1 00:00:09,560 --> 00:00:14,880 Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 2 00:00:14,920 --> 00:00:20,040 Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe, Katty Armstrong, and Jetty 3 00:00:20,360 --> 00:00:21,200 Speaker 1: and he. 4 00:00:24,040 --> 00:00:24,759 Speaker 2: Arm draw. 5 00:00:32,640 --> 00:00:37,680 Speaker 3: The drum studio scene sees and your dimly lit room deeper. 6 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:38,440 Speaker 1: From the fowls of. 7 00:00:38,440 --> 00:00:42,519 Speaker 3: The Armstrong and Getty Communications Compound. Hey, y'all today, it's 8 00:00:42,560 --> 00:00:44,880 Speaker 3: all right Tuesday. We're under the tutelage of our general 9 00:00:44,960 --> 00:00:49,680 Speaker 3: manager Trump's first one hundred days. Mama, give him a 10 00:00:49,800 --> 00:00:53,320 Speaker 3: letter grade. We'll take care of calls from Oh bah, 11 00:00:53,360 --> 00:00:54,000 Speaker 3: what grade? 12 00:00:54,040 --> 00:00:59,080 Speaker 1: And why? Oh please? I don't care. I gave him 13 00:00:59,120 --> 00:01:03,120 Speaker 1: a bee my. I just don't care. I'm glad he's 14 00:01:03,120 --> 00:01:04,120 Speaker 1: sealed up. 15 00:01:04,440 --> 00:01:08,759 Speaker 3: You don't care. I don't care, apathetic, I don't care. 16 00:01:09,120 --> 00:01:12,080 Speaker 1: It's if there's. 17 00:01:11,920 --> 00:01:14,360 Speaker 3: One ongoing theme we have on this show, and it's 18 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:16,319 Speaker 3: hit me in the face hard in the last twenty 19 00:01:16,360 --> 00:01:19,440 Speaker 3: four hours with all this dog is, why does everybody 20 00:01:19,480 --> 00:01:23,160 Speaker 3: spend so much time talking about the president? Don't you 21 00:01:23,200 --> 00:01:25,920 Speaker 3: have anything else to do with your life? Is there 22 00:01:25,959 --> 00:01:28,000 Speaker 3: something else you want to do with your life rather 23 00:01:28,040 --> 00:01:30,880 Speaker 3: than to the end of your days your dying breath. 24 00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:34,240 Speaker 1: Discuss whoever's president? Is that what you saur national pastime. 25 00:01:34,319 --> 00:01:36,840 Speaker 1: This is our national sport. Come on, we've known that 26 00:01:36,880 --> 00:01:37,399 Speaker 1: for a while. 27 00:01:37,600 --> 00:01:40,319 Speaker 3: What I'll tells do to talk about how your favorite 28 00:01:40,360 --> 00:01:43,800 Speaker 3: baseball team's doing. None zero. But people do it. They 29 00:01:43,880 --> 00:01:47,240 Speaker 3: enjoy it. It's a pastime. What a horrible pastime. It's 30 00:01:47,280 --> 00:01:50,880 Speaker 3: like the worst past time I can imagine. I don't know, 31 00:01:51,160 --> 00:01:54,200 Speaker 3: I collect infections or I don't know. You can't think 32 00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:57,280 Speaker 3: of the worst pastime. Yeah, Anthony Fauci did that. It 33 00:01:57,320 --> 00:02:00,320 Speaker 3: didn't go very well, speaking of infections or virus or 34 00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:03,320 Speaker 3: whatever I had. I feel close to normal for the 35 00:02:03,320 --> 00:02:05,360 Speaker 3: first time in three weeks, So I'm very excited about that. 36 00:02:05,840 --> 00:02:07,600 Speaker 3: Even in my way, my head is still full of 37 00:02:07,640 --> 00:02:09,040 Speaker 3: whatever it's full of, and I can't here out of 38 00:02:09,040 --> 00:02:13,000 Speaker 3: either ear. But in terms of vim and vigor, both 39 00:02:13,320 --> 00:02:17,800 Speaker 3: both of these, I feel fantastic. So I hope you 40 00:02:17,840 --> 00:02:20,720 Speaker 3: sound quite normal. I hope you don't catch this disease whatever. 41 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:24,720 Speaker 3: My son's got like five days behind me and really struggling. Oh, 42 00:02:25,440 --> 00:02:28,040 Speaker 3: we got a note from a nice fellow whose son 43 00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:31,359 Speaker 3: is five weeks in. Oh my god, just the coffid 44 00:02:31,400 --> 00:02:34,400 Speaker 3: and sneezing and weeze and unspecified respiratory infection. 45 00:02:34,639 --> 00:02:38,480 Speaker 1: Wow. Yeah, poor little lad and not something that antibiotics 46 00:02:38,520 --> 00:02:38,920 Speaker 1: can do. 47 00:02:38,880 --> 00:02:43,639 Speaker 3: Something without apparently not Wow, its email read like a 48 00:02:43,680 --> 00:02:46,160 Speaker 3: civilized man who has access to medical care. Yeah, I 49 00:02:46,160 --> 00:02:48,120 Speaker 3: don't think the antibotics have done anything for me, So 50 00:02:48,160 --> 00:02:49,960 Speaker 3: I think it turned out it was a virus and 51 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:52,760 Speaker 3: not something that you could deal with that with anyway. 52 00:02:53,320 --> 00:02:56,200 Speaker 3: You know, don't take your advice from disc jockeys. 53 00:02:56,240 --> 00:03:02,400 Speaker 1: That'd be my never use that, Never use that term 54 00:03:02,480 --> 00:03:04,320 Speaker 1: around me, sir. I don't ever want to hear you 55 00:03:04,360 --> 00:03:04,960 Speaker 1: say that again. 56 00:03:07,040 --> 00:03:09,000 Speaker 3: You say that again, it won't be the truth that 57 00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:11,800 Speaker 3: hits you in the face. All right, enough said, Oh, 58 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:17,000 Speaker 3: which reminds me. I'm so excited about several topics we're 59 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:18,120 Speaker 3: going to get to today. 60 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:19,760 Speaker 1: Cool really ensued. 61 00:03:20,480 --> 00:03:29,040 Speaker 3: Perhaps chief among them, can one hundred unarmed men defeat 62 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:34,960 Speaker 3: a single gorilla in a fight? Science and AI have 63 00:03:35,160 --> 00:03:38,720 Speaker 3: weighed in on the question, Well, if you had a 64 00:03:38,760 --> 00:03:43,320 Speaker 3: strategy maybe. If you didn't have a strategy, no, but 65 00:03:43,360 --> 00:03:44,840 Speaker 3: if you had a strategy. 66 00:03:44,440 --> 00:03:46,320 Speaker 1: Maybe you're a thinking man. 67 00:03:46,840 --> 00:03:50,560 Speaker 3: One hundred unarmed men against a single like eight hundred 68 00:03:50,560 --> 00:03:53,160 Speaker 3: pounds lowland gorilla. I think your strategy we'd have to 69 00:03:53,160 --> 00:03:55,480 Speaker 3: include some brave people who are willing to take a 70 00:03:55,520 --> 00:03:56,800 Speaker 3: severe ass kicking. 71 00:03:58,280 --> 00:03:58,960 Speaker 1: To be the lead. 72 00:03:59,080 --> 00:04:02,160 Speaker 3: Guys, Please the old Yankee your arm out of it 73 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:04,680 Speaker 3: socket and beat you with a bloody stump, right yeah, 74 00:04:04,760 --> 00:04:07,000 Speaker 3: times like thirty at least. 75 00:04:06,760 --> 00:04:08,200 Speaker 1: Or make you his wife briefly. 76 00:04:10,600 --> 00:04:13,360 Speaker 3: That would be a surprising twist later in the show, 77 00:04:13,400 --> 00:04:16,640 Speaker 3: can one hundred unarmed men defeat a single gorilla in 78 00:04:16,680 --> 00:04:17,040 Speaker 3: a fight? 79 00:04:17,160 --> 00:04:17,440 Speaker 1: Today? 80 00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:23,400 Speaker 3: With the topic everyone's talking about? So I do pay 81 00:04:23,400 --> 00:04:25,400 Speaker 3: attention to the media landscape because that's what I do 82 00:04:25,480 --> 00:04:25,839 Speaker 3: for a living. 83 00:04:25,880 --> 00:04:27,520 Speaker 1: I thought that was this was interesting. 84 00:04:27,839 --> 00:04:30,760 Speaker 3: So Trump has got a rally tonight, first rally since 85 00:04:30,760 --> 00:04:35,080 Speaker 3: he's been president Tomorrow Night News Nation, which I've started 86 00:04:35,080 --> 00:04:39,320 Speaker 3: watching every morning along with the other shows that I watch. 87 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:41,960 Speaker 3: Tomorrow Night, he's going to be on a show with 88 00:04:43,040 --> 00:04:49,479 Speaker 3: Andrew Cuomo, Bill O'Reilly and Stephen A. Smith on News Nation. 89 00:04:49,960 --> 00:04:53,560 Speaker 3: That's their lineup for a town hall with Trump tomorrow night. 