Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Ketty arm Strong
Speaker 1: and Katty I know he Armstrong and Eddy. Donald J.
Speaker 2: Trump of the state of Florida has received three hundred
Speaker 2: and twelve votes.
Speaker 1: Kamala D.
Speaker 3: Harris, that's got a thing. She's like, I can hear you. God,
Speaker 3: it's like attending your own funeral, and even the mourners
Speaker 3: are like.
Speaker 4: I thought she handled that really well and did the
Speaker 4: right thing all the way around on that. And I
Speaker 4: don't know if she had because I've read a lot
Speaker 4: of books about presidential campaigns, and one of the consistent
Speaker 4: things was just how devastating, emotionally devastating it is to
Speaker 4: fully commit to trying to be president of the United States,
Speaker 4: thinking you're going to be president of the United States
Speaker 4: and then losing, and just all kinds of different examples.
Speaker 4: I mean, it sends people into a spiral and sometimes
Speaker 4: they never get out of It's just such a personal rejection.
Speaker 4: It's the biggest job in the history of the world,
Speaker 4: and you almost had.
Speaker 1: It, and you did.
Speaker 4: I don't know if she's got that going. I don't
Speaker 4: know if she ever, like fully bought into the fact
Speaker 4: that she should or could be president in the way
Speaker 4: that John Carrey did or you know other people that
Speaker 4: have lost throughout history kick in the gut.
Speaker 1: Well, I think she has two things going for protecting
Speaker 1: your ego wise and we all do this when we fail.
Speaker 1: Number One, she has some great excuses about the rant
Speaker 1: and Biden staying into long and blah blah blah. And
Speaker 1: number two, she's a freaking moron, and so she processes
Speaker 1: this sort of stuff like a golden retriever. So I
Speaker 1: think she'll be fine.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's something I've read about Mett Romney, Bob Dole,
Speaker 4: I mentioned John Kerry, just all kinds of people throughout history.
Speaker 1: It just Al Gore plays a very very bright guy.
Speaker 1: This is not about Democrats. This is about one individual moron.
Speaker 4: So anyway, that had to be something to read those words.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, Donald Trump got three hundred, however many votes
Speaker 4: Kamala D Harris California got two hundred. Sum the winner
Speaker 4: and next president is Donald Trump. Yeah, that had to
Speaker 4: be emotionally, I can't imagine what that felt like in
Speaker 4: her head.
Speaker 1: As I've mentioned many times through the years, and I've
Speaker 1: looked to find this pack past and I can't, at
Speaker 1: least I haven't so far. Where H. L. Menkin talks
Speaker 1: about how unsuccessful presidential candidates should be hurled from the
Speaker 1: top of the Washington Monument because otherwise they haunt the
Speaker 1: land like a vengeful ghost, full of bitterness. And some
Speaker 1: don't obviously, but like Biden right now having been shoved aside,
Speaker 1: so he couldn't even be beaten. He's on the bitterness parade.
Speaker 1: That's why he's snapping at reporters about it. I know
Speaker 1: Marl Garner were all later that that's terrible. Al Gore
Speaker 1: took that bitterness and disappointment, I believe, and said, you
Speaker 1: know what, f you America, I'm going to sell you
Speaker 1: on this climate hoax and become a billionaire. And so
Speaker 1: he turned his again. He's a very very bright guy.
Speaker 1: He turned his bitterness into financial gain.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and Jimmy Carter, who lost he you know, he's
Speaker 4: a very very Christian dude, and you know, really turned
Speaker 4: it toward like individual helping the poor, and I think
Speaker 4: he is perfectly fine in that way.
Speaker 1: Yeah. He meddled in foreign policy in ways that if
Speaker 1: you read about it and think about it, were absolutely unacceptable.
Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, I think he was trying to be
Speaker 1: a good man.
Speaker 4: So I've got a like, what do they call it
Speaker 4: a counterfactual or alternative history or something questioning for you,
Speaker 4: But it involves Trump. But let's hear from Trump. He
Speaker 4: just he's in the midst of he's still doing a
Speaker 4: news conference. I don't know how that differs from a
Speaker 4: press conference. But he has set a couple of interesting things.
Speaker 4: Let's play a couple of clips.
Speaker 2: We did a great job, and we're going to do
Speaker 2: an even better Jeb because now we have a tremendous
Speaker 2: amount of experience.
Speaker 1: We have people that I.
Speaker 2: Can rely on. But the six hundred and twenty five
Speaker 2: million acres people can't realize.
Speaker 1: It's like the whole ocean.
