1 00:00:01,880 --> 00:00:05,640 Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the 2 00:00:05,760 --> 00:00:10,760 Speaker 1: George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong 3 00:00:10,840 --> 00:00:17,239 Speaker 1: and Getty and no Key Armstrong and Eddy. 4 00:00:24,840 --> 00:00:27,840 Speaker 2: Yesterday was the United Airlines New York City Half Marathon. 5 00:00:27,960 --> 00:00:30,360 Speaker 2: It's an annual event where they announced a gate change 6 00:00:30,360 --> 00:00:37,320 Speaker 2: at LaGuardia five minutes before boarding and how far away 7 00:00:37,400 --> 00:00:39,440 Speaker 2: is our gate thirteen point one miles. 8 00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:44,040 Speaker 1: I don't think we're gonna make it, and some of 9 00:00:44,080 --> 00:00:46,199 Speaker 1: those scenes from airports even today, I was looking at 10 00:00:46,240 --> 00:00:49,640 Speaker 1: this morning, there had already been two thousand cancelations like 11 00:00:49,720 --> 00:00:53,920 Speaker 1: as the day started, and were delays delays, two thousand 12 00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:55,960 Speaker 1: delays as the day started. But that's a heck of 13 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:58,400 Speaker 1: a start. And then obviously that ripples out all across 14 00:00:58,440 --> 00:01:01,400 Speaker 1: the country. And then just to pick airports with the 15 00:01:01,400 --> 00:01:04,000 Speaker 1: security lines going out the door and down the street 16 00:01:04,120 --> 00:01:08,759 Speaker 1: all across the country, looks miserable to be traveling by air. 17 00:01:10,360 --> 00:01:11,800 Speaker 1: I wonder if it's one of those deals I've been 18 00:01:11,840 --> 00:01:13,600 Speaker 1: in this before where you can't rent a car either 19 00:01:13,600 --> 00:01:15,560 Speaker 1: if you wanted to drive, there are just no vehicles 20 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:18,640 Speaker 1: to be had. No No, I actually saw an interview 21 00:01:18,640 --> 00:01:20,240 Speaker 1: with the guy last night on the news who had 22 00:01:20,280 --> 00:01:25,320 Speaker 1: that very situation. And because of our our divided media 23 00:01:25,400 --> 00:01:29,240 Speaker 1: and our bubbles and everything, I don't sense any great 24 00:01:29,280 --> 00:01:33,080 Speaker 1: pressure building on Congress to settle the Department of Homeland 25 00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:36,680 Speaker 1: Security funding thing and fund the TSA. The Democrats are saying, 26 00:01:36,800 --> 00:01:42,080 Speaker 1: we offered a bill to fund only the TSA, but 27 00:01:42,160 --> 00:01:45,200 Speaker 1: they want to like defund ice or completely change out 28 00:01:45,240 --> 00:01:48,639 Speaker 1: operates or whatever, and that's just not going to happen. 29 00:01:48,720 --> 00:01:51,280 Speaker 1: So they're using the TSA's leverage. But people aren't getting 30 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:53,480 Speaker 1: that word. They don't understand that people ought to be 31 00:01:53,600 --> 00:01:57,080 Speaker 1: enraged over this. Yeah, well it was presented as completely 32 00:01:57,080 --> 00:01:59,320 Speaker 1: the fault of the Republicans as I watched Morning Joe 33 00:01:59,320 --> 00:02:02,360 Speaker 1: on MSNBC today. Well there's a shock. Yeah, So I 34 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:03,840 Speaker 1: don't know what people think about that. We do have 35 00:02:03,840 --> 00:02:06,280 Speaker 1: a breaking news thing here that I'm rid of Ice Barbie. 36 00:02:06,360 --> 00:02:08,840 Speaker 1: All right, Ice Barbie is gone. And what was the 37 00:02:09,120 --> 00:02:12,640 Speaker 1: hard ass guy who's in Minneapolis not home in the 38 00:02:12,639 --> 00:02:15,240 Speaker 1: other guy? I can never think any more than that 39 00:02:15,360 --> 00:02:19,160 Speaker 1: Nazi trench coat. That's that right, the long black trench 40 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:24,639 Speaker 1: coat reminiscent of Nazi coats, that's right. But he's retiring 41 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:27,720 Speaker 1: this month. So the house has been cleaned, Katie. The 42 00:02:27,800 --> 00:02:33,160 Speaker 1: name I'm looking for is Greg Bavino. Nice job, docu shan. Wow, 43 00:02:33,880 --> 00:02:35,480 Speaker 1: So we do have kind of a breaking news that's 44 00:02:35,480 --> 00:02:40,359 Speaker 1: gonna get tongues wagging on podcasts and whatever. Oh no, 45 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:44,920 Speaker 1: because there's been so little to wag your tongue about. 46 00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:49,040 Speaker 1: Like A top US counter terrorism official has resigned citing 47 00:02:49,080 --> 00:02:52,840 Speaker 1: the Iran war. Joe Kent announced his resignation as director 48 00:02:52,880 --> 00:02:55,240 Speaker 1: of the National counter Terrorism Center. That seems like a 49 00:02:55,240 --> 00:02:59,040 Speaker 1: fairly big position. He said that pressure from Israel had 50 00:02:59,080 --> 00:03:01,960 Speaker 1: pushed President Trump into war with against Iran, and he 51 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:05,080 Speaker 1: can't be part of it. I cannot in good conscience 52 00:03:05,080 --> 00:03:07,800 Speaker 1: support the ongoing war in Iran, mister Kent said, as 53 00:03:07,840 --> 00:03:11,120 Speaker 1: the director of National counter Terrorism Center, Iran posed no 54 00:03:11,240 --> 00:03:13,040 Speaker 1: imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that 55 00:03:13,080 --> 00:03:15,280 Speaker 1: we started this war due pressure from Israel. And it's 56 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:20,080 Speaker 1: powerful American lobby man that's tossing a grenade rhetorically into 57 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:22,640 Speaker 1: the conversation because that will be a big deal on 58 00:03:22,639 --> 00:03:25,520 Speaker 1: your lefty news channels all day long. Oh man, Well, 59 00:03:25,560 --> 00:03:28,040 Speaker 1: and send some of your Fox. I'll have to touch 60 00:03:28,080 --> 00:03:30,080 Speaker 1: on it a little because I know the people I 61 00:03:30,160 --> 00:03:33,519 Speaker 1: know that are most the most upset about Israel directing 62 00:03:33,600 --> 00:03:39,880 Speaker 1: us around were former MAGA people, Right, yeah, that uh, 63 00:03:40,520 --> 00:03:44,240 Speaker 1: that's wow. That is something he said. That's fairly ridiculous 64 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:46,040 Speaker 1: what he said, The idea that when did you say 65 00:03:46,040 --> 00:03:49,720 Speaker 1: we're not under any imminent threat from Iran? Right? Just 66 00:03:50,760 --> 00:03:53,960 Speaker 1: two days away from an imminent threat for forty seven years, 67 00:03:54,280 --> 00:03:58,240 Speaker 1: the deaths of all those soldiers, the choke hold over 68 00:03:58,280 --> 00:04:02,440 Speaker 1: the Gulf. Just you know, just since we ended up 69 00:04:02,480 --> 00:04:04,640 Speaker 1: on the topic, I'll get to this poll that came 70 00:04:04,680 --> 00:04:07,800 Speaker 1: out yesterday. So, like I said, the people I know 71 00:04:07,920 --> 00:04:11,320 Speaker 1: who believe Israel is jerking the world around and the 72 00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:13,680 Speaker 1: source of all evil the most are MEGA people, are 73 00:04:13,720 --> 00:04:16,880 Speaker 1: former MEGA people that I personally know. And obviously a 74 00:04:16,960 --> 00:04:19,160 Speaker 1: lot of the left doesn't think much of Israel, as 75 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:23,440 Speaker 1: we all know. So the views of voters about Israel, 76 00:04:23,480 --> 00:04:25,680 Speaker 1: the latest poll that came out, it has gone the 77 00:04:25,720 --> 00:04:28,120 Speaker 1: wrong direction for Israel by a lot. This is an 78 00:04:28,240 --> 00:04:32,560 Speaker 1: NBC News poll every age group the negative view of Israel. 