Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Ketty.
Speaker 2: Arm Strong and Getty and he Armstrong and Yetty. I
Speaker 2: want to tell you, Gor Sutch.
Speaker 1: I want to tell you Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind.
Speaker 3: And you will pay the price.
Speaker 1: You won't know what's hit you. That was the most
Speaker 1: powerful Democrat in the Senate threatening Republican appointed Supreme Court justices.
Speaker 4: That's one of the most disgusting things ever said. You're
Speaker 4: really a leader of either party, it really is. They're
Speaker 4: dating back to Jim Crow.
Speaker 1: There's way too much threatening by all the powerful on
Speaker 1: both sides, unfortunately, but.
Speaker 2: That was really really all.
Speaker 4: So you have an atmosphere or the rhetoric against the
Speaker 4: Supreme Court for disagreeing with your particular politics right now anyway,
Speaker 4: you know, it's worth a quick aside. When for sixty
Speaker 4: five years the lefty justices controlled the Supreme Court, conservatives
Speaker 4: would just say, hey, I don't agree with that, that's wrong.
Speaker 4: But now that conservatives have some level of control, you
Speaker 4: hear that sort of absolutely horrifying rhetica.
Speaker 1: And that's barely true. We went through all the statistics
Speaker 1: last week with what's.
Speaker 2: Her name that we really like.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, Anastasia Both Yeah, we went through this foundation.
Speaker 4: It's just not it's just not true.
Speaker 1: In fact, all of Trump's biggest things, his justice has
Speaker 1: won against him McCourt when it gains him his biggest
Speaker 1: things to tariffs and and birthright citizenship and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: So the whole it's a Republican maga court. Even if
Speaker 1: it were true, it wouldn't be something you should complain about,
Speaker 1: as you just pointed out, it was a Democrat led
Speaker 1: court forever.
Speaker 2: But it's just not true.
Speaker 4: Anyway, I do want to talk more about the birthright
Speaker 4: citizenship ruling, which I found lame. But yeah, so it's
Speaker 4: purely this vile rhetoric against the Supreme Court is purely
Speaker 4: a fundraising voter enthusiasm strategy. But it's incredibly irresponsible and dangerous,
Speaker 4: so dangerous in fact, that a couple of the Lady
Speaker 4: Justices went before Congress yesterday to say, hey, we need
Speaker 4: more and better security.
Speaker 3: The Supreme Court Police reports a thirty eight percent increase
Speaker 3: and threats to members of the Court over the past year,
Speaker 3: threats that Justice Barrett described firsthand.
Speaker 5: I didn't expect that performing this service was going to
Speaker 5: put me in the position of explaining to my children
Speaker 5: what a bulletproofest was and why I had to wear one.
Speaker 1: Justice Kagan argued the security measures are necessary in today's
Speaker 1: threat environment. Some of us, those threats have come very close,
Speaker 1: and all of us live with a non knowledge that
Speaker 1: they may again materialize. We all know about Kavanaugh, where
Speaker 1: they actually arrested a guy who's in prison still with
Speaker 1: an assassination threat against him, caught him outside his house
Speaker 1: with a gun and zip tized and all kinds of
Speaker 1: stuff that would have been awful, really really awful. Kagan
Speaker 1: went on to talk about how she is to go
Speaker 1: around with no security all the time. She could go
Speaker 1: wherever she wanted, and now she has to have security
Speaker 1: always right. In his end of the year report for
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, Chief Justice Roberts said threats against the
Speaker 1: judges had more than tripled in the last decade. Federal
Speaker 1: marshals had investigated more than a thousand threats against judges
Speaker 1: in the previous five years. Hundreds of federal judges have
Speaker 1: faced threats this year, and Justice Kagan said the Supreme
Speaker 1: Court Police Force is projecting a thirty eight percent threat
Speaker 1: increase this year on top of the twenty five percent
Speaker 1: increase last year. And as Jack said, she described the
Speaker 1: minimal minimal security when she joined the court in twenty ten,
Speaker 1: when she clerked for Enton and Scalea, the justices didn't
Speaker 1: have twenty four hour protection.
Speaker 2: They didn't need it.
Speaker 4: So it's all about these times we're living in the
Speaker 4: political rhetoric. Justice Barrett went on when.
Speaker 5: Threats to my life were particularly intense a few years ago,
Speaker 5: around the time of the Dobsleek, my security detail sent
Speaker 5: me home with a bulletproof vest and I carried it
Speaker 5: into my house, put it into my bedroom, dropped it
Speaker 5: down on a table, turned around, and my twelve year
Speaker 5: old son was standing in the doorway of my bedroom
Speaker 5: and he wanted to know what it was and why
Speaker 5: I had it, And I didn't know how to respond.
Speaker 4: And Justice Barrett, who has been a bit of a
Speaker 4: wobbly vote, certainly from Trump's perspective or maybe even from
Speaker 4: the conservative perspective, is probably getting it from both sides.
