Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong and.
Speaker 2: Jettie and he armsrong Edy Why from Studio C see Senior.
Speaker 2: How exciting it is to be in a brand new monk,
Speaker 2: deep within the bowels of the Armstrong and getting communications compounded.
Speaker 2: Today we are under the tutelage of our general manager ze.
Speaker 2: I don't know baseball playoffs. I took in a couple
Speaker 2: of games yesterday. Parts of games yesterday.
Speaker 3: I really enjoying that. And it's nice to do something
Speaker 3: like that. Yeah, oh, we take.
Speaker 2: It in the baseball It's just the thing that's just
Speaker 2: the pleasurable as opposed to important. Pleasure is pleasurable.
Speaker 3: And I'll tell you this, it's great if you're if
Speaker 3: your big horse pitcher is doing well, you leave.
Speaker 2: Him in, You leave him in. I don't like the
Speaker 2: modern way blah blah blah, saber metrics problem. I don't like. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 3: I was listening to Pete Hegsith on the way in
Speaker 3: more of him some stuff that I hadn't heard yet.
Speaker 3: We'll have to play today. From his big speech yesterday,
Speaker 3: he gave to the generals where he said no more
Speaker 3: fat generals.
Speaker 2: US. That was certainly part of the message. Yeah, there's
Speaker 2: absolutely part of that, no more fat generals. I don't
Speaker 2: want to see any more fat generals and admirals walk
Speaker 2: in the halls of the Pentagon. Yeah. Oh, I'm telling
Speaker 2: you how many guts are going to be sucked in today?
Speaker 3: As they strolled all well, there had to be a
Speaker 3: few guys who think, oh, Betty's talking about me.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I got an office on those same FLOORA.
Speaker 2: But he's talking about me. But the new grooming standards
Speaker 2: and fitness standards, I'm wondering if we shouldn't bring them
Speaker 2: to the Armstrong and Getty show ship. He's calling it.
Speaker 3: He says, it's the broken windows policy applied to the Pentagon.
Speaker 3: So what Pete said, Yeah, I gotta start shaving, do
Speaker 3: some pushups, Michael, do something about those eyebrows. They're contributed
Speaker 3: to a complete lack of discipline.
Speaker 2: I'll work on them. I don't know.
Speaker 3: It looked like they could attack somebody. This is the
Speaker 3: War Department. But one thing I heard mentioned today. But
Speaker 3: I need to do a little research to figure out
Speaker 3: what it is that he wants to uh bring back
Speaker 3: the policy that drill instructors can put their hands on recruits.
Speaker 3: Apparently they had. I knew that they had outlawed at partially.
Speaker 3: I know this because of my dad and my brother,
Speaker 3: so my it must have. Maybe it's when they outlawed
Speaker 3: drill sergeants being able to touch recruits at all. My
Speaker 3: brother was talking about when he went through basic training,
Speaker 3: which would have been in the eighties, they would they
Speaker 3: would occasionally smack you, like on the rifle range. If
Speaker 3: your head was too up, they come by smack you
Speaker 3: on that. Might need to keep your head down. But
Speaker 3: my dad when he went through the well probably.
Speaker 2: Worth pointing out so it doesn't get blown off in combat.
Speaker 2: And your dad, right, are horribly crippled. Right, yes, but
Speaker 2: my dad said that when he went through basic training
Speaker 2: they could punch you. That was part of the deal, right. Wow.
Speaker 3: I don't know if that's necessary or not. Although you
Speaker 3: do want tough people and yet yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3: Do you want people that the first time they've ever
Speaker 3: been punched or had any physical adversity when they're actually
Speaker 3: in a battle.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know. I have no experience
Speaker 2: real life experience in this area. I would say if
Speaker 2: you pulled warriors over the last five thousand years and
Speaker 2: asked him that series of questions, the answer would not
Speaker 2: be well, woke, okay. It would probably not be the
Speaker 2: kind and gentle Barney the dinosaur style of you know,
Speaker 2: dealing with human beings that is in vogue these days, right,
Speaker 2: because we're not taught talking about coaches hitting players well,
Speaker 2: how to toughening up your players for a sport, or
Speaker 2: you know. I don't know that gets pretty you wish,
Speaker 2: but people are actually going to head into battle and
Speaker 2: defend themselves in the country and the people around them.
Speaker 2: I don't know. That's a tough one.
Speaker 3: But all the coverage I've heard, outside of some Fox
Speaker 3: commentators and you know, people like us, has all been
Speaker 3: oh boy, I don't know about this. I was even
Speaker 3: listening to a news nation today and they presented some
Speaker 3: of Pete's clips and he's going to He's going to
Speaker 3: hold people to one standard for physical fitness, even if
Speaker 3: that means fewer women in combat. Jim, how do we
Speaker 3: feel about that?
