Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe.
Speaker 2: Getty Armstrong and Gatty and now he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3: If anyone builds It, Everyone Dies is a book that
Speaker 3: I really been into during the break about AI, and
Speaker 3: I want to talk about that later because I think
Speaker 3: that is absolutely true.
Speaker 4: Says that title again.
Speaker 3: Surely making a lot of noise in the AI world.
Speaker 3: If anyone builds It, Everyone Dies by one of the
Speaker 3: leading proponents of AI for the last several decades who
Speaker 3: has changed his mind and decided this is not good
Speaker 3: and wants to try to get government policies put in
Speaker 3: place to stop an him from run from building super intelligence.
Speaker 3: But we'll talk more about that later. And if that
Speaker 3: doesn't give you nightmares, maybe this will. They reconnected with
Speaker 3: family through twenty three and meters and got sued stay
Speaker 3: with us. Oh my god, I'm trying to imagine what
Speaker 3: would be the situation here. Okay, I can look forward
Speaker 3: to hearing this story.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, Human Beings Suck, Welcome back from vacation ready
Speaker 1: for the Christmas season. Armstrong and a Human Beings Suck.
Speaker 1: Tell you what as a general rule.
Speaker 4: That's true.
Speaker 1: If you can find something, don't I suggest you surround
Speaker 1: yourself with them and live a happy life.
Speaker 3: Well, we're sort of designed to suck and then culturally
Speaker 3: you have to push the suckiness out of us. That's
Speaker 3: kind of the conservative principle, right, uh yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but yeah, yeah, indeed, well stated, I happen to
Speaker 1: come across a really really interesting read about a different
Speaker 1: sort of feminism.
Speaker 4: It's more than that, but it.
Speaker 1: Talks about how we are not units as human beings.
Speaker 1: We are we are our connections, and it makes an
Speaker 1: argument for a much more traditional view of womanhood. But
Speaker 1: it's just it's an intriguing thought that we it's you
Speaker 1: don't self actualize through you know, your Thomas Paine like
Speaker 1: fierce independent individualism entirely. But anyway, more to come on that,
Speaker 1: it's a it's a definitely a uh a chin rubbing sinkathon.
Speaker 3: A chin rubbing thinkthon. That's a fantastic phrase. So this
Speaker 3: is a horrifying story. You probably heard about this, even
Speaker 3: if you weren't trying to pay attention to the news.
Speaker 3: A couple of Guards National Guards members being shot, one dead,
Speaker 3: one clinging to life by a guy who helped us
Speaker 3: in Afghanistan, then we allowed him into this country and somehow,
Speaker 3: at least according to Secretary of State Christinomi, got radicalized
Speaker 3: since then, and sounds like you went pretty damn nuts.
Speaker 4: AnyWho.
Speaker 3: Among the things that Trump has said in a reaction
Speaker 3: to it is We're going to cut way down on
Speaker 3: immigration to this country. Here's a little bit for meet
Speaker 3: the press, and then a reaction from a US senator
Speaker 3: about it.
Speaker 1: President Trump is escalating his immigration crackdown, vowing to permanently
Speaker 1: pause migration from what he calls third world countries.
Speaker 5: When I heard the Secretary say that they're going to
Speaker 5: pause immigration from third world countries, I mean I take
Speaker 5: that as a message that they don't want brown people
Speaker 5: coming to the United States.
Speaker 3: That's Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona. So one of the
Speaker 3: reasons I wanted to get into that. So even before
Speaker 3: that incident happened, This happened at the very beginning of
Speaker 3: Thanksgiving week, didn't get near enough attention, but Marco Rubio
Speaker 3: announced that the a US State Department directive declaring mass
Speaker 3: migration and existential threat to Western civilization Wow, and gave
Speaker 3: a big speech about it. Didn't get near the attention
Speaker 3: it should have. Now, I don't know if they gave
Speaker 3: that speech. This doesn't make sense, But I was about
Speaker 3: to say, I don't know if they gave that speech,
Speaker 3: like knowing it was Thanksgiving week and it would kind
Speaker 3: of get buried. But why would you even why would
Speaker 3: you want to do that, Why would you want to hide?
Speaker 4: You just wouldn't make this feast at all?
Speaker 3: Any who had got a fair amount of attention by
Speaker 3: a lot of world thinkers that you know, because a
Speaker 3: lot of countries are having similar problems. That's why he
Speaker 3: said Western civilization and not the United States. See France,
Speaker 3: see Britain, see Germany, see lots of countries. The new
Speaker 3: US State Department directive declaring mass migration and an existential
Speaker 3: threat to Western civilization isn't just an American policy ship.
