Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2: Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong.
Speaker 1: And Jetty and he.
Speaker 2: Arms range.
Speaker 3: From Studio C See Senior, a dimly lit room deep
Speaker 3: with them the bowels of the Armstrong and getting communications compound.
Speaker 3: We've got into stockings, hung We've got red and green bunting.
Speaker 1: We're all wearing little curled elk shoes, Santa hats.
Speaker 4: Technically I'm dressed as a nutcracker, but anyway, and today
Speaker 4: we're under the two legit our general Manager Johnald Donald J.
Speaker 4: Trump doing press conferences, conferencing with the press, speaking to
Speaker 4: the American people. Imagine how weird is that a president
Speaker 4: and or president elect communicating with the.
Speaker 1: People of the United States. What's he thinking?
Speaker 5: So here's Gerald Baker writing in the Wall Street Journal
Speaker 5: about the Trump moment. This may be the first time
Speaker 5: since the nineteen eighties and Reagan that we have a
Speaker 5: GOP president with the standing, the authority, and the legislative
Speaker 5: and executive resources to reshape politics in the US and abroad.
Speaker 5: He goes through a list of all the business leaders
Speaker 5: and powerful democrats and everybody that have either spoken to
Speaker 5: him or gone to visit him, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 5: Only a few presidents changed the political weather by their
Speaker 5: very election.
Speaker 1: John F.
Speaker 5: Kennedy presaged the social and political transformations of the sixties.
Speaker 5: Ronald Reagan and eighty announced the arrival of a new
Speaker 5: political economy for the West five weeks before his inauguration.
Speaker 5: Mister Trump's new order is well underway. I don't know
Speaker 5: if that's overstating it or not making it a Kennedy
Speaker 5: type Reagan type moment, but man, it certainly could be.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, absolutely, Yeah, it's early days. It's a it's
Speaker 4: a really good start. But these aren't normal early days.
Speaker 4: That's the point. They're not like any early days I've seen, maybe.
Speaker 5: Obama that first time where everybody was so in love
Speaker 5: with him.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's this, this, this is amazing, especially for
Speaker 1: a guy who, you know.
Speaker 5: The only thing we've heard for ten years is his
Speaker 5: high negatives and.
Speaker 1: Most unpopular this and that have ever this is astounding.
Speaker 1: This is just astounding.
Speaker 4: I think in two of the three examples we gave
Speaker 4: of transitional periods presaging, you know, real change in America's
Speaker 4: politics that was aided along by the incumbent being incredibly weak,
Speaker 4: Jimmy Carr and Joe Biden specifically.
Speaker 1: So I think there's just that.
Speaker 4: Do you remember Do you remember, unless you've got a
Speaker 4: serious neurological condition, Yes, you remember the just euphoria on
Speaker 4: the Democratic side of the aisle when Joe Biden about
Speaker 4: a hot to have cared his way out of the
Speaker 4: race and they got a new chance, the great Kamala Harris,
Speaker 4: who everybody knew was moron.
Speaker 1: But just the newness finally out with the old.
Speaker 5: I think part of it is that, Honestly, Maggie Haberman,
Speaker 5: who hates Trump, writes, he has enjoyed a steady stream
Speaker 5: of vanquished opponents and critics and business leaders who once
Speaker 5: spurned him, arriving to pay respects, seek jobs, or simply
Speaker 5: watch him press play on the iPad that he uses
Speaker 5: to control the music from the patio during the dinner hours.
Speaker 5: It's so funny that Trump runs the music during East the.
Speaker 1: DJ DJ Marlango. He has the iPad with him.
Speaker 5: I've seen the videos of it, and they're all eating
Speaker 5: and the songs about to end, and he's scrolling through
Speaker 5: and picks.
Speaker 1: I'm guessing a lot of yacht rock.
Speaker 5: A lot of yacht rock, and then he'll fire up
Speaker 5: YMCA right before dessert and everybody.
Speaker 1: Does oh yes, dinner table events. I don't know.
Speaker 5: I maybe I'm gonna feel like a sap later, but
Speaker 5: I'm optimistic that something could actually happen.
Speaker 1: Like with this Doge thing.
Speaker 5: The Committee's having their first big get together today, and
Speaker 5: with Elon Musk's high profile and maybe just maybe enough
Speaker 5: important people realizing it's practically now or never that something
Speaker 5: can happen. I don't know. I hope I don't look
Speaker 5: back on this in two years. In the thing I
Speaker 5: am nothing. Nothing, nothing happened, not only little, but nothing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I don't think it'll be little or nothing.
Speaker 4: I think it'll be significant. I know a lot of
Speaker 4: our hopes will be dashed. I'm already highly troubled by
Speaker 4: Trump's seeming willingness to sell the actual working man in
Speaker 4: woman in favor of union support for the very very
Speaker 4: few from the longshoreman, for instance. His support of that
Speaker 4: union and what they're doing and against you know, automation
Speaker 4: is awful. That's picking you know what five hundred workers
Speaker 4: prospects against the prospects of fifty million workers. Since more
Speaker 4: efficient to docs and trade would be better for everybody,
Speaker 4: and preventing that is only good for a tiny group
Speaker 4: of people.
