April 14, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 2 of A&G features...
- Maher talks about visit to The White House & Trump is healthy as can be!
- The space landing & changes to American manufacturing
- Bernie makes an appearance at Coachella
- Woman's head reattached?! We have so many questions...
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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.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Arm Strong and Getty and now he I'm Strong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
As you know, twelve days ago, I had dinner with
President Trump, a dinner that was set up by my
friend Kid Rock because we share a belief that there's
got to be something better than hurling insults from three
thousand miles away. And let me first say that to
all the people who treated this like it was some
kind of summit meeting. You're ridiculous, like I was going
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to sign a treaty or something.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
I have no power, and he's.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
The most powerful leader in the world. I'm not the
leader of anything except maybe a contingent of centrist minded
people who think there's got to be a better way
of running this country than hating each other every minute.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Oh man, your lips to God's ears, even though you're
an atheist.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
That combay uh before we.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Get to that's Bill Maher from his HBO show on Friday,
and he had dinner with Trump and Kid Rock and
Dana White and a couple other people at the White House,
which would be about the coolest thing that ever happened
in your life, if you ever got to do it,
it's a hell of a guest list. But Bill Maher
with his whole I'm a centrist. He's a centrist left,
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but I mean compared to you know, the politics of
what you'll hear on the news all day long, he's
a centrist. No doubt there anyway that crowd us can
take back over. Is there any chance of that.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
We have to be specific about what we want to
do and attack it in an organized way.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
I think he got I think rules need I think
laws and rules need to change. I think the current
structure of campaign finance and that sort of stuff. I
don't think rhetoric could change it. I think he had
change that.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Oh I'm well, yeah, I'm not talking about rhetoric necessarily,
But in our school system, which is, as we've outlined
many times, completely infected with far left ideology, needs to
be dealt with. Pretty much.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
The only way you lose your seat as a Senator,
as a House member is from someone in your own
party who's further to the extreme than you. That's almost
the only way you lose. So as long as that's true,
we continue down the road we are. But I'm off
track already. Here's Bill Maher talking a little about what
it was like to eat Donald Trump.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
In the Oval office. He was showing me the portraits
of presidents, and he pointed to Reagan and said, in
all seriousness, you know the best thing about him his hair.
I said, well, there was also that whole bringing down
communism thing. Waiting for the button next to the diet
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coke button to get pushed and I go through the
trap door.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
He laughed. He got it.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
He didn't get mad. He's much more self aware and
he lets on in public. Look, I get it. It
doesn't matter who he is at a private dinner with
a comedian. It matters who he is on the world stage.
I'm just taking as a positive that this person exists,
because everything I've ever not liked about him was, I
swear to God absent at least on this night with
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this guy.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Isn't that interesting? It really is?
Speaker 1 (03:30):
And Bill Maher's a hardcore trumpeter. Everything I've ever not
liked about him was absent on this night.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Yeah. Yeah. I mean we all have our public facing persona,
what we do and how we act, and we're a
little different among friends or a more intimate setting. Trump
seems to have his front is very different than how
he's described by everybody who spent time with him. Friends
of ours, Bill mar.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Of course, a lot of the things Bill Maher hates
about the public Trump we love when we see it,
you know, we laugh up, roar Easley or whatever. Let's
hear a little more from the lefty Bill Maher.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
There were so many moments when I hit him with
a joke or contradicted something, and no problem. At dinner,
he was asking me about the nuclear situation in Iran
in a very genuine, hey, I think you're a smart guy.
I want your opinion sort of way. He didn't get
mad or call me a left wing lunatic.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
He took it in.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
I told him I thought parts of his plan for
Gaza were whacky, but that I had supported him in
the idea that Gaza could be Dubai.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Instead of Hell.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
I never felt I had to walk on eggshells around him,
And honestly, I voted for Clinton and Obama, but I
would never feel comfortable talking to them the way I
was able to talk with Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
That's just how it went down. Make of it what
you will. I thought that was really interesting.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
I would have never been able to talk to Clinton
or Obama the way I talked to Trump, but just
feeling so comfortable and like you're having a real, you know,
human interaction.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
They're actually listening to you, that sort of thing. Yeah,
he's describing the other side of the coin, that is
Trump's ability to connect with people in general, but like
working people, that lack of projecting that I'm better than you.
Which is interesting is he's almost certainly the richest guy
who's ever been president or perhaps ever will be. I
don't know. The common touch they used to call it.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
All right, Well, Bill Maher talks about how he looks
you in the eye and seems to actually be listening
to what you're saying. I mean, that's really really interesting.
I mean I'm not surprised because, like Joe said, we
know people who've worked for him, like worked for him,
saw him every day. That was the one woman that
we knew that was before he was president, when he
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was like, you know, a TV star.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
She worked with him and said, no, he's not like
that at all. I said, yeah, that's not surprising to me.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
That's a personality trait. Though we've all known successful people.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Who don't listen to you and not successful.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
So I mean, it's not like you have to have
that trait to be successful. I think it's probably helpful.
It's just it's some sort of personality trait.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Yeah, and this is less about politics or hating Trump
or loving Trump or anything like that. It's just trying
to understand human beings. Trump is famously the guy who
follows his gut, and he trusts his gutten and it's
served him well in a lot of ways, undeniably. I
think sometimes it gets him in completely unnecessary jams. But
you know, that's my opinion. What's interesting is he comes off,
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you know, in that clip by Bill Maher for instance,
and describing Obama and Clinton, he comes off as a
guy who's much more open to listening to other people's opinions,
right than a lot of powerful men.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Yeah, Mar says, I've had so many conversations with prominent
people who are much less connected than Trump was. People
who don't look in the eye, people who don't really
listen because they just want to get to their next thing,
people who's response to things you just say that you
say you can tell doesn't track none of that with him,
and he mostly steered the conversation to what do you
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think about this, which is interesting, and Bill Mars.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Says, I know your mind is blown. Mine mind is blown.
But that's what it was like. Yeah, yeah, I liked
where he was. He compiled a list of the terrible
things Trump had said about him throughout the years. We'll
have to play that later and had Trump sign the
list for him, which he cheerfully did. That's pretty funny.
So getting back to the whole WWE, Trump's got a
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wrestler persona, but behind the scenes he's happy to sign
the picture where he was getting beat down by Black
bart or whatever that right, I'm kidding.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Just to wrap this up, not to be Trump obsessed,
but he did have his physical over the weekend. I
needed physical sounds like I'm dying, t allergies, some sort
of weird plant as in a blue Apparently. Trump deemed
an excellent health and robust neurological condition by the White
House physician. The seventy eight year old Trump. It's hard
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to remember that he's seventy eight because he's so energetic
as a seventy eight year old six three two twenty
four he's lost a significant amount of weight since his
first term when he was two forty three, So he's
lost twenty pounds since when he was eight years younger,
which is good.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Other vital signs.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Listen to this as a seventy eight year old fat
guy who eats fast food and has the most stressful.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Job on planet Earth.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Trump's blood pressure clocked in at one twenty eight over
seventy four, which is great, uh, and his resting heart
rate is sixty two. He's only on two medications, one
for both of them for his cholesterol to keep it
in the optimal level.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
No, it's the only medications he takes. Wow, that is well,
it's a gift. It's yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
He You know, doctors will tell you what's the Don't
smoke and have good jeans. Those are your best tips
for uh, being healthy, laid into age. Don't smoke and
have good jeans. And he clearly has good jeans and
he doesn't smoke, so.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Right, right, So coming up trying to untangle what the
heck's going on with the tariffs, and also and I
want to get to this. I think it's important we
reckon with it. There's a hell of a lot more
to the media's Biden cover up than just group think,
and Jack was right all along. Hey, as I do
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to admit it, Doctor Jill was the engine. She was
the evildoer behind the scenes. We have lots of great
information on that. I got a question.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
I got a question for you, because she's speaking live
now and Hanson congrab it. How much do you want
to hear from Katy Perry about how going into space
changed her as a person?
Speaker 2 (09:50):
I want very much to hear that for the purpose
of hating it. So we've got a lot on the
ways they here.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Hey, yeah, puffect dust, last milliseconds air cushing that will
kick up the dust. It's a very soft, soft landing,
despite the sporty uh percept.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
The it is.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
And they're home. Oh my god, like that the screaming,
terrible suffrenching. That's the chicks into space.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
I think they're calling it Katy Perry and Bezos's uh
hatty fiance and Gail King what was that?
Speaker 2 (10:31):
It's a very soft light landing, despite what the sporty
something dust because it looked like.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
A hard landing. But maybe there's springs in there that
makes it feel soft.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
I don't know. I'm trying to care, but I just don't.
As long as everybody's okay, I'm happy.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
It took them a long time to come out. They
came out, their hair was perfect. I guarantee you the
time spent sitting there was some sort of stylist making
sure their hair was okay because they gotta wear helmets
and stuff.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
All right, you're right, that's odd.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
I mean, d Perry looked like she looks on the
cover of a magazine when she's selling her shamboo.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Speaking of behind the scenes the true story of the
Biden sinility cover up coming up later on. Plus my
experience is at Augusta National Golf Club. Wow whoop. So
we need the theme music to play anyway, So I
thought this was really interesting. Justin Lehart in the Wall
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Street Journal talking about how the US lost its place
as the world's manufacturing powerhouse, and well, I'll just launch
into it. They mentioned that in the fifties there was
over a third of the private sector jobs in the
US were manufacturing, a little over third thirty five percent.
Today it's about nine and a half percent. Of course,
the population is more than doubled since the nineteen fifties,
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but still the raw number of manufacturing jobs has got
to be down a little bit, if my numbers are correct,
and I believe they are. Yeah, but it's almost exactly
the same President Trumps as the sweeping tariffs is aimed
at bringing manufacturing back to the US. Economists, as I'm
sure you've heard, are skeptical that tariffs could do that successfully,
and they were that the damage that they do will
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outweigh any benefits. Not here to talk about that, at
least not right now. I just thought it was interesting
to go through some of the steps that we went
through to become not a manufacturing powerhouse. Now they go
through how in the early nineteen hundreds we Americans pioneered
the use of interchangeable parts and organizing factories for mass
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production Henry Ford the assembly line. We all learned that
in school, back when we weren't being taught to hate
our country and to love how innovative and energetic we
are as a people. Remember that good times anyway, So
we had the infrastructure in place and the techniques and
the technology, and then World War two came along and
it was like, you know, gobbling up steroids to become
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the best manufacturers we could possibly be, to beat back
the Nazis and the imperial Japanese. It's interesting now you
can call the Nazis anything you want, the crowds, the Jerry's,
the fascists, whatever. You can't say anything rude about the
Japanese though, because why Because Japanese people look slightly different
than Caucasians, whereas Germans are Caucasians. So you can say
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anything you want about them. Anyway, That's a good question, son.
We're at war with both of them, slaughtering each other
as fast as we were in Germany. Didn't attack us,
or at least not in that way. No, no, really.
In the postwar years, many more Americans joined the middle
class dry and that drove jumps in spending on long lasting,
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durable goods, cars, appliances, homes, that sort of thing. And
America is our best customer. We were our best customer
for manufactured goods. But you can only buy so many
of them. And after a while, more and more services
were demanded, and more and more places opened up, at
least like rudimentary manufacturing across the world, Asian particular, and
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so the service economy grew in America, more people more spending,
more jobs in the service economy and that sort of
thing because we're so much more affluent after World War Two.
What's all I keep hearing the term service economy. What's
all included in service economy everything that you can't hold
in your hand and look at travel, banking, financial advice, advertising,
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banking is considered service. Okay, that's interesting, Yeah, absolutely, Technology,
software is so, insurance agent, all that so yeah okay, yeah, restaurants, hotels,
you know, just all that stuff. So practically, so everything
I'm going to interact with today, I'll interact with. No manufacturing,
right yeah, yeah, practically other than the goods you use,
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but most of those you probably owned for a while.
But in the nineteen eighties things began to change. American
manufacturers of non durable goods, that's like clothes and paper
products and just anything you're not going to have in
in a dozen years, ten years, whatever. American manufacturers of
non durable goods had an increasingly difficult time competing with
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countries where labor costs were lower. That intensified in the
nineties in part as a result of the North American
Free Trade Agreement NAFTA, lowering the duties on Mexican goods
that was ross Perro's giant sucking sound, you remember that,
sucking all the jobs out to south of the border.
He was right then, steel producers in developing countries like
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South Korea, you got to remind yourself. In the eighties
and nineties, South Korea was just a tiny miniature version
of what it is today as an economy. But they
built up their steel industries and subsidized them and left
the world awash in excess capacity, and we couldn't compete,
so so much of our steel industry went away then.
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But what happened in the eighties and nineties pales in
comparison to what happened after the China Shock, when we
naively and stupidly thought China would be our buddies if
we opened up to them economically and they would reform politically.
They joined the WTO in twenty oh one, opened the
country to foreign investment, gained access to the global markets.
And the US had faced import competition from other countries before,
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but never one that dwarfed its population. So instead of
Japan coming on first, it was cheap transistor radios then
made in Japan was code for cheap and crappy. When
our kids, when I yeah, exactly when when we're when
we were kids, that was a joke. You turn the
soil made in Japan, right, Yeah, it's probably gonna break
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by turning it over. But anyway, China came on the
scene super suddenly, and in nineteen ninety nine, for instance,
value of Chinese goods exports came to a tenth of
the US's exports. We had ten times as many exports
as China nineteen ninety nine. Nine years later, China surpassed
US as an exporter of goods. Wow. That's something. Yeah,
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And that is together with a couple other minor trade
that's why we where we are. China is a huge
part of that. Hence trumps emphasis on China. Another thing
we're going to get to, why do you like to
rewatch TV shows or movies you've seen before? Science is
in It's interesting. Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 6 (17:18):
Preto Watts, the richest guy on earth running all over Washington, DC,
throwing tens of thousands of dedicated federal workers out on
the street.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
That is Bernie.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Oh, we don't have any cheering for Nard Sanders pay
just a little bit of sixty two so you realize
how popular it is.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
That's Coachella.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Over the weekend, Bernie Bernie speaking at the big Coachella
Musical festival where it was one hundred and two degrees
and the weight to get in in your vehicle because
of the security checktion every like that was twelve hours long.