Speaker 3: That's a geopolitical earth quake, and the tremors are heading
Speaker 3: right down Downing Street and other streets of power around
Speaker 3: the world, according to this thinker, Jim Ferguson, who I
Speaker 3: follow sometimes on Twitter. But that's interesting, and I wonder
Speaker 3: what the repercussions are going to be of that, or
Speaker 3: what the policies are going to be going forward. But
Speaker 3: I think what Trump said about no more migration from
Speaker 3: third world countries.
Speaker 4: Fits in with that, right.
Speaker 1: I think it's refreshing, honestly that somebody's going ahead and
Speaker 1: stated the obvious because all of the people in Germany
Speaker 1: know this to be true, all the people in France,
Speaker 1: or most of them anyway.
Speaker 4: Great Britain is acutely aware.
Speaker 1: Of this, that the mass migration, especially from cultures that
Speaker 1: hate the Western values, was suicidal. It was a terrible idea,
Speaker 1: and now Rubio is going ahead and saying it out loud.
Speaker 4: I'm glad. I think that's great.
Speaker 1: I'm pro, I'm quote unquote pro immigration under certain circumstances.
Speaker 4: But I mean, think about just.
Speaker 1: Inviting four random strangers to your Thanksgiving table and then
Speaker 1: being shocked when maybe it didn't turn out great. I
Speaker 1: mean totally unvetted. In fact, some of them, you should
Speaker 1: have presumed that they would hate you and.
Speaker 4: Your culture because they've that's where they came. That's a
Speaker 4: pretty good suicit.
Speaker 3: That's a pretty good metaphor analogy sort of thing, because yeah,
Speaker 3: so you invite a couple of people in from who
Speaker 3: knows where, it doesn't matter, and then they sit down
Speaker 3: and say what is this?
Speaker 4: I don't like turkey?
Speaker 1: And what is that brown stuff? Well, that's stuffing I
Speaker 1: don't ever had that I want? And why are the
Speaker 1: women talking at this table? Or I should shut off?
Speaker 3: Even a better example, and how come we haven't you know,
Speaker 3: done this amount of praying before we eat or whatever
Speaker 3: the situation is. You're like, well, that's not our tradition here. Well,
Speaker 3: it's our tradition and we're here now and we're demanding it.
Speaker 3: You wouldn't react.
Speaker 1: Positively to that, No, unless you were a soft headed,
Speaker 1: soft hearted, suicidal lefty.
Speaker 3: I get confused about this a lot because some of
Speaker 3: my favorite thinkers I won't name one because I don't
Speaker 3: want to get into a battle with him, but conservative
Speaker 3: talking about people have been and he's very right. Conservative
Speaker 3: people have been claiming that immigration was going to ruin
Speaker 3: this country since you know, the very beginning, and whether
Speaker 3: it was the Irish or people from.
Speaker 1: Italy or whatever it was, blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: And it's true.
Speaker 3: But you got to admit, don't you, that at some point,
Speaker 3: too many people, too fast, from a culture that doesn't
Speaker 3: agree with our values is going to be a problem.
Speaker 1: Don't yet. It seems to me to be denying the
Speaker 1: obvious to claim that we can just absorb any amount
Speaker 1: at any speed and be fine.
Speaker 4: Right what. I have two reactions to that.
Speaker 1: Number One, I think the fact that people have always
Speaker 1: expressed that sort of concern is proof that it is
Speaker 1: an innate human tendency. It's not stupid bigotry. It's a
Speaker 1: very very very reasonable instinct that if we let people
Speaker 1: flood into the tribe, not knowing who they are, or
Speaker 1: not knowing them they're from a different tribe with different values,
Speaker 1: that's going to weaken the cohesiveness of the tribe. Now,
Speaker 1: it turns out in a country like ours, as people assimilate,
Speaker 1: we could handle immigration and still.
Speaker 4: Do our thing.
Speaker 1: But the fact that people were saying, hey, let's cover
Speaker 1: the break, if not tap it a little bit, that
Speaker 1: doesn't make them wrong. That just makes them part of
Speaker 1: an equilibrium. You hear what I'm saying. I mean you've
Speaker 1: got the gas pedal people, then you got the brakes people.
Speaker 1: That makes sense. Second response to that, and you touched
Speaker 1: on it is it is so fundamentally different importing Irish
Speaker 1: people or Italians who were talking about in previous rounds
Speaker 1: of immigration, massive immigration. They come from countries that are
Speaker 1: based in Judeo Christian principles, an English common law or
Speaker 1: something close to it, at least in Italy, whereas people
Speaker 1: from Africa the Middle East. No, the very fundamentals of
Speaker 1: their understandings of law and culture and religion everything else
Speaker 1: are in some cases diametrically opposed to what we believe
Speaker 1: in the West. You cannot compare Irishmen from Somalians.
