Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, jack Armstrong and Joe Kaddy arm Strong
Speaker 1: and Jackie and.
Speaker 2: He arm Wrong? Am I the only one? Am I
Speaker 2: the only one who wore a costume proloy this year? Uh? Yes,
Speaker 2: young man, you are. I feel ridiculous now. Nobody else
Speaker 2: wore a costume of any sort. I haven't put mine
Speaker 2: on yet. Okay, I'm not a Satan worshipper, sir, We're
Speaker 2: not good enough for your costume.
Speaker 3: You are. I just haven't put it on yet because
Speaker 3: it's excessive.
Speaker 4: Okay, guess what I'm dressed as. Let's see, you got
Speaker 4: a ball cap on? Says WC. Is that what that says?
Speaker 4: You got a stick black mustache? All my clothes are
Speaker 4: regular clothes. I'm a guy with a cool mustache. That's
Speaker 4: what I'm dressing.
Speaker 2: Yesterday, I was gonna go with Mario. No, I'm a
Speaker 2: guy with a cool mustache. That's great.
Speaker 4: You're making me really wish i'd dressed up last year.
Speaker 2: I was a guy with cool hair. If you'll remember that.
Speaker 2: Oh that's right, so wow, Live from Studio CE on Halloween,
Speaker 2: who in a dimly lit room and whatnot, and we
Speaker 2: were surrounded by we're surrounded by the hounds of Baskerville
Speaker 2: and ghosts and all different sorts of stuff. And today,
Speaker 2: deep within our layer, we're under the tutelage of our
Speaker 2: general manager. Ghosts and ghouls and spirits.
Speaker 4: Of course, keep in mind the little kids are gonna
Speaker 4: be running around this afternoon, this evening. Keep a keen
Speaker 4: eye out. Don't speed down residential street.
Speaker 2: That's a worthless thing to say. I'm glad you said it,
Speaker 2: but uh worthless saying. You know who drives the fastest,
Speaker 2: moms and minivans. My experience after years of being around schools,
Speaker 2: the people that drive the fastest are moms who have
Speaker 2: kids in sense cars. It's not the twenty two year
Speaker 2: old and a Mustang. It's the mom in a camera
Speaker 2: who drives, drives like a lunatic. I've just seen it
Speaker 2: over and over and over again. Drives me nuts. You've
Speaker 2: got kids yourself. Why are you speeding through here? Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm having trouble. Keep him my mustache straight. You can't
Speaker 2: have a crooked mustache.
Speaker 4: Good lord, No, because you are a man with a
Speaker 4: cool mustache. It's not a lame, crooked mustache.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: One of the reasons I got this is I wish
Speaker 2: I could grow a mustache just like this if I did,
Speaker 2: if I could. Man, I'm watching the baseball players. There's
Speaker 2: some cool facial hair among the baseball players. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: there's a reliever for the Dodgers. I think who clearly
Speaker 2: knows he looks like Val Kilmer, and particularly looks like
Speaker 2: Val Kilmer is Doc Holliday in Tombstone, I mean his
Speaker 2: social look. He's got exactly the same facial hair as
Speaker 2: Doc Holliday Tubestone, and he looks like it, and he
Speaker 2: knows that he knows what he's doing. That's fantastic. And
Speaker 2: mustache is fall Really, it's sagging again. It's falling off
Speaker 2: in the way that they fall off usually in like
Speaker 2: Saturday Night Live or Carol Burnett's skits where they've got
Speaker 2: a mustache and it starts to fall off and everybody laugh.
Speaker 2: I guess they haven't over the many decades, perfected the
Speaker 2: glue on a fake mustache. Apparently you gotta go with
Speaker 2: the theatrical spirit gum they call it. I remember having
Speaker 2: to use that as an actor back in the day.
Speaker 2: Probably it costs a big pain. Probably costs more than
Speaker 2: the two dollars I spent on this fake mustache. Mine
Speaker 2: takes quite a while to remove too. My son goes
Speaker 2: to a private Christian school and I was interested, and
Speaker 2: they sent out an email yesterday of what they can't
Speaker 2: do since they have school uniforms and everything, and man,
Speaker 2: nothing that relates to a ghost or anything like that.
Speaker 2: I thought that was interesting. I mean, I understand, I guess,
Speaker 2: but you really, you really think some kids dress as
Speaker 2: a goat it's a ghost, is going to turn people
Speaker 2: away from Christianity.
Speaker 4: I am not persuaded by those arguments myself, but I.
Speaker 2: Understan the we don't want anything that's like, you know,
Speaker 2: you're not a murderer with a bloody knife carrying a
Speaker 2: severed head. I understand that sort of stuff. I'm not
Speaker 2: too concerned about witches and ghosts swaying children to the
Speaker 2: dark side. But you know, hey, you get to make
Speaker 2: the rules you want. Did I see that? Just like today,
Speaker 2: I guess, there have been a couple of posts put
Speaker 2: out that are breaking news that we need to get to.
