Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm Strong
Speaker 1: and Jetty and now he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 2: So you, Penn has stripped Leah Thomas of his titles
Speaker 2: in women's swimming and apologized to the ladies he defeated.
Speaker 2: Thomas hasn't complained further, proving he's not a woman.
Speaker 3: I didn't see that joke coming. So Penn State took
Speaker 3: the menpen.
Speaker 1: University of Pennsylvanca.
Speaker 3: That's how I thought it was. It's just Penn State
Speaker 3: on our clip, so I got confused. But iron bastards.
Speaker 3: Uh sorry, that was harsh.
Speaker 4: You folks. That he's my friends and look at it.
Speaker 4: I can't. I'm so sorry, Michael Vanston, I'm kids.
Speaker 1: These are my friends. And I turned on the like
Speaker 1: some sort of crazed in a wolverine. It hurt.
Speaker 3: But the But the same university who allowed this for
Speaker 3: several years in the face of criticism, has now taken
Speaker 3: and and and brow beat and threatened any of the
Speaker 3: women who spoke out against it. Yes, well, I guess
Speaker 3: I should be happy that it ended up where it should.
Speaker 1: Have should be.
Speaker 3: But how cowardly are you? I mean, do you have
Speaker 3: any principles at all? So when the wind was blowing
Speaker 3: your direction, you let this nonsense occur, and then when
Speaker 3: the wind shifted, you go one hundred.
Speaker 1: And eighty full degrees. Yeah, wow, that's weak.
Speaker 4: Well, they were under serious Title line threat from the
Speaker 4: Trump administration, which is good. It's absolutely one hundred percent
Speaker 4: ironclad correct. If you let dudes into women's sports, whoop
Speaker 4: up on them, you're not protecting women's rights. Oh and
Speaker 4: letting the dudes into their private spaces too. It's an
Speaker 4: outrage against Title nine.
Speaker 1: A couple of things.
Speaker 3: I'm going through my notes from being on vacation for
Speaker 3: a week, and just a lot of different things I
Speaker 3: took notes on. I didn't follow the news that closely
Speaker 3: in New York, though, I kept coming across a little
Speaker 3: stuff about Mamdani, who had been the socialist Jew hating
Speaker 3: most likely to be mayor of New York. Guy, I
Speaker 3: remember that story. The op ed stuff, the oppo research
Speaker 3: stuff is starting to come out. Remember I mentioned this
Speaker 3: before we went on vacation, that Mark Alpern was shocked
Speaker 3: that the mainstream media did not do a better job
Speaker 3: of getting into the apple research of this guy, and
Speaker 3: now some of it's starting to come out, things that
Speaker 3: they'd tweeted and said and videos he participated in this
Speaker 3: sort of stuff. But one of the things over the
Speaker 3: weekend was he had checked. He was accurate. He wasn't lying,
Speaker 3: but it's he knew what he was doing. He had
Speaker 3: checked the box African American when he applied for college
Speaker 3: his Ivy League application. He's from Uganda. But you know,
Speaker 3: the whole getting a leg up for being African American
Speaker 3: was not for white Ugandans was not the regional point.
Speaker 3: So there's a fair amount of blowback I guess in
Speaker 3: the African American community that he tried to get various
Speaker 3: breaks for being African American.
Speaker 1: You see, So what is his deal? Was his dad?
Speaker 4: His dad was a white Ugandan and his mom was
Speaker 4: what from he was born in Syria.
Speaker 1: I can't even something like that. Yeah he comes from
Speaker 1: you know, like.
Speaker 3: Humanities professors and artist parents that sort of thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, But.
Speaker 3: Anyway, so I don't know if there's gonna be enough, Damagy,
Speaker 3: you gotta have another candidate to beat him. So that
Speaker 3: seems like the main problem. Although does Eric Adams end
Speaker 3: up being the guy, and they.
Speaker 4: There are fever pitch meetings going on as we speak
Speaker 4: trying to figure out who is the one candidate, Probably
Speaker 4: not old Gropie, probably not the half wit incumbent.
Speaker 3: They got to find somebody else, not my circus, not
Speaker 3: my monkeys. So I'm not that concerned about it. I
Speaker 3: don't live in New York, but I think most people
Speaker 3: on the right think having this guy around as a
Speaker 3: punching bag would be awesome.
Speaker 4: For questions further my goal of enacting progressive policies so
Speaker 4: people see what miserable failures they are. You got Daniel Lurie,
Speaker 4: the mayor of San Francisco, who's is saying great stuff
Speaker 4: and doing great things. And you know, as he said,
Speaker 4: I'm paraphrasing, but enough of the fees and the wannabe
Speaker 4: do gooders that we didn't need to go with things
Speaker 4: that work.
Speaker 1: What an amazing philosophy that is.
Speaker 3: Again, going through my notes from when I was gone,
Speaker 3: I came across this quote which I really liked. The
Speaker 3: big difference between me and Superman is Superman had supervision
Speaker 3: and I need supervision.
