Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe, Katty Armstrong, and Jetty
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Speaker 2: C see sor it's a dimly lit room deep but
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Speaker 1: Hey y'all today a little Friday. We're under the tutelage
Speaker 1: of our general manager.
Speaker 2: The drones van, the drones, the drones, the latest second.
Speaker 3: You're on the drones story. Now you've been anti drome.
Speaker 3: I'm all over the drones story.
Speaker 1: I brought it up the other day. You mocked me endlessly.
Speaker 3: What it ended eventually, Dude, you know what, I'm a convert.
Speaker 3: I'm throwing myself down pro straight. I always have to think,
Speaker 3: is it prostate or prostrate on the ground and.
Speaker 1: Begging forgive this.
Speaker 3: I thought it was just some sort of dipss'es or
Speaker 3: this is crazy. Our military installations are being surveilled by
Speaker 3: drones and we sit impotent as a country, unable or
Speaker 3: unwilling to do anything about it.
Speaker 2: Well, there's either the governor or a congress person that
Speaker 2: said this is our of New Jersey, who said, this
Speaker 2: is our highest priority right now.
Speaker 1: Their highest priority.
Speaker 2: Is figuring out what the hell are these drones that
Speaker 2: are flying around. And we had to clip the other day,
Speaker 2: and I think that was from the governor saying, the
Speaker 2: weird thing is that when you get something up to
Speaker 2: look at them, they turn off their lights.
Speaker 1: So I.
Speaker 2: Have no idea what's going on here. I'm perplexed by
Speaker 2: this story. I saw a congress person yesterday saying they
Speaker 2: need to be shot down. Why are we not shooting
Speaker 2: these things down? So at least, you know, anybody can
Speaker 2: be a congress person, but that's quite a thing to say,
Speaker 2: or you.
Speaker 3: Know, somehow launching nets at them, or just surely we
Speaker 3: have some sort of anti drone technology here in the
Speaker 3: greatest superpower on Earth, and it would seem that this
Speaker 3: would be.
Speaker 1: An appropriate time to try it out.
Speaker 2: I saw a sheriff, I believe, say, we have no
Speaker 2: reason to believe their Iranian are coming from some offshore
Speaker 2: Iranian installation. Okay, well, the fact that you even said
Speaker 2: that is troubling to me.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, some congress guy from New Jersey had said
Speaker 3: there is a mothership, an Iranian mothership off the coast,
Speaker 3: and the drones are coming from it, and the Pentagon's like.
Speaker 1: No, there's not and no they aren't.
Speaker 3: As you say, say, I was an idiot and a congressman,
Speaker 3: but I repeat myself.
Speaker 2: So yeah, we got the latest on the whole drone story.
Speaker 2: Whatever's going on there. We mistery Drones. This is my
Speaker 2: new band. By the way, we're playing Friday night. I
Speaker 2: hope you can come out to see the show. We've
Speaker 2: got the FBI director stepping down yesterday, a couple of
Speaker 2: years before his tenure term is up, pointed by Trump,
Speaker 2: driven out by Trump.
Speaker 1: We can talk about that later.
Speaker 2: And the breaking news today that there's not much coverage
Speaker 2: on yet. The largest blank blanket's the wrong word because
Speaker 2: that's an actual term for pardoning. The largest group clemency
Speaker 2: pardon in US presidential history has just happened with President
Speaker 2: Biden commuting the sentences of around fifteen hundred people. It's
Speaker 2: the largest single day active clemency for any president in
Speaker 2: modern history, and the list has not come out yet.
Speaker 1: Of who the hell this hall is?
Speaker 2: Is this an attempt to get back on the right
Speaker 2: side of public opinion on the whole.
Speaker 1: Pardon power thing. I don't think that's gonna work.
Speaker 3: No, I don't think so it's judging by his statement.
Speaker 3: He mentioned specifically nonviolent offenders, especially those convicted of drug offenses,
Speaker 3: and something about sentencing disparities. So I have a feeling
Speaker 3: this is kind of a DEI activist. Hey, bring me
Speaker 3: anybody in an urban area, wink wink, who's in jail
Speaker 3: for drugs.
Speaker 2: And on the other side of the aisle, you have
Speaker 2: former president about to be president Donald Trump ringing the
Speaker 2: bell at the New York Stock Exchange. First time a
Speaker 2: sitting or about to be president has done that since
Speaker 2: torontod Reagan forty years ago. Trump is higher than he's
Speaker 2: ever been in terms of everything. And how long that
Speaker 2: will last, I don't know, but we'll go through some
Speaker 2: of the latest polling. He's got majority approval on practically everything.
Speaker 1: Uncle Moe is undoubtedly on his own.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, Oh my god, brought on by themselves.
Speaker 2: I would say, if I were a Democrat, we brought
Speaker 2: this on ourselves. If I were a Democrat.
