Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Jetty and no he Armstrong and Jetty.
Speaker 3: In Seattle, this chilling message appeared briefly on a road
Speaker 3: sign threatening other CEOs the city, blaming a private construction contractor.
Speaker 3: At the University of Pennsylvania, where Menhioni graduated with engineering degrees,
Speaker 3: an assistant professor appeared to praise the CEO's murder in
Speaker 3: this TikTok video, saying she's never been prouder to be
Speaker 3: a professor there, later saying she was regretful and doesn't
Speaker 3: condone violence.
Speaker 2: Yeah, except you just did publicly, Yeah, proudly and cheerfully. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I was reading the column in the New York Posts
Speaker 4: from David hers Sonny's seems to be an actual debate
Speaker 4: going on in the progressive left over whether slaying CEOs
Speaker 4: is a bad thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, And you see those posters going up in
Speaker 2: New York essentially urging people to hunt down other CEOs
Speaker 2: with their pictures and stuff like that. I guarantee there
Speaker 2: is a ninety nine point six percent overlap between the
Speaker 2: people putting up those posters and people tearing down posters
Speaker 2: of Israeli hostages being held by Hamas. Sure that same
Speaker 2: angry radical left nihilist, over educated moron class that's screwing
Speaker 2: up so much about what is good in this country.
Speaker 2: More on that attitude in a minute. Had a weird thing,
Speaker 2: interesting thing happened on news Nation yesterday. A reporter facilitating
Speaker 2: communication between prisoners were the murder scumbags being held and
Speaker 2: the report, well, let's listen to it.
Speaker 5: Let me tell them a question, Alex, hold on, let
Speaker 5: me yell a question, guys, if you can hear me clearly,
Speaker 5: do you guys have any sights on Luigi MANGIONI just
Speaker 5: yell yes or no.
Speaker 2: I don't know if they're answering. They're flickering up.
Speaker 6: They're saying no, okay, so they're actually watching her on
Speaker 6: TV in the prison, and then it's it's a little
Speaker 6: delayed from before it gets to her, and then they no,
Speaker 6: we can't see him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, do you have a follow up? Wait? Wait, wait, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's that's kind of funny. I I almost want to
Speaker 2: hear more of that. What else? What else did she ask?
Speaker 4: I know a lot of you are in the News Nation.
Speaker 4: I have too many friends who are like avid watchers
Speaker 4: of News Nation. I've got to get on board and
Speaker 4: start recordings some of their shows on a regular basis
Speaker 4: like I do every other cable cham.
Speaker 2: I'm behind the curve on that. Yeah, I know a
Speaker 2: lot of you that you are that I am. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: more sources is good if you have the time. We
Speaker 2: played this yesterday.
Speaker 4: But to bring back up the conversation, this is Bill Burr,
Speaker 4: comedian who i'm I'm a big fan of his comedy act.
Speaker 4: This particular attitude he has would destroy the country.
Speaker 2: So that's a problem.
Speaker 7: You know what's annoying me about this, This kid who
Speaker 7: killed this CEO is none of these news programs are
Speaker 7: talking about the incredible lack of empathy from the general
Speaker 7: public about this because of how these insurance companies treat
Speaker 7: people when they are at their most vulnerable, after we've
Speaker 7: all given them our money every month and now we
Speaker 7: finally need you, and all you do is deny us,
Speaker 7: and then these and all of these things are taking
Speaker 7: the pictures of their CEOs off their websites. You know,
Speaker 7: I gotta be honest with you, Okay, I love that
Speaker 7: the CEOs are afraid right now, you should be, by
Speaker 7: and large, You're all a bunch of selfish, greedy pieces,
Speaker 7: and a lot of you are mass murderers. You just
Speaker 7: don't pull the trigger.
Speaker 2: See a lot of.
Speaker 4: Those things in what he said there are true or
Speaker 4: can be true, but don't have any connection to so
Speaker 4: you can scare or or or violently attack or murder CEOs.
Speaker 2: Right, are a.
Speaker 4: Lot of companies greedy and sometimes CEOs are greedy and amoral? Yeah, sure,
Speaker 4: I'm sure that happens in all kinds of industries. But
Speaker 4: what's that got to do with. You can either murder
Speaker 4: them in the street or have them be afraid to
Speaker 4: do their jobs the way they want because you will.
Speaker 2: Hurt them or murder them. Play this through.
Speaker 4: I realize you're an artist, Bill Burr, but anybody who
Speaker 4: has this mindset play this out for me. How would
Speaker 4: this work? How would society be structured? If mob violence
Speaker 4: is the way people approach their job every day? Is
Speaker 4: the mob going to kill me or my family today?
Speaker 4: Are they happy with this move?
