Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
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Speaker 2: Jetty and he arms wrong yet.
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Speaker 3: walk in and out of here. So far nobody's wanted to.
Speaker 4: But we're ready.
Speaker 2: Today. We are toiling under the title of the show,
Speaker 2: and the winner is.
Speaker 4: Are a tradition unlike any other. The Masters of the
Speaker 4: Golf tournament starts. Yes, the Master starts today. It's my
Speaker 4: super Bowl. It's a four day super Bowl. Is Tiger playing?
Speaker 4: He might be playing on the prison softball team.
Speaker 3: So, at least as of a couple of hours ago,
Speaker 3: not a single the Strait is open. According to Donald Trump,
Speaker 3: the Straight of Horror Moves is open. Not a single
Speaker 3: oil tanker has gone through in the last twenty four hours,
Speaker 3: and only four boats total bulk cargo vessels. Fewest number
Speaker 3: of boats going through the strait since this whole thing started.
Speaker 2: Happened the day it was declared open.
Speaker 4: It's open, ish What so that even me, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I have no idea what's going on. I don't think
Speaker 2: anybody else does either.
Speaker 4: I have actually occupied myself this marn by reading several
Speaker 4: different analyses of who won, who lost, where everything stands,
Speaker 4: and they contrast with each other fairly significantly, and none
Speaker 4: are either like super trumpy or Trump deranged. They're all
Speaker 4: pretty good, solid analysts.
Speaker 2: It's tough to know.
Speaker 3: But how can you have a who won or who lost?
Speaker 3: At this point it seems like we're in the middle
Speaker 3: of it or in the beginning of it. Yeah, that
Speaker 3: verbiage is bad. It's who has gained advantages and who
Speaker 3: has lost advantages, who's gotten stronger or weaker?
Speaker 4: And in what ways? That's more what they're asking. How
Speaker 4: it seems to be and this I have a feeling
Speaker 4: you're heading towards this. But there seems to be a
Speaker 4: fairly confident assumption that Trump's done with the heavy stuff.
Speaker 4: Oh really, He's kind of decided out of the costs
Speaker 4: are too high.
Speaker 2: Well, he said, he.
Speaker 3: Truthed out late last night that all US ships, aircraft,
Speaker 3: military personnel, ammunition, weaponry, anything else that's appropriate and necessary
Speaker 3: for the prosecution and destruction of our enemy will remain
Speaker 3: in place.
Speaker 2: How long can you keep the gun cocked? I know it.
Speaker 3: You can't do it permanently. Obviously not permanently, but long
Speaker 3: term it's pretty hard to do. I mean, if he
Speaker 3: was going to follow through in his threat of whatever
Speaker 3: he meant, he wasn't going to destroy the civilization, but
Speaker 3: whatever he was going to do, is that still on
Speaker 3: the table. That was the only point of leverage we
Speaker 3: had or he felt like he had Monday morning.
Speaker 4: Right, that's the question. And I have a feeling he's
Speaker 4: going to have the Gulf States in his ear, and
Speaker 4: well really all sorts of countries in his ear trying
Speaker 4: to push him one way or another.
Speaker 3: I was just reading my morning newsletter that I like
Speaker 3: complaining that, So why is Islama DoD Islama Bob the
Speaker 3: capital of Pakistan? How did they end up being the negotiators?
Speaker 3: They're the country that hid bid laden from us? How
Speaker 3: are they our fair broker? India is asking the same thing.
Speaker 3: I don't No, it seems bizarre to me.
Speaker 4: Maybe because they know all the actors and can get
Speaker 4: them in a room.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 3: I don't even know what to say about this At
Speaker 3: this point. I'm pretty concerned that what's going to end
Speaker 3: up happening is that Iran is going to actually get
Speaker 3: to continue their nuclear program. The regime is going to
Speaker 3: stay in place, and they're going to continue their nuclear program.
Speaker 4: I think that's probably the most likely outcome. Every sale
Speaker 4: they do has been set back by months, years, a decade,
Speaker 4: but they've they've decided, Hey, controlling shipping totally works. Man,
Speaker 4: we can get anybody to do anything. This is our
Speaker 4: new gig.
Speaker 2: Will they ever let the straight open back up again?
Speaker 4: Great question? And what will the world do about it
Speaker 4: if they don't. Will Europe ever find it's a bullocks
Speaker 4: as they might say in Great Britain and assert itself
Speaker 4: in any meaningful way?
Speaker 2: Can they certa in case you don't know.
Speaker 3: Currently An Iran is demanding that oil tankers passing through
Speaker 3: the state make toll payments in the form of cryptocurrent currency.