Speaker 1: That was funny.
Speaker 3: At one of the airports, I think it was LaGuardia,
Speaker 3: which man looked was at Newark, you know where they've
Speaker 3: been having the troubles, and LaGuardia looked fantastic. I remember
Speaker 3: when Trump was president and he was complaining about why
Speaker 3: do our New York airports look so dingy and dirty?
Speaker 3: And you go around the world and they're bright and
Speaker 3: they're they're nice. Now it's like a really nice mall,
Speaker 3: both of them if you haven't been there recently. So
Speaker 3: I don't know how much taxpayer money from where went
Speaker 3: into that, but that definitely got fixed. But one of
Speaker 3: the airports had an AI barista and there was a
Speaker 3: long line there. I didn't try it, but it must
Speaker 3: have worked pretty well. It was just a little shack
Speaker 3: thing with computer screens and you apparently typed in whatever
Speaker 3: you wanted for all kinds of different complicated coffee drinks,
Speaker 3: and it was made there for you by the computer.
Speaker 1: I don't know how much AI was involved in it.
Speaker 3: It's a good hooks just about to ask good hook
Speaker 3: But that is definitely gonna be way way more common
Speaker 3: as we go along. Of you get your coffee, you
Speaker 3: get your bagel, you get your parking ticket.
Speaker 1: Pass for parking or whatever. It is it's all.
Speaker 3: Computerized, no human being involved, which is not good for
Speaker 3: a lot of low level of employment. But as far
Speaker 3: as AI chat GPT, I used it so much while
Speaker 3: on vacation, I haven't Googled anything in weeks, and I've
Speaker 3: read about how Google clicks are down and they're really
Speaker 3: in a panic about that.
Speaker 1: Because, oh, yeah, way down. Revenue is dying.
Speaker 3: Well, how would it not be once you start using
Speaker 3: chat GPT. Why would I ever google anything?
Speaker 1: Ever? Again, it's just.
Speaker 4: Whatever AI system you prefer. Yeah, I accidentally google something
Speaker 4: out of habit on vacation.
Speaker 1: I was like, what the hell am I doing?
Speaker 4: Is? I sort through sponsored, sponsored, sponsored, totally irrelevant sponsored please.
Speaker 3: Including the fact that chat GPT, as I've talked about,
Speaker 3: keeps track of your conversations and like knows what you're doing,
Speaker 3: so that makes things handy. So landed at Newark and
Speaker 3: I asked chit GPT, what's the best way to get
Speaker 3: to the Knickerbocker Hotel in Manhattan and it said, thinking
Speaker 3: of this time of day with you landing now, Normally
Speaker 3: I would say take a lift or an uber if
Speaker 3: you're willing to pay, but I think this time of
Speaker 3: day you're better off taking the ground transportation. So as
Speaker 3: soon as you walk out of your gate, take a left.
Speaker 3: But it just walked me through the whole process of
Speaker 3: getting to the train or bus that took me to
Speaker 3: the train that took me wherever I needed to go.
Speaker 1: It was in a way that Google never could.
Speaker 3: It was like having a really smart New Yorker explain
Speaker 3: to me exactly what to do.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's amazing. Yeah, it's great.
Speaker 4: I think, and later, I mean, it's it's so complex,
Speaker 4: it's amazing. I think later I asked some sort of
Speaker 4: question about something, and it said, since you've already walked by.
Speaker 1: Penn Station, maybe go this route so you can see,
Speaker 1: you know. I just it's amazing. Yeah, yeah, it's it's
Speaker 1: scary too. In a way, it is very very very
Speaker 1: much so.
Speaker 4: But I I let me be the first to welcome
Speaker 4: our new AI overlords.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I use it all the time now and I look
Speaker 4: back at stuff I looked at before to refresh.
Speaker 1: My memory, and it's it's it's terrific. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, in the past, I would have Googled or tried
Speaker 3: to figure it out. We're headed to the met what's
Speaker 3: the best way subway station? Just to the left out
Speaker 3: of your hotel door, take the one train and.
Speaker 1: Then follow ups too.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, is everybody a capable walker or do
Speaker 4: you want a route that that helps people who are
Speaker 4: older or whatever.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just amazing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, And like you said, it's amazing
Speaker 3: and cool and scary at the same time. I freaking
Speaker 3: think New York is fantastic. It's hard for me to
Speaker 3: not dislike New Yorkers and their pompous attitude. But the
Speaker 3: reason they have that we're better than everybody else's attitude
Speaker 3: is New York is better than everyone else.
Speaker 1: It just is. It's just just it's the best. Everything.
Speaker 3: Everything you'd ever want to do in the world is
Speaker 3: right there within a couple of blocks.
Speaker 1: It's just been fantastic.
Speaker 3: I can see how if you lived there and got
Speaker 3: to have that life, you would think that everybody else
Speaker 3: is living a lesser life. I sure as heck would
Speaker 3: want to raise kids there. I can't even imagine what
Speaker 3: that's like.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, there's substantial downsides, but you know, if you know,
Speaker 4: if if you want to get out and do things
Speaker 4: like that, and you know, it's great, it's a great place,
Speaker 4: no doubt.
