May 7, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 2 of A&G features...
- Biden is doing interviews & the Trump/Carney meeting
- Running shoes
- It's Real ID day!
- 764 crime ring targeting teens & hackers
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Armstrong and Jettie and now he Armstrong and Jetty.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Man.
Speaker 4 (00:22):
I'm looking at CNN in a number of places, leading
with India Pakistan, as India flew fighter jets into Pakistan
and had some pretty major hits further in than they've
ever done before.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Pakistan claims they downed a couple of Indian jets. Everybody's
working to verify all the claims on each side.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
A couple of nuclear powers, and this is either a
minor dust up that will go into the long list
of dust ups over the last seventy years, or become
a giant, giant war. It's hard to say AnyWho. I
just looked up Free. I can't believe this is even happening.
Oh how many times have I said that in recent days?
(01:04):
As I look at the modern world, I can't believe
Joe Biden sitting in a chair doing an interview. So
he did an interview with the BBC. I haven't heard
any of it, but he looks a million years old.
He looks older than he looked when he left the
scene a year ago, and now he's gonna beat him
and Jill are gonna be on the view today and
they're criticizing Trump on policy. What do they think they're doing?
Who she must be in charge? She is, She's like
(01:27):
Belichick's girlfriend. I mean, she has just taken over from
an old man and is making bad decisions.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Reminds me of.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
When a sixty four year old Madonna did a tour
in which she was gyrating and showing her crotch and
the rest of it. She just couldn't give up the
sex pot thing. Well, Joe and Jill cannot give up
the we're important, relevant movers and shakers thing. They're congenitally
unable to y'all.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Bet you're right.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
That's the problem with becoming a US senator at age
twenty nine when I was a tiny kid and Noel.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Semi, who am I if not that? Nothing says Biden
to himself.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
But I'm thinking an ice cream cone is it drips
stickily down his withered hand And.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
They obviously have no handlers telling them because it is
only going to do them harm. But how do they
not have the self awareness? Not only does the half
of the country, well, the eighty five percent of the
country that didn't think you should be president not want
to hear from you. Nobody in your own party wants
to hear from you. There's nobody on your side of
politics that has any interest in anything you have to say.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
How do you not know that?
Speaker 3 (02:34):
It's like Dylan mulvaney showing up to the bud Light Convention.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Everybody's like, oh, no, Wise.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Here, Oh that is something AnyWho.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
They just released an early clip. If you want to
hear it, go ahead, Michael.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Yeah, boy Kruger, Michael Christmas, counter cutter.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
You check.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
You tricked this like Sean used to do every single
time back in the day.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
God, and how long ago was that? Yeah? I know
when he's declined signific well he just a month after months.
It's pathetic.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
So yesterday, the new Prime Minister of Canada goes to
sit in the what I like to call those Zelensky
chair there in the open office where you sometimes get
yelled at him belittled, depending on how things are going.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Just a question of how tense and humiliating it's going
to be.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
So we didn't we didn't get into this yesterday. It's
probably worth setting it up. This way, did you see
Trump's post that he put out during the day, right
before he got there, Right before the Canadian Prime minister
got there. Trump puts out a post basically saying Canada
(03:48):
needs to be the fifty first state and just lays
out the whole thing again, like right before the guy
walks in.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Yeah, yeah, that's something.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
I mean, World leaders like Carnie have had to get
down the how to parry or deal with Trump maneuvers
that had gone kind of you know, they laid fallow
for four years, but now they're back to it realizing
all right, he just he blurts stuff out via social media.
It might turn out to be official US policy in
(04:18):
a while, it might turn out to be forgotten in
ten minutes.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Don't react or is he just testing to see like
if you are you the kind of personality that can
say no to me? Or are you gonna like roll
over if I just keep asserting this.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
You know, I'm just going to be well, you're halfway
through your your sentence. I was gonna say no, it's
just Trump. He blurts things. He's a blurter, and I
still believe that. But your theory right there not a
bad one.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Yeah, let's hear a little how it went down.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
I think that there are tremendous benefits to the Canadian citizens,
tremendously lower taxes, free military, which honestly would give you
essentially anyway, because we're protecting Canada if.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
You have had a problem.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
But I think you know it's it would really be
a wonderful marriage because it's two places. They get along
very well, they like each other a lot. Well.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
If I'm a as you know from real estate, there
are some places that are never for sale.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
We're sitting in one right now, you know, bucking and Palace.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
You visit it as well, and having met with the
owners of Canada over the course of the campaign last
several months, it's not for sale, won't be for sale ever.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
See. So right off the bat, Trump pushes the guy.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
I think it was just a personal Does he have
the guts to stand up against this?
Speaker 2 (05:38):
He lays out, it'd be a benefit to your guy.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Taxes would be lower, military protection, everything like that.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
It'd be pretty great, be pretty plenty. Belittles the guy
a little bit too. Let's face it, we've been protecting you.
If there's every problem, we would you know it. So, yeah,
we rolling, and Carney's like, well, I appreciate that, but yeah,
let's just stay friends.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
I don't want to move in.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
The uncomfortable yet gentlemanly encounter went on.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
The opportunity is in the partnership and what we can
build together, and we have done that in the past.
And part of that, as the President just said, is
with respect to our own security, and my government is
committed for a step change in our investment in Canadian
security and our partnership. And I'll say this as well,
(06:24):
that the President has revitalized international security, revitalized NATO and
US playing our full weight in NATO, and that will
be parts.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Okay, so he throws a little bone to Trump to
you know, say something nice to him.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
That's definitely part of the playbook. Ye, But it rolls
on our fifty first state.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
But you consider what mister Carney just said that Canada
is not for sale.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Does this make it the discussion a little more difficult
to start on?
Speaker 1 (06:55):
No, not at all, No, not at all. No time
time will tell. It's only time. But I say never
say never. I've had many, many things that were not
doable and they ended up being doable, and only doable
in a very friendly way. But if it's to everybody's benefit.
You know, Canada loves us and we love Canada. That's
(07:16):
I think the number one thing that's important. But we'll see,
I mean, over time, we'll see what happens.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
So in any successful career, I think you become good
at what we've become pretty good at during various meetings
through the years, which is smiling pleasantly, looking attentive, nodding,
and saying completely non committal things much like an oral surgery,
(07:43):
just waiting until it's over, and then going about your life.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
The way you were going about it before the meeting.
And that was what Carnie was doing.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
My favorite part where Trump talks about you look at
a map, I mean, that just looks so good together.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
It's just like one entity.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
I mean, I mean, I understand beautiful things that that
line used to eliminate that, and it looks so good together.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
I mean, I just thought that was hilarious.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
Well, and in Trump's defense, it does look good. It
looked good. Is it one big country?
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Well, not only does it look good, it looks kind
of appropriate ish appropriate ish.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Yes, that's what I meant to say.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
In just geographically speaking, culturally speaking, and the fact that
there's a line between Canada and the United States is
just like this accident of that weird colonial period in
the seventeen hundreds when it was the Pritz versus the French,
versus the Spanish versus the Pritz.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Again, there's some Indians.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
And then the Britz and then Us, and we said,
go to hell, Britz, and Canada's like, yeah, I see
your point, but no, We're good with the Britz. And
it just there's no great reason to have the line.
