Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Jack Katie and now he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3: The two positions are still pretty far apart. Actually, the
Speaker 3: Ukrainians have essentially signed on to a thirty day ceasefire
Speaker 3: without any preconditions, whereas the Russians are saying they want
Speaker 3: all the root causes, as they put it, that caused
Speaker 3: the conflict with Ukraine to be sorted out before the
Speaker 3: weapons are silenced. Now, one of the things that the
Speaker 3: Krelin scoffed at was the idea of any sort of
Speaker 3: Western peacekeepers on the ground in Ukraine to sort out
Speaker 3: the fact and enforce any sort of cease fire, saying
Speaker 3: that would create new root causes, as they put it.
Speaker 2: As CNN's version of the.
Speaker 4: Preview of the Trump Putin call, which is going on
Speaker 4: as we speak right now, a bit of a messaging. Well,
Speaker 4: let me hear what Peter Doocey says here from Fox
Speaker 4: on the same story.
Speaker 5: White House officials are disputing a report by Semaphore that
Speaker 5: to seal a peace deal, President Trump could recognize CRIMEA
Speaker 5: as Russian territory, and as E spokesman Brian Hughes tells Fox,
Speaker 5: we have made no such commitments and we will not
Speaker 5: negotiate this deal through the media. However, President Trump is
Speaker 5: openly speculating about Ukrainian concessions.
Speaker 2: Well, I think we'll we'll be talking about land.
Speaker 6: We're already talking about that, dividing up certain assets.
Speaker 4: Well, it's interesting that Fox positioned it that way, since
Speaker 4: I read Ian Bremmer's tweet earlier, where Crimea is gone
Speaker 4: and everybody knows it.
Speaker 2: Even Zolensky knows that.
Speaker 4: So positioning it as the White House pushing back on
Speaker 4: stories that Trump might give up CRIMEA, Well, okay, Zelensky
Speaker 4: knows he's going to give up CRIMEA. So don't act
Speaker 4: like it's a big giveaway if Trump is on that.
Speaker 1: All I can come up with is Trump is dangling
Speaker 1: it as he is. Something he knows Putin must have.
Speaker 1: Now it's just a question of terms of lad Let's
Speaker 1: talk about how you get I'm fine with you get
Speaker 1: in crime here, here's.
Speaker 2: What it'll cost you.
Speaker 4: Okay, that makes sense. There was a messaging problem yesterday,
Speaker 4: as the White House spokesman, who I haven't memorized her name.
Speaker 1: Yet Caroline Levett. Okay, a forceful young gal, isn't she.
Speaker 4: She said, we're on the ten yard line of a
Speaker 4: piece deal between Ukraine and Russia.
Speaker 2: And then Marco.
Speaker 4: Rubio, the secret of State, was asked about that and
Speaker 4: he said, we're not even close to a piece deal,
Speaker 4: so not on the same page. Whoops, ten yard line
Speaker 4: and not even closer, not the same thing. And which
Speaker 4: the other headline? We're on the other ten yard line
Speaker 4: where yeah, we just received the kickoff and we were
Speaker 4: starting in our own tan, fumble.
Speaker 2: It and had to go backward to pick it up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, somebody needs to specify which ten yard line? And here,
Speaker 1: at least in her defense, Caroline Levitt is able to
Speaker 1: speak the English language, unlike her predecessor.
Speaker 4: And here's Trump talking about the phone call and what
Speaker 4: they're trying to accomplish.
Speaker 6: We're speaking with President Putin of Russia to save some
Speaker 6: soldiers who are in deep trouble. They're captured, essentially, they're
Speaker 6: surrounded by Russian soldiers. But it's a bad situation in Russia,
Speaker 6: and it's a bad situation in Ukraine.
Speaker 2: What's happening in Ukraine is not.
Speaker 6: Good but we're going to see if we can work
Speaker 6: to a peace agreement, to ceasefire and peace, and I
Speaker 6: think we'll be able to do.
Speaker 2: Your response to that, good luck.
Speaker 4: If I'm putin, unless I have unless there's some internal
Speaker 4: information where he's really struggling, and some people say that
Speaker 4: the economy certainly is, he's lost a lot of soldiers.
Speaker 4: But other than that, I'm thinking I'm winning. I'm taking
Speaker 4: back land. The United States is pressuring them, not me.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna keep going.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I could see Putin saying why are we having
Speaker 1: a ceasefire? I'm gaining ground every day and I've got
Speaker 1: plenty of North Korean machine gun fodder waiting to be
Speaker 1: fed into the battle. The only thing I can come
Speaker 1: up with, back to your what sort of pressure is
Speaker 1: he on? Under point is how much heat is he
Speaker 1: getting from the oligarchs who are seeing their wealth and
Speaker 1: their financial slash commercial connections around the world being shut off?
