April 7, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 1 of A&G features...
- The women's Final Four & Trump's tariffs
- Katie Green's Headlines!
- Tunes change on Biden's mental state while in office
- Mailbag!
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Speaker 1 (00:39):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Kaddy.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Arms Strong and and he is Armstrong. And what kind
of New York Times headline is that for today? Global
stocks plungey?
Speaker 1 (01:08):
You know what are you gonna be saying that they have?
It's accurate, That's what it is. Way gotta be a downer.
Come up with.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Something more positive to say, live from studio. Scene says
in a dearly lit room deeper than the bowels of
the Armstrong You getting communications compound.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Starting a brand new week, Yes, new week, pregnant with possibilities.
This might be a week you can meet.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Mister Wright Niss's writer, get the big promotion. Or it
might be a week a global depression begins. You don't know,
Wait what now? You don't know at this point and
today we're under the tutelage of our general manager. The
Connecticut team. I'm not gonna say their names, it's inaccurate.
They call themselves the Lady Huskies. It's the proper term
as bitches. Bitches, if you will. Who beat the even
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more ludicrously named girl Rooster from South Carolina really ought
to be the beaches.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Versus the Hens.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
The winner of the women's final four is our general
manager today?
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Why not, ladies, But going at it hard, that's you
looking for man's achievements as opposed to going with global
stocks plunge. How about excellent opportunity. Excellent buying opportunity presents
itself exactly exactly, market correction avails many of buying opportunity.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
That is the way to present this. There we go, Yes, by.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
The nip so, I saw Goldman Sachs raise their chances
of a recession up to forty five percent. Well that's
still less than half, so it's more likely there's not
a recession. You're still saying, even after this, So come on,
what do you glasses a half full?
Speaker 1 (02:54):
People? Let's let's be glasses half full people.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
What's really interesting about the situation, clearly, is that number
rests on a desperate attempt to calculate the thinking of
one human being in a way it.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Never has before. Donald J. Trump, Donald J. Trump.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Yeah, the Golden Sachs guys are saying, do you think
he's going to hang in there? Does he really want
to like restructure the world's economy or is this a
bargaining tactic for a little while.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Yeah, they don't know. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Maybe the most interesting thing about this whole deal is
that he could at any point decide this is not
working out the way I thought and pull the plug
at any point. I think, I don't know how quickly
things would bounce back. Probably pretty quickly. I'll just I'll
go with this, And I'm not trying to be negative.
But Mark Alprin in his newsletter that I read every day,
(03:45):
he takes in a whole bunch of people with different
political points of view to try to get like, what
is the consensus thinking right now, here's this consensus thinking
in DC, which doesn't mean it's right, but he says,
most elites in the United States and around the world
believe we are witness sing an historically misguided plan, poorly
executed by incompetent people. Well that's a little negative. That's
(04:08):
what I thought. Again with the negative.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Yeah, so hopefully, hopefully that's not the case.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Yeah, coming up later, and I look forward to this myself,
and I hope you good folks do too.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
The good people of the Free press have asked Neil Ferguson,
who thinks kind of what you just said. The great
brilliant conservative historian who thinks this is ill can see
blah blah blah, and Victor Davis Hanson, another fantastic conservative historian,
but thinks, now I see what he's doing, what Trump
is doing here, and we'll compare and contrast those two
(04:40):
points of view.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Okay, cool, Well, I hope it works out. That's absolutely fantastic. Yeah,
I absolutely hope it works out.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
You know, you know how many times you live? How
many times I've asked my son, yes, yesterday? How many
times do you live, Michael?
Speaker 1 (04:54):
How many times? Scenario? No, you're not a Buddhist, you
just sor okay, Michael? How many times do you live? Three?
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Well, I generally agreed upon number Yolo you only live once?
And do you want to spend your day worried about
this sort of thing?
Speaker 3 (05:08):
No?
Speaker 2 (05:08):
I don't, and I didn't, and I didn't spend worried
about it either. I did lots of other stuff. So
are you whistling past the graveyard?
Speaker 1 (05:16):
There? You have it? Is this?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Everything will be fine. You're gonna wake up dead broke tomorrow?
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Is it what broke? Homeless? But is I hope I'm
not homeless?
Speaker 2 (05:26):
By tomorrow. That would be quite the turn of events. Wow,
my kids say Dad, and he'll change your turn.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Tune. Turn, you'll turn your tune.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
No, I was actually talking to Hanson in the elevator
about this very thing. I can be calm about it.
I can think about it all day. I can I
can do lots of different things, and I have no
effect on it. So is it whistling past the graveyard
if you, if you have can have no effect on something?
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Right?
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Yeah? Yeah, I'd like to think this is a maturity.
I had a travel nightmare over the weekend. It's about
a coin slip. Chance you'll have a travel nightmare if
you travel by air, Yes, And I just just refuse
to get stressed now.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
It helps that.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
For instance, if a flight is canceled as it was,
and I had to stay overnight in a hotel, it
doesn't really matter to me financially. If I was I
have to sleep in the terminal person, I think I
would have been a little less calm. But yeah, trying
to take this all in calmly. This too, show pass
saith the good book. I just hope it passeth faster
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than noteth.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Right.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
I thought it was interesting that because Neil Ferguson, who
you just mentioned, who thinks this is a huge catastrophe
of a mistake. He's been pretty big and back in
things Trump does. Oh yeah, so as Ted Cruz. As
we all know, Ted Cruz, even though Donald Trump had
said that his dad assassinated Kennedy and his wife was
ugly still head back to Trump pretty hard on a
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lot of conversial things. Sure, and he said on his
podcast over the weekend, and the Republicans are going to
face a blood bath because of Trump's tariff gamble in
the MIDI because there are now seven Republican votes in
the Senate for a law that says this terror stuff's
got end. It will not get through the House, according
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to all learned observers. But if that number grows substantially,
that'll be a pretty loud message. Well, and doesn't that
just seem like a good idea that one person can't
change the world economy this much?
Speaker 1 (07:32):
I mean, I don't care who you are, well.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Right, and this may horrify the hardcore Trump fans among you,
and that's fine. We horrify everybody sooner or later. But
power of this magnitude exercised by quote unquote our side
will be exercised and more by the other side. Right.
I heard a great example of this in a podcast
over the weekend. The idea of being able to declare
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emergencies and use some of the powers the president has.
And as we learned during COVID, a lot of your governors,
a lot of your county health commissioners and who who
the hell knew who they were, had the power wits,
with no wisdom or in some cases knowledge or expertise
about anything. They got to do all kinds of things.
They closed down schools, close down businesses, all these different
(08:16):
things governors, health commissioners and progress windsurfers and threat they pose.
And presidents have huge powers too. The idea of being
able to, uh, you know, throw in these tariffs by
one guy is to deal with wartime situations and all
kinds of different things similar similar to what we're doing
with immigration. That's that's an emergency situation. So they gotta
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say that we've got a fentanyl emergency. So Trump can
do what he's doing. AnyWho, somebody used the example of
do you want the Democrats to be able to if
AOC is president, for instance, declare an emergency around income inequality.