On the other hand, it's been there for a hell
of a long time and it's not going anywhere.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Polling, this is a ninety ten issue. I saw the
polling yesterday. Ninety percent of Americans don't think Canada should
be a fifty first date, so about half. So it's yeah,
it's not exactly something people.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Are hot for. I know, it's just so silly.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Now, the reporting is that after that sit down, the
Canadian Prime Minister said to Trump privately, I want you
to stop referring to Canada as the fifty first state, which.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
I'm sure Trump finds hilarious. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Maybe, but being a dick for no good reason is
not a good strategy, and if indeed he's driving towards something, okay, great.
But if it's just alienating one of our closest allies
and we get nothing out of it, not good. Just
showing you're a tough guy to be a tough guy
not good in diplomacy, doesn't work, doesn't work long term.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
I personally don't want to add a more left California
to the map for our national government. I don't see
how that benefits me in my politics in any way.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Right, there would be a period of transition, by which
I mean like three quarters of century in which we'd
have to sort that out before a Conservative was ever
elected again.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Yeah, and I'd rather not Well.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
I wouldn't see all of it, for sure, if actuarial
tables are accurate, but I'd hate to see it at all.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
So yeah, enough of that.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Let's put it to bed under a nice thick blanket
because Canada is very cold, and move on to things
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Speaker 2 (10:49):
It's my computer. What are you protecting you.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Now?
Speaker 2 (10:53):
I mean from thieves?
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Speaker 4 (12:00):
Jd Vance apparently just called out Russia for asking for
too much to end the Ukraine invasion. There might be
a switch happening here and they putting pressure on Russia.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Maybe, I don't know. I would like to see that.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Well.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
I read a great piece by Barton Swam editorialist about
what Trump fails to understand about Putin, and the very
very short version of it is Putin doesn't give a
crap about too many people dying. He could not care less.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Amazing.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Yeah, yeah, the whole humanitarian plea from Trump, which I appreciate.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
It's nice. It's falling on the deafest.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
Of yours, another guy who doesn't care about how many
people die.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
President.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
She is in Moscow as of today and will be
for several days. And that's a couple of evil, powerful
people with lots of nuclear weapons that would not blinket
millions dying to get.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
What they want on the world. So no, it's it's.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Horrifying anyway, a lot more stuff. It's not as heavy
on the way stay here. Trump's terraffs against China are
raising the cost of the wedding dresses.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
It's not good now brys are saying yes to the
jaggings from coals.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
Speaking of clothing options, so I'm at a Nike store
the other day with my son, who's there for the
fashion end of Nike. I'm looking around and I happen
to be over where the running shoes are, and one
caught my eye is just like I thought was a
good looking shoe. So I tried it on, and I've
never tried it on before. It is the most expensive
Nike tennis shoe I've ever tried on before. It's two
hundred and eighty five dollars. But I tried it on
(13:36):
the shoes and they're there. Vapor Fly fours with you.
If you're a runner, you know. Vapor Flies came out
eight years ago and changed running shoes around the world.
It was the first one of those like really giant
thick sole makes you like two inches taller, springy shoes,
and Nike started that and like records started falling around
(13:56):
the world, marathon stuff like that. And it's a controversy
of kind of like you got going golf, where has
the equipment just gotten so good that it's distorting things?
And one of those times, but I put on these
shoes and it was the weirdest experience. I mean, it's
so spongy and springy it's almost hard to walk in them.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
And they're very, very weird.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
And you've tried like hookahs, right yeah, yeah, yeah, those
are some.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Of those Maxi shoes too.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
Yeah, well, these these new things, and so Puma has
come out with the latest shoe that is supposed to
be even further down the road. It's ninety percent efficient
in returning the energy when your foot hits the ground
into springing you forward. So Nike had revolutionized the running
world with like sixty five to seventy percent this new
(14:40):
Puma shoe that's also about three hundred dollars ninety percent
of your energy springs you forward. And I don't know
what we're trying to accomplish here. I mean I'm not
trying to break a record when I run. I'm trying
trying to get exercise to I don't know, lose weight
or not die. So almost seems I could be better
off with heavier shoes and maybe weights or something.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
I don't know, but.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Yeah, yeah, it's funny. I've thought that same thing about bikes.
I heard a guy bragging about how his road bike
was so incredibly efficient.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
I'm like, aren't you riding that for exercise?
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Yeah, unless you're trying to win a race, I'm not sure.
But AnyWho, So, uh, if you see these really funky looking,
super tall I guess you have to be careful doing
anything but running. They're not a good shoe to throw
on if you're gonna, like, you know, you used to
wear running shoes for everything, you'd you know, play in
the backyard with the kids. But these cauds are so tall.
They're just meant for going forward. It really easy to
(15:34):
roll your ankle, like break an ankle or something like that.
They're not they're not designed for going side design right.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Right, yeah, I'm dealing with that right now.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
I've got to go get some like some court shoes
or old fashioned gym shoes because all I have is runners,
and you know, I'm doing other things that aren't appropriate.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
And yeah, we've got a like too big and high.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
But I wonder what the goal is faster running well,
sell more shoes. That's the ultimate goal. If you're Nike
your Puma, you want to you want to have the
shoe that makes people come out and spend three hundred
dollars on a pair of shoes. But sure, at some point,
if it's doing all the work and I'm just floating
along and getting no exercise, I don't know. I don't
know what I'm doing. Yeah, I like the idea made
two inches taller. I don't like the idea of spending
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three hundred dollars on a.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Pair of shoes.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
That's a lot and that's before the tariffs have kicked
in on all this sort of stuff.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Right, Uh sure, yeah, I have no idea with shoes
like that, whether that's your standard cost plus seven percent
profit margin, or if it's more like the wine business,
where you think, let's let's market this at this price
and see what we can do, and you could actually
sell it for a lot less, but you're capitalizing on
(16:41):
scarcity in the population.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
But in general.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
In general, I've seen a number of news reports and
a lot of like your athletic shoe stores are just
they're ready to get hit hard with the whole tariff
because all that stuff's made in China.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
What one hundred and fifty percent tariff on like all
Nike products. What's that gonna do?
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Right?
Speaker 3 (16:58):
In Apple fans, Apple is holding the line on cost
mostly so far, but the rumblings are unmistakable that that
will not last very low.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
It can't.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
Tim Cook said last week they're going to have to
spend nine hundred billion dollars more over, however, many years
in costs if this keeps up, I mean, and he said,
they gotta pass the cost along.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
It's the only way to stay in business.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Yeah, I want to get into the current negotiations that
have just started, I guess between China and the US
to straighten out our trade relationship in you know, whatever
form it ought to take going forward. And that's its
own topic. But Scott Bessen saying, hey, oh, de couple,
not decoupling please, We'll have to see how that goes.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
I know you were planning to take your kids to
the Department of Housing and Urban Development today is a
field trip. But now you can't because you didn't get
the real id. Just like me, lots of us didn't
get the real id. The history of how we got
here on this ridiculous thing is kind of funny and
an emblematic of everything that is the government.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
The government's finances are screwed up. Wait till I tell
you about the Vatican later on. Today they got fancy clothes.
I just saw them walk out for the whole concave thing.
They could afford the clothing looking good, good, look their popes.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
Armstrong. And so I'm watching live some of the pope
stuff as they're all heading into the Sistine Chapel to
do their conclaven. And I'm not as into this story
as the mainstream media seems to be in them. Kind
of confused by that, as they are all atheists. I
(18:37):
don't I don't get why I think they like that.