Speaker 2: Take an acre, you know, an acre. You have a
Speaker 2: house on a half an acre or a quarter of
Speaker 2: an acre or an acre. If you have a an acre,
Speaker 2: you have a big deal. Now you multiply that by
Speaker 2: six hundred and twenty five million acres, This like feels
Speaker 2: like the whole ocean. And that's our strength. You know,
Speaker 2: people can say we manufactured. We don't manufacture the thing
Speaker 2: we have. We have oil and gas more than anybody
Speaker 2: in the world.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have more of it too.
Speaker 4: So that's him responding to Joe Biden yesterday. We should
Speaker 4: have set this up this way that Joe Biden has said.
Speaker 4: He listed that giant chunk of land as no go
Speaker 4: for drilling, and Trump said we'll all end that day one.
Speaker 4: There is some question, I guess as to whether Trump
Speaker 4: can undo it that easily. Why Joe Biden, days before
Speaker 4: he's out of office, is making these sorts of moves.
Speaker 4: I mean, if that was important to him, he had
Speaker 4: four years to do it, why is he doing it now?
Speaker 1: Just getting anything Toney can before he leaves the shop.
Speaker 4: But but if it was important, like if it was
Speaker 4: part of his agenda, and I think it probably is,
Speaker 4: because he's part of the whole. We're gonna make gas
Speaker 4: so expensive that you'll drive an electric car. Crowd, Uh,
Speaker 4: that's their goal. They want to force they want to
Speaker 4: they want to force you into electric vehicles and make
Speaker 4: it impossible to have fossil fuels work the way they've
Speaker 4: worked over the last you know, century and a half.
Speaker 1: But why didn't he do it before? I think because
Speaker 1: he knows how unpopular it is and how it's cow
Speaker 1: tewing to a particular narrow constituency. But he will pay
Speaker 1: no price for it. I mean, he's done one of them.
Speaker 1: He's going out the door. If he'd done it six
Speaker 1: months ago and then tried to get something else passed. Oh,
Speaker 1: I see, the Republicans would do it, take their their
Speaker 1: holy vengeance.
Speaker 4: Based on the way he sounded yesterday, I think he's
Speaker 4: about to be done with a capital D, like like
Speaker 4: really don't yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, can you get bets on that? I realize
Speaker 1: it's Tad McCom one more Trump clip.
Speaker 2: They brought this moron out of the Hague. He's a
Speaker 2: mean guy. He's a mean, nasty guy. His picture was
Speaker 2: perfect because you look at his picture, you say, that's
Speaker 2: a bad guy with his robe, his pope purple robe,
Speaker 2: and he executes people. He shouldn't be allowed to execute
Speaker 2: people because he'll execute everybody. He's a nutsyet. But we
Speaker 2: want all of those cases with him. And I mean,
Speaker 2: I don't know the judge in Florida, but we had
Speaker 2: a brilliant judge in Florida that's aw right through it,
Speaker 2: and we won the case. She was brilliant judge with
Speaker 2: great courage.
Speaker 1: I have no idea what he was talking about there, Well,
Speaker 1: I have no idea what he was talking about either.
Speaker 1: We need help with this.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, that was a little benefit since I have
Speaker 4: no context. I had one more thing out, some.
Speaker 1: Purple robed executor of people from league.
Speaker 4: That's what I gathered. So I was walking around Washington,
Speaker 4: d C. Where I was a week ago, and we
Speaker 4: were there over Chris Or New Year's Eve, and I was.
Speaker 1: Walking around Washington, d C.
Speaker 4: And I just kept thinking, I can't believe Trump's going
Speaker 4: to be president again. I just sometimes it just strikes
Speaker 4: me anew like this is wild, that this is happening.
Speaker 4: That's how Britt Hume and Fox yesterday with the certification
Speaker 4: going on, saying, this is the most surprising political story
Speaker 4: of my entire life.
Speaker 1: In Britt human is old.
Speaker 4: It's one of the most surprising stories in the history
Speaker 4: of our nation by far, the comeback of Donald Trump.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's just it's incredible. Some of it speaks
Speaker 4: to Donald Trump's amazing talents and policy decisions. Some of
Speaker 4: it speaks to just how awful the Democratic Party and
Speaker 4: Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were.
Speaker 1: Both aggressively incompetent Yeah.
Speaker 4: Both of those things had to come together to pull
Speaker 4: off this amazing upset. But here's my counterfactual that I
Speaker 4: wonder about. If Donald Trump had lost like you're supposed to,
Speaker 4: like most people lose in twenty twenty, and you know,
Speaker 4: did basically what Kamala Harris did yesterday, you know, just
Speaker 4: accepted it and you know, we'll get him next time
Speaker 4: and then run again. Yeah, the same way he did.
