Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2: Jack Armstrong is Joe Getty.
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Jetty, and he Armstrong and Getty. So there's
Speaker 1: a giant fraud problem in California if this investigation is
Speaker 1: true that just came out. We're about to tell you
Speaker 1: about it in a second. And it matters to the
Speaker 1: whole country because it's just an example of when government
Speaker 1: gets big and programs get giant at the behest of lefties,
Speaker 1: that lots of waste happens.
Speaker 3: And because Gavy Newsom is absolutely dead set on being
Speaker 3: the president, and there's a lot of smart democratic money,
Speaker 3: semi smart behind that effort. And I feel about Gavin
Speaker 3: running for president roughly the same way I would feel
Speaker 3: as if like I had a neighbor who is a
Speaker 3: big bully and he'd, like, you know, hit me several times,
Speaker 3: but I couldn't do anything about it, and he announced
Speaker 3: he was going to fight like the heavyweight champion of
Speaker 3: the world.
Speaker 2: That's how I feel Kevin Newsom.
Speaker 3: I can't wait to see him get battered anyway politically,
Speaker 3: of course, not physically.
Speaker 2: I am horror violence.
Speaker 3: Here is Gavy boy before we get to the enormous
Speaker 3: Medicaid fraud.
Speaker 2: Here is the gov.
Speaker 3: Himself and he was Lieutenant governor in twenty fourteen talking
Speaker 3: about the bullspit train.
Speaker 4: He started with thirty three billion, it went to ninety six.
Speaker 4: We valued engineered it, so it's no longer quote unquote
Speaker 4: high speed rails higher speed rail. We wildly overstated the
Speaker 4: rydership projections. We manipulated some of the revenue projections. There's
Speaker 4: only one true high speed rail system in the world
Speaker 4: that generates real profit. I thought there were two, and
Speaker 4: I remember when President France was here a few months ago.
Speaker 4: I complimented him on being one of the two, and
Speaker 4: he laughed. His ministers laughed. I said, what do you mean.
Speaker 4: They said, well, don't believe what you read about us
Speaker 4: joint grant generating profits on our high speed rail. The
Speaker 4: only one is Osaka that generates and that's a different
Speaker 4: kind of concentration, urban concentration.
Speaker 2: So this is this is going to be a.
Speaker 4: Subsidy the bonds, and you double the cost of the bonds.
Speaker 4: It is the actual cost of the taxpayers are repaying them.
Speaker 1: That sounds like a normal smart guy looking at a
Speaker 1: ridiculous project to the bullet train and speaking the truth.
Speaker 3: Where did he explaining why it's an absolute no, it's
Speaker 3: a hard no. Where did he say that when I
Speaker 3: was in twenty fourteen? Does anybody know the context of that?
Speaker 3: I don't, actually, I mean, that's all completely true, by
Speaker 3: the way, on their own website, it's no longer a
Speaker 3: high speed train, it's a slightly faster regular train. And
Speaker 3: the numbers he sided have ballooned one and a half
Speaker 3: to two times as high as even.
Speaker 2: He was talking about. Wow, yeah, it's astonishing.
Speaker 1: That's highly troubling. Sorry, so this is about to explode.
Speaker 1: I think the California Post editorial board with a piece
Speaker 1: about the amount of fraud and waste going on in California.
Speaker 1: According to a new City Journal investigation that has just
Speaker 1: come out. The investigator's writing, and this came out yesterday,
Speaker 1: the best estimates suggests that on the governor's watch that
Speaker 1: since twenty eighteen, you know, to be fair of that
Speaker 1: is quite a few years, but fraudster, scammers and organized
Speaker 1: crime rings have stolen at least in California alone, one
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty billion dollars from taxpayers.
Speaker 3: As I said earlier, Minnesota says, hey, we do fraud
Speaker 3: in California, says, hold my chardonnay. Watched this Since twenty eighteen,
Speaker 3: one hundred and eighty billion dollars worth a fraud, scams
Speaker 3: and organized crime rings. Shocking yet unsurprising in a state
Speaker 3: that doesn't even have a mechanism for measuring whether their
Speaker 3: homeless industrial complex waste is doing any good.
Speaker 2: They don't even have a way to check.
Speaker 1: And the numbers will make your eyes gloss over and
Speaker 1: you So that's where we go with the total as
Speaker 1: as you to understand. But it's unemployment benefits, subsidized healthcare
Speaker 1: for the poor, in home healthcare benefits, welfare programs, homelessness programs,
Speaker 1: all these different things that people sign up for that
Speaker 1: don't deserve it, or programs that don't accomplish anything, and
Speaker 1: nobody's paying any attention to whether or not they accomplish anything,
Speaker 1: and all those different things. Fraud against taxpayers has saturated California.
