Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong.
Speaker 2: And Geckie and he arms wrong yet I'm from Studio
Speaker 2: C C Signor.
Speaker 1: It is a dimly lit room deeper than the bowels
Speaker 1: of the Armstrong and Getty Communications compound. And hey, y'all,
Speaker 1: today we are toiling under the tutelage of our general.
Speaker 2: Manager the economy.
Speaker 3: I was gonna go with Chinese manufacturers because they're hurting
Speaker 3: for certain holy calpa. Then the economic numbers for the
Speaker 3: US came out and that was a bit of an
Speaker 3: oof as well.
Speaker 2: So here you go, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 1: The first quarter of the United States GDP shrunk by
Speaker 1: point three percent. We went negative, We went backwards point
Speaker 1: three percent, barely, but we went backwards. And usually you're
Speaker 1: hoping for like three four percent positive. So it's not
Speaker 1: just so it's backwards, it's it's a good four percent
Speaker 1: below where you'd.
Speaker 2: Like to be. Yeah, it's solidly in reverse.
Speaker 3: And that was before quote unquote Liberation Day in early
Speaker 3: this month.
Speaker 1: Right, So I guess the analysis will be how much
Speaker 1: this has anything to do with Trump? Since he took
Speaker 1: over January twentieth, and this is the first quarter January,
Speaker 1: February March.
Speaker 2: But uh, yeah, that's it's not great. It's not great. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Anybody who denies that there is rampant uncertainty in the
Speaker 3: air around the globe is a liar. Now, whether this
Speaker 3: is merely a period.
Speaker 1: Of uncertainty followed by the greatest American century ever or
Speaker 1: the Golden Age or what have you, or it's just
Speaker 1: a mistake that needs to be rectified as quickly as possible.
Speaker 2: It depends who you ask.
Speaker 1: I believe though, that beats expectations, at least all the
Speaker 1: expectations I had read, not my expectations, buddy. So yeah,
Speaker 1: and then the whole anyway, more on that later. Hans
Speaker 1: and I just got into a conversation about next door.
Speaker 1: Are you on next door.
Speaker 2: For your neighborhood? Uh?
Speaker 1: I used to pay that's funny, that's what he said.
Speaker 1: That's what lots of people say. Oh yeah, people for
Speaker 1: the same reasons.
Speaker 2: Are you on next door? Michael? I know my wife
Speaker 2: loves it, though, loves it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, she gets tips from you know, like we were
Speaker 4: looking for an ac guy, so she'll asking around and
Speaker 4: stuff like that Katie.
Speaker 2: On it, You're on it.
Speaker 3: It varies hood by hood, sure, according to the demographics
Speaker 3: of the people involved in age.
Speaker 1: Hanson's thing was, I don't want to know their political
Speaker 1: opinions over there.
Speaker 2: I like them, we get along well.
Speaker 1: I don't want to hear I don't want to read
Speaker 1: their opinions on some issue.
Speaker 2: And there is a lot of that.
Speaker 1: It's like, is it because you don't have your own
Speaker 1: talk show or something that you just feel like, you
Speaker 1: know what I think of Trump's first hundred days? Why
Speaker 1: are you putting this on next door? This is for
Speaker 1: lost cats? And hey, I found a good you know,
Speaker 1: air conditioner repairment.
Speaker 3: Right exactly, And you know it's I always feel slightly
Speaker 3: guilty pitching. The idea is that you know, you don't
Speaker 3: need to tell everybody what you think, since I do
Speaker 3: it for a living. But on the other hand, I don't,
Speaker 3: you know, go around treating people's illnesses because I'm not
Speaker 3: a doctor and nobody wants me touching them.
Speaker 2: So stay in your lane.
Speaker 1: You know, I get the urge, trust me, I do,
Speaker 1: But you are alienating far more people than you are,
Speaker 1: you know, enlightening or or or impressing. In fact, and
Speaker 1: this is the part that's often left out. People are
Speaker 1: are often annoyed very much by people they agree with.
Speaker 2: It's not just the people.
Speaker 3: Who disagree with you that are annoyed, it's I don't
Speaker 3: need people spouting off about politics in my like my
Speaker 3: golf group.
Speaker 2: What do you get out of it, Katie? What do
Speaker 2: you like about next door?
Speaker 4: Kind of the same thing that Michael's wife does. I
Speaker 4: just you know, if I'm looking for tips for housework
Speaker 4: or you know, lost pets and whatnot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a lot of sadness, like tremendous sadness. Uh really,
Speaker 1: I feel remember that there's there's just you know, I
Speaker 1: don't know who they are, but there are a couple
Speaker 1: of blocks over and they got you know, a nineteen
Speaker 1: year old cat. It's dying leukemi and they can't afford it,
Speaker 1: and they're not dying themselves.
