April 8, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 1 of A&G features...
- People are pissed & the market rollercoaster
- Katie Green's Headlines!
- Real ID deadline & we're headed straight towards France
- Mailbag!
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
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Speaker 3 (00:32):
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communications compound shrouded by razor wire and Doberman's being got.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Rid of the German shepherds. Doom Eller's a tariff on
chermany right, they got too expensive from.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Doberman's now protecting us and today we're under the tutelage
of our general manager.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Yeah. University of Florida.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Alligators national champs, I think international chance. They deserve the
respect of having their full name used, the Alligators.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
You don't hear that very often. Oh, fantastic exciting game.
If you watched it. If you didn't, that's fine too.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Well, thank you. That's nice. That's very charitable. I don't
want anybody to feel left out apparently.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
You know. It's funny.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
The the email that I've been going through prior to
the show just rife with hostility. I mean, people just
anger any particular topic, anything about Trump, Okay, yeah, yeah,
one particular sort of person just enraged at any questioning
of the great Man. But that's that's fine, Okay. I've
(01:44):
responded not with anger but with kindness to all. How
about the fact that the market turned like two trillion
dollars up and down yesterday because of a rumor that
was flying around That's what we were dealing with live
on the show, where it looked like everything's come back
with what's going on here?
Speaker 2 (02:01):
And it's because a fake.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Truth social post from Donald Trump was flying around Wall
Street and the market like, I mean, gazillions of dollars
changed hands because of that fake thing, and then and
then everybody, oh, that's not real.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Then other things happen. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
I got a slightly different explanation as a blue check
mark Twitter journalist dude who wildly misinterpreted a statement by Trump.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
But anyway, the effect is the same.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
It was it was it was nothing, it was vapor,
it was inaccurate, and the market turned trillions of dollars
on It isn't that interesting?
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Uh? Yes? Oh hell yeah? It is?
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Is that is that some of that computer trading because
that to go crazy like that? Yeah, partly, Plus everybody
is just on the edge of their seat trying to
figure out what's happening next in the official like gigantic
trading world and you know, day traders and just all
sorts of funds. It's as if, in you know, that's funny.
I almost said nineteen thirty nine, might as well say,
(03:02):
two thousand and two, somebody said something really loud on
Fifth Avenue in New York, and the market turned, you know,
trillions of dollars because one dip ass whatever you know
social media platform it was on saying Trump is saying
he will consider a ninety day pause when he didn't
say that at all. That's a guy saying something. Two
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point four trillion dollars of market value was added in
minutes when this rumor flew around, and then most of
it disappeared just as quickly when people realize it was
a rumor.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
But that just seems like that that just doesn't see
I don't know anything.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
About anything, which is pretty obvious to anyone who listens
about this stuff, But that just doesn't seem like that
should be be the way things work. What a guy
says something and trillions of dollars change hands.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Yes, I would agree to top.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Yeah, it just it seems like investing should be more. Yeah,
it's the sort of thing Warren Buffett talks about. Should
be more of a solid company that makes things for
the long term and has good structural foundation economically, not
earnings trillions of dollars flying around.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
That's what hits you.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Talking about earnings and value and dividends. Oh, you're so
Yesterday's ville, man, it's all about speculating. Here's today's news, though,
and some of it is interesting. Politico says Trump has
started telling allies and phone calls that the endgame of
the tariffs would be sooner than people expect, and that
the White Houses and talks with multiple countries stressing that
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deals will be made, said one person familiar with those
phone calls granted anonymity.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
So that's what Politico is saying.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
In the Washington Post, has Elon Musk appealed directly to
the President to ditch the whole tariff regime.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Uh huh.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Wall Street Journal headline CEOs who had been silent now
speaking out against tariff plan. A number of like the
super heavyweights of America, partly because they have their earnings
call calls in the next week where they have to
in a very legal fashion tell their investors what they
think the prospects are. And they're saying, well, we're gonna
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tell our investors that we're in serious trouble because of
these tariffs. So they're saying to the president, you understand,
we've got to say that. And Ted Cruz, Senator from Texas,
who is often very favorable to Trump, tweeted out would
be JFK. Assassin tweet it out ever for again, if
President Trump uses this moment is leverage, that would be
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a massive victory for the American people. But there are
voices in the White House that want high tariffs forever.
There are angels and demons sitting on the president's shoulders.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Who does he listen to? A Manda Crews have a
gift for just over flowery everything.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Everything he says seems a little dramatic. With angels and
demons sitting on the president's shoulder, who does he listen to?
Speaker 2 (05:57):
But I hope the angels, Ted, We'll.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
See how this all turns out. That's right, You know,
it was funny. It was when we met him and
chatted for a while. He could not have been a
more straightforward and down to earth person. He's just, for
some reason, decided to go with that. Ah, I'm a
great roman orator approach to every public pronouncement. It's funny.
Have you listened to his podcast at all? M No,
I haven't either. Oh, seek that out. So we'll see
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how all this turns out. And I don't know. Did
I just find that frightening? Two point four trillion dollars
in minutes?
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Would you hear? Bye? Bye? I mean throw millions billions
of dollars at it? Bye? Oh it's not true, sell it,
sell it all, sell really quick, just learn it, just
get rid of it.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Just doesn't seem the way super genius financial people should work,
right right, Yeah, yeah, these are spicy times.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
I'd say, now I have an upset stomach.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
We have the first direct talks with a RAN in
eight years coming up on Saturday. Trump says, if RAN doesn't,
you know, agree to something, they'll be hell to pay
in a bombing the likes of which they've never seen
and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
So that's very exciting.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Turns out those super advanced stealth bombers with the bunker
busters and all that was for the houthis or so
it would seem as we're getting ready to pound them
into obliteration. I say, we don't stop shooting at shifs.
I thought it was for a ran. Maybe it is,
but what I was thinking, so I was reading that
stuff about you know whatever insider told Politico. He's telling
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people on the phone that they're going to wrap this
up kind of soon.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
So maybe that's the case.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
But the one that's going to end up hanging out there,
the really really important one, I think, is going to
be the whole China situation. All this other stuff could
settle down and you still got the whole things with
China have not changed. There are enemy I'm all fired
up about this because I was listened to yet another
podcast with Tom Cotton on it yesterday, the Senator who
has written book Seven Things You Can't Say About China
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But anyway, he is really a hawk on the whole
China thing.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
And should be.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
He says, people come to him all the time with
his book and say, are things as bad as you
say with Chinese? Says, no, they're much worse than anybody
thinks in terms of China is building to take on
the United States and war. That's what they do every
single day. They're planning to take us on and defeat us,
and we're acting like it's not true anyway on the
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whole trade thing. You know, Trump China came back Friday
with the thirty four percent tariff on top of what
we did, and then Trump yesterday said another fifty percent,
which put it over one hundred percent, and blah blah blah.
