Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Ketty.
Speaker 2: Arm Strong and Jettie and He Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3: Giving billions of dollars to say product lunatics who want
Speaker 3: to murder us, he is not a good idea.
Speaker 4: I think the President, unfortunately, is receiving.
Speaker 2: Bad advice on this deal.
Speaker 1: That's Senator Ted Cruz while walking through a hallway. Giving
Speaker 1: billionaires to lunatics who want to kill us is not
Speaker 1: a good idea. The president is receiving bad advice.
Speaker 5: How many billionaires are we giving them?
Speaker 2: Did I say billionaires? Yeah, it doesn't matter. Everybody knew
Speaker 2: what you meant.
Speaker 5: That is the mantra among Republicans, not that the president
Speaker 5: has terrible judgment and gave it's that he's getting terrible advice.
Speaker 5: Jd Vance is twisting him and giving him terrible advice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think this is Trump's idea. Hey, well let's
Speaker 2: go through this.
Speaker 1: Lucas Tomlinson report from Fox pretty interesting hits on a
Speaker 1: number of points, including what jd Vance had to say yesterday.
Speaker 2: We have all the cards.
Speaker 3: Vice President jd Vance insists the United States is getting
Speaker 3: everything it wanted out of the Iran deal.
Speaker 4: Their nuclear program has been completely destroyed.
Speaker 3: Van says he's confident that Trump administration can lift sanctions
Speaker 3: on Iran without going to Congress for approval. Has this
Speaker 3: message to critics who insists Iran will receive billions in
Speaker 3: exchange for Trump's signature.
Speaker 4: The United States isn't giving up a cent of money
Speaker 4: to Iran, a.
Speaker 3: Point President Trump is echoing on true social There is
Speaker 3: no three hundred billion dollar payment to Iran by the US.
Speaker 3: That's fake news. All there is for the US is success,
Speaker 3: lower oil prices, and victory. Check out the stock market.
Speaker 3: Democrat propaganda at play.
Speaker 1: As I said earlier, Jdvance thinks you're stupid. That's my
Speaker 1: current theory. Jdvance thinks you're stupid. They're conflating constantly the
Speaker 1: Iran getting money with getting US money and pretending that
Speaker 1: when they say forcefully, they're not getting any US money.
Speaker 2: So that's a lie. No, no, no, no.
Speaker 1: They're getting lots and lots of money from a variety
Speaker 1: of sources, including oil revenue.
Speaker 2: That's what people are worried about.
Speaker 1: That's the billions of dollars that Ted Cruz is complaining about.
Speaker 1: And you see, if they get billions of dollars, they're
Speaker 1: going to build rockets and try to get a nuclear weapon,
Speaker 1: is the thing.
Speaker 2: Wall Street General Editorial Board.
Speaker 5: The MoU commits the US to give substantial sanctions relief
Speaker 5: upfront and throughout negotiations, and they cite zero point ten.
Speaker 5: The US undertakes that immediately after the signing an until
Speaker 5: determination of sanctions, the Department of Treasury will issue waivers
Speaker 5: for exports of Iranian crude oil, et cetera.
Speaker 1: That's already startling, that's already started. The strait is open.
Speaker 1: Money is already flowing into Iran. And the nuclear talks
Speaker 1: were supposed to get today and begin today and they
Speaker 1: got postponed.
Speaker 2: Well, what a shock.
Speaker 1: Why do you think jd Vance in particular is flat
Speaker 1: out line to people like this? Honestly, I think he
Speaker 1: thinks we're stupid and aren't catching on to the ruse.
Speaker 2: Own it, man, own it.
Speaker 1: Why can't he just say out loud, whatever, this is
Speaker 1: the best deal we could get. I think we delayed
Speaker 1: their nuclear program for a long time and that was
Speaker 1: the goal.
Speaker 5: But that we have to back off because the costs
Speaker 5: for getting too high. They have decided that would be
Speaker 5: too costly politically.
Speaker 1: I don't like being lied to. I don't like being
Speaker 1: treated like I'm a moron. I am a moron, but
Speaker 1: I don't like be treated like it. Two different questions,
Speaker 1: two different questions, right, and the first thing he said,
Speaker 1: there we hold all the cards.
Speaker 2: No, we don't. We do not hold If we hold
Speaker 2: all the cards, we would not be making this deal.
Speaker 1: That includes, by the way, Iran and Oman controlling the
Speaker 1: strait and charging tolls, are closing it when they want
Speaker 1: to or whatever. That's part of the deal. That's not
Speaker 1: the way it was before the war started.
Speaker 5: And we'll work all that out once the money starts
Speaker 5: flowing to Iran.
Speaker 2: More from the IRGC.