Speaker 2: I can do it? Okay, I mean, how would this work? Well?
Speaker 2: I think Bill Burt would answer you in his charming
Speaker 2: Boston accent and explain to you that, well, companies would
Speaker 2: reform and behave more responsibly so they aren't gone down
Speaker 2: on the pavement by self righteous little rich boys.
Speaker 4: Okay, well, I would say to Bill Burr, I wish
Speaker 4: I could have this conversation with him, because's pretty smart guy,
Speaker 4: and I'd love to talk to him because I'm a fan.
Speaker 4: But hey, Bill Burr, you are a very edgy comedian
Speaker 4: and you make jokes about trans people and all kinds
Speaker 4: of different sort of stuff. So what if the trans
Speaker 4: community decided your causing harm in their community, and so
Speaker 4: they threaten you physically to come around to their thinking,
Speaker 4: or they're going to hurt you or shoot you in
Speaker 4: the street. Then how do you where do you draw
Speaker 4: the line on these things?
Speaker 2: Well, I'm not as bad as a healthcare ceo. They
Speaker 2: murder tens of thousands of people. Yeah, well, the trans
Speaker 2: folks are gonna say, yeah, you caused thousands of duds,
Speaker 2: You've made the world unsaved, blah blah blah. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 2: you're obviously right. It's it's worth kicking Elizabeth Warren one
Speaker 2: more time, At least briefly. Charlie Cook was writing about
Speaker 2: this review A beer that's my favorite I'm gonna have
Speaker 2: me a beer. You gotta throw in that. Look how
Speaker 2: normal I and down to earth I am. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: have me a beer. Well, Harford academic has never uttered
Speaker 2: in her life firewater indeed anyway, So she was one
Speaker 2: of those people. Violence is never the answer, but people
Speaker 2: can only be pushed so far. Then she explains why
Speaker 2: it was justified to gun this poor son of a
Speaker 2: gun down on the pavement, as Charlie Cook mentions. But
Speaker 2: then he reminds us all. Oh. First of all, he
Speaker 2: compares her to John Fetterman, who said, of the shooter,
Speaker 2: he's the a hole. It's gonna die in prison. And
Speaker 2: about anybody celebrating online, Fetterman said, a sore is going
Speaker 2: to soar. That's what social media is about. I don't
Speaker 2: know why the media wants to turn this into a story.
Speaker 2: These trolls saying these kinds of things anonymously. But of
Speaker 2: course these trolls anonymously include your fellow Senator Elizabeth Warren,
Speaker 2: who is saying it publicly. But Fetterman went on, remember
Speaker 2: he had two children that are going to grow up
Speaker 2: without their father. It's vile. And if you've gunned someone
Speaker 2: down that you don't happen to agree with their views
Speaker 2: or the business they're in. Hey, you know, I'm next,
Speaker 2: They're next, He's next, She's next, And as Charlie Cook writes,
Speaker 2: Americans seeking good examples should resolve to be a fetterman
Speaker 2: rather than a Warren. But then he points out that
Speaker 2: she her cabal. You know, like in the NFL, they
Speaker 2: have coaching trees, a bunch of the assistant coaches of
Speaker 2: a Bill Belichick become head coaches and their assistant coaches,
Speaker 2: and because they influence each other and they end up being,
Speaker 2: you know, just the source of great coaches. Elizabeth Warren,
Speaker 2: her cabal became the Biden administration and pushed him way
Speaker 2: to the left. She was also the person that pushed
Speaker 2: Kamala Harris way way to the left. In twenty nineteen,
Speaker 2: during the campaign, she of her skinny old Northeastern woman academic,
Speaker 2: you know image. She's she is unbelievably effective radical leftist
Speaker 2: who has really screwed up the Democratic Party right.
Speaker 4: So she went on the warpath against anybody who didn't
Speaker 4: agree with her and sent up smoke signals to let
Speaker 4: them know, Hey, if you get on the wrong side
Speaker 4: of me.
Speaker 2: Right, and well played there. I don't think I didn't
Speaker 2: notice that. I appreciate I appreciate you completely ignoring it.
Speaker 2: Final note from Charlie Cook. She pushed everybody way left.
Speaker 2: It should have been obvious that Warren was a crank
Speaker 2: when she started tweeting out sentiments such as and this
Speaker 2: is a quote, black, trans and CIS women, gender, nonconformed
Speaker 2: and non binary people are the backbone of our democracy.
Speaker 4: Wow, she speak with FOURK tongue, but it was not clear.
