WEBVTT - Poor Chet & His Nuts 0:00:02.000 --> 0:00:06.280 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George 0:00:06.360 --> 0:00:10.480 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. 0:00:10.320 --> 0:00:17.960 Armstrong and and he Armstrong Andy. 0:00:23.840 --> 0:00:26.560 Did the US have any role at all, either providing 0:00:26.600 --> 0:00:31.040 intelligence or otherwise in what looks like a targeted killing of. 0:00:31.000 --> 0:00:34.800 The Russian general? Yeah, I can tell you we were 0:00:34.800 --> 0:00:39.120 not aware of this operation in advance. We do not 0:00:39.240 --> 0:00:42.239 support or enable those kinds of activities. Seeing the reports, 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:45.800 don't really have any information to provide other than what 0:00:45.840 --> 0:00:47.199 I've seen in the press, And so I'd have to 0:00:47.200 --> 0:00:49.360 refer you to the Ukrainians on that. 0:00:49.360 --> 0:00:58.160 That's the assassination of a Russian general in Moscow. Buy 0:00:58.200 --> 0:01:01.959 a Ukrainian and there's not a chance in hell that 0:01:01.960 --> 0:01:06.200 that answer means anything, means anything at all. We might 0:01:06.200 --> 0:01:07.840 not have had anything to do with it. We might 0:01:07.880 --> 0:01:10.280 have been ninety percent of it, and we wouldn't say, 0:01:10.319 --> 0:01:12.960 and nobody will find out for twenty five years. 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:16.800 Might have given them a ride, yeah, absolutely, Yeah, Yeah, 0:01:16.959 --> 0:01:19.360 hired him an uber. 0:01:19.560 --> 0:01:23.720 That's a pretty damn sophisticated operation, though whoever was behind it. 0:01:24.080 --> 0:01:27.680 Ian Bremmer called it a major escalation in the conflict 0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:30.080 between Russia and Ukraine. It's got to make Putin kind 0:01:30.080 --> 0:01:34.560 of worried, maybe not about himself personally, although again it 0:01:34.600 --> 0:01:39.880 would get your attention. They got a bomb to a 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:44.160 general in Moscow, Okay. 0:01:43.600 --> 0:01:47.760 Yeah, yeah, at some point speaking of foreign lands, I 0:01:47.760 --> 0:01:52.360 would love to get to the story about the first 0:01:52.440 --> 0:01:55.480 year of Javier Millais. 0:01:56.640 --> 0:01:58.160 Being in charge of Argentina. 0:01:59.040 --> 0:02:02.920 The liver Tarrian fire brand with long hair and cloned 0:02:03.000 --> 0:02:05.760 dogs and the rest of his wackiness. But who said, Hey, 0:02:05.800 --> 0:02:09.280 this socialist crap is ruining this country. We're gonna take 0:02:09.320 --> 0:02:12.280 it back. It's gonna hurt for a while, but we're 0:02:12.280 --> 0:02:14.760 going to bring down this rampant inflation, make this stuff, 0:02:15.360 --> 0:02:16.560 make Argentina work again. 0:02:17.360 --> 0:02:19.800 After year one, he's doing great. 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:22.040 Did you listen to him on the Lex Friedman podcast 0:02:22.040 --> 0:02:22.799 a couple of weeks ago. 0:02:23.240 --> 0:02:23.600 I did not. 0:02:24.000 --> 0:02:27.400 It's really good. He's one of the more interesting people 0:02:27.440 --> 0:02:28.320 on earth right now. 0:02:29.440 --> 0:02:30.920 Yeah, yeah, I would agree. 0:02:31.960 --> 0:02:35.000 And also coming up a year in review, kind of 0:02:35.240 --> 0:02:37.160 a glance through a bunch of news stories that have 0:02:37.240 --> 0:02:41.280 happened this year. It's it's worth doing, partly because it 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:45.960 well just for historical purposes, but partly because it reminds 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:49.240 you of how many things are made a huge deal over, 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:51.280 but they're really not that big a. 0:02:51.240 --> 0:02:55.119 Deal at all. I'm going that's hardly discussed. I'm going 0:02:55.160 --> 0:03:00.359 to make my boldest New Year's resolution of my life year. 0:03:01.760 --> 0:03:05.240 I'm almost a little frightened to do it. We'll talk 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:05.840 about it later. 0:03:05.880 --> 0:03:06.440 I know you were. 0:03:07.840 --> 0:03:10.200 Claiming you might match it, but we'll discuss that later. 0:03:11.440 --> 0:03:12.519 Yeah. Maybe. 