Speaker 1: But if you hadn't asked me, if you'd have told.
Speaker 2: Me January seventh, that he'd have a majority approval on
Speaker 2: first of all, he'd get re elected, and he would
Speaker 2: have a majority approval on his cabinet picks, on his
Speaker 2: economic plans, on his immigration plans, he'd be over fifty
Speaker 2: percent on everything.
Speaker 1: I'd not what possibly happened.
Speaker 2: And then he's gonna ring the bell to the New
Speaker 2: York Stock Exchange, first time a president's done that in
Speaker 2: forty years, because he's just so beloved.
Speaker 3: Well, and I'll tell you what, although the idea of
Speaker 3: putting up with this drone crap for another six weeks
Speaker 3: is horrifying to me, Trump will do something nutty to
Speaker 3: take care of it if indeed it's still going on
Speaker 3: when he takes power. He's just Biden is just so useless.
Speaker 3: He is such a spent old mummy. Trump is gonna
Speaker 3: get rid of the drones, if only because they're buzzing
Speaker 3: his one of his golf clubs.
Speaker 1: He won't allow them to bother the golfers. Shut them
Speaker 1: all down.
Speaker 2: And I left out the other thing because they put
Speaker 2: a really good picture of him on the cover. For
Speaker 2: anybody who actually has a magazine anymore, he is Time's
Speaker 2: Person of the Year, Donald Trump. I don't know how
Speaker 2: he would not be. Who would you pick other than
Speaker 2: Donald Trump on planet Earth?
Speaker 1: Right now? But yeah, he's happened a week bing bing
Speaker 1: bang bang bing bing.
Speaker 3: Bing maybe bb Net and Yahoo the headline there that
Speaker 3: Hamas is saying, now that you've despotroyed us in our
Speaker 3: have your foot on our throat, maybe we could make
Speaker 3: a hostage deal. So there's actually a prospect of that happening,
Speaker 3: including some dual citizens who are Americans being turned loose.
Speaker 2: Finally, perhaps, well, let me just hit you with a
Speaker 2: couple of these since I mentioned them. This is the
Speaker 2: combination of a lot of confidence or some confidence. This
Speaker 2: has put you in the positive area on the question
Speaker 2: on dealing with the economy, do you have a lot
Speaker 2: of confidence in Trump? Sixty five percent, have a lot
Speaker 2: or some sixty five percent on handling the war between
Speaker 2: Russian and Ukraine sixty two percent, dealing with immigration policy
Speaker 2: sixty providing any real leader sixty leadership for the country
Speaker 2: fifty nine, handling foreign affairs fifty five he's the dangerous
Speaker 2: hitler who's ruining all our relationships around the world. Fifty
Speaker 2: five percent of people have a lot or somewhat confidence
Speaker 2: using the power of the president responsibly fifty four percent
Speaker 2: majority approval. Wait a minute, appointing that appointing the best
Speaker 2: people to office fifty four percent. Time Magazines Person of
Speaker 2: the Year, Ladies and gentlemen, Donald Trump. It's just astounding
Speaker 2: when people say this is the greatest comeback in political history.
Speaker 2: That is that that that's that, that's so not does
Speaker 2: it justice what has happened.
Speaker 1: Over the last four years. No, No, it's it's no.
Speaker 3: It's it's elephant team compared to anything else that's ever happened.
Speaker 3: It's it's extraordinary.
Speaker 2: Anyway it well, no, no, no, honeymoon last. It didn't
Speaker 2: for Barack Obama. I mean, it doesn't for anybody. You
Speaker 2: have you have low points, and then you will. But yeah,
Speaker 2: I got more on the uh idiot killer, and more
Speaker 2: importantly than that, the views of some people who are
Speaker 2: in support of the your idiot killer, including a sitting
Speaker 2: US senator who explained away his anger yesterday and got
Speaker 2: a lot of blowback.
Speaker 1: We'll have that for you.
Speaker 3: So many of these people, including the Native American princess
Speaker 3: we're discussing here, hinting at they are even as they
Speaker 3: lectras unendingly on.
Speaker 1: For you know, faux moral grounds.
Speaker 3: I mean, they're the left is constantly judging and hectoring
Speaker 3: us and lecturing us on what they claim are moral grounds,
Speaker 3: and yet they are utterly completely amoral and have no
Speaker 3: principles in a lot of cases, I was just looking.
Speaker 1: Putting faux cahantas.
Speaker 2: I was just watching the video of Trump ringing the
Speaker 2: bell at New York Stock Exchange. First of all, Milani
Speaker 2: is at his side walking up on stage. She must
Speaker 2: have decided, hey, people like him again, rush my mouth,
Speaker 2: start hanging around. Does I feel like she was never
Speaker 2: around for quite a few years there now she's always
Speaker 2: at his side.