Speaker 2: If it was not clear, then the consequences of her
Speaker 2: influence have now made the indictment clear. Of Warren is
Speaker 2: a disaster for her party, a disaster for America, and
Speaker 2: a disaster for the basic human decency that we are
Speaker 2: entitled to expect from our politicians. No ifs or butts
Speaker 2: apply a reference to her, well you shouldn't kill people,
Speaker 2: but he had it coming speech. Yeah. So, the good
Speaker 2: folks at Reason dot com with a great, great piece
Speaker 2: entitled the people Cheering Brian Thompson's murder can't have the
Speaker 2: medical utopia that they want, whether private or public. Third
Speaker 2: party payment for healthcare is a huge problem, and this
Speaker 2: dovetails beautifully with what Craig the healthcare Guru was saying
Speaker 2: on the show yesterday and if you didn't listen to it,
Speaker 2: grab the podcast, maybe it was our three Yeah, uh,
Speaker 2: yesterday's Armstrong Getty show Armstrong and Getty on demand. Instead
Speaker 2: of rushing through this like a maniac when we you know,
Speaker 2: take a break and come back to it. But the
Speaker 2: realities of you know, third party payment screw everything up,
Speaker 2: and we shall explain.
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Speaker 4: Oh, drones have been spotted in Germany now similar to
Speaker 4: the ones in New Jersey and across the country. All right,
Speaker 4: we'll have the update on the whole drone story also
Speaker 4: this hour's of Stay Tuned arm Strong.
Speaker 2: I hope people fully.
Speaker 4: Recognize this is a funny thing to say over the
Speaker 4: beach boys singing at Christmas song.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 2: I hope people fully realize.
Speaker 4: What a dangerous philosophy is going on here with the
Speaker 4: whole I'm glad the CEO got gunned down thing. This
Speaker 4: is not just your normal left right back and forth,
Speaker 4: look how bad the others. This is the sort of
Speaker 4: thing that catches on in societies and is very hard
Speaker 4: to stop once it gets going.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, absolutely true. And it's also undeniable that if
Speaker 2: somebody on the right says we need to target this district,
Speaker 2: you're accused of fulling violence. Right. But if you say
Speaker 2: we ought to gun down these mother blankers and then
Speaker 2: they get gunned down, left says what me? Who may?
Speaker 2: But having said that, it's interesting that eighty one percent
Speaker 2: of people with private and health insurance are happy with
Speaker 2: their insurance in America. Now, granted, when you do need it,
Speaker 2: and there's that push and pull of no, you can't
Speaker 2: have this test done, or you got to ask him
Speaker 2: twice or whatever. That's a really uncomfortable thing and it
Speaker 2: makes people mad. But and maybe it could be done better.
Speaker 2: We're not on the take from United Healthcare or anybody
Speaker 2: else around here. We're just trying to get to the
Speaker 2: bottom of it.
Speaker 4: But would you answer that question yes or no? Are
Speaker 4: you happy with your health insurance? I'm a no, I
Speaker 4: am Actually I was happier before Obamacare, when before more
Speaker 4: deductibles became whatever they are, four thousand dollars for my family.
Speaker 2: It's insane. Yeah, in general, I am. But you know,
Speaker 2: I've been reasonably healthy too, which is, you know, kind
Speaker 2: of an indictment right there. I suppose to. He's going
Speaker 2: to be, you know, work on being more grateful.
Speaker 4: I went through cancer and it got mostly paid for,
Speaker 4: and that could have not happened, I suppose. Yeah.
Speaker 2: It reminds me of you know, people who trust the
Speaker 2: government to do all things well and good. Those are
Speaker 2: people who never deal with the government. Anybody who's ever
Speaker 2: spent a minute at a zoning office or whatever, it
Speaker 2: doesn't feel that way anyway. The folks at Reason dot
Speaker 2: com with a great, great piece. JD. Tussil wrote it,
Speaker 2: I hope I'm saying his name right, but evoking a
Speaker 2: collective scream of despair from socialists and anti corporate types.
Speaker 2: Police in Pennsylvania arrested Luigi Mandi and menu we know
Speaker 2: who he is, Thompson. They insist the murder victim stood
Speaker 2: in the way of the sort of healthcare that they
Speaker 2: think they deserve, and shooting him down on the street
Speaker 2: was some sort of bloody minded strike for justice. The
Speaker 2: assassin's fans and the legal system has yet to convict
Speaker 2: anybody fur the crime are moral degenerates. But they're also
Speaker 2: dreaming if they think insurance executives like Thompson or all
Speaker 2: that stands between them and they are visions of a
Speaker 2: single pair medical system that satisfies every desire. While there
Speaker 2: is a lot wrong with the main way healthcare is
Speaker 2: paid for and delivered in the US, what the haters
Speaker 2: want is probably not achievable, and the means many of
Speaker 2: them prefer would make things worse. There's an old joke
Speaker 2: among health policy wonks according from a Cato Institute. According
Speaker 2: to a Cato Institute guy from twenty seventeen, what the
Speaker 2: American people really want from healthcare reform is unlimited care
Speaker 2: from the doctor of their choice, with no way free
Speaker 2: of charge. Correct. The problem, no matter how healthcare is
Speaker 2: delivered is that it requires labor, time, and resources that
Speaker 2: are available in finite supply. Somebody must decide how to
Speaker 2: allocate medications, treatments, physicians, and hospital beds, and how to
Speaker 2: pay for at all. And a common assumption in some
Speaker 2: circles is that Americans ration medicine by price, handing an
Speaker 2: advantage to the wealthy and sticking it to the poor.