Speaker 4: Her home was targeted in a swatting attack, and then
Speaker 4: she told lawmakers, multiple deliveries arrive in the name of
Speaker 4: and this should have made the news, but I guess
Speaker 4: it takes too much explaining. They get packages at their home,
Speaker 4: but the name is of the son of Federal Judge
Speaker 4: Esther Salas's son murdered in twenty twenty at the family's
Speaker 4: home by a gunman posting as a delivery driver. So
Speaker 4: the Barrett family gets packages addressed to young mister Solace
Speaker 4: at their hard.
Speaker 2: For God's sake, people, what are we doing?
Speaker 1: You would question whether or not you should have taken
Speaker 1: the job, or whether you should step down.
Speaker 4: I would you know, if I'm bring a bullet because
Speaker 4: I decided to become a Supreme Court justice, that's terrible.
Speaker 2: But if I see my child shot down, right, it's
Speaker 2: unimaginable anyway.
Speaker 4: So the two justices were requesting some extra money from
Speaker 4: Congress to beef up security around the justices, and it's
Speaker 4: a no brainer. I hope it goes through immediately and
Speaker 4: with the unanimous vote. It's terrible that it's needed, but
Speaker 4: it absolutely is needed. And the question we always ask
Speaker 4: in this sort of discussion, will it ever go back?
Speaker 1: I doubt it. Security stuff doesn't seem to ever go back.
Speaker 1: I mean, one hundred and fifty years ago, you could
Speaker 1: walk up to the White House and knock on the door,
Speaker 1: and then little by little over time it has become
Speaker 1: a fortress. Now you can barely get close enough to
Speaker 1: see it.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4: They mentioned in the Wall Street Journal that Senator Sheldon
Speaker 4: white House of the Democratic Rhoda Island, has made smearing
Speaker 4: the justices as corrupt a personal mission.
Speaker 2: He's constantly saying stuff like that.
Speaker 1: But I don't want to make this partisan, because well,
Speaker 1: the New York Times had a big story, oh sixty
Speaker 1: minutes did it too. They did their story about justices
Speaker 1: under threat below the level of the Supreme Court. They
Speaker 1: focused on that woman you just mentioned whose son was killed,
Speaker 1: which didn't really have to do with her politics are
Speaker 1: judging weirdly enough, but regardless, they made it all about Trump.
Speaker 1: Trump has said horrible things about all your lower level courts,
Speaker 1: and all those justices feel scared. And they left out
Speaker 1: the Supreme Court because if they had gotten into the
Speaker 1: Supreme Court, you'd have had to focus on the fact
Speaker 1: that Joe Biden said many, many, many times the Ultramaga
Speaker 1: Supreme Court it's a rubber stamp for Trump and all
Speaker 1: that sort of thing. Illegitimate court guy that used to
Speaker 1: be the chair of the Judicial Committee. You would think
Speaker 1: would know better than to pretend that the justices were
Speaker 1: just doing the bidding of Donald Trump, especially when it's
Speaker 1: not true.
Speaker 2: Right now, but it's everything's clickbait.
Speaker 4: Everything's about fundraising and whipping up the electric and yeah
Speaker 4: for in the name of being fair. Yeah, Trump has
Speaker 4: said some ridiculous things about the horrible court.
Speaker 2: Just terrible, horrible, horrible, horrible. Yeah, they come out with
Speaker 2: some of those.
Speaker 1: You know, it happens twice a week where a sitting
Speaker 1: judge in Omaha has declared Trump can't do this or that,
Speaker 1: and then Trump will say all kinds of horrible things
Speaker 1: about the guy or woman. I had another point I
Speaker 1: was going to make about the justices and saying something
Speaker 1: about the justices and oh yeah, the Amy Cony Barrett thing,
Speaker 1: the sweating thing. I think the timing of that was
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Speaker 2: What is cable news like talking about diarrhea. Yeah, I've
Speaker 2: noticed that. And explosive Is that the word that we're hearing?
Speaker 1: Usually usually that's the word they use, Yes, for bleuey,
Speaker 1: that's yeah. Why do you suppose they like talking about
Speaker 1: that because we all hate it so much? It gets
Speaker 1: your attention. What's causing that? I want to avoid?
Speaker 2: What's causing that?
Speaker 4: Well, if somebody says disease causing a runny nose, we'll
Speaker 4: have information next. I might stay tuned, but I probably
Speaker 4: won't avoid. But the ed the ed the expression.
Speaker 2: I'm staying to.
Speaker 4: Oh no, they got the tips to avoid the explosion.
Speaker 2: Avoid pre washed bagged salads. I always thought those were safe.
Speaker 2: I thought those were the safest ones. Mmm. Okay, they
Speaker 2: don't wash them very well. You know how I avoid it? Yeah,
Speaker 2: I do. I don't need no dang salad. That's why
Speaker 2: I pray for your colon. I just had it checked out.
