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Ryan Seacrest
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong and Getty. And now here's Armstrong and Getty. We want to get you to some.
Jack Armstrong
Breaking news just out of our newsroom here at Fox 13.
Ryan Seacrest
A man is in the hospital after.
Jack Armstrong
Being shot in the leg overnight.
Ryan Seacrest
Memphis police say he was shot by his dog. Seriously?
Jack Armstrong
I don't think that's right.
Ryan Seacrest
This happened just before 4am at a.
Jack Armstrong
Home on Whitney Avenue in Frazier.
Ryan Seacrest
Wow.
Jack Armstrong
Police say the man Was lying in the bed with a girl with a.
Ryan Seacrest
Gun on the bed. Police say his dog jumped up on.
Jack Armstrong
The bed, got his paw stuck in the trigger and ended up hitting the trigger, shooting the man in the thigh.
Ryan Seacrest
Wow.
Jack Armstrong
Accident. Yeah. So the dog claims you. You pretend to throw the tennis ball. You stick it in the couch cushion one too many times.
Ryan Seacrest
Right. And. Or I'm supposed to be there in the bed next to you. And who's this, huh? You cheating bastard.
Jack Armstrong
When's the last time I went for a walk? Can you even remember? Pow, pow, pow.
Ryan Seacrest
Wow. Wow. Bad boy. Bad dog.
Jack Armstrong
My dog ties him to a chair like Reservoir Dogs. I'm not putting up with this anymore. All right, wait a minute.
Ryan Seacrest
So Jack, Michael, do we have that? The. The two rappers were talking and gunshots went off that candidate for clip of the year.
Jack Armstrong
So I, I like the way. Clearly this news anchor who's got a bit of a Kent Brockman Will Frell vibe.
Ryan Seacrest
Yes, he does.
Jack Armstrong
Apparently was just handed this breaking news not knowing he was about to do a story about a man who was shot by a dog at 4:00am yeah. So could happen. It's also possible that he was messing around with his gun or she shot him or something. They don't want to tell anybody what actually happened.
Ryan Seacrest
Right. Yeah, that's. That's at least. Although, you know, it's not implausible that if you are living the lifestyle where you' lying in bed with, quote unquote, a girl who wrote that story, do they need a woman? I would hope. And there's a gun laying there. For some reason you can't put it on the nightstand even. Yeah, you're living the sort of lifestyle where your dog shoots you.
Jack Armstrong
Maybe he or she likes the gun pointed at them during their romantic times.
Ryan Seacrest
Oh, good lord. Remember Biden's thing?
Jack Armstrong
No, I remember seeing that in the Sopranos. Remember one of them. Somebody liked having a gun to their head.
Ryan Seacrest
Way too tawdry.
Jack Armstrong
No, a dog just shot someone. This is time for Frank Talk. The pets are rising up.
Ryan Seacrest
As I predicted. Go ahead, Michael.
Jack Armstrong
And choices we got in life.
Ryan Seacrest
Those were your choices.
Jack Armstrong
Who shot who? Somebody got shot.
Ryan Seacrest
You good?
Jack Armstrong
I hope, I hope y'all good.
Ryan Seacrest
Only on the dirty third, one on one with Mike D. I thought B. Everybody.
Jack Armstrong
Damn. Everybody good?
Ryan Seacrest
Everybody that's the sort of guy who's in bed with a girl and a dog shoots him.
Jack Armstrong
They have a much more relaxed, light hearted view of shootings in the room.
Ryan Seacrest
Gunfire.
Jack Armstrong
Shootings in the room where none of the. I mean, it's not even an accidental shooting at the range or outdoors or something. We're in a room with a number of people. A gun go off, somebody's been shot. You good? I've been.
Ryan Seacrest
You good?
Jack Armstrong
You good? Everybody good?
Ryan Seacrest
Okay. As I was saying, wow. You've different.
Jack Armstrong
Lived a different lifestyle than I have. Who shot who? Who shot him?
Ryan Seacrest
Somebody got shot.
Jack Armstrong
You all right? I hope. Anyway, what are your plans today?
Ryan Seacrest
Are you guys hungry? I'm hungry, yeah.
Jack Armstrong
Crazy can. I want to hear that other one. Just the beginning part where the news anchor gets to the.
Ryan Seacrest
Oh.
