WEBVTT - Ma'am... A Coyote Ate Fluffy 0:00:10.080 --> 0:00:15.320 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:15.440 --> 0:00:20.520 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong. 0:00:20.040 --> 0:00:33.080 And Geckie and he arms wrong yet I'm from Studio 0:00:33.280 --> 0:00:35.280 C C Signor. 0:00:35.720 --> 0:00:38.960 It is a dimly lit room deeper than the bowels 0:00:39.000 --> 0:00:44.199 of the Armstrong and Getty Communications compound. And hey, y'all, 0:00:44.280 --> 0:00:47.640 today we are toiling under the tutelage of our general. 0:00:47.280 --> 0:00:49.320 Manager the economy. 0:00:50.760 --> 0:00:54.640 I was gonna go with Chinese manufacturers because they're hurting 0:00:54.720 --> 0:00:58.520 for certain holy calpa. Then the economic numbers for the 0:00:58.600 --> 0:01:00.640 US came out and that was a bit of an 0:01:00.640 --> 0:01:01.920 oof as well. 0:01:03.440 --> 0:01:04.960 So here you go, ladies and gentlemen. 0:01:05.120 --> 0:01:09.479 The first quarter of the United States GDP shrunk by 0:01:09.520 --> 0:01:12.160 point three percent. We went negative, We went backwards point 0:01:12.200 --> 0:01:14.679 three percent, barely, but we went backwards. And usually you're 0:01:14.720 --> 0:01:18.800 hoping for like three four percent positive. So it's not 0:01:18.959 --> 0:01:22.600 just so it's backwards, it's it's a good four percent 0:01:22.640 --> 0:01:23.480 below where you'd. 0:01:23.319 --> 0:01:25.640 Like to be. Yeah, it's solidly in reverse. 0:01:25.720 --> 0:01:29.759 And that was before quote unquote Liberation Day in early 0:01:29.880 --> 0:01:30.639 this month. 0:01:31.280 --> 0:01:33.600 Right, So I guess the analysis will be how much 0:01:33.680 --> 0:01:36.319 this has anything to do with Trump? Since he took 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:40.240 over January twentieth, and this is the first quarter January, 0:01:40.280 --> 0:01:41.200 February March. 0:01:42.440 --> 0:01:47.840 But uh, yeah, that's it's not great. It's not great. Yeah. 0:01:48.200 --> 0:01:52.440 Anybody who denies that there is rampant uncertainty in the 0:01:52.480 --> 0:01:56.120 air around the globe is a liar. Now, whether this 0:01:56.200 --> 0:01:57.680 is merely a period. 0:01:57.320 --> 0:02:02.600 Of uncertainty followed by the greatest American century ever or 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:05.320 the Golden Age or what have you, or it's just 0:02:05.360 --> 0:02:07.920 a mistake that needs to be rectified as quickly as possible. 0:02:08.000 --> 0:02:08.840 It depends who you ask. 0:02:09.120 --> 0:02:12.200 I believe though, that beats expectations, at least all the 0:02:12.280 --> 0:02:20.800 expectations I had read, not my expectations, buddy. So yeah, 0:02:20.919 --> 0:02:24.119 and then the whole anyway, more on that later. Hans 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:26.520 and I just got into a conversation about next door. 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:27.760 Are you on next door. 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:28.920 For your neighborhood? Uh? 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:31.520 I used to pay that's funny, that's what he said. 0:02:31.560 --> 0:02:35.400 That's what lots of people say. Oh yeah, people for 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:36.079 the same reasons. 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:39.000 Are you on next door? Michael? I know my wife 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:40.200 loves it, though, loves it. 0:02:40.520 --> 0:02:42.720 Yeah, she gets tips from you know, like we were 0:02:42.720 --> 0:02:45.519 looking for an ac guy, so she'll asking around and 0:02:45.560 --> 0:02:47.200 stuff like that Katie. 0:02:47.320 --> 0:02:49.400 On it, You're on it. 0:02:49.400 --> 0:02:54.480 It varies hood by hood, sure, according to the demographics 0:02:54.480 --> 0:02:56.520 of the people involved in age. 0:02:57.720 --> 0:03:01.440 Hanson's thing was, I don't want to know their political 0:03:01.440 --> 0:03:02.480 opinions over there. 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:04.040 I like them, we get along well. 