Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong Joke, Getty.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty and no he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3: A growing number of gen Z men are moving back
Speaker 3: in with their parents, taking over household shores and calling
Speaker 3: themselves trad sons, replacing the old name Failures.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've come across that trad sun thing quite a
Speaker 4: few places. But that's a good joke. Oh boy, failure
Speaker 4: to launch.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I can't go into detail. We're dealing with
Speaker 5: some family dynamics right now involving young English person who's
Speaker 5: money management borders on the surreal. The kid who bought
Speaker 5: the magic beans on the way home that turned into
Speaker 5: the beanstock magic beans would have been a better idea
Speaker 5: than this. There are times I think financial acumen is
Speaker 5: at least half genetic. M some people, it's way harder
Speaker 5: to teach them. You know, I've got one kid who
Speaker 5: scrimps and saves same household as another kid who well,
Speaker 5: it's difficulty even get the concept to stick.
Speaker 2: But anyway back to you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was talking to a parent the other day
Speaker 4: who had bought their twenty year old or something like
Speaker 4: that a car to have to drive to be able
Speaker 4: to get to work, blah blah blah. With an agreement,
Speaker 4: you're going to make the payment and change you on
Speaker 4: stuff like that. The kid did not make the payment
Speaker 4: or change ou or anything like that. So the parent,
Speaker 4: after delaying longer than they feel like they should have,
Speaker 4: finally just sold the car from underneath them and now
Speaker 4: they're like taking the bus everywhere. But anyway, my experience
Speaker 4: is the hard edge of reality is the only thing
Speaker 4: that made me improve my financial acumen. Yeah, that's been
Speaker 4: my own personal experience that often works. Just came across
Speaker 4: this headline the IAEA says there's going to be a
Speaker 4: worldwide oil glut in twenty six Sorry, climate change activists.
Speaker 4: Gas prices are going to go down. People are going
Speaker 4: to keep driving cars driven by the greatest energy source
Speaker 4: that's ever been developed on planet Earth, you know.
Speaker 2: On that topic.
Speaker 5: I saw a headline maybe I can find it real quickly.
Speaker 5: It was essentially everyone is doubling down on renewable energy
Speaker 5: except the US, and it clicked in my head with
Speaker 5: the clarity it hasn't before. You could rewrite that headline
Speaker 5: the world or they mostly just meant Europe, but is doubling.
Speaker 4: Down on the current generation of renewable power technology. I
Speaker 4: was looking at a product not long ago, a consumer product,
Speaker 4: and I thought brand new buggy.
Speaker 5: Wait a year, and the United States, I think, to
Speaker 5: a large extent, has said, yeah, the current stuff just
Speaker 5: isn't dependable enough. It doesn't make enough power, it doesn't
Speaker 5: store enough power. And look at Europe's moribund economy. I mean,
Speaker 5: they've sacrificed themselves on the altar of renewable energy, the
Speaker 5: current technology, and it's not good enough.
Speaker 2: Man Burn, baby burn.
Speaker 4: Things are getting serious up in here. Joe dropped in
Speaker 4: a moribund on us.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 4: Apparently this is not when this isn't hijinks around here.
Speaker 4: This is we're getting tares that suck as one of
Speaker 4: the biggest headlines while we are off for a couple
Speaker 4: of days honoring Columbus's discovery.
Speaker 5: And this covered America. Can you imagine the first human
Speaker 5: to ever see these shows?
Speaker 4: What's your joke that you say every single year.
Speaker 5: Oh, the Indians are standing around saying you discovered it.
Speaker 2: We're here.
Speaker 4: Oh you always say, oh, you want to walk into
Speaker 4: a Walmart and say I have discovered this Walmart right
Speaker 4: and claim it on behalf of Queen Isabella.
Speaker 5: You know, it would be funny if we have like
Speaker 5: new listeners, especially you know, to the left of center,
Speaker 5: to go on and on winking at the audience.
Speaker 2: Obviously, you know the.
Speaker 5: Folks would know we're kidding, but just to go on
Speaker 5: and on about how Columbus came to a completely untamed
Speaker 5: wilderness there were no people can imagine from coast to coast,
Speaker 5: and then he settled it.
Speaker 4: So anyway, the biggest story that happened, will we're off
Speaker 4: maybe is Trump hitting China with one hundred percent tariffs
Speaker 4: on all products from China, all one hundred percent tariffs.
Speaker 4: That's what he announced just a couple of days ago.
