October 15, 2025 • 36 mins
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- Disarming Hamas, dishwashers & climate change
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Show, Katty Armstrong and
Jet and Key Arms get Why from studio see Senior. Wow,
(00:37):
it's a Columbus day off, so it's already Wednesday. We've
got pamelon studio, which is disgusting but kind of a
cool little gumma. Who else has the kamelon studio? Right? Nobody?
Welcome to the Armstrong and Getty Show today, where you're
under the tutelage of our general manager. Tempted to go
with season ping because of the trade tensions. He got
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a strong nominee. Is that some Chinese guy? Bad Chinese guy? Yeah,
he runs the place. Oh, I know what's on my
mind is who's we? The word we? Who's we? Who
is we? Maybe we as our general manager? Who define
we for me? Wow? Help me out with this. President
of the United States said, hamas will disarm or we
will disarm them? Who's we? Who is we? Violently? Violently
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if necessary? He said, who do you think we is? Well?
And they're not. They are one not going to disarm
as their recent actions have proven. Who's that rough shod
through we? Got some We've got some serious pronoun problems.
My pronoun is he he he him. But uh, we
got going to take a while if we have to
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break down the grammar of every sentence. Well, who's they
I mean, do you mean like every single last dead
ender or do you mean like just the bulk of
the organization? Yeah, disarmed? The bulk of the organization's not
going to disarm, right, Yeah, the military the part that matters.
The fat rich guys and cutter don't matter. But the
fighters on the ground, they absolutely will not disarm. They
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are trying to consolidate power as quickly as they can
and show they are still in charge. They're rounding people up,
executing them. It's fights in the streets. Well do you
are for you to be satisfied, and it's all about
whether or not Joe getting satisfied with right peace deal
for you to be satisfied, does every dead ender have
to be disarmed? Because I've just been thinking, well, you know,
the bulk of them, like the you know, any organized
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group of them, Like I keep using the example of
the Civil War. If you got random Confederates out there
in the woods who still want to fight on, that's
not the same as like organized militias led by a
general somewhere. Right. Yeah, it's there's kind of a spectrum of, uh,
you know, how well armed are they, how well organized
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are they, how ambitious are they? And once you get
past a certain point in the spectrum, it's no longer
a military problem. It's a policing problem. They're more like
a violent gang. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly at that point, Yeah,
you can have a functioning society. Okay, so I just
you've defined they, Then who's we? What sentence are we
talking about? Oh? Back to your who's way? The coalition
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of the welling? Well, does that include the United States? Well? See,
that's the tricky part, and that's why the Trump Plan,
while a great breakthrough, has got a rocky road ahead.
Initially it's got to be Israel. Well, I think guys
have been whooping ass already because there's no multi country
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Commission of Peace in place yet. I was just reading
from the newsletter I read from every day from Mark
Alpern and the wide world of news. Is there going
to be a genuine peacekeeping force or not, which you
just mentioned, Who will be in it? Under what authority
and under what terms of engagement hard but essential questions.
I would say, yeah, and they best realize whoever's in
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that force, they're there to fight. It's not going to
be like, you know, the passive, stupid, useless un observers
who has below is building armaments one hundred yards from
their lookout towers. No, they're going to be there to
fight because Hamas again, by the one hundred thousands, I
don't know, they're not going to give up their arms.
They're going to fight until they're dead. I just feel
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like if Barack Obama or Joe Biden had said we
will disarm them, the part of the Fox crowd would
be up at arms. If you'll pardon the expression over
oh so more soldiers in the Middle East fighting other
people's wars and you said we right right, Well, it
absolutely deserves clarification. Your point is well taken, and we
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will disarm them, perhaps violently if necessary. Okay, well that's
a heck of a thing. Perhaps Trump is speaking French,
we is, and yes, yes, will disarm them. They probably not.
They've still got twenty one bodies or twenty two. Uh.
One of the bodies that Hamas turned over turned out
(05:04):
to not be one of the hostages. My guess would
be Hamas doesn't have It's not like they've got a
careful cataloging of bodies system. One, they don't care. Two
they've been getting the but Jesus bombed out of them
for two years and moving from hole to hole. Right,
they didn't care in the first place. So they got
all kinds of bodies of Palestinians and Israelis from this
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time around and anybody else they've snatched over the many decades.
They got all kinds of body parts, right, Yeah, I
would agree. So Egypt's going to go in there. Egypt
just offered to go in there and help them find bodies.
What's that process going to be like twenty two those
twenty two What percentage of those twenty two are ever
going to be found and identified and brought back? I'd
be surprised if it's half Oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah,
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if five are, I would be pleasantly surprised. Yeah crazy, yeah. Anyway,
So why were you why were you considering making Jijing
ping the general man? The trade war preposturing, the pregaming
is getting really intense, with Trump announcing one hundred percent
tariff chesion being saying you can't have any rare earth minerals,
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and the threats are going back and forth, hot and heavy.
There's you mentioned yesterday how weird this is to have
an enemy that you're so economically tied into, Like we
weren't economically tied into the Soviet Union or them us.
It's just yeah, not a bit. But with China, as
we all know, we're very tied in to the fact that,
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like at the time COVID hit, we got all of
our drugs from there, and all our rare earth minerals
and all every piece of thing you buy at the
store or order on Amazon comes from China. That's not
the way it was when we were at war with
the Soviet Union. To that point, there is an interesting
story in the Financial Times today a couple of Brits
got caught spying for China.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Mm.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
They're are British dudes with British names. It got caught
spine for China, and that got dismayed because the government
was unwilling to say that they were spying on behalf
of an enemy. They didn't want to call China an
enemy right of Great Britain. And you know that that's
to the point you were talking about yesterday. They don't
(07:17):
want to call China an enemy or the enemy because
of all our economic tize. Yeah, a labor the Labor
secretary sabotaged the trial of two alleged spies by refusing
to brand China an enemy. The Telegraph was reporting about
a week ago they were accused of passing information about
the government's foreign policy to a high ranking member of
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the Chinese government, and Keers Starmer's spokesman said it was
extremely disappointing and gravely concerning that they wouldn't face trial.
But then it turns out the government with drew as
star witness who had been tasked with testifying the China
was an enemy of the UK, said no, we're not
going to We don't want to say that out loud.
If major Western the spy go free. Yeah, if major
(07:59):
were stern powers aren't willing to call China an enemy
but enemy early, that's a problem. That's something right, And
the fact that they couldn't come up with a way
to verbally tap dance around say well, we are friends
and work with China in many different ways, but yes,
(08:22):
by the strict definition of foreign policy, you know, Section
one thirty three point eight. Yes, China is in this
instance an enemy, perhaps an unfortunate word. I mean, you
could fall all over yourself bowing and scraping, but still
prosecuting spies. But they are so afraid of China they didn't.
(08:43):
How shocking is that much different topic. My dishwasher, it's
not really mine, I live in a rental, doesn't do anything,
you know. And Trump's always complaining about modern shower heads
and dishwashers and washing machines because of the green regulations.
The dishwasher doesn't do anything unless you wash the dishes
by hand almost completely. You haven't accomplished anything. A dishwasher
(09:09):
that washes no dishes is not a dishwak. I appear
to be the dishwasher. Yes, it is a box. It
is a dirty dish storage box. It runs for like
an hour to try to save energy somehow, and that
doesn't really do anything.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
I know.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
It's very frustrating. Got some great stuff on the whole
climate change Datebockle, and how phony it is, and how
the entire world, the Western world anyway, is backtracking. Even
China is from electric vehicles because it just doesn't make sense.