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:05.880 I don't want to hear I don't want to read 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:08.400 their opinions on some issue. 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:09.720 And there is a lot of that. 0:03:09.760 --> 0:03:12.000 It's like, is it because you don't have your own 0:03:12.080 --> 0:03:14.000 talk show or something that you just feel like, you 0:03:14.040 --> 0:03:16.280 know what I think of Trump's first hundred days? Why 0:03:16.280 --> 0:03:18.240 are you putting this on next door? This is for 0:03:18.320 --> 0:03:20.720 lost cats? And hey, I found a good you know, 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:22.320 air conditioner repairment. 0:03:22.480 --> 0:03:25.480 Right exactly, And you know it's I always feel slightly 0:03:25.520 --> 0:03:29.440 guilty pitching. The idea is that you know, you don't 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:32.200 need to tell everybody what you think, since I do 0:03:32.240 --> 0:03:35.000 it for a living. But on the other hand, I don't, 0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:38.200 you know, go around treating people's illnesses because I'm not 0:03:38.280 --> 0:03:40.520 a doctor and nobody wants me touching them. 0:03:40.800 --> 0:03:42.280 So stay in your lane. 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:46.920 You know, I get the urge, trust me, I do, 0:03:47.560 --> 0:03:51.160 But you are alienating far more people than you are, 0:03:51.880 --> 0:03:57.240 you know, enlightening or or or impressing. In fact, and 0:03:58.640 --> 0:04:02.119 this is the part that's often left out. People are 0:04:02.240 --> 0:04:06.640 are often annoyed very much by people they agree with. 0:04:08.080 --> 0:04:09.320 It's not just the people. 0:04:09.080 --> 0:04:12.000 Who disagree with you that are annoyed, it's I don't 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:15.520 need people spouting off about politics in my like my 0:04:15.840 --> 0:04:17.320 golf group. 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:20.279 What do you get out of it, Katie? What do 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:21.360 you like about next door? 0:04:21.839 --> 0:04:24.200 Kind of the same thing that Michael's wife does. I 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:27.800 just you know, if I'm looking for tips for housework 0:04:27.960 --> 0:04:30.080 or you know, lost pets and whatnot. 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:34.520 Yeah, there's a lot of sadness, like tremendous sadness. Uh really, 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:38.120 I feel remember that there's there's just you know, I 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:39.719 don't know who they are, but there are a couple 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:41.640 of blocks over and they got you know, a nineteen 0:04:41.680 --> 0:04:44.200 year old cat. It's dying leukemi and they can't afford it, 0:04:44.279 --> 0:04:46.000 and they're not dying themselves. 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:49.400 It's just I want too much, too much sadness. 0:04:50.600 --> 0:04:54.279 And finally drove me away was the does anybody know 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:56.320 who drives that red car? 0:04:56.760 --> 0:05:00.400 It's very loud, yeah, because we were we were. 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:05.159 Adjacent to like a retirement community, and it was very 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:08.599 much if you're into classic TV, A forum for missus 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:11.760 Kravitz types, those who had just watched the neighborhood and 0:05:12.080 --> 0:05:16.160 look for fault or missteps or violations of the HOA 0:05:16.360 --> 0:05:19.920 rules or whatever, just never ending. Yeah, there is a 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:22.440 lot of to the high school kid who drove by 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:25.880 me today, you were way too close to the bike lane, 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:27.560 you know, sort of like. 