This this has reached emergency levels. You could find plenty
of people that would back up that point of view,
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you know, with PhDs or whatever. And so you've got
to do all kinds of nutty, crazy things that we
would hate because there's an income inequality emergency, right right,
great example or people have used the example many times,
particularly after George Floyd, perhaps that we have got a
police hunting black men emergency.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
There's all kinds of things we need to do around
guns or police.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
I mean, you can come up with endless examples of
you don't want one person to be able to do
this sort of thing with emergency powers. And I heard
it argue that if Trump can justify what he's doing
with it's an economic emergency because we've been cheated by
our trading partners for a long time. You could absolutely
say we have a labor emergency. We don't have nearly
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enough labor, and so we're going to throw the borders
open again. Joe Biden's style. I mean, that's a bit
of a stretch. But if there are two words and
it doesn't matter, you see what you think of Donald
j because there are a lot of things he's doing
that are I couldn't love them more. But if there
are two words that ought to frighten you as an American,
it's emergency powers no kidding, that would be oo. That
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would be our system working the way it's supposed to work.
If the Congress said no, we're going to change the
rules here so somebody can't do this again in the.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Future, and quite probably the courts as well.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Yeah, okay, let's start to show officially I'm Jack Armstrong,
he's Joe Getty on this it is Monday, brand New Week,
April seventh of the year twenty twenty five, or Armstrong
and getting we approve of this program. Let's begin then
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Speaker 1 (10:34):
Here we go at Mark Knipple fifteen seconds.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Lock.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Now it's fly fix this move flag pack, hit flag short.
Here's a power three point four. When they called the
found Houston storming back in the final moments.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
That is the best player in college basketball is going
to be the number one pick in the NBA draft
next year, missing possible game winning shot, ending his career,
Fire him, get rid of him, Expel him as if
he's a Hummas protester.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
So I didn't watch a lot game. You watch a
game that's the men's semi final.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
I didn't watch the game, so I, but I did
see everywhere the horrible foul call over him reaching over
somebody's back or whatever in the final seconds, that it
was a terrible call, horrible way from Nando's career.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Yes or no, quickly, So I don't watch a game
because I didn't.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
I think it was a good call, but not to
sort of call you make in the final seconds.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
You gotta let him just play.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Yeah, And then I was thinking of the thing you
always say. Your dad said, you know where you point
the mistakes you made, so it doesn't come down to
one call. They didn't score. They scored one basket in
the final ten and a half minutes. If you score
one basket in the final ten and a half minutes,
you're supposed to That was a terrible call. You're supposed
to lose. How about you put yourself in a position
you're up eight points, then it doesn't matter. We've got
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Katie's headlines on the way, we got some mail bag,
and we got some news of theday. We'll see where
the Stark market is and all that sort of stuff,
and we'll hear from you on the text line four
one two nine five Kftclay, I have.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
A total of about six hours invested in trying to
get my son's computer to work with the help of
geek squad people I learned.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
I learned a fair amount about that over the weekend
that I look forward to talking about from various computer experts.
I also want to talk about the Minecraft movie, which
is quite the phenomenon. Holy cow, my son went on
Friday night and lines around the block all day long. Oh,
we should have talked about it on Friday. I kicked
myself that we didn't. But anyway, and a bunch of
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other stuff. In addition enough, Neil Ferguson, in his brilliant
essay about the Tariffs, begins with.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
A Minecraft movie description.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Right, because he's got his finger on the pulse. We
gotta have our finger on the pulse. Well he's got
seven year old son anyway, Yeah, get your finger on
the pulse. Katie, who's the reporting what it's the lead
story with Katie green Jack?
Speaker 1 (13:06):
You do what are you gonna interject there? Yeah? No,
the Minecraft movie. One of the reasons it's so huge.
It's huge with little kids who still play Minecraft.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Then it's it's popular with like my son's crowd who
remember fondly playing Minecraft when they're younger. Similar all the
way up to like thirties and forties. Yeah, my thirty
two year old daughter absolutely loved it as a kid,
the primitive version of it.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Blah blah blah.
Speaker 5 (13:27):
Katie Green, starting with ABC, Trump's top economic advisor, says,
fifty countries have reached out to negotiate tariffs.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
That's what they're leaning on on Fox is that all
these countries, hey, they're they're coming in saying what can
we do? Which hopefully that's the way it works out.
I am certainly not rooting for this to fail.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
I'll tell you that.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
No.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
I hope Trump is amenable to it. And but the
other thing is he said, no, I'm not. We're gonna
restructure world trade for the rest of all time. So
which I'm going to restructure world trade for all time,
which is the heck of a thing. One guy gets
to restructure world trade forever. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
From NBC, visas revoked for more than three dozen California
University students and alumni.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
I saw that from the new York Times.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
You know Andy McCarthy speaking, I've learned to commentators talking
about how he's in favor of a lot of this,
but there's got to be due process. We don't want
to unleash an era of the government just gets to
do stuff without saying here's why we're doing it.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
From the New York Times, judge calls mistaken deportation of
Maryland man a quote grievous error.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Now, one judge had said that the guy was an
MS thirteen gang member, So we that's correct, right, that
the dude was an thirteen gang member, just not quite
the level we thought.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Is that the story?
Speaker 2 (14:57):
It's the facts are slippery in this case, don't I
guess the point would be, if the facts are slippery,
don't send him to one of the most horrifying prisons
in the world. And now a judges said he's got
to come back. Well, do we have the ability to
reach into horrifying prisons in other countries and pluck people
out and bring them back. Well, oh yeah, we could
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call the president of El Salvador and tell him, hey,
Joe Jones over there.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
You got to send him back. We'll buy him.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
The ticket, and you have to remember that the problem
was not whether he was an MS thirteen guy or not.
There was a specific order that he not be deported
because of danger back in his country, and they just
missed that. Evidently, there's more on that story to come to.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
From CNN, Russian attack on Zelenski's home city kills nineteen people,
one of the deadliest strikes so far this year.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
That's brutal. How is the ceasefire going? Oh?
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Please, doesn't exist, even the energy stuff, the provisional We've
gotten them to quit attacking each other's in infrastructure.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
That lasted like a day. From brightbart dot com.
Speaker 5 (16:04):
Pregnant woman seriously injured by rock thrown through Tesla windshield.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Oh my god, how you people are crazy? You are
so crazy.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
That video Katie sent us to the team. Maybe we'll
play some of it. These people are completely unhinged. They
don't make any sense. They're like wild animals.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
From The New York Post.
Speaker 5 (16:27):
Inside gen Z's obsession with quote tweakments the plastic surgery
trend to create a natural beauty.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Look, why is it called tweakments? Like it's a little
bit at a time.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Because you can't tell you had anything done well.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
The botox that. Yeah, you know, that's the.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Way all cosmetic things should be. You should barely be
able to tell. Yeah, they're like, crap, what happened to you?
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Twenty five year olds?
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Yeah, well, you don't want to have something you don't
want to look twenty seven.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
And finally, the Babylon Bee fair child dominates Pinata at
birthday party with torpedo bat.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Yes, well that's on fire. He got all the candy.
He is the torpedo bat.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
We had some more news coming up. I shaved over
the weekend and Yada's too violent. I shaved over the
weekend and learned something about myself. Also important, important life lesson.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
So oh boy Armstrong and Geeddy, don't you think your
party needs to acknowledge that President Biden was not up
for the job of running for reelection and that this
was a major mistake.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
But he made that.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Decision, I know, but you all went along with he
he was up for it and he wasn't, and everybody
saw it and the country rejected it.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Well, I look, history will tell us to go back
on that.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
That very well could be the case, Jake.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
What I'm concerned about is learning from those lessons.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
I would hope we would never do it again.