Speaker 5: Another thing about the Trump moment is his amazing for
Speaker 5: him self control he's had thus far and had throughout
Speaker 5: the press conference yesterday. He had an opportunity to go
Speaker 5: Trump and go dark and go vengeance or go insult
Speaker 5: on a whole bunch of different answers, and he took
Speaker 5: a pass. How long can he keep that up? Is
Speaker 5: Susie Wilds got some sort of special talent? Is she
Speaker 5: like custom motto was for Mike Tyson and nobody else
Speaker 5: could do it? Can she whisper in his ear? Before
Speaker 5: Trump goes out there, remember the goal. Keep your eye
Speaker 5: on the prize, eyeing the prize. It's not about the
Speaker 5: one person you hate. Keep your eye on the prize.
Speaker 5: Because he took a pass on all kinds of.
Speaker 4: Normal Trump targets yesterday, right right, You know, I was
Speaker 4: gonna speculate that maybe it's that he's still trying to
Speaker 4: earn the admiration of guys like Elon Musk, who he's
Speaker 4: close to, and he wants to be the statesman. Although
Speaker 4: Elon Musky is one of the great insult comics in
Speaker 4: the history of the Internet.
Speaker 1: So maybe not. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4: You're right, though, I mean that observation is one hundred
Speaker 4: percent right. He's very statesman like these days.
Speaker 1: Can he keep that up? No? Oh is that rhetorical? Sorry,
Speaker 1: he's older.
Speaker 5: He he might have decided. You know, I'd kind of
Speaker 5: like to be remembered as a good president.
Speaker 1: Sure.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And honestly, I don't think giving it up entirely
Speaker 4: is a good idea anyway. That the the quick political wit,
Speaker 4: the well placed insult where it's appropriate, Yeah, that's part
Speaker 4: of the conversation.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but don't where it's appropriate is the key.
Speaker 5: You've got to stay away from the you know, I
Speaker 5: prefer people who don't get captured about John McCain or whatever.
Speaker 1: You know, all those things. They were just so over
Speaker 1: the top that was ages ago. Yeah, but of course
Speaker 1: you're right, Yeah, don't don't punch down.
Speaker 5: He didn't tweet out that picture of a fat Chris
Speaker 5: Christie McDonald's over the weekend, So oh, maybe that's his outlet.
Speaker 5: Maybe Susie Wils's go ahead, truth social your fat jokes
Speaker 5: and all that sort of stuff doesn't really have might matter,
Speaker 5: just at the podium on MIC. You could keep it
Speaker 5: under control. Maybe that's his outlet.
Speaker 4: She's got a list of four people he's allowed to insult.
Speaker 4: All right, you're feeling like it, go after Christy. Christy's fine. Kamala,
Speaker 4: that'd be fine too. Oh, speaking of Kamala, I have
Speaker 4: some Kamala news that please. People are gonna spit coffee
Speaker 4: all over the windshields. It's it's it's unbelievable.
Speaker 5: Wow, that's cool, that's very, very exciting. I just it
Speaker 5: has to do with her future plans. I have to
Speaker 5: what is this stuff on my desk? I have to
Speaker 5: resist the temptation to because I listened to NPR on
Speaker 5: the way to work, and I really need to fight
Speaker 5: the temptation to just be a you know, a response
Speaker 5: to NPR. Although NPR is pretty powerful, has really good
Speaker 5: ratings all across the country a lot because they have
Speaker 5: a different business model than every other radio station and
Speaker 5: that they didn't have to worry about ads or profit
Speaker 5: I think a government support.
Speaker 2: But so.
Speaker 5: I feel like somebody needs to respond to some of
Speaker 5: the news that they put out there, because I have
Speaker 5: friends who believe all that NPR crap. But they did
Speaker 5: a story about homelessness today, in particular to Montana, and
Speaker 5: they presented it as since the Supreme Court ruled that
Speaker 5: you don't have to supply shelter for homeless people, cities
Speaker 5: across America, including these in Montana, shutting down their homeless
Speaker 5: shelters right before winter, and they presented it as if
Speaker 5: the trump right wing Supreme Court swooped in and took
Speaker 5: away a right that has always existed from are unhoused
Speaker 5: as opposed to there was one wacky ruling that threw
Speaker 5: homelessness into a crisis and finally we got it straightened
Speaker 5: back out again, right, And gonna look into that story
Speaker 5: a little bit more later in the show. I think
Speaker 5: it's important for the national conversation about homelessness. And I
Speaker 5: don't know where all of y'all come down on it,
Speaker 5: but a whole bunch of towns that had put up
Speaker 5: shelters because that was the law at the time, and
Speaker 5: they wanted to be able to boot the homeless people
Speaker 5: out of their town, but you couldn't legally unless you
Speaker 5: had a shelter provided for them, and so they put
Speaker 5: up enough shelters to provide for him. Now that that's
Speaker 5: not the lawnymore. They're saying, okay, enough of the shelters.