Speaker 3: You can use bitcoin, you can use Trump Family USD
Speaker 3: one if you want to to boy which would old
Speaker 3: family make actually stated?
Speaker 2: You can pay in Trump crypto if you want.
Speaker 3: Vessels have been told to email Iranian authorities prior to
Speaker 3: passage through the area with details regarding their cargo. Which
Speaker 3: authorities will then respond with a quote for how much
Speaker 3: we're charging. You reportedly set at a dollar per barrel
Speaker 3: of oil.
Speaker 2: And these ships are absolutely enormous.
Speaker 3: And that's where he came up with the number you
Speaker 3: were hearing all day yesterday, somewhere around two million.
Speaker 2: Dollars a boat to get through.
Speaker 4: Wall Street. Journal writer I can't remember who had an
Speaker 4: amusing and revealing and somewhat disturbing article today. He wrote
Speaker 4: up Iran's new plan as an IPO, as an initial
Speaker 4: public offering of a company to buy stock in the
Speaker 4: new projections, their business model, the risks that they face,
Speaker 4: and that sort of thing, to run this as a
Speaker 4: brand new business that would clear billions and billions of
Speaker 4: dollars a year and finance their military and their nuclear programs.
Speaker 4: It was quite interesting.
Speaker 3: I was reading some finker on the right. It might
Speaker 3: even have been newt Gingrich h might have been anyway.
Speaker 3: It was somebody making the argument that Iran is just
Speaker 3: doing what they always do. They're just dragging this out
Speaker 3: and then we either get tired, or the election gets
Speaker 3: close enough, or the public polling turns bad enough or
Speaker 3: whatever that we just kind of give up, and then
Speaker 3: they continue on their merry way to trying to get
Speaker 3: a weapon and ruling that country with an iron fist
Speaker 3: and probably hanging even more college.
Speaker 4: Students and the utterly brutal transactional leaders of Iran have
Speaker 4: found levers that work with Trump. Maybe maybe that's the
Speaker 4: way it kind of smells from here, but who knows.
Speaker 4: By noon today, certainly next week, it could look completely different.
Speaker 4: So many question marks.
Speaker 2: I don't understand.
Speaker 3: How the how the why. We'll play some of these
Speaker 3: clips later. How Trump and JD. Vans can go out
Speaker 3: and say, look, it's a it's been a bumpy start
Speaker 3: to the ceasefire. They're talking about the rockets going back
Speaker 3: and forth. Yeah, I get that. I'm enough of a
Speaker 3: student of the End of Wars to know that that happens.
Speaker 3: But usually the two sides are talking out loud with
Speaker 3: things they agree on while the sloppy ceasefire begins and
Speaker 3: then starts to hold that's not what's going on here.
Speaker 2: Each side is saying, you know.
Speaker 3: This is a cat, this is a dog, the different sides,
Speaker 3: and there's no indication that anybody's budging at all, And
Speaker 3: so Trump and JD are saying, no, the strait is
Speaker 3: open Iran's agreed to it. While the facts on the
Speaker 3: ground are the fewest ships went through the Strait of any.
Speaker 2: Day since the war started.
Speaker 3: It's not only not open, it's more closed than it's
Speaker 3: been at any point.
Speaker 4: Boy, and that that Trump crypto thing disturbed me. How
Speaker 4: about that that's combined by Trump hinting the other day
Speaker 4: of the day, and you know they're gonna charge it tollin.
Speaker 4: We'll get a cut of the revenue, because Trump is
Speaker 4: big on getting a cut of the revenue, whether it's
Speaker 4: in video or you know, some other tech ventures or
Speaker 4: what have you. Combined with oh, it'll totally pump up
Speaker 4: the Trump cryptocurrency. I just I pray that's not true.
Speaker 4: I pray that's not what's happening here. Well, that's what
Speaker 4: he said early in the day on ABC News. He
Speaker 4: backed off it later in the day.
Speaker 3: I don't know if somebody got in his ear and
Speaker 3: said that that doesn't look good that whole Yes, Michael. Now,
Speaker 3: if you're a shipper and you write a check, they
Speaker 3: got to hold it for forty eight hours and make
Speaker 3: sure it clears.
Speaker 4: Apparently the Iranians, oh man, that's inconvenient in the modern day,
Speaker 4: will you take a two party out of state.
Speaker 2: Check no about a coupon? Do you take cukonon? Uh? Yeah,
Speaker 2: So I don't know, I don't know. I have no
Speaker 2: idea where this is going.
Speaker 4: Well, that Mulla is holding a spring sail, do you
Speaker 4: take percent off shipping this month? Only come through the
Speaker 4: most the nicest straits on Earth. So and then just briefly,
Speaker 4: we'll talk more about this later.