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Twelve home, honey, twelve hours in line to get into
one hundred and two degree music festival.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Man, that's a long time, but it's worth it to
hear me yelling about holagauchs. Right.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
So I got this funny thing. We'll get the audio
for you later. Elon tweeted it out. Somebody put together
this montage. Bernie has been so complaining about oligarchs have
taken over since the early nineties, so thirty three years.
I think the first one's nineteen ninety two where he says.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
I have bad news. Oligarchs have taken over our country.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
And he says every year for the past thirty some years,
it's so funny. Well, here's a little of it right here.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
This great country of ours is moving very rapidly in
the direction of oligg that's in the United States of
America today is increasingly becoming.
Speaker 7 (18:55):
More and more moving toward in oligo in the direction
of oligachy, even more rapidly in the direction of an
oligos twenty.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
Great country is evolving into an oligaut twenty fourteen.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Evidently it is called.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
Olia, and that is the system we are rapidly moving, Todd,
this is a bunch of twenty our country rapidly into
the direction of olig Here's twenty eight of billionaires on
moving this entire planet seven years to get an oligauchic society's.
Speaker 8 (19:35):
But you get the point, Sanders, How great is that?
Oh my gosh, play the hits, man, get up there
and for Coachella. You're a band playing at Coachella. Don't
play some new track from your album.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
They haven't heard. Play the hits, right, Like I said,
that's his free bird. He's not gonna send you home
without playing and down with the olig Come on, hilarious.
It is hilarious, hilarious. So this is more than dissecting
the recent past Joe Biden's senility in the cover up
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of it. It's understanding media to a large extent, and
it was funny. In going through this piece by Beckett Adams,
I was reminded of a couple of things that have
guided us through the years, and it's you know, I'm
not patting ourselves on the back. It's like blind pigs
finding acorns. But he starts talking about how Mike Allen,
who co founded Axios, did a podcast with Barry Weiss,
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the Fabulous Berry Weiss of the Free Press, talking about
the cover up of the senility, and he talks a
lot about it, and it's worth pointing out that Axios
actually had one of their best reporters, Alex Thompson, who
was reporting accurately on Biden's deterioration, which is fairly unique.
So I'm not here to kick Axios, But so Alan says,
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the medius coverage of Biden's health was quote all the
worst parts of reporter brains coming together. And there's the
group thing, monothink and the cluelessness. And this is where
the American people see something, sense something, and they're not
seeing it reflected in news outlets that they used to trust.
And so specifically with the Biden health, people discounted what
they saw with their own eyes, ignored it. And this
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is the reporter group think part of it. There's this
insecurity herd mentality. You don't want to be separate. It's
like crazy the typical reporter instinct, which is, I mean,
like the opposite of what a reporter ought to be.
You'd think, Yeah, so I've been yelling for years. No, No,
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I've been yelling about how the media moves in a herd.
And it's remarkable the extent to which, like a herd
of cattle, they don't dare find themselves outside of the
perimeter of the group in a way that's just really again,
it's antithetical to what a reporter ought to be. They
ought to be an independent thinker who follows the facts
and doesn't give a good gd whether other people are
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seeing it the same way. And the other thing that
we've kind of used to guide us through the years,
and it's Beckett Adams point in this article that it
was a lot more than group think. It was that
the media so wanted access to the Biden administration because
they were the folks in power. They were sent the
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message that the one thing you don't write about is
Biden being senile. That's a conspiracy stutter. You do that
and you're on the outs. The New York Times told
us it was a conspiracy theory to notice Biden's tendencies
to stumble and verbally and physically, and we were told
Biden struggled to articulate his thoughts was merely a stutter,
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long dormant but resurface just in time as a convenient explanation.
And he quotes a bunch of The Guardian Bloomberg News
just the ap was stumped by polling data that showed
voters believe Biden was too old for the job, but
not Donald Trump, who's only three years younger. Quote, Americans
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actually agree on something in this time of raw discord.
Joe Biden is too old to be an effective president.
Blah blah blah. It's oddly they noted. The public is
oddly united and sizing up the one trait Biden cannot change. Yeah,
that's because Americans have eyeballs. Anyway, So Jack, I remember
years ago, I think it was when Arnold Schwarzenegger was
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the governor of California and as the leading lights. Sure, yes,
what Arnold Schwarzenegger was the governor. Yeah, the movie actor,
the weightlifter, Yes he was, I'm certain of it. But anyway,
you know, we were feted and invited to stuff and
that sort of thing. And Jack, you made a comment
about how you're really uneasy about being I can't remember
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how you put it, but being seduced by the lure
of being in the inside. Sure, it's cool, it's cool,
flattered into cooperation.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
I was standing out on the patio at a hotel
smoking us AGAR with Arnold Swarzenegger at one point.
Speaker 8 (24:02):
It is cool.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
It's a cool feeling. It makes you feel cool. It
makes you feel like an insider. And do you want
to say something negative that's going to end that. I'm
more likely to than most people, But a lot of
people would never do that.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Right, And we talked about it and we decided now
we're going to be the outsiders, which is why we are,
which is fine. That's why you know a lot of
government people hate us. But that's fine. It's badge of honor, honestly.
So anyway, I thought that was pretty good analysis by
Beckett Adams about how it was a combination of a
bunch of cattle who don't think independently and just they're
such ass kickers and boot lickers because they want to
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be close to power. Part of it is for access,
because then you can do better reporter. Sure, I mean
that's true.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Yeah, it is a problem if Donald Trump says to
Associated Press, for instance, I'm not gonna let you on
the plane if you're going to call it the Gulf
of Mexico. Yeah, and you know they can complain about that,
But then what are they going to write about the
presidency which is whole segment of the reporting because they
have no access.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Right right. So, and then you read Mark Leebovich's brilliant
book This Town if you haven't ever about how they're
all part of the same industry and they know it,
the media and the lobbyists and the politicians and the
aids and the rest of it. Anyway, So I thought
that that was really interesting. But then this Andrew Styles
writing for The Free Beacon in his usual snarky style,
(25:25):
which I really enjoy. Many have suspected that doctor Jill Biden,
not a real doctor, played a key role in saving
the country by facilitating Donald Trump's long awaited return to
the White House. His point of view obvious in this piece,
but many of have assumed the former First Lady and
acting President was possessed of an insatiable lust for power,
which Drover to insist that her enfeebled husband run for reelection,
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and the ill advised decision nearly destroyed the Democratic Party, etc.
Forced the party to rally around Kamala Harris, who's just
utterly incompetent and talentless. And then he goes through some
of the accounts from the many Tell All books that
are now out, and a couple of key quotes Biden
now I told journalists Jonathan Allen and Arnie Amy Parnes, sorry,
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author of Fight Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House, quote,
Let's be honest, Jill was one thousand percent behind this.
So she was pushing it. The staff was all pushing it.
And at the end of the day, I don't think
anyone that inner circle was presenting the president any contrary
advice that this is not going to be easier, maybe
this is not the best thing for the Democratic Party.
