Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe, Katty Armstrong, and Jetty
Speaker 1: and he.
Speaker 2: Arm draw.
Speaker 3: The drum studio scene sees and your dimly lit room deeper.
Speaker 1: From the fowls of.
Speaker 3: The Armstrong and Getty Communications Compound. Hey, y'all today, it's
Speaker 3: all right Tuesday. We're under the tutelage of our general
Speaker 3: manager Trump's first one hundred days. Mama, give him a
Speaker 3: letter grade. We'll take care of calls from Oh bah,
Speaker 3: what grade?
Speaker 1: And why? Oh please? I don't care. I gave him
Speaker 1: a bee my. I just don't care. I'm glad he's
Speaker 1: sealed up.
Speaker 3: You don't care. I don't care, apathetic, I don't care.
Speaker 1: It's if there's.
Speaker 3: One ongoing theme we have on this show, and it's
Speaker 3: hit me in the face hard in the last twenty
Speaker 3: four hours with all this dog is, why does everybody
Speaker 3: spend so much time talking about the president? Don't you
Speaker 3: have anything else to do with your life? Is there
Speaker 3: something else you want to do with your life rather
Speaker 3: than to the end of your days your dying breath.
Speaker 1: Discuss whoever's president? Is that what you saur national pastime.
Speaker 1: This is our national sport. Come on, we've known that
Speaker 1: for a while.
Speaker 3: What I'll tells do to talk about how your favorite
Speaker 3: baseball team's doing. None zero. But people do it. They
Speaker 3: enjoy it. It's a pastime. What a horrible pastime. It's
Speaker 3: like the worst past time I can imagine. I don't know,
Speaker 3: I collect infections or I don't know. You can't think
Speaker 3: of the worst pastime. Yeah, Anthony Fauci did that. It
Speaker 3: didn't go very well, speaking of infections or virus or
Speaker 3: whatever I had. I feel close to normal for the
Speaker 3: first time in three weeks, So I'm very excited about that.
Speaker 3: Even in my way, my head is still full of
Speaker 3: whatever it's full of, and I can't here out of
Speaker 3: either ear. But in terms of vim and vigor, both
Speaker 3: both of these, I feel fantastic. So I hope you
Speaker 3: sound quite normal. I hope you don't catch this disease whatever.
Speaker 3: My son's got like five days behind me and really struggling. Oh,
Speaker 3: we got a note from a nice fellow whose son
Speaker 3: is five weeks in. Oh my god, just the coffid
Speaker 3: and sneezing and weeze and unspecified respiratory infection.
Speaker 1: Wow. Yeah, poor little lad and not something that antibiotics
Speaker 1: can do.
Speaker 3: Something without apparently not Wow, its email read like a
Speaker 3: civilized man who has access to medical care. Yeah, I
Speaker 3: don't think the antibotics have done anything for me, So
Speaker 3: I think it turned out it was a virus and
Speaker 3: not something that you could deal with that with anyway.
Speaker 3: You know, don't take your advice from disc jockeys.
Speaker 1: That'd be my never use that, Never use that term
Speaker 1: around me, sir. I don't ever want to hear you
Speaker 1: say that again.
Speaker 3: You say that again, it won't be the truth that
Speaker 3: hits you in the face. All right, enough said, Oh,
Speaker 3: which reminds me. I'm so excited about several topics we're
Speaker 3: going to get to today.
Speaker 1: Cool really ensued.
Speaker 3: Perhaps chief among them, can one hundred unarmed men defeat
Speaker 3: a single gorilla in a fight? Science and AI have
Speaker 3: weighed in on the question, Well, if you had a
Speaker 3: strategy maybe. If you didn't have a strategy, no, but
Speaker 3: if you had a strategy.
Speaker 1: Maybe you're a thinking man.
Speaker 3: One hundred unarmed men against a single like eight hundred
Speaker 3: pounds lowland gorilla. I think your strategy we'd have to
Speaker 3: include some brave people who are willing to take a
Speaker 3: severe ass kicking.
Speaker 1: To be the lead.
Speaker 3: Guys, Please the old Yankee your arm out of it
Speaker 3: socket and beat you with a bloody stump, right yeah,
Speaker 3: times like thirty at least.
Speaker 1: Or make you his wife briefly.
Speaker 3: That would be a surprising twist later in the show,
Speaker 3: can one hundred unarmed men defeat a single gorilla in
Speaker 3: a fight?
Speaker 1: Today?
Speaker 3: With the topic everyone's talking about? So I do pay
Speaker 3: attention to the media landscape because that's what I do
Speaker 3: for a living.
Speaker 1: I thought that was this was interesting.
Speaker 3: So Trump has got a rally tonight, first rally since
Speaker 3: he's been president Tomorrow Night News Nation, which I've started
Speaker 3: watching every morning along with the other shows that I watch.
