June 4, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 3 of A&G features...
- The Russia/Ukraine conflict & Japan's declining birthrate
- Hitler/Nazi comparisons & the Boulder, CO attack
- Agreeing with Elon Musk & focus groups
- Baseball news!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty, arm Strong and.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Jetty and now I'm Strong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Details are emerging of Sunday's operation turning trucks into Trojan
horses concealing drones that attacked multiple Russian long range bombers.
Analysis of video and satellite images suggests fewer long range
Russian bombers were hit than the more than forty Ukraine
initially claimed, and overnight Moscow launching yet another wave of
(00:44):
strikes against Ukraine in.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Front of that bridge.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Operation really was incredibly audacious. Our team has seen for
ourselves how that kurs Bridge is heavily defended, at least
against air attack.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
This morning, the.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Kremlin saying no thing was damaged and accusing Ukraine of
targeting targeting civilian infrastructure. Savandam of course Russia has killed
thousands of Ukrainian civilians.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
Yeah, that is quite amazing. That putin well, of course,
this is the sort of things that rus should say.
But they attacked civilians. That's ridiculous because you do that
every single day. Obviously, Yeah, appreciated that guy spirit. But
turning trucks into trojan horses. Now they are just trucks.
They were carrying stuff. That's the point of the trojan horse.
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You don't expect a giant.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Horse sculpture to carry stuff like soldiers, for instance. Anyway,
the world is still talking about that Ukrainian drone strike
from the weekend, and then there was a blown up
the bridge yesterday. But I've read so many different pieces
and so many different publications about how the United States, China,
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and Russia, obviously your big countries are saying, whoa are
we ready for this? If somebody did this to this DUS,
could we stop this? Holy crap? NATO knows it has
much to learn, it says the New York Times, and
how that was the reaction of every NATO country after
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this attack, of in what way are we prepared for
this at all?
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Have we ever even thought of that? And are we
spending all our money on the wrong things? At this
point it is a major inflection point in the history
of warfare. I've heard a number of people say this
turns the entire planet into possible.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Battlefield.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
It's not very clear where the you know, the lines
are where strikes are going.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
To happen, as has always been the case in warfare.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
It's now anywhere in the planet, all of a sudden,
some boxes could open up, drones come out, and that's
a battlefield. Yeah, whether it's.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Hoover Dam or you know, some electric plant in China or.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Whatever the hell, and it's it's I mean, you could
argue that with ICBMs and advanced missile systems of various descriptions,
that was already sort of true. But this is a
this is a very different situation in that you can't
necessarily figure out where this stuff came from. It's not
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trackable via you know, nor comme's protective systems. If it's
you know, a truck that pulls into a truck stop
in Plano, Texas.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Yeah, I mean, well.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Wow, in very if China or Russia shot an ICBM
at US, we would pick it up very quickly and
have the ability to shoot it down. We are announcing,
and so is everybody else in the world, that we
don't have the ability to deal with this.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Drone situation, at least not right now.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
As I said yesterday, I hope DARPA is running three shifts,
twenty four hours a day working on anti drone technology,
no idea to wacky guys, gals, let's get let's get.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Then back to remember the drones over New Jersey was
what was ever the final answer on that?
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Do we know? Was that part of that was that
trying to figure out how to I don't know.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
I heard the quote unquote final answer and it was
pretty unsatisfactory. It's just, oh, those just consumer drones and
I don't need to know caught on if you were
testing drone technology so that we could be prepared for this, fine,
do it, don't.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
I don't need to know the answer, right.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Wanted to get this in because it looks like Russia
has hit the million man mark. David French tweeting this
out over the weekend. Well, it was an article in
The Economist, Putin's sickening statistic one million Russian casualties at
this point in Ukraine, David French writing, Russia's losses to
date are on par with the entirety of Britain's losses
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in the Second World War. They are approaching America's losses
in the same conflict when its population was similar the
similar size to Russia today, which is just amazing. Over
the entire biggest conflict in world history. Russia has a
million casualties in terms of dead. They have the equivalent
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of a US Vietnam death toll every year for each
of the three years. Yeah, you wouldn't think you could
sustain that politically, Yeah, yeah, I was just reading a
little more about how Russia's really.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Converted its economy so completely to a wartime economy. You know,
you've heard that. Diplomatically and militarily, Putin doesn't really have
an off ramp. How does he end this war? Exactly? Well, economically,
socially he doesn't have one either, because you've got now,
you know, as I said, a huge part of your
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economy dedicated now to weaponry and just war oriented production.
And the other thing is you have all those millions
of men under arms. They are going to come back
battle hardened, perhaps battle damaged, both psychologically and physically, to
an economy that can't employ them. And they mentioned in
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the piece, I think it was in the Wall Street
Journal that when World War two vets speaking of that
conflict came back to Russia, Stalin saw them as such
a huge threat he put scads of him I don't
remember the number into gulags Wow, because he knew damaged, angry,
battle hardened, unhappy men by the thousands and thousands and
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thousands is a real liability and Putin has a similar
situation on his hands. Wow. I think he is the
dog that's caught the car.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Now what in addition to three hundred thousand dead young
men that can't be productive obviously in any way.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Right, and those who fled his country.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Yeah, different topic about not having enough young men or
enough young anybody.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Birth rate.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Japan released their latest statistics instead of new record low.
We can tell you about that.
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Speaker 4 (08:09):
So Japan released their birth statistics yesterday. They had about
six hundred and eighty thousand babies in twenty twenty four.
That was down five point seven percent from the previous year,
which had set.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Around previous year year.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
So this is the spiral that people talk about that
if you've ever read about it or looked at it mathematically,
there's something happens when you're when you're you know, it's
like compound interest.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Really, it's a similar uh.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
Concept when you stop having babies and then then those
people don't grow up, so they don't have two kids,
and I mean it just exponentially shrinks and then at
some point you hit a tipping point and it just
goes really really fast, and they must be there. In Japan,
a drop of five point seven percent in one year
from the previous record low in terms, so baby's what
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will it be next year? It's the lowest number of
babies born since they started keeping data. Again, they do
this fairly regularly. And the now current number of live
births per mom is what I just came across it.
It's incredibly low. It's well below sustainable rate and will
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drop very very fast there. And now I think it
was one point one point one five.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
It's about half. Really, it's hired than I thought it was, honestly,
but it has.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
A birth rate to sustain your population and you don't
allow immigration.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Right, what the hell? I realize. I'm easily amazed, But
I want to go back to that figure. If your
birth rate dropped by five point seven percent in a decade,
that would be a huge story.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
It dropped in a year, yeah, I know, it's absolutely incredible.
There's all kinds of fallout from the like, for instance,
the number of vacant homes that they have in Japan.
