Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Arms Strong and Gatty and he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3: For the first time since President Trump ordered a return
Speaker 3: in the naval blockade, US Forces disabled an oil tanker
Speaker 3: trying to run through it to Iran's carg Island, in
Speaker 3: a sign the conflict with Iran has entered a new phase.
Speaker 4: Oh, it definitely has, and we have new information about
Speaker 4: it to discuss from a piece in the Wall Street
Speaker 4: Journal today. But Lucas Tomlinson of Fox goes on an.
Speaker 3: American air campaign against Iran has expanded. US Navy jets
Speaker 3: now launching strikes around the clock, including daylight hours, in
Speaker 3: an effort to bring Iran back to the negotiating table.
Speaker 3: This afternoon, the US Forces hit Greater Two Island outside
Speaker 3: the straight Offoor Moves for the first time. The increased
Speaker 3: volume of air strikes an attempt to clear a path
Speaker 3: through the straight offour moves to increase shipping volume and
Speaker 3: potentially paving the way for US warships to sail through
Speaker 3: something that hasn't happened for two months.
Speaker 4: Okay, a little more from Lucas and then fill in
Speaker 4: some of the gaps here.
Speaker 2: This is a man we are into. We really are
Speaker 2: into a different phase. I think the.
Speaker 3: US naval blockade has now been in effect for more
Speaker 3: than twenty four hours, forcing at least two commercial vessels
Speaker 3: to reverse course. With Iranian ports now closed, US officials
Speaker 3: estimate the return of this economic strangulation will cost Iran
Speaker 3: more than four hundred million dollars per day.
Speaker 4: Okay, good, And hopefully that strangles him, and that that
Speaker 4: seems to me to be pretty much our only hope
Speaker 4: at this point that the regime collapses, that they're closer
Speaker 4: than it looks to collapse and they finally fall apart
Speaker 4: because they've been strangled and.
Speaker 1: Are taken over by more reasonable voices. Well, I don't
Speaker 1: know what would happen when the people rise up.
Speaker 4: No idea what happens once the regime collapses, as we
Speaker 4: saw with the Arab Spring, or throughout all of history.
Speaker 4: You never have any idea what's gonna come. Sometimes it's
Speaker 4: something worse, right, you never know. But back to the
Speaker 4: current situation. So we bombed the crap out Iran yesterday
Speaker 4: for seven hours, took a little break, then came back
Speaker 4: with another ninety minute of bombing and just keep pummeling them.
Speaker 4: But according to the Wall Street Journal, the Pentagon has
Speaker 4: been telling Trump that ain't gonna do it. In terms
Speaker 4: of opening the straight back up, for instance, the President
Speaker 4: could up the ante with This is the Wall Street
Speaker 4: Journal talking to people in the Pentagon and sources close
Speaker 4: to the president. The President could up the ante with
Speaker 4: close escorts of traffic using American warships. Experts estimate it
Speaker 4: could take two ships to escort a single tanker, or
Speaker 4: a dozen for each convoy. Navy officers warn Iranian drones
Speaker 4: and anti ship missiles have the potential to turn the
Speaker 4: area into a killbox for US forces if we try
Speaker 4: to do that, though, he that's with you just run
Speaker 4: ships through there. In terms of taking over the strait,
Speaker 4: like actually taking it over, and they quote somebody saying,
Speaker 4: if we're going to open the strait, we need to
Speaker 4: take this strait. That would be a land invasion. At
Speaker 4: the extreme end of it, Trump has the option of
Speaker 4: a large and costly ground operation to seize the territory
Speaker 4: around the waterway, whose rocky shores present unique challenges that
Speaker 4: would require many thousands of troops in the operation.
Speaker 2: That would likely take many months.
Speaker 4: The paramilitary Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has one hundred and
Speaker 4: ninety thousand troops along with the country's regular army, and
Speaker 4: specializes in fights against better armed foes. A ground operation
Speaker 4: on Iran's coastline would leave us tree extremely vulnerable to
Speaker 4: attacks from the country's rear and would be very difficult.
Speaker 2: This would be like a rack in two thousand and five.
Speaker 4: Sort of battle at that point, many thousands of troops,
Speaker 4: long war, lots of casualties to open up a strait
Speaker 4: that was open before we started. Now you said we got,
Speaker 4: we got. Some people thought we're being too negative on this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, but again I don't They didn't make the
Speaker 1: context declaire.
Speaker 2: What's what's the positive thing on this?
Speaker 4: Give me the most rosy scenario you can come up
Speaker 4: with at this point.
Speaker 2: You know how many.
Speaker 4: Ships went through our route of the strait yesterday after
Speaker 4: Trump declared it open.
Speaker 2: Zero zero ships.
