Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe, Katty.
Speaker 2: Arm Strong and Katty and He.
Speaker 3: Armstrong and Yeddy.
Speaker 4: So Joe Biden's presidency is nearly over. His staff has
Speaker 4: all but checked out. They'd even stopped changing the batteries
Speaker 4: in his life alert. In an interview with USA Today,
Speaker 4: the Old Cout insisted he could have beaten Trump in
Speaker 4: the election. In fact, only two things were holding him back.
Speaker 4: His widespread unpopularity and breathing.
Speaker 2: Old Coot made me laugh more than the punchline.
Speaker 3: Name funny words an old.
Speaker 1: As a yes on a completely different topic. I was
Speaker 1: just thinking about something else and as I said to
Speaker 1: my beautiful bride before work today, so apparently the holiday
Speaker 1: pounds aren't just going to magically melt.
Speaker 2: Off, right, that's funny. I dismounted the scale, similar thought
Speaker 2: myself just in the hole. I mean, it's a trite
Speaker 2: saying at this point, you know, something like moment on
Speaker 2: the lips, Lifetime and the hips or anything like that,
Speaker 2: but it's true. Oh yeah, I mean I'm I'm on
Speaker 2: the scale today and thinking those several eating choices you
Speaker 2: made over the break worth it at this point, not
Speaker 2: in any way whatsoever.
Speaker 1: Putting it on is falling off a log. Taking it
Speaker 1: off is a job anyway. I wish you well in
Speaker 1: your efforts, as I hope you wish me so. A
Speaker 1: couple of things really quickly mentioned Pete hegxath earlier. I
Speaker 1: was looking at this excerpt of this thirty three page
Speaker 1: rant that Elizabeth Warren unleashed as we are heading toward
Speaker 1: the hearings for a number of the appointees or you know,
Speaker 1: designates Secretary of Defense.
Speaker 2: That's a big job, especially with a couple of wars
Speaker 2: going on.
Speaker 1: Oh, incredibly important. Yeah. One of the main problems that
Speaker 1: that Elizabeth Warren has is she hammers him for saying
Speaker 1: things like here it is you've claimed that the dumbest
Speaker 1: phrase on planet Earth in the military is our diversity
Speaker 1: is our strength. Yeah, that makes me want to support him.
Speaker 1: Has noted above, you also called for firing the Chairman
Speaker 1: of the Joint Chiefs and quote any general that was involved,
Speaker 1: any general, admiral whatever, that was involved in any of
Speaker 1: the DEI woke s Oh boy, Now I really really
Speaker 1: want to support him. Additionally, you complained in the war
Speaker 1: on Warriors. There was a book he wrote. I believe
Speaker 1: that quote. A woke military emphasizes the made up military
Speaker 1: values of diversity and inclusion and fails to recruit masculine
Speaker 1: men who make up a warrior class.
Speaker 3: Do you think she's.
Speaker 2: Convincing me to not want him to be Yes. Obviously
Speaker 2: we're the wrong target for this, but I think most
Speaker 2: of those things are at least somewhere in the fifty
Speaker 2: to fifty range in this country. If not, oh please,
Speaker 2: overwhelmingly favored.
Speaker 1: Right, right, So anyway, I don't love Pete's chances at
Speaker 1: this point, but that's sure as hell, ain't why you
Speaker 1: know what the for him?
Speaker 2: You don't like his chances because of what.
Speaker 1: Just whether he's worth the contentious hearings. Plus, I know
Speaker 1: Jony Ernst, a veteran and senator from Iowa, is a
Speaker 1: little concerned about some of the things he said about
Speaker 1: women in combat. He has now walked back those comments. Well,
Speaker 1: that'll all be explained in the hearing, right I think.
Speaker 1: So I hope they give him a fair shot. I
Speaker 1: just I fear that they will go with somebody who
Speaker 1: is has got gravitas and experience, is a good old
Speaker 1: hand in Washington, d C. And he's not going to
Speaker 1: be the energetic force for change that Pete wants to be.
Speaker 1: So I'm anxious to hear the hearings. I hope they
Speaker 1: give him a fair shot. But having said that, I
Speaker 1: came across this in the Wall Street Journal, and the
Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal editorial board is absolutely great, as good
Speaker 1: as there is on questions of woke crap and DEI.
Speaker 1: But they're reporters, many of whom are young. Are absolutely not.
Speaker 1: And I came across this piece Corporate America drew back
Speaker 1: from DEI. The upheaval isn't over. And they named jack
Speaker 1: Ford and Walmart and McDonald's and John Deere and Tractor
Speaker 1: Supply and all sorts of stuff, all sorts of corporations
Speaker 1: like that. But the part that bothered me, and this
Speaker 1: goes to the this is not the beginning of the end,
Speaker 1: it's the end of the beginning, is these reporters. And
Speaker 1: I'm trying to find the exact quote supporters of DEI.