Speaker 2: It's just I want too much, too much sadness.
Speaker 1: And finally drove me away was the does anybody know
Speaker 1: who drives that red car?
Speaker 2: It's very loud, yeah, because we were we were.
Speaker 1: Adjacent to like a retirement community, and it was very
Speaker 1: much if you're into classic TV, A forum for missus
Speaker 1: Kravitz types, those who had just watched the neighborhood and
Speaker 1: look for fault or missteps or violations of the HOA
Speaker 1: rules or whatever, just never ending. Yeah, there is a
Speaker 1: lot of to the high school kid who drove by
Speaker 1: me today, you were way too close to the bike lane,
Speaker 1: you know, sort of like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, hey, that's a legit concern. High school kid's not
Speaker 2: reading it.
Speaker 4: There's one video that got posted the other day from
Speaker 4: a ring doorbell that somebody was outraged they got doorbell
Speaker 4: ditched at about six pm and they were.
Speaker 2: This is your kid, My.
Speaker 1: God, if I catched them, I won't be held responsible
Speaker 1: for what I do.
Speaker 2: I found it interesting.
Speaker 1: Emotionally that, like, in general, if there is a you know,
Speaker 1: a crime wave going through your neighborhood, you'd like to
Speaker 1: know about that, because that happens sometimes where you know,
Speaker 1: people come in from outside of town and they go
Speaker 1: neighborhood by neighborhood, and if that's happening, it'd be good
Speaker 1: to know about. But then, but then there's just apparently
Speaker 1: general malfeasance that happens in in the middle of night,
Speaker 1: always has, always will that you don't know about.
Speaker 2: And I feel like I'm better off not knowing about it.
Speaker 1: Being alerted to every tiny thing that happens overnight makes
Speaker 1: you paranoid.
Speaker 2: And I assume it's always been that way.
Speaker 1: So why was there yelling at eleven thirty last night?
Speaker 1: That's far past the time people should be yelling in public.
Speaker 1: Somebody was messing with my trash cans at two am.
Speaker 1: I could hear them. Oh right, I guess maybe it
Speaker 1: was a cat. I don't know, really needs moderating. It
Speaker 1: was right around speaking of cats. For that job, that'd
Speaker 1: be a fun job, be the moderator for your local
Speaker 1: next door.
Speaker 3: Oh man, speaking of cats, there was a there were
Speaker 3: several cat.
Speaker 1: Fluffy was out in the backyard last night around sunset
Speaker 1: and she's lost.
Speaker 2: She's white and has a pink rib.
Speaker 1: And there are several of these and I wanted to
Speaker 1: write them all, ma'am a coyote eight Fluffy because he's dead.
Speaker 1: Because that was absolutely You got people in the foothills
Speaker 1: of this year and event in California with outdoor cats.
Speaker 3: I wondered what happened to their cat. I'll tell you
Speaker 3: what happened to your cat. A coyote ate.
Speaker 1: It, ma'am, a coyote ate your cat. Your cat is
Speaker 1: dead dead, Yes it's Michael.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we lost a cat or two to coyotes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I again, the political opinions just surprised me.
Speaker 1: I just it's the maybe this is a public service
Speaker 1: to those of you listening. You gotta tread really lightly
Speaker 1: on sharing political opinions. It's just this, man, there's a
Speaker 1: time and a place.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and not everybody agrees with you.
Speaker 1: So if you jump in with a if you care
Speaker 1: about your school for your kids, then you need to
Speaker 1: vote this way on H and and here's why. Okay,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm sure you feel passionate about it, but man,
Speaker 1: you're gonna alienate more friends than good you do in
Speaker 1: terms of convincing people to vote in my opp Although
Speaker 1: the argument is you just put it, I could take
Speaker 1: it's the argument that presumes everybody agrees with me, and
Speaker 1: it's only some weird lunatics that I'm not familiar with
Speaker 1: who could possibly disagree. You know, h if you love children, right,
Speaker 1: you know that sort of thing. Yeah, what's the what's
Speaker 1: the perfect comparison? He's dead, Fluffy is dead, ma'am.
Speaker 2: You got two choices, get a new cat or not
Speaker 2: have a cat. Fluffy is dead.
Speaker 3: Here tell me this, and Katie Michael, please feel free
Speaker 3: to weigh in. Political opinions are like medical symptoms. They're
Speaker 3: not to be brought up in most settings.
