April 9, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 2 of A&G features...
- Possible scenarios after Trump's tariffs
- Calling without notice & out running animals
- Woke Watch!
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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 arm Strong and.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Getty and he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
These new blistering tariffs on countries around the globe that
includes China, one of the biggest and most consequential players
in this trade war. Just think of how many everyday
goods are manufactured in China, for better or for worse,
or who have components built in China. Laptops, the smartphone
you might be scrolling right the second, the clothes and
sneakers you're wearing, the furniture upon which you sit, and
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on and on.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Well, maybe you say, that's Jake Tapper of CNN. He's
got it in for Trump and Republicans. He's just you know,
scare tactics, et cetera, et cetera. Here's a couple of
Republican senators yesterday.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Whose throat do I get to choke if this proves
to be wrong, Well, Senator, you can certainly always talk
to me, but.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
I won Are you at the tip of the spear? Well,
I'm at the tip of the spear for certain I'm just.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Trying to answer a question that I have several people
in North Carolina asking.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
So the president again is the final decision maker on
all of these things.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Whose throat do I get to choke if you turn
out to be wrong? Which is pretty hard, right Eric?
You know, I wasn't planning on doing this. But here's
here's rand Paul fifty four Michael who's been He's been
a big Trump supporter, despite Trump calling him ugly and
all kinds of things. Way back in twenty fifteen during
the debate, Ran Paul is stood strong by Trump through
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a lot, through thick and thick, but not through this one.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
And then if you add it all upisode Shahn is
ripping us off. That makes no sense. Trade deficits are
not real accounting. It's a fake accounting, and it doesn't
mean anything. What means something is if you look at
trade deficits and proportional to prosper the higher the trade deficits,
the more prosperity. The lower the trade deficits, the less
prosperity we get. We get a reduction in trade deficits
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when we go into a recession. We get an expansion
of trade deficits when we're in a boom. So really
nothing about a trade deficit gives any real useful instruction
to the economy.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Yeah, I keep hearing that argument over and over again
from conservative economists, and yeah, politician.
Speaker 6 (02:25):
I mean, for instance, I was just reading this. We
run a trade surplus with Australia because we send a
lot of machinery pardon me, dingoes ding goes.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
They have they make their own dingoes dingo.
Speaker 6 (02:39):
Anyway, because we send them a lot of machinery, transportation, equipment,
and chemicals. Australia runs a trade surplus with China because
it sends it lots of iron ore, natural gas, and gold.
And China runs a trade surplus with the United States
by sending it car parks, electronics, and batteries. It all
has to do with the stew of geography and who
has what, and who's better at what, and who can
produce what more cheaply. And I found this also very
(03:02):
interesting because you know, I love a lot of what
Trump's doing, but his fixation on trade imbalance is silly. Anyway,
the US has a substantial trade surplus with the Netherlands
and Singapore, but that's not because the Dutch and Singaporean
people consume so many more American products than other nations.
It's because those countries are home to major ports that
import American goods. Then they go hither and yon. The
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Netherlands uploads US goods and its ports sends them throughout
Europe and to other consumers. Singapore does it for Asia.
But a trade deficit is calculated on the country that
the goods reach first, not the ultimate destination. Yeah, and
so I mean, and we have some gigantic ports that
do a lot of business and we have a trade
It's actually interesting, even though this is fairly meaningless.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Where is that number.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
We have a trade surplus with one hundred and fourteen
nations and a trade deficit with one hundred and twelve.
Now that's just interesting. If the deficits were enormous and
the surpluses were tiny, well that number might be misleading.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
But it just it doesn't matter that much.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
So that's that. Let's hear a little Donald before I
get to Larry Summers, who people on the right loved
when he was bad mouthing Biden of a feeling they're
not going to like him as much when he's bad
mouthing Trump's ideas. Get to that in a little bit.
But here's Trump last night, some dinner. He spoke for
ninety minutes, said a lot of interesting things.
Speaker 7 (04:26):
Countries are paying tariffs right now. China's paying a one
hundred and four percent tariff. Think of it, one hundred
and four percent. Now it sounds ridiculous, but they charged
us for many items one hundred percent, one hundred and
twenty five percent. Many countries have They've ripped us off
left and right.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
But now it's our turn to.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Do the ripping.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Let's there are a number of things he says here
that are interesting going.
Speaker 7 (04:55):
I deal with other countries all the time. I am
right now when tariff's where they want to make a
deal with us. We don't necessarily want to make a
deal with them. We're happy the way we are taking
our two billion dollars a day, but they want to
make a deal with us.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
I know what the hell I'm doing.
Speaker 7 (05:09):
I know what I'm doing, and you know what I'm
doing too.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
That's why you vote for me. We're making two billion
dollars a day off these tariffs. What is that?
Speaker 6 (05:19):
It's the tariffs that are being paid that will then
go to you know, be dispersed among consumers and suppliers.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
And importers and the rest of it.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
As we've discussed more. Donald Trump, I'm.
Speaker 7 (05:34):
Telling you, these countries are calling us up, kissing my ass.
They are, they are dying to make it to you. Please,
please make it to you. I'll do anything. I'll do anything, sir.
And then I'll see some rebel Republican, you know, some
guy that wants to grandstand say I think that Congress
should take over negotiations. Let me tell you, you don't
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negotiate like I negotiate.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
I want this to work out. I hope it's going
to work out. Yeah, I don't know that it is
going to work out. This to me is maybe the
biggest news making thing he said last night. But we're
going to do something that we have to do.
Speaker 7 (06:10):
We're gonna put We're gonna teriffy our pharmaceuticals, and once
we do that, they're going to come rushing back into
our country because with a big market, the advantage we
have over everybody is that we're the big market. So
we're going to be announcing very shortly a major terriff
for on pharmaceuticals.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
So that could be a big deal and something you see.
You're pretty fast.
Speaker 6 (06:37):
Uh yeah, I think that's a national security concern that
we depend on China, of all countries. I mean, if
it was Britain in Mexico, it'd be bad enough to
turn on them for all of our medicines China.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Come on.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
I hope he gets out there and sells it that
way because that that that's an argument that makes sense. Look,
we're gonna have to go through some pain for a
while on pharmaceuticals until the companies start making the stuff here.
But we can't be in nation. Can't be the most
powerful nation on earth and all of our medicine comes
from our enemy. That's not because we can't. That's a
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but anyway, So Larry Summers, he was president of Harvard.
He was Obama's economic advisor. He is a Democrat, but
Republicans loved him when he came out and said Biden's
big spending policies were bad, shouldn't do it. He argued
against a couple of those multi trillion dollar bills, said
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they would cause inflation, which they did, and he gets
quoted on Fox all the time for that. I don't
know if he'll get quoted for this stuff. Because he
had a little Twitter thread yesterday developments in the last
twenty four hours suggest we may be headed for serious
financial crisis wholly induced by US government tariff policy. Serious
financial crisis. I don't want to be in a serious
(07:51):
financial crisis. I don't know about you. I just did
as It's not something I'm looking forward to at this
point in my life. Are really at any point in
my life? Long term interest rates are gapping up even
as the stock market moves sharply downwards. This highly unusual
pattern suggests a generalized diversion to US assets in global
financial markets. We're being treated by global financial markets like
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a problematic emerging market. This could set off all kinds
of vicious spirals. Given government debts and deficits and dependents
on foreign purchases. The only way to mitigate these risks
is for Donald Trump to back off his current path.
This is the first US bout of US financial instability
caused by the US government ever.