Speaker 1: But anyway, he walked up there with the whole clan.
Speaker 2: He had all the hot Trump women, and then on
Speaker 2: the other side of the podium he had your RFK
Speaker 2: Junior and your Bergham and all your different cabinet appointees
Speaker 2: and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: Rang the bell.
Speaker 3: So this old lady Gilfoyle officially drummed out of the
Speaker 3: hotty core.
Speaker 2: Don Junior has broken up with Kimberly Gilfort Newsom.
Speaker 1: Aka the Joker. Hey oh, Now, I.
Speaker 2: Would never make fun of someone's appearance if it was
Speaker 2: their natural appearance, But she has spent a lot of
Speaker 2: money on operations to look like that. For some reason,
Speaker 2: it's hard to imagine make me my l like joking
Speaker 2: Phoenix in the joke. No, I want to look like
Speaker 2: I want to look like Jack Nicholson. No, no, take
Speaker 2: me back to the sixties. I want to look like
Speaker 2: Caesar Romero and the old TV joker. Can you do
Speaker 2: that for me?
Speaker 1: Anyway? Don Junior forty five year old woman. All right,
Speaker 1: lots of.
Speaker 2: Pictures f around a Don Junior and some younger hottie.
Speaker 2: He traded in for a younger, newer model apparently, so
Speaker 2: there's that. But she might disappear into obscurity. I see
Speaker 2: an embarrassing boyfriend in her future, like kind of whole
Speaker 2: private profile, but like either O famous or D list
Speaker 2: like she's good with Jake.
Speaker 1: Density wider carrot top, carrot top.
Speaker 2: Anyway, let's start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong. He's
Speaker 2: Joe Getty on this. It is Thursday, December the thirteenth,
Speaker 2: the year twenty twenty four, where i'mstrong and getting we
Speaker 2: approve of this program.
Speaker 3: I'll bet she's texting RFK Junior as we speak. Wow,
Speaker 3: that's newsome. Then Don Junior, Wo, r FK. It's it's
Speaker 3: right there, it's in her wheelhouse. All right, let's bea
Speaker 3: get officially now according to FCC rules and regulations, here
Speaker 3: we go leaping into action at mark.
Speaker 4: Wanted Posters showing the images and names of healthcare executives
Speaker 4: are popping up across New York City, but some of
Speaker 4: them read wanted, denying medical care for corporate profit. Healthcare
Speaker 4: CEOs should not feel safe. An NYPD intelligence report called
Speaker 4: the killing of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson a symbolic takedown,
Speaker 4: and the NYPD is warning that the murder could inspire
Speaker 4: others to act violently towards other business leaders.
Speaker 2: Man, there is populism and then there is populism. Our
Speaker 2: executive producer Hansen brought us to the fact that Bill Burr,
Speaker 2: the comedian, made some comments the other day and we
Speaker 2: didn't get to him. We ought to play him today.
Speaker 2: He just flat out says, as part of his interview
Speaker 2: or a comedy routine, whichever it is, he.
Speaker 1: Says, steals are feeling nervous. God, God they should.
Speaker 2: That is some serious French Revolution style populism.
Speaker 1: That is highly dangerous. Yeah, yeah, I would agree.
Speaker 3: I would agree we are edging closer toward being Syria ourselves.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Not good, not good.
Speaker 2: I just don't get how you think you can control
Speaker 2: that and manage it to the direction you like.
Speaker 1: Look up Robespierre for a moment.
Speaker 2: It is the Wikipedia that speaking of the French Revolution,
Speaker 2: how it can turn on you once you decide, you know,
Speaker 2: random mob violence is okay. Pretty soon you're in the
Speaker 2: crossairs for some reason, right right.
Speaker 3: Well, I think most of are a good deal of
Speaker 3: the problem. Oh my gosh, run late is the Internet.
Speaker 3: It used to be people who were so blatantly horribly
Speaker 3: unwise would be denied a platform. They would just be
Speaker 3: shoved aside. He wouldn't have them on TV anymore or
Speaker 3: in a magazine anymore.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: We got a US senator, we got several congress people,
Speaker 2: and you know, one of the most popular comedians in
Speaker 2: the countries. That's that's you don't need the Internet to
Speaker 2: hear from them anyway. More on that later. How does
Speaker 2: mailbag look quite good? Let's get to it cool text
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Speaker 1: Go on some classic Christmas music. I had some cronin
Speaker 1: right there. It doesn't mention Jesus in anyway. Season.
Speaker 2: Oh, here's your host for mailbag, Joe Getty Way to
Speaker 2: take it dark?
Speaker 1: There, how's that dark?
Speaker 3: It was?
Speaker 1: Well, it was a criticism. It was orts respectful.