There's just lots of houses that are vacant that there's
nobody to buy because there's just aren't enough people and
they're trying to figure out what to do with that.
The number of ikea uninhabited properties that's the term, has
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topped nine million nationwide, with nine hundred thousand of them
in Tokyo alone, just uninhabited places, and there's nobody that's
gonna buy them because there's no hope of anybody buying them.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Well, just there's nobody to buy them because there's nobody. Yeah, exactly,
I'm going ahead to Tokyo to do some prime squatting.
I'm gonna go down to Shinju Ku, squat in some apartment,
eat some sushi.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Anyway, like I said.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Fuji, I've never been to Japan obviously.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Like I said earlier, we get to watch the Japan's
gonna be the you know what's gonna happen to the
rest of us in Western society is our threats decline too,
and see what happens. Of course, we allow lots of
sometimes not on purpose immigration, which is different than a
lot of your Asian countries that have zero right.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
They're very very racist, they actually are. Anyway, So Japan
will be a land mass with historical sites and no humans. Well,
the whole country will be like the proverbial Japanese soldier
hiding out in the jungle after World War Two. I mean,
there are occasionally you'll come across the human being and
be like, well, hey, what the hell, it's the whole country.
(11:34):
Tokyo will be you know, a post apocalyptic Moonscape or
something blade Runner or something. Yeah, wow wild. Speaking of
young people, Democrats have set out on a much mocked
study of young men and why they've lost them. Their
findings are now available. I thought you were going to
we'll share them with you. I thought that was implied.
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But yes, I thought you were going to say, are
shocking The findings are shocking. Well, they are shocking. This
is actually shocking. So nut job terrorist uh Madman who
is setting people on fire they're in Boulder, Colorado. Turns
out he recorded one of those in.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
Your car videos before he did this, and he did
it in Egyptian or whatever language they speak in Egypt.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Do they speak Egyptian? Sure they do, Jack call it Egyptian.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Anyway, Well, play there, Victoria and read what he had
to say.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
I mean, he was he wanted to kill Jews. There's
no doubt about that.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
So that and a bunch of other stuff on the way.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
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Speaker 5 (13:01):
Jewish Americans across the country feeling sad, on edge, and
fearful after yet another horrific anti Semitic attack. The Anti
Defamation League has been sounding the alarm for years. According
to its twenty twenty five ADL report on the seven
countries with the largest Jewish populations outside of Israel, anti
Semitism has been on the rise, reported anti Semitic incidents
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increasing drastically in particular in the United States and spiking
after October seventh.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
I heard a great point made yesterday from Charles C. W.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Cook about this.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
Guy who set people on fire there in a boulder,
the whole thing, and he.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Brought up a bunch of different examples. He did the research.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
If you pay attention to the news, you don't even
really need to do the research. How many things have
been compared to Hitler or Nazis that have happened on
the right in the last twenty five years. Every Republican
president is Hitler. He had examples of articles in like
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major publications about how tariffs or something Hitler did or
school choice was a common Nazi theme, and he said,
the only thing in recent memory I can think of
where nobody has written an article mentioning Nazis or Hitler.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Is these Jewish attacks. Is killing Jews, is killing Jews.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
So Tariff's obvious, the most obvious analogy you can come with,
you know, the most closeest analogy to hand.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
When you're talking tariffs. Of course, Nazis and Hitler.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
Same with school choice or Trump wanting to, you know,
stop Harvard from having whatever right you come up with
Nazi and Hitler. But if you got somebody setting Jews
on fire because he hates Jews, no mention of Nazis
or Hitler, that's pretty freaking amazing.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
You just look down at your feet and you know,
interested to mumble, here, right.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Pretty beautifully? Put Ah, that is amazing. Anyway, So this
scumbag was in jail and right after his arrest he said, yeah,
I did it. I did it because I hate Jews
and I want to kill Jews, and I'm glad I
did it, and I would do it again if I
had the chance. So, you know, good good on the
Boulder police for holding back on whether or not we
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should declare this a terror attack. While the FBI, not
only the FBI, Trump's FBI declared the terror attack, so
did the governor of Colorado who's a Democrat, and the
Attorney General of Colorado who's a democrat. And then Old
what's his name mackaid, the crook who you mckaye, the
crook who used to run the FBI, and CNN also
went on CNN that day and said, too early for
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the FBI to be calling this a terrorist attack. That
is something if it is Islamism. The left hates to
admit its terrorism. Everything else is terrorism or fascism as
you pointed out. But yeah, God anyway, So the scumbag
did the thing that so many people do.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Now.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
He recorded a video in his car as he's driving
to the parade so he can set Jews on fire.
And I will play it and read a little bit
of what he.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Had to say.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Allah is greater than anything. Allah is greater than the Zionis.
Allah is greater. He's talking too fast for me here.
Let me back it up just a little bit. So
Allah is greater than anything. Allah is greater than the Zionists,
greater in America and it's weapons. Allah is greater than
the f thirty five planes. Allah is greater than anything else.
So why do we fear those who are inferior to
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Allah rather than fear Allah himself.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
He's a dedicated Muslim extremist, no doubt about it.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
If I told my wife and son every day to
do something but they didn't do it, I would be angry.
Maybe I would divorce my wife, maybe I would kick
my son out of my home. Go on, crazy person.
Then what about Allah, who says to us every day
dozens of times, Allah Akbar? It's wild to think, do
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not forget Allah akbar? Do not forget that Allah is
greater than everything. So it's it's first of all, it's
wild to be looking at him on this video and
think that you know, he's about to set a bunch
of people on fire and try to kill as many
people as he can. And if he'd got a gun,
he would have like he tried to do, he would
have kill a whole bunch of people.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
But he is a dedicated Muslim extremist.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Too early to call it terrorism, Jack, Yeah, yeah, Well,
and they are being aided, abetted, financed, and encouraged by
these campus organizations and the affiliated you know, organizations tangential
to them, including several that are well known. It's gonna
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take us a while to wake up to this threat. Obviously.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
It's discouraging from a legal From a legal standpoint, it
shouldn't be a complicated case to convict this guy.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
The future of both of the major parties coming up next.
Hope you can stick around, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 7 (18:07):
Well, I hear something happened while we were at lunch
which led me to make some news here today and
say something I didn't think was imaginable. I agree with
Elon Musk. Republicans should listen to him and actually to
their former selves. Outraged about the national debt.
Speaker 6 (18:31):
Breaking news, Elon Musk and I agree with each other.
The GOP tech scam is a disgusting abomination. Every single
Republican who voted for the one big ugly bill should
be ashamed of themselves.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
So that's how KEM.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Jeffery is quite possibly the next Speaker of the House
leader of the Democrats in the House Representatives after Chuck Schumer.