Speaker 1: Christopher Ruffo, one of the authors of the investigation, estimates,
Speaker 1: based on intel from federal officials, that twenty five percent
Speaker 1: of the state's one hundred and ninety seven billion dollar
Speaker 1: annual medical budget was lost to fraud. That's about fifty
Speaker 1: billion dollars in one year in one program. Fifty billion dollars.
Speaker 2: And a quarter of it is fraud every year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I'm interested to see the pushback on this,
Speaker 1: if they even need to push back. I am so
Speaker 1: cynical about the modern world and people getting any information
Speaker 1: from any source that doesn't you know, algorithms and whatnot.
Speaker 1: If you're a lean left sort of person, blue if
Speaker 1: you will, will disinformation from the California Post reach you
Speaker 1: at all? Probably not.
Speaker 3: Two competing answers. Number One, they see the name Chris Rufohen,
Speaker 3: reject it immediately in the mainstream media because Chris has
Speaker 3: been such a great writer about the idiocy and dishonesty
Speaker 3: of DEI programs. But on the other hand, the Minnesota
Speaker 3: fraud got a fair amount of attention. That doesn't mean
Speaker 3: because I'm thinking from the twisted perspective of lefty journalist,
Speaker 3: you might be able to sell that as Minnesota's off track.
Speaker 3: But these giant social programs are overall a good idea.
Speaker 3: But if you have to admit that California is with
Speaker 3: that enormous volume, every bit is corrupt and wasting money,
Speaker 3: that might be too big an admission for lefty journalists.
Speaker 1: And it's likely getting worse or going to get worse
Speaker 1: starting as of last year. So in California, April twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five, we had a bill that raised the threshold
Speaker 1: for felony welfare fraud from nine hundred and fifty bucks
Speaker 1: to twenty five thousand dollars Oh my gosh, which Republican
Speaker 1: State Assemblyman Carl Demio said that if that bill becomes law,
Speaker 1: it will effectively legalize welfare fraud in California, which is
Speaker 1: likely what happened.
Speaker 3: Carl's right, Well, look at what never well, lifting the
Speaker 3: limit for shoplifting and then never prosecuting it.
Speaker 2: Look at that did for shoplifting. That is something. In
Speaker 2: a related story, I have newsoms on drugs. Stay tuned.
Speaker 1: I want to hear that.
Speaker 2: I'm ready for.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that fraud thing. I'm gonna be interested
Speaker 1: to see if that explodes, if that gets legs. Like
Speaker 1: the Minnesota welfare fraud thing, the numbers are so giant
Speaker 1: it's just jaw dropping. But sometimes if something's so big,
Speaker 1: it almost doesn't get attention for some weird reason, like
Speaker 1: it doesn't register, you can't believe it's true or something
Speaker 1: or it seems like too big a problem to even
Speaker 1: deal with.
Speaker 3: Well, and again, I think from the lefty journalists point
Speaker 3: of view, and that's virtually all of them, this is
Speaker 3: just too much of a confession about how our dear
Speaker 3: programs are terrible and badly run and squandering taxpayer dollars.
Speaker 2: That's too much of an indu.
Speaker 1: We As it points out in this California post piece
Speaker 1: from the Editorial Board, California has the highest taxes in
Speaker 1: the country on almost everything, you know, gas and this
Speaker 1: and that and everything like that. With the idea that
Speaker 1: we're gonna fix the roads, fix the schools, deal with
Speaker 1: the homeless program. We have the homeless people in the
Speaker 1: whole country here. The road sucked, the schools are failing.
Speaker 1: So I mean, so if you have the highest taxes
Speaker 1: and the worst results, now money is going somewhere.
Speaker 2: Sure of course it is. Yep.
Speaker 3: So back to the gavinzan drugs thing. He had a
Speaker 3: he was part of a ceremony the other day about
Speaker 3: the California Service Corps and while the other speakers were speaking,
Speaker 3: and this kind of went semi viral online, he was
Speaker 3: doing like the you know, the equivalent of the twitchy
Speaker 3: peepee dance. I mean, but for a grown man, it
Speaker 3: was just moving and going to his nose and twitching
Speaker 3: and looking around.
Speaker 2: I mean, he was agitated.