Speaker 2: If you think that is controversial, I don't even know
Speaker 2: how to talk to you right right, what that illustrates
Speaker 2: is the unbelievable extent to which people will repeat what
Speaker 2: they think they're supposed to say and come to believe it.
Speaker 2: It's absolutely I hate to use the term no brainer.
Speaker 2: It makes it sound like I have no brain, but
Speaker 2: it is a no brainer that you don't give somebody
Speaker 2: a break in terms of physical fitness for combat based
Speaker 2: on anything. What else? Maybe they it's a congenital condition
Speaker 2: he has that one of his arms doesn't work very well.
Speaker 2: It's not his faults, so we're going to lower a stand. No,
Speaker 2: it's about keeping people alive. It's not a jobs program
Speaker 2: or the country alive. Well right, yeah, it's a good point.
Speaker 3: But the fact that anybody can present that is controversial
Speaker 3: to me. I don't even know where I would start
Speaker 3: having a conversation with you. I feel like there'd be
Speaker 3: no point. We're so far apart, there's no point in
Speaker 3: even trying to because if it isn't self evident that
Speaker 3: that's a good idea, well then we're just.
Speaker 2: So far apart in our worldview. Well, I don't think
Speaker 2: that being far apart is the problem, because if they
Speaker 2: were to come up with a well reasoned set of
Speaker 2: ideas backing up their opinion, then all right, let's get
Speaker 2: it on, let's talk to each other. I'll bet this
Speaker 2: will be interesting. But if they are merely parroting what
Speaker 2: they think they're supposed to say, and in this case,
Speaker 2: it's going to be ninety nine to one percentage wise
Speaker 2: the number of people who say it's it's wrong and
Speaker 2: discriminatory to hold women to the same standards for combatists men.
Speaker 2: They are so clearly not a person who can think
Speaker 2: independently that you're wasting your time. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3: It'll be interesting to see if he's actually able to
Speaker 3: implement some of this stuff.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm hoping the mainstream.
Speaker 3: Media is an outlier in terms of people's view on
Speaker 3: this sort of thing, because, like I said, most of
Speaker 3: the coverage was, well, I don't know, we're gonna have
Speaker 3: fewer women because they have a different standard. They're not
Speaker 3: gonna have a different standard for men and women. Women
Speaker 3: aren't quite as strong. Why would we have the same standard.
Speaker 3: It's like, I get it, I don't even know where
Speaker 3: to start.
Speaker 2: Well, you are looking at a different goal than the
Speaker 2: rest of us, right, Your goal is to have the
Speaker 2: proper quota of women and people with a withered arm
Speaker 2: or whatever. In combat, ours is to win and protect
Speaker 2: the country. You know, I take back what I said
Speaker 2: about you're wasting your time because they have no independent thought.
Speaker 2: The simple truth is a large number of voters are sheep.
Speaker 2: They don't think independently. They say what they think they're
Speaker 2: supposed to say. And you know, so you have to
Speaker 2: sway a certain number of them and sit them down
Speaker 2: and talk to them and explain to them, Well, if
Speaker 2: somebody gets wounded and he weighs two hundred and forty pounds,
Speaker 2: that gal that you're advocating for can't save his life.
Speaker 2: She just can't. She might want to, and I know
Speaker 2: the stories of mothers pulling cars up into the air
Speaker 2: to save their baby, blah blah blah, but she just can't.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I hope the implementation can go. No more
Speaker 3: fat generals, that's what he said, No more fat generals.
Speaker 3: Let's start the show officially, because you know it's a
Speaker 3: big one, jem.
Speaker 2: Sorry, my emphasis needs to be on fat admirals because
Speaker 2: a general at least is operating mostly on the ground,
Speaker 2: where you have fairly unlimited space. An admiral is on
Speaker 2: a ship. I mean, there's limited square footage on a
Speaker 2: ship certainly a submarine. So fat Admirals are getting off
Speaker 2: easy in my opinion.
Speaker 3: Plus a good sink you just think it rub right, duh,
Speaker 3: you have to displace more water to keep you afloat.
Speaker 2: Thank you. It's just physics there, all right. I'm Jack Armstrong.
Speaker 2: He's Joe Getty on this. It is Wednesday, October first,
Speaker 2: the rent is due, the rent. It's too damn.
Speaker 3: Damn right, it is he you're twenty twenty five or
Speaker 3: Armstrong in getting we approve of this program.
Speaker 2: Fat Admirals would be a pretty good band. Tamw Okay,
Speaker 2: let's beg in the show officially now according to the
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Speaker 2: Everyone must be in this restricted to depart the area.
Speaker 2: So that's great.
Speaker 3: So that's Ai Trump ordering malcontents to disperse around federal buildings.
