Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Katty and he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3: So we're not big on the whole gossip, high school
Speaker 3: nature of Washington d C. I don't care about people's
Speaker 3: comings and goings and retirement, and they'll talk about them
Speaker 3: all day long in cable news, and I just don't
Speaker 3: freaking care. I can't believe they think anybody does care.
Speaker 3: But I do think this is kind of interesting that
Speaker 3: the National Security Advisor is out. Mike Wallas is out
Speaker 3: after one hundred and one days, which ain't very long,
Speaker 3: and I'm I'm mostly wondering to have anything to do
Speaker 3: with his He was way more of a we need
Speaker 3: to support Ukraine guy than Trump is, and I just
Speaker 3: wonder about that.
Speaker 2: But here he is.
Speaker 3: Just a couple of hours ago, he surely had heard
Speaker 3: that there were already newsblurbs saying he's going to be fired,
Speaker 3: So I don't know if this is him scrambling for
Speaker 3: his job, or is this exit interview or what.
Speaker 4: So I'm so excited about this. This is leadership at
Speaker 4: its finest, led by our commander in chief who loves
Speaker 4: the troops and they love him. Secretary Hegseth leading from
Speaker 4: the front, Secretary Driscoll Army Secretary that you had on earlier.
Speaker 4: I mean again, we're one hundred days in and they
Speaker 4: are talking about modernizing the army, counter drone, electronic warfare,
Speaker 4: getting our troops the things they need rapidly, cutting through
Speaker 4: their bureaucracy, consolidating a lot of these commands and headquarters
Speaker 4: that we don't need.
Speaker 2: They are all gas.
Speaker 4: Brian, and this is exactly what our modern force needs.
Speaker 3: I think that was a guy I thinking he could
Speaker 3: still butter up Trump and save his job.
Speaker 2: I don't know, but.
Speaker 3: I was just looking at Molly Hemingway, who I don't
Speaker 3: always agree with her, tweeting out that the news coverage
Speaker 3: on this is mostly about Mike Walls wanted to support Ukraine.
Speaker 3: Trump doesn't this as a sign that Trump, you know,
Speaker 3: is abandoning Ukraine, et cetera, et cetera, And she pointed
Speaker 3: out he did add a hostile journalist to a private,
Speaker 3: top secret war plan chat.
Speaker 2: It's not a minor thing.
Speaker 3: And y'all are leaving this out all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: you know, at the time, it was a big deal,
Speaker 3: and now you're acting like it's clearly about the policy
Speaker 3: and not about this. So I don't know what it's about,
Speaker 3: but that that was a fairly incompetent thing to do.
Speaker 3: And then his excuses which were so horrible when he
Speaker 3: came out, well, I got sucked to you know how
Speaker 3: names get sucked into your phone?
Speaker 2: And what are you talking about? Ryan? Well?
Speaker 1: And as I mentioned earlier, Trump is proud enough that
Speaker 1: he's not going to get rid of somebody because the
Speaker 1: left wing media is telling him he has to. He's
Speaker 1: going to wait for a couple of months and say, no,
Speaker 1: this has nothing to do with that. I've just made
Speaker 1: the decision. I think some of the proof will be
Speaker 1: in who they replace walls with.
Speaker 2: And if it's a.
Speaker 3: Hardcore h anti Ukraine Zugleinski needs to throw on a
Speaker 3: suit guy, then then then it's a change of a
Speaker 3: change from what he had.
Speaker 1: Certainly, Yeah, I'm really intrigued by the assigning of the
Speaker 1: minerals deal and the final form it takes and what
Speaker 1: Trump's strategy actually is to what extent is that, Hey,
Speaker 1: they've got minerals, they need us, I'm going to get
Speaker 1: some get something out of them, which I find a
Speaker 1: bit of appalling given the stakes, or if it's a
Speaker 1: we're going to be so invested in Ukraine and make
Speaker 1: them wealthy and Russia's not going to dare attack because
Speaker 1: We're going to have lots.
Speaker 3: And lots of interests there. Yeah, we're going to have
Speaker 3: people and trucks and money at stakes. So hey, Vladimir,
Speaker 3: knock it off. I don't know, we'll see.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a totally different topic speaking of kN quest. Though
Speaker 1: I mentioned this earlier in the show, then forgot to
Speaker 1: pay it off, and I apologize for that. But this
Speaker 1: is a Florida e mom giving a sermon or whatever
Speaker 1: you call that. They're in a mosque and the context
Speaker 1: being and I think he makes this clear that they'd
Speaker 1: recently acquired several churches and turned them into mosques.
Speaker 2: It's ninety and ninety one, Michael, play them one at
Speaker 2: a time. We bought.