79 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:35,360 Speaker 1: For instance, ages eighteen to thirty four year young crowd, 80 00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:38,719 Speaker 1: It's gone from thirty seven percent of them had a 81 00:04:38,720 --> 00:04:43,760 Speaker 1: negative view of Israel to sixty three percent since twenty 82 00:04:43,839 --> 00:04:46,680 Speaker 1: twenty three. This is in the last three years. This 83 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:51,880 Speaker 1: is in three years. Next group of people thirty five 84 00:04:51,920 --> 00:04:55,800 Speaker 1: to forty nine, it's ten points worse. For israel ages 85 00:04:55,839 --> 00:04:58,479 Speaker 1: fifty to sixty four, it has doubled from fifteen to 86 00:04:58,520 --> 00:05:01,280 Speaker 1: thirty that have an negative view. And then for your 87 00:05:01,279 --> 00:05:06,240 Speaker 1: older crowd, it went from twelve to twenty one. But 88 00:05:06,360 --> 00:05:08,560 Speaker 1: the overall number, if you add them all together, is 89 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:10,640 Speaker 1: a lot of people with a negative view of Israel, 90 00:05:10,680 --> 00:05:13,600 Speaker 1: and that didn't used to be our situation in America. Yeah, 91 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:17,599 Speaker 1: the youngsters have been indoctrinated by lies in their schools 92 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:20,400 Speaker 1: and colleges. So that's enough of that. What about the 93 00:05:20,480 --> 00:05:24,680 Speaker 1: increase of double digits or more for every other age group. Well, 94 00:05:24,680 --> 00:05:27,640 Speaker 1: that's where I'm going. One of the most wise things 95 00:05:27,640 --> 00:05:29,520 Speaker 1: I ever heard, and I can't remember who said it, 96 00:05:29,560 --> 00:05:34,559 Speaker 1: is Americans love dead Jews. They love Jews if they're dead, 97 00:05:35,120 --> 00:05:39,560 Speaker 1: if they're quietly enduring being hunted and killed. We love 98 00:05:39,680 --> 00:05:42,440 Speaker 1: the poor Jews and sympathized with them and would love 99 00:05:42,480 --> 00:05:44,440 Speaker 1: to help them. But when the Jews stand up for 100 00:05:44,480 --> 00:05:49,000 Speaker 1: themselves and defend themselves, everybody says, oh, you're being a bully. 101 00:05:49,920 --> 00:05:52,520 Speaker 1: How dare you do that? Those people were at a 102 00:05:52,560 --> 00:05:57,120 Speaker 1: threat to you. It's ridiculous. It's kind of interesting because like, 103 00:05:57,240 --> 00:06:01,160 Speaker 1: Israel has more respect from me now more because they've 104 00:06:01,160 --> 00:06:05,200 Speaker 1: finally just said woken up and decided no, getting along 105 00:06:05,360 --> 00:06:11,560 Speaker 1: with radical Islam ain't working. We're gonna kill them instead. 106 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:14,400 Speaker 1: So I know someone who is really worried about a 107 00:06:14,480 --> 00:06:17,479 Speaker 1: draft coming and has already made plans to get their 108 00:06:17,520 --> 00:06:20,720 Speaker 1: teenage sons out of the country the draft guns because 109 00:06:20,720 --> 00:06:25,039 Speaker 1: they don't want their kids dying for Israel. This is 110 00:06:25,040 --> 00:06:29,280 Speaker 1: someone who voted Trump three times in a row. I 111 00:06:29,279 --> 00:06:31,240 Speaker 1: don't know how many people that represents, but based on 112 00:06:31,279 --> 00:06:33,719 Speaker 1: my floating around Twitter, it's a chunk of people. I 113 00:06:33,760 --> 00:06:35,320 Speaker 1: still don't know how many people it is, though. I 114 00:06:35,320 --> 00:06:37,400 Speaker 1: don't know if it's three percent of the population or 115 00:06:37,440 --> 00:06:43,599 Speaker 1: thirteen or twenty three. But yes, I know, you know. 116 00:06:43,720 --> 00:06:46,080 Speaker 1: Twitter isn't America. No, That's why I said, I don't 117 00:06:46,080 --> 00:06:48,240 Speaker 1: know if it's three or twenty three or right. Yeah. 118 00:06:48,279 --> 00:06:53,200 Speaker 1: I haven't run into a single human who brought up 119 00:06:53,240 --> 00:06:56,680 Speaker 1: anything close to that in real life. The people that 120 00:06:56,760 --> 00:06:59,719 Speaker 1: follow Tucker and Candice in big numbers, how many people 121 00:06:59,800 --> 00:07:02,360 Speaker 1: is I wish I knew enough to make them up 122 00:07:02,560 --> 00:07:04,920 Speaker 1: freaking bumload of money. He'll tell you that. You know 123 00:07:05,440 --> 00:07:08,520 Speaker 1: that's true. But what was I say? Oh yeah, So 124 00:07:08,640 --> 00:07:12,160 Speaker 1: to your point about the whole love dead Jews, just 125 00:07:12,160 --> 00:07:15,480 Speaker 1: not currently living Jews, because when a movie like a 126 00:07:15,520 --> 00:07:18,400 Speaker 1: Shindler's List or something like that comes along, oh man, 127 00:07:18,480 --> 00:07:20,920 Speaker 1: the weeping and the Hollywood and all the awards and everything, 128 00:07:20,960 --> 00:07:23,320 Speaker 1: and how awful it was, where the Nazis and Auschwitz 129 00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:25,119 Speaker 1: and this and that and everything like that preferred lepic. 130 00:07:25,600 --> 00:07:29,640 Speaker 1: Jew's currently alive under attack, either on college campuses being 131 00:07:29,680 --> 00:07:31,840 Speaker 1: beaten down so you can't go to class at UCLA, 132 00:07:32,320 --> 00:07:34,360 Speaker 1: or you know, attacks on Israel or whatever. They hell, 133 00:07:34,640 --> 00:07:38,280 Speaker 1: no sympathy for that. That's interesting. No movie is about 134 00:07:38,320 --> 00:07:41,320 Speaker 1: when every country in the region, every Muslim country in 135 00:07:41,360 --> 00:07:44,920 Speaker 1: the region, attacked Israel back in the day, and Israel 136 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:47,120 Speaker 1: whooped their ass. It's one of the great stories in 137 00:07:47,120 --> 00:07:50,600 Speaker 1: the history of mankind. And no, no movies about that. 138 00:07:50,680 --> 00:07:53,000 Speaker 1: We like him dead. You're right, there's never been a 139 00:07:53,040 --> 00:07:58,760 Speaker 1: great Six Day War movie. Nope. But if I just 140 00:07:58,880 --> 00:08:02,640 Speaker 1: on a practical matter, whether it's right or wrong, if 141 00:08:02,680 --> 00:08:04,600 Speaker 1: I'm Israel, I got to figure out how to turn 142 00:08:04,640 --> 00:08:09,320 Speaker 1: that opinion around. In the United States, that's gonna that's 143 00:08:09,480 --> 00:08:12,760 Speaker 1: the you know, that younger crowd is going to end 144 00:08:12,840 --> 00:08:15,600 Speaker 1: up in government. You're gonna have a house of representatives 145 00:08:15,640 --> 00:08:17,760 Speaker 1: full of people that aren't interested in sending three to 146 00:08:17,800 --> 00:08:20,360 Speaker 1: five billion dollars to Israel every year in our best 147 00:08:20,400 --> 00:08:24,080 Speaker 1: planes and all that sort of stuff. I don't know 148 00:08:24,080 --> 00:08:27,960 Speaker 1: how they negotiate that. I don't have the figures in 149 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:30,920 Speaker 1: front of me. But the money that a pack spends 150 00:08:31,120 --> 00:08:36,680 Speaker 1: lobbying is a tiny fraction of other industries and countries 151 00:08:36,720 --> 00:08:40,560 Speaker 1: for that matter, that whole A pack runs the that 152 00:08:40,880 --> 00:08:45,920 Speaker 1: is based on nothing. It's just a fantasy of the evil, 153 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:49,559 Speaker 1: controlling jew behind the scene. I just don't get it. Well, 154 00:08:49,600 --> 00:08:54,640 Speaker 1: this guy I'd never heard of before, Joe Kent top 155 00:08:54,720 --> 00:08:59,319 Speaker 1: counter terrorism. So some places say the top counter terrorism official, 156 00:08:59,480 --> 00:09:02,319 Speaker 1: other places say a top counter terrorism official. I'd like 157 00:09:02,360 --> 00:09:04,240 Speaker 1: to know which it is. There's a big difference, but 158 00:09:04,400 --> 00:09:07,480 Speaker 1: in what the agency exactly. Let me bring that back 159 00:09:07,559 --> 00:09:13,760 Speaker 1: up again, Uh, since