Speaker 4: He was quoting in his truth social post China's unheard
Speaker 4: of controls on rare earth minerals, which are sinister and
Speaker 4: hostile and a moral disgrace.
Speaker 2: It is sinister in hostile.
Speaker 4: I don't know where morality plays into it, but it
Speaker 4: is sinister and hostile, and it is a very big deal.
Speaker 4: But it got Trump so worked up that he avowed
Speaker 4: to hit back with one hundred percent tariffs on all
Speaker 4: products from China. And then he said the rest is history.
Speaker 4: I'm not exactly sure what that means. Then, forty eight
Speaker 4: hours hours later, calming down a little bit, maybe Trump
Speaker 4: posted President Jijiping of China was only having a bad moment.
Speaker 4: Mister Trump said on a social media Sunday, don't worry
Speaker 4: about China.
Speaker 2: It will be fine.
Speaker 4: He reassured his followers with he wants to help China.
Speaker 2: Not heard it. Don't worry about China, it will be fine.
Speaker 4: Uh So, I don't know where we are, but China
Speaker 4: has declared they're not going to allow us to have
Speaker 4: any of these rare earth minerals that we need for
Speaker 4: AI and making fighter jets and all these different things.
Speaker 4: The fact that China controls like ninety four percent of
Speaker 4: rare earth minerals on planet Earth and we somehow allowed
Speaker 4: that to happen, yipes, is a.
Speaker 5: Discrible working to change that, but it's going to take
Speaker 5: zillions of dollars and years and years of effort.
Speaker 2: To do it.
Speaker 4: It's it's a nearly impossible conundrum we're in.
Speaker 5: And we're going to talk more about this at the
Speaker 5: bottom of the hour. How China is trying to hack
Speaker 5: into all of our systems. Big towns in small counties
Speaker 5: and died hospitals and governments and water plant treatments and
Speaker 5: power grids and everything, everything, everything, everything They want to
Speaker 5: have a kill switch. They're engaged in overt psychological warfare
Speaker 5: against the American people. They're militarizing the entire region or
Speaker 5: where they're kicking around.
Speaker 4: We are at war with them, oh absolutely, and utterly
Speaker 4: dependent on each other. For Tree, we are going to
Speaker 4: feature sixty minutes. Their first story about all that coming
Speaker 4: up in about twenty minutes, So I got more to
Speaker 4: say about it then.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Well, speaking of the rare earth thing, just a
Speaker 5: quick note. These so called they're called rare earths. They're
Speaker 5: not actually rare, they're but they're difficult to extract because
Speaker 5: they're scattered and mixed among other rocks and minerals.
Speaker 2: I thought this would be fun, Michael. Which one of
Speaker 2: these is an actual rare earth.
Speaker 5: Substance? And which did I just made makeup? Okay, I
Speaker 5: wouldn't have any eye, Jack.
Speaker 2: You don't get to way in because I know you
Speaker 2: took a lot of chemistry. Is it? Which one did
Speaker 2: I make up?
Speaker 4: Dysprosium or a lacrium.
Speaker 2: And China has it and we need it. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: say a lacrium. You made that up. I just made
Speaker 2: that up.
Speaker 5: Dysprosium is atomic number sixty six on the periodic table.
Speaker 5: If tech industry were the tech industry where a bakery,
Speaker 5: dysprosium would be like baking powder. It's used in small quantities,
Speaker 5: but essential for enabling electric car motors, wind turbines, military systems,
Speaker 5: and computer chip machinery.
Speaker 4: So was China just the first to recognize whether the
Speaker 4: future of everything is these rare earth minerals? So we
Speaker 4: need to either make deals or capture the land of
Speaker 4: or mine ourselves enough of this to be Did they
Speaker 4: just figured.
Speaker 2: That out before us or what? Yeah?
Speaker 5: One of the great advantages of being a dictatorship number
Speaker 5: one decisiveness and number two they couldn't give half a
Speaker 5: crap about the environment right, or a climate change, or
Speaker 5: worker's rights or the number of people who die in
Speaker 5: the mind.
Speaker 4: The point if China decide, if somebody tells Jijiping, you know,
Speaker 4: there's a whole bunch of dysprosium under that mountain over there,
Speaker 4: he doesn't have to do a five year long environmental
Speaker 4: impact study to decide if they can do any mining.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, sir.
Speaker 5: The miners' unions are suing us on viron mental grounds
Speaker 5: and right.