0:03:13.520 --> 0:03:15.520 So anyway, all of that to come. I wanted to 0:03:15.560 --> 0:03:18.200 get to this real quickly. This is just to set 0:03:18.280 --> 0:03:21.040 up a joke. This headline Neanderthals and humans made it 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:22.720 more recently than previously thought. 0:03:23.360 --> 0:03:26.320 Once you've had Neanderthal sapiens won't do it all. 0:03:26.680 --> 0:03:30.960 Okay, Hi, Joe Getty, famously in the ninety ninth percentile 0:03:31.040 --> 0:03:33.200 for Neanderthal. 0:03:32.720 --> 0:03:36.120 Genes among a modern man and proud of it. 0:03:36.440 --> 0:03:38.000 I got the big head, I got the brow, I 0:03:38.000 --> 0:03:41.040 got the broad jaw. I am ready to take the 0:03:41.200 --> 0:03:43.440 jawbone of some beast and beat you down with it 0:03:43.520 --> 0:03:49.520 if necessary. This is my culture anyway. Actually, I think 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:53.200 that Neanderthals were not at all dumb beasts or right 0:03:53.200 --> 0:03:55.200 nothing that was based on ridiculous. 0:03:54.760 --> 0:03:57.960 Had bigger brains, quite possibly smarter, but maybe didn't have 0:03:58.240 --> 0:04:01.040 the ability for abstract thought, which we talked about a 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:04.760 couple of years weeks ago based on the book Sapiens, 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:05.880 which is really fascinating. 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:11.440 I do tend towards single mindedness and missing the obvious, 0:04:11.480 --> 0:04:14.360 so who knows, who knows, maybe that's part of it. Anyway, 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:16.920 I wanted to get this in because I think it's 0:04:16.960 --> 0:04:21.520 so so well, it's just really really good. The Caitlin 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:24.760 Clark thing we were talking about yesterday, how she has 0:04:24.880 --> 0:04:27.560 become a superstar, got a tremendous amount of attention. The 0:04:27.640 --> 0:04:31.000 WNBA is making way more money, selling way more tickets. 0:04:31.000 --> 0:04:34.240 They've had to rebook games in bigger stadiums. I mean, 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:37.000 a sea change. Everybody's going to start to make money 0:04:37.200 --> 0:04:40.839 more money. She's the time as if anybody cares about 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:44.520 this Athlete of the Year, and the backlash has been 0:04:44.560 --> 0:04:48.200 severe because she's a white girl and she's straight. And 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:50.200 we brought you a lot of the quotes from the 0:04:50.320 --> 0:04:53.400 various players and owners about how it's clearly race and 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:54.360 blah blah blah. 0:04:54.080 --> 0:04:56.719 And clearly you'd be better off if people continued to 0:04:56.800 --> 0:04:59.640 not talk about the WNBA and it continued to be 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:02.839 in a obscure sport with hardly any following much better. 0:05:04.120 --> 0:05:08.880 Paul Anonymous writes, Jack mentioned the desire for a parallel 0:05:09.000 --> 0:05:12.000 universe experience where a black Caitlin Clark excelled in a 0:05:12.040 --> 0:05:15.760 mostly white league. Maybe there is one. Tiger Woods dominated 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:18.360 a mostly white game, turned pro in ninety six at 0:05:18.360 --> 0:05:20.880 the age of twenty ninety seventy one the Masters by 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:23.880 twelve strokes, was number one the official golf rankings. I 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:27.640 recall this undeniable talent being universally celebrated by the world 0:05:27.680 --> 0:05:33.279 of golf in all sports media. You're absolutely correct, absolutely right. 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:35.280 So that's not actually what I said, because I wanted 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:38.520 a parallel universe where a black player is exactly like 0:05:38.640 --> 0:05:41.440 Caitlin Clark, only black. The league is the same. Just 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:46.800 to see how much of the attraction hubbub bigger crowds 0:05:46.960 --> 0:05:51.040 is You know you could attribute to Caitlin Clark being white. Oh, 0:05:51.160 --> 0:05:51.960 I'm actually no. 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:57.120 Well, and my answer to that was, if indeed it 0:05:57.120 --> 0:06:00.760 it turned out that a predominantly white country reacted with 0:06:00.800 --> 0:06:05.400 more enthusiasm to Caitlin Clark becoming a huge, incredibly exciting star, 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:08.960 more on that, more than a young black girl with 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:12.320 the same credentials that would tell you something about humanity. 0:06:12.880 --> 0:06:18.200 And if that is true, even among WNBA fans who 0:06:18.240 --> 0:06:22.680 do not exactly tend to swing way right, then that 0:06:22.760 --> 0:06:25.400 just tells you something about humanity, and you accept it, 0:06:25.440 --> 0:06:26.920 and you go from there as a league and you 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:29.479 market and everybody makes more money, and it just is 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:32.760 what it is. That's you know, one of the great 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:37.039 tenets of conservatism is that human nature has not changed 0:06:37.080 --> 0:06:40.839 in many, many thousands of years. We are still essentially 0:06:40.920 --> 0:06:44.640 the same animal we were twenty thousand years ago. But 0:06:45.200 --> 0:06:48.919 the left constantly thinks that can change humanity and human 0:06:49.040 --> 0:06:52.120 nature away from the way we're clearly made to be. 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:52.960 You can't. 0:06:52.960 --> 0:06:55.480 They're wasting their time and they oppress people, and they 0:06:55.520 --> 0:06:57.320 hurt people, and they waste money trying to do it. 0:06:57.440 --> 0:07:01.679 That emailer might be onto something, though. Maybe it's the 0:07:01.760 --> 0:07:05.200 opposite race of what the sport normally has and it 0:07:05.240 --> 0:07:07.520 doesn't have anything to do with you being black or white. 0:07:07.520 --> 0:07:10.280 It's just the other race. I'm thinking about the Williams 0:07:10.320 --> 0:07:13.640 sisters in tennis, which is generally a white chick sport. 0:07:14.160 --> 0:07:17.080 Then a couple of black chicks come out along and dominate. 0:07:17.720 --> 0:07:20.760 It's just heroes. Everybody loves it. For some reason. 0:07:20.800 --> 0:07:21.240 Interesting. 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:23.680 Yeah, not everybody. 0:07:23.680 --> 0:07:27.120 Obviously, with any high profile athlete, there's craft that takes place. 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:30.960 But yeah, and then there are black guys that are 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:34.720 predominantly black sport, the W or the NBA, who get 0:07:34.760 --> 0:07:39.480 tremendous acclaim and stardom, and on that tack, I will continue. 0:07:39.520 --> 0:07:42.400 This is a note from uh, we'll just call her anonymous. 0:07:43.600 --> 0:07:46.280 The quoted statement on Monday's show. Clark's race is a 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:49.200 huge reason for her popularity should be seen for what 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:53.240 it is. Other players jealousy of Caitlin's success and the 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:56.320 need to rationalize it is something other than her objectively 0:07:56.440 --> 0:07:59.960 obvious talent. I'm going to stop there and tell you 0:08:01.320 --> 0:08:06.360 I let the left do it again. This became a trial, 0:08:06.400 --> 0:08:09.120 if you will, a forum, a question of whether Caitlin 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:14.520 Clark was being unjustifiably and for racial reasons elevated above 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:17.880 other players. This ought to be a trial about the 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:21.240 people who are accusing her of that and what's going 0:08:21.320 --> 0:08:26.280 on with them. I will elucidate, illuminate. According to her critic, 0:08:26.360 --> 0:08:28.000 she was only the Rookie of the Year because she 0:08:28.040 --> 0:08:29.640 was white, and now Athlete of the Year for. 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:32.880 The same reason. But the facts shout for themselves. 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:36.520 She is, in fact, the best women's collegiate basketball player 0:08:36.559 --> 0:08:39.480 ever by the numbers. She has broken the records of 0:08:39.520 --> 0:08:42.600 former players including Pete Maravich and Lynette Woodard, and set 0:08:42.640 --> 0:08:46.560 the NCAA all time scoring record. She's a marvel at threes, 0:08:46.679 --> 0:08:49.840 she's quick af as the young people say, and a 0:08:50.000 --> 0:08:54.680 champion in assists. Assists matter their credit for helping other 0:08:54.800 --> 0:08:58.240 players do well. In all caps, she has said, I 0:08:58.400 --> 0:09:01.320 love passing the ball. If you're great at something and 0:09:01.360 --> 0:09:04.160 better than most, plus you support your team, you get recognized. 0:09:04.360 --> 0:09:07.280 Can't we all just concede that she's great and moved on. 0:09:07.679 --> 0:09:10.400 It's not Caitlyn's job to appease that jealousy or frustrations 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:12.599 of other players are to endure their harassment attempts to 0:09:12.640 --> 0:09:14.200 hurt her. And there's more on that, and I think 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:16.680 it's very good. Well, if her critics want to prove 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:19.360 that the great rise in viewership in the WNBA is 0:09:19.440 --> 0:09:22.080 because she's white, then once they can perform as well 0:09:22.120 --> 0:09:26.200 as she does, they can test their theory. But the 0:09:26.280 --> 0:09:29.160 point is, actually, and it's great, and it's well made 0:09:29.240 --> 0:09:34.800 by any objective standard, really, any objective standard. Of course, 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:36.400 she's going to be the biggest star in the game 0:09:36.600 --> 0:09:37.319 out of college. 0:09:38.760 --> 0:09:40.240 Who what sort of. 0:09:40.240 --> 0:09:45.160 Person would make this about race given the objective standards 0:09:45.200 --> 0:09:49.559 of who's a great basketball player? They keep stats, it's 0:09:49.600 --> 0:09:55.480 not like musicians. The indictment is going in the wrong way. 0:09:56.640 --> 0:09:57.440 Well said. 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:00.640 That sort of thing. 0:10:02.400 --> 0:10:06.680 I do too, too, and I hate most of all 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:14.160 that the hardcore, really ugly activists have sucked along unsuspecting 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:17.520 people of good conscience who think they're doing the right 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:19.320 thing by racializing everything. 0:10:19.360 --> 0:10:21.160 It sucks for Caitlin Clark that she has to deal 0:10:21.160 --> 0:10:25.240 with that. I remember in the Larry Bird documentary, the 0:10:25.240 --> 0:10:28.760 one they had, I think it was HBO Larry versus Magic. 0:10:28.880 --> 0:10:31.920 Really interesting documentary if you're into that whole story. But 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:35.760 Larry Bird, when he was League MVP three times in 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:40.439 a row, Isaiah Thomas, black player Detroit Distance, made some 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:43.040 comments about it's because he's white, and Larry Bird talked 0:10:43.040 --> 0:10:45.720 about how that really hurt him. That actually hurt him 0:10:45.720 --> 0:10:48.079 because he cared so much about being a good player 0:10:48.120 --> 0:10:50.839 and being respected for his game and having some player 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:52.800 that he had respect for. Saying it's just because you're 0:10:52.840 --> 0:10:55.400 white that you're getting all attention was really painful. 0:10:55.440 --> 0:10:57.440 For him. Yeah, anyway, it would be. 0:10:57.520 --> 0:10:58.960 I mean, this is what you care about more than 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:02.360 anything in your life. And you you're saying I'm not good. 0:11:02.360 --> 0:11:04.640 It's just because I'm white, I'm not as good. I 0:11:04.679 --> 0:11:07.160 would that would bother you. Sure, it's devastating. 0:11:07.240 --> 0:11:09.600 Yeah, well, and the flip side of that coin is 0:11:10.240 --> 0:11:14.920 affirmative action programs and DEI programs, right because now anybody 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:19.599 who does achieve is automatically looked upon as well, and 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:22.840 they didn't earn it, as people say about DEEI that's 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:26.920 why it's so insidious. Anyway, I wish I was in charge. 0:11:26.960 --> 0:11:28.720 Folks said, straighten everything out in your hands. 0:11:29.600 --> 0:11:32.760 I straightened everything out in her I don't tell you 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:36.760 about her friends. 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The governor is against it, 0:12:53.000 --> 0:12:54.719 So I want to talk about that also. Study of 0:12:54.720 --> 0:12:57.920 the game out last night. Not surprising, some of your 0:12:57.960 --> 0:13:02.559 most elite universities Georgetown PENNT let people in because they're rich. 0:13:02.640 --> 0:13:05.240 They let kids in because they're rich. Their parents are rich, 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:08.840 and they wouldn't have qualified any other way except for 0:13:08.880 --> 0:13:10.360 the fact that their parents were rich. 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:14.240 The university except that, as long as they didn't deny 0:13:14.320 --> 0:13:17.240 it publicly and talk about it openly privately. 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:19.839 As long as they didn't lecture us about inequality and 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:22.160 inequity being the biggest scourge in America and all that 0:13:22.200 --> 0:13:24.959 sort of stuff. Oh good lord, lot on the way, 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:33.120 stay here, poor Jet and his nuts. You think you 0:13:33.320 --> 0:13:38.600 misunderstood the lyric. Van Jones is one of my favorite 0:13:38.720 --> 0:13:41.559 lefty pundits. We wouldn't agree on anything in the world 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:43.640 policy wise, but he's one of the few people that's 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:46.240 willing to be honest about his own side or things 0:13:46.240 --> 0:13:49.720 in general. And he said this on CNN yesterday or 0:13:49.760 --> 0:13:51.560 is some sort of panel anyway, he was talking about, 0:13:51.600 --> 0:13:52.520 here you go, we. 0:13:52.520 --> 0:13:56.120 Are way off. The entire political class is way off. 0:13:57.400 --> 0:14:00.840 First of all, digital is the new door knocking. 0:14:01.520 --> 0:14:02.040 You got to. 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:05.440 Understand that we were laughing our butts off at Donald 0:14:05.480 --> 0:14:09.160 Trump for suspending his door knocking campaign and letting Charlie 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:11.720 Kirk and Elon do a bunch of stuff online. We said, 0:14:11.760 --> 0:14:14.040 these guys are idiots, these guys are stupid. Then you 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:16.599 start knocking on these doors, you know, people come to 0:14:16.600 --> 0:14:17.520 the door with. 0:14:17.240 --> 0:14:19.359 Their phone in their hand. 0:14:20.080 --> 0:14:24.320 The mainstream has become fringe, and the French has become mainstream. 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:25.760 There are platforms. 0:14:25.760 --> 0:14:29.480 There are people out there that are getting fourteen million streams, 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:32.080 and we're on cable News getting one or two million, 0:14:32.760 --> 0:14:35.040 and so there is a whole world out there. Kelly 0:14:35.120 --> 0:14:36.800 and Conway. I hate to agree with her, but I 0:14:36.880 --> 0:14:39.280 do a lot of times. Donald Trump understood that. 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:40.240 And we didn't. 0:14:40.800 --> 0:14:46.440 It's so obviously true. Yeah, yeah, we'll hear the next 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:48.040 one that I have a comment about the whole thing. 0:14:48.520 --> 0:14:52.680 Guys, can we cut it out? Donald Trump is not 0:14:53.040 --> 0:14:55.160 an idiot, Donald Trump. Let me just be very clear. 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:57.200 Donald Trump is smarter than me. 0:14:57.560 --> 0:14:58.720 You and all. 0:14:58.800 --> 0:15:04.720 Critics know, because he has the White House, the Senate, the. 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:06.600 House totally agree for. 0:15:07.200 --> 0:15:11.360 The popular vote. He has a massive media ecosystem bigger 0:15:11.440 --> 0:15:14.640 than the mainstream, built around him and for him, and 0:15:14.760 --> 0:15:19.520 a religiously religious fervor in a political movement around him. 0:15:19.880 --> 0:15:22.240 And he is best buddy, is the richest person in 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:24.800 the history of the world, and the most relevant Kennedy 0:15:24.880 --> 0:15:25.360 is with him. 0:15:25.840 --> 0:15:28.040 This dude is a phenomenon. 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:31.400 He is the most powerful human on earth and in 0:15:31.440 --> 0:15:34.680 our lifetime. And we're still saying, well, how is this card? 0:15:35.280 --> 0:15:36.520 We look like idiots. 0:15:36.720 --> 0:15:43.560 Ordinary do not listen to Van Jones. Democrats do not listen. 0:15:43.640 --> 0:15:46.840 He's wrong, he's maga, he switched sides. He's probably a 0:15:46.880 --> 0:15:48.200 white guy. I agree. 0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:54.720 Continue to have multi human panels on CNN discussing doing 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:57.000 it exactly the same way next time around. 0:15:57.200 --> 0:16:00.040 Do that, Democrats, Yeah, keep walking listening to the the 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:04.040 folks at that paneled. It was a flawless campaign. Kamala 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:07.200 lost cause of misogyny. That's the only reason. Yes, keep believing. 0:16:07.320 --> 0:16:09.760 Keep signing up people to knock on doors and bring 0:16:10.080 --> 0:16:13.200 snowshovels to their houses in Iowa for the caucuses and 0:16:13.400 --> 0:16:15.560 that stuff that was popular in the seventies. 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:17.720 Boy, I love the way you put that. 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:19.480 We'd go knocking on the door, you know what, people 0:16:19.560 --> 0:16:21.480 come to the door with their phone in their hand. 0:16:23.280 --> 0:16:24.120 Yeah. 0:16:24.160 --> 0:16:26.640 Well, and he talked about you know, platforms that have 0:16:26.920 --> 0:16:29.720 millions of listeners. Meanwhile, we're getting one or two million 0:16:29.760 --> 0:16:30.480 on cable news. 0:16:30.600 --> 0:16:31.200 Uh. 0:16:31.280 --> 0:16:33.640 And when was the last time there are two million 0:16:33.640 --> 0:16:37.160 people watching CNN? You're if you're talking about Fox News 0:16:37.200 --> 0:16:38.800 maybe yeah. 0:16:38.920 --> 0:16:40.960 Yeah, he could have said, and we're getting six hundred 0:16:41.000 --> 0:16:44.560 thousand people watching us on CNN across the entire country 0:16:44.880 --> 0:16:46.440 as opposed to Joe Rogan. 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:48.360 WHOA, Oh my. 0:16:48.320 --> 0:16:50.720 God, How the hell are there not more Democrats saying 0:16:50.960 --> 0:16:54.800 Kamala Harris didn't go on Joe Rogan, she deserved to lose. 0:16:55.800 --> 0:16:59.240 He doesn't have the ability. He wanted her to come on. 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:04.760 He would have reached sixty million people in immediately and 0:17:04.880 --> 0:17:05.520 she didn't. 0:17:05.880 --> 0:17:10.439 The end. Yeah, yeah, well, and she was right to 0:17:10.440 --> 0:17:13.760 not go on there. That's all because she's uncomfortable. Truth. 0:17:14.400 --> 0:17:16.560 Yeah, because she's a moron. She would have been exposed. 0:17:16.560 --> 0:17:18.919 I mean, it was like Biden at the debate, seventy 0:17:19.040 --> 0:17:22.200 six percent of Americans thought he's a senile, old husk 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:25.199 of a man, and then he removed all doubt. If 0:17:25.280 --> 0:17:27.440 Kamala had gone on Rugan, it would have been precisely 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:32.879 the same result. The Year in Review coming up next. 0:17:32.720 --> 0:17:35.040 Oh my god, So here's my uh how much time 0:17:35.040 --> 0:17:37.560 I got my go thirty's nine. Well, I'm gonna say 0:17:37.600 --> 0:17:40.520 it real quick. I'm gonna make the biggest New Year's 0:17:40.600 --> 0:17:43.000 even resolution, New Year's resolution of my life. I'm going 0:17:43.040 --> 0:17:47.280 to forgo all baked goods for as long as I can. 0:17:47.359 --> 0:17:48.879 I don't even believe I can do it for the 0:17:48.880 --> 0:17:50.440 whole year, but I'm going to see how long I 0:17:50.480 --> 0:17:53.720 can do it. Like bread for sandwiches doesn't count stuff 0:17:53.760 --> 0:17:59.640 like that, but donuts, rolls, cakes, pies, all of that cookies. 0:18:00.800 --> 0:18:04.280 It's like it's like pornography. It's tough to find, but 0:18:04.359 --> 0:18:05.720 I know it when I see it. I don't know 0:18:05.720 --> 0:18:07.199 how long I can pull it off, but I'm going 0:18:07.240 --> 0:18:09.120 to try. And I'm a little scared. I got who admit. 0:18:11.160 --> 0:18:12.320 Armstrong and Geeddy. 0:18:13.880 --> 0:18:15.080 I know it's going to be one of the big 0:18:15.119 --> 0:18:19.720 stories next year. Elon's role in our government and the 0:18:19.760 --> 0:18:23.440 Trump administration. New poll out shows Elon has almost exactly 0:18:23.440 --> 0:18:26.080 the same poll rating as Trump, so they seem to 0:18:26.119 --> 0:18:28.760 be tied together to a certain extent in the public's mind. 0:18:29.200 --> 0:18:32.800 By the way, Elon's current network is now over four 0:18:33.000 --> 0:18:35.760 hundred billion dollars. 0:18:35.760 --> 0:18:42.200 Difficult to imagine whoa. In fact, it's impossible to imagine crazy. 0:18:43.240 --> 0:18:46.480 So Michael cue the theme music. It's the year that was. 0:18:47.480 --> 0:18:50.720 I knew the news in review of the news that 0:18:51.080 --> 0:18:53.840 was reviewed in review. 0:18:55.800 --> 0:18:56.960 I just thought it might be funny. 0:18:57.040 --> 0:18:59.280 Katie jump on if you want to, just let's run 0:18:59.359 --> 0:19:01.679 through just a and we've got the Clips of the 0:19:01.720 --> 0:19:02.160 Year show. 0:19:02.160 --> 0:19:03.359 Heck, we haven't been promoting that. 0:19:03.560 --> 0:19:06.280 Clips of the Year show is on Friday, in which 0:19:06.320 --> 0:19:08.840 we run through tons and tons of news clips and 0:19:09.640 --> 0:19:11.760 end of the year listical sort of thing. 0:19:11.800 --> 0:19:13.680 That we don't really have to work on the last 0:19:13.680 --> 0:19:16.399 show of the year and we can hit the bottle, 0:19:17.400 --> 0:19:18.280 sobriety optional. 0:19:18.400 --> 0:19:20.000 Yeah, yeah, Anyway. 0:19:20.280 --> 0:19:23.000 January began on January first with an earthquake in Japan. 0:19:23.040 --> 0:19:25.760 Happy twenty twenty four Japan. Here's some devastation, but we 0:19:25.800 --> 0:19:28.239 won't talk about that because that's Japan. It was the 0:19:28.280 --> 0:19:32.520 next day, the second that Cloud Dean Gay resigned as 0:19:32.560 --> 0:19:37.719 president of Harvard, A momentary, small victory for the anti 0:19:37.840 --> 0:19:39.920 woke America that we represent. 0:19:40.200 --> 0:19:42.399 What was that all about? Was that the whole. 0:19:44.280 --> 0:19:47.679 The hearing where she said, well, calling for the genocide 0:19:47.720 --> 0:19:50.080 of Jews, Right, that depends on the contest. 0:19:50.400 --> 0:19:53.600 Yeah, this is the second day of the year. Okay, yeah, yeah. 0:19:53.640 --> 0:19:56.240 Then the same day Atapamas leader was killed the first 0:19:56.240 --> 0:20:01.200 of many in bea Root. The S and P five 0:20:01.280 --> 0:20:03.600 hundred hit a record that now seems quaint. 0:20:04.359 --> 0:20:04.439 Loo. 0:20:04.600 --> 0:20:05.640 I was reminded. 0:20:05.359 --> 0:20:09.720 Yesterday that the down industrials fell for the ninth consecutive day, 0:20:10.200 --> 0:20:13.680 which was the longest slide since nineteen seventy seven or something. 0:20:13.800 --> 0:20:15.000 Really, I did not even hear that. 0:20:15.920 --> 0:20:16.800 Yeah, it just was. 0:20:16.840 --> 0:20:18.800 Kind of ticking down bit by bit by bit by bit. 0:20:18.840 --> 0:20:20.480 But you expected to tick up at some point. 0:20:20.560 --> 0:20:22.919 Here I am like, I got it, and the Dow 0:20:23.040 --> 0:20:24.560 was crowded, You fool. 0:20:26.920 --> 0:20:29.840 January twenty sixth, Trump was hit with a penalty of 0:20:29.960 --> 0:20:32.720 more than eighty three million dollars in damages for defaming 0:20:32.760 --> 0:20:39.880 writer E Jean Carroll, saying she fabricated the sexual assault allegations. 0:20:41.040 --> 0:20:44.080 Easy to forget and it shouldn't be. January twenty eighth, 0:20:44.200 --> 0:20:48.760 US troops killed in Israel Hamas War three years service 0:20:48.760 --> 0:20:50.920 members are killed more than forty injured in and Iran 0:20:51.200 --> 0:20:54.399 back to milicious drone strike on a base in Jordan. 0:20:54.600 --> 0:20:58.000