Speaker 1: I say, most boards and executives still support diversity diversity efforts,
Speaker 1: even if they avoid the term and bend to the
Speaker 1: demands of activists or try to sidestep skirmishes with the
Speaker 1: Trump administration. There are still too few people who get
Speaker 1: that DEEI is not about diversity.
Speaker 2: That's fraud.
Speaker 1: They say, it's about making sure that black people and
Speaker 1: brown people and gay people have.
Speaker 3: A fair shot. No, it's not. It's a technique of infiltration.
Speaker 1: You have people who want to tear down the powers
Speaker 1: that be in Western civilization. They're neo Marxists. Woke is
Speaker 1: a pretty good overlap with the neo Marxists. Diversity means
Speaker 1: getting more people in this organization who want to overthrow.
Speaker 3: It like us.
Speaker 1: Equity is just communism, and inclusion is back to that
Speaker 1: first point. Include more people who want to overthrow this
Speaker 1: institution like we do. It masquerades this racial justice. That's
Speaker 1: not what they're trying to do. And that's the point
Speaker 1: that you've got to get. It's it's neo Marxism. It's
Speaker 1: not about race. They're just trying to use racial tensions
Speaker 1: and gripes to take over. As James Lindsay has put it,
Speaker 1: DEI is you call something racist until you control it.
Speaker 1: Having said that, moving along, a couple of woke world leaders,
Speaker 1: actually quite a few are getting the bums rush, including
Speaker 1: woke Elvis cute little Justin Trudeau in Canada, and Matthew
Speaker 1: Lao the National Review did wrote a piece about his
Speaker 1: performance over like the last four or five years.
Speaker 2: It's miserable.
Speaker 1: Not only just skyrocketing immigration that's causing the same sort
Speaker 1: of well they social and economic problems in Europe, but
Speaker 1: other stuff too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's interesting thing. The immigration change in Canada was stark.
Speaker 2: I remember how many years ago, Gladys, do you still
Speaker 2: play the harp?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: Just no, no, no, no. Just saying I remember is
Speaker 1: not eure abusing, Gladys. It's got to be clearly a
Speaker 1: reminiscence of your past life, not your past life like
Speaker 1: I'm a psychic, but you know what I mean. Michael Jgree,
Speaker 1: I think Jack was a little hasty to go to
Speaker 1: the back of the hand there, I think. So, Gladys,
Speaker 1: can you play like a specific time frame?
Speaker 2: Thank you, Gladys. I think she's quiet quitting. But anyway,
Speaker 2: I had some Canadian friends and so I was just
Speaker 2: trying to figure out the time period on this. This
Speaker 2: would have been about twenty years ago. I was running
Speaker 2: around with these Canadian friends of mine and uh and
Speaker 2: I had been I traveled to Canada, a couple of
Speaker 2: summers in her own loved it up there. So I
Speaker 2: was just thinking about it.
Speaker 1: Learned to nothing about how to remove your jacket. Apparently
Speaker 1: I still take off my gat like a girl. It's Canadians.
Speaker 1: They take off their jacket in a very manly way.
Speaker 3: You're damn right.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: I was asking about how to move to Canada, and
Speaker 2: then they were both from Canada and they were like, no,
Speaker 2: that's all. It's really hard to do, really hard to do.
Speaker 2: You have to prove that you can support yourself without
Speaker 2: a job or have a specific kind of skill that
Speaker 2: is needed. And I thought, okay, wow, so that's stuck
Speaker 2: in my head. That is really hard, and I like that.
Speaker 2: I think we should be like that. I remember that
Speaker 2: stuck in my head. Well, Trudeau, we kind of like
Speaker 2: that if you follow the law. Yeah. Well Trudeau came
Speaker 2: in and changed all that. They changed their policies in
Speaker 2: Canada and they went more like the United States currently is,
Speaker 2: where anybody can come in for any reason. They were hardcore.
Speaker 2: You better have enough money to support yourself for life
Speaker 2: and make it clear you're not going to get on
Speaker 2: a program, or you have a job skill we want
Speaker 2: or you can't come for whatever in Canada, right, Europe.
Speaker 1: Is absolutely the same. And then they threw the borders
Speaker 1: open and it's been disaster. Speaking of which we'll get
Speaker 1: to Angela Merkele in just a second.
Speaker 3: But listen to this here.
Speaker 1: Since Trudeau took office and through the third quarter of
Speaker 1: last year, which is the last available data, cumulative real
Speaker 1: GDP per person growth in nine years had been one
Speaker 1: point seven percent in Canada one point seven percent. It
Speaker 1: was eighteen point six percent in the US. When data
Speaker 1: for the fourth quarter of twenty twenty four published, the
Speaker 1: gap will almost certainly widen. Canada's real GDP per capita
Speaker 1: fell for six consecutive quarters as of the third quarter
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3: And is expected to have fallen again.