Speaker 4: Which might be I was thinking about with this with
Speaker 4: a different story, might be an indication of maybe that
Speaker 4: system long term does work better. As horrifying as.
Speaker 5: That is, well, I wouldn't say long term. I would
Speaker 5: say at times, dictatorships veer between being incredibly efficient and
Speaker 5: almost hilariously inefficient.
Speaker 2: To see the Soviet Union.
Speaker 5: Although the Chinese took communism and they showed you know,
Speaker 5: Stalin how to do it, they are amazingly effective.
Speaker 4: Right now, that's a very frustrating story. Well, we're in
Speaker 4: an impossible position. One hundred percent tariffs is not sustainable, though,
Speaker 4: is it for even like a week on everything from China?
Speaker 5: Oh no, no, it's it's a you're gonna do that
Speaker 5: because China declared just not to get too far into
Speaker 5: the weeds. But if a product derives more than a
Speaker 5: tenth of a percent of their value from rare earth stuff,
Speaker 5: you've got to get specific permission from the Chinese commerce
Speaker 5: ministry to get your rare earth stuff.
Speaker 4: So different story, quick follow up. You remember the story
Speaker 4: from last week the guy that got caught hoping to
Speaker 4: break into Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh's home and abduct and
Speaker 4: or kill the justice in his family right, who then
Speaker 4: declared that he is a woman, and that is believed
Speaker 4: that he got the light sentence because he is trans.
Speaker 2: I hadn't come across this.
Speaker 4: This is from the This is a quote from the judge,
Speaker 4: Judge Robinson, try to wrap your head around these sentences,
Speaker 4: this passage.
Speaker 2: Clark, that's the.
Speaker 4: Dude who decided he is a woman who wanted to
Speaker 4: kill a Supreme Court justice. Clark attempted to catch straight
Speaker 4: herself by tying a shoelace around her penis and scrotum
Speaker 4: and cutting off her scrotum with a pair of nail clippers.
Speaker 5: Number one nail clippers not the right tool for that job.
Speaker 5: I mean, the right tool makes the job much yer.
Speaker 5: How every carpenter knows that. How do you have a
Speaker 5: phrase that includes the two words back to back her penis?
Speaker 4: I know Clark attempted to castrate herself by tying a
Speaker 4: shoelace around her penis and cutting off her scrotum with
Speaker 4: a pair of nail clippers.
Speaker 5: A judge wrote that that is astonishingly idiotic.
Speaker 4: Yes, Katie, I just don't know many females with those parts.
Speaker 5: Well, exactly, yes, exactly that is you know, I've run
Speaker 5: into vanishingly few distinguished career of coupling. Is that incredible
Speaker 5: that that's where we are, that's where they are?
Speaker 4: Well, some people are very few people, and a lot
Speaker 4: of people were afraid to not be there, like a
Speaker 4: year ago.
Speaker 2: You can't say her penis.
Speaker 5: No, no, herpess is that?
Speaker 4: Uh alk Balowin's wife's name. Trying to remember planet just
Speaker 4: past Jupiter? Oh yes, uh anyway, her scrotum, yes, exactly.
Speaker 4: Attempted to cut off her scrotum with nail clippers. Nail clippers. Okay,
Speaker 4: now you're getting back to the plan, which is not good. No,
Speaker 4: it's not speaking of bad plans. Country stars Zach Bryan
Speaker 4: decides to go all bud light that controversy coming up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's a big deal here.
Speaker 5: I know, I know it's and I know nothing about
Speaker 5: country music and AI companies doubling and tripling down on
Speaker 5: sex spots.
Speaker 4: Oh boy, where the prophet is? I want to talk
Speaker 4: about that. We got a lot on the way to
Speaker 4: stay here. Why did China hack into the water treatment
Speaker 4: plant in a tiny, little Northeastern town that's what sixty
Speaker 4: minutes was talking about Sunday night, crazy scary story about
Speaker 4: what China has been doing, probably for quite a few years,
Speaker 4: and we better wake up that story coming up.
Speaker 5: Elon Musk is gambling big on sexy AI companions for himself,
Speaker 5: for the world, for the world.
Speaker 2: Not for himself.
Speaker 5: He can have all the companions he wants, and generally
Speaker 5: has a kid or two with them. A blond woman
Speaker 5: wearing pigtails, a gothic off the shoulder dress and fishnet
Speaker 5: stockings stared into the screen awaiting instructions. And this is
Speaker 5: a robe, babe, you're keeping it spicy, and he said
Speaker 5: in a low voice as.
Speaker 2: She spun and jumped on command.
Speaker 4: If a sex robot, can it not have a low voice?
Speaker 2: Sorry? Well, what do you want me to know?
Speaker 5: I'm not doing a porn girl voice for you sick fantasies.
Speaker 5: And then it goes on and gets rather more explicit,
Speaker 5: and he is one of two sexually explicit chet Pot
Speaker 5: companions unveiled by Elon Musk's AI company Xai in July.
Speaker 5: The cartoonish personas resemble anime characters and offer a game
Speaker 5: like function as users progress through levels of conversation. They
Speaker 5: unlock more raunchy content, the ability to strip Annie down
Speaker 5: to lace lingerie.
Speaker 2: They made a video game out of it. Oh, things
Speaker 2: are getting weird, and they getting weird fast. Yes they are.
Speaker 5: Elon, Yeah, so they're spending a bunch of money on that.
Speaker 5: They mentioned that Meta and OpenAI have shied away from
Speaker 5: this sexually explicit stuff even though you know, anybody with
Speaker 5: a little skill can jail break it, because they don't
Speaker 5: want to, you know, run into reputational and regulatory risks.
Speaker 5: So elon big on that. Then I thought this was
Speaker 5: really interesting. Here's how this opens. Eleanor twenty four is
Speaker 5: a Polish historian and lecture at a university in Warsaw.
Speaker 5: Isabelle twenty five is a detective serving with the NYPD.
Speaker 2: No way You'd make deep A twenty five.
Speaker 5: By the way, Brook thirty nine is an American housewife
Speaker 5: who enjoys an opulent Miami lifestyle financed by her frequently
Speaker 5: absent husband. All three women will flirt and chat and
Speaker 5: send nude photographs and explicit videos via one of a
Speaker 5: soaring number of new adult dating websites that offer increasingly
Speaker 5: realistic AI girlfriends for subscribers.
Speaker 2: Willing to pay a monthly fee, but you know their AI. Yes, okay.
Speaker 5: This was the talk of this big conference in Prague
Speaker 5: last month. Evidently, developers of the new businesses claim they
Speaker 5: represent an improvement on webcam businesses, where real women undress
Speaker 5: on camera and talk to men. That's more than that,
Speaker 5: because these services remove the potential for the exploitation seen
Speaker 5: in parts of the industry. Do you prefer your porn
Speaker 5: with lots of abuse in human trafficking or would you
Speaker 5: rather talk to an AI, asks Steve Jones, who runs
Speaker 5: an AI porn site. We hear about human trafficking girls
Speaker 5: being forced to be on camera ten hours a day.
Speaker 5: You'll never have a human trafficked AI girl. You'll never
Speaker 5: have a girl who is forced or coerced into a
Speaker 5: sex scene that she's so humiliated by that she ends
Speaker 5: up killing herself. AI doesn't get humiliated and it's not
Speaker 5: going to kill itself.
Speaker 4: So they're trying to convince you you're a good person,
Speaker 4: then a better person if you have a not real girlfriend,
Speaker 4: that's AI because nobody's being abused here as opposed to
Speaker 4: your not real girlfriend who is pretending to like.
Speaker 2: You for money.
Speaker 4: Oh my right, Oh my god, what a trailoff.
Speaker 5: And this is it's a hell of an argument to make,
Speaker 5: but yeah, there is human trafficking and exploitation. Not everybody
Speaker 5: is a former stortis making one hundred thousand a month
Speaker 5: on you know, OnlyFans or whatever.
Speaker 2: A lot of it really is sick.
Speaker 5: What I found interesting and troubling is this guy's presumption
Speaker 5: that sex acts that are so humiliating they make women
Speaker 5: commit suicide?
Speaker 2: Are you know that's what we sell here? But it's
Speaker 2: an Ai girl, So it's line.
Speaker 4: Wow, I can't even wrap my head around the present
Speaker 4: and the future we're about to head into. China is
Speaker 4: going to take over the world. Stay tuned for that.
Speaker 4: Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2: What did they target?
Speaker 6: They targeted water, they targeted electrical power, infrastructure, transportation are
Speaker 6: examples of the types of things that were targeted. So
Speaker 6: what In many cases they're vulnerable.
Speaker 2: So what are you talking about there?
Speaker 4: We're talking about the Chinese targeting us in all kinds
Speaker 4: of different ways. That was the voice of a four
Speaker 4: star general who was in Air Forced Air Force intelligence
Speaker 4: his whole career and rose to the level of running
Speaker 4: the NSA in Trump's presidency. First time around, and he
Speaker 4: was on sixty Minutes on Sunday night talking to Scott
Speaker 4: Pelly and a couple other people on there about the
Speaker 4: ways China has been hacking into our country. This is
Speaker 4: how they started.
Speaker 1: The surprise, Tim Hawked, is that China is targeting not
Speaker 1: just the US military and industry, but also Americans in
Speaker 1: their homes.
Speaker 6: I think initially we were surprised that China would target
Speaker 6: every American with these capabilities. That goes against every norm
Speaker 6: of international law. That certainly goes against how the United
Speaker 6: States military would approach targeting in a crisis or a conflict.
Speaker 2: That the fact that they would go.
Speaker 6: After basic services as part of their effort that they
Speaker 6: have identified as unrestricted warfare is unconscionable.
Speaker 4: I think it's, well, it's unconscionable. Hey, yeah, okay, that
Speaker 4: we can all yell at as we go under the
Speaker 4: boot of the Chinese.
Speaker 2: That's not fair.
Speaker 5: That's not unconsionable for the Chinese, right is the problem.
Speaker 5: But I thought, I was thinking, this is as watching
Speaker 5: the story and we'll play more of it. They they
Speaker 5: hacked to a water plant in tiny town in Massachusetts
Speaker 5: or New Hampshire wherever it was, and they've done it
Speaker 5: all across the country, and.
Speaker 4: What a clever way to get around the whole kind
Speaker 4: of nuclear weapon conundrum that has existed since the forties.
Speaker 4: So China knows, and we known, all the big powers know,
Speaker 4: nobody's really wanting to cross that barrier. But what if
Speaker 4: they attack all of our cell phone towers, water plants,
Speaker 4: electric grid, everything all at once and bring us tourneys
Speaker 4: that way without the cataclysm of a nuclear holocaust?
Speaker 5: Right, Yeah, well you'd bring entire cities or regions or
Speaker 5: the entire country to a stop.
Speaker 4: So back to sixty minutes. They've been at this for
Speaker 4: a while, as they China has been at this for
Speaker 4: a while, as is explained here.
Speaker 1: Multiple intrusions at utilities were discovered in twenty twenty three,
Speaker 1: and China had been on some of their computer networks
Speaker 1: at least five years. You're saying that the Chinese today
Speaker 1: are in American power plants, water treatment plants, other parts
Speaker 1: of the electrical grid, maybe even hospitals, telecommunications.
Speaker 2: All of that.
Speaker 6: So there is a daily contest that is going on
Speaker 6: to be able to deny China those accesses. But they
Speaker 6: are certainly attempting every single day to be able to
Speaker 6: target telecommunications, to be able to target critical infrastructure, both
Speaker 6: in the United States and in other countries. And they
Speaker 6: are doing that to try to ensure that they have
Speaker 6: an advantage in a crisis or a conflict.
Speaker 2: Yes, and why are they doing this? Is China preparing
Speaker 2: for war? There was no other reason to target those systems.
Speaker 6: There's no advantage to be gan economically, there was no
Speaker 6: foreign intelligence collection value. The only value would be for
Speaker 6: use in a crisis or a conflict.
Speaker 4: So clear what's going on. Have to be a genius
Speaker 4: to figure it out. When they move on Taiwan, they're
Speaker 4: gonna flip off an electric grid in a couple of
Speaker 4: places around the country, and you know, all kinds of
Speaker 4: different things that they've been preparing, and we're going to
Speaker 4: back off.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the Taiwan thing is a likely scenario. But they
Speaker 5: have weapons, and just think about them like any other weapons,
Speaker 5: and they have readied those weapons for when they need them.
Speaker 5: When might they need them? It's hard to say, but
Speaker 5: they have those weapons. So maybe they never move on Taiwan,
Speaker 5: but it becomes you know, the Philippines, or something happens
Speaker 5: in South China Sea, or they announce you know, some giant,
Speaker 5: you know, toll you have to pay in shipping to
Speaker 5: go through the South China Sea or something. It could
Speaker 5: be one hundred different things, you know. I'm sorry that
Speaker 5: thought just occur to me. It's kind of tangential. But
Speaker 5: if we'd been listening to any of this in nineteen ninety,
Speaker 5: which was not that long ago, we had cars and
Speaker 5: electricity and.
Speaker 2: Everything and everything.