90 00:04:53,880 --> 00:04:56,760 Speaker 1: It's a heck of a lineup, isn't it odd? Eh? 91 00:04:57,040 --> 00:04:59,400 Speaker 3: So if you if you've been sleeping on that channel, 92 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:01,520 Speaker 3: I know a lot of you been screaming at me, 93 00:05:01,520 --> 00:05:03,440 Speaker 3: why aren't you watching this? But if you've been sleeping 94 00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:04,920 Speaker 3: on that channel, you got to check it out. It's 95 00:05:05,400 --> 00:05:08,479 Speaker 3: like I said, it's it's weird. It takes a little 96 00:05:08,520 --> 00:05:10,240 Speaker 3: getting used to, and it's making me think about what 97 00:05:10,279 --> 00:05:15,520 Speaker 3: we do. But it's flat unfair. It just doesn't have 98 00:05:15,560 --> 00:05:18,960 Speaker 3: the passion of hatred that the other channels have, where 99 00:05:18,960 --> 00:05:21,359 Speaker 3: you gotta hate somebody and scream about it. They don't 100 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:25,360 Speaker 3: do that, so it just I'm not used to that. 101 00:05:25,360 --> 00:05:27,359 Speaker 3: That's the way all news used to be when I 102 00:05:27,440 --> 00:05:31,120 Speaker 3: was younger, nobody was screaming about hating anyone or anything. 103 00:05:31,279 --> 00:05:36,000 Speaker 3: But I need to watch it. Not all dislike, I 104 00:05:36,040 --> 00:05:40,919 Speaker 3: hate the term hate. Not all dislike is inappropriate, and 105 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:44,600 Speaker 3: not all energy or enthusiasm is negative. 106 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:46,200 Speaker 1: But I will have to watch. 107 00:05:46,200 --> 00:05:49,600 Speaker 3: It's just a calmer Is that how you would describe it? 108 00:05:49,680 --> 00:05:49,880 Speaker 1: Yeah? 109 00:05:49,920 --> 00:05:53,480 Speaker 3: Well, less analysis for one thing, Just less analysis overall. 110 00:05:53,520 --> 00:05:56,520 Speaker 3: We have too much analysis, that says a guy who 111 00:05:56,600 --> 00:06:00,200 Speaker 3: makes his house payment with analysis and is analyzing even 112 00:06:00,240 --> 00:06:03,599 Speaker 3: if he speaks. Yes, but there's too much freaking analysis. 113 00:06:03,680 --> 00:06:07,359 Speaker 3: There's not enough news reporting, and there's way too much 114 00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:11,279 Speaker 3: punditry around the little news reporting that is inaccurately put 115 00:06:11,320 --> 00:06:11,720 Speaker 3: out there. 116 00:06:12,360 --> 00:06:14,599 Speaker 1: Yeah you could say that. Yeah, for sure. 117 00:06:14,760 --> 00:06:18,200 Speaker 3: I was profoundly annoyed, for instance, by a Wall Street 118 00:06:18,279 --> 00:06:23,479 Speaker 3: Journal report this morning written by some gal about the 119 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:26,520 Speaker 3: chaos and ugliness and yelling speaking of that sort of 120 00:06:26,560 --> 00:06:30,960 Speaker 3: thing at various Republican congress people's town hall meetings during 121 00:06:30,960 --> 00:06:34,960 Speaker 3: the two week recess. And it was long and included 122 00:06:35,480 --> 00:06:38,960 Speaker 3: far too many quotes of what people were shouting in 123 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:40,679 Speaker 3: what district and blah blah blah. 124 00:06:40,839 --> 00:06:43,520 Speaker 1: And I'll get to that in a little bit. But 125 00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:45,960 Speaker 1: at no point did. 126 00:06:45,760 --> 00:06:49,800 Speaker 3: This gal even ask the question, which is widely. 127 00:06:49,360 --> 00:06:50,200 Speaker 1: Known at this point. 128 00:06:50,680 --> 00:06:55,520 Speaker 3: I've said at this point twice, at this point, at 129 00:06:55,520 --> 00:06:58,280 Speaker 3: this point, and even I think you've sufficiently covered at 130 00:06:58,320 --> 00:06:59,240 Speaker 3: what point we're at. 131 00:06:59,640 --> 00:07:00,520 Speaker 1: Yes, we are. 132 00:07:00,440 --> 00:07:05,000 Speaker 3: At no other point than this, clearly so concluded by remarks. 133 00:07:06,360 --> 00:07:08,520 Speaker 3: And then you walk up the stay, anybody picks an 134 00:07:08,520 --> 00:07:10,360 Speaker 3: ice space out for a second or did he not 135 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:13,680 Speaker 3: say anything? It's either brilliant or wait a minute, yeah 136 00:07:13,680 --> 00:07:17,480 Speaker 3: that's said. Wow, I'm like work in Kamala Harris's side 137 00:07:17,480 --> 00:07:17,920 Speaker 3: of the street. 138 00:07:18,760 --> 00:07:22,360 Speaker 4: When you consider the passes your time, right, you have 139 00:07:22,440 --> 00:07:27,280 Speaker 4: to consider the significance of the time that passes, all right, 140 00:07:27,960 --> 00:07:32,160 Speaker 4: But she didn't even ask the question, and it's been answered, 141 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:36,520 Speaker 4: are these organized disruptions by democrats? 142 00:07:36,920 --> 00:07:42,120 Speaker 3: Doesn't even make a brief appearance in the article. Hey sweetheart, 143 00:07:42,200 --> 00:07:45,880 Speaker 3: he says, somewhat demeaningly, why didn't you spend an extra 144 00:07:45,960 --> 00:07:50,280 Speaker 3: few minutes on that report and dig into that? I know, 145 00:07:51,040 --> 00:07:54,560 Speaker 3: I haven't wanted to play some of the clips that 146 00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:57,960 Speaker 3: they just go crazy over on CNN and MSNBC about 147 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:01,600 Speaker 3: these people that disrupted this Republican congressman's town hall is 148 00:08:01,640 --> 00:08:02,160 Speaker 3: shouting in. 149 00:08:02,120 --> 00:08:05,320 Speaker 1: His constituents are so unhappy. What's a job he's doing? 150 00:08:05,520 --> 00:08:08,200 Speaker 3: Like when I saw where they were shouting tax the rich, 151 00:08:08,200 --> 00:08:10,480 Speaker 3: and I thought, there's not a freaking chance in hell 152 00:08:11,320 --> 00:08:14,960 Speaker 3: there's a self organized group of Republicans showing up to 153 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:18,000 Speaker 3: the Republican congressman chanting tax the wretch. 154 00:08:18,280 --> 00:08:19,520 Speaker 1: Not a chance. 155 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:23,760 Speaker 3: It's extremely unlikely anybody who voted for that person would 156 00:08:23,800 --> 00:08:28,360 Speaker 3: shout that under any circumstances. Right, and so again, so 157 00:08:28,480 --> 00:08:30,360 Speaker 3: that news article, and I'm sorry I didn't make the point. 158 00:08:30,400 --> 00:08:34,040 Speaker 3: But the news article is in its own way analysis 159 00:08:34,080 --> 00:08:36,480 Speaker 3: because it is not collecting the facts that are relevant 160 00:08:36,520 --> 00:08:37,920 Speaker 3: to understanding the situation. 161 00:08:38,400 --> 00:08:41,119 Speaker 1: The situation is interesting, and it's fine. 162 00:08:41,320 --> 00:08:45,240 Speaker 3: Democratic activists are organizing groups to go to Republican congress 163 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:48,600 Speaker 3: people's town halls to disrupt them and shout obscenities or 164 00:08:48,800 --> 00:08:51,319 Speaker 3: chant or or come out against doge or whatever. 165 00:08:51,320 --> 00:08:54,320 Speaker 1: There are a bunch of different examples. That is what's happening. 166 00:08:54,920 --> 00:08:57,520 Speaker 3: Well, if you are only going to continue the story 167 00:08:57,520 --> 00:09:00,560 Speaker 3: from my channel, I would say, and mainstream media is 168 00:09:00,600 --> 00:09:05,120 Speaker 3: pretending it's their own constituents turned against them. Yeah, yeah, 169 00:09:05,320 --> 00:09:09,280 Speaker 3: highly annoying. We should start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong. 170 00:09:09,360 --> 00:09:12,680 Speaker 3: He's Joe Getty on this It is Tuesday, April twenty 171 00:09:12,760 --> 00:09:14,920 Speaker 3: ninth to or twenty twenty five. It is the one 172 00:09:14,960 --> 00:09:18,600 Speaker 3: hundredth day of Donald Trump's whatever the year, twenty twenty five. 173 00:09:18,600 --> 00:09:21,400 Speaker 3: We are armstrong in getting we approve of this program. 