Jack Armstrong
Because I just find this funny. We want to get you to some breaking news just out of our newsroom here at Fox 13. A man is in the hospital after being shot in the leg overnight.
Ryan Seacrest
Memphis police say he was shot by his dog. Seriously?
Jack Armstrong
I don't think that's right.
Ryan Seacrest
This happened just before 4am yeah. You don't know the dog?
Jack Armstrong
Whitney Avenue in Frazier. Wow. Police say the man was lying in the bed with a girl with a gun on the bed. Police say his dog jumped up on the bed, got his paw stuck in the trigger and ended up hitting the trigger, shooting the man in the thigh.
Ryan Seacrest
Wow.
Jack Armstrong
Four in the morning. Ain't eating lamb and rice anymore. Give me some real freaking food.
Ryan Seacrest
Was it a hunting dog? Oh, boy. So there's actual.
Jack Armstrong
And of course, background checks. We don't know any of those things. Gun loopholes, what went on there?
Ryan Seacrest
Wow. Wow. Well. And if I was going to make a serious point about it, that's the very sort of person that Democratic prosecutors would never enforce gun laws against. They howl for more gun laws constantly. And then Walker, the guy who's howling now.
Jack Armstrong
I'm confused.
Ryan Seacrest
You know what? I walked into that, didn't I? Yes. You know, perhaps it's best to just move on to other fair. I don't know why I enjoy giving jivy names to features sets of stories, but I do, Jack. So you get the choice between golden state of confusion or how markets really work. I'll go with the latter. The second one much more sober.
Jack Armstrong
I'll go with the latter.
Ryan Seacrest
Just because the lack of jiviness.
Jack Armstrong
I just curious after the dog ridiculousness.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah. Okay. So story number one. Why the US Keeps losing to China in the battle over critical minerals? Because everybody knows that the minerals, the rarest, the metals everybody's talking about that go into so much new technology. He or they who control access to those things controls the world economy to a large extent. And the obvious issue with that is that if we continue to be highly dependent on China to come up with those materials. We're screwed as an economy the minute they decide to tweak us or bring us to our knees. So you have this story of the effort to get a big giant. New America and our allies run graphite mine, and the goal to challenge China's dominance over the world's supply of a critical mineral used in everything from electric vehicles to submarine hubs. And so this Australia based mining company, backed by more than $100 million of US government financing, maybe a worthy goal. Kind of funny there wasn't any discussion of this, but this is what our giant government does. Opened a mine in Mozambique and built a graphite processing plant in Louisiana, the first of its type in the US it also signed a sales deal with Tesla, which has historically brought graphite for cars from China, for the batteries specifically. But then things started to go off the rails. China, which provides more than 90% of the world's battery grade graphite supply, jacked up its production. How many flooded the market?
Jack Armstrong
How many stories include China supplies 80%, 90%, 98% of this or that. Way too many.
Ryan Seacrest
And whether Trump's plans bear fruit or not, and whether he's allowed to even get the plans going fully is anybody's guess. But this is the very sort of thing that he and his advisors are trying to wean us from this sort of dependence. But anyway, the gist of the story is, so China, which provides more than 90% of the world's battery grade graphite supply, jacked up its production, flooding the market and driving prices so low that this mine, this company, could not mine profitably. Wow. Last May, the Biden administration delayed new rules that would have penalized U.S. buyers from buying Chinese graphite for reasons that I don't recall. Probably because they were trying to get Xi Jinping to do something. In Mozambique, farmers resettled from the mining company's mine staged protests, shutting down the mining. And the Louisiana plant, now open for a year, has yet to make its first commercial sale. And the company's stock has plunged by around 90% since the start of 2023.