Speaker 5: Everybody hearing that this reported say, wait a minute, how
Speaker 5: do they have that control? What's hacking the internet? The
Speaker 5: connectivity revolution has made us enormously vulnerable to a foe
Speaker 5: in a way that's never existed before in history. So
Speaker 5: this is a guy run in this little town that
Speaker 5: they discovered China had hacked into their water treatment plant.
Speaker 5: China had been in there, as you heard in the
Speaker 5: last clip, maybe five years, who knows how long.
Speaker 1: Nick Lawler is general manager of the Littleton, Massachusetts Electric
Speaker 1: and Water Utility.
Speaker 2: His town has ten thousand residents.
Speaker 1: Can you think of any reason that China would target
Speaker 1: your little community?
Speaker 4: That's the exact question I had for the FBI when
Speaker 4: they visited me on that first day.
Speaker 2: And I still can't answer that question. No, I can't
Speaker 2: think of one reason.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean not a specific reason, but in a
Speaker 4: more general sense, it's pretty obvious what the reason is.
Speaker 5: Can you say, think of a single reason someone would
Speaker 5: speak as slowly as Scott.
Speaker 2: Ellie, he doesn't talk.
Speaker 4: Really, Let's let's write it out with this, then we
Speaker 4: can discuss The FBI visited in November twenty twenty three
Speaker 4: to tell Lawler that China had access to his utilities
Speaker 4: computer network.
Speaker 2: He says the FEDS told him he was one of
Speaker 2: two hundred.
Speaker 1: How much of all of this is controlled remotely by computer?
Speaker 2: Alive?
Speaker 1: In his water treatment plant, Lawler showed us tanks of
Speaker 1: dangerous chemicals that are precisely controlled to deliver clean water.
Speaker 2: If you had control of these tanks.
Speaker 1: You've got control of Littleton, Massachusetts.
Speaker 2: You can poison the water. You can poison the water.
Speaker 2: That is stunning.
Speaker 4: So two hundred, maybe a thousand, who knows, We probably
Speaker 4: don't have any idea little water plants across America. And
Speaker 4: as they point out later in the story, what if
Speaker 4: China That was from the four star general said, what
Speaker 4: if China hit four different water treatment plants small towns
Speaker 4: spread across America? The news the next day is all
Speaker 4: four of these towns. Their water is poison and they
Speaker 4: don't know what they're gonna do. Can you imagine how
Speaker 4: much that would rattle this country? All right, here's what
Speaker 4: they would do with the stock market. Please please, that's
Speaker 4: your child's play, what you're describing.
Speaker 2: Then the next day, three of the major cities in
Speaker 2: America the cell phone coverage would go out.
Speaker 4: Then the next day all of Texas would be dark
Speaker 4: because their power grid was taken down. And then Cheshin
Speaker 4: pingould call up Donald Trump and say, you want to
Speaker 4: talk about those tariffs again. Then they released the flying monkeys,
Speaker 4: which I assume they have also if.
Speaker 2: They have to.
Speaker 5: No, you see my point? Yeah, oh yeah, it need
Speaker 5: not be Taiwan. It's leverage ridges used, they need it.
Speaker 5: I wouldn't think you'd do that over bringing the tariffs down.
Speaker 5: I would assume you're hanging on to this for something bigger. Well,
Speaker 5: although once you establish we have complete power over your society, yeah,
Speaker 5: maybe you keep that under wraps for a little while.
Speaker 5: But why wouldn't that be good three weeks later when
Speaker 5: it was about the South China Sea, You know, would
Speaker 5: we say, oh, no, we've learned to live without lights
Speaker 5: in the internet.
Speaker 2: No, we'd be every bit is vulnerable. They'll use it
Speaker 2: over and over again.
Speaker 4: I don't think this is likely, but if they wanted
Speaker 4: to combine that with an actual attack, like to try
Speaker 4: to just actually militarily defeat us, that'd be a heck
Speaker 4: of a thing.
Speaker 2: Note to self stuck up on AMMO.
Speaker 5: Uh Yeah, we are as vulnerable as I think any
Speaker 5: foe has ever been. I mean hamas guys trotting around
Speaker 5: with not hamas Hesbulla guys kicking around with that they
Speaker 5: thought were just pagers are less vulnerable than we are
Speaker 5: as a society. I hope good people are getting to
Speaker 5: the root of this. But what can be done at
Speaker 5: this point is the are the good guy?
Speaker 2: Where's?
Speaker 5: And I don't have a tenth of the expertise I
Speaker 5: need to answer this question, but I think some of
Speaker 5: y'all might. Where is the battle between the good guys
Speaker 5: and the bad guys at this point? In keeping our
Speaker 5: systems secure or rooting out the evildoers when they're in
Speaker 5: the systems.
Speaker 4: Yeah, obviously that would be top top secret information. But
Speaker 4: as they pointed out on sixty minutes, it's really expensive
Speaker 4: in some tiny little town to try to root the
Speaker 4: Chinese out of your computer systems, put in a new
Speaker 4: computer system that's got all the most modern security to
Speaker 4: try to keep China from getting back in. It's a
Speaker 4: very very expensive thing to do. It's we have to
Speaker 4: do it. There's no other option.
Speaker 5: It's really a tear it down and build it up
Speaker 5: agains absolutely, and as I mentioned earlier, is pretty clever.
Speaker 5: China didn't get in there and put in some sort
Speaker 5: of spywear or something like that that you could eventually detect. No,
Speaker 5: they just have the password and the log in, and
Speaker 5: if they ever need it the log in, mess with
Speaker 5: the chemicals and make your water poison. And I would
Speaker 5: guess that it's more than just having a password. They
Speaker 5: have access to, you know, every keystroke of various employees
Speaker 5: or whatever, because passwords change.
Speaker 2: But yeah, and who knows how they got in.
Speaker 4: Might be the guy that worked at the water plant
Speaker 4: was on TikTok with his company phone.
Speaker 2: Who knows.
Speaker 5: I need to reach out to some military sources. If
Speaker 5: all of a sudden we had zero cell phone service
Speaker 5: in the United States, could the military continue to function?
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Speaker 4: So I'll look at it this way, scale of one
Speaker 4: to ten, ten being absolutely yes. What's the chances that
Speaker 4: China poisons water in a handful of towns, shuts down
Speaker 4: our cell phone, drone launch on air bases from the
Speaker 4: land they bought around our military institution, something like that
Speaker 4: in the next ten years? Uh ten, I'm a ten.
Speaker 2: Also, Yeah, I mean there are a number.
Speaker 5: Of different levels of attack. But if you if you're
Speaker 5: a fan of history, you know there have been various
Speaker 5: acts that have been done.
Speaker 2: That our government or whatever government has.
Speaker 5: Evolved, doesn't directly attribute to the evildoer, because if they did,
Speaker 5: there would be open warfare and people would be howling
Speaker 5: for vengeance. I can completely picture a shijin Ping saying
Speaker 5: send a message to the Americans, and you know, those
Speaker 5: many options that we've just been talking about. He exercises
Speaker 5: to some degree or another, just to send a message.
Speaker 5: You know, we're in this trade war thing over the
Speaker 5: rare earth materials and Trump just announced one hundred percent tariffs.
Speaker 5: It's obviously playing a bit of chicken. But why wouldn't
Speaker 5: you throw in a little Okay, tough guy, you're that tough,
Speaker 5: are you. Let's let's just take down the lights in Dallas.
Speaker 2: What are we going to do? Bomb them?
Speaker 5: Take down the lights in Wuhan. Probably don't have the capability.
Speaker 2: I hope we do. That's what I said about.
Speaker 4: It's such a clever way to get around the whole
Speaker 4: nuclear weapon conundrum. Right, Wow, what a time to be alive.
Speaker 4: I hope you found that interesting. I sure did. Chilling, terrifying.
Speaker 2: What was the thing you teased?
Speaker 4: I was excited about, completely different, important, different flavor here.
Speaker 5: Country singer Zach Bryan following the bud Light Hand a
Speaker 5: book for stardom in Modern America, How to screw with
Speaker 5: the core of your audience.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've been on this story for a while, been
Speaker 4: paying attention to it, stay tuned. So I've been following
Speaker 4: this Zach Bryan's story partially because I don't remember an
Speaker 4: artist or song that in real life I came across
Speaker 4: as often as him, so many women of different backgrounds
Speaker 4: and lifestyles that are so into his music. He's got
Speaker 4: away with touching women. That's something in the Orange song
Speaker 4: is just I don't know women dig it a lot.
Speaker 4: And he writes actual lyrics, unlike most country artists who
Speaker 4: just have like a computer program that cranks out the
Speaker 4: same freaking crap, and I mean crap over and over again.
Speaker 2: He is not that. But he stepped in it. How
Speaker 2: did he step in it? Recently?
Speaker 5: Bear dogs, pickup trucks, et cetera. Ah Yeah. He previewed
Speaker 5: his new song bad News on Instagram last week, featuring
Speaker 5: lyrics that were a not so subtle dig against Ice
Speaker 5: and President Trump. Uh bye, I heard the cops came
Speaker 5: cocky mother efforts, ain't they? And Ice is gonna come
Speaker 5: bust down your door. Try to build a house. No
Speaker 5: one builds no more. But I got a telephone. Kids
Speaker 5: are all scared and all alone.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I don't know if he stepped in it the way
Speaker 4: some people think he stepped in it based on for instance,
Speaker 4: some things Marjorie Taylor Green said over the weekend. I
Speaker 4: don't know if you saw that, but she's talking about
Speaker 4: we got to do something different here. I mean my constituents.
Speaker 4: We got a lot of people just doing regular work.
Speaker 4: Part of the communities that I represent that you know,
Speaker 4: are here illegally and have been for a long time.
Speaker 2: This whole round and people.
Speaker 3: This is from.
Speaker 4: Marjorie Taylor Green, who's as maga as you can get,
Speaker 4: and I think her and Zach Bryan are a certain
Speaker 4: segment of you know, that part of America. He is
Speaker 4: from smalltown Oklahoma, I mean, self produced his first two albums,
Speaker 4: became a YouTube sensation, and then got booked by a
Speaker 4: record label. He's one of those kind of people. But
Speaker 4: I think he's representing the same kind of thinking that
Speaker 4: Marjorie Taylor Green was talking about.
Speaker 2: Well, I'll wash down.
Speaker 5: Here mumbo jumbo with a nice cold bud light with
Speaker 5: Dylan mulvaney and WelCom Paaran Oakes, Jack No, I see
Speaker 5: your point exactly. And for the record, super glad Trump
Speaker 5: and company of sealed the border. It's astounding the extent
Speaker 5: to which illegal immigration has just stopped.
Speaker 2: Could have been done all along time, right.
Speaker 4: Which puts yeah, exactly a lie to the whole Biden Harris,
Speaker 4: what could we do? We're constitution, we need the Republicans
Speaker 4: need to pass a bill. That's why we can't. Okay, Well,
Speaker 4: that's funny. Trump was able to like take it from
Speaker 4: the biggest migration in human history to zero people crossing
Speaker 4: in a couple of months.
Speaker 2: An amazing achievement. And they were liars and incompetent.
Speaker 5: But my point is, for years and years, we as
Speaker 5: a country, like every level of government, sent the message,
Speaker 5: come on in, we need the workers, we need the
Speaker 5: young people, we need workers. And a lot of people
Speaker 5: are looking at the folks who heeded that call and
Speaker 5: have followed the law and worked hard and look at
Speaker 5: America as the land of opportunity and saying, wait a minute,
Speaker 5: we can't just heave them out now. It's not right.
Speaker 5: It might be the law, but it's not right. You know,
Speaker 5: the truth is somewhere in there, somewhere in the middle,
Speaker 5: probably right. Yeah, And I hear you people yelling at
Speaker 5: the radio. They're here legally kick him out, but.
Speaker 4: Politically as opposed to legally, the fact that you have
Speaker 4: MTG and Zach Bryan on the same page with this,
Speaker 4: and they're both people of the right. Is that's that's powerful,
Speaker 4: that's got to get Trump's attention. He usually has his
Speaker 4: finger on the pulse of that sort of thing.
Speaker 5: Right, How big a deal is Country singer Buddy Brown,
Speaker 5: I do not know, okay, because I was gonna say
Speaker 5: he takes some pretty good shots at Zach, But you know,
Speaker 5: if it's to cite an old guy rock reference or too,
Speaker 5: if it's like Tommy two tone taking a shot at
Speaker 5: Mick Jagger, I mean, nobody cares.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 4: I have a feeling whoever wrote that story just needed
Speaker 4: to have some quotes from somebody to make it seem
Speaker 4: very exciting.
Speaker 5: He did unleast this line though, that I thought was
Speaker 5: pretty good. He reminds me of a middle school desk
Speaker 5: inked up an unstated.
Speaker 2: That's a good line. Okay.
Speaker 5: China's coming at us with psychological warfare as well. We
Speaker 5: ought to talk about that, some of the ridiculous things
Speaker 5: about seeing being said about the peace deal in the
Speaker 5: Middle East, some interesting.
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