Speaker 2: And right, I don't know that it's mysterious.
Speaker 4: And is with any dictator, he has to worry about
Speaker 4: the support of other powerful people who might at some
Speaker 4: point decide to put a bullet in the back of
Speaker 4: his head and have a different.
Speaker 2: Person in charge. Right, that's always on the table when
Speaker 2: you're a dictator. Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: Your network of support is pretty small, so more easily turned.
Speaker 1: On the other hand, it's tough to get a coup
Speaker 1: going against the dictator, as everybody knows.
Speaker 4: Anyway, brought you up to speed on that. We'll see
Speaker 4: if any information leaks out from the phone call today.
Speaker 1: I think it's impossible to make a prediction about how
Speaker 1: it might come out. Oh really is no Speaking of
Speaker 1: military action, this one a lot more easily understood. Donald
Speaker 1: Jay has brought a completely new attitude toward dealing with
Speaker 1: the Hohothies who have been firing with near impunity on
Speaker 1: commercial and naval vessels, including ours now for months.
Speaker 2: And months and months and months and months, and.
Speaker 1: Watching the process of dealing with them under the weakest,
Speaker 1: most pathetic senile US president history, Joe Biden. You'd have
Speaker 1: thought that, well, there's nothing you could do. I mean,
Speaker 1: they're just a medicine blah blah blah. Well Trump has said, no, no,
Speaker 1: they're not much. As you know, the Biden administration said
Speaker 1: the border is secure, as hundreds of thousands of people
Speaker 1: were flowing in every month, and then it just stopped
Speaker 1: under Trump. Trump is whooping the hell out of the
Speaker 1: Hoothies and has promised them and their sponsors in Iran
Speaker 1: that it's going to continue until they are subdued, unless
Speaker 1: they subdue themselves willingly. And that's going to be interesting
Speaker 1: to see unfold, said Marco Rubio. Willie essentially echoed what
Speaker 1: Trump was saying, and he said that the strike should
Speaker 1: be seen as the opening salvos of a sustained campaign.
Speaker 2: Quote.
Speaker 1: Some of the people involved in those missile launches are
Speaker 1: no longer with us, and I can tell you that
Speaker 1: some of the facilities that they used are no longer existing,
Speaker 1: and that will continue. Instead of the idiotic Biden policy
Speaker 1: of all right, missile launcher A launched a missile. It
Speaker 1: almost hit our ship. We will take out missile launcher A.
Speaker 1: Trump and Ruby are saying, no, how about we take
Speaker 1: out all of your missile launchers.
Speaker 2: Now, what are you going to do? Yeah? And the
Speaker 2: interesting thing is on the two.
Speaker 4: Aggressive social media posts that Trump has put out in
Speaker 4: the recent days, he starts talking about the Houthis, then
Speaker 4: turns it to Iran a couple days ago. Then last
Speaker 4: night he starts talking about Hamas and then turns it
Speaker 4: toward to Iran. So on the Huthi one, he talks
Speaker 4: about Houthis, you can't do this anymore overwhelming lethal force.
Speaker 4: But then he says, then he addressed the militants in Iran.
Speaker 4: Support for Huthi terrorists must end immediately, warning the government
Speaker 4: in Tehran that America will hold you fully accountable and
Speaker 4: we won't be.
Speaker 2: Nice about it. So he went from Huthi's to Iran,
Speaker 2: and then he did it again last night, every shot fired,
Speaker 2: blah blah blah blah blah, talking about uh Hamas and
Speaker 2: the Houthis, and then he gets to Iran again. Let
Speaker 2: me find this, got it right in front of me, right,
Speaker 2: at least I thought I did.
Speaker 4: Every shot fired by the Houthis will be looked upon
Speaker 4: from this point ford as being a shot fired from
Speaker 4: the weapons and leadership of Iran, and Iran will be
Speaker 4: held responsible and suffer the consequences, and those consequences will
Speaker 4: be dire. So it's all in the opposite way that
Speaker 4: the Biden administration wanted to handle it, as you've been
Speaker 4: playing out. They wanted to separate Iran and make it
Speaker 4: just seem like a moss and hoothise and we're you
Speaker 4: know how pinpricks here and there on those people.
Speaker 2: We don't want to war with you. Iran.
Speaker 4: Trump's going the other way, saying we'll go to war
Speaker 4: with you if this doesn't stop.
Speaker 1: At one point Biden himself admitted that the strikes had
Speaker 1: not deterred the Houthies, but said.