Speaker 3: I still hope to do one year of my life.
Speaker 3: I'd like to live in New York for one year.
Speaker 3: I still hope to do that at some point. Oh, really,
Speaker 3: just to experience everything.
Speaker 1: I would.
Speaker 3: You know, it would have been better to do it
Speaker 3: when I was like twenty three, probably, but I could
Speaker 3: go to the museum every day, and it would take
Speaker 3: you a lifetime to take a year longer to see
Speaker 3: everything in the museums. I did have the museum experience
Speaker 3: that I always have, where you've got about an hour
Speaker 3: in you of being amazed by things, and then after
Speaker 3: that there is nothing that could possibly amaze you in ouritanium.
Speaker 1: After about an hour.
Speaker 4: Well, and the other people at the museum start to
Speaker 4: annoy the hell out of you too, or I will
Speaker 4: speak for myself, the annoy the hell out of me,
Speaker 4: especially you know, once you get past one pm, get
Speaker 4: out the museum you're talking about.
Speaker 1: Oh, we got there early and it was still crowded.
Speaker 3: I went to the Whitney at nine o'clock at night
Speaker 3: and it was practically empty, and it was absolutely fantastic.
Speaker 1: I asked this question last time. I forget what the
Speaker 1: museum is that the whole Whitney.
Speaker 3: The Whitney is mostly American art, and I'm a big
Speaker 3: Hopper fan, Edward Hopper fan, and that's where all your
Speaker 3: Edward Hopper art is going to be. So that's what
Speaker 3: I was there for. My point was I'd been to
Speaker 3: a museums a while back and talked about this. What
Speaker 3: percentage of people at a museum want to be there?
Speaker 3: And I think we should work on getting out the
Speaker 3: people who don't want to be there. I asked my
Speaker 3: kids this when we were leaving. My son said maybe
Speaker 3: fifty percent. I said, I think it's lower than that.
Speaker 3: You take a couple. You look at the couple and
Speaker 3: it looks like either the dude or the chicks into it,
Speaker 3: and the other person is along to be nice. And
Speaker 3: then any family, none of the kids want to be there.
Speaker 3: So you got two parents and three kids, none of
Speaker 3: them want to be there. So I think it's maybe
Speaker 3: thirty percent of the people in the building want to
Speaker 3: be there.
Speaker 1: Why so, why do we.
Speaker 4: Do your recommend like video games, c an arcade for
Speaker 4: the kids, and I don't know, big screen TVs for
Speaker 4: the fellows who don't want to be there.
Speaker 3: Leave them in the hotel and let them watch TV
Speaker 3: or something. And then go on your own I think
Speaker 3: cells holding cells.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I'm thinking out loud. I did see where?
Speaker 3: Did I see some of those rooms that you can
Speaker 3: like they're kiosks with beds in them. We've talked about
Speaker 3: this before. I didn't use one. It seems so gross
Speaker 3: to me. I don't know if they clean the shell out,
Speaker 3: they clean the sheets, but it was like a little hut.
Speaker 1: Yes, every time, every customer, and.
Speaker 3: You can pay money to go in there and take
Speaker 3: a little snooze. I guess I love that idea so much.
Speaker 4: I wish I could like have one carted around behind
Speaker 4: me on some sort of trailer. Just wherever I go,
Speaker 4: wherever I am, there's a nap module ready to be used.
Speaker 1: It just a little sleepy time, just a little twenty
Speaker 1: minute cat.
Speaker 4: Now, if it's my own private nap module, sure, but
Speaker 4: if it's a public nap module where people like we're
Speaker 4: shooting up and having sex in.
Speaker 1: There, I find it. You're got to go to a
Speaker 1: better module.
Speaker 3: I have trouble getting to sleep laying in other people's fluids.
Speaker 1: I'm just funny that.
Speaker 4: Oh so you're disgusting, Michael, that's disgusting. Yes, Well, because
Speaker 4: that's not how it works. Nobody does that. Nobody could
Speaker 4: make any money doing that. That's an absurd and disgusting
Speaker 4: distortion reality. And you need to stop nobody's in anybody
Speaker 4: else's fluids.
Speaker 3: Good lord, man, I don't know. I saw some of
Speaker 3: the people coming in and out. Is that I don't
Speaker 3: want to lay in there or whatever? Oh God, I disavow,
Speaker 3: I disavow. We have some actual news. We need to
Speaker 3: catch up. How much is the big beautiful bill going
Speaker 3: to add to our national deficit or debt?
Speaker 1: I keep getting those numbers mixed up. And Elon Musk's
Speaker 1: new political party, we'll talk about that. I'm excited about this.
Speaker 1: Stay tuned.