Speaker 5: Three churches so far, converted them to messages, and now
Speaker 5: we have one we are buying with a school to
Speaker 5: make it because we have to serve the same people,
Speaker 5: the people who were part of that community. One day
Speaker 5: there will be Muslims, so we'll make it into a
Speaker 5: message and an Islamic school for our children and their children, Charlemah.
Speaker 5: And two years ago they invaded the Muslim world and
Speaker 5: they built missionary schools and destroyed Islamic schools and message.
Speaker 5: Today we bring the favor back, turned their churches into
Speaker 5: messages and their schools into Islamic schools, bring the light
Speaker 5: of Islam to hear.
Speaker 3: Is he picturing more of a there will be so
Speaker 3: many people flowing in that are Muslims or is he
Speaker 3: picturing converting people to Islam? Seems pretty clear he's talking
Speaker 3: about converting them. And just play that last clip.
Speaker 2: It's short.
Speaker 5: This is an election year, but we're not going to
Speaker 5: be happy with either candidate. We have to be happy
Speaker 5: when Islam becomes the best candidate for us. I ask
Speaker 5: a lost Pano Tahada to give Islam the victory in
Speaker 5: this country.
Speaker 1: So the difference between that and a Baptist preacher standing
Speaker 1: up and saying we ought to convert everybody to Christianity
Speaker 1: to save their souls, blah blah blah, is that Islam
Speaker 1: is a system of law in governance. Now, not everybody
Speaker 1: practices that way. Some people just practice it as a
Speaker 1: personal faith. And that's fine, I have no truck with
Speaker 1: those people, as they say, But there are a lot
Speaker 1: of people, including this guy who hints rather strongly that no,
Speaker 1: we want Islam to be the system of governance in
Speaker 1: this place, and.
Speaker 2: Give us enough time and we'll get her done. Wow.
Speaker 1: And that is a vow quite specifically to overthrow our
Speaker 1: form of government and the constitution. That's not paranoia, that's
Speaker 1: just fact. We want this system of laws and governance,
Speaker 1: not the one we got.
Speaker 3: Are you suggesting that's somewhere near a crime or violation
Speaker 3: of something?
Speaker 1: Well, he isn't advocating for the forceful overthrow of the
Speaker 1: United States government, so probably not. It is legal under
Speaker 1: our First Amendment. It's practically unique on earth, and wonderful
Speaker 1: into my opinion that you can walk around saying we
Speaker 1: ought to get rid of the constitution.
Speaker 2: We need to have a vote, and here are my
Speaker 2: reasons why, and who's with me? That's something to keep
Speaker 2: an eye on.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, now for the next five Yeah, yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: one more thing I wanted to throw in.
Speaker 3: I think Katie mentioned this earlier. McDonald's has suffered its
Speaker 3: deepest US same store sales drop since COVID when people
Speaker 3: couldn't get out and about heightened anxiety around economics. US
Speaker 3: same store sales plunged three point six percent, which the
Speaker 3: Train the chain attributed to an increasingly cautious consumer. It's
Speaker 3: the worst drop since the beginning of the COVID pandemic,
Speaker 3: which is a little troubling as Americans grow more fearful
Speaker 3: that sweeping tariffs could reheat inflation or even trigger a recession.
Speaker 3: The world's largest fast food chain says it's not anying
Speaker 3: a broader hit to traffic.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I believe that or not. Are
Speaker 2: are two you do?
Speaker 3: So you think a lot of people like to eating
Speaker 3: out less even for McDonald's.
Speaker 1: Just financial caution in general is on the rise. I
Speaker 1: was just reading about how America's biggest home builders have
Speaker 1: seen in a very very weak spring season, and that's
Speaker 1: when they do forty percent of their annual sales, and
Speaker 1: it's about halfway over, but they're down from two to
Speaker 1: fifteen percent depending on who you ask, and they're offering
Speaker 1: all sorts of incentives and rebates and just trying to
Speaker 1: get people to sign.
Speaker 3: The CEO for McDonald said it's no longer just low
Speaker 3: income consumers pulling back, but also middle income consumers who
Speaker 3: are weighed down by the cumulative impact of inflation and
Speaker 3: heightened anxiety. Before this, McDonald said it plans to focus
Speaker 3: on it's Mcvalue menu and extend it's five dollars meal
Speaker 3: deal and also the very popular chicken thingies, some sort
Speaker 3: of chicken strip thing which I actually saw last night
Speaker 3: as in the drive through McDonald's with my son after
Speaker 3: his volleyball game, and he got two cheeseburgers, not quarter
Speaker 3: pounders or big Max, just the little cheeseburger, two cheeseburgers
Speaker 3: and fries and it was fifteen dollars, which seems like
Speaker 3: a lot to me.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 3: Two cheeseburgers, small fry, fifteen bucks. V No.
Speaker 2: No, I know that's what I thought.
