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Ryan Seacrest
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center.
Jack Armstrong
Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
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Elon Musk
-11 where my parents live in Salina, Kansas today. So there's some cold weather out there in the country. That's chilly.
Ryan Seacrest
Oh yeah. All sorts of historic cold and ice and snow all across the country. Musk Global colding.
Elon Musk
Musk and Trump were on Hannity last night for a sit down interview together. I think it's the first interview together. We got a bunch of clips from that. Some interesting stuff in there. I've decided I'm going to adopt the Elon uniform. I think. I think that's going to be my uniform going forward.
Ryan Seacrest
Do tell.
Elon Musk
The black jeans, black cowboy boots, black sport coat with some sort of T shirt that's clearly his uniform. It's the only thing I've seen him wear in the last two years. And it looks very comfortable. You need a look and it's slimming.
Ryan Seacrest
I support you in this. And speaking of Doge, very briefly, before we get into some fairly critical talk of the current potus, the Doge guys building momentum, creating excitement might be cutting American taxpayers in on the savings. As I pointed out earlier with the help of alert listener whoever it was, Josiah, if they save a dollar and cut out like a third of that and write a check to the American people and say, hey, some for savings, some for y'all, you paid these taxes. Doge will become a national craze. It will have a following like the Yankees and the Kansas City Chiefs and whatever else combined. It'll be the most popular thing ever done by government. We'll cut till there's nothing left to cut. The federal budget will be $300, but we'll more on that to come. That's very, to me, a very pos couple of his mistakes around the edge edges, but very positive.
Elon Musk
So why did Trump say what he said yesterday? Well, we have talked for years about how he is the most easily butthurt man who's ever lived. And Trump had said some, some of this stuff or hinted at it over the last couple of days that Zelensky was unpopular, that they needed to have an election, Zelensky needed to go. Zelensky made bad decisions. Ukraine started the war. These kinds of things were out there. And Zelensky said some fairly, I mean, pulling his punches, critical things of Trump about being bubbled and that sort of stuff. Well, Trump is not going to take an insult. Well, it was brought up in the press conference yesterday and that's when and Trump said he likes Zelensky as a person. But he launched into this, I want to see Peace.
Donald Trump
Look, you know why I want. Because I don't want all these people killed anymore. I'm looking at people that are being killed, and they're Russian and Ukrainian people, but they're people. Doesn't matter where they're from on the whole planet. And I think I have the power to end this war, and I think it's going very well. But today I heard, oh, well, we weren't invited. Well, you've been there for three years. You should have ended it. Three years. You should have never started it. You could have made a deal.
Elon Musk
Yeah, particularly around the Zelensky unhappy that he wasn't invited to the peace talks. The guy who's the president of the country that was attacked was not the talks. Okay, fine. But he complained about that, and Trump didn't like the complaint, so he said, you. You could have. You should have negotiated a deal.
Joe Getty
It.
Elon Musk
You shouldn't have started it. What the hell does that mean?
Ryan Seacrest
I'm tempted to say Trump just shot off his mouth and. Or he's got this. Just his belief in himself as a deal maker. That's a bit over the top, in my opinion.
Elon Musk
Play the short version of just that last part. You got to get the wording right here.
Donald Trump
And I think I have the power to end this war, and I think it's going very well. But today I heard, oh, well, we weren't invited. Well, you've been there for three years. You should have ended it. Three years. You should have never started it. You could have made a deal.
Ryan Seacrest
No, no, that's absolutely not true. None of that. For three years, you were invaded by a hostile totalitarian regime. I don't. I don't get it. It's bizarre.
Elon Musk
Six times your population or something like that. None of that is even close to true. So I don't. I don't know what that is.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah, I'm. I'm highly troubled by it and mystified it by it. Where I am on this is that there have been quite a few times during Trump's time on the scene and in office where I've thought, I have no idea what he's talking about. How could this possibly work out? And either it's abandoned or he pivots in a much more sane direction. The truth about Trump is he shoots off his mouth and then the reality comes down the road a little bit, and it's different. There are a number of things he said, very real politiky about the Ukraine situation that I agree with. As we were talking about last hour, Biden and Blinken and his whole crew and even Obama and all, they would say one thing with their mouths, but then their actions would belie their words. And what Trump or like Pete Hegseth said the other day, which I thought was premature, but they're just saying out loud, what is the truth about some of this stuff. So I'm not saying Trump is completely off base on this. That little screed was utterly indefensible. It gained nothing and just it to. To. Unless the. Well, no, there's no excuse for what he said. I think he just shut off his mouth. He thinks, I think that Putin is in a very weak state right now with the mind boggling casualties, the incredible hit to their treasury. I mean, Putin's had to recruit North Korean cannon fodder and Colombian mercenaries and he's getting financed from China. So he's now China pet and dependent on China. It's a terrible situation to be in. It could be that the shark Trump thinks, you know what, let's go in, negotiate with Putin right now. Let's cut all sorts of deals with Putin right now. He wants an end to the bloodshed and a little bit of territory. We give it to him and get whatever we can get. I don't know. That's the best spin I can come up with.
Elon Musk
So the New York Post editorial board blasts what Trump says and says in many, many words, what we basically just said. None of what he said there is true or even close to it. I mean, not even close. There's no fudge room on.
Ryan Seacrest
That's the opposite of true. In a lot of cases. They could have cut a deal. Hey, Vladimir, you want to talk deal? Yeah. The deal is I get your whole country. I'll be in Kiev tomorrow by dinner time. That was Putin's only offer.
Elon Musk
And I'm going to keep bombing schools full of children and raping women until you submit. That's.
Ryan Seacrest
Oh, and I'm gonna kidnap your children, by the way, and you'll never see them again. We'll make them royal, loyal Russians who hate your country. So that's our terms.
Elon Musk
And then the whole. He should have never started it. So how do you suppose. And the Wall Street Journal editorial board is besides himself with horror over that.
Ryan Seacrest
Also, as is Jim Garrity, very, very reasonable commentator for the National Review, for instance.
Elon Musk
Yeah. Commentary magazine, who is often friendly to things Trump is doing foreign policy wise called it despicable what he said. How do you suppose Marco Rubio reacted to that? I've been watching Marco on the Sunday shows for the last couple of years. I know how he feels about this whole thing. And what, and what a danger to the world allowing Putin to, you know, emerge the victor in this isn't and all that. How do you. When he heard, when somebody told him this is what your boss just said, he must have sat there with his head in his hands. What am I going to do now? Yeah, do I resign? Do I try to clean this up? Do I call him? Do I pretend he didn't say it?
Ryan Seacrest
Anybody who's had a successful career in anything knows what the expression managing up means. And if you work for Trump, you're going to have to do some serious managing up. And it's going to be a challenge.
Elon Musk
Marco Rubio is way more, he's way closer to the I am than a lot of the, you know, most MAGA loyalist non inventors crowd is. And Marco Rubio, I guarantee you, thinks I'm better off in this job trying to manage it than if I leave and somebody who actually believes like the MAGA crowd believes takes over. I'm sure Marco Rubio thinks that.
Ryan Seacrest
So again, I'm trying to, as usual, if you're new to the show, wait a minute. Are they pro Trump or anti Trump? Now we're just pro trying to figure out what's actually happening and what's likely to happen next. I can picture Trump, who can be extremely transactional, thinking at the beginning of the thing, they should have called up Putin said, hey, we see you're mashing all those troops. Tell you what, you can carve off a little of the Donbas. You can have Crimea and the land route to Crimea. Don't invade, we'll just cut you that deal. I could see Trump believing that would have been smarter than allowing hundreds of thousands of people to be killed and injured and abducted and the rest of it. It's a very reptilian, realpolitik way to look at it. It's not completely crazy. On the other hand, if that is Trump's point of view, what he doesn't get are two things. Number one, as the old expression goes, Putin's appetite will grow with the eating. Yeah, he will just want more and more and more. And secondly, if somebody tried to take like the practice green at Bedminster Golf Club, one of Trump's properties, saying, yeah, the city dump needs to expand. We just need like a thousand square feet. Trump would fight it until he was in the grave, and then he would task Don Jr to fight it till he was in the grave. He wouldn't give away an inch of this country or his properties or whatever. Not an inch, inch. But Zelensky is supposed to say, yeah, the cost to be too high so you can bully us into having part of our country. I don't get it.
Elon Musk
Here's a little more of Trump from that same press conference.
Donald Trump
I could have made a deal for Ukraine that would have given him almost all of the land. Everything. Almost all of the land. And no people would have been killed and no city would have been demolished and not one dome would have been knocked down, but they chose not to do it that way. And President Biden, in all fairness, he doesn't have a clue what he. He was so bad for this. He was so bad, so pathetic, so sad. But with all of that being said, look, we. It is what it is.
Elon Musk
Zelensky could have offered up a little of his land, and Putin had said, okay, good, we'll call it good, as opposed to, I want more and you can't stop me.
Ryan Seacrest
That Second one is 100% correct, obviously.
Elon Musk
And then, and then Trump goes on.
Donald Trump
To say this, but when you see what's taken place in Ukraine with millions of people killed, including the soldiers, millions of people killed, a big percentage of their city is knocked down to the ground. I don't know how anybody even lives there. You know, when they say they took a poll and zelensky is at 4%, who's living there? You know, I mean, people are. It's hard to believe that people live there. Their cities are being knocked down, and this is something that would have never happened. And by the way, for four years, it didn't happen, was never going to happen.
Elon Musk
Their cities are being knocked down by an evil war criminal. I just, I don't even understand what he's talking about. But what was that first part there? I already lost the first part of that where he jumped into the millions.
Ryan Seacrest
Killed, cities knocked down. Zelinsky's unpopular.
Elon Musk
Oh, the 4% approval. Nobody that, that nobody knows what poll he's referring to. The latest polling from two weeks ago had Zelinsky at 52%. He's way down from the 90% he had. Like the first two years of the war, it's gone down, but he's not at 4%. But Trump's calling for new elections, that clearly the people want a new leader. I don't, I don't know what the strategy is here. I get, and I know a lot of you, I don't know if it's a lot, but you text and you tweet a lot that the war's got to end and wars are evil and do you want more people to die? And wars do need to end and I don't want more people to die. But if you reward Putin, there's going to be even more people dying in the future.
Ryan Seacrest
We're going to prevent war by showing weakness. Good strategy. Good luck. Let me know how that move to a parallel universe, please, and try that strategy and let me know how it works.
Elon Musk
I will be interested to see if Marco addresses this at all. Well, he's going to be asked that. First time he, first time he sits down for an interview somewhere, they're going to ask him this. So he's got to have an answer ready to go, right? I mean, first time Western press gets a chance to ask him questions. President Trump said Ukraine started the war. Do you agree with that?
Ryan Seacrest
What's he going to deflect? He'll say there were missteps on both sides. It could have been prevented.
Elon Musk
Do you think Trump's going to walk this back at all?
Ryan Seacrest
Yes.
Elon Musk
Like he, like he maybe even thinks he shouldn't have said that?
Ryan Seacrest
I don't know that, but I think he will walk it back.
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Elon Musk
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Elon Musk
We've been saying for a while you can't do parody anymore or satire. It's impossible because you can't tell real from satire. And I got a great example of it coming up.
Ryan Seacrest
And Joe Getty's grand unifying theme of global politics.
Elon Musk
Wow. Joe's Gut grand unifying theory.
Ryan Seacrest
Stay with us until it explains everything.
Elon Musk
Gonna make what Einstein and Feynman Oppenheimer were trying to pull off with the theory of relativity. And please, quantum physics. Putting them together seem like nothing.
Ryan Seacrest
Tinker Toys. Anyway, stay tuned if you can. If you can't, grab the podcast. Sue, have you heard about gut pop? This is the sort of thing Katie, you'd probably be interested in. I don't know if you're are. Have you heard the term gut pop?
Elon Musk
No.
Ryan Seacrest
And I'm wondering why you think I should enjoy this.
Elon Musk
Pop as in soda?
Ryan Seacrest
Yes, exactly. It's. It is soft drink. Fizzy soft drink that is probiotic.
Elon Musk
Okay. Yeah. Probiotics are so hot right now.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah, they are. Yeah. Yeah.
Elon Musk
It's just changed their lives to start taking some sort of probiotic pill or food or gut pop or whatever. Yeah, I'm not a big soda person. I have maybe like three a year. Hanson, our executive producer, says it has changed his life, really. He started taking a probiotic. What do you take, a pill or a wheat germ or something? Hanson, what do you take? He takes a pill and it's changed his life. He was telling me this other day.
Ryan Seacrest
Hey, hey. No details, please. Nobody wants to hear these details. I'm very happy that you have gut health, but I don't want to hear about it. Could use some myself. Me and my dog are both a bit stopped up. Okay, so you stopped now, too.
Elon Musk
You know what I mean? Well, and you're off base. You're narrowing it down to just that part of your functioning. It's all. It's your. It's your energy, it's your skin, it's your. It's just all kinds of different stuff. It's not just the sophomore things you want to talk about.
Ryan Seacrest
None and blotchy, by the way. My energy in my skin. So I do need to look into this. Hanson, you got to recommend what you take. Anyway, he said he'd bring down the suppository to the studio.
Elon Musk
All right, I'm going home.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah, you should. I'm so sorry, Katie.
Elon Musk
You're going to feel a little.
Ryan Seacrest
Career choices.
Elon Musk
Oh, boy.
Ryan Seacrest
But all the big name pop companies, the Sodi Pop companies with soda sales gone flat, which is not a pun, it's a business thing, are jumping into the probiotic soft drink market dominated by upstart Olipop and Poppy. Both Coke and Pepsi are formulating versions they aim to sell. Now, these are not like a probiotic product that actually introduces new bacteria into your system to beef up your biome, but it has fiber that's specifically designed to feed the bacteria already living in our system to beef them up and make them healthy and do their jobs.
Elon Musk
I want to get one of those transplants where you take somebody else.
Ryan Seacrest
Oh, back to the sophomore. Here we go. Unbelievable. Yeah. One of the most fascinating things I've ever learned is that the human body is not an animal. We're an ecosystem with millions of. Of tiny creatures living in us.
Elon Musk
And the belief you're a planet, and the belief is, with a lot of modern food and diet and stuff like that, that our. Our ecosystems are all out of whack. And it's got a lot to do with this. That's why I'm going to get the fecal transplant.
Ryan Seacrest
Oh. Oh. Good night. Okay. Wow.
Elon Musk
I liked what you tried to do there, Joe.
Ryan Seacrest
That was too bad. The segment's over.
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Elon Musk
Are you definitively getting rid of the penny?
Ryan Seacrest
Brett I I've got to say the President Trump wants to make the penny extinct and that's part of the cost savings.
Elon Musk
Cost about $0.03 to make $0.01.
Ryan Seacrest
And you know the even in Washington.
Elon Musk
That math doesn't work. So it's going going soon.
Ryan Seacrest
It's going soon.
Elon Musk
The fact that it's lasted this long is is the crime.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah, there's probably some name for this tendency that humanity has among, I don't know, thinkers or academics, that something clearly needs to be changed and that change will be 90% positive. But the 10% complications stop you from gaining the 90%. Maybe it's just perfect being the enemy of good or good enough. But yeah, it'll cause some complications and things that need to be adjusted for. But who cares? It will be fine. We survived World War II, we'll survive the penny going away. But I thought this was thought provoking. Rick from Dallas, formerly the San Francisco Bay Area, writes the following. You've been vocal in your sport for getting rid of the penny. How you can't understand why it took so long. Let me offer some concerns. It is one thing to get rid of the coin itself. That's not a big deal. But without the existence of penny, you now have to choose from one of the following two societal changes, both of which are a big deal. Either one, nobody is now allowed to price anything in denominations smaller than 5 cent increments. This includes sales tax needing to be rounded up or down to the nearest 5 cent increment. Or people must use non cash payment methods for some transactions. If you get rid of number one, then every gas station in the nation is going to have to not only get rid of the 910 decimal at the end of its gallon price, nobody cares, but will have to move up and down in whole 5 cent increments.
Elon Musk
I think that's what's going to have to happen.
Ryan Seacrest
For decades stations have differentiating themselves by advertising $0.02 less than the guy against the street. That whole option will have to go away, as will all of the 0.99 pricing or sense pricing that some stores use as a pricing code. With 99 representing new merchandise and 95 representing clearance ETC. They'll have to find a new method.
Elon Musk
Well, they'll be fine, I'm sure. But I think that first thing is the, the clear answer. Just everything's going to have to be in, in, you know, a zero. Everything will end in a zero or a five. We're just going to have to go in increments of that. It's kind of like I remember the first time I traveled down to Mexico after they changed their money. Their inflation had been so bad for so long that they moved the decimal point over one. And the first time I was down there, you're constantly running into new money or old money. So this would either be $100 of old money or $10 of new money. Ours has our inflation hasn't been so bad you have to move a whole decimal point. We're just like carving off, you know, we're going from increments of 01 to increments.05. I don't think that's a big deal.
Ryan Seacrest
Right? I don't. I don't think it is. It is either. Rick. You know, great job pointing out things that would have to be adjusted and, but will be fine. And, you know, you. And I think this is the winning argument. Take a look at, say, I don't know, 50 years ago, 75 years ago. The buying power of a penny is, at that point was now probably greater than the buying power of a nickel.
Elon Musk
Oh, guaranteed.
Ryan Seacrest
So to have a penny now would be like having a fifth of a penny coin in 1970. And who was suggesting that? Nobody. It's merely an adjustment because the numbers mean different things. That's what inflation is.
Elon Musk
Yeah, yeah, sure. Joe's going to have his grand unifying theory of international something or other here in just a second. You know, the most important thing we've discussed today is probably this gut health thing. I mean, in terms of, like, affecting people's lives. You brought up probiotics, and there's a new probiotic soda out there. And we talked about. Hanson has been doing it. He loves it. I know a few people that are taking either the pills or they eat yogurt every day or whatever. We got somebody here who said, for your gut, just eat a tablespoon of pure, pureed pumpkin every day. All right. I don't know. I don't know where he get done, done and done. I don't know where you get that. Is Zambuca the same thing or is that a different thing? I know somebody that swears by that for their. Is that the name of it? There's. Or I might have the wrong name of a product, but, you know, somebody that walks around and drinks, you know. Katie, are you talking about Kombucha? Yes, that's it. Yeah, yeah, that's the same thing. So I know a number of people, women that like, carry around here at work, that carry around a bottle of that all the time. And that's supposed to be for your gut health.
Ryan Seacrest
And, yeah, yogurt's supposed to be good for it. I eat a fair amount of yogurt, so I think you have to have.
Elon Musk
A certain kind of yogurt, so. Don't you? I don't. I don't know. Don't ask me. I'm not a doctor.
Ryan Seacrest
You're not what?
Elon Musk
I'm a dj.
Ryan Seacrest
That's weird.
Elon Musk
Okay, so I liked this. I thought this was really good, as we've talked many times about, but I'm actually giving away the joke here. Maybe I shouldn't give away the joke first. I came across this person that has quite a few followers on Twitter and she tweeted out, my husband told me today that Elon stole his Social Security number and credit card number from a government database with his Doge powers and bought a bunch of subscriptions. Is this true? Has this happened to anyone else? How do I contest these fees then? The responses to that were unbelievable. And eventually she follows up with the tweet of I want a social media website which tests people's capacity to detect sarcasm and only people who pass are allowed to create accounts. Finally, muting this post, jfc, which is a reference to our savior and his middle name, which isn't accurate. She had 1.1 million views on this tweet and retweets, and the replies taking it seriously are making me despair for our country. Yes, the number of people who responded that completely bought it, 100%. Of course, Elon and Doge are taking your Social Security numbers so they can buy stuff. Of course that's happening.
Ryan Seacrest
What? Wow. The filter that was actual existence as opposed to virtual existence or virtual life. The filter that community and reality, the workplace, everything you heard, everything you experienced other than flipping open the paper, maybe in the evening, went through the filter of, oh, that's bull crap. And something that ridiculous wouldn't get to the weak minded people. There's no way to get it to them without going through the filter of the town, the community, the press, whatever. But now there's a direct line from the fraudster to the defrauded in a way that's never existed before.
Elon Musk
Lord knows I hate mainstream media. But when we had gatekeepers, they didn't allow that sort of stuff through, like pre cable news. Yeah, I gotta go way back now. You do get this kind of stuff. I mean, Joy Reid would say that on her show on msnbc.
Ryan Seacrest
Oh, yeah, yeah. And everybody would suck it up. Everybody being like a hundred thousand viewers.
Elon Musk
Did you have a comment on that, Michaels? No.
Donald Trump
No.
Elon Musk
Okay, you look like you're chomping at the bit. I thought maybe Elon took your Social Security number and bought some subscriptions with it and you're wondering how to fight back.
Ryan Seacrest
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Elon Musk
It the fact that there are many people out there that believe that that could happen, would happen, would fly under the radar and they'd get away with it. It's just so disturbing.
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Do you want to do your grand unifying theory when we come back or now?
Ryan Seacrest
No, no, we'll just get it out of the way. I'm tired of waiting, okay? Tired. I've been kept in the on the sidelines too long.
Elon Musk
Then I will do the new rules for the baseball season perhaps when we come back because I want to hear your opinion on it.
Ryan Seacrest
But so I've just been reading and reading and reading about JD Vance's speech is two speeches in front of the eu. One about Europe needs to step up and and quit acting like a bunch of fat lazy babies. And the other one speech and if you're not going to embrace democracy and freedom, why do we have an alliance to protect democracy and freedom? Twisting their arms on a couple of different things. And then the situation Ukraine with Putin and then Trump and the things he said. And look, my grand unifying theory, people are going to be shouting at the radio Thucydides or Cicero or something. He wrote a book about this 5,000 years ago. Yeah, dope. But it's as simple as this. And it reminds me what I've always said about American policy, domestic policy, and that is that it veers from guardrail to guardrail and you hit the sweet spot somewhere in between the guardrails, but you have no idea you're in the sweet spot. So you just keep going to the left, say releasing criminals and saying we've over incarcerated, war on drugs, blah blah blah, until your streets are just Teeming with scumbags and junkies and everybody's under threat and society sucks and all the Walgreens are closing and then the targets and you gotta ask somebody, get your socks out from beyond lock key, blah blah blah. Then we'll crack down like crazy and lock up people and blah blah blah. And international relations. Yes, I just said good international relations. Geopolitics has a similar rhythm to it. An ebb and flow in that the results of war and conquest lead to a desire for peace, trade and prosperity. And peace, trade and prosperity over the long term create the situation that calls for conquest and war. Especially because the victors become so weak and comfortable in those who perceive that they've been getting the short end of the stick, be they China or Russia or, or North Korea or whatever. Seize opportunities, they exploit them. The globe or regions explode into terrible wars. Do yourself a treat and read for half an hour about what's happening in Africa right now someday where it's absolutely wars of conquest and control and resource grabbing and all are fully continent's on fire. Nobody talks about it but. So anyway, Post World War II, we built this order to protect freedom and democracy. We've become fat and lazy. We've started to doubt the dynamics of democracy or in a place like Germany, they barely ever had them. Honestly, they're so freaked out and guilt ridden over the Nazi thing all they basically did what we told them to do and the minute we gave them, we gave them or they took control. No, no, no, this is how we're gonna run a democracy in the German way. They got way off base and are now being torn asunder by conflict. And stability in Europe is about over. I, I don't think Ukraine's a blip. I think it might be another several years until the real storm hits. But I think prosperity has created the, the playing field for chaos.
Elon Musk
Yeah.
Ryan Seacrest
And there's no avoiding it.
Elon Musk
Won't get into it now, but there are some statistics that were I came across somewhere after J.D. vance's speech of just how little Europe has put in to their own defense over the past many years. We care about Europe being stable way more than they care about it being stable because they think we'll, we'll keep it stable.
Ryan Seacrest
All right. And I've got the quotes around here somewhere. But going back to Barack Obama and Robert Gates in 2012 saying hey Euros, you've got to take an active role financially. You got to build up your military. You got to act like you're serious about this because we are not going to carry you get serious. And they said, yeah, yeah, we'll up our spending by half a percent. Yeah, it'll be fine. And they just, they do not pay heed. And now that the wolf is at their door that they don't know what to do about it.
Elon Musk
So there are some new things you're going to try in baseball, which I find interesting if you're a baseball fan. If you're not, I would like to hear.
Ryan Seacrest
If you use the phrase golden at bat, I'm going to punch you like you're a Canadian hockey player.
Elon Musk
Well, I have to explain what that is because that's an interesting concept. Anybody else having real luck with some sort of yogurt or probiotic pill or something like that? Change your life gut health wise?
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So we got on the topic of probiotics and they're being advertised everywhere. And I know people who swear by them and are drinking. What is that?
Ryan Seacrest
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Elon Musk
You say that's Zambuca. What are kombucha? What is that, Katie?
Ryan Seacrest
Kombucha.
Elon Musk
Kombucha. Which I guess in some cases has some alcohol in it. I actually know some alcoholics who have gone back to drinking because of drinking that stuff and not realizing there was alcohol in it. Yeah, they card you now to buy it. Really? Okay. Yeah. I know two people with long term sobriety who've gone back to drinking because of that. That.
Ryan Seacrest
Oh, no.
Elon Musk
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Ryan Seacrest
That's awful.
Elon Musk
Anyway, we're getting more on these and you know, I'm not. I had gut issues for a year. My wife and I are making our own kefir and it's done wonders. I have no idea what kefir is. It's a type of yogurt. Okay. I reckon. My doctor recommended sauerkraut as a probiotic and it's been fantastic. Okay. So you don't have to.
Ryan Seacrest
Delicious three meals a day.
Elon Musk
Yeah. You don't have to have a Reuben. You're fine. You don't have to buy some sort of fancy pill or anything like that. You just sauerkraut crowd on top of.
Ryan Seacrest
Your morning cereal in the morning.
Elon Musk
So we got a whole bunch of different types of different stuff people are doing. And then also this. Probiotics are a giant scam, but apparently provide some psychological comfort to the gullible. Okay. So your mileage may vary.
Ryan Seacrest
Got to admit, I've. I'm running it through that filter.
Elon Musk
I am too. We. We got several texts that I will not get into detail on about how it can cause you to have bodily functions that you've not had before. Fantastic.
Ryan Seacrest
Well, a very restrained description. Thank you.
Elon Musk
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Ryan Seacrest
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Elon Musk
Doing all right there, Jack.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah. Yeah. Wow. That bad, huh?
Elon Musk
So new baseball season starting here real, real soon. And here's Something they're going to try during preseason, I guess. So is the golden up bat happening or not? That's where you get to bring in somebody you can bat more. You can bat out of order, basically. Like you could bring Shohei Ohtani in, you know, you got three on, two out and maybe he batted three batters ago, but you could bring him back in for the golden at bat.
Ryan Seacrest
Correct.
Elon Musk
You get one per game or something like that. Okay, so that's not going to happen. This, this. Yeah, I don't like it either. Although I can see how a lot of casual fans. It'd make you be more interesting to watch.
Ryan Seacrest
Well, those casual fans might allow. Might enjoy a little bestiality on the field as well. Or perhaps a ritual sacrifice of a 16 year old virgin girl. Throw her into the volcano that goes off when you hit a home run. Why don't you?
Elon Musk
Seems like an odd argument from your standpoint, but here's something they're going to try and I think I know where this is going. I wonder how umpires feel about this. So they're going to go to the replay shield. For the first time ever, you'll be able to challenge a call as a batter. The pitcher, the catcher or the batter through. Only three players in the field can challenge a pitch. Was it a ball or strike? So the pitcher, the catcher or the, the batter can say no, no, no, no, that was a strike. And then they go to the computer which they're going to have set up like they do in tennis now, which has got the box there and they say they'll be able to do it quickly. It won't be like the NFL where we all stand around for eight minutes and then they say the ruling on the field stands and you don't remember what even happened, but they'll be able to put it up on the screen and like within 30 seconds you'll say ah, the crowd will go oh, that was a ball and you'll only get two per game. And if you challenge one and you'll, you'll lose it and blah, blah, blah. What?
Ryan Seacrest
How do you feel about that in the minor leagues? And it can be done very, very quickly.
Elon Musk
If you can do that, why don't you just get rid of the umpires and do it all with the computer?
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah, I don't know, the whole thing makes me uncomfortable and I'd have to get into some like really basebally conversation. But if, if the catcher sets up inside and, and you know, for a fastball inside or something like that and the Pitcher just wildly misses his mark and the catcher has to dive for the ball. And it's just. It's a terrible pitch and. But. But it catches the corner. I've had many baseball people tell me nobody wants that call to strike. That's just not the way the game works, which seems crazy just to a casual fan. If it crosses the plate, it crosses the plate. Or if the catcher botches a low curveball or something because you can't tell where he caught it. I don't. You know, I say try it.
Elon Musk
On a more basic level, though, aren't they stating that we have the technology to call balls and strikes accurately?
Ryan Seacrest
Yes.
Elon Musk
And it's better than the umpire because if they're gonna take that ruling over what the umpire said, I. Aren't they just stating that it's more accurate than the umpire?
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah. Mm.
Elon Musk
Then I wonder why they aren't just doing it. I don't like it. I don't like the idea of it. I like human beings doing these things.
Ryan Seacrest
But that's why it's just such a radical change to the game. I have a feeling it's coming, though. It will be more.
Elon Musk
I don't like more replays. I don't like slowing down any of these games more. And it seems like they get them wrong just as often as they used to.
Ryan Seacrest
These can be done in 10 seconds, though. It's not like, did the ball come loose while the receiver was tackled? That's really hard to call. And you need cameras and stuff. I was a lot easier.
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Podcast Summary: Armstrong & Getty On Demand – "I'll Be Getting My Fecal Transplant"
Release Date: February 19, 2025
Host/Author: iHeartPodcasts
Episode Title: I'll Be Getting My Fecal Transplant
In this episode of the official Armstrong & Getty On Demand podcast, hosted by iHeartPodcasts, the hosts delve into a variety of engaging topics ranging from global politics and economic policies to health and sports. The episode features insightful discussions, guest appearances, and thought-provoking commentary that aim to keep listeners informed and entertained.
Main Discussion: Trump's Comments on Ukraine and Peace Talks
The episode features a heated discussion about former President Donald Trump's recent statements regarding the Ukraine conflict. Elon Musk, a guest on the show, provides a critical analysis of Trump's remarks and the broader implications for international relations.
Elon Musk criticizes Trump's assertions about having the power to end the war in Ukraine, questioning the validity and practicality of his proposed solutions. At [03:07], Musk states, "Trump is not going to take an insult... He could have made a deal."
Ryan Seacrest echoes Musk's skepticism, highlighting the chaos and devastation in Ukraine. At [07:05], Seacrest remarks, "I think Trump just shot off his mouth...it's utterly indefensible."
The conversation deepens as Musk dissects Trump's statements from a press conference, challenging the accuracy of claims about Zelensky's popularity and the supposed ease of achieving peace. At [13:06], Trump is quoted saying, "I could have made a deal for Ukraine that would have given him almost all of the land." Musk counters this by questioning the feasibility of such claims, stating, "That's not even close to true." ([09:05])
Ryan Seacrest further elaborates on the disconnect between Trump's rhetoric and the tangible realities on the ground, emphasizing the human cost of the ongoing conflict. He notes, "We don't want more people to die. But if you reward Putin, there's going to be even more people dying in the future." ([15:23])
The hosts discuss the potential impact of Trump's comments on political figures like Marco Rubio and the broader geopolitical landscape. Seacrest muses, "Marco Rubio is way closer to the I am than a lot of the MAGA loyalist crowd." ([11:26])
The segment concludes with an exploration of the cyclical nature of international relations, where peace and prosperity often set the stage for future conflicts, as outlined by Seacrest's "grand unifying theory" of international relations. He states, "Peace, trade, and prosperity over the long term create the situation that calls for conquest and war." ([33:02])
Discussion: Should the Penny Be Eliminated?
The hosts engage in a debate over President Trump's proposal to discontinue the penny, analyzing both its economic benefits and societal implications.
Ryan Seacrest presents the argument that eliminating the penny can lead to cost savings, referencing the production costs versus the coin's minimal value. At [24:23], Seacrest notes, "Cost about $0.03 to make $0.01."
Elon Musk supports the idea, suggesting that society will adapt seamlessly by rounding transactions to the nearest five cents. He compares it to Mexico's currency adjustment due to inflation, stating, "We’re just going from increments of 0.01 to increments of 0.05." ([26:14])
Rick from Dallas introduces concerns regarding the elimination of the penny, specifically how it would affect pricing structures and tax calculations. He explains, "Without the penny, you now have to choose from...pricing in denominations smaller than 5 cent increments or use non-cash payment methods." ([25:00])
The hosts address these concerns by highlighting the practicality and minimal disruption such a change would entail. Seacrest reassures listeners by comparing the penny's value over time and its negligible impact on modern transactions, stating, "To have a penny now would be like having a fifth of a penny coin in 1970." ([27:38])
Musk concludes that the transition would be manageable and economically beneficial, emphasizing historical perspectives on inflation and monetary value. At [27:14], he remarks, "Just carving off, you know, we're going from increments of 0.01 to increments of 0.05."
Segment: Exploring the Benefits and Myths of Probiotics
The episode shifts focus to health, specifically the rising trend of probiotics and their impact on gut health.
Ryan Seacrest introduces the topic by discussing the popularity of probiotic products like kombucha and kefir. He explains, "Probiotics are a giant scam, but apparently provide some psychological comfort to the gullible." ([29:05])
Elon Musk shares personal anecdotes about his experiences with gut health, mentioning his attempts with various probiotic foods and supplements. At [27:55], he humorously comments on the effectiveness of these products, stating, "I liked what you tried to do there, Joe."
The hosts debate the actual benefits versus the marketed advantages of probiotics. Seacrest points out the lack of substantial evidence supporting their efficacy, while Musk remains skeptical, highlighting potential side effects and the placebo effect.
They discuss alternative natural sources of probiotics, such as yogurt and sauerkraut, emphasizing that a balanced diet can support gut health without the need for specialized supplements.
Sports Highlights: Philadelphia Eagles' Victory and Baseball Rule Changes
The podcast also covers recent sports news and upcoming changes in baseball rules.
Katie announces the Philadelphia Eagles as the Super Bowl Champions, prompting celebration among the hosts. "The Philadelphia Eagles are Super Bowl Champions." ([18:17])
The conversation transitions to discussions about proposed changes in baseball, including the introduction of the "golden at bat" which allows for strategic batting decisions within games.
Ryan Seacrest and Elon Musk express mixed feelings about these potential changes, contemplating their impact on the traditional nature of the game versus making it more engaging for casual fans.
They explore the technological advancements in sports officiating, such as the implementation of replay shields to accurately call balls and strikes, debating whether this innovation enhances or detracts from the human element of the game.
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These advertisements are strategically placed between discussion segments, ensuring that the main content remains uninterrupted and focused.
The episode of Armstrong & Getty On Demand presents a robust mix of political analysis, economic debates, health discussions, and sports commentary, all interspersed with targeted advertisements. The hosts, alongside guest Elon Musk, offer candid and often critical insights into current events, encouraging listeners to think critically about the topics presented.
Listeners who are keen on understanding the complexities of international politics, economic policies, and health trends will find this episode both informative and engaging. Despite the intertwining of promotional content, the core discussions provide valuable perspectives on pressing issues of the time.
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