Speaker 5: But the thing that disappoints me is that if I
Speaker 5: put out a model and I say, hey, here's what's
Speaker 5: going to happen. We're gonna get three percent growth, and
Speaker 5: then it turns out it's one and a half percent growth,
Speaker 5: then as an academic economist, as a scientist, then it's
Speaker 5: my duty to say, what did I get wrong?
Speaker 1: What did my model miss? These people aren't doing.
Speaker 5: That, And that's the thing that I find disappointing because
Speaker 5: we put you know, pure reviewed academic stuff on the table,
Speaker 5: said we're going to get that three percent growth, and
Speaker 5: then we got it right last time, and we.
Speaker 1: Believe we're going to get it right this time.
Speaker 3: I thought that was interesting. That's Kevin has it. Which
Speaker 3: of the people is he around Trump?
Speaker 1: What is his deal? He's a what that economic advisor guru?
Speaker 1: I whatever he is? He was on face the nation
Speaker 1: and he was in this.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm not just trying to do a boosterism
Speaker 3: for the big beautiful bill because I think it, based
Speaker 3: on the punditary of most of my favorite pundits, is
Speaker 3: in it's total bad for the country. But I do
Speaker 3: think it is in keeping with the way we've been
Speaker 3: doing things in the United States now for several presidencies.
Speaker 3: So I don't think it's like an outlying horror either.
Speaker 3: It's just the way we do things now. Unfortunately, But
Speaker 3: I guys making the point that the CBO has been
Speaker 3: wrong many times on some big things in recent years,
Speaker 3: and nobody ever points that out. He used the example
Speaker 3: of what the CBO predicted the Trump tax cuts we're
Speaker 3: going to do initially in twenty seventeen, and they were
Speaker 3: wrong by half in terms of economic growth, and that
Speaker 3: they could be again.
Speaker 1: He goes on to talk more about that.
Speaker 5: But if you think that one point eight percent growth
Speaker 5: is what's going to happen over the next ten years,
Speaker 5: then you should agree with the CBO number. But there's
Speaker 5: another part of the CBO number that you need to
Speaker 5: worry about, and that is that if we don't pass
Speaker 5: the bill, that it's the biggest tax hike in history,
Speaker 5: and with that big tax hike, that of course we
Speaker 5: would have a recession. The CEA says that we'd have
Speaker 5: about a four percent drop in GDP and lose nine
Speaker 5: million jobs. If we got a four percent drop in
Speaker 5: GDP and we lost nye billion jobs, what would happen
Speaker 5: to the deficit? And so I don't think that the
Speaker 5: CBO has a very strong record. I don't think these
Speaker 5: places have a very strong record. And what they need
Speaker 5: to do is get back to the basics of looking
Speaker 5: at macroeconomic models. There's a really famous macro economist and
Speaker 5: Harvard Dave, Jimstock. They should go back and read everything
Speaker 5: Jim Stock has written for the last fifteen years and
Speaker 5: fold those into their models and then maybe we could talk.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so I wanted to play that stuff just so
Speaker 4: you realize there are smart people that disagree with data
Speaker 4: back it up on some of these CBO predictions that
Speaker 4: the media is not telling you about it all. I remember,
Speaker 4: at the dawn of Obamacare, our own Craig, the healthcare guru,
Speaker 4: was saying the CBO estimates, everybody's estimates are wildly unrealistic.
Speaker 1: They're just wrong. And he turned out to be one
Speaker 1: hundred percent correct.
Speaker 4: So yeah, and there are all sorts of not only
Speaker 4: weird assumptions that they make, but the terminology they use
Speaker 4: and the baselines that they use. Like, for instance, even
Speaker 4: though this has been the policy for many years now,
Speaker 4: the current tax rates, they consider it a tax cut
Speaker 4: to keep them the same. Therefore, that's going to affect
Speaker 4: the deficit by ex trillion dollars, Right, But that isn't
Speaker 4: what you do with expenditures, just with taxes. It's just
Speaker 4: it's madness. It makes it really difficult for even like
Speaker 4: a person of goodwill and sure reasonable intellect to figure
Speaker 4: out what the hell is going on.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so you've got that what you just described, and
Speaker 3: then both parties obviously really shade their predictions or explanations
Speaker 3: in a direction that benefits them.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's really really tough to know. Yeah.
Speaker 4: For what it's worth, Kevin hasse it is the director
Speaker 4: of the National Economic Council. Good for him, important role, Jack, Yeah,
Speaker 4: one he and his parents should be proud of.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: For instance, he said that the CBO got Obamacare way wrong,
Speaker 3: as you were just alluding to, and he actually had
Speaker 3: the numbers in front of him how wrong they were.
Speaker 4: Well, how with the Republicans and Democrats. Elon Musk has
Speaker 4: started a new political party? Or has he?
Speaker 1: It's not Claire. We'll talk about that next. Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1: WNBA has a problem.
Speaker 3: I don't think any sports league has ever had where
Speaker 3: the players and the fans have such a disagreement about
Speaker 3: what is good for their existence. Anyway, we'll talk more
Speaker 3: about that next segment. I think it's interesting, even if
Speaker 3: you know nothing about that of the NBA.
