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This is an iHeart podcast, guaranteed human.
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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.
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This is the largest state sponsor of terror that we're dealing with. I think after Maduro, every adversary like the Ayatollah should be in a little bit of a fear factor as to what this President may or may not do. The people of Iran, ultimately, they're not prepared to overthrow the Ayatollah as we speak. President's pre positioned military assets to deal with this issue. And I know he has a lot of options on the table right now. Yeah, he does have a lot of options on the table right now. I was listening to a podcast last night with Eli Lake. I don't know how many of you all know who he is. Really interesting reporter, but he said one of the not reported on enough angles of this attack on Iran is that so these protests emerge in the street and grow and then there are the threats and then Trump comes out with his red line. If you start shooting protesters in the street, you know, then I'm, I got their back and then we don't do anything. And that's because Trump was informed by, you know, people in the Pentagon and other people that, hey, we, we have used a lot of our air defense systems and all kinds of stuff that we need if we're going to go to war with Iran. We, a lot of it's gone to Iraq, Ukraine and Israel and you know, that sort of thing. And that this is, you know, not getting enough attention that the thing that a lot of people were complaining about with back in Ukraine and Israel has come to a situation where we want to do something but we got to wait because we don't have as much stuff in our arsenal because we helped out these other people.
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I remember talking about that a few years ago. Replacement rate for artillery and various weapons systems and how we were burning through it at, you know, 500 units a year when we can only produce 34 units per year. It's not difficult math to do. Yeah, interesting. Well, plus so much of our offensive firepower was in the Caribbean to snatch up Maduro.
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Yeah, that's an interesting one.
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So first of all, let us touch on the topic of having assets in place. Coming up, by the way, the delightful list of insulting nicknames Trump has used for various people. We have what purports to be a complete list. Stay with us. Both hilarious and somewhat discouraging. Oh, this is from one of my favorite open sourcey intelligence websites, Twitter accounts, newsletters, et cetera. Satellite imagery of the. Oh, careful with pronouncing this. Muafak salty air base.
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Michael, hit the delay.
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Thank you for support. Yeah, we're done. It was captured by various, you know, satellite imagery companies and obtained by the Washington Post. Shows at least a. Apparently they still have people who can receive, you know, satellite imagery at the was few remaining employees shows at least a dozen F15E Strike Eagles along with nine AC10 Thunderbolt 2s on the tarmac at the base. As the ongoing buildup of military aircraft in the Middle east by the US Air Force continues directed at Iran, this deployment represents classic strike staging. Forward positioning a 10 Thunderbolt 2s and F15 Strike Eagles to Jordan is not a routine rotation or show of force measure. These platforms are optimized for short range high intensity operations against hardened or mobile ground targets in a pre scouted battle space. The A10 is built for close air support and battle battlefield interdiction, not extended deterrence patrols. The F15E brings heavy precision guided munitions for deep strikes. Together their presence points to preparations for rapid follow on kinetic operations once initial engagements begin. The setup reflects late stage logistical preparation for offensive action.
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I don't know what we're going to do, but I certainly would not be shocked if we go full regime change like really big loud, noisy show and an attempt at regime change wouldn't shock me at all.
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Now I cannot answer to the expertise of the people analyzing this, but they certainly, certainly come off as knowledgeable. The asset composition signals offensive intent. The A10 excels at engaging armored or fortified ground forces in the aftermath of opening moves. The F15E provides standoff precision against high value or time sensitive targets. This pairing is characteristic of a plan to neutralize enemy defenses and mobile units swiftly post initial contact.
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If, if Trump goes regime. Regime change in Iran, that level of attack, that'll be the biggest thing he's done in his presidency either term, right?
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Yes.
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Mm, that's a big deal.
