October 20, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 2 of A&G features...
- No Kings "protests" don't really have a message
- Heist at the Louvre
- China's rare earth industry
- Katie Green's audio surprise!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and
get Katie and now he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Millions of Americans took to the streets in peaceful protest
on Saturday and what has been described as one of
the largest single day demonstrations in US history. An estimated
seven million people gathered across some twenty seven hundred Nope
King's rallies and cities from coast to coast, according to organizers.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Trump, responding via.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Social media, hosting an AI generated video depicting a crowned
Trump flying a King Trump jet.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
What an interesting idea they like, fabricated up a slogan,
A attacked on this whole thing. The way to approach
it as opposed to a particular issue, you know, usually
it's Roe versus weight or.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Oh you couldn't get nearly enough people to show up
for that, you gotta go with the super vague omni
cause no kings go, damn kings, we want no kings here.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Yeah huh. It worked the biggest protests maybe ever. But
let's get more specific. What were they out there for
Trump's a bitch. Yeah, why is that? I don't know.
We don't like him, that's the word around here. Any
particular reason why you don't like him, No clue at all.
I'm just going with everybody else saying. I'm just going
with everybody else is saying. It's amazing to me how
(01:36):
many people get swept up in protests without like really
wanting to pay attention. I mean, I can understand not
being involved in politics, not paying attention, but also not
going to rallies, not run, not paying attention and going
to rallies. That just seems like a weird combo.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Well, the inevitable college girl chanting from the river to
the sea.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
What river? I don't know, the one there what see?
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
I'm not really up on this. I mean, it's just
that runs rampant through all these demonstrations. They're there because
they enjoy getting together and feeling like they're part of
the group, and we all agree with each other, and
it's such a warm, fuzzy feeling and I'm super excited.
And Trump's the bad guy and we all hate him,
and no kings. Before we get to the serious analysis
of it, more delightful audio of folks at the protests.
(02:25):
This one happens to be from Philadelphia forty two.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Michael, why specifically are you out supporting no King Stack?
Speaker 1 (02:32):
I think protest is important.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
And what's the main reason you're out here protesting President Trump?
Speaker 1 (02:37):
You with a lot of the decisions that are being made.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Is there any decision in particular you disagree with?
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Well, okay, so I would start with I don't even
think it's appropriate for me to have this interview.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
He started to take control and do illegal things.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
So deporting illegal immigrants is that illegal? Deporting illegal immag
if they're here peacefully. Yes, give me everybody you can
possibly bring into the United States.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Why can't anybody seem to actually kill the president? Because
no one's been successful and good presidents are dead. Wow.
Now I realize this is nut picking, but uh wow,
still wow. One more Wower. This is forty five from Chicago. Michael.
You gotta rob a cub We gotta churn around the
(03:27):
cobs on this fascist system. These ice Asians gonna get
shot and wipe out the stay.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
The same machinery that's a full display right there, has.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
To get wiped out.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
And we're supposed to be worried about college kids making
really tasteless jokes and their their their text feed. You know,
last week place unbelievable. Not seen a lot of headlines
about that guy, the college kids, lots of them.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
And then so yeah, again I get deciding, you know what,
I ain't following politics. I don't get not finding politics
and showing up to rallies like that. First person, what
do you? What do you? What do you know? Like
they does? You can't come up with one thing, like
(04:16):
one vague he shouldn't be blasting drug dealers out of
the sea or something.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Many women, not all, certainly, hence the word many, and
many low testosterone men do not look at issues through
a lens of fact finding or truth. They look at
it through the lens of acceptance. Will this get me
more social currency? Will I be accepted if I express
this opinion? And that's that's what you're seeing. That's how
(04:43):
those people look at the world. Here's here's one more
that got my attention. That's going to lead into some
semi serious analysis. Oh that's right, before we get to
that one forty four, Michael, The fact that Trump and
company are just chuckling at it tells you a lot.
I mean, there's no need to mount some sort of
counter narrative. The counter narrative was, oh, yeah, I'm a king. Yeah,
(05:06):
look at me flying a fighter jet in a crown which,
by the way, your oxygen mask couldn't fit in a
helmet and everything.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
It's just bad. It's bad safety, bad aviation safety. Anyway,
it's just silly. But here's one, the inevitable sixty plus
white woman. I'm not sure where she was, but they
featured her on ABC News last night as if she
was a good spokeswoman for the cause. What brings out
here today? Democracy is dying and.
Speaker 6 (05:36):
We have to save it.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Democracy is dying and we have to save it. She said, Okay, super,
So they're right, but it's more of a general commentary.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Interestingly, Barton Swain, who's emerging, is one of my favorite
writers who was writing about this over the weekend, and
he says, you can make a reasonable case that the
democrats present woes stem from the misuse of a single word,
their manic, unthinking resistance to everything Trump says or does
has its origins, and their failure to know what they
mean by democracy. And he talks about the attack on democracy,
(06:09):
the threat to democracy. They've been calling Trump that every
single day since twenty fifteen.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
The phrase fizzle after he.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Won with a plurality of the popular vote in twenty
twenty four. But mister Trump's bitterest enemies have never managed
to doubt the postulate that he menaces the American form
of government.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
They just keep repeating it over and over.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
And then he goes into the fact that the founding
fathers didn't like democracy. The word to them suggested mob rule, demagogery,
and interestingly, a republic too given to democracy they thought
would allow big personalities to leverage the public's whims against
the established order. James Madison memorably concluded in Federalists Number ten,
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I've got the entire text of that tattooed on my.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Back two weeks, good.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Weeks, and honestly the last few sentences are on my own.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
But anyway, we ran out of space. Should have used
a different fun while you have to lower your pants
to read the end of Federalists ten, right, Katie, it's
you know, with the tattooing thing. You've got your experience
in this. You know, you get a good artist, you
trust them, and sometimes things don't go great.
Speaker 7 (07:15):
Yeah, you've seen that one that goes around the internet says,
no regirts.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
I think the big headline is that you have basically
a tramp stamp. Now though or or I always liked
plan A he because they ran out a room for
the d right right, Yeah, I got a tramp stamp,
and particularly patriotic women really respond to that. At anyway,
where werery? Ah? Yes, and he points out, is it?