Speaker 6 (08:35):
Yeah, it's funny. I'm torn on it, well, not torn,
I see both sides of it. Trump's I'm a madman
negotiating style is part of what he is. And for instance,
in that clip where they're kissing my ass, all these
countries are kissing my ass. I've never found it useful
to humiliate people that I'm going to do business with
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long term.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Seems like it would be your best play.
Speaker 6 (09:02):
No, you can negotiate in a very, very tough style
and leverage your power, but there's no productive use for humiliating.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
I know it doesn't work in Miami. I know it
doesn't work on me. Will I will walk away from
a deal that is to my advantage if that happens.
Speaker 6 (09:18):
Or I will make that deal if I have to
then search for a way to screw you for the rest.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Of my natural days. Yes.
Speaker 6 (09:25):
On the other hand, I become a more and more
convinced that this is not till Larry Summer's concern. This
is not a long term strategy for the next two generations,
which is impossible anyway, as the White House changes hands
and Congress goes back and forth and the rest of it.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
It is clearly A and I pray I'm right. A.
Speaker 6 (09:45):
I'm so crazy, I'll blow up the world economy unless
you start lowering your tariffs to US goods in a
way that is post post WW two. You're not laying
in ruins Europe anymore. Hey, Asia, You're not squatting in
hot any more, your economic superpowers. Let's start seeing some
serious trade agreements. If that's his strategy. Again, I don't appreciate.
(10:10):
I give no style points, but if that's the way
it ends, okay, let's move on with our lives.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Yeah, and I'm hoping that's the sort of thing that
happens and it'll all be good, because I don't want
to live through a worldwide depression or anything like that.
Speaker 6 (10:25):
You don't, Yeah, I am sixty seven point six percent
convinced that that is his strategy and it will all
be over fairly soon.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
That'd be awesome. And then we'll will this be one
of those boy, remember when that happened? That was something?
Will it be one of those?
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Probably?
Speaker 2 (10:42):
I hope, So, I hope you're right.
Speaker 6 (10:44):
Well, and then you know, Trump will deport Soda Mayor
to that l Salvador in prison accidentally, and that'll capture
the headlines for a while and we'll move on with
our lives.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
We do have a report on what iPhones could cost
if things continue the way they're going, but maybe we'll
get to that later. Back off tariffs for a little bit.
Got lots of stuff on the way, how dumb. Do
you have to be to be dumb as a sack
of bricks? Pretty dumb, scientists say, among other things coming up,
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stay tuned.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
Brooklyn technology startup has released a minimalist cell phone that
only allows for basic functions like calling, texting, and navigation.
I don't know is calling really a basic function? I
use the compass or that I use calling?
Speaker 2 (11:35):
No kidding, no kidding.
Speaker 6 (11:39):
I've got a friend, a handful of friends who call
without warnings, without texting, Hey, is now a good time?
Speaker 1 (11:47):
I mean they just call you. I've gotten used to it.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Yeah, I wonder if that could make a comeback.
Speaker 6 (11:53):
We all grew up with it. It's fine you look
and say, oh it's Jim. We all grew up and
say how's it going?
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Over forty, maybe you grew up with it, But if
you're under forty, you did not grow up with it.
So it is startling to get a phone call out
of nowhere. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Wow, we're a soft people.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
So we got into this a little bit yesterday and
the One More Thing podcast, and Joe asked if there
are more of these stats than there are, because the
lead stat is one out of fifty men believe they
can outrun a horse. This is just funny. I mean
that's not very many. That's a half a percent of men,
But a half a percent of men are really stupid.
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I mean, that's what we're learning. One out of fifty,
one out of fifty. Yeah, that sounds like two percent
to me, right, Oh yeah, you're right, you're right. But
still it's just that's just it's ridiculous. I mean, how
are you in a position where you think you can
out run a horse?
Speaker 6 (12:44):
If I'm an employer, that's question number one on the
job application.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Can you outrun a horse?
Speaker 6 (12:49):
If they say yes, I say we're through here, unless
it's a particular horse that's old and broken down.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Uh, not that you probably need these statistics. But the
fastest horse ever recorded ran about forty miles an hour.
The fastest human that has ever run, Hussein Bolt, ran
at twenty eight miles per hour. So you can outrun
a horse. But that's not the only animals they looked at,
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and among other other feets, other animals that men a
small number of men think they could outrun crocodiles and elephants.
I don't have any concept of how fast a crocodile
is over a short distance. I know alligators are very fast,
faster than you. Another eleven percent believe they which is
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you know, eleven percents. A higher number say they could
outsprint a house cat. No, you can't.
Speaker 6 (13:42):
You've never seen a cat run their catlike in their quickness.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Women were much more likely to admit that they'd lose
a race to a non human creature than men. For
some reason. It's a mand and I I could outrun
a They got all kinds of rocket. Did you know
cats play fetch? My daughter video called me the other night.
She was playing fetch with one of her cats. Was
thrown a little plastic spring in the thing. It'd run
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and bat it around and grab it and then bring
it right back to her feet and drop it like
a dog. What Katie?
Speaker 8 (14:16):
Oh No, I was just thinking all the guys thinking
they can outrun these animals, or if they've tried, this.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Is why women live longer.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
I'm worried about that crocodile.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Crocodile was at the top of the list that men
thought they could outrun, followed by elephant, hippopotamus, rabbit, rabbit.
Have you ever seen a rabbit run? Are you crazy? Goat?
House cat, swarm of bees. Whether I can out run
a storm of bees, I'm not exactly sure.
Speaker 8 (14:46):
The number of videos online of guys trying to destroy
bee or wasp hivees and then having to run they
never end well.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Yeah, oh no, no, no, terrible idea. Mongoose, kangaroo, cheetah
and ostrich cheat it. Now, come on, you're just a
comp leaked moron. Like if you don't have the childhood
knowledge of the cheetahs, the fastest animal that could persuade
you that no, you can outrun it, then you are
deciding to be eaten by a cheetah. You really do,
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but even better than that. And then they got fox, deer, zebra, horse.
Just it's just just dumb dumb as could be um
or or you're dumb or even a weirder kind of strange.
You need to claim you can even though you know
you can't. I don't know. I don't know what that
is of men are confident they could lift a chimpanzee
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off the ground. Just the question I'm always wondering about
chimp power lifting. What chimp's on the ground, he's getting wet,
What shall I do? I wonder if I could? He's
too tired to make it to the uber or wherever
we're going. I guess I better pick him up and
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carry him. Um. Eighteen percent of men say they could
beat a chimpanzee in an arm wrestling match.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Oh, let's get it on.
Speaker 6 (16:08):
But it's clubbing you over the head with your bloody stump.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
I will be chuckling.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
I don't know what the point of those statistics was
other than a small percentage of men or just morons.
Speaker 6 (16:22):
Well, and there was one about percent of men who
thought they could lift a bear over there.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Right, Yes, you can't lift a bear. Well maybe you
have tiny bear, but the bear clean and jerk. The
newest Olympics, the contest are out running a swarm of bees.
How are you gonna get to go on a straight
line for any distance? Whatsoever?
Speaker 6 (16:41):
That's what I Oh, No, Katie is so right? You
think you cannot warrant to run a swarm of bees.
You'd better not be allergic.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Uh what did you say you got coming up?
Speaker 6 (16:51):
A uh?
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Woke?
Speaker 6 (16:52):
Watch you and I Jack, we have been unfortunately too
soft on a university within spitting disc into the radio
ranch University of California Davis, which is the Columbia University
of the West. Perhaps in its militant leftism. It's violence
against conservatives. It's anti free speech poison. That's coming up.