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:32.719 Yeah, hey, that's a legit concern. High school kid's not 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:33.440 reading it. 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:36.080 There's one video that got posted the other day from 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:39.040 a ring doorbell that somebody was outraged they got doorbell 0:05:39.160 --> 0:05:41.800 ditched at about six pm and they were. 0:05:41.880 --> 0:05:44.200 This is your kid, My. 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:48.440 God, if I catched them, I won't be held responsible 0:05:48.680 --> 0:05:49.400 for what I do. 0:05:50.480 --> 0:05:52.039 I found it interesting. 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:57.880 Emotionally that, like, in general, if there is a you know, 0:05:57.920 --> 0:06:00.160 a crime wave going through your neighborhood, you'd like to 0:06:00.400 --> 0:06:03.440 know about that, because that happens sometimes where you know, 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:05.200 people come in from outside of town and they go 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:07.600 neighborhood by neighborhood, and if that's happening, it'd be good 0:06:07.600 --> 0:06:10.480 to know about. But then, but then there's just apparently 0:06:11.600 --> 0:06:14.120 general malfeasance that happens in in the middle of night, 0:06:14.240 --> 0:06:16.440 always has, always will that you don't know about. 0:06:16.520 --> 0:06:18.800 And I feel like I'm better off not knowing about it. 0:06:18.920 --> 0:06:24.400 Being alerted to every tiny thing that happens overnight makes 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:25.280 you paranoid. 0:06:25.560 --> 0:06:27.400 And I assume it's always been that way. 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:32.599 So why was there yelling at eleven thirty last night? 0:06:32.720 --> 0:06:36.120 That's far past the time people should be yelling in public. 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:38.960 Somebody was messing with my trash cans at two am. 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:42.080 I could hear them. Oh right, I guess maybe it 0:06:42.120 --> 0:06:46.080 was a cat. I don't know, really needs moderating. It 0:06:46.120 --> 0:06:49.800 was right around speaking of cats. For that job, that'd 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:51.799 be a fun job, be the moderator for your local 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:53.000 next door. 0:06:53.240 --> 0:06:58.440 Oh man, speaking of cats, there was a there were 0:06:58.560 --> 0:07:00.480 several cat. 0:07:00.600 --> 0:07:05.000 Fluffy was out in the backyard last night around sunset 0:07:05.200 --> 0:07:06.480 and she's lost. 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:08.200 She's white and has a pink rib. 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:10.280 And there are several of these and I wanted to 0:07:10.280 --> 0:07:13.880 write them all, ma'am a coyote eight Fluffy because he's dead. 0:07:15.640 --> 0:07:18.520 Because that was absolutely You got people in the foothills 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:21.760 of this year and event in California with outdoor cats. 0:07:21.800 --> 0:07:23.520 I wondered what happened to their cat. I'll tell you 0:07:23.520 --> 0:07:25.160 what happened to your cat. A coyote ate. 0:07:25.120 --> 0:07:27.840 It, ma'am, a coyote ate your cat. Your cat is 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:31.360 dead dead, Yes it's Michael. 0:07:32.160 --> 0:07:34.120 Yeah, we lost a cat or two to coyotes. 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:39.360 Yeah, yeah, I again, the political opinions just surprised me. 0:07:39.440 --> 0:07:43.080 I just it's the maybe this is a public service 0:07:43.200 --> 0:07:49.640 to those of you listening. You gotta tread really lightly 0:07:49.720 --> 0:07:52.720 on sharing political opinions. It's just this, man, there's a 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:53.560 time and a place. 