May 1, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 1 of A&G features...
- 8 most powerful air forces on earth & the penny
- Katie Green's Headlines!
- It's not about GDP. It's about jobs numbers
- Mailbag!
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Arm Strong and Jack and He arm Drawn live from
sto C. I'm sorry it's early alive from studios. It's
a bad start. Clinging to life from studio se.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Right right, honored on my deathbed from Studio CE dimly
lit room.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
This might not work today. We're under the tutelage of
our general manager.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
The United States Military.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
A couple of big military stories today I want to
talk about and Bye Gully. The nation that can't defend
itself will not be a nation for long, high priority.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
We'll get to it. Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Did we figure out yet why that plane rolled off
the aircraft carrier into the sea.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Do we know the answer to that yet? Not too much?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Well, I forgot this. That's the parking break, and I
feel terrible about it. But yes, it's on me.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
I don't care if we get lied to.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
I mean, if the Huthi's shot at us and somehow
cause that to happen and we don't want to admit that,
I'm fine with that. I'm pro fog of war. The
other side, does it we get to do it too,
but not fog of stupid But yeah, no, I want
to know if it was incompetence of some sort that's like,
oh my god, we shouldn't be making mistakes like that,
right not go discipline, et cetera. I found this. I
(01:42):
came across this yesterday. Funny you brought that up the ten.
It's actually a list of the eight most powerful air
forces on Earth. Hm. Four of the top five or
the US. How many air forces do we have total?
Speaker 2 (01:59):
I got y.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Yeah, number one air force in the world is the
United States Air Force. The number two air force in
the world is the United States Navy. The number four
air force in the world is the Army. In number
five is the Marines. So for of the top five
air forces in the world are US and then in
the middle Therey you get the Russian Air Force, which
I'm kind of surprised by that.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
It's bigger than China. China is down at seven. Hmmm.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Interesting, Yeah, well good for us, Yeah, exactly. I liked
a little shot of Hey we're number one. I needed
I needed that.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Yeah, we need to beef up the navy.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Part of our navy certainly, although that is one of
the defense stories. We're going to be talking about a.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Major infusion of what seems to be some fairly well
directed cash. The Pentagon's way, well, I heard what at
least been proposed by Congress. It's tough with the Pentagon
and reports like this, because it's the money spigot of
all money spigots.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
If you can, if you can, and.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Not that you know, we are in a country patriots
wanting to do our best, but there are also you know,
there are plenty of people then think, you know this
weapon system over here that I benefit from, Here's why
you should spend the money on this instead of that one.
And there was a report out yesterday that we are
not prepared for the new drone world of fighting, which
(03:21):
the Ukraine in Russia have you know, changed warfare probably forever.
And I mentioned yesterday I was listening to a podcast,
this Great Daily Ukrainian podcast, where it was quoting a
number of Ukrainian leaders about how like, for instance, armored
vehicles are irrelevant now after are years of tanks, armored
vehicles are irrelevant now. They did have other guests on
(03:43):
who said that's not true because, for instance, Great Britain
is working on an anti drone weapon that will make
drones useless. And this might just be a little blip
of little mass drones coming in taking out your tanks,
and the ability to shoot them down will over take that.
You know, it's a constant back and forth. Who knows.
I certainly don't know, but that wouldn't surprise me.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
One of the updates I wanted to share a had
to do with the US in absolute overdrive developing our
drone program.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
So that's an interesting light to shed on it what
you just said.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Certainly, but they're talking about the front lines in Ukraine
and how the drones have just changed that warfare. So
it's trench warfare, World War One style, but you add
in drones and you're in that trench and you hear
a buzzin and here comes, you know, two hundred drones.
Whether you're they're coming at you as a Russian or
North Korean, or whether they're coming at you was a
(04:37):
Ukrainian maybe, soon to be Frenchmen, Englishmen in German maybe,
but anyway, you hear the drones coming and they hunt
you down. You take off running and one drone will
chase you until it catches up to you and shoots you.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Right, How brutal is that?
Speaker 3 (04:54):
I suspect strongly that the good folks at Boston Dynamics
and wherever DARPA is spending its money, are frantically working
to replace the aforementioned human being with yet another drone, right,
some sort of R two D two looking thing with
a machine gun. And so there's no need to have
much of a trench and food and water and sanitation
(05:18):
and the rest of it, because it'll be drones firing
at the drones.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Right.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Yeah, that's all really interesting stuff. I just hope we're
on the cutting edge of it, in the front of it,
and not you know, a power leaning on the force
that would have been dominant twenty years ago but is
no longer that dominant because technology has changed. And you know,
you know what kills off in big countries or any
organization is you just you get big and slow and
(05:45):
stuck in the past, and bureaucracy does not allow you
to innovate and change because there are a bunch of
corporations that want you to still build the same plane
in tank.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Sure. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
One of the great uneasy tensions in any government, and
certainly out of a superpower. And if you go around
spouting spouting only one half of this, you're the classic
example of knowing just enough to be dangerous. A the
need for a robust, powerful, overwhelming, terrifying defense. Okay, but
(06:18):
that costs zillions of dollars. Has Jack put it earlier,
It's an enormous money spigot constantly flowing full. Well, what
does an enormous money spigot attract? Greed heads, fraud, corruption,
the rest of it? But where are the military industrial complex?
(06:39):
And so we've got the never ending need for the
giant money's picket, and the never ending need to protect
ourselves against those who would, you know, drain us unjustifiedly
or dishonestly. Just it must be ever ever vigilant. It
never goes away that challenge. Yeah, Russia, this story came
out yesterday. Russia is helping North Korea with planes and boats,
(07:02):
beefing up their air force using my finger quotes and navy,
and in exchange for giving you a bunch of young
men that we.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Waste horribly as Russians do. But one other thing, and
all that is the story that broke yesterday afternoon. It
did happen as predicted that. Apparently, when Trump and Zelensky
got together to the Vatican the other day, they were
talking about that mineral rights deal and it has come
together and gotten signed. So we're now invested in Ukraine.
(07:31):
And does that mean we're invested invested like, hey, Russia,
don't be messing with our investment. Is that what's happening here?
Or what is it just a money grab?
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Is it both?
Speaker 3 (07:43):
It could be one of the most brilliant and innovative
diplomatic moves I've ever witnessed. Could be We're not, but
we will absolutely talk about that.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Yeah. If it's a no, we're not getting involved in
the war.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
We have no interest in fighting you, but we do
have a big finance interest in these minds, so you
better stop.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Speaking of long unproductive wars, Jack, one war that we've
been fighting for some time is starting to look better
and better like we might win it. That is the
war on the penny by partisan support for eliminating the penny.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Wow of my minor gee, Hods, this one time change
is next. We get this taken care of, then it's
on to the time change. That's pretty much at the
end of your long ge hot day. You look up
at the clock, you got six seven minutes left in
the day, and what's.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
A LoVa penny? Damn pennies.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
You're not gonna spend all day railing about it, but
it's worth a few minutes, Michael.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
I just think it's a wonderful time to be alive
and see the penny go penny going possibly, you know,
daylight saving time. It is wonderful. Let's start the show officially.