Speaker 4: Zero ships went through the waterway that we have declared
Speaker 4: is open.
Speaker 2: Let me read this very negative.
Speaker 1: It starts with zero and it grows from there. Well,
Speaker 1: let me let me give you the side. I'll quote
Speaker 1: the administration. We've sunk their Navy to the bottom of
Speaker 1: the sea. We've totally decimated their defenses. They got no
Speaker 1: air force, So there you go. Well, they're continuing to
Speaker 1: take pot shots at ships. I shouldn't call them pot
Speaker 1: shots because twelve sailors have been killed or missing so far,
Speaker 1: and ships have stopped going through, So those aren't just
Speaker 1: bot shots.
Speaker 2: They have been very effective shots.
Speaker 4: Tuesday morning, US Forces radio to message to ships gathered
Speaker 4: near the waterway.
Speaker 2: These are the oil tankers that are waiting there, trying
Speaker 2: to figure out can we go through or not? Is
Speaker 2: it open or not? What's going on here?
Speaker 4: US Forces are prepared to maintain freedom of navigation and
Speaker 4: safeguard lawful commerce in accordance with international law. The military
Speaker 4: set over marine radio. According to a recording reviewed by
Speaker 4: The Wall Street Journal, the southern route of the Strait
Speaker 4: remains open. At least one boat responded with f off.
Speaker 4: One sailor is heard responding via the ship's radio, wow,
Speaker 4: and again zero ships went through.
Speaker 1: Tell you what on Captain Joe's ship, I would radio back,
Speaker 1: we would be delighted to be the eleventh ship to
Speaker 1: go through.
Speaker 2: You let me know when the first ten are through. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: no kidding.
Speaker 1: All it takes to close the straight is the threat,
Speaker 1: and the IRGC has gone far beyond that.
Speaker 2: I didn't realize the RAGC.
Speaker 4: Has still has one hundred and ninety thousand troops plus
Speaker 4: the regular army, yeah, plus whoever, what other other.
Speaker 2: Rol militias would join in.
Speaker 4: Nothing would bring them all together, Like you know, ten
Speaker 4: thousand marines on the beach.
Speaker 1: Well, and to send ten thousand would be you know,
Speaker 1: monumentally stupid.
Speaker 2: It would have to be hundreds of thousands.
Speaker 1: You have to apply overwhelming force, or your Vladimir Putin
Speaker 1: just sending your guys to death. We need to sweep
Speaker 1: over them and defeat them so quickly and decisively that
Speaker 1: nobody dares lift up a pea shooter to us.
Speaker 2: That's the only strategy.
Speaker 1: So you're looking at an enormous, enormous you know, not
Speaker 1: quite D Day maybe, but an enormous force.
Speaker 4: One official from the Pentagon told the Wall Street Journal that,
Speaker 4: as I said earlier, at the end of the day,
Speaker 4: if Trump wants to take control of the Straits, he'll
Speaker 4: need to take over the Straits. But he's not going
Speaker 4: to be able to reach that objective with the force
Speaker 4: he has now. So even with all those ships, and
Speaker 4: we keep hearing about we got fifty thousand troops in
Speaker 4: the area. According to this official, that's not even close
Speaker 4: to the amount of manpower you need if you're actually
Speaker 4: going to try to take the strait and force it open.
Speaker 4: There is no scenario where the American public is on
Speaker 4: board with that.
Speaker 1: No, So the only other alternative, I think, realistically, is
Speaker 1: to bring such combination military from above pain and economic
Speaker 1: pain that you remove their will to resist. Given the IRGCS,
Speaker 1: we get all the food and energy first, those poor
Speaker 1: people can starve. We don't care. We'll shoot them. Hell,
Speaker 1: we'll starve them anytime. Given that fact, how much economic
Speaker 1: pain we will have to cause for how long to
Speaker 1: get them to sincerely come to the negotiating table ready
Speaker 1: to submit?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I can't imagine how much it well and literally, I
Speaker 1: can't imagine how much it might be less than I think,
Speaker 1: but it's an open question.
Speaker 2: Nobody knows.
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Speaker 4: All the stuff we just said about the strait and
Speaker 4: the sticky situation where in is all true, but.
Speaker 2: The ultimate point still remains.
Speaker 4: And I wish every Republican that's asked about it on
Speaker 4: a TV show would would say this.
Speaker 2: We'll say to the.
Speaker 4: Christian Walker on Meet the Press or Margaret Brandan on Facination,
Speaker 4: ask them, Are you okay with a Ran having a
Speaker 4: nuclear weapon?
Speaker 2: Mmm?