Speaker 3: Sorry, Yeah, since the declaration from the State Department in
Speaker 3: Mario Marco Rubio's speech was declaring mass immigration and an
Speaker 3: exis essential threat to Western civilization. You know, so throughout
Speaker 3: history countries that are part of Western civilization came here
Speaker 3: and we were able to absorb it. That's not proof
Speaker 3: that countries not from Western civilization. Lots of people we
Speaker 3: could absorb.
Speaker 1: Well, And how about we tapped the break until we
Speaker 1: see how it's going.
Speaker 3: And the more I think about it, so what are
Speaker 3: you assuming then, and people that are going to come
Speaker 3: here from other countries where they do think completely different
Speaker 3: in terms of the separation of church and state, or
Speaker 3: the women's rights or whatever rights just in general, Yeah,
Speaker 3: they're just going to give up everything they've ever believed.
Speaker 3: Just automatically. They just think you know everything I've ever believed,
Speaker 3: what my parents believe, what my grandparents believed. Screw all that,
Speaker 3: I'm just going to adopt your way. It seems a
Speaker 3: little unlikely.
Speaker 4: To say the least.
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Speaker 3: So Senator Kelly there saying what I hear is he
Speaker 3: doesn't want brown people. Well, what I hear is we
Speaker 3: don't want people who don't believe in Western civilization, regardless
Speaker 3: of your skin color.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Mark, you're next. I wish we had him on
Speaker 1: right now. I think just express that to him that
Speaker 1: simply say what do you say?
Speaker 4: Center? That is such a.
Speaker 1: Just clichade narrative, hewing pile of crap.
Speaker 4: Does he actually believe that is smart?
Speaker 1: No, he does not. That's just playing the game rangeaiting
Speaker 1: to get clicks and donations from the diversity crowd.
Speaker 4: That's weak.
Speaker 3: It'll be interesting to see how long this ban that
Speaker 3: Trump announced lasts, what court challenges will occur, and then
Speaker 3: bigger picture based on what Marco Rubio said, what that
Speaker 3: means for other countries.
Speaker 1: Hey, we got to get the opening clip from Meet
Speaker 1: the Press where somebody asked him about the vetting of
Speaker 1: the Afghan guy and he immediately went to insulting the reporter.
Speaker 1: It was a pretty seasoned reporting. Yeah, are you Trump?
Speaker 4: Is? Are you stupid? Or your stupid person?
Speaker 1: They let them in completely ignoring the question, which was
Speaker 1: a reasonable one.
Speaker 4: Trump is not getting more reason?
Speaker 1: Okay? Any thoughts on any of this? Text Line four?
Speaker 1: Is there an older gentleman out that lives here?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: He fell down the road?
Speaker 4: There he face plateed.
Speaker 1: I I was just on my regular route.
Speaker 4: I came across the guy I saw in my rearview mirror.
Speaker 4: I saw that involved and did he you turn?
Speaker 1: I got to him as quick as I can, making
Speaker 1: sure he was okay.
Speaker 4: Helped us get him into the car.
Speaker 1: Daughter reached out on Facebook so we could somehow thank him,
Speaker 1: and we got his name and got to meet him
Speaker 1: and we connected and I said, your family, what are
Speaker 1: you doing for Thanksgiving? Things could have gone so much worse.
Speaker 4: Oh that's nice.
Speaker 1: Mail carrier sees old dad face plant get injured, wheels around,
Speaker 1: aids him, helps get him into the car to the hospital.
Speaker 1: Family invites him to Thanksgiving dinner.
Speaker 4: Did the mail carrier not have his own family or
Speaker 4: did he?
Speaker 2: Did he?
Speaker 3: Did he do a bang bang? Did he do a
Speaker 3: Thanksgiving bang bang? Did his own family then went over
Speaker 3: to their house.
Speaker 1: Well, if the time is right, yes, you can pull
Speaker 1: that off. That'd be great.
Speaker 4: Ah. Yeah, do know where that happened, Michael, I don't.
Speaker 1: Actually those sounded like upper Midwestern accents to me. Good
Speaker 1: people there in northern Indiana, southern Michigan. Oh, the best
Speaker 1: people anyway. That's a beautiful family drama, Jack, So is
Speaker 1: this until.
Speaker 4: It takes a dark turn? Stay tuned till right now.
Speaker 1: When Carmen Thomas was growing up in Boston, her mom
Speaker 1: told her that her absent dad's name was Joe Brown.
Speaker 1: So when she sent us saliva sample to twenty three
Speaker 1: and meter in her twenties and got a match with
Speaker 1: the Brown family, she was excited. Turned out, the man
Speaker 1: she believed to be her father had passed away five
Speaker 1: years earlier, Jack, Which is too bad, but.
