Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Ketty Armstrong and Jetty,
Speaker 1: and he Armstrong and Jetty.
Speaker 2: He was a fantastic person. He was a man who
Speaker 2: are you going to watch? It's going to be a
Speaker 2: very big thing with him. He's going to be appreciated
Speaker 2: more now than he was when he was living.
Speaker 3: I think Donald Trump called into a whole bunch of
Speaker 3: different news shows yesterday when his friend Lindsey Graham died
Speaker 3: over the weekend and he got the news and then
Speaker 3: telling everybody about it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, as we were discussing earlier the narrative from stupid
Speaker 1: people for stupid people that Lindsey Graham, who originally opposed Trump,
Speaker 1: later cowtowed to him and he became a sickle fan
Speaker 1: and he's a hypocrite again, stupid analysis for stupid people.
Speaker 1: How about this? Lindsey Graham thought his goals from America
Speaker 1: and what he thought was best were so sacred to
Speaker 1: him that he would work with whoever he needed to
Speaker 1: to make them happen because he lived for those goals.
Speaker 1: He was a highly principled guy. The last thing he
Speaker 1: was was unprincipled, he's practical.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he ran against Trump originally, if you don't remember,
Speaker 3: because he thought Trump he didn't like Trump's foreign policy
Speaker 3: at all, and he was really worried about Trump getting
Speaker 3: the nomination and where that would take the country because
Speaker 3: Trump was running against all these wars. Like Lindsey, Graham
Speaker 3: was more of a hawk than me on wanting, for instance,
Speaker 3: Iraq and Afghanistan to go on forever, it seems, but
Speaker 3: I agreed with him on being a hawk about Iran
Speaker 3: and Ukraine. But he was worried that everything could get
Speaker 3: out of hand, and like you said, so when he realized, Okay,
Speaker 3: I guess the country's going Trump's direction, or at least
Speaker 3: the Republican Party is, I need to still be a
Speaker 3: voice for the things that I want. So I got
Speaker 3: to figure out a way to do that.
Speaker 1: And I actually saw this phrase used in one tribute
Speaker 1: to him. My mom's family was from South Carolina, and
Speaker 1: I was a small child when my grandmother first said
Speaker 1: to me, or it could have been my mom quoting
Speaker 1: my grandmother, that you draw more flies with honey than vinegar.
Speaker 1: And of course that's not about drawing flies. What do
Speaker 1: you want to want to draw. Who wants flies around them?
Speaker 1: I've always wanted flies in the kitchen. There are few flies,
Speaker 1: but not enough exactly. It's a non expression, yet it
Speaker 1: has endured, so let's let's use it.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: And Lindsey Graham, also of the great state of South Carolina,
Speaker 1: believe that, Look, if you want to get stuff done,
Speaker 1: you don't do it being an ass. You do it
Speaker 1: by reaching out to people and seeing how you can
Speaker 1: work with them. So again, that whole he was a hypocrite, narrative, evil,
Speaker 1: stupid people. Forget it, it's dumb. Anyway, I was.
Speaker 3: Happy to see with the respect that he was shown
Speaker 3: by all your mainstream media over the weekend. They presented
Speaker 3: him in a very good light on your Faces the Nation,
Speaker 3: your meets the Press, your ABC's this week, which I.
Speaker 1: Was happy to see that we still do that. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And Lindsay in particular, was a real fan of working
Speaker 1: across the aisle, even during these days. He and Senator Blumenthal,
Speaker 1: about whom I have said very harsh things, and he
Speaker 1: deserves them. They're working together on a new Russian sanctions
Speaker 1: bill that actually had teeth. They've been trying to get
Speaker 1: Trump to support it for ages. And it was finally
Speaker 1: looking like it might work. And it still might work.
Speaker 1: But yeah, he was working across the aisle till his
Speaker 1: last day.
Speaker 3: I've got a good, controversial hot take from Mark Halpern
Speaker 3: on the role of Lindsay Graham's death in the war
Speaker 3: in Ukraine.
Speaker 1: Counterintuitive. They don't like to enjoy a good counterintuitive. So
Speaker 1: we have some of Lindsay's greatest hits assembly for you.
Speaker 1: He was very, very funny, very eloquent, sincere. You know,
Speaker 1: let's let's start with something quick in jazzy Michael sixty five.
Speaker 4: Mister Zuckerberg, you and the companies before us. I know
Speaker 4: you don't mean it to be so, but you have
Speaker 4: blood on your hands. You have a product, you have
Speaker 4: a product that's killing people.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was good. I tell you what, why don't
Speaker 1: we just do we start the show with a show stopper, Jack.