Speaker 2: I had a physical I'm as I'm perfect.
Speaker 4: Oh Lord, please protect Jack's colon in spite of the
Speaker 4: abuse he he'sponed I have.
Speaker 2: I was recognizing this. Thank you God for that.
Speaker 1: Just to do genetics, I got the genetics of I'm
Speaker 1: just predisposed to have local lesterol, low blood pressure, all
Speaker 1: that sort of stuff. No matter what I do, so
Speaker 1: I'm protected against this, this sort of crazy thing.
Speaker 4: You come from hardy stock. It's a blessing. I don't
Speaker 4: know if that's correct. I catch every cold that comes
Speaker 4: my way, that's true. But you're still kicking your folks
Speaker 4: are still doing great, right, Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, very
Speaker 4: very much fantastic.
Speaker 2: Oh man, we got all sorts of good stuff to
Speaker 2: talk about.
Speaker 4: Former Miss North Dakota has pled guilty to daycare fraud Minnesota.
Speaker 2: Damn North Dakota.
Speaker 1: Carpetbaggers for Miss North Dakota went over to Minnesota to
Speaker 1: rip off taxpayers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because anybody.
Speaker 4: Who wanted to steal from Minnesota, good right, thanks to Governor.
Speaker 2: What's its the lame brain? Now?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 2: We almost vp.
Speaker 1: We went through with Katie Grimes last week, the fraud
Speaker 1: in California, which makes Minnesota seem like nothing.
Speaker 2: It's just the amount of money that gets stolen from us.
Speaker 1: And as I always say before we take a break,
Speaker 1: I don't understand why you liberals aren't more upset about
Speaker 1: this than conservatives. We wish that the government didn't have
Speaker 1: a role in any of this stuff. There are all
Speaker 1: these programs would just go away. You like the programs,
Speaker 1: So why, I mean you you think they should exist.
Speaker 1: I assume because you want to help people. They aren't
Speaker 1: helping people. They're stealing the money. That should make you
Speaker 1: more angry than me. Actually, because you're stealing it. That's
Speaker 1: how stupid politics is.
Speaker 4: Though, any criticism of the program I'm in favor of,
Speaker 4: including the fact that it's being stolen from, I won't
Speaker 4: accept that. I'm going to pretend that it's not happening.
Speaker 4: And the effect of it is you exactly point out,
Speaker 4: is that what you want to happen doesn't happen because
Speaker 4: it's getting stolen from your stupid idiot.
Speaker 1: I think giving the downtrodden money enables them. I don't
Speaker 1: want to give them the money. They aren't getting the
Speaker 1: money I'm winning. I just hate that in terms of
Speaker 1: that issue, I just hate the fact that it's being
Speaker 1: stolen as opposed to I get to keep the money.
Speaker 4: Good Lord. That was the voice of the patriarchy right there, folks.
Speaker 4: That was shocking. Doesn't want to help the downtrodden. You're
Speaker 4: in favor of income equality, inequality anyway?
Speaker 2: Yes, for that one. Damn it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well ye, actually I am A system that would
Speaker 1: try to make it equal is not going to work Tonightmarrey.
Speaker 2: It would be oppression, be horrible.
Speaker 4: Speaking of which, did you know a contingent of Americans
Speaker 4: went to the Ayah Toola's funeral. No, I'll tell you
Speaker 4: all about it, fantastic, among other things on the way, Marstrow.
Speaker 5: To me, capitalism at its core not a redeemable system, nar.
Speaker 4: Raed see saying in capitalism then we were talking about
Speaker 4: the Democratic Socialists of America yesterday.
Speaker 3: We're not here to make the democrats a little bit better.
Speaker 3: We're here to actually enact socialism. And socialism is not
Speaker 3: just better capitalism. It's overthrowing an entire, entire capitalisty.
Speaker 4: It's our duty, dsay to cultivate this power. So they
Speaker 4: want to actually overthrow capitalism in the Constitution.
Speaker 2: That sort of thing.
Speaker 4: Got this note from Steve in Beautiful Eugene Oregon. I
Speaker 4: remember taking an oath when I enlisted in the Marine
Speaker 4: Corps and again when I swore in as a law
Speaker 4: enforcement officer. Quote, I solemnly swear to support and defend
Speaker 4: the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign.
Speaker 2: And domestic, which he put in bold face.
Speaker 4: Sure seems we have a fifth column, well funded and
Speaker 4: open about what they want, who qualify as domestic enemies.
Speaker 2: I would agree. I remember as a.
Speaker 4: Kid learning about the First Amendment, the one exception they
Speaker 4: always gave was you can't threaten the violent overthrow the
Speaker 4: United States government, and the DSA is more or less
Speaker 4: doing that. The Special Report with Brett Bear last night
Speaker 4: had a report on the DSA. I think they're gonna
Speaker 4: do a little series on them. It was very milk toasty.
