Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and jettating and now he Armstrong and Getty. The
Speaker 2: percentage of US adults who say they consume alcohol has
Speaker 2: fall into fifty four percent, the lowest in ninety years.
Speaker 2: But Gallup says the poll has a margin of era
Speaker 2: of plus or minus two. Kamala Harris's.
Speaker 1: That's really interesting. Americans are consuming alcohol at the lowest
Speaker 1: rate in ninety years.
Speaker 2: Yeah, wow, why for any things? I think there are
Speaker 2: other substances available now they're legal, Plus that this is
Speaker 2: just the trend line among younger people than a number
Speaker 2: of different theories floated for as to why. Nobody's really sure.
Speaker 2: It's not great for your health, but the world. But
Speaker 2: you compare it with where we are.
Speaker 1: Emotionally, it seems like people are less happy, more angry.
Speaker 1: The world is in more turmoil than it has been
Speaker 1: in the past. SOO, you are drinking less?
Speaker 2: Well, maybe you know the whole I'm a social drinker
Speaker 2: thing always seemed odd to me as a guy who
Speaker 2: prefers to drink alone, muttering angly in the dark. But
Speaker 2: I think for a lot of humanity, people drink more
Speaker 2: when they're together and having fun. Wow.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's stunning, though, I mean, I mean that's a
Speaker 1: notable number.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh yeah, it's astounding.
Speaker 1: It's not the This is the lowest level of this
Speaker 1: since twenty twenty one. I mean, that's wort, it's ute, whatever.
Speaker 2: But ninety years Yeah, okay, so big day to day.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you followed Friday. I did closely
Speaker 1: all day long. I was mostly disappointed. I have been
Speaker 1: talked down somewhat by a variety of pundits from being
Speaker 1: on the on the edge of jumping off a building over.
Speaker 2: The way on Friday.
Speaker 1: What are we discussing the whole Trump putin Zolensky, Ukraine, Russia.
Speaker 2: Thank ah, and the red carpet, the warm handshake, et cetera.
Speaker 1: I personally hated the warm handshake in the red carpet
Speaker 1: and the ride in the car. I'm being told by
Speaker 1: some of the smart people I like that that is
Speaker 1: meaningless pageantry. Trump was trying to shmooz him and get
Speaker 1: his way. It didn't work, but ultimately doesn't mean anything.
Speaker 1: That's probably true, and then nothing nothing concrete that we're
Speaker 1: aware of came out of Friday, which I'm being told
Speaker 1: is and is probably true, wasn an unrealistic expectation. Trump
Speaker 1: shouldn't have set any expectation for that. It's the opening
Speaker 1: salvo of what could.
Speaker 2: Be a long negotiation.
Speaker 1: So but now today you got all the European leaders
Speaker 1: for the most part coming to the White House today.
Speaker 1: That's never happened before, and Zolensky's going to be there.
Speaker 1: Let me read from a couple of different publications about
Speaker 1: what's going on. So here's the Associated Press's version. Today's
Speaker 1: meeting will likely be very tough for Zelenski. An official
Speaker 1: close to the ongoing talk said that official spoke on
Speaker 1: a condition of man and nimity to speak openly about
Speaker 1: the thinking within Ukraine and between allies. Zelensky needs to
Speaker 1: prevent a scenario in which he gets blamed for blocking
Speaker 1: peace talks by rejecting Putin's maximalist demand on the don Bass.
Speaker 2: The official said.
Speaker 1: It is a demand that Zelensky has said many times
Speaker 1: he'll never accept because it's unconstitutional. His constitutional doesn't allow
Speaker 1: him to accept it even if he wanted to, and
Speaker 1: could create a launching pad for future Russian attacks. If
Speaker 1: confronted with pressure to accept Putin's demands, Zolensky.
Speaker 2: Would very likely have to revert to a.
Speaker 1: Skill he has demonstrated time and time again diplomatic tact.
Speaker 1: I mean, leadership is seeking a trilateral meeting with Zelensky, Trump,
Speaker 1: and Putin to discuss sensitive matters, including territorial issues. So
Speaker 1: that is the concern that, Well, let me get to
Speaker 1: Trump's truth social that he put out overnight in case
Speaker 1: you didn't hear it. President Zelensky and Ukraine can end
Speaker 1: the war with Russia almost immediately if he wants to,
Speaker 1: or he can continue to fight. So if Trump hits
Speaker 1: him with that right off the bat, Look, you can
Speaker 1: end this thing now if you want to, and then
Speaker 1: just like leave it there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, in the same way that every victim of an
Speaker 2: aggressor can end it if they want to, by surrendering,
Speaker 2: by letting the aggressor have what they want. Let him
Speaker 2: gobble up your country, let them rape.