I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty on this it is
Oh boy, it's Thursday. It's May first. The rent is
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have my rent set auto pay like you probably do.
And so you get the email saying my rent's what?
(09:03):
I forgot it so much? Why is rent so damn high?
The year twenty twenty five were Armstrong and getting we
approved of this program.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Let's beginning then, officially according to the FCC rules regulations.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
What a show it's going to be. Here we go
at mark Hi everyone, Thank you all, thank you, thank you.
And Dougie's here too.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
Why oh please have a seat, please have a seat.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Oh oh, it's wonderful to be home and thank you.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Oh my lord, I thought I remembered how off putting
she was.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
It in faded in my memory.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Kamala Harris with her comeback speech for some reason, no
Ah and Douggie's here too. Where did they find people
willing to cheer her like she was missed?
Speaker 2 (09:58):
That was my first question. Explain your enthusiasm to me,
take your time.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Where did those people come from? Here's my favorite thing
before we take a break from Charles C. A. Cook
about Kamala's speech, because he was responding to some article
about there's a clamoring for her voice right now, and
Charles CW.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Cook wrote, there is not.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
There has, in fact, never ever been less of a
clamoring for anything that is on off er. In the
history of clamoring, no people has ever clamored less than
the American people are clamoring for Kamala Harrison's voice.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
She is clamorless. She has a hollow clamor.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Ee who wrote the original line with a straight face,
I guess that American's clamoring for her voice?
Speaker 2 (10:41):
What?
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Oh, that is funny. We got Katie's headlines on the way.
More news of the day, lots of stuff. Hope you
can stay here. I'm gonna steal a headline from you,
Katie that you probably don't have because it just came across.
Mark Halpern, who has tremendous sources, is tweeting out. He
(11:02):
says three sources tell him that Mike Waltz, the currently
National Security Advisor, and the deputy Alex Wang are out
the door as early as today. Yeah, so be kind
of interesting to see. Why not shocked.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
I hate that because I like Walltz. He's a good
guy and a smart guy.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
But yeah, it was that whole Jeffrey Goldberg a signal
chat thing. But Trump's too strong willed to get rid
of him then, like it's a reaction to criticism.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
He'll just wait and then shove him out the door
when somebody's looking in the other direction. Okay, well he
is more of a traditional we need to support Ukraine
attack Iran guy, and maybe they didn't want his voice
around on that.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
I don't know, I wonder. Yeah, all right, so much
to talk about today. Let's get started to figure out
who's reporting what. It's the lead story with Katie Green.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Katie, starting with ABC News.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
Trump says he's not in a rush to make trade deals. Quote,
they want us, we don't need them.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
I saw part of the town hallidd on News Nation
last night and he said, yeah, we're in the catbird seat,
he said several times, which we either we are or
we aren't. But from a negotiating deal, acting like you
can take it or leave it is always a good
place to be.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Trumpian strategic chaos in the midst of negotiation yep USA.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
Today, Ukraine and United States sign long awaited minerals.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
And reconstruction deal.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
How it develops and what it means ultimately a really
interesting topic.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
From the Washington Post, China Signal. I'm sorry, can I'm skinned.
I jumped in.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
The one thing that offended me as an American was
the idea and Trump expressed this several times that they.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Need to pay us back for what we spent.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
You can't retroactively convert a gift into a loan, and
I mean that's despicable on a human level and certainly
in conducting foreign policy going for nobody would ever take
us seriously.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Again, that's been dropped.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Yeah, I'm glad to part of the deal, even according
to NPR this morning.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
All right from the Washington Post, China Signals ever so
obliquely that it's more open to trade talks.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Well, it better be there. They're sinking quickly to their knees.
More on that to come. Major economics update, including how
misleading some of yesterday's economics were that everybody was talking
about all day long. We will remove the scales from
your eyes. To paraphrase the Good Book.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Of course, your daughter might have to get by with
just one dollar this year, according to Trump, So we'll
have that for you later.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
That's quite there. Quite the statement.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
If you haven't heard it, doll shortach, Yes, stay tuned.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
From Breitbart.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
Kilmar Obrego, Garcia's wife filed second protective order in twenty twenty,
said he's made murder threats and quote, my kids are afraid.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Oh that's horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
And he's now the Rosa parks of the Democratic Party.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Good strategy from NBC.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Judge rules Palestinian activists mcmood Khalil can fight wrongful detention
case in federal court.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
You had to contradict what I said seconds ago. Yeah,
we do have to follow the rules. I mean, we're
a nation of laws.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Do you see all the detainees there at that place
in Texas that made an SOS for planes flying overhead yesterday,
No miss that.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
I don't know who came up with that idea.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
That was a great, great play into the hand of
the Trump Hayton media.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
They just loved that. Of course, look.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
At all those detainees making an SOS in the dirt
in Texas to try to save their lives.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Great vicial too, Yeah, we love, we love a good visual.
In fact, no story matters on TV news unless there's
a good visual.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
From the Wall Street Journal, US Army plans massive increase
in its use of drones.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
They're saying the shift to.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
More small unmanned aircraft is based on lesson to learn
from the Ukraine battlefield.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Yeah, we're just talking about that. Gotta major look into
that coming up as well.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
From the New York Post, team charged in Tesla firebombing
released from federal custody to continue gender affirming medical care.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Yeah right, all right, samany it was amazing how many
of these jobs burning up Tesla's were.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Gender bending lunatics. What's up with that? Wow, that's charitable.
From the New York Times.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
In an uncertain economy, McDonald's is seeing a spending decline.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Yeah, I just saw a thing up on the TV
snack foods go stale on the something about sales for
snack foods.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
So we eating less.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
McDonald's and crappy food so in store for some reason,
I'd be good.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
I have Key k Jr.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Is making America healthy again. Jack, he's successful. He's doing
his thing.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
From page six, Kanye West doubles down on being wife
Bianca's quote master after they get back together.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
I didn't realize they'd gotten back together. Wow.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Yeah, it's a shock that both ends of that relationship
are a little nutty.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
And finally, the Babylon be global birth rates hit historic
lows as Elon Musk is busy with Doge.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Les less busy starting yesterday, I guess so had the
headline break on my phone last night, Tesla board searching
for Musk's successor, wanting to replace Elon Musk for running Tesla.
But then the Financial Times with the headline today Tesla
board denies launching search for Musk's successor, which doesn't mean
it's not happening, but they are denying it.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
Yeah, they might have just trying to be trying to stare.
I'm sorry, Can I have a second take on that, Michael,
They're trying to scare him straight.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Hey, you might want to pay attention to the most
valuable car company in the world.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Yeah, if you get a minute, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
So all that stuff Joe teased, and a bunch of
other things coming up. If you missed a segment, get
the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
President Trump and Bortally spoke on the phone yesterday with
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. But even he doesn't know how
to cancel your prime membership.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
It because I don't think I need it anymore.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Well, because I'm the president, so the savings matter less.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
I don't think I need any more. That's it. That's
pretty amusing, that is.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
And so that was the whole tariffs on Amazon stuff,
to show why the prices went up, And did the
tariffs have anything to do with the shrinking of the
econo that came out yesterday? People saying yes, people saying no. Maybe,
Jokin tell us, I will.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
I will share with you the product of my reading
far too much yesterday about all of this and this
morning as well. So, first of all, to belabor the
fact that the drive by media are terrible at their
jobs and biased seems unnecessary at this point, Can we
just stipulate that your honor, so be it?