Speaker 3: Tomorrow Night, he's going to be on a show with
Speaker 3: Andrew Cuomo, Bill O'Reilly and Stephen A. Smith on News Nation.
Speaker 3: That's their lineup for a town hall with Trump tomorrow night.
Speaker 1: It's a heck of a lineup, isn't it odd? Eh?
Speaker 3: So if you if you've been sleeping on that channel,
Speaker 3: I know a lot of you been screaming at me,
Speaker 3: why aren't you watching this? But if you've been sleeping
Speaker 3: on that channel, you got to check it out. It's
Speaker 3: like I said, it's it's weird. It takes a little
Speaker 3: getting used to, and it's making me think about what
Speaker 3: we do. But it's flat unfair. It just doesn't have
Speaker 3: the passion of hatred that the other channels have, where
Speaker 3: you gotta hate somebody and scream about it. They don't
Speaker 3: do that, so it just I'm not used to that.
Speaker 3: That's the way all news used to be when I
Speaker 3: was younger, nobody was screaming about hating anyone or anything.
Speaker 3: But I need to watch it. Not all dislike, I
Speaker 3: hate the term hate. Not all dislike is inappropriate, and
Speaker 3: not all energy or enthusiasm is negative.
Speaker 1: But I will have to watch.
Speaker 3: It's just a calmer Is that how you would describe it?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Well, less analysis for one thing, Just less analysis overall.
Speaker 3: We have too much analysis, that says a guy who
Speaker 3: makes his house payment with analysis and is analyzing even
Speaker 3: if he speaks. Yes, but there's too much freaking analysis.
Speaker 3: There's not enough news reporting, and there's way too much
Speaker 3: punditry around the little news reporting that is inaccurately put
Speaker 3: out there.
Speaker 1: Yeah you could say that. Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 3: I was profoundly annoyed, for instance, by a Wall Street
Speaker 3: Journal report this morning written by some gal about the
Speaker 3: chaos and ugliness and yelling speaking of that sort of
Speaker 3: thing at various Republican congress people's town hall meetings during
Speaker 3: the two week recess. And it was long and included
Speaker 3: far too many quotes of what people were shouting in
Speaker 3: what district and blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: And I'll get to that in a little bit. But
Speaker 1: at no point did.
Speaker 3: This gal even ask the question, which is widely.
Speaker 1: Known at this point.
Speaker 3: I've said at this point twice, at this point, at
Speaker 3: this point, and even I think you've sufficiently covered at
Speaker 3: what point we're at.
Speaker 1: Yes, we are.
Speaker 3: At no other point than this, clearly so concluded by remarks.
Speaker 3: And then you walk up the stay, anybody picks an
Speaker 3: ice space out for a second or did he not
Speaker 3: say anything? It's either brilliant or wait a minute, yeah
Speaker 3: that's said. Wow, I'm like work in Kamala Harris's side
Speaker 3: of the street.
Speaker 4: When you consider the passes your time, right, you have
Speaker 4: to consider the significance of the time that passes, all right,
Speaker 4: But she didn't even ask the question, and it's been answered,
Speaker 4: are these organized disruptions by democrats?
Speaker 3: Doesn't even make a brief appearance in the article. Hey sweetheart,
Speaker 3: he says, somewhat demeaningly, why didn't you spend an extra
Speaker 3: few minutes on that report and dig into that? I know,
Speaker 3: I haven't wanted to play some of the clips that
Speaker 3: they just go crazy over on CNN and MSNBC about
Speaker 3: these people that disrupted this Republican congressman's town hall is
Speaker 3: shouting in.
Speaker 1: His constituents are so unhappy. What's a job he's doing?
Speaker 3: Like when I saw where they were shouting tax the rich,
Speaker 3: and I thought, there's not a freaking chance in hell
Speaker 3: there's a self organized group of Republicans showing up to
Speaker 3: the Republican congressman chanting tax the wretch.
Speaker 1: Not a chance.
Speaker 3: It's extremely unlikely anybody who voted for that person would
Speaker 3: shout that under any circumstances. Right, and so again, so
Speaker 3: that news article, and I'm sorry I didn't make the point.
Speaker 3: But the news article is in its own way analysis
Speaker 3: because it is not collecting the facts that are relevant
Speaker 3: to understanding the situation.
Speaker 1: The situation is interesting, and it's fine.
Speaker 3: Democratic activists are organizing groups to go to Republican congress
Speaker 3: people's town halls to disrupt them and shout obscenities or
Speaker 3: chant or or come out against doge or whatever.
Speaker 1: There are a bunch of different examples. That is what's happening.
Speaker 3: Well, if you are only going to continue the story
Speaker 3: from my channel, I would say, and mainstream media is
Speaker 3: pretending it's their own constituents turned against them. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: highly annoying. We should start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong.