Speaker 1: Yeah, more more controversial stuff from Lucas Tomlinson.
Speaker 3: Iran's new Supreme Leader, Mushta Bahamani, issued a rare public
Speaker 3: statement after signing the agreement, read by a news anchor.
Speaker 3: It was the American president who, out of desperation, used
Speaker 3: all kinds of leverage to bring this about.
Speaker 4: They certainly recognized that the United States has great leverage.
Speaker 4: Will that ultimately lead to a change in behavior?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't like the new Ayahtola saying we got the
Speaker 1: leverage and they caved.
Speaker 5: I don't like him saying that because I think he's right,
Speaker 5: watch your mouth or will blow your other leg off. Huh,
Speaker 5: but Trump won't. He won't do it.
Speaker 2: Tayi leen boy wow.
Speaker 3: And then finally, this vance also has a blunt message
Speaker 3: to critics of the deal in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Nettinyao,
Speaker 3: Who's cabinet, warning they should not be attacking the only
Speaker 3: powerful ally they have left.
Speaker 4: Anybody in Israel who thinks their biggest problem is the
Speaker 4: President of the United States needs to wake up and
Speaker 4: smell the reality of the situation that country is.
Speaker 1: In Vance lecturing Israel, not lecturing Iran. Iran gets rockets.
Speaker 1: Why does Israel get a rockets in Iran doesn't get rockets.
Speaker 1: That's not fair, Hey, Israel, knock off the fighting back
Speaker 1: against Hezbola. Just because they tried to blow up a
Speaker 1: school bus the other day doesn't mean you should attack them.
Speaker 2: You're screwing up or deal.
Speaker 1: Noh, not good. I find it embarrassing, but none of
Speaker 1: that matters. I don't care about embarrassment. I don't care
Speaker 1: about how it affects the mid terms. I don't care
Speaker 1: about any of that or stuff. Is Iran going to
Speaker 1: get a nuclear weapon? We slowed it down obviously, I
Speaker 1: mean the bombing helped and everything like that, but the
Speaker 1: getting the enriched uranium out of there seems.
Speaker 2: To just be gone as an issue. What happened to that?
Speaker 2: The negotiate that in sixty days or one hundred and
Speaker 2: twenty or never see anywhere anytime?
Speaker 1: Inspections that the Obama deal didn't have that we were
Speaker 1: going to get Where where's that that's going to be
Speaker 1: agreed to in the next sixty days? Why would Iran
Speaker 1: agree to something when they've already gotten what they wanted,
Speaker 1: the relief and the money and the straight open.
Speaker 2: And all that, right, right, Yeah, the blockade lifted. Now.
Speaker 5: As I said before, it's very very rare indeed in
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Speaker 1: Marco Rubio writes a book Someday explaining what it was
Speaker 1: like standing there as he listened to the president or
Speaker 1: vice president explain why An gets to keep their rocket
Speaker 1: making the capabilities. Yeh, I know that all that stuff
Speaker 1: we said about eliminating their rocket industry, we he're just joshing.
Speaker 5: Maybe he mentions that in his successful twenty twenty eight
Speaker 5: presidential run part of his campaign.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know where the public is on this. I
Speaker 1: don't know where most Republican voters are on this.
Speaker 5: Tutor launch is where are Republican primary voters on this?
Speaker 2: Right? And I don't know. I don't I really don't
Speaker 2: have any idea. Do you have a guess?
Speaker 1: I think my guess would be the average person doesn't
Speaker 1: just wants the war to be over, gas prices to
Speaker 1: go back there, then they don't care about anything beyond that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the core Republican voter, interesting question. I bet there's
Speaker 5: a fair divide there because a lot of core voters
Speaker 5: are traditional Republican Hawks, and a lot of core voters
Speaker 5: these days are more isolationists, younger MAGA types.
Speaker 1: So certainly a possible prediction is because the reason the
Speaker 1: talks got delayed today was because Israel was bombing hesbela
Speaker 1: point number one on the fourteen point or eight point
Speaker 1: or whatever it is, memorandum of underwhelmingt what did you
Speaker 1: call it?
Speaker 5: The Memorandum of underwhelming point? Number one was everybody's got
Speaker 5: to stop fighting.
Speaker 1: And Israel bombed Hesbelah overnight, and so that's why Iran said, no,
Speaker 1: we're not going to talk until that ends, which is
Speaker 1: going to be their excuse going forward. But Israel and
Speaker 1: Hesbela could fully re engage easily today and then JD.
Speaker 1: Vans and Trump are going to come out and absolutely
Speaker 1: bad mouth Netan Yahoo and Israel for blowing.
Speaker 2: Up this deal.
Speaker 1: And it's going to drive a wedge between the United
Speaker 1: States and Israel in a way that I don't think
Speaker 1: has ever happened.
