WEBVTT - Excuse Me, I've Been Drinking. 0:00:10.600 --> 0:00:14.840 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:14.960 --> 0:00:19.560 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong and 0:00:19.720 --> 0:00:21.239 Petty and he. 0:00:24.079 --> 0:00:24.919 Arms wrong. 0:00:34.159 --> 0:00:38.199 From the studio. See see Senor. It's a dimly lit. 0:00:38.280 --> 0:00:41.400 Room deeper than the bowels, the Armstrong and Giddy Communications 0:00:41.440 --> 0:00:46.519 Compound and uh. 0:00:45.360 --> 0:00:49.960 Today on Tuesday, we're under the general manager. Triffs. Tarriffs 0:00:50.000 --> 0:00:53.519 are our general manager. And you gotta say it like that. Tariffs. 0:00:54.720 --> 0:00:59.920 Triffs are an exciting topic, you know, Oh boy they are. 0:01:01.600 --> 0:01:06.680 That was dripping with sarcasm. I was just thinking how 0:01:07.959 --> 0:01:13.200 in the olden days what happened in the last like 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:19.520 dozen hours would be just such giant news. The United 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:23.480 States laid twenty five percent tariffs on Mexico and Canada, 0:01:24.400 --> 0:01:27.319 our closest trading partners, and then a ten percent tariff 0:01:27.360 --> 0:01:30.560 on China, an additional ten percent tariff in China, and 0:01:31.319 --> 0:01:34.360 halted all funding the Ukraine, who we've been supporting for 0:01:34.400 --> 0:01:38.520 three years. Both of those stories are just enormous, But 0:01:38.600 --> 0:01:42.240 we're so used to giant ebbs and flows and everything 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:44.000 like that, it just doesn't feel like it would have 0:01:44.040 --> 0:01:45.039 felt ten years ago. 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:49.440 Right right, the pace and significance of the news generated 0:01:49.480 --> 0:01:53.600 by the new administration is just crazy, hard to take in, 0:01:53.640 --> 0:01:57.560 hard to comprehend, never mind to form a response or 0:01:57.600 --> 0:02:00.600 an attack against it, as the Democrats would love to. Michael, 0:02:00.640 --> 0:02:02.960 do you have our theme music that we play for everything? 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:08.720 Welcome to Joe's provocative statement of the day. Joe's provocative 0:02:08.800 --> 0:02:15.040 statement of the day. The tariff moves will be the 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:18.880 undoing of the Trump administration. Wow, this is the landmine 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:21.239 they have laid that they are going to step upon. 0:02:21.480 --> 0:02:25.240 Economically speaking, So you wanted Kamla to win. That's intestable. 0:02:27.440 --> 0:02:28.120 Well played. 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:33.639 He got me, checkmate. No, I wish with every fiber 0:02:33.680 --> 0:02:38.280 of me. I hope I'm wrong. I think what this 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:41.000 is going to do to the economy, the stock market, inflation, 0:02:41.919 --> 0:02:46.240 working class people's lives ain't gonna be good. And again, 0:02:46.480 --> 0:02:49.760 I hope I'm wrong. I'm having a lot of trouble 0:02:49.800 --> 0:02:57.360 finding anybody of any you know, significant haft intelligence who disagrees. 0:02:57.639 --> 0:03:01.639 Well, the idea, right is that it doesn't last very 0:03:01.680 --> 0:03:03.360 long that countries realize. 0:03:03.360 --> 0:03:04.440 Wow, they're serious. 0:03:05.040 --> 0:03:10.360 So he's serious, really, And it's a dentistring argument around 0:03:10.840 --> 0:03:13.160 whether or not. And it seems like not to me 0:03:13.639 --> 0:03:17.200 that any president should have the power to do this 0:03:17.320 --> 0:03:20.080 sort of thing on his own, just an individual move. 0:03:20.160 --> 0:03:24.800 I mean, it's really it's tacks. It's a heck of 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:27.280 a thing. But according to the law, there has to 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:31.320 be a national emergency. But as we've seen throughout COVID, painfully, 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:35.680 executives at various levels apparently have the right to declare 0:03:35.720 --> 0:03:39.280 their own emergencies, sometimes on a fairly skinny pretext. 0:03:39.360 --> 0:03:39.920 No, that's right. 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:43.000 Why he keeps mentioning fentanyl from China and Mexico and 0:03:43.040 --> 0:03:44.960 all and coming across the Canadian mortar and that sort 0:03:45.000 --> 0:03:46.400 of thing, because that's the emergency. 0:03:46.400 --> 0:03:48.680 It's the drug thing, which is an emergency. I just 0:03:48.720 --> 0:03:49.800 don't know if it fits in with this. 0:03:49.880 --> 0:03:53.520 But anyway, that aside, this is what's happening, and the 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:58.160 hope is that these countries, particularly Mexico and Canada China 0:03:58.200 --> 0:04:02.839 is a different situation as they are are. Me, well, say, wow, 0:04:02.880 --> 0:04:04.840 he's serious, He's actually going to do this. And then 0:04:04.880 --> 0:04:07.160 there I heard this morning. It's either talk of or 0:04:07.160 --> 0:04:11.200 it's already decided that Honda's going to stop making the 0:04:11.240 --> 0:04:14.640 civic in Mexico and start making it in Indiana, for instance, 0:04:15.680 --> 0:04:18.159 that sort of thing will start happening, and enough of 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:20.080 that will happen, then okay, we can take the tariffs 0:04:20.080 --> 0:04:22.880 off now, or lower them or however that works in 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:27.120 the negotiation. Then it's not you know, permanent going forward. Yeah, 0:04:27.120 --> 0:04:28.560 that would please me, That would be great. 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:32.120 My concern is that, and this is a little complicated 0:04:32.120 --> 0:04:35.560 because they're as Jack indicated, you got our allies and 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:37.760 friends and neighbors, then you got China. 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:39.680 Just you got to put China over there with tear. 0:04:39.680 --> 0:04:41.760 If the crap out of them, we shouldn't do anything 0:04:41.760 --> 0:04:44.120 to help China, and if we have to, you know, 0:04:44.320 --> 0:04:47.160 suffer a little bit at the cash register. Again, not 0:04:47.200 --> 0:04:51.560 popular politically, but I get that completely. The problem I 0:04:51.600 --> 0:04:53.880 see with the like Canada and Mexico thing is there 0:04:53.920 --> 0:04:56.760 are a few that can make that move fairly quickly. 0:04:57.200 --> 0:05:01.480 It will be temporary until the moment somebody else comes 0:05:01.480 --> 0:05:05.240 into power, and so those that can make them move 0:05:05.320 --> 0:05:08.440 fairly quickly and fairly efficiently, like a big automaker, that'll 0:05:08.440 --> 0:05:11.360 go pretty well. But the idea that the tariffs are 0:05:11.360 --> 0:05:15.960 going to revive American manufacturing, if I'm a manufacturer would 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:18.640 be manufacturer. I'm thinking Trump's got three and a half 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:22.400 years left in office. These policies are are unprecedented and 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:27.240 not popular among you know, pro business people, congress people's senators, 0:05:27.320 --> 0:05:29.000 the rest of it. They're all shutting their mouths out 0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:31.279 of loyalty and or fear of Trump right now. But 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:34.400 it's the odds are very, very good it doesn't last 0:05:34.400 --> 0:05:36.320 more than three and a half years. So I'm not 0:05:36.360 --> 0:05:38.880 going to spend three and a quarter years building a 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:42.680 plant and investing millions or even more tens of millions 0:05:42.720 --> 0:05:46.480 of dollars if then the you know, the realities are 0:05:46.480 --> 0:05:48.040 trade including tariffs change. 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:49.360 Completely at the end of that. 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:51.880 So I just don't know how effective this could be 0:05:52.600 --> 0:05:54.760 in on shoring American manufacturing. 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:56.960 I'd love for it to be in a long term way. 0:05:56.960 --> 0:05:57.839 I'm just skeptical. 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:06.240 Some Republican congressman just introduced the Golden Age Act, which 0:06:06.240 --> 0:06:08.120 would put President Donald Trump. 0:06:07.800 --> 0:06:09.840 On the one hundred dollars bill. And you wanted to 0:06:09.880 --> 0:06:12.239 announce that very reasonable for a sitting president. 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:16.240 Yes, not at all, the sort of act that normally 0:06:16.279 --> 0:06:20.880 takes place behind closed doors. And he wants this ole guy, 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:22.640 he doesn't need you to do that to him. 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:26.520 Oh geez. He wanted to announce that on the day. 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:29.479 Because Trump addresses both Houses of Congress tonight, it will 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:31.760 look like a State of the Union address more or 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:34.760 less is and the State of the Union addresses aren't 0:06:34.800 --> 0:06:36.680 State of the Union addresses, so quit telling me. It's 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:38.400 not actually a State of the Union dress, neither of 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:39.360 the State of Union dress. 0:06:39.440 --> 0:06:41.400 So what does that even mean? Exactly? 0:06:42.120 --> 0:06:45.839 So, so he's going to address both Houses of Congress, 0:06:45.920 --> 0:06:48.920 and Congress people are in theory Democrats going to bring 0:06:49.200 --> 0:06:52.200 out of work government workers who doge has ruined their. 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:57.880 Lives, and they're going to be scattered throughout the chamber. Yes, Michael, 0:06:57.920 --> 0:06:59.760 do you think they'll be wearing like old clothes and 0:06:59.760 --> 0:07:01.599 look really poor, right, you know? 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:05.880 Or just like yeah, rags, barrels, unshaven, little stub of 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:10.120 a cigar, maybe munching hungrily on a crust of bread. 0:07:12.720 --> 0:07:14.240 Put their shoes up on the chairs so you can 0:07:14.240 --> 0:07:16.120 see that the bottom of holes in them. 0:07:17.080 --> 0:07:19.840 So not to jump in if you had a comment 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:20.640 on that, but it's funny. 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:23.000 One of our beloved listeners just sent us a link 0:07:23.080 --> 0:07:26.120 to a sketch from twenty ten from Saturday Night Live. 0:07:26.840 --> 0:07:31.040 The Government employee, The annual government employee Awards for twenty ten. 0:07:31.160 --> 0:07:34.520 I remember that, and we're gonna work on editing it 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:37.840 and bring it. It was very funny, yeah, and pretty long, 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:41.720 but anyway, but the point of it obviously is, you know, 0:07:41.800 --> 0:07:46.280 they're curly, they don't have to do anything, they're lazy, 0:07:46.360 --> 0:07:48.640 and that's of course not true of all government workers, 0:07:48.640 --> 0:07:51.960 but that is the popular perception. So trying to like 0:07:52.320 --> 0:07:57.360 build a narrative of national woe and disgust that the 0:07:57.520 --> 0:07:59.000 federal workforce was cut back. 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:00.400 Good luck Bill in. 0:08:00.320 --> 0:08:03.320 That narrative, right, right, Yeah, with your point being that 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:06.520 if it was it was fertile ground for Saturday Night 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:08.920 Lives audience, it certainly is fertile ground for the rest 0:08:08.960 --> 0:08:11.680 of the country, right, and mock the government worker. 0:08:11.720 --> 0:08:12.680 We should start speaking of that. 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:15.080 We should start the show officially before we get into trouble. 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:18.320 I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this. It is Tuesday, 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:21.680 March fourth, the year twenty twenty five, or Armstrong. 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:23.160 You're getting we approve of this program. 0:08:23.720 --> 0:08:27.040 Okay, let's begin then officially according to FCC rules and regulations, 0:08:27.080 --> 0:08:52.240 here we go at Mark or lefties singing anthems to 0:08:52.360 --> 0:08:56.320 something or other to change vines or something. 0:08:56.440 --> 0:08:58.600 Well, what was that group? What are they protesting? Or 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:02.200 matt about her? They're anti dogists? 0:09:04.240 --> 0:09:06.120 This joy I have, the world didn't give it to me. 0:09:06.200 --> 0:09:08.200 What's I got to do with doje? I'm just not 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:11.480 following here? No, well, what is what's to follow? 0:09:11.720 --> 0:09:14.400 I don't They're just it's not as good as some 0:09:14.400 --> 0:09:16.120 of the other protest songs like that. 0:09:16.240 --> 0:09:19.200 Which side are you on? That was a good one. 0:09:19.400 --> 0:09:21.000 Which side are you on? 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:26.560 Which side are you on? Which itself? We couldn't hold 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:29.080 a candle. There's a hole of the sky, well the 0:09:29.160 --> 0:09:30.240 tree once was. 0:09:30.400 --> 0:09:32.640 But it's you know, protests singing. It's part of the 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:36.360 great tradition. Jack Pete, seeger what he got three some 0:09:36.559 --> 0:09:37.240 other people? 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:43.440 You know the story. You know the story. We got 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:46.080 Katie's headlines on the way some mail bag. Yeah uh. 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:50.320 And we stopped all aid to Ukraine yesterday Trump announced. 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:53.720 That's that. None of that. I was watching that. I'm sorry. 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:55.080 More on that to come, but I was watching the 0:09:55.120 --> 0:09:59.559 tedious news this last night, feeling my joy speaking of 0:09:59.679 --> 0:10:02.360 joy being sucked out of me moment by moment by 0:10:02.400 --> 0:10:05.840 watching that, and one of the news is had some 0:10:06.160 --> 0:10:08.880 lefties chanting about something or other they were angry about it. 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:09.760 I don't recall what. 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:12.280 I was sitting there thinking, when was the last time 0:10:12.440 --> 0:10:15.960 anybody was convinced of anything by a group of people 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:19.720 chanting walking by and thinking, Wow, they're all repeating the 0:10:19.760 --> 0:10:23.640 same thing in unison. I need to think seriously about that. 0:10:23.640 --> 0:10:26.119 That hole in the side where the tree. 0:10:26.000 --> 0:10:30.400 Once was, somebody's making money, A. 0:10:30.320 --> 0:10:34.080 Hole in the sky where the tree once was, somebody's 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:35.360 making money. 0:10:36.040 --> 0:10:39.720 All right, Um, that's a good point, though, when was 0:10:39.760 --> 0:10:44.440 somebody convinced by a chant mom away fools? 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:47.720 What they're arguing for rhymes, so they make a good point. 0:10:48.880 --> 0:10:55.199 We've got Katie's headlines next day here, Artie. I'm more 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:59.079 concerned about a lot of the foreign policy stuff than 0:11:00.320 --> 0:11:03.200 inflation currently personally, but that's not what the polls show. 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:05.439 We didn't talk about this yesterday. CBS had some pulling 0:11:05.480 --> 0:11:09.920 out over the weekend. People are still by far mostly 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:13.920 concerned about the economy and inflation, but feel that the 0:11:13.960 --> 0:11:18.520 Trump administration is that is not their focus. Which you know, 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:21.520 you're predicting various things that could be trouble for Trump. 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:23.240 I think that one's going to be a problem for 0:11:23.280 --> 0:11:25.480 Trump if if people's perception is the main thing in 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:32.079 my life is inflation and your main thing is Ukraine border, tariffs, 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:36.120 various things that just that political divide will be a problem. 0:11:36.520 --> 0:11:39.440 Yeah, I left that out of my analysis and one 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:42.680 I call it my my shocking statement of the day, whatever. 0:11:44.280 --> 0:11:46.040 Was that's incredibly important to people. 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:48.640 And I've come across some accounts in conservative media of 0:11:49.120 --> 0:11:51.240 parts of the country that are heavily Trump but are 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:58.199 really really struggling with inflation and economic issues. And they also, 0:11:59.600 --> 0:12:02.400 you know, part of it that they perceive the main 0:12:02.440 --> 0:12:05.559 goals right now are the border and foreign policy and 0:12:05.640 --> 0:12:07.440 that sort of thing, But part of it's just no 0:12:07.480 --> 0:12:10.680 matter what they perceive, they are still struggling financially and 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:13.200 haven't seen anything done for them. And that's why I 0:12:13.200 --> 0:12:16.320 think if the tariff thing doesn't work like just right 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:19.000 the way you're describing it, it could be a huge 0:12:19.080 --> 0:12:22.320 negative right in the pocketbook for Trump's base. 0:12:22.360 --> 0:12:24.000 And again I'm not rooting for this. 0:12:24.320 --> 0:12:26.640 That just I see it coming down the line and 0:12:26.679 --> 0:12:27.839 I wonder if it's going to happen. 0:12:28.280 --> 0:12:29.120 Well, that'll be fun. 0:12:29.600 --> 0:12:32.000 Let's figure out who's reporting what it's lead story with 0:12:32.120 --> 0:12:32.720 Katie Green. 0:12:32.920 --> 0:12:36.720 Katie, thank you, guys, starting with the free beacon Honda 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:40.160 to move production to the United States ahead of Trump's 0:12:40.240 --> 0:12:41.120 Mexican tariffs. 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:41.800 Yeah, there you go. 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:44.160 That was a move they definitely wanted to have in 0:12:44.200 --> 0:12:47.520 the headlines, coinciding with the announcement and tonight's speech. 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:50.120 Yeah, we'll have to see. It's interesting. 0:12:50.160 --> 0:12:52.320 I read a big giant piece I almost brought it 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:54.360 to the show about when Apple announced what was it, 0:12:54.400 --> 0:12:57.600 five hundred billion dollars in new investments in America. A 0:12:57.720 --> 0:13:01.120 lot of that stuff was pre planned. Just repackage it 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:03.560 and kind of move the parentheses over here in the 0:13:03.559 --> 0:13:07.840 timeline over there. It happens every administration to curry favor. 0:13:08.080 --> 0:13:10.360 So some of that stuff, including this might be a 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:11.359 little overstated. 0:13:11.440 --> 0:13:12.600 Don't know. I have to wait and see. 0:13:13.440 --> 0:13:17.120 From the Independent again, So you'll wanted Kamla to win. Wow, exactly, 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:19.280 I hear genius would have saved the union. 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:20.000 That's my point. 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:25.360 Wow, Okay, from the Independent, Trump military aid cut will 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:29.600 hit Ukraine's frontline fight against Putin's forces within days. 0:13:29.800 --> 0:13:31.160 Yeah, this is a heck of a thing. 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:34.800 I mean, it went from and it was ridiculous for 0:13:34.800 --> 0:13:37.600 Biden to keep saying We're with you to the end 0:13:37.720 --> 0:13:42.840 to the end. Okay, that's that's fantastic, But what do 0:13:42.840 --> 0:13:45.839 you actually mean will be with you till the end? 0:13:46.160 --> 0:13:50.000 Now we're cutting off all support. 0:13:51.120 --> 0:13:52.360 How is this going to turn out? Well? 0:13:52.440 --> 0:13:54.760 Ian Bremer put up a video last night on his 0:13:54.840 --> 0:13:57.640 website with some real politic about Europe that I thought 0:13:57.679 --> 0:13:58.600 was damned interesting. 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:00.360 We need to get to maybe this power. 0:14:01.760 --> 0:14:06.000 Yeah, I think Zelensky's diplomatic f up will be seen 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:07.160 as one of the most. 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:09.240 Historic ones of those ever. 0:14:10.480 --> 0:14:16.080 And those blaming Zelensky for the blow up in the 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:18.760 Oval Office, they've got a hell of a good case. 0:14:19.680 --> 0:14:23.000 I think what's underrated is that meeting with Democrats right 0:14:23.120 --> 0:14:25.800 before he went to the White House, which was put 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:29.800 out in on social media by the Democrats saying we've 0:14:29.800 --> 0:14:32.640 advised Zolensky to give Trump the finger. He showed up 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:35.080 in his not a suit and gave Trump the finger 0:14:35.120 --> 0:14:37.560 more or less, and Trump was ready for it and 0:14:37.640 --> 0:14:38.880 already pissed off. 0:14:39.080 --> 0:14:44.320 Oh Man from ABC News families of North Korean troops 0:14:44.480 --> 0:14:51.640 captured in Russia will be executed. They're saying that the 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:54.720 soldiers that are fighting for Russia from North Korea will 0:14:54.800 --> 0:14:57.760 kill themselves before they get captured because if there's any 0:14:57.960 --> 0:15:01.480 thought that they might have given information Russia, their family's 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:02.120 gonna get it back. 0:15:02.160 --> 0:15:05.080 In North Korea, what a horrible, horrible country. 0:15:05.760 --> 0:15:07.440 Well, and some of the guys were literally they were 0:15:07.520 --> 0:15:10.000 unable to move or run or grab their gun. 0:15:10.040 --> 0:15:11.080 They're so badly injured. 0:15:11.120 --> 0:15:14.560 But nonetheless, as a message to the other North Korean troops, 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:17.920 Kim Jong un is going to execute their entire family, 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:21.440 just to make the point North Koreans. 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:24.040 Thing to do. Unbelievable that that can exist on the planet. 0:15:26.320 --> 0:15:31.280 From Reuters, car plows into German city, killing car plows 0:15:31.320 --> 0:15:34.400 into crowd. Excuse me, in German city, killing two. 0:15:35.280 --> 0:15:36.760 And was this on purpose or anything? 0:15:36.880 --> 0:15:39.120 Do we know they're investigating if it was an attack? 0:15:39.240 --> 0:15:42.200 Okay, it's almost certainly yet another. I think this is 0:15:42.280 --> 0:15:44.720 the third in the space of what a month jihadi 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:48.280 attack in Germany. From Breitbart dot Com. 0:15:48.920 --> 0:15:53.760 Real time AI voice tech will make Indian call center 0:15:53.880 --> 0:15:55.760 workers sound American. 0:15:56.080 --> 0:15:56.640 I love that. 0:15:58.280 --> 0:16:00.560 If I can understand them. Yeah, if it makes me, 0:16:00.880 --> 0:16:02.960 it makes it easier to understand. Did you hear this 0:16:03.080 --> 0:16:04.680 is a bit of a controversy. We'll talk about it 0:16:04.760 --> 0:16:09.440 more later. Adrian Brody wins Best actor partially for his 0:16:09.640 --> 0:16:12.680 unbelievable Hungarian accent that he does in the movie apparently, 0:16:13.080 --> 0:16:16.280 and they used AI to make his accent better throughout 0:16:16.320 --> 0:16:19.080 the film. And so that's become a big controversy, very 0:16:19.200 --> 0:16:21.200 controversy leading up to the oscars. 0:16:21.320 --> 0:16:27.120 Jack from The Guardian, more than half of adults worldwide 0:16:27.560 --> 0:16:31.080 will be overweight or obese by twenty fifty. 0:16:31.400 --> 0:16:35.400 Hey, Usa, USA, We've spread it around the world, so 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:36.880 half the world to be obese. 0:16:38.240 --> 0:16:38.480 Wow. 0:16:40.240 --> 0:16:44.040 And finally from the Babylon b Trump hangs up sign 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:46.840 in White House that says you must be this tall 0:16:46.960 --> 0:16:48.000 to receive foreign aid. 0:16:48.160 --> 0:16:48.600 I saw that. 0:16:51.160 --> 0:16:54.040 You know what the weekly world news headline or the 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:59.280 sun would be with this much obesity. Scientists are concerned 0:16:59.320 --> 0:17:03.080 that the the Earth's orbit will slow, leading to twenty 0:17:03.200 --> 0:17:04.080 five hour days. 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:07.800 We're weighing it down. 0:17:08.040 --> 0:17:12.000 Oh my god, my god. We can't drag our ass 0:17:12.080 --> 0:17:15.560 around the Sun anymore. Right, the Earth has gotten too heavy. 0:17:16.040 --> 0:17:19.119 Even the ability scooter. Yeah, years will be three hundred 0:17:19.119 --> 0:17:22.280 and seventy one days. More news on the way, stay here, 0:17:24.480 --> 0:17:25.600 armstrong and getdy. 0:17:27.119 --> 0:17:30.040 Ukrainian president of Lazzolenski was criticized for what he woarded 0:17:30.080 --> 0:17:31.439 the White House meeting on Friday. 0:17:31.640 --> 0:17:34.080 But in his defense, most suits his size come with 0:17:34.160 --> 0:17:36.159 a sailor hat and a giant lollipop. 0:17:41.440 --> 0:17:45.200 I believe Gutfell's a man of smaller stature himself. Is 0:17:45.240 --> 0:17:48.280 he not making a short joke? Okay? 0:17:49.000 --> 0:17:55.280 I just find the he's a shorter fellow shots to 0:17:55.359 --> 0:17:56.320 be a little dumb. 0:17:56.640 --> 0:17:56.840 Well. 0:17:56.960 --> 0:18:00.359 I'd rather not base our foreign policy on height or 0:18:00.400 --> 0:18:04.159 whether or not you wear your suit. But I understand, uh, 0:18:04.359 --> 0:18:07.240 I understand some of the issues around that, Yes, Katie, Uh. 0:18:07.960 --> 0:18:10.680 Not that it matters. He's five or five okay, a 0:18:10.720 --> 0:18:13.800 little guy, is that right? And it is fairly small. Okay. 0:18:14.520 --> 0:18:16.199 I don't know how we got into the heights. 0:18:16.320 --> 0:18:20.440 Very absolutely no significance, no at all, No, absolutely not 0:18:20.800 --> 0:18:21.560 any way. 0:18:22.080 --> 0:18:24.560 So, just to fill out this conversation a little bit, 0:18:24.640 --> 0:18:27.399 what led to Trump cutting off all aid to Ukraine yesterday, 0:18:27.400 --> 0:18:29.080 which I know some of you are happy about. 0:18:29.160 --> 0:18:29.399 I'm not. 0:18:31.560 --> 0:18:36.800 Uh. Zelensky in Europe, asked about the war ending soon 0:18:36.880 --> 0:18:38.560 in a peace deal, said it's the war's going to 0:18:38.600 --> 0:18:39.880 go on for a long long time. 0:18:40.400 --> 0:18:43.000 Trump did not like that. Responded to that yesterday in 0:18:43.040 --> 0:18:43.760 a press conference. 0:18:44.119 --> 0:18:48.400 President Zelensky supposedly made a satement today an AP. I'm 0:18:48.440 --> 0:18:50.200 not a big fan of AP, so maybe it was 0:18:50.240 --> 0:18:52.399 an incorrect sament. But he said he thinks there was 0:18:53.119 --> 0:18:57.080 gonna go on for a long time, and he'd. 0:18:56.920 --> 0:18:59.080 Better not be right about that. That's all I'm saying. 0:19:00.280 --> 0:19:03.239 Yeah, So Trump goes on to say, basically, you'd better 0:19:03.320 --> 0:19:05.240 not be right about that, because we're not gonna aid 0:19:05.320 --> 0:19:06.800 him anymore. And if the war goes on for a 0:19:06.880 --> 0:19:09.240 long time, you know, like you said Friday in the 0:19:09.320 --> 0:19:12.760 Oval Office, you don't have any cards. Russia's you know, 0:19:13.040 --> 0:19:16.040 gonna overwhelm you. And I hope this doesn't end up 0:19:16.040 --> 0:19:18.119 with Russia taking key, even owning the whole country. 0:19:18.320 --> 0:19:21.679 But the more I see, the more I think Zelensky 0:19:22.240 --> 0:19:25.320 messed up on multiple levels and was responsible for the 0:19:25.520 --> 0:19:26.480 ugly tone of the meeting. 0:19:26.760 --> 0:19:28.399 I'm pretty convinced of that. Interesting. 0:19:28.440 --> 0:19:30.840 On the other hand, I'm told by Trump World it's 0:19:30.880 --> 0:19:35.520 soon he'll be super tough on Putin. And because right now, 0:19:35.760 --> 0:19:40.639 given especially the cutoff of arms, Putin is gonna the 0:19:40.760 --> 0:19:43.080 idea that this is gonna end the war is hilarious. 0:19:43.320 --> 0:19:46.640 Putin's gonna think, yes, we're gonna keep going, We're gonna 0:19:46.720 --> 0:19:49.399 keep grinding We're gonna keep taking land until they run 0:19:49.440 --> 0:19:50.080 out of ammunition. 0:19:50.160 --> 0:19:52.480 Then we're gonna take the entire country. The idea that 0:19:52.560 --> 0:19:54.880 this will end the war again, to me is just silly. Yeah. 0:19:54.880 --> 0:19:56.760 They got into a bit of a debate on Fox 0:19:56.840 --> 0:19:58.920 and Friends this morning, and I was watching as several 0:19:58.960 --> 0:20:01.800 of the people on the couch, We're talking about Elon 0:20:01.960 --> 0:20:05.240 should cut off the starlink if Zilency's going to be 0:20:05.359 --> 0:20:08.720 like this so they can't communicate, and Brian killed me. 0:20:08.760 --> 0:20:12.120 It is like what Russia will take Keevan two days 0:20:12.160 --> 0:20:16.120 if that happens. Is that what you want? And so yeah, 0:20:16.280 --> 0:20:20.280 it's this whole conversation is making my brain hurt. But 0:20:21.440 --> 0:20:22.480 just wrap this up a little bit. 0:20:22.560 --> 0:20:24.439 Ian Bremmer, who we've had on the show a lot, 0:20:24.560 --> 0:20:27.680 is only more of a globalist than I am, and 0:20:28.960 --> 0:20:33.440 and you know, worries more about making sure Europe's happy 0:20:33.480 --> 0:20:36.680 than I do. But he had this to say. This 0:20:36.840 --> 0:20:38.880 is around the idea, and I think this is part 0:20:38.920 --> 0:20:41.080 of what Trump's trying to force. This gets to the 0:20:41.119 --> 0:20:42.960 column from Ross Do thought of the New York Times 0:20:43.000 --> 0:20:46.520 that we read yesterday, where Ross and the New York 0:20:46.520 --> 0:20:49.639 Times basically saying Trump's getting rid of old pretenses that 0:20:49.720 --> 0:20:52.200 have been gone for a long time. The United States 0:20:52.280 --> 0:20:54.600 can't run the world like it used to the world 0:20:54.640 --> 0:20:57.560 has changed too much. Europe is not as powerful as 0:20:57.600 --> 0:20:59.639 they think they are, and they need to either step 0:20:59.760 --> 0:21:02.920 up or something. But you know, times are changing, and 0:21:03.119 --> 0:21:05.359 Ian talks about it here, which I thought was really interesting. 0:21:05.720 --> 0:21:09.080 What the Europeans have to now figure out is are 0:21:09.400 --> 0:21:13.200 they prepared to be courageous? Are they prepared to step 0:21:13.320 --> 0:21:15.439 up even though they're not in the most powerful position. 0:21:15.520 --> 0:21:18.880 Are they willing to do after three years, after frankly, 0:21:19.400 --> 0:21:22.400 eleven years since the Russians invaded Ukraine, the first time 0:21:22.800 --> 0:21:23.800 they've stood back. 0:21:24.400 --> 0:21:25.160 They've stood by. 0:21:25.800 --> 0:21:30.800 They haven't stood up for their fellow Europeans. They've allowed 0:21:30.880 --> 0:21:33.760 the Americans to do the heavy lifting. And now they 0:21:33.840 --> 0:21:36.280 have a president president that is not willing to do that, 0:21:36.359 --> 0:21:39.280 and frankly doesn't agree with them anymore, doesn't agree with 0:21:39.400 --> 0:21:43.639 their values, doesn't care about shared values, only cares about power. 0:21:44.520 --> 0:21:47.080