Speaker 1: Yeah, as you would if you would not bring up
Speaker 1: your medical symptom. I mean, if you would not say, boy,
Speaker 1: my gums are bleeding a lot, look at this sore
Speaker 1: com Yeah, if you would not post a picture of
Speaker 1: your lesion. Don't you know, hit people with your political views.
Speaker 3: I am staunchly in favor of political activism, political communication, involvement,
Speaker 3: forming of groups.
Speaker 2: That's being running for the school, all that stuff.
Speaker 1: Sure, that is fine. You got to realize you're weighing
Speaker 1: into it. I don't think most people realize they're weaying
Speaker 1: into it in the way that they are. I think
Speaker 1: they feel like there's a no cost to firing that
Speaker 1: stuff off.
Speaker 2: Uh, yes, I would agree. Yeah. Facebook is infamous for it.
Speaker 3: How many people just roll their eyes and keep scrolling
Speaker 3: at their old friends who just badger them with politics
Speaker 3: all the time.
Speaker 1: Let's start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe
Speaker 1: Getty on this. It is Wednesday, April thirtieth, with a
Speaker 1: shrinking economy, you're twenty twenty five, where arms and getting
Speaker 1: We approve of this program.
Speaker 3: Let's begin officially then, according to SEC rules and regulations.
Speaker 2: So much to talk about, we'll talk about it at Mark.
Speaker 2: We've opened up.
Speaker 5: Your faucets, and we've opened up especially me. I don't
Speaker 5: like taking a shower where the water goes drip, drip,
Speaker 5: drip onto.
Speaker 2: My luxuriant air. I need a lot of water. I
Speaker 2: need everything I can get.
Speaker 1: Is this really happening or am I still asleep and
Speaker 1: I'm dreaming? So Trump I did a big rally last night.
Speaker 1: We got a few headlines from that and more from
Speaker 1: an interview. He did a big, long set down on
Speaker 1: ABC News with Terry Moran, which you at one point
Speaker 1: says I'd never heard of you and I can see why,
Speaker 1: or something like oh no, oh god, that's funny. Anyway,
Speaker 1: you got two choices, a new cat or no cat.
Speaker 1: But those are your.
Speaker 2: Two choices, according to Joe Fluffy's Soul Rest in Peace.
Speaker 1: Katie's got her headlines, we got mail bag, We've got
Speaker 1: more news of the day.
Speaker 2: Stay here.
Speaker 1: So we mentioned the GDP numbers are out and we're
Speaker 1: the negative actually shrank and that's the first time since
Speaker 1: COVID that we've shrank, and then it was quite a
Speaker 1: while before that, so that doesn't happen very.
Speaker 3: Often, No, indeed, and it depends what expectations you looked at,
Speaker 3: whether this was significantly worse than expectations or not.
Speaker 2: But it's not good. There's no.
Speaker 3: Solid reason the economy should be shrinking, honestly.
Speaker 1: And then that sets us up for the traditional definition
Speaker 1: of a recession to shrinking quarters in a row. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: And again this was before Trump launched the confusing abortive,
Speaker 1: chaotic mutual tariff thing with the charts and all. There
Speaker 1: was some anticipatory uncertainty leading up to that hostility with China.
Speaker 2: But we'll have to see how it all plays out.
Speaker 1: I mean, meanwhile, as we always point out, I am
Speaker 1: not the economy.
Speaker 3: I still have a paycheck. I am not in recession,
Speaker 3: and neither is anybody else. So let's let's.
Speaker 1: All keep cool here, all right, Let's figure out who's
Speaker 1: reporting what.
Speaker 2: It's the lead story. It's Katie Green.
Speaker 4: Katie hit it all right, starting with ABC, Trump marks
Speaker 4: one hundred days with campaign style rally.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there was reporting that he was really like restless
Speaker 1: in the White House, and itching to get back out there.
Speaker 2: He's almost freaking eighty years old.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot of people who are almost eighty years
Speaker 1: old are itching to sit on their chair all day long,
Speaker 1: not getting up and stand in front of a crowd
Speaker 1: for an hour and a half and riff ad lib.
Speaker 4: From CNN a quote pissed Trump called Jeff Bezos after
Speaker 4: learning Amazon considered breaking out a tariff charge.
Speaker 1: Interesting story that played out while we were on the
Speaker 1: are yesterday. The news broke that Amazon was going to
Speaker 1: put a little blurb and when you paid for things,
Speaker 1: this is how much was the tariffs. Trump got wind
Speaker 1: of it, hated it, personally called Jeff Bezos, to which
Speaker 1: it sounds like Jeff Bezos said, oh no, it's a misunderstanding.