Speaker 3: Toward the great crooner Andy Williams, who even now lies
Speaker 3: on his death bed or past ten years ago.
Speaker 2: Or someone say ranked Jesus above Andy Williams.
Speaker 1: My mistake.
Speaker 3: We're all enjoying, we're all enjoying the song and you
Speaker 3: had to take it hostile.
Speaker 1: Wowow you have Asty Williams.
Speaker 3: Above Jesus harm Christmas who you need to respect. Well,
Speaker 3: that's a fair argument. Here's your freedom loving quote of
Speaker 3: the day. It's for Peter Buffett, who's not only the
Speaker 3: son of Warren Buffett, he is an award winning composer
Speaker 3: and musician and author and all sorts of interesting things
Speaker 3: which I didn't know much. A philanthropist too, obviously because
Speaker 3: they got the zillion bunch. But getting back to our
Speaker 3: series about family, he says, it didn't matter how big
Speaker 3: our house was. It mattered that there was love in it,
Speaker 3: good one, which is just simple and powerful and correct.
Speaker 3: Well said Peter.
Speaker 1: Mail bag.
Speaker 3: Please do reach out by an email mail Bag at
Speaker 3: Armstrong and Geeddi dot com, Greg.
Speaker 1: With two g's rights.
Speaker 3: Here's you knew where well it's actually three geez one
Speaker 3: at the beginning, two at the end.
Speaker 1: How many is enough?
Speaker 3: Greg, here's your new word offendinista. Affendinista person anxious to
Speaker 3: take offense on behalf of others at the slightest provocation.
Speaker 3: See also white woman with Masters in Humanity or as
Speaker 3: social science. Using a sentence, I said we were having
Speaker 3: a nice Indian summer, then the affendinista has jumped all
Speaker 3: over me.
Speaker 1: Thanks Craig.
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Speaker 3: a fully stocked breakroom. Fat fat, do not move to
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Speaker 2: Well, the culture can make it fat, but it can't
Speaker 2: make you a literate. Right that you don't lose that.
Speaker 3: No, no, indeed, and thanks for engaging in that awful
Speaker 3: stereotype which is born out by many statistics moving along
Speaker 3: anonymous in the East Bay guys love to show.
Speaker 1: I enjoy the podcast, Thank you very much.
Speaker 3: I want to come in on Jack's story about the
Speaker 3: crazy homeless guy backing off after seeing another man coming
Speaker 3: to help, the infamous story of that crazed if I
Speaker 3: lent drug addict accosting your wife and children, and then yourself.
Speaker 1: I used to live in the Mission in San Francisco.
Speaker 3: Crazy and threatening homeless were irregular occurrence, bums and junkies.
Speaker 3: Yet I never saw even one of those guys act
Speaker 3: out toward gang members or any men who are at
Speaker 3: all intimidating. They were only aggressive toward people who are
Speaker 3: not in a position to fight back. Seems that no
Speaker 3: matter how crazy or belligerent these guys acted, the threat
Speaker 3: of immediate physical consequences straightened them right out. Maybe they
Speaker 3: aren't as helpless or beyond reason as their advocates want
Speaker 3: us to think.
Speaker 1: That's a really good point. I've got another great email
Speaker 1: on that very.
Speaker 2: Top off and thought that my wife and kids had
Speaker 2: been by themselves, what would have happened, because I think
Speaker 2: it was because there was a mail there me standing
Speaker 2: up that he didn't go further because his past crimes
Speaker 2: had been against women, beating up old women or young
Speaker 2: women or whatever.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, there's a shock. We got the barely thirty
Speaker 3: seconds left. We have some terrific emails about the shooting
Speaker 3: of the poor Healthcare CEO and the reaction to it.
Speaker 3: Also great email from somebody who's dealt with quote unquote
Speaker 3: the homeless, and we're trying to find a different term
Speaker 3: for that because that's not the problem, right and it
Speaker 3: fits in with the whole Daniel pennything and a bunch
Speaker 3: of other news that's going on. And we will catch
Speaker 3: you up on the news, because that's what we do.
Speaker 3: If you miss an hour or a segment, get the
Speaker 3: podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand.
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty. Well, here's the real deal, Harris.
Speaker 5: You know, I'm also on the Transportation Committee, on the
Speaker 5: Aviation Subcommittee, and I've gotten to know people and from
Speaker 5: very high sources, very qualified sources, very responsible sources. I'm
Speaker 5: going to tell you the real deal. I ran launched
Speaker 5: a mothership probably about a month ago that contains these drones.
Speaker 1: That mothership is off. I'm gonna tell you the deal.
Speaker 5: It's off the east coast of the United States of America.
Speaker 5: They've launched drones. Is everything that we can see or hear.
Speaker 5: And again, these are from high sources. I don't say
Speaker 5: this slightly.
