses and talks with multiple countries stressing that
Speaker 1: deals will be made, said one person familiar with those
Speaker 1: phone calls granted anonymity.
Speaker 2: So that's what Politico is saying.
Speaker 1: In the Washington Post, has Elon Musk appealed directly to
Speaker 1: the President to ditch the whole tariff regime.
Speaker 2: Uh huh.
Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal headline CEOs who had been silent now
Speaker 1: speaking out against tariff plan. A number of like the
Speaker 1: super heavyweights of America, partly because they have their earnings
Speaker 1: call calls in the next week where they have to
Speaker 1: in a very legal fashion tell their investors what they
Speaker 1: think the prospects are. And they're saying, well, we're gonna
Speaker 1: tell our investors that we're in serious trouble because of
Speaker 1: these tariffs. So they're saying to the president, you understand,
Speaker 1: we've got to say that. And Ted Cruz, Senator from Texas,
Speaker 1: who is often very favorable to Trump, tweeted out would
Speaker 1: be JFK. Assassin tweet it out ever for again, if
Speaker 1: President Trump uses this moment is leverage, that would be
Speaker 1: a massive victory for the American people. But there are
Speaker 1: voices in the White House that want high tariffs forever.
Speaker 1: There are angels and demons sitting on the president's shoulders.
Speaker 2: Who does he listen to? A Manda Crews have a
Speaker 2: gift for just over flowery everything.
Speaker 1: Everything he says seems a little dramatic. With angels and
Speaker 1: demons sitting on the president's shoulder, who does he listen to?
Speaker 2: But I hope the angels, Ted, We'll.
Speaker 1: See how this all turns out. That's right, You know,
Speaker 1: it was funny. It was when we met him and
Speaker 1: chatted for a while. He could not have been a
Speaker 1: more straightforward and down to earth person. He's just, for
Speaker 1: some reason, decided to go with that. Ah, I'm a
Speaker 1: great roman orator approach to every public pronouncement. It's funny.
Speaker 1: Have you listened to his podcast at all? M No,
Speaker 1: I haven't either. Oh, seek that out. So we'll see
Speaker 1: how all this turns out. And I don't know. Did
Speaker 1: I just find that frightening? Two point four trillion dollars
Speaker 1: in minutes?
Speaker 2: Would you hear? Bye? Bye? I mean throw millions billions
Speaker 2: of dollars at it? Bye? Oh it's not true, sell it,
Speaker 2: sell it all, sell really quick, just learn it, just
Speaker 2: get rid of it.
Speaker 1: Just doesn't seem the way super genius financial people should work,
Speaker 1: right right, Yeah, yeah, these are spicy times.
Speaker 2: I'd say, now I have an upset stomach.
Speaker 1: We have the first direct talks with a RAN in
Speaker 1: eight years coming up on Saturday. Trump says, if RAN doesn't,
Speaker 1: you know, agree to something, they'll be hell to pay
Speaker 1: in a bombing the likes of which they've never seen
Speaker 1: and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2: So that's very exciting.
Speaker 1: Turns out those super advanced stealth bombers with the bunker
Speaker 1: busters and all that was for the houthis or so
Speaker 1: it would seem as we're getting ready to pound them
Speaker 1: into obliteration. I say, we don't stop shooting at shifs.
Speaker 1: I thought it was for a ran. Maybe it is,
Speaker 1: but what I was thinking, so I was reading that
Speaker 1: stuff about you know whatever insider told Politico. He's telling
Speaker 1: people on the phone that they're going to wrap this
Speaker 1: up kind of soon.
Speaker 2: So maybe that's the case.
Speaker 1: But the one that's going to end up hanging out there,
Speaker 1: the really really important one, I think, is going to
Speaker 1: be the whole China situation. All this other stuff could
Speaker 1: settle down and you still got the whole things with
Speaker 1: China have not changed. There are enemy I'm all fired
Speaker 1: up about this because I was listened to yet another
Speaker 1: podcast with Tom Cotton on it yesterday, the Senator who
Speaker 1: has written book Seven Things You Can't Say About China
Speaker 1: But anyway, he is really a hawk on the whole
Speaker 1: China thing.