Speaker 3: Is that like an official government thing? Or is that
Speaker 3: a joke? Or I well, it's both. He was he
Speaker 3: it they The.
Speaker 2: Computer was reading the official legal warning to protesters who
Speaker 2: were violating the law. But it was in Trump's voice
Speaker 2: to troll them, so it was both by the book
Speaker 2: and hilarious.
Speaker 3: Speaking of trolling, we talked to yesterday about the AI
Speaker 3: video that Trump put out about the shutdown that had
Speaker 3: Schumer there and Hakim Jeffreys there, and Schumer was saying
Speaker 3: things in Schumer's voice that weren't accurate but were funny,
Speaker 3: and Hakim Jefferys was wearing a sombrero and had a
Speaker 3: big mustache with mariachi music playing in the background, with
Speaker 3: the idea being that they're trying to get it healthcare
Speaker 3: for illegals. Yes, he put out a new video today
Speaker 3: that is similar with Schumer saying even more crazy things,
Speaker 3: but this includes Trump as the mariachi band. It's all
Speaker 3: a bunch of Trumps playing the trumpet and the big
Speaker 3: guitar and all that sort of.
Speaker 2: On his official site. These are odd times, especially with
Speaker 2: the nightmare of the government shut down.
Speaker 3: Here's my favorite stat about that whole thing. The government
Speaker 3: shut down for a full month the last time we
Speaker 3: did it. Do you even remember shut down for entire month?
Speaker 3: And John even remember that it happened?
Speaker 2: Honestly, what I remember is how hard they tried to
Speaker 2: make it hurt normal people, right, because without those efforts,
Speaker 2: most people would just go about their business.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's right.
Speaker 3: I was listening to some of the doom and gloom
Speaker 3: on one of the channels, and I thought, man, if
Speaker 3: you have to try this hard to come up with
Speaker 3: something that is bad with the government shutting down, there's
Speaker 3: too much government. You shouldn't have to work this hard
Speaker 3: to come up with anything that could possibly upset anyone.
Speaker 3: You know, I have some example. Here's my example. On
Speaker 3: the news, they said, for instance, Friday inflation numbers are
Speaker 3: supposed to be coming out. A lot of people are
Speaker 3: looking forward to those, and those numbers will not come
Speaker 3: out on time.
Speaker 2: I thought, that's that's your Oh my god, the government
Speaker 2: shut down. I gotta text my wife. We're not going
Speaker 2: to feed the dog until the government shutdown is over.
Speaker 2: We can't, I mean, just not knowing the inflation numbers.
Speaker 2: It's just we've got to take precautions, honey. Turn off
Speaker 2: the water at the main valve outside of the house,
Speaker 2: cancel the natural gas. Uh yeah. Here's my only analysis
Speaker 2: of it. It's a very weird shutdown because it's not
Speaker 2: over anything specific. It is merely the democratic party desperate
Speaker 2: to show that they're fighting Trump because they're aware of
Speaker 2: their miserable, miserable unpopularity. And you know whether this works
Speaker 2: or not, we'll all find out together and it'll be fine.
Speaker 2: But it is a real gamble by a beast that
Speaker 2: is in its death throws.
Speaker 3: It's going to open this evening or Friday night while
Speaker 3: you're sleep, or next Tuesday, and you'll never think about
Speaker 3: it again in your life.
Speaker 2: That's where it's here's the Armstrong and Getty challenge. Please
Speaker 2: note in your own life, if you'd have noticed it
Speaker 2: without being told that the government shut down and then
Speaker 2: when it opens, would you have noticed that without being
Speaker 2: told on any lefl No, that's a unicorn. That person
Speaker 2: will not exist.
Speaker 3: Who is a You're not a federal employee, obviously that
Speaker 3: you would have noticed it shutting down or starting back up. No,
Speaker 3: not a chance. Okay, we've got headlines on the way
Speaker 3: and much more news to get to. Hope you can
Speaker 3: stay here. I took in some of Yankees Red Sox
Speaker 3: and Dodgers Reds, but Yankees Red Sox, I mean, you
Speaker 3: cannot get better than this for Major League Baseball. Yankee Stadium,
Speaker 3: bottom of the ninth bases loaded. That's as good as
Speaker 3: it gets for all of baseball.
Speaker 2: Crazy so awesome. Yeah, Yankees lost, by the way. Oh
Speaker 2: it's good. It's good. Bases loaded, no outs and Yankees lost,
Speaker 2: says the New York centric mainstream media figure Jack Armstrong.
Speaker 2: Do you mean the Red Sox one? Well, no, it's media.
Speaker 2: Bases loaded, no outs in a close game and the
Speaker 2: pitcher went strikeout, flyout, strikeout and got out of the end.
