September 10, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour three of A&G features...
- Jobs that may be AI-proof???....
- Were we in a recession, and didn't know it?....
- Poland shoots-down Russian drones...
- Israel's ambassador responds to critics of the Qatar bombing.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and Getty enough, he
Armstrong and Yetty well some business news.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Today, Apple held their big annual launch event and unveiled
their latest products. Apple unveiled the new iPhone seventeen, which
comes in lavender, Sage, missed blue, and a few others.
Is sound like women's deodoring. You get to pick which
stylish color that you want hidden under your giant rubber
phone case.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Body mentioned said the new AirPods will have an improved
fit if they analyze more than ten thousand and three
d ear scans.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
It's odd.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
It's like after a decade, Apple looked at the air
pods and thought, hey, what if these fit?
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Yeah? I've always assumed I just have weird ears, so
I started to use in the new Have you used
any of the bone conductive earphone thingies that are popular?
Are those the ones that are kind of against your skull? Yeah,
instead of in your ears? Yeah, Michael, you jump to
the microphone there.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
No, I want to know. I've been meaning to try
those out. How do they work? Jack?
Speaker 1 (01:20):
I'd read about them. New York Times was raving about it,
and I got a fantastic I don't know. I'll never
wear them flipping things in my ears ever again in
my life because I find an annoying. I always feel
like they're about to fall out or they do fall
out or whatever. This just it's like it's up against
the bone behind your ears, and it's really conducting the
sound through your bones. It's not really your ear drums
(01:42):
hearing the sound. For a variety of reasons, I like
the way it sounds better. It's better in terms of
like if you're worried about volume doing damage. It all
kinds of better for wearing at the gym and riding
my bike and everything like that.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Love them, absolutely, love them.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Yeah, I've hesitated to ever listen to anything riding my
bike because I hear the traffic around.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Well.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
That's one of the things about these is you can
hear people talking to you in traffic and everything like
that and what you're listening to. The lane conductor would
be a good title for a horror movie, by the way,
it would.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
It would. Yeah. Uh, and my wife has used them.
I'll have to try it.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Falon's joke there I've always wondered about the announcing new
colors for iPhones, and then and then certain colors selling out.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
I have known zero.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
People in my life who carry around their one thousand
dollars computer, which they call their phone, without a case
around it.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
So you know what color mine is? No idea? Neither
do I. Yeah, I don't even remember what color mine
is because I've got a case on it. But so
how does that become a thing? The purple colors all
sold out? I don't care. We'll put a case on it.
So are you it's weird? I don't know. That's that's odd.
People are strange. I don't like humans. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
And then the new thinner iPhone. I don't know if
people were clamoring for that. I'll have to hold one
in my hand to see if I really dig it.
The Ultra three watch. I wear an Ultra April Ultra watch,
which is like having a TV screen on your wrist.
They've made a bigger one, so now even a bigger
screen on your wrist, if that's what you want. I
don't like wearing watches. I get sweaty. I got sweaty
(03:12):
wrists coming up. Vlad putin jabs NATO in the eye.
It's a huge provocation, escalation what will lead to we
don't know more on the Israeli attack on the Hamas
guys and Cutter and I've gotten now a clearer picture
of what happened with that whole five hundred South Koreans
deported from Georgia's story. It's just one more example of
(03:36):
how ridiculous our immigration system is. So stay with us
if you can. We can't gloss over this. You have
sweaty wrists.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Risk got sweaty.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
I wore a watch every day of my life from
age I don't know, I was a teenager on and
just I just lately have stopped.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Maybe it was COVID or something like that. I don't think.
I still like one on my wrist. I couldn't live
without my Apple Watch or twenty four like you were
with the iPad.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
It's just it's fine if I need a watch, but
mostly I can't imagine why you'd need one.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
But it works for you so good.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
So is AI going to destroy the world of jobs?
Some people say it will, some people say it won't,
and then some people are in between. And when is
a question also a pull out? The share of gen
Z parents that believe a college degree guarantees long term
job security is down to sixteen percent, partially around AI.
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That's the share of gen Z parents that believe a
college degree guarantees long term job security.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
It's a.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Well apparently a lot of people did, because it used
to be a lot higher number. Now it's down to
SA guarantees job secure. If you think you've got guaranteed
job security in any industry with any level of education
or skill, you're kind of dumb.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
So I'm worried about it. For the government, Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
You work for the government, and you're surrounded by people
who work for the government, so you think you get
one job and have it the rest of your life
and never can ever get fired.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
That's what's going on there.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
I think I was in my earliest twenties gladys when
I had a conversation with my dad, who.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
God bless him.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
His birthday is on Thanksgiving Day, eighty fifth birthday this year,
and we're going to have a big get together, looking
forward to it. But Carsha, I was complaining he's going
to have his traditional birthday turkey.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
I was talking to him about the madness of the
radio industry there towards the beginning of my career and
before my long and glorious rise to mediocrity, And I said,
there are days I wish I had picked a of
a career path with job security. And he looked at
me and he said, quite sincerely, Yeah, which one is
(05:48):
that right? Because the economy is always changing, you have
to hustle to stay ahead to your point.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
And yes, to that point.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Careers parents of gen Z say, A, I think are
AI resistant? Of course, we're all guessing. At this point
you're top ten counting up and this is from h Axios.
Put this chart out. Accountant they say that was number ten.
I'm not exactly sure why an accountant would be AI proof.
(06:18):
Seems like it's ripe for AI to me. But yeah,
that's counterintuitive. Digital marketer, data analyst. There's another one that
seems ripe for AI to me, software developer Lloyd. A minute,
then we all just learned that anybody can now have
AI rate your code for you.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
They the only way I can grasp you're reading the
wrong list? Is this the most vulnerable to.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
A The only thing I can grasp is that they
presented people with a list of these jobs and then
ranked them because there's very few people that Only ten
percent of parents thought an accountant was AI resistant, for instance. Anyway,
I'll start at the top. Maybe it makes more sense
(07:00):
since I don't know how they ask the question. Plumber
over half of parents think if their kid becomes a plumber,
AI ain't gonna ruin that. They're right after that HVAC
technician person that comes and fixes your furnace in your
air condition then electrician almost certainly true.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Nurse is very high.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Then practically everything else drops way, way, way, way way down.
I don't want to robot nurse coming at me with
a needle, no way, including lawyer, which is only in
the twenty percentile. It depends on what kind of lawyer
you are. But a lot of lawyer work is going
to be AI. A lot of your lower end lawyer work.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Oh that reminds me.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
The problem, of course with AI and law, as we've
discussed many times, is it tends to cook up these hallucinations.
Its cases that don't exist in the rest of it.
And I texted Jack this privately last night. But I
was playing a song that I really like. I hadn't
played it for a long time, and I knew I
was getting one of the cords wrong, so I asked
chat GPT, hey give me the chords to this song
happens to be the absolutely brilliant Fisherman's Blues by the
(08:03):
water Boys, and it's four chords over and over again,
and it gave me completely the wrong chords, I mean,
just just wrong. And I called it on it. I said, uh,
what did I say? I said, Hey, those chords are wrong.
I'm pretty sure it's g F to a minor C.
(08:26):
And they go, yeah, my bad, You're right, it is
what and here here you go.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Well, it like went.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Into a frenzy for almost thirty seconds. Wow of like
the screen appearing and disappearing and then cycling through things
and then links appearing.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
It was like, gym, we got it wrong. It was
like he was having some sort of seizure.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
And finally, after actually it was thirty six seconds, it
tells me you're right, my bad. The classic water Boys
version uses the courts I described throughout intro verses and chorus.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Well what the hell happened the first time?
Speaker 1 (09:04):
And it's funny because some of the things that appeared
then disappeared were like telling me what happened the first time,
but then they disappeared right. And the problem with that
is it was a topic where you could catch it
being wrong.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Whereas when I.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Chat gpt'ed the population of Nepal the other day because
they're having a revolution, m hm, you could have told
me a wildly wrong number, just like it told you
the wildly wrong chords.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
But I wouldn't have known. Yeah, yeah, head scratcher. By
the way, did you hear how this revolution in Nepal started?
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Yeah, I've got a decent enough idea.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
So it's a very poor country, and like lots of
poor countries, you haven't an elite that lives a completely
different life than like ninety five percent of the population. Well,
the super rich kids of the elite had been posting
a whole bunch of look how cool my life is
stuff on social media, and it made people. I mean,
(10:05):
you know, social media has got a comparison problem anyway,
even with just like your regular neighbors portraying their fantastic
vacation makes you bitter. But this was the super rich
while you're dirt poor, including a whole bunch of kids
of a one elite family showing a Christmas tree made
out of Louis Veton bags. They took their picture in
(10:26):
front of them. Oh that made the rounds on social media,
so people were in the streets. The government reacted by
canceling all social media because they thought that was the problem.
But sorry, Louis the sixteenth. Then you're a wife who said,
let the meat cake.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
It's too late.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Well, and the poor working stiffs because they have enormous
unemployment there, especially youth unemployment. Many many, many ne police
people go to foreign lands to work as laborers and
they stay in touch with their families via social media
and then they send back money to their family, the remittance,
as they call them, which really bail out to Nepalese economy.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
And so double edged sword of.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Oh, we're going to cover up the Louis the fourteenth
lifestyle of our elite. And by the way, you can't
write home to your wife anymore. So and yeah, people
have gone nuts. I mean it's that's the straw that
broke the camel's back. Oh yeah, And there's been many
dead and all kinds of buildings burned down on that
sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
I mean, it's a serious revolution. But if you're dirt poor, that.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Smiling, cocky kids standing in front of their Louis Vauton
bag Christmas tree.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Yeah, where's my bat. I'm gonna go smash some stuff. Yeah. Well,
and blatant corruption.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
If there's a twenty five million dollar like international grant
to do something noble sounding, the elites of the country
drain twenty two million dollars of it into their accounts,
then they make this pathetic, half assed show of spending
that last three million.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
But the people have caught onto it. Yeah, that's going
to be people hanging in the city squares.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Absolutely. I know you had another economic thing. We have
other stuff to get to. What was that bo But
now we attacked another drug boat down there off of Venezuela.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Oh yeah, coming back. Bad news. We have had a recession.
Good news. It's over seems crazy, but it makes sense.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
One of the Wall Street's leading analysts with a really
intriguing contrarian opinion.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Oh okay, I didn't know that. Stay tuned.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
Yesterday was Bernie Sanders' eighty fourth birthday.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Democrats promised him.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
A cake, but then they gave it to Hillary.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
That reminds me briefly AOC while she was on that
no oligarch's tour with Bernie, A bunch of the financials
got released over the weekend. She and all our people
were staying in the nicest hotel every town. They went
to this super expensive places while they're out there talking
about oligarchs.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
And taxing the rich.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Yeah, yeah, somehow the elites and socialism always do great.
Speaking of which, and maybe we'll do this in our
four I'd almost forgotten that i'd gotten it. The Democratic
Socialists of America, which Bernie and AOC and Mamdannie certainly
are down with what they actually believe, what they say
(13:27):
they believe in their own words.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
It will shock you.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
And the mainstream media is so awfully, evilly hilariously complicit
in it. Anyway, that's our four hooking stay tuned first
of all, and we won't dwell on this because.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
It's freaking me out and it'll freak everybody out.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Health insurance costs for businesses are set to rized by
the most in fifteen years this year.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
To next year. Oof oof is right, something's.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Gotta give soon with our completely goof stup, messed up, dishonest,
heavily subsidized healthcare system.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
As the population gets older and older.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Whatever that stat was the other day, I think one
out of six people are sixty five or older. And
that's when all your healthcare costs are starting to hit. Right. Well,
it's sixty five, you're on the government program. But you
get up into your fifties and sixties, you're starting to
spend a lot more money in the healthcare world. Yeah,
another conversation with Craig, the healthcare guru, coming up down
the road at some point, I'm sure. And then this
(14:31):
I found so interesting. One of the top analysts on
Wall Street says you aren't crazy for thinking the economy
felt worse than it looked according to the quote unquote
official numbers for the last three years. This guy is
Morgan Stanley's chief US equity strategist. That means he's Morgan
(14:52):
Stanley's number one stocks guy, and he believes we've been
in the midst of what he calls a rolling recept
for the past three years. And he talks about the
weak job numbers that keep being revised downward and how
a lot of the you know, like the second tier
(15:13):
numbers have been very, very soft, but the stock market
still looks good.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Jack three indexes hit records again yesterday.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
But as you pointed out quite appropriately, more than once,
it's mostly a few tech stocks.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Yeah, that are really up.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
But this guy's theory is, so i'll quote him, central
to our view is the notion that the economy has
been much weaker for many companies and consumers over the
past three years than what the headline economic statistics like
nominal GDP or employment suggest. In other words, amid the
many predictions of a recession about to hit the US
economy or a revival of nineteen seventy styled stagflation, Wilson,
(15:56):
this guy has been banging the drum that the recession
was already here, just into skyt Essentially, it was affecting
one sector of the economy pretty significantly for a year,
year and a half, but another sector over here, a
big one, was not as effected until oh now, now
they're really getting hammered. And they've cut way back on
(16:17):
hiring because there's been an eighty percent collapse in hiring
even as inflation has risen.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
In layoffs rolled, as they put it.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
But he just thinks that certain sectors of the economy
have been hiding how bad other sectors of the economy
have been doing, and they have absolutely been in recession
and they are getting hammered. But here's some good news,
he says, according to the data that we look at
to diagnose that the rolling secret bull market or bull
(16:50):
economy has actually begun already.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Oh okay, so the worst is passed. Well, I hope
that's true. This guy thinks, yeah, I hope it's true too.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
It'll all get gobbled up by your increasing healthcare costsman, oh,
I said, we're going to leave that behind. Sorry, So
overnight we got the closest we've come to a full
scale Europe versus Russia war in eighty years. That happened overnight.
If you didn't follow Poland shooting down a whole bunch
of Russian drones, what's going on there? All the details
coming up, it's a pretty big story, Armstrong and Geddy.
(17:24):
I'm a big fan of the Prime Minister of Poland,
Donald Tusk, who said, I have no reason to claim
we're on the brink of war with Russia, but a
line has been crossed and it's incomparably more dangerous than
it was before. What is he talking about, Well, here's
ABC News to spell it out for you.
Speaker 6 (17:42):
Top officials here in Europe calling this the biggest violation
of NATO airspace by Russia since the war in Ukraine began,
and for the first time Poland, the key NATO ally
of the US, shooting down Russian drones breaching its airspace,
calling some of those drones a direct Threatland saying nineteen
Russian drones violating its airspace, Dutch and Polish warplanes downing
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at least four of those drones which were considered a
direct threat. Polish officials seen inspecting the wreckage of a
Russian drone the roof of a residential building badly damaged
in eastern Poland, that breach of Polish espace, sparking condemnation
from European leaders. Poland holding emergency meetings this morning, consulting
with NATO allies, calling it a deliberate provocation, saying Moscow
(18:29):
is waging war with the whole Western world and warning
of the risk of open conflict with Russia.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Yeah, this is a big deal.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
South Carolina Representative Joe Wilson, who is a senior member
of the Foreign Affairs Committee here in the United States
and our Congress, called the incursion an act of war.
This is an act of war, and were grateful to
NATO allies from the swift response to war criminals Putin's
continued unprovoked aggression against free and productive nations.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
You think it's an act of war.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Putin get away with saying, Ah, the accident, I was
using the metric system instead of the whatever, and I
misjudged her. Yeah, he'll say something implausible to make well. Overnight,
overnight they said, we've been shown no proof that these
were our drones, and they were not.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
That's just what they always say about this sort of
current crap.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Putin's deal is he probes, and he probes, and he probes,
looking for softness, looking for weakness.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Well, he had been getting away with it now for
a while. I that's what I'm saying, Pushing further and further.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
I followed the Ukraine War pretty closely on almost daily
basis with the Telegraph podcast that is so good.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
And they've been talking.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
About and h and bothered by more and more Russian objects,
drones of different sizes flying just barely cut in the
corner into Poland. They share a three hundred mile border,
a little more, little more, and they've been doing that
for weeks and then like really went in last night
and then got shot down by a whole bunch of jets.
(20:01):
James Travinus who used to be the military commander of NATO,
so he knows what he's talking about on CNN talking
about this today.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
It could get very serious and Russia, of course nuclear armed,
NATO nuclear armed. What the polls are doing about it?
Smart move. They've convened in Article four meeting. We all
know Article five and attack on one is an attack
on all.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
There's a step before that.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
It's an Article four conference that's unfolding today in Brussels.
What I'm hoping to conclude is that the Russians will,
at a minimum say this is inadvertent. Those drones ended
up over there because the Ukrainians interfered with them electronically.
This could escalate in a very bad way. Again, guns
(20:49):
of August, how about the drones of September.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
I'm worried. WHOA she sounds heavy there at the end.
I can't imagine Putin thinking it's a good idea to
go to war with NATO. But he might actually believe
Nadi would back down, and he there's a possibility he's right,
(21:13):
Yeah that I'm trying to come up with a rationale.
Putin would be using to poke NATO this hard what
he's trying to get out of it, And the only
thing I can come up with is he's just testing defenses,
which is a thing Russian does routinely. They usually don't
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fly this deep into somebody's airspace, but they just to
see how you would react and to study you. It's
like watching game film of another team. But to be
this blatant in this deep either the jamming actually did
you know send the drone somewhere they weren't supposed to go,
as Russia is claiming, although I assume most of what
they say is lies, or he's really really serious about
(21:58):
testing NATO's defenses for some reason. If I was in
Estonia right now, I would be, you know, shining my gun.
I would be making sure it's clean and ready to go.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Well.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
That guns of August Drones of September reference was to
famous book about the beginning of World War One, and
the point being that minor little conflict turned into the
biggest war the world had ever seen. You never know
how these things are going to play out, right, I mean,
(22:30):
this is certainly could be as big a deal as
the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand in terms of setting off
a chain of events, it was a fine fella in all.
But yes, yes this is big. So Article five is
an attack on one is an attack on all. Article
four as if anything hinky happens, we get together. So
(22:53):
obviously they kind of get lighter and lighter as you
go up to chet. Article three is whoever brings coffee
and donuts rotates between the various member nations. Article two is, hey,
I thought that was my seat. I'm supposed to sit there.
Any dispute over the seating will be settled by an
arbitration committee, because the US always wants to sit at
(23:17):
this seat by the window with a nice view.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Article one is a quick text what's up? So yeah, wow,
where this goes? Nobody knows?
Speaker 7 (23:26):
Yeah, but that's act, this freaking provocative act. Yeah, and
in not a stony or some tiny little country, but
damned Poland, who has had Russian boots marching through their
country a variety of times over the centuries.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Right right, all right, well, I guess that's enough of
that for now. It is an ongoing story. Yeah, they
just want it to be over, you know, I want
to talk about Israel's strike on the Hummas guys in
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In my opinion, uh, tut tutting, but they don't actually
mean a lot of it.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Do we have time for this?
Speaker 8 (26:04):
This?
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Should we take a break? Time for once in our lives?
We have a new richest person in the world. Is
that right?
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Wow, we have a new richest person in the world.
How did you overtake Elon?
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Oh, I'll hit you with that. Is it that guy
with the luxury brands in France? No, Larry Ellison? Oh really?
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Yeah, well done, Larry. One of yet once again tech stocks.
Getting to the point you were making earlier. Yeah, we
set records all the time. It's like four different stocks
though driving the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
It's a little misleading.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Anyway, we got a lot on the waist and they
can wear fast.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Yeah, very quickly. We have a new richest man in
the world.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
It is Larry Ellison of Oracle because of their a
I cloud technology. They had their quarter quarterly results come
out yesterday. He had an increase in his wealth of
one hundred and one billion dollars in one day, what,
pushing him to almost four hundred billion dollars, which is
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slightly ahead of Elon Musk. But the main point being
it's all about the AI stuff. People are betting on AI.
They believe it's going to be a big deal. I'm
probably lucky that I don't really have a clue as
to how true that is or not so I don't
spend a lot of time worrying about it, Like the weather.
I will deal with it when it hits me in
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the head.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
There's that angle of it.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
But I would but I would like to get in
on the gold rush while it's happening.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
You know, Yeah, I guess.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Ah, so big strike Israel hitting Hamas leaders in car
and very controversial allegedly, but is it really And some
of the statements being made by people I think are
really illuminating, like Benjamin Nett Yahoo said the days are over.
The terrorist leaders will have immunity anywhere. He just stated
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that they don't care where you are anymore. And then
you had, you know, the US made a statement, the
president allegedly that.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
This does not advance the goals of Israel or.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
The United States, which is, as condemnations go, not one.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
But guitar is a friend of the United States. Right,
Oh yeah, So you do have to be a little
bit careful and the message being sent.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
You know what, there's this article I read in the
Wall Street Journal about this, and you have to read
between virtually every single line. But the message that's actually
being sent from the United States is, Look, this isn't
gonna happen a lot, but it happened this once. Okay, okay, anyway,
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the ambassador from Israel to the United States was on
a special report with Brett Beer last night in a
very very frank and revealing interview. I thought it was
so interesting and so clear as to Israel's intentions.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
We'll start with the first clip, Michael, and go from there.
Speaker 8 (29:09):
We don't have an issue with the people of Gaza.
We don't have an issue with the people of Qatar.
We have an issue with the people that leading Hamas,
and our Prime Minister has made it very clear from
October seventh, those who implemented the slaughter of our citizens
will pay the price, the ultimate price, and no matter
where they are, and we don't care anymore.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Next clip.
Speaker 8 (29:31):
It's important to remember September nineteen seventy two Prime Minister
Golda Meir at the time after the Munich massacre, when
Palestinian terrorists slaughtered our eleven sportsmen in Munich, she gave
an order that everybody responsible for that murder, for that slaughter,
would pay the price, and it was carried out by
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our Mosad and thirteen of those terrorists were eliminated. Tamas
terrorists are unnoticed. They are going to be eliminated.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Then this was a revealing quote as well, did you
get the targets you were seeking?
Speaker 8 (30:11):
If we didn't get them this time, we'll get them
the next time.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
And it's not clear exactly who they got and who
they didn't get among the senior leadership. They definitely got
a couple of a handful of second level guys. Maybe
whether it was the big daddies or not, I don't know.
But then this is the clip where he restates what
I've believed for a long time is Israel's current point
of view.
Speaker 8 (30:37):
Israel under Prime Minister Nataniell is changing the face of
the Middle East. We have degraded Fitzbala, We've degraded Hamas
the UTIs, and Iran the head of the snake that's
leading these proxies in effort to destroy Israel. When we
defeat these proxies of Iran, WI, we defeat Islamic extremism.
And actually that will benefit our neighbors in the region.
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Horne moderate and want to live in a state of
peace with us. So right now we may be subject
to a little bit of criticism, they'll get over it
and Israel is being changed for the better. The region
is being changed for the better as we remove these
enemies of peace and these enemies of Western civilization from
their ability to implement terrorism.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
I thought him saying they'll get over it was a
little more flippant than he needed to be. Yeah, it
was refreshing in that it was stating the case plainly,
because that's yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
I could have thought it two or three ways for
him to say that.
Speaker 7 (31:36):
More.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Well, what's the word diplomatically, since he's a diplomat, But
that's exactly right. So yeah, they'll they'll rent and rave
and pound the table and condemn this and all, but
we'll be meeting with them next week.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
So actually, I thought it was an interesting question. Brett
Bhair asked him.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
So critics would say, Hamas assigns a couple of people
to engage in peace talks and you don't like the
way they're going, and so you obliterate them.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
I mean, so how are you goingdaver gonna get any
peace talks going? I mean, that's the.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Pushback on this whole thing, right, Yeah, And he also
mentioned Katari sovereignty in the next clip.
Speaker 5 (32:15):
This is worth here, mister besterber what about the charge
that this is a violation of the sovereignty of the
state of cutter and that anybody who is negotiating with
you potentially is a target if they are in the
process of negotiation and don't agree to the terms at
that moment.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Come on, britt, I'm just saying what there's should have been.
Speaker 8 (32:36):
Yeah, yeah, well, you know, this has been going on
for months and months and months. In the meantime, our
hostages are being starved in the tunnels of Hamas and Gaza.
They can end this now, this moment. They can lay
down their weapons like Arafat did in Lebanon in nineteen
eighty two and leave and this can be over.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
We want this war to be over.
Speaker 8 (32:57):
We want to implement a cease five in which everybody
will benefit. But we're not going to live with jihadis
on our border anymore.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
That's over.
Speaker 8 (33:06):
These people are murderous thugs. Imagine just MS thirteen taking
over a neighborhood here in the United States and then
negotiating with them after they hold hostages and tunnels. This
is something that is absolutely unacceptable in human terms, in
simple human moral terms. This is going to be over
when Hamas is eliminated, and they're put on notice. The
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Prime Minister put them on notice. Wherever they are, whenever
they are, they are on notice. They are not going
to survive what they did on October seventh, twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
We are not going to live with Jihadis on our
border anymore. That's over, so Jim Garrity, writing for National Review,
this is a bad time for Hamas leaders to attempt
the taco trade. Trump does not always chicken out, He
writes credit where credit is due. Twice earlier this year,
President Trump said the Hamas would have hell to pay
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if they didn't release the three men ating hostages, with
consequences that were less than fully hellish every time. But Sunday,
Trump said on truth Social the Israelis have accepted my terms.
It is time for Hamas to accept as well. I
have warned Hamas about the consequences of not accepting. This
is my last warning. There will not be another one.
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Apparently Trump meant it this time. After months where Hamas
negotiating's position kept shifting all around, the Hamas negotiators are
now well, they're now all over the map themselves.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
Well.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
Speaking of flippant, yes well, and I'm sure because all
this stuff happens through back channels.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
The reply to Trump was, yeah, yeah, we're willing to
have another round of talks. That's fine, and he knew. Okay, well,
so they're bull lessing again. But but Garrity is saying
a national review, and you seem to be hinting that
Trump had some knowledge, some approval on this, as opposed
to what he's saying out loud is I didn't know
about it until right before it happened, and I don't
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like it.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
I don't like it one bit.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Yeah, the strategic ignorance, I think, went something like this.
Trump and Netanyahu are talking net Yah, who says, look,
they're not serious about negotiating. We're going to get their
leaders because they're going to get together soon and we're
going to take him out. And Trump said, I don't
want to hear the specifics. Don't tell me, but give
me one more chance to see what their intentions are.
He did, their intentions sort of string everybody along a
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little bit further, as they have now for years, and
they're not going to seriously negotiate. To net Yahoo, they
clearly indicated their lack of seriousness when they took credit
for that bus attack two days ago and encouraged it
and hoped there were more. Yeah, Frankly, I think anybody
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who believed that Hamas would ever negotiate in good faith
is a fool. I appreciate wanting to try and try
and try to have less killing and in the wars sooner,
but as German made clear to the city fathers of
Atlanta back in what was it, eighteen sixty four, eighteen
sixty five, he said, I've received your letter and I
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appreciate it. The quickest way to end this war and
the suffering is to win it. So I'm gonna win it,
and it's gonna suck bad, but then it'll be over.
So pretty big developments in both the Israel Hamas war
kind of an Israel Iran war and the Ukraine Russia
war that will be keeping our eye on. If you
miss a segment of our show, get the podcast Armstrong
(36:30):
and Geddy on demand
Speaker 2 (36:32):
Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and Getty enough, he
Armstrong and Yetty well some business news.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Today, Apple held their big annual launch event and unveiled
their latest products. Apple unveiled the new iPhone seventeen, which
comes in lavender, Sage, missed blue, and a few others.
Is sound like women's deodoring. You get to pick which
stylish color that you want hidden under your giant rubber
phone case.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Body mentioned said the new AirPods will have an improved
fit if they analyze more than ten thousand and three
d ear scans.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
It's odd.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
It's like after a decade, Apple looked at the air
pods and thought, hey, what if these fit?
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Yeah? I've always assumed I just have weird ears, so
I started to use in the new Have you used
any of the bone conductive earphone thingies that are popular?
Are those the ones that are kind of against your skull? Yeah,
instead of in your ears? Yeah, Michael, you jump to
the microphone there.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
No, I want to know. I've been meaning to try
those out. How do they work? Jack?
Speaker 1 (01:20):
I'd read about them. New York Times was raving about it,
and I got a fantastic I don't know. I'll never
wear them flipping things in my ears ever again in
my life because I find an annoying. I always feel
like they're about to fall out or they do fall
out or whatever. This just it's like it's up against
the bone behind your ears, and it's really conducting the
sound through your bones. It's not really your ear drums
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hearing the sound. For a variety of reasons, I like
the way it sounds better. It's better in terms of
like if you're worried about volume doing damage. It all
kinds of better for wearing at the gym and riding
my bike and everything like that.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Love them, absolutely, love them.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Yeah, I've hesitated to ever listen to anything riding my
bike because I hear the traffic around.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Well.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
That's one of the things about these is you can
hear people talking to you in traffic and everything like
that and what you're listening to. The lane conductor would
be a good title for a horror movie, by the way,
it would.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
It would. Yeah. Uh, and my wife has used them.
I'll have to try it.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Falon's joke there I've always wondered about the announcing new
colors for iPhones, and then and then certain colors selling out.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
I have known zero.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
People in my life who carry around their one thousand
dollars computer, which they call their phone, without a case
around it.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
So you know what color mine is? No idea? Neither
do I. Yeah, I don't even remember what color mine
is because I've got a case on it. But so
how does that become a thing? The purple colors all
sold out? I don't care. We'll put a case on it.
So are you it's weird? I don't know. That's that's odd.
People are strange. I don't like humans. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
And then the new thinner iPhone. I don't know if
people were clamoring for that. I'll have to hold one
in my hand to see if I really dig it.
The Ultra three watch. I wear an Ultra April Ultra watch,
which is like having a TV screen on your wrist.
They've made a bigger one, so now even a bigger
screen on your wrist, if that's what you want. I
don't like wearing watches. I get sweaty. I got sweaty
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wrists coming up. Vlad putin jabs NATO in the eye.
It's a huge provocation, escalation what will lead to we
don't know more on the Israeli attack on the Hamas
guys and Cutter and I've gotten now a clearer picture
of what happened with that whole five hundred South Koreans
deported from Georgia's story. It's just one more example of
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how ridiculous our immigration system is. So stay with us
if you can. We can't gloss over this. You have
sweaty wrists.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Risk got sweaty.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
I wore a watch every day of my life from
age I don't know, I was a teenager on and
just I just lately have stopped.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Maybe it was COVID or something like that. I don't think.
I still like one on my wrist. I couldn't live
without my Apple Watch or twenty four like you were
with the iPad.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
It's just it's fine if I need a watch, but
mostly I can't imagine why you'd need one.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
But it works for you so good.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
So is AI going to destroy the world of jobs?
Some people say it will, some people say it won't,
and then some people are in between. And when is
a question also a pull out? The share of gen
Z parents that believe a college degree guarantees long term
job security is down to sixteen percent, partially around AI.
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That's the share of gen Z parents that believe a
college degree guarantees long term job security.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
It's a.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Well apparently a lot of people did, because it used
to be a lot higher number. Now it's down to
SA guarantees job secure. If you think you've got guaranteed
job security in any industry with any level of education
or skill, you're kind of dumb.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
So I'm worried about it. For the government, Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
You work for the government, and you're surrounded by people
who work for the government, so you think you get
one job and have it the rest of your life
and never can ever get fired.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
That's what's going on there.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
I think I was in my earliest twenties gladys when
I had a conversation with my dad, who.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
God bless him.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
His birthday is on Thanksgiving Day, eighty fifth birthday this year,
and we're going to have a big get together, looking
forward to it. But Carsha, I was complaining he's going
to have his traditional birthday turkey.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
I was talking to him about the madness of the
radio industry there towards the beginning of my career and
before my long and glorious rise to mediocrity, And I said,
there are days I wish I had picked a of
a career path with job security. And he looked at
me and he said, quite sincerely, Yeah, which one is
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that right? Because the economy is always changing, you have
to hustle to stay ahead to your point.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
And yes, to that point.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Careers parents of gen Z say, A, I think are
AI resistant? Of course, we're all guessing. At this point
you're top ten counting up and this is from h Axios.
Put this chart out. Accountant they say that was number ten.
I'm not exactly sure why an accountant would be AI proof.
(06:18):
Seems like it's ripe for AI to me. But yeah,
that's counterintuitive. Digital marketer, data analyst. There's another one that
seems ripe for AI to me, software developer Lloyd. A minute,
then we all just learned that anybody can now have
AI rate your code for you.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
They the only way I can grasp you're reading the
wrong list? Is this the most vulnerable to.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
A The only thing I can grasp is that they
presented people with a list of these jobs and then
ranked them because there's very few people that Only ten
percent of parents thought an accountant was AI resistant, for instance. Anyway,
I'll start at the top. Maybe it makes more sense
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since I don't know how they ask the question. Plumber
over half of parents think if their kid becomes a plumber,
AI ain't gonna ruin that. They're right after that HVAC
technician person that comes and fixes your furnace in your
air condition then electrician almost certainly true.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Nurse is very high.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Then practically everything else drops way, way, way, way way down.
I don't want to robot nurse coming at me with
a needle, no way, including lawyer, which is only in
the twenty percentile. It depends on what kind of lawyer
you are. But a lot of lawyer work is going
to be AI. A lot of your lower end lawyer work.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Oh that reminds me.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
The problem, of course with AI and law, as we've
discussed many times, is it tends to cook up these hallucinations.
Its cases that don't exist in the rest of it.
And I texted Jack this privately last night. But I
was playing a song that I really like. I hadn't
played it for a long time, and I knew I
was getting one of the cords wrong, so I asked
chat GPT, hey give me the chords to this song
happens to be the absolutely brilliant Fisherman's Blues by the
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water Boys, and it's four chords over and over again,
and it gave me completely the wrong chords, I mean,
just just wrong. And I called it on it. I said, uh,
what did I say? I said, Hey, those chords are wrong.
I'm pretty sure it's g F to a minor C.
(08:26):
And they go, yeah, my bad, You're right, it is
what and here here you go.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Well, it like went.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Into a frenzy for almost thirty seconds. Wow of like
the screen appearing and disappearing and then cycling through things
and then links appearing.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
It was like, gym, we got it wrong. It was
like he was having some sort of seizure.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
And finally, after actually it was thirty six seconds, it
tells me you're right, my bad. The classic water Boys
version uses the courts I described throughout intro verses and chorus.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Well what the hell happened the first time?
Speaker 1 (09:04):
And it's funny because some of the things that appeared
then disappeared were like telling me what happened the first time,
but then they disappeared right. And the problem with that
is it was a topic where you could catch it
being wrong.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Whereas when I.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Chat gpt'ed the population of Nepal the other day because
they're having a revolution, m hm, you could have told
me a wildly wrong number, just like it told you
the wildly wrong chords.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
But I wouldn't have known. Yeah, yeah, head scratcher. By
the way, did you hear how this revolution in Nepal started?
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Yeah, I've got a decent enough idea.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
So it's a very poor country, and like lots of
poor countries, you haven't an elite that lives a completely
different life than like ninety five percent of the population. Well,
the super rich kids of the elite had been posting
a whole bunch of look how cool my life is
stuff on social media, and it made people. I mean,
(10:05):
you know, social media has got a comparison problem anyway,
even with just like your regular neighbors portraying their fantastic
vacation makes you bitter. But this was the super rich
while you're dirt poor, including a whole bunch of kids
of a one elite family showing a Christmas tree made
out of Louis Veton bags. They took their picture in
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front of them. Oh that made the rounds on social media,
so people were in the streets. The government reacted by
canceling all social media because they thought that was the problem.
But sorry, Louis the sixteenth. Then you're a wife who said,
let the meat cake.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
It's too late.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Well, and the poor working stiffs because they have enormous
unemployment there, especially youth unemployment. Many many, many ne police
people go to foreign lands to work as laborers and
they stay in touch with their families via social media
and then they send back money to their family, the remittance,
as they call them, which really bail out to Nepalese economy.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
And so double edged sword of.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Oh, we're going to cover up the Louis the fourteenth
lifestyle of our elite. And by the way, you can't
write home to your wife anymore. So and yeah, people
have gone nuts. I mean it's that's the straw that
broke the camel's back. Oh yeah, And there's been many
dead and all kinds of buildings burned down on that
sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
I mean, it's a serious revolution. But if you're dirt poor, that.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Smiling, cocky kids standing in front of their Louis Vauton
bag Christmas tree.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Yeah, where's my bat. I'm gonna go smash some stuff. Yeah. Well,
and blatant corruption.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
If there's a twenty five million dollar like international grant
to do something noble sounding, the elites of the country
drain twenty two million dollars of it into their accounts,
then they make this pathetic, half assed show of spending
that last three million.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
But the people have caught onto it. Yeah, that's going
to be people hanging in the city squares.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Absolutely. I know you had another economic thing. We have
other stuff to get to. What was that bo But
now we attacked another drug boat down there off of Venezuela.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Oh yeah, coming back. Bad news. We have had a recession.
Good news. It's over seems crazy, but it makes sense.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
One of the Wall Street's leading analysts with a really
intriguing contrarian opinion.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Oh okay, I didn't know that. Stay tuned.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
Yesterday was Bernie Sanders' eighty fourth birthday.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Democrats promised him.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
A cake, but then they gave it to Hillary.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
That reminds me briefly AOC while she was on that
no oligarch's tour with Bernie, A bunch of the financials
got released over the weekend. She and all our people
were staying in the nicest hotel every town. They went
to this super expensive places while they're out there talking
about oligarchs.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
And taxing the rich.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Yeah, yeah, somehow the elites and socialism always do great.
Speaking of which, and maybe we'll do this in our
four I'd almost forgotten that i'd gotten it. The Democratic
Socialists of America, which Bernie and AOC and Mamdannie certainly
are down with what they actually believe, what they say
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they believe in their own words.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
It will shock you.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
And the mainstream media is so awfully, evilly hilariously complicit
in it. Anyway, that's our four hooking stay tuned first
of all, and we won't dwell on this because.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
It's freaking me out and it'll freak everybody out.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Health insurance costs for businesses are set to rized by
the most in fifteen years this year.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
To next year. Oof oof is right, something's.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Gotta give soon with our completely goof stup, messed up, dishonest,
heavily subsidized healthcare system.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
As the population gets older and older.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Whatever that stat was the other day, I think one
out of six people are sixty five or older. And
that's when all your healthcare costs are starting to hit. Right. Well,
it's sixty five, you're on the government program. But you
get up into your fifties and sixties, you're starting to
spend a lot more money in the healthcare world. Yeah,
another conversation with Craig, the healthcare guru, coming up down
the road at some point, I'm sure. And then this
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I found so interesting. One of the top analysts on
Wall Street says you aren't crazy for thinking the economy
felt worse than it looked according to the quote unquote
official numbers for the last three years. This guy is
Morgan Stanley's chief US equity strategist. That means he's Morgan
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Stanley's number one stocks guy, and he believes we've been
in the midst of what he calls a rolling recept
for the past three years. And he talks about the
weak job numbers that keep being revised downward and how
a lot of the you know, like the second tier
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numbers have been very, very soft, but the stock market
still looks good.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Jack three indexes hit records again yesterday.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
But as you pointed out quite appropriately, more than once,
it's mostly a few tech stocks.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Yeah, that are really up.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
But this guy's theory is, so i'll quote him, central
to our view is the notion that the economy has
been much weaker for many companies and consumers over the
past three years than what the headline economic statistics like
nominal GDP or employment suggest. In other words, amid the
many predictions of a recession about to hit the US
economy or a revival of nineteen seventy styled stagflation, Wilson,
(15:56):
this guy has been banging the drum that the recession
was already here, just into skyt Essentially, it was affecting
one sector of the economy pretty significantly for a year,
year and a half, but another sector over here, a
big one, was not as effected until oh now, now
they're really getting hammered. And they've cut way back on
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hiring because there's been an eighty percent collapse in hiring
even as inflation has risen.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
In layoffs rolled, as they put it.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
But he just thinks that certain sectors of the economy
have been hiding how bad other sectors of the economy
have been doing, and they have absolutely been in recession
and they are getting hammered. But here's some good news,
he says, according to the data that we look at
to diagnose that the rolling secret bull market or bull
(16:50):
economy has actually begun already.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Oh okay, so the worst is passed. Well, I hope
that's true. This guy thinks, yeah, I hope it's true too.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
It'll all get gobbled up by your increasing healthcare costsman, oh,
I said, we're going to leave that behind. Sorry, So
overnight we got the closest we've come to a full
scale Europe versus Russia war in eighty years. That happened overnight.
If you didn't follow Poland shooting down a whole bunch
of Russian drones, what's going on there? All the details
coming up, it's a pretty big story, Armstrong and Geddy.
(17:24):
I'm a big fan of the Prime Minister of Poland,
Donald Tusk, who said, I have no reason to claim
we're on the brink of war with Russia, but a
line has been crossed and it's incomparably more dangerous than
it was before. What is he talking about, Well, here's
ABC News to spell it out for you.
Speaker 6 (17:42):
Top officials here in Europe calling this the biggest violation
of NATO airspace by Russia since the war in Ukraine began,
and for the first time Poland, the key NATO ally
of the US, shooting down Russian drones breaching its airspace,
calling some of those drones a direct Threatland saying nineteen
Russian drones violating its airspace, Dutch and Polish warplanes downing
(18:05):
at least four of those drones which were considered a
direct threat. Polish officials seen inspecting the wreckage of a
Russian drone the roof of a residential building badly damaged
in eastern Poland, that breach of Polish espace, sparking condemnation
from European leaders. Poland holding emergency meetings this morning, consulting
with NATO allies, calling it a deliberate provocation, saying Moscow
(18:29):
is waging war with the whole Western world and warning
of the risk of open conflict with Russia.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Yeah, this is a big deal.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
South Carolina Representative Joe Wilson, who is a senior member
of the Foreign Affairs Committee here in the United States
and our Congress, called the incursion an act of war.
This is an act of war, and were grateful to
NATO allies from the swift response to war criminals Putin's
continued unprovoked aggression against free and productive nations.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
You think it's an act of war.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Putin get away with saying, Ah, the accident, I was
using the metric system instead of the whatever, and I
misjudged her. Yeah, he'll say something implausible to make well. Overnight,
overnight they said, we've been shown no proof that these
were our drones, and they were not.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
That's just what they always say about this sort of
current crap.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Putin's deal is he probes, and he probes, and he probes,
looking for softness, looking for weakness.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Well, he had been getting away with it now for
a while. I that's what I'm saying, Pushing further and further.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
I followed the Ukraine War pretty closely on almost daily
basis with the Telegraph podcast that is so good.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
And they've been talking.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
About and h and bothered by more and more Russian objects,
drones of different sizes flying just barely cut in the
corner into Poland. They share a three hundred mile border,
a little more, little more, and they've been doing that
for weeks and then like really went in last night
and then got shot down by a whole bunch of jets.
(20:01):
James Travinus who used to be the military commander of NATO,
so he knows what he's talking about on CNN talking
about this today.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
It could get very serious and Russia, of course nuclear armed,
NATO nuclear armed. What the polls are doing about it?
Smart move. They've convened in Article four meeting. We all
know Article five and attack on one is an attack
on all.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
There's a step before that.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
It's an Article four conference that's unfolding today in Brussels.
What I'm hoping to conclude is that the Russians will,
at a minimum say this is inadvertent. Those drones ended
up over there because the Ukrainians interfered with them electronically.
This could escalate in a very bad way. Again, guns
(20:49):
of August, how about the drones of September.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
I'm worried. WHOA she sounds heavy there at the end.
I can't imagine Putin thinking it's a good idea to
go to war with NATO. But he might actually believe
Nadi would back down, and he there's a possibility he's right,
(21:13):
Yeah that I'm trying to come up with a rationale.
Putin would be using to poke NATO this hard what
he's trying to get out of it, And the only
thing I can come up with is he's just testing defenses,
which is a thing Russian does routinely. They usually don't
(21:34):
fly this deep into somebody's airspace, but they just to
see how you would react and to study you. It's
like watching game film of another team. But to be
this blatant in this deep either the jamming actually did
you know send the drone somewhere they weren't supposed to go,
as Russia is claiming, although I assume most of what
they say is lies, or he's really really serious about
(21:58):
testing NATO's defenses for some reason. If I was in
Estonia right now, I would be, you know, shining my gun.
I would be making sure it's clean and ready to go.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Well.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
That guns of August Drones of September reference was to
famous book about the beginning of World War One, and
the point being that minor little conflict turned into the
biggest war the world had ever seen. You never know
how these things are going to play out, right, I mean,
(22:30):
this is certainly could be as big a deal as
the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand in terms of setting off
a chain of events, it was a fine fella in all.
But yes, yes this is big. So Article five is
an attack on one is an attack on all. Article
four as if anything hinky happens, we get together. So
(22:53):
obviously they kind of get lighter and lighter as you
go up to chet. Article three is whoever brings coffee
and donuts rotates between the various member nations. Article two is, hey,
I thought that was my seat. I'm supposed to sit there.
Any dispute over the seating will be settled by an
arbitration committee, because the US always wants to sit at
(23:17):
this seat by the window with a nice view.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Article one is a quick text what's up? So yeah, wow,
where this goes? Nobody knows?
Speaker 7 (23:26):
Yeah, but that's act, this freaking provocative act. Yeah, and
in not a stony or some tiny little country, but
damned Poland, who has had Russian boots marching through their
country a variety of times over the centuries.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Right right, all right, well, I guess that's enough of
that for now. It is an ongoing story. Yeah, they
just want it to be over, you know, I want
to talk about Israel's strike on the Hummas guys in
Cutter in a moment after a word from our friends
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four with a natural remedy, natural remedy of prunes, but
apparently not enough brunes. Much like the peace negotiations with Somemas,
(24:28):
there's been no movement.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
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Hamas leaders in Cutter really royal to Middle East diplomats
(25:57):
are saying what they feel like they need to say.
In my opinion, uh, tut tutting, but they don't actually
mean a lot of it.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Do we have time for this?
Speaker 8 (26:04):
This?
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Should we take a break? Time for once in our lives?
We have a new richest person in the world. Is
that right?
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Wow, we have a new richest person in the world.
How did you overtake Elon?
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Oh, I'll hit you with that. Is it that guy
with the luxury brands in France? No, Larry Ellison? Oh really?
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Yeah, well done, Larry. One of yet once again tech stocks.
Getting to the point you were making earlier. Yeah, we
set records all the time. It's like four different stocks
though driving the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
It's a little misleading.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Anyway, we got a lot on the waist and they
can wear fast.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Yeah, very quickly. We have a new richest man in
the world.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
It is Larry Ellison of Oracle because of their a
I cloud technology. They had their quarter quarterly results come
out yesterday. He had an increase in his wealth of
one hundred and one billion dollars in one day, what,
pushing him to almost four hundred billion dollars, which is
(27:10):
slightly ahead of Elon Musk. But the main point being
it's all about the AI stuff. People are betting on AI.
They believe it's going to be a big deal. I'm
probably lucky that I don't really have a clue as
to how true that is or not so I don't
spend a lot of time worrying about it, Like the weather.
I will deal with it when it hits me in
(27:31):
the head.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
There's that angle of it.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
But I would but I would like to get in
on the gold rush while it's happening.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
You know, Yeah, I guess.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Ah, so big strike Israel hitting Hamas leaders in car
and very controversial allegedly, but is it really And some
of the statements being made by people I think are
really illuminating, like Benjamin Nett Yahoo said the days are over.
The terrorist leaders will have immunity anywhere. He just stated
(28:01):
that they don't care where you are anymore. And then
you had, you know, the US made a statement, the
president allegedly that.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
This does not advance the goals of Israel or.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
The United States, which is, as condemnations go, not one.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
But guitar is a friend of the United States. Right,
Oh yeah, So you do have to be a little
bit careful and the message being sent.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
You know what, there's this article I read in the
Wall Street Journal about this, and you have to read
between virtually every single line. But the message that's actually
being sent from the United States is, Look, this isn't
gonna happen a lot, but it happened this once. Okay, okay, anyway,
(28:51):
the ambassador from Israel to the United States was on
a special report with Brett Beer last night in a
very very frank and revealing interview. I thought it was
so interesting and so clear as to Israel's intentions.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
We'll start with the first clip, Michael, and go from there.
Speaker 8 (29:09):
We don't have an issue with the people of Gaza.
We don't have an issue with the people of Qatar.
We have an issue with the people that leading Hamas,
and our Prime Minister has made it very clear from
October seventh, those who implemented the slaughter of our citizens
will pay the price, the ultimate price, and no matter
where they are, and we don't care anymore.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Next clip.
Speaker 8 (29:31):
It's important to remember September nineteen seventy two Prime Minister
Golda Meir at the time after the Munich massacre, when
Palestinian terrorists slaughtered our eleven sportsmen in Munich, she gave
an order that everybody responsible for that murder, for that slaughter,
would pay the price, and it was carried out by
(29:54):
our Mosad and thirteen of those terrorists were eliminated. Tamas
terrorists are unnoticed. They are going to be eliminated.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Then this was a revealing quote as well, did you
get the targets you were seeking?
Speaker 8 (30:11):
If we didn't get them this time, we'll get them
the next time.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
And it's not clear exactly who they got and who
they didn't get among the senior leadership. They definitely got
a couple of a handful of second level guys. Maybe
whether it was the big daddies or not, I don't know.
But then this is the clip where he restates what
I've believed for a long time is Israel's current point
of view.
Speaker 8 (30:37):
Israel under Prime Minister Nataniell is changing the face of
the Middle East. We have degraded Fitzbala, We've degraded Hamas
the UTIs, and Iran the head of the snake that's
leading these proxies in effort to destroy Israel. When we
defeat these proxies of Iran, WI, we defeat Islamic extremism.
And actually that will benefit our neighbors in the region.
(30:59):
Horne moderate and want to live in a state of
peace with us. So right now we may be subject
to a little bit of criticism, they'll get over it
and Israel is being changed for the better. The region
is being changed for the better as we remove these
enemies of peace and these enemies of Western civilization from
their ability to implement terrorism.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
I thought him saying they'll get over it was a
little more flippant than he needed to be. Yeah, it
was refreshing in that it was stating the case plainly,
because that's yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
I could have thought it two or three ways for
him to say that.
Speaker 7 (31:36):
More.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Well, what's the word diplomatically, since he's a diplomat, But
that's exactly right. So yeah, they'll they'll rent and rave
and pound the table and condemn this and all, but
we'll be meeting with them next week.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
So actually, I thought it was an interesting question. Brett
Bhair asked him.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
So critics would say, Hamas assigns a couple of people
to engage in peace talks and you don't like the
way they're going, and so you obliterate them.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
I mean, so how are you goingdaver gonna get any
peace talks going? I mean, that's the.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Pushback on this whole thing, right, Yeah, And he also
mentioned Katari sovereignty in the next clip.
Speaker 5 (32:15):
This is worth here, mister besterber what about the charge
that this is a violation of the sovereignty of the
state of cutter and that anybody who is negotiating with
you potentially is a target if they are in the
process of negotiation and don't agree to the terms at
that moment.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Come on, britt, I'm just saying what there's should have been.
Speaker 8 (32:36):
Yeah, yeah, well, you know, this has been going on
for months and months and months. In the meantime, our
hostages are being starved in the tunnels of Hamas and Gaza.
They can end this now, this moment. They can lay
down their weapons like Arafat did in Lebanon in nineteen
eighty two and leave and this can be over.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
We want this war to be over.
Speaker 8 (32:57):
We want to implement a cease five in which everybody
will benefit. But we're not going to live with jihadis
on our border anymore.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
That's over.
Speaker 8 (33:06):
These people are murderous thugs. Imagine just MS thirteen taking
over a neighborhood here in the United States and then
negotiating with them after they hold hostages and tunnels. This
is something that is absolutely unacceptable in human terms, in
simple human moral terms. This is going to be over
when Hamas is eliminated, and they're put on notice. The
(33:27):
Prime Minister put them on notice. Wherever they are, whenever
they are, they are on notice. They are not going
to survive what they did on October seventh, twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
We are not going to live with Jihadis on our
border anymore. That's over, so Jim Garrity, writing for National Review,
this is a bad time for Hamas leaders to attempt
the taco trade. Trump does not always chicken out, He
writes credit where credit is due. Twice earlier this year,
President Trump said the Hamas would have hell to pay
(33:58):
if they didn't release the three men ating hostages, with
consequences that were less than fully hellish every time. But Sunday,
Trump said on truth Social the Israelis have accepted my terms.
It is time for Hamas to accept as well. I
have warned Hamas about the consequences of not accepting. This
is my last warning. There will not be another one.
(34:18):
Apparently Trump meant it this time. After months where Hamas
negotiating's position kept shifting all around, the Hamas negotiators are
now well, they're now all over the map themselves.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
Well.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
Speaking of flippant, yes well, and I'm sure because all
this stuff happens through back channels.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
The reply to Trump was, yeah, yeah, we're willing to
have another round of talks. That's fine, and he knew. Okay, well,
so they're bull lessing again. But but Garrity is saying
a national review, and you seem to be hinting that
Trump had some knowledge, some approval on this, as opposed
to what he's saying out loud is I didn't know
about it until right before it happened, and I don't
(35:00):
like it.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
I don't like it one bit.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Yeah, the strategic ignorance, I think, went something like this.
Trump and Netanyahu are talking net Yah, who says, look,
they're not serious about negotiating. We're going to get their
leaders because they're going to get together soon and we're
going to take him out. And Trump said, I don't
want to hear the specifics. Don't tell me, but give
me one more chance to see what their intentions are.
He did, their intentions sort of string everybody along a
(35:24):
little bit further, as they have now for years, and
they're not going to seriously negotiate. To net Yahoo, they
clearly indicated their lack of seriousness when they took credit
for that bus attack two days ago and encouraged it
and hoped there were more. Yeah, Frankly, I think anybody
(35:45):
who believed that Hamas would ever negotiate in good faith
is a fool. I appreciate wanting to try and try
and try to have less killing and in the wars sooner,
but as German made clear to the city fathers of
Atlanta back in what was it, eighteen sixty four, eighteen
sixty five, he said, I've received your letter and I
(36:08):
appreciate it. The quickest way to end this war and
the suffering is to win it. So I'm gonna win it,
and it's gonna suck bad, but then it'll be over.
So pretty big developments in both the Israel Hamas war
kind of an Israel Iran war and the Ukraine Russia
war that will be keeping our eye on. If you
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