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 Jetty.
Speaker 3: I know he.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Jetty.
Speaker 4: And if these gorgeous be too bombers, give me that bomber, Andrews,
Speaker 4: let me just hug.
Speaker 2: That little sucker. Give me that bomber over there? Thank
Speaker 2: You know immediately which one? This looks small, but in
Speaker 2: person is very big.
Speaker 4: It's the only plane capable of carrying a two hundred
Speaker 4: thousand pound bombs. So I don't know how to do
Speaker 4: it because it's very sleek and nice, but it carries
Speaker 4: a lot of weapons and there's a lot of bombs.
Speaker 1: That's Trump grabbing the model of the B two bomber
Speaker 1: off of his desk.
Speaker 2: Guy, let me hug that little sucker.
Speaker 5: Carries a lot of weapons, a lot of bombs. Wow,
Speaker 5: what an odd bird.
Speaker 1: We do have a slight breaking news thing. The big
Speaker 1: gas field in the world in Saudi Arabia has been
Speaker 1: hit and a number of strikes by Iran and now
Speaker 1: your oil gas markets are spiking.
Speaker 2: We'll see where that goes today.
Speaker 3: Boy, wow, they're in a hole and they are digging
Speaker 3: as fast as they can, just trying to make everybody
Speaker 3: as angry as possible, thinking we'll all think back off
Speaker 3: at some point exactly. Oh, they're causing too much pain.
Speaker 3: We've got to stop and let this regime continue. That's
Speaker 3: the hell of a calculation. I suppose they think that's
Speaker 3: the only car they have to play. So a bit
Speaker 3: of a theme hour this hour. It's come together kind
Speaker 3: of accidentally, but it's all super interesting in my opinion. It's, Oh,
Speaker 3: how the mighty have fallen. We're going to take a
Speaker 3: look at some very prominent characters, from Saisar Chavez to
Speaker 3: economist rock star of the left Paul Erlik who wrote
Speaker 3: the Population Bomb book, and also some of the most
Speaker 3: interesting information I've come across about Jeffrey Epstein, if you
Speaker 3: really want to understand how he and his cabal of
Speaker 3: high flyers worked coming up this hour to stay with us.
Speaker 3: But let's start with the Jack and Seesar Chavez.
Speaker 1: Here to Caesar Chavez, he was the brown Martin Luther King,
Speaker 1: as described by people, civil rights leader for migrant farm
Speaker 1: workers back in the day, and organized them and got
Speaker 1: some rights and all that sort of stuff and became
Speaker 1: a is a it's not a national holiday, right, so
Speaker 1: holiday in California, and yeah, right.
Speaker 3: But he won all sorts of you know, this guy's
Speaker 3: a superhero awards through.
Speaker 1: The years from Fariou press O ye, And as they
Speaker 1: write in the California Post, every progressive history curriculum, every
Speaker 1: California street sign, every March thirty first is proof that
Speaker 1: here was a flawless champion of the oppressed. Schools were renamed, statues, erected,
Speaker 1: documentaries produced with soft lighting and swelling violins. Well, now
Speaker 1: he's going to be canceled because it turns out he
Speaker 1: was raping a thirteen year old at least one, if
Speaker 1: not many young women, which is pretty horrible.
Speaker 3: Yeah, sexually molesting multiple girls and raping grown women.
Speaker 2: We got this text.
Speaker 1: My friend at work was a migrant farm worker her
Speaker 1: first twenty five years of life, and she told me
Speaker 1: there was definitely a culture of taking young women and
Speaker 1: no one really did anything about it. I have no
Speaker 1: way to confirm whether that was true or not, but
Speaker 1: it seems to have been true for Caesar Shaves himself.
Speaker 1: Whether that was true for other men of power in
Speaker 1: the whole migrant farm worker world, I do not know.
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll learn that over the next couple of weeks.
Speaker 5: I suspect.
Speaker 3: So why did the I hate to call it the wokesters,
Speaker 3: because I mean, we're all against raping children.
Speaker 1: You don't have to be woke to be against raping children.
Speaker 1: But why did this come out now? And the New
Speaker 1: York Times is leading the way on this story? Is
Speaker 1: it his anti immigration stances which would become more problematic
Speaker 1: for Caesar Shabz. Critics who noted Caesar shab Is anti
Speaker 1: immigration stances way back in the nineteen seventies were dismissed
Speaker 1: as right wing cranks. The narrative was simple, flawless labor
Speaker 1: saint versus evil growers. Yet Chavez was no open borders
Speaker 1: progressive at any point. He was a staunch opponent of
Speaker 1: illegal immigration, viewed undocumented workers as strike bears imported by
Speaker 1: growers to undercut wages and bust unions. He used the
Speaker 1: term wetbacks freely to comment on Mexicans who swam across
Speaker 1: the river and came here and took their jobs. He's
Speaker 1: the guy that got wet back going as a slur.