Speaker 2: Just today, like in the last hour or so, a
Speaker 2: couple of good ones that I'm excited about, you know,
Speaker 2: like yesterday. Trump had posted right before we went on
Speaker 2: the air, We're gonna start no clear testing again. And then,
Speaker 2: as you mentioned, at some point yesterday, I wonder if
Speaker 2: he'll ever reference that again, or if that's a thing,
Speaker 2: or if that was just something he asked anybody, Hey,
Speaker 2: are we geared up to do this? Do we need
Speaker 2: to do this? Do we want to do this? Whether
Speaker 2: he would ever bring it up. I didn't find out
Speaker 2: until yesterday that he put out that post right before
Speaker 2: meeting with she, So I think it was a classic
Speaker 2: Trump I'm gonna rattle this guy little bit before I
Speaker 2: go in there. And and then, like you said, I
Speaker 2: think there's a decent chance that he's not going to
Speaker 2: bring it up again. Right, But the media is so
Speaker 2: excited that millions of Americas. Americans are set to lose
Speaker 2: their food step benefits tomorrow. The media is so excited
Speaker 2: about that they finally got something they can sink their
Speaker 2: claws into as the look how evil the Republicans are
Speaker 2: starving humans all across the country. Yeah, good luck with that.
Speaker 2: Let me say, let me say anything, Let me say
Speaker 2: something that makes conservatives look evil, for this is a
Speaker 2: I'm going to be your stereotypical conservative. And I believe this,
Speaker 2: By the way, I'm not just pretending I'm going to
Speaker 2: be your stereotypical conservative that liberals like in the town
Speaker 2: I live in hate. I think of the forty million
Speaker 2: people who we have on food stamps, A whole bunch
Speaker 2: of them are lazy or to or have plenty of money,
Speaker 2: but are using you to pay for their food so
Speaker 2: that they can spend their money on other stuff. Are
Speaker 2: there people in there who legitimately need it, of course,
Speaker 2: but all forty million, I doubt it. What's the preserve
Speaker 2: the lazy? What serves the lazy? What's the percentage? I
Speaker 2: bet it ain't half that need it, you know. So
Speaker 2: there's my evil conservative thought. But I doubt that half
Speaker 2: the forty million people actually need that. They're spending their
Speaker 2: money on shoes they don't need, or phones they don't need,
Speaker 2: or all kinds of luxury items so that we pay
Speaker 2: for their food. Right, Yeah, I agree completely, So obviously so,
Speaker 2: and I have a feeling I represent the thought of
Speaker 2: many people like you. And so when you hear these
Speaker 2: stories from the mainstream media about the forty million, you're
Speaker 2: gonna lose the fod stabs I think there's about half
Speaker 2: the country things Yeah, all right, whatever to a lot
Speaker 2: of it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've got to admit the whole question of who
Speaker 4: will be blamed, what will the narrative be of just
Speaker 4: it's exhausting to me and worthless. But oh yeah, you're
Speaker 4: generally speaking worthless. Yeah. Interestingly, there is news and noise
Speaker 4: from both sides. They're a growing number of Democrats and
Speaker 4: media members who are calling the Democrat that's out for
Speaker 4: having caused this entirely. On the other side, Trump saying, hey,
Speaker 4: and the filibuster and then past the budget, we've got
Speaker 4: to do away with the filibuster.
Speaker 2: He said.
Speaker 4: As soon as the Democrats can control the Senate, they're
Speaker 4: going to do it, So let's beat them to the punch.
Speaker 2: That's one of the announcements. Yeah, that came out this morning.
Speaker 2: He put out a truth social go with the nuclear
Speaker 2: option in the filibuster, which would be awful. I hope
Speaker 2: that John Thune holds the line and doesn't do that,
Speaker 2: because then the House is the Senate, or that the
Speaker 2: Senate is the House and it's just majority rule and
Speaker 2: it's no good, no good at all.
Speaker 4: Right, we're going through a period right now in American politics.
Speaker 2: It will not last forever.
Speaker 4: I mean, it could get worse, I suppose, but yeah,
Speaker 4: let's let's leave some institutions along and give it a
Speaker 4: little while. Yeah, well, man, you've had several presidents in
Speaker 4: a row push for it. Barack Obama called it the
Speaker 4: legacy of slavery or something like that. All that was
Speaker 4: one of the biggest loads of crap ever crapped. Pardon
Speaker 4: may So, one side or the other is going to
Speaker 4: do it, but I'd rather it not be the side
Speaker 4: I generally vote for, because I think it'd be awful
Speaker 4: to end the filibuster.