Speaker 1: Well right right.
Speaker 4: In fact, those laws were so loopy you could safely
Speaker 4: describe them as you're not allowed to enforce your laws
Speaker 4: unless you have a bed for each vagrant. Right well,
Speaker 4: the ultimate's camping, pan handling, sleeping on the sidewalk, what
Speaker 4: have you, public defecation.
Speaker 5: The fastest growing homeless population in America right now is
Speaker 5: in Montana, and pr of course portrayed as because of
Speaker 5: high housing costs, rent and mortgages, because that's what we
Speaker 5: all do if rent gets too high, we go live
Speaker 5: on the street and new drugs.
Speaker 1: But more on that later.
Speaker 5: The main question, of course, being is housing a right?
Speaker 5: Is housing a right? That's what we got to figure
Speaker 5: out as a country. My answer would be no. Let's
Speaker 5: start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty
Speaker 5: on this It is Tuesday, December seventeenth, the year twenty
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Speaker 6: Not going to comment on the putin question, but I
Speaker 6: will comment on on BB.
Speaker 1: Who had a very good talk.
Speaker 6: As you know, I gave warning that if these hostages
Speaker 6: aren't back home by that date, all hell's going to
Speaker 6: break out.
Speaker 5: Trump threatening Hamas as opposed to threatening Israel is a
Speaker 5: breath of fresh air. You think you've had a bad year, Hamas,
Speaker 5: brace yourself? Right, How does mailbag look very good?
Speaker 1: Quite nice?
Speaker 5: Any chance next year is going to be like the
Speaker 5: most normal year we've had in quite some time. No, no,
Speaker 5: how could it? Well, we just came out of this
Speaker 5: wacky presidential election. I feel like we could return to
Speaker 5: some sort of normalcy. You don't think so, it's a
Speaker 5: long shot.
Speaker 1: I tell you what.
Speaker 4: You you bet that you will win handsomely if you win,
Speaker 4: because with all the geo political instability going on right now,
Speaker 4: the Middle East is about to go nuts by the
Speaker 4: standards of the Middle.
Speaker 5: East, right, for instance, Russia, Ukraine and China. You're right, Uh,
Speaker 5: here's our text line four one five two nine five KFTC.
Speaker 1: Sanna's coming around and all the ground.
Speaker 4: Fat anyway, Anyway, I was tempted to jump into a
Speaker 4: different discussion, but I don't want to.
Speaker 1: You got a tree, you don't got kids in your
Speaker 1: house anymore. You have a tree up. Oh yeah, yep, festive.
Speaker 4: Judy's got all over her nutcrackers out and and uh
Speaker 4: yeah the house is nice. We're going to decorate it
Speaker 4: when a little d our youngest gets here with her
Speaker 4: man for a visit.
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to it. Yeah, why not.
Speaker 4: I wish the big kids could be here, But work
Speaker 4: and travel and all is tough this time here anyway. Uh,
Speaker 4: here's a freedom loving quote of the day. I absolutely
Speaker 4: love set along by Matt the Idaho Farmhan. It's Kevin Roberts,
Speaker 4: who's the president of the Heritage Foundation.
Speaker 1: I'm saving this one.
Speaker 4: Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation
Speaker 4: of fire. The preservation of fire strikes me as a
Speaker 4: good metaphor for conservatism. It's not rose tinted nostalgia and
Speaker 4: idealized past. It preserves they to the past and applies
Speaker 4: its lessons to the present. Maintaining a controlled burn is
Speaker 4: a way to a better future. Interesting tending the fire
Speaker 4: of democracy.
Speaker 1: I like that. No, you don't like that. You're not
Speaker 1: impressed by that? No reaction at all.
Speaker 5: Well, the populace has to want that. I think that's
Speaker 5: what happens. That's what I think I'm starting to learn
Speaker 5: as I get older. No, if they don't, you jab
Speaker 5: them with one of the burning embers. Continue to the metaphor.
Speaker 5: I'm kidding.
Speaker 4: Yeah, More on that to come, obviously, the ongoing conversation.
Speaker 1: First, mail bag.
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Speaker 4: of ways to do it. You can text us four
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Speaker 4: via email. Mail bag at Armstrong and Getty dot com.
Speaker 4: Paolo one of a couple of people, one of several
Speaker 4: people do weigh in on the Fermi paradox. If there
Speaker 4: are so many planets, there ought to be a lot
Speaker 4: of life. Why I haven't re found it? And Polo
Speaker 4: goes into some of the numbers, which I think are
Speaker 4: so interesting. As we know, it requires a lot of
Speaker 4: very special circumstances to evolve, so the occurrences of it
Speaker 4: may be relatively sparse, but the universe is vast, so
Speaker 4: it's likely to happen in places other than in the Earth.