Speaker 1: You, let them steal from you, let them whatever it's
Speaker 1: going to be.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, Hey, Ukraine, lie back and enjoy it. I
Speaker 2: find that despicable. That's ridiculous. Why hasn't he said that
Speaker 2: of Putin? Hey, Putin. You could end the fighting right now.
Speaker 2: Why don't you? Why'd you invade your neighbor based on
Speaker 2: your fantasies, your covid eer of fantasies of you know,
Speaker 2: restoring this Soviet empire. Great. No, I think.
Speaker 1: The response from Trump Rubio would be and it's not
Speaker 1: because Russia's got something on him, or he loves authoritarian leaders,
Speaker 1: or he wants to be like Putin and be a dictator.
Speaker 2: I don't think it's the of that.
Speaker 1: I think it just might be he just sees in
Speaker 1: deals how it's gonna turn out, whether you like it
Speaker 1: or not. Who's got the leverage, who's got the power.
Speaker 1: Putin doesn't have to under any circumstances, whereas Zelensky kind
Speaker 1: of has.
Speaker 2: To take it.
Speaker 1: It's not and as Marco Rubio kept saying on the
Speaker 1: Sunday Shows yesterday, you might you might not find this palatable.
Speaker 1: It's not moral, you might not like it, it's unfair, it's
Speaker 1: all of those things.
Speaker 2: But it's just where we are. Yeah. I just I
Speaker 2: wish they would go ahead and say we are not
Speaker 2: willing to help Ukraine enough to turn the tide. I
Speaker 2: guess everybody can tell it. Neither you see that. Well, no,
Speaker 2: I don't think so. Well, we'll see what comes out
Speaker 2: of these meetings, because Europe is talking very tough, and
Speaker 2: I hear you snickering, and you should be friends. Europe
Speaker 2: is talking about well, you know what, I've got some
Speaker 2: of the quotes in front of me. But no, they're
Speaker 2: they're making very strong statements about we're with Ukraine, we're
Speaker 2: not capitulating, we're not giving away land.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, I et cetera. I'm informed heavily by my people.
Speaker 1: I like listening to on the London Telegraph podcast constantly
Speaker 1: berating their European allies, including their own country, for not
Speaker 1: stepping up more over the last three years with money, equipment,
Speaker 1: maybe troops whatever. They've had three years to be like
Speaker 1: the Central Force. Again, I go back to that quote
Speaker 1: from what's his name from Poland? Why are we the
Speaker 1: five hundred million counting on the three hundred million to
Speaker 1: protect us against one hundred and fifty million?
Speaker 2: Right? Yeah, And some of these quotes are tough talk.
Speaker 2: I mean, like your Gale, Georgia Maloney of Italy said,
Speaker 2: after three and a half years in which Russia demanded
Speaker 2: nothing less than the capitulation of Ukraine quote today finally
Speaker 2: glimmers of dialogue were happening, in part because of a
Speaker 2: stalemate in the war, which she attributed in part to
Speaker 2: the United support that the West has given Ukraine. Quote.
Speaker 2: The unity of the West, from my point of view,
Speaker 2: is also the instrument we have to build peace and
Speaker 2: ensure justice, adding that Italy stood by Ukraine since the beginning.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, rhetorically, but yeah, so you know, I had
Speaker 1: this quote, you can.
Speaker 2: Hit Pootin over the head with those words ow ow
Speaker 2: stop well, or they can't.
Speaker 1: So I had this quote last week from somebody commenting
Speaker 1: on the situation of Europe.
Speaker 2: There are those that can but won't.
Speaker 1: There's those who want to but can't. I'd put her
Speaker 1: in that category, and then they're those who can't those
Speaker 1: that can't and won't. I mean, so Italy just isn't
Speaker 1: a strong enough country. So she's kind of talking big
Speaker 1: with Germany's money or the United States's weapon han.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, seriously, what's Italy gonna do? Sweetheart?
Speaker 1: A little more from a reporting Washington Post.
Speaker 2: This is pretty interesting.
Speaker 1: The US is hoping that a trilateral meeting with Trump, Putin,
Speaker 1: and Zelensky will take place this week, according to White
Speaker 1: House official.
Speaker 2: So you thought that was a big deal last week.
Speaker 1: How about Zulensky, Trump and Putin together this week somewhere?
Speaker 1: And then finally the Wall Street Journal on a possible
Speaker 1: US role and a post piece deal in Ukraine.
Speaker 2: Such a role, military.
Speaker 1: Analysts say, wouldn't need to involve US boots on the
Speaker 1: ground in Ukraine, but could include indirect support such as
Speaker 1: having US Air Force fighters stationed right outside Ukraine at
Speaker 1: the ready, providing European forces with US made air defense systems,
Speaker 1: flying drones over Ukraine, et cetera, et cetera. So the
Speaker 1: idea that there are some European boots on the ground,
Speaker 1: and we got our planes and drones and everything right
Speaker 1: on the border ready to go at any moment, ready
Speaker 1: to go, but will they be used.