Speaker 3: He's Joe Getty on this It is Tuesday, April twenty
Speaker 3: ninth to or twenty twenty five. It is the one
Speaker 3: hundredth day of Donald Trump's whatever the year, twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3: We are armstrong in getting we approve of this program.
Speaker 3: You know, one of the primary difficulties in defeating the gorilla,
Speaker 3: Jack is that they have extremely thick skulls, so you
Speaker 3: can rain blows down upon them. I don't know, and
Speaker 3: and and you know, do practically no damage. I'm not
Speaker 3: comfortable with the idea of beating a gorilla on this
Speaker 3: story either, but I suppose of my life depended on it,
Speaker 3: I would well, I assume the gorillas signed up for
Speaker 3: this willingly. Anyway, let's begin the show according to FCC
Speaker 3: rules and regulations. Let's begin beating the gorilla of the
Speaker 3: lies of the progressive as precisely, atl Mark.
Speaker 5: Cwton has renegged on every promise that he's made to
Speaker 5: President Trump. I think at Putin thinks that America has
Speaker 5: taken the bullet train to jump town.
Speaker 1: Oh geez, alright, that's it. That's it.
Speaker 3: Speaking of bipartisanship and the lack of it, can everyone
Speaker 3: get together, left, right and center and agree. Senator John
Speaker 3: Kennedy needs to stop with the homespun little sayings. You're
Speaker 3: not illustired, you're not amusing anybody. You're not enlightening anybody.
Speaker 3: Nobody is gratified by the bullet train to chump town.
Speaker 1: It's not a.
Speaker 3: Thing to legislate. Well, he found a niche. You gotta
Speaker 3: admire carving out your own niche. My niche is kind
Speaker 3: of odd, hometown homespun sounding phrases that nobody's ever heard before.
Speaker 3: I wish he'd take the greyhound bush to shut up villa.
Speaker 1: Oh boy.
Speaker 3: Loud, Perhaps a transient to stick his head inside my
Speaker 3: cyberbast yesterday, and I think I'm paying a price for it.
Speaker 3: I need to tell that story later. W what, yes,
Speaker 3: what did he do? I find myself wondering, I'll have
Speaker 3: to tell that story later, not at this time, at
Speaker 3: a different time. We've got Katie's headlines on the way,
Speaker 3: which we got to get to. Got mail bag this hour.
Speaker 3: We'll catch you up on some of the news of
Speaker 3: the day. Why did that seventy million dollar fighter plane
Speaker 3: fall off the aircraft carrier yesterday?
Speaker 1: What the hell?
Speaker 3: What is going on there? Are we getting the whole story?
Speaker 3: And maybe we shouldn't get the whole story? I don't know,
Speaker 3: but we'll.
Speaker 1: Tell you about that if you don't know about it.
Speaker 1: No other stuff on the way. Stay here the Wall
Speaker 1: Street Journal editorial board.
Speaker 3: Who some of you care about and some of you don't,
Speaker 3: says my music stopped abruptly, says Donald Trump is blowing
Speaker 3: his second term with misguided tariff and Ukraine policies.
Speaker 1: I mean, you're can diget into that more later.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: The Journal also featured a lot of their editorial writers
Speaker 3: with their own three, four or five paragraphs of thoughts
Speaker 3: on the first chunk of the administration.
Speaker 1: It's fairly interesting.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's about what you'd think and about what
Speaker 3: we've been saying, a lot of good stuff, more turmoil
Speaker 3: than people want and some stuff that we can't quite
Speaker 3: figure out what he's thinking. Oh, he's gonna give it
Speaker 3: his speech tonight. He's gonna maybe this is one of
Speaker 3: Katie's headlines.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but he's.
Speaker 3: Gonna walk back the whole car traff thing a little bit.
Speaker 3: So we'll see how that turns out. Yeah, I've got
Speaker 3: a bunch of stuff, believe it or not on the terriffs.
Speaker 3: That's interesting, not just the same old blah blah blah
Speaker 3: you've been hearing speaking of Katie in the headlines.
Speaker 1: Who's reporting what Katie greed?
Speaker 6: We'll start with the Washington Post. China says it won't
Speaker 6: kneel to the United States and.
Speaker 1: Urges countries to resist bullying.
Speaker 3: Now, you're the greatest bully on earth, your dirty commies.
Speaker 3: I did read how this is call people to rally
Speaker 3: around President she.
Speaker 2: And you know, a big, big boost of nationalism fly
Speaker 2: has the tariffs on China and then being able to
Speaker 2: talk about the evil believe the United States, et cetera.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, imagine a country engaged in hostile trade practices.
Speaker 1: That would be awful.
Speaker 3: Well, you're right, technically, but that doesn't diminish the fact
Speaker 3: that it is helping with their nationalism and solidify she
Speaker 3: as their leader, which is not.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah.
