WEBVTT - The Ultra Biased She Wolf 0:00:01.880 --> 0:00:06.160 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:10.520 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm. 0:00:10.440 --> 0:00:18.160 Strong and Getty and he Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:23.760 --> 0:00:26.800 I think if you've run the numbers here, you know, 0:00:27.000 --> 0:00:30.680 twenty five percent chance it turns out really well and 0:00:30.760 --> 0:00:35.120 there's a secular country kind of emerges. I think twenty 0:00:35.159 --> 0:00:40.040 five percent it shuts down pretty quickly as Jihatas takeover. 0:00:40.440 --> 0:00:44.400 Maybe a fifty percent chance it looks like Libya, which 0:00:44.440 --> 0:00:46.440 is an ongoing state of conflict. 0:00:46.880 --> 0:00:49.800 Man, seeing how people the happy, those people were in 0:00:49.880 --> 0:00:52.960 Syria over the weekend, bringing down those statues, dancing in 0:00:53.000 --> 0:00:57.240 the streets, children, old people, people crying as they saw 0:00:57.400 --> 0:00:59.680 loved ones who were released from the prisons that they 0:00:59.720 --> 0:01:04.440 hadn't seen in decades. But you know, if you're old 0:01:04.520 --> 0:01:07.160 enough to have lived through the Arab Spring, you know 0:01:07.160 --> 0:01:10.560 how a lot of these turned out unfortunately. 0:01:10.760 --> 0:01:14.160 Right, So an enormous couple of days for the people 0:01:14.240 --> 0:01:18.240 of Syria with the uncertain future ahead. Also, the fall 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:20.200 of the Asad regime has sent shockwaves. 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:20.880 That's a cliche. 0:01:20.959 --> 0:01:24.480 I should have avoided it throughout the region, and geopolitically 0:01:24.680 --> 0:01:27.759 is it's exposed Russian Iran is much much weaker than 0:01:27.760 --> 0:01:28.800 they've been formerly. 0:01:29.440 --> 0:01:30.440 Where does it all go? 0:01:31.280 --> 0:01:34.560 Perhaps we'll we'll discuss that with Mike Lyons, military analyst 0:01:34.600 --> 0:01:37.520 who joins us from now. Mike, I realized predictions are 0:01:37.600 --> 0:01:39.240 extremely difficult in that part of the world. 0:01:39.280 --> 0:01:40.480 But this is a big one, isn't it. 0:01:40.959 --> 0:01:43.039 Yeah? For sure? That was Admiral Sterheti's I take it 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:46.480 from his voice. Yep, yeah, right, So you know, fifty 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:50.520 percent turns into living interesting analysis. I think that there's 0:01:50.560 --> 0:01:54.640 a higher probability that things go south very quickly. Unfortunately, 0:01:54.680 --> 0:01:57.560 it's just human nature of what we've seen in history 0:01:57.560 --> 0:02:00.840 in that part of the world. But there is opportunity, 0:02:00.880 --> 0:02:04.480 no question. The main thing is what are these external 0:02:04.480 --> 0:02:06.920 countries like Turkey going to do to get involved. I 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:10.480 see the United States and Israel already going after military targets, 0:02:10.520 --> 0:02:14.560 taking away capability, military capability of this new group, this 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:17.920 HTS group that seems to have taken control of the 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:21.280 country right now, getting rid of their AMO dumps and 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:24.600 keeping them from waging more conflicts. But what Turkey you 0:02:24.600 --> 0:02:27.280 would like to do is create this state of Kurdistan. 0:02:27.360 --> 0:02:31.160 I don't know think of Syria becoming let's say, Balkanized 0:02:31.200 --> 0:02:33.040 and kind of chopped up to a big piece of land, 0:02:33.120 --> 0:02:36.400 not a lot of desert areas. So the cities are 0:02:36.440 --> 0:02:38.919 the built ups there. But what Turkey you would like 0:02:39.000 --> 0:02:41.480 to do is find a home for thirty million people 0:02:41.720 --> 0:02:45.720 that are indigenous to that part of the world and 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:48.000 call it a homeland. Now, the problem Theyria has as 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:50.080 a country. It doesn't have a lot of natural resources, 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:51.880 It doesn't export a lot of things. So you have 0:02:51.880 --> 0:02:53.480 a country, you have to have all those things. Anyway, 0:02:53.639 --> 0:02:55.919 all those things you brought up tremendously important as well. 0:02:56.000 --> 0:02:58.680 Russia is now weigh down the fact that they've lost 0:02:58.680 --> 0:03:00.880 a war and more report