Speaker 1: This means that Canadians, on average would have seventeen percent
Speaker 1: higher incomes today if Canada's real GDP growth had tracked
Speaker 1: with the United States when Trudeau was in power. Let's
Speaker 1: see Canada's economic and this is not about Canada and
Speaker 1: Trudeau per se, It's about progressive policies. Canada's economic performance
Speaker 1: under Trudeau's even worse when you examine the details. The
Speaker 1: component of GDP that drives long term improvements and living
Speaker 1: standards and productivity. Growth is business investment, but business investment
Speaker 1: in non residential structures like machinery equipment in electrical property
Speaker 1: is down eight point two percent.
Speaker 3: In Canada.
Speaker 1: Cumulative real per capita down eight point two percent since
Speaker 1: Trudeau took office. By contrast, the United States is up
Speaker 1: almost thirty five percent, down eight percent versus up thirty
Speaker 1: five percent.
Speaker 2: Well, their main industries are maple syrup production and hockey pucks,
Speaker 2: and people have found alternative pancake toppings.
Speaker 1: Although again, this is about and the United States had
Speaker 1: wonderful numbers. If if California did not have tech, those
Speaker 1: numbers would be far worse in particularly in Blue states.
Speaker 1: The only thing that saves California's bacon is tech. If
Speaker 1: all of tech moved to Texas overnight, holy crap, would
Speaker 1: there be a reckoning anyway? Under Trudeau, businesses invested less
Speaker 1: while the government, surprise surprise, expanded significantly. Twenty fifteen to
Speaker 1: twenty twenty twenty four, total employment in Canada's agricultural industry
Speaker 1: fell eighteen percent. Federal Department of Agriculture and Agri Food headcount.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, so agriculture declined by eighteen percent. The Federal
Speaker 1: Department of Agriculture increased.
Speaker 3: By eleven percent. Wow.
Speaker 1: Of course, total employment natural resources fell one percent. Headcount
Speaker 1: in the Federal Department increased thirty nine percent. So on
Speaker 1: their multiple multiple departments they cite. And then finally consider
Speaker 1: the social disorder that Trudeau sparked. There's been a recent
Speaker 1: explosion in anti Semitism across the country, including violent attacks.
Speaker 1: Police reported hate crimes more than tripled over the last
Speaker 1: eight years, even after accounting for population growth. Huge increase
Speaker 1: of crimes against Jews coincident with their importing many, many,
Speaker 1: many many folks from Muslim countries.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was listening to National Review podcasts and they
Speaker 2: were all in agreement on how horrible it would be
Speaker 2: to take in Canada as a fifty first state because
Speaker 2: they make California seem like Wyoming in terms of their
Speaker 2: political beliefs. I mean, they are not a free speech culture.
Speaker 2: They're They're also much more of a government takes care
Speaker 2: of us culture cradle to grave than anybody in the
Speaker 2: United States, even the liberal States.
Speaker 1: We don't want that culture. No, No, indeed, I want
Speaker 1: to get to the Charman angle. Markle before the end
Speaker 1: of the hour, she's put out a big new memoir
Speaker 1: and it's not landing the way she thought it would.
Speaker 2: Interesting. I don't know anything about that will if you
Speaker 2: stay tuned, going to be super windy the next couple
Speaker 2: of days in LA That is unfortunate. Man, got a
Speaker 2: lot more on the way. Stay here. A couple of
Speaker 2: different things we want to play from last night sixty
Speaker 2: minutes coming up. That'd be Christopher Ray, the FBI director,
Speaker 2: with a couple of things he's worried about which were horrifying.
Speaker 2: And then a State Department group of people that were
Speaker 2: on there bad mouthing the United States helping Israel that
Speaker 2: I found very madning getting that ouch.
Speaker 3: That steam and pile, I'm not interested. So I thought
Speaker 3: there was this.
Speaker 1: This was interesting just as a fan of geopolitics and
Speaker 1: policy and leadership and the parallels between the United States
Speaker 1: and Europe and Canada for that matter, as we were
Speaker 1: just talking about. But Angela Merkel, who has hailed during
Speaker 1: your time in charges the new face of leadership in Europe.
Speaker 3: And the new Europe.
Speaker 1: She's so wise and so smart, and I wish she
Speaker 1: could be our president. Blah blah blah. Well she went
Speaker 1: out of office, unpopular, and many of the birds that
Speaker 1: she unleashed have come home to roost. She just wrote
Speaker 1: a seven hundred and thirty six page memoir entitled Freedom.
Speaker 3: Which is ironic, but we'll get in.
Speaker 1: We may not have time for that, but it's getting
Speaker 1: terrible reviews, and the German people have reacted extremely negatively
Speaker 1: because all of the progressive policies that she advocated, including
Speaker 1: white open borders, wide open immigration from the Middle East
Speaker 1: and in Africa, and progressive politics, green energy whatever. You
Speaker 1: got German society falling apart in a lot of towns,
Speaker 1: the rise of what's being called the far right. You
Speaker 1: got people who can't afford their energy. They became dependent
Speaker 1: on Russia.