Speaker 2: Vlad Putin is a strategic genius. He will invent provocations,
Speaker 2: fake incursions, and remove any moral clarity from the West
Speaker 2: striking back at him. In the scenario you've described, We'll
Speaker 2: have our stuff at the ready, but we won't dare
Speaker 2: use it because the facts on the ground are unclear.
Speaker 2: Not wanting to escalate the Trump administration, blah blah blah,
Speaker 2: I just I got a very bad feeling about this.
Speaker 2: There's only one thing that Putin understands. That's force. But
Speaker 2: if you're not willing to use that force or generate
Speaker 2: that force, or collect it or whatever, then you know,
Speaker 2: let's stop pretending, right, Putin might let's just go ahead
Speaker 2: and surrender.
Speaker 1: This whole time, Putin might have been calculated on the
Speaker 1: fact that, if it came down to it, NATO isn't
Speaker 1: going to go to war with Russia to protect Ukraine
Speaker 1: m hm.
Speaker 2: The end, and he'll have the rest of Ukraine as
Speaker 2: much as he wants. You know, in a while he's old,
Speaker 2: he might not get there. But well, you're taking a
Speaker 2: dim view of things. Yeah, I'm just a realist. Oh cold,
Speaker 2: wake up and smell the cold coffee.
Speaker 1: Yeah well, well, well, I'd be shocked if we don't
Speaker 1: know the end of the day, either by something Trump
Speaker 1: says or a statement by Europe. I have a feeling
Speaker 1: that European leaders are not going to feel the need
Speaker 1: to uh dance around this at the end of the day.
Speaker 2: What do you think.
Speaker 1: If I would if Putin lays it on Zelensky, Hey, look,
Speaker 1: thanks for wearing a jacket, but you don't have the
Speaker 1: cards either.
Speaker 2: Truman, I mean Trump.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if Trump says to Zelensky, look, thanks for wearing
Speaker 1: a jacket, but you don't have the cards, you could
Speaker 1: end this today.
Speaker 2: What is wrong with you?
Speaker 1: Do you think Europe will come out and say no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: wa ain't happen it.
Speaker 2: Well, if they did accept it, that would be a
Speaker 2: complete reversal of what they've been saying. I would be
Speaker 2: surprised if Trump said, you know, we're not going to
Speaker 2: support you anymore. There's no point. It's just more people dying.
Speaker 2: You've got a surrender. I suppose it's possible Europe would
Speaker 2: spin it and try to build up the security guarantees
Speaker 2: as rhetorically as high as they can make them sound.
Speaker 2: I don't know, I truly don't know.
Speaker 1: Well, Marco said Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State, said
Speaker 1: yesterday that Russia had twenty thousand dead last month, twenty
Speaker 1: thousand in a month. But as he said, they've got
Speaker 1: a lot more meat to feed into the meat grinder
Speaker 1: than Ukraine. Does I mean that's some hard gold reality.
Speaker 2: Yeah it is. And actually I appreciate that play as
Speaker 2: sixty one on Michael, If you would Mark go here
Speaker 2: and what it's going to take to stop the fighting.
Speaker 3: If we're being honest and serious here is both sides
Speaker 3: are going to have to give, and both sides should
Speaker 3: expect to get something from this, and that's a very
Speaker 3: difficult thing to do. It's very difficult because Ukraine obviously
Speaker 3: feels you know, harmed, and rightfully so, because they were invaded,
Speaker 3: and the Russian side because they feel like they've got
Speaker 3: momentum in the battlefield and frankly don't care, don't seem
Speaker 3: to care very much about how many Russian soldiers die
Speaker 3: in this endeavor.
Speaker 2: They just turned through it.
Speaker 1: Mh.
Speaker 2: The only thing that's going to appease Russia is giving
Speaker 2: them more than they currently hold on the battlefield. Otherwise,
Speaker 2: why would they accept it unless their manpower and financial
Speaker 2: problems are even worse than we realize.
Speaker 1: That's a tough reality. Putin should say that out loud.
Speaker 1: Why would I quit unless I'm going to get more
Speaker 1: than I've gotten now, because I can get it on
Speaker 1: my own.
Speaker 2: Well, right and the requirements that you know, people have
Speaker 2: tried it out so far for Putin to accept the
Speaker 2: deal giving up that critical corridor of defensive cities that
Speaker 2: would render Ukraine defenseless, so they can't accept that deal.
Speaker 1: It's so hard to break out of the headspace of
Speaker 1: what's right and what's wrong sometimes and just settle into
Speaker 1: what is sure. And it's all kinds of wrong that
Speaker 1: Putin took chunks of Ukraine and might get to keep
Speaker 1: it and this and that. But who's gonna stop him?
Speaker 1: Are you gonna stop him? Well, then shut up if
Speaker 1: you're not. The European leaders are arriving at the White
Speaker 1: House now and it's gonna be quite a day.