Speaker 2: And should be.
Speaker 1: He says, people come to him all the time with
Speaker 1: his book and say, are things as bad as you
Speaker 1: say with Chinese? Says, no, they're much worse than anybody
Speaker 1: thinks in terms of China is building to take on
Speaker 1: the United States and war. That's what they do every
Speaker 1: single day. They're planning to take us on and defeat us,
Speaker 1: and we're acting like it's not true anyway on the
Speaker 1: whole trade thing. You know, Trump China came back Friday
Speaker 1: with the thirty four percent tariff on top of what
Speaker 1: we did, and then Trump yesterday said another fifty percent,
Speaker 1: which put it over one hundred percent, and blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: I think that China United States thing is that's gonna
Speaker 1: stay hot for quite a while, like maybe the rest
Speaker 1: of our lives. You want to hear a headline slash
Speaker 1: lead that will make you say, wait, what. Many US
Speaker 1: companies plan to keep China ties. Survey fines Washington made
Speaker 1: Beijing maybe heading toward the coupling, but US companies ties
Speaker 1: with China are proving hard to break. New report commissioned
Speaker 1: by the US Chamber of Commerce Foundation showed that many
Speaker 1: of the roughly two hundred American companies surveyed in the
Speaker 1: past couple of years planned to hold on to or
Speaker 1: increase their ties with China. That's really interesting given that
Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal article we read from last year where
Speaker 1: a lot of companies were saying they don't send their
Speaker 1: top business people over there anymore because they're worried about
Speaker 1: them getting snatched up off the street. Yeah, you can't
Speaker 1: even send your your your head of sales to China
Speaker 1: because you're afraid they'll be imprisoned illgally. But you're gonna
Speaker 1: keep doing business there because it's cheaper. Yeah, exactly, it's
Speaker 1: just it's crack cheap. Chinese labor is crack for companies.
Speaker 1: They think, Oh my god, I hate the communists. Look
Speaker 1: what they're doing. What Jack just said, but look at
Speaker 1: the numbers.
Speaker 2: Look at the numbers. If we have them assemble our whatever.
Speaker 1: Well, if Apple is being honest last week, and I
Speaker 1: gotta believe they're exaggerating, but even if it's half accurate,
Speaker 1: saying that an iPhone, if they made ten percent of
Speaker 1: iPhones in the United States, an iPhone would cost.
Speaker 2: Over three thousand dollars, that's extraordinary. Yeah, yeah, we.
Speaker 1: Should start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe
Speaker 1: Getty on this it is How did it already get
Speaker 1: to be pulling up my sleeve? Tuesday April the eighth,
Speaker 1: or twenty twenty five, we are Armstrong in Gedty, and
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Speaker 2: Okay, let's begin.
Speaker 1: Then officially, according to FCC rules and regulations, leaping into
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Speaker 4: From twelve down to the school's third national championship in
Speaker 4: men's basketball sixty five sixty three the final, the Florida
Speaker 4: Gators are the national champions once again.
Speaker 1: The tendency of college teams to be unable to score
Speaker 1: over extended periods at times, and the kids playing suffocating
Speaker 1: defense like you'd never see in the NBA except maybe
Speaker 1: Game seven of the finals means.
Speaker 2: That no college game is over till it's over. Correct,
Speaker 2: you can have enormous swings.
Speaker 1: Also, Florida's biggest star, uh, who's having one of the
Speaker 1: greatest tournaments they said since Larry Bird back in the seventies.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm. Scored eleven points and they still want none
Speaker 2: in the first half. Was not to be a scene. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's amazing. So we got mail Bag coming up.
Speaker 1: A little bit later, we get Katie's headlines, and then
Speaker 1: we got some more news of the day. I can't
Speaker 1: wait to talk about the company that has brought back
Speaker 1: the dire Wolf. It's been ex extinct for thousands and
Speaker 1: thousands of thousands of years and they showed two cute
Speaker 1: little dire Wolf puppies on the news last night, and
Speaker 1: what does this mean? They say wooe mammoth in a
Speaker 1: couple of years. And why are we doing this? This
Speaker 1: is what my son said. Just why are we down?
Speaker 2: Son? Is a good which is a pretty good question.