Speaker 2: Is that that's why.
Speaker 5: Ron's main goal or is that one of their precious
Speaker 5: goals right now? They're super excited about it. We're going
Speaker 5: to divide the US and Israel. Certainly could be not
Speaker 5: only the US but the friendliest president to Israel in generations.
Speaker 5: And they've all been pretty friendly because they're an incredibly
Speaker 5: important ally. But Trump was like the Israeli you know,
Speaker 5: favorite president for a while.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I got an Ai question. My son used Ai
Speaker 1: on his resume. Yesterday, and I was wondering about how
Speaker 1: much is too much? Or should you at all? That
Speaker 1: question that a lot of people are wrestling with. Everybody
Speaker 1: coming out of college has got to be wondering about it.
Speaker 1: AnyWho lots of stuff to talk about, hope you can
Speaker 1: stay here.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so my son was putting together our resume. I've
Speaker 1: heard other young people talk about how they had AI
Speaker 1: do their resume. I guess it's a pretty popular thing
Speaker 1: right now. Oh yeah, AI is really good at it.
Speaker 4: And uh.
Speaker 1: So I told my son I wanted to take a
Speaker 1: look at it before he went and dropped it off
Speaker 1: at a particular business and a couple of things that
Speaker 1: I wanted to change and this and that. But has
Speaker 1: anybody figured out for sure how much using AI is
Speaker 1: good for you and how much is a bad idea?
Speaker 1: With the background that lots of smart people seem to
Speaker 1: be saying, you got to embrace AI and become good
Speaker 1: at using AI to have a future that's gonna be
Speaker 1: the future. Using AI is going to be the future
Speaker 1: of any job. So doing it on your own and
Speaker 1: staying away from it is doesn't make sense. So I
Speaker 1: don't I don't know where I am on that. Well,
Speaker 1: more importantly, did he pad his resume?
Speaker 5: Did he claim to have multiple degrees from Harvard like
Speaker 5: Joe Biden should?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, boy, I would Doing a resume is such a drudgery.
Speaker 5: But you know, I've been working on a couple of
Speaker 5: things lately that I've consulted AI. And if I was say,
Speaker 5: I was invited to give the keynote addressed some you know,
Speaker 5: gathering of podcasters about you know something, Am I going
Speaker 5: to crank out the rough draft myself from scratch? Or
Speaker 5: am I gonna let AI do the heavy lifting and
Speaker 5: give it to me and think, yeah, let's tweak it
Speaker 5: a little bit, especially if it's one of the systems
Speaker 5: that can study other things I've written and said and
Speaker 5: do it quote unquote in my voice. That temptation is unbelievable. Well,
Speaker 5: on the other hand, that that I think, I use
Speaker 5: the word drudgery. It makes you a better writer. So
Speaker 5: I'm so torn by this stuff.
Speaker 1: Do you need to be a better writer. Will anybody
Speaker 1: be writing anything? Why would you?
Speaker 5: Well just let the computers do it for us. I'm
Speaker 5: horrified by that.
Speaker 1: I'm not as good at making horseshoes because I don't
Speaker 1: need to. I just go to the store and buy them,
Speaker 1: because you know, I don't need to have the school
Speaker 1: that skill.
Speaker 2: What of the village smithy.
Speaker 1: It's not a skill that's needed anymore, right, lots of
Speaker 1: skills that aren't needed anymore have gone away. Is the
Speaker 1: ability to write a skill that everybody needs to have.
Speaker 1: I mean, I want to say yes, but I'm not
Speaker 1: sure I can back that up.
Speaker 5: Maybe it's pride or something. I don't want to be
Speaker 5: a human being who grunts monosyllabic instructions to a computer
Speaker 5: that then crafts my communication.
Speaker 2: I'm horrified by that. Idea.
Speaker 1: Isn't the talent at this point though, looking at what
Speaker 1: it spits out and deciding whether that's what you want.
Speaker 2: Tweak it this way or that way?
Speaker 5: Yeah, that study came out ten minutes worth of AI
Speaker 5: makes you your brain less active?
Speaker 2: And I mentioned spartan as.
Speaker 1: I mentioned my college professor friend who said he has
Speaker 1: already seen his skills atrophy and seen the skills of
Speaker 1: his student's atrophy because of AI already. Yeah, it's just
Speaker 1: it's it's it's happening, it's gonna happen.
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't, I don't know. I nobody knows.
Speaker 2: I realized. So it's it's it just it.
Speaker 5: Shakes up such fundamental parts of being human in a
Speaker 5: way that like your your blacksmith example, doesn't. That's a
Speaker 5: very specific skill. This is like one of the most
Speaker 5: fundamental skills that he human being can have, and it
Speaker 5: applies to everything they do in their entire life, communicating effectively.