Speaker 6: From the Associated Press, Russia declares a seventy two hour
Speaker 6: ceasefire in Ukraine for next week to mark Victory Day
Speaker 6: in World War Two.
Speaker 3: Lion bastards completely phony.
Speaker 1: From NBC. Attorneys dispute.
Speaker 6: Trump officials claim that deported moms willingly took their United
Speaker 6: States citizen children.
Speaker 3: So Marco Rubio says, you boot out an illegal mom,
Speaker 3: her kid can go with her.
Speaker 1: Stay here. It's her kid.
Speaker 3: And in the case of these kids, they went with mom.
Speaker 3: Others are claiming, well, first of all, the headline, the
Speaker 3: original headlines were like we grabbed the two year old
Speaker 3: out of their crib and ship them off alowen right, yeah,
Speaker 3: are you kidding? They could have departed deported me to
Speaker 3: El Salvador or Iran or Mars. My kids would have
Speaker 3: been coming with me. Can you imagine You've got to
Speaker 3: leave the country now.
Speaker 1: Okay, see your kids. Good luck with that whole growing
Speaker 1: up thing.
Speaker 3: I understand your point. I don't know if I'd take
Speaker 3: my kids to Iran, I might find a sitter. Into
Speaker 3: like to figure out how do you act the whole
Speaker 3: if they're two four and whatever ages that the kids
Speaker 3: in question are.
Speaker 1: If that phony story, yeah, I.
Speaker 3: Just please have aoc go and cry somewhere and let's
Speaker 3: wrap this up.
Speaker 1: It's just silly.
Speaker 3: Have her stand in a parking lot, gazing through chain
Speaker 3: link and weep her bitter tears.
Speaker 6: From the New York Times, India seems to be building
Speaker 6: it's case for striking Pakistan.
Speaker 3: Her boy from the applications abound.
Speaker 1: More on that to come from the hill. According to Zillo,
Speaker 1: starter homes top.
Speaker 6: One million dollars in two hundred and thirty three US cities.
Speaker 3: I was talking to a guy yesterday in a town
Speaker 3: where your average dinky little house is a million dollars
Speaker 3: and he bought that place in nineteen seventy nine for
Speaker 3: sixty three five.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, now that's some equity. Wow, Wow, that's amazing. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think the median house price in cal Unicornia now
Speaker 3: is eight hundred and thirty three grand or something eight
Speaker 3: sixty six something like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, wow, how does it?
Speaker 3: And then you add in what uh home ower's insurance
Speaker 3: is now and energy bills?
Speaker 1: How does anybody afford to live?
Speaker 3: And we need to get into a cavvy Newsom's hole
Speaker 3: whip sawing the refineries and the oil companies, and how
Speaker 3: a gas in California could easily rise another dollar in
Speaker 3: the next year.
Speaker 6: From the New York Post, Mount Fuji climber rescued twice
Speaker 6: in one week after going back to retrieve cell phone.
Speaker 3: All right, you gotta leave him there, right, thank you.
Speaker 3: I think that should happen with way more people. You
Speaker 3: go snowboarding outside into the dangerous Parky, you took a risk.
Speaker 1: We're not gonna send our helicopter.
Speaker 3: A lot of folks get billed depending on where you
Speaker 3: are if they have to send the big emergency crew
Speaker 3: out to get you this guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Bill, and twice.
Speaker 3: They should tell you that ahead of time, we'll come
Speaker 3: get you. But it's gonna cost you eighty five thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 6: And finally from the Babylon be false alarm. Smoke coming
Speaker 6: from the Vatican is just Cardinal Steve accidentally burning.
Speaker 1: His toast again. Ah, silly Cardon Steve.
Speaker 3: Like when the ambulance took me to the er with
Speaker 3: my gouldbladder, if they'd told me it had cost me
Speaker 3: thirty five hundred dollars out of pocket, I would have
Speaker 3: crawled screaming to the hospital on my own rather than
Speaker 3: pay three five hundred dollars out of pocket. Some more
Speaker 3: of the news of the day that we need to
Speaker 3: catch you up on. There's too many things happening at once.
Speaker 3: Anything that can be done about that? If you miss
Speaker 3: a segment, get the podcast Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 7: The White House is partly considering ideas to boost the
Speaker 7: country's birth rate, like sending Elon Musk on spring break.
Speaker 1: Oh jeez, hello, he.
Speaker 7: Cause, does anyone here have have you to rye.
Speaker 3: Play that other joke, Michael, because maybe that spells out
Speaker 3: the story here before we tell you what it is.
Speaker 7: The White House is partly considering ideas to boost the
Speaker 7: country's birth rate, including a five thousand dollars baby bonus
Speaker 7: for women.
Speaker 1: Five thousand dollars.
Speaker 7: Do you know what it costs to raise a child?
Speaker 1: Dollars?
Speaker 7: That's like taking a dollar off coupon to a Mercedes dealership.