in the media. Tranian the 0:03:01.000 --> 0:03:04.600 Uranians can't help either. So we'll just have to see. 0:03:04.600 --> 0:03:06.640 But I'm betting things there to go south before they 0:03:06.680 --> 0:03:07.400 get better soon. 0:03:07.560 --> 0:03:11.480 Well, we have nine hundred troops there, seventy five air 0:03:11.560 --> 0:03:15.799 strikes yesterday, so we're involved at some level. As reading 0:03:15.840 --> 0:03:19.960 this from the La Times, their headlined in Syria, militias 0:03:20.080 --> 0:03:23.200 armed by the Pentagon are fighting those armed by the CIA. 0:03:24.000 --> 0:03:27.200 Yeah, yeah, it's likely a story as we have looked 0:03:27.240 --> 0:03:30.480 to prop up some groups. The problem though, this this 0:03:30.760 --> 0:03:34.640 HTS group. This the main the main rebel organization is 0:03:34.680 --> 0:03:37.600 nothing more than a merger of different al Qaeda facts 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:40.080 and al Nustra in factor or one of their main 0:03:40.120 --> 0:03:45.000 supporters and so as that was used in some ways 0:03:45.040 --> 0:03:47.960 to fight ISIS, and that and that reason you're still 0:03:48.560 --> 0:03:51.200 at groups that are on the terrorist watch list, which 0:03:51.240 --> 0:03:55.160 is why I know that this administration is looking anywhere 0:03:55.160 --> 0:03:56.760 to get a win. You saw ject Sullivan over the 0:03:56.760 --> 0:03:59.280 week and talking about how well Israel has done because 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:02.320 of the Biden foreign policy. Well, actually they've done well 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:04.880 because they've not paid attention to the Biden foreign policy. 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:08.720 That's really what's happened there, not anything that this administration did. 0:04:08.720 --> 0:04:11.520 But this administration is looking for some victory as it 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:13.680 walks out the door as it cheapestly has the door 0:04:13.760 --> 0:04:16.640 kind of shut it behind as it leaves. And if 0:04:16.680 --> 0:04:18.720 they can, if they can try to claim something that 0:04:18.760 --> 0:04:21.000 this will go well, they'll obviously try to take credit 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:21.280 for it. 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:22.160 So we'll see. 0:04:22.640 --> 0:04:26.800 Yeah, speaking of Israel and Iran, this is a huge 0:04:26.839 --> 0:04:30.080 blow to Iran, It's got to be, and to its proxies. 0:04:30.120 --> 0:04:32.200 I mean, has Law, which has already had the hell 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:34.680 beat out of it by Israel right now lacks a 0:04:34.720 --> 0:04:35.760 direct supply route. 0:04:35.760 --> 0:04:36.800 How significant is this? 0:04:37.160 --> 0:04:41.039 Yeah, incredible, the fact that exactly that land bridge now 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:45.000 is torn between Iran and those proxy forces there as 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:47.000 well inside of a rock. That's why those nine hundred 0:04:47.040 --> 0:04:50.839 troops are there as they kind of they straddle the 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:53.760 tigers euphrate's value there and try to shut those supply 0:04:53.800 --> 0:04:55.840 lines down on a lot of the attacks that were 0:04:55.880 --> 0:04:58.560 taking place that we took over the weekend were against 0:04:58.839 --> 0:05:01.679 those Militsia forces that the Urine support. So they've lost 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:05.960 all of their proxy forces in Hasbla, in Hamas and 0:05:05.960 --> 0:05:09.040 then these these small splinter groups that it's now open 0:05:09.080 --> 0:05:11.279 season for US, I'd say at some level, which is 0:05:11.279 --> 0:05:14.320 why I heard eight tens for example, we're striking some 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:19.160 of their targets there. So again, Irana is very exposed 0:05:19.200 --> 0:05:22.400 right now. They've never been weaker. Russia to me, is 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:25.960 no longer any kind of superpower whatsoever. And again part 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:28.760 of the issue is going in destroying that military equipment 0:05:28.800 --> 0:05:31.000 that Russia left behind, because if that falls into the 0:05:31.000 --> 0:05:32.760 wrong hands, I think that the world is going to 0:05:32.800 --> 0:05:35.480 see increase conflict that Israel is looking to show up 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:37.640 AT's bordering a Golden Heights with Cerea as well. 