Speaker 1: Why are we doing what bringing back gigantic wolves that
Speaker 1: stand ten foot tall at the shoulder and might escape
Speaker 1: their enclosures and run rampant across the countryside.
Speaker 2: Is that what you're questioning?
Speaker 1: Uh so, that's a heck of a interesting topic. Got
Speaker 1: all that on the way. Our text line is four one,
Speaker 1: five two nine five KFTC. I got a question for
Speaker 1: NPR anybody that works over there, as if they would
Speaker 1: ever listen to us, when's the last time you said
Speaker 1: anything even slightly negative about Hamas? Tell me the last
Speaker 1: news story that had one negative sentence about Hamas as
Speaker 1: opposed to the negative story about Israel every single.
Speaker 2: Day, I know, I know.
Speaker 1: Four more Charlottan reporting Hamas's numbers of casualties, for instance,
Speaker 1: which everybody including them, have now revised way down. Four
Speaker 1: more children killed in Israeli air strikes yesterday.
Speaker 2: Hamas Ministry of Blah Blah says.
Speaker 1: Tell me one time you say something bad about maybe
Speaker 1: they did the story about how they tortured that Palestinian
Speaker 1: to death the other day who led a protest against Moss.
Speaker 2: Maybe they did the story. If they did it, I
Speaker 2: didn't hear it. Yeah, wow, wow, Wow, that's heavy stuff. Jack.
Speaker 1: I was going to come back and mention that I'm
Speaker 1: in a game of chicken with my printer, which is
Speaker 1: demanding I update the firmware and has been for weeks.
Speaker 1: But I'm not freaking updates. Oh, you're not gonna tell
Speaker 1: me what to do.
Speaker 2: I didn't get to that. I'd tell you what to do,
Speaker 2: and you know what you gotta do. Print. That's what
Speaker 2: I didn't get to that story.
Speaker 1: Yesterday I spent six seven hours on my son's computer
Speaker 1: with Best By Geek squad back and forth and on
Speaker 1: the phone and everything like that, and I wanted to
Speaker 1: talk about that.
Speaker 2: But God, that's that's one thing I wish I could do.
Speaker 1: It's print, my printer's printing, or my computer's doing all
Speaker 1: I needed to do, never needed to do anything beyond this.
Speaker 2: Can we just leave it alone?
Speaker 1: Not a security date? Of course, your computer. All you
Speaker 1: need is a ballpeen hammer good call him best Buy.
Speaker 1: That'll take care of the problem. Get a new computer,
Speaker 1: Katie Green has the lead story. Who's reporting?
Speaker 5: What?
Speaker 2: For goodness sakes, Katie? All right, start with Politico.
Speaker 6: Their top headline, trade war chaos hits the stock market.
Speaker 1: Well, it's not very chaos c he today, so we'll see.
Speaker 6: From NBC Ukraine captures Chinese citizens who fought with Russian army,
Speaker 6: Zelenski says.
Speaker 2: Well, you got the Chinese in there too.
Speaker 6: Yeah. From ABC, Harvard, UCLA, and Stanford among schools across
Speaker 6: the United States reporting student visas being revoked.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I quit advocating for terrorists or go home either way.
Speaker 6: From the New York Times, US to hold nuclear talks
Speaker 6: with Iran.
Speaker 2: Yeah, on Saturday, direct talks. First time in a long time.
Speaker 2: I thought Iran was denying that. Still, but who knows?
Speaker 2: They're lying liars put their beards, Yeah, their beards.
Speaker 6: For instance, from Newsweek, DOJE official claims shocking fallout from
Speaker 6: Biden's mass migration millions of migrants on medicaid, thousands now
Speaker 6: on voter rolls.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, medicaid. You sneak into the country and
Speaker 2: you get on medicaid. Wow.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and thousands on voter rolls. To who was
Speaker 1: that story from? I was from Newsweek oh okay.
Speaker 6: From the Washington Post, the US just had its windiest
Speaker 6: start to spring in nearly fifty years.
Speaker 2: I'm glad somebody's measuring that.
Speaker 1: That was our windiest starts to spring come.
Speaker 2: In early, early, windy, early spring. Yes.
