April 9, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 3 of A&G features...
- Cost of iPhones made in the US & impact of tariffs
- Man folds a fitted sheet & DEI in the scouts
- Big day in college baseball & Pete Hegseth's memo
- The MineCraft movie issues & online dating is killing sex
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm Strong
and Jack Kid and No Armstrong and Eddy.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
The reality is it's the most complex supply chain in
the world and they're able to make him at one
thousand dollars is because of the supply chain that's really
been built over the last decade. You build that in
the US, there'll be thirty five.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Hundred dollar iPhones.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
It will take Apple thirty billion dollars and three years
to move just ten percent of the supply chain to
the US.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Who is that giant tongue human dan ives tech head,
whatever that is. I had trouble understanding him.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Um okay.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
That party through it at the end because I was
about to say, oh, well, yeah, if starting today you
had to make iPhones in the United States, they would
cost thirty five hundred dollars. This is not hard to believe.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
But there'd be all kinds of adjustments.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
Around a variety of things to make it as cheap
as possible that I'm sure Apple would come up with something.
No doubt they'd be more expensive than I don't know,
child slave labor in China or whatever we're using to
get our BRANCT. You can't beat slave labor for cheap goods, folks,
there's just no denying that. Oh my god, our tech
(01:31):
industries have shown us the way it would be substantially
more expensive closer to the big number than the current
number from everything I've read. But yeah, well that is
take many years again, as he mentioned, so we got
some people that are going to some boosters for this
plan you'll hear from in just a second. Not a
booster David Sanger in the New York Times today. Of course,
(01:53):
he's a lefty, so he's going to be against this.
So are a lot of the conservative economics I've seen,
like practically all of them. But this whole Chinese tariff
thing that kicked in last night on China one hundred
and four percent tariff on Chinese goods coming into the
United States starting at midnight last night, And as David
Sanger points out in the New York Times today, that
(02:15):
is everything from car parts to iPhones to practically everything
that's on the shelf at Walmart or on Amazon's app.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
That's a lot of stuff.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
And if he points out, if you remember how quickly
the supply chain problems showed up during COVID. You have
a little bit of knowledge of how short the turnaround
is on shelves. Shelves were empty at Target and Walmart,
like within days when the whole COVID thing hits. So
it's not going to take long before these tariff things
(02:47):
kicked in, or the tariff kicks in and you're paying more,
or there's just not stuff there. I think it'll be
pretty noticeable, like next week.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
One of the great developments of the modern world, which
has saved all of us money is the just in
time delivery system, the computerized inventory systems. You don't need
gigantic warehouses full of say, paper towels. You know, in
case there's a problem, you've got six months worth of
paper towels. As a retailer, No, you just you order
them when you need them, they show up just before
you need them.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
You put them on the shelves.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
On the other hand, if there's a big disruption, obviously
there's a big disruption. I just I believe, as I
indicated last hour, with pretty good certainty, not great, that
with the exception of China, all the trade war stuff
is going to be very short lived. Now the China stuff,
which I admit is a huge issue in and of itself.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
I have no idea how long this lasts.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Well wow, And.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
If it lasts very long, I mean you talk about
the heart of Trump's voting base, that crowd that shops
at Walmart, and if they start seeing things much more
expensive or not there quickly, it'd be interesting to watch
how the politics plays out on this. So what people's
(04:01):
tolerance for pain is with the belief that it's worth
it for long term manufacturing coming back, we make this
stuff here in the long run.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Blah blah blah. We all know that.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
Yeah, Donald Jay is in the White House thinking China,
you need us more than we need you, and Shijin
Ping is saying you need.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Us more than we need you. Let's get it on.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Yeah, it's interesting. One thing that David Sanger mentions in
this piece.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Is that.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
There were all this happened. I mean, this is a
pretty big deal because China has retaliated. That's breaking news
today if you haven't heard it. Eighty four percent tariff
on US goods going into China, whatever that's going to do.
All of this happened without by American and Chinese accounts.
(04:53):
According to The New York Times, there was no conversation
between Trump and Xi or engagement senior aides before the
country's plunged into this trade war, So there is no
conversation to try to derail this. They heard about it
in the news. We heard about it in the news.
We're not talking to each other over.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
This, right right.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
Well, Trump obviously decided to go with his playbook that
he's been using on all countries lately, well almost all countries,
in all instances of No, we're going to institute the
draconian tariffs and you're going to back down. We're not
going to talk about it to avoid it. No, I'm
going to enact them, and then you're going to back down,
and chess and things said.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
No, I'm not where it ends. Nobody knows.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
So here's Senator Tom Cotton, Republican hawk on China, talking
about this.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
I think one of the best things President Trump has
done in the tariff announcement is what he's done with China,
not just starting with twenty percent, adding thirty four percent,
threatening them that if they retaliated, he would do more,
which they've done. He's moved it now to fit another
fifty percent, and he's closed the Domnimus loophole which allowed
companies like tim Timu and Shane to exploit American businesses
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to ship goods here that are a cheap jump without
paying any tariff whatsoever. So I think that's part of
the most important thing President Trump has done in these tariffs.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Tom Cotton a smart guy. He's on the side of
this re China. So I'm happy to hear that. You
want to hear somebody else bringing the fire in support
of these ideas. Kevin O'Leary. Maybe you know him if
you ever watch Shark Tank. He's one of your big
venture capitalists of super rich, powerful dudes, and he was
on CNN saying this one.
Speaker 7 (06:28):
Hundred and four percent tariffs in China are not enough.
I'm advocating four hundred percent. I do business in China.
They don't play by the rules. They've been in the
WHO for decades. They have never abided by any of
the rules they agreed to when they came in for decades.
They cheat, they steal, they steal ip I can't litigate
in their courts. They take product, technology, they steal it,
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they manufacture.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
And sell it back here.
Speaker 7 (06:54):
Never has an administrator four. I want, like Chi on
an airplane to Washington to level the playing fielding.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Let's see a little more from him and then we'll
discuss it.
Speaker 7 (07:07):
Says not about tariffs anymore. Nobody has taken on China yet,
not the Europeans, no administration.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
For decades.
Speaker 7 (07:15):
As someone who actually does business there, I've had enough.
I speak for millions of Americans who have ip that
have been stolen by the Chinese. I have nothing against
the Chinese people. They've brought great literacy, art, and tech
to the world. The government cheats and steals. And finally
(07:36):
an administration. You may not like Trump, you may not
like his style or his rhetoric. Finally an administration that
puts up and says enough four hundred percent tariffs tomorrow morning.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
How about that.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
I love that we are such a heroin junkie for
cheap Chinese crap and labor and the rest of it.
You know, the the argument that I could hear the
gall on CNN starting to make was that, well, you know,
if we give up this heroin, we're gonna pew can
sweat for days, and it's going to be really uncomfortable.
And what Kevin O'Leary's saying is this is way beyond overdue,
(08:14):
and he's right. We cannot be utterly dependent on an
overtly hostile regime that's also powerful enough to bring the hurt.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
It's insane.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
So putting aside the whole Britain in Canada and Mexico stuff,
which a lot of it I think is way more
damaging than it needed to be by Trump, I'm with
him one hundred percent on the Chinese stuff. We've been
talking about this for years. It's got to play out.
It's not optional whether we decouple to the greatest extent
(08:47):
possible with China. It is not optional. It's begun.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
It's interesting that he talks about how much China breaks
the rules. You know, there are all kinds of trade,
international trade rules, and they break the rules all the time.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
They pay no price work.
Speaker 5 (09:01):
Anybody who's ever done business for an extended period can
think of, you know, a business relationship, maybe an employee
or employer or a client or whatever. It was a
scumbag and just you didn't like them personally, but you
did so much business with them it was a net positive,
so you just dealt with it. That's China China is
(09:23):
a scumbag as a trading partner, as a manufacturer, as
an everything. But it was so profitable and so attractive,
so cheap, you just thought, you know what, it's still
a net positive. But you know, you get farther far
enough down that road and you find yourself just all
sorts of vulnerable to the aforementioned scumbags.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
China As important as all this is.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
Jack, I think this might be more important to good
longtime friend of the Armstrong and Getty show just texted me.
I'm traveling and noticed dudes are now wearing yoga pants.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
W A TF, I haven't seen that.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Men wearing yoga pants to fly? Come on in.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
China, come on in the Axis Powers. We never would
have warred in World War Two? And yoga pants, Jack,
There's no arguing with that.
Speaker 8 (10:17):
Yes, Katie, if I saw a dude wearing yoga pants,
my gadar would explode. H I could not think of
a straight man that would put on a pair of
yoga pants.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
There are pants of various styles so comfortable and flexible
and light you don't even know you're wearing them without
donning the yoga pants.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
How comfortable do you all need? To be.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
I just don't understand the I have chafing issues, never
ending pursuit of maximum comfort, like you're laying in bed
for everything you do, work or travel.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
I just I don't quite get it.
Speaker 8 (10:54):
Okay, uncomfortable though, because yoga pants are tight well.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
Right, and I don't know how much you know about
the male anatomy, but there are things that don't respond
well to tight, or maybe they're not there anymore. Maybe
these are, you know, mid transition fellas. Certainly the feeling
you're giving out if you are rocking the yoga pants boys, seriously,
(11:19):
one man to another, cut it out.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
My son and his friends with there's some sort of
slip on shoe and like pajama pants, the big switch.
It's like everybody rolls out of bed and does their
life every day. I don't know if it's going to
last forever.
Speaker 8 (11:36):
That was that was big in high school. A lot
of high schoolers where pajamas out.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
It's like the Cottar high schools.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
Katie back in the day, combat boots, double sick jeans.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Just in case, three piece suit with vest. Oh she stops.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
Fighting, gloves, brass knuckles. That's the way we went to
algebra class. Thank god, we can't go any further down
the comfort road. I mean, we're at the maximum end
of it, I think.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (12:07):
I mean I was gonna say other nakedness, but that
is distinctly uncomfortable in a variety of weather conditions and
or the presence of insects.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Park bench.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
Well, that's another excellent point. So yeah, I think we
are at the height. So our Trump's tariffs legal What
are the the court fights that are about to start?
Trust me, what are they going to look like? We'll
hit that a little later in the show. Maybe this hour,
maybe next hour. If you don't get next hour, grab
it via podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand. Idaho has
(12:38):
become the first state to legalize firing squads for convicted pedophiles.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Wow, stay with us for live team coverage.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
And I just saw this breaking news. Defense Secretary Pete
Hegsath's top advisor is recommending the Defense department cut ties
with the boy Scouts for being too woken. I hate
to hear that.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
I do too. I'm a grand a scout of that. Yeah,
I'm gonna look into that anyway.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
He got more on the waist to hear Armstrong, that
is a guy demonstrating how to fold a fitted sheet?
(13:29):
Is the crowd chance fold that sheet? And apparently he
can fold a fitted sheet? And how do you do that?
Because I've never been able to do anything other than
more or less watt it up in a ball and
shove it in a closet. To me, the operative question
is more, uh, why was there a crowd?
Speaker 7 (13:45):
There?
Speaker 5 (13:46):
Some decent questions. Well, I marvel at his skills. Indeed,
what was going on there?
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Katie?
Speaker 1 (13:51):
I have no idea. I think that Michael was that you. Yeah,
he could fold the sheet though.
Speaker 8 (13:57):
Yeah, it's a guy who used social media and got
seven hundred people to gather around and uh, but.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Does he have a skill for actually folding the sheep?
That's what we care about because it's one of the
great annoyances of life.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
I assume.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
So I just thought it was a good audio.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
You know, you haven't seen it, okay. No, I haven't
seen it.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
No one's seen it, okay, So that takes the fun
out of it. I have question isn't whether he's good
at sheets.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
The question is the pill hundreds of people doing that's.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
There was a guy within an hour's drive that could
show me how to fold a fitted sheet.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
I would drive there this afternoon.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Oh stop it.
Speaker 8 (14:35):
I have seen a few women that actually lay it
out upside down and they lay down in the middle
of it and stick their hands in and then fold
their body together.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
And I've seen that work, but I have not tried it.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
And then do you have to stay in it like
a mummy or do you get to leave? You get
to leave after she does that?
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Or what fighter out?
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Wow?
Speaker 5 (14:57):
Okay, did you have a story about the military? I
often have time.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
I was gonna mention that, Yeah, this is breaking from
NBC News, and I don't know how big a deal
this is. I'll look into it more later, but it
just came out. Senior advisor to Pete Hagzet, who's the
Secretary of Events, is for the military to cut ties
with scouting America.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
They're tied quite closely. I don't know if you know this.
My son just got into scouting.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
And there is a fairly consistent line for a lot
of people, especially like Eagle Scouts, who end up in
the military and do well. And there are benefits to
getting into the military if you've got the scouting background
blah blah blah blah. But the second death is being
recommended to not give a speech he was supposed to
give to scouting, that it's been captured by the woke
and we'll look into this.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
I had hate for that to be true.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
I mean, then changing their name. That doesn't bother me
as much as does a lot of you. I realize
it's like giving into a certain sort of attitude. It's
the it's the inside, behind the scenes DEI stuff. I'm
more worried about than the changing of the name.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
Yeah, I would like to know more about why that
advisor that. My initial reaction is, Hey, Pete, go in
there and deliver a barn burner fire the boys up,
talk to them about patriotic values and service and the
rest of it.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Let's not leave scouting to the lunatics.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
Well, I, my son is signed up for a day
long DEI training session, and I'm not just using the
term DEI like it looks like DEI to me. That's
what they're calling it. God help us as part of
the boy Scouts for some sort of badge you get.
So I'm a little concerned about it.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
A little.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
Well, I'm going to stay out of it because it's
you and your son. So I'll let you speak any
words that are spoken on the topic. Myself, I am
horrified by the idea.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
But as I said last week, so many amazing volunteers
that make that whole thing work. I mean, just amazing
people dedicating their time. But let me say, build fires
and you know, float around in canoes and learn to
climb mountains and stuff.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
No DEI.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Speaking of the Defense Department.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
There have been a couple of headlines that have gotten
very little attention in recent days. In the news, a
judge has said, no, you can't ban transgender folks.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
From various jobs.
Speaker 5 (17:06):
Good news is pete hegseeth went away and said, or
went ahead rather and said men and women's same physical standards.
Of course, we'll talk about that coming up, Cool, Armstrong
and Getty.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
When does the average person panic with their phone battery percentage?
And it's according to CBS Evening News, it's thirty four percent.
That's when the average person panics. Thirty four percent getting
kind of low. Can we talk about the word panic?
I don't know if panic is the feeling that I get.
(17:39):
I think it's more of a I should probably plug
this in soon, which.
Speaker 5 (17:42):
Is I remember when a guy with a knife was
chasing me through city streets.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
That was something like panic. My cell phone's down to
thirty percent. That is not much.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
And the latest on the Chicken Jockey phenomenon, what is
it now? It's growing. I might actually go this weekend
and participate with my son.
Speaker 5 (18:05):
I have an important story in just a moment, but
I can't resist this big day in college baseball yesterday
in Teaneck, New Jersey, where both of my parents grew up.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Layman College. Did they meet there.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
In high school? Yep.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
Layman College, with its forty two game losing streak, came
up against Yeshiva University and their one hundred game I'm
sorry at the time, ninety nine game losing streak.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Well, how many seasons is that? Combined?
Speaker 5 (18:41):
One hundred and forty one straight losses between the two teams.
Here's the exciting part, Jack. They played a double header.
Layman won the opener, but Yeshiva stormed back in game two.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
And captured the victory. They both have a win.
Speaker 5 (18:59):
I tell you what you got, the two losing his
college teams in the country.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
You've got to play. Wow, how many seasons is a
one hundred game losing streak? That's gonna be years.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
It's gotta be a couple.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Yeah, three tah.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
That's tough on the kids, tough on the coach, tough
on the fans, the parents because my son's volleyball team
just went through a losing streak and it's got you know,
the players get down, parents start to think, what am
I doing here?
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Yea, the all time losing streak two and twenty eight? Sick?
Can you give games?
Speaker 5 (19:31):
The cal Tech Beavers lost from two thousand and three
to two thousand Tech has sports teams.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
That's the first long conference. Why do you.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Have sports teams at Caltech? You're all a bunch of
Nobel Prize winning scientists.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
Final note, Yeshiva alumnus and comic Ititon Levine called the
matchup quote statistically the worst baseball game of all time. Anyway,
congratulations to both the teams capturing a win. So this
is the sort of self evidently reasonable thing that should
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be completely unremarkable. But we had gotten as a country
so far off track, the track being common sense and reasonableness,
that this seems notable. Pete Hegzeth the other day, I've
been wanting to get to this for several days. Signed
a memo ordering the military to adopt the same standards
for men and women serving in combat roles on Sunday,
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which is again so self evidently reasonable.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
I can't believe there's an argument over it.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
If you can perform the same require whatever the requirements
are set by military people that know how many push
ups you need to be able to do, or how
fast you need to run a mile or whatever to
be fit to serve in battle. If you, as a
woman can do that, I don't care. If it's all
women army, don't make any difference to me. But you
all got to meet the same requirements.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
You know, unless there's a disruption of troop cohesion because
of the sexual dynamics, which has been a part of
every military in the history of the world. Don't tell
me it doesn't matter, because it does. But I agree
with you in principle one hundred percent. And the argument
from the women should be in combat people all along
has been they're up to the task.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
They're up to the task.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
Okay, Well, if there are standards for the task, which
is what those standards are, then they have to be
able to meet them. Anything any conclusion other than that
is bizarre. It's idiotic, it's unsupportable, and it's dangerous for
both the men and the women in question anyway, So
well done, Pete. A judge said, Now the transgender thing,
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you can't do that. They try to ban transgender people
from serving in the US military. It's a preliminary injunction
that will be fought through the courts for a while,
I would imagine.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
So there were two assassination attempts on Trump, as we remember,
the one where he actually got shot, the scary to one,
and then that other one at the golf course, which
anybody downplays that just doesn't even understand.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
He had no.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
Vision of the president yet well, in five minutes he
would have he need to put a bullet.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Yeah, he would have killed the president.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
He was laying in the bushes with his gun pointing
out and thank god a Secret Service agent's on. But
there's some new information on that dude that came out yesterday.
This is from ABC News Brian Ruth's apparent obsession with
assassinating President Trump before he allegedly stalked Trump on his
Florida golf course. Prosecutor say Ruth, a fierce supporter of
Ukraine who had visited the war torn country multiple times,
(22:33):
reached out to an associate there his request send me
an RPG, rocket propelled grenade or Stinger's surface to air missile.
Prosecutors claim Ruth desperately wanted to blow up then candidate
Trump's plane, writing I need equipment so that Trump cannot
get elected. And now the FBI says Ruth could have
had an even more powerful weapon after he first tried
(22:54):
to buy a fifty caliber rifle capable of piercing body
armor and slicing through car doors.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
That would have been something.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
I don't know how easy it is to mail an
RPG or a shoulder fired missile, whether that can get
through the mail or not, but you can get a
hold of fifty caliber.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Guns in the United States. And I'm glad he didn't,
and I'm.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
Glad he got caught before he was able to pull
anything off, right right, this is.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
A dumb story before we go to break.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
As y'all know, Hooters has filed for bankruptcy and Hooters
is ditching bikini knights, which I didn't know they have.
I don't know if the waitresses were bikinis or the customers.
The customers, I'm not feel pretty. Hooters is ditching bikini
knights in favor of charity, family friendly dining. Oh boy,
(23:48):
to some sort of charity night for families to come in.
I guess this is before you go before the bankruptcy judge,
you know, for better treatment or I don't know what
that is. I was gonna say, show hands, everybody who
thinks this will work.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Anybody, show of hands.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
I think you hope the judge is a guy. And
you have the chicks and the weird nylons like it's
the seventies, and those weird shorts, and I don't know
whoever came up with those outfits in the first place.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
Well, as you've pointed out many times through the years,
every damn sports bar, at least half of them in
America have attractive young women dressed in a provocative way,
serving the drinks and the wings.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
I mean, Hooters is utterly not unique.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
On an oracle of the genre.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
One more thing I wanted to jam in before we
take a break, and then we'll learn more about chicken jockey,
and then something of substance.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
I don't remember what it was.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
Yes, it is true Chinese troops were caught fighting for Russia.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
In Ukraine. That has been nailed down.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Now.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
I remember when that was a red line for the
Biden administration. The idea of Chinese troops fighting. I don't
know if it's a red line for Trump or we're
all just going to kind of ignore.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
This seems like kind of a big deal.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
The China's actually providing soldiers right now.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
The Chinese stance, the government's stance was, oh, we've warned
our people to stay far away from any war zones.
These are not our soldiers. These are misguided souls.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
Getting a little less proxy in a little more war.
When you actually have Chinese soldiers fighting, when North Ausrians O, geez,
that's writing.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
Because North Korea doesn't go to the grocery store for
milk without asking China whether it's okay. That's a bit
of an exaggeration. But yeah, the fact that there are
thousands and thousands of North Koreans there's that's not gone
unnoticed by China.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
They permitted it.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
So I got one kid that went to the Minecraft
movie in one that hasn't seen it. And if you're
a kid and you haven't seen the Minecraft, especially a boy,
if you're a boy and you haven't seen the Minecraft movie. Well,
you're on the outs socially. You just you got to
see it because it's the biggest phenomenon going. Well, if
you're planning to go to this weekend, you're gonna drop
your kid off, you might have to go in with
them because they're changing the rules that a lot of
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movie theaters explain that coming up, stay here, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 9 (26:08):
So what is a chicken jockey? The official definition a
child zombie who rides a chicken. Of course, this morning
that craze around chicken jockeys, causing one movie theater in
New Jersey to take matters into its own hands, instituting
a new policy. Miners will now have to have a
parent or responsible adult with them if they want to
watch the film. The Township Theater in Bergen County riding
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in a statement that a group of boys engaged in
completely unacceptable behavior, including vandalism. They also received multiple complaints
from other moviegoers who are trying to enjoy the film
with their families.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
The manager called us and said that the theater was
in badscame.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
Okay, so that's one theater, although there are theaters all
across the country where during the biggest movie of the
year so far, the Minecraft movie. During that particular scene,
people start throwing popcorn and stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
I think that's going to grow.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
I anticipate this weekend to be coast to coast popcorn throwing.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Which I could feel like I could participate in myself.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
Popcorn throwing is not the same as like throwing a
pop very different thing.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
You sweep of the podcorn, you know.
Speaker 5 (27:21):
So you don't think America's adolescent boys will heed the
call from Network News to calm down.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
I just think it. I was thinking about this yesterday.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
Uh, the most common thing in the world with teenagers,
and you just hope you have it at the right level.
I guess young people need to feel like rebels, and
most of the time they're rebeling is so minor and
nothing and really laughable.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
But you know, you want to let them have their
moment of being a rebel.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
I mean, I've heard so many teenagers in my life
brag about the rebellious thing that did that was just
some nothing, it's just a nothing, big deal, but but
they have to do it. It's something the way we're
built human beings, and good if if this may if
this gets your I'm a rebel out of your system,
and as far as you go, that's fantastic throwing some
puzzles as.
Speaker 5 (28:15):
A big fan of free range parenting and let them
grow that great organization and that sort of thing. Uh yeah,
I don't quash that rebel impulse, just help them channel
it into a way that's non destruct.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
I think it's funny.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
I don't know if it's because the town I live
in or whatever, or maybe it was because you could
mostly hear my son and his friends who are all
very like, too cool for everything, But he whipped out
his phone at the movie the other night and recorded,
and it was more like chicken Jockey, Like.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
They're already tired of it.
Speaker 5 (28:45):
Oh that's so yesterday, yelling chicken Jockey night lame o.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
Three days later, idiot, here today, gone today. A couple
things for you really quickly. I'm gonna read this whole
story because this could be huge. Dating apps mess with
your hormones, they think, and can even send libido levels plunging.
Wouldn't that be something If there's something about dating apps
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that makes people not want to have sex and get together,
that kind of is counterproductive. Since you got on the
dating app. I assume originally to get together with someone
makes you not want to get together with someone.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
Weir, Yeah, I can't imagine.
Speaker 4 (29:29):
No, it's not impossible to believe that could be true though,
that there's some element of the I hate to use
word chase, toxic masculinity or something wrong, but some element
of the chase that gets lost.
Speaker 5 (29:44):
There and or after the first rush of the thrill
of what you're doing, it starts to become soul deadening
and disgusting to you. I mean, because how many folks,
young folks have we heard saying, yeah, I'm done with
the the whole online dating thing. It's it's well, soul
deadening and disgusting.
Speaker 4 (30:03):
I've heard so many people say that. Well, if it is,
you know, some sort of pheromones thing or whatever that
we've all long believed that causes the fall in love
and all this sort of stuff, well you're not getting
that online. So maybe you get the your human nature
to procreate drives you to get onto a dating app
and do all the thing, and then you match with something,
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discuss a few things, and it's like you're not getting
in India pheromone stuff. So it's just like, eh, I
don't even feel like it right the end of that, right.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
You tell me those of you of online dated and
this this is out from our Secretary of the Treasury, bessent'
Is that how you say his name? Wall Street has
grown wealthier for four decades. For the next four years,
it's main streets turned.
Speaker 5 (30:49):
Oh god, the whole Wall Street main Street thing. Not
from either party, please, I'm not sure.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
I believe that it's mainstream.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (31:04):
Again, the idea that Trump is going to reshape global
trade for the next couple of decades, and that the
American economy will be restructured to reemphasize domestic assembly and
manufacturing and the rest of it. How is that going
to happen If his term ends in three and a
half years, Well JD Vance will win two terms and
blah blah blah. Well then it could happen conceivably. But
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I think it's all just posturing to get better trade
deals done, which again, I would be in favor of.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
A response to that comment from the Secretary of the
Treasury from the Dispatch, which admittedly is a Trump hating organization,
is best for real Main Street is about to get
a beating thanks to you geniuses. And wait until the
Wall Street crisis turns into a recession or a financial crisis,
higher interest rates.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
And all won't be helping Main Street.
Speaker 5 (31:57):
Well. To his credit, Trump has said, look, there's going
to be some tough times, but we've got a restructure.
And I honestly, I said earlier, I was two thirds
convinced that this is just posturing to get better trade deals,
and he has no intention of long term trade barriers,
you know, isolationist economics. But there's a third of me
that thinks, you know, Scott Besant is expressing what the
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boss thinks.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
I don't know. There's what's bothering Wall Street so much
nobody knows.
Speaker 4 (32:25):
Maybe the biggest problem with this whole thing is it's
all discussed as a whole, the tariff thing, when China
is such a different situation than all these other countries.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Oh yeah, they should be completely separate.
Speaker 5 (32:39):
Conversations and and very you know, customizable to various countries
with various realities.
Speaker 4 (32:49):
Taylor, Taylor, Trump's going with tailored. These are not off
the rack.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
They are tailored.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
Good good.
Speaker 5 (32:57):
Some impoverished African Republic, I'm fine if we treat them
a little differently than say, you know France, how.
Speaker 4 (33:06):
About some island full of penguins? Have They've been sticking
it to us for decades?
Speaker 5 (33:11):
Right, taking our mackerel and giving us nothing back in return. Oh,
that would be a trade surplus, never mind throwing their
mackerel at us and taking nothing in return.
Speaker 4 (33:21):
You strut around in your little tuxedos. You own that
rock as if you can fly.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
You can't.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
You're fightless.
Speaker 4 (33:32):
And the headline around that, in case you have heard,
is one hundred percent tariff on China kicked in midnight
last night.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
Look for it soon on a Walmart shelf near you.
Speaker 5 (33:42):
Gallup did a poll recently what do you think foreign
trade means for America? Do you see foreign trade more
as an opportunity for economic growth through increased US exports
or as a threat to the economy from foreign imports.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
I think that's a pretty.
Speaker 5 (33:56):
Fair way to ask the question, don't you? And interestingly,
it was like asking about what do you think of
boys playing in girls sports? Is eighty one percent say
I see foreign trade more as an opportunity for economic
growth to fourteen that see it as more of a
threat eighty one to fourteen. How populist is the idea
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of seriously reigning in foreign trade.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Wow, we'll have to say.
Speaker 4 (34:32):
May you live in interesting times. They say, here's one
thing you can be thankful for. Night clubs don't fall
on your head in the United States. You go out
to a nightclub at night, it's not just going to
fall on your head because there are no rules whatsoever
for building. You know, I'm a lower rules guy to
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any regulations, but at least nightclubs don't fall in your head.
I don't know if you've seen any of those videos
from the Dominican Republic, but that's brutal, just a nightmare. Yeah,
I'd say absolutely. Next hour, more protests in Gaza. These
people are brave against TAMAS and John Kennedy and Lindsey
Graham said some interesting things about Iran and AOC. So
(35:14):
we'll get into all that in our form.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
Oh by Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm Strong
and Jack Kid and No Armstrong and Eddy.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
The reality is it's the most complex supply chain in
the world and they're able to make him at one
thousand dollars is because of the supply chain that's really
been built over the last decade. You build that in
the US, there'll be thirty five.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Hundred dollar iPhones.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
It will take Apple thirty billion dollars and three years
to move just ten percent of the supply chain to
the US.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Who is that giant tongue human dan ives tech head,
whatever that is. I had trouble understanding him.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Um okay.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
That party through it at the end because I was
about to say, oh, well, yeah, if starting today you
had to make iPhones in the United States, they would
cost thirty five hundred dollars. This is not hard to believe.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
But there'd be all kinds of adjustments.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
Around a variety of things to make it as cheap
as possible that I'm sure Apple would come up with something.
No doubt they'd be more expensive than I don't know,
child slave labor in China or whatever we're using to
get our BRANCT. You can't beat slave labor for cheap goods, folks,
there's just no denying that. Oh my god, our tech
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industries have shown us the way it would be substantially
more expensive closer to the big number than the current
number from everything I've read. But yeah, well that is
take many years again, as he mentioned, so we got
some people that are going to some boosters for this
plan you'll hear from in just a second. Not a
booster David Sanger in the New York Times today. Of course,
(01:53):
he's a lefty, so he's going to be against this.
So are a lot of the conservative economics I've seen,
like practically all of them. But this whole Chinese tariff
thing that kicked in last night on China one hundred
and four percent tariff on Chinese goods coming into the
United States starting at midnight last night, And as David
Sanger points out in the New York Times today, that
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is everything from car parts to iPhones to practically everything
that's on the shelf at Walmart or on Amazon's app.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
That's a lot of stuff.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
And if he points out, if you remember how quickly
the supply chain problems showed up during COVID. You have
a little bit of knowledge of how short the turnaround
is on shelves. Shelves were empty at Target and Walmart,
like within days when the whole COVID thing hits. So
it's not going to take long before these tariff things
(02:47):
kicked in, or the tariff kicks in and you're paying more,
or there's just not stuff there. I think it'll be
pretty noticeable, like next week.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
One of the great developments of the modern world, which
has saved all of us money is the just in
time delivery system, the computerized inventory systems. You don't need
gigantic warehouses full of say, paper towels. You know, in
case there's a problem, you've got six months worth of
paper towels. As a retailer, No, you just you order
them when you need them, they show up just before
you need them.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
You put them on the shelves.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
On the other hand, if there's a big disruption, obviously
there's a big disruption. I just I believe, as I
indicated last hour, with pretty good certainty, not great, that
with the exception of China, all the trade war stuff
is going to be very short lived. Now the China stuff,
which I admit is a huge issue in and of itself.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
I have no idea how long this lasts.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Well wow, And.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
If it lasts very long, I mean you talk about
the heart of Trump's voting base, that crowd that shops
at Walmart, and if they start seeing things much more
expensive or not there quickly, it'd be interesting to watch
how the politics plays out on this. So what people's
(04:01):
tolerance for pain is with the belief that it's worth
it for long term manufacturing coming back, we make this
stuff here in the long run.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Blah blah blah. We all know that.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
Yeah, Donald Jay is in the White House thinking China,
you need us more than we need you, and Shijin
Ping is saying you need.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Us more than we need you. Let's get it on.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Yeah, it's interesting. One thing that David Sanger mentions in
this piece.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Is that.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
There were all this happened. I mean, this is a
pretty big deal because China has retaliated. That's breaking news
today if you haven't heard it. Eighty four percent tariff
on US goods going into China, whatever that's going to do.
All of this happened without by American and Chinese accounts.
(04:53):
According to The New York Times, there was no conversation
between Trump and Xi or engagement senior aides before the
country's plunged into this trade war, So there is no
conversation to try to derail this. They heard about it
in the news. We heard about it in the news.
We're not talking to each other over.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
This, right right.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
Well, Trump obviously decided to go with his playbook that
he's been using on all countries lately, well almost all countries,
in all instances of No, we're going to institute the
draconian tariffs and you're going to back down. We're not
going to talk about it to avoid it. No, I'm
going to enact them, and then you're going to back down,
and chess and things said.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
No, I'm not where it ends. Nobody knows.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
So here's Senator Tom Cotton, Republican hawk on China, talking
about this.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
I think one of the best things President Trump has
done in the tariff announcement is what he's done with China,
not just starting with twenty percent, adding thirty four percent,
threatening them that if they retaliated, he would do more,
which they've done. He's moved it now to fit another
fifty percent, and he's closed the Domnimus loophole which allowed
companies like tim Timu and Shane to exploit American businesses
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to ship goods here that are a cheap jump without
paying any tariff whatsoever. So I think that's part of
the most important thing President Trump has done in these tariffs.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Tom Cotton a smart guy. He's on the side of
this re China. So I'm happy to hear that. You
want to hear somebody else bringing the fire in support
of these ideas. Kevin O'Leary. Maybe you know him if
you ever watch Shark Tank. He's one of your big
venture capitalists of super rich, powerful dudes, and he was
on CNN saying this one.
Speaker 7 (06:28):
Hundred and four percent tariffs in China are not enough.
I'm advocating four hundred percent. I do business in China.
They don't play by the rules. They've been in the
WHO for decades. They have never abided by any of
the rules they agreed to when they came in for decades.
They cheat, they steal, they steal ip I can't litigate
in their courts. They take product, technology, they steal it,
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they manufacture.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
And sell it back here.
Speaker 7 (06:54):
Never has an administrator four. I want, like Chi on
an airplane to Washington to level the playing fielding.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Let's see a little more from him and then we'll
discuss it.
Speaker 7 (07:07):
Says not about tariffs anymore. Nobody has taken on China yet,
not the Europeans, no administration.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
For decades.
Speaker 7 (07:15):
As someone who actually does business there, I've had enough.
I speak for millions of Americans who have ip that
have been stolen by the Chinese. I have nothing against
the Chinese people. They've brought great literacy, art, and tech
to the world. The government cheats and steals. And finally
(07:36):
an administration. You may not like Trump, you may not
like his style or his rhetoric. Finally an administration that
puts up and says enough four hundred percent tariffs tomorrow morning.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
How about that.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
I love that we are such a heroin junkie for
cheap Chinese crap and labor and the rest of it.
You know, the the argument that I could hear the
gall on CNN starting to make was that, well, you know,
if we give up this heroin, we're gonna pew can
sweat for days, and it's going to be really uncomfortable.
And what Kevin O'Leary's saying is this is way beyond overdue,
(08:14):
and he's right. We cannot be utterly dependent on an
overtly hostile regime that's also powerful enough to bring the hurt.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
It's insane.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
So putting aside the whole Britain in Canada and Mexico stuff,
which a lot of it I think is way more
damaging than it needed to be by Trump, I'm with
him one hundred percent on the Chinese stuff. We've been
talking about this for years. It's got to play out.
It's not optional whether we decouple to the greatest extent
(08:47):
possible with China. It is not optional. It's begun.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
It's interesting that he talks about how much China breaks
the rules. You know, there are all kinds of trade,
international trade rules, and they break the rules all the time.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
They pay no price work.
Speaker 5 (09:01):
Anybody who's ever done business for an extended period can
think of, you know, a business relationship, maybe an employee
or employer or a client or whatever. It was a
scumbag and just you didn't like them personally, but you
did so much business with them it was a net positive,
so you just dealt with it. That's China China is
(09:23):
a scumbag as a trading partner, as a manufacturer, as
an everything. But it was so profitable and so attractive,
so cheap, you just thought, you know what, it's still
a net positive. But you know, you get farther far
enough down that road and you find yourself just all
sorts of vulnerable to the aforementioned scumbags.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
China As important as all this is.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
Jack, I think this might be more important to good
longtime friend of the Armstrong and Getty show just texted me.
I'm traveling and noticed dudes are now wearing yoga pants.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
W A TF, I haven't seen that.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Men wearing yoga pants to fly? Come on in.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
China, come on in the Axis Powers. We never would
have warred in World War Two? And yoga pants, Jack,
There's no arguing with that.
Speaker 8 (10:17):
Yes, Katie, if I saw a dude wearing yoga pants,
my gadar would explode. H I could not think of
a straight man that would put on a pair of
yoga pants.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
There are pants of various styles so comfortable and flexible
and light you don't even know you're wearing them without
donning the yoga pants.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
How comfortable do you all need? To be.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
I just don't understand the I have chafing issues, never
ending pursuit of maximum comfort, like you're laying in bed
for everything you do, work or travel.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
I just I don't quite get it.
Speaker 8 (10:54):
Okay, uncomfortable though, because yoga pants are tight well.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
Right, and I don't know how much you know about
the male anatomy, but there are things that don't respond
well to tight, or maybe they're not there anymore. Maybe
these are, you know, mid transition fellas. Certainly the feeling
you're giving out if you are rocking the yoga pants boys, seriously,
(11:19):
one man to another, cut it out.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
My son and his friends with there's some sort of
slip on shoe and like pajama pants, the big switch.
It's like everybody rolls out of bed and does their
life every day. I don't know if it's going to
last forever.
Speaker 8 (11:36):
That was that was big in high school. A lot
of high schoolers where pajamas out.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
It's like the Cottar high schools.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
Katie back in the day, combat boots, double sick jeans.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Just in case, three piece suit with vest. Oh she stops.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
Fighting, gloves, brass knuckles. That's the way we went to
algebra class. Thank god, we can't go any further down
the comfort road. I mean, we're at the maximum end
of it, I think.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (12:07):
I mean I was gonna say other nakedness, but that
is distinctly uncomfortable in a variety of weather conditions and
or the presence of insects.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Park bench.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
Well, that's another excellent point. So yeah, I think we
are at the height. So our Trump's tariffs legal What
are the the court fights that are about to start?
Trust me, what are they going to look like? We'll
hit that a little later in the show. Maybe this hour,
maybe next hour. If you don't get next hour, grab
it via podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand. Idaho has
(12:38):
become the first state to legalize firing squads for convicted pedophiles.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Wow, stay with us for live team coverage.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
And I just saw this breaking news. Defense Secretary Pete
Hegsath's top advisor is recommending the Defense department cut ties
with the boy Scouts for being too woken. I hate
to hear that.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
I do too. I'm a grand a scout of that. Yeah,
I'm gonna look into that anyway.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
He got more on the waist to hear Armstrong, that
is a guy demonstrating how to fold a fitted sheet?
(13:29):
Is the crowd chance fold that sheet? And apparently he
can fold a fitted sheet? And how do you do that?
Because I've never been able to do anything other than
more or less watt it up in a ball and
shove it in a closet. To me, the operative question
is more, uh, why was there a crowd?
Speaker 7 (13:45):
There?
Speaker 5 (13:46):
Some decent questions. Well, I marvel at his skills. Indeed,
what was going on there?
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Katie?
Speaker 1 (13:51):
I have no idea. I think that Michael was that you. Yeah,
he could fold the sheet though.
Speaker 8 (13:57):
Yeah, it's a guy who used social media and got
seven hundred people to gather around and uh, but.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Does he have a skill for actually folding the sheep?
That's what we care about because it's one of the
great annoyances of life.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
I assume.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
So I just thought it was a good audio.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
You know, you haven't seen it, okay. No, I haven't
seen it.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
No one's seen it, okay, So that takes the fun
out of it. I have question isn't whether he's good
at sheets.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
The question is the pill hundreds of people doing that's.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
There was a guy within an hour's drive that could
show me how to fold a fitted sheet.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
I would drive there this afternoon.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Oh stop it.
Speaker 8 (14:35):
I have seen a few women that actually lay it
out upside down and they lay down in the middle
of it and stick their hands in and then fold
their body together.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
And I've seen that work, but I have not tried it.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
And then do you have to stay in it like
a mummy or do you get to leave? You get
to leave after she does that?
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Or what fighter out?
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Wow?
Speaker 5 (14:57):
Okay, did you have a story about the military? I
often have time.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
I was gonna mention that, Yeah, this is breaking from
NBC News, and I don't know how big a deal
this is. I'll look into it more later, but it
just came out. Senior advisor to Pete Hagzet, who's the
Secretary of Events, is for the military to cut ties
with scouting America.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
They're tied quite closely. I don't know if you know this.
My son just got into scouting.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
And there is a fairly consistent line for a lot
of people, especially like Eagle Scouts, who end up in
the military and do well. And there are benefits to
getting into the military if you've got the scouting background
blah blah blah blah. But the second death is being
recommended to not give a speech he was supposed to
give to scouting, that it's been captured by the woke
and we'll look into this.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
I had hate for that to be true.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
I mean, then changing their name. That doesn't bother me
as much as does a lot of you. I realize
it's like giving into a certain sort of attitude. It's
the it's the inside, behind the scenes DEI stuff. I'm
more worried about than the changing of the name.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
Yeah, I would like to know more about why that
advisor that. My initial reaction is, Hey, Pete, go in
there and deliver a barn burner fire the boys up,
talk to them about patriotic values and service and the
rest of it.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Let's not leave scouting to the lunatics.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
Well, I, my son is signed up for a day
long DEI training session, and I'm not just using the
term DEI like it looks like DEI to me. That's
what they're calling it. God help us as part of
the boy Scouts for some sort of badge you get.
So I'm a little concerned about it.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
A little.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
Well, I'm going to stay out of it because it's
you and your son. So I'll let you speak any
words that are spoken on the topic. Myself, I am
horrified by the idea.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
But as I said last week, so many amazing volunteers
that make that whole thing work. I mean, just amazing
people dedicating their time. But let me say, build fires
and you know, float around in canoes and learn to
climb mountains and stuff.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
No DEI.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Speaking of the Defense Department.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
There have been a couple of headlines that have gotten
very little attention in recent days. In the news, a
judge has said, no, you can't ban transgender folks.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
From various jobs.
Speaker 5 (17:06):
Good news is pete hegseeth went away and said, or
went ahead rather and said men and women's same physical standards.
Of course, we'll talk about that coming up, Cool, Armstrong
and Getty.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
When does the average person panic with their phone battery percentage?
And it's according to CBS Evening News, it's thirty four percent.
That's when the average person panics. Thirty four percent getting
kind of low. Can we talk about the word panic?
I don't know if panic is the feeling that I get.
(17:39):
I think it's more of a I should probably plug
this in soon, which.
Speaker 5 (17:42):
Is I remember when a guy with a knife was
chasing me through city streets.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
That was something like panic. My cell phone's down to
thirty percent. That is not much.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
And the latest on the Chicken Jockey phenomenon, what is
it now? It's growing. I might actually go this weekend
and participate with my son.
Speaker 5 (18:05):
I have an important story in just a moment, but
I can't resist this big day in college baseball yesterday
in Teaneck, New Jersey, where both of my parents grew up.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Layman College. Did they meet there.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
In high school? Yep.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
Layman College, with its forty two game losing streak, came
up against Yeshiva University and their one hundred game I'm
sorry at the time, ninety nine game losing streak.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Well, how many seasons is that? Combined?
Speaker 5 (18:41):
One hundred and forty one straight losses between the two teams.
Here's the exciting part, Jack. They played a double header.
Layman won the opener, but Yeshiva stormed back in game two.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
And captured the victory. They both have a win.
Speaker 5 (18:59):
I tell you what you got, the two losing his
college teams in the country.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
You've got to play. Wow, how many seasons is a
one hundred game losing streak? That's gonna be years.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
It's gotta be a couple.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Yeah, three tah.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
That's tough on the kids, tough on the coach, tough
on the fans, the parents because my son's volleyball team
just went through a losing streak and it's got you know,
the players get down, parents start to think, what am
I doing here?
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Yea, the all time losing streak two and twenty eight? Sick?
Can you give games?
Speaker 5 (19:31):
The cal Tech Beavers lost from two thousand and three
to two thousand Tech has sports teams.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
That's the first long conference. Why do you.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Have sports teams at Caltech? You're all a bunch of
Nobel Prize winning scientists.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
Final note, Yeshiva alumnus and comic Ititon Levine called the
matchup quote statistically the worst baseball game of all time. Anyway,
congratulations to both the teams capturing a win. So this
is the sort of self evidently reasonable thing that should
(20:06):
be completely unremarkable. But we had gotten as a country
so far off track, the track being common sense and reasonableness,
that this seems notable. Pete Hegzeth the other day, I've
been wanting to get to this for several days. Signed
a memo ordering the military to adopt the same standards
for men and women serving in combat roles on Sunday,
(20:29):
which is again so self evidently reasonable.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
I can't believe there's an argument over it.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
If you can perform the same require whatever the requirements
are set by military people that know how many push
ups you need to be able to do, or how
fast you need to run a mile or whatever to
be fit to serve in battle. If you, as a
woman can do that, I don't care. If it's all
women army, don't make any difference to me. But you
all got to meet the same requirements.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
You know, unless there's a disruption of troop cohesion because
of the sexual dynamics, which has been a part of
every military in the history of the world. Don't tell
me it doesn't matter, because it does. But I agree
with you in principle one hundred percent. And the argument
from the women should be in combat people all along
has been they're up to the task.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
They're up to the task.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
Okay, Well, if there are standards for the task, which
is what those standards are, then they have to be
able to meet them. Anything any conclusion other than that
is bizarre. It's idiotic, it's unsupportable, and it's dangerous for
both the men and the women in question anyway, So
well done, Pete. A judge said, Now the transgender thing,
(21:34):
you can't do that. They try to ban transgender people
from serving in the US military. It's a preliminary injunction
that will be fought through the courts for a while,
I would imagine.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
So there were two assassination attempts on Trump, as we remember,
the one where he actually got shot, the scary to one,
and then that other one at the golf course, which
anybody downplays that just doesn't even understand.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
He had no.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
Vision of the president yet well, in five minutes he
would have he need to put a bullet.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Yeah, he would have killed the president.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
He was laying in the bushes with his gun pointing
out and thank god a Secret Service agent's on. But
there's some new information on that dude that came out yesterday.
This is from ABC News Brian Ruth's apparent obsession with
assassinating President Trump before he allegedly stalked Trump on his
Florida golf course. Prosecutor say Ruth, a fierce supporter of
Ukraine who had visited the war torn country multiple times,
(22:33):
reached out to an associate there his request send me
an RPG, rocket propelled grenade or Stinger's surface to air missile.
Prosecutors claim Ruth desperately wanted to blow up then candidate
Trump's plane, writing I need equipment so that Trump cannot
get elected. And now the FBI says Ruth could have
had an even more powerful weapon after he first tried
(22:54):
to buy a fifty caliber rifle capable of piercing body
armor and slicing through car doors.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
That would have been something.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
I don't know how easy it is to mail an
RPG or a shoulder fired missile, whether that can get
through the mail or not, but you can get a
hold of fifty caliber.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Guns in the United States. And I'm glad he didn't,
and I'm.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
Glad he got caught before he was able to pull
anything off, right right, this is.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
A dumb story before we go to break.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
As y'all know, Hooters has filed for bankruptcy and Hooters
is ditching bikini knights, which I didn't know they have.
I don't know if the waitresses were bikinis or the customers.
The customers, I'm not feel pretty. Hooters is ditching bikini
knights in favor of charity, family friendly dining. Oh boy,
(23:48):
to some sort of charity night for families to come in.
I guess this is before you go before the bankruptcy judge,
you know, for better treatment or I don't know what
that is. I was gonna say, show hands, everybody who
thinks this will work.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Anybody, show of hands.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
I think you hope the judge is a guy. And
you have the chicks and the weird nylons like it's
the seventies, and those weird shorts, and I don't know
whoever came up with those outfits in the first place.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
Well, as you've pointed out many times through the years,
every damn sports bar, at least half of them in
America have attractive young women dressed in a provocative way,
serving the drinks and the wings.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
I mean, Hooters is utterly not unique.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
On an oracle of the genre.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
One more thing I wanted to jam in before we
take a break, and then we'll learn more about chicken jockey,
and then something of substance.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
I don't remember what it was.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
Yes, it is true Chinese troops were caught fighting for Russia.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
In Ukraine. That has been nailed down.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Now.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
I remember when that was a red line for the
Biden administration. The idea of Chinese troops fighting. I don't
know if it's a red line for Trump or we're
all just going to kind of ignore.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
This seems like kind of a big deal.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
The China's actually providing soldiers right now.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
The Chinese stance, the government's stance was, oh, we've warned
our people to stay far away from any war zones.
These are not our soldiers. These are misguided souls.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
Getting a little less proxy in a little more war.
When you actually have Chinese soldiers fighting, when North Ausrians O, geez,
that's writing.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
Because North Korea doesn't go to the grocery store for
milk without asking China whether it's okay. That's a bit
of an exaggeration. But yeah, the fact that there are
thousands and thousands of North Koreans there's that's not gone
unnoticed by China.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
They permitted it.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
So I got one kid that went to the Minecraft
movie in one that hasn't seen it. And if you're
a kid and you haven't seen the Minecraft, especially a boy,
if you're a boy and you haven't seen the Minecraft movie. Well,
you're on the outs socially. You just you got to
see it because it's the biggest phenomenon going. Well, if
you're planning to go to this weekend, you're gonna drop
your kid off, you might have to go in with
them because they're changing the rules that a lot of
(26:02):
movie theaters explain that coming up, stay here, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 9 (26:08):
So what is a chicken jockey? The official definition a
child zombie who rides a chicken. Of course, this morning
that craze around chicken jockeys, causing one movie theater in
New Jersey to take matters into its own hands, instituting
a new policy. Miners will now have to have a
parent or responsible adult with them if they want to
watch the film. The Township Theater in Bergen County riding
(26:31):
in a statement that a group of boys engaged in
completely unacceptable behavior, including vandalism. They also received multiple complaints
from other moviegoers who are trying to enjoy the film
with their families.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
The manager called us and said that the theater was
in badscame.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
Okay, so that's one theater, although there are theaters all
across the country where during the biggest movie of the
year so far, the Minecraft movie. During that particular scene,
people start throwing popcorn and stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
I think that's going to grow.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
I anticipate this weekend to be coast to coast popcorn throwing.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Which I could feel like I could participate in myself.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
Popcorn throwing is not the same as like throwing a
pop very different thing.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
You sweep of the podcorn, you know.
Speaker 5 (27:21):
So you don't think America's adolescent boys will heed the
call from Network News to calm down.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
I just think it. I was thinking about this yesterday.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
Uh, the most common thing in the world with teenagers,
and you just hope you have it at the right level.
I guess young people need to feel like rebels, and
most of the time they're rebeling is so minor and
nothing and really laughable.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
But you know, you want to let them have their
moment of being a rebel.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
I mean, I've heard so many teenagers in my life
brag about the rebellious thing that did that was just
some nothing, it's just a nothing, big deal, but but
they have to do it. It's something the way we're
built human beings, and good if if this may if
this gets your I'm a rebel out of your system,
and as far as you go, that's fantastic throwing some
puzzles as.
Speaker 5 (28:15):
A big fan of free range parenting and let them
grow that great organization and that sort of thing. Uh yeah,
I don't quash that rebel impulse, just help them channel
it into a way that's non destruct.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
I think it's funny.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
I don't know if it's because the town I live
in or whatever, or maybe it was because you could
mostly hear my son and his friends who are all
very like, too cool for everything, But he whipped out
his phone at the movie the other night and recorded,
and it was more like chicken Jockey, Like.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
They're already tired of it.
Speaker 5 (28:45):
Oh that's so yesterday, yelling chicken Jockey night lame o.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
Three days later, idiot, here today, gone today. A couple
things for you really quickly. I'm gonna read this whole
story because this could be huge. Dating apps mess with
your hormones, they think, and can even send libido levels plunging.
Wouldn't that be something If there's something about dating apps
(29:12):
that makes people not want to have sex and get together,
that kind of is counterproductive. Since you got on the
dating app. I assume originally to get together with someone
makes you not want to get together with someone.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
Weir, Yeah, I can't imagine.
Speaker 4 (29:29):
No, it's not impossible to believe that could be true though,
that there's some element of the I hate to use
word chase, toxic masculinity or something wrong, but some element
of the chase that gets lost.
Speaker 5 (29:44):
There and or after the first rush of the thrill
of what you're doing, it starts to become soul deadening
and disgusting to you. I mean, because how many folks,
young folks have we heard saying, yeah, I'm done with
the the whole online dating thing. It's it's well, soul
deadening and disgusting.
Speaker 4 (30:03):
I've heard so many people say that. Well, if it is,
you know, some sort of pheromones thing or whatever that
we've all long believed that causes the fall in love
and all this sort of stuff, well you're not getting
that online. So maybe you get the your human nature
to procreate drives you to get onto a dating app
and do all the thing, and then you match with something,
(30:23):
discuss a few things, and it's like you're not getting
in India pheromone stuff. So it's just like, eh, I
don't even feel like it right the end of that, right.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
You tell me those of you of online dated and
this this is out from our Secretary of the Treasury, bessent'
Is that how you say his name? Wall Street has
grown wealthier for four decades. For the next four years,
it's main streets turned.
Speaker 5 (30:49):
Oh god, the whole Wall Street main Street thing. Not
from either party, please, I'm not sure.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
I believe that it's mainstream.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (31:04):
Again, the idea that Trump is going to reshape global
trade for the next couple of decades, and that the
American economy will be restructured to reemphasize domestic assembly and
manufacturing and the rest of it. How is that going
to happen If his term ends in three and a
half years, Well JD Vance will win two terms and
blah blah blah. Well then it could happen conceivably. But
(31:28):
I think it's all just posturing to get better trade
deals done, which again, I would be in favor of.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
A response to that comment from the Secretary of the
Treasury from the Dispatch, which admittedly is a Trump hating organization,
is best for real Main Street is about to get
a beating thanks to you geniuses. And wait until the
Wall Street crisis turns into a recession or a financial crisis,
higher interest rates.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
And all won't be helping Main Street.
Speaker 5 (31:57):
Well. To his credit, Trump has said, look, there's going
to be some tough times, but we've got a restructure.
And I honestly, I said earlier, I was two thirds
convinced that this is just posturing to get better trade deals,
and he has no intention of long term trade barriers,
you know, isolationist economics. But there's a third of me
that thinks, you know, Scott Besant is expressing what the
(32:20):
boss thinks.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
I don't know. There's what's bothering Wall Street so much
nobody knows.
Speaker 4 (32:25):
Maybe the biggest problem with this whole thing is it's
all discussed as a whole, the tariff thing, when China
is such a different situation than all these other countries.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Oh yeah, they should be completely separate.
Speaker 5 (32:39):
Conversations and and very you know, customizable to various countries
with various realities.
Speaker 4 (32:49):
Taylor, Taylor, Trump's going with tailored. These are not off
the rack.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
They are tailored.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
Good good.
Speaker 5 (32:57):
Some impoverished African Republic, I'm fine if we treat them
a little differently than say, you know France, how.
Speaker 4 (33:06):
About some island full of penguins? Have They've been sticking
it to us for decades?
Speaker 5 (33:11):
Right, taking our mackerel and giving us nothing back in return. Oh,
that would be a trade surplus, never mind throwing their
mackerel at us and taking nothing in return.
Speaker 4 (33:21):
You strut around in your little tuxedos. You own that
rock as if you can fly.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
You can't.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
You're fightless.
Speaker 4 (33:32):
And the headline around that, in case you have heard,
is one hundred percent tariff on China kicked in midnight
last night.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
Look for it soon on a Walmart shelf near you.
Speaker 5 (33:42):
Gallup did a poll recently what do you think foreign
trade means for America? Do you see foreign trade more
as an opportunity for economic growth through increased US exports
or as a threat to the economy from foreign imports.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
I think that's a pretty.
Speaker 5 (33:56):
Fair way to ask the question, don't you? And interestingly,
it was like asking about what do you think of
boys playing in girls sports? Is eighty one percent say
I see foreign trade more as an opportunity for economic
growth to fourteen that see it as more of a
threat eighty one to fourteen. How populist is the idea
(34:22):
of seriously reigning in foreign trade.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Wow, we'll have to say.
Speaker 4 (34:32):
May you live in interesting times. They say, here's one
thing you can be thankful for. Night clubs don't fall
on your head in the United States. You go out
to a nightclub at night, it's not just going to
fall on your head because there are no rules whatsoever
for building. You know, I'm a lower rules guy to
(34:54):
any regulations, but at least nightclubs don't fall in your head.
I don't know if you've seen any of those videos
from the Dominican Republic, but that's brutal, just a nightmare. Yeah,
I'd say absolutely. Next hour, more protests in Gaza. These
people are brave against TAMAS and John Kennedy and Lindsey
Graham said some interesting things about Iran and AOC. So
(35:14):
we'll get into all that in our form.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
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