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So doctor Jill was running the pro camp and the
anti camp didn't really exist, right And continuing on the
theme of insiders and being close to power, Alan and
Parnes note that many of Biden's longtime aids were also
desperate to cling to power and refused to consider advising
the president to retire after a single term. Quote, this
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is senior advisor Mike Donnellan, who's a heavyweight in democratic circles. Quote.
Nobody walks away from this. Nobody walks away from the house,
the plane, the helicopter. This burning desire to retain the
perks of the White House, the authors explained, was double
true for the first lady, doctor Jill It enjoyed them
for nearly a decade quote, and the trappings of the
most elite levels of Washington power had grown on her.
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She likes power. She wants to say stay, said Douglas Brinkley,
the historian, She wants some sense of revenge.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
You know, I used to say for years, this is
a bit of a tangent, But I used to say
for years, I don't understand the whole power thing, people
wanting power.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
I've never wanted power in my life. I've never felt
like I lusted for power. Blah blah blah. I lost
for it on a daily basis, moment to moment, Oh
my god, and I will wield it with an iron fist.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
And I guess I didn't have the right perception of
what power is. I was thinking of it as like being,
you know, the power to pass a law. I mean,
obviously a president has a power. You know, see Trump
up in the world economy with the stroke of a pen.
That is, like, you know, very easy to understand power,
but I've never understood the whole lust for power and
everything like that. And this person explained to me how
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you have power, You have power, and you like your power,
and it is just, you know, it's more theoretical than real,
but like to have some influence on the discussion of
the world, and that's power.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
And this job ends for me.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
And the one of the things that I will feel
so empty about and weird about and I don't know
how I'll adjust to.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Is having no say in anything. That's power.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
And so I guess I do have a lust for
power because I don't want to give this up, all
ate it when I have to give it up. And
so having any influence on the world over anything, you know,
whether it's your staff or the White House kitchen, or
who gets to play at the Kennedy Center, if you're
Jill Biden or you know, the president, one's easy. But
all this other stuff I don't know makes more sense
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to me now. And of course you wouldn't want to
give that up. And so not only would the President
and Jill Biden not want to give it up. If
you're in the Biden administration and you tell him I
don't think you should run again, and he says, Okay,
you're out of a job.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
You no longer work in the White House. The coolest
thing you'll ever do in your life, career wise is
now over.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
And you're gonna go teach it at college somewhere or
get a job with a law firm or something. But
it ain't gonna be anything near what you got. Now,
who among us would would sign up for ending that?
I mean, you might be real down the pavement.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
To get some sort of dim wit elected in the
forty third district of Ohio, right instead of being in
the White House now, So I'm cutting some slack to
a lot of these people who are not wanting to
end their careers well, right. What this all boils down
to to me is not like a moral judgment exactly.
And press is a different question. The media is a
completely different question. Yes, yeah, But again, to me, all
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of this does not boil down to a moral judgment,
although there certainly can be one made, for instance, about
clinging to power even when it could be devastating to
the United States, like doctor Jill here. It's helping people
understand what quote unquote the government is. It's not what
you read about in textbooks. Although the Civics education is
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really important. You have to understand that these people, from
the Assistant Undersecretary of Agriculture to Jill Biden to even
guys like us. Theoretically, although I want to talk about
that more later, they are not looking out for you
they claim to be. They have a dozen ulterior motives,
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which is why the founding Papa's God Bless their eternal wisdom,
told us over and over again. We're designing a system
to protect the people from the power of the government
because you can't trust people who have power. You must
watch them like a hawk all of the time because
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they will abuse their power, all of them, and ways
small and large. Those who don't, holy crap, that's great,
it's an exception. But assume they will have selfish motives.
That's the point of our country. That's my point in
bringing this stuff up. It's okay to be suspicious of power.
You're supposed to be. That's your job.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
So CNN is calling it the Edge of Space. The
all female space flight returns from the edge of space,
which is much more accurate. Katie Perry did not go
up into space. She just went really high, somewhat higher
than you've gone in a plane.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Big deal. What but what is it with you and this,
this spaceflight in a gigantic vibrator. If you've not seen
the picture of the rocket, as soon as you do,
you'll understand Gail King should have rethought the whole kissing
the ground thing. Good idea if you're young, Not so
good idea if you're old. The video it's like, whoa,
it takes her a long time to get down. Hold
(31:55):
on a second, I'm gonna go down here. Yeah, yeah,
I'll be back up. I can't anyway. We got more
on the way, a bunch of stuff. Stay here.
Speaker 9 (32:04):
A educcasion department has launched a website in which students
can report public school teachers who violate anti DEI rules.
So remember, teachers, you got to sleep with the white
ones too.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Wow, that's a cynical joke there. I don't remember if
you were here when we talked about this last week.
The latest teacher.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Oh yeah, you were the latest teacher, Hotty who slept
with a high school student at their house.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Oh my god, the poor husband. I was here all
week Jack last week except for Friday when I was
at Augusta National Golf Club. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
So I was just looking on that next hour. I
was just looking at a clip from that What was
the weather like idyllic, fantastic. It's funny because my allergies
are so bad. That's why I sound like this. I'm
looking at that picture of the guy who won the
Masters in the background, and all I see all those
things in bloom, and I think.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
That looks awful. It just looks awful because my allergies.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
It's funny, how you know your body tries to your
brain tries to protect you from stuff that's trying to
kill you. So over the weekend, me and both my
boys we are like, oh my god, look at that.
You know, you see a bunch of flowers. It shouldn't beautiful.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
It just looks like.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Oh, I'm nothing but negative reactions to those blooms because
it seems to be trying to kill me.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
More on that experience next hour. There are some fairly
interesting aspects of it, even if you're not a golf fan.
In fact, I guarantee it.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Here's I am going to get to the story at
some point, because it came cross this yesterday.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
It's a study. It's really kind of interesting why some
people most people watch TV shows or movies they've already
seen again, why we do that.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
There's a psychological reason. My dad doesn't, and it fits
in perfect with the science on it. So maybe I'll
try to get that into our three. Listen to this
headline from the New York Post. I haven't read the story.
I probably should have. It sounds interesting.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Decapitated woman's head successfully reattached after freak gym class accident.
What there's a lot there. First of all, what were
you doing in gym class where you end up losing
your knocking? We usually did like set ups and push ups.
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Was there some school district in America? Or they're jousting
outside on the football field or full on gallop on
a stallion with the jousting lands. I don't know what
they were doing where you could lose your head. We
didn't know volleyball. I'm trying to think of anything we
did in gym class where you could have your head
taken off. Both ends of the story are fascinating. Soon
lost the head, then you say it was reattached decapitated
(34:47):
woman's head. This is the New York Post. Decapitated woman's
head successfully reattached after freak gym class accident.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
I'm I'm calling BS on this story, but I'll look
into the details get them for you later.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
Yes, I'm no surgent Jack. My understanding of hen re
attachment is that it's not quite ready for prime time.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Zelensky was on sixty Minutes last night said some really
interesting things. I don't know if it helped his cause
any Everything he said was true in my opinion, and
a lot of good stuff. As Joe said, tales from
the most exclusive sporting event in the world.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
Isn't it am that in a way? Yeah, Armstrong and
Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Arm Strong and Getty and now he I'm Strong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
As you know, twelve days ago, I had dinner with
President Trump, a dinner that was set up by my
friend Kid Rock because we share a belief that there's
got to be something better than hurling insults from three
thousand miles away. And let me first say that to
all the people who treated this like it was some
kind of summit meeting. You're ridiculous, like I was going
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to sign a treaty or something.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
I have no power, and he's.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
The most powerful leader in the world. I'm not the
leader of anything except maybe a contingent of centrist minded
people who think there's got to be a better way
of running this country than hating each other every minute.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Oh man, your lips to God's ears, even though you're
an atheist.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
That combay uh before we.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Get to that's Bill Maher from his HBO show on Friday,
and he had dinner with Trump and Kid Rock and
Dana White and a couple other people at the White House,
which would be about the coolest thing that ever happened
in your life, if you ever got to do it,
it's a hell of a guest list. But Bill Maher
with his whole I'm a centrist. He's a centrist left,
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but I mean compared to you know, the politics of
what you'll hear on the news all day long, he's
a centrist. No doubt there anyway that crowd us can
take back over. Is there any chance of that.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
We have to be specific about what we want to
do and attack it in an organized way.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
I think he got I think rules need I think
laws and rules need to change. I think the current
structure of campaign finance and that sort of stuff. I
don't think rhetoric could change it. I think he had
change that.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Oh I'm well, yeah, I'm not talking about rhetoric necessarily,
But in our school system, which is, as we've outlined
many times, completely infected with far left ideology, needs to
be dealt with. Pretty much.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
The only way you lose your seat as a Senator,
as a House member is from someone in your own
party who's further to the extreme than you. That's almost
the only way you lose. So as long as that's true,
we continue down the road we are. But I'm off
track already. Here's Bill Maher talking a little about what
it was like to eat Donald Trump.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
In the Oval office. He was showing me the portraits
of presidents, and he pointed to Reagan and said, in
all seriousness, you know the best thing about him his hair.
I said, well, there was also that whole bringing down
communism thing. Waiting for the button next to the diet
(02:53):
coke button to get pushed and I go through the
trap door.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
He laughed. He got it.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
He didn't get mad. He's much more self aware and
he lets on in public. Look, I get it. It
doesn't matter who he is at a private dinner with
a comedian. It matters who he is on the world stage.
I'm just taking as a positive that this person exists,
because everything I've ever not liked about him was, I
swear to God absent at least on this night with
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this guy.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Isn't that interesting? It really is?
Speaker 1 (03:30):
And Bill Maher's a hardcore trumpeter. Everything I've ever not
liked about him was absent on this night.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Yeah. Yeah. I mean we all have our public facing persona,
what we do and how we act, and we're a
little different among friends or a more intimate setting. Trump
seems to have his front is very different than how
he's described by everybody who spent time with him. Friends
of ours, Bill mar.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Of course, a lot of the things Bill Maher hates
about the public Trump we love when we see it,
you know, we laugh up, roar Easley or whatever. Let's
hear a little more from the lefty Bill Maher.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
There were so many moments when I hit him with
a joke or contradicted something, and no problem. At dinner,
he was asking me about the nuclear situation in Iran
in a very genuine, hey, I think you're a smart guy.
I want your opinion sort of way. He didn't get
mad or call me a left wing lunatic.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
He took it in.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
I told him I thought parts of his plan for
Gaza were whacky, but that I had supported him in
the idea that Gaza could be Dubai.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Instead of Hell.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
I never felt I had to walk on eggshells around him,
And honestly, I voted for Clinton and Obama, but I
would never feel comfortable talking to them the way I
was able to talk with Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
That's just how it went down. Make of it what
you will. I thought that was really interesting.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
I would have never been able to talk to Clinton
or Obama the way I talked to Trump, but just
feeling so comfortable and like you're having a real, you know,
human interaction.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
They're actually listening to you, that sort of thing. Yeah,
he's describing the other side of the coin, that is
Trump's ability to connect with people in general, but like
working people, that lack of projecting that I'm better than you.
Which is interesting is he's almost certainly the richest guy
who's ever been president or perhaps ever will be. I
don't know. The common touch they used to call it.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
All right, Well, Bill Maher talks about how he looks
you in the eye and seems to actually be listening
to what you're saying. I mean, that's really really interesting.
I mean I'm not surprised because, like Joe said, we
know people who've worked for him, like worked for him,
saw him every day. That was the one woman that
we knew that was before he was president, when he
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was like, you know, a TV star.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
She worked with him and said, no, he's not like
that at all. I said, yeah, that's not surprising to me.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
That's a personality trait. Though we've all known successful people.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Who don't listen to you and not successful.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
So I mean, it's not like you have to have
that trait to be successful. I think it's probably helpful.
It's just it's some sort of personality trait.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Yeah, and this is less about politics or hating Trump
or loving Trump or anything like that. It's just trying
to understand human beings. Trump is famously the guy who
follows his gut, and he trusts his gutten and it's
served him well in a lot of ways, undeniably. I
think sometimes it gets him in completely unnecessary jams. But
you know, that's my opinion. What's interesting is he comes off,
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you know, in that clip by Bill Maher for instance,
and describing Obama and Clinton, he comes off as a
guy who's much more open to listening to other people's opinions,
right than a lot of powerful men.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Yeah, Mar says, I've had so many conversations with prominent
people who are much less connected than Trump was. People
who don't look in the eye, people who don't really
listen because they just want to get to their next thing,
people who's response to things you just say that you
say you can tell doesn't track none of that with him,
and he mostly steered the conversation to what do you
(07:08):
think about this, which is interesting, and Bill Mars.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Says, I know your mind is blown. Mine mind is blown.
But that's what it was like. Yeah, yeah, I liked
where he was. He compiled a list of the terrible
things Trump had said about him throughout the years. We'll
have to play that later and had Trump sign the
list for him, which he cheerfully did. That's pretty funny.
So getting back to the whole WWE, Trump's got a
(07:37):
wrestler persona, but behind the scenes he's happy to sign
the picture where he was getting beat down by Black
bart or whatever that right, I'm kidding.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Just to wrap this up, not to be Trump obsessed,
but he did have his physical over the weekend. I
needed physical sounds like I'm dying, t allergies, some sort
of weird plant as in a blue Apparently. Trump deemed
an excellent health and robust neurological condition by the White
House physician. The seventy eight year old Trump. It's hard
(08:10):
to remember that he's seventy eight because he's so energetic
as a seventy eight year old six three two twenty
four he's lost a significant amount of weight since his
first term when he was two forty three, So he's
lost twenty pounds since when he was eight years younger,
which is good.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Other vital signs.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Listen to this as a seventy eight year old fat
guy who eats fast food and has the most stressful.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Job on planet Earth.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Trump's blood pressure clocked in at one twenty eight over
seventy four, which is great, uh, and his resting heart
rate is sixty two. He's only on two medications, one
for both of them for his cholesterol to keep it
in the optimal level.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
No, it's the only medications he takes. Wow, that is well,
it's a gift. It's yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
He You know, doctors will tell you what's the Don't
smoke and have good jeans. Those are your best tips
for uh, being healthy, laid into age. Don't smoke and
have good jeans. And he clearly has good jeans and
he doesn't smoke, so.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Right, right, So coming up trying to untangle what the
heck's going on with the tariffs, and also and I
want to get to this. I think it's important we
reckon with it. There's a hell of a lot more
to the media's Biden cover up than just group think,
and Jack was right all along. Hey, as I do
(09:30):
to admit it, Doctor Jill was the engine. She was
the evildoer behind the scenes. We have lots of great
information on that. I got a question.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
I got a question for you, because she's speaking live
now and Hanson congrab it. How much do you want
to hear from Katy Perry about how going into space
changed her as a person?
Speaker 2 (09:50):
I want very much to hear that for the purpose
of hating it. So we've got a lot on the
ways they here.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Hey, yeah, puffect dust, last milliseconds air cushing that will
kick up the dust. It's a very soft, soft landing,
despite the sporty uh percept.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
The it is.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
And they're home. Oh my god, like that the screaming,
terrible suffrenching. That's the chicks into space.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
I think they're calling it Katy Perry and Bezos's uh
hatty fiance and Gail King what was that?
Speaker 2 (10:31):
It's a very soft light landing, despite what the sporty
something dust because it looked like.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
A hard landing. But maybe there's springs in there that
makes it feel soft.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
I don't know. I'm trying to care, but I just don't.
As long as everybody's okay, I'm happy.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
It took them a long time to come out. They
came out, their hair was perfect. I guarantee you the
time spent sitting there was some sort of stylist making
sure their hair was okay because they gotta wear helmets
and stuff.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
All right, you're right, that's odd.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
I mean, d Perry looked like she looks on the
cover of a magazine when she's selling her shamboo.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Speaking of behind the scenes the true story of the
Biden sinility cover up coming up later on. Plus my
experience is at Augusta National Golf Club. Wow whoop. So
we need the theme music to play anyway, So I
thought this was really interesting. Justin Lehart in the Wall
(11:25):
Street Journal talking about how the US lost its place
as the world's manufacturing powerhouse, and well, I'll just launch
into it. They mentioned that in the fifties there was
over a third of the private sector jobs in the
US were manufacturing, a little over third thirty five percent.
Today it's about nine and a half percent. Of course,
the population is more than doubled since the nineteen fifties,
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but still the raw number of manufacturing jobs has got
to be down a little bit, if my numbers are correct,
and I believe they are. Yeah, but it's almost exactly
the same President Trumps as the sweeping tariffs is aimed
at bringing manufacturing back to the US. Economists, as I'm
sure you've heard, are skeptical that tariffs could do that successfully,
and they were that the damage that they do will
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outweigh any benefits. Not here to talk about that, at
least not right now. I just thought it was interesting
to go through some of the steps that we went
through to become not a manufacturing powerhouse. Now they go
through how in the early nineteen hundreds we Americans pioneered
the use of interchangeable parts and organizing factories for mass
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production Henry Ford the assembly line. We all learned that
in school, back when we weren't being taught to hate
our country and to love how innovative and energetic we
are as a people. Remember that good times anyway, So
we had the infrastructure in place and the techniques and
the technology, and then World War two came along and
it was like, you know, gobbling up steroids to become
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the best manufacturers we could possibly be, to beat back
the Nazis and the imperial Japanese. It's interesting now you
can call the Nazis anything you want, the crowds, the Jerry's,
the fascists, whatever. You can't say anything rude about the
Japanese though, because why Because Japanese people look slightly different
than Caucasians, whereas Germans are Caucasians. So you can say
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anything you want about them. Anyway, That's a good question, son.
We're at war with both of them, slaughtering each other
as fast as we were in Germany. Didn't attack us,
or at least not in that way. No, no, really.
In the postwar years, many more Americans joined the middle
class dry and that drove jumps in spending on long lasting,
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durable goods, cars, appliances, homes, that sort of thing. And
America is our best customer. We were our best customer
for manufactured goods. But you can only buy so many
of them. And after a while, more and more services
were demanded, and more and more places opened up, at
least like rudimentary manufacturing across the world, Asian particular, and
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so the service economy grew in America, more people more spending,
more jobs in the service economy and that sort of
thing because we're so much more affluent after World War Two.
What's all I keep hearing the term service economy. What's
all included in service economy everything that you can't hold
in your hand and look at travel, banking, financial advice, advertising,
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banking is considered service. Okay, that's interesting, Yeah, absolutely, Technology,
software is so, insurance agent, all that so yeah okay, yeah, restaurants, hotels,
you know, just all that stuff. So practically, so everything
I'm going to interact with today, I'll interact with. No manufacturing,
right yeah, yeah, practically other than the goods you use,
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but most of those you probably owned for a while.
But in the nineteen eighties things began to change. American
manufacturers of non durable goods, that's like clothes and paper
products and just anything you're not going to have in
in a dozen years, ten years, whatever. American manufacturers of
non durable goods had an increasingly difficult time competing with
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countries where labor costs were lower. That intensified in the
nineties in part as a result of the North American
Free Trade Agreement NAFTA, lowering the duties on Mexican goods
that was ross Perro's giant sucking sound, you remember that,
sucking all the jobs out to south of the border.
He was right then, steel producers in developing countries like
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South Korea, you got to remind yourself. In the eighties
and nineties, South Korea was just a tiny miniature version
of what it is today as an economy. But they
built up their steel industries and subsidized them and left
the world awash in excess capacity, and we couldn't compete,
so so much of our steel industry went away then.
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But what happened in the eighties and nineties pales in
comparison to what happened after the China Shock, when we
naively and stupidly thought China would be our buddies if
we opened up to them economically and they would reform politically.
They joined the WTO in twenty oh one, opened the
country to foreign investment, gained access to the global markets.
And the US had faced import competition from other countries before,
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but never one that dwarfed its population. So instead of
Japan coming on first, it was cheap transistor radios then
made in Japan was code for cheap and crappy. When
our kids, when I yeah, exactly when when we're when
we were kids, that was a joke. You turn the
soil made in Japan, right, Yeah, it's probably gonna break
(16:32):
by turning it over. But anyway, China came on the
scene super suddenly, and in nineteen ninety nine, for instance,
value of Chinese goods exports came to a tenth of
the US's exports. We had ten times as many exports
as China nineteen ninety nine. Nine years later, China surpassed
US as an exporter of goods. Wow. That's something. Yeah,
(16:57):
And that is together with a couple other minor trade
that's why we where we are. China is a huge
part of that. Hence trumps emphasis on China. Another thing
we're going to get to, why do you like to
rewatch TV shows or movies you've seen before? Science is
in It's interesting. Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 6 (17:18):
Preto Watts, the richest guy on earth running all over Washington, DC,
throwing tens of thousands of dedicated federal workers out on
the street.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
That is Bernie.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Oh, we don't have any cheering for Nard Sanders pay
just a little bit of sixty two so you realize
how popular it is.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
That's Coachella.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Over the weekend, Bernie Bernie speaking at the big Coachella
Musical festival where it was one hundred and two degrees
and the weight to get in in your vehicle because
of the security checktion every like that was twelve hours long.
(18:04):
Twelve home, honey, twelve hours in line to get into
one hundred and two degree music festival.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Man, that's a long time, but it's worth it to
hear me yelling about holagauchs. Right.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
So I got this funny thing. We'll get the audio
for you later. Elon tweeted it out. Somebody put together
this montage. Bernie has been so complaining about oligarchs have
taken over since the early nineties, so thirty three years.
I think the first one's nineteen ninety two where he says.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
I have bad news. Oligarchs have taken over our country.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
And he says every year for the past thirty some years,
it's so funny. Well, here's a little of it right here.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
This great country of ours is moving very rapidly in
the direction of oligg that's in the United States of
America today is increasingly becoming.
Speaker 7 (18:55):
More and more moving toward in oligo in the direction
of oligachy, even more rapidly in the direction of an
oligos twenty.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
Great country is evolving into an oligaut twenty fourteen.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Evidently it is called.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
Olia, and that is the system we are rapidly moving, Todd,
this is a bunch of twenty our country rapidly into
the direction of olig Here's twenty eight of billionaires on
moving this entire planet seven years to get an oligauchic society's.
Speaker 8 (19:35):
But you get the point, Sanders, How great is that?
Oh my gosh, play the hits, man, get up there
and for Coachella. You're a band playing at Coachella. Don't
play some new track from your album.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
They haven't heard. Play the hits, right, Like I said,
that's his free bird. He's not gonna send you home
without playing and down with the olig Come on, hilarious.
It is hilarious, hilarious. So this is more than dissecting
the recent past Joe Biden's senility in the cover up
(20:10):
of it. It's understanding media to a large extent, and
it was funny. In going through this piece by Beckett Adams,
I was reminded of a couple of things that have
guided us through the years, and it's you know, I'm
not patting ourselves on the back. It's like blind pigs
finding acorns. But he starts talking about how Mike Allen,
who co founded Axios, did a podcast with Barry Weiss,
(20:31):
the Fabulous Berry Weiss of the Free Press, talking about
the cover up of the senility, and he talks a
lot about it, and it's worth pointing out that Axios
actually had one of their best reporters, Alex Thompson, who
was reporting accurately on Biden's deterioration, which is fairly unique.
So I'm not here to kick Axios, But so Alan says,
(20:53):
the medius coverage of Biden's health was quote all the
worst parts of reporter brains coming together. And there's the
group thing, monothink and the cluelessness. And this is where
the American people see something, sense something, and they're not
seeing it reflected in news outlets that they used to trust.
And so specifically with the Biden health, people discounted what
they saw with their own eyes, ignored it. And this
(21:14):
is the reporter group think part of it. There's this
insecurity herd mentality. You don't want to be separate. It's
like crazy the typical reporter instinct, which is, I mean,
like the opposite of what a reporter ought to be.
You'd think, Yeah, so I've been yelling for years. No, No,
(21:35):
I've been yelling about how the media moves in a herd.
And it's remarkable the extent to which, like a herd
of cattle, they don't dare find themselves outside of the
perimeter of the group in a way that's just really again,
it's antithetical to what a reporter ought to be. They
ought to be an independent thinker who follows the facts
and doesn't give a good gd whether other people are
(21:58):
seeing it the same way. And the other thing that
we've kind of used to guide us through the years,
and it's Beckett Adams point in this article that it
was a lot more than group think. It was that
the media so wanted access to the Biden administration because
they were the folks in power. They were sent the
(22:20):
message that the one thing you don't write about is
Biden being senile. That's a conspiracy stutter. You do that
and you're on the outs. The New York Times told
us it was a conspiracy theory to notice Biden's tendencies
to stumble and verbally and physically, and we were told
Biden struggled to articulate his thoughts was merely a stutter,
(22:41):
long dormant but resurface just in time as a convenient explanation.
And he quotes a bunch of The Guardian Bloomberg News
just the ap was stumped by polling data that showed
voters believe Biden was too old for the job, but
not Donald Trump, who's only three years younger. Quote, Americans
(23:02):
actually agree on something in this time of raw discord.
Joe Biden is too old to be an effective president.
Blah blah blah. It's oddly they noted. The public is
oddly united and sizing up the one trait Biden cannot change. Yeah,
that's because Americans have eyeballs. Anyway, So Jack, I remember
years ago, I think it was when Arnold Schwarzenegger was
(23:23):
the governor of California and as the leading lights. Sure, yes,
what Arnold Schwarzenegger was the governor. Yeah, the movie actor,
the weightlifter, Yes he was, I'm certain of it. But anyway,
you know, we were feted and invited to stuff and
that sort of thing. And Jack, you made a comment
about how you're really uneasy about being I can't remember
(23:48):
how you put it, but being seduced by the lure
of being in the inside. Sure, it's cool, it's cool,
flattered into cooperation.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
I was standing out on the patio at a hotel
smoking us AGAR with Arnold Swarzenegger at one point.
Speaker 8 (24:02):
It is cool.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
It's a cool feeling. It makes you feel cool. It
makes you feel like an insider. And do you want
to say something negative that's going to end that. I'm
more likely to than most people, But a lot of
people would never do that.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Right, And we talked about it and we decided now
we're going to be the outsiders, which is why we are,
which is fine. That's why you know a lot of
government people hate us. But that's fine. It's badge of honor, honestly.
So anyway, I thought that was pretty good analysis by
Beckett Adams about how it was a combination of a
bunch of cattle who don't think independently and just they're
such ass kickers and boot lickers because they want to
(24:39):
be close to power. Part of it is for access,
because then you can do better reporter. Sure, I mean
that's true.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Yeah, it is a problem if Donald Trump says to
Associated Press, for instance, I'm not gonna let you on
the plane if you're going to call it the Gulf
of Mexico. Yeah, and you know they can complain about that,
But then what are they going to write about the
presidency which is whole segment of the reporting because they
have no access.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Right right. So, and then you read Mark Leebovich's brilliant
book This Town if you haven't ever about how they're
all part of the same industry and they know it,
the media and the lobbyists and the politicians and the
aids and the rest of it. Anyway, So I thought
that that was really interesting. But then this Andrew Styles
writing for The Free Beacon in his usual snarky style,
(25:25):
which I really enjoy. Many have suspected that doctor Jill Biden,
not a real doctor, played a key role in saving
the country by facilitating Donald Trump's long awaited return to
the White House. His point of view obvious in this piece,
but many of have assumed the former First Lady and
acting President was possessed of an insatiable lust for power,
which Drover to insist that her enfeebled husband run for reelection,
(25:48):
and the ill advised decision nearly destroyed the Democratic Party, etc.
Forced the party to rally around Kamala Harris, who's just
utterly incompetent and talentless. And then he goes through some
of the accounts from the many Tell All books that
are now out, and a couple of key quotes Biden
now I told journalists Jonathan Allen and Arnie Amy Parnes, sorry,
(26:10):
author of Fight Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House, quote,
Let's be honest, Jill was one thousand percent behind this.
So she was pushing it. The staff was all pushing it.
And at the end of the day, I don't think
anyone that inner circle was presenting the president any contrary
advice that this is not going to be easier, maybe
this is not the best thing for the Democratic Party.
(26:31):
So doctor Jill was running the pro camp and the
anti camp didn't really exist, right And continuing on the
theme of insiders and being close to power, Alan and
Parnes note that many of Biden's longtime aids were also
desperate to cling to power and refused to consider advising
the president to retire after a single term. Quote, this
(26:53):
is senior advisor Mike Donnellan, who's a heavyweight in democratic circles. Quote.
Nobody walks away from this. Nobody walks away from the house,
the plane, the helicopter. This burning desire to retain the
perks of the White House, the authors explained, was double
true for the first lady, doctor Jill It enjoyed them
for nearly a decade quote, and the trappings of the
most elite levels of Washington power had grown on her.
(27:16):
She likes power. She wants to say stay, said Douglas Brinkley,
the historian, She wants some sense of revenge.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
You know, I used to say for years, this is
a bit of a tangent, But I used to say
for years, I don't understand the whole power thing, people
wanting power.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
I've never wanted power in my life. I've never felt
like I lusted for power. Blah blah blah. I lost
for it on a daily basis, moment to moment, Oh
my god, and I will wield it with an iron fist.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
And I guess I didn't have the right perception of
what power is. I was thinking of it as like being,
you know, the power to pass a law. I mean,
obviously a president has a power. You know, see Trump
up in the world economy with the stroke of a pen.
That is, like, you know, very easy to understand power,
but I've never understood the whole lust for power and
everything like that. And this person explained to me how
(28:01):
you have power, You have power, and you like your power,
and it is just, you know, it's more theoretical than real,
but like to have some influence on the discussion of
the world, and that's power.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
And this job ends for me.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
And the one of the things that I will feel
so empty about and weird about and I don't know
how I'll adjust to.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Is having no say in anything. That's power.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
And so I guess I do have a lust for
power because I don't want to give this up, all
ate it when I have to give it up. And
so having any influence on the world over anything, you know,
whether it's your staff or the White House kitchen, or
who gets to play at the Kennedy Center, if you're
Jill Biden or you know, the president, one's easy. But
all this other stuff I don't know makes more sense
(28:50):
to me now. And of course you wouldn't want to
give that up. And so not only would the President
and Jill Biden not want to give it up. If
you're in the Biden administration and you tell him I
don't think you should run again, and he says, Okay,
you're out of a job.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
You no longer work in the White House. The coolest
thing you'll ever do in your life, career wise is
now over.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
And you're gonna go teach it at college somewhere or
get a job with a law firm or something. But
it ain't gonna be anything near what you got. Now,
who among us would would sign up for ending that?
I mean, you might be real down the pavement.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
To get some sort of dim wit elected in the
forty third district of Ohio, right instead of being in
the White House now, So I'm cutting some slack to
a lot of these people who are not wanting to
end their careers well, right. What this all boils down
to to me is not like a moral judgment exactly.
And press is a different question. The media is a
completely different question. Yes, yeah, But again, to me, all
(29:51):
of this does not boil down to a moral judgment,
although there certainly can be one made, for instance, about
clinging to power even when it could be devastating to
the United States, like doctor Jill here. It's helping people
understand what quote unquote the government is. It's not what
you read about in textbooks. Although the Civics education is
(30:14):
really important. You have to understand that these people, from
the Assistant Undersecretary of Agriculture to Jill Biden to even
guys like us. Theoretically, although I want to talk about
that more later, they are not looking out for you
they claim to be. They have a dozen ulterior motives,
(30:36):
which is why the founding Papa's God Bless their eternal wisdom,
told us over and over again. We're designing a system
to protect the people from the power of the government
because you can't trust people who have power. You must
watch them like a hawk all of the time because
(30:57):
they will abuse their power, all of them, and ways
small and large. Those who don't, holy crap, that's great,
it's an exception. But assume they will have selfish motives.
That's the point of our country. That's my point in
bringing this stuff up. It's okay to be suspicious of power.
You're supposed to be. That's your job.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
So CNN is calling it the Edge of Space. The
all female space flight returns from the edge of space,
which is much more accurate. Katie Perry did not go
up into space. She just went really high, somewhat higher
than you've gone in a plane.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Big deal. What but what is it with you and this,
this spaceflight in a gigantic vibrator. If you've not seen
the picture of the rocket, as soon as you do,
you'll understand Gail King should have rethought the whole kissing
the ground thing. Good idea if you're young, Not so
good idea if you're old. The video it's like, whoa,
it takes her a long time to get down. Hold
(31:55):
on a second, I'm gonna go down here. Yeah, yeah,
I'll be back up. I can't anyway. We got more
on the way, a bunch of stuff. Stay here.
Speaker 9 (32:04):
A educcasion department has launched a website in which students
can report public school teachers who violate anti DEI rules.
So remember, teachers, you got to sleep with the white
ones too.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Wow, that's a cynical joke there. I don't remember if
you were here when we talked about this last week.
The latest teacher.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Oh yeah, you were the latest teacher, Hotty who slept
with a high school student at their house.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Oh my god, the poor husband. I was here all
week Jack last week except for Friday when I was
at Augusta National Golf Club. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
So I was just looking on that next hour. I
was just looking at a clip from that What was
the weather like idyllic, fantastic. It's funny because my allergies
are so bad. That's why I sound like this. I'm
looking at that picture of the guy who won the
Masters in the background, and all I see all those
things in bloom, and I think.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
That looks awful. It just looks awful because my allergies.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
It's funny, how you know your body tries to your
brain tries to protect you from stuff that's trying to
kill you. So over the weekend, me and both my
boys we are like, oh my god, look at that.
You know, you see a bunch of flowers. It shouldn't beautiful.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
It just looks like.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Oh, I'm nothing but negative reactions to those blooms because
it seems to be trying to kill me.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
More on that experience next hour. There are some fairly
interesting aspects of it, even if you're not a golf fan.
In fact, I guarantee it.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Here's I am going to get to the story at
some point, because it came cross this yesterday.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
It's a study. It's really kind of interesting why some
people most people watch TV shows or movies they've already
seen again, why we do that.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
There's a psychological reason. My dad doesn't, and it fits
in perfect with the science on it. So maybe I'll
try to get that into our three. Listen to this
headline from the New York Post. I haven't read the story.
I probably should have. It sounds interesting.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Decapitated woman's head successfully reattached after freak gym class accident.
What there's a lot there. First of all, what were
you doing in gym class where you end up losing
your knocking? We usually did like set ups and push ups.
(34:24):
Was there some school district in America? Or they're jousting
outside on the football field or full on gallop on
a stallion with the jousting lands. I don't know what
they were doing where you could lose your head. We
didn't know volleyball. I'm trying to think of anything we
did in gym class where you could have your head
taken off. Both ends of the story are fascinating. Soon
lost the head, then you say it was reattached decapitated
(34:47):
woman's head. This is the New York Post. Decapitated woman's
head successfully reattached after freak gym class accident.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
I'm I'm calling BS on this story, but I'll look
into the details get them for you later.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
Yes, I'm no surgent Jack. My understanding of hen re
attachment is that it's not quite ready for prime time.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Zelensky was on sixty Minutes last night said some really
interesting things. I don't know if it helped his cause
any Everything he said was true in my opinion, and
a lot of good stuff. As Joe said, tales from
the most exclusive sporting event in the world.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
Isn't it am that in a way? Yeah, Armstrong and
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