Speaker 6: From the New York Post, AOC flies first class to
Speaker 6: Bernie Sanders fight oligarchy rally as critic slam her for
Speaker 6: battling inequality one mimosa at a time.
Speaker 2: I saw that. I saw that story, and I thought,
Speaker 2: am I to my upset about this? Shouldn't she?
Speaker 1: Should she be sitting back and coach. She's very famous.
Speaker 1: It would be very hard to.
Speaker 2: Function.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she is very very famous, and you know her
Speaker 1: policies are ludicrous.
Speaker 2: She's a hypocrite and a liar.
Speaker 1: I don't need to harp on how she flies, Honestly,
Speaker 1: it just seems silly to me.
Speaker 2: But if you enjoy it, enjoy it well.
Speaker 1: The average person never flies first class ever in their
Speaker 1: lives because it's so ridiculously expensive. And her doing the
Speaker 1: whole I'm, you know, standing up for the regular person
Speaker 1: and gets billionaires flying around in first class.
Speaker 2: I mean, then you know you understands the poor optics.
Speaker 6: Yes, and Finally, the Babylon Bee teen wondering when parents
Speaker 6: will grow out of their awkward stage.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's pretty funny. Dang it, the whole teenager thing. Geez,
Speaker 1: every day every day it amazes me. Keeps you on
Speaker 1: your toes, doesn't it.
Speaker 2: What are you so unhappy about? Your life looks pretty
Speaker 2: good from my angle? Oh boy, why are we designed
Speaker 2: like this? I don't know. That's it. How do you
Speaker 2: let go of a child because you can't stand to
Speaker 2: live with them? Anyway? It Scott's plan. We got a
Speaker 2: lot on the way, a lot of news.
Speaker 1: I hope you can stay with us Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 7: Philadelphia Zoo announced last week that a pair of nearly
Speaker 7: one hundred year old tortoises recently welcome their first hatchlings.
Speaker 7: You may have seen the tortoises on the MTV show
Speaker 7: ninety nine.
Speaker 2: And pregnant markets are surging.
Speaker 1: If you're listening to us live, so the bounce back
Speaker 1: has begun, and get into that later. Also, latest polling
Speaker 1: on the whole tariff thing. Get into that later also.
Speaker 1: And oh and I just saw the real ID deadline
Speaker 1: is a month away.
Speaker 2: This is going to be my all time greatest hit.
Speaker 1: Screw up because it's been I've seen it coming for
Speaker 1: so long and known the entire time for years that
Speaker 1: at some point I will be at an airport ready
Speaker 1: to get on a plane someplace I need to go, yes,
Speaker 1: and they'll say we no longer accept your driver's license.
Speaker 1: You need your real ID, even though I knew it
Speaker 1: for years. I am that is going to happen to me.
Speaker 1: I'll like your high school teacher assigned you a book
Speaker 1: report due in twenty years and you waited until the
Speaker 1: last night in you're up all life, right, that is
Speaker 1: going to happen to me. Yeah, it's funny, Judy, and
Speaker 1: I heard that report, and I have a feeling. I
Speaker 1: spoke for many, many millions of Americans when I said,
Speaker 1: do we have real ideas?
Speaker 2: I've completely lost track? Is ours real? She looked at
Speaker 2: it and said, yeah, yes we do. How that happened?
Speaker 2: I don't recall. Well, I sure don't have one? Are
Speaker 2: you sure? I'm positive you might? When did you last
Speaker 2: for New year license? I don't know?
Speaker 1: So, so your driver's license is it?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Oh it is? Well, maybe I did have a
Speaker 2: real like the updated does it have like a hologrammy
Speaker 2: looking thing? On there or yeah, yeah, there you go.
Speaker 1: Maybe I do have it done and done, sir, that's
Speaker 1: my point. Nobody has any idea it part. Yeah. So
Speaker 1: speaking of economics and that sort of thing, which a
Speaker 1: lot of people are doing these days in reference to
Speaker 1: the tariffs.
