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Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
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Speaker 2: Arm Strong and Getty and he Armstrong and Getty.
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Speaker 3: President Trump riding high on his agreement with the European Union, the block agreeing to pay fifteen percent tariffs across the board, while opening their markets to American imports at zero percent, and pledging to buy seven hundred and fifty billion in American energy plus six hundred billion in private investment by twenty twenty eight.
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Speaker 2: So it's a little bit of the report on Trump's big deal with the EU, which even some Trump Hayton journalists say is a big win for the Trump administration. Here's a little more from Jackie Heinrich of Fox and it will bring stability, it will bring predictability.
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Speaker 3: Frands's Prime Minister slamming the deal as opsided, posting it's a dark day when an alliance of free peoples brought together to affirm their common values and to defend their common interests resigns itself to submission.
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Speaker 2: Fifteen percent is not to be underestimated, but it is the best we could get. But wasn't it or at least. Trump's claim is it was unfair the other way before. So when it was unfair the other way, you were you're okay with it, you thought that was perfectly good. But when we try to get it more even because this isn't like, you know, when Trump's taken on some of these tiny little countries whose GDP is less than Alabama. I mean, this is the EU, which is when you add it all together, is practically as big an economy as US. So a couple play that Jim Kramer clip. This was Jim Kramer on CNBC yesterday talking about the current Trump economy.
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Speaker 4: Our biggest problem is we have so much growth that the Fed one cut what the.
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Speaker 2: Oh my, oh my god, I'm so sorry. I think it right? That take it right? Okay, it's a cable with a cable with a ticker. Is no kind of would take that back.
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Speaker 5: That's really people doing live TV.
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Speaker 2: Jim to your point. Okay, so he dropped an f bum because he was talking about how great the economy is. All the economic numbers are just pointing the right direction. Ian Bremmer yesterday after this deal was made, Who's no Trump fan? Said the Trump administration just secured a landmark trade deal with the European Union, and it's Trump's biggest win to date. Let me tell you why. And then he went through the numbers of why this is a huge victory for the Trump administration and for America. That's something. And I just saw a consumer confidence is way up from previous months because apparently people people like me barely paying attention to the tariff thing and not understanding it at all, feel like, huh, I guess it isn't going to be a disaster. People are feeling that way right now anyway. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I love Jared Gerard Baker, who race for the Wall Street Journal. His headline is, if Trump's tariffs are so bad, where's the recession?
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Speaker 2: Right?
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Speaker 1: And and he he lists three possibilities, as I recall, including first, it's too early to tell. Most of the tariffs announced haven't been in place very long, if at all, and so we'll just have to.
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Speaker 2: See what happens.
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Speaker 1: The average tariff paid by importers has indeed risen sharply, which leads us to the second possibility. The tariffs thus far have just not been big enough to cause the harm economists warned us about. So everybody's taken a tiny little hit, shared the pain, et cetera.
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Speaker 2: Jim Kramer seemed to be enthusiastic, and Ian Bremmer enthusiastics. They must I don't know. They don't think this is gonna the bad, the bad part's gonna happen. I don't know.
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Speaker 1: Well, and Baker says third tantalizingly, perhaps the conventional wisdom is wrong, or, more precisely, since no one can deny the effective taxes are real, perhaps and the rush to emphasize the negative account have overlooked the countervailing forces at work with tariffs. The redistribution of the burden of duties between foreign exporters, US importers and consumers may be reordering the balance of benefit between domestic and foreign businesses and between companies and consumers. It's kind of a word salad and sophisticated stuff, But.
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Speaker 2: We just don't know how it'll play out at this point. So Howard Lutnik, often I think, is an overly enthusiastic cheerleader for things in the Trump administration. But what he says here matches up with you know, a couple of people have already mentioned who aren't fans of Trump saying this is a good deal and a big deal.
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Speaker 6: Here he is, I just flew back from Scotland, and wow with that deal, it's so amazing for America.
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Speaker 2: Why is it so great for America?
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Speaker 7: Well, remember, the European Union is twenty trillion dollar economy, four hundred and fifty million people. I mean, it is head and shoulders bigger than all the other Western civilizations. So the fact is the European Union is the monster deal. President Trump did that deal.
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Speaker 2: Yesterday.
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Speaker 6: We were all together in Scotland. We got the deal done.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's well, we'll see how it plays out. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Part of the reason I'm not like crazy into this is that it's all fairly short term because the next administration can take a completely different approach to it. And honestly, if things start to look ugly, this administration can completely change their sales and tear up the agreement. I mean Trump's deal is and this is an oversimplification, but you will pay fifteen percent tariffs to access the US market.
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Speaker 2: We will pay non taxes to your market. It's just bullying.
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Speaker 1: Because we're such a big superpower economically speaking, the Euros have no choice but to go with it, which you know, may cause damage. I don't know, but that could all change if the economy heads south. Trump could say yeah, this is not working never mind, which is part of the reason a lot of people are uncomfortable with this much power to tax, because the tariff.
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Speaker 2: Is one hundred percent of tax.
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Speaker 1: This much power to tax being granted to the executive, it's it's a bit perverse constitutionally.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well that yeah, that's its own different topic. But yeah, it is amazing that one guy can can can up end world the world economy like this.
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Speaker 1: But anyway, to wrap up the discussion, at least from my end, a lot of people seem to really really want one outcome or the other. Howard Lutnek and company wanted to be great for America. The media wants it to be terrible, and they want to indict Trump. I'm just curious.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I hope it works out. I don't. I don't root against anything working out for the economy for political reasons. I hope it works out. I hope we all get rich. Couple of things green energy wise before we take a break, that I thought were interesting. You mentioned the other day how the price of electric vehicles and where they are and everything like that, Like there's a whole bunch of used electric vehicles out there that people aren't as interested in as they were a couple of years ago. And the big tax credit that you used to get on buying a new electric vehicles going away, So the whole electric car thing could change a lot in the next six months or so. And fitting in with that, I came across this graph of where people are on the whole climate change thing in general, the share of voters who are very concerned about climate change. I was thinking about where I would I be myself. I'm pretty close to not concerned at all. I'm close to zero on climate change. I never think about it at all. I don't worried about it. I don't worry about it. I never worry about it. So I think I'm close to a zero concern on climate change.
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Speaker 1: Uh yeah, yeah, I would agree. I just there's nothing I could do about it. The weather changes all the time. If it gets hotter, I'll sell my coats and buy shirts.
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Speaker 2: But for people who are very concerned, it has been dropping year by year for a while now. I mean it had its peak shortly after al Gore and the hockey stick in the movie Inconvenient Truth and all that sort of stuff, And it's been dropping little by little for all voters. It is now at thirty seven percent very concerned. You wouldn't get that from taking in the media, would you, Because everybody in the media is in that thirty seven percent. Everybody in academics is in that thirty seven percent, Caldy, And I'll bet the rest skew very very young. Yeah, and all the experts come from that thirty seven percent. But thirty seven percent of voters are very concerned about climate change, So obviously you do not think it's an existential threat to human beings even being alive on the planet. If if you're not in the very concerned camp, I would assume right right, Sure. Yeah, for Democrats it's even down to fifty eight percent, and it was way high, not that many years ago.