Speaker 2: We'll continue the same policy.
Speaker 1: Nonetheless, they didn't want to escalate, and some people believe
Speaker 1: that hits on the Houthies would inflame regional tensions and
Speaker 1: boost their recruitment.
Speaker 2: And then the.
Speaker 1: Second claim or the second argument against Trump right now is,
Speaker 1: and I'm quoting what the Walston the National Review called
Speaker 1: the vulgar Marxian analysis provided by Glenn Greenwald, quote, the
Speaker 1: strikes are only a means by which the DC war
Speaker 1: machine and ensures that its coffers are always full and
Speaker 1: its own authority is always increasing. And these so cult
Speaker 1: restrainers and the Trump's pentagon might agree with this this critique. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: global shipping has been held hostage by a bunch of scumbags,
Speaker 1: driving up costs and inflation and doubling shipping costs for
Speaker 1: all sorts of goods around the world. And Glenn, what
Speaker 1: are we supposed to do, send him a greeting card
Speaker 1: and an apology and maybe some flowers.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: It's going to be interesting to watch how the politics
Speaker 4: of this plays out, because Israel is the best friend
Speaker 4: Trump is the best friend Israel they've ever had in
Speaker 4: a US president so far, and he's, you know, hey, Israel,
Speaker 4: do what you got to do, which could lead to
Speaker 4: confrontation with Iran obviously. And then we mentioned what Tucker
Speaker 4: Carlson tweeted out yesterday that don't let the propagandists lie
Speaker 4: to you. A bombing campaign will bring us into war
Speaker 4: with Iran, thousands of dead US soldiers, billions of dollars loss.
Speaker 4: So Tucker is really against getting into it with a
Speaker 4: Iran and that's I think Trump pays a.
Speaker 2: Fair amount of attention to the Tucker crowd. So I
Speaker 2: don't know how.
Speaker 4: I don't know how all those pieces are going to
Speaker 4: fit together as this plays out.
Speaker 1: I wonder does he pay attention to them as in
Speaker 1: is aware of them and wants to keep them at
Speaker 1: least on his side politically, or is he like swayed
Speaker 1: by them, really, I don't know. I don't know either.
Speaker 1: If you know, let us know mail bagging, armstrung he eddio.
Speaker 1: You don't know, so don't let him. Nobody knows.
Speaker 4: This will be the most interesting presidency in US history
Speaker 4: in terms of the history books, because nobody knows except
Speaker 4: for Donald Trump's brain, because it's not like he's writing
Speaker 4: this stuff down or you know, reading policy papers or whatever.
Speaker 1: On a completely different note, in consumer news, countries that
Speaker 1: had decided to go cash free have said, whoops, not
Speaker 1: a good idea.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: And you got a guy eating a rat on the
Speaker 1: street in the Bronx getting a fair amount of attention.
Speaker 1: You watch commitedio uber news and that he's consuming a rat.
Speaker 2: You watch the video. I want a full team coverage
Speaker 2: of that boy. Do you carry cash around? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 2: some What do you think to write him out to
Speaker 2: have for cash? Oh? It depends entirely on your financial state.
Speaker 2: I don't know, does it. How often do you run
Speaker 2: into a situation where you need cash? Not often?
Speaker 1: If I need to get out of a restaurant in
Speaker 1: a hurry, for instance, you know, just saving that whole
Speaker 1: credit card thing.
Speaker 2: Leaving cash.
Speaker 1: Plus, I'd like to leave cash tips because then, you know,
Speaker 1: let's keep the government out of.
Speaker 2: The tipping process. Okay, decline what you want to. I
Speaker 2: don't do that. I kind of wish I did, but
Speaker 2: I'm not organized enough for that, I guess.
Speaker 1: Yes, Michael, I was raised to carry one hundred dollars
Speaker 1: if you can for an emergency.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well that that certainly was true to time. But
Speaker 4: long as I have my watch on, I got all
Speaker 4: the money I need. I pay for everything else.
Speaker 1: Fancy pants have to watch that you you can pay
Speaker 1: with It sounded like you were going to pawn your watch.
Speaker 2: It's not very fancy pants. Yes, Katie, I have to
Speaker 2: tell you.
Speaker 7: Since you told me that you can pay with your watch,
Speaker 7: I have never looked back.
Speaker 2: Oh I know.
Speaker 7: Oh that is the That is the easiest thing on
Speaker 7: the planet.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I pay for my restaurant meals or whatever.
Speaker 7: They just gas station store everything anything with the tap option.
Speaker 2: The gas station.