Speaker 1: Oh, I mean after we went through all those various
Speaker 1: factions in the DSA yesterday that.
Speaker 2: Are out and out maoists.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there are like four or five different openly communist
Speaker 4: factions of the DSSA who are part of the ruling committee.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I think old Brett maybe and over a
Speaker 4: bit too far backward to try to be fair and
Speaker 4: balanced these balanced. These people are communists bent on the
Speaker 4: overthrow of the United States. But you can just say
Speaker 4: it anyway. I thought this was interesting. Did you know
Speaker 4: a group of young influencers went to American influencers went
Speaker 4: to Iyotolaja Manes funeral.
Speaker 1: Oh no, I did not know. That I knew that
Speaker 1: the was it some New York Times. I think they
Speaker 1: had reporters there, but I didn't know about influencers being there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, a group of young Americans were there, with at
Speaker 4: least one waving a flag and chanting down with the USA.
Speaker 4: I didn't know that that one was Jackson Hinkel, co
Speaker 4: founder of the American Communist Party the Red Green Alliance.
Speaker 2: Is there anybody out there who still thinks that with.
Speaker 4: Some sort of paranoid fantasy, I came up with the
Speaker 4: Red Green Alliance is a thing is Loamists and communists
Speaker 4: have the same goal overthrow Western civilization. So they joined together,
Speaker 4: each one secretly thinking after the revolution.
Speaker 2: I'll take over anyway.
Speaker 4: So Jackson Hankel was their founder of the American Commedy Party,
Speaker 4: accompanied by Christopher Halali, another ACP founding member and high
Speaker 4: Bailiff of Orange County, Vermont, a government official, and Max Blumenthal,
Speaker 4: editor of The Gray Zone, a far left site known
Speaker 4: for its favorable coverage of the Chinese, Russian, and Venezuelan governments,
Speaker 4: And of course, young Kala Walsh, the child Democrat political
Speaker 4: star turned to Islamist that the Free Press has actually
Speaker 4: written about a fair amount. She is a classic wealthy
Speaker 4: young woman who's turned to radical politics.
Speaker 2: She absolutely you know, I have no knowledge that she
Speaker 2: plans on this.
Speaker 4: I absolutely could see her as an early seventies style
Speaker 4: radical activist who perpetrates acts of violence.
Speaker 2: She's that far down the line.
Speaker 4: And one of these jackasses was apparently behind the internet
Speaker 4: rumor that the Argentina beating Egypt thing was a Zionist
Speaker 4: conspiracy rigged by a Jewish referee.
Speaker 2: Wasn't Jewish? These people are not.
Speaker 4: Go and waving a flag down with the USA at
Speaker 4: the Ayatolis funeral.
Speaker 2: And he's gonna be led back into the country.
Speaker 1: You know. My favorite part of Argentina versus Egypt, aside
Speaker 1: from the fact have you watched you the last ten
Speaker 1: minutes yet?
Speaker 2: That is an exciting ten minutes of soccer.
Speaker 1: You pick it up at about almost eighty minutes because
Speaker 1: it looks like it's completely over and Argentina is gonna lose.
Speaker 1: But anyway, the Egyptian fans were the big pharaohheads, which
Speaker 1: I think is a hilarious look.
Speaker 2: Love it.
Speaker 1: In terms of rooting, Yeah, there's so much downtime in soccer.
Speaker 1: You gotta come up with chance and costumes and all
Speaker 1: kinds of different things to kill the time. Uh yeah,
Speaker 1: it's not downtime. They're playing. There's just not much happening
Speaker 1: during the playing.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, that's the voice of ignorance. Folks.
Speaker 4: There's a lot happening, it's just not particularly interest.
Speaker 2: Got to get the ball from way over there to
Speaker 2: way over there. It takes a minute.
Speaker 1: There's a lot more walking than I realized. I saw
Speaker 1: a video where they were featuring Holland the Viking, striking
Speaker 1: Viking guy, and they just stayed on him. A lot
Speaker 1: more walking than you realize. To rest up in between
Speaker 1: your sprints, didn't held a fascinating FIFA thought coming up,
Speaker 1: we'll get this.
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Speaker 1: What uh the last most recent time I flew. It's
Speaker 1: just all the add ons. So you see a price
Speaker 1: and you think, Okay, that's what it's going to cost
Speaker 1: for me to fly from here to there. But then
Speaker 1: you start, you know, because there's four legs to the
Speaker 1: trip to there and two back or whatever. And you
Speaker 1: start choosing your seats and then do you want to
Speaker 1: eat anything or all these various things, and then the
Speaker 1: ticket is way different yeah than it originally was, like,
Speaker 1: not even close to the same amount.