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Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Not going to talk about tariffs, Sair not going to
talk about tariff Shire just let you know ahead of time.
But I spent the break reading about tarriffs. And I'm
really wondering when we're going to start seeing endless headlines
about what things cost on Walmart shelves or on Amazon.
Speaker 6 (17:34):
Oh, as soon as possible, I mean, yeah, the lefty
media as excited as they can beat a bad mouth Trump,
And if he makes a mistake, well yeah, they're going
to call him on it. But I'm hoping that doesn't last.
More on that to come. Also coming up. I promised
this last hour and we'll try to squeeze it in a
close relative of an inmate at San Quentin. Oh, I'm sorry,
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did this I say inmate? I think I'm supposed to
say justice system involved individual?
Speaker 2 (18:02):
No? No, not really.
Speaker 6 (18:04):
Anyway, who's at the infamous San Quentin prison in northern California,
which is converting from an old style prison into a
Norwegian style counseling center of some sort for the murderers.
The account is at least amusing, turning and troubling drum circle.
But first it's time for.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Woke watch like this music, whoa Blutch? Everything woke turns
to shep. You know what woke means.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
It means you're a loser.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
I don't know how I feel about the salty language.
Speaker 6 (18:39):
It also means you're a postmodernist, neo Marxist hater of
Western civilization, trying to tear it down for your perverse ideology.
Having said that, I am always hammering the drum that
we've made a little progress on this sort of stuff,
but the woke forces are marching forward as fast as
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they can. We mentioned the other day that there is
an incredibly high tolerance of the idea of murdering Elon
musk Er, Donald Trump, on folks lefts of center, or
destroying Tesla dealerships.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Jack urged a.
Speaker 6 (19:13):
Note of caution that some of that is just online posturing.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Oh yeah, yeah, I definitely think it is. But we
still shouldn't be tolerant of it.
Speaker 6 (19:22):
Oh certainly not, because I think you know, if you have,
for instance, forty I'm sorry, fifty five percent of left
of center respondents saying there is at least some justification
for murdering Donald Trump. Fifty five percent that might translate
into five percent in the real world, and that's a
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horrifying number anyway. That will set the table for what
we're about to talk about. I think perhaps we've been
a bit soft on you see Davis University, California.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Davis, California.
Speaker 6 (19:58):
It's not far from Sacramento if you don't know the
ground where violent thugs destroyed all sorts of equipment and
tense and the set for a speech by Brandon Tatum,
who is a conservative activist that happens to be a
black man. He's a former police officer, a cop.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Yeah, and I finally saw the video.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Yeah, I watched that.
Speaker 6 (20:23):
Look, I'm an older fella and haven't thrown dogs in
many moons, but I wanted to.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Fight somebody for a couple of reasons. Go ahead and
play twenty three, Michael E.
Speaker 6 (20:43):
The nature of the audio underplays the totality what's happening
because a lot of it's too far away to be
caught on audio.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Get the cop.
Speaker 6 (20:51):
So what's happening is you've got a bunch of all
black clad and masked Antifa goons smash up the tents
and the equipments and the reading materials and microphones and
everything else of the Turning Point people, and infuriatingly that
people are calling and there are several clips of this
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at several different points in the frak is calling for
the cops to do something, and the university Diversity police
just stood by and watched it, kind of stood off,
making sure nobody was getting their head split open. But
the destruction of property and physical assaults of the Turning
Point people were completely tolerated.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Well, I don't you know we had this problem with
was a UCLA. I guess when you had the demonstrations
around Israel and Palestine. I guess it's a couple of
years ago now, but I remember seeing it at the
same time. There were cops there. Why didn't they do anything?
And I guess the argument was they don't get involved
unless the violence actually happens or something. But I don't know.
Speaker 6 (21:56):
I don't get that apparently, and I'm not justifying it.
I'm just trying to describe it. It's a lot like
excuse me, hockey referees who will let the combatants fight
until somebody is down, and could really get pummeled. Of
course in hockey they're gentlemanly about it and they don't
pummel once they're on the ground. But it's until somebody's
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heads getting split open. We're just gonna let them go
at it. Attitude by the cops, that's the only thing
I can guess as to.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
St channing. All cops are bastards.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
I don't want to get sidetracked, because this is not
the point of your thing. But I don't get that
at all. If somebody's destroying my stuff, now I've got
to throw a punch to stop play stuff from being destroyed,
and then you will probably be arrested before the people's
sworn to serve and protect protect my stuff.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Correct.
Speaker 6 (22:48):
I don't get that at all, and you will then
have to spend weeks or months of your life, uh,
getting recompense for your property for instance, camera gear, tense events,
signage tables. Not to make the physical assaults on the staff.
It's Charlie Kirk put it. We're extremely lucky no one
was seriously injured. Oh right, I just it would be
I would be.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
I'd be sitting there on the ground trying to wrap
my head around this is the United States of America.
I showed up here with a point of view, handing
out pamphlets and got attacked, and nobody did anything to
stop it. And everybody says it's okay that that happened
just because it's from the left. It would be hard
to wrap my head around that. It would turn you
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into a militant right winger. It could make you violent,
and certainly so. Just for the.
Speaker 6 (23:35):
Record, the University of California Davis will tolerate masked individuals
perpetrating violence against conservatives. The cops will stand by and
watch it happen. That is UC Davis. That's your intellectual freedom.
Shame on you, except you don't have the capacity for it.
You like hate speech. I hate you for the university
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structure you have built in the culture.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
I hate you for it.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Well, I guess it gets to that whole. No longer
believing in free speech, the whole free speech has limits
thing that we heard from the NPR person.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
No, no, no, we will set those limits.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
We're at a level where we can decide what free
speech is okay and what isn't. And this isn't, so
we're not allowing exactly.
Speaker 6 (24:17):
So how did it get there, Well, how did we
get to this point? Well, the Association of California School
Administrators is holding a conference titled Lead with Pride Summit,
Out Proud and Moving Forward at the Weston and Anaheim
at the end of this month. The summit is every
bit as horrific as it sounds, rights Kenny Snell, and
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will be attended if last year's someone is hit by
any metric by district superintendents, County Office of Education, personnel administrators, teachers,
DEI managers, activists, education college professors, and drag queens from
around the state. The reason I bring this stuff up
is it is not on the retreat. It is still
marching forward the Marxist twist the philosophy of these people.
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Here are a few key takeaways from perusing the session
guide again, this is going to be taught to k
through grad school people in the state of kel Uni
of Cornea. The first is that it's nearly impossible to
read and dry hurl at the same time, Kenny writes.
But beyond that, you'll find that deib now belonging is included.
(25:23):
It is becoming more common, as is family engagement.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Elsewhere.
Speaker 6 (25:29):
Perhaps we'll see a blending of these terms and the
dropping of DEI in the future. As Marxist controlled education
continues its quest to gain access to every home. Belonging
of course, refers to being down with the gender ideology
cult and how to recruit new members from public schools.
Gender support plans are involving into gender action plans, which
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dictate behavior not just for the confused child and enabling
adults at school, but for the entire family as well.
In other words, these school administrators and others are being
taught how to reach out into your home and say,
Johnny is now Jenny. We have assisted in her transition,
and here's what you need to do now in the home.
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There is also intent to circumvent any existing or future
laws to teach students that hormones are safe with no
side effects and all about trans reproduction and how you
can become a woman and still have babies.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
In California schools, that's crazy.
Speaker 6 (26:31):
We can talk about the most egregious session debatable, the
Rainbow Connection, the story of building a dynamic partnership. It
was presented by Jennifer Robles of the Stockton Unified School District,
a school counselor, program specialist and District LGBTQ plus point
person and Jonathan Lopez of the San Joaquin Pride Center.