Speaker 2: But to this too shall pass, I hope eventually.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: And and some of the support and lack of support
Speaker 1: are coming from some interesting areas for the tariffs, and
Speaker 1: we can talk about that more later. But I'm kind
Speaker 1: of tariffed out. We brought this up kind of briefly
Speaker 1: at the end of Yes, I could talk about tariffs
Speaker 1: for many more hours.
Speaker 2: Well you should feel free. How about one room over anyway?
Speaker 1: I found this so interesting, big survey of America's employers,
Speaker 1: especially manufacturers, they cannot find reliable, conscientious workers who can
Speaker 1: pass a drug test. A good worker, like a good man,
Speaker 1: can be hard to find these days. And who is
Speaker 1: this writing in the Alicia Finley, who I think is
Speaker 1: a terrific writer. But she says, blame government, which showers
Speaker 1: benefits on able bodied people who don't work well at
Speaker 1: the same time subsidizing college degrees that don't lead to
Speaker 1: productive employment, and the result is millions of idle men
Speaker 1: and millions of unfilled jobs, what an economist would call
Speaker 1: a dead weight loss to society. So failing the drug test,
Speaker 1: is it mostly the marijuana, the Mary Jane, the lettuce,
Speaker 1: the hippie. Yeah, I don't know. I suspect so, though.
Speaker 1: Sure I think it's mostly pot. But I think that's
Speaker 1: just brilliantly simply put, we are showering benefits on able
Speaker 1: bodied people and subsidizing useless college degrees as as a
Speaker 1: people because the government is theoretically doing our work right, well,
Speaker 1: I for one, don't like either end of that anyway.
Speaker 1: Forty percent of small business owners and March reported job
Speaker 1: openings they could not fill. Construction companies fifty six percent said, yeah,
Speaker 1: we have unfilled jobs and we can't find anybody. Transportation,
Speaker 1: I have a feeling that's mostly truck drivers. Fifty three
Speaker 1: percent manufacturing, which the President is, according to many people,
Speaker 1: admirably trying to shepherd back inside the country. More forty
Speaker 1: seven percent of manufacturers say, no, we've got openings we
Speaker 1: can't fill.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: So, according to the last week's National Federation of Independent
Speaker 1: Business survey, that might be a flaw in the president's
Speaker 1: plan that hasn't been discussed enough. He wants to bring
Speaker 1: back the fifties or seventies or whatever golden era of
Speaker 1: manufacturing we used to have.
Speaker 2: But back then people would do those jobs.
Speaker 1: If half the manufacturing jobs out there or you can't fill. Now,
Speaker 1: what if manufacturing did come back to the United States, Who,
Speaker 1: in theory is going to do those jobs?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 1: Not illegal immigrants, because thank god the border has been
Speaker 1: closed and the statistics are astounding.
Speaker 2: Biden was a scoundrel anyway.
Speaker 1: Was it going to be the woman who studies major
Speaker 1: from your local university that goes work, They're probably not.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: It could well be the dudes who have no disability
Speaker 1: on disability who are heaved off of that system. But
Speaker 1: that would take some tough love, and that's not very
Speaker 1: popular politically speaking.
Speaker 2: I mean, if you go into.
Speaker 1: One of the districts of the Rust Belty places or
Speaker 1: Appalachia or whatever where you have just ludicrous levels of
Speaker 1: people on disability. Happened to read a couple things about
Speaker 1: this recently. Didn't flog you with it on the air.
Speaker 1: But and if you go into those places and say
Speaker 1: we're kicking it off every everybody on disability who's not
Speaker 1: like missing a limb, you will lose an election by.
Speaker 2: Seventy points, if that's even possible.
Speaker 1: Once people are on the toll man, once people have
Speaker 1: a benefit, whether legitimate or perhaps questionable, taking it away
Speaker 1: as political poison as you know, Labor Department's job openings
Speaker 1: and labor turnover survey businesses tell a similar story. There
Speaker 1: are twice as many job openings in manufacturing now than
Speaker 1: in the mid two thousands.
Speaker 2: As a share of employment.
Speaker 1: Save for the pandemic, America's workers shortage is the worst
Speaker 1: in fifty years. Decades ago, productivity, enhancing technology and yes,
Speaker 1: inexpensive imports cousted men who worked on shop floors to
Speaker 1: lose their jobs and drop out of the workforce. But
Speaker 1: that generation is sailing into the sunset, and there are
Speaker 1: many fewer young Americans who want to work in factories.