Speaker 2: Right, That's the underreported story to me is years and
Speaker 2: years of moving closer and closer to being dependent on Russia,
Speaker 2: clear up through the time to invade Ukraine. I mean,
Speaker 2: what did you think was gonna happen? You nut jobs?
Speaker 1: Well? Right, and what's funny about this? Kind of a
Speaker 1: bitter brand of funny. But she's unleashed this memoir and
Speaker 1: everybody's essentially reacting, Oh.
Speaker 3: That's right, that's right.
Speaker 1: She's the cause of all of this, and so she's
Speaker 1: getting a hell of a kicking. The Financial Times, which
Speaker 1: in twenty fifteen called her one of germany These great Chancellors,
Speaker 1: wrote in response to her memoir that she was quote
Speaker 1: the most damaging European leader since nineteen forty five. Whoops,
Speaker 1: said Andreas wrote her at the Chair of Modern Contemporary
Speaker 1: History at the Johannes Gutenberg University of blah blahlah. Her
Speaker 1: key policies have all been exposed is wrong by the
Speaker 1: passage of time. Only a few years later. Her era
Speaker 1: feels like ancient history. Unbelievable. Oh and one more point
Speaker 1: on this. There's more to it. But I know you
Speaker 1: don't care that much about German culture and politics. But
Speaker 1: I wasn't. I gonna say it flitted right out of
Speaker 1: my mind. It's important. Oh, that's right. This article in
Speaker 1: all of them tipped their caps to the fact that
Speaker 1: the far right in Germany, far right political parties are
Speaker 1: rising up, and some of them have troubling associations with
Speaker 1: neo Nazis or whatever.
Speaker 3: Here's the deal, and this is this.
Speaker 1: I'm saying this not as a guy rooting for one
Speaker 1: thing or another, but as a guy who studied political
Speaker 1: science for years and years and years. If you have
Speaker 1: an issue, for instance, rampant immigration and crime that the
Speaker 1: main stream of your country is really unhappy about, but
Speaker 1: you've browbeaten them into believing that they're not allowed to
Speaker 1: talk about it because it's rude or it's racist or whatever,
Speaker 1: they will be afraid to talk about it. The quote
Speaker 1: unquote far right, on the other hand, doesn't give a
Speaker 1: crap what you consider rude a racist, and they're going
Speaker 1: to talk about it loudly. And people who have been
Speaker 1: suffering in silence because they've been cowed into silence will
Speaker 1: turn to those far right quote unquote sources or political
Speaker 1: parties or whatever. That's the problem with suppressing people's honest
Speaker 1: feelings about your policies is after a while people think, Okay,
Speaker 1: the only people are saying what I think are these
Speaker 1: so called far right parties. I guess I'm with them.
Speaker 2: Christopher Wray, FBI director, on his way out the door
Speaker 2: with Trump coming in, laid out some of the things
Speaker 2: he's worried about, or how bad China is on the
Speaker 2: global stage and other stuff. So stay tuned, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2: You know, my current obsession is France eighteen seventy eighteen
Speaker 2: seventy one. Can't read enough about it. Really got started
Speaker 2: at the Big Art Museum in Washington, d C. On
Speaker 2: that with the display they had, and I just I'll
Speaker 2: have to talk about it at some point. Fascinating period
Speaker 2: of time eighteen seventy to seventy one. Correct, Wow, that
Speaker 2: horrible year as they call it. But more on that
Speaker 2: at a different time. Also, was that the great Baguette Samine. Well,
Speaker 2: it's when they went to war with Germany and got
Speaker 2: their asses kicked, and they had been the dominant power
Speaker 2: for one hundred years in Europe and they got coming
Speaker 2: to them what I hope we don't get coming to
Speaker 2: us after a year and just assuming you were the dominant.
Speaker 3: Power, I was afraid there was a modern parallel.
Speaker 2: And then how it interacted with Impressionism in the rise
Speaker 2: of a new art form that happened at the same
Speaker 2: time with many of the painters being involved in the
Speaker 2: politics of the day, which is really freaking fascinating. But
Speaker 2: last hour I talked about how I take off my
Speaker 2: coat like a girl. We've gotten a lot of texts
Speaker 2: about that, including one who said that's like number fifty
Speaker 2: on the list of one hundred things you do like
Speaker 2: a girl, So okay, but people want a video, So
Speaker 2: after the show, I might have to take a video
Speaker 2: of me taking off my coat. Will post it and
Speaker 2: then you can either comment or whether or not do
Speaker 2: I take my coat off like a girl? As Katie
Speaker 2: has said and a friend of mine, my son said
Speaker 2: it last night. I sold a friend of mine laughingly
Speaker 2: and they said, oh, yeah, you've always taken your coat
Speaker 2: off like a girl.
Speaker 1: I was like, what, just will you be able to
Speaker 1: take off your coat in the usual fashion without being
Speaker 1: self conscious on the video?