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Speaker 1: And I'll bet a chunk of that fifty eight percent is tribal signaling. Sure they might harbor secret doubts, but you're not. And we did a great feature on this a few with all due modesty last week or something like that, that in certain social settings, including social settings where only one set of beliefs is allowed, and everybody, lets you know what those beliefs are. Hello, sound familiar. Any questioning, never mind dissent. Just saying hey, this strikes me as odd I have questions is frowned upon so thoroughly people are taught to just shut up. So I'll bet there's a lot of people who are thinking. You know, a lot of people seem to be making a ton of money and the promises never get kept and nothing has affected anything, but they don't dare say it.
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Speaker 2: But so Democrats are propping the that low number up anyway, So overall thirty seven percent, Democrats are at fifty eight because Republicans are eighteen percent very concerned, and I'm shocked that that's high, because again I'm a zero. Independents are down to thirty six percent. There's a big chunk of America that just what are you gonna do? China's building coal plants every day, What are you going to do?
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Speaker 1: I have a feeling that's at least a factor in the fact that the Democratic Party has hit a thirty five year low approval writing with American voters, according to a New Wall Street Journal poll, which is very very similar to another couple of polls that had come out recently.
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Speaker 2: So it takes you back to nineteen ninety right coming out of the Reagan era. Wow, lost to Reagan twice and then the third Reagan term of HW Bush.
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Speaker 1: In fact, it was, if I'm correct, right around the time, is this right that Hillary Clinton was getting so much derision for trying to get hillary Care through in the UH and Newt Gingrich absolutely walloped the Democrats in the mid term, and it looked like Clinton couldn't possibly get reelected.
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Speaker 2: Then he did.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, thirty five year low approval rating of a third well, and then a zoftig chick decided to ply her skills to a president and that helped him politically.
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Speaker 2: It helped him. Yeah, it's not the reading of history most people have that the overreach for the impeachment helped Clinton.
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Speaker 4: Uh.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I suppose so. I think that's the belief at this point. Yeah, I'm not sure.
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Speaker 1: I you know, trace the whole comeback back to the chick who plied her skills.
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Speaker 2: That was a good sentence though. Okay, I do want to talk about the famine. I'm using my finger quotes that all your world organizations declared today that is going on in Gaza and the response of the media to that and Trump to that, and uh, how about it's all going to play it, among other things on the way, stay here, Armstrong, Andyetty.
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Speaker 8: Eight months after the election, Democrats are still trying to dig themselves out of a hole, but a new poll from the Wall Street Journal paints a bleak picture. It reveals only thirty three percent of registered voters today view Democrats favorably, while a staggering sixty three percent see them negatively. That's the worst rating from the same poll since nineteen ninety.
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Speaker 2: Yes We're.
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Speaker 1: At Sayisha Hasny on special report last night with Brett Brett Bear Fox News Slash so Yes analysis. In a moment, I found this next segment pretty interesting, though, go ahead, Aisha.
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Speaker 2: We're in the dog house yet again. We certainly do have a problem, and it's a messaging problem.
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Speaker 8: If messaging is the problem, the new poll signals Democrats attacking President Trump isn't working at least yet. That's because even when more voters disapprove of Trump on issues like inflation, they still trust congressional Republicans more than Democrats to handle that issue by a whopping ten points on immigration the same thing. More voters disapprove of Trump's handling of the matter, but Republicans once again are trusted more than Democrats to manage it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know if I believe this analysis that people have been going with. I think it's the crazy factor. It's the uh, I don't know. You've got a friend who does a few things that are just so crazy you don't trust his judgment on anything else. I think that's what's driving it. It's not that. Yeah, the Democrats' view of the economy is specifically blah blah blah. It said.
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Speaker 4: You're the people that want boys play girls' sports. You're the people that want me to say LATINEX. You're the people that think we shouldn't have police. I don't trust you on anything. I think it's the crazy factor. Yeah, you put a grown man in my little girl's locker room. Yeah exactly.
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Speaker 1: But to her point though, and it's not in contrast to your point, it's agreeing with it. So like on inflation and rising prices, Trump is eleven points underwater, okay, but the Republicans in general are ten points to the positive. So what Trump's doing right now. On immigration, these sees just three points underwater, but generally speaking Republicans that are Democrats seventeen point advantage for Republicans. So there are momentarily momentary quibbles with the way Trump is approaching this, that or the other, but in terms of general philosophy that I don't care. I want the Republicans, which again I don't think disagrees with your point.
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Speaker 2: I think it agrees with it.
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Speaker 1: Why do they have that percep or why do they lean so strongly that way? Because I think the Democrats have lost their effing mind. Let's see, So the Democrats are thirty three percent favorable, sixty three percent unfavorable, far weaker assessment than voters give to either President Trump or the Republican Party. Yeah, they're underwater, but of course political parties ought to be underwater.
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Speaker 2: Number when you got their opponents, and number two you got.
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Speaker 1: Neutrals or independents and their own party members who'd like them to change.
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Speaker 2: What they're doing a little bit.
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Speaker 1: But anyway, Trump is seven percent underwater and Republicans are eleven percent underwater. But again keep in mind, the Democrats are thirty points underwater.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, as always that number of people that are unhappy with the Democrats. It's a certain chunk who think they're crazy, like I was just talking about, and a certain chunk, smaller chunk, but a certain chunk that thinks they haven't gone far enough, they haven't stuck to their guns on trans issues and defunding the police and climate change and all the other important things.
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Speaker 1: Which is even worse new really, but a mere eight percent of voters view the Democrats very favorably, two and a half times as many have the same level of enthusiasm for the GOP.
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Speaker 2: I we got a long way to go on what direction? You know what the Democratic Party is going to look like next presidential election. But I keep hearing people like smart people throughout AOC is the current front runner slash base of the Democratic Party, and she probably is. Who else doomed? They are doomed, doomed if that it was you, that that go ahead, try it.
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Speaker 1: I don't know who else would it be as a rhetorical question, But the answer is a blue state governor who's moderate.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's got to be a human being so that yeah, you're right, but it's got to be an actual name.
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Speaker 1: At some point, I mean, I could throw out a list, but nobody. Nobody is talking about Bill Clinton. Hell, nobody was talking about Bill Clinton even after.
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Speaker 2: He entered the Uh.
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Speaker 1: The only issue in which voters PERFERM or congressional Democrats Republicans are healthcare and vaccine policy.
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Speaker 2: Good luck.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, they are screwed by themselves. I'd self inflicted wound a lot more on the way, hope you.
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Speaker 2: Can stay here for you missus seg Maco's podcast Arstrong and Getty.
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Speaker 9: By the way, I never went to the island and Bill Clinton went there supposedly, uh twenty eight times.
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Speaker 5: You expect me to believe that Bill Clinton went to the island only twenty eight times?
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Speaker 2: No way.
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Speaker 5: I mean, if anybody had VIP Diamond Island status, there's probably still parrots alive on that island going hey, Bill back again?