Speaker 2: Of course, and they quote Vox. Of course, the alternatives,
Speaker 2: supposedly is one where healthcare is universal, with bills paid
Speaker 2: by government, so everyone has access to care, except most
Speaker 2: Americans rely on somebody else to pay the bulk of
Speaker 2: their medical bills, just like Canadians, Germans and Britons. And
Speaker 2: while there are huge differences among the systems presented as
Speaker 2: alternatives to what we do in the US, third party payers,
Speaker 2: whether government or insurance companies, do enormous damage to the
Speaker 2: provision of healthcare. This is something Craig the healthcare Guru,
Speaker 2: and I have also been saying for the longest time.
Speaker 2: When you establish a giant, profitable middleman to get between
Speaker 2: me and my doctor, that's not going to serve me.
Speaker 2: It complicates things, It clouds things. They write. Contrary to
Speaker 2: conventional wisdom, health insurance, private or otherwise does not make
Speaker 2: health care affordable. Right Roade an expert back in twenty thirteen,
Speaker 2: the third party payment system is the principal force behind
Speaker 2: healthcare price inflation in the US. The dominance a third
Speaker 2: party payment, whether United Healthcare or others, or Medicare or
Speaker 2: Medicaid or something else, makes it difficult to know the
Speaker 2: price for procedures medicines and treatments, because there really isn't
Speaker 2: one price when third party payers are involved, it's all
Speaker 2: the subject of giant, complex negotiations. You pay three hundred dollars,
Speaker 2: I pay fifteen hundred dollars, and I'm.
Speaker 4: In the room next to you, right, Or when the truble,
Speaker 4: when I was going to pay cash for a scan
Speaker 4: that wasn't going to be covered by insurance years ago,
Speaker 4: shopped around. The price was so different depending on where
Speaker 4: he was, Like, why if I drive twenty miles.
Speaker 2: Over here, I say four hundred dollars? Why? And again,
Speaker 2: different kinds of people pay wildly different prices at the
Speaker 2: same facility on the same day, right, which is insane.
Speaker 2: I'd love to drill down on that a little more,
Speaker 2: but we don't have on a time I wanted to
Speaker 2: get to this part. When government lawyers are third party
Speaker 2: assurances responsible for paying the bills, consumers have no incentive
Speaker 2: to control costs. After all, the premiums already paid, right,
Speaker 2: or the tax is already paid, right, So why do
Speaker 2: I care if it's bloated or inflating or whatever. And
Speaker 2: then they get into quite appropriately, how government run health
Speaker 2: care systems have these problems and more because instead of profit,
Speaker 2: you have taxes being taken from people run through the
Speaker 2: bureaucracy then paying for the doctors and nurses and medicines
Speaker 2: and stuff like that. So it's really scarce and it's
Speaker 2: rationed by time. It takes twenty eight weeks in Canada
Speaker 2: between your referral to a specialist and when you get
Speaker 2: to see them. Oh my god, would you like me
Speaker 2: to do that math for you. I'll give you a
Speaker 2: hunt a hint. Six months would be twenty four weeks
Speaker 2: and it takes twenty eight weeks. Wow. Yeah, Wow. Rationing
Speaker 2: happens everywhere. Man, There's more to be said on this,
Speaker 2: and that is pretty interesting. Hey, we're being invaded by drones.
Speaker 2: Is everybody aware of that? Yeah, being invaded by drunes
Speaker 2: by the.
Speaker 1: Hype, the Armstrong and getty.
Speaker 2: We should be doing some very virgin intelligence analysis and
Speaker 2: take them out of the GUIs, especially if they're flying
Speaker 2: over airports or military basis. Shouould be shot down if necessary.
Speaker 4: That Senator Richard Blumenthal, so not a US House member, senator,
Speaker 4: is a bigger deal and a respected senator at least
Speaker 4: by the media saying we should shoot down the mysterious
Speaker 4: drones and nobody's able to identify yet. Now, yesterday we
Speaker 4: had the congress person from New Jersey saying there was
Speaker 4: an Iranian mothership off shore and all that kind of
Speaker 4: crazy talk, and nobody has any idea what that guy's
Speaker 4: talking about.