Speaker 4: Because that's the question, are you okay with Iran having
Speaker 4: a nuclear weapon?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 4: Then what would you I'm going to assume that we're
Speaker 4: in agreement that Iran can't have a nuclear weapon. That
Speaker 4: would probably be the worst day in world history. That
Speaker 4: it's really really bad, and and and it's just it's
Speaker 4: just a no go okay if we're an agreement on that,
Speaker 4: what's your suggestion?
Speaker 1: Nobody, that's what they would say.
Speaker 4: No, no, no, that doesn't work. It had run its
Speaker 4: course already. That's just the damn I don't know, you
Speaker 4: know we have in the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 2: But oh no, I'm not saying that's my point of view.
Speaker 2: That's what Margaret Brennan would say. Then she'd show you
Speaker 2: a little bit of calf hmm.
Speaker 4: Iran can't have a nuclear weapon, period? What are you
Speaker 4: going to do about it? And so I heard somebody
Speaker 4: bringing up the whole war a choice thing. This was
Speaker 4: a war, a choice of war choice. I would like
Speaker 4: this rhetorical conversation to occur where you say, at what point,
Speaker 4: so we're in agreement Iran can't have a nuclear weapon?
Speaker 4: Do you agree they were trying to get a nuclear weapon.
Speaker 4: I think we're all in agreement on that they were
Speaker 4: trying to get a nuclear weapon. How close they were
Speaker 4: you can argue about that, but they were trying to
Speaker 4: get a nuclear weapon. At what point in their process
Speaker 4: of them getting a nuke does it stop being a
Speaker 4: war of choice? You tell me, at what point is
Speaker 4: it no longer a war of choice? Once they've got it,
Speaker 4: when they're an hour away? I mean, when when is
Speaker 4: it no longer a war of choice? Is there such
Speaker 4: a thing? Or is the whole war a choice thing?
Speaker 4: A stupid rhetorical instrument. Well, it's absolutely that. That's some
Speaker 4: good devil's advocating right there.
Speaker 2: I'm glad. I would love to hear something if I
Speaker 2: was on the other side of it. I don't know
Speaker 2: what I would say.
Speaker 4: What are you gonna say to when does it stop
Speaker 4: being a war of choice? If it's a war of choice?
Speaker 4: If we're an agreement that they're trying to get a
Speaker 4: nuke and they can have it.
Speaker 1: Well you get again, though, they would go to their
Speaker 1: fantasy that you can negotiate Iran out of wanting a nuke,
Speaker 1: and you can't bridge that Gulf with them. I mean,
Speaker 1: I would love the exercise because the American people could
Speaker 1: make the judgment themselves, having heard an honest discussion of
Speaker 1: the salient points as opposed to never ending discussion of
Speaker 1: the strait, which is now undeniably a salient point. But
Speaker 1: it's not the original one. But you're never going to
Speaker 1: convince him. So at the beginning to Meet the Press,
Speaker 1: Margaret Brennan has shown in a variety of poses, and
Speaker 1: the final two shots or her in front of Lincoln Memorial.
Speaker 1: The second to last shot is a fairly reasonable one
Speaker 1: of her and her short skirtain well her medium skirt
Speaker 1: in or spike heels. But then the very last shot
Speaker 1: she turns, looks away demurely like turns her thigh towards you.
Speaker 1: Every time I watch it, I think, what what?
Speaker 2: What? What am I about to watch here? Does the
Speaker 2: rest come off? Is she kind of into me? Or what?
Speaker 4: I don't need sex?
Speaker 2: Pot newswomen?
Speaker 1: Of course you know that Fox News the infamous a
Speaker 1: leg chair at Fox News shiny shiny legs.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: To wrap this up, we don't want some hairy legged
Speaker 1: woman telling me the unemployment numbers.
Speaker 4: No way if vice president of the United States. I
Speaker 4: honestly don't know what I would do, Because I would
Speaker 4: do I would expend all political capital to keep Iran
Speaker 4: from getting a nuclear weapon. I don't care if I
Speaker 4: go down in history as whatever. Iran's not getting a
Speaker 4: nuke on my watch.
Speaker 2: But I don't know what I would do at this point.
Speaker 1: Uh, economic pressure and bombings and hope, hope they give in,
Speaker 1: I honestly don't falls or they give in and come
Speaker 1: to the table in a serious way, all right.
Speaker 4: If you have any thoughts text line four one five
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Speaker 5: KFTC got a call about an hour ago from someone
Speaker 5: claiming to be from fraud protection at my bank, and
Speaker 5: they said, listen, we suspect that people are trying to
Speaker 5: illegally withdraw money from your account. And then she said,
Speaker 5: what we need you to do in order to intercept
Speaker 5: these fraudsters is to go it too the bank and
Speaker 5: withdraw everything from your bank account. Take it with you
Speaker 5: so you have it in cash, and that'll trigger the
Speaker 5: fraudsters into action.