I think it's got a royal family flair to it,
with the costumes and the tradition or something.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
It's not the way, you're just something. And and Catholicism.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Is is is bigger in the Northeast than it is in.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
A lot of other parts of the country. Anyway, just
looking at these pictures of them all and all the
media is in the northeast off.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
All the cardinals walking in and chanting their prayers and
whatnot and everything. This Schisteine Chapel, if you've never been there,
is really amazing if you ever get the opportunity. It
is a stunning, stunning room and all the art in there,
and they've been doing it in there for what'd you
tell us the other day, like eight hundred years or something,
(19:17):
So today's real ID day. I'm in warning us about
this for very very long time. I do not have
a real ID. I did not get my act together
in time, and in theory, I can't fly today or
go into a federal government building until I get my
real ID.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
And we're all safer as a result if I send
them into a coughing fit. I have thought that's pretty funny.
Have you ever had a coughing fit you thought would
never stop? I had one the other day. Oh, it
just wouldn't stop. And it's like I couldn't breathe. I couldn't.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
I was like down on a knee. I though, I'd like,
do I hurt your brain? Yeah? Pretty soon your brain
starts to hurt, I thought, do I need to go
to the er. Eventually it went away.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
It actually started in the ninety five, as I mentioned earlier,
as the Oklahoma City bombing that got this whole conversation started.
If you don't remember that horrifying day, the dude's wife
had made him a fake ID out of a piece
of cardboard on an ironing board, and it was good
enough to you know, rent a car, buy this stuff
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and everything like that. And that's when finally decided we
need to have some sort of like normalization of IDs
across states in this country. Nothing happened because nothing happens
with the federal government ever, so it was quite a
few years ago. Years later you get to two thousand
and one, nine to eleven. That gave it a little
more of a boost to come up with IDs, even
(20:42):
though that had nothing to do with it. All the
hijackers were in the country legally and had the legal
version of the ID, So whatever that didn't, you know,
I don't make any difference. So are you against security?
Where did the name real ID come from? This sense
in Brenner you might remember his name, He was involved
(21:03):
in it back in the day. He said, what do
kids call it if you have to like bring your
actual ID somewhere, not your fake ID to buy booze.
And some college kid told him when we call those
our real ID, and he said, okay, well what we'll
call this ID then, So that's where the name real
ID came from.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
The law. Sorry, Jim Sense and Brenner are Ohio.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
The law had two goals, have state's issue IDs that
are harder to counterfeit, and require states to do at
least a little bit of a background check on these cards.
The problem was, and this is actually a problem in
some states, there was almost no process for getting the
state driver's license or state ID usually it's a driver's license.
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There was almost no background check whatsoever. And because of
the way we do things, if you had an ID
in that state, you could go anywhere in the country
with that, and so there was almost no requirement to
have one.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Populist state in the Union.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
For instance, excuse me, California, where you could be an
illegal immigrant you snuck into the state. The only idea
you have is that which you had faked up in
LA while you were waiting to get settled, and you
go get a state driver's license.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
And you're on your way to anywhere you want in
the US. It's a great system.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
So the blog got complicated when they had to avoid
the highly political controversy, which we've talked about for years
in talk radio, of creating some sort of national ID
card by still having you know, a state by state
because people hate the idea of a national ID. They
quote this person and I only bring this up because
it's funny. This woman named Faith Bradley, a professor at
(22:38):
George Washington University who wrote her doctoral dissertation on the
implementation of the real ID. That is a life not
well spent. I, sweetheart, I know, is there something else?
Speaker 3 (22:52):
I didn't want to study the reproductive habits of some
little frog that lives in the boxing a.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
God, You dedicated seven years of your life to writing
a paper about the implementation of the real.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
ID how to increase the yield of grain by one
percent like virtually anything.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Half the states in the country resisted the real idea
at first, so it took some sort of federal coursing
to get them to go along with it, citing cost, privacy,
and the burden for people of having to provide extra documentation.
This is you know, preying upon the poor and disenfranchised.
Those states just want people that shouldn't have IDs to vote.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
We know how that all thing works. Absolutely, Yeah, they're
voting today.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
So you had, you know, fiscally conservative states saying, hey,
don't put all this financial burden on us. Then you
had the states that want everyone that can breathe the vote,
whether there should be a citizen or not. You combine
those two things, and you had a lot of states
that are up against it. The result, twenty years on
is a variety of flavors of real ID. Most states
use a star or a star inside a circle, or,
(23:56):
in the case of California, a star inside a bear.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Which of the id's are compliant with the federal standard?
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Boy, and you should have heard this sounds that bear
made as we were getting the star inside of them. Oh,
by the way, you're talking about the compliance earlier. Are
you gonna go back to that and talk about that
You ought to probably ought to reset that. I'll save
my comment until Jack brings us the hilariously low compliance rates.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
Uh, yeah, I will get back to that. So yeah,
So I guess I've seen the California one. It's a
star inside a bear. I don't have one, as we know,
so I no longer can visit federal buildings, which is
again already everybody.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
My wife is feeling a vacancy. Have you told the kid?
I have to tell you something. We cannot visit any
federal buildings today.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
It's basically an enhanced driver's license, as we don't know,
and there's a little bit of a background check.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
Millions of people have yet to even apply for the
real ID in all kinds of different states. I've applied,
I just don't have my appointment yet to the compliance,
which is absolutely amazing. The most compliance and the entire
country is New Jersey, which has seventeen percent compliance. Seventy
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so forget about it. That's pretty funny. How am I
going to get into about a being without a real ID.
Maybe they'll let you in. But it's very common across
the country. I mean, you pick a state. Let's look
at Montana. They appear to be in the twenty to
forty percent compliance zone. Let's look at Georgia. Georgia doing
pretty well. They're between eighty and one hundred percent. Way
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to go to Georgia, But you get down to Arizona,
and they're also twenty to forty. California is forty to sixty.
Way more of us that didn't get it, even though
we had all these warnings than we did. I don't
know what that says about Americans or America or our
government or what. I don't know if it says anything,
it's got to say.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
I got a note from Mike, the attorney in Chicago.
Low compliance for real idea in Illinois is doing part
because the Illinois Secretary of State runs a DMV so poorly.
People can't get in, they can't get appointments. Many just
gave up. I was going to pop that it's mostly
a terribly run abusive blue states.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
But the states you mentioned no clear pattern to me. Well,
it could be different reasons in different states.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
You could have the I don't do what the government
tells me to do crowd, and then you could have
blue states where it's just like I was doing it
in California.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
That whole having to have.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
You got to verify who you are with like an
electric bill or a lease or whatever, and it has
to have.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Your middle name on it. I kept getting rejected.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
Well, I'm sorry, I don't fill out my PG and
E bill with my middle name. I've been given my
initial or not my whole life. So it's just odd, right,
just silly.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
And you could change that by you know, calling PGNI
and saying, put my middle name on there going forward,
and then a month later you could get your real ID.
There you go, there's your security, and thank god, I
will not hijack a plane because of that. Yes, Katie,
what do you have to contribute?
Speaker 6 (26:52):
Well, I flew yesterday and in line there were probably
thirty ish people ahead of me, and everybody who didn't.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Have a real ID, they gave a little piece of
paper that.
Speaker 6 (27:02):
Said time is running out and scan this little quirk.