Speaker 2: It was awesome. Yeah, it's like the tension of a
Speaker 2: last second fifty yard field goal stretched over ten minutes. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it was cool. Oh my god, is it in? Is
Speaker 2: it in? Is it? But for ten straight? That's what
Speaker 2: I love about baseball at its best. Let's figure out
Speaker 2: who's reporting what it's The Lee's story with Katie Green.
Speaker 2: Delighted to have you back, Katie Hey.
Speaker 1: Friends, all right, starting with the Free Beacon. Dozens of
Speaker 1: ships in Greta Tuneberg's flotilla quote secretly owned.
Speaker 2: By Hamas really really? Oh she probably doesn't know that,
Speaker 2: but that's not surprising. Well that reminds me coming up
Speaker 2: great analysis of why the Arab States have lined up
Speaker 2: behind this deal. Oh okay, I want to hear that
Speaker 2: it will shock you.
Speaker 1: From NBC, members of Congress to still get paid during
Speaker 1: government shutdown.
Speaker 2: They always make sure of that, Thank God.
Speaker 1: From USA today, many Americans fear that they can't afford
Speaker 1: pets anymore due.
Speaker 2: To rising vet costs. Eh, none of my business.
Speaker 3: But the number of people I know who openly state
Speaker 3: that they're struggling and have of one to three petsdang it.
Speaker 2: What of the reasons I didn't have a dog when
Speaker 2: I was young and poor? Is there expensive? Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: you have no idea how expensive until you get one?
Speaker 1: Even cats From Fox News, Diddy's ex Cassie fears swift
Speaker 1: retribution if Rapper walks free, as prosecutors pushed for eleven year.
Speaker 2: Sentence, he can walk free.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a chance he's getting sentenced on.
Speaker 2: Friday, all right. Yeah, the defense is asking for time served.
Speaker 2: He'll get more than that.
Speaker 1: From the Washington Post, Fat Bear Week has a new champion,
Speaker 1: and he is a total chunk.
Speaker 2: I saw good looking bear has a broken jaw. They
Speaker 2: should have fat General Week where we all see pictures
Speaker 2: of fat generals to pick our favorite line. Oh right,
Speaker 2: fun and I texted everybody the concert poster for fat
Speaker 2: Admirals their first show. He check your text.
Speaker 1: Yes, that will be going on the wall of my
Speaker 1: studio at my house, by the way.
Speaker 2: Excellent from the New York Post.
Speaker 1: According to new survey, sixty five percent of Americans have
Speaker 1: already planned their own funerals.
Speaker 3: Two thirds have I haven't. I'm in the minority. I haven't,
Speaker 3: And I'm closer to the grave than you know, the
Speaker 3: average person's true true my life.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, okay.
Speaker 1: Study fines two billion people feast on insects regularly.
Speaker 2: Is it time that we embraced a hybrid diet? Oh
Speaker 2: they've been pushing this on me since I was a kid.
Speaker 2: Are you beating bugs? Someday? I'm not. They've got lots
Speaker 2: of protein, et cetera, et cetera. You know in Africa,
Speaker 2: et cetera, et cetera, ain't happening.
Speaker 1: And finally from the Babylon b NFL hoping to win
Speaker 1: back conservatives with Super Bowl performance by Spanish speaking man.
Speaker 2: In address Nah, good one.
Speaker 4: Oh boy, I thought I had heard a couple of
Speaker 4: not that long ago that bugs actually don't have really
Speaker 4: more protein or anything than of other things.
Speaker 2: So there's no many deat bugs. There's plenty of other
Speaker 2: alternatives rights. My life has been living proof of that.
Speaker 2: I think I've eaten very few bugs.
Speaker 3: Indeeds, I had a whole plate of bugs in Mexico
Speaker 3: one time, not knowing it. Ants and crickets and all
Speaker 3: kinds of.
Speaker 2: They crawled onto your I'll have to tell the story sometimes,
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 5: The two year anniversary of the October seventh Hamas terror
Speaker 5: attack that started this war is a week from today.
Speaker 5: Hamas has less time than that to review the twenty
Speaker 5: point peace plan and get back to the White House
Speaker 5: with a yes or no.
Speaker 2: We're going to do about three or four days. We'll
Speaker 2: see how it is. That means.
Speaker 5: Hamas has told this weekend to accept President Trump's twenty
Speaker 5: principles of peace or prepare for an Israeli military onslaught
Speaker 5: backed by the United States.
Speaker 2: Hamas has to agree they don't. There's got to be
Speaker 2: very tough on them. But it is what it is.
Speaker 3: I didn't realize they'd put a deadline on that soon.
Speaker 3: So this weekend Hamas has got to come back with
Speaker 3: a yes or no.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and the first of all the newsy stuff before
Speaker 2: the analysis. The militant group has told mediators that it
Speaker 2: is absolutely seriously looking at it. It has reservations about
Speaker 2: some of the terms of the twenty point plan, including
Speaker 2: the stipulation that it disarm and destroy its weapons, which
Speaker 2: is it is previously rejected over and over again. Amas
Speaker 2: also says releasing all forty eight hostages within three days
Speaker 2: is laid out in the Trump Plan, would be difficult
Speaker 2: because it has lost contact in recent weeks with some
Speaker 2: other militant groups holding a number of them. Wow, I
Speaker 2: don't know. I would suggest that you try really really
Speaker 2: hard to find them.
Speaker 3: Well, the fact that Israel is saying you lay down
Speaker 3: your arms and we'll you know, we'll forgive, forgive you.
Speaker 2: They don't use that word, but we won't. We won't
Speaker 2: come after you anymore. We'll call it off.
Speaker 3: That's a heck of a thing for people that came
Speaker 3: into your country and murdered babies and grandma's.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's an amnesty at right, right. So anyway, one
Speaker 2: I came across two pieces of analysis that I thought
Speaker 2: were great, won by Michael Orrin in the Free Press,
Speaker 2: and his problem with it is that there's a real
Speaker 2: lack of timetables, and he, like me, believes that Hamas
Speaker 2: will act like it's complying or it agrees or what
Speaker 2: have you. But then the foot dragging, the tiptoeing right
Speaker 2: up to the line of violating the agreement or actually
Speaker 2: violating it will begin, and they will begin sewing chaos
Speaker 2: as quickly as possible. And he's troubled by the lack
Speaker 2: of structure here. I have a feeling that will come along,
Speaker 2: especially with Trump involved, if they in a Putin like way,
Speaker 2: although Trump's response to Putin hasn't been everything I think
Speaker 2: it should be. But if they in a Putin like
Speaker 2: way string him along over and over again, he's going
Speaker 2: to say, all right, you got a week to achieve
Speaker 2: these three goals, or it's all off. We're going to
Speaker 2: attack you anyway. Michael larn by the way, a badass warrior.
Speaker 3: From the way back in the day in some of
Speaker 3: Israel's biggest wars and wrote a fantastic book called Six
Speaker 3: Days of War.
Speaker 2: If you ever want to read about that one an
Speaker 2: excellent tip. Six Days of War terrific. So this guy
Speaker 2: has no illusions about Hamas cooperating. His belief is that
Speaker 2: they will only cooperate to the extent that they are
Speaker 2: forced to cooperate. And he says, potentially fatal flaw on
Speaker 2: the plan is its assumption that after nearly forty years
Speaker 2: of radical Islamism, countless terrorist attacks, and an unprecedented level
Speaker 2: of international support, HAMAS will change its DNA, Which is
Speaker 2: what I was saying yesterday. If their stated purpose is
Speaker 2: to wipe the Jews off the face of the earth,
Speaker 2: specifically Israel, becoming some sort of men's club or civic
Speaker 2: organization is going to be a difficult transition.
Speaker 3: Well, I still think the hope is if they agree
Speaker 3: to it. You get so many countries involved, including a
Speaker 3: whole bunch of Arab countries that are running that Gaza strip,
Speaker 3: and HAMAS just isn't in no position to do what
Speaker 3: they've done in the past.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they die for lack of you know, fertilizer support relevance.
Speaker 2: So here's the thing I found really really interesting why
Speaker 2: Katar changed course on Hamas. And this is written by
Speaker 2: Emit Siegel, who was is a chief political commentator in
Speaker 2: Israeli media and the author of a book of history
Speaker 2: about Israeli politics and that sort of thing. He says,
Speaker 2: it's too early to know if they'll only be an
Speaker 2: agreement to the warrant Gaza and whether it'll be implemented.
Speaker 2: But there is a reason for President Trump's optimism that
Speaker 2: Hamas might release hostages, give up its weapons, and leave power.
Speaker 2: Change is afoot not in Gaza, but in Doha, capital
Speaker 2: of Qatar. The government of Qatar is pressuring its proteges
Speaker 2: to accept the deal. The regime which thwarted the last
Speaker 2: hostage deal changed its mind because the war has reached
Speaker 2: its home. After the IDF operated in five Muslim capitals Gaza, Beirut, Damascus,
Speaker 2: Sanna and Tehran, it hit Doha the attempted killing of
Speaker 2: senior MAAS officials in broad daylight, and Katar signaled to
Speaker 2: the natural gas Emirate that it could not continue the
Speaker 2: double game it has played in recent years. Despite the
Speaker 2: threats against Israel, the Qataris are now working to make
Speaker 2: Hamas except the demands from Jerusalem.
Speaker 3: Wow, that's interesting if that's true, If that made the difference,
Speaker 3: And that's a heck of a thing that Netanyaho called
Speaker 3: from the oval opposed.