Speaker 1: The United farm Workers blocked border crossing, brought border crossings,
Speaker 1: border crossings, physically would fight illegals coming across the border
Speaker 1: to scare them off of trying to get in. Reported
Speaker 1: thousands of undocumented workers to the federal government to I ins,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I live in a town where they
Speaker 1: have written in chalk on every intersection the phone number
Speaker 1: to call if you see any ICE agents, because how
Speaker 1: dare you ice out?
Speaker 2: How dare you turn in an illegal to ice?
Speaker 1: Caesar Shapez was doing that constantly, thousands of thousand on
Speaker 1: his own.
Speaker 5: He was like an amateur ice agent.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Chavez saw unchecked illegal immigration as a direct threat to jobs,
Speaker 1: bargaining power, and living standards for domestic farm workers. You know, hey,
Speaker 1: I thought that because it's one hundred percent true. Obviously,
Speaker 1: you think you're helping the downtrodden uh migrant farm worker
Speaker 1: by letting more illegals in. How do you come to
Speaker 1: that conclusion?
Speaker 2: Anyway?
Speaker 1: I just wonder if maybe that was becoming so uncomfortable
Speaker 1: that people decided to go after him on this stuff
Speaker 1: that had to be known by quite a few people,
Speaker 1: I would think, But I could be wrong.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to The New York Times isn't explicit in
Speaker 3: their piece about chef the accusers and Chevez about why
Speaker 3: they've come forward now. They suggest one of them was
Speaker 3: just pissed off that Bakersfield was about to name a
Speaker 3: street after the guy right down the road from where
Speaker 3: she lived.
Speaker 1: That could be Kavanaugh's accuser. Even though she was a
Speaker 1: complete crazy person, she believed her own story. Even if
Speaker 1: she's crazy. You know, when Kavanaugh came up to be
Speaker 1: Supreme Court justice, then she thought that's too much. Maybe
Speaker 1: this person was the same way, just like, Okay, I
Speaker 1: can't I can't have to drive down a street name
Speaker 1: for the guy that raped me when I was thirteen.
Speaker 2: Right right?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 1: And that question remains, are they gonna take it? They're
Speaker 1: going to cancel the holiday in California? It looks like
Speaker 1: Caesar Shabaz Day. Are they gonna take his name off
Speaker 1: middle schools and roads and everything else?
Speaker 2: There's got to be statues all over the place.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, So wow, are they desanctifying this guy because
Speaker 3: of the immigration stuff?
Speaker 4: For it?
Speaker 3: Did these women just come forward and it's what it
Speaker 3: appears to be on the surface.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Raping a thirteen year old is really awful, but he
Speaker 3: still did all the things he did and That's where
Speaker 3: I wonder about where we go historically on this. We
Speaker 3: had a Gandhi statue in the park in the town
Speaker 3: I live in for a while. Then somebody decided no,
Speaker 3: Gandhi was wrong on these things.
Speaker 5: Jack lives in Mumbai, by the way, I kidd.
Speaker 1: And somebody decided to know he was bad on these areas,
Speaker 1: so they took the Gandhi statue down. I mean, so,
Speaker 1: is there gonna be an anybody left that accomplished great
Speaker 1: things but had a I'm not gonna say sordid, because
Speaker 1: you don't have a sordid personnel life if you're raping
Speaker 1: thirteen year olds, but an awful personal life. I just
Speaker 1: I don't know how we handle this historically.
Speaker 3: Oddly enough, the reference to India is a good time
Speaker 3: to move on to Paul Rlick, author of The Population Bomb,
Speaker 3: hero of the left for many years, always wrong, and
Speaker 3: yet his policies endured. He was more than wrong. He
Speaker 3: was a monster.
Speaker 5: He was a.
Speaker 2: Terrible human being.
Speaker 3: And we'll explain why after the So stay with us.
Speaker 1: Whether you're stuck at an airport or sweltering in the
Speaker 1: heat or stuck in a blizzard, depending on where you
Speaker 1: are in the country. I hope you're enjoying today's episode
Speaker 1: of The Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 3: You're almost certainly not starving, though. And Paul Rlick, who
Speaker 3: just passed away, was the author of a nineteen sixty
Speaker 3: eight book, The Population Bomb. To call it a sensation
Speaker 3: is to understate it. To buy a thousand times he
Speaker 3: was a rock star. He is on The Tonight Show
Speaker 3: with Johnny Carson twenty times. He was interestingly a butterfly
Speaker 3: biologist turned rock star eco pessimist. According to Matt Ridley,
Speaker 3: nice piece of writing there, he essentially predicted mass starvation,
Speaker 3: well read part of it. In nineteen sixty eighty forecast
Speaker 3: that within the coming decade at least one hundred to
Speaker 3: two hundred million people per year will be starving to death.