Speaker 4: He has still been able to get the same sort
Speaker 4: of momentum and all that sort of stuff. And when
Speaker 4: or did the did the the riot and the coverage
Speaker 4: of it and the did that did that ultimately help him?
Speaker 4: I don't think so. No, you don't think so. Well,
Speaker 4: But whether it helped him or he would.
Speaker 1: Have No, I don't think I don't think it helped him,
Speaker 1: but and not directly anyway. But here's the where it
Speaker 1: gets really interesting in this exchange. This exchange could easily
Speaker 1: turn into a book January sixth, which was disgusting, The
Speaker 1: violent cores was disgusting and un American people who wandered
Speaker 1: through the Capitol and got over prosecuted. That's disgusting and
Speaker 1: an American too. Both can be true. Anyway, it led
Speaker 1: to so much overreach and madness, the law fair, the
Speaker 1: early you know, ridiculous charges against Trump, and that negativity
Speaker 1: definitely fueled Trump's support. Oh no, because it's funny. I
Speaker 1: thought at first you were gonna say, if January sixth,
Speaker 1: Trump had said, well, there's some hankiness and we're gonna
Speaker 1: look into it, but peaceful transfer power is important, and
Speaker 1: so you know, he won fair or he won and
Speaker 1: I'll take that fine, and everything else had stayed the same,
Speaker 1: I think he would have won, you know, forty two states, really,
Speaker 1: because even though he won, there are plenty of people
Speaker 1: who remember the the wrongs and the excesses of his
Speaker 1: time and power, including January sixth. But I'm not confident because,
Speaker 1: like I said, the left took the energy of that
Speaker 1: admittedly awful day and went nuts.
Speaker 4: Right right, which is what pushed someone like me into
Speaker 4: the oh screw you with these very various cases that
Speaker 4: are ridiculous, not the documents one, but the other ones,
Speaker 4: right right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, and I might be the perfect example of
Speaker 1: a person who was extremely Trump skeptical, particularly after January sixth,
Speaker 1: but seeing what the left was doing and how they
Speaker 1: were doing it and how brutal it was an Unamerican
Speaker 1: and perverse and unconstitutional and the rest of it. I thought, No,
Speaker 1: we got to get you guys out of power. And
Speaker 1: Trump does need to drain the swamp, and you know,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure how well he can do at it,
Speaker 1: but he's going to give it a try.
Speaker 4: Yeah, somewhere that happened in a parallel universe. I did
Speaker 4: a lot of reading about parallel universes on the plane today.
Speaker 1: Oh, here's where I get a headache.
Speaker 4: And I'll talk about that at some point. There are
Speaker 4: a lot of your leading physicists, astronomer type people.
Speaker 1: I mean, not whack jobs.
Speaker 4: These are prominent people who absolutely believe in the multi
Speaker 4: verse parallel universe thing, just because of the way infinity works.
Speaker 1: It's fascinating. Yeah, I don't know. I'm not saying that's
Speaker 1: wrong because I don't know. I'm just telling you I
Speaker 1: never get anywhere thinking about these big questions. I just
Speaker 1: end up thinking, Hell, I'll never know, and the dog
Speaker 1: needs to be walked.
Speaker 4: There could be a mathematically you can't argue against this.
Speaker 4: There's a universe somewhere, yes, with a planet like Earth
Speaker 4: and a person exactly like you, who's living, who's lived
Speaker 4: every single moment of their life up till now exactly
Speaker 4: like here is, except you get disgusted and leave the
Speaker 4: studio and quit. But here you're going to continue, and
Speaker 4: that's where your path diverges, or at any other point
Speaker 4: throughout your life.
Speaker 1: Well, I would tell Joe on Plutron six, dude, you're
Speaker 1: gonna get a better job than this. You go on
Speaker 1: the hallway event and then go back to work.
Speaker 4: You're gonna argue with the you and apparently that's a
Speaker 4: good one.
Speaker 1: We got more in the way.
Speaker 4: Say here, I won't make this long. The multiple universe
Speaker 4: theory is this, there are infinite number of stars and
Speaker 4: planets out there. Your life happened the way it's happened
Speaker 4: up to this second once. Just mathematically, if you have
Speaker 4: an infinite number of earths and this has happened once,
Speaker 4: it will happen again.