Speaker 1: I understand inflation. I do, I studied it at the
Speaker 1: university level, but holy crap, I know I'm shocked every time.
Speaker 2: So wow.
Speaker 3: So maybe people are pulling back because things are just
Speaker 3: too expensive. Combined with I think it's going to get
Speaker 3: even worse.
Speaker 1: I realized this is an old guy thing to say,
Speaker 1: But Judy and I were going out for what do
Speaker 1: we have the other day breakfast? And she ordered like
Speaker 1: a you know, a paddy melt. Say, it's essentially a
Speaker 1: burger with you know, sautate onions on it, and it
Speaker 1: was really good, but it was nineteen dollars or something, right, right,
Speaker 1: it's like a nineteen dollars paddy melt. Yeah, it's going
Speaker 1: on here, I know, start raising cattle. I don't have
Speaker 1: room for like cattle cattle, so it's probably going to
Speaker 1: be those little miniature Irish cattle cute, and I will
Speaker 1: probably hire little people to be my cowboys.
Speaker 3: Wow, little tiny cowboys with little Yeah, let's be very cute.
Speaker 1: That's my plan. It's you know, drawing board stage.
Speaker 2: It'll be cute though. Those would be some great Instagram posts.
Speaker 1: And if I get hungry, I'll just, you know, whack
Speaker 1: one of them little Irish cows and make me some burgers.
Speaker 2: Backed Patty, are you gonna say you whack one of
Speaker 2: the little people? What?
Speaker 6: What?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 1: No, I'm not a lunatic, right, that would be correct? Right?
Speaker 2: We have more on the waist here.
Speaker 7: A dog food brand recently announced that they're looking for
Speaker 7: a summer intern to smell dog's breath in order to
Speaker 7: evaluate the effectiveness of their.
Speaker 2: New dental product. In case you're looking.
Speaker 7: For a career where AI will never replace you.
Speaker 3: Wow, I gotta smell a dog's breath and determine whether
Speaker 3: it's better or worse.
Speaker 1: I need do that for free right now, so you
Speaker 1: know what the hell? If I can get paid for it,
Speaker 1: why not?
Speaker 2: And my dog, by our pug, has horrible breath.
Speaker 3: Or really should get a second opinion because the vet said,
Speaker 3: well he's got you know, he got some teeth that
Speaker 3: need pulled. But this teeth and that tooth and then
Speaker 3: and there's gonna be like two thousand dollars or something
Speaker 3: like that.
Speaker 1: Gum problems we need to put them under and blah
Speaker 1: blah blah. Yeah, it can be just breathtaking bills.
Speaker 6: Yes, Katie, uh, I would, I would say do it.
Speaker 3: I ain't paying two thousand dollars to get a dog's
Speaker 3: teeth pulled. Ain't gonna freaking happen for those of you
Speaker 3: who do it, good for you, But I ain't doing it.
Speaker 1: Label this segment of the podcast, Jack neglects his animals.
Speaker 2: Kidding, not a change.
Speaker 1: You can't even smile when it goes to parties because
Speaker 1: it's ashamed of its teeth.
Speaker 2: Shots got a stigma.
Speaker 6: I don't neglect my dog and when I had to
Speaker 6: have her teeth pulled, it totally took care of the
Speaker 6: bad breath problem.
Speaker 2: Well fantastic.
Speaker 1: Yeah, in fact, she just needs this. His his teeth rushed.
Speaker 1: He almost never does that. I bug him every.
Speaker 2: One of these green things. It'll make your breath better
Speaker 2: or not.
Speaker 1: Don't breathe on me. Put scope in his water bowl.
Speaker 1: It'll be fine. So this is really quite amazing and
Speaker 1: life affirming story, and it's the sort of thing that
Speaker 1: sixty minutes used to do before they suck. There is
Speaker 1: a Japanese town that, like a lot of towns in Japan,
Speaker 1: is shrinking and aging. And you've got a few You've
Speaker 1: got a decent number of school kids, but they don't
Speaker 1: know the older folks around town, and the older folks
Speaker 1: don't know the kids, and they don't interact with the kids.
Speaker 1: And somebody, for some reason thought that was unfortunate. We're
Speaker 1: losing our sense of community in this town. And so
Speaker 1: they invented you know, your Pokemon cards for instance, or
Speaker 1: you know, Superhero sports cards. You get all sorts of
Speaker 1: role playing card games. So these people invented a role
Speaker 1: playing hard game featuring real people from the village, specifically
Speaker 1: all sorts of middle aged and older guys.
Speaker 2: What a cool idea. Who and this is the part
Speaker 2: that touches my heart a little bit.
Speaker 5: They are.