this is important. He is the 160 00:09:13,920 --> 00:09:17,160 Speaker 1: director of the National counter Terrorism Center, which was put 161 00:09:17,200 --> 00:09:20,440 Speaker 1: together after nine to eleven. It's a pretty big position. Yeah, 162 00:09:20,640 --> 00:09:24,160 Speaker 1: and he appointed I assume by you know, people in 163 00:09:24,840 --> 00:09:27,280 Speaker 1: the Trump administration recommended him because they thought he was 164 00:09:27,320 --> 00:09:29,400 Speaker 1: on board with the sort of things Trump wants to do. 165 00:09:29,760 --> 00:09:33,040 Speaker 1: Has specifically said, I cannot in good conscience support the 166 00:09:33,080 --> 00:09:35,520 Speaker 1: ongoing war in Iran. Iran post no eminent threat to 167 00:09:35,559 --> 00:09:37,319 Speaker 1: our nation, and it's clear that we started this war 168 00:09:37,400 --> 00:09:40,280 Speaker 1: due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby. 169 00:09:40,800 --> 00:09:44,640 Speaker 1: I mean, it's now exploding all over media, every news 170 00:09:44,640 --> 00:09:47,440 Speaker 1: site in cable channels on this story. Now, it's going 171 00:09:47,480 --> 00:09:49,400 Speaker 1: to be a big story today and maybe for the 172 00:09:49,400 --> 00:09:52,120 Speaker 1: rest of this war. Yeah, he might be a career 173 00:09:52,160 --> 00:09:54,160 Speaker 1: guy as opposed to a political appointee. I don't know. 174 00:09:54,160 --> 00:09:56,839 Speaker 1: I wouldn't assume that he was Trump approved and appointed. No, 175 00:09:57,080 --> 00:09:58,760 Speaker 1: I have to look into that. I mean, because his 176 00:09:58,880 --> 00:10:02,640 Speaker 1: statement is so on equivocally from one point of view, 177 00:10:03,120 --> 00:10:07,200 Speaker 1: as opposed to any nuance, I'm suspicious. Well, let me 178 00:10:07,240 --> 00:10:09,920 Speaker 1: go on, as a veteran who deployed the combat eleven times, 179 00:10:09,920 --> 00:10:12,079 Speaker 1: and as a gold star husband who lost my beloved 180 00:10:12,080 --> 00:10:15,040 Speaker 1: wife Shannon in a war manufactured by Israel, I cannot 181 00:10:15,080 --> 00:10:18,400 Speaker 1: support standing sending the next generation off to fight and 182 00:10:18,440 --> 00:10:20,160 Speaker 1: die in a war that serves no benefit to the 183 00:10:20,160 --> 00:10:23,320 Speaker 1: American people nor justifies the cost of American lives. That's 184 00:10:23,400 --> 00:10:27,080 Speaker 1: some pretty strong talk. So what war was he referring 185 00:10:27,120 --> 00:10:32,040 Speaker 1: to that was started by Israel? That he's a veteran 186 00:10:32,080 --> 00:10:35,840 Speaker 1: of the Iraq war, said this started by Israel. I'll 187 00:10:35,840 --> 00:10:37,520 Speaker 1: have to read this in full comment. We'll get to 188 00:10:37,600 --> 00:10:39,719 Speaker 1: this when we come back. This is going to be 189 00:10:39,840 --> 00:10:45,800 Speaker 1: a giant news story today, particularly for the war hat 190 00:10:45,920 --> 00:10:49,280 Speaker 1: and media. This guy also is a good looking guy 191 00:10:49,280 --> 00:10:51,719 Speaker 1: with great hair. He will have his own show on 192 00:10:51,840 --> 00:10:57,480 Speaker 1: MSNBC in prime time by next week. In twenty twenty four, 193 00:10:57,600 --> 00:11:01,520 Speaker 1: APAC ranked roughly seventy fourth among domestic lobbyist spending around 194 00:11:01,559 --> 00:11:04,200 Speaker 1: three point five million dollars. Compare that to the US 195 00:11:04,280 --> 00:11:07,680 Speaker 1: Chamber of Commerce at ninety six million, National Association of 196 00:11:07,720 --> 00:11:12,240 Speaker 1: Realtors at eighty six million, No Wars for Realtors, Big 197 00:11:12,240 --> 00:11:16,120 Speaker 1: Farm at sixty million, or Amazon at fifty million. Out 198 00:11:16,160 --> 00:11:18,920 Speaker 1: of the top one hundred lobbying organizations and Washington, APAK 199 00:11:18,920 --> 00:11:21,199 Speaker 1: accounts for roughly one tenth to one percent of total 200 00:11:21,400 --> 00:11:25,079 Speaker 1: total lobbying spending. Even when election spending is included, it 201 00:11:25,120 --> 00:11:29,080 Speaker 1: represents about half of one percent of political money nationwide. 202 00:11:29,640 --> 00:11:33,079 Speaker 1: That is a good information to have at your fingertips, 203 00:11:33,080 --> 00:11:36,040 Speaker 1: because that is going to be a topic for today 204 00:11:36,080 --> 00:11:38,520 Speaker 1: and maybe several coming days. We'll get more quotes from 205 00:11:38,520 --> 00:11:40,000 Speaker 1: this guy. I think this is going to be a 206 00:11:40,040 --> 00:11:44,520 Speaker 1: big deal. In twenty twenty four ideal in facts, Jack 207 00:11:44,960 --> 00:11:49,400 Speaker 1: Japan spent roughly fifty million, Saudi Arabia, forty four million, China, 208 00:11:49,440 --> 00:11:53,200 Speaker 1: thirty million, South Korea, twenty seven million, cutter nearly nineteen 209 00:11:53,360 --> 00:11:59,360 Speaker 1: million in Israel total about fourteen million. For him to 210 00:11:59,400 --> 00:12:03,640 Speaker 1: say Iran was not an imminent threat is one thing. 211 00:12:03,720 --> 00:12:07,800 Speaker 1: To say that we were pushed in it to buy Israel, 212 00:12:08,200 --> 00:12:10,760 Speaker 1: that Israel, we're dancing to Israel's tune. That's a heck 213 00:12:10,760 --> 00:12:15,120 Speaker 1: of a thing to say. I'd say, wow, it's well, yeah, 214 00:12:15,160 --> 00:12:17,400 Speaker 1: it's unsupportable too, in my opinion. We got a little 215 00:12:17,440 --> 00:12:20,600 Speaker 1: more on that. Various quotes that are floating around from 216 00:12:20,640 --> 00:12:22,600 Speaker 1: this guy. He's going to be the bell of the 217 00:12:22,600 --> 00:12:24,760 Speaker 1: ball for the war hated media. I'll tell you that, 218 00:12:25,280 --> 00:12:27,600 Speaker 1: stay with us. Our text line is four one five 219 00:12:27,679 --> 00:12:35,960 Speaker 1: two nine five KFTC. Who is Joe Kent? Might as 220 00:12:35,960 --> 00:12:37,440 Speaker 1: well tell you since he's going to be in the 221 00:12:37,480 --> 00:12:39,600 Speaker 1: news a lot today. He is the head of the 222 00:12:39,760 --> 00:12:43,880 Speaker 1: Counter Terrorism Center appointed by Donald Trump, forty five year 223 00:12:43,920 --> 00:12:46,640 Speaker 1: old politician who ran for Congress in Washington as an 224 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:52,800 Speaker 1: Ultramaga guy. He served with Tulsi Gabbard, which gives you 225 00:12:52,840 --> 00:12:56,480 Speaker 1: a hint as to some things about his thinking. He 226 00:12:56,640 --> 00:12:59,880 Speaker 1: top advisor to her for some time. He got appointed 227 00:13:00,360 --> 00:13:02,840 Speaker 1: as the head of the counter Terrorism Center by Trump 228 00:13:02,880 --> 00:13:08,520 Speaker 1: when Trump became president, got confirmed by the Congress with 229 00:13:08,679 --> 00:13:12,240 Speaker 1: fifty two votes, and he's been running that thing for 230 00:13:12,240 --> 00:13:15,520 Speaker 1: a while. He's been Trump's top advisor about all counter 231 00:13:15,600 --> 00:13:20,560 Speaker 1: terrorism things. And he has just resigned saying he cannot 232 00:13:20,640 --> 00:13:23,920 Speaker 1: be part of this war anymore. We'll give you the 233 00:13:23,960 --> 00:13:27,880 Speaker 1: actual quote. I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing 234 00:13:27,920 --> 00:13:30,760 Speaker 1: war and Iran. Iran post no imminent threat to our nation, 235 00:13:31,040 --> 00:13:34,520 Speaker 1: and it's clear that we started this war due to 236 00:13:34,640 --> 00:13:40,160 Speaker 1: pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby. That is 237 00:13:40,200 --> 00:13:43,920 Speaker 1: the bomb that. He also blames Israel for the loss 238 00:13:43,960 --> 00:13:47,040 Speaker 1: of his wife in Syria at some point she was 239 00:13:47,120 --> 00:13:50,720 Speaker 1: killed by a suicide bomber. Probably Ran had some hand 240 00:13:50,760 --> 00:13:54,080 Speaker 1: in the bombing equipment or training or making or whatever, 241 00:13:54,120 --> 00:13:56,959 Speaker 1: because they did all of that part of the world. 