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Lopez also earns money from the drag queen world and
fetish porn on audible by the way, when he's not
teaching your children. According to the session bio, Lopez was
the first drag queen to ever perform in the California
State Capital and will Coote quote continue to use their
act to spread awareness of LGBTQ plus rights.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
I still don't get the drag queen thing. I don't
get how this caught on and how so much of
society is acts like drag queens have just always been
a thing. What do you mean didn't you have drag
queens showing up in school when you were a kid? Okay? Now,
what where did this come from and how did it
end up being?
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (27:30):
It's so nuts.
Speaker 6 (27:31):
And this activist brags about working with children in dance
programs and using his per host sona Helen Heels to
educate people about gender expression to quality and lgbt plus history.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
You know, the appeal of it.
Speaker 6 (27:42):
I don't get the effort is that it's a fairly
fun and innocent seeming way to issue us to the
little children, the idea that there's no such thing as
men and women.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
You can be whatever you want.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
God, I'm in the midst of this right now, where
my son has to take the required California and you
health sex said thing whatever they call it. They've got
a euphemism for it. That is all this stuff, and
you can opt out to certain parts of it. But
I gotta like look at it closely to figure out
it's just a mess. Just I just hate it so much.
(28:15):
I'm just like, can we just skip it all? I
don't need him to learn any of that crap, none
of it. How about reading, writing, science? The end? I
don't need any of this. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (28:25):
That reminds me of a Twitter threat I saw from
a third grade teacher about how we have to fight
the fascist and fight this and we need to fight
to teach the kids about LGBT issues. Do you seriously
think of third grade teachers as political fighters as opposed
to teaching the kids how to effing read?
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Oh my god, we have a problem with education in
this formal horrifying.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
If we were at one hundred percent of kids coming
out of school reading and doing math at all, right,
at proficiency level, it would still I'd still be horrified.
Speaker 6 (28:55):
But we're not even close right right, it's a miserable,
miserable failure on that level. Final story, Just because we're
running out of time, We've been following the battle in
Colorado at least a little bit. A Colorado Democrat like
in parent groups to the KKK during a committee hearing
over a bill that could charge parents with coercive control
in custody battles if they dead, name or misgender their child.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
That's right.
Speaker 6 (29:19):
If you call Johnny Johnny when the activists at school,
like those we've been talking about, have convinced Johnny to
become Jenny, you.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Are abusing your child.
Speaker 6 (29:30):
You are a child abuser, according to the Colorado law
pushed through a slate. The Colorado Democratic House pushed through
a slate of controversial gender and abortion bills on Sunday,
Kurt tailing floor debate in what Republican lawmakers called an
unprecedented tactic should alarm every American. The Colorado's majority used
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a Sunday, a day typically reserved for family in prayer,
to force through four of the most extreme bills of
the session.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
According to the the minority leader.
Speaker 6 (30:03):
Said, the weekend works as a tactic the majority uses
to punish the minority. It's especially unprecedented this time because
the highly controversial nature of the bills.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
It's another one of those I don't get the politics
of it, because this has got to be another eighty
twenty issue, even in Colorado.
Speaker 6 (30:19):
Just briefly, the bills require taxpayers to fund abortion services,
mandated insurers to cover transgender procedures regardless of age.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Ah.
Speaker 6 (30:27):
Yes, insurers must charge or cover cruel experiments on confused
children if their parents are so delusional or terrified that
they give the okay.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
And those imposed who have ever been turned down by
insurance company for something legit, the little annoying that the
insurance company is going to have to cover that stuff, right.
Speaker 6 (30:45):
The state of Colorado also imposes state mandated gender activism
on schools and considers it coercive control in child custody
cases when a parent does not affirm a child's gender
as established by the actctivists at school, and it also
prohibits cooperation with out of state investigators on transgender procedures
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and abortions for minors. Colorado has lost its mind. It's
become as sick as California and Oregon. That is a shame.
That's why I vow to fight this stuff. It is
not on the retreat, is on the march.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Where are you're going to start seeing prices go up first?
If these Chinese tariffs that started at midnight last night stay,
We can get to that at some point, among other things.
Stay with us.
Speaker 5 (31:35):
At a white house of anysay celebrating the Los Angeles
Dodgers World Series championship, President Trump praise star players, show
Aotani an added quote, He's got a good future. I'm
telling you not exactly a bold prediction. I think that
guy who won three MVP awards could turn out to
be a pretty good ball player.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
Hi you doing, Welcome to the show. Where are the
tariff's going to hit first? If this Chinese tariff thing
sticks around that landed at midnight last night, we're tariffing
one hundred and four percent at one hundred and four
percent China starting at midnight last night. And uh whoo
wee last very long long.
Speaker 6 (32:14):
DJT and Winnie the Pooh are in a who's a
tougher guy? Stare down right now. It'll be interesting to
watch unfold and.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
I might be buying a new computer soon, which quite
possibly all or some of it came from China, so
who knows what that'll cost. I was at I mentioned
I've got like five hours invested in trying to get
my son's PC to work just so he can play
Minecraft and a variety of things. And it was online
with the Geek Squad, and it's I don't know if
you've ever done that before, where they take over your
computer and you sit there and watch them. Anyway, they
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spelled the people. Yeah an hour and I worked on
it and everything like that, and Sara is fixed, and
then I got off the phone with him, and then
we went back to using the computer and it was
exactly the same before we started. Anyway, I'm a big
fan of best Buy and what they do and all
the Geek Squad, but that did not work, so I
had ended up taking it actually in and being there
for another many hours and leaving it there overnight. I'll
skip all of that crap. I hate the fact that
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computers become PCs, especially become outdated so fast. I mean,
it's just feels like you just bought it and they
tell you, no, yeah, this is beyond you. Know, bringing
up to speed for the new this or that. So
you just got to get it all new. One am
I down to one minute? Michael two minutes. Okay, here's
the thing I learned that was the most interesting though,
(33:26):
So my videographic card, he said, it's just he said,
this is like an antique compared by today's standards. The
computer's only a couple of years old. But he showed
it to me, and they used to be like a
little green board with some solder marks on it. Now,
if you have a newer computer, you know this, or
if you've looked inside it, the graphic board looks like
its own computer. I mean it's a big, thick, giant,
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complicated thing. And he said, the reason this happened, this
is the part I found very interesting was bitcoin mining.
Bitcoin mining is all about the speed an ability of
your graphics card. China started really pumping up that in
their their their their bitcoin mining factories. He was explaining
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to me. And I've seen pictures of him. Maybe you
have these giants. They look like a greenhouse or something,
and they use Nintendo's so best the best fastest way
to do it is with like Nintendo switches or or
what do you call some of those games, I don't
know the names of them, PlayStations, that sort of stuff.
They got the fastest graphic stuff and everything like that,
so they have thousands upon thousands of those in big
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rooms of fans blowing on them. With the most up
to date graphics cards you can get bitcoin mining. It's
all about the bitcoin mining. So that made the whole
video graphics card thing explode. And now if you don't
have one of the new modern ones, none of the
programs work on them, and so you're you're outdated. But
it was all driven by the bitcoin mining, which I
couldn't understand less. I mean, you talk about something I
(34:56):
don't understand.