Speaker 2: Sorry about that precisely. He let cutter lotterr save face.
Speaker 2: That's why that call was made, That's why it was
Speaker 2: done publicly. Netin Yahoo made a show of I'm sorry
Speaker 2: I did that. I want peace between us. I'm absolutely
Speaker 2: not pushing you or bullying you or threatening you. So
Speaker 2: you have credibility in the eyes of your people. But
Speaker 2: the Katari leadership is like, holy crap, now they're coming
Speaker 2: at us. This is over. Hamas, Is this guy right?
Speaker 2: He sure makes a convincing case. I'll bet he's right.
Speaker 2: Makes sense to me.
Speaker 3: And and and just logically, you finally get to some
Speaker 3: of those gazillionaires, they're like, I got a really great
Speaker 3: life here. I live on the entire floor of one
Speaker 3: of the tallest buildings in the world. I got six
Speaker 3: different bent leafs and a harem of women, and I
Speaker 3: don't really want to get involved in the nitty gritty
Speaker 3: of this.
Speaker 2: So right, and if you're the Kataris who really fancy
Speaker 2: themselves that the world diplomats and and all, and just
Speaker 2: because they've got an enormous trove of natural gas under them, uh,
Speaker 2: the idea that they're gonna get punched in the face
Speaker 2: repeatedly to what hide Hamas, These guys are thinking, no way,
Speaker 2: for the reasons you just enunciated.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: Qatar had recently defended this gent rights Hamas's efforts from
Speaker 2: Maiden Power and its demands for a full Israeli withdrawal
Speaker 2: in exchange for leasing the hostages full Israeli withdrawal. Now
Speaker 2: Doah is among those threatening Hamas with destruction if it
Speaker 2: won't accept this deal, which is pretty much the opposite,
Speaker 2: and Prime Minister Netanya Who's telephone apology for violating Cutter's
Speaker 2: sovereignty is lip service to devert divert attention from the Emirates. Turnaround.
Speaker 3: I think Hamas has got no choice but to say
Speaker 3: yes to this and then maybe they try to wriggle
Speaker 3: out of it or whatever, but I think you know,
Speaker 3: by this weekend they got to say yes.
Speaker 2: Can you imagine the way.
Speaker 3: Israel is going to roll in there given what they
Speaker 3: said the other day in the Oval Office where Netya
Speaker 3: who said we'll do what we gotta do and Trump said,
Speaker 3: go ahead, we got you, got you got our we
Speaker 3: got your back.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, do what you need to do. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I would agree. The The only question mark is how
Speaker 2: does this unfold over time as coalitions start to pursue
Speaker 2: their own self interest and are threatened to buy this
Speaker 2: development at home or over how much restive fundamentalist population.
Speaker 2: In a couple of million years, the sun's going to
Speaker 2: burn out and we're all going to freeze to death.
Speaker 2: I mean, how much time next? Yeah, well, no, that's
Speaker 2: what that's that's the whole point. Things are nice and
Speaker 2: tight for three weeks. It's like, do you remember when
Speaker 2: who was asking the question? Was it? I think it
Speaker 2: may have been one of the podcasts the National Review
Speaker 2: guys do right after October seventh? Right after I think
Speaker 2: it was Rich Lowry asked the panel, all right, how
Speaker 2: long until Israel's support starts to fracture among the Western governments?
Speaker 2: And you know, the guy said a week, one guy said,
Speaker 2: two weeks, one guy said three months. Whatever, will the
Speaker 2: the solidity, the strength of will that exists right now
Speaker 2: still exist in two months, two years? That'll be the
Speaker 2: interesting part.
Speaker 3: I don't know, but the cratering support for Israel in
Speaker 3: the United States is a problem because we're definitely their
Speaker 3: biggest cheerleader and.
Speaker 2: Give them tons of money in military equipment. Yeah. It
Speaker 2: seems though that the elites in both parties say, yeah,
Speaker 2: the voters don't know what they're talking about. Are the
Speaker 2: people taking the support in our ally?
Speaker 3: But for Now the next generation of leaders might not
Speaker 3: feel the same way.
Speaker 2: Especially if there's some sort of Mumdani type. Yeah, it's
Speaker 2: almost certainly going to be the mayor of New York. Now,
Speaker 2: I've resigned myself to it.
Speaker 3: You know, AOC is probably going to run against Schumer.
Speaker 3: Schumer will be out, you know, the old school like him,
Speaker 3: Democrats that were in support Israel.
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Speaker 3: Josh Allen, quarterback for one of the only two unbeaten
Speaker 3: teams in the NFL, the Buffalo Bill. Did you see
Speaker 3: that long run he had the other day? Someday you
Speaker 3: gotta look that up on YouTube or something. He puts
Speaker 3: his He did the opposite of what every quarterback does.