Speaker 2: I think so I only know one way to take
Speaker 2: off my coat. I didn't know it was like a girl. Anyway,
Speaker 2: we'll post that and then you can, uh maybe give
Speaker 2: me some tips on how to in a more manly
Speaker 2: mash fashion. I take off my skirt, you put your
Speaker 2: purse down on a chair before you take your coat off, right.
Speaker 3: Similar joke.
Speaker 2: So this was on sixty minutes last night. Outgoing FBI
Speaker 2: director Christopher ray I was trying to remember this this morning.
Speaker 2: So he wasn't supposed to leave for a couple of years.
Speaker 2: They have ten year terms by design so that they're
Speaker 2: not they don't overlap. They overlap with presidential administrations. They
Speaker 2: wouldn't be timed with presidential administrations. That's on purpose. And
Speaker 2: I wasn't particularly happy that Trump was forcing him out.
Speaker 2: Then something happened last week, and remember I said, well,
Speaker 2: now I'm glad he's going. Do you remember what the
Speaker 2: story was. We found out something about Christopher Ray or
Speaker 2: something he believed or something he said or something he did.
Speaker 1: Well, it was, uh, it might have been the gallon
Speaker 1: New Orleans who immediately after.
Speaker 3: Inspired terrorist at Texas.
Speaker 1: This is not a terrorist incident that is incredibly undisciplined.
Speaker 2: That is it? The fact that he didn't come out
Speaker 2: and say that as inappropriate. Yeah, I'm glad you're leaving.
Speaker 1: You know, I've known quite a few FBI agents in
Speaker 1: my life, including some who rose to a fairly high level.
Speaker 1: And the idea that you would say something that undisciplined
Speaker 1: is just unthinkable.
Speaker 3: It's it's just crazy.
Speaker 1: It's it's like an NFL quarterback handing the ball to
Speaker 1: the other team and saying, oh, I didn't understand.
Speaker 3: It's just the guys in my jersey. Well, have you
Speaker 3: just you can't even picture it.
Speaker 2: Have there been any stories going in the other direction
Speaker 2: over the last decade. Any of the things that have
Speaker 2: come out that one was public, but you know, the
Speaker 2: behind the scenes stuff with Peter Strock and his girlfriend
Speaker 2: and then we're going to stop Trump and blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: Have there been any things come out on the on
Speaker 2: the conservative side of politics that seem out of bounds?
Speaker 2: I don't remember any. Are they all like lefty stuff?
Speaker 3: Interesting?
Speaker 1: There plenty of unsung stories where the FBI has done
Speaker 1: a great job and you just never hear about it.
Speaker 1: But sure, politically speaking the other side of the isle,
Speaker 1: not that I'm familiar with at all, things that are
Speaker 1: semi scandalous where they shouldn't be involved in politics.
Speaker 2: Are there any? They all seem to go one direction.
Speaker 1: Well, that's because if you're an actual conservative, the idea
Speaker 1: of I'm going to use my position illegally or unethically
Speaker 1: to get a better result, you're not a conservative.
Speaker 2: Right, You don't get it. Good point anyway. Christopher Ray
Speaker 2: was on sixty Minutes last night. He said a lot
Speaker 2: of interesting things. I don't know if this needs any setup. Uh, well,
Speaker 2: guess we'll find out after WePlay. Here we go.
Speaker 5: China's cyber program is by far and away the world's largest,
Speaker 5: bigger than that of every major nation combined, and has
Speaker 5: stolen more of Americans' personal and corporate data than that of.
Speaker 3: Every nation big or small combined.
Speaker 5: But even beyond the cyber theft, there's another part of
Speaker 5: the Chinese cyber threat that I think has not gotten
Speaker 5: the attention publicly that I think desperately deserves, and that
Speaker 5: is Chinese government's prepositioning on American civilian critical infrastructure to
Speaker 5: lie in wait, on those networks to be in a
Speaker 5: position to wreak havoc and can inflict real world harm
Speaker 5: at a time and place of their choosing.
Speaker 2: I feel like the President should be having a press
Speaker 2: conference today taking questions on just that clip of Chris
Speaker 2: ray on sixty minutes last night.
Speaker 1: I would hope the awareness and the taking of action
Speaker 1: to counteract it is appropriate to the size of the threat,
Speaker 1: because I feel like I've been howling about this for
Speaker 1: a long time. I feel like we are set up
Speaker 1: like a bowling pin, and China has capabilities we can't
Speaker 1: even dream of, which Ray actually gets into in the
Speaker 1: next cliff.
Speaker 2: But that whole they have a bigger yber program than
Speaker 2: every other country combined. Yeah, Okay, here we go, but.
Speaker 3: They're already in our systems.
Speaker 6: As he explains, the Chinese have already insinuated malware into
Speaker 6: critical American infrastructure.
Speaker 5: That's correct, like what things like water treatment plants, We're
Speaker 5: talking about transportation systems. We're talking about targeting of our
Speaker 5: energy sector, the electric grid, natural gas pipelines, and recently
Speaker 5: we've seen targeting of our telecommunications system.