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Operational window is tightening, they say. Concurrent patterns, heightened drone operations, naval posturing in nearby waters, mounting diplomatic friction and senior statements referencing past operations like Midnight Hammer suggest the US is moving to close out preparatory phases and establish a defensible casus belli. Each day without de escalation or concessions incrementally raises the likelihood of execution. Okay, and then. I thought this was interesting. Axios reporting plans for the U.S. iran nuclear talks for tomorrow. Friday the. What will that be? The 6th. What is today? Yeah, okay. Friday the 6th, after several middle Eastern leaders urgently lobbied the Trump administration on Wednesday afternoon not to follow through on threats to away, according to two U.S. officials here. Just to give you a feeling of how the talks about the talks are going, the talks will be held in Oman, as Iran insisted, despite the US Initially rejecting changes to the original plan to meet in Istanbul. At least nine countries from the region reached out to the White House at the highest level, strongly urging the US not to cancel the meeting. They asked us to keep the meeting, listen to what the Iranians have to say. We told the Arabs we will do the meeting if they insist, but we are very skeptical. Second, U.S. officials said the Trump administration agreed to hold the meetings to be respectful to U.S. allies in the region and, quote, in order to continue pursuing the diplomatic track. But here's what happened. The Iranians on Tuesday said they want to move the talks to Oman and hold them in bilateral format to ensure that they focused only on nuclear issues and not other issues like missiles that are priorities for the U.S. and others in the region. U.S. officials at first open a request to the request to change the location, then rejected it before reversing course once again. Iranian foreign minister confirmed the talks were scheduled. Blah, blah, blah.
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So is this it?
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Was this or nothing? They said, okay, nothing, said a senior official. Then they went back and forth and back and forth.
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So this happens sometimes in negotiations. Is. Did Trump just hit him with something that. No, they know they're not. That Iran will never agree to. I mean, if you agree to, that'd be great. Then we could avoid this whole problem. But you're never going to agree to this. Kind of like what Putin's doing with Ukraine. Yeah, sure, in the war, you just got to give me all the land, including stuff that I haven't grabbed. You need to get rid of your military and I put in a president and I'll, you know, then we'll.
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Don't quit.
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We'll quit.
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In a much more morally defensible illustration, I think, what the administration is saying, all right, you will cease to be a malign actor in the region for the year, will do these five things, and then you can say, look, we aggressively pursued diplomacy as opposed to warfare to accomplish our aims. We had this damn meeting, all right? Now leave us alone. We got some bombing to do. Final note from a top official in the Trump administration. We are not naive about the Iranians. If there is a real conversation to have, we will have it, but we are not going to waste our time.
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So here's the interesting thing. I Learned from reporter Eli Lake yesterday. And I don't know if I'd heard this term before, elite cohesion. I guess that's a term in political science, but you need to have elite cohesion to, to, to hold these sorts of things together, your authoritarian regimes. And the belief is that Iran may have lost their elite cohesion in that a lot of people at very high levels, like families, you know, whose dad is a Revolutionary Guard member or whatever, were not cool with murdering 20,000 young people in the streets. That was too far. And so are you. For different reasons. Whether it's for moral reasons or you think, hey, we got a pretty good gig going here. I've got a really good life, we're making a lot of money, what the hell?
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And when, when the mob comes for people's heads, my head's going to be.
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One of them, right? So the elite cohesion may be, may have been damaged a lot by that really, really strong reaction, as you keep pointing out, multiples bigger than Tiananmen Square, which people still talk about 40 years later. And so it's one of the biggest put downs of a revolt ever. So if some of the elites are like, the Revolutionary Guard are like, hey, hey, hey, talking amongst ourselves here, how about we get to get to grab old weird beard, get him out of here, talk to Trump and say we don't need a nuclear weapon and we're fine with that, right? We just want to run this country, continue to be wealthy, etc.
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Yeah, exactly. Once again, you must understand that the Revolutionary Guard is not just a military force. It is a giant corporation for profit. They own businesses and factories and tracts of land and hotels and God knows what else.
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Of course, arguing with myself, I would have thought that would have happened years ago with Putin. We're now four years in. You'd have thought their elite cohesion would have gone out the window with all those oligarchs thinking, what the hell are we accomplishing? I have the world's greatest life. I got four mistresses, eight houses, I make a million dollars a day. What are you, what are we even trying to do in Ukraine?
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But I'd rather have eight mistresses and four houses. But that's just me, so. Yeah, well, dictating is a tough business. It's not. Everybody succeeds at it. Things are going great till they're going very, very badly. How dictator.
