Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Katty.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Jackie and he arms wrong drum studio scene
Speaker 2: see signor.
Speaker 3: And it's Friday, and we're in a dimly lit room
Speaker 3: deeper than the bowels the Armstrong and Getting communications compound.
Speaker 3: And hey today we're under the tuteled of our general manager.
Speaker 1: California Firefighters once again and Joe Biden, deliverer of the
Speaker 1: world's most ironic eulogy.
Speaker 2: Okay, look forward to that character character.
Speaker 1: Jack.
Speaker 2: I'm all about wild Card weekend in the NFL. Yes,
Speaker 2: that's the best playoff weekend. The first couple of weeks
Speaker 2: we got all the games going on. Fantastic, fantastic, Well.
Speaker 1: Big college football game last night too, the Golden Domers
Speaker 1: last second victory over the League ger can't win the
Speaker 1: Big One Penn Staters.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and all those low seeds making it so far
Speaker 2: shows that the whole picking smart people picking teams who's
Speaker 2: gonna win didn't work very well. Yeah, well, way, wrong, way,
Speaker 2: way a lot. Eight year's an. It's just entertainment. It's fine.
Speaker 2: How about the uh the Rams play who do the
Speaker 2: Rams play Michael the hated They were supposed to, They
Speaker 2: were supposed to get to play at home, and the
Speaker 2: game has been moved to Arizona because of the fires.
Speaker 2: Is it the Chargers Rams Chargers?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 2: Correct, oh nomtsorry they no, no, no, the Chargers San
Speaker 2: Diegrig Chargers are playing in Houston, Texans.
Speaker 1: That's right, Los Angeles Chargers. Sorry, it does not roll
Speaker 1: off the tongue.
Speaker 2: No, I've never been able to say that, even after
Speaker 2: all these The Chargers are at the Texans. But yeah,
Speaker 2: the Rams game. So you get the home field of
Speaker 2: gen advantage. You do everything you need to do when
Speaker 2: your division, and you got to play in Arizona because
Speaker 2: of the fires. The minor problem fire wise with all
Speaker 2: the loss of life and property and uh what did
Speaker 2: I hear? One of the fires is now thirty square
Speaker 2: miles and the other one is twenty square miles, for
Speaker 2: a total of fifty square miles of completely burnt to
Speaker 2: the ground for the two biggest fires, which is an
Speaker 2: imaginably large area of space. Absolutely incredible.
Speaker 1: Katie informs us that the Mighty Rams are playing the
Speaker 1: Marauding Vikings of Minnesota, featuring coach Tim Walls on the sidelines.
Speaker 2: Does can you have a microphone in this for a
Speaker 2: segment to be awesome? If she could just jump on
Speaker 2: and say the words, yeah, idea, they're playing the Vikings awesome. Well,
Speaker 2: good confirming the previous report was I gonna say I
Speaker 2: had something to say about the footballame, I'll pop back
Speaker 2: into my head. The welcome distraction from the horrible news
Speaker 2: that has been going for the last several days. Man.
Speaker 2: You know, the tremendous amount of fire coverage coast to coast.
Speaker 2: Even your East coast news shows, which often ignore things
Speaker 2: happening on the West coast, are leading and going heavy
Speaker 2: with the fire. It's just so freaking big. Plus it's
Speaker 2: Los Angeles Media Center, Hollywood people losing their homes in
Speaker 2: addition to regular people and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2: But the coverage has been quite high, and it seems
Speaker 2: like it is really turned toward MM. What were the
Speaker 2: policies that caused this? I mean that is that at
Speaker 2: least that was the focus of every news show I
Speaker 2: saw last night. Yeah? Good, Yeah, what are the policies
Speaker 2: that caused this? We're the failures and the fact that
Speaker 2: the mayor bass of LA and the Governor Gavin Newsom
Speaker 2: had no answers ready to go. I'm surprised that their
Speaker 2: people didn't prepare them better to have something to say
Speaker 2: to reporters and not look so completely incompetent, flat footed,
Speaker 2: like they don't know what's going on. Not a good look.
Speaker 1: Well, a lot of what they've done is indefensible, So
Speaker 1: the fact that they had no defense is not that
Speaker 1: shocking to me. Although usually Gavy is smart enough to
Speaker 1: have some sort of bull crap ready right, right, and
Speaker 1: he did not, like, well, although you know what they're
Speaker 1: going with, that was not the time to politicize this, right,
Speaker 1: And it's like, hey, you know what, those of us
Speaker 1: who study political policy and his outcomes, we're not currently
Speaker 1: trying to put out the fire. We have time. I
Speaker 1: have time. I would not be welcome on the front lines.
Speaker 1: I'm old and fat.