Speaker 1: It's his steroid to Heaven, it's his greatest hits, his hit,
Speaker 1: greatest hit, Lindsey Graham. During the Judge Kavanaugh hearings, just
Speaker 1: to reset it in case your memories are fuzzy. At
Speaker 1: the last moment, the Democrats brought forth this blasy Ford
Speaker 1: woman who claimed that in high school many decades ago,
Speaker 1: that Judge Kavanaugh was part of a group of boys
Speaker 1: who molested her on one level or another at a
Speaker 1: high school party where people had been drinking, and the
Speaker 1: memory her memories were incredibly vague and a lot of
Speaker 1: the facts didn't fit.
Speaker 3: It was the opposite of the woman that came forward
Speaker 3: against Platner last week, where there was zero contemporary at
Speaker 3: the time corroborated evidence.
Speaker 1: Her friends were like, I never heard that, right, right,
Speaker 1: there's just nothing to corroborate it. And notably because Lindsey
Speaker 1: makes a reference to this, the Democrats didn't say, hey,
Speaker 1: this needs to be fully investigated. They just brought it
Speaker 1: up at the last minute to assassinate his character. Judge Kavanaugh,
Speaker 1: you may recall, and I would love to hear this again.
Speaker 1: He finally had had enough and abandoned his I'm gonna
Speaker 1: sit here quietly with a smile on my face in
Speaker 1: a dignified way and take this because this is horrific.
Speaker 1: It made the borking of a judge Borick look tame.
Speaker 1: He blasted him, He said it was disgusting and it
Speaker 1: was wrong, and the rest of it, and then the
Speaker 1: narrative became Kavian awe as he's hot headed. He doesn't
Speaker 1: have the temperament to be on the court. Well, they
Speaker 1: came back from a break and Lindsey Graham had had
Speaker 1: enough sixty Michael, did.
Speaker 4: You know that her staff had already recommended a lawyer
Speaker 4: to dodnor Ford.
Speaker 1: I did not know that. Did you know that her.
Speaker 4: And her staff had this allegations for over twenty days?
Speaker 1: I did not know that at the time.
Speaker 4: If you wanted an FBI investigation, you could have come
Speaker 4: to us. What you want to do is destroy this
Speaker 4: guy's life. Hold this seat open, and hope you went
Speaker 4: in twenty twenty. You've said that, not me. You've got
Speaker 4: nothing to apologize for. When you see Soda Maron Kagan,
Speaker 4: tell him that Lindsay said, oh, because I voted for them,
Speaker 4: I would never do to them what you've done to
Speaker 4: this guy.
Speaker 1: This is the most unethl.
Speaker 4: Sham since I've been in politics. And if you really
Speaker 4: wanted to know the truth, you sure as hell wouldn't
Speaker 4: have done what you've done to this guy. Are you
Speaker 4: a gang rapist?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 4: I cannot imagine what you and your family have gone through. Boy,
Speaker 4: y'all want power.
Speaker 1: God, I hope you never get it.
Speaker 4: I hope the American people can see through this sham
Speaker 4: that you knew.
Speaker 1: About it and you held it.
Speaker 4: You had no intention of protecting doctor Ford none. She's
Speaker 4: as much of a victim as you are.
Speaker 1: God.
Speaker 4: I hate to say it because these have been my friends,
Speaker 4: but let me tell you when it comes to this,
Speaker 4: you're looking for a fair process. You came to the
Speaker 4: wrong town at the wrong time.
Speaker 3: My friend, and a lot of the Sunday shows credited
Speaker 3: that speech from Lindsay Graham for rescuing Slash saving Kevin
Speaker 3: Oughn's nomination.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Possibly, there's a lot of grand standing in the
Speaker 1: halls of Congress and the Senate these days. It's fairly
Speaker 1: rare that you hear somebody who is obviously completely sincere
Speaker 1: that was great, That was so ugly.
Speaker 3: He never he never wavered on his whole hawkishness in
Speaker 3: terms of think in the United States needed to, you know,
Speaker 3: stand up to bullies around the world.
Speaker 1: That was man. That was a through line for him, always,
Speaker 1: even when it was very unpopular. I think that probably
Speaker 1: is partly because of his life story, that he was
Speaker 1: very much not the upper crust of society. In fact,
Speaker 1: he's still in the His net worth when he passed
Speaker 1: was like one point five million dollars. They had him.
Speaker 3: I got the article in front of me, the poorest
Speaker 3: member of Congress in terms of net worth.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's right. Oh okay, this article is wrong, man. Yeah, yeah, anyway,
Speaker 1: we can look into that. But he definitely is in
Speaker 1: the bottom half of everybody in the Congress. But he
Speaker 1: you know, he's the son of a not very well
Speaker 1: to do a liquor store owner, and his parents passed
Speaker 1: away when he was a teenager, and he adopted his
Speaker 1: sister and raised her and took care of her. He's
Speaker 1: never displayed much interest in getting rich. He just cares
Speaker 1: about American foreign policy and the judiciary and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: He's also very very funny. And the context of the
Speaker 1: next clip sixty one, he's talking to the Republican Jewish
Speaker 1: Coalition about the rise of anti Semitism. And this was
Speaker 1: a while back, but note the tone. But I just
Speaker 1: want to make it really clear.