Speaker 1: And some of the numbers are mind blowing.
Speaker 4: There are hundreds of billions of stars in our galaxy alone.
Speaker 4: They're an estimated two hundred billion to two trillion galaxies
Speaker 4: in the universe.
Speaker 1: The estimates just keep growing. His telescopes see further.
Speaker 4: So, you know, as he points out, but everything's very
Speaker 4: very very far away and we can't get there really
Speaker 4: detect much.
Speaker 1: But then I like this from burbank Luke, but the
Speaker 1: main question being, but then where are they?
Speaker 4: Or as burbank Luke points out, and you know, I
Speaker 4: almost jumped into this yesterday, but we were pressed for time,
Speaker 4: when are they? The Fermi paradox makes sense for the
Speaker 4: same reason. SETI is futile time. That's the our listening
Speaker 4: giant listening telescope or what would you call listening dish right,
Speaker 4: what's the term, doesn't matter station listening station. Surely there
Speaker 4: is was other intelligent life in the universe. They could
Speaker 4: trundle along for eons and the primordial soup, then the lungs,
Speaker 4: the legs, the opposable thumbs.
Speaker 1: Then they're using rocks as tools and so on.
Speaker 4: Eventually they figure out broadcast TV, which is what SETI
Speaker 4: listens for, basically sitcoms of the Hexapus family holiday specials,
Speaker 4: and the next thing you know, they all blow each
Speaker 4: other up in the Pentane wars. The last part only
Speaker 4: takes two hundred years. It's a synchronization problem.
Speaker 5: There are no blips of sound out there from previous
Speaker 5: civilizations that became advanced, none floating through the universe.
Speaker 1: Not a blip. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4: The numbers are too fast for me to comprehend. I've
Speaker 4: decided decided a long time ago, the great, the great
Speaker 4: questions of physics and science were so beyond me. I
Speaker 4: would stick with the more mundane, you know, things that
Speaker 4: we are dealing with here in the primordial soup.
Speaker 1: Like how do I get the lid off this thing?
Speaker 4: Little more like how should civilizations be organized? Okay, side
Speaker 4: show Bob Wrights on the top of the drones. Isn't
Speaker 4: it funny that we have more verified photos of Hunter's
Speaker 4: junk than these drones. I'm starting to come on, I
Speaker 4: did not see Hunter Biden's junk entering into the conversation
Speaker 4: comparison there it is. I'm starting to think this is
Speaker 4: this is nothing more than our generation's War of the worlds.
Speaker 1: Thanks Bob Well.
Speaker 5: Trump was asking about this at the press conference sation day.
Speaker 5: I thought his answer was damned interesting. We'll play that
Speaker 5: for you coming home. Then, Shaun ways In. I mean,
Speaker 5: it could be the DoD but why did the drones
Speaker 5: force Right Patterson Air Base to close on Friday. I'm
Speaker 5: not saying it's the enemy, but I'm thinking you're given
Speaker 5: these morons too much credit, Like, what about the Biden
Speaker 5: administration has led you to think they're on this. Hell,
Speaker 5: we're probably about a week away from Harris being appointed.
Speaker 1: Drones are Yeah, they didn't close an air Force base.
Speaker 5: Briefly, you'd think if the government was behind the drones,
Speaker 5: the government would be able to tell the Airporce base
Speaker 5: you don't need to close it's us.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you would, unless it was just so top
Speaker 1: secret that, hey, look, air Force is going to be
Speaker 1: inconvenience for a couple of days. But we've got to
Speaker 1: do this again.
Speaker 5: Trump was asked about it. I thought his answer was interesting,
Speaker 5: among other things, on the ways they do.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and getty.
Speaker 6: We'll take a look at TikTok.
Speaker 7: You know, I have a warm spot in my heart
Speaker 7: for TikTok because I won Youth by thirty four points.
Speaker 7: And there are those that say that TikTok has something
Speaker 7: to do with that TikTok had an impact.
Speaker 6: And so we're taking a look at it.
Speaker 1: But you know, we won youth.
Speaker 6: Republicans are always thirty points down in youth.
Speaker 5: Trump is such a negotiator, and that's what he has
Speaker 5: been his whole life. I mean, the whole will take
Speaker 5: a look at that is just it's just it's just
Speaker 5: a what do you got for me? That's what that is.
Speaker 4: Yes, And the fact that his reaction when asked about
Speaker 4: TikTok was not about the national security of the United
Speaker 4: States but how it benefited him is well that's Trump.