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How long will Bad Bunny's national anthem be? You can bet on this, of course.
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Well, wait a minute. He's singing the national anthem.
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No, no, no, no, no. He's not.
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Who's.
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Who's the guy that's singing the national anthem. I got it in front of me. I don't really know the bloke.
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Nobody knows.
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Well, I do know, but Charlie Puth. Is that how you say his name? Anyway, singing the national anthem. How long will it be? What's the over under? What's the longest ever? Shortest ever, in case you want to wager on that. Will they mention you know, how many times will Bad Bunny's name be mentioned in the first half? You can bet on all that sort of stuff if you're a degenerate gambler.
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Among Donald Trump's nicknames for Zaran Mumdani, my little communist, liddle communist with Ds. And Mamdani the commie. The comprehensive list of Trump's insulting nicknames for people coming up.
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Those are all good.
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Okay.
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Lots of good stuff on the way.
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Stair, Armstrong and Getty.
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A hospital in France was evacuated recently after a male patient allegedly arrived with.
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A World War I artillery shell in his rectum. Wow.
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I mean, I know men tend to.
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Put off doctor's visits, but that's just crazy.
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So it happened during World War I.
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And he just went to the doctor.
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So what is the story there? I mean, that's a good joke, but what, what is going on there?
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Guy getting his jollies and went with a World War I artillery shell.
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He just happened to have one around.
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For his object, did I?
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Don't.
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Satisfaction. Yeah, I, I can't even imagine.
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He's like a World War I memorabilia collector and a bit of a purvo.
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And thought, you know what, who am I to judge? But yes, that would appear to be the scenario here. The doctor says he was, quote, in a state of extreme discomfort.
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Well, that's not what he was going for. No, that was not his goal.
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Ordinance. That's an odd choice.
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Yes.
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How about you look around? I don't know, the kitchen, the garage. It's literally anything before you start putting artillery shells in you.
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100 year old a. Artillery shells.
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You know, I think Darwin was trying to take care of something. Yeah, let him do it.
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Must have got a phone call in the middle or something.
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Yeah. Let's see. Is this characteristic adaptive or not? Shoving artillery shells up you? Yeah, Lord. Yeah, I know, it's disgusting. Speaking of which, complete exhaustive list of nicknames used by Donald Trump during his political career. They range from calling Steve Bannon, Sloppy Steve to Joe Biden, Crooked Joe, Joe Hyden, Sleepy Joe, Slow Joe and Auto.
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Pen Hayden's Pretty good.
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Joe Hyden. That is pretty good.
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That was when he was running during the COVID and never went out.
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Michael Bloomberg was called Mini Mike. Richard Blumenthal, the stolen valor senator from Connecticut, characterized as Donang Dick. It's a pretty good one. Alvin Bragg, Fat Alvin, the first of many fat people we're gonna hear about.
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That's when you just don't really have a lot of time to think of a good one.
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You just right, you're fat. Go after body shape. Yeah. Jeb Bush, of course, was low energy. Jeb.
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Yeah.
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Pete Buttigieg, characterized as Alfred E. Newman. Elaine Chao, the Secretary of labor and wife of.
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Old man McConnell.
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Yeah, Mitch McConnell. That's right. Coco Chow.
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Yeah. That was not cool.
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Liz Cheney, low iq Warhawk. Chris Christie, Sloppy Chris Christie. Hillary Clinton came in for Crazy Hillary, Crooked Hillary and beautiful Hillary, used Only after the 2016 election victory over her.
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Oh, we've got some great audio of Hillary when she was running from president for president. Not from. She kind of ran from it running for president in 2008. And what she said about illegal immigration, which would make her a Nazi by today's standards.
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James Comey came in for a kicking on multiple occasions. You may recall that. Leakin James Comey. Lyin James Comey. Shady James Comey. Slime Ball James Comey and Slippery James Comey. Bob Corker, Liddle Bob Corker with D's. The first of several Littles Ted Cruz, Lion Ted, which has now been retired. Ron DeSantis, inexplicably Rob.