Speaker 5: And if you prize good writing and I do, and
Speaker 5: crafting a clever sentence, it's very disturbing to me.
Speaker 1: I think writing and crafting a clever sentence completely on
Speaker 1: your own is going to become the sort of thing
Speaker 1: that you have a booth next to the guy who
Speaker 1: makes horseshoes from scratch at the county fair.
Speaker 2: Look, there's a guy that crafts sentences from scratch. Let's
Speaker 2: watch him, because everybody else is doing it with AI.
Speaker 5: And then may we be led dumb to the slaughter
Speaker 5: by whatever autocrat or technocrat comes along, because we won't
Speaker 5: have the intellectual capacity to resist it.
Speaker 2: I don't know if we will not.
Speaker 1: One of the difficult things is is that we people
Speaker 1: of our generation and well I guess anybody who's over
Speaker 1: the age of maybe thirty, we grow up having to
Speaker 1: do everything our own and this is all new to us.
Speaker 1: But for the people that start their lives, start school
Speaker 1: with AI and never have to write a term paper
Speaker 1: or a paragraph or anything.
Speaker 2: Like that, what will they be like? We don't really know.
Speaker 5: I suppose right right, And I'm not sure there's any
Speaker 5: fighting this, which is why I find it so depressing.
Speaker 5: I think people who are that unused to exercising their
Speaker 5: intellectual muscles will be incredibly easy to lead astray. I mean,
Speaker 5: they're already humans are already incredibly easy to lead astray.
Speaker 5: Look at the number of folks voting for socialism right now.
Speaker 5: There could be no worse idea politically speaking than socialism.
Speaker 5: It's idiotic, It never works, it always fails, and yet
Speaker 5: people are voting for it in droves. Imagine when they
Speaker 5: with their soft, lazy minds that let the computer do
Speaker 5: all the work. And the comparison to physical muscles isn't perfect,
Speaker 5: but it's pretty good. Those people will it'll be effortless
Speaker 5: to get those sheep into whatever corral is design for him.
Speaker 1: What percentage of resumes received do you suppose or written
Speaker 1: by AI?
Speaker 2: Right now? All of them? Right?
Speaker 5: And I would do it in a second. Like I said,
Speaker 5: it's a dreadful test.
Speaker 1: Well that and why would you compete against why would
Speaker 1: you take honor? And I'm going to write this myself
Speaker 1: and compete against the people that at AI send them
Speaker 1: them a perfect one.
Speaker 2: Where do you draw the line?
Speaker 5: I say, a resume, yes, a creative writing, no keynote
Speaker 5: address to some group.
Speaker 2: Half and half?
Speaker 5: I mean, is it something I'm crazy passionate about or
Speaker 5: is it advertising revenue? In the era of internet competition,
Speaker 5: AI can do the hard work on that one. Eulogy
Speaker 5: at a close loved one's funeral.
Speaker 2: Not an effing chance. You're not Anna AI.
Speaker 1: It probably not, say AI. He's close to me, he died,
Speaker 1: he kind of liked golf and fishing. Write something for
Speaker 1: he is a nice.
Speaker 2: Fellow, very generous.
Speaker 5: Uh yeah, Oh, I just remembered he loved dogs.
Speaker 2: Throw that into Oh that feels despicable to me.
Speaker 1: People used to make fun of the way he dances.
Speaker 1: Make a joke about that. Oh, I hate that. I
Speaker 1: don't like the modern world. I'll be in the woods
Speaker 1: if you need me.
Speaker 2: I know that sounds horrible when you say out loud.
Speaker 5: Hey, Hunter, Biden has a new gig speaking of working folks.
Speaker 2: Will tell you about that. Much more. Coming up, Armstrong
Speaker 2: and getdy.
Speaker 1: I got a breaking news. It's around the warn Iran.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you what it is. Then you all
Speaker 1: got to make me shut up about it, because obviously
Speaker 1: I could talk about this all day.
Speaker 2: Michael, turn off my microphone if you have to.
Speaker 1: When news breaks, the donkey brays this is from the
Speaker 1: Financial Times. In a broadcast two ships in the Strait
Speaker 1: of Hormuz, Iran said the waterway will remain closed until
Speaker 1: Israel withdraws from Lebanon and other terms of the agreement
Speaker 1: are met.
Speaker 5: Well, this was fun, wasn't it. You remember a whole
Speaker 5: m ou period. Those were good days.
Speaker 2: M two of them.
Speaker 5: Oh boy, it's like its parody. It really is all right,
Speaker 5: moving along, as vowed little Bengo Mango bongo, as we say,
Speaker 5: a bunch of stories worth at least touching on briefly.