Speaker 4: Everything's all a cart.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Soon they're gonna say, would you like a seat mate
Speaker 4: who weighs less than two hundred and fifty pounds. That's
Speaker 4: an extra fifteen dollars.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take one bag, and you're in a chargement
Speaker 1: extra eighty bucks or whatever for checking a bag, so
Speaker 1: that's not part of the ticket. And then I want
Speaker 1: you what is the original ticket price you're giving me
Speaker 1: if it doesn't include a seat. Then you pick a
Speaker 1: seat and the cheapest one is adds twenty nine dollars. Well, well,
Speaker 1: then what was the ticket price you gave me? So
Speaker 1: you gave me a little.
Speaker 4: Pate and switching what standing room you get your strap hanger.
Speaker 4: Well that's not an option. If we an option, that
Speaker 4: would be fine, But so you gave me a price.
Speaker 4: It's like it'll cost forty dollars to get this restaurant.
Speaker 4: And then you sit down and they say, if you
Speaker 4: want food, you got, you gotta give us just much money. Yeah,
Speaker 4: even having a single salteine is nineteen more, right, ninety
Speaker 4: dollars more? Yeah, what is that price? That price doesn't exist.
Speaker 4: It's a it's a bait and switchy little hook.
Speaker 2: I guess.
Speaker 1: We were talking to World Cup soccer, so we got
Speaker 1: our news person out in the newsroom, Jensen who she
Speaker 1: said she was a vote rooting for England because the underdog,
Speaker 1: and I thought, I don't think that's true.
Speaker 2: I looked up.
Speaker 1: You know, England is the favorite against Argentina today, so
Speaker 1: if you primarily want to root for the underdog, that's
Speaker 1: the defending champion, Argentina with their old man Messy as
Speaker 1: their star. But so I'm written for Argentina for some reason,
Speaker 1: no particular reason whatsoever. I mentioned that there's way more
Speaker 1: walking in soccer than I'd ever realized before, because I
Speaker 1: saw a great focused on the big blonde guy Holland
Speaker 1: for Norway. Too bad they got knocked out of the tournament.
Speaker 1: Were they just striking Viking where they just followed him
Speaker 1: with the camera and I had you don't usually notice
Speaker 1: this or whatever, but there's a lot of him just
Speaker 1: walking down the entire what is it about one hundred
Speaker 1: yards so long, the field's bas more than bigger than
Speaker 1: a football field. Just walking a lot, just walking, and
Speaker 1: then the ball came near him and then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, boom like lightning. He was there and kicked
Speaker 1: a goal. But he had walked all the way.
Speaker 2: Down there, so I didn't realize you got to rest
Speaker 2: that much. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a key, honestly to being fresh, because these guys,
Speaker 4: you know, they've been playing for ninety minutes and they
Speaker 4: sprint like maniacs. That's why they you know, they conserve
Speaker 4: their energy. You want to hear a fascinating FIFA World
Speaker 4: Cup factor corrupt? Is that the fascinating fact? No, everybody
Speaker 4: knows that the British, the England team, the three Lions,
Speaker 4: they call.
Speaker 2: Him Ah because that's what's on the shirt.
Speaker 4: They've scored thirteen goals, zero of them by a player
Speaker 4: who plays in the English Premier League, where they're best
Speaker 4: players for a very very long time have played. And
Speaker 4: they think the reason for that is the Premier League
Speaker 4: is so competitive and they play so many games and
Speaker 4: they play so hard that by the time it's World
Speaker 4: Cup time, those guys are worn out, they've got nothing left.
Speaker 4: And so the guys who play like in the Spanish
Speaker 4: League or you know, one of the other many euro
Speaker 4: soccer leagues, they're a lot fresher because it's kind of
Speaker 4: a more laid back deal.
Speaker 1: So if I'm a brit do I like that or
Speaker 1: hate that? I mean, because obviously you care about winning
Speaker 1: the World Cup. But if you follow soccer in your country,
Speaker 1: wouldn't you want your countrymen to play for your teams?
Speaker 1: I would, but I don't know how that goes culturally.
Speaker 1: Do I care if our you know, exciting young strikers
Speaker 1: a Spaniard? Really I root for American sports, where you
Speaker 1: swap players and they're from all over the world, and
Speaker 1: you swap them every a couple of years, and every
Speaker 1: year your new roster is unrecognizable, So I don't know
Speaker 1: if it matters.
Speaker 2: Good point.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the other thing about soccer, and you have talked
Speaker 1: about this for years and I never watched soccer, so
Speaker 1: I was only kind of aware of it. What's what
Speaker 1: the historyonics the acting? Like your femur was broken and
Speaker 1: the bone is sticking out through the skin when somebody
Speaker 1: brushes up next to you.
Speaker 4: What multiple compound fractures. Part of it is just trying
Speaker 4: to draw foul. It's it's it's flopping.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, but there's a difference between flopping and acting
Speaker 1: like you're in so much pain, just writhing in pain.
Speaker 1: In our sports, in the NFL, you do the opposite.