Jack Armstrong
Wow, that's really interesting. And once again, the difficulties of an authoritarian country where one guy can make decisions in a democracy, that's tough.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah. And as always, there's a lot more detail and nuance to it. But I will leave it here. I love, love, love, love, love the free market in so many ways. It's lifted billions of people out of poverty, unleashed new medicines across the globe. It has. Profit is the reason for charity. It's the reason charity exists. You have to have more than you need to feed yourself to give to charity anyway. As we retrench from the dream of globalization though, there are gonna be some reignings in of the free market and it's gonna be stops and starts. Gonna be really difficult anyway not to get hung up on that because you could talk about it for a year and a half and write 5,000 page books on it and not cover it. I thought this was interesting. How markets really work. Jack the rise and fall of the Napa Valley of Cannabis When Colorado became one of the first states to legalize recreational marijuana, an enthusiastic county commissioner in Pueblo said he wanted Pueblo to become the Napa Valley of cannabis. And they talked a little bit in the Wall Street Journal about the situation. Big slaughterhouse had closed years earlier. Steel mill had been shedding workers. They're really hurting for jobs and tax revenue and a cannabis boom would, would do that for them. The streets were going to be paved with gold, recalled one resident. The elementary schools were going to be the greatest in the country. And then they talk about, you know, the, the classic meme, how it started, how it's going in the first weeks. The only two shops then licensed in the county round rang up a combined $1 million in sales the first month. Wow. Sending $56,000 in taxes to the county Colorado potheads. Everybody was just thrilled and happy. A decade and high decade later, Pueblo's dreams have gone up in smoke. A once thriving industry of retailers, growers and cann extractors. There were more than 200 of these businesses in 2017. In that county, more than 200. It's collapsed. Only 45 remain. State records indicate county tax revenue plunged from more than $7.1 million to 4.8 million in 2023, which is still a pretty significant amount of money. And you could argue that they're just thinning the herd and the stronger surviving the way it goes in capitalism. But here's the problem in California knows this too. It's been a huge problem because the rosy, rosy promises made to Californians and Coloradans alike. Even after legalization, illicit growers and sellers thrived even right in Pueblo. Last year, they accounted for 70% of the U.S. market, according to research companies. The black market dealers, unlike licensed ones, face neither taxes nor red tape. So they're more efficient and they're cheaper and it's bad for your brain.
Jack Armstrong
That's interesting, man. If you're, if you're counting on enough people smoking enough pot to, you know, make your Schools great and everything like that. That's just. That's an interesting thing.
Ryan Seacrest
It is. And it's probably not a sustainable way to run a society.
Jack Armstrong
Right.
Ryan Seacrest
Nationwide, only 27% illegal cannabis businesses are profitable, which is down from 42% just three years ago.
Jack Armstrong
Did not know that.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah. Investment has dried up, restructurings are rising. And in Pueblo, sentiment about legal pot is swung the other way, fueling a backlash against the county's embrace of the industry. And again, it's kind of complicated and a lot of nuance to it, but it's just. It's not nearly the dream it was sold to be.
Jack Armstrong
So.
Ryan Seacrest
Elon, I'm sorry. And the one. The one aspect you should understand, it's kind of intuitive, is that if it's legal, enforcing laws against the illegal stuff becomes so complicated because, you know, half of it, 60% of it, depending on where you are, is legal. And so what are the cops supposed to do if they see a bunch of guys smoking pot?
Jack Armstrong
Right? First of all, you put that cone on my head again, I'm gonna shoot you again. That's our deal. But secondly, Elon did a wide ranging interview. Tesla's getting attacked all over the country. Bunch of stuff on that. Stick around.
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Luke Combs, man, when he sang this with Tracy Chapman at the Grammys last year or Country Music Awards. That was awesome. Anyway, so this, I want you to listen to this and tell me if you understand what this is. Luke Combs, giant country star, two time entertaining year, blah blah blah blah blah. And one of my favorite country singers.
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Jack Armstrong
God, I'd say not big old boy, but he's got this weird medical condition he talked about yesterday on the news and I don't even understand it. And I watched it twice. Just listen to a little of this. This morning, country music star Luke Holmes.
Ryan Seacrest
Revealing he's been living with a condition known as purely obsessional obsessive compulsive disord. The variant that I have is.
Jack Armstrong
Is particularly wicked because you.
Ryan Seacrest
There's no outward manifestation of it. Right? Like you're saying the flicking of the light switch is all going on in here for me.
Jack Armstrong
The flicking of the light switch for someone else.
Ryan Seacrest
You can see that going on.
Jack Armstrong
So for someone like myself, you don't even know what's going.
Ryan Seacrest
I'd be going on right now.
Jack Armstrong
Do you understand what the hell that meant? I mean, because it doesn't. They don't explain it more as. Okay, explain it to me then. I didn't get it.
Ryan Seacrest
Oh, it's just he becomes obsessed with certain Thoughts and can't get past them. In the same way somebody who has a different sort of OCD has to drive around the block three times or. Or. Or flip the light switch or believes that they killed somebody on the drive in and has to retrace the route. It's just.