242 00:13:57,559 --> 00:14:07,199 Speaker 1: This guy is absolutely the perfect person for the hating 243 00:14:07,240 --> 00:14:10,320 Speaker 1: this war media, which is definitely am SNBC and a 244 00:14:10,320 --> 00:14:13,000 Speaker 1: lot of CNN because he's got this. He served in 245 00:14:13,040 --> 00:14:18,080 Speaker 1: the Army for twenty years, eleven combat deployments, leading counter 246 00:14:18,160 --> 00:14:21,800 Speaker 1: terrorism and a regular warfare operations, receiving numerous commendations, including 247 00:14:21,920 --> 00:14:25,360 Speaker 1: six Bronze Stars. Served with the seventy fifth Ranger Regiment, 248 00:14:25,520 --> 00:14:30,760 Speaker 1: Army Special Forces, US Army Special Operations. Served as a 249 00:14:30,760 --> 00:14:34,120 Speaker 1: paramilitary officer in the CIA Special Activity Center. I mean, 250 00:14:34,160 --> 00:14:38,760 Speaker 1: he has got the resume that they want for this 251 00:14:38,840 --> 00:14:44,480 Speaker 1: sort of thing to portray, you know this as a 252 00:14:44,560 --> 00:14:47,320 Speaker 1: you know, us doing Israel's bidding, which they've been hinting 253 00:14:47,360 --> 00:14:49,520 Speaker 1: at and or saying out loud depending on who you're 254 00:14:49,560 --> 00:14:51,920 Speaker 1: talking to on a lot of these cable channels since 255 00:14:51,960 --> 00:14:54,440 Speaker 1: the war started. Now they're really going to say it 256 00:14:54,440 --> 00:14:57,560 Speaker 1: out loud. Yeah, Evidently, according to The New York Times, 257 00:14:57,960 --> 00:15:00,720 Speaker 1: while being a key advisor to Tulsi, he's been a 258 00:15:00,800 --> 00:15:04,920 Speaker 1: voice advocating inside the administration consistently for a more restrained 259 00:15:05,040 --> 00:15:11,400 Speaker 1: foreign policy. He's of that bent. I cannot support sending 260 00:15:11,480 --> 00:15:13,680 Speaker 1: the next generation off to fight and die in a 261 00:15:13,720 --> 00:15:16,160 Speaker 1: war that serves no benefit to the American people nor 262 00:15:16,280 --> 00:15:21,120 Speaker 1: justifies the cost of American lives. I would love to 263 00:15:21,480 --> 00:15:24,040 Speaker 1: talk to him, So what time in what sense is 264 00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:29,600 Speaker 1: removing the or disempowering the regime in Iran not helping 265 00:15:29,640 --> 00:15:32,880 Speaker 1: the American people given their history. Or he might be 266 00:15:32,920 --> 00:15:35,120 Speaker 1: one of the guys who said we just who say 267 00:15:35,160 --> 00:15:36,880 Speaker 1: we got to get out of the Middle East completely, 268 00:15:37,200 --> 00:15:38,840 Speaker 1: Just ignore it, let him kill each other. It has 269 00:15:38,920 --> 00:15:40,720 Speaker 1: nothing to do with us. Doesn't matter that we have 270 00:15:40,760 --> 00:15:44,320 Speaker 1: an ally there in Israel, the tailswagon, the dog. I 271 00:15:44,360 --> 00:15:46,680 Speaker 1: think he would probably say something like that, it wouldn't 272 00:15:46,720 --> 00:15:51,200 Speaker 1: matter if Iran got a nuclear weapon. I know, I'm 273 00:15:51,280 --> 00:15:55,240 Speaker 1: mystified by his arguments. I think they're terrible. With all 274 00:15:55,320 --> 00:15:58,520 Speaker 1: due respect to his service and the sacrifices he's made, 275 00:15:58,520 --> 00:16:01,600 Speaker 1: but you know, the asked you know what's a good 276 00:16:01,640 --> 00:16:08,800 Speaker 1: metaphor the most heroic cop on the streets doesn't necessarily 277 00:16:08,880 --> 00:16:13,960 Speaker 1: know how to run a department or the entire city. Yeah, 278 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:16,680 Speaker 1: mister Kent had been a key advisor to Tulsi Gabbard, 279 00:16:16,760 --> 00:16:19,320 Speaker 1: the Director of National Intelligence, who is a whack job 280 00:16:19,320 --> 00:16:22,440 Speaker 1: in my opinion, and has been a voice advocating inside 281 00:16:22,480 --> 00:16:28,880 Speaker 1: the administration. Okay, what was that video Tulsi put out? 282 00:16:28,920 --> 00:16:34,600 Speaker 1: Remember that videos she put out that basically stating that 283 00:16:34,640 --> 00:16:37,280 Speaker 1: we were the bad guys for using nuclear weapons in 284 00:16:37,320 --> 00:16:40,040 Speaker 1: World War Two right around the anniversary, and then she 285 00:16:40,160 --> 00:16:42,280 Speaker 1: kind of disappeared from the scene. Has she hasn't been 286 00:16:42,320 --> 00:16:45,000 Speaker 1: played really much of a role since she was put 287 00:16:45,080 --> 00:16:47,920 Speaker 1: way at the end of the bench after that, Yeah, 288 00:16:48,320 --> 00:16:53,320 Speaker 1: apologized for America's use of atomic weapons. Yeah. And I'm 289 00:16:53,320 --> 00:16:55,200 Speaker 1: predicting right now this guy, because he looks like a 290 00:16:55,240 --> 00:16:57,480 Speaker 1: TV guy. He's going to have a show on MSNBC, 291 00:16:57,760 --> 00:17:01,920 Speaker 1: have a great life, make lots of money, criticizing everything. 292 00:17:02,480 --> 00:17:04,440 Speaker 1: I wish him well. He's sacrificed a lot for the country. 293 00:17:04,440 --> 00:17:06,600 Speaker 1: He's wrong about this, but I wish him well and 294 00:17:06,720 --> 00:17:10,679 Speaker 1: go broadcast to one hundred thousand people. Haven't any thoughts 295 00:17:10,680 --> 00:17:13,320 Speaker 1: on this story textas more on the ways to hear 296 00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:19,600 Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty. Interesting the timing of this while we 297 00:17:19,640 --> 00:17:21,639 Speaker 1: were on the air, because it started the hour with 298 00:17:21,720 --> 00:17:24,440 Speaker 1: me talking about people I know, the most mag of 299 00:17:24,520 --> 00:17:29,320 Speaker 1: people I know hate this war and think Israel is 300 00:17:29,359 --> 00:17:32,920 Speaker 1: directing everything and pushed us into it. And he got 301 00:17:32,920 --> 00:17:36,119 Speaker 1: the crowd that hates Israel, you know, your left crowd, 302 00:17:36,119 --> 00:17:38,320 Speaker 1: the college campus and all of Hollywood and all that, 303 00:17:39,200 --> 00:17:41,360 Speaker 1: and then so I just it's hard to figure out 304 00:17:41,359 --> 00:17:44,160 Speaker 1: how big these crowds are well then, you know, moments 305 00:17:44,200 --> 00:17:47,040 Speaker 1: after we were talking about that, this guy Joe Kent, 306 00:17:47,080 --> 00:17:49,159 Speaker 1: who I'd never heard of, who's the director of the 307 00:17:49,240 --> 00:17:53,359 Speaker 1: National counter Terrorism Center, he just resigned. He was a 308 00:17:53,359 --> 00:17:57,760 Speaker 1: Trump appointee. He just resigned, saying that Israel forced us 309 00:17:57,800 --> 00:17:59,120 Speaker 1: in the war and I can't be part of it 310 00:17:59,520 --> 00:18:01,680 Speaker 1: more or less is what he said. Just a little 311 00:18:01,680 --> 00:18:04,239 Speaker 1: bit background on this Joe ken. First of all, his 312 00:18:04,320 --> 00:18:08,600 Speaker 1: position on Islam. It was controversial, I guess during his 313 00:18:08,640 --> 00:18:12,680 Speaker 1: confirmation hearing, but I liked. Kent's views on Islamic terrorism 314 00:18:12,720 --> 00:18:16,399 Speaker 1: were controversial. During his Senate confirmation debate, Democratic senators cited 315 00:18:16,440 --> 00:18:20,120 Speaker 1: his past statement that Islam is based on conquest at 316 00:18:20,119 --> 00:18:24,040 Speaker 1: its core. So he has a pretty hard eyed view 317 00:18:24,119 --> 00:18:28,119 Speaker 1: of what Islam is. But he believes Israel is jerking 318 00:18:28,160 --> 00:18:33,920 Speaker 1: us around and forcing us into wars. Also, he believed 319 00:18:34,040 --> 00:18:38,320 Speaker 1: that the January sixth, the people that got arrested around 320 00:18:38,359 --> 00:18:41,720 Speaker 1: January sixth were political prisoners being held by their own government, 321 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:45,320 Speaker 1: that the CIA and FBI was involved in the January 322 00:18:45,320 --> 00:18:47,320 Speaker 1: sixth thing. They created the whole deal. He's one of 323 00:18:47,359 --> 00:18:51,720 Speaker 1: those Oh