Speaker 4: It's the best because you don't have to press the
Speaker 4: million mess you don't have to press the million buttons. Yeah,
Speaker 4: huh interesting. Anyway, we got reports on all that on
Speaker 4: the way.
Speaker 2: Stay here some more business news.
Speaker 6: Hasbro said that they're trying to get teenagers and adults
Speaker 6: to buy more of their toys.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's cool to do optimist prime transforms into a.
Speaker 2: Vaight pen trying to get in on the legos.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's the first thing I thought they figured out
Speaker 4: why Lego is making easy money off of in cell
Speaker 4: thirty year old dudes spending way too much money on
Speaker 4: freaking legos as an adult, and they're trying to get
Speaker 4: in on that.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think there are any childhood toys that
Speaker 1: I would like at this point in my life.
Speaker 2: But I'm not a.
Speaker 1: Thirty year old in cell either, So speaking of consumer news,
Speaker 1: I found this interesting and sobering and sickening. So it
Speaker 1: wasn't long ago that in Sweden, and there are a
Speaker 1: couple of other countries name check in the name checked
Speaker 1: in this article I'm looking at. But in twenty eighteen,
Speaker 1: non official in Sweden predicted that by twenty twenty five
Speaker 1: the country would be cashless probably and that is to
Speaker 1: a large extent true. Just one in ten purchases in
Speaker 1: Sweden are made with cash, and a credit card's most
Speaker 1: common form of payment. But now the Swedish and Norwegian governments,
Speaker 1: which have the lowest amount of cash in circulation as
Speaker 1: a percent of GDP in the world, are saying to
Speaker 1: their peeps. Hey, y'all, remember that cash free thing. How
Speaker 1: about your stockpile some cash because the world is so
Speaker 1: vulnerable to cyber attacks wow from Russia and China.
Speaker 2: Wow. And if that hits your credit card is just
Speaker 2: just a piece of plastic. Wow.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I could. I could at various times if the
Speaker 4: electronics went down. Maybe not, I be scraping together nickels
Speaker 4: and quarters from you know whatever that side pocket is
Speaker 4: in your car door to come up with any cash.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, And you know it's it's practically inevitable. And
Speaker 1: I don't mean to freak anybody out. I'm freaked out
Speaker 1: by this myself, but there will come a day and
Speaker 1: it could last for a week or a month or
Speaker 1: a year when the the poop hits the fan and
Speaker 1: we're at you know, damn near a hot war with China,
Speaker 1: and it's volleys of cyber attacks going on back and forth,
Speaker 1: and our entire banking system is paralyzed for x amount
Speaker 1: of time, a couple of days easily, or like one
Speaker 1: or two megabanks have all of their hard drives erased
Speaker 1: or something.
Speaker 2: I hope that's not possible. I guarantee you it is, so.
Speaker 2: I wonder how much cash. Okay, now I'm back on
Speaker 2: your side, Michael.
Speaker 4: I wonder how much cash a pushing should have not
Speaker 4: in their pocket, but somewhere in their house case the hits.
Speaker 2: The f right. Yeah, I don't, I don't know. I mean,
Speaker 2: just be able to put gas in your car and uh.
Speaker 4: Of course I don't know. That'll probably shut down too. Okay,
Speaker 4: now I'm becoming a full prepper. The tanks will be
Speaker 4: shut down. I can't get gas, so I need to
Speaker 4: have big vats of gas in my garage and cash
Speaker 4: and a bit of a fire hazard there. But you know,
Speaker 4: you probably a lot. I hogged the slaughter. You're gonna
Speaker 4: get tired of pork. Ought to have a cow as well? Yeah, wow,
Speaker 4: holy cash?
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 2: I just I feel like as a country, we.
Speaker 1: Like have the hope diamond in our living room, and
Speaker 1: all we have is a screen door. In terms of security,
Speaker 1: we have a huge obvious target for those who would
Speaker 1: do us wrong or extort us into doing what they want,
Speaker 1: and the security feels a little screen doorsh to me. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I just thought that was interesting and good reminder of
Speaker 1: how fragile it all is.
Speaker 2: You know what, Yes, a person should probably have you know,
Speaker 2: five hundred bucks and twenties somewhere in their house. It's
Speaker 2: not a bad idea.
Speaker 1: Apple has put off its AI advances and stock has suffered.
Speaker 1: Maybe we could talk about that a little bit later on.
Speaker 1: Didn't get to the guy eating a rat on the
Speaker 1: street of the Bronx. On the streets to the Bronx.
Speaker 1: Well it's one street. I'm back to one street street
Speaker 1: of the Bronx. Yes, Oh, it's a little tough to take.