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:41.159 So for a lot of our audience, I don't know 0:05:41.200 --> 0:05:44.120 what percentage, but a chunk of our audience would say 0:05:44.160 --> 0:05:47.280 this we should stay out of it. Did we never 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:49.720 get a good result. I don't want us involved at all. 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:51.000 What's what's your response to that? 0:05:52.640 --> 0:05:56.200 There's nothing that we can do to influence anyone's side. 0:05:57.279 --> 0:06:00.000 Let's see what Turkey does. Let's see what Turkeys respond. 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:03.360 Is going to be as there in the region. Let 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:06.000 them do a lot of this dirty work. It does 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:08.599 not make any sense to even send treasure there to 0:06:09.120 --> 0:06:11.039 pick one side or the other. The only thing we 0:06:11.080 --> 0:06:14.520 should do is continue to support our ally Israel as 0:06:14.560 --> 0:06:17.600 I would not be surprised if this new organization at 0:06:17.640 --> 0:06:20.679 run Syria declares so I'm kind of ge hot against Israel. 0:06:20.720 --> 0:06:23.080 So that'll just be another, you know, another target for 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:25.520 Israel to take down. That would be that would be 0:06:25.560 --> 0:06:29.160 bad because Israel would eventually accomplish that mission. And this 0:06:29.320 --> 0:06:31.920 that's where this revolution then that just took place there 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:34.039 would go down with die in the ashes, it would 0:06:34.040 --> 0:06:36.600 ever get off the ground, because again, Israel's Israel's at 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:39.080 the strongest point right now. But there's literally not a 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:42.880 single soldier, not a single dollar we should send to 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:45.280 their way right now at this point, So. 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:47.599 You can clarify something for me, because I know we'll 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:50.240 be pressuring Turkey not to go wild on the Kurds, 0:06:50.240 --> 0:06:53.240 who have been you know, reliable US allies. But so 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:56.720 are you suggesting that because Turkey has always been vehemently 0:06:56.760 --> 0:06:59.480 against some sort of Kurdish homeland. But is it now 0:06:59.560 --> 0:07:01.680 that the Sad regime is gone they can carve it 0:07:01.760 --> 0:07:04.280 out of Syria that now they're in favor of it? 0:07:04.360 --> 0:07:04.760 Is that right? 0:07:04.880 --> 0:07:05.040 Yeah? 0:07:05.200 --> 0:07:07.719 Yeah, that's right there against the homeland because most of 0:07:07.720 --> 0:07:10.360 them sit inside of Turkey proper and they don't want 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:14.760 that to happen. They sit in rock Syria, Turkey and Iran. 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:17.680 And so this is similar to what happened in the 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:21.440 forties when when Israel gets its own homeland set up 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:23.400 by the you know, kind of a World Council. That's 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:26.120 what I would not be surprised if Turkey does though 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:28.400 again that Balkanization. They're gonna they're going to take fury 0:07:28.440 --> 0:07:31.040 of what was once is big land Masks and whack 0:07:31.080 --> 0:07:33.320 it up into four or five different areas and different 0:07:33.600 --> 0:07:36.760 secular groups. The Drus, There's there's a Christian section there 0:07:36.760 --> 0:07:40.119 in Damascus. There's all different areas that you can easily 0:07:40.200 --> 0:07:43.320 do this. But but again you have to create more 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:46.960 of a republic because it's you know, each of these 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:50.239 different groups, would we have a have a channel surviving 0:07:50.320 --> 0:07:52.720 on their own. So for example, if if the Curds. 