Speaker 1: There's just no getting around that. Again. I love this
Speaker 1: sort of thinking, but I'm not good at it. And
Speaker 1: I mean, do you also believe that an infinite infinite
Speaker 1: number of monkeys typing on an infinite number of we'll
Speaker 1: say keyboards because typewriters are out of date, will eventually
Speaker 1: produce the works of William Shakespeare. I shows that too
Speaker 1: big a number in terms of likelihood.
Speaker 4: I don't think you can rule it out. If you
Speaker 4: have an infinite number of planets with monkeys on them,
Speaker 4: sitting at typewriters.
Speaker 1: Right, can you imagine the crap the problem of disposing
Speaker 1: of their feces? Well up, and I think, because you've
Speaker 1: got infinite monkey feces.
Speaker 4: I thought when you said the word crap, you meant poor, uh,
Speaker 4: poorly written plays.
Speaker 1: Oh, poor attempts to write Shakespeare. I meant literally the feces.
Speaker 4: So all but that one where they get it correct.
Speaker 4: There's a whole bunch of really low level didactic, repetitive
Speaker 4: but you know, just not very good Shakespeare.
Speaker 1: Well, and imagine you've got your infinite number of monkeys
Speaker 1: typing away on their infinite typewriters, and they get to
Speaker 1: the end of Henry the Fifth or whatever Shakespeare's last
Speaker 1: work was, and there's like a comma out of place
Speaker 1: in the last sentence. You would go insane, you would
Speaker 1: kill yourself.
Speaker 4: It was the match tech Mas the Monkey Master. If
Speaker 4: you're into that sort of stuff. Max Tegmark, who is
Speaker 4: a very highly respected thinker, writes, I've read several of
Speaker 4: his books about AI and this sort of stuff. He
Speaker 4: and a lot of his colleagues believe in this because
Speaker 4: you just can't. There's no mathematic way to prove it
Speaker 4: not true. But I also find it fascinating that nobody
Speaker 4: has any idea why the big bangs happened, how it happened,
Speaker 4: what came before. There's no answer to this stuff even now.
Speaker 4: I find fascinating. Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely so.
Speaker 1: Yep, I would agree now those of us who exist
Speaker 1: on Earth and not in Jack's dream world with infinite
Speaker 1: monkeys and the rest of it. Here's some news of
Speaker 1: note to you. Unemployed office workers are having a harder
Speaker 1: time finding jobs. It's at the highest level of people
Speaker 1: who've been looking for at least six months for several years.
Speaker 1: It's increased by more than fifty percent since the end
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty two, so white collar jobs. The hiring
Speaker 1: is definitely slowed, and people are looking for a longer
Speaker 1: and longer time for work. I find that interesting, partly
Speaker 1: on a purely human level. I've been out of work.
Speaker 1: It's no fun. And also because and this happens so
Speaker 1: often with presidential administrations, trends and sign waves and well,
Speaker 1: trends that you can do really nothing about are very
Speaker 1: little about as the chief executive. Those waves crash out
Speaker 1: of the shore when you're in the office and you
Speaker 1: just have to deal with them, and you get more
Speaker 1: credit and or more blame than you deserve. But given
Speaker 1: the state of the economy right now and the just
Speaker 1: the angst over interest rates and the continuing inflation, it's
Speaker 1: it's possible that things could go a little sideways during
Speaker 1: Trump's watch.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and he'll get the blame for it, whether it's
Speaker 4: his fault or not. We also have I got in
Speaker 4: this conversation with some of my nieces about college and
Speaker 4: college education and the value of it and whether you
Speaker 4: know there's a ton of people out there with college
Speaker 4: degrees and really no skills to go with those college degrees. Yes,
Speaker 4: that's its own problem.
Speaker 1: They got the paper and little else. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Trump just said something very interesting about Canada becoming the
Speaker 4: fifty first state.
Speaker 1: He's actually going to be the president.
Speaker 4: So hey, arstrong and getty, Hi is back, ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 4: Donald Trump, because he's uh got certified yesterday. I mean
Speaker 4: he was gonna be president anyway. A bunch of limp
Speaker 4: wristed progressive thing going to storm the Capitol and stop
Speaker 4: that from happening. Oh, it is inappropriate, That's highly inappropriate.
Speaker 4: But so Trump, who's the opposite of Kamala Harris when
Speaker 4: it comes to media exposure and taking questions. I mean,
Speaker 4: you know she never did ever and doomed her. He
Speaker 4: will stand up there and talk for hours, day after
Speaker 4: day after day, far after he should have stopped on
Speaker 4: any topic. We're gonna play a clip for you in
Speaker 4: a second that might be the news making clip of
Speaker 4: the day. But he did just a little bit ago
Speaker 4: say if Canada can't support themselves financially, they should become
Speaker 4: the fifty first state, which he's been joking for a while.