Speaker 1: I don't encourage you to watch the video.
Speaker 2: Does it have greater significance than other than the video
Speaker 2: went viral?
Speaker 1: Of course it does. Yeah, it's a symbol of our
Speaker 1: modern world.
Speaker 2: Okay, stay with us, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 8: Forever twenty one is going out of business. The fashion
Speaker 8: company filed for bankruptcy for a second time Sunday. For
Speaker 8: every twenty one stores will still remain open for now,
Speaker 8: but the company says it's starting a quote orderly wind
Speaker 8: down and will have liquidation sales.
Speaker 2: I'm I'm a capitalist, and I just find it fascinating
Speaker 2: how brands can become you know, stores, whatever, you know,
Speaker 2: a brand of any kind, it can become hot and
Speaker 2: popular and successful and make money and then go away
Speaker 2: over time for they just do. It's just part of
Speaker 2: the whole thing. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Part of it is that China now is flooding the
Speaker 1: US with these super cheap, quickly man manufactured, fast fashions
Speaker 1: Shine and Tamu as a Tamo or TEAMO, I don't
Speaker 1: actually care. And I wonder whether the on shoring of
Speaker 1: manufacturing that Trump and JD. Vans are working on, which
Speaker 1: we'll be talking about more at length tomorrow, are going
Speaker 1: to bear some fruit in that direction.
Speaker 2: Interesting to see.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I don't ever quite understand when big companies
Speaker 4: go bankrupt what it actually means, because I saw an
Speaker 4: open red lobster the other day. My son and I
Speaker 4: were going to a different restaurant, but there was an
Speaker 4: open red lobster. Which isn't how many times they've gone bankrupt.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, obviously you can sell off assets or your
Speaker 1: creditors get them, or they think, yeah, you can turn
Speaker 1: this around. We'll give you a little more money, to
Speaker 1: variety of outcomes. But speaking of the world, well, we'll
Speaker 1: get to the world of business in a second. But
Speaker 1: I thought this was interesting, and this gets no attention
Speaker 1: unless you dig into you know, whether our show or
Speaker 1: other alternative more conservative leaning media. But Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy,
Speaker 1: who is a very serious guy and I think is
Speaker 1: going to do a hell of a good job, announced
Speaker 1: he would launch a full investigation in allegations that a
Speaker 1: DEI activist offered air traffic candidates the chance to cheat
Speaker 1: on an entry exam at the FAA. If it's true,
Speaker 1: swift accountability, you will come for these those responsible. We
Speaker 1: need the best and brightest, not buzzword DEI hires, d
Speaker 1: Duffy wrote. He announced his in career after a top
Speaker 1: DEI activist was reportedly caught on voicemail offering minority air
Speaker 1: traffic controller candidates the opportunity to cheat on an entry exam.
Speaker 2: Wow, if that's true, that is outrageous.
Speaker 1: I would say, can you think of anything more horrifying,
Speaker 1: meal like cheating on brain surgery exams in the name
Speaker 1: of DEI or something like that.
Speaker 2: But let's see.
Speaker 1: Shelton Snow, an influential figure at the National Black Coalition
Speaker 1: of Federal Aviation Employees, left a voicemail that said, quote allegedly,
Speaker 1: there are some valuable pieces of information that I have
Speaker 1: taken a screenshot of and I'm going to send you
Speaker 1: that via email. I am about ninety nine point nine
Speaker 1: to nine percent sure that this is exactly how you
Speaker 1: need to answer each question.
Speaker 4: Well, if you believe in the concept of disparate impact,
Speaker 4: which I don't, but the Supreme Court does that.
Speaker 2: If you don't have.
Speaker 4: Equal results of gender and race in the makeup of anything,
Speaker 4: then by definition your hiring standards are racist or sexist,
Speaker 4: or your tests are racist or sexist, then.
Speaker 2: You gotta do this, don't you. I mean, how else
Speaker 2: are you going to get the right result you want.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a perverse and wrong philosophy, but yeah, people
Speaker 1: believe that that's it.
Speaker 2: You know, it's funny.
Speaker 1: There's another article about DEI that I wanted to get
Speaker 1: to at one point, but it makes the same mistake
Speaker 1: that all of them make. They think DEI is actually
Speaker 1: about diversity, and it's not.
Speaker 2: At its truth.
Speaker 1: Real activists believe in the whole critical theory.
Speaker 2: It's a racist country.
Speaker 1: The only difference between the achievement of you know, group
Speaker 1: X and group Y is racism, and therefore anything we
Speaker 1: do to change those results or be racist against the
Speaker 1: other people is justified. Nice, well meaning people think no,
Speaker 1: they just want to make sure that for instance, a
Speaker 1: black person gets an opportunity to get a job. No,
Speaker 1: that's not what DEI is. Well it masquerades is that.