174 00:09:21,600 --> 00:09:25,040 Speaker 3: You know, one of the primary difficulties in defeating the gorilla, 175 00:09:25,120 --> 00:09:28,320 Speaker 3: Jack is that they have extremely thick skulls, so you 176 00:09:28,360 --> 00:09:33,880 Speaker 3: can rain blows down upon them. I don't know, and 177 00:09:33,320 --> 00:09:36,960 Speaker 3: and and you know, do practically no damage. I'm not 178 00:09:37,040 --> 00:09:39,719 Speaker 3: comfortable with the idea of beating a gorilla on this 179 00:09:39,880 --> 00:09:42,040 Speaker 3: story either, but I suppose of my life depended on it, 180 00:09:42,080 --> 00:09:44,240 Speaker 3: I would well, I assume the gorillas signed up for 181 00:09:44,240 --> 00:09:46,800 Speaker 3: this willingly. Anyway, let's begin the show according to FCC 182 00:09:46,960 --> 00:09:51,320 Speaker 3: rules and regulations. Let's begin beating the gorilla of the 183 00:09:51,400 --> 00:09:54,600 Speaker 3: lies of the progressive as precisely, atl Mark. 184 00:09:54,800 --> 00:09:58,640 Speaker 5: Cwton has renegged on every promise that he's made to 185 00:09:58,679 --> 00:10:04,000 Speaker 5: President Trump. I think at Putin thinks that America has 186 00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:06,720 Speaker 5: taken the bullet train to jump town. 187 00:10:07,080 --> 00:10:10,640 Speaker 1: Oh geez, alright, that's it. That's it. 188 00:10:11,240 --> 00:10:14,320 Speaker 3: Speaking of bipartisanship and the lack of it, can everyone 189 00:10:14,360 --> 00:10:18,240 Speaker 3: get together, left, right and center and agree. Senator John 190 00:10:18,320 --> 00:10:24,080 Speaker 3: Kennedy needs to stop with the homespun little sayings. You're 191 00:10:24,080 --> 00:10:27,800 Speaker 3: not illustired, you're not amusing anybody. You're not enlightening anybody. 192 00:10:27,920 --> 00:10:31,520 Speaker 3: Nobody is gratified by the bullet train to chump town. 193 00:10:32,679 --> 00:10:33,320 Speaker 1: It's not a. 194 00:10:33,240 --> 00:10:38,880 Speaker 3: Thing to legislate. Well, he found a niche. You gotta 195 00:10:38,880 --> 00:10:42,240 Speaker 3: admire carving out your own niche. My niche is kind 196 00:10:42,280 --> 00:10:46,960 Speaker 3: of odd, hometown homespun sounding phrases that nobody's ever heard before. 197 00:10:47,320 --> 00:10:51,199 Speaker 3: I wish he'd take the greyhound bush to shut up villa. 198 00:10:56,640 --> 00:10:57,640 Speaker 1: Oh boy. 199 00:11:00,120 --> 00:11:06,520 Speaker 3: Loud, Perhaps a transient to stick his head inside my 200 00:11:06,559 --> 00:11:09,480 Speaker 3: cyberbast yesterday, and I think I'm paying a price for it. 201 00:11:09,720 --> 00:11:14,080 Speaker 3: I need to tell that story later. W what, yes, 202 00:11:15,720 --> 00:11:18,280 Speaker 3: what did he do? I find myself wondering, I'll have 203 00:11:18,280 --> 00:11:21,000 Speaker 3: to tell that story later, not at this time, at 204 00:11:21,040 --> 00:11:24,360 Speaker 3: a different time. We've got Katie's headlines on the way, 205 00:11:24,360 --> 00:11:26,079 Speaker 3: which we got to get to. Got mail bag this hour. 206 00:11:26,120 --> 00:11:28,480 Speaker 3: We'll catch you up on some of the news of 207 00:11:28,679 --> 00:11:33,240 Speaker 3: the day. Why did that seventy million dollar fighter plane 208 00:11:33,320 --> 00:11:35,240 Speaker 3: fall off the aircraft carrier yesterday? 209 00:11:35,720 --> 00:11:36,160 Speaker 1: What the hell? 210 00:11:36,440 --> 00:11:38,400 Speaker 3: What is going on there? Are we getting the whole story? 211 00:11:38,400 --> 00:11:40,160 Speaker 3: And maybe we shouldn't get the whole story? I don't know, 212 00:11:40,240 --> 00:11:41,000 Speaker 3: but we'll. 213 00:11:40,840 --> 00:11:42,079 Speaker 1: Tell you about that if you don't know about it. 214 00:11:42,120 --> 00:11:47,120 Speaker 1: No other stuff on the way. Stay here the Wall 215 00:11:47,160 --> 00:11:48,600 Speaker 1: Street Journal editorial board. 216 00:11:48,640 --> 00:11:50,560 Speaker 3: Who some of you care about and some of you don't, 217 00:11:51,200 --> 00:11:56,120 Speaker 3: says my music stopped abruptly, says Donald Trump is blowing 218 00:11:56,160 --> 00:11:59,400 Speaker 3: his second term with misguided tariff and Ukraine policies. 219 00:12:01,080 --> 00:12:02,600 Speaker 1: I mean, you're can diget into that more later. 220 00:12:03,800 --> 00:12:04,000 Speaker 2: Yeah. 221 00:12:04,040 --> 00:12:07,120 Speaker 3: The Journal also featured a lot of their editorial writers 222 00:12:07,640 --> 00:12:10,560 Speaker 3: with their own three, four or five paragraphs of thoughts 223 00:12:10,600 --> 00:12:12,319 Speaker 3: on the first chunk of the administration. 224 00:12:12,400 --> 00:12:13,360 Speaker 1: It's fairly interesting. 225 00:12:13,559 --> 00:12:15,360 Speaker 3: I mean, it's about what you'd think and about what 226 00:12:15,400 --> 00:12:19,720 Speaker 3: we've been saying, a lot of good stuff, more turmoil 227 00:12:19,800 --> 00:12:22,240 Speaker 3: than people want and some stuff that we can't quite 228 00:12:22,240 --> 00:12:24,880 Speaker 3: figure out what he's thinking. Oh, he's gonna give it 229 00:12:24,960 --> 00:12:27,719 Speaker 3: his speech tonight. He's gonna maybe this is one of 230 00:12:27,800 --> 00:12:28,440 Speaker 3: Katie's headlines. 231 00:12:28,440 --> 00:12:29,160 Speaker 1: I don't know, but he's. 232 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:31,400 Speaker 3: Gonna walk back the whole car traff thing a little bit. 233 00:12:31,520 --> 00:12:34,640 Speaker 3: So we'll see how that turns out. Yeah, I've got 234 00:12:34,880 --> 00:12:37,360 Speaker 3: a bunch of stuff, believe it or not on the terriffs. 235 00:12:37,120 --> 00:12:40,120 Speaker 3: That's interesting, not just the same old blah blah blah 236 00:12:40,160 --> 00:12:42,360 Speaker 3: you've been hearing speaking of Katie in the headlines. 237 00:12:42,400 --> 00:12:44,079 Speaker 1: Who's reporting what Katie greed? 238 00:12:44,720 --> 00:12:48,160 Speaker 6: We'll start with the Washington Post. China says it won't 239 00:12:48,400 --> 00:12:50,600 Speaker 6: kneel to the United States and. 240 00:12:50,640 --> 00:12:53,080 Speaker 1: Urges countries to resist bullying. 241 00:12:53,960 --> 00:12:57,880 Speaker 3: Now, you're the greatest bully on earth, your dirty commies. 242 00:12:58,080 --> 00:13:01,160 Speaker 3: I did read how this is call people to rally 243 00:13:01,200 --> 00:13:02,280 Speaker 3: around President she. 244 00:13:02,520 --> 00:13:07,920 Speaker 2: And you know, a big, big boost of nationalism fly 245 00:13:08,080 --> 00:13:11,680 Speaker 2: has the tariffs on China and then being able to 246 00:13:11,679 --> 00:13:14,240 Speaker 2: talk about the evil believe the United States, et cetera. 247 00:13:14,320 --> 00:13:17,880 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, imagine a country engaged in hostile trade practices. 248 00:13:17,960 --> 00:13:18,840 Speaker 1: That would be awful. 249 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:22,720 Speaker 3: Well, you're right, technically, but that doesn't diminish the fact 250 00:13:22,720 --> 00:13:26,480 Speaker 3: that it is helping with their nationalism and solidify she 251 00:13:26,679 --> 00:13:28,920 Speaker 3: as their leader, which is not. 252 00:13:28,920 --> 00:13:29,320 Speaker 1: Oh yeah. 253 00:13:30,440 --> 00:13:34,280 Speaker 6: From the Associated Press, Russia declares a seventy two hour 254 00:13:34,480 --> 00:13:38,640 Speaker 6: ceasefire in Ukraine for next week to mark Victory Day 255 00:13:38,760 --> 00:13:39,960 Speaker 6: in World War Two. 256 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:43,600 Speaker 3: Lion bastards completely phony. 257 00:13:44,280 --> 00:13:47,120 Speaker 1: From NBC. Attorneys dispute. 258 00:13:47,120 --> 00:13:51,880 Speaker 6: Trump officials claim that deported moms willingly took their United 259 00:13:51,920 --> 00:13:53,800 Speaker 6: States citizen children. 260 00:13:55,520 --> 00:13:58,319 Speaker 3: So Marco Rubio says, you boot out an illegal mom, 261 00:13:59,440 --> 00:14:00,480 Speaker 3: her kid can go with her. 262 00:14:00,640 --> 00:14:01,760 Speaker 1: Stay here. It's her kid. 263 00:14:02,480 --> 00:14:05,800 Speaker 3: And in the case of these kids, they went with mom. 264 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:08,319 Speaker 3: Others are claiming, well, first of all, the headline, the 265 00:14:08,320 --> 00:14:10,680 Speaker 3: original headlines were like we grabbed the two year old 266 00:14:11,240 --> 00:14:16,080 Speaker 3: out of their crib and ship them off alowen right, yeah, 267 00:14:16,120 --> 00:14:18,560 Speaker 3: are you kidding? They could have departed deported me to 268 00:14:18,920 --> 00:14:22,440 Speaker 3: El Salvador or Iran or Mars. My kids would have 269 00:14:22,440 --> 00:14:24,760 Speaker 3: been coming with me. Can you imagine You've got to 270 00:14:24,840 --> 00:14:25,640 Speaker 3: leave the country now. 271 00:14:25,560 --> 00:14:27,920 Speaker 1: Okay, see your kids. Good luck with that whole growing 272 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:28,360 Speaker 1: up thing. 