The leader of the Democrats in the Senate, both so
happy that Elon has criticized the Republican bill as a
disgusting abomination.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Has anybody referred to Hakem Jeffries as Haktua Jeffries as
far as you know.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
You have, I invented that, so I must say. I
was just reading Byron York's piece in the Washington Examiner.
Musk goes off the reservation about how Donald Trump is
about to have an Elon problem.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Uh, I was wrong and everybody else was right.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
I guess last week I felt like everybody was making
way too big a deal out of Elon, saying well,
this is not helpful with what dude Doge was doing.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
I didn't think that was that mean.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
But Elon coming out this way, and if he goes
full Elon is his own man.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
He didn't.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
I mean, nobody on planet Earth maybe ever, has had
left less f's to give or needed to give than
Elon Musk.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
I mean, he is he is untouchable.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
Maybe possibly SpaceX contracts or something.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
You could have some leverage.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
But if he decides he wants to do nothing but
bash the Republican Party from here on out, and spend
money against them in the midterms. He'll do it.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
He may. Final note on this topic the idea that
Chuck Schumer and Haakien Jeffries could join with the criticism
of this bill. When the criticism of the bill is
it's over spending and driving up the debt and pretending
like they have some sort of kinship. That's obscene.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Are you kidding me? Yeah, it's really it's obscene.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
This is just a dumb personality thing with me. But
Chuck Schumer's when he drops a lot, I well, I
guess there was some news, and here this is going
to make news.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
I never thought i'd say this. I agree with Elon Musk.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
And then he always has that smile on his face
like he just dropped the wittiest truth bomb ever.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Aren't I clever?
Speaker 1 (20:51):
It just trucks me nothing, Move off the stage, old man. Meanwhile,
both parties are trying to figure out who they are
and where they ought to go in the future. Uh
go to hell would be my suggestion at this point.
But uh so, Democrats set up your study life.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
You invented a party last week. That was a good name.
What was your party?
Speaker 1 (21:10):
F Yolikan. I think yeah. Uh so the Democrats trying
to understand young American men. No, people are roasting their plan.
This is a discussion in Politico about the widely mocked
project to get under the hoods of young men to
figure out why the Democrats are losing them. And according
to the good folks in Politico, the study has had
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sobering results. There's all sorts of interesting stuff in this,
including the fact that it's a two year, twenty million
dollar study, said Ilse Hoague, who co founded the Speaking
with American Men project. Quote it reaffirms what young men
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already think that Democrats don't want to invest in you. Well,
I would say we'll start here, Ilia, stop talking like that.
If you want young men, we understand that you want
us to invest in you.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Ha.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
No, that's not the way that plays anyway. So two
your twenty million dollar study to figure out how young
men and Democrats, I'm sorry, to study young men and
how Democrats can reach them. Results of the initial round
of research, shared exclusively with Politico and stolen exclusively by
The Armstrong and Getty Show, include thirty focus groups and
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a national media consumption survey found many young men believe
that quote neither party has our backs. One black man
from Georgia said, in a focus group, I hate focus groups.
They're stupid, but uh. Participants describe the Democratic Party as
overly scripted and cautious, while Republicans are seen as confident
and unafraid to offend.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
Has a focus group ever done any good with anything
over Let's have a focus group on it. I mean,
that's how hilarious. A focus group found out that Democrats
are too scripted. You know where they came up with
their scripts from focus groups? And as I said the
other day, the people that have been the most successful
politicians in my lifetime or in recent memory.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Donald Trump, Barack Obama, and George W. Bush, they want
what they're got.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
They weren't focus group people right, one hundred percent correct. Yep,
Democrats are seen as weak, whereas Republicans are seen as strong,
said Hoague. Head guy. Young men also spoke of being
invisible to the Democratic coalition. And you've got this weak problem,
then you've got this I don't think they care about
me problem. And I think the combination is kind of
a killer, not kind of, it's a killer. And by
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the bye Democrats, it's worse than I don't think they
care about me. No, they've been systematically castigating young men,
yelling at them and accusing them of toxic masculinity and
being bad people merely for their mailedness. Anyway, The SAM Project,
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which has turned to at punchline for liberals and conservatives alike,
is pitching yourself to donors. Blah blah blah. Focus groups
found that young men feel like they are in crisis, stressed, ashamed,
and confused over what it means to be a man
in twenty twenty five. I would say, for all of
the sins of the dopey Republican Party, men feeling stressed, ashamed,
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and confused over what it means to be a man
in twenty twenty five is from the left. I mean,
part of it is from technology and changing nature of this,
that and the other, but it's absolutely from the left.
They vented about conflicting cultural messages of masculinity that put
them in a no win situation about the meaning of
a man, something we have been talking about our entire careers,
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according to the SAM Project memo. And then if I
may throw in a caveat Jack and feel free to
jump in here, I think I tried to appreciate, but
I couldn't fully what I'm about to talk about. I'll
just read it, then I'll throw in why I couldn't
appreciate it. The young men they talked to described how
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the COVID pandemic left them isolated and socially disconnected.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Ah, I should.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Talk about economic anxiety and other things.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
Should transition into the adult men not having friends topic after.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
This, right, right. And there are a couple of things
going on during COVID that I think blunted my feeling
as much pain as some people did. Although my youngest
was in college and had a miserable, crappy senior year
at college, didn't really exist, which was terrible shame. I
live in a lived during COVID, had a very conservative
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part of central California, northern California, where we didn't give
a crap we got. We had big barbecues and parties
and get togethers and drank together a lot.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Spreading the virus to kill others.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
No, no, nothing bad happened. I mean everybody got it
a little bit or a lot once or twice, and
we went on with our lives because we're reasonably healthy,
not elderly people and the kids were perfectly fine, by
the way, and I know that may sound crazy to
a lot of you, depending on where you live, but no, we,
aside from the stuff we had to do, because you know,
at the golf club they're screaming at us, get further apart,
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we just lived our lives. And so I didn't appreciate how,
especially young people who were trusting the authorities around them,
became so terribly isolated.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
It's heartbreaking. It is heartbreaking. Who told you to do that?
I mean, the government did, But don't listen to the government.
I have a friend of mine who said to me
the other day and I just I didn't respond. He said,
I'm actually considering not getting this latest COVID booster, and
I thought to myself, you're still getting COVID boosters. And
he mentioned how his son, who's in college. She said,
(27:00):
you know, he's his own person, so I just let
him be. But he hasn't gotten like the last three
COVID boosters.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
No, why would he?
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Why the hell would he? Yeah, interesting, let's see.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
And then the young men they talked to talked about
overwhelming economic anxiety and that making traditional milestones like buying
a home or saving for kids college felt impossible, the
degree to which those economic concerns are also impacting how
they think about themselves and quote unquote success of being
a man, living up to their own expectations, the expectations
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of their family or society well, and then constantly berating
them again that they're terrible people just for having you know,
x y chromosomes. Young men's feeling a crisis are connected
to their exodus from the Democratic Party. The research suggests
just twenty seven percent of young men viewed the Democratic
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Party positively.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Forty three percent viewed.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
The Republican Party favorably, so a sixteen point app there.
