August 1, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 1 of A&G features...
- Trump's tariffs
- Katie Green's Headlines!
- C.O.W. Clips of the Week & tariff hits
- Mailbag!
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Katty Armstrong.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
And Jetty and he arms Range. I'm gonna drink all
the coffee today. I'm drinking all of it. Alert peru
ye into it.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
If you want a cup of coffee, you better get
it down because I'm breaking all the coffee. I'll put
the crop to the donkeys.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
I'm gonna be back in the er.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Coffee related live from Studio C see sign. You're a
dimly lit room deeper than the bowels the Armstrong and
Getty Communications Compound. Hey, y'all today Friday, we're heading into
a Friday weekend. We're under the tutelage of our general manager.
She's back, ten, rested and ready. Kamala Harris, Honorary Honorary
(01:05):
General manager Radioactive. WASPS stayed with us, and of course
Trump dropped what sixty eight tariffs last night before we
everybody went to bed. That's very exciting news with August
first statement, all that sort of stuff, is it? Is
it exciting news? Well, it's a big deal in terms
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of like rejiggering the way the world does business in
a way that's completely different than what it's been our
whole lives.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
So we'll see how this all turns out.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Yes, indeed, there are several aspects to that story that
I'm looking forward to talking about, believe it or not,
and they're interesting. For instance, the big appeals court hearing
the other day or yesterday, Eh, doesn't look great for
the administration. These tariffs might come and go like it
danced Christ Well, but so when are they gonna make
that ruling? It seems like any minute now. It seems
(01:55):
like if the courts think, dude, you can't do this.
I mean, there's been a lot of wasted blabber and inkspilled.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Talking about this.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
If the courts say he can't do that, oh okay,
well never mind, we go back to the way things
were before.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
What the hell?
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Right right? Let's see, is there timing for a decision?
Do it? I hear? You know you're your point is
well taken. You know I don't. I don't have that information.
Interesting oral arguments were yesterday. I'll tell you all about them.
I Mean, if there's ever been a case for like
expediting a decision, this would be it. I would agree.
(02:36):
We hit he hit Canada with a thirty five percent
tariff that starts today. I say, you sent a Celine Dion,
this is fair. Wow. Whatever it takes to even out
that atrocity. Wow.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
But that that's that's a pretty big deal.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Thirty five percent tariff on everything coming out of Canada,
and everybody up there's man and people don't like us anymore,
and blah blah blah. It's horrible and it's horrible and
it's dumb and it needs to stop. There you go.
I said it, Joe Giddy addressed your emails to me.
It's horrible and it's dumb, and it needs to stop.
It's gonna crush American car makers, who, because of the
(03:18):
trade deal Trump made in the first term, source a
lot of their parts from Canada and Mexico. So American
cardialers like Ford is going to get hammered by the tariffs.
BMW not so much. Explain that to me, Well, I
didn't want Camela to win, so I have a different
opinion than you. Oh okay, And I also don't like Celene,
and I also don't like Celine Dion. I thought it
(03:39):
was interesting that clear Trump had to because of this
court ruling you're talking about. Because he's leaning on his
emergency powers. He had to double down on the whole
they haven't done enough around fentanyl thing yesterday to try
to make the argument that this is about fentanyl, even
though he said earlier in the day, or had truthed
(04:02):
out earlier in the day that he was very angry
about them recognizing Palestine as a state that and they
tied that to the tariff decision. So I think that's
what had the beat that was in his bonnet, Palestine,
not fentanyl. But he can't say that because he can't
claim there's an emergency around They don't have the same
foreign policy as US, although he slammed Brazil with big
(04:23):
tariffs because he doesn't like the way they're treating old Bullscenaro,
the ex president. But he mean, it's just here's a
conservative publication's first two sentences about the arguments before the
Federal circuit yesterday. Well, that was painful for the Trump
administration's lawyer.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
That is, well, you never know how courts are going
to rule, but they.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Can need to get sometimes, you do know, sometimes you
know they need to get to it would be my point.
Employers added only seventy three thousand jobs in July, falling
quite a bit short of what experts were predicted. And
as we all know, what experts for predicting is the
whole ball of axe. For some reason, I have no
idea why, even though experts are regularly wrong, it's like
(05:07):
the Bible to me. By those experts hit me with
a prediction, I just take it hard. But does this
have anything to do with tariffs or not? I don't
flip and know neither does anybody did not reach expectations.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
I gotta go.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
We're your expectation. We got a good clip. Maybe we'll
get to bottom of the hour. Segment from MSNBC last night.
I was watching their late night show before I went
to bed, and the host hit their guest with us,
so this is another taco huh, trying to set up
for a good Trump bashing from her economic expert, and
they went completely the other direction. And it's pretty interesting
(05:41):
to hear about. No, No, this is real. This is
a really big deal. Whether or not it's going to
turn out good or not, who knows. It'll take time
to find out. But this is a big deal. We
have changed the way the world does business for better
or worse. That whole taco narrative is so stupid. How
can an adult not see the stupidity of it? Well,
(06:05):
I don't negotiated well, right right, Like I said the
other day, I have you never sold a used car
you didn't like, have a price that you were planning
to back off on, or to taco for you always
back out? Or was your plan all along to list
it for sixty five and sold for six? Right? Right?
You know? And I mean this point quite seriously, and
(06:26):
this underlies many of the biggest problems we have with
the left in American politics. People of the left, generally speaking,
I'm going you know, just you know, a large percentage
of them do not understand the very fundamentals of business
and economics. They look at it through an emotional lens
(06:46):
or a justice lens, and they have no idea how
goods and services are bought and sold and traded. But
I don't understand why Democrats aren't leaning well, Democrats have
kind of been proteriffs though my life, so I suppose
maybe that put him an uncomfortable position. Like you know,
Bernie Biden didn't roll back any of the tariffs that
Trump had from his first term. No, so no, there
(07:08):
you go. You could have done that the same day
he released all the Epstein files that are so obsessed
with all of a sudden, it's all so funny.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Yeah it is. Let's start the show officially.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
We don't want the FCC breathing down her necks and
we get thrown into that l Salvador prison. I'm armstrong,
He's Joe Getty on this. It is Oh my god,
it's a brand new month. It's Friday, August the first.
The rent is due. The rent it's too damn year,
twenty twenty five. We're armstrong and getting and we approve
of this program. You know that clip. Do we have
any idea how old that clip is? The rent is
too damn high.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
It's very old.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
But back when the guy first said that, it was
like true where he lived, but not really true generally.
Now it's so very true everywhere. He was a less
slick mum Dami back in the day running for mayor
in New York. You know oka rent is too damn
high party, Yes, yeah, two thousand and nine. Yeah, And
I remember at the time it is like it is
(08:01):
just kind of funny. But now it's like every month
I think, yeah, I know mine is it's two damn
I it's ridiculous. Yeah, brutal, brutal. All right, let's begin
the show officially now. According to FCC rules of regulations,
here we go at Mark. If we don't put a
stake into the heart of this administration, there may not
be an election at twenty twenty eight. Oh my god,
I'll see Gavy. Cute little Gavy didn't get the memo
(08:25):
that whole apocalyptic Hitler there won't be any more elections thing. Yeah,
everybody's kind of laughing at that now. So and again,
you're part of a one party state. You don't ever
have to like compete, so your game is very very soft,
GAF very soft to.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
The rent being two damn high.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
I was listening to a podcast the other day about
housing prices, and this isn't new. We've had this conversation before,
but the whole housing market nationwide is still stuck and
nobody knows how it's going to get out of it,
which is why rents are two ti am I've got
if you're if you're an a loan in a house,
that's like two point eighty five percent, like we got
(09:06):
on our farm. Or you know, some really low rate.
You are not going to move. I mean unless you
somebody dies or you get real I mean some major
life event. But you just you can't move.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
I mean, even if you're.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Planning to downsize, why would I go to half the
house and end up with the same payment.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
So, I mean, it's just there's no math that works
on it, and.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
So and so people aren't leaving or I don't know
how we ever get unstuck from this. Well, and even
if you own your house free and clear, and you're
saying oldster and you want to downsize, it's just galling right.
Just you know, maybe you're selling a forty five hundred
square foot house for a two thousand square foot house
that's the same price you just sold your old place for.
(09:48):
There's nothing for your kids and ground kids or whatever,
and you're thinking, well, the hell just happened. Yeah, it's
hard to come up with a well an economic reason
that you would that houses would start moving. I don't
know how that ever breaks free and and and we
all have stuck in our heads those old interest rates
that are never going to come back in our lifetimes. Now,
(10:10):
you're not going to be buying a house at you know,
under three percent interest. Ever, again, as I've said many times,
and there is no better metaphor than this, go to
your spouse and say, honey, you remember on our honeymoon
when we had sex fourteen times that week. I've noticed
that we're not anymore. That those those interest rates are
(10:32):
every bit as unrealistic as your honeymoon loving not coming back. Wow,
that's an interesting comparison. Well, I think it rings true.
So we've got Katie's headlines on the way, we got
clips of the week, we got mail bag, we got
some other news we need to get to and it's
and it's just going to be a party.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
It's going to be a Friday party.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
It's going to be an August first Friday party. That's
what it's going to beat.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
See Kamala agrees.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Thanks Tommy. So we got a lot on the way.
Here's our text line FOURC. So on Fridays I drive
to work listening to music instead of news because I
can't take it anymore. This week I went with Stgil
Simpson's album Meta Modern Sounds in Country Music that won
(11:19):
so many Grammys and critical acclaim from ten years ago.
God dang it, that's a good album. If you're a
country like a real country music fan like outlock country,
and you haven't listened to that album, God put that
on your list this weekend. Holy crap, excellent tip. I
was elbow deep in tariff policy. Well, Jack is gallivanting
barf all right, jamming that music the windows down, driving
(11:42):
to work, thinking what do I have? What tariffs? Good
for you? Were you smoking a Jay as well? People
called them judge, judge as you people called them. That's
funny that time. Half that song is about smoking Jay's
expect This is much all right, Let's figure out who's
reporting what. For goodness sakes, it's the lead story with
(12:05):
Katie Dame Katie. Well, for goodness sakes, let's start with ABC.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Russia launches sixty four hundred drones and missiles into Ukraine
in record breaking months.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Sixty four hundred for the month.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, which is one of the reasons that
Trump has soured on Putin because that is no indication.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
So, like I said the other day, I.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Guess his plan is to somehow one day overwhelm their systems, right, oh,
clearly absolutely deplete their their supplies. Yea.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Mostly here's here's a question for you.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Never mind what I want or what would be good,
I just find it interesting. Putin and Medjedgev's a name
that is impossible for most people to say their open
disdain and mockery of Trump.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
How is that going.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
To be useful? Just strategically speaking, I don't get it.
And normally, even as I recognize Putin's evil, I understand
why he's doing what he's doing, But is just is
he trying? Is he trying to bait NATO and being
into war with NATO? Last night, We're gonna use up
all Katie's headlinestimet. Last night, Lavrov put out a big
(13:21):
statement about how all the European countries are part of
the Fourth Reich returning and nazis trying to boost Ukraine,
and that sounded like they're egging on a war with NATO.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
From NBC, Epstein abuse survivor wanted the files released before
her suicide.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Wow, wonder what she thinks is in the files?
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Her family has a lot to say.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Okay, I want to.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Hear them all. Let's hear them. Yeah. From the New
York Times.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
With a new forty percent tariff, Trump takes aim at
US dependence on China's factories.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Yeah kind of. Boy, it's complicated, all right.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
From Popular Science Robot bunnies deployed in Florida to fight
invasive pythons.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
I like it. Plays.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
There's a lot there, robot bunnies taking on pythons.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Yeah, straight out of money Python, the Holy Grail, by
the way, innocent looking bunny just flashes its steely teeth
and just kick some python. But I think I've had
the right amount of coffee. My heart is palpitating. Keep
an eye on me, Michael, got it, Jack.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Turn your heart rate monitor on on your iPhone or
your Apple Watch.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
That's a good idea.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
New York Post drunk wyoming traveler steals golf cart and
goes on destructive ride at Buffalo International Airport.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Boy, that's a good way to get you shared life goals.
Come on, do that well? Sure it sounds fun, yes,
but they don't. They don't play around with the whole
security thing at airports, you know, Michael ms try to
get four ounces of toothpaste through the line, you'll find
out f a fo baby, Michael, i'mso sorry. How much
(15:17):
time do I have? It depends on how many days
you go to the gym. I go. I go four
to five days a week, and you probably you probably
got thirty years. Thirty years.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
I'm gonna lived a sixty six.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
I realized how young you were after I said that
so much.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Uh Okay, I've got two Babylon B headlines for you
because I couldn't decide between one. So the first one
is investigation concludes that Trump is the only one who
didn't collude with Russia.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Yeah. Boy, there's some new stuff on that that came
out yesterday. It has a lot of attention from the
Trump side of the aisle, right right, And it's so
stupid that that's the way we are as a people,
But it is. I was struck in reading about that.
The number of stories that are really really important and
they affect our lives and they matter to the republic,
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but they take a little bit of explaining. You can't
do them in thirty seconds. Therefore they are utterly absent
from the national discussion. And a lot of so called
journalism too. If it takes more than a thirty seconds,
they think, no, it's kind of boring. People won't listen
to this.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
So I picked this second Babylon BEE headline to start
a fight.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Okay, that's what I'm hear. Daing man man with.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Strong urge to eat a wicker basket settles for truskets instead.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Wait a minute, now, Dari, I know, I know, I know.
It's delicious and frenchy cracker about delicious. It's a good
it's a good platform for something else.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
But it is chewing on.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Hey, you could. You could dismantle a wicker basket and
accomplished the same thing the soft soft generation Z or
whatever you are. You are you wrote the olive oil
and rosemary trisk it for the sophisticated non child palette.
It is absolutely delicious. It is crap.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
If you have to dress it up that much, well, go.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Eat an oreo system shred are strong and getty. A
jobs report just out that will challenge the Fed to
want to cut rates, which is what Trump wanted all along. Anyway,
we can get it into some of the analysis of
these new jobs numbers in just a moment. Ah. Yes.
(17:41):
One of the great aspects of Friday, assigned from the
fact that we don't have to do this thinking job tomorrow,
is that it's uh Friday tradition. Time to take a
fond look back at the week that was it's cow
clips of the week. Here's so much quote that the
Fed won't cut what the oh my, oh my.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
God, yeah, I no one's picked the objects up yet.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
You got to go my gosh, okay, oh no, oh no,
oh no, she don't go ahead to the back.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Did you get to see my driver in the first hall?
Speaker 1 (18:14):
You get it straight pretty long?
Speaker 2 (18:16):
That stowed Joe Biden.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
I thought was a flipplant, flippant flippery Wow what now?
Speaker 3 (18:25):
I came out of that book of Vietnam that in
age ten years of two hundred pages.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
I terrifying you drug trying to sweeping our streets.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
It's called seven hydroxy, but someone calling it gastation. Heroin
footed showing people attacking a man who has shoved to
the ground and kicked several times. There's too much going
on in this country. That's people's do process rights and
(18:53):
freed him. The speech rights and.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Secret police are running around this country.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
You've show people that work for me. I said, don't
ever do that again. He did it again, and I
threw him out of the place. I think you worked
at the spot. I think so cash.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Burned eye Russian gay materials and.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
He said, what burd Bank? So you said, appointed a
nnamed burden Bank.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
The President shrinking his fifty day deadline for Putin to
reach a ceasefire. I'm going to make a new deadline
of about ten, ten or twelve days.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
I should be working right now. Instead, I'm putting mine
at gym.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
I wonder if this will help me win back Fainkking,
because that's actually more believable. Sometimes the fight takes a while.
A woman confronts a man at a Barnes and Noble
for getting uncomfortably close, seeming to sniff her. What are
you doing? Chans are passed on from parents to offspring,
often determining traits, car color, personality, and even eye color.
(20:05):
Sidney Sweeney has great genes. The coun good cheans activates
a troubling historical associations.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
You don't get to drop lines about inherited traits, blue
eyes and great genes while zooming in on somebody that
could have walked straight off of a Nazi propaganda poster.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
These ma Caque monkeys. You can't say that on the air.
I think I can. I'm cringing it. I know, I
love the Caqus.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
SIPs operatic. That's what that is?
Speaker 1 (20:50):
AI guy can really hold a note? Huh. So the
Dow Jones industrial averages down about five hundred points currently.
Is it on the tariff news of last night? Is
it on the jobs numbers that just came out?
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Who knows?
Speaker 1 (21:05):
The headline is that the labor market is worse than
previously thought because they downgraded the last two months. So
you had a week number come out today and then
the two months before that they downgraded those numbers, say
we were wrong. They were lower than we thought. So
that means the labor market being worse than previously thought.
(21:27):
Showing the United States created about one hundred and six
thousand total jobs in the past three months. That's the
weakest pace of growth since the twenty twenty pandemics started,
which is not necessarily good. And then the Wall Street
Journal analysis of that is it is going to test
the Fed's reluctant to cut rates, that it's actually a
(21:50):
slow enough number that the Fed might want.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
To cut interest rates. So we'll see what that does.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Just on the tariff front, the Wall Street Journal says
Apple is expecting a one point one bill billion dollar
teriffit just next quarter. Now, if as we're being told
mostly the company is going to pass that along to you,
the consumer. Meet the consumer. What does that mean? One
point one billion dollar terrafit in one quarter for Apple? Yeah.
(22:17):
I just this is doing so much damage in so
many different directions than it's just begun. And look, there
are probably some of you are thinking, no, no, no,
you got to let it play out. He knows what
he's doing. It's not all the dust hasn't settled yet.
Have faith. And I tell you what, if it all
works out, great, I will say it as loud and
proud as anybody. I really will. But meantime, I'm reading
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about Ford getting screwed while the European car companies pay
lower tariffs than Ford does for its own parts, that
because of the trade agreement of just a few years ago,
it has made some of them in Mexico or Canada
or whatever. And then these American manufacturers who have stubbornly
patriotically clung to manufacturing in the United States, creating jobs
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in the US, they get some of their inputs from overseas,
and now the tariffs have driven them to say, no,
I got to manufacture overseas. Now I can't import the
steel I need. I can't import the little widgets I
get from China or wherever anymore. That's it. I give up.
I can't with you, they are saying. That's what they're saying.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
So different topic.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
There's a new pull out on America's views of what
Israel's doing there in Gaza. You know, that's been a
hot topic all week long. I was listening to the
commentary magazine podcast yesterday, had some magazine that's been around
for many, many, many decades, written by Jewish folks standing
up for Jews around the world, and they made a
couple of obvious but interesting points on this whole so
(23:46):
called famine. But before we get to that, Americans overall
view of Israel's military action in Gaza is its lowest approval.
Less than a third of Americans approve of what Israel.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Is doing now in Gaza.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
That is a poll low from Gallop down to thirty
two percent. It had been forty two percent as recently
as last summer started, when this whole thing started at
about fifty percent approval, So it only started at half.
You got half the country that didn't think that they
should go into Gaza. After October seventh, What the hell
were you going to do. But this is not new information.
(24:21):
We've talked about this, but they were beside themselves in
the overt commentary magazine over the almost universal acceptance that
this is one a famine and two on purpose from
Israel and making the point that we've made many times
but worth reminding people of.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
One.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Give me one other example in world history where you're
attacked by a country, an entity of people or whatever,
and then you're on the hook for feeding.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Them as you try to defeat them.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Give me the one other example that's ever happened in
world history. Right, pretty good later when it's done, but
in the midst of the fighting, Oh yeah, we fed
Germans and Japanese once they laid down their arms, But
until they did, we were killing as many people as
we possibly could, until you finally surrendered because you attacked
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us in the case of Japan, and you are continuing
to kill our people in fighting and we're showing no
signs of being willing to surrender, which is what Hamas
is doing. They're showing no signs of being willing to surrender.
So pretty good trick that the Hamas pulled. Puss pulled her,
the mainstream media pulled of making it seem like, well,
(25:39):
obviously Israel's on the hook for feeding these people. What
what when does that ever ever happened? Yeah? And then
and then to the obvious point that gets left out
all the time, Joe always mentions this. Hamas could end
this any day, absolutely any moment. Hamas could end this
by saying we no longer desire to eliminate Israel from
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the planet, and here are your hostages back right. But
they won't. And I'm reading the book, this book, another,
yet another book about the end of world because, by
the way, just to make this crystal clear, because their
goal is not to quote unquote have a Palestinian state
and look peacefully side by side. Their goal is to
wipe out the Jews, remove any Jews from Muslim lands,
quote unquote, and to establish a worldwide caliphate. That is
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their goal. Ask them, they will tell you. But this
sort of thing is common. And I'm reading Downfall, which
is one of the best books ever written about the
very end of World War II in the Pacific, in
Japan and everything like that, and he makes the point
regularly that the whole discussion of whether or not we
should have dropped the bomb and whether it was moral
(26:48):
and blah blah blah and end ignorton thing like people
always leave out. It wasn't up to Truman only to
decide how to end the war. Japan had a role
in this too. They could have at any point said
they could have surrendered at any point up until like
the day before, and we're gonna drop this giant and
tomming bomba on you if you don't surrender. But they didn't.
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And it's exactly the same thing's going on with Israel.
He gets left out all the time. The bad guys
could quit, but they won't. And then I would love
to ask, and well, I'll finish the question and then
get to my main point. I would love to ask
the people who disapprove, et cetera. All right, if Hamas
did that, lay down their arms, return the hostages, et cetera,
(27:33):
and peace was restored to Gaza. In what way would
that make life worse for the Palestinians than prior to
October seventh? In what way would that be a bad move?
For an unsupportable move unless you believe that the evil
Jews would sweep across Gaza, strip and eat the babies
and the rest of it. It would be bring peace
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back in the ability to rebuild and make a living
and the rest of it. There's no downside to surrendering.
It's not like Israel is some sort of marauding force. No,
Hamas is the marauding force, so there is there would
be no downside to the good people for Samas to
Hamas surrendering to these So how are you how what
(28:15):
are you picturing? Exactly? People just And that's one of
the reasons I'm not uncomfortable on a practical political level,
I'm uncomfortable with the fact that it supports down to
thirty two percent. On a moral logical level, though, I'm
not because I understand a lot of people just look
for who's being mean and who's the victim of people
(28:37):
being mean, and they're on the side of the people
who are the victims and against the people who are
being mean. And they have been fed such a steady
diet of one sided coverage and misinformation, of course they
have a misperception of it. Yeah, I mean, it's pretty
good rhetorical trick that has been pulled to convince everybody
that obviously Israel is responsible for feeding these people. Now,
(28:58):
some of you might have this because I see the
text the argument that it's not the Palestinian's fault. They
don't like Amas either, Okay, correct? I, well, is that correct?
Speaker 2 (29:08):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
We don't know how many Palestinians support Hamas. There are
more indications that lots of them do than there are
indications that lots of them don't. Based on that parading
of dead and wounded Jews through the streets of Gaza
right after October seventh, sure seemed like a lot of
people that thought that.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Was really cool.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Yeah, I would just argue that that is irrelevant absent
an armed force. Yeah, they have some Hahamas sympathies, a lot.
You're absolutely, I do not disagree with a single thing
you said. Oh I was gonna make a point, but
it just again, if a mass lays down their arms,
all that can be worked out. And unfortunately, one of
(29:48):
the effects of this bitter battle is even if you
didn't like Amas, particularly as a Palestinian, you're gonna root
for your side. You're gonna think, you know what, they're
a holes, but there are a holes and you know,
I'm against it Israel, and it's hardening feelings. But just
the idea you know what the one thing Israel ought
to do is get a little better at making the
(30:09):
point that Hamas is not the army of the quote
unquote Palestinian people in the way that Westerners perceive. In
spite of what you said about sympathy, they are not
fighting to make their country safe and prosperous for their people.
They're fighting to establish a worldwide caliphate and wipe the
Jews off the map. That's their purpose. I have another
(30:31):
good correlation between the end of World War two and
what's going on with gods and the end Israel, but
we can get to that much much later. We got
Joe's mailbag on the way next day here. So Kamala
Harris has a book out. It's what every presidential candidate
does so they have a reason to go on shows
and talk about their being president. But anyway, Mark Halpern
(30:54):
wrote a fake opening paragraphs of the book that is
really dang funny.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
We'll have to get to that an now or two.
Love that idea.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Here's your freedom loving quote of the day, Continuing our
series from Avire Milai, who has turned around the economy
in the world of the people of Argentina with liberty
and free markets and that sort of thing. Oh, we
mentioned yesterday that he said socialism is always in everywhere
an impoverishing phenomenon, and it has failed in all countries
where it's been tried out. It's been a failure economically, socially, culturally,
(31:23):
and murdered over one hundred million human beings. By contrast,
and here's today's quote, free enterprise capitalism is not just
the only possible system to end world poverty, but also
the only morally desirable system to achieve this. The idea
that the free marketer capitalism is driven by greed, therefore
it is immoral, is exactly wrong. He should get some
(31:46):
sort of Nobel prize, but weren't for the fact that
most Nobel Prize voters are socialists. You know what, we
ought to start the sol Prize after Thomas. So for
people who argue in favor of freedom mailbag, drop us
a note mail bag a armstrong Yeddy dot com Eric
on the topic of the thieving Indonesian monkey gangs. Once
(32:10):
in Pouquette, I got out of the back of a car.
Before I could close the door, a monkey jumped in,
grabbing a small paper bag and went up a tree.
The look on his face as he slowly opened the
bag to look inside. It was like it was his Christmas.
He had made off with my snack's eyes, pack of
oreos and the famous Amos cookies. Angry fist, I cussed
him out the sob I didn't feel like working today,
(32:32):
and on the way in my car, I almost said
pouquette and turned around. Went home. By the way, Eric,
you had both oreos and famous Amos. The monkey was
doing you a favor, good lord, factory cookies much. Let's
see Jable globally to exotic places and eat oreos.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
Okay, I know it's disgusting.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Uh. The fabulous JT and livermore with a couple of
socks today, including this one. Kamala thinks she did not
do enough interviews. Kamala think you and she needs to
do more interviews like Biden thinking needs to do more debates. Well,
she didn't do enough hard interviews, but she can't is
the problem.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
So trying to do more is not gonna go well.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Easy Softbally stuff she can do pretty well, Marina and
San Diego. Let's see she says some absolutely lovely things. Lastly,
on the Sydney Sweeney ad for blue jeans. Guttfeldt uses
the term poke the woke companies, maybe trying to get
the woke fired up about a nonsense ad and their
brand goes up like American Eagles did. Opposite of Budweiser perhaps.
(33:35):
And then this note Ryan from the Homeless Shelter.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
That's interesting.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
I don't know fran is actually a homeless shelter, but
dear the greatest of all time. Well, that's a little much.
The people complaining about Nazis and the Sydney Sweeney ads
seem like they dipped into the PETA principle. PETA has
no power unless they declare ratings wings at Super Bowl
is the chicken Holocaust or Thanksgiving is a Turkey Holocaust.
(34:01):
Nobody looks twice at them unless they declare something in
animal holocaust. Same with the jeans ad. They declare it
mildly problematic, they don't get noticed. They declare Adolph Sweeny
soft hits, and the hass soft heads in the media
take notice. Alast wee are doomed. Well you're right about that, brother,
Thanks for the note. Wow, this one will leave you sad.
(34:22):
Probably shouldn't end the hour on I ordered some of
those Nazi gens. I'll be wearing them next week. Excellent
rich rights. I used Suno to create I used Suno
to create three songs this week. That's the AI song
making thing, and it triggered an unexpected existential crisis. As
a hobbyist, I write silly songs about work to entertain
entertain my coworkers. Here's what happened number one work song.
(34:45):
After months of crafting lyrics and music, I ran the
lyrics through Suno on a whim and it produced a banger.
My friends loved it. I laughed too, but something felled
off too band ran I drunkenly ranted about my inactive
band and fed it to Suno. It turned into another
great song, one my band now wants to play again.
It felt strange. Three anniversary song. Yeah, they got no lyrics.
They gave groc a rough outline of a coworker's love story.
(35:07):
Minutes later I had a touching song that made them
laugh and cry. Each song impressed the others, but these
a creation left me feeling empty. Of course, yeah, you
get none of the artists. I created something satisfaction, which
is why you produce art. That's why everybody produces art.
It's not so there's art. We don't need more songs.
(35:28):
There are enough of them. It's the act of producing
it that is the joy. Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Katty Armstrong.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
And Jetty and he arms Range. I'm gonna drink all
the coffee today. I'm drinking all of it. Alert peru
ye into it.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
If you want a cup of coffee, you better get
it down because I'm breaking all the coffee. I'll put
the crop to the donkeys.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
I'm gonna be back in the er.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Coffee related live from Studio C see sign. You're a
dimly lit room deeper than the bowels the Armstrong and
Getty Communications Compound. Hey, y'all today Friday, we're heading into
a Friday weekend. We're under the tutelage of our general manager.
She's back, ten, rested and ready. Kamala Harris, Honorary Honorary
(01:05):
General manager Radioactive. WASPS stayed with us, and of course
Trump dropped what sixty eight tariffs last night before we
everybody went to bed. That's very exciting news with August
first statement, all that sort of stuff, is it? Is
it exciting news? Well, it's a big deal in terms
(01:25):
of like rejiggering the way the world does business in
a way that's completely different than what it's been our
whole lives.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
So we'll see how this all turns out.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Yes, indeed, there are several aspects to that story that
I'm looking forward to talking about, believe it or not,
and they're interesting. For instance, the big appeals court hearing
the other day or yesterday, Eh, doesn't look great for
the administration. These tariffs might come and go like it
danced Christ Well, but so when are they gonna make
that ruling? It seems like any minute now. It seems
(01:55):
like if the courts think, dude, you can't do this.
I mean, there's been a lot of wasted blabber and inkspilled.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Talking about this.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
If the courts say he can't do that, oh okay,
well never mind, we go back to the way things
were before.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
What the hell?
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Right right? Let's see, is there timing for a decision?
Do it? I hear? You know you're your point is
well taken. You know I don't. I don't have that information.
Interesting oral arguments were yesterday. I'll tell you all about them.
I Mean, if there's ever been a case for like
expediting a decision, this would be it. I would agree.
(02:36):
We hit he hit Canada with a thirty five percent
tariff that starts today. I say, you sent a Celine Dion,
this is fair. Wow. Whatever it takes to even out
that atrocity. Wow.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
But that that's that's a pretty big deal.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Thirty five percent tariff on everything coming out of Canada,
and everybody up there's man and people don't like us anymore,
and blah blah blah. It's horrible and it's horrible and
it's dumb and it needs to stop. There you go.
I said it, Joe Giddy addressed your emails to me.
It's horrible and it's dumb, and it needs to stop.
It's gonna crush American car makers, who, because of the
(03:18):
trade deal Trump made in the first term, source a
lot of their parts from Canada and Mexico. So American
cardialers like Ford is going to get hammered by the tariffs.
BMW not so much. Explain that to me, Well, I
didn't want Camela to win, so I have a different
opinion than you. Oh okay, And I also don't like Celene,
and I also don't like Celine Dion. I thought it
(03:39):
was interesting that clear Trump had to because of this
court ruling you're talking about. Because he's leaning on his
emergency powers. He had to double down on the whole
they haven't done enough around fentanyl thing yesterday to try
to make the argument that this is about fentanyl, even
though he said earlier in the day, or had truthed
(04:02):
out earlier in the day that he was very angry
about them recognizing Palestine as a state that and they
tied that to the tariff decision. So I think that's
what had the beat that was in his bonnet, Palestine,
not fentanyl. But he can't say that because he can't
claim there's an emergency around They don't have the same
foreign policy as US, although he slammed Brazil with big
(04:23):
tariffs because he doesn't like the way they're treating old Bullscenaro,
the ex president. But he mean, it's just here's a
conservative publication's first two sentences about the arguments before the
Federal circuit yesterday. Well, that was painful for the Trump
administration's lawyer.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
That is, well, you never know how courts are going
to rule, but they.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Can need to get sometimes, you do know, sometimes you
know they need to get to it would be my point.
Employers added only seventy three thousand jobs in July, falling
quite a bit short of what experts were predicted. And
as we all know, what experts for predicting is the
whole ball of axe. For some reason, I have no
idea why, even though experts are regularly wrong, it's like
(05:07):
the Bible to me. By those experts hit me with
a prediction, I just take it hard. But does this
have anything to do with tariffs or not? I don't
flip and know neither does anybody did not reach expectations.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
I gotta go.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
We're your expectation. We got a good clip. Maybe we'll
get to bottom of the hour. Segment from MSNBC last night.
I was watching their late night show before I went
to bed, and the host hit their guest with us,
so this is another taco huh, trying to set up
for a good Trump bashing from her economic expert, and
they went completely the other direction. And it's pretty interesting
(05:41):
to hear about. No, No, this is real. This is
a really big deal. Whether or not it's going to
turn out good or not, who knows. It'll take time
to find out. But this is a big deal. We
have changed the way the world does business for better
or worse. That whole taco narrative is so stupid. How
can an adult not see the stupidity of it? Well,
(06:05):
I don't negotiated well, right right, Like I said the
other day, I have you never sold a used car
you didn't like, have a price that you were planning
to back off on, or to taco for you always
back out? Or was your plan all along to list
it for sixty five and sold for six? Right? Right?
You know? And I mean this point quite seriously, and
(06:26):
this underlies many of the biggest problems we have with
the left in American politics. People of the left, generally speaking,
I'm going you know, just you know, a large percentage
of them do not understand the very fundamentals of business
and economics. They look at it through an emotional lens
(06:46):
or a justice lens, and they have no idea how
goods and services are bought and sold and traded. But
I don't understand why Democrats aren't leaning well, Democrats have
kind of been proteriffs though my life, so I suppose
maybe that put him an uncomfortable position. Like you know,
Bernie Biden didn't roll back any of the tariffs that
Trump had from his first term. No, so no, there
(07:08):
you go. You could have done that the same day
he released all the Epstein files that are so obsessed
with all of a sudden, it's all so funny.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Yeah it is. Let's start the show officially.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
We don't want the FCC breathing down her necks and
we get thrown into that l Salvador prison. I'm armstrong,
He's Joe Getty on this. It is Oh my god,
it's a brand new month. It's Friday, August the first.
The rent is due. The rent it's too damn year,
twenty twenty five. We're armstrong and getting and we approve
of this program. You know that clip. Do we have
any idea how old that clip is? The rent is
too damn high.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
It's very old.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
But back when the guy first said that, it was
like true where he lived, but not really true generally.
Now it's so very true everywhere. He was a less
slick mum Dami back in the day running for mayor
in New York. You know oka rent is too damn
high party, Yes, yeah, two thousand and nine. Yeah, And
I remember at the time it is like it is
(08:01):
just kind of funny. But now it's like every month
I think, yeah, I know mine is it's two damn
I it's ridiculous. Yeah, brutal, brutal. All right, let's begin
the show officially now. According to FCC rules of regulations,
here we go at Mark. If we don't put a
stake into the heart of this administration, there may not
be an election at twenty twenty eight. Oh my god,
I'll see Gavy. Cute little Gavy didn't get the memo
(08:25):
that whole apocalyptic Hitler there won't be any more elections thing. Yeah,
everybody's kind of laughing at that now. So and again,
you're part of a one party state. You don't ever
have to like compete, so your game is very very soft,
GAF very soft to.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
The rent being two damn high.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
I was listening to a podcast the other day about
housing prices, and this isn't new. We've had this conversation before,
but the whole housing market nationwide is still stuck and
nobody knows how it's going to get out of it,
which is why rents are two ti am I've got
if you're if you're an a loan in a house,
that's like two point eighty five percent, like we got
(09:06):
on our farm. Or you know, some really low rate.
You are not going to move. I mean unless you
somebody dies or you get real I mean some major
life event. But you just you can't move.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
I mean, even if you're.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Planning to downsize, why would I go to half the
house and end up with the same payment.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
So, I mean, it's just there's no math that works
on it, and.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
So and so people aren't leaving or I don't know
how we ever get unstuck from this. Well, and even
if you own your house free and clear, and you're
saying oldster and you want to downsize, it's just galling right.
Just you know, maybe you're selling a forty five hundred
square foot house for a two thousand square foot house
that's the same price you just sold your old place for.
(09:48):
There's nothing for your kids and ground kids or whatever,
and you're thinking, well, the hell just happened. Yeah, it's
hard to come up with a well an economic reason
that you would that houses would start moving. I don't
know how that ever breaks free and and and we
all have stuck in our heads those old interest rates
that are never going to come back in our lifetimes. Now,
(10:10):
you're not going to be buying a house at you know,
under three percent interest. Ever, again, as I've said many times,
and there is no better metaphor than this, go to
your spouse and say, honey, you remember on our honeymoon
when we had sex fourteen times that week. I've noticed
that we're not anymore. That those those interest rates are
(10:32):
every bit as unrealistic as your honeymoon loving not coming back. Wow,
that's an interesting comparison. Well, I think it rings true.
So we've got Katie's headlines on the way, we got
clips of the week, we got mail bag, we got
some other news we need to get to and it's
and it's just going to be a party.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
It's going to be a Friday party.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
It's going to be an August first Friday party. That's
what it's going to beat.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
See Kamala agrees.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Thanks Tommy. So we got a lot on the way.
Here's our text line FOURC. So on Fridays I drive
to work listening to music instead of news because I
can't take it anymore. This week I went with Stgil
Simpson's album Meta Modern Sounds in Country Music that won
(11:19):
so many Grammys and critical acclaim from ten years ago.
God dang it, that's a good album. If you're a
country like a real country music fan like outlock country,
and you haven't listened to that album, God put that
on your list this weekend. Holy crap, excellent tip. I
was elbow deep in tariff policy. Well, Jack is gallivanting
barf all right, jamming that music the windows down, driving
(11:42):
to work, thinking what do I have? What tariffs? Good
for you? Were you smoking a Jay as well? People
called them judge, judge as you people called them. That's
funny that time. Half that song is about smoking Jay's
expect This is much all right, Let's figure out who's
reporting what. For goodness sakes, it's the lead story with
(12:05):
Katie Dame Katie. Well, for goodness sakes, let's start with ABC.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Russia launches sixty four hundred drones and missiles into Ukraine
in record breaking months.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Sixty four hundred for the month.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, which is one of the reasons that
Trump has soured on Putin because that is no indication.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
So, like I said the other day, I.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Guess his plan is to somehow one day overwhelm their systems, right, oh,
clearly absolutely deplete their their supplies. Yea.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Mostly here's here's a question for you.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Never mind what I want or what would be good,
I just find it interesting. Putin and Medjedgev's a name
that is impossible for most people to say their open
disdain and mockery of Trump.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
How is that going.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
To be useful? Just strategically speaking, I don't get it.
And normally, even as I recognize Putin's evil, I understand
why he's doing what he's doing, But is just is
he trying? Is he trying to bait NATO and being
into war with NATO? Last night, We're gonna use up
all Katie's headlinestimet. Last night, Lavrov put out a big
(13:21):
statement about how all the European countries are part of
the Fourth Reich returning and nazis trying to boost Ukraine,
and that sounded like they're egging on a war with NATO.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
From NBC, Epstein abuse survivor wanted the files released before
her suicide.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Wow, wonder what she thinks is in the files?
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Her family has a lot to say.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Okay, I want to.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Hear them all. Let's hear them. Yeah. From the New
York Times.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
With a new forty percent tariff, Trump takes aim at
US dependence on China's factories.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Yeah kind of. Boy, it's complicated, all right.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
From Popular Science Robot bunnies deployed in Florida to fight
invasive pythons.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
I like it. Plays.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
There's a lot there, robot bunnies taking on pythons.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Yeah, straight out of money Python, the Holy Grail, by
the way, innocent looking bunny just flashes its steely teeth
and just kick some python. But I think I've had
the right amount of coffee. My heart is palpitating. Keep
an eye on me, Michael, got it, Jack.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Turn your heart rate monitor on on your iPhone or
your Apple Watch.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
That's a good idea.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
New York Post drunk wyoming traveler steals golf cart and
goes on destructive ride at Buffalo International Airport.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Boy, that's a good way to get you shared life goals.
Come on, do that well? Sure it sounds fun, yes,
but they don't. They don't play around with the whole
security thing at airports, you know, Michael ms try to
get four ounces of toothpaste through the line, you'll find
out f a fo baby, Michael, i'mso sorry. How much
(15:17):
time do I have? It depends on how many days
you go to the gym. I go. I go four
to five days a week, and you probably you probably
got thirty years. Thirty years.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
I'm gonna lived a sixty six.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
I realized how young you were after I said that
so much.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Uh Okay, I've got two Babylon B headlines for you
because I couldn't decide between one. So the first one
is investigation concludes that Trump is the only one who
didn't collude with Russia.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Yeah. Boy, there's some new stuff on that that came
out yesterday. It has a lot of attention from the
Trump side of the aisle, right right, And it's so
stupid that that's the way we are as a people,
But it is. I was struck in reading about that.
The number of stories that are really really important and
they affect our lives and they matter to the republic,
(16:09):
but they take a little bit of explaining. You can't
do them in thirty seconds. Therefore they are utterly absent
from the national discussion. And a lot of so called
journalism too. If it takes more than a thirty seconds,
they think, no, it's kind of boring. People won't listen
to this.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
So I picked this second Babylon BEE headline to start
a fight.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Okay, that's what I'm hear. Daing man man with.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Strong urge to eat a wicker basket settles for truskets instead.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Wait a minute, now, Dari, I know, I know, I know.
It's delicious and frenchy cracker about delicious. It's a good
it's a good platform for something else.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
But it is chewing on.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Hey, you could. You could dismantle a wicker basket and
accomplished the same thing the soft soft generation Z or
whatever you are. You are you wrote the olive oil
and rosemary trisk it for the sophisticated non child palette.
It is absolutely delicious. It is crap.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
If you have to dress it up that much, well, go.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Eat an oreo system shred are strong and getty. A
jobs report just out that will challenge the Fed to
want to cut rates, which is what Trump wanted all along. Anyway,
we can get it into some of the analysis of
these new jobs numbers in just a moment. Ah. Yes.
(17:41):
One of the great aspects of Friday, assigned from the
fact that we don't have to do this thinking job tomorrow,
is that it's uh Friday tradition. Time to take a
fond look back at the week that was it's cow
clips of the week. Here's so much quote that the
Fed won't cut what the oh my, oh my.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
God, yeah, I no one's picked the objects up yet.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
You got to go my gosh, okay, oh no, oh no,
oh no, she don't go ahead to the back.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Did you get to see my driver in the first hall?
Speaker 1 (18:14):
You get it straight pretty long?
Speaker 2 (18:16):
That stowed Joe Biden.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
I thought was a flipplant, flippant flippery Wow what now?
Speaker 3 (18:25):
I came out of that book of Vietnam that in
age ten years of two hundred pages.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
I terrifying you drug trying to sweeping our streets.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
It's called seven hydroxy, but someone calling it gastation. Heroin
footed showing people attacking a man who has shoved to
the ground and kicked several times. There's too much going
on in this country. That's people's do process rights and
(18:53):
freed him. The speech rights and.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Secret police are running around this country.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
You've show people that work for me. I said, don't
ever do that again. He did it again, and I
threw him out of the place. I think you worked
at the spot. I think so cash.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Burned eye Russian gay materials and.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
He said, what burd Bank? So you said, appointed a
nnamed burden Bank.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
The President shrinking his fifty day deadline for Putin to
reach a ceasefire. I'm going to make a new deadline
of about ten, ten or twelve days.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
I should be working right now. Instead, I'm putting mine
at gym.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
I wonder if this will help me win back Fainkking,
because that's actually more believable. Sometimes the fight takes a while.
A woman confronts a man at a Barnes and Noble
for getting uncomfortably close, seeming to sniff her. What are
you doing? Chans are passed on from parents to offspring,
often determining traits, car color, personality, and even eye color.
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Sidney Sweeney has great genes. The coun good cheans activates
a troubling historical associations.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
You don't get to drop lines about inherited traits, blue
eyes and great genes while zooming in on somebody that
could have walked straight off of a Nazi propaganda poster.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
These ma Caque monkeys. You can't say that on the air.
I think I can. I'm cringing it. I know, I
love the Caqus.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
SIPs operatic. That's what that is?
Speaker 1 (20:50):
AI guy can really hold a note? Huh. So the
Dow Jones industrial averages down about five hundred points currently.
Is it on the tariff news of last night? Is
it on the jobs numbers that just came out?
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Who knows?
Speaker 1 (21:05):
The headline is that the labor market is worse than
previously thought because they downgraded the last two months. So
you had a week number come out today and then
the two months before that they downgraded those numbers, say
we were wrong. They were lower than we thought. So
that means the labor market being worse than previously thought.
(21:27):
Showing the United States created about one hundred and six
thousand total jobs in the past three months. That's the
weakest pace of growth since the twenty twenty pandemics started,
which is not necessarily good. And then the Wall Street
Journal analysis of that is it is going to test
the Fed's reluctant to cut rates, that it's actually a
(21:50):
slow enough number that the Fed might want.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
To cut interest rates. So we'll see what that does.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Just on the tariff front, the Wall Street Journal says
Apple is expecting a one point one bill billion dollar
teriffit just next quarter. Now, if as we're being told
mostly the company is going to pass that along to you,
the consumer. Meet the consumer. What does that mean? One
point one billion dollar terrafit in one quarter for Apple? Yeah.
(22:17):
I just this is doing so much damage in so
many different directions than it's just begun. And look, there
are probably some of you are thinking, no, no, no,
you got to let it play out. He knows what
he's doing. It's not all the dust hasn't settled yet.
Have faith. And I tell you what, if it all
works out, great, I will say it as loud and
proud as anybody. I really will. But meantime, I'm reading
(22:39):
about Ford getting screwed while the European car companies pay
lower tariffs than Ford does for its own parts, that
because of the trade agreement of just a few years ago,
it has made some of them in Mexico or Canada
or whatever. And then these American manufacturers who have stubbornly
patriotically clung to manufacturing in the United States, creating jobs
(23:00):
in the US, they get some of their inputs from overseas,
and now the tariffs have driven them to say, no,
I got to manufacture overseas. Now I can't import the
steel I need. I can't import the little widgets I
get from China or wherever anymore. That's it. I give up.
I can't with you, they are saying. That's what they're saying.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
So different topic.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
There's a new pull out on America's views of what
Israel's doing there in Gaza. You know, that's been a
hot topic all week long. I was listening to the
commentary magazine podcast yesterday, had some magazine that's been around
for many, many, many decades, written by Jewish folks standing
up for Jews around the world, and they made a
couple of obvious but interesting points on this whole so
(23:46):
called famine. But before we get to that, Americans overall
view of Israel's military action in Gaza is its lowest approval.
Less than a third of Americans approve of what Israel.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Is doing now in Gaza.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
That is a poll low from Gallop down to thirty
two percent. It had been forty two percent as recently
as last summer started, when this whole thing started at
about fifty percent approval, So it only started at half.
You got half the country that didn't think that they
should go into Gaza. After October seventh, What the hell
were you going to do. But this is not new information.
(24:21):
We've talked about this, but they were beside themselves in
the overt commentary magazine over the almost universal acceptance that
this is one a famine and two on purpose from
Israel and making the point that we've made many times
but worth reminding people of.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
One.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Give me one other example in world history where you're
attacked by a country, an entity of people or whatever,
and then you're on the hook for feeding.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Them as you try to defeat them.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Give me the one other example that's ever happened in
world history. Right, pretty good later when it's done, but
in the midst of the fighting, Oh yeah, we fed
Germans and Japanese once they laid down their arms, But
until they did, we were killing as many people as
we possibly could, until you finally surrendered because you attacked
(25:18):
us in the case of Japan, and you are continuing
to kill our people in fighting and we're showing no
signs of being willing to surrender, which is what Hamas
is doing. They're showing no signs of being willing to surrender.
So pretty good trick that the Hamas pulled. Puss pulled her,
the mainstream media pulled of making it seem like, well,
(25:39):
obviously Israel's on the hook for feeding these people. What
what when does that ever ever happened? Yeah? And then
and then to the obvious point that gets left out
all the time, Joe always mentions this. Hamas could end
this any day, absolutely any moment. Hamas could end this
by saying we no longer desire to eliminate Israel from
(26:04):
the planet, and here are your hostages back right. But
they won't. And I'm reading the book, this book, another,
yet another book about the end of world because, by
the way, just to make this crystal clear, because their
goal is not to quote unquote have a Palestinian state
and look peacefully side by side. Their goal is to
wipe out the Jews, remove any Jews from Muslim lands,
quote unquote, and to establish a worldwide caliphate. That is
(26:26):
their goal. Ask them, they will tell you. But this
sort of thing is common. And I'm reading Downfall, which
is one of the best books ever written about the
very end of World War II in the Pacific, in
Japan and everything like that, and he makes the point
regularly that the whole discussion of whether or not we
should have dropped the bomb and whether it was moral
(26:48):
and blah blah blah and end ignorton thing like people
always leave out. It wasn't up to Truman only to
decide how to end the war. Japan had a role
in this too. They could have at any point said
they could have surrendered at any point up until like
the day before, and we're gonna drop this giant and
tomming bomba on you if you don't surrender. But they didn't.
(27:10):
And it's exactly the same thing's going on with Israel.
He gets left out all the time. The bad guys
could quit, but they won't. And then I would love
to ask, and well, I'll finish the question and then
get to my main point. I would love to ask
the people who disapprove, et cetera. All right, if Hamas
did that, lay down their arms, return the hostages, et cetera,
(27:33):
and peace was restored to Gaza. In what way would
that make life worse for the Palestinians than prior to
October seventh? In what way would that be a bad move?
For an unsupportable move unless you believe that the evil
Jews would sweep across Gaza, strip and eat the babies
and the rest of it. It would be bring peace
(27:54):
back in the ability to rebuild and make a living
and the rest of it. There's no downside to surrendering.
It's not like Israel is some sort of marauding force. No,
Hamas is the marauding force, so there is there would
be no downside to the good people for Samas to
Hamas surrendering to these So how are you how what
(28:15):
are you picturing? Exactly? People just And that's one of
the reasons I'm not uncomfortable on a practical political level,
I'm uncomfortable with the fact that it supports down to
thirty two percent. On a moral logical level, though, I'm
not because I understand a lot of people just look
for who's being mean and who's the victim of people
(28:37):
being mean, and they're on the side of the people
who are the victims and against the people who are
being mean. And they have been fed such a steady
diet of one sided coverage and misinformation, of course they
have a misperception of it. Yeah, I mean, it's pretty
good rhetorical trick that has been pulled to convince everybody
that obviously Israel is responsible for feeding these people. Now,
(28:58):
some of you might have this because I see the
text the argument that it's not the Palestinian's fault. They
don't like Amas either, Okay, correct? I, well, is that correct?
Speaker 2 (29:08):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
We don't know how many Palestinians support Hamas. There are
more indications that lots of them do than there are
indications that lots of them don't. Based on that parading
of dead and wounded Jews through the streets of Gaza
right after October seventh, sure seemed like a lot of
people that thought that.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Was really cool.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Yeah, I would just argue that that is irrelevant absent
an armed force. Yeah, they have some Hahamas sympathies, a lot.
You're absolutely, I do not disagree with a single thing
you said. Oh I was gonna make a point, but
it just again, if a mass lays down their arms,
all that can be worked out. And unfortunately, one of
(29:48):
the effects of this bitter battle is even if you
didn't like Amas, particularly as a Palestinian, you're gonna root
for your side. You're gonna think, you know what, they're
a holes, but there are a holes and you know,
I'm against it Israel, and it's hardening feelings. But just
the idea you know what the one thing Israel ought
to do is get a little better at making the
(30:09):
point that Hamas is not the army of the quote
unquote Palestinian people in the way that Westerners perceive. In
spite of what you said about sympathy, they are not
fighting to make their country safe and prosperous for their people.
They're fighting to establish a worldwide caliphate and wipe the
Jews off the map. That's their purpose. I have another
(30:31):
good correlation between the end of World War two and
what's going on with gods and the end Israel, but
we can get to that much much later. We got
Joe's mailbag on the way next day here. So Kamala
Harris has a book out. It's what every presidential candidate
does so they have a reason to go on shows
and talk about their being president. But anyway, Mark Halpern
(30:54):
wrote a fake opening paragraphs of the book that is
really dang funny.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
We'll have to get to that an now or two.
Love that idea.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Here's your freedom loving quote of the day, Continuing our
series from Avire Milai, who has turned around the economy
in the world of the people of Argentina with liberty
and free markets and that sort of thing. Oh, we
mentioned yesterday that he said socialism is always in everywhere
an impoverishing phenomenon, and it has failed in all countries
where it's been tried out. It's been a failure economically, socially, culturally,
(31:23):
and murdered over one hundred million human beings. By contrast,
and here's today's quote, free enterprise capitalism is not just
the only possible system to end world poverty, but also
the only morally desirable system to achieve this. The idea
that the free marketer capitalism is driven by greed, therefore
it is immoral, is exactly wrong. He should get some
(31:46):
sort of Nobel prize, but weren't for the fact that
most Nobel Prize voters are socialists. You know what, we
ought to start the sol Prize after Thomas. So for
people who argue in favor of freedom mailbag, drop us
a note mail bag a armstrong Yeddy dot com Eric
on the topic of the thieving Indonesian monkey gangs. Once
(32:10):
in Pouquette, I got out of the back of a car.
Before I could close the door, a monkey jumped in,
grabbing a small paper bag and went up a tree.
The look on his face as he slowly opened the
bag to look inside. It was like it was his Christmas.
He had made off with my snack's eyes, pack of
oreos and the famous Amos cookies. Angry fist, I cussed
him out the sob I didn't feel like working today,
(32:32):
and on the way in my car, I almost said
pouquette and turned around. Went home. By the way, Eric,
you had both oreos and famous Amos. The monkey was
doing you a favor, good lord, factory cookies much. Let's
see Jable globally to exotic places and eat oreos.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
Okay, I know it's disgusting.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Uh. The fabulous JT and livermore with a couple of
socks today, including this one. Kamala thinks she did not
do enough interviews. Kamala think you and she needs to
do more interviews like Biden thinking needs to do more debates. Well,
she didn't do enough hard interviews, but she can't is
the problem.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
So trying to do more is not gonna go well.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Easy Softbally stuff she can do pretty well, Marina and
San Diego. Let's see she says some absolutely lovely things. Lastly,
on the Sydney Sweeney ad for blue jeans. Guttfeldt uses
the term poke the woke companies, maybe trying to get
the woke fired up about a nonsense ad and their
brand goes up like American Eagles did. Opposite of Budweiser perhaps.
(33:35):
And then this note Ryan from the Homeless Shelter.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
That's interesting.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
I don't know fran is actually a homeless shelter, but
dear the greatest of all time. Well, that's a little much.
The people complaining about Nazis and the Sydney Sweeney ads
seem like they dipped into the PETA principle. PETA has
no power unless they declare ratings wings at Super Bowl
is the chicken Holocaust or Thanksgiving is a Turkey Holocaust.
(34:01):
Nobody looks twice at them unless they declare something in
animal holocaust. Same with the jeans ad. They declare it
mildly problematic, they don't get noticed. They declare Adolph Sweeny
soft hits, and the hass soft heads in the media
take notice. Alast wee are doomed. Well you're right about that, brother,
Thanks for the note. Wow, this one will leave you sad.
(34:22):
Probably shouldn't end the hour on I ordered some of
those Nazi gens. I'll be wearing them next week. Excellent
rich rights. I used Suno to create I used Suno
to create three songs this week. That's the AI song
making thing, and it triggered an unexpected existential crisis. As
a hobbyist, I write silly songs about work to entertain
entertain my coworkers. Here's what happened number one work song.
(34:45):
After months of crafting lyrics and music, I ran the
lyrics through Suno on a whim and it produced a banger.
My friends loved it. I laughed too, but something felled
off too band ran I drunkenly ranted about my inactive
band and fed it to Suno. It turned into another
great song, one my band now wants to play again.
It felt strange. Three anniversary song. Yeah, they got no lyrics.
They gave groc a rough outline of a coworker's love story.
(35:07):
Minutes later I had a touching song that made them
laugh and cry. Each song impressed the others, but these
a creation left me feeling empty. Of course, yeah, you
get none of the artists. I created something satisfaction, which
is why you produce art. That's why everybody produces art.
It's not so there's art. We don't need more songs.
(35:28):
There are enough of them. It's the act of producing
it that is the joy. Armstrong and Getty
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