Speaker 2: That's how we'll be able to catch them.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 5: The most scary and the dangerous part is that I
Speaker 5: would have been walking around with thousands of dollars in
Speaker 5: cash and then they either rob.
Speaker 2: Your car or they rob you.
Speaker 4: If that guy so I saw that presented the other
Speaker 4: day as this guy, he almost fell for it, and
Speaker 4: you could too, if you almost fell for somebody calling
Speaker 4: me on the phone saying you need to go to
Speaker 4: the bank and take out all your money and meet
Speaker 4: me in the park and carry it around for a while.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Yeah, I've heard of
Speaker 1: better scams than that. I get semi regularly the hey,
Speaker 1: somebody has made a purchase on your credit card. If
Speaker 1: this was not you, please you know, contact us. Here's
Speaker 1: the link. And boy, I'll bet those I'll bet they're
Speaker 1: batting average for that scam is pretty good.
Speaker 4: Well, how about if it's see I click on those,
Speaker 4: If it's I made that purchase at that place yesterday,
Speaker 4: I think there's no way fraudsters know that, do they?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, if it's that specific, that's fine. But often
Speaker 1: it's your Amazon package or oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 4: And it's easy if you're like in a hurry and
Speaker 4: kind of tired or whatever to just oh crap, you know,
Speaker 4: you're expecting something from UPS and it's been.
Speaker 2: Delayed held up at the border whatever.
Speaker 4: Oh crap and then you yeah, right, I haven't, but
Speaker 4: I could see doing it.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah.
Speaker 1: Speaking of spending money in buying dinosaur bones, news Softhebies
Speaker 1: sold a Tyrannosaurus rex fossil for fifty point one million dollars.
Speaker 4: Cool?
Speaker 2: How big? How big was it? As hell?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 2: Let's see full.
Speaker 1: It's a full skelet, practically a full skeleton, twelve and
Speaker 1: a half foot tall t rex.
Speaker 2: See.
Speaker 4: If I was a billionaire, I'd absolutely spend my fifty
Speaker 4: million on having an actual t rex skeleton.
Speaker 2: In my living room.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, if I had billions, I would absolutely
Speaker 1: have spent fifty million dollars on a t rex? Are
Speaker 1: getting every mail in America has the same answer?
Speaker 2: Or versely, all of us.
Speaker 4: We when we were in Santa Fe, there's a great
Speaker 4: fossil store there where you can buy all kinds of stuff,
Speaker 4: and it ranges from a couple hundred dollars to I
Speaker 4: think the most expensive thing he had was like eighty
Speaker 4: grand or something. But man, I was looking at some
Speaker 4: of that stuff, I'm thinking that'd be cool to have. Yeah,
Speaker 4: just tell magnates. Putting the world in perspective and time
Speaker 4: and everything, it's just.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, Plus, it's a giant lizard's bones.
Speaker 2: That's cool.
Speaker 1: One of your big hotel magnates started to in effect
Speaker 1: a fossil museum. And it's in a hotel in Savannah, Georgia.
Speaker 1: I can't remember which, if it's High At or Hilton
Speaker 1: or whatever, one of the Hilton's or one of the
Speaker 1: Super Eights, the Super eight family. Yes, it's quite amazing.
Speaker 1: It does put everything into perspective. But anyway, so fifty
Speaker 1: million dollars topping record set in recent years. The previous
Speaker 1: record holder at forty four point six million dollars, Jack
Speaker 1: had been a stegosaurus herbivore plays a vegan dinosaur A
Speaker 1: dinosaur plays what?
Speaker 2: Sorry? Being a parody? I don't know.
Speaker 1: The record continues a trend of climbing prices for dinosaur bones.
Speaker 2: Oh man, that is so cool. I wish I had
Speaker 2: a t Rex.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's on vacation. I almost bought some pretty expensive
Speaker 4: dinosaur bones.
Speaker 1: What about spending ten thousand dollars for a really good
Speaker 1: replica of one?
Speaker 2: Would you do that the real thing?
Speaker 4: I'd rather have a tiny, little real bone than a
Speaker 4: really big fake one like a t rex.
Speaker 2: Pinky bone. Yeah, little tomb a tooth or something. I
Speaker 2: think it was a tooth. I was actually look at
Speaker 2: him by Huh Armstrong and getty.
Speaker 4: Electric cars did not work out for American auto manufacturers.
Speaker 4: That story among other things on the way, yeah.
Speaker 1: Including it's clear that the Democratic Party has completely lost
Speaker 1: his mind and is in the group in the grips
Speaker 1: of leftist lunatics. And you know who thinks that non
Speaker 1: leftist lunatics who are Democrats? Right, they're getting more and
Speaker 1: more vocal about, hey, we gotta nip this in the bud.