boy, wow, so he's a Tulsi gabbered tied 324 00:18:51,840 --> 00:18:55,600 Speaker 1: to January sixth, Denier, and you think they're going to 325 00:18:55,640 --> 00:18:58,520 Speaker 1: get all warm and guttly over on MSNBC for this 326 00:18:58,600 --> 00:19:03,280 Speaker 1: guy and the big alphabet networks. They'll probably ignore that. 327 00:19:04,359 --> 00:19:06,359 Speaker 1: It's that whole what do way we call it the 328 00:19:07,200 --> 00:19:10,000 Speaker 1: NATO of grievances or whatever, you know, the overlapping which 329 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:12,160 Speaker 1: one ranks at the top. I think that the fact 330 00:19:12,160 --> 00:19:17,520 Speaker 1: that he is currently mostly known for being against the 331 00:19:17,560 --> 00:19:20,240 Speaker 1: war and Trump and claiming Israel forced us into it. 332 00:19:20,280 --> 00:19:22,840 Speaker 1: I think that that'll be the They'll ignore that other 333 00:19:22,880 --> 00:19:26,200 Speaker 1: stuff for a while, right, But that's just so cute, 334 00:19:26,920 --> 00:19:29,600 Speaker 1: so cute. It's interesting. I was trying to dig into 335 00:19:29,960 --> 00:19:33,479 Speaker 1: more of APAX spending and lobbying and that sort of thing, 336 00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:37,280 Speaker 1: because it's such a such a talking point among anti 337 00:19:37,359 --> 00:19:41,439 Speaker 1: Semites at either end of the horseshoe. And it is 338 00:19:41,680 --> 00:19:45,040 Speaker 1: amazing because there are all sorts of you know, sources 339 00:19:45,080 --> 00:19:49,439 Speaker 1: for information on lobbying, and you've got you know, a cutter, 340 00:19:49,480 --> 00:19:53,639 Speaker 1: for instance, spends hundreds of millions of dollars, hundreds of millions, 341 00:19:53,640 --> 00:19:58,040 Speaker 1: two billions of dollars to US universities and think tanks 342 00:19:58,480 --> 00:20:03,320 Speaker 1: trying to warm up our young people for their thinking 343 00:20:03,480 --> 00:20:06,560 Speaker 1: in their thinking about the Muslim Brotherhood, for instance, and 344 00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:10,600 Speaker 1: cutter itself and blah blah blah. Nobody talks about that, practically, nobody. 345 00:20:11,320 --> 00:20:14,159 Speaker 1: I do a little bit. But but there are all 346 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:21,000 Speaker 1: sorts of pro and con apac sites just absolutely fixated 347 00:20:21,280 --> 00:20:23,359 Speaker 1: on the Jews and how they're spending money and how 348 00:20:23,359 --> 00:20:27,360 Speaker 1: they control everybody. Nothing on this these other people who 349 00:20:27,359 --> 00:20:29,480 Speaker 1: spend you know, one hundreds of millions of dollars. It's 350 00:20:29,520 --> 00:20:35,240 Speaker 1: just interesting. I'd say, I think it's just flaming anti Semitism, honestly. 351 00:20:36,080 --> 00:20:39,840 Speaker 1: But anyway, I don't know. I can't fix humankind. I 352 00:20:39,840 --> 00:20:44,040 Speaker 1: don't like I don't like humans very much. Coming up weird? 353 00:20:44,400 --> 00:20:47,760 Speaker 1: What was that gonna call this? Weird crime? Couple of 354 00:20:48,040 --> 00:20:53,439 Speaker 1: really really odd crimes that have been committed lately. Has 355 00:20:53,480 --> 00:20:56,960 Speaker 1: anybody pinched Michael for not wearing green today? Now? I 356 00:20:56,960 --> 00:20:59,440 Speaker 1: haven't gotten pinched yet. We have so few people now 357 00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:02,520 Speaker 1: there are enough people around to pinch. You have to 358 00:21:02,600 --> 00:21:05,119 Speaker 1: be a human or a crab, Michael. Anybody pinches you 359 00:21:05,160 --> 00:21:08,760 Speaker 1: loosen their teeth, all right. I'm not a fan of 360 00:21:08,800 --> 00:21:10,879 Speaker 1: the tradition of pinching people who don't wear green on 361 00:21:11,200 --> 00:21:15,720 Speaker 1: your day. You're Irish. There's virtually nothing about Saint Patrick's 362 00:21:15,760 --> 00:21:19,199 Speaker 1: Day that I don't find idiotic. I would have to 363 00:21:19,280 --> 00:21:22,880 Speaker 1: think for a while about it to see if there's anything. Ah, 364 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:27,919 Speaker 1: you won't drink green beer and gives me migraines the 365 00:21:27,920 --> 00:21:34,120 Speaker 1: food die, Yeah too. Yeah. Fun. I don't appreciate half 366 00:21:36,040 --> 00:21:41,120 Speaker 1: I don't appreciate Halfwit's present company not accepted. Who take 367 00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:44,919 Speaker 1: takes some obscure Irish holidays an excuse to drink like 368 00:21:44,960 --> 00:21:49,080 Speaker 1: idiots and carry on? Man, I've had some fun Saint 369 00:21:49,080 --> 00:21:54,320 Speaker 1: Patrick's days in my life too. Wow. Great, great, honoring 370 00:21:54,359 --> 00:21:56,760 Speaker 1: the great Saint Patrick who fought the Battle of Battle 371 00:21:56,760 --> 00:21:59,680 Speaker 1: of Bunker Hill and signed a declaration of Independence and 372 00:22:00,080 --> 00:22:04,159 Speaker 1: read the snakes from involuntary servitude or something, invent electricity 373 00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:08,000 Speaker 1: or something. I don't know what that was it. I 374 00:22:08,080 --> 00:22:11,119 Speaker 1: think that's it. Yeah, it was kind of funny. The 375 00:22:12,080 --> 00:22:15,159 Speaker 1: Prime Minister in effect of Ireland was meeting with Trump 376 00:22:16,160 --> 00:22:18,600 Speaker 1: and he's meeting with him again today and presenting, well, 377 00:22:18,600 --> 00:22:20,720 Speaker 1: why don't we just go ahead and play twenty six 378 00:22:20,760 --> 00:22:24,400 Speaker 1: Michael he welcomes the Leader of Ireland to the White 379 00:22:24,400 --> 00:22:27,000 Speaker 1: House to mark Saint Patrick's Day. In addition to a 380 00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:29,840 Speaker 1: special lunch up on Capitol Hill. For Ireland, the President 381 00:22:29,880 --> 00:22:32,639 Speaker 1: will be presented with a bowl of shamrocks. The White 382 00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:34,879 Speaker 1: House going all in on this holiday. We'll see if 383 00:22:34,880 --> 00:22:38,160 Speaker 1: the President brings out his green time. And I could 384 00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:43,679 Speaker 1: read in the Prime Minister the t shock's eyes. You 385 00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:46,119 Speaker 1: people make a way bigger deal of this than we do. 386 00:22:46,600 --> 00:22:48,800 Speaker 1: It's not a thing. It's not a thing in Ireland. 387 00:22:49,240 --> 00:22:52,200 Speaker 1: It's definitely a different thing. But I don't know. It's 388 00:22:52,200 --> 00:22:54,000 Speaker 1: one of those facts I've learned half a dozen times 389 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:56,440 Speaker 1: in my life and forgotten again because it's not interesting 390 00:22:56,560 --> 00:22:59,080 Speaker 1: enough to rotain the definition of holiday. I'm going to 391 00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:04,560 Speaker 1: ask the definition of it depends if you're in the 392 00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:07,359 Speaker 1: US or Britain. It means a vacation. In Britain, the 393 00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:09,920 Speaker 1: term holiday generally refers to a day set aside by 394 00:23:09,920 --> 00:23:12,920 Speaker 1: customer law, on which normal activities such as business or 395 00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:16,000 Speaker 1: work are suspended or reduced. Does that fit for what 396 00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:18,000 Speaker 1: we're doing because I got just referred to it as 397 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:22,160 Speaker 1: a holiday. I don't think Saint Patrick's Day is a holiday. No, 398 00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:25,840 Speaker 1: get definitions a little limited. Anybody could work off for 399 00:23:27,280 --> 00:23:31,600 Speaker 1: Saint Patrick's Day. Okay, Well, and so you tell us 400 00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:33,520 Speaker 1: this every year. And I find this interesting that Columbus 401 00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:36,000 Speaker 1: Day and Saint Patrick's Day both were they were just 402 00:23:37,520 --> 00:23:40,359 Speaker 1: tipping the cap to various groups to get their votes. 