Speaker 1: All right? Who was that?
Speaker 3: That is Congressman Jeff Drew, Republican of New Jersey.
Speaker 2: That's an actual congressman saying I have sources, highly placed sources.
Speaker 3: Yes, that they're Iranian. Your source isn't QAnon, is it?
Speaker 6: You know?
Speaker 3: It's funny in listening to the guy, half of me
Speaker 3: thinks crack pot. Half of me thinks, if this guy
Speaker 3: turns out to be right.
Speaker 2: Even our current administration, Pentagon, NSA, everybody else would not
Speaker 2: react to this.
Speaker 1: He relaxed. Sources Jack the Congressman Drew, Yes, gone.
Speaker 2: So we're talking about the drones over New Jersey, which
Speaker 2: we've mentioned a couple of times over the last couple
Speaker 2: of weeks in various stages of seriousness about this. I
Speaker 2: think one of the reasons that this is skewed a
Speaker 2: little bit is all the ridiculous UFO hearings we've had
Speaker 2: over the last years. So and people take making him
Speaker 2: seriously and then in media acting like there's something there
Speaker 2: when there's not. And so when I first heard this,
Speaker 2: I thought, well, it's you know, it's of the same ilk.
Speaker 2: It's just pretending this is a big deal. But you
Speaker 2: have some serious politicians. I don't think this guy saying
Speaker 2: this is a big deal. Well a congressman, Van Drew continues, Michael.
Speaker 5: Now you know, we know there was a probability it
Speaker 5: could have been our own government. We know it's not
Speaker 5: our own government because they would have let us know.
Speaker 5: It could have been some really glorified hobbyist or hobbyists
Speaker 5: that we're doing something unbelievable. They don't have the technology,
Speaker 5: but let's pretend that's possible. The third possibility with somebody,
Speaker 5: an adversarial country doing this. You know that Iran made
Speaker 5: a deal with China to purchase drones, motherships and technology
Speaker 5: in order to go forward.
Speaker 1: What's a mothership?
Speaker 3: We can't wait a minute, And that's twice you've used
Speaker 3: that term, sir. At least let's nail down a definition. Well,
Speaker 3: the governor of the Garden State has responded to his
Speaker 3: own congressman's assertions.
Speaker 1: This is Phil Murphy.
Speaker 6: There was a wild assertation by Congressman Andrew today about
Speaker 6: Iran with a big boat off of man So the
Speaker 6: Department of Defense of the zero evidence to that effect.
Speaker 6: FBI said, zero evidence. I'm not sure what he's been
Speaker 6: watching lately, but he might want to watch the news.
Speaker 6: Going to be on again with the White House tomorrow.
Speaker 6: I want folks out there to know we're not listen.
Speaker 6: You're frustrated, so are we. I promise you this is
Speaker 6: our top priority.
Speaker 1: That's the governor.
Speaker 2: Yes, the governor just said the drones are his top
Speaker 2: priority as the governor of the state of New Jersey.
Speaker 3: That apparently he doesn't know the word assertion, he said, assertation.
Speaker 3: The other guy's going on about motherships New Jersey. Come on,
Speaker 3: you're not helping your image. But back to your more
Speaker 3: serious point. Yes, something absolutely unacceptable and untoward is going on.
Speaker 3: We have what appeared to be at the very least
Speaker 3: surveillance drones mapping our military installations and actually to that end, Jack,
Speaker 3: unless you want to jump in real quick.
Speaker 2: The wacky congressman who uses the term mothership regularly.
Speaker 1: One said.
Speaker 2: One thing he said that I'm almost certain is not
Speaker 2: true is that if it were our own government, we
Speaker 2: would know about it. From everything I've read about DARPA
Speaker 2: over the years, they do all kinds of that. There's
Speaker 2: so many layers in between some of the secret things
Speaker 2: the Pentagon does there DARPA. They don't tell your low
Speaker 2: level congress people about them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Brett Bear had a couple of drone experts.
Speaker 1: One guy was ex CEI A.
Speaker 3: The other guys just sufer up on the technology and
Speaker 3: runs a company. But he, the CIA guy, said somewhat
Speaker 3: in opposition to what you just said. He said, whenever
Speaker 3: we were doing any test or this sort of thing
Speaker 3: where the public would see it, we always got together
Speaker 3: with local law enforcement and said, hey, we can't tell
Speaker 3: you precisely what we're doing, but if people report this,
Speaker 3: that and the other, reassure.
Speaker 1: Them that it's okay, because that's us.
Speaker 2: I can believe that that it always did that if
Speaker 2: the public is going to see it, that that is
Speaker 2: their operating procedure. I do know that there are many
Speaker 2: layers between secret Pentagon stuff and low level Congress people
Speaker 2: that they don't get, you know, the knowledge of it.