Speaker 5: Well yeah, also, but you know, he's he's he's wanting
Speaker 5: somebody to come forward with enough money or giveaways or
Speaker 5: something to get him to change his mind. He's just
Speaker 5: he's he's he's the negotiator, and he's always open. I'm
Speaker 5: always open. Make an offering. Is everything is up.
Speaker 1: For negotiation, make an offer.
Speaker 4: Well, and some big money guy out there heard in effect,
Speaker 4: you know, Trump is pro TikTok. We could probably get
Speaker 4: some pretty good policy. Maybe we do try to buy
Speaker 4: it from the Chinese.
Speaker 5: I guess my point was he he just never closes
Speaker 5: the door on anything like like we've you know, we
Speaker 5: have agents that have shown that sort of thing. U
Speaker 5: and TikTok's set to go away what middle of January.
Speaker 5: I mean, it's going to not be a thing in
Speaker 5: the United States in the middle of January unless something
Speaker 5: big happens. And uh, maybe the biggest opponent of TikTok
Speaker 5: in the entire US government is Marco Rubio, who's been
Speaker 5: on every talk show he could get on for years
Speaker 5: now talking about how it's insane that we allow TikTok
Speaker 5: in this country. And that's Trump's Secretary of State. So
Speaker 5: it'd be interesting to see how that plays out. As
Speaker 5: they pointed out on Foction.
Speaker 1: Friends this morning, quoting Marco Rubio.
Speaker 5: You download the TikTok app, they immediately the Chinese Communist
Speaker 5: Party has access to everything in your phone immediately when
Speaker 5: you download that app.
Speaker 1: I think it's We're such a dope as a country.
Speaker 1: We really are. It is nuts, of course it's not.
Speaker 5: And in addition to that, and then I'll move on
Speaker 5: from TikTok because I wasn't planning to talk TikTok, but
Speaker 5: in addition to the fact that they have access to
Speaker 5: all your infos so basically, you know, get into everything,
Speaker 5: build a profile on you, steal information, all that sort
Speaker 5: of stuff. They're putting out all this news that is
Speaker 5: pro China's agenda and anti Vus agenda and whatever.
Speaker 1: Smart person who has listened to on cable.
Speaker 5: News today said, TikTok is going to be full of news.
Speaker 5: And since our young people get half their news from
Speaker 5: TikTok about why the tariffs against China are horrible and
Speaker 5: shouldn't happen, how they're hurting them, right, and so we
Speaker 5: let our young people be educated on all the issues
Speaker 5: by the Chinese Communist Party.
Speaker 4: Well, they're being stupefied. They're stupid ofied half the time,
Speaker 4: and the other half of the time they're being misinformed
Speaker 4: for the purposes of cheshin ping.
Speaker 1: But there are funny videos.
Speaker 4: Oh come on, is there any country that's got any
Speaker 4: sense left?
Speaker 1: I'll move there.
Speaker 5: I'm sure there's lots of these, But I saw the
Speaker 5: one yesterday where it's popular now to have T shirts
Speaker 5: that have the what do you call that symbol thing
Speaker 5: on where you put your phone over it with the
Speaker 5: picture like the menus at restaurants now, Oh QR code, Yeah,
Speaker 5: QR coat on T shirts and you do the QRE
Speaker 5: because they're curious, you do the qrqte on the guy's
Speaker 5: T shirt and it's the Trump Trump doing the Trump dance.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, that's so funny. Speaking of Trump press.
Speaker 5: Conference yesterday that I saw almost universal, if not praise,
Speaker 5: grudging He much better now than he was before. Ish
Speaker 5: from the MSNBC crowd on the way he handled his
Speaker 5: press conference. But here's here's him me and ask about
Speaker 5: the drone situation.
Speaker 4: You call them on the drones that are flying out
Speaker 4: reports and it seems like that there people have a
Speaker 4: big disc the government.
Speaker 1: The government knows what is happening.
Speaker 8: Look, our military knows where they took off from.
Speaker 6: If it's a garage, they can go right into that garage.
Speaker 6: They know where it came from and where it went.
Speaker 8: And for some reason they don't want to comment, and
Speaker 8: I think they'd be better off saying what it is.
Speaker 8: Our military knows, and our president knows. And for some
Speaker 8: reason they want to keep people in suspense.
Speaker 6: I can't imagine it's the enemy, because it was the
Speaker 6: enemy they'd blasted out, even if they were late, they'd blasted.
Speaker 8: Something strange is going on. For some reason, they don't
Speaker 8: want to tell the people, and they should because the
Speaker 8: people are really I mean, they happen to be over Bedminster.
Speaker 1: We want to know.
Speaker 8: They're very close to Bedminster. I think maybe I won't
Speaker 8: spend the weekend in Bedminster. I've decided to cancel my trip.
Speaker 5: No, we don't have the follow up. That's important, the
Speaker 5: follow up being have you been briefed on this? And
Speaker 5: he said, I'm I'm not going to comment on that.