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Speaker 4: Paybene.
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Speaker 2: Interesting take from John Stewart on the whole Epstein thing. Bill Clinton only went twenty eight times. Really, I find that hard to believe. God, that is something twenty eight visits to Epstein's island knowing I mean, you had to have some idea that he was living life on the edge of okay, h.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, water under the bridge. I guess that I have a feeling a scumbag like Epstein would tell people who would not approve of his more reprehensible activities, Oh no, no, they're all eighteen. Absolutely, we carefully document that, and then to anybody he knows is down.
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Speaker 2: With the perversity, he'd say, yeah, they're eighteen and wink. So you think Bill Clinton was going to the island specifically to have sex with women? Why'd you say? Did you just say that? Are you talking to me? Did I imply that in any way? Yeah? No, Why do you think he was going? I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I've never thought about it for the party because it was sexy.
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Speaker 2: I don't know. I mean, do you assume everybody was going there to have sex with women? I don't actually know. I haven't spent much time looking into what the whole Epstein Island thing was about. Right, I want to get this on. I got random. None of this stuff holds together. I just came across this Bill Maher on his Club Random podcast the other day. Man, I started watching the Billy Joel one that's worth watching. I haven't seen Billy Joel's having quite the moment. I haven't seen the Billy Joel documentary on HBO. But I did see the Billy Joel interview hour and a half long interview with Bill maher super interesting, really really good about writing songs and all kinds of Yeah, it's something. But on his podcast Club Random, the Bill Maherr thing I was just talking about, Mars surprised listeners by saying Trump's early push for tariffs wasn't as dumb as I thought. Turns out to coupling from China has some bipartisan logic. Mar added, citing rising public support for domestic manufacturing and national security concerns. There are quite a few people, it seems, that are either backtracking or keeping their mouths shut about how dumb the whole araf thing is at this point, as we were talking about earlier. Yeah, how it plays out, nobody knows. No.
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Speaker 1: Got a great note from a listener, Alnonymous about the Walmart thing that we've been talking about. Yeah, it'll take twenty seconds, let me just do it. First of all, he says some lovely things about the show.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, sir. All They're all true.
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Speaker 1: Per your conversation on Walmart eating the costs of tariffs, it's not what you think. The company I work for has been dealing with Walmart and other national retailers for many, many years. Please understand that Walmart is not all caps eating the majority of the tariff's costs, but in fact demanding the vendor take on the brunt of these increases. As an example, Walmart negotiated Slash demanded that we take on over seventy percent of the tariff costs from China. They know full well that most vendors cannot take the loss in market share and revenue, and essentially strong arm you into agreement. Our bottom line has taking a massive hit this year primarily due to national retailers demands.
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Speaker 2: But with the result being the same thing, they're trying to drive lots of smaller businesses out of business, like the final nail in the coffin. For anybody who's trying to compete with Walmart and Amazon, well you could.
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Speaker 1: Say they're just trying to keep their costs as low as possible. Sure, I don't know why you had to put it in such a Marxist, you know, faue predator context.
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Speaker 2: Now, I don't think it's you know, untoward it anyway. I just think it's Ladimir Ilitch I think it's just the reality of the more the world is right now. Different topic we talked about AI earlier just came across this poll. A majority of college students pursuing higher education degrees UH sixty two percent to be specific, believe that learning how to use AI responsibly is essential for their future career and success. So almost two thirds of college kids think they need to learn how to use AI to make their way in the world. Are the other third stupid? What I thought was interesting was ninety percent already use it for general tasks, with nearly ninety percent of students surveyed saying they use it for schoolwork and more almost ninety percent. Is anybody else as perplexed as I am?
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Speaker 1: So you're using it right now, but a third of you, a little more than a third of you don't think you'll need it in the future.
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Speaker 2: Well, the word responsibly was in there, so maybe that's what. Oh, maybe they don't believe they need to learn how to use AI responsibly. I don't know. I'm going to use it irresponsibly, however I decide to use it.
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Speaker 1: But going to design weaponry a bizarre breeding experience between men and beasts?
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Speaker 2: Whatever I can generating truly troubling porn ning it. I'm somewhat late to joining AI, even though I talk about it so much, I you know, downloading chat GPT and other stuff. But seees college kids have been on it for a while. Apparently ninety percent of them are using it for their schoolwork and other stuff. Like I'm I am committed right now to reading Ulysses. This is the fifteenth time in my life I've committed to reading James Joyce's Ulysses, often held up as the greatest work of English literature of all time. It's very difficult read, but with the help of chat GPT, it's a lot easier. I come across something and I think, I wonder what this means. I just type in the phrase and chat GPT immediately gives me the short version of what it is where it comes from. It's so a lot of work. Huh, sounds like a lot of work. It is a lot of work. I saw a funny video about reading Ulysses yesterday. It said, Okay, here are these steps to reading Ulysses so you can understand it. Step one, read the entire Bible and understand it. Step two read all of Irish history, folklore and mythology, and understand it. Check it's interest.
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Speaker 1: So when I read my Miss Marvel Mysteries, it's you know, you think it's the Gardener, then it turns out to be the brother.
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Speaker 2: Oh it's a Step three was to read the entire works of Shakespeare and memorize it. You have to do all these things before you read Ulysses to be able to understand it. Okay, that sounds fun, doesn't it. I feel like I had one more thing I wanted to get on, but I don't remember what it was. It doesn't matter. It just doesn't matter. I do have this, which is really apropos of nothing. Something with feathers existed two hundred and forty seven million years ago as a reptile. They just discovered and found some new bones. I don't know if I think I've talked about this on the air. When we were at the Big Museum in New York, the Natural History Museum, the one with all the dinosaurs from those fun Night at the Museum movies, a lot of the dinosaurs now have feathers, and I know they didn't have feathers when I went there thirty years ago. But like your t rexes have feathers on them. Now they've completely changed their view on that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it seems to be the you know, the accepted view of scientists that the closest relatives to the dinosaurs now on Earth are birds.
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Speaker 2: Birds are Yeah, the birds are continued to be done. Don't get my son Henry started on this. He'll Sti'll get out a piece of paper and a pen and draw the entire lineage of everything and how this is that and this broke off there and uh but yeah, interesting, watched Jurassic Park and the dinosaurs aren't brightly colored with feathers. You were just beinged to. I would turn off the television or write a stern letter to Disney or whoever made those movies. Yeah, yeah, guy, I would do that too.
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Speaker 1: I have the idiotic would be controversy of the day ready to go. I don't think it's gonna catch on, and I think that's.
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Speaker 2: Important, but you want to get ahead of it in case it does.
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Speaker 1: No, I want to point out that it seems like it ought to be a good controversy, but the bloom is off. The that s white supremacy rose, and.
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Speaker 2: I hope you're right. I think it is We really ought to get into the what Trump said about Israel and Gaza and all that sort of stuff, and what the world is saying. The world is very unhappy with what they're calling a famine in genocide and all that sort of stuff. We've got to address that at some point. This could be certainly the big political story for the next couple of days, or weeks or thousand years.
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Speaker 1: Stay with us, ladies and gentlemen. I give you the lovely the sexy Sidney Sweeney.
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Speaker 2: Jeans are passed down from parents to offspring, often determining traits like her color, personality, and even eye color.
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Speaker 1: My jeens are blue.
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Speaker 2: Sydney Sweeney has great genes. I don't know that. I don't know from Sydney Sweeney.
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Speaker 1: America's beautiful blonde, skinny girl with big boobs. Sydney Sweeney, right, is now in a gen's ad, as sexy girls often are. And you heard the voiceover of her ad in which she equivocates between jeans.
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Speaker 2: With a G and jeans with a J.
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Speaker 1: It makes various dopey jokes as she zips up her jeans having apparently just been pantless, which I think is supposed to turn me on anyway.
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Speaker 2: Blah blah blah.
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Speaker 1: Selling jeans, well, apparently the lefty internet tried to go wild over them.
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Speaker 2: The internet's mad. I hate it when the Internet gets mad.
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Speaker 1: Like a blonde haired, blue eyed white woman talking about her jeens is good and any appropriate?
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Speaker 2: Well, the way to sell pants? What are you talking about?
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Speaker 1: Some going so far as to outright call it Nazi propaganda.
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Speaker 2: Wow.
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Speaker 1: I thought it was going to be like kind of bad, but wow, that's going to be in history books. I will be the friend that's two woke. But those Sydney Sweeney American Eagle ads are weird, like fascist weird, like Nazi propaganda weird.
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Speaker 2: I must need to another user with multiple piercings. Yes, would this make more sense to me if I saw the ad? Or it is the reaction as dumb as it sound. No, the second one.
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Speaker 1: Okay, I mean she says my jeans are blue and they show her blue eyes. But I mean she only utters like twelve words in the whole thing. Let's see, like, a blonde haired, blue eyed white woman is talking about her good genes. This is Nazi propaganda. Another added blah blah blah. This is pure nazi as blah blah blah. No, no, some of you are trolls.
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Speaker 2: But anybody who believes that on any level, wow, wow, just relax.
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Speaker 1: This is the sort of thing though, I'm telling you that would have caught on in the mainstream media and been questionable problematic five years ago, and now everybody's like, yeah, okay, now that's now, we don't do that anymore. I think it's a turning point, fake REVERSI won't get going, won't get anywhere.
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Speaker 2: It might sell some jeans. I just so Hansen played the ad for me. I like the fact she's not a super skinny chick, she's caravy. Yeah yeah, good for her. I think I saw her on Sorday Alive. I think she hosted once. Now that i've seen her, I recognize her. But anyway, yes, whatever. So I know, it's so hard to know when you're seeing your action. This stuff is if it's just an attempt to be a troll, or whoever's who's reporting the trolls, it's just an attempt to get a controversy going so you can get some clicks, or if anybody actually means anything, I don't know. I don't even know anymore. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: On a similar topic, the Fabulous Andrews Styles of the Free Beacon writing about the Democratic Party's male voter outreach, and you may recall how Democrats and journalists described Hulk Hogan's epic performance at the Republican convention as just awful, misogynist, you know, toxic masculinity. Dana Bash on the Unwatchable and Unwatched c n N referenced at weeks later at the Democratic Convention, where she lavished praise on Tim Walls and Doug Emhoff for their ability to speak to men out there who might not want to be the sort of testosterone lated, you know, gun toting kind of guy who wants to listen to Hulk Hogan and the kay of players that came out at the GOP convention.
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Speaker 2: I don't know what she meant.
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Speaker 1: By players, but there was a quote her colleague, Jake Metrosexual Tapper agreed, citing unnamed critics who described the Republican speaking lineup as testeroni testosteroni. Anyway, so let's check back with the uh oh, I like this line. I'm sorry after getting blown out with male voters who actually identify as men, Democrats Finally, realized they had a problem doing what comes naturally.
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Speaker 2: Excuse me, my poor froat, doing what comes naturally.
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Speaker 1: They formed a bunch of committees and hired some data nerds and other so called experts to help them understand why they're nagging. Lectures about toxic masculinity have failed to resonate with normal straight men who cannot get pregnant.
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Speaker 2: And so.
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Speaker 1: On Wednesday, the Progress Action Fund This is a Democratic pack hosted an online press briefing on how to win back young men ahead of the twenty twenty six midterms. They were joined in this online press briefing by Veronica Zell, founder and CEO of Sweetie High, a website that bills itself as the cultural destination for teen and tween girls. We swear we aren't making this up. Here are a random sample of sweety High headlines from the past week or so. The best Instagram captions for all your cheerleading photos.
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Speaker 2: Okay, that's andy.
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Speaker 1: Japanese girl group Cosmosi discuss breaking through toxic love in their new single, Why your hot girl tummy problems might get worse in the summer heat, and what your favorite childhood.
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Speaker 2: Doll reveals about you.
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Speaker 1: This is the co host of the How to Win Back Young Men ahead of the twenty twenty six midterms teleconference.
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Speaker 2: Do hot girls have tummy problems? I'm gonna wear them during the summer. Apparently they do. Yes, Yes, there are more headlines similar to what we were talking about.
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Speaker 1: Everything you wanted to know about the princess nail trend.
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Speaker 2: Wow, similar to what we were talking about earlier. That AOC is the leading face of the Democratic Party. Go ahead, go ahead, try that. Try this, Try having these people give you advice on how to win back men to your party. I wasn't like masculine enough in their vision.
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Speaker 1: But this is anyone who's the mom of their friend group will relate to these eleven truths. The mom of their friend.
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Speaker 2: Group, Yeah, I'm familiar with that.
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Speaker 1: But them's with their lowest favorability ratings in last thirty five years.
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Speaker 2: I wonder why I heard. I was driving to work today, NPR was making reference to that genes commercial. I didn't try to. I didn't quite catch on to what they were talking about, So I don't know if they were taking that seriously or not, the whole blue eyes Nazi thing. Knowing PR, probably yeah, any people are.
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Speaker 1: Parodies of yourself, and we are enjoying it very much, and we encourage you to continue.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't tell how much. Is the world has gotten just really intolerably intolerable or I've just grown out of things that are just part of the normal cycles of life, like the next new hot girl in a gene ad that you know I've been. I've been as opposed to Yeah, Brookshields fifty years ago and everything since A right, right, you've lost the ability to feel joy. I have lost. I'm incapable of experiencing joy. That is exactly right. Yes, that is a good way to sum me up. That would be my hinge profile. I'm incapable of experiencing joy. Would you like to get together for coffee sometime? I won't enjoy it, or you or anything else. Wasn't Brookshields your soulmate? I feel like she could be. We've never met I've never met her roughly the same age. I've just always felt like we could be. But it's not too late. She's married, very happily married for now. Wow. So we do four hours every single day, a whole bunch of different segments. If you missed any of it, get our podcast. You should subscribe to Armstrong and Getty on demand. That's the easiest way to do it. Subscribe to Armstrong and Getty on demand. Armstrong and Getty
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Speaker 2: Arm Strong and Getty and he Armstrong and Getty.
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Speaker 3: President Trump riding high on his agreement with the European Union, the block agreeing to pay fifteen percent tariffs across the board, while opening their markets to American imports at zero percent, and pledging to buy seven hundred and fifty billion in American energy plus six hundred billion in private investment by twenty twenty eight.
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Speaker 2: So it's a little bit of the report on Trump's big deal with the EU, which even some Trump Hayton journalists say is a big win for the Trump administration. Here's a little more from Jackie Heinrich of Fox and it will bring stability, it will bring predictability.
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Speaker 3: Frands's Prime Minister slamming the deal as opsided, posting it's a dark day when an alliance of free peoples brought together to affirm their common values and to defend their common interests resigns itself to submission.
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Speaker 2: Fifteen percent is not to be underestimated, but it is the best we could get. But wasn't it or at least. Trump's claim is it was unfair the other way before. So when it was unfair the other way, you were you're okay with it, you thought that was perfectly good. But when we try to get it more even because this isn't like, you know, when Trump's taken on some of these tiny little countries whose GDP is less than Alabama. I mean, this is the EU, which is when you add it all together, is practically as big an economy as US. So a couple play that Jim Kramer clip. This was Jim Kramer on CNBC yesterday talking about the current Trump economy.
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Speaker 4: Our biggest problem is we have so much growth that the Fed one cut what the.
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Speaker 2: Oh my, oh my god, I'm so sorry. I think it right? That take it right? Okay, it's a cable with a cable with a ticker. Is no kind of would take that back.
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Speaker 5: That's really people doing live TV.
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Speaker 2: Jim to your point. Okay, so he dropped an f bum because he was talking about how great the economy is. All the economic numbers are just pointing the right direction. Ian Bremmer yesterday after this deal was made, Who's no Trump fan? Said the Trump administration just secured a landmark trade deal with the European Union, and it's Trump's biggest win to date. Let me tell you why. And then he went through the numbers of why this is a huge victory for the Trump administration and for America. That's something. And I just saw a consumer confidence is way up from previous months because apparently people people like me barely paying attention to the tariff thing and not understanding it at all, feel like, huh, I guess it isn't going to be a disaster. People are feeling that way right now anyway. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I love Jared Gerard Baker, who race for the Wall Street Journal. His headline is, if Trump's tariffs are so bad, where's the recession?
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Speaker 2: Right?
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Speaker 1: And and he he lists three possibilities, as I recall, including first, it's too early to tell. Most of the tariffs announced haven't been in place very long, if at all, and so we'll just have to.
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Speaker 2: See what happens.
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Speaker 1: The average tariff paid by importers has indeed risen sharply, which leads us to the second possibility. The tariffs thus far have just not been big enough to cause the harm economists warned us about. So everybody's taken a tiny little hit, shared the pain, et cetera.
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Speaker 2: Jim Kramer seemed to be enthusiastic, and Ian Bremmer enthusiastics. They must I don't know. They don't think this is gonna the bad, the bad part's gonna happen. I don't know.
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Speaker 1: Well, and Baker says third tantalizingly, perhaps the conventional wisdom is wrong, or, more precisely, since no one can deny the effective taxes are real, perhaps and the rush to emphasize the negative account have overlooked the countervailing forces at work with tariffs. The redistribution of the burden of duties between foreign exporters, US importers and consumers may be reordering the balance of benefit between domestic and foreign businesses and between companies and consumers. It's kind of a word salad and sophisticated stuff, But.
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Speaker 2: We just don't know how it'll play out at this point. So Howard Lutnik, often I think, is an overly enthusiastic cheerleader for things in the Trump administration. But what he says here matches up with you know, a couple of people have already mentioned who aren't fans of Trump saying this is a good deal and a big deal.
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Speaker 6: Here he is, I just flew back from Scotland, and wow with that deal, it's so amazing for America.
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Speaker 2: Why is it so great for America?
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Speaker 7: Well, remember, the European Union is twenty trillion dollar economy, four hundred and fifty million people. I mean, it is head and shoulders bigger than all the other Western civilizations. So the fact is the European Union is the monster deal. President Trump did that deal.
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Speaker 2: Yesterday.
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Speaker 6: We were all together in Scotland. We got the deal done.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's well, we'll see how it plays out. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Part of the reason I'm not like crazy into this is that it's all fairly short term because the next administration can take a completely different approach to it. And honestly, if things start to look ugly, this administration can completely change their sales and tear up the agreement. I mean Trump's deal is and this is an oversimplification, but you will pay fifteen percent tariffs to access the US market.
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Speaker 2: We will pay non taxes to your market. It's just bullying.
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Speaker 1: Because we're such a big superpower economically speaking, the Euros have no choice but to go with it, which you know, may cause damage. I don't know, but that could all change if the economy heads south. Trump could say yeah, this is not working never mind, which is part of the reason a lot of people are uncomfortable with this much power to tax, because the tariff.
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Speaker 2: Is one hundred percent of tax.
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Speaker 1: This much power to tax being granted to the executive, it's it's a bit perverse constitutionally.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well that yeah, that's its own different topic. But yeah, it is amazing that one guy can can can up end world the world economy like this.
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Speaker 1: But anyway, to wrap up the discussion, at least from my end, a lot of people seem to really really want one outcome or the other. Howard Lutnek and company wanted to be great for America. The media wants it to be terrible, and they want to indict Trump. I'm just curious.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I hope it works out. I don't. I don't root against anything working out for the economy for political reasons. I hope it works out. I hope we all get rich. Couple of things green energy wise before we take a break, that I thought were interesting. You mentioned the other day how the price of electric vehicles and where they are and everything like that, Like there's a whole bunch of used electric vehicles out there that people aren't as interested in as they were a couple of years ago. And the big tax credit that you used to get on buying a new electric vehicles going away, So the whole electric car thing could change a lot in the next six months or so. And fitting in with that, I came across this graph of where people are on the whole climate change thing in general, the share of voters who are very concerned about climate change. I was thinking about where I would I be myself. I'm pretty close to not concerned at all. I'm close to zero on climate change. I never think about it at all. I don't worried about it. I don't worry about it. I never worry about it. So I think I'm close to a zero concern on climate change.
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Speaker 1: Uh yeah, yeah, I would agree. I just there's nothing I could do about it. The weather changes all the time. If it gets hotter, I'll sell my coats and buy shirts.
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Speaker 2: But for people who are very concerned, it has been dropping year by year for a while now. I mean it had its peak shortly after al Gore and the hockey stick in the movie Inconvenient Truth and all that sort of stuff, And it's been dropping little by little for all voters. It is now at thirty seven percent very concerned. You wouldn't get that from taking in the media, would you, Because everybody in the media is in that thirty seven percent. Everybody in academics is in that thirty seven percent, Caldy, And I'll bet the rest skew very very young. Yeah, and all the experts come from that thirty seven percent. But thirty seven percent of voters are very concerned about climate change, So obviously you do not think it's an existential threat to human beings even being alive on the planet. If if you're not in the very concerned camp, I would assume right right, Sure. Yeah, for Democrats it's even down to fifty eight percent, and it was way high, not that many years ago.
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Speaker 1: And I'll bet a chunk of that fifty eight percent is tribal signaling. Sure they might harbor secret doubts, but you're not. And we did a great feature on this a few with all due modesty last week or something like that, that in certain social settings, including social settings where only one set of beliefs is allowed, and everybody, lets you know what those beliefs are. Hello, sound familiar. Any questioning, never mind dissent. Just saying hey, this strikes me as odd I have questions is frowned upon so thoroughly people are taught to just shut up. So I'll bet there's a lot of people who are thinking. You know, a lot of people seem to be making a ton of money and the promises never get kept and nothing has affected anything, but they don't dare say it.
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Speaker 2: But so Democrats are propping the that low number up anyway, So overall thirty seven percent, Democrats are at fifty eight because Republicans are eighteen percent very concerned, and I'm shocked that that's high, because again I'm a zero. Independents are down to thirty six percent. There's a big chunk of America that just what are you gonna do? China's building coal plants every day, What are you going to do?
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Speaker 1: I have a feeling that's at least a factor in the fact that the Democratic Party has hit a thirty five year low approval writing with American voters, according to a New Wall Street Journal poll, which is very very similar to another couple of polls that had come out recently.
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Speaker 2: So it takes you back to nineteen ninety right coming out of the Reagan era. Wow, lost to Reagan twice and then the third Reagan term of HW Bush.
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Speaker 1: In fact, it was, if I'm correct, right around the time, is this right that Hillary Clinton was getting so much derision for trying to get hillary Care through in the UH and Newt Gingrich absolutely walloped the Democrats in the mid term, and it looked like Clinton couldn't possibly get reelected.
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Speaker 2: Then he did.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, thirty five year low approval rating of a third well, and then a zoftig chick decided to ply her skills to a president and that helped him politically.
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Speaker 2: It helped him. Yeah, it's not the reading of history most people have that the overreach for the impeachment helped Clinton.
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Speaker 4: Uh.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I suppose so. I think that's the belief at this point. Yeah, I'm not sure.
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Speaker 1: I you know, trace the whole comeback back to the chick who plied her skills.
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Speaker 2: That was a good sentence though. Okay, I do want to talk about the famine. I'm using my finger quotes that all your world organizations declared today that is going on in Gaza and the response of the media to that and Trump to that, and uh, how about it's all going to play it, among other things on the way, stay here, Armstrong, Andyetty.
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Speaker 8: Eight months after the election, Democrats are still trying to dig themselves out of a hole, but a new poll from the Wall Street Journal paints a bleak picture. It reveals only thirty three percent of registered voters today view Democrats favorably, while a staggering sixty three percent see them negatively. That's the worst rating from the same poll since nineteen ninety.
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Speaker 2: Yes We're.
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Speaker 1: At Sayisha Hasny on special report last night with Brett Brett Bear Fox News Slash so Yes analysis. In a moment, I found this next segment pretty interesting, though, go ahead, Aisha.
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Speaker 2: We're in the dog house yet again. We certainly do have a problem, and it's a messaging problem.
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Speaker 8: If messaging is the problem, the new poll signals Democrats attacking President Trump isn't working at least yet. That's because even when more voters disapprove of Trump on issues like inflation, they still trust congressional Republicans more than Democrats to handle that issue by a whopping ten points on immigration the same thing. More voters disapprove of Trump's handling of the matter, but Republicans once again are trusted more than Democrats to manage it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know if I believe this analysis that people have been going with. I think it's the crazy factor. It's the uh, I don't know. You've got a friend who does a few things that are just so crazy you don't trust his judgment on anything else. I think that's what's driving it. It's not that. Yeah, the Democrats' view of the economy is specifically blah blah blah. It said.
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Speaker 4: You're the people that want boys play girls' sports. You're the people that want me to say LATINEX. You're the people that think we shouldn't have police. I don't trust you on anything. I think it's the crazy factor. Yeah, you put a grown man in my little girl's locker room. Yeah exactly.
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Speaker 1: But to her point though, and it's not in contrast to your point, it's agreeing with it. So like on inflation and rising prices, Trump is eleven points underwater, okay, but the Republicans in general are ten points to the positive. So what Trump's doing right now. On immigration, these sees just three points underwater, but generally speaking Republicans that are Democrats seventeen point advantage for Republicans. So there are momentarily momentary quibbles with the way Trump is approaching this, that or the other, but in terms of general philosophy that I don't care. I want the Republicans, which again I don't think disagrees with your point.
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Speaker 2: I think it agrees with it.
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Speaker 1: Why do they have that percep or why do they lean so strongly that way? Because I think the Democrats have lost their effing mind. Let's see, So the Democrats are thirty three percent favorable, sixty three percent unfavorable, far weaker assessment than voters give to either President Trump or the Republican Party. Yeah, they're underwater, but of course political parties ought to be underwater.
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Speaker 2: Number when you got their opponents, and number two you got.
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Speaker 1: Neutrals or independents and their own party members who'd like them to change.
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Speaker 2: What they're doing a little bit.
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Speaker 1: But anyway, Trump is seven percent underwater and Republicans are eleven percent underwater. But again keep in mind, the Democrats are thirty points underwater.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, as always that number of people that are unhappy with the Democrats. It's a certain chunk who think they're crazy, like I was just talking about, and a certain chunk, smaller chunk, but a certain chunk that thinks they haven't gone far enough, they haven't stuck to their guns on trans issues and defunding the police and climate change and all the other important things.
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Speaker 1: Which is even worse new really, but a mere eight percent of voters view the Democrats very favorably, two and a half times as many have the same level of enthusiasm for the GOP.
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Speaker 2: I we got a long way to go on what direction? You know what the Democratic Party is going to look like next presidential election. But I keep hearing people like smart people throughout AOC is the current front runner slash base of the Democratic Party, and she probably is. Who else doomed? They are doomed, doomed if that it was you, that that go ahead, try it.
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Speaker 1: I don't know who else would it be as a rhetorical question, But the answer is a blue state governor who's moderate.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's got to be a human being so that yeah, you're right, but it's got to be an actual name.
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Speaker 1: At some point, I mean, I could throw out a list, but nobody. Nobody is talking about Bill Clinton. Hell, nobody was talking about Bill Clinton even after.
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Speaker 2: He entered the Uh.
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Speaker 1: The only issue in which voters PERFERM or congressional Democrats Republicans are healthcare and vaccine policy.
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Speaker 2: Good luck.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, they are screwed by themselves. I'd self inflicted wound a lot more on the way, hope you.
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Speaker 2: Can stay here for you missus seg Maco's podcast Arstrong and Getty.
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Speaker 9: By the way, I never went to the island and Bill Clinton went there supposedly, uh twenty eight times.
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Speaker 5: You expect me to believe that Bill Clinton went to the island only twenty eight times?
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Speaker 2: No way.
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Speaker 5: I mean, if anybody had VIP Diamond Island status, there's probably still parrots alive on that island going hey, Bill back again?
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Speaker 4: Paybene.
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Speaker 2: Interesting take from John Stewart on the whole Epstein thing. Bill Clinton only went twenty eight times. Really, I find that hard to believe. God, that is something twenty eight visits to Epstein's island knowing I mean, you had to have some idea that he was living life on the edge of okay, h.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, water under the bridge. I guess that I have a feeling a scumbag like Epstein would tell people who would not approve of his more reprehensible activities, Oh no, no, they're all eighteen. Absolutely, we carefully document that, and then to anybody he knows is down.
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Speaker 2: With the perversity, he'd say, yeah, they're eighteen and wink. So you think Bill Clinton was going to the island specifically to have sex with women? Why'd you say? Did you just say that? Are you talking to me? Did I imply that in any way? Yeah? No, Why do you think he was going? I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I've never thought about it for the party because it was sexy.
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Speaker 2: I don't know. I mean, do you assume everybody was going there to have sex with women? I don't actually know. I haven't spent much time looking into what the whole Epstein Island thing was about. Right, I want to get this on. I got random. None of this stuff holds together. I just came across this Bill Maher on his Club Random podcast the other day. Man, I started watching the Billy Joel one that's worth watching. I haven't seen Billy Joel's having quite the moment. I haven't seen the Billy Joel documentary on HBO. But I did see the Billy Joel interview hour and a half long interview with Bill maher super interesting, really really good about writing songs and all kinds of Yeah, it's something. But on his podcast Club Random, the Bill Maherr thing I was just talking about, Mars surprised listeners by saying Trump's early push for tariffs wasn't as dumb as I thought. Turns out to coupling from China has some bipartisan logic. Mar added, citing rising public support for domestic manufacturing and national security concerns. There are quite a few people, it seems, that are either backtracking or keeping their mouths shut about how dumb the whole araf thing is at this point, as we were talking about earlier. Yeah, how it plays out, nobody knows. No.
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Speaker 1: Got a great note from a listener, Alnonymous about the Walmart thing that we've been talking about. Yeah, it'll take twenty seconds, let me just do it. First of all, he says some lovely things about the show.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, sir. All They're all true.
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Speaker 1: Per your conversation on Walmart eating the costs of tariffs, it's not what you think. The company I work for has been dealing with Walmart and other national retailers for many, many years. Please understand that Walmart is not all caps eating the majority of the tariff's costs, but in fact demanding the vendor take on the brunt of these increases. As an example, Walmart negotiated Slash demanded that we take on over seventy percent of the tariff costs from China. They know full well that most vendors cannot take the loss in market share and revenue, and essentially strong arm you into agreement. Our bottom line has taking a massive hit this year primarily due to national retailers demands.
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Speaker 2: But with the result being the same thing, they're trying to drive lots of smaller businesses out of business, like the final nail in the coffin. For anybody who's trying to compete with Walmart and Amazon, well you could.
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Speaker 1: Say they're just trying to keep their costs as low as possible. Sure, I don't know why you had to put it in such a Marxist, you know, faue predator context.
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Speaker 2: Now, I don't think it's you know, untoward it anyway. I just think it's Ladimir Ilitch I think it's just the reality of the more the world is right now. Different topic we talked about AI earlier just came across this poll. A majority of college students pursuing higher education degrees UH sixty two percent to be specific, believe that learning how to use AI responsibly is essential for their future career and success. So almost two thirds of college kids think they need to learn how to use AI to make their way in the world. Are the other third stupid? What I thought was interesting was ninety percent already use it for general tasks, with nearly ninety percent of students surveyed saying they use it for schoolwork and more almost ninety percent. Is anybody else as perplexed as I am?
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Speaker 1: So you're using it right now, but a third of you, a little more than a third of you don't think you'll need it in the future.
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Speaker 2: Well, the word responsibly was in there, so maybe that's what. Oh, maybe they don't believe they need to learn how to use AI responsibly. I don't know. I'm going to use it irresponsibly, however I decide to use it.
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Speaker 1: But going to design weaponry a bizarre breeding experience between men and beasts?
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Speaker 2: Whatever I can generating truly troubling porn ning it. I'm somewhat late to joining AI, even though I talk about it so much, I you know, downloading chat GPT and other stuff. But seees college kids have been on it for a while. Apparently ninety percent of them are using it for their schoolwork and other stuff. Like I'm I am committed right now to reading Ulysses. This is the fifteenth time in my life I've committed to reading James Joyce's Ulysses, often held up as the greatest work of English literature of all time. It's very difficult read, but with the help of chat GPT, it's a lot easier. I come across something and I think, I wonder what this means. I just type in the phrase and chat GPT immediately gives me the short version of what it is where it comes from. It's so a lot of work. Huh, sounds like a lot of work. It is a lot of work. I saw a funny video about reading Ulysses yesterday. It said, Okay, here are these steps to reading Ulysses so you can understand it. Step one, read the entire Bible and understand it. Step two read all of Irish history, folklore and mythology, and understand it. Check it's interest.
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Speaker 1: So when I read my Miss Marvel Mysteries, it's you know, you think it's the Gardener, then it turns out to be the brother.
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Speaker 2: Oh it's a Step three was to read the entire works of Shakespeare and memorize it. You have to do all these things before you read Ulysses to be able to understand it. Okay, that sounds fun, doesn't it. I feel like I had one more thing I wanted to get on, but I don't remember what it was. It doesn't matter. It just doesn't matter. I do have this, which is really apropos of nothing. Something with feathers existed two hundred and forty seven million years ago as a reptile. They just discovered and found some new bones. I don't know if I think I've talked about this on the air. When we were at the Big Museum in New York, the Natural History Museum, the one with all the dinosaurs from those fun Night at the Museum movies, a lot of the dinosaurs now have feathers, and I know they didn't have feathers when I went there thirty years ago. But like your t rexes have feathers on them. Now they've completely changed their view on that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it seems to be the you know, the accepted view of scientists that the closest relatives to the dinosaurs now on Earth are birds.
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Speaker 2: Birds are Yeah, the birds are continued to be done. Don't get my son Henry started on this. He'll Sti'll get out a piece of paper and a pen and draw the entire lineage of everything and how this is that and this broke off there and uh but yeah, interesting, watched Jurassic Park and the dinosaurs aren't brightly colored with feathers. You were just beinged to. I would turn off the television or write a stern letter to Disney or whoever made those movies. Yeah, yeah, guy, I would do that too.
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Speaker 1: I have the idiotic would be controversy of the day ready to go. I don't think it's gonna catch on, and I think that's.
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Speaker 2: Important, but you want to get ahead of it in case it does.
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Speaker 1: No, I want to point out that it seems like it ought to be a good controversy, but the bloom is off. The that s white supremacy rose, and.
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Speaker 2: I hope you're right. I think it is We really ought to get into the what Trump said about Israel and Gaza and all that sort of stuff, and what the world is saying. The world is very unhappy with what they're calling a famine in genocide and all that sort of stuff. We've got to address that at some point. This could be certainly the big political story for the next couple of days, or weeks or thousand years.
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Speaker 1: Stay with us, ladies and gentlemen. I give you the lovely the sexy Sidney Sweeney.
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Speaker 2: Jeans are passed down from parents to offspring, often determining traits like her color, personality, and even eye color.
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Speaker 1: My jeens are blue.
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Speaker 2: Sydney Sweeney has great genes. I don't know that. I don't know from Sydney Sweeney.
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Speaker 1: America's beautiful blonde, skinny girl with big boobs. Sydney Sweeney, right, is now in a gen's ad, as sexy girls often are. And you heard the voiceover of her ad in which she equivocates between jeans.
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Speaker 2: With a G and jeans with a J.
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Speaker 1: It makes various dopey jokes as she zips up her jeans having apparently just been pantless, which I think is supposed to turn me on anyway.
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Speaker 2: Blah blah blah.
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Speaker 1: Selling jeans, well, apparently the lefty internet tried to go wild over them.
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Speaker 2: The internet's mad. I hate it when the Internet gets mad.
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Speaker 1: Like a blonde haired, blue eyed white woman talking about her jeens is good and any appropriate?
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Speaker 2: Well, the way to sell pants? What are you talking about?
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Speaker 1: Some going so far as to outright call it Nazi propaganda.
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Speaker 2: Wow.
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Speaker 1: I thought it was going to be like kind of bad, but wow, that's going to be in history books. I will be the friend that's two woke. But those Sydney Sweeney American Eagle ads are weird, like fascist weird, like Nazi propaganda weird.
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Speaker 2: I must need to another user with multiple piercings. Yes, would this make more sense to me if I saw the ad? Or it is the reaction as dumb as it sound. No, the second one.
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Speaker 1: Okay, I mean she says my jeans are blue and they show her blue eyes. But I mean she only utters like twelve words in the whole thing. Let's see, like, a blonde haired, blue eyed white woman is talking about her good genes. This is Nazi propaganda. Another added blah blah blah. This is pure nazi as blah blah blah. No, no, some of you are trolls.
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Speaker 2: But anybody who believes that on any level, wow, wow, just relax.
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Speaker 1: This is the sort of thing though, I'm telling you that would have caught on in the mainstream media and been questionable problematic five years ago, and now everybody's like, yeah, okay, now that's now, we don't do that anymore. I think it's a turning point, fake REVERSI won't get going, won't get anywhere.
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Speaker 2: It might sell some jeans. I just so Hansen played the ad for me. I like the fact she's not a super skinny chick, she's caravy. Yeah yeah, good for her. I think I saw her on Sorday Alive. I think she hosted once. Now that i've seen her, I recognize her. But anyway, yes, whatever. So I know, it's so hard to know when you're seeing your action. This stuff is if it's just an attempt to be a troll, or whoever's who's reporting the trolls, it's just an attempt to get a controversy going so you can get some clicks, or if anybody actually means anything, I don't know. I don't even know anymore. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: On a similar topic, the Fabulous Andrews Styles of the Free Beacon writing about the Democratic Party's male voter outreach, and you may recall how Democrats and journalists described Hulk Hogan's epic performance at the Republican convention as just awful, misogynist, you know, toxic masculinity. Dana Bash on the Unwatchable and Unwatched c n N referenced at weeks later at the Democratic Convention, where she lavished praise on Tim Walls and Doug Emhoff for their ability to speak to men out there who might not want to be the sort of testosterone lated, you know, gun toting kind of guy who wants to listen to Hulk Hogan and the kay of players that came out at the GOP convention.
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Speaker 2: I don't know what she meant.
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Speaker 1: By players, but there was a quote her colleague, Jake Metrosexual Tapper agreed, citing unnamed critics who described the Republican speaking lineup as testeroni testosteroni. Anyway, so let's check back with the uh oh, I like this line. I'm sorry after getting blown out with male voters who actually identify as men, Democrats Finally, realized they had a problem doing what comes naturally.
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Speaker 2: Excuse me, my poor froat, doing what comes naturally.
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Speaker 1: They formed a bunch of committees and hired some data nerds and other so called experts to help them understand why they're nagging. Lectures about toxic masculinity have failed to resonate with normal straight men who cannot get pregnant.
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Speaker 2: And so.
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Speaker 1: On Wednesday, the Progress Action Fund This is a Democratic pack hosted an online press briefing on how to win back young men ahead of the twenty twenty six midterms. They were joined in this online press briefing by Veronica Zell, founder and CEO of Sweetie High, a website that bills itself as the cultural destination for teen and tween girls. We swear we aren't making this up. Here are a random sample of sweety High headlines from the past week or so. The best Instagram captions for all your cheerleading photos.
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Speaker 2: Okay, that's andy.
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Speaker 1: Japanese girl group Cosmosi discuss breaking through toxic love in their new single, Why your hot girl tummy problems might get worse in the summer heat, and what your favorite childhood.
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Speaker 2: Doll reveals about you.
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Speaker 1: This is the co host of the How to Win Back Young Men ahead of the twenty twenty six midterms teleconference.
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Speaker 2: Do hot girls have tummy problems? I'm gonna wear them during the summer. Apparently they do. Yes, Yes, there are more headlines similar to what we were talking about.
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Speaker 1: Everything you wanted to know about the princess nail trend.
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Speaker 2: Wow, similar to what we were talking about earlier. That AOC is the leading face of the Democratic Party. Go ahead, go ahead, try that. Try this, Try having these people give you advice on how to win back men to your party. I wasn't like masculine enough in their vision.
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Speaker 1: But this is anyone who's the mom of their friend group will relate to these eleven truths. The mom of their friend.
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Speaker 2: Group, Yeah, I'm familiar with that.
00:33:38
Speaker 1: But them's with their lowest favorability ratings in last thirty five years.
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Speaker 2: I wonder why I heard. I was driving to work today, NPR was making reference to that genes commercial. I didn't try to. I didn't quite catch on to what they were talking about, So I don't know if they were taking that seriously or not, the whole blue eyes Nazi thing. Knowing PR, probably yeah, any people are.
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Speaker 1: Parodies of yourself, and we are enjoying it very much, and we encourage you to continue.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't tell how much. Is the world has gotten just really intolerably intolerable or I've just grown out of things that are just part of the normal cycles of life, like the next new hot girl in a gene ad that you know I've been. I've been as opposed to Yeah, Brookshields fifty years ago and everything since A right, right, you've lost the ability to feel joy. I have lost. I'm incapable of experiencing joy. That is exactly right. Yes, that is a good way to sum me up. That would be my hinge profile. I'm incapable of experiencing joy. Would you like to get together for coffee sometime? I won't enjoy it, or you or anything else. Wasn't Brookshields your soulmate? I feel like she could be. We've never met I've never met her roughly the same age. I've just always felt like we could be. But it's not too late. She's married, very happily married for now. Wow. So we do four hours every single day, a whole bunch of different segments. If you missed any of it, get our podcast. You should subscribe to Armstrong and Getty on demand. That's the easiest way to do it. Subscribe to Armstrong and Getty on demand. Armstrong and Getty