Speaker 3: I haven't seen it, and it was kind of funny,
Speaker 3: but I, you know, being a charitable fellow, believe it
Speaker 3: or not either I thought maybe he was just bored,
Speaker 3: or I don't maybe it's his allergies or something like that. Well,
Speaker 3: we'd missed when he actually got up to speak, in
Speaker 3: which he was. And we'll show the video and we'll
Speaker 3: post it at armstrong a getty dot com and Jack
Speaker 3: you'll see. But he's sweating, he's twitchy's wiping in his
Speaker 3: eyes and dabbing in his nose and stuff.
Speaker 2: And here's what he had to say, h b Avenue.
Speaker 5: I mean, everything about this is I feel like I'm home.
Speaker 5: You know, dyslexics are surrounded by, you know, these special folks,
Speaker 5: particularly the young folks there. So I'm grateful.
Speaker 1: I'm also.
Speaker 5: Weird, Sean, I'm you know, I'm trying to forget what
Speaker 5: this is embarrassing. He can turn all that off just
Speaker 5: because all the noise, you know that we just need
Speaker 5: to turn off. And this is this is this, Listen
Speaker 5: to this, this is it, man, This is it? You
Speaker 5: want to fix all this stuff?
Speaker 2: This is it? Listen to these guys.
Speaker 5: You know, we'll just sitting there yelling and screaming at
Speaker 5: each other there. Everybody's getting each other's throats and trying
Speaker 5: to tear everybody down, and you know, how are we
Speaker 5: going to get out of this?
Speaker 2: This is it?
Speaker 5: You heard these guys programs like this, community leaders like this,
Speaker 5: and I just it's like, why are we so stupid?
Speaker 5: Why can't we just get this? It's so obvious what
Speaker 5: we need to do. And so I'm just deeply proud
Speaker 5: of this.
Speaker 3: It's hard to fall he is, uh, there's something wrong
Speaker 3: with him right there. He's probably a microdosing ketamine because
Speaker 3: that's very hip among your NAPA Valley elite.
Speaker 1: So you're doubling down there. He's on drug thing.
Speaker 3: There's something very odd going on there, very odd. That
Speaker 3: opening forty seconds was mystifying.
Speaker 2: Okatie.
Speaker 6: That video circulated on a couple of different platforms yesterday
Speaker 6: and there were a lot of comments saying.
Speaker 1: Hey, I was a drug app act.
Speaker 2: This is drugs.
Speaker 3: Like a lot of people play the first chunk again, Michael.
Speaker 7: H.
Speaker 3: B Avenue.
Speaker 5: I mean everything about this is I feel like I'm home.
Speaker 5: You know, dyslexics are surrounded by you know, these special folks,
Speaker 5: particularly young folks there, so I'm grateful.
Speaker 1: I'm also.
Speaker 5: Weird tean, I'm you.
Speaker 2: Know, it's just damn it in his face. Touch give me,
Speaker 2: this is embarrassing. He can turn all that off, super.
Speaker 5: Touchy, just because all the noise, you know that we
Speaker 5: just need to turn off.
Speaker 2: And this is this is all right. Look, I've done drugs, folks.
Speaker 3: There is something very odd happening there, and obviously I
Speaker 3: can't nail down what it is. But as Katie said,
Speaker 3: drug counselors drug addicts are saying, oh dude, please.
Speaker 6: Right, and it's not They're not trying to pull it,
Speaker 6: size it or make it like because it's him. They're like,
Speaker 6: I've definitely seen this before.
Speaker 1: Hmmm.
Speaker 3: The difficulties stringing together coherent well strings of verbiage, thoughts
Speaker 3: popping up and not being finished and bopping from sensory
Speaker 3: impression to sensory impression, just kind of reacting to it
Speaker 3: and throwing out a couple of words and then uh,
Speaker 3: and then the visual.
Speaker 6: Was he he was he was wiping his eyes and
Speaker 6: his nose in the corners of his mouth. He was
Speaker 6: looking around kind of sporadically, and then when he went weird,
Speaker 6: he did that thing like trying to crack both sides
Speaker 6: of his neck, and it was just there was a
Speaker 6: lot going on visually with him. Wow, during that whole
Speaker 6: however long, that was yeah.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: For some reason me, I was watching a Bill Barr
Speaker 1: comedian thing and he said, ladies, here's a dating tip.
Speaker 1: If you're ever on a first date with a guy
Speaker 1: and he cracks his neck, run.
Speaker 2: Wow, anti anti neck tracker. We need to take a break.
Speaker 1: But uh so he cracks his neck weird.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Gavin, get the help you need.
Speaker 3: Seriously, it's not an admission of weakness.
Speaker 2: You're you're addicted to kidding me.