Speaker 2: You know what I need to do.
Speaker 4: I need to relook up a lot of your HALLOWEENI
Speaker 4: words like ghoul they have actual meanings going back to
Speaker 4: like the Middle Ages. A ghoul was a grave robber,
Speaker 4: as I recall, wow, and like fiend means something specific
Speaker 4: and uh, and they weren't. They weren't just generalized scary
Speaker 4: things as specific meanings.
Speaker 2: I gotta grab that. We got to start the show
Speaker 2: officially dicking up graves. Man, that's rough. That is rough,
Speaker 2: and you're like, you got to open the casket because
Speaker 2: you're trying to get like jewels or stuff off of
Speaker 2: the or maybe even their teeth. That's really you.
Speaker 4: Know, back in the day, even you know, a nice
Speaker 4: sturdy belt. The guy was buried with a good belt.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 4: Still, you're just steal whatever there was, dead man's shoes,
Speaker 4: steal the bones, if you could get anything.
Speaker 2: Let's start the show of acally as a guy with
Speaker 2: a cool mustache. I'm Jack Armstrong, he's Joe getting on this.
Speaker 2: It is Friday, October thirty first, better known as Halloween.
Speaker 2: You're twenty twenty five. We are armstrong in getting and
Speaker 2: we approve of this program.
Speaker 4: Let's begin then, officially according to FCC rules, Eggs. Here
Speaker 4: we go at Mark.
Speaker 5: And finally, Chipotle is offering us Halloween burrito for the
Speaker 5: twenty fifth year in a row.
Speaker 2: And after one of those.
Speaker 5: You'll be praying that someone tepee's your house.
Speaker 2: You'll need lots of toilet paper. Wow. Oh, because I
Speaker 2: guess dysentery brought on by the burrito. Oh, I see
Speaker 2: now I'm tracking. You weren't following. I just saw this
Speaker 2: will be a tease before I go to break. I
Speaker 2: just saw what is the most popular costume for couples
Speaker 2: this year, And it's a pretty good idea, although annoying
Speaker 2: but super easy. You know, we're all looking freezy, right,
Speaker 2: we got invited to a party. Okay, but what a
Speaker 2: he said, say, we gotta wear a costume? Oh jeez,
Speaker 2: what are we gonna wear? We gotta come up with something, stupid.
Speaker 4: Jones Is are gonna go crazy. They make a big
Speaker 4: deal of it every year. So we got to do something.
Speaker 4: Oh there's a good one.
Speaker 2: There's a good, easy one that you could throw together today,
Speaker 2: super easy, and.
Speaker 4: Then be satisfied, telling me right now, and I promise
Speaker 4: not to haunt you.
Speaker 2: So he got that in Katie's headlines all the way.
Speaker 2: Stay here. This is actually a pretty good idea, though annoying.
Speaker 2: If you're a couple that got invited to some sort
Speaker 2: of Halloween gathering and you don't want to put in
Speaker 2: any effort. You both wear sweatshirts or T shirts and
Speaker 2: one of you write six on your shirt and the
Speaker 2: other one writes seven on your shirt, and you go
Speaker 2: six seven. I walk into a party, anybody's wearing that.
Speaker 2: I leave. That's seriously, it's the most popular costume for
Speaker 2: couples this year because it's so easy to throw together.
Speaker 4: I saw up on TV groups of couples as six seven.
Speaker 4: Good conversation starter, I suppose, although and easy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, super duper easy. My son's got this big inflatable.
Speaker 2: It's all black, so in the dark you you won't
Speaker 2: be able to see him. I don't know what the
Speaker 2: but anyway, it's got a little fan in it and
Speaker 2: it blows it up, and so he's like a ball.
Speaker 2: And he's been walking around the neighborhood like that, walking
Speaker 2: the dog and getting a tremendous amount of attention and
Speaker 2: lots of Grandma is wanting to take his picture and whatnot.
Speaker 2: Very cute, that's funny. I don't know what. He's just
Speaker 2: his content, his custom is.
Speaker 4: I'm bloated exactly, all right. I'm just I'm a sphere.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. It's just odd looking. Yeah, well
Speaker 2: fair enough. What color is it? Blackh okay? And he's
Speaker 2: got a black mask and black shoes and black gloves,
Speaker 2: so he's just all black a ball.
Speaker 4: I'm a black ball. I'm black balling. And it doesn't work.
Speaker 2: Huh. All right, let's figure out who's reporting what.
Speaker 4: It's the lead story with Katie Green Katie already.
Speaker 2: Starting with the Washington Post.
Speaker 3: Experts say Trump's push to restart nuclear tests could take
Speaker 3: years and cost millions.