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:54.520 One of the reasons why the Curds are so successful 0:07:54.520 --> 0:07:57.760 as an indigenous group outside is because they own oil 0:07:57.880 --> 0:07:59.920 rights in the northern part of Iraq. They generate red 0:08:00.200 --> 0:08:01.400 If you don't have a country, you got to have 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:03.720 a generate revenue. If to the military, all these kinds 0:08:03.760 --> 0:08:06.440 of things, you've got to figure all that out when 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:09.320 you try to redraw new boundaries. Here the boundaries that 0:08:10.200 --> 0:08:14.040 Syria has created after World War One by colonial powers 0:08:14.040 --> 0:08:16.160 that just thought these were the boundaries that we were 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:17.920 going to do. Saying with the rocks sands koit same 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:21.160 with everything that exists there, and now they're falling into 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:23.520 more of the natural position as to where they are 0:08:23.600 --> 0:08:25.239 based on the tribal people where they lived. 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:28.000 I think this question is relevant. So I was looking 0:08:28.040 --> 0:08:30.600 at the end of the year book lists and various 0:08:30.600 --> 0:08:33.600 publications because I like reading the best books of the year. 0:08:33.840 --> 0:08:37.240 And there's this book that Steve call wrote I wrote 0:08:37.360 --> 0:08:40.240 read Ghost Wars years ago, but the Achilles Trap Sadam 0:08:40.280 --> 0:08:42.760 lu saying the CI and the origins of America's invasion 0:08:42.800 --> 0:08:46.000 of Iraq, and it's all about how we had four 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:49.480 different presidents that were pro regime change and all our 0:08:49.520 --> 0:08:52.080 momentum towards Iraq and how we invaded and what did 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:53.640 we get out of it and all that sort of stuff. 0:08:55.120 --> 0:08:58.600 You were there, do you feel like I'm not trying 0:08:58.640 --> 0:09:01.079 to like relitigate Ara. I'm just trying to figure out 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:05.160 is that where your point of view comes from of 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:07.800 we should stay out of Cerea, that we rarely get 0:09:07.840 --> 0:09:08.520 a good outcome. 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:14.120 Yeah, we try to. We try to import democracy into 0:09:14.320 --> 0:09:17.240 places that can't. It won't take it, It won't hold 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:18.960 there on any level. I mean, it's just not going 0:09:19.000 --> 0:09:22.200 to work. What we should try is create the environment 0:09:22.240 --> 0:09:24.520 where we import capitalism. I think that's what's failed in 0:09:24.520 --> 0:09:27.679 a rock in the last twenty years. We always have 0:09:27.800 --> 0:09:30.080 the government and you know, we have those people with 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:32.280 the pictures and their purple thumbs, but next thing, you know, 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:35.240 the extremists and the regime start cutting their thumbs off 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:38.319 because they just they're not into democracy. Is that they 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:41.640 just don't they don't have that this feeling of self rule. However, 0:09:42.080 --> 0:09:46.600 capitalism and money and wealth is more or less a 0:09:46.679 --> 0:09:49.439 you know, a human condition as well. That's more easily 0:09:49.440 --> 0:09:52.400 transferred to. If you can create the conditions where businesses 0:09:52.440 --> 0:09:55.240 can exist, then then democracy will follow. We've always tried 0:09:55.280 --> 0:09:57.120 to do it in the different other direction. We try 0:09:57.160 --> 0:09:59.960 to implement the democracy first and then capitalism hasn't worked, 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:03.480 and that's why that's why it's failed. I think in Iraq, 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:06.280 if we could figure out a way to bring capitalism 0:10:06.320 --> 0:10:09.000 there first, bring the businesses first, I think the democracy 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:10.360 would follow well. 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:14.320 And Americans in general have a naivete that would be 0:10:14.400 --> 0:10:18.760 charming if it wasn't so dangerous that they imagine either 0:10:18.960 --> 0:10:21.240 everybody around the world thinks like Americans do, or they 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:24.800 can be persuaded to when you're talking about hundreds of 0:10:24.880 --> 0:10:31.360 year old's religious fundamentalist, fanatical movements, that they're just nuts. 0:10:31.720 --> 0:10:35.720 That doesn't make me a racist, that makes me a realist, exactly. 