May 12, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 4 of A&G features...
- A day at Disney World & CA is Crumbling!
- Old timey diseases
- Tariff talks & awful corruption
- Final Thoughts!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and
Jettie and Hee Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
So for the first time in many years, we'll slash
the costs of prescription drugs and we will bring fairness
to America. Drug prices will come down bye much more.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Really, if you thinky this did not what it costs
us to go to Disney, clearly you've lost your mind. Michael.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Before we even got into the park, it cost me
thirty dollars just for parking, and even being a Florida resident,
tickets for a family of five with one child under
ten was still nine hundred and seventy four dollars. Right
after our first ride, we bought two waters and three
ice creams. This total twenty nine dollars and fifty cents.
After the second ride, they wanted a pretzel and I
wanted a beer. This was another nineteen dollars. After that,
it was time for lunch. We teached up with a
small pizza. Each had a side and a small drink,
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totally forty four dollars and thirty five cents.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Once we got the Star Wars line.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
We've had to buy some blue milk for ten dollars
and twenty nine cents. It tasted like a slushy with
nerds on top. The kids then snuck away and bought
some Star Wars Coca cola.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
This was six dollars and fifty cents.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
After the next ride, we went and had a churo
a water and a margarite.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
This was another thirty six dollars.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
We ended up at the four monak Ussina for some
Mexican food, totaling two hundred and forty five dollars twenty
seven cents for dinner. The grand total for our day
was one thousand, three hundred and ninety one dollars ninety
one cents.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Fourteen hundred bucks for him and his kids day. Does
everybody in that family have a tapeworm? They are hungry?
Bastards are here amounta eating and drinking more than I
usually do. Come on, wait a minute, y'all took in
like five thousand calories each. I see your point. You're right,
it's incredibly expensive, Disney. I'm telling you, you know, I
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wasn't gonna get off on this tangent, but the idea
of UH have metal guy. Get ready, Michael, because we
got a California's crumbling update coming. But the idea that
Hollywood needs some sort of tax subsidy when a lot
of the problem is just it's so expensive and brutally
regulated in California. It's too expensive to do anything, including
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making movies. Right, That's a good points. It is too expensive.
That's why so many companies have moved to Texas. It's
not you know, it's the same as the Hollywood industry.
It's just way harder and more expensive and more of
a pain in the ass to do it in California
than other places. Yeah. In a semi related story, there
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are a bunch of quote unquote moderate Republicans who are
in purple districts but in the blue states that are
desperate to get the GOP to get in favor of
the state and local tax exemption on your federal income
taxes what's the nickname for that state and local the
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salt deductions, And they want to raise it like thirty
grand so that the people of the other you know,
forty states or whatever it is. If you're in a
blue state that spends money like lunatics on I don't know,
fake bullet trains for instance, and drives businesses out and
the rest of it. Well, you know that's fine. You're
all those incredible taxes you're paying. We'll make those tax
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deductible on your federal turns so the rest of the
country can subsidize it. It's insane. There's no justification for it.
And I'm sorry to say it if it hurts you personally,
but there's just no justification. Oh, it hurts me personally
as a California it'd be way better be able to
deduct my state taxes. But it's incredibly unfair to like
my brothers who live in Kansas to pick up the
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tab because our government's out of control. Yeah, you got
some disciplined whys with their money states subsidizing the lunatics.
It just doesn't make any sense. Speaking of which, California
is crumbling. Thanks metal guy. Tell you what what he
lacks in length, he makes up for an intensity. Played again, Michael. Yeah, Oh,
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he's always right there when you need them. A handful
of stories about the Golden State and in particular the governor,
Gavi Newsom. Here's the adline for you. Gav Newsom Awards
Anti Terrorism Grant to the mosque linked to nine to
eleven hijackers and a pro Hamas cleric. Two hundred dollars
to the Islamic Center of San Diego two hundred about
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a month ago. Two hundred thousand dollars. Oh ok, I'm sorry,
it's gonna say that's not much for grant. That's what well,
you want to go out to eat honey now? Two
hundred thousand dollars to the Islamic Center San Diego and
MARSH part of the program to help religious institutions and
nonprofits beef ob security to protect against potential terrorist attacks.
(04:39):
Who blombers So. The Islamic Center of San Diego, led
by Imam Taja Hassein, has condoned anti Israeli violence over
the years. Sayin who's been around now for like twenty years,
defended Hamas's slaughter of Israeli civilians on October seventh, singing
a sermon weeks later that resistance against Israel has justified.
We can, like you someone who's fighting for his life
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to be a terrorist. The terrorist is the one who
started the occupation, not the one who was defending himself.
But even without that, even if they're you know, peace,
love and Muslims. Why are me an a taxpayer given
two hundred thousand dollars of some mosque? Why? And the
Islamic centers of San Diego gained notoriety in the wake
of nine eleven after revelations the two of the Al
Kay operatives who flew the plane that hit the Pentagon
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prayed regularly at the mosque and bye Golly, somebody at
the mosque also gave him thousands of dollars to get
by on while they were planning the brutal attack against
the infidel Americans. Absolutely lovely, but Gavey awarded the grant
even as California faces a steep budget shortfall. Speaking of
Gavy and policies and consequences, send Luis Obispo Da Dan
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Dau just sent California Governor Gavin knew from an urgent
letter urging him to reverse the Board of Parole hearing
to release Ali Brown formerly Herbert David Brown, the third
from prison. Herbert David now Miss Ali Brown, is a
baby murderer convicted of horrific crimes that killed a toddler.
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He is saying he was sentenced to fifteen years to life.
He entered prison ten years ago. And the pro board said, ah,
turn her loose, this transgender baby murderer, and the victim's
family and the prosecutors and all are saying, what kind
of system is this. He's not even gonna serve his minimums,
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so it's for baby murder. But what's the argument for
letting her out? He is a dude. It's it's just
the California the policies under Prop. Fifty seven. You got
to get people out of prison as soon as possible,
all right, it's just turning scumbags loose. Man, if something
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like that happened in your life and they let the
personneut you would, man, you'd have to commit yourself to
meditation or God or something to deal with that be
so frustrating California's crumbling metal guide. Did I mention that
the National Review, writing with interest about Gavy Newsom's teachers union,
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backed build that requires teachers to lie to parents, but
only on the matter of a school kid's gender identity.
If little Bobby wants to be Susie, wants to use
pronouns that don't match his biology, or wants to get
into the girl's locker room, Newsome's acron acronymically clever, support
academic futures and educators for today's youth. The Safety Act
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bar schools employees from disclosing to parents their child's on
campus behavior, and the state recommends that schools keep secret
separate files to document the kid's sexual identity. The Safety
Act safety is hiding from the parents that their kids
are struggling at school. That's the same and struggling with
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gender identity because the activist teachers and administrators have been
trying to tell the kids that you can be a
different sex if you want to be, and we will
get you hormones and surgery to mutilate you if you
want it. But the bills backers claim it's necessary because
parents might go ape upon learning that their own children
have gender dysphoria of some sort. The bill's backers, including
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the majority of California news organizations, refer to the lost
critics as supporting forced outing. Three points. Number One, you
can't out a child to his or horn own parents,
because those parents, not government officials or employees, have the
ultimate authority for rearing their children. There's no such thing
as outing a child to their parents. Second, teachers are
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mandated reporters under state law, if they think a child
faces abuse at home for any reason, they're required to
support to report their suspicions to child protective services or police.
