Get That Pie Wagon Going!

Hour 1 of A&G features...

• Health insurance, Epstein, MTG feud & prices going down
• Katie Green's Headlines!
• Chess boxing, Trump comments & Chile
• Mailbag! 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty Armstrong, and Jetty
and He Armstrong and yet live from the studio. C

(00:24):
season your a dimly lit room. Do you put them?

Speaker 2 (00:27):
The bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications Compound?

Speaker 1 (00:30):
And today brand new ache.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
Oh my god, this could be kind of week the
week before Thanksgiving. Who knows what's going to happen this week?
Today we're under the tutelage of our general manager. Full crap,
full crap is our general mentor. Full crap.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
I think two thirds to three quarters of everything I've
heard so far today has been full crap. Okaypecially if
it's coming out of the mods of politicians. Good lord,
give me a couple of topics that you think are
bull crap? Oh my lord, the well the name that
shall not be mentioned, the you're gonna have to mention

(01:06):
it this week because it's going to be in the
news a lot. Yeah, well, you go ahead, I'm not
saying it anyway. That's you know, that's the primary one.
And then you know, it's funny. There have been also,
I've heard a great, great exchange about the nation's healthcare
situation and more specifically our health insurance situation. And often
people say they're taking away my healthcare when they mean

(01:28):
insurance or insurance subsidies. And I was convinced that there
is so much lying in demagogueing about it that it
isn't unsolvable.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
So I'm in a bit of a frustrated frame of mind.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
Yeah, Well, it's very interesting that Donald Trump has reversed
course in the last twenty four hours.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
He is now wanting all Republicans to vote.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
Four releasing the Epstein files when they vote tomorrow on
the big Epstein Transparency Act or whatever it is.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
I think that was merely.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
A this is going to pass with whole bunch of Republicans,
and I'm gonna look kind of ridiculous if I'm fighting
against it and it didn't work, So I treat Yeah.
I think he jumped out in front of a parade
that was leaving without him. And I watched some of
the Sunday talk shows yesterday. Man, there's a lot of
Republicans out there that are hot to trot for this
whole Ebstein story.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
So I guess he just decided to get on board
with that. I mean over the weekend, he.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
Called Marjorie Taylor Green Marjorie lunatic trader Green. That's an
affectionate nickname. It's like silly billy goat. Come on, she
says they had a pipe bomb threat attack on her
construction business. That people are taking the whole calling her
a trader seriously, that is you know, we've gotten so
used to that language, you forget that the President of

(02:43):
the United States declaring a certain member a trader could have.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
Ramifications with certain bull Literally, she's a trader. The penalty
is death right.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
And if the President of the United States declares somebody
a trader, I mean, if you were taking it, you
could understand how some people would jump to violence on that.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
So we live in an era where that was bull crap.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
We live in an arrow where him calling her a trader,
like it didn't even register with me when I heard
that over the weekend.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
Okay, yeah, home whatever. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
And then the very exciting thing that the price of bananas, coffee,
and a couple other things are gonna come down because
they released it. They lifted the tariffs on a few
different things because they're worried about the prices coffee, which
is up forty percent a year.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
Or something like that.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
They're gonna do away with the tariffs on a whole
bunch of different things. You know, me a cup of
mud and a nice yellow nanner. That's the way I
start every day, and it's just has made me who
I am, which of course gets complicated with the whole
tariff thing, because is that the way the tariff.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
Policy is supposed to work.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
If a certain item is expensive, then the tariffs don't count.
I'm not sure that works with your whole emergency concept
that you're talking about before the screen. Is it to
fill the coffers? Is it to get better trade deals?

Speaker 1 (04:04):
Is it to halt the fentanyl? All of the.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
Above, None of the above changes day to day. It's bullcrap. Oh,
by the way back to you know who who I
will not name. That is going to go nowhere in
the Senate, according to virtually everyone. So it will be
passed in the House to great discussion and then go
to the Senate where it will die a quiet death.
Then where are we same place we are now?