Speaker 1: So by seventy eight or in the seventies, he probably
Speaker 1: only in the seventies. So in the seventies hundreds of
Speaker 1: millions of people were going to starve death because of
Speaker 1: the population being so.
Speaker 3: Big, and by nineteen eighty five enough millions will have
Speaker 3: died to reduce the Earth's population some acceptable level, like
Speaker 3: one and a half billion people. Further More, he warned
Speaker 3: that by nineteen eighty the life expectancy of the average
Speaker 3: American would have fallen to forty two years as the
Speaker 3: result of cancer caused by pesticides.
Speaker 2: Wow. Yeah, And.
Speaker 3: When he died, most people said, you know, he's wrong
Speaker 3: about that. The New York Times charmingly said, he was
Speaker 3: premature in his prediction, but he was so incredibly farcically wrong.
Speaker 3: The reasons why you're interesting. And also the guy was
Speaker 3: a freaking monster. I will illustrate, quoting again from mister Ridley.
Speaker 5: Meanwhile, oh uh.
Speaker 3: Oh, they mentioned the irony that he survived a half
Speaker 3: century longer than the life expectancy he predicted. Also spent
Speaker 3: his last years as one of more than eight billion
Speaker 3: people in an era in which global life expectancy has
Speaker 3: increased by more than seven hours day seven hours a
Speaker 3: day since he forecast that it would collapse. Meanwhile, famine
Speaker 3: has gone all but gone extinct, with death rates from
Speaker 3: mass starvation down to a tiny fraction of what they
Speaker 3: were in the sixties. Back then, about thirty million people
Speaker 3: out of a population of approximately three billion died in
Speaker 3: famines that killed more than one hundred thousand people each.
Speaker 3: In the twenty tens, one point one million, not thirty
Speaker 3: million one point one million out of population of more
Speaker 3: than eight billion died in such episodes, a decline of
Speaker 3: more than ninety six percent in the death rate. He
Speaker 3: shot to fame in nineteen sixty eight with the population bomb,
Speaker 3: the prologue of which is dismissed. All hope for humankind
Speaker 3: and I quote the battle defeat all of humanity is over.
Speaker 2: In the nineteen seventies.
Speaker 3: Hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in
Speaker 3: spite of any crash programs embarked upon now and at
Speaker 3: this late date, nothing can prevent a substantial increase in
Speaker 3: the world death rate. Yet something did prevent that. Even
Speaker 3: as Erlik wrote those words, the world's population great was
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, the world's population growth rate was falling. New
Speaker 3: strains of wheat and rice developed by agronomus, he mentions,
Speaker 3: a famous agronomists, were starting to transform the.
Speaker 2: Productivity of agriculture.
Speaker 3: India was on its way to banishing famine and becoming
Speaker 3: a food exporter within a few years. The amount of
Speaker 3: food available has increased faster than the population on every
Speaker 3: continent on Earth over the past sixty years, even as
Speaker 3: the land area devoted to farming has fallen, as often
Speaker 3: so often happens with environmental pessimism.
Speaker 2: Irlik's warning was already out of.
Speaker 3: Date when it was made, but he stubbornly stuck to
Speaker 3: his views. In eight he was still predicting an unhappy
Speaker 3: increase in the death rate. In twenty twenty three, he
Speaker 3: posted plaintively, if I'm always wrong, so is science, since
Speaker 3: my work is peer reviewed, including the population bomb. And
Speaker 3: I've gotten virtually every scientific honor. Sure I've made mistakes,
Speaker 3: but no basic ones. All right, here's where he becomes
Speaker 3: a monster. And he did win the MacArthur Fellowship, the
Speaker 3: Genius Grant, a fellowship with London's Royal Society in twenty twelve,
Speaker 3: even though he'd said in nineteen seventy one, if I
Speaker 3: were a gambler, I'd take even money that England will
Speaker 3: not exist in the year two thousand.
Speaker 2: So his book it.
Speaker 3: Reminds me of the because I'm known artists. Did he
Speaker 3: think it would be underwater? He doesn't explain that. No,
Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't have the context of that claim.
Speaker 3: But his book begins with an evening in Delhi, India,
Speaker 3: when he found the press of people overwhelming quote people
Speaker 3: eating people washing, people, sleeping, people visiting, arguing and screaming,
Speaker 3: people thrusting their hands through the taxi window, begging, people
Speaker 3: defecating and urinating.
Speaker 2: You presuming means.