Speaker 4: I didn't read this article on the Wall Street Journal today,
Speaker 4: but I saw the headline very one I was referencing.
Speaker 2: Okay, go ahead, it is what the basics the headline is.
Speaker 4: It went all in on DEI and now no one
Speaker 4: at Morgan Stanley is.
Speaker 1: Happy, right, yeah, yeah, everybody's miserable and angry at each
Speaker 1: other and they're like, wow, this didn't help with diversity
Speaker 1: and inclusion and this didn't accomplish its goals.
Speaker 2: Well, that's because those aren't the goals.
Speaker 4: This is like the studies have shown that when you
Speaker 4: do sexual harassment training at work, it leads to.
Speaker 2: More sexual harassment. Yeah.
Speaker 1: To me, it's just brainstorming. Anyway, this story is beyond
Speaker 1: the pale. Here is this woman, Lydia Mogombe, age forty nine,
Speaker 1: who is the United Nations judge whatever that is on
Speaker 1: the UN International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals or.
Speaker 2: Ier MA, And she was also.
Speaker 1: A fellow at Columbia University Institute for the Study of
Speaker 1: Human Rights, whose fellows work to quote address some aspect
Speaker 1: of the history of gross human rights violations in their society, country,
Speaker 1: and or region. In twenty seventeen, this woman is one
Speaker 1: of the leading lights in human rights at Columbia University
Speaker 1: and the un Well. She was convicted a couple of
Speaker 1: days ago of slavery.
Speaker 2: Wowing not woke. Slaves is not woke?
Speaker 1: Yes, she I believe was living yet in London or
Speaker 1: in the UK at the time. She was convicted of
Speaker 1: trafficking a young woman to the United Kingdom and forcing
Speaker 1: her to work as a slave. Wow, exploited and abused
Speaker 1: the victim, prosecutor said, forcing her to work as an
Speaker 1: unpaid maid and caregiver while barring her from seeking other
Speaker 1: employee employment. A jury found Mugambe guilty of multiple offenses,
Speaker 1: including facilitating legal immigration, forced labor, and witness intimidation.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's our moral overlord. What's going on there? Is
Speaker 2: the person completely nuts that they convinced themselves that this
Speaker 2: is different somehow? What is what is that?
Speaker 1: I think she argued, just judging from some of the
Speaker 1: statements made by her and her defense, that hey, look,
Speaker 1: this is an incredible opportunity for this gal. I brought
Speaker 1: her to the UK here habit a slave is really handy.
Speaker 1: On top of that, you know what the justification boils
Speaker 1: down to is indentured servitude. Look, I paid for her
Speaker 1: to get over here. I feed and clothe her, give
Speaker 1: her a place to stay. She owes me five years
Speaker 1: of service, and we know she can't go find a
Speaker 1: better job. She's my permanent employee, whether she likes it
Speaker 1: or not. The term slave is so judgmental. I treat
Speaker 1: her really nice. She just can't go anywhere. Do anything
Speaker 1: I say is not okay. For several years, I'll beat her. Yes, anyway,
Speaker 1: let's see moving along, just a little bingo bango bongo,
Speaker 1: as we say, moving from story to story.
Speaker 2: Worth you knowing about?
Speaker 1: Really interesting analysis by Charles Lane about MAHA versus the
Speaker 1: junk food lobby, the make America Healthy again folks versus
Speaker 1: junk food and the most interesting part of that, God,
Speaker 1: I gotta believe the junk food lobby has got a
Speaker 1: lot of money.
Speaker 2: Oh oh my gosh. Yeah, we're gonna get to that
Speaker 2: in a second.
Speaker 1: But obesity and its evil twin, diabetes are absolutely killing
Speaker 1: American health.
Speaker 2: Everybody knows that. And both of those.
Speaker 1: Ailments disproportionately afflict the poor, quoting mister Lane. Now, yet
Speaker 1: for years, the federal government has been paying force. The
Speaker 1: federal government has been paying Charles mm. Taxpayers have been
Speaker 1: paying for soda, cookies, candy, and other nutritionally empty, obesity
Speaker 1: engendering foods bya its main source of anti hunger aid
Speaker 1: for low income people, the SNAP Program Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
Speaker 1: Program previously known as food stamps. And anybody who tries
Speaker 1: to limit or ban the use of SNAP benefits for
Speaker 1: junk food gets hammered with accusations of being a racist
Speaker 1: if it happens to be people of color, or let's
Speaker 1: see what's the other this shame's the poor or violates
Speaker 1: their freedom of choice, according to quote unquote activists. Well,
Speaker 1: what's interesting about some of these activists is.