Speaker 4: I saw the headline over the weekend that Elon Musk
Speaker 4: is going to create a new political party, the America Party.
Speaker 4: The current President of the United States. Good close friend. Wait,
Speaker 4: I'm being told by the control room no longer a
Speaker 4: friend with Elon Musk is commented on it to mister president.
Speaker 1: Starting a third party. I think it's ridiculous. To start
Speaker 1: a third party.
Speaker 7: We have a tremendous success with the Republican Party.
Speaker 1: The Democrats have lost their way.
Speaker 7: But it's always been a two party system, and I
Speaker 7: think starting a third party just hands to confusion.
Speaker 1: It really seems to have been.
Speaker 7: Developed for two parties. Third parties have never worked, So
Speaker 7: he can have fun with it, but I think it's ridiculous.
Speaker 4: I'm not sure it's ridiculous, for the same reason that
Speaker 4: I've never poo pooed third party candidates. The Wall Street
Speaker 4: Journal points out that they never win, but they can
Speaker 4: siphon voters away.
Speaker 1: I've always said.
Speaker 4: They can make it clear to the existing parties that
Speaker 4: they're not doing the job, and if they don't come
Speaker 4: over here closer to where we are, they're gonna lose.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's happened a number of times in our
Speaker 3: lifetime of just doing talk radio.
Speaker 1: Elon put it to a poll.
Speaker 3: It was after the Big Beautiful Bill passed over the weekend,
Speaker 3: and he was so discouraged, as he had been saying
Speaker 3: for a while that.
Speaker 1: What did he call it? Remember that? What was that
Speaker 1: phrase he used for the Big Beautiful books?
Speaker 3: I loved it, but I can never remember it, And
Speaker 3: a big, unambiguous pilot crap or whatever it was. C Yeah,
Speaker 3: because we are going to spend ourselves into ruin, and
Speaker 3: that's absolutely clear, and this was a step that direction.
Speaker 3: And why did you even attempt to have doge if
Speaker 3: you're going to do this, I mean, it all makes
Speaker 3: sense from elon standpoint. So he put it to a
Speaker 3: poll on his Twitter, not surprisingly because if you follow
Speaker 3: Elon you probably like him more than two to one.
Speaker 3: People agreed we need a third party. So he said, Okay,
Speaker 3: the American Party. You asked for it, we got it.
Speaker 3: The question is how much of his political weight, and
Speaker 3: he does have quite a bit and money, which he's
Speaker 3: got more than anybody else on Earth, does he throw
Speaker 3: behind the effort at a third party?
Speaker 4: That's the question, right, Yeah, and this organizational, you know
Speaker 4: minions who could work on that sort of thing. I
Speaker 4: thought what he wrote on Twitter, I refused to say X.
Speaker 4: Every member of Congress who campaigned on reducing government spending
Speaker 4: and then immediately voted for the biggest debt increase in
Speaker 4: history should hang their head in shame and they will
Speaker 4: lose their primary next year if it is the last
Speaker 4: thing I do on this earth.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, he got that committed once before for Trump, and
Speaker 3: he made a huge difference. I think he certainly spent
Speaker 3: a lot of money, and if he were to individually
Speaker 3: fund rivals for House seats and set it seats, I
Speaker 3: think he could make a big ripple. The problem is,
Speaker 3: like you have already alluded to, people look at this
Speaker 3: whole third party thing just the wrong way. It looks
Speaker 3: like it's going to be a party that emerges on
Speaker 3: the scene all of a sudden and wins elections. And
Speaker 3: that has never happened. Has it ever happened? It had
Speaker 3: happened in France, that happened with Macrone. I mean it
Speaker 3: was a party that didn't exist until they've formed around him.
Speaker 4: And it actually happened in eighteen sixty it beat the
Speaker 4: other two parties. Yeah, and it's happened in eighteen sixty.
Speaker 4: But in the modern world, no, it has not happened.
Speaker 4: But the getting one party's attention for a while at
Speaker 4: least that you better get your act together if you
Speaker 4: want my support. Yes, it has happened many times.
Speaker 1: Well, it's it's funny.
Speaker 4: Because they act like the forming of the party is
Speaker 4: upstream of the like the philosophy that it has When
Speaker 4: it's the opposite. People are highly dissatisfied, they're highly troubled
Speaker 4: by what the two parties are offering them, and they say,
Speaker 4: all right, we're going.
Speaker 1: To start a third party.
Speaker 4: And yeah, in recent history it ends up being gobbled
Speaker 4: up by one of the other parties those voters.
Speaker 1: But because they come closer.
Speaker 4: To where those people are, it gets gobblerfectly healthy.
Speaker 1: Yes, it gets gobbled up.
Speaker 3: And that you have now changed one of the two
Speaker 3: dominant parties to be closer to what you want them
Speaker 3: to be.
Speaker 1: How's that a failure?