Speaker 6 (17:53):
For me to gauge what they're the closest advisors of
the president we're seeing at the time, I can only
speak to the interactions that I had with him, which were,
you know, in the months leading up to his getting
out of the race, largely ceremonial occasions.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
So that's Schiff Senator from California.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Unfortunately Tim Walls, who was too close to being vice
president for my comfort. Oh, historytic on that? What does
what the hell does that mean? Your words don't even
make sense before we even get to the validity of
your opinion. I can't figure out what it is. You know,
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he called the Republicans weird. He's got a real folksy charm.
Is what a great choice. I give it an a
plus for like a week. The guy's a numbskull. I
hope we learned from the experience and don't make the
mistake again. What running a senile ancient man and pretending
he's okay? You hope you hope you learn from that.
History learns from that. Okay, History will go back on that.
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What found that funny?
Speaker 4 (18:58):
You know?
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Becket Adams, who writes for the National Review, wrote a
great piece over the weekend about the opportunistic end of
the Biden cover up. Now everybody's gone from he's great.
In fact, he's better than ever. Oh he was so
senile now that there are book deals and profits to
me made, or putting yourself in a position like Adam
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Shiff where my only interactions with him was were ceremonial.
So I didn't have any knowledge of Okay.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
You're right, you're right.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Everybody in America who doesn't live in Washington, d C.
Eighty five percent of us knew he wasn't okay. But
you living in DC and hearing all the rumors and stuff,
you thought he was fine. Because whatever, Adam Schiff is
one of the great liars of our generation.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
You know any other This is a per the smallest
and his neck I've ever seen. Oh yeah, yeah, and
it's the neck too. I left that out.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
I got highly annoyed yesterday. I could end I could
end the sentence there. I could end the sentence there.
I got highly annoyed yesterday. And you could fill in
any number of things that led to that. Over this,
a friend of mine sent me this, a long New
York Times article about Orwell and how we live in
such Orwellian times. And it was very long and interesting,
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and I'm a huge Orwell fan, and it had a
lot of nuggets about his life in it and everything
like that. But every example they used in the New
York Times about how we live in Orwellian times came
from the Trump side of things.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
It was uh.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
And there there were some perfectly good examples of uh.
You know, Ukraine started the war, and you know, things
like that that were that are highly troubling to me,
but not even a mention of for instance, the biggest
spending spree in US history being called the Inflation Reduction Act.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
I mean, what could be more Orwellian than that? You
gave it a name.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
The opposite was or people walking around pretending that what
we're seeing with our own eyes is not true, that
the doddering old president was senile. That's highly Owellian because
they didn't have any samples of that. Only things that
Trump does, the rewriting of history, the redefining of common words,
the canceling people who did not use their new speak.
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I mean, I'm not an Orwell authority, but I'm a
hell of a fan, and trust me, there's plenty to
despise on the left.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
That's obscene. Just to throw this God, just just admit
what you are. That's all I ask of these people.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Just say, look, I advocate for leftist causes. That's what
I do. I am the New York Times. Fine, okay, great, let's.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Get it on.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
I'll throw this line out there from the writer about
the oroil piece, just so you'll know it. It's similar
to how pointless the word fascist is at this point,
which I think Orwell actually said, the word fascism had
ceased to have any meaning. The word orwell has ceased
to have any meaning. This person said, Orwell fills a
hole for anyone who wants to establish any kind of
intellectual pedigree. So wherever you are on the political spectrum,
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you can throw a little orwell which fits in. It's
not inappropriate, but it's just so easily used for so
many different things. I don't know what it means any more. Well,
I did that hints that one ought to refrain from it.
That would be to pass up on one of the
great arguments ever made in favor of liberty. So I
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will not be acceding to that that author's request. I
think it indeed he can make love to himself.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Although I see his point, I only like when it
becomes hitler, you know.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Yeah, that's what I mean. It becomes like calling people
a fascist or hitler. It's just everybody does it all
the time, and the problem is you need to accept
we live in our willion times on both sides of
the aisle. If you're going to go with its only
one side, then if you you're just come on, who
what are you trying to claim here?
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Well and Orwell would hate.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
You for it, Yes he would, And frankly, I would
rather earn the respect of Orwell in heaven than any
current commentators now. But that fitting perfectly with the Tim
Waltz thing there in the Adam ship there where you
know you're telling people to not believe what they're seeing
with their own eyes.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
That's exactly what that was.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
And to that point, I love this from Peckett Adams
on Morning Joe last week, where host Joe Scarborough boasted
not long before the disastrous debate performance, this version of Biden,
intellectually and analytically is the best Biden ever well. He
has had Jonathan Allen Namey Hill Barnes rather on to
discuss their new book, which details the lengths to which
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the former presidents in her circle reportedly went to keep
his deterioration a secret from voters.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
And then the cute part.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Scarborough and chirpy little Mika nodded along as if they
were mere spectators to the efforts to hide the president's condition,
not themselves active participants. You know, said Scarborough. We always
look back in retrospect and think things were a certain way,
but just because it's the way the media at the
time to find it.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Oh, I mean there's more.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
But and then Adams says, for the record, in the
years leading up to Biden's disgraceful exit from the White House,
even as everyone with working eyeballs could tell you something
was definitely wrong with the chief executive, Scarborough is sure
viewers that the president was fit as a fiddle and
more energetic and vital than men.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Half his age. It goes into detail.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
You people, when somebody tries to tell you who they
are five thousand times, believe them. Start your tape right now,
because I'm about to tell you the truth, and that
you if you.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Can't handle the truth.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
This version of Biden, intellectually, analytically is the best Biden ever,
I'm embarrassed for him. I'm embarrassed for him. Well, Adams,
I'm honestly thinking, here, have I ever cheerleaded something that
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badly where I was that far off of reality? I don't.
I sure don't think so. Gosh, I would hope that
if you think I have pointed out I hope not either.
I mean, because it's it's horrifying. I would if I
if I realized I had been I you know, I
still think like the the Iraq War, if anybody had
(25:03):
had any idea how half cock the implementation of the
occupation was going to be, I think it would have
changed perceptions immediately. But there was no way for me
to know that. Although you could say, well you trusted
government too much in George W. Bush and rumsfeldt okay,
fair enough, But that wasn't delusional.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
It was just lacking information.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
And Beckett Adams points out that if you can believe
that Scarborough's co host was somehow worse, insisting after the
debate that Biden still had what it would take to
win the election, quote, he's the man for this moment
that bat Care addressing directly the chorus of Biden Dowters.
Good lord anyway, and we beat medicare what okay?
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Coming up?
Speaker 2 (25:48):
The former president of Columbia getting grilled in a Justice
Department hearing and her sudden and catastrophic memory loss is
she can remember anything that happened in any circumstance, even
though she's said to be a brilliant scientist. Also, giant prostitution,
high end luxury brothel scandal shaking Boston, luxury brothel in Boston. Yeah,
(26:16):
well right outside. But yeah, the way the business was
run and the people caught up in it really interesting.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Yeah. Cool.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
I also want to talk about it may be the
end of sports gambling. AI is way too good at it.
Oh wait a minute, Yeah, and it's pretty damned interesting.
I'll have to talk about that later. And it's already
way too good at it, and I wonder where it
might go, and you know, the obvious problems to go
(26:47):
with that. I had to go ahead. I was I'm
a half whit. How did that not occur to me?