Speaker 2: Who they are. There's a lot of money in play.
Speaker 1: Based on the best available data, roughly one fifth one
Speaker 1: fifth now of the ninety four billion dollars that SNAP
Speaker 1: beneficiary spent in last year, or about nineteen billion dollars,
Speaker 1: went towards sugary drinks, snack foods, and candy.
Speaker 2: That's incredible.
Speaker 1: Now, a quarter of that nineteen billion dollars was spent
Speaker 1: at Walmart based on a study of snap beneficiary shopping patterns.
Speaker 1: Defenders of the status quot would have you believe that
Speaker 1: banning candy again shames the poor.
Speaker 2: Blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: This is just another way to cut benefits, said Gina
Speaker 1: Plato Nino Nino, deputy director of the DC nonprofit Food
Speaker 1: Research and Action set her. It's like, how do we
Speaker 1: restrict people more? How do we stigmatize them even more?
Speaker 1: Listener bravely standing up for the right of poor people
Speaker 1: to get obesity and diabetes on the tax period of time. Well,
Speaker 1: the Food Research and Action Center that she works for,
Speaker 1: the nonprofit, the chair Doubles is the chief food lobbyist
Speaker 1: for Craft Times.
Speaker 2: Oh wow.
Speaker 1: Its funders include Walmart General Mills Kellogg. During the Biden administration,
Speaker 1: the Department of Agriculture funded Frack two. And that's the activist.
Speaker 1: We can't restrict these people. In twenty twenty three, it
Speaker 1: received a two million dollar grant to conduct and support research.
Speaker 2: Blah blah blah.
Speaker 4: Obviously that's a lot of conflicts of interest, right, Oh
Speaker 4: my goodness. Yeah, and staff already bars them using the
Speaker 4: money on alcohol or restaurant meals or even prepared meals
Speaker 4: from grocery store food bars. So you can't get like
Speaker 4: the fried chicken there at the deli or a prepared meal,
Speaker 4: but you can buy candy and a coke, right, And
Speaker 4: we've always heard from people who say that it's quite
Speaker 4: easy to get around these things.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So if you hear somebody saying the stigmatizes the poor,
Speaker 1: it's unfair.
Speaker 2: It eliminates the freedom of choice.
Speaker 1: That's somebody profiting mightily from their obesity. Interesting. So quick
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Speaker 2: So are you surprised? No word yet out of the
Speaker 2: Putin Trump phone call of any kind.
Speaker 1: No, I think they're both gonna just keep their cards
Speaker 1: close to the vest. Or do you say chest because
Speaker 1: these are delicate negotiations.
Speaker 2: Do you think we'll hear much today at all? You
Speaker 2: think it'll okay? We had a very good phone call,
Speaker 2: very constructive topics.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I think it'll be very vague, vague and
Speaker 1: positive sounding. Wow, Trump will say again we've got to
Speaker 1: stop the killing. Will he put any pressure, actual pressure
Speaker 1: on Poot.
Speaker 2: That's what I wonder. I wonder this now.
Speaker 1: Jd Vance is super steeped in history, and I think
Speaker 1: he knows, But I wonder if Trump is aware that
Speaker 1: Vladimir Putin really doesn't care how many guys he gets killed.
Speaker 1: That's the history of Russian warfare. They will young men
Speaker 1: are born to be killed in warfare in the Russian tradition.
Speaker 1: That's rough so appealing to Putin. We've got to stop
Speaker 1: the killing. Putin's like, I don't care.
Speaker 4: So one of the hottest viral videos out there, it's
Speaker 4: kind of gross.
Speaker 2: I didn't want to watch it.
Speaker 4: Joe watched it, so we'll get full team coverage on
Speaker 4: a viral video.
Speaker 2: Is that what we are now?
Speaker 1: You don't have the courage to watch the important videos
Speaker 1: in the news today, Jack, guys eating a rat?
Speaker 2: You need to face out to it. These are rat
Speaker 2: eating times. Huh. So we got that and other stuff
Speaker 2: all the.
Speaker 1: Way, Ladies and gentlemen, we take you to the streets
Speaker 1: of the Bronx.
Speaker 2: This is unbelievably Nah, I gotta get out the wall.
Speaker 2: I want to see this rat watching a man eat
Speaker 2: a rat.
Speaker 1: Sushi style uncooked. I know you're wondering. Let's just get
Speaker 1: right to it. It is the call of the wild.
Speaker 1: It is white fang on the streets of the bronx.