Speaker 1: We weren't planning on doing that at all, which either
Speaker 1: is or isn't true.
Speaker 3: But if I said it was one department's idea, it
Speaker 3: was never going to be implemented. Please he's doney boy,
Speaker 3: which again may or may not be true.
Speaker 2: But you've got a hot trophy wife. I've got a
Speaker 2: hot trophy wife.
Speaker 1: Come on now, that's not fine.
Speaker 4: From The New York Times, President Trump says he could
Speaker 4: bring back wrongly deported man, but won't.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, we'll play that. Excerpt from the ABC interview
Speaker 1: last night.
Speaker 4: Now the important news, Jack from NBC Bill Belichick's girlfriend,
Speaker 4: Jordan Hudson, Post's coach email about book promotion.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we had that yesterday, so exactly sure what a
Speaker 1: point was there after the dust stuff over the weekend.
Speaker 1: This this has the potential to be a great, little
Speaker 1: good distraction soap opera to follow. Does this have the
Speaker 1: potential land up in a homicide investigation?
Speaker 2: No, no, No, it's not gonna be on.
Speaker 1: There're weird dynamics at work here. Jack, It's not gonna
Speaker 1: be on dateline. I don't think, is it. But and
Speaker 1: the young hotty fifty year age difference.
Speaker 3: That's it's a good story, which reminds me there might
Speaker 3: be a new break in the crime of the century,
Speaker 3: the kidnapping of the Lindenberg baby.
Speaker 2: Read's right, the crime of last century.
Speaker 1: Wow, I thought you're gonna go John Benet, but you
Speaker 1: went way one hundred years before that.
Speaker 2: Yes, stay tuned. From the Washington Post.
Speaker 4: Ups set to lay off twenty thousand workers as it
Speaker 4: reduces business with Amazon.
Speaker 2: That's a lot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so Amazon's delivery they're doing their own deliveries now
Speaker 1: don trucks. Is that the big difference. Yep, they drive
Speaker 1: too fast. All you Amazon drivers drive way to flip
Speaker 1: and fast through the neighborhood.
Speaker 2: Well, they would tell you, well, go ahead, Katie.
Speaker 4: I was gonna say, and quit parking in the middle.
Speaker 2: Of the street, right man. That's the yeah.
Speaker 1: And they just they just like to shut off their
Speaker 1: vehicle wherever they want to. Yeah, they would respond to you, well,
Speaker 1: we're giving an in We're given an insane a schedule,
Speaker 1: and if we're not on time, we get yelled at
Speaker 1: or fired or whatever, to which Amazon would then reply, no.
Speaker 2: We don't.
Speaker 1: It's a perfectly reasonable schedule, and you can walk to
Speaker 1: and from your truck and still do your deliveries, to
Speaker 1: which they would.
Speaker 2: Reply again, bull crap. That's an interesting topic.
Speaker 1: The most dangerous driver in my neighborhood on almost any
Speaker 1: given day is either the ups or Amazon guy.
Speaker 2: That shouldn't be m.
Speaker 1: Are ups guys, very courteous. Your results may vary.
Speaker 4: From Breitbart, Robert de Niro's son comes out as transgender
Speaker 4: woman at age twenty nine.
Speaker 2: I saw that pretty effeminate looking.
Speaker 3: Dude from the New York You do you, sir.
Speaker 4: From the New York post Man con tracks a shocking
Speaker 4: skin disease from wearing thrifted clothing.
Speaker 2: Wash it first.
Speaker 1: Yes, I've worn a lot of either thrifted or ebaye
Speaker 1: used clothes lots, but yeah, you.
Speaker 2: Wash them first.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this looks like shingles all over his face.
Speaker 2: Oh fishing.
Speaker 4: And finally, from the Babylon b wife beginning to suspect
Speaker 4: husband's thoughtful relevant responses to her text messages might be
Speaker 4: AI generating.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't do underwear socks or T shirts.
Speaker 2: Oh, thrifted underwear.
Speaker 1: I know how much money you make. I hope you're
Speaker 1: not buying used underwear. Be good to yourself, treat yourself.
Speaker 1: You for I don't buy used under said I'm not
Speaker 1: buying used underwear. I don't the the fact that you
Speaker 1: would even bring it up, that the fact that it's
Speaker 1: crossed your mind.
Speaker 2: Apparently. How about the socks more news of the day.
Speaker 1: No, not socks either, Oh wow, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 5: I think maybe the border is the most significant because
Speaker 5: our country was really going bad. They were allowing people
Speaker 5: to come in from prisons, and now it's totally closed down.