0:07:54.040 --> 0:07:55.960 Yeah, and not everybody agrees with you. 0:07:56.040 --> 0:07:58.440 So if you jump in with a if you care 0:07:58.480 --> 0:08:01.440 about your school for your kids, then you need to 0:08:01.520 --> 0:08:05.720 vote this way on H and and here's why. Okay, 0:08:06.040 --> 0:08:07.960 you know, I'm sure you feel passionate about it, but man, 0:08:07.960 --> 0:08:11.680 you're gonna alienate more friends than good you do in 0:08:11.760 --> 0:08:14.320 terms of convincing people to vote in my opp Although 0:08:14.360 --> 0:08:17.440 the argument is you just put it, I could take 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:21.200 it's the argument that presumes everybody agrees with me, and 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:24.320 it's only some weird lunatics that I'm not familiar with 0:08:24.360 --> 0:08:29.800 who could possibly disagree. You know, h if you love children, right, 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:32.600 you know that sort of thing. Yeah, what's the what's 0:08:32.640 --> 0:08:37.800 the perfect comparison? He's dead, Fluffy is dead, ma'am. 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:40.720 You got two choices, get a new cat or not 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:42.679 have a cat. Fluffy is dead. 0:08:44.559 --> 0:08:47.839 Here tell me this, and Katie Michael, please feel free 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:56.160 to weigh in. Political opinions are like medical symptoms. They're 0:08:56.200 --> 0:08:58.719 not to be brought up in most settings. 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:02.560 Yeah, as you would if you would not bring up 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:06.640 your medical symptom. I mean, if you would not say, boy, 0:09:06.720 --> 0:09:11.559 my gums are bleeding a lot, look at this sore 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:14.080 com Yeah, if you would not post a picture of 0:09:14.120 --> 0:09:17.920 your lesion. Don't you know, hit people with your political views. 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:23.800 I am staunchly in favor of political activism, political communication, involvement, 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:25.560 forming of groups. 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:28.160 That's being running for the school, all that stuff. 0:09:28.240 --> 0:09:30.520 Sure, that is fine. You got to realize you're weighing 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:32.839 into it. I don't think most people realize they're weaying 0:09:32.840 --> 0:09:35.760 into it in the way that they are. I think 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:38.880 they feel like there's a no cost to firing that 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:39.600 stuff off. 0:09:40.400 --> 0:09:42.960 Uh, yes, I would agree. Yeah. Facebook is infamous for it. 0:09:43.600 --> 0:09:46.560 How many people just roll their eyes and keep scrolling 0:09:46.679 --> 0:09:49.760 at their old friends who just badger them with politics 0:09:49.800 --> 0:09:50.319 all the time. 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:53.400 Let's start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:57.240 Getty on this. It is Wednesday, April thirtieth, with a 0:09:57.320 --> 0:10:00.560 shrinking economy, you're twenty twenty five, where arms and getting 0:10:00.640 --> 0:10:01.680 We approve of this program. 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:05.080 Let's begin officially then, according to SEC rules and regulations. 0:10:05.080 --> 0:10:07.520 So much to talk about, we'll talk about it at Mark. 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:08.600 We've opened up. 0:10:08.480 --> 0:10:12.079 Your faucets, and we've opened up especially me. I don't 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:15.000 like taking a shower where the water goes drip, drip, 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:16.040 drip onto. 0:10:15.840 --> 0:10:20.040 My luxuriant air. I need a lot of water. I 0:10:20.120 --> 0:10:21.640 need everything I can get. 