Speaker 2: Listen to this now.
Speaker 1: The labor force participation rate among young among working age
Speaker 1: men is now about five percentage points lower than in
Speaker 1: the early eighties. Okay, this is not like the nineteen tens.
Speaker 1: This is the nineteen eighties, five points lower. As a result,
Speaker 1: there are about three and a half million fewer men
Speaker 1: between the ages twenty five and fifty four in the
Speaker 1: workforce and one point three million between the ages of
Speaker 1: twenty five and thirty four, a significantly bigger population than
Speaker 1: we have in the eighties. Right then there would have
Speaker 1: been were it not for this decline. Labor participation among
Speaker 1: working age women, on the other hand, recently hit a
Speaker 1: record in part because they are having fewer children, and
Speaker 1: then people aren't coupling that sort of thing. At the
Speaker 1: risk of stereotyping, women are more inclined toward helping professions
Speaker 1: such as services than those that require physical labor.
Speaker 2: Well, that's just true. It's undeniable.
Speaker 1: So I've not done a manufacturing sort of job before,
Speaker 1: so I don't know what it's like, but I certainly
Speaker 1: feel like there's a social stigma around it that doesn't
Speaker 1: help true.
Speaker 2: Why it is.
Speaker 1: Why there's not a social stigma around having a meaningless,
Speaker 1: soul deadening paper pushing job in a cubicle, I don't
Speaker 1: know why that is. I mean, maybe the other way
Speaker 1: around should be. There shouldn't be any stigma around any jobs.
Speaker 1: Working for a living is considerably better than not whatever
Speaker 1: the hell you're doing.
Speaker 2: So why I always the.
Speaker 1: Vestige of the twentieth century where a job where you
Speaker 1: used your brain as opposed to your back was seen
Speaker 1: as a higher status job.
Speaker 2: God, I don't know some of these jobs or you
Speaker 2: use your brain.
Speaker 1: That's barely not much, I mean, but they certainly don't
Speaker 1: seem like they'd be much more enjoyable as starter jobs.
Speaker 2: Right, Tedious is tedious. I had a.
Speaker 1: Sort of manufacturing job for one summer, and it was
Speaker 1: pretty tedious, honestly, but I'm sure it is. You know
Speaker 1: why I go went ahead and took it and kept it.
Speaker 1: It was because it paid pretty good. It was my
Speaker 1: best option. Right, So, yeah, you got any and well
Speaker 1: you should have to make a living. You got us
Speaker 1: import yourself somehow.
Speaker 2: No, you don't. What kind of monster are you listen
Speaker 2: to this? Would you?
Speaker 4: So?
Speaker 2: Where have all the good working men gone?
Speaker 1: Some are subsisting on government benefits, are living off their parents.
Speaker 1: About seventeen percent of working age men are on Medicaid,
Speaker 1: seventeen percent, seven and a half percent on food stamps,
Speaker 1: and six point three percent on Social Security, many claiming
Speaker 1: disability payouts.
Speaker 2: According to the Census Bureau.
Speaker 1: Many spend their days playing video games and day trading, well,
Speaker 1: day trading hilarious, speculating on meme stocks, or you tell
Speaker 1: somebody your day trading.
Speaker 2: I don't know how often you're actually.
Speaker 1: Trading and making any money because you don't want to
Speaker 1: say I just play video games and live in my parents' basement,
Speaker 1: so you say you're your day trader. So I don't
Speaker 1: remember our good friend Craig the healthcare Genius's statistics. But
Speaker 1: if I remember correctly, originally medicaid was only supposed to
Speaker 1: cover like a tiny percentage people period.
Speaker 2: Now it's covering percent.
Speaker 1: Maybe now it's covering and that would have been like
Speaker 1: the old and you know people that I got all
Speaker 1: kinds of physical or mental problems. Now it's seventeen percent
Speaker 1: of working age men, not like senior citizens.
Speaker 2: That's nice.