Speaker 2: Well, let's roll on with more of what China's doing
Speaker 2: than we can discuss.
Speaker 6: They have been listening to the telephone calls of people
Speaker 6: in the United States government.
Speaker 3: Some people.
Speaker 5: We believe that they have collected their content, the actual communications.
Speaker 3: Of those people.
Speaker 6: Ray wouldn't say it, but we have confirmed China gathered
Speaker 6: communications of US national security officials, the Kamala Harris campaign,
Speaker 6: and Donald Trump himself.
Speaker 2: So I'll ask you, Joe, we've been talking about this
Speaker 2: now for several weeks. Josh Rogan, I think is a
Speaker 2: guy who laid it out best for US months ago
Speaker 2: as last year. How many Americans know that China not
Speaker 2: only hacked into all of our cell phone systems and
Speaker 2: everything like that, and can listen to every single person's
Speaker 2: phone call and read all their texts, And it's still
Speaker 2: true today. How many people in America know that practically none?
Speaker 3: Three percent? Maybe?
Speaker 2: How do you explain that because we hate media sucks.
Speaker 2: The part of it's that part of it is just
Speaker 2: the safe and comfortable thing. Getting to what I was
Speaker 2: talking about. France had been the dominant military power in
Speaker 2: Europe for century, and everybody just kind of ignored that
Speaker 2: Germany had come up with all these new weapons systems
Speaker 2: and everything like that that France hadn't. And this is
Speaker 2: the history of the world. It repeats itself over and
Speaker 2: over and over again. You've been for so long, you
Speaker 2: think we'll always be done. Nobody can touch us, nobody's
Speaker 2: ever been able to touch us. We're fine, Yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Mean I could probably cook up like three reasons that
Speaker 1: this is such an under told story or under emphasized story.
Speaker 3: Part of it has to do with a lot.
Speaker 1: Of our media is uncomfortable with anything that like talks
Speaker 1: harshly about the Chinese because well, wait a minute, because
Speaker 1: we have Chinese American people and Chinese immigrants and Chinese students,
Speaker 1: and we don't want any racism because there's just so stupid.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know, I don't know when when
Speaker 1: the smacking comes, when the poop hits the fan, I'm
Speaker 1: hoping it's a long time because China's weakened enough economically
Speaker 1: that as Ian Bremer was saying when we interviewed them recently,
Speaker 1: and that podcast is available wherever you get podcasts Armstrong,
Speaker 1: you get extra large or on demand. But what was
Speaker 1: he saying, Oh, they're weakened enough that they've had to
Speaker 1: scale back some of their global ambitions.
Speaker 3: And I hope that's true.
Speaker 1: But if indeed the pooh hits the fan and China
Speaker 1: decides to pull all those triggers that they have in
Speaker 1: our infrastructure right now, it will be the only thing
Speaker 1: anybody in America talks about for weeks and weeks until
Speaker 1: it's straightened out.
Speaker 2: More decades or centuries, depending on how it plays out.
Speaker 2: I was reminded the other day, was it Yeah, I
Speaker 2: guess it was it tucking it in inner or it
Speaker 2: might have been sixty minutes that that whole what was
Speaker 2: the that pipeline on the East coast, that can that
Speaker 2: carries ninety percent of the gas or whatever.
Speaker 1: That was Chinese hacking, yeah? Or was it Russian hacking?
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. The point was it was hacking all
Speaker 1: of our infrastructure that's connected to a computers hackable, and China,
Speaker 1: to their evil, evil credit, has been working like crazy
Speaker 1: to infiltrate it.
Speaker 2: We might be saved just by the fact that China
Speaker 2: has mismanaged their economy so poorly that they think we
Speaker 2: can't get into a war right now. They've got all
Speaker 2: the all the groundwork laid for when they were going
Speaker 2: to pull the trigger on Taiwan or something or baker,
Speaker 2: but they just start too broke and economically weak to
Speaker 2: do it right now, because Yeah, all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: your water's not safe to drink, your cell phone doesn't work,
Speaker 2: so everybody's in a panic. You got no electricity at home.
Speaker 2: The level of disruption, you can't even hardly imagine it.
Speaker 1: I'm reminded of you're oft mocked prayer that God will
Speaker 1: send you a minor health scare so you'll clean up
Speaker 1: your act, as if you know cancer and organ loss
Speaker 1: wasn't enough. But there's part of me that thinks we
Speaker 1: need something like that in the US that gets everybody's attention.
Speaker 1: So we wake the hell up, because if we go
Speaker 1: down a couple more years down this road of just
Speaker 1: whistling happily and ignorantly and thinking we're a big, fat
Speaker 1: strung you preparer.
Speaker 3: We will always be. Nobody can hurt us.
Speaker 1: Huh, we're just gonna get screwed all the worse.