273 00:14:28,640 --> 00:14:30,280 Speaker 3: I understand your point. I don't know if I'd take 274 00:14:30,320 --> 00:14:33,520 Speaker 3: my kids to Iran, I might find a sitter. Into 275 00:14:33,600 --> 00:14:35,480 Speaker 3: like to figure out how do you act the whole 276 00:14:35,520 --> 00:14:39,240 Speaker 3: if they're two four and whatever ages that the kids 277 00:14:39,240 --> 00:14:40,000 Speaker 3: in question are. 278 00:14:40,040 --> 00:14:42,480 Speaker 1: If that phony story, yeah, I. 279 00:14:42,560 --> 00:14:47,240 Speaker 3: Just please have aoc go and cry somewhere and let's 280 00:14:47,280 --> 00:14:47,920 Speaker 3: wrap this up. 281 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:49,080 Speaker 1: It's just silly. 282 00:14:50,240 --> 00:14:52,480 Speaker 3: Have her stand in a parking lot, gazing through chain 283 00:14:52,560 --> 00:14:54,680 Speaker 3: link and weep her bitter tears. 284 00:14:56,160 --> 00:14:59,640 Speaker 6: From the New York Times, India seems to be building 285 00:14:59,720 --> 00:15:03,360 Speaker 6: it's case for striking Pakistan. 286 00:15:04,200 --> 00:15:09,200 Speaker 3: Her boy from the applications abound. 287 00:15:09,400 --> 00:15:13,560 Speaker 1: More on that to come from the hill. According to Zillo, 288 00:15:14,040 --> 00:15:15,560 Speaker 1: starter homes top. 289 00:15:15,480 --> 00:15:19,480 Speaker 6: One million dollars in two hundred and thirty three US cities. 290 00:15:20,680 --> 00:15:23,480 Speaker 3: I was talking to a guy yesterday in a town 291 00:15:23,560 --> 00:15:27,040 Speaker 3: where your average dinky little house is a million dollars 292 00:15:27,360 --> 00:15:31,840 Speaker 3: and he bought that place in nineteen seventy nine for 293 00:15:32,040 --> 00:15:33,320 Speaker 3: sixty three five. 294 00:15:34,280 --> 00:15:40,080 Speaker 1: Oh my god, now that's some equity. Wow, Wow, that's amazing. Yeah. 295 00:15:40,120 --> 00:15:43,640 Speaker 3: I think the median house price in cal Unicornia now 296 00:15:43,720 --> 00:15:45,880 Speaker 3: is eight hundred and thirty three grand or something eight 297 00:15:46,080 --> 00:15:47,640 Speaker 3: sixty six something like that. 298 00:15:48,080 --> 00:15:49,600 Speaker 1: Yeah, wow, how does it? 299 00:15:49,720 --> 00:15:52,840 Speaker 3: And then you add in what uh home ower's insurance 300 00:15:52,920 --> 00:15:54,800 Speaker 3: is now and energy bills? 301 00:15:55,120 --> 00:15:56,800 Speaker 1: How does anybody afford to live? 302 00:15:57,600 --> 00:15:59,920 Speaker 3: And we need to get into a cavvy Newsom's hole 303 00:16:00,200 --> 00:16:03,400 Speaker 3: whip sawing the refineries and the oil companies, and how 304 00:16:03,760 --> 00:16:07,000 Speaker 3: a gas in California could easily rise another dollar in 305 00:16:07,040 --> 00:16:07,600 Speaker 3: the next year. 306 00:16:09,120 --> 00:16:14,000 Speaker 6: From the New York Post, Mount Fuji climber rescued twice 307 00:16:14,280 --> 00:16:19,440 Speaker 6: in one week after going back to retrieve cell phone. 308 00:16:19,800 --> 00:16:23,400 Speaker 3: All right, you gotta leave him there, right, thank you. 309 00:16:23,800 --> 00:16:25,800 Speaker 3: I think that should happen with way more people. You 310 00:16:26,400 --> 00:16:30,280 Speaker 3: go snowboarding outside into the dangerous Parky, you took a risk. 311 00:16:30,440 --> 00:16:31,880 Speaker 1: We're not gonna send our helicopter. 312 00:16:33,120 --> 00:16:35,520 Speaker 3: A lot of folks get billed depending on where you 313 00:16:35,680 --> 00:16:38,080 Speaker 3: are if they have to send the big emergency crew 314 00:16:38,080 --> 00:16:39,520 Speaker 3: out to get you this guy. 315 00:16:39,640 --> 00:16:41,239 Speaker 1: Yeah, Bill, and twice. 316 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:42,760 Speaker 3: They should tell you that ahead of time, we'll come 317 00:16:42,800 --> 00:16:45,080 Speaker 3: get you. But it's gonna cost you eighty five thousand dollars. 318 00:16:46,640 --> 00:16:47,040 Speaker 1: Wow. 319 00:16:48,240 --> 00:16:53,680 Speaker 6: And finally from the Babylon be false alarm. Smoke coming 320 00:16:53,720 --> 00:16:57,280 Speaker 6: from the Vatican is just Cardinal Steve accidentally burning. 321 00:16:56,960 --> 00:17:00,560 Speaker 1: His toast again. Ah, silly Cardon Steve. 322 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:03,920 Speaker 3: Like when the ambulance took me to the er with 323 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:05,879 Speaker 3: my gouldbladder, if they'd told me it had cost me 324 00:17:05,920 --> 00:17:07,760 Speaker 3: thirty five hundred dollars out of pocket, I would have 325 00:17:07,760 --> 00:17:11,399 Speaker 3: crawled screaming to the hospital on my own rather than 326 00:17:11,440 --> 00:17:15,359 Speaker 3: pay three five hundred dollars out of pocket. Some more 327 00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:16,560 Speaker 3: of the news of the day that we need to 328 00:17:16,560 --> 00:17:19,280 Speaker 3: catch you up on. There's too many things happening at once. 329 00:17:19,960 --> 00:17:21,440 Speaker 3: Anything that can be done about that? If you miss 330 00:17:21,480 --> 00:17:25,080 Speaker 3: a segment, get the podcast Armstrong and Getty. 331 00:17:26,080 --> 00:17:29,080 Speaker 7: The White House is partly considering ideas to boost the 332 00:17:29,119 --> 00:17:32,639 Speaker 7: country's birth rate, like sending Elon Musk on spring break. 333 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:36,159 Speaker 1: Oh jeez, hello, he. 334 00:17:37,640 --> 00:17:41,160 Speaker 7: Cause, does anyone here have have you to rye. 335 00:17:45,640 --> 00:17:47,840 Speaker 3: Play that other joke, Michael, because maybe that spells out 336 00:17:47,840 --> 00:17:49,840 Speaker 3: the story here before we tell you what it is. 337 00:17:50,119 --> 00:17:52,480 Speaker 7: The White House is partly considering ideas to boost the 338 00:17:52,520 --> 00:17:56,119 Speaker 7: country's birth rate, including a five thousand dollars baby bonus 339 00:17:56,160 --> 00:17:56,600 Speaker 7: for women. 340 00:17:56,760 --> 00:17:57,680 Speaker 1: Five thousand dollars. 341 00:17:57,720 --> 00:18:01,439 Speaker 7: Do you know what it costs to raise a child? 342 00:18:01,480 --> 00:18:01,680 Speaker 1: Dollars? 343 00:18:01,680 --> 00:18:06,040 Speaker 7: That's like taking a dollar off coupon to a Mercedes dealership. 344 00:18:08,640 --> 00:18:10,480 Speaker 1: And the money isn't behalf of it. 345 00:18:10,600 --> 00:18:14,360 Speaker 3: I mean the lifestyle change, the likes of which you've 346 00:18:14,400 --> 00:18:16,280 Speaker 3: never had and never could even imagine. 347 00:18:18,800 --> 00:18:20,840 Speaker 1: I hate this. I hate the countries are doing this. 348 00:18:20,920 --> 00:18:24,000 Speaker 3: I hate that we're we're contemplating doing anybody who would 349 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:26,840 Speaker 3: have a kid who wasn't going to have a kid 350 00:18:26,880 --> 00:18:30,359 Speaker 3: otherwise for five thousand dollars, that poor kid is going 351 00:18:30,440 --> 00:18:31,320 Speaker 3: to have a miserable life. 352 00:18:31,960 --> 00:18:34,439 Speaker 1: I would like them to be outlawed from that. You're 353 00:18:34,480 --> 00:18:35,000 Speaker 1: no kidding. 354 00:18:36,320 --> 00:18:38,920 Speaker 3: There are only two questions here, and they are kind 355 00:18:38,960 --> 00:18:45,959 Speaker 3: of the same question. Number one, to understand the irresistible 356 00:18:46,160 --> 00:18:51,040 Speaker 3: primal urge to reproduce, and be to understand its absence. 357 00:18:51,800 --> 00:18:54,560 Speaker 3: Those are the only thing that's the only thing that's 358 00:18:54,600 --> 00:18:55,280 Speaker 3: going on here. 359 00:18:55,640 --> 00:18:56,800 Speaker 1: The lack of no. 360 00:18:56,920 --> 00:18:58,320 Speaker 3: I don't want to have a kid. I still don't 361 00:18:58,320 --> 00:18:59,880 Speaker 3: want to have a kid. Now I'm fifty years old. 362 00:18:59,880 --> 00:19:02,240 Speaker 3: I can't have a kid now. I mean, that's just 363 00:19:02,320 --> 00:19:05,600 Speaker 3: it's unprecedented in human history, well, in the history of 364 00:19:05,680 --> 00:19:10,320 Speaker 3: virtually any biologic beast. Right, That's our question, not the 365 00:19:10,440 --> 00:19:12,480 Speaker 3: lack of five thousand dollars. 366 00:19:12,680 --> 00:19:16,000 Speaker 1: Correct, And I have long long. 367 00:19:15,840 --> 00:19:19,080 Speaker 3: Maintained, having lived it the whole We're going to wait 368 00:19:19,119 --> 00:19:19,960 Speaker 3: till we can afford. 369 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:20,080 Speaker 2: No. 370 00:19:20,200 --> 00:19:21,480 Speaker 3: If you want to have a kid, have a kid, 371 00:19:21,480 --> 00:19:24,240 Speaker 3: You'll figure it out. You're smart, you're ambitious, You'll figure 372 00:19:24,240 --> 00:19:26,920 Speaker 3: it out, or you'll be poor for a while. I've 373 00:19:26,960 --> 00:19:29,040 Speaker 3: done it. It doesn't kill you anyway. 