Speaker 2: Okay, well everything costs millions, all right? I hate this
Speaker 2: is what. There's so many things I hate about political
Speaker 2: republic reporting, and one of them is whichever side does anything,
Speaker 2: the other side talks about what it costs, as if
Speaker 2: either one of these parties care about what we're spending.
Speaker 2: It's always a minor amount of money. You can't get
Speaker 2: anybody to comment on the fact that Social Security is
Speaker 2: going broke to the tune of trillions. But if somebody
Speaker 2: tries to, you know, add something to the White House
Speaker 2: or nuclear testing or you know, a protest or anything
Speaker 2: to this cost taxpayers eight million dollars. Oh, give me
Speaker 2: a break, Like you care about that.
Speaker 4: What did the WA posts say about Stacy Abrams getting
Speaker 4: a billion dollars for phony environmental something or other?
Speaker 2: They spill any ink over that one? Probably not. This
Speaker 2: one from CNN.
Speaker 3: Trump considering plans to target cocaine facilities inside Venezuela.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've been reading a lot about the drug trade
Speaker 4: and drug roots from South America up through the Caribbean
Speaker 4: and around the Pacific side to the US, and right, well,
Speaker 4: I have a great deal to say about it, but yes,
Speaker 4: there are enormous amounts of deadly drugs moving through the
Speaker 4: very roots. Trump has been blowing boats up on and
Speaker 4: it's becoming more and more clear to me that we
Speaker 4: have these floundering, pathetic Narco states all over the place
Speaker 4: in our neighborhood. And it's gonna be tough and it
Speaker 4: could cost millions jack, but we've got to do something
Speaker 4: about our own neighborhood. We got to clean it up.
Speaker 2: It's ridiculous.
Speaker 3: So on from Breitenbart, more than seventy two hundred truck
Speaker 3: drivers were removed from United States highways after failing the
Speaker 3: English test.
Speaker 2: That's happened. Yeah, so the new Department of Transportation secretary
Speaker 2: comes in and says, you've got to be able to
Speaker 2: read and write English, speak English, and that many people
Speaker 2: lost their jobs. Wow, why were we hiring that many
Speaker 2: thousands of people that can't read American road signs, American.
Speaker 4: Truck drivers or I can't find Americans who will work
Speaker 4: that cheap?
Speaker 3: Well, right, the case in Florida with that guy that
Speaker 3: with that U turn and killed that family.
Speaker 2: They gave him the English test.
Speaker 3: He correctly answered two of twelve of the verbal questions
Speaker 3: and accurately identified just one of four traffic signs.
Speaker 4: Yes, that's mebionic and obscene that Pete Budaje Edge is
Speaker 4: being talked about as a presidential candidate, as the current
Speaker 4: guy has made it clear they did nothing to modernize
Speaker 4: our air traffic control system. They were just slaves to
Speaker 4: the union and invested nothing in new technology.
Speaker 2: This is an obscene case here. Peet footages was worse
Speaker 2: than useless from the Wall Street Journal. Cities across the
Speaker 2: the US are putting robots to work doing what.
Speaker 3: They're doing jobs like firefighting, lawnmowing, beach.
Speaker 2: Cleaning, and other things.
Speaker 4: Lawn mowing, lawn mowing, Oh yeah, yeah, the robots mores
Speaker 4: are huge in golf courses especially, but municipally too. I mean,
Speaker 4: all you need is a GP. The GPS systems are
Speaker 4: so good now you don't have to employ human beings
Speaker 4: or you can have them doing something else.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but the GPS doesn't see a cat or someone's
Speaker 2: sunbathing in the lawn. Cat needs to get out of
Speaker 2: the way. Huh, it's the cat's job. It's true.
Speaker 3: My neighbor has a lawn room BA and had I
Speaker 3: had to move out of its way the other day
Speaker 3: and I had a big issue with that.
Speaker 2: Wow, okay, you might getting your feet cut off, right.
Speaker 3: ABC police are warning about dangerous look alike candies ahead
Speaker 3: of Halloween. This is that whole edible thing where they
Speaker 3: look like jolly ranchers and sour candies and whatnot.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I was having a joke with someone the other
Speaker 2: day about the whole razor blades and apples thing that
Speaker 2: was big when I was young. My mom would get
Speaker 2: home from Halloween with our caramel apples because grandmas gave
Speaker 2: them out, and my mom would go through them all
Speaker 2: to make sure nobody had slipped a razor blade in there,
Speaker 2: because your typical grandma, who's you know, lived in your
Speaker 2: local little area, is all about slicing up the mouth
Speaker 2: of a child for her own enjoyment and then spending
Speaker 2: decades in prison for the offense.
Speaker 4: Exactly likewise the pot candies. Is it accidentally that would
Speaker 4: happen or what?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: This one from study fines Adults devour their Halloween candy
Speaker 3: before trigger treaders even get to knock.
Speaker 2: H My youngest wanted to buy the candy last night,
Speaker 2: and I said no, no, no, we'll buy it today.
Speaker 2: I don't want it to. I would have eaten a
Speaker 2: handful of candy last night had it been in the house.
Speaker 2: I just knew I would have.
Speaker 3: I bought it yesterday, and I've already had a kit
Speaker 3: cat this morning.
Speaker 2: So some cool little morning kit cast. Yeah, there you go,
Speaker 2: pick me up.
Speaker 3: And finally from the Babylon Bee, Democrats vow to starve
Speaker 3: as many food stamp recipients as it takes to.
Speaker 2: Get free health care for illegal immigrants.
Speaker 4: Ay oh, Seth Dillon needs to be in charge of
Speaker 4: the Republican Party's messaging so much better than anything I've
Speaker 4: heard from them.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I'm looking at all the adults up
Speaker 2: on television who addressed as six seven Ford and then
Speaker 2: they do that, and then they do the hand gesture
Speaker 2: Armstrong and getty. My favorite sources are predicting that the
Speaker 2: Senate leader John Thune will ignore Trump's early morning call
Speaker 2: to end the filibuster. That would be a huge political move.
Speaker 2: But we can talk more about that coming up. Also,
Speaker 2: the Nobel Peace Prize winner all of a sudden not
Speaker 2: as fascinating to people that she agrees with Donald Trump. Yeah,
Speaker 2: there's a shock.
Speaker 4: The administration has identified targets in venezuel that include military
Speaker 4: facilities used to smuggle drugs. We'll talk about that coming up,
Speaker 4: But first, Michael, you thought you had me, didn't you?
Speaker 5: I did.
Speaker 1: I did.
Speaker 4: First, it's the Friday tradition. If I'm looking back at
Speaker 4: the week that was, it's crypt of the week.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's Andson's idea. He gets full cry. I like it.
Speaker 2: It's creepy and crawl and so okay, it's creep a
Speaker 2: coming together in Queens and then we're going to watch
Speaker 2: it and you see you to take back.
Speaker 3: The White House.
Speaker 2: When the boot of the MIPD is on your neck.
Speaker 2: It's been the least by the ideas. But also you know,
Speaker 2: it was also about paying the bills man, and it
Speaker 2: was just like hustling. I've never listened to poles. I'm transcendigenous, transitive.
Speaker 3: Are you?
Speaker 2: Are you sis? American?
Speaker 5: I woke up every day as a as a black
Speaker 5: woman who is queer.
Speaker 2: So if you are a one or two X you
Speaker 2: are small fat, read a four X you are mid fat,
Speaker 2: five to six X you are super fat. Do you
Speaker 2: love coming to Costco with your wife? Oh? Zero, that's
Speaker 2: why I'm by myself. She's over there who.
Speaker 5: Are saying this arms mode was sped away from a
Speaker 5: shooting of a San Bernardino County sheriff's deputy. Right now,
Speaker 5: it looks like she's a boost.
Speaker 2: What I was talking.
Speaker 1: Amazon slashing fourteen thousand corporate jobs.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm told by four senior DHS officials that they're
Speaker 2: moving up to twelve ice chiefs from around the country
Speaker 2: from their positions.
Speaker 3: The Pentagon announcing the single deadliest day of strikes against
Speaker 3: alleged drug smugglers. The fake news said they were fishing men,
Speaker 3: but they would trend the rock with thugs heading to
Speaker 3: the United States with a boat full of drugs.
Speaker 5: Vladimir Prutin saying that they have successfully tested a nuclear
Speaker 5: powered cruise missile.
Speaker 2: President Trump called the meeting with she that lasted about
Speaker 2: two hours quotes amazing. I would say the meeting was
Speaker 2: at twelve. Climate is a super important problem. We have
Speaker 2: to frame it in terms of overall human welfare.
Speaker 5: HI welcome the shift to common sense, even though the
Speaker 5: climate Dumerism Gates helped create has fueled a mental health
Speaker 5: crisis among young people.
Speaker 1: An urgent search to find three lab monkeys still on
Speaker 1: the loose.
Speaker 2: Wet I speak tongueless luckily, so he said, there are
Speaker 2: twenty one monkeys on this truck. Wish your pains on.
Speaker 5: Series master piece Tom twenty, tell you what you savage goods.
Speaker 2: To the least Game six World Series tonight with Yama
Speaker 2: Moto pitching for the Dodgers these last two starts, he's
Speaker 2: pitched complete games, stayed in there the whole time, and
Speaker 2: won both times. So I'm written for a game seven.
Speaker 2: What's that smell? I smell the scent of a game seven. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I still feel like there's tons of pressure on the
Speaker 2: Dodgers and zero pressure on the Blue Jays, which helps
Speaker 2: the Blue Jays.
Speaker 4: So this this guy's walking up into the batter's box
Speaker 4: to try to hit against Yamamoto or feeling a little pressure.
Speaker 2: So this woman that won the Nobel Peace Prize when
Speaker 2: she wanted a couple of weeks ago. I remember, there's
Speaker 2: a lot of hubbub about whether Trump would win it
Speaker 2: maybe next year, And there's this woman from Venezuela, and
Speaker 2: who Venezuela, who's an opposition figure to Nicholas Maduro and
Speaker 2: all lefties in the world love the Nobel Peace Prize
Speaker 2: and hail all the decisions they make, but not so
Speaker 2: much this time around, as she has started to come
Speaker 2: out and say things indicating that she likes Trump blasting
Speaker 2: these boats out of the water and threatening an invasion
Speaker 2: in all these different sorts of things. Now, I was
Speaker 2: just reading this interview she did with Bloomberg yesterday, in which,
Speaker 2: of course they're really working hard to get her to
Speaker 2: say something like Trump shouldn't do this, but she doesn't
Speaker 2: say that at all. She's not super forthcoming, but she's
Speaker 2: she's kind of vaguely supportive, but she's certainly not against it.
Speaker 2: You use the word narco terrorism. That's the language the
Speaker 2: Trump administration is using about Venezuela. President's Trump is saying,
Speaker 2: after the strikes on boats that the land will be next.
Speaker 2: Do you support US military strikes on the territory of Venezuela.
Speaker 2: I believe the escalation that's taken place is the only
Speaker 2: way to force me Durow to understand that it's time
Speaker 2: to go. Earlier in the interview, when they ask about
Speaker 2: shouldn't there be a trial or evidence or due process
Speaker 2: for these people, she said, any deaths that turn out
Speaker 2: to be not narco terriss are on the head of Maduro.
Speaker 2: He brought this violence on, so she's given Trump a
Speaker 2: pass for that, and as to the actual land invasion,
Speaker 2: she said, I believe that this escalation is the last
Speaker 2: opportunity for those that still support Maduro to understand that
Speaker 2: they need to take all support away from him. She
Speaker 2: says to the interviewer with Bloomberg, I asked you to
Speaker 2: understand what we the Venezuelan people have done. We've had
Speaker 2: over thirty five rigged elections, we finally demonstrated, we won,
Speaker 2: and then we were attacked. We've had thousands of protests,
Speaker 2: peaceful rallies, demonstrations, We've gone through every single institutional means
Speaker 2: something else needs to happen. And fair enough, yes, she
Speaker 2: says that this pressure, this threat is the only thing
Speaker 2: that's gonna work. Right, And even if she's not one
Speaker 2: hundred percent sent down with everything Trump is doing in
Speaker 2: the way he's doing it, he is clearly in the
Speaker 2: US under this administration, is clearly the greatest ally she
Speaker 2: and her movement have for redoving, removing Maduro, and so
Speaker 2: now it's not the time for quibbling. I think she
Speaker 2: would tell you, Yeah, we got to get this monster
Speaker 2: and his cartel kleptocracy out of here. I don't know
Speaker 2: if this is the right move or not, but I
Speaker 2: saw bumper sticker going into the Halloween store, one of
Speaker 2: the many in my town that says war isn't the answer.
Speaker 2: And I had a discussion with my son, who was
Speaker 2: in violent agreement with me. How stupid that is to me?
Speaker 2: You have you have that sort of bumper stick or
Speaker 2: a T shirt, you've just you just you might have
Speaker 2: wear a sign that says I'm a moron or a child.
Speaker 2: I have the mind of a child, a moron child.
Speaker 2: It's just a freaking stupid So what do you suggest,
Speaker 2: For instance, Ukraine, a country attacks you and invade you
Speaker 2: and decides they're going to take you over?
Speaker 4: What should you do? Go to the UN and pass
Speaker 4: a resolution, negotiate? Right, Yeah, I know it's it's just absurd.
Speaker 4: I'm trying to think of what's the perfect bumper sticker.
Speaker 4: No more bumper stickers. Don't read bumper stickers, that would
Speaker 4: be a good sticker. War is not the answer. Your
Speaker 4: bumper sticker isn't the answer. It's an idiot label saying it.
Speaker 2: It's such a moronic point of view, is it? Do
Speaker 2: they believe it? It's like pacifist. Do they believe that
Speaker 2: or is it just a it's kind of fun and
Speaker 2: cool to be a that sort of person.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's self congratulatory. It's a virtue signaling.
Speaker 2: But what you do is you you're opting out of
Speaker 2: making the tough decisions. Well, good for you and standing
Speaker 2: up to the bad guys.
Speaker 4: Now is excessive offensive war a good thing or or
Speaker 4: ill conceived wars.
Speaker 2: To serve certain special interests a good thing? No, of
Speaker 2: course not.
Speaker 4: We're not making some sort of blanket endorsement of all violence.
Speaker 4: Far from it.
Speaker 2: But yeah, that's a dumb attitude. Why do we still
Speaker 2: have what we have in the United States that other
Speaker 2: countries haven't taken it? One reason, only one reason only,
Speaker 2: that we are militarily stronger than every other country on earth.
Speaker 2: That's the only reason we get to hang on to
Speaker 2: our resources and way of life. Otherwise somebody would come
Speaker 2: along and take it, you freaking morons.
Speaker 4: So, speaking of difficult choices in a complicated world, let
Speaker 4: me hit you with a little more from this story
Speaker 4: about USI striking Venezuela and ground targets, and then the
Speaker 4: greater theme which I hinted at earlier. So the administration
Speaker 4: has identified targets in Venezuela, including military facilities used to
Speaker 4: smuggle drugs. Hear me again, friends, military facilities used to
Speaker 4: smuggle drugs because the Maduro regime and the cartels and
Speaker 4: the military are all in coats their one giant crime organization.
Speaker 4: If President Trump decides to move forward with the air strikes,
Speaker 4: they said, the targets would send a clear message to
Speaker 4: Maduro that it is time to step down. While the
Speaker 4: President has not made final decisions on ordering land strikes,
Speaker 4: the officials set a potential air campaign would focus on
Speaker 4: targets that sit at the nexus of the drug gangs
Speaker 4: and the Maduro regime.
Speaker 2: So we had the reporting yesterday that fishermen are more
Speaker 2: scared of their own government than they are scared of
Speaker 2: getting obliterated by Trump from the sky. Oh, I don't
Speaker 2: doubt I don't doubt that either.
Speaker 4: There are no fishermen with cigarette boats with four giant
Speaker 4: outboard engines going you know, seventy knots across the ocean anyway.
Speaker 2: Plus the chance of an accidentally they blashed you out
Speaker 2: of the water versus an actual drug boat exists. But
Speaker 2: the chance that the Maduro government comes to your house
Speaker 2: and grabs you and throws you in prison. If you
Speaker 2: rise up is one hundred percent.
Speaker 4: Right, yeah, yeah, you know, back to your theme of
Speaker 4: the war is not the answer in Ninny's people like
Speaker 4: that they represent a group.
Speaker 2: That either can't admit.
Speaker 4: Or won't that often in the affairs of a nation,
Speaker 4: you have two bad choices, two choices that you wish
Speaker 4: you didn't have to make, both of which make you sad.
Speaker 4: But you've got to do one of them and then
Speaker 4: pay the price for it and endure the pain and
Speaker 4: heartache of it. Ask Ukrainians, And I'm looking at our neighborhood,
Speaker 4: Central and South America, and our history down there is
Speaker 4: well known. And if you're if you've been in college recently,
Speaker 4: you've heard, you know, and read reams of information about
Speaker 4: how awful it was that the US backed right wing
Speaker 4: regimes to keep the Communists at bay. And certainly a
Speaker 4: lot of the regimes we've back did awful things that
Speaker 4: make me sad and sickened, honestly, But to have, for instance,
Speaker 4: the Chinese Communists in charge of this neighborhood would be worse.
Speaker 2: And certainly, you know, we try to cut down the.
Speaker 4: Excesses of our allies and should. But I'm looking at
Speaker 4: South America as it is right now, and I won't
Speaker 4: go through the whole shebang because we don't have time.
Speaker 4: But if you look at Ecuador and Colombia and Venezuela
Speaker 4: and a couple others, they are either narcokliptocracies that are
Speaker 4: flooding our country with dangerous drugs and hot beds to
Speaker 4: organize crime. Some of the big gangs you've heard of,
Speaker 4: some of them you haven't, and or they're just complete
Speaker 4: basket cases. And though it is difficult and expensive, I
Speaker 4: love the idea of the US taking a more activist
Speaker 4: role in our neighborhood. We have it in our power
Speaker 4: not to be surrounded by narco terrorist basket cases.
Speaker 2: We got to do that. Joe Getty neo con Yes,
Speaker 2: has a post term of John Bolton in his bathroom
Speaker 2: and a little grail to Lindsey Graham that he essentially
Speaker 2: neils before every day.
Speaker 4: Yea gram it's a shirtless picture, Lindsay, which is it's
Speaker 4: kind of a side story. But anyway, no, because of.
Speaker 2: The closet door. If you are an understanding, oh my gosh,
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Speaker 4: my point, very very briefly, after some of the excesses
Speaker 4: of the twentieth century and the Cold War and everything,
Speaker 4: Jimmy Carter in particular, started a trend of America needs
Speaker 4: to be kinder and more gentle and hands off because
Speaker 4: some of the regimes we backed were really mean, and
Speaker 4: we're ashamed and were sad and we're sorry. You can
Speaker 4: self determine, and then the neighborhood goes completely to hell.
Speaker 2: It's like.
Speaker 4: It's like going from Rudy Giuliani to Zorn Mumdani.
Speaker 2: It's just we went way too far.
Speaker 4: And you could, I suppose you could make the argument that, well,
Speaker 4: these countries got to manage themselves, but no, they're externalities.
Speaker 4: They screw with us. And I say, take a more
Speaker 4: active role in your neighborhood. Start with your neighborhood before
Speaker 4: you try to clean up the whole world.
Speaker 2: Joe getting Neo Khan on this. This is the scariest
Speaker 2: of all days. I don't think that's fair. I want
Speaker 2: to talk more about that later. Fascinating article about AI yesterday,
Speaker 2: a big conference they had where they had a debate
Speaker 2: between the it's going to ruin the world and the
Speaker 2: It's going to make the world the best it's ever
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Speaker 4: Here's your freedom loved quote of the day from Matt
Speaker 4: Taibi the say we highlighted yesterday. We're in the upper
Speaker 4: class twits promoting revolution space, a script with which most
Speaker 4: of the rest of the world is sadly familiar. Is
Speaker 4: there no defense against the ignorant, rich upper class twits
Speaker 4: promoting revolution?
Speaker 2: I'm Donnie in company. Love that.
Speaker 4: Well done, Matt oh In an honorary quote of the day.
Speaker 2: MJ sient this along.
Speaker 4: You know a good point about Gavy Newsom's fake as
Speaker 4: a poor kid act, which is just hilarious. But she
Speaker 4: then signs off with the CS Lewis quote, which I've
Speaker 4: always loved. You can't go back and change the beginning,
Speaker 4: but you can start where you are and change the ending.
Speaker 2: That's pretty good remembering every day of your life.
Speaker 4: Mailbag drop as note Mailbag at Armstrong and Getty dot
Speaker 4: Com got a number of notes on the poll that
Speaker 4: came out that Democrats are not proud of the country
Speaker 4: and Republicans still are. The numbers of Democrats and independents
Speaker 4: who say they're very or extremely for out of the
Speaker 4: countries plunge in the last twenty years or so where
Speaker 4: it's child steadied about ninety percent for Republicans. Yeah, in
Speaker 4: regards to the polls, what.
Speaker 2: Polls, all of them?
Speaker 4: Well played, Tom, that have Republicans still proud in this country?
Speaker 2: Et cetera.
Speaker 4: As always, the type of person who's in the Democrat
Speaker 4: camp a more emotionally driven.
Speaker 2: They rely on their feelings to guide them.
Speaker 4: Well, it's much easier to influence that type of person
Speaker 4: with empty rhetoric and hair on fire proclamations Hitler's in
Speaker 4: the White House, where as a person who thinks, analyzes,
Speaker 4: and actually pays attention to their skeptical genie is not
Speaker 4: easily herded from guardrail to guardrail. So in conclusion, duh,
Speaker 4: let's see JT on the same topic.
Speaker 2: It's easy to.
Speaker 4: Explain Republicans and Conservatives base their pride on the fundamentals
Speaker 4: of our country, freedom, liberty, our constitutional republic, et cetera.
Speaker 4: Those things don't change very much over time, and certainly
Speaker 4: don't depend on which party is in the White House.
Speaker 4: So it's no surprise that Republican sentiment has remained relatively flat.
Speaker 4: By contrast, the Democratic Party and Progressives are a political
Speaker 4: movement built on aggrievement. Of course, they can't be proud
Speaker 4: of a country that contains so many things about which
Speaker 4: agreement is necessary. You know, I think that's an excellent point.
Speaker 4: Grievance has become virtually the only motivating force among Democrats.
Speaker 4: And you can't stoke grievance twenty four to seven and
Speaker 4: then say, but this is a wonderful country.
Speaker 2: It doesn't work. That's the answer.
Speaker 4: Well done, friend, friends, our old friend Kemper really enjoys
Speaker 4: our scathing conversations about government schools and what they're doing,
Speaker 4: but he says it annoys me that they don't wrap
Speaker 4: up with a strong statement advocating school voucher programs in California.
Speaker 4: Whe Kemper Lives and other places. You know, fair criticism,
Speaker 4: there are answers, so yeah, we'll throw that in. More
Speaker 4: email to come. We got some really good, amusing ones,
Speaker 4: but we are out of time. AI is going to
Speaker 4: be great for all of us or ruin our lives?
Speaker 4: Which is it.
Speaker 2: We'll get into that among other things on the way.
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