Speaker 1: And the money isn't behalf of it.
Speaker 3: I mean the lifestyle change, the likes of which you've
Speaker 3: never had and never could even imagine.
Speaker 1: I hate this. I hate the countries are doing this.
Speaker 3: I hate that we're we're contemplating doing anybody who would
Speaker 3: have a kid who wasn't going to have a kid
Speaker 3: otherwise for five thousand dollars, that poor kid is going
Speaker 3: to have a miserable life.
Speaker 1: I would like them to be outlawed from that. You're
Speaker 1: no kidding.
Speaker 3: There are only two questions here, and they are kind
Speaker 3: of the same question. Number one, to understand the irresistible
Speaker 3: primal urge to reproduce, and be to understand its absence.
Speaker 3: Those are the only thing that's the only thing that's
Speaker 3: going on here.
Speaker 1: The lack of no.
Speaker 3: I don't want to have a kid. I still don't
Speaker 3: want to have a kid. Now I'm fifty years old.
Speaker 3: I can't have a kid now. I mean, that's just
Speaker 3: it's unprecedented in human history, well, in the history of
Speaker 3: virtually any biologic beast. Right, That's our question, not the
Speaker 3: lack of five thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: Correct, And I have long long.
Speaker 3: Maintained, having lived it the whole We're going to wait
Speaker 3: till we can afford.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 3: If you want to have a kid, have a kid,
Speaker 3: You'll figure it out. You're smart, you're ambitious, You'll figure
Speaker 3: it out, or you'll be poor for a while. I've
Speaker 3: done it. It doesn't kill you anyway.
Speaker 1: Where were we? Ah, yes, oh, I got a good tease. Yes.
Speaker 3: Wall Street Journal with an article out about how the
Speaker 3: whole starting your day at four am thing is really
Speaker 3: catching on with go getters. Oh yeah, I saw that
Speaker 3: because of a viral video that somehow we missed. We'll
Speaker 3: have to talk about that maybe an hour or two.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, the pre dawn superachiever lifestyle. Yeah, good luck.
Speaker 1: You knock yourself out.
Speaker 3: So let me know how that goes well. In fact,
Speaker 3: don't don't let me know how that goes I don't care.
Speaker 3: A couple of stories, several stories actually really related to
Speaker 3: the whole ever evolving tariff situation, just to give you
Speaker 3: a snapshot of what's going on with the economy. Weirdly enough,
Speaker 3: on this show, we don't necessarily present everything for the
Speaker 3: purpose of, you know, praising or condemning Donald J.
Speaker 1: Trump.
Speaker 3: It's just interesting. Here's your headline number one from the
Speaker 3: Wall Street Journal. GM pulls profit guidance, citing significant tariff impact.
Speaker 3: GM's net income slid six point six percent in the
Speaker 3: first quarter on weaker sales of highly profitable trucks and SUV's,
Speaker 3: and GM is shelving its earlier profit guidance. That's when
Speaker 3: they tell investors, look, here's how it looks. We think
Speaker 3: we're gonna make an x amount of revenue x amount
Speaker 3: of profit or within a couple of percent for twenty
Speaker 3: twenty five. They have shelved it all, saying President Trump's
Speaker 3: auto tariffs have clouded the outlook and its prior forecast
Speaker 3: quote can't be relied upon, said the chief financial officer.
Speaker 3: They would come back to the market an update once
Speaker 3: executives have more clarity.
Speaker 1: Quote.
Speaker 3: Given the evolving nature, evolving nature of the situation, we
Speaker 3: believe the future impact of tariffs could be significant. So
Speaker 3: but that was before what in the last twelve hours,
Speaker 3: Trump announced he's gonna redo the whole car tariff thing
Speaker 3: in a very complex way so that you don't get
Speaker 3: double tariffed for aluminum or steel that goes into the
Speaker 3: car and then the car's made somewhere else or whatever.
Speaker 3: So a man that Matt's going to be complicated on
Speaker 3: that just for the purpose of avacuracy. That was actually
Speaker 3: after that announcement. Okay, GM's just saying we still don't
Speaker 3: know what's going on, and sure we can't rely on
Speaker 3: our earlier predictions. So I can't imagine how complicated the
Speaker 3: formula is for something that's been tariffed already and now
Speaker 3: is in the car or not, or something unspeakably complicated.
Speaker 3: I've seen and read an analysis of what it would take,
Speaker 3: and it is mind boggling. The story that Jack is
Speaker 3: referring to yet another headline. President Trump is expected to
Speaker 3: soften the impact of his automotive tariffs, preventing duties on
Speaker 3: foreign made cars from stacking on top of other tariffs
Speaker 3: he has imposed, and easing some of the levees on
Speaker 3: foreign parts used to manufacture cars in the US. According
Speaker 3: to people familiar with the matter, this is what we've
Speaker 3: been talking about. How you can have a US make
Speaker 3: that has that's assembled in the United States, that has
Speaker 3: parts from twelve different countries, and you can have a
Speaker 3: foreign make that also has parts from twelve different countries
Speaker 3: made in the United States, and who gets tariff. What
Speaker 3: the decision means automakers paying Trump's automotive tariffs won't also
Speaker 3: be charged for other duties, such as those on steel
Speaker 3: and aluminum, according to people familiar with the policy, and
Speaker 3: the move would be retroactive to the beginning of the month.