Speaker 5: It sure sounds like he has been, and he almost
Speaker 5: certainly has been. As the incoming president, they start doing
Speaker 5: the full on daily briefing with the incoming president right here,
Speaker 5: So he's been briefed on it. He knows what's going on.
Speaker 5: I thought he obviously, by Trump style, took a pass
Speaker 5: there to take a shot at Biden.
Speaker 1: Our president knows.
Speaker 5: He didn't say sleepy Joe or stupid Joe, or Joe's wandering.
Speaker 1: Around to the backyard or any of the normal things.
Speaker 4: He didn't refer to him as the Mummy, as some
Speaker 4: radio shows perhaps have.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and because he was president of the United States
Speaker 5: for four years, he also absolutely knows the capabilities of
Speaker 5: our military.
Speaker 1: And he's saying that the military knows where they're coming
Speaker 1: from and what they are, so.
Speaker 4: Hey, when he was saying, look, the military knows what's
Speaker 4: going on. They know where they took off. If they
Speaker 4: came from a garage, they could go to that cash.
Speaker 4: Am I the only one who is sitting here thinking
Speaker 4: is this classified? Are we supposed to know? The military
Speaker 4: can do that? But it is interesting what the technology
Speaker 4: is now.
Speaker 5: Most people seem to think that he did has had
Speaker 5: a briefing on the whole thing, and so, yeah, so
Speaker 5: him saying the military's on top of it, but they
Speaker 5: won't tell you. For some reason, the president knows, but
Speaker 5: for some reason they're not telling you that.
Speaker 1: That's interesting. I don't.
Speaker 5: I'm still mystified as to what's going on me too.
Speaker 4: There are at least five different scenarios that I consider
Speaker 4: equally likely. I'm completely at c on this one.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: One other Trump related thing that I wanted to throw
Speaker 5: out before we take a break is RFK Junior was
Speaker 5: on the hill yesterday trying to woo senators to his side,
Speaker 5: and this is another example of if you take your
Speaker 5: information through mainsteam media. RFK Junior is a complete nut
Speaker 5: job and everything he proposes is evil, awful, and only
Speaker 5: a crazy person would think it. Pulling out today, eight
Speaker 5: and ten American adults support requiring nutrition, education, and federally
Speaker 5: funded medical schools.
Speaker 1: That's one of RFK junior things.
Speaker 5: Seventy four percent support banning certain additives, including dies, from
Speaker 5: the nation's food supply. Another RFK junior thing, a seventy
Speaker 5: four percent. Now, that doesn't mean the population's right or
Speaker 5: well informed on this stuff, but I'm just saying it's
Speaker 5: not a lot of these things as aren't being received like,
Speaker 5: oh my god, how could he do that? Like is
Speaker 5: being portrayed portrayed on the evening news even on two
Speaker 5: thirds of Americans, including seventy one percent of Democrats, want
Speaker 5: the federal government to increase restrictions on the use of
Speaker 5: pesticides and agricultural products. Banning processed foods in public school
Speaker 5: lunch is supported by two thirds of both Democrats and Republicans.
Speaker 5: I don't know if I agree with all this stuff,
Speaker 5: but the public is not going Could you possibly even
Speaker 5: on the one that gets less than fifty percent? On
Speaker 5: florid Fluorid in the nation's drinking water, Kennedy said he
Speaker 5: wants to get rid of drinking water. Fluoride removal is
Speaker 5: backed by fifty six percent Republicans only a third of Democrats.
Speaker 1: But that's not.
Speaker 5: Nut job territory for discussing it. I don't know what
Speaker 5: I think of that issue.
Speaker 4: By the way, if it leads toward a reassessment of
Speaker 4: the policy using twenty first century science, there's nothing wrong
Speaker 4: with that. On some other public issues raised by Kennedy,
Speaker 4: Republicans Democrats are more split, like whether the drug ozimpic
Speaker 4: ought to be restricted for weight loss. Forty three percent
Speaker 4: of Democrats support restricting the drug fifty two percent of Republicans,
Speaker 4: so as opposed to what.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I know it can help with like alcoholism and stuff
Speaker 4: like that, but I can't imagine anybody'd be against that.
Speaker 5: I don't know the issue on the people are saying
Speaker 5: the ozempic for other things.
Speaker 1: I have to look it up.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I didn't know that was a hot topic that
Speaker 5: they even asked about it. The one, oh, I wonder
Speaker 5: on the whole food coloring thing, it's probably not good
Speaker 5: to put extra stuff in our food. That's completely unnecessary,
Speaker 5: even if you even if there's no science saying that
Speaker 5: making this look a little more brown or red or green.
Speaker 1: Or whatever doesn't do any damage.
Speaker 5: What's the upside of putting you know, chemicals and food,
Speaker 5: But I think you take away that.
Speaker 1: Food dye and a lot of us are going to
Speaker 1: look at our food and.
Speaker 5: Think, ah, could you bring back the food dye.