Speaker 2: But something that's going to be out in the public
Speaker 2: could frighten the public. That would make sense that that's
Speaker 2: the standard operating procedure. But does he know about the mothership?
Speaker 2: That's my question.
Speaker 1: Well, you're just a little.
Speaker 3: Smug because you haven't studied motherships quite as carefully as
Speaker 3: the congressman. Senator Tom Cotton making an excellent point in
Speaker 3: clip seventy two.
Speaker 7: Michael, this isn't the first time we haven't been able
Speaker 7: to figure out where Joe Biden is. I've been on
Speaker 7: the Armed Services Committee, I've been on the Intelligence Committee
Speaker 7: now for ten years, and we haven't gotten adequate answers
Speaker 7: from the Biden administration either. And it's not just these
Speaker 7: drones most recently over New Jersey in recent months, been
Speaker 7: numerous drones flying over Langley Air Force Base in Virginia,
Speaker 7: and again we don't get any satisfactory answers.
Speaker 2: Now, Tom Cotton is a Senator, not a House member,
Speaker 2: and he's on some of the big committees, so that's
Speaker 2: interesting for him to say that. But having read David
Speaker 2: Sanger's book and Bob Woodward's book, all with their reporting
Speaker 2: on the Chinese spy balloon situation, we had all kinds
Speaker 2: of government officials out there shooting off their mouths on
Speaker 2: cable news during that couple of days while the spy
Speaker 2: balloon is going over the country. While the Pentagon knew
Speaker 2: exactly where it was when it took off, what it was,
Speaker 2: where it was going, they knew everything about it. But
Speaker 2: a lot of the people on cable news that are
Speaker 2: elected officials they weren't told.
Speaker 1: So who knows.
Speaker 2: In other words, we could absolutely know these are Iranian
Speaker 2: or Chinese or whatever, and we might not be telling
Speaker 2: the lowly Congress people, and that Joe Biden with his
Speaker 2: weird afraid to do anything strategy, might just.
Speaker 1: Be Ah, I don't know what to do. Maybe it'll
Speaker 1: go away, maybe I'll die and I won't have to
Speaker 1: deal with it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Jack, I really hear you siding with the establishment here.
Speaker 3: You're kind of a neo con all purpose insult and
Speaker 3: politics these days. I'd like to hear more from Congressman
Speaker 3: Van Drew of New Jersey.
Speaker 1: The sources I have are good.
Speaker 5: They can't reveal who they are because they are speaking
Speaker 5: to me in confidentiality. These drones should be shot down,
Speaker 5: whether it was some crazy hobbyist that we can't imagine,
Speaker 5: or whether it is Iran, and I think it very
Speaker 5: possibly could be.
Speaker 1: They should be shot down.
Speaker 5: We are not getting the full deal, and the military is.
Speaker 1: On alert with this. So he sounds like, you know,
Speaker 1: I actually agree with that, But.
Speaker 2: We had the biggest enemy on the planet to us,
Speaker 2: China set us by balloon clear across the country, sometimes
Speaker 2: flying over our military installations, and our president and the
Speaker 2: administration was paralyzed over what to do.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, lasted day. So we have a test
Speaker 1: case for this.
Speaker 3: I don't think it'll be wild, but when we fully
Speaker 3: explore the depths of the indecisiveness and fecklessness of the
Speaker 3: Biden foreign policy, it'll be amazing. I want to hear
Speaker 3: the stories about meetings where everybody was telling them.
Speaker 1: Look, we've got to do something. We've got to it.
Speaker 1: I just i'd better. I don't think so he's awful, awsol,
Speaker 1: what rid of the Mummy? It can't happen soon enough.
Speaker 2: So what do you think is happening here? When the governor,
Speaker 2: who sounds like a serious man, I mean he laughed
Speaker 2: off the whole Iranian mothership thing, so he's not into
Speaker 2: like weirdo conspiracies. But when the governor says this is
Speaker 2: our highest priority, what is going on?
Speaker 3: You know, I'm gonna descend even further down the ladder
Speaker 3: of politics to a New York Assemblyman John Demio. But
Speaker 3: I think he makes a really good point here in
Speaker 3: let's see it's seventy four Michael.
Speaker 8: Are they testing are our ability to respond to this
Speaker 8: by keep sending these things? They only come at night,
Speaker 8: you can't see them. The state police took their helicopter.
Speaker 8: How the scribe they're afraid that they would one of
Speaker 8: these things would hit it and bring it down.
Speaker 3: Are we being tested? Yes, yes we are. By whom
Speaker 3: and for what reason? Is obviously the question? Are the question?
Speaker 2: We obviously have the capability to bring down these drones?
Speaker 1: How many of them are there? Are there hundreds or two?
Speaker 1: Or do you know? I don't actually know. I don't
Speaker 1: recall hearing an accurate number. Nobody's really sure several. But
Speaker 1: we obviously have the technology to bring one of these down.
Speaker 1: Why haven't we yet? Is it.
Speaker 2: Worried about it crashing on the ground and hurting somebody
Speaker 2: like we did with the Chinese spy balloon?
Speaker 1: You can't.
Speaker 3: Any buddy who's ever commuted on the highways and byways
Speaker 3: of America is like, that's fifty times more dangerous than
Speaker 3: that drone falling on somebody's head shoot it down, well, right,
Speaker 3: and we can't.
Speaker 2: I don't think we can operate with a standard of well,
Speaker 2: you know, if Russia or China has a weapon that
Speaker 2: could fall and.
Speaker 1: Hurt somebody, we'll just let them go.
Speaker 3: No, no, nobody, Yeah, put that out to a pole.
Speaker 3: What percentage of Americas thought that damn spy balloon should
Speaker 3: have been shot down the moment it crossed our shores
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Speaker 2: Well, for instance, came across this yesterday from the Washington Post.
Speaker 2: Ukraine provided Syrian rebels with one hundred and fifty drones
Speaker 2: and twenty drone operators prior to the offensive. There's a
Speaker 2: lot of countries with a lot of different kinds of
Speaker 2: high quality drones out there.
Speaker 1: So who knows who this is?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 1: Right? And for what reason? And then why does the
Speaker 1: softy United States put up with it? Right?
Speaker 3: It's the it's the lack of effectiveness, the lack of action,
Speaker 3: even if it was ineffective action. Just the feel to me,
Speaker 3: and I hope I'm wrong, and if I am, I'll
Speaker 3: be the first to report it.
Speaker 1: The field to me is I'm wrong.
Speaker 3: The feel to me is we don't know what to do,
Speaker 3: and we don't do anything unless we know one d
Speaker 3: percent it's going to be right.
Speaker 2: We're just not going to do anything at all, right,
Speaker 2: That is That is what I don't like about the
Speaker 2: Chinese SPI balloon and this it just gives the whole
Speaker 2: country is kind of a feeling of eh, we just
Speaker 2: we better not, We shouldn't, we can't.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's the it's the opposite of when Bill Clinton
Speaker 3: said much better to be strong and wrong and and
Speaker 3: I get what he's saying, just that this feel, and
Speaker 3: it's been born out over and over and over again
Speaker 3: that this is the way of the Bind administration.
Speaker 1: They just don't do anything, or they don't do much.
Speaker 1: Do you want to take a quick guess before we
Speaker 1: take a break? What you think it is? Goodness? I
Speaker 1: don't know. I guess.
Speaker 3: The thing that pops into my mind is they are
Speaker 3: Chinese nationals in this country on some sort of student visa,
Speaker 3: work visa.
Speaker 1: That's that's doing a lot of this. Well, I keep
Speaker 1: reading and we've gotten text to this gun.
Speaker 2: You have to with drones over certain size, you have
Speaker 2: to register them with the FA or whatever. Okay, you're
Speaker 2: supposed to register. It's just like you have to register
Speaker 2: a gun, but not everybody does.
Speaker 1: So what if.
Speaker 3: Somebody fill out the immigration paperwork before you come in
Speaker 3: the country?
Speaker 1: Are you joking?
Speaker 2: So what if somebody flies one up that they didn't
Speaker 2: register anything like that, then what happens? Well, it looks
Speaker 2: to me like you let it fly around until it
Speaker 2: lands or you can catch it with a mar.
Speaker 3: Arrested for that. You know, well, I'm a Chinese spy.
Speaker 3: I could be jailed forever for that. So no, I'm
Speaker 3: not filling out your drone or cheesh slaps forehead goes
Speaker 3: back to the mother ship.
Speaker 2: So it likes, to paraphrase Donald Trump, you think it's
Speaker 2: some four hundred pounder on his bed just jerking with
Speaker 2: the sky police.
Speaker 3: I could see that sort of person reading and hearing
Speaker 3: about the drones over in New Jersey and thinking I
Speaker 3: got to join in this because everybody's talking about it,
Speaker 3: and now you got dip s's lunching their drones just
Speaker 3: to be part of mind much Rather it's that than China,
Speaker 3: Iran or somebody.
Speaker 2: We've got Katie's headlines on the way.
Speaker 1: I gotta do this every single year for Christmas. I
Speaker 1: get a wild idea. At the end, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: very hard to pull off.
Speaker 2: No, I do it every year, and it's it's like
Speaker 2: my procrastination with everything else in my life. For some reason,
Speaker 2: I can't focus my mind until I'm under the crucible
Speaker 2: of the time constraint, and it's like writing a term paper.
Speaker 2: I got no ideas until it's you know, ten o'clock
Speaker 2: the night before. Then all of a sudden, my mind
Speaker 2: is worrying and I can get it done. I got
Speaker 2: an idea for Christmas presents less than two weeks ago.
Speaker 2: I think I can pull it off, but it's going
Speaker 2: to be an effort.
Speaker 1: Wow, Okay, well listen.
Speaker 2: I wish, I wish, I wish I could think I
Speaker 2: had like normal people.
Speaker 1: I wish you could give us details. Very intriguing, but
Speaker 1: we'll find out in January.
Speaker 3: Perhaps let's figure out who's reporting what it's the lead
Speaker 3: story with Katie Green.
Speaker 9: Katie starting with NBC White House, warrens Trump of consequences
Speaker 9: of undoing key parts of Biden's legacy.
Speaker 2: All right, Uh, hey, mainstream media, have you looked at
Speaker 2: the polling. The majority of America is happy with practically
Speaker 2: everything Trump is doing so quick. If you're daily he's
Speaker 2: destroying the country thing, it's just it's not working.
Speaker 1: It's helping him. I mean, if your goal is to
Speaker 1: hurt him, you're helping him. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I just I think it's impossible to overestimate the level
Speaker 3: of delusion that's happening in those little bubbles.
Speaker 1: They have no grasp of reality. More on that later.
Speaker 9: CNN. He spent months in Assyrian prison. CNN's camera caught
Speaker 9: the moment he's freed.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Clarissa Ward, they're in one of the evil prisons
Speaker 2: when they unlocked one of the doors and let somebody out.
Speaker 1: We'll play that for you later. It's quite dramatic.
Speaker 9: From the New York Times, Russian troops advanced within three
Speaker 9: miles of key Ukrainian transit hub.
Speaker 1: Good boy.
Speaker 9: Also from the New York Times, recent immigration surge has
Speaker 9: been the largest in US history.
Speaker 2: I've got more of the numbers on that. Ian Bremer
Speaker 2: tweeted it out overnight. It is the largest movement of
Speaker 2: human beings in world history. In world history happened under
Speaker 2: the Biden administration, and we've got the highest percentage of
Speaker 2: foreign born people in the United States we've ever had,
Speaker 2: and nobody voted for it. It wasn't put to a vote,
Speaker 2: it wasn't a discussion. Maybe it's a good thing. I
Speaker 2: don't tend to think it is, but maybe it's a
Speaker 2: good thing. Nobody voted for it, and that's not the
Speaker 2: way we're supposed to do things well.
Speaker 3: It will fundamentally change the country in a number of ways,
Speaker 3: and I could identify already several of them that are very,
Speaker 3: very bad.
Speaker 9: ABC United Healthcare CEO killing. Latest fingerprints and gun tied
Speaker 9: to the scene of the killing lead to suspect.
Speaker 2: I'm surprised his lawyer's going with his client is innocent.
Speaker 2: I thought he'd go with his client as crazy to
Speaker 2: try to avoid oh, the worst kind of prison, very
Speaker 2: very early days.
Speaker 9: The Associated Press Paul finds only about two in ten
Speaker 9: Americans approve of Biden's pardon of his son Hunter.
Speaker 3: And those two are just cuckoo nuts. Again, it's the
Speaker 3: blanket immunity over eleven years that screams guilt.
Speaker 2: Thirty eight percent of Democrats approved, which is pretty low
Speaker 2: for your own party. But you thirty eight percent, you're
Speaker 2: lying to yourself. Just want to be on your team.
Speaker 2: He don't think it was a good idea.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you're really a bad person. From the New
Speaker 1: York Post.
Speaker 3: Well, or I'm sorry that was uncharitable. You're either a
Speaker 3: bad person or really really stupid. From the more charitable
Speaker 3: version he has Katie.
Speaker 9: One in six people plan to skip their weight loss
Speaker 9: drugs over the holidays so they can eat more interesting.
Speaker 1: Does it work that way?
Speaker 8: Huh?
Speaker 3: Okay, I guess you get the food lost back, you
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Speaker 2: One little Elvis Michael Jackson messing with your body too much? E.
Speaker 9: And finally from the Babylon Bee, Bill Belichick agrees to
Speaker 9: unc job on condition that he can live in his
Speaker 9: girlfriend's dorm.
Speaker 1: Yeah okay, yeah, he set himself up for that.
Speaker 3: So the rule for dividing between yes, I have a
Speaker 3: younger woman and being creepy is half your age plus seven?
Speaker 1: Right? Isn't that generally agreed on?
Speaker 3: I think so well with Belichick that would be a
Speaker 3: forty three year old woman because he's seventy two and
Speaker 3: his girlfriend's twenty eight.
Speaker 2: Yeah, almost fifty years apart, which is something. Oh man,
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