Speaker 6 (34:58):
Uh, you kind of swap that old lemon out, get
yourself a new ZOOMI want and enjoy it for the
next eighteen months.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
Still it's obsolete, exactly.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm Strong and.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Getty and he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
These new blistering tariffs on countries around the globe that
includes China, one of the biggest and most consequential players
in this trade war. Just think of how many everyday
goods are manufactured in China, for better or for worse,
or who have components built in China. Laptops, the smartphone
you might be scrolling right the second, the clothes and
sneakers you're wearing, the furniture upon which you sit, and
(00:45):
on and on.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Well, maybe you say, that's Jake Tapper of CNN. He's
got it in for Trump and Republicans. He's just you know,
scare tactics, et cetera, et cetera. Here's a couple of
Republican senators yesterday.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Whose throat do I get to choke if this proves
to be wrong, Well, Senator, you can certainly always talk
to me, but.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
I won Are you at the tip of the spear? Well,
I'm at the tip of the spear for certain I'm just.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Trying to answer a question that I have several people
in North Carolina asking.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
So the president again is the final decision maker on
all of these things.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Whose throat do I get to choke if you turn
out to be wrong? Which is pretty hard, right Eric?
You know, I wasn't planning on doing this. But here's
here's rand Paul fifty four Michael who's been He's been
a big Trump supporter, despite Trump calling him ugly and
all kinds of things. Way back in twenty fifteen during
the debate, Ran Paul is stood strong by Trump through
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a lot, through thick and thick, but not through this one.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
And then if you add it all upisode Shahn is
ripping us off. That makes no sense. Trade deficits are
not real accounting. It's a fake accounting, and it doesn't
mean anything. What means something is if you look at
trade deficits and proportional to prosper the higher the trade deficits,
the more prosperity. The lower the trade deficits, the less
prosperity we get. We get a reduction in trade deficits
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when we go into a recession. We get an expansion
of trade deficits when we're in a boom. So really
nothing about a trade deficit gives any real useful instruction
to the economy.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Yeah, I keep hearing that argument over and over again
from conservative economists, and yeah, politician.
Speaker 6 (02:25):
I mean, for instance, I was just reading this. We
run a trade surplus with Australia because we send a
lot of machinery pardon me, dingoes ding goes.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
They have they make their own dingoes dingo.
Speaker 6 (02:39):
Anyway, because we send them a lot of machinery, transportation, equipment,
and chemicals. Australia runs a trade surplus with China because
it sends it lots of iron ore, natural gas, and gold.
And China runs a trade surplus with the United States
by sending it car parks, electronics, and batteries. It all
has to do with the stew of geography and who
has what, and who's better at what, and who can
produce what more cheaply. And I found this also very
(03:02):
interesting because you know, I love a lot of what
Trump's doing, but his fixation on trade imbalance is silly. Anyway,
the US has a substantial trade surplus with the Netherlands
and Singapore, but that's not because the Dutch and Singaporean
people consume so many more American products than other nations.
It's because those countries are home to major ports that
import American goods. Then they go hither and yon. The
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Netherlands uploads US goods and its ports sends them throughout
Europe and to other consumers. Singapore does it for Asia.
But a trade deficit is calculated on the country that
the goods reach first, not the ultimate destination. Yeah, and
so I mean, and we have some gigantic ports that
do a lot of business and we have a trade
It's actually interesting, even though this is fairly meaningless.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Where is that number.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
We have a trade surplus with one hundred and fourteen
nations and a trade deficit with one hundred and twelve.
Now that's just interesting. If the deficits were enormous and
the surpluses were tiny, well that number might be misleading.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
But it just it doesn't matter that much.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
So that's that. Let's hear a little Donald before I
get to Larry Summers, who people on the right loved
when he was bad mouthing Biden of a feeling they're
not going to like him as much when he's bad
mouthing Trump's ideas. Get to that in a little bit.
But here's Trump last night, some dinner. He spoke for
ninety minutes, said a lot of interesting things.
Speaker 7 (04:26):
Countries are paying tariffs right now. China's paying a one
hundred and four percent tariff. Think of it, one hundred
and four percent. Now it sounds ridiculous, but they charged
us for many items one hundred percent, one hundred and
twenty five percent. Many countries have They've ripped us off
left and right.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
But now it's our turn to.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Do the ripping.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Let's there are a number of things he says here
that are interesting going.
Speaker 7 (04:55):
I deal with other countries all the time. I am
right now when tariff's where they want to make a
deal with us. We don't necessarily want to make a
deal with them. We're happy the way we are taking
our two billion dollars a day, but they want to
make a deal with us.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
I know what the hell I'm doing.
Speaker 7 (05:09):
I know what I'm doing, and you know what I'm
doing too.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
That's why you vote for me. We're making two billion
dollars a day off these tariffs. What is that?
Speaker 6 (05:19):
It's the tariffs that are being paid that will then
go to you know, be dispersed among consumers and suppliers.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
And importers and the rest of it.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
As we've discussed more. Donald Trump, I'm.
Speaker 7 (05:34):
Telling you, these countries are calling us up, kissing my ass.
They are, they are dying to make it to you. Please,
please make it to you. I'll do anything. I'll do anything, sir.
And then I'll see some rebel Republican, you know, some
guy that wants to grandstand say I think that Congress
should take over negotiations. Let me tell you, you don't
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negotiate like I negotiate.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
I want this to work out. I hope it's going
to work out. Yeah, I don't know that it is
going to work out. This to me is maybe the
biggest news making thing he said last night. But we're
going to do something that we have to do.
Speaker 7 (06:10):
We're gonna put We're gonna teriffy our pharmaceuticals, and once
we do that, they're going to come rushing back into
our country because with a big market, the advantage we
have over everybody is that we're the big market. So
we're going to be announcing very shortly a major terriff
for on pharmaceuticals.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
So that could be a big deal and something you see.
You're pretty fast.
Speaker 6 (06:37):
Uh yeah, I think that's a national security concern that
we depend on China, of all countries. I mean, if
it was Britain in Mexico, it'd be bad enough to
turn on them for all of our medicines China.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Come on.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
I hope he gets out there and sells it that
way because that that that's an argument that makes sense. Look,
we're gonna have to go through some pain for a
while on pharmaceuticals until the companies start making the stuff here.
But we can't be in nation. Can't be the most
powerful nation on earth and all of our medicine comes
from our enemy. That's not because we can't. That's a
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but anyway, So Larry Summers, he was president of Harvard.
He was Obama's economic advisor. He is a Democrat, but
Republicans loved him when he came out and said Biden's
big spending policies were bad, shouldn't do it. He argued
against a couple of those multi trillion dollar bills, said
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they would cause inflation, which they did, and he gets
quoted on Fox all the time for that. I don't
know if he'll get quoted for this stuff. Because he
had a little Twitter thread yesterday developments in the last
twenty four hours suggest we may be headed for serious
financial crisis wholly induced by US government tariff policy. Serious
financial crisis. I don't want to be in a serious
(07:51):
financial crisis. I don't know about you. I just did
as It's not something I'm looking forward to at this
point in my life. Are really at any point in
my life? Long term interest rates are gapping up even
as the stock market moves sharply downwards. This highly unusual
pattern suggests a generalized diversion to US assets in global
financial markets. We're being treated by global financial markets like
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a problematic emerging market. This could set off all kinds
of vicious spirals. Given government debts and deficits and dependents
on foreign purchases. The only way to mitigate these risks
is for Donald Trump to back off his current path.
This is the first US bout of US financial instability
caused by the US government ever.
Speaker 6 (08:35):
Yeah, it's funny. I'm torn on it, well, not torn,
I see both sides of it. Trump's I'm a madman
negotiating style is part of what he is. And for instance,
in that clip where they're kissing my ass, all these
countries are kissing my ass. I've never found it useful
to humiliate people that I'm going to do business with
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long term.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Seems like it would be your best play.
Speaker 6 (09:02):
No, you can negotiate in a very, very tough style
and leverage your power, but there's no productive use for humiliating.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
I know it doesn't work in Miami. I know it
doesn't work on me. Will I will walk away from
a deal that is to my advantage if that happens.
Speaker 6 (09:18):
Or I will make that deal if I have to
then search for a way to screw you for the rest.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Of my natural days. Yes.
Speaker 6 (09:25):
On the other hand, I become a more and more
convinced that this is not till Larry Summer's concern. This
is not a long term strategy for the next two generations,
which is impossible anyway, as the White House changes hands
and Congress goes back and forth and the rest of it.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
It is clearly A and I pray I'm right. A.
Speaker 6 (09:45):
I'm so crazy, I'll blow up the world economy unless
you start lowering your tariffs to US goods in a
way that is post post WW two. You're not laying
in ruins Europe anymore. Hey, Asia, You're not squatting in
hot any more, your economic superpowers. Let's start seeing some
serious trade agreements. If that's his strategy. Again, I don't appreciate.
(10:10):
I give no style points, but if that's the way
it ends, okay, let's move on with our lives.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Yeah, and I'm hoping that's the sort of thing that
happens and it'll all be good, because I don't want
to live through a worldwide depression or anything like that.
Speaker 6 (10:25):
You don't, Yeah, I am sixty seven point six percent
convinced that that is his strategy and it will all
be over fairly soon.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
That'd be awesome. And then we'll will this be one
of those boy, remember when that happened? That was something?
Will it be one of those?
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Probably?
Speaker 2 (10:42):
I hope, So, I hope you're right.
Speaker 6 (10:44):
Well, and then you know, Trump will deport Soda Mayor
to that l Salvador in prison accidentally, and that'll capture
the headlines for a while and we'll move on with
our lives.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
We do have a report on what iPhones could cost
if things continue the way they're going, but maybe we'll
get to that later. Back off tariffs for a little bit.
Got lots of stuff on the way, how dumb. Do
you have to be to be dumb as a sack
of bricks? Pretty dumb, scientists say, among other things coming up,
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stay tuned.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
Brooklyn technology startup has released a minimalist cell phone that
only allows for basic functions like calling, texting, and navigation.
I don't know is calling really a basic function? I
use the compass or that I use calling?
Speaker 2 (11:35):
No kidding, no kidding.
Speaker 6 (11:39):
I've got a friend, a handful of friends who call
without warnings, without texting, Hey, is now a good time?
Speaker 1 (11:47):
I mean they just call you. I've gotten used to it.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Yeah, I wonder if that could make a comeback.
Speaker 6 (11:53):
We all grew up with it. It's fine you look
and say, oh it's Jim. We all grew up and
say how's it going?
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Over forty, maybe you grew up with it, But if
you're under forty, you did not grow up with it.
So it is startling to get a phone call out
of nowhere. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Wow, we're a soft people.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
So we got into this a little bit yesterday and
the One More Thing podcast, and Joe asked if there
are more of these stats than there are, because the
lead stat is one out of fifty men believe they
can outrun a horse. This is just funny. I mean
that's not very many. That's a half a percent of men,
But a half a percent of men are really stupid.
(12:29):
I mean, that's what we're learning. One out of fifty,
one out of fifty. Yeah, that sounds like two percent
to me, right, Oh yeah, you're right, you're right. But
still it's just that's just it's ridiculous. I mean, how
are you in a position where you think you can
out run a horse?
Speaker 6 (12:44):
If I'm an employer, that's question number one on the
job application.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Can you outrun a horse?
Speaker 6 (12:49):
If they say yes, I say we're through here, unless
it's a particular horse that's old and broken down.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Uh, not that you probably need these statistics. But the
fastest horse ever recorded ran about forty miles an hour.
The fastest human that has ever run, Hussein Bolt, ran
at twenty eight miles per hour. So you can outrun
a horse. But that's not the only animals they looked at,
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and among other other feets, other animals that men a
small number of men think they could outrun crocodiles and elephants.
I don't have any concept of how fast a crocodile
is over a short distance. I know alligators are very fast,
faster than you. Another eleven percent believe they which is
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you know, eleven percents. A higher number say they could
outsprint a house cat. No, you can't.
Speaker 6 (13:42):
You've never seen a cat run their catlike in their quickness.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Women were much more likely to admit that they'd lose
a race to a non human creature than men. For
some reason. It's a mand and I I could outrun
a They got all kinds of rocket. Did you know
cats play fetch? My daughter video called me the other night.
She was playing fetch with one of her cats. Was
thrown a little plastic spring in the thing. It'd run
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and bat it around and grab it and then bring
it right back to her feet and drop it like
a dog. What Katie?
Speaker 8 (14:16):
Oh No, I was just thinking all the guys thinking
they can outrun these animals, or if they've tried, this.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Is why women live longer.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
I'm worried about that crocodile.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Crocodile was at the top of the list that men
thought they could outrun, followed by elephant, hippopotamus, rabbit, rabbit.
Have you ever seen a rabbit run? Are you crazy? Goat?
House cat, swarm of bees. Whether I can out run
a storm of bees, I'm not exactly sure.
Speaker 8 (14:46):
The number of videos online of guys trying to destroy
bee or wasp hivees and then having to run they
never end well.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Yeah, oh no, no, no, terrible idea. Mongoose, kangaroo, cheetah
and ostrich cheat it. Now, come on, you're just a
comp leaked moron. Like if you don't have the childhood
knowledge of the cheetahs, the fastest animal that could persuade
you that no, you can outrun it, then you are
deciding to be eaten by a cheetah. You really do,
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but even better than that. And then they got fox, deer, zebra, horse.
Just it's just just dumb dumb as could be um
or or you're dumb or even a weirder kind of strange.
You need to claim you can even though you know
you can't. I don't know. I don't know what that
is of men are confident they could lift a chimpanzee
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off the ground. Just the question I'm always wondering about
chimp power lifting. What chimp's on the ground, he's getting wet,
What shall I do? I wonder if I could? He's
too tired to make it to the uber or wherever
we're going. I guess I better pick him up and
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carry him. Um. Eighteen percent of men say they could
beat a chimpanzee in an arm wrestling match.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Oh, let's get it on.
Speaker 6 (16:08):
But it's clubbing you over the head with your bloody stump.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
I will be chuckling.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
I don't know what the point of those statistics was
other than a small percentage of men or just morons.
Speaker 6 (16:22):
Well, and there was one about percent of men who
thought they could lift a bear over there.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Right, Yes, you can't lift a bear. Well maybe you
have tiny bear, but the bear clean and jerk. The
newest Olympics, the contest are out running a swarm of bees.
How are you gonna get to go on a straight
line for any distance? Whatsoever?
Speaker 6 (16:41):
That's what I Oh, No, Katie is so right? You
think you cannot warrant to run a swarm of bees.
You'd better not be allergic.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Uh what did you say you got coming up?
Speaker 6 (16:51):
A uh?
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Woke?
Speaker 6 (16:52):
Watch you and I Jack, we have been unfortunately too
soft on a university within spitting disc into the radio
ranch University of California Davis, which is the Columbia University
of the West. Perhaps in its militant leftism. It's violence
against conservatives. It's anti free speech poison. That's coming up.
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Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Not going to talk about tariffs, Sair not going to
talk about tariff Shire just let you know ahead of time.
But I spent the break reading about tarriffs. And I'm
really wondering when we're going to start seeing endless headlines
about what things cost on Walmart shelves or on Amazon.
Speaker 6 (17:34):
Oh, as soon as possible, I mean, yeah, the lefty
media as excited as they can beat a bad mouth Trump,
And if he makes a mistake, well yeah, they're going
to call him on it. But I'm hoping that doesn't last.
More on that to come. Also coming up. I promised
this last hour and we'll try to squeeze it in a
close relative of an inmate at San Quentin. Oh, I'm sorry,
(17:57):
did this I say inmate? I think I'm supposed to
say justice system involved individual?
Speaker 2 (18:02):
No? No, not really.
Speaker 6 (18:04):
Anyway, who's at the infamous San Quentin prison in northern California,
which is converting from an old style prison into a
Norwegian style counseling center of some sort for the murderers.
The account is at least amusing, turning and troubling drum circle.
But first it's time for.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Woke watch like this music, whoa Blutch? Everything woke turns
to shep. You know what woke means.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
It means you're a loser.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
I don't know how I feel about the salty language.
Speaker 6 (18:39):
It also means you're a postmodernist, neo Marxist hater of
Western civilization, trying to tear it down for your perverse ideology.
Having said that, I am always hammering the drum that
we've made a little progress on this sort of stuff,
but the woke forces are marching forward as fast as
(19:00):
they can. We mentioned the other day that there is
an incredibly high tolerance of the idea of murdering Elon
musk Er, Donald Trump, on folks lefts of center, or
destroying Tesla dealerships.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Jack urged a.
Speaker 6 (19:13):
Note of caution that some of that is just online posturing.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Oh yeah, yeah, I definitely think it is. But we
still shouldn't be tolerant of it.
Speaker 6 (19:22):
Oh certainly not, because I think you know, if you have,
for instance, forty I'm sorry, fifty five percent of left
of center respondents saying there is at least some justification
for murdering Donald Trump. Fifty five percent that might translate
into five percent in the real world, and that's a
(19:43):
horrifying number anyway. That will set the table for what
we're about to talk about. I think perhaps we've been
a bit soft on you see Davis University, California.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Davis, California.
Speaker 6 (19:58):
It's not far from Sacramento if you don't know the
ground where violent thugs destroyed all sorts of equipment and
tense and the set for a speech by Brandon Tatum,
who is a conservative activist that happens to be a
black man. He's a former police officer, a cop.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Yeah, and I finally saw the video.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Yeah, I watched that.
Speaker 6 (20:23):
Look, I'm an older fella and haven't thrown dogs in
many moons, but I wanted to.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Fight somebody for a couple of reasons. Go ahead and
play twenty three, Michael E.
Speaker 6 (20:43):
The nature of the audio underplays the totality what's happening
because a lot of it's too far away to be
caught on audio.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Get the cop.
Speaker 6 (20:51):
So what's happening is you've got a bunch of all
black clad and masked Antifa goons smash up the tents
and the equipments and the reading materials and microphones and
everything else of the Turning Point people, and infuriatingly that
people are calling and there are several clips of this
(21:13):
at several different points in the frak is calling for
the cops to do something, and the university Diversity police
just stood by and watched it, kind of stood off,
making sure nobody was getting their head split open. But
the destruction of property and physical assaults of the Turning
Point people were completely tolerated.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Well, I don't you know we had this problem with
was a UCLA. I guess when you had the demonstrations
around Israel and Palestine. I guess it's a couple of
years ago now, but I remember seeing it at the
same time. There were cops there. Why didn't they do anything?
And I guess the argument was they don't get involved
unless the violence actually happens or something. But I don't know.
Speaker 6 (21:56):
I don't get that apparently, and I'm not justifying it.
I'm just trying to describe it. It's a lot like
excuse me, hockey referees who will let the combatants fight
until somebody is down, and could really get pummeled. Of
course in hockey they're gentlemanly about it and they don't
pummel once they're on the ground. But it's until somebody's
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heads getting split open. We're just gonna let them go
at it. Attitude by the cops, that's the only thing
I can guess as to.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
St channing. All cops are bastards.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
I don't want to get sidetracked, because this is not
the point of your thing. But I don't get that
at all. If somebody's destroying my stuff, now I've got
to throw a punch to stop play stuff from being destroyed,
and then you will probably be arrested before the people's
sworn to serve and protect protect my stuff.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Correct.
Speaker 6 (22:48):
I don't get that at all, and you will then
have to spend weeks or months of your life, uh,
getting recompense for your property for instance, camera gear, tense events,
signage tables. Not to make the physical assaults on the staff.
It's Charlie Kirk put it. We're extremely lucky no one
was seriously injured. Oh right, I just it would be
I would be.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
I'd be sitting there on the ground trying to wrap
my head around this is the United States of America.
I showed up here with a point of view, handing
out pamphlets and got attacked, and nobody did anything to
stop it. And everybody says it's okay that that happened
just because it's from the left. It would be hard
to wrap my head around that. It would turn you
(23:30):
into a militant right winger. It could make you violent,
and certainly so. Just for the.
Speaker 6 (23:35):
Record, the University of California Davis will tolerate masked individuals
perpetrating violence against conservatives. The cops will stand by and
watch it happen. That is UC Davis. That's your intellectual freedom.
Shame on you, except you don't have the capacity for it.
You like hate speech. I hate you for the university
(23:55):
structure you have built in the culture.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
I hate you for it.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Well, I guess it gets to that whole. No longer
believing in free speech, the whole free speech has limits
thing that we heard from the NPR person.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
No, no, no, we will set those limits.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
We're at a level where we can decide what free
speech is okay and what isn't. And this isn't, so
we're not allowing exactly.
Speaker 6 (24:17):
So how did it get there, Well, how did we
get to this point? Well, the Association of California School
Administrators is holding a conference titled Lead with Pride Summit,
Out Proud and Moving Forward at the Weston and Anaheim
at the end of this month. The summit is every
bit as horrific as it sounds, rights Kenny Snell, and
(24:38):
will be attended if last year's someone is hit by
any metric by district superintendents, County Office of Education, personnel administrators, teachers,
DEI managers, activists, education college professors, and drag queens from
around the state. The reason I bring this stuff up
is it is not on the retreat. It is still
marching forward the Marxist twist the philosophy of these people.
(25:03):
Here are a few key takeaways from perusing the session
guide again, this is going to be taught to k
through grad school people in the state of kel Uni
of Cornea. The first is that it's nearly impossible to
read and dry hurl at the same time, Kenny writes.
But beyond that, you'll find that deib now belonging is included.
(25:23):
It is becoming more common, as is family engagement.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Elsewhere.
Speaker 6 (25:29):
Perhaps we'll see a blending of these terms and the
dropping of DEI in the future. As Marxist controlled education
continues its quest to gain access to every home. Belonging
of course, refers to being down with the gender ideology
cult and how to recruit new members from public schools.
Gender support plans are involving into gender action plans, which
(25:50):
dictate behavior not just for the confused child and enabling
adults at school, but for the entire family as well.
In other words, these school administrators and others are being
taught how to reach out into your home and say,
Johnny is now Jenny. We have assisted in her transition,
and here's what you need to do now in the home.
(26:13):
There is also intent to circumvent any existing or future
laws to teach students that hormones are safe with no
side effects and all about trans reproduction and how you
can become a woman and still have babies.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
In California schools, that's crazy.
Speaker 6 (26:31):
We can talk about the most egregious session debatable, the
Rainbow Connection, the story of building a dynamic partnership. It
was presented by Jennifer Robles of the Stockton Unified School District,
a school counselor, program specialist and District LGBTQ plus point
person and Jonathan Lopez of the San Joaquin Pride Center.
(26:52):
Lopez also earns money from the drag queen world and
fetish porn on audible by the way, when he's not
teaching your children. According to the session bio, Lopez was
the first drag queen to ever perform in the California
State Capital and will Coote quote continue to use their
act to spread awareness of LGBTQ plus rights.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
I still don't get the drag queen thing. I don't
get how this caught on and how so much of
society is acts like drag queens have just always been
a thing. What do you mean didn't you have drag
queens showing up in school when you were a kid? Okay? Now,
what where did this come from and how did it
end up being?
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (27:30):
It's so nuts.
Speaker 6 (27:31):
And this activist brags about working with children in dance
programs and using his per host sona Helen Heels to
educate people about gender expression to quality and lgbt plus history.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
You know, the appeal of it.
Speaker 6 (27:42):
I don't get the effort is that it's a fairly
fun and innocent seeming way to issue us to the
little children, the idea that there's no such thing as
men and women.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
You can be whatever you want.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
God, I'm in the midst of this right now, where
my son has to take the required California and you
health sex said thing whatever they call it. They've got
a euphemism for it. That is all this stuff, and
you can opt out to certain parts of it. But
I gotta like look at it closely to figure out
it's just a mess. Just I just hate it so much.
(28:15):
I'm just like, can we just skip it all? I
don't need him to learn any of that crap, none
of it. How about reading, writing, science? The end? I
don't need any of this. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (28:25):
That reminds me of a Twitter threat I saw from
a third grade teacher about how we have to fight
the fascist and fight this and we need to fight
to teach the kids about LGBT issues. Do you seriously
think of third grade teachers as political fighters as opposed
to teaching the kids how to effing read?
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Oh my god, we have a problem with education in
this formal horrifying.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
If we were at one hundred percent of kids coming
out of school reading and doing math at all, right,
at proficiency level, it would still I'd still be horrified.
Speaker 6 (28:55):
But we're not even close right right, it's a miserable,
miserable failure on that level. Final story, Just because we're
running out of time, We've been following the battle in
Colorado at least a little bit. A Colorado Democrat like
in parent groups to the KKK during a committee hearing
over a bill that could charge parents with coercive control
in custody battles if they dead, name or misgender their child.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
That's right.
Speaker 6 (29:19):
If you call Johnny Johnny when the activists at school,
like those we've been talking about, have convinced Johnny to
become Jenny, you.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Are abusing your child.
Speaker 6 (29:30):
You are a child abuser, according to the Colorado law
pushed through a slate. The Colorado Democratic House pushed through
a slate of controversial gender and abortion bills on Sunday,
Kurt tailing floor debate in what Republican lawmakers called an
unprecedented tactic should alarm every American. The Colorado's majority used
(29:52):
a Sunday, a day typically reserved for family in prayer,
to force through four of the most extreme bills of
the session.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
According to the the minority leader.
Speaker 6 (30:03):
Said, the weekend works as a tactic the majority uses
to punish the minority. It's especially unprecedented this time because
the highly controversial nature of the bills.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
It's another one of those I don't get the politics
of it, because this has got to be another eighty
twenty issue, even in Colorado.
Speaker 6 (30:19):
Just briefly, the bills require taxpayers to fund abortion services,
mandated insurers to cover transgender procedures regardless of age.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Ah.
Speaker 6 (30:27):
Yes, insurers must charge or cover cruel experiments on confused
children if their parents are so delusional or terrified that
they give the okay.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
And those imposed who have ever been turned down by
insurance company for something legit, the little annoying that the
insurance company is going to have to cover that stuff, right.
Speaker 6 (30:45):
The state of Colorado also imposes state mandated gender activism
on schools and considers it coercive control in child custody
cases when a parent does not affirm a child's gender
as established by the actctivists at school, and it also
prohibits cooperation with out of state investigators on transgender procedures
(31:06):
and abortions for minors. Colorado has lost its mind. It's
become as sick as California and Oregon. That is a shame.
That's why I vow to fight this stuff. It is
not on the retreat, is on the march.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Where are you're going to start seeing prices go up first?
If these Chinese tariffs that started at midnight last night stay,
We can get to that at some point, among other things.
Stay with us.
Speaker 5 (31:35):
At a white house of anysay celebrating the Los Angeles
Dodgers World Series championship, President Trump praise star players, show
Aotani an added quote, He's got a good future. I'm
telling you not exactly a bold prediction. I think that
guy who won three MVP awards could turn out to
be a pretty good ball player.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
Hi you doing, Welcome to the show. Where are the
tariff's going to hit first? If this Chinese tariff thing
sticks around that landed at midnight last night, we're tariffing
one hundred and four percent at one hundred and four
percent China starting at midnight last night. And uh whoo
wee last very long long.
Speaker 6 (32:14):
DJT and Winnie the Pooh are in a who's a
tougher guy? Stare down right now. It'll be interesting to
watch unfold and.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
I might be buying a new computer soon, which quite
possibly all or some of it came from China, so
who knows what that'll cost. I was at I mentioned
I've got like five hours invested in trying to get
my son's PC to work just so he can play
Minecraft and a variety of things. And it was online
with the Geek Squad, and it's I don't know if
you've ever done that before, where they take over your
computer and you sit there and watch them. Anyway, they
(32:43):
spelled the people. Yeah an hour and I worked on
it and everything like that, and Sara is fixed, and
then I got off the phone with him, and then
we went back to using the computer and it was
exactly the same before we started. Anyway, I'm a big
fan of best Buy and what they do and all
the Geek Squad, but that did not work, so I
had ended up taking it actually in and being there
for another many hours and leaving it there overnight. I'll
skip all of that crap. I hate the fact that
(33:05):
computers become PCs, especially become outdated so fast. I mean,
it's just feels like you just bought it and they
tell you, no, yeah, this is beyond you. Know, bringing
up to speed for the new this or that. So
you just got to get it all new. One am
I down to one minute? Michael two minutes. Okay, here's
the thing I learned that was the most interesting though,
(33:26):
So my videographic card, he said, it's just he said,
this is like an antique compared by today's standards. The
computer's only a couple of years old. But he showed
it to me, and they used to be like a
little green board with some solder marks on it. Now,
if you have a newer computer, you know this, or
if you've looked inside it, the graphic board looks like
its own computer. I mean it's a big, thick, giant,
(33:48):
complicated thing. And he said, the reason this happened, this
is the part I found very interesting was bitcoin mining.
Bitcoin mining is all about the speed an ability of
your graphics card. China started really pumping up that in
their their their their bitcoin mining factories. He was explaining
(34:12):
to me. And I've seen pictures of him. Maybe you
have these giants. They look like a greenhouse or something,
and they use Nintendo's so best the best fastest way
to do it is with like Nintendo switches or or
what do you call some of those games, I don't
know the names of them, PlayStations, that sort of stuff.
They got the fastest graphic stuff and everything like that,
so they have thousands upon thousands of those in big
(34:35):
rooms of fans blowing on them. With the most up
to date graphics cards you can get bitcoin mining. It's
all about the bitcoin mining. So that made the whole
video graphics card thing explode. And now if you don't
have one of the new modern ones, none of the
programs work on them, and so you're you're outdated. But
it was all driven by the bitcoin mining, which I
couldn't understand less. I mean, you talk about something I
(34:56):
don't understand.
Speaker 6 (34:58):
Uh, you kind of swap that old lemon out, get
yourself a new ZOOMI want and enjoy it for the
next eighteen months.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
Still it's obsolete, exactly.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
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