Speaker 2: You'd think Blumenthal, with his access to.
Speaker 9: It.
Speaker 2: It's not classified information, but lots of information, would know
Speaker 2: whether it's necessary to shoot them down or not. Based
Speaker 2: at this point.
Speaker 4: I would think he'd have access either direct like give
Speaker 4: me the file, or know who to talk to, yeah,
Speaker 4: to any information? Or are we actually that completely ignorant
Speaker 4: of what the heck is going on? So here's a
Speaker 4: different congress person, also from New Jersey. I haven't heard
Speaker 4: this one yet.
Speaker 10: I understand why so many in our community in our
Speaker 10: state are concerned when you hear reports of drones flying
Speaker 10: above us or see activity yourself, and federal agencies responsible
Speaker 10: for controlling the airspace don't properly and quickly brief the public.
Speaker 10: I want you to know that, based on the information
Speaker 10: the briefings that I've received to date, I'm not concerned
Speaker 10: about any imminent threats to public safety or our national
Speaker 10: security regarding these drones. But and I've made this very
Speaker 10: clear to the FBI, the Homeland Security in the FAA,
Speaker 10: the agency is chiefly responsible for monitoring drowne activity. They
Speaker 10: must immediately disclose more information to the public. It's totally
Speaker 10: completely unacceptable that you have all this drone activity going
Speaker 10: on that people are sitting with their own eyes. And
Speaker 10: even if it's not all drone activity, and some of
Speaker 10: it is manned aircraft, there appears to be plenty of
Speaker 10: drone activity that people are seeing their own eyves. The
Speaker 10: fact that the federal agency is responsible for briefing the
Speaker 10: public have not come forward in a clear way is unacceptable.
Speaker 2: He needs to wake up, Pink. He's ignoring the Iranian mothership.
Speaker 2: But yeah, here's the mothership, dude, Well here's the real deal, Harris.
Speaker 9: You know, I'm also on the Transportation Committee, on the
Speaker 9: Aviation Subcommittee, and I've gotten to know people and from
Speaker 9: very high sources, very qualified sources, very responsible sources.
Speaker 2: I'm going to tell you the real deal.
Speaker 9: Iran launched a mothership probably about a month ago that
Speaker 9: contains these drones.
Speaker 2: That mothership is off. I'm gonna tell you the deal.
Speaker 2: It's off.
Speaker 9: The he's to the United States of America. They've launched
Speaker 9: thrones is everything that we can see over here, and
Speaker 9: the gun These are from high sources.
Speaker 2: I don't say this lightly. Yeah, they're high.
Speaker 4: All right, Well that's interesting, So Hanson's sake, whichever, those
Speaker 4: are two different districts in New Jersey.
Speaker 2: I want to know the media and IQ of each
Speaker 2: of those two districts, because the one guy certainly seemed
Speaker 2: like an upgrade over that guy.
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, so Hanson, our executive producer. Hanson's take on
Speaker 4: the other guy was he knows what they are and
Speaker 4: isn't worried about them, but he can't say and he's
Speaker 4: his message is, Hey, the people who have are the
Speaker 4: clearance to say need to say what these things are?
Speaker 2: Ah? Yeah, is that the way you took it? Yeah? Yeah, Well,
Speaker 2: and you've got to combine all of that with the
Speaker 2: fact that now oldership Hank, everybody who sees anything larger
Speaker 2: than a sparrow in the sky is saying, look, it's
Speaker 2: one of those drones. You know, if it's some kid hobbyist,
Speaker 2: or it's it's the regularly scheduled flight from lax to
Speaker 2: Las Vegas or whatever. Everybody's now it's it's like you said,
Speaker 2: it's like the Salem witch hunt. Everybody's seeing witches in
Speaker 2: the woods, which is a witch. Yeah, drones have been
Speaker 2: spotted in Germany now, so it had spread across whist
Speaker 2: they have. It'd been spotted spread across the United States yesterday,
Speaker 2: and now they's been spotted in Germany now, no new Germany, Michael.
Speaker 2: They've been spotted at your local hobby store too. What
Speaker 2: do you want me to do?
Speaker 4: I spotted them over a new house that's having an
Speaker 4: open house on Saturday.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no kidding. So yeah, it's become silly and confusing,
Speaker 2: and there still might be something menacing going on. Witness
Speaker 2: the Chinese freaking spy balloon or all of the software
Speaker 2: sleeping in all of our systems right now planted by
Speaker 2: the Chai cooms and all the spies in America. You're
Speaker 2: not Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not after you. Well, okay,
Speaker 2: play play fifty. This is John Kirby.
Speaker 4: I mean he's as high up a spokesman that anybody
Speaker 4: trusts as you can get in the White House.
Speaker 11: Using very sophisticated electronic detection technologies provided by federal authorities,
Speaker 11: we have not been able to and neither have state
Speaker 11: or local law enforcement of authorities corroborate any of the
Speaker 11: reported visual sightings.
Speaker 4: So is he saying there aren't a videotape on the news?
Speaker 4: So is he saying there aren't any drones? I mean
Speaker 4: that it's all made up. Maybe we should hear the
Speaker 4: rest of us roll on.
Speaker 2: We're concerned about it too.
Speaker 11: We are still investigating this.
Speaker 2: I can't tell you definitively.
Speaker 11: I cannot characterize for you definitively what these sightings are.
Speaker 11: I can just go back to what I said at
Speaker 11: the opening.
Speaker 2: We've looked at the imagery.
Speaker 11: We can't corroborate some of the reported sightings through our
Speaker 11: own expert analysis using sophisticated detection techniques. But that doesn't
Speaker 11: mean that, you know, we're putting our pen down here
Speaker 11: this afternoon and calling in a day. We have no
Speaker 11: evidence at this time that the reported drone sightings pose
Speaker 11: a national security or a public safety threat.
Speaker 2: See.
Speaker 4: That's the thing that has been driving me crazy for
Speaker 4: several days, is the constant we don't know what these are.
Speaker 4: They aren't a threat. Those two sentences can't go together, right, right,
Speaker 4: That doesn't make any sense. You know what the perfect
Speaker 4: storm that I just realize it is occurring. The public
Speaker 4: is going to demand something be done. We're only like
Speaker 4: ten days away. The United States Air Force is going
Speaker 4: to shoot down Santa Oh lord, that's what's going to
Speaker 4: end up happening.
Speaker 2: That's the worst possible outcome. It's among them me reindeer
Speaker 2: meat everywhere.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, toys scattered across the countryside.
Speaker 2: Oh no, you wanted sometwn We shut some down. You're happy? Yeah,
Speaker 2: it was, well, that was you know what. Honestly, you
Speaker 2: remember after the whole Chinese spy balloon nightmare, and they did.
Speaker 2: Biden is shockingly the Mummy in his administration didn't react
Speaker 2: at all. Then, as it became clear how horrifying that was,
Speaker 2: they shot down every kid's birthday balloon in America for
Speaker 2: about a week, just so they look strong and decisive.
Speaker 2: I forgot about that. So yeah, you keep.
Speaker 4: That in your the back of your mind while you're
Speaker 4: listening to all this. The US government at the highest
Speaker 4: level is capable of incredible flailing. I mean that was flailing,
Speaker 4: Like I'm in charge. You let the one thing go
Speaker 4: clear gouns the country. Then you started shooting down gender
Speaker 4: revealed balloons.
Speaker 2: Depression weather Boy Scout packs doing an experiment for their
Speaker 2: Eagle Scout Badge Bully. There goes the balloon.
Speaker 4: Stupid though, Santa gonna be blasted out of a sky
Speaker 4: by an ICBM if you.
Speaker 2: Heard it here first. That's a lot of ordinance for
Speaker 2: one obese gentleman and a sleigh guided by diminutive reindeer.
Speaker 2: Why are they tiny reindeer in the popular conception of
Speaker 2: Santa Claus because they would have to be fairly small
Speaker 2: to fit on most roofs.
Speaker 4: You're gonna make Tim the lawyer call in. This is
Speaker 4: one of his things.
Speaker 2: Oh no, is it? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Really, the invention of the whole Santa sleigh reindeer thing
Speaker 4: came from I believe Coca Cola, and Tim is big
Speaker 4: on this. But they were, as it says in the
Speaker 4: songs eight Tiny Reindeer. Everything was miniature, but somehow got
Speaker 4: blown up over time to like regular size. And that
Speaker 4: really bothers him that the origin story has been lost. Yeah,
Speaker 4: because in all of your movies you got full size reindeer,
Speaker 4: like the size of a horse up on your roof, right,
Speaker 4: and that's full sized sleigh and all that sort of thing.
Speaker 2: So was the sleigh tiny as well as the reindeer,
Speaker 2: because I'm familiar with the reference to eight tiny reindeer,
Speaker 2: but nobody references the size of the sleigh. And I
Speaker 2: don't need all of specs. I'm not, you know, that
Speaker 2: serious about it. You know, my kids are and Santa's
Speaker 2: normal size, right or is No, He's a jolly little elf.
Speaker 4: My kids are past the age now of the of this.
Speaker 4: And on one hand, you know the magic has gone
Speaker 4: of just that whole thing. When Santa is full on
Speaker 4: real and the wonder and everything. It's just it's nothing
Speaker 4: could be more fantastic. As a child or a parent,
Speaker 4: It's a hell of a lot easier this way, much easier.
Speaker 2: We had so many wonderful traditions with the kids. I mean,
Speaker 2: just I'll tear up thinking about it, but I mean
Speaker 2: it was the It was the stockings and we would
Speaker 2: put out reindeer foods Santa's reindeer and they would eat it.
Speaker 2: Then he would leave candy in their their shoes, I mean,
Speaker 2: because they would read about various cultures at school or
Speaker 2: be told about him and their Christmas celebrations, and they'd say,
Speaker 2: we should put our shoes out. What am I gonna
Speaker 2: say no, put your damn shoes back in the closet.
Speaker 2: That's fun to American Santa doesn't mess with people's shoes.
Speaker 2: He messes with their.
Speaker 4: Socks if they're hung by a fireplace for some reason,
Speaker 4: hanging with careless, slovenly, hanging, zero presence.
Speaker 2: So anyway, Yeah, there would be shoes to fill, and
Speaker 2: the reindeer food would be put out, and that was
Speaker 2: oatmeal and glitter. And then two continue the the the
Speaker 2: loving idea that indeed the reindeer had been there consuming
Speaker 2: the reindear food, somebody would have to clean it up
Speaker 2: well by eating it, that's right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah I did that. I'd almost forgotten many times.
Speaker 4: It just helped got to eat part of the cookie.
Speaker 4: Oh that Yeah, of course Grant was here. Nature cookie.
Speaker 4: That stuff is awesome, But like I said, it's not
Speaker 4: as wonderful now, but it's certainly easier. What is that
Speaker 4: thing you wanted? Okay, I got it at the store.
Speaker 4: It'll be under the tree considerably less magic.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's cute if your kid is five, but if
Speaker 2: he's seventeen, it's not cute. No eh. Yeah, the UK
Speaker 2: that the other day has postponed indefinitely hormone treatments for
Speaker 2: momentarily confused adolescents. The National Health Authority just backtracked and
Speaker 2: said no, trans women cannot breastfeed. After all, it's a
Speaker 2: bad idea. The quote unquote milk is not comparable to
Speaker 2: a woman's real breast milk. Yeah, as the comment went
Speaker 2: to the story, I'm absolutely shocked that men can't breastfeed.
Speaker 2: This is real breaking news, shocking stuff. You how did
Speaker 2: we get swept away by such madness? Well, and it's
Speaker 2: continuing in a lot of quarters.
Speaker 4: But man, I got If you're taking so many drugs
Speaker 4: that you start to leak out your male nipples and
Speaker 4: then you're trying to feed an infant with that, you
Speaker 4: are crazy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, agreed, Yeah, yeah, Wow. Super human elves delivering packages
Speaker 2: worldwide at speeds that defy Einstein's series is reasonable compared
Speaker 2: to that. You're right, You're right? Yeah?
Speaker 8: Uh?
Speaker 2: Any comment on any of this?
Speaker 4: Our text line four one five KFTCARTROI on.
Speaker 1: The eve of his ninety ninth birthday, beloved actor Dick
Speaker 1: Van Dyke now sharing the harrowing moment he narrowly evacuated
Speaker 1: this week's wildfire in Malibu.
Speaker 8: I forgot how old I am, and I realized I
Speaker 8: was crawling to get out anyway.
Speaker 1: Twenty something appear as the wind driven Franklin fire came
Speaker 1: down the canyon behind his home.
Speaker 8: I have a fire hose the hooks up to my pool.
Speaker 1: Van Dyke tried to douse the house, but it proved
Speaker 1: too much.
Speaker 2: I thought, my god, I'm not going to make it
Speaker 2: out of here. Because I was trying to crawl to
Speaker 2: the car.
Speaker 8: I had exhausted my I couldn't get a Three neighbors
Speaker 8: came and carried me out and came back and put
Speaker 8: a little fire in the guest house and saved me
Speaker 8: than gone for them.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 4: Dick Van Dyke ninety nine today, ninety nine years old today.
Speaker 2: Happy birthday. Dick hooked up.
Speaker 4: A fire hose to his pool and was trying to
Speaker 4: spray off the house himself. Exhausted himself so much. I
Speaker 4: get so tired at my I'm half his age. Uh
Speaker 4: to uh do things like that. I can't imagine being
Speaker 4: ninety nine.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Wow, sounds great.
Speaker 4: Yeah, man, genetics and lifestyle. I don't know how much
Speaker 4: of it is which, but who Yeah.
Speaker 2: I got some doctor friends who Well, genetics, you've.
Speaker 4: Got to have because my dad has it. I mean,
Speaker 4: my dad absolutely has like the Dick Van Dyke genetics.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you can ruin your genetic advantage with your life, sure, absolutely,
Speaker 2: but you cannot cancel your genetic disadvantage with a great
Speaker 2: life style. He might be able to, you know, help,
Speaker 2: there's certainly no reason not to be healthy. But you
Speaker 2: know what I'm driving at all.
Speaker 4: Those times he tripped over the ottoman and didn't break
Speaker 4: a hip or anything.
Speaker 2: What a talented dude, Oh my gosh, and a good
Speaker 2: man too by all accounts.
Speaker 4: I was referring to the opening of the Dick Van
Speaker 4: Dyke Show, which was in black and white. That's how
Speaker 4: old that show is. And so his heyday was what
Speaker 4: nineteen sixty is that when he was like at the
Speaker 4: beak of his popularity long before we were born.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, ish, I mean he continued to be a
Speaker 2: loved figure in movie Oh yeah, yeah, that sort of thing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, he was old when he was in those
Speaker 4: Disney movies when I was a kid, though middle aged certainly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, though he could hoof it like a kid.
Speaker 4: Elon tweets about Doge a lot the Department of Government
Speaker 4: Efficiency because he's going to be the guy running it
Speaker 4: with Vivik Ramaswani. He tweets out various programs that are
Speaker 4: wasting money or statistics. He comes acro it's really interesting.
Speaker 4: If you don't follow what you should, you should be
Speaker 4: on Twitter and you should follow us. But Peter Thiel,
Speaker 4: one of his buddies from the old PayPal mafia, they
Speaker 4: all became super rich out of inventing PayPal and all
Speaker 4: what they're separate ways and did different great things, got
Speaker 4: retweeted by Elon today Peter Thiel saying, the strong consensus
Speaker 4: view in the DC establishment is that this is going
Speaker 4: to go nowhere, that it's just absolutely impossible to fix things,
Speaker 4: and this is going to be a very frustrating dead end.
Speaker 4: The alternate view, I would say is you should never
Speaker 4: bet against Elon. We all know there's an extraordinary amount
Speaker 4: of waste and it's unsustainable. The six percent GDP deficits
Speaker 4: the US has cannot be sustained. They probably can't even
Speaker 4: be sustained for the rest of this decade, let alone longer.
Speaker 4: See that's the thing, there is a math equation involved
Speaker 4: in here. I'm frustrated that even some of my favorite
Speaker 4: pundits are going with he's nibbling around the edges. It
Speaker 4: won't make a difference. Ah, how about directionally we do something?
Speaker 4: What is your answer?
Speaker 2: Nothing? Do nothing? And let's direct people's gaze at the
Speaker 2: growing impossibility of dealing with this enormous debt. Right, no kidding,
Speaker 2: thing has to be done. Now. There are giant, powerful,
Speaker 2: vested interests who want nothing to be done, and they'll
Speaker 2: be fighting this tooth and nail. But again, let's lay
Speaker 2: the spot or shine the spotlight on them.
Speaker 4: As amazing as Elan is with all the different things
Speaker 4: that he's accomplished, making electric cars even possibly viable, or
Speaker 4: space stuff or whatever, he's up against the most immovable
Speaker 4: object in the history of a movable objects, the United
Speaker 4: States federal bureaucracy. So I don't like his chances, but
Speaker 4: I'm all for trying in any even incremental accomplishment I
Speaker 4: feel like is good.
Speaker 2: Well, right, yeah, I would agree just in dollars and cents,
Speaker 2: You're one hundred percent right. But I think there's an
Speaker 2: even greater significance to the what would you call it,
Speaker 2: flushing them out of the underbrush and letting DC show
Speaker 2: its true colors, make them fight you on making legitimate cuts,
Speaker 2: get awareness going among the American people. Let's talk about
Speaker 2: how much we all owe per person. Let's talk about
Speaker 2: public employee unions. Let's talk about the fact that FDR
Speaker 2: thought they were a terrible idea, just unworkable, and now
Speaker 2: Trump's new Secretary of Labor is staunchly in favor of
Speaker 2: public employee unions. What the hell is going on there? Anyway,
Speaker 2: It's worth a fight by absolutely worth it.
Speaker 4: Or talk about how no government or society has ever
Speaker 4: survived this sort of excess spending. Ever it always ends
Speaker 4: the same way. Yeah, Yeah, it's not a mystery. What's
Speaker 4: going to happen?
Speaker 2: No, We're gonna be already spending as much on interest
Speaker 2: as we are in defense.
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