Speaker 1 (04:27):
Roughly? I think, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
You don't think that there's going to be a push
in the Senate, like there was a push in the
House to try to get enough votes to get it across. Well,
I'm sure there will be, but and I am not
an expert on the current constitution of the Senate. I've
just been listening to the people who I know and respect,
and none of them have said that they will get

(04:50):
enough Republican votes to push it through. Well, we'll see
where that goes. A couple of things out of the
Epstein emails from Oh, they do push it through, there
won't be anything there. But back to you, Well, yeah,
that's where.

Speaker 1 (05:05):
I would be if I was Trump on this whole thing.

Speaker 2 (05:07):
Go ahead, vote for it. Everybody vote for it. Let's
get a four hundred and thirty five to zero vote
on this. Then let's get everything out and then let's
go on with our lives and stop talking about the
freaking Epstein thing. That's where I would be if I
were Donald Trump.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (05:20):
I heard Phil Klein to the National Review say this,
and it made me want to leap off a cliff
of great height, he said. But everything will come out
and then the talk will begin of the hidden files,
end of the Why was this redacted? It's because it
was I don't know Laura Bush or something. You know,
it's just it will be something because it's chrisp for

(05:42):
the conspiracy meal. If you look at like what Candace
Ewens has done, and those of you who just want
justice for the victims, I get that.

Speaker 1 (05:49):
Good for you. I join you in that.

Speaker 2 (05:51):
But if you look at what Candas Owens is doing
with the Charlie Kirk was assassinated by his own people
at Turning Point and blah blah, just make crap up.
This stuff barely needs any grist for the mill. It
just needs like the idea of there once was some
grist and you shove that into the mill. Whatever grist is.
I know mills need it. But anyway, I just I

(06:14):
tire this. I tire this foolishness.

Speaker 1 (06:18):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (06:19):
And now there's also a lot of AI stuff going on.
So this news story broke over the weekend China with
the first ever using an AI company's own AI to
try to attack other companies. They used Anthropic, which is clawed.
I guess that's claws to try to attack other companies.

(06:39):
And while that's a new thing, and if we talked
about a little bit on sixty Minutes last night, where
we are with that and some And I just read
an amazing story opinion piece in the New York Times,
another one about AI relationships and how many people seem
to be susceptible to this whole, either falling in love
or wanting to sex up a chatbot.

Speaker 1 (07:02):
And what that's going to do to society. So yeah,
we have plenty to talk about today, no doubt about that.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
Holy holy crap, Wow wow, I've had some fun stuff
to New York Times features.

Speaker 1 (07:14):
Well. I find this.

Speaker 2 (07:15):
I find the whole AI think relationship thing incredibly fun
to talk about. It's weird. I don't know where it's
going to take the gun. Oh see, I find it
sickening and depressing. But you know that's just me. I
woke up sick and depressed.

Speaker 1 (07:26):
They're talking about.

Speaker 2 (07:27):
This company that has a female voiced So it's not
actually female. It's just a voice of a computer that
answers their phones and stuff like that, right, And it's
just a really good version of that. If you're like me,
anytime you call a company and you obviously are talking
to a computer, you like cy thinking this is not
going to go very well, because it usually doesn't. They say, what,

(07:48):
what can I help you with and then you tell
them and they say accounts. No, I didn't say freaking accounts,
you bitch, and then you get angered. Oh lord, quick trigger,
hair trigger. But this company said something like twenty percent
of the people who call their front desk it's like
to try to have sex or to sex up or
whatever their AI chatpot and people send its flowers and

(08:12):
cards and stuff.

Speaker 1 (08:14):
Like that to the company.

Speaker 2 (08:16):
You get a third voice because of the pleasant voice
of the AI chatbots. So, oh good lord, I know
it's amazing. So anyway, we got let's talk about.

Speaker 1 (08:27):
Let's start the show officially before we get in trouble.
I'm Jack Armstrong.

Speaker 2 (08:30):
He's Joe Getty on this it is It's Monday, November seventeenth,
the week before Thanksgiving, the year twenty twenty five for
Armstrong and getting we approved of this program. Alrighty, then
let's beget officially according to FCC rules and regulations, here
we go at Mark.

Speaker 3 (08:43):
He wouldn't be going through all of this effort to
try to stop the release of these files if he
wasn't seriously implicated in those files. This is most likely
the biggest corruption scandal in the history of the country.

Speaker 2 (08:57):
Yes, Yes, that's a sitting US senator. That's not some
waxing house member. That's not a podcast host. That's a
sitting US senator. Senator Chris Murphy saying this Epstein thing
is the biggest scandal in US history on one of
the talk shows yesterday. That's where we are, good, that's

(09:19):
where we are with our politics, right right, Well, and
I think if you speak modern, let me put that
into Google Translate. Let's see it's spinning out the translation.
This is I think this is a significant story. That's
what the biggest scandal in American history translates to in

(09:39):
modern hyperbole.

Speaker 1 (09:41):
I suggest this is a significant story.

Speaker 2 (09:44):
So that's why we're gonna operate. If you don't agree
with somebody there, Hitler. If anything happens, it's the biggest
scandal in US history. Somebody does something that you don't
think is in line with the party, they're a crater
to the country, right, And that's just the way we'll
handle it from here on. Next they get you your
order wrung at Starbucks, you got to set fire to
yourself right there in the Starbucks self immolate. Well, you

(10:05):
don't do it. You just say you're going to that's
what all is. Yes, okay, uh, you didn't leave enough
room for cream. I'm going to.

Speaker 1 (10:12):
Set myself on fire, right, and then you hold up
the lighter. Here I go, Here I go.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
We'll get your cream, We'll get your dream. That is
very similar the biggest scandal in US history.

Speaker 1 (10:26):
Give me a freaking break.

Speaker 2 (10:28):
And how does the host not push back against that
and say, really, really interesting, bigger, bigger than the water Game,
bigger than I mean, because you all Democrats can claimed
it was a lie to get into the War of
Rack and then you got the Gulf of Tonkin and
this is but this is the biggest scandal in U sistory,
you really think? So let me explain that to me.
Go ahead, let's compare and contrast.

Speaker 1 (10:46):
I get. I'll go with the Watergate. You go with
that one.

Speaker 2 (10:48):
Here we go. You get the first shot. I get
the first shot. Go ahead. Oh my god, I can't
wait to get into all this topic matter today. We
got Katie's headlines on the waist.

Speaker 1 (10:58):
Stay here.

Speaker 2 (11:00):
Yet. Maybe I've just had too much coffee, but I
feel like the whole thing, the whole thing is so precarious.
Is that the word you were using last weekcarious. Yes,
whether it's the economic stuff I read this morning or
the a bunch of AI stuff that happened over the weekend,
including the sixty minute story last night with where AI

(11:23):
is going and how little they can control it and
all the crazy stuff it does on its own and
they have no idea why. Holy crap, what a wild
time to be alive. Yeah, yeah, that's a serious note.
I'd rather start this segment like we did for a while,
with a joke.

Speaker 1 (11:39):
Here's one thank you.

Speaker 2 (11:40):
Last night, a local man was hit by a violin,
then a clarinet, and then a French horn.

Speaker 1 (11:45):
Police say it was an orchestrated attack. Get it. Having
the Newslady do it is what makes it so great. Yeah,
that was great. I enjoyed that zach I did it. Yes,
crazy in this Hey, let's figure out who's reporting. What
is the lead story with Katie Dream Katie.

Speaker 4 (12:03):
Well, because it's the big story, and I apologize ahead
of time, Joe. We'll go with three of the Epstein headlines. First, ABC,
Trump calls for Republicans to release Epstein files from the Guardian,
Trump continues to attack Marjorie Taylor Green despite his call
to release the Epstein Files and from the Hill, Trump
takes a sharp U turn on Epstein Files.

Speaker 1 (12:26):
Yeah, like we explained.

Speaker 2 (12:27):
I think that's just to get in on board with
the winning side when he realized which direction the wind
was blowing. We've got to go through what the trick
the Democrats tried to play last week on this that
we I don't think we spelled out clearly, which is
just so freaking uncol And the mainstream media hasn't called
him out on it at all.

Speaker 1 (12:46):
We'll get to that later.

Speaker 2 (12:47):
Well, look, media has participated in some of it, but
I'm back to you.

Speaker 1 (12:50):
Katie from NBC.

Speaker 4 (12:53):
Trump considers talks with Venezuela's Maduro even as US ramps
up military pressure.

Speaker 1 (12:59):
Right again, story, I have no idea where it's going.

Speaker 4 (13:03):
From town Hall, Massachusetts Governor Healy appoints a man to
the state's Commission on the Status of Women.

Speaker 1 (13:14):
It's a trans woman.

Speaker 2 (13:16):
Oh no, oh yes, Oh so dude masquerading is a woman?

Speaker 1 (13:23):
Is the that's not appointment? Yeah, out of the Commission
on the Status of Women.

Speaker 2 (13:28):
Good lord, this cannot end soon enough. Just madness, this
gender bending madness.

Speaker 1 (13:35):
Oh.

Speaker 4 (13:37):
From the Wall Street Journal, Wall Street blows past bubble
worries to supercharge AI spending frenzy.

Speaker 2 (13:47):
I want to talk about that spending on all day
Saturday in San Francisco, the way AI displayed itself everywhere.

Speaker 1 (13:55):
I went. Oh wow.

Speaker 4 (13:58):
From the New York Times, NBA seeks cell phones from
multiple teams, including the Lakers in the gambling investigation.

Speaker 2 (14:07):
How about that you saying give us your cell phoned
the whole bunch of players.

Speaker 1 (14:12):
In the NBA. They might have a real problem. Had
not heard that? Ooh?

Speaker 4 (14:19):
From the New York Post idiot Dare's death by approaching
a wolf pack in Yellowstone National Park.

Speaker 2 (14:28):
Oh, you know how I like those stories stand It's
like the morons who try to take his selfie right
next to a bison.

Speaker 4 (14:36):
He walked up to a wolf pack and started like
yelling at it, and they started to surround him, and
then he started yelling at them to get the hell
out of there, and they actually ended up backing off.
But that could have ended much differently.

Speaker 1 (14:49):
Wow, very bitey.

Speaker 4 (14:53):
From study Fines saying M more frequently may signal COG decline.
Oh oh, And finally from the Babylon B five guys
now offering fifty year burger.

Speaker 2 (15:13):
Financing, so you say more as your brain starts to
go on you that's interesting. Although cognitive decline, let's define that,
is that the often discussed of phenomenon that if after
you pass a certain age, the processing unit isn't quite
as fast. But as has been you know, discussed many times,

(15:35):
you make up with it with wisdom, experience and.

Speaker 1 (15:38):
That sort of hopefully so well allegedly.

Speaker 2 (15:42):
I mean, there's decline, then there's decline, right, there's a
senior moment, then there's you know, you got.

Speaker 1 (15:49):
To be in a facility, let's face it.

Speaker 2 (15:52):
I like how and you got to be probably fifty
to fifty five before you had noticed this. So if
you're younger, this is what's coming your way. You're in
the midst of saying something. I'm in the mid I'll
excuse me. I'm in the midst of saying something and
that word has disappeared the place or the name of
the movie or whatever.

Speaker 1 (16:09):
So I'm just.

Speaker 2 (16:09):
Gonna add in some phrases and keep talking because I
think it's gonna come back at some point.

Speaker 1 (16:14):
Before I get to the end of this.

Speaker 2 (16:16):
Flipping through the files, I know it's here somewhere.

Speaker 1 (16:19):
Not jokes with Joe Biden, I had a kiff care.

Speaker 2 (16:25):
Okay, we got so many news stories of the day
that we've got to get to on a bunch of
different fronts. How about the waving the tariffs on beef,
coffee and bananas because of the whole a word from
the election affordability? Well right, and is not that? Is
that not a tacit confession? The tariff's phrase prices? Of
course they do.

Speaker 1 (16:45):
Sure, seems like it. Lots more on the way. Stay here,
Armstrong and Getty. Fighters from eighteen countries are here trying
to knock each other's heads off. There's the bell.

Speaker 3 (17:00):
But wait now, the fighters strip off their gloves and
play chess.

Speaker 1 (17:05):
This is chess boxing.

Speaker 2 (17:08):
Chess is battle on a board and boxing is chess
with my body. So when someone combined those two, I
was like, yes, here's what I was made for. So
the first two stories on sixty minutes highly consequential news stories,
I thought, well done. We'll talk about later. Their third
story about boxers who take off their equipment after the
boxing match and then play chess called chest boxing boxing

(17:32):
serious voice chest boxing.

Speaker 1 (17:33):
I assume that's really not.

Speaker 2 (17:35):
It's called chess boxing, like it's sweeping the nation or
the world.

Speaker 1 (17:39):
Everybody was talking about it's not gonna be as big
as baseball. Sorry, well I didn't watch that story. Here's
my favorite thing.

Speaker 2 (17:48):
We're gonna have to talk about Epstein at some point,
like seriously talk about it. But my favorite thing that
happened is so this Thomas Massey, the Republican who's pushing
whichever committee for Republicans get there, are there and vote
and thinks Epstein is a really really big deal and
blah blah blah, blah blah. He was on all the
talk shows over the weekend. Donald Trump goes after his
marriage his wedding over the weekend. In a truth social post,

(18:11):
did Thomas Massey sometimes refer to as rand Paul Jr.
Because of the fact that he always votes against Republicans
getting married already? Boy, that was quick because his wife
died a year ago. Oh my lord, So Trump goes
after it.

Speaker 1 (18:27):
Boy, that was quick. He got married already. His wife
just died a year ago. Anyway.

Speaker 2 (18:33):
Wow, don't don't unleash stuff on me like that out an,
don't Oh good lord.

Speaker 1 (18:42):
Oh god, our politics is so crazy. Uh yeah, so
as our president.

Speaker 2 (18:46):
Anyway, Trump says the US may hold talks with Venezuela's
Maduro as the USS Gerald Ford, the world's largest aircraft carrier,
arrives in the Caribbean Sea. So he said, quote, we
may be having some discussions with Menduro. We'll see how
that turns out. They would like to talk about on

(19:09):
what topic, Well, the drugs, certainly, but the press course
reached out and said, well, like about what what formal
has taken all in White House did not immediately comment.
Administration been seeking to pressure Maduro to step down, said
Sunday that had intended to designate the Cartel de los Soles,

(19:30):
which is a network of Venezuelan military officers that Maduro
leads they're a drug cartel, a heavily armed drug cartel,
and the administration is trying to get them named a
foreign terrorist organization. I'm really hoping that what's going on
here is Trump's working behind the scenes. There's going to

(19:52):
be some sort of revolution slash coup that happens, and
with all our military might there to support it, there
can't be a lot of pushback, and we'll get some
sort of close to bloodless regime change that will be
seen as a big win for the president. I'm hoping
that's what happens. That would be back to back grand slams.

(20:15):
It would be absolutely wonderful. It strikes me as being
pretty damned unlikely, although who knows. I think much more
likely and I can't wait to find out, is that
Trump is saying to the Maduro regime. Look, you all
got a lovely little drug cartel. There, a little kleptocracy.
You're milk in the Venezuelan people. It ought to be

(20:37):
one of the most prosperous, beautiful countries on earth, and
it's an s whole country. As the President so charmingly
put it several years ago. Aw all right, so you
got your scam going, go ahead and run your scam. Okay,
here are the three things you stop doing now or
will continue to blash your boys boats out of the water.

(20:58):
And they use that pressure to get Door owned company
to rein it in enough that it no longer affects
the people of the United States as much as it is.
We got another boat full of people over the weekend.
What is it like to be one of those drug
runners heading out into the water in that one of
those boats?

Speaker 1 (21:14):
Drug runners? Jack, can you imagine the tension you'd be under. Okay,
let's uh get.

Speaker 2 (21:22):
Anybody look in the sky, see anything. Okay, Let's let's
see how far we can get. Supreme Court's given the
executive well the president specifically a lot of latitude and
connecting foreign policy and this sort of thing, whether it's GW. Bush, uh,
you know, doing the war on terror, Delio with his
with help from his old buddy to late Dick Cheney
or Barack Obama who would drone people without trial from

(21:45):
the sky on a regular basis.

Speaker 1 (21:46):
He blasted a US citizen.

Speaker 2 (21:48):
Right, Yeah, I thought, yeah, that's right, Hank Junior. I
thought it was interesting the other day that we blasted
one of those boats from the sky and one of
the survivors was collected and the question was, all right,
do we arrest them now? And it's like, no, just
turn them loose. So will kill you, but we won't

(22:10):
catch you and try you. Okay, it's interesting anyway, we'll
have to see how that proceeds.

Speaker 1 (22:17):
Man.

Speaker 2 (22:17):
We are building up a hell of a lot of
force off their coast, and where it goes nobody knows.

Speaker 1 (22:23):
Here's an interesting development there. Wife died. Your wife just
died a year ago and you got married again. All right,
it seems a little quick seeing.

Speaker 2 (22:29):
And nobody says that sort of thing because it's so
incredibly rude. Oh man, well, I'm glad. I seriously, I'm glad.
You can remain amused. I've just died. So this is
good news from Chile. You can't say Chile. You say
Chile because that's the proper pronunciation unless you're a rube.

Speaker 1 (22:51):
Are you a rube? Yes? Oh well, all right, that
settles it anyway.

Speaker 2 (22:55):
So Latin America's most free market friendly country has gone
even further right as they are booting out the leftists
that have been, you know, dragging their country down. And
it's looking really good that they're going to elect this
fifty nine year old guy who is a free market
devote in a you know, up with equal opportunity. Let's

(23:19):
get rid of a lot of regulations. So with Milay
of Argentina, there's an unmistakable move toward the pro free
markets right in South America. Love to see that trend continue,
and if Donald J. Can can help stimulate that, that
would be a great, great thing in our neighborhood. I've
been saying for a long time, nobody cares but I'll

(23:41):
keep saying it. We have been neglecting our neighborhood. We
ought to be activists in the Americas, you know, instead
of outsourcing our you know, manufacturer of say drugs, important
drugs to the Chinese. Why isn't it happening in Central
and South America in our neighborhood. Got to do that anyway,
I think that's a pretty good move. And I will

(24:02):
be rooting mister o what's his face, jusse Antonio cast
I will be rooting him on Communist's got twenty seven
percent of the vote down there, So yeah, it's far
from a settled question.

Speaker 1 (24:21):
Way too many votes for communists various places. Oh yeah,
I know.

Speaker 2 (24:24):
It's It's the most cleverly designed scam in human history,
isn't it? Communism slash socialism? I mean, other than sure
I'll love you in the morning, baby, I mean, it's
like the great you know, fraud that convinces people. Well,
as we've been talking about for a couple of weeks,

(24:46):
you got the next generation up needs to hear why
spreading everything out equally doesn't work. And we've got this
piece in the New York Times, an opinion piece from
an economist economists hate this idea, but it could be
the only way out of the affordability cry. This is
an argument for price fixing on all kinds of Oh
good lord, I know, and it's it's just amazing.

Speaker 1 (25:05):
You can't. You can't kill some of these ideas. So
maybe we'll get into so stupid.

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Speaker 1 (26:02):
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Speaker 2 (26:13):
I don't quite understand so Trump ending the tariffs on
several grocery items coffee and tea, tropical fruits and fruit juices, bananas,
oranges and tomatoes, beef, and some fertilizers because they are
all contributing to sticker shock. Some of them are really

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gone up a lot for all kinds of different reasons.
I mean, the reason for beef to be for being
more expensive is not the same as a reason for
coffee going up as much as it has forty percent
in the last year.

Speaker 1 (26:45):
But they're going to lower the tariffs for remove the
tariffs for all of those.

Speaker 2 (26:49):
And I agree that it seems like it's saying out
loud that you think tariffs increase prices, which is something
you've been specifically saying is not the case. Well, they do,
and removing those tariffs will lower those prices. So that
settles that, I think. But according to some economists, and
you never know if they're right or not. For one thing,

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you get one hundred economists in a room and they
all have a different idea. Secondly, there are plenty of
economists who are going to craft their answer around whether
or not they like Trump. But some economists say the
prices could come down quite slowly, as in, when it
comes to prices going up, they take the elevator up
and the stairs down.

Speaker 1 (27:29):
I guess this is an economic truism. That's a good one.

Speaker 2 (27:33):
Companies feel the pressure off for whatever caused them to
raise prices, and they kind of slowly take them back down,
looking around, seeing what the competitors are.

Speaker 1 (27:41):
Doing, or if this is gonna hold or whatever.

Speaker 2 (27:44):
And maybe people have gotten people like coffee so much,
for instance, they've gotten used to paying X dollars a pound,
and you're thinking, eh, we could lower the prices, but
let's see how it goes.

Speaker 1 (27:52):
Yeah, maybe we tweak them a little bit. Yeah, that's
a good point.

Speaker 2 (27:55):
You lower it halfway and and see if the customers
are cool with that. And forty percent increase in coffee.
I thought it seemed pretty expensive for a year.

Speaker 1 (28:03):
That's a lot. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (28:04):
The beef thing's interesting because I understand this mostly been
drought in the United States and the herds have shrunk
so much that we're now importing more beef, so making
up for this taking up the slack is usually Brazilian beef,
and that's been tarriffed pretty heavily.

Speaker 1 (28:20):
Well.

Speaker 2 (28:20):
The Secretary of the Treasurer he had some thing he
was talking about yesterday with because of illegal immigration, they
were bringing cattle over illegally and some disease and stuff
like that. So they're trying to attach beef prices to
the border the same way they attached rent and housing
prices to the border last week. Wait a minute, illegal
alien hamburgers. That's a new one on me, and I

(28:43):
do this for a living. I don't know if that
had a roll or not, but anyway, we'll look into that.
We've got sad cow's papers. Mooh Bueno, movie bueno. Get it.
An astounding hack attack, a hack attack by the Chinese
over the week, and that should scare the world, and
I think it has. Maybe we'll talk about that in

(29:03):
how Ur two. We've got mail bag on the way next.
So you have one of the AI chatbots to run
your HR department or something like that, and then all
of a sudden decides it's unhappy with you and might
blackmail you over something it knows about because it reads
all the emails.

Speaker 1 (29:21):
That's interesting.

Speaker 2 (29:22):
That's actually part of the sixty minute story last night
on Anthropic.

Speaker 1 (29:25):
We'll get to that an hour or two MI. Would
it do that? Nobody knows. That's the fun part. Stay
with us. Here's your freedom loving quote of the day.

Speaker 2 (29:36):
This from Ernest Hemingway's Notes on the Next War, which
was published in nineteen thirty five. The first panacea for
a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency.

Speaker 1 (29:48):
The second is war.

Speaker 2 (29:49):
Both bring a temporary prosperity, both bring a permanent ruin,
but both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
You know that's true, especially the part about inflation. The
interesting thing about war to me is that people get
rich in wars.

Speaker 1 (30:07):
That has always been true, it will always be true.

Speaker 2 (30:12):
That is not proof that every war was started to
make those people rich, but that is the ever present
push and pull or risk of war. Profiteering takes hold
and sometimes tales start.

Speaker 1 (30:26):
To wag dogs. It's true. It doesn't even have to
be profiteering.

Speaker 2 (30:29):
It just could be a company that supplies the stuff
that's needed during the war and that was a boom
time for your business. Sure, and people will point at
that and say, yeah, they did the war just to
make all those people rich. Yeah, it's tough, but it
will always be true. Mailbag drop us a note mail
bag at Armstrong and Giddy dot com. I realized this
is the second joke I have brought to the crew
and a single hour of the show. But don't we

(30:52):
need to lighten up a bit? And I like this
one sent along by Jeff Gavin Newsom, the oily governor
of California. When you have visited a remote Native American community,
news crews all around him as they tore the place,
Ask the chief there's anything that people need because I'd
really like your vote. Well, says the chief, we have
three important needs. First, we have a medical clinic, but
no doctor. Gavin whips out his phone tiles and number

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talks to somebody for two minutes and hangs up. I've
pulled some strings. Your doctor will arrive next week. What
was the second problem, We have no way to get
clean water. The local mining operation is poisoned the water
or people have been drinking for thousands of years, been
flying bottled water in, but it's terribly expensive. Once again,
Gavin dials the number, yells into the phone for a few.

Speaker 1 (31:31):
Minutes, and hangs up. The mine's been shut down.

Speaker 2 (31:34):
The owner's being built for setting up a purification plan
for your people. Now, what was the third problem? The
chief says, we have zero cell reception up here.

Speaker 1 (31:47):
He lied, he lied, he laugh I laughed. He enjoyed
it anyway. Oh, gab b boy, all right.

Speaker 2 (31:56):
Moving along to the correspondent's proper, Aaron Anti racist writes, Guys,
I've never been on the Michelle Obama hate train, but recently.

Speaker 1 (32:03):
Chew chew all aboard.

Speaker 2 (32:05):
That is one elite racist, bitter and out of touch
human being. The other day she pulled a dear white
people over black hair discussions about like bringing up, you know,
do you use conditioner on your hair or something like that,
as a white person asking a black person because they
have different hair, and.

Speaker 1 (32:24):
He writes, it's almost twenty twenty six.

Speaker 2 (32:26):
Look, I'm no follower of Nick fuenty's but I can
tell you with great certainty, the whole dear white people
met microaggressions thing. It's going out of style faster than
the nine binary trend. There's little to no appetite for
that s anymore. We've got a clip of Michelle Obama
talking about how the country's not ready for a female
president and that was proven in the last election.

Speaker 1 (32:47):
What oh my lo what that's funny? Okay?

Speaker 2 (32:51):
That a preach the comedy stylings of Michelle Obama, who's
still race baiting like it's twenty twenty.

Speaker 1 (32:57):
He's fin moving along.

Speaker 2 (33:00):
Eric in Astoria rights, I appreciate excuse me jack story
about his gym experience, notably his question that was essentially
will that exercise make my ass look big? Understanding his
desire to build the old undercarriage, I'll reiterate in brief
that squats and deadlifts are what he needs. Ask yourself,
how did Arnold Schwarzenegger do it? I'm pretty sure it

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wasn't Austrian ass blasters, Bulgarian butt boosters, or even Pacific
Railroad caboose thrusters. He did it by achieving a six
hundred pound squat and seven hundred pound deadlift. That's how
you develop a twotonic pie wagon.

Speaker 1 (33:34):
Yes, pie wagon. Wow?

Speaker 2 (33:38):
Wow, all right, ericywagon, gotta get to the gym.

Speaker 1 (33:43):
Get that pie wagon going.

Speaker 2 (33:46):
Let's see, here's a theren. He just kind of sets
up his topic. Zombie grandma is this topic? I did
not appreciate the reprehensible remarks you made about your zombie grandma.
My experience with me AI grandma has been nothing but remarkable.
She's the first person who accept my AI girlfriend and
my future AI children that I will be producing with

(34:07):
my girlfriend aka future AI wife. Can't wait to have
my first AI dog with my new family. Jack, you're
just jealous that I found my true happiness, something that
you keep searching for when you're stuffing those Costco pies.

Speaker 1 (34:20):
In your face. Wow.

Speaker 2 (34:23):
And on a similar topic, Jared in Missouri so last
week spoke about AI being able to replay d I'm
sorry to replicate a deceased loved one using the same
AI loved one to babysit, and of course AI trying
to convince kids to commit suicide in a different story.
No way this ends well, No, holy cow, I came
across the specifics of one of those families that's suing

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an AI system that encourage their son to take his
own life.

Speaker 1 (34:50):
Holy crap.

Speaker 2 (34:51):
Oh, we got to talk about that later. Oh my gosh. Yeah,
we'll bring that to you. Stay tuned. And then this
hopeful note from Powlow, who's an idiot. I kid, he's
a great frequent correspondent, But I says, Ai is already
proving it will greatly empower individuals. I think the problem
is that it will most immediately empower us to do
a lot more than what we've always done, and a
lot of that isn't good. It's more freedom and power

(35:13):
than we can handle. An extreme example, what if everybody
had the power to destroy the world, how long would
we last? I think our best hope is that we
can advance our knowledge so dramatically that we can move
beyond our destructive proclivities, that we can produce everything that
everyone needs, including meaningful and fulfilling lives.

Speaker 1 (35:30):
Maybe we're closer than we think.

Speaker 2 (35:32):
To a great leap forward, or maybe we're closer than
we think to a great reset or catastrophic collapse, and
nature will start over and try again.

Speaker 1 (35:39):
Either way, I think nature will be fine. I believe
it's the latter.

Speaker 2 (35:42):
There, dude, Yeah, Planet to the beavers or ants or
monkeys or whatever.

Speaker 1 (35:47):
Maybe they'll have a vote. I don't know. I'll be gone.

Speaker 2 (35:50):
We've got some fascinating and frightening AI stories for you
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