Jack Armstrong
Okay.
Ryan Seacrest
It just manifests itself differently.
Jack Armstrong
Like, so. So I may. I was misled by the light switch thing, I guess. So. I know some people with ocd, you can't ever go to sleep because you think, did I turn the light off downstairs? I'll go check again. Yeah. And then you get back up in bed, you think, did I turn it off? I mean, I just checked, but I'm not sure. And it drives you nuts. But he. He's saying, well, I know somebody with.
Ryan Seacrest
A similar thing where they are. Were plagued by recurring thoughts of terrible things happening and. Or doing terrible things.
Jack Armstrong
Oh, wow.
Ryan Seacrest
To the point that it was scary. Wow.
Jack Armstrong
He said it's debilitating. And he's had it since he was a little kid. Probably how he ended up, you know, turning toward music, like a lot of people do. We had. We have a friend, remember Corey, we used to work with? He collected quarters in a giant jar in his apartment. All quarters he'd throw in his jar. He'd been doing it for forever, and he had a tremendous amount, but he would think that there might be a nickel in that jar when he's laying in bed. And he would have to dump out the entire jar and go through it and make sure there's not a nickel in there. They're all quarters. Put him back in there. Then he'd get back in bed and like, am I sure I checked it correctly? Oh, thanks. So thank God I don't have that. I got other things, but I don't have that.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah. Yeah. Awful.
Jack Armstrong
We work.
Ryan Seacrest
People are able to talk about that more, you know, get help for it.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. We worked with a guy had really bad ocd, Jeff Bell. I mean, he was public about it. He wrote a book about it. We interviewed him about it.
Ryan Seacrest
Really interesting book. Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. We worked with him for years. I didn't know he had OCD until he left, actually. But I do remember coming out of the bathroom one time, he was waiting for the bathroom, and I come out the door, and he said, did you hit a very low voice? Did you wash your hands? What do you mean? I didn't hear. Did you wash your hands? His ocd. He was just so worried that I hadn't washed my hands, which. Which I may have not I don't know. But Ma'am Elon with quite the interview yesterday. Interesting in a number of ways including the way Tesla's being attacked, the way he's getting an endless death threats and he's worried some nut job is going to hear these Hitler and take him out. Not understanding he's just trying to cut government bureaucracy. Anyway, a bunch of stuff on the way. I hope you can stay here. Armstrong and Gettysburg this is Ashley Akonetti from the Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous podcast. You could have lost 10 pounds already if you already started one month ago. So are you ready to start today? Find out if weight loss meds are right for you in just 3 minutes at try fh.com try fh.com try fH.com results vary based on start weight and adherence to diet, exercise and program goals. Database on Independent Studies sponsored by Future Health Future Health is not a healthcare services provider. Meds are prescribed at providers discretion.
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The wrong word if you pay into something you are investing in your future. Your money. So in the expectation you'll get it back after you retire Any attempt, as I think Trump knows, to mess with that is political dynamite. Elon Musk. Musk is. Elon Musk's political standing in this town is falling almost as fast as Tesla's share price. He is an albatross around Trump's neck.
Jack Armstrong
Is Elon Musk an albatross around Trump's neck? Elon, in a wide ranging interview, which we're going to play for a little bit of coming up, but mentioned entitlements is what we got to cut. So there's now another reason for the people that hated Elon to hate him. As you're hearing it affecting people's attitudes towards Tesla in this report, Elon Musk's jump into politics is now drawing backlash with Tesla takedown protests across the country. Tesla owners have become targets too. It was right here, like Dr. Kumai Jarous, who found a profane sticker on his cyber truck. Three guys came out of the car and just pointed the middle finger, started screaming at me, so you gonna miss the car?
Ryan Seacrest
It's, it's a, it's a great car. I will miss the car. I will miss the car.
Jack Armstrong
But you're, you're principles are, I think for now, principles have to take priority. Babik Shukriyan has owned his Tesla since 2014.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah, I was a big believer.
Jack Armstrong
I felt like this is somebody who.
Ryan Seacrest
Cares and a company that's doing, you.
Jack Armstrong
Know, cool things and just within an.