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:27.880 Is this really happening or am I still asleep and 0:10:27.920 --> 0:10:30.280 I'm dreaming? So Trump I did a big rally last night. 0:10:30.320 --> 0:10:34.559 We got a few headlines from that and more from 0:10:34.640 --> 0:10:37.320 an interview. He did a big, long set down on 0:10:37.440 --> 0:10:39.920 ABC News with Terry Moran, which you at one point 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:41.920 says I'd never heard of you and I can see why, 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:50.160 or something like oh no, oh god, that's funny. Anyway, 0:10:50.200 --> 0:10:52.400 you got two choices, a new cat or no cat. 0:10:52.480 --> 0:10:53.240 But those are your. 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:58.800 Two choices, according to Joe Fluffy's Soul Rest in Peace. 0:11:02.360 --> 0:11:04.400 Katie's got her headlines, we got mail bag, We've got 0:11:04.400 --> 0:11:05.080 more news of the day. 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:05.600 Stay here. 0:11:09.000 --> 0:11:11.320 So we mentioned the GDP numbers are out and we're 0:11:12.600 --> 0:11:17.720 the negative actually shrank and that's the first time since 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:21.040 COVID that we've shrank, and then it was quite a 0:11:21.040 --> 0:11:23.360 while before that, so that doesn't happen very. 0:11:23.280 --> 0:11:27.839 Often, No, indeed, and it depends what expectations you looked at, 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:30.560 whether this was significantly worse than expectations or not. 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:33.800 But it's not good. There's no. 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:38.880 Solid reason the economy should be shrinking, honestly. 0:11:38.679 --> 0:11:41.920 And then that sets us up for the traditional definition 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:46.720 of a recession to shrinking quarters in a row. Yeah, yeah, 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:51.760 And again this was before Trump launched the confusing abortive, 0:11:51.840 --> 0:11:57.040 chaotic mutual tariff thing with the charts and all. There 0:11:57.080 --> 0:12:02.439 was some anticipatory uncertainty leading up to that hostility with China. 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:04.280 But we'll have to see how it all plays out. 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:07.600 I mean, meanwhile, as we always point out, I am 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:08.600 not the economy. 0:12:09.000 --> 0:12:12.199 I still have a paycheck. I am not in recession, 0:12:12.960 --> 0:12:15.280 and neither is anybody else. So let's let's. 0:12:15.040 --> 0:12:17.960 All keep cool here, all right, Let's figure out who's 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:18.360 reporting what. 0:12:18.400 --> 0:12:19.640 It's the lead story. It's Katie Green. 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:23.760 Katie hit it all right, starting with ABC, Trump marks 0:12:23.800 --> 0:12:27.200 one hundred days with campaign style rally. 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:32.720 Yeah, there was reporting that he was really like restless 0:12:32.720 --> 0:12:34.760 in the White House, and itching to get back out there. 0:12:35.000 --> 0:12:37.559 He's almost freaking eighty years old. 0:12:38.280 --> 0:12:40.160 Yeah, a lot of people who are almost eighty years 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:44.160 old are itching to sit on their chair all day long, 0:12:44.360 --> 0:12:46.400 not getting up and stand in front of a crowd 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:49.439 for an hour and a half and riff ad lib. 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:55.760 From CNN a quote pissed Trump called Jeff Bezos after 0:12:55.840 --> 0:12:59.520 learning Amazon considered breaking out a tariff charge. 