Speaker 5: And you've seen just yesterday the Ann's ninety nine. Nobody
Speaker 5: thought that could happen.
Speaker 1: So that is from the ABC interview that aired last
Speaker 1: night in prime time. The question was what do you
Speaker 1: think your biggest accomplishment in the first one hundred days,
Speaker 1: and he said the border, which is almost certainly true
Speaker 1: according to everyone. We've got more that coming up later,
Speaker 1: including his exchange about Pete Hegseeth, which I thought was
Speaker 1: really interesting and like classic, that's why Trump is who
Speaker 1: he is, indifferent than other people, with a very honest,
Speaker 1: I thought, relatable answer. But anyway, more on that later.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just to drill down a little bit into some
Speaker 3: of the economic stuff. You need to separate China from
Speaker 3: everywhere else if you're gonna be talking tariffs and the
Speaker 3: wisdom or efficacy what Trump is doing. Those are two
Speaker 3: completely different questions. Friends and allies, and then China. We
Speaker 3: ought to be in a trade war with China, or
Speaker 3: at least we ought to be, in my opinion, making
Speaker 3: significant moves toward becoming much more independent from China in
Speaker 3: all manufacturing, honestly, because we don't know when the bottom
Speaker 3: is gonna drop out relations wise, Yeah, before the almost
Speaker 3: inevitable probably war war.
Speaker 1: Happens, Aikrambah, Yeah, you're not wrong not to mention. Well,
Speaker 1: here's a special case within a special case, pharmaceuticals, computer chips,
Speaker 1: other technologies that we need for our self defense that
Speaker 1: we bizarrely are.
Speaker 2: Dependent on China for. I mean, it's just a terrible idea.
Speaker 3: So that's a no brainer, as they say, although apparently
Speaker 3: we lost our brain for an extended period of time
Speaker 3: because here we are dependent on them. But anyway, so
Speaker 3: the high high tariffs against China, which are a precursor
Speaker 3: to Trump I suspect fashioning a much more reasonable deal
Speaker 3: that will accomplish some level of decoupling and yet not
Speaker 3: you know, blow up the economy, is having a hell
Speaker 3: of an effect on China. China's economy showed its first
Speaker 3: big signs of damage from the trade wars. Steep US
Speaker 3: tariffs pummeled export orders and production at the country's factories.
Speaker 3: A gauge of new export orders fell this month to
Speaker 3: its lowest reading since COVID nineteen was ravaging China in
Speaker 3: twenty twenty two, while overall manufacturing activity in China was
Speaker 3: the weakest in more than a year. So that's going
Speaker 3: to add pressure on hijin Ping to reach a deal
Speaker 3: with on trade with Trump, but for now they are
Speaker 3: still making belligerent to chest beating noises over in Beijing.
Speaker 2: So is this a who blinks first sort of situation?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I suspect very strongly that back channel negotiations are going on,
Speaker 3: or lower level negotiations.
Speaker 1: Says they are, and she says they absolutely are not.
Speaker 1: So I don't know which is true. Yeah, very odd.
Speaker 1: I can't figure that one out.
Speaker 3: But in a social media post earlier this week, the
Speaker 3: Chinese government urged other countries not to submit to US
Speaker 3: pressure and said China will quote never kneel down before Washington. Still,
Speaker 3: that's they're they're really hurting into China.
Speaker 2: Glad to hear it.
Speaker 1: Yeah good, they're dirty commis, they have slaves, they're they're
Speaker 1: one of the most racist cultures on earth. They're bent
Speaker 1: on world domination and then dominating every human being on
Speaker 1: earth and enslaving them.
Speaker 2: So boo, they're the bad guys.
Speaker 3: Trade war uncertainty prompts wave of companies to yank forecasts.
Speaker 3: Headline from the Wall Street Journal mentioned this yesterday. I
Speaker 3: think we were just talking about GM that said it
Speaker 3: might have been one other, but they said, you know,
Speaker 3: that forecast we put out a few months ago that
Speaker 3: we're going to have eight percent growth and profits around
Speaker 3: this Well, we have no idea what they're going to
Speaker 3: be now, so please chuck that in the garbage can.
Speaker 2: New poll shows that more than eighty.
Speaker 3: Percent of senior executives are worried about tariffs and other
Speaker 3: policy shifts. So you got GM, Jet, Blue, Snap, Volvo,
Speaker 3: all sorts of companies saying, yeah, forget our guidances, we
Speaker 3: have no idea what's going to happen this year. UPS
Speaker 3: did not update his outlook, though it predicted lower ship
Speaker 3: and volumes and revenue. It also announced twenty thousand workers
Speaker 3: would be laid off, as we discussed. And then Bill
Speaker 3: Galston in the Wall Street Journal He's an editorialist, is
Speaker 3: going through Trump's approval numbers. The headline is Trump's hemorrhages
Speaker 3: support one hundred days in, and he's if you analyze
Speaker 3: some of the polls, he is.