403 00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:42,800 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it was purely an effort to get the 404 00:23:42,840 --> 00:23:45,800 Speaker 1: Irish vote, as was Columbus Day. Yeah, to get the 405 00:23:45,840 --> 00:23:49,240 Speaker 1: Italian vote in New York City, and then beyond and 406 00:23:49,280 --> 00:23:53,920 Speaker 1: then long after that's necessary. It lives for some reason. Well, 407 00:23:53,920 --> 00:23:56,199 Speaker 1: because it's in the case of Saint Patrick's is a 408 00:23:56,200 --> 00:23:59,800 Speaker 1: good party. I have never had a Columbus Day party good, bad, 409 00:23:59,880 --> 00:24:04,639 Speaker 1: or different. And then we teach our kids that leprechauns 410 00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:06,359 Speaker 1: come into a house at night and urinate in the 411 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:15,359 Speaker 1: toilet and leave candy. Once again, candy, right, I think, 412 00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:19,600 Speaker 1: never mind a pack. The kid lobby controls a lot 413 00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:23,720 Speaker 1: of what happens. Happens in the candy lobby. Well, yeah, yeah, 414 00:24:23,760 --> 00:24:28,200 Speaker 1: that too, that too. I found this interesting. Somewhat tangential 415 00:24:28,280 --> 00:24:32,560 Speaker 1: to the Big War war with around is frozen commerce 416 00:24:32,560 --> 00:24:34,960 Speaker 1: in the Persian golf boosted oil prices by more than 417 00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:38,680 Speaker 1: fifty percent worldwide, translating almost immediately into a higher gasoline 418 00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:41,760 Speaker 1: costs blah blah blah. And yet in the United States 419 00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:43,960 Speaker 1: the impact is much more muted that it would have 420 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:48,040 Speaker 1: been a few decades ago. That's because we Americans use 421 00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:51,800 Speaker 1: less energy per unit of economic output than we used to. 422 00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:55,440 Speaker 1: In fact, a lot less in economists speak, or less 423 00:24:55,560 --> 00:24:58,920 Speaker 1: energy intensive are intensive for a few reasons. Number one, 424 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:05,440 Speaker 1: our economy now largely depends on services like healthcare, retail, entertainment. 425 00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:08,040 Speaker 1: We found out earlier today, for the first time ever, 426 00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:14,240 Speaker 1: there is more retail space rented out for services like 427 00:25:14,320 --> 00:25:18,919 Speaker 1: gyms and spas than stores that sell stuff in America 428 00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:22,639 Speaker 1: DA DA DA, but they all require less energy than 429 00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:27,160 Speaker 1: manufacturing industries. There are only about twenty one million jobs 430 00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:31,520 Speaker 1: in goods producing sectors, while private services employs one hundred 431 00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:35,040 Speaker 1: and fourteen million, one hundred and fourteen to twenty one 432 00:25:35,280 --> 00:25:38,879 Speaker 1: And we'd become so much more oil efficient energy efficient 433 00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:40,960 Speaker 1: than we used to be in the nineteen seventies. For instance, 434 00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:43,840 Speaker 1: according to the Department of Transportation, the average new light 435 00:25:43,920 --> 00:25:47,639 Speaker 1: duty vehicle gets twenty eight miles per gallon. That's up 436 00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:52,000 Speaker 1: from thirteen miles per gallon in nineteen seventy five. And 437 00:25:52,119 --> 00:25:55,520 Speaker 1: you get your EVS or a factor as well. And 438 00:25:55,600 --> 00:26:01,000 Speaker 1: so long story short, nobody is my memory of it. 439 00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:03,640 Speaker 1: Nobody even knew what your mileage was because nobody cared 440 00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:05,720 Speaker 1: because gas was so cheap. I mean when I first 441 00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:08,160 Speaker 1: started buying gas, and I'm not one hundred years old, 442 00:26:08,320 --> 00:26:10,160 Speaker 1: it was like eighty cents a gallon or something where 443 00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:14,560 Speaker 1: I lived, right, right, Economists Well Wells Fargo estimate that 444 00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:17,480 Speaker 1: has sustained fifty percent rise and oil prices similar to 445 00:26:17,520 --> 00:26:20,240 Speaker 1: the current situation would have had about twice the effect 446 00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:23,160 Speaker 1: in the eighties as it is having today. Don't doubt 447 00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:25,639 Speaker 1: that a bit. Yeah, I just thought that was at 448 00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:28,600 Speaker 1: least mildly interesting. Come on, coming up, weird grind that 449 00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:32,159 Speaker 1: stuff about the service economy, So we don't It's not 450 00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:37,400 Speaker 1: mostly people like shuffling papers around, as people often dismissively say, 451 00:26:37,560 --> 00:26:39,800 Speaker 1: just a lot of people shuffling papers around, not like 452 00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:48,000 Speaker 1: actually making something. Right. Yeah, that good. It depends. Are 453 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:50,520 Speaker 1: we in a war with China? It's not good, right, 454 00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:54,080 Speaker 1: We're not going to defeat them with gym memberships, okay, Well, 455 00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:59,200 Speaker 1: or just our ability to shuffle papers around speaking paper cuts, 456 00:26:59,280 --> 00:27:02,520 Speaker 1: right exactly. Yeah, we just are all a bunch of 457 00:27:02,560 --> 00:27:05,679 Speaker 1: service providers that sell services to each other. In the 458 00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:09,080 Speaker 1: classic economic illustration, you spend a dollar in the bar, 459 00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:11,840 Speaker 1: the bartender goes and pays the barber. H e oh, 460 00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:14,040 Speaker 1: the barber pays the front desk of the hotel, and 461 00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:16,879 Speaker 1: the hotel blah blah blah. I thought this was interesting 462 00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:18,960 Speaker 1: thing that's being made. It's just money being traded. My 463 00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:21,840 Speaker 1: fourteen year old is super in evolution stuff, and I 464 00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:24,080 Speaker 1: think he wants to be like a palaeontologist or something 465 00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:27,560 Speaker 1: somebody that he is talking about. The reason human beings 466 00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:30,600 Speaker 1: are going to die out is because we became specialists. 