Speaker 5: I rarely find myself in agreement with the Broadway Democrats.
Speaker 5: It's a New York political activist group that, as they say, quote,
Speaker 5: we usually support the younger, more progressive candidate, but we
Speaker 5: cannot do this in the thirteenth District congressional race, and
Speaker 5: it is not a close call. They are refusing to
Speaker 5: endorse dary Eliza Avila Chevalier, who's the Democratic socialist being
Speaker 5: backed by Mamdani for congress. She point blank refused to
Speaker 5: condemn Hamas in the October seventh massacre. Here's the quote
Speaker 5: from these progressive folks. That's because this guy's chief challenger
Speaker 5: refuses to condemn Hamas or anything about it's October seventh
Speaker 5: and hundreds of other murderous assaults on Israeli people, the
Speaker 5: execution of its own political dissidents. It's theocratic view of
Speaker 5: government and what a society is. It's misogyny, it's homophobia,
Speaker 5: it's racism. These statements about Chevalier's position are not mere rumors.
Speaker 5: At our own endorsement meeting, she point blank refused to
Speaker 5: condemn Hamas and it's October seventh attacks and turned the
Speaker 5: question into yet another attack on Israel. Good for all
Speaker 5: appreciate that. Yeah, Hunter Biden has a new gig. He's
Speaker 5: said to be seventeen million dollars in debt.
Speaker 2: WHOA, how do you even get seventeen million dollars in debt?
Speaker 2: I wouldn't think he could. I wouldn't think he could.
Speaker 1: I would think after the first three nobody would be
Speaker 1: giving you money anymore.
Speaker 5: I think if you live the high flying Biden lifestyle,
Speaker 5: it doesn't take very long at all. Might be a
Speaker 5: lot of legal costs too. But an ultra luxury drug
Speaker 5: and alcohol rehab center nestled in the Hollywood Hills has fired,
Speaker 5: has hired rather. Former first son Hunter Biden is an
Speaker 5: advisor and executive director of its charitable foundation, A new
Speaker 5: gig that could help the convicted fellon whittled down millions
Speaker 5: of dollars in unpaid legal.
Speaker 2: Bills and other debts. Peak Path Health hired him this week.
Speaker 1: Wonder why what do they think they're going to get
Speaker 1: out of that? The house can't help them anymore?
Speaker 2: Can they? Can they help anybody anymore?
Speaker 5: They touted, quote his lived experience and professional insight from
Speaker 5: his struggles with addiction to crack, alcohol and other substances.
Speaker 5: The announcement comes during a meaningful milestone in Hunter Biden's
Speaker 5: personal journey as he celebrates seven years of sobriety this month,
Speaker 5: said Peak Path. That probably figured whatever salary was is
Speaker 5: it's worth the publicity they're getting from it. Well, anyway,
Speaker 5: I don't need the guy to starve to death because
Speaker 5: a job. Great pay back your debts USA versus Australia.
Speaker 1: Today noon, West Coast time, very very exciting. Somehow, I
Speaker 1: just came across John Clease of Monty Python fame.
Speaker 2: If you're old enough to remember, Monty Python.
Speaker 5: Vaulty Towers, probably the best situation comedy in American history.
Speaker 1: He retweeted an old Monty was British. Sorry, He retweeted
Speaker 1: an old Monty Python bit around the World Cup soccer
Speaker 1: that I'd forgotten. Germany taking on Greece, and the German
Speaker 1: team was made up of Schoppenhauer, Hegel, Hegel brother, Nietzsche,
Speaker 1: all these people, and the Greeks were Aristotle and PLAYEDO on.
Speaker 2: All these people.
Speaker 1: And immediately they blow the whistle and all they do
Speaker 1: is walk around talking and thinking.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh man, that's the subtle humor of Monty Python.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no kidding, And then they'd hit somebody in the
Speaker 5: head with a big fish. Yeah, you probably heard yesterday.
Speaker 5: I know we mentioned it once or twice. Luigi Mangioni,
Speaker 5: the cold blooded executioner of a guy whose business he
Speaker 5: didn't think was very good, offered a psychiatric defense and
Speaker 5: later that day.
Speaker 2: Reversed course.
Speaker 5: Just after the judge had made public the unusual strategy.
Speaker 5: In a single sentence letter to the presiding judge, the
Speaker 5: lawyers wrote that at the time they were withdrawing a
Speaker 5: defense in which Mangoni would have argued he killed a
Speaker 5: United Healthcare chief executive, Brian Thompson due to an emotional disturbance.
Speaker 5: Nobody's quite sure why. I guessed that they talked Dope
Speaker 5: Mangoni into this, and then later he regretted his giving
Speaker 5: his assent because he thinks he's a brave crusader for
Speaker 5: something I don't know best.
Speaker 2: Guess who knows.
Speaker 5: Moving along Texas Senate race turns into a battle over
Speaker 5: who is.
Speaker 2: More of a man?
Speaker 5: Oh boys, is the Ken Paxton James Tallerico race.
Speaker 1: I feel like you got to bring out some truck
Speaker 1: tires and see who can turn it over the most times.
Speaker 5: I don't think, well, the one guy's kind of old,
Speaker 5: But anyway, it's all about appealing to Hispanic male voters
Speaker 5: who care about masculinity, and tallar Eico is a weedy,
Speaker 5: little lefty girly man. Frankly, and I'm no fan of
Speaker 5: Paxton either.
Speaker 2: I thought it was.
Speaker 5: Terrible that they got rid of Corny in In favorite Paxton,
Speaker 5: lefty little girly man. The thinking among packed Paxton's age
Speaker 5: is they can successfully cast Tallarico is not strong enough
Speaker 5: to represent Texas and Washington. Machismo is important to these
Speaker 5: voters to know who's a fighter and who's weak, said
Speaker 5: his campaign advice.
Speaker 1: Which is okay because it's Hispanics. If it's regular white
Speaker 1: people who who prize manliness, then that's some sort of
Speaker 1: toxics this or that.
Speaker 5: But yeah, exact cultures are allowed to do it. So
Speaker 5: some of this is at least slightly amusing. Excuse me,
Speaker 5: stupid allergies. Even before winning the Republican primary last month,
Speaker 5: Paxton's campaign began call tell Rico low T after testing
Speaker 5: out some other derogatory nicknames. Some people know him as
Speaker 5: Tofu tell Rico. Some people call him six gender Jimmy,
Speaker 5: Paxton said with a smile to cheers at his primary
Speaker 5: runoff victory party. Others refer to him simply as low
Speaker 5: T tell Rico.
Speaker 2: I do low T Tallarico is a pretty good tag.
Speaker 2: That's a good just low T. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 5: A major political action committee supporting Paxton has put out
Speaker 5: ads saying low T tall Ico two week for Texas.
Speaker 5: Trump advisor Stephen Miller always always good for a kind
Speaker 5: and you know, even handed quote post thoughtful posting on
Speaker 5: social media calling tell Rico's the party's first transgender senate candidate.
Speaker 2: He's not, by the way. Wow.
Speaker 5: Others posting on social media speculated about tell Rico's sexual
Speaker 5: orientation until his girlfriend's identity became public.
Speaker 1: Oh that's right. He had talked to having a girlfriend.
Speaker 1: Nobody'd ever seen the girlfriend for some reason. That became
Speaker 1: a scandal, and then he had to like introduce the
Speaker 1: girlfriend online and that was a pushback against the fact
Speaker 1: that he was secretly gay.
Speaker 5: Oh, these are the times we live in, right right.
Speaker 5: In a recent Fox News interview, Representative Brandon Gill of
Speaker 5: Texas at Paxton ally called tell Rico effeminate and barely straight.
Speaker 5: What he's a wobbler. He could go two glasses of
Speaker 5: shardonay and he's you know, caressing your mustache.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 5: This for Sanity, A trumpelined political action committee, recently bought
Speaker 5: an AI deep fake ad showing tell Rico in address
Speaker 5: reminiscent of the sound of music singing about transgender children, which.
Speaker 2: He hadn't done. Saying about transgender children.
Speaker 5: Was AI, Although what did somebody asked him, what do
Speaker 5: you care about other than you know, blah blah bah,
Speaker 5: and he said, transgender children. Yeah, That's what I'm thinking
Speaker 5: about right now. Yeah, top priority. Anyway, good luck with that,
Speaker 5: low TI, that's too serious. Oh, I thought this was interesting.
Speaker 5: I remember back when you were childless and care free
Speaker 5: and traveled a lot and lived, you know, a fun
Speaker 5: lifestyle while I was raising kids, which was wonderful. But
Speaker 5: you used to go to Vegas now and again, Yeah,
Speaker 5: that was back when it was like a bargain vacation.
Speaker 5: Hotel rooms were really inexpensive, buffets were cheap or free
Speaker 5: food drinks because it was all about gambling revenue, so
Speaker 5: they just wanted to get you there.
Speaker 2: Boy, has that changed.
Speaker 5: It is a upscale, very expensive, event driven destination.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 5: Hotel rates in the last seven eight years have risen
Speaker 5: faster than any city in America, up twenty eight percent
Speaker 5: from twenty nineteen oh h. Back in twenty nineteen, twenty
Speaker 5: eight percent of people earned six figures or more. Twenty
Speaker 5: eight percent of people who visited Las Vegas. Now it's
Speaker 5: seventy five percent.