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Yeah, he did that for a long time, which was, I guess, just disrespectful.
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Ron Desanctimonious Ron Desanctus and Meatball Ron. Also tiny D. Betsy DeVos, the Secretary of Education called Ditzy Devos. Dianne Feinstein, Sneaky Diane. Jeff Flake. Who was Jeff Flakey? Al Franken was Al Frankenstein. What are we in third grade? Nikki Haley, Bird Brain.
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Kamala Harris.
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Another one of your rich, rich troves of nicknames. Comrade Kamala. Crazy Kamala. Jamila K. Laughing Kamala Lion. Kamala Harrison Kamabla. Asa Hutchinson was Ada Hutchinson again. This is like first grade.
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Yeah, that's not my name.
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Let's see. Robert Kennedy Jr. Is just Junior. We did Zoron Thomas Massie, Rand Paul Jr. Kevin McCarthy. My Kevin. Mitch McConnell, Broken Old Crow and Cocaine Mitch. Evan McMullen, former CIA ops officer, was Evan McMuffin. Stephen Miller. Weird Stephen was his nickname for him. Jerry Nadler. Of course. Fat Jerry.
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So many others.
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We'll get to them as the show continues.
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CBS News had a report about self driving cars last night, Tesla versus Waymo. And that was kind of interesting. Want to touch on that? Decoupling from China. The Wall Street Journal is taking a look at the mess that that is going to be really something. All kinds of things on the way. Hope you can stay around if you miss a segment gets podcast Armstrong and Getty so I mentioned this a little bit ago, I just wanted to get this on. These sorts of clips have been making the rounds but from Hillary and Barack Obama. But it's just amazing how much the issue has moved around immigration and particularly illegal immigration. This is Hillary Clinton when she was running against Barack Obama in 2008 on the topic of illegal immigration.
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So I think we gotta have tough conditions, tell people to come out of the shadows. If they've committed a crime, deport them, no questions asked, they're gone. If they crowd cheers if they've been working and are law abiding, we should say here are the conditions for you staying. You have to pay a stiff fine because you came here illegally. You have to pay back taxes and you have to try to learn English and you have to wait in line.
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Listen to the crowd cheer like crazy to you need to learn English and wait in line and pay a high fine for the Democrat candidate. Yeah, that's what people who are doing nothing wrong other than being here illegally. Right. If you're illegal and you're a criminal, you go immediately that no questions asked.
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People cheer of course not.
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How did we move from there to where we are now? Of course most of America is still where Hillary was in 2008. It's just that the media has moved. Right.
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The media's activist leftists. And what amazes me is they get away with this is wrong. It's always been wrong and this is racist. And you know, there's no illegal people.
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On stolen land and everything like that. And you're like whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
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Like eight years ago your party was saying something completely different. At least give me the like roadmap of how you got here. No, it's always been wrong.
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You're racist, it's white supremacy, blah blah blah.
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No, they don't even address it. They just try to out shout everybody and win. The poor impressionable kids.
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No, it's self evidently wrong. Doesn't even need explanation.
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Right.
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Except for just a few years ago, your leading candidate and a whole bunch of you had her her book on your coffee table to show how enlightened you were. You don't agree with her anymore apparently. All right, that's enough of that.
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Well, in the same way that other just absolutely fundamental truths have now been overturned. Apparently so.
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I thought this was interesting article in the Wall Street Journal. The American and Chinese economies are hurting, hurtling toward a messy divorce. They give a couple examples right off the bat. In China's northeastern grain belt, farmers are getting a windfall from the government. More subsidies to grow soybeans. China has invested a trillion dollars, a trillion in their agriculture sector to be able to declare economic independence from the United States and not need to rely on us to buy a single thing, not a single soybean, a trillion dollar effort. And then as it says in The Wall Street Journal 7500 miles away in Milwaukee, for instance, this is one in many, many, many, many situations, an industrial parts manufacturer is scrambling to use non Chinese made components in its US Factories as the Trump administration wields tariffs to force people into that situation. And everybody realizes the direction this is going. The forces underlying these two trends are driven by a reality settling in across Washington and Beijing. The two countries are starting to manage a messy divorce on the most sensitive issues of trade. And both view it as a matter of national security and something that absolutely has to be done. So it is going to be done. Chinese leaders have determined that decoupling or de risking is inevitable. The shift fulfills a long standing Chinese ambition to no longer be a junior partner to the West. It's a break with decades of Beijing's orthodoxy that China's economic success depended on selling low cost goods to American schooners. And we would buy the low cost goods that were just crap, absolutely pieces of crap that are worthless that we would go out and buy. But it helped fund China and building its technological might with US money and know how. But now they're just we're not buying Chinese stuff, they're not using American stuff and it's going to be a, a fight to try to get other countries to come into our orbit or their orbit. And we'll see who wins. Right?
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Well, they've decided they are smart and rich and capable enough now to separate from the mothership. I wish them ill as it says.
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Here as over the past year China has started to see the US as a peer equal, no longer a behemoth they need to rely upon.
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Right? Right. Well, the messy divorce has begun. The good news is there's not going to be any her friends, my friends problem because all of China's friends are a holes they've got like Russia in Iran North Korea, although they're certainly trying. Trying to lure people into their orbit. Although that, you know, I'm not going to go into a lot of detail, but that was working really well for a while. But then more and more countries got burned by China being utterly amoral, greedy, exploitive, cruel.
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I hope this for, you know, just forces us to wean ourselves off of crap, just buying crap. Example at our house the other night, pencil sharpener, little plastic pencil sharpener thing bought at the dollar store for like, I don't know, it was like a nickel. I mean, it was so cheap, probably a couple bucks by today's standards. With inflation, everything like it. That thing was literally worthless. Well, certainly worthless as a pencil sharpener. I don't know if you could come up with something else to do with it, but I mean, there's. It was just worthless Chinese crap. I mean, use it as a bookmark. And why stuff like that even exists. Somebody makes that in a factory in China, just. And there's so many things like that Dollar Tree, Walmart, all these stores are full of stuff that's worthless. And it. And it gets manufactured and shipped all on the other side of the world and distributed across the country. And then we buy it for some reason and then recognize. Well, this sucks, this tool. But the screwdriver turns. The whole, the whole head turns when you turn the handle or whatever it is. But what. But it's been continuing for years.
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I'm sorry, tell me again, what do you call this device? That's a pencil sharpener. Well, I have applied it to my pencil and my pencil has not been sharpened. So let's try it again. What do you call this device?
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It's crap.
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It's crap.
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It's crap. I talked about this a couple of weeks ago. I just think it's so darn interesting. So there's a company in Germany, I read about this in the New York Times, that makes pencils the way pencils used to be when we were kids, the way a number two pencil was when we were a kid. Those were good pencils. I don't know if you use the cheap pencils now. They are just worthless. They are worthless. You can't sharpen them. The lead breaks. The eraser is nothing. The eraser is just like a rock that tears up your paper. So I bought these. I bought these German pencils that are just made exactly like pencils used to be made. They're like a dollar apiece. They're like a dollar a piece as opposed to, you know, 10 for a buck like you get at the dollar tree or whatever, which is by the way what pencils used to cost when we were kids. They probably adjusted for inflation, were like a dollar a piece. But they were good. And my, and both my sons doing homework like wow, this eraser actually works. And I can sharpen and can write like you know, a whole paper on it and everything like that. And I bought the same thing, the same company makes a pencil sharpener and it was like 15 bucks but it works great. Like fence assorters used to work and just there's a million examples of that. I, I, I think we can manufacture stuff that'll still be relatively cheap. You buy it once in your life and it actually works.
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Right? Right. You remember those pencil sharpeners we used to have in school that would be screwed to the wall? Those super heavy dudes. I mean like after the bombing of Dresden, all of those pencil sharpeners were still intact in Germany.
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I bought one of those, put them on the wall in our last house. I had it on the wall just like the school one. It was, it was a heavy duty steel and it actually sharpened your pencil.
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That may be the first time I ever felt wealthy was Judy and I got one of those pencil sharpeners and put it on our wall for our kids.
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Yeah, exactly.
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So they could sharpen pencils and style. By God, that thing was effective. Man, that's some US steel right there.
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Rough greens.com out to eat last night and my 14 year old hit me with this question. What's the loudest noise the human body can make? Not including your mouth? It's pretty obvious once you think about it, but it's a good. For some reason it sends you bad directions when you first think of it.
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Obviously everybody goes to explosive flat shots.
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But clapping, clapping is. Yes, that's my answer. Clear, obvious answer. But I just thought that was clever in that it immediately. Why does it immediately send your brain to something untoward when the answer is perfectly toward?
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Well, if any question posed by a 14 year old boy sends me toward. All right, what's the gross or improper answer to this? I was one once. I know their game.
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That's a good one.
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So please clap.
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Thank you, Jeb.
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Low energy. Jeb.
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Charlie Puth is singing the national anthem on Sunday at the Super Bowl.
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Is that a misprint?
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Charlie Puth? I don't know.
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I don't know.
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Charlie Puth, I. I've heard of him, but I don't think I know his act. Anyway, I can guess roughly what he's.
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Like, but he's a first class warbler. If he's singing at the super bowl, probably is.
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And you can bet on the length of the Super Bowl. So the over under is 119 and a half seconds. So just under two minutes is the national anthem.
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Yes.
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The length of the national anthem.
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Yes, yes. You said the length of the Super Bowl. Oh, I'm going with four quarters, but.
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I think you can bet on that too because is it going to be three and a half hours or four hours or how long?
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But the length of. Not four, please.
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The length of the national anthem, the over under is about two minutes because historically that's about where you know it comes in and you can bet on that. So I've got the longest national anthem ever was Alicia Keys, who I really, really like. Hers was 236. She really stretched that thing out. Back in 2013 the shortest national anthem was in the 80s. Neil Diamond. Don's turning light. One minute, two seconds. Man, he hurried through that thing. Oh say can you see? He must have really got to it in his tight polyester pants. 1 minute, 2 seconds. He cut it in half.
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Way to get after us.
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Did he have a plane to catch or he needed to pee or. I don't know.
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He's a hit maker, man. Don't bore us. Get to the chorus. He got right to the catch versus.
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He skipped a couple verses, right? You know what? You're right. He's from the era where a hit record was two and a half minutes long. I gotta get, gotta get to the hook. Let's get to the hook. Don's early night. But you can bet on all those kind of things. What are the other things you can bet on? You're probably wondering yourself, or maybe you're not wondering, but I'm going to tell you anyway. Coin toss Result. Gatorade color that will be thrown on the winning coach. You can bet on what color the Gatorade will be. Orange or green, usually the leading contenders. All kinds of different stuffs with score. What team will score first? Will it be a defensive score and offensive score? Touchdown or a, a field goal? Or do you want to go really wild and go safety or something like that? All kinds of things you can bet on that.
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B
Pick six.
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A
There's one more good one I wanted to get to. Your color options for Gatorade are purple, orange, yellow, blue and clear. I think yellow and orange. I think that's where your money is.
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B
Those are my top flavors, for sure.
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A
You can bet on whether or not.
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B
Depends what color golf shirt I'm wearing on a golf course because I can't be trusted with liquids nor foods. So I generally match my meal and or beverage to what I'm wearing.
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A
Every time it happens, the coach in question has a brief look of God and then he realizes, oh, I just won the most important thing in my life, so I guess I'll let it go. But their first, like, facial expression is who did that? Because, you know, it's also very cold. Who the hell wants ice dumped on them? Nobody. No one. And when it first happened, my first reaction, I'm about to punch. Oh, that's right, I just won the Super Bowl. I suppose I should be happy. I'll let it go this time.
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B
I always just think of the sticky.
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A
Yeah.
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B
Oh, me too. I hate being sticky.
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A
Oh, and you. And you probably do hours of interviews and talking, hugging your wife and your kids. In the pleasure, you're covered in sticky, freezing cold goo and your underwear wet and.
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B
No, not again.
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A
Oh, you can bet, for instance, on will the Seahawks attempt to pass from the opponent's one yard line. Do people just do this for fun or are there people that like, really study this and attempt to make some money on the deal?
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B
No, I would say both, but much more of the former. Much more of people just taking a flyer. 10 bucks on this, 10 bucks on that, 10 bucks on that. And you hoot and holler.
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A
Bad Bunny. Halftime. Wardrobe, Exposure. Props. Whether something unexpected happens during the halftime show performance, I'd have to know the details on what counts as unexpected or not.
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B
I expect the unexpected.
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A
Halftime. First song by Green Day. Green Day's playing. Also did not know that you know that Katie Kate. Green Day is involved in the halftime show, I believe. Are they part of the halftime show or part of the free opening? But I'll tell you what. That's Bad Bunny, I think is going to keep his mouth shut. Freaking midget. Billy Joe Armstrong Angry. Us hating. He is absolutely gonna say something.
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B
Elderly angry. Us hating. Please.
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A
Is absolutely gonna say something that. That makes it hard for me to enjoy their music ever again. Shut up.
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B
Oh, yeah.
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A
And he'll say it in an English accent because he's from Berkeley.
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B
Inexplicably. Right? Idiot.
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A
We got more on the way. Stay here.
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B
Armstrong and Getty.
- [32:37]
A
So maybe we'll get to this a little bit later. The LA Times got a story that the mayor, Karen Bass, altered reports about the fire and the damage and the response to cover up things that made them look bad. Freaking mayor. Altering reports. According to the LA Times. So we'll get to that. Maybe an hour three.
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B
Yeah, absolutely. Shocking. Yet somewhat unsurprising. So I came across this. I apologize. I have mislaid something. Do you want to tell us what we're going to do next hour?
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A
Want to talk a little bit about the whole Savannah Guthrie's mom thing? We got some. Some new stuff. They put out a video. Savannah Guthrie and her siblings put out a video aimed at the kidnapper or kidnappers in theory. But we can get into that in hour three also.
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B
So this may make you angry. I hope it doesn't. But it should a little bit. And I secretly hope it does. Taking a look at inflation, which Jack mentioned in the previous segment a couple of different times in an offhand way, came across what a friend called the goat of charts. It's overall inflation over the last 25 years from 2000 on and then specific sorts of products and services and that sort of thing.
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A
Are you about to depress me? Because every time I get.
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B
No anger.
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A
It'll be anger every time I see these things and realize how the amount of, you know, a hundred dollar bill or $1,000 in your savings account isn't exactly what you remember it being. If you haven't been paying attention to inflation.
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B
Well, yeah. And that is part of my point. While some aspects of this are super interesting, like the fact that TVs are 98% less expensive. They're so cheap than they were back in 2000. Computer software and toys, like, likewise down 73, 74%. Cell phone services, clothing, new cars are actually down, adjusted for inflation, blah, blah, blah. And then the most interesting super hyperinflationary things are hospital services, number one, up 281%. That's almost quadrupled since the year 2000.
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A
Okay, that would explain it, because I've had a couple of situations, me and one of my kids, where the bills I got hit with were like, whoa, what would it be like if we had a real problem, right?
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B
Speaking of greed, head mobbed up monopolies. College tuition and fees is up just under 200% in 25 years. College textbooks, but to be fair, you.
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A
Get less for it, so.
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B
That's a good point. College Textbooks are up 177%. Childcare, nursery school, up 160%. Medi Cal Care Services, up 147%. Hourly wages, average hourly wages are actually up 131%. Housing's up 111%. Food and beverage, 106%. Here's the part I wanted to get to. And we're not going to have much time for my rant, but. But overall inflation is up 93% since 2000. So $100 worth of buying power in 2000. It would take you $198 right now. It's almost been cut in half. Put another way, because of government policy flooding the economy with currency to buy favors and to get elected over and over again, a dollar you saved in the year 2000 is now roughly worth worth roughly 53 cents. They have cut your life savings in half to promote their own power. Inflation is a tax, an unholy one.
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A
That is so depressing. If you think about it for very long, you're 401k.
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B
Not depressing, angering. You got to be angry. Get up off the couch, shake your fist.
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A
Huh?
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B
Armstrong and Getty.
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A
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