Speaker 1: I can tell you're here to help him. That's what
Speaker 1: you're here for. What are your thoughts on that text line?
Speaker 1: Four one five nine k FTC. I just saw Kanye
Speaker 1: did a what they're calling comeback concert in La last night.
Speaker 1: I wonder how that went.
Speaker 2: Surprised he's wearing his clan robes.
Speaker 1: Was he brought his daughter North on stage to perform
Speaker 1: with Apparently he's.
Speaker 2: Past that hate in the Jews thing, right.
Speaker 1: Apology well, I think he's passed his manic phase, unmadicated
Speaker 1: manic phase for now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it might on the men.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so the No Kings rallies continue to be a gift, uh,
Speaker 1: in that a lot of the people that were at
Speaker 1: the No King's rallies, it's interesting that don't really follow
Speaker 1: the news that much. So you're motivated enough to get
Speaker 1: out on the streets and protests, but you don't follow
Speaker 1: what's going on in the news that much because and
Speaker 1: you wouldn't have to follow the news a lot to
Speaker 1: be familiar with the whole Strait of Hormuz Straits of
Speaker 1: Hormuze situation. I mean, it's gas prices. Every gas price
Speaker 1: story includes the term Straits of Hormuz. But uh, Anyway,
Speaker 1: this person being interviewed by a comedian on the street
Speaker 1: at the No King's rally apparently hadn't heard of it.
Speaker 8: Isn't it a little bit homophobics that was so focused
Speaker 8: on the straits of Homus and not the gaze of Homos?
Speaker 9: I agree, yes for sure.
Speaker 8: Why do you think something to leave the gaze of
Speaker 8: Homus behind?
Speaker 9: I think it's just history. Historically, like you know, gays
Speaker 9: have always been very discriminated against, which is wrong on
Speaker 9: so many levels.
Speaker 1: Even in war.
Speaker 9: Yeah, even in war. It just takes more reform in
Speaker 9: government obviously, and then also educating society.
Speaker 8: I just feel like, if we're gonna go and say
Speaker 8: we can't leave to gay people behind, I don't think
Speaker 8: we should go and say at all. But if we're
Speaker 8: going to the moods, we could turn it into faire
Speaker 8: Island for sure.
Speaker 1: So she speaks with the confidence of the youth that
Speaker 1: thinks they know much, quoting her professors in three or
Speaker 1: four different ways.
Speaker 2: I recognized all of that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you just having come across the whole streets
Speaker 1: of Hormuz and seen a map and oh a straight
Speaker 1: like a little area of water between two Maryland passage.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3: It was interesting, though you're interested enough in the news
Speaker 3: to be out of the protest. Yeah, But just reciting her,
Speaker 3: you know, postmodernists and neo Marx's talking points, historical discrimination
Speaker 3: blah blah blah, colonialism blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: That's a good one. The gaze of horror move.
Speaker 3: Wow, And that Fire Island joke, if you're not familiar,
Speaker 3: that's the famous island off New York that for many,
Speaker 3: many many years was known with a nod and a
Speaker 3: wink is where the.
Speaker 2: Gay people went to get it on.
Speaker 1: I wonder how many people he had to ask that
Speaker 1: question before he came across somebody who bit on that.
Speaker 1: Do you remember the Dugger family and they're like twenty
Speaker 1: seven kids? Yeah, got an update on that horror show. Yeah,
Speaker 1: oh boy, that went sideways. Anyway, we got lots of
Speaker 1: stuff to talk about. We're gonna have We have a
Speaker 1: great guest coming up a little bit later to talk
Speaker 1: about the Supreme Court oral arguments from yesterday on the
Speaker 1: Constitution and whether or not birthright citizenship should continue and
Speaker 1: this and that. Based on most of the analysis I've heard,
Speaker 1: they seem to think the justices are going to say no,
Speaker 1: Donald Trump, you can't get around this. If anybody born
Speaker 1: on our land as a citizen, it would be a
Speaker 1: big stretch. And as a strong advocate for the administration's position,
Speaker 1: I got to admit some of the logistical challenges that
Speaker 1: were pointed out are significant. Okay, I want to hear
Speaker 1: about that, among other things on the way. If you
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Speaker 7: The Vietnam War lested for nineteen years, five months and
Speaker 7: twenty nine days. Iraq went on for eight years, eight
Speaker 7: months and twenty eight days. We are in this military operation,
Speaker 7: so powerful, so brilliant, against one of the most powerful
Speaker 7: countries for thirty two days, and the country has been
Speaker 7: eviscerated and essentially is really no longer a threat.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I heard somebody make the point yesterday that Iran
Speaker 1: is a top twenty military in the world. They're nowhere
Speaker 1: near the United States, but they're not nothing. And we've been.