Speaker 2: Joe's referencing my many times where you're saying I wish
Speaker 2: I'd have a mild heart attack because then I would
Speaker 2: probably get my eating together. Uh it's blasphemous to say
Speaker 2: that sort of thing, but I feel like we've had
Speaker 2: the mild heart attack as a country China. Hacking into
Speaker 2: all your cell phones, reading all your texts and listening
Speaker 2: to all your phone calls is not a mild heart attack.
Speaker 2: But nobody's interested.
Speaker 1: Among their conclusions. Boy, Joe Ginney and his wife are sappy. Secondly,
Speaker 1: they hacked into the Kamalis Harris campaign.
Speaker 3: They're thinking, what the hell? Who's running this? Why don't
Speaker 3: they write a speech for why is she stupid?
Speaker 2: Well, they've got a whole file today on how I
Speaker 2: take them off my coat like a girl because they've
Speaker 2: been following my text line.
Speaker 1: So you're blackmailable, right, Probably not because you're you're open
Speaker 1: about it.
Speaker 3: Uh, do we want the final slip ray? It might
Speaker 3: as well. Yeah, it's good.
Speaker 5: There was a guy, a Pakistani citizen, just a few
Speaker 5: months ago who we worked with our Canadian partners to arrest.
Speaker 5: This guy was trying to get into the US to
Speaker 5: get to New York City to conduct a mass shooting
Speaker 5: at a Jewish center in Brooklyn, and in his words,
Speaker 5: not my words, his words, he wanted to conduct the
Speaker 5: largest attack in the US.
Speaker 3: Since nine to eleven.
Speaker 5: So what I would say to the American people is
Speaker 5: that when you think these things are happening half a
Speaker 5: world away, it's like that little inscription on your.
Speaker 3: Mirror in your car.
Speaker 5: Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear.
Speaker 2: Tic tick tick. Objects in mirrors are closer than they appear.
Speaker 1: Yes, objects, like I said, objects in the mirror. Scott Kelly, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I actually think Chris Ray is a pretty good guy.
Speaker 3: I think he suffers, perhaps.
Speaker 1: From being downstream of eight years of the Obama administration
Speaker 1: and the pressures they put on the FBI and hiring
Speaker 1: decisions and affirmative action and DEI crap and the rest
Speaker 1: of it. And now I think he's sitting atop an
Speaker 1: organanization that's suffering from those decisions and policies.
Speaker 3: But I don't know I don't. I don't. I can't
Speaker 3: see any the guy's heart and.
Speaker 2: Mind well, and yeah, to whatever extent that matters at
Speaker 2: this point. But I want to be wrong about all
Speaker 2: this stuff. I want to be wrong. I want China
Speaker 2: to not have the big win at some point. I
Speaker 2: want there to not all of a sudden one day
Speaker 2: be a terrorist cell do all kinds of horrible things
Speaker 2: and they all stuck across the border during the Biden administration.
Speaker 2: I don't want those things to happen. But man, there's
Speaker 2: sure a decent chance that it does.
Speaker 1: Uh yes, yeah, In fact, the idea that it doesn't
Speaker 1: happen is really wishful thinking.
Speaker 2: Right, We'll finish strongs to hear.
Speaker 3: Big thirty six?
Speaker 1: Why open that Samuel sag some sacks, the slips of a.
Speaker 3: Tackle, he's taking it home for the.
Speaker 2: Touchdownd, How is Josh Allen throwing a touchdown pass for
Speaker 2: the Buffalo Bills as they stomped the Broncos. Getting a
Speaker 2: closer to what practically every NFL fan has been waiting
Speaker 2: for and expecting Chiefs Bills to see. Who goes to
Speaker 2: the Super Bowl again. That's going to be a heck
Speaker 2: of a game. Can't wait.
Speaker 1: The Philadelphia Eagles might have something to say about that matchup. Jack,
Speaker 1: stay with us, stay tuned. We'll break down the players
Speaker 1: and the How.
Speaker 2: Would the Eagles in the NFC have anything to say about?
Speaker 2: Who's in the AFC Championship game?
Speaker 3: Oh? AFC Championship?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Sorry, I was dot you're on the super Bowl. There
Speaker 1: was only half paying attention back to you.
Speaker 2: Okay. So I want to know if anybody's tried one
Speaker 2: of these Aura rings. I saw him at Target. I
Speaker 2: didn't know anything about him, and my son was like, oh,
Speaker 2: you don't know anything about this, and he went on
Speaker 2: a rant. I don't know why he knows about it. Uh,
Speaker 2: seeing add somewhere, I guess AnyWho. They look like a
Speaker 2: pretty nice modern ring, although I don't I'm not a
Speaker 2: ring guy and I'm not married, so I don't know
Speaker 2: where I would wear it. But it's a smart ring.