Speaker 1: It's a guy killing and uh boy, I want to
Speaker 1: say it.
Speaker 2: Is this a homless stud or a drug addict sort
Speaker 2: of person?
Speaker 1: I doubt he's real gainfully employed. He's a street broker.
Speaker 1: He has the look of a street person, no doubt.
Speaker 1: He's wearing crocs for one thing. So he's down and out.
Speaker 1: How does he catch a lot? He catches a live
Speaker 1: rat or a dead rat. That's not how he procured
Speaker 1: the rat. He could have gotten it from the rat store. Jack.
Speaker 2: I don't know. It's unclear. It's not easy to catch
Speaker 2: a rat unless you're practiced at the art. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Indeed, this woman came onto the scene at the point
Speaker 1: that the fellow was preparing his meal.
Speaker 4: He was already barrated, and then she says, what is
Speaker 4: he going to do? Let's see what he does with
Speaker 4: this thing, and then.
Speaker 2: He eats it. Yeah, he begins, yes, Yes.
Speaker 1: The New York Department of Health has cautioned residents against
Speaker 1: eating raw rats. Oh don't do or don't don't heed rats, Okay,
Speaker 1: thank you, because they can carry a variety of illnesses,
Speaker 1: including trichinosis, don't you know, and and grossiteria.
Speaker 2: I mean it's disgusting. So did he maybe, but like
Speaker 2: it had the feet and the tail, the head, the
Speaker 2: oh that's not it was a rat. It was a rat.
Speaker 4: Yes, so yes, so he didn't prepare it. He didn't
Speaker 4: get his missing claws in place. And and then, uh,
Speaker 4: I don't even know what that is filled dress. That
Speaker 4: would be getting your your all year different to your
Speaker 4: little bowls with all your spices, and get your knights.
Speaker 4: It's it's getting everything ready to cook.
Speaker 2: Jack, Yeah, exactly what what are you thinking of for
Speaker 2: a garnish? There? Friend? Uh? Yeah, not not clear at
Speaker 2: all the comments online. Naturally thinking about an old button
Speaker 2: that had to be a good garnish. Maybe maybe a
Speaker 2: battery I found on the sidewalk, double a battery.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking a nice toshed spinach shallow with me a
Speaker 1: little uh, strawberry and walnut to balance the rattiness.
Speaker 2: In the main dish. And then maybe the sock I
Speaker 2: found some saut potatoes a little fiddle. Right, So you
Speaker 2: you watched the video?
Speaker 6: Is it?
Speaker 2: It's pretty gross.
Speaker 1: It's it's distant enough that it's not as horrible as
Speaker 1: you might guess, but it's.
Speaker 2: Did you watch the whole thing? No?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 2: Oh, do you want me to you want me to
Speaker 2: go for it? This is a news program.
Speaker 7: We need to He's holding the rat up and he
Speaker 7: spreads the stomach apart, and he sticks his face into it.
Speaker 2: And when he pulls the rat away.
Speaker 1: From his face, there is a string of all right,
Speaker 1: all right, people are driving off the road all over
Speaker 1: America right now.
Speaker 2: This was a bad idea Katie news program. This is
Speaker 2: going into your permanent file. I asked for it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: my favorite, my my favorite comment online was new Pandemic
Speaker 2: in three two. Right, holy cow.
Speaker 1: Now in most mainstream media, he will be described as
Speaker 1: a homeless man, right because homeless because of high housing prices,
Speaker 1: equity one medical bill.
Speaker 2: And systemic racism and uh rent prices.
Speaker 1: It's not at all that he's a transient drug addict, obviously,
Speaker 1: and so out of his mind on trank or god
Speaker 1: knows what else he's.
Speaker 4: Well, you are out of your mind because it's in
Speaker 4: New York and like a lot of blue cities, there
Speaker 4: are so many flip and food programs.
Speaker 2: You're not going to starve well or dumpster dive for
Speaker 2: the love of heaven, yeah you yeah.
Speaker 4: And then on the street, as far as we know,
Speaker 4: I mean, because that's what we do. We just leave
Speaker 4: people like it because you're not not our business to
Speaker 4: tell them how to live their lives.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's weird.
Speaker 1: It's progressives that will let people die and eat rats
Speaker 1: on the sidewalk instead of saying, all right, this guy's
Speaker 1: out of his mind.
Speaker 2: He's eating a rat.
Speaker 1: He's obviously mentally ill, let's help him. Oh no, No,
Speaker 1: that's when progressives are in favor of liberty. When your
Speaker 1: kids want to go to school during COVID, no, not
Speaker 1: so much.
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