Speaker 4: Not the dark turn, not yet, Stay tuned.
Speaker 1: But she connected with two likely half sisters. They went
Speaker 1: out for a Boba tea, had a sleep over at
Speaker 1: their grandmother's. She looked through family albums and held a
Speaker 1: pillow with his photo printed on it. A year later,
Speaker 1: she was it's doing the Brown sisters and their mother.
Speaker 4: That's your dark turn? For what?
Speaker 1: Thomas wanted a share of a multimillion dollar medical malpractice
Speaker 1: award they had won after Joe Brown died of an aneurysm.
Speaker 1: After all, she was his daughter too, she said in
Speaker 1: a court complaint early last year.
Speaker 3: Well, biologically, but that not anymore, right, you're not legally
Speaker 3: the daughter of that person.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, one hundred percent you are.
Speaker 1: In many states, genetics determine who can claim, make you
Speaker 1: claim on inheritances in the absence of a will or trust.
Speaker 4: Wow, so you can.
Speaker 1: You can inherit from your biological father, even if you
Speaker 1: never knew of them, knew their name, They didn't. They
Speaker 1: may not have known you. Your mom was even pregnant
Speaker 1: with me. Wait, that's that.
Speaker 3: I don't know what I think about that, because I
Speaker 3: know something about the law around certain things around parenting.
Speaker 3: For instance, in California, you are not required to parent.
Speaker 3: It isn't You don't have to if you don't want
Speaker 3: to be a parent. You don't have to be a
Speaker 3: parent just because you had a kid. But then the
Speaker 3: law would be But if you are rich, the kid
Speaker 3: gets the money.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's worth pointing out. So they're sitting is the
Speaker 1: important part, not the biology?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, absolutely, true.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm not at all shocked that cal Unicornia
Speaker 1: has such a bizarre law. Other states consider factors such
Speaker 1: as if there was a relationship with the deceased. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there should have to be some sort of relationship. By
Speaker 1: the way, going back to this gold digging woman and
Speaker 1: the Brown family, as it turns out, she fouled her
Speaker 1: suit too long after the guy died, so there was
Speaker 1: a settlement that was very favorable for the Brown family.
Speaker 3: I know somebody personally who did that whole thing. Found
Speaker 3: out they had a sister and now are in touch
Speaker 3: with them, like well into their forties and they hang
Speaker 3: out right, And it turned out the sister lived in
Speaker 3: the same town, so they get together. And Yeah, there
Speaker 3: are a lot of beautiful stories can to this sort
Speaker 3: of stuff too, even if there is a will or trust,
Speaker 3: though common phrases such as to my descendants or to
Speaker 3: my children can open the door for a surprise relative
Speaker 3: to make a claim. Affairs have been going on forever,
Speaker 3: but now they're getting discovered, said an estate planning lawyer
Speaker 3: in DC with the experience in this sort of thing. Wow,
Speaker 3: here's a story in Utah brother and sister fighting over
Speaker 3: their late father's estate when the brother reached out to
Speaker 3: a man he thought might be their half brother.
Speaker 4: Their DNA match hooray.
Speaker 1: The man's mother apparently had an affair with dad when
Speaker 1: she worked for him, but the old man didn't have
Speaker 1: a will, and the man argued his claim in part
Speaker 1: by noting that the dad had sent him birthday cards
Speaker 1: with one hundred dollars for years, and the Utah Supreme
Speaker 1: Court ruled the man was entitled to a third.
Speaker 4: Of the estate.
Speaker 1: Hmmm, see that one. I feel like you're sending a
Speaker 1: birthday card every year.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you are.
Speaker 3: You're a little closer to being dad there. Yeah than
Speaker 3: the not check your local listing with the laws man.
Speaker 3: That makes it very, very complicated.
Speaker 4: We get a lot on the wafe.
Speaker 1: He missed segment of the podcast Armstrong and Getty on
Speaker 1: demand Armstrong and Geddy.
Speaker 6: High Stakes Talks in Florida, the Trump administration's top negotiators
Speaker 6: meeting with the Ukrainian delegation to discuss the peace plan
Speaker 6: being pushed by the presidents. For While both sides calling
Speaker 6: the talks positive, crucial sticking points remain.
Speaker 4: The Russians are not willing to.
Speaker 6: Agree to a sea spar in any form, while Ukraine
Speaker 6: is unwilling to conceive territory.
Speaker 3: Well, that seems like a problem in terms of coming
Speaker 3: together on a peace deal. Let's hear the rest of
Speaker 3: Ian Pannell's report on CBS News and then we'll discuss.
Speaker 4: The battle raging on.
Speaker 6: Russia launching more devastating drone and missile attacks against Ukraine
Speaker 6: this weekend and these four killed and dozens wounded in Key,
Speaker 6: but Ukraine fighting back. Ukraine's intelligence service releasing dramatic video
Speaker 6: showing sea drones hitting two Russian tankers of Turkey's coast,
Speaker 6: suspected of smuggling sanctioned Russian oil.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they are trying to sneak so oil in because
Speaker 3: you know the world has tried to stop Russia from
Speaker 3: being able to benefit from any oil production. And a
Speaker 3: couple of tankers got blown up by Ukraine probably. Meanwhile,
Speaker 3: Russia continues to bomb Ukraine. This is in the midst
Speaker 3: of the peace talks, which Mark Hawprin says the closest
Speaker 3: we've come yet. I didn't follow this over the last week.
Speaker 3: I didn't follow anything closely over the last week, but
Speaker 3: when we went on vacation it was announced by Trump
Speaker 3: Ukraine needs to say yes to this or we're going
Speaker 3: to cut off all support. Then Marco Rubio came out,
Speaker 3: I know, a couple of days later. I saw the
Speaker 3: headline and said, hey, that was not our peace plan.
Speaker 3: The Russians leaked that out, which I thought was confusing
Speaker 3: because then why did Trump say you got to agree
Speaker 3: to it?
Speaker 1: Or I think like the first term, there's a fair
Speaker 1: amount of Trump shoots off his mouth, and then his
Speaker 1: cabinet his people have to, you know, clean up the mess.
Speaker 3: Anyway, so they came up with a slightly different piece plan,
Speaker 3: which all depends on whether or not Putin has any
Speaker 3: interest in quitting, and nobody knows that or not. I
Speaker 3: don't exactly understand why he would outside of such I would.
Speaker 4: Be surprised if he would. If he does.
Speaker 3: Seems like it seems like you need some sort of
Speaker 3: threat from the United States and or Europe that we're
Speaker 3: going to really support Ukraine if you don't agree to
Speaker 3: this one, and you're going to be in a heck
Speaker 3: of a battle. But that is not what's happening. So anyway,
Speaker 3: we'll follow that over the next couple of days. Some
Speaker 3: people on the text line unhappy with me for not
Speaker 3: getting more credit or not being more optimistic about the
Speaker 3: Trump economy based on the numbers that came out on Friday,
Speaker 3: because they were way up, like nine percent over the
Speaker 3: year before for Black Friday spending, And I went on
Speaker 3: about how I don't know, some people spend their money
Speaker 3: at the beginning of the holiday season. Sometimes they spend
Speaker 3: it to the end. It's kind of hard to predict
Speaker 3: where you end up, which is true. But I wasn't
Speaker 3: trying to downplay the Trump economy. Once again, quoting Mark
Speaker 3: Alpern never Farmed his newsletter today, he said this was
Speaker 3: the this is the most confusing economy he's ever seen.
Speaker 3: I would agree if if it ends up, if the
Speaker 3: Christmas season ends up being up nearly double digits like
Speaker 3: it was on Black Friday, What the hell, everybody, Why
Speaker 3: are you in record numbers telling pollsters that your own
Speaker 3: personal economy is worse than it was under Biden? I
Speaker 3: mean those numbers are high, right direction, wrong directions, setting records.
Speaker 3: I mean, we had all that stuff before we went
Speaker 3: on vacation. People are pessimistic as hell about the economy,
Speaker 3: yet went out and spent.
Speaker 1: More money than the year before. Maybe I don't know, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I need to see this play out because I agree
Speaker 1: with Halper and it's utterly bewildering.
Speaker 4: I would also say in this.
Speaker 1: You know, I shouldn't even respond to a couple of texts,
Speaker 1: but if you are still looking at everything that happens
Speaker 1: through a good for Trump or bad for Trump, used
Speaker 1: to praise Trump or used to talk Trump lens. Oh man,
Speaker 1: my god, smell the roses. Take a minute's everything's fine.
Speaker 4: Calm down.
Speaker 1: TG.
Speaker 4: The world does not revolve around Trump.
Speaker 1: TG.
Speaker 3: Touchgrass. Okay, well, this is about Trump. I wanted to
Speaker 3: read this just because I think this is really interesting.
Speaker 3: This is from the Associated Press. I have no idea
Speaker 3: what's going on here. President Trump said yesterday that he
Speaker 3: would release the results of his MRI test that he
Speaker 3: received in October.
Speaker 1: Have you been following this.
Speaker 4: Story, Yeah, a little bit.
Speaker 3: He got an MRI, they admit that from the White
Speaker 3: House podium, but they have not released the results.
Speaker 1: Quoting Trump or even what he was getting MRID. Right, Well,
Speaker 1: that's where it gets interesting here. Oh okay, quoting Trump.
