March 12, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 1 of A&G features...
- DOE slashes jobs, Jack's quarter pounder w/ cheese & Rosie moves to Ireland
- Katie Green's Headlines!
- Restoring US manufacturing
- Mailbag!
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Armstrong and Tecat and Hearty, who live from Studio C
see Senior.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Hey, We're in a dimly lit room deeper than the
bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications compound and on
a busy news Wednesday. We're under the tutelage of our
general manager. Who else? Trump? Trumpety Trump Trump.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
So in the last twenty hours since we last talked
to you, they've fired half the Department of Education Ukraine
has agreed to a cease fire, the tariffs.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Saraphors have begun. That's right.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Tarff's kicked in at midnight, and Trump bought a red, bright,
red s plaid tesla.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
All that's happened in the last twenty hours. There you go,
you're up today.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
There you go. Anything you need to know? Wowser's I
was just reading a morning newsletter that I like to
read every day. In what might be a first ever,
literally every Wall Street Journal editorial today is critical of
Trump's policies.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Every single Wall Street Journal editorial. They think that's the
first time that's ever happened. Fairly devastating, yes, depending on
your take. Yeah, yeah, so you know, it doesn't mean
they're right. But and then you've got the thing I
mentioned about Ukraine has agreed to the.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Ceasefire plan, no idea if Russia has any interest whatsoever
in this, I guess we'll find out, hopefully when they
are a counterpart that has never ever argued in good faith,
so that should be spicy, right. Yeah, Hopefully we're about
to see the other side of this where they pressure
the Russians to come to the table and here's what
(02:15):
will happen to you if you don't play ball. Hopefully
we're about to see that. I'm not sure that's what's
going to happen.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Did see a.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Business report about Russia's economy that we're going to play later,
But Russia currently has something like forty percent inflation.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Well that's inconvenient.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
And like if you want to buy a house, it's
thirty five percent interest. That sort of thing is going
on in Russia, and so there's some belief that they can't,
you know, he can't hold out forever on this war
with that economic reality, and so perhaps he's feeling the pressure.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
I don't know who knows. I've been hearing that, I
feel like for three years that their economy was devastated
and there's no way they could continue.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Yeah, it's a complex stew of of what ifs, because
it's it's a difficult country to get a grip on
the various dynamics that would be at play, whether it's
popular support.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Or the actual economic realities.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
And to what extent are the oligarchs pissed off? Because
Putin's control depends on the loyalty of the oligarchs mostly,
you know, to what extenter is security forces effective? And
there are just tons and tons of question marks. That's
why they you know, they talk about criminologists who are
able to you know, gaze through the swirling mists of
(03:43):
Russian politics to figure out what the heck's actually going on.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Looking up at the headline on CBS education Department slashing workforce.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
No, no, there's gonna be no education in America. Kids
won't learn to read or write.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Right Here's they aren't. Yeah, exactly, here's a secret they're not. Now.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Partly of education just doles out piles of money for
districts that comply with whatever federal whim comes down The Pike.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Yeah, so that's something. Well, we'll see.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Well, yeah, you know, it's such an interesting mixed bag.
And for new listeners, first of all, welcome, whether you
love Trump or hate him or somewhere in between. We
will give you an update on how things are going.
I for one, am thrilled with ninety eight percent of
(04:36):
the immigration stuff, and any of the stuff that's a
little excessive or a little fast, the courts will deal with.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
It'll be fun.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Just love that, love the doge stuff, love the reign,
and in the Department of Education, which barely needs to exist.
There's so many things I love, but I join with
you know, the now I don't join with exactly, but
I'm sympathetic to the Wall Street Journal editorial board and
other folks who are saying, not just that I think
(05:03):
these tariffs are a mistake, because not everybody's saying that,
but they're saying, we don't know what he's doing and
he won't tell us right, and whip sawing American businesses
back and forth is just it's not a good thing.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
And I am concerned.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Color me concerned but not certain, which makes me a
bad talk show host. You have to be one hundred
percent certain about every topic every second. Anyway, I am
afraid that the not great stuff is going to derail
our ability conservative America.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
To do the really, really, really good stuff.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
And some of it seems a little quick and unnecessary,
but we will all find out together.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Friends.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Eggs are up sixty percent since last year. Oh no,
my omelet cost one hundred dollars.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
I don't know if I eat an egg a month,
So maybe I'm the wrong person to be commenting on
the egg situation. Oh I do love eggs. I like
them too, not enough. If you're eating them once a month,
you're a fake egg fan. You're to please. You know
what I had yesterday? That was good, Michael. I know
you're not supposed to eat stuff like this with your diabetes.
(06:19):
You had a mcfluury. I did have a mcflory, But
before I had the mcfluory, that wasn't even the headline, Michael,
I had a.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Quarter pounder with cheese. I took a I hadn't had
one in a while. I took a bite of vent. Dang,
that's a good sandwich.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Whoo.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
I don't know what they put in that crack or whatever,
but thats a good sandwich. Well, let me jot this
down real quickly. What's that restaurant you're recommending McDaniels McDonald's.
So my son and I got into a conversation about it,
and I started googling some stuff.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
There are.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Thirteen thousand McDonald's in the United States. That's an extraordinary number, yes,
because obviously if you had is nearly ubiquitous, keep the
revelations coming. But if you had a one hundred per state,
(07:12):
you'd only have five thousand. I mean, that's that's a
stunning number. Well, right in some of your states, like
Wyoming's got thirty people, So how many how many McDonald's
do you need? I mean a real seven in a
big state like you. But that's a lot of McDonald's.
It's just incredible. And I was doing the math, and
it's so much bigger than all the other joints. Like
(07:34):
I looked at Burger Kings, like a third of that,
that's the closest competitor.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Wendy's is a fourth of that. So nobody's been close.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
And I was in there and were eaten and they
play they got the music that I assume that some
corporate genius chooses to try to please the client tell
and the seventies classic hit rain Drop Keep Falling on
Your Head came on and I thought, hmmm, who is
(08:05):
the audience? Who's who's eating at McDonald's. That's when I
started doing the research and everything like that. Is you
got to be at least my age to know that song.
It's well, it's a it's a classic jack people don't
I mean, Katie around the track clock and I wasn't
around Katie.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Are you familiar with rain drops keep falling on your hand?
Are you familiar with that on my head?
Speaker 1 (08:25):
They're falling on somebody. It's not That's not the point
of the conversation. Who's who's the pate is getting rain
on it? It's not the point. That's not the key question,
right anyway, Katie?
Speaker 3 (08:41):
But go ahead? Did you have morey? Do you know
that song? Did you say? I was? I was cracking
wise okay, sorry, but I was just sick.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
That is such a good dang sandwich. It doesn't taste
anything like a hamburgers. Moving back to the now, As
we mentioned many times over the years, it doesn't taste
anything like a hamburger, and that's what allegedly is but
is so delicious, and then we both had Shamrock mcfluory's.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Also a delicious dessert. This is very much.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Like President Trump flogging Tesla's on the South Lawn. This
is untoward, This is unethical. Have you been paid by
the Burger Giant? What's happening here? But they are driving
everybody to the automated screen when you walk in the door.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
They want everybody to do that.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
They still have a clerk there, you know, see the
podcast from yesterday. They haven't gone Silicon Valley and just
immediately abandoned having a human being there. So everybody's standing
around trying to get the menu to word and I
order from the person there.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
I still do that. And I said, is there anybody
like that's not my age that doesn't order up here?
And they said, now all the young people use the screen,
so it's only old people to walk up and talk
to a human beings say they want their quarter pound
with cheese with onions, so lame. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
I just hope Trump's tariffs don't affect those weird little onions.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
I think we import those from Belgium that killed a
bunch of people a couple weeks back.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Hey, Hey, Hey, everybody makes mistakes, but the screen thing
is that driven by the minimum wage. That's what the
that and technology getting cheaper. But yeah, yeah, one hundred percent.
It's a question of one cost is decreasing while the
other is art officially through government FIAT increasing. Yes, So,
as we mentioned earlier, in fact, Katie, I was going
(10:18):
to urge you to bring that story back. What the
latest study says how many fast food jobs have been
lost in California since the gift, the blatant gift to
the union that Gaviy Newsom's law was sixteen sixteen thousand
people are now out of work, and it's worth pointing
out that these are the oft to mentioned most vulnerable. Yeah, well,
(10:42):
you probably don't have a lot of other job opportunities
if you're working at McDonald's.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Probably right, it's not your first choice.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
You could have, you know, been a programmer or an
executive VP at IBM, but you chose to go to McDonald's.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
No, and it's worth driving this point.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Thousand people that were willing to show up to work
for that wage prior the old wage and State of
California force is a new wage.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Now they don't have a job at all.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
It is worth driving home if you're feeling groggy or
slow of wit. That that illustrates so beautifully the cruel
hypocrisy of a Gavin Newsom who jabbers on and on
about standing up for the little guy and BIPOC people
and the poor and whatever. But if he could do
(11:33):
something to shovel more power towards the powerful unions, he
sacrificed those sixteen thousand poor people and laughed while he
did it.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
He's a piece of guard. Wow. How else? Yeah, shut up?
How else would you describe.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Somebody who's that blatantly cruelly hypocritical piece of crap?
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Is the on air version, that's the PG version. There's more.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
We got to start the show officially around it's going off.
Things have gotten out of control. I'm Jack Armstrong. He's
Joe Getty on this. It is Wednesday, March the twelfth
of year twenty twenty five. We're Armstrong, you're getting We
approved this program. He is a cruel, rich monster. He
makes Trump look like mother Teresa.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
All right, let's begin the show officially now according to
FCC rules and regulations.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Here we go at.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
Mark Mayor in Ireland, and it's beautiful and warm, not
physically it's actually quite cold. Moved here on January fifteenth,
and it's been pretty wonderful. And when you know it
is safe for all citizens to have equal rights there
(12:44):
in America, that's when we will consider coming back.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Laura, Ireland.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
We should have said we had breaking news, ladies, and
we should have said, please sit down first.
Speaker 6 (12:57):
I think this is not an airport. There's no need
to announce your departure. Roseh o'donald moved to to Ireland
because of.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Trump and Rosie. Hey hey, bad news.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Totally unsafe, I mean really crazy unsafe here in America.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Probably will be for fifteen, I mean twenty years. You
might want to give it a little longer there in Ireland. Yeah, yeah,
don't rush back. So we got Katie's headlines, I'd buye.
We can get Katie's headlines on the way and a
bunch of other stuff.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Stay here, army strong, Hey Yeddy I was born in
nineteen eighty nine, says this texture. We sang rain drops
keep falling on your head at our eighth grade graduation,
So there you go.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Yeah, also born in nineteen eighty nine. Al Right, it
was a hit.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Speaking of Katie, who's speaking, Let's figure out who's reporting what.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
It's the lead story with Katie breaking Green. Hello, Hey
Katie Breen here, New York Posts.
Speaker 6 (13:49):
Russia launches deadly missile attack on Zelenski's hometown, just hours
after Ukraine agreed to a ceasefire proposal.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
I think the interesting part is, is there any way
Putin's gonna agree to a ceasefire as long as there
are ten thousand Ukrainian troops in that one chunk of
Russia that they took, Well, it's gonna take a hell
of a long time to eject them.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
From ABC, AU announces twenty eight billion dollars in countermeasures
to Trump's steel tariffs.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
We're at Warwick, Canada. Finally, I've been waiting for this,
my whole life trade war.
Speaker 6 (14:27):
From the New York Times, EPA plans to close all
environmental justice offices.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
H I don't know anything about that, but it sure
sounds good. Good.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Yeah, environmental justice. Please, that could be anything. You could
do anything in those offices, as long as it's spent
money from Breitbart doge.
Speaker 6 (14:47):
More than two hundred thousand federal government credit cards deactivated.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Wow, I know some people with government credit cards and
they don't care much how they spend money.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Hmmm, that's surprising.
Speaker 6 (15:03):
USA Today House passes GOP funding bill backed by Trump.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Now a showdown looms in the Senate. So not another
Senate showdown. Boy.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
I tell you one thing I do not have a
lot of patients for is following the early stages of
these big budget bill negotiations. I mean, assists, you've got
to be obsessed with the Beltway. Just let me know
when you got something you're ready to vote on it.
Speaker 6 (15:28):
From The Free Beacon, Anti Israel agitators arrested in New
York amid nationwide walkouts protesting pro Hamas activists ice arrests.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
We got to talk about that more later.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
I tell you what, how about every college instructor and
professor across America walks out and stays out, and we
start again and rebuild the greatest university system on Earth.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
From CNN.
Speaker 6 (15:53):
Cargo ship captain arrested in north Sea collision with US
flagged tanker is a Russian national?
Speaker 3 (16:00):
All Okay? Rested? I hadn't heard that. All have to
dig into that story.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Yeah, I have been arrested for reckless killing people by
being a bad ships captain Wow. Believe that's the charge.
Speaker 6 (16:15):
From Fox News man caught with live turtle in his
pants at Newark Airport, leaving tsa agents shell shocked.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Oh wow, I forget it. That actually hurts. Its painful
to second, don't judge until you've had a turtle in
your pants. It's more fun than it sounds.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
As a matter of fact, I do have a turtle
in my pants, and I'm glad to see you.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
It's a false choice. And finally, the Babylon.
Speaker 6 (16:43):
Bee Isis claims responsibility for Megan Markel Netflix show?
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Is there someplace?
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Is there someplace I can sign up to never hear
about Meghan Markle again? Is there is there an algorithm
for that? If you find it, let me know it
filter that out of my news feed or something like that.
Although I sense and certainly I can stand guard. Since
you're so horrified and I get that, it feels like
it's moving towards so bad, it's good terriff or it
definitely could be so mockable it's enjoyable. Where are we
(17:16):
with the tariffs and whatnot? And how do we feel
about buying cars in the White House?
Speaker 6 (17:20):
Long?
Speaker 3 (17:20):
I think I'm fine with it? Among other things on
the way stay tuned, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 7 (17:28):
So we spend two hundred billion dollars a year subsidizing Canada.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
We don't have to do that.
Speaker 7 (17:34):
And frankly, the way that gets solved is Canada should
honestly become.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Our fifty first state.
Speaker 7 (17:39):
We wouldn't have a northern border problem, we wouldn't have
a tariff problem. Canada would be great as our cherished
fifty first state. You wouldn't have to worry about borders,
you wouldn't have to worry about anything. And by the way,
Canada is very highly taxed and we're very low tax
We're considered a low tax nation because of me, because
I cut the taxes so the people of Canada would
(18:02):
pay much less tax.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
But it makes a lot of.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Sense now all the behind the scenes reporting, is Trump's
serious about trying to get Greenland. That's a that's an actual,
but not Canada be in a fifty first state.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
There's nobody. Actually, it's it's just trolling, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
I guess I've heard some democratic Why is he just
going on and on about it though repeating it over
the course of weeks and weeks?
Speaker 3 (18:29):
I mean, that didn't sound like trolling. Well, some believe
he drove Trudeau out of office by making him look
so weak and pathetic, trolling him in so little pushback.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Maybe yeah, and he but he fired up the Liberals
when it looked like they were going to lose, and
now they're back in power. Yeah. Well, sometimes having the
way the way extreme of your other party in charge,
doesn't you know?
Speaker 3 (18:56):
That's just so good?
Speaker 1 (18:58):
See see themocrats in the United States. But what was
I gonna say, become a fifty first state?
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (19:04):
I heard some prominent Democrats say yes day, and I'm
surprised the Democrats aren't keeping their mouths shut.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
They should be quietly saying yeah, yeah, that I agree.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
I mean, I rarely agree with Trump, but Canada being
the fifty first state, I mean, why not? It's only
fairness or something, because, as one prominent Democrat said yesterday,
Republicans will never win another presidential election. If Canada is
the fifty first state, then you have two Californias with
the same amount of delegates that will always vote Democrat.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Yeah for the foreseeable future. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Yeah, Like I say, I have no idea what he's doing.
I understand the intent of rebuilding American manufacturing to whatever
extent it's possible.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
I get that.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
And you can find a few people who say, yeah,
in the long term, this will pan out. You can
find you know, an infinite multiple of that of people
who say either this won't work or there's a different
crowd that says, I just don't know what he's doing. Well,
(20:17):
let's let's hear let's hear fifty one a little more
on this topic, and then we can get to the latest.
Because Canada was threatening a twenty five percent search charge
on electricity yesterday. But here's uh, here's Trump and Elon
on the White House lawn.
Speaker 7 (20:31):
When you take away that artificial line that looks like
it was done with a ruler, and that's what it was.
Some guy sat there years ago and they said, rah, Well,
when you take away that and you look at that
beautiful formation of Canada and the United States, there is
no place anywhere in the world that looks like that.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
It's plus Graven plus.
Speaker 7 (20:52):
Green Land, and then if you add Greenland, that's it.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
I mean, that's pretty.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Canada threatened twenty five surcharge on electricty and then backed
off it later in the day.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
So the rhetoric and the real stuff continues.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Yeah, but the extra twenty five percent tariffs on steel
in a Luman took a fete at midnight last night. Yeah, Now,
I'll see what happens. Yeah, we absolutely, we'll see what happens.
The estimates of you know, well, I'll just you know what.
I won't get into the statistics and the technical crap.
(21:34):
But the longest short of it is, in the short term,
this will drive up the costs for every American manufacturer
virtually and make goods more expensive and cut down on
their share of any market until the great Transition happens
(21:56):
and we've restored our manufacturing.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Might that's the idea. I'm highly skeptical.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
So Trump walked back a little bit or revised his
answer somewhat on the whole recession thing.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
And then we've got some breaking news. First, this resion,
I don't see it at all. I think this country's
going to boom.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
So after saying could be, you don't know, I don't
like to predict those things in the market, and everybody
reacting to that, you know, yesterday he was more positive.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
I think the markets are going to boom. So here's
your breaking news.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
The inflation numbers are out for the most recent stats
from last month. Consumer prices rose two point eight percent
in the year through February, a slightly better result than
economist said expected.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
I I'll never understand, because I'm not an economist why
it's all based on what economists expected. What if they
were wrong and they had to ask.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Him in the first place and just wait a few
days and get the actual statistic.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Anyway, slightly better than economist set.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Like every morning, I'm about to get on the scale,
and you got physicians who say we expect to wait
one ninety seven point four.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
That's a good When it's not one ninety eight point one, it's.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Like, oh, exceeded expectations.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
That's a good book. Okay, let's you just wait till
I get on the scale. Yeah, that's pretty funny. Oh
the market is reacting.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Is Joe weighed more than expectations or less?
Speaker 3 (23:25):
That's funny? No, no more lately, trust me. Uh So.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
The consumer price index was up two point eight percent
from a year earlier, after rising another point two percent
on a monthly basement basis. That was a step down
from January's surprisingly large point five percent increase.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
So stocks are up based on that the well.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
The New York Times version of this anyway, says, analysts
are worried the tariffs could add two future price pressures.
Of course, that's what Joe was just doing, Ama, And uh,
then we'll have to play out. I will say, in
Trump's defense that if this is merely a brutal and
whipsaw e for a short time period to move toward
(24:10):
more reciprocal tariffs, which is a theme he has sounded
over and over again, because Canada does have some fairly
stiff tariffs against various agricultural stuff like darry and that
sort of thing. Okay, but I just and there's another
piece in the journal where even Trump advisors and loyal
(24:32):
business leaders are saying, just tell.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Us what you're trying to do.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
The different headlines Fox has stubborn inflation cools, okay, and
Wall Street Journal has inflation cooled to two point eight
percent in February, lower than expected. So that's got to
be some news that the White House will out and
we'll see what that does to the stock market. And
the endless discussion of what your four oh one K
(24:59):
is doing is if you're about to start pulling from
your four one k today, and again I apologize to
anyone around the country who actually did retire last week.
You know, we're not talking about you, but for most
of us, you know, whatever, it'll be back by the
time I'm ready to use it all right, right, And honestly,
(25:20):
even that kind of under or over sells it because
not taking out all you're still well right, You're not
going to take it all out at once. That's not
the way it works. End you've probably been tapering off
your risk as you get closer to retirement. I want
to go through a couple of texts we got real
quick before we take a break, and we can leave
plenty of time for mailbag. First of all, we got
this text, are you finally ready to listen to the
(25:40):
red tie of power and give up shilling for Zelensky?
So yeah, wow, that's a sort of intelligent and well
reasoned argument.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Thanks, I'm offering it.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Zelensky has agreed to the ceasefire yet to see if
Russia is going toe to the ceasefire. And there's also
the criticism that if they do agree, you do it
it's just because they'd love to have a break and
be able to rearm and.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Get there trying together.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Their newest crop of the North Korean cannonfot or prisoners. Yeah,
so might only be to their advantage. Back to my
McDonald's stats. As I was eating McDonald's just day, thirteen
thousand some McDonald thirteen thousand, five hundred McDonald's in the
United States, which if you do the quick math on that,
that's two hundred and seventy per state. Obviously, they're not
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evenly dispersed, because, like I said, Wyoming needs three. But
there are, according to this texture, a stunning five hundred
and seventy McDonald's in New York. Five hundred and seventy
just in New York. However, while I was talking about
how dominant McDonald's is, another person pointed out there are
seventeen thousand milkshake locations known as Starbucks. Seventeen thousand. Of course,
(26:55):
if you live in an urban area at all, there's
one you can stand outside on the corner. There's one there,
and there's one there you can honestlee from one corner. Yeah,
Starbucks undergoing a giant restructuring right now. I was just
reading about they got a new CEO who's pairing back
the menus and cutting staff oh, he laid off how many.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
I don't have the story in front of me.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
He laid off well into four figures worth of folks
working at their headquarters in Seattle and working remotely. And
I don't see Congress on the steps of the Capitol
whining and moaning and crying about those layoffs. I don't
see the New York timesmoaning what a human tragedy it is.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
The bunch of private sector people got laid off.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Talking to some Starbucks employee who says, I just moved
here for this job, right, Former Starbucks employees find a
difficult labor market.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
You're just not seeing that.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
We actually got into this conversation my son and I
about somehow. I don't remember how it started. He was
studying something in franchises and how those work and owner
operated versus not and all that sort of thing. It's actually,
i'm an interesting conversation mm hm. And he also told me,
he said, did you realize Ray Croc sold the thing
for only a couple of million dollars and it's considered
(28:07):
the worst business decision in world history.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
That's what my son said. So I don't know. I
guess he saw that something.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
More arguably sure. Maybe Ray was like, I'm tired of
flipping burgers. I'm just going to go to my ranch
and have fun. Any right, lived every day of the
rest of his life in joy and serenity. I don't know,
I'm probably not eating McDonald's. We have got to Joe's
mailbag and a whole bunch of this stuff on the
way stay here. Yeah, doing the research, I think I
(28:34):
misunderstood the story that my son was telling me. The
worst business decision was the McDonald's brother selling to Ray
kroc Ah And that.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Was, uh, you know, that was my misunderstanding. But yeah,
well but they did that.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
That doesn't make any sense though, just because you have
a Scotsman, just because you have a successful Burger milkshake stand,
that doesn't mean you could have become the franchise.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
He's genius. Oh right, that's the that's the key. Yeah,
that's kind of a silly assertion, honestly. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Here's your freedom loving quote of Hey, getting back to
our series from Theodore Roosevelt. Two two freedom loving quotes
to the day from Roosevelt Today. Number one, the unforgivable
crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if
it can be avoided but never hit softly. Interesting Yeah yeah,
And then this I love this. When they called the
(29:27):
role in the Senate, the senators do not know whether
to answer present or not guilty. You tell him, Teddy
mail Bag, feel freedom to drop us a note. The
email addresses mail Bag and I'm strong Eddy dot com.
Jack talking about his desire to buy one of Elon
(29:47):
Musk's cyber trucks, specifically the Ultra Powerful cyber Beast and
put a plate on it that says gog absolutely right.
Got this from Joe Anonymous, so too. My kids are
home from college for spring break. We drove from the
Bay Area to Tahoe to ski today, listening to you
on the way, and we were rolling with laughter listening
to Jack talking about a cyber truck with the doge
(30:08):
license plate as we.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
Approached the ski resort. What did we see?
Speaker 1 (30:11):
I kid you, not below photo is not AI altered
a cyber truck with our Bitcoin one license plate. Wow,
not exactly the same, but still what are the odds bitcoin?
Speaker 3 (30:20):
Doge coin?
Speaker 1 (30:22):
And of course you need to get your cyber truck
with the Doge plates and drive it all around your
college town bike circles every day blasting, Proud to be
an American and YMCA that makes it in a little
kid rock too, But your playlist is up to you.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
Thanks to you, Anonymous. That is funny.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Let's see Jim on the topic of Kamala Harris for
governor of cal Unicornia, let's stick with it. It includes
one of my favorite sign offs lately. Kamala is beginning
to contemplate what needs to be done in terms of
recognizing the importance of understanding the steps she must to
(31:00):
seriously consider thinking about running for governor in twenty six
and expects the passage of time required to unburden what
that entails to extend until the end of summer. Wow,
that's pretty good, Kamla. Then he signs off KLTTBBD. Keep
launching torpedoes of truth, but don't overegg the pudding, Jim.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
We'll try not teach Jim.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Paolo with a brief note a good sign in the
transports debate, most people on both signs seem to have
come down to common sense side of this issue.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
The common sense side that's encouraging. Another encouraging thing.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
To my recollection, everybody involved, at least tacitly acknowledges that
we're talking about men and women's sports, not trans women
in women's sports.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
And best of.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
All, no more annoying incantations of trans women are women.
I was just wearing my hot dogs are Dogs t
shirt yesterday. Progress indeed, now somebody just needs to tell
the great majority of Democratic politicians about it. Damn their
dopes on this issue. Maybe they're soffering from that new
gen z malady trend overload, and he helpfully included a
(32:05):
link to an article about trend overload, which we can
maybe talk about in a little bit. I think it's
more interesting than it even knows. I'm guessing it's the
idea that trends come too fast and furious.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
Now you can't keep up with them. You always feel pressure.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Well yeah, And the greater significance of it, I think,
is understanding that the rapid fied pleasures of the Internet,
social media, smartphones, etc.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
Are just it's too much, too much, too much, too
much among young people. Something has got to change on
that front, I would agree.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Side Joe Bob writes a Tale of Two Countries. I
absolutely love the direction the administration is taking with them
as but for the life of me, I don't understand
why they don't see the similarities with Ukraine. In one case,
terrorist's comebags crossed the border to kill innocent civilians, and
then the same thing happened in Israel.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
Yeah, I see your point. I see it much more
like Bob does than a lot of people do these days.
But that's fun. Let's continue the debate. Al none of
us writes.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
On the top of a millionaires and billionaires, the idea
of limiting those that care about wasteful spending. Yeah, that's
the great leftist plot, is to narrow the tax base
and praddle on about how the rich need to pay
their fair share to the point that they're among the
actual high taxpayers. There aren't nearly enough votes to defeat
horrific wasteful spending. It's a specific strategy, and it's been
(33:28):
pretty successful in every independent study that's ever been done.
Says the way to make government more efficient and spend
money more efficiently and more answerable to the people is
to broaden the tax base.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
But nobody wants to do that anyway.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
He writes, the idea of limiting those that care about
wasteful spending. Whatever my socialist friends talk about spending I
asked them if they itemize their tax returns, followed by
why would you want to pay less in taxes and
have me pay more? In fact, why don't you donate
more money to the wonderful government in their efficient projects.
They no longer bring up the idea of spending end
or taxes, probably just not to you. Yeah, yeah, this
(34:05):
is interesting and troubling. Yesterday, John writes, my son witnessed
an unprovoked attack by a he says homeless person, I
say transient drug addict on a non binary or trans person,
a man deluded into think he was a woman in
San Francisco. It was a brutal beating that could have
killed the victim, multiple punches to the back of the head.
The only reason my thun could think of the victim
(34:26):
wasn't killed is that he didn't fight back or for
any resistance at all. Haven't seen anything about it in
the news. If it had been an attack by someone
in a maga hat would have led the news nationwide
and even internationally.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
Yeah, And then Angie writes, and we'll get to this
next hour. This is dovetailing beautifully with our discussion of
the University of California Berkeley lecture series on the Dreaming
of Water or whatever the hell all might guard the
intersectionality of neo colonialism feminist queerness. She sent Long an
(35:00):
actual published university study that she thought, it's got to
have been written as a joke by James Lindsay. I
have dug into it. It may be the crowning glory
of soft science self mockery.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
Wow, and that's saying something. So that's a good by
that statement.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
And I was going to go home, and I'm going
to stick around for that if you miss a segment
at the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand
Speaker 3 (35:27):
Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Armstrong and Tecat and Hearty, who live from Studio C
see Senior.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Hey, We're in a dimly lit room deeper than the
bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications compound and on
a busy news Wednesday. We're under the tutelage of our
general manager. Who else? Trump? Trumpety Trump Trump.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
So in the last twenty hours since we last talked
to you, they've fired half the Department of Education Ukraine
has agreed to a cease fire, the tariffs.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Saraphors have begun. That's right.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Tarff's kicked in at midnight, and Trump bought a red, bright,
red s plaid tesla.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
All that's happened in the last twenty hours. There you go,
you're up today.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
There you go. Anything you need to know? Wowser's I
was just reading a morning newsletter that I like to
read every day. In what might be a first ever,
literally every Wall Street Journal editorial today is critical of
Trump's policies.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Every single Wall Street Journal editorial. They think that's the
first time that's ever happened. Fairly devastating, yes, depending on
your take. Yeah, yeah, so you know, it doesn't mean
they're right. But and then you've got the thing I
mentioned about Ukraine has agreed to the.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Ceasefire plan, no idea if Russia has any interest whatsoever
in this, I guess we'll find out, hopefully when they
are a counterpart that has never ever argued in good faith,
so that should be spicy, right. Yeah, Hopefully we're about
to see the other side of this where they pressure
the Russians to come to the table and here's what
(02:15):
will happen to you if you don't play ball. Hopefully
we're about to see that. I'm not sure that's what's
going to happen.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Did see a.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Business report about Russia's economy that we're going to play later,
But Russia currently has something like forty percent inflation.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Well that's inconvenient.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
And like if you want to buy a house, it's
thirty five percent interest. That sort of thing is going
on in Russia, and so there's some belief that they can't,
you know, he can't hold out forever on this war
with that economic reality, and so perhaps he's feeling the pressure.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
I don't know who knows. I've been hearing that, I
feel like for three years that their economy was devastated
and there's no way they could continue.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Yeah, it's a complex stew of of what ifs, because
it's it's a difficult country to get a grip on
the various dynamics that would be at play, whether it's
popular support.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Or the actual economic realities.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
And to what extent are the oligarchs pissed off? Because
Putin's control depends on the loyalty of the oligarchs mostly,
you know, to what extenter is security forces effective? And
there are just tons and tons of question marks. That's
why they you know, they talk about criminologists who are
able to you know, gaze through the swirling mists of
(03:43):
Russian politics to figure out what the heck's actually going on.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Looking up at the headline on CBS education Department slashing workforce.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
No, no, there's gonna be no education in America. Kids
won't learn to read or write.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Right Here's they aren't. Yeah, exactly, here's a secret they're not. Now.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Partly of education just doles out piles of money for
districts that comply with whatever federal whim comes down The Pike.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Yeah, so that's something. Well, we'll see.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Well, yeah, you know, it's such an interesting mixed bag.
And for new listeners, first of all, welcome, whether you
love Trump or hate him or somewhere in between. We
will give you an update on how things are going.
I for one, am thrilled with ninety eight percent of
(04:36):
the immigration stuff, and any of the stuff that's a
little excessive or a little fast, the courts will deal with.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
It'll be fun.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Just love that, love the doge stuff, love the reign,
and in the Department of Education, which barely needs to exist.
There's so many things I love, but I join with
you know, the now I don't join with exactly, but
I'm sympathetic to the Wall Street Journal editorial board and
other folks who are saying, not just that I think
(05:03):
these tariffs are a mistake, because not everybody's saying that,
but they're saying, we don't know what he's doing and
he won't tell us right, and whip sawing American businesses
back and forth is just it's not a good thing.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
And I am concerned.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Color me concerned but not certain, which makes me a
bad talk show host. You have to be one hundred
percent certain about every topic every second. Anyway, I am
afraid that the not great stuff is going to derail
our ability conservative America.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
To do the really, really, really good stuff.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
And some of it seems a little quick and unnecessary,
but we will all find out together.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Friends.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Eggs are up sixty percent since last year. Oh no,
my omelet cost one hundred dollars.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
I don't know if I eat an egg a month,
So maybe I'm the wrong person to be commenting on
the egg situation. Oh I do love eggs. I like
them too, not enough. If you're eating them once a month,
you're a fake egg fan. You're to please. You know
what I had yesterday? That was good, Michael. I know
you're not supposed to eat stuff like this with your diabetes.
(06:19):
You had a mcfluury. I did have a mcflory, But
before I had the mcfluory, that wasn't even the headline, Michael,
I had a.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Quarter pounder with cheese. I took a I hadn't had
one in a while. I took a bite of vent. Dang,
that's a good sandwich.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Whoo.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
I don't know what they put in that crack or whatever,
but thats a good sandwich. Well, let me jot this
down real quickly. What's that restaurant you're recommending McDaniels McDonald's.
So my son and I got into a conversation about it,
and I started googling some stuff.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
There are.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Thirteen thousand McDonald's in the United States. That's an extraordinary number, yes,
because obviously if you had is nearly ubiquitous, keep the
revelations coming. But if you had a one hundred per state,
(07:12):
you'd only have five thousand. I mean, that's that's a
stunning number. Well, right in some of your states, like
Wyoming's got thirty people, So how many how many McDonald's
do you need? I mean a real seven in a
big state like you. But that's a lot of McDonald's.
It's just incredible. And I was doing the math, and
it's so much bigger than all the other joints. Like
(07:34):
I looked at Burger Kings, like a third of that,
that's the closest competitor.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Wendy's is a fourth of that. So nobody's been close.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
And I was in there and were eaten and they
play they got the music that I assume that some
corporate genius chooses to try to please the client tell
and the seventies classic hit rain Drop Keep Falling on
Your Head came on and I thought, hmmm, who is
(08:05):
the audience? Who's who's eating at McDonald's. That's when I
started doing the research and everything like that. Is you
got to be at least my age to know that song.
It's well, it's a it's a classic jack people don't
I mean, Katie around the track clock and I wasn't
around Katie.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Are you familiar with rain drops keep falling on your hand?
Are you familiar with that on my head?
Speaker 1 (08:25):
They're falling on somebody. It's not That's not the point
of the conversation. Who's who's the pate is getting rain
on it? It's not the point. That's not the key question,
right anyway, Katie?
Speaker 3 (08:41):
But go ahead? Did you have morey? Do you know
that song? Did you say? I was? I was cracking
wise okay, sorry, but I was just sick.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
That is such a good dang sandwich. It doesn't taste
anything like a hamburgers. Moving back to the now, As
we mentioned many times over the years, it doesn't taste
anything like a hamburger, and that's what allegedly is but
is so delicious, and then we both had Shamrock mcfluory's.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Also a delicious dessert. This is very much.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Like President Trump flogging Tesla's on the South Lawn. This
is untoward, This is unethical. Have you been paid by
the Burger Giant? What's happening here? But they are driving
everybody to the automated screen when you walk in the door.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
They want everybody to do that.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
They still have a clerk there, you know, see the
podcast from yesterday. They haven't gone Silicon Valley and just
immediately abandoned having a human being there. So everybody's standing
around trying to get the menu to word and I
order from the person there.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
I still do that. And I said, is there anybody
like that's not my age that doesn't order up here?
And they said, now all the young people use the screen,
so it's only old people to walk up and talk
to a human beings say they want their quarter pound
with cheese with onions, so lame. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
I just hope Trump's tariffs don't affect those weird little onions.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
I think we import those from Belgium that killed a
bunch of people a couple weeks back.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Hey, Hey, Hey, everybody makes mistakes, but the screen thing
is that driven by the minimum wage. That's what the
that and technology getting cheaper. But yeah, yeah, one hundred percent.
It's a question of one cost is decreasing while the
other is art officially through government FIAT increasing. Yes, So,
as we mentioned earlier, in fact, Katie, I was going
(10:18):
to urge you to bring that story back. What the
latest study says how many fast food jobs have been
lost in California since the gift, the blatant gift to
the union that Gaviy Newsom's law was sixteen sixteen thousand
people are now out of work, and it's worth pointing
out that these are the oft to mentioned most vulnerable. Yeah, well,
(10:42):
you probably don't have a lot of other job opportunities
if you're working at McDonald's.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Probably right, it's not your first choice.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
You could have, you know, been a programmer or an
executive VP at IBM, but you chose to go to McDonald's.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
No, and it's worth driving this point.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Thousand people that were willing to show up to work
for that wage prior the old wage and State of
California force is a new wage.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Now they don't have a job at all.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
It is worth driving home if you're feeling groggy or
slow of wit. That that illustrates so beautifully the cruel
hypocrisy of a Gavin Newsom who jabbers on and on
about standing up for the little guy and BIPOC people
and the poor and whatever. But if he could do
(11:33):
something to shovel more power towards the powerful unions, he
sacrificed those sixteen thousand poor people and laughed while he
did it.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
He's a piece of guard. Wow. How else? Yeah, shut up?
How else would you describe.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Somebody who's that blatantly cruelly hypocritical piece of crap?
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Is the on air version, that's the PG version. There's more.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
We got to start the show officially around it's going off.
Things have gotten out of control. I'm Jack Armstrong. He's
Joe Getty on this. It is Wednesday, March the twelfth
of year twenty twenty five. We're Armstrong, you're getting We
approved this program. He is a cruel, rich monster. He
makes Trump look like mother Teresa.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
All right, let's begin the show officially now according to
FCC rules and regulations.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Here we go at.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
Mark Mayor in Ireland, and it's beautiful and warm, not
physically it's actually quite cold. Moved here on January fifteenth,
and it's been pretty wonderful. And when you know it
is safe for all citizens to have equal rights there
(12:44):
in America, that's when we will consider coming back.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Laura, Ireland.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
We should have said we had breaking news, ladies, and
we should have said, please sit down first.
Speaker 6 (12:57):
I think this is not an airport. There's no need
to announce your departure. Roseh o'donald moved to to Ireland
because of.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Trump and Rosie. Hey hey, bad news.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Totally unsafe, I mean really crazy unsafe here in America.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Probably will be for fifteen, I mean twenty years. You
might want to give it a little longer there in Ireland. Yeah, yeah,
don't rush back. So we got Katie's headlines, I'd buye.
We can get Katie's headlines on the way and a
bunch of other stuff.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Stay here, army strong, Hey Yeddy I was born in
nineteen eighty nine, says this texture. We sang rain drops
keep falling on your head at our eighth grade graduation,
So there you go.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Yeah, also born in nineteen eighty nine. Al Right, it
was a hit.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Speaking of Katie, who's speaking, Let's figure out who's reporting what.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
It's the lead story with Katie breaking Green. Hello, Hey
Katie Breen here, New York Posts.
Speaker 6 (13:49):
Russia launches deadly missile attack on Zelenski's hometown, just hours
after Ukraine agreed to a ceasefire proposal.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
I think the interesting part is, is there any way
Putin's gonna agree to a ceasefire as long as there
are ten thousand Ukrainian troops in that one chunk of
Russia that they took, Well, it's gonna take a hell
of a long time to eject them.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
From ABC, AU announces twenty eight billion dollars in countermeasures
to Trump's steel tariffs.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
We're at Warwick, Canada. Finally, I've been waiting for this,
my whole life trade war.
Speaker 6 (14:27):
From the New York Times, EPA plans to close all
environmental justice offices.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
H I don't know anything about that, but it sure
sounds good. Good.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Yeah, environmental justice. Please, that could be anything. You could
do anything in those offices, as long as it's spent
money from Breitbart doge.
Speaker 6 (14:47):
More than two hundred thousand federal government credit cards deactivated.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Wow, I know some people with government credit cards and
they don't care much how they spend money.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Hmmm, that's surprising.
Speaker 6 (15:03):
USA Today House passes GOP funding bill backed by Trump.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Now a showdown looms in the Senate. So not another
Senate showdown. Boy.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
I tell you one thing I do not have a
lot of patients for is following the early stages of
these big budget bill negotiations. I mean, assists, you've got
to be obsessed with the Beltway. Just let me know
when you got something you're ready to vote on it.
Speaker 6 (15:28):
From The Free Beacon, Anti Israel agitators arrested in New
York amid nationwide walkouts protesting pro Hamas activists ice arrests.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
We got to talk about that more later.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
I tell you what, how about every college instructor and
professor across America walks out and stays out, and we
start again and rebuild the greatest university system on Earth.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
From CNN.
Speaker 6 (15:53):
Cargo ship captain arrested in north Sea collision with US
flagged tanker is a Russian national?
Speaker 3 (16:00):
All Okay? Rested? I hadn't heard that. All have to
dig into that story.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Yeah, I have been arrested for reckless killing people by
being a bad ships captain Wow. Believe that's the charge.
Speaker 6 (16:15):
From Fox News man caught with live turtle in his
pants at Newark Airport, leaving tsa agents shell shocked.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Oh wow, I forget it. That actually hurts. Its painful
to second, don't judge until you've had a turtle in
your pants. It's more fun than it sounds.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
As a matter of fact, I do have a turtle
in my pants, and I'm glad to see you.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
It's a false choice. And finally, the Babylon.
Speaker 6 (16:43):
Bee Isis claims responsibility for Megan Markel Netflix show?
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Is there someplace?
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Is there someplace I can sign up to never hear
about Meghan Markle again? Is there is there an algorithm
for that? If you find it, let me know it
filter that out of my news feed or something like that.
Although I sense and certainly I can stand guard. Since
you're so horrified and I get that, it feels like
it's moving towards so bad, it's good terriff or it
definitely could be so mockable it's enjoyable. Where are we
(17:16):
with the tariffs and whatnot? And how do we feel
about buying cars in the White House?
Speaker 6 (17:20):
Long?
Speaker 3 (17:20):
I think I'm fine with it? Among other things on
the way stay tuned, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 7 (17:28):
So we spend two hundred billion dollars a year subsidizing Canada.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
We don't have to do that.
Speaker 7 (17:34):
And frankly, the way that gets solved is Canada should
honestly become.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Our fifty first state.
Speaker 7 (17:39):
We wouldn't have a northern border problem, we wouldn't have
a tariff problem. Canada would be great as our cherished
fifty first state. You wouldn't have to worry about borders,
you wouldn't have to worry about anything. And by the way,
Canada is very highly taxed and we're very low tax
We're considered a low tax nation because of me, because
I cut the taxes so the people of Canada would
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pay much less tax.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
But it makes a lot of.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Sense now all the behind the scenes reporting, is Trump's
serious about trying to get Greenland. That's a that's an actual,
but not Canada be in a fifty first state.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
There's nobody. Actually, it's it's just trolling, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
I guess I've heard some democratic Why is he just
going on and on about it though repeating it over
the course of weeks and weeks?
Speaker 3 (18:29):
I mean, that didn't sound like trolling. Well, some believe
he drove Trudeau out of office by making him look
so weak and pathetic, trolling him in so little pushback.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Maybe yeah, and he but he fired up the Liberals
when it looked like they were going to lose, and
now they're back in power. Yeah. Well, sometimes having the
way the way extreme of your other party in charge,
doesn't you know?
Speaker 3 (18:56):
That's just so good?
Speaker 1 (18:58):
See see themocrats in the United States. But what was
I gonna say, become a fifty first state?
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (19:04):
I heard some prominent Democrats say yes day, and I'm
surprised the Democrats aren't keeping their mouths shut.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
They should be quietly saying yeah, yeah, that I agree.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
I mean, I rarely agree with Trump, but Canada being
the fifty first state, I mean, why not? It's only
fairness or something, because, as one prominent Democrat said yesterday,
Republicans will never win another presidential election. If Canada is
the fifty first state, then you have two Californias with
the same amount of delegates that will always vote Democrat.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Yeah for the foreseeable future. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Yeah, Like I say, I have no idea what he's doing.
I understand the intent of rebuilding American manufacturing to whatever
extent it's possible.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
I get that.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
And you can find a few people who say, yeah,
in the long term, this will pan out. You can
find you know, an infinite multiple of that of people
who say either this won't work or there's a different
crowd that says, I just don't know what he's doing. Well,
(20:17):
let's let's hear let's hear fifty one a little more
on this topic, and then we can get to the latest.
Because Canada was threatening a twenty five percent search charge
on electricity yesterday. But here's uh, here's Trump and Elon
on the White House lawn.
Speaker 7 (20:31):
When you take away that artificial line that looks like
it was done with a ruler, and that's what it was.
Some guy sat there years ago and they said, rah, Well,
when you take away that and you look at that
beautiful formation of Canada and the United States, there is
no place anywhere in the world that looks like that.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
It's plus Graven plus.
Speaker 7 (20:52):
Green Land, and then if you add Greenland, that's it.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
I mean, that's pretty.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Canada threatened twenty five surcharge on electricty and then backed
off it later in the day.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
So the rhetoric and the real stuff continues.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Yeah, but the extra twenty five percent tariffs on steel
in a Luman took a fete at midnight last night. Yeah, Now,
I'll see what happens. Yeah, we absolutely, we'll see what happens.
The estimates of you know, well, I'll just you know what.
I won't get into the statistics and the technical crap.
(21:34):
But the longest short of it is, in the short term,
this will drive up the costs for every American manufacturer
virtually and make goods more expensive and cut down on
their share of any market until the great Transition happens
(21:56):
and we've restored our manufacturing.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Might that's the idea. I'm highly skeptical.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
So Trump walked back a little bit or revised his
answer somewhat on the whole recession thing.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
And then we've got some breaking news. First, this resion,
I don't see it at all. I think this country's
going to boom.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
So after saying could be, you don't know, I don't
like to predict those things in the market, and everybody
reacting to that, you know, yesterday he was more positive.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
I think the markets are going to boom. So here's
your breaking news.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
The inflation numbers are out for the most recent stats
from last month. Consumer prices rose two point eight percent
in the year through February, a slightly better result than
economist said expected.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
I I'll never understand, because I'm not an economist why
it's all based on what economists expected. What if they
were wrong and they had to ask.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Him in the first place and just wait a few
days and get the actual statistic.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Anyway, slightly better than economist set.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Like every morning, I'm about to get on the scale,
and you got physicians who say we expect to wait
one ninety seven point four.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
That's a good When it's not one ninety eight point one, it's.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Like, oh, exceeded expectations.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
That's a good book. Okay, let's you just wait till
I get on the scale. Yeah, that's pretty funny. Oh
the market is reacting.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Is Joe weighed more than expectations or less?
Speaker 3 (23:25):
That's funny? No, no more lately, trust me. Uh So.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
The consumer price index was up two point eight percent
from a year earlier, after rising another point two percent
on a monthly basement basis. That was a step down
from January's surprisingly large point five percent increase.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
So stocks are up based on that the well.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
The New York Times version of this anyway, says, analysts
are worried the tariffs could add two future price pressures.
Of course, that's what Joe was just doing, Ama, And uh,
then we'll have to play out. I will say, in
Trump's defense that if this is merely a brutal and
whipsaw e for a short time period to move toward
(24:10):
more reciprocal tariffs, which is a theme he has sounded
over and over again, because Canada does have some fairly
stiff tariffs against various agricultural stuff like darry and that
sort of thing. Okay, but I just and there's another
piece in the journal where even Trump advisors and loyal
(24:32):
business leaders are saying, just tell.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Us what you're trying to do.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
The different headlines Fox has stubborn inflation cools, okay, and
Wall Street Journal has inflation cooled to two point eight
percent in February, lower than expected. So that's got to
be some news that the White House will out and
we'll see what that does to the stock market. And
the endless discussion of what your four oh one K
(24:59):
is doing is if you're about to start pulling from
your four one k today, and again I apologize to
anyone around the country who actually did retire last week.
You know, we're not talking about you, but for most
of us, you know, whatever, it'll be back by the
time I'm ready to use it all right, right, And honestly,
(25:20):
even that kind of under or over sells it because
not taking out all you're still well right, You're not
going to take it all out at once. That's not
the way it works. End you've probably been tapering off
your risk as you get closer to retirement. I want
to go through a couple of texts we got real
quick before we take a break, and we can leave
plenty of time for mailbag. First of all, we got
this text, are you finally ready to listen to the
(25:40):
red tie of power and give up shilling for Zelensky?
So yeah, wow, that's a sort of intelligent and well
reasoned argument.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Thanks, I'm offering it.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Zelensky has agreed to the ceasefire yet to see if
Russia is going toe to the ceasefire. And there's also
the criticism that if they do agree, you do it
it's just because they'd love to have a break and
be able to rearm and.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Get there trying together.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Their newest crop of the North Korean cannonfot or prisoners. Yeah,
so might only be to their advantage. Back to my
McDonald's stats. As I was eating McDonald's just day, thirteen
thousand some McDonald thirteen thousand, five hundred McDonald's in the
United States, which if you do the quick math on that,
that's two hundred and seventy per state. Obviously, they're not
(26:31):
evenly dispersed, because, like I said, Wyoming needs three. But
there are, according to this texture, a stunning five hundred
and seventy McDonald's in New York. Five hundred and seventy
just in New York. However, while I was talking about
how dominant McDonald's is, another person pointed out there are
seventeen thousand milkshake locations known as Starbucks. Seventeen thousand. Of course,
(26:55):
if you live in an urban area at all, there's
one you can stand outside on the corner. There's one there,
and there's one there you can honestlee from one corner. Yeah,
Starbucks undergoing a giant restructuring right now. I was just
reading about they got a new CEO who's pairing back
the menus and cutting staff oh, he laid off how many.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
I don't have the story in front of me.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
He laid off well into four figures worth of folks
working at their headquarters in Seattle and working remotely. And
I don't see Congress on the steps of the Capitol
whining and moaning and crying about those layoffs. I don't
see the New York timesmoaning what a human tragedy it is.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
The bunch of private sector people got laid off.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Talking to some Starbucks employee who says, I just moved
here for this job, right, Former Starbucks employees find a
difficult labor market.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
You're just not seeing that.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
We actually got into this conversation my son and I
about somehow. I don't remember how it started. He was
studying something in franchises and how those work and owner
operated versus not and all that sort of thing. It's actually,
i'm an interesting conversation mm hm. And he also told me,
he said, did you realize Ray Croc sold the thing
for only a couple of million dollars and it's considered
(28:07):
the worst business decision in world history.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
That's what my son said. So I don't know. I
guess he saw that something.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
More arguably sure. Maybe Ray was like, I'm tired of
flipping burgers. I'm just going to go to my ranch
and have fun. Any right, lived every day of the
rest of his life in joy and serenity. I don't know,
I'm probably not eating McDonald's. We have got to Joe's
mailbag and a whole bunch of this stuff on the
way stay here. Yeah, doing the research, I think I
(28:34):
misunderstood the story that my son was telling me. The
worst business decision was the McDonald's brother selling to Ray
kroc Ah And that.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Was, uh, you know, that was my misunderstanding. But yeah,
well but they did that.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
That doesn't make any sense though, just because you have
a Scotsman, just because you have a successful Burger milkshake stand,
that doesn't mean you could have become the franchise.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
He's genius. Oh right, that's the that's the key. Yeah,
that's kind of a silly assertion, honestly. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Here's your freedom loving quote of Hey, getting back to
our series from Theodore Roosevelt. Two two freedom loving quotes
to the day from Roosevelt Today. Number one, the unforgivable
crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if
it can be avoided but never hit softly. Interesting Yeah yeah,
And then this I love this. When they called the
(29:27):
role in the Senate, the senators do not know whether
to answer present or not guilty. You tell him, Teddy
mail Bag, feel freedom to drop us a note. The
email addresses mail Bag and I'm strong Eddy dot com.
Jack talking about his desire to buy one of Elon
(29:47):
Musk's cyber trucks, specifically the Ultra Powerful cyber Beast and
put a plate on it that says gog absolutely right.
Got this from Joe Anonymous, so too. My kids are
home from college for spring break. We drove from the
Bay Area to Tahoe to ski today, listening to you
on the way, and we were rolling with laughter listening
to Jack talking about a cyber truck with the doge
(30:08):
license plate as we.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
Approached the ski resort. What did we see?
Speaker 1 (30:11):
I kid you, not below photo is not AI altered
a cyber truck with our Bitcoin one license plate. Wow,
not exactly the same, but still what are the odds bitcoin?
Speaker 3 (30:20):
Doge coin?
Speaker 1 (30:22):
And of course you need to get your cyber truck
with the Doge plates and drive it all around your
college town bike circles every day blasting, Proud to be
an American and YMCA that makes it in a little
kid rock too, But your playlist is up to you.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
Thanks to you, Anonymous. That is funny.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Let's see Jim on the topic of Kamala Harris for
governor of cal Unicornia, let's stick with it. It includes
one of my favorite sign offs lately. Kamala is beginning
to contemplate what needs to be done in terms of
recognizing the importance of understanding the steps she must to
(31:00):
seriously consider thinking about running for governor in twenty six
and expects the passage of time required to unburden what
that entails to extend until the end of summer. Wow,
that's pretty good, Kamla. Then he signs off KLTTBBD. Keep
launching torpedoes of truth, but don't overegg the pudding, Jim.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
We'll try not teach Jim.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Paolo with a brief note a good sign in the
transports debate, most people on both signs seem to have
come down to common sense side of this issue.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
The common sense side that's encouraging. Another encouraging thing.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
To my recollection, everybody involved, at least tacitly acknowledges that
we're talking about men and women's sports, not trans women
in women's sports.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
And best of.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
All, no more annoying incantations of trans women are women.
I was just wearing my hot dogs are Dogs t
shirt yesterday. Progress indeed, now somebody just needs to tell
the great majority of Democratic politicians about it. Damn their
dopes on this issue. Maybe they're soffering from that new
gen z malady trend overload, and he helpfully included a
(32:05):
link to an article about trend overload, which we can
maybe talk about in a little bit. I think it's
more interesting than it even knows. I'm guessing it's the
idea that trends come too fast and furious.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
Now you can't keep up with them. You always feel pressure.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Well yeah, And the greater significance of it, I think,
is understanding that the rapid fied pleasures of the Internet,
social media, smartphones, etc.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
Are just it's too much, too much, too much, too
much among young people. Something has got to change on
that front, I would agree.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Side Joe Bob writes a Tale of Two Countries. I
absolutely love the direction the administration is taking with them
as but for the life of me, I don't understand
why they don't see the similarities with Ukraine. In one case,
terrorist's comebags crossed the border to kill innocent civilians, and
then the same thing happened in Israel.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
Yeah, I see your point. I see it much more
like Bob does than a lot of people do these days.
But that's fun. Let's continue the debate. Al none of
us writes.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
On the top of a millionaires and billionaires, the idea
of limiting those that care about wasteful spending. Yeah, that's
the great leftist plot, is to narrow the tax base
and praddle on about how the rich need to pay
their fair share to the point that they're among the
actual high taxpayers. There aren't nearly enough votes to defeat
horrific wasteful spending. It's a specific strategy, and it's been
(33:28):
pretty successful in every independent study that's ever been done.
Says the way to make government more efficient and spend
money more efficiently and more answerable to the people is
to broaden the tax base.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
But nobody wants to do that anyway.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
He writes, the idea of limiting those that care about
wasteful spending. Whatever my socialist friends talk about spending I
asked them if they itemize their tax returns, followed by
why would you want to pay less in taxes and
have me pay more? In fact, why don't you donate
more money to the wonderful government in their efficient projects.
They no longer bring up the idea of spending end
or taxes, probably just not to you. Yeah, yeah, this
(34:05):
is interesting and troubling. Yesterday, John writes, my son witnessed
an unprovoked attack by a he says homeless person, I
say transient drug addict on a non binary or trans person,
a man deluded into think he was a woman in
San Francisco. It was a brutal beating that could have
killed the victim, multiple punches to the back of the head.
The only reason my thun could think of the victim
(34:26):
wasn't killed is that he didn't fight back or for
any resistance at all. Haven't seen anything about it in
the news. If it had been an attack by someone
in a maga hat would have led the news nationwide
and even internationally.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
Yeah, And then Angie writes, and we'll get to this
next hour. This is dovetailing beautifully with our discussion of
the University of California Berkeley lecture series on the Dreaming
of Water or whatever the hell all might guard the
intersectionality of neo colonialism feminist queerness. She sent Long an
(35:00):
actual published university study that she thought, it's got to
have been written as a joke by James Lindsay. I
have dug into it. It may be the crowning glory
of soft science self mockery.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
Wow, and that's saying something. So that's a good by
that statement.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
And I was going to go home, and I'm going
to stick around for that if you miss a segment
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