Speaker 1: Yeah. A couple more stats. Other missing men are taking
Speaker 1: longer to finish college or pursuing graduate degrees. Only about
Speaker 1: forty one percent of men complete a bachelor's degree in
Speaker 1: four years, even though study after study shows they don't teach.
Speaker 1: You don't have to work. There's great inflation. It's dopey.
Speaker 1: Only forty one percent and a quarter take more than
Speaker 1: six years. Wow, because you're in no hurry to get
Speaker 1: out of college. My dad used to comment about perpetual
Speaker 1: college students. And I never really understood what he was
Speaker 1: talking about. And I'm sure it was a small number
Speaker 1: of people back when he was in college, but now
Speaker 1: it is a lot.
Speaker 2: Apparently. I'll just stay in college.
Speaker 1: I'll just keep borrowing money and because I'm too young
Speaker 1: or unwise to understand what I'm doing, and I'll just
Speaker 1: keep this game going of I get to sit around
Speaker 1: with my friends and discuss the world without ever having
Speaker 1: to engage in it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I have disability.
Speaker 1: My thumb hurts on Thursdays, final stat Then.
Speaker 2: I will I will stop.
Speaker 1: We're just we are a fat, lazy, comfortable society. We're
Speaker 1: headed to front denial, right, we are headed straight toward France.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: The unemployment rate Jack considered this among recent college grads
Speaker 1: with a sociology degree is about seven percent, and their
Speaker 1: medium wage, if they do have a gig, is forty
Speaker 1: five thousand dollars according to the Federal Reserve Bank. Social
Speaker 1: grads can earn twice as much working on an auto
Speaker 1: assembly line, which pays an average hundred thousand dollars a year.
Speaker 1: Good gig, but not many want it. The reality is
Speaker 1: that masses a young people, writes Alicia Finley, who again
Speaker 1: as a genius, has been taught that capitalism is exploitive.
Speaker 1: They don't want to work in factories. They'd rather mooch
Speaker 1: off taxpayers or their parents. How Karl Marx is that, Yes,
Speaker 1: some of it is that, I'm sure, But I just
Speaker 1: I think a lot of it is just the cultural
Speaker 1: that would be embarrassing for your parents and for you
Speaker 1: if you worked over at the whatever factory. Yeah, more
Speaker 1: embarrassing in our current society than if you just live
Speaker 1: at home and you know.
Speaker 2: You say you're a day trader.
Speaker 1: It shouldn't be more embarrassing to have a job at
Speaker 1: a plant than to live with your parents, But I
Speaker 1: think it is. Or having taken six years to get
Speaker 1: an undergrad degree in gender studies, you're now getting a
Speaker 1: master's degree in the theoretical decolonialization of art or whatever
Speaker 1: the say sometimes. Thank for soft people, man. There is
Speaker 1: no more iron law of humanity than that. I think
Speaker 1: My kids, my two boys, are growing up in a
Speaker 1: household where they hear me talk enough about this that
Speaker 1: they realize that's uncool to not go out there and
Speaker 1: get a job of some sort. I hope we got
Speaker 1: Katie's headline. No, we already did that. We've got Joe's
Speaker 1: bag on the way.
Speaker 2: Stay here a.
Speaker 3: Word.
Speaker 2: You're going to be hearing a lot more in coming years.
Speaker 1: De extinction, as they think they've pulled off the first
Speaker 1: de extinction by bringing back the dire Wolf, which disappeared
Speaker 1: thirty five thousand years ago thirty.
Speaker 2: Five three free appearance on Game of Thrones. That's correct.
Speaker 1: Ummah, so yeah, we'll talk about that maybe an hour
Speaker 1: or two is no, oh, the lonesome cry of the
Speaker 1: dire Wolf. Here's your freedom loving quote. It today sat
Speaker 1: along by an alert listener whose name I do not recall,
Speaker 1: and I apologize for that. I am incompetent and will
Speaker 1: suffer the consequences thereof. But it's from an rand and
Speaker 1: I quote Fascism and communism are not two opposites, but
Speaker 1: two rival gangs fighting over the same territory based on
Speaker 1: the collectivist principle that man is the rightless slave of
Speaker 1: the state.
Speaker 2: I think she's absolutely right. It's the horseshoe theory. But yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: quite so.
Speaker 1: Mailbag drop us a nowood jem mail bag at Armstrong
Speaker 1: and Getty dot com. I have put aside some of
Speaker 1: the impassioned, angry, idiotic emails about this, that, and the other,
Speaker 1: just because I'd rather go with stuff that amuses me.
Speaker 1: But I will tell you this, it's a little life
Speaker 1: advice for it. You've probably heard many times, don't hit
Speaker 1: send when you're angry, whether it's a text or an.
Speaker 2: Email or whatever.
Speaker 1: And I think some people think that's because, well, it
Speaker 1: might be hurtful to the other person, and it might
Speaker 1: hurt our relationship, and blah blah blah, and all of
Speaker 1: that is very true. The other un underappreciated aspect of
Speaker 1: hitting sen when you're angry is that you come off
Speaker 1: like a stupid child who can't control yourself. Even if
Speaker 1: you're writing to a radio show, remember your name's attached
Speaker 1: to that, and you come across as an angry adolescent
Speaker 1: sputtering at their dad or mom.
Speaker 2: Okay, think about it before you hit send. Friends.
Speaker 1: Moving along from first initial t trash in California, guys,
Speaker 1: what really surprises me is the millions that are spent
Speaker 1: of taxpayer money to run public service announcements for a
Speaker 1: cleaner California.
Speaker 2: Don't litter?
Speaker 1: Really, you tell me not to litter. You you allow
Speaker 1: junkie camps to exist. Here's an idea, why not start
Speaker 1: getting rid of the junkies in their camps. I couldn't
Speaker 1: if I tried litter as much in my lifetime as
Speaker 1: you know, the camp in the park with the tents
Speaker 1: and all the crap, well right, and where those tax
Speaker 1: dollars are spent in Sacramento, I can't remember. Katie had
Speaker 1: a story a week or two ago about cleaning up
Speaker 1: a junkie camp along the Sacramento River and they removed
Speaker 1: three thousand tons of trash or whatever it is. And look,
Speaker 1: I hate littering. I don't believe in throwing away so
Speaker 1: much as a cigarette butter, a candy wrapper. But seriously,
Speaker 1: you're gonna harangue me a taxpayer expense not to throw
Speaker 1: away my gum wrapper. Well, you're allowing junkie camps to
Speaker 1: unload thousands of tons by the river.
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 1: Moving along, Neil and Utah writes, guys, A long time
Speaker 1: listening to My parents would listen to you and Jack.
Speaker 2: When I was in high school.
Speaker 1: I picked up your show listen regularly as a thirty
Speaker 1: six year old.
Speaker 2: Now, I know you think that's a nice thing to say,
Speaker 2: but you're old. Get over it. But his.
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Speaker 1: At least there was a noose in her son's bag.
Speaker 1: So there's a doll and some sort of string that
Speaker 1: seemed to be over the doll's head. First thing that
Speaker 1: popped in my head. These are not toys, These are
Speaker 1: something different. Tonny says she needs a support animal.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, people just looking to be outraged crazy. Oh that
Speaker 1: one's so good, but it's a little long.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 1: The One More Thing podcast yesterday, I'm strung Getting One
Speaker 1: more Thing. I talked about using Google Translate while standing
Speaker 1: next to Spanish speakers.
Speaker 2: To see what they were saying.
Speaker 1: And is that pe perhaps out of boundser since they're
Speaker 1: right there speaking within earshot.
Speaker 2: Is it okay?
Speaker 1: Garrick says, I'm a white guy who learns Spanish. So
Speaker 1: whenever I'm around Mexicans I always tell them that I
Speaker 1: know Spanish when they're speaking.
Speaker 2: It seems like the right thing to do.
Speaker 1: Really, that's interesting, Psych, stop being a self hating white
Speaker 1: boy Joe, So maybe he doesn't do that on all.
Speaker 1: You feel like, are there people that feel like they
Speaker 1: need to say, by the way, I speak Spanish?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 1: But Denny says Psych, So I don't know if that's
Speaker 1: the opposite or all right, Okay, we got a lot
Speaker 1: more on the way, including the return of the Dire Wolf,
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty