March 10, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 2 of A&G features...
- Trump doesn't deny possible recession & manufacturing in the US
- The ladies night at the San Francisco bath house
- Russia adapting to tech & too much tech in cars
- The firing squad execution
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Jack Armstrong is Joe Getty arms Strong and Jetty and
he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
People don't want to hear about these stupid ideas that
they have transgender for everybody. And again the men and
women's sports. What is that a ninety to ten deal.
I don't even know who the ten would be, but
they were in the fighting for it.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
And I try and.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Say to myself, because you always like to understand where
your opponent is, whether it's in business or anything else.
Is there something I don't understand, but we don't understand it.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
So Trump did a big interview with Maria Barbromo yes
day and a lot of different issues, but this is
what's getting the most attention, so we can discuss.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Look, I know that you inherited a mess, and you say,
I don't been here far.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Are you expecting a recession this year? I hate to
predict things like that. There is a period of transition
because what we're doing is very big. We're bringing wealth
back to America. That's a big thing, and there are
always periods of it takes a little time. It takes
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a little time, but I think it should be great
for us.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
I mean, I think it should be great.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
So the fact that he didn't immediately say no, there's
not going to be a recession.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Him understanding the way the media.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Works and everything means something, right, right, I thought his
very brief screen about you know, it's important in any
sort of negotiation, I ask yourself, is there something I
don't understand about the other side?
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Occasionally, because Trump's.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
Very simple populist messaging sometimes strikes people including me, is
like crazy oversimplified, but that's often intentional, and occasionally he
shows a glimpse behind the curtain, and he's much more
analytical than he comes off. I think, right, can we
break out of the either like Trump or you don't
like him for just a minute to have this conversation.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Sure, so he's talking to the listener, I know you can, But.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
I'm thinking about friends I know who would never never
be able to get past the they hate Trump so
much or whatever. But he talked a little bit about
having long term goals, thinking long term, how China thinks
in centuries in the interview, and I thought it was interesting.
On MSNBC this Morning where they do hate Trump so
much they can hardly see straight. David Ignatius of the
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Washington Post saying this, He made a.
Speaker 6 (02:50):
Very interesting comment yesterday that I did pay attention to
where he said China works on one hundred year cycle
of planning in the United States goes horror to quarter,
something I've heard from corporate CEOs for for years, and
I think he's right about that. I mean, it's not
to endorse the policies, but we do tend to get
so caught up in these short term movements that we
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forget about what would be good.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
In for the long run in the country.
Speaker 6 (03:16):
But in any event, Wall Street's got the jitters today.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
All right.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
And it reminded me is that we've been saying for
years on this show. You always say that, you know,
the Dow is not the economy, or what's happening with
the stock market is not the economy. And Wall Street, man,
the Wall Street Journal gets quoted all the time. We
quoted all the time, and it's a great newspaper, but man,
they're a quarter by quarter what's best for the next
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quarter newspaper and a bunch of people who make a
lot of money off of being able to read what's
going to happen quarter by quarter by quarter. But I
remember reading an article in the Wall Street Journal years ago.
There's never been any movement on this on how when
reporting rules changed, and I don't remember when that happened,
but we went from reporting, you know, yearly or whatever
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to quarterly to the stockholders really change the way we
do business in the United States, and people.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Started changing chasing that quarter.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
And if you've ever worked for a big company, you've
seen them do things that you know is structurally a
bad long term idea. But they did it because it's
going to boost the stock price this quarter, and they're
not worried about the next quarter till they get to
the next quarter. And that's what Trump's trying to talk about.
And I don't know if you can actually do it.
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I don't know if you can bring manufacturing back to
the United States. We start making things here, and you know,
China has its own orbit and we have our own
orbit and they're separate and all that sort of thing.
I don't know if you can do that in a
one term presidency. But that's what he's talking about. Yeah,
A couple of thoughts.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
That is the challenge because it could easily take thirty
years to do it thoroughly. And it's so easy to demogogue, right,
difficult in between period in a democracy from the left
and the right.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Oh sure, absolutely, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
I mean if if a you know, Jos Shapiro whatever,
decided that, you know, that's right, we got to onshore
a bunch of stuff because China are dirty communists and
bent on world domination and evil and it's it. But
it would take a couple two three decades to thoroughly
restructure the economy that way, and it's very difficult for
democracy to do that. And of course Trump's only got
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four years and if his successor, whoever that might be,
gets in and is willing to continue those policies. But again,
the difficulty is we vote every few years, and the
average voter is completely unsophisticated. Now, you folks, you've got
in terms of savvy, you've got multiple PhDs. But you know,
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the average schlub who turns out to the polls having
been convinced that they're going to take away the old
people's social security or Trump's a new Hitler.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
I mean, that's a hell of a lot of voters.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
And you can you can get those people fired up
and cut off the world's wisest long term plan at
the knees without even trying this.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
This is a really big picture issue though. I mean,
I think this gets to the core of is an
authoritarian system where one guy makes the decisions like China
better than our system on this issue. We can people
govern themselves on this issue, think long term and the
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reality of the new world.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
No, but thank you for asking.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
The other point I was going to make is actually
kind of a preemptive answer to that question, and that
is another thing democracy are famous for is being reactive.
One of my favorite quotes from Churchill was when he
said nothing changes until you're invaded. You can't get people
to vote for strong national defense until the poo has
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hit the fan. I was thinking about this, oh, I
was listening to a good podcast and really thinking deeply
about the These are the things I daydream about. If
I were to design a plan for either party to
truly do long term reform of social security and medicaid,
what would the messaging be, How would we approach that
and like preemptively guard ourselves against the demagoguery of they.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Want old people to starve?
Speaker 5 (07:20):
And honestly, I couldn't come up with anything that would work.
We will do nothing about those situations until they crash,
and then everybody will say how did this happen? And
we will have to enact strong, unpalatable measures to save
those two programs.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
I just I don't know how to head it off
in a democracy.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
I'm sorry to be discouraging, well like a bad talk
show host, and I apologize.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
Dave Chappelle had a joke over the weekend of uh,
this all sounds great until you're paying nine thousand dollars
for an iPhone.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
The problem being.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
If China gets what they want, they're just gonna They're
just gonna take the Apple factory, and we'ren't right and
unless we're willing to send in the Marines, there's not
gonna be any getting it back. And then we'll have
to all of a sudden figure out how to make
the iPhone or MacBook or whatever in the United States
or in India or some friendly country or whatever. So
(08:19):
it's either there'll be fifty thousand YUS four or five years.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
So it's either plan ahead or or it's gonna be worse.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Since again, but if we can't deal with the simple
math of social security as an issue as you've been
talking about. Well, then we're certainly not gonna deal with
the complexities of bringing manufacturing back to the United States
because we found out during COVID all the medicines and
masks and every every single thing you needed was made
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in China or somewhere else, because we don't make anything right.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
Yeah, other than certain aspects of Trump's foreign policy, which
I don't like it all, there a hell of a
lot he's doing that I think is great. I am
uncomfortably reminded of when Arnold Schwarzenegger was the governor of
California and he had like was it, five giant reforms
and he decided to push them all through at once,
(09:15):
which was a terrible tactical error, Yes, you lunkhead, because
all of the special interest groups were able to pool
their resources and energies and get it all defeated at once,
where even though the pulling on the individual topics was very,
very good, and I just I find myself thinking, if
the disruptions to the economy because of a legitimate long
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term you know, brand of thinking make it really easy
to demagogue against that, then there go the other budget cuts,
all the enthusiasm for that will will go away. Elon Musk,
the world's richest man is brought on this recession be
fairly easy to sell and there goes the anti woke
you know momentum. Maybe the reforming the universities in schools
(10:01):
to get the Marxist you know, indoctrination out of them.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
I just I'm a little concerned. There's so much going on.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Well, if you could get a group of economists to
discuss this and check their trump fear, slash, love or
hatred at the door, do we need to think? Okay,
the whole globalization thing is over. That moment is over.
China is going to have their sphere of influence and
(10:29):
it might be half the planet. Everything is going to divide.
We need to bring everything back or to friendly countries.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Period.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Would most economists agree with that or not? I wonder
I think they would.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
Yeah, Yeah, I don't unless they have a much rosier
view of China and its future than any sane human
being could have.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Yeah, they'd agree.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
If that needs to happen. There's going to be an
ugly period of making that happen. Yes, or more likely
it's going to be what you said, when when it
all collapses or the war starts or whatever, that's when
we'll have to figure out how to make a car
in the United States, an iPhone in the United States,
all that sort of stuff. I just I'm not I
don't I can't go with you that far that it's
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all going to be made in the United States. I
think it'll be more regionalism as opposed to globalism. And
I just hope Trump's being realistic about well, he didn't
even want it massing. He didn't want to make things
in Mexico or Canada. Right now, It's exactly where I
was going with this. I think you would have to
go full on, like I don't want to get too
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technical here, partly because my memories of this crap pretty fuzzy.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
You don't want to go full protectionist, mercantilist, isolationist economics
because that would that would so radically remake the economy,
that would shake out over you know, half a century
or more. I like the idea of a much tighter regionalism,
but that's gonna involve because you know, Mexico, Guatemala, some
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of the South American countries have much lower labor costs.
That's gonna involve some of the mass production being there
and not all on shore. I think, I think that,
you know, a mix of the two on shoring and
regional cooperation.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Is probably the sweet spot.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
But the Bernie crowd's got to be happy about trying
to bring the jobs back to the United States.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Right, Yeah theoretically, Yeah, well that's interesting stuff.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Again, he's got three and a half years to do it,
whereas China's got a hundred year plan and one guy
makes all the decisions.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
That's gonna be fun to watch. Tell you will it?
Stock up on dried goods and ammunition.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Folks, or horrifying A bunch of things to update you on.
Gene Hackman, Lebron James.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
My favorite gender bending madness story of the year thus far.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Oh boy, that sounds good. All on the way stay here.
Prime has launched.
Speaker 7 (13:05):
A new tool that will use AI to dub movies
into English from foreign languages like Spanish, Korean, and Sylvester Sloan.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
Oh I love that man, so AI could uh, I
don't have to read the dang foreign film.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
That's cool.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
So it's gonna I put my headphones on late. The
audio track is actually going to be translated. Yeah, AI
could do that obviously with good acting skills. I don't
know about that.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
But I hear the past in the voice.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
But if I'm reading it, what are my acting skills?
I'm reading the well, you hear the.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Voices on screen? Right.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
It's like the the Everywhere all the time, up and
down and behind you movie that I thought was so good.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
I finally watched Ye so prime a new prime minister
in Canada? Trudeau's out? Is that correct?
Speaker 5 (13:53):
Well?
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Not yet? Not yet? Okay, they haven't voted for a
new one yet.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
The exciting realities of Canadian politics to come.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Also next hour.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
What China is up to and how they're doing it
is absolutely clear now, dramatic, shocking, terrifying.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Stay with us. I just wondered if Christine was out yet.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
Speaking of gender bending madness, this may be my favorite
gender bending madness.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Story of the year thus far, though it is early.
Speaker 5 (14:19):
So in San Francisco, you got the uh, you got
one full nude Russian bath house.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Okay, I don't know what you're doing. I'm not a Russian.
What what do is do?
Speaker 5 (14:31):
What?
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Everyone I've heard the term bath house and then jokes
about it. But I don't really know what a bath
house is.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
You go, it's like a hot tubbery are you so
can it's you soak in the hot tubs, into the
mud baths or whatever. And but I don't know.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
I don't go to them, or are they a sexual
thing or are there are there above allegedly no?
Speaker 5 (14:52):
In reality, yeah, that was the big hookup place in
San Francisco for years.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
That's where the aids spread so so rapidly. I was
really ignorant on this topic.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
But so they are like real bathhouses that just regular
people not wanting to have sex go to. I never
talked to anybody's Yeah, got back from the bathouse, is
going to go.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Had a good time? Oh yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
In a lot of cultures, and we're actually using up
all the time for the actual story I wanted to tell.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
But you know what the hell?
Speaker 5 (15:16):
Uh yeah, Russians, Finns, your Northern Europeans bathhouses, hot springs,
mud baths, saunas where you're naked, all that stuff is
super common. But anyway, so this all nude Russian bath house,
uh really it wants to have a ladies' night, so
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so the women's there can just be there if of
whatever religious bent they are, that they're not supposed to
be naked around men, or just don't want to be
or whatever. And they published the new announcement of the Ladies'
Night saying, quote, in order to shelter religious preferences of
women in our community, only biological women will be allowed. Well,
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there was en up roar jack in San Francisco, and
theanguage was quickly updated to sex assigned at birth.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
But then that was hosted.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
Of course, everything lives forever on the internet, and there
are protests and counter protests and people yelling online and
that sort of thing. Even though they quote several transgender
people former fellas saying, look, it's one night a month.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
No sane person.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
Goes to the banya every day of the month anyway.
But so then, and I'm going to hurry through this,
they had to change it because nobody could agree on
the terms to fallus and nonfallous nights, phallic and non
phallic nights. Because if you're a woman and you go
to the bath house on Women's night and there's a
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wang there, it is not women's night.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Well, yes, it is.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
Trans women are women jack. According to people mostly in
San Francisco and places like that. But the bath house
is like, all right, what do we call it? So
nobody with a chance shows up. As are going through
about six different iterations, they came up with non phallic knight.
Thank you for making the point better than conservatives ever could.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
I'm Christian, friends, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
This is what it sounds like at the Highatt Regency
Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky, hundreds of high school students from
the Kentucky All State Choir uniting each night to sing
our national anthem, a longtime tradition in the Bluegrass State,
going all the way back to nineteen eighty seven.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Braid, Yes, Brade, I knew how it ends.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Bran.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Let's get to come up. We've got things to do wrong.
I'm sitting here with chills, my soul stir. Jack's bitching
about how long it is? Wow?
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Nice little wow, let's move the metromenome up five clicks?
Speaker 5 (18:06):
All right, little kind of built to that moment. Fucking okay.
I like the story for a little long, nice story.
That is a beautiful set and beautiful singing. Yeah, I
mean it was absolutely lovely coming up. Have cars gotten
too technologically advanced. Now they're making everyone insane. I've been
saying this for thirty years. Of course I'm a ludite.
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You are ali it, but and you like fast anthems.
Everybody knows about you. But on the opposite end of
the technological spectrum. As things get weirder and more bloody
and horrible in the Ukraine, I don't want to talk
about the war and foreign policy and Trump and all
sorts of stuff.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
But two technical notes.
Speaker 5 (18:45):
Lately, as it's become kind of the experimenting experimental ground
for all sorts of weapons systems that will be unleashed
on other human beings for you know, the next half century. Promly,
Russia is doing two things to adapt to the technology
sophistication of the Ukrainians. Number One, they are now using
train for goodness sakes, drones that are actually tethered to
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lightweight cable, extremely lightweight cable to communicate with the drones
over short to kind of medium distances because they can't
be jammed. Ah wow, it's like a landline for your drones.
And they literally have spools of super lightweight wire that
goes out how far I don't remember came across this
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a while back.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
But again, you're not going to send.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
One five miles away, obviously, it's you know, you're there
at the front, and the other thing is on the
Eastern Front, Russia is saddling up a mainstay of battlefields
from centuries earlier to counter Ukraine's drone army.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Horses and donkeys.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
The behooved animals carry supplies and soldiers to avoid the
attention of drones, which can easily spot and strike armbored
vehicles and other vehicles.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Moving near the front lines.
Speaker 5 (20:02):
But you use a horse and a donkey, especially you know,
in the dusk or dark hours, and then you can
get by. So they're you know, it's not super widespread
right now, but they're using horses and donkeys and manual
trolleys now to move wood, supplies and even the injured
for miles to and from the front because they're much
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less easily observed.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Anyway.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
Ukrainian forces are also experimenting with various unmanned land droney devices,
including something a very dog like looking beast that looks
like exactly out of one of those Boston Dynamics videos
that inspire us all even as they're really freaking us
out and giving us nightmares.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Yeah, So the next war we're involved in is gonna
look a lot different than the previous ones, like that
we're actually fighting. We're involved in all kinds of military
conflicts around the world, but like where we actually have.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Boots on the ground.
Speaker 5 (21:01):
As they say, it's funny that we haven't developed nomenclature
what to call are various levels of violent involvement of
the members of the military.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
Well, all that, because it gets to the whole Only
Congress can declare war, but for the past however long,
you use the same nine to eleven justification for every
act you do all over the world, and the President
can make the calls, right, the President or you know,
the Secretary of State or even the CIA can declare
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not war. But I want you armed fellows to kill
those people over there, right, Yeah, which is I'm sure Madison.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Would go, wow, we never even thought of that. Anyway.
Speaker 5 (21:44):
On the other end of the technological spectrum, drivers are
finding they wish smart technology in their cars was just
a bit dumber. Now, Jack, you have always been a
bit of a light eight when it comes to cars.
You know, it's a matter of preference. I tend to
like a little more technical sophistication in my automobile.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
They, in my opinion, you can't improve upon what the
air conditioning system was. Forever you got a knob, you
turn it toward blue for colder, red for warmer, and
the speed of the fan.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
It worked perfectly fine. I don't know why we ever
had to change it.
Speaker 5 (22:19):
Because a thermostats are a thing, and they're great. I
want it to be seventy two degrees in my car.
It'll get it there and hold it there for me.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
You don't have it. You don't want a red and
blue thing in your home? Do you like?
Speaker 5 (22:30):
You're saying it's some cheap motel with cinder block walls.
Come on now, anyway, Oh, teach their own, I say.
But automakers have been adding more and more new tech
features that go beyond the just the touch screens, assisted
driving systems and companion home maps that have become ubiquitous.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
I know, I mentioned, I know the feeling. How many
times have I screamed in my car various other places.
But quit trying to help me with various things where
they think they're doing me a favor.
Speaker 5 (22:57):
Stop trying to help me. Have we hit the point
of too much. Yes, many driver states too much. The
sharew had positive feelings about the intuitiveness of their car's
controls was seventy nine percent in the year twenty fifteen,
seventy nine percent. Nine years later's fall into fifty six percent,
twenty three point drop.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
That is interesting. The trend was.
Speaker 5 (23:20):
Similar for and this is what really rung a bell
with me, driver's perceptions of dashboard displays, screen interfaces, and
the layout of instrument panels. Overall, people like it pretty well,
but touch screens and it's funny. I've got a newish
car and I've been thinking about this a lot lately.
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They quote this one bloke. He sees them as both
an annoyance and potential hazard. Changing settings can require multiple
taps and usually doesn't deliver physical.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Feedback like the twist of a knob or the press
of a.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
Button that you can actually feel for twist, how far
you've twisted it, or whatever.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
He says.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
Quote, you have to sit there and stare at what
you're doing, which means you're taking your eyes off.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
The road, no doubt.
Speaker 5 (24:05):
Yeah, I've got a really cool car, but the touch
screen is way too cumbersome.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
Yeah, I shouldn't have to look and touch that many
things just to turn on the radio. Too many screens
flying around, too much attention. Yeah, it's quite amazing. Yeah, yeah,
I would agree.
Speaker 5 (24:24):
Some twenty eight percent of new car buyers favorite buttons
over touch screens, with that number is growing. And then
they get into a story that I don't know anything about,
but I guess with a lot of electric cars, including Tesla's,
but in this case a Volkswagen model, they're like crazy technically.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Advanced, is that the right word.
Speaker 5 (24:46):
But this guy who lives in Canada, I believe, went
out on a really cold morning and he's gonna try
to remotely start charging it blah blah blah. But the
doors wouldn't open because their sensor equipped handles were on
the fritz in the cold. He had one of those
cars that like senses your approach and the handles emerge
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and then they sense your fingers and blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
So he couldn't get into the car.
Speaker 5 (25:11):
He had to shimmy into his car through the trunk,
like you had to back when your car was falling
apart many years ago.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
My car does that because of the app on my watch,
which I find just amazing. So because I'm wearing my
watch with the car app on it, it opens the
doors when I walk up to it.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
Now, you wouldn't think the three point one percent or
three point one problems per one hundred vehicles of owners
complaining about their door handles being different difficult sounds like
a lot three point one per one hundred vehicles. But
that's almost well, it's three percent. That's up from two
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tenths of a percent in twenty twenty. Was anybody unhappy
you reach out and you pull on the handle and
the door opens, right?
Speaker 4 (25:54):
See, that's another one to me? Was anybody unhappy with
the door handle situation?
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Before? I thought it was fine?
Speaker 5 (26:00):
So there, it's about sixteen times as many problems now
that they're so advanced and futuristic.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
So it would appear, at least for now that we
are at the end of.
Speaker 5 (26:14):
Fancy and computer driven and futuristic is automatically a good thing.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Yeah, it's tough.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
I don't even know myself because I am a I
am do lean toward the luod eyed end. But like
the Tesla stuff and Apple stuff, I really really like.
I feel like they do a really good job of
figuring out what you want in a way that you
want it versus a lot of other products. So there
is a it's not all one or the other, it's
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all in the execution. So top of the list that
people do, like wireless phone charging pads, yeah he did.
Speaker 5 (26:49):
And ventilated seats. Oh I'm a big fan, a little
bougie for me. Oh please please, hot hot summer day.
You got an air conditioner blown right on your heinis
it on earth.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
Makes me feel like my pants are wet. And secondly,
it's just it's it's to your pants are wet. It's
too chancy. I feel like it's just setting myself up
for a failure. I I'd rather be hot or cold
than use that technology.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Wow, please email.
Speaker 5 (27:15):
Your theories about what's going on there. That's a mail
bagging armstrung and get eat one also very popular. Jack
waiting on this for the ludite crowd because I'm sure
you're representing a certain percentage of people.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
Rain sensing wipers. Yeah, I haven't found that many that
work that well.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Yeah, great in theory. Yeah great.
Speaker 5 (27:35):
How about built in vacuum cleaners. Yeah, wait a minute,
that's a thing. Yeah, who's got those?
Speaker 4 (27:43):
I don't remember where I came across that, but it's yeah,
it's it's internal in the car. And then you like,
you can just plug in the hose. It's like if
you've got the vacuum system in your house, which I've
only seen on the whole house vacuum, but yeah, you've
had that because I am bougie. Yeah, you just have
a hose you plug into verious parts of the car.
That would be pretty handy.
Speaker 5 (28:00):
So at the bottom of the wish list are passenger
side screens like hmm, like screens to look at it.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
I was in somebody's fancy Mercedes lift over the weekend
with my kids. We ended up with a fancy uber
and it had a guy was showing me the screen
on the passenger side.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
It was just for the passenger. That was pretty cool.
Speaker 5 (28:20):
Oh wow, Okay, so people are not impressed with that.
I've never seen one. An augmented reality visible on the windshield. Well,
if you want to have a head on wreck, it
sounds like a great idea.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (28:32):
And according to JD Power, drivers are underwhelmed by gesture controls,
where one can say, increase the volume by rotating an
imaginary knob in the air. You're an imaginary knob. Wow,
that sounds great in theory. Again, but I could see
like you try it, and you try it again and try.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
It again, like the Apple Vision pro. So you're doing
things with your hands that its interesting.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Well, if it.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
Worked, it might be fine. Again, it's the execution of
all these things. A lot of these things would be
great if they worked the way they said they were
going to work.
Speaker 5 (29:05):
Right, And then they mentioned that with all the sensors
on cars now for backup camera well forward cameras too,
and parking sensors and whatever, a fender vendor can can
cost you a hell of a lot of money, which
has raised insurance rates as well.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Yeah, that's ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
Speaking of Tesla is because of the aluminum body and
the sensor and stuff like that, you get a tiny dent,
You're going to spend fifteen thousand dollars on a tiny dent.
Elon claims because the newer Teslas have a different sensory
system than the other ones did with the cameras and
everything like that. Elon claims they're going full You don't
have to pay attention auto driving end of twenty six.
(29:43):
I can't believe that. I don't think the government will
allow it, will they the you don't have to pay attention.
You can sleep if you want to.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Color me skeptical. I'm pretty skeptical too.
Speaker 5 (29:54):
Final note of the evils of technological development. Here's a
dude who likes to start his twenty four Toya, a
tound of pickup remotely. He lives in you know, high
elevation in Nevada, but that function doesn't reliably work with
his key fob, so he begrudgingly starts it through Toyota's app,
which charges a subscription fee. He points out, I got
(30:15):
a thousand dollars a month payment. Now I got to
pay another fifteen bucks a month just to be able
to start it remotely.
Speaker 6 (30:20):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
Yeah, the subscription fee thing, we've talked about that that's
a growing you know you want you want this horse
power because they can adjust it.
Speaker 5 (30:30):
You want this horse power, you pay extra per month.
This upgraded stereoah, which I always get. Yeah, you gotta
pay a fee per month. Interesting And they mentioned finally
Jack and this will glad in your heart. After owning
the truck for a year and a half, he also
recently bought himself a nineteen eighty five Chivy Silverado, which
he can fix himself.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (30:49):
Yeah, And sometimes when you get in those, if you
ever get a chance to drive something like that, there's
something like maybe it's nostalgia, but there's just something because
it's so simple.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
It's just like.
Speaker 4 (30:57):
Relaxing in a certain way. So like, I know, I
know everything that's going on here. I don't have to
think at all. You have any thoughts on that, you
can text us. We got more in the way to
stay here.
Speaker 7 (31:08):
Arstro he Yetie, an Australian man who was credited with
saving more than two million babies by repeatedly donating his blood,
has died.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
At the age of eighty eight.
Speaker 7 (31:21):
Doctors pronounced him dead when they heard this sound.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Wow christ Oh, that's kind of funny. Wow.
Speaker 4 (31:35):
It's an easy transition from that to the firing squad
execution that happened in South Carolina over the weekend. We've
only executed four people in this country by firing squad
in the last half a century. We did one the
other day. He's a scumbag by the way, or he
you know, I don't know where his brain was. Now.
He became a Christian and says he's remorseful or whatever,
but he committed horrible, horrible crimes, beating to death people
(31:58):
with baseball bats and whatnot. So anyway, strapped to a
chair with a target placed over his heart, and put
a hood over his head. Three Correction Department volunteers armed
with rifles fired bullets, deciding to shatter on impact. I
don't know exactly what that's all about. They stood fifteen
feet away, which, if you don't know how far that is,
(32:19):
is a distance from the free throw line to the backboard,
So that's how close you are. Three dudes stood there
and shot him. He was I thought this particular nugget
was before the hood was placed on his head. Blah
blah blah. I'll get to a statement in a minute.
(32:42):
He was wearing a black jumpsuit with crocs. Yeah, and
make it easier for me to shoot him.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
Actually, wow, oh, inappropriate.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
His ankles and wrists were shackled so that he couldn't
like jump around, move around whatever. And he chose they.
He chose the firing squad because he thought it was
the least gruesome of the other alternatives, the other alternatives
being in South Carolina eaten by dogs.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
And I don't know that is incorrect. I need a
source that information.
Speaker 4 (33:17):
Actually, the other choices were actually the electric chair, which
he said would cook him alive, so he didn't want that.
And they do lethal injection like most states do who
have the death penalty, and he was worried that there
would be a rush of fluid into his lugs and
lungs and he would drown. So he sounds like a
bit of a whack job in addition to being a
murderous scumbag. His final statement was to be one of
(33:44):
love and calling to my fellow Christians to help us
end the death penalty. And I for an I was
used as justification to the jury for seeking the death penalty.
He said in a statement at that time, I was
too ignorant to know how wrong that was. Why because
we no longer live under the Old Testament law, but
now live under the New test So.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
You know what's interesting. Two perspectives on that. Number one.
Speaker 5 (34:03):
I was reading Theologian the other day talking about how
the whole eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth
thing is not a cry for vengeance.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
It's a cry for proportionality.
Speaker 5 (34:13):
What they're saying is if somebody does something offensive, to
you don't kill them in their family. Keep it proportional,
otherwise it escalates and gets incredibly ugly. Second thing is
I was reminded that Thomas jes Edison rather allegedly invented
the electric chair to prove that alternating current AC power
was unsafe because it could kill a person, and DC
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his preferred method of electrifying things was much safer and better.
Speaker 4 (34:40):
H So a number of states have turned to the
firing squad. I guess if they ever start executing people again.
There is some belief that it is incredibly painless. You
will instantly die and feel milky you whatsoever? No, no
sudden shock. But was it super bloody?
Speaker 2 (34:58):
Did they mention or anything? They did not? It's almost
got to be, doesn't it. I heard it it was.
Speaker 5 (35:04):
I wonder if he was wearing some sort of special
garment so it wouldn't be too much of a cleanup.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
I ain't dying in crocs. I'll tell you that you
might have your standard. I'd like to go out with
some dignity.
Speaker 4 (35:17):
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Speaker 3 (00:26):
People don't want to hear about these stupid ideas that
they have transgender for everybody. And again the men and
women's sports. What is that a ninety to ten deal.
I don't even know who the ten would be, but
they were in the fighting for it.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
And I try and.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Say to myself, because you always like to understand where
your opponent is, whether it's in business or anything else.
Is there something I don't understand, but we don't understand it.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
So Trump did a big interview with Maria Barbromo yes
day and a lot of different issues, but this is
what's getting the most attention, so we can discuss.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Look, I know that you inherited a mess, and you say,
I don't been here far.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Are you expecting a recession this year? I hate to
predict things like that. There is a period of transition
because what we're doing is very big. We're bringing wealth
back to America. That's a big thing, and there are
always periods of it takes a little time. It takes
(01:30):
a little time, but I think it should be great
for us.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
I mean, I think it should be great.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
So the fact that he didn't immediately say no, there's
not going to be a recession.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Him understanding the way the media.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Works and everything means something, right, right, I thought his
very brief screen about you know, it's important in any
sort of negotiation, I ask yourself, is there something I
don't understand about the other side?
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Occasionally, because Trump's.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
Very simple populist messaging sometimes strikes people including me, is
like crazy oversimplified, but that's often intentional, and occasionally he
shows a glimpse behind the curtain, and he's much more
analytical than he comes off. I think, right, can we
break out of the either like Trump or you don't
like him for just a minute to have this conversation.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Sure, so he's talking to the listener, I know you can, But.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
I'm thinking about friends I know who would never never
be able to get past the they hate Trump so
much or whatever. But he talked a little bit about
having long term goals, thinking long term, how China thinks
in centuries in the interview, and I thought it was interesting.
On MSNBC this Morning where they do hate Trump so
much they can hardly see straight. David Ignatius of the
(02:48):
Washington Post saying this, He made a.
Speaker 6 (02:50):
Very interesting comment yesterday that I did pay attention to
where he said China works on one hundred year cycle
of planning in the United States goes horror to quarter,
something I've heard from corporate CEOs for for years, and
I think he's right about that. I mean, it's not
to endorse the policies, but we do tend to get
so caught up in these short term movements that we
(03:13):
forget about what would be good.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
In for the long run in the country.
Speaker 6 (03:16):
But in any event, Wall Street's got the jitters today.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
All right.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
And it reminded me is that we've been saying for
years on this show. You always say that, you know,
the Dow is not the economy, or what's happening with
the stock market is not the economy. And Wall Street, man,
the Wall Street Journal gets quoted all the time. We
quoted all the time, and it's a great newspaper, but man,
they're a quarter by quarter what's best for the next
(03:41):
quarter newspaper and a bunch of people who make a
lot of money off of being able to read what's
going to happen quarter by quarter by quarter. But I
remember reading an article in the Wall Street Journal years ago.
There's never been any movement on this on how when
reporting rules changed, and I don't remember when that happened,
but we went from reporting, you know, yearly or whatever
(04:05):
to quarterly to the stockholders really change the way we
do business in the United States, and people.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Started changing chasing that quarter.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
And if you've ever worked for a big company, you've
seen them do things that you know is structurally a
bad long term idea. But they did it because it's
going to boost the stock price this quarter, and they're
not worried about the next quarter till they get to
the next quarter. And that's what Trump's trying to talk about.
And I don't know if you can actually do it.
(04:34):
I don't know if you can bring manufacturing back to
the United States. We start making things here, and you know,
China has its own orbit and we have our own
orbit and they're separate and all that sort of thing.
I don't know if you can do that in a
one term presidency. But that's what he's talking about. Yeah,
A couple of thoughts.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
That is the challenge because it could easily take thirty
years to do it thoroughly. And it's so easy to demogogue, right,
difficult in between period in a democracy from the left
and the right.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Oh sure, absolutely, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
I mean if if a you know, Jos Shapiro whatever,
decided that, you know, that's right, we got to onshore
a bunch of stuff because China are dirty communists and
bent on world domination and evil and it's it. But
it would take a couple two three decades to thoroughly
restructure the economy that way, and it's very difficult for
democracy to do that. And of course Trump's only got
(05:25):
four years and if his successor, whoever that might be,
gets in and is willing to continue those policies. But again,
the difficulty is we vote every few years, and the
average voter is completely unsophisticated. Now, you folks, you've got
in terms of savvy, you've got multiple PhDs. But you know,
(05:45):
the average schlub who turns out to the polls having
been convinced that they're going to take away the old
people's social security or Trump's a new Hitler.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
I mean, that's a hell of a lot of voters.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
And you can you can get those people fired up
and cut off the world's wisest long term plan at
the knees without even trying this.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
This is a really big picture issue though. I mean,
I think this gets to the core of is an
authoritarian system where one guy makes the decisions like China
better than our system on this issue. We can people
govern themselves on this issue, think long term and the
(06:26):
reality of the new world.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
No, but thank you for asking.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
The other point I was going to make is actually
kind of a preemptive answer to that question, and that
is another thing democracy are famous for is being reactive.
One of my favorite quotes from Churchill was when he
said nothing changes until you're invaded. You can't get people
to vote for strong national defense until the poo has
(06:54):
hit the fan. I was thinking about this, oh, I
was listening to a good podcast and really thinking deeply
about the These are the things I daydream about. If
I were to design a plan for either party to
truly do long term reform of social security and medicaid,
what would the messaging be, How would we approach that
and like preemptively guard ourselves against the demagoguery of they.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Want old people to starve?
Speaker 5 (07:20):
And honestly, I couldn't come up with anything that would work.
We will do nothing about those situations until they crash,
and then everybody will say how did this happen? And
we will have to enact strong, unpalatable measures to save
those two programs.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
I just I don't know how to head it off
in a democracy.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
I'm sorry to be discouraging, well like a bad talk
show host, and I apologize.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
Dave Chappelle had a joke over the weekend of uh,
this all sounds great until you're paying nine thousand dollars
for an iPhone.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
The problem being.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
If China gets what they want, they're just gonna They're
just gonna take the Apple factory, and we'ren't right and
unless we're willing to send in the Marines, there's not
gonna be any getting it back. And then we'll have
to all of a sudden figure out how to make
the iPhone or MacBook or whatever in the United States
or in India or some friendly country or whatever. So
(08:19):
it's either there'll be fifty thousand YUS four or five years.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
So it's either plan ahead or or it's gonna be worse.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Since again, but if we can't deal with the simple
math of social security as an issue as you've been
talking about. Well, then we're certainly not gonna deal with
the complexities of bringing manufacturing back to the United States
because we found out during COVID all the medicines and
masks and every every single thing you needed was made
(08:49):
in China or somewhere else, because we don't make anything right.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
Yeah, other than certain aspects of Trump's foreign policy, which
I don't like it all, there a hell of a
lot he's doing that I think is great. I am
uncomfortably reminded of when Arnold Schwarzenegger was the governor of
California and he had like was it, five giant reforms
and he decided to push them all through at once,
(09:15):
which was a terrible tactical error, Yes, you lunkhead, because
all of the special interest groups were able to pool
their resources and energies and get it all defeated at once,
where even though the pulling on the individual topics was very,
very good, and I just I find myself thinking, if
the disruptions to the economy because of a legitimate long
(09:37):
term you know, brand of thinking make it really easy
to demagogue against that, then there go the other budget cuts,
all the enthusiasm for that will will go away. Elon Musk,
the world's richest man is brought on this recession be
fairly easy to sell and there goes the anti woke
you know momentum. Maybe the reforming the universities in schools
(10:01):
to get the Marxist you know, indoctrination out of them.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
I just I'm a little concerned. There's so much going on.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Well, if you could get a group of economists to
discuss this and check their trump fear, slash, love or
hatred at the door, do we need to think? Okay,
the whole globalization thing is over. That moment is over.
China is going to have their sphere of influence and
(10:29):
it might be half the planet. Everything is going to divide.
We need to bring everything back or to friendly countries.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Period.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Would most economists agree with that or not? I wonder
I think they would.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
Yeah, Yeah, I don't unless they have a much rosier
view of China and its future than any sane human
being could have.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Yeah, they'd agree.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
If that needs to happen. There's going to be an
ugly period of making that happen. Yes, or more likely
it's going to be what you said, when when it
all collapses or the war starts or whatever, that's when
we'll have to figure out how to make a car
in the United States, an iPhone in the United States,
all that sort of stuff. I just I'm not I
don't I can't go with you that far that it's
(11:15):
all going to be made in the United States. I
think it'll be more regionalism as opposed to globalism. And
I just hope Trump's being realistic about well, he didn't
even want it massing. He didn't want to make things
in Mexico or Canada. Right now, It's exactly where I
was going with this. I think you would have to
go full on, like I don't want to get too
(11:37):
technical here, partly because my memories of this crap pretty fuzzy.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
You don't want to go full protectionist, mercantilist, isolationist economics
because that would that would so radically remake the economy,
that would shake out over you know, half a century
or more. I like the idea of a much tighter regionalism,
but that's gonna involve because you know, Mexico, Guatemala, some
(12:05):
of the South American countries have much lower labor costs.
That's gonna involve some of the mass production being there
and not all on shore. I think, I think that,
you know, a mix of the two on shoring and
regional cooperation.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Is probably the sweet spot.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
But the Bernie crowd's got to be happy about trying
to bring the jobs back to the United States.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Right, Yeah theoretically, Yeah, well that's interesting stuff.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Again, he's got three and a half years to do it,
whereas China's got a hundred year plan and one guy
makes all the decisions.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
That's gonna be fun to watch. Tell you will it?
Stock up on dried goods and ammunition.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Folks, or horrifying A bunch of things to update you on.
Gene Hackman, Lebron James.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
My favorite gender bending madness story of the year thus far.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Oh boy, that sounds good. All on the way stay here.
Prime has launched.
Speaker 7 (13:05):
A new tool that will use AI to dub movies
into English from foreign languages like Spanish, Korean, and Sylvester Sloan.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
Oh I love that man, so AI could uh, I
don't have to read the dang foreign film.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
That's cool.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
So it's gonna I put my headphones on late. The
audio track is actually going to be translated. Yeah, AI
could do that obviously with good acting skills. I don't
know about that.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
But I hear the past in the voice.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
But if I'm reading it, what are my acting skills?
I'm reading the well, you hear the.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Voices on screen? Right.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
It's like the the Everywhere all the time, up and
down and behind you movie that I thought was so good.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
I finally watched Ye so prime a new prime minister
in Canada? Trudeau's out? Is that correct?
Speaker 5 (13:53):
Well?
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Not yet? Not yet? Okay, they haven't voted for a
new one yet.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
The exciting realities of Canadian politics to come.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Also next hour.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
What China is up to and how they're doing it
is absolutely clear now, dramatic, shocking, terrifying.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Stay with us. I just wondered if Christine was out yet.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
Speaking of gender bending madness, this may be my favorite
gender bending madness.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Story of the year thus far, though it is early.
Speaker 5 (14:19):
So in San Francisco, you got the uh, you got
one full nude Russian bath house.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Okay, I don't know what you're doing. I'm not a Russian.
What what do is do?
Speaker 5 (14:31):
What?
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Everyone I've heard the term bath house and then jokes
about it. But I don't really know what a bath
house is.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
You go, it's like a hot tubbery are you so
can it's you soak in the hot tubs, into the
mud baths or whatever. And but I don't know.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
I don't go to them, or are they a sexual
thing or are there are there above allegedly no?
Speaker 5 (14:52):
In reality, yeah, that was the big hookup place in
San Francisco for years.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
That's where the aids spread so so rapidly. I was
really ignorant on this topic.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
But so they are like real bathhouses that just regular
people not wanting to have sex go to. I never
talked to anybody's Yeah, got back from the bathouse, is
going to go.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Had a good time? Oh yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
In a lot of cultures, and we're actually using up
all the time for the actual story I wanted to tell.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
But you know what the hell?
Speaker 5 (15:16):
Uh yeah, Russians, Finns, your Northern Europeans bathhouses, hot springs,
mud baths, saunas where you're naked, all that stuff is
super common. But anyway, so this all nude Russian bath house,
uh really it wants to have a ladies' night, so
(15:37):
so the women's there can just be there if of
whatever religious bent they are, that they're not supposed to
be naked around men, or just don't want to be
or whatever. And they published the new announcement of the Ladies'
Night saying, quote, in order to shelter religious preferences of
women in our community, only biological women will be allowed. Well,
(15:57):
there was en up roar jack in San Francisco, and
theanguage was quickly updated to sex assigned at birth.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
But then that was hosted.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
Of course, everything lives forever on the internet, and there
are protests and counter protests and people yelling online and
that sort of thing. Even though they quote several transgender
people former fellas saying, look, it's one night a month.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
No sane person.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
Goes to the banya every day of the month anyway.
But so then, and I'm going to hurry through this,
they had to change it because nobody could agree on
the terms to fallus and nonfallous nights, phallic and non
phallic nights. Because if you're a woman and you go
to the bath house on Women's night and there's a
(16:43):
wang there, it is not women's night.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Well, yes, it is.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
Trans women are women jack. According to people mostly in
San Francisco and places like that. But the bath house
is like, all right, what do we call it? So
nobody with a chance shows up. As are going through
about six different iterations, they came up with non phallic knight.
Thank you for making the point better than conservatives ever could.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
I'm Christian, friends, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
This is what it sounds like at the Highatt Regency
Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky, hundreds of high school students from
the Kentucky All State Choir uniting each night to sing
our national anthem, a longtime tradition in the Bluegrass State,
going all the way back to nineteen eighty seven.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Braid, Yes, Brade, I knew how it ends.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Bran.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Let's get to come up. We've got things to do wrong.
I'm sitting here with chills, my soul stir. Jack's bitching
about how long it is? Wow?
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Nice little wow, let's move the metromenome up five clicks?
Speaker 5 (18:06):
All right, little kind of built to that moment. Fucking okay.
I like the story for a little long, nice story.
That is a beautiful set and beautiful singing. Yeah, I
mean it was absolutely lovely coming up. Have cars gotten
too technologically advanced. Now they're making everyone insane. I've been
saying this for thirty years. Of course I'm a ludite.
(18:27):
You are ali it, but and you like fast anthems.
Everybody knows about you. But on the opposite end of
the technological spectrum. As things get weirder and more bloody
and horrible in the Ukraine, I don't want to talk
about the war and foreign policy and Trump and all
sorts of stuff.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
But two technical notes.
Speaker 5 (18:45):
Lately, as it's become kind of the experimenting experimental ground
for all sorts of weapons systems that will be unleashed
on other human beings for you know, the next half century. Promly,
Russia is doing two things to adapt to the technology
sophistication of the Ukrainians. Number One, they are now using
train for goodness sakes, drones that are actually tethered to
(19:10):
lightweight cable, extremely lightweight cable to communicate with the drones
over short to kind of medium distances because they can't
be jammed. Ah wow, it's like a landline for your drones.
And they literally have spools of super lightweight wire that
goes out how far I don't remember came across this
(19:33):
a while back.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
But again, you're not going to send.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
One five miles away, obviously, it's you know, you're there
at the front, and the other thing is on the
Eastern Front, Russia is saddling up a mainstay of battlefields
from centuries earlier to counter Ukraine's drone army.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Horses and donkeys.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
The behooved animals carry supplies and soldiers to avoid the
attention of drones, which can easily spot and strike armbored
vehicles and other vehicles.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Moving near the front lines.
Speaker 5 (20:02):
But you use a horse and a donkey, especially you know,
in the dusk or dark hours, and then you can
get by. So they're you know, it's not super widespread
right now, but they're using horses and donkeys and manual
trolleys now to move wood, supplies and even the injured
for miles to and from the front because they're much
(20:23):
less easily observed.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Anyway.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
Ukrainian forces are also experimenting with various unmanned land droney devices,
including something a very dog like looking beast that looks
like exactly out of one of those Boston Dynamics videos
that inspire us all even as they're really freaking us
out and giving us nightmares.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Yeah, So the next war we're involved in is gonna
look a lot different than the previous ones, like that
we're actually fighting. We're involved in all kinds of military
conflicts around the world, but like where we actually have.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Boots on the ground.
Speaker 5 (21:01):
As they say, it's funny that we haven't developed nomenclature
what to call are various levels of violent involvement of
the members of the military.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
Well, all that, because it gets to the whole Only
Congress can declare war, but for the past however long,
you use the same nine to eleven justification for every
act you do all over the world, and the President
can make the calls, right, the President or you know,
the Secretary of State or even the CIA can declare
(21:34):
not war. But I want you armed fellows to kill
those people over there, right, Yeah, which is I'm sure Madison.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Would go, wow, we never even thought of that. Anyway.
Speaker 5 (21:44):
On the other end of the technological spectrum, drivers are
finding they wish smart technology in their cars was just
a bit dumber. Now, Jack, you have always been a
bit of a light eight when it comes to cars.
You know, it's a matter of preference. I tend to
like a little more technical sophistication in my automobile.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
They, in my opinion, you can't improve upon what the
air conditioning system was. Forever you got a knob, you
turn it toward blue for colder, red for warmer, and
the speed of the fan.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
It worked perfectly fine. I don't know why we ever
had to change it.
Speaker 5 (22:19):
Because a thermostats are a thing, and they're great. I
want it to be seventy two degrees in my car.
It'll get it there and hold it there for me.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
You don't have it. You don't want a red and
blue thing in your home? Do you like?
Speaker 5 (22:30):
You're saying it's some cheap motel with cinder block walls.
Come on now, anyway, Oh, teach their own, I say.
But automakers have been adding more and more new tech
features that go beyond the just the touch screens, assisted
driving systems and companion home maps that have become ubiquitous.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
I know, I mentioned, I know the feeling. How many
times have I screamed in my car various other places.
But quit trying to help me with various things where
they think they're doing me a favor.
Speaker 5 (22:57):
Stop trying to help me. Have we hit the point
of too much. Yes, many driver states too much. The
sharew had positive feelings about the intuitiveness of their car's
controls was seventy nine percent in the year twenty fifteen,
seventy nine percent. Nine years later's fall into fifty six percent,
twenty three point drop.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
That is interesting. The trend was.
Speaker 5 (23:20):
Similar for and this is what really rung a bell
with me, driver's perceptions of dashboard displays, screen interfaces, and
the layout of instrument panels. Overall, people like it pretty well,
but touch screens and it's funny. I've got a newish
car and I've been thinking about this a lot lately.
(23:43):
They quote this one bloke. He sees them as both
an annoyance and potential hazard. Changing settings can require multiple
taps and usually doesn't deliver physical.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Feedback like the twist of a knob or the press
of a.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
Button that you can actually feel for twist, how far
you've twisted it, or whatever.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
He says.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
Quote, you have to sit there and stare at what
you're doing, which means you're taking your eyes off.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
The road, no doubt.
Speaker 5 (24:05):
Yeah, I've got a really cool car, but the touch
screen is way too cumbersome.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
Yeah, I shouldn't have to look and touch that many
things just to turn on the radio. Too many screens
flying around, too much attention. Yeah, it's quite amazing. Yeah, yeah,
I would agree.
Speaker 5 (24:24):
Some twenty eight percent of new car buyers favorite buttons
over touch screens, with that number is growing. And then
they get into a story that I don't know anything about,
but I guess with a lot of electric cars, including Tesla's,
but in this case a Volkswagen model, they're like crazy technically.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Advanced, is that the right word.
Speaker 5 (24:46):
But this guy who lives in Canada, I believe, went
out on a really cold morning and he's gonna try
to remotely start charging it blah blah blah. But the
doors wouldn't open because their sensor equipped handles were on
the fritz in the cold. He had one of those
cars that like senses your approach and the handles emerge
(25:07):
and then they sense your fingers and blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
So he couldn't get into the car.
Speaker 5 (25:11):
He had to shimmy into his car through the trunk,
like you had to back when your car was falling
apart many years ago.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
My car does that because of the app on my watch,
which I find just amazing. So because I'm wearing my
watch with the car app on it, it opens the
doors when I walk up to it.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
Now, you wouldn't think the three point one percent or
three point one problems per one hundred vehicles of owners
complaining about their door handles being different difficult sounds like
a lot three point one per one hundred vehicles. But
that's almost well, it's three percent. That's up from two
(25:48):
tenths of a percent in twenty twenty. Was anybody unhappy
you reach out and you pull on the handle and
the door opens, right?
Speaker 4 (25:54):
See, that's another one to me? Was anybody unhappy with
the door handle situation?
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Before? I thought it was fine?
Speaker 5 (26:00):
So there, it's about sixteen times as many problems now
that they're so advanced and futuristic.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
So it would appear, at least for now that we
are at the end of.
Speaker 5 (26:14):
Fancy and computer driven and futuristic is automatically a good thing.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Yeah, it's tough.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
I don't even know myself because I am a I
am do lean toward the luod eyed end. But like
the Tesla stuff and Apple stuff, I really really like.
I feel like they do a really good job of
figuring out what you want in a way that you
want it versus a lot of other products. So there
is a it's not all one or the other, it's
(26:41):
all in the execution. So top of the list that
people do, like wireless phone charging pads, yeah he did.
Speaker 5 (26:49):
And ventilated seats. Oh I'm a big fan, a little
bougie for me. Oh please please, hot hot summer day.
You got an air conditioner blown right on your heinis
it on earth.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
Makes me feel like my pants are wet. And secondly,
it's just it's it's to your pants are wet. It's
too chancy. I feel like it's just setting myself up
for a failure. I I'd rather be hot or cold
than use that technology.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Wow, please email.
Speaker 5 (27:15):
Your theories about what's going on there. That's a mail
bagging armstrung and get eat one also very popular. Jack
waiting on this for the ludite crowd because I'm sure
you're representing a certain percentage of people.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
Rain sensing wipers. Yeah, I haven't found that many that
work that well.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Yeah, great in theory. Yeah great.
Speaker 5 (27:35):
How about built in vacuum cleaners. Yeah, wait a minute,
that's a thing. Yeah, who's got those?
Speaker 4 (27:43):
I don't remember where I came across that, but it's yeah,
it's it's internal in the car. And then you like,
you can just plug in the hose. It's like if
you've got the vacuum system in your house, which I've
only seen on the whole house vacuum, but yeah, you've
had that because I am bougie. Yeah, you just have
a hose you plug into verious parts of the car.
That would be pretty handy.
Speaker 5 (28:00):
So at the bottom of the wish list are passenger
side screens like hmm, like screens to look at it.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
I was in somebody's fancy Mercedes lift over the weekend
with my kids. We ended up with a fancy uber
and it had a guy was showing me the screen
on the passenger side.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
It was just for the passenger. That was pretty cool.
Speaker 5 (28:20):
Oh wow, Okay, so people are not impressed with that.
I've never seen one. An augmented reality visible on the windshield. Well,
if you want to have a head on wreck, it
sounds like a great idea.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (28:32):
And according to JD Power, drivers are underwhelmed by gesture controls,
where one can say, increase the volume by rotating an
imaginary knob in the air. You're an imaginary knob. Wow,
that sounds great in theory. Again, but I could see
like you try it, and you try it again and try.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
It again, like the Apple Vision pro. So you're doing
things with your hands that its interesting.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Well, if it.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
Worked, it might be fine. Again, it's the execution of
all these things. A lot of these things would be
great if they worked the way they said they were
going to work.
Speaker 5 (29:05):
Right, And then they mentioned that with all the sensors
on cars now for backup camera well forward cameras too,
and parking sensors and whatever, a fender vendor can can
cost you a hell of a lot of money, which
has raised insurance rates as well.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Yeah, that's ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
Speaking of Tesla is because of the aluminum body and
the sensor and stuff like that, you get a tiny dent,
You're going to spend fifteen thousand dollars on a tiny dent.
Elon claims because the newer Teslas have a different sensory
system than the other ones did with the cameras and
everything like that. Elon claims they're going full You don't
have to pay attention auto driving end of twenty six.
(29:43):
I can't believe that. I don't think the government will
allow it, will they the you don't have to pay attention.
You can sleep if you want to.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Color me skeptical. I'm pretty skeptical too.
Speaker 5 (29:54):
Final note of the evils of technological development. Here's a
dude who likes to start his twenty four Toya, a
tound of pickup remotely. He lives in you know, high
elevation in Nevada, but that function doesn't reliably work with
his key fob, so he begrudgingly starts it through Toyota's app,
which charges a subscription fee. He points out, I got
(30:15):
a thousand dollars a month payment. Now I got to
pay another fifteen bucks a month just to be able
to start it remotely.
Speaker 6 (30:20):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
Yeah, the subscription fee thing, we've talked about that that's
a growing you know you want you want this horse
power because they can adjust it.
Speaker 5 (30:30):
You want this horse power, you pay extra per month.
This upgraded stereoah, which I always get. Yeah, you gotta
pay a fee per month. Interesting And they mentioned finally
Jack and this will glad in your heart. After owning
the truck for a year and a half, he also
recently bought himself a nineteen eighty five Chivy Silverado, which
he can fix himself.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (30:49):
Yeah, And sometimes when you get in those, if you
ever get a chance to drive something like that, there's
something like maybe it's nostalgia, but there's just something because
it's so simple.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
It's just like.
Speaker 4 (30:57):
Relaxing in a certain way. So like, I know, I
know everything that's going on here. I don't have to
think at all. You have any thoughts on that, you
can text us. We got more in the way to
stay here.
Speaker 7 (31:08):
Arstro he Yetie, an Australian man who was credited with
saving more than two million babies by repeatedly donating his blood,
has died.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
At the age of eighty eight.
Speaker 7 (31:21):
Doctors pronounced him dead when they heard this sound.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Wow christ Oh, that's kind of funny. Wow.
Speaker 4 (31:35):
It's an easy transition from that to the firing squad
execution that happened in South Carolina over the weekend. We've
only executed four people in this country by firing squad
in the last half a century. We did one the
other day. He's a scumbag by the way, or he
you know, I don't know where his brain was. Now.
He became a Christian and says he's remorseful or whatever,
but he committed horrible, horrible crimes, beating to death people
(31:58):
with baseball bats and whatnot. So anyway, strapped to a
chair with a target placed over his heart, and put
a hood over his head. Three Correction Department volunteers armed
with rifles fired bullets, deciding to shatter on impact. I
don't know exactly what that's all about. They stood fifteen
feet away, which, if you don't know how far that is,
(32:19):
is a distance from the free throw line to the backboard,
So that's how close you are. Three dudes stood there
and shot him. He was I thought this particular nugget
was before the hood was placed on his head. Blah
blah blah. I'll get to a statement in a minute.
(32:42):
He was wearing a black jumpsuit with crocs. Yeah, and
make it easier for me to shoot him.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
Actually, wow, oh, inappropriate.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
His ankles and wrists were shackled so that he couldn't
like jump around, move around whatever. And he chose they.
He chose the firing squad because he thought it was
the least gruesome of the other alternatives, the other alternatives
being in South Carolina eaten by dogs.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
And I don't know that is incorrect. I need a
source that information.
Speaker 4 (33:17):
Actually, the other choices were actually the electric chair, which
he said would cook him alive, so he didn't want that.
And they do lethal injection like most states do who
have the death penalty, and he was worried that there
would be a rush of fluid into his lugs and
lungs and he would drown. So he sounds like a
bit of a whack job in addition to being a
murderous scumbag. His final statement was to be one of
(33:44):
love and calling to my fellow Christians to help us
end the death penalty. And I for an I was
used as justification to the jury for seeking the death penalty.
He said in a statement at that time, I was
too ignorant to know how wrong that was. Why because
we no longer live under the Old Testament law, but
now live under the New test So.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
You know what's interesting. Two perspectives on that. Number one.
Speaker 5 (34:03):
I was reading Theologian the other day talking about how
the whole eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth
thing is not a cry for vengeance.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
It's a cry for proportionality.
Speaker 5 (34:13):
What they're saying is if somebody does something offensive, to
you don't kill them in their family. Keep it proportional,
otherwise it escalates and gets incredibly ugly. Second thing is
I was reminded that Thomas jes Edison rather allegedly invented
the electric chair to prove that alternating current AC power
was unsafe because it could kill a person, and DC
(34:36):
his preferred method of electrifying things was much safer and better.
Speaker 4 (34:40):
H So a number of states have turned to the
firing squad. I guess if they ever start executing people again.
There is some belief that it is incredibly painless. You
will instantly die and feel milky you whatsoever? No, no
sudden shock. But was it super bloody?
Speaker 2 (34:58):
Did they mention or anything? They did not? It's almost
got to be, doesn't it. I heard it it was.
Speaker 5 (35:04):
I wonder if he was wearing some sort of special
garment so it wouldn't be too much of a cleanup.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
I ain't dying in crocs. I'll tell you that you
might have your standard. I'd like to go out with
some dignity.
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