Speaker 3: If you want to have it released, I'll release it,
Speaker 3: the president said during an exchange with reporters as he
Speaker 3: traveled back to Washington from Florida over the weekend. He said,
Speaker 3: the results of the MRI were perfect, which is we've
Speaker 3: all gotten results back from the doctors.
Speaker 1: That's the that's the way they give you the news.
Speaker 1: It was perfect.
Speaker 4: Your ankle is one of the best ankles. Many people
Speaker 4: are saying your ankle is the best they've seen. Thank
Speaker 4: you doctor.
Speaker 1: The White House has so far declined to detail why
Speaker 1: Trump had an MRI during his physical last month, or
Speaker 1: on what part of his body. The Press Secretary Caroline
Speaker 1: Levitt has said that the president received advanced imaging at
Speaker 1: Walter Reed National Military's Medical Center as part of his
Speaker 1: routine physical examination, and that the results showed Trump remains
Speaker 1: an exceptional physical health.
Speaker 4: This is my favorite part. Trump added yesterday.
Speaker 1: That he is that he has no idea on what
Speaker 1: part of his body he got the MRI. It was
Speaker 1: just an MRI, he said, what part of the body.
Speaker 1: It wasn't the brain because I took a cognitive test
Speaker 1: and I aised it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we remember.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it seems odd to me that he got an MRI,
Speaker 1: but he has no idea what part of the body.
Speaker 4: As president, now we have to do an MRI on stuff.
Speaker 1: What a nod story, I'd say, huh, what do you
Speaker 1: think's going on there?
Speaker 4: And who cares? Well? I mean, but no, who's.
Speaker 1: An old fat man?
Speaker 3: I you know, if he needed, if he had to
Speaker 3: get an MRI, I think it'd be interesting to know
Speaker 3: on what. But the idea that he doesn't have any
Speaker 3: ideas well, that's a non starter in terms of my believability.
Speaker 4: Odd and hilarious.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but if if indeed he said no, there's also fine.
Speaker 4: Everything's great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, So they suspected maybe he had a spinal problem,
Speaker 1: but he didn't.
Speaker 4: Why would you? Who cares?
Speaker 1: Is?
Speaker 4: Who would care enough to withhold the information?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: I see, I understand your say. Yeah, his shoulder was
Speaker 1: kind of source. So they did an MRI. Who cares?
Speaker 3: My back was really hurting and they didn't MRI. And
Speaker 3: I got nothing wrong with me, So I guess it's
Speaker 3: just you know, age, or I pulled something, I should
Speaker 3: lifted something heavy whatever. But that's why the cover up
Speaker 3: is always worse than the crime. The crime here being
Speaker 3: a minor medical problem. But to say I have.
Speaker 1: No idea what I got an MRI?
Speaker 4: Come on now, Yeah, that's hilarious.
Speaker 1: That reminds me one of the only tense moments at
Speaker 1: the holiday table was there was a reference to pumpkin
Speaker 1: Gate because one of my kid's bows was assisting in
Speaker 1: the making of the pumpkin pie and it was sloppy
Speaker 1: and ingredient adding, and my wife was not reticent to
Speaker 1: correct that mistake because it might have ruined the pie,
Speaker 1: and the ensuing tension, which lasted about three seconds, was
Speaker 1: referred to as pumpkin Gate. Now, my youngest went on
Speaker 1: a rant about how stupid it was that everybody was
Speaker 1: calling everybody calls every controversy something gaate, right since the
Speaker 1: water Gate Hotel was literally at the gate of the
Speaker 1: water And but I stepped in and said, that's enough,
Speaker 1: We're done with this.
Speaker 4: Let's talk about the weather.
Speaker 1: Just to fill you in on this. In case you
Speaker 1: did I was fine. It was a little cinemi cinnamony,
Speaker 1: but it was fine. In case you didn't follow this.
Speaker 1: President Trump hosted the annual Turkey pardon at the White
Speaker 1: House on Tuesday, one of the most ridiculous traditions that
Speaker 1: we have in the United States of America, and he's
Speaker 1: soft on turkeys, saying they also was re pardoning last
Speaker 1: year's birds that only got an auto pen reprieve and
Speaker 1: saying you can, and saying that he considered naming this
Speaker 1: year's gobblers Chuck and Nancy. Former President Joe Biden used
Speaker 1: an auto pen for last year's turkey pardons, the President said,
Speaker 1: calling them totally invalid. I now re pardon the turkey
Speaker 1: is known as Peach and blossom from last year. They've
Speaker 1: been located and they were on their way to be processed.
Speaker 1: But I've stopped that journey and I'm officially pardoning them.