And everybody writing about AI seems pretty obvious, like right
this moment, that was going to be a problem. Yeah, oh,
I don't know how they're going to handle that. And
then quickly before we go to break. I had grown
a winter beard to keep my face warm over the
(27:10):
last month and shaved it off over the weekend, but
left my sad fifteen year old freshman in high school
like mustache behind.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
And it's just it's.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Really opened myself up to mockery, so I should shave
that off today. Some people just not built for facial hair,
and I'm one of them, right, Yeah, it's not a
matter of character.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
It's fine. It might be.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
It might be, oh, one of those thick Freddy Mercury
and Queen mustaches. Certain announcement you'd like to make. You
don't have to be okay to have a mustache. As
you know, in the nineties especially, I was desperate to
have the big guitar player sideburns, the big right down
to the jaw line, alt countryside burns.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Nope, Nope, couldn't do it. Yeah, dang it. You either
have it you don't. What are you gonna do? And
don't taking a shave?
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Oh my god, it gets me every time. So we
got Joe's mailbag on the way and we'll get in
some of those stories. Seriously, what's gonna happen with sports betting?
If AI is as good or better than the very
best humans, stay tuned if.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
You're catching this live as opposed to later. Somehow, we
are officially in a bear market, which is when wild
bears run the streets of New York and people fear
for their lives.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
I think that's what that means.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Appropriately, yes, but yeah, there's are released by the zoos by.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Decree of law.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Nasdak down five hundred some points, the dow down between
twelve hundred and sixteen hundred, depending on when you look
at it.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
That's after a couple of really big down days already.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Wow, I wish I had a little more cache laying
around by the dip, by the might be buying it
on it's way down though, by the depression, by the depression.
Here's your freedom loving quote of the day, sent along
by Kevin in beautiful scenic Placerville, California. Hey, big freedom
(29:17):
and simple Jack. Here's a topical freedom loving quote of
the day candidate from Friedrich Hayek.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Always appropriate quote.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men
how little they really know about what they imagine they
can design. Yeah, and then he says, just by way
of comment, Kevin says, no person or group of persons
designed the modern globalized economy, and we should be very
skeptical when a small group of people attempt to radically
(29:45):
change it anyway. Owing to Yeah, I would agree with
that sentiment. More on that later on. Mail Bag, Would
you like to communicate exchange views? Our email address is
Mailbag at armstrong and getty dot com. You can also
text us four one five two nine five KFTC. Besides
show Bob Wright, I think Donald Trump is one hundred
(30:06):
percent right. Now is the time to buy up all
the stock you can and get filthy rich. And I
will as soon as I get my Doge check.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
That's exactly what I'm going to do.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
I'm sure the Doge checks have gone out yet. Let's see,
this is from Mark Interesting hearing you guys talking circles
about what drives Ezra Cline and that sort of person,
and if he believes what he says, especially after so
clearly recognizing what Katherine Mayer was doing, that's the NPRG wolf.
Ezra Kline is a communist and lies. Sure, he crafts
(30:35):
his outward image a little more intelligently than Mayor, but
he's the same thing same.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
With all the das you guys are aware of.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
He's only espousing those theories because they want useful idiots
and want to be intellectuals to believe it, and it's
all ideological subversion is odded by Yuri Besmanov in that
fabulous sentimental interview from the eighties that many of us
have watched online. We ought to just roll that and
comment on it as a podcast someday if people haven't
heard that. It's incredibly you know, just wise and informative.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Anyway.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Yeah, there are activists who know precisely what they're doing.
Then they're useful idiots, and I'm just we're just sometimes
curious which one somebody is. Love this total change of
topic from Brian, Hi Joe, and he addresses me because
he says, I imagine an interesting conversation with your brother,
who is a career naval officer, would be asking him
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what it takes to keep a ship operational in the fleet.
A marine environment is very harsh and it is a
complex and expensive endeavor to keep a ship operational. My
understanding is for every one day operational, it requires three
days in port for inspections, maintenance, refitting. The US Navy
has two hundred and fifty years of experience and the
Chinese Navy has maybe two decades at best. So the
Chinese can build as many ships as they want keeping
(31:49):
them operational. As a whole nother story, the ussr two
or three times as many subs as the US, but
couldn't put as many out to see as the US
Navy leaves one the thing the Chinese are in a
use it or lose its situation. Good excuse to call
your brother. Thank you for that family advice. That is
an interesting point of view. And I'm especially excited or
(32:09):
enthusiastic about that email because on the advice of a
respected colleague, I'm reading for the first time The Cane Mutiny,
which is about the Navy in World War Two and
is fantastic.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
I've never read that. I've never seen the movie.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
It did not become a classic, accidentally. It is just
brilliantly written and compelling, and it's a novel of bad
things happening, and I am constantly uneasy while I'm reading it.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
It just sucks you in.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Anyway, let's see a couple of AI epic fails. You
remember last week, Jack, that I was trying to remember
on the behalf of a couple listeners when we'd talked
about an illustration of economics using a dairy farmer, not
the if you have two cows in communism as well,
it's something different. It was actually a conversation with Tim
Sanderfer we had and AI found it immediately and even
(32:59):
could site the day that we.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Talked about it. Amazing.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Well, here's a different Kevin who says I was trying
to find the specific discussion about the comic book guy
that got busted for posting ripped off comics on eBay,
and I tested the AI theory and he let me
down tragically. The answer was, you're likely referring to the
podcast Armstrong and Geddy in their discussion about a comic
book Seef. The podcast hosted by Joe Armstrong and Bob
(33:25):
Getty often covers various topics blob blah blah. Wow, that's
really interesting, and that was it. So Jack Armstrong and
Joe Gedty, not Joe and Bob. So we had the
example of somehow AI digging into the archive and coming
up with the correct answer in moments, and then you've
got that's full on hallucination, isn't it even better. Here
(33:48):
is alert listener Norman, who lives in beautiful Elk Grove, California.
There was a power outage. He used AI to see
what the answer for how it happened might be, and
I could how much time do we have? Michael Okay.
The power outage and Elk Grove last night was called
by a tree falling on power lines. According to reports,
(34:08):
the tree fell on power lines near Midway. Driving east,
Lessie rode around eight thirty.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Blah blah blah, bah blah.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
He says, I thought this was awesome, such a detailed answer.
Why do I need to search for answers myself in
the future. Then it occurred to me that I had
never heard of either street in Elk Grove, So I
looked it up in Elk Grove, Elk nor any other
city in northern California has a combination of both street names.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Wow, so it made it up.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Yeah, that's what Norman figured, let's see And then then
he re tried and said, sorry, I didn't find any
news stories about the cause of the power outage and
Elk Grove. Frequently power outages occurred from trees downing, but
there was a specific story that he'd read, so not
quite ready for prime time, or it will always be
(34:54):
that way. Nobody's sure. Wow, that's that's pretty damned interesting. Huh.
The AI gurus don't know why the hallucinations occur, which
is going to make it tough to get rid of them.
So the dow down dang near six thousand points in
three days because of this new restructuring, which, as we.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Were talking about earlier.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Hey, when I when I did chemotherapy, it made me
sicker for a while before it made me healthy again.
Maybe the medicine of the tariffs is going to make
the market sick for a little while, or it's gonna kay.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Ya ya ya ye, yeah No, Getty
Speaker 2 (35:32):
Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Kaddy.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Arms Strong and and he is Armstrong. And what kind
of New York Times headline is that for today? Global
stocks plungey?