0:10:36.080 --> 0:10:38.480 You know, so much of the world, especially in the 0:10:38.480 --> 0:10:40.960 Middle East as part of the world, where the normal 0:10:40.960 --> 0:10:45.400 civilians go hours without electricity, they can't drink water from 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:47.440 the faucet. There's so many things we take for granted 0:10:47.480 --> 0:10:50.240 here in our you know, in our country, that they 0:10:50.280 --> 0:10:52.800 don't have, or their basic necessities that the government can't 0:10:52.840 --> 0:10:56.199 provide for. But no, that's right. It's the real politique 0:10:56.240 --> 0:10:58.280 to how we should deal with this, and we should 0:10:58.280 --> 0:11:01.040 get back to containment, get back to the countries that 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:04.080 we know, our allies in that region, and support them 0:11:04.200 --> 0:11:06.280 and make sure that they don't fall. But let the 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:07.720 ones in the region take care of it. Let's say, 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:09.920 if Turkey is successful at carving out a Curtistan, they 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:12.960 solve a couple of problems. They solve a revolutionary potential 0:11:13.000 --> 0:11:15.439 problem in their country. The Turks are concerned that the 0:11:15.520 --> 0:11:17.880 Kurds will all get together because there's thirty million of them. 0:11:17.880 --> 0:11:19.440 If they all get together to tide to overthrow the 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:21.920 Turkish government, well that creates a NATO problem then at 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:25.199 some level. So that's what I think that we should 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:26.480 the path we should go down. 0:11:27.160 --> 0:11:30.440 Military analyst Mike Lyons, Mike, great to talk to you, 0:11:30.480 --> 0:11:31.600 Thanks so much for the insight. 0:11:32.080 --> 0:11:35.080 Great guys, thanks for me absolutely so, I can't tell 0:11:35.080 --> 0:11:39.280 if I'm inconsistent or wise. I don't actually know, but 0:11:39.880 --> 0:11:42.680 as you know, if you listen, I'm big time supporter 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:46.600 of US being involved in Ukraine, and I think it's 0:11:47.000 --> 0:11:49.679 very important to the world order, and I think it's 0:11:49.840 --> 0:11:53.320 directly important to the United States, and the Secretary of 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:59.360 Defense Austin announced yesterday another one billion dollars in military 0:11:59.400 --> 0:12:03.400 aid for you. I'm all for supporting Ukraine. I am 0:12:03.520 --> 0:12:06.080 not for getting involved in these Middle Eastern countries. I 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:08.400 just don't see what we've gotten out of it over 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:08.839 the years. 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:13.440 Well, obviously the answer to that is long and complicated 0:12:13.480 --> 0:12:16.640 and probably book length. You know, I'm more than happy 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:19.040 to engage in that chat if you want. It just 0:12:19.080 --> 0:12:22.199 has to do with our national interest obviously, and which 0:12:22.400 --> 0:12:22.920 seel like we. 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:24.880 Get the same result whether we get involved or not 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:30.200 in these countries Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Egypt. 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:32.679 Oh yeah, in the Middle East. Yeah, you could make 0:12:32.720 --> 0:12:35.520 that argument, But more on that to come. After a 0:12:35.600 --> 0:12:38.280 quick word from our friends at Simply Save Home Security, 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:41.679 You us, We everybody worries about the safety of your 0:12:41.679 --> 0:12:42.560 home and your family. 0:12:42.640 --> 0:12:44.720 No better time to act than now. 0:12:44.760 --> 0:12:47.640 Simply Safe is extending its massive Black Friday deal for 0:12:47.720 --> 0:12:50.480 our listeners. 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Oh, we got a lot more 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:54.120 on the way. You can join us anytime on the 0:13:54.120 --> 0:13:58.600 text line four one five two nine five kftcrong. 