Speaker 1: So he got in his auto pin shot on that,
Speaker 1: which is pretty fun. Yeah. Also commuted the sentence of
Speaker 1: some burning made off style guy who ripped off thousands
Speaker 1: of people and emptied their life savings and ruined their lives.
Speaker 1: But for some reason, he was a New York finance guy.
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Speaker 1: have time? Yes, we do. We have time to fit
Speaker 1: this in.
Speaker 3: So this is one thing I came across perusing the
Speaker 3: internet while I was on vacation. This is Representative timber
Speaker 3: Chet of Tennessee or Kentucky, one of those states. He's
Speaker 3: a Republican, and he came out of a committee hearing
Speaker 3: they were having about trying to come up with some
Speaker 3: rules around particularly House members and their investment. This has
Speaker 3: been a topic for a while. As they sit in
Speaker 3: committee hearings, they get tips about which direction you know,
Speaker 3: regulations are going or the laws going on this, and
Speaker 3: then they go out and invest accordingly and all become
Speaker 3: rich because they have information you don't have.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Hell, they're writing those laws right.
Speaker 3: And he came out and said this during the holiday breaks,
Speaker 3: so most people didn't hear it.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, Clip seventy three.
Speaker 7: Yeah, everybody talks about this place. Man a dad gum swamp.
Speaker 7: It's not a swamp. Swamp is something cool God created.
Speaker 7: It's a hit, filters water, animal life lives and flourishes
Speaker 7: around it.
Speaker 4: This is a sewer.
Speaker 7: This is created by man and it needs to stop. We've,
Speaker 7: you know, for years Congress has been using hard work
Speaker 7: in American taxpayers money to get rich. That gum it's
Speaker 7: got to stop. America knows what the heck's going on.
Speaker 7: Everybody wants to knock Pelosi. Heck, she's not even in
Speaker 7: the top ten. Get on that unusual whale side. This
Speaker 7: is pathetic, folks. We all know what's going on. Congress
Speaker 7: knows what the hell's going on, and it needs to stop.
Speaker 1: He goes on for several more minutes.
Speaker 3: One of the things that definitely caught my eye was
Speaker 3: or ear, was him saying, everybody wants to knock Nancy Pelosi, hick,
Speaker 3: she's not even in the top ten, which is pretty interesting.
Speaker 3: And that's a Republican saying that of people who are
Speaker 3: working the system and using the knowledge they have to
Speaker 3: get rich. And he talked about we got people in
Speaker 3: there who are making six hundred trades a year based
Speaker 3: on information that they get from hearings and become rich.
Speaker 4: That's gotta stop.
Speaker 1: Number One.
Speaker 4: Excellent swamp knowledge there, Congressman. That was really good.
Speaker 1: And a swamp is different from a marsh as well,
Speaker 1: and we could talk about that someday. But my ear
Speaker 1: was caught by his reference to the unusual whales site.
Speaker 1: What did that mean? Uh, your unfair advantage in the
Speaker 1: market we're building tools to let retail traders uncovery unusual
Speaker 1: trades that predict market moves before they meet the headlines.
Speaker 1: Uh so you see all of a sudden, that's weird,
Speaker 1: trucking stocks are going up, and then three days later
Speaker 1: Kigers has passed the law deregulating trucking profits. But you
Speaker 1: see that move first and they.
Speaker 4: Alert you to it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I wish more people would call out their own
Speaker 3: That's something that he claims. Nancy's not even in the
Speaker 3: top ten, right, and it leads me to believe that
Speaker 3: there's a fair number of Republicans that are on that list.
Speaker 1: The fact that he wasn't naming any name. This is
Speaker 1: kind of an aside, But I was just reading how
Speaker 1: a lot of young service people, US service people are
Speaker 1: investing like crazy in this big bull market and doing
Speaker 1: crypto and all sorts of stuff, doing the meme stocks
Speaker 1: and just regular investing. And they're like Porsches and Audi's
Speaker 1: parked across military bases as these young soldiers are getting
Speaker 1: rich on the market.
Speaker 4: Oh wow, isn't that crazy.
Speaker 3: I suppose we should check in again on what could
Speaker 3: become a giant controversy on whether or not Secretary of
Speaker 3: War Pete Hegzeth ordered the murder of a couple of
Speaker 3: people clinging to a boat.
Speaker 1: That's where it's being.
Speaker 3: Portrayed by detractors. If you don't know that story, we'll
Speaker 3: get to that, among other things. Stay tuned.
Speaker 1: Tiber. Monday.
Speaker 8: Yes, it is the day when millions of people shop online,
Speaker 8: so basically Monday.
Speaker 4: Everyone shops online.
Speaker 8: Seriously, I haven't been to a source since Avatar one. Yeah,
Speaker 8: Cyber Monday is a great way to get ahead of
Speaker 8: your holiday shopping. And then every gas station gift card rack.
Speaker 4: Is like will see you one the twenty.
Speaker 1: Fourth the gas station gift card wreck. That is some
Speaker 1: low effort.
Speaker 4: Right, Michael.
Speaker 1: Do we have any Christmas music handy? I love this
Speaker 1: six the most wonderful time of the year, especially beautiful Portland, Oregon,
Speaker 1: the most wonderful Partland is sparked outrage after stripping its
Speaker 1: Christmas tree of its name, referring to it only as
Speaker 1: the tree.
Speaker 4: During its lighting.
Speaker 1: Ceremony, has thousands gathered in Pioneer Courthouse Square. Leaders and
Speaker 1: speakers avoided mentioning Christmas at any point at during the
Speaker 1: whole thing. The festive occasion was kicked off with a
Speaker 1: woman from the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, thanking everyone
Speaker 1: in the crowd for coming out on Native American Heritage Day. Boy,
Speaker 1: she introduced two younger members of the tribe, who refer
Speaker 1: to the celebration only as the tree lighting, before handing
Speaker 1: the microphone to a woman draped in a Palestinian flag,
Speaker 1: who used her time on stage to lead the crowd
Speaker 1: in a free Palestine. Chance, this is the perfect time
Speaker 1: to bring this up. There are a lot of genocides
Speaker 1: going on, she said, only moments into the just a
Speaker 1: tree lighting ceremony. I'm pretty sure this is not the
Speaker 1: perfect time to bring this up. She then led the
Speaker 1: crowd in the Strong Woman's Song, performed along two young
Speaker 1: children and another woman, noting that it felt appropriate since
Speaker 1: we're representing our matriarchs up here.
Speaker 3: You know, I go back and forth between wanting to
Speaker 3: just roll my eyes at that stuff, knock yourself out,
Speaker 3: and you gotta fight it at every turn because it
Speaker 3: might grow right.
Speaker 4: Oh what geez?
Speaker 3: How happy does it make you to not call it
Speaker 3: a Christmas tree and have somebody chanting free Palestine up there?
Speaker 1: Oh? My god? But the fact that not only was
Speaker 1: it okay to not make it about a Christmas tree.
Speaker 1: Nobody uttered the word Christmas, but they did utter Native
Speaker 1: American Heritage Day and Free Palestine.
Speaker 3: Right, Well, that's the whole playing to the minority thing.
Speaker 3: Just what the majority of people are there for? The
Speaker 3: freaking Christmas tree lit up. You can't acknowledge what the
Speaker 3: majority of people like ninety nine percent of the people. Therefore,
Speaker 3: you gotta talk about the other trodden upon people with
Speaker 3: the Free Palestine and Native American miss and whatever.
Speaker 1: In defense of the completely insane and urine stained Rose City,
Speaker 1: they did trot out of Santa Claus who posed with
Speaker 1: families and had a sing long of holiday carols, which included, interestingly,
Speaker 1: angels we have heard on high and be much for
Speaker 1: a secular depth halls. That's fantastic, Free free Palestine. Oh wait,
Speaker 1: how much time I got, Michael?
Speaker 4: If you keep eating like you did, not much.
Speaker 1: Minute thirty here? Okay, that's enough time. Maybe I can
Speaker 1: tell this story then.
Speaker 3: So we're at we stay at Caesar's Palace in Vegas.
Speaker 3: On the drive out there, and they in Caesar's Palace
Speaker 3: they have one of those memorabilia stores, really high end
Speaker 3: memorabilia store, pictures, stuff like that. An Abraham Lincoln's like
Speaker 3: fifty five thousand dollars. Some really cool stuff in there.
Speaker 1: But the number one seller was a picture from Christmas
Speaker 1: Vacation of cousin Eddi standing there with the beer in
Speaker 1: his hand in the row bond saying, esser's full signed
Speaker 1: by Randy Quaid.
Speaker 4: Wow. And it's the number one sellar.
Speaker 1: And it's three thousand dollars but special now half off
Speaker 1: fifteen hundred dollars. And I said to the guy, I said,
Speaker 1: I hope Randy Quid's getting a cut of this. He said, oh,
Speaker 1: he's doing really well on this. So and I thought
Speaker 1: about it.
Speaker 3: If he gets two hundred bucks a signing out of
Speaker 3: the fifteen hundred and signs a thousand in a.
Speaker 1: Day, he made two hundred thousand dollars. Wow, I mean
Speaker 1: that that would add up pretty fast.
Speaker 4: I'm not paying three k for it. I'm not even
Speaker 4: paying fifteen.
Speaker 1: Hundred for it. But that's pretty funny. Oh, it's very
Speaker 1: pretty funny. Their number one seller.
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