I think that China United States thing is that's gonna
stay hot for quite a while, like maybe the rest
of our lives. You want to hear a headline slash
lead that will make you say, wait, what. Many US
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companies plan to keep China ties. Survey fines Washington made
Beijing maybe heading toward the coupling, but US companies ties
with China are proving hard to break. New report commissioned
by the US Chamber of Commerce Foundation showed that many
of the roughly two hundred American companies surveyed in the
past couple of years planned to hold on to or
increase their ties with China. That's really interesting given that
(09:13):
Wall Street Journal article we read from last year where
a lot of companies were saying they don't send their
top business people over there anymore because they're worried about
them getting snatched up off the street. Yeah, you can't
even send your your your head of sales to China
because you're afraid they'll be imprisoned illgally. But you're gonna
keep doing business there because it's cheaper. Yeah, exactly, it's
(09:34):
just it's crack cheap. Chinese labor is crack for companies.
They think, Oh my god, I hate the communists. Look
what they're doing. What Jack just said, but look at
the numbers.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Look at the numbers. If we have them assemble our whatever.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Well, if Apple is being honest last week, and I
gotta believe they're exaggerating, but even if it's half accurate,
saying that an iPhone, if they made ten percent of
iPhones in the United States, an iPhone would cost.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Over three thousand dollars, that's extraordinary. Yeah, yeah, we.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Should start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe
Getty on this it is How did it already get
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Speaker 2 (10:18):
Okay, let's begin.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Then officially, according to FCC rules and regulations, leaping into
action at mark.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
From twelve down to the school's third national championship in
men's basketball sixty five sixty three the final, the Florida
Gators are the national champions once again.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
The tendency of college teams to be unable to score
over extended periods at times, and the kids playing suffocating
defense like you'd never see in the NBA except maybe
Game seven of the finals means.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
That no college game is over till it's over. Correct,
you can have enormous swings.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Also, Florida's biggest star, uh, who's having one of the
greatest tournaments they said since Larry Bird back in the seventies.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Mm hmm. Scored eleven points and they still want none
in the first half. Was not to be a scene. Yeah,
it's amazing. So we got mail Bag coming up.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
A little bit later, we get Katie's headlines, and then
we got some more news of the day. I can't
wait to talk about the company that has brought back
the dire Wolf. It's been ex extinct for thousands and
thousands of thousands of years and they showed two cute
little dire Wolf puppies on the news last night, and
what does this mean? They say wooe mammoth in a
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couple of years. And why are we doing this? This
is what my son said. Just why are we down?
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Son? Is a good which is a pretty good question.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Why are we doing what bringing back gigantic wolves that
stand ten foot tall at the shoulder and might escape
their enclosures and run rampant across the countryside.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Is that what you're questioning?
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Uh so, that's a heck of a interesting topic. Got
all that on the way. Our text line is four one,
five two nine five KFTC. I got a question for
NPR anybody that works over there, as if they would
ever listen to us, when's the last time you said
anything even slightly negative about Hamas? Tell me the last
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news story that had one negative sentence about Hamas as
opposed to the negative story about Israel every single.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Day, I know, I know.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Four more Charlottan reporting Hamas's numbers of casualties, for instance,
which everybody including them, have now revised way down. Four
more children killed in Israeli air strikes yesterday.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Hamas Ministry of Blah Blah says.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Tell me one time you say something bad about maybe
they did the story about how they tortured that Palestinian
to death the other day who led a protest against Moss.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Maybe they did the story. If they did it, I
didn't hear it. Yeah, wow, wow, Wow, that's heavy stuff. Jack.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
I was going to come back and mention that I'm
in a game of chicken with my printer, which is
demanding I update the firmware and has been for weeks.
But I'm not freaking updates. Oh, you're not gonna tell
me what to do.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
I didn't get to that. I'd tell you what to do,
and you know what you gotta do. Print. That's what
I didn't get to that story.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Yesterday I spent six seven hours on my son's computer
with Best By Geek squad back and forth and on
the phone and everything like that, and I wanted to
talk about that.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
But God, that's that's one thing I wish I could do.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
It's print, my printer's printing, or my computer's doing all
I needed to do, never needed to do anything beyond this.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Can we just leave it alone?
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Not a security date? Of course, your computer. All you
need is a ballpeen hammer good call him best Buy.
That'll take care of the problem. Get a new computer,
Katie Green has the lead story. Who's reporting?
Speaker 5 (13:57):
What?
Speaker 2 (13:58):
For goodness sakes, Katie? All right, start with Politico.
Speaker 6 (14:01):
Their top headline, trade war chaos hits the stock market.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Well, it's not very chaos c he today, so we'll see.
Speaker 6 (14:13):
From NBC Ukraine captures Chinese citizens who fought with Russian army,
Zelenski says.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Well, you got the Chinese in there too.
Speaker 6 (14:23):
Yeah. From ABC, Harvard, UCLA, and Stanford among schools across
the United States reporting student visas being revoked.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Yeah, I quit advocating for terrorists or go home either way.
Speaker 6 (14:40):
From the New York Times, US to hold nuclear talks
with Iran.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Yeah, on Saturday, direct talks. First time in a long time.
I thought Iran was denying that. Still, but who knows?
They're lying liars put their beards, Yeah, their beards.
Speaker 6 (14:59):
For instance, from Newsweek, DOJE official claims shocking fallout from
Biden's mass migration millions of migrants on medicaid, thousands now
on voter rolls.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Oh my god, medicaid. You sneak into the country and
you get on medicaid. Wow.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Oh yeah, and thousands on voter rolls. To who was
that story from? I was from Newsweek oh okay.
Speaker 6 (15:23):
From the Washington Post, the US just had its windiest
start to spring in nearly fifty years.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
I'm glad somebody's measuring that.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
That was our windiest starts to spring come.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
In early, early, windy, early spring. Yes.
Speaker 6 (15:41):
From the New York Post, AOC flies first class to
Bernie Sanders fight oligarchy rally as critic slam her for
battling inequality one mimosa at a time.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
I saw that. I saw that story, and I thought,
am I to my upset about this? Shouldn't she?
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Should she be sitting back and coach. She's very famous.
It would be very hard to.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Function.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Yeah, she is very very famous, and you know her
policies are ludicrous.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
She's a hypocrite and a liar.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
I don't need to harp on how she flies, Honestly,
it just seems silly to me.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
But if you enjoy it, enjoy it well.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
The average person never flies first class ever in their
lives because it's so ridiculously expensive. And her doing the
whole I'm, you know, standing up for the regular person
and gets billionaires flying around in first class.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
I mean, then you know you understands the poor optics.
Speaker 6 (16:39):
Yes, and Finally, the Babylon Bee teen wondering when parents
will grow out of their awkward stage.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Wow, that's pretty funny. Dang it, the whole teenager thing. Geez,
every day every day it amazes me. Keeps you on
your toes, doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
What are you so unhappy about? Your life looks pretty
good from my angle? Oh boy, why are we designed
like this? I don't know. That's it. How do you
let go of a child because you can't stand to
live with them? Anyway? It Scott's plan. We got a
lot on the way, a lot of news.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
I hope you can stay with us Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 7 (17:26):
Philadelphia Zoo announced last week that a pair of nearly
one hundred year old tortoises recently welcome their first hatchlings.
You may have seen the tortoises on the MTV show
ninety nine.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
And pregnant markets are surging.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
If you're listening to us live, so the bounce back
has begun, and get into that later. Also, latest polling
on the whole tariff thing. Get into that later also.
And oh and I just saw the real ID deadline
is a month away.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
This is going to be my all time greatest hit.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Screw up because it's been I've seen it coming for
so long and known the entire time for years that
at some point I will be at an airport ready
to get on a plane someplace I need to go, yes,
and they'll say we no longer accept your driver's license.
You need your real ID, even though I knew it
for years. I am that is going to happen to me.
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I'll like your high school teacher assigned you a book
report due in twenty years and you waited until the
last night in you're up all life, right, that is
going to happen to me. Yeah, it's funny, Judy, and
I heard that report, and I have a feeling. I
spoke for many, many millions of Americans when I said,
do we have real ideas?
Speaker 2 (18:47):
I've completely lost track? Is ours real? She looked at
it and said, yeah, yes we do. How that happened?
I don't recall. Well, I sure don't have one? Are
you sure? I'm positive you might? When did you last
for New year license? I don't know?
Speaker 1 (19:04):
So, so your driver's license is it?
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Yeah? Oh it is? Well, maybe I did have a
real like the updated does it have like a hologrammy
looking thing? On there or yeah, yeah, there you go.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Maybe I do have it done and done, sir, that's
my point. Nobody has any idea it part. Yeah. So
speaking of economics and that sort of thing, which a
lot of people are doing these days in reference to
the tariffs.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
But to this too shall pass, I hope eventually.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
And and some of the support and lack of support
are coming from some interesting areas for the tariffs, and
we can talk about that more later. But I'm kind
of tariffed out. We brought this up kind of briefly
at the end of Yes, I could talk about tariffs
for many more hours.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Well you should feel free. How about one room over anyway?
Speaker 1 (19:57):
I found this so interesting, big survey of America's employers,
especially manufacturers, they cannot find reliable, conscientious workers who can
pass a drug test. A good worker, like a good man,
can be hard to find these days. And who is
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this writing in the Alicia Finley, who I think is
a terrific writer. But she says, blame government, which showers
benefits on able bodied people who don't work well at
the same time subsidizing college degrees that don't lead to
productive employment, and the result is millions of idle men
and millions of unfilled jobs, what an economist would call
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a dead weight loss to society. So failing the drug test,
is it mostly the marijuana, the Mary Jane, the lettuce,
the hippie. Yeah, I don't know. I suspect so, though.
Sure I think it's mostly pot. But I think that's
just brilliantly simply put, we are showering benefits on able
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bodied people and subsidizing useless college degrees as as a
people because the government is theoretically doing our work right, well,
I for one, don't like either end of that anyway.
Forty percent of small business owners and March reported job
openings they could not fill. Construction companies fifty six percent said, yeah,
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we have unfilled jobs and we can't find anybody. Transportation,
I have a feeling that's mostly truck drivers. Fifty three
percent manufacturing, which the President is, according to many people,
admirably trying to shepherd back inside the country. More forty
seven percent of manufacturers say, no, we've got openings we
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can't fill.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Well.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
So, according to the last week's National Federation of Independent
Business survey, that might be a flaw in the president's
plan that hasn't been discussed enough. He wants to bring
back the fifties or seventies or whatever golden era of
manufacturing we used to have.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
But back then people would do those jobs.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
If half the manufacturing jobs out there or you can't fill. Now,
what if manufacturing did come back to the United States, Who,
in theory is going to do those jobs?
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Well?
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Not illegal immigrants, because thank god the border has been
closed and the statistics are astounding.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Biden was a scoundrel anyway.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Was it going to be the woman who studies major
from your local university that goes work, They're probably not.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Well.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
It could well be the dudes who have no disability
on disability who are heaved off of that system. But
that would take some tough love, and that's not very
popular politically speaking.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
I mean, if you go into.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
One of the districts of the Rust Belty places or
Appalachia or whatever where you have just ludicrous levels of
people on disability. Happened to read a couple things about
this recently. Didn't flog you with it on the air.
But and if you go into those places and say
we're kicking it off every everybody on disability who's not
like missing a limb, you will lose an election by.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Seventy points, if that's even possible.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Once people are on the toll man, once people have
a benefit, whether legitimate or perhaps questionable, taking it away
as political poison as you know, Labor Department's job openings
and labor turnover survey businesses tell a similar story. There
are twice as many job openings in manufacturing now than
in the mid two thousands.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
As a share of employment.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Save for the pandemic, America's workers shortage is the worst
in fifty years. Decades ago, productivity, enhancing technology and yes,
inexpensive imports cousted men who worked on shop floors to
lose their jobs and drop out of the workforce. But
that generation is sailing into the sunset, and there are
many fewer young Americans who want to work in factories.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Listen to this now.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
The labor force participation rate among young among working age
men is now about five percentage points lower than in
the early eighties. Okay, this is not like the nineteen tens.
This is the nineteen eighties, five points lower. As a result,
there are about three and a half million fewer men
between the ages twenty five and fifty four in the
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workforce and one point three million between the ages of
twenty five and thirty four, a significantly bigger population than
we have in the eighties. Right then there would have
been were it not for this decline. Labor participation among
working age women, on the other hand, recently hit a
record in part because they are having fewer children, and
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then people aren't coupling that sort of thing. At the
risk of stereotyping, women are more inclined toward helping professions
such as services than those that require physical labor.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Well, that's just true. It's undeniable.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
So I've not done a manufacturing sort of job before,
so I don't know what it's like, but I certainly
feel like there's a social stigma around it that doesn't
help true.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Why it is.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Why there's not a social stigma around having a meaningless,
soul deadening paper pushing job in a cubicle, I don't
know why that is. I mean, maybe the other way
around should be. There shouldn't be any stigma around any jobs.
Working for a living is considerably better than not whatever
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the hell you're doing.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
So why I always the.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Vestige of the twentieth century where a job where you
used your brain as opposed to your back was seen
as a higher status job.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
God, I don't know some of these jobs or you
use your brain.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
That's barely not much, I mean, but they certainly don't
seem like they'd be much more enjoyable as starter jobs.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Right, Tedious is tedious. I had a.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Sort of manufacturing job for one summer, and it was
pretty tedious, honestly, but I'm sure it is. You know
why I go went ahead and took it and kept it.
It was because it paid pretty good. It was my
best option. Right, So, yeah, you got any and well
you should have to make a living. You got us
import yourself somehow.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
No, you don't. What kind of monster are you listen
to this? Would you?
Speaker 4 (26:04):
So?
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Where have all the good working men gone?
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Some are subsisting on government benefits, are living off their parents.
About seventeen percent of working age men are on Medicaid,
seventeen percent, seven and a half percent on food stamps,
and six point three percent on Social Security, many claiming
disability payouts.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
According to the Census Bureau.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Many spend their days playing video games and day trading, well,
day trading hilarious, speculating on meme stocks, or you tell
somebody your day trading.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
I don't know how often you're actually.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Trading and making any money because you don't want to
say I just play video games and live in my parents' basement,
so you say you're your day trader. So I don't
remember our good friend Craig the healthcare Genius's statistics. But
if I remember correctly, originally medicaid was only supposed to
cover like a tiny percentage people period.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Now it's covering percent.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Maybe now it's covering and that would have been like
the old and you know people that I got all
kinds of physical or mental problems. Now it's seventeen percent
of working age men, not like senior citizens.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
That's nice.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Yeah. A couple more stats. Other missing men are taking
longer to finish college or pursuing graduate degrees. Only about
forty one percent of men complete a bachelor's degree in
four years, even though study after study shows they don't teach.
You don't have to work. There's great inflation. It's dopey.
Only forty one percent and a quarter take more than
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six years. Wow, because you're in no hurry to get
out of college. My dad used to comment about perpetual
college students. And I never really understood what he was
talking about. And I'm sure it was a small number
of people back when he was in college, but now
it is a lot.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Apparently. I'll just stay in college.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
I'll just keep borrowing money and because I'm too young
or unwise to understand what I'm doing, and I'll just
keep this game going of I get to sit around
with my friends and discuss the world without ever having
to engage in it.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Yeah, and I have disability.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
My thumb hurts on Thursdays, final stat Then.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
I will I will stop.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
We're just we are a fat, lazy, comfortable society. We're
headed to front denial, right, we are headed straight toward France.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
The unemployment rate Jack considered this among recent college grads
with a sociology degree is about seven percent, and their
medium wage, if they do have a gig, is forty
five thousand dollars according to the Federal Reserve Bank. Social
grads can earn twice as much working on an auto
assembly line, which pays an average hundred thousand dollars a year.
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Good gig, but not many want it. The reality is
that masses a young people, writes Alicia Finley, who again
as a genius, has been taught that capitalism is exploitive.
They don't want to work in factories. They'd rather mooch
off taxpayers or their parents. How Karl Marx is that, Yes,
some of it is that, I'm sure, But I just
I think a lot of it is just the cultural
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that would be embarrassing for your parents and for you
if you worked over at the whatever factory. Yeah, more
embarrassing in our current society than if you just live
at home and you know.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
You say you're a day trader.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
It shouldn't be more embarrassing to have a job at
a plant than to live with your parents, But I
think it is. Or having taken six years to get
an undergrad degree in gender studies, you're now getting a
master's degree in the theoretical decolonialization of art or whatever
the say sometimes. Thank for soft people, man. There is
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no more iron law of humanity than that. I think
My kids, my two boys, are growing up in a
household where they hear me talk enough about this that
they realize that's uncool to not go out there and
get a job of some sort. I hope we got
Katie's headline. No, we already did that. We've got Joe's
bag on the way.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Stay here a.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Word.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
You're going to be hearing a lot more in coming years.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
De extinction, as they think they've pulled off the first
de extinction by bringing back the dire Wolf, which disappeared
thirty five thousand years ago thirty.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Five three free appearance on Game of Thrones. That's correct.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Ummah, so yeah, we'll talk about that maybe an hour
or two is no, oh, the lonesome cry of the
dire Wolf. Here's your freedom loving quote. It today sat
along by an alert listener whose name I do not recall,
and I apologize for that. I am incompetent and will
suffer the consequences thereof. But it's from an rand and
I quote Fascism and communism are not two opposites, but
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two rival gangs fighting over the same territory based on
the collectivist principle that man is the rightless slave of
the state.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
I think she's absolutely right. It's the horseshoe theory. But yeah, yeah,
quite so.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Mailbag drop us a nowood jem mail bag at Armstrong
and Getty dot com. I have put aside some of
the impassioned, angry, idiotic emails about this, that, and the other,
just because I'd rather go with stuff that amuses me.
But I will tell you this, it's a little life
advice for it. You've probably heard many times, don't hit
send when you're angry, whether it's a text or an.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Email or whatever.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
And I think some people think that's because, well, it
might be hurtful to the other person, and it might
hurt our relationship, and blah blah blah, and all of
that is very true. The other un underappreciated aspect of
hitting sen when you're angry is that you come off
like a stupid child who can't control yourself. Even if
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you're writing to a radio show, remember your name's attached
to that, and you come across as an angry adolescent
sputtering at their dad or mom.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
Okay, think about it before you hit send. Friends.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Moving along from first initial t trash in California, guys,
what really surprises me is the millions that are spent
of taxpayer money to run public service announcements for a
cleaner California.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Don't litter?
Speaker 1 (32:11):
Really, you tell me not to litter. You you allow
junkie camps to exist. Here's an idea, why not start
getting rid of the junkies in their camps. I couldn't
if I tried litter as much in my lifetime as
you know, the camp in the park with the tents
and all the crap, well right, and where those tax
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dollars are spent in Sacramento, I can't remember. Katie had
a story a week or two ago about cleaning up
a junkie camp along the Sacramento River and they removed
three thousand tons of trash or whatever it is. And look,
I hate littering. I don't believe in throwing away so
much as a cigarette butter, a candy wrapper. But seriously,
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you're gonna harangue me a taxpayer expense not to throw
away my gum wrapper. Well, you're allowing junkie camps to
unload thousands of tons by the river.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Moving along, Neil and Utah writes, guys, A long time
listening to My parents would listen to you and Jack.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
When I was in high school.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
I picked up your show listen regularly as a thirty
six year old.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Now, I know you think that's a nice thing to say,
but you're old. Get over it. But his.
Speaker 5 (33:49):
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This concludes this test of the emergency alert system.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
At least there was a noose in her son's bag.
So there's a doll and some sort of string that
seemed to be over the doll's head. First thing that
popped in my head. These are not toys, These are
something different. Tonny says she needs a support animal.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Yeah, people just looking to be outraged crazy. Oh that
one's so good, but it's a little long.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
The One More Thing podcast yesterday, I'm strung Getting One
more Thing. I talked about using Google Translate while standing
next to Spanish speakers.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
To see what they were saying.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
And is that pe perhaps out of boundser since they're
right there speaking within earshot.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
Is it okay?
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Garrick says, I'm a white guy who learns Spanish. So
whenever I'm around Mexicans I always tell them that I
know Spanish when they're speaking.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
It seems like the right thing to do.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Really, that's interesting, Psych, stop being a self hating white
boy Joe, So maybe he doesn't do that on all.
You feel like, are there people that feel like they
need to say, by the way, I speak Spanish?
Speaker 2 (35:19):
What?
Speaker 1 (35:20):
But Denny says Psych, So I don't know if that's
the opposite or all right, Okay, we got a lot
more on the way, including the return of the Dire Wolf,
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Rid of the German shepherds. Doom Eller's a tariff on
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Doberman's now protecting us and today we're under the tutelage
of our general manager.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Yeah. University of Florida.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Alligators national champs, I think international chance. They deserve the
respect of having their full name used, the Alligators.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
You don't hear that very often. Oh, fantastic exciting game.
If you watched it. If you didn't, that's fine too.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Well, thank you. That's nice. That's very charitable. I don't
want anybody to feel left out apparently.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
You know. It's funny.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
The the email that I've been going through prior to
the show just rife with hostility. I mean, people just
anger any particular topic, anything about Trump, Okay, yeah, yeah,
one particular sort of person just enraged at any questioning
of the great Man. But that's that's fine, Okay. I've
(01:44):
responded not with anger but with kindness to all. How
about the fact that the market turned like two trillion
dollars up and down yesterday because of a rumor that
was flying around That's what we were dealing with live
on the show, where it looked like everything's come back
with what's going on here?
Speaker 2 (02:01):
And it's because a fake.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Truth social post from Donald Trump was flying around Wall
Street and the market like, I mean, gazillions of dollars
changed hands because of that fake thing, and then and
then everybody, oh, that's not real.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Then other things happen. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
I got a slightly different explanation as a blue check
mark Twitter journalist dude who wildly misinterpreted a statement by Trump.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
But anyway, the effect is the same.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
It was it was it was nothing, it was vapor,
it was inaccurate, and the market turned trillions of dollars
on It isn't that interesting?
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Uh? Yes? Oh hell yeah? It is?
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Is that is that some of that computer trading because
that to go crazy like that? Yeah, partly, Plus everybody
is just on the edge of their seat trying to
figure out what's happening next in the official like gigantic
trading world and you know, day traders and just all
sorts of funds. It's as if, in you know, that's funny.
I almost said nineteen thirty nine, might as well say,
(03:02):
two thousand and two, somebody said something really loud on
Fifth Avenue in New York, and the market turned, you know,
trillions of dollars because one dip ass whatever you know
social media platform it was on saying Trump is saying
he will consider a ninety day pause when he didn't
say that at all. That's a guy saying something. Two
(03:26):
point four trillion dollars of market value was added in
minutes when this rumor flew around, and then most of
it disappeared just as quickly when people realize it was
a rumor.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
But that just seems like that that just doesn't see
I don't know anything.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
About anything, which is pretty obvious to anyone who listens
about this stuff, But that just doesn't seem like that
should be be the way things work. What a guy
says something and trillions of dollars change hands.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Yes, I would agree to top.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Yeah, it just it seems like investing should be more. Yeah,
it's the sort of thing Warren Buffett talks about. Should
be more of a solid company that makes things for
the long term and has good structural foundation economically, not
earnings trillions of dollars flying around.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
That's what hits you.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Talking about earnings and value and dividends. Oh, you're so
Yesterday's ville, man, it's all about speculating. Here's today's news, though,
and some of it is interesting. Politico says Trump has
started telling allies and phone calls that the endgame of
the tariffs would be sooner than people expect, and that
the White Houses and talks with multiple countries stressing that
(04:35):
deals will be made, said one person familiar with those
phone calls granted anonymity.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
So that's what Politico is saying.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
In the Washington Post, has Elon Musk appealed directly to
the President to ditch the whole tariff regime.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Uh huh.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Wall Street Journal headline CEOs who had been silent now
speaking out against tariff plan. A number of like the
super heavyweights of America, partly because they have their earnings
call calls in the next week where they have to
in a very legal fashion tell their investors what they
think the prospects are. And they're saying, well, we're gonna
(05:14):
tell our investors that we're in serious trouble because of
these tariffs. So they're saying to the president, you understand,
we've got to say that. And Ted Cruz, Senator from Texas,
who is often very favorable to Trump, tweeted out would
be JFK. Assassin tweet it out ever for again, if
President Trump uses this moment is leverage, that would be
(05:34):
a massive victory for the American people. But there are
voices in the White House that want high tariffs forever.
There are angels and demons sitting on the president's shoulders.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Who does he listen to? A Manda Crews have a
gift for just over flowery everything.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Everything he says seems a little dramatic. With angels and
demons sitting on the president's shoulder, who does he listen to?
Speaker 2 (05:57):
But I hope the angels, Ted, We'll.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
See how this all turns out. That's right, You know,
it was funny. It was when we met him and
chatted for a while. He could not have been a
more straightforward and down to earth person. He's just, for
some reason, decided to go with that. Ah, I'm a
great roman orator approach to every public pronouncement. It's funny.
Have you listened to his podcast at all? M No,
I haven't either. Oh, seek that out. So we'll see
(06:25):
how all this turns out. And I don't know. Did
I just find that frightening? Two point four trillion dollars
in minutes?
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Would you hear? Bye? Bye? I mean throw millions billions
of dollars at it? Bye? Oh it's not true, sell it,
sell it all, sell really quick, just learn it, just
get rid of it.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Just doesn't seem the way super genius financial people should work,
right right, Yeah, yeah, these are spicy times.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
I'd say, now I have an upset stomach.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
We have the first direct talks with a RAN in
eight years coming up on Saturday. Trump says, if RAN doesn't,
you know, agree to something, they'll be hell to pay
in a bombing the likes of which they've never seen
and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
So that's very exciting.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Turns out those super advanced stealth bombers with the bunker
busters and all that was for the houthis or so
it would seem as we're getting ready to pound them
into obliteration. I say, we don't stop shooting at shifs.
I thought it was for a ran. Maybe it is,
but what I was thinking, so I was reading that
stuff about you know whatever insider told Politico. He's telling
(07:34):
people on the phone that they're going to wrap this
up kind of soon.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
So maybe that's the case.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
But the one that's going to end up hanging out there,
the really really important one, I think, is going to
be the whole China situation. All this other stuff could
settle down and you still got the whole things with
China have not changed. There are enemy I'm all fired
up about this because I was listened to yet another
podcast with Tom Cotton on it yesterday, the Senator who
has written book Seven Things You Can't Say About China
(08:02):
But anyway, he is really a hawk on the whole
China thing.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
And should be.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
He says, people come to him all the time with
his book and say, are things as bad as you
say with Chinese? Says, no, they're much worse than anybody
thinks in terms of China is building to take on
the United States and war. That's what they do every
single day. They're planning to take us on and defeat us,
and we're acting like it's not true anyway on the
(08:30):
whole trade thing. You know, Trump China came back Friday
with the thirty four percent tariff on top of what
we did, and then Trump yesterday said another fifty percent,
which put it over one hundred percent, and blah blah blah.
I think that China United States thing is that's gonna
stay hot for quite a while, like maybe the rest
of our lives. You want to hear a headline slash
lead that will make you say, wait, what. Many US
(08:52):
companies plan to keep China ties. Survey fines Washington made
Beijing maybe heading toward the coupling, but US companies ties
with China are proving hard to break. New report commissioned
by the US Chamber of Commerce Foundation showed that many
of the roughly two hundred American companies surveyed in the
past couple of years planned to hold on to or
increase their ties with China. That's really interesting given that
(09:13):
Wall Street Journal article we read from last year where
a lot of companies were saying they don't send their
top business people over there anymore because they're worried about
them getting snatched up off the street. Yeah, you can't
even send your your your head of sales to China
because you're afraid they'll be imprisoned illgally. But you're gonna
keep doing business there because it's cheaper. Yeah, exactly, it's
(09:34):
just it's crack cheap. Chinese labor is crack for companies.
They think, Oh my god, I hate the communists. Look
what they're doing. What Jack just said, but look at
the numbers.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Look at the numbers. If we have them assemble our whatever.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Well, if Apple is being honest last week, and I
gotta believe they're exaggerating, but even if it's half accurate,
saying that an iPhone, if they made ten percent of
iPhones in the United States, an iPhone would cost.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Over three thousand dollars, that's extraordinary. Yeah, yeah, we.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Should start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe
Getty on this it is How did it already get
to be pulling up my sleeve? Tuesday April the eighth,
or twenty twenty five, we are Armstrong in Gedty, and
we approve of this program.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Okay, let's begin.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Then officially, according to FCC rules and regulations, leaping into
action at mark.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
From twelve down to the school's third national championship in
men's basketball sixty five sixty three the final, the Florida
Gators are the national champions once again.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
The tendency of college teams to be unable to score
over extended periods at times, and the kids playing suffocating
defense like you'd never see in the NBA except maybe
Game seven of the finals means.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
That no college game is over till it's over. Correct,
you can have enormous swings.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Also, Florida's biggest star, uh, who's having one of the
greatest tournaments they said since Larry Bird back in the seventies.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Mm hmm. Scored eleven points and they still want none
in the first half. Was not to be a scene. Yeah,
it's amazing. So we got mail Bag coming up.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
A little bit later, we get Katie's headlines, and then
we got some more news of the day. I can't
wait to talk about the company that has brought back
the dire Wolf. It's been ex extinct for thousands and
thousands of thousands of years and they showed two cute
little dire Wolf puppies on the news last night, and
what does this mean? They say wooe mammoth in a
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couple of years. And why are we doing this? This
is what my son said. Just why are we down?
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Son? Is a good which is a pretty good question.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Why are we doing what bringing back gigantic wolves that
stand ten foot tall at the shoulder and might escape
their enclosures and run rampant across the countryside.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Is that what you're questioning?
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Uh so, that's a heck of a interesting topic. Got
all that on the way. Our text line is four one,
five two nine five KFTC. I got a question for
NPR anybody that works over there, as if they would
ever listen to us, when's the last time you said
anything even slightly negative about Hamas? Tell me the last
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news story that had one negative sentence about Hamas as
opposed to the negative story about Israel every single.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Day, I know, I know.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Four more Charlottan reporting Hamas's numbers of casualties, for instance,
which everybody including them, have now revised way down. Four
more children killed in Israeli air strikes yesterday.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Hamas Ministry of Blah Blah says.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Tell me one time you say something bad about maybe
they did the story about how they tortured that Palestinian
to death the other day who led a protest against Moss.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Maybe they did the story. If they did it, I
didn't hear it. Yeah, wow, wow, Wow, that's heavy stuff. Jack.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
I was going to come back and mention that I'm
in a game of chicken with my printer, which is
demanding I update the firmware and has been for weeks.
But I'm not freaking updates. Oh, you're not gonna tell
me what to do.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
I didn't get to that. I'd tell you what to do,
and you know what you gotta do. Print. That's what
I didn't get to that story.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Yesterday I spent six seven hours on my son's computer
with Best By Geek squad back and forth and on
the phone and everything like that, and I wanted to
talk about that.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
But God, that's that's one thing I wish I could do.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
It's print, my printer's printing, or my computer's doing all
I needed to do, never needed to do anything beyond this.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Can we just leave it alone?
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Not a security date? Of course, your computer. All you
need is a ballpeen hammer good call him best Buy.
That'll take care of the problem. Get a new computer,
Katie Green has the lead story. Who's reporting?
Speaker 5 (13:57):
What?
Speaker 2 (13:58):
For goodness sakes, Katie? All right, start with Politico.
Speaker 6 (14:01):
Their top headline, trade war chaos hits the stock market.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Well, it's not very chaos c he today, so we'll see.
Speaker 6 (14:13):
From NBC Ukraine captures Chinese citizens who fought with Russian army,
Zelenski says.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Well, you got the Chinese in there too.
Speaker 6 (14:23):
Yeah. From ABC, Harvard, UCLA, and Stanford among schools across
the United States reporting student visas being revoked.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Yeah, I quit advocating for terrorists or go home either way.
Speaker 6 (14:40):
From the New York Times, US to hold nuclear talks
with Iran.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Yeah, on Saturday, direct talks. First time in a long time.
I thought Iran was denying that. Still, but who knows?
They're lying liars put their beards, Yeah, their beards.
Speaker 6 (14:59):
For instance, from Newsweek, DOJE official claims shocking fallout from
Biden's mass migration millions of migrants on medicaid, thousands now
on voter rolls.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Oh my god, medicaid. You sneak into the country and
you get on medicaid. Wow.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Oh yeah, and thousands on voter rolls. To who was
that story from? I was from Newsweek oh okay.
Speaker 6 (15:23):
From the Washington Post, the US just had its windiest
start to spring in nearly fifty years.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
I'm glad somebody's measuring that.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
That was our windiest starts to spring come.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
In early, early, windy, early spring. Yes.
Speaker 6 (15:41):
From the New York Post, AOC flies first class to
Bernie Sanders fight oligarchy rally as critic slam her for
battling inequality one mimosa at a time.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
I saw that. I saw that story, and I thought,
am I to my upset about this? Shouldn't she?
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Should she be sitting back and coach. She's very famous.
It would be very hard to.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Function.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Yeah, she is very very famous, and you know her
policies are ludicrous.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
She's a hypocrite and a liar.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
I don't need to harp on how she flies, Honestly,
it just seems silly to me.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
But if you enjoy it, enjoy it well.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
The average person never flies first class ever in their
lives because it's so ridiculously expensive. And her doing the
whole I'm, you know, standing up for the regular person
and gets billionaires flying around in first class.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
I mean, then you know you understands the poor optics.
Speaker 6 (16:39):
Yes, and Finally, the Babylon Bee teen wondering when parents
will grow out of their awkward stage.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Wow, that's pretty funny. Dang it, the whole teenager thing. Geez,
every day every day it amazes me. Keeps you on
your toes, doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
What are you so unhappy about? Your life looks pretty
good from my angle? Oh boy, why are we designed
like this? I don't know. That's it. How do you
let go of a child because you can't stand to
live with them? Anyway? It Scott's plan. We got a
lot on the way, a lot of news.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
I hope you can stay with us Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 7 (17:26):
Philadelphia Zoo announced last week that a pair of nearly
one hundred year old tortoises recently welcome their first hatchlings.
You may have seen the tortoises on the MTV show
ninety nine.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
And pregnant markets are surging.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
If you're listening to us live, so the bounce back
has begun, and get into that later. Also, latest polling
on the whole tariff thing. Get into that later also.
And oh and I just saw the real ID deadline
is a month away.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
This is going to be my all time greatest hit.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Screw up because it's been I've seen it coming for
so long and known the entire time for years that
at some point I will be at an airport ready
to get on a plane someplace I need to go, yes,
and they'll say we no longer accept your driver's license.
You need your real ID, even though I knew it
for years. I am that is going to happen to me.
(18:26):
I'll like your high school teacher assigned you a book
report due in twenty years and you waited until the
last night in you're up all life, right, that is
going to happen to me. Yeah, it's funny, Judy, and
I heard that report, and I have a feeling. I
spoke for many, many millions of Americans when I said,
do we have real ideas?
Speaker 2 (18:47):
I've completely lost track? Is ours real? She looked at
it and said, yeah, yes we do. How that happened?
I don't recall. Well, I sure don't have one? Are
you sure? I'm positive you might? When did you last
for New year license? I don't know?
Speaker 1 (19:04):
So, so your driver's license is it?
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Yeah? Oh it is? Well, maybe I did have a
real like the updated does it have like a hologrammy
looking thing? On there or yeah, yeah, there you go.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Maybe I do have it done and done, sir, that's
my point. Nobody has any idea it part. Yeah. So
speaking of economics and that sort of thing, which a
lot of people are doing these days in reference to
the tariffs.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
But to this too shall pass, I hope eventually.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
And and some of the support and lack of support
are coming from some interesting areas for the tariffs, and
we can talk about that more later. But I'm kind
of tariffed out. We brought this up kind of briefly
at the end of Yes, I could talk about tariffs
for many more hours.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Well you should feel free. How about one room over anyway?
Speaker 1 (19:57):
I found this so interesting, big survey of America's employers,
especially manufacturers, they cannot find reliable, conscientious workers who can
pass a drug test. A good worker, like a good man,
can be hard to find these days. And who is
(20:18):
this writing in the Alicia Finley, who I think is
a terrific writer. But she says, blame government, which showers
benefits on able bodied people who don't work well at
the same time subsidizing college degrees that don't lead to
productive employment, and the result is millions of idle men
and millions of unfilled jobs, what an economist would call
(20:39):
a dead weight loss to society. So failing the drug test,
is it mostly the marijuana, the Mary Jane, the lettuce,
the hippie. Yeah, I don't know. I suspect so, though.
Sure I think it's mostly pot. But I think that's
just brilliantly simply put, we are showering benefits on able
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bodied people and subsidizing useless college degrees as as a
people because the government is theoretically doing our work right, well,
I for one, don't like either end of that anyway.
Forty percent of small business owners and March reported job
openings they could not fill. Construction companies fifty six percent said, yeah,
(21:24):
we have unfilled jobs and we can't find anybody. Transportation,
I have a feeling that's mostly truck drivers. Fifty three
percent manufacturing, which the President is, according to many people,
admirably trying to shepherd back inside the country. More forty
seven percent of manufacturers say, no, we've got openings we
(21:44):
can't fill.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Well.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
So, according to the last week's National Federation of Independent
Business survey, that might be a flaw in the president's
plan that hasn't been discussed enough. He wants to bring
back the fifties or seventies or whatever golden era of
manufacturing we used to have.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
But back then people would do those jobs.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
If half the manufacturing jobs out there or you can't fill. Now,
what if manufacturing did come back to the United States, Who,
in theory is going to do those jobs?
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Well?
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Not illegal immigrants, because thank god the border has been
closed and the statistics are astounding.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Biden was a scoundrel anyway.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Was it going to be the woman who studies major
from your local university that goes work, They're probably not.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Well.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
It could well be the dudes who have no disability
on disability who are heaved off of that system. But
that would take some tough love, and that's not very
popular politically speaking.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
I mean, if you go into.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
One of the districts of the Rust Belty places or
Appalachia or whatever where you have just ludicrous levels of
people on disability. Happened to read a couple things about
this recently. Didn't flog you with it on the air.
But and if you go into those places and say
we're kicking it off every everybody on disability who's not
like missing a limb, you will lose an election by.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Seventy points, if that's even possible.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Once people are on the toll man, once people have
a benefit, whether legitimate or perhaps questionable, taking it away
as political poison as you know, Labor Department's job openings
and labor turnover survey businesses tell a similar story. There
are twice as many job openings in manufacturing now than
in the mid two thousands.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
As a share of employment.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Save for the pandemic, America's workers shortage is the worst
in fifty years. Decades ago, productivity, enhancing technology and yes,
inexpensive imports cousted men who worked on shop floors to
lose their jobs and drop out of the workforce. But
that generation is sailing into the sunset, and there are
many fewer young Americans who want to work in factories.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Listen to this now.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
The labor force participation rate among young among working age
men is now about five percentage points lower than in
the early eighties. Okay, this is not like the nineteen tens.
This is the nineteen eighties, five points lower. As a result,
there are about three and a half million fewer men
between the ages twenty five and fifty four in the
(24:10):
workforce and one point three million between the ages of
twenty five and thirty four, a significantly bigger population than
we have in the eighties. Right then there would have
been were it not for this decline. Labor participation among
working age women, on the other hand, recently hit a
record in part because they are having fewer children, and
(24:31):
then people aren't coupling that sort of thing. At the
risk of stereotyping, women are more inclined toward helping professions
such as services than those that require physical labor.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Well, that's just true. It's undeniable.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
So I've not done a manufacturing sort of job before,
so I don't know what it's like, but I certainly
feel like there's a social stigma around it that doesn't
help true.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Why it is.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Why there's not a social stigma around having a meaningless,
soul deadening paper pushing job in a cubicle, I don't
know why that is. I mean, maybe the other way
around should be. There shouldn't be any stigma around any jobs.
Working for a living is considerably better than not whatever
(25:19):
the hell you're doing.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
So why I always the.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Vestige of the twentieth century where a job where you
used your brain as opposed to your back was seen
as a higher status job.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
God, I don't know some of these jobs or you
use your brain.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
That's barely not much, I mean, but they certainly don't
seem like they'd be much more enjoyable as starter jobs.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Right, Tedious is tedious. I had a.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Sort of manufacturing job for one summer, and it was
pretty tedious, honestly, but I'm sure it is. You know
why I go went ahead and took it and kept it.
It was because it paid pretty good. It was my
best option. Right, So, yeah, you got any and well
you should have to make a living. You got us
import yourself somehow.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
No, you don't. What kind of monster are you listen
to this? Would you?
Speaker 4 (26:04):
So?
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Where have all the good working men gone?
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Some are subsisting on government benefits, are living off their parents.
About seventeen percent of working age men are on Medicaid,
seventeen percent, seven and a half percent on food stamps,
and six point three percent on Social Security, many claiming
disability payouts.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
According to the Census Bureau.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Many spend their days playing video games and day trading, well,
day trading hilarious, speculating on meme stocks, or you tell
somebody your day trading.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
I don't know how often you're actually.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Trading and making any money because you don't want to
say I just play video games and live in my parents' basement,
so you say you're your day trader. So I don't
remember our good friend Craig the healthcare Genius's statistics. But
if I remember correctly, originally medicaid was only supposed to
cover like a tiny percentage people period.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Now it's covering percent.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Maybe now it's covering and that would have been like
the old and you know people that I got all
kinds of physical or mental problems. Now it's seventeen percent
of working age men, not like senior citizens.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
That's nice.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Yeah. A couple more stats. Other missing men are taking
longer to finish college or pursuing graduate degrees. Only about
forty one percent of men complete a bachelor's degree in
four years, even though study after study shows they don't teach.
You don't have to work. There's great inflation. It's dopey.
Only forty one percent and a quarter take more than
(27:33):
six years. Wow, because you're in no hurry to get
out of college. My dad used to comment about perpetual
college students. And I never really understood what he was
talking about. And I'm sure it was a small number
of people back when he was in college, but now
it is a lot.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Apparently. I'll just stay in college.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
I'll just keep borrowing money and because I'm too young
or unwise to understand what I'm doing, and I'll just
keep this game going of I get to sit around
with my friends and discuss the world without ever having
to engage in it.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Yeah, and I have disability.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
My thumb hurts on Thursdays, final stat Then.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
I will I will stop.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
We're just we are a fat, lazy, comfortable society. We're
headed to front denial, right, we are headed straight toward France.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
The unemployment rate Jack considered this among recent college grads
with a sociology degree is about seven percent, and their
medium wage, if they do have a gig, is forty
five thousand dollars according to the Federal Reserve Bank. Social
grads can earn twice as much working on an auto
assembly line, which pays an average hundred thousand dollars a year.
(28:43):
Good gig, but not many want it. The reality is
that masses a young people, writes Alicia Finley, who again
as a genius, has been taught that capitalism is exploitive.
They don't want to work in factories. They'd rather mooch
off taxpayers or their parents. How Karl Marx is that, Yes,
some of it is that, I'm sure, But I just
I think a lot of it is just the cultural
(29:04):
that would be embarrassing for your parents and for you
if you worked over at the whatever factory. Yeah, more
embarrassing in our current society than if you just live
at home and you know.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
You say you're a day trader.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
It shouldn't be more embarrassing to have a job at
a plant than to live with your parents, But I
think it is. Or having taken six years to get
an undergrad degree in gender studies, you're now getting a
master's degree in the theoretical decolonialization of art or whatever
the say sometimes. Thank for soft people, man. There is
(29:44):
no more iron law of humanity than that. I think
My kids, my two boys, are growing up in a
household where they hear me talk enough about this that
they realize that's uncool to not go out there and
get a job of some sort. I hope we got
Katie's headline. No, we already did that. We've got Joe's
bag on the way.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Stay here a.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Word.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
You're going to be hearing a lot more in coming years.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
De extinction, as they think they've pulled off the first
de extinction by bringing back the dire Wolf, which disappeared
thirty five thousand years ago thirty.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Five three free appearance on Game of Thrones. That's correct.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Ummah, so yeah, we'll talk about that maybe an hour
or two is no, oh, the lonesome cry of the
dire Wolf. Here's your freedom loving quote. It today sat
along by an alert listener whose name I do not recall,
and I apologize for that. I am incompetent and will
suffer the consequences thereof. But it's from an rand and
I quote Fascism and communism are not two opposites, but
(30:47):
two rival gangs fighting over the same territory based on
the collectivist principle that man is the rightless slave of
the state.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
I think she's absolutely right. It's the horseshoe theory. But yeah, yeah,
quite so.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Mailbag drop us a nowood jem mail bag at Armstrong
and Getty dot com. I have put aside some of
the impassioned, angry, idiotic emails about this, that, and the other,
just because I'd rather go with stuff that amuses me.
But I will tell you this, it's a little life
advice for it. You've probably heard many times, don't hit
send when you're angry, whether it's a text or an.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Email or whatever.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
And I think some people think that's because, well, it
might be hurtful to the other person, and it might
hurt our relationship, and blah blah blah, and all of
that is very true. The other un underappreciated aspect of
hitting sen when you're angry is that you come off
like a stupid child who can't control yourself. Even if
(31:45):
you're writing to a radio show, remember your name's attached
to that, and you come across as an angry adolescent
sputtering at their dad or mom.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
Okay, think about it before you hit send. Friends.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Moving along from first initial t trash in California, guys,
what really surprises me is the millions that are spent
of taxpayer money to run public service announcements for a
cleaner California.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Don't litter?
Speaker 1 (32:11):
Really, you tell me not to litter. You you allow
junkie camps to exist. Here's an idea, why not start
getting rid of the junkies in their camps. I couldn't
if I tried litter as much in my lifetime as
you know, the camp in the park with the tents
and all the crap, well right, and where those tax
(32:32):
dollars are spent in Sacramento, I can't remember. Katie had
a story a week or two ago about cleaning up
a junkie camp along the Sacramento River and they removed
three thousand tons of trash or whatever it is. And look,
I hate littering. I don't believe in throwing away so
much as a cigarette butter, a candy wrapper. But seriously,
(32:53):
you're gonna harangue me a taxpayer expense not to throw
away my gum wrapper. Well, you're allowing junkie camps to
unload thousands of tons by the river.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Moving along, Neil and Utah writes, guys, A long time
listening to My parents would listen to you and Jack.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
When I was in high school.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
I picked up your show listen regularly as a thirty
six year old.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Now, I know you think that's a nice thing to say,
but you're old. Get over it. But his.
Speaker 5 (33:49):
This is a coordinated monthly test of the emergency alert system.
Broadcasters in our area are testing the equipment that can
quickly warn you in the event of emergencies. If this
had been an actual emergen see such as flooding, high winds,
or a chemical spill, official messages would have followed this tone.
This station serves the Sacramento Valley and Sierra Nevada Foothill Counties.
(34:09):
This concludes this test of the emergency alert system.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
At least there was a noose in her son's bag.
So there's a doll and some sort of string that
seemed to be over the doll's head. First thing that
popped in my head. These are not toys, These are
something different. Tonny says she needs a support animal.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Yeah, people just looking to be outraged crazy. Oh that
one's so good, but it's a little long.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
The One More Thing podcast yesterday, I'm strung Getting One
more Thing. I talked about using Google Translate while standing
next to Spanish speakers.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
To see what they were saying.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
And is that pe perhaps out of boundser since they're
right there speaking within earshot.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
Is it okay?
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Garrick says, I'm a white guy who learns Spanish. So
whenever I'm around Mexicans I always tell them that I
know Spanish when they're speaking.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
It seems like the right thing to do.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Really, that's interesting, Psych, stop being a self hating white
boy Joe, So maybe he doesn't do that on all.
You feel like, are there people that feel like they
need to say, by the way, I speak Spanish?
Speaker 2 (35:19):
What?
Speaker 1 (35:20):
But Denny says Psych, So I don't know if that's
the opposite or all right, Okay, we got a lot
more on the way, including the return of the Dire Wolf,
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