Speaker 1: I don't like the way it just looks. Well, that
Speaker 1: doesn't make it good though.
Speaker 4: I mean, we've gotten used to the utterly unnatural rainbow
Speaker 4: hues and processed food.
Speaker 1: I think we need to ease into it. Though.
Speaker 5: Everything's gonna be kind of a gray brown, right, lots
Speaker 5: of gray brown food.
Speaker 4: Hey, it's nothing more delicious looking than that. Kind of weird?
Speaker 4: Is that green or is that gray?
Speaker 1: Anyway? Well, I don't know.
Speaker 4: It's you don't have to have food that's colored like
Speaker 4: a tropical fish to find it delicious. I mean, again,
Speaker 4: it's utterly unnatural. We weren't eating food that looked like
Speaker 4: that seventy five years ago. We'll go back, it'll.
Speaker 5: Be fine, decent point. Oh yeah, that's the one thing,
Speaker 5: the one thing I'll I'll bring up the one thing.
Speaker 5: RFK Junior said that is clearly true.
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Speaker 5: A lot of critics of RFK Junior are going with,
Speaker 5: for instance, make Polio great Again. You know, is anti
Speaker 5: vax stance, How anti vaxx is he Trump was asking
Speaker 5: about this yesterday. One of the things he said is
Speaker 5: RFK Junior is a lot less out there than a
Speaker 5: lot of you think. And you'll find that out during
Speaker 5: the hearings, which is what you keep saying. We have
Speaker 5: a process for this. They'll be asked about it, we'll
Speaker 5: all get to hear it, and we'll see what he thinks. Yeah,
Speaker 5: wild press speculation is not actually mentioned in the constitution,
Speaker 5: but there is this from RFK Junior. Two thirds of
Speaker 5: American adults and children suffer from chronic health issues. Fifty
Speaker 5: years ago, that number was less than one percent. We've
Speaker 5: gone from one percent to sixty six percent in fifty years.
Speaker 5: I don't know if that's because of food dye or
Speaker 5: vaccinations or whatever. But as we were talking about yesterday,
Speaker 5: chronic depression and anxiety and all these different things really
Speaker 5: worth taking a look at.
Speaker 4: Why you know that reminds me I came across this.
Speaker 4: I haven't independently verified it. But it's from a Twitter
Speaker 4: account that I've followed and looked at many times and
Speaker 4: never found it to be wrong. This is from Business Insider,
Speaker 4: which is a liberal publication, but you know, not completely
Speaker 4: louning to its daily calories consumed to buy Americans?
Speaker 1: Oh boy, is it not gonnout me specifically?
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, In fact, your picture with big fat cheeks
Speaker 4: is right at the illustration here. Actually it's like a
Speaker 4: big gichanic hamburger and fries that looks really good.
Speaker 1: I have a doughnut in the other hand. Wish I
Speaker 1: was eating it right now.
Speaker 4: Anyway, in nineteen sixty one, I'm going round a little
Speaker 4: bit here. Ironically, the American the average American consumed twenty
Speaker 4: nine hundred calories twenty nine hundred, it's now thirty seven hundred.
Speaker 4: Whoa Why have Americans gotten fatter? I mean, there are
Speaker 4: a handful of things that have contributed. But if that
Speaker 4: is true, if that's verifiable, come on.
Speaker 5: The average American takes in thirty seven hundred calories a day.
Speaker 1: Yes, sir, wow, that's a lot.
Speaker 4: That's from the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United
Speaker 4: Nations Statistics Division National geographic.
Speaker 5: I don't know, I don't know how you'd nail that down,
Speaker 5: but man, if that's true, that's a high number.
Speaker 1: Although do you that strike you as accurate? Though?
Speaker 5: If you eat out much, Man, you sit down at
Speaker 5: an Applebee's and you look at the menu, if you
Speaker 5: live somewhere where they have the calories next to the
Speaker 5: I mean, you get a big cheeseburger and fries and everything,
Speaker 5: it's gonna be like twenty four hundred calories to get
Speaker 5: a You're gonna be there for that meal, little one
Speaker 5: the day.
Speaker 1: Yeah, wow, that is something.
Speaker 4: Twenty nine hundred was the average in nineteen sixty one,
Speaker 4: now thirty seven hundred.
Speaker 5: And all that food information you see on the back
Speaker 5: of the bottle of anything is all based on a
Speaker 5: two thousand calorie diet, which apparently nobody's doing.
Speaker 4: Right right, And it's worth pointing out because, I mean,
Speaker 4: that is only eight hundred calories a day, which is plenty.
Speaker 4: But once you're taking in more than you need, right,
Speaker 4: I mean, it cascades you keep gaining weight.
Speaker 5: That's interesting. We've got Katie's headlines on the way and
Speaker 5: a bunch more news to get to today.