Speaker 3: Like in public, because they're doing that everywhere. Paul, anyway,
Speaker 3: I planned you today, I'm happy for you. The answer
Speaker 3: to his culture shock, he argued, was coerced compulsory population control.
Speaker 2: Quote.
Speaker 3: The operation will demand many, apparently brutal and heartless decisions.
Speaker 3: The pain may be intense. He was calling for forced sterilizations,
Speaker 3: including in Indian all men who had three or more children.
Speaker 3: Coercion and a good cause. He was astounded that libertarians
Speaker 3: objected when the American government took up his suggestion. In
Speaker 3: nineteen seventy five, Indian Prime Minister and Dera Gandhi was
Speaker 3: threatened with the loss of World Bank loans unless she
Speaker 3: began forcibly sterilizing people.
Speaker 2: Wow, I do not see this.
Speaker 3: She obliged, and her son Sanjay carried out a program
Speaker 3: making permits, licenses, rations, and even housing applications conditional on sterilization.
Speaker 3: Over eight million people people were sterilized.
Speaker 2: I had no idea that the.
Speaker 3: Irony is that one of the greatest causes of the
Speaker 3: falling birth rate in the world over the past half
Speaker 3: century has been kindness, not cruelty, in the form of
Speaker 3: child mortality prevention. As poor nations become wealthier in quality
Speaker 3: medical care for infants, spread birth rates declined across the
Speaker 3: world without the aid of coercion. When mothers are confident
Speaker 3: that their children will survive, they plan for smaller families.
Speaker 5: There are a number of factors at work, though.
Speaker 1: Now countries all around the world are trying to figure
Speaker 1: out how much money do we have to give a
Speaker 1: woman to get her to have a baby.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no kidding, Oh for Americans too. Erlich recommended coercion
Speaker 3: and control for American citizens. In a nineteen seventy interview,
Speaker 3: he said that television programs should be ordered by the
Speaker 3: federal government to always show large families in a negative light.
Speaker 1: I remember that. Yeah, how crazy is that he was
Speaker 1: going to have? This goes beyond anything you've ever heard
Speaker 1: about the First Amendment in terms of trashing it. You're
Speaker 1: gonna make the government force entertainment to show big families
Speaker 1: in a negative light.
Speaker 3: Commercials should relentlessly shame such people. If that did not work,
Speaker 3: the government should give women quote bonuses for not having babies,
Speaker 3: or change the tax structure to punish the fertile, and
Speaker 3: if necessary, start legislating the size of the family and
Speaker 3: throw you in jail if you have too many children.
Speaker 5: Those are quotes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he has a nut, and he set the tone
Speaker 3: for the nascent environmental movement, which saw people as a problem,
Speaker 3: economic growth as a crime, and coercion as necessary. The
Speaker 3: carrots of incentives are not enough, the sticks of punishment
Speaker 3: and regulation are necessary.
Speaker 5: Well, the last guy was an effing monster. Pardon me.
Speaker 1: A lot of you listening are probably too young to
Speaker 1: have lived through this, but Joe and I being in
Speaker 1: the winter of our lives, remember this was a constant
Speaker 1: conversation topic about the population of the earth, you know,
Speaker 1: becoming unsustainable and it's inevitable. It's just what are we
Speaker 1: gonna do about it? I mean, his book had an
Speaker 1: incredible influence, and now we look back on it, it
Speaker 1: seems almost hilarious in that the biggest problem we might
Speaker 1: have his man kind of as disappearing because we don't
Speaker 1: have kids. The climate change thing is gonna be the same.
Speaker 1: I think look back on a decade years from now,
Speaker 1: maybe like two years from now, and just It's just
Speaker 1: gonna seem hilarious that anybody was ever worried about this.
Speaker 3: The difference out though, is that so many people have
Speaker 3: profited so mightily from this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 3: I mean there are a lot of true believers, but
Speaker 3: there are a lot of cynics who are like, oh
Speaker 3: my god, we frightened the populace to the point that
Speaker 3: they'll authorize any expenditure if we can even implausibly claim
Speaker 3: it'll help with climate change. We can hand out billions
Speaker 3: of dollars to our cronies, and at least half of America,
Speaker 3: for instance, will thank us for it. Yeah, oh my god.
Speaker 3: I wish I'd gotten in on the scam. It's to
Speaker 3: my discredit.
Speaker 2: I didn't.
Speaker 1: Nobody was building giant windmill farms to cut the population
Speaker 1: and making money off of it. We got a lot
Speaker 1: more on the way. I hope we can stay here.
Speaker 3: Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 6: Did a nurse quake just come through our whole house shook.
Speaker 2: And we thought that something hit like the roof of
Speaker 2: the grocery store.
Speaker 5: It was just a really loud bang.
Speaker 1: And I just hear a giant thud, and then it
Speaker 1: persisted for like ten seconds and I'm just sitting there, like,
Speaker 1: is this the end times?
Speaker 2: It sounded like a bowling ball dropped on the floor
Speaker 2: above me.
Speaker 1: It was pretty lord, that's people that were it was
Speaker 1: at in Ohio someplace at the media actually hit. But
Speaker 1: so the meteor was streaking across half the country and
Speaker 1: I've seen so many videos now people catching them with
Speaker 1: their ring cameras, are had their cell phone out.
Speaker 2: Or whatever the heck.
Speaker 1: And absolutely my first thought would have been we're under attack.
Speaker 1: I mean it was that big and bright and low.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have thought meteor. I would have thought ballistic
Speaker 1: missile from somebody.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm not.
Speaker 3: Sure I could have gotten past mind just animal because
Speaker 3: it last year like that long, and unless you're in Ohio,
Speaker 3: it just disappeared from the sky.
Speaker 5: I think I would have just been caveman.
Speaker 2: Bad.
Speaker 1: Bad is big, bright and low though, like nothing you've
Speaker 1: ever seen before, if you've seen any of these videos.
Speaker 5: AnyWho, Uh, interesting, what do we have coming up?
Speaker 1: So glad, I'm glad we live in a country where
Speaker 1: that's not really possible, as opposed to many many countries
Speaker 1: where it.
Speaker 2: Is possible and actually happening.
Speaker 5: As we certainly unlikely anyway, coming.
Speaker 1: Up Cuba, Like we need more on our world plate
Speaker 1: of interesting things.
Speaker 3: Cuba's about to fall more on that in a second. Wow, Okay,
Speaker 3: we're assassinating character? Is this hour?
Speaker 2: Not? Really?
Speaker 3: We're just telling the truth about prominent people, including in
Speaker 3: this case, Jeffrey Epstein. And it's funny we're talking about
Speaker 3: Sazar Chavez, who is almost certainly guilty of raping children,
Speaker 3: forcing himself upon them, raping an adult woman.
Speaker 1: That's not us right wing radio talk show host. That's
Speaker 1: the New York Times saying that, yeah, straight from his
Speaker 1: victim's mouths.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it seems to be very very well corroborated
Speaker 3: in the park street to school near you will soon
Speaker 3: be renamed anyway, certainly if you're in California.
Speaker 5: The stuff on Epstein is interesting.
Speaker 3: Ah. I think a lot of people, for whatever reason,
Speaker 3: are so obsessed with the sexual angle of his hyjens
Speaker 3: And certainly he did manipulate and victimize young women, both
Speaker 3: underage and just young women, girls and women. But they're
Speaker 3: so obsessed with the sexual stuff, I think they're missing
Speaker 3: an even more interesting.
Speaker 5: Story.
Speaker 3: And I'm not necessarily even talking about the obsessed you know,
Speaker 3: QAnon Pizza Gate, crazy crazy stuff who just you know,
Speaker 3: we've talked.
Speaker 5: About why they're compelled to believe that sort.
Speaker 3: Of thing anyway, But the Wall Street Journal has a
Speaker 3: super interesting piece and we've today about the network of
Speaker 3: insider stock trading that he and his connections engaged in.
Speaker 3: Because this guy, I believe in the same way that
Speaker 3: I understand that Hitler was a master of populist politics.
Speaker 3: I mean, he's one of the best of the world
Speaker 3: has ever seen. And you can still understand that he's evil,
Speaker 3: completely evil, completely corrupt and evil.
Speaker 5: Epstein was a rock star of networking.
Speaker 3: He was an incredibly gifted networker, and I've heard that
Speaker 3: said by all sorts of people from all sorts of
Speaker 3: different worlds, from science to academia to business to politics.
Speaker 3: He knew what everybody's levers were and not like threatening
Speaker 3: them in blackmailing them, flattering them, investing in them, giving
Speaker 3: them tips, connecting them with like other people who could
Speaker 3: help them. So therefore you'd be more than delighted to
Speaker 3: do him a favor when the day came.
Speaker 5: That was his skill.
Speaker 2: And this.
Speaker 3: Article is as a roster of execs from JP Morgan
Speaker 3: chased Key Advisors to Bill Gates to a Hood Barak,
Speaker 3: the former Prime Minister of Israel who was on the
Speaker 3: board of a tech startup to I mean, there's all
Speaker 3: sorts of Prince Andrew, even Peter Mandelson, the British diplomat
Speaker 3: who was gay and had no interest in young girls
Speaker 3: at all. They all traded information and he was the
Speaker 3: point guard. Trading wasn't the source of all of his wealth.
Speaker 3: A lot of it came from advising billionaires like Leonne
Speaker 3: Black and less. Wexner has been great, you know, discussed
Speaker 3: a lot, but he he engaged in all sorts of
Speaker 3: insider trading with all sorts of people that you know.
Speaker 3: That's the long and short of it. That's what you
Speaker 3: need to understand about it. I'm so bad at that
Speaker 3: sort of thing, not insider trading but networking.
Speaker 1: Yeah, me too, because I just am naturally predisposed to
Speaker 1: not want to do that sort of thing. But it's
Speaker 1: it's a good idea if your personality allows it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, guys, I'm I'm glad to be friendly
Speaker 3: with them, but they are so outgoing and good at
Speaker 3: you know, the whole talking about your vacation, then their vacation,
Speaker 3: and then the you're whatever, then there and.
Speaker 5: Yeah, like this guy was a master at it.
Speaker 1: If I know a guy who's got you know, I
Speaker 1: don't know, needs water but doesn't have buckets, and another
Speaker 1: guy who has buckets but doesn't have water, if I thought,
Speaker 1: you know, I'll bet I could put those two together.
Speaker 2: But then we'd have to have dinner and then I yeah,
Speaker 2: so I just my mouth shut.
Speaker 3: On the other hand, Jeffrey Epstein people like him would think, now,
Speaker 3: bucket boy and water king over there. Yeah, they both
Speaker 3: love me, right, Yeah, here's here's I just keep my
Speaker 3: mouth shut. Too bad about that bucket situation you got there.
Speaker 3: I wish I knew. Somebody can't help you anyway.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they're all sorts of examples.
Speaker 3: There's a big medical company in their IPO, Swiss drug
Speaker 3: giant Roche, and he was tipped off early by his
Speaker 3: connections that somebody was buying somebody and blah blah. Then
Speaker 3: he let friends in on it and so they owed
Speaker 3: him big and yeah, that's that's wild.
Speaker 1: So on the topic of Cuba, I'll admit that really
Speaker 1: everything I know about Cuba comes from Hemingway books and
Speaker 1: The Godfather. That's about the extent of my Cuban knowledge
Speaker 1: and the Cuban missile crisis.
Speaker 2: I guess that's it. That's the beginning and end of
Speaker 2: my cubanology.
Speaker 1: But it's communist country, and it's been, you know, kind
Speaker 1: of a basket case on the verge of following my
Speaker 1: entire life. But Trump said the other day, you know,
Speaker 1: Cuba's next tod be my honored and I thought, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know what he's got planned or whatever.
Speaker 1: Then I saw this report on the news last night
Speaker 1: which got my attention.
Speaker 6: Listen to this, and now once more, no power across
Speaker 6: the island the nation. White black out yesterday is still
Speaker 6: keeping much of the country in the dark. In a
Speaker 6: nation used to hardship, Cubans say, the situation has never.
Speaker 1: Been worse in a country used to hardship. The situation
Speaker 1: has never been worse than it is right now in
Speaker 1: Cuba because of us taking out my door in Venezuela
Speaker 1: and cutting off the oil and all the different sorts
Speaker 1: of things in the bargo and so we have forced
Speaker 1: Cuba into the worst situation it's ever been in Domestically,
Speaker 1: the country has been plunged into darkness this week by
Speaker 1: a blackout. The third big failure of its power grids
Speaker 1: since December, opening the door to Trump suggesting that he
Speaker 1: might have to take Cuba energy blockade. Many of the
Speaker 1: nation's eleven million residents struggling to keep food from spoiling
Speaker 1: because they got no electricity. So soon the food will
Speaker 1: spoil in the refrigerators that aren't running, and then it's
Speaker 1: going to really be a crisis. Hospitals have canceled surgeries
Speaker 1: all across the country. The leading universities are closed. I mean,
Speaker 1: it is bad in Cuba, and somehow that's not on
Speaker 1: the radar. Well, pretty obvious reasons. Were at war with Iran?
Speaker 5: Were you going to play the clump clump trip the
Speaker 5: Trump clip?
Speaker 2: I was not. Do we have one?
Speaker 5: Yeah, we do sixty.
Speaker 4: I do believe I'll be the honor of having the
Speaker 4: honor of taking Cuba a big good Honest's a big
Speaker 4: honor in taking Cube, Taking Cube in some form.
Speaker 2: Yeah, taking Guba. I mean, whether I.
Speaker 4: Free it, take it, I think I could do anything
Speaker 4: I want with it. You want another a very weekend
Speaker 4: nation right now?
Speaker 3: Yeah, So fifty three states, you got Canada, Cuba, and Greenland.
Speaker 1: Now Cuba really should be a state of the United States.
Speaker 3: You go back East, an independent country that's not run
Speaker 3: by a corrupt, fake communist mob.
Speaker 1: Anyway, I for one didn't know Cuba is in the
Speaker 1: worst shape it's ever been. That's that's saying something. If
Speaker 1: you know anything about the ups and downs of Cuba
Speaker 1: over the years.
Speaker 3: Wow, So as soon as all that food spoils in
Speaker 3: all the fridges across the country, then it's gonna that's
Speaker 3: going to turn into a serious, serious crisis really fast.
Speaker 3: And Trump, who increasingly in that clip at least sounded
Speaker 3: a little like Don Corleoni, is going to offer make
Speaker 3: them an offer they can't refuse, which would be wonderful
Speaker 3: for the Cuban people. I don't know what form it
Speaker 3: will take. I certainly hope it leads toward a move
Speaker 3: toward democracy and human rights and the rest of it
Speaker 3: for the poor people. And it's not like, you know
Speaker 3: the world is hungering for more vacation destinations exactly, but
Speaker 3: that should be a prosperous I mean, pick your your
Speaker 3: favorite Caribbean destination, Bahamas, Jamaica, the US Virgin Islands, something
Speaker 3: like that. Cuba's a giant one of those, Plus it's closer.
Speaker 1: There would be endless boat trips back and forth between Miami,
Speaker 1: Key West and Cuba.
Speaker 3: Well, how much fun would that be? It's seventy miles,
Speaker 3: so how much fun would that be? Well, exactly, I
Speaker 3: was going to say. The flight would be like one
Speaker 3: of those puddle jumpers that you take from a Sacramento
Speaker 3: to a San Francisco or a New York to a
Speaker 3: you know what's the big city in Connecticut, Connecticut city,
Speaker 3: doesn't matter, Bristol, whatever. Yeah, I mean it would be
Speaker 3: incredibly quick and easy. And I have great affection for
Speaker 3: Cuba for a couple of reasons.
Speaker 1: Number on Havana, that's what we're going to see. That's
Speaker 1: entirely possible.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, the music of Cuba. They have an incredibly rich
Speaker 3: heritage music. There are various documentaries, you should watch them.
Speaker 3: The food is fantastic. It's a beautiful, beautiful place.
Speaker 5: I've never been.
Speaker 3: I've just seen you know, cigars, you got your cigars,
Speaker 3: you got the attractive chiquita's. And I just hate whenever
Speaker 3: people are oppressed by these communists swine and and.
Speaker 5: This like it's so close, I mean, it's right there.
Speaker 3: Why are we letting a communist regime poison our neighborhood. Well,
Speaker 3: I don't think it. I think it's coming to an end.
Speaker 3: Like in days, What sort of deal do they cut?
Speaker 3: You got to just buy off anybody who's anybody and say, look, go,
Speaker 3: you know, go wherever you want, Go to Hell, go
Speaker 3: to Texas. We don't care if I own Texas and Hell,
Speaker 3: I'd live in el and run out Texas anyway.
Speaker 5: Blah blah blah Eh what did I say?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 5: Yeah, right, whatever form the deal takes, let's let's get
Speaker 5: it going.
Speaker 3: It would be a bit of a basket case for
Speaker 3: a while, but not permanently.
Speaker 1: Here's Mark Alpern's riding on it. Cuba is all teed up,
Speaker 1: and Trump is going to do pretty much any anything
Speaker 1: he wants, anytime he wants. After Secretary Rubio dots a
Speaker 1: few more eyes. So and there's nobody more excited about
Speaker 1: this than our current secretary of State, whose family fled
Speaker 1: Cuba so they.
Speaker 3: Were driven out by the brutality of the communists. Yeah
Speaker 3: that he hates them for real.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, that's gonna be a heck of a thing.
Speaker 2: A darn. I didn't realize it was that bad. I
Speaker 2: didn't realize it was the worst it's ever been.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well they're patrons. I mean, Soviet Union's gone. Russia
Speaker 3: continue to help out some, but Russia's got its own problems.
Speaker 3: Venezuela was a pipeline for fuel and money and the
Speaker 3: rest of the LENSUALEI doing nothing now yeah, yoink. Indeed,
Speaker 3: it's one of the great yoankings in the Western Hemisphere's history.
Speaker 2: Okay, we will finish strong next Armstrong. It is titled
Speaker 2: Cold Coffee. Yes, cold Coffee. Oh yeah right.
Speaker 1: I knew it had coffee in the title, but I
Speaker 1: didn't know what it was. I was trying to find
Speaker 1: it the other day. That is a cool tune. Who's
Speaker 1: the artiste? Why did I say it like that? McDermott questions,
Speaker 1: I have Gate McDermott.
Speaker 5: Okay, dat did you say date?
Speaker 2: G Ai T. You're making up names.
Speaker 3: Ok she's making random noises, g Ai T. MacDermott, Gate McDermott, Okay,
Speaker 3: thank you.
Speaker 1: So I got a story completely wrong earlier. I don't
Speaker 1: know if I was reading too fast or just or
Speaker 1: I'm dumb, but uh, it is true that the biggest
Speaker 1: natural gas field on planet Earth got attacked. But it
Speaker 1: was It's in Iran, and it was attacked by Israel. Oh,
Speaker 1: so Israel had attacked their oil refineries the other day,
Speaker 1: and at least the news reporting was the United States
Speaker 1: was very unhappy about that. That we said, who, well,
Speaker 1: you can't do that. We're trying to get people to
Speaker 1: rise up take back their country. We can't obliterate their
Speaker 1: infrastructure and expect them to take over a country that
Speaker 1: has no infrastructure.
Speaker 2: So don't do that.
Speaker 1: The reporting today is, according to Ian Bremer, that Israel
Speaker 1: attacked the biggest natural gas field on the planet in
Speaker 1: Iran with our encouragement, And according to Ian Bremer, that
Speaker 1: is a signal that the war is escalated and we're
Speaker 1: on to a different trajectory.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: We gotta do whatever we can to weaken them, even
Speaker 1: if we have to damage their infrastructure a great deal.
Speaker 3: Got to admit, I'm starting to be concerned about the
Speaker 3: amount of time, effort, and money it's going to take
Speaker 3: to prevent Iran from turning into a doggy dog quagmire
Speaker 3: of a nightmare of a dystopian you know, hellscape post war.
Speaker 3: Even if there is an thing, what does the transition
Speaker 3: look like a new regime and how long does that
Speaker 3: take and what sort of sectarian fighting will there be
Speaker 3: for how long?
Speaker 5: So where is it unfolded?
Speaker 1: Sort of ends up like such a barren wasteland. You've got, uh,
Speaker 1: the Kurage trying to take a chunk, and al Qaeda
Speaker 1: is involved in what's left of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard,
Speaker 1: and maybe Iraq thinks will expand and.
Speaker 3: It's a country of ninety million people. Yeah, history will
Speaker 3: tell you can't have a nuke though, and here sure
Speaker 3: as hell trying to get.
Speaker 2: One unleash the dogs of war.
Speaker 5: That's the thing that a lot of people can't accept.
Speaker 3: Sometimes you have two very bad options and you have
Speaker 3: to choose one of them.
Speaker 2: Ready to.
Speaker 1: Again, I don't want the show to be over already.
Speaker 2: I do. Here's your host McDermott.
Speaker 3: There with Yeah, here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 3: Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew
Speaker 3: to wrap up the show. Wouldn't that be delightful? Michaelangelo,
Speaker 3: our technical director, will lead the way away. Michael final thought.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I got an idea about Cuba. Disney buys it.
Speaker 5: They've already got a park in Florida. You add that
Speaker 5: to the Disneyland.
Speaker 3: Disney is evil, Michael sorry, they have lawyers. Allegedly according
Speaker 3: to Katie.
Speaker 5: The thought I'll take it, Katie Green are esteemed to
Speaker 5: Newswoman as a final thought, Katie, I.
Speaker 3: Can't figure out if I am normal or sick and
Speaker 3: twisted for looking forward to the Netflix series about this
Speaker 3: grief author. Yeah, no kidding, that'll be interesting. There needs
Speaker 3: to be a really really good documentary about that. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 3: yeah yeah Jack. A final thought, Oh god, bless you,
Speaker 3: this is aproposa.
Speaker 1: Nothing just came across this headline in the New York Post.
Speaker 1: I could hear them working on me. Why more patients
Speaker 1: are choosing to stay awake during three hour facelifts?
Speaker 5: What well?
Speaker 2: I just passed out. I could hear them working on me.
Speaker 3: Oh golly, oh boy. I was thinking of my final
Speaker 3: thought during the last segment. There are some presidents have
Speaker 3: been referred to as caretaker presidents.
Speaker 2: They really didn't do much whatever.
Speaker 5: The opposite of that is. That's Donald j.
Speaker 2: No kidding, crap. He is not a caretaker president, no doubt.
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Speaker 2: We will see tomorrow.
Speaker 1: God bless America. I'm strong and geta And the reporting
Speaker 1: was yesterday. It was just accidental that he didn't die.
Speaker 1: He should have died. He stepped outside to take a call.
Speaker 2: Or a smoke.
Speaker 1: I forget what I read yesterday, but he like he went,
Speaker 1: he went down the stairs. He was headed outside for something.
Speaker 2: Hit like this, Dude, the y'all.
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