Speaker 2: More on the waista here? What's going on with that song?
Speaker 2: That Bruce Bringsteen's song?
Speaker 1: Wait, guys here, little girl at your daddy home?
Speaker 2: Do you go and leave you all alone?
Speaker 1: I just got all I say is why am I
Speaker 1: hearing this in a Chipotle? That's not an appropriate things?
Speaker 4: Not?
Speaker 2: Oh my, that's okay.
Speaker 1: I have noticed my kids and I run remember this
Speaker 1: the other day? What was the first restaurant that decided
Speaker 1: we should have music playing all the time? We were
Speaker 1: at like a chain breakfast place. The other day, I
Speaker 1: have a little breakfast there's music.
Speaker 2: Playing the fairly decent volume like most places. Who's the
Speaker 2: first to decide that? And why you know there's been
Speaker 2: the tinkling piano background music, like your classy joints forever,
Speaker 2: or somebody playing in the corner or what have you.
Speaker 2: I don't know. It's it's everywhere, though it's retails. The
Speaker 2: stores have pop music cranking all the time because it
Speaker 2: makes people happier, I guess, and less likely to cuss
Speaker 2: out the help. I don't know.
Speaker 1: If you go into a store, like if you're in
Speaker 1: the gap and there's not music playing, would you be
Speaker 1: weirded out? Feel kind of dead and not?
Speaker 2: I don't know. I yeah, I'm in a weird minority
Speaker 2: in the world of golf, having a speaker in the
Speaker 2: cart listening to music the whole way around the golf court.
Speaker 2: Really more guys that I know are thumbs up than
Speaker 2: down by far.
Speaker 1: Wow, So I haven't played golf in twenty years or
Speaker 1: something like that, But that would have been unheard of
Speaker 1: back when I played.
Speaker 3: Dan.
Speaker 1: The idea of music blessing out of anything, well, it's.
Speaker 2: Generally not blasting at you know, unless you're I don't know,
Speaker 2: at a public course, so where nobody cares. But it's
Speaker 2: it a reasonable volume. I don't can it, But I'm
Speaker 2: in the minority.
Speaker 1: Huh people want that all the time.
Speaker 2: Huh is it just needing input? I don't know. I
Speaker 2: generally when I listen to music, I'm listening to music,
Speaker 2: not as background music. But you know, you know, teach
Speaker 2: their own generally.
Speaker 1: When I was playing golf, I love the fact that
Speaker 1: it was just so silent out there.
Speaker 2: I know, the birds chirping and the sounds of I know,
Speaker 2: that's like my favorite part of it. But again, I'm
Speaker 2: in the minority. I had to accept it. But it's
Speaker 2: it's kind of annoying in a couple of different ways
Speaker 2: in that you know, you maybe you're in this cart
Speaker 2: and the other guys are over there another cart, they're
Speaker 2: fifty yards away, and you find what you think is
Speaker 2: their ball there in the rough. You say titleist four,
Speaker 2: and they're like, what titleist four?
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 2: There's a titleist four right here? Is it yours? Because
Speaker 2: you got to talk over the music, You gotta yell
Speaker 2: over the music, and or they're talking way louder than
Speaker 2: they think they are, because it's sure over the music
Speaker 2: as you're trying to hit a shot. But again, I'm
Speaker 2: in the minority. It's fine, yeah you are, you're on
Speaker 2: the older end. It's not like I'm on the receiving
Speaker 2: end of Putin's attacks on Ukraine, for instance. I try
Speaker 2: to keep my woes in perspective. So I used up
Speaker 2: all my time.
Speaker 1: I was going to talk about how I was in
Speaker 1: the emergency vet with my dog pretty much all night
Speaker 1: Saturday night, like the entire night, oh, from midnight until four.
Speaker 1: Then I came home for forty five minutes and went
Speaker 1: back at six, So it's basically a Pomona. Everything was fine,
Speaker 1: but I got no sleep.
Speaker 2: Anyhow.
Speaker 1: We got more news of the day and a bunch
Speaker 1: of other stuff to catch you up on Stayer.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1: We had to break the news that Zelensky is not
Speaker 1: gonna wear a jacket. He's gonna show up in his
Speaker 1: military outfit anyway. Who knows what that's true or not,
Speaker 1: although our executive producer hands and said, I predict Zelensky
Speaker 1: will exit the limo in an Uncle Sam costume, followed
Speaker 1: by four aids, each of whom is dressed as a
Speaker 1: president on Mount Rushmore.
Speaker 2: Wow, that could be effective. Trump does enjoy pageantry.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, well, I say that was some pageantry on Friday,
Speaker 1: Holy Cow, including the B two bombers flying overhead right
Speaker 1: as they shook hands and we're getting ready to walk off.