The polling sample included twenty three percent of self to
describe republic Democrats rather very even actually more independence than anything,
but the gap became even more pronounced among younger young
men skipping around. An Asian American professional described Democrats as
(28:22):
embracing the fluid masculinity of being like empathetic and sensitive. Well,
Republicans are more like traditional masculinity of a provider, strong,
and the muchismo type, Latino man from Las Vegas said.
During the twenty four campaign, Harris focused on oh I
got Beyonce on stage with me. Oh, I got Lady
Gagon stage and I just kind of felt.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Like, what does it have to do with me. I'm
trying to move up in life.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Anyway. That's the long and short of what they found.
I mean, they could have asked us or you, frankly,
and we would have told them. But on the other
side of the isle, I thought this was interesting. The
the big conference in what do they call it, the
American Compass's New World Gala at Washington's National Building Museum.
(29:10):
It's kind of a maga ish forum that happens once
a year, I think. And the keynote speakers were JD.
Vance and Marco Rubio, and it was interesting. No one
mentioned twenty twenty eight, although it was an unmistakable undercurrent
as the two speakers, who both hope to carry on
(29:31):
Trump's legacy in the future, laid out their respective visions.
This is not a five to ten a twenty year
project to actually get oh I'm sorry, this is not
a five or ten year This is a twenty year
project to actually get America back to common sense economic policy.
Jd Vance said. Rubio spoke first known that the country
was in the midst of an important and long overdue.
(29:51):
Realignment's going to be the work of a generation. There's
still much work to be done. Vance and Rubio, who
lavished praise on one another, offered similar assessments to the
current state of the country and where they hope to
take it. Both spoke of reindustrialization, on america First approach deck,
on American foreign policies, and the role the next generations
will play. It does not surprise me the bit that
(30:12):
they lavished praise on one another as they circled each other,
warily keeping their knives behind their backs until the moment
they were needed right the deck to figure who's going
to be the top guy and who's probably going to
be the VEEP or something like that. But it's good stuff.
It's good, positive stuff. Rubio said, You're never going to
(30:33):
be secure as a nation unless you're able to feed
your people, unless you're able to make the things your
economy needs in order to function and ultimately defend yourself.
And Vance said that's why Trump was elected, adding that
the president is the first mainstream American politician to come
along and say this isn't working. Both I think really
good points, So I.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
Do want to get to that adult men don't have
friends crisis they're calling it.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Maybe we'll go to that in our four.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
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Speaker 2 (31:14):
I would encourage it. Other things on the waysta hear.
Speaker 5 (31:21):
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Speaker 1 (31:32):
Pretty funny.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
A couple of updates for you. The Didy trial going
on today. There should probably be some testimony that we
talk about probably tomorrow, as there's a woman taking the
stand that has told the story to others about how
he once dangled her over the balcony of a high
rise hotel as a threat for something or other.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
So that would be obviously a crime of some sort, certainly.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
Yeah, Yeah, And then we talked about the Trevor Bauer case.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
You pitched her.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
Most recently for the Dodgers four years ago, when he
had to stop pitching because a woman came forward and
said that he had raped her.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
This picture blackballed from the major leagues.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
Yeah, yeah, well that's one of his arguments that he
missed out on at least thirty million dollars.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
By this as he was a real good picture and
that pays really, really well.
Speaker 4 (32:25):
So this woman had had claimed that he raped her
and choked her and all these different sorts of things,
and he'd have been in big trouble if she was
a little less stupid and hadn't texted a friend of
hers about how she was, you know, gonna make these
claims and took taking pictures of her next to him
(32:45):
in the bed and all these different sorts of things.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
How she's going to find a way to get into
his bank account.
Speaker 4 (32:50):
Yeah, made it clear enough that she was just a
gold digging scumbag who was willing to ruin someone's life
to try to get some cash. Any who had come
to some sort of three hundred some thousand dollars agreement
sort of thing. Part of it was she'd shut up
after that, and she just kept going on podcasts over
(33:11):
recent years and talking about it over and over and
over again. Said they Trevor Bauer and his people took
that to court, and now she owes him that three
hundred thousand dollars, which she does not have because she
has done a bunch of things. I should have a
Hanson come in here. He had this long story about
all the off the rails things she's done recently, being drunken,
out of control and whatever. So she's just an awful
(33:34):
human being. My main point for this is a watch out, dudes,
watch out for that kind of woman. I mean, they're
out there. There's also bad guys out there. Ladies obviously,
of course, monsters.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
Yeah, but every woman of a certain age and I
mean probably past sixteen, who has a pretty face understands
that they can use that pretty face to disarm men.
Why don't we just say that?
Speaker 4 (34:05):
And you can use it in a mild way to
get into the office of the boss to dart and
make a sales pitch, or he can use it in
a much less mild way to destroy someone's life, to.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Blackmail Trevor Bauer, for instance. Yeah. So yeah, some use
their beauty for a good, some for evil, some with
restraint morality, some utterly without it, Like this horrifying waste
of internal organs woman that we're discussing. Yeah, that's a
terrible story. Is he still pitching in Japan? He got
(34:39):
blackballed from Major League Baseball in the wake of the
whole U two era. Of course, he was essentially box
off his poison. We can't have Trevor Bauer around here.
This woman says he raped her. He's got just absolutely
ruined by this win.
Speaker 4 (34:53):
Well, yeah, Hanson and I were talking about this yesterday.
Pitching is such a valuable thing in major league baseball.
I'll bet he makes his way back. Don't you think
armholds up? I mean, it's that's one of the things
about being a major league pitcher. You have no idea
what the trajectory of your career is going to be, physically, mentally,
(35:13):
the rest of it. That's why they get paid so much,
because your arms are only gonna last so long for
your elbow cracks open.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
Well, you can be completely unhittable one year, show up
the next year and it's like you're throwing batting practice.
You can't strike anybody out, and the pitchers as mystified
as the coaches and everybody else.
Speaker 4 (35:34):
But did you see weird? Did you see the guy
the other day? And I should have the name for
baseball fans, but most of you aren't. He was one
of those phenoms. Had to get one of the big surgeries,
spent I think two seasons rehabbing. Pitched the other day,
threw a pitch immediately he likes on the ground and
(35:54):
he knew exactly that it was over. He starts crying.
He's sitting on the field crying because he knew it
was over. That's dreams. Yeah, dreams are over. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
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Speaker 3 (00:24):
Details are emerging of Sunday's operation turning trucks into Trojan
horses concealing drones that attacked multiple Russian long range bombers.