Speaker 1: You walk off the field if the bone is sticking out,
Speaker 1: to show you're a tough guy.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: My favorite one was a mem a cartoon hockey player,
Speaker 4: hold onto my teeth until my shift is over. Soccer
Speaker 4: player guy ran by me writhing on the ground right
Speaker 4: like he's been shot. Uh, you know, And I used
Speaker 4: to really think that was so despicable and stupid. Part
Speaker 4: of it's trying to draw owl the part of it.
Speaker 4: Part of it is my team just had like a
Speaker 4: really aggressive attack. Everybody needs a breath. I roll around
Speaker 4: on the ground for a minute, Okay.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I saw one of those uh with France and UH
Speaker 1: in Spain where a guy was down for a long time.
Speaker 4: So that might have been a breather, right, Yeah, that's
Speaker 4: part of it. Yeah, and you just want to get
Speaker 4: in the head of the referee. Boy, are really beating
Speaker 4: up on those guys today. I better look out for
Speaker 4: fouls It's all kind of, you know, several different things.
Speaker 1: At once France lost, they were the favorite to win
Speaker 1: the whole bang thing. They lost as they got shut out,
Speaker 1: didn't score a goal. I mean it was like it's
Speaker 1: like the Germans coming through.
Speaker 2: Something, something marching in the shade. Something. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I was on an Alaska cruise, as I've been describing
Speaker 4: for the last couple of days, with a handful, a
Speaker 4: pretty good handful of folks from feign Lands who are
Speaker 4: super super into the World Cup, and the consensus at
Speaker 4: one table I was sitting at with a bunch of
Speaker 4: Euros was that, oh yeah, nobody can touch France. They
Speaker 4: are head and shoulders above everybody else and off they
Speaker 4: go Spain.
Speaker 2: Looked great anyway. That's probably enough soccer talk.
Speaker 4: Oh except that Argentine and England hate each other because
Speaker 4: of a bunch of controversial games through like the last
Speaker 4: century and the Fuck Islands War. So it's going to
Speaker 4: be quite the set to today if you get a
Speaker 4: chance to watch it, watch it.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, well I'll throw in my story here. So
Speaker 1: some talk yesterday about how the FBI this is the
Speaker 1: match they're gonna have to put the most security into
Speaker 1: because of the long standing rivalry between England and Argentina,
Speaker 1: and as an American, I'm like, what, And we have
Speaker 1: rivalries in this country, not like they do in the
Speaker 1: rest of the world, which I didn't know anything about
Speaker 1: until I was in I was in Italy many years ago,
Speaker 1: gladys and I just happened to be there because I'm
Speaker 1: not a soccer fan. I wasn't there for this. Sienna
Speaker 1: was playing Florence in soccer doesn't seem like it would
Speaker 1: be to me at all. It's like, you know, Springfield
Speaker 1: and Shelbyville are having a match, big deal. And so
Speaker 1: I got to town and there was a ring around
Speaker 1: the entire city of Sienna with cops and barricades and
Speaker 1: all kinds of security like I had never seen at
Speaker 1: that time anywhere in my life. And it was all
Speaker 1: because Sienna and Florence were playing each other. And they
Speaker 1: hate each other so much. They have so many fights
Speaker 1: and bombings and stabbings and everything anytime they played each
Speaker 1: other soccer because of some battle they fought in fifteen
Speaker 1: thirty eight, and that's why they work out.
Speaker 4: And that's why they're still so mad at each other.
Speaker 4: I'd tell you what, never turn your back on a
Speaker 4: CN and the amount of security they had for this
Speaker 4: soccer match was just amazing.
Speaker 1: And if they get that, they weren't allowing anybody from
Speaker 1: Florence in or anybody who was rooting for Florence. So
Speaker 1: if they found anything like the colors or any indication
Speaker 1: whatsoever that you're rooting for the Florence team going into Siena,
Speaker 1: they wouldn't allow you in there.
Speaker 2: I just said, this is nuts. We don't do this
Speaker 2: in the United States.
Speaker 1: Is as angry as we get about Dodgers, Giants or whatever,
Speaker 1: we don't have to have ring the stadium with this
Speaker 1: level of security, which I found pretty interesting on its own.
Speaker 1: And like my buddy, I think that it's about sixty
Speaker 1: miles apart Florence and Siena. Florence is the way more
Speaker 1: famous city, but they're about the same size and their rivals.
Speaker 1: And my buddy lived in Sienna and his family had
Speaker 1: been there for hundreds of years. He lived in this
Speaker 1: four hundred year old house, very very cool, near this
Speaker 1: city square in Siena. But he hated Florence. He just
Speaker 1: hated it. He never went there. Wow, he would not
Speaker 1: go to Florence, even though each each city had to
Speaker 1: go in the separate end of this Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah yeah. There were only one way in and one
Speaker 1: way out for different fans, and they sat you in
Speaker 1: different sections so you couldn't possibly come across each other.
Speaker 2: Wild yeah.
Speaker 4: I've seen that in a couple of international matches where
Speaker 4: they'll have the cops from whatever is the host land sitting.
