April 9, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 1 of A&G features...
- The China tariffs & new TikTok trend
- Katie Green's Headlines!
- Is it a dire wolf or not & the best resume ever.
- Mailbag!
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong and Jetta and Key.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Army's lollygagging out in the hallway reading Chik.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Chicken Jockey live from Studio C.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
See in your dimly lit room, deep with on the
bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications Compound.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
And hey y'all, today we're under the tutelage of our
general manager. We're down to two candidates, Jack the bag
of bricks or the Nazi no boy public feud.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
I I'll do. And here's a question I got for you.
I'm hoping you can answer.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
So the overall headline that one and four percent tariffs
on China kicked in at midnight last night? Yes, is
that accurate? Is there anything beneath that that I'm missing?
Because it seems accurate from what I can tell, that
just seems true. I would agree, Yeah, I haven't heard
anybody contradict us. So then what is that going to
(01:30):
mean for since God, there's a lot of things that
are made in China that come out of the United States. Yeah,
lots and lots and lots. What the House and how
soon are we going to notice? Well that it depends
on the product.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
A lot of companies have enough inventory that it'll be
a little while, But it depends what good you're talking about.
The hallmark of the modern global trade system is just
in time delivery with a little leeway if you're getting
some and from thousands of miles away, but some will
be like next week. I'd imagine she.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Ordered your few months cheap electronic or pair of underwear.
Becuse I was watching the news last night. There they
were showing a home builder and they're walking through this
house he was building, and he said, all those brackets
up there come from China. All these things come from China,
and this all comes from China. Lots of stuff in
the house he was building came from China. Yeah, and
(02:28):
one hundred and four percent a lot. So China today,
like hours ago, announced an additional fifty percent tariff. So
now we're up to eighty four Is that the right
number percent on our stuff going into China? It's a
trade war, jack, we're at war with China. One hundred
and four percent versus eighty four percent.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
So that's I wonder, how wonder how long that will last, I.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Would gladly sit through a multi hour lecture on the
desire to decouple from China versus the reality of it,
because it is a complex stew just.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Mentioned the other day. I guess it was yesterday that
a survey of hundreds of US companies showed that, you know,
a pretty fair plurality of them say no, we're not
changing anything, and a decent minority of them said, yeah,
we're actually hoping to grow our relationship with me. That's crazy.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Yeah, we are decoupling with China like completely is going
to happen.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Yes, there are a couple of espionage stories that float
below the gaze of the mainstream media right now because
they're extremely uncomfort We wouldn't want to call a backlash
against Chinese researchers and students, so they don't report on
this stuff at all. But I think if the Tangerine
Tornado gets win to some of this stuff, that is
not going to ratchet down the fervor with which he
(03:47):
is confronting the dirty commies.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Wow, though, one hundred and four percent tariff on all
Chinese goods coming into the United States, that's something.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Does it last three days or the rest of our lives.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Nobody knows, doubt it's the rest of ourlos Although the
decoupling with China, I just don't see anyway how that
doesn't happen. So that that's a separate topic then, you know,
way different topic than Mexico and Canada and Europe and everything.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
I mean, because yes, we have to, we have to
decouple from China.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
There there are enemy we'll be at war before you
know it. So uh, yeah, that's a different situation.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
I mean, if Mexico were to say we are going
to withhold your critical pharmaceuticals and technical equipment and bring
you to your knees, we say, all that's cute, okay,
But if China did it during the war, if they
cause another damn pandemic, it would have serious problems.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
So yeah, it's a completely different case. And that's the
one thing that's bothered me a little bit about some
of the MAGA crowd that you'll say, why the hell
are we punishing Canada, They'll say, but China, you know, Okay,
it's different. And uh.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Trump also announced this is and new really going after
the pharmacauceutical industry big tariffs to keep to try to
force companies to make their pharmaceuticals in the United States, which,
speaking of the pandemic, we all found out we don't
make anything in the United States. It all comes from
somewhere else, China, And that might be a good idea,
But how long does that take if it happens at all,
(05:20):
And what does the cost of all of our drugs
starting like next week going to be?
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Right? Wow, that's a good point, because not only the
finished drugs, but a lot of the precursors come from
China for the stuff that we do make in the US.
So I mean, I gotta believe we as a country
could crank out our own ibewprofen. But yeah, the prescription stuff,
I don't even know where.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
You know, I'm on a couple of prescriptions try not
to have a heart attack variety pack, and I have
no idea what the origin is.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
So you're right, that could be a huge disruption. And
you know me, I despise Central planning, just despise it.
But this is a legitimate national security concern. Yeah, sure
as bullets, Yeah, definitely, your Ventanyl's going to be higher too.
Those of you enjoy fentanyl now and then well, something
to take the edge off at the end of the day,
(06:11):
if you're listening via podcast under a bridge, might want
to do a little financial planning because it could get
more expensive. Of course, it's practically free. I have no idea.
It's yeah, a lot of the drugs that people are
just ruining their lives on, their zombies in the streets.
We've all seen them. Well, people in Blue States have
seen them. A lot of you have never seen them. Yeah.
I always have to remember that these junkie camps you
(06:33):
talk about, what do they look like? Most of America
wonders because they're not permitted.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Like Haiti looks like Haiti, Like, yeah, picture Haiti on
a bad day, like a block from where we're standing
right now.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Very little Haitian feel to it. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Anyway, Yeah, that's that's part of the problem with the
scourge of these drugs is they're so freaking cheap.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Wow. So that's a new thing, right, Like cocaine was expensive,
wasn't it. Oh Yeah, and then meth was a good
deal cheaper. But you know, and I don't know much
about the pricing policies at Cartel's, but uh, maybe it's
because the stuff's reasonably easy to make. It's just flooded
the streets. And you know, I've seen a couple of
those junkie videos. Some of the activists in San Francisco
want the stuff cleaned up, and I remember a couple
(07:14):
of zomboids saying, yeah, I can. I can get enough
for seven dollars to keep me high for a couple
of days. Wow, you don't have to steal a lot
to us. Not the case in the Go Go eighties
when I was dancing at Studio fifty four with Mick
Jagger and Donald Trump, a line of the Bolivian marching
(07:35):
powder had cost you, my friend, trust me when I
tell you that. Uh.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
One note before we start the show. Officially, the NBA
season is what got two games left? Or something like that.
The Denver Nuggets fired their coach three days before the
playoffs start as a four seed. They won the World
championship two years ago, they got the best player in
the world, and they fired the coach.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
It's a very odd story for sport, Jess Michael, Is
that weird? Yeah, it is weird. Yeah, you know what's
going on. Never happened, but they they're just did the
owner catch the coach? Coach full court press and his
trophy wife or something. It's a coach and the GM
so they got rid of both of them at the
same time. Yeah, it's the latest this has ever happened
ever with a winning team. Certainly it happened this late
(08:21):
once with a team that was like eleven and seventy
or something, which you can kind of imagine, but ever
in history, I mean, because why would you do that
the playoffs start like this weekend? Well, that definitely has
a feel of caught with us. The old saying in
politics went with a live boy or a dead girl.
I think it's I don't know. I mean, I'm not
suggesting that's true, but things for you to say extraordinary,
(08:44):
you would.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
You would think.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
So, did he get in a fist did the day
it was because it's two guys. Did they get in
a fist fight with their star player?