467 00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:35,400 Speaker 1: The only animals that have survived evolutionary speaking, throughout history 468 00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:38,879 Speaker 1: were a generalists. They could do lots and lots of 469 00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:45,919 Speaker 1: different things. Animals that are specialists don't survive the same way. So, 470 00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:48,440 Speaker 1: and I suppose that's true to a certain extent that 471 00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:50,919 Speaker 1: back in the day, a lot of you know, and 472 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:55,359 Speaker 1: probably mostly men, just because we structured families today, you know, 473 00:27:55,560 --> 00:28:01,239 Speaker 1: could build a house, fix a vehicle, grow crop to 474 00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:04,880 Speaker 1: all kinds of different things, kill a deer field, dress 475 00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:07,879 Speaker 1: it and cook it up. She just kind of had 476 00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:11,399 Speaker 1: to be a general I can survive in the world 477 00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:15,919 Speaker 1: as opposed to I have one particular niche talent for 478 00:28:16,119 --> 00:28:19,280 Speaker 1: shuffling papers around, which you know, I don't know if 479 00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:21,280 Speaker 1: the animal world applies to us or not. But I 480 00:28:21,280 --> 00:28:23,840 Speaker 1: thought that was interesting. It is an interesting point. I mean, 481 00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:26,480 Speaker 1: if there were some sort of apocalypse and we were rendered, 482 00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:30,040 Speaker 1: you know, I had to go back to the land 483 00:28:30,080 --> 00:28:32,320 Speaker 1: as it were, like, there was no choice. What am 484 00:28:32,359 --> 00:28:34,680 Speaker 1: I going to do? Wander around asking if people would 485 00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:36,760 Speaker 1: like a commentary on the news and exchange for a 486 00:28:36,760 --> 00:28:39,000 Speaker 1: crust of bread or something like that. No, it's not 487 00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:45,600 Speaker 1: gonna happen. You want a mildly interesting take on something 488 00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:50,520 Speaker 1: that happened yesterday. I'm fascinating, sir. Have you ever listened 489 00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:53,600 Speaker 1: to this show talking about myself? Bastard? Oh? I see, 490 00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:57,800 Speaker 1: I'm sorry I attacked you. I have your problems. Uh yeah, 491 00:28:57,960 --> 00:29:01,800 Speaker 1: So seriously, the weird crimes thing is worth staying tuned 492 00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:04,840 Speaker 1: for it. It's just absolutely bizarre. I also want to 493 00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:11,240 Speaker 1: get into everywhere around the world. People around the world. 494 00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:14,320 Speaker 1: I missed the Dennis Rodman clips. Those are so good 495 00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:18,440 Speaker 1: people around the world, like everywhere, all sorts of different societies, 496 00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:22,479 Speaker 1: government systems, belief structures. They're all trying to get their 497 00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:28,200 Speaker 1: kids off social media. Everywhere around the world. Yeah, and 498 00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:32,520 Speaker 1: for good reason, you know. Upside. Okay, so we got 499 00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:34,360 Speaker 1: to do yeah, tell me about it. We got that 500 00:29:34,360 --> 00:29:35,520 Speaker 1: and a whole bunch of other stuff on the way. 501 00:29:35,520 --> 00:29:44,160 Speaker 1: Stay here. March Madness kicks off this week and I 502 00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:46,840 Speaker 1: read that one hundred million brackets are expected to be 503 00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:49,480 Speaker 1: filled out. Oh yeah, we actually have an office pool 504 00:29:49,480 --> 00:29:51,080 Speaker 1: here and the stakes are pretty high this year. The 505 00:29:51,120 --> 00:29:57,800 Speaker 1: winner gets one gallon of gas. Gas is expensive. So 506 00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:01,480 Speaker 1: coming up, we got this young lady who gets popular 507 00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:03,840 Speaker 1: on social media for going around asking people questions. She's 508 00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:07,160 Speaker 1: asking a bunch of Democrats which do you find more 509 00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:11,120 Speaker 1: frightening somebody yelling alloa akbar or somebody yelling up with 510 00:30:11,160 --> 00:30:14,520 Speaker 1: Trump basically, And I'm sure you know what the results 511 00:30:14,520 --> 00:30:17,200 Speaker 1: are gonna be, or we wouldn't be playing this. It's stunning, though. 512 00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:23,560 Speaker 1: It's unbelievable. It's unfreaking believable. Wait, we disturbing. It is disturbing. 513 00:30:23,720 --> 00:30:26,400 Speaker 1: People are so stupid. It's not just the political views. 514 00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:29,640 Speaker 1: People are so ignorant. We'll get to that beginning of 515 00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:33,280 Speaker 1: our three. On a lighter note, congratulations to EJ in 516 00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:38,840 Speaker 1: San Diego. It's our funny listener email of the day. Michael, Congratulations. 517 00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:43,440 Speaker 1: I thought it was gonna be the fan fut up 518 00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:48,000 Speaker 1: up and up up. Yah, No, no, not that one. Yes, 519 00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:53,040 Speaker 1: that's a fan fair. Sure. Oh it's ruined anyway, here's Jason, 520 00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:57,640 Speaker 1: He says, damn it. We now have it's about weird 521 00:30:57,680 --> 00:31:02,200 Speaker 1: Beard Junior. Damn it. We have a gay disabled Iranian 522 00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:05,440 Speaker 1: as an anti Trump foil. You know, weird Beard story 523 00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:07,440 Speaker 1: will be made into a musical and win all the 524 00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:14,320 Speaker 1: Oscars next year. A gay disabled victim of Trump. Oh 525 00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:18,080 Speaker 1: that's pretty good. Wow, Wow, that is pretty funny. All right. 