374 00:19:29,160 --> 00:19:32,320 Speaker 1: Where were we? Ah, yes, oh, I got a good tease. Yes. 375 00:19:32,480 --> 00:19:35,000 Speaker 3: Wall Street Journal with an article out about how the 376 00:19:35,040 --> 00:19:37,520 Speaker 3: whole starting your day at four am thing is really 377 00:19:37,560 --> 00:19:40,040 Speaker 3: catching on with go getters. Oh yeah, I saw that 378 00:19:40,160 --> 00:19:42,440 Speaker 3: because of a viral video that somehow we missed. We'll 379 00:19:42,480 --> 00:19:44,040 Speaker 3: have to talk about that maybe an hour or two. 380 00:19:44,720 --> 00:19:48,520 Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, the pre dawn superachiever lifestyle. Yeah, good luck. 381 00:19:50,040 --> 00:19:51,120 Speaker 1: You knock yourself out. 382 00:19:52,040 --> 00:19:54,800 Speaker 3: So let me know how that goes well. In fact, 383 00:19:54,800 --> 00:19:56,640 Speaker 3: don't don't let me know how that goes I don't care. 384 00:19:57,520 --> 00:20:00,320 Speaker 3: A couple of stories, several stories actually really related to 385 00:20:00,359 --> 00:20:04,840 Speaker 3: the whole ever evolving tariff situation, just to give you 386 00:20:04,880 --> 00:20:08,320 Speaker 3: a snapshot of what's going on with the economy. Weirdly enough, 387 00:20:08,320 --> 00:20:11,760 Speaker 3: on this show, we don't necessarily present everything for the 388 00:20:11,800 --> 00:20:16,240 Speaker 3: purpose of, you know, praising or condemning Donald J. 389 00:20:16,440 --> 00:20:16,880 Speaker 1: Trump. 390 00:20:17,040 --> 00:20:20,560 Speaker 3: It's just interesting. Here's your headline number one from the 391 00:20:20,600 --> 00:20:25,000 Speaker 3: Wall Street Journal. GM pulls profit guidance, citing significant tariff impact. 392 00:20:25,680 --> 00:20:28,920 Speaker 3: GM's net income slid six point six percent in the 393 00:20:28,960 --> 00:20:33,159 Speaker 3: first quarter on weaker sales of highly profitable trucks and SUV's, 394 00:20:34,240 --> 00:20:38,040 Speaker 3: and GM is shelving its earlier profit guidance. That's when 395 00:20:38,040 --> 00:20:41,320 Speaker 3: they tell investors, look, here's how it looks. We think 396 00:20:41,320 --> 00:20:43,639 Speaker 3: we're gonna make an x amount of revenue x amount 397 00:20:43,680 --> 00:20:46,440 Speaker 3: of profit or within a couple of percent for twenty 398 00:20:46,480 --> 00:20:50,040 Speaker 3: twenty five. They have shelved it all, saying President Trump's 399 00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:52,680 Speaker 3: auto tariffs have clouded the outlook and its prior forecast 400 00:20:52,760 --> 00:20:58,240 Speaker 3: quote can't be relied upon, said the chief financial officer. 401 00:20:58,720 --> 00:21:00,680 Speaker 3: They would come back to the market an update once 402 00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:01,959 Speaker 3: executives have more clarity. 403 00:21:02,040 --> 00:21:02,480 Speaker 1: Quote. 404 00:21:02,600 --> 00:21:05,520 Speaker 3: Given the evolving nature, evolving nature of the situation, we 405 00:21:05,560 --> 00:21:09,520 Speaker 3: believe the future impact of tariffs could be significant. So 406 00:21:09,680 --> 00:21:13,119 Speaker 3: but that was before what in the last twelve hours, 407 00:21:13,160 --> 00:21:16,600 Speaker 3: Trump announced he's gonna redo the whole car tariff thing 408 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:19,880 Speaker 3: in a very complex way so that you don't get 409 00:21:20,119 --> 00:21:23,240 Speaker 3: double tariffed for aluminum or steel that goes into the 410 00:21:23,280 --> 00:21:25,480 Speaker 3: car and then the car's made somewhere else or whatever. 411 00:21:25,600 --> 00:21:28,080 Speaker 3: So a man that Matt's going to be complicated on 412 00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:34,000 Speaker 3: that just for the purpose of avacuracy. That was actually 413 00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:38,160 Speaker 3: after that announcement. Okay, GM's just saying we still don't 414 00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:40,280 Speaker 3: know what's going on, and sure we can't rely on 415 00:21:40,280 --> 00:21:43,760 Speaker 3: our earlier predictions. So I can't imagine how complicated the 416 00:21:43,840 --> 00:21:48,720 Speaker 3: formula is for something that's been tariffed already and now 417 00:21:48,840 --> 00:21:54,600 Speaker 3: is in the car or not, or something unspeakably complicated. 418 00:21:54,800 --> 00:21:58,880 Speaker 3: I've seen and read an analysis of what it would take, 419 00:21:58,960 --> 00:22:02,960 Speaker 3: and it is mind boggling. The story that Jack is 420 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:06,480 Speaker 3: referring to yet another headline. President Trump is expected to 421 00:22:06,480 --> 00:22:10,280 Speaker 3: soften the impact of his automotive tariffs, preventing duties on 422 00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:14,080 Speaker 3: foreign made cars from stacking on top of other tariffs 423 00:22:14,119 --> 00:22:17,359 Speaker 3: he has imposed, and easing some of the levees on 424 00:22:17,480 --> 00:22:23,200 Speaker 3: foreign parts used to manufacture cars in the US. According 425 00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:25,240 Speaker 3: to people familiar with the matter, this is what we've 426 00:22:25,280 --> 00:22:27,840 Speaker 3: been talking about. How you can have a US make 427 00:22:28,440 --> 00:22:31,360 Speaker 3: that has that's assembled in the United States, that has 428 00:22:31,440 --> 00:22:34,959 Speaker 3: parts from twelve different countries, and you can have a 429 00:22:35,119 --> 00:22:38,080 Speaker 3: foreign make that also has parts from twelve different countries 430 00:22:38,080 --> 00:22:39,919 Speaker 3: made in the United States, and who gets tariff. What 431 00:22:40,680 --> 00:22:44,440 Speaker 3: the decision means automakers paying Trump's automotive tariffs won't also 432 00:22:44,520 --> 00:22:47,280 Speaker 3: be charged for other duties, such as those on steel 433 00:22:47,320 --> 00:22:50,399 Speaker 3: and aluminum, according to people familiar with the policy, and 434 00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:53,160 Speaker 3: the move would be retroactive to the beginning of the month. 435 00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:54,160 Speaker 1: Blah blah blah. 436 00:22:54,040 --> 00:22:58,080 Speaker 3: What so I saw something in the article about that 437 00:22:58,119 --> 00:23:00,600 Speaker 3: with rebates afterwards or whatever. 438 00:23:01,080 --> 00:23:03,720 Speaker 1: Oh my god, you talk about complicated formulas. 439 00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:07,600 Speaker 3: The Administration will also modify its tariffs on FOURIGN autopart 440 00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:10,400 Speaker 3: slated to be twenty five percent effective in a couple 441 00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:13,359 Speaker 3: of days, allowing automakers to be reimbursed for those tariffs 442 00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:15,920 Speaker 3: up to an amount equal to three point seventy five 443 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:18,439 Speaker 3: percent of the value of a US made car for 444 00:23:18,520 --> 00:23:21,840 Speaker 3: one year. The reimbursement would fall to two point five 445 00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:23,720 Speaker 3: percent of the car's value in a second year. I 446 00:23:23,760 --> 00:23:28,800 Speaker 3: won't continue because I can hear your eyes glazing friends. Yeah, 447 00:23:28,840 --> 00:23:31,639 Speaker 3: And the one part that bothers me, well, there are 448 00:23:31,640 --> 00:23:33,479 Speaker 3: several aspects of this would bother me, but one that 449 00:23:33,520 --> 00:23:35,760 Speaker 3: really really bothers me is if you are a giant 450 00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:39,240 Speaker 3: automaker and you have millions and millions and millions of 451 00:23:39,280 --> 00:23:43,720 Speaker 3: dollars worth of lobbyists, you can get breaks on the tariffs. 452 00:23:43,960 --> 00:23:49,560 Speaker 3: If you are a small manufacturer in Indiana, California, Florida, wherever. 453 00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:50,000 Speaker 1: You cannot. 454 00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:54,200 Speaker 3: And so the tariffs are going to murder small businesses, 455 00:23:54,640 --> 00:23:58,560 Speaker 3: and the super giants will wade into the swamp further 456 00:23:58,920 --> 00:24:01,639 Speaker 3: enrich the swamp and get their carve outs, which is 457 00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:06,680 Speaker 3: a remarkably untrumpy way to run things. Right now, all 458 00:24:06,760 --> 00:24:10,240 Speaker 3: the reporting around, well anything with Trump is got to 459 00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:14,240 Speaker 3: be suspect because you never know if they just are 460 00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:16,359 Speaker 3: going out of their way to hate on Trump. But 461 00:24:16,640 --> 00:24:20,359 Speaker 3: I did see an article yesterday predicting that something like 462 00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:23,560 Speaker 3: two thirds of toy stores are going to go out 463 00:24:23,560 --> 00:24:27,760 Speaker 3: of business before Christmas because they just can't. They can't 464 00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:31,280 Speaker 3: order any toys because most all, practically all toys come 465 00:24:31,320 --> 00:24:34,560 Speaker 3: from China, and with the one hundred and forty five 466 00:24:34,600 --> 00:24:38,320 Speaker 3: percent tariff or whatever it is, they just can't stock 467 00:24:38,359 --> 00:24:39,040 Speaker 3: their shelves. 468 00:24:39,680 --> 00:24:41,560 Speaker 1: And so we got to close your doors. 469 00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:42,360 Speaker 4: Now. 470 00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:45,160 Speaker 1: If that's true, obviously that's horrifying. 471 00:24:45,880 --> 00:24:48,840 Speaker 3: Whereas, like you pointed out, the Targets and the Walmarts 472 00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:50,000 Speaker 3: will figure out a way. 473 00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:53,639 Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, this show is so weird. 474 00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:57,080 Speaker 3: Sometimes they say Trump's right and sometimes they say Trump's wrong. 475 00:24:57,600 --> 00:25:02,000 Speaker 3: For instance, so far, your super giant retailers like wal 476 00:25:02,080 --> 00:25:06,240 Speaker 3: Mart and I almost said Kmart, Good Lord, and Target 477 00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:12,520 Speaker 3: have kept prices low on phone chargers, towels, blenders in 478 00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:16,280 Speaker 3: the face of rising tariffs, and according once again to 479 00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:20,280 Speaker 3: the Journal, the America's largest retailers are trying everything. They're 480 00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:23,040 Speaker 3: pressuring their suppliers to absorb some of the cost increases. 481 00:25:23,320 --> 00:25:25,200 Speaker 1: You take a haircut, I take a haircut. 482 00:25:25,480 --> 00:25:29,959 Speaker 3: Dropping free perks from corporate offices, so they're cutting things 483 00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:34,480 Speaker 3: closer to the bone. They paused some shipments of goods 484 00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:37,600 Speaker 3: from China and are leaning on inventory that's already been 485 00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:40,880 Speaker 3: imported to the US, but there's only so much of 486 00:25:40,920 --> 00:25:44,840 Speaker 3: that so so far, most prices have held steady overall, 487 00:25:45,320 --> 00:25:48,560 Speaker 3: and the real jumps in everyday retail stuff that we 488 00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:54,560 Speaker 3: buy that could fuel inflation are not evident. But the 489 00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:58,200 Speaker 3: chief executives of Walmart, Target, and Home Depot met with 490 00:25:58,240 --> 00:26:01,280 Speaker 3: President Trump last week with a strong men, the status 491 00:26:01,359 --> 00:26:04,440 Speaker 3: quo cannot last forever. They weren't Trump that higher prices 492 00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:07,320 Speaker 3: would be difficult to avoid and said certain products would 493 00:26:07,359 --> 00:26:10,199 Speaker 3: become scarce I retailers decide not to sell them to 494 00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:13,720 Speaker 3: avoid tariff costs. They told the Parsident they would work 495 00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:15,959 Speaker 3: to keep product prices as low as possible for as 496 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:18,880 Speaker 3: long as possible, but it ain't gonna last forever. 497 00:26:19,080 --> 00:26:19,240 Speaker 1: Man. 498 00:26:19,359 --> 00:26:21,920 Speaker 3: There are a lot of opinions on this, and again 499 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:24,240 Speaker 3: some of its political spend. Some of it is guessing 500 00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:27,719 Speaker 3: because it's very complicated. But as listening to one who 501 00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:32,000 Speaker 3: seemed to be a non partisan economic guy talking about, 502 00:26:32,040 --> 00:26:34,080 Speaker 3: we're a couple of weeks away from this hitting us 503 00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:39,359 Speaker 3: all like just a sledgehammer, either bare shelves or things 504 00:26:39,359 --> 00:26:41,360 Speaker 3: that are there that are prices we've. 505 00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:44,040 Speaker 1: Never seen before. Yeah, and it's just going to be 506 00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:45,200 Speaker 1: like a slap in the face. 507 00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:46,960 Speaker 3: And then this maybe you already had this story, but 508 00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:50,520 Speaker 3: Amazon is going to display the tariff costs in there 509 00:26:50,760 --> 00:26:52,880 Speaker 3: when you check out. See you check out on something 510 00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:55,000 Speaker 3: on Amazon, and it'll have it's twenty one to ninety 511 00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:58,840 Speaker 3: eight plus the six eighty eight because of the tariffs 512 00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:01,040 Speaker 3: for a total love just to drive home the point, 513 00:27:01,560 --> 00:27:03,840 Speaker 3: which is a political mood or to try to keep 514 00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:05,560 Speaker 3: them out of you being mad at them or what. 515 00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:08,280 Speaker 3: I don't know, putting aside the fact that that would 516 00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:11,600 Speaker 3: be nearly impossible to determine. 517 00:27:11,359 --> 00:27:14,000 Speaker 1: Right, I mean, if. 518 00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:16,240 Speaker 3: Coming up with the you know, how do you tear 519 00:27:16,280 --> 00:27:18,800 Speaker 3: a car built by parts from all over the world 520 00:27:18,840 --> 00:27:21,960 Speaker 3: that have crossed the Canadian border half a dozen times? 521 00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:22,639 Speaker 1: Literally? 522 00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:27,399 Speaker 3: If that's complicated, imagine then factoring all of that crap 523 00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:31,600 Speaker 3: into a final price. Yeah, interesting move by Amazon. It's 524 00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:35,480 Speaker 3: like the restaurants that have and my sympathies are are 525 00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:38,840 Speaker 3: absolutely with them. In cal Unicornia, for instance, the restaurants 526 00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:43,159 Speaker 3: that have put a you know, three dollar searcharge at 527 00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:46,639 Speaker 3: the bottom of the bill labor fee because of the 528 00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:50,879 Speaker 3: artificially inflated minimum wages in California France. I think I 529 00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:52,439 Speaker 3: think unless some we can talk me out of it, 530 00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:54,720 Speaker 3: I think I like this sort of thing. If a 531 00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:59,159 Speaker 3: government policy causes you to raise your prices, make it 532 00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:02,600 Speaker 3: clear on the bill. Here's and you don't like the policy, 533 00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:05,880 Speaker 3: here's the government policy what it cost you. I wish 534 00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:08,159 Speaker 3: it didn't exist either, but I got no choice. I 535 00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:10,760 Speaker 3: think that's a good idea. I love the way you 536 00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:13,760 Speaker 3: just put that, because no matter which party is in 537 00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:16,879 Speaker 3: the office, and if you have principles, you'd agree with me. 538 00:28:18,040 --> 00:28:20,520 Speaker 3: I want people to have a greater appreciation for how 539 00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:26,560 Speaker 3: government policy affects life. There ought to be like the 540 00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:28,320 Speaker 3: guy who baps you over the head and takes your 541 00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:31,560 Speaker 3: stuff in some blue state. He ought to have to say, 542 00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:34,159 Speaker 3: by the way, I'm only on the street because of 543 00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:37,120 Speaker 3: progressive crime policy, and then he hits you over the head. 544 00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:41,160 Speaker 1: Full disclosure all right. 545 00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:43,240 Speaker 3: Now here's something that would or you know, when you 546 00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:45,640 Speaker 3: would go there in your cars up on blocks, there 547 00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:48,440 Speaker 3: ought to be a note or something brought to you 548 00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:51,760 Speaker 3: by Gavin Newsom's crime policy. For instance, Hey you see 549 00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:54,920 Speaker 3: that classic car that's attached to the RV. Now, Hanson, 550 00:28:55,040 --> 00:28:56,560 Speaker 3: that's a nice looking car. I don't know where you 551 00:28:56,600 --> 00:28:59,720 Speaker 3: got it. Some sort of seventies boat. Yeah, that's cool car. 552 00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:02,480 Speaker 3: Where the guy got it? The old r V that's 553 00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:05,120 Speaker 3: parked up by the radio stations here, that's been parked 554 00:29:05,160 --> 00:29:05,800 Speaker 3: here for weeks. 555 00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:08,360 Speaker 1: Guy just lives here now, I guess yep, cooks on 556 00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:10,920 Speaker 1: a hot plate outside running off a battery. Yeah. 557 00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:14,600 Speaker 3: Now apparently he's got a land yacht from the seventies. Fabulous. 558 00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:15,040 Speaker 1: Good deal. 559 00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:20,680 Speaker 3: And then this headline, which is absolutely pro Trump. The 560 00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:25,800 Speaker 3: merk the pharmaceutical giant will grow its US manufacturing footprint 561 00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:29,600 Speaker 3: with a one billion dollar plant in Delaware, becoming the 562 00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:32,480 Speaker 3: latest drug maker to invest in the US. Is Tariff's target. 563 00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:37,720 Speaker 3: The Tariff's targeting the industry, loomed. The facilities products will 564 00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:40,720 Speaker 3: include biologic drugs and a new, easier to use version 565 00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:44,600 Speaker 3: of key Trudah, the company's blockbuster cancer drug. The plant 566 00:29:44,640 --> 00:29:47,480 Speaker 3: marks Merk's first in house manufacturing site in the US 567 00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:50,480 Speaker 3: to make key Trudah and we'll ensure American patients get 568 00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:55,720 Speaker 3: drugs made domestically. And the CEO said good stuff about 569 00:29:55,840 --> 00:29:57,600 Speaker 3: it's really a strategy to make sure we can source 570 00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:00,120 Speaker 3: US needs from US sites. As you look at what 571 00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:02,360 Speaker 3: the current administration is doing and what Trump is trying 572 00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:04,880 Speaker 3: to achieve, this is very much aligned with that is 573 00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:07,720 Speaker 3: they're trying to kiss his ass. But also, as we 574 00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:09,920 Speaker 3: learned in covid Man, we've got to have our critical 575 00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:12,440 Speaker 3: drugs made domestically or at least not made by our 576 00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:13,400 Speaker 3: mortal enemy. 577 00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:15,240 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a man. 578 00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:18,840 Speaker 3: If they shut off all of the ssryes, for instance, 579 00:30:19,080 --> 00:30:21,840 Speaker 3: we get into a big war. Imagine that everybody in 580 00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:26,320 Speaker 3: the country can't get their zolof will buttrin whatever mental 581 00:30:26,360 --> 00:30:28,520 Speaker 3: health drug they're on. We'd have a nation full of 582 00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:29,800 Speaker 3: people go and losing their minds. 583 00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:33,360 Speaker 1: Wow. Wow, Yeah, that would be bad. That'd be a 584 00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:33,680 Speaker 1: bad one. 585 00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:35,480 Speaker 3: As if we don't already have a nation full of 586 00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:38,360 Speaker 3: people losing their mind We got mail bag on the way, 587 00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:43,920 Speaker 3: a bunch of stuff stick with us. So the hooties 588 00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:46,520 Speaker 3: are firing at one of our giant aircraft carriers. They 589 00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:52,600 Speaker 3: turned the steering wheel really hard and seventy million dollar fighter. 590 00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:56,360 Speaker 1: Plane falls off. Is that what actually happened? 591 00:30:57,680 --> 00:31:02,480 Speaker 3: I don't think there would be precautions anyway. 592 00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:05,120 Speaker 1: More on that blocks a chain? 593 00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:11,160 Speaker 3: I don't know, Okay, Plus the question vexing mankind? Could 594 00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:16,800 Speaker 3: one hundred unarmed men beat a gorilla in a fight? 595 00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:20,160 Speaker 3: Stay with US live team coverage. We're actually in a 596 00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:25,320 Speaker 3: stage it. Here's your freedom loving quoting the we have 597 00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:27,640 Speaker 3: a little trouble securing a license. We had to move 598 00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:31,560 Speaker 3: the show to Las Vegas. I've referenced this many many times, 599 00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:33,720 Speaker 3: so I thought I would hit you with the full 600 00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:37,360 Speaker 3: quote from Abe Lincoln. At what point then is the 601 00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:40,920 Speaker 3: take two? At what point then is the approach of 602 00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:44,160 Speaker 3: danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, 603 00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:48,120 Speaker 3: it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. 604 00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:52,640 Speaker 3: If destruction be our lot, to ourselves be its author 605 00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:56,160 Speaker 3: and finisher. As a nation of free men, we must 606 00:31:56,200 --> 00:32:00,719 Speaker 3: live through all time or die by suicide. Very fancy 607 00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:03,200 Speaker 3: wave saying nobody outside is going to bring down the US, 608 00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:05,240 Speaker 3: but we could screw it up so badly we bring 609 00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:08,200 Speaker 3: ourselves down. Let's try not to yeah. I think that's 610 00:32:08,240 --> 00:32:10,760 Speaker 3: always been the case with your big empires. I mean, 611 00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:14,800 Speaker 3: at the end, it's the barbarians that break through the gates. 612 00:32:14,840 --> 00:32:16,560 Speaker 3: But the reason they were able to break through the 613 00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:20,520 Speaker 3: gates is because you dissolved from the inside first. Right 614 00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:24,080 Speaker 3: right here here, mail bag, feel free to drop some 615 00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:26,360 Speaker 3: note anytime. Mail Bag at Armstrong e geddy dot com 616 00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:29,440 Speaker 3: is the email address. Mail Bag at Armstrong at getty 617 00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:32,560 Speaker 3: dot com. Nice know from John here. As I go 618 00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:34,200 Speaker 3: through life, I realize there are a lot of dumb 619 00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:37,040 Speaker 3: sobs out there, and all this polling s is driving 620 00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:39,960 Speaker 3: me nuts. Let it play out, nothing happens overnight. I'm 621 00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:43,480 Speaker 3: so disappointed in humanity. If I didn't have a beautiful family, 622 00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:46,240 Speaker 3: which he describes, I would launch myself into the Delta 623 00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:48,400 Speaker 3: Mendota Canal on my way to work tomorrow. 624 00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:49,800 Speaker 1: Can everyone just chill out? 625 00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:53,840 Speaker 3: I'm guessing not fringing morons, very tiring planted garden. Listen 626 00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:56,320 Speaker 3: to the birds chirping around you. Life can be hard, 627 00:32:56,320 --> 00:32:58,200 Speaker 3: but you only get one shot at it. End of 628 00:32:58,280 --> 00:33:01,520 Speaker 3: rand Well, that's basically what I arted with no. One 629 00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:03,920 Speaker 3: hundred days of Trump. Is this what you want to 630 00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:06,400 Speaker 3: do with your life? You want to focus on whoever's 631 00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:09,720 Speaker 3: president and what their approval rating is every day of 632 00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:10,120 Speaker 3: your life. 633 00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:11,760 Speaker 1: Till you're dead. You're gonna look back on your life 634 00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:12,440 Speaker 1: and think, well, I was. 635 00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:15,720 Speaker 3: Well spent, and have your hatred for them or love 636 00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:18,680 Speaker 3: for them the animating factor in your life. Right, sure, glad, 637 00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:20,840 Speaker 3: I made my whole life about who's president, and that's 638 00:33:20,840 --> 00:33:24,840 Speaker 3: what I did all day long. Moving along swiftly to 639 00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:28,640 Speaker 3: that point, Jim is SoCal with a lovely note. We 640 00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:32,800 Speaker 3: were talking yesterday about how the tramp stamp is back. Yes, yes, yes, 641 00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:36,000 Speaker 3: lower back tattoo for young women in particular. Yeah, gen 642 00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:41,200 Speaker 3: Z's reclaiming it, Jim writes Jack Joe, because keep in 643 00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:45,400 Speaker 3: mind that many of those tattoos are kind of bilateral, 644 00:33:45,520 --> 00:33:49,280 Speaker 3: if you will, they're you know, wings or something, you know. 645 00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:50,600 Speaker 1: Picture that. 646 00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:53,840 Speaker 3: As I read this, guys, I discovered years ago the 647 00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:59,880 Speaker 3: term arskeevai, which translates translated from German is ass at, 648 00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:04,520 Speaker 3: a humorous euphemism for tramps tamp. Evidently that's what they 649 00:34:04,600 --> 00:34:10,840 Speaker 3: call the tramps tamp in Germany. That's the Germans, a 650 00:34:10,880 --> 00:34:16,880 Speaker 3: whimsical people. They're known for theirs. Let's see our new feature, 651 00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:19,920 Speaker 3: which I think what did I call the Canada feature. 652 00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:22,120 Speaker 1: Oh yes, we Canada. 653 00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:27,360 Speaker 3: Well, loyal listener Roberts suggests, how about a boot Canada. 654 00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:31,879 Speaker 3: That's pretty good? Or his email topic is oh Canada, 655 00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:35,800 Speaker 3: that's the obvious name for the feature stories about Canada. 656 00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:39,040 Speaker 3: Thank you, Robert Canada. The new prime minister who got 657 00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:41,640 Speaker 3: elected yesterday. I had some rough things to say for 658 00:34:41,719 --> 00:34:42,960 Speaker 3: the US of A. We'll play that. 659 00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:45,120 Speaker 1: For you later. That's how he got elected. 660 00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:48,080 Speaker 3: Several leftists around the world have gotten elected by saying 661 00:34:48,120 --> 00:34:50,640 Speaker 3: I'm the guy to fight Trump, not my conservative colleagues. 662 00:34:50,680 --> 00:34:52,120 Speaker 3: So the world has swung to the left. 663 00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:52,600 Speaker 1: Great. 664 00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:56,440 Speaker 3: Let's see a couple of interesting thoughts on the Ukraine 665 00:34:56,640 --> 00:35:00,440 Speaker 3: conflict that we don't have time for. Interesting compare in 666 00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:02,960 Speaker 3: contrast from Ted here. I'll give you a very very 667 00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:08,680 Speaker 3: short version. The UK is predicting the forecast of blue 668 00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:12,000 Speaker 3: states like California. Workers age sixteen to twenty four just 669 00:35:12,040 --> 00:35:15,719 Speaker 3: cannot find jobs because of artificially high minimum wages. And 670 00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:18,640 Speaker 3: now the government is making it more and more expensive 671 00:35:18,640 --> 00:35:23,080 Speaker 3: and complicated to employ anyone, and it's devastating youth employment. 672 00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:26,000 Speaker 3: Dang it, my kid's gonna be looking for a job 673 00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:27,480 Speaker 3: here in the next six months. Don't it. 674 00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:29,000 Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty