1 00:00:11,039 --> 00:00:15,360 Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 2 00:00:15,400 --> 00:00:19,400 Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty. 3 00:00:19,360 --> 00:00:33,960 Speaker 2: Armstrong and Tecat and Hearty, who live from Studio C 4 00:00:34,880 --> 00:00:36,160 Speaker 2: see Senior. 5 00:00:36,520 --> 00:00:38,600 Speaker 3: Hey, We're in a dimly lit room deeper than the 6 00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:41,640 Speaker 3: bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications compound and on 7 00:00:41,720 --> 00:00:44,720 Speaker 3: a busy news Wednesday. We're under the tutelage of our 8 00:00:44,760 --> 00:00:49,520 Speaker 3: general manager. Who else? Trump? Trumpety Trump Trump. 9 00:00:51,080 --> 00:00:53,680 Speaker 4: So in the last twenty hours since we last talked 10 00:00:53,680 --> 00:00:58,200 Speaker 4: to you, they've fired half the Department of Education Ukraine 11 00:00:58,200 --> 00:01:03,160 Speaker 4: has agreed to a cease fire, the tariffs. 12 00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:04,680 Speaker 3: Saraphors have begun. That's right. 13 00:01:04,959 --> 00:01:09,200 Speaker 1: Tarff's kicked in at midnight, and Trump bought a red, bright, 14 00:01:09,280 --> 00:01:11,120 Speaker 1: red s plaid tesla. 15 00:01:11,959 --> 00:01:14,880 Speaker 3: All that's happened in the last twenty hours. There you go, 16 00:01:14,959 --> 00:01:15,600 Speaker 3: you're up today. 17 00:01:16,360 --> 00:01:22,000 Speaker 1: There you go. Anything you need to know? Wowser's I 18 00:01:22,040 --> 00:01:24,840 Speaker 1: was just reading a morning newsletter that I like to 19 00:01:24,840 --> 00:01:27,720 Speaker 1: read every day. In what might be a first ever, 20 00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:32,560 Speaker 1: literally every Wall Street Journal editorial today is critical of 21 00:01:32,600 --> 00:01:34,399 Speaker 1: Trump's policies. 22 00:01:34,680 --> 00:01:37,720 Speaker 3: Every single Wall Street Journal editorial. They think that's the 23 00:01:37,800 --> 00:01:41,679 Speaker 3: first time that's ever happened. Fairly devastating, yes, depending on 24 00:01:41,720 --> 00:01:44,960 Speaker 3: your take. Yeah, yeah, so you know, it doesn't mean 25 00:01:44,959 --> 00:01:49,040 Speaker 3: they're right. But and then you've got the thing I 26 00:01:49,080 --> 00:01:52,920 Speaker 3: mentioned about Ukraine has agreed to the. 27 00:01:54,480 --> 00:01:58,920 Speaker 1: Ceasefire plan, no idea if Russia has any interest whatsoever 28 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:02,120 Speaker 1: in this, I guess we'll find out, hopefully when they 29 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:05,120 Speaker 1: are a counterpart that has never ever argued in good faith, 30 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:08,600 Speaker 1: so that should be spicy, right. Yeah, Hopefully we're about 31 00:02:08,600 --> 00:02:12,200 Speaker 1: to see the other side of this where they pressure 32 00:02:12,280 --> 00:02:15,160 Speaker 1: the Russians to come to the table and here's what 33 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:17,720 Speaker 1: will happen to you if you don't play ball. Hopefully 34 00:02:17,720 --> 00:02:20,359 Speaker 1: we're about to see that. I'm not sure that's what's 35 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:21,079 Speaker 1: going to happen. 36 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:22,960 Speaker 3: Did see a. 37 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:28,760 Speaker 1: Business report about Russia's economy that we're going to play later, 38 00:02:28,800 --> 00:02:33,720 Speaker 1: But Russia currently has something like forty percent inflation. 39 00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:38,359 Speaker 3: Well that's inconvenient. 40 00:02:38,520 --> 00:02:40,919 Speaker 1: And like if you want to buy a house, it's 41 00:02:41,360 --> 00:02:45,919 Speaker 1: thirty five percent interest. That sort of thing is going 42 00:02:45,960 --> 00:02:49,680 Speaker 1: on in Russia, and so there's some belief that they can't, 43 00:02:49,760 --> 00:02:52,360 Speaker 1: you know, he can't hold out forever on this war 44 00:02:52,639 --> 00:02:56,680 Speaker 1: with that economic reality, and so perhaps he's feeling the pressure. 45 00:02:56,720 --> 00:02:59,520 Speaker 3: I don't know who knows. I've been hearing that, I 46 00:02:59,560 --> 00:03:02,639 Speaker 3: feel like for three years that their economy was devastated 47 00:03:02,680 --> 00:03:04,239 Speaker 3: and there's no way they could continue. 48 00:03:05,960 --> 00:03:11,280 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a complex stew of of what ifs, because 49 00:03:11,360 --> 00:03:14,000 Speaker 1: it's it's a difficult country to get a grip on 50 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:16,160 Speaker 1: the various dynamics that would be at play, whether it's 51 00:03:16,240 --> 00:03:17,480 Speaker 1: popular support. 52 00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:18,840 Speaker 3: Or the actual economic realities. 53 00:03:18,880 --> 00:03:23,120 Speaker 1: And to what extent are the oligarchs pissed off? Because 54 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:26,440 Speaker 1: Putin's control depends on the loyalty of the oligarchs mostly, 55 00:03:27,639 --> 00:03:30,959 Speaker 1: you know, to what extenter is security forces effective? And 56 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:34,040 Speaker 1: there are just tons and tons of question marks. That's 57 00:03:34,040 --> 00:03:38,400 Speaker 1: why they you know, they talk about criminologists who are 58 00:03:38,440 --> 00:03:43,240 Speaker 1: able to you know, gaze through the swirling mists of 59 00:03:43,320 --> 00:03:45,800 Speaker 1: Russian politics to figure out what the heck's actually going on. 60 00:03:46,720 --> 00:03:51,400 Speaker 3: Looking up at the headline on CBS education Department slashing workforce. 61 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:56,480 Speaker 1: No, no, there's gonna be no education in America. Kids 62 00:03:56,520 --> 00:03:57,640 Speaker 1: won't learn to read or write. 63 00:03:58,280 --> 00:04:02,760 Speaker 3: Right Here's they aren't. Yeah, exactly, here's a secret they're not. Now. 64 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:06,760 Speaker 1: Partly of education just doles out piles of money for 65 00:04:08,080 --> 00:04:11,920 Speaker 1: districts that comply with whatever federal whim comes down The Pike. 66 00:04:12,200 --> 00:04:14,440 Speaker 3: Yeah, so that's something. Well, we'll see. 67 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:17,119 Speaker 1: Well, yeah, you know, it's such an interesting mixed bag. 68 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:22,919 Speaker 1: And for new listeners, first of all, welcome, whether you 69 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:29,000 Speaker 1: love Trump or hate him or somewhere in between. We 70 00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:31,239 Speaker 1: will give you an update on how things are going. 71 00:04:32,800 --> 00:04:36,680 Speaker 1: I for one, am thrilled with ninety eight percent of 72 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:39,240 Speaker 1: the immigration stuff, and any of the stuff that's a 73 00:04:39,240 --> 00:04:41,880 Speaker 1: little excessive or a little fast, the courts will deal with. 74 00:04:41,920 --> 00:04:42,479 Speaker 3: It'll be fun. 75 00:04:43,279 --> 00:04:46,440 Speaker 1: Just love that, love the doge stuff, love the reign, 76 00:04:46,480 --> 00:04:49,839 Speaker 1: and in the Department of Education, which barely needs to exist. 77 00:04:50,040 --> 00:04:53,080 Speaker 1: There's so many things I love, but I join with 78 00:04:53,240 --> 00:04:55,919 Speaker 1: you know, the now I don't join with exactly, but 79 00:04:56,160 --> 00:04:59,000 Speaker 1: I'm sympathetic to the Wall Street Journal editorial board and 80 00:04:59,040 --> 00:05:03,280 Speaker 1: other folks who are saying, not just that I think 81 00:05:03,320 --> 00:05:06,080 Speaker 1: these tariffs are a mistake, because not everybody's saying that, 82 00:05:06,360 --> 00:05:09,800 Speaker 1: but they're saying, we don't know what he's doing and 83 00:05:09,839 --> 00:05:16,720 Speaker 1: he won't tell us right, and whip sawing American businesses 84 00:05:16,920 --> 00:05:20,679 Speaker 1: back and forth is just it's not a good thing. 85 00:05:22,080 --> 00:05:23,520 Speaker 3: And I am concerned. 86 00:05:24,320 --> 00:05:27,560 Speaker 1: Color me concerned but not certain, which makes me a 87 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:29,479 Speaker 1: bad talk show host. You have to be one hundred 88 00:05:29,480 --> 00:05:34,640 Speaker 1: percent certain about every topic every second. Anyway, I am 89 00:05:34,760 --> 00:05:40,000 Speaker 1: afraid that the not great stuff is going to derail 90 00:05:40,240 --> 00:05:44,200 Speaker 1: our ability conservative America. 91 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:45,560 Speaker 3: To do the really, really, really good stuff. 92 00:05:46,320 --> 00:05:48,560 Speaker 1: And some of it seems a little quick and unnecessary, 93 00:05:48,560 --> 00:05:50,000 Speaker 1: but we will all find out together. 94 00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:50,440 Speaker 3: Friends. 95 00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:54,360 Speaker 1: Eggs are up sixty percent since last year. Oh no, 96 00:05:54,440 --> 00:05:55,960 Speaker 1: my omelet cost one hundred dollars. 97 00:05:58,040 --> 00:05:59,839 Speaker 3: I don't know if I eat an egg a month, 98 00:06:00,080 --> 00:06:02,200 Speaker 3: So maybe I'm the wrong person to be commenting on 99 00:06:02,240 --> 00:06:05,320 Speaker 3: the egg situation. Oh I do love eggs. I like 100 00:06:05,400 --> 00:06:08,760 Speaker 3: them too, not enough. If you're eating them once a month, 101 00:06:09,200 --> 00:06:13,400 Speaker 3: you're a fake egg fan. You're to please. You know 102 00:06:13,440 --> 00:06:16,200 Speaker 3: what I had yesterday? That was good, Michael. I know 103 00:06:16,200 --> 00:06:18,400 Speaker 3: you're not supposed to eat stuff like this with your diabetes. 104 00:06:19,240 --> 00:06:21,359 Speaker 3: You had a mcfluury. I did have a mcflory, But 105 00:06:21,400 --> 00:06:24,679 Speaker 3: before I had the mcfluory, that wasn't even the headline, Michael, 106 00:06:24,880 --> 00:06:25,200 Speaker 3: I had a. 107 00:06:25,240 --> 00:06:27,560 Speaker 1: Quarter pounder with cheese. I took a I hadn't had 108 00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:29,400 Speaker 1: one in a while. I took a bite of vent. Dang, 109 00:06:29,440 --> 00:06:30,440 Speaker 1: that's a good sandwich. 110 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:31,480 Speaker 2: Whoo. 111 00:06:31,480 --> 00:06:33,479 Speaker 1: I don't know what they put in that crack or whatever, 112 00:06:33,520 --> 00:06:36,880 Speaker 1: but thats a good sandwich. Well, let me jot this 113 00:06:36,920 --> 00:06:41,280 Speaker 1: down real quickly. What's that restaurant you're recommending McDaniels McDonald's. 114 00:06:41,440 --> 00:06:44,599 Speaker 1: So my son and I got into a conversation about it, 115 00:06:44,880 --> 00:06:47,479 Speaker 1: and I started googling some stuff. 116 00:06:47,920 --> 00:06:48,280 Speaker 3: There are. 117 00:06:50,200 --> 00:06:58,080 Speaker 1: Thirteen thousand McDonald's in the United States. That's an extraordinary number, yes, 118 00:06:58,200 --> 00:07:04,000 Speaker 1: because obviously if you had is nearly ubiquitous, keep the 119 00:07:04,080 --> 00:07:12,480 Speaker 1: revelations coming. But if you had a one hundred per state, 120 00:07:12,880 --> 00:07:16,840 Speaker 1: you'd only have five thousand. I mean, that's that's a 121 00:07:16,880 --> 00:07:20,240 Speaker 1: stunning number. Well, right in some of your states, like 122 00:07:20,280 --> 00:07:23,280 Speaker 1: Wyoming's got thirty people, So how many how many McDonald's 123 00:07:23,320 --> 00:07:25,320 Speaker 1: do you need? I mean a real seven in a 124 00:07:25,320 --> 00:07:27,720 Speaker 1: big state like you. But that's a lot of McDonald's. 125 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:30,000 Speaker 1: It's just incredible. And I was doing the math, and 126 00:07:30,080 --> 00:07:34,200 Speaker 1: it's so much bigger than all the other joints. Like 127 00:07:34,280 --> 00:07:36,280 Speaker 1: I looked at Burger Kings, like a third of that, 128 00:07:36,280 --> 00:07:37,520 Speaker 1: that's the closest competitor. 129 00:07:37,560 --> 00:07:40,040 Speaker 3: Wendy's is a fourth of that. So nobody's been close. 130 00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:47,960 Speaker 1: And I was in there and were eaten and they 131 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:50,800 Speaker 1: play they got the music that I assume that some 132 00:07:50,960 --> 00:07:54,320 Speaker 1: corporate genius chooses to try to please the client tell 133 00:07:55,480 --> 00:08:00,840 Speaker 1: and the seventies classic hit rain Drop Keep Falling on 134 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:05,120 Speaker 1: Your Head came on and I thought, hmmm, who is 135 00:08:05,160 --> 00:08:08,680 Speaker 1: the audience? Who's who's eating at McDonald's. That's when I 136 00:08:08,680 --> 00:08:10,960 Speaker 1: started doing the research and everything like that. Is you 137 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:13,080 Speaker 1: got to be at least my age to know that song. 138 00:08:13,760 --> 00:08:16,720 Speaker 1: It's well, it's a it's a classic jack people don't 139 00:08:16,760 --> 00:08:19,600 Speaker 1: I mean, Katie around the track clock and I wasn't 140 00:08:19,640 --> 00:08:20,360 Speaker 1: around Katie. 141 00:08:20,520 --> 00:08:22,520 Speaker 3: Are you familiar with rain drops keep falling on your hand? 142 00:08:22,520 --> 00:08:24,720 Speaker 3: Are you familiar with that on my head? 143 00:08:25,200 --> 00:08:29,920 Speaker 1: They're falling on somebody. It's not That's not the point 144 00:08:29,960 --> 00:08:35,000 Speaker 1: of the conversation. Who's who's the pate is getting rain 145 00:08:35,080 --> 00:08:37,800 Speaker 1: on it? It's not the point. That's not the key question, 146 00:08:38,080 --> 00:08:40,840 Speaker 1: right anyway, Katie? 147 00:08:41,840 --> 00:08:44,360 Speaker 3: But go ahead? Did you have morey? Do you know 148 00:08:44,400 --> 00:08:46,840 Speaker 3: that song? Did you say? I was? I was cracking 149 00:08:46,840 --> 00:08:48,840 Speaker 3: wise okay, sorry, but I was just sick. 150 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:51,080 Speaker 1: That is such a good dang sandwich. It doesn't taste 151 00:08:51,080 --> 00:08:53,640 Speaker 1: anything like a hamburgers. Moving back to the now, As 152 00:08:53,679 --> 00:08:55,400 Speaker 1: we mentioned many times over the years, it doesn't taste 153 00:08:55,400 --> 00:08:58,080 Speaker 1: anything like a hamburger, and that's what allegedly is but 154 00:08:58,320 --> 00:09:03,120 Speaker 1: is so delicious, and then we both had Shamrock mcfluory's. 155 00:09:02,520 --> 00:09:06,199 Speaker 3: Also a delicious dessert. This is very much. 156 00:09:06,160 --> 00:09:10,120 Speaker 1: Like President Trump flogging Tesla's on the South Lawn. This 157 00:09:10,200 --> 00:09:13,680 Speaker 1: is untoward, This is unethical. Have you been paid by 158 00:09:13,720 --> 00:09:17,480 Speaker 1: the Burger Giant? What's happening here? But they are driving 159 00:09:17,520 --> 00:09:20,440 Speaker 1: everybody to the automated screen when you walk in the door. 160 00:09:20,480 --> 00:09:21,480 Speaker 3: They want everybody to do that. 161 00:09:21,520 --> 00:09:23,480 Speaker 1: They still have a clerk there, you know, see the 162 00:09:23,520 --> 00:09:26,760 Speaker 1: podcast from yesterday. They haven't gone Silicon Valley and just 163 00:09:26,800 --> 00:09:31,000 Speaker 1: immediately abandoned having a human being there. So everybody's standing 164 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:33,400 Speaker 1: around trying to get the menu to word and I 165 00:09:33,559 --> 00:09:34,720 Speaker 1: order from the person there. 166 00:09:34,920 --> 00:09:37,079 Speaker 3: I still do that. And I said, is there anybody 167 00:09:37,360 --> 00:09:39,840 Speaker 3: like that's not my age that doesn't order up here? 168 00:09:39,880 --> 00:09:42,160 Speaker 3: And they said, now all the young people use the screen, 169 00:09:42,280 --> 00:09:44,439 Speaker 3: so it's only old people to walk up and talk 170 00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:46,120 Speaker 3: to a human beings say they want their quarter pound 171 00:09:46,200 --> 00:09:49,439 Speaker 3: with cheese with onions, so lame. Yeah. 172 00:09:49,880 --> 00:09:53,319 Speaker 1: I just hope Trump's tariffs don't affect those weird little onions. 173 00:09:53,679 --> 00:09:55,719 Speaker 3: I think we import those from Belgium that killed a 174 00:09:55,760 --> 00:09:57,160 Speaker 3: bunch of people a couple weeks back. 175 00:09:57,360 --> 00:10:00,760 Speaker 1: Hey, Hey, Hey, everybody makes mistakes, but the screen thing 176 00:10:00,960 --> 00:10:03,480 Speaker 1: is that driven by the minimum wage. That's what the 177 00:10:04,320 --> 00:10:07,760 Speaker 1: that and technology getting cheaper. But yeah, yeah, one hundred percent. 178 00:10:08,400 --> 00:10:11,520 Speaker 1: It's a question of one cost is decreasing while the 179 00:10:11,559 --> 00:10:15,800 Speaker 1: other is art officially through government FIAT increasing. Yes, So, 180 00:10:16,320 --> 00:10:18,560 Speaker 1: as we mentioned earlier, in fact, Katie, I was going 181 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:20,520 Speaker 1: to urge you to bring that story back. What the 182 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:23,160 Speaker 1: latest study says how many fast food jobs have been 183 00:10:23,160 --> 00:10:28,000 Speaker 1: lost in California since the gift, the blatant gift to 184 00:10:28,040 --> 00:10:33,880 Speaker 1: the union that Gaviy Newsom's law was sixteen sixteen thousand 185 00:10:33,920 --> 00:10:37,040 Speaker 1: people are now out of work, and it's worth pointing 186 00:10:37,040 --> 00:10:42,120 Speaker 1: out that these are the oft to mentioned most vulnerable. Yeah, well, 187 00:10:42,679 --> 00:10:45,880 Speaker 1: you probably don't have a lot of other job opportunities 188 00:10:46,160 --> 00:10:47,520 Speaker 1: if you're working at McDonald's. 189 00:10:47,920 --> 00:10:50,800 Speaker 3: Probably right, it's not your first choice. 190 00:10:50,840 --> 00:10:54,160 Speaker 1: You could have, you know, been a programmer or an 191 00:10:54,200 --> 00:10:57,440 Speaker 1: executive VP at IBM, but you chose to go to McDonald's. 192 00:10:57,440 --> 00:10:59,839 Speaker 3: No, and it's worth driving this point. 193 00:11:00,320 --> 00:11:03,199 Speaker 1: Thousand people that were willing to show up to work 194 00:11:03,240 --> 00:11:07,520 Speaker 1: for that wage prior the old wage and State of 195 00:11:07,559 --> 00:11:08,800 Speaker 1: California force is a new wage. 196 00:11:08,880 --> 00:11:10,040 Speaker 3: Now they don't have a job at all. 197 00:11:11,040 --> 00:11:13,920 Speaker 1: It is worth driving home if you're feeling groggy or 198 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:18,280 Speaker 1: slow of wit. That that illustrates so beautifully the cruel 199 00:11:18,440 --> 00:11:24,240 Speaker 1: hypocrisy of a Gavin Newsom who jabbers on and on 200 00:11:24,320 --> 00:11:28,000 Speaker 1: about standing up for the little guy and BIPOC people 201 00:11:28,120 --> 00:11:33,200 Speaker 1: and the poor and whatever. But if he could do 202 00:11:33,400 --> 00:11:37,400 Speaker 1: something to shovel more power towards the powerful unions, he 203 00:11:37,679 --> 00:11:41,640 Speaker 1: sacrificed those sixteen thousand poor people and laughed while he 204 00:11:41,760 --> 00:11:42,120 Speaker 1: did it. 205 00:11:44,480 --> 00:11:49,440 Speaker 3: He's a piece of guard. Wow. How else? Yeah, shut up? 206 00:11:49,960 --> 00:11:51,559 Speaker 3: How else would you describe. 207 00:11:51,160 --> 00:11:55,840 Speaker 1: Somebody who's that blatantly cruelly hypocritical piece of crap? 208 00:11:55,960 --> 00:12:01,120 Speaker 3: Is the on air version, that's the PG version. There's more. 209 00:12:01,200 --> 00:12:03,559 Speaker 1: We got to start the show officially around it's going off. 210 00:12:03,760 --> 00:12:06,360 Speaker 1: Things have gotten out of control. I'm Jack Armstrong. He's 211 00:12:06,440 --> 00:12:08,839 Speaker 1: Joe Getty on this. It is Wednesday, March the twelfth 212 00:12:08,880 --> 00:12:10,760 Speaker 1: of year twenty twenty five. We're Armstrong, you're getting We 213 00:12:10,760 --> 00:12:14,840 Speaker 1: approved this program. He is a cruel, rich monster. He 214 00:12:14,920 --> 00:12:16,720 Speaker 1: makes Trump look like mother Teresa. 215 00:12:16,840 --> 00:12:17,200 Speaker 3: Wow. 216 00:12:17,280 --> 00:12:19,640 Speaker 1: All right, let's begin the show officially now according to 217 00:12:19,640 --> 00:12:21,000 Speaker 1: FCC rules and regulations. 218 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:21,880 Speaker 3: Here we go at. 219 00:12:21,760 --> 00:12:28,480 Speaker 5: Mark Mayor in Ireland, and it's beautiful and warm, not 220 00:12:28,600 --> 00:12:33,080 Speaker 5: physically it's actually quite cold. Moved here on January fifteenth, 221 00:12:33,280 --> 00:12:39,640 Speaker 5: and it's been pretty wonderful. And when you know it 222 00:12:39,720 --> 00:12:43,680 Speaker 5: is safe for all citizens to have equal rights there 223 00:12:44,360 --> 00:12:48,880 Speaker 5: in America, that's when we will consider coming back. 224 00:12:49,960 --> 00:12:52,679 Speaker 3: Laura, Ireland. 225 00:12:52,800 --> 00:12:55,080 Speaker 1: We should have said we had breaking news, ladies, and 226 00:12:55,120 --> 00:12:56,800 Speaker 1: we should have said, please sit down first. 227 00:12:57,240 --> 00:12:59,400 Speaker 6: I think this is not an airport. There's no need 228 00:12:59,400 --> 00:13:03,680 Speaker 6: to announce your departure. Roseh o'donald moved to to Ireland 229 00:13:03,720 --> 00:13:04,160 Speaker 6: because of. 230 00:13:04,080 --> 00:13:07,040 Speaker 3: Trump and Rosie. Hey hey, bad news. 231 00:13:07,080 --> 00:13:11,200 Speaker 1: Totally unsafe, I mean really crazy unsafe here in America. 232 00:13:11,280 --> 00:13:13,760 Speaker 3: Probably will be for fifteen, I mean twenty years. You 233 00:13:13,840 --> 00:13:16,600 Speaker 3: might want to give it a little longer there in Ireland. Yeah, yeah, 234 00:13:16,760 --> 00:13:19,480 Speaker 3: don't rush back. So we got Katie's headlines, I'd buye. 235 00:13:19,840 --> 00:13:22,520 Speaker 3: We can get Katie's headlines on the way and a 236 00:13:22,559 --> 00:13:23,240 Speaker 3: bunch of other stuff. 237 00:13:23,240 --> 00:13:27,880 Speaker 1: Stay here, army strong, Hey Yeddy I was born in 238 00:13:27,960 --> 00:13:30,679 Speaker 1: nineteen eighty nine, says this texture. We sang rain drops 239 00:13:30,720 --> 00:13:32,720 Speaker 1: keep falling on your head at our eighth grade graduation, 240 00:13:32,960 --> 00:13:34,440 Speaker 1: So there you go. 241 00:13:34,920 --> 00:13:38,600 Speaker 3: Yeah, also born in nineteen eighty nine. Al Right, it 242 00:13:38,640 --> 00:13:39,040 Speaker 3: was a hit. 243 00:13:40,559 --> 00:13:44,360 Speaker 1: Speaking of Katie, who's speaking, Let's figure out who's reporting what. 244 00:13:44,440 --> 00:13:47,240 Speaker 3: It's the lead story with Katie breaking Green. Hello, Hey 245 00:13:47,480 --> 00:13:49,520 Speaker 3: Katie Breen here, New York Posts. 246 00:13:49,600 --> 00:13:53,840 Speaker 6: Russia launches deadly missile attack on Zelenski's hometown, just hours 247 00:13:53,920 --> 00:13:56,600 Speaker 6: after Ukraine agreed to a ceasefire proposal. 248 00:13:58,520 --> 00:13:59,199 Speaker 3: Yeah. 249 00:13:59,240 --> 00:14:01,920 Speaker 1: I think the interesting part is, is there any way 250 00:14:02,040 --> 00:14:04,839 Speaker 1: Putin's gonna agree to a ceasefire as long as there 251 00:14:04,840 --> 00:14:08,040 Speaker 1: are ten thousand Ukrainian troops in that one chunk of 252 00:14:08,120 --> 00:14:13,000 Speaker 1: Russia that they took, Well, it's gonna take a hell 253 00:14:13,040 --> 00:14:15,320 Speaker 1: of a long time to eject them. 254 00:14:15,520 --> 00:14:20,000 Speaker 6: From ABC, AU announces twenty eight billion dollars in countermeasures 255 00:14:20,040 --> 00:14:22,360 Speaker 6: to Trump's steel tariffs. 256 00:14:23,200 --> 00:14:25,200 Speaker 3: We're at Warwick, Canada. Finally, I've been waiting for this, 257 00:14:25,240 --> 00:14:26,960 Speaker 3: my whole life trade war. 258 00:14:27,880 --> 00:14:31,520 Speaker 6: From the New York Times, EPA plans to close all 259 00:14:31,880 --> 00:14:33,520 Speaker 6: environmental justice offices. 260 00:14:34,720 --> 00:14:36,280 Speaker 3: H I don't know anything about that, but it sure 261 00:14:36,320 --> 00:14:37,680 Speaker 3: sounds good. Good. 262 00:14:37,800 --> 00:14:41,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, environmental justice. Please, that could be anything. You could 263 00:14:41,200 --> 00:14:43,560 Speaker 1: do anything in those offices, as long as it's spent 264 00:14:43,720 --> 00:14:47,000 Speaker 1: money from Breitbart doge. 265 00:14:47,200 --> 00:14:51,720 Speaker 6: More than two hundred thousand federal government credit cards deactivated. 266 00:14:52,200 --> 00:14:57,280 Speaker 1: Wow, I know some people with government credit cards and 267 00:14:58,080 --> 00:15:01,160 Speaker 1: they don't care much how they spend money. 268 00:15:01,360 --> 00:15:02,640 Speaker 3: Hmmm, that's surprising. 269 00:15:03,920 --> 00:15:07,960 Speaker 6: USA Today House passes GOP funding bill backed by Trump. 270 00:15:08,280 --> 00:15:11,960 Speaker 3: Now a showdown looms in the Senate. So not another 271 00:15:12,080 --> 00:15:13,280 Speaker 3: Senate showdown. Boy. 272 00:15:13,280 --> 00:15:14,880 Speaker 1: I tell you one thing I do not have a 273 00:15:14,880 --> 00:15:18,640 Speaker 1: lot of patients for is following the early stages of 274 00:15:18,720 --> 00:15:22,080 Speaker 1: these big budget bill negotiations. I mean, assists, you've got 275 00:15:22,080 --> 00:15:24,760 Speaker 1: to be obsessed with the Beltway. Just let me know 276 00:15:24,800 --> 00:15:26,760 Speaker 1: when you got something you're ready to vote on it. 277 00:15:28,160 --> 00:15:32,200 Speaker 6: From The Free Beacon, Anti Israel agitators arrested in New 278 00:15:32,280 --> 00:15:37,960 Speaker 6: York amid nationwide walkouts protesting pro Hamas activists ice arrests. 279 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:39,440 Speaker 3: We got to talk about that more later. 280 00:15:40,520 --> 00:15:43,160 Speaker 1: I tell you what, how about every college instructor and 281 00:15:43,200 --> 00:15:47,280 Speaker 1: professor across America walks out and stays out, and we 282 00:15:47,320 --> 00:15:50,240 Speaker 1: start again and rebuild the greatest university system on Earth. 283 00:15:51,760 --> 00:15:52,520 Speaker 3: From CNN. 284 00:15:53,040 --> 00:15:56,880 Speaker 6: Cargo ship captain arrested in north Sea collision with US 285 00:15:57,000 --> 00:15:59,920 Speaker 6: flagged tanker is a Russian national? 286 00:16:00,120 --> 00:16:04,440 Speaker 3: All Okay? Rested? I hadn't heard that. All have to 287 00:16:04,440 --> 00:16:05,320 Speaker 3: dig into that story. 288 00:16:06,440 --> 00:16:10,880 Speaker 1: Yeah, I have been arrested for reckless killing people by 289 00:16:10,960 --> 00:16:14,440 Speaker 1: being a bad ships captain Wow. Believe that's the charge. 290 00:16:15,320 --> 00:16:19,040 Speaker 6: From Fox News man caught with live turtle in his 291 00:16:19,240 --> 00:16:23,440 Speaker 6: pants at Newark Airport, leaving tsa agents shell shocked. 292 00:16:23,760 --> 00:16:27,640 Speaker 3: Oh wow, I forget it. That actually hurts. Its painful 293 00:16:27,640 --> 00:16:29,440 Speaker 3: to second, don't judge until you've had a turtle in 294 00:16:29,480 --> 00:16:31,119 Speaker 3: your pants. It's more fun than it sounds. 295 00:16:33,800 --> 00:16:35,960 Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, I do have a turtle 296 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:37,840 Speaker 1: in my pants, and I'm glad to see you. 297 00:16:38,680 --> 00:16:43,640 Speaker 3: It's a false choice. And finally, the Babylon. 298 00:16:43,200 --> 00:16:47,720 Speaker 6: Bee Isis claims responsibility for Megan Markel Netflix show? 299 00:16:51,640 --> 00:16:52,440 Speaker 3: Is there someplace? 300 00:16:52,840 --> 00:16:55,240 Speaker 1: Is there someplace I can sign up to never hear 301 00:16:55,280 --> 00:16:58,120 Speaker 1: about Meghan Markle again? Is there is there an algorithm 302 00:16:58,160 --> 00:16:59,760 Speaker 1: for that? If you find it, let me know it 303 00:17:00,040 --> 00:17:02,320 Speaker 1: filter that out of my news feed or something like that. 304 00:17:02,800 --> 00:17:06,040 Speaker 1: Although I sense and certainly I can stand guard. Since 305 00:17:06,040 --> 00:17:09,040 Speaker 1: you're so horrified and I get that, it feels like 306 00:17:09,119 --> 00:17:12,399 Speaker 1: it's moving towards so bad, it's good terriff or it 307 00:17:12,480 --> 00:17:16,399 Speaker 1: definitely could be so mockable it's enjoyable. Where are we 308 00:17:16,440 --> 00:17:18,920 Speaker 1: with the tariffs and whatnot? And how do we feel 309 00:17:18,960 --> 00:17:20,680 Speaker 1: about buying cars in the White House? 310 00:17:20,720 --> 00:17:20,920 Speaker 6: Long? 311 00:17:20,960 --> 00:17:22,960 Speaker 3: I think I'm fine with it? Among other things on 312 00:17:23,040 --> 00:17:26,879 Speaker 3: the way stay tuned, Armstrong and Getty. 313 00:17:28,240 --> 00:17:32,359 Speaker 7: So we spend two hundred billion dollars a year subsidizing Canada. 314 00:17:32,440 --> 00:17:33,239 Speaker 3: We don't have to do that. 315 00:17:34,119 --> 00:17:37,560 Speaker 7: And frankly, the way that gets solved is Canada should 316 00:17:37,560 --> 00:17:38,720 Speaker 7: honestly become. 317 00:17:38,440 --> 00:17:39,480 Speaker 3: Our fifty first state. 318 00:17:39,800 --> 00:17:42,679 Speaker 7: We wouldn't have a northern border problem, we wouldn't have 319 00:17:42,720 --> 00:17:46,720 Speaker 7: a tariff problem. Canada would be great as our cherished 320 00:17:46,800 --> 00:17:49,399 Speaker 7: fifty first state. You wouldn't have to worry about borders, 321 00:17:49,400 --> 00:17:52,520 Speaker 7: you wouldn't have to worry about anything. And by the way, 322 00:17:52,560 --> 00:17:55,560 Speaker 7: Canada is very highly taxed and we're very low tax 323 00:17:55,960 --> 00:17:59,080 Speaker 7: We're considered a low tax nation because of me, because 324 00:17:59,080 --> 00:18:02,200 Speaker 7: I cut the taxes so the people of Canada would 325 00:18:02,200 --> 00:18:03,160 Speaker 7: pay much less tax. 326 00:18:03,280 --> 00:18:04,720 Speaker 3: But it makes a lot of. 327 00:18:04,640 --> 00:18:07,600 Speaker 1: Sense now all the behind the scenes reporting, is Trump's 328 00:18:07,640 --> 00:18:11,360 Speaker 1: serious about trying to get Greenland. That's a that's an actual, 329 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:15,520 Speaker 1: but not Canada be in a fifty first state. 330 00:18:15,760 --> 00:18:18,840 Speaker 3: There's nobody. Actually, it's it's just trolling, isn't it. 331 00:18:20,280 --> 00:18:23,800 Speaker 1: I guess I've heard some democratic Why is he just 332 00:18:24,200 --> 00:18:26,760 Speaker 1: going on and on about it though repeating it over 333 00:18:27,040 --> 00:18:28,640 Speaker 1: the course of weeks and weeks? 334 00:18:29,800 --> 00:18:35,159 Speaker 3: I mean, that didn't sound like trolling. Well, some believe 335 00:18:35,240 --> 00:18:38,960 Speaker 3: he drove Trudeau out of office by making him look 336 00:18:39,040 --> 00:18:43,240 Speaker 3: so weak and pathetic, trolling him in so little pushback. 337 00:18:44,480 --> 00:18:47,400 Speaker 1: Maybe yeah, and he but he fired up the Liberals 338 00:18:47,400 --> 00:18:49,359 Speaker 1: when it looked like they were going to lose, and 339 00:18:49,440 --> 00:18:52,560 Speaker 1: now they're back in power. Yeah. Well, sometimes having the 340 00:18:52,600 --> 00:18:55,600 Speaker 1: way the way extreme of your other party in charge, 341 00:18:55,640 --> 00:18:56,280 Speaker 1: doesn't you know? 342 00:18:56,440 --> 00:18:57,320 Speaker 3: That's just so good? 343 00:18:58,880 --> 00:19:02,760 Speaker 1: See see themocrats in the United States. But what was 344 00:19:02,800 --> 00:19:04,720 Speaker 1: I gonna say, become a fifty first state? 345 00:19:04,760 --> 00:19:04,879 Speaker 3: Oh? 346 00:19:04,920 --> 00:19:07,360 Speaker 1: I heard some prominent Democrats say yes day, and I'm 347 00:19:07,359 --> 00:19:09,200 Speaker 1: surprised the Democrats aren't keeping their mouths shut. 348 00:19:09,240 --> 00:19:12,840 Speaker 3: They should be quietly saying yeah, yeah, that I agree. 349 00:19:12,920 --> 00:19:15,560 Speaker 1: I mean, I rarely agree with Trump, but Canada being 350 00:19:15,640 --> 00:19:18,560 Speaker 1: the fifty first state, I mean, why not? It's only 351 00:19:18,640 --> 00:19:23,320 Speaker 1: fairness or something, because, as one prominent Democrat said yesterday, 352 00:19:23,440 --> 00:19:27,639 Speaker 1: Republicans will never win another presidential election. If Canada is 353 00:19:27,920 --> 00:19:31,359 Speaker 1: the fifty first state, then you have two Californias with 354 00:19:31,440 --> 00:19:36,040 Speaker 1: the same amount of delegates that will always vote Democrat. 355 00:19:37,840 --> 00:19:39,720 Speaker 3: Yeah for the foreseeable future. Yeah. 356 00:19:40,040 --> 00:19:43,720 Speaker 1: Yeah, Like I say, I have no idea what he's doing. 357 00:19:45,359 --> 00:19:52,120 Speaker 1: I understand the intent of rebuilding American manufacturing to whatever 358 00:19:52,160 --> 00:19:53,120 Speaker 1: extent it's possible. 359 00:19:53,560 --> 00:19:54,000 Speaker 3: I get that. 360 00:19:54,480 --> 00:19:57,639 Speaker 1: And you can find a few people who say, yeah, 361 00:19:57,640 --> 00:20:02,960 Speaker 1: in the long term, this will pan out. You can 362 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:08,439 Speaker 1: find you know, an infinite multiple of that of people 363 00:20:08,520 --> 00:20:13,879 Speaker 1: who say either this won't work or there's a different 364 00:20:13,920 --> 00:20:17,800 Speaker 1: crowd that says, I just don't know what he's doing. Well, 365 00:20:17,880 --> 00:20:19,960 Speaker 1: let's let's hear let's hear fifty one a little more 366 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:22,240 Speaker 1: on this topic, and then we can get to the latest. 367 00:20:22,400 --> 00:20:25,320 Speaker 1: Because Canada was threatening a twenty five percent search charge 368 00:20:25,320 --> 00:20:29,560 Speaker 1: on electricity yesterday. But here's uh, here's Trump and Elon 369 00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:30,480 Speaker 1: on the White House lawn. 370 00:20:31,040 --> 00:20:33,719 Speaker 7: When you take away that artificial line that looks like 371 00:20:33,760 --> 00:20:36,560 Speaker 7: it was done with a ruler, and that's what it was. 372 00:20:36,640 --> 00:20:39,720 Speaker 7: Some guy sat there years ago and they said, rah, Well, 373 00:20:39,760 --> 00:20:41,879 Speaker 7: when you take away that and you look at that 374 00:20:41,960 --> 00:20:46,520 Speaker 7: beautiful formation of Canada and the United States, there is 375 00:20:46,640 --> 00:20:50,679 Speaker 7: no place anywhere in the world that looks like that. 376 00:20:50,840 --> 00:20:52,720 Speaker 3: It's plus Graven plus. 377 00:20:52,480 --> 00:20:55,040 Speaker 7: Green Land, and then if you add Greenland, that's it. 378 00:20:55,080 --> 00:20:58,240 Speaker 3: I mean, that's pretty. 379 00:20:58,720 --> 00:21:02,200 Speaker 1: Canada threatened twenty five surcharge on electricty and then backed 380 00:21:02,200 --> 00:21:03,240 Speaker 1: off it later in the day. 381 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:09,040 Speaker 3: So the rhetoric and the real stuff continues. 382 00:21:11,560 --> 00:21:14,680 Speaker 1: Yeah, but the extra twenty five percent tariffs on steel 383 00:21:14,680 --> 00:21:20,159 Speaker 1: in a Luman took a fete at midnight last night. Yeah, Now, 384 00:21:20,240 --> 00:21:23,760 Speaker 1: I'll see what happens. Yeah, we absolutely, we'll see what happens. 385 00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:31,280 Speaker 1: The estimates of you know, well, I'll just you know what. 386 00:21:31,359 --> 00:21:34,560 Speaker 1: I won't get into the statistics and the technical crap. 387 00:21:34,600 --> 00:21:39,639 Speaker 1: But the longest short of it is, in the short term, 388 00:21:39,840 --> 00:21:45,320 Speaker 1: this will drive up the costs for every American manufacturer 389 00:21:45,440 --> 00:21:50,080 Speaker 1: virtually and make goods more expensive and cut down on 390 00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:56,480 Speaker 1: their share of any market until the great Transition happens 391 00:21:56,520 --> 00:21:58,440 Speaker 1: and we've restored our manufacturing. 392 00:21:58,520 --> 00:22:02,480 Speaker 3: Might that's the idea. I'm highly skeptical. 393 00:22:02,720 --> 00:22:06,600 Speaker 1: So Trump walked back a little bit or revised his 394 00:22:06,680 --> 00:22:08,440 Speaker 1: answer somewhat on the whole recession thing. 395 00:22:08,440 --> 00:22:12,880 Speaker 3: And then we've got some breaking news. First, this resion, 396 00:22:13,119 --> 00:22:15,560 Speaker 3: I don't see it at all. I think this country's 397 00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:16,320 Speaker 3: going to boom. 398 00:22:16,880 --> 00:22:19,760 Speaker 1: So after saying could be, you don't know, I don't 399 00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:22,320 Speaker 1: like to predict those things in the market, and everybody 400 00:22:22,359 --> 00:22:25,560 Speaker 1: reacting to that, you know, yesterday he was more positive. 401 00:22:25,560 --> 00:22:27,240 Speaker 3: I think the markets are going to boom. So here's 402 00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:28,000 Speaker 3: your breaking news. 403 00:22:28,040 --> 00:22:32,760 Speaker 1: The inflation numbers are out for the most recent stats 404 00:22:32,760 --> 00:22:35,800 Speaker 1: from last month. Consumer prices rose two point eight percent 405 00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:38,960 Speaker 1: in the year through February, a slightly better result than 406 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:40,160 Speaker 1: economist said expected. 407 00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:43,639 Speaker 3: I I'll never understand, because I'm not an economist why 408 00:22:43,840 --> 00:22:46,640 Speaker 3: it's all based on what economists expected. What if they 409 00:22:46,640 --> 00:22:49,359 Speaker 3: were wrong and they had to ask. 410 00:22:49,280 --> 00:22:52,280 Speaker 1: Him in the first place and just wait a few 411 00:22:52,359 --> 00:22:54,719 Speaker 1: days and get the actual statistic. 412 00:22:56,720 --> 00:22:59,000 Speaker 3: Anyway, slightly better than economist set. 413 00:22:59,320 --> 00:23:01,240 Speaker 1: Like every morning, I'm about to get on the scale, 414 00:23:01,240 --> 00:23:03,880 Speaker 1: and you got physicians who say we expect to wait 415 00:23:04,080 --> 00:23:05,840 Speaker 1: one ninety seven point four. 416 00:23:05,920 --> 00:23:08,600 Speaker 3: That's a good When it's not one ninety eight point one, it's. 417 00:23:08,440 --> 00:23:11,399 Speaker 1: Like, oh, exceeded expectations. 418 00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:15,440 Speaker 3: That's a good book. Okay, let's you just wait till 419 00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:19,440 Speaker 3: I get on the scale. Yeah, that's pretty funny. Oh 420 00:23:19,520 --> 00:23:20,639 Speaker 3: the market is reacting. 421 00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:24,159 Speaker 1: Is Joe weighed more than expectations or less? 422 00:23:25,160 --> 00:23:29,879 Speaker 3: That's funny? No, no more lately, trust me. Uh So. 423 00:23:30,920 --> 00:23:34,080 Speaker 1: The consumer price index was up two point eight percent 424 00:23:34,080 --> 00:23:36,520 Speaker 1: from a year earlier, after rising another point two percent 425 00:23:36,560 --> 00:23:39,160 Speaker 1: on a monthly basement basis. That was a step down 426 00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:43,320 Speaker 1: from January's surprisingly large point five percent increase. 427 00:23:43,400 --> 00:23:48,040 Speaker 3: So stocks are up based on that the well. 428 00:23:48,040 --> 00:23:50,240 Speaker 1: The New York Times version of this anyway, says, analysts 429 00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:52,720 Speaker 1: are worried the tariffs could add two future price pressures. 430 00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:55,879 Speaker 1: Of course, that's what Joe was just doing, Ama, And uh, 431 00:23:56,160 --> 00:23:58,840 Speaker 1: then we'll have to play out. I will say, in 432 00:23:58,840 --> 00:24:04,240 Speaker 1: Trump's defense that if this is merely a brutal and 433 00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:09,960 Speaker 1: whipsaw e for a short time period to move toward 434 00:24:10,040 --> 00:24:13,280 Speaker 1: more reciprocal tariffs, which is a theme he has sounded 435 00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:16,879 Speaker 1: over and over again, because Canada does have some fairly 436 00:24:16,920 --> 00:24:20,800 Speaker 1: stiff tariffs against various agricultural stuff like darry and that 437 00:24:20,880 --> 00:24:27,679 Speaker 1: sort of thing. Okay, but I just and there's another 438 00:24:27,720 --> 00:24:32,600 Speaker 1: piece in the journal where even Trump advisors and loyal 439 00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:34,560 Speaker 1: business leaders are saying, just tell. 440 00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:35,800 Speaker 3: Us what you're trying to do. 441 00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:44,600 Speaker 1: The different headlines Fox has stubborn inflation cools, okay, and 442 00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:47,440 Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal has inflation cooled to two point eight 443 00:24:47,440 --> 00:24:50,359 Speaker 1: percent in February, lower than expected. So that's got to 444 00:24:50,359 --> 00:24:55,080 Speaker 1: be some news that the White House will out and 445 00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:57,199 Speaker 1: we'll see what that does to the stock market. And 446 00:24:57,240 --> 00:24:59,359 Speaker 1: the endless discussion of what your four oh one K 447 00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:02,480 Speaker 1: is doing is if you're about to start pulling from 448 00:25:02,520 --> 00:25:05,040 Speaker 1: your four one k today, and again I apologize to 449 00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:08,880 Speaker 1: anyone around the country who actually did retire last week. 450 00:25:12,119 --> 00:25:14,080 Speaker 1: You know, we're not talking about you, but for most 451 00:25:14,119 --> 00:25:16,359 Speaker 1: of us, you know, whatever, it'll be back by the 452 00:25:16,359 --> 00:25:20,800 Speaker 1: time I'm ready to use it all right, right, And honestly, 453 00:25:20,840 --> 00:25:23,679 Speaker 1: even that kind of under or over sells it because 454 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:26,639 Speaker 1: not taking out all you're still well right, You're not 455 00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:28,320 Speaker 1: going to take it all out at once. That's not 456 00:25:28,359 --> 00:25:31,400 Speaker 1: the way it works. End you've probably been tapering off 457 00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:33,720 Speaker 1: your risk as you get closer to retirement. I want 458 00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:34,919 Speaker 1: to go through a couple of texts we got real 459 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:36,600 Speaker 1: quick before we take a break, and we can leave 460 00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:38,360 Speaker 1: plenty of time for mailbag. First of all, we got 461 00:25:38,359 --> 00:25:40,879 Speaker 1: this text, are you finally ready to listen to the 462 00:25:40,920 --> 00:25:43,919 Speaker 1: red tie of power and give up shilling for Zelensky? 463 00:25:44,600 --> 00:25:49,920 Speaker 1: So yeah, wow, that's a sort of intelligent and well 464 00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:50,680 Speaker 1: reasoned argument. 465 00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:51,760 Speaker 3: Thanks, I'm offering it. 466 00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:55,320 Speaker 1: Zelensky has agreed to the ceasefire yet to see if 467 00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:58,320 Speaker 1: Russia is going toe to the ceasefire. And there's also 468 00:25:58,359 --> 00:26:01,119 Speaker 1: the criticism that if they do agree, you do it 469 00:26:01,119 --> 00:26:04,560 Speaker 1: it's just because they'd love to have a break and 470 00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:05,800 Speaker 1: be able to rearm and. 471 00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:09,600 Speaker 3: Get there trying together. 472 00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:14,399 Speaker 1: Their newest crop of the North Korean cannonfot or prisoners. Yeah, 473 00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:19,480 Speaker 1: so might only be to their advantage. Back to my 474 00:26:19,640 --> 00:26:22,640 Speaker 1: McDonald's stats. As I was eating McDonald's just day, thirteen 475 00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:25,320 Speaker 1: thousand some McDonald thirteen thousand, five hundred McDonald's in the 476 00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:28,760 Speaker 1: United States, which if you do the quick math on that, 477 00:26:28,960 --> 00:26:31,720 Speaker 1: that's two hundred and seventy per state. Obviously, they're not 478 00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:34,720 Speaker 1: evenly dispersed, because, like I said, Wyoming needs three. But 479 00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:40,359 Speaker 1: there are, according to this texture, a stunning five hundred 480 00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:43,680 Speaker 1: and seventy McDonald's in New York. Five hundred and seventy 481 00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:46,280 Speaker 1: just in New York. However, while I was talking about 482 00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:48,959 Speaker 1: how dominant McDonald's is, another person pointed out there are 483 00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:55,080 Speaker 1: seventeen thousand milkshake locations known as Starbucks. Seventeen thousand. Of course, 484 00:26:55,119 --> 00:26:56,880 Speaker 1: if you live in an urban area at all, there's 485 00:26:56,880 --> 00:26:59,680 Speaker 1: one you can stand outside on the corner. There's one there, 486 00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:03,400 Speaker 1: and there's one there you can honestlee from one corner. Yeah, 487 00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:06,520 Speaker 1: Starbucks undergoing a giant restructuring right now. I was just 488 00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:09,280 Speaker 1: reading about they got a new CEO who's pairing back 489 00:27:09,359 --> 00:27:13,760 Speaker 1: the menus and cutting staff oh, he laid off how many. 490 00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:15,720 Speaker 3: I don't have the story in front of me. 491 00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:20,200 Speaker 1: He laid off well into four figures worth of folks 492 00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:24,320 Speaker 1: working at their headquarters in Seattle and working remotely. And 493 00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:27,960 Speaker 1: I don't see Congress on the steps of the Capitol 494 00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:30,640 Speaker 1: whining and moaning and crying about those layoffs. I don't 495 00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:34,040 Speaker 1: see the New York timesmoaning what a human tragedy it is. 496 00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:36,120 Speaker 3: The bunch of private sector people got laid off. 497 00:27:36,119 --> 00:27:38,720 Speaker 1: Talking to some Starbucks employee who says, I just moved 498 00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:43,600 Speaker 1: here for this job, right, Former Starbucks employees find a 499 00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:45,040 Speaker 1: difficult labor market. 500 00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:46,479 Speaker 3: You're just not seeing that. 501 00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:48,879 Speaker 1: We actually got into this conversation my son and I 502 00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:51,240 Speaker 1: about somehow. I don't remember how it started. He was 503 00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:56,320 Speaker 1: studying something in franchises and how those work and owner 504 00:27:56,359 --> 00:27:59,840 Speaker 1: operated versus not and all that sort of thing. It's actually, 505 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:04,040 Speaker 1: i'm an interesting conversation mm hm. And he also told me, 506 00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:05,960 Speaker 1: he said, did you realize Ray Croc sold the thing 507 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:07,879 Speaker 1: for only a couple of million dollars and it's considered 508 00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:09,760 Speaker 1: the worst business decision in world history. 509 00:28:09,880 --> 00:28:12,080 Speaker 3: That's what my son said. So I don't know. I 510 00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:13,600 Speaker 3: guess he saw that something. 511 00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:16,639 Speaker 1: More arguably sure. Maybe Ray was like, I'm tired of 512 00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:18,639 Speaker 1: flipping burgers. I'm just going to go to my ranch 513 00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:21,199 Speaker 1: and have fun. Any right, lived every day of the 514 00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:23,480 Speaker 1: rest of his life in joy and serenity. I don't know, 515 00:28:23,520 --> 00:28:27,040 Speaker 1: I'm probably not eating McDonald's. We have got to Joe's 516 00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:28,480 Speaker 1: mailbag and a whole bunch of this stuff on the 517 00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:34,480 Speaker 1: way stay here. Yeah, doing the research, I think I 518 00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:38,000 Speaker 1: misunderstood the story that my son was telling me. The 519 00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:41,440 Speaker 1: worst business decision was the McDonald's brother selling to Ray 520 00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:44,080 Speaker 1: kroc Ah And that. 521 00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:47,160 Speaker 3: Was, uh, you know, that was my misunderstanding. But yeah, 522 00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:48,480 Speaker 3: well but they did that. 523 00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:50,560 Speaker 1: That doesn't make any sense though, just because you have 524 00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:54,000 Speaker 1: a Scotsman, just because you have a successful Burger milkshake stand, 525 00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:56,600 Speaker 1: that doesn't mean you could have become the franchise. 526 00:28:56,640 --> 00:29:01,120 Speaker 3: He's genius. Oh right, that's the that's the key. Yeah, 527 00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:04,440 Speaker 3: that's kind of a silly assertion, honestly. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. 528 00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:06,520 Speaker 1: Here's your freedom loving quote of Hey, getting back to 529 00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:11,480 Speaker 1: our series from Theodore Roosevelt. Two two freedom loving quotes 530 00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:14,600 Speaker 1: to the day from Roosevelt Today. Number one, the unforgivable 531 00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:17,520 Speaker 1: crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if 532 00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:23,200 Speaker 1: it can be avoided but never hit softly. Interesting Yeah yeah, 533 00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:26,920 Speaker 1: And then this I love this. When they called the 534 00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:29,560 Speaker 1: role in the Senate, the senators do not know whether 535 00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:35,080 Speaker 1: to answer present or not guilty. You tell him, Teddy 536 00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:38,600 Speaker 1: mail Bag, feel freedom to drop us a note. The 537 00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:42,560 Speaker 1: email addresses mail Bag and I'm strong Eddy dot com. 538 00:29:43,080 --> 00:29:47,680 Speaker 1: Jack talking about his desire to buy one of Elon 539 00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:52,480 Speaker 1: Musk's cyber trucks, specifically the Ultra Powerful cyber Beast and 540 00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:56,320 Speaker 1: put a plate on it that says gog absolutely right. 541 00:29:57,080 --> 00:30:00,680 Speaker 1: Got this from Joe Anonymous, so too. My kids are 542 00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:02,560 Speaker 1: home from college for spring break. We drove from the 543 00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:04,640 Speaker 1: Bay Area to Tahoe to ski today, listening to you 544 00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:06,800 Speaker 1: on the way, and we were rolling with laughter listening 545 00:30:06,840 --> 00:30:08,720 Speaker 1: to Jack talking about a cyber truck with the doge 546 00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:10,040 Speaker 1: license plate as we. 547 00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:11,720 Speaker 3: Approached the ski resort. What did we see? 548 00:30:11,720 --> 00:30:14,720 Speaker 1: I kid you, not below photo is not AI altered 549 00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:18,200 Speaker 1: a cyber truck with our Bitcoin one license plate. Wow, 550 00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:20,840 Speaker 1: not exactly the same, but still what are the odds bitcoin? 551 00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:21,480 Speaker 3: Doge coin? 552 00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:23,960 Speaker 1: And of course you need to get your cyber truck 553 00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:26,080 Speaker 1: with the Doge plates and drive it all around your 554 00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:29,520 Speaker 1: college town bike circles every day blasting, Proud to be 555 00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:32,880 Speaker 1: an American and YMCA that makes it in a little 556 00:30:32,920 --> 00:30:36,160 Speaker 1: kid rock too, But your playlist is up to you. 557 00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:39,560 Speaker 3: Thanks to you, Anonymous. That is funny. 558 00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:44,760 Speaker 1: Let's see Jim on the topic of Kamala Harris for 559 00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:49,000 Speaker 1: governor of cal Unicornia, let's stick with it. It includes 560 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:52,440 Speaker 1: one of my favorite sign offs lately. Kamala is beginning 561 00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:55,840 Speaker 1: to contemplate what needs to be done in terms of 562 00:30:55,880 --> 00:31:00,320 Speaker 1: recognizing the importance of understanding the steps she must to 563 00:31:00,440 --> 00:31:04,480 Speaker 1: seriously consider thinking about running for governor in twenty six 564 00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:08,320 Speaker 1: and expects the passage of time required to unburden what 565 00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:12,520 Speaker 1: that entails to extend until the end of summer. Wow, 566 00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:17,080 Speaker 1: that's pretty good, Kamla. Then he signs off KLTTBBD. Keep 567 00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:20,440 Speaker 1: launching torpedoes of truth, but don't overegg the pudding, Jim. 568 00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:22,920 Speaker 3: We'll try not teach Jim. 569 00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:25,360 Speaker 1: Paolo with a brief note a good sign in the 570 00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:29,640 Speaker 1: transports debate, most people on both signs seem to have 571 00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:31,720 Speaker 1: come down to common sense side of this issue. 572 00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:34,560 Speaker 3: The common sense side that's encouraging. Another encouraging thing. 573 00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:37,920 Speaker 1: To my recollection, everybody involved, at least tacitly acknowledges that 574 00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:40,960 Speaker 1: we're talking about men and women's sports, not trans women 575 00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:41,920 Speaker 1: in women's sports. 576 00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:42,880 Speaker 3: And best of. 577 00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:46,640 Speaker 1: All, no more annoying incantations of trans women are women. 578 00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:50,960 Speaker 1: I was just wearing my hot dogs are Dogs t 579 00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:55,080 Speaker 1: shirt yesterday. Progress indeed, now somebody just needs to tell 580 00:31:55,120 --> 00:31:58,200 Speaker 1: the great majority of Democratic politicians about it. Damn their 581 00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:00,880 Speaker 1: dopes on this issue. Maybe they're soffering from that new 582 00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:05,600 Speaker 1: gen z malady trend overload, and he helpfully included a 583 00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:09,959 Speaker 1: link to an article about trend overload, which we can 584 00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:12,120 Speaker 1: maybe talk about in a little bit. I think it's 585 00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:15,760 Speaker 1: more interesting than it even knows. I'm guessing it's the 586 00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:18,160 Speaker 1: idea that trends come too fast and furious. 587 00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:22,040 Speaker 3: Now you can't keep up with them. You always feel pressure. 588 00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:24,720 Speaker 1: Well yeah, And the greater significance of it, I think, 589 00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:29,320 Speaker 1: is understanding that the rapid fied pleasures of the Internet, 590 00:32:29,360 --> 00:32:30,560 Speaker 1: social media, smartphones, etc. 591 00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:33,560 Speaker 3: Are just it's too much, too much, too much, too 592 00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:36,680 Speaker 3: much among young people. Something has got to change on 593 00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:38,320 Speaker 3: that front, I would agree. 594 00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:40,840 Speaker 1: Side Joe Bob writes a Tale of Two Countries. I 595 00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:43,600 Speaker 1: absolutely love the direction the administration is taking with them 596 00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:45,800 Speaker 1: as but for the life of me, I don't understand 597 00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:49,040 Speaker 1: why they don't see the similarities with Ukraine. In one case, 598 00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:52,440 Speaker 1: terrorist's comebags crossed the border to kill innocent civilians, and 599 00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:54,200 Speaker 1: then the same thing happened in Israel. 600 00:32:54,880 --> 00:32:57,160 Speaker 3: Yeah, I see your point. I see it much more 601 00:32:57,200 --> 00:32:59,720 Speaker 3: like Bob does than a lot of people do these days. 602 00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:03,520 Speaker 3: But that's fun. Let's continue the debate. Al none of 603 00:33:03,560 --> 00:33:04,600 Speaker 3: us writes. 604 00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:07,880 Speaker 1: On the top of a millionaires and billionaires, the idea 605 00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:10,880 Speaker 1: of limiting those that care about wasteful spending. Yeah, that's 606 00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:14,320 Speaker 1: the great leftist plot, is to narrow the tax base 607 00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:17,320 Speaker 1: and praddle on about how the rich need to pay 608 00:33:17,320 --> 00:33:19,840 Speaker 1: their fair share to the point that they're among the 609 00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:25,120 Speaker 1: actual high taxpayers. There aren't nearly enough votes to defeat 610 00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:28,360 Speaker 1: horrific wasteful spending. It's a specific strategy, and it's been 611 00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:31,680 Speaker 1: pretty successful in every independent study that's ever been done. 612 00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:35,120 Speaker 1: Says the way to make government more efficient and spend 613 00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:37,560 Speaker 1: money more efficiently and more answerable to the people is 614 00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:39,440 Speaker 1: to broaden the tax base. 615 00:33:39,520 --> 00:33:41,600 Speaker 3: But nobody wants to do that anyway. 616 00:33:41,640 --> 00:33:43,520 Speaker 1: He writes, the idea of limiting those that care about 617 00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:46,600 Speaker 1: wasteful spending. Whatever my socialist friends talk about spending I 618 00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:49,280 Speaker 1: asked them if they itemize their tax returns, followed by 619 00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:51,719 Speaker 1: why would you want to pay less in taxes and 620 00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:54,320 Speaker 1: have me pay more? In fact, why don't you donate 621 00:33:54,360 --> 00:33:57,120 Speaker 1: more money to the wonderful government in their efficient projects. 622 00:33:57,320 --> 00:33:59,320 Speaker 1: They no longer bring up the idea of spending end 623 00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:05,000 Speaker 1: or taxes, probably just not to you. Yeah, yeah, this 624 00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:08,600 Speaker 1: is interesting and troubling. Yesterday, John writes, my son witnessed 625 00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:12,480 Speaker 1: an unprovoked attack by a he says homeless person, I 626 00:34:12,520 --> 00:34:16,320 Speaker 1: say transient drug addict on a non binary or trans person, 627 00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:18,640 Speaker 1: a man deluded into think he was a woman in 628 00:34:18,680 --> 00:34:21,200 Speaker 1: San Francisco. It was a brutal beating that could have 629 00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:24,359 Speaker 1: killed the victim, multiple punches to the back of the head. 630 00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:26,120 Speaker 1: The only reason my thun could think of the victim 631 00:34:26,160 --> 00:34:28,320 Speaker 1: wasn't killed is that he didn't fight back or for 632 00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:31,080 Speaker 1: any resistance at all. Haven't seen anything about it in 633 00:34:31,120 --> 00:34:32,839 Speaker 1: the news. If it had been an attack by someone 634 00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:35,279 Speaker 1: in a maga hat would have led the news nationwide 635 00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:36,399 Speaker 1: and even internationally. 636 00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:37,239 Speaker 3: Absolutely. 637 00:34:38,200 --> 00:34:42,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, And then Angie writes, and we'll get to this 638 00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:47,759 Speaker 1: next hour. This is dovetailing beautifully with our discussion of 639 00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:52,600 Speaker 1: the University of California Berkeley lecture series on the Dreaming 640 00:34:52,680 --> 00:34:54,920 Speaker 1: of Water or whatever the hell all might guard the 641 00:34:54,960 --> 00:35:00,680 Speaker 1: intersectionality of neo colonialism feminist queerness. She sent Long an 642 00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:05,680 Speaker 1: actual published university study that she thought, it's got to 643 00:35:05,719 --> 00:35:08,359 Speaker 1: have been written as a joke by James Lindsay. I 644 00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:12,759 Speaker 1: have dug into it. It may be the crowning glory 645 00:35:12,920 --> 00:35:15,320 Speaker 1: of soft science self mockery. 646 00:35:15,640 --> 00:35:19,640 Speaker 3: Wow, and that's saying something. So that's a good by 647 00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:20,320 Speaker 3: that statement. 648 00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:21,719 Speaker 1: And I was going to go home, and I'm going 649 00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:23,680 Speaker 1: to stick around for that if you miss a segment 650 00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:25,640 Speaker 1: at the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand 651 00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:31,440 Speaker 3: Armstrong and Getty