526 00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:24,360 Speaker 1: Weird crime. Uh Chinese national has been apprehended at Nairobi's 527 00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:28,640 Speaker 1: main airport after being found with more than twenty two 528 00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:36,680 Speaker 1: hundred anybody can guess more than twenty two hundred of 529 00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:42,640 Speaker 1: something in his luggage some sort of reptile, an insect 530 00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:47,040 Speaker 1: mad Oh katie, wait a minute, twenty two hundred live 531 00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:54,360 Speaker 1: garden ants in his luggage on the twenty seven year old. Yes, oh, 532 00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:57,360 Speaker 1: I have transported question. I transported bed bugs once, but 533 00:31:57,400 --> 00:32:00,600 Speaker 1: it wasn't on purpose. Oh my god, we said overnighted 534 00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:03,320 Speaker 1: at the Oakland Airport hotel right next to it. I 535 00:32:03,320 --> 00:32:05,280 Speaker 1: think it's been closed because of all of the junkies 536 00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:07,640 Speaker 1: in crime now, but because we had a super easy 537 00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:09,640 Speaker 1: flight with the kids and we left a pizza box 538 00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:12,320 Speaker 1: in the room, and when we woke up it was 539 00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:16,760 Speaker 1: the ant apocalypse. It was nightmare inducing, horrifying. Anyway, This 540 00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:20,120 Speaker 1: twenty seven year old Chinese national arrested at the Kenney Airport, 541 00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:25,440 Speaker 1: highlighting a growing trend of insects smuggling in Kenya. The 542 00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:29,160 Speaker 1: illicit trade caters to enthusiasts who pay significant sums to 543 00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:34,560 Speaker 1: cultivate ant colonies in specialized transparent enclosures known as four macariams. 544 00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:38,760 Speaker 1: Blah blah blah. So like ant farm like we had 545 00:32:38,760 --> 00:32:43,200 Speaker 1: as kids. Exactly, Yeah, big elaborate ones that are hot 546 00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:45,640 Speaker 1: in Asia. I guess. Investigators set a search of the 547 00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:48,200 Speaker 1: gentleman's luggage, recovered twenty two hundred and thirty eight ants 548 00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:52,240 Speaker 1: who was in church and counting them. Can I investigate 549 00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:58,040 Speaker 1: a murder or something? How do you count that many ants? Ah? Crap, 550 00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:02,120 Speaker 1: thank you boss, true, count of twice to make sure 551 00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:05,880 Speaker 1: it's accurate, and test tubes and the rest in three 552 00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:09,680 Speaker 1: rolls of soft tissue papers, et cetera. One more weird 553 00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:13,440 Speaker 1: crime for you, this one. This is something else. Headline 554 00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:17,040 Speaker 1: is closed. That's stupid, head, Get off of my screen. Head. 555 00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:22,920 Speaker 1: Priest of Episcopal Church in Pittsburgh accused of stealing baseball 556 00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:28,320 Speaker 1: cards from Walmart. Headline number one. Evidently they still sell 557 00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:30,720 Speaker 1: baseball cards in stores. I didn't know that, my son 558 00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:34,000 Speaker 1: said to him. The head priest and dean of Trinity 559 00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:37,600 Speaker 1: Episcopal Cathedral in downtown Pittsburgh is facing charges after being 560 00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:40,360 Speaker 1: accused of stealing more than one thousand dollars in baseball 561 00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:46,000 Speaker 1: cards from Walmart. The very Reverend Aiden Smith arrested just 562 00:33:46,080 --> 00:33:49,240 Speaker 1: after leaving the store outside Pittsburgh with twenty seven packs 563 00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:51,640 Speaker 1: of baseball cards concealed under his clothing and in a 564 00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:55,920 Speaker 1: cardboard box. According to court records, Police responded to a 565 00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:59,440 Speaker 1: call from Walmart's security who told him, Hey, this guy 566 00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:03,440 Speaker 1: comes in steals baseball cards, and he's here again, and 567 00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:05,760 Speaker 1: we think he's gonna steal some more. And they watched him. 568 00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:08,040 Speaker 1: Sure enough, security video shows he went right back to 569 00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:11,440 Speaker 1: the baseball card display. It's almost sole a bunch. That's 570 00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:13,520 Speaker 1: almost got to be one of those you're stealing for 571 00:34:13,560 --> 00:34:16,320 Speaker 1: the thrill of it, as opposed to the you couldn't 572 00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:23,200 Speaker 1: afford it, right, I can't. I have no idea, but 573 00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:27,120 Speaker 1: it's always baseball cards with this guy. Is he some 574 00:34:27,160 --> 00:34:29,680 Speaker 1: sort of arrested development case and he's trapped in his 575 00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:32,480 Speaker 1: eleven year old consciousness or something. I knew somebody once 576 00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:33,920 Speaker 1: who told me a sorry, and I'd known them for 577 00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:35,680 Speaker 1: a long time, and wrote that they went through a 578 00:34:35,719 --> 00:34:37,520 Speaker 1: period when they were in their twenties where they stole 579 00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:40,200 Speaker 1: stuff for the thrill of it. I've never had that. 580 00:34:41,040 --> 00:34:43,560 Speaker 1: I wouldn't get an enjoyable thrill out of it, but 581 00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:46,880 Speaker 1: that's what motivated them. No, they didn't need they get 582 00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:49,160 Speaker 1: steal stuff they didn't need or could easily afford it. 583 00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:52,240 Speaker 1: Just it was the thrill. I get it. It's the 584 00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:55,560 Speaker 1: same reason you ride your motorcycle fast or people mountain 585 00:34:55,640 --> 00:34:58,839 Speaker 1: bike or whatever you want to feel on the edge, 586 00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:04,600 Speaker 1: maybe a mountain bike instead of stealing. Right, And there's 587 00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:07,200 Speaker 1: not really a victim on those other examples you have 588 00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:09,960 Speaker 1: are getting ants smuggling. At least at the end of 589 00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:12,840 Speaker 1: the day, somebody's got a lovely ant colony. Okay, So 590 00:35:12,920 --> 00:35:15,160 Speaker 1: they ask some and it's a lot of like college 591 00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:18,719 Speaker 1: girls too. They ask him what's scary radical Muslims or 592 00:35:18,719 --> 00:35:21,520 Speaker 1: Trump supporters basically is what they ask him, and just 593 00:35:21,560 --> 00:35:23,560 Speaker 1: their answers, Oh my god, to kick off our three 594 00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:25,360 Speaker 1: if you don't get it, Get the podcast Armstrong and 595 00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:29,440 Speaker 1: Getty on demand Armstrong and Getty