Speaker 3: He put his head down with stiff arming people and
Speaker 3: running people over right in the middle of the field.
Speaker 2: Well, boy, as big as a house, right, that helps? Yeah?
Speaker 3: And dainty little Patrick Mahomes, Wow, you've turned on him.
Speaker 3: I haven't turned on him. He's just he shouldn't be
Speaker 3: trying to pop people over.
Speaker 2: Dainty is no compliment to an NFL player. Limping around
Speaker 2: a dainty limper, says you why, I gotta just see
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Speaker 2: his headband to young fans at the tunnel entrance, and
Speaker 2: he handed his headband to a little girl who was
Speaker 2: a Chiefs fan and a Giants fan. Lady snatched it
Speaker 2: away from the little girl, and now, of course she's
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Speaker 3: And the Kansas City Karen Okay, I saw I saw
Speaker 3: a Kansas City Karen thing up on the screen yester
Speaker 3: day and I didn't.
Speaker 2: Know what it was. Yeah, okay, we're supposed to be
Speaker 2: angry about her threatener fired. Oh boy, oh boy. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I need to know all about her. I want to
Speaker 2: see some tweet that she put out five years ago,
Speaker 2: lose their job, run out of her house.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: It was funny. We were going over the audio that
Speaker 2: we have available for the show today and it will
Speaker 2: amuse and delight you, I promise, But a number of
Speaker 2: the clips struck me as and these are fairly big stories,
Speaker 2: so it's it's absolutely appropriate that that our fabulous crack
Speaker 2: staff brings them. But a lot of them fall into
Speaker 2: the category of things I think we're supposed to be
Speaker 2: mad about or offended by. I've got a story. It's
Speaker 2: so good. I can't wait to tell it.
Speaker 3: And hats off to the San Francisco Chronicle for going
Speaker 3: big on the first social equity weed store. How it
Speaker 3: went under but everybody got rich even as it went under.
Speaker 3: It's classic socialism. I mean, just Eric, you wanna Yeah,
Speaker 3: And and good for the Chronicle for laying that story out.
Speaker 3: Maybe we'll get to that how or too. I mean,
Speaker 3: it's just it's absolutely classic why socialism doesn't work.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And we also have a special, very special gender
Speaker 2: Madness Celebrity edition. Wow.
Speaker 3: Oh, and I got to talk about the lift driver
Speaker 3: I had the other day who was from Lebanon. Great
Speaker 3: story he told me as he drove me around, lots
Speaker 3: of stuff on the way. We got mailbag next day
Speaker 3: here I named the wrong s whole country. My lyft
Speaker 3: driver was from Syria. But I do want to tell
Speaker 3: that story, him coming to this country and raising his
Speaker 3: kids and everything like that.
Speaker 2: It is fantastic. Maybe we'll get to that next hour.
Speaker 2: Love that. Here's your freedom loving quote of the day,
Speaker 2: continuing our theme of change. This from John D. Rockefeller. Ah,
Speaker 2: I'm a big I wrote a very large biography about
Speaker 2: him once. One of the few Americans who still reads
Speaker 2: according to you yesterday, don't be afraid to give up
Speaker 2: the good to go for the great.
Speaker 1: Mmm.
Speaker 2: Of course, here was a man who thought big, dream big.
Speaker 3: He ran the standard oil. He was one of the
Speaker 3: richest people that's ever lived to justin for inflation. Gave
Speaker 3: ten percent of his money always from the beginning to
Speaker 3: the end, back to the church.
Speaker 2: Because he was very religious. Man. Interesting mailbag woot woot,
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Speaker 2: dot com. Number of comments on Pete Heggss's speech to
Speaker 2: the troops yesterday. This is from alien anonymous. I'm so
Speaker 2: excited to hear hegsas pep talk. My son is West
Speaker 2: Point grad currently working through his service at port List.
Speaker 2: Both senior leadership and enlisted regularly fallout when they go
Speaker 2: on their two mile jogs because they aren't fit enough
Speaker 2: to even run two miles. Oh my god. And he
Speaker 2: said the average mile time for those that do finish
Speaker 2: is twelve minutes. Not okay? Is that with a packer,
Speaker 2: just like in shorts and T shirts? It's just pta
Speaker 2: I think, oh man, twelve minutes and half of them
Speaker 2: can't even do it. Yeah, yeah, or quite a few
Speaker 2: of them anyway. Then this from a kerlonel in the
Speaker 2: United States Air Force, Colonel Anonymous. I want to give
Speaker 2: you some insight from those serving currently on the sec
Speaker 2: war's speech. And the colonel is currently serving in the Pentagon,
Speaker 2: by the way, and he says not fat I'm assuming
Speaker 2: apparently not that we might want to hear indeed his perspective,
Speaker 2: and we do. He said, this was the biggest breath
Speaker 2: of fresh air I've heard in years, possibly decades, if
Speaker 2: we follow through on it. It's all about merit, war
Speaker 2: fighting standards, focus. These things are sorely lacking in the
Speaker 2: department today, taken over by hundreds of hours of mandatory
Speaker 2: online training, lowered standards, fearing retention, and a focus on
Speaker 2: feelings not the mission. Fat, out of shape and undertrained
Speaker 2: members litter the halls of the Pentagon. Yes, many generals,
Speaker 2: all the way down to our combat units. Things like shaving,
Speaker 2: waivers and fitness may seem frivolous to the public, but
Speaker 2: they are the little standards that build a foundation for
Speaker 2: the bigger ones. His example of broken window is perfect
Speaker 2: for this the time of leaders fearing risk taking and
Speaker 2: innovation is hopefully over. I have more on that too.
Speaker 2: Until yesterday, commanders would fear any mistake because it would
Speaker 2: probably be the end of their career. That's what I
Speaker 2: was reading about, the one mistake culture, where if anything
Speaker 2: goes the least bit wrong, it's a permanent blot on
Speaker 2: your record in your career is essentially over. So nobody
Speaker 2: dares innovate anyway, Bubba. Until yesterday, Oh, there it is
Speaker 2: end of their career. This stifled risk taking and trying
Speaker 2: something new. We're at the weakest we have ever been
Speaker 2: since I've been in the military from a resourcing and
Speaker 2: capability standpoint. This shift in mindset and standards will hopefully
Speaker 2: help fix some of that. I have a son who's
Speaker 2: about to join in. Many of the policies and issues
Speaker 2: have made me double think recommending it to him. Peak's
Speaker 2: Golden rule is exactly how we need to be fighting
Speaker 2: and leading. And then Colonel Isle summarizes, I know this
Speaker 2: speech will rile a lot of feathers, but everyone I
Speaker 2: serve with that I've talked to is one hundred percent
Speaker 2: on board with this message and ready to move out
Speaker 2: making our military more lethal and establishing the deterrence the
Speaker 2: world needs.
Speaker 3: Wow, every cable news panel I saw outside of Fox
Speaker 3: was just you know, the generals were just sitting there
Speaker 3: hating every bit.
Speaker 2: Of this and blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 3: You know some might be and they need to go
Speaker 3: and they should lead's and that Pete said that, actually
Speaker 3: he said, and if you're not digging this, if you're thinking,
Speaker 3: oh no, well and you probably should retire, do the
Speaker 3: right thing for your country. We thank you for your service,
Speaker 3: but retire right right amen to that.
Speaker 2: You know, we're constantly saying, remember, the kids didn't raise themselves. Well,
Speaker 2: the Pentagon didn't raise itself. Now you can understand why
Speaker 2: a lot of the leadership that's been bad. You can
Speaker 2: understand why there are some people who think I rose
Speaker 2: up through the ranks doing what I was told to
Speaker 2: do by making an emphasis on making sure we got
Speaker 2: enough women and trans people and that nobody feels offended
Speaker 2: and triggered.
Speaker 3: And now you're gonna get rid of me. But you
Speaker 3: know that's we can't worry about that. We got to
Speaker 3: have a lethal fighting force. And what we see here
Speaker 3: is the power of leadership. Marxists in particular like to
Speaker 3: pretend that everything is the result of these uh, these
Speaker 3: you know, shifts in humanity, these broad trends and blah blah.
Speaker 3: Leadership doesn't really matter. It's all more or less inevitable.
Speaker 3: No leadership matters a lot. Moving on to a different topic,
Speaker 3: This is uh Judy from Portland reading an article on
Speaker 3: coin six news website that's one of the big news
Speaker 3: stations in Portland.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: The article is titled Portland We're not a war zone.
Speaker 2: That's what you'd expect people that live close saying the
Speaker 2: protests aren't a big deal. It's generally peaceful, blah blah blah,
Speaker 2: we don't need the federal government blah blah blah, except
Speaker 2: you can't really walk your dog in that area because
Speaker 2: of the tear gas and minor inconveniences like that. But
Speaker 2: the last paragraph was my favorite. She writes. Coin six
Speaker 2: News contacted several businesses in the area, but all declined
Speaker 2: to speak on camera for fear of retaliation from protest. Wow.
Speaker 2: Nothing to see in Portland, just local business people universally
Speaker 2: afraid of the peaceful protesters. Do these reporters not read
Speaker 2: the words they write? Wow? Great note, Judy, Thank you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's really interesting stuff. I can feel it in
Speaker 3: my bones. This is going to be a good one today.
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