Speaker 4: There's like a line of cops between the two sections
Speaker 4: of the stand and if anybody gets too close to
Speaker 4: the cops or tries to cross it, by god, there's going.
Speaker 2: To be a night sticking. It's unbelieva.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 1: So this particular friend of mine, he wouldn't go to Florence,
Speaker 1: he wouldn't go to France. He hated the French so much.
Speaker 1: I know another English guy that's never been to France
Speaker 1: because he hates the French so more. And we have
Speaker 1: this view in America of Europe being so much more
Speaker 1: sophisticated and above it.
Speaker 2: All than we are.
Speaker 1: And how many people do you know in the United
Speaker 1: States who I've never set foot in Oklahoma, you know,
Speaker 1: or who are like that? Nobody, I've never known anybody
Speaker 1: like that, right, right, But it's pretty common in Europe.
Speaker 1: If you've ever bought the absolute hogwash that the America
Speaker 1: is the most racist country on earth, how about you
Speaker 1: ask a Chinese person about the Japanese, or ask a
Speaker 1: Filipino about either one of them, just for instance, or
Speaker 1: ask us Cnan about what.
Speaker 2: Was the other place? Florence, Florence. Yeah, damn Florencer's unbelievable.
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Speaker 1: So the story didn't get a near as much of
Speaker 1: attention as it probably should have, and it's going to disappear.
Speaker 1: The New York Post had it and Politico. Those are
Speaker 1: the only major news organizations I've seen covered at all.
Speaker 1: Chuck Grassley, who's ninety two years old running the Senate
Speaker 1: Judiciary Committee, yesterday revealed that old Jack Smith, you remember
Speaker 1: him investigating everything that was Trump, His office had spied
Speaker 1: on forty four different lawmakers from both parties, house members
Speaker 1: and senators, where he read all their emails, all their
Speaker 1: texts for a long time, completely blowing up any constitutional
Speaker 1: rights that these people have against that sort of thing.
Speaker 1: He just went around him and just read their emails
Speaker 1: and texts. And Chuck Grassley had it yesterday, and it's
Speaker 1: getting very little attention. I think it'd be I think
Speaker 1: partially because it's bipartisan and if he can't choose one
Speaker 1: side or another, it's not a fun story.
Speaker 4: Well, that's an incredible trampling of the division of the
Speaker 4: branches of government. You know, wow, boy, I think your
Speaker 4: point is right. It's discouraging, but it's true. There's no
Speaker 4: Trump is right or Trump is wrong to be decided
Speaker 4: on this, just kind of whatever. No, it takes a
Speaker 4: little explaining.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they were spying on Karen Bass and Corey Booker
Speaker 1: and all kinds of Democrats, along with lots of Republicans,
Speaker 1: Susan Collins, Tom Cotton, Eleast, Stephanic whatever, but reading their
Speaker 1: personal emails and texts.
Speaker 2: That's wild. Yeah, not cool, awful.
Speaker 1: How about that happens so much more than we know
Speaker 1: you think, then we'll never know. M Just like it
Speaker 1: work somebody wherever you work, because it's in the fine print.
Speaker 1: They're reading all your emails, all your texts. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: is Mark Zuckerberg. It's fine, good luck.
Speaker 4: I enjoy it. It's boring, boring exactly. Yeah, Hey, coming up,
Speaker 4: you mentioned this yesterday, Jack and I did a little
Speaker 4: digging into it, and it's absolutely insane.
Speaker 2: The Chicago Teachers.
Speaker 4: Union, they probably ought to all be rounded up and
Speaker 4: putting some sort of prison camp. They're avalidly communists. They're
Speaker 4: joining with the DSA. They're radical, radical leftists. We'll tell
Speaker 4: you about some of their and goings and lots and
Speaker 4: pro Iran against the United States. Yeah, what the hell
Speaker 4: the teachers these people have? Never mind? Do they have
Speaker 4: access to our children? They've got practically exclusive access to
Speaker 4: our children for eight hours a day.
Speaker 2: Good god, what are we letting happen under our watch? Here?
Speaker 1: That and other stuff on the way.
Speaker 7: Russia has taken enormous casualties in this war. The latest
Speaker 7: estimate by some researchers is that it may have lost
Speaker 7: as many as five hundred thousand killed one point four
Speaker 7: million injured and killed in this war. And the other
Speaker 7: problem is is that the Kremlin wants to pretend to
Speaker 7: most Russians that this war is quite far away.
Speaker 1: Stunning numbers, almost half a million dead, they're approaching the
Speaker 1: numbers we had in our civil war on both sides together.
Speaker 4: World War II wesk numbers right at least for some
Speaker 4: of the major combatants.
Speaker 1: And Vietnam was a hangover in this country that continues
Speaker 1: decades later. Sixty seventy thousand dead, Russia's lost a half
Speaker 1: a million men.
Speaker 2: That is just stunning. To take a little chunk of Ukraine.
Speaker 4: Yeah, just amazing, and Putin is desperate in a number
Speaker 4: of different ways. The deep into Russia, attacked by Ukrainian
Speaker 4: drones among other things, but also just the need for
Speaker 4: more cannon fodder. It's all horrifying. Patrick Ravel on ABC
Speaker 4: News continues.
Speaker 7: Russia has been reluctant to declare a general mobilization, so
Speaker 7: it's not able to call on all of its huge population. Instead,
Speaker 7: it basically needs people to sign up who are willing
Speaker 7: to come for money. And that is something that we
Speaker 7: heard again and again and again from the Russian troops
Speaker 7: that we spoke to at this pow camp that the
Speaker 7: main reason they had come to fight was for money.
Speaker 1: Not knowing and not reading the papers, I guess, not
Speaker 1: reading the New York Times knowing what a way to
Speaker 1: when you get to Russia.
Speaker 4: That's the convenience of controlling the media for all. Vladimir Putin. Yeah,
Speaker 4: they talked to these people at Ukrainian prisoner or war camps,
Speaker 4: the Russians being held because now they can be honest
Speaker 4: because they have nothing to hide anymore.
Speaker 2: But it gets even worse.
Speaker 7: There is a network of different visa and employment companies
Speaker 7: that are sometimes Russian and are sometimes local, and they
Speaker 7: some of them are trying to recruit the man openly
Speaker 7: saying you will come to Russia, you will join the
Speaker 7: Russian nursery, and you will get citizenship and money, and
Speaker 7: you will get quite a sizeable sign on bonus.
Speaker 4: That was headited perhaps a bit too tightly, the recruiting
Speaker 4: for soldiers in Africa. Both government and private recruiters are
Speaker 4: going into Africa promising all those things, and the folks think, wow,
Speaker 4: I could really change my family's lives forever. Yeah, it
Speaker 4: sounds like a nice job I'm getting in Russia.
Speaker 2: I'm going to do it.
Speaker 4: Then you end up with a gun in your hand
Speaker 4: and a gun at your back, and as Jack pointed out,
Speaker 4: your life expectancy once you hit the front lines is
Speaker 4: twenty minutes.
Speaker 1: Which is just unimaginable. You can't believe that it's even true.
Speaker 1: That was a Peter Baker story in the New York
Speaker 1: Times several weeks ago.
Speaker 2: Twenty minutes. Once you get to the front and you're dead.
Speaker 2: And there's more.
Speaker 7: One research that said to me, they use the African
Speaker 7: fighters mostly as cannon fodder. They come over, they're often
Speaker 7: not well trained, and in any case they then force
Speaker 7: them towards the front line because they want to use
Speaker 7: them in an assault wave. They want to send this
Speaker 7: wave of bodies forward to try and exhaust Ukrainian troops
Speaker 7: and ammunition.
Speaker 1: I can see how as a Ukrainian you would do
Speaker 1: what you gotta do, but that's got to wear on
Speaker 1: your soul to kill all these people who you know,
Speaker 1: just are Oh my god, here comes another wave of
Speaker 1: them when we're going to kill them all, All right,
Speaker 1: let's do it.
Speaker 2: What a choice do we have? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, the fastest way to end this and keep my
Speaker 4: country is to do that.
Speaker 2: No choice. Yeah, one more clip.
Speaker 7: We were taking into another yard and lined up there
Speaker 7: with just lots of men from Africa, Southeast Asia, some
Speaker 7: from Egypt for a variety of reasons, had ended up
Speaker 7: in the Russian military. There's been many twists in this war,
Speaker 7: and this is yet another unexpected one.
Speaker 4: And as we were discussing yesterday, the corruption in the
Speaker 4: Russian military, it runs from the top to the very bottom,
Speaker 4: or even at the squad level. Whoever the sergeant in
Speaker 4: charge of the squad makes you bribe him or you're
Speaker 4: the cannon fodder. And so every level of command in
Speaker 4: the Russian military is getting a financial incentive for keeping
Speaker 4: this going because they steal from and demand bribes from
Speaker 4: every wave of poor sons of bitches who end up
Speaker 4: machine gunned. They're making money hand over fist and are
Speaker 4: not in a terrible amount of physical danger themselves.
Speaker 1: My prediction this ends, I don't know if it would
Speaker 1: end it or not. Putin gets taken out by somebody
Speaker 1: on his side, that is definitely my prediction. Somebody's gonna
Speaker 1: say this can't continue. There's gonna be a coup, ragious
Speaker 1: side or whatever you want.
Speaker 2: To call it. That's what it'll take. I think. Yeah.
Speaker 4: So, why in the name of God is the Chicago
Speaker 4: Teachers Union hosting a communist convention?
Speaker 2: We will discuss next hour. That's pro Iran in this war,
Speaker 2: which is amazing. Yeah, more on the win Armstrong and
Speaker 2: Getty