Speaker 2: They're about four ner dollars like this the cost of
Speaker 2: a you know, a medium smartphone, but you get the
Speaker 2: app for your iPhone or whatever kind of phone you have,
Speaker 2: and it tracks over thirty different biometrics. You wear it
Speaker 2: on your finger all the time, sleep, activity, stress, heart health,
Speaker 2: women's health metrics. You know, Lady Time, the or ring Forest,
Speaker 2: powered by smart sensing which adapts to your unique finger,
Speaker 2: delivering the most accurate continuous data day and night. They
Speaker 2: claim that it's a lot of the information that you
Speaker 2: get from smart bit sort of things watches, but it's
Speaker 2: better because it's tight around your finger, and it's also
Speaker 2: needs a smaller battery can last longer. Blah blah blahs.
Speaker 2: Seems like a fairly good idea. I just wondered if
Speaker 2: anybody had ever used it. You should text us or
Speaker 2: email it. Email us if you've used this and liked
Speaker 2: it on eight days of battery life, so you could
Speaker 2: just leave it on pretty much all the time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, A good friend was urging me to check out
Speaker 1: tracking my sleep via the Apple Watch, for instance. But
Speaker 1: I hate the idea of wearing a watch while I sleep.
Speaker 1: I know you get used to it.
Speaker 2: I have a watch I never take off ever, ever, ever,
Speaker 2: ever congratulates full sleep, shower whatever, so I'm very used
Speaker 2: to it. So I could do that for the biometric stuff.
Speaker 2: But how about a ring? Could you wear a ring
Speaker 2: all the time. I'd prefer not to, but I suppose
Speaker 2: so it would be nice to have that information, THO,
Speaker 2: wouldn't it a week or how I sleep or when
Speaker 2: my heart rate gets the highest or lowest, or all
Speaker 2: kinds of different stuff.
Speaker 1: I'd be kind of interested when I'm having my lady time,
Speaker 1: because men can menstroy it. As we've learned recently from
Speaker 1: a freaking lunatics who definitely believe you'll fall for anything.
Speaker 2: How many people have My question would be, like a
Speaker 2: lot of tech, is this something I would continue to
Speaker 2: be interested in? Or would I be interested in it
Speaker 2: for like a week or two like the latest VR
Speaker 2: headset and then it goes in a drawer. I am
Speaker 2: actually kind of interested in my sleep patterns. I'd like
Speaker 2: I haven't. I don't really know how much sleep I
Speaker 2: get every night or every week. I'll make some good data.
Speaker 2: Here's your host from Final four, Final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 1: Let's get a final thought from everybody on the true
Speaker 1: wrap things up for the day. There is our technical director,
Speaker 1: Mike Langelo, Michael lead us Off.
Speaker 3: My message is very simple for Jack.
Speaker 5: Even though you you know, take your coat off like
Speaker 5: a lady, we still we still like you.
Speaker 3: You're still you know, we still look up to you.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, wow, yeah, thank you the diversity of coat removal.
Speaker 1: Katie Green are esteemed Newswoman. As a final thought for us, Katie.
Speaker 2: I tried that sleep tech with the ring and it
Speaker 2: told me I slept like crap. And then I was
Speaker 2: like neat and that was pretty much dand neat. Thanks
Speaker 2: for the in for that. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, now I can't sleep at night because I'm worrying
Speaker 1: about how I sleep at night.
Speaker 3: Jack a final thought.
Speaker 2: We are seven days away from Trump's innauguration. They have
Speaker 2: announced the singer of America, the Beautiful will be Carrie Underfed,
Speaker 2: among other fantastic acts there at the inauguration.
Speaker 3: Oh, that reminds me. Robin Zander a cheap trick.
Speaker 1: Sang the national anthem for the which was one of
Speaker 1: the playoff games yesterday in Tampa Bay.
Speaker 3: Did a really good job too. Sounded completely not like
Speaker 3: cheap trick. He was crooning it.
Speaker 2: Humm.
Speaker 1: Anyway, my final thought it was our Freedom Living quote
Speaker 1: of the day this morning, Clay Routledge.
Speaker 3: She's a writer, economist or professor of some sort.
Speaker 1: We're living in an era of woke capitalism, in which
Speaker 1: companies pretend about to care about social justice to sell
Speaker 1: products to people who pretend to hate capitalism.
Speaker 2: That is good Armstrong and Getty wrapping up another grueling
Speaker 2: four hour workday, so.
Speaker 1: Many people who thanks so a little time. Go to
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Speaker 2: Say tomorrow, God but less America.
Speaker 3: I'm Strong and gattate.
Speaker 2: Mash Maid and Heaving. The two get together every morning
Speaker 2: at six o'clock over a ton of stuff.
Speaker 3: We're all better off, we're all better off, we're all
Speaker 3: better off. We're working together. What the hell was that?
Speaker 3: That was quite entertaining for no Joe.
Speaker 2: It's outrageous and so good, says I'm Garnet. Call my lawyer, Garnet.
Speaker 2: This is not the time, finger pointing, Joe, Yes it is.
Speaker 3: It's perfect time. Okay, So everybody chill.
Speaker 2: On that high note. Bye bye, Armstrong and Getty