December 26, 2025 • 35 mins
Featured in hour two of the Friday December 26, 2025 edition of The Armstrong & Getty Replay...
- Obamacare & costs of healthcare
- Jack's Argument at the Bank
- China rare earth minerals industry
- Tom Brady's cloned dog & the bidet
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty, Armstrong and Getty.
I know, Pee Armstrong and Getty Strong. We're at home
enjoying the gifts we got for Christmas. I got a
pony finally, so I've just been writing it all around
(00:22):
the house. I'm not gonna kid yet. I got to
post Christmas leuckdown. I'm down, man, I'm sad. I'm into
the nog heavily. Things are not going where I'm spiraling anyway.
Hope you're doing well. We've got some carefully selected curated
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Let's all enjoy it together.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Time magazine announced today that it's person of the Year
are the quote individuals who imagined, designed, and built AI.
Just think thanks to them, next year we won't need
a Person of the Year.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
That's pretty interesting. Yeah, what if the person of the
Year for ten years running is Ai chat bott Ephron,
who cured lung cancer. I think we got to shut
it down at that point. So, speaking of AI, Trump
with a big order yesterday to try to deregulate AI.
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Why this year alone, twenty twenty five, which is coming
to a close. All fifty states and territories, even our territories,
you too, GWAM. All fifty states and territories introduced AI legislation.
Thirty eight states adopted about one hundred laws, and because
of that, Trump signed an executive order denuter state AI laws,
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saying it's important for America to dominate AI. Any state
that does not overturn their laws or support the United State.
That this is in the quotes United States Global AI
Dominance Act, putting dozens of AI safety and consumer protection
laws at risk if states keep their laws in place
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that they already passed. Trump said he's going to direct
regulators to withhold funds for broadband and other projects. That's
the way the federal government forces you to do things.
They withhold funds. All right? That what do you call
it act that you just referred to? The United States
Global AI Dominance? What status is that at? Does it exist?
(02:21):
Has it been written as well for Congress? We're about
to find out. No, it's not before Congress. It's a
president thing. The order yesterday, which has sparked broad bipartisan opposition.
Lots of people both parties don't like. It is likely
to be challenged in court by states and consumer groups
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on the grounds that only Congress has the authority to
override state laws. Legal experts said, this is gonna be
damned interesting though, how much if we had done this
around and automobiles or the internet at the very beginning,
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or whatever else, how much would have it have slowed
down us being the global leader on those things. Yes,
I think and I absolutely stand ready to be corrected
on this, but I think this is a great example
of you know, the situation is people are very, very
worried about AHI, and they are looking to government to
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solve the problem, which in some cases is appropriate, often not,
but and their representative in the government are like, I
have no idea what to do, so we'll just do this.
Neither do they pass stuff that is half ridiculous, well right,
and is probably going to only handcuff us and actually
accomplish nothing in terms of making you safer, your money safer,
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the internet safer. Well, however you want to look at it.
So I follow a lot of conversations between doomers, which
I'm one of an acceleration lists, who say we need
to go full speed ahead to make sure we stay
ahead of China, and just because it's going to be
so great for everybody. But one of the arguments of
the accelerations is accelerationists is there there are no laws
you can pass that doesn't that make any sense? Certainly
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not yet. Nobody has any idea what we're even talking
about yet, right, yeah, well, plus you can pass every
law you want. I'm gonna ask night Chat GPT, Hey,
how do I get around this law? Great question, Joe,
you're so curious. Here's how you get around it. Just
rout you're saying through a blankety blanket, you know it is,
it's all performative. I think I think it is too.
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I think the broad bipartisan opposition is mostly like you said,
it's scared voters who have no idea what they're even
scared of, or any the slightest inkling, and nobody does
how you would regulate it, right, which is not to
discount people's concern I'm a right, right, yeah, well, okay,
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so you know it's funny. I just happened to read
a piece by the brilliant y've All Levin about why
Republicans lose every argument about health care costs, and it's
ironically convinced me that it's time to pull the plug
on the American democratic experiment while the patient is dead. Wow,
you're gonna put a pill over the face of democracy. Oh, no,
need to, no need to. It's it's dead. It's just
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being supported by machines. I'm sorry to break the news
to you, missus America. Yeah, yeah, you're your country is dead.
Not really, not really, who knows twists and turns keep
on coming. But he actually have stats on that, percentages
of people that think that we're like more or less
over versus dying, versus doing Okay, I have stats on
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that coming up from a new pool. Yeah, I'll just
hit you with a couple of sentences from that piece
about healthcare, which is I was just reminded of confusing
and frightening but very important political discussions that end up
being really dumb. Is our theme. Uh, you've all writes
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this is where politics gum things up talking about Well, anyway,
the fact is most of us don't actually want a
lot of choice when it comes to healthcare. We just
want to believe that everything is paid for. That creates
an incentive to hide costs by routing most payments through
insurers or government, which sustains the illusion that everything is
free to the consumer. This has yielded a healthcare system
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without real prices, which is something we've talked about many times.
That sentence in there, I realize that's true. But if
people think stuff, anything you get is free, well then
we just have a dumb populace. Correct. You can't get
past that. That's the problem. How do you think anything
could be free if I was going to be more
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charitable for once in my life. Yeah, well, I would
say the practically the entire political structure of our country
at this point. Both parties have convinced people that to
what comes from the government is free and that they
have a right to it. Where there are just enough
billionaires to fund all of this if they pay their
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there but anyway, so back to Levin's point that this
sustains the illusion that everything is free to the consumer.
This has yielded a healthcare system without real prices and
therefore without enough pressure to restrain spending. In turn, that's
led to ever rising costs paid for by ever rising subsidies.
It's one of the main reasons we're so deep in
debt anyway, he writes for decades, this is meant that
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health policy proposals that make economic sense do not make
political sense, and vice versa. And so Democrats have responded
to the problem by leaning into the political logic and
proposing endless subsidies. And it is much more appealing to
voters than saying whoa, whoa, Well, here are the problems
with this model. Here's why we need a reform at plumpt.
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It just you can't get it through a democracy, which
I realized is incredibly discouraging. Sometimes realism is discouraging. But yeah,
oof oof, where do we go from here? We do
need to get Craig, the healthcare guru on in the
new year to talk about the status things. I think
because it's it's intimidating and confusing and depressing and discouraging,
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but it's something we all are involved in. It's not
like hearing some sort of legislation about oil rigs in
the Gulf of America. I mean, you think, yeah, I
get oil on them. No, everybody's fundamentally involved in healthcare.
So it's very very important to I have, like the
majority of Americans have healthcare through my employer and once
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you get past the deductible, I'm pretty happy with it.
Like I picked up a whole bunch of prescriptions at
the pharmacy the other day and the total was like
two dollars and forty cents for like six things. I
always say, that's outrageous, and I get a laugh out
of the hilarious pharmacist girl. But it's amazed by that.
But here in a couple of weeks, it'll be January
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first and we all get to experience that hole. You
go to the pharmacy or the first doctor appointment and
you get hit with this insane bill. It's like, oh,
that's right, my five thousand dollar deductible hasn't been met
yet for the year, right, And plenty of employers are
out there saying, oh yeah, and I'm kicking in X
amount every single month on your healthcare. That that prescription
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wasn't two and forty cents, those three hundred and seventy
five dollars, you idiot, like a slap stamps anyway, because
nobody sees the prices. It's crazy. I get surprised every
year when I go to pick up one prescription for
my son and it's like one hundred and eighty dollars.