Speaker 2: But you know, day before yesterday.
Speaker 1: Like the Bill Maher crowd right right, and and a
Speaker 1: lot younger sane folks too, I mean they've observed just
Speaker 1: and this is a for instance. Then we'll come back
Speaker 1: to this later, but in like what was this about
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety five, around two thousand, the percentage of Democrats
Speaker 1: that described themselves as very liberal was about twenty four percent.
Speaker 2: It's now sixty percent.
Speaker 1: And the percentage that describes himself as moderate has gone
Speaker 1: from like forty eight percent to thirty two percent. So
Speaker 1: it is just really really swinging left. But again, more
Speaker 1: on that to come. Here's something we're bad at as
Speaker 1: a country, and I am bad at personally following up
Speaker 1: in demanding accountability Bill off stuff. Yeah, my vertical leap.
Speaker 1: My vertical leap is sad, always has been too. I
Speaker 1: remember I remember playing shortstopped in third base in high
Speaker 1: school baseball, and line drive had come my way that
Speaker 1: I had to jump for, and I think, no problem,
Speaker 1: got this, And I would leap up and there would
Speaker 1: be the ball in the outfield and I'd be like,
Speaker 1: what the hell happened? I just had to get like
Speaker 1: six inches in the air. I time I jump. Fine,
Speaker 1: I'm confident out here. I know I couldn't do. I
Speaker 1: realized I can't jump. I have like I should be
Speaker 1: getting government money for white Man's disease because I got
Speaker 1: it bad.
Speaker 2: Anyways, Where was money for lack of hops? I didn't
Speaker 2: realize that. Well, there should be if there was any
Speaker 2: justice anyway.
Speaker 1: One thing we're bad at in this country and I
Speaker 1: am personally is following up and demanding accountability for really
Speaker 1: bad stuff that happened a little while ago. The Jack
Speaker 1: Smith case, the guy who was examining looking at Trump
Speaker 1: and what was he Russian collusion and all?
Speaker 2: What was Jack Smith's purview?
Speaker 1: Is he the uh that's funny, I don't even remember
Speaker 1: that the precise it was investigating Trump and company for something.
Speaker 4: I don't remember which of the many investigations there was, no, Yeah,
Speaker 4: there are second many of them. I'll chat gpt that
Speaker 4: while you're talking.
Speaker 1: Okay, good, But he did some stuff that was incredibly untoward.
Speaker 1: And I found my and you're about to hear about it,
Speaker 1: and I found myself thinking, Yeah, there's more urgent stuff
Speaker 1: to talk about, more exciting stuff to talk about.
Speaker 2: That's how you get corrupt.
Speaker 1: Government if there's no repercussions for this stuff. So in
Speaker 1: that spirit, we give you indictment.
Speaker 2: Oh, do you have it?
Speaker 4: Jack Smith appointed a special council, blah blah blah, the
Speaker 4: twenty twenty election interference, Oh, the January sixth investigation, that's right,
Speaker 4: the Juary right, and also the mar Algo classified documents
Speaker 4: one which right, Trump had less legs to stand on
Speaker 4: in that one.
Speaker 2: Definitely.
Speaker 1: Well before I so rudely interrupted myself, I was going
Speaker 1: to say, we bring you the indictment. The prosecution of
Speaker 1: Jack Smith hit at Michael.
Speaker 6: There were a whole lot of angry lawmakers on Capitol
Speaker 6: Hill today after it was revealed that former special Council.
Speaker 6: Jackson Myth allegedly collected and read the personal text messages
Speaker 6: of more than forty members of Congress, including some Democrats,
Speaker 6: during his probe of President Trump. Now, this revelation coming
Speaker 6: out after the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman says the Justice
Speaker 6: Department turned over the list of names to his office
Speaker 6: on Tuesday, and today he addressed it.
Speaker 2: Jacksmith's operation was a runaway political train that improperly obtained
Speaker 2: congressional information.
Speaker 1: Boy and Chuck Grassley would know a runaway train. Also
Speaker 1: the Johnstown flood in the Civil War. He drove the
Speaker 1: Golden spike so right exactly, back to the back to
Speaker 1: the meat of the matter.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So, not only was this investigatory malfeasans, but an incredible
Speaker 1: incursion by Biden's executive branch into the legislative branch in
Speaker 1: a way that is really unholy. Bill Malugen continues.
Speaker 6: Grassley says that forty four members of Congress had their
Speaker 6: text messages with Trump administration officials in the final weeks
Speaker 6: of his first presidency swept up and analyzed during the
Speaker 6: Arctic Frost investigation, and Republicans on that list are outraged.