Speaker 1: Smart businessmen, well worthy of admiring or emulating folks who
Speaker 1: behaved with great bravery in the Japanese military, scientists with
Speaker 1: great brains and creativity. And they have their actual picture
Speaker 1: on the front in kind of dramatic form, then a
Speaker 1: different picture on the back. But they have like different
Speaker 1: skills or powers based on these guys' actual abilities in life,
Speaker 1: and it's become this enormous hit.
Speaker 2: They're twenty two of them.
Speaker 1: They include mister Honda, the former head of the local
Speaker 1: fire brigade who is skilled in first aid and rescue work,
Speaker 1: Soba chef, mister Takashita, who teaches noodle making classes, who's
Speaker 1: never encountered a broken electrical appliance he couldn't fix. And
Speaker 1: mister Fuji, a former prison correctional officer who now works
Speaker 1: as a volunteer driver for older residents. And these kids
Speaker 1: play the card game and you know they they play
Speaker 1: a mister Fuji, but they might overcome it with a
Speaker 1: mister kid Amra, who with his ability to fix things,
Speaker 1: and you know his technical no holl and all. And
Speaker 1: it's brought all the kids and the older fellas together,
Speaker 1: and they now all greet each other on the streets.
Speaker 1: And it's crazy. People even ask the old guys for autographs.
Speaker 1: That's interesting, isn't that nutty. There's a guy who moved
Speaker 1: away from where I live a couple of years ago,
Speaker 1: and I'd known him for years in a different capacity,
Speaker 1: but it's not like I ever asked him, you know,
Speaker 1: tell me your life story. But after he moved away,
Speaker 1: I became aware that he was like a He wrote
Speaker 1: for the San Francisco Chronicle for a while, and then
Speaker 1: he was just all these really interesting things, yeah, that
Speaker 1: I just never knew. And I don't know, maybe maybe
Speaker 1: people should brag slash, explain their their their their lives more.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I've I've had that same thought lately.
Speaker 1: I live in a community, neighborhood whatever that's. That's it's
Speaker 1: a good range of ages, but it definitely includes some
Speaker 1: retired people and some older folks and and and when
Speaker 1: somebody passes on, you know, we'll get a notice with
Speaker 1: an obituary, and time after time I see the obituary
Speaker 1: and think.
Speaker 2: I wish i'd known this stuff.
Speaker 1: I just sought the guy out and asked him about
Speaker 1: this or that or the other, what we have in
Speaker 1: common or whatever. And and I've you know, I've I
Speaker 1: brought this up to a couple of people without any
Speaker 1: satisfactory result or idea. But can we do this somehow?
Speaker 1: Is there some form of doing this before people croak?
Speaker 3: Right, it's always the person with nothing interesting in their
Speaker 3: past that tells you all about something they did.
Speaker 2: Right right, And you know, for a lot of people, I.
Speaker 3: Mean, this might be one of the reasons that they
Speaker 3: did cool things. The interesting people tend to keep it
Speaker 3: to themselves well, right and door.
Speaker 1: You know, if somebody's retired, for instance, they're not gonna
Speaker 1: walk around saying, you know, twenty years ago, I was this,
Speaker 1: and I did this and that, and I lived where
Speaker 1: you probably not. And I don't know, it's kind of
Speaker 1: a shame. Maybe we'd start the trading cards.
Speaker 3: I don't know, speaking of kind of that sort of thing.
Speaker 3: I want to explain what an NPC is before we
Speaker 3: get done today. How much time I got my going
Speaker 3: We're about done right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thirty seconds here. Yeah, I'm gonna explain what an
Speaker 2: NPC is. Later.
Speaker 3: My son and his friends throw it around as a
Speaker 3: term regularly, but it's kind of funny and worth knowing.
Speaker 2: If somebody calls you that plus old what's his face?
Speaker 1: The MS thirteen guy who is deported, I'd bring back
Speaker 1: the corters reel rule, blah blah blah. And the case
Speaker 1: of the fella with the two year old and the
Speaker 1: four year old ripped away from their mother by Trump's cruelties.
Speaker 1: The truth on that, to look at, how incredibly egregiously
Speaker 1: inaccurate the media coverage has been cool.
Speaker 2: I want to see all that.
Speaker 3: That's some good stuff. I'm gonna stick around. I was
Speaker 3: playing on leaving, but I'm gonna stick around.
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3: Poor discussion later, as I see it's getting a lot
Speaker 3: of attention. Is Bill Belichick pleased that his relationship has
Speaker 3: gone like, you know, everyone has heard about it by now.
Speaker 3: Is this like making him happy? Or is he kind
Speaker 3: of er er trying to keep this on the down low?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is like the subject of national snickering. And
Speaker 1: or is it like the old snide comment, you know,
Speaker 1: the old joke with the punchline, is I'm telling everybody
Speaker 1: you know?
Speaker 2: Is it like that? Yeah? Mybe exactly, I don't know.