Speaker 2: That was something B two and F thirty five. So
Speaker 2: I think it was most advanced fighter.
Speaker 1: Most badass planes on planet Earth, flying right o our head.
Speaker 2: But like like you said earlier, I don't think that
Speaker 2: has any effect on potin like, I know you have planes.
Speaker 2: I know how many planes in which ones? I know?
Speaker 1: Oh, that's right, You're a powerful military effort.
Speaker 2: God, dang it, Maybe I better rethink everything I've done.
Speaker 2: Trump Trump with his you know, we're a great power.
Speaker 2: They're a great power pretty much number one and number two.
Speaker 2: China's thinking, wait, what right? No, Russia is a midget
Speaker 2: with one giant muscular arm. As I've said before, they're
Speaker 2: nuclear armaments. That's it there. They're an economic midget. They're
Speaker 2: a military midget unless you're an even smaller country next door.
Speaker 2: Is that a thing?
Speaker 1: Little people that have one big strong arm.
Speaker 2: In this case, it is. It's the one and only
Speaker 2: Trump one. Trump just truthed this out. I've settled six
Speaker 2: wars in six months. It's one of them a possible
Speaker 2: nuclear disaster. And yet I have to read and listen
Speaker 2: to the wall Street Journal and many other who truly
Speaker 2: don't have a clue tell me everything that I am
Speaker 2: doing wrong on the Russia Ukraine mess. That is Sleepy
Speaker 2: Joe Biden's war, not mine. I'm only here to stop it,
Speaker 2: not to prosecute it any further. It would never have
Speaker 2: happened if I was president.
Speaker 1: I know exactly what I'm doing, and I don't need
Speaker 1: the advice of people who have been working on all
Speaker 1: these conflicts for years. We're not able to stop them.
Speaker 1: They are stupid people with no common sense, intelligence or understanding,
Speaker 1: and they only make the current Russia Ukraine disaster more
Speaker 1: difficult to fix. Despite all of my lightweight and very
Speaker 1: jealous critics, I'll get it done.
Speaker 2: I always do. President Donald J. Trump, we will see.
Speaker 2: We'll know more at the end of the day. I'm
Speaker 2: not sure those kind.
Speaker 1: Of statements have any positive effect on anything. But Marco
Speaker 1: Rubio said he was on every single talk show yesterday
Speaker 1: as a Secretary of State, and he said a couple
Speaker 1: of different times, Look, we don't even have to do this.
Speaker 2: It's not our war.
Speaker 1: We're just trying to help end of war because lots
Speaker 1: of people are dying if it doesn't work out. Americans'
Speaker 1: lives won't be changed at all. We'll go back to
Speaker 1: living our lives, whether it ends or whether it doesn't.
Speaker 1: He said that a couple of different times.
Speaker 2: That's the whole it's happening over there. It doesn't matter
Speaker 2: to us. Argument that's been made several times throughout history,
Speaker 2: World War One and World War Two in particular. Yeah, well,
Speaker 2: well in the Cold War to a large extent. I mean,
Speaker 2: why do we care if the Communists take all over
Speaker 2: all of East Asia? Because we do according to you know,
Speaker 2: people who hold that point of view Domino theory. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't. I look, that's fine, he can make that argument,
Speaker 2: but it's not like it's an original and groundbreaking argument.
Speaker 2: This is a European problem. If har Hitler has a
Speaker 2: claim to the Sudatean land, that's their problem, you know,
Speaker 2: and look it being you know, that situation being that
Speaker 2: way then is not proof that this situation is analogous.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying it is, But Marco Rubio can't claim
Speaker 2: that it's automatically obviously not either. So this is some
Speaker 2: breaking ish news too.
Speaker 1: Sources tell Newsmax that Putin has dropped his objection to
Speaker 1: teaching the Ukrainian language in Ukraine. Well, how kind of
Speaker 1: you to allow a country to teach their children their language.
Speaker 1: That's very nice, Vita, because he was demanding that only
Speaker 1: Russian part of his deal.
Speaker 2: Now, this has got to.
Speaker 1: Be in the realm of you ask for some things
Speaker 1: you're not going to get, just you can give on
Speaker 1: those and hang on to the things you care about.
Speaker 2: But one of his asks was, you know, I get
Speaker 2: all the don Bass.
Speaker 1: You're not NATO and everybody needs to speak Russian in Ukraine.
Speaker 2: Well, we don't teach English. Well, we have English classes,
Speaker 2: but we teach you how to be transgender during them
Speaker 2: in this country. So we've already given that up. Uh.
Speaker 1: He says, differences to be worked out on how to
Speaker 1: define and implement a ceasefire. Okay, Russian security guarantees for Ukraine,
Speaker 1: allowing NATO to come to Ukraine's defense if Russia violates it. Wow,
Speaker 1: did they actually agree to that? Did Putin drop that
Speaker 1: or say that's okay? Security guarantees for Well, I guess
Speaker 1: we'll hear about that today.