Speaker 2: So it's sentencing day for Donald Trump in the Stormy
Speaker 2: Daniels hush money trial, as they called it inaccurately. The
Speaker 2: Supreme Court ruled in favor of Now you gotta go
Speaker 2: ahead and be sentenced today. The out of control maga extreme.
Speaker 2: We need to add people, it's so out of control,
Speaker 2: Supreme Court voted five to four that Trump is going
Speaker 2: to have to be sentenced today.
Speaker 1: So all that rhetoric was always a shameless lie, a
Speaker 1: complete divorce from the truth.
Speaker 2: Even the whack job Mersham, the judge who should have
Speaker 2: never taken any of this as far as he did,
Speaker 2: said though, no jail time, no penalties, he's recommending whatever
Speaker 2: the legal term is, some legal term that you go through.
Speaker 2: So I guess he just wants it on the books.
Speaker 2: He wants the cable news spectacle of the about to
Speaker 2: become president of the United States having to be in
Speaker 2: a courtroom and all that sort of stuff flexes his muscles,
Speaker 2: even though there's no result that comes out of it.
Speaker 1: And again, the Appeals Court will be treating this case
Speaker 1: like aaron judge treats a high fastball as soon as
Speaker 1: they get it, which will be delicious.
Speaker 2: How long do you think that'll take? No idea? Were
Speaker 2: you surprised the Supreme Court went five to four toward
Speaker 2: we ain't doing anything about this.
Speaker 1: Actually no, no, I'm not, And it was a five
Speaker 1: to four ruling and unsigned, but I kind of agree
Speaker 1: with the majority. He doesn't have to be there. There's
Speaker 1: no penalty, there's no sanction, it's a virtual hearing. It
Speaker 1: doesn't really impact him as president.
Speaker 2: Get it done. Let's get onto the appeals. We should
Speaker 2: start the show officially on this Friday. I'm Jack Armstrong,
Speaker 2: He's Joe Getty on this How did it already get
Speaker 2: to be the tenth of January? Ain't putting up with
Speaker 2: any jive. No cut the jive, cut the jive. In
Speaker 2: twenty five we are armstrong in getting we approve of
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Speaker 1: Let's begin the show officially. Then, according to FCC rules
Speaker 1: or eggs, here we go at Mark.
Speaker 5: Would that seventeen million dollars that had been cut from
Speaker 5: your budget have made a difference in this fight?
Speaker 6: I would say with the lean forward posture that we
Speaker 6: took knowing that a seventeen million dollar cut we had
Speaker 6: to take from somewhere, and that was from the non
Speaker 6: essential duties and responsibilities that is the fire department we
Speaker 6: have taken on over the past many, many years.
Speaker 5: But with all due respect, in December you had worn
Speaker 5: that the budget cuts would severely limit your ability to
Speaker 5: respond to large scale emergencies.
Speaker 2: Is that true or not?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 6: So I would say, yes, we were limited to a
Speaker 6: certain factor.
Speaker 2: Yes, O boy moron who is Karen Bass and it
Speaker 2: will shock you a little bit later on in the show,
Speaker 2: how you know, I'll go ahead and hit you with
Speaker 2: a punchline. Then we'll get to the meat of it
Speaker 2: later on.
Speaker 1: But if a guy like Pete Hegzeth has a tattoo
Speaker 1: that arguably, according to somebody, might be reminiscent of like
Speaker 1: a Crusades's tattoo, which has once been used by a
Speaker 1: white organization that claimed at one point.
Speaker 2: To be associated with blah blah blah blah blah. It's
Speaker 2: in the headlines.
Speaker 1: This woman's an avowed communist and a friend of Fidel Castro.
Speaker 2: Didn't really come up. I mentioned the other day I
Speaker 2: am cynical about government. I'm definitely past skeptl in the
Speaker 2: I mean, I assume the worst and et cetera, et
Speaker 2: cetera with all these people. And one of the reasons
Speaker 2: is this has always bothered me politicians when there's a
Speaker 2: crisis going on, so often when they're asking a question,
Speaker 2: you can see the gears grinding. Their number one goal
Speaker 2: is not to inform you the voter. That's their job.
Speaker 2: They work for us. They should be letting us know
Speaker 2: what's going on, what went wrong, what they're gonna do,
Speaker 2: et cetera. That's their wheels are always spinning on how
Speaker 2: do I stay out of trouble, what helps me the most,
Speaker 2: what gets me more funding, et cetera, et cetera, And
Speaker 2: it drives me nuts. And including any of these press conferences,
Speaker 2: I don't know about all of them. I've only seen
Speaker 2: a couple. And this is always the case. You find
Speaker 2: a body in a murder, you got a fire, whatever
Speaker 2: it is. I'd just like to say that I'd stand
Speaker 2: up here and everybody's waiting for this news conference, like
Speaker 2: for a day or longer to get the information. I
Speaker 2: would like to thank the blah blah blah letter agency
Speaker 2: and the good job they did, and Jim Jones over
Speaker 2: there and the other agency, and they all need to
Speaker 2: make sure they get their credit. Just give us the
Speaker 2: freaking answer. You want to put out a press release
Speaker 2: thanking each other and slapping each other in the back
Speaker 2: and making sure everybody knows your alphabet thing is working
Speaker 2: so hard and deserves more budget. Fine, but tell the
Speaker 2: people right off the bat, how many acres, what kind
Speaker 2: of containment, what's going on? The people on the ground
Speaker 2: are fighting their asses off to do all this stuff.