Speaker 3: At the NCAA tournament. You rarely see a twelve five
Speaker 3: upset though in the military rankings.
Speaker 1: Right, But the idea that it should be over in
Speaker 1: I don't know what mainstream media thought or the public.
Speaker 1: Maybe I don't know what the public, how long the
Speaker 1: public thought the war should last. If you go to
Speaker 1: war with Iran courses a number of people have wointed out,
Speaker 1: maybe you should have given the speech selling the war
Speaker 1: like day.
Speaker 2: One absolutely legit point of view.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so too. Maybe I'll do this later.
Speaker 1: But for instance, I wasn't aware until yesterday how close
Speaker 1: the whole Venezuela thing came to going completely sideways and
Speaker 1: being a disaster. I mean, it came really really close
Speaker 1: to being a entirely failed effort. And if that had
Speaker 1: happened in one way, just a nickel version, well I
Speaker 1: could through it here. Why it's pretty damned interesting. And
Speaker 1: and the point of that being if it had. First
Speaker 1: of all, all military operations, even you know, even when
Speaker 1: you got the upper hand by far, can go south
Speaker 1: because they're very, very complicated, and there's lots of moving parts.
Speaker 1: And secondly, if it had not worked out, I think
Speaker 1: pretty damned obviously, we wouldn't have been going into Iran.
Speaker 1: There would have been no public mood for going into Iran. Sure, see,
Speaker 1: if I can find this, there ain't much one now.
Speaker 1: So and this is the the Army chief officer that
Speaker 1: got the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the State of
Speaker 1: the Union address, and Trump gave an abbreviated story about
Speaker 1: what he did. But he was the lead Chinook helicopter
Speaker 1: pilot going in. If the Special Forces troops that were
Speaker 1: going to run in and secure the ground and set
Speaker 1: up the whole thing, they started firing on us, fired
Speaker 1: on that helicopter, he took four bullets in the leg.
Speaker 1: Oh and continued to fly his helicopter on the mission
Speaker 1: landed it, got the guys off so they could secure
Speaker 1: the ground so the next helicopters could come in and
Speaker 1: complete the mission. Then he went up and flew over
Speaker 1: and his gunman took out the dudes that were shooting
Speaker 1: at him that almost killed him. He then said to
Speaker 1: his co pilot, you need to take over. I'm about
Speaker 1: to pass out, and they got the helicopter out of there.
Speaker 1: If one of those bullets had hit him in the
Speaker 1: stomach or the head or the chest, he goes down.
Speaker 1: Mission's over. Mission is over. I read some analysis of
Speaker 1: it by a variety of experts that it almost certainly
Speaker 1: would have failed spectacularly if one of those bullets bullets
Speaker 1: had killed him, or if he wasn't able to continue
Speaker 1: to fly with four bullets in his legs and everything
Speaker 1: else like that. And it's just a point that the
Speaker 1: success or failure these military missions hangs on so many
Speaker 1: tiny little things going right. Yeah, and at some point
Speaker 1: we're going to have that in Iran. Maybe we already have.
Speaker 3: Honestly, four bullets all missing, the big arteries in the
Speaker 3: leg is a bit of a miracle. I find myself
Speaker 3: surprised that the loss of one helicopter could have doomed
Speaker 3: the mission like that, But it was a fairly small
Speaker 3: hit and run mission, so I get it, I guess right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, you know, I could read the whole thing
Speaker 1: if you want to. But the military people explaining on
Speaker 1: how that helicopter getting in there, landing, the guys getting
Speaker 1: off to secure this so the next helicopters could land,
Speaker 1: blah blah blah. It just it all hinged on him
Speaker 1: getting through there and landing. They also didn't know, they
Speaker 1: didn't think there was any chance he was gonna get
Speaker 1: shot at again. The point being that things could go
Speaker 1: sideways so fast, and as we get further in to
Speaker 1: trying to secure various islands or chunks of land, or
Speaker 1: or or landing an expeditionary force to get the uranium
Speaker 1: back or anything like that, we got a long way
Speaker 1: to go on this war. And if we're already at
Speaker 1: the why isn't this over already?
Speaker 2: Period?
Speaker 1: I don't know if you can sell a war in
Speaker 1: the TikTok world lasting very long.
Speaker 3: You know, this is a bit of a tangent. I
Speaker 3: think Trump may be a little complicit in that, having
Speaker 3: sold the general euro escapade is a perfect flawless, easy
Speaker 3: and easy out.