Speaker 2: Probably Satan is in the details, friends, and I would
Speaker 2: just assume until proven otherwise that what Putin is calculating
Speaker 2: is all right, what do I have to agree to
Speaker 2: to get the US to announce they're through with this
Speaker 2: m and then we let the desk settle for a
Speaker 2: couple of months. I re constitute my forces, et cetera.
Speaker 2: I invent a couple of precur or you know, pretexts
Speaker 2: for attacks, and then I continue on with my mission
Speaker 2: in the same way I did. And Trump is not
Speaker 2: going to rally America at a war. It won't happen.
Speaker 1: By the way I throw this out. I've mentioned it
Speaker 1: before in the Bob Woodward book about the last year
Speaker 1: of the Biden administration. Bob Woodward says, Joe Biden gets
Speaker 1: off the phone with Putin, realizes the invasion is going
Speaker 1: to happen. There's nothing he can do to stop it,
Speaker 1: and he's cussing Barack Obama. This is Barack's fault. Brock
Speaker 1: f this all up by not responding at all when
Speaker 1: Russia went into Crimea. So even Joe Biden thinks, that's
Speaker 1: what's got to all this going is there is no
Speaker 1: response to going into.
Speaker 2: Crimea, right, right, you know, Trump way overplays the whole
Speaker 2: listen ever would have happened when I was president hand
Speaker 2: I mean, shut up You've said it a million times.
Speaker 2: On the other hand, he has a point in that
Speaker 2: we the United States signal to Putin over and over again.
Speaker 2: You can pretty much do what you want. And now
Speaker 2: that Putin has pretty much done what he wanted. Uh,
Speaker 2: Trump's supposed to end it or fight Putin bravely or something.
Speaker 2: And I get that he resents or thinks it's lacking
Speaker 2: in context when, for instance, the Wall Street Journal criticizes
Speaker 2: the way he's going about it. Yeah, and I don't
Speaker 2: like the way he's going about it either. But Trump
Speaker 2: has a point, and I hate that. So Jimmy Carter
Speaker 2: did this and Barack Obama does this where there were
Speaker 2: no wars that started under my administration. I'm very proud
Speaker 2: of that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because you let people get away with stuff that
Speaker 1: then the next Republican president had to deal with.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's weak, sauce man. Different thing.
Speaker 1: I just came across on the Twitter from Buyern New
Speaker 1: York or the Washington Examiner. This topic that we were
Speaker 1: really into last week probably will be again tomorrow. After
Speaker 1: the initial anti Trump reflects about DC crime, more and
Speaker 1: more voices are conceding that he was right about the
Speaker 1: crime in Washington.
Speaker 2: D c.
Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal reporting on people unhappy that the anti
Speaker 1: crime effort has not yet reached their neighborhoods. So yeah,
Speaker 1: there was a big low back for like forty eight
Speaker 1: hours of crime is down in DC. But then more
Speaker 1: and more people Maureen Dowd in the New York Times
Speaker 1: over the weekend saying, look, I live in Washington, d C.
Speaker 2: It's very, very scary, right well, and it's hilarious that
Speaker 2: the argument is morphed from he can't do this. It's
Speaker 2: totalitarianism when the federal government has the responsibility of administering Washington,
Speaker 2: d C. And d C is like granted some autonomy
Speaker 2: when Congress thinks it's appropriate. So the fallback is the
Speaker 2: Feds are in charge of d C. That's not you know,
Speaker 2: d C governing itself is not a right, it's a privilege.
Speaker 2: So that hole is the narrative blew up. The whole
Speaker 2: crime is actually down, blew up because the police have
Speaker 2: been openly faking the statistics for a very long time,
Speaker 2: and anybody of conscience who lives there says, yeah, it's
Speaker 2: dangerous and scary as hell. But now the narrative is
Speaker 2: switched to well, they're they're not policing all neighborhoods and
Speaker 2: some minority neighborhoods there they don't have the National Guard.
Speaker 2: They're enough. Okay, you people, you're ridiculous. All right, we'll
Speaker 2: put him in what neighborhood do you want? What scary,
Speaker 2: predominantly black, crime ridden neighborhood where the National Guard isn't yet?
Speaker 2: You name it New York Times, and we'll send plenty
Speaker 2: of guardsmen there too.
Speaker 1: So it's uh Saturday afternoon and Henry tells me that
Speaker 1: pugsito are pug and his face is all swollen. So
Speaker 1: I come overlook. So I come over to look at it,
Speaker 1: and I said, looks like it always.
Speaker 2: Looks to me.
Speaker 1: And he said, no, it's all swollen up.
Speaker 2: See you around here.
Speaker 1: And I said, I thought that's what his face always
Speaker 1: looked like.
Speaker 2: I didn't really see it.