And Third, the so called Safety Act violates the Federal
Education Rights and Privacy Act the FURPA Act nineteen seventy
two law that establish his parents' absolute right to access
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their children's records. When can a judge please strike this down?
I can't believe Newsom's going to try to run for
president with this in his background. I know, I know.
I can't wait. I hope he does. I cannot wait.
Who are the most regulated states in the US? Jack,
This will shock you if you're an idiot. They are
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New Jersey and New York and Illinois, but they all
fall the number one California. According to the Mercadis Center,
there are four hundred and twenty thousand some different business
regulations in California. Actually, the California Globe notes slightly snarkily
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that California is listing ten ways California leads the nation. Well,
in business regulation, that's one of them. You have fiftieth
in the country for business regulation, or first, depending on
how you look at it. Once again this year, and
finally this, which is one of the more hilarious and
ridiculous cell phones I've ever seen. Gavy Newsom in his
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office just put out an online post mocking how advanced
California's plans were for a high speed rail system compared
to Texas's pathetic high speed rail line program. On Instagram,
Gavvy showed this. It's a big poster. It says California's
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high speed rail leaves Texas in the dust. How many
miles four one hundred and ninety four San Francisco to
Los Angeles much longer than Texas's plan. Texas hasn't even started.
California's got one hundred and seventy one miles being developed,
one hundred whatever that means, one hundred nineteen miles being built,
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fifty built structures. What Texas has no opening date and
no jobs created. California's early operating segment, Baker's Field to
Merced opens between twenty thirty and twenty thirty three. Sure
no freaking way will. Sure it does, and tooth benefit
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if it did in ninety thirty three. In eight years,
In eight years, they're going to open up that little
Baker's Fit the Merced segment. They claim, Oh, that's tens
of billions of times, and that's a right point. So uh,
here's here's what the Mayor's the Governor's office said and
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their big release last Wednesday. What's the difference between California
high speed Rail and Texas high speed Rail? California's system
is under construction, Texas is yet to break ground California's
transition from vision and ideas to active construction and tangible
economic benefits, while the Texas project remains a dream mostly
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on paper. Despite the noise from Washington, that's right. The
only objection to the California quote unquote high speed rail
is noise from Washington. Despite the noise, California's high speed
rail is becoming real. It's another critical project, part of
the governor's Build More Faster agenda, delivering infrastructure upgrades than
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thousands of jobs across the state. Despite the Trump administration's assaults,
both California and Texas are working to build high speed rail,
but only one state has built anything, California. All right, man,
good luck standing up on a debate stage against other
Democrats who want the nomination and them taking you apart
on that stuff. There will be raucous laughter, raucous gavy
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as you try to defend your record. I mean, people
won't even bother like yelling at you angrily. They won't
need to. You'll be laughed out of the primaries. And I,
for one, just pray I live long enough to see it.
California is crumbling. So I just got a text from
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a friend who said, I think I've got a sore throat.
I look forward to complaining to you about it for
the next six weeks. That is a shot at me
being sick for so long in my never any complain
about it. But I think I do have some news
you can use around this whole whooping cough thing, which
you do not want. And how have we let it
get into the country and in more or less have
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been eradicated. It's kind of being hidden, the meedles and
the measles, the tuberculosis, the whooping cough that's come back
into the United States And why who would hide that? Why? Anyway?
More on that coming up. Stay here.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
A new report list the happiest city in the US
as New York. Yeah, yeah, I don't know who I've
got survey the happiest city in the US was New York,
while the least happy dick splinter North Dakota.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
All right, really, wow, So I'm asking a question here,
not making an assertion, because I don't know. Joe might
actually know. So we got a number of old timey
diseases that are making a comeback in the United States. Tuberculosis.
Remember last year we're talking about tuberculosis was setting records
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that hadn't been around for like a century, measles, And
now because I've got it, I've been paying more attention
to it. Freaking whooping cough, which I didn't even know
was actually a thing for adults anymore. We've been vaccinating
against it forever. It's part of the tea DAP you
get as a little kid. It's the p and the
tea DAP, And they came up with a vaccine for
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it for for a long time ago because it's such
a horrible disease. It's terrible and it kills It's yeah,
if your baby, it can really kill you. But it's
a miserable disease. It's the worst thing I've ever had
besides cancer in my whole life. And the doctor told
me on Monday, he said, you might be halfway through.
You probably got a little You probably got a little
longer than that. So anyway, I'm on eight different medications.
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It's insane. But so I was reading about whooping cough
and the statistics you get it having sex with a
whooping crane, right, that the stats from last year where
it was on the rise a lot from twenty three
to twenty four. Well, now this year we are we
have doubled the increase from last year to this year.
So twenty four is a big joke from twenty three
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and now we've doubled it from twenty four? Is it
because we let in millions of people? The biggest migration
in world history? I say that every time because it's true.
The biggest migration in world history happened across our southern
border in a very short period of time. Did that
bring a whole bunch of unvaccinated people bringing diseases in
that we had kind of gotten rid of. Yes, plus
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vectim of vaccine skepticism among Native born Americans. Yeah, the
two things in concert. Yeah, that's the explanation for the
explosion of all these old timy diseases that we thought
we'd gotten rid of. Yeah. One hundred percent. But like
the clearly the vaccine had worn off from me and
anybody over a certain age. It didn't matter before because
I wasn't gonna come in contact with whooping cough. Right. Yeah,
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we don't really have time to explain that. I'm not
an expert anyway, But how herd immunity, if it's ninety
five percent or higher, it's weird. In effect, you don't
even need it as much because you're not going to
be exposed to it. But you've got to get to
that percentage to have that luxury. I think this should
get more attention. The vaccine hesitation in RFK junior bashing
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is everywhere. The hey we let in a gazillion people
that aren't vaccinated, gets like no coverage whatsoever. Oh, I know,
we don't want to demonize migrants, jack or just looking
for a better life. The right wing might tend to
use that to escapegoat them, and we can't be a
part of that, so we'll just not report facts. I
feel like that aspect of the story should get more attention.
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I hope you don't get wooing cough. Oh man, look
at these coffin now. Folks are strong and getty. In
twenty twenty, Miller was appointed to an independent watchdog committee
that tracked how COVID relief money was spent, so we
could tell right away it's like, oh, well that's all
going to get stolen. You saw it coming. Oh yeah,
I mean it was like they threw money in the
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air and just let people run around and grab it.