What you haven't inture deductible yet? Right, So here's a
question for you on air meeting. I'm gonna phrase this
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in one of the one of the ways I hate
the most, take the Joe Getty challenge. Do you have
the guts to take on these stories? Oh my god,
I know how annoying is that. It was adding, Yeah,
uh so headline from the Free Press the base is
(09:55):
done with Maga. It wants America. First. She went to
Marjorie Taylor Green's district in Georgia and talk to lots
and lots of voters and they are over Donald j. Yeah.
Well did you read or maybe you were about to
say that? Ah, Peggy Newman, Yeah yeah. Rum may be
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losing his touch. At the end of his eleventh month.
He's surrounded by moodshifts, challenges, an ominous sign well, particularly
her talking about how Marjorie Taylor Green may have signaled
to everybody you can challenge the king and survive. She's
doing better for herself than she probably ever has. Got
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the sixty minutes piece, She's getting lots of news coverage
and all that sort of stuff. She hasn't been you know, ruined.
Oh no, no, yeah, Peggy refers to it as a
jail break moment. Yeah, when everybody realized, oh my gosh,
you can defy the warden. Right, yeah, exactly, So why
don't we get into that next hour? And here's you know,
(10:58):
just in case that concerns you. We I are here
neither to lavish praise and lick the boots of Donald J. Trump,
nor automatically run down everything he does. It's it's life
is much more interesting if you just try to take
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in reality and understand what's happening. In my opinion, and
I think his ship is headed for the shoals, I
really do. Is that only a figure of speech or
was there a point where you had to lick people's boots?
It's got to have come from something. I'd hate to
have to do that. Uh yeah, if you are ordered
to lick my boots clean, I would say that's a
bit of a statement of Donald's. That is a bit
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of a humiliation. Yes, indeed, you it was right, Wake
up and smell the leather, Jack Armstrong and Joe Armstrong
and Getty show the Armstrong and getting shot. So my
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thirteen year old, and it matters what his age is
apparently wanted to open a checking account at the bank
or an account at the bank because he's got enough
money built up from allowances and birthdays and Christmases, and
he doesn't spend his money like his brother does. He
saves it because he wants to be able to put
it toward a car someday and that sort of thing.
So he's got a decent sized chunk of money added
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up over the years, and he'd been keeping it in
his shoe box, and so he's going to open an account.
And I remember when I opened an account when I
was probably about his age. I started mowing lawns when
I was twelve thirteen and accumulating money and opening a
bank account. On the way to the bank, I did
say to him, I said, you know, I haven't been
around the idea of opening an account for a bank
in forty years something like that. So I don't know
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if the rules have changed, but so in case something happens,
but anyway, we should we get it there sure enough.
And so we're trying to open this account and everything
like that. And first of all, many banks everything is
I don't know if it's because the government comes down
on them. So hard or something like that. They treat
everybody like you're a want to be terrorist. Like everything
you do it's like, jeez, lighten up. But anyway, he
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needs to have two forms of ID. Is where we
ran into the roadblock. I said, what is a form
of ID for a thirteen year old? He said, and
they said, well, your Social Security card is birth certificate? Okay, great,
So I said, the fact that I'm his dad isn't
good enough. I can't vouch for the fact that he's
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my son. And I have an account here and have
had for twenty five years and open an account for him.
I can't do that, and no, we need to. And
I said, is that a bank policy or a state
law or what is that? Because I was thinking if
it's a bank policy, I'll go to a different bank.
But it's a federal law. It's part of the patrioarch.
I said, oh, of course, and he said, well, it's
a federal I said, you don't need to explain the
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federal government to me. And I hate the federal government,
I said. And then the guy looked at me like
I was Oh. He got wide eyed, like, oh, you're
one of those people. You're Timothy McVeigh. You're you're you're
one of those people. Yeah, clearly I've heard about them.
I said, I hate the federal government. The Patriot Act's ridiculous.
This is ridiculous. The fact that I can't open a
bank account for a thirteen year old, and as his parent,
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I got I gotta prove who he is because you
can't take my word for the fact that he's my child,
makes me child money laundering, little mule for your militia,
whatever you want to call him. The Patriot Act was
so much I was trying to explain it to Enry.
Was so much crap that they jammed through. It's all
because of nine to eleven. So you're gonna stop the
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next nine to eleven by making sure thirteen year olds
don't open illegal bank accounts. I guess whatever, even though
their parent, who you know, is sitting right there. I
hate stuff like that and the and the but they
were there. Their eyes got so wide when I hate
said I hate the federal government. And I was thinking
if I was doing this same thing in my and
my where I went to college in Hayes, Kansas, and
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I said I hate the federal government, the teller would
have said, yeah, me too. Don't you high five? Jock
came end of that. Brother, but that just being oh
my god, you shouldn't she said. Oh she gasped. The
woman gasped, and her boss just looked at me white.
I'd like, oh, were we about to have a fight?
Oh man, you have to have two pieces of id
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even though he's my kid. I just found that amazing.
All right, here's here's the guy who retweets my quotes.
Get ready to jot this one down and get it right?
Would you? Anytime the government says there's an emergency, there
are two emergencies. Yeah, but actually exactly. And I actually
told my son because he was one, and he was relayed, like,
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is that something you can't say out loud? I said,
I told him. The most revered Republican president of the
last maybe century, Ronald Reagan, ran on the scariest words
in the English language are I'm here from I'm from
the government, and I'm here to help you. I mean,
he ran on, I hate the government or I just
saw clip this morning. The government isn't the solution. Government
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is the problem. And the woman who was typing furiously
after I said that, because she was so horrified that
anybody would say that. I said, you know, all the
money in my account. I made that by going on
the radio every day and saying I hate the government.
Living by the way, if the Justice Department is listening,
or the FDIC, right, the CIA, the NSA, if I'm
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happy to testify against this monster, I'm sure I'm on
some sort of terrorist watch list now, yes, Michael, So
wonder they didn't hit the silent alarm on you and
then you know, cops show up or something. I would
be I would have loved to talk to people and
explain why it's okay for me to say I hate
the government. No, no, no, We've got to surveill him
for a while and go through his mail and monitor
his phone calls. We've got the NSA working on it already.
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What I hate is the manager guy acting like it
makes sense that we have a law that I can't
vouch for my kid being my kid. That seems perfectly
reasonable to me. Two forms of ID for a child
right when their parents is there. I thought, he says
his name, then I say his name? Is that two
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forms of ID? And it's not What the hell has
the world becau? I know, Jack Armstrong and Joe the
Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
The irony of the message is pretty clear for everyone.
If President Trump was a king, the government would be
open right now. If President Trump was a king, they
would not have been able to engage in that free
speech exercise out on the mall by the way, which
was open, because President Trump hasn't closed it. So I
mean it's they needed a stunt, They needed a show.