Speaker 1: So. Stephen Miller was in the press room recently at
Speaker 1: the White House and he was lighting up the press
Speaker 1: for their awful coverage of immigration stuff, and we edited
Speaker 1: it out. He's talking about a young girl who was
Speaker 1: killed by an illegal immigrant, and how well, how the
Speaker 1: coverage is completely stilted and unfair. Go ahead, we'll play
Speaker 1: your samp lovin.
Speaker 7: It is a sad reflection on the state of our
Speaker 7: media and many of the outlets represented in this room
Speaker 7: that you obsessively try to shill for this smester ting terrorists.
Speaker 7: Will no coverage occurred in your papers about any of
Speaker 7: the Americans that were raped and tortured and murdered by
Speaker 7: the illegals that Biden was importing into our country. And
Speaker 7: each and every one of you decides over and over
Speaker 7: again with these mster teen terrorists to the extent that
Speaker 7: you at the financial means to do so.
Speaker 2: You all choose to live in.
Speaker 7: Condos or homes or houses as far away from these
Speaker 7: kinds of gang bangers as you possibly can. If I
Speaker 7: offered any one of you a rent free home with
Speaker 7: no taxes to pay in any of these gang neighborhoods,
Speaker 7: and I said, your neighbors are mster ting terrorists or
Speaker 7: Mexican mafia or Sinaloa cartel or trained Iragua. I couldn't
Speaker 7: pay you to live there, But yet you, with your coverage,
Speaker 7: are trying to force innocent Americans to have these people
Speaker 7: as their neighbors and that one day their daughter may
Speaker 7: be abducted from their home and raped and murdered. So
Speaker 7: you're not going to get an ounce of sympathy from
Speaker 7: this administration or President Trump for the terrorists who've invaded
Speaker 7: our homes in our country.
Speaker 3: Yeah, first of all, the up talking distracts me. It's
Speaker 3: funny his I was trying to get past it. His
Speaker 3: up talking doesn't fit his personality. Usually up talking is,
Speaker 3: you know, a different vibe anyway. That is something Tucker
Speaker 3: Carlson used to talk about a lot that I always
Speaker 3: agreed with that a lot of the people that are
Speaker 3: okay with the policies allowing illegal immigration, their neighborhoods.
Speaker 2: Aren't affected and never have been affected.
Speaker 3: At all with bilegal or illegal immigration. It's just like
Speaker 3: it's not in their world. It's all academic as opposed
Speaker 3: to the rest of us. Who it You know, drastically
Speaker 3: changes your school, your hospital, your.
Speaker 2: Whatever, your neighborhood.
Speaker 1: Right, the protected class and the unprotected class, those who
Speaker 1: make the policies and those who feel the brunt of
Speaker 1: the policies.
Speaker 2: It's an excellent point.
Speaker 3: So they should shake care the board, class divide in America,
Speaker 3: should care the border. I wish they would get everify
Speaker 3: because I really think that's the quickest way to fix it.
Speaker 2: As a national orgue. Who's been writing that's going to
Speaker 2: make me insane.
Speaker 1: It's so grating, so greating does.
Speaker 3: Why do Republicans resist everify? Why is Trump never brought
Speaker 3: that up because there's so much pressure from big business
Speaker 3: to hey, that would ruin us if we had to
Speaker 3: actually verify the people were legal.
Speaker 1: Dan, what did you tell us earlier that there's something
Speaker 1: like sixty thousand or whatever it is empty manufacturing jobs
Speaker 1: in America.
Speaker 2: One hundred and forty thousand.
Speaker 1: Sorry, wow, yeah, I was almost barely not even half
Speaker 1: one hundred and forty thousand empty unfillable manufacturing jobs. Because
Speaker 1: we have so many healthy young men, in particular on
Speaker 1: fake disability or on the government dole, not active in
Speaker 1: the workforce number that have never been seen before. So
Speaker 1: we've got to import illegal immigrants, and you know, good
Speaker 1: lord and Trump's talking about we need hundreds of thousands
Speaker 1: of more you know, manufacturing jobs. What then, Anyway, on
Speaker 1: the topic of immigration more broadly, I wish I had
Speaker 1: time to read you more of this than I'm going to.
Speaker 1: But Rich Lowry of the National Review, who I think
Speaker 1: is great, has made the point recently that whether it's
Speaker 1: that that whack a doodle judge in Wisconsin who tried
Speaker 1: to help an illegal wife beater, violent multiple deporty immigrant
Speaker 1: escape justice because she saw the Feds around the courthouse,
Speaker 1: they act like illegal immigrants are fugitive slaves, and that's
Speaker 1: a great comparison. They act like they're the Harriet Tubman's
Speaker 1: of the world trying to save these poor innocent, beliaguered
Speaker 1: people from their slave masters, specifically the laws of the
Speaker 1: United States and immigration that they have no reason to
Speaker 1: be here, especially the felons.