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:02.520 Interesting story that played out while we were on the 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:04.959 are yesterday. The news broke that Amazon was going to 0:13:05.000 --> 0:13:09.079 put a little blurb and when you paid for things, 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:11.680 this is how much was the tariffs. Trump got wind 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:15.720 of it, hated it, personally called Jeff Bezos, to which 0:13:15.720 --> 0:13:18.920 it sounds like Jeff Bezos said, oh no, it's a misunderstanding. 0:13:18.920 --> 0:13:20.920 We weren't planning on doing that at all, which either 0:13:21.000 --> 0:13:21.920 is or isn't true. 0:13:22.120 --> 0:13:24.720 But if I said it was one department's idea, it 0:13:24.800 --> 0:13:28.040 was never going to be implemented. Please he's doney boy, 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:29.679 which again may or may not be true. 0:13:29.679 --> 0:13:32.120 But you've got a hot trophy wife. I've got a 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:33.319 hot trophy wife. 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:36.440 Come on now, that's not fine. 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:40.400 From The New York Times, President Trump says he could 0:13:40.440 --> 0:13:43.400 bring back wrongly deported man, but won't. 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:47.080 Yeah, well, we'll play that. Excerpt from the ABC interview 0:13:47.160 --> 0:13:47.559 last night. 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:53.360 Now the important news, Jack from NBC Bill Belichick's girlfriend, 0:13:53.520 --> 0:13:57.760 Jordan Hudson, Post's coach email about book promotion. 0:13:58.240 --> 0:14:00.760 Yeah, we had that yesterday, so exactly sure what a 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:03.600 point was there after the dust stuff over the weekend. 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:07.480 This this has the potential to be a great, little 0:14:07.960 --> 0:14:12.200 good distraction soap opera to follow. Does this have the 0:14:12.280 --> 0:14:15.200 potential land up in a homicide investigation? 0:14:15.320 --> 0:14:16.839 No, no, No, it's not gonna be on. 0:14:16.880 --> 0:14:19.840 There're weird dynamics at work here. Jack, It's not gonna 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:23.960 be on dateline. I don't think, is it. But and 0:14:24.040 --> 0:14:26.320 the young hotty fifty year age difference. 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:29.760 That's it's a good story, which reminds me there might 0:14:29.800 --> 0:14:32.600 be a new break in the crime of the century, 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:34.840 the kidnapping of the Lindenberg baby. 0:14:35.400 --> 0:14:37.800 Read's right, the crime of last century. 0:14:37.880 --> 0:14:39.640 Wow, I thought you're gonna go John Benet, but you 0:14:39.680 --> 0:14:41.640 went way one hundred years before that. 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:46.080 Yes, stay tuned. From the Washington Post. 0:14:46.560 --> 0:14:51.200 Ups set to lay off twenty thousand workers as it 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:53.200 reduces business with Amazon. 0:14:55.040 --> 0:14:55.600 That's a lot. 0:14:56.000 --> 0:14:58.880 Yeah, so Amazon's delivery they're doing their own deliveries now 0:14:59.040 --> 0:15:02.040 don trucks. Is that the big difference. Yep, they drive 0:15:02.080 --> 0:15:04.840 too fast. All you Amazon drivers drive way to flip 0:15:04.840 --> 0:15:06.200 and fast through the neighborhood. 0:15:06.880 --> 0:15:09.160 Well, they would tell you, well, go ahead, Katie. 0:15:09.040 --> 0:15:10.960 I was gonna say, and quit parking in the middle. 0:15:10.720 --> 0:15:13.160 Of the street, right man. That's the yeah. 0:15:13.360 --> 0:15:15.240 And they just they just like to shut off their 0:15:15.320 --> 0:15:20.160 vehicle wherever they want to. Yeah, they would respond to you, well, 0:15:20.200 --> 0:15:24.040 we're giving an in We're given an insane a schedule, 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:25.880 and if we're not on time, we get yelled at 0:15:25.960 --> 0:15:28.760 or fired or whatever, to which Amazon would then reply, no. 