Speaker 1: But then later Henry says, look at his neck now,
Speaker 1: and his neck was giant, So that was noticeable, like
Speaker 1: he had this big.
Speaker 2: Bull giant his neck. Oh boy.
Speaker 1: And so I call the animal hospital that we usually use,
Speaker 1: which was just about to close on Saturday, and said,
Speaker 1: this is what happened.
Speaker 2: They said, he's been outside.
Speaker 1: Yeah, of course he has a sounds like a beasting
Speaker 1: or something like that, an allergic reaction to a beasting
Speaker 1: probably or along those lines. And so give him a
Speaker 1: ben and drill and everything like that. If he throws
Speaker 1: up or collapses, though, you're gonna need to get him
Speaker 1: to the uh, you know, emergency vat right away.
Speaker 2: Me too, is just if I throw up or collapse,
Speaker 2: get me to a doctor.
Speaker 1: Collapses is difficult, difficult with a dog because they spend
Speaker 1: I don't know if you have if your dog does this,
Speaker 1: but they spend a lot of time just lying about.
Speaker 2: So what does a collapse look.
Speaker 1: Like when you spend ninety percent of your life lying there?
Speaker 1: But anyway, at one point he does he does start
Speaker 1: throwing up. And this is late night, so he starts
Speaker 1: throwing up. So I thought, okay, so he's got still
Speaker 1: got this giant neck and he's thrown up. They told
Speaker 1: me specifically, if this happens, I gotta go. So I
Speaker 1: call up the emergency VET. I tell him what's going on.
Speaker 1: They said, yeah, you better come in, and so I
Speaker 1: get there at like twelve thirty in the morning on
Speaker 1: a Saturday night.
Speaker 2: Tell him myself.
Speaker 1: Instead of being bothered by this, she should be thankful
Speaker 1: that this is happening on a Saturday night and not
Speaker 1: a Tuesday night or some other night where you'd be
Speaker 1: having to go to work.
Speaker 2: Blah blah blah. I was trying to make lemon nade
Speaker 2: out of lemons.
Speaker 1: But so we go and we get there, and like
Speaker 1: every appointment for everything you ever do in your life,
Speaker 1: it takes like ninety times longer than you think it's
Speaker 1: going to do. As I'm driving to the vet, I
Speaker 1: thought the zoo is like fifteen miles away. I could
Speaker 1: be the zoo in no time handle this old situation.
Speaker 1: But a lot of you didn't like that from last week.
Speaker 2: So I, oh, went.
Speaker 1: Ahead, lions right, No Katie, no Jack, no Vet, this direction, zoo,
Speaker 1: this direction.
Speaker 2: I mean, I came to a fork in the road.
Speaker 1: But but I went ahead and went to the vet,
Speaker 1: and I passed on all all the tests.
Speaker 2: I passed on all the tests.
Speaker 1: We all know how that works if you've ever taken
Speaker 1: you know, say, we could do this test, we could
Speaker 1: do an ultrasound, and then we could you know, do
Speaker 1: nine different kinds of blood tests and everything like that.
Speaker 1: Next thing, you know, you walk out with a five
Speaker 1: thousand dollars bill. I just said, note all the tests
Speaker 1: after they declared that probably okay.
Speaker 2: I mean, looking at him, everything's gonna.
Speaker 1: Be okay, and okay, So I'm just I.
Speaker 2: Passed on all the tests with some concern. But I
Speaker 2: ended up being there all night long. Brought him home
Speaker 2: at six thirty in the morning.
Speaker 1: Just waiting for him to be seen, or what combination
Speaker 1: of waiting to be seen and waiting to see if
Speaker 1: he's going to stabilize, and you know, just all those
Speaker 1: kind of things. But I got out of there with
Speaker 1: a decent sized bill. I happened to live next to
Speaker 1: the best emergency vet clinic in the world. Oprah brings
Speaker 1: her pets here, Celebrities fly in with their animals. Kardashians
Speaker 1: bring their pets here to this particular vet clinic, and
Speaker 1: they know they're that and they charge accordingly. So it's
Speaker 1: very easy to get very expensive, very quickly.
Speaker 2: But everything. So, what was wrong with him? I think
Speaker 2: it was just a beasting or whatever. I think that's
Speaker 2: that's funny. My sister had a similar situation over the weekend.
Speaker 2: She thought it was a beasting, but it was an
Speaker 2: abscessed tooth really in her hound. I said no to
Speaker 2: the test. I know a lot of you disagree. You
Speaker 2: say yes to all the tests.
Speaker 1: And you know that's up to you, and they're like
Speaker 1: my tests, they're like my kids.
Speaker 2: You say, that's fine, you do you all do me.
Speaker 1: We're gonna finish strong next to here.
Speaker 2: So we are not a breaking news show.