Speaker 4: Some people are saying that had something to do with
Speaker 4: driving Trudeau from office, just because it was so embarrassing
Speaker 4: for Canada for the new president of the United States
Speaker 4: to be calling him Governor Trudeau and talking about Canada
Speaker 4: being the fifty first state, and just his approval rating
Speaker 4: was low already and it went like into single digits
Speaker 4: after that.
Speaker 1: Well, and because he lacks testicles, Trudeau, he didn't respond
Speaker 1: to that in a manful, right patriotic way.
Speaker 4: He just took it, Yeah, exactly exactly. You need to
Speaker 4: stand up for yourself. But he Van Jones pointed out
Speaker 4: on CNN, I thought this was a good point. If
Speaker 4: you're thinking that would be cool. Canada would be a
Speaker 4: very blue state and the size of California roughly, so
Speaker 4: that's a lot of electoral votes that would be voting
Speaker 4: Democrat for years to come.
Speaker 1: So got to divide that puppy up into several states.
Speaker 1: We could jerrymander that, you know, the liberals over here
Speaker 1: of the moose over there. Give me a minute, let
Speaker 1: me think about it.
Speaker 4: So in this one, Trump's talking about the Panama Canal
Speaker 4: and goulf of Mexico and Greenland in a variety of things.
Speaker 4: I think anyway, here's Trump.
Speaker 2: Mexico's really in trouble, a lot of trouble, very dangerous place,
Speaker 2: and we're going to be announcing at a future date
Speaker 2: pretty soon we're going to change because we do most
Speaker 2: of the work there and it's ours we're going to
Speaker 2: be changed. You're sort of the opposite of Biden, where
Speaker 2: he's closing everything up, essentially getting rid of fifty to
Speaker 2: sixty trillion dollars worth of assets. We're going to be
Speaker 2: changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the
Speaker 2: Gulf of America, which has a beautiful ring that covers
Speaker 2: a lot of territory.
Speaker 1: The Gulf of America.
Speaker 2: What a beautiful name, and it's appropriate.
Speaker 1: It's appropriate.
Speaker 2: And Mexico has to stop allowing millions of people to
Speaker 2: pour into our country.
Speaker 1: They can stop them. And we're gonna put.
Speaker 2: Very serious tariffs on Mexico and Canada because Canada. They
Speaker 2: come through Canada too, and the drugs that are coming
Speaker 2: through are at record numbers.
Speaker 4: Okay, so now that is interesting, but of minor importance.
Speaker 4: Apparently drump also said it's possible we're gonna send the
Speaker 4: military to Greenland and the Panama Canal.
Speaker 1: Is that? Do I read this right? The Associated Press
Speaker 1: headline that I just saw We're gonna send them military
Speaker 1: to Greenland? I'd have to hear more about it.
Speaker 4: Did you hear about the Had you hear while we're
Speaker 4: on the break any of the talk of us taking
Speaker 4: the Panama Canal?
Speaker 1: I did, yeah, yeah, yeah, what's interesting? And this, you know,
Speaker 1: this deserves a good long historical context. The discussion with
Speaker 1: maybe a historian. We had control of Panama Canal, having
Speaker 1: built it until Jimmy freakin Carter with his lefty.
Speaker 4: We are the world.
Speaker 1: Give Hong Kong back to the Chinese. I'm sure there'll
Speaker 1: be nice fellas about it. Divested it essentially. Now, I
Speaker 1: understand it was a chunk of a sovereign country right
Speaker 1: in the middle of it, but it was ours, and
Speaker 1: I realized, I understand how fraught that is. I'm not
Speaker 1: a fool, but well, I'm also not mocking what I
Speaker 1: just said about what Trump said, because I know that
Speaker 1: I'm just going at the headline from the Associated Press,
Speaker 1: and I know that often the mainstream media version of
Speaker 1: what Trump said is presented as laughable and ridiculous, and
Speaker 1: then when you look into it, it's not.
Speaker 4: Laughable and ridiculous. That's happened a thousand times since Trump
Speaker 4: came on the scene.
Speaker 1: So I need to know more about this before I
Speaker 1: have an opinion.
Speaker 4: But the thing we just heard, why do we call
Speaker 4: it the Gulf of Mexico.
Speaker 1: I've pulled up the map and I'm looking at it,
Speaker 1: and in terms of and you know, granted, we're the
Speaker 1: most powerful country on earth. So if we wanted reading
Speaker 1: the Indian Ocean the American Ocean, I suppose nobody would
Speaker 1: stop us. But if one were to go with a
Speaker 1: more objective standard, I'm looking at the coastlines, and I
Speaker 1: would say we have at least as much coastline defining
Speaker 1: the Gulf of Mexico as Mexico does. And we're the
Speaker 1: United States of America.
Speaker 4: So I don't know much about who names chunks of
Speaker 4: ocean and who enforces it. Is there an official like
Speaker 4: the Does Mexico call it the Gulf of Mexico? Does
Speaker 4: Russia call it the Gulf of Mexico.
Speaker 1: I don't have the slightest idea I would assume so
Speaker 1: I would think so it's universal on maps. But you know,
Speaker 1: if I walked around calling it the Gulf of Joe
Speaker 1: and then when people looked at me with confused expressions,
Speaker 1: I explained it that it's not like there's a sanction. Now,
Speaker 1: did you get fined? They's on your taxes at the
Speaker 1: end of the year. Yeah, so all right, the Gulf
Speaker 1: of America. I have no problem with that. That doesn't
Speaker 1: seem crazy to me. Yeah, huh, I know. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure how much difference it'll make. I think it's a
Speaker 1: it's a guy who likes having his name on hotels
Speaker 1: and understands the value of the branding, just thinking this
Speaker 1: is bad branding. Why would we brand this big chunk
Speaker 1: of water with several of our best cities on it,
Speaker 1: put the name of another you know, developer on it.
Speaker 1: A third world the drug cartel controls u poophole country
Speaker 1: from his person.
Speaker 4: On haters, he didn't say the Gulf of Trump. He
Speaker 4: could have said that.
Speaker 1: Now. I was just going to say, let's rename the
Speaker 1: Great Lakes Lake Trump Lake, Eric Lake, Don Junior Lake.
Speaker 1: What's her name? Blitzen? Is his daughter is now out
Speaker 1: of politics, Blitzen whatever.
Speaker 4: Boy and Trump just said, all hell will break loocif
Speaker 4: the hostages are not freed by inauguration. Continuing with that
Speaker 4: thread out there, that's going to be something to watch. Now,
Speaker 4: that's important, the whole Gulf of Mexico thing, not so
Speaker 4: much the how he's going to handle Israel, Iran all that,
Speaker 4: and also Russian Ukraine, who buckle up?
Speaker 1: This is going to be so interesting, and buckle up
Speaker 1: is exactly the right advice. But I am I'm scanning
Speaker 1: my memory banks for various presidential administrations through history and
Speaker 1: their philosophies, whether it's manifest destiny way back in the day,
Speaker 1: or Jimmy Carter with his let's be nice to the
Speaker 1: moahs and they'll be nice to us, you know, nonsense
Speaker 1: and giving away the Panama Canal, which again you could
Speaker 1: argue is appropriate and it's an interesting topic. But the
Speaker 1: idea of having with all his flaws Trump with his
Speaker 1: I love this country, I'm proud of it. I want
Speaker 1: to grow it, grow our economy, as opposed to the
Speaker 1: I'm ashamed to be the president, but you know, I
Speaker 1: guess I am feel of Joe Biden and Barack Obama.
Speaker 1: Barack Obama was he claimed patriotism but often had that academics,
Speaker 1: I'm smarter than those stupid actual patriots. Yeah, I field
Speaker 1: everything he did.
Speaker 4: I don't know if that's it or not. The patriots.
Speaker 4: I think it's that worldview where we're talking about last
Speaker 4: hour about the billionaires and success, just that crowd. They're
Speaker 4: bothered by people who become really successful and it kind
Speaker 4: of feels weird to them.
Speaker 1: So when they're bothered by countries that become powerful.
Speaker 4: To you, yeah, we're like the successful. We're like the
Speaker 4: Elon Musk of the world. We're the successful billionaire and
Speaker 4: it kind of makes them feel bad that we have
Speaker 4: more than other stuff. So I don't know if that's
Speaker 4: a patriotism thing or just a weird view of a
Speaker 4: quality that can never happen on planet Earth.
Speaker 1: If you accept, and I think you have to, the
Speaker 1: fact that victim of Presser ideology has been taught, it's,
Speaker 1: you know, another description of Neo Marxism in all of
Speaker 1: our schools and universities, and that posits that to to
Speaker 1: have more power is to be evil automatically, automatically in
Speaker 1: all cases, and to have less power is to be
Speaker 1: noble and good in all cases. Well, then yes, to
Speaker 1: be the most powerful country on Earth is to be evil,
Speaker 1: and they're twisted again. If my dog barked that philosophy,
Speaker 1: I would kick him for its stupidity, and I am
Speaker 1: not a dog kicker.