Analysis of video and satellite images suggests fewer long range
Russian bombers were hit than the more than forty Ukraine
initially claimed, and overnight Moscow launching yet another wave of
(00:44):
strikes against Ukraine in.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Front of that bridge.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Operation really was incredibly audacious. Our team has seen for
ourselves how that kurs Bridge is heavily defended, at least
against air attack.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
This morning, the.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Kremlin saying no thing was damaged and accusing Ukraine of
targeting targeting civilian infrastructure. Savandam of course Russia has killed
thousands of Ukrainian civilians.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
Yeah, that is quite amazing. That putin well, of course,
this is the sort of things that rus should say.
But they attacked civilians. That's ridiculous because you do that
every single day. Obviously, Yeah, appreciated that guy spirit. But
turning trucks into trojan horses. Now they are just trucks.
They were carrying stuff. That's the point of the trojan horse.
(01:33):
You don't expect a giant.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Horse sculpture to carry stuff like soldiers, for instance. Anyway,
the world is still talking about that Ukrainian drone strike
from the weekend, and then there was a blown up
the bridge yesterday. But I've read so many different pieces
and so many different publications about how the United States, China,
(01:56):
and Russia, obviously your big countries are saying, whoa are
we ready for this? If somebody did this to this DUS,
could we stop this? Holy crap? NATO knows it has
much to learn, it says the New York Times, and
how that was the reaction of every NATO country after
(02:17):
this attack, of in what way are we prepared for
this at all?
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Have we ever even thought of that? And are we
spending all our money on the wrong things? At this
point it is a major inflection point in the history
of warfare. I've heard a number of people say this
turns the entire planet into possible.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Battlefield.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
It's not very clear where the you know, the lines
are where strikes are going.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
To happen, as has always been the case in warfare.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
It's now anywhere in the planet, all of a sudden,
some boxes could open up, drones come out, and that's
a battlefield. Yeah, whether it's.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Hoover Dam or you know, some electric plant in China or.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Whatever the hell, and it's it's I mean, you could
argue that with ICBMs and advanced missile systems of various descriptions,
that was already sort of true. But this is a
this is a very different situation in that you can't
necessarily figure out where this stuff came from. It's not
(03:25):
trackable via you know, nor comme's protective systems. If it's
you know, a truck that pulls into a truck stop
in Plano, Texas.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Yeah, I mean, well.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Wow, in very if China or Russia shot an ICBM
at US, we would pick it up very quickly and
have the ability to shoot it down. We are announcing,
and so is everybody else in the world, that we
don't have the ability to deal with this.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Drone situation, at least not right now.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
As I said yesterday, I hope DARPA is running three shifts,
twenty four hours a day working on anti drone technology,
no idea to wacky guys, gals, let's get let's get.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Then back to remember the drones over New Jersey was
what was ever the final answer on that?
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Do we know? Was that part of that was that
trying to figure out how to I don't know.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
I heard the quote unquote final answer and it was
pretty unsatisfactory. It's just, oh, those just consumer drones and
I don't need to know caught on if you were
testing drone technology so that we could be prepared for this, fine,
do it, don't.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
I don't need to know the answer, right.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Wanted to get this in because it looks like Russia
has hit the million man mark. David French tweeting this
out over the weekend. Well, it was an article in
The Economist, Putin's sickening statistic one million Russian casualties at
this point in Ukraine, David French writing, Russia's losses to
date are on par with the entirety of Britain's losses
(04:47):
in the Second World War. They are approaching America's losses
in the same conflict when its population was similar the
similar size to Russia today, which is just amazing. Over
the entire biggest conflict in world history. Russia has a
million casualties in terms of dead. They have the equivalent
(05:07):
of a US Vietnam death toll every year for each
of the three years. Yeah, you wouldn't think you could
sustain that politically, Yeah, yeah, I was just reading a
little more about how Russia's really.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Converted its economy so completely to a wartime economy. You know,
you've heard that. Diplomatically and militarily, Putin doesn't really have
an off ramp. How does he end this war? Exactly? Well, economically,
socially he doesn't have one either, because you've got now,
you know, as I said, a huge part of your
(05:47):
economy dedicated now to weaponry and just war oriented production.
And the other thing is you have all those millions
of men under arms. They are going to come back
battle hardened, perhaps battle damaged, both psychologically and physically, to
an economy that can't employ them. And they mentioned in
(06:09):
the piece, I think it was in the Wall Street
Journal that when World War two vets speaking of that
conflict came back to Russia, Stalin saw them as such
a huge threat he put scads of him I don't
remember the number into gulags Wow, because he knew damaged, angry,
battle hardened, unhappy men by the thousands and thousands and
(06:30):
thousands is a real liability and Putin has a similar
situation on his hands. Wow. I think he is the
dog that's caught the car.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Now what in addition to three hundred thousand dead young
men that can't be productive obviously in any way.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Right, and those who fled his country.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Yeah, different topic about not having enough young men or
enough young anybody.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Birth rate.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Japan released their latest statistics instead of new record low.
We can tell you about that.
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Speaker 4 (08:09):
So Japan released their birth statistics yesterday. They had about
six hundred and eighty thousand babies in twenty twenty four.
That was down five point seven percent from the previous year,
which had set.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Around previous year year.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
So this is the spiral that people talk about that
if you've ever read about it or looked at it mathematically,
there's something happens when you're when you're you know, it's
like compound interest.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Really, it's a similar uh.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
Concept when you stop having babies and then then those
people don't grow up, so they don't have two kids,
and I mean it just exponentially shrinks and then at
some point you hit a tipping point and it just
goes really really fast, and they must be there. In Japan,
a drop of five point seven percent in one year
from the previous record low in terms, so baby's what
(09:00):
will it be next year? It's the lowest number of
babies born since they started keeping data. Again, they do
this fairly regularly. And the now current number of live
births per mom is what I just came across it.
It's incredibly low. It's well below sustainable rate and will
(09:21):
drop very very fast there. And now I think it
was one point one point one five.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
It's about half. Really, it's hired than I thought it was, honestly,
but it has.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
A birth rate to sustain your population and you don't
allow immigration.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Right, what the hell? I realize. I'm easily amazed, But
I want to go back to that figure. If your
birth rate dropped by five point seven percent in a decade,
that would be a huge story.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
It dropped in a year, yeah, I know, it's absolutely incredible.
There's all kinds of fallout from the like, for instance,
the number of vacant homes that they have in Japan.
There's just lots of houses that are vacant that there's
nobody to buy because there's just aren't enough people and
they're trying to figure out what to do with that.