Speaker 1: Obviously people listen to it in podcast form or different
Speaker 1: time zones or whatever. But Zelensky's about to arrive at
Speaker 1: the White House, and I do want to see if
Speaker 1: he's wearing a suit or not. And I want to
Speaker 1: see if Trump says anything to him if he's not
Speaker 1: wearing a suit, because I can't imagine Trump not making
Speaker 1: a comment. If Zelensky shows up again in his military outfit,
Speaker 1: I find that horror. Fine, of course it's horrifying. Of course,
Speaker 1: it's horrifying that this matter is it matters at all.
Speaker 1: What would you do, though, your Zelensky? Would you show
Speaker 1: up in a suit?
Speaker 2: I don't know, absolutely see why you would. But if look,
Speaker 2: he considers himself the commander in chief and he wears
Speaker 2: a military garb all the time, I suppose i'd show
Speaker 2: up in that.
Speaker 1: I don't know, because if you show up in the suit,
Speaker 1: it is a one hundred percent. I do what you
Speaker 1: want me to do on your terms. Yeah, that's the
Speaker 1: worst way to present it. The other way to present
Speaker 1: it would be, this is the most powerful military on
Speaker 1: earth that I'm asking for help. I'm gonna be as
Speaker 1: polite as I possibly can be and respectful to try
Speaker 1: to get what I want.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're not wrong. It's a tough one. You want
Speaker 2: to hear. Here's here, what the hell moment of this story?
Speaker 2: The first Lady, Melania Trump, who is a very attractive
Speaker 2: and b knows at least four more languages than I do,
Speaker 2: has written a letter to Vladimir Putin asking him to
Speaker 2: stop the killing for the sake of the children. Yeah,
Speaker 2: hand delivered on Friday. I guess, really, why don't you
Speaker 2: just write a letter to dogs and ask him to
Speaker 2: stop barking? I mean, I mean, that's sweet in a way.
Speaker 2: It's lovely in a way, and a complete idiotic waste
Speaker 2: of time in another way. Why I don't understand. I
Speaker 2: didn't react to it was almost counterproductive to me to
Speaker 2: go to an evil murderer and beg them to stop murdering.
Speaker 2: That's worse than nothing.
Speaker 1: I didn't react to that story with a heartfell of hate,
Speaker 1: as you apparently have. But you're starting to convince me
Speaker 1: that perhaps because I'm trying to pick somebody else. I
Speaker 1: hate to use Hitler. Everybody uses Hitler all the time as.
Speaker 2: An exig won't use Hitler. But what I'm going to
Speaker 2: write a letter to hit earlier.
Speaker 1: Hey, this whole murdering jewice thing, I think it's terrible.
Speaker 2: You should stop. Would make me look silly, right, Yeah, exactly, Well,
Speaker 2: and imploring him as a fellow parent to protect the
Speaker 2: innocence of children, I'm sure. And again it's a lovely
Speaker 2: impulse and she seems like a lovely gal.
Speaker 1: I got a new angle on that. But maybe I'll
Speaker 1: make that my final thought.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, we have kidnapped fifty thousand children, We've killed
Speaker 2: thousands of others. Are you sure you're writing this letter
Speaker 2: to me? He's thinking, is this addressed to the wrong guy?
Speaker 4: It is now my incredible privilege to present final thoughts
Speaker 4: with He's moron arms wrong and Getty.
Speaker 1: Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew
Speaker 2: to wrap up the show for the day. There is
Speaker 2: our technical director, Michael Angelo Michael, what's your final thought
Speaker 2: about this? Zelenski doesn't show up with a suit. He
Speaker 2: shows up with something that's actually stained, like with ketchup
Speaker 2: and mustard and h you know, he's just eaten. All right,
Speaker 2: all right, all right, do better next time? Okay, Wow,
Speaker 2: terrible Wow. I give that a D minus. Katie Green,
Speaker 2: what's your father? So times? Get ready? One grade? I
Speaker 2: just want to let Jack know I'm very proud of
Speaker 2: him for not taking pug Seed up to the zoo.
Speaker 2: Just couldn't cross my mind. I know it did. One
Speaker 2: of the problem solves. You do that though, I mean
Speaker 2: it's effective. Jack.
Speaker 1: Final thought for us, I think the most charitable view
Speaker 1: is Malania did this just because it got out in
Speaker 1: the news the way it got out and draws attention
Speaker 1: to the fact that Rushes snatched a lot of children, which.
Speaker 2: Is not as big a story as it probably should be.
Speaker 2: You know what that is clever Because I'm reading some
Speaker 2: of the verbiage of it. It's completely wasted on putin,
Speaker 2: I mean, like horribly wasted, but it's rather beautifully written
Speaker 2: about children and the quiet dreams that they share in
Speaker 2: their hearts and the melody of a child's laughter. And
Speaker 2: the rest of it. It's gorgeous writing. So she's model writer.
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