Speaker 4: Right, It's the belief that if Elon Musk didn't have
Speaker 4: all that money, we would which is weird. Whoever the US,
Speaker 4: the rest of us would have more and or our
Speaker 4: goodness and deservedness, and the same for planetar serving is,
Speaker 4: if the United States didn't have so much, the rest
Speaker 4: of the world would have more. Where that's not the
Speaker 4: way it works at all. If you didn't have the
Speaker 4: United States preserving the world ordered, the whole world could
Speaker 4: be a third world country.
Speaker 1: And again, you give me five minutes with an eight
Speaker 1: year old, I can make them understand what we're talking about,
Speaker 1: how wrong that is. But college students emerge with their
Speaker 1: fake degrees, spouting that nonsense and believing it to their
Speaker 1: their bones, which is our fault. They didn't raise themselves.
Speaker 1: We raised them. How I'm on at Trump's side. Let's
Speaker 1: take Greenland how tough? Let's take it back. How tough
Speaker 1: is that? I'm sorry, I'm told it's never been a
Speaker 1: United States. Well that's besides the point. How good is
Speaker 1: Greenland's navy? That's what I need to know first. I
Speaker 1: like our chances. So is that Is there anything to
Speaker 1: that story?
Speaker 4: I honestly haven't read a paragraph about the whole Greenland thing.
Speaker 4: Do they have any interest in being a state?
Speaker 1: No? No, okay, no, it's it's a self governing province
Speaker 1: of territory of Denmark, of all countries. So I don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe we could work something out, Maybe we can. I
Speaker 1: don't really care. But it's it's a hell of a
Speaker 1: big land mass. I'll tell you that is enormous and
Speaker 1: why would we want it? Does Trump want it? Is
Speaker 1: the location?
Speaker 4: Or has it got lots of oil or zypium or
Speaker 4: something that goes into AI or I don't.
Speaker 1: Know, probably all of the above. Yeah, natural resources almost certainly.
Speaker 1: Plus with the with the climate change, it's going to
Speaker 1: be like Malibu soon right, well in one hundred years.
Speaker 4: Maybe that's right. It's all I see now. This is
Speaker 4: Trump thinking ahead.
Speaker 1: So speaking of our fifty first state Canada and global
Speaker 1: checking out of the incumbents and woke Elvis. Uh Justin
Speaker 1: Trudeau bowing out yesterday, I want to reset one of
Speaker 1: our favorite tapes of last year, which is the guy
Speaker 1: who might well be the new Prime Minister of Canada
Speaker 1: in one of his finest moments. Oh cool. I want
Speaker 1: to hear that.
Speaker 4: That's on the way. We will finish strong. How's your
Speaker 4: new year treating you? How are your resolutions holding up?
Speaker 4: Still not drinking, still not eating, still going.
Speaker 1: To the gym. Good for you, Thank you, Thank you
Speaker 1: for that encouragement. Uh So, I was thinking about a
Speaker 1: joke to make about how unpopular Justin Trudeau is in
Speaker 1: Canada's His approval ratings are upside down by like thirty
Speaker 1: five points or something like that. I mean, it's just plunge.
Speaker 1: And I was gonna say he's less popular than Kamala Harris.
Speaker 1: It was the first thing that popped into my mind
Speaker 1: because she was so miserably unpopular. But then remember just
Speaker 1: as soon as Joe Biden dropped out, she was suddenly
Speaker 1: a great leader in a paraground paragon. That's crazy. I
Speaker 1: have to remind myself of how crazy our media is sometimes.
Speaker 4: Who had the highest approval rate non election day of
Speaker 4: the four Trump Vance, Kamala Walls, it was jd Vance.
Speaker 4: He had the highest approval rating of all four of
Speaker 4: them on election right.
Speaker 1: That is interesting in it again portrayed by the media
Speaker 1: as a monster and nobody likes. But anyway, so a
Speaker 1: little woke Elvis is done up in Canada. He's been
Speaker 1: a terrible leader. He is just led Canada down the
Speaker 1: path to the left. And the guy who may well
Speaker 1: be the next prime minister. It's going to be a
Speaker 1: multi way election because they have a parliamentary system of
Speaker 1: multiple parties. But Pierre Poliev. Poliev, it's got kind of
Speaker 1: a French name. He was the guy we played the
Speaker 1: audio of last year where a reporter was trying to
Speaker 1: smear him, as lefty reporters tend to do, and he
Speaker 1: was having none of it. This is the guy who
Speaker 1: might be running Canada.
Speaker 5: On the on the topic. I mean, in terms of
Speaker 5: your sort of strategy currently, you're obviously taking the populist pathway.
Speaker 1: What does that mean?
Speaker 5: Well, certainly you tap a very strong ideological language. Quite frequently.
Speaker 5: A lot of people would would say that you're simply
Speaker 5: taking a page out of the Donald.
Speaker 1: Trump like which people would say that, well, I'm.
Speaker 5: Sure a great many Canadians, but like who, I don't
Speaker 5: know who, but.
Speaker 1: The one who asked the question, So yeah, you much
Speaker 1: know somebody.
Speaker 5: Okay, taking the page of a Donald Trump's book, But.
Speaker 1: What are you thinking about? What page? What page? Can
Speaker 1: you get the page? Give me the page?
Speaker 5: In terms in terms of turning things quite dramatically, in
Speaker 5: terms of I'm not sure, I don't know, I don't
Speaker 5: know what you're quoting.
Speaker 1: As he bunches an apple, I know, I love that
Speaker 1: as much as the first time I heard it. That's funny.
Speaker 1: He's got a really interesting story too. He is the
Speaker 1: adopted child of a school teacher and I can't remember
Speaker 1: what is his pop did, but very independent minded guy.
Speaker 1: He's a realist, and lord, don't we need more of that.
Speaker 1: I saw a clip of Trudeau.
Speaker 4: I don't know if we ever had this or not,
Speaker 4: but anyway, Uh, he interrupted somebody who is asking him questions.
Speaker 4: A reporter said something about mankind and he interrupted to
Speaker 4: do portes.
Speaker 1: I prefer person kind.
Speaker 4: I thought you got to be flipp them getting me.
Speaker 1: In a confusing, dangerous world, we'd be better off with.
Speaker 1: I prefer person kind to a guy like Pouliev. Please
Speaker 1: bring him on.
Speaker 4: Although spanking myself, no wonder he lost. I say he
Speaker 4: was in charge for ten years. Ten years he led, Yeah,
Speaker 4: and our number one trading partner, Canada.
Speaker 1: Ten years. That's a long run. Yeah, it is.
Speaker 4: I don't think anybody should ever run a country for
Speaker 4: that long. Interesting in a democracy, republic, whatever you wanna
Speaker 4: call it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know if I feel strongly about it.
Speaker 1: I have been persuaded by some that a single six
Speaker 1: year term would be better for presidents of the United States.
Speaker 4: I'll bet there's some good writings on that from the
Speaker 4: founding fathers. Why they didn't go with that, I'd like
Speaker 4: to know what the argument is, though.
Speaker 5: Look, for the bare necessities, the simple, fair necessities.
Speaker 4: Like final thoughts to and in the other show, I
Speaker 4: mean fanacessities on Mother Nature's recipes.
Speaker 1: Like final thoughts from our ghost Jack and Joe.
Speaker 4: Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 1: Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew
Speaker 1: who is on duty today as we have one out sick.
Speaker 1: Michael ains Lower, technical director, will lead the way. Michael,
Speaker 1: I want to more politicians being interviewed as they're eating.
Speaker 1: I like that jumping at the apple or something, you know,
Speaker 1: really messy. I'm not sure that's the point. Yeah, Well,
Speaker 1: Katie Greener esteemed to use woman is ailing. We hope
Speaker 1: she feels better soon. Jack of final thoughts.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Katie is sick with some just kind of random
Speaker 4: sorts of things you get this time of year. So
Speaker 4: is my youngest son, missing school and in bed and
Speaker 4: feeling miserable. There's a lot of things floating around out there.
Speaker 4: I feel like they're worse since the pandemic. Is that
Speaker 4: all in my head? Something happen to those bugs or
Speaker 4: immune system or something.
Speaker 1: I think maybe our immune systems were they looked, took
Speaker 1: a multi year vacation and affect and got fat and lazy.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Yeah, my final thought is entirely self
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Speaker 1: Quin a personal privilege. What in God's name what's going
Speaker 1: on here? I'm not allowed to make any comments. Let
Speaker 1: me say. Let me say one thing. Of the people
Speaker 1: are on drugs, and when it's over, it is over.
Speaker 1: It is over.
Speaker 4: Are you sure of that, dude?
Speaker 1: I should Let's go, Brandon. They're doing side there.
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