April 7, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 4 of A&G features...
- NCAA Finals & the domino meme
- Bernie changes his tune on open borders
- Where have all the working men gone?
- Final Thoughts!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm Strong
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Speaker 2 (00:28):
Fits this move flat back hit flug short.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Got a great point. The best player, Well, he's gonna
be the number one pick in the NBA draft next year.
Playing for Duke. Missed the shot that could have sent
him to the finals, and that's not going to affect
his life really that much. But he is a freshman.
And back in the old days, like when I was
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a kid, if you had the NCAA final going on,
you'd have a whole bunch of guys have been playing
for the team for four years. Maybe I mean Kareem
Abdul Jabbar four years. He's been playing for the same
team those regular Then it became sometimes you'd leave after
your sophomore junior year. Now it's a whole bunch of
freshmen out there all the time. I don't know about
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the night's teams in the finals in six.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Year seniors whatever, those are right, because they're not going
to make the NBA, so they just stay playing college
basketball until they get booted out.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
So there's a big judge ruling in California. That least
the Washington Post is saying, I don't know who they're
quoting here. Oh, they're quoting the PAC twelve commissioner. You
think of the evolution of the NCAA and all the
rules changes that have happened over the years, there's never
been anything as significant as this. Talking about today's ruling,
but I don't completely understand it. It's all about your
(01:52):
NIL market. What's NIL stand for again, name, image and likeness, right,
which became a thing a couple of year years ago,
And that's how you end up with a super hotty
gymnast chick making gazillions of dollars, which is fine. I
don't really have a problem.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
With a bit and a quarterback just being paid millions
of dollars to come to your school.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Right, So they're gonna they're gonna have a cap on
how much money it can be. But it's a ton
of money. However, many millions of dollars per school you
can have and all that sort of stuff. So they're
trying to rain this in a little bit. Whether or
not that will get challenged at some point, because I
(02:37):
think most people who like sports, they liked you liked
it better in the old days professional sports and college sports.
But it wasn't fair to the players at all. Right, Yeah,
it was kind of silly. I don't know, so what
did this rule? Is silly is the right word or not?
They're going to put a cap at it at two
point eight million dollars per league or school. I don't
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remember what it was in my closed and I don't
care enough to look it back again. It was very, very,
very complicated. I'll tell you that I read multiple paragraphs
and couldn't figure it out. But it's an attempt to
try to have some sort of control over this. They're
trying to take boosters out of it as much. Oh yeah, because.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
That's a huge part of it, if you have a
big booster community that pours money into your nil fund.
I had a friend attempt to explain to me exactly
how it works, brilliant guy and a huge college sports fan.
About half of the way through, my eyes glased it,
and I realized I was thinking about something else, right,
And that's the way I.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Was reading this long Washington Boast article. It's very complicated
It doesn't mention anything though about the players switching around
a schools thing. To me, that's what's killing it. The
transfer portal. Yeah, I mean you have a season and
then you get to the playoffs in football. I know
when I'm sitting there watching the games, the bowl games
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with my family and my brothers were talking about, oh yeah,
guy played for K State all year long and now
he's with this team or whatever. That's ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Yeah yeah, brand new squad every single year. I can't
even imagine what it's like to be a college coach,
to have like the laws of the universe, gravity and
the theory of relativity, like change every two years.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
All right, Well, the biggest coach in all of college football,
Nick Shaby, and he quit. He didn't he didn't want
to be part of this new world and try to
figure it out. Like I have a particular skill set.
I knew how to like get people and develop them
and build a team. But if they're all going to
move around every year, and that's that's not what I do.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
And now he makes verbal commercials, right, what's virtu is
the VRBO location?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Rentald my owner?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Yeah, ah, funny commercials.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
There are roles in this house.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
No fun, no running, no showers over five minutes, maximum
two flushes per visit. Oh, that'd be tough for me,
checking times three. Couple standing there, it's two fifty eight,
I know.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Trying to figure out Hostell, trying to figure out. There's
a couple of things I wanted to get on that
I hadn't gotten on yet. On the air, I'm going
to talk about the Minecraft movie coming up a little
bit later later, which is the biggest movie the year
so far, and some phenomenon around it that I found
very very interesting. Russell brand thing. No, not interested in that.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Like this headline podcaster Gavin Newsom launches methane satellites as
California borrows money for healthcare.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
I guess well. Plus, Oh, here's the headline I mentioned
earlier that I wanted to get to. This kid named
Stanley's Zong. He's an adult, but he's trying to be
a college kid. Four point four to two GPA in
high school. That's significantly above four. I don't know how
that even works.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Near perfectes SAT Advanced placement classes you get bonus points.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Near perfect SAT best at adults and coding competitions across
the country, started his own electronic signing service while still
in high school. He was rejected by sixteen colleges because
they got too many Asians. How do you like that system?
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Racial quotas in America? Brilliant? That's our university's folks.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Not unbelievable. I can't believe that has been going on
for so long. I don't like any of the discrimination whatsoever.
But I get how you can pull it off against
white people. I get how that works because you just say, well,
there's too many white people, we need less of those.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
But how do you do how do you do it
behind the racism of the past, so now they got
to shut up and take whatever you give them.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
How do you get away with keeping out really really
smart Asian kids? How do you politically justify that?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
That's why the whole uh neo Marxist thing is so
full of lies. Because when it's handy for you, Asian
people are people of color are being oppressed by the
white devil. But when it's not handy for you, all
of a sudden, they're white enough.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Keep them out. It's people of color, color more color,
they're wheat, they're white enough. Wow, are you familiar with
the meme with the dominoes tipping over, the guy starting
a little domino and then the bigger and bigger dominoes.
Have you seen that meme? And then there's different things
apply to this one I thought was really good. I
saw over the weekend with the front little tiny domino
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was Obama makes fun of Trump at the White House
Correspondent's dinner, and then the final domino was Nintendo switch
To never released in the United States. This was a
big deal for my kids. It was announced on Friday
outside of the Best Bie because I was at the
Best Bie the other day on Friday. I'm going to
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talk about that later, trying to get a freaking computer fixed.
It's impossible. They had all these giant Nintendo displays outside,
big giant cardboard, like you know when something huge happens,
because they knew they were going to be lines outside
the best Buy people lined up to get the new
switch to. They announced on Friday, Nintendo did that they're
not going to release it in the United States currently
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because they're made in Japan and they don't want to
deal with all the tariff stuff going forward with all
the Nintendo things, so they're going to hold onto it.
See how this shakes out. It's a big deal for
the video game industry.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Was that pressure from the Japanese government on Nintendo Corporation?
Speaker 1 (08:35):
I don't know who pressured it, but they they pulled.
I mean, if you call best Buy, I don't know
about today, but but when I was calling on Friday,
the first thing it says, what if you're looking to
get in a Nintendo too and would like to get
on I mean, that's the first thing they say at
the entire company best Buy across the country. It was
gonna be their big, big draw seller, and Nintendo said, no,
not going to do it because of the tariffs. Wow.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
I wonder if they just calculated this will all be
over in a couple of weeks and we won't have
to either a jack up or price in a way
that really punishes the hell out of our customers, or
be not make enough profit on it.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
That's the way I guessed to delay. Yeah, that's the
way I took it. And I wonder how many products
are like that that aren't quite as high profile that
would make the news. As the Nintendo switch to being pulled.