Speaker 2: But man, when the politicians get asked questions, they never
Speaker 2: lean toward informing people. Drives me nuts. There should be
Speaker 2: more pressure on them to do that. More people should
Speaker 2: yell them, hey, shut up about the agencies. Don't care
Speaker 2: answer the question how many trucks you have? While do
Speaker 2: you run out of the water? That sort of thing, right, yeah,
Speaker 2: very madding we don't demand enough out of our politicians.
Speaker 2: We werely god.
Speaker 1: Politicians have three jobs gaining power, holding power, and if
Speaker 1: at the end of the day they've got a little
Speaker 1: spare time, they might do something for their constituents.
Speaker 2: They need to be kept on a.
Speaker 1: Leash like a disobedient pit or even they're nos, pack
Speaker 1: up a marriage.
Speaker 2: A lot of these people aren't politicians. They work for
Speaker 2: various agencies that got appointed by politicians, are created by politicians,
Speaker 2: but just their bureaucrats. Bureaucrats, Right, you got to answer
Speaker 2: the questions people want to know. They don't care about
Speaker 2: the laundry list of all the people you want to think. Oh,
Speaker 2: drives me nuts, Especially in the middle of a crisis,
Speaker 2: why the hell did you run out of water? Have
Speaker 2: an answer? And if it's a bad look for you,
Speaker 2: the answer doesn't matter. Just give us the truth, right right.
Speaker 1: We need an Office of the Grim Reaper who will
Speaker 1: go to those press conferences.
Speaker 2: You don't need to wear the outfit, but.
Speaker 1: You go to that press conference, some bureaucrat to unleashes
Speaker 1: some crap answer like Karen Bass just did say, he
Speaker 1: says you're fired.
Speaker 2: No, there's no appeals process.
Speaker 1: You're fired, right, No, deputy, step up the department, the
Speaker 1: Office of the Grim Reaper of government officials?
Speaker 2: Got did you see if we can get that passed?
Speaker 2: See any of those videos? Are those planes dropping water,
Speaker 2: flying in that high wind and then buffeting back and forth?
Speaker 2: Those must be some amazing pilots. Yeah, and courageous too,
Speaker 2: God bless them. Yeah. How does mailbag look? It's good
Speaker 2: it's a Friday. We need to get to the first
Speaker 2: clips of the week of the year. Of course we're
Speaker 2: all kind of hoping you'd forget the first one in
Speaker 2: the year. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, unlike Karen d Ass, I am competent to get
Speaker 1: my duties.
Speaker 2: I got so some regular person posed a question about
Speaker 2: the fire hydrants running out of water yesterday and I
Speaker 2: got seven million retweets because it was like an obvious question,
Speaker 2: like the most obvious question there is I'll get to
Speaker 2: that coming up. Stay tuned.
Speaker 7: So on Friday mornings, I drive to work listening to
Speaker 7: music instead of news, and today I was Gim and
Speaker 7: Hoodi and I was thinking, we did that list the
Speaker 7: other day of all the bands that are touring twenty five,
Speaker 7: because the only way you can make money in music
Speaker 7: now is touring. It doesn't matter how many people buy
Speaker 7: a Hoody and the Bold Blowfish album.
Speaker 2: Who just discovered it. It's funny when we were a
Speaker 2: young rock fans, it was exactly the opposite. Yeah, right,
Speaker 2: but lost money touring to sell elbows. There's a group
Speaker 2: that I ought to get back together. I know Hoody
Speaker 2: makes money as a country artist, but that's the It's
Speaker 2: like twenty years exactly, so that that high school era,
Speaker 2: college era twenty year anniversary they go out on tour,
Speaker 2: they would kill it right, right.
Speaker 1: So we have mail bag freedom, love You, Quote of
Speaker 1: the day, and much more to come. First, though, let's
Speaker 1: take fond look back. It's a first week that was
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty five. It's clips of the week.
Speaker 8: The whips of the week, the pal Estates fire burning
Speaker 8: homes and forcing thousands to run for their lives.
Speaker 5: You were to describe what we're seeing is just apocalyptic.
Speaker 5: An emergency personnel had to take a bulldozer to just
Speaker 5: bulldoze them out of the way.
Speaker 2: They've put up the hoses. The water ran dry. The
Speaker 2: local folks are trying to figure that out. Weather mayor
Speaker 2: have you Absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today
Speaker 2: if you're dealing with this disaster.
Speaker 4: The country is on edge.
Speaker 3: They discovered a steel galvanized pipe with two end caps
Speaker 3: surrounded by two dozen rolls of nails.
Speaker 2: This is not a terrorist event.
Speaker 8: We also need to be stronger together by overcoming an
Speaker 8: addiction to divisiveness and negativity.
Speaker 9: What either wore world leaders than any one of you
Speaker 9: ever met in your home. Goddamn wife, I intend to
Speaker 9: resign as party leader, as prime minister.
Speaker 7: It's one of the most awkward moments in American politics.
Speaker 2: Donald J.
Speaker 1: Trump of the state of Florida has received three hundred
Speaker 1: and twelve votes.
Speaker 2: Kamala D. Harris. Everyone loved Wicked.
Speaker 3: I loved Wicked, My boyfriend loved Wicked. My boyfriend's boyfriend
Speaker 3: really loved Wicked.
Speaker 2: We're gonna get back to our roots. We're eliminating the
Speaker 2: third party. Fact checking system. I'm a little concerned. I mean,
Speaker 2: this is like Chipotle announcing that it's any health inspections.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, somebody got shot?
Speaker 8: Everybody, everybody good.
Speaker 2: Oh imagine.
Speaker 9: Jimmy Carter's enduring attribute character character character. We need Greenland
Speaker 9: for national security purposes.
Speaker 2: We were talking to him yesterday, so he says hello
Speaker 2: to everyone in Greenland.
Speaker 1: We're going to be changing the name of the Gulf
Speaker 1: of Mexico to the Gulf of America.
Speaker 2: And you know, we really need to paste ourselves.
Speaker 9: If we're going to freak out over every last tweet.
Speaker 2: We will fight hard, fight hard for the freedom to vote.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, that was that was a disgusting end note there.
Speaker 1: This is just in horned up Hooters waitress trying to
Speaker 1: get out of a ticket.
Speaker 2: Yes, Jack, this is just In. Garth Brooks is a
Speaker 2: good singer. I don't know if anybody knows.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, who do you like in the super heavyweight
Speaker 1: country singer battle Garth and Tricia or Vince Gill and
Speaker 1: Amy Grant?
Speaker 2: Are they having a tug of war or singing a
Speaker 2: sing off? A sing and play off? That'd be a
Speaker 2: good one and be an epic battle, wouldn't it, folks.
Speaker 2: Here's your freedom loving quote of the day.
Speaker 1: It's from author and motivational speaker Aga Mandino, who's a
Speaker 1: big deal, I guess in the twentieth centur I didn't
Speaker 1: know his work, but I came across this quote.
Speaker 2: Oh boy, who is he to have? Sit down? If
Speaker 2: you're not sitting down? Sit down?
Speaker 1: Beginning today, treat every it's our series about beginnings.
Speaker 2: Beginning today.
Speaker 1: Treat everyone you meet as if they were going to
Speaker 1: be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care,
Speaker 1: kindness and understanding that you can muster and do it
Speaker 1: with no thought of any reward.
Speaker 2: Your life will never be the same again. You'd have
Speaker 2: to ease into that lifestyle. I don't think you could
Speaker 2: just do it all of a sudden. That's an we
Speaker 2: got to talk about that later. Bring that up again later.
Speaker 2: That's a great font starter. I will keep it around. Mailbag.
Speaker 2: There wil very little time.
Speaker 1: Let's see drop a note mailbag at Armstrong and.
Speaker 2: Getty dot com.
Speaker 1: Antonio Wrights for those who want the government to take
Speaker 1: care of them from cradle to grave.
Speaker 2: Take a look at LA Way to Go, Gavin.
Speaker 1: Let's see some succinct Thomas Sol from Joe and Weymouth, Massachusetts,
Speaker 1: with respect to the mismanagement of California for decades which
Speaker 1: enabled fires to morph into a disastrous summed up quite
Speaker 1: nicely in the Thomas Sol quote. There are no solutions.
Speaker 1: There are only trade offs. For instance, smelt over water retention.
Speaker 1: Leaving forests in their natural state is preferred by enviros
Speaker 1: over forrest underbrush management because they're in populated areas. Homelessness
Speaker 1: boondoggles and bullet trains over fire department staffing in support,
Speaker 1: et cetera, et cetera. The decades long one party rule
Speaker 1: has chosen the wrong trade Now sadly everyone gets to
Speaker 1: see it.
Speaker 2: I think they act like there aren't trade offs that
Speaker 2: you can do all that peunicorn stuff and it doesn't
Speaker 2: there's no cost to it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you're exactly right. They would deny you
Speaker 1: talk about trade offs. You're trying to balance the back
Speaker 1: of the budget, off the backs of the Oh please,
Speaker 1: you act like children. We're gonna either have water or
Speaker 1: homeless encampments. Which do you want to have?
Speaker 2: We got a lot more on the ways, stay here,
Speaker 2: arm Strong and Getty.
Speaker 10: ABC's David Murror is being mocked for using clothespins to
Speaker 10: cinch his jacket more tightly around his chest. While reporting
Speaker 10: from the scene, He was also overheard asking a crew member,
Speaker 10: does this burning city make me look fat?
Speaker 2: Let's only hope that.
Speaker 10: The sock he puts in his crotch his flame retardant.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, God for the wind. Those are good jokes.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I just take the need to take a
Speaker 1: moment and enjoy that. That's really good way to go, Greg,
Speaker 1: that's terrific.
Speaker 2: Coming up?
Speaker 1: Who is Karen Bass, the longtime powerful union hugging politico
Speaker 1: from California who's now the failed mayor of Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: Her background, if you are a sane human being in
Speaker 1: a loyal American will shock you.
Speaker 2: Stay tuned.
Speaker 1: A little bonus mail bag to lead us on to
Speaker 1: the next step in the discussion. Let's see this is
Speaker 1: a note from old friend Turlock Holmes. I believe that
Speaker 1: is a numb diplome dear.
Speaker 2: Rubes, which is his usual dreading.
Speaker 1: Elon Musk says he thinks about Rome and the Roman
Speaker 1: Empire daily. Gavin is Nero. California is burning, and Gavin
Speaker 1: is fiddling and deflecting blame, as Nero did Gavin must
Speaker 1: think we're gay, I mean gay, I mean blind.
Speaker 2: Okay, thank you for that.
Speaker 1: On a somewhat different topic, Steve from Everett, Washington, Guys,
Speaker 1: I'm a bit more sanguine than you on the doge.
Speaker 1: Elon and Viveck are not going to approach government sluggards
Speaker 1: in the same way as previous conventional politicians. Yes, they
Speaker 1: will meet with opposition, but Elon has the largest megaphone
Speaker 1: in the world. They can bring shame and focus in
Speaker 1: ways no previous reformer could hope to muster.
Speaker 2: I agree with you completely, that's all true.
Speaker 1: But I've been reading a great deal well some about
Speaker 1: what it takes to overturn regulations, for instance, to cancel them,
Speaker 1: and there is a legally congressionally mandated process that you
Speaker 1: have to go through to add or subtract regulations, and
Speaker 1: it's going to be a time consuming drag. In spite
Speaker 1: of what you say, and I'm not in any way
Speaker 1: like anti, It's just I think it's helpful to be
Speaker 1: realistic so that people don't expect like immediate miracles and
Speaker 1: then when it doesn't happen, get discouraged and give up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. I've heard so much negativity from
Speaker 2: people on the right about this because of the things
Speaker 2: you just said. I just I don't like to be
Speaker 2: in that negative about an effort at least we're trying
Speaker 2: so compared to not doing anything year after year after year.
Speaker 2: What what? Okay? What's the perfect world? There isn't one.
Speaker 2: What what's better than this? What's better than the richest
Speaker 2: man in the world, who's got the one of the
Speaker 2: biggest mouthpieces in the world, trying tell me what's better
Speaker 2: than that? Before this is before you go endlessly into
Speaker 2: the negativity. Oh, this is great, It's fantastic. Just gonna
Speaker 2: take a little while, So hang it. My point is
Speaker 2: a positive one. Hang in there. I know yours is.
Speaker 2: But I've heard a lot of commentators, like some of
Speaker 2: my favorite commentators, just like so negative on the thing
Speaker 2: and say, as opposed to, what can you come up
Speaker 2: with a better?
Speaker 1: Yeah, there is a certain smugness to the Beltway, including
Speaker 1: people who I agree with and am fairly fond of,
Speaker 1: whether they're in the media or in government. But there
Speaker 1: is definitely a snootiness about we live on Mount Olympus,
Speaker 1: we know how it works, and you silly business people
Speaker 1: and fly over state people your.
Speaker 2: Efforts are cute, so don't try ever anything ever. I
Speaker 2: suppose the perfect world would be the populace is so
Speaker 2: worried about our spending that they vote for people that's
Speaker 2: their highest issue. But that ain't happening. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, I would say Smugness's fraternal twin is complacency, and
Speaker 1: there's a hell of a lot of that going on
Speaker 1: as well. Let's see, Ryan from Houston says, all I
Speaker 1: need to know about federal politics is that the group
Speaker 1: will referred to Trump as Hitler had no problem sitting
Speaker 1: and talking and laughing with him.
Speaker 2: A month later. Yeah, yeah, so true. I wanted to
Speaker 2: take in some lefty media. How did the left feel
Speaker 2: about their hero Barack Obama just yuckined up with Trump
Speaker 2: for like fifteen minutes before the funeral yesterday. What did
Speaker 2: that feel like if you're a progressive and Barack Obama
Speaker 2: is the greatest thing that ever happened.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, yeah, Well, I hope they appreciate how phony
Speaker 1: it all is and how the four alarm fire a
Speaker 1: terrible metaphor given these circumstances. Tone of the politics that
Speaker 1: they were sold by their leaders was just completely performative.
Speaker 2: I hope they noticed maybe they grow up a little bit.
Speaker 2: So Kim Strassel of the Journal, who's just a terrific writer,
Speaker 2: was talking about old old job. Give us clip number seventy.
Speaker 2: What you Michael.
Speaker 1: At the eulogy yesterday, she was writing about I.
Speaker 9: Was the first senator outside of Georgia, maybe the first
Speaker 9: senator to endorse his ken for president was an endorsement
Speaker 9: fais on I believe is Jimmy Carter's enduring attribute.
Speaker 2: Character, character. Character. Because of that.
Speaker 9: Character, I believe is destiny, destiny in our lives and
Speaker 9: quite frankly, destiny in the life of the nation.
Speaker 1: Now, as Kim points out, it's not uncommon for sitting
Speaker 1: presidents to speak at a state funeral. Although what a
Speaker 1: bummer for Jimmy Carter. Biden's eulogy was mainly a reminder
Speaker 1: of how different the two men were, particularly when it
Speaker 1: came to honesty and character.
Speaker 2: Character, character, And.
Speaker 1: I'm going to jump in the middle, but it's the
Speaker 1: contrasting characters of the two men, one devoted to country
Speaker 1: and faith, one to party and self that revealed the
Speaker 1: starkest divide. Carter was elected on a promise never to
Speaker 1: lie to the American people and he honored it. He
Speaker 1: was unequal to his governing task, sometimes misguided, but he
Speaker 1: genuinely wanted to make things better for the country. He
Speaker 1: was humble and money many forget. He once fired half
Speaker 1: his cabinet in recognition that his administration wasn't getting the
Speaker 1: job done. Mister Biden leaves the Oval Office much as
Speaker 1: he burst into presidential politics indulgently, self servingly, pettily. Joe
Speaker 1: was drummed out for plagiarism and dishonesty, displays of arrogance,
Speaker 1: and then she certainly could and does go into his
Speaker 1: clemency to multiple child murderers, his money laundering for years
Speaker 1: and years, his lying about Hunter Biden's pardon and covering
Speaker 1: up for him, and just to please It was dishonoring
Speaker 1: Jimmy Carter to have that old fart give the eulogy.
Speaker 1: Oh and did Jimmy Carter actually ask him.
Speaker 2: To do the eulogy. That's kind of amusing too, but
Speaker 2: he gets that eventually. Yeah, And we talked quite a
Speaker 2: bit about whoever it was that chose having John Lennon's
Speaker 2: imagine be sung by Garth Brooks and his wife at
Speaker 2: the cathedral. When it's got the line imagine there's no
Speaker 2: heaven at the funeral of a guy who was as
Speaker 2: Christian as Christian can get and no religion.
Speaker 1: Right, yeah, yeah, so I'll just I'll hit this part.
Speaker 1: But Biden claimed Carter asked me to do his eulogy.
Speaker 1: These are highlights from his big interview with USA Today
Speaker 1: the other day, which has been shockingly soft pedaled by
Speaker 1: the mainstream media. I've got a bunch for you. Holy cow,
Speaker 1: is this guy gone? I mean, he is barely hanging on.
Speaker 1: But anyway, Biden claimed, Carter asks me to do his
Speaker 1: eulogy during their last meeting in twenty one, as Biden
Speaker 1: was bending down to kiss him goodbye. Page The journalist
Speaker 1: followed up to find out what Carter actually said, and
Speaker 1: Biden's response did not inspire much confidence.
Speaker 4: Quote.
Speaker 2: I believe that's what he said. Well, he implied.
Speaker 1: If he didn't specifically ask, and what I he was
Speaker 1: just such a decent guy.
Speaker 2: Really really, I hadn't heard this. Yeah oh yeah, yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: so he didn't ask.
Speaker 1: You, no, no, well he implied it.
Speaker 2: Well, even if you didn't, he's such a decent guy. Wow,
Speaker 2: he's so full of crowd.
Speaker 1: Try it's worth staying tuned. Yeah, that's what the three
Speaker 1: things you lack. It's worth staying tuned for the other
Speaker 1: highlights later on. So you wanted that quote again?
Speaker 2: Huh? Yes?
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, beginning today, treat everyone you meet as
Speaker 1: if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend
Speaker 1: to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster,
Speaker 1: and do it with no thought of any reward.
Speaker 2: Your life will never be the same again. So everyone
Speaker 2: I run into, can I have your watch? Wow? Wow?
Speaker 1: Wow, folks, some beautiful message and Jack has taken it cynical. No,
Speaker 1: And you probably don't need to weep as you're checking
Speaker 1: out at the Walmart either, because the checker it's just
Speaker 1: it's it's a mental exercise.
Speaker 2: She's not going to pass. Probably, I'm going to apply
Speaker 2: for your job tomorrow as soon as you're gone. That
Speaker 2: is what now, Well, in my mind, you're dying at midnight.
Speaker 2: That's the way I go through my day. It helps
Speaker 2: me put me in a proper frame of reference. Man,
Speaker 2: you would be honest to God, saint like material obviously
Speaker 2: if you could do that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's an incredibly appealing thought. And I'm not going
Speaker 1: to say a single cynical thing about it, because if
Speaker 1: we all moved an inch or a foot or a
Speaker 1: yard or a mile in that direction, it would be
Speaker 1: a better world. Here's a here's a junior version of
Speaker 1: this that I brought to the show maybe a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago.
Speaker 2: That made a huge, huge impression on me.
Speaker 1: Everyone you meet today is suffering or will be very soon,
Speaker 1: or someone they love very much is.
Speaker 2: Keep that in mind as you deal with people. I
Speaker 2: know people that are a lot closer to that ideal
Speaker 2: you were just talking about that I am and h
Speaker 2: m hmm, I'm amazing. Sure. So here's here's a question
Speaker 2: for you.
Speaker 1: And I'm going to keep this very vague, because Lord knows,
Speaker 1: I've said plenty of things in my life for which
Speaker 1: I should apologize. Somebody said something to me the other day.
Speaker 1: It was specifically about the LA fires that was awful,
Speaker 1: and they seem to mean it. And I'm trying to
Speaker 1: figure out because I've said more than once I'm incapable
Speaker 1: of holding a grudge because I can't remember who I'm
Speaker 1: supposed to be mad at.
Speaker 2: That's a weird deficiency that becomes a strength.
Speaker 1: I mean, seriously, we'll be like, you know, talking to somebody,
Speaker 1: or somebody's name will come up and Jack or somebody
Speaker 1: will say, yeah, that's the guy who screwed us. I'm like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's right. So yeah, So I'm trying to decide do
Speaker 1: I I've got to it was not good and I've
Speaker 1: got to file it away. So what's the same time
Speaker 1: I have said unwise, unfeeling things and later regretted, though,
Speaker 1: Oh boy, I can think of a couple off the
Speaker 1: top of my head meat that I've said that I like,
Speaker 1: what was I thinking?
Speaker 2: Usually I was trying to be funny and it just,
Speaker 2: you know, real fast fired one off and it was
Speaker 2: really really wrong and out of line.
Speaker 1: Or was in a mood or thought it would land
Speaker 1: with a particular crowd, even though I didn't mean it,
Speaker 1: like in a Ricky gervasish way, Right, the reason people
Speaker 1: laughed is not because they agree, but because it was
Speaker 1: outrageous to say it and they disagree.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would say, because I can think of a
Speaker 2: couple of examples from the last couple of weeks in
Speaker 2: my life. Oftentimes, if somebody says or does something that
Speaker 2: upsets me, if I put a little time into it,
Speaker 2: the reason it upsets me has more to do with
Speaker 2: me than them. There's either a nugget of truth to it,
Speaker 2: or it's something I've done, or there's some version of
Speaker 2: I should look inwardly about why this is bothering me
Speaker 2: so much?
Speaker 1: Oh, even if you don't come up with anything, even
Speaker 1: if you don't come up with anything, because that's still
Speaker 1: a good exercise.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, who said that quote? But treating everybody like
Speaker 2: they're going to die at midnight, man, that's a that's
Speaker 2: of a way to live your life.
Speaker 1: He was a writer and kind of motivational speaker and
Speaker 1: all Augmndino of the twentieth century cool.
Speaker 2: I get your parking spot. I think that as I
Speaker 2: walk around.
Speaker 1: You know who was it? It doesn't matter. Once pointed out,
Speaker 1: all humor has a victim. A punchline is at somebody
Speaker 1: or something's expense, every single joke, and somebody said to
Speaker 1: us at one point, make sure that the victim isn't
Speaker 1: somebody who doesn't have it coming. And so I'm thinking about,
Speaker 1: you know, I will show no Christian mercy and aug
Speaker 1: Mandino style a saintliness toward our dishonest, failing, money grubbing
Speaker 1: scumbag politicians.
Speaker 2: Quite quite the opposite.
Speaker 1: I will get at them like a pit bull gets
Speaker 1: at a lamb shank. But those who don't have it
Speaker 1: coming or compassion.
Speaker 2: Joe feeds his pitbull's lambshanks to get him ready for
Speaker 2: the weekend dogfights.
Speaker 1: That heat is rather the first, so shiny Katie's headlines
Speaker 1: on the way, and a lot more stuff stay here.
Speaker 2: Okay, Humanity is over. Humanity is over. I just saw
Speaker 2: at the consumer electronics show going on in Vegas right now,
Speaker 2: the unveiling of the first life sized girlfriend AI programmed
Speaker 2: bot Fantastic that did the humanity is over humanities. If
Speaker 2: you can buy that and she's gonna talk to you
Speaker 2: and tell you how great you are and have sex
Speaker 2: with you whatever you want, that's the end of humanity.
Speaker 1: It was a good run the ancient Egypt to you know,
Speaker 1: the United States Empires, you know, a.
Speaker 2: Hell of a good run. She asked, like that a
Speaker 2: planet of the apes. What was your reaction, Katie, when
Speaker 2: you saw it. It's a list of things we don't need,
Speaker 2: no kidding.
Speaker 1: More on this topic to come, but first let's figure
Speaker 1: out who's reporting.
Speaker 2: Watch here.
Speaker 1: She is a real human being. It's the lead story
Speaker 1: with Katie Green starting with.
Speaker 4: Yahoo News arson suspect arrested by citizens near Kenneth's fire
Speaker 4: armed with a pro paane tank or a flame thrower.
Speaker 4: Turns out he used to hang people like this, right.
Speaker 4: This guy claims that he was using this flamethrower was
Speaker 4: more of like a I don't know, like a blowtorchs
Speaker 4: looking thing to smoke weed because he couldn't.
Speaker 2: Afford a lighter. Oh, couldn't afford a lighter way to
Speaker 2: turn it? Sort of income inequality ISHU. Yeah, A most
Speaker 2: person that start a fire? How many fires have been
Speaker 2: started by homeless people or homeless camps? A lot?
Speaker 1: We swoared off using that term in the New year,
Speaker 1: but many are started by bums and junkies, street transient drug.
Speaker 2: Addicts from KTLA.
Speaker 4: Civilian drone hits and damages firefighting aircraft over the Palisades
Speaker 4: fire m.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's part of that whole. We don't haven't really
Speaker 2: quite figured out all the regulations for drones yet.
Speaker 4: I guess from NBC evacuation alert sent in error to
Speaker 4: phones of nearly ten million LA area.
Speaker 2: Residents, WHOA, I heard it was a mistake, But that's
Speaker 2: that's huge.
Speaker 4: You'd get that and think I got to get out
Speaker 4: of here. From Fox News. Bourbon Street terror victims sue
Speaker 4: New Orleans as Louisiana ag investigates security lapses.
Speaker 1: Yeah, as we mentioned the other day, both the FEDS
Speaker 1: and the state were telling them for years they had
Speaker 1: to put up ballards in the Those are those poles
Speaker 1: that keep a car from coming up on the sidewalk.
Speaker 1: And they'd started and needed to repair somewhere. Just dragging
Speaker 1: their feet. Just more municipal incompetence, left side.
Speaker 2: Of the aisle. It's you know what it's worth.
Speaker 4: From bright bark dot com. Kremlin warns Donald Trump to
Speaker 4: stay away from Greenland. Russia has quote strategic interests in Arctic.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't think that's gonna work on Trump. No,
Speaker 2: and it shouldn't.
Speaker 1: You shut up outen, you paper tiger, you dictate and bastard.
Speaker 2: From the New York Post.
Speaker 4: Passenger irritates fellow flyers by preparing a dessert from scratch
Speaker 4: in her seat. Quote dumbest s, dumbest s I've seen
Speaker 4: all day.
Speaker 1: H boy, the egos and strawberry shortcake close cheesecake made
Speaker 1: a cheesecake next name.
Speaker 2: From scratch the crush? How does that work?
Speaker 4: And Finally, from the Babylon Bee, awkward mourners at Jimmy
Speaker 4: Carter funeral place flowers on Biden.
Speaker 2: Uh, we got this text? Why did Obama laugh so
Speaker 2: hard when talking to Trump? Trump ask him, Hey, do
Speaker 2: you ever find that birth certificate? He did? In fact,
Speaker 2: oh my god. We got a lot more heavy stuff
Speaker 2: and funny stuff and informative stuff and interesting stuff and
Speaker 2: all that. Who is Karen Bass? Really?
Speaker 1: Stay tuned if you can't, grab a podcast later Armstrong
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