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Did joke has just come to the owner and say
he's got to go where I'm not playing or something?
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Yeah, the show Officially I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty
on this. It is Wednesday, April ninth, the year twenty
twenty five.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
War Armstrong and getting we approve of this program. Let's
leap into action. Officially now courding FCC rules regulations, here
we go at mark. We will not be silenced. The
silent riot has begun.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
We will not be silenced.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
The silent riots. We will not be silenced. The silent
riot has begun. We will not be silenced. The silent
riot has begun. What we get to? What is that?
It's the world's most idiotic TikTok slash internet trend. Now
(09:43):
brave progressive activists have begun what they call the silent
riot by staring silently at their phones and then posting
it online.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
This is, folks, the bottom. Is this the modern version
of tree falling in a forest?
Speaker 2 (09:56):
It's got to be. It's It's certainly the peak of
Mount everest of meaningless hashtag activism. You people are a
parody of yourselves. To call you a jackass is hurtful
to jackasses. Good lord, you've talked about a limp shrimped
effort at whatever their efforting.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
I know a couple of people who live online more
or less. I love to talk about that later. It's
the rest of us who don't. It doesn't make sense,
But if you live online, it's all all that sort
of stuff kind of makes sense.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
I will look forward to.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
It's just a different way of viewing the world, like
literally a different way of view viewing the world anyway, right, yeah,
Katie's headlines on the way, got mail bag, some more
news of the day, you know, check in on the
stock market for whatever that's worth. But yeah, one hundred
and four percent tariff on China has kicked in. One
hundred percent not enough. It's like your coach, I want
you to give one hundred percent. We're China. You gotta
(10:52):
give a harmd and four percent. We got all that
on the way. Our text line is four one five
two nine five KFTC. Hi, y'all, Doe.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
How you doing?
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Got a funny clip from.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
The news last night? We're going to play for you later.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
I really enjoyed the evening newscast in serious voices, saying
Elon Musk, who called mister Navarro dumb is a sack
of bricks.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
And Peter Retardo yeah approve of yeah, yeah, yeah, that's Elon,
Come love it. That's some low level commentary right there.
Wow wow. Also coming up, speaking of efforts at humor,
one of our most dryly hilarious emails in the history
(11:47):
of the show, Jack you will appreciate it very very much.
So much to talk about today, Let's get started. Who's
reporting what? It's the lead story with Katie Green. Katie
starting with NBC.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
Americans rushed to stores to stalk up as Trump's tariffs
take effect.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
I'm stalking up on dire Wolf food, for one, because I'm.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Getting me one of those that's hilarious. While I talk
more about that, it might be closer to a dire
Wolf than we gave a credit for back. Are you
sure nobody seems to be?
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Should I do look forward to talking about that then?
So is that a good idea? Is this like dumb
panic to go out to the stores and buy stuff
or does this make perfectly good sense because all these
things are going to be more expensive?
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Seriously varies product by product. I haven't seen a solid
list of what's likely to go up fastest. There may
be one out there if you've seen it. Email a
link mail bag at Armstrong e Geddy dot com.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
I know I got a news report on the iPhone,
but there's there's gotta be some like some expensive electronics
that are gonna be quite a bit more expensive soon.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
From Daily Mail Chinese launch humiliation AI video campaign mocking
Americans and Trump's tariffs.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Did you guys see this? No, it's an AI video.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
They've got a bunch of fat Americans working in a
sweatshop basically putting, you know, sewing little bras together, and
they're all out of breath and look like they don't
know what they're doing. In the very end, makeup it says,
make America great again. I'm gonna post it on Katie's
corner so you'll be.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Able to see it.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Chirst of all, where's the lie? Secondly, why have the
bombs not begun falling on Beijing?
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Oh? Lord, sir, a maniac. Careful mack us for being
a little hefty.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
What are you going to take a pot shot at
the Princess Sarah Jevil or the Francis Ferdinand or whatever
he was start a world war?
Speaker 2 (13:37):
You maniac? Start mocking our body shape.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
That's where I crossed the line China from.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
Fox News new bombshell study reveals quote assassination culture spreading
on the left.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Yeah, we talked about this yesterday and I was going
to reset it today. The tolerance, or at least the
stated tolerance for severe political violence on the left is crazy.
High speaking of assassinating archdukes or tech billionaires or presidents
from ABC News Lawyers Secret Service for instance, I hope
(14:13):
the Secret Service has figured out that whole Oh, on
top of a building with a clear line of site
to assassinate the.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Guy probably ought to eliminate them. Why there's an update
on the other want to be assassin that came out yesterday.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Really interesting. We'll get to that later. Well. And in
a related story, the worship of Luigi Mangioni, ah so weird,
gunned down that young father who happened to work for
a healthcare company from ABC News.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Lawyer for man deported in error to l Salvador, expects
him to be returned to the United States.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Okay, we'll follow that one.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
I was listened to one of my favorite news like
serious news shows, kind of chuckling about that whole thing,
and I thought, it's not that funny. Yeah, we grabbed
a guy that shouldn't have had been sent to one
of the world's worst prisons and sent him over there
without due process.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
It's not good. Yeah, that's really Nicod.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
From Forbes Nintendo did not price in Trump's tariffs.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
For the switch too, and that's why they halted the release,
which was going to be a very big deal. That's
why they had giant cardboard things outside of best Buy
over the weekend, but they put those away quietly from.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
The La Times.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
Youth soccer coach charged with murder in death of thirteen
year old boy.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
So yesterday I said, well, that's worst headline I've ever
seen when I saw that story, and we don't usually
talk about these one off, random horrible things. The reason
I wanted Katie to bring that up is I saw
that story everywhere yesterday, and it wasn't until I was
watching Fox last night that I saw that he's an
illegal immigrant, So that was left out of every single story,
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including that La Times story that he's here illegally and
LA police were investigating last year for sexual abuse of
some kid, but the progressive das did not want to
charge him because he's a person of color, just because
he's a child rapist, so they turned him loose again. Folks,
you can't fight hard enough against the progressive lunacy. And
(16:17):
now are you gonna tell me it's not interesting, it's
not worth putting in a very long article. The fact
that the guys here illegally is because you like that
whole narrative of natural born Americans commit more crimes than
illegals do.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Oh okay, not this one from the New York Post.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
Eighty one year old New York City woman stranded in
Puerto Rico as airline denies her emotional support parrot from
boarding an emotional support parrot.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
I just fall apart without my parrot. Polly want you
call him? Polly? Want you call him?
Speaker 4 (16:49):
And finally the Babylon Bee and yet another cruel blow
to China, General Chao's chicken will now be renamed General
John General Dons or Oriental Chicky Nugs.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Oh that's that's a cumbersome name. Yeah, man, we got
a lot to catch you up on. Ah boy, If
you know anything about what's going to start going up
in price so I can run to Costco and buy it,
let us know text line four one five two nine
five k ftc Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
Peter Navarro thinks Musk is taking advantage of unfair trade
policies at the risk of American prosperity. Elon, what's your response?
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Must calling him a moron and dumber than a sack
of bricks and.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
There's the latest calling him Peter Retardo.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
Powerful counterpoint, powerful God. I hope Elon Musk never has
to defend himself in court, Ladies and gentlemen of the jury.
Good I reds my case.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Oh my god, Peter Retard.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
You know, I can't decide if I'm horrified and I
am on one level, but I'm kind of grateful for it.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
I mean, I don't know what I think about it either.
On one level, I'd like our discourse to be hirghed.
But Peter Navarro coming out yesterday and saying Elon Musk
is not.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
A car builder. He's a car assembler. Maybe he designed
the whole thing. He's a rocket scientist.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
The Tesla this is the lowest drag coefficient of any
vehicle that's ever been on the road, designed by the
rock I mean, why why would you? That's dumb, That's
not How is that better than Peter Ritardo? It's just
a lie.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
If Donald Trump suggested to Peter Navarro that he should
bulldoze an elementary school full of children, he would do it.
Not that Trump would ever do that, but yeah, Navarro
would do or say literally anything to serve Donald j
if he thought it would please the man.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
So the Dow's only down a couple hundred points with
the one hundred and four percent Chinese tariffs kicking in
at midnight last night, so.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Of course it's a big waiting game. Willie r Wonie.
Is this permanent? Is this real? How about all the
other countries? It feels like he's looking for settlements. What's
happening right? More on that later, Yeah, more on all
sorts of stuff later, including the fact that Gavin Newsom
continues to just plainly openly run for president. He has
declared that California will cut its own trade deals with
(19:32):
other countries, even though that's not a thing.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Wow, I gotta keep reminding myself. I'm going to the
DMV today with something complicated, so I need to screw
my courage to the sticking place and like be mentally
prepared so I don't fall apart.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Start your breathing exercises. Now.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
There's nothing I hate more than paperwork in general. And
you add in a layer of like middle level government
wanting to make your life worse.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Oh oh, you know. I am grateful for my wife
for a number of reasons. As you know, my best friend,
the mother of my children, etc. The usual stuff. But
I didn't get my sticker for my car. It just
never showed up, even though it was supposed to have.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
See like that sort of thing, right, there is just
a oh my god, how do I not deal with
this sort of situation for me?
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Well, well exactly, So, my beloved Judith says to me, Okay,
I have the receipt for the payment, and I have
the paperwork that showed that blah blah blah blah blah,
so we'll need to go to the dmvage like hands
them to me. I'm like, oh, thank god. Yeah. If
it were up to me, I would just go out law,
I would drive only at night. Stolen license plates, stolen
car probably, I don't know before I waded into the
(20:44):
thicket of God help us, that is, dealing with the government.
Oh my god. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, So a lot of
really newsy stuff to talk about, but a couple of
slightly less heavy things just because we both found them very,
very interesting. And I don't know about y'all. Just constantly
taking on the heaviness of the news. I think it's
(21:04):
bad for your soul. But so, did these scientists actually create.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
A dire wolf or not, or are they basically gray
wolves with white hair?
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Yeah, yeah, somewhat bigger than normal. But the New York Times,
when it's not being horrifically biased and idiotic, there's some
pretty good long form reporting and their headline is scientists
revive the dire wolf or something close, and they took
a pretty balanced look at it.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Okay, I want to hear the details on that, because
there's something close. Say, I could get to what I
was talking about yesterday. I get that it's ninety nine
percent the same, but we're ninety nine percent the same
as chimpanzees, and as you can see, for most of us,
we're still quite different.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Alone, Michael can handle the equipment with his feet brilliantly
in the control room. Yeah so some of us more
chimpy than others. Anyway, Michael italy, he looks worried by
some techno. Oh he's talking at handsome. I was like,
generally my silly jokes, Michael at least enjoys on some level,
but he looked terribly serious about it. I hadn't seen
(22:06):
he was talking to Hansom. I'm sorry, Yeah, everything's great.
I'm sorry. I remember something he called we got to
move on, I did not call you a monkey, all right?
Moving along, So these folks that the companies called Colossal Biosciences,
they have now edited twenty genes of gray wolves to
imbue the animals with the key features of dire wolves,
(22:28):
because they found some old dire wolf DNA and they've
essentially sliced in twenty little chunks of it. Then they
created embryos from the edited gray wolf cells, implanting them
at a surrogate dog mother and waited for them to
give birth. And as New York Times puts that, the
results is three healthy wolves that have some traits of
dire wolves. They are big, for one thing, and have
dense pale coats not found in gray wolves, right, so
(22:51):
they're kind of a halfway between. And they also mentioned
that a couple of years ago hybrids between the red wolf,
which I wasn't really familiar with. It's like if you
saw trotting along the roadside, you'd say, oh, a stray dog.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
A weird, really really weird stray dog and coyotes had
bred in the wild, apparently, so now they're going to
clone them and introduce them to improve.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
The genetic diversity in the Carolinas. For instance. So these
people are doing some semi legitimate work, whether that's a
dire wolf or not, is it's not about you.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
So they are going to open up some sort of
like Jurassic Park zoo with extinct animals that they're bringing back.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
This and the wooly mammoth that they planned to in
a couple of years.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Would you drive to and pay to get in to
see a gray wolf that with white hair, that weighs
slightly more in its airs a little thicker, I wouldn't unlikely.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
How about a completely convincing wooly mammoth it was just
a hairy elephant brought back a wooly mammoth, like, this
is a wooly mammoth. This is exactly like what roamed
the Earth thirty thousand years years ago or whatever it was. Yeah,
I would. But if it's just a hairyer elephant with
some of the genes altered, no, yeah, interesting, where's the line?
(24:09):
I don't know. Moving along, speaking of science and that
sort of thing, late in the show yesterday, I'd mentioned
a fairly funny meme going around Asian American circles about
this bloke by the name of Johnny Kim he's forty
one years old.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
He is or has been a Navy seal. Then he
graduated from Harvard Medical School.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
And on Tuesday he blasted off as part of his
latest act, he is an astronaut in space, Navy seal,
Harvard doctor astronaut. And the joke is, thank god my
mom doesn't know this guy's mom among Asian Americans, you know,
the whole tiger Mont thing. And I thought that was
pretty amusing. But then I read on Jack and when
(24:54):
he was a child, his alcoholic, abusive father pulled a
gun on the family and then retreated to the attic
where he was shot dead by the police. And this
young lad's desire to physically protect his mother and brother
led him to become a Navy seal. You know, it's story.
Before you go any further, I'm just starting, but go ahead.
(25:16):
I think about this sort of thing a lot. A
lot of successful people have, you know, interesting backstories, and
you know, with with some sort of difficult thing they
had to overcome. You know, you had a speech impediment
or you know, whatever it was. But then so do
(25:39):
a lot of drug addict losers in life have you know,
you could picture that story and my dad pulled a
gun on the family and the police shot him, and
that's why I became a math addict.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
And they've never been able to have a real relationship.
I mean, so, how do some people break one way
and some people break the other way? Wow? Does anybody
answer your question? If we could tease that out, we
could change humanity. I don't know. I was told at
an early age that, all right, that thing you're saying
is an impediment. It's a hurdle. Are you going to
(26:12):
stand there and look at the hurdle and say, well,
this is over? Are you going to leap over it? Now?
I happen to have whatever genetically or by upbringing or
religion or something this sort of you know mind that
I say, I'm leaping over the frigger? Are you kidding me?
Some people don't, but.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Some people would have this story you've heard the story
of Like, we moved around all the time as a kid,
and I could never form relationships. So I became really
good at making friends and that's why I'm fantastic at sales.
And then the other person shoots up a school with
the same you know situation.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
I don't know. I don't know how that works. I
guess God only knows. I think that is a good
summary of it. Yeah, so more of this guy's story
because it gets more and more interesting in a moment.
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a Navy Seal. Then he was playing Ultimate Frisbee and
he really messed up his ankle, and he was going
to join the Navy as an operations specialist. But it
was a problem the ankle, so recruiter steered him toward
becoming a medic right guy, obviously. In twenty oh five,
mister Kim joined Seal Team three, serving as a Medican sniper,
among other roles. He earned a Silver Star and a
(28:10):
Bronze Star for treating wounded comrades during two tours in Iraq,
an experience that motivated him to attend medical school. First
college at the University of San Diego, where he worked
odd jobs, including handing out parking tickets. Quote never think
you're too good for any job, he said on a
famous podcast, saying that the gig taught him to stay humble.
(28:34):
You know, if I were not a straight guy, I'd
be falling in love with this guy anyway.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
So then comes Harvard Medical School, where he juggles studies, fatherhood,
and exercise. On a three point thirty am wake up schedule.
And then here's one of the parts that I found
so interesting. He needed time hacks to study, and he
found one called space repetition learning, using electronic flashcards of
(28:59):
the information he was supposed to learn. And how this
all works specifically, I don't know, but the key term
is space repetition learning. But so he had these electronic
flash cards and he graded each card from one.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
I have no clue about this. It's a top priority
to five easy answer, don't waste my time. In the
next session, the system showed him the cards at varying
frequencies that would optimize learning, and he says, there are
small things you can do to enhance your memory retention. Wow,
I've never in my life heard of space repetition learning.
Why not because the teachers' unions are probably quashing it
(29:33):
in favor of, you know, learning about the genderbread man
or whatever. So while he's studying medicine, he meets this
physician turned astronaut who says, you're really bright, you'd probably
be a good astronaut. And he liked the idea. So
we applied to NASA's astronaut program and got accepted. The
first time, said the guy, who hit him with the
(29:53):
idea is really superhuman. He's the world's most interesting man,
the dose Eki's guy in real life. And then he
was overheard playing the oboe as he tries to get
to sleep, and somebody said, you should be first chair oboist.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
In the phil Now he is, and now he is.
Final note on this guy. At an at the astronaut
graduation in Houston, Ted Cruz talked about how ridiculous it
was that he was already Navy seal and Harvard trained doctor.
He can kill you and then bring you back to
life and do it all in space, said Cruise. Johnny
(30:27):
Kim Wow, I would like to mention that earlier in
the show, I talked about how overwhelmed I am by
having to go to the DMV today. So different people
are differently clearly got mail bank on the way, stay here.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
In an hour two? Can you handle this or not?
Speaker 1 (30:47):
No? A lot of you don't want to hear any
negative stuff from some liberal economist about Trump, But conservatives
loved Larry Summers when he was predicting inflation from the
Biden spent and he turned out to be right, and
they quote him all the time.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Are you willing to.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Listen to what he's got to say about the Trump
tariff stuff.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
And I am certainly a little frightening. And we'll get
to that a how or two. Here's your freedom loving
quota of today from the brilliant Thomas Soul, sent along
by Jeff and we appreciate it. Jeff, I love this.
There was a time when we honored those who created
the prosperity in the freedom that we enjoy. Today, we
honor the complainers and sooe the creators. Perhaps that is
inevitable in an era when we no longer count our
(31:29):
blessings but instead count all of our unfulfilled wishes. Wow,
that's pretty good. Who is that soul? That really good soul? Mailbag?
That was disappointing. Yeah, I know, I know. Cultures change
and they change back again, which is why you know
I keep fighting the fight, speaking for myself. Drop us
note mailbag at Armstrong and Getty dot com. Okay, here
(31:53):
it is. I promised you one of the most dryly
hilarious emails in the history of the show long vaunted history.
This is from sew Jack. I probably oversold it. You
guys are talking about tariffs when the US is only
one hundred and seventy five days away from the next
potential government shutdown. That's pretty good, Oh, Sean Dad is
(32:15):
pretty good? Oh oh boy? How about this interesting note
from Nick Joe. Yes, out of curiosity, do you get
much pushback via email from Muslims when you describe fundamentalist
Islam on the air? Your description matches my perception. Haven't
for ages Nick, partly because I'll just speak for myself,
(32:39):
but Jack, certainly I put you in the same category.
Our description of fundamentalist Islam is accurate. It is indisputably accurate,
and some of the activist groups know they're wasting their
time with us. Number one, we can't be bullied in
Number two the whole anybody who criticizes fundamentalist Islam isn't
(32:59):
as islamophobe. It should be silenced. Those days are long gone.
Nobody's buying their crap.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
I came across on Instagram like somebody I hadn't talked
to in many, many years, know very well, and their
post was about how they converted to Islam, and I thought, wow,
that is really interesting. I might have to reach out
to them and say, okay, well, well what's what's what's
the Delio.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Yeah. Interesting, as long as they don't on Sharia law
imposed over the Western world. Yeah. Yeah, but you you know,
you worship God as you say see fit. Just stay
away from my constitution place. Uh. Let's see this from
Tom Great note. Like many Americans, I'm very concerned about
Communist china is aggressive push to global dominance. This push
is fueled in large part by stolen intellectual property. I'm
(33:44):
sure it's been discussed as a possible point of leverage,
but I never hear Trump or his advisors mentioned the
thousands of Chinese students in our universities. Years ago, I
heard there as many as two hundred and fifty thousand
PRC students in this country. I live in a small,
fifty thousand population college town in Oregon, and it enrolled
fifteen hundred Chinese students just a few years ago. I
(34:05):
believe it's fair to assume that every Chinese exchange student,
visiting professor is fully vetted by the Communists and is
here with the primary purpose of advancing the communist cause
at our expense.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Yeah, that's a tough road to go down, h Looking.
You know, look, are you going to look at every
Chinese college student as a spy.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
I would say, I would agree with him that they
are here with the primary purpose of advancing the Communist
cause at our expense. Some it might simply be to
get educated and go back to China with a great
American education strength in China and thereby week in the
United States. It might be as innocent as that. Joseph
Getty or Joseph McCarthy. On the other hand, there are
(34:44):
absolutely scholars and students who are here with the avowed
purpose of espionage. If I'm absolutely certain, if.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
I'm the Communist Party, why do I let anybody come
to the United States who isn't somehow benefiting.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
Us, right, even if indirectly an innocent of course, Yeah,
that's absolutely true, Tom. I won't get into the state
of our universities, he writes, which you cover beautifully and often. However,
eliminating corrosive foreign influence can only help. I would agree
we were so naive about the Chinese.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
Steve also from Oregon writes, bringing Back the Dire Wolf.
Has anyone not seen Jurassic Park in the dozen or
so sequels, This never ends well. It always ends with
people running screaming and Jeff Goldblum looking serious.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
Yeah, my son hit me with some quote from Jurassic Park.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
I guess it's a famous quote, something about playing god
and how it turns out or something.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
But yeah, you do have to thought about that. And finally,
we don't have time for this. Maybe we can squeeze
it in the next hour. Our story about the infamous
San Quentin prison in California being turned into a Norwegian
style counseling center. A close relative of a San Quentin
inmate weighing in on the controversy.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
Okay, we had a little news about that horrifying prison
and is it in Venezuela l S.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Salvador. Oh my god. The more you learn about that place,
who what do I gotta do to make sure I
never end up there? Yis no san Quentin. If you
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And hey y'all, today we're under the tutelage of our
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Speaker 2 (01:05):
I I'll do. And here's a question I got for you.