Speaker 3: I've never understood how you portray that as a failure.
Speaker 1: Right now, it probably wouldn't work.
Speaker 4: Say within a marriage, if you're dissatis fied with the
Speaker 4: way your wife is trading, you just start dating another gal.
Speaker 1: Move in with it. She says, all right, I'll cook
Speaker 1: three nights a week, you know whatever. This is right.
Speaker 3: The problem, the biggest problem with the whole third party thing, well,
Speaker 3: two things that are worth repeating. One, the two major
Speaker 3: parties have gone out of their way to make it
Speaker 3: incredibly difficult for a third party to ever have any
Speaker 3: success on any level.
Speaker 4: That is utterly undemocratic. Ain't crying about democracy. Yeah, ain't
Speaker 4: cool at all because they got a good game going
Speaker 4: right here where all the money flows to them and
Speaker 4: they want to keep it that way.
Speaker 1: So that sucks.
Speaker 4: So that's one reason to really support third parties. In
Speaker 4: my mind, the biggest problem flaw with the third party
Speaker 4: thing is whatever the issue is, you almost well not
Speaker 4: almost always in recent memory, you always help the party
Speaker 4: you hate the most and hurt the party that you like.
Speaker 1: M M. It's you know, the math works that way. Well,
Speaker 1: you got to be cruel to be kind.
Speaker 4: The Republican Party cannot rediscover its roots as a fiscal
Speaker 4: conservative party, then you screw them and let the Democrats win,
Speaker 4: and then they come closer to you. You know, it
Speaker 4: helps being older and seeing bunches of election cycles go by.
Speaker 4: You know what, turns out the whatever nineteen ninety six
Speaker 4: election wasn't the most important one of our lifetime. Right
Speaker 4: that midterm was in It's fine. Things went a little
Speaker 4: sideways for a minute, and then they got back on track.
Speaker 4: And you know, I was about to use the example repeat.
Speaker 3: Like I think like the Green Party and some of
Speaker 3: that stuff on the left has worked. It would seem
Speaker 3: to pull the Democratic Party closer to their side by caring.
Speaker 1: So much about their issues.
Speaker 3: I don't know that that's happened with the Tea Party
Speaker 3: or any of the fiscal conservatism stuff. You had the
Speaker 3: Romney Ryan ticket in twenty twelve that got beaten pretty badly,
Speaker 3: and the Tea Party and all that. But man, they've
Speaker 3: completely abandoned fiscal conservatism.
Speaker 4: So yeah, yeah, it doesn't work forever. Worth mentioning that
Speaker 4: Trump clapped back not only the clip we played, but
Speaker 4: he said no more rocket launches, satellites or electric car production,
Speaker 4: and our country would save a fortune. Perhaps we should
Speaker 4: have Doge take a good hard look at this big
Speaker 4: money to be saved.
Speaker 1: Yeah, fine, I didn't.
Speaker 4: He's sad to see Elon go off the rails. I
Speaker 4: won't see what happens if he's serious about it. There's
Speaker 4: another Elon related story I wanted to touch on, or
Speaker 4: is there something you're hot to try to get.
Speaker 1: To before we move to that. Do you think Elon's
Speaker 1: serious about this today? Yes? Will he hang in there
Speaker 1: and put the work in?
Speaker 3: I don't know, Man, he got serious about getting Trump elected?
Speaker 1: No one of the things he yeah, great, great.
Speaker 4: Financial and uh and cultural risk to himself. Which is
Speaker 4: not escaped the attention of these shareholders and board members
Speaker 4: of his various corporations who are being employed by Trump
Speaker 4: and Company, to remind him of his fiscal responsibility to them,
Speaker 4: and that maybe he ought to focus on his job,
Speaker 4: his day job a little bit. So yeah, that that
Speaker 4: and that will hold sway at some point. I mean
Speaker 4: it's got to. He's got to fulfill his fiscal responsibility
Speaker 4: to his shareholders. They're a chain saw chainsaw. Oh, that
Speaker 4: reminds me. I was going to talk about that. So
Speaker 4: he had a bunch of wind and we had a
Speaker 4: big branch fall down and wiped out our American flag
Speaker 4: a couple of days ago.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 4: Similar, Yeah, communist tree chainsaw coming for that tree. I'm
Speaker 4: not going to have any damn America hating tree in
Speaker 4: my yard. Way to plant a woke tree.
Speaker 1: I didn't plan it. I did. It was there when
Speaker 1: I moved in.
Speaker 4: But anyway, yeah, that that tree will not last to
Speaker 4: get a flag out of my launch.
Speaker 1: Anyway.
Speaker 4: One more note on Elon Musk that I found very
Speaker 4: very interesting. He is in trouble in China. Not not
Speaker 4: literally in trouble with the Communist Party, but he was
Speaker 4: the toast of Beijing for a very long time because
Speaker 4: Tesla was the hottest car on Chinese roads. Tesla was
Speaker 4: a huge success in China for a while, government officials
Speaker 4: showered the company with incentives, part of a concerted strategy
Speaker 4: to turbo charge the Chinese ev industry by injecting Tesla
Speaker 4: know how into the country. No spurring competition, blah blah.