Speaker 2: Don't do that.
Speaker 3: Tell the people all right, look, because you know the
Speaker 3: phrase going sideways when you're talking about war.
Speaker 2: It's it will. It's just a question of how much
Speaker 2: and in what way?
Speaker 1: Have you seen the thing that leaked out yesterday as
Speaker 1: Trump speaking to a private group.
Speaker 2: I don't think so.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I hadn't heard about it until last night and
Speaker 1: I started watching it. It's about an hour long. I
Speaker 1: got about a halfway through it. It's pretty darned interesting.
Speaker 1: So he's it's not like private private, like he's at
Speaker 1: a dinner with four other people. He's in a like
Speaker 1: a ballroom little room there at the White House with
Speaker 1: what looks like I don't know, sixty people, and he's
Speaker 1: standing at a podium talking to him. But it's a
Speaker 1: private thing of all friends. Vance is there and Bondi
Speaker 1: and then staffers, and then Erica Kirk is there, and
Speaker 1: just it's all friendly. It's supposed to be behind closed
Speaker 1: doors private. They recorded it because they record everything, I guessed,
Speaker 1: and somehow posted it to the public site very briefly.
Speaker 1: Some journalists grabbed it, downloaded it, and then it disappeared.
Speaker 1: From the public site, so it wasn't meant for public guys. Wow,
Speaker 1: and it's really interesting to hear Trump talk in a
Speaker 1: completely different voice. Just his manner is so different. Halprin
Speaker 1: posted it on his newsletter today and he said it's
Speaker 1: both interesting how different he sounds when he's speaking to
Speaker 1: friends privately, and how the same he sounds. I mean,
Speaker 1: both are true. His information was the same, the way
Speaker 1: he talks was a lot lot different. But anyway, at
Speaker 1: one point, the reason I brought this up was he said,
Speaker 1: we really should take the oil. I mean, he said
Speaker 1: that was my big complaint with Bush is that we
Speaker 1: went to Iraq and we didn't take the oil. Why
Speaker 1: don't we take the oil? He said. I think we'd
Speaker 1: take the oil and a und but I'm not sure
Speaker 1: the country's got the stomach for the timetable. He said.
Speaker 1: I just don't think people are going to put up
Speaker 1: with the stock market hit and everything long enough for
Speaker 1: us to take the oil. So I guess we'll see.
Speaker 1: I thought that was pretty interesting. He's aware that public
Speaker 1: opinion is not on the side of this, and that
Speaker 1: the timetable is really short.
Speaker 2: Michael, let's hear fifty four from the speech last night.
Speaker 7: Our armed forces have been extraordinary. Has never been anything
Speaker 7: like it militarily. Everyone is talking about it. And tonight
Speaker 7: I'm pleased to say that these core strategic objectives are
Speaker 7: nearing completion.
Speaker 2: And then he continues the thought, and we are.
Speaker 7: Going to finish the job, and we're going to finish
Speaker 7: it very fast. We're getting very close. I want to
Speaker 7: thank our allies in the Middle East, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Guitar,
Speaker 7: the UAE, Kuwait and Bahrain.
Speaker 2: They've been great and we will not let them.
Speaker 7: Get hurt or fail in any way, shape or form.
Speaker 1: So what did Iran think of the speech? Well, here
Speaker 1: you go.
Speaker 10: Meanwhile, Iran is responding to the President's speech last night
Speaker 10: by really doubling down, firing several missiles at Israel overnight,
Speaker 10: ballistic missiles. So far, most have been intercepted. However, we
Speaker 10: do know that some injuries have been reported. Iranian officials
Speaker 10: are also rejecting any ceasefire and vowing further retaliation after
Speaker 10: President Trump warned the US will hit the country and
Speaker 10: I quote extremely hard over the next two to three weeks.
Speaker 1: You're going to bomb them back to the Stone Age.
Speaker 1: But you got to open the straight of horror moves
Speaker 1: which came up in the news yesterday.
Speaker 11: The UK Prime Minister is leading a virtual summit today
Speaker 11: of thirty five countries to try to build some kind
Speaker 11: of consensus on military or diplomatic efforts to reopen the Strait.
Speaker 11: Obviously responds to that strong pressure from President Trump. But
Speaker 11: you heard Secretary Rubio say on Hannity the other night
Speaker 11: that you know, if these countries are not going to
Speaker 11: allow the US to use those bases when it needs to,
Speaker 11: then NATO is a one way street, and the troops
Speaker 11: are only in Europe for the defense of Europe, not
Speaker 11: for American interest. That's the message here from the White House.