Speaker 1 (01:08):
You know what are you gonna be saying that they have?
It's accurate, That's what it is. Way gotta be a downer.
Come up with.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Something more positive to say, live from studio. Scene says
in a dearly lit room deeper than the bowels of
the Armstrong You getting communications compound.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Starting a brand new week, Yes, new week, pregnant with possibilities.
This might be a week you can meet.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Mister Wright Niss's writer, get the big promotion. Or it
might be a week a global depression begins. You don't know,
Wait what now? You don't know at this point and
today we're under the tutelage of our general manager. The
Connecticut team. I'm not gonna say their names, it's inaccurate.
They call themselves the Lady Huskies. It's the proper term
as bitches. Bitches, if you will. Who beat the even
(01:56):
more ludicrously named girl Rooster from South Carolina really ought
to be the beaches.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Versus the Hens.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
The winner of the women's final four is our general
manager today?
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Why not, ladies, But going at it hard, that's you
looking for man's achievements as opposed to going with global
stocks plunge. How about excellent opportunity. Excellent buying opportunity presents
itself exactly exactly, market correction avails many of buying opportunity.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
That is the way to present this. There we go, Yes, by.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
The nip so, I saw Goldman Sachs raise their chances
of a recession up to forty five percent. Well that's
still less than half, so it's more likely there's not
a recession. You're still saying, even after this, So come on,
what do you glasses a half full?
Speaker 1 (02:54):
People? Let's let's be glasses half full people.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
What's really interesting about the situation, clearly, is that number
rests on a desperate attempt to calculate the thinking of
one human being in a way it.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Never has before. Donald J. Trump, Donald J. Trump.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Yeah, the Golden Sachs guys are saying, do you think
he's going to hang in there? Does he really want
to like restructure the world's economy or is this a
bargaining tactic for a little while.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Yeah, they don't know. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Maybe the most interesting thing about this whole deal is
that he could at any point decide this is not
working out the way I thought and pull the plug
at any point. I think, I don't know how quickly
things would bounce back. Probably pretty quickly. I'll just I'll
go with this, And I'm not trying to be negative.
But Mark Alprin in his newsletter that I read every day,
(03:45):
he takes in a whole bunch of people with different
political points of view to try to get like, what
is the consensus thinking right now, here's this consensus thinking
in DC, which doesn't mean it's right, but he says,
most elites in the United States and around the world
believe we are witness sing an historically misguided plan, poorly
executed by incompetent people. Well that's a little negative. That's
(04:08):
what I thought. Again with the negative.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Yeah, so hopefully, hopefully that's not the case.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Yeah, coming up later, and I look forward to this myself,
and I hope you good folks do too.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
The good people of the Free press have asked Neil Ferguson,
who thinks kind of what you just said. The great
brilliant conservative historian who thinks this is ill can see
blah blah blah, and Victor Davis Hanson, another fantastic conservative historian,
but thinks, now I see what he's doing, what Trump
is doing here, and we'll compare and contrast those two
(04:40):
points of view.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Okay, cool, Well, I hope it works out. That's absolutely fantastic. Yeah,
I absolutely hope it works out.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
You know, you know how many times you live? How
many times I've asked my son, yes, yesterday? How many
times do you live, Michael?
Speaker 1 (04:54):
How many times? Scenario? No, you're not a Buddhist, you
just sor okay, Michael? How many times do you live? Three?
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Well, I generally agreed upon number Yolo you only live once?
And do you want to spend your day worried about
this sort of thing?
Speaker 3 (05:08):
No?
Speaker 2 (05:08):
I don't, and I didn't, and I didn't spend worried
about it either. I did lots of other stuff. So
are you whistling past the graveyard?
Speaker 1 (05:16):
There? You have it? Is this?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Everything will be fine. You're gonna wake up dead broke tomorrow?
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Is it what broke? Homeless? But is I hope I'm
not homeless?
Speaker 2 (05:26):
By tomorrow. That would be quite the turn of events. Wow,
my kids say Dad, and he'll change your turn.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Tune. Turn, you'll turn your tune.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
No, I was actually talking to Hanson in the elevator
about this very thing. I can be calm about it.
I can think about it all day. I can I
can do lots of different things, and I have no
effect on it. So is it whistling past the graveyard
if you, if you have can have no effect on something?
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Right?
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Yeah? Yeah, I'd like to think this is a maturity.
I had a travel nightmare over the weekend. It's about
a coin slip. Chance you'll have a travel nightmare if
you travel by air, Yes, And I just just refuse
to get stressed now.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
It helps that.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
For instance, if a flight is canceled as it was,
and I had to stay overnight in a hotel, it
doesn't really matter to me financially. If I was I
have to sleep in the terminal person, I think I
would have been a little less calm. But yeah, trying
to take this all in calmly. This too, show pass
saith the good book. I just hope it passeth faster
(06:28):
than noteth.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Right.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
I thought it was interesting that because Neil Ferguson, who
you just mentioned, who thinks this is a huge catastrophe
of a mistake. He's been pretty big and back in
things Trump does. Oh yeah, so as Ted Cruz. As
we all know, Ted Cruz, even though Donald Trump had
said that his dad assassinated Kennedy and his wife was
ugly still head back to Trump pretty hard on a
(06:54):
lot of conversial things. Sure, and he said on his
podcast over the weekend, and the Republicans are going to
face a blood bath because of Trump's tariff gamble in
the MIDI because there are now seven Republican votes in
the Senate for a law that says this terror stuff's
got end. It will not get through the House, according
(07:16):
to all learned observers. But if that number grows substantially,
that'll be a pretty loud message. Well, and doesn't that
just seem like a good idea that one person can't
change the world economy this much?
Speaker 1 (07:32):
I mean, I don't care who you are, well.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Right, and this may horrify the hardcore Trump fans among you,
and that's fine. We horrify everybody sooner or later. But
power of this magnitude exercised by quote unquote our side
will be exercised and more by the other side. Right.
I heard a great example of this in a podcast
over the weekend. The idea of being able to declare
(07:56):
emergencies and use some of the powers the president has.
And as we learned during COVID, a lot of your governors,
a lot of your county health commissioners and who who
the hell knew who they were, had the power wits,
with no wisdom or in some cases knowledge or expertise
about anything. They got to do all kinds of things.
They closed down schools, close down businesses, all these different
(08:16):
things governors, health commissioners and progress windsurfers and threat they pose.
And presidents have huge powers too. The idea of being
able to, uh, you know, throw in these tariffs by
one guy is to deal with wartime situations and all
kinds of different things similar similar to what we're doing
with immigration. That's that's an emergency situation. So they gotta
(08:42):
say that we've got a fentanyl emergency. So Trump can
do what he's doing. AnyWho, somebody used the example of
do you want the Democrats to be able to if
AOC is president, for instance, declare an emergency around income inequality.
This this has reached emergency levels. You could find plenty
of people that would back up that point of view,
(09:02):
you know, with PhDs or whatever. And so you've got
to do all kinds of nutty, crazy things that we
would hate because there's an income inequality emergency, right right,
great example or people have used the example many times,
particularly after George Floyd, perhaps that we have got a
police hunting black men emergency.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
There's all kinds of things we need to do around
guns or police.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
I mean, you can come up with endless examples of
you don't want one person to be able to do
this sort of thing with emergency powers. And I heard
it argue that if Trump can justify what he's doing
with it's an economic emergency because we've been cheated by
our trading partners for a long time. You could absolutely
say we have a labor emergency. We don't have nearly
(09:46):
enough labor, and so we're going to throw the borders
open again. Joe Biden's style. I mean, that's a bit
of a stretch. But if there are two words and
it doesn't matter, you see what you think of Donald
j because there are a lot of things he's doing
that are I couldn't love them more. But if there
are two words that ought to frighten you as an American,
it's emergency powers no kidding, that would be oo. That
(10:09):
would be our system working the way it's supposed to work.
If the Congress said no, we're going to change the
rules here so somebody can't do this again in the.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Future, and quite probably the courts as well.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Yeah, okay, let's start to show officially I'm Jack Armstrong,
he's Joe Getty on this it is Monday, brand New Week,
April seventh of the year twenty twenty five, or Armstrong
and getting we approve of this program. Let's begin then
officially recording the FCC rules and regulations before we're tariffed.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Here we go at Mark Knipple fifteen seconds.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Lock.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Now it's fly fix this move flag pack, hit flag short.
Here's a power three point four. When they called the
found Houston storming back in the final moments.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
That is the best player in college basketball is going
to be the number one pick in the NBA draft
next year, missing possible game winning shot, ending his career,
Fire him, get rid of him, Expel him as if
he's a Hummas protester.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
So I didn't watch a lot game. You watch a
game that's the men's semi final.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
I didn't watch the game, so I, but I did
see everywhere the horrible foul call over him reaching over
somebody's back or whatever in the final seconds, that it
was a terrible call, horrible way from Nando's career.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Yes or no, quickly, So I don't watch a game
because I didn't.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
I think it was a good call, but not to
sort of call you make in the final seconds.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
You gotta let him just play.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Yeah, And then I was thinking of the thing you
always say. Your dad said, you know where you point
the mistakes you made, so it doesn't come down to
one call. They didn't score. They scored one basket in
the final ten and a half minutes. If you score
one basket in the final ten and a half minutes,
you're supposed to That was a terrible call. You're supposed
to lose. How about you put yourself in a position
you're up eight points, then it doesn't matter. We've got
(12:02):
Katie's headlines on the way, we got some mail bag,
and we got some news of theday. We'll see where
the Stark market is and all that sort of stuff,
and we'll hear from you on the text line four
one two nine five Kftclay, I have.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
A total of about six hours invested in trying to
get my son's computer to work with the help of
geek squad people I learned.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
I learned a fair amount about that over the weekend
that I look forward to talking about from various computer experts.
I also want to talk about the Minecraft movie, which
is quite the phenomenon. Holy cow, my son went on
Friday night and lines around the block all day long. Oh,
we should have talked about it on Friday. I kicked
myself that we didn't. But anyway, and a bunch of
(12:46):
other stuff. In addition enough, Neil Ferguson, in his brilliant
essay about the Tariffs, begins with.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
A Minecraft movie description.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Right, because he's got his finger on the pulse. We
gotta have our finger on the pulse. Well he's got
seven year old son anyway, Yeah, get your finger on
the pulse. Katie, who's the reporting what it's the lead
story with Katie green Jack?
Speaker 1 (13:06):
You do what are you gonna interject there? Yeah? No,
the Minecraft movie. One of the reasons it's so huge.
It's huge with little kids who still play Minecraft.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Then it's it's popular with like my son's crowd who
remember fondly playing Minecraft when they're younger. Similar all the
way up to like thirties and forties. Yeah, my thirty
two year old daughter absolutely loved it as a kid,
the primitive version of it.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Blah blah blah.
Speaker 5 (13:27):
Katie Green, starting with ABC, Trump's top economic advisor, says,
fifty countries have reached out to negotiate tariffs.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
That's what they're leaning on on Fox is that all
these countries, hey, they're they're coming in saying what can
we do? Which hopefully that's the way it works out.
I am certainly not rooting for this to fail.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
I'll tell you that.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
No.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
I hope Trump is amenable to it. And but the
other thing is he said, no, I'm not. We're gonna
restructure world trade for the rest of all time. So
which I'm going to restructure world trade for all time,
which is the heck of a thing. One guy gets
to restructure world trade forever. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
From NBC, visas revoked for more than three dozen California
University students and alumni.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
I saw that from the new York Times.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
You know Andy McCarthy speaking, I've learned to commentators talking
about how he's in favor of a lot of this,
but there's got to be due process. We don't want
to unleash an era of the government just gets to
do stuff without saying here's why we're doing it.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
From the New York Times, judge calls mistaken deportation of
Maryland man a quote grievous error.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Now, one judge had said that the guy was an
MS thirteen gang member, So we that's correct, right, that
the dude was an thirteen gang member, just not quite
the level we thought.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Is that the story?
Speaker 2 (14:57):
It's the facts are slippery in this case, don't I
guess the point would be, if the facts are slippery,
don't send him to one of the most horrifying prisons
in the world. And now a judges said he's got
to come back. Well, do we have the ability to
reach into horrifying prisons in other countries and pluck people
out and bring them back. Well, oh yeah, we could
(15:17):
call the president of El Salvador and tell him, hey,
Joe Jones over there.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
You got to send him back. We'll buy him.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
The ticket, and you have to remember that the problem
was not whether he was an MS thirteen guy or not.
There was a specific order that he not be deported
because of danger back in his country, and they just
missed that. Evidently, there's more on that story to come to.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
From CNN, Russian attack on Zelenski's home city kills nineteen people,
one of the deadliest strikes so far this year.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
That's brutal. How is the ceasefire going? Oh?
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Please, doesn't exist, even the energy stuff, the provisional We've
gotten them to quit attacking each other's in infrastructure.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
That lasted like a day. From brightbart dot com.
Speaker 5 (16:04):
Pregnant woman seriously injured by rock thrown through Tesla windshield.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Oh my god, how you people are crazy? You are
so crazy.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
That video Katie sent us to the team. Maybe we'll
play some of it. These people are completely unhinged. They
don't make any sense. They're like wild animals.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
From The New York Post.
Speaker 5 (16:27):
Inside gen Z's obsession with quote tweakments the plastic surgery
trend to create a natural beauty.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Look, why is it called tweakments? Like it's a little
bit at a time.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Because you can't tell you had anything done well.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
The botox that. Yeah, you know, that's the.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Way all cosmetic things should be. You should barely be
able to tell. Yeah, they're like, crap, what happened to you?
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Twenty five year olds?
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Yeah, well, you don't want to have something you don't
want to look twenty seven.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
And finally, the Babylon Bee fair child dominates Pinata at
birthday party with torpedo bat.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Yes, well that's on fire. He got all the candy.
He is the torpedo bat.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
We had some more news coming up. I shaved over
the weekend and Yada's too violent. I shaved over the
weekend and learned something about myself. Also important, important life lesson.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
So oh boy Armstrong and Geeddy, don't you think your
party needs to acknowledge that President Biden was not up
for the job of running for reelection and that this
was a major mistake.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
But he made that.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Decision, I know, but you all went along with he
he was up for it and he wasn't, and everybody
saw it and the country rejected it.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Well, I look, history will tell us to go back
on that.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
That very well could be the case, Jake.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
What I'm concerned about is learning from those lessons.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
I would hope we would never do it again.
Speaker 6 (17:53):
For me to gauge what they're the closest advisors of
the president we're seeing at the time, I can only
speak to the interactions that I had with him, which were,
you know, in the months leading up to his getting
out of the race, largely ceremonial occasions.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
So that's Schiff Senator from California.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Unfortunately Tim Walls, who was too close to being vice
president for my comfort. Oh, historytic on that? What does
what the hell does that mean? Your words don't even
make sense before we even get to the validity of
your opinion. I can't figure out what it is. You know,
(18:33):
he called the Republicans weird. He's got a real folksy charm.
Is what a great choice. I give it an a
plus for like a week. The guy's a numbskull. I
hope we learned from the experience and don't make the
mistake again. What running a senile ancient man and pretending
he's okay? You hope you hope you learn from that.
History learns from that. Okay, History will go back on that.
(18:55):
What found that funny?
Speaker 4 (18:58):
You know?
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Becket Adams, who writes for the National Review, wrote a
great piece over the weekend about the opportunistic end of
the Biden cover up. Now everybody's gone from he's great.
In fact, he's better than ever. Oh he was so
senile now that there are book deals and profits to
me made, or putting yourself in a position like Adam
(19:19):
Shiff where my only interactions with him was were ceremonial.
So I didn't have any knowledge of Okay.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
You're right, you're right.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Everybody in America who doesn't live in Washington, d C.
Eighty five percent of us knew he wasn't okay. But
you living in DC and hearing all the rumors and stuff,
you thought he was fine. Because whatever, Adam Schiff is
one of the great liars of our generation.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
You know any other This is a per the smallest
and his neck I've ever seen. Oh yeah, yeah, and
it's the neck too. I left that out.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
I got highly annoyed yesterday. I could end I could
end the sentence there. I could end the sentence there.
I got highly annoyed yesterday. And you could fill in
any number of things that led to that. Over this,
a friend of mine sent me this, a long New
York Times article about Orwell and how we live in
such Orwellian times. And it was very long and interesting,
(20:11):
and I'm a huge Orwell fan, and it had a
lot of nuggets about his life in it and everything
like that. But every example they used in the New
York Times about how we live in Orwellian times came
from the Trump side of things.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
It was uh.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
And there there were some perfectly good examples of uh.
You know, Ukraine started the war, and you know, things
like that that were that are highly troubling to me,
but not even a mention of for instance, the biggest
spending spree in US history being called the Inflation Reduction Act.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
I mean, what could be more Orwellian than that? You
gave it a name.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
The opposite was or people walking around pretending that what
we're seeing with our own eyes is not true, that
the doddering old president was senile. That's highly Owellian because
they didn't have any samples of that. Only things that
Trump does, the rewriting of history, the redefining of common words,
the canceling people who did not use their new speak.
(21:10):
I mean, I'm not an Orwell authority, but I'm a
hell of a fan, and trust me, there's plenty to
despise on the left.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
That's obscene. Just to throw this God, just just admit
what you are. That's all I ask of these people.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Just say, look, I advocate for leftist causes. That's what
I do. I am the New York Times. Fine, okay, great, let's.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Get it on.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
I'll throw this line out there from the writer about
the oroil piece, just so you'll know it. It's similar
to how pointless the word fascist is at this point,
which I think Orwell actually said, the word fascism had
ceased to have any meaning. The word orwell has ceased
to have any meaning. This person said, Orwell fills a
hole for anyone who wants to establish any kind of
intellectual pedigree. So wherever you are on the political spectrum,
(21:52):
you can throw a little orwell which fits in. It's
not inappropriate, but it's just so easily used for so
many different things. I don't know what it means any more. Well,
I did that hints that one ought to refrain from it.
That would be to pass up on one of the
great arguments ever made in favor of liberty. So I
(22:12):
will not be acceding to that that author's request. I
think it indeed he can make love to himself.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Although I see his point, I only like when it
becomes hitler, you know.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Yeah, that's what I mean. It becomes like calling people
a fascist or hitler. It's just everybody does it all
the time, and the problem is you need to accept
we live in our willion times on both sides of
the aisle. If you're going to go with its only
one side, then if you you're just come on, who
what are you trying to claim here?
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Well and Orwell would hate.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
You for it, Yes he would, And frankly, I would
rather earn the respect of Orwell in heaven than any
current commentators now. But that fitting perfectly with the Tim
Waltz thing there in the Adam ship there where you
know you're telling people to not believe what they're seeing
with their own eyes.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
That's exactly what that was.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
And to that point, I love this from Peckett Adams
on Morning Joe last week, where host Joe Scarborough boasted
not long before the disastrous debate performance, this version of Biden,
intellectually and analytically is the best Biden ever well. He
has had Jonathan Allen Namey Hill Barnes rather on to
discuss their new book, which details the lengths to which
(23:20):
the former presidents in her circle reportedly went to keep
his deterioration a secret from voters.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
And then the cute part.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Scarborough and chirpy little Mika nodded along as if they
were mere spectators to the efforts to hide the president's condition,
not themselves active participants. You know, said Scarborough. We always
look back in retrospect and think things were a certain way,
but just because it's the way the media at the
time to find it.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Oh, I mean there's more.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
But and then Adams says, for the record, in the
years leading up to Biden's disgraceful exit from the White House,
even as everyone with working eyeballs could tell you something
was definitely wrong with the chief executive, Scarborough is sure
viewers that the president was fit as a fiddle and
more energetic and vital than men.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Half his age. It goes into detail.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
You people, when somebody tries to tell you who they
are five thousand times, believe them. Start your tape right now,
because I'm about to tell you the truth, and that
you if you.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Can't handle the truth.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
This version of Biden, intellectually, analytically is the best Biden ever,
I'm embarrassed for him. I'm embarrassed for him. Well, Adams,
I'm honestly thinking, here, have I ever cheerleaded something that
(24:41):
badly where I was that far off of reality? I don't.
I sure don't think so. Gosh, I would hope that
if you think I have pointed out I hope not either.
I mean, because it's it's horrifying. I would if I
if I realized I had been I you know, I
still think like the the Iraq War, if anybody had
(25:03):
had any idea how half cock the implementation of the
occupation was going to be, I think it would have
changed perceptions immediately. But there was no way for me
to know that. Although you could say, well you trusted
government too much in George W. Bush and rumsfeldt okay,
fair enough, But that wasn't delusional.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
It was just lacking information.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
And Beckett Adams points out that if you can believe
that Scarborough's co host was somehow worse, insisting after the
debate that Biden still had what it would take to
win the election, quote, he's the man for this moment
that bat Care addressing directly the chorus of Biden Dowters.
Good lord anyway, and we beat medicare what okay?
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Coming up?
Speaker 2 (25:48):
The former president of Columbia getting grilled in a Justice
Department hearing and her sudden and catastrophic memory loss is
she can remember anything that happened in any circumstance, even
though she's said to be a brilliant scientist. Also, giant prostitution,
high end luxury brothel scandal shaking Boston, luxury brothel in Boston. Yeah,
(26:16):
well right outside. But yeah, the way the business was
run and the people caught up in it really interesting.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Yeah. Cool.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
I also want to talk about it may be the
end of sports gambling. AI is way too good at it.
Oh wait a minute, Yeah, and it's pretty damned interesting.
I'll have to talk about that later. And it's already
way too good at it, and I wonder where it
might go, and you know, the obvious problems to go
(26:47):
with that. I had to go ahead. I was I'm
a half whit. How did that not occur to me?
And everybody writing about AI seems pretty obvious, like right
this moment, that was going to be a problem. Yeah, oh,
I don't know how they're going to handle that. And
then quickly before we go to break. I had grown
a winter beard to keep my face warm over the
(27:10):
last month and shaved it off over the weekend, but
left my sad fifteen year old freshman in high school
like mustache behind.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
And it's just it's.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Really opened myself up to mockery, so I should shave
that off today. Some people just not built for facial hair,
and I'm one of them, right, Yeah, it's not a
matter of character.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
It's fine. It might be.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
It might be, oh, one of those thick Freddy Mercury
and Queen mustaches. Certain announcement you'd like to make. You
don't have to be okay to have a mustache. As
you know, in the nineties especially, I was desperate to
have the big guitar player sideburns, the big right down
to the jaw line, alt countryside burns.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Nope, Nope, couldn't do it. Yeah, dang it. You either
have it you don't. What are you gonna do? And
don't taking a shave?
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Oh my god, it gets me every time. So we
got Joe's mailbag on the way and we'll get in
some of those stories. Seriously, what's gonna happen with sports betting?
If AI is as good or better than the very
best humans, stay tuned if.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
You're catching this live as opposed to later. Somehow, we
are officially in a bear market, which is when wild
bears run the streets of New York and people fear
for their lives.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
I think that's what that means.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Appropriately, yes, but yeah, there's are released by the zoos by.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Decree of law.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Nasdak down five hundred some points, the dow down between
twelve hundred and sixteen hundred, depending on when you look
at it.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
That's after a couple of really big down days already.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Wow, I wish I had a little more cache laying
around by the dip, by the might be buying it
on it's way down though, by the depression, by the depression.
Here's your freedom loving quote of the day, sent along
by Kevin in beautiful scenic Placerville, California. Hey, big freedom
(29:17):
and simple Jack. Here's a topical freedom loving quote of
the day candidate from Friedrich Hayek.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Always appropriate quote.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men
how little they really know about what they imagine they
can design. Yeah, and then he says, just by way
of comment, Kevin says, no person or group of persons
designed the modern globalized economy, and we should be very
skeptical when a small group of people attempt to radically
(29:45):
change it anyway. Owing to Yeah, I would agree with
that sentiment. More on that later on. Mail Bag, Would
you like to communicate exchange views? Our email address is
Mailbag at armstrong and getty dot com. You can also
text us four one five two nine five KFTC. Besides
show Bob Wright, I think Donald Trump is one hundred
(30:06):
percent right. Now is the time to buy up all
the stock you can and get filthy rich. And I
will as soon as I get my Doge check.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
That's exactly what I'm going to do.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
I'm sure the Doge checks have gone out yet. Let's see,
this is from Mark Interesting hearing you guys talking circles
about what drives Ezra Cline and that sort of person,
and if he believes what he says, especially after so
clearly recognizing what Katherine Mayer was doing, that's the NPRG wolf.
Ezra Kline is a communist and lies. Sure, he crafts
(30:35):
his outward image a little more intelligently than Mayor, but
he's the same thing same.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
With all the das you guys are aware of.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
He's only espousing those theories because they want useful idiots
and want to be intellectuals to believe it, and it's
all ideological subversion is odded by Yuri Besmanov in that
fabulous sentimental interview from the eighties that many of us
have watched online. We ought to just roll that and
comment on it as a podcast someday if people haven't
heard that. It's incredibly you know, just wise and informative.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Anyway.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Yeah, there are activists who know precisely what they're doing.
Then they're useful idiots, and I'm just we're just sometimes
curious which one somebody is. Love this total change of
topic from Brian, Hi Joe, and he addresses me because
he says, I imagine an interesting conversation with your brother,
who is a career naval officer, would be asking him
(31:27):
what it takes to keep a ship operational in the fleet.
A marine environment is very harsh and it is a
complex and expensive endeavor to keep a ship operational. My
understanding is for every one day operational, it requires three
days in port for inspections, maintenance, refitting. The US Navy
has two hundred and fifty years of experience and the
Chinese Navy has maybe two decades at best. So the
Chinese can build as many ships as they want keeping
(31:49):
them operational. As a whole nother story, the ussr two
or three times as many subs as the US, but
couldn't put as many out to see as the US
Navy leaves one the thing the Chinese are in a
use it or lose its situation. Good excuse to call
your brother. Thank you for that family advice. That is
an interesting point of view. And I'm especially excited or
(32:09):
enthusiastic about that email because on the advice of a
respected colleague, I'm reading for the first time The Cane Mutiny,
which is about the Navy in World War Two and
is fantastic.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
I've never read that. I've never seen the movie.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
It did not become a classic, accidentally. It is just
brilliantly written and compelling, and it's a novel of bad
things happening, and I am constantly uneasy while I'm reading it.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
It just sucks you in.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Anyway, let's see a couple of AI epic fails. You
remember last week, Jack, that I was trying to remember
on the behalf of a couple listeners when we'd talked
about an illustration of economics using a dairy farmer, not
the if you have two cows in communism as well,
it's something different. It was actually a conversation with Tim
Sanderfer we had and AI found it immediately and even
(32:59):
could site the day that we.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Talked about it. Amazing.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Well, here's a different Kevin who says I was trying
to find the specific discussion about the comic book guy
that got busted for posting ripped off comics on eBay,
and I tested the AI theory and he let me
down tragically. The answer was, you're likely referring to the
podcast Armstrong and Geddy in their discussion about a comic
book Seef. The podcast hosted by Joe Armstrong and Bob
(33:25):
Getty often covers various topics blob blah blah. Wow, that's
really interesting, and that was it. So Jack Armstrong and
Joe Gedty, not Joe and Bob. So we had the
example of somehow AI digging into the archive and coming
up with the correct answer in moments, and then you've
got that's full on hallucination, isn't it even better. Here
(33:48):
is alert listener Norman, who lives in beautiful Elk Grove, California.
There was a power outage. He used AI to see
what the answer for how it happened might be, and
I could how much time do we have? Michael Okay.
The power outage and Elk Grove last night was called
by a tree falling on power lines. According to reports,
(34:08):
the tree fell on power lines near Midway. Driving east,
Lessie rode around eight thirty.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Blah blah blah, bah blah.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
He says, I thought this was awesome, such a detailed answer.
Why do I need to search for answers myself in
the future. Then it occurred to me that I had
never heard of either street in Elk Grove, So I
looked it up in Elk Grove, Elk nor any other
city in northern California has a combination of both street names.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Wow, so it made it up.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Yeah, that's what Norman figured, let's see And then then
he re tried and said, sorry, I didn't find any
news stories about the cause of the power outage and
Elk Grove. Frequently power outages occurred from trees downing, but
there was a specific story that he'd read, so not
quite ready for prime time, or it will always be
(34:54):
that way. Nobody's sure. Wow, that's that's pretty damned interesting. Huh.
The AI gurus don't know why the hallucinations occur, which
is going to make it tough to get rid of them.
So the dow down dang near six thousand points in
three days because of this new restructuring, which, as we.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Were talking about earlier.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Hey, when I when I did chemotherapy, it made me
sicker for a while before it made me healthy again.
Maybe the medicine of the tariffs is going to make
the market sick for a little while, or it's gonna kay.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Ya ya ya ye, yeah No, Getty
Speaker 2 (35:32):
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