Speaker 2: Not to get so outrageous. I mean, at this point,
Speaker 2: I I may as well, just I may as well
Speaker 2: just give all of you my phone. It's disgusting, and
Speaker 2: she shows you exactly what the bid administration was. Well,
Speaker 2: Republicans are outraged.
Speaker 4: Yesterday's reporting was lots of people were outraged because he
Speaker 4: was looking at Karen Bass's private correspondence. I mean, he
Speaker 4: got Democrats too. That's one of the things with these
Speaker 4: special councils is they have so much leeway to spy
Speaker 4: on people. That's how you ended up, and that's how
Speaker 4: it ends up being a fishing expedition. So often, that's
Speaker 4: how you ended up with what's his name back in
Speaker 4: the day with Clinton and the impeachment when it originally
Speaker 4: it was the whole Whitewater land deal, but then he
Speaker 4: came across, you know, emails that involved an affair, so
Speaker 4: we went after that.
Speaker 2: That's what's scary about these things. Yeah, I would agree.
Speaker 1: Forty four members had their text messages swept up nineteen
Speaker 1: forty four by coincidences, eleven years after Chuck Grassley was born.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I just looked it up. Holy callosy old. Anyway.
Speaker 2: Final shot of Bill Malugin on Fox news.
Speaker 6: And some Republicans are now even accusing Jack Smith of
Speaker 6: perjury after he gave this testimony to Congress under oath
Speaker 6: last December. The records that he requested, the records there's
Speaker 6: the Congress include the content of text messages.
Speaker 2: I think he probably ought to be referred for criminal prosecution.
Speaker 2: He lied to Congress about it. Yeah, it's just it's
Speaker 2: it's we can't have this. And then Chuck Grassley yelled,
Speaker 2: remember the main.
Speaker 7: How do we have in a position of leadership, a
Speaker 7: very guy important position of a leadership, A guy who
Speaker 7: is old enough to understand what was happening around him
Speaker 7: during the Great Depression?
Speaker 2: Right, yeah, right, it's what It's crazy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, A young man who grew up being told not
Speaker 1: to make loud noises around World War One vets because
Speaker 1: it was so recent.
Speaker 2: What the hell? Anyway, So I'm losing the thread here.
Speaker 2: I remember the me so I thought it was interesting yesterday.
Speaker 4: I never did read the whole piece about the political
Speaker 4: civil war that's going on in the Democratic Party of
Speaker 4: whether or not impeaching Trump is a good idea or not.
Speaker 4: If they if to me when they take the House
Speaker 4: of Representative, I just assumed, like week one, they're going
Speaker 4: to impeach Trump over something, uh, cryptocurrency or who knows what.
Speaker 4: But apparently a lot of Democrats say, no, no, no,
Speaker 4: that's we're gonna get all bogged down. We're not gonna
Speaker 4: be able to accomplish any of the things we want
Speaker 4: to accomplish, and voters want, you know, affordability or whatever
Speaker 4: things they're voting for us for. We immediately go to
Speaker 4: impeachment and we haven't done any of those things.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, such as afraid, which is a pretty decent point.
Speaker 4: Then you get to the next election, which is a
Speaker 4: presidential election, and all you've done for two years is
Speaker 4: impeached Trump for the third.
Speaker 2: And fourth time.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Meanwhile, even the Wall Street journal is pointing out the
Speaker 1: billions of dollars Trump and his family are making from
Speaker 1: him being in the presidency.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, there's some grist for the mill there. I
Speaker 2: don't know, though. Here's an interesting about this.
Speaker 4: Hardly anybody hates Trump more than the Dispatch as a
Speaker 4: news outlet. They did an entire podcast last week while
Speaker 4: you were on vacation about all this different stuff.
Speaker 2: They didn't come up with anything illegal. It's all looks bad.
Speaker 2: You shouldn't do it. I'm no president has done it before,
Speaker 2: but they haven't come up with anything it's illegal. And
Speaker 2: that's the Dispatch who hates him.
Speaker 4: If they could, they would, They're like, yeah, I'm not
Speaker 4: sure he did anything that he shouldn't have done. If
Speaker 4: people want to invest in a meme coin, which is
Speaker 4: kind of ridiculous on its face because Trump's name is
Speaker 4: on it, and go for it.
Speaker 2: If you want to sell crappy watches.
Speaker 1: That's not against the law, right, right, It is untoward,
Speaker 1: but not illegal. Well, and I totally get the Democrats
Speaker 1: point about that they will be so easily branded as
Speaker 1: the party of nothing but investigations and impeachment. They're right,
Speaker 1: speaking of the Democrats war with themselves. Got some more
Speaker 1: interesting statistics and opinions for you coming up in a
Speaker 1: couple of minutes, including that fake doctor in Michigan who's
Speaker 1: running for the US Senate.
Speaker 2: He said novout Islamist, Oh yeah, yes, absolutely, and is Lomist.
Speaker 4: Well, he is the person we played the had the
Speaker 4: clips of this when he was in the debate against
Speaker 4: the normal Democrat.
Speaker 2: Who he might be. He doesn't believe Israel should exist,
Speaker 2: and that's what he said on a.
Speaker 4: Debate stage and not like, you know, kind of getting
Speaker 4: around it from a weird angle and you kind of
Speaker 4: figure out what he needs to No, he states out loud,
Speaker 4: Israel should not exist. I believe in one state Palestine.
Speaker 4: That's what he's running on. And he might become a
Speaker 4: US senator. Yea, how crazy is that?
Speaker 8: Dad?
Speaker 1: Big supporter of terrorists too? Absolutely documented?
Speaker 2: Wow, Yeah, I want to hear more about that. Stay tune.
Speaker 9: That series says, Messy drive again, stop pitch time Godina.
Speaker 4: So I was just reading one soccer writer saying that
Speaker 4: assist from MESSI should be in a museum with its
Speaker 4: own mistplay.
Speaker 2: Right right, with like three dimensional graphics and the rest
Speaker 2: of it.
Speaker 6: You see.
Speaker 4: I love when they give different angles. So you know,
Speaker 4: there's the angle you got watching on TV. But some
Speaker 4: of the Twitter stuff, people in the stands or whatever,
Speaker 4: it's just freaking unbelievable.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was an amazing game and Argentinea is incredible
Speaker 1: and I'm rooting hard for him. If you didn't hear
Speaker 1: us talking about this earlier, it is almost like.
Speaker 2: Hokey.
Speaker 1: How perfect a metaphor that game was for the respective
Speaker 1: countries Argentina, which is just thrown off socialism and embraced
Speaker 1: the free market, and Javier Mile is achieving amazing things
Speaker 1: for the Argentine people.
Speaker 2: Is dynamic, creative, never say Die.
Speaker 1: And then the Brits, who have thrown all of that
Speaker 1: away in favor of a socialist dystopia and politically correct
Speaker 1: free speech nightmare got ahead, won nothing, just went into
Speaker 1: like this socialist.
Speaker 2: Fetal position and didn't explore anymore.
Speaker 1: They didn't create anymore, They didn't take chances, they didn't
Speaker 1: have fun. They just thought we just got to keep
Speaker 1: what we got and hand it out equally to everybody.
Speaker 2: And they got their ass whooped. They retired at age fifty.
Speaker 1: If you will, I will so anyway, I happen to
Speaker 1: be sitting in an establishment and some of my friends
Speaker 1: came in and were discussing the game, and two or
Speaker 1: three of the four said, yeah, the game's just so boring.
Speaker 1: Soccer's so boring. And I wasn't gonna bother then. But
Speaker 1: I went home and watched the second half of England Argentina,
Speaker 1: and I actually tried this for five minutes. I explained
Speaker 1: what they were doing. Allowed I was alone, that's not
Speaker 1: crazy at all. Well, no, I was just because I
Speaker 1: would if they walk up in the room get a net.
Speaker 9: No.
Speaker 1: It's a beautiful, full, exciting sport if you understand it.
Speaker 1: And I found myself thinking about I happen to know
Speaker 1: that at least one of the couples, actually both of
Speaker 1: the couples are huge football fans. If you don't understand football,
Speaker 1: gaining four yards on your first down, play on your
Speaker 1: own twenty five is boring.
Speaker 2: Who cares? Oh, football fan cares, because.
Speaker 1: Getting four yards on the first down, it's a pretty
Speaker 1: good start opens up a number of options for second down.
Speaker 1: This will be I wonder if it'll go with the
Speaker 1: runner of the pass, blah blah blah. And soccer is
Speaker 1: the same way if you have it explained to you.
Speaker 1: All right, here's what they're trying to do. Look how
Speaker 1: they're forming that triangle. He's going to go back to
Speaker 1: that guy because they're trying to free up that guy.
Speaker 1: Look they went to them. They're trying to set up
Speaker 1: a cross from that. Once you know what they're doing
Speaker 1: and see them doing it, why do they go backwards
Speaker 1: so much? It's because the defense was controlling the movement
Speaker 1: of the ball. They had to regroup, so the offense
Speaker 1: the attack was controlling the movement of the ball.
Speaker 2: Understand that stuff. It's fun.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I mentioned the other day that I feel
Speaker 4: like the announcers did a good job of dumbing it
Speaker 4: down enough that I finally understood some of us some
Speaker 4: of it, which made it more exciting. Like in the NBA,
Speaker 4: I get double and triple teams. I had never really
Speaker 4: noticed that in soccer, but they showed how some of
Speaker 4: the star players, like Messi does this all the time.
Speaker 4: He can get three guys on him because he's so good,
Speaker 4: and then all of a sudden, they got that many
Speaker 4: fewer dudes out there to you know, defend anybody else.
Speaker 4: He draws three people over to him and then he
Speaker 4: kicks it over their head.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and sometimes they've got a guy practically in his
Speaker 1: shirt the entire game, which would drive you insane.
Speaker 2: Dude, the ball's way over there. Can you give me
Speaker 2: a little personal space? Anyway? This is not really sports.
Speaker 2: The I fell for this.
Speaker 4: The Buffalo Bills have just released their new logo for
Speaker 4: the upcoming season. Okay, teams do this all the time,
Speaker 4: change their logos and gear and stuff like this to
Speaker 4: sell more stuff. It's their usual helmet. But the buffalo
Speaker 4: has got the old man flying in the air.
Speaker 2: In front of it. That is funny. That is I mean,
Speaker 2: my son and I were talking about this.
Speaker 4: It looks like a I it's like a cartoon, the
Speaker 4: way the old guy goes up in the air and like.
Speaker 2: Flips over kind of slowly. It really it looks like
Speaker 2: it has to be fake, but it's it's real.
Speaker 8: I go fast, I go buffer right, buff of grass
Speaker 8: in the buffer smoke. I've got buffer bars, I've got
Speaker 8: buffer flow. I'm a buffer star. I'm a buffer buffo buffo.
Speaker 2: Ah right, ah right. So that's a meme of some sort.
Speaker 2: Is that correct? Apparently? Ma may some people pronounce it
Speaker 2: while they should stop.
Speaker 4: Uh, you're going to talk about that guy running for
Speaker 4: the Senate in Michigan as a Islamo fascist communist.
Speaker 1: Yes, we have islamiunists running for and winning office, Mamdani,
Speaker 1: handful of congressional would be, well, they'll probably win because
Speaker 1: they're in a heavily democratic district, and we'll bring you
Speaker 1: some of the particular So also the panic, it's been
Speaker 1: fairly quiet so far. It was like a lot of
Speaker 1: the establishment Republicans hated the Tea Party movement, which has
Speaker 1: been brutally mischaracterized and continues to be still. But it
Speaker 1: was fairly quiet because you don't want to be ripping
Speaker 1: in your own party. Well, there is frantic concern on
Speaker 1: the left about the far left, so we'll combine those
Speaker 1: two things for a bit of analysis. Also, we ought
Speaker 1: to take a look at this beautiful flower of Canadian womanhood.
Speaker 1: This crazy biachu slapped down a teenager at the Jersey
Speaker 1: Shore for wearing Trump gear.
Speaker 4: She and her husband are kooks. No, I mean like
Speaker 4: satanic pervo kooks. You assaulted someone because they're wearing the
Speaker 4: other team's political gear. Yeah, that makes you crazy on
Speaker 4: its face.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it absolutely does.
Speaker 4: Speaking of politics, let me shoehorn this in here. I've
Speaker 4: got so notes still about the two hundred and fiftieth
Speaker 4: anniversary of this country that I never got to I
Speaker 4: took so much stuff.
Speaker 2: So good. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Anyway, We've talked about this before, but it's amazing every
Speaker 4: time I come across it. On the fourth of July
Speaker 4: seventeen seventy six, the age of our founding fathers, TJ
Speaker 4: was thirty three when he wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Speaker 4: Alexander Hamilton was twenty one years old. Wow, we're a child.
Speaker 2: Does your mom know you're trying to overthrow a country? Oh?
Speaker 2: James Madison was twenty five. James Madison was twenty five
Speaker 2: years old.
Speaker 1: G money.
Speaker 4: John Adams was the old guy. If you watch the
Speaker 4: mini series, which is fantastic, he was all of forty.
Speaker 4: George Washington was forty four, John Hancock thirty nine, Patrick
Speaker 4: Henry forty, Thomas Payne thirty nine.
Speaker 2: These were a lot of young men. Ben Franklin, no.
Speaker 1: Wonder they respected Washington so much. Holy cow forty six.
Speaker 4: Here's my favorite line from the John Adams series that
Speaker 4: I'd forgotten from Benjamin Franklin. I believe in moderation, and
Speaker 4: I think any man who doesn't believe in my moderation
Speaker 4: ought to be castrated.
Speaker 2: Barbaric, hilarious, the great Ben Franklin. That's right.
Speaker 4: We've got a lot more in an hour four. If
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