But so did Trump roll back regulations on that can
maytag now make a dishwasher like they used to make them, like,
(09:44):
blast the crap out of them, Blast the crap out
of your dishes, boiling hot water, powerful chemicals. Right, don't
you open it up? Your dish has been completely dissolved
to gear it back a little bit. I don't know that,
I hope so Greta's unhappy about our disch. You washed
your own dishes, Greta, but I want a dishwasher and
(10:06):
wash your dishes. Blah blah blah blah blah blah. Okay,
let's start the show officially. I'm Rom, I'm Jack Armstrong,
He's Joe Getty on this and how did they already
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twenty twenty five, wormstrong and getting and we approve of
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now according to FCC rules that well, the good news
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is with the piece in the Middle East, the camel
rental cost has gone down a lot. So anyway, here
comes the show. We start at Mark today.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
We're here to honor and remember a fearless warrior for liberty,
beloved leader who galvanized the next generation, like nobody I've
ever seen before, entering his name forever into the eternal
roster of true American heroes.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
He's a true American hero, an amazing person, way way
beyond his years. Chode's listening to Fox as a Charlie
Kirk was given posthumously the American Medal of Freedom, Medal
of Honor, Medal of Honor. I get the mixed Metal
(11:09):
of Freedom, right yeah, uh yeah, Medal of Honor is
what you're like your warriors get right in a battle.
Metal of Freedom and uh, it was a nice ceremony
and everything like that. And as listening to Fox, and
I've seen a variety of stats that church attendance is
up quite a bit, particularly among the young, Baptisms are
way up, people getting baptized, and there's more Christian music
(11:32):
making it on to the charts than previously that I
don't I can't verify any of those things, but I've
seen various stats pointing that direction. Hmm. Yeah, I've seen
that denied in the liberal media. But I didn't find
the case they made very convincing. They're citing statistics that
kind of didn't apply. It's funny that they would go
to the trouble to deny that because the why does
(11:56):
that bother you? Yeah, it's what if it's not true?
So what why don't you report on actual news? Yeah? Exactly,
report on actual news, which Katie has the headlines of
coming up in a little bit. And then we got
more news of the day that we want to get to.
The ongoing crisis that is Alec Baldwin crashing his Range Rover.
(12:18):
The video came out yesterday. Please. I think he's an
old fat man ran into a tree, just driving too fast,
looking at his phone to open new tree and story. Yeah, exactly.
All right, we got more on the way. Stay here.
New Zealand wine company selling non alcoholic wine for dogs
(12:43):
and cats for your pets. Who took a twist there
at the end. Have all the details on that coming
up if your dog wants to catch a buzz huh.
All right, let's figure out who's reporting what. It's the
lead story with Katie Green and Katie all right, starting Katie,
I do have this question for you. Okay, what the
ducks say when he bought chapstick? Just put it on
(13:04):
my bill. I'm loving this new feature.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Oh boy, all right, it's more fun than anything.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
I'm gonna have to say here, NBC.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Body that Hamas returned to Israel is not one of
the hostages according to the idea.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Now, like I said, the idea that Hamas was carefully
cataloging each deceased body and saving it with the name
and knows exactly where it is and it's in the
you know, climate controlled vault. I mean that's crazy, right, Yeah,
as they're being routed out of the tunnels and bombed
and shot and rest of it. I will never say
(13:47):
anything that sounds anything like defending Hamas. But in this case,
if they say, yeah, we don't know where they are,
I think that's probably true.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
From CBS News, Supreme Court turns away parental rights dispute
brought on by Colorado families.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
We got to talk about this coming up maybe next segment.
What's going on there? Joe will tell us because Joe
almost went to law school. That's right, very close. From
Breitbart dot Com.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Democrat led Oregon on track to spend five hundred million
dollars more for healthcare program that includes illegals than for
state police.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Nice. Yeah, the Pacific Northwest is just crumbling. We've got
a couple of stories on that. Yeah, keep keep doubling
down on your progressive policies. It'll work out soon.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
From The Wall Street Journal, China betting it can win
a trade war, is playing hardball with Trump.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
God dang it, this couldn't get dicey. Yeah, we've got
some details coming up on that.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
From Fox News, Katie Porter says she regrets viral outbursts
at reporters.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Yeah, we need to get into her apology video that
she put out yesterday. What people when they're a holes,
they like to go with I don't suffer fools, you
know that whole thing. Yeah, whatever, Yeah, she's just a
horrible person. Yeah, there's that.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
From the New York Post, Horrifying images show how flesh
eating quote zombie drug mammifies addicts and causes their limbs
to auto amputate.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Whoa wow, whoa wow wow. Whoas a hell of a sentence. God,
I'd say, every every time I thought the horror was complete,
you laid on another lager. Oh you gotta try this
new drug. It gives you a heck of a buzz
and your limbs will auto amputate. It's that it's that
shrank stuff. Oh my god, So your arms legs say
(15:49):
I want out of here. I'm out of here. Bye bye,
oh wow.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
From the Hill Altman says Chat GPT will soon allow
erotica for adults.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Okay, yeah, I noticed that. So I was going to
talk about GROC and some of the fun we are
happening with Groc yesterday, making videos and some of the
stuff that it wouldn't do, but Chat and GPT is
saying it will do it soon. Okay.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
From the Independent, Tech prankster sends fifty Waymo driverless taxis
to dead end street in San Francisco.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Oh boy, And then what do you do when you're
in the waimo? You just sit there at the dead
end street and some point get out. Wi twas a
cluster f Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
From study fines, nearly a third of American adults.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Are still afraid of the dark. Oh I got a
better one than that about riding bikes for you so
that we'll fit in. We're all children. Then that fits
in with that stat perfectly, all right.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
And from the Babylon Bee, Trump retaliates for Peace Prize
snub with picture of the No Belt Committee wearing sombreros.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Uh, that's why he's gonna do everybody. Now, if he's
angry that he puts you in a sombrero in a muscle,
here's a sombrero. The whole trade war between China and
the United States is not getting near the attention that
it should. The two biggest economies in the world are
going at it, and because of the Middle East stuff
and everything like that, it's been ignored. But we'll get
into that among other things on the ways to stay here.
(17:25):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Also attending the event Argentina's President Javier Milai, who was
at the White House today to talk tariffs and a
twenty billion dollar currency swap to help stabilize the cash
strapped country's volatile financial markets ahead of critical elections.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
If he loses, we are not going to be generous
with Argentina.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Uh, that is not the clip I wanted. Okay, they're mislabeled,
I guess because we're gonna talk about China, China trying
to drive a wedge with soybeans and other things with
this whole trade war thing that we got going on.
And I came across this other headline that just landed
from the Washington Times, China's new export export controls on
rare earth minerals that they announced last week and products
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made from them reflect a bid to dominate world markets
for the strategic material since the nineteen nineties, and they're
using it in their trade war. And then the story
that we did not hear China trying to drive a
wedge over soy beans, which is an economic hostile act.
Also Trump announcing after the Rare Earth deal, okay, one
hundred percent tariff on everything from China starting November first.