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:03.280 A woman has filed a lawsuit against Diddy, accusing him 0:14:03.320 --> 0:14:07.079 of assault and dangling her off a seventeen story balcony, 0:14:07.400 --> 0:14:11.880 which is just incredible grip strength for a guy coated 0:14:11.920 --> 0:14:13.320 in pavi oil. 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:20.000 Wow. Wow, So I really I see that you didn't 0:14:20.080 --> 0:14:23.480 grab any of them, Michael, and I understand why their 0:14:23.600 --> 0:14:28.400 first like four jokes were all about the assassination of 0:14:28.440 --> 0:14:34.280 that United Healthcare CEO in Manhattan, and unfortunately I saw 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:36.920 blowback against that before I saw the jokes would put 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:41.920 a thought in my head, I hate that. Uh. I 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:44.560 didn't think they were particularly out of line him. They're distasteful. 0:14:44.800 --> 0:14:48.080 I don't like being the joke police. Ever, if you're 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:52.480 intent his humor, you know some of it's distasteful, and 0:14:52.560 --> 0:14:54.560 then you know, if you don't like it, you don't 0:14:54.640 --> 0:14:57.200 like it. But I don't mind jokes about serious things. 0:14:57.720 --> 0:15:01.200 The this stuff the New York Time Times headline. Some 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:04.120 on social media see suspect and ceo killing as a 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:08.560 folk hero. You know that's sort of like turning him 0:15:08.600 --> 0:15:10.880 into a folk hero stuff I am bothered by. But 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:14.640 making jokes about things either you like it. I had 0:15:14.760 --> 0:15:15.680 the same experience. 0:15:15.760 --> 0:15:18.360 I ran into the online condemnation, thought, oh, I had 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:19.960 to listen to those jokes, and I found them much 0:15:20.000 --> 0:15:21.600 more innocent than they're portrayed. 0:15:23.480 --> 0:15:26.880 A couple of yes. On the insurance thing, we got 0:15:26.960 --> 0:15:32.600 quite a few texts that are really interesting about the 0:15:32.640 --> 0:15:35.760 way insurance companies handle bills and people who work in 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:38.359 the industry and stuff like that. And again, I'm uncomfortable 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:40.800 with even getting into that because there's a certain bit 0:15:40.880 --> 0:15:45.200 of the killer getting his way. It's kind of like 0:15:45.320 --> 0:15:47.920 when you read a school shooter's manifesto and take his 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:52.480 argument seriously. Yeah, I get that. 0:15:52.720 --> 0:15:56.600 Ethically, I'm uncomfortable going into it, although there are it's 0:15:56.640 --> 0:16:00.240 beyond denial that we have serious issues with health care 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:02.600 and insurance and stuff in the country, and a lot 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:04.400 of people get hurt and a lot of people are mad. 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:05.720 So I get it. 0:16:05.800 --> 0:16:08.480 Yeah, we shouldn't buy the discussion with the blood of 0:16:08.520 --> 0:16:10.480 this poor son of a gun who's gunned down on 0:16:10.480 --> 0:16:14.040 the pavement, but it is a legitimate discussion. I just 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:17.720 hate to even imply that therefore it's okay to shoot 0:16:17.720 --> 0:16:18.680 people in cold blood. 0:16:19.080 --> 0:16:20.440 Well, we got some text about it. We'll get to 0:16:20.440 --> 0:16:21.440 them later. This hour. 0:16:22.800 --> 0:16:25.360 Got an email from Jan wanted to know if I 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:27.160 buy a present for my husband. 0:16:27.200 --> 0:16:29.840 I shouldn't have used a real name. Ah, you just 0:16:30.040 --> 0:16:33.480 ruined their Christmas. I hope you're happy you probably Christmas, 0:16:33.680 --> 0:16:36.080 probably every Christmas to come, because the pain of this 0:16:36.160 --> 0:16:39.600 day will linger in their memories. Anyway. 0:16:39.640 --> 0:16:42.040 A woman whose name is definitely not Jan wonder whether 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:44.600 if she got her husband a present from the Armstrong 0:16:44.640 --> 0:16:46.520 a Giddy store, whether it would get there in time 0:16:46.560 --> 0:16:47.160 for Christmas? 