Speaker 3: There's there's a book coming out soon, one of those
Speaker 3: insider books with lots of leaks coming out of the
Speaker 3: White House that the New York Times has started putting
Speaker 3: out excerpts of. And the excerpt that came out in
Speaker 3: the last twenty four hours was all about Bibi NETANYAHUO
Speaker 3: coming to the White House and giving a big PowerPoint
Speaker 3: presentation on what we should do to take down Iran,
Speaker 3: and it looking like we took his advice and Trump
Speaker 3: is not digging that and pretty angry at whoever leaked
Speaker 3: that or whatever.
Speaker 4: Oh that might explain is like really strong statements about Israel. Oh,
Speaker 4: it's absolutely in the last couple of days, Yeah.
Speaker 3: Israel's continuing to fire on Hesbalah and saying that's not
Speaker 3: part of the ceasefire, and Trump, jd Vance and Trump
Speaker 3: yesterday said it's not part of the ceasefire, but then
Speaker 3: they acted really angry about it later in the day.
Speaker 3: So I don't know. Again, I don't know what's going on.
Speaker 3: Oh boy, facts on the ground don't match up with
Speaker 3: what people are saying.
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Speaker 3: It is Thursday, April ninth, the year twenty twenty six,
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Speaker 3: We basically have two countries that have been fighting so
Speaker 3: long and so hard that they don't know what the
Speaker 3: fuck they're doing. Do you understand that that's new, yes,
Speaker 3: because I remember him saying that a couple of years
Speaker 3: ago about Israel.
Speaker 4: Do we have the providence that was outside the White House?
Speaker 4: Do we have the date line, the circa anybody, somebody, anyhoy.
Speaker 2: Let's verifying.
Speaker 3: Let's before when he first started getting involved in the
Speaker 3: Israeli conflict. Do you think before we take a break
Speaker 3: and get the Kati's headlines, do you think it's still
Speaker 3: on the table for the whole end of civilization strike
Speaker 3: that we had our gun cocked for forty eight hours ago.
Speaker 4: I would certainly hope.
Speaker 2: So.
Speaker 4: Yeah, But like I said, several of the learned commentators
Speaker 4: I was reading seemed to think that now this is
Speaker 4: a clear signal that we decided not to bring that
Speaker 4: hammer down. Trump decided not to.
Speaker 3: So that clip was from twenty twenty five? Why was
Speaker 3: that our opening clips? I thought that sounded familiar. I
Speaker 3: remember him saying that, yeah.
Speaker 4: Wait a minute, there will be firings, mass firings, masks,
Speaker 4: a purge, mass firings. Oh yeah, yeah, wow. You ever
Speaker 4: heard of Pam Bondy? Huh seems what's her name?
Speaker 2: Ice?
Speaker 3: Barbie Michael overreaction, thought that clip sounded familiar to me. Anyway,
Speaker 3: We've got Ketty's headlines on the way and all the
Speaker 3: latest news, and maybe some news from middle of twenty
Speaker 3: twenty five, also here on the Armstrong and Giddy Show.
Speaker 3: So you're saying Tiger Woods is not playing in the Masters.
Speaker 2: Which begins today.
Speaker 4: No, Indeed, the swoll has been is pilled up somewhere
Speaker 4: of his choosing jack and will not be.
Speaker 3: In accustomers cleaning around a neighborhood somewhere right now, or well,
Speaker 3: he's in a European rehab right.
Speaker 4: Right, so he's not even at the Champions dinner, which
Speaker 4: is for in the golf world. You just don't miss
Speaker 4: it anyway, Ah, glad you're here a ton to get to.
Speaker 4: Let's figure out who's reporting on. It's the lead story
Speaker 4: with Katie Green, Katie ay.
Speaker 5: Right, starting with the alphabet networks ABC. Trump vows quote
Speaker 5: bigger and better Iran attacks if dial is not reached.
Speaker 5: CNN us I ran ceasefire holding despite Lemanon, Lebanon strikes
Speaker 5: and restricted streets of Hormuz, and NBC Iran warns of
Speaker 5: quote strong responses as Israel's attacks on Lebanon threaten the ceasefire.
Speaker 3: Israel's definitely taking this opportunity to.
Speaker 2: Wipe out all of their enemies.
Speaker 4: Good like go ahead the Misha, Yeah, yeah, I have
Speaker 4: no problem. I'm not sure there was a single phrase
Speaker 4: you uttered, Katie and all of those headlines that wasn't
Speaker 4: like open to interpretation.
Speaker 2: Sure, hall of mirrors shrouded in fog. I also think
Speaker 2: Trump's threat just doesn't work as well now.
Speaker 3: It just doesn't feel the same as it did with
Speaker 3: the forty eight hour White Civilization off the planet deadline.
Speaker 2: So I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't know if it reads the same way to them.
Speaker 6: From Newsweek.
Speaker 5: Automatic military registration for eligible US men to begin in December.
Speaker 2: We don't are already registered.
Speaker 6: I guess automatic registration.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, I don't know if that's much of a change.
Speaker 5: From the Free Beacon. Federal judge authorizes evictions that condominium
Speaker 5: besieged by sprawling homeless encampment.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, that the county in Maryland, Ultra Blue County,
Speaker 4: let the bum camp take over and drive people out
Speaker 4: their homes, out of their homes.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 6: New York Times.
Speaker 5: US fertility rate drops to another record low.
Speaker 2: What is it?
Speaker 5: Fifty three point one per thousand and.
Speaker 6: Fifty three point eight?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's it's lowest it's ever been.
Speaker 4: I've got more information on that too, crazy.
Speaker 2: Yipes, axios. And that's with letting in lots and lots
Speaker 2: of people who are more likely to have babies.
Speaker 3: If we were, you know, hostile to any immigration like China,
Speaker 3: for instance, what would our birth rate be then? And
Speaker 3: for the first time ever, more women gave birth in
Speaker 3: their thirties than their twenties that's wold first time.
Speaker 2: That's not surprising.
Speaker 5: No, Axios gen Z's fading AI hype. Teens and twenty
Speaker 5: somethings are less excited about the technology.
Speaker 4: Well they'll it'll render them unemployable. So I get their
Speaker 4: lack of enthusiasm.
Speaker 5: So when from the Daily Mail quote, I'm still alive,
Speaker 5: says Michael J. Fox after embarrassing CNN error fueled death rumors.
Speaker 2: Did CNN tell the world Michael J. Fox was dead?
Speaker 5: They have this big headline across their website that said,
Speaker 5: remembering the life of Michael J. Fox, and everybody lost
Speaker 5: their s.
Speaker 6: Thinking he was dead.
Speaker 2: He was watching CNN and airport and thought to make
Speaker 2: a phone call.
Speaker 4: Yes, I feel pretty alive.
Speaker 5: Yeah, New York Post stressed gen Z is carrying around
Speaker 5: anxiety bags.
Speaker 3: Well, I was gonna men later, So we can tie
Speaker 3: that in with your earlier headline. How can everybody in
Speaker 3: their twenties be so anxious, stressed out, miserable, yet deciding
Speaker 3: that having kids.
Speaker 2: Would be a bad idea?
Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, The sense of purpose would take
Speaker 3: care of all that stress and anxiety.
Speaker 4: I think, Oh yeah, there's nothing like being busy to
Speaker 4: diminish stress and depression.
Speaker 2: Everybody knows it. There was zero.
Speaker 4: Anxiety and depression when he had to plow a feel
Speaker 4: from down till dusk. No, I'm not saying everybody needs
Speaker 4: to do that all the time, but you get my meaning.
Speaker 5: And I couldn't pick between two Babylon Bees this morning,
Speaker 5: so we have two.
Speaker 6: This one from the Babylon Bee.
Speaker 5: Nike releases new Tiger Woods ad campaign quote, just use
Speaker 5: your billion dollars to hire a full time driver.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Or as astronauts reached the farthest Eddie human has been
Speaker 5: from Earth, mission specialist is pretty sure he left.
Speaker 6: The oven on. I have done that except with the
Speaker 6: hair straightener.
Speaker 3: Oh, we got to play this thing. Jd Vance said
Speaker 3: about his wife in skydiving and uh and Iran getting
Speaker 3: nuclear weapons.
Speaker 2: Pardon me that I have these headphones working correctly?
Speaker 3: What and try to figure what that means among the
Speaker 3: other things we can discuss today.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I'll absolutely bring you kind of a digest
Speaker 4: of different opinions of where this whole thing is. And
Speaker 4: there's all sorts of fair unrelated to Iran too that
Speaker 4: we can talk about.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it turns out the cops think that dude pushed
Speaker 3: his wife off the boat as a shock all you
Speaker 3: almost fooled us.
Speaker 2: Good God if.
Speaker 3: You missed the secmek at the podcast Armstrong and Getty
Speaker 3: on demand arm Strong and Getty.
Speaker 7: I can't stop thinking about how grass lawns are racist
Speaker 7: and like based in white supremacy. If that doesn't make sense,
Speaker 7: that's okay, I guess it seems really obvious to me.
Speaker 7: It's it's really upsetting. Bring back weeds, bring back clover yards. Look,
Speaker 7: can we just can can anything just be okay in
Speaker 7: its natural state? Or do we just have to whitewash everything,
Speaker 7: make it a competition and use it as a sign
Speaker 7: of your worth as a human being in society?
Speaker 2: Like can we just have Yes?
Speaker 3: Much better that you delayed having kids until your thirties
Speaker 3: to you know, get your act together in your twenties
Speaker 3: to even get start speaking worry about lawns being racist
Speaker 3: and had to be rage bait, right, that's what I
Speaker 3: don't know.
Speaker 4: My lawn is racist? But yeah, it's the wrong.
Speaker 2: I watched it several times. She's if if.
Speaker 3: If she's making that up, she's a really good actress. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 3: I would agree.
Speaker 4: I think that was one hundred percent sincere judging by
Speaker 4: other things I've seen. I was talking to our gardener
Speaker 4: the other day and I said, look at that over there,
Speaker 4: it's all patchy. Next thing, you know, will be minorities.
Speaker 4: You've got to make the lawn look nicer. I'm a
Speaker 4: white man and stern talking to Yeah, and it worked too.
Speaker 4: He just came right to heal. Yes, wow, these people
Speaker 4: are crazy.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 3: The fact that you'd even have to ask the question,
Speaker 3: is that reeler fake shows you how far down the
Speaker 3: road of craziness we are.
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, yeah, Before we get back to the theme
Speaker 4: of the birth rate and people in general not having
Speaker 4: kids and what that causes. As long as we're on
Speaker 4: this theme, Hey Michael, this is number twelve. Is a
Speaker 4: Canadian Mpmember of Parliament. You're gonna want to grab a
Speaker 4: pencil or a pen and a piece of paper because
Speaker 4: the code has just gotten longer.
Speaker 1: When the budget was released, I was shocked to find
Speaker 1: out that Prime Minister Carney is cutting seven billion dollars
Speaker 1: between Indigenous Services Canada and Crown Indigenous Relations. They provided
Speaker 1: zero dollars to deal with the ongoing genocide of MMIWG
Speaker 1: two slgbt QQIA plus this is abhorrent.
Speaker 3: That is abhorrent. That was a whole bunch of new
Speaker 3: letters I'd never heard before.
Speaker 4: I believe that Leah Gazon is a fella presenting himself
Speaker 4: as a woman or vice versa or something.
Speaker 3: Well, they they rolled that all those letters out though,
Speaker 3: like they've said that multiple times.
Speaker 2: Did I miss the update? Yeah?
Speaker 4: I think them must have must have memorized that.
Speaker 2: Can you roll?
Speaker 4: Can we jump into the middle of it?
Speaker 2: Michael?
Speaker 4: Is that possible?
Speaker 1: Of Indigenous women and girls two s l g b
Speaker 1: t q q I A plush?
Speaker 4: Did you jumped into the middle of the letters?
Speaker 2: A little further back.
Speaker 1: When the budget was released, I was shocked to find
Speaker 1: out that Prime Minister Carney is cutting seven billion dollars
Speaker 1: between Indigenous Services Canada and Crown Indigenous Relations. They provided
Speaker 1: zero dollars to deal with the ongoing genocide of m
Speaker 1: m i w G two s l g b t
Speaker 1: q q I A plus.
Speaker 4: This is abhorrent. Sorry to hear about the genocide m
Speaker 4: m i w G two s lgbt qqia plus. There
Speaker 4: can't be much left that the plus includes. I mean,
Speaker 4: how many more letters would there be if you eliminate
Speaker 4: the plus or the like three more or fifty.
Speaker 3: Well, and it's a genocide of that group that is
Speaker 3: going on.
Speaker 4: In their many incarnations. Yes, right under our noses. I'm
Speaker 4: anti genocide.
Speaker 1: Let the record show, particularly Indigenous women and girls to
Speaker 1: s lgbt qqia plus.
Speaker 4: Okay, where were we ies?
Speaker 3: Why the US fertility rate has hit a record low.
Speaker 3: A child bearing is shifted toward women thirty and older,
Speaker 3: and we are further below the level needed.
Speaker 4: To sustain the population. Nation's fertility rate hit record lows
Speaker 4: in twenty twenty five, surpassing the record low in twenty
Speaker 4: twenty four. For the six straight year. The number of
Speaker 4: children born in the US from meaned it roughly the
Speaker 4: same number. Do they break this out by immigration status?
Speaker 4: I wonder. I don't actually know that I heard.
Speaker 3: Anybody other than us talk about It's not people aren't
Speaker 3: choosing this, it's it's they think they are. But something
Speaker 3: happened to the beast with us being safe and comfortable,
Speaker 3: that we lost the desire.
Speaker 2: To have kids.
Speaker 4: I've didn't heard anybody talk about that other than us,
Speaker 4: and in age shockingly short time. Yeah, I believe that's
Speaker 4: what happened. Virtually everybody in the eighties. It desperate to
Speaker 4: get together, to being a couple, to couple off, to
Speaker 4: have sex, to be making out with somebody of the
Speaker 4: opposite or same sex. Don't ask, don't tell, uh. I mean,
Speaker 4: it was a damn near universal. We're also the richest
Speaker 4: we've ever been.
Speaker 3: That stuff We did earlier in the week that studies
Speaker 3: showing that the reasonasses shrunk is because so many people.
Speaker 2: Are upper class now.
Speaker 3: So the idea that well, I'm putting off having kids
Speaker 3: because you can't afford it, which is what a lot
Speaker 3: of people say, doesn't make any sense because our parents
Speaker 3: had kids, you know, living in an apartment with one car, because.
Speaker 2: The desire was so strong. The desire has gone away
Speaker 2: to have kids. That's the that's the story. Why.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think there there are some sociological like the
Speaker 4: mindset of society re children has changed, but that and
Speaker 4: I think that's a part of the stew. But I
Speaker 4: think that's like the carrots in the stew, and everybody
Speaker 4: ignores what you're saying, which I think is is the
Speaker 4: meat and potatoes and everything else, well, especially the instinctive.
Speaker 4: We had the data month or so ago that this
Speaker 4: is happening everywhere, rich country, poor country, populated, not populated
Speaker 4: first world, you know whatever. It's just country people are
Speaker 4: really hot people more homely countries as well. People have
Speaker 4: stopped having babies. Yeah, and so something happened this Yeah,
Speaker 4: Well our sperm count has dropped like by half.
Speaker 3: For yourself, Well, I have a microscope and I check
Speaker 3: it once a week, every every Sunday morning.
Speaker 4: That's a great policy. Very Yeah, I've been neutered, as.
Speaker 2: You know, count of one two my place stop moving,
Speaker 2: it gets.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: So sperm count has dropped a lot, but you know,
Speaker 3: it's people aren't trying to have kids. So it's not
Speaker 3: that that's causing the lack of kids. But I'll bet
Speaker 3: it fits in. For some reason, biologically, our male bodies
Speaker 3: decided we don't need sperm and and and also our minds.
Speaker 2: Have just decided, yeah, I don't need to I don't
Speaker 2: need to procreate.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm leaning towards that explanation. It could be that
Speaker 4: there's something biochemical going on environmentally plastics that's driven this microplastics.
Speaker 4: I don't know, uh, but I'm leaning towards something else. No,
Speaker 4: not that, not that canvas. Oh my lord, okay, Tucker,
Speaker 4: tuck Tuck. Anyway, I have a feeling. It's that we
Speaker 4: are like a deer population that senses that it's over crowded,
Speaker 4: there's no food, and so we stop reproducing until you know,
Speaker 4: the numbers are better. On line, we need wolves, more
Speaker 4: wolves on the touns.
Speaker 3: But it clearly is the thing, and it doesn't show
Speaker 3: any sign of reversing. So we need to restructure society
Speaker 3: around this at some point.
Speaker 2: You know, it's you're right.
Speaker 4: Nobody talks about what we're talking about but us. I'm
Speaker 4: looking at some of the demographers and experts being quoted
Speaker 4: in this article, and here's a typical person. Wendy Manning,
Speaker 4: demographer Bowling, Green State University quote. People are waiting longer
Speaker 4: to enter parenthood and probably want to make sure that
Speaker 4: things are said in their lives before they do so
Speaker 4: there might be a lot of uncertainty, and that might
Speaker 4: not be good for a society in general. Those things
Speaker 4: are true, but they were never a factor in having
Speaker 4: children prior to now. No, it could be I don't know.
Speaker 4: There's so many different possible explanations, but it could be
Speaker 4: what I'm always harping about, which is we are getting
Speaker 4: way more inputs all the time than human beings were
Speaker 4: ever designed to take in and we are overwhelmed. I
Speaker 4: don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 3: Well, I do know this, and this is annoying to
Speaker 3: people who don't have kids, perhaps, but nothing I've ever
Speaker 3: done in my life even comes close. I mean, it's
Speaker 3: not even in the same ballpark, the same universe for
Speaker 3: giving you a sense of purpose as having kids. So
Speaker 3: it's like being a different human being having kids as
Speaker 3: opposed to not having kids.
Speaker 2: For me, correct, So what does that do to society?
Speaker 3: If you have more of the other crowd that doesn't
Speaker 3: have this particular you design everything in your life around it, right,
Speaker 3: If you're not, I don't know what that does to
Speaker 3: the economy or certainly our government programs that are built
Speaker 3: on an expanding population that those don't work.
Speaker 4: And as always, don't take any of this as a
Speaker 4: judgment of you as an individual. We don't give a
Speaker 4: crap what you do, and I mean that sincerely. Live
Speaker 4: your life however you see fit. We're dedicated small libertarians.
Speaker 4: As your business is your business.
Speaker 3: Reminds me of a sein filled Comedians and Cars with
Speaker 3: Coffee where Jerry's talking to John Mulaney.
Speaker 2: Who at the time was a big advocate of being
Speaker 2: childless him and his wife.
Speaker 3: I'm not having kids, you know, no offense, And Jerry
Speaker 3: Seinfeld said, you can't offend me.
Speaker 2: I don't care what you think.
Speaker 4: Yeah, beautiful, But anyway, I was just going to point
Speaker 4: out that a lot of the explanations and rationales presented
Speaker 4: in this article having to do with, you know, costs
Speaker 4: of housing or getting your career started and traveling and
Speaker 4: having nice stuff and blah blah blah, none of those
Speaker 4: are incredibly powerful biological imperatives, whereas reproduction is. And the
Speaker 4: fact that that stuff would trump an incredibly powerful biological
Speaker 4: imperative is just something really, really big is happening. You
Speaker 4: can't rationally decide to ignore if you're falling in love
Speaker 4: unless there's something wrong with you.
Speaker 2: It's not a powerful biological imperative. It is the powerful
Speaker 2: biological imperative. That's what all beasts are designed to do.
Speaker 2: The only reason you continue.
Speaker 3: Breathing is part of to keep you alive so you
Speaker 3: can procreate. M Yeah, and we've decided we don't want
Speaker 3: to for some reason.
Speaker 2: So that's pretty.
Speaker 3: Amazing, which will cause a massive redesign of society. Oh god,
Speaker 3: I'd say I would like to at some point get
Speaker 3: to the fact that Yale Law School has been booted
Speaker 3: out of the number one ranking. It's held for a
Speaker 3: very long time, more than thirty five years.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 4: Your US News and World Report college rankings flawed. Everybody
Speaker 4: knows it. It's fine, we talk about it. But the
Speaker 4: reasons they got booted out are interesting, and it absolutely
Speaker 4: has to do with being woke. We'll see if we
Speaker 4: have time for that. I thought this was interesting. Ford,
Speaker 4: the Ford Motor Company, is hammering the Administration for relief
Speaker 4: because tariffs have pummeled the F one, fifty oh and
Speaker 4: and other American manufacturers. The large ones can lobby, the
Speaker 4: small ones are just screwed. A lot of the stuff
Speaker 4: that was tariffed are the inputs to the final assembly,
Speaker 4: and the brilliance of the American corporations have now gotten
Speaker 4: hosed because they can't get the aluminum, for instance.
Speaker 3: You know, I was at a big, big bed store
Speaker 3: the other day that we're going to start doing business
Speaker 3: with here on the show, and they were talking about
Speaker 3: how they had to adjust to the tariffs, and I thought,
Speaker 3: all right, the tariffs, that whole thing. Yeah, if you're
Speaker 3: a business person that actually had a real life effect
Speaker 3: on you. It wasn't just a topic on cable news.
Speaker 4: Right, and some of the costs have been spread around here,
Speaker 4: there and elsewhere in a way that hasn't brought like
Speaker 4: cataclysm or rampant inflation at this point. But it's it's
Speaker 4: a serious problem. It's not helping.
Speaker 3: Hey, Katie, we got a homework assignment for you. Can
Speaker 3: you write down all those letters from that woman and
Speaker 3: then try to look up what they all represent, because
Speaker 3: I would like to know that the w.
Speaker 4: M oh that was that was an I rollo. That
Speaker 4: was an I roll, not a problem, Jack m m
Speaker 4: I WG two lgbt q q I A plus.
Speaker 2: Well, it's for.
Speaker 3: The I have a feeling we're going to get a
Speaker 3: great deal of entertainment out.
Speaker 1: Of it, particularly Indigenous women and girls to s lgbt
Speaker 1: qq I A plus.
Speaker 4: Yeah, But that that was different. That like started right
Speaker 4: in the middle of that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, cuts off the beginning of it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we needed the whole thing with the m m
Speaker 2: oh oh oh oh wait a second play that again.
Speaker 1: Michael, particularly Indigenous women and girls to s l g bt.
Speaker 4: So that was that was the I double u g
Speaker 4: Indigenous women and girls. But she skipped he it skipped
Speaker 4: over the M M M before the I W two
Speaker 4: G s l g b t q r q I A.