That's from sixty minutes last night. This should be a
giant story. There should be hearings and you can get
so parches march, you can get people so fired up
about the latest Trump this or that. The story on
sixty minutes last night, Does that not have any halft
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with the left and mainstream media? Freaking sixty minutes that
of just COVID relief money, a trillion dollars was stolen
A trillion. A trillion, Yes, and you can't you just
can't get anywhere with this. And that woman there says
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that it's about three quarters of a trillion every year. Yeah,
and it's going to be approaching a trillion soon. That
gets stolen mostly by foreign governments because it's so easy
to rip off the government because they don't pay enough
attention to where money goes. But well they knew as
they were churning that money out that the safeguards were wildly,
almost hilariously insufficient. They knew that at the time. Well, yeah,
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as you heard her say there, my first thought was,
oh wow, this is all gonna get stolen. That's what
she said. She works in the government, knows how it works.
It would get stolen. There's nothing you can do about it,
and people get on the higher taxes. We need the
rich to pay their fair share, and you can get
people so energized for like a news cycle over. I
don't know, a couple of hundred thousand here, there a
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couple hundred million, or even tens of millions. It's nothing
compared to it trillion dollars, right, right, I don't know
what to say, I honestly don't. Uh it's worth Yeah,
sixty minutes was oddly, weirdly throwback ISHU yesterday with a
story that was honest, with one dopey exception, but with
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a tone that would tend to be sympathetic to Doge
and Trump. The fact that it was true is reason
enough to run it. But yeah, they ran that. Then
they ran a couple of other stories that were not
the least bit progressive. It was like it was fifteen
years ago. Yeah, it was very old timy. You had
the government fraud, a science story, and a celebrity profile.
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That's way sixty minutes used to be every week. Yeah. So,
speaking of numbers, perhaps you've heard this already, the US
has agreed to lower base levels of tariffs on most
Chinese goods from one hundred and whatever it was, one
hundred and forty five percent down to thirty percent. Essentially
your kids getting thirty dollars again this year and each
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one clutching a shiny new pencil. That's right. Meanwhile, China
will cut it to US levies down from one hundred
and twenty five points to ten percent. So the thirty
points thirty percent imposed by the US includes the ten
percent quote unquote reciprocal tariff, whatever that means at this point,
plus the twenty percent would you quit send in fentanyl
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our way super bonus tariff. But the mostly toning down
of the trade war has reassured the world economy and
markets all over the world, and everybody's just joyful. And
check your four oh one k right now. In fact,
withdraw it all and quit your job. You're rich anyway.
So that's good news at least for the moment. And Jack,
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your theory is the ninety day truce, Oh yeah, will
become semi permanent exactly with maybe a couple more tweaks. Yeah.
I think the big oh my god, this is going
to upend the world economy thing is over. So do
you remember last year or I think it was at
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the very end of twenty twenty three, the International Criminal
Court whatever that is, announced that it was prosecuting Benjamin
not Netanyahu for war crimes. That was pretty controversial, and
the US was like, we're not going to extra item
if he comes to the country. We're not a signatory
to your wackadoodle court. Leave us alone. Well, it's gotten really,
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really interesting. So two months after the October seventh attacks,
pressure was mounting on Kareem Khan, the chief prosecutor of
the ICC, to consider criminal charges against Israeli officials because
of the war and gossip pro Palestinian activists had labeled
him a genocide enabler, and a block of ICC members
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in the developing world insisted that action was long overdue.
They pushed in blah blah blah. So Khan, who's a
hard charging British lawyer. He's in New York in early
December for the court's governing body meeting at the UN headquarters.
He's stung by the criticism. He's lashing out at his
team and one assistant, a woman in her thirties who
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often traveled with him for her job, asked him to
meet with asked to meet with him and to urge him, Hey,
you got to take it easy on staff. I realize
we're under a lot of pressure. Well, long story shorts.
She gets to his hotel suite and he touches her
sexually and rapes her. According to testimony, all right, this
is the guy again bringing charges against net and Yahoo
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and there's the incident. Is one of multiple allegations, of course,
sexual intercourse that the woman has made against Khan. The woman,
who is married and has a child, alleges Khan performed
nonconcessual sex acts with her on missions to New York, Columbia, Congo, Chad,
in Paris and more. He's denying, and of course, but
the woman, who's a lawyer from Malaysia, stayed at the
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job because she didn't want to leave one of the
more most important offices in human rights law. She worried
she wouldn't be able to pay the medical bills of
her mother, who was dying of cancer, and she came
to a fear of retaliation from Khan. Also, as I recall,
she was like a super Palestinian activist and wanted to
be part of prosecuting the Israelis. Anyway, So the accusations, oh,
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I'm sorry. So just two and a half weeks after
Cohn learned of the allegations against him, he surprised Israeli
and US officials by announcing an arrest warrant for net Yahoo.
It was the first time in the history of the
court that they had sought a warrant for Western line
democratically elected leader, and Washington has been staunchly against this.
Both the partiscis you might guess. So. The timing of
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the announcement has spurred questions about whether Cohn was aiming
to protect himself from the sexual assault allegations. The day
before announcing the warrant application, con abromptly canceled the try
to Israel and Gaza that he previously said was important
to make his decision. He says, there's no connection, but
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anybody who might have testified against him, who is like
the ICC like super pro Palestinian has backed off on
the euro rapist stuff because they don't want to derail
the prosecution of the Israeli people. So this looks like
a serious, nasty, rapy political soap opera thing. It's amazing
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how often these big international bodies are corrupt. I mean,
you would think, just statistically it wouldn't happen as often
as it does with the IOC, with the Olympics, the
WHO with health as we all saw around COVID and
everything else, the United Nations over and over and over
and over again. In this body here, you wouldn't think
it would happen this often, but it does. Yeah, it's
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got to be. And I'll bet we have folks listening
who've worked with organizations like this who could really lay
it out for you. But it's got to be the power,
the international prestige. They're probably pretty damn decent budgets and
so you live, you know, in high style all over
the world, in the great capitals of the world. Plus
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where's the accountability. Well, yeah, we're talking about you squander
or give away a trillion dollars of US taxpayer money,
and we have a system of accountability in this country.
Imagine being this vaguely understood international colossus that's funded I
guess by the UN or something. There's no accountability at all.
So this is getting into real Jordan Peterson territory. Here
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are we all capable of this? I feel like you
could put me in charge of the IOC and I
wouldn't be corrupt. I wouldn't take, you know, cash payments
to choose which city gets the next Olympics. And you
could put me in charge of the WHO and I'm
not gonna side with whichever country gives me the biggest
amount of money. And if you put me in charge
of this organization, I'm not going to rate the first
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hot chick I come across because I think I can
get away with it. Well, look at you, polypure heart.
I'd be a monster. Oh my god, it'd be money
and prostitutes. I mean, you'd have to come across with
the hose as well. But how do you do up
with so many people in these positions who take advantage
of what you just explained. I mean, that's what I
don't get. I think. Well, first of all, I salute
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you for your principles and your scruples. They are not
universally very high standards. I just threw out, Ah, well,
you're an earnest young man from the sticks in this country. Jack,
A big city boy like myself can educate you. I'll
tell you this. Some people are just corrupt and corruptible,
I think for a lot of people, and there are
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all sorts of examples of this in life. It is
a step by step slide. And as you pass one
ethical milestone limits, I wouldn't do that, you know, I've
heard it described in dealing with addictions. Your list of
I would never's get shorter and shorter. And if you
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are surrounded by a culture like the IOC, for instance,
forever and probably now, let's not be naive. If you're
at the IOC and you're rising up through the organization
and you witness all the corruption and the luxury and
the just fawning that countries do you, Well, that's slide.
That'd be the easiest one for me to get on
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board with, where I would think, who gives a crap? Yeah,
I would think you're gonna give me five million dollars.
Me and my family are set for life, and why
do I give a crap? Whether the Olympics are in
Paris or in London? Right, oh, Athens and then then
niece are fighting it out. Okay, what the hell do
I care? Right, who comes across with the most money
and hos. But that's a far cry from raping people.
(27:53):
Uh yeah, yeah, although we've seen that affair amount too
among In fact, it came up in the context of
the Didty trial. Who is the diplomat?
Speaker 5 (28:04):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Was it? An IMF guy who got busted in New
York City for one of those One of his defense
attorneys is on Ditty's dream team, which is why I
bring it up. But yeah, it just yeah, the the
I can do whatever I want to summarize it briefly,
just power corrupts. The Old Testament is full of these
stories and he never changes. That's right, sir. That was
(28:27):
a reference to the Bible. Yeah, I don't know. Well,
you know, that's yet another argument for those of us
on the right who don't like the idea of international
bodies because they're you know, there are a step above
national bodies, which already have enough corruption in them, just
like you know, they have the answer to There are
a hell of a lot of really smart, well informed
(28:49):
people listening to the show right now also a fair
number of dunderheadsolute morons. Yeah, but among you the whys,
the experience, the intellectual Can you explain to me the
methods that the procedures for accountability for a high level
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un employee are official. Explain to me what that would
look like. And you're saying to yourself, well, Joseph, I'd
be delighted to answer, but I've never heard a damn
syllable about how that would work. Yeah, there's a reason
for that, friends, because there isn't much, if there's any.
They've got diplomatic immunity, for God's sake, it's like a
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law that they're not held accountable for things that you
and I is, poor, humble, unwashed citizens and of this
dopey land. We would be held accountable, but they're not.
I mean, it's written into the law that they're not accountable.
I think I got something kind of interesting for you.
How come we're not working fifteen hours a week maximum
at this point? Came across me, so everybody, let's get started.
(29:56):
Came across this. Over the weekend, I say, eleven hours.
We'll finish strong.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
Next A new report shows that there have been at
least nine incidents at Newark Airport where air traffic controllers
have lost contact with planes that were about to land.
But luckily it's Newark, so planes can just follow the smell.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
So we talked a fair amount about AI last week.
Joe and I just both both got into chat GPT
and using that and have been pretty amazed by it,
and I'm fascinated by the whole topic. I got into
a couple of books over the weekend by Nick Bostrom.
He's written some of the most famous things about AI
and what the future could be. And this book that
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came out last year called Deep Utopia was kind of predicting, like,
how is the world? I mean, if it illuminates all work,
what is that going to look like? Anyway, part of
what he was he started talking about in the book
was keenes As in Kingsian Economics. Keens Wait back in
the thirties was writing how much he thought productivity was
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going to explode over the coming decades, and then how
much less we were gonna have to work. And he
predicted that we would be able to produce somewhere between
four and five times as much by now, and so
therefore everybody'd be working a fifteen hour work week or less.
What he got wrong was one, he was way short.
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We're more like eight times as productive as we were
in the thirties. What he got wrong was people wouldn't
be satisfied with the amount of stuff they had. People
would be willing to work as many hours or more
to have more stuff, which I find fascinating because that,
you know, why isn't that Why can't you extrapolate that
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going forward with the whole AI thing. People aren't gonna
need to work. People aren't gonna be satisfied with a
medium sized house and the media, I mean, if you
less travel or whatever, they're gonna want more, more, more
and more and more, aren't they. So we'll all keep
working forty hours more or less, but we'll all have
fifteen thousand square foot homes to carson a private jet
(32:08):
like that'll make us happy, or have visited every you
know city into the world. Yeah, eating all the rarest foods. Yeah,
we got to talk about this at greater length that
you know. It's funny as you were saying that, I thought,
you know, I have my entire life from when I
was quite financially strapped to now where I'm considerably more comfortable,
thank God. But I work more if I see a
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reward for working more. I could have cut back at
various times in my life and had arguably enough, I suppose,
but I thought, well, if I bust my butt a
little bit more, I'll get more and have a little
more financial security. Or I can do this for my kids,
or you know, put this way for retirement or whatever.
I just isn't it interesting that he missed that? And
(32:53):
I could see how you would. You'd think everybody could
have that life they have now that they're pretty happy with,
and work fifteen hours a week and have all the
rest of the time to do what if they want.
People would rather work more and have more stuff. I
think we're just built to work and build and acquire.
I think you're right, Jack clas time stuff.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Jack and Joe live, goat Go, and if they don't
give cane, they'll be back tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
It's putting a bit of a fine point on it,
isn't it. Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew
to wrap up the show for the day. Michaelangelo, our
technical director, We'll lead us off, Michael.
Speaker 5 (33:35):
Yeah, I was just thinking, even if I could work less,
I think I'd still work a lot, just because you
got to have a purpose. You gotta have a reason
to get out of bed and do something, you know. Yeah, yeah,
it's so true.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Katie Greener steamed Newswoman as a final thought, Katie, I.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
Was playing with chat gpt over the weekend and it
redesigned the entire.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Front walkway to my house and I'm going to go
with it. Yeah. Super cool boy. I've used it for
a handful things too. I just I'm a big fan.
Jack a final thought for us well, on that topic,
I was listening to a guy who said he used
chat GPT he needed to fix his grill, so he
took a picture of the grill. AI identified the model,
which parts were broken, where to find them on Amazon,
(34:15):
and ordered them for him. Yeah. Yeah, it's amazinging. My
final thought on the other end of the technological spectrum,
my kid's doing a study abroad thing for a month
in the UK for law school. One connection, with a
two hour layover, they lose the bag Temporari. Thank goodness.
One connection, you got to take the bag from plane
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one to plane two. That's it, just one time, couldn't
get it right Major American airline, Armstrong can get wrapping
up another grueling four hour workday of whooping golf. So
many people think, so little time? See you tomorrow. Yep,
God bless America. I'm strong and gatty. What do we
want to be? Losers or winners? I won't win. We
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smell like winning around here. I think your.
Speaker 4 (35:02):
Star spangledosh, they are the true hero.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
And you know what, everybody knows it.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
So let's go out with a bang the boot edge Edge?
Are they drink tazel dout coffee? If you know what
I'm saying, I do know precisely what you were saying.
You're saying he's gay anyway, I know. Bye Bye Armstrong
and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and
Jettie and Hee Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
So for the first time in many years, we'll slash
the costs of prescription drugs and we will bring fairness
to America. Drug prices will come down bye much more.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Really, if you thinky this did not what it costs
us to go to Disney, clearly you've lost your mind. Michael.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Before we even got into the park, it cost me
thirty dollars just for parking, and even being a Florida resident,
tickets for a family of five with one child under
ten was still nine hundred and seventy four dollars. Right
after our first ride, we bought two waters and three
ice creams. This total twenty nine dollars and fifty cents.