Speaker 1: Blah blah blah.
Speaker 3: What so I saw something in the article about that
Speaker 3: with rebates afterwards or whatever.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, you talk about complicated formulas.
Speaker 3: The Administration will also modify its tariffs on FOURIGN autopart
Speaker 3: slated to be twenty five percent effective in a couple
Speaker 3: of days, allowing automakers to be reimbursed for those tariffs
Speaker 3: up to an amount equal to three point seventy five
Speaker 3: percent of the value of a US made car for
Speaker 3: one year. The reimbursement would fall to two point five
Speaker 3: percent of the car's value in a second year. I
Speaker 3: won't continue because I can hear your eyes glazing friends. Yeah,
Speaker 3: And the one part that bothers me, well, there are
Speaker 3: several aspects of this would bother me, but one that
Speaker 3: really really bothers me is if you are a giant
Speaker 3: automaker and you have millions and millions and millions of
Speaker 3: dollars worth of lobbyists, you can get breaks on the tariffs.
Speaker 3: If you are a small manufacturer in Indiana, California, Florida, wherever.
Speaker 1: You cannot.
Speaker 3: And so the tariffs are going to murder small businesses,
Speaker 3: and the super giants will wade into the swamp further
Speaker 3: enrich the swamp and get their carve outs, which is
Speaker 3: a remarkably untrumpy way to run things. Right now, all
Speaker 3: the reporting around, well anything with Trump is got to
Speaker 3: be suspect because you never know if they just are
Speaker 3: going out of their way to hate on Trump. But
Speaker 3: I did see an article yesterday predicting that something like
Speaker 3: two thirds of toy stores are going to go out
Speaker 3: of business before Christmas because they just can't. They can't
Speaker 3: order any toys because most all, practically all toys come
Speaker 3: from China, and with the one hundred and forty five
Speaker 3: percent tariff or whatever it is, they just can't stock
Speaker 3: their shelves.
Speaker 1: And so we got to close your doors.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 1: If that's true, obviously that's horrifying.
Speaker 3: Whereas, like you pointed out, the Targets and the Walmarts
Speaker 3: will figure out a way.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, this show is so weird.
Speaker 3: Sometimes they say Trump's right and sometimes they say Trump's wrong.
Speaker 3: For instance, so far, your super giant retailers like wal
Speaker 3: Mart and I almost said Kmart, Good Lord, and Target
Speaker 3: have kept prices low on phone chargers, towels, blenders in
Speaker 3: the face of rising tariffs, and according once again to
Speaker 3: the Journal, the America's largest retailers are trying everything. They're
Speaker 3: pressuring their suppliers to absorb some of the cost increases.
Speaker 1: You take a haircut, I take a haircut.
Speaker 3: Dropping free perks from corporate offices, so they're cutting things
Speaker 3: closer to the bone. They paused some shipments of goods
Speaker 3: from China and are leaning on inventory that's already been
Speaker 3: imported to the US, but there's only so much of
Speaker 3: that so so far, most prices have held steady overall,
Speaker 3: and the real jumps in everyday retail stuff that we
Speaker 3: buy that could fuel inflation are not evident. But the
Speaker 3: chief executives of Walmart, Target, and Home Depot met with
Speaker 3: President Trump last week with a strong men, the status
Speaker 3: quo cannot last forever. They weren't Trump that higher prices
Speaker 3: would be difficult to avoid and said certain products would
Speaker 3: become scarce I retailers decide not to sell them to
Speaker 3: avoid tariff costs. They told the Parsident they would work
Speaker 3: to keep product prices as low as possible for as
Speaker 3: long as possible, but it ain't gonna last forever.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 3: There are a lot of opinions on this, and again
Speaker 3: some of its political spend. Some of it is guessing
Speaker 3: because it's very complicated. But as listening to one who
Speaker 3: seemed to be a non partisan economic guy talking about,
Speaker 3: we're a couple of weeks away from this hitting us
Speaker 3: all like just a sledgehammer, either bare shelves or things
Speaker 3: that are there that are prices we've.
Speaker 1: Never seen before. Yeah, and it's just going to be
Speaker 1: like a slap in the face.
Speaker 3: And then this maybe you already had this story, but
Speaker 3: Amazon is going to display the tariff costs in there
Speaker 3: when you check out. See you check out on something
Speaker 3: on Amazon, and it'll have it's twenty one to ninety
Speaker 3: eight plus the six eighty eight because of the tariffs
Speaker 3: for a total love just to drive home the point,
Speaker 3: which is a political mood or to try to keep
Speaker 3: them out of you being mad at them or what.
Speaker 3: I don't know, putting aside the fact that that would
Speaker 3: be nearly impossible to determine.
Speaker 1: Right, I mean, if.
Speaker 3: Coming up with the you know, how do you tear
Speaker 3: a car built by parts from all over the world
Speaker 3: that have crossed the Canadian border half a dozen times?
Speaker 1: Literally?
Speaker 3: If that's complicated, imagine then factoring all of that crap
Speaker 3: into a final price. Yeah, interesting move by Amazon. It's
Speaker 3: like the restaurants that have and my sympathies are are
Speaker 3: absolutely with them. In cal Unicornia, for instance, the restaurants
Speaker 3: that have put a you know, three dollar searcharge at
Speaker 3: the bottom of the bill labor fee because of the
Speaker 3: artificially inflated minimum wages in California France. I think I
Speaker 3: think unless some we can talk me out of it,
Speaker 3: I think I like this sort of thing. If a
Speaker 3: government policy causes you to raise your prices, make it
Speaker 3: clear on the bill. Here's and you don't like the policy,
Speaker 3: here's the government policy what it cost you. I wish
Speaker 3: it didn't exist either, but I got no choice. I
Speaker 3: think that's a good idea. I love the way you
Speaker 3: just put that, because no matter which party is in
Speaker 3: the office, and if you have principles, you'd agree with me.
Speaker 3: I want people to have a greater appreciation for how
Speaker 3: government policy affects life. There ought to be like the
Speaker 3: guy who baps you over the head and takes your
Speaker 3: stuff in some blue state. He ought to have to say,
Speaker 3: by the way, I'm only on the street because of
Speaker 3: progressive crime policy, and then he hits you over the head.
Speaker 1: Full disclosure all right.
Speaker 3: Now here's something that would or you know, when you
Speaker 3: would go there in your cars up on blocks, there
Speaker 3: ought to be a note or something brought to you
Speaker 3: by Gavin Newsom's crime policy. For instance, Hey you see
Speaker 3: that classic car that's attached to the RV. Now, Hanson,
Speaker 3: that's a nice looking car. I don't know where you
Speaker 3: got it. Some sort of seventies boat. Yeah, that's cool car.
Speaker 3: Where the guy got it? The old r V that's
Speaker 3: parked up by the radio stations here, that's been parked
Speaker 3: here for weeks.
Speaker 1: Guy just lives here now, I guess yep, cooks on
Speaker 1: a hot plate outside running off a battery. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Now apparently he's got a land yacht from the seventies. Fabulous.
Speaker 1: Good deal.
Speaker 3: And then this headline, which is absolutely pro Trump. The
Speaker 3: merk the pharmaceutical giant will grow its US manufacturing footprint
Speaker 3: with a one billion dollar plant in Delaware, becoming the
Speaker 3: latest drug maker to invest in the US. Is Tariff's target.
Speaker 3: The Tariff's targeting the industry, loomed. The facilities products will
Speaker 3: include biologic drugs and a new, easier to use version
Speaker 3: of key Trudah, the company's blockbuster cancer drug. The plant
Speaker 3: marks Merk's first in house manufacturing site in the US
Speaker 3: to make key Trudah and we'll ensure American patients get
Speaker 3: drugs made domestically. And the CEO said good stuff about
Speaker 3: it's really a strategy to make sure we can source
Speaker 3: US needs from US sites. As you look at what
Speaker 3: the current administration is doing and what Trump is trying
Speaker 3: to achieve, this is very much aligned with that is
Speaker 3: they're trying to kiss his ass. But also, as we
Speaker 3: learned in covid Man, we've got to have our critical
Speaker 3: drugs made domestically or at least not made by our
Speaker 3: mortal enemy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a man.
Speaker 3: If they shut off all of the ssryes, for instance,
Speaker 3: we get into a big war. Imagine that everybody in
Speaker 3: the country can't get their zolof will buttrin whatever mental
Speaker 3: health drug they're on. We'd have a nation full of
Speaker 3: people go and losing their minds.
Speaker 1: Wow. Wow, Yeah, that would be bad. That'd be a
Speaker 1: bad one.
Speaker 3: As if we don't already have a nation full of
Speaker 3: people losing their mind We got mail bag on the way,
Speaker 3: a bunch of stuff stick with us. So the hooties
Speaker 3: are firing at one of our giant aircraft carriers. They
Speaker 3: turned the steering wheel really hard and seventy million dollar fighter.
Speaker 1: Plane falls off. Is that what actually happened?
Speaker 3: I don't think there would be precautions anyway.
Speaker 1: More on that blocks a chain?
Speaker 3: I don't know, Okay, Plus the question vexing mankind? Could
Speaker 3: one hundred unarmed men beat a gorilla in a fight?
Speaker 3: Stay with US live team coverage. We're actually in a
Speaker 3: stage it. Here's your freedom loving quoting the we have
Speaker 3: a little trouble securing a license. We had to move
Speaker 3: the show to Las Vegas. I've referenced this many many times,
Speaker 3: so I thought I would hit you with the full
Speaker 3: quote from Abe Lincoln. At what point then is the
Speaker 3: take two? At what point then is the approach of
Speaker 3: danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us,
Speaker 3: it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad.
Speaker 3: If destruction be our lot, to ourselves be its author
Speaker 3: and finisher. As a nation of free men, we must
Speaker 3: live through all time or die by suicide. Very fancy
Speaker 3: wave saying nobody outside is going to bring down the US,
Speaker 3: but we could screw it up so badly we bring
Speaker 3: ourselves down. Let's try not to yeah. I think that's
Speaker 3: always been the case with your big empires. I mean,
Speaker 3: at the end, it's the barbarians that break through the gates.
Speaker 3: But the reason they were able to break through the
Speaker 3: gates is because you dissolved from the inside first. Right
Speaker 3: right here here, mail bag, feel free to drop some
Speaker 3: note anytime. Mail Bag at Armstrong e geddy dot com
Speaker 3: is the email address. Mail Bag at Armstrong at getty
Speaker 3: dot com. Nice know from John here. As I go
Speaker 3: through life, I realize there are a lot of dumb
Speaker 3: sobs out there, and all this polling s is driving
Speaker 3: me nuts. Let it play out, nothing happens overnight. I'm
Speaker 3: so disappointed in humanity. If I didn't have a beautiful family,
Speaker 3: which he describes, I would launch myself into the Delta
Speaker 3: Mendota Canal on my way to work tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Can everyone just chill out?
Speaker 3: I'm guessing not fringing morons, very tiring planted garden. Listen
Speaker 3: to the birds chirping around you. Life can be hard,
Speaker 3: but you only get one shot at it. End of
Speaker 3: rand Well, that's basically what I arted with no. One
Speaker 3: hundred days of Trump. Is this what you want to
Speaker 3: do with your life? You want to focus on whoever's
Speaker 3: president and what their approval rating is every day of
Speaker 3: your life.
Speaker 1: Till you're dead. You're gonna look back on your life
Speaker 1: and think, well, I was.
Speaker 3: Well spent, and have your hatred for them or love
Speaker 3: for them the animating factor in your life. Right, sure, glad,
Speaker 3: I made my whole life about who's president, and that's
Speaker 3: what I did all day long. Moving along swiftly to
Speaker 3: that point, Jim is SoCal with a lovely note. We
Speaker 3: were talking yesterday about how the tramp stamp is back. Yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 3: lower back tattoo for young women in particular. Yeah, gen
Speaker 3: Z's reclaiming it, Jim writes Jack Joe, because keep in
Speaker 3: mind that many of those tattoos are kind of bilateral,
Speaker 3: if you will, they're you know, wings or something, you know.
Speaker 1: Picture that.
Speaker 3: As I read this, guys, I discovered years ago the
Speaker 3: term arskeevai, which translates translated from German is ass at,
Speaker 3: a humorous euphemism for tramps tamp. Evidently that's what they
Speaker 3: call the tramps tamp in Germany. That's the Germans, a
Speaker 3: whimsical people. They're known for theirs. Let's see our new feature,
Speaker 3: which I think what did I call the Canada feature.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, we Canada.
Speaker 3: Well, loyal listener Roberts suggests, how about a boot Canada.
Speaker 3: That's pretty good? Or his email topic is oh Canada,
Speaker 3: that's the obvious name for the feature stories about Canada.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Robert Canada. The new prime minister who got
Speaker 3: elected yesterday. I had some rough things to say for
Speaker 3: the US of A. We'll play that.
Speaker 1: For you later. That's how he got elected.
Speaker 3: Several leftists around the world have gotten elected by saying
Speaker 3: I'm the guy to fight Trump, not my conservative colleagues.
Speaker 3: So the world has swung to the left.
Speaker 1: Great.
Speaker 3: Let's see a couple of interesting thoughts on the Ukraine
Speaker 3: conflict that we don't have time for. Interesting compare in
Speaker 3: contrast from Ted here. I'll give you a very very
Speaker 3: short version. The UK is predicting the forecast of blue
Speaker 3: states like California. Workers age sixteen to twenty four just
Speaker 3: cannot find jobs because of artificially high minimum wages. And
Speaker 3: now the government is making it more and more expensive
Speaker 3: and complicated to employ anyone, and it's devastating youth employment.
Speaker 3: Dang it, my kid's gonna be looking for a job
Speaker 3: here in the next six months. Don't it.
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