Speaker 2: You know, the Democrats hate him.
Speaker 1: They hatten him before most Democrat voters, a lot of
Speaker 1: swing voters have turned negative, and indeed a small but
Speaker 1: sizable chunk of Republican voters have swung negative and his
Speaker 1: positives to negatives, which Jack you always point out, are
Speaker 1: going to flip as soon as the honeymoon period ends
Speaker 1: and events start to happen that sort of thing.
Speaker 2: He was six points to the positive. He is now
Speaker 2: seven points negative.
Speaker 3: It's a total negative swing of thirteen point three points
Speaker 3: since the beginning of his term.
Speaker 1: It happened faster because he got involved in, you know,
Speaker 1: trying to change America faster. But look at Obama's approval
Speaker 1: ratings after he really got into pushing Obamacare, when he
Speaker 1: had the most political capital to spend. How much he
Speaker 1: dropped or Reagan after the first year or so doesn't
Speaker 1: mean that this tariff fang couldn't be a disaster and
Speaker 1: Trump ends up in the teens. I mean that is
Speaker 1: still on the table. By the way, the economic news
Speaker 1: it's out that the economy shrunk by zero point three percent.
Speaker 1: Trump has responded to that in the last couple of minutes.
Speaker 1: Here's his statement, this is Biden's stock market, not Trump's.
Speaker 1: I didn't take over till January twentieth. Tariffs will students
Speaker 1: start kicking in and companies are starting to move into
Speaker 1: the USA and record numbers. Our country will boom. But
Speaker 1: we have to get rid of the Biden overhang. This
Speaker 1: will take a while, has nothing to do with tariff's
Speaker 1: all caps, only that he left us with bad numbers.
Speaker 1: But when the boom begins, it will be like no other.
Speaker 2: Be patient. I hope he's I hope that's true. I
Speaker 2: hope he's right now. I hope that's true. Yeah, me too,
Speaker 2: I absolutely do.
Speaker 3: I'm rooting for him to win on this for reasons
Speaker 3: I was about to dive into. But you know, I'm
Speaker 3: looking back at the history of foreign policy, for instance.
Speaker 2: Well domestic policy too, for gonna sake. I mean, you
Speaker 2: got a hundred examples of this.
Speaker 1: Presidents who were good people mostly or you know, really
Speaker 1: just good people surrounded by really smart advisors who got
Speaker 1: policies through that they thought would work, and they did not.
Speaker 1: It happens all the time history. I mean, you could
Speaker 1: go in just the last twenty years of history, and
Speaker 1: there are too many examples to go through during a
Speaker 1: four hour program. Sometimes presidents are wrong because the world
Speaker 1: is complicated and the economy has a way of It's
Speaker 1: a lot like my hair, ladies, I suggest which direction
Speaker 1: ought to go, but it listens only some of the time.
Speaker 2: The economies like that too.
Speaker 1: Do you think, well, on nudget that way, it'll go
Speaker 1: that way, and it doesn't.
Speaker 2: So it's possible Trump's just flat wrong. I hope he's not.
Speaker 3: But I'm looking at some of these poll numbers and
Speaker 3: and and thinking about, you know, the conduct of his
Speaker 3: administration so far, and immigration has been a victory, so complete,
Speaker 3: so swift, so inspiring, it's practically without precedent. It's like
Speaker 3: if Lincoln won the Civil War in a month.
Speaker 1: Having said that, his numbers on immigration have really declined
Speaker 1: because and here's the Trump problem. You know the old
Speaker 1: saying that if you want to make an omelet, you
Speaker 1: gotta break a couple of eggs. You gotta break some eggs,
Speaker 1: which is true. Have you ever tried to make an
Speaker 1: omelet without breaking the eggs? They're they're horrible, very chewy.
Speaker 1: For one thing, the shell so much shell. Anyway, the
Speaker 1: problem with Trump is that if he's making a three
Speaker 1: egg omelet, he breaks seven eggs. He breaks some of
Speaker 1: the eggs that are in the carton. They're not part
Speaker 1: of the Why.
Speaker 2: Didn't you just not break those eggs?
Speaker 1: Here's the problem, ay, here, right now here, Boomber, you're
Speaker 1: a Reagan idiot. Rather I'll save you're writing your mark emails.