(18:32):
And that's where we are today. Yeah, shij In Ping's
betting we can't take a long trade war with them,
according to people close to Beijing's decision making who apparently
are talking to the American media or something. Right, that's interesting, Yeah,
how are people close to Jijing being talking to the
Wall Street Journal? But go on. China's holding a firm line,
(18:54):
according to the journal, because of its conviction that an
escalating trade war will tank US market as it did
in April after Trump announced his Liberation Day tariffs, and
China expects the prospect of another market meltdown ultimately will
force Trump to negotiate and an expected summit with she
late this month. That's not a bad theory from China
(19:14):
that we are not just Trump, but the whole country.
We are so day by day short term thinkers with
oh my god, this is terrible or oh my god,
this is great. That if the market's tank, uh, there'll
be all kinds of political pressure to do something different.
Whereas obviously in a dictatorship, Shiji Pink can hold the
(19:35):
line on anything as long as he wants right, yeah,
orrow whatever, wait for whatever to deprive the people of
whatever does. So that's a pretty good plan. China restricts
a bunch of things, burn soybeans, rare earth metals. We
try to retaliate the market's tank. We chicken out, and
it wouldn't just be taco Trump always chickens out. It'd
be the whole country would chicken out, and China would
(19:58):
hold firm. That's not a bad theory, no, as they
continue to make progress toward being the superpower they long
to be and keep us on the line as the
weirdest frenemy in the history of really international relations. On
his Truth social platform, Trump said the US is considering
terminating business with China on cooking, oil, and other elements
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of trade because of China's refusal to buy US soybeans
a decision. Beijing has said his retaliation for Trump's own tariffs,
We're gonna deny them. They're cooking oil. What'll they do now? Bake?
It's often funny to me when I read these stories
and they throw in terms like soybeans or cooking oil
or whatever, and I, like you and everybody else, you
have no concept of how big a deal that is,
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you know, none. You just have to assume that it is.
And this is the way trade wars go. I guess
one side does something, then the other side does something back,
and it's just back and forth, tip for tatt till
you things get crazy. Is that the way it always works?
I guess so yeah. Frequently, yeah, and then they get
together and talk and wind things down a little bit.
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But why it has to go through the initial phase,
I don't know. It's the showing that we're really, really
serious phase. I guess yeah. On the other hand, while
Shiji and Ping doesn't have to worry about the daily
stock market and cable news bad mouthing him or whatever,
The Wall Street Journal says China's own economy has been
in a protracted downturn, weighed down by a collapsed property market,
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which we've talked about a lot. There are millions and
millions of empty high rises around China. Ever, rising debts
and weakening consumer confidence. However, she is far less beholding
the market swoons, as I just said, even though the
Chinese economy faces pure a precarious outlook. Yeah, but he
is beholden to other high ranking members of the Communist
Party that wouldn't mind if he got a bullet in
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his head if the economy went down too much, because
that's the way dictatorships work, right, right, One more bit
of information. According to the people close to Beishing's decision making,
She's hardline strategy is based on the belief Trump will
ultimately fold and off for concessions rather than deployee Washington's
own significant leverage. The confidence was fueled by a US
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China trade truce stuck in May. Trump had imposed tariffs
of more than one hundred percent on Chinese products, but
relented after Beijing used its leverage. Is the world's most
important exporter of rare earth magnets. I think you mentioned yesterday,
did you not that we actually are sitting on lots
and lots of the rare earth materials we've just not
been willing to mine them because of environmental concerns and
(22:28):
that sort of thing. This is not something that I know,
as I'm not an expert in this area, but I
was looking at a tweet from John Stossel, which I
will try to find for you right now. China recently
made it harder to import rare earth minerals, metals needed
to make phones, electric vehicles, all kinds of defense tech,
fighter planes and stuff like that, a lot of our
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AI stuff. This shouldn't be a problem. America is full
of those minerals. It's only a problem because our government
makes mining almost impossible in this country. According to John Stotswell,
who's usually right about this sort of thing, right, that
one surprise me. No, no, not at all. I mean,
for christ A Loud, we import oil, but we could
(23:08):
easily dig for ourselves. So yeah, that's especially phony because
we're the cleanest, most careful oil extractors on the planet,
and we go ahead and to have our hands clean
and our starched white shirts untouched by the dirt that
would result from mining or drilling. We have these awful
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countries that don't give a damn about polluting and human
rights and the rest of US dig or drill for
our oil forests. It's it's one of the most ridiculous, hypocritical,
limousine liberal things we do. But am I I'm economics
is not my area. I'm not interested enough into it
or to read a lot about it, and I never
(23:50):
have in my life. But it just seems to me
that a one tariff on everything from China landing November first,
during Christmas shopping season would be a crazy development for
the economy. Yeah, yeah, I would agree. I don't think
we have the will as a people there are I mean,
the polls are actually kind of encouraging, showing that most
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Americans understand China as a serious, serious rival. But I'm
not sure we're willing to go full austerity, you know,
world War two, butter rationing stamps, well, that makes the
price of everything that comes out of China. We saw
them the iPhone thing originally when they were talking tariffs
on how you know it's it's not just a straight
(24:36):
line you can draw from one on the current price
to figure out what it is. Sometimes it's multiples more
and on, you know, whether it's iPhone or cheap plastic
piece of crap toy you're going to buy your kid
or whatever it is, it's going to be two, three,
five times as expensive. No way we're gonna put up
with that. Yeah, you know, I was going to say,
(24:58):
we need a national prog of the toys your kids
sick of. Let's just have a big swap of thon.
No kidding, God, because thrift stores are Yeah, but somebody
should or eBay. It's like, my son's really into these
high end whether you called a consignment clothing store or whatever,
(25:20):
used clothes and they're really hot right now. Like my
college town has got like three that have started in
the last year and they do really, really well. And
it's basically what you're just talking about. It's like I
bought these really expensive jeans. I'm not going to give
them a good will. I mean they were really expensive.
I'll sell them for you know, a third what I
paid for them. I'll easily pay you a third for
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what those expensive jeens. And that has become a market
we should surely there's got to be a way to
do that for toys and all kinds of gadgets. Like
I got this for my kids. This thing costs three
hundred dollars. They played with it for two weeks. I'd
like it for my kids. I'll give you one hundred
and fifty. Yeah, it's got it. Just eBay. I think
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for some reason that doesn't work that way. We need
like a some something's missing there to make that work
the right way. I don't know what it is. Yeah,
I don't know, but it's a good idea. It's a well,
you know what the problem is. You're your own consignment shop,
and you have to deal with the you know, the
logistics and the shipping and and the payment and the
rest of it. Yeah. Yeah, like these does help. Like
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these high end uh consignment clothes or used clothes or
whatever they are. The people that run them have a
real sense of what's popular and everything like that. It's
and and and and have that stuff in stock and
have it laid out in such a way that you
can find it easily and all that sort of stuff.
That's what you need with kids, crap, whatever's hot, you
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have a whole bunch of them. I know where to
find it. That could work. That's a that's a gazillion
dollar idea. If you could just come up with the
infrastructure toy consignment shop. Yeah, I don't know. Why you
would call it needs a name, like my kid got
sick of this in a week? Is the name of
the store? Happy Happy, Joy Joy. I don't know a
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It'd be nice if you could get somebody to break
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got lots of stuff in my house that it really
wouldn't be awful if it just disappeared. So if you could,
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(28:29):
in that room, I wouldn't even miss it. So what
you're calling for in your really futuristic, not at all
idiotic idea is a thief with a specific shopping list
exactly well, because the one Mary Kids there was a
break in, yeah, and the One More Thing podcast we
were talking about this. Yesterday. I was out at the
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farm and still gathering up stuff from getting divorced, that
stuff in boxes that I've been taking around the country
for years, and then it's just it's why am I
hanging onto it? And it should have some value to somebody.
I don't know what, But if you're the sort of
person that gets rid of crap, old crap that you
(29:10):
don't use, whether it's clothes or electronics or I don't know,
just everything that accumulates. Too many bulls, plates and spoons.
Why am I hanging onto these? I don't use these anymore?
Do I think the current ones are gonna break at
some point? And I don't even know what I'm doing. Yeah,
there's just something deep in our caveman brain, and everybody
(29:30):
has it to varying degrees that if something is still usable,
it's valuable, maybe not very valuable, but has some value,
it's hard for us to trash it. Yeah, man, oh man,
do I struggle with that. I got to get better
at it. I know that's the What was that woman
that came up with that theory? The way you need
to go through your house and see if things bring
you joy? Yeah, what's her face? Get rid of all
(29:51):
the stuff that doesn't bring you joy? Hey? My final
final note back to the question of China and all,
and maybe we'll get to this later, but Jamie Diamond,
head guy at JP Morgan Chase, just announced a ten year,
one and a half trillion dollar effort to facilitate finance
and invest in industries crucial to national security and what
he calls economic resilience to make us less dependent on China.
(30:14):
So that's an interesting development. We'll look at it in
a little while. Yeah, and then in light of that
Great Britain story where they're not even allowed to call
China an enemy, which they clearly are. I mean, you
heard us talking about the sixty minute story yesterday where
China is hacking into I'm sure they're doing in Great
Britain the same thing they're doing here, hacking into every
part of Great Britain's infrastructure. You know who does that?
(30:34):
An enemy? An enemy to your countries? Who does that?
But they're an enemy that has so much leverage over
us we won't say the word. And a bunch of
cheap plastic crap that we want to buy in including
other stuff to important stuff. We got mail bag on
the way. Lots to talk about today. I hope you
can stay here. The Department of Justice made the world's
(30:56):
largest ever crypto seizure. We'll have to read about that later.
I don't even know how does a seizure of crypto work.
I guess you just hack into a computer or something. Anyway,
Trump just threatened to take the world cup away from
Boston if they don't get their policing under control. I
have no idea if he's got the power to do
that or not, But anyway, we'll have that story later too.
(31:17):
The whole narrative that he's trying to institute some sort
of dictatorship, martial law, blah blah blas. It's silly, but
at some point, when you got federal troops or National
Guard in like ten cities, it's starting to look a
little weird. Right Yeah. Yeah, Your freedom loving quote of
(31:38):
today you'll have to wait till tomorrow because my internet
just died and I had a great quote from Jason
Riley of the Wall Street Journal ready to go about
how we need to stop any sort of racial jerrymandering.
It's not nineteen sixty five anymore, and to rearrange voters
by race is a racist and be unproductive, and I
(32:00):
agree completely. He said it more pithily, but we'll let
have that. That's our freedom loving idea of the day.
Mailbag drop us a note mail bag at Armstrong and
Giddy dot com. Yesterday, you might recall that Brian sent
along a story that he said it would be cheerful
and help get us away from being the most depressing
(32:22):
radio show on Earth, and I found a depressing angle
to it and put him in his place. Today Brian plucky.
Brian has come back with a Dare to be Joyous
Part two story awesome, no downside to this one. It's
great and we'll get to it next hour. Go really encouraging.
Well done, Brian, Right moving along, Come on here. Two
(32:45):
emails in a row with precisely the same title, Change
the Law. Ran in Houston writes, Dear Big Freedom, the
cold Warrior and old simple Jack. So Marjorie Taylor Green
doesn't like what Ice is doing. Has to suck that
you can't do anything about it? If only they're there
was a branch of the government to make and pass laws,
some sort of legislative branch to be coequal to our
(33:05):
God Emperor. Has any country tried that? Ah boy, very good,
pithy and delightful. And then second change the Law email.
This is from Evan and beautiful Raleigh, California, right down
the road from my brother. Been a loyal listener since
I was a freshman in high school. Now thirty seven
with my second son on the way. Sorry for making
us all feel old. I wanted to follow up on
(33:28):
your discussion about illegal immigration. Sound like you were saying
it might technically be the law that someone here illegally
should be deported, but that it's not necessarily right. Yeah. Yeah,
that was more or less my argument. I mean, there
are nuances to it, but he says I get that,
and I think most people understand why many come here
for opportunity and are not heartless toward those who built
lives here. But as Jack often says, if we don't
(33:48):
like it, change the law. Someone who drove drunk ten
years ago but was never caught still broke the law.
Same logic applies here. Compassion matters. But as you've said,
order without compassion is authority arianism, I usually say brutality
and compassion without order is chaos. Change the law. I
still stand by that. I guess anytime anybody comments on anything,
(34:10):
I should comment, I should say, am I talking politics
or am I talking the law? I think politically, Marjorie
Taylor Green might have a ton of people on her side,
including people of mega people. Yep, yeah, I think the
context for us, we were talking about how much support
there would be for you know what's going on. But
(34:31):
he does make one more interesting point. MTG isn't a
true believer. She's protecting her political interests in the cheap
labor status quo, which is equally despicable. Talks about our district.
They they've been here in work hard argument just keeps
that cycle going, the roiling of the political parties and
(34:52):
what they are, you know, the working class moving to
the Republican Party under Trump. And now you've got this
Marjorie Taylor green Crow. How big that is? I don't know.
That says, you know, there's a whole bunch of illegals
here working in my district and they probably ought to stay.
And she's saying, my kids are on the Obamacare and
their healthcare is gonna double. So what are we doing here?
(35:14):
She wants to extend the Obamacare subsidies. So is she
carving out like a different thing or is that gonna
work itself out between the two parties. I don't know.
MSNBC offered her a show. Maybe I don't know, and
then Evan signs off. Thanks for decades of entertainment, level
headed commentary. You've been calling balls and strikes long before
it was popular to do so. Evan, it's much more
(35:36):
popular to chuck bombs and conspiracy theories and that sort
of thing. We're stupid for doing what we do, but
thank you for listening. Oh, we're stupid. What see Oh?
And then JT and livermore with a note about Barry Weiss,
who I want to talk about a little bit more,
saying that if Barry just changes the political news formula
(35:59):
from Republicans pounced to something more even handed, it will
have a huge impact on how news is perceived. That
and the daily more balanced approach to news stories could
have a monumental impact on the nation's politics. That's a
good point. You see when the Duck bought chapstick and said,
just put it on my bill, it's his lips are
(36:19):
too complicated. And I don't know if it's that complicated.
I think you understand ducks don't have lips. The Supreme
Court and whether or not they're going to take up
that Colorado trans case is an interesting one, among things
other things. An Hour two Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Show, Katty Armstrong and
Jet and Key Arms get Why from studio see Senior. Wow,
(00:37):
it's a Columbus day off, so it's already Wednesday. We've
got pamelon studio, which is disgusting but kind of a
cool little gumma. Who else has the kamelon studio? Right? Nobody?
Welcome to the Armstrong and Getty Show today, where you're
under the tutelage of our general manager. Tempted to go
with season ping because of the trade tensions. He got
(00:58):
a strong nominee. Is that some Chinese guy? Bad Chinese guy? Yeah,
he runs the place. Oh, I know what's on my
mind is who's we? The word we? Who's we? Who
is we? Maybe we as our general manager? Who define
we for me? Wow? Help me out with this. President
of the United States said, hamas will disarm or we
will disarm them? Who's we? Who is we? Violently? Violently
(01:24):
if necessary? He said, who do you think we is? Well?
And they're not. They are one not going to disarm
as their recent actions have proven. Who's that rough shod
through we? Got some We've got some serious pronoun problems.
My pronoun is he he he him. But uh, we
got going to take a while if we have to
(01:45):
break down the grammar of every sentence. Well, who's they
I mean, do you mean like every single last dead
ender or do you mean like just the bulk of
the organization? Yeah, disarmed? The bulk of the organization's not
going to disarm, right, Yeah, the military the part that matters.
The fat rich guys and cutter don't matter. But the
fighters on the ground, they absolutely will not disarm. They
(02:08):
are trying to consolidate power as quickly as they can
and show they are still in charge. They're rounding people up,
executing them. It's fights in the streets. Well do you
are for you to be satisfied, and it's all about
whether or not Joe getting satisfied with right peace deal
for you to be satisfied, does every dead ender have
to be disarmed? Because I've just been thinking, well, you know,
the bulk of them, like the you know, any organized
(02:32):
group of them, Like I keep using the example of
the Civil War. If you got random Confederates out there
in the woods who still want to fight on, that's
not the same as like organized militias led by a
general somewhere. Right. Yeah, it's there's kind of a spectrum of, uh,
you know, how well armed are they, how well organized
(02:54):
are they, how ambitious are they? And once you get
past a certain point in the spectrum, it's no longer
a military problem. It's a policing problem. They're more like
a violent gang. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly at that point, Yeah,
you can have a functioning society. Okay, so I just
you've defined they, Then who's we? What sentence are we
talking about? Oh? Back to your who's way? The coalition
(03:15):
of the welling? Well, does that include the United States? Well? See,
that's the tricky part, and that's why the Trump Plan,
while a great breakthrough, has got a rocky road ahead.
Initially it's got to be Israel. Well, I think guys
have been whooping ass already because there's no multi country
(03:36):
Commission of Peace in place yet. I was just reading
from the newsletter I read from every day from Mark
Alpern and the wide world of news. Is there going
to be a genuine peacekeeping force or not, which you
just mentioned, Who will be in it? Under what authority
and under what terms of engagement hard but essential questions.
I would say, yeah, and they best realize whoever's in
(03:58):
that force, they're there to fight. It's not going to
be like, you know, the passive, stupid, useless un observers
who has below is building armaments one hundred yards from
their lookout towers. No, they're going to be there to
fight because Hamas again, by the one hundred thousands, I
don't know, they're not going to give up their arms.
They're going to fight until they're dead. I just feel
(04:19):
like if Barack Obama or Joe Biden had said we
will disarm them, the part of the Fox crowd would
be up at arms. If you'll pardon the expression over
oh so more soldiers in the Middle East fighting other
people's wars and you said we right right, Well, it
absolutely deserves clarification. Your point is well taken, and we
(04:43):
will disarm them, perhaps violently if necessary. Okay, well that's
a heck of a thing. Perhaps Trump is speaking French,
we is, and yes, yes, will disarm them. They probably not.
They've still got twenty one bodies or twenty two. Uh.
One of the bodies that Hamas turned over turned out
(05:04):
to not be one of the hostages. My guess would
be Hamas doesn't have It's not like they've got a
careful cataloging of bodies system. One, they don't care. Two
they've been getting the but Jesus bombed out of them
for two years and moving from hole to hole. Right,
they didn't care in the first place. So they got
all kinds of bodies of Palestinians and Israelis from this
(05:26):
time around and anybody else they've snatched over the many decades.
They got all kinds of body parts, right, Yeah, I
would agree. So Egypt's going to go in there. Egypt
just offered to go in there and help them find bodies.
What's that process going to be like twenty two those
twenty two What percentage of those twenty two are ever
going to be found and identified and brought back? I'd
be surprised if it's half Oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah,
(05:49):
if five are, I would be pleasantly surprised. Yeah crazy, yeah. Anyway,
So why were you why were you considering making Jijing
ping the general man? The trade war preposturing, the pregaming
is getting really intense, with Trump announcing one hundred percent
tariff chesion being saying you can't have any rare earth minerals,
(06:13):
and the threats are going back and forth, hot and heavy.
There's you mentioned yesterday how weird this is to have
an enemy that you're so economically tied into, Like we
weren't economically tied into the Soviet Union or them us.
It's just yeah, not a bit. But with China, as
we all know, we're very tied in to the fact that,
(06:33):
like at the time COVID hit, we got all of
our drugs from there, and all our rare earth minerals
and all every piece of thing you buy at the
store or order on Amazon comes from China. That's not
the way it was when we were at war with
the Soviet Union. To that point, there is an interesting
story in the Financial Times today a couple of Brits
got caught spying for China.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Mm.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
They're are British dudes with British names. It got caught
spine for China, and that got dismayed because the government
was unwilling to say that they were spying on behalf
of an enemy. They didn't want to call China an
enemy right of Great Britain. And you know that that's
to the point you were talking about yesterday. They don't
(07:17):
want to call China an enemy or the enemy because
of all our economic tize. Yeah, a labor the Labor
secretary sabotaged the trial of two alleged spies by refusing
to brand China an enemy. The Telegraph was reporting about
a week ago they were accused of passing information about
the government's foreign policy to a high ranking member of
(07:38):
the Chinese government, and Keers Starmer's spokesman said it was
extremely disappointing and gravely concerning that they wouldn't face trial.
But then it turns out the government with drew as
star witness who had been tasked with testifying the China
was an enemy of the UK, said no, we're not
going to We don't want to say that out loud.
If major Western the spy go free. Yeah, if major
(07:59):
were stern powers aren't willing to call China an enemy
but enemy early, that's a problem. That's something right, And
the fact that they couldn't come up with a way
to verbally tap dance around say well, we are friends
and work with China in many different ways, but yes,
(08:22):
by the strict definition of foreign policy, you know, Section
one thirty three point eight. Yes, China is in this
instance an enemy, perhaps an unfortunate word. I mean, you
could fall all over yourself bowing and scraping, but still
prosecuting spies. But they are so afraid of China they didn't.
(08:43):
How shocking is that much different topic. My dishwasher, it's
not really mine, I live in a rental, doesn't do anything,
you know. And Trump's always complaining about modern shower heads
and dishwashers and washing machines because of the green regulations.
The dishwasher doesn't do anything unless you wash the dishes
by hand almost completely. You haven't accomplished anything. A dishwasher
(09:09):
that washes no dishes is not a dishwak. I appear
to be the dishwasher. Yes, it is a box. It
is a dirty dish storage box. It runs for like
an hour to try to save energy somehow, and that
doesn't really do anything.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
I know.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
It's very frustrating. Got some great stuff on the whole
climate change Datebockle, and how phony it is, and how
the entire world, the Western world anyway, is backtracking. Even
China is from electric vehicles because it just doesn't make sense.
But so did Trump roll back regulations on that can
maytag now make a dishwasher like they used to make them, like,
(09:44):
blast the crap out of them, Blast the crap out
of your dishes, boiling hot water, powerful chemicals. Right, don't
you open it up? Your dish has been completely dissolved
to gear it back a little bit. I don't know that,
I hope so Greta's unhappy about our disch. You washed
your own dishes, Greta, but I want a dishwasher and
(10:06):
wash your dishes. Blah blah blah blah blah blah. Okay,
let's start the show officially. I'm Rom, I'm Jack Armstrong,
He's Joe Getty on this and how did they already
get to be Wednesday Houp Day, October fifteenth to R
twenty twenty five, wormstrong and getting and we approve of
this program R right, camel, Let's begin the show officially
now according to FCC rules that well, the good news
(10:26):
is with the piece in the Middle East, the camel
rental cost has gone down a lot. So anyway, here
comes the show. We start at Mark today.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
We're here to honor and remember a fearless warrior for liberty,
beloved leader who galvanized the next generation, like nobody I've
ever seen before, entering his name forever into the eternal
roster of true American heroes.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
He's a true American hero, an amazing person, way way
beyond his years. Chode's listening to Fox as a Charlie
Kirk was given posthumously the American Medal of Freedom, Medal
of Honor, Medal of Honor. I get the mixed Metal
(11:09):
of Freedom, right yeah, uh yeah, Medal of Honor is
what you're like your warriors get right in a battle.
Metal of Freedom and uh, it was a nice ceremony
and everything like that. And as listening to Fox, and
I've seen a variety of stats that church attendance is
up quite a bit, particularly among the young, Baptisms are
way up, people getting baptized, and there's more Christian music
(11:32):
making it on to the charts than previously that I
don't I can't verify any of those things, but I've
seen various stats pointing that direction. Hmm. Yeah, I've seen
that denied in the liberal media. But I didn't find
the case they made very convincing. They're citing statistics that
kind of didn't apply. It's funny that they would go
to the trouble to deny that because the why does
(11:56):
that bother you? Yeah, it's what if it's not true?
So what why don't you report on actual news? Yeah? Exactly,
report on actual news, which Katie has the headlines of
coming up in a little bit. And then we got
more news of the day that we want to get to.
The ongoing crisis that is Alec Baldwin crashing his Range Rover.
(12:18):
The video came out yesterday. Please. I think he's an
old fat man ran into a tree, just driving too fast,
looking at his phone to open new tree and story. Yeah, exactly.
All right, we got more on the way. Stay here.
New Zealand wine company selling non alcoholic wine for dogs
(12:43):
and cats for your pets. Who took a twist there
at the end. Have all the details on that coming
up if your dog wants to catch a buzz huh.
All right, let's figure out who's reporting what. It's the
lead story with Katie Green and Katie all right, starting Katie,
I do have this question for you. Okay, what the
ducks say when he bought chapstick? Just put it on
(13:04):
my bill. I'm loving this new feature.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Oh boy, all right, it's more fun than anything.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
I'm gonna have to say here, NBC.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Body that Hamas returned to Israel is not one of
the hostages according to the idea.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Now, like I said, the idea that Hamas was carefully
cataloging each deceased body and saving it with the name
and knows exactly where it is and it's in the
you know, climate controlled vault. I mean that's crazy, right, Yeah,
as they're being routed out of the tunnels and bombed
and shot and rest of it. I will never say
(13:47):
anything that sounds anything like defending Hamas. But in this case,
if they say, yeah, we don't know where they are,
I think that's probably true.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
From CBS News, Supreme Court turns away parental rights dispute
brought on by Colorado families.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
We got to talk about this coming up maybe next segment.
What's going on there? Joe will tell us because Joe
almost went to law school. That's right, very close. From
Breitbart dot Com.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Democrat led Oregon on track to spend five hundred million
dollars more for healthcare program that includes illegals than for
state police.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Nice. Yeah, the Pacific Northwest is just crumbling. We've got
a couple of stories on that. Yeah, keep keep doubling
down on your progressive policies. It'll work out soon.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
From The Wall Street Journal, China betting it can win
a trade war, is playing hardball with Trump.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
God dang it, this couldn't get dicey. Yeah, we've got
some details coming up on that.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
From Fox News, Katie Porter says she regrets viral outbursts
at reporters.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Yeah, we need to get into her apology video that
she put out yesterday. What people when they're a holes,
they like to go with I don't suffer fools, you
know that whole thing. Yeah, whatever, Yeah, she's just a
horrible person. Yeah, there's that.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
From the New York Post, Horrifying images show how flesh
eating quote zombie drug mammifies addicts and causes their limbs
to auto amputate.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Whoa wow, whoa wow wow. Whoas a hell of a sentence. God,
I'd say, every every time I thought the horror was complete,
you laid on another lager. Oh you gotta try this
new drug. It gives you a heck of a buzz
and your limbs will auto amputate. It's that it's that
shrank stuff. Oh my god, So your arms legs say
(15:49):
I want out of here. I'm out of here. Bye bye,
oh wow.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
From the Hill Altman says Chat GPT will soon allow
erotica for adults.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Okay, yeah, I noticed that. So I was going to
talk about GROC and some of the fun we are
happening with Groc yesterday, making videos and some of the
stuff that it wouldn't do, but Chat and GPT is
saying it will do it soon. Okay.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
From the Independent, Tech prankster sends fifty Waymo driverless taxis
to dead end street in San Francisco.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Oh boy, And then what do you do when you're
in the waimo? You just sit there at the dead
end street and some point get out. Wi twas a
cluster f Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
From study fines, nearly a third of American adults.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Are still afraid of the dark. Oh I got a
better one than that about riding bikes for you so
that we'll fit in. We're all children. Then that fits
in with that stat perfectly, all right.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
And from the Babylon Bee, Trump retaliates for Peace Prize
snub with picture of the No Belt Committee wearing sombreros.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Uh, that's why he's gonna do everybody. Now, if he's
angry that he puts you in a sombrero in a muscle,
here's a sombrero. The whole trade war between China and
the United States is not getting near the attention that
it should. The two biggest economies in the world are
going at it, and because of the Middle East stuff
and everything like that, it's been ignored. But we'll get
into that among other things on the ways to stay here.
(17:25):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Also attending the event Argentina's President Javier Milai, who was
at the White House today to talk tariffs and a
twenty billion dollar currency swap to help stabilize the cash
strapped country's volatile financial markets ahead of critical elections.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
If he loses, we are not going to be generous
with Argentina.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Uh, that is not the clip I wanted. Okay, they're mislabeled,
I guess because we're gonna talk about China, China trying
to drive a wedge with soybeans and other things with
this whole trade war thing that we got going on.
And I came across this other headline that just landed
from the Washington Times, China's new export export controls on
rare earth minerals that they announced last week and products
(18:10):
made from them reflect a bid to dominate world markets
for the strategic material since the nineteen nineties, and they're
using it in their trade war. And then the story
that we did not hear China trying to drive a
wedge over soy beans, which is an economic hostile act.
Also Trump announcing after the Rare Earth deal, okay, one
hundred percent tariff on everything from China starting November first.
(18:32):
And that's where we are today. Yeah, shij In Ping's
betting we can't take a long trade war with them,
according to people close to Beijing's decision making who apparently
are talking to the American media or something. Right, that's interesting, Yeah,
how are people close to Jijing being talking to the
Wall Street Journal? But go on. China's holding a firm line,
(18:54):
according to the journal, because of its conviction that an
escalating trade war will tank US market as it did
in April after Trump announced his Liberation Day tariffs, and
China expects the prospect of another market meltdown ultimately will
force Trump to negotiate and an expected summit with she
late this month. That's not a bad theory from China
(19:14):
that we are not just Trump, but the whole country.
We are so day by day short term thinkers with
oh my god, this is terrible or oh my god,
this is great. That if the market's tank, uh, there'll
be all kinds of political pressure to do something different.
Whereas obviously in a dictatorship, Shiji Pink can hold the
(19:35):
line on anything as long as he wants right, yeah,
orrow whatever, wait for whatever to deprive the people of
whatever does. So that's a pretty good plan. China restricts
a bunch of things, burn soybeans, rare earth metals. We
try to retaliate the market's tank. We chicken out, and
it wouldn't just be taco Trump always chickens out. It'd
be the whole country would chicken out, and China would
(19:58):
hold firm. That's not a bad theory, no, as they
continue to make progress toward being the superpower they long
to be and keep us on the line as the
weirdest frenemy in the history of really international relations. On
his Truth social platform, Trump said the US is considering
terminating business with China on cooking, oil, and other elements
(20:19):
of trade because of China's refusal to buy US soybeans
a decision. Beijing has said his retaliation for Trump's own tariffs,
We're gonna deny them. They're cooking oil. What'll they do now? Bake?
It's often funny to me when I read these stories
and they throw in terms like soybeans or cooking oil
or whatever, and I, like you and everybody else, you
have no concept of how big a deal that is,
(20:41):
you know, none. You just have to assume that it is.
And this is the way trade wars go. I guess
one side does something, then the other side does something back,
and it's just back and forth, tip for tatt till
you things get crazy. Is that the way it always works?
I guess so yeah. Frequently, yeah, and then they get
together and talk and wind things down a little bit.
(21:03):
But why it has to go through the initial phase,
I don't know. It's the showing that we're really, really
serious phase. I guess yeah. On the other hand, while
Shiji and Ping doesn't have to worry about the daily
stock market and cable news bad mouthing him or whatever,
The Wall Street Journal says China's own economy has been
in a protracted downturn, weighed down by a collapsed property market,
(21:25):
which we've talked about a lot. There are millions and
millions of empty high rises around China. Ever, rising debts
and weakening consumer confidence. However, she is far less beholding
the market swoons, as I just said, even though the
Chinese economy faces pure a precarious outlook. Yeah, but he
is beholden to other high ranking members of the Communist
Party that wouldn't mind if he got a bullet in
(21:45):
his head if the economy went down too much, because
that's the way dictatorships work, right, right, One more bit
of information. According to the people close to Beishing's decision making,
She's hardline strategy is based on the belief Trump will
ultimately fold and off for concessions rather than deployee Washington's
own significant leverage. The confidence was fueled by a US
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China trade truce stuck in May. Trump had imposed tariffs
of more than one hundred percent on Chinese products, but
relented after Beijing used its leverage. Is the world's most
important exporter of rare earth magnets. I think you mentioned yesterday,
did you not that we actually are sitting on lots
and lots of the rare earth materials we've just not
been willing to mine them because of environmental concerns and
(22:28):
that sort of thing. This is not something that I know,
as I'm not an expert in this area, but I
was looking at a tweet from John Stossel, which I
will try to find for you right now. China recently
made it harder to import rare earth minerals, metals needed
to make phones, electric vehicles, all kinds of defense tech,
fighter planes and stuff like that, a lot of our
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AI stuff. This shouldn't be a problem. America is full
of those minerals. It's only a problem because our government
makes mining almost impossible in this country. According to John Stotswell,
who's usually right about this sort of thing, right, that
one surprise me. No, no, not at all. I mean,
for christ A Loud, we import oil, but we could
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easily dig for ourselves. So yeah, that's especially phony because
we're the cleanest, most careful oil extractors on the planet,
and we go ahead and to have our hands clean
and our starched white shirts untouched by the dirt that
would result from mining or drilling. We have these awful
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countries that don't give a damn about polluting and human
rights and the rest of US dig or drill for
our oil forests. It's it's one of the most ridiculous, hypocritical,
limousine liberal things we do. But am I I'm economics
is not my area. I'm not interested enough into it
or to read a lot about it, and I never
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have in my life. But it just seems to me
that a one tariff on everything from China landing November first,
during Christmas shopping season would be a crazy development for
the economy. Yeah, yeah, I would agree. I don't think
we have the will as a people there are I mean,
the polls are actually kind of encouraging, showing that most
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Americans understand China as a serious, serious rival. But I'm
not sure we're willing to go full austerity, you know,
world War two, butter rationing stamps, well, that makes the
price of everything that comes out of China. We saw
them the iPhone thing originally when they were talking tariffs
on how you know it's it's not just a straight
(24:36):
line you can draw from one on the current price
to figure out what it is. Sometimes it's multiples more
and on, you know, whether it's iPhone or cheap plastic
piece of crap toy you're going to buy your kid
or whatever it is, it's going to be two, three,
five times as expensive. No way we're gonna put up
with that. Yeah, you know, I was going to say,
(24:58):
we need a national prog of the toys your kids
sick of. Let's just have a big swap of thon.
No kidding, God, because thrift stores are Yeah, but somebody
should or eBay. It's like, my son's really into these
high end whether you called a consignment clothing store or whatever,
(25:20):
used clothes and they're really hot right now. Like my
college town has got like three that have started in
the last year and they do really, really well. And
it's basically what you're just talking about. It's like I
bought these really expensive jeans. I'm not going to give
them a good will. I mean they were really expensive.
I'll sell them for you know, a third what I
paid for them. I'll easily pay you a third for
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what those expensive jeens. And that has become a market
we should surely there's got to be a way to
do that for toys and all kinds of gadgets. Like
I got this for my kids. This thing costs three
hundred dollars. They played with it for two weeks. I'd
like it for my kids. I'll give you one hundred
and fifty. Yeah, it's got it. Just eBay. I think
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for some reason that doesn't work that way. We need
like a some something's missing there to make that work
the right way. I don't know what it is. Yeah,
I don't know, but it's a good idea. It's a well,
you know what the problem is. You're your own consignment shop,
and you have to deal with the you know, the
logistics and the shipping and and the payment and the
rest of it. Yeah. Yeah, like these does help. Like
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these high end uh consignment clothes or used clothes or
whatever they are. The people that run them have a
real sense of what's popular and everything like that. It's
and and and and have that stuff in stock and
have it laid out in such a way that you
can find it easily and all that sort of stuff.
That's what you need with kids, crap, whatever's hot, you
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have a whole bunch of them. I know where to
find it. That could work. That's a that's a gazillion
dollar idea. If you could just come up with the
infrastructure toy consignment shop. Yeah, I don't know. Why you
would call it needs a name, like my kid got
sick of this in a week? Is the name of
the store? Happy Happy, Joy Joy. I don't know a
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no longer play with, just stuff you don't need anymore.
It'd be nice if you could get somebody to break
in your house and only steal the stuff you'd be
happy to have gone. Wouldn't that be handy Because I
got lots of stuff in my house that it really
wouldn't be awful if it just disappeared. So if you could,
if you could break into my house and take everything
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in that room, I wouldn't even miss it. So what
you're calling for in your really futuristic, not at all
idiotic idea is a thief with a specific shopping list
exactly well, because the one Mary Kids there was a
break in, yeah, and the One More Thing podcast we
were talking about this. Yesterday. I was out at the
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farm and still gathering up stuff from getting divorced, that
stuff in boxes that I've been taking around the country
for years, and then it's just it's why am I
hanging onto it? And it should have some value to somebody.
I don't know what, But if you're the sort of
person that gets rid of crap, old crap that you
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don't use, whether it's clothes or electronics or I don't know,
just everything that accumulates. Too many bulls, plates and spoons.
Why am I hanging onto these? I don't use these anymore?
Do I think the current ones are gonna break at
some point? And I don't even know what I'm doing. Yeah,
there's just something deep in our caveman brain, and everybody
(29:30):
has it to varying degrees that if something is still usable,
it's valuable, maybe not very valuable, but has some value,
it's hard for us to trash it. Yeah, man, oh man,
do I struggle with that. I got to get better
at it. I know that's the What was that woman
that came up with that theory? The way you need
to go through your house and see if things bring
you joy? Yeah, what's her face? Get rid of all
(29:51):
the stuff that doesn't bring you joy? Hey? My final
final note back to the question of China and all,
and maybe we'll get to this later, but Jamie Diamond,
head guy at JP Morgan Chase, just announced a ten year,
one and a half trillion dollar effort to facilitate finance
and invest in industries crucial to national security and what
he calls economic resilience to make us less dependent on China.
(30:14):
So that's an interesting development. We'll look at it in
a little while. Yeah, and then in light of that
Great Britain story where they're not even allowed to call
China an enemy, which they clearly are. I mean, you
heard us talking about the sixty minute story yesterday where
China is hacking into I'm sure they're doing in Great
Britain the same thing they're doing here, hacking into every
part of Great Britain's infrastructure. You know who does that?
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An enemy? An enemy to your countries? Who does that?
But they're an enemy that has so much leverage over
us we won't say the word. And a bunch of
cheap plastic crap that we want to buy in including
other stuff to important stuff. We got mail bag on
the way. Lots to talk about today. I hope you
can stay here. The Department of Justice made the world's
(30:56):
largest ever crypto seizure. We'll have to read about that later.
I don't even know how does a seizure of crypto work.
I guess you just hack into a computer or something. Anyway,
Trump just threatened to take the world cup away from
Boston if they don't get their policing under control. I
have no idea if he's got the power to do
that or not, But anyway, we'll have that story later too.
(31:17):
The whole narrative that he's trying to institute some sort
of dictatorship, martial law, blah blah blas. It's silly, but
at some point, when you got federal troops or National
Guard in like ten cities, it's starting to look a
little weird. Right Yeah. Yeah, Your freedom loving quote of
(31:38):
today you'll have to wait till tomorrow because my internet
just died and I had a great quote from Jason
Riley of the Wall Street Journal ready to go about
how we need to stop any sort of racial jerrymandering.
It's not nineteen sixty five anymore, and to rearrange voters
by race is a racist and be unproductive, and I
(32:00):
agree completely. He said it more pithily, but we'll let
have that. That's our freedom loving idea of the day.
Mailbag drop us a note mail bag at Armstrong and
Giddy dot com. Yesterday, you might recall that Brian sent
along a story that he said it would be cheerful
and help get us away from being the most depressing
(32:22):
radio show on Earth, and I found a depressing angle
to it and put him in his place. Today Brian plucky.
Brian has come back with a Dare to be Joyous
Part two story awesome, no downside to this one. It's
great and we'll get to it next hour. Go really encouraging.
Well done, Brian, Right moving along, Come on here. Two
(32:45):
emails in a row with precisely the same title, Change
the Law. Ran in Houston writes, Dear Big Freedom, the
cold Warrior and old simple Jack. So Marjorie Taylor Green
doesn't like what Ice is doing. Has to suck that
you can't do anything about it? If only they're there
was a branch of the government to make and pass laws,
some sort of legislative branch to be coequal to our
(33:05):
God Emperor. Has any country tried that? Ah boy, very good,
pithy and delightful. And then second change the Law email.
This is from Evan and beautiful Raleigh, California, right down
the road from my brother. Been a loyal listener since
I was a freshman in high school. Now thirty seven
with my second son on the way. Sorry for making
us all feel old. I wanted to follow up on
(33:28):
your discussion about illegal immigration. Sound like you were saying
it might technically be the law that someone here illegally
should be deported, but that it's not necessarily right. Yeah. Yeah,
that was more or less my argument. I mean, there
are nuances to it, but he says I get that,
and I think most people understand why many come here
for opportunity and are not heartless toward those who built
lives here. But as Jack often says, if we don't
(33:48):
like it, change the law. Someone who drove drunk ten
years ago but was never caught still broke the law.
Same logic applies here. Compassion matters. But as you've said,
order without compassion is authority arianism, I usually say brutality
and compassion without order is chaos. Change the law. I
still stand by that. I guess anytime anybody comments on anything,
(34:10):
I should comment, I should say, am I talking politics
or am I talking the law? I think politically, Marjorie
Taylor Green might have a ton of people on her side,
including people of mega people. Yep, yeah, I think the
context for us, we were talking about how much support
there would be for you know what's going on. But
(34:31):
he does make one more interesting point. MTG isn't a
true believer. She's protecting her political interests in the cheap
labor status quo, which is equally despicable. Talks about our district.
They they've been here in work hard argument just keeps
that cycle going, the roiling of the political parties and
(34:52):
what they are, you know, the working class moving to
the Republican Party under Trump. And now you've got this
Marjorie Taylor green Crow. How big that is? I don't know.
That says, you know, there's a whole bunch of illegals
here working in my district and they probably ought to stay.
And she's saying, my kids are on the Obamacare and
their healthcare is gonna double. So what are we doing here?
(35:14):
She wants to extend the Obamacare subsidies. So is she
carving out like a different thing or is that gonna
work itself out between the two parties. I don't know.
MSNBC offered her a show. Maybe I don't know, and
then Evan signs off. Thanks for decades of entertainment, level
headed commentary. You've been calling balls and strikes long before
it was popular to do so. Evan, it's much more
(35:36):
popular to chuck bombs and conspiracy theories and that sort
of thing. We're stupid for doing what we do, but
thank you for listening. Oh, we're stupid. What see Oh?
And then JT and livermore with a note about Barry Weiss,
who I want to talk about a little bit more,
saying that if Barry just changes the political news formula
(35:59):
from Republicans pounced to something more even handed, it will
have a huge impact on how news is perceived. That
and the daily more balanced approach to news stories could
have a monumental impact on the nation's politics. That's a
good point. You see when the Duck bought chapstick and said,
just put it on my bill, it's his lips are
(36:19):
too complicated. And I don't know if it's that complicated.
I think you understand ducks don't have lips. The Supreme
Court and whether or not they're going to take up
that Colorado trans case is an interesting one, among things
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