0:16:47.400 --> 0:16:50.400 Yes, but do it today? Oh I need to do that. 0:16:50.400 --> 0:16:51.920 I actually had that thought over the weekend. 0:16:52.400 --> 0:16:54.840 The premium may in ge hoodie flying off the shelves. 0:16:54.840 --> 0:16:57.240 People are loving the cut, the crab t shirt, and 0:16:57.280 --> 0:16:59.080 the hot dogs are dogs as well. 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:01.880 Armstrong getdy dot com? How is it? How do you 0:17:01.920 --> 0:17:05.760 crass commercialism? How do you feel about me buying family 0:17:05.840 --> 0:17:10.600 members Armstrong and Getty stuff? Does that seem it's a 0:17:10.600 --> 0:17:16.800 little odd? Is it's fine? You would you would like it? 0:17:17.040 --> 0:17:20.160 Here's a gift to you. You helping me by wearing 0:17:20.160 --> 0:17:24.240 an advertisement that puts more money in my pocket. It's Michael, 0:17:24.320 --> 0:17:27.160 I bought family member stuff. Yeah, they liked it. 0:17:28.400 --> 0:17:30.080 Oh yeah, And I don't know if you've seen the books, 0:17:30.080 --> 0:17:33.840 the money actually doesn't go in our pockets. But I remember, well, 0:17:33.880 --> 0:17:35.840 this is a long story. To listen to the show 0:17:35.920 --> 0:17:38.880 because they see the advertisement. That's what I oh. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:17:38.880 --> 0:17:40.639 because yeah, that's that's a good point. 0:17:40.800 --> 0:17:45.200 Yeah. Ah oh, we've just got thirty if I bought 0:17:45.240 --> 0:17:48.160 my parents, I bought you a billboard on I eighty 0:17:48.200 --> 0:17:52.240 in your name for Christmas advertising the radio show. It's well, 0:17:52.240 --> 0:17:52.920 it's it's. 0:17:52.880 --> 0:17:56.040 A warm wearable that taken the say look, this is 0:17:56.080 --> 0:17:57.639 my brother, my son, my whatever. 0:17:58.280 --> 0:18:00.000 It says. Shit, I don't know, do whatever you want. 0:18:00.440 --> 0:18:03.359 Trump did an hour plus interview and meet the press 0:18:03.440 --> 0:18:05.639 yesterday kind of got obscured by the news of the 0:18:05.720 --> 0:18:08.760 day with the ultrabiased she Wolf. 0:18:08.880 --> 0:18:12.280 Kristen Welker will have the highlights of that interchange between 0:18:12.320 --> 0:18:15.320 the evil suckubists and the power resident elect coming up 0:18:15.800 --> 0:18:17.000 Armstrong and Getty. 0:18:18.400 --> 0:18:20.879 Well, I don't want to be breaking up families. So 0:18:20.960 --> 0:18:22.679 the only way you don't break up the family is 0:18:22.720 --> 0:18:24.919 you keep them together, and you have to send them all. 0:18:24.760 --> 0:18:27.920 Back there you go. 0:18:28.200 --> 0:18:31.760 Trump, in response to the inevitable question, you say you 0:18:31.800 --> 0:18:32.720 wanted to poor people. 0:18:33.000 --> 0:18:36.600 Are you going to separate families? Always asked from the 0:18:36.680 --> 0:18:40.720 point of view of it being bad, even though he 0:18:40.840 --> 0:18:44.080 ran on that got elected and sixty percent of people 0:18:44.600 --> 0:18:48.920 approve of it. So it just drives me nuts. 0:18:51.080 --> 0:18:53.760 Whenever we talk about this, I'm reminded of my youthful 0:18:53.920 --> 0:18:58.639 idea of living in Germany to work and study and 0:18:58.640 --> 0:19:00.600 stuff like that, because I studied German and thought that 0:19:00.760 --> 0:19:04.040 might be interesting, and it became clear that there were 0:19:04.200 --> 0:19:06.439 severe limitations in getting into the country. 0:19:06.480 --> 0:19:09.200 Then staying in there and working was very, very difficult. 0:19:09.280 --> 0:19:11.080 You had to get permits and stuff like that, so 0:19:11.200 --> 0:19:13.320 I and I accepted that. I thought, well, that's unfortunate, 0:19:13.400 --> 0:19:15.520 but it is what it is, the idea that I 0:19:15.520 --> 0:19:18.720 would go to Germany sneak in and then when they say, hey, 0:19:18.800 --> 0:19:20.639 you don't have authorization to be here, and you certainly 0:19:20.640 --> 0:19:23.119 don't have authorization to work, me saying, how are you 0:19:23.200 --> 0:19:25.040 gonna separate. 0:19:24.680 --> 0:19:25.600 Me and my family? 0:19:26.560 --> 0:19:28.320 And what would the Germans say to that, Well, they'd 0:19:28.359 --> 0:19:30.240 say it in German, so you wouldn't understand it, folks. 0:19:30.280 --> 0:19:32.480 But what it would mean essentially is be quiet and 0:19:32.480 --> 0:19:33.240 get back in line. 0:19:34.800 --> 0:19:37.879 It's not our problem. We got a bunch of clips, 0:19:37.880 --> 0:19:40.080 but I thought maybe the most important one that should 0:19:40.080 --> 0:19:43.800 have gotten a lot of attention but didn't from Trump 0:19:43.880 --> 0:19:45.399 was when he was asked about do you ran on 0:19:45.480 --> 0:19:48.760