Speaker 1: Blaharty turbo chargers on an electric vehicle.
Speaker 4: It's a metaphor getting on Unfortunately, But now Tesla's market
Speaker 4: share has shriveled as other Chinese automakers have become more
Speaker 4: popular and Musk's reputation as a partner for Beijing. In Washington,
Speaker 4: an insider who can talk to Trump is taking a
Speaker 4: beating as his relationship with Trump sours.
Speaker 3: Man, are there are a lot less Tesla's on the
Speaker 3: East Coast than I'm used to seeing as a California
Speaker 3: a California, you come to a four way stop, three
Speaker 3: out of the four cars or at Tesla. Now you
Speaker 3: get to Florida or New York, No, not so much.
Speaker 1: Right right?
Speaker 4: So Tesla is hurting bad as a brand in China,
Speaker 4: and Elon as an influencer, is seeing his well influenced
Speaker 4: decline precipitously, and his trade tensions with the US heated
Speaker 4: up this year. Chinese Premiere or whatever that means. Lee
Speaker 4: Qwang made it clear that Tesla's local operation could we
Speaker 4: He said it wouldn't be targeted for retaliatory measures.
Speaker 1: But that's a hint, isn't it.
Speaker 4: Wait a minute, who's talking about Wait a minute, why
Speaker 4: did you just say that?
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, I wonder.
Speaker 3: What Elon cares about the most. I don't know how
Speaker 3: important it is for him to be the world richest man.
Speaker 3: He doesn't seem to care about material possessions the way
Speaker 3: Jeff Bezos does. God, I followed that whole ridiculous wedding
Speaker 3: for a while. What the freak is wrong with you, dude?
Speaker 3: You and your I mean, it's one thing that you're
Speaker 3: rich and you like nice stuff, but the needing to
Speaker 3: parade it in front of people for.
Speaker 1: Your tuned out of that during viguation, It's just horrible.
Speaker 3: Is the worst conspicuous consumption since Louis the sixteenth. Again,
Speaker 3: the behind closed doors. I kind of get it, you're rich,
Speaker 3: so you like nice stuff, but the needing to have
Speaker 3: everybody cheer as you walk out in all this stuff,
Speaker 3: like nine different times in three days. There's something seriously
Speaker 3: flawed with you. But I don't get the sense that
Speaker 3: Elon cares about the yacht giant diamond stuff. I think
Speaker 3: as an immigrant who came to this country and really
Speaker 3: made a go of it and a lot of his friends,
Speaker 3: I think he does really really care about America. I
Speaker 3: can see him going down with the ship on that
Speaker 3: taking a huge hit.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Tesla is going to become an AI driven self
Speaker 4: driving car company, auto driving taxes, taxis and that sort
Speaker 4: of thing. I think what he's most interested in is
Speaker 4: what he's most interested in at any given moment, day, week,
Speaker 4: or month, and.
Speaker 1: We should be fun.
Speaker 4: I don't think it's Tesla anymore, or at least not
Speaker 4: as a traditional car company like we've been thinking of.
Speaker 4: Well not traditional, but you know what I mean. SpaceX
Speaker 4: is probably still pretty intriguing to them. But it could
Speaker 4: be this really seizes his attention, having stepped into the
Speaker 4: pool of national politics and found it a really interesting
Speaker 4: and be exciting and important.
Speaker 1: This could be his new Tesla, I don't know.
Speaker 3: Well, And he'd be running against the against Republicans, so
Speaker 3: maybe that brings.
Speaker 1: Them trying to outthink them. Yeah, maybe that brings back
Speaker 1: a lot of those new to Elon.
Speaker 3: Hating people that didn't like Trump gets them back in
Speaker 3: the fold of Elon.
Speaker 1: I have no idea, So what will the stick around
Speaker 1: their cars say? Now?
Speaker 4: I bought this before Elon went crazy, but kept it
Speaker 4: until he's now cool again.
Speaker 1: I parked it in the garage for nine months and
Speaker 1: now I drive it again.
Speaker 4: Why don't you just buy the car you want and
Speaker 4: quit with your bumper stickers and weirdos.
Speaker 1: Yeah, hippies.
Speaker 3: The WNBA has a serious Caitlin Clark problem, even though
Speaker 3: it's the best thing that ever happened to him. Explain
Speaker 3: that it's kind of interesting.
Speaker 6: Next Armstrong, I was smart enough when I was ten
Speaker 6: years old to realize if I was ever going to
Speaker 6: get any Yankee stadium without buying a ticket, it was
Speaker 6: going to be to be in the booth, not to
Speaker 6: be wearing pinstripes.
Speaker 1: Out there on the field.
Speaker 6: But you know, you were in high school, and I
Speaker 6: wasn't half bad. I was good enough to be the
Speaker 6: last guy cut, but I knew I wasn't going.