Speaker 2: WHOA. But part of that is inflation, but that's something,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 1: Las Vegas is the number two family vacation destination in
Speaker 1: America behind Orlando. It's not just you know, boozing and
Speaker 1: strip clubs. It's in fact, it's not mostly that. It's
Speaker 1: mostly all kinds of different stuff, Like I don't know,
Speaker 1: we go to Mandalay Bay and use the wave pool
Speaker 1: and then go out to that cool race car thing
Speaker 1: they got outside of town where you can sit in
Speaker 1: ferraris and.
Speaker 2: Stuff like that. I haven't taken my kids to a
Speaker 2: single strip club. Well they're missing out, but yeah, so anyway.
Speaker 1: You know, I think out there now that I haven't
Speaker 1: attended the Evil Knieval Museum.
Speaker 2: Oh what you used to call me in Kansas?
Speaker 1: I think, And both my brothers had been to it
Speaker 1: and said it's awesome, but they moved it to Vegas,
Speaker 1: so I gotta do that next time.
Speaker 5: They got to display all his broken bones, like he's
Speaker 5: a Saint Peter or something h Yeah, Evil Canievel who
Speaker 5: used to hang out and drink in a motor home
Speaker 5: in a parking lot next to the driving range one
Speaker 5: of my favorite golf courses. We really yeah, everybody Illinois.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, it was widely known. Hey, that's Evil can
Speaker 5: Eevel's RV. I never saw him because I was generally
Speaker 5: on my way to play golf. I wasn't lurking waiting
Speaker 5: to catch a glimpse of the great motorcycle jumper. But yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: that's what they say. Anyway, moving along, we got time
Speaker 5: for one more. Let's see what's that kind of fun
Speaker 5: in life affirmingem and that's too serious.
Speaker 2: I don't know you got anything.
Speaker 1: Uh, if it turns out to be true that Iran
Speaker 1: has announ the strait is closed, that is going to
Speaker 1: be a.
Speaker 2: Really really big deal.
Speaker 1: I'll try to nail that down. See if there's more
Speaker 1: than just that one source.
Speaker 5: Yeah, oh, I know there was one thing I wanted
Speaker 5: to well, you're looking at that.
Speaker 2: We were talking about how.
Speaker 5: Lower priced American consumer electronics A lot of the millions
Speaker 5: of them have like backdoor software installed on them.
Speaker 2: And you had no idea.
Speaker 5: And I was looking for a list of products and
Speaker 5: I never found the list of brand names and stuff.
Speaker 5: But one of the main offenders were digital picture frames.
Speaker 2: Oh really that were Yeah, I don't have one, but yeah,
Speaker 2: interesting And then so, uh, where is that?
Speaker 5: The way it works is you got an infected you know,
Speaker 5: like a picture frame or video streaming device could be
Speaker 5: used to hack into your mobile phone because of the
Speaker 5: interaction between them, and if that phone found its way
Speaker 5: to a bring your own device corporate network, that could
Speaker 5: put a lot of confidential information risk. So not only
Speaker 5: are they used as like proxy computers for cyber attacks,
Speaker 5: but they're also like step by step, like lily padding
Speaker 5: their way to the stuff that they're really looking for.
Speaker 5: It's just h having created a digital world, can we.
Speaker 2: Ensure it? Can we protect it? Can we secure it? No?
Speaker 2: So far?
Speaker 1: No, no, no is the answer to that. Oh, okay,
Speaker 1: there's new news on the Supreme Court ruling that came
Speaker 1: out the other day that was nine zero.
Speaker 2: By the way, nine nothing. I missed that. I guess
Speaker 2: at the time.
Speaker 1: Anytime there's a nine nothing ruling, you gotta wonder what
Speaker 1: the heck was going on before.
Speaker 2: You should listen to me. I told is it the
Speaker 2: gun one the stone to gun guy. Yeah, the stone
Speaker 2: to gun one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, well you don't. You don't have to be
Speaker 1: stone while you're shooting a gun. That's not really the
Speaker 1: You certainly shouldn't be.
Speaker 2: No, it's not a good idea. That and other stuff
Speaker 2: on the way. Stay here, farm strong and get it.
Speaker 3: Me and Joan went to Starbucks today and this is
Speaker 3: how my drink came. Look how much ice?
Speaker 2: So we're gonna see how much drink is actually in this?
Speaker 2: When I take the ice out?
Speaker 3: How much ice is?
Speaker 2: Guess how much wasn't our drink?