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:29.160 We don't. 0:15:29.160 --> 0:15:31.560 It's a perfectly reasonable schedule, and you can walk to 0:15:31.640 --> 0:15:33.960 and from your truck and still do your deliveries, to 0:15:34.000 --> 0:15:34.720 which they would. 0:15:34.560 --> 0:15:38.200 Reply again, bull crap. That's an interesting topic. 0:15:38.520 --> 0:15:41.840 The most dangerous driver in my neighborhood on almost any 0:15:41.840 --> 0:15:44.280 given day is either the ups or Amazon guy. 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:45.800 That shouldn't be m. 0:15:46.320 --> 0:15:50.960 Are ups guys, very courteous. Your results may vary. 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:57.120 From Breitbart, Robert de Niro's son comes out as transgender 0:15:57.200 --> 0:15:58.960 woman at age twenty nine. 0:15:59.120 --> 0:16:01.920 I saw that pretty effeminate looking. 0:16:01.720 --> 0:16:05.880 Dude from the New York You do you, sir. 0:16:07.440 --> 0:16:11.160 From the New York post Man con tracks a shocking 0:16:11.360 --> 0:16:15.000 skin disease from wearing thrifted clothing. 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:18.800 Wash it first. 0:16:19.080 --> 0:16:23.640 Yes, I've worn a lot of either thrifted or ebaye 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:26.600 used clothes lots, but yeah, you. 0:16:26.760 --> 0:16:27.400 Wash them first. 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:31.400 Yeah, this looks like shingles all over his face. 0:16:31.520 --> 0:16:33.160 Oh fishing. 0:16:35.080 --> 0:16:40.560 And finally, from the Babylon b wife beginning to suspect 0:16:40.760 --> 0:16:44.680 husband's thoughtful relevant responses to her text messages might be 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:45.720 AI generating. 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:52.520 Yeah, I don't do underwear socks or T shirts. 0:16:52.840 --> 0:16:54.320 Oh, thrifted underwear. 0:16:57.720 --> 0:16:59.840 I know how much money you make. I hope you're 0:16:59.880 --> 0:17:05.000 not buying used underwear. Be good to yourself, treat yourself. 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:07.800 You for I don't buy used under said I'm not 0:17:07.960 --> 0:17:10.159 buying used underwear. I don't the the fact that you 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:12.320 would even bring it up, that the fact that it's 0:17:12.359 --> 0:17:13.320 crossed your mind. 0:17:13.400 --> 0:17:18.080 Apparently. How about the socks more news of the day. 0:17:18.119 --> 0:17:23.600 No, not socks either, Oh wow, Armstrong and Getty. 0:17:25.040 --> 0:17:27.720 I think maybe the border is the most significant because 0:17:27.800 --> 0:17:30.840 our country was really going bad. They were allowing people 0:17:30.880 --> 0:17:33.680 to come in from prisons, and now it's totally closed down. 0:17:33.800 --> 0:17:38.959 And you've seen just yesterday the Ann's ninety nine. Nobody 0:17:38.960 --> 0:17:39.840 thought that could happen. 0:17:40.440 --> 0:17:43.879 So that is from the ABC interview that aired last 0:17:43.960 --> 0:17:46.240 night in prime time. The question was what do you 0:17:46.240 --> 0:17:48.400 think your biggest accomplishment in the first one hundred days, 0:17:48.400 --> 0:17:51.480 and he said the border, which is almost certainly true 0:17:51.760 --> 0:17:55.920 according to everyone. We've got more that coming up later, 0:17:55.960 --> 0:17:58.600 including his exchange about Pete Hegseeth, which I thought was 0:17:58.680 --> 0:18:02.640 really interesting and like classic, that's why Trump is who 0:18:02.680 --> 0:18:06.560 he is, indifferent than other people, with a very honest, 0:18:06.600 --> 0:18:09.320 I thought, relatable answer. But anyway, more on that later. 0:18:10.320 --> 0:18:12.240 Yeah, just to drill down a little bit into some 0:18:12.280 --> 0:18:18.240 of the economic stuff. You need to separate China from 0:18:18.359 --> 0:18:21.600 everywhere else if you're gonna be talking tariffs and the 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:24.880 wisdom or efficacy what Trump is doing. Those are two 0:18:24.920 --> 0:18:30.280 completely different questions. Friends and allies, and then China. We 0:18:30.320 --> 0:18:32.320 ought to be in a trade war with China, or 0:18:32.359 --> 0:18:35.040 at least we ought to be, in my opinion, making 0:18:35.080 --> 0:18:40.280 significant moves toward becoming much more independent from China in 0:18:40.560 --> 0:18:43.680 all manufacturing, honestly, because we don't know when the bottom 0:18:43.760 --> 0:18:46.400 is gonna drop out relations wise, Yeah, before the almost 0:18:46.400 --> 0:18:48.400 inevitable probably war war. 0:18:48.280 --> 0:18:53.280 Happens, Aikrambah, Yeah, you're not wrong not to mention. Well, 0:18:53.320 --> 0:19:00.280 here's a special case within a special case, pharmaceuticals, computer chips, 0:19:00.800 --> 0:19:05.680 other technologies that we need for our self defense that 0:19:05.720 --> 0:19:08.400 we bizarrely are. 0:19:09.760 --> 0:19:12.800 Dependent on China for. I mean, it's just a terrible idea. 0:19:13.200 --> 0:19:16.280 So that's a no brainer, as they say, although apparently 0:19:16.320 --> 0:19:18.360 we lost our brain for an extended period of time 0:19:18.359 --> 0:19:20.920 because here we are dependent on them. But anyway, so 0:19:21.400 --> 0:19:26.320 the high high tariffs against China, which are a precursor 0:19:26.400 --> 0:19:30.440 to Trump I suspect fashioning a much more reasonable deal 0:19:31.320 --> 0:19:35.440 that will accomplish some level of decoupling and yet not 0:19:35.560 --> 0:19:38.000 you know, blow up the economy, is having a hell 0:19:38.040 --> 0:19:42.280 of an effect on China. China's economy showed its first 0:19:42.320 --> 0:19:45.080 big signs of damage from the trade wars. Steep US 0:19:45.119 --> 0:19:49.119 tariffs pummeled export orders and production at the country's factories. 0:19:49.600 --> 0:19:52.919 A gauge of new export orders fell this month to 0:19:53.000 --> 0:19:57.719 its lowest reading since COVID nineteen was ravaging China in 0:19:57.800 --> 0:20:01.600 twenty twenty two, while overall manufacturing activity in China was 0:20:01.600 --> 0:20:06.520 the weakest in more than a year. So that's going 0:20:06.560 --> 0:20:09.480 to add pressure on hijin Ping to reach a deal 0:20:09.680 --> 0:20:13.080 with on trade with Trump, but for now they are 0:20:13.119 --> 0:20:17.680 still making belligerent to chest beating noises over in Beijing. 0:20:19.080 --> 0:20:22.640 So is this a who blinks first sort of situation? 0:20:25.160 --> 0:20:25.400 Yeah? 0:20:25.440 --> 0:20:28.720 I suspect very strongly that back channel negotiations are going on, 0:20:29.920 --> 0:20:32.520 or lower level negotiations. 0:20:32.560 --> 0:20:34.720 Says they are, and she says they absolutely are not. 0:20:35.400 --> 0:20:38.359 So I don't know which is true. Yeah, very odd. 0:20:38.440 --> 0:20:39.560 I can't figure that one out. 0:20:39.680 --> 0:20:41.920 But in a social media post earlier this week, the 0:20:42.040 --> 0:20:44.760 Chinese government urged other countries not to submit to US 0:20:44.760 --> 0:20:51.760 pressure and said China will quote never kneel down before Washington. Still, 0:20:51.840 --> 0:20:54.800 that's they're they're really hurting into China. 0:20:55.000 --> 0:20:55.520 Glad to hear it. 0:20:55.640 --> 0:20:59.200 Yeah good, they're dirty commis, they have slaves, they're they're 0:20:59.240 --> 0:21:01.720 one of the most racist cultures on earth. They're bent 0:21:01.800 --> 0:21:05.199 on world domination and then dominating every human being on 0:21:05.240 --> 0:21:06.720 earth and enslaving them. 0:21:07.280 --> 0:21:10.000 So boo, they're the bad guys. 0:21:11.040 --> 0:21:14.920 Trade war uncertainty prompts wave of companies to yank forecasts. 0:21:14.960 --> 0:21:17.560 Headline from the Wall Street Journal mentioned this yesterday. I 0:21:17.560 --> 0:21:20.080 think we were just talking about GM that said it 0:21:20.119 --> 0:21:22.520 might have been one other, but they said, you know, 0:21:22.600 --> 0:21:24.840 that forecast we put out a few months ago that 0:21:24.880 --> 0:21:27.320 we're going to have eight percent growth and profits around 0:21:27.359 --> 0:21:30.199 this Well, we have no idea what they're going to 0:21:30.240 --> 0:21:33.440 be now, so please chuck that in the garbage can. 0:21:34.119 --> 0:21:36.360 New poll shows that more than eighty. 0:21:36.040 --> 0:21:39.080