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Moving along?
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Of course, what most of us heard yesterday did not
enlighten us much and in fact obscured the truth. Here's
what you need to know. So the GDP on an
annualized basis shrunk the announced yesterday right the first quarter?
Is that Trump's economy or not, blah blah blah doesn't
really matter much, not yet.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Here's the one thing you need to know. How do
we figure the GDP? I was trying to remember. I
learned that ages ago and have to be reminded of
a few years. GDP is calculated by adding consumption, government expenditures, investments,
and exports together and subtracting imports.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
That's how you get the GDP.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Now, the reason that last part is so significant G
for gross domestic product?
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Did we say that it is? Indeed?
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Yes, thank you, that's excellent. Let's not be too hip
for the room. So the reason that is significant is that,
as the headline from the journal puts it, the rush
to beat tariffs is distorting the economy.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
And there's more to come. Short version, there.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Was an enormous, mind boggling surge in imports in the
first quarter because of the anticipation of a big, giant,
god knows what's going on tariffs. So I actually kind
of pushed up the purchase of a automobile that may
be of German origin, Yaavol, because.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
I thought, well, if there's a giant terriff, I might
as well do it.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Now, evidently many, many, many people and corporations thought the
same way.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
US imports surged more than.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Forty percent year after year over a year in the
first quarter of this year, and that drove down gross
domestic product by zero point three percent annualized one point
two whatever. Now, there's a great deal of uncertainty going
forward about how the tariffs and the uncertainty over the
(20:23):
tariffs is going to affect the economy. But that's why
the economy shrank. It didn't our production didn't shrink, our
spending didn't shrink, our investment didn't shrink.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
It's that we had.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
An enormous amount of imports in anticipation of the tariffs. Now,
having said that, Goodness knows what the next quarter is
going to be like, I mean, because all of these
numbers generally chug along in a reasonably predictable way because
of economic inputs and outputs. But this is you know,
Trump has thrown the whole thing up in the air.
(20:55):
So anyway, don't worry about the GDP number yes yesterday.
In fact, as greg Ip writes, forget the GDP, it's
the job report that matters. The first quarter decline economic
output tells us almost nothing about the economy's actual performance,
which through March was fine. It tells us even less
(21:16):
about the broader impact of President Trump's tariff's federal cutbacks,
and immigration crackdown. For that, we'll have to await the
April data, starting with jobs and unemployment, which, as we
are jabbering now, are released tomorrow, Friday, the second. This
will be the first hard data since Trump's April second
tariff announcements, plus the federal cuts by Elon, by the DOGE,
(21:40):
or in full swing deportations have messed a little bit
with labor market. Weak job numbers could vindicate Trump's critics.
Strong number could shut them up, at least for now.
And he goes on to say he suspects, though, that
the April report won't tell us a lot.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
It's early etc. Se.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Yeah, the job's remember coming out tomorrow. A great deal
will be made to that. Interesting one of my favorite
numbers floating around out there. Sort of separate from that,
but in the same realm with bringing back manufacturing and
everything like that. We have one hundred and forty thousand
plus empty manufacturing jobs right now that people don't want
(22:24):
or won't take.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
That's why we need to bring half a million more back. Jack,
So I'll have six hundred and forty empty jobs. Well
that's the question. Would they be higher paying or different
or something.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Or can we reform our freaking safety net so that
able bodied men all over this country aren't sitting at
home smoking pot, playing video games and either faking a
disability or or whatever other method they've found to suck
off the government teat get their ass into a job.
(22:59):
I've been desk. Trust me when I say it's a
hell of a motivator.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Well, we've made a turn where we think. I can't
believe most of America thinks this? Does most of America
think this? Where there are just jobs you shouldn't have
to do. If you're like a twenty six year old dude,
I mean, you went to college you got a degree,
you shouldn't have to go do that.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Who decided that? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
With the craziest domestic not domestic, Progressive America is really
pushing that idea, and infrequently it either takes the form well.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
White people shouldn't be doing those.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Jobs, which is unbelievable, or you know, if you want
to broaden it a little bit, native born people and
citizens shouldn't be doing these jobs.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
We need to import third worlders. They'll do the jobs.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
It's you know, when you say it out loud, and
I don't think I'm being unfair with that characterization.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
When you say it out loud, it's repugnant.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Absolutely is When was the last time you had heard
a mainstream met a useless, dumb ass weasel. I'm sorry, folks, wow,
I'm getting in passion my language is.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
I'm sorry it was over the top. I apologize anyway,
But when was the last time you heard somebody enunciate
that it's crazy? A couple more e count stories I
found interesting. Home builders are piling on discounts. They're struggling
to entice buyers. The spring season is huge for home builders.
Your biggies, your d R Horton, your PULTI Group, your
(24:26):
lg I homes Lennar, and they are down fifteen percent
spring over spring a year ago. A couple of them are,
others are down a little bit less, but they're offering
big incentives. People are feeling very very cautious and very
very stretched economically already, and so the homebuilders of America
(24:49):
are waving at the White House saying.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Hey, hey, can we ease up a little bit. Then
finally this.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Trump was right, he said in a couple of different
forms yesterday. China is really feeling of pain. They are
trying to act all stoic and tough, like a boxer
who's just been tagged with a right cross to the chin.
But cracks are starting to show. Riot su is this
I like to give credit words due lingling Way and
(25:16):
Raphael Huong both foom sound like they know their way
around China. That Chinas singled a signaled that as a
nation it's better able to tolerate the pain of a
prolonged tariff war than the fat decade in US. I'm
kind of enhancing their article, But cracks are starting to show,
suggesting how deeply that pain is already settling across the
Chinese economy. Plunging trade across the Pacific is leading to
(25:39):
production halts and threatening to undermine job stability for millions
of Chinese. On Wednesdays, China's economy showed its first big
signs of damage from the trade war, with a drop
in export orders in April and the weakest production of
the country's factories in.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
More than a year.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
A lot of the numbers look like the beginning of COVID,
when China is starting to groan a bit wow. Speaking
of which, did you see the statement China put out
about how COVID started in the United States.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
We'll have to read that later. That was something.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Oh, no, you're kidding there, you know, I wanted to
bring this up. There is a great new book out.
I think I can find the type quickly. That's not it,
Actually there it is, Yeah, it's it is a book
interestingly by two liberal Princeton professors, self described progressive academic
(26:29):
and gay activist. And this other guy's work has been
praised by liberal thinkers like Ezra Kline. But they wrote
a book called in COVID's Wake, How our Politics Failed.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Us, and it is scathing. It's like we and Sean
Hannity teamed up to write a book. It is brutal,
and I haven't brought it.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
Up just because I could go over and over the
horrible mistakes and the lack or the vanishing of liberty
that happened during COVID for the rest of my life.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Be bored. I think it's that important.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
But yeah, they just hammered the Jesus out of it,
and including the lab leak thing and how the lab
leak theory was silenced, and it's just it's inexcusable.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
I'll read that statement from China later.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
It's galling finally economic note, price of eggs is down
eighty percent. The Great egg Crisis is over. I've had
seventeen eggs already today. Oh, Great egg crisis is over.
Just you know, pop them like they's nothing. Walk around
with a bag full of eggs, popping them in your
mouth because they're they're cheap and easy again. Yeah, so
has the bird flu been more or less corral?
Speaker 3 (27:38):
Speaking of dread disease, I don't know why the price
of eggs sound big factor.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Let's just hope there's not some sort of toast pox
that pops up.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Next to ruin breakfast for all of us. You know.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Oh my god, he'shost. We've got the mail bag on
the way. We got to get into some more news
of the day. The our military is going more high tech,
I guess, to deal with the changing landscape of wars
on the ground. We'll get to that story probably an
hour or two. Lots of stuff on the way.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Stay here.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Washington Post has a inside look at some of Sean
Combe's lifestyle. Is parties and everything like that, laying out
in a way I'd never heard before. We'll have to
get to that a little bit later. God, he is
so much baby oil. Just what a degenerate lifestyle. What
a horrible way to chase happiness. It's never regula, never
(28:32):
worked for anybody in the history of the world.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Yeah yeah, Wow.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Here's your freedom loving quota of the day, sent along
by Jerry. We've used this one more than once, but
it's one of my all time favorites.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
From Alisa Zenovievin, now better known to the world of
letters as ein Rand. When you realize that to produce
you must obtain permission from those who produce nothing, When
you see that money flows to those who deal, not
in goods but in favors. When you notice that many
become rich through bribery and influence rather than buy their work,
and that the laws do not protect you from them,
(29:05):
but instead they are protected from you.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
When you discover that corruption is rewarded.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
And honesty becomes a form of self sacrifice, then you
can confidently say, without fear of being wrong, that your
society is doomed.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Ding ding ding.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
A little close to home there, Ian Baby, Yeah, Mailbag,
she said that what in the nineteen thirties or forties.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
You can drop us a note anytime you like. Mailbag
at Armstrong and Getty dot com. On the topic of
the Wisconsin judge who is helping an illegal wife beater
escape justice because she's so mad at ice or something,
Adam Wrights, guys, let's cut that judge some slack. Maybe
they help that violent illegal alien escape the domestic violence
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hearing and.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Ice in a moment of panic.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
I mean, come on, we've all been trapped in a
vestibule once and used any means to escape in a.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
Moment of panic.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
I was trying to escape a vestibule.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
That is one of my favorite tapes of all time.
AOC told us it's even okay to pull a fire alarm.
Good point, Adam Good callback.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
She was asking about whether she wants to run for
president yesterday. We'll have the answer later. D.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
On the topic of the Harvard bigots, and more on
that to come, the Harvard's own report is scathing.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
I've dug into it. Let's see, Sean writes.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
Maybe the Harvard Muslim students who reported like they could
not speak freely, they were like, I'd like to say, hey, let's.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Cool it with the Jews stuff, but I'm scared of
all those crazy white chicks. That is a funny thought.
The Muslim students are terrified of the woke white girls.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Let's see.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
On the topic of whether some transient tampered with your tesla, Jack, Yeah,
let's see this guy writes, if you didn't hear, I
told the story on one more thing, brief story is
some guys, some guy who's.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Transient adjacent.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
I don't know why I allowed this, but he said,
I parked my cyberbeast and he said, hey, I've never
seen one of those before.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Can I take a look inside?
Speaker 1 (31:15):
And I hesitated, and yeah, I would have been uncomfortable
to say, no, I don't know, and he he stuck
his head in there like weirdly far and low for
too long a time.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
It was strange.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
And now my door makes a weird sound when I
close it, and I don't know if he did something
to my car or what.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
I just forwarded you an email to your personal account
from a listener who said, not for air.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
You might want to take a gander it. Well, yeah
I will.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Yeah, let's see it anyway. Is it a DP or
is it related to this story? I'm sorry, a what now?
A Richard pick? Or is it related to this story?
Speaker 3 (31:52):
No, you idiot, No, it's directly related to the story.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
Anyway, let's see.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Sean writes, I think Jack was paranoid and describing that incident,
but it's not like he.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Once reported some Italian caterers as Islamis terrorists to Homeland
security in Las Vegas. I mean, if you'd done that,
I'd question this judgment.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
That was Jean Baby.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
That was New Year's Eve two thousand and two, I
mean one turning into two. Yeah, yeah, man, that is
a throwback. Sean, Well, that's embarrassing in retrospect. Yea.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
So we were.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Talking also yesterday about these AI apps that record every
word you say for the purpose of giving you reminders
and summaries of the things that you decided to do
and accomplished.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
And blah blah blah. It's intriguing.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
My takeaway was, Yeah, let's give it a hear or too,
and see how these things work out.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
But that's our topic.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
A couple of notes, this one from Michael and Washington
State guys. I don't think i'd be a fan of
the AI wristband voice recorder. Seems like a slippery slope
and could be hacked and so on. But my Samsung
phone has a new feature that records calls. It does
make all parties aware of the recording. It's very useful
when disputing financial charges with insurance, phone, utility, or other companies.
(33:06):
Now I have the power to record the lies and
false promises. Most everyone listening to your show has had
a phone company or insurance company admit to making a
mistake and promise to fix it, or just flat lie
about an accurate account charge. Fast forward a month, you
receive the same bill in the mail. Now you have
to call the company back and get told we never
said any of that. Blah blah, blah, Well that's over interesting.
(33:26):
These sends them the voice recording and makes them fess up.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Yeah. I love that idea.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
And if you're in a one party state, you don't
even have to bother telling them, although if you're not
hit them with the exact for purposes of quality.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Control the phone, this good call will be recorded. We're
trying to serve you not have evidence against you, right exactly.
And on the similar topic, we mentioned that you could
win an argument with your wife if you'd recorded the
phone call. You never told me we had dinner Friday night.
I told you when we are talking about the tennis turn.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
Then you go back.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
You got the whole tennis tournament, the conversation, you play
it for not there. Well, Caleb was a thinking man rights.
I don't think that recording device with aid from AI
would change anything about a disagreement to what was said
with the wife. Even if AI came back and confirmed
nothing was said about subber with friends, for example, then.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
You and AI would be wrong, all right.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
I think what would be disturbing is finding out that
you are regularly told stuff and completely forget it. I
think that would be the outcome that would be highly disturbing.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
Uh yeah, perhaps what do we have Michael one minute?
Speaker 3 (34:38):
This is this is distasteful and I'm I regret to
even reading it, much less reading it to you. Mikey
Loke writes recently on his podcast that no one listens
to Governor Gave Newsom was comparing himself to Elon Musk
by saying we.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
Were dog before doage existed.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
Oh my god, like he's been good for California music
economy in the government. Rather than compare baring himself to Musky,
should be comparing himself to Donald Junior because they both
had Kim Gilfoyle.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
Oh wow, that's not a that's not modern thing to
the discussion.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
That's no, no, Mikey, do better be better? Could sixty
guys be a crocodile?
Speaker 2 (35:18):
Do we have that?
Speaker 1 (35:20):
We got a lot of that stuff I mentioned an
hour too. If you don't get to get the podcast
Armstrong and Getty on demand Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
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Speaker 2 (00:18):
Arm Strong and Jack and He arm Drawn live from
sto C. I'm sorry it's early alive from studios. It's
a bad start. Clinging to life from studio se.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Right right, honored on my deathbed from Studio CE dimly
lit room.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
This might not work today. We're under the tutelage of
our general manager.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
The United States Military.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
A couple of big military stories today I want to
talk about and Bye Gully. The nation that can't defend
itself will not be a nation for long, high priority.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
We'll get to it. Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Did we figure out yet why that plane rolled off
the aircraft carrier into the sea.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Do we know the answer to that yet? Not too much?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Well, I forgot this. That's the parking break, and I
feel terrible about it. But yes, it's on me.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
I don't care if we get lied to.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
I mean, if the Huthi's shot at us and somehow
cause that to happen and we don't want to admit that,
I'm fine with that. I'm pro fog of war. The
other side, does it we get to do it too,
but not fog of stupid But yeah, no, I want
to know if it was incompetence of some sort that's like,
oh my god, we shouldn't be making mistakes like that,
right not go discipline, et cetera. I found this. I
(01:42):
came across this yesterday. Funny you brought that up the ten.
It's actually a list of the eight most powerful air
forces on Earth. Hm. Four of the top five or
the US. How many air forces do we have total?
Speaker 2 (01:59):
I got y.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Yeah, number one air force in the world is the
United States Air Force. The number two air force in
the world is the United States Navy. The number four
air force in the world is the Army. In number
five is the Marines. So for of the top five
air forces in the world are US and then in
the middle Therey you get the Russian Air Force, which
I'm kind of surprised by that.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
It's bigger than China. China is down at seven. Hmmm.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Interesting, Yeah, well good for us, Yeah, exactly. I liked
a little shot of Hey we're number one. I needed
I needed that.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Yeah, we need to beef up the navy.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Part of our navy certainly, although that is one of
the defense stories. We're going to be talking about a.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Major infusion of what seems to be some fairly well
directed cash. The Pentagon's way, well, I heard what at
least been proposed by Congress. It's tough with the Pentagon
and reports like this, because it's the money spigot of
all money spigots.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
If you can, if you can, and.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Not that you know, we are in a country patriots
wanting to do our best, but there are also you know,
there are plenty of people then think, you know this
weapon system over here that I benefit from, Here's why
you should spend the money on this instead of that one.
And there was a report out yesterday that we are
not prepared for the new drone world of fighting, which
(03:21):
the Ukraine in Russia have you know, changed warfare probably forever.
And I mentioned yesterday I was listening to a podcast,
this Great Daily Ukrainian podcast, where it was quoting a
number of Ukrainian leaders about how like, for instance, armored
vehicles are irrelevant now after are years of tanks, armored
vehicles are irrelevant now. They did have other guests on
(03:43):
who said that's not true because, for instance, Great Britain
is working on an anti drone weapon that will make
drones useless. And this might just be a little blip
of little mass drones coming in taking out your tanks,
and the ability to shoot them down will over take that.
You know, it's a constant back and forth. Who knows.
I certainly don't know, but that wouldn't surprise me.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
One of the updates I wanted to share a had
to do with the US in absolute overdrive developing our
drone program.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
So that's an interesting light to shed on it what
you just said.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Certainly, but they're talking about the front lines in Ukraine
and how the drones have just changed that warfare. So
it's trench warfare, World War One style, but you add
in drones and you're in that trench and you hear
a buzzin and here comes, you know, two hundred drones.
Whether you're they're coming at you as a Russian or
North Korean, or whether they're coming at you was a
(04:37):
Ukrainian maybe, soon to be Frenchmen, Englishmen in German maybe,
but anyway, you hear the drones coming and they hunt
you down. You take off running and one drone will
chase you until it catches up to you and shoots you.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Right, How brutal is that?
Speaker 3 (04:54):
I suspect strongly that the good folks at Boston Dynamics
and wherever DARPA is spending its money, are frantically working
to replace the aforementioned human being with yet another drone, right,
some sort of R two D two looking thing with
a machine gun. And so there's no need to have
much of a trench and food and water and sanitation
(05:18):
and the rest of it, because it'll be drones firing
at the drones.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Right.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Yeah, that's all really interesting stuff. I just hope we're
on the cutting edge of it, in the front of it,
and not you know, a power leaning on the force
that would have been dominant twenty years ago but is
no longer that dominant because technology has changed. And you know,
you know what kills off in big countries or any
organization is you just you get big and slow and
(05:45):
stuck in the past, and bureaucracy does not allow you
to innovate and change because there are a bunch of
corporations that want you to still build the same plane
in tank.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Sure. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
One of the great uneasy tensions in any government, and
certainly out of a superpower. And if you go around
spouting spouting only one half of this, you're the classic
example of knowing just enough to be dangerous. A the
need for a robust, powerful, overwhelming, terrifying defense. Okay, but
(06:18):
that costs zillions of dollars. Has Jack put it earlier,
It's an enormous money spigot constantly flowing full. Well, what
does an enormous money spigot attract? Greed heads, fraud, corruption,
the rest of it? But where are the military industrial complex?
(06:39):
And so we've got the never ending need for the
giant money's picket, and the never ending need to protect
ourselves against those who would, you know, drain us unjustifiedly
or dishonestly. Just it must be ever ever vigilant. It
never goes away that challenge. Yeah, Russia, this story came
out yesterday. Russia is helping North Korea with planes and boats,
(07:02):
beefing up their air force using my finger quotes and navy,
and in exchange for giving you a bunch of young
men that we.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Waste horribly as Russians do. But one other thing, and
all that is the story that broke yesterday afternoon. It
did happen as predicted that. Apparently, when Trump and Zelensky
got together to the Vatican the other day, they were
talking about that mineral rights deal and it has come
together and gotten signed. So we're now invested in Ukraine.
(07:31):
And does that mean we're invested invested like, hey, Russia,
don't be messing with our investment. Is that what's happening here?
Or what is it just a money grab?
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Is it both?
Speaker 3 (07:43):
It could be one of the most brilliant and innovative
diplomatic moves I've ever witnessed. Could be We're not, but
we will absolutely talk about that.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Yeah. If it's a no, we're not getting involved in
the war.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
We have no interest in fighting you, but we do
have a big finance interest in these minds, so you
better stop.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Speaking of long unproductive wars, Jack, one war that we've
been fighting for some time is starting to look better
and better like we might win it. That is the
war on the penny by partisan support for eliminating the penny.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Wow of my minor gee, Hods, this one time change
is next. We get this taken care of, then it's
on to the time change. That's pretty much at the
end of your long ge hot day. You look up
at the clock, you got six seven minutes left in
the day, and what's.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
A LoVa penny? Damn pennies.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
You're not gonna spend all day railing about it, but
it's worth a few minutes, Michael.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
I just think it's a wonderful time to be alive
and see the penny go penny going possibly, you know,
daylight saving time. It is wonderful. Let's start the show officially.
I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty on this it is
Oh boy, it's Thursday. It's May first. The rent is
due your twenty it's too damn damn right, man. I
have my rent set auto pay like you probably do.
And so you get the email saying my rent's what?
(09:03):
I forgot it so much? Why is rent so damn high?
The year twenty twenty five were Armstrong and getting we
approved of this program.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Let's beginning then, officially according to the FCC rules regulations.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
What a show it's going to be. Here we go
at mark Hi everyone, Thank you all, thank you, thank you.
And Dougie's here too.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
Why oh please have a seat, please have a seat.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Oh oh, it's wonderful to be home and thank you.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Oh my lord, I thought I remembered how off putting
she was.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
It in faded in my memory.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Kamala Harris with her comeback speech for some reason, no
Ah and Douggie's here too. Where did they find people
willing to cheer her like she was missed?
Speaker 2 (09:58):
That was my first question. Explain your enthusiasm to me,
take your time.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Where did those people come from? Here's my favorite thing
before we take a break from Charles C. A. Cook
about Kamala's speech, because he was responding to some article
about there's a clamoring for her voice right now, and
Charles CW.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Cook wrote, there is not.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
There has, in fact, never ever been less of a
clamoring for anything that is on off er. In the
history of clamoring, no people has ever clamored less than
the American people are clamoring for Kamala Harrison's voice.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
She is clamorless. She has a hollow clamor.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Ee who wrote the original line with a straight face,
I guess that American's clamoring for her voice?
Speaker 2 (10:41):
What?
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Oh, that is funny. We got Katie's headlines on the way.
More news of the day, lots of stuff. Hope you
can stay here. I'm gonna steal a headline from you,
Katie that you probably don't have because it just came across.
Mark Halpern, who has tremendous sources, is tweeting out. He
(11:02):
says three sources tell him that Mike Waltz, the currently
National Security Advisor, and the deputy Alex Wang are out
the door as early as today. Yeah, so be kind
of interesting to see. Why not shocked.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
I hate that because I like Walltz. He's a good
guy and a smart guy.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
But yeah, it was that whole Jeffrey Goldberg a signal
chat thing. But Trump's too strong willed to get rid
of him then, like it's a reaction to criticism.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
He'll just wait and then shove him out the door
when somebody's looking in the other direction. Okay, well he
is more of a traditional we need to support Ukraine
attack Iran guy, and maybe they didn't want his voice
around on that.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
I don't know, I wonder. Yeah, all right, so much
to talk about today. Let's get started to figure out
who's reporting what. It's the lead story with Katie Green.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Katie, starting with ABC News.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
Trump says he's not in a rush to make trade deals. Quote,
they want us, we don't need them.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
I saw part of the town hallidd on News Nation
last night and he said, yeah, we're in the catbird seat,
he said several times, which we either we are or
we aren't. But from a negotiating deal, acting like you
can take it or leave it is always a good
place to be.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Trumpian strategic chaos in the midst of negotiation yep USA.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
Today, Ukraine and United States sign long awaited minerals.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
And reconstruction deal.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
How it develops and what it means ultimately a really
interesting topic.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
From the Washington Post, China Signal. I'm sorry, can I'm skinned.
I jumped in.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
The one thing that offended me as an American was
the idea and Trump expressed this several times that they.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Need to pay us back for what we spent.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
You can't retroactively convert a gift into a loan, and
I mean that's despicable on a human level and certainly
in conducting foreign policy going for nobody would ever take
us seriously.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Again, that's been dropped.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Yeah, I'm glad to part of the deal, even according
to NPR this morning.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
All right from the Washington Post, China Signals ever so
obliquely that it's more open to trade talks.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Well, it better be there. They're sinking quickly to their knees.
More on that to come. Major economics update, including how
misleading some of yesterday's economics were that everybody was talking
about all day long. We will remove the scales from
your eyes. To paraphrase the Good Book.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Of course, your daughter might have to get by with
just one dollar this year, according to Trump, So we'll
have that for you later.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
That's quite there. Quite the statement.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
If you haven't heard it, doll shortach, Yes, stay tuned.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
From Breitbart.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
Kilmar Obrego, Garcia's wife filed second protective order in twenty twenty,
said he's made murder threats and quote, my kids are afraid.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Oh that's horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
And he's now the Rosa parks of the Democratic Party.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Good strategy from NBC.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Judge rules Palestinian activists mcmood Khalil can fight wrongful detention
case in federal court.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
You had to contradict what I said seconds ago. Yeah,
we do have to follow the rules. I mean, we're
a nation of laws.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Do you see all the detainees there at that place
in Texas that made an SOS for planes flying overhead yesterday,
No miss that.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
I don't know who came up with that idea.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
That was a great, great play into the hand of
the Trump Hayton media.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
They just loved that. Of course, look.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
At all those detainees making an SOS in the dirt
in Texas to try to save their lives.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Great vicial too, Yeah, we love, we love a good visual.
In fact, no story matters on TV news unless there's
a good visual.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
From the Wall Street Journal, US Army plans massive increase
in its use of drones.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
They're saying the shift to.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
More small unmanned aircraft is based on lesson to learn
from the Ukraine battlefield.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Yeah, we're just talking about that. Gotta major look into
that coming up as well.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
From the New York Post, team charged in Tesla firebombing
released from federal custody to continue gender affirming medical care.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Yeah right, all right, samany it was amazing how many
of these jobs burning up Tesla's were.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Gender bending lunatics. What's up with that? Wow, that's charitable.
From the New York Times.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
In an uncertain economy, McDonald's is seeing a spending decline.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Yeah, I just saw a thing up on the TV
snack foods go stale on the something about sales for
snack foods.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
So we eating less.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
McDonald's and crappy food so in store for some reason,
I'd be good.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
I have Key k Jr.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Is making America healthy again. Jack, he's successful. He's doing
his thing.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
From page six, Kanye West doubles down on being wife
Bianca's quote master after they get back together.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
I didn't realize they'd gotten back together. Wow.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Yeah, it's a shock that both ends of that relationship
are a little nutty.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
And finally, the Babylon be global birth rates hit historic
lows as Elon Musk is busy with Doge.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Les less busy starting yesterday, I guess so had the
headline break on my phone last night, Tesla board searching
for Musk's successor, wanting to replace Elon Musk for running Tesla.
But then the Financial Times with the headline today Tesla
board denies launching search for Musk's successor, which doesn't mean
it's not happening, but they are denying it.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
Yeah, they might have just trying to be trying to stare.
I'm sorry, Can I have a second take on that, Michael,
They're trying to scare him straight.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Hey, you might want to pay attention to the most
valuable car company in the world.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Yeah, if you get a minute, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
So all that stuff Joe teased, and a bunch of
other things coming up. If you missed a segment, get
the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
President Trump and Bortally spoke on the phone yesterday with
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. But even he doesn't know how
to cancel your prime membership.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
It because I don't think I need it anymore.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Well, because I'm the president, so the savings matter less.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
I don't think I need any more. That's it. That's
pretty amusing, that is.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
And so that was the whole tariffs on Amazon stuff,
to show why the prices went up, And did the
tariffs have anything to do with the shrinking of the
econo that came out yesterday? People saying yes, people saying no. Maybe,
Jokin tell us, I will.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
I will share with you the product of my reading
far too much yesterday about all of this and this
morning as well. So, first of all, to belabor the
fact that the drive by media are terrible at their
jobs and biased seems unnecessary at this point, Can we
just stipulate that your honor, so be it?
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Moving along?
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Of course, what most of us heard yesterday did not
enlighten us much and in fact obscured the truth. Here's
what you need to know. So the GDP on an
annualized basis shrunk the announced yesterday right the first quarter?
Is that Trump's economy or not, blah blah blah doesn't
really matter much, not yet.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Here's the one thing you need to know. How do
we figure the GDP? I was trying to remember. I
learned that ages ago and have to be reminded of
a few years. GDP is calculated by adding consumption, government expenditures, investments,
and exports together and subtracting imports.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
That's how you get the GDP.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Now, the reason that last part is so significant G
for gross domestic product?
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Did we say that it is? Indeed?
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Yes, thank you, that's excellent. Let's not be too hip
for the room. So the reason that is significant is that,
as the headline from the journal puts it, the rush
to beat tariffs is distorting the economy.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
And there's more to come. Short version, there.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Was an enormous, mind boggling surge in imports in the
first quarter because of the anticipation of a big, giant,
god knows what's going on tariffs. So I actually kind
of pushed up the purchase of a automobile that may
be of German origin, Yaavol, because.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
I thought, well, if there's a giant terriff, I might
as well do it.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Now, evidently many, many, many people and corporations thought the
same way.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
US imports surged more than.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Forty percent year after year over a year in the
first quarter of this year, and that drove down gross
domestic product by zero point three percent annualized one point
two whatever. Now, there's a great deal of uncertainty going
forward about how the tariffs and the uncertainty over the
(20:23):
tariffs is going to affect the economy. But that's why
the economy shrank. It didn't our production didn't shrink, our
spending didn't shrink, our investment didn't shrink.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
It's that we had.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
An enormous amount of imports in anticipation of the tariffs. Now,
having said that, Goodness knows what the next quarter is
going to be like, I mean, because all of these
numbers generally chug along in a reasonably predictable way because
of economic inputs and outputs. But this is you know,
Trump has thrown the whole thing up in the air.
(20:55):
So anyway, don't worry about the GDP number yes yesterday.
In fact, as greg Ip writes, forget the GDP, it's
the job report that matters. The first quarter decline economic
output tells us almost nothing about the economy's actual performance,
which through March was fine. It tells us even less
(21:16):
about the broader impact of President Trump's tariff's federal cutbacks,
and immigration crackdown. For that, we'll have to await the
April data, starting with jobs and unemployment, which, as we
are jabbering now, are released tomorrow, Friday, the second. This
will be the first hard data since Trump's April second
tariff announcements, plus the federal cuts by Elon, by the DOGE,
(21:40):
or in full swing deportations have messed a little bit
with labor market. Weak job numbers could vindicate Trump's critics.
Strong number could shut them up, at least for now.
And he goes on to say he suspects, though, that
the April report won't tell us a lot.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
It's early etc. Se.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Yeah, the job's remember coming out tomorrow. A great deal
will be made to that. Interesting one of my favorite
numbers floating around out there. Sort of separate from that,
but in the same realm with bringing back manufacturing and
everything like that. We have one hundred and forty thousand
plus empty manufacturing jobs right now that people don't want
(22:24):
or won't take.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
That's why we need to bring half a million more back. Jack,
So I'll have six hundred and forty empty jobs. Well
that's the question. Would they be higher paying or different
or something.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Or can we reform our freaking safety net so that
able bodied men all over this country aren't sitting at
home smoking pot, playing video games and either faking a
disability or or whatever other method they've found to suck
off the government teat get their ass into a job.
(22:59):
I've been desk. Trust me when I say it's a
hell of a motivator.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Well, we've made a turn where we think. I can't
believe most of America thinks this? Does most of America
think this? Where there are just jobs you shouldn't have
to do. If you're like a twenty six year old dude,
I mean, you went to college you got a degree,
you shouldn't have to go do that.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Who decided that? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
With the craziest domestic not domestic, Progressive America is really
pushing that idea, and infrequently it either takes the form well.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
White people shouldn't be doing those.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Jobs, which is unbelievable, or you know, if you want
to broaden it a little bit, native born people and
citizens shouldn't be doing these jobs.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
We need to import third worlders. They'll do the jobs.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
It's you know, when you say it out loud, and
I don't think I'm being unfair with that characterization.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
When you say it out loud, it's repugnant.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Absolutely is When was the last time you had heard
a mainstream met a useless, dumb ass weasel. I'm sorry, folks, wow,
I'm getting in passion my language is.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
I'm sorry it was over the top. I apologize anyway,
But when was the last time you heard somebody enunciate
that it's crazy? A couple more e count stories I
found interesting. Home builders are piling on discounts. They're struggling
to entice buyers. The spring season is huge for home builders.
Your biggies, your d R Horton, your PULTI Group, your
(24:26):
lg I homes Lennar, and they are down fifteen percent
spring over spring a year ago. A couple of them are,
others are down a little bit less, but they're offering
big incentives. People are feeling very very cautious and very
very stretched economically already, and so the homebuilders of America
(24:49):
are waving at the White House saying.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Hey, hey, can we ease up a little bit. Then
finally this.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Trump was right, he said in a couple of different
forms yesterday. China is really feeling of pain. They are
trying to act all stoic and tough, like a boxer
who's just been tagged with a right cross to the chin.
But cracks are starting to show. Riot su is this
I like to give credit words due lingling Way and
(25:16):
Raphael Huong both foom sound like they know their way
around China. That Chinas singled a signaled that as a
nation it's better able to tolerate the pain of a
prolonged tariff war than the fat decade in US. I'm
kind of enhancing their article, But cracks are starting to show,
suggesting how deeply that pain is already settling across the
Chinese economy. Plunging trade across the Pacific is leading to
(25:39):
production halts and threatening to undermine job stability for millions
of Chinese. On Wednesdays, China's economy showed its first big
signs of damage from the trade war, with a drop
in export orders in April and the weakest production of
the country's factories in.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
More than a year.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
A lot of the numbers look like the beginning of COVID,
when China is starting to groan a bit wow. Speaking
of which, did you see the statement China put out
about how COVID started in the United States.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
We'll have to read that later. That was something.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Oh, no, you're kidding there, you know, I wanted to
bring this up. There is a great new book out.
I think I can find the type quickly. That's not it,
Actually there it is, Yeah, it's it is a book
interestingly by two liberal Princeton professors, self described progressive academic
(26:29):
and gay activist. And this other guy's work has been
praised by liberal thinkers like Ezra Kline. But they wrote
a book called in COVID's Wake, How our Politics Failed.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Us, and it is scathing. It's like we and Sean
Hannity teamed up to write a book. It is brutal,
and I haven't brought it.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
Up just because I could go over and over the
horrible mistakes and the lack or the vanishing of liberty
that happened during COVID for the rest of my life.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Be bored. I think it's that important.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
But yeah, they just hammered the Jesus out of it,
and including the lab leak thing and how the lab
leak theory was silenced, and it's just it's inexcusable.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
I'll read that statement from China later.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
It's galling finally economic note, price of eggs is down
eighty percent. The Great egg Crisis is over. I've had
seventeen eggs already today. Oh, Great egg crisis is over.
Just you know, pop them like they's nothing. Walk around
with a bag full of eggs, popping them in your
mouth because they're they're cheap and easy again. Yeah, so
has the bird flu been more or less corral?
Speaker 3 (27:38):
Speaking of dread disease, I don't know why the price
of eggs sound big factor.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Let's just hope there's not some sort of toast pox
that pops up.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Next to ruin breakfast for all of us. You know.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Oh my god, he'shost. We've got the mail bag on
the way. We got to get into some more news
of the day. The our military is going more high tech,
I guess, to deal with the changing landscape of wars
on the ground. We'll get to that story probably an
hour or two. Lots of stuff on the way.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Stay here.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Washington Post has a inside look at some of Sean
Combe's lifestyle. Is parties and everything like that, laying out
in a way I'd never heard before. We'll have to
get to that a little bit later. God, he is
so much baby oil. Just what a degenerate lifestyle. What
a horrible way to chase happiness. It's never regula, never
(28:32):
worked for anybody in the history of the world.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Yeah yeah, Wow.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Here's your freedom loving quota of the day, sent along
by Jerry. We've used this one more than once, but
it's one of my all time favorites.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
From Alisa Zenovievin, now better known to the world of
letters as ein Rand. When you realize that to produce
you must obtain permission from those who produce nothing, When
you see that money flows to those who deal, not
in goods but in favors. When you notice that many
become rich through bribery and influence rather than buy their work,
and that the laws do not protect you from them,
(29:05):
but instead they are protected from you.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
When you discover that corruption is rewarded.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
And honesty becomes a form of self sacrifice, then you
can confidently say, without fear of being wrong, that your
society is doomed.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Ding ding ding.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
A little close to home there, Ian Baby, Yeah, Mailbag,
she said that what in the nineteen thirties or forties.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
You can drop us a note anytime you like. Mailbag
at Armstrong and Getty dot com. On the topic of
the Wisconsin judge who is helping an illegal wife beater
escape justice because she's so mad at ice or something,
Adam Wrights, guys, let's cut that judge some slack. Maybe
they help that violent illegal alien escape the domestic violence
(29:51):
hearing and.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Ice in a moment of panic.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
I mean, come on, we've all been trapped in a
vestibule once and used any means to escape in a.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
Moment of panic.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
I was trying to escape a vestibule.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
That is one of my favorite tapes of all time.
AOC told us it's even okay to pull a fire alarm.
Good point, Adam Good callback.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
She was asking about whether she wants to run for
president yesterday. We'll have the answer later. D.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
On the topic of the Harvard bigots, and more on
that to come, the Harvard's own report is scathing.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
I've dug into it. Let's see, Sean writes.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
Maybe the Harvard Muslim students who reported like they could
not speak freely, they were like, I'd like to say, hey, let's.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Cool it with the Jews stuff, but I'm scared of
all those crazy white chicks. That is a funny thought.
The Muslim students are terrified of the woke white girls.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Let's see.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
On the topic of whether some transient tampered with your tesla, Jack, Yeah,
let's see this guy writes, if you didn't hear, I
told the story on one more thing, brief story is
some guys, some guy who's.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Transient adjacent.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
I don't know why I allowed this, but he said,
I parked my cyberbeast and he said, hey, I've never
seen one of those before.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Can I take a look inside?
Speaker 1 (31:15):
And I hesitated, and yeah, I would have been uncomfortable
to say, no, I don't know, and he he stuck
his head in there like weirdly far and low for
too long a time.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
It was strange.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
And now my door makes a weird sound when I
close it, and I don't know if he did something
to my car or what.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
I just forwarded you an email to your personal account
from a listener who said, not for air.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
You might want to take a gander it. Well, yeah
I will.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Yeah, let's see it anyway. Is it a DP or
is it related to this story? I'm sorry, a what now?
A Richard pick? Or is it related to this story?
Speaker 3 (31:52):
No, you idiot, No, it's directly related to the story.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
Anyway, let's see.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Sean writes, I think Jack was paranoid and describing that incident,
but it's not like he.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Once reported some Italian caterers as Islamis terrorists to Homeland
security in Las Vegas. I mean, if you'd done that,
I'd question this judgment.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
That was Jean Baby.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
That was New Year's Eve two thousand and two, I
mean one turning into two. Yeah, yeah, man, that is
a throwback. Sean, Well, that's embarrassing in retrospect. Yea.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
So we were.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Talking also yesterday about these AI apps that record every
word you say for the purpose of giving you reminders
and summaries of the things that you decided to do
and accomplished.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
And blah blah blah. It's intriguing.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
My takeaway was, Yeah, let's give it a hear or too,
and see how these things work out.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
But that's our topic.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
A couple of notes, this one from Michael and Washington
State guys. I don't think i'd be a fan of
the AI wristband voice recorder. Seems like a slippery slope
and could be hacked and so on. But my Samsung
phone has a new feature that records calls. It does
make all parties aware of the recording. It's very useful
when disputing financial charges with insurance, phone, utility, or other companies.
(33:06):
Now I have the power to record the lies and
false promises. Most everyone listening to your show has had
a phone company or insurance company admit to making a
mistake and promise to fix it, or just flat lie
about an accurate account charge. Fast forward a month, you
receive the same bill in the mail. Now you have
to call the company back and get told we never
said any of that. Blah blah, blah, Well that's over interesting.
(33:26):
These sends them the voice recording and makes them fess up.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Yeah. I love that idea.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
And if you're in a one party state, you don't
even have to bother telling them, although if you're not
hit them with the exact for purposes of quality.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Control the phone, this good call will be recorded. We're
trying to serve you not have evidence against you, right exactly.
And on the similar topic, we mentioned that you could
win an argument with your wife if you'd recorded the
phone call. You never told me we had dinner Friday night.
I told you when we are talking about the tennis turn.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
Then you go back.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
You got the whole tennis tournament, the conversation, you play
it for not there. Well, Caleb was a thinking man rights.
I don't think that recording device with aid from AI
would change anything about a disagreement to what was said
with the wife. Even if AI came back and confirmed
nothing was said about subber with friends, for example, then.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
You and AI would be wrong, all right.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
I think what would be disturbing is finding out that
you are regularly told stuff and completely forget it. I
think that would be the outcome that would be highly disturbing.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
Uh yeah, perhaps what do we have Michael one minute?
Speaker 3 (34:38):
This is this is distasteful and I'm I regret to
even reading it, much less reading it to you. Mikey
Loke writes recently on his podcast that no one listens
to Governor Gave Newsom was comparing himself to Elon Musk
by saying we.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
Were dog before doage existed.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
Oh my god, like he's been good for California music
economy in the government. Rather than compare baring himself to Musky,
should be comparing himself to Donald Junior because they both
had Kim Gilfoyle.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
Oh wow, that's not a that's not modern thing to
the discussion.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
That's no, no, Mikey, do better be better? Could sixty
guys be a crocodile?
Speaker 2 (35:18):
Do we have that?
Speaker 1 (35:20):
We got a lot of that stuff I mentioned an
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