Speaker 4: I'm in the Hitler sucks wing of the Revolgan Party.
Speaker 1: What is this Hitler?
Speaker 4: I don't know. Anyway, Here's what I do know. You
Speaker 4: can sit in a basement with weird people and say
Speaker 4: weird things.
Speaker 1: That's a free country, right.
Speaker 4: But if you ever run for office as a Republican
Speaker 4: and you embrace this, where we're going to beat your
Speaker 4: brains out.
Speaker 3: Reading from this transcript with Al Franken, a former Senator
Speaker 3: from Minnesota who was a member of Saturday Night Live
Speaker 3: wrote for Senator. To Night Live, reporters said, would your
Speaker 3: colleagues in the Senate tell you jokes? Al Franken said, yes,
Speaker 3: is that annoying? Is really annoying for a couple of them.
Speaker 3: Is there anyone who's actually funny?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: The funniest Senator is Lindsey Graham. Really disappointing, isn't it.
Speaker 3: Al Franken said, that's surprising. He's very funny. Al Franken said,
Speaker 3: what's an example? I thought this was actually pretty good.
Speaker 3: When he was running for president in twenty sixteen, I
Speaker 3: was next to him in the see men's room and said,
Speaker 3: if I was the Republican, I'd vote for you, and
Speaker 3: without hesitation, Lindsay Graham said that's my problem, which is true.
Speaker 1: Wow wow, Yeah, I'm anxious to hear. Well, do you
Speaker 1: have more of the Lindsay stuff you'd like to hear?
Speaker 1: I mean, here's an example of his hawkishness in sixty two.
Speaker 1: For sure.
Speaker 4: Here's what I tell President Trump. Keep it up for
Speaker 4: a few more weeks. Take carg Island, where all of
Speaker 4: the resources they have to British oil control that island.
Speaker 1: Let this regime down a vine. The result could be
Speaker 1: a grinding war of attrition. They talk about how far
Speaker 1: away they would be from recent.
Speaker 4: Sort of tired of all this armchair quarterback. And this
Speaker 4: has been amazing military operation, God bless the fallen.
Speaker 1: But it's a difference. Let me talk about troops on the.
Speaker 4: I trust the Marines, not that guy. I trust DoD
Speaker 4: We got two marine expeditionary units selling to this island.
Speaker 4: We did a Ojima.
Speaker 3: We can do this, and that might be what we're
Speaker 3: going to do, which we'll talk about a little bit later.
Speaker 3: I really think it's an interesting conversation, and it's not
Speaker 3: everybody's personality that could do this around switching gears, befriending
Speaker 3: enemies or whatever. Because you want to stay in office
Speaker 3: to accomplish the things you want to accomplish, versus people
Speaker 3: who do that who just want to stay in office
Speaker 3: because they like being in office.
Speaker 1: Because there's plenty of that. Yeah, I think maybe it's
Speaker 1: as simple as you look at somebody and say, are
Speaker 1: they clearly purpose driven?
Speaker 3: Well, for instance, I kept hearing over the weekend Lindsey
Speaker 3: Graham found a way to always be relevant no matter
Speaker 3: you know, where the party went. So he came in
Speaker 3: in the big wave in ninety four with a whole
Speaker 3: bunch of rebels that were all about throwing Newt Gingrich
Speaker 3: out of office and a new kind of Republican party
Speaker 3: in fighting the establishment. Next thing, you know, his best
Speaker 3: friend is John McCain, who couldn't have been more of
Speaker 3: the establishment than we all know the Trump story. He
Speaker 3: ran against Trump, he ends up being Trump's closest friend,
Speaker 3: all that sort of stuff. But he all he stayed
Speaker 3: in relevant so that he could be a hawk on
Speaker 3: foreign policy all the way through, where as opposed to
Speaker 3: Joe Biden, who also always found a way to be
Speaker 3: relevant for all those years. But I have no idea
Speaker 3: what Joe Biden cared about, no idea. I don't think
Speaker 3: he cared about anything but holding onto power, enriching the
Speaker 3: Biden family. Yeah, he had so many one hundred and
Speaker 3: eighty degree reverses, not on who he was working with
Speaker 3: or whatever, but on some fundamental policies. Anyway, I wonder
Speaker 3: what you think about that text line four one five
Speaker 3: two nine five KFTC want to mention this new dating
Speaker 3: app trend among you people.
Speaker 1: That's new, young people. That's kind of funny. Among other
Speaker 1: things on the way.
Speaker 5: Arm Trump, a judge ruled that United Airlines must face
Speaker 5: a lawsuit for selling window seats that didn't have windows.
Speaker 5: And while Joy Behar's neighbors are suing her because her
Speaker 5: home does.