I'm hoping you can answer.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
So the overall headline that one and four percent tariffs
on China kicked in at midnight last night? Yes, is
that accurate? Is there anything beneath that that I'm missing?
Because it seems accurate from what I can tell, that
just seems true. I would agree, Yeah, I haven't heard
anybody contradict us. So then what is that going to
(01:30):
mean for since God, there's a lot of things that
are made in China that come out of the United States. Yeah,
lots and lots and lots. What the House and how
soon are we going to notice? Well that it depends
on the product.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
A lot of companies have enough inventory that it'll be
a little while, But it depends what good you're talking about.
The hallmark of the modern global trade system is just
in time delivery with a little leeway if you're getting
some and from thousands of miles away, but some will
be like next week. I'd imagine she.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Ordered your few months cheap electronic or pair of underwear.
Becuse I was watching the news last night. There they
were showing a home builder and they're walking through this
house he was building, and he said, all those brackets
up there come from China. All these things come from China,
and this all comes from China. Lots of stuff in
the house he was building came from China. Yeah, and
(02:28):
one hundred and four percent a lot. So China today,
like hours ago, announced an additional fifty percent tariff. So
now we're up to eighty four Is that the right
number percent on our stuff going into China? It's a
trade war, jack, we're at war with China. One hundred
and four percent versus eighty four percent.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
So that's I wonder, how wonder how long that will last, I.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Would gladly sit through a multi hour lecture on the
desire to decouple from China versus the reality of it,
because it is a complex stew just.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Mentioned the other day. I guess it was yesterday that
a survey of hundreds of US companies showed that, you know,
a pretty fair plurality of them say no, we're not
changing anything, and a decent minority of them said, yeah,
we're actually hoping to grow our relationship with me. That's crazy.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Yeah, we are decoupling with China like completely is going
to happen.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Yes, there are a couple of espionage stories that float
below the gaze of the mainstream media right now because
they're extremely uncomfort We wouldn't want to call a backlash
against Chinese researchers and students, so they don't report on
this stuff at all. But I think if the Tangerine
Tornado gets win to some of this stuff, that is
not going to ratchet down the fervor with which he
(03:47):
is confronting the dirty commies.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Wow, though, one hundred and four percent tariff on all
Chinese goods coming into the United States, that's something.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Does it last three days or the rest of our lives.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Nobody knows, doubt it's the rest of ourlos Although the
decoupling with China, I just don't see anyway how that
doesn't happen. So that that's a separate topic then, you know,
way different topic than Mexico and Canada and Europe and everything.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
I mean, because yes, we have to, we have to
decouple from China.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
There there are enemy we'll be at war before you
know it. So uh, yeah, that's a different situation.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
I mean, if Mexico were to say we are going
to withhold your critical pharmaceuticals and technical equipment and bring
you to your knees, we say, all that's cute, okay,
But if China did it during the war, if they
cause another damn pandemic, it would have serious problems.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
So yeah, it's a completely different case. And that's the
one thing that's bothered me a little bit about some
of the MAGA crowd that you'll say, why the hell
are we punishing Canada, They'll say, but China, you know, Okay,
it's different. And uh.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Trump also announced this is and new really going after
the pharmacauceutical industry big tariffs to keep to try to
force companies to make their pharmaceuticals in the United States, which,
speaking of the pandemic, we all found out we don't
make anything in the United States. It all comes from
somewhere else, China, And that might be a good idea,
But how long does that take if it happens at all,
(05:20):
And what does the cost of all of our drugs
starting like next week going to be?
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Right? Wow, that's a good point, because not only the
finished drugs, but a lot of the precursors come from
China for the stuff that we do make in the US.
So I mean, I gotta believe we as a country
could crank out our own ibewprofen. But yeah, the prescription stuff,
I don't even know where.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
You know, I'm on a couple of prescriptions try not
to have a heart attack variety pack, and I have
no idea what the origin is.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
So you're right, that could be a huge disruption. And
you know me, I despise Central planning, just despise it.
But this is a legitimate national security concern. Yeah, sure
as bullets, Yeah, definitely, your Ventanyl's going to be higher too.
Those of you enjoy fentanyl now and then well, something
to take the edge off at the end of the day,
(06:11):
if you're listening via podcast under a bridge, might want
to do a little financial planning because it could get
more expensive. Of course, it's practically free. I have no idea.
It's yeah, a lot of the drugs that people are
just ruining their lives on, their zombies in the streets.
We've all seen them. Well, people in Blue States have
seen them. A lot of you have never seen them. Yeah.
I always have to remember that these junkie camps you
(06:33):
talk about, what do they look like? Most of America
wonders because they're not permitted.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Like Haiti looks like Haiti, Like, yeah, picture Haiti on
a bad day, like a block from where we're standing
right now.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Very little Haitian feel to it. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Anyway, Yeah, that's that's part of the problem with the
scourge of these drugs is they're so freaking cheap.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Wow. So that's a new thing, right, Like cocaine was expensive,
wasn't it. Oh Yeah, and then meth was a good
deal cheaper. But you know, and I don't know much
about the pricing policies at Cartel's, but uh, maybe it's
because the stuff's reasonably easy to make. It's just flooded
the streets. And you know, I've seen a couple of
those junkie videos. Some of the activists in San Francisco
want the stuff cleaned up, and I remember a couple
(07:14):
of zomboids saying, yeah, I can. I can get enough
for seven dollars to keep me high for a couple
of days. Wow, you don't have to steal a lot
to us. Not the case in the Go Go eighties
when I was dancing at Studio fifty four with Mick
Jagger and Donald Trump, a line of the Bolivian marching
(07:35):
powder had cost you, my friend, trust me when I
tell you that. Uh.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
One note before we start the show. Officially, the NBA
season is what got two games left? Or something like that.
The Denver Nuggets fired their coach three days before the
playoffs start as a four seed. They won the World
championship two years ago, they got the best player in
the world, and they fired the coach.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
It's a very odd story for sport, Jess Michael, Is
that weird? Yeah, it is weird. Yeah, you know what's
going on. Never happened, but they they're just did the
owner catch the coach? Coach full court press and his
trophy wife or something. It's a coach and the GM
so they got rid of both of them at the
same time. Yeah, it's the latest this has ever happened
ever with a winning team. Certainly it happened this late
(08:21):
once with a team that was like eleven and seventy
or something, which you can kind of imagine, but ever
in history, I mean, because why would you do that
the playoffs start like this weekend? Well, that definitely has
a feel of caught with us. The old saying in
politics went with a live boy or a dead girl.
I think it's I don't know. I mean, I'm not
suggesting that's true, but things for you to say extraordinary,
(08:44):
you would.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
You would think.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
So, did he get in a fist did the day
it was because it's two guys. Did they get in
a fist fight with their star player?
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Did joke has just come to the owner and say
he's got to go where I'm not playing or something?
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Yeah, the show Officially I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty
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Speaker 2 (09:07):
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Speaker 1 (09:18):
We will not be silenced.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
The silent riots. We will not be silenced. The silent
riot has begun. We will not be silenced. The silent
riot has begun. What we get to? What is that?
It's the world's most idiotic TikTok slash internet trend. Now
(09:43):
brave progressive activists have begun what they call the silent
riot by staring silently at their phones and then posting
it online.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
This is, folks, the bottom. Is this the modern version
of tree falling in a forest?
Speaker 2 (09:56):
It's got to be. It's It's certainly the peak of
Mount everest of meaningless hashtag activism. You people are a
parody of yourselves. To call you a jackass is hurtful
to jackasses. Good lord, you've talked about a limp shrimped
effort at whatever their efforting.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
I know a couple of people who live online more
or less. I love to talk about that later. It's
the rest of us who don't. It doesn't make sense,
But if you live online, it's all all that sort
of stuff kind of makes sense.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
I will look forward to.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
It's just a different way of viewing the world, like
literally a different way of view viewing the world anyway, right, yeah,
Katie's headlines on the way, got mail bag, some more
news of the day, you know, check in on the
stock market for whatever that's worth. But yeah, one hundred
and four percent tariff on China has kicked in. One
hundred percent not enough. It's like your coach, I want
you to give one hundred percent. We're China. You gotta
(10:52):
give a harmd and four percent. We got all that
on the way. Our text line is four one five
two nine five KFTC. Hi, y'all, Doe.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
How you doing?
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Got a funny clip from.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
The news last night? We're going to play for you later.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
I really enjoyed the evening newscast in serious voices, saying
Elon Musk, who called mister Navarro dumb is a sack
of bricks.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
And Peter Retardo yeah approve of yeah, yeah, yeah, that's Elon,
Come love it. That's some low level commentary right there.
Wow wow. Also coming up, speaking of efforts at humor,
one of our most dryly hilarious emails in the history
(11:47):
of the show, Jack you will appreciate it very very much.
So much to talk about today, Let's get started. Who's
reporting what? It's the lead story with Katie Green. Katie
starting with NBC.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
Americans rushed to stores to stalk up as Trump's tariffs
take effect.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
I'm stalking up on dire Wolf food, for one, because I'm.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Getting me one of those that's hilarious. While I talk
more about that, it might be closer to a dire
Wolf than we gave a credit for back. Are you
sure nobody seems to be?
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Should I do look forward to talking about that then?
So is that a good idea? Is this like dumb
panic to go out to the stores and buy stuff
or does this make perfectly good sense because all these
things are going to be more expensive?
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Seriously varies product by product. I haven't seen a solid
list of what's likely to go up fastest. There may
be one out there if you've seen it. Email a
link mail bag at Armstrong e Geddy dot com.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
I know I got a news report on the iPhone,
but there's there's gotta be some like some expensive electronics
that are gonna be quite a bit more expensive soon.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
From Daily Mail Chinese launch humiliation AI video campaign mocking
Americans and Trump's tariffs.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Did you guys see this? No, it's an AI video.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
They've got a bunch of fat Americans working in a
sweatshop basically putting, you know, sewing little bras together, and
they're all out of breath and look like they don't
know what they're doing. In the very end, makeup it says,
make America great again. I'm gonna post it on Katie's
corner so you'll be.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Able to see it.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Chirst of all, where's the lie? Secondly, why have the
bombs not begun falling on Beijing?
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Oh? Lord, sir, a maniac. Careful mack us for being
a little hefty.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
What are you going to take a pot shot at
the Princess Sarah Jevil or the Francis Ferdinand or whatever
he was start a world war?
Speaker 2 (13:37):
You maniac? Start mocking our body shape.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
That's where I crossed the line China from.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
Fox News new bombshell study reveals quote assassination culture spreading
on the left.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Yeah, we talked about this yesterday and I was going
to reset it today. The tolerance, or at least the
stated tolerance for severe political violence on the left is crazy.
High speaking of assassinating archdukes or tech billionaires or presidents
from ABC News Lawyers Secret Service for instance, I hope
(14:13):
the Secret Service has figured out that whole Oh, on
top of a building with a clear line of site
to assassinate the.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Guy probably ought to eliminate them. Why there's an update
on the other want to be assassin that came out yesterday.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Really interesting. We'll get to that later. Well. And in
a related story, the worship of Luigi Mangioni, ah so weird,
gunned down that young father who happened to work for
a healthcare company from ABC News.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Lawyer for man deported in error to l Salvador, expects
him to be returned to the United States.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Okay, we'll follow that one.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
I was listened to one of my favorite news like
serious news shows, kind of chuckling about that whole thing,
and I thought, it's not that funny. Yeah, we grabbed
a guy that shouldn't have had been sent to one
of the world's worst prisons and sent him over there
without due process.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
It's not good. Yeah, that's really Nicod.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
From Forbes Nintendo did not price in Trump's tariffs.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
For the switch too, and that's why they halted the release,
which was going to be a very big deal. That's
why they had giant cardboard things outside of best Buy
over the weekend, but they put those away quietly from.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
The La Times.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
Youth soccer coach charged with murder in death of thirteen
year old boy.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
So yesterday I said, well, that's worst headline I've ever
seen when I saw that story, and we don't usually
talk about these one off, random horrible things. The reason
I wanted Katie to bring that up is I saw
that story everywhere yesterday, and it wasn't until I was
watching Fox last night that I saw that he's an
illegal immigrant, So that was left out of every single story,
(15:55):
including that La Times story that he's here illegally and
LA police were investigating last year for sexual abuse of
some kid, but the progressive das did not want to
charge him because he's a person of color, just because
he's a child rapist, so they turned him loose again. Folks,
you can't fight hard enough against the progressive lunacy. And
(16:17):
now are you gonna tell me it's not interesting, it's
not worth putting in a very long article. The fact
that the guys here illegally is because you like that
whole narrative of natural born Americans commit more crimes than
illegals do.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Oh okay, not this one from the New York Post.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
Eighty one year old New York City woman stranded in
Puerto Rico as airline denies her emotional support parrot from
boarding an emotional support parrot.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
I just fall apart without my parrot. Polly want you
call him? Polly? Want you call him?
Speaker 4 (16:49):
And finally the Babylon Bee and yet another cruel blow
to China, General Chao's chicken will now be renamed General
John General Dons or Oriental Chicky Nugs.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Oh that's that's a cumbersome name. Yeah, man, we got
a lot to catch you up on. Ah boy, If
you know anything about what's going to start going up
in price so I can run to Costco and buy it,
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Speaker 5 (17:20):
Peter Navarro thinks Musk is taking advantage of unfair trade
policies at the risk of American prosperity. Elon, what's your response?
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Must calling him a moron and dumber than a sack
of bricks and.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
There's the latest calling him Peter Retardo.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
Powerful counterpoint, powerful God. I hope Elon Musk never has
to defend himself in court, Ladies and gentlemen of the jury.
Good I reds my case.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Oh my god, Peter Retard.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
You know, I can't decide if I'm horrified and I
am on one level, but I'm kind of grateful for it.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
I mean, I don't know what I think about it either.
On one level, I'd like our discourse to be hirghed.
But Peter Navarro coming out yesterday and saying Elon Musk
is not.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
A car builder. He's a car assembler. Maybe he designed
the whole thing. He's a rocket scientist.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
The Tesla this is the lowest drag coefficient of any
vehicle that's ever been on the road, designed by the
rock I mean, why why would you? That's dumb, That's
not How is that better than Peter Ritardo? It's just
a lie.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
If Donald Trump suggested to Peter Navarro that he should
bulldoze an elementary school full of children, he would do it.
Not that Trump would ever do that, but yeah, Navarro
would do or say literally anything to serve Donald j
if he thought it would please the man.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
So the Dow's only down a couple hundred points with
the one hundred and four percent Chinese tariffs kicking in
at midnight last night, so.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Of course it's a big waiting game. Willie r Wonie.
Is this permanent? Is this real? How about all the
other countries? It feels like he's looking for settlements. What's
happening right? More on that later, Yeah, more on all
sorts of stuff later, including the fact that Gavin Newsom
continues to just plainly openly run for president. He has
declared that California will cut its own trade deals with
(19:32):
other countries, even though that's not a thing.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Wow, I gotta keep reminding myself. I'm going to the
DMV today with something complicated, so I need to screw
my courage to the sticking place and like be mentally
prepared so I don't fall apart.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Start your breathing exercises. Now.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
There's nothing I hate more than paperwork in general. And
you add in a layer of like middle level government
wanting to make your life worse.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Oh oh, you know. I am grateful for my wife
for a number of reasons. As you know, my best friend,
the mother of my children, etc. The usual stuff. But
I didn't get my sticker for my car. It just
never showed up, even though it was supposed to have.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
See like that sort of thing, right, there is just
a oh my god, how do I not deal with
this sort of situation for me?
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Well, well exactly, So, my beloved Judith says to me, Okay,
I have the receipt for the payment, and I have
the paperwork that showed that blah blah blah blah blah,
so we'll need to go to the dmvage like hands
them to me. I'm like, oh, thank god. Yeah. If
it were up to me, I would just go out law,
I would drive only at night. Stolen license plates, stolen
car probably, I don't know before I waded into the
(20:44):
thicket of God help us, that is, dealing with the government.
Oh my god. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, So a lot of
really newsy stuff to talk about, but a couple of
slightly less heavy things just because we both found them very,
very interesting. And I don't know about y'all. Just constantly
taking on the heaviness of the news. I think it's
(21:04):
bad for your soul. But so, did these scientists actually create.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
A dire wolf or not, or are they basically gray
wolves with white hair?
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Yeah, yeah, somewhat bigger than normal. But the New York Times,
when it's not being horrifically biased and idiotic, there's some
pretty good long form reporting and their headline is scientists
revive the dire wolf or something close, and they took
a pretty balanced look at it.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Okay, I want to hear the details on that, because
there's something close. Say, I could get to what I
was talking about yesterday. I get that it's ninety nine
percent the same, but we're ninety nine percent the same
as chimpanzees, and as you can see, for most of us,
we're still quite different.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Alone, Michael can handle the equipment with his feet brilliantly
in the control room. Yeah so some of us more
chimpy than others. Anyway, Michael italy, he looks worried by
some techno. Oh he's talking at handsome. I was like,
generally my silly jokes, Michael at least enjoys on some level,
but he looked terribly serious about it. I hadn't seen
(22:06):
he was talking to Hansom. I'm sorry, Yeah, everything's great.
I'm sorry. I remember something he called we got to
move on, I did not call you a monkey, all right?
Moving along, So these folks that the companies called Colossal Biosciences,
they have now edited twenty genes of gray wolves to
imbue the animals with the key features of dire wolves,
(22:28):
because they found some old dire wolf DNA and they've
essentially sliced in twenty little chunks of it. Then they
created embryos from the edited gray wolf cells, implanting them
at a surrogate dog mother and waited for them to
give birth. And as New York Times puts that, the
results is three healthy wolves that have some traits of
dire wolves. They are big, for one thing, and have
dense pale coats not found in gray wolves, right, so
(22:51):
they're kind of a halfway between. And they also mentioned
that a couple of years ago hybrids between the red wolf,
which I wasn't really familiar with. It's like if you
saw trotting along the roadside, you'd say, oh, a stray dog.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
A weird, really really weird stray dog and coyotes had
bred in the wild, apparently, so now they're going to
clone them and introduce them to improve.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
The genetic diversity in the Carolinas. For instance. So these
people are doing some semi legitimate work, whether that's a
dire wolf or not, is it's not about you.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
So they are going to open up some sort of
like Jurassic Park zoo with extinct animals that they're bringing back.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
This and the wooly mammoth that they planned to in
a couple of years.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Would you drive to and pay to get in to
see a gray wolf that with white hair, that weighs
slightly more in its airs a little thicker, I wouldn't unlikely.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
How about a completely convincing wooly mammoth it was just
a hairy elephant brought back a wooly mammoth, like, this
is a wooly mammoth. This is exactly like what roamed
the Earth thirty thousand years years ago or whatever it was. Yeah,
I would. But if it's just a hairyer elephant with
some of the genes altered, no, yeah, interesting, where's the line?
(24:09):
I don't know. Moving along, speaking of science and that
sort of thing, late in the show yesterday, I'd mentioned
a fairly funny meme going around Asian American circles about
this bloke by the name of Johnny Kim he's forty
one years old.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
He is or has been a Navy seal. Then he
graduated from Harvard Medical School.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
And on Tuesday he blasted off as part of his
latest act, he is an astronaut in space, Navy seal,
Harvard doctor astronaut. And the joke is, thank god my
mom doesn't know this guy's mom among Asian Americans, you know,
the whole tiger Mont thing. And I thought that was
pretty amusing. But then I read on Jack and when
(24:54):
he was a child, his alcoholic, abusive father pulled a
gun on the family and then retreated to the attic
where he was shot dead by the police. And this
young lad's desire to physically protect his mother and brother
led him to become a Navy seal. You know, it's story.
Before you go any further, I'm just starting, but go ahead.
(25:16):
I think about this sort of thing a lot. A
lot of successful people have, you know, interesting backstories, and
you know, with with some sort of difficult thing they
had to overcome. You know, you had a speech impediment
or you know, whatever it was. But then so do
(25:39):
a lot of drug addict losers in life have you know,
you could picture that story and my dad pulled a
gun on the family and the police shot him, and
that's why I became a math addict.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
And they've never been able to have a real relationship.
I mean, so, how do some people break one way
and some people break the other way? Wow? Does anybody
answer your question? If we could tease that out, we
could change humanity. I don't know. I was told at
an early age that, all right, that thing you're saying
is an impediment. It's a hurdle. Are you going to
(26:12):
stand there and look at the hurdle and say, well,
this is over? Are you going to leap over it? Now?
I happen to have whatever genetically or by upbringing or
religion or something this sort of you know mind that
I say, I'm leaping over the frigger? Are you kidding me?
Some people don't, but.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Some people would have this story you've heard the story
of Like, we moved around all the time as a kid,
and I could never form relationships. So I became really
good at making friends and that's why I'm fantastic at sales.
And then the other person shoots up a school with
the same you know situation.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
I don't know. I don't know how that works. I
guess God only knows. I think that is a good
summary of it. Yeah, so more of this guy's story
because it gets more and more interesting in a moment.
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Run your game, I will okay. So this guy became
(27:48):
a Navy Seal. Then he was playing Ultimate Frisbee and
he really messed up his ankle, and he was going
to join the Navy as an operations specialist. But it
was a problem the ankle, so recruiter steered him toward
becoming a medic right guy, obviously. In twenty oh five,
mister Kim joined Seal Team three, serving as a Medican sniper,
among other roles. He earned a Silver Star and a
(28:10):
Bronze Star for treating wounded comrades during two tours in Iraq,
an experience that motivated him to attend medical school. First
college at the University of San Diego, where he worked
odd jobs, including handing out parking tickets. Quote never think
you're too good for any job, he said on a
famous podcast, saying that the gig taught him to stay humble.
(28:34):
You know, if I were not a straight guy, I'd
be falling in love with this guy anyway.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
So then comes Harvard Medical School, where he juggles studies, fatherhood,
and exercise. On a three point thirty am wake up schedule.
And then here's one of the parts that I found
so interesting. He needed time hacks to study, and he
found one called space repetition learning, using electronic flashcards of
(28:59):
the information he was supposed to learn. And how this
all works specifically, I don't know, but the key term
is space repetition learning. But so he had these electronic
flash cards and he graded each card from one.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
I have no clue about this. It's a top priority
to five easy answer, don't waste my time. In the
next session, the system showed him the cards at varying
frequencies that would optimize learning, and he says, there are
small things you can do to enhance your memory retention. Wow,
I've never in my life heard of space repetition learning.
Why not because the teachers' unions are probably quashing it
(29:33):
in favor of, you know, learning about the genderbread man
or whatever. So while he's studying medicine, he meets this
physician turned astronaut who says, you're really bright, you'd probably
be a good astronaut. And he liked the idea. So
we applied to NASA's astronaut program and got accepted. The
first time, said the guy, who hit him with the
(29:53):
idea is really superhuman. He's the world's most interesting man,
the dose Eki's guy in real life. And then he
was overheard playing the oboe as he tries to get
to sleep, and somebody said, you should be first chair oboist.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
In the phil Now he is, and now he is.
Final note on this guy. At an at the astronaut
graduation in Houston, Ted Cruz talked about how ridiculous it
was that he was already Navy seal and Harvard trained doctor.
He can kill you and then bring you back to
life and do it all in space, said Cruise. Johnny
(30:27):
Kim Wow, I would like to mention that earlier in
the show, I talked about how overwhelmed I am by
having to go to the DMV today. So different people
are differently clearly got mail bank on the way, stay here.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
In an hour two? Can you handle this or not?
Speaker 1 (30:47):
No? A lot of you don't want to hear any
negative stuff from some liberal economist about Trump, But conservatives
loved Larry Summers when he was predicting inflation from the
Biden spent and he turned out to be right, and
they quote him all the time.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Are you willing to.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Listen to what he's got to say about the Trump
tariff stuff.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
And I am certainly a little frightening. And we'll get
to that a how or two. Here's your freedom loving
quota of today from the brilliant Thomas Soul, sent along
by Jeff and we appreciate it. Jeff, I love this.
There was a time when we honored those who created
the prosperity in the freedom that we enjoy. Today, we
honor the complainers and sooe the creators. Perhaps that is
inevitable in an era when we no longer count our
(31:29):
blessings but instead count all of our unfulfilled wishes. Wow,
that's pretty good. Who is that soul? That really good soul? Mailbag?
That was disappointing. Yeah, I know, I know. Cultures change
and they change back again, which is why you know
I keep fighting the fight, speaking for myself. Drop us
note mailbag at Armstrong and Getty dot com. Okay, here
(31:53):
it is. I promised you one of the most dryly
hilarious emails in the history of the show long vaunted history.
This is from sew Jack. I probably oversold it. You
guys are talking about tariffs when the US is only
one hundred and seventy five days away from the next
potential government shutdown. That's pretty good, Oh, Sean Dad is
(32:15):
pretty good? Oh oh boy? How about this interesting note
from Nick Joe. Yes, out of curiosity, do you get
much pushback via email from Muslims when you describe fundamentalist
Islam on the air? Your description matches my perception. Haven't
for ages Nick, partly because I'll just speak for myself,
(32:39):
but Jack, certainly I put you in the same category.
Our description of fundamentalist Islam is accurate. It is indisputably accurate,
and some of the activist groups know they're wasting their
time with us. Number one, we can't be bullied in
Number two the whole anybody who criticizes fundamentalist Islam isn't
(32:59):
as islamophobe. It should be silenced. Those days are long gone.
Nobody's buying their crap.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
I came across on Instagram like somebody I hadn't talked
to in many, many years, know very well, and their
post was about how they converted to Islam, and I thought, wow,
that is really interesting. I might have to reach out
to them and say, okay, well, well what's what's what's
the Delio.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Yeah. Interesting, as long as they don't on Sharia law
imposed over the Western world. Yeah. Yeah, but you you know,
you worship God as you say see fit. Just stay
away from my constitution place. Uh. Let's see this from
Tom Great note. Like many Americans, I'm very concerned about
Communist china is aggressive push to global dominance. This push
is fueled in large part by stolen intellectual property. I'm
(33:44):
sure it's been discussed as a possible point of leverage,
but I never hear Trump or his advisors mentioned the
thousands of Chinese students in our universities. Years ago, I
heard there as many as two hundred and fifty thousand
PRC students in this country. I live in a small,
fifty thousand population college town in Oregon, and it enrolled
fifteen hundred Chinese students just a few years ago. I
(34:05):
believe it's fair to assume that every Chinese exchange student,
visiting professor is fully vetted by the Communists and is
here with the primary purpose of advancing the communist cause
at our expense.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Yeah, that's a tough road to go down, h Looking.
You know, look, are you going to look at every
Chinese college student as a spy.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
I would say, I would agree with him that they
are here with the primary purpose of advancing the Communist
cause at our expense. Some it might simply be to
get educated and go back to China with a great
American education strength in China and thereby week in the
United States. It might be as innocent as that. Joseph
Getty or Joseph McCarthy. On the other hand, there are
(34:44):
absolutely scholars and students who are here with the avowed
purpose of espionage. If I'm absolutely certain, if.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
I'm the Communist Party, why do I let anybody come
to the United States who isn't somehow benefiting.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
Us, right, even if indirectly an innocent of course, Yeah,
that's absolutely true, Tom. I won't get into the state
of our universities, he writes, which you cover beautifully and often. However,
eliminating corrosive foreign influence can only help. I would agree
we were so naive about the Chinese.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
Steve also from Oregon writes, bringing Back the Dire Wolf.
Has anyone not seen Jurassic Park in the dozen or
so sequels, This never ends well. It always ends with
people running screaming and Jeff Goldblum looking serious.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
Yeah, my son hit me with some quote from Jurassic Park.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
I guess it's a famous quote, something about playing god
and how it turns out or something.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
But yeah, you do have to thought about that. And finally,
we don't have time for this. Maybe we can squeeze
it in the next hour. Our story about the infamous
San Quentin prison in California being turned into a Norwegian
style counseling center. A close relative of a San Quentin
inmate weighing in on the controversy.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
Okay, we had a little news about that horrifying prison
and is it in Venezuela l S.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Salvador. Oh my god. The more you learn about that place,
who what do I gotta do to make sure I
never end up there? Yis no san Quentin. If you
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