There are going to be so many ripple effects from
this tariff thing. It's just it's unimaginable.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Yeah, including on exporters, American exporters and American manufacturers of
domestic goods who import like raw materials or little parts
or whatever. I mean, it's that's why those of us
who believe in free trade, and yes, I understand that
what was called free trade globally wasn't actually and I'm
in favor of reforming that. But you can't possibly centrally
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plan an economy. It's far too complex. I mean, hell,
you can hardly centrally plan like one product if it's
at all complex the entire economy. That's ludicrous.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
How long will it take for the positive ripples to hit?
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Two to forty years depending on what you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Two to forty years, it seems like a long time. Yeah,
that's why since we have elections, national elections every two years,
it seems problematic.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Yeah, I would say, strategically speaking, and then in the
seventeenth quarter of the football game, I will be no, no, no,
that's not the way your term works.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
So yeah, I don't.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
That's why I find it difficult to believe Trump actually
thinks we're going to become like a trade barrier isolated.
We'll make all of our stuff on our own place.
He's not going to be in power nearly long enough,
and Congress won't be on his side in the Senate,
and then I just that can't possibly work.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
One more business thing to throw in before we take
a break, kind of a trivia question in case it
comes up. Olive Garden, I didn't know this was the
top us casual dining restaurant for the last seven years.
Olive Garden did not know that. I've not been to
the OG in a very long time, have you, Michael Og? No? Anybody?
Is there anybody good food like to find? Fifteen years minimum?
(11:16):
I think since I've been number one. Huh, maybe we're
bubbled number one casual dining restaurant in the country for
seven years. They just got replaced by now. This place
we do go to regularly because we like the cinnamon
bread and if it's a birthday, we like the fact
that they put you on a saddle there's a hint
and make you go woo ha as they all sing
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around you. Texall Boy Gyms. Texas Roadhouse is now the
number one casual dining place in America, and we go there.
I don't know, half dozen times last year. Probably. Wow,
I don't believe I've ever been there. Some good eating?
Right there?
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Do they have white tablecloths and waiters and tuxedos? That's
the only smell establishment I have frequently? Absolutely not.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
But every once in a while they play music and
all the waitresses a line dance, and the food's good too. Okay,
we got other stuff on the way. Stay here first,
a little breaking news. Don't need the donkey, I don't think.
I'm not sure how serious he is, but Trump has
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just threatened an additional fifty percent tariff on China if
it doesn't withdraw its retaliatory tariff plan that had announced
Friday of thirty four percent. I think that's what it announced.
So we got we already? Have we added twenty? Aren't
we running out of percentages? Are we over one hundred percent? Now?
(12:40):
Are we like one hundred and forty percent? Like your
coach wanted you to give? Yes?
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Where will it end? And will the courts end it?
Next segment? Interesting non partisan analysis?
Speaker 1 (12:54):
How serious is Trump about an additional fifty percent tariff
on China? And how could he do it? At least
the way things are happening so far. He could announce
it a half hour from now, right, and that's the
law of the land.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Yeah, that's that's not a democracy, republic, or whatever you
want to call it. Too much executive power is too
much power, no matter who's in the White House, because
if we do it, they'll do it different topic.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
I found this so interesting. I watched it closely to
make sure it wasn't AI because if we played it before,
I didn't remember. This is Bernie Sanders talking about immigration
in twenty fifteen, prior to Trump becoming president the first time,
open open box. That's a coke bund This proposal, the idea,
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of course.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
I mean, that's a right wing proposal which says, essentially,
there is no United States, kind of make everybody in
American port. Then you're doing away with the concept of
a nation state. And I don't think there's any country
in the world which believes in that. What right wing
people in this country would love is an open water policy,
bring in all kinds of people who work for two
or three dollars and no, that would be great for them.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
I don't believe in that. Fornard Sanders, and it goes
on and on and on in that same vein that
it is a right wing Republican thing to want to
open the borders bring in all these this cheap labor.
And if you do that, you have no country. There's
no sovereignty. What's the point of even having a country. Yeah,
that's the argument a lot of us are making on
the right through the whole Biden uh ridiculousness of the
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biggest movement of human beings in world history.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Yeah, Bernie is consistent with Sesar Chavez and other you know,
labor leaders especially you said, no, we don't want millions
of people flooding in and cutting our bargaining ability by
flooding the market with you know, more laborers. That's the
last thing they want to make us all poorer.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Well, and Bernie understands also that if you, for instance,
I don't know, through the border open and millions of
people wash across all of a sudden, Americans are going
to say, no, we can't have a big welfare state
like Bernie Sanders wants socialism. In fact, we got to
cut the one we've got because we've got people coming
in from all over the globe to suck at the
delicious teat of the federal government. It happened though, and
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already have executives having too much power. I've decided not
to enforce immigration law. Anybody wants to come into the
country can That's what Biden said.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Essentially, Wow, that's a heck of a back to back
Presidency's right there. Biden launches the biggest migration movement in
world history in peacetime, and then Trump reforms the entire
global economic order. Both individual decisions. That's something.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Yeah, Yeah, it's kind of disturbing. Not kind of it's disturbing.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Congress could have stood up to either one of them, though,
Uh yes, I mean, we have a system for it
if it wants to do its thing. That's one of
the problems with bipartisanship.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Die, I mean, if you know, Hunter Biden gets selected president,
how about that thought and at institutes, you know, some
sort of horrific eighty percent tax for all white people
or hookers or whatever, and you can't get a single
Democrat to cross the aisle to vote to you know,
limit his power or override it or whatever. I mean,
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that's just not a healthy place to be.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
What would Hunter Biden run on a baby mama and
every garage? Probably? Yeah, come line up every nose.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Alicia Finley in the Wall Street Journal makes a pretty
interesting point though, that employers, especially manufacturers, can't find reliable,
conscientious workers who can pass a drug test, and so
we've simultaneously got millions.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Of people flooding across the border.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
What we did anyway cutting the wages of low wage Americans,
but manufacturers can't get people to show up.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
The drug test thing. It's all around marijuana. I don't
probably we got to figure that out. If it's going
to be legal in almost every state, you can't continue
to drug test for it. I don't think Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
There's been some speculation, partly because of that video that
was posted on truth Social, that there was some sort
of deliberate effort on your heart to have the market
sell off.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Can you talk about that?
Speaker 5 (17:26):
There's such a But I do want to solve the
deficit problem that we have with China, with the European
Union and other nations, and they're going to have to
do that, And if they want to talk about that,
I'm open to talking. But otherwise why would I want
to talk?
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Well, there could be short term pain. It's going to
be consumers who bear.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
The costs are a terrible mistake.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
They don't work. They will lead to higher prices. Remember
what Mama Gump.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Said, stupid is a stupid does Let's don't.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
I just don't have a trade war. I heard some
Republicans in there. That's all republicans, jack, four of them.
I haven't heard anybody explain to me sufficiently what he's
talking about regarding the trade deficit we've got between countries.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Yeah, yeah, I've heard some really smart, reasonable people say
they don't get why he thinks it's always a bad thing.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
It just happens.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
I mean, you're gonna have countries where you have a
huge trade surplus, and we do actually quite a few,
And then you're gonna have countries that you just want
more of their stuff than they can buy from you.
As I've said before, if you're a big, wealthy country,
you're gonna buy more from small, poor countries than they
could conceivably buy from you. So you're gonna run a
trade deficit, and it's fine. He seems obsessed with it
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in a weird way, don't. I don't get it. Honestly, anyway,
I thought this was interesting. Oh, in just a moment
or two, what the courts might say about all this
because it's on pretty shaky constitutional ground the tariff regime.
But I thought this just interesting. A good worker can
be hard to find these days. Blame government, which showers
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benefits on able bodied people who don't work, while at
the same time subsidizing college degrees that don't lead to
productive employments.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Yeah, that's definitely going on. Great summary.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
The result is millions of idle men and millions of
unfilled jobs, what an economist would call a dead weight
loss to society. I had a big study that we
touched on briefly, but and it was from NPR, interestingly enough,
about the many hundreds of thousands of people on disability
who aren't disabled. The plant just closed in their town
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and it's easy enough to get disability that they went
ahead and did it. And they've got some candid quotes
from people who like run those programs or from the corporations. Hey,
we're just hiding you folks because they're not listed as unemployed.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Is there anything that kind of likes it too? Is
there any way you'd get turned down from disability if
you claimed your back hurt because there's just no way
to prove your back, doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Yeah, it's not effortless to get it, but it's easy anyway.
Forty percent of small business owners in March, forty percent
reported job openings they could not fill, with the share
in construction fifty six percent, No bueno. When was the
last time you passed a construction site and they were
not playing Mexican music? Never transportation fifty three percent they
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can't fill their jobs. Manufacturing is forty seven percent. According
to last week's National Federation of Independent Business survey. Let's
see Labor Department's job openings and labor turnover survey tell
a similar story. There are twice as many job openings
in manufacturing than in the mid two thousands.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
There's a shriff deployment. There's not a single twenty two
year old coming out of college with whatever degree that
wants any of those jobs you.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Just mentioned, right, labor force participation rate among working age
men is now five percent lower than in the early eighties.
As a result, there are about three point five million
fewer men between the ages of twenty five and fifty
four in the workplace even as the population has grown,
and one point three million between the ages of twenty
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five and thirty four. Then there would have been were
it not for this decline.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Yeah, but if they're working, they wouldn't be able to
play the new Nintendo switch to. So where have all
the good working men gone?
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Some are subsisting on government benefits or living off their parents.
About seventeen percent of working age men are on Medicaid,
seven and a half percent on food stamps, and six
point three percent on Social Security, many claiming disability payouts,
according to the Census Bureau. Many spend their days playing
video games and day trading.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Day trading system is this? Friends say they're young? What
kind of system is this? Where I'm at work to
help pay for this?
Speaker 2 (22:08):
As friends say they've seen young men on dating apps
claim to be working as self employed traders, financial bloggers,
and even retired financial engineer. Current euphemisms for Robin hood
bros who speculate on stocks and share tips on Reddit.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Ladies, if you come across, I don't care how good
looking he seems. If he claims he's a financial blogger,
he is going to be living off of you. Yeah,
and no blogger, that's my job. Part of it was that.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
The stocks were doing nothing but going up for the
last several years, and so everybody started to think they're
a genius and quit their jobs.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
I guess.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
But on a different topic, somewhat related the tariff thing.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
I'm a jigger. I've heard of it.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
The Constitution make makes it Congress's job to levy taxes.
We all know that right from school, including tariffs and
regulate four or in commerce.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
That's for Congress.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Starting in the nineteen thirties, Congress started shifting some of
that authority to the president. They passed laws that allowed
the president to impose tariffs in response to trade treaty violations,
unfair trade barriers, and other urgent situations. But Trump is
relying on another law that doesn't specifically mention tariffs, the
International Emergency Economic Powers Act, passed in nineteen seventy seven,
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which gives the president broad emergency powers to regulate foreign
commerce to deal with quote unusual and extraordinary threats against
the national security or the economy. Presidents have invoked the
laws the law dozens of times, usually to impose economic
sanctions or freeze the property of foreign terrorists and other criminals.
Trump's used the law to sanctioned Venezuela's main state owned
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oil company, but Trump is the first president to use
the law to set teriff rates, and he's done so
through emergency declarations, linking the higher export taxes to efforts
to combat fentanyl traffic, illegal immigration, and trade imbalances. This
is absolutely headed for the courts mounts. A trade imbalance,
a national emergency.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
The fentanyl and the immigration thing, the fentyl ones a stretch,
the immigration things a stretch to call that an emergency
that you can do this, but the what was the
third one, that's the one that's really trade imbalances. That's
really ridiculous to call that an emergency. Yeah it is.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Yeah, I don't now as leverage in a negotiation. I
get the trafficking and illegal immigration and how that is
for the benefit of the American people. It's a it's
a righteous idea to try to kill the fentanyl trade
into llegal immigration to like sure and all trade imbalances.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
To me, that's just crazy. Yeah, using whatever tools you've
got your toolbox to deal with fentanyl or illegal immigration
is one thing, But I don't know. The whole emergency
thing always always concerns me for anybody at any level. Yeah,
please COVID, isn't that enough?
Speaker 2 (25:02):
To convince conservatives and you know, maga folks that we
don't want the executive to have.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Sweeping emergency powers.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
That tool gets handed to the next person, goodness sakes.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
And they will you know, there's a school shooting and
they will say, this is a this is an emergency,
it's a health emergency. Shootings. That was brought up during Biden,
the idea of declaring some sort of health emergency or
safety emergency around shootings and then you can do all
kinds of gun things that are you couldn't do otherwise. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
One of their favorite tax is to say that, like
poverty or income inequality is a civil rights issue. If
they can show that there's a racial imbalance of any kind,
then it becomes you know, the Justice Department and it's
a civil rights violation to make more than your neighbor
if you have lighter skin than them. And god knows
what they might concoct President aoc.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Oh, here's the best one, the most the easiest one
probably for the right administration. A climate emergency, and they
could do all kinds of things with not letting you
drive a gas car or whatever they want to do. Right, Yeah,
that's highly troubling I want to talk about my son
went to the Minecraft movie Friday night, so did like
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every other young person in America. Interesting phenomena around that
I want to bring up, among other things. We'll finish strong,
stay tuned Strong. I don't know how many of you
went to the Minecraft movie. You'd probably have to be
that you took younger kids to it, or you have
older kids that you know went to it, and that
could be from age thirteen till thirty five. Because Minecraft's
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been the top video game in the world for a very,
very long time.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
And you're just going to say, I hope the twenty
to thirty five year olds who loved Minecraft are going
on their own, not being brought by their parents.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Right, Yeah, So there, you know, you might be a
forty year old guy that Minecraft was huge for you
when you were younger, and you're kind of going out
in nostalgia or whatever. But the Minecraft Movie broke all
kinds of box office records, Biggest video game movie opening ever,
biggest movie of the year so far. It's a Jack
Black vehicle. He's pretty enjoying him on Saturday Night Live.
I wonder if he ever auditioned for SARAHNT Live he's
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just one of those people that's he's like Keenan Thompson.
He's just one of those people that's funny. It doesn't
really even matter if the lines are good. He's just
funny saying them, and he made every skip better. But anyway,
here's an interesting thing about the Minecraft movie that is
a new phenomenon. Perhaps. First of all, it was my
son wanted to go with his friends, so I wanted
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me to buy tickets online. And you now, at all
movie theaters, you buy your tickets like you do for
a concert. You have a specific seat. And I said, well,
you can sit wherever you want. He said, no, it's
going to be packed. And I don't know, okay, And it
turned out it was. He texted me when he got
there and there was a line three blocks long. And
they were playing the movie like every hour on different screens,
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and there was still a line three blocks long on
opening day for this movie. And my youngest son, Henry,
who's thirteen, he'd mentioned at boy Scouts everybody was dropping
Minecraft lines. They said, well, the movie hasn't come out yet, right,
He said yeah, but everybody knows the lines from And
I said, well how and he said well, the trailers
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that they run. So if you're on YouTube and you
don't know YouTube knows who's watching, they're not sending me
that trailer. I pay the premium on YouTube, so I
don't have to watch a hands. But they see all
these ads and they see the trailers, and so they
are catch phrases that caught on before the movie comes out.
Now start the clip here. So this is my high schooler.
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He knew this was coming, and so did everybody else
in the theater, and they got He got his phone
out and recorded it in here, and then I'll fill
it in after you. This is Jack Black. Here we
go actually ended up talking over it, but everybody in
the theater said the line along with the character, and
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then clapped at a movie they've never seen before. Wow,
I find that interesting. I remember we're talking at this standpoint.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
When the Simpsons movie came out, everybody knew about Spider Pig,
for instance, and the Spider Pig song. All the best
punchlines are in the trailers. It's annoying.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Chicken jockey is what everybody said there, Chicken jockey. And
then they all clap for a movie they've never seen before.
So the height the promotional machine for these movies. That's
got to be its own industry where I'm sure you
can make a ton of money of understanding how to
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create this kind of buzz before the product's even been
out there, and then anybody even has a chance to
decide if they like it or not.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Yeah, and now the social media stuff, I'll bet that
is that the highest paid the position at a movie studio.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
It damn well got it might be. And then so
then that's the commerce part of it. And then I
just thought the cultural part of it, how important it
was for both of my kids to know the catchphrases
and throw them around, and like the street credit gives
you to be able to know them and laugh at
them and everything like that. Like he did a boy
Scout camp two weeks ago, everybody was throwing a it
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wasn't chicken, it was chicken jockey, and what was the
other one? It's coming in hot I guess it's a hotline.
And you say that to your friends that they all
laugh and it makes you cooler and they cooler, and
it's a bonding moment or something. Sure any anthropologists could
explain it to you. I feel like when I was younger.
The movie had to a movie had to come out
and catch on before there were catchphrases. I don't remember ever,
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like the crowd chanting a catchphrase for a movie we've
never seen before.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
All Right, you might giggle with recognition seeing that punchline
that was on the promo that annoyed me in the
ad or the trailer or whatever, but no, not so
omnipresent that people even know, you know when it's coming
and can say it.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
And get out their phones to record it. So the
movie industry is dying, you know, they're just they're just
really struggling to try to figure out how to get
people in theaters. But maybe creating this sort of a
yeah gotta be in the no phenomenon ahead of time
is the way to get people in there. Yeah, it's
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more I need to be able. It's more of a
I need to say I've seen that because we're all
saying this catchphrase than it is about wanting to see
the movie. That's I guess That's what I'm getting at. Yeah. Yeah, interesting,
they've had to stand it on their head.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
I know.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
The seats are sure a lot more comfortable at the
movie theater than they used to be. That's an adventure
back to one some day. So expensive though. Oh see,
now I'm back to watching it home. Oh it's a
lot of money I sent him. I bought his ticket.
It was I think with the tax and buying it
on fandego, I might have spent close to twenty bucks
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for a movie ticket. And then I give him twenty bucks.
I said, I'm only giving you. I wanted forty. I said,
I'll give you twenty bucks and that's it. You can
drink out of the water fountain or I don't know,
bring a snack bar or something. But but that's sixty
you know, that's forty dollars. I'm into this.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
All of these numbers seem so high to me, don't they.
This is how you end up saying, I remember where
you could take your best girl Nickelodeon for a dime.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Yeah that that commentary. Your commentary right there made sense
prior to the inflation. But the inflation has everybody saying
these numbers seem high.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
Oh yeah, well it's not. You know, eh, when I
was young man, it's like two years ago.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Yeah, thank god, they don't serve eggs at the movie theater.
Imagine how expensive. I would be Oh, a movie theater
egg delicious.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Though it's thought I'm strong again, it's less.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
I'm strong, You're ready Green and I'm strong. That's about
say something else, but I'll save it from my final
But here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew
to wrap things up for the day. There he is
pressing the buttons in the control room, Michael Angelo. Michael
final thought. You know, I can't go to the movie
theorist anymore because as an older man now I have
to go to the bathroom and I can't pause it.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
You know, I sit there in the theater. Oh, I
can't pause this, you know. Yeah, that is an interesting thing.
When you're used to pausing. It seems just so wrong
to get up and leave while it's still going. I know,
it seems great.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
You gotta systematically dehydrate yourself over the course of two days, Michael,
Katie Green are esteemed Newswoman.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
As a final thought, Katie, Oh, we talked earlier in
the show about that video of the liberals just unhinged
at the protest, and you can see it by going
to Armstrong. Getty dot com and going to Katie's corner.
It's posted there.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Yeah, the visual is definitely worth taking. And Jack final
thought sociology, human beings.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
It's all so interesting, the fact that we would bond around,
that we would get so much meaning out of I
know this catchphrase for the movie, you know the catchphrase,
we're all gonna say it together. We feel closer or
more a part of something. It's I'll find it fascinating.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
For millions of years. The other tribe would kill you
and take your stuff.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
That's it. Am I in your tribe? Or are you
in the other tribe? Oh you're in my tribe? Right? Okay, Yeah,
as simple as that.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
My final thought at air travel, when it's good, it's bad.
When it's bad, it's awful. I never want to go
anywhere again. I'm just going to stay in my house.
I'm not even gonna ride in a car because somebody
might accidentally whisk me to the airport and I'd end
up on a plane.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Armstrong and Getty wrapping of another grueling four hour workday.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
So many people, thanks, so a little time. Go to
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Speaker 1 (34:45):
Where will the markets end up today? And then what
will the commentary be? And we'll get into another day
of that whole thing tomorrow. See then, God bless America.
I'm strong and Getchet. It's hold. We need to adapt
our approach. GUSSI. I hope you'll stand up and stop
this madness. You're kind of damned if you do, and
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damned if you don't.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Blah blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
My point was mad. That's the Awso there's a hole
in the sky where a tree once stood. Somebody's making
money on your feet there. Your time has expired. They
all very much Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
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(00:26):
Look now it's flag.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Fits this move flat back hit flug short.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Got a great point. The best player, Well, he's gonna
be the number one pick in the NBA draft next year.
Playing for Duke. Missed the shot that could have sent
him to the finals, and that's not going to affect
his life really that much. But he is a freshman.
And back in the old days, like when I was
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a kid, if you had the NCAA final going on,
you'd have a whole bunch of guys have been playing
for the team for four years. Maybe I mean Kareem
Abdul Jabbar four years. He's been playing for the same
team those regular Then it became sometimes you'd leave after
your sophomore junior year. Now it's a whole bunch of
freshmen out there all the time. I don't know about
(01:18):
the night's teams in the finals in six.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Year seniors whatever, those are right, because they're not going
to make the NBA, so they just stay playing college
basketball until they get booted out.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
So there's a big judge ruling in California. That least
the Washington Post is saying, I don't know who they're
quoting here. Oh, they're quoting the PAC twelve commissioner. You
think of the evolution of the NCAA and all the
rules changes that have happened over the years, there's never
been anything as significant as this. Talking about today's ruling,
but I don't completely understand it. It's all about your
(01:52):
NIL market. What's NIL stand for again, name, image and likeness, right,
which became a thing a couple of year years ago,
And that's how you end up with a super hotty
gymnast chick making gazillions of dollars, which is fine. I
don't really have a problem.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
With a bit and a quarterback just being paid millions
of dollars to come to your school.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Right, So they're gonna they're gonna have a cap on
how much money it can be. But it's a ton
of money. However, many millions of dollars per school you
can have and all that sort of stuff. So they're
trying to rain this in a little bit. Whether or
not that will get challenged at some point, because I
(02:37):
think most people who like sports, they liked you liked
it better in the old days professional sports and college sports.
But it wasn't fair to the players at all. Right, Yeah,
it was kind of silly. I don't know, so what
did this rule? Is silly is the right word or not?
They're going to put a cap at it at two
point eight million dollars per league or school. I don't
(02:58):
remember what it was in my closed and I don't
care enough to look it back again. It was very, very,
very complicated. I'll tell you that I read multiple paragraphs
and couldn't figure it out. But it's an attempt to
try to have some sort of control over this. They're
trying to take boosters out of it as much. Oh yeah, because.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
That's a huge part of it, if you have a
big booster community that pours money into your nil fund.
I had a friend attempt to explain to me exactly
how it works, brilliant guy and a huge college sports fan.
About half of the way through, my eyes glased it,
and I realized I was thinking about something else, right,
And that's the way I.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Was reading this long Washington Boast article. It's very complicated
It doesn't mention anything though about the players switching around
a schools thing. To me, that's what's killing it. The
transfer portal. Yeah, I mean you have a season and
then you get to the playoffs in football. I know
when I'm sitting there watching the games, the bowl games
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with my family and my brothers were talking about, oh yeah,
guy played for K State all year long and now
he's with this team or whatever. That's ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Yeah yeah, brand new squad every single year. I can't
even imagine what it's like to be a college coach,
to have like the laws of the universe, gravity and
the theory of relativity, like change every two years.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
All right, Well, the biggest coach in all of college football,
Nick Shaby, and he quit. He didn't he didn't want
to be part of this new world and try to
figure it out. Like I have a particular skill set.
I knew how to like get people and develop them
and build a team. But if they're all going to
move around every year, and that's that's not what I do.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
And now he makes verbal commercials, right, what's virtu is
the VRBO location?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Rentald my owner?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Yeah, ah, funny commercials.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
There are roles in this house.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
No fun, no running, no showers over five minutes, maximum
two flushes per visit. Oh, that'd be tough for me,
checking times three. Couple standing there, it's two fifty eight,
I know.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Trying to figure out Hostell, trying to figure out. There's
a couple of things I wanted to get on that
I hadn't gotten on yet. On the air, I'm going
to talk about the Minecraft movie coming up a little
bit later later, which is the biggest movie the year
so far, and some phenomenon around it that I found
very very interesting. Russell brand thing. No, not interested in that.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Like this headline podcaster Gavin Newsom launches methane satellites as
California borrows money for healthcare.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
I guess well. Plus, Oh, here's the headline I mentioned
earlier that I wanted to get to. This kid named
Stanley's Zong. He's an adult, but he's trying to be
a college kid. Four point four to two GPA in
high school. That's significantly above four. I don't know how
that even works.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Near perfectes SAT Advanced placement classes you get bonus points.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Near perfect SAT best at adults and coding competitions across
the country, started his own electronic signing service while still
in high school. He was rejected by sixteen colleges because
they got too many Asians. How do you like that system?
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Racial quotas in America? Brilliant? That's our university's folks.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Not unbelievable. I can't believe that has been going on
for so long. I don't like any of the discrimination whatsoever.
But I get how you can pull it off against
white people. I get how that works because you just say, well,
there's too many white people, we need less of those.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
But how do you do how do you do it
behind the racism of the past, so now they got
to shut up and take whatever you give them.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
How do you get away with keeping out really really
smart Asian kids? How do you politically justify that?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
That's why the whole uh neo Marxist thing is so
full of lies. Because when it's handy for you, Asian
people are people of color are being oppressed by the
white devil. But when it's not handy for you, all
of a sudden, they're white enough.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Keep them out. It's people of color, color more color,
they're wheat, they're white enough. Wow, are you familiar with
the meme with the dominoes tipping over, the guy starting
a little domino and then the bigger and bigger dominoes.
Have you seen that meme? And then there's different things
apply to this one I thought was really good. I
saw over the weekend with the front little tiny domino
(07:32):
was Obama makes fun of Trump at the White House
Correspondent's dinner, and then the final domino was Nintendo switch
To never released in the United States. This was a
big deal for my kids. It was announced on Friday
outside of the Best Bie because I was at the
Best Bie the other day on Friday. I'm going to
(07:53):
talk about that later, trying to get a freaking computer fixed.
It's impossible. They had all these giant Nintendo displays outside,
big giant cardboard, like you know when something huge happens,
because they knew they were going to be lines outside
the best Buy people lined up to get the new
switch to. They announced on Friday, Nintendo did that they're
not going to release it in the United States currently
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because they're made in Japan and they don't want to
deal with all the tariff stuff going forward with all
the Nintendo things, so they're going to hold onto it.
See how this shakes out. It's a big deal for
the video game industry.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Was that pressure from the Japanese government on Nintendo Corporation?
Speaker 1 (08:35):
I don't know who pressured it, but they they pulled.
I mean, if you call best Buy, I don't know
about today, but but when I was calling on Friday,
the first thing it says, what if you're looking to
get in a Nintendo too and would like to get
on I mean, that's the first thing they say at
the entire company best Buy across the country. It was
gonna be their big, big draw seller, and Nintendo said, no,
not going to do it because of the tariffs. Wow.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
I wonder if they just calculated this will all be
over in a couple of weeks and we won't have
to either a jack up or price in a way
that really punishes the hell out of our customers, or
be not make enough profit on it.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
That's the way I guessed to delay. Yeah, that's the
way I took it. And I wonder how many products
are like that that aren't quite as high profile that
would make the news. As the Nintendo switch to being pulled.
There are going to be so many ripple effects from
this tariff thing. It's just it's unimaginable.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Yeah, including on exporters, American exporters and American manufacturers of
domestic goods who import like raw materials or little parts
or whatever. I mean, it's that's why those of us
who believe in free trade, and yes, I understand that
what was called free trade globally wasn't actually and I'm
in favor of reforming that. But you can't possibly centrally
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plan an economy. It's far too complex. I mean, hell,
you can hardly centrally plan like one product if it's
at all complex the entire economy. That's ludicrous.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
How long will it take for the positive ripples to hit?
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Two to forty years depending on what you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Two to forty years, it seems like a long time. Yeah,
that's why since we have elections, national elections every two years,
it seems problematic.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Yeah, I would say, strategically speaking, and then in the
seventeenth quarter of the football game, I will be no, no, no,
that's not the way your term works.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
So yeah, I don't.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
That's why I find it difficult to believe Trump actually
thinks we're going to become like a trade barrier isolated.
We'll make all of our stuff on our own place.
He's not going to be in power nearly long enough,
and Congress won't be on his side in the Senate,
and then I just that can't possibly work.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
One more business thing to throw in before we take
a break, kind of a trivia question in case it
comes up. Olive Garden, I didn't know this was the
top us casual dining restaurant for the last seven years.
Olive Garden did not know that. I've not been to
the OG in a very long time, have you, Michael Og? No? Anybody?
Is there anybody good food like to find? Fifteen years minimum?
(11:16):
I think since I've been number one. Huh, maybe we're
bubbled number one casual dining restaurant in the country for
seven years. They just got replaced by now. This place
we do go to regularly because we like the cinnamon
bread and if it's a birthday, we like the fact
that they put you on a saddle there's a hint
and make you go woo ha as they all sing
(11:37):
around you. Texall Boy Gyms. Texas Roadhouse is now the
number one casual dining place in America, and we go there.
I don't know, half dozen times last year. Probably. Wow,
I don't believe I've ever been there. Some good eating?
Right there?
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Do they have white tablecloths and waiters and tuxedos? That's
the only smell establishment I have frequently? Absolutely not.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
But every once in a while they play music and
all the waitresses a line dance, and the food's good too. Okay,
we got other stuff on the way. Stay here first,
a little breaking news. Don't need the donkey, I don't think.
I'm not sure how serious he is, but Trump has
(12:18):
just threatened an additional fifty percent tariff on China if
it doesn't withdraw its retaliatory tariff plan that had announced
Friday of thirty four percent. I think that's what it announced.
So we got we already? Have we added twenty? Aren't
we running out of percentages? Are we over one hundred percent? Now?
(12:40):
Are we like one hundred and forty percent? Like your
coach wanted you to give? Yes?
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Where will it end? And will the courts end it?
Next segment? Interesting non partisan analysis?
Speaker 1 (12:54):
How serious is Trump about an additional fifty percent tariff
on China? And how could he do it? At least
the way things are happening so far. He could announce
it a half hour from now, right, and that's the
law of the land.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Yeah, that's that's not a democracy, republic, or whatever you
want to call it. Too much executive power is too
much power, no matter who's in the White House, because
if we do it, they'll do it different topic.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
I found this so interesting. I watched it closely to
make sure it wasn't AI because if we played it before,
I didn't remember. This is Bernie Sanders talking about immigration
in twenty fifteen, prior to Trump becoming president the first time,
open open box. That's a coke bund This proposal, the idea,
(13:42):
of course.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
I mean, that's a right wing proposal which says, essentially,
there is no United States, kind of make everybody in
American port. Then you're doing away with the concept of
a nation state. And I don't think there's any country
in the world which believes in that. What right wing
people in this country would love is an open water policy,
bring in all kinds of people who work for two
or three dollars and no, that would be great for them.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
I don't believe in that. Fornard Sanders, and it goes
on and on and on in that same vein that
it is a right wing Republican thing to want to
open the borders bring in all these this cheap labor.
And if you do that, you have no country. There's
no sovereignty. What's the point of even having a country. Yeah,
that's the argument a lot of us are making on
the right through the whole Biden uh ridiculousness of the
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biggest movement of human beings in world history.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Yeah, Bernie is consistent with Sesar Chavez and other you know,
labor leaders especially you said, no, we don't want millions
of people flooding in and cutting our bargaining ability by
flooding the market with you know, more laborers. That's the
last thing they want to make us all poorer.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Well, and Bernie understands also that if you, for instance,
I don't know, through the border open and millions of
people wash across all of a sudden, Americans are going
to say, no, we can't have a big welfare state
like Bernie Sanders wants socialism. In fact, we got to
cut the one we've got because we've got people coming
in from all over the globe to suck at the
delicious teat of the federal government. It happened though, and
(15:13):
already have executives having too much power. I've decided not
to enforce immigration law. Anybody wants to come into the
country can That's what Biden said.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Essentially, Wow, that's a heck of a back to back
Presidency's right there. Biden launches the biggest migration movement in
world history in peacetime, and then Trump reforms the entire
global economic order. Both individual decisions. That's something.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Yeah, Yeah, it's kind of disturbing. Not kind of it's disturbing.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Congress could have stood up to either one of them, though,
Uh yes, I mean, we have a system for it
if it wants to do its thing. That's one of
the problems with bipartisanship.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Die, I mean, if you know, Hunter Biden gets selected president,
how about that thought and at institutes, you know, some
sort of horrific eighty percent tax for all white people
or hookers or whatever, and you can't get a single
Democrat to cross the aisle to vote to you know,
limit his power or override it or whatever. I mean,
(16:22):
that's just not a healthy place to be.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
What would Hunter Biden run on a baby mama and
every garage? Probably? Yeah, come line up every nose.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Alicia Finley in the Wall Street Journal makes a pretty
interesting point though, that employers, especially manufacturers, can't find reliable,
conscientious workers who can pass a drug test, and so
we've simultaneously got millions.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Of people flooding across the border.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
What we did anyway cutting the wages of low wage Americans,
but manufacturers can't get people to show up.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
The drug test thing. It's all around marijuana. I don't
probably we got to figure that out. If it's going
to be legal in almost every state, you can't continue
to drug test for it. I don't think Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
There's been some speculation, partly because of that video that
was posted on truth Social, that there was some sort
of deliberate effort on your heart to have the market
sell off.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Can you talk about that?
Speaker 5 (17:26):
There's such a But I do want to solve the
deficit problem that we have with China, with the European
Union and other nations, and they're going to have to
do that, And if they want to talk about that,
I'm open to talking. But otherwise why would I want
to talk?
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Well, there could be short term pain. It's going to
be consumers who bear.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
The costs are a terrible mistake.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
They don't work. They will lead to higher prices. Remember
what Mama Gump.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Said, stupid is a stupid does Let's don't.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
I just don't have a trade war. I heard some
Republicans in there. That's all republicans, jack, four of them.
I haven't heard anybody explain to me sufficiently what he's
talking about regarding the trade deficit we've got between countries.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Yeah, yeah, I've heard some really smart, reasonable people say
they don't get why he thinks it's always a bad thing.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
It just happens.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
I mean, you're gonna have countries where you have a
huge trade surplus, and we do actually quite a few,
And then you're gonna have countries that you just want
more of their stuff than they can buy from you.
As I've said before, if you're a big, wealthy country,
you're gonna buy more from small, poor countries than they
could conceivably buy from you. So you're gonna run a
trade deficit, and it's fine. He seems obsessed with it
(18:55):
in a weird way, don't. I don't get it. Honestly, anyway,
I thought this was interesting. Oh, in just a moment
or two, what the courts might say about all this
because it's on pretty shaky constitutional ground the tariff regime.
But I thought this just interesting. A good worker can
be hard to find these days. Blame government, which showers
(19:16):
benefits on able bodied people who don't work, while at
the same time subsidizing college degrees that don't lead to
productive employments.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Yeah, that's definitely going on. Great summary.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
The result is millions of idle men and millions of
unfilled jobs, what an economist would call a dead weight
loss to society. I had a big study that we
touched on briefly, but and it was from NPR, interestingly enough,
about the many hundreds of thousands of people on disability
who aren't disabled. The plant just closed in their town
(19:50):
and it's easy enough to get disability that they went
ahead and did it. And they've got some candid quotes
from people who like run those programs or from the corporations. Hey,
we're just hiding you folks because they're not listed as unemployed.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Is there anything that kind of likes it too? Is
there any way you'd get turned down from disability if
you claimed your back hurt because there's just no way
to prove your back, doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Yeah, it's not effortless to get it, but it's easy anyway.
Forty percent of small business owners in March, forty percent
reported job openings they could not fill, with the share
in construction fifty six percent, No bueno. When was the
last time you passed a construction site and they were
not playing Mexican music? Never transportation fifty three percent they
(20:39):
can't fill their jobs. Manufacturing is forty seven percent. According
to last week's National Federation of Independent Business survey. Let's
see Labor Department's job openings and labor turnover survey tell
a similar story. There are twice as many job openings
in manufacturing than in the mid two thousands.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
There's a shriff deployment. There's not a single twenty two
year old coming out of college with whatever degree that
wants any of those jobs you.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Just mentioned, right, labor force participation rate among working age
men is now five percent lower than in the early eighties.
As a result, there are about three point five million
fewer men between the ages of twenty five and fifty
four in the workplace even as the population has grown,
and one point three million between the ages of twenty
(21:27):
five and thirty four. Then there would have been were
it not for this decline.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Yeah, but if they're working, they wouldn't be able to
play the new Nintendo switch to. So where have all
the good working men gone?
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Some are subsisting on government benefits or living off their parents.
About seventeen percent of working age men are on Medicaid,
seven and a half percent on food stamps, and six
point three percent on Social Security, many claiming disability payouts,
according to the Census Bureau. Many spend their days playing
video games and day trading.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Day trading system is this? Friends say they're young? What
kind of system is this? Where I'm at work to
help pay for this?
Speaker 2 (22:08):
As friends say they've seen young men on dating apps
claim to be working as self employed traders, financial bloggers,
and even retired financial engineer. Current euphemisms for Robin hood
bros who speculate on stocks and share tips on Reddit.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Ladies, if you come across, I don't care how good
looking he seems. If he claims he's a financial blogger,
he is going to be living off of you. Yeah,
and no blogger, that's my job. Part of it was that.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
The stocks were doing nothing but going up for the
last several years, and so everybody started to think they're
a genius and quit their jobs.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
I guess.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
But on a different topic, somewhat related the tariff thing.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
I'm a jigger. I've heard of it.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
The Constitution make makes it Congress's job to levy taxes.
We all know that right from school, including tariffs and
regulate four or in commerce.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
That's for Congress.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Starting in the nineteen thirties, Congress started shifting some of
that authority to the president. They passed laws that allowed
the president to impose tariffs in response to trade treaty violations,
unfair trade barriers, and other urgent situations. But Trump is
relying on another law that doesn't specifically mention tariffs, the
International Emergency Economic Powers Act, passed in nineteen seventy seven,
(23:27):
which gives the president broad emergency powers to regulate foreign
commerce to deal with quote unusual and extraordinary threats against
the national security or the economy. Presidents have invoked the
laws the law dozens of times, usually to impose economic
sanctions or freeze the property of foreign terrorists and other criminals.
Trump's used the law to sanctioned Venezuela's main state owned
(23:48):
oil company, but Trump is the first president to use
the law to set teriff rates, and he's done so
through emergency declarations, linking the higher export taxes to efforts
to combat fentanyl traffic, illegal immigration, and trade imbalances. This
is absolutely headed for the courts mounts. A trade imbalance,
a national emergency.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
The fentanyl and the immigration thing, the fentyl ones a stretch,
the immigration things a stretch to call that an emergency
that you can do this, but the what was the
third one, that's the one that's really trade imbalances. That's
really ridiculous to call that an emergency. Yeah it is.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Yeah, I don't now as leverage in a negotiation. I
get the trafficking and illegal immigration and how that is
for the benefit of the American people. It's a it's
a righteous idea to try to kill the fentanyl trade
into llegal immigration to like sure and all trade imbalances.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
To me, that's just crazy. Yeah, using whatever tools you've
got your toolbox to deal with fentanyl or illegal immigration
is one thing, But I don't know. The whole emergency
thing always always concerns me for anybody at any level. Yeah,
please COVID, isn't that enough?
Speaker 2 (25:02):
To convince conservatives and you know, maga folks that we
don't want the executive to have.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Sweeping emergency powers.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
That tool gets handed to the next person, goodness sakes.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
And they will you know, there's a school shooting and
they will say, this is a this is an emergency,
it's a health emergency. Shootings. That was brought up during Biden,
the idea of declaring some sort of health emergency or
safety emergency around shootings and then you can do all
kinds of gun things that are you couldn't do otherwise. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
One of their favorite tax is to say that, like
poverty or income inequality is a civil rights issue. If
they can show that there's a racial imbalance of any kind,
then it becomes you know, the Justice Department and it's
a civil rights violation to make more than your neighbor
if you have lighter skin than them. And god knows
what they might concoct President aoc.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Oh, here's the best one, the most the easiest one
probably for the right administration. A climate emergency, and they
could do all kinds of things with not letting you
drive a gas car or whatever they want to do. Right, Yeah,
that's highly troubling I want to talk about my son
went to the Minecraft movie Friday night, so did like
(26:17):
every other young person in America. Interesting phenomena around that
I want to bring up, among other things. We'll finish strong,
stay tuned Strong. I don't know how many of you
went to the Minecraft movie. You'd probably have to be
that you took younger kids to it, or you have
older kids that you know went to it, and that
could be from age thirteen till thirty five. Because Minecraft's
(26:41):
been the top video game in the world for a very,
very long time.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
And you're just going to say, I hope the twenty
to thirty five year olds who loved Minecraft are going
on their own, not being brought by their parents.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Right, Yeah, So there, you know, you might be a
forty year old guy that Minecraft was huge for you
when you were younger, and you're kind of going out
in nostalgia or whatever. But the Minecraft Movie broke all
kinds of box office records, Biggest video game movie opening ever,
biggest movie of the year so far. It's a Jack
Black vehicle. He's pretty enjoying him on Saturday Night Live.
I wonder if he ever auditioned for SARAHNT Live he's
(27:12):
just one of those people that's he's like Keenan Thompson.
He's just one of those people that's funny. It doesn't
really even matter if the lines are good. He's just
funny saying them, and he made every skip better. But anyway,
here's an interesting thing about the Minecraft movie that is
a new phenomenon. Perhaps. First of all, it was my
son wanted to go with his friends, so I wanted
(27:35):
me to buy tickets online. And you now, at all
movie theaters, you buy your tickets like you do for
a concert. You have a specific seat. And I said, well,
you can sit wherever you want. He said, no, it's
going to be packed. And I don't know, okay, And it
turned out it was. He texted me when he got
there and there was a line three blocks long. And
they were playing the movie like every hour on different screens,
(27:55):
and there was still a line three blocks long on
opening day for this movie. And my youngest son, Henry,
who's thirteen, he'd mentioned at boy Scouts everybody was dropping
Minecraft lines. They said, well, the movie hasn't come out yet, right,
He said yeah, but everybody knows the lines from And
I said, well how and he said well, the trailers
(28:16):
that they run. So if you're on YouTube and you
don't know YouTube knows who's watching, they're not sending me
that trailer. I pay the premium on YouTube, so I
don't have to watch a hands. But they see all
these ads and they see the trailers, and so they
are catch phrases that caught on before the movie comes out.
Now start the clip here. So this is my high schooler.
(28:38):
He knew this was coming, and so did everybody else
in the theater, and they got He got his phone
out and recorded it in here, and then I'll fill
it in after you. This is Jack Black. Here we
go actually ended up talking over it, but everybody in
the theater said the line along with the character, and
(28:58):
then clapped at a movie they've never seen before. Wow,
I find that interesting. I remember we're talking at this standpoint.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
When the Simpsons movie came out, everybody knew about Spider Pig,
for instance, and the Spider Pig song. All the best
punchlines are in the trailers. It's annoying.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Chicken jockey is what everybody said there, Chicken jockey. And
then they all clap for a movie they've never seen before.
So the height the promotional machine for these movies. That's
got to be its own industry where I'm sure you
can make a ton of money of understanding how to
(29:39):
create this kind of buzz before the product's even been
out there, and then anybody even has a chance to
decide if they like it or not.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Yeah, and now the social media stuff, I'll bet that
is that the highest paid the position at a movie studio.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
It damn well got it might be. And then so
then that's the commerce part of it. And then I
just thought the cultural part of it, how important it
was for both of my kids to know the catchphrases
and throw them around, and like the street credit gives
you to be able to know them and laugh at
them and everything like that. Like he did a boy
Scout camp two weeks ago, everybody was throwing a it
(30:14):
wasn't chicken, it was chicken jockey, and what was the
other one? It's coming in hot I guess it's a hotline.
And you say that to your friends that they all
laugh and it makes you cooler and they cooler, and
it's a bonding moment or something. Sure any anthropologists could
explain it to you. I feel like when I was younger.
The movie had to a movie had to come out
and catch on before there were catchphrases. I don't remember ever,
(30:39):
like the crowd chanting a catchphrase for a movie we've
never seen before.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
All Right, you might giggle with recognition seeing that punchline
that was on the promo that annoyed me in the
ad or the trailer or whatever, but no, not so
omnipresent that people even know, you know when it's coming
and can say it.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
And get out their phones to record it. So the
movie industry is dying, you know, they're just they're just
really struggling to try to figure out how to get
people in theaters. But maybe creating this sort of a
yeah gotta be in the no phenomenon ahead of time
is the way to get people in there. Yeah, it's
(31:20):
more I need to be able. It's more of a
I need to say I've seen that because we're all
saying this catchphrase than it is about wanting to see
the movie. That's I guess That's what I'm getting at. Yeah. Yeah, interesting,
they've had to stand it on their head.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
I know.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
The seats are sure a lot more comfortable at the
movie theater than they used to be. That's an adventure
back to one some day. So expensive though. Oh see,
now I'm back to watching it home. Oh it's a
lot of money I sent him. I bought his ticket.
It was I think with the tax and buying it
on fandego, I might have spent close to twenty bucks
(31:56):
for a movie ticket. And then I give him twenty bucks.
I said, I'm only giving you. I wanted forty. I said,
I'll give you twenty bucks and that's it. You can
drink out of the water fountain or I don't know,
bring a snack bar or something. But but that's sixty
you know, that's forty dollars. I'm into this.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
All of these numbers seem so high to me, don't they.
This is how you end up saying, I remember where
you could take your best girl Nickelodeon for a dime.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Yeah that that commentary. Your commentary right there made sense
prior to the inflation. But the inflation has everybody saying
these numbers seem high.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
Oh yeah, well it's not. You know, eh, when I
was young man, it's like two years ago.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Yeah, thank god, they don't serve eggs at the movie theater.
Imagine how expensive. I would be Oh, a movie theater
egg delicious.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Though it's thought I'm strong again, it's less.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
I'm strong, You're ready Green and I'm strong. That's about
say something else, but I'll save it from my final
But here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew
to wrap things up for the day. There he is
pressing the buttons in the control room, Michael Angelo. Michael
final thought. You know, I can't go to the movie
theorist anymore because as an older man now I have
to go to the bathroom and I can't pause it.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
You know, I sit there in the theater. Oh, I
can't pause this, you know. Yeah, that is an interesting thing.
When you're used to pausing. It seems just so wrong
to get up and leave while it's still going. I know,
it seems great.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
You gotta systematically dehydrate yourself over the course of two days, Michael,
Katie Green are esteemed Newswoman.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
As a final thought, Katie, Oh, we talked earlier in
the show about that video of the liberals just unhinged
at the protest, and you can see it by going
to Armstrong. Getty dot com and going to Katie's corner.
It's posted there.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Yeah, the visual is definitely worth taking. And Jack final
thought sociology, human beings.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
It's all so interesting, the fact that we would bond around,
that we would get so much meaning out of I
know this catchphrase for the movie, you know the catchphrase,
we're all gonna say it together. We feel closer or
more a part of something. It's I'll find it fascinating.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
For millions of years. The other tribe would kill you
and take your stuff.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
That's it. Am I in your tribe? Or are you
in the other tribe? Oh you're in my tribe? Right? Okay, Yeah,
as simple as that.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
My final thought at air travel, when it's good, it's bad.
When it's bad, it's awful. I never want to go
anywhere again. I'm just going to stay in my house.
I'm not even gonna ride in a car because somebody
might accidentally whisk me to the airport and I'd end
up on a plane.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Armstrong and Getty wrapping of another grueling four hour workday.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
So many people, thanks, so a little time. Go to
armstronging Geeddy dot com. Check out Katie's corners. The hot
links drop us a note mail bag at Armstrong in
getty dot com. Pick yourself up some ge swag while
you're there. The Spicy Times at.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Where will the markets end up today? And then what
will the commentary be? And we'll get into another day
of that whole thing tomorrow. See then, God bless America.
I'm strong and Getchet. It's hold. We need to adapt
our approach. GUSSI. I hope you'll stand up and stop
this madness. You're kind of damned if you do, and
(35:05):
damned if you don't.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Blah blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
My point was mad. That's the Awso there's a hole
in the sky where a tree once stood. Somebody's making
money on your feet there. Your time has expired. They
all very much Armstrong and Getty
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