Speaker 1: I like that accent whatever that was. Anyway, Uh, here's
Speaker 1: the problem. Trump is doing magnificent stuff like this. This
Speaker 1: this judge in Wisconsin who I want to talk about,
Speaker 1: who's clearly guilty of obstructing justice and and she's gotten
Speaker 1: busted for it. If you don't know, the story will
Speaker 1: bring you up to speed.
Speaker 2: It's unbelievable.
Speaker 1: But so anyway, and the people on the left, that
Speaker 1: press and the Democrats, oh, this is Trump's will talk
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Speaker 1: the getting rid of the woke stuff.
Speaker 2: It's great, it's so good. I can't believe it.
Speaker 1: But if he breaks too many eggs that aren't going
Speaker 1: into the omelets, Republicans get murdered at the midterms, murdered,
Speaker 1: and all the good stuff stops. All that's left is
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Speaker 1: judiciary gets involved in it, and they should, so please
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Speaker 1: So Congress has been been becoming more and more irrelevant,
Speaker 1: term by term my whole adult life, and it just
Speaker 1: turbo speed this first one hundred days with Trump, and
Speaker 1: I don't know where this ends up. I mean, Congress
Speaker 1: is you know, your Article one's supposed to be the
Speaker 1: most powerful thing we got in our government and now
Speaker 1: they do nothing.
Speaker 2: Really But so nothing happened with Congress in the first
Speaker 2: one hundred days.
Speaker 1: All this great stuff that you know you're just touting
Speaker 1: is great, but sure wish would have been an attempt
Speaker 1: to craft some legislation and run it through and vote
Speaker 1: and turn it into law, so it would be very
Speaker 1: difficult to overturn. They haven't even tried to approve a
Speaker 1: single judge in the first one hundred days. No mine,
Speaker 1: no major legislation.
Speaker 2: Zero.
Speaker 1: So when you talk about the one hundred day mark
Speaker 1: comes from FDR. But his first one hundred days it
Speaker 1: was tons of legislation. It was all passing these laws,
Speaker 1: many of which we still unfortunately live with. But that's
Speaker 1: the advantage of passing a law. They stick around for
Speaker 1: a very long time, but just presidents don't do that anymore.
Speaker 1: And it's been going that direction and Trump just amplified
Speaker 1: that greatly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the engine of the country is supposed to be
Speaker 3: Congress Article one branch. As Jack pointed out, And.
Speaker 1: I was thinking about this the other day, Congress has
Speaker 1: become the kin to something like the Queen of England.
Speaker 1: It has ceremonial duties, right, and it shows up to uh,
Speaker 1: you know, verious ceremonies and then and we we respect it,
Speaker 1: and and they get together and and and do their
Speaker 1: their traditional things, but nothing ever.
Speaker 2: Comes of it. Yeah. It's not good.
Speaker 3: No, it's it's horrible, And you know, it's mostly horrible
Speaker 3: because someday, I'm told by historians, someday Democrats gonna win
Speaker 3: again and have the White House, and they're gonna go
Speaker 3: hog wild and pass all sorts of executive orders. In
Speaker 3: Congress having completely forgotten how to do anything.
Speaker 2: Is just gonna sit there and say, well.
Speaker 1: They'll just give speeches and raise money on Instagram. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we could be three years from all this stuff that
Speaker 1: happened in the first hundred days being turned back the
Speaker 1: other direction because it's be that easy to do mail
Speaker 1: bags on the way, a bunch of other stuff.
Speaker 2: Stay here breaking news. Maybe we'll get into more an
Speaker 2: hour two.
Speaker 1: Ukraine ready to sign landmark minerals deal with US today.
Speaker 1: I wonder if that's what Trump and Zelenski were talking
Speaker 1: about privately in those chairs of the Vatican. Look get disagreement.
Speaker 1: We're heavily invested. I think you know what that means.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'd love to talk about that, and
Speaker 1: we wish we shall stay tuned.
Speaker 3: Here's your freedom loving quote of the day, sent along
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Speaker 3: debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
Speaker 2: You suck. Trump is hitler.
Speaker 1: God, my son, my son demolished me three times in
Speaker 1: a row in chess last night. Oh did you slander him?
Speaker 2: And uh no?
Speaker 1: But he is a uh what's a sore winner.
Speaker 3: He's a show voter. Show voters get off his food supply.
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Speaker 2: You won't beating for a while for your show voting.
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Speaker 3: Correspondents on a number of different topics, but we'll lead
Speaker 3: with this one. Guys, why are we fighting to the
Speaker 3: gorilla's strengths? This is on our topic of could one
Speaker 3: hundred unarmed men defeat a gorilla in a fight, which
Speaker 3: we spent most of the show on yesterday. Probably, but
Speaker 3: it'd be a hell of a mess, is the answer.