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Uh, I get callum Porcher's and Barton's Swain mixed up
because they've got such funky names. Anyway, this is Swain
points out that the American people decide to worry a
lot less about that than the founding fathers did. We
want everything to be popularly elected. Uh, first it was
senators and then our political parties. No more smoke filled
rooms and movers and shakers as all, you know, the
(08:04):
primary system and popular elections.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
And then he.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Then he points out, and here's where I thought it
got really interesting. A decade after his entry into politics,
mister Trump's enemies still make no attempt to distinguish between
his own popularity or lack of it, and that of
the objectives to which he applies his energies. Most Americans
around fifty five percent disapprove of Trump.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Don't like the way he goes about things.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
It does not follow that majorities think he's wrong about
most things.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
The opposite is nearer the truth on nearly all of
his big ticket items. The President's attitude fully accords with
that of the public. The guy read likes to write
and fancy talk, but what he's saying is it's a
bunch of eighty twenty issues or at least sixty forty
issues that Trump is really active on. Mister Trump's war
(08:55):
on elite universities has occasioned some criticisms, some made by
this newspaper's editorial board. But ignore mister Trump.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
In his tactics and ask yourself how many Americans think
the country's fancies schools are an unmitigated blessing and don't
deserve some rough treatment for turning generations of young minds into.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Oatmeal nobody projectally, all right, yeah, and then he goes
a little more into the university thing. Obviously, the immigration
thing that iyesaw.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Immigration's custom enforcement pushes the bounds of legality, and it's
no knock round ups is pretty obvious. But Democrats align
themselves with a tiny minority when their denunciation mister Trump
makes them sound as if they think illegal aliens have
the right to live and work in the US.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
As long as they don't kill people.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Then he goes into another couple of examples and he says,
and the title of it, I will now reveal is democracy.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Thy name is Trump.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Trump is exactly what the founding fathers might have been
concerned about. A giant personality that starts to matter more
than the policies, and the people flock to him.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
He has been the gravity in this country, practically in
the world for a decade. Now. I wonder what's going
to happen when he leaves the stage. I got into
that conversation with somebody over the weekend. I mean, is
he is not going to be replicated And I don't
care if jd. Vance wins or whatever. There's nothing's going
to be like the gravity of Trump right right and
(10:21):
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Speaker 1 (11:28):
It's good to be right. The heck did that? Lithium
battery thing explode into flames in the overhead compartment on
that plane. Do you see that video?
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Yeah, hat is gonna hate and lithium is gonna lithy.
I mean that, that's what they do. That's why they
tell you can't check them in your bags.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Man. If I was sitting on that plane and somebody
opened up the overhead bin and there were flames shooting out,
I think this is not good. Yeah, oh yeah, that's horrible.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
And they ask you when you check luggage, any lithium
ion batteries in your luggage?
Speaker 1 (11:57):
I said, I don't know. I hope. I'm don't know
what kind of a bout no issue, not that I
know of. Maybe, yeah, I don't know. The slightest idea. Uh,
we've got to talk about the jewel heist at the Louver,
one of the most amazing thieveries in world history, that
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happened over the weekend.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
I had nothing to do with it. What an incredible
story in me? Yeah, it is just bold. I mean
a brazen is the word everybody's using it.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
It is.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Oh and speaking of lithium ion batteries, you ought to
pay off that to how China got a strangle old
on the rare earths and what can we do about it?
Speaker 1 (12:38):
As you can see, we have so much on the way.
I hope you can stay here.
Speaker 6 (12:45):
In the clinching game of the NLCS Dodger Star Show,
a Otani pitched six scoreless innings, struck out ten batters,
then hit three home runs.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
It is a feat.
Speaker 6 (12:56):
It is a feat previously only accomplished by George.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Antos, George Santos, who got his sentence commuted by Trump
over the weekend and is out in jail. Why because
he was a loyal Republican voter according to Trump. Oh boy, yeah, troubling. Um. So,
if you want to buy Napoleon's watch, I have it.
(13:20):
I got out on an eBay last night. A bunch
of jewels floating around the world. If you haven't heard
this story.
Speaker 8 (13:27):
Stunning raid on Paris's world famous Louver. Officials say at
nine point thirty am, four men disguised as construction workers
moved this mechanical ladder up against a second floor balcony,
and that CCTV captured two of them using power tools
to cut into the Apollo Gallery where French Emperor Napoleon
the thirds crowned jewels on display, taking nine pieces in all.
(13:51):
The louver closed for the rest of the day. To
concern now what those thieves might do next with the
priceless jewels.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
Fearous that it gets broken up and sold, because a
consumer will have a very very difficult time telling that, hey,
this emeralds came from, say a crown.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
The thieves executed the heist in the louver again in
broad daylight, with the museum full of people, in a
mere four minutes, entering through a window accessed via a
crane mounted on a truck. Now, was the truck already
there and they jumped in and drove it? Or did
they bring the truck there? I haven't heard that they
brought it.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
It's ok sort of crane truck that's super common in
Euris because they have narrow like hallways and stairways, and
so if you're moving in, you go up a crane
into your front window.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Plus, if you saw people in workers outfits in a crane,
you wouldn't think twice about it. You think, well, no,
you wouldn't even think about it. Just right, they're doing
some work. Anyway, they weren't doing some work. They were stealing.
They used chainsaws and angle grinders, grinders to breach display cases,
seizing items of immense historical value before fleeing on scooters motorcycles,
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and and they got away with the stoll they threatened
they got in.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Then they threatened the guards with the power tools, I'll
soff your arm, French eat. And they got them to
back off, and the people the guards probably appropriately turned
to evacuating people, so nobody got their arm sawed off.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
The French government said it was an intolerable humiliation. Agree,
it's fairly humiliating. It's quite amazing that your security is
whatever it is, that they would allow that to happen. Uh,
what you do think somebody would have said, hey, why
don't they grinding up there on the third floor? What's it?
Speaker 3 (15:36):
What work is going on right now? But and and again,
you know, four minutes is a pretty short span of time.
I saw a guy in Fox, and you know, all
kinds of experts everywhere making crap up so they can
be on cable news. But this guy and Fox said
it had to be an inside job because how in
the hell did they know that those windows didn't have
censors on them? Why didn't the windows have sensors on them?
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Because they were so high up and nobody thought that
anybody could ever come in that window. Maybe maybe she can.
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Speaker 1 (16:07):
Hard to imagine that happening. And then lots of people
speculating that they will melt down the metal and take
the jewels out of it and sell the jewels individually,
because they're still worth a ton of money even without
the historical significance. They're worth a lot more with the
historical significance. And in that case, you got to find
some Saudi billionaire who's happy to, you know, buy it
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on the down low. So they showed off to their friends.
This used to be Napoleon's oligarch, who's going to dance
around naked in the crown? This used to be Napoleon's crown.
But then somebody points out, yeah, Napoleon the third, All right,
this excuse me. Napoleon, his great grand nephew who everybody hated,
who had to go to England and live in exile,
And I just sold it to him. He told me
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it was Napoleon's technically true, but Napoleon the third, it
doesn't count. Another thing I didn't know about this, and
this is this and made me more interested in becoming
a master thief of priceless art and jewel and stuff
like that. That's your next chapter. Yeah, they're ensured at
such a high amount of money that the insurance companies
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will often offer, and they try to keep this quiet
because you don't want to inspire people like me. They'll
offer you, look, you give that back. We'll give you
five million dollars for it. You give it back, no questions.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
I ask, because to make a number to account.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Because it saves the money because it's insured for you
know whatever, fifty million dollars. So it's much cheaper to
buy it back from the scumbags than to actually insure
the piece. That's got to be what's happening here.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Almost unless you already have a buyer lined up, you
would never take the gampbell.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Yeah, and I guess that happens a lot. It's just
they try to keep that quiet. And you know, it's
just like the number of people that you know actually
give the money for various cyber hostage situations.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
I like how one of the most priceless crowns they
dropped on the way out air puts this in the
bag the bag.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Client, Can they bring a bag? Oh, we got to
just like wrestle it out in our arms.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
I guess you didn't bring the bag, Sucker Blue. So
how did China get a choke hold on the rare
earth stuff? Really interesting? And what do we do about it?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Next segment stay with us, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 9 (18:16):
The irony of the message is pretty clear for everyone.
If President Trump was a king, the government would be.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Open right now.
Speaker 9 (18:22):
If President Trump was a king, they would not have
been able to engage in that free speech exercise out
on the mall by the way, which was open because
President Trump hasn't closed it. So I mean it's they
needed a stunt. They needed a show. Chuck Schumer has
needs cover right now. He's closed the government down because
he needs political cover, and this was a part of it.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
That's a pretty decent point. I'd forgotten the shutdown was
going on. I believe he forgot right. Oh yeah, right.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
And if Trump was a king, he could also do
something pretty quickly about our vulnerability to China in the
whole world of rare earth materials. This is really an
interesting quandary for a free society. People who prize the
free markets. So as recently as nineteen ninety one, the
US led the world in the production of arre earth minerals,
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partly because we had a giant mine in California Mountain Pass.
But when China faked out the US and said, we're
just a poor developing country and I don't know, maybe
communism isn't so great, and maybe we could be friends,
and maybe if you help us build our economy will
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become more like a democracy, completely duped us for decades.
Read Michael Pillsbury's one hundred Year Marathon. It's brilliant, really
describes it.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
But one of the.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Things they did was they poured government money into their
rare earth mining and refining operations, and then when anybody
in the West, like the US, tried to compete, they
dumped their goods the supplies into the market and just
crushed the market. And so our companies went out of
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business or sold themselves to Chinese entities, and then China consolidated.
There are hundreds of rare earth companies into a few
super giant powerhouses that could work with the communist Chinese.
And so even now as we're trying to resurrect our
domestic rare earth industry. China is doing. It's using all
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the levers a dictatorship can to try to crush that.
And so the US is going to have to take
the US government, it's going to have to take probably
a more and more activist goal role rather in fulfilling
the goal of building up our domestic capabilities. And you know,
Trump's already got big investments in various companies, whatever the
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hell that means. And we might have to get into
these quasi public private partnerships that are really really unhealthy
for a system like ours, for reasons I could, you know,
drone on about. But the point is, when you have
the government controlling billions and trillions of dollars worth of industry,
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then you get a situation where it's just asking for
good governance that has anything to do with the needs
of the people.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Forget it. There's too much money at stake. But you
can't let your number one enemy control the entire supply
clonamdium or whatever metal is important. Oh yeah, I'm glad
you brought.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
That up, because they could crash the stock market in
a day. Oh wow, they could bring all of our
car companies and most of our tech companies to their
knees in a day if they were to announce, hey,
by the way, you can't buy any of this stuff fu,
which is why China enacted some new restrictions. I'm not
going to describe them because it's kind of technical and boring,
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but they essentially said, yeah, we're going to make it
a lot higher for y'all to get this stuff. And
Trump that's when he responded with one hundred percent tearoff
on bunches of Chinese goods or all Chinese goods that
I can't remember everything, because that's I mean, they have
us buy the you know, use whatever descriptor you prefer.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
We are in a terribly vulnerable spot. So what do
we do. The sack, that's a good one. They got
us buy the sack, the nerds, the nagils. Sure, yeah,
it's when I heard it come out of my mouth. Yeah, yeah,
perhaps a little restraint, I don't know. Uh So. One
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of the aspects of this that's so annoying to me,
well two of them. Every time we in the past,
pre Trump and for all my problems with Trump, he was.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
The guy who said China's screwing us. Why are we
letting them anyway. Every time past administrations would go to
China and say, hey, y'all are dumping uhde made up
tonia into the market, and you're killing us. And they
would turn out their pockets and.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Say, oh, we're a poor developing economy. You've got to
let us do this for a while, just till we're
up on our feet. Then we'll compete fairly. Ohkay, China,
so long as you promise us you're reforming. Oh, we're reforming,
they would say. And so we just got caught with
our pants down and now we're again incredibly vulnerable. And
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oh the other aspect of China that is a hole.
You know what. Our guy is asleep at the switch
there he is.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
He was taking a smoke break. He smokes a lot.
I'm worried about him. But one of the aspects of
it that bothers me so much is and the whole
woke environmental thing. And there's there's smart, reasonable environmentalism, then
there's the Gavin Newsome woke crap. And what annoys me
so much is we.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
Still use every bit as much oil, we still use
every bit as much natural gas, and every bit as
much of these rare earth minerals, but we have third
world countries mine it and refine it for us, so
we can tiptoe around in our white gloves and say,
look how clean we are.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
We don't rape the environment by mining these materials. No,
we just use them and let somebody who's way less
concerned about the environment.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Get them for us.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
That's the opposite of being an environmentalist, you flame and
blanking hypocrites. So China, trust me, they know the whole
they have over us, and they're not going to let
it go easily. And so what do we do as
a government? I don't know, Jack, Do you have the answer?
Do we so we build up us? Did you say
(24:31):
it's a condom conundrum? Why would I say it's a condom?
It sounded like condom? You was your your idiotic adolescent choe. No,
well I didn't. I said it's conundrum, which is a
perfectly so you claim. So you claim anyway, go to
my doctor and get my ears de waxed again.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Where was I?
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Oh, you know uncle Sam's mining. Do we have a
government controlled giant mining apparatus or do we actually have
the government pick winners and losers and invest in giant companies?
Speaker 1 (25:04):
That can get us back to self sufficiency. It's it's
a tough one. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
We painted ourselves into a strategic corner through the naivete
of the past.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
And Trump's supposed to meet with the President she at
some point here and soon. I guess, I don't know
our frenemies, the Chinese you might be meeting with. He
might be meeting with Putin soon. They announced that last
week and they're trying to put that together to take
to turn the screws on Putin. Trump. Yeah, if you
can explain that to me, I'm interested. I'm hoping there's
(25:36):
something behind the scenes we don't know about, because the
stuff that's on the face of it is he pressured
the hell out of Zelensky over the weekend. He talked
about it last night on the plane that, Uh, Zelensky's
got to give up the don Bass region, that's the
Dunetsk basin, don Bass, big chunk of Ukraine that Russia
has taken chunks of and uh and Trump really pressure
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Zolensky to give up on that, saying no to the
Tomahawk missiles. And when does he ever pressure Putin? Does
that happen? And why not? He pressured net and Yahoo.
I mean, that's all the credit everybody gave him for
making this amazing Middle East piece deals that he pressured
both sides. Does he pressure Putin ever? Well? He, I
(26:22):
think one of the point.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
It's much more, you know, the pressure on net and
Yah who existed, But he exercised, well, he enacted the
policy that all right, you've gotten intransigent, you know, a
party to these negotiations, put maximum pressure on him. Take
out Foordoh, let the Israelis drop a bomb in Dohar,
you know, kill off Hesbela, kill off Amas, go into
(26:47):
Gaza City. Maximum pressure. It's worked a couple of times now.
But with Putin it's kid gloves. And by the way,
don't give me well he has nukes. World War three,
blah blah blah. You lost the right to make that
argument with Tucker Carlson said bombing the I Bordo plant
would lead to World War three.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Please.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
It led to a whimpering and just ballless Iran begging
for mercy.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
I finished the Tucker Carlson fourth episode of the World
Trade Center nine to eleven documentary. Oh oh boy, here's
a hint. It's the Jews. But uh was I going
to say about.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Not the people who are swearing for decades that they
would kill us and we know them by name, and right, yes.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Had something else I was going to say about Putin
or whatever. So the Financial Times is reporting that Trump
and Zelensky were shouting at each other in their Oval
Office meeting on Friday, and when Trump finally decided, Nana
not giving tomahawks to you? Why? I don't know. That
seemed like that was the direction is going. But anyway,
Ran Paul was on one of the talk shows yesterday
and he said, people keep talking about sticks, how about carrots.
(27:50):
We're hitting them with pretty hard sanctions right now. I
don't what if we tell Russia we'll release all these
sanctions if you end the war, which of course will
be criticized by some as rewarding a completely illegal move
of just attacking the country next to you and taking
their land. But correct, it would end the war. Could
end the war? Mm, no, got it.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
I don't think it would. It would not end Russian
aggression in any way.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Lost it for appearances, you'd have to put some sort
of peacekeeping forces in there. Trigger Listen, would you take
from that? If you were putin? I would get my
ducks back in a row and take more land, take Estonia. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
The message is you push hard enough, the West backs
down gives you what you want.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Well the reason I wasn't going to give you Johnny
the candy, but he threw a tantrum. I'm sure it
won't happen again. Please right exactly. So similar to the
Middle East, is this the thing with Russian Ukraine? Who's
going to be the international force that keeps things in
place there in Gaza? Who's gonna put troops on the
(29:02):
ground or whatever? And then that it would be the
day after situation Russia Ukraine, if you come to some
sort of agreement, who's gonna be the force that keeps
the agreement? These questions have not been answered. Yeah, it's
still this seems like it's thin ice to me. But
we'll see. There are uh twists in the road ahead.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Everybody knew it. Brief version is because I want to
be I want to be helping Ukraine more. Very brief
version is Trump was talking really tough about sending tomahawks
and all these different things, spent two hours in the
phone with Putin and then seemed to flip completely back
over to that side. Again, that's what it looked like
to me.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
So Putin may be the greatest manipulator currently doing business
on the planet.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Or Trump just really likes being his friend or something,
and I'm not exactly sure what that is. I hope
that's not the case. I suspect it may be. Yikes. Yeah,
you know what we got to get to today, Katie.
Katie's special audio clip that we have not played yet.
I don't even want to say what it is. We'll
let you set it up next segment, Katie. Okay, you
(30:02):
brought in. This is a very personal, touching sort of thing,
so you're not gonna want to miss this. This as
an arm this is an armstrong and getty first, I think,
Am I right, Jim? Have we ever done this before?
I don't think so. I don't think so. No, no,
very son, among other things on the ways, stay here,
I'm strong, Heyeddy.
Speaker 6 (30:22):
Officials are saying this year's fall foliage season we'll end
sooner and we'll have more muted colors.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Cool.
Speaker 6 (30:28):
I guess I'll just kill myself there.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Well, ah, that's funny. That's kind of a snarky millennial
who gives a crap about fall colors sort of joke
that sounds like some of my kids would really enjoy
that joke. So Katie, Katie needs to set up this
(30:55):
clip because this is a big deal. Okay.
Speaker 7 (30:58):
So I've talked a couple of times on the program.
I'm about how my husband and I have been going
through the IVF process, uh, trying to get knocked up.
And we in the beginning of September went through the
embryo transfer of our little baby boy that will obviously
be named Jack Joe Mike Mike. And last Thursday we
(31:21):
had our first ultrasound and heartbeat appointment.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
So unlike me, he has a heart. That's a little
Jack Joe Mike Mike.
Speaker 7 (31:33):
That's little Jack Joe Mike Mike's heartbeat.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Like you has a heart. That's a good joke. Oh yeah,
that's freaking amazing and it's incredible. It is. And Uh,
I was thinking this the other day because my son's
band teacher, they're having their first kid, and he's all
excited about there. There's nothing as life changing or relationship
changing as the first kid. I mean, just everything in
(31:59):
the entire world that you think about changes when that happens.
And it's just amazing.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
When Judy was first pregnant with Caitlin, many many moons ago,
I dove into fetal development. I became super interested in
it for obvious reasons, and read books and articles and
stuff like that. And I'm not going to get into
the politics of this because it's not an appropriate moment.
But anybody who thinks a fetus is not a human
(32:26):
being till very late in the game has no idea
what they're talking about.
Speaker 7 (32:31):
Oh, I mean, it's the pictures that I'll put them
on my Twitter account. She took the cursor and she pointed,
you can see his little arms in his legs in
the ultrasound, and he is currently the size of a
jelly bean.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
But a fully recognizable human. Give it another couple of months.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Oh, I can't wait.
Speaker 7 (32:50):
It's just it's been so amazing and the process was
hard but so worth it.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
And to hear that made it.
Speaker 7 (32:57):
I mean, I knew it was real, but hearing that
heartbeat just kind of brought it all the more to
life for me.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Oh, of course, how long has that technology been around?
Did they have it when your first kid was born? Joe? Yeah?
Oh yeah, so it's been around that long.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know how it's progressed in terms
of like sensitivity and how early you can hear the
heart beat and.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
That sort of thing. I don't know, but like all
this stuff unimaginable to my parents, knowing the sex ahead
of time, or hearing the heart beat or knowing anything.
Speaker 7 (33:27):
So my my I did have I misspoke. I had
one ultrasound prior. Could not hear the heart beat last Thursday?
Did hear the heart beat? I'm I'm at eight and
a half weeks, so it was a little fast. Were
you drinking a lot of coffee here?
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Oh? Just totally jacked up.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
No, it's just sounds like it sounds like me after
I come up a flight of stairs pretty much exactly.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
It's more stairs than it looks. That's me. Four cups
of coffee in Yeah, that's Jack what he's having one
with a caffeine free stars check and his pulse end
because I drink so much covie. Amazing, absolutely amazing.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
The miracle of life, and the fact that a certain
segment of our political population thinks that a woman's supernatural
goddess like miraculous ability to bring life into the world
is somehow a lesser occupation than occupying a cubicle and
(34:32):
making a few bucks. That's a much more important and
respectable thing to do.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
To make you equal with men. Yes, why why would
you want to be equal with men? You're capable of miracles.
The only miracle that counts, and that's being devalued. Family
is being devalued. Makes me insane. Well, congratulations on being
a birthing person. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
I appreciate men men can give birth to. So let's
not be using prejudicial like mother.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Right.
Speaker 7 (35:01):
Well, and uh so, little Jack, Joe, Mike, Mike, is
you on May twenty seventh?
Speaker 1 (35:05):
Okay, that's a good that's a good time. Good time
is it for short?
Speaker 3 (35:09):
Probably Joe, Right, something's gotta give.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Thank you for sharing that, Katie. You know that's wonderful. Katie.
You know what I did this morning that was horrifying. Well,
I didn't do it on purpose. It just happened. For
whatever reason. I woke up and I was convinced it
was Saturday morning. So I woke up and I was
like thinking of my plans for the day, and.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
Oh, we know a little trick, the God's crueless trick
I just was going through.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
You know, it looks like it's gonna be nice and uh,
probably ride my bike and then I'll do this and
cleaning your ass. And that's Monday. Not only was it
not Saturday, it was freaking Monday. It was is the
watch of days. You're gonna get down the salt mine.
You're gonna dig, boy, that's what you're gonna do. That
was so tough on my psyche. It was painful. I
thought I was gonna cry. So after these life affirming moments.
(35:57):
How about this.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
Young women are nuts and proud of it and the
Internet has a lot to do with it in a
really insidious way.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
Not surprised. Yeah, we'll have that for you next hour. Great.
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
Millions of Americans took to the streets in peaceful protest
on Saturday and what has been described as one of
the largest single day demonstrations in US history. An estimated
seven million people gathered across some twenty seven hundred Nope
King's rallies and cities from coast to coast, according to organizers.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Trump, responding via.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Social media, hosting an AI generated video depicting a crowned
Trump flying a King Trump jet.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
What an interesting idea they like, fabricated up a slogan,
A attacked on this whole thing. The way to approach
it as opposed to a particular issue, you know, usually
it's Roe versus weight or.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Oh you couldn't get nearly enough people to show up
for that, you gotta go with the super vague omni
cause no kings go, damn kings, we want no kings here.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Yeah huh. It worked the biggest protests maybe ever. But
let's get more specific. What were they out there for
Trump's a bitch. Yeah, why is that? I don't know.
We don't like him, that's the word around here. Any
particular reason why you don't like him, No clue at all.
I'm just going with everybody else saying. I'm just going
with everybody else is saying. It's amazing to me how
(01:36):
many people get swept up in protests without like really
wanting to pay attention. I mean, I can understand not
being involved in politics, not paying attention, but also not
going to rallies, not run, not paying attention and going
to rallies. That just seems like a weird combo.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Well, the inevitable college girl chanting from the river to
the sea.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
What river? I don't know, the one there what see?
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
I'm not really up on this. I mean, it's just
that runs rampant through all these demonstrations. They're there because
they enjoy getting together and feeling like they're part of
the group, and we all agree with each other, and
it's such a warm, fuzzy feeling and I'm super excited.
And Trump's the bad guy and we all hate him,
and no kings. Before we get to the serious analysis
of it, more delightful audio of folks at the protests.
(02:25):
This one happens to be from Philadelphia forty two.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Michael, why specifically are you out supporting no King Stack?
Speaker 1 (02:32):
I think protest is important.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
And what's the main reason you're out here protesting President Trump?
Speaker 1 (02:37):
You with a lot of the decisions that are being made.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Is there any decision in particular you disagree with?
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Well, okay, so I would start with I don't even
think it's appropriate for me to have this interview.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
He started to take control and do illegal things.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
So deporting illegal immigrants is that illegal? Deporting illegal immag
if they're here peacefully. Yes, give me everybody you can
possibly bring into the United States.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Why can't anybody seem to actually kill the president? Because
no one's been successful and good presidents are dead. Wow.
Now I realize this is nut picking, but uh wow,
still wow. One more Wower. This is forty five from Chicago. Michael.
You gotta rob a cub We gotta churn around the
(03:27):
cobs on this fascist system. These ice Asians gonna get
shot and wipe out the stay.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
The same machinery that's a full display right there, has.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
To get wiped out.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
And we're supposed to be worried about college kids making
really tasteless jokes and their their their text feed. You know,
last week place unbelievable. Not seen a lot of headlines
about that guy, the college kids, lots of them.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
And then so yeah, again I get deciding, you know what,
I ain't following politics. I don't get not finding politics
and showing up to rallies like that. First person, what
do you? What do you? What do you know? Like
they does? You can't come up with one thing, like
(04:16):
one vague he shouldn't be blasting drug dealers out of
the sea or something.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Many women, not all, certainly, hence the word many, and
many low testosterone men do not look at issues through
a lens of fact finding or truth. They look at
it through the lens of acceptance. Will this get me
more social currency? Will I be accepted if I express
this opinion? And that's that's what you're seeing. That's how
(04:43):
those people look at the world. Here's here's one more
that got my attention. That's going to lead into some
semi serious analysis. Oh that's right, before we get to
that one forty four, Michael, The fact that Trump and
company are just chuckling at it tells you a lot.
I mean, there's no need to mount some sort of
counter narrative. The counter narrative was, oh, yeah, I'm a king. Yeah,
(05:06):
look at me flying a fighter jet in a crown which,
by the way, your oxygen mask couldn't fit in a
helmet and everything.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
It's just bad. It's bad safety, bad aviation safety. Anyway,
it's just silly. But here's one, the inevitable sixty plus
white woman. I'm not sure where she was, but they
featured her on ABC News last night as if she
was a good spokeswoman for the cause. What brings out
here today? Democracy is dying and.
Speaker 6 (05:36):
We have to save it.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Democracy is dying and we have to save it. She said, Okay, super,
So they're right, but it's more of a general commentary.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Interestingly, Barton Swain, who's emerging, is one of my favorite
writers who was writing about this over the weekend, and
he says, you can make a reasonable case that the
democrats present woes stem from the misuse of a single word,
their manic, unthinking resistance to everything Trump says or does
has its origins, and their failure to know what they
mean by democracy. And he talks about the attack on democracy,
(06:09):
the threat to democracy. They've been calling Trump that every
single day since twenty fifteen.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
The phrase fizzle after he.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Won with a plurality of the popular vote in twenty
twenty four. But mister Trump's bitterest enemies have never managed
to doubt the postulate that he menaces the American form
of government.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
They just keep repeating it over and over.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
And then he goes into the fact that the founding
fathers didn't like democracy. The word to them suggested mob rule, demagogery,
and interestingly, a republic too given to democracy they thought
would allow big personalities to leverage the public's whims against
the established order. James Madison memorably concluded in Federalists Number ten,
(06:51):
I've got the entire text of that tattooed on my.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Back two weeks, good.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Weeks, and honestly the last few sentences are on my own.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
But anyway, we ran out of space. Should have used
a different fun while you have to lower your pants
to read the end of Federalists ten, right, Katie, it's
you know, with the tattooing thing. You've got your experience
in this. You know, you get a good artist, you
trust them, and sometimes things don't go great.
Speaker 7 (07:15):
Yeah, you've seen that one that goes around the internet says,
no regirts.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
I think the big headline is that you have basically
a tramp stamp. Now though or or I always liked
plan A he because they ran out a room for
the d right right, Yeah, I got a tramp stamp,
and particularly patriotic women really respond to that. At anyway,
where werery? Ah? Yes, and he points out, is it?
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Uh, I get callum Porcher's and Barton's Swain mixed up
because they've got such funky names. Anyway, this is Swain
points out that the American people decide to worry a
lot less about that than the founding fathers did. We
want everything to be popularly elected. Uh, first it was
senators and then our political parties. No more smoke filled
rooms and movers and shakers as all, you know, the
(08:04):
primary system and popular elections.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
And then he.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Then he points out, and here's where I thought it
got really interesting. A decade after his entry into politics,
mister Trump's enemies still make no attempt to distinguish between
his own popularity or lack of it, and that of
the objectives to which he applies his energies. Most Americans
around fifty five percent disapprove of Trump.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Don't like the way he goes about things.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
It does not follow that majorities think he's wrong about
most things.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
The opposite is nearer the truth on nearly all of
his big ticket items. The President's attitude fully accords with
that of the public. The guy read likes to write
and fancy talk, but what he's saying is it's a
bunch of eighty twenty issues or at least sixty forty
issues that Trump is really active on. Mister Trump's war
(08:55):
on elite universities has occasioned some criticisms, some made by
this newspaper's editorial board. But ignore mister Trump.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
In his tactics and ask yourself how many Americans think
the country's fancies schools are an unmitigated blessing and don't
deserve some rough treatment for turning generations of young minds into.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Oatmeal nobody projectally, all right, yeah, and then he goes
a little more into the university thing. Obviously, the immigration
thing that iyesaw.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Immigration's custom enforcement pushes the bounds of legality, and it's
no knock round ups is pretty obvious. But Democrats align
themselves with a tiny minority when their denunciation mister Trump
makes them sound as if they think illegal aliens have
the right to live and work in the US.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
As long as they don't kill people.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Then he goes into another couple of examples and he says,
and the title of it, I will now reveal is democracy.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Thy name is Trump.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Trump is exactly what the founding fathers might have been
concerned about. A giant personality that starts to matter more
than the policies, and the people flock to him.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
He has been the gravity in this country, practically in
the world for a decade. Now. I wonder what's going
to happen when he leaves the stage. I got into
that conversation with somebody over the weekend. I mean, is
he is not going to be replicated And I don't
care if jd. Vance wins or whatever. There's nothing's going
to be like the gravity of Trump right right and
(10:21):
will be interesting.
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Speaker 1 (11:28):
It's good to be right. The heck did that? Lithium
battery thing explode into flames in the overhead compartment on
that plane. Do you see that video?
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Yeah, hat is gonna hate and lithium is gonna lithy.
I mean that, that's what they do. That's why they
tell you can't check them in your bags.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Man. If I was sitting on that plane and somebody
opened up the overhead bin and there were flames shooting out,
I think this is not good. Yeah, oh yeah, that's horrible.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
And they ask you when you check luggage, any lithium
ion batteries in your luggage?
Speaker 1 (11:57):
I said, I don't know. I hope. I'm don't know
what kind of a bout no issue, not that I
know of. Maybe, yeah, I don't know. The slightest idea. Uh,
we've got to talk about the jewel heist at the Louver,
one of the most amazing thieveries in world history, that
(12:20):
happened over the weekend.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
I had nothing to do with it. What an incredible
story in me? Yeah, it is just bold. I mean
a brazen is the word everybody's using it.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
It is.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Oh and speaking of lithium ion batteries, you ought to
pay off that to how China got a strangle old
on the rare earths and what can we do about it?
Speaker 1 (12:38):
As you can see, we have so much on the way.
I hope you can stay here.
Speaker 6 (12:45):
In the clinching game of the NLCS Dodger Star Show,
a Otani pitched six scoreless innings, struck out ten batters,
then hit three home runs.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
It is a feat.
Speaker 6 (12:56):
It is a feat previously only accomplished by George.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Antos, George Santos, who got his sentence commuted by Trump
over the weekend and is out in jail. Why because
he was a loyal Republican voter according to Trump. Oh boy, yeah, troubling. Um. So,
if you want to buy Napoleon's watch, I have it.
(13:20):
I got out on an eBay last night. A bunch
of jewels floating around the world. If you haven't heard
this story.
Speaker 8 (13:27):
Stunning raid on Paris's world famous Louver. Officials say at
nine point thirty am, four men disguised as construction workers
moved this mechanical ladder up against a second floor balcony,
and that CCTV captured two of them using power tools
to cut into the Apollo Gallery where French Emperor Napoleon
the thirds crowned jewels on display, taking nine pieces in all.
(13:51):
The louver closed for the rest of the day. To
concern now what those thieves might do next with the
priceless jewels.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
Fearous that it gets broken up and sold, because a
consumer will have a very very difficult time telling that, hey,
this emeralds came from, say a crown.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
The thieves executed the heist in the louver again in
broad daylight, with the museum full of people, in a
mere four minutes, entering through a window accessed via a
crane mounted on a truck. Now, was the truck already
there and they jumped in and drove it? Or did
they bring the truck there? I haven't heard that they
brought it.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
It's ok sort of crane truck that's super common in
Euris because they have narrow like hallways and stairways, and
so if you're moving in, you go up a crane
into your front window.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Plus, if you saw people in workers outfits in a crane,
you wouldn't think twice about it. You think, well, no,
you wouldn't even think about it. Just right, they're doing
some work. Anyway, they weren't doing some work. They were stealing.
They used chainsaws and angle grinders, grinders to breach display cases,
seizing items of immense historical value before fleeing on scooters motorcycles,
(14:59):
and and they got away with the stoll they threatened
they got in.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Then they threatened the guards with the power tools, I'll
soff your arm, French eat. And they got them to
back off, and the people the guards probably appropriately turned
to evacuating people, so nobody got their arm sawed off.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
The French government said it was an intolerable humiliation. Agree,
it's fairly humiliating. It's quite amazing that your security is
whatever it is, that they would allow that to happen. Uh,
what you do think somebody would have said, hey, why
don't they grinding up there on the third floor? What's it?
Speaker 3 (15:36):
What work is going on right now? But and and again,
you know, four minutes is a pretty short span of time.
I saw a guy in Fox, and you know, all
kinds of experts everywhere making crap up so they can
be on cable news. But this guy and Fox said
it had to be an inside job because how in
the hell did they know that those windows didn't have
censors on them? Why didn't the windows have sensors on them?
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Because they were so high up and nobody thought that
anybody could ever come in that window. Maybe maybe she can.
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Speaker 1 (16:07):
Hard to imagine that happening. And then lots of people
speculating that they will melt down the metal and take
the jewels out of it and sell the jewels individually,
because they're still worth a ton of money even without
the historical significance. They're worth a lot more with the
historical significance. And in that case, you got to find
some Saudi billionaire who's happy to, you know, buy it
(16:29):
on the down low. So they showed off to their friends.
This used to be Napoleon's oligarch, who's going to dance
around naked in the crown? This used to be Napoleon's crown.
But then somebody points out, yeah, Napoleon the third, All right,
this excuse me. Napoleon, his great grand nephew who everybody hated,
who had to go to England and live in exile,
And I just sold it to him. He told me
(16:49):
it was Napoleon's technically true, but Napoleon the third, it
doesn't count. Another thing I didn't know about this, and
this is this and made me more interested in becoming
a master thief of priceless art and jewel and stuff
like that. That's your next chapter. Yeah, they're ensured at
such a high amount of money that the insurance companies
(17:09):
will often offer, and they try to keep this quiet
because you don't want to inspire people like me. They'll
offer you, look, you give that back. We'll give you
five million dollars for it. You give it back, no questions.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
I ask, because to make a number to account.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Because it saves the money because it's insured for you
know whatever, fifty million dollars. So it's much cheaper to
buy it back from the scumbags than to actually insure
the piece. That's got to be what's happening here.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Almost unless you already have a buyer lined up, you
would never take the gampbell.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Yeah, and I guess that happens a lot. It's just
they try to keep that quiet. And you know, it's
just like the number of people that you know actually
give the money for various cyber hostage situations.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
I like how one of the most priceless crowns they
dropped on the way out air puts this in the
bag the bag.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Client, Can they bring a bag? Oh, we got to
just like wrestle it out in our arms.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
I guess you didn't bring the bag, Sucker Blue. So
how did China get a choke hold on the rare
earth stuff? Really interesting? And what do we do about it?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Next segment stay with us, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 9 (18:16):
The irony of the message is pretty clear for everyone.
If President Trump was a king, the government would be.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Open right now.
Speaker 9 (18:22):
If President Trump was a king, they would not have
been able to engage in that free speech exercise out
on the mall by the way, which was open because
President Trump hasn't closed it. So I mean it's they
needed a stunt. They needed a show. Chuck Schumer has
needs cover right now. He's closed the government down because
he needs political cover, and this was a part of it.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
That's a pretty decent point. I'd forgotten the shutdown was
going on. I believe he forgot right. Oh yeah, right.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
And if Trump was a king, he could also do
something pretty quickly about our vulnerability to China in the
whole world of rare earth materials. This is really an
interesting quandary for a free society. People who prize the
free markets. So as recently as nineteen ninety one, the
US led the world in the production of arre earth minerals,
(19:09):
partly because we had a giant mine in California Mountain Pass.
But when China faked out the US and said, we're
just a poor developing country and I don't know, maybe
communism isn't so great, and maybe we could be friends,
and maybe if you help us build our economy will
(19:30):
become more like a democracy, completely duped us for decades.
Read Michael Pillsbury's one hundred Year Marathon. It's brilliant, really
describes it.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
But one of the.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Things they did was they poured government money into their
rare earth mining and refining operations, and then when anybody
in the West, like the US, tried to compete, they
dumped their goods the supplies into the market and just
crushed the market. And so our companies went out of
(20:01):
business or sold themselves to Chinese entities, and then China consolidated.
There are hundreds of rare earth companies into a few
super giant powerhouses that could work with the communist Chinese.
And so even now as we're trying to resurrect our
domestic rare earth industry. China is doing. It's using all
(20:21):
the levers a dictatorship can to try to crush that.
And so the US is going to have to take
the US government, it's going to have to take probably
a more and more activist goal role rather in fulfilling
the goal of building up our domestic capabilities. And you know,
Trump's already got big investments in various companies, whatever the
(20:44):
hell that means. And we might have to get into
these quasi public private partnerships that are really really unhealthy
for a system like ours, for reasons I could, you know,
drone on about. But the point is, when you have
the government controlling billions and trillions of dollars worth of industry,
(21:06):
then you get a situation where it's just asking for
good governance that has anything to do with the needs
of the people.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Forget it. There's too much money at stake. But you
can't let your number one enemy control the entire supply
clonamdium or whatever metal is important. Oh yeah, I'm glad
you brought.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
That up, because they could crash the stock market in
a day. Oh wow, they could bring all of our
car companies and most of our tech companies to their
knees in a day if they were to announce, hey,
by the way, you can't buy any of this stuff fu,
which is why China enacted some new restrictions. I'm not
going to describe them because it's kind of technical and boring,
(21:44):
but they essentially said, yeah, we're going to make it
a lot higher for y'all to get this stuff. And
Trump that's when he responded with one hundred percent tearoff
on bunches of Chinese goods or all Chinese goods that
I can't remember everything, because that's I mean, they have
us buy the you know, use whatever descriptor you prefer.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
We are in a terribly vulnerable spot. So what do
we do. The sack, that's a good one. They got
us buy the sack, the nerds, the nagils. Sure, yeah,
it's when I heard it come out of my mouth. Yeah, yeah,
perhaps a little restraint, I don't know. Uh So. One
(22:24):
of the aspects of this that's so annoying to me,
well two of them. Every time we in the past,
pre Trump and for all my problems with Trump, he was.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
The guy who said China's screwing us. Why are we
letting them anyway. Every time past administrations would go to
China and say, hey, y'all are dumping uhde made up
tonia into the market, and you're killing us. And they
would turn out their pockets and.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Say, oh, we're a poor developing economy. You've got to
let us do this for a while, just till we're
up on our feet. Then we'll compete fairly. Ohkay, China,
so long as you promise us you're reforming. Oh, we're reforming,
they would say. And so we just got caught with
our pants down and now we're again incredibly vulnerable. And
(23:12):
oh the other aspect of China that is a hole.
You know what. Our guy is asleep at the switch
there he is.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
He was taking a smoke break. He smokes a lot.
I'm worried about him. But one of the aspects of
it that bothers me so much is and the whole
woke environmental thing. And there's there's smart, reasonable environmentalism, then
there's the Gavin Newsome woke crap. And what annoys me
so much is we.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
Still use every bit as much oil, we still use
every bit as much natural gas, and every bit as
much of these rare earth minerals, but we have third
world countries mine it and refine it for us, so
we can tiptoe around in our white gloves and say,
look how clean we are.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
We don't rape the environment by mining these materials. No,
we just use them and let somebody who's way less
concerned about the environment.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Get them for us.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
That's the opposite of being an environmentalist, you flame and
blanking hypocrites. So China, trust me, they know the whole
they have over us, and they're not going to let
it go easily. And so what do we do as
a government? I don't know, Jack, Do you have the answer?
Do we so we build up us? Did you say
(24:31):
it's a condom conundrum? Why would I say it's a condom?
It sounded like condom? You was your your idiotic adolescent choe. No,
well I didn't. I said it's conundrum, which is a
perfectly so you claim. So you claim anyway, go to
my doctor and get my ears de waxed again.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Where was I?
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Oh, you know uncle Sam's mining. Do we have a
government controlled giant mining apparatus or do we actually have
the government pick winners and losers and invest in giant companies?
Speaker 1 (25:04):
That can get us back to self sufficiency. It's it's
a tough one. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
We painted ourselves into a strategic corner through the naivete
of the past.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
And Trump's supposed to meet with the President she at
some point here and soon. I guess, I don't know
our frenemies, the Chinese you might be meeting with. He
might be meeting with Putin soon. They announced that last
week and they're trying to put that together to take
to turn the screws on Putin. Trump. Yeah, if you
can explain that to me, I'm interested. I'm hoping there's
(25:36):
something behind the scenes we don't know about, because the
stuff that's on the face of it is he pressured
the hell out of Zelensky over the weekend. He talked
about it last night on the plane that, Uh, Zelensky's
got to give up the don Bass region, that's the
Dunetsk basin, don Bass, big chunk of Ukraine that Russia
has taken chunks of and uh and Trump really pressure
(26:00):
Zolensky to give up on that, saying no to the
Tomahawk missiles. And when does he ever pressure Putin? Does
that happen? And why not? He pressured net and Yahoo.
I mean, that's all the credit everybody gave him for
making this amazing Middle East piece deals that he pressured
both sides. Does he pressure Putin ever? Well? He, I
(26:22):
think one of the point.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
It's much more, you know, the pressure on net and
Yah who existed, But he exercised, well, he enacted the
policy that all right, you've gotten intransigent, you know, a
party to these negotiations, put maximum pressure on him. Take
out Foordoh, let the Israelis drop a bomb in Dohar,
you know, kill off Hesbela, kill off Amas, go into
(26:47):
Gaza City. Maximum pressure. It's worked a couple of times now.
But with Putin it's kid gloves. And by the way,
don't give me well he has nukes. World War three,
blah blah blah. You lost the right to make that
argument with Tucker Carlson said bombing the I Bordo plant
would lead to World War three.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Please.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
It led to a whimpering and just ballless Iran begging
for mercy.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
I finished the Tucker Carlson fourth episode of the World
Trade Center nine to eleven documentary. Oh oh boy, here's
a hint. It's the Jews. But uh was I going
to say about.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Not the people who are swearing for decades that they
would kill us and we know them by name, and right, yes.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Had something else I was going to say about Putin
or whatever. So the Financial Times is reporting that Trump
and Zelensky were shouting at each other in their Oval
Office meeting on Friday, and when Trump finally decided, Nana
not giving tomahawks to you? Why? I don't know. That
seemed like that was the direction is going. But anyway,
Ran Paul was on one of the talk shows yesterday
and he said, people keep talking about sticks, how about carrots.
(27:50):
We're hitting them with pretty hard sanctions right now. I
don't what if we tell Russia we'll release all these
sanctions if you end the war, which of course will
be criticized by some as rewarding a completely illegal move
of just attacking the country next to you and taking
their land. But correct, it would end the war. Could
end the war? Mm, no, got it.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
I don't think it would. It would not end Russian
aggression in any way.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Lost it for appearances, you'd have to put some sort
of peacekeeping forces in there. Trigger Listen, would you take
from that? If you were putin? I would get my
ducks back in a row and take more land, take Estonia. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
The message is you push hard enough, the West backs
down gives you what you want.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Well the reason I wasn't going to give you Johnny
the candy, but he threw a tantrum. I'm sure it
won't happen again. Please right exactly. So similar to the
Middle East, is this the thing with Russian Ukraine? Who's
going to be the international force that keeps things in
place there in Gaza? Who's gonna put troops on the
(29:02):
ground or whatever? And then that it would be the
day after situation Russia Ukraine, if you come to some
sort of agreement, who's gonna be the force that keeps
the agreement? These questions have not been answered. Yeah, it's
still this seems like it's thin ice to me. But
we'll see. There are uh twists in the road ahead.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Everybody knew it. Brief version is because I want to
be I want to be helping Ukraine more. Very brief
version is Trump was talking really tough about sending tomahawks
and all these different things, spent two hours in the
phone with Putin and then seemed to flip completely back
over to that side. Again, that's what it looked like
to me.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
So Putin may be the greatest manipulator currently doing business
on the planet.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Or Trump just really likes being his friend or something,
and I'm not exactly sure what that is. I hope
that's not the case. I suspect it may be. Yikes. Yeah,
you know what we got to get to today, Katie.
Katie's special audio clip that we have not played yet.
I don't even want to say what it is. We'll
let you set it up next segment, Katie. Okay, you
(30:02):
brought in. This is a very personal, touching sort of thing,
so you're not gonna want to miss this. This as
an arm this is an armstrong and getty first, I think,
Am I right, Jim? Have we ever done this before?
I don't think so. I don't think so. No, no,
very son, among other things on the ways, stay here,
I'm strong, Heyeddy.
Speaker 6 (30:22):
Officials are saying this year's fall foliage season we'll end
sooner and we'll have more muted colors.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Cool.
Speaker 6 (30:28):
I guess I'll just kill myself there.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Well, ah, that's funny. That's kind of a snarky millennial
who gives a crap about fall colors sort of joke
that sounds like some of my kids would really enjoy
that joke. So Katie, Katie needs to set up this
(30:55):
clip because this is a big deal. Okay.
Speaker 7 (30:58):
So I've talked a couple of times on the program.
I'm about how my husband and I have been going
through the IVF process, uh, trying to get knocked up.
And we in the beginning of September went through the
embryo transfer of our little baby boy that will obviously
be named Jack Joe Mike Mike. And last Thursday we
(31:21):
had our first ultrasound and heartbeat appointment.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
So unlike me, he has a heart. That's a little
Jack Joe Mike Mike.
Speaker 7 (31:33):
That's little Jack Joe Mike Mike's heartbeat.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Like you has a heart. That's a good joke. Oh yeah,
that's freaking amazing and it's incredible. It is. And Uh,
I was thinking this the other day because my son's
band teacher, they're having their first kid, and he's all
excited about there. There's nothing as life changing or relationship
changing as the first kid. I mean, just everything in
(31:59):
the entire world that you think about changes when that happens.
And it's just amazing.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
When Judy was first pregnant with Caitlin, many many moons ago,
I dove into fetal development. I became super interested in
it for obvious reasons, and read books and articles and
stuff like that. And I'm not going to get into
the politics of this because it's not an appropriate moment.
But anybody who thinks a fetus is not a human
(32:26):
being till very late in the game has no idea
what they're talking about.
Speaker 7 (32:31):
Oh, I mean, it's the pictures that I'll put them
on my Twitter account. She took the cursor and she pointed,
you can see his little arms in his legs in
the ultrasound, and he is currently the size of a
jelly bean.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
But a fully recognizable human. Give it another couple of months.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Oh, I can't wait.
Speaker 7 (32:50):
It's just it's been so amazing and the process was
hard but so worth it.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
And to hear that made it.
Speaker 7 (32:57):
I mean, I knew it was real, but hearing that
heartbeat just kind of brought it all the more to
life for me.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Oh, of course, how long has that technology been around?
Did they have it when your first kid was born? Joe? Yeah?
Oh yeah, so it's been around that long.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know how it's progressed in terms
of like sensitivity and how early you can hear the
heart beat and.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
That sort of thing. I don't know, but like all
this stuff unimaginable to my parents, knowing the sex ahead
of time, or hearing the heart beat or knowing anything.
Speaker 7 (33:27):
So my my I did have I misspoke. I had
one ultrasound prior. Could not hear the heart beat last Thursday?
Did hear the heart beat? I'm I'm at eight and
a half weeks, so it was a little fast. Were
you drinking a lot of coffee here?
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Oh? Just totally jacked up.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
No, it's just sounds like it sounds like me after
I come up a flight of stairs pretty much exactly.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
It's more stairs than it looks. That's me. Four cups
of coffee in Yeah, that's Jack what he's having one
with a caffeine free stars check and his pulse end
because I drink so much covie. Amazing, absolutely amazing.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
The miracle of life, and the fact that a certain
segment of our political population thinks that a woman's supernatural
goddess like miraculous ability to bring life into the world
is somehow a lesser occupation than occupying a cubicle and
(34:32):
making a few bucks. That's a much more important and
respectable thing to do.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
To make you equal with men. Yes, why why would
you want to be equal with men? You're capable of miracles.
The only miracle that counts, and that's being devalued. Family
is being devalued. Makes me insane. Well, congratulations on being
a birthing person. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
I appreciate men men can give birth to. So let's
not be using prejudicial like mother.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Right.
Speaker 7 (35:01):
Well, and uh so, little Jack, Joe, Mike, Mike, is
you on May twenty seventh?
Speaker 1 (35:05):
Okay, that's a good that's a good time. Good time
is it for short?
Speaker 3 (35:09):
Probably Joe, Right, something's gotta give.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Thank you for sharing that, Katie. You know that's wonderful. Katie.
You know what I did this morning that was horrifying. Well,
I didn't do it on purpose. It just happened. For
whatever reason. I woke up and I was convinced it
was Saturday morning. So I woke up and I was
like thinking of my plans for the day, and.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
Oh, we know a little trick, the God's crueless trick
I just was going through.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
You know, it looks like it's gonna be nice and uh,
probably ride my bike and then I'll do this and
cleaning your ass. And that's Monday. Not only was it
not Saturday, it was freaking Monday. It was is the
watch of days. You're gonna get down the salt mine.
You're gonna dig, boy, that's what you're gonna do. That
was so tough on my psyche. It was painful. I
thought I was gonna cry. So after these life affirming moments.
(35:57):
How about this.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
Young women are nuts and proud of it and the
Internet has a lot to do with it in a
really insidious way.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
Not surprised. Yeah, we'll have that for you next hour. Great.
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