Chuck Schumer has needs cover right now. He's closed the
government down because he needs political cover, and this was a.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Part of it. That's a pretty decent point. I'd forgotten
the shutdown was going on. I believe he forgot hell
yeah right. And if Trump was a king, he could
also do something pretty quickly about our vulnerability to China
in the whole world of rare earth materials. This is
really an interesting quandary for a free society and people
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who prize the free markets. So as recently as nineteen
ninety one, the US led the world in the production
of rare earth minerals, partly because we had a giant
mine in California Mountain Pass. But when China faked out
the US and said we're just a poor developing country,
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and I don't know, maybe communism isn't so great, and
maybe we could be friends, and maybe if you help
us build our economy will become more like a democracy.
Completely duped us for decades. Read Michael Pillsbury's one hundred
Year Marathons brilliant really describes it. But one of the
things they did was they poured government money into their
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rare earth mining and refining operations, and then when anybody
in the West, like the US, tried to compete, they
dumped their goods the supplies into the market, just crushed
the market, and so our companies went out of business
or sold themselves to Chinese entities, and then China consolidated.
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There are hundreds of rare earth companies into a few
super giant powerhouses that could work with the communist Chinese.
And so even now as we're trying to resurrect our
domestic rare earth industry, China is doing. It's using all
the levers a dictatorship can to try to crush that.
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And so the US is going to have to take
the US government, it's going to have to take probably
a more and more activist goal role rather in fulfilling
the goal of building up our domestic capabilities. And you know,
Trump's already got big investments in various companies whatever the
hell that means, and we might have to get into
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these quasi public private partnerships that are really really unhealthy
for a system like ours. For reasons I could drone
on about, but the point is when you have the
government controlling billions and trillions of dollars worth of industry,
then you get a situation where it's just asking for
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good governance that has anything to do with the needs
of the people. Forget it. There's too much money at stake.
But you can't let your number one enemy control the
entire supply klonamdium or whatever red metal is important. Oh yeah,
I'm glad you brought that up, because they could crash
the stock market in a day. Oh they could bring
all of our car companies and most of our tech
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companies to their knees in a day if they were
to announce, Hey, by the way, you can't buy any
of this stuff fu which is why China enacted some
new restrictions. I'm not going to describe them because it's
kind of technical and boring, but they essentially said, yeah,
we're going to make it a lot hot for y'all
to get this stuff. And Trump that's when he responded
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with one hundred percent tearoff on on bunches of Chinese
goods or all Chinese goods that I can't remember everything,
because that's I mean, they have us buy the you know,
use whatever descriptor you prefer. We are in a terribly
vulnerable spot. So what do we do. The sack that's
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a good one. They got us buy the sack, the nerds,
the nagils. Sure, yeah, it's when I heard it come
out of my mouth. Yeah, yeah, perhaps a little restraint,
I don't know. Uh So, one of the aspects of
this that's so annoying to me, well two of them.
Every time we in the past, pre Trump and for
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all my problems with Trump, he was the guy who said,
China's screwing us. Why are we letting them? Anyway? Every
time past administrations would go to China and say, hey,
y'all are dumping uh made a home and made up
Tonia into the market, and you're killing us, and they
would turn out their pockets and say, oh, we're a
poor developing economy. You've got to let us do this
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for a while, just till we're up on our feet.
Then we'll compete fairly. Oh okay, China, so long as
you promise us you're reforming. Oh, we're reforming, they would say.
And so we just got caught with our pants down,
and now we're again incredibly vulnerable. And oh the other
aspect of China that is a hole. You know what.
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Our guy is asleep at the switch there he is.
He was taking a smoke break. He smokes a lot.
I'm worried about him. But one of the aspects of
it that bothers me so much is and the whole
woke environmental thing. And there's there's smart, reasonable environmentalism, then
there's the Gavin Newsome woke crap. And what annoys me.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
So much is we still use every bit as much oil,
we still use every bit as much natural gas, and
every bit as much of these rare earth minerals, but
we have third world countries mine it and refine it
for us, so we can tiptoe around in our white
gloves and say, look how clean we are. We don't
rape the environment by mining these materials, No, we just
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use them and let somebody who's way less concerned about
the environment, get them for us. That's the opposite of
being an environmentalist, you flame and blanket hypocrites.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
So China, trust me. They know the hole they have
over us, and they're not going to let it go easily.
And so what do we do as a government? I
don't know, Jack, Do you have the answer? Do we
build up us? Did you say it's a condom conundrum?
Why would I say it's a condom? It sounded like condom.
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It's your idiotic adolescent choe. No, well I didn't. I
said it's conundrum, which is a perfectly so you claim.
So you claim anyway, ter go to my doctor and
get my ears de waxed again. Where was I? Oh,
you know Uncle Sam's mining. Do we have a government
controlled giant mining apparatus? Or do we actually have the
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government pick winners and losers and invest in giant companies
that can get us back to self sufficiency. It's it's
a tough one. Yeah. We painted ourselves into a strategic
corner through the naivete of the past. And Trump's supposed
to meet with the President Shee at some point here
and soon. I guess I don't know our frenemies the
Chinese you might be meeting with He might be meeting
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with Putin soon. They announced that last week and they're
trying to put that together. Take going to turn the
screws on Putin? Trump? Yeah, if you can explain that
to me, I'm interested. I'm hoping there's something behind the
scenes we don't know about, because the stuff that's on
the face of it is he pressured the hell out
of Zelensky over the weekend. He talked about it last
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night on the plane that Zolensky's got to give up
the don Bass region, that's the Denetsk basin don Bass,
big chunk of Ukraine that Russia has taken chunks of.
And uh and Trump really pressured Zelensky to give up
on that, saying no to the Tomahawk missiles. And when
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does he ever pressure Putin? Does that happen? And why not?
He pressured Netan Yahoo? I mean, that's all the credit
everybody gave him for making this amazing Middle East piece
deals that he pressured both sides. Does he pressure Putin ever? Well?
He I think why not? Out of the point it's
much more, you know, the pressure on net and Yahoo existed,
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but he exercised well, he enacted the policy that all right,
you've gotten intransigent, you know, a party to these negotiations,
put maximum pressure on him. Take out Foordoh. Let the
Israelis drop a bomb in Dohar, you know, kill off Hesbala,
kill off Amas, go into god A city. Maximum pressure.
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It's worked a couple of times now. But with Putin
it's kid gloves. And by the way, don't give me
well he has nukes, world War three, blah blah blah.
You lost the right to make that argument. What Tucker
Carlson said bombing the Fodoh plant would lead to World
War three? Please? It led to a whimpering and just
ballless Iran begging for mercy. I finished the Tucker Carlson
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fourth episode of the World Trade Center nine to eleven documentary.
Oh oh boy, here's a hint. It's the Jews. But uh,
was I going to say about not the people who
are swearing for decades that they would kill us and
we know them by name and right, yes, had something
else I was going to say about Putin or whatever?
So the Financial Times was reporting that Trump and Zelensky
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were shouting at each other in their Oval office meeting
on Friday, and when Trump finally decided nan not giving
tomahawks to you, why, I don't know. That seemed like
that was the direction is going. But anyway, Ran Paul
was on one of the talk shows yesterday and he said,
people keep talking about sticks, how about carrots? We're hitting
them with pretty hard sanctions right now. I don't what
if we tell Russia will release all these sanctions if
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you end the war, which of course will be criticized
by some as rewarding a completely illegal move of just
attacking the country next to you and taking their land.
But correct, it would end the war, could end the war?
M No, got it. I don't think it would. It
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would not end Russian aggression in any way. Lost it
for appearances, you'd have to put some sort of peacekeeping
forces in there. Trigger Listen, would you take from that?
If you were putin I would get my ducks back
in a row and take more land, take Estonia.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
The message is you push hard enough, the West backs
down and gives you what you want. Yeah. Well, the
reason I wasn't gonna give you Johnny the candy, but
he threw a tantrum. I'm sure it won't happen again,
right exactly, So similar to the Middle East. Is this
the thing with Russia and Ukraine. Who's going to be
the international force that keeps things in place there in Gaza?
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Who's gonna put troops on the ground or whatever? And
then that it would be the day after situation Russia Ukraine,
if you come to some sort of agreement, who's going
to be the force that keeps the agreement. These questions
have not been answered. Yeah, it's still it seems like
it's thin ice to me. But we'll see. There are
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twists in the road ahead. Everybody knew it. Brief version
is because I want to be I want to be
helping Ukraine. More very brief version is Trump was talking
really tough about sending tomahawks and all these different things,
spent two hours in the phone with Putin and then
seemed to flip completely back over to that side. Again.
That's what it looked like to me. So Putin may
be the greatest manipulator currently doing business on the planet,
or Trump just really likes being his friend or something,
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And I'm not exactly sure what that is. I hope
that's it's not the case. I suspect it may be yikes, yeah, okay,
here we go. Tom Brady's cloned dog.
Speaker 5 (29:12):
The revelation from Tom Brady about his family pet. The
former NFL star says his new dog, Juni, is a
clone of his previous dog, Lua, who died in twenty
twenty three. Brady says he worked with a biotech company
he has invested in to clone his beloved pit bull
mix using a blood sample collected while Lua was alive.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
First of all, it's a publicity stunt for this company
he's invested in place. Your beloved family dog was a
pit bull mix. You're freaking Tom Brady. What are you
doing getting pit bull mixes for the family dog? An?
That was the last straw why Giselle dumped him. Could
be any who Katie, you love your dog, Joe loves
(29:54):
his dog. Michael's got cats? Yeah, hey, hey, what that
was speciesist? Michael. I'm standing up for you. I'm not
going to have this, this casual derision of your lifestyle choices.
I'm not allowed to say Michael has cats. It was
the way you said it. I didn't notice it. Michael
(30:15):
less cats. How do we feel about the need to
clone our dog because we like the current one so
much now, no beer than idiotic. I thought you might
be a yes on that, Katie, now because it's not
the same dog. Ah, you are well read enough on
this topic to realize, yes, it is not the same dog.
(30:37):
It will not behave the same It's well, it's not
the same dog, period. You don't even really need anything
after that. It's not the same dog. But it's a
particular source of self indulgent more money than sense madness.
And that's that's the one chink in the armor of
my hero Javier Milai. Didn't he clone his dog five
He's got the city, He had a favorite dog, and
(30:58):
he's got five of exactly this and no kids. So
that is weird thing about it. But anyway, I don't
want get hung up on that any port in a storm.
So yeah, and Tom Brady's invested in this corporation that
will do it. And from what I understand, I have
no idea how true this is, particularly among the wealthy.
Cloning their beloved fufu who passed away is a thing
(31:22):
because you're stupid and think it's going to be the
same dog. It's a weird sort of conceit to think
that foofu was just so special. She was the most
special dog ever. I mean, I've got to say that.
Because I'm a rich person, I can't say, you know,
the dogs are great. The dog's a dog. The next
one will be as good as this one. From them,
No no, no, no, no no, yeah, go save another dog.
(31:45):
Hit the shelter. That's a good way ball mix. There's
plenty of them, no kidding them, yeah, no kidding. Dog.
Do you serve a three hundred and fifty dollars bottle
of wine when there are plenty of seventy five dollars
bottles that Everybody's good. It's the same answer to a
different question to show showing how rich you are, don't you,
uh yeah, no kidding, Particularly in Tom Brady's case. You
(32:07):
need a pit bull mix, go to your local shelter,
maybe not where he lives, but drive a little further
outside of town from where you live and go to
a shelter. There are lots of pit bull mixes, oh
plenty to choose from. Yeah, but that's part of the
way I stay down on earth is though I am
fabulously wealthy, I generally drink prison toilet pruno. I've got well,
(32:27):
I've got it my own you know Pruno toilet that
I use. We don't use it for anything but a
production of my prison style wine. It's not a multi
It keeps me connected to you common people. You know
that reminds me. You're a I'm choking. You're a fan
of speaking of being fancy. You're a fan of the bidet.
Oh yes, I am and uh I the house I
(32:48):
moved into it has a bidat in my bathroom and
I'm an actual bidet. You're like the seat of the
day seat on top of your toilet that one okay
of a day is a step thing, right yeah? Yeah?
Formally speaking, I stayed in a European hotel and it
had the separate thing and I never used it and
you gotta hop on over to use it. It's ridiculous.
(33:11):
But I got the bidet thing that this is. Isn't
that what most people get for a day? Yeah? What's that? Exactly?
The attachment? The attachment? Okay, but I've never used it
and I just have never even thought about figure. There's
no instruction manual, and I don't want you know, uh,
water up my you hoo if I if I don't
know what I'm doing. Electric che but I'm not gonna
(33:36):
yield your money if the electricity burns me, blinds me.
Come on, here? Is that Jack's got a you? Who?
That was new? I like joke comparing bidets to electricity. Yeah,
in terms of a look at you? What do you
think it's gonna blast you junk off or something. I'm
gonna try you a coward. I'm afraid I'll like it.
(33:57):
You won't be able to get me out of there. Yeah,
So I don't know. I really I just don't know
how to use it, and I don't know who I
would ask? Can you come into my toilet and show
me how to use this? As I ask Groc? Right
and have that record preserved forever? But what what? What's
(34:18):
your hesitance here to? Like ask the internet? Or what
brand is it? There's a number of knobs and buttons,
and I just don't know what I'm doing. You take
a picture of it, send it to Groc and say
how do I use this thing? And I'm flipping sixty
years old. I've lived my whole life without one, and
it's been fine. Although you say it's a damn pin
of shilling, I'm not using not it's your mid section
(34:41):
it's new fangled. I've lived sixty years old, as tell
me about it. I not use no new fangle drugs. Okay,
now comparing penicillin to a biday, which is apt comparison,
of course? Right where were we? Well? Certain stuff that discussed.
(35:02):
Is it just I've powerwashed many things in my life.
I used to when I worked at the feed lot,
I was regularly power washing things. Is that basically what
you're doing? You're power washing your undercarriage? Well right with
the uh the water pressure appropriately dialed back. You're not
taking the paint off the quarter panel and an old Chrysler.
You're you're indeed just cleansing your your nether regions. Yes,
(35:24):
and again, what if I like it so much? You
can't get me out of there? Dad, we're hungry. I
don't care. I am staying here as long as we
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Speaker 2 (00:40):
Time magazine announced today that it's person of the Year
are the quote individuals who imagined, designed, and built AI.
Just think thanks to them, next year we won't need
a Person of the Year.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
That's pretty interesting. Yeah, what if the person of the
Year for ten years running is Ai chat bott Ephron,
who cured lung cancer. I think we got to shut
it down at that point. So, speaking of AI, Trump
with a big order yesterday to try to deregulate AI.
(01:13):
Why this year alone, twenty twenty five, which is coming
to a close. All fifty states and territories, even our territories,
you too, GWAM. All fifty states and territories introduced AI legislation.
Thirty eight states adopted about one hundred laws, and because
of that, Trump signed an executive order denuter state AI laws,
(01:38):
saying it's important for America to dominate AI. Any state
that does not overturn their laws or support the United State.
That this is in the quotes United States Global AI
Dominance Act, putting dozens of AI safety and consumer protection
laws at risk if states keep their laws in place
(01:59):
that they already passed. Trump said he's going to direct
regulators to withhold funds for broadband and other projects. That's
the way the federal government forces you to do things.
They withhold funds. All right? That what do you call
it act that you just referred to? The United States
Global AI Dominance? What status is that at? Does it exist?
(02:21):
Has it been written as well for Congress? We're about
to find out. No, it's not before Congress. It's a
president thing. The order yesterday, which has sparked broad bipartisan opposition.
Lots of people both parties don't like. It is likely
to be challenged in court by states and consumer groups
(02:42):
on the grounds that only Congress has the authority to
override state laws. Legal experts said, this is gonna be
damned interesting though, how much if we had done this
around and automobiles or the internet at the very beginning,
(03:04):
or whatever else, how much would have it have slowed
down us being the global leader on those things. Yes,
I think and I absolutely stand ready to be corrected
on this, but I think this is a great example
of you know, the situation is people are very, very
worried about AHI, and they are looking to government to
(03:26):
solve the problem, which in some cases is appropriate, often not,
but and their representative in the government are like, I
have no idea what to do, so we'll just do this.
Neither do they pass stuff that is half ridiculous, well right,
and is probably going to only handcuff us and actually
accomplish nothing in terms of making you safer, your money safer,
(03:47):
the internet safer. Well, however you want to look at it.
So I follow a lot of conversations between doomers, which
I'm one of an acceleration lists, who say we need
to go full speed ahead to make sure we stay
ahead of China, and just because it's going to be
so great for everybody. But one of the arguments of
the accelerations is accelerationists is there there are no laws
you can pass that doesn't that make any sense? Certainly
(04:11):
not yet. Nobody has any idea what we're even talking
about yet, right, yeah, well, plus you can pass every
law you want. I'm gonna ask night Chat GPT, Hey,
how do I get around this law? Great question, Joe,
you're so curious. Here's how you get around it. Just
rout you're saying through a blankety blanket, you know it is,
it's all performative. I think I think it is too.
(04:32):
I think the broad bipartisan opposition is mostly like you said,
it's scared voters who have no idea what they're even
scared of, or any the slightest inkling, and nobody does
how you would regulate it, right, which is not to
discount people's concern I'm a right, right, yeah, well, okay,
(04:53):
so you know it's funny. I just happened to read
a piece by the brilliant y've All Levin about why
Republicans lose every argument about health care costs, and it's
ironically convinced me that it's time to pull the plug
on the American democratic experiment while the patient is dead. Wow,
you're gonna put a pill over the face of democracy. Oh, no,
need to, no need to. It's it's dead. It's just
(05:15):
being supported by machines. I'm sorry to break the news
to you, missus America. Yeah, yeah, you're your country is dead.
Not really, not really, who knows twists and turns keep
on coming. But he actually have stats on that, percentages
of people that think that we're like more or less
over versus dying, versus doing Okay, I have stats on
(05:37):
that coming up from a new pool. Yeah, I'll just
hit you with a couple of sentences from that piece
about healthcare, which is I was just reminded of confusing
and frightening but very important political discussions that end up
being really dumb. Is our theme. Uh, you've all writes
(05:57):
this is where politics gum things up talking about Well, anyway,
the fact is most of us don't actually want a
lot of choice when it comes to healthcare. We just
want to believe that everything is paid for. That creates
an incentive to hide costs by routing most payments through
insurers or government, which sustains the illusion that everything is
free to the consumer. This has yielded a healthcare system
(06:18):
without real prices, which is something we've talked about many times.
That sentence in there, I realize that's true. But if
people think stuff, anything you get is free, well then
we just have a dumb populace. Correct. You can't get
past that. That's the problem. How do you think anything
could be free if I was going to be more
(06:38):
charitable for once in my life. Yeah, well, I would
say the practically the entire political structure of our country
at this point. Both parties have convinced people that to
what comes from the government is free and that they
have a right to it. Where there are just enough
billionaires to fund all of this if they pay their
(06:59):
there but anyway, so back to Levin's point that this
sustains the illusion that everything is free to the consumer.
This has yielded a healthcare system without real prices and
therefore without enough pressure to restrain spending. In turn, that's
led to ever rising costs paid for by ever rising subsidies.
It's one of the main reasons we're so deep in
debt anyway, he writes for decades, this is meant that
(07:21):
health policy proposals that make economic sense do not make
political sense, and vice versa. And so Democrats have responded
to the problem by leaning into the political logic and
proposing endless subsidies. And it is much more appealing to
voters than saying whoa, whoa, Well, here are the problems
with this model. Here's why we need a reform at plumpt.
(07:41):
It just you can't get it through a democracy, which
I realized is incredibly discouraging. Sometimes realism is discouraging. But yeah,
oof oof, where do we go from here? We do
need to get Craig, the healthcare guru on in the
new year to talk about the status things. I think
because it's it's intimidating and confusing and depressing and discouraging,
(08:06):
but it's something we all are involved in. It's not
like hearing some sort of legislation about oil rigs in
the Gulf of America. I mean, you think, yeah, I
get oil on them. No, everybody's fundamentally involved in healthcare.
So it's very very important to I have, like the
majority of Americans have healthcare through my employer and once
(08:29):
you get past the deductible, I'm pretty happy with it.
Like I picked up a whole bunch of prescriptions at
the pharmacy the other day and the total was like
two dollars and forty cents for like six things. I
always say, that's outrageous, and I get a laugh out
of the hilarious pharmacist girl. But it's amazed by that.
But here in a couple of weeks, it'll be January
(08:51):
first and we all get to experience that hole. You
go to the pharmacy or the first doctor appointment and
you get hit with this insane bill. It's like, oh,
that's right, my five thousand dollar deductible hasn't been met
yet for the year, right, And plenty of employers are
out there saying, oh yeah, and I'm kicking in X
amount every single month on your healthcare. That that prescription
(09:11):
wasn't two and forty cents, those three hundred and seventy
five dollars, you idiot, like a slap stamps anyway, because
nobody sees the prices. It's crazy. I get surprised every
year when I go to pick up one prescription for
my son and it's like one hundred and eighty dollars.
What you haven't inture deductible yet? Right, So here's a
question for you on air meeting. I'm gonna phrase this
(09:34):
in one of the one of the ways I hate
the most, take the Joe Getty challenge. Do you have
the guts to take on these stories? Oh my god,
I know how annoying is that. It was adding, Yeah,
uh so headline from the Free Press the base is
(09:55):
done with Maga. It wants America. First. She went to
Marjorie Taylor Green's district in Georgia and talk to lots
and lots of voters and they are over Donald j. Yeah.
Well did you read or maybe you were about to
say that? Ah, Peggy Newman, Yeah yeah. Rum may be
(10:17):
losing his touch. At the end of his eleventh month.
He's surrounded by moodshifts, challenges, an ominous sign well, particularly
her talking about how Marjorie Taylor Green may have signaled
to everybody you can challenge the king and survive. She's
doing better for herself than she probably ever has. Got
(10:38):
the sixty minutes piece, She's getting lots of news coverage
and all that sort of stuff. She hasn't been you know, ruined.
Oh no, no, yeah, Peggy refers to it as a
jail break moment. Yeah, when everybody realized, oh my gosh,
you can defy the warden. Right, yeah, exactly, So why
don't we get into that next hour? And here's you know,
(10:58):
just in case that concerns you. We I are here
neither to lavish praise and lick the boots of Donald J. Trump,
nor automatically run down everything he does. It's it's life
is much more interesting if you just try to take
(11:19):
in reality and understand what's happening. In my opinion, and
I think his ship is headed for the shoals, I
really do. Is that only a figure of speech or
was there a point where you had to lick people's boots?
It's got to have come from something. I'd hate to
have to do that. Uh yeah, if you are ordered
to lick my boots clean, I would say that's a
bit of a statement of Donald's. That is a bit
(11:42):
of a humiliation. Yes, indeed, you it was right, Wake
up and smell the leather, Jack Armstrong and Joe Armstrong
and Getty show the Armstrong and getting shot. So my
(12:03):
thirteen year old, and it matters what his age is
apparently wanted to open a checking account at the bank
or an account at the bank because he's got enough
money built up from allowances and birthdays and Christmases, and
he doesn't spend his money like his brother does. He
saves it because he wants to be able to put
it toward a car someday and that sort of thing.
So he's got a decent sized chunk of money added
(12:25):
up over the years, and he'd been keeping it in
his shoe box, and so he's going to open an account.
And I remember when I opened an account when I
was probably about his age. I started mowing lawns when
I was twelve thirteen and accumulating money and opening a
bank account. On the way to the bank, I did
say to him, I said, you know, I haven't been
around the idea of opening an account for a bank
in forty years something like that. So I don't know
(12:49):
if the rules have changed, but so in case something happens,
but anyway, we should we get it there sure enough.
And so we're trying to open this account and everything
like that. And first of all, many banks everything is
I don't know if it's because the government comes down
on them. So hard or something like that. They treat
everybody like you're a want to be terrorist. Like everything
you do it's like, jeez, lighten up. But anyway, he
(13:12):
needs to have two forms of ID. Is where we
ran into the roadblock. I said, what is a form
of ID for a thirteen year old? He said, and
they said, well, your Social Security card is birth certificate? Okay, great,
So I said, the fact that I'm his dad isn't
good enough. I can't vouch for the fact that he's
(13:32):
my son. And I have an account here and have
had for twenty five years and open an account for him.
I can't do that, and no, we need to. And
I said, is that a bank policy or a state
law or what is that? Because I was thinking if
it's a bank policy, I'll go to a different bank.
But it's a federal law. It's part of the patrioarch.
I said, oh, of course, and he said, well, it's
a federal I said, you don't need to explain the
(13:53):
federal government to me. And I hate the federal government,
I said. And then the guy looked at me like
I was Oh. He got wide eyed, like, oh, you're
one of those people. You're Timothy McVeigh. You're you're you're
one of those people. Yeah, clearly I've heard about them.
I said, I hate the federal government. The Patriot Act's ridiculous.
This is ridiculous. The fact that I can't open a
bank account for a thirteen year old, and as his parent,
(14:16):
I got I gotta prove who he is because you
can't take my word for the fact that he's my child,
makes me child money laundering, little mule for your militia,
whatever you want to call him. The Patriot Act was
so much I was trying to explain it to Enry.
Was so much crap that they jammed through. It's all
because of nine to eleven. So you're gonna stop the
(14:38):
next nine to eleven by making sure thirteen year olds
don't open illegal bank accounts. I guess whatever, even though
their parent, who you know, is sitting right there. I
hate stuff like that and the and the but they
were there. Their eyes got so wide when I hate
said I hate the federal government. And I was thinking
if I was doing this same thing in my and
my where I went to college in Hayes, Kansas, and
(15:00):
I said I hate the federal government, the teller would
have said, yeah, me too. Don't you high five? Jock
came end of that. Brother, but that just being oh
my god, you shouldn't she said. Oh she gasped. The
woman gasped, and her boss just looked at me white.
I'd like, oh, were we about to have a fight?
Oh man, you have to have two pieces of id
(15:25):
even though he's my kid. I just found that amazing.
All right, here's here's the guy who retweets my quotes.
Get ready to jot this one down and get it right?
Would you? Anytime the government says there's an emergency, there
are two emergencies. Yeah, but actually exactly. And I actually
told my son because he was one, and he was relayed, like,
(15:47):
is that something you can't say out loud? I said,
I told him. The most revered Republican president of the
last maybe century, Ronald Reagan, ran on the scariest words
in the English language are I'm here from I'm from
the government, and I'm here to help you. I mean,
he ran on, I hate the government or I just
saw clip this morning. The government isn't the solution. Government
(16:08):
is the problem. And the woman who was typing furiously
after I said that, because she was so horrified that
anybody would say that. I said, you know, all the
money in my account. I made that by going on
the radio every day and saying I hate the government.
Living by the way, if the Justice Department is listening,
or the FDIC, right, the CIA, the NSA, if I'm
(16:34):
happy to testify against this monster, I'm sure I'm on
some sort of terrorist watch list now, yes, Michael, So
wonder they didn't hit the silent alarm on you and
then you know, cops show up or something. I would
be I would have loved to talk to people and
explain why it's okay for me to say I hate
the government. No, no, no, We've got to surveill him
for a while and go through his mail and monitor
his phone calls. We've got the NSA working on it already.
(16:55):
What I hate is the manager guy acting like it
makes sense that we have a law that I can't
vouch for my kid being my kid. That seems perfectly
reasonable to me. Two forms of ID for a child
right when their parents is there. I thought, he says
his name, then I say his name? Is that two
(17:16):
forms of ID? And it's not What the hell has
the world becau? I know, Jack Armstrong and Joe the
Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
The irony of the message is pretty clear for everyone.
If President Trump was a king, the government would be
open right now. If President Trump was a king, they
would not have been able to engage in that free
speech exercise out on the mall by the way, which
was open, because President Trump hasn't closed it. So I
mean it's they needed a stunt, They needed a show.
Chuck Schumer has needs cover right now. He's closed the
government down because he needs political cover, and this was a.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Part of it. That's a pretty decent point. I'd forgotten
the shutdown was going on. I believe he forgot hell
yeah right. And if Trump was a king, he could
also do something pretty quickly about our vulnerability to China
in the whole world of rare earth materials. This is
really an interesting quandary for a free society and people
(18:12):
who prize the free markets. So as recently as nineteen
ninety one, the US led the world in the production
of rare earth minerals, partly because we had a giant
mine in California Mountain Pass. But when China faked out
the US and said we're just a poor developing country,
(18:35):
and I don't know, maybe communism isn't so great, and
maybe we could be friends, and maybe if you help
us build our economy will become more like a democracy.
Completely duped us for decades. Read Michael Pillsbury's one hundred
Year Marathons brilliant really describes it. But one of the
things they did was they poured government money into their
(18:58):
rare earth mining and refining operations, and then when anybody
in the West, like the US, tried to compete, they
dumped their goods the supplies into the market, just crushed
the market, and so our companies went out of business
or sold themselves to Chinese entities, and then China consolidated.
(19:19):
There are hundreds of rare earth companies into a few
super giant powerhouses that could work with the communist Chinese.
And so even now as we're trying to resurrect our
domestic rare earth industry, China is doing. It's using all
the levers a dictatorship can to try to crush that.
(19:39):
And so the US is going to have to take
the US government, it's going to have to take probably
a more and more activist goal role rather in fulfilling
the goal of building up our domestic capabilities. And you know,
Trump's already got big investments in various companies whatever the
hell that means, and we might have to get into
(20:01):
these quasi public private partnerships that are really really unhealthy
for a system like ours. For reasons I could drone
on about, but the point is when you have the
government controlling billions and trillions of dollars worth of industry,
then you get a situation where it's just asking for
(20:22):
good governance that has anything to do with the needs
of the people. Forget it. There's too much money at stake.
But you can't let your number one enemy control the
entire supply klonamdium or whatever red metal is important. Oh yeah,
I'm glad you brought that up, because they could crash
the stock market in a day. Oh they could bring
all of our car companies and most of our tech
(20:42):
companies to their knees in a day if they were
to announce, Hey, by the way, you can't buy any
of this stuff fu which is why China enacted some
new restrictions. I'm not going to describe them because it's
kind of technical and boring, but they essentially said, yeah,
we're going to make it a lot hot for y'all
to get this stuff. And Trump that's when he responded
(21:03):
with one hundred percent tearoff on on bunches of Chinese
goods or all Chinese goods that I can't remember everything,
because that's I mean, they have us buy the you know,
use whatever descriptor you prefer. We are in a terribly
vulnerable spot. So what do we do. The sack that's
(21:25):
a good one. They got us buy the sack, the nerds,
the nagils. Sure, yeah, it's when I heard it come
out of my mouth. Yeah, yeah, perhaps a little restraint,
I don't know. Uh So, one of the aspects of
this that's so annoying to me, well two of them.
Every time we in the past, pre Trump and for
(21:46):
all my problems with Trump, he was the guy who said,
China's screwing us. Why are we letting them? Anyway? Every
time past administrations would go to China and say, hey,
y'all are dumping uh made a home and made up
Tonia into the market, and you're killing us, and they
would turn out their pockets and say, oh, we're a
poor developing economy. You've got to let us do this
(22:08):
for a while, just till we're up on our feet.
Then we'll compete fairly. Oh okay, China, so long as
you promise us you're reforming. Oh, we're reforming, they would say.
And so we just got caught with our pants down,
and now we're again incredibly vulnerable. And oh the other
aspect of China that is a hole. You know what.
(22:30):
Our guy is asleep at the switch there he is.
He was taking a smoke break. He smokes a lot.
I'm worried about him. But one of the aspects of
it that bothers me so much is and the whole
woke environmental thing. And there's there's smart, reasonable environmentalism, then
there's the Gavin Newsome woke crap. And what annoys me.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
So much is we still use every bit as much oil,
we still use every bit as much natural gas, and
every bit as much of these rare earth minerals, but
we have third world countries mine it and refine it
for us, so we can tiptoe around in our white
gloves and say, look how clean we are. We don't
rape the environment by mining these materials, No, we just
(23:18):
use them and let somebody who's way less concerned about
the environment, get them for us. That's the opposite of
being an environmentalist, you flame and blanket hypocrites.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
So China, trust me. They know the hole they have
over us, and they're not going to let it go easily.
And so what do we do as a government? I
don't know, Jack, Do you have the answer? Do we
build up us? Did you say it's a condom conundrum?
Why would I say it's a condom? It sounded like condom.
(23:50):
It's your idiotic adolescent choe. No, well I didn't. I
said it's conundrum, which is a perfectly so you claim.
So you claim anyway, ter go to my doctor and
get my ears de waxed again. Where was I? Oh,
you know Uncle Sam's mining. Do we have a government
controlled giant mining apparatus? Or do we actually have the
(24:14):
government pick winners and losers and invest in giant companies
that can get us back to self sufficiency. It's it's
a tough one. Yeah. We painted ourselves into a strategic
corner through the naivete of the past. And Trump's supposed
to meet with the President Shee at some point here
and soon. I guess I don't know our frenemies the
Chinese you might be meeting with He might be meeting
(24:36):
with Putin soon. They announced that last week and they're
trying to put that together. Take going to turn the
screws on Putin? Trump? Yeah, if you can explain that
to me, I'm interested. I'm hoping there's something behind the
scenes we don't know about, because the stuff that's on
the face of it is he pressured the hell out
of Zelensky over the weekend. He talked about it last
(24:58):
night on the plane that Zolensky's got to give up
the don Bass region, that's the Denetsk basin don Bass,
big chunk of Ukraine that Russia has taken chunks of.
And uh and Trump really pressured Zelensky to give up
on that, saying no to the Tomahawk missiles. And when
(25:19):
does he ever pressure Putin? Does that happen? And why not?
He pressured Netan Yahoo? I mean, that's all the credit
everybody gave him for making this amazing Middle East piece
deals that he pressured both sides. Does he pressure Putin ever? Well?
He I think why not? Out of the point it's
much more, you know, the pressure on net and Yahoo existed,
(25:40):
but he exercised well, he enacted the policy that all right,
you've gotten intransigent, you know, a party to these negotiations,
put maximum pressure on him. Take out Foordoh. Let the
Israelis drop a bomb in Dohar, you know, kill off Hesbala,
kill off Amas, go into god A city. Maximum pressure.
(26:02):
It's worked a couple of times now. But with Putin
it's kid gloves. And by the way, don't give me
well he has nukes, world War three, blah blah blah.
You lost the right to make that argument. What Tucker
Carlson said bombing the Fodoh plant would lead to World
War three? Please? It led to a whimpering and just
ballless Iran begging for mercy. I finished the Tucker Carlson
(26:23):
fourth episode of the World Trade Center nine to eleven documentary.
Oh oh boy, here's a hint. It's the Jews. But uh,
was I going to say about not the people who
are swearing for decades that they would kill us and
we know them by name and right, yes, had something
else I was going to say about Putin or whatever?
So the Financial Times was reporting that Trump and Zelensky
(26:46):
were shouting at each other in their Oval office meeting
on Friday, and when Trump finally decided nan not giving
tomahawks to you, why, I don't know. That seemed like
that was the direction is going. But anyway, Ran Paul
was on one of the talk shows yesterday and he said,
people keep talking about sticks, how about carrots? We're hitting
them with pretty hard sanctions right now. I don't what
if we tell Russia will release all these sanctions if
(27:09):
you end the war, which of course will be criticized
by some as rewarding a completely illegal move of just
attacking the country next to you and taking their land.
But correct, it would end the war, could end the war?
M No, got it. I don't think it would. It
(27:29):
would not end Russian aggression in any way. Lost it
for appearances, you'd have to put some sort of peacekeeping
forces in there. Trigger Listen, would you take from that?
If you were putin I would get my ducks back
in a row and take more land, take Estonia.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
The message is you push hard enough, the West backs
down and gives you what you want. Yeah. Well, the
reason I wasn't gonna give you Johnny the candy, but
he threw a tantrum. I'm sure it won't happen again,
right exactly, So similar to the Middle East. Is this
the thing with Russia and Ukraine. Who's going to be
the international force that keeps things in place there in Gaza?
(28:13):
Who's gonna put troops on the ground or whatever? And
then that it would be the day after situation Russia Ukraine,
if you come to some sort of agreement, who's going
to be the force that keeps the agreement. These questions
have not been answered. Yeah, it's still it seems like
it's thin ice to me. But we'll see. There are
(28:34):
twists in the road ahead. Everybody knew it. Brief version
is because I want to be I want to be
helping Ukraine. More very brief version is Trump was talking
really tough about sending tomahawks and all these different things,
spent two hours in the phone with Putin and then
seemed to flip completely back over to that side. Again.
That's what it looked like to me. So Putin may
be the greatest manipulator currently doing business on the planet,
or Trump just really likes being his friend or something,
(28:57):
And I'm not exactly sure what that is. I hope
that's it's not the case. I suspect it may be yikes, yeah, okay,
here we go. Tom Brady's cloned dog.
Speaker 5 (29:12):
The revelation from Tom Brady about his family pet. The
former NFL star says his new dog, Juni, is a
clone of his previous dog, Lua, who died in twenty
twenty three. Brady says he worked with a biotech company
he has invested in to clone his beloved pit bull
mix using a blood sample collected while Lua was alive.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
First of all, it's a publicity stunt for this company
he's invested in place. Your beloved family dog was a
pit bull mix. You're freaking Tom Brady. What are you
doing getting pit bull mixes for the family dog? An?
That was the last straw why Giselle dumped him. Could
be any who Katie, you love your dog, Joe loves
(29:54):
his dog. Michael's got cats? Yeah, hey, hey, what that
was speciesist? Michael. I'm standing up for you. I'm not
going to have this, this casual derision of your lifestyle choices.
I'm not allowed to say Michael has cats. It was
the way you said it. I didn't notice it. Michael
(30:15):
less cats. How do we feel about the need to
clone our dog because we like the current one so
much now, no beer than idiotic. I thought you might
be a yes on that, Katie, now because it's not
the same dog. Ah, you are well read enough on
this topic to realize, yes, it is not the same dog.
(30:37):
It will not behave the same It's well, it's not
the same dog, period. You don't even really need anything
after that. It's not the same dog. But it's a
particular source of self indulgent more money than sense madness.
And that's that's the one chink in the armor of
my hero Javier Milai. Didn't he clone his dog five
He's got the city, He had a favorite dog, and
(30:58):
he's got five of exactly this and no kids. So
that is weird thing about it. But anyway, I don't
want get hung up on that any port in a storm.
So yeah, and Tom Brady's invested in this corporation that
will do it. And from what I understand, I have
no idea how true this is, particularly among the wealthy.
Cloning their beloved fufu who passed away is a thing
(31:22):
because you're stupid and think it's going to be the
same dog. It's a weird sort of conceit to think
that foofu was just so special. She was the most
special dog ever. I mean, I've got to say that.
Because I'm a rich person, I can't say, you know,
the dogs are great. The dog's a dog. The next
one will be as good as this one. From them,
No no, no, no, no no, yeah, go save another dog.
(31:45):
Hit the shelter. That's a good way ball mix. There's
plenty of them, no kidding them, yeah, no kidding. Dog.
Do you serve a three hundred and fifty dollars bottle
of wine when there are plenty of seventy five dollars
bottles that Everybody's good. It's the same answer to a
different question to show showing how rich you are, don't you,
uh yeah, no kidding, Particularly in Tom Brady's case. You
(32:07):
need a pit bull mix, go to your local shelter,
maybe not where he lives, but drive a little further
outside of town from where you live and go to
a shelter. There are lots of pit bull mixes, oh
plenty to choose from. Yeah, but that's part of the
way I stay down on earth is though I am
fabulously wealthy, I generally drink prison toilet pruno. I've got well,
(32:27):
I've got it my own you know Pruno toilet that
I use. We don't use it for anything but a
production of my prison style wine. It's not a multi
It keeps me connected to you common people. You know
that reminds me. You're a I'm choking. You're a fan
of speaking of being fancy. You're a fan of the bidet.
Oh yes, I am and uh I the house I
(32:48):
moved into it has a bidat in my bathroom and
I'm an actual bidet. You're like the seat of the
day seat on top of your toilet that one okay
of a day is a step thing, right yeah? Yeah?
Formally speaking, I stayed in a European hotel and it
had the separate thing and I never used it and
you gotta hop on over to use it. It's ridiculous.
(33:11):
But I got the bidet thing that this is. Isn't
that what most people get for a day? Yeah? What's that? Exactly?
The attachment? The attachment? Okay, but I've never used it
and I just have never even thought about figure. There's
no instruction manual, and I don't want you know, uh,
water up my you hoo if I if I don't
know what I'm doing. Electric che but I'm not gonna
(33:36):
yield your money if the electricity burns me, blinds me.
Come on, here? Is that Jack's got a you? Who?
That was new? I like joke comparing bidets to electricity. Yeah,
in terms of a look at you? What do you
think it's gonna blast you junk off or something. I'm
gonna try you a coward. I'm afraid I'll like it.
(33:57):
You won't be able to get me out of there. Yeah,
So I don't know. I really I just don't know
how to use it, and I don't know who I
would ask? Can you come into my toilet and show
me how to use this? As I ask Groc? Right
and have that record preserved forever? But what what? What's
(34:18):
your hesitance here to? Like ask the internet? Or what
brand is it? There's a number of knobs and buttons,
and I just don't know what I'm doing. You take
a picture of it, send it to Groc and say
how do I use this thing? And I'm flipping sixty
years old. I've lived my whole life without one, and
it's been fine. Although you say it's a damn pin
of shilling, I'm not using not it's your mid section
(34:41):
it's new fangled. I've lived sixty years old, as tell
me about it. I not use no new fangle drugs. Okay,
now comparing penicillin to a biday, which is apt comparison,
of course? Right where were we? Well? Certain stuff that discussed.
(35:02):
Is it just I've powerwashed many things in my life.
I used to when I worked at the feed lot,
I was regularly power washing things. Is that basically what
you're doing? You're power washing your undercarriage? Well right with
the uh the water pressure appropriately dialed back. You're not
taking the paint off the quarter panel and an old Chrysler.
You're you're indeed just cleansing your your nether regions. Yes,
(35:24):
and again, what if I like it so much? You
can't get me out of there? Dad, we're hungry. I
don't care. I am staying here as long as we
got water pressure. I'm staying in here. The Armstrong and
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