1 00:00:01,880 --> 00:00:06,160 Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 2 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:10,760 Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Ketty arm Strong 3 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:24,599 Speaker 1: and Jettie and he Armstrong and Yetty. You wa to 4 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:25,640 Speaker 1: the first question of the briefing. 5 00:00:25,680 --> 00:00:27,760 Speaker 2: I know you said not a lot's changed this yesterday 6 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:30,880 Speaker 2: and it's a personal matter. But from a presidential perspective, 7 00:00:31,120 --> 00:00:33,879 Speaker 2: is there any possibility that the president would end up 8 00:00:33,920 --> 00:00:39,920 Speaker 2: pardoning his son. Yeah, so you've probably heard a disability, 9 00:00:40,040 --> 00:00:42,920 Speaker 2: so let's quit talking about it. You probably heard that 10 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:46,400 Speaker 2: Joe Biden did pardon Hunter going back ten years for 11 00:00:46,440 --> 00:00:48,839 Speaker 2: anything he did, whether you've heard about it or not. 12 00:00:49,040 --> 00:00:52,360 Speaker 2: And we'll talk more about that later. And it's, uh, 13 00:00:52,560 --> 00:00:54,480 Speaker 2: it's quite a deal. I don't think it was shocking 14 00:00:54,520 --> 00:00:57,360 Speaker 2: to anybody, but it changes the landscape a little bit, 15 00:00:57,480 --> 00:01:00,000 Speaker 2: given the fact that Trump is on the war path 16 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:03,840 Speaker 2: claiming the Justice Department is too political, and Joe Biden 17 00:01:03,960 --> 00:01:07,760 Speaker 2: stated in words that the Justice Department got political with 18 00:01:07,800 --> 00:01:08,440 Speaker 2: his son. 19 00:01:08,920 --> 00:01:13,280 Speaker 1: Right right in the other direction too, heart on democrats. Okay, 20 00:01:14,240 --> 00:01:16,880 Speaker 1: speaking of political appointees, I want to talk a little 21 00:01:16,880 --> 00:01:22,240 Speaker 1: bit about Pete Hegseeth's nomination. Also Tulsey Gabbard and I 22 00:01:22,319 --> 00:01:26,679 Speaker 1: can't believe I've waited until now. I am so incredibly 23 00:01:26,880 --> 00:01:33,760 Speaker 1: happy that Trump has nominated Jay Battacharia of Stanford University 24 00:01:34,160 --> 00:01:37,760 Speaker 1: to head the National Institutes of Health, one of the 25 00:01:37,800 --> 00:01:43,480 Speaker 1: signers of the Great Barrier Declaration, a dissenting voice during COVID. 26 00:01:43,520 --> 00:01:46,720 Speaker 1: He was picked on, he was banned, he was berated, 27 00:01:46,800 --> 00:01:51,240 Speaker 1: he was discredited when he was right about everything. So 28 00:01:51,440 --> 00:01:53,120 Speaker 1: more on that to come as well. 29 00:01:53,160 --> 00:01:56,880 Speaker 2: Since you mentioned Nih, I have become a big fan 30 00:01:57,120 --> 00:01:59,800 Speaker 2: of the vague Ramaswami, which I wouldn't have guessed, as 31 00:01:59,840 --> 00:02:01,960 Speaker 2: I've said horrible things about him, hated him as a 32 00:02:01,960 --> 00:02:04,040 Speaker 2: presidential candidate and some of the crazy crap he was 33 00:02:04,080 --> 00:02:06,600 Speaker 2: saying to try to get attention, like him as a businessman. 34 00:02:06,800 --> 00:02:09,680 Speaker 2: And he's working with Elon on doge right the Department 35 00:02:09,720 --> 00:02:13,760 Speaker 2: of Government Efficiency, and his Twitter feed is an endless 36 00:02:13,840 --> 00:02:17,440 Speaker 2: stream of things they're finding and the federal budget and 37 00:02:17,520 --> 00:02:20,080 Speaker 2: federal government that are wastes of money, and it's just 38 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:23,000 Speaker 2: absolutely amazing. But here's one of them, Nih who you 39 00:02:23,040 --> 00:02:28,240 Speaker 2: just mentioned, Trump's nominee for that. NIH grant distributions have 40 00:02:28,280 --> 00:02:30,040 Speaker 2: turned into a joke Vivek Rights. 41 00:02:30,200 --> 00:02:31,720 Speaker 1: But the most ridiculous part is. 42 00:02:31,639 --> 00:02:36,200 Speaker 2: That seventy percent of the federal funds granted to universities 43 00:02:36,240 --> 00:02:39,359 Speaker 2: goes to fund their overhead slush funds, which is all 44 00:02:39,480 --> 00:02:43,000 Speaker 2: DEI nonsense and stuff like that. It's just crap, with 45 00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:45,240 Speaker 2: none of it getting too, well, not none of it, 46 00:02:45,320 --> 00:02:47,400 Speaker 2: but very little of it getting to the actual research. 47 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:53,120 Speaker 2: If there's a private donation, only ten percent goes to 48 00:02:53,160 --> 00:02:57,000 Speaker 2: the crap. The rest of it goes to the actual research. 49 00:02:57,040 --> 00:03:01,240 Speaker 2: But for whatever reason, a government fund, taxpayer funds, seventy 50 00:03:01,320 --> 00:03:02,760 Speaker 2: percent is just wasted. 51 00:03:03,440 --> 00:03:06,440 Speaker 1: Wow Wow, Because it's other people's money, they don't care. 52 00:03:07,080 --> 00:03:09,480 Speaker 1: Speaking of the NIH, and then we'll move on back 53 00:03:09,480 --> 00:03:12,120 Speaker 1: to the question of Doge and saving money. They've also 54 00:03:12,200 --> 00:03:17,200 Speaker 1: become completely woke. They are riddled with DEI crap. You 55 00:03:17,240 --> 00:03:20,960 Speaker 1: cannot get a grant from the NIH unless you are 56 00:03:21,440 --> 00:03:24,359 Speaker 1: one minority or other. It takes some vow of wolkness. 57 00:03:24,440 --> 00:03:25,720 Speaker 1: It's it's utterly corrupt. 58 00:03:26,880 --> 00:03:29,160 Speaker 2: Yet another tangent that I've got to go with. I 59 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:31,679 Speaker 2: was reading this article about how awful it is that 60 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:35,160 Speaker 2: Trump and Elon and Doge are taking a look at 61 00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:39,680 Speaker 2: Noah n oh whatever the acronym is for the the 62 00:03:39,880 --> 00:03:43,800 Speaker 2: weather people, the federal weather thing, and The point that. 63 00:03:45,440 --> 00:03:46,880 Speaker 1: Elon and others are making is. 64 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:49,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, this thing is so shopped through and through with 65 00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:54,520 Speaker 2: people that are dedicated only to climate change and all 66 00:03:54,560 --> 00:03:57,040 Speaker 2: the crap that goes with that. They fully drank the 67 00:03:57,120 --> 00:04:01,320 Speaker 2: kool aid on that there's no like actual client's being done. 68 00:04:01,640 --> 00:04:04,840 Speaker 2: They have an agenda. They have a political agenda. And 69 00:04:04,880 --> 00:04:06,960 Speaker 2: so the left is claiming, you don't even want weather 70 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:11,320 Speaker 2: forecast anymore, and Trump's crowd is claiming it's cause it's 71 00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:16,880 Speaker 2: it's it's a now, a taxpayer funded scare people about 72 00:04:16,920 --> 00:04:19,760 Speaker 2: climate change organization is what. 73 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:22,440 Speaker 1: It is, in addition to just being a jobs program, 74 00:04:22,520 --> 00:04:25,680 Speaker 1: which is what all government turns into. Yeah, oh I 75 00:04:25,760 --> 00:04:30,480 Speaker 1: was I gonna say about Noah's Yeah, yeah, it doesn't matter. 76 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:33,560 Speaker 1: So back to the main threat. So Elon Musk has 77 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:37,400 Speaker 1: said he wants to save two trillion dollars cut two 78 00:04:37,480 --> 00:04:42,240 Speaker 1: trillion dollars worth of spending. That is ridiculous, practically laughable. However, 79 00:04:42,960 --> 00:04:46,159 Speaker 1: and here's our thing. We want to be realistic to 80 00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:50,159 Speaker 1: help you understand the challenges and and some of the 81 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:53,760 Speaker 1: promise of the thing. Do you want to say something 82 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:54,240 Speaker 1: real quick? 83 00:04:54,360 --> 00:04:56,440 Speaker 2: I don't understand. Look, I would like to know more 84 00:04:56,440 --> 00:04:59,120 Speaker 2: about Elon's life. I was watching him at the big 85 00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:03,839 Speaker 2: Thanksgiving gap at Maga at mar A Lago Maga logo, 86 00:05:04,240 --> 00:05:06,640 Speaker 2: and he's sitting there with Trump and they're dancing to 87 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:10,880 Speaker 2: the YMCA and everything like that, and just he tweets 88 00:05:11,160 --> 00:05:14,839 Speaker 2: like a hundred times a day. So and then he 89 00:05:14,839 --> 00:05:19,680 Speaker 2: had another rocket take off. How what is his lifestyle? Yeah, 90 00:05:19,720 --> 00:05:21,359 Speaker 2: what in the hell is he doing? And then you know, 91 00:05:21,440 --> 00:05:23,960 Speaker 2: obviously he's not raising his twelve kids because he spent 92 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:26,920 Speaker 2: his Thanksgiving with just sitting next to Donald Trump. I 93 00:05:26,960 --> 00:05:29,520 Speaker 2: don't know where your kids were on Thanksgiving anyway either. 94 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:34,680 Speaker 2: Did he back to his efforts to rein in spending? Yeah, oh, 95 00:05:34,720 --> 00:05:37,920 Speaker 2: that reminds me. He tweeted something I just saw where 96 00:05:38,040 --> 00:05:42,240 Speaker 2: is that? It was absolutely fabulous. I thought I sent 97 00:05:42,320 --> 00:05:43,080 Speaker 2: that to myself. 98 00:05:43,080 --> 00:05:45,320 Speaker 1: It was a community note, you know where if somebody 99 00:05:45,360 --> 00:05:48,440 Speaker 1: tweets something that's inaccurate or whatever, there will be community 100 00:05:48,440 --> 00:05:51,240 Speaker 1: notes that are carefully researched and saying, hey, this is misleading, 101 00:05:51,279 --> 00:05:57,400 Speaker 1: because oh, there it is. And the tweet was it 102 00:05:57,520 --> 00:06:04,680 Speaker 1: was from Joe Biden back coming on Trump. No one 103 00:06:04,760 --> 00:06:09,360 Speaker 1: is above the law, and the community notes says by 104 00:06:09,400 --> 00:06:11,760 Speaker 1: pardoning his son Hunter not merely for a single crime, 105 00:06:11,760 --> 00:06:14,000 Speaker 1: but for all actual and potential crimes he may or 106 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:16,680 Speaker 1: may not have created over an eleven year period. Joe 107 00:06:16,680 --> 00:06:18,800 Speaker 1: Biden has made clear that some people are in fact 108 00:06:18,839 --> 00:06:23,760 Speaker 1: above the law. That's a good community note. Yeah, community 109 00:06:23,839 --> 00:06:26,520 Speaker 1: notes for the win anyway. So Elon Musk wants to 110 00:06:26,520 --> 00:06:29,400 Speaker 1: save two trillion dollars, rather, that's going to be very, 111 00:06:29,480 --> 00:06:31,479 Speaker 1: very very hard for reasons that I think are pretty 112 00:06:31,520 --> 00:06:35,360 Speaker 1: damned interesting. The government spent a total of six point 113 00:06:35,360 --> 00:06:38,320 Speaker 1: seventy five trillion dollars in the most recent fiscal year, 114 00:06:38,440 --> 00:06:40,839 Speaker 1: which ended at the end of September, a year SOWA 115 00:06:40,960 --> 00:06:43,000 Speaker 1: six point seventy five trillion. 116 00:06:43,040 --> 00:06:45,279 Speaker 2: So that means they took in about five point seventy 117 00:06:45,279 --> 00:06:47,760 Speaker 2: five trillion in revenue something like, because we spend about 118 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:48,920 Speaker 2: a trillion more than we take in. 119 00:06:49,600 --> 00:06:52,320 Speaker 1: Yeah. In other words, they walked around handing twenty thousand 120 00:06:52,400 --> 00:06:57,040 Speaker 1: dollars to every human being within our borders, twenty thousand 121 00:06:57,400 --> 00:06:59,800 Speaker 1: for all three hundred and thirty seven million of us. 122 00:07:01,560 --> 00:07:04,640 Speaker 1: Let's get back to the reality of it. So of 123 00:07:04,720 --> 00:07:08,000 Speaker 1: that six and three quarter trillion dollars, you got one 124 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:10,560 Speaker 1: and a half that's Medicare and Medicaid, and this is 125 00:07:10,760 --> 00:07:14,640 Speaker 1: mandatory spending and interest payments. This is not stuff that 126 00:07:14,720 --> 00:07:17,360 Speaker 1: Congress can vote up or down year by year. It 127 00:07:17,440 --> 00:07:21,000 Speaker 1: is locked in unless they pass a massive restructuring of 128 00:07:21,040 --> 00:07:24,080 Speaker 1: these programs. So million and a half did you already 129 00:07:24,120 --> 00:07:28,600 Speaker 1: say half? No? Okay, no, million and a half, I'm sorry. 130 00:07:28,720 --> 00:07:32,480 Speaker 1: A trillion and a half dollars Medicare and Medicaid, one 131 00:07:32,480 --> 00:07:36,400 Speaker 1: point four to five Social Security. That takes us to 132 00:07:36,640 --> 00:07:41,880 Speaker 1: what just under three There's another just under a trillion 133 00:07:41,960 --> 00:07:46,720 Speaker 1: dollars worth of net interest. Our credit card bill is 134 00:07:46,800 --> 00:07:51,280 Speaker 1: now approaching a trillion dollars a year because we spend 135 00:07:51,360 --> 00:07:55,040 Speaker 1: more than we take in. But nobody cares. Nobody talked 136 00:07:55,080 --> 00:07:58,240 Speaker 1: about during the election. I'll stop talking about it now, 137 00:07:58,360 --> 00:08:01,200 Speaker 1: so we still have an audience. What the hell, America, 138 00:08:01,240 --> 00:08:05,080 Speaker 1: What is the matter with you? Other mandatory spending, which 139 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:10,200 Speaker 1: includes a great deal of VA stuff or that might 140 00:08:10,240 --> 00:08:12,520 Speaker 1: be within defense, I'm not sure, is another one and 141 00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:15,760 Speaker 1: a quarter trillion dollars. So just in broad numbers, we're 142 00:08:15,760 --> 00:08:18,920 Speaker 1: looking at three four five trillion dollars. Out of that, 143 00:08:19,040 --> 00:08:23,840 Speaker 1: six point seventy five is quote unquote mandatory spending and interest. 144 00:08:23,560 --> 00:08:28,360 Speaker 2: So basically untouchable discretionary spending. Consists of nine hundred and 145 00:08:28,400 --> 00:08:32,000 Speaker 2: fifty billion dollars. I'm sorry, let's go with eight hundred 146 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:35,640 Speaker 2: and fifty billion in defense. We spent about eight hundred 147 00:08:35,640 --> 00:08:39,720 Speaker 2: and fifty fifty billion dollars on defense. Whoa, Joe, that's 148 00:08:39,760 --> 00:08:42,839 Speaker 2: one hundred billion dollars less than we're spending on our 149 00:08:42,880 --> 00:08:46,880 Speaker 2: interest payments now, not available to defend this country against 150 00:08:46,920 --> 00:08:50,760 Speaker 2: the commie hordes, the Aslamists. 151 00:08:50,320 --> 00:08:54,160 Speaker 1: Or a Putin or whomever. We don't have that much. 152 00:08:54,280 --> 00:08:55,920 Speaker 1: That's right, I said, I wasn't going to talk about 153 00:08:55,960 --> 00:09:01,880 Speaker 1: this anymore, okay a, and then non defense spending again. 154 00:09:01,920 --> 00:09:03,760 Speaker 2: If the Sweet and Sour Chicken ever hits the fan 155 00:09:03,840 --> 00:09:08,280 Speaker 2: with China, we're really gonna notice this. Oh yeah, we 156 00:09:08,640 --> 00:09:11,000 Speaker 2: don't have that money available to spend on defense. 157 00:09:11,679 --> 00:09:15,160 Speaker 1: Well, and more to the point, we didn't have it 158 00:09:15,240 --> 00:09:19,600 Speaker 1: available when the ramping up was occurring. If we wait 159 00:09:19,800 --> 00:09:25,120 Speaker 1: until General Sao Unleasha's the unholy chicken of communist deceit 160 00:09:25,160 --> 00:09:27,600 Speaker 1: on us, he says, attempting to add on to Jack's 161 00:09:27,679 --> 00:09:34,319 Speaker 1: already questionable metaphor, it's way too late. Where was I? I 162 00:09:34,160 --> 00:09:37,840 Speaker 1: distracted myself with that crab? Oh? Okay, So all we've 163 00:09:37,880 --> 00:09:40,600 Speaker 1: got left of the enormous federal pie, then is about 164 00:09:40,640 --> 00:09:43,480 Speaker 1: nine hundred and forty eight billion dollars in non defense 165 00:09:43,559 --> 00:09:48,000 Speaker 1: discretionary spending. It's it's essentially nine hundred and fifty billion. 166 00:09:48,440 --> 00:09:55,479 Speaker 1: So since again, unless Congress has a major, major restructuring 167 00:09:55,600 --> 00:09:58,199 Speaker 1: of our entitlement programs in mind, or we cut our 168 00:09:58,200 --> 00:10:00,679 Speaker 1: military to the bone, there's it's just nine hundred and 169 00:10:00,720 --> 00:10:02,960 Speaker 1: forty eight billion dollars to go after. So there's no 170 00:10:03,040 --> 00:10:06,200 Speaker 1: chance you're gonna get two trillion dollars in savings now 171 00:10:06,320 --> 00:10:10,200 Speaker 1: here is the on the other hand, on the other hand, 172 00:10:10,240 --> 00:10:13,360 Speaker 1: let's see how much we can do. Let's see how 173 00:10:13,440 --> 00:10:16,840 Speaker 1: much crap we can root out. As we often point out, 174 00:10:17,440 --> 00:10:21,000 Speaker 1: you know, you come across the stuff that Vivek is 175 00:10:21,920 --> 00:10:25,400 Speaker 1: tweeting about. That's like you pick some nice little town 176 00:10:25,440 --> 00:10:28,120 Speaker 1: in Kansas, Like you're in Solina where Jack and I 177 00:10:28,160 --> 00:10:30,959 Speaker 1: met years and years ago. You're in Salina, Kansas. Sounds 178 00:10:30,960 --> 00:10:33,080 Speaker 1: like we're sounds like we were on bumble when you 179 00:10:33,080 --> 00:10:36,319 Speaker 1: say it, like that, is bumble a bad one or 180 00:10:36,360 --> 00:10:39,240 Speaker 1: a good one? Or is it doesn't mattery? Find love 181 00:10:39,280 --> 00:10:39,880 Speaker 1: wherever you can. 182 00:10:41,080 --> 00:10:41,200 Speaker 2: Uh. 183 00:10:41,559 --> 00:10:47,120 Speaker 1: But if every tax paying homo sapien in Solina Kansas. 184 00:10:48,920 --> 00:10:52,640 Speaker 1: We're a pool their money every there. I'm sorry, they're taxes, 185 00:10:53,480 --> 00:10:57,280 Speaker 1: every single red scent of that was squandered by the 186 00:10:57,400 --> 00:11:00,840 Speaker 1: nih for instance, in the way that VVEK was a 187 00:11:01,360 --> 00:11:05,800 Speaker 1: tweeting about. And that's obscene, that's horrifying, it's robbery. It's 188 00:11:05,840 --> 00:11:08,600 Speaker 1: an American. So no, we're not not going to get 189 00:11:08,600 --> 00:11:12,000 Speaker 1: to two trillion dollars because Elon tends toward hyperbole. But 190 00:11:12,240 --> 00:11:15,959 Speaker 1: let's see how good we can do. Oh and by 191 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:20,480 Speaker 1: the way, vote against deficit spending, please America. Now shut up. 192 00:11:25,800 --> 00:11:28,840 Speaker 1: Federal civilian and military retirements about one hundred billion. 193 00:11:28,880 --> 00:11:31,360 Speaker 2: By the way, that reminds me of a fortune I 194 00:11:31,440 --> 00:11:33,760 Speaker 2: got at Panda Express the other night. We were very 195 00:11:33,920 --> 00:11:36,840 Speaker 2: my sons and I were very unhappy with modern fortunes. 196 00:11:36,880 --> 00:11:38,079 Speaker 2: Are not fortunes at all. 197 00:11:38,280 --> 00:11:42,280 Speaker 1: No, no, they're terrible. Yes, Michael did say I ped 198 00:11:42,320 --> 00:11:47,040 Speaker 1: in your rights. It was handwritten. That's more a confession 199 00:11:47,080 --> 00:11:54,760 Speaker 1: than a fortune written pede in your right? What in 200 00:11:54,840 --> 00:11:57,839 Speaker 1: perverse and childish thing to say, Michael, Oh, thank you, 201 00:11:58,080 --> 00:12:00,400 Speaker 1: I'll thank you to keep those comments, dear, which you 202 00:12:00,480 --> 00:12:01,559 Speaker 1: gotta laugh out of me. 203 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:04,520 Speaker 2: But yeah, I want to I want to talk about 204 00:12:04,559 --> 00:12:06,720 Speaker 2: a bunch of things, including Pete Hexit's mom. 205 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:08,000 Speaker 1: You don't expect to get. 206 00:12:07,920 --> 00:12:09,959 Speaker 2: Kneecapped by your own mom if you're about to get 207 00:12:09,960 --> 00:12:11,040 Speaker 2: the biggest job in your life. 208 00:12:11,880 --> 00:12:15,120 Speaker 1: Yeah, well, it's it's troubling. If you haven't heard this, 209 00:12:15,360 --> 00:12:22,960 Speaker 1: it's it's nasty. Stay duned YETI this is behind people. 210 00:12:23,160 --> 00:12:39,400 Speaker 1: Put it in. He pitched its touchdown. My it is 211 00:12:39,880 --> 00:12:41,599 Speaker 1: showtime in Buffalo. 212 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:47,560 Speaker 2: Bowley Well, Josh Allen is a beast, the quarterback for 213 00:12:47,600 --> 00:12:50,400 Speaker 2: the Buffalo Bills. He has now beaten both last year's 214 00:12:50,400 --> 00:12:53,480 Speaker 2: Super Bowl teams back to back weeks, the Chiefs and 215 00:12:53,520 --> 00:12:57,080 Speaker 2: the forty nine Ers, on amazing plays of his own. 216 00:12:57,520 --> 00:13:01,000 Speaker 2: And it is the first time ever that an NFL 217 00:13:01,360 --> 00:13:04,400 Speaker 2: quarterback ran, caught, and threw a touchdown in a single game, 218 00:13:04,679 --> 00:13:07,280 Speaker 2: which he did yesterday. As you heard there catching a 219 00:13:07,320 --> 00:13:11,920 Speaker 2: pass and running it in. It's easy to root for 220 00:13:11,920 --> 00:13:14,200 Speaker 2: the Bills and the Allions, which are both really really 221 00:13:14,200 --> 00:13:17,240 Speaker 2: great teams. The Chiefs the game I was at and 222 00:13:17,240 --> 00:13:20,439 Speaker 2: spent way too much money to be that cold. They 223 00:13:20,480 --> 00:13:23,160 Speaker 2: won NFL record. Our friend Dave, who does stats for 224 00:13:23,200 --> 00:13:25,760 Speaker 2: the Raiders, sent me this as the game ended. The 225 00:13:25,880 --> 00:13:30,360 Speaker 2: Chiefs have won seven games this year on the last 226 00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:33,559 Speaker 2: play of the game. An NFL record, that's not They 227 00:13:33,559 --> 00:13:36,760 Speaker 2: could easily be a sub five hundred team. I mean easily, 228 00:13:38,280 --> 00:13:40,080 Speaker 2: but yeah, yeah, they've got the best record. 229 00:13:41,360 --> 00:13:44,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean winning in crunch time is not exactly 230 00:13:44,120 --> 00:13:48,240 Speaker 1: a minor attribute as an athlete or a team's Yeah, 231 00:13:48,280 --> 00:13:50,040 Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. That would have had a lot 232 00:13:50,080 --> 00:13:51,640 Speaker 1: to do with how loud it was in there. 233 00:13:51,840 --> 00:13:54,920 Speaker 2: So Arrowhead Stadium, Even if you're a non sports fan, 234 00:13:54,960 --> 00:13:57,199 Speaker 2: you might find this interesting. Arrowhead Stadium in Kennasaity is 235 00:13:57,200 --> 00:14:01,160 Speaker 2: allowed to stadium in America. And and it was getting 236 00:14:01,240 --> 00:14:03,080 Speaker 2: really loud there in the fourth quarter. And I thought, 237 00:14:03,120 --> 00:14:04,440 Speaker 2: you know, what's loud, But it's not as loud as 238 00:14:04,440 --> 00:14:05,920 Speaker 2: I thought it was. It was because I had a 239 00:14:05,960 --> 00:14:08,400 Speaker 2: beanie on and my hood over it. I pulled down 240 00:14:08,400 --> 00:14:10,000 Speaker 2: my hood and took off my beanie and it was like, 241 00:14:10,120 --> 00:14:12,760 Speaker 2: holy cow, it sounded like a jet engine in there, 242 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:18,160 Speaker 2: so loud. I was just in the bathroom. I mentioned 243 00:14:18,200 --> 00:14:21,320 Speaker 2: earlier that I gained three and a half pounds over 244 00:14:21,360 --> 00:14:22,440 Speaker 2: our Thanksgiving break. 245 00:14:22,760 --> 00:14:24,000 Speaker 1: O Lord, where is this going. 246 00:14:24,120 --> 00:14:25,480 Speaker 2: I just was in the bathroom and I looked in 247 00:14:25,520 --> 00:14:29,160 Speaker 2: the mirror. My head is so round, it's perfectly spherical. 248 00:14:29,280 --> 00:14:33,240 Speaker 2: Like the sort of perfect sphere they can only accomplish 249 00:14:33,280 --> 00:14:38,000 Speaker 2: in space. I've accomplished by eating. What did the drug 250 00:14:38,040 --> 00:14:42,160 Speaker 2: dealer calling in Mexico? Charlie Brown, Charlie Brown. Yeah, Hey, 251 00:14:42,240 --> 00:14:43,720 Speaker 2: Charlie bron you want some pot. 252 00:14:43,880 --> 00:14:45,560 Speaker 1: Charlie Brown, you want some pot? You want a girl? 253 00:14:45,680 --> 00:14:50,680 Speaker 1: You want a girl? Charlie Brown calling me, Charlie Brown. 254 00:14:53,480 --> 00:14:55,840 Speaker 2: Oh, we played ac DC music because they just announced 255 00:14:55,840 --> 00:14:58,280 Speaker 2: they're going to do a twenty twenty five tour, which 256 00:14:58,320 --> 00:14:59,440 Speaker 2: I'm gonna have to take Henry too. 257 00:14:59,440 --> 00:15:00,560 Speaker 1: That would be really really cool. 258 00:15:01,560 --> 00:15:03,440 Speaker 2: A bunch of old men stepping or stumping around, one 259 00:15:03,440 --> 00:15:05,040 Speaker 2: of them in short pants sounds good to me. 260 00:15:05,840 --> 00:15:08,600 Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean really old, Joe Biden old. 261 00:15:08,840 --> 00:15:11,600 Speaker 2: And then I wanted to get to this among the 262 00:15:11,720 --> 00:15:16,680 Speaker 2: many things. I got so many notes from our week 263 00:15:16,760 --> 00:15:18,480 Speaker 2: off of things I came across in the news that 264 00:15:18,520 --> 00:15:23,200 Speaker 2: I found entertaining, but one of them a piece in 265 00:15:23,280 --> 00:15:28,520 Speaker 2: the New York Times from yesterday. A person wrote, I 266 00:15:28,520 --> 00:15:31,400 Speaker 2: don't have them from me. If it's basically leavings is 267 00:15:31,440 --> 00:15:34,360 Speaker 2: not as as easy as you think, take it from me. 268 00:15:34,920 --> 00:15:39,040 Speaker 2: And it was someone who had left the country twice 269 00:15:39,560 --> 00:15:42,000 Speaker 2: and out of you know, some sort of anger over 270 00:15:42,080 --> 00:15:45,000 Speaker 2: something we're doing and then ended up coming back. This 271 00:15:45,080 --> 00:15:48,880 Speaker 2: person left once because we were funding somebody that didn't 272 00:15:48,920 --> 00:15:51,280 Speaker 2: like us funding in some war somewhere. So they moved 273 00:15:51,280 --> 00:15:53,440 Speaker 2: out of the country and then decided, yeah, I should 274 00:15:53,480 --> 00:15:53,720 Speaker 2: go back. 275 00:15:53,760 --> 00:15:54,520 Speaker 1: I liked it better there. 276 00:15:54,760 --> 00:15:57,360 Speaker 2: Then they moved out of the country when Trump won 277 00:15:57,440 --> 00:15:59,920 Speaker 2: in twenty sixteen, that's it. I can't live here anymore. 278 00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:02,400 Speaker 2: They moved to Europe, and then he said, ah, maybe 279 00:16:02,400 --> 00:16:03,920 Speaker 2: I should go back. Date I say, says they moving 280 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:06,040 Speaker 2: back anyway. So they're writing a piece about how it's 281 00:16:06,040 --> 00:16:07,240 Speaker 2: more difficult than it sounds. 282 00:16:07,440 --> 00:16:13,680 Speaker 1: Yeah, you freaking more on no kidding you give. Given 283 00:16:13,720 --> 00:16:16,840 Speaker 1: the New York Times readership, that's probably a pretty useful 284 00:16:16,880 --> 00:16:20,200 Speaker 1: point of view for those people to see and hear. Ah. 285 00:16:20,400 --> 00:16:22,960 Speaker 2: You would think though, that you would be embarrassed to 286 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:26,520 Speaker 2: say out loud that twice you've pulled up stakes and 287 00:16:26,600 --> 00:16:30,160 Speaker 2: taken your family to another country over the news of 288 00:16:30,200 --> 00:16:30,560 Speaker 2: the day. 289 00:16:31,400 --> 00:16:32,960 Speaker 1: Maybe it's one of those things where the fact that 290 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:35,800 Speaker 1: you did it twice is proof that you can't be embarrassed. Yeah, 291 00:16:35,840 --> 00:16:41,040 Speaker 1: by that, you don't realize how how adolescents you're coming off. 292 00:16:41,760 --> 00:16:47,680 Speaker 2: Yeah, So a lot of Trump's nominees are the fraut 293 00:16:47,840 --> 00:16:51,440 Speaker 2: fraud situations and Pete Hegzeth for Secretary of Defense's mom 294 00:16:51,880 --> 00:16:53,600 Speaker 2: kneecapped him over the weekend. 295 00:16:53,880 --> 00:16:56,920 Speaker 1: Kind of unintentionally, well, absolutely unintentionally. 296 00:16:57,200 --> 00:17:01,040 Speaker 2: And we've got to remention the uh Hunter Biden being 297 00:17:01,080 --> 00:17:02,080 Speaker 2: pardoned by his dad. 298 00:17:01,920 --> 00:17:07,720 Speaker 1: Too, absolutely shocking yet completely unsurprised. 299 00:17:07,760 --> 00:17:10,360 Speaker 2: And Hunter, you're a loser and we'll have political ripples 300 00:17:10,400 --> 00:17:11,600 Speaker 2: for quite some time too. 301 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:15,720 Speaker 1: Armstrong and Geeddy, you have. 302 00:17:15,720 --> 00:17:19,720 Speaker 2: To admire the raw hutzpah of Biden lying for months 303 00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:23,639 Speaker 2: about partning Hunter and then concluding his statement about partning 304 00:17:23,720 --> 00:17:26,800 Speaker 2: Hunter with the line, for my entire career have followed 305 00:17:26,840 --> 00:17:29,919 Speaker 2: a simple principle, just tell the American people the truth. 306 00:17:30,800 --> 00:17:36,880 Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I mean, it's it's comedy. It that is something. 307 00:17:37,800 --> 00:17:41,040 Speaker 2: Uh, we'll talk more about the Hunter Biden pardon, but 308 00:17:41,080 --> 00:17:44,879 Speaker 2: that is something. I mean. NBC is reporting that he 309 00:17:44,960 --> 00:17:48,320 Speaker 2: had planned to pardon Hunter all along, wasn't sure, but 310 00:17:48,440 --> 00:17:52,320 Speaker 2: was leaning that direction, but it decided to say out 311 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:55,719 Speaker 2: loud that absolutely not, he wouldn't pardon Hunter. That's what 312 00:17:55,880 --> 00:18:00,520 Speaker 2: NBC is reporting. Yeah, sure, so that is a of 313 00:18:00,600 --> 00:18:05,399 Speaker 2: we've decided to lie. And then you end your letter 314 00:18:06,119 --> 00:18:08,520 Speaker 2: about the pardon by saying one thing, you can always 315 00:18:08,560 --> 00:18:11,160 Speaker 2: count on me for me as I tell the truth. 316 00:18:11,480 --> 00:18:14,520 Speaker 1: That's hilarious. It is hilarious. Like I said, it's comedy. 317 00:18:14,600 --> 00:18:16,760 Speaker 2: I mean, the one thing he is not known for 318 00:18:17,119 --> 00:18:20,439 Speaker 2: is honesty, the opposite. It's like I'll never cheat on 319 00:18:20,480 --> 00:18:22,800 Speaker 2: you while you're kissing a girl or something. I mean, 320 00:18:22,800 --> 00:18:24,840 Speaker 2: it's just it's crazy. 321 00:18:25,160 --> 00:18:28,400 Speaker 1: Yeah, is one way to put it. It's just absurd. 322 00:18:28,520 --> 00:18:30,120 Speaker 1: So more on that. And if you didn't hear our 323 00:18:30,119 --> 00:18:34,320 Speaker 1: previous discussions in some depth and with wit and intelligence, 324 00:18:34,359 --> 00:18:37,400 Speaker 1: of course you could grab it later via podcast Armstrong 325 00:18:37,440 --> 00:18:39,840 Speaker 1: and getting on demand. We talked about it hours one, 326 00:18:39,920 --> 00:18:46,720 Speaker 1: two and whatever. So speaking of government seats of power, 327 00:18:46,920 --> 00:18:50,199 Speaker 1: of the president's elect making a number of nominations for 328 00:18:50,280 --> 00:18:55,000 Speaker 1: various cabinet posts and and some I think are rock solid, 329 00:18:55,080 --> 00:18:59,320 Speaker 1: some are intriguing, and some are probably a bad idea 330 00:18:59,480 --> 00:19:03,919 Speaker 1: witness Matt Gates. But Pete Hegseeth is definitely in the 331 00:19:03,960 --> 00:19:09,320 Speaker 1: intriguing category for me. Lack of experience running any big enterprise. 332 00:19:09,720 --> 00:19:11,880 Speaker 1: Yet he is a military man. He's a very very 333 00:19:11,880 --> 00:19:15,280 Speaker 1: bright man. He's incredibly well educated. There's nobody on earth 334 00:19:15,280 --> 00:19:19,119 Speaker 1: who doubts that he has the best interests of A 335 00:19:19,119 --> 00:19:23,159 Speaker 1: are fighting men and women in mind, and b the 336 00:19:23,240 --> 00:19:27,639 Speaker 1: success of our military enterprises. And maybe we need a 337 00:19:27,640 --> 00:19:30,200 Speaker 1: little more of that and a little less of I'm 338 00:19:30,240 --> 00:19:36,080 Speaker 1: a big bureaucrat. Maybe not, but maybe. And the incoming 339 00:19:36,119 --> 00:19:38,840 Speaker 1: guy gets to make his nominations. We hold hearings. This 340 00:19:38,880 --> 00:19:44,280 Speaker 1: came out in the last few days. Pete, who is married, 341 00:19:44,320 --> 00:19:47,920 Speaker 1: I believe at this point to his third wife. He's 342 00:19:47,960 --> 00:19:50,320 Speaker 1: got a couple of divorces in his background, and in 343 00:19:50,400 --> 00:19:54,440 Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, in the midst of one of those divorces, 344 00:19:54,600 --> 00:19:58,720 Speaker 1: his mom absolutely laid the wood to him in an email. 345 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:01,800 Speaker 1: I will tell you right now the take on the 346 00:20:01,920 --> 00:20:06,560 Speaker 1: right is, uh, it's and actually I believe the old 347 00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:10,000 Speaker 1: missus Hegseth has said the same thing. Mom. It's despicable 348 00:20:10,040 --> 00:20:12,320 Speaker 1: that the New York Times published this email? 349 00:20:12,480 --> 00:20:15,280 Speaker 2: How did anybody get it? She emailed her own son, 350 00:20:15,359 --> 00:20:17,160 Speaker 2: how's that? How's that public? 351 00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:20,440 Speaker 1: Ever, I believe somebody else I read this over the weekend. 352 00:20:20,520 --> 00:20:29,280 Speaker 1: It recall specifically, I think it was another another relative. 353 00:20:29,359 --> 00:20:37,520 Speaker 1: Was C Seed on it? Blind? C Seed? It was? 354 00:20:37,640 --> 00:20:40,359 Speaker 1: It was another relative who had it and submitted it 355 00:20:40,359 --> 00:20:43,760 Speaker 1: to the New York Times. I'll dig that up few times, 356 00:20:43,760 --> 00:20:45,600 Speaker 1: obtained a copy of the email from another person with 357 00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:48,440 Speaker 1: ties to the Hegseth family. Bummo, Okay, people who never 358 00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:51,320 Speaker 1: email or text for these reasons are closer to right 359 00:20:51,359 --> 00:20:56,720 Speaker 1: than wrong, because yeah, any electronic communication is out there. Yeah, 360 00:20:57,240 --> 00:21:02,400 Speaker 1: uh so at any rate. In twenty eight eighteen, uh 361 00:21:03,040 --> 00:21:06,760 Speaker 1: she described how he'd routinely mistreated women for years and 362 00:21:06,760 --> 00:21:09,879 Speaker 1: displayed lack of character. Quote on behalf of all the women, 363 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:13,200 Speaker 1: and I know it's many you have abused in some way. 364 00:21:13,359 --> 00:21:15,720 Speaker 1: I say, get some help and take an honest look 365 00:21:15,720 --> 00:21:19,800 Speaker 1: at yourself. I have no respect for any man that belittles, lies, cheats, 366 00:21:19,880 --> 00:21:22,760 Speaker 1: sleeps around, and uses women for his own power and ego. 367 00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:25,840 Speaker 1: You are that man and have been for years. And 368 00:21:25,880 --> 00:21:28,240 Speaker 1: as your mother, it pains me and embarrasses me to 369 00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:32,200 Speaker 1: say that, but it is the sad, sad truth. Yeah. 370 00:21:32,240 --> 00:21:35,040 Speaker 2: If he was living that lifestyle, and it sounds like 371 00:21:35,160 --> 00:21:39,160 Speaker 2: he was, you can understand why a mom would say that. 372 00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:44,720 Speaker 1: Now, she says now because she's asked about it and 373 00:21:44,840 --> 00:21:47,600 Speaker 1: said She sent her son an immediate follow up email 374 00:21:47,640 --> 00:21:51,479 Speaker 1: at the time apologizing for what she had written, and 375 00:21:51,560 --> 00:21:55,639 Speaker 1: said she might produce that email but hasn't at this moment. 376 00:21:55,960 --> 00:21:58,240 Speaker 1: She said she had fired off the original email quote 377 00:21:58,240 --> 00:22:01,080 Speaker 1: in anger with emotion time when he and his wife, 378 00:22:01,119 --> 00:22:02,639 Speaker 1: who she was very fond of, were going through a 379 00:22:02,720 --> 00:22:06,800 Speaker 1: very difficult divorce. That's horrible. In an interview, she defended 380 00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:09,600 Speaker 1: her son disavowed the sentiments expressed in the original email. 381 00:22:09,680 --> 00:22:11,679 Speaker 1: It is not true. It has never been true. I 382 00:22:11,760 --> 00:22:13,960 Speaker 1: know my son. He is a good father and husband. 383 00:22:14,480 --> 00:22:16,800 Speaker 2: See the problem I have with this? You know what 384 00:22:16,840 --> 00:22:18,600 Speaker 2: I just said, It sounds like it is true. I 385 00:22:18,600 --> 00:22:20,720 Speaker 2: think he sure seems like he's that kind of guy. 386 00:22:21,400 --> 00:22:23,400 Speaker 2: What's that got to do with being Secretary of Defense? 387 00:22:23,640 --> 00:22:25,960 Speaker 2: When did that become the standard that you have to 388 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:30,639 Speaker 2: be good in your private sexual relationships or relationships or whatever. 389 00:22:30,720 --> 00:22:33,639 Speaker 2: If that is the new standard, then take John F. 390 00:22:33,680 --> 00:22:36,560 Speaker 2: Kennedy's name off all the middle schools and all the statues, 391 00:22:36,600 --> 00:22:38,400 Speaker 2: and same with Martin Luther King Junior and. 392 00:22:38,440 --> 00:22:42,679 Speaker 1: A whole bunch of other people. Yeah. I'm not in 393 00:22:42,760 --> 00:22:46,439 Speaker 1: favor of a wholesale throwing out of all questions of 394 00:22:46,640 --> 00:22:48,200 Speaker 1: character comportment. 395 00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:52,639 Speaker 2: Definitely, I'm pro morality and higher the character the better. 396 00:22:52,760 --> 00:22:58,399 Speaker 2: But did we decide this is a country that the 397 00:22:58,440 --> 00:23:01,040 Speaker 2: standards we didn't hold those people I just mentioned to 398 00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:02,480 Speaker 2: now apply. 399 00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:06,320 Speaker 1: Well, and let's let's face it, and I've got the 400 00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:11,160 Speaker 1: complete email here, let's go ahead and say what needs 401 00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:16,359 Speaker 1: to be said. Old lady hegsath, that's that's unnecessarily a 402 00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:20,399 Speaker 1: disrespectful sounding his mom missus exit. I'm just trying to 403 00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:25,760 Speaker 1: differentiate between his exes and his mom the old battle ax. 404 00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:30,800 Speaker 1: Now that'd be his wife. Uh so, uh, mom, Hegxeth 405 00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:38,360 Speaker 1: wrote this email quite well, it's again, I've I've read 406 00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:44,639 Speaker 1: the whole thing. It is coherent, well structured in a 407 00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:54,879 Speaker 1: rather eloquent prosecution. If she believes none of it's true, 408 00:23:55,040 --> 00:23:58,159 Speaker 1: in fact, the opposite is true. And she wrote it 409 00:23:58,200 --> 00:24:02,320 Speaker 1: in haste and immediately wrote back and apologized, she's an 410 00:24:02,359 --> 00:24:07,560 Speaker 1: effing psycho. To use the parlance of today's youth, that's 411 00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:09,840 Speaker 1: that's crazy. 412 00:24:11,560 --> 00:24:15,320 Speaker 2: That is uh, which is the parlance of youth of 413 00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:16,359 Speaker 2: fifteen years ago. 414 00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:21,760 Speaker 1: Good enough, that is absolutely true. 415 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:26,640 Speaker 2: If you wrote that email to your son and it's 416 00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:29,040 Speaker 2: not true, you're a nut job. 417 00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:32,920 Speaker 1: I mean, if you I could see writing something on 418 00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:37,040 Speaker 1: the with the feel of I'm through with you. I 419 00:24:37,080 --> 00:24:40,399 Speaker 1: don't even want to talk to you. Don't call me. 420 00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:46,560 Speaker 1: Blah blah, blah. You could say, hey, my emotions were 421 00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:49,840 Speaker 1: out of hand while I was expressing my emotions, but 422 00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:52,840 Speaker 1: she is claiming that her emotions were out of hand. 423 00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:58,600 Speaker 1: Therefore she wildly mistated the facts of the case, which 424 00:24:58,880 --> 00:25:05,439 Speaker 1: again makes for a cuckoo bird. I don't know, you 425 00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:07,160 Speaker 1: made me feel bad about something I said. 426 00:25:08,119 --> 00:25:12,240 Speaker 2: Uh so, Uh, Well, I don't like this kind of 427 00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:16,760 Speaker 2: guy their personal life. Yeah, I don't like people who 428 00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:19,119 Speaker 2: live like that, you know. And if his mom is 429 00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:23,919 Speaker 2: really upset, she likes their family and his wife and 430 00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:27,119 Speaker 2: they have kids, and is horrified that he's out sleeping 431 00:25:27,160 --> 00:25:30,000 Speaker 2: around blowing up their family and everything like that, I'd 432 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:32,640 Speaker 2: be mad too and disappointed and hurt and all kinds 433 00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:36,760 Speaker 2: of bad feelings if I were her, right, Yeah, So 434 00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:40,639 Speaker 2: I just, you know, I don't want to completely blow 435 00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:41,920 Speaker 2: that off as a as. 436 00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:43,800 Speaker 1: A I don't know, way of life or whatever. 437 00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:47,439 Speaker 2: But again, Martin Luther King Junior had a different woman 438 00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:50,280 Speaker 2: in every city he went to. That's the way he 439 00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:53,399 Speaker 2: lived his life, and we have statues of him. Every 440 00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:56,560 Speaker 2: city in America has a road named after him. So, 441 00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:00,840 Speaker 2: I mean, I just I get caused by that. 442 00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:04,520 Speaker 1: Well, yeah, there's a wild lack of consistency. If the 443 00:26:04,560 --> 00:26:08,520 Speaker 1: guy is the guy to bring the Pentagon to heel, 444 00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:13,800 Speaker 1: to eliminate all the waste, the intransigence, the prostituting itself 445 00:26:13,840 --> 00:26:18,520 Speaker 1: for various powerful Congress people, as opposed to doggedly pursuing 446 00:26:19,080 --> 00:26:22,440 Speaker 1: our aims of preparedness in serving our troops in battle. 447 00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:24,120 Speaker 1: Blah blah blah blah. You know what I'm talking about. 448 00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:26,720 Speaker 1: I mean, if he's that guy, I'm willing to overlook 449 00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:29,399 Speaker 1: a hell of a lot. But it goes into the stoop. 450 00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:33,040 Speaker 1: So anyway, for the half dozen times as we've talked 451 00:26:33,040 --> 00:26:37,640 Speaker 1: about these various nominees, we have checks and balances, we 452 00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:42,000 Speaker 1: have hearings, we have questions, and the opportunity to present answers. 453 00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:44,920 Speaker 1: Telsea Gabbett, I think is going to be a great 454 00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:48,600 Speaker 1: example of that. It's funny this is getting so little 455 00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:55,160 Speaker 1: attention in Maga world. She systematically opposed and belittled virtually 456 00:26:55,280 --> 00:27:00,440 Speaker 1: all of Trump's policies in his first term. Eloquent and 457 00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:04,399 Speaker 1: unmistakably they disagree about everything. 458 00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:08,199 Speaker 2: But now she's coming since she was hardcore against the 459 00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:09,360 Speaker 2: strike on Sulamani. 460 00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:12,760 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, for instance, So anyway, we can talk about 461 00:27:12,760 --> 00:27:15,000 Speaker 1: that a little bit later on. But my hair is 462 00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:20,639 Speaker 1: neither on fire nor spouting rainbows. Shooting rainbows obviously the atmosphere. 463 00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:24,359 Speaker 1: If you could do that, that'd be awesome. What's the Oh, 464 00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:26,560 Speaker 1: speaking of rainbows, we got to talk about that idiotic 465 00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:29,600 Speaker 1: jaguar ad that's making getting so much attention. I have 466 00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:34,919 Speaker 1: the backstory. Oh, oh it's so off. Oh did you 467 00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:37,399 Speaker 1: see Colbart's riff on that that I tweeted? I did not. 468 00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:41,120 Speaker 1: Oh that's funny, it's really really funny. We should talk 469 00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:46,840 Speaker 1: abound her bending idiocy. Any say, anyway, where was I 470 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:51,320 Speaker 1: jaguar Telsey gabber? Oh, so my hair is neither on 471 00:27:51,359 --> 00:27:55,680 Speaker 1: fair nor shooting rainbows out We all have hearings. We'll 472 00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:58,720 Speaker 1: ask questions. Well, we'll have those questions answered. The Senate 473 00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:00,720 Speaker 1: will think, you know what, she has changed your mind. 474 00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:03,840 Speaker 1: I've changed my mind on stuff. Good enough or not? Fine, 475 00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:06,840 Speaker 1: it's the process. I got a question for hearing, but 476 00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:10,359 Speaker 1: I'll do it after this. 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I think the Democrats 504 00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:26,960 Speaker 1: who don't like him or just want to decap Trump 505 00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:29,160 Speaker 1: every chance they get, they'll they'll lean on it pretty hard. 506 00:29:29,360 --> 00:29:31,880 Speaker 1: They'll have a couple of women who will go big 507 00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:39,040 Speaker 1: on that, a couple of ladies senators. Hmmm. Is that 508 00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:43,320 Speaker 1: gonna work? Depends how strong the rest of it is. 509 00:29:44,120 --> 00:29:47,320 Speaker 1: I think if it's one more note in the cord 510 00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:50,560 Speaker 1: of this is not a great nominee, then it'll hurt him. 511 00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:54,320 Speaker 1: But if in other ways he impresses but he shakes 512 00:29:54,320 --> 00:29:59,400 Speaker 1: it off, Yeah, I don't like it being about that. Again. 513 00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:02,240 Speaker 2: I just I don't know unless we've changed our mind 514 00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:05,360 Speaker 2: as a country that we expect well, I mean, see 515 00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:08,640 Speaker 2: Bill Clinton, see Donald Trump. Sure, I don't know what 516 00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:12,080 Speaker 2: you're talking about. We should talk about the Jaguar commercial, 517 00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:15,840 Speaker 2: among other things. Of course, the hunter Biden getting pardoned 518 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:19,080 Speaker 2: thing for anything he may have done over the last 519 00:30:19,080 --> 00:30:19,560 Speaker 2: ten years. 520 00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:22,040 Speaker 1: That's a heck of a bardon. And I am anti 521 00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:25,360 Speaker 1: violence in almost all circumstances, but I'm pro the violence 522 00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:28,080 Speaker 1: at college football over the weekend. You're talking about that 523 00:30:28,080 --> 00:30:30,440 Speaker 1: as well. Stay tuned. 524 00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:36,479 Speaker 3: The Big Ten finding both Ohio State and Michigan won 525 00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:39,840 Speaker 3: one hundred thousand dollars after a postgame brawl send one 526 00:30:39,840 --> 00:30:43,560 Speaker 3: officer to the hospital, a coach bloodied, and several players 527 00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:48,080 Speaker 3: pepper sprayed. Players storming the field after the wolverines surprise 528 00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:51,320 Speaker 3: thirteen to ten upset win over the number two Buckeyes, 529 00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:54,520 Speaker 3: a Michigan player attempts to plant the team's flag into 530 00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:57,760 Speaker 3: the buck guy's logo, a player for Ohio State ripping 531 00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:01,720 Speaker 3: it away. Several players knocked to the pushing and shoving, 532 00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:04,800 Speaker 3: escalating into punches and pepper spray. It was a full 533 00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:07,960 Speaker 3: day of college football conflict across the country, from a 534 00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:11,880 Speaker 3: small skirmish in Arizona to UNC and NC State players 535 00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:15,680 Speaker 3: brawling after another attempted flag planting, and FSU players and 536 00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:19,360 Speaker 3: their head coach outraged after the University of Florida opponents 537 00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:20,560 Speaker 3: planted their flag too. 538 00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:24,120 Speaker 1: They're outraged, but did they throw a punch? Mean? Outraged 539 00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:27,160 Speaker 1: is one thing? You gotta punch people so they know 540 00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:33,480 Speaker 1: you're outraged. Exactly. Excuse me, I'm outraged. No, no fists 541 00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:35,760 Speaker 1: gotta meat face. But so is this a new thing? 542 00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:40,000 Speaker 1: The flag planting? It's not new new, but it's certainly 543 00:31:40,120 --> 00:31:42,720 Speaker 1: new in the span of the last several decades of 544 00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:47,440 Speaker 1: American sporting tradition. Yes. Yeah, it's a hell of a 545 00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:49,640 Speaker 1: thing to do. You win on somebody else's field and 546 00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:53,040 Speaker 1: you stick your your flag and their logo. I'd fight 547 00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:55,560 Speaker 1: you too, I would go I won't the smallest guy 548 00:31:55,560 --> 00:31:57,280 Speaker 1: on the team. I'm the water boy. I'd run out 549 00:31:57,280 --> 00:32:00,280 Speaker 1: there and start throwing haymakers. I don't care. That is 550 00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:06,800 Speaker 1: way over the line. Oh boy. I was thinking about 551 00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:08,560 Speaker 1: that while is at the Chiefs game. 552 00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:12,560 Speaker 2: It's just it's amazing, and not just from a sports standpoint, 553 00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:17,400 Speaker 2: really that there's anything that tens of thousands. I mean, 554 00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:19,280 Speaker 2: in the case of the Chiefs game, there's eighty thousand 555 00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:21,360 Speaker 2: people there. You go to Michigan, it's one hundred thousand 556 00:32:21,360 --> 00:32:26,920 Speaker 2: people people getting together, emotionally worked up about supporting a 557 00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:31,680 Speaker 2: thing together and the time and money invested in making 558 00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:32,400 Speaker 2: that happen. 559 00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:36,280 Speaker 1: It's an evolutionary thing that we all know about. You know. 560 00:32:36,320 --> 00:32:41,840 Speaker 2: It's got all the war analogies and all that sort 561 00:32:41,840 --> 00:32:43,840 Speaker 2: of stuff. That's what it all ties into. It's just 562 00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:45,720 Speaker 2: it's interesting that it occurs. 563 00:32:46,520 --> 00:32:49,719 Speaker 1: Yeah, and it always occurs and always will yeah. Yeah, yeah, 564 00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:51,160 Speaker 1: because that's why the way we're built. 565 00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:52,520 Speaker 2: I mean, it's a heck of a thing to get 566 00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:55,720 Speaker 2: one hundred thousand people to say, I know, it's fifteen 567 00:32:55,800 --> 00:32:59,360 Speaker 2: degrees outside, and we're gonna charge you, you know, five 568 00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:01,520 Speaker 2: hundred three thousand dollars. 569 00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:01,560 Speaker 1: To do this. 570 00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:05,200 Speaker 2: But it'll be full and they will be there because 571 00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:08,200 Speaker 2: of you know, evolutionary stuff I say. 572 00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:10,800 Speaker 1: And you will be there in the garb of your 573 00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:12,840 Speaker 1: tribe as well that you spent a fair amount of 574 00:33:12,880 --> 00:33:18,160 Speaker 1: money on. Perhaps in the case of Buffalo Bills, fans 575 00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:22,120 Speaker 1: naked from the waist up moves of flappen. So, but 576 00:33:22,320 --> 00:33:26,560 Speaker 1: congratulations to the Bills and their man boobed fans. 577 00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:29,920 Speaker 2: So the long and short of the Hunter Biden pardon, 578 00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:33,120 Speaker 2: which everybody knew was coming at some point, I figured 579 00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:33,360 Speaker 2: it was. 580 00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:35,560 Speaker 1: Jocking and completely unsurprising. 581 00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:38,520 Speaker 2: I figured it might be at the end, but sentencing 582 00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:42,000 Speaker 2: was going to happen this week, in the next couple 583 00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:45,600 Speaker 2: of weeks or two cases. And I think the President 584 00:33:45,760 --> 00:33:47,840 Speaker 2: didn't want his kid to spend a day in jail, 585 00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:51,640 Speaker 2: and you know, blame him. Jail's not a good place 586 00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:53,160 Speaker 2: to be. I wouldn't want my son to be in 587 00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:53,800 Speaker 2: jail either. 588 00:33:54,560 --> 00:33:57,200 Speaker 1: Couple of great things next hour number one, we will 589 00:33:57,400 --> 00:34:01,280 Speaker 1: go over the actual statement for the president. It is 590 00:34:01,520 --> 00:34:08,400 Speaker 1: an unintentional comedic masterpiece. It is so drenched in hypocrisy 591 00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:11,480 Speaker 1: you gotta you know, you got to put it bucket 592 00:34:11,520 --> 00:34:15,760 Speaker 1: under it because it's dripping with it. Plus the backstory 593 00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:21,640 Speaker 1: behind that bizarro jaguar failing to read the room ad 594 00:34:21,719 --> 00:34:25,200 Speaker 1: campaign that you may or may not have seen. It's 595 00:34:25,239 --> 00:34:28,160 Speaker 1: become semi legendary. Of the parodies are everywhere. 596 00:34:28,239 --> 00:34:32,680 Speaker 2: Yeah, but so the the main crux of the pardoning 597 00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:37,759 Speaker 2: to me is well, like I said, I could see 598 00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:39,480 Speaker 2: why you do it as a father, As a parent, 599 00:34:39,520 --> 00:34:42,480 Speaker 2: I absolutely see how how you you would get there. 600 00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:47,680 Speaker 2: But the reception of it in the media, given the 601 00:34:47,719 --> 00:34:49,799 Speaker 2: fact that a lot of it has to do with 602 00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:52,640 Speaker 2: not paying your fair share of taxes. You're a super 603 00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:57,680 Speaker 2: rich guy, and beyond that, a white male, super rich guy, well, 604 00:34:58,360 --> 00:35:01,000 Speaker 2: doesn't feel like you need to pay taxes and you 605 00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:04,360 Speaker 2: aren't outraged about that. On the left, no, doesn't bother you. 606 00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:10,280 Speaker 1: Okay, no, again, the principles that are used to badger 607 00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:15,040 Speaker 1: and beat down your opponents are merely tools of the moment. There. 608 00:35:15,080 --> 00:35:17,279 Speaker 1: As I've said many times, it's like a jacket you 609 00:35:17,719 --> 00:35:19,440 Speaker 1: put on, then you take off again when it's no 610 00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:21,960 Speaker 1: longer useful. A lot of these things they claim are 611 00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:25,200 Speaker 1: the most sacred, sacred principles. Please, they don't give a 612 00:35:25,239 --> 00:35:27,640 Speaker 1: crap about them. Some of the rank and file might, 613 00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:30,719 Speaker 1: you know, the college kids are dopey and deluded, but 614 00:35:30,760 --> 00:35:33,680 Speaker 1: they're sincere. But at the highest levels, No, they don't 615 00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:36,680 Speaker 1: mean any of this stuff. Nancy Pelosi hasn't spoken a 616 00:35:36,719 --> 00:35:40,440 Speaker 1: sincere sentence since Ike was in the White House. 617 00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:44,359 Speaker 2: I wonder if Hunter can stay sober. I hope he can. 618 00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:52,520 Speaker 2: But he's got an interesting life. Yeah, his jaw don't work, right, 619 00:35:52,640 --> 00:35:53,640 Speaker 2: you got the meth jaw? 620 00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:59,680 Speaker 1: Yeah, you don't. Kids don't do the drugs. And then 621 00:35:59,680 --> 00:36:03,600 Speaker 1: you know it ties into the whole laptop think. 622 00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:05,520 Speaker 2: I mean, he has to be pardoned for a whole 623 00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:08,359 Speaker 2: bunch of things that we would have known way more 624 00:36:08,400 --> 00:36:13,920 Speaker 2: about if the Deep State hadn't gone out of their 625 00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:17,040 Speaker 2: way to hide that laptop, including money laundering. 626 00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:18,879 Speaker 1: Right. If you don't get Next Hour, grab it via 627 00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:21,680 Speaker 1: pard podcast Armstrong, you Getty on demand.