Speaker 1: Nah, we have had troops in Europe for a very
Speaker 1: very long time, specifically to defend your countries from being invaded.
Speaker 1: It wouldn't for all benefit.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I also a reference.
Speaker 3: To the humiliation that the Brits are experiencing right now
Speaker 3: because they can't get their aircraft carrier, either one of them,
Speaker 3: up and running. They they're in such terrible shape. They
Speaker 3: spend sixty percent of their time in dry dock getting
Speaker 3: fixed or in wet doc being fixed. But they don't
Speaker 3: have parts. They don't have the expertise to fix it.
Speaker 3: Their navy has been reduced, according to British media accounts,
Speaker 3: to utterly unable to project force in any significant way.
Speaker 2: That's a quote, just sad.
Speaker 1: I thought this was darn interesting because you know the
Speaker 1: conversation of is there negotiation going on?
Speaker 3: Oh wait, wait before we move on for that, because
Speaker 3: that's very important. Can't resist this speaking of NATO and
Speaker 3: our allies.
Speaker 2: Eighteen Michael.
Speaker 7: Then I call up France Macron, whose wife frets him
Speaker 7: extremely badly and still recovering from the right to the job,
Speaker 7: and I say, Emmanuel, we'd love to have some help
Speaker 7: in the golf. Even though we're setting records and knocking
Speaker 7: out bad people and knocking out ballistic missiles. Have to
Speaker 7: have some help if you could, Could you police send
Speaker 7: ships immediately?
Speaker 2: No, no, no, I cannot do that.
Speaker 12: Do we can?
Speaker 7: We can do that after the wars won? I said, no, no,
Speaker 7: I don't need after the war's one, Emanuel. Many of
Speaker 7: them said, we'll be there after the war's completed.
Speaker 1: That's from that thing I was talking about, that private,
Speaker 1: leaked out luncheon thing that he had. He made a
Speaker 1: joke about Macrone's old lady beating him.
Speaker 2: Up, still recovering from that right to the jaw, and.
Speaker 1: Then he says he sees Erica Kirk sitting there and
Speaker 1: he said, oh, hey, Eric, I didn't know you're here.
Speaker 1: He said, I'll tell you what. What they're saying about
Speaker 1: you is awful. I'd sue their asses off. I fire you,
Speaker 1: sue their asses off.
Speaker 2: That's what Trump told her. I've got some examples of
Speaker 2: that for later.
Speaker 1: But back to your uh uh So, a lot of
Speaker 1: mainstream media claiming that Trump's lying about this whole negotiating thing,
Speaker 1: that there's not actually any negotiations going on, and who's
Speaker 1: with all that, and I don't know who it's with.
Speaker 1: But this came out yesterday.
Speaker 12: It was just a few hours before the address. Iron's
Speaker 12: president a letter to the American people saying that Iran
Speaker 12: is not a threat. In fact, he called the United
Speaker 12: States the aggressor, and he says continuing along the path
Speaker 12: of confrontation is more costly and futile than ever before
Speaker 12: President Trump. Earlier, he claims that the Iranian president wants
Speaker 12: a ceasefire, but a spokesperson for Iran's president says their
Speaker 12: country is determined.
Speaker 1: He penned a letter. Did he saying that they're not
Speaker 1: a threat to the United States? Can I pen a
Speaker 1: letter back to him? I don't know his address. Dearest
Speaker 1: President of Iran, you have been chanting death to America
Speaker 1: from your podium my entire life, signed me.
Speaker 2: What do you mean actually killing Americans any chance you get?
Speaker 4: So?
Speaker 2: Shut up?
Speaker 1: Well. I heard one of my favorite pundits talking about
Speaker 1: running into some military guys in the bar, and he
Speaker 1: was interested that all of the former Iraq Afghanistan veterans
Speaker 1: of those wars were gung ho about this because they
Speaker 1: all had had friends hurt or killed by Iranians all
Speaker 1: a right, so they were a.
Speaker 2: Gung ho about this. Yeah, that is interesting.