Speaker 1: To be the star of the team.
Speaker 6: And it was just amusing that the baseball coach actually
Speaker 6: said to me when he cut me. He said something
Speaker 6: to the effect of, you're not bad with the glove,
Speaker 6: and you can run a little bit, but I don't
Speaker 6: think you can hit your weight, and I don't think
Speaker 6: you weigh one thirty, which might have been true when
Speaker 6: I was sixteen years old. And then he said, have
Speaker 6: you ever thought about broadcasting? Said that's pretty much all
Speaker 6: I think about. And he was a wry guy and
Speaker 6: he said, good try that.
Speaker 3: Wow, Bob Costas, Speaking of sports, the WNBA has a problem.
Speaker 3: I don't remember any professional sports league ever happening their
Speaker 3: most popular player, who's been the best thing that ever
Speaker 3: happened to them in league history, is not liked by
Speaker 3: the other players on the other teams so much so
Speaker 3: they just had the All Star voting for the WNBA.
Speaker 3: Caitlin Clark broke her record from last year among fan
Speaker 3: voting with the gazillion votes and finished in first place.
Speaker 3: She finished third in the media voting. With all the
Speaker 3: media she finished ninth in player voting. Wow, four guards,
Speaker 3: as in she wouldn't be on the team.
Speaker 1: So yeah, so that is a problem.
Speaker 3: And then the stats, the league commissioner said, Caitlin Clark's
Speaker 3: not only our most popular player, she's the most popular
Speaker 3: athlete in America, which she probably is. She her games
Speaker 3: garnered two hundred percent more viewership than the average w
Speaker 3: NBA game. She's responsible for almost thirty percent of all
Speaker 3: w NBA economic activity, and all merchandise sales have risen
Speaker 3: six hundred percent since she entered the league. Holy crap,
Speaker 3: I mean she is so dominant in terms of making
Speaker 3: that league relevant. But finished ninth and other player voting
Speaker 3: for the All Star roster.
Speaker 4: Wow, she is like her effect is similar to that
Speaker 4: to Tiger Woods back in the day. But daughter players
Speaker 4: didn't hate Tiger Woods. No, they might have resented getting
Speaker 4: whooped up on every tournament.
Speaker 1: But no, that's interesting. Strong, I'm strong ready thought. Here's
Speaker 1: your host for final thoughts, Joe. I kind of wish
Speaker 1: we had more time to talk about that.
Speaker 4: It's a really interesting phenomenon evolving around race and all.
Speaker 1: Sorts of stuff.
Speaker 4: Hey, let's get a craction with Oh yeah, yeah, let's
Speaker 4: get a final thought from every and how lefties hate
Speaker 4: everybody who doesn't march to their drummer.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he says, trying to start the future one more time.
Speaker 1: Let's get a final thought from everybody, Michael lead us Off.
Speaker 1: I loved hearing about Jack's vacation.
Speaker 4: My favorite part that was him shaming his kids about
Speaker 4: them not being in shape.
Speaker 1: This is great, Jack, You're very great. Love it.
Speaker 4: Yes, shut up at March, Katie Green or a steam Newswoman.
Speaker 1: As a final thought, Katie, it.
Speaker 5: Is wonderful to have time off, but I completely lose
Speaker 5: track of.
Speaker 1: Days, times, all of it.
Speaker 3: So it's nice to have some normalcy again.
Speaker 1: Jack.
Speaker 4: Final thought for us, May you have a job you
Speaker 4: look forward to coming back to. I feel very fortunate
Speaker 4: that I was excited to come back to work today
Speaker 4: after a week's vacation. My final thought is my vacation
Speaker 4: I should have talked about. This started off terribly logistics
Speaker 4: and errands on Monday, then Tuesday into Wednesday, an intestinal
Speaker 4: illness that was like I'd swig down five gallons of
Speaker 4: free Jolles and wash them down with some local pond
Speaker 4: water in Tijuana. God, oh, the cramps, the cramps. But
Speaker 4: it all went away and we finished strong, which is
Speaker 4: kind of the key.
Speaker 1: All forgot. If you did those things, your stomach would
Speaker 1: be upset, so.
Speaker 4: That, yes, and I would not be able to stray
Speaker 4: far from the accommodation room. Armstrong and Getty wrapping up
Speaker 4: another grueling a four hour workday. So many people, thanks,
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Speaker 4: God bless America.
Speaker 1: I'm Strong and Getty match great in heaven. It's all
Speaker 1: better off and we're working together. No Joe, and everyone
Speaker 1: knows it. So let's go with a fine No, Henry, Henry,
Speaker 1: that is wrong. What is the biggest threat, Henry? The gorilla?
Speaker 1: That's right. The gorilla is the biggest threat. So do
Speaker 1: you see where my queen is right now? That is
Speaker 1: your biggest threat. Get rid of the gorilla, Henry, that
Speaker 1: I know. Bye Bye, Armstrong and Getty