Speaker 1: Stay here, Thank you, lou Rawls. You should bring up
Speaker 1: that calorie stuff again. In the show, we sh talked
Speaker 1: about that. That's probably the most important thing I'm gonna
Speaker 1: hear today.
Speaker 5: It could be yeah, heading into more of the holiday
Speaker 5: eating season before I get to the eating playoffs and
Speaker 5: try to win the championship.
Speaker 9: I wish McDonald's didn't tell us how many calories were.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm not going to McDonald's to check calories.
Speaker 2: I don't need to know.
Speaker 5: I go back and forth on that. It keeps, it keeps,
Speaker 5: it keeps me from ordering certain things. Sometimes maybe I'll
Speaker 5: get the mcclury ooh, another eleven hundred calories.
Speaker 1: I don't know that I need that.
Speaker 4: Human beings were not designed to be roving through a
Speaker 4: world where delicious fruit is falling from the trees and
Speaker 4: suicidal antelopes run up to you and offer you their meat.
Speaker 4: That's not the way we were designed. And what have
Speaker 4: we done? Antelopes were run up to you, Go ahead,
Speaker 4: eat me, I'll cook it for you real quick. Now
Speaker 4: let me cover it in cheese. Shocking, shocking. Let's figure
Speaker 4: out who's reporting what it's the lead story with Katie Green.
Speaker 9: Katie starting with Brightbart dot com. Madison Christian School attack.
Speaker 9: Second grader reportedly called nine one one to alert police.
Speaker 5: Oh, I've seen him interviewing this little girl. Yeah, no
Speaker 5: mineral business. But mom, dad, everyone leave the little girl alone.
Speaker 5: There's no way this is good for her. Yeah, take
Speaker 5: her home and get the cameras away now.
Speaker 9: NBC Ukraine Security Service claims assassination.
Speaker 2: Of Russian general sanctioned for chemical weapons use I saw that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they'd blow him up right in the middle of Moscow.
Speaker 4: I guess right for Blue from.
Speaker 9: Fox News, drones spotted across the northeast, likely coming from
Speaker 9: quote inside the US.
Speaker 2: According to military expert, the drones.
Speaker 1: Are coming from inside the country.
Speaker 5: I think most of us are assuming that at this point,
Speaker 5: right nobod's thinking it's Theiranian mothership or whatever.
Speaker 9: From the New York Times, who now has tampoons in
Speaker 9: the men's bathroom, no place to hide, trapped on the border.
Speaker 2: Immigrants fear deep rotation with.
Speaker 1: Trump, All right, they should.
Speaker 4: I want to get into that New York Times story
Speaker 4: about the tamboon and some We have a gender betting
Speaker 4: madness update coming, and it's just it's ridiculous. Finds there
Speaker 4: are most one percent of the employees of the New
Speaker 4: York Times consider themselves not a dude or a dude
Speaker 4: at at most it's one percent.
Speaker 2: From The New York Post.
Speaker 9: California felon who was granted quote compassionate release after twenty
Speaker 9: six years behind bars sent back to prison for the
Speaker 9: exact same crime.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: From CNN after.
Speaker 9: Years on a transplant list, alabamam, my grandmother receives kidney
Speaker 9: from gene edited pig oh.
Speaker 5: First time ever. And if this works, that'll be a
Speaker 5: really big deal. We'll be able to make as many kidneys.
Speaker 2: As you want.
Speaker 1: Who wants a kidney? You want?
Speaker 4: Did a new kidney just for fun? Half human a
Speaker 4: half pigs running around? Jack is perfectly comfortable with that.
Speaker 1: Do they vote?
Speaker 4: Do they get the right to free speech? That's what
Speaker 4: I want to know, or free squealing? You know, as
Speaker 4: the case.
Speaker 9: Maybe rough study finds resting gift face. How good are
Speaker 9: you at hiding your disappointment during the holidays?
Speaker 1: That's funny, I've gotten very good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no kidding, Oh you've got to. It's hard though,
Speaker 4: it's you really get because because it happens in a
Speaker 4: moment's notice. It's not like you're a method actor and
Speaker 4: you can like get yourself worked up into the state
Speaker 4: where you're gonna give a great perforce, Like all of
Speaker 4: a sudden.
Speaker 3: You're on, oh hey, hey, that's great.
Speaker 5: I've got one kid that, for better or worse, does
Speaker 5: not even try this is it? This is what I'm getting.
Speaker 5: I don't want any of this stuff. Oh yeah, it's rough.
Speaker 1: Well, you know where you stand.
Speaker 9: And finally, the Babylon be Mystery drones turn out to
Speaker 9: just be elaborate gender reveal party.
Speaker 5: How long is this going to go on before we
Speaker 5: get our answer? Or willious go away as a story?
Speaker 1: Like what is it? What is it?
Speaker 4: I mean, because there's the really suspicious stuff, then there's
Speaker 4: the thousands of drones that are around anyways.
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty