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 and he Armstrong Andy.
Speaker 1: Did the US have any role at all, either providing
Speaker 1: intelligence or otherwise in what looks like a targeted killing of.
Speaker 3: The Russian general? Yeah, I can tell you we were
Speaker 3: not aware of this operation in advance. We do not
Speaker 3: support or enable those kinds of activities. Seeing the reports,
Speaker 3: don't really have any information to provide other than what
Speaker 3: I've seen in the press, And so I'd have to
Speaker 3: refer you to the Ukrainians on that.
Speaker 1: That's the assassination of a Russian general in Moscow. Buy
Speaker 1: a Ukrainian and there's not a chance in hell that
Speaker 1: that answer means anything, means anything at all. We might
Speaker 1: not have had anything to do with it. We might
Speaker 1: have been ninety percent of it, and we wouldn't say,
Speaker 1: and nobody will find out for twenty five years.
Speaker 4: Might have given them a ride, yeah, absolutely, Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 4: hired him an uber.
Speaker 1: That's a pretty damn sophisticated operation, though whoever was behind it.
Speaker 1: Ian Bremmer called it a major escalation in the conflict
Speaker 1: between Russia and Ukraine. It's got to make Putin kind
Speaker 1: of worried, maybe not about himself personally, although again it
Speaker 1: would get your attention. They got a bomb to a
Speaker 1: general in Moscow, Okay.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, at some point speaking of foreign lands, I
Speaker 4: would love to get to the story about the first
Speaker 4: year of Javier Millais.
Speaker 2: Being in charge of Argentina.
Speaker 4: The liver Tarrian fire brand with long hair and cloned
Speaker 4: dogs and the rest of his wackiness. But who said, Hey,
Speaker 4: this socialist crap is ruining this country. We're gonna take
Speaker 4: it back. It's gonna hurt for a while, but we're
Speaker 4: going to bring down this rampant inflation, make this stuff,
Speaker 4: make Argentina work again.
Speaker 2: After year one, he's doing great.
Speaker 1: Did you listen to him on the Lex Friedman podcast
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 2: I did not.
Speaker 1: It's really good. He's one of the more interesting people
Speaker 1: on earth right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I would agree.
Speaker 4: And also coming up a year in review, kind of
Speaker 4: a glance through a bunch of news stories that have
Speaker 4: happened this year. It's it's worth doing, partly because it
Speaker 4: well just for historical purposes, but partly because it reminds
Speaker 4: you of how many things are made a huge deal over,
Speaker 4: but they're really not that big a.
Speaker 1: Deal at all. I'm going that's hardly discussed. I'm going
Speaker 1: to make my boldest New Year's resolution of my life year.
Speaker 1: I'm almost a little frightened to do it. We'll talk
Speaker 1: about it later.
Speaker 2: I know you were.
Speaker 1: Claiming you might match it, but we'll discuss that later.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Maybe.
Speaker 4: So anyway, all of that to come. I wanted to
Speaker 4: get to this real quickly. This is just to set
Speaker 4: up a joke. This headline Neanderthals and humans made it
Speaker 4: more recently than previously thought.
Speaker 2: Once you've had Neanderthal sapiens won't do it all.
Speaker 4: Okay, Hi, Joe Getty, famously in the ninety ninth percentile
Speaker 4: for Neanderthal.
Speaker 2: Genes among a modern man and proud of it.
Speaker 4: I got the big head, I got the brow, I
Speaker 4: got the broad jaw. I am ready to take the
Speaker 4: jawbone of some beast and beat you down with it
Speaker 4: if necessary. This is my culture anyway. Actually, I think
Speaker 4: that Neanderthals were not at all dumb beasts or right
Speaker 4: nothing that was based on ridiculous.
Speaker 1: Had bigger brains, quite possibly smarter, but maybe didn't have
Speaker 1: the ability for abstract thought, which we talked about a
Speaker 1: couple of years weeks ago based on the book Sapiens,
Speaker 1: which is really fascinating.
Speaker 4: I do tend towards single mindedness and missing the obvious,
Speaker 4: so who knows, who knows, maybe that's part of it. Anyway,
Speaker 4: I wanted to get this in because I think it's
Speaker 4: so so well, it's just really really good. The Caitlin
Speaker 4: Clark thing we were talking about yesterday, how she has
Speaker 4: become a superstar, got a tremendous amount of attention. The
Speaker 4: WNBA is making way more money, selling way more tickets.
Speaker 4: They've had to rebook games in bigger stadiums. I mean,
Speaker 4: a sea change. Everybody's going to start to make money
Speaker 4: more money. She's the time as if anybody cares about
Speaker 4: this Athlete of the Year, and the backlash has been
Speaker 4: severe because she's a white girl and she's straight. And
Speaker 4: we brought you a lot of the quotes from the
Speaker 4: various players and owners about how it's clearly race and
Speaker 4: blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: And clearly you'd be better off if people continued to
Speaker 1: not talk about the WNBA and it continued to be
Speaker 1: in a obscure sport with hardly any following much better.
Speaker 4: Paul Anonymous writes, Jack mentioned the desire for a parallel
Speaker 4: universe experience where a black Caitlin Clark excelled in a
Speaker 4: mostly white league. Maybe there is one. Tiger Woods dominated
Speaker 4: a mostly white game, turned pro in ninety six at
Speaker 4: the age of twenty ninety seventy one the Masters by
Speaker 4: twelve strokes, was number one the official golf rankings. I
Speaker 4: recall this undeniable talent being universally celebrated by the world
Speaker 4: of golf in all sports media. You're absolutely correct, absolutely right.
Speaker 1: So that's not actually what I said, because I wanted
Speaker 1: a parallel universe where a black player is exactly like
Speaker 1: Caitlin Clark, only black. The league is the same. Just
Speaker 1: to see how much of the attraction hubbub bigger crowds
Speaker 1: is You know you could attribute to Caitlin Clark being white. Oh,
Speaker 1: I'm actually no.
Speaker 4: Well, and my answer to that was, if indeed it
Speaker 4: it turned out that a predominantly white country reacted with
Speaker 4: more enthusiasm to Caitlin Clark becoming a huge, incredibly exciting star,
Speaker 4: more on that, more than a young black girl with
Speaker 4: the same credentials that would tell you something about humanity.
Speaker 4: And if that is true, even among WNBA fans who
Speaker 4: do not exactly tend to swing way right, then that
Speaker 4: just tells you something about humanity, and you accept it,
Speaker 4: and you go from there as a league and you
Speaker 4: market and everybody makes more money, and it just is
Speaker 4: what it is. That's you know, one of the great
Speaker 4: tenets of conservatism is that human nature has not changed
Speaker 4: in many, many thousands of years. We are still essentially
Speaker 4: the same animal we were twenty thousand years ago. But
Speaker 4: the left constantly thinks that can change humanity and human
Speaker 4: nature away from the way we're clearly made to be.
Speaker 2: You can't.
Speaker 4: They're wasting their time and they oppress people, and they
Speaker 4: hurt people, and they waste money trying to do it.
Speaker 1: That emailer might be onto something, though. Maybe it's the
Speaker 1: opposite race of what the sport normally has and it
Speaker 1: doesn't have anything to do with you being black or white.
Speaker 1: It's just the other race. I'm thinking about the Williams
Speaker 1: sisters in tennis, which is generally a white chick sport.
Speaker 1: Then a couple of black chicks come out along and dominate.
Speaker 2: It's just heroes. Everybody loves it. For some reason.
Speaker 1: Interesting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, not everybody.
Speaker 4: Obviously, with any high profile athlete, there's craft that takes place.
Speaker 4: But yeah, and then there are black guys that are
Speaker 4: predominantly black sport, the W or the NBA, who get
Speaker 4: tremendous acclaim and stardom, and on that tack, I will continue.
Speaker 4: This is a note from uh, we'll just call her anonymous.
Speaker 4: The quoted statement on Monday's show. Clark's race is a
Speaker 4: huge reason for her popularity should be seen for what
Speaker 4: it is. Other players jealousy of Caitlin's success and the
Speaker 4: need to rationalize it is something other than her objectively
Speaker 4: obvious talent. I'm going to stop there and tell you
Speaker 4: I let the left do it again. This became a trial,
Speaker 4: if you will, a forum, a question of whether Caitlin
Speaker 4: Clark was being unjustifiably and for racial reasons elevated above
Speaker 4: other players. This ought to be a trial about the
Speaker 4: people who are accusing her of that and what's going
Speaker 4: on with them. I will elucidate, illuminate. According to her critic,
Speaker 4: she was only the Rookie of the Year because she
Speaker 4: was white, and now Athlete of the Year for.
Speaker 2: The same reason. But the facts shout for themselves.
Speaker 4: She is, in fact, the best women's collegiate basketball player
Speaker 4: ever by the numbers. She has broken the records of
Speaker 4: former players including Pete Maravich and Lynette Woodard, and set
Speaker 4: the NCAA all time scoring record. She's a marvel at threes,
Speaker 4: she's quick af as the young people say, and a
Speaker 4: champion in assists. Assists matter their credit for helping other
Speaker 4: players do well. In all caps, she has said, I
Speaker 4: love passing the ball. If you're great at something and
Speaker 4: better than most, plus you support your team, you get recognized.
Speaker 4: Can't we all just concede that she's great and moved on.
Speaker 4: It's not Caitlyn's job to appease that jealousy or frustrations
Speaker 4: of other players are to endure their harassment attempts to
Speaker 4: hurt her. And there's more on that, and I think
Speaker 4: it's very good. Well, if her critics want to prove
Speaker 4: that the great rise in viewership in the WNBA is
Speaker 4: because she's white, then once they can perform as well
Speaker 4: as she does, they can test their theory. But the
Speaker 4: point is, actually, and it's great, and it's well made
Speaker 4: by any objective standard, really, any objective standard. Of course,
Speaker 4: she's going to be the biggest star in the game
Speaker 4: out of college.
Speaker 2: Who what sort of.
Speaker 4: Person would make this about race given the objective standards
Speaker 4: of who's a great basketball player? They keep stats, it's
Speaker 4: not like musicians. The indictment is going in the wrong way.
Speaker 2: Well said.
Speaker 1: That sort of thing.
Speaker 4: I do too, too, and I hate most of all
Speaker 4: that the hardcore, really ugly activists have sucked along unsuspecting
Speaker 4: people of good conscience who think they're doing the right
Speaker 4: thing by racializing everything.
Speaker 1: It sucks for Caitlin Clark that she has to deal
Speaker 1: with that. I remember in the Larry Bird documentary, the
Speaker 1: one they had, I think it was HBO Larry versus Magic.
Speaker 1: Really interesting documentary if you're into that whole story. But
Speaker 1: Larry Bird, when he was League MVP three times in
Speaker 1: a row, Isaiah Thomas, black player Detroit Distance, made some
Speaker 1: comments about it's because he's white, and Larry Bird talked
Speaker 1: about how that really hurt him. That actually hurt him
Speaker 1: because he cared so much about being a good player
Speaker 1: and being respected for his game and having some player
Speaker 1: that he had respect for. Saying it's just because you're
Speaker 1: white that you're getting all attention was really painful.
Speaker 2: For him. Yeah, anyway, it would be.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is what you care about more than
Speaker 1: anything in your life. And you you're saying I'm not good.
Speaker 1: It's just because I'm white, I'm not as good. I
Speaker 1: would that would bother you. Sure, it's devastating.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, and the flip side of that coin is
Speaker 4: affirmative action programs and DEI programs, right because now anybody
Speaker 4: who does achieve is automatically looked upon as well, and
Speaker 4: they didn't earn it, as people say about DEEI that's
Speaker 4: why it's so insidious. Anyway, I wish I was in charge.
Speaker 4: Folks said, straighten everything out in your hands.
Speaker 1: I straightened everything out in her I don't tell you
Speaker 1: about her friends. And if I was in charge of everything,
Speaker 1: I get everything fixed right away by.
Speaker 2: The end of the day.
Speaker 4: They never would have bad mouth Caitlyn Thok when I
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Speaker 1: So New York City, similar to California. You're gonna start
Speaker 1: throwing crazy people in some sort of mental institution against
Speaker 1: their will, which is not something we've done in this
Speaker 1: country for a very, very long time. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: interesting to see how this plays out. Some of the
Speaker 1: details on that. Eric Adams, the Mayor of New York,
Speaker 1: is really in favor of this. The governor is against it,
Speaker 1: So I want to talk about that also. Study of
Speaker 1: the game out last night. Not surprising, some of your
Speaker 1: most elite universities Georgetown PENNT let people in because they're rich.
Speaker 1: They let kids in because they're rich. Their parents are rich,
Speaker 1: and they wouldn't have qualified any other way except for
Speaker 1: the fact that their parents were rich.
Speaker 4: The university except that, as long as they didn't deny
Speaker 4: it publicly and talk about it openly privately.
Speaker 1: As long as they didn't lecture us about inequality and
Speaker 1: inequity being the biggest scourge in America and all that
Speaker 1: sort of stuff. Oh good lord, lot on the way,
Speaker 1: stay here, poor Jet and his nuts. You think you
Speaker 1: misunderstood the lyric. Van Jones is one of my favorite
Speaker 1: lefty pundits. We wouldn't agree on anything in the world
Speaker 1: policy wise, but he's one of the few people that's
Speaker 1: willing to be honest about his own side or things
Speaker 1: in general. And he said this on CNN yesterday or
Speaker 1: is some sort of panel anyway, he was talking about,
Speaker 1: here you go, we.
Speaker 5: Are way off. The entire political class is way off.
Speaker 5: First of all, digital is the new door knocking.
Speaker 2: You got to.
Speaker 5: Understand that we were laughing our butts off at Donald
Speaker 5: Trump for suspending his door knocking campaign and letting Charlie
Speaker 5: Kirk and Elon do a bunch of stuff online. We said,
Speaker 5: these guys are idiots, these guys are stupid. Then you
Speaker 5: start knocking on these doors, you know, people come to
Speaker 5: the door with.
Speaker 2: Their phone in their hand.
Speaker 5: The mainstream has become fringe, and the French has become mainstream.
Speaker 2: There are platforms.
Speaker 5: There are people out there that are getting fourteen million streams,
Speaker 5: and we're on cable News getting one or two million,
Speaker 5: and so there is a whole world out there. Kelly
Speaker 5: and Conway. I hate to agree with her, but I
Speaker 5: do a lot of times. Donald Trump understood that.
Speaker 2: And we didn't.
Speaker 1: It's so obviously true. Yeah, yeah, we'll hear the next
Speaker 1: one that I have a comment about the whole thing.
Speaker 6: Guys, can we cut it out? Donald Trump is not
Speaker 6: an idiot, Donald Trump. Let me just be very clear.
Speaker 6: Donald Trump is smarter than me.
Speaker 2: You and all.
Speaker 6: Critics know, because he has the White House, the Senate, the.
Speaker 2: House totally agree for.
Speaker 6: The popular vote. He has a massive media ecosystem bigger
Speaker 6: than the mainstream, built around him and for him, and
Speaker 6: a religiously religious fervor in a political movement around him.
Speaker 6: And he is best buddy, is the richest person in
Speaker 6: the history of the world, and the most relevant Kennedy
Speaker 6: is with him.
Speaker 2: This dude is a phenomenon.
Speaker 6: He is the most powerful human on earth and in
Speaker 6: our lifetime. And we're still saying, well, how is this card?
Speaker 6: We look like idiots.
Speaker 4: Ordinary do not listen to Van Jones. Democrats do not listen.
Speaker 4: He's wrong, he's maga, he switched sides. He's probably a
Speaker 4: white guy. I agree.
Speaker 1: Continue to have multi human panels on CNN discussing doing
Speaker 1: it exactly the same way next time around.
Speaker 4: Do that, Democrats, Yeah, keep walking listening to the the
Speaker 4: folks at that paneled. It was a flawless campaign. Kamala
Speaker 4: lost cause of misogyny. That's the only reason. Yes, keep believing.
Speaker 1: Keep signing up people to knock on doors and bring
Speaker 1: snowshovels to their houses in Iowa for the caucuses and
Speaker 1: that stuff that was popular in the seventies.
Speaker 2: Boy, I love the way you put that.
Speaker 4: We'd go knocking on the door, you know what, people
Speaker 4: come to the door with their phone in their hand.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well, and he talked about you know, platforms that have
Speaker 4: millions of listeners. Meanwhile, we're getting one or two million
Speaker 4: on cable news.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: And when was the last time there are two million
Speaker 4: people watching CNN? You're if you're talking about Fox News
Speaker 4: maybe yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he could have said, and we're getting six hundred
Speaker 1: thousand people watching us on CNN across the entire country
Speaker 1: as opposed to Joe Rogan.
Speaker 2: WHOA, Oh my.
Speaker 1: God, How the hell are there not more Democrats saying
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris didn't go on Joe Rogan, she deserved to lose.
Speaker 2: He doesn't have the ability. He wanted her to come on.
Speaker 1: He would have reached sixty million people in immediately and
Speaker 1: she didn't.
Speaker 2: The end. Yeah, yeah, well, and she was right to
Speaker 2: not go on there. That's all because she's uncomfortable. Truth.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because she's a moron. She would have been exposed.
Speaker 4: I mean, it was like Biden at the debate, seventy
Speaker 4: six percent of Americans thought he's a senile, old husk
Speaker 4: of a man, and then he removed all doubt. If
Speaker 4: Kamala had gone on Rugan, it would have been precisely
Speaker 4: the same result. The Year in Review coming up next.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, So here's my uh how much time
Speaker 1: I got my go thirty's nine. Well, I'm gonna say
Speaker 1: it real quick. I'm gonna make the biggest New Year's
Speaker 1: even resolution, New Year's resolution of my life. I'm going
Speaker 1: to forgo all baked goods for as long as I can.
Speaker 1: I don't even believe I can do it for the
Speaker 1: whole year, but I'm going to see how long I
Speaker 1: can do it. Like bread for sandwiches doesn't count stuff
Speaker 1: like that, but donuts, rolls, cakes, pies, all of that cookies.
Speaker 4: It's like it's like pornography. It's tough to find, but
Speaker 4: I know it when I see it. I don't know
Speaker 4: how long I can pull it off, but I'm going
Speaker 4: to try. And I'm a little scared. I got who admit.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Geeddy.
Speaker 1: I know it's going to be one of the big
Speaker 1: stories next year. Elon's role in our government and the
Speaker 1: Trump administration. New poll out shows Elon has almost exactly
Speaker 1: the same poll rating as Trump, so they seem to
Speaker 1: be tied together to a certain extent in the public's mind.
Speaker 1: By the way, Elon's current network is now over four
Speaker 1: hundred billion dollars.
Speaker 4: Difficult to imagine whoa. In fact, it's impossible to imagine crazy.
Speaker 4: So Michael cue the theme music. It's the year that was.
Speaker 4: I knew the news in review of the news that
Speaker 4: was reviewed in review.
Speaker 2: I just thought it might be funny.
Speaker 4: Katie jump on if you want to, just let's run
Speaker 4: through just a and we've got the Clips of the
Speaker 4: Year show.
Speaker 2: Heck, we haven't been promoting that.
Speaker 4: Clips of the Year show is on Friday, in which
Speaker 4: we run through tons and tons of news clips and
Speaker 4: end of the year listical sort of thing.
Speaker 1: That we don't really have to work on the last
Speaker 1: show of the year and we can hit the bottle,
Speaker 1: sobriety optional.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Anyway.
Speaker 4: January began on January first with an earthquake in Japan.
Speaker 4: Happy twenty twenty four Japan. Here's some devastation, but we
Speaker 4: won't talk about that because that's Japan. It was the
Speaker 4: next day, the second that Cloud Dean Gay resigned as
Speaker 4: president of Harvard, A momentary, small victory for the anti
Speaker 4: woke America that we represent.
Speaker 1: What was that all about? Was that the whole.
Speaker 4: The hearing where she said, well, calling for the genocide
Speaker 4: of Jews, Right, that depends on the contest.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is the second day of the year. Okay, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: Then the same day Atapamas leader was killed the first
Speaker 4: of many in bea Root. The S and P five
Speaker 4: hundred hit a record that now seems quaint.
Speaker 3: Loo.
Speaker 2: I was reminded.
Speaker 4: Yesterday that the down industrials fell for the ninth consecutive day,
Speaker 4: which was the longest slide since nineteen seventy seven or something.
Speaker 1: Really, I did not even hear that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it just was.
Speaker 4: Kind of ticking down bit by bit by bit by bit.
Speaker 4: But you expected to tick up at some point.
Speaker 1: Here I am like, I got it, and the Dow
Speaker 1: was crowded, You fool.
Speaker 4: January twenty sixth, Trump was hit with a penalty of
Speaker 4: more than eighty three million dollars in damages for defaming
Speaker 4: writer E Jean Carroll, saying she fabricated the sexual assault allegations.
Speaker 4: Easy to forget and it shouldn't be. January twenty eighth,
Speaker 4: US troops killed in Israel Hamas War three years service
Speaker 4: members are killed more than forty injured in and Iran
Speaker 4: back to milicious drone strike on a base in Jordan.
Speaker 1: Official say, yeah, maybe this is coming up, but remember
Speaker 1: that whole period where it was like that. It's now
Speaker 1: one hundred times we've been attacked without doing anything back exactly.
Speaker 2: Oh, and there's a headline.
Speaker 4: I think it might have been the journal I don't
Speaker 4: recall Israel Is contemplating. Well, they're essentially saying, who's next?
Speaker 4: Having beaten the hell out of Hamas and Hezbollah, now
Speaker 4: Asad is out of power in Syria, the hoothy rebels,
Speaker 4: rebels that have been siding with Iran and spreading death
Speaker 4: and destruction are about to get a hell of a whoopan,
Speaker 4: according to rumors, out of Israeli defense. Anyway, those troops
Speaker 4: killed under Joe Biden's watches. He did nothing after strike
Speaker 4: after strike.
Speaker 1: He said specifically in the debate. No troops died under
Speaker 1: his administration. Remember, and none were in a combat zone.
Speaker 1: Remember that, good Lord.
Speaker 4: January twenty ninth, US, the UN staff was linked to
Speaker 4: the Hamas attack. About ten percent of its Gaza staff
Speaker 4: have links to militant groups, and many of them participated
Speaker 4: in October seventh. Oh, a US retaliatory airstrikes. I'm scrolling
Speaker 4: frantically through this. February eighth, A Biden report. A Biden
Speaker 4: administration report calls him an elderly man with a poor memory,
Speaker 4: which turned out to be soft pedaling it, even though
Speaker 4: it was attacked by all the left media. It's just
Speaker 4: outrageous to say that, right right greeted with derision of
Speaker 4: that indignation. How dare you state that which is clearly
Speaker 4: obvious to everyone.
Speaker 2: So that was February eighth.
Speaker 4: Remember that the gaming of February February eleventh, my birthday,
Speaker 4: Chiefs win the Super Bowl again, beating my beloved forty
Speaker 4: nine ers in overtime. God, how was mu dam? That
Speaker 4: was not a good game. It's an awful game anyway,
Speaker 4: by all definitions, an exciting game. February thirteenth, Cabinet impeachment.
Speaker 4: Alejandro O may.
Speaker 2: Orchis the Border is Secure. Became the first sitting cabinet
Speaker 2: official to be impeached by the House.
Speaker 1: I didn't remember that, which shows you how many ingless.
Speaker 4: That was quickly defeated in the the Democrat Senate. February fourteenth,
Speaker 4: Kansas City Parade shooting. You remember that, ah, right? That
Speaker 4: was horrified personal beef, young people with guns, et cetera.
Speaker 4: February sixteenth, New York judge rules Donald Trump and his
Speaker 4: business should pay more than three hundred and fifty million
Speaker 4: dollars for misrepresenting his wealth for financial gain. That was
Speaker 4: the infamous this has never ever been charged in history.
Speaker 2: Everybody's happy with this deal case.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So that was that period of time where Trump
Speaker 1: was getting it like it seemed like on a daily basis.
Speaker 1: A new charge, a new fine, a new whatever, a
Speaker 1: different court case, three different court cases. He's got to
Speaker 1: show up to this week. That whole thing which helped
Speaker 1: to get him elected for one thing, iron Lea and
Speaker 1: have you been following the news. Number of people will
Speaker 1: pointed this out in the last couple of days. So
Speaker 1: George Stephanopolis and ABC had to pay Trump fifteen million dollars.
Speaker 1: Will actually they give him fifteen million dollars for his library.
Speaker 1: I love this line. Trump's gonna build a presidential library
Speaker 1: and the dominant media is going to pay for it,
Speaker 1: which is what's what's happening. But ABC got hit with
Speaker 1: undervaluing their corporation and an attempt to pay less in
Speaker 1: their fine. And see an End did the same thing
Speaker 1: in a lawsuit they're involved in. Yeah, everybody tries to
Speaker 1: hold down their value as much as possible in these
Speaker 1: sorts of things. It's the way people do business.
Speaker 4: Except when it benefits them, then they puff it up
Speaker 4: as much as is reasonable.
Speaker 2: Yeah, unbelievable.
Speaker 4: February sixteenth, Alexa Navalny dies in a Siberian prison. Colony
Speaker 4: was the day to day Yeah, February sixteenth. Part of
Speaker 4: the reason that I enjoy doing this is I don't
Speaker 4: know it somehow helps put the passage of time in
Speaker 4: more perspective for something. If you'd asked me would't Havevalney died?
Speaker 4: I would have said six months ago. I mean, I
Speaker 4: wouldn't have.
Speaker 2: Been off by a lot, obviously, but I was.
Speaker 4: Toward the beginning of the year, a bunch of international
Speaker 4: stuff nobody cares about. February twenty eighth, Senate Minority leader
Speaker 4: Mitch McConnell says he will step down from his leadership
Speaker 4: role because he's old as hell.
Speaker 1: Did he freeze up again the other day? Was that
Speaker 1: real or not? I saw a video that was horrifying,
Speaker 1: but I didn't know if it was AI. It didn't
Speaker 1: make the news. Have you do you know, Katie, he
Speaker 1: took a spell, he fell, I know he fell, but
Speaker 1: there was there was a I just saw a video
Speaker 1: where he was asked something about his role in something
Speaker 1: or other, oh, running for re election or something like that,
Speaker 1: and he locked up and then his handler said, are
Speaker 1: you okay? One of those deals? But I couldn't tell
Speaker 1: if his ai are real and I haven't seen it
Speaker 1: on the news.
Speaker 4: It was in March this for our Californian listeners that
Speaker 4: the gigantic blizzard dumped more than sixty inches of snow
Speaker 4: over parts of this year and have had a mountains
Speaker 4: and joined NATO in May. May seventh, let's see the
Speaker 4: idea of banning TikTok was voted on and passed in
Speaker 4: the House and Senate. It's breaking right now. The Supreme
Speaker 4: Court has agreed to hear a First Amendment case about
Speaker 4: whether we can ban TikTok or not, which got me
Speaker 4: thinking during the commercial break. If it's a social media platform, period,
Speaker 4: then obviously they're protected by the First Amendment. But then
Speaker 4: I started to think, well, wait a minute. If I
Speaker 4: as a Chinese communist agent embusted for espionage and say,
Speaker 4: well wait a minute, I reported back to my superiors. Verbally,
Speaker 4: I was speaking, I have freedom of speech. The First
Speaker 4: Amendment protects me because TikTok is really a surveillance tool
Speaker 4: and a propaganda tool masquerading is a social media platform.
Speaker 1: I'm not small enough to understand how this is going
Speaker 1: to turn out. What do you think the Supremes Court
Speaker 1: is going to.
Speaker 2: Do on that?
Speaker 4: I think, and thank God for Trump's appointees, I think
Speaker 4: they're going to say, look, to the extent that is
Speaker 4: a social media platform with an opinion, we can't do
Speaker 4: anything about it. But there are unquestionable ties to a
Speaker 4: hostile foreign power. But I don't know' that's my very
Speaker 4: short answer. I would love to hear, you know, well,
Speaker 4: I'd love to hear the decision, and I think we'll
Speaker 4: hear the arguments very quickly.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 1: I believe Tim, our friend, Tim the lawyer, and some
Speaker 1: of our you know, more free speech advocate friends are saying,
Speaker 1: you can't be banning news organizations just because you don't
Speaker 1: like the news they put out.
Speaker 2: It's a great question. Anyway.
Speaker 4: It was in the middle of March that the realtors
Speaker 4: came to that nationwide settlement of claims against price fixing
Speaker 4: essentially and brought to actually less certainty and a little
Speaker 4: chaos to who pays what, commissioned to whom, And that's
Speaker 4: still being worked out.
Speaker 2: Let's see.
Speaker 4: Oh, March twenty second terrorist attack on a concert hall
Speaker 4: in Moscow suburbs killed at least one hundred and forty
Speaker 4: five people. Islamic State claimed responsibility.
Speaker 1: And we stopped one of those in the United States.
Speaker 2: Remember that.
Speaker 1: That's probably coming up.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah.
Speaker 4: March twenty six was the big bridge collapse in Baltimore.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it was this year when the guy crashed
Speaker 1: the big ship into the bridge.
Speaker 4: Ever got all about well they were losing power. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 4: I would have said that was last year. So I
Speaker 4: don't know why.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: March twenty eighth, Sam Bankman freed, sentenced to twenty five
Speaker 4: years in prison. Him and his hair, his FTX fraud.
Speaker 4: His hair was sentenced concurrently, Mousey little girlfriend. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 4: let's see, that's a boring nobody cares. April seventh, Caitlin
Speaker 4: Clark in the National Championship Game, becoming a superstar even
Speaker 4: though she lost.
Speaker 2: And became a loser.
Speaker 4: Let's see, we just got to go with it with
Speaker 4: big ones. Trump's hush money trial began in April.
Speaker 1: The hush Muney trial.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, another ridiculous lawfair trial. I want that
Speaker 4: one to go to the appeals court. Judge Murchan has
Speaker 4: just announced that, No, we're just gonna put it in
Speaker 4: the freezer here and not do anything about it till
Speaker 4: the guy's out office. Yeah, yeah, we're not gonna do
Speaker 4: anything with it at all. Like, let it go to
Speaker 4: the appeals court where they'll say you suck as a judge.
Speaker 4: The jury only convicted because you misled them about the law.
Speaker 4: Get rid of this and by the way, turning your
Speaker 4: robe on the way out. Let's see what else. Oh,
Speaker 4: the big campus protests pro humas up with terrorism.
Speaker 2: Was in late April.
Speaker 1: So that's when the Columbia students locked down that building
Speaker 1: and had that whole thing exactly.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you know, look, this list includes things like
Speaker 4: April twenty eighth, inflation lingers. Thing's lingering not count When
Speaker 4: did things happen? Let's see, Cornell's president resigned in May ninth,
Speaker 4: same reason, anti Semitism, protests against Israel, and the fact
Speaker 4: that you could protest anything in the world you wanted
Speaker 4: and do anything you wanted as long as Jews were
Speaker 4: on the receiving end, and as long as it wasn't
Speaker 4: a conservative just trying to have Ben Shapiro do a
Speaker 4: thirty minute talk. That is the problem. Uh d D
Speaker 4: that's not a very important The Dow hit four thousand.
Speaker 4: President of Iran killed in the copter crash May nineteenth.
Speaker 2: That was tragic.
Speaker 4: You remember that, Jack terrible and the next day a
Speaker 4: one to two punch that America barely endured.
Speaker 2: Red Lobster filed for bankers.
Speaker 1: Because there are too many fat people that took advantage
Speaker 1: of all you could eat shrimp doing, which was part
Speaker 1: of it, which is one of the funniest things in
Speaker 1: business history.
Speaker 4: And they got caught painting their brown lobsters red end
Speaker 4: debay last day. Trump convicted in New York all thirty
Speaker 4: four counts in the so called hush money trial.
Speaker 2: Absolutely ridiculous.
Speaker 1: Wow, in half the country thought that was the end
Speaker 1: of Trump, and it helped get him elected.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4: June, first woman to lead Mexico hostage rescue in gaz
Speaker 4: I remember that was so dramatic. Hunter Biden convicted in
Speaker 4: Delaware of the gun charge and the President campaigning for
Speaker 4: re election store he would not pardon his son. It
Speaker 4: was in the middle of June at the High Court
Speaker 4: threw out the ban on bump stocks. Oh right right, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: let's see, Celtics won the NBA crown. It's a it's
Speaker 4: a culture, not a costume. And this pronounced Celtics. Let's
Speaker 4: see what else do we have? Scrowlin, Scrolllin, scrowlin. Oh,
Speaker 4: Julian Assan cut that deal.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 4: June twenty seventh, Biden's disastrous debate, four months after her
Speaker 4: report said, look, he's a senile, old bastard.
Speaker 1: How's the middle of June. That's not that long ago?
Speaker 4: Drops out less than a month later, although it's worth
Speaker 4: pointing out it took almost a month for him to
Speaker 4: drop out.
Speaker 1: Right, that was one of the wildest months obviously in
Speaker 1: US history.
Speaker 4: I'm hoping that debate factors into the Clips of the
Speaker 4: Year show on Friday. I mean, and then we killed
Speaker 4: medicare I mean, some of the things he said in
Speaker 4: that debate. I saw a couple of clips the other day.
Speaker 4: I was reminded because, I mean, we all kind of
Speaker 4: remember the general outline of the thing. Oh, that's right,
Speaker 4: he came off as pretty senile. When you hear the
Speaker 4: clips again, you remember a lot of it was jaw
Speaker 4: dropping in that first fifteen minutes or so that month.
Speaker 1: That included the debate, all the speculation about him. He
Speaker 1: obviously has to get out how they're going to do it,
Speaker 1: who's going to be the nominee? Picking Kamala Trump getting
Speaker 1: shot the convention, That whole period of just a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks is just yeah, Michael.
Speaker 4: I just remember on the Biden debate, all of us
Speaker 4: texting each other within like the first two minutes, we
Speaker 4: all were saying something's wrong.
Speaker 1: The end of his career.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're up against the break. We really need to
Speaker 2: take a break.
Speaker 1: Okay, more stay here.
Speaker 4: I don't care who you are, what's your level of
Speaker 4: expertise and music is you got to admit the baritone
Speaker 4: saxophone is flatulent, very flatulent sounding instruments, Memories.
Speaker 1: The fantastic analysis.
Speaker 4: Finishing up the year in review, because there's no point
Speaker 4: in going over stuff that happened three weeks ago. I
Speaker 4: just want to point out it was life first that
Speaker 4: the Supreme Court ruled on presidential immunity, a wildly hilariously
Speaker 4: misinterpreted ruling on the left. Oh, this ll enable the
Speaker 4: president to start death squads, just completely riduculs us. July thirteenth,
Speaker 4: Trump survives assassination attempt. The infamous and amazing fist in
Speaker 4: the air, bloody face flag in the background, an amazing
Speaker 4: day unleashed an investigation in the Secret Service that continues
Speaker 4: today found utterly derelict in their duties. July the fifteenth,
Speaker 4: only two days later, Trump picks jd vance.
Speaker 2: So far, so good.
Speaker 4: Trump attended opening night of the Republican Convention with a
Speaker 4: bandaged right here, we were there watching him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and so that was the fifteenth and he was
Speaker 1: shot on the what the thirteenth correct? Yeah, God, that's incredible.
Speaker 1: I know, it's amazing. The eighteenth he accepted the nomination.
Speaker 1: The nineteenth was that big tech outage.
Speaker 4: You remember that crowd strike thing, massive outage for millions
Speaker 4: of Microsoft Windows devices, grounded planes, hit banks, exposed the
Speaker 4: fragility of global digital technology. Took freaking eleven hours for
Speaker 4: me to get two hours home anyway.
Speaker 1: I didn't get I'm still in Milwaukee.
Speaker 2: Wow. Wow.
Speaker 4: H July twenty first, Biden bows out shortly after the
Speaker 4: RNC endorsing Kamala Harris Halfwit to take over at the
Speaker 4: top of the Democratic ticket.
Speaker 1: And again that month they got to make a movie
Speaker 1: There Will Be Books. That just was some crazy several
Speaker 1: week period, the debate, they convention, the Kamala, all of
Speaker 1: it right.
Speaker 4: Two days later, the Secret Service director resigned and then
Speaker 4: they mentioned that at the end of the months there
Speaker 4: were strikes on hamas and hebel officials, and I was like,
Speaker 4: when were the pagers and the walkie talkies? That was
Speaker 4: September seventeenth. In the next couple of days after that,
Speaker 4: the still mind boggling effective. You can't believe it's real,
Speaker 4: taking out of hisbala's leadership and their guts literally with
Speaker 4: the sploit pages and walkie talking.
Speaker 1: There'll never be another political month three week period like
Speaker 1: that one, hopefully, hopefully. And the fact that it came
Speaker 1: out as well as it did and we're okay more
Speaker 1: or less is well, it's fantastic, something close to a miracle. Yeah,
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