Speaker 1: Wow, he will ever forget. He will shoehorn in a
Speaker 1: Joy Bay reference, no matter how unlikely. Yes, yeah, I
Speaker 1: hope you didn't pay for the Connor McGregor fight on
Speaker 1: Saturday night. It lasted about thirty five seconds. Classic. The
Speaker 1: mind is wooling but the body is not. He's thirty
Speaker 1: eight years old and tried to kick a guy in
Speaker 1: the head. Like the first second he tried to do
Speaker 1: one of his big giant kicks, and then he just
Speaker 1: kept falling down and limping around, and he tapped out
Speaker 1: like in less than a minute.
Speaker 3: Just he hurt himself getting surgery today. I just read
Speaker 3: age is a thing, man, It really is. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 3: sure he thought that.
Speaker 1: If Sean used to say time is undefeated. I'm sure
Speaker 1: he thought, I've done this ten thousand times. Why can't
Speaker 1: I kick like that anymore? Well, because your body is
Speaker 1: not the same as it was when you were twenty
Speaker 1: two and doing that. Wow, anyway, you weren't here my Uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: we got this text. Hey Jack, who's that guy in
Speaker 1: the air with you? He sounds vaguely familiar Joe Getty.
Speaker 1: He's been in the radio industry for many years. My
Speaker 1: son saw Conni bercgregor walking down the street in Vegas.
Speaker 1: I was already in bed. My son was out and
Speaker 1: about and he saw because he was training for the
Speaker 1: fight that was in Vegas over the weekend. And Connor
Speaker 1: McGregor just walking down the street in Vegas does that.
Speaker 1: He walks just like he does on TV, kind of
Speaker 1: his arms sticking out, swaggering. That's his actual walk.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you swagger as much when you
Speaker 3: lost in twenty five seconds to a guy. So there's
Speaker 3: a new dating app on UC campuses. There's some Bay
Speaker 3: Area company AI companies trying to get going. Kind of
Speaker 3: an interesting idea, uh founded a couple of years ago.
Speaker 3: It just started to take off now Instead of scrolling
Speaker 3: through profiles, you complete a survey that allows the platforms
Speaker 3: AI to determine matches. New pairings are generated every Wednesday,
Speaker 3: giving match students a chance to choose a time that
Speaker 3: works for them both and according to their own data,
Speaker 3: which is probably fudged, it has arranged more than twelve
Speaker 3: thousand dates, with ninety two percent of the matched participants
Speaker 3: saying they wanted to go on a second date, which
Speaker 3: would be very high.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I read about that when it was just getting going.
Speaker 1: It's intriguing. There was some skepticism about it too, But
Speaker 1: if that percentage is anywhere near clear that truly that's
Speaker 1: pretty good. Yeah, I don't know if I will have. Yeah,
Speaker 1: for the past twenty years, we've connected in primitive ways,
Speaker 1: what based completely on looks.
Speaker 3: Yes, that's fairly primitive. But now AI brings your profiles
Speaker 3: to life as agents. Can human beings get past the
Speaker 3: choosing just based on looks and start doing the whole
Speaker 3: AI thing and letting AI choose a mate for them.
Speaker 1: We'll see. Yeah, there's a lot I guess in the
Speaker 1: question here about the things you'd like to do, your hobbies,
Speaker 1: your interests, your attitudes, and this is not. The skepticism
Speaker 1: I ran into is that that's never really been the
Speaker 1: way we've chose was in May. No, it's not. It's
Speaker 1: a mysterious prodiject, you know, product of genetics and sensing
Speaker 1: things in each other. It's probably pheromones involved. I mean,
Speaker 1: my wife and I have a couple of things in common, right,
Speaker 1: but we best friends.
Speaker 3: We should talk about that more later, because that's one
Speaker 3: of the things I noticed my brief period of online dating.
Speaker 1: We will talk about that later.
Speaker 3: We got other stuff to get to those stay here.
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty. Twenty five year old Sam Farber tried
Speaker 1: to break a Gettess world record for the fastest ten
Speaker 1: meter walk while holding up alum between his knees, but
Speaker 1: the current record is three point nine one seconds. Barber
Speaker 1: did beat the record, coming in three point five seconds.
Speaker 1: I feel like somebody in this building could probably get
Speaker 1: get run tonight.
Speaker 3: Michelangelo's take was the Guinness Book of World Records needs
Speaker 3: to go away.
Speaker 1: I think you're right, right, that's just it's idiotic. Look,
Speaker 1: you get one hundred records, you pick them, Yeah, but
Speaker 1: just one hundred ten meter balloon walking. He ain't gonna
Speaker 1: make the grade. I'm guessing.
Speaker 3: So Joel, as you know, is on vacation two weeks.
Speaker 3: I mentioned in a million times celebrating's anniversary. Who's in Alaska?
Speaker 3: He was actually that guy that got flipped by the
Speaker 3: bithon if.
Speaker 1: You've seen the video. Yeah, yeah, the swelling's starting to
Speaker 1: go down. Thank god. He's okay, Thank good. Oh here's
Speaker 1: the number everybody wants to know. Three three solid pounds
Speaker 1: I gained, but only three. It's not bad. It's not terrible. No,
Speaker 1: it's not as Oh. Boy. When I got on the
Speaker 1: scale this morning, I was thinking, all right, look, brace yourself,
Speaker 1: take it like a man, do what needs to be done.
Speaker 1: It'll be okay. E. I wasn't happy about it, but
Speaker 1: it's fun. Might even be a little encouraging, Like you
Speaker 1: can you can live a pretty out there lifestyle and
Speaker 1: ain't gonna do much damage. Boy, I hadn't thought of
Speaker 1: it like that. Yeah, it was just this food was
Speaker 1: so good. So for those who don't know what times
Speaker 1: do you live, that's a really good point. As a
Speaker 1: non Buddhist A yeah, yeah. So my college sweetheart and
Speaker 1: I have been married for forty years, and so we
Speaker 1: celebrated our anniversary with a cruise. Due to the nature
Speaker 1: of this job, Jack and I don't take long breaks much.
Speaker 1: It's not like I've risen up in the insurance world
Speaker 1: and I can have Jim cover my big accounts and
Speaker 1: let me know if something big happens and then go
Speaker 1: on a safari for three weeks. It's just not the
Speaker 1: nature of what we do. So we haven't traveled nearly
Speaker 1: as much as Judy would have liked to. So for
Speaker 1: our fortieth anniversary, I'm more or less declared that, not
Speaker 1: that there was a problem with it, but look, we're
Speaker 1: taking a two week cruise. We're gone, so good luck, goodbye,
Speaker 1: see us suckers. And we went off to Alaska, which
Speaker 1: is every bit as amazing as you have heard. The
Speaker 1: landscape wise, just every time you open your eyes you say,
Speaker 1: oh my god. I still call it Seward's folly. You know,
Speaker 1: I was thinking about that because, oh, I went to
Speaker 1: so many really interesting history lectures on the on the ship,
Speaker 1: or went to museums and that sort of stuff, and
Speaker 1: the swords folly thing, it just it reminded me of
Speaker 1: modern politics. Oh, the other side did it, So let's
Speaker 1: call it stupid. Yeah, it's now widely recognized as the
Speaker 1: best real estate purchase in the history of humans. Now, no,
Speaker 1: of course it was swords of those Republicans are stupid anyway,
Speaker 1: It's unbelievably beautiful, great, plus a buffer against the Soviet
Speaker 1: Union in Russia, which is important. Oh yeah, and you know,
Speaker 1: as lovely as whale oil was back in the day.
Speaker 1: All of oh god, the history of whaling so gross,
Speaker 1: so terrible. We had no idea the mineral resources that
Speaker 1: were in Alaska when it was bought. I mean, it
Speaker 1: was a good idea that at the time it turned
Speaker 1: out to be an unbelievably good idea. But the one
Speaker 1: thing you get the takeaway from Alaska is how vast
Speaker 1: it is, because we did really the southeastern Alasta, Alaska coast,
Speaker 1: and if you look at a map, Alaska is this
Speaker 1: in enormous land mass. And then you say, oh, look
Speaker 1: at that. It kind of we took some of the
Speaker 1: coasts that looks like it ought to be Canada. But
Speaker 1: that's part of Alaska. Huh. Well, that little like appendix,
Speaker 1: that little vestigial tale of Alaska is an enormous wilderness.
Speaker 1: It's huge. The big part of Alaska you can't even
Speaker 1: comprehend how big it is. It's three times the size
Speaker 1: of Texas roughly roughly, wow, three times as big as Texas. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: And it's just it's so beautiful and so rich in
Speaker 1: resources and animals and you name it. And like we
Speaker 1: were in Sword, Alaska at one point. Oh and that
Speaker 1: was I mentioned this Friday. I was on the last
Speaker 1: half hour of the show showing what a trooper. I
Speaker 1: am exhausted from an all night flight, but we did
Speaker 1: a super cool I guess that was a kayak tour
Speaker 1: that we did. And the guide pointed out he said,
Speaker 1: all right, you see those mountains. He said, we've got
Speaker 1: fourteen miles a road in this town. Essentially, he said,
Speaker 1: anything passed right there is complete wilderness. There are no trails,
Speaker 1: there are no roads, there are no cabins, there's nothing.
Speaker 1: It's just wilderness. And that continues for roughly eight hundred
Speaker 1: miles in that direction. He said, I mean, it's just
Speaker 1: all unbelievable. It's you and the bears out there. So anyway,
Speaker 1: it's just it's miraculously beautiful. A lot of these little
Speaker 1: towns really only exist now because of tourism.
Speaker 3: I'm sure there ain't no whaling there ain't no gold rush.
Speaker 1: All the horrors have left, the the bordellos that they
Speaker 1: like to talk about because it's cute and people giggle.
Speaker 1: Nothing cuter than the bordello. I've always said.
Speaker 3: Nothing core cuter than a woman desperate enough to sell
Speaker 3: her body for money.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that is old for the old timey desperation. Yeah, yep, yep, yep.
Speaker 1: The gold rush stuff super interesting though. Oh the number
Speaker 1: of suckers who headed up into the frozen tundra and
Speaker 1: ended up freezing to death and had to haul gear
Speaker 1: up mountains full of snow, and then none of them
Speaker 1: got gold. And I was reminded of the old saying, man,
Speaker 1: if there's a if there's a gold rusher and anything rush,
Speaker 1: don't go for what the you harvest the miners not
Speaker 1: with gold, right right, yes, don't, like Levi Strauss figured out,
Speaker 1: don't go for the gold, sell them jeans. So anyway,
Speaker 1: but the history of it is super interesting, and it
Speaker 1: reminded me of a time when you know, people in
Speaker 1: general and Americans would just toss aside everything and go
Speaker 1: off on an unbelievable adventure in a search for success
Speaker 1: and some material comfort. So it was really cool and
Speaker 1: I ate a lot and drank like a fish.
Speaker 3: So when that bison flipped you in the air, yeah,
Speaker 3: were you think, well, let's back up. When you were
Speaker 3: running around the trees, yeah, and the bison was chasing
Speaker 3: you know what, were you thinking?
Speaker 1: So far, so good? You know, he's big, but he's
Speaker 1: a little clumsy. I've got a good leader. No, and
Speaker 1: then you know he went right through the tree as
Speaker 1: over tea, the sky, the ground, this guy the ground,
Speaker 1: and thought this is gonna end. This is gonna end badly.
Speaker 3: I think my thought would have been, Uh, when I land,
Speaker 3: is the thing gonna gore me to death? Or is
Speaker 3: it gonna run off? Because that is the real decision
Speaker 3: part to me, and it is when you come down
Speaker 3: to the ground, is it done with me?
Speaker 1: Or is it that when things get really ugly? What Michael,
Speaker 1: I know that look on your face. What do you
Speaker 1: want to say?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: Just your lack of footspeed in that video was amazing. Hey,
Speaker 1: I'm old, I've been eating a lot. Oh yeah. Oh.
Speaker 1: To his credit, the professional photographer who's taking the video
Speaker 1: that we've all enjoyed seventy eight times in the last
Speaker 1: forty eight hours. Uh, he said when the guy went down,
Speaker 1: he ran over and started yelling at the bison because
Speaker 1: he thought it was going to gore the fello. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: so he tried to Yeah, well, you know what, he
Speaker 1: got us some good video and then he did the
Speaker 1: right thing, So good ows to him. So it's you've noticed,
Speaker 1: perhaps I'm wearing a Alaska themed T shirt here from
Speaker 1: the scenic and musically named Metlakatla, Alaska, which is the
Speaker 1: only Indian reservation Native American reservation in Alaska. I bought
Speaker 1: four Alaska T shirts. That's almost the only swag I bought.
Speaker 1: I need four more T shirts, like I need an
Speaker 1: eleventh finger. I don't know what I would do with it.
Speaker 1: You know, you put it between your thumb and your
Speaker 1: pointing finger. You know that's a good question. Probably like
Speaker 1: a second pinky to really grasp stuff, or could you
Speaker 1: get another thumb, a thumb on the other side. Can
Speaker 1: you imagine? How about on your forehead? No, no, that's
Speaker 1: disgusting anyway. But I bought the T shirts and the
Speaker 1: only other swag I bought were a couple of knives.
Speaker 1: And I've got to I'm gonna get you a copy
Speaker 1: of this guy's card Jack Alaska. Rod He was a
Speaker 1: cop in the lower forty eight. He resettled in Alaska.
Speaker 1: He and his family run a store. But he makes
Speaker 1: knives cool and their court and they're amazing. I mean
Speaker 1: everything from a little pairing knife. Manly Rod up in
Speaker 1: Alaska sold me a couple of knives that we can
Speaker 1: used to serve CHARCOUTERI wow, cheese knives and a little
Speaker 1: paring knife in pretty colors. I could tell you respected me.
Speaker 1: But so I buy these beautiful knives. And again, I
Speaker 1: know you're more of a knife guy than me, but
Speaker 1: they they ranged from like a crocodile. Dundee boy, there's
Speaker 1: an old reference. Now that's a knife giant knives to
Speaker 1: you know, steak knives to pairing knives. But he hand
Speaker 1: makes them with compressed woods and they're they're stained different
Speaker 1: colors and just gorgeous. But so I buy a couple
Speaker 1: of these knives. Well, you have to check them with
Speaker 1: security as you get on the cruise ship because you
Speaker 1: can't bring a weapon on board. So they take it
Speaker 1: from you. They fill out a receipt, you sign it
Speaker 1: blah blah blah, then you give it to them. Then
Speaker 1: less than twofing hours later you can guess the rest.
Speaker 1: I'm at the table cutting into a nice juicy steak
Speaker 1: with the giant knife they've given me to do so,
Speaker 1: which was way more capable weapon of mayhem than the
Speaker 1: little knives I bought what the just more secureater lawyers exactly?
Speaker 1: It says you can't bring a weapon onto the ship.
Speaker 1: I get that, okay, but it's just ridiculous. How many
Speaker 1: people live in Alaska? Do you know the total population?
Speaker 1: One hundred and forty You know what I don't remember,
Speaker 1: it's not many. Anchorage was bigger than I thought. We
Speaker 1: did not make it to Anchorage, but it's it's six figures,
Speaker 1: but it's by far the biggest city in Alaska. Oh,
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Speaker 1: The reason it's the population.
Speaker 3: A reason I brought up the population of Alaska is
Speaker 3: this political movement that's going kind of being pushed by.
Speaker 1: The socialist crowd. Of the population of I think is
Speaker 1: North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, and Alaska is less
Speaker 1: than New York, for instance. And they and that allow
Speaker 1: how many states was that that's twelve US senators for
Speaker 1: a population less than one city. That doesn't make any sense,
Speaker 1: which is kind of an interesting conversation to have. Alaska's
Speaker 1: population is seven hundred and forty thousand for that big
Speaker 1: giant space. Seven and forty thousand people in that enormous,
Speaker 1: enormous space. Yeah. The interesting part, and I think I
Speaker 1: may have mentioned this Friday, is that all these towns
Speaker 1: that you may have heard of if you're a little
Speaker 1: bit into geography, as we both are, you know, a
Speaker 1: seword and sit cud Juno's the capital. They all have
Speaker 1: like a few thousand people in them. You've only heard
Speaker 1: of them because that's the only towns there are. And
Speaker 1: it's the opposite of you know, the show has been
Speaker 1: based out of Sacramento, California for years and years and years,
Speaker 1: and Sack always gets overlooked because you got the Bay
Speaker 1: Area in Los Angeles, but Sacramento metropolitan area is well
Speaker 1: over two million people, and everybody's like, oh, is that
Speaker 1: that's s in what Nora there? Nobody knows about it,
Speaker 1: but a lot of people have heard of called Alaska, Sitka,
Speaker 1: Spruce and the rest of it. But these towns are tiny.
Speaker 3: Yeah, It's kind of an interesting topic though, and I'm
Speaker 3: against this, but Dakota's Wyoming, Nebraska, and Alaska combined ten
Speaker 3: senators representing him, New York gets to the state of
Speaker 3: New York as New York City. The argument is to
Speaker 3: why you know if you're mad get it mad at
Speaker 3: James Madison. I don't know who first came up with
Speaker 3: that idea, but it's kind of interesting on its own.
Speaker 3: Among other things, we'll talk about counterintuitive look at why
Speaker 3: this is actually bad for Ukraine that Lindsey Graham's aorta.
Speaker 1: Gave out on him. You would think it was I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: not the reason you think it's bad for Ukraine. That
Speaker 1: Lindsey Graham was going to argue for more weapons and
Speaker 1: now you don't have that voice. It's not that at all,
Speaker 1: which I think is actually a correct so stay tuned
Speaker 1: for that. Among other things, he Mulkan roaches, let's lie
Speaker 1: it's pegam Serle's again. On the follow up, Dulking runches
Speaker 1: shot spill in.
Speaker 3: England's on a roll Man. Very exciting down to the
Speaker 3: final four in World Coup. But I'm actually into soccer
Speaker 3: for the first time in my life.
Speaker 1: For some reason. England needs something to root for as
Speaker 1: they die as a country.
Speaker 3: I have some breaking news around the whole Iran thing,
Speaker 3: and I need to nail down where this is coming from.
Speaker 3: Mark Alprin has it breaking news on his Twitter feed
Speaker 3: breaking US to take over Straight of horm moves. According
Speaker 3: to who who announced that.
Speaker 1: Trump says that.
Speaker 3: Look, Trump says a twenty percent toll will be charged
Speaker 3: in all all cargo.
Speaker 1: I'm sure he made that hup off the top of
Speaker 1: his head.
Speaker 3: We're gonna take over the Straight of Horror moves. Twenty
Speaker 3: percent toll charge in all cargo. US military will blockade
Speaker 3: all Iranian shipping. That's the very latest, so get that
Speaker 3: as any details come out. That's John Bolton's arguing to
Speaker 3: take the straight in the Wall Street Journal today. The
Speaker 3: New York Times doesn't argue for it so much as
Speaker 3: just saying that's pretty much the only option left for
Speaker 3: what we can do to end this thing. And Trump
Speaker 3: might be aware of that. Wow, that's going to be
Speaker 3: a big deal if we do that. Woo and the
Speaker 3: former Sentcom commander yesterday, we're going to play that a
Speaker 3: little bit later. He's arguing yesterday that we need to
Speaker 3: take it. Seems like the voices are piling up, and
Speaker 3: the fact that there are no other options.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, again, I ask what will that look like?
Speaker 1: But I don't see another option.
Speaker 3: So Lindsey Graham died over the weekend, senator from South Carolina.
Speaker 3: And one of the reasons that's a big deal is
Speaker 3: he was the hawkest, hockeyiest of the hawks out there
Speaker 3: in terms of promoting foreign policy by war to make
Speaker 3: the world a better place all around the world, for
Speaker 3: better or worse. And he was certainly a hawk on
Speaker 3: I rand and taken on Putin. In fact, he'd just
Speaker 3: gotten back from Kiev right before he dropped dead. I
Speaker 3: was happy with some new directions, some stuff was going.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you caught this while you were
Speaker 3: on vacation. Trump announced, after talking to Zelensky that they
Speaker 3: can make their own Patriot missiles who were giving them
Speaker 3: that technology, and they'll have the best air defense system
Speaker 3: on planet Earth. Did you catch Zelensky's joke from the
Speaker 3: NATO summit that was that was a good one.
Speaker 1: I don't think so.
Speaker 3: So Trump sitting there with Zelensky taking questions and had
Speaker 3: gotten on the phone with Putin, and Trump sitting there
Speaker 3: and saying so Putin says he wants to meet. He
Speaker 3: wants to meet. I know you guys don't like each other.
Speaker 3: He said, you can meet in Moscow. Would you meet
Speaker 3: in Moscow? Probably not? And Zelensky said, I don't know.
Speaker 3: Moscow is very dangerous. There's very many Ukrainian drones.
Speaker 2: There, sir.
Speaker 1: I mean they hit an oil refinery in Siberia like
Speaker 1: a thousand miles away and blew it up. So there,
Speaker 1: so you add that in with these Patriot missiles and
Speaker 1: Ukraine is definitely on the front foot. And here's Mark
Speaker 1: Alprin's counterintuitive on why Lindsey Graham dying is bad news
Speaker 1: for Ukraine. Not because he was such a forceful proponent
Speaker 1: of arming Ukraine, because he was the only guy, like
Speaker 1: the old only Nixon could go to China. Nixon had
Speaker 1: such anti communist credibility built up over so many decades
Speaker 1: that he could go to China and try to deal
Speaker 1: with them without people saying, oh, he's a commie. Lindsey
Speaker 1: Graham was the only guy, according to Mark Alprin, on
Speaker 1: Earth that Zelensky would have believed or listened to, could
Speaker 1: come to him and say, I think this is goot
Speaker 1: a deal. As you're going to get you should give
Speaker 1: up the territory and make a deal here.
Speaker 3: Oh and that's probably true because he was such a
Speaker 3: hawk for so long on supporting Ukraine. If Lindsey Graham
Speaker 3: came in and sat down and said, you know how
Speaker 3: I feel about it, you know how much I hate Putin.
Speaker 3: This is as good as it's gonna get Zelensky to
Speaker 3: listen to them, and there's nobody to take that role.
Speaker 1: Wow, wow, wow wow maybe Marco. But yeah, well, huh
Speaker 1: twists in turns of history. It's amazing. Well, you got
Speaker 1: these really pieces of garbage that's unnecessarily harsh. You got
Speaker 1: these completely useless ancient senators who live forever. Why's the
Speaker 1: Lindsey Graham gotta go? Okay, well answer why did bad
Speaker 1: things happen to good people? Next hour, stay with us.
Speaker 1: I actually do want to get to the topic of
Speaker 1: soft on crime policies and how completely insane they are.
Speaker 1: I mean, they're more nuts than you think they are.
Speaker 1: When you look at who is most likely to hurt you,
Speaker 1: kill you, take your stuff, rape your daughter, et cetera.
Speaker 1: We know who these people are and we know what
Speaker 1: to do about them. Marxists want to turn them loose
Speaker 1: on the street. They're just they're a menace.
Speaker 3: I got to dig into this so called breaking news
Speaker 3: that the United States is going to open the strait
Speaker 3: and charge a twenty percent told everyone.
Speaker 1: Are we cover the expense? Yeah?
Speaker 3: I wonder how Pete feels about that. Pete hegseats They says,
Speaker 3: sure we could do that? Or is he saying whoa, whoa,
Speaker 3: this is going to be quite the project. I want
Speaker 3: you to know what you're getting into here.
Speaker 1: I hope he both. Yeah.
Speaker 3: A lot on the way and breaking as we talk.
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