Every single person in front of me got one of those.
There was not one person in line that had a
real idea.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
Yeah, so now here's the part, and this is where
the media has failed. I saw this on Fox News Nation.
I haven't heard this anywhere else. They were at one
of your major Northeastern airports. I don't know which one,
but they said there is a special line over there.
If you do not have a real ID, they will
send you over there. You will get extra security, but
you will get on the plane. They said, We've asked
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for details, they're not giving us any. So the TSA
has got some sort of special we will let you
on the plane. Is this true at every airport in
the country that it's like a you know, the homework
is due Friday, but we didn't really mean it. If
you get it in on Monday, it still counts. I mean,
so is that what's going on? You can still get
on the plane. But it's a full body cavity search.
(27:53):
It's the old squat and cough.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
I mean they're gonna go over plays fine toothed, calm,
shave your head to make sure there's nothing delaus in
your hair.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Delousing sheep tip and the whole treatment.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Cut your fingernails down to the nubs, ladies, to make
sure you haven't hitten a bomb under there. So you
want to be a scoff law huh? If it were
up to me, you know what, you'd get that little
QR code and they'd hit you with a night stick
and then they do the search. We gotta get compliance
in this country.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
Get up on the stool. We got to make sure
you're not suitcasing something.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
I'm a boy Scout leader from Omaha. I served in
the army.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Squat and cough.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
But doesn't this strike you as odd that they've decided
you can get on the plane without the real ID.
But they're not telling the media or the media is
not reporting it. I mean, what kind of what is this?
Speaker 3 (28:51):
It is the classic strategy, and I'm slightly surprised you
don't recognize it of the underachiever, the underachiever being the government.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
You act as though you've read the book. You mumble some.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Incoherent Kamala Harris asked phrases about the story of lawyer
and his daughter who doesn't like racism, have not read
They were Kula mocking bird.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
They were calling the wild the wild. So there was
a calling of the wild, and then there's a big
wolf dog and snow right exactly.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
And so you you hold up the pretense that you've
accomplished what you claimed you would accomplish.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
But really so that's funny.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
I actually thought that they probably meant it this time,
like we've delayed a million times, we actually mean it now.
You can't fly unless you get this ID. And I thought, well,
that's fine, you've warned me a million times. But at
the same time, like I said earlier, what you got
a Newark airport, you got five out of ten travelers
or business travelers.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
This is how they make their living.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
And you're gonna say you can't fly because you don't
have the star with the circle on your id, because.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
You don't know if you're an airport where they can't talk
to the planes half the time. Now you know what
it is, Jack, And this is weird. This thought just
clicked into my head and I can't decide if.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
I believe this or not.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
I think it may actually be a fairly healthy response
from the government of a free people. They are saying,
in effect, look, this is a dumb policy.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Trot it out dumbly. It didn't make it easy.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
Nobody's really serious about all this. We kind of went
through with it because we said we were going to.
If you don't have it, come over here. We'll ask
you a.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Couple of questions and then you can get on your plane.
It's a confession of sorts.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
You know what it'll be, and then it'll be people
like me. It's such a pain in the ass to
go to that longer line. I guess I'll finally get
an energy bill with my middle name on it, so
I can get this dang thing and not have to
go in that line.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
Plus at the airport I run, which I'm going to
name Joe Hare International, you're gonna get tired of getting
those licks from the night stick too. Well, you'll go
down to the DMV with your electric bill with your
middle name mom there and you will comply.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
You know what's interesting is the body cavity searches get
easier over time.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Ah right, maybe we should take a break. You get
used to it. Oh boy? Uh, we got any any
thoughts on this? Our text line four one, five two
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Speaker 7 (31:21):
Shot a shadowy network called seven sixty four whose goal
is to spark violence and chaos around the world, in
part by luring in unsuspecting teenagers. Seven sixty four targets
kids on social media and gaming platforms, extorting them into
sending violent and sexual content.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
The FBI is warning.
Speaker 7 (31:41):
Parents to pay attention to who their kids are talking
to on social media and gaming platforms.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
The FBI is.
Speaker 7 (31:47):
Investigating more than two hundred and fifty suspects tied to
seven sixty four, with every.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Field office involved. Well that's just dandy.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
I am a parent of teenagers who'd never even heard
of that in my life until two seconds ago.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
So that's just great.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
Let's just put that on the long list of things
you can be concerned about.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
If your kid's got a phone.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
Not so fast, there's more to be concerned about if
your kid has a phone. I was just reading that
the hacker ring that you may remember put Vegas out
of commission?
Speaker 2 (32:17):
What was that? Six years six months ago, a year ago?
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
Time flies when you're old, but they brought down all
those casinos for a time. That is a very loosely
assembled group of bored, malcontent, mischievous youngsters who call themselves
the con or something like that. And this specific subgroup
of the subgroup calls themselves scattered Spider, I guess, and
(32:43):
they just they hack into various corporations and companies and
government institutions and stuff like that for fun and mischief,
and sometimes they steal, but sometimes they.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
Just screw with it.
Speaker 4 (32:53):
That whole keep track of who your kids talked to
on social media and everything like that sounded a lot
easier before, well before my kids got old enough to
be involved in that world. And as far as I
can tell, I'm more strict than a lot of my
son's friends parents are and it's still just I mean,
there's just so many opportunities for them to be involved
(33:16):
with bad people. I mean, unless I'm gonna be over
his shoulder all the time, right, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
I was a very big fan as a parent, partly
for that reason, and I completely support the idea of
trying not to trying to eliminate opportunities to do bad
things one hundred percent. But I realized at one point
what you're talking about, and so I just really emphasized
the underlying principles right behind doing some things and not
(33:43):
doing some things, and how extremely important they were to
me as their dad and their mom certainly, but how
important and fundamental they are to being a good person
and a bad person. And then when they're loose on
the town and they're presented with temptation, you hope and
pray they make the right choice, and or if they
make the wrong choice, it's not a disaster.
Speaker 4 (34:02):
Right, which has a lot to do with their friend
group and everything else, which has always been true. But man,
the opportunity to get in trouble is exponentially greater now
than it was twenty years ago. I mean, it's just
a completely different world. You couldn't order heroin and in
a machine gun from any tiny town in America when
(34:23):
I was in high school, or come across a you know,
an international pedophile sex ring.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
It just wasn't gonna happen. Yeah, I know, I know.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
I was going to bring up a kind of vague
philosophical theme about the modern world. Don't really have time
to get into it now, but.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
Has to do.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
And I can't get into specifics in my little world. Really,
You'll have to forgive me for that for now. But
a friend of mine characterized kind of a move as
the slime from the Ghostbusters movies, the original Ghostbuster, the
(35:06):
early eighties, classic.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
Early eighties like eighty three. When was that out?
Speaker 3 (35:10):
Anyway, you may recall that when all the ghosts were
running wild in New York City, one of the things
they did was like spread this green slime around. The
effect it had was not just you know, green slime
is effect enough, yick, but it caused New Yorkers to
be angry and disagreeable and turn on each other. And
(35:35):
we're discussing a very local context and also the angst
and unhappiness of youth, and the fact that incumbents all
over the developed world are getting tossed out of office.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
And the parties.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
That have been fairly stable and in power, you know,
they switch places now and again, but they're just getting
tossed aside. There is a near global feeling of angst
and unhappiness that I don't ever recall before.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
What do we do with this information? To do about it?