Speaker 3: According to all, you'd have to be You'd have to
Speaker 3: find one hundred very motivated men, and I don't know
Speaker 3: how you would do that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Ta Trice. Humans are persistence hunters.
Speaker 1: You wear the gorilla down by getting it to constantly
Speaker 1: chase down different targets, goating it with the right timing
Speaker 1: so it doesn't ever reach anyone.
Speaker 2: Then it's exhausted. Bam.
Speaker 1: Well wait a minute. Gorillas can charge it twenty five
Speaker 1: miles per hour. I think, yeah, I think it would
Speaker 1: charge It would rip the heads off five guys, and
Speaker 1: then the.
Speaker 2: Other ninety five guys would say, let us out this stuff?
Speaker 2: What have we done?
Speaker 3: And then he points out we'll need thirty to forty
Speaker 3: sacrifices to determine the correct timing less if everyone's paying attention,
Speaker 3: then he writes, well, make that fifty sacrifices.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think people would be paying attention all right.
Speaker 1: Moving along, Chris on the topic of I'm sorry, it's
Speaker 1: a different email, burbank Luke writes on the topic of
Speaker 1: the Amazon alleged idea of showing on your price how
Speaker 1: much is a tariff charge?
Speaker 2: Which that's it's I have problems with that idea.
Speaker 1: I like it in spirit, but anyway, he says, I'd
Speaker 1: love to see you break down at taxes, tariff's fees,
Speaker 1: et cetera, at every point of sale, especially for gasoline.
Speaker 2: Burbank Luke clearly a Californian.
Speaker 3: I'm reminded of a convenience store owner in Cape Cod,
Speaker 3: Massachusetts in the seventies. That's two fifty seven for the
Speaker 3: comic books and thirteen cents for the governor.
Speaker 1: He would say to all his customers. He did this
Speaker 1: all day with every customer.
Speaker 3: He's probably salty about Docacas raising the sales tax from
Speaker 3: three to five percent. I was a kid and didn't
Speaker 3: appreciate the business man like I do now. I just
Speaker 3: came across another guy doing the same thing right here
Speaker 3: in the people's republic.
Speaker 2: Yeah, portion out the taxes. I think that'd be great.
Speaker 3: And fees and everything else. Help people understand where their
Speaker 3: money is going.
Speaker 1: Let's see on the topic of the UH thirty million,
Speaker 1: sixty eighty million dollar air aircraft falling off the aircraft
Speaker 1: carrier sixty to seventy depending on who the acts and
Speaker 1: if you get the better stereo. Yeah, exactly, as you've had,
Speaker 1: no doubt a zillion listeners inform you.
Speaker 3: We actually haven't shown. But the nuclear carrier is extremely fast.
Speaker 1: It is important to be able to swiftly generate a
Speaker 1: headwind while launching fighters for the lift that provides. That's
Speaker 1: a great point, show, But I did not know that,
Speaker 1: but I believe it. But can it turn on such
Speaker 1: a dime that it would cause a plane to fall.
Speaker 2: Off the side?
Speaker 1: Patience? My lad Robert writes, guys, I'm a retired O.
Speaker 1: His topic is do everything turn turn turn? Well played,
Speaker 1: my friend, I'm a retired marine. One of the most
Speaker 1: spectacular things I've seen was watching the aircraft carrier making
Speaker 1: an emergency turn. It had every appearance of a hard
Speaker 1: ninety degree turn. You see a stunt driver perform in
Speaker 1: a car now.
Speaker 3: I was at some distance on the USS Bonholm Richard Richard,
Speaker 3: which famously caught on fire in San Diego. Will it's
Speaker 3: lit on fire by trees in a sailor. But the
Speaker 3: agility of US aircraft carriers is a sight to see.
Speaker 3: Could the loss of an aircraft be because of a
Speaker 3: hard turn with other factors at play?
Speaker 2: Maybe?
Speaker 3: I don't know anybody serve on a carrier like to
Speaker 3: that boy. We've got great notes on anger in Canada,
Speaker 3: on kids' library books and the woke books being shut
Speaker 3: down their throats, and much much more.
Speaker 1: That's all good stuff, and if you miss an hour
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Speaker 1: haven't heard about that, I'm sure there'll be analysis throughout
Speaker 1: the day. The economy is actually shrinking first quarter, first time.
Speaker 1: I look great, Crazy Wisconsin Judge is going to be
Speaker 1: behind bars and deserves it.
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