Speaker 1: All those roadside bombs and you know, all the lost
Speaker 1: limbs and lost life and everything like that, those were
Speaker 1: bombs either developed by or completely made by and helped
Speaker 1: by Iran all those years.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I wish there were any sort of honest discussion
Speaker 3: about this going on in the way that people would
Speaker 3: actually hear and think about, because you know, to say
Speaker 3: this is going to happen is ridiculously premature. But if
Speaker 3: this is successful, even like substantially successful, it could usher
Speaker 3: in an era of peace and stability in the Middle
Speaker 3: East for decades to come, decades to come in a
Speaker 3: way that we've never seen before. All the stars are
Speaker 3: aligned for that, and the last thing that needs to
Speaker 3: be accomplished is to neuter Iran and make them cut
Speaker 3: it out for what it's worth. In discussing the President
Speaker 3: of Iran's letter and everything. The book may never be written,
Speaker 3: but man, I would like to know what the internal
Speaker 3: power struggles are like right now, as I would guess,
Speaker 3: everybody is trying to come off as the hardest hard
Speaker 3: ass that's ever hard assed. Meanwhile, but I still think
Speaker 3: maybe we should talk to the Americans, but not a
Speaker 3: hard ass. I'm a serious hard ass. But we're getting killed,
Speaker 3: so I mean, that's got to be who vexing. I
Speaker 3: don't envy them, Yeah, probably mind the bombs falling on
Speaker 3: their heads. I don't envy that either.
Speaker 2: That was.
Speaker 1: That was our checking on Iran, and that was all
Speaker 1: good stuff. Got something about the space flight that is silly?
Speaker 1: Before are you coming up?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: Okay, captain silly over here, Joe serious would like the
Speaker 3: floor for a moment. We're in a serious space race
Speaker 3: with China's It's a big deal.
Speaker 2: I want to hit that in a hour.
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Speaker 13: Say forgotten, forgotten, important, important, Say Sacramento.
Speaker 2: Sacramento twenty twenty.
Speaker 13: Center center say counter, counter, say fountain, Fountain, Kitten, kitten, kitten,
Speaker 13: it's kitten.
Speaker 7: Bro.
Speaker 2: Mmm. First of all, he calls his mom bro.
Speaker 1: I think I do most of those, and that's not
Speaker 1: a so my son that we've talked about this before,
Speaker 1: the young people dropping their teas. I don't know if
Speaker 1: that was a good example of it or not. The
Speaker 1: way like I hear my son and some of his
Speaker 1: friends fountain Fountain. Yeah, he kind of lightly tapped.
Speaker 2: Some of those teas.
Speaker 1: Not a good I say Fountain. I don't really get
Speaker 1: the tea Fountain. I definitely say fountain.
Speaker 2: I pronounced every letter, as you know. I don't believe
Speaker 2: in silent letters.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I say all those words. I don't say, uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's weird. It's just an affectation that just caught on
Speaker 1: for some reason among the young. Yeah. So I got
Speaker 1: distracted by the term sissy sub when I was reading
Speaker 1: about Lydia Love. Turns out that's not her real name,
Speaker 1: that's a stage name. The woman who had been talking
Speaker 1: with Christy Nome's husband on the phone apparently twenty five
Speaker 1: a minute, twenty five bucks a minute, she called him
Speaker 1: a She remembered him because she said she'd never seen
Speaker 1: a sissy sub that had bigger knockers than him.
Speaker 2: Wow. Wow. So a little tip of the cap from
Speaker 2: one pro to another.
Speaker 1: And no, whatever turns you on, whatever turns John behind
Speaker 1: closed door is that, I'm not criticizing that or whatever.
Speaker 1: The cartoonishly large knocker are definitely outside of anything kind
Speaker 1: of normal mainstream certainly, but especially on a fella. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's pretty interesting. This woman who recognized him when the
Speaker 1: pictures broke this week, Christy Noom's husband. If you don't
Speaker 1: know the story, I think you probably do, said when
Speaker 1: she would talk to him on the phone, he would
Speaker 1: try to talk more feminine. His kink was yoga pants.
Speaker 1: He wanted to be the star of the show and
Speaker 1: really show off. I would hype him up. She described
Speaker 1: him as an extremely needy client. Needy client who need
Speaker 1: the ample praise and feedback. But what stood out most
Speaker 1: she recalled, is the comically large balloon breasts that he
Speaker 1: always wore under his tight shirts. I've never had another
Speaker 1: client who had them, she said ever, so yeah, that
Speaker 1: would stand out. I mean, if you had somebody come
Speaker 1: on this video screen looking like that, it would make
Speaker 1: an impression. You'd think, Wow, what's going on here.
Speaker 3: You're used to people coming to you for your cartoonishly
Speaker 3: large breasts. They generally don't bring their own to the party.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 1: This woman's says that Christy Holme's husband talked to her
Speaker 1: ten to fifteen times over a year and a half
Speaker 1: to two year period up to about six months ago,
Speaker 1: so certainly well inside the whole having to get a
Speaker 1: security clearance situation, FBI missed that one. Somehow, Will got
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