Speaker 1: Plus zero dollars to deal with the ongoing genocide of
Speaker 1: M M I W G two s l g b
Speaker 1: t q q I A plus.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, how did you? How can you sit
Speaker 4: back and watch?
Speaker 2: Is it? Min mar?
Speaker 4: I believe it is? Yeah, undersized?
Speaker 2: Well, look at us. That's our homework assignment.
Speaker 3: And uh, we'll get to that probably an hour two.
Speaker 3: We got mail bag coming up. Stay here, boy, I
Speaker 3: just read a great piece by Noah Rothman in the
Speaker 3: National Review about what how the world could change if
Speaker 3: we just that this is the way we're going to
Speaker 3: do things having countries charge tolls for their waterways. This
Speaker 3: could change the whole world very very quickly. Oh boy,
Speaker 3: Maybe we'll get to that an hour or two. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I love that topic.
Speaker 4: Here's your freedom loving quotea today, sent along by Alert
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Speaker 4: for it on a map. It's from the Great Whig
Speaker 4: Henry Clay. He said this in eighteen forty Misrepresentation, falsehood, bribery, forgery, perjury,
Speaker 4: corruption of the ballot boxes have all been established upon
Speaker 4: the members of that democratic party. When one party employs
Speaker 4: such means, sooner or later in self defense and from necessity,
Speaker 4: the other party will be tempted to appeal to the
Speaker 4: sey arts, and the corruption of the whole mass will
Speaker 4: quickly follow. Then farewell to liberty, or goodbye, sweet America.
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Speaker 2: These are out of ordered.
Speaker 4: Dang it, where is it?
Speaker 2: The courtrooms out of orders?
Speaker 4: Good point, Tom, and Windsor writes a guy is on
Speaker 4: the topic of AI versus real musicians creating music, My
Speaker 4: only argument against your belief is that it's better to
Speaker 4: have artists creating music versus AI. Is Billie Eilish's speech
Speaker 4: of the Grammys. I welcome our computer overlords. Well played, Tom.
Speaker 4: Let's see a number of emails about the woke nut
Speaker 4: job Jennifer siebel Newsom, including this one.
Speaker 2: Uh call me a fascist.
Speaker 4: On the topic you're giving boys dolls visiting home my
Speaker 4: folks home, I found a shoebox and my old matchbox cars.
Speaker 4: I gave them to my daughter and she set up
Speaker 4: a day at the park narrative. Friends were meeting for
Speaker 4: a picnic. Someone twisted an ankle, but fireman because there
Speaker 4: was a fire truck. We're at the park working out,
Speaker 4: and an ambulance took the injured person to the hospital. Okay.
Speaker 4: Two years later I gave my son the same box
Speaker 4: of cars. He set up a multi car accident. The
Speaker 4: fire truck got t boned on the way to the accident.
Speaker 4: The ambulance also was struck as near the accident. The
Speaker 4: scene was overturned cars burning vehicles in mass Mayhem, same
Speaker 4: gene pool, same parenting, very different outcomes, same to us. Yeah,
Speaker 4: oh my god, that's great.
Speaker 2: Who's that? Ted?
Speaker 4: Well played, Ted, well done? This is so perceptive.
Speaker 2: J N. Wrights.
Speaker 4: Guys, when you played that clip of Newsom's wife pitching
Speaker 4: the idea that society's problems would vanish if we just
Speaker 4: put more women in the room, I immediately thought back
Speaker 4: to your Heaven on Earth discussion on the ang Extra
Speaker 4: Large podcast from years ago. Heaven on Earth was a
Speaker 4: book about socialism, specifically the part about those early communist theories,
Speaker 4: the theorists who are so detached from reality that they
Speaker 4: believed if you just organized society correctly, Conflict wouldn't just
Speaker 4: disappear among people, but even in the natural world following
Speaker 4: the global Communist Revolution, predators in prey would live in harmony,
Speaker 4: pure delusion dressed up as infl actual insight. And the
Speaker 4: similarity between that line of thinking in the first partner's
Speaker 4: comments were striking same brand of crazy. If we all
Speaker 4: just buy into other cockammy ideas, then suddenly all of
Speaker 4: society's problems melt away. It's not just optimistic, it's completely delusional. Yeah,
Speaker 4: great comparison. I got to reread that book in an
Speaker 4: hour or two.
Speaker 3: Will nail down all those letters in the new LGBTQ
Speaker 3: plus thingy so we all know them and can reproduce
Speaker 3: them at will to our Marxist overlords. If you missed
Speaker 3: the segment of the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand,
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