After the second ride, they wanted a pretzel and I
wanted a beer. This was another nineteen dollars. After that,
it was time for lunch. We teached up with a
small pizza. Each had a side and a small drink,
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totally forty four dollars and thirty five cents.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Once we got the Star Wars line.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
We've had to buy some blue milk for ten dollars
and twenty nine cents. It tasted like a slushy with
nerds on top. The kids then snuck away and bought
some Star Wars Coca cola.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
This was six dollars and fifty cents.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
After the next ride, we went and had a churo
a water and a margarite.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
This was another thirty six dollars.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
We ended up at the four monak Ussina for some
Mexican food, totaling two hundred and forty five dollars twenty
seven cents for dinner. The grand total for our day
was one thousand, three hundred and ninety one dollars ninety
one cents.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Fourteen hundred bucks for him and his kids day. Does
everybody in that family have a tapeworm? They are hungry?
Bastards are here amounta eating and drinking more than I
usually do. Come on, wait a minute, y'all took in
like five thousand calories each. I see your point. You're right,
it's incredibly expensive, Disney. I'm telling you, you know, I
(01:50):
wasn't gonna get off on this tangent, but the idea
of UH have metal guy. Get ready, Michael, because we
got a California's crumbling update coming. But the idea that
Hollywood needs some sort of tax subsidy when a lot
of the problem is just it's so expensive and brutally
regulated in California. It's too expensive to do anything, including
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making movies. Right, That's a good points. It is too expensive.
That's why so many companies have moved to Texas. It's
not you know, it's the same as the Hollywood industry.
It's just way harder and more expensive and more of
a pain in the ass to do it in California
than other places. Yeah. In a semi related story, there
(02:33):
are a bunch of quote unquote moderate Republicans who are
in purple districts but in the blue states that are
desperate to get the GOP to get in favor of
the state and local tax exemption on your federal income
taxes what's the nickname for that state and local the
(02:53):
salt deductions, And they want to raise it like thirty
grand so that the people of the other you know,
forty states or whatever it is. If you're in a
blue state that spends money like lunatics on I don't know,
fake bullet trains for instance, and drives businesses out and
the rest of it. Well, you know that's fine. You're
all those incredible taxes you're paying. We'll make those tax
(03:15):
deductible on your federal turns so the rest of the
country can subsidize it. It's insane. There's no justification for it.
And I'm sorry to say it if it hurts you personally,
but there's just no justification. Oh, it hurts me personally
as a California it'd be way better be able to
deduct my state taxes. But it's incredibly unfair to like
my brothers who live in Kansas to pick up the
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tab because our government's out of control. Yeah, you got
some disciplined whys with their money states subsidizing the lunatics.
It just doesn't make any sense. Speaking of which, California
is crumbling. Thanks metal guy. Tell you what what he
lacks in length, he makes up for an intensity. Played again, Michael. Yeah, Oh,
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he's always right there when you need them. A handful
of stories about the Golden State and in particular the governor,
Gavi Newsom. Here's the adline for you. Gav Newsom Awards
Anti Terrorism Grant to the mosque linked to nine to
eleven hijackers and a pro Hamas cleric. Two hundred dollars
to the Islamic Center of San Diego two hundred about
(04:19):
a month ago. Two hundred thousand dollars. Oh ok, I'm sorry,
it's gonna say that's not much for grant. That's what well,
you want to go out to eat honey now? Two
hundred thousand dollars to the Islamic Center San Diego and
MARSH part of the program to help religious institutions and
nonprofits beef ob security to protect against potential terrorist attacks.
(04:39):
Who blombers So. The Islamic Center of San Diego, led
by Imam Taja Hassein, has condoned anti Israeli violence over
the years. Sayin who's been around now for like twenty years,
defended Hamas's slaughter of Israeli civilians on October seventh, singing
a sermon weeks later that resistance against Israel has justified.
We can, like you someone who's fighting for his life
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to be a terrorist. The terrorist is the one who
started the occupation, not the one who was defending himself.
But even without that, even if they're you know, peace,
love and Muslims. Why are me an a taxpayer given
two hundred thousand dollars of some mosque? Why? And the
Islamic centers of San Diego gained notoriety in the wake
of nine eleven after revelations the two of the Al
Kay operatives who flew the plane that hit the Pentagon
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prayed regularly at the mosque and bye Golly, somebody at
the mosque also gave him thousands of dollars to get
by on while they were planning the brutal attack against
the infidel Americans. Absolutely lovely, but Gavey awarded the grant
even as California faces a steep budget shortfall. Speaking of
Gavy and policies and consequences, send Luis Obispo Da Dan
(05:48):
Dau just sent California Governor Gavin knew from an urgent
letter urging him to reverse the Board of Parole hearing
to release Ali Brown formerly Herbert David Brown, the third
from prison. Herbert David now Miss Ali Brown, is a
baby murderer convicted of horrific crimes that killed a toddler.
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He is saying he was sentenced to fifteen years to life.
He entered prison ten years ago. And the pro board said, ah,
turn her loose, this transgender baby murderer, and the victim's
family and the prosecutors and all are saying, what kind
of system is this. He's not even gonna serve his minimums,
(06:37):
so it's for baby murder. But what's the argument for
letting her out? He is a dude. It's it's just
the California the policies under Prop. Fifty seven. You got
to get people out of prison as soon as possible,
all right, it's just turning scumbags loose. Man, if something
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like that happened in your life and they let the
personneut you would, man, you'd have to commit yourself to
meditation or God or something to deal with that be
so frustrating California's crumbling metal guide. Did I mention that
the National Review, writing with interest about Gavy Newsom's teachers union,
(07:19):
backed build that requires teachers to lie to parents, but
only on the matter of a school kid's gender identity.
If little Bobby wants to be Susie, wants to use
pronouns that don't match his biology, or wants to get
into the girl's locker room, Newsome's acron acronymically clever, support
academic futures and educators for today's youth. The Safety Act
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bar schools employees from disclosing to parents their child's on
campus behavior, and the state recommends that schools keep secret
separate files to document the kid's sexual identity. The Safety
Act safety is hiding from the parents that their kids
are struggling at school. That's the same and struggling with
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gender identity because the activist teachers and administrators have been
trying to tell the kids that you can be a
different sex if you want to be, and we will
get you hormones and surgery to mutilate you if you
want it. But the bills backers claim it's necessary because
parents might go ape upon learning that their own children
have gender dysphoria of some sort. The bill's backers, including
(08:27):
the majority of California news organizations, refer to the lost
critics as supporting forced outing. Three points. Number One, you
can't out a child to his or horn own parents,
because those parents, not government officials or employees, have the
ultimate authority for rearing their children. There's no such thing
as outing a child to their parents. Second, teachers are
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mandated reporters under state law, if they think a child
faces abuse at home for any reason, they're required to
support to report their suspicions to child protective services or police.
And Third, the so called Safety Act violates the Federal
Education Rights and Privacy Act the FURPA Act nineteen seventy
two law that establish his parents' absolute right to access
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their children's records. When can a judge please strike this down?
I can't believe Newsom's going to try to run for
president with this in his background. I know, I know.
I can't wait. I hope he does. I cannot wait.
Who are the most regulated states in the US? Jack,
This will shock you if you're an idiot. They are
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New Jersey and New York and Illinois, but they all
fall the number one California. According to the Mercadis Center,
there are four hundred and twenty thousand some different business
regulations in California. Actually, the California Globe notes slightly snarkily
(09:57):
that California is listing ten ways California leads the nation. Well,
in business regulation, that's one of them. You have fiftieth
in the country for business regulation, or first, depending on
how you look at it. Once again this year, and
finally this, which is one of the more hilarious and
ridiculous cell phones I've ever seen. Gavy Newsom in his
(10:18):
office just put out an online post mocking how advanced
California's plans were for a high speed rail system compared
to Texas's pathetic high speed rail line program. On Instagram,
Gavvy showed this. It's a big poster. It says California's
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high speed rail leaves Texas in the dust. How many
miles four one hundred and ninety four San Francisco to
Los Angeles much longer than Texas's plan. Texas hasn't even started.
California's got one hundred and seventy one miles being developed,
one hundred whatever that means, one hundred nineteen miles being built,
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fifty built structures. What Texas has no opening date and
no jobs created. California's early operating segment, Baker's Field to
Merced opens between twenty thirty and twenty thirty three. Sure
no freaking way will. Sure it does, and tooth benefit
(11:21):
if it did in ninety thirty three. In eight years,
In eight years, they're going to open up that little
Baker's Fit the Merced segment. They claim, Oh, that's tens
of billions of times, and that's a right point. So uh,
here's here's what the Mayor's the Governor's office said and
(11:43):
their big release last Wednesday. What's the difference between California
high speed Rail and Texas high speed Rail? California's system
is under construction, Texas is yet to break ground California's
transition from vision and ideas to active construction and tangible
economic benefits, while the Texas project remains a dream mostly
(12:04):
on paper. Despite the noise from Washington, that's right. The
only objection to the California quote unquote high speed rail
is noise from Washington. Despite the noise, California's high speed
rail is becoming real. It's another critical project, part of
the governor's Build More Faster agenda, delivering infrastructure upgrades than
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thousands of jobs across the state. Despite the Trump administration's assaults,
both California and Texas are working to build high speed rail,
but only one state has built anything, California. All right, man,
good luck standing up on a debate stage against other
Democrats who want the nomination and them taking you apart
on that stuff. There will be raucous laughter, raucous gavy
(12:50):
as you try to defend your record. I mean, people
won't even bother like yelling at you angrily. They won't
need to. You'll be laughed out of the primaries. And I,
for one, just pray I live long enough to see it.
California is crumbling. So I just got a text from
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a friend who said, I think I've got a sore throat.
I look forward to complaining to you about it for
the next six weeks. That is a shot at me
being sick for so long in my never any complain
about it. But I think I do have some news
you can use around this whole whooping cough thing, which
you do not want. And how have we let it
get into the country and in more or less have
(13:32):
been eradicated. It's kind of being hidden, the meedles and
the measles, the tuberculosis, the whooping cough that's come back
into the United States And why who would hide that? Why? Anyway?
More on that coming up. Stay here.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
A new report list the happiest city in the US
as New York. Yeah, yeah, I don't know who I've
got survey the happiest city in the US was New York,
while the least happy dick splinter North Dakota.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
All right, really, wow, So I'm asking a question here,
not making an assertion, because I don't know. Joe might
actually know. So we got a number of old timey
diseases that are making a comeback in the United States. Tuberculosis.
Remember last year we're talking about tuberculosis was setting records
(14:32):
that hadn't been around for like a century, measles, And
now because I've got it, I've been paying more attention
to it. Freaking whooping cough, which I didn't even know
was actually a thing for adults anymore. We've been vaccinating
against it forever. It's part of the tea DAP you
get as a little kid. It's the p and the
tea DAP, And they came up with a vaccine for
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it for for a long time ago because it's such
a horrible disease. It's terrible and it kills It's yeah,
if your baby, it can really kill you. But it's
a miserable disease. It's the worst thing I've ever had
besides cancer in my whole life. And the doctor told
me on Monday, he said, you might be halfway through.
You probably got a little You probably got a little
longer than that. So anyway, I'm on eight different medications.
(15:17):
It's insane. But so I was reading about whooping cough
and the statistics you get it having sex with a
whooping crane, right, that the stats from last year where
it was on the rise a lot from twenty three
to twenty four. Well, now this year we are we
have doubled the increase from last year to this year.
So twenty four is a big joke from twenty three
(15:39):
and now we've doubled it from twenty four? Is it
because we let in millions of people? The biggest migration
in world history? I say that every time because it's true.
The biggest migration in world history happened across our southern
border in a very short period of time. Did that
bring a whole bunch of unvaccinated people bringing diseases in
that we had kind of gotten rid of. Yes, plus
(16:01):
vectim of vaccine skepticism among Native born Americans. Yeah, the
two things in concert. Yeah, that's the explanation for the
explosion of all these old timy diseases that we thought
we'd gotten rid of. Yeah. One hundred percent. But like
the clearly the vaccine had worn off from me and
anybody over a certain age. It didn't matter before because
I wasn't gonna come in contact with whooping cough. Right. Yeah,
(16:25):
we don't really have time to explain that. I'm not
an expert anyway, But how herd immunity, if it's ninety
five percent or higher, it's weird. In effect, you don't
even need it as much because you're not going to
be exposed to it. But you've got to get to
that percentage to have that luxury. I think this should
get more attention. The vaccine hesitation in RFK junior bashing
(16:48):
is everywhere. The hey we let in a gazillion people
that aren't vaccinated, gets like no coverage whatsoever. Oh, I know,
we don't want to demonize migrants, jack or just looking
for a better life. The right wing might tend to
use that to escapegoat them, and we can't be a
part of that, so we'll just not report facts. I
feel like that aspect of the story should get more attention.
(17:09):
I hope you don't get wooing cough. Oh man, look
at these coffin now. Folks are strong and getty. In
twenty twenty, Miller was appointed to an independent watchdog committee
that tracked how COVID relief money was spent, so we
could tell right away it's like, oh, well that's all
going to get stolen. You saw it coming. Oh yeah,
I mean it was like they threw money in the
(17:30):
air and just let people run around and grab it.
That's from sixty minutes last night. This should be a
giant story. There should be hearings and you can get
so parches march, you can get people so fired up
about the latest Trump this or that. The story on
sixty minutes last night, Does that not have any halft
(17:51):
with the left and mainstream media? Freaking sixty minutes that
of just COVID relief money, a trillion dollars was stolen
A trillion. A trillion, Yes, and you can't you just
can't get anywhere with this. And that woman there says
(18:13):
that it's about three quarters of a trillion every year. Yeah,
and it's going to be approaching a trillion soon. That
gets stolen mostly by foreign governments because it's so easy
to rip off the government because they don't pay enough
attention to where money goes. But well they knew as
they were churning that money out that the safeguards were wildly,
almost hilariously insufficient. They knew that at the time. Well, yeah,
(18:37):
as you heard her say there, my first thought was,
oh wow, this is all gonna get stolen. That's what
she said. She works in the government, knows how it works.
It would get stolen. There's nothing you can do about it,
and people get on the higher taxes. We need the
rich to pay their fair share, and you can get
people so energized for like a news cycle over. I
don't know, a couple of hundred thousand here, there a
(18:57):
couple hundred million, or even tens of millions. It's nothing
compared to it trillion dollars, right, right, I don't know
what to say, I honestly don't. Uh it's worth Yeah,
sixty minutes was oddly, weirdly throwback ISHU yesterday with a
story that was honest, with one dopey exception, but with
(19:18):
a tone that would tend to be sympathetic to Doge
and Trump. The fact that it was true is reason
enough to run it. But yeah, they ran that. Then
they ran a couple of other stories that were not
the least bit progressive. It was like it was fifteen
years ago. Yeah, it was very old timy. You had
the government fraud, a science story, and a celebrity profile.
(19:38):
That's way sixty minutes used to be every week. Yeah. So,
speaking of numbers, perhaps you've heard this already, the US
has agreed to lower base levels of tariffs on most
Chinese goods from one hundred and whatever it was, one
hundred and forty five percent down to thirty percent. Essentially
your kids getting thirty dollars again this year and each
(20:00):
one clutching a shiny new pencil. That's right. Meanwhile, China
will cut it to US levies down from one hundred
and twenty five points to ten percent. So the thirty
points thirty percent imposed by the US includes the ten
percent quote unquote reciprocal tariff, whatever that means at this point,
plus the twenty percent would you quit send in fentanyl
(20:23):
our way super bonus tariff. But the mostly toning down
of the trade war has reassured the world economy and
markets all over the world, and everybody's just joyful. And
check your four oh one k right now. In fact,
withdraw it all and quit your job. You're rich anyway.
So that's good news at least for the moment. And Jack,
(20:44):
your theory is the ninety day truce, Oh yeah, will
become semi permanent exactly with maybe a couple more tweaks. Yeah.
I think the big oh my god, this is going
to upend the world economy thing is over. So do
you remember last year or I think it was at
(21:06):
the very end of twenty twenty three, the International Criminal
Court whatever that is, announced that it was prosecuting Benjamin
not Netanyahu for war crimes. That was pretty controversial, and
the US was like, we're not going to extra item
if he comes to the country. We're not a signatory
to your wackadoodle court. Leave us alone. Well, it's gotten really,
(21:29):
really interesting. So two months after the October seventh attacks,
pressure was mounting on Kareem Khan, the chief prosecutor of
the ICC, to consider criminal charges against Israeli officials because
of the war and gossip pro Palestinian activists had labeled
him a genocide enabler, and a block of ICC members
(21:51):
in the developing world insisted that action was long overdue.
They pushed in blah blah blah. So Khan, who's a
hard charging British lawyer. He's in New York in early
December for the court's governing body meeting at the UN headquarters.
He's stung by the criticism. He's lashing out at his
team and one assistant, a woman in her thirties who
(22:12):
often traveled with him for her job, asked him to
meet with asked to meet with him and to urge him, Hey,
you got to take it easy on staff. I realize
we're under a lot of pressure. Well, long story shorts.
She gets to his hotel suite and he touches her
sexually and rapes her. According to testimony, all right, this
is the guy again bringing charges against net and Yahoo
(22:35):
and there's the incident. Is one of multiple allegations, of course,
sexual intercourse that the woman has made against Khan. The woman,
who is married and has a child, alleges Khan performed
nonconcessual sex acts with her on missions to New York, Columbia, Congo, Chad,
in Paris and more. He's denying, and of course, but
the woman, who's a lawyer from Malaysia, stayed at the
(22:58):
job because she didn't want to leave one of the
more most important offices in human rights law. She worried
she wouldn't be able to pay the medical bills of
her mother, who was dying of cancer, and she came
to a fear of retaliation from Khan. Also, as I recall,
she was like a super Palestinian activist and wanted to
be part of prosecuting the Israelis. Anyway, So the accusations, oh,
(23:25):
I'm sorry. So just two and a half weeks after
Cohn learned of the allegations against him, he surprised Israeli
and US officials by announcing an arrest warrant for net Yahoo.
It was the first time in the history of the
court that they had sought a warrant for Western line
democratically elected leader, and Washington has been staunchly against this.
Both the partiscis you might guess. So. The timing of
(23:48):
the announcement has spurred questions about whether Cohn was aiming
to protect himself from the sexual assault allegations. The day
before announcing the warrant application, con abromptly canceled the try
to Israel and Gaza that he previously said was important
to make his decision. He says, there's no connection, but
(24:10):
anybody who might have testified against him, who is like
the ICC like super pro Palestinian has backed off on
the euro rapist stuff because they don't want to derail
the prosecution of the Israeli people. So this looks like
a serious, nasty, rapy political soap opera thing. It's amazing
(24:36):
how often these big international bodies are corrupt. I mean,
you would think, just statistically it wouldn't happen as often
as it does with the IOC, with the Olympics, the
WHO with health as we all saw around COVID and
everything else, the United Nations over and over and over
and over again. In this body here, you wouldn't think
it would happen this often, but it does. Yeah, it's
(24:58):
got to be. And I'll bet we have folks listening
who've worked with organizations like this who could really lay
it out for you. But it's got to be the power,
the international prestige. They're probably pretty damn decent budgets and
so you live, you know, in high style all over
the world, in the great capitals of the world. Plus
(25:20):
where's the accountability. Well, yeah, we're talking about you squander
or give away a trillion dollars of US taxpayer money,
and we have a system of accountability in this country.
Imagine being this vaguely understood international colossus that's funded I
guess by the UN or something. There's no accountability at all.
So this is getting into real Jordan Peterson territory. Here
(25:42):
are we all capable of this? I feel like you
could put me in charge of the IOC and I
wouldn't be corrupt. I wouldn't take, you know, cash payments
to choose which city gets the next Olympics. And you
could put me in charge of the WHO and I'm
not gonna side with whichever country gives me the biggest
amount of money. And if you put me in charge
of this organization, I'm not going to rate the first
(26:03):
hot chick I come across because I think I can
get away with it. Well, look at you, polypure heart.
I'd be a monster. Oh my god, it'd be money
and prostitutes. I mean, you'd have to come across with
the hose as well. But how do you do up
with so many people in these positions who take advantage
of what you just explained. I mean, that's what I
don't get. I think. Well, first of all, I salute
(26:25):
you for your principles and your scruples. They are not
universally very high standards. I just threw out, Ah, well,
you're an earnest young man from the sticks in this country. Jack,
A big city boy like myself can educate you. I'll
tell you this. Some people are just corrupt and corruptible,
I think for a lot of people, and there are
(26:47):
all sorts of examples of this in life. It is
a step by step slide. And as you pass one
ethical milestone limits, I wouldn't do that, you know, I've
heard it described in dealing with addictions. Your list of
I would never's get shorter and shorter. And if you
(27:09):
are surrounded by a culture like the IOC, for instance,
forever and probably now, let's not be naive. If you're
at the IOC and you're rising up through the organization
and you witness all the corruption and the luxury and
the just fawning that countries do you, Well, that's slide.
That'd be the easiest one for me to get on
(27:31):
board with, where I would think, who gives a crap? Yeah,
I would think you're gonna give me five million dollars.
Me and my family are set for life, and why
do I give a crap? Whether the Olympics are in
Paris or in London? Right, oh, Athens and then then
niece are fighting it out. Okay, what the hell do
I care? Right, who comes across with the most money
and hos. But that's a far cry from raping people.
(27:53):
Uh yeah, yeah, although we've seen that affair amount too
among In fact, it came up in the context of
the Didty trial. Who is the diplomat?
Speaker 5 (28:04):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Was it? An IMF guy who got busted in New
York City for one of those One of his defense
attorneys is on Ditty's dream team, which is why I
bring it up. But yeah, it just yeah, the the
I can do whatever I want to summarize it briefly,
just power corrupts. The Old Testament is full of these
stories and he never changes. That's right, sir. That was
(28:27):
a reference to the Bible. Yeah, I don't know. Well,
you know, that's yet another argument for those of us
on the right who don't like the idea of international
bodies because they're you know, there are a step above
national bodies, which already have enough corruption in them, just
like you know, they have the answer to There are
a hell of a lot of really smart, well informed
(28:49):
people listening to the show right now also a fair
number of dunderheadsolute morons. Yeah, but among you the whys,
the experience, the intellectual Can you explain to me the
methods that the procedures for accountability for a high level
(29:11):
un employee are official. Explain to me what that would
look like. And you're saying to yourself, well, Joseph, I'd
be delighted to answer, but I've never heard a damn
syllable about how that would work. Yeah, there's a reason
for that, friends, because there isn't much, if there's any.
They've got diplomatic immunity, for God's sake, it's like a
(29:33):
law that they're not held accountable for things that you
and I is, poor, humble, unwashed citizens and of this
dopey land. We would be held accountable, but they're not.
I mean, it's written into the law that they're not accountable.
I think I got something kind of interesting for you.
How come we're not working fifteen hours a week maximum
at this point? Came across me, so everybody, let's get started.
(29:56):
Came across this. Over the weekend, I say, eleven hours.
We'll finish strong.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
Next A new report shows that there have been at
least nine incidents at Newark Airport where air traffic controllers
have lost contact with planes that were about to land.
But luckily it's Newark, so planes can just follow the smell.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
So we talked a fair amount about AI last week.
Joe and I just both both got into chat GPT
and using that and have been pretty amazed by it,
and I'm fascinated by the whole topic. I got into
a couple of books over the weekend by Nick Bostrom.
He's written some of the most famous things about AI
and what the future could be. And this book that
(30:42):
came out last year called Deep Utopia was kind of predicting, like,
how is the world? I mean, if it illuminates all work,
what is that going to look like? Anyway, part of
what he was he started talking about in the book
was keenes As in Kingsian Economics. Keens Wait back in
the thirties was writing how much he thought productivity was
(31:04):
going to explode over the coming decades, and then how
much less we were gonna have to work. And he
predicted that we would be able to produce somewhere between
four and five times as much by now, and so
therefore everybody'd be working a fifteen hour work week or less.
What he got wrong was one, he was way short.
(31:26):
We're more like eight times as productive as we were
in the thirties. What he got wrong was people wouldn't
be satisfied with the amount of stuff they had. People
would be willing to work as many hours or more
to have more stuff, which I find fascinating because that,
you know, why isn't that Why can't you extrapolate that
(31:47):
going forward with the whole AI thing. People aren't gonna
need to work. People aren't gonna be satisfied with a
medium sized house and the media, I mean, if you
less travel or whatever, they're gonna want more, more, more
and more and more, aren't they. So we'll all keep
working forty hours more or less, but we'll all have
fifteen thousand square foot homes to carson a private jet
(32:08):
like that'll make us happy, or have visited every you
know city into the world. Yeah, eating all the rarest foods. Yeah,
we got to talk about this at greater length that
you know. It's funny as you were saying that, I thought,
you know, I have my entire life from when I
was quite financially strapped to now where I'm considerably more comfortable,
thank God. But I work more if I see a
(32:31):
reward for working more. I could have cut back at
various times in my life and had arguably enough, I suppose,
but I thought, well, if I bust my butt a
little bit more, I'll get more and have a little
more financial security. Or I can do this for my kids,
or you know, put this way for retirement or whatever.
I just isn't it interesting that he missed that? And
(32:53):
I could see how you would. You'd think everybody could
have that life they have now that they're pretty happy with,
and work fifteen hours a week and have all the
rest of the time to do what if they want.
People would rather work more and have more stuff. I
think we're just built to work and build and acquire.
I think you're right, Jack clas time stuff.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Jack and Joe live, goat Go, and if they don't
give cane, they'll be back tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
It's putting a bit of a fine point on it,
isn't it. Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew
to wrap up the show for the day. Michaelangelo, our
technical director, We'll lead us off, Michael.
Speaker 5 (33:35):
Yeah, I was just thinking, even if I could work less,
I think I'd still work a lot, just because you
got to have a purpose. You gotta have a reason
to get out of bed and do something, you know. Yeah, yeah,
it's so true.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Katie Greener steamed Newswoman as a final thought, Katie, I.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
Was playing with chat gpt over the weekend and it
redesigned the entire.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Front walkway to my house and I'm going to go
with it. Yeah. Super cool boy. I've used it for
a handful things too. I just I'm a big fan.
Jack a final thought for us well, on that topic,
I was listening to a guy who said he used
chat GPT he needed to fix his grill, so he
took a picture of the grill. AI identified the model,
which parts were broken, where to find them on Amazon,
(34:15):
and ordered them for him. Yeah. Yeah, it's amazinging. My
final thought on the other end of the technological spectrum,
my kid's doing a study abroad thing for a month
in the UK for law school. One connection, with a
two hour layover, they lose the bag Temporari. Thank goodness.
One connection, you got to take the bag from plane
(34:38):
one to plane two. That's it, just one time, couldn't
get it right Major American airline, Armstrong can get wrapping
up another grueling four hour workday of whooping golf. So
many people think, so little time? See you tomorrow. Yep,
God bless America. I'm strong and gatty. What do we
want to be? Losers or winners? I won't win. We
(35:00):
smell like winning around here. I think your.
Speaker 4 (35:02):
Star spangledosh, they are the true hero.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
And you know what, everybody knows it.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
So let's go out with a bang the boot edge Edge?
Are they drink tazel dout coffee? If you know what
I'm saying, I do know precisely what you were saying.
You're saying he's gay anyway, I know. Bye Bye Armstrong
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