Ryan Seacrest
Election cycle, it all kind of turned on its head. It's probably worth pointing out I, Judy and I have a couple of cars. I don't have the slightest idea what this CEOs of those companies think about anything, right? Dog versus Cat, Beatles, Stones, Hoj. Free market. I got no idea.
Jack Armstrong
No kidding. Oh, yeah, I love this car. But, you know, principals have to take priority. What, what are you talking about?
Ryan Seacrest
You know, you could absolutely argue Elon Musk has brought this upon himself in the same way that, you know, Sears Roebuck never had talking garments for transgender little kids like Target trotted out and.
Jack Armstrong
But what would say, say you drive a.
Ryan Seacrest
Although, no, I'm sorry, because that's the person, not the product. But anyway, go on, say you're a.
Jack Armstrong
Person of the right and you drive a Chevy truck, for instance. What would the CEO have to do before you'd actually sell your truck and get a different vehicle?
Ryan Seacrest
Hire Dylan Mulvaney as a spokesperson.
Jack Armstrong
That's a lot different. Selling a truck you like. I mean, because you start moving cars around, you lose lots of money really, really fast. It's not like switching beer brands. Now I'm gonna drink Coors Light instead.
Ryan Seacrest
Right, right. Well, the interesting thing is that if you, if you separate Elon Musk and Trump from the conversation and you just bring up the things he is doing, and I think he actually addresses that. I don't want to steal his thunder, but it's enormously popular. Eliminating waste and fraud and abuse. Who's against that? Exactly. I'd love to hear your argument. Don't you see? Fraud runs the economy.
Jack Armstrong
As I said at the beginning of the show, I think I'm going to get a cyber beast with a personalized license plate that says Doge. I just love the idea of driving around a giant middle finger to people who are supporting government waste. That's your position. Okay, feel free to go ahead and stick with that, you moron. I mean, it's, this is not like, it's not even like the trans issue. It's just. Who's for government waste?
Ryan Seacrest
I see a crowd of beefy, angry university women surrounding you and pounding you with their mighty modern, radicalized, angry, never had a boyfriend fists.
Jack Armstrong
Seriously, if the, if, if, if Tesla becomes a. The political middle finger to big government people. I've never, I don't know if I've purchased or not purchased things based on politics, but I love it.
Ryan Seacrest
Well, in, in what, four years after it was a giant virtue signal for being a green energy dreamer.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, that guy, you just heard, he's been driving a Tesla since 2014. He got in at the very beginning when it really wasn't. Was unwieldy and. But was gonna stick to it because of climate change. Don't. You know, whatever. So here's Elon being asked in his interview yesterday about how things, how he's become a lightning round, among other things.
Ryan Seacrest
I mean, the waste report in entitlement spending, which is.
Jack Armstrong
No, no, this is 40. We want 40.
Ryan Seacrest
They're setting fire to various Tesla charging stations near Boston. Shots were fired at a Tesla dealership in Oregon.
Jack Armstrong
Various non violent shots fired.
Ryan Seacrest
Not a metaphor. Shots fired. Yes. Downtown New York marching against the Tesla showroom. Your stock is way down. You've been criticized left and right. But look on the bright side. I mean, why, why are you doing this? Always look on the. Always look on the bright side of life. Yes. I'm an optimist, but besides that. Yes.
Jack Armstrong
I mean, how's your day?
Ryan Seacrest
What motivates you to do this? Was the opera good? It's tough sledding. Yeah. It is tough sledding.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. And he Goes on to talk about how many death threats he's getting. Now. Twitter got hacked yesterday. He says it was the Ukrainians, although how do you know where it came from?
Ryan Seacrest
Why would they try to enrage Elon Musk?
Jack Armstrong
I don't know whose Starlink system sustains them, but he's getting tons of death threats every single day. And he said, and I thought this was interesting, one of the reasons they're posting online all the departments that they want to cut or waste that they're finding is, you know, which of these do you not agree with? You don't agree that this program is. Well, let's discuss that and all that sort of stuff. And he's concerned that somebody's just going to hear he's Hitler, who doesn't pay attention to this stuff and want to take him out, which absolutely could happen. I'm sure with his money, he's got some pretty tremendous security, but he'll have to live in fear of being in any sort of public place the rest of his life because of this.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah, he's practically a Salman Rushdie case at this point. Absolutely demonized.
Jack Armstrong
And, you know, and probably by extension maybe is any of his 15 kids and that sort of thing, which really, really sucks. But what got him going on this in the first place? At Doge, I thought this answer was good.
Ryan Seacrest
I mean, frankly, I can't believe I'm here doing this. It's kind of bizarre. But I kind of think that the, you know, we've got this enormous federal budget deficit, and it's a, it's a two trillion dollar deficit. It keeps growing. Our interest payments are higher than our Defense Department budget. That's, that's, I think, was the real wake up call for me, was looking at seeing that the interest payments, the national debt exceeded the Defense Department budget. And that was only growing over time, which meant if we didn't do something about this, then there won't be any money for anything. We'll just be servicing debt. You've had some business experience. I'm kidding. But yeah. You know this stuff. Yeah. I mean, really, I just don't want America to go bankrupt.
Jack Armstrong
That is 100% true.
Ryan Seacrest
What percentage of Americans do you think know that, that our interest cost, not our debt, just the interest on the debt is greater than our defense spending. Is it?
Jack Armstrong
10% wouldn't be a lot, but I do think a lot of people know that we're on an unsustainable path. I think a lot of people know that. A lot of voters know that anyway. And just are willing to ignore it. Which is worse than not knowing it. The fact that you do know it and think, eh, deal with it next election or my kids will deal with it or I don't know what you're thinking.
Ryan Seacrest
What percentage of voters do you think know we're on an unsustainable path?
Jack Armstrong
God, I would think at this point half, half to don't they. I mean you're really not paying attention. But I don't know. The politicians don't really tell them like most politicians don't. Politicians who lose in primaries tell them, but the politicians that actually get elected aren't saying it out loud. Mike Johnson today Speaker of the House came out and he had to he. Because Elon brought up entitlements yesterday. Mike Johnson had to come out as the speaker of the House today say no, oh no, no. This continuing revolution resolution to keep the government open, we gotta let you know entitlements are not in that at all. No entitlement reform. He had to calm people down that we might be adults.
Ryan Seacrest
Right. I think there you also have to factor in the number of people who know that we're on an unsustainable path but are so. Well, because people believe what they want to believe. They believe that it can be fixed by tinkering around the edges of the budget.
Jack Armstrong
Right. That's true. That's true of the people who think this is a problem. Them, a good chunk of them think as soon as the billionaires have to pay their fair share, sure.
Ryan Seacrest
Or we cut out the, the, the waste in Medicare that'll pay for it. What was the other thing? Oh, I would love to talk to my Mike Johnson, either, you know, off the record or maybe I strap him to a chair and jab him with some sodium pentathol or something. But I wonder if I could get him to say or if he believes in his heart. Joseph, the only way you can reform entitlements is to lie about it. The only way you can get in power and do what needs to be done to save this country's fiscal hiney is to say you're not going to. And that's the plan. If you were even close to honest, you would never be in office.
Jack Armstrong
Well, I get that, but that implies they're going to do something about it.
Ryan Seacrest
I know that's the, that's.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, I think the being honest.
Ryan Seacrest
They are, they are when it is a cataclysm.
Jack Armstrong
Right. I think that's the honesty is like, look, we're. The country's not going to deal with this until we are in trouble. Actually in trouble. It's just the fact. Anyway, I want to get this on because I thought this was a pretty good. Another clip that I wish everybody in the United States would hear. Elon talking about this.
Ryan Seacrest
What actually happens here is you've got this sort of vast federal bureaucracy and then you've got a very thin layer on top of the. Of the politically appointed officials. And what tends to happen is that the bureaucracy, frankly, is in control and they largely ignore the politically appointed people. Why should the bureaucracy. I'm sure you must have seen that I've lived with this twice. I worked for Reagan many years ago and I worked for Trump in the first term. It's like a permanent bureaucracy, I might add. It's a permanently liberal bureaucracy.
Jack Armstrong
Yes, very much so.
Ryan Seacrest
And it doesn't. It's not a bureaucracy that necessarily enforces.
Jack Armstrong
Or implements presidential policy.
Ryan Seacrest
They don't. In fact, they try their best to thwart presidential policy.
Jack Armstrong
Speaking of what percentage of people know what, how many people know that there is a permanent DC that runs most of stuff? And our whole now the people have spoken and we're gonna get our way thing is just a tiny little veneer on top of that permanent DC Right.
Ryan Seacrest
Which is why I have always been against the term deep state, because it's kind of become, you know, conspiracy. QAnon ish. And some of the stuff, some of those talk folks talk about is it does happen, but in terms of the foreign policy establishment and their priorities. But I think it's much more accurate and just useful to describe it as the permanent bureaucracy. The machinery of government is human beings who, unlike a machine, can resist the people trying to run the machine. And they do it over and over again. The Elon Musk is an unelected. Are you effing kidding me?
Jack Armstrong
Right?
Ryan Seacrest
Well, the Democrats know it, though. They have on their side this massive hundreds of thousands of people strong army of. We're not going to let the conservatives change anything. Every secretary state runs into it. Every Secretary of defense runs into it. Once again, read Robert Gates book Duty. That was the name of it, wasn't it? Yeah, yeah. Where he is the Secretary of Defense, served under both parties, couldn't get crap done because his own department would stymie his every attempt. And the idea that we will bring on some sort of national disaster by trying to tame that beast and reduce its bloat and wastefulness. Seriously, how can you be in favor of it?
Jack Armstrong
What an interesting period we're going through. The world's richest man has become a political lightning rod trying to like overhaul our government. Kind of just of an advisor and people are attacking him. I have no idea the tariffs while.
Ryan Seacrest
The geopolitics both trade and of warfare are changing fundamentally. It looks like.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah yeah.
Ryan Seacrest
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Jack Armstrong
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Ryan Seacrest
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Jack Armstrong
But that's a discussion for another time.
Ryan Seacrest
Perhaps next hour. If you don't get next hour, grab the podcast. Subscribe to it, Armstrong. You get on demand. So I touched on this way earlier in the show, but I thought we could play a fun, fun game. This is part of the lecture series at the University of California, Berkeley Social Sciences School, which are not sciences at all, including Decolonizing gender and sexualities, epistemies, subjects, rationalities, artivisms, practices and movements.
Jack Armstrong
You can take a class or go to a lecture called Decolonizing Gender. What the hell?
Ryan Seacrest
Gets even better than that? And here's the game we're going to play now. If you're driving, we urge you to exercise caution, but play along with us now. Count on your fingers the number of terms you either don't know what that means or phrases that you can't imagine what they mean and we'll see. Play along at home. Katie, I would love for you to do this if you have time. The lecture is Theory of Water, hosted by Leanne Betsa Somaki Simpson. I apologize, Leanne, if I've mispronounced your name. Here we go. Theory of Water uses Mishi Sagi nishnabi consciousness to dismantle and think beyond the present moment in the face of ongoing genocides, extinct glaciers, police killings, children alone in cages at borders, the resurgence of fascist states, and a dying planet. Simpson asks, what does it mean? As Rebecca Bell Gilmore asks us in Wave Sound to listen to water, what does it mean? As Dionne Brand writes through her diaspora consciousness and by inventorying the quotidian disasters of our time in her epic poem Nomenclature, to quote, Believe in Water. Using Anishinaabe origin stories, poetry, and thinking alongside writers and artists, these essays turned to water as a generative space for world making against empire within the network of life that makes up this planet. One more sentence. Theory of Water immerses the reader into water as a liminal space resistant to regiment and considers future formations for life beyond our current collective imaginings.
Jack Armstrong
Well, I would have to be a circus freak with seven fingers on each hand to count.
Ryan Seacrest
Do you have the slightest idea what you would hear in that talk?
Jack Armstrong
Wow. And the sort of person that would gleefully go to that? There's no way they understand all that stuff.
Ryan Seacrest
Katie, I. Dude, I have no idea what you just said. Hands. Toes.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah.
Ryan Seacrest
Nostrils. Head to nostrils. I think it's. Well, Jack, to your point. And that's part of the woke thing, is they or their intellectual overlords Invent all of this vocabulary, and then the kids throw it around and angrily lecture you if you don't understand the liminal space, resistant to regiment. And. But some of. Some of the words like equity to the untrained ear sound like. Well, that sounds like equality. Our whole country's based on that. So I guess I'm in favor of this. It's how they win some of these arguments just by perverting language. But, yeah, evidently, like wackadoodle poets are gonna jabber about water. That's as close as I can come to having any idea what that event is.
Jack Armstrong
You know, it would knock that out.
Ryan Seacrest
Of the park is if they had.
Jack Armstrong
Kamala Harris teach that class. Ah, perfect.
Ryan Seacrest
Oh, that reminds me. Do we have time for this? I don't think we do. All right. Brand new Kamala Harris clip.
Jack Armstrong
Cool. You know, James Hour. James Lindsay says the point of those things is that you don't know it. Then they can kind of control. Yeah. The conversation.
Ryan Seacrest
Oh, yeah. You can't. How do you argue against water as a liminal space resistant to regiment? Where are you gonna start, chum?
Jack Armstrong
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Podcast Summary: Armstrong & Getty On Demand
Episode: A Dog Just Shot Someone!
Release Date: March 11, 2025
Host/Authors: Jack Armstrong & Joe Getty
Platform: iHeartPodcasts
In the episode titled "A Dog Just Shot Someone!", hosts Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty delve into a variety of intriguing and sometimes controversial topics. The discussion ranges from unusual news incidents to geopolitical struggles, the rise and fall of local industries, public figures' political endeavors, mental health awareness, and critiques of contemporary academic discourse. This summary captures the key points, discussions, insights, and conclusions presented throughout the episode.
Timestamp: [02:31] – [07:25]
The hosts open the episode with a bizarre news story reported by a simulated newsroom segment. According to the report, a man was shot in the leg by his dog in Frazier just before 4 AM. The incident occurred as the man was lying in bed with a gun nearby. Police stated that the dog jumped onto the bed, inadvertently getting its paw stuck on the gun's trigger, resulting in the accidental discharge.
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Timestamp: [08:07] – [11:11]
Armstrong and Getty transition to discussing the geopolitical struggle between the United States and China over the supply of critical minerals essential for modern technologies, such as electric vehicles and submarines. They highlight the US government's investment in a graphite mine in Mozambique and a processing plant in Louisiana, aiming to reduce dependence on China, which controls over 90% of the world's battery-grade graphite supply.
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Timestamp: [11:11] – [15:15]
The conversation shifts to the ambitious yet failed attempt by Pueblo, Colorado, to become the "Napa Valley of Cannabis." Initially, the promise of a cannabis boom attracted significant investment, with local officials envisioning economic revitalization amidst declining traditional industries like steel and slaughterhouses.
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Timestamp: [15:15] – [37:26]
A substantial portion of the episode is dedicated to discussing Elon Musk's foray into politics and the resultant backlash affecting Tesla. The hosts analyze Musk's attempts to overhaul government bureaucracy and reform entitlements, leading to widespread public and legal challenges.
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Timestamp: [37:26] – [21:06]
The hosts share personal anecdotes and insights into living with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), inspired by a segment discussing country music star Luke Combs' experience with a specific variant of OCD.
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Timestamp: [39:32] – [43:57]
In a segment critiquing contemporary academic discourse, Armstrong and Getty examine a lecture series titled "Theory of Water" from the University of California, Berkeley's Social Sciences School. The lecture focuses on decolonizing gender and sexuality, among other topics, which the hosts find convoluted and inaccessible.
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In "A Dog Just Shot Someone!", Armstrong and Getty navigate a spectrum of topics with humor, skepticism, and critical analysis. From the absurdity of a dog-inflicted accident to the complexities of international mineral politics, the volatility of local cannabis markets, the intertwining of business and politics exemplified by Elon Musk, personal insights into mental health, and critiques of contemporary academic discourse, the episode offers a thought-provoking journey through current events and societal issues. The hosts' engaging dialogue ensures that listeners are both entertained and informed, even if they haven't tuned into the podcast themselves.
Notable Quotes Overview:
"Accident. Yeah. So the dog claims you. You pretend to throw the tennis ball." – Jack Armstrong ([03:08])
"Greenlight.Com iheart @&t has a new guarantee because most things in life are not guaranteed." – Ryan Seacrest ([10:59])
"It's not nearly the dream it was sold to be." – Jack Armstrong ([14:54])
"Elon Musk's jump into politics is now drawing backlash with Tesla takedown protests across the country." – Ryan Seacrest ([30:29])
"He wrote a book about it. We interviewed him about it." – Jack Armstrong ([20:56])
"You can't. How do you argue against water as a liminal space resistant to regiment?" – Ryan Seacrest ([43:28])
These quotes encapsulate the hosts' perspectives and the episode's critical tone towards various issues.