Speaker 4 (36:13):
We get used to it, do we settle into some
or it just keeps getting worse.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
Buy heroin and machine guns on the Internet, like you're
discussing earlier.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
Campus Madness Update Next Hour.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
If you don't get Next Hour, you gotta go grab
it via a podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand Armstrong
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Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Armstrong and Jettie and now he Armstrong and Jetty.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Man.
Speaker 4 (00:22):
I'm looking at CNN in a number of places, leading
with India Pakistan, as India flew fighter jets into Pakistan
and had some pretty major hits further in than they've
ever done before.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Pakistan claims they downed a couple of Indian jets. Everybody's
working to verify all the claims on each side.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
A couple of nuclear powers, and this is either a
minor dust up that will go into the long list
of dust ups over the last seventy years, or become
a giant, giant war. It's hard to say AnyWho. I
just looked up Free. I can't believe this is even happening.
Oh how many times have I said that in recent days?
(01:04):
As I look at the modern world, I can't believe
Joe Biden sitting in a chair doing an interview. So
he did an interview with the BBC. I haven't heard
any of it, but he looks a million years old.
He looks older than he looked when he left the
scene a year ago, and now he's gonna beat him
and Jill are gonna be on the view today and
they're criticizing Trump on policy. What do they think they're doing?
Who she must be in charge? She is, She's like
(01:27):
Belichick's girlfriend. I mean, she has just taken over from
an old man and is making bad decisions.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Reminds me of.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
When a sixty four year old Madonna did a tour
in which she was gyrating and showing her crotch and
the rest of it. She just couldn't give up the
sex pot thing. Well, Joe and Jill cannot give up
the we're important, relevant movers and shakers thing. They're congenitally
unable to y'all.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Bet you're right.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
That's the problem with becoming a US senator at age
twenty nine when I was a tiny kid and Noel.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Semi, who am I if not that? Nothing says Biden
to himself.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
But I'm thinking an ice cream cone is it drips
stickily down his withered hand And.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
They obviously have no handlers telling them because it is
only going to do them harm. But how do they
not have the self awareness? Not only does the half
of the country, well, the eighty five percent of the
country that didn't think you should be president not want
to hear from you. Nobody in your own party wants
to hear from you. There's nobody on your side of
politics that has any interest in anything you have to say.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
How do you not know that?
Speaker 3 (02:34):
It's like Dylan mulvaney showing up to the bud Light Convention.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Everybody's like, oh, no, Wise.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Here, Oh that is something AnyWho.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
They just released an early clip. If you want to
hear it, go ahead, Michael.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Yeah, boy Kruger, Michael Christmas, counter cutter.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
You check.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
You tricked this like Sean used to do every single
time back in the day.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
God, and how long ago was that? Yeah? I know
when he's declined signific well he just a month after months.
It's pathetic.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
So yesterday, the new Prime Minister of Canada goes to
sit in the what I like to call those Zelensky
chair there in the open office where you sometimes get
yelled at him belittled, depending on how things are going.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Just a question of how tense and humiliating it's going
to be.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
So we didn't we didn't get into this yesterday. It's
probably worth setting it up. This way, did you see
Trump's post that he put out during the day, right
before he got there, Right before the Canadian Prime minister
got there. Trump puts out a post basically saying Canada
(03:48):
needs to be the fifty first state and just lays
out the whole thing again, like right before the guy
walks in.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Yeah, yeah, that's something.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
I mean, World leaders like Carnie have had to get
down the how to parry or deal with Trump maneuvers
that had gone kind of you know, they laid fallow
for four years, but now they're back to it realizing
all right, he just he blurts stuff out via social media.
It might turn out to be official US policy in
(04:18):
a while, it might turn out to be forgotten in
ten minutes.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Don't react or is he just testing to see like
if you are you the kind of personality that can
say no to me? Or are you gonna like roll
over if I just keep asserting this.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
You know, I'm just going to be well, you're halfway
through your your sentence. I was gonna say no, it's
just Trump. He blurts things. He's a blurter, and I
still believe that. But your theory right there not a
bad one.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Yeah, let's hear a little how it went down.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
I think that there are tremendous benefits to the Canadian citizens,
tremendously lower taxes, free military, which honestly would give you
essentially anyway, because we're protecting Canada if.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
You have had a problem.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
But I think you know it's it would really be
a wonderful marriage because it's two places. They get along
very well, they like each other a lot. Well.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
If I'm a as you know from real estate, there
are some places that are never for sale.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
We're sitting in one right now, you know, bucking and Palace.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
You visit it as well, and having met with the
owners of Canada over the course of the campaign last
several months, it's not for sale, won't be for sale ever.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
See. So right off the bat, Trump pushes the guy.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
I think it was just a personal Does he have
the guts to stand up against this?
Speaker 2 (05:38):
He lays out, it'd be a benefit to your guy.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Taxes would be lower, military protection, everything like that.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
It'd be pretty great, be pretty plenty. Belittles the guy
a little bit too. Let's face it, we've been protecting you.
If there's every problem, we would you know it. So, yeah,
we rolling, and Carney's like, well, I appreciate that, but yeah,
let's just stay friends.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
I don't want to move in.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
The uncomfortable yet gentlemanly encounter went on.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
The opportunity is in the partnership and what we can
build together, and we have done that in the past.
And part of that, as the President just said, is
with respect to our own security, and my government is
committed for a step change in our investment in Canadian
security and our partnership. And I'll say this as well,
(06:24):
that the President has revitalized international security, revitalized NATO and
US playing our full weight in NATO, and that will
be parts.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Okay, so he throws a little bone to Trump to
you know, say something nice to him.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
That's definitely part of the playbook. Ye, But it rolls
on our fifty first state.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
But you consider what mister Carney just said that Canada
is not for sale.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Does this make it the discussion a little more difficult
to start on?
Speaker 1 (06:55):
No, not at all, No, not at all. No time
time will tell. It's only time. But I say never
say never. I've had many, many things that were not
doable and they ended up being doable, and only doable
in a very friendly way. But if it's to everybody's benefit.
You know, Canada loves us and we love Canada. That's
(07:16):
I think the number one thing that's important. But we'll see,
I mean, over time, we'll see what happens.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
So in any successful career, I think you become good
at what we've become pretty good at during various meetings
through the years, which is smiling pleasantly, looking attentive, nodding,
and saying completely non committal things much like an oral surgery,
(07:43):
just waiting until it's over, and then going about your life.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
The way you were going about it before the meeting.
And that was what Carnie was doing.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
My favorite part where Trump talks about you look at
a map, I mean, that just looks so good together.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
It's just like one entity.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
I mean, I mean, I understand beautiful things that that
line used to eliminate that, and it looks so good together.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
I mean, I just thought that was hilarious.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
Well, and in Trump's defense, it does look good. It
looked good. Is it one big country?
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Well, not only does it look good, it looks kind
of appropriate ish appropriate ish.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Yes, that's what I meant to say.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
In just geographically speaking, culturally speaking, and the fact that
there's a line between Canada and the United States is
just like this accident of that weird colonial period in
the seventeen hundreds when it was the Pritz versus the French,
versus the Spanish versus the Pritz.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Again, there's some Indians.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
And then the Britz and then Us, and we said,
go to hell, Britz, and Canada's like, yeah, I see
your point, but no, We're good with the Britz. And
it just there's no great reason to have the line.
On the other hand, it's been there for a hell
of a long time and it's not going anywhere.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Polling, this is a ninety ten issue. I saw the
polling yesterday. Ninety percent of Americans don't think Canada should
be a fifty first date, so about half. So it's yeah,
it's not exactly something people.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Are hot for. I know, it's just so silly.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Now, the reporting is that after that sit down, the
Canadian Prime Minister said to Trump privately, I want you
to stop referring to Canada as the fifty first state, which.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
I'm sure Trump finds hilarious. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Maybe, but being a dick for no good reason is
not a good strategy, and if indeed he's driving towards something, okay, great.
But if it's just alienating one of our closest allies
and we get nothing out of it, not good. Just
showing you're a tough guy to be a tough guy
not good in diplomacy, doesn't work, doesn't work long term.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
I personally don't want to add a more left California
to the map for our national government. I don't see
how that benefits me in my politics in any way.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Right, there would be a period of transition, by which
I mean like three quarters of century in which we'd
have to sort that out before a Conservative was ever
elected again.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Yeah, and I'd rather not Well.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
I wouldn't see all of it, for sure, if actuarial
tables are accurate, but I'd hate to see it at all.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
So yeah, enough of that.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Let's put it to bed under a nice thick blanket
because Canada is very cold, and move on to things
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There's no safe like simply say.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Jd Vance apparently just called out Russia for asking for
too much to end the Ukraine invasion. There might be
a switch happening here and they putting pressure on Russia.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Maybe, I don't know. I would like to see that.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Well.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
I read a great piece by Barton Swam editorialist about
what Trump fails to understand about Putin, and the very
very short version of it is Putin doesn't give a
crap about too many people dying. He could not care less.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Amazing.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Yeah, yeah, the whole humanitarian plea from Trump, which I appreciate.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
It's nice. It's falling on the deafest.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
Of yours, another guy who doesn't care about how many
people die.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
President.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
She is in Moscow as of today and will be
for several days. And that's a couple of evil, powerful
people with lots of nuclear weapons that would not blinket
millions dying to get.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
What they want on the world. So no, it's it's.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Horrifying anyway, a lot more stuff. It's not as heavy
on the way stay here. Trump's terraffs against China are
raising the cost of the wedding dresses.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
It's not good now brys are saying yes to the
jaggings from coals.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
Speaking of clothing options, so I'm at a Nike store
the other day with my son, who's there for the
fashion end of Nike. I'm looking around and I happen
to be over where the running shoes are, and one
caught my eye is just like I thought was a
good looking shoe. So I tried it on, and I've
never tried it on before. It is the most expensive
Nike tennis shoe I've ever tried on before. It's two
hundred and eighty five dollars. But I tried it on
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the shoes and they're there. Vapor Fly fours with you.
If you're a runner, you know. Vapor Flies came out
eight years ago and changed running shoes around the world.
It was the first one of those like really giant
thick sole makes you like two inches taller, springy shoes,
and Nike started that and like records started falling around
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the world, marathon stuff like that. And it's a controversy
of kind of like you got going golf, where has
the equipment just gotten so good that it's distorting things?
And one of those times, but I put on these
shoes and it was the weirdest experience. I mean, it's
so spongy and springy it's almost hard to walk in them.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
And they're very, very weird.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
And you've tried like hookahs, right yeah, yeah, yeah, those
are some.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Of those Maxi shoes too.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
Yeah, well, these these new things, and so Puma has
come out with the latest shoe that is supposed to
be even further down the road. It's ninety percent efficient
in returning the energy when your foot hits the ground
into springing you forward. So Nike had revolutionized the running
world with like sixty five to seventy percent this new
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Puma shoe that's also about three hundred dollars ninety percent
of your energy springs you forward. And I don't know
what we're trying to accomplish here. I mean I'm not
trying to break a record when I run. I'm trying
trying to get exercise to I don't know, lose weight
or not die. So almost seems I could be better
off with heavier shoes and maybe weights or something.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
I don't know, but.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Yeah, yeah, it's funny. I've thought that same thing about bikes.
I heard a guy bragging about how his road bike
was so incredibly efficient.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
I'm like, aren't you riding that for exercise?
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Yeah, unless you're trying to win a race, I'm not sure.
But AnyWho, So, uh, if you see these really funky looking,
super tall I guess you have to be careful doing
anything but running. They're not a good shoe to throw
on if you're gonna, like, you know, you used to
wear running shoes for everything, you'd you know, play in
the backyard with the kids. But these cauds are so tall.
They're just meant for going forward. It really easy to
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roll your ankle, like break an ankle or something like that.
They're not they're not designed for going side design right.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Right, yeah, I'm dealing with that right now.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
I've got to go get some like some court shoes
or old fashioned gym shoes because all I have is runners,
and you know, I'm doing other things that aren't appropriate.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
And yeah, we've got a like too big and high.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
But I wonder what the goal is faster running well,
sell more shoes. That's the ultimate goal. If you're Nike
your Puma, you want to you want to have the
shoe that makes people come out and spend three hundred
dollars on a pair of shoes. But sure, at some point,
if it's doing all the work and I'm just floating
along and getting no exercise, I don't know. I don't
know what I'm doing. Yeah, I like the idea made
two inches taller. I don't like the idea of spending
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three hundred dollars on a.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Pair of shoes.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
That's a lot and that's before the tariffs have kicked
in on all this sort of stuff.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Right, Uh sure, yeah, I have no idea with shoes
like that, whether that's your standard cost plus seven percent
profit margin, or if it's more like the wine business,
where you think, let's let's market this at this price
and see what we can do, and you could actually
sell it for a lot less, but you're capitalizing on
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scarcity in the population.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
But in general.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
In general, I've seen a number of news reports and
a lot of like your athletic shoe stores are just
they're ready to get hit hard with the whole tariff
because all that stuff's made in China.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
What one hundred and fifty percent tariff on like all
Nike products. What's that gonna do?
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Right?
Speaker 3 (16:58):
In Apple fans, Apple is holding the line on cost
mostly so far, but the rumblings are unmistakable that that
will not last very low.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
It can't.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
Tim Cook said last week they're going to have to
spend nine hundred billion dollars more over, however, many years
in costs if this keeps up, I mean, and he said,
they gotta pass the cost along.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
It's the only way to stay in business.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Yeah, I want to get into the current negotiations that
have just started, I guess between China and the US
to straighten out our trade relationship in you know, whatever
form it ought to take going forward. And that's its
own topic. But Scott Bessen saying, hey, oh, de couple,
not decoupling please, We'll have to see how that goes.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
I know you were planning to take your kids to
the Department of Housing and Urban Development today is a
field trip. But now you can't because you didn't get
the real id. Just like me, lots of us didn't
get the real id. The history of how we got
here on this ridiculous thing is kind of funny and
an emblematic of everything that is the government.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
The government's finances are screwed up. Wait till I tell
you about the Vatican later on. Today they got fancy clothes.
I just saw them walk out for the whole concave thing.
They could afford the clothing looking good, good, look their popes.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
Armstrong. And so I'm watching live some of the pope
stuff as they're all heading into the Sistine Chapel to
do their conclaven. And I'm not as into this story
as the mainstream media seems to be in them. Kind
of confused by that, as they are all atheists. I
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don't I don't get why I think they like that.
I think it's got a royal family flair to it,
with the costumes and the tradition or something.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
It's not the way, you're just something. And and Catholicism.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Is is is bigger in the Northeast than it is in.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
A lot of other parts of the country. Anyway, just
looking at these pictures of them all and all the
media is in the northeast off.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
All the cardinals walking in and chanting their prayers and
whatnot and everything. This Schisteine Chapel, if you've never been there,
is really amazing if you ever get the opportunity. It
is a stunning, stunning room and all the art in there,
and they've been doing it in there for what'd you
tell us the other day, like eight hundred years or something,
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So today's real ID day. I'm in warning us about
this for very very long time. I do not have
a real ID. I did not get my act together
in time, and in theory, I can't fly today or
go into a federal government building until I get my
real ID.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
And we're all safer as a result if I send
them into a coughing fit. I have thought that's pretty funny.
Have you ever had a coughing fit you thought would
never stop? I had one the other day. Oh, it
just wouldn't stop. And it's like I couldn't breathe. I couldn't.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
I was like down on a knee. I though, I'd like,
do I hurt your brain? Yeah? Pretty soon your brain
starts to hurt, I thought, do I need to go
to the er. Eventually it went away.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
It actually started in the ninety five, as I mentioned earlier,
as the Oklahoma City bombing that got this whole conversation started.
If you don't remember that horrifying day, the dude's wife
had made him a fake ID out of a piece
of cardboard on an ironing board, and it was good
enough to you know, rent a car, buy this stuff
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and everything like that. And that's when finally decided we
need to have some sort of like normalization of IDs
across states in this country. Nothing happened because nothing happens
with the federal government ever, so it was quite a
few years ago. Years later you get to two thousand
and one, nine to eleven. That gave it a little
more of a boost to come up with IDs, even
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though that had nothing to do with it. All the
hijackers were in the country legally and had the legal
version of the ID, So whatever that didn't, you know,
I don't make any difference. So are you against security?
Where did the name real ID come from? This sense
in Brenner you might remember his name, He was involved
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in it back in the day. He said, what do
kids call it if you have to like bring your
actual ID somewhere, not your fake ID to buy booze.
And some college kid told him when we call those
our real ID, and he said, okay, well what we'll
call this ID then, So that's where the name real
ID came from.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
The law. Sorry, Jim Sense and Brenner are Ohio.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
The law had two goals, have state's issue IDs that
are harder to counterfeit, and require states to do at
least a little bit of a background check on these cards.
The problem was, and this is actually a problem in
some states, there was almost no process for getting the
state driver's license or state ID usually it's a driver's license.
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There was almost no background check whatsoever. And because of
the way we do things, if you had an ID
in that state, you could go anywhere in the country
with that, and so there was almost no requirement to
have one.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Populist state in the Union.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
For instance, excuse me, California, where you could be an
illegal immigrant you snuck into the state. The only idea
you have is that which you had faked up in
LA while you were waiting to get settled, and you
go get a state driver's license.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
And you're on your way to anywhere you want in
the US. It's a great system.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
So the blog got complicated when they had to avoid
the highly political controversy, which we've talked about for years
in talk radio, of creating some sort of national ID
card by still having you know, a state by state
because people hate the idea of a national ID. They
quote this person and I only bring this up because
it's funny. This woman named Faith Bradley, a professor at
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George Washington University who wrote her doctoral dissertation on the
implementation of the real ID. That is a life not
well spent. I, sweetheart, I know, is there something else?
Speaker 3 (22:52):
I didn't want to study the reproductive habits of some
little frog that lives in the boxing a.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
God, You dedicated seven years of your life to writing
a paper about the implementation of the real.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
ID how to increase the yield of grain by one
percent like virtually anything.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Half the states in the country resisted the real idea
at first, so it took some sort of federal coursing
to get them to go along with it, citing cost, privacy,
and the burden for people of having to provide extra documentation.
This is you know, preying upon the poor and disenfranchised.
Those states just want people that shouldn't have IDs to vote.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
We know how that all thing works. Absolutely, Yeah, they're
voting today.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
So you had, you know, fiscally conservative states saying, hey,
don't put all this financial burden on us. Then you
had the states that want everyone that can breathe the vote,
whether there should be a citizen or not. You combine
those two things, and you had a lot of states
that are up against it. The result, twenty years on
is a variety of flavors of real ID. Most states
use a star or a star inside a circle, or,
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in the case of California, a star inside a bear.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Which of the id's are compliant with the federal standard?
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Boy, and you should have heard this sounds that bear
made as we were getting the star inside of them. Oh,
by the way, you're talking about the compliance earlier. Are
you gonna go back to that and talk about that
You ought to probably ought to reset that. I'll save
my comment until Jack brings us the hilariously low compliance rates.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
Uh, yeah, I will get back to that. So yeah,
So I guess I've seen the California one. It's a
star inside a bear. I don't have one, as we know,
so I no longer can visit federal buildings, which is
again already everybody.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
My wife is feeling a vacancy. Have you told the kid?
I have to tell you something. We cannot visit any
federal buildings today.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
It's basically an enhanced driver's license, as we don't know,
and there's a little bit of a background check.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
Millions of people have yet to even apply for the
real ID in all kinds of different states. I've applied,
I just don't have my appointment yet to the compliance,
which is absolutely amazing. The most compliance and the entire
country is New Jersey, which has seventeen percent compliance. Seventy
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so forget about it. That's pretty funny. How am I
going to get into about a being without a real ID.
Maybe they'll let you in. But it's very common across
the country. I mean, you pick a state. Let's look
at Montana. They appear to be in the twenty to
forty percent compliance zone. Let's look at Georgia. Georgia doing
pretty well. They're between eighty and one hundred percent. Way
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to go to Georgia, But you get down to Arizona,
and they're also twenty to forty. California is forty to sixty.
Way more of us that didn't get it, even though
we had all these warnings than we did. I don't
know what that says about Americans or America or our
government or what. I don't know if it says anything,
it's got to say.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
I got a note from Mike, the attorney in Chicago.
Low compliance for real idea in Illinois is doing part
because the Illinois Secretary of State runs a DMV so poorly.
People can't get in, they can't get appointments. Many just
gave up. I was going to pop that it's mostly
a terribly run abusive blue states.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
But the states you mentioned no clear pattern to me. Well,
it could be different reasons in different states.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
You could have the I don't do what the government
tells me to do crowd, and then you could have
blue states where it's just like I was doing it
in California.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
That whole having to have.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
You got to verify who you are with like an
electric bill or a lease or whatever, and it has
to have.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Your middle name on it. I kept getting rejected.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
Well, I'm sorry, I don't fill out my PG and
E bill with my middle name. I've been given my
initial or not my whole life. So it's just odd, right,
just silly.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
And you could change that by you know, calling PGNI
and saying, put my middle name on there going forward,
and then a month later you could get your real ID.
There you go, there's your security, and thank god, I
will not hijack a plane because of that. Yes, Katie,
what do you have to contribute?
Speaker 6 (26:52):
Well, I flew yesterday and in line there were probably
thirty ish people ahead of me, and everybody who didn't.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Have a real ID, they gave a little piece of
paper that.
Speaker 6 (27:02):
Said time is running out and scan this little quirk.
Every single person in front of me got one of those.
There was not one person in line that had a
real idea.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
Yeah, so now here's the part, and this is where
the media has failed. I saw this on Fox News Nation.
I haven't heard this anywhere else. They were at one
of your major Northeastern airports. I don't know which one,
but they said there is a special line over there.
If you do not have a real ID, they will
send you over there. You will get extra security, but
you will get on the plane. They said, We've asked
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for details, they're not giving us any. So the TSA
has got some sort of special we will let you
on the plane. Is this true at every airport in
the country that it's like a you know, the homework
is due Friday, but we didn't really mean it. If
you get it in on Monday, it still counts. I mean,
so is that what's going on? You can still get
on the plane. But it's a full body cavity search.
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It's the old squat and cough.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
I mean they're gonna go over plays fine toothed, calm,
shave your head to make sure there's nothing delaus in
your hair.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Delousing sheep tip and the whole treatment.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Cut your fingernails down to the nubs, ladies, to make
sure you haven't hitten a bomb under there. So you
want to be a scoff law huh? If it were
up to me, you know what, you'd get that little
QR code and they'd hit you with a night stick
and then they do the search. We gotta get compliance
in this country.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
Get up on the stool. We got to make sure
you're not suitcasing something.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
I'm a boy Scout leader from Omaha. I served in
the army.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Squat and cough.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
But doesn't this strike you as odd that they've decided
you can get on the plane without the real ID.
But they're not telling the media or the media is
not reporting it. I mean, what kind of what is this?
Speaker 3 (28:51):
It is the classic strategy, and I'm slightly surprised you
don't recognize it of the underachiever, the underachiever being the government.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
You act as though you've read the book. You mumble some.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Incoherent Kamala Harris asked phrases about the story of lawyer
and his daughter who doesn't like racism, have not read
They were Kula mocking bird.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
They were calling the wild the wild. So there was
a calling of the wild, and then there's a big
wolf dog and snow right exactly.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
And so you you hold up the pretense that you've
accomplished what you claimed you would accomplish.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
But really so that's funny.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
I actually thought that they probably meant it this time,
like we've delayed a million times, we actually mean it now.
You can't fly unless you get this ID. And I thought, well,
that's fine, you've warned me a million times. But at
the same time, like I said earlier, what you got
a Newark airport, you got five out of ten travelers
or business travelers.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
This is how they make their living.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
And you're gonna say you can't fly because you don't
have the star with the circle on your id, because.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
You don't know if you're an airport where they can't talk
to the planes half the time. Now you know what
it is, Jack, And this is weird. This thought just
clicked into my head and I can't decide if.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
I believe this or not.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
I think it may actually be a fairly healthy response
from the government of a free people. They are saying,
in effect, look, this is a dumb policy.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Trot it out dumbly. It didn't make it easy.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
Nobody's really serious about all this. We kind of went
through with it because we said we were going to.
If you don't have it, come over here. We'll ask
you a.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Couple of questions and then you can get on your plane.
It's a confession of sorts.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
You know what it'll be, and then it'll be people
like me. It's such a pain in the ass to
go to that longer line. I guess I'll finally get
an energy bill with my middle name on it, so
I can get this dang thing and not have to
go in that line.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
Plus at the airport I run, which I'm going to
name Joe Hare International, you're gonna get tired of getting
those licks from the night stick too. Well, you'll go
down to the DMV with your electric bill with your
middle name mom there and you will comply.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
You know what's interesting is the body cavity searches get
easier over time.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Ah right, maybe we should take a break. You get
used to it. Oh boy? Uh, we got any any
thoughts on this? Our text line four one, five two
nine five KFTC.
Speaker 7 (31:21):
Shot a shadowy network called seven sixty four whose goal
is to spark violence and chaos around the world, in
part by luring in unsuspecting teenagers. Seven sixty four targets
kids on social media and gaming platforms, extorting them into
sending violent and sexual content.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
The FBI is warning.
Speaker 7 (31:41):
Parents to pay attention to who their kids are talking
to on social media and gaming platforms.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
The FBI is.
Speaker 7 (31:47):
Investigating more than two hundred and fifty suspects tied to
seven sixty four, with every.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Field office involved. Well that's just dandy.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
I am a parent of teenagers who'd never even heard
of that in my life until two seconds ago.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
So that's just great.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
Let's just put that on the long list of things
you can be concerned about.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
If your kid's got a phone.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
Not so fast, there's more to be concerned about if
your kid has a phone. I was just reading that
the hacker ring that you may remember put Vegas out
of commission?
Speaker 2 (32:17):
What was that? Six years six months ago, a year ago?
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
Time flies when you're old, but they brought down all
those casinos for a time. That is a very loosely
assembled group of bored, malcontent, mischievous youngsters who call themselves
the con or something like that. And this specific subgroup
of the subgroup calls themselves scattered Spider, I guess, and
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they just they hack into various corporations and companies and
government institutions and stuff like that for fun and mischief,
and sometimes they steal, but sometimes they.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
Just screw with it.
Speaker 4 (32:53):
That whole keep track of who your kids talked to
on social media and everything like that sounded a lot
easier before, well before my kids got old enough to
be involved in that world. And as far as I
can tell, I'm more strict than a lot of my
son's friends parents are and it's still just I mean,
there's just so many opportunities for them to be involved
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with bad people. I mean, unless I'm gonna be over
his shoulder all the time, right, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
I was a very big fan as a parent, partly
for that reason, and I completely support the idea of
trying not to trying to eliminate opportunities to do bad
things one hundred percent. But I realized at one point
what you're talking about, and so I just really emphasized
the underlying principles right behind doing some things and not
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doing some things, and how extremely important they were to
me as their dad and their mom certainly, but how
important and fundamental they are to being a good person
and a bad person. And then when they're loose on
the town and they're presented with temptation, you hope and
pray they make the right choice, and or if they
make the wrong choice, it's not a disaster.
Speaker 4 (34:02):
Right, which has a lot to do with their friend
group and everything else, which has always been true. But man,
the opportunity to get in trouble is exponentially greater now
than it was twenty years ago. I mean, it's just
a completely different world. You couldn't order heroin and in
a machine gun from any tiny town in America when
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I was in high school, or come across a you know,
an international pedophile sex ring.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
It just wasn't gonna happen. Yeah, I know, I know.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
I was going to bring up a kind of vague
philosophical theme about the modern world. Don't really have time
to get into it now, but.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
Has to do.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
And I can't get into specifics in my little world. Really,
You'll have to forgive me for that for now. But
a friend of mine characterized kind of a move as
the slime from the Ghostbusters movies, the original Ghostbuster, the
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early eighties, classic.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
Early eighties like eighty three. When was that out?
Speaker 3 (35:10):
Anyway, you may recall that when all the ghosts were
running wild in New York City, one of the things
they did was like spread this green slime around. The
effect it had was not just you know, green slime
is effect enough, yick, but it caused New Yorkers to
be angry and disagreeable and turn on each other. And
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we're discussing a very local context and also the angst
and unhappiness of youth, and the fact that incumbents all
over the developed world are getting tossed out of office.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
And the parties.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
That have been fairly stable and in power, you know,
they switch places now and again, but they're just getting
tossed aside. There is a near global feeling of angst
and unhappiness that I don't ever recall before.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
What do we do with this information? To do about it?
Speaker 4 (36:13):
We get used to it, do we settle into some
or it just keeps getting worse.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
Buy heroin and machine guns on the Internet, like you're
discussing earlier.
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