Speaker 7: If you've been noticing the Starbucks drinks are mainly ice,
Speaker 7: now you are not alone. There's actually an online trend
Speaker 7: where people pretend to apply to Starbucks and all they
Speaker 7: do is fill up a cup with ice and a
Speaker 7: little bit of coffee. Look how many likes this has here?
Speaker 7: Three hundred and twenty five thousand, So many people realize
Speaker 7: that Starbucks is a scam.
Speaker 2: They are robbing this all right.
Speaker 1: I always wondered that about iced coffee drinks. You get
Speaker 1: an iced coffee drink and it's a cup full of
Speaker 1: ice with a little bit of coffee in there. I
Speaker 1: always think I I needed coffee, So yeah, anyway, not
Speaker 1: very important there. But I don't know if it's a scandal,
Speaker 1: it's rocking America. This is all happened in just the
Speaker 1: last couple of hours. So I went to Open Source
Speaker 1: and Intelligence Defender, Financial Times, a couple different outlets, so
Speaker 1: I'll start here. Joe and I made a bet ten
Speaker 1: dollars bet at the beginning of the week. I bet
Speaker 1: ten dollars that the deal would not be signed on Friday,
Speaker 1: like Trump was talking about it. And I'm not even
Speaker 1: sure who won the bet. That's how confusing the solving is.
Speaker 1: Because they Trump signed the deal in while he was
Speaker 1: in France, and Emmanuel McCrone gives him a big high
Speaker 1: five and shaking hands and smiling, and I thought, what
Speaker 1: is this all about? And then the Iranians did, or
Speaker 1: they claimed they did, then they claimed they didn't sign
Speaker 1: the deal, and then it was supposed to be the
Speaker 1: ceremony of the signing in front of the world was
Speaker 1: supposed to happen today, but overnight, while you were sleeping,
Speaker 1: Israel and Hesbela started firing at each other. That's the
Speaker 1: number one point in the agreement of the cease of
Speaker 1: the of the deal to end the war. Is that
Speaker 1: those hostilities cease. Well, the hostilities ceased, ceasing started again,
Speaker 1: and Iran said, okay, we're not going to the We're
Speaker 1: not going to show up to the signing. And we'd
Speaker 1: already started down the road towards sending our people, including
Speaker 1: JD Vance, but we had to pull out because that
Speaker 1: would be very embarrassing to have Jdvance show up to
Speaker 1: an empty room in the arrangement.
Speaker 2: Show up to the signing, stood up at the altar. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that would be pretty darn rough.
Speaker 1: So then Israel and this happened first. So Iran announced
Speaker 1: the strait is closed again. Straight is closed again. It
Speaker 1: had been open for just a couple of days, but
Speaker 1: the strait is now closed again because Israel and Hesbla
Speaker 1: are still firing each other. Israel and Lebanon and Hesbela
Speaker 1: announced a he's fire four hours ago. As we're recording this,
Speaker 1: four hours ago, it was announced Israel and Hasboll announced
Speaker 1: the ceasefire. In the hour since then, they've continued shooting
Speaker 1: at each other. So Iran says, the strait is still closed.
Speaker 1: So that's where we are now. Israel and hesbel are
Speaker 1: still shooting at each other even though they announced the
Speaker 1: cease fire four hours ago, and the strait is closed again.
Speaker 2: Oh and more importantly than that.
Speaker 1: So the Iyahtola, the new Iahtola, who we blew off
Speaker 1: one of his legs and blew out one of his eyes.
Speaker 1: He said, yeah, the President Trump signed to this because
Speaker 1: we forced him too. He was in a position where
Speaker 1: he had no other choice. Trump did not like that,
Speaker 1: of course, so Trump put out a truth social post
Speaker 1: saying we didn't meet out of desperation Iran did they
Speaker 1: are finished?
Speaker 2: In all caps, We'll play out the sixty days.
Speaker 1: They get no money, not ten cents, they're getting gonna
Speaker 1: get lots of money.
Speaker 2: Or did we put the naval blockade back on or
Speaker 2: never real they lifted it.
Speaker 5: Because it's about the blockade, not the straight as far
Speaker 5: as Iran's concerned.
Speaker 2: That's a good question. Well yeah, well Iran's not allowing it.
Speaker 2: Iran has the leverage. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Trump wants the straight open so that the world economy.
Speaker 2: Will get fixed.
Speaker 5: Two things real quickly, Iran is clearly trying to divide
Speaker 5: the US and Israel. Remember Hisbollah is Iran. They are
Speaker 5: trying to do that, that's their goal.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 5: Secondly, the Iotola also said, I don't like this deal much.
Speaker 5: I'm letting you sign it, but it'll probably blow up
Speaker 5: in our faces.
Speaker 2: Oh really yeah wow Armstrong and Getty