The number of ikea uninhabited properties that's the term, has
(10:17):
topped nine million nationwide, with nine hundred thousand of them
in Tokyo alone, just uninhabited places, and there's nobody that's
gonna buy them because there's no hope of anybody buying them.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Well, just there's nobody to buy them because there's nobody. Yeah, exactly,
I'm going ahead to Tokyo to do some prime squatting.
I'm gonna go down to Shinju Ku, squat in some apartment,
eat some sushi.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Anyway, like I said.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Fuji, I've never been to Japan obviously.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Like I said earlier, we get to watch the Japan's
gonna be the you know what's gonna happen to the
rest of us in Western society is our threats decline too,
and see what happens. Of course, we allow lots of
sometimes not on purpose immigration, which is different than a
lot of your Asian countries that have zero right.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
They're very very racist, they actually are. Anyway, So Japan
will be a land mass with historical sites and no humans. Well,
the whole country will be like the proverbial Japanese soldier
hiding out in the jungle after World War Two. I mean,
there are occasionally you'll come across the human being and
be like, well, hey, what the hell, it's the whole country.
(11:34):
Tokyo will be you know, a post apocalyptic Moonscape or
something blade Runner or something. Yeah, wow wild. Speaking of
young people, Democrats have set out on a much mocked
study of young men and why they've lost them. Their
findings are now available. I thought you were going to
we'll share them with you. I thought that was implied.
(11:55):
But yes, I thought you were going to say, are
shocking The findings are shocking. Well, they are shocking. This
is actually shocking. So nut job terrorist uh Madman who
is setting people on fire they're in Boulder, Colorado. Turns
out he recorded one of those in.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
Your car videos before he did this, and he did
it in Egyptian or whatever language they speak in Egypt.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Do they speak Egyptian? Sure they do, Jack call it Egyptian.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Anyway, Well, play there, Victoria and read what he had
to say.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
I mean, he was he wanted to kill Jews. There's
no doubt about that.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
So that and a bunch of other stuff on the way.
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Speaker 5 (13:01):
Jewish Americans across the country feeling sad, on edge, and
fearful after yet another horrific anti Semitic attack. The Anti
Defamation League has been sounding the alarm for years. According
to its twenty twenty five ADL report on the seven
countries with the largest Jewish populations outside of Israel, anti
Semitism has been on the rise, reported anti Semitic incidents
(13:23):
increasing drastically in particular in the United States and spiking
after October seventh.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
I heard a great point made yesterday from Charles C. W.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Cook about this.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
Guy who set people on fire there in a boulder,
the whole thing, and he.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Brought up a bunch of different examples. He did the research.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
If you pay attention to the news, you don't even
really need to do the research. How many things have
been compared to Hitler or Nazis that have happened on
the right in the last twenty five years. Every Republican
president is Hitler. He had examples of articles in like
(14:09):
major publications about how tariffs or something Hitler did or
school choice was a common Nazi theme, and he said,
the only thing in recent memory I can think of
where nobody has written an article mentioning Nazis or Hitler.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Is these Jewish attacks. Is killing Jews, is killing Jews.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
So Tariff's obvious, the most obvious analogy you can come with,
you know, the most closeest analogy to hand.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
When you're talking tariffs. Of course, Nazis and Hitler.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
Same with school choice or Trump wanting to, you know,
stop Harvard from having whatever right you come up with
Nazi and Hitler. But if you got somebody setting Jews
on fire because he hates Jews, no mention of Nazis
or Hitler, that's pretty freaking amazing.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
You just look down at your feet and you know,
interested to mumble, here, right.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Pretty beautifully? Put Ah, that is amazing. Anyway, So this
scumbag was in jail and right after his arrest he said, yeah,
I did it. I did it because I hate Jews
and I want to kill Jews, and I'm glad I
did it, and I would do it again if I
had the chance. So, you know, good good on the
Boulder police for holding back on whether or not we
(15:26):
should declare this a terror attack. While the FBI, not
only the FBI, Trump's FBI declared the terror attack, so
did the governor of Colorado who's a Democrat, and the
Attorney General of Colorado who's a democrat. And then Old
what's his name mackaid, the crook who you mckaye, the
crook who used to run the FBI, and CNN also
went on CNN that day and said, too early for
(15:47):
the FBI to be calling this a terrorist attack. That
is something if it is Islamism. The left hates to
admit its terrorism. Everything else is terrorism or fascism as
you pointed out. But yeah, God anyway, So the scumbag
did the thing that so many people do.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Now.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
He recorded a video in his car as he's driving
to the parade so he can set Jews on fire.
And I will play it and read a little bit
of what he.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Had to say.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Allah is greater than anything. Allah is greater than the Zionis.
Allah is greater. He's talking too fast for me here.
Let me back it up just a little bit. So
Allah is greater than anything. Allah is greater than the Zionists,
greater in America and it's weapons. Allah is greater than
the f thirty five planes. Allah is greater than anything else.
So why do we fear those who are inferior to
(16:38):
Allah rather than fear Allah himself.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
He's a dedicated Muslim extremist, no doubt about it.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
If I told my wife and son every day to
do something but they didn't do it, I would be angry.
Maybe I would divorce my wife, maybe I would kick
my son out of my home. Go on, crazy person.
Then what about Allah, who says to us every day
dozens of times, Allah Akbar? It's wild to think, do
(17:10):
not forget Allah akbar? Do not forget that Allah is
greater than everything. So it's it's first of all, it's
wild to be looking at him on this video and
think that you know, he's about to set a bunch
of people on fire and try to kill as many
people as he can. And if he'd got a gun,
he would have like he tried to do, he would
have kill a whole bunch of people.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
But he is a dedicated Muslim extremist.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Too early to call it terrorism, Jack, Yeah, yeah, Well,
and they are being aided, abetted, financed, and encouraged by
these campus organizations and the affiliated you know, organizations tangential
to them, including several that are well known. It's gonna
(17:51):
take us a while to wake up to this threat. Obviously.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
It's discouraging from a legal From a legal standpoint, it
shouldn't be a complicated case to convict this guy.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
The future of both of the major parties coming up next.
Hope you can stick around, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 7 (18:07):
Well, I hear something happened while we were at lunch
which led me to make some news here today and
say something I didn't think was imaginable. I agree with
Elon Musk. Republicans should listen to him and actually to
their former selves. Outraged about the national debt.
Speaker 6 (18:31):
Breaking news, Elon Musk and I agree with each other.
The GOP tech scam is a disgusting abomination. Every single
Republican who voted for the one big ugly bill should
be ashamed of themselves.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
So that's how KEM.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Jeffery is quite possibly the next Speaker of the House
leader of the Democrats in the House Representatives after Chuck Schumer.
The leader of the Democrats in the Senate, both so
happy that Elon has criticized the Republican bill as a
disgusting abomination.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Has anybody referred to Hakem Jeffries as Haktua Jeffries as
far as you know.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
You have, I invented that, so I must say. I
was just reading Byron York's piece in the Washington Examiner.
Musk goes off the reservation about how Donald Trump is
about to have an Elon problem.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Uh, I was wrong and everybody else was right.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
I guess last week I felt like everybody was making
way too big a deal out of Elon, saying well,
this is not helpful with what dude Doge was doing.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
I didn't think that was that mean.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
But Elon coming out this way, and if he goes
full Elon is his own man.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
He didn't.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
I mean, nobody on planet Earth maybe ever, has had
left less f's to give or needed to give than
Elon Musk.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
I mean, he is he is untouchable.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
Maybe possibly SpaceX contracts or something.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
You could have some leverage.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
But if he decides he wants to do nothing but
bash the Republican Party from here on out, and spend
money against them in the midterms. He'll do it.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
He may. Final note on this topic the idea that
Chuck Schumer and Haakien Jeffries could join with the criticism
of this bill. When the criticism of the bill is
it's over spending and driving up the debt and pretending
like they have some sort of kinship. That's obscene.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Are you kidding me? Yeah, it's really it's obscene.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
This is just a dumb personality thing with me. But
Chuck Schumer's when he drops a lot, I well, I
guess there was some news, and here this is going
to make news.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
I never thought i'd say this. I agree with Elon Musk.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
And then he always has that smile on his face
like he just dropped the wittiest truth bomb ever.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Aren't I clever?
Speaker 1 (20:51):
It just trucks me nothing, Move off the stage, old man. Meanwhile,
both parties are trying to figure out who they are
and where they ought to go in the future. Uh
go to hell would be my suggestion at this point.
But uh so, Democrats set up your study life.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
You invented a party last week. That was a good name.
What was your party?
Speaker 1 (21:10):
F Yolikan. I think yeah. Uh so the Democrats trying
to understand young American men. No, people are roasting their plan.
This is a discussion in Politico about the widely mocked
project to get under the hoods of young men to
figure out why the Democrats are losing them. And according
to the good folks in Politico, the study has had
(21:33):
sobering results. There's all sorts of interesting stuff in this,
including the fact that it's a two year, twenty million
dollar study, said Ilse Hoague, who co founded the Speaking
with American Men project. Quote it reaffirms what young men
(21:56):
already think that Democrats don't want to invest in you. Well,
I would say we'll start here, Ilia, stop talking like that.
If you want young men, we understand that you want
us to invest in you.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Ha.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
No, that's not the way that plays anyway. So two
your twenty million dollar study to figure out how young
men and Democrats, I'm sorry, to study young men and
how Democrats can reach them. Results of the initial round
of research, shared exclusively with Politico and stolen exclusively by
The Armstrong and Getty Show, include thirty focus groups and
(22:33):
a national media consumption survey found many young men believe
that quote neither party has our backs. One black man
from Georgia said, in a focus group, I hate focus groups.
They're stupid, but uh. Participants describe the Democratic Party as
overly scripted and cautious, while Republicans are seen as confident
and unafraid to offend.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
Has a focus group ever done any good with anything
over Let's have a focus group on it. I mean,
that's how hilarious. A focus group found out that Democrats
are too scripted. You know where they came up with
their scripts from focus groups? And as I said the
other day, the people that have been the most successful
politicians in my lifetime or in recent memory.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Donald Trump, Barack Obama, and George W. Bush, they want
what they're got.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
They weren't focus group people right, one hundred percent correct. Yep,
Democrats are seen as weak, whereas Republicans are seen as strong,
said Hoague. Head guy. Young men also spoke of being
invisible to the Democratic coalition. And you've got this weak problem,
then you've got this I don't think they care about
me problem. And I think the combination is kind of
a killer, not kind of, it's a killer. And by
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the bye Democrats, it's worse than I don't think they
care about me. No, they've been systematically castigating young men,
yelling at them and accusing them of toxic masculinity and
being bad people merely for their mailedness. Anyway, The SAM Project,
(24:05):
which has turned to at punchline for liberals and conservatives alike,
is pitching yourself to donors. Blah blah blah. Focus groups
found that young men feel like they are in crisis, stressed, ashamed,
and confused over what it means to be a man
in twenty twenty five. I would say, for all of
the sins of the dopey Republican Party, men feeling stressed, ashamed,
(24:28):
and confused over what it means to be a man
in twenty twenty five is from the left. I mean,
part of it is from technology and changing nature of this,
that and the other, but it's absolutely from the left.
They vented about conflicting cultural messages of masculinity that put
them in a no win situation about the meaning of
a man, something we have been talking about our entire careers,
(24:50):
according to the SAM Project memo. And then if I
may throw in a caveat Jack and feel free to
jump in here, I think I tried to appreciate, but
I couldn't fully what I'm about to talk about. I'll
just read it, then I'll throw in why I couldn't
appreciate it. The young men they talked to described how
(25:13):
the COVID pandemic left them isolated and socially disconnected.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Ah, I should.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Talk about economic anxiety and other things.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
Should transition into the adult men not having friends topic after.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
This, right, right. And there are a couple of things
going on during COVID that I think blunted my feeling
as much pain as some people did. Although my youngest
was in college and had a miserable, crappy senior year
at college, didn't really exist, which was terrible shame. I
live in a lived during COVID, had a very conservative
(25:49):
part of central California, northern California, where we didn't give
a crap we got. We had big barbecues and parties
and get togethers and drank together a lot.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Spreading the virus to kill others.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
No, no, nothing bad happened. I mean everybody got it
a little bit or a lot once or twice, and
we went on with our lives because we're reasonably healthy,
not elderly people and the kids were perfectly fine, by
the way, and I know that may sound crazy to
a lot of you, depending on where you live, but no, we,
aside from the stuff we had to do, because you know,
at the golf club they're screaming at us, get further apart,
(26:26):
we just lived our lives. And so I didn't appreciate how,
especially young people who were trusting the authorities around them,
became so terribly isolated.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
It's heartbreaking. It is heartbreaking. Who told you to do that?
I mean, the government did, But don't listen to the government.
I have a friend of mine who said to me
the other day and I just I didn't respond. He said,
I'm actually considering not getting this latest COVID booster, and
I thought to myself, you're still getting COVID boosters. And
he mentioned how his son, who's in college. She said,
(27:00):
you know, he's his own person, so I just let
him be. But he hasn't gotten like the last three
COVID boosters.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
No, why would he?
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Why the hell would he? Yeah, interesting, let's see.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
And then the young men they talked to talked about
overwhelming economic anxiety and that making traditional milestones like buying
a home or saving for kids college felt impossible, the
degree to which those economic concerns are also impacting how
they think about themselves and quote unquote success of being
a man, living up to their own expectations, the expectations
(27:31):
of their family or society well, and then constantly berating
them again that they're terrible people just for having you know,
x y chromosomes. Young men's feeling a crisis are connected
to their exodus from the Democratic Party. The research suggests
just twenty seven percent of young men viewed the Democratic
(27:52):
Party positively.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Forty three percent viewed.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
The Republican Party favorably, so a sixteen point app there.
The polling sample included twenty three percent of self to
describe republic Democrats rather very even actually more independence than anything,
but the gap became even more pronounced among younger young
men skipping around. An Asian American professional described Democrats as
(28:22):
embracing the fluid masculinity of being like empathetic and sensitive. Well,
Republicans are more like traditional masculinity of a provider, strong,
and the muchismo type, Latino man from Las Vegas said.
During the twenty four campaign, Harris focused on oh I
got Beyonce on stage with me. Oh, I got Lady
Gagon stage and I just kind of felt.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Like, what does it have to do with me. I'm
trying to move up in life.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Anyway. That's the long and short of what they found.
I mean, they could have asked us or you, frankly,
and we would have told them. But on the other
side of the isle, I thought this was interesting. The
the big conference in what do they call it, the
American Compass's New World Gala at Washington's National Building Museum.
(29:10):
It's kind of a maga ish forum that happens once
a year, I think. And the keynote speakers were JD.
Vance and Marco Rubio, and it was interesting. No one
mentioned twenty twenty eight, although it was an unmistakable undercurrent
as the two speakers, who both hope to carry on
(29:31):
Trump's legacy in the future, laid out their respective visions.
This is not a five to ten a twenty year
project to actually get oh I'm sorry, this is not
a five or ten year This is a twenty year
project to actually get America back to common sense economic policy.
Jd Vance said. Rubio spoke first known that the country
was in the midst of an important and long overdue.
(29:51):
Realignment's going to be the work of a generation. There's
still much work to be done. Vance and Rubio, who
lavished praise on one another, offered similar assessments to the
current state of the country and where they hope to
take it. Both spoke of reindustrialization, on america First approach deck,
on American foreign policies, and the role the next generations
will play. It does not surprise me the bit that
(30:12):
they lavished praise on one another as they circled each other,
warily keeping their knives behind their backs until the moment
they were needed right the deck to figure who's going
to be the top guy and who's probably going to
be the VEEP or something like that. But it's good stuff.
It's good, positive stuff. Rubio said, You're never going to
(30:33):
be secure as a nation unless you're able to feed
your people, unless you're able to make the things your
economy needs in order to function and ultimately defend yourself.
And Vance said that's why Trump was elected, adding that
the president is the first mainstream American politician to come
along and say this isn't working. Both I think really
good points, So I.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
Do want to get to that adult men don't have
friends crisis they're calling it.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Maybe we'll go to that in our four.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
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Other things on the way. It need to be plural
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Speaker 2 (31:14):
I would encourage it. Other things on the waysta hear.
Speaker 5 (31:21):
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Speaker 1 (31:32):
Pretty funny.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
A couple of updates for you. The Didy trial going
on today. There should probably be some testimony that we
talk about probably tomorrow, as there's a woman taking the
stand that has told the story to others about how
he once dangled her over the balcony of a high
rise hotel as a threat for something or other.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
So that would be obviously a crime of some sort, certainly.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
Yeah, Yeah, And then we talked about the Trevor Bauer case.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
You pitched her.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
Most recently for the Dodgers four years ago, when he
had to stop pitching because a woman came forward and
said that he had raped her.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
This picture blackballed from the major leagues.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
Yeah, yeah, well that's one of his arguments that he
missed out on at least thirty million dollars.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
By this as he was a real good picture and
that pays really, really well.
Speaker 4 (32:25):
So this woman had had claimed that he raped her
and choked her and all these different sorts of things,
and he'd have been in big trouble if she was
a little less stupid and hadn't texted a friend of
hers about how she was, you know, gonna make these
claims and took taking pictures of her next to him
(32:45):
in the bed and all these different sorts of things.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
How she's going to find a way to get into
his bank account.
Speaker 4 (32:50):
Yeah, made it clear enough that she was just a
gold digging scumbag who was willing to ruin someone's life
to try to get some cash. Any who had come
to some sort of three hundred some thousand dollars agreement
sort of thing. Part of it was she'd shut up
after that, and she just kept going on podcasts over
(33:11):
recent years and talking about it over and over and
over again. Said they Trevor Bauer and his people took
that to court, and now she owes him that three
hundred thousand dollars, which she does not have because she
has done a bunch of things. I should have a
Hanson come in here. He had this long story about
all the off the rails things she's done recently, being drunken,
out of control and whatever. So she's just an awful
(33:34):
human being. My main point for this is a watch out, dudes,
watch out for that kind of woman. I mean, they're
out there. There's also bad guys out there. Ladies obviously,
of course, monsters.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
Yeah, but every woman of a certain age and I
mean probably past sixteen, who has a pretty face understands
that they can use that pretty face to disarm men.
Why don't we just say that?
Speaker 4 (34:05):
And you can use it in a mild way to
get into the office of the boss to dart and
make a sales pitch, or he can use it in
a much less mild way to destroy someone's life, to.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Blackmail Trevor Bauer, for instance. Yeah. So yeah, some use
their beauty for a good, some for evil, some with
restraint morality, some utterly without it, Like this horrifying waste
of internal organs woman that we're discussing. Yeah, that's a
terrible story. Is he still pitching in Japan? He got
(34:39):
blackballed from Major League Baseball in the wake of the
whole U two era. Of course, he was essentially box
off his poison. We can't have Trevor Bauer around here.
This woman says he raped her. He's got just absolutely
ruined by this win.
Speaker 4 (34:53):
Well, yeah, Hanson and I were talking about this yesterday.
Pitching is such a valuable thing in major league baseball.
I'll bet he makes his way back. Don't you think
armholds up? I mean, it's that's one of the things
about being a major league pitcher. You have no idea
what the trajectory of your career is going to be, physically, mentally,
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the rest of it. That's why they get paid so much,
because your arms are only gonna last so long for
your elbow cracks open.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
Well, you can be completely unhittable one year, show up
the next year and it's like you're throwing batting practice.
You can't strike anybody out, and the pitchers as mystified
as the coaches and everybody else.
Speaker 4 (35:34):
But did you see weird? Did you see the guy
the other day? And I should have the name for
baseball fans, but most of you aren't. He was one
of those phenoms. Had to get one of the big surgeries,
spent I think two seasons rehabbing. Pitched the other day,
threw a pitch immediately he likes on the ground and
(35:54):
he knew exactly that it was over. He starts crying.
He's sitting on the field crying because he knew it
was over. That's dreams. Yeah, dreams are over. Yeah.
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