Speaker 2: They're not fugitive slaves.
Speaker 1: Anyway, More on that reasoning another time, because I think
Speaker 1: it's eloquent and amusing in its own way. But this
Speaker 1: is from not the Bee, which is the Babylon Bee's
Speaker 1: non humor side, which is actually pretty interesting if you
Speaker 1: don't follow them or not.
Speaker 2: Aware of them.
Speaker 1: But ABC News is peddling activism again. Let's talk about
Speaker 1: this ridiculous post. This is the ABC official news Twitter
Speaker 1: feed whatever. The two year old child Venezuelan migrants is
Speaker 1: with a foster family after her mom was deported to
Speaker 1: Venezuela and her dad was sent to O Al Salvador.
Speaker 1: Authorities said, and they point out you don't hate the
Speaker 1: media enough. First the post which I just read to you,
Speaker 1: and there's a little more to it.
Speaker 2: But now for the facts.
Speaker 1: The US Department of Homeland Security claims that both parents
Speaker 1: are connected to trend I Iiragua, the violent, sadistic Venezuelan
Speaker 1: gang that is taking over entire neighborhoods in city across
Speaker 1: the US. The father maker Espinoza Escalona, is reportedly quote
Speaker 1: a lieutenant of trendyed Uragua who oversees homicides, drug sales, kidnappings, extortions,
Speaker 1: sex trafficking, and operates a torture house. The mother, your
Speaker 1: Lee Scarlett Bernal and Ciarte reportedly quote oversees recruitment of
Speaker 1: young women for drug smuggling and prostitution.
Speaker 2: Both entered the US illegally.
Speaker 1: In May of twenty twenty four, at the height of
Speaker 1: the Biden wide open border, the lovely gal was detained
Speaker 1: for several months in Texas. After requesting to be deported,
Speaker 1: she was sent back to Venezuela because of the claim
Speaker 1: that the fellas a gang lieutenant. He was sent to
Speaker 1: Guantanamo Bay, then to that President l Salvador. But ABC
Speaker 1: News trotted out the families the couple's family to tell
Speaker 1: us how loving and kind and sweet and innocent they are.
Speaker 1: In CRT's mother told ABC News, quote, my daughter has
Speaker 1: a tattoo of the year I was born and the
Speaker 1: year her dad was born. She has the name of
Speaker 1: her son and some flowers on her chest maker. The
Speaker 1: husband's a tattoo artist, and he would do her tattoos.
Speaker 1: How romantic. An aspiring tattoo artist who also loves cutting hair, Marley,
Speaker 1: who is Escalonias's sister, said her brother, who is also
Speaker 1: a barber and traveled to the US for a better life. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is the barber we heard about. My brother is
Speaker 1: a twenty five year old guy, a dreamer like all Venezuelans.
Speaker 1: He loves cutting hair. Blah blah blah, so he emigrated
Speaker 1: to have a better life. The attack angle here is
Speaker 1: not that illegal aliens got sent back to their own countries.
Speaker 1: The media is beginning to learn that the vast majority
Speaker 1: of American support deporting illegals. The real point is to
Speaker 1: push the idea that the Trump administration is stealing kids
Speaker 1: from their parents. ABC News made sure to put in
Speaker 1: a statement from the communist dictatorship of Venezuela to push
Speaker 1: the point. Quote, the US government is robbing Venezuelan children,
Speaker 1: said their interior minister.
Speaker 2: ABC News.
Speaker 1: Look, we're not saying that the Orange Hitler is kidnapping kids.
Speaker 2: Wink wink. The Venezuhalans are saying that they are in jitler.
Speaker 1: But what's missing in this activist op ed is context.
Speaker 1: ABC cleverly noted that the Office of Refugee Resettlement referred
Speaker 1: them to DHS for questions about the child that is
Speaker 1: in their customer custody, but didn't specify whether it had
Speaker 1: actually asked the office for a statement.
Speaker 2: Blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: The reader only gets one side of the story of
Speaker 1: that's frame to make Trump look evil, and the part
Speaker 1: about the father operating a torture house as a gang
Speaker 1: lieutenant and the mother accused of being a child sex trafficker.
Speaker 1: Could it be that there are details we've yet to
Speaker 1: learn about abuse incredible danger that led the Trump administration
Speaker 1: to place this child with a foster family. Almost certainly
Speaker 1: this a fairly long article, but you get the gist
Speaker 1: of it. And again, ABC News, what are they? I
Speaker 1: guess they're trying to sell clicks to a particular group
Speaker 1: of Americans with a particular point of view.
Speaker 2: I just wish people would be honest about what they are. ABC.
Speaker 1: You're in the news, You're in the business rather of
Speaker 1: providing clickbait for people who are very soft on illegal immigrants,
Speaker 1: say so, advertise it like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I would just think from a wanting to win elections standpoint,
Speaker 3: both the party and the media that backs that party
Speaker 3: wouldn't want to keep hammering this whole thing.
Speaker 2: Because, I mean, the the.
Speaker 3: Results are in on how people feel about illegal immigration.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, a huge loser too. I mean, and if
Speaker 1: you actually ever learn the facts about these people. So
Speaker 1: the guy you know, he's a gang lieutenant, runs a
Speaker 1: torture house, etc. Et cetera drug trafficker, the mile of
Speaker 1: the mom is a sex trafficker or whatever. But he
Speaker 1: really likes to cut hair. If you, as the saying
Speaker 1: human being, said, oh it's good at cutting hair, you know,
Speaker 1: I think we let.
Speaker 2: Him stay right.
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, you should be in a home
Speaker 1: being fed you know, softened foods, and you know, allowed
Speaker 1: out on the weekends. I mean, come on, Wow, nice job.
Speaker 2: ABC. Hope you all proud of yourselves. So coming up.
Speaker 3: Katy Perry hits back at her critics who claims she's
Speaker 3: not a real astronaut.
Speaker 2: Oh, Katie, let it go, let it die. And what's
Speaker 2: an NPC.
Speaker 3: It's worth knowing in case you get called that by
Speaker 3: like a teenager.
Speaker 2: What they're referring to them's fighting words, among other things.
Speaker 3: On the way We'll finish strong, stay here, I threw
Speaker 3: out the idea of what an NPC is. M If
Speaker 3: you ever heard that term among young people, it's an insult.
Speaker 3: My son used it on me the other day. That's
Speaker 3: so NPC D and it is. It's what they call
Speaker 3: non non player characters in video games. But like in
Speaker 3: video games, the NPCs are all they're just like they
Speaker 3: don't They all dress the same, They have no personality,
Speaker 3: They're just there to be in the background of the role.
Speaker 2: Exactly.
Speaker 3: So if you dress in kind of a like you know,
Speaker 3: Khaki's polo shirt sort of way, you're it's so NPC.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's funny. A lot of modern lingo just annoys me.
Speaker 1: But that's creative. Yeah, yeah, And it's you know, and
Speaker 1: it's interesting.
Speaker 3: This is obvious and we've talked about it before, but
Speaker 3: the it's like the anarchists unite thing. It's the uh
Speaker 3: non conformists to unite. Just you know, you hang out
Speaker 3: with your own group of non conformists that all act
Speaker 3: in dress and have the same hairstyles and everything like that.
Speaker 3: And it's just I mean, I sit in the high
Speaker 3: school parking lot every single day waiting for my son
Speaker 3: to come out, and everybody's dress just exactly the same way.
Speaker 3: Every dude is wearing the same style of hat in
Speaker 3: the same way on their head. You have to have
Speaker 3: it like tilted ford and high up on your head.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's just, you know, it's just it. And
Speaker 3: the girls all have their own look to be unique whatever.
Speaker 3: I don't know why we need to delude ourselves like
Speaker 3: that or not just admit to ourselves. I dress like
Speaker 3: all the other people in the sphere. I want to
Speaker 3: be part of I'm not actually that unique.
Speaker 1: Yeah, sometimes you just have to separate yourself from it,
Speaker 1: and you know, it's as if you're observing a different
Speaker 1: species and they're rituals and mating dances and plumage and
Speaker 1: the rest of it, and think, well, that's what humans do.
Speaker 2: That's funny.
Speaker 3: So if you hear somebody drop an NPC on you,
Speaker 3: it's not exactly you. Probably one you don't care if
Speaker 3: you are inn PC, but two A it's an insult.
Speaker 2: I'll use my finger quotes. Yeah, that's funny. So apparently
Speaker 2: it's not true.
Speaker 3: The headline that came out yesterday that the board for
Speaker 3: Tesla was looking to replace hunting around to replace Elon
Speaker 3: Musk as a guy running the company, and then by
Speaker 3: this morning at least the Financial Times said the Tesla
Speaker 3: board says, no, that's not true, although certainly could be true,
Speaker 3: or at least they wanted that out there for a
Speaker 3: while to get Elon's attention that hey, maybe a little
Speaker 3: less doge, a little more running the most valuable car
Speaker 3: company in the world.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they sent a shot across the bow. Who knows now,
Speaker 1: who knows whether it was an official search or an
Speaker 1: announcement or a whisper that you know we're going to
Speaker 1: start a.
Speaker 2: Search, you're sending a message.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm just thinking about it right now, though as
Speaker 3: it could be a he's busy with other things.
Speaker 2: It also could be a we got to get his
Speaker 2: name out of this.
Speaker 3: So the kind of people that won't buy a Tesla
Speaker 3: because Elon Musk won't have that anymore because it absolutely
Speaker 3: has hurt sales and the stock price and everything like
Speaker 3: that beyond a doubt catastrophically. Oh yeah, is there any
Speaker 3: precedent in the history of of business. Absolutely not not
Speaker 3: even close.
Speaker 1: I mean, you'd have to have somebody so identified with
Speaker 1: their product like Elon is and then go a foul
Speaker 1: of a huge constituent, well not only a huge political constituency,
Speaker 1: but the constituency most likely to buy that product.
Speaker 3: Right, And the fact that Tesla's so valuable to start
Speaker 3: with has been confusing for.
Speaker 2: Many, many years now.
Speaker 3: I wish I'd gotten in on the Tesla stock a
Speaker 3: long time ago and then gotten out like in December.
Speaker 3: Of course, everybody'd like to time the market perfectly, but
Speaker 3: it's worthwhile. It's like the next six car companies added together.
Speaker 3: It's just nuts.
Speaker 1: It's like if the CEO of Smith and Wesson had
Speaker 1: hired Dylan mulvaney to be the spokesperson and then married.
Speaker 2: Him for instance. For instance.
Speaker 3: Right, So from that standpoint, I don't know what would
Speaker 3: be the argument against saying, hey, we got to replace
Speaker 3: Elon Musk. We can't have him be the face of
Speaker 3: this company anymore.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is, you know, as an American, and particularly
Speaker 1: as a conservative who thinks that government is horrifically bloated
Speaker 1: and wasteful, blah blah blah, I see it as a
Speaker 1: unfortunate byproduct of doing the right thing.
Speaker 2: But if I'm like a.
Speaker 1: Tesla board member or like big time stockholder, I'm like
Speaker 1: on my knees weeping and vomiting over all this, it's
Speaker 1: it's terrible.
Speaker 5: Jack karkis Tom stop.
Speaker 2: Jack and Joe They've got to go. And if they
Speaker 2: don't get Cane to be back, Tom row love it.
Speaker 3: Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 1: Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew
Speaker 1: to wrap up the show, starting with our technical director
Speaker 1: Michael Aangelo.
Speaker 2: Michael final thought.
Speaker 8: I felt really bad. I was exercising with my yesterday
Speaker 8: and I got.
Speaker 2: Is that what you call it? Yeah?
Speaker 8: No, no, no, no, we're on the you are crass. Anyway,
Speaker 8: I got caught looking at another woman and I made
Speaker 8: the crack to my wife. She said, I caught you
Speaker 8: look and I said, well, if Bill Belichick into it,
Speaker 8: I should be able to do it.
Speaker 2: And she didn't think it was funny.
Speaker 1: Wow, no sense of humor. Katie Green are esteemed Newswoman.
Speaker 1: As a final thought, Katie, Uh, well, we.
Speaker 6: Were talking about those little mini booze bottles earlier and
Speaker 6: I have a crafty friend. She makes them into lays.
Speaker 6: The necklaces she gets like neck. No, She'll give you
Speaker 6: booze necklaces.
Speaker 2: Aw, and then you can just wear it around your neck.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's festive.
Speaker 2: Hey Jack.
Speaker 3: A final thought for us, Sonody gave me this tip
Speaker 3: on the text line. I've never done it before because
Speaker 3: I got this lingering cough. Ask your doctor for inhalers.
Speaker 3: After a virus has run its course, you need to
Speaker 3: calm down the irritation, and the way to do that
Speaker 3: more quickly is an inhaler.
Speaker 2: I've never done that, but that might be a good answer.
Speaker 1: My final thought, I'd like to apologize for making light
Speaker 1: of the British lad who won the national seagull imitating contest.
Speaker 2: You know what might not be the skill I chose.
Speaker 1: To perfect, but it was that boy's choice and he
Speaker 1: should be proud of himself.
Speaker 3: Sure, and his parents are Armstrong and Getty wrapping up
Speaker 3: another grueling four hour workday, and I'm sure the neighborhood
Speaker 3: girls are really attracted to that ability. Jod your sons
Speaker 3: in his bedroom practicing his seagull call over and over
Speaker 3: over again.
Speaker 2: He's like, oh my god, what did we do wrong? Honey?
Speaker 2: So many people, so little time, blah blah blah. God
Speaker 2: bless America. I'm Strong and Getty. We're in fear territory
Speaker 2: right now. We will not be silent. Sweetheart, sweetheart, listen
Speaker 2: to please.
Speaker 4: They need to tone it down pretty please with sugar
Speaker 4: on top.
Speaker 1: On the other hand, she just released a hit record,
Speaker 1: I Saw did he Waxing his Dolphin by the Sea.
Speaker 2: It's number three in streaming this week. Jack so Waltz
Speaker 2: Oddly enough, Armstrong and Getty