1 00:00:10,600 --> 00:00:14,840 Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 2 00:00:14,960 --> 00:00:16,400 Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center. 3 00:00:16,560 --> 00:00:24,639 Speaker 2: Jack Armstrong, Joe, Katty Armstrong and Jettie and he Armsrong 4 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:34,360 Speaker 2: we live. We're from Studio C. See Senora. 5 00:00:34,440 --> 00:00:36,720 Speaker 1: It's a dimly let room deep with them the bowels 6 00:00:36,880 --> 00:00:39,800 Speaker 1: of the Armstrong and Getty Communications Compound. 7 00:00:39,840 --> 00:00:44,000 Speaker 3: And hey y'all, today, little Friday, we're under the tutelage 8 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:50,440 Speaker 3: of our general manager, the Firefighters of California on this 9 00:00:50,800 --> 00:00:51,599 Speaker 3: day too. 10 00:00:51,680 --> 00:00:59,760 Speaker 1: Of Greenlanders occupying our territory illegally count back from yesterday, 11 00:01:00,200 --> 00:01:02,600 Speaker 1: we will, we will wait until we are reunited with 12 00:01:02,640 --> 00:01:06,199 Speaker 1: our precious greenland, American land. 13 00:01:08,040 --> 00:01:12,280 Speaker 2: I don't know if everybody's aware of. Up until really. 14 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:17,160 Speaker 1: Recently, in the history of mankind, fire was killing us 15 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:21,360 Speaker 1: and burning down our houses constantly. Well, that is the 16 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:26,520 Speaker 1: history of mankind in urban area specifically. I remember many 17 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:29,319 Speaker 1: many books that I've read throughout my life point this out. 18 00:01:29,800 --> 00:01:31,200 Speaker 1: Uh oh, do you remember the gangs in the New 19 00:01:31,280 --> 00:01:33,080 Speaker 1: York and gangs in New York? Remember that movie Martin 20 00:01:33,080 --> 00:01:35,320 Speaker 1: Scorsese that was one of the big gangs. One of 21 00:01:35,319 --> 00:01:38,039 Speaker 1: the big things the gangs did to uh, to curry 22 00:01:38,080 --> 00:01:40,240 Speaker 1: favor is they would get there fast to help put 23 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:43,200 Speaker 1: out fires, because there were constantly fires breaking out. And 24 00:01:43,240 --> 00:01:45,560 Speaker 1: if and if and if the little local fire department, 25 00:01:45,600 --> 00:01:47,840 Speaker 1: you know, a horse drawn trolley full of water and hoses, 26 00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:49,640 Speaker 1: didn't come there and put it out, it's going to 27 00:01:49,720 --> 00:01:52,760 Speaker 1: burn everything down and kill people. And so that's how 28 00:01:52,760 --> 00:01:54,760 Speaker 1: you would, you know, get people on your side. And 29 00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:58,280 Speaker 1: I remember when I read the book Uh Devil in 30 00:01:58,320 --> 00:02:00,560 Speaker 1: the White City about Chicago from the World Fair eighteen 31 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:01,120 Speaker 1: ninety three. 32 00:02:01,160 --> 00:02:02,600 Speaker 2: Fantastic book if you've never. 33 00:02:02,480 --> 00:02:04,960 Speaker 1: Read it, but they mentioned in there at that time, 34 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:08,160 Speaker 1: on average, there would be four deaths from fire per 35 00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:13,000 Speaker 1: day in Chicago, even with that much smaller population per day. 36 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:19,000 Speaker 1: And I remember, more recently, during the incredibly stupid discussion 37 00:02:19,080 --> 00:02:22,640 Speaker 1: of whether Trump's rally at Madison Square Garden was reminiscent 38 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:28,280 Speaker 1: of the Nazi rallies, a conversation so monumentally stupendously mind 39 00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:33,720 Speaker 1: bogglingly idiotic it's hard to imagine any adult engaged in 40 00:02:33,760 --> 00:02:34,919 Speaker 1: it with a straight face. 41 00:02:35,360 --> 00:02:37,160 Speaker 2: Seriously, anyway, take. 42 00:02:37,040 --> 00:02:40,800 Speaker 1: A moment, think about it anyway, Yeah, and reading about it, 43 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:43,799 Speaker 1: it wasn't even the same building because Madison Square Garden 44 00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:49,000 Speaker 1: and its various incarnations has burnt down repeatedly. Excellent example, 45 00:02:49,080 --> 00:02:53,919 Speaker 1: almost any time you're at a historic hotel, restaurant, whatever, 46 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:56,960 Speaker 1: if you read the little description on there, this is 47 00:02:57,040 --> 00:02:59,760 Speaker 1: the version built on the spot where the original one 48 00:02:59,919 --> 00:03:03,639 Speaker 1: was when it burnt down in eighteen something, early nineteen 49 00:03:03,720 --> 00:03:04,280 Speaker 1: something whatever. 50 00:03:04,320 --> 00:03:06,919 Speaker 2: Because it was just a fact of life. 51 00:03:07,200 --> 00:03:10,400 Speaker 1: But we've become accustomed to, thank God, because of modern 52 00:03:10,440 --> 00:03:13,520 Speaker 1: materials and firefighting and all kinds of different things, that 53 00:03:13,520 --> 00:03:16,520 Speaker 1: that doesn't happen all the time, but the power of 54 00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:19,200 Speaker 1: fire still exists. Is if you've seen any of these 55 00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:21,880 Speaker 1: pictures from some of these neighborhoods in La, it's just 56 00:03:22,919 --> 00:03:27,320 Speaker 1: mind boggling how these entire neighborhoods, modern neighborhoods of nice 57 00:03:27,320 --> 00:03:35,120 Speaker 1: houses are completely gone. Everything gone catastrophic. Yeah, yeah, I wonder, 58 00:03:35,160 --> 00:03:39,360 Speaker 1: And we will get into the looming home owners insurance 59 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:42,960 Speaker 1: crisis from coast to coast, I mean particularly in California, 60 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:46,640 Speaker 1: but coast to coast, and I wonder whether we will 61 00:03:46,680 --> 00:03:49,880 Speaker 1: not evolve as a people into spending a great deal 62 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:53,840 Speaker 1: more on making our homes impregnable to the various threats 63 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:57,200 Speaker 1: we face. And that's the only way we're going to 64 00:03:57,240 --> 00:04:00,440 Speaker 1: get around the fact that so many homes are nigh 65 00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:04,680 Speaker 1: on uninsurable these days given the current market right and 66 00:04:04,920 --> 00:04:07,000 Speaker 1: is going to be quite the story. I think it 67 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:10,280 Speaker 1: will help that, particularly in the Pacific Palisades area, you 68 00:04:10,360 --> 00:04:12,760 Speaker 1: got a lot of people with money who have the 69 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:17,640 Speaker 1: ability to get the attention of the powerful, and in 70 00:04:17,680 --> 00:04:19,520 Speaker 1: a way that a lot of communities that have burned 71 00:04:19,520 --> 00:04:23,279 Speaker 1: down didn't. They are not going to just sit idly 72 00:04:23,320 --> 00:04:26,880 Speaker 1: by and let current policy exist. So that'll be interesting 73 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:30,719 Speaker 1: for whatever reason and just the way the human mind works. 74 00:04:30,720 --> 00:04:31,960 Speaker 2: I guess the. 75 00:04:33,400 --> 00:04:36,440 Speaker 1: Big fire that's in the Pasadena Altadna area because I 76 00:04:36,520 --> 00:04:38,560 Speaker 1: know that area really well, Like I know some of 77 00:04:38,600 --> 00:04:41,280 Speaker 1: these places and streets and stores and everything like that, 78 00:04:41,279 --> 00:04:45,520 Speaker 1: and them burning down just like really impactful. It's hard 79 00:04:45,520 --> 00:04:48,159 Speaker 1: to wrap my head around that corner. I saw a 80 00:04:48,200 --> 00:04:51,560 Speaker 1: picture of a corner just just as cool a community 81 00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:54,359 Speaker 1: as exists anywhere on the earth. It's like a small 82 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:58,200 Speaker 1: town next to Los Angeles, just so nice, beautiful old houses. 83 00:04:58,520 --> 00:05:01,400 Speaker 1: This little old hardware store. I've been there for forty years. 84 00:05:01,440 --> 00:05:04,160 Speaker 1: His mom and pop place burnt to a ground night 85 00:05:04,200 --> 00:05:06,680 Speaker 1: before it was open. Kid there closed it down, kid 86 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:09,680 Speaker 1: of the dad who started it next day, completely gone, 87 00:05:10,360 --> 00:05:13,679 Speaker 1: just oh, awful, awful, awful. They found a guy dead 88 00:05:14,160 --> 00:05:17,480 Speaker 1: in his backyard holding a hose in his hand. And 89 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:20,000 Speaker 1: I told the story when our field caught on fire, 90 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:22,279 Speaker 1: I was out there with a hose, because when it's small, 91 00:05:22,360 --> 00:05:24,240 Speaker 1: you think, oh, i'll get a hose and I'll try 92 00:05:24,279 --> 00:05:26,320 Speaker 1: to start this. And then in the seconds I was 93 00:05:26,360 --> 00:05:28,320 Speaker 1: overcome with smoking flames and had to get the hell 94 00:05:28,360 --> 00:05:30,560 Speaker 1: out of there. I mean, it just it happened so 95 00:05:30,760 --> 00:05:33,560 Speaker 1: fast with the wind shot right. And I remember you 96 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:35,599 Speaker 1: telling this story. When you say within seconds, you don't 97 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:36,760 Speaker 1: mean forty fives. 98 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:38,880 Speaker 2: No, no, no. 99 00:05:39,040 --> 00:05:40,760 Speaker 1: I looked like in my field, for instance, it was 100 00:05:40,760 --> 00:05:42,880 Speaker 1: a very very windy day, caught on fire, very dry, 101 00:05:43,160 --> 00:05:45,080 Speaker 1: and it was a tiny little Okay, if I get 102 00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:47,440 Speaker 1: a bucket, I can put it out. I turn around 103 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:50,919 Speaker 1: to go to the hose, get a bucket, and so 104 00:05:51,040 --> 00:05:52,000 Speaker 1: this is twenty seconds. 105 00:05:52,040 --> 00:05:53,320 Speaker 2: I turn around and it's just. 106 00:05:53,320 --> 00:05:56,559 Speaker 1: A wall of flame behind me in that amount of time, 107 00:05:57,120 --> 00:05:59,280 Speaker 1: and you know, you amplify that by one hundred mile 108 00:05:59,279 --> 00:06:01,919 Speaker 1: an hour winds there having in La today only fifty 109 00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:05,000 Speaker 1: mile an hour gusts, which is helpful. Tomorrow they're expecting 110 00:06:05,040 --> 00:06:07,160 Speaker 1: it to be back up to seventy mile an hour gusts. 111 00:06:07,160 --> 00:06:12,560 Speaker 1: So good, Lord, that's not helpful. Absolutely amazing. Yeah, I 112 00:06:12,560 --> 00:06:14,479 Speaker 1: don't know what's going to come out of this in 113 00:06:14,600 --> 00:06:18,200 Speaker 1: terms of insurance and where you're allowed to build homes 114 00:06:18,200 --> 00:06:21,239 Speaker 1: and all kinds of different stuff. You know, you can, 115 00:06:21,760 --> 00:06:25,159 Speaker 1: you can certainly relate to people of old talking about 116 00:06:25,160 --> 00:06:27,760 Speaker 1: the wrath of God or the vengeance of Satan or 117 00:06:27,760 --> 00:06:30,720 Speaker 1: what have you, and when such a cataclysm comes upon you, 118 00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:33,920 Speaker 1: I mean, it's just it's it's unfathomable to anybody who 119 00:06:33,960 --> 00:06:36,760 Speaker 1: hasn't lived through it. And I've been following a lot 120 00:06:36,760 --> 00:06:42,280 Speaker 1: of the social media stuff about forest management, tree management, 121 00:06:42,320 --> 00:06:45,080 Speaker 1: all that different sort of stuff. Water management in California, 122 00:06:45,120 --> 00:06:47,120 Speaker 1: which has been horrible and people have been complaining about 123 00:06:47,120 --> 00:06:50,400 Speaker 1: it forever. There's a clip from a Joe Rogan podcast 124 00:06:50,480 --> 00:06:52,479 Speaker 1: floating around that's getting a lot of attention where he 125 00:06:52,560 --> 00:06:55,640 Speaker 1: was talking about that very sort of thing and he said, boy, 126 00:06:55,680 --> 00:06:57,520 Speaker 1: one of these days, the conditions are going to be right, 127 00:06:57,560 --> 00:06:58,960 Speaker 1: and there's going to be a spark and it's it's 128 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:01,839 Speaker 1: going to sweep through out and just burn everything to 129 00:07:01,880 --> 00:07:05,360 Speaker 1: the ground. So you can't really go at this from 130 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:11,720 Speaker 1: a nobody could see this coming standpoint, right, Yeah. 131 00:07:10,760 --> 00:07:12,280 Speaker 2: We should start. On the other hand, a lot. 132 00:07:12,200 --> 00:07:14,760 Speaker 1: Of the politicization of it, a lot of the politics, 133 00:07:14,800 --> 00:07:17,160 Speaker 1: including this stuff Trump has said, is not at all helpful. 134 00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:21,640 Speaker 2: It's just it's silly. Some of it. Trump's say, well, 135 00:07:21,720 --> 00:07:22,680 Speaker 2: talking about. 136 00:07:22,680 --> 00:07:25,480 Speaker 1: Forest management and stuff like that, in large part not 137 00:07:25,520 --> 00:07:30,000 Speaker 1: talking about forests, but and the water stuff that he's 138 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:33,640 Speaker 1: commented on. It's just it's he has read half a 139 00:07:33,680 --> 00:07:37,080 Speaker 1: paragraph on it and is now making bold pronouncements. And 140 00:07:37,120 --> 00:07:41,800 Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom's an idiot. California is badly governed and ungovernable. 141 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:43,920 Speaker 1: I'm not denying that for a second. It's just some 142 00:07:43,960 --> 00:07:46,200 Speaker 1: of the conversation that's knocking around online is kind of 143 00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:49,440 Speaker 1: silly at this point. If you've spent any time with this, 144 00:07:49,640 --> 00:07:51,640 Speaker 1: Like the idea Trump was like, you. 145 00:07:51,640 --> 00:07:53,880 Speaker 2: Gotta take all the water from northern California. 146 00:07:54,040 --> 00:07:56,560 Speaker 1: Everybody knows this and send it to southern California, and 147 00:07:56,720 --> 00:08:01,360 Speaker 1: northern California for twenty five years has been saying, whoa, whoa, oh, whoa, we. 148 00:08:01,400 --> 00:08:03,760 Speaker 2: Kind of need that water. So it's not as simple 149 00:08:03,800 --> 00:08:06,840 Speaker 2: as that. LA schools are closed today except for. 150 00:08:06,800 --> 00:08:10,080 Speaker 1: One caveat which I want to discuss after we start 151 00:08:10,080 --> 00:08:13,160 Speaker 1: the show Officially, I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on 152 00:08:13,200 --> 00:08:15,200 Speaker 1: this it is? How did it already get to be? Thursday, 153 00:08:15,320 --> 00:08:20,200 Speaker 1: January ninth, you're twenty twenty five? You're going with ain't 154 00:08:20,240 --> 00:08:21,840 Speaker 1: taken no jive in twenty five? 155 00:08:21,920 --> 00:08:22,120 Speaker 2: No? 156 00:08:22,320 --> 00:08:24,680 Speaker 1: Cut the jive in twenty five, cut the jib in 157 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:26,280 Speaker 1: twenty kind no jive? 158 00:08:26,720 --> 00:08:30,320 Speaker 2: What am I strutting through Harlem in nineteen seventy six? 159 00:08:30,480 --> 00:08:34,240 Speaker 2: What's happening here? We are Armstrong in Getty and we 160 00:08:34,320 --> 00:08:35,520 Speaker 2: approve of this program? 161 00:08:36,080 --> 00:08:38,640 Speaker 1: All right, let's begin squirting the water of truth on 162 00:08:38,720 --> 00:08:41,640 Speaker 1: the lives of the evildoers precisely now, according to FCC 163 00:08:41,760 --> 00:08:43,040 Speaker 1: rules and the rags at mark. 164 00:08:43,280 --> 00:08:45,920 Speaker 4: Do you owe citizens and apology for being absent while 165 00:08:45,920 --> 00:08:49,160 Speaker 4: their homes were burning? Do you regret coming the fire 166 00:08:49,200 --> 00:08:51,120 Speaker 4: department budget by millions of dollars? 167 00:08:51,120 --> 00:08:51,640 Speaker 1: Not in there? 168 00:08:52,920 --> 00:08:56,200 Speaker 4: Have you nothing to say today? 169 00:08:56,400 --> 00:08:56,920 Speaker 2: Fadam Mayor? 170 00:08:56,920 --> 00:08:59,320 Speaker 4: Have you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today? 171 00:08:59,440 --> 00:09:07,280 Speaker 4: You're dating this disaster? You no apology for them? Do 172 00:09:07,320 --> 00:09:09,760 Speaker 4: you think you should have been visiting Ghana while this 173 00:09:09,960 --> 00:09:16,080 Speaker 4: was unfolding back home? So? 174 00:09:16,160 --> 00:09:19,320 Speaker 1: As the mayor of Los Angeles not answering some questions 175 00:09:19,320 --> 00:09:21,319 Speaker 1: from a reporter as she has come back to La 176 00:09:21,440 --> 00:09:22,240 Speaker 1: she was out of town. 177 00:09:23,760 --> 00:09:25,080 Speaker 2: I don't know that that matters to me. 178 00:09:25,200 --> 00:09:28,520 Speaker 1: The policy stuff matters, The policy stuff decisions made throughout 179 00:09:28,520 --> 00:09:31,480 Speaker 1: the years obviously matters. But the somebody's out of town 180 00:09:31,480 --> 00:09:34,360 Speaker 1: when something happens thing I've always thought it was over overblown. Yeah, 181 00:09:34,440 --> 00:09:38,760 Speaker 1: with all respect to patio furniture there the Irish reporter, 182 00:09:40,679 --> 00:09:45,000 Speaker 1: the cutting of seventeen million dollars from the fire budget, 183 00:09:45,320 --> 00:09:49,400 Speaker 1: that is absolutely a serious topic. The fact that she 184 00:09:49,640 --> 00:09:53,960 Speaker 1: happened to be on some idiotic, paid for junket, I'm guessing. 185 00:09:54,320 --> 00:09:56,640 Speaker 1: I mean, that's just the politicians do that all the time. 186 00:09:56,679 --> 00:09:59,560 Speaker 1: I'm not in favor of it. But it's not like 187 00:09:59,600 --> 00:10:02,240 Speaker 1: the fire start and she said feach, don't fail me 188 00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:04,760 Speaker 1: now and headed to Ghana. I mean she just happened 189 00:10:04,800 --> 00:10:06,640 Speaker 1: to be there. Or if she happened to be in 190 00:10:06,679 --> 00:10:09,559 Speaker 1: her office when the fire started, it would have unfolded 191 00:10:09,559 --> 00:10:13,040 Speaker 1: any differently. I doubt that, well exactly. And this is 192 00:10:13,160 --> 00:10:15,760 Speaker 1: it reminds me of going way back to Barack Obama. 193 00:10:16,120 --> 00:10:18,800 Speaker 1: He's not a Muslim, he's a socialist. Keep your eye 194 00:10:18,800 --> 00:10:21,440 Speaker 1: on the ball, don't worry. If she was in Ghana, 195 00:10:21,840 --> 00:10:24,000 Speaker 1: let's talk about the fact that La there was a 196 00:10:24,040 --> 00:10:26,960 Speaker 1: city councilman did an interview just a couple of days ago, 197 00:10:27,120 --> 00:10:31,439 Speaker 1: said it's absolutely worth worth cutting the budget for services 198 00:10:31,720 --> 00:10:36,359 Speaker 1: to general city services to take care of our migrant population, 199 00:10:36,920 --> 00:10:38,280 Speaker 1: meaning illegal immigrants. 200 00:10:38,520 --> 00:10:41,200 Speaker 2: And Karen Bass is one hundred percent on board that there. 201 00:10:41,559 --> 00:10:44,360 Speaker 1: Why did they have to cut the fire budgets so severely. 202 00:10:44,600 --> 00:10:47,439 Speaker 1: It's because they're a sanctuary city. Keep your eye on 203 00:10:47,480 --> 00:10:51,800 Speaker 1: the ball. Kind of doubt, kind of on that road 204 00:10:51,800 --> 00:10:54,000 Speaker 1: of socialism quickly, maybe we'll talk about it later. I 205 00:10:54,080 --> 00:10:58,280 Speaker 1: heard the schools in LA will be closed again to day, obviously. 206 00:10:57,960 --> 00:11:00,760 Speaker 2: Except for the lunch program. The food program will go on. 207 00:11:00,880 --> 00:11:03,439 Speaker 1: And I heard the big announcement that they've got satellite 208 00:11:03,480 --> 00:11:06,439 Speaker 1: locations for all the meals for breakfast, lunch, and dinner 209 00:11:06,480 --> 00:11:09,480 Speaker 1: will continue to be served to all the residents. Our 210 00:11:09,600 --> 00:11:14,840 Speaker 1: schools became a three meal a day food program, government 211 00:11:14,920 --> 00:11:17,440 Speaker 1: food program, trying to convince a whole bunch of people, 212 00:11:17,440 --> 00:11:19,640 Speaker 1: and apparently they have that it's not your job to 213 00:11:19,640 --> 00:11:22,640 Speaker 1: feed your family, it's the government's job. The schools are closed, 214 00:11:22,720 --> 00:11:24,440 Speaker 1: I don't think, oh my god, how are my kids 215 00:11:24,520 --> 00:11:25,280 Speaker 1: going to eat lunch? 216 00:11:25,920 --> 00:11:27,080 Speaker 2: I take care of the lunch. 217 00:11:27,960 --> 00:11:31,000 Speaker 1: I remember that great historic vote and the vote totals 218 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:33,040 Speaker 1: in the House and the Senate when we voted on 219 00:11:33,679 --> 00:11:34,760 Speaker 1: becoming a socialist. 220 00:11:34,840 --> 00:11:35,400 Speaker 2: Oh that's right. 221 00:11:35,400 --> 00:11:37,440 Speaker 1: No, we didn't vote on it at all. And that's 222 00:11:37,440 --> 00:11:39,880 Speaker 1: something that that will continue even with the fire. The 223 00:11:39,960 --> 00:11:44,880 Speaker 1: all day food program. All right, interesting? How does mailbag 224 00:11:44,920 --> 00:11:46,200 Speaker 1: look outstanding? 225 00:11:46,520 --> 00:11:47,320 Speaker 2: Cool? That's on the way. 226 00:11:47,360 --> 00:11:50,680 Speaker 1: Our text line is four one five two nine five KFTC. 227 00:11:54,960 --> 00:11:59,959 Speaker 1: It's easy to hear you need to evacuate, but the reality, 228 00:12:00,040 --> 00:12:01,120 Speaker 1: ye it, I've never had to do that. 229 00:12:02,360 --> 00:12:03,240 Speaker 2: Where am I supposed to go? 230 00:12:03,320 --> 00:12:06,160 Speaker 1: Exactly? For how long I'm supposed to get my kids 231 00:12:06,440 --> 00:12:08,640 Speaker 1: and my dogs in the car and go where? 232 00:12:09,480 --> 00:12:11,920 Speaker 2: How it's not as easy as it sounds. 233 00:12:12,840 --> 00:12:15,720 Speaker 1: And what do we take in the next five to 234 00:12:15,760 --> 00:12:18,800 Speaker 1: ten minutes or thirty seconds in some cases. And then 235 00:12:18,920 --> 00:12:21,000 Speaker 1: you got the whole angle of you know, you're thinking 236 00:12:21,040 --> 00:12:23,840 Speaker 1: about what might burn down, what will get stolen. They've 237 00:12:23,880 --> 00:12:27,440 Speaker 1: arrested I think eleven looters in the Pasadena Altadena area 238 00:12:27,559 --> 00:12:32,800 Speaker 1: this morning, and am staunchly against extra judicial punishment and 239 00:12:32,840 --> 00:12:35,120 Speaker 1: police brutality usually. 240 00:12:35,480 --> 00:12:37,240 Speaker 2: Now you got to send a message to looters that 241 00:12:37,280 --> 00:12:41,840 Speaker 2: ain't happening. Yeah, just don't tell us about it. Yes, 242 00:12:42,320 --> 00:12:43,520 Speaker 2: do what needs to be done. 243 00:12:44,440 --> 00:12:50,240 Speaker 1: Uh, here's your freedom loving quote of the day. 244 00:12:49,080 --> 00:12:51,200 Speaker 2: From the Great C. S. Lewis, sent along by MJ. 245 00:12:51,559 --> 00:12:52,319 Speaker 2: Great call MJ. 246 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:57,560 Speaker 1: It's helping helping out along, Hello take two, helping us 247 00:12:57,600 --> 00:13:01,400 Speaker 1: out with our series of quotes about beginning. You can't 248 00:13:01,440 --> 00:13:03,600 Speaker 1: go back and change the beginning, but you can start 249 00:13:03,640 --> 00:13:05,480 Speaker 1: where you are and change the ending. 250 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:09,520 Speaker 2: Boy, that's a true one. That's my favorite one in 251 00:13:09,520 --> 00:13:11,599 Speaker 2: a long time. Like I get that, can't. 252 00:13:11,400 --> 00:13:14,199 Speaker 1: Go back and change the beginning, but you can start 253 00:13:14,200 --> 00:13:16,040 Speaker 1: where you are and change the ending. 254 00:13:16,160 --> 00:13:17,160 Speaker 2: That is a good one. 255 00:13:17,240 --> 00:13:19,320 Speaker 1: I need to get that tattooed on my head in 256 00:13:19,360 --> 00:13:20,920 Speaker 1: reverse so when I look in the mirror I can 257 00:13:20,960 --> 00:13:23,760 Speaker 1: read it every morning. Wow, well you've got it planned 258 00:13:23,800 --> 00:13:26,360 Speaker 1: out wherever you want to get a tattooed. I think 259 00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:29,679 Speaker 1: that that is the sort of wisdom everybody out of 260 00:13:29,760 --> 00:13:31,040 Speaker 1: know by the time they're ten. 261 00:13:31,040 --> 00:13:34,600 Speaker 2: Isn't it. Apparently my ending includes a face tattoo. 262 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:40,520 Speaker 1: Which will be the beginning that you wish you could 263 00:13:40,600 --> 00:13:46,520 Speaker 1: change down the road. Ironically, Mailbag, there's a little policy 264 00:13:46,559 --> 00:13:48,640 Speaker 1: advice from Lawrence. Oh, you can drop us a note 265 00:13:48,679 --> 00:13:50,800 Speaker 1: mail Bag at Armstrong and Giddy dot com governor knew 266 00:13:50,800 --> 00:13:53,400 Speaker 1: some of the Democrat control Senate and Assembly in California. 267 00:13:53,400 --> 00:13:56,679 Speaker 2: You should partner with PGE. Put all the utility lines underground. 268 00:13:57,559 --> 00:14:01,120 Speaker 1: Tax dollars could be diverted from projects like and reparations, 269 00:14:01,400 --> 00:14:04,760 Speaker 1: planned ports of entry for immigrants, planned defense funds for 270 00:14:05,520 --> 00:14:08,960 Speaker 1: to fight Trump's deportation agenda, always getting there. This could 271 00:14:08,960 --> 00:14:14,400 Speaker 1: serve California better than the regular train to nowhere. These 272 00:14:14,480 --> 00:14:18,000 Speaker 1: fires caused by a griffin, that's absolutely right, produce fire 273 00:14:18,040 --> 00:14:22,400 Speaker 1: risk would entice insurance companies continue to provide coverage in California. 274 00:14:22,560 --> 00:14:25,800 Speaker 2: That's right, Lawrence. But that would take good leadership and not. 275 00:14:25,880 --> 00:14:30,680 Speaker 1: Being whores for public employee unions and the big special 276 00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:34,400 Speaker 1: interests with no discus making. That is rude, And I 277 00:14:34,440 --> 00:14:38,720 Speaker 1: apologize to whores. All you're doing is exchanging sex for money. 278 00:14:38,760 --> 00:14:40,040 Speaker 2: I get it. You're in a tough spot. 279 00:14:40,240 --> 00:14:43,400 Speaker 1: What the politicians are doing is considerably worse than that. 280 00:14:43,800 --> 00:14:45,040 Speaker 2: From a mobile standpoint. 281 00:14:45,440 --> 00:14:48,320 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, a sex worker is a paragon of virtue 282 00:14:48,360 --> 00:14:52,760 Speaker 1: compared to these politicians. Sex occursn't selling me and my 283 00:14:52,880 --> 00:14:55,040 Speaker 1: interests in my tax dollars down the line. As far 284 00:14:55,040 --> 00:15:02,040 Speaker 1: as I can tell, I apologize to prostitute. I was unfair. 285 00:15:04,680 --> 00:15:07,760 Speaker 1: Is this worth going into? It's really good email from 286 00:15:07,800 --> 00:15:12,080 Speaker 1: Jim and O Wahoo, some active duty military guy took 287 00:15:12,160 --> 00:15:17,000 Speaker 1: us to task for griping about Joe Biden's hastily announced 288 00:15:17,280 --> 00:15:21,040 Speaker 1: every federal employee gets Thursday off to mourn Jimmy Carter, 289 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:25,120 Speaker 1: you know, to holiday. All the federal employees are off 290 00:15:25,160 --> 00:15:28,160 Speaker 1: today because Jimmy Carter has a funeral and we're paying 291 00:15:28,200 --> 00:15:28,960 Speaker 1: for anything. 292 00:15:29,360 --> 00:15:30,240 Speaker 2: Why what is that? 293 00:15:30,360 --> 00:15:33,680 Speaker 1: And some fine fella, but misguided said to think about 294 00:15:33,720 --> 00:15:36,480 Speaker 1: the military. Yeah, well, the military is a tiny fraction 295 00:15:36,520 --> 00:15:38,800 Speaker 1: of the government workers around the country. Nobody obviously, we're 296 00:15:38,840 --> 00:15:40,800 Speaker 1: not talking about the acted. Nobody means to be army 297 00:15:40,800 --> 00:15:45,080 Speaker 1: when they're talking about government workers. Well, longtime marine writes, well, 298 00:15:45,120 --> 00:15:47,080 Speaker 1: there are some fine patriots in the service. I feel 299 00:15:47,120 --> 00:15:50,040 Speaker 1: they're out numbered by parasitic morons who perform their roles 300 00:15:50,040 --> 00:15:53,240 Speaker 1: so poorly as to be counterproductive. Any doge worth its 301 00:15:53,320 --> 00:15:55,440 Speaker 1: first should be licking its shops for all the tax 302 00:15:55,480 --> 00:15:56,800 Speaker 1: dollars we'll save when. 303 00:15:56,600 --> 00:15:58,160 Speaker 2: We trim the fat to it. 304 00:15:58,360 --> 00:16:01,080 Speaker 1: I can't count how many service member I service members 305 00:16:01,120 --> 00:16:03,160 Speaker 1: I encounter that brag over the money they plan on 306 00:16:03,200 --> 00:16:06,800 Speaker 1: fleecing Americans out of to collect phony disability. 307 00:16:06,240 --> 00:16:08,400 Speaker 2: For the rest of their lives. Yeah, that's one. 308 00:16:09,480 --> 00:16:12,400 Speaker 1: Yeah, and he says, I'm not saying the pendulum needs 309 00:16:12,400 --> 00:16:14,440 Speaker 1: to swing back to spitting on service members and calling 310 00:16:14,520 --> 00:16:16,920 Speaker 1: his baby killers, but we definitely need to pump the 311 00:16:16,960 --> 00:16:19,480 Speaker 1: brakes on the reverence shown to military people. 312 00:16:19,600 --> 00:16:20,160 Speaker 2: That's interesting. 313 00:16:20,200 --> 00:16:21,800 Speaker 1: A lot of us are a holes and we do 314 00:16:21,880 --> 00:16:27,000 Speaker 1: get too many days, you know. And I've made this 315 00:16:27,040 --> 00:16:32,800 Speaker 1: point before. Respect for an appreciation for the members of 316 00:16:32,840 --> 00:16:34,400 Speaker 1: our military is absolutely appropriate. 317 00:16:34,400 --> 00:16:35,520 Speaker 2: In fact, it's required. 318 00:16:36,040 --> 00:16:39,880 Speaker 1: Worshipfulness is not, and I think a lot of that 319 00:16:40,080 --> 00:16:44,320 Speaker 1: worshipfulness is performative, and it comes from the fact that 320 00:16:44,360 --> 00:16:47,720 Speaker 1: such a small percentage of our population ever serves in 321 00:16:47,760 --> 00:16:48,560 Speaker 1: the military. 322 00:16:49,520 --> 00:16:51,040 Speaker 2: It's it's phony. It's making a. 323 00:16:51,040 --> 00:16:53,720 Speaker 1: Big flowery deal out of how you love the military 324 00:16:54,160 --> 00:16:56,040 Speaker 1: to kind of distract people from the fact that you 325 00:16:56,080 --> 00:17:00,280 Speaker 1: and your family have no interest in serving. Respect is good, 326 00:17:00,280 --> 00:17:03,120 Speaker 1: Worshipfulness is dangerous in all things. Some of my favorite 327 00:17:03,200 --> 00:17:06,359 Speaker 1: negative things, particularly about spending I've ever heard about the military, 328 00:17:06,400 --> 00:17:08,520 Speaker 1: have come from people I know who have been in 329 00:17:08,560 --> 00:17:12,280 Speaker 1: the military their whole lives, right, not from outsiders. I've 330 00:17:12,320 --> 00:17:14,920 Speaker 1: got a big complaint about Carter's funeral, among other things 331 00:17:14,920 --> 00:17:15,359 Speaker 1: on the way. 332 00:17:15,320 --> 00:17:19,639 Speaker 2: Stay tuned, Armstrong and Getty. 333 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:23,679 Speaker 5: President Biden meanwhile, says he thinks he could have beaten 334 00:17:23,760 --> 00:17:26,960 Speaker 5: Donald Trump in the twenty twenty four election. But in 335 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:29,920 Speaker 5: an interview with USA Today, one of the very few 336 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:33,840 Speaker 5: interviews President Biden has granted as he prepares to exit 337 00:17:33,880 --> 00:17:37,040 Speaker 5: the White House, the President admitted he's not sure that 338 00:17:37,119 --> 00:17:39,760 Speaker 5: had he won, he would have had the stamina to 339 00:17:39,880 --> 00:17:44,199 Speaker 5: serve for another four years. Here's a quote from President Biden, 340 00:17:44,720 --> 00:17:48,520 Speaker 5: who knows what I'm going to be when I'm eighty 341 00:17:48,680 --> 00:17:49,879 Speaker 5: six years old. 342 00:17:50,960 --> 00:17:58,680 Speaker 1: As from CBS News, Joe Biden thinks he would have won. Okay, fine, 343 00:17:58,720 --> 00:18:00,840 Speaker 1: if that, If that helps you your last couple of 344 00:18:00,880 --> 00:18:05,399 Speaker 1: years on Earth, and I think you're in your final years, fine, fine, whatever. 345 00:18:05,560 --> 00:18:08,840 Speaker 1: Donald j is going to be halfway through the of 346 00:18:08,840 --> 00:18:11,919 Speaker 1: office when all of Biden's aides are going to be 347 00:18:12,080 --> 00:18:15,679 Speaker 1: running to the media to describe exactly how it was. 348 00:18:16,560 --> 00:18:20,280 Speaker 1: So Joe Biden is the only ex president who has 349 00:18:20,280 --> 00:18:23,560 Speaker 1: a speaking role at Jimmy Carter's funeral, which is today. 350 00:18:23,640 --> 00:18:27,400 Speaker 1: We are doing full team coverage in ours three, four, 351 00:18:27,440 --> 00:18:29,879 Speaker 1: and then a special bonus hour five in which we 352 00:18:29,920 --> 00:18:33,280 Speaker 1: will cover the funeral in its entirety. 353 00:18:33,840 --> 00:18:35,920 Speaker 2: Wow, you better have a gun be ready to point 354 00:18:35,920 --> 00:18:36,320 Speaker 2: it at me. 355 00:18:36,920 --> 00:18:40,280 Speaker 1: So I'm watching it live on TV, and everybody is 356 00:18:40,320 --> 00:18:43,159 Speaker 1: filed into the National Cathedral in Washington, DC. And if 357 00:18:43,160 --> 00:18:45,920 Speaker 1: you've never made that part of your Washington, d C. Tour, 358 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:49,520 Speaker 1: you should. It's a bit of a train ride out there, 359 00:18:49,520 --> 00:18:55,520 Speaker 1: but just an unbelievable church. Everybody who's anybody in national 360 00:18:55,560 --> 00:18:58,320 Speaker 1: government is there. And as the camera's panning around looking 361 00:18:58,359 --> 00:19:01,199 Speaker 1: at him, just saw a good view of why John F. 362 00:19:01,359 --> 00:19:04,480 Speaker 1: Carey didn't win the presidency as he walked in, and 363 00:19:04,760 --> 00:19:08,639 Speaker 1: he's got this big, bright blue silk scarf around his 364 00:19:08,800 --> 00:19:11,520 Speaker 1: neck along with his suit. And I just thought, you 365 00:19:11,600 --> 00:19:14,560 Speaker 1: the windsurfing, the scarf, the wood that it were, that's 366 00:19:14,560 --> 00:19:18,879 Speaker 1: why you couldn't get elected president. Dude. Everybody else just 367 00:19:18,920 --> 00:19:22,159 Speaker 1: in a dark suit. Apparently all the vice presidents are 368 00:19:22,160 --> 00:19:26,359 Speaker 1: sitting together. You got uh, Mike Pence sitting it there 369 00:19:26,440 --> 00:19:29,359 Speaker 1: and yucking it up with the most relaxed man in 370 00:19:29,359 --> 00:19:29,760 Speaker 1: the building. 371 00:19:29,800 --> 00:19:30,280 Speaker 2: Al Gore. 372 00:19:30,359 --> 00:19:32,560 Speaker 1: We're talking about this yesterday. Al Gore went off about, 373 00:19:32,600 --> 00:19:33,919 Speaker 1: you know, screw this whole politics thing. 374 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:36,040 Speaker 2: I almost won. I should have won. Maybe I shouldn't 375 00:19:36,040 --> 00:19:36,320 Speaker 2: be proud. 376 00:19:36,320 --> 00:19:37,520 Speaker 1: I'm not going to spend the rest of my life 377 00:19:37,560 --> 00:19:41,400 Speaker 1: saying it was stolen or or or my feeling's hurt, 378 00:19:41,960 --> 00:19:43,679 Speaker 1: like a Hillary Clinton or whoever. 379 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:44,359 Speaker 2: Forever. 380 00:19:44,760 --> 00:19:46,479 Speaker 1: I'm just gonna go off in a different direction and 381 00:19:46,520 --> 00:19:50,480 Speaker 1: pretend that climate change is important and become a billy 382 00:19:50,520 --> 00:19:51,680 Speaker 1: make a billion dollars. 383 00:19:51,680 --> 00:19:52,120 Speaker 2: That's right. 384 00:19:52,200 --> 00:19:54,920 Speaker 1: Yeah, he's happier and they whip up fear over climate change. 385 00:19:54,960 --> 00:19:55,680 Speaker 2: That sounds like fun. 386 00:19:55,720 --> 00:19:57,600 Speaker 1: But he's throwing back his head and laughter talking to 387 00:19:57,640 --> 00:20:00,000 Speaker 1: Mike Pence and over on the other side, also yucking' 388 00:20:00,200 --> 00:20:06,000 Speaker 1: up is a old gray haired senator from Indiana, Dan Quayle, 389 00:20:06,119 --> 00:20:09,520 Speaker 1: who was vice, You're gonna you're gonna kill me. 390 00:20:10,280 --> 00:20:11,280 Speaker 2: You are, You're gonna hate me. 391 00:20:11,359 --> 00:20:13,399 Speaker 1: You're gonna cuss me out on the air live, and 392 00:20:13,440 --> 00:20:17,880 Speaker 1: I deserve it for various reasons that are not terribly interesting. 393 00:20:18,080 --> 00:20:21,600 Speaker 1: I totally forgot to tell the story that when I 394 00:20:21,760 --> 00:20:29,160 Speaker 1: was playing golf with friends in October at a particular 395 00:20:29,200 --> 00:20:33,440 Speaker 1: golf course in California that will remain nameless, I came 396 00:20:33,480 --> 00:20:38,160 Speaker 1: within six inches of getting t boned in my golf 397 00:20:38,240 --> 00:20:41,680 Speaker 1: cart by a fast driving dan quail. 398 00:20:42,880 --> 00:20:43,960 Speaker 2: We met in an intersection. 399 00:20:44,040 --> 00:20:47,119 Speaker 1: He wasn't paying attention and about about put me in 400 00:20:47,160 --> 00:20:47,919 Speaker 1: the hospital? 401 00:20:48,880 --> 00:20:50,720 Speaker 2: How did you not tell the story in the air? 402 00:20:52,080 --> 00:20:54,960 Speaker 1: It was it was days later because I'd take it 403 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:57,120 Speaker 1: a couple of days off because it was a big 404 00:20:57,160 --> 00:20:59,080 Speaker 1: news story or something, and I just I just didn't 405 00:20:59,119 --> 00:21:01,160 Speaker 1: think of it because you got pushed down a flight 406 00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:03,680 Speaker 1: of stairs by Walter Mondale and it's coming up for 407 00:21:03,760 --> 00:21:05,080 Speaker 1: another story. 408 00:21:05,960 --> 00:21:09,160 Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, a ghost of Spiro actor haunted my dreams. 409 00:21:09,280 --> 00:21:12,840 Speaker 2: I don't know anyway, is that the end of the story. 410 00:21:13,040 --> 00:21:14,640 Speaker 2: Is that the whole that's your whole day? 411 00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:15,040 Speaker 3: Oh? 412 00:21:15,119 --> 00:21:20,360 Speaker 1: Sorry, and drove on honey, you spelled tomato um one 413 00:21:20,480 --> 00:21:24,440 Speaker 1: fair so uh oh. The other thing sitting behind the 414 00:21:24,520 --> 00:21:28,080 Speaker 1: Vice presidents is a meth mouthed hunter Biden. 415 00:21:28,359 --> 00:21:29,880 Speaker 2: He's so got the meth mouth. 416 00:21:30,680 --> 00:21:33,000 Speaker 1: Just I mean that really Distray is a good looking 417 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:35,440 Speaker 1: guy with a family lineage of good looking guys. His 418 00:21:35,520 --> 00:21:36,960 Speaker 1: dad is a good looking guy when he was young. 419 00:21:37,359 --> 00:21:40,560 Speaker 1: And uh, he's just got that full jaw, weird face 420 00:21:40,720 --> 00:21:43,639 Speaker 1: thing that meth users get. Poor guy sitting next to 421 00:21:43,640 --> 00:21:47,359 Speaker 1: his super hot hot wife thirty five year old wife 422 00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:50,679 Speaker 1: or whatever she is. Yeah, but Biden is speaking today. 423 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:53,000 Speaker 1: See how that goes. Here's the part I want to 424 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:56,359 Speaker 1: complain about that. You know what Hunter Biden's got to do, 425 00:21:56,440 --> 00:21:58,480 Speaker 1: then you can get to your complaint. He's got to 426 00:21:58,720 --> 00:22:04,600 Speaker 1: open up a string of laundromats called money laundering, you know, 427 00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:07,080 Speaker 1: just dollar signs in the name, because that'd go big. 428 00:22:07,160 --> 00:22:10,080 Speaker 1: Like in the city where most laundromats are. People respond 429 00:22:10,119 --> 00:22:13,160 Speaker 1: to dollar signs. You know, is sure money laundering? 430 00:22:13,359 --> 00:22:14,000 Speaker 2: Come on money. 431 00:22:14,600 --> 00:22:17,960 Speaker 1: There are a couple of eulogies given today by the 432 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:20,920 Speaker 1: sons of people who wrote the eulogies because Jimmy Carter 433 00:22:21,040 --> 00:22:26,720 Speaker 1: lived so freaking long. For instance, Gerald Ford, former president, 434 00:22:26,880 --> 00:22:29,480 Speaker 1: the one who proceied, who lost to Jimmy Carter nineteen 435 00:22:29,520 --> 00:22:32,280 Speaker 1: seventy six, had written a eulogy thinking he's got to 436 00:22:32,280 --> 00:22:37,600 Speaker 1: be dying soon. But uh, Ford died and Carter lives on, 437 00:22:37,680 --> 00:22:39,399 Speaker 1: and so his son is going to read the speech 438 00:22:39,440 --> 00:22:41,680 Speaker 1: that he wrote. There's another one of those examples, I guess. 439 00:22:42,680 --> 00:22:44,359 Speaker 1: So they're gonna have a song. I'm sure there'll be 440 00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:48,640 Speaker 1: some music. And Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood. Garth Brooks, 441 00:22:48,680 --> 00:22:51,840 Speaker 1: who seems to be omnipresent at all national events at 442 00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:54,879 Speaker 1: this point because he's beloved and a good singer, is 443 00:22:54,960 --> 00:22:59,720 Speaker 1: gonna sing freaking Imagine by John Lennon. Now, I'm fine 444 00:22:59,760 --> 00:23:03,120 Speaker 1: with that as just a tune. I loved it as 445 00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:09,719 Speaker 1: a wide eyed, ignorant child. I mean, seriously, you have 446 00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:12,520 Speaker 1: to be a child to like really take in those 447 00:23:12,640 --> 00:23:15,440 Speaker 1: lyrics and get starry eyed about it because they're moronic. 448 00:23:16,080 --> 00:23:18,520 Speaker 1: They're just mooring. And the only reason that bothers me 449 00:23:18,560 --> 00:23:20,439 Speaker 1: because it's a funeral. You don't have whatever kind of 450 00:23:20,480 --> 00:23:24,520 Speaker 1: music you want. That was actually Carter's foreign policy, and 451 00:23:24,520 --> 00:23:26,679 Speaker 1: that's why a lot of the things that happened happened. 452 00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:29,560 Speaker 2: Ben you should read our friend Tim Sanderfir's Twitter thread. 453 00:23:29,560 --> 00:23:32,240 Speaker 1: He's been linking all these various articles about how Jimmy 454 00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:35,679 Speaker 1: Carter's policies abandoning the shaw led to the Molas and 455 00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:37,960 Speaker 1: everything we've been dealing with in Iran for the forty years. 456 00:23:38,080 --> 00:23:42,320 Speaker 1: Jimmy Carter actually believed the song imagine and the imagine 457 00:23:42,359 --> 00:23:45,520 Speaker 1: there's no war bs and we're all gonna be friends. 458 00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:48,840 Speaker 1: That's not reality. And we can't have presidents who believe 459 00:23:48,920 --> 00:23:53,840 Speaker 1: the John Lennon lyrics. Great tie into Justin Trudeau, who 460 00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:55,720 Speaker 1: was on the outs in Canada. As you've probably heard 461 00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:56,320 Speaker 1: more on that. 462 00:23:56,359 --> 00:24:03,440 Speaker 2: Later that's one thing. The because it's hard to. 463 00:24:05,480 --> 00:24:09,239 Speaker 1: Get into arguments about counterintuitives in the same way that 464 00:24:09,280 --> 00:24:13,639 Speaker 1: you can. For instance, you can criticize George Bush for 465 00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:16,040 Speaker 1: going into orac really easy to do. You know, you 466 00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:19,320 Speaker 1: see what happens, lives lost, money spent, what were the results. 467 00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:22,440 Speaker 1: It's more difficult to criticize a Barack Obama or a 468 00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:25,600 Speaker 1: Jimmy Carter for things that they didn't do. But if 469 00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:27,439 Speaker 1: you're smart enough, or you listen to and read the 470 00:24:27,520 --> 00:24:30,120 Speaker 1: right smart people, they can get into it pretty well. 471 00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:33,280 Speaker 1: But Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama get great credit for 472 00:24:33,359 --> 00:24:35,560 Speaker 1: not getting involved in all kinds of things where we 473 00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:38,640 Speaker 1: maybe should have or stayed more involved, and it led 474 00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:42,840 Speaker 1: to really really difficult, expensive things see the war in Ukraine, 475 00:24:42,920 --> 00:24:46,639 Speaker 1: for instance. By not pushing back back when you had 476 00:24:46,680 --> 00:24:50,000 Speaker 1: the chance drives me out. I don't think it's at 477 00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:53,200 Speaker 1: all shocking for me to point out that national the 478 00:24:53,359 --> 00:25:00,439 Speaker 1: United States passivity. Being passive was praised roundly by the 479 00:25:00,520 --> 00:25:05,480 Speaker 1: media and academia, the great oversized bullhorn of the far 480 00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:08,639 Speaker 1: left through the years. Now, certainly there are examples of 481 00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:11,400 Speaker 1: being overactive or doing the right thing in a terrible, 482 00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:14,800 Speaker 1: stupid way, so witness a rock. On the other hand, 483 00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:19,439 Speaker 1: you get what I'm saying, though passivity is praised uniformly 484 00:25:19,720 --> 00:25:20,920 Speaker 1: in the media always. 485 00:25:21,119 --> 00:25:22,320 Speaker 2: Yeah, that was that was my point. 486 00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:25,280 Speaker 1: It's just it's it's it's it's more complicated to push 487 00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:28,120 Speaker 1: back on that. And uh And as I mentioned from 488 00:25:28,119 --> 00:25:30,680 Speaker 1: a Bob Woodward book, he quotes Joe Biden in the 489 00:25:30,760 --> 00:25:33,960 Speaker 1: Oval office getting off the phone with Putin right before 490 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:36,639 Speaker 1: the invasion, when Biden realized, damn it, Putin's actually going 491 00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:37,240 Speaker 1: to evade. 492 00:25:37,280 --> 00:25:39,200 Speaker 2: He said, Brock, f this all up. 493 00:25:39,440 --> 00:25:42,000 Speaker 1: He's fed this all up when he didn't do anything 494 00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:46,600 Speaker 1: when Putin went into Crimea, Georgia, whichever one it was, Crimea. 495 00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:48,080 Speaker 2: I guess. Uh. 496 00:25:48,200 --> 00:25:51,480 Speaker 1: So it's Joe Biden's view of the whole thing is 497 00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:54,600 Speaker 1: that Barck not pushing back led to the invasion of Ukraine, 498 00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:57,480 Speaker 1: not just you know, maga right winger Jack Armstrong. 499 00:25:58,119 --> 00:25:58,760 Speaker 2: Yeah, I was just. 500 00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:03,040 Speaker 1: Reading something else about Biden and not running and resentment 501 00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:05,400 Speaker 1: and is the bitterness that's pouring out of him right now. 502 00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:09,359 Speaker 1: He hates Barack Obama, he resents him so much, and 503 00:26:09,440 --> 00:26:12,160 Speaker 1: his campaign team and David Ploff and all those people. 504 00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:16,280 Speaker 1: He will go to his grave cursing their names. Now, 505 00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:18,800 Speaker 1: I wanted to bring that up my finish, my final Yeah, 506 00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:21,840 Speaker 1: that's the point. My final funeral note is so you 507 00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:25,080 Speaker 1: got a funeral today for a Jimmy Carter who hasn't 508 00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:26,840 Speaker 1: been in office. 509 00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:31,119 Speaker 2: For forty five years. Forty five years, I mean, so 510 00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:32,639 Speaker 2: that's a long time. 511 00:26:33,119 --> 00:26:35,520 Speaker 1: So you know, bygones, be bygones, a lot of the 512 00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:38,760 Speaker 1: hot rhetoric of the day way back then. 513 00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:41,040 Speaker 2: You know, as you can have a decent funeral. 514 00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:44,280 Speaker 1: If Joe Biden dies next year, and he very easily could, 515 00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:48,879 Speaker 1: well everything is still very fresh on both sides of 516 00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:52,800 Speaker 1: the aisle. Be interesting to see what that funeral is like. Yeah, 517 00:26:52,840 --> 00:26:55,760 Speaker 1: that's funny. That kind of anticipates my next point. Part 518 00:26:55,760 --> 00:26:58,480 Speaker 1: of me thinks, you know what, just why don't you 519 00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:01,119 Speaker 1: you do the Carter funeral and then have lunch and 520 00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:03,359 Speaker 1: hang around the church for a while because Biden doesn't 521 00:27:03,359 --> 00:27:04,000 Speaker 1: look good to me? 522 00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:05,880 Speaker 2: But my god, I mean. 523 00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:08,639 Speaker 1: You're all set up, the priest is there, the minister whatever, 524 00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:12,640 Speaker 1: we got our dark suits on the flowers and garth 525 00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:14,359 Speaker 1: theory can sing a different song summer I. 526 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:17,480 Speaker 2: Car tuned up exactly, yeah, exactly. 527 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:21,080 Speaker 1: Anyway, trying to get some sort of two for one thing, going, 528 00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:24,920 Speaker 1: how you feeling okay? Because we can while we're all here, 529 00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:31,040 Speaker 1: I'm just saying, don't hold out for our you know benefit, Yes, Michael, 530 00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:32,440 Speaker 1: I think the casket will fit. 531 00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:34,879 Speaker 2: Oh my god, you gotta go too far fresh. 532 00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:37,840 Speaker 1: That was distactly exactly See what Joe said was in 533 00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:40,359 Speaker 1: perfectly good taste, and then you took it into the 534 00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:41,560 Speaker 1: realm of absurdity. 535 00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:42,440 Speaker 2: Right. 536 00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:45,600 Speaker 1: What I was going to say is, and you know, 537 00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:47,800 Speaker 1: I remember growing up as a kid with the pictures 538 00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:50,720 Speaker 1: of the presidents around the top of the classrooms, and 539 00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:53,480 Speaker 1: and and there was a certain worshipfulness that was taught 540 00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:57,080 Speaker 1: to us, or at least I got out of it. 541 00:27:57,240 --> 00:28:02,280 Speaker 1: And I think in some cases, uh, respect and admiration 542 00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:04,720 Speaker 1: on the highest level is Oh. And I could name 543 00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:06,720 Speaker 1: the usual names, but you can guess what they are, 544 00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:08,280 Speaker 1: Polk Fillmore. 545 00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:15,000 Speaker 2: You got me at the same time. 546 00:28:17,359 --> 00:28:20,960 Speaker 1: Now that I'm old and bitter and recognize the various 547 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:23,480 Speaker 1: paths people take to the presidency and the very sorts 548 00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:29,400 Speaker 1: of people who have become president, and the utter dishonesty, skullduggery, 549 00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:33,359 Speaker 1: terrible policies, et cetera they've unleashed upon our country, the 550 00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:37,639 Speaker 1: incursions against the Constitution, the accumulating of executive power, the 551 00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:43,680 Speaker 1: rest of it. I don't feel worshipful toward those who've. 552 00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:45,080 Speaker 2: Held the highest office. 553 00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:47,320 Speaker 1: It's a hell of a job and wears you down, 554 00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:50,000 Speaker 1: and so I have respect for people who take on 555 00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:52,320 Speaker 1: that challenge, but I am not worshipful. 556 00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:55,880 Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, They're not kings. It feels a 557 00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:59,920 Speaker 2: little monarchical. Yeah, uh so that's that. 558 00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:02,840 Speaker 1: Maybe we won't do our three four and then at 559 00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:06,400 Speaker 1: bonus hour five of Carter funeral coverage. Then we've got 560 00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:09,920 Speaker 1: unless you know, the buy one, get one thing that. 561 00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:13,360 Speaker 2: Would be historic. We've got Katie's headlines on the way 562 00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:13,840 Speaker 2: stay here. 563 00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:20,160 Speaker 1: So now Trump and Mlanie are walking and I guess, 564 00:29:20,240 --> 00:29:22,640 Speaker 1: as the president elect will be president in just a 565 00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:25,800 Speaker 1: few days. He walks in last he's the last person 566 00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:27,920 Speaker 1: that looks like to be walking in, shaking hands with 567 00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:31,400 Speaker 1: Al Gore and Mike Pence, who he was going to 568 00:29:31,440 --> 00:29:32,120 Speaker 1: allow to be hung. 569 00:29:32,360 --> 00:29:34,400 Speaker 2: I believe this is the first time they've touched and 570 00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:35,320 Speaker 2: quite some time. 571 00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:39,040 Speaker 1: Well, that's nice that they're coming back together. And I 572 00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:43,520 Speaker 1: did that looking like an aging model. Mark Leivivich's brilliant 573 00:29:43,520 --> 00:29:46,920 Speaker 1: book This Town opens at the funeral of Tim Russert. 574 00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:49,640 Speaker 1: I may reread that first chapter to remind myself of 575 00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:56,240 Speaker 1: what's really happening there in the nation's capital. Yeah, let's 576 00:29:56,240 --> 00:29:58,200 Speaker 1: figure out who's reporting what today. It's the week's story 577 00:29:58,240 --> 00:30:00,360 Speaker 1: with Katie Green. Oh, by the way, next hour, Jack. 578 00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:01,960 Speaker 1: What I'd really like to do is finally get to 579 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:06,920 Speaker 1: the analysis of DOGE. What can it accomplish, what are 580 00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:09,520 Speaker 1: the roadblocks going to be? And can it get rid 581 00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:13,160 Speaker 1: of a federal agency for instance? So stay tuned if 582 00:30:13,160 --> 00:30:16,480 Speaker 1: you can. Right now, Katie Barrock just walked in. He 583 00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:21,680 Speaker 1: had the big time Trump, So he walked in. Whatever, 584 00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:26,200 Speaker 1: mister professors and everybody's shaking hands. The man back to you, Katie. 585 00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:28,560 Speaker 1: As I watched the funeral. Oh right, blah blah, lead story, 586 00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:30,560 Speaker 1: Katie Green, go kt LA. 587 00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:33,840 Speaker 6: Hundreds of thousands without power in Los Angeles as the 588 00:30:33,880 --> 00:30:34,680 Speaker 6: fire enters. 589 00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:37,840 Speaker 1: Day three gonna be not as wendy today, but still 590 00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:40,080 Speaker 1: very windy, and the winds are supposed to pick up tomorrow. 591 00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:42,719 Speaker 1: So like the fifty mile an hour gusts is the 592 00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:44,600 Speaker 1: window to try to get this under control. 593 00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:46,920 Speaker 2: It's still all zero percent contained, I believe. 594 00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:52,200 Speaker 6: From the Washington Post. As La burns Trump blames Newsome, 595 00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:53,920 Speaker 6: and California governor. 596 00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:57,400 Speaker 2: Pushes back, all right, there'll be plenty of time for that. 597 00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:03,520 Speaker 6: From Fox News, Biden approves five hundred million dollars in 598 00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:08,160 Speaker 6: Ukraine security package eleven days before Trump takes office. 599 00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:10,960 Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, I'm watching the funeral live and 600 00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:14,360 Speaker 1: I'm distracted by that. Barack is sitting next to Donald Trump, 601 00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:17,480 Speaker 1: and they look as comfortable with each other. They're kind 602 00:31:17,480 --> 00:31:19,480 Speaker 1: of like whispering to each other, not and then laughing 603 00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:21,760 Speaker 1: a little bit. They're having a good conversation. I would 604 00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:25,800 Speaker 1: love to know what two guys who know how the 605 00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:28,680 Speaker 1: whole thing works better than anybody, what they're saying to 606 00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:32,200 Speaker 1: each other about the whole affair, right, because they are 607 00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:34,640 Speaker 1: a couple of rich guys that have fabulous to east 608 00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:37,440 Speaker 1: a fabulous East Coast real estate for instance. 609 00:31:37,760 --> 00:31:40,440 Speaker 2: Uh yeah, yeah, I don't know. I don't know. 610 00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:42,920 Speaker 1: It looks like there's a little snark going on between 611 00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:44,960 Speaker 1: the two about the whole affair, and I just love 612 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:45,840 Speaker 1: to know what they're saying. 613 00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:52,080 Speaker 6: From CNN, is bird flu the next pandemic? What to 614 00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:55,920 Speaker 6: know after the first first age five and one death 615 00:31:56,120 --> 00:31:57,000 Speaker 6: in the US. 616 00:31:57,560 --> 00:31:59,960 Speaker 1: No, it's not, and stop it and that fear mind 617 00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:02,800 Speaker 1: and that person died with bird flu kind of like 618 00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:06,040 Speaker 1: the whole COVID thing. They were an old sick person 619 00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:07,440 Speaker 1: already and had bird flu. 620 00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:13,840 Speaker 6: From the New York post congestion pricing advocate attacked in 621 00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:16,680 Speaker 6: New York City subway station as a new nine dollars 622 00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:18,920 Speaker 6: toll pushes people into mass transit. 623 00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:21,760 Speaker 1: Of course, to be fair, everyone's attacked at New York 624 00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:24,520 Speaker 1: subway stations now that crime has been legalized. 625 00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:25,080 Speaker 2: Touchez. 626 00:32:25,280 --> 00:32:27,880 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a lot of the point though, So you've 627 00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:30,479 Speaker 1: made it so expensive, you're trying to get people more 628 00:32:30,520 --> 00:32:32,880 Speaker 1: people to take mass transit, and the person's idea, what's 629 00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:35,640 Speaker 1: got attacked on mass transit, drawing attention to the fact 630 00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:36,400 Speaker 1: that that's a lot. 631 00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:38,320 Speaker 2: Of the reason people don't want to ride mass transit. 632 00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:41,040 Speaker 2: From Breitbart dot com. 633 00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:48,400 Speaker 6: ABC is launching a weekend edition of The View. It'll 634 00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:51,840 Speaker 6: be hosted by Joey Behar and will be basically the 635 00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:55,479 Speaker 6: hens of The View will be joining her, except all 636 00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:56,480 Speaker 6: of them, except for whoopee. 637 00:32:56,520 --> 00:32:58,680 Speaker 1: If that's the way you want to spend your Saturday morning, 638 00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:03,760 Speaker 1: can I buy your time? Is this to torture the 639 00:33:03,840 --> 00:33:07,840 Speaker 1: few remaining Al Qaeda guys in guantanamo or something who 640 00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:11,440 Speaker 1: asked for this. Good lord, I have breaking news. The 641 00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:16,360 Speaker 1: only person who's not smiling and looking happy with George W. 642 00:33:16,480 --> 00:33:16,880 Speaker 5: Bush. 643 00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:20,080 Speaker 1: He's looking happy and he and his wife and Bill 644 00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:21,840 Speaker 1: is sitting there kind of a smile on his face, 645 00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:24,200 Speaker 1: yucking it up with the owl. And and Trump and 646 00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:27,640 Speaker 1: Brock are still chatting up NonStop. They can't stop talking 647 00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:30,719 Speaker 1: to each other. The only person that looks miserable Hillary 648 00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:35,160 Speaker 1: Rodham Clinton. She looks angry, well she always does. She's 649 00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:38,120 Speaker 1: sitting there thinking, I can't believe Trump's gonna be president again. 650 00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:41,400 Speaker 1: I'm in the front row as a potus or as 651 00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:42,800 Speaker 1: a wife, not a potus. 652 00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:43,760 Speaker 2: This sucks. 653 00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:49,600 Speaker 6: Yeah, we have a couple more from ABC. Eternal Attorney 654 00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:53,960 Speaker 6: General Merrick Garland informs Congress Special Counsels Donald Trump investigation 655 00:33:54,480 --> 00:33:55,680 Speaker 6: has concluded. 656 00:33:57,200 --> 00:33:58,320 Speaker 2: Yeah, we gathered that. 657 00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:03,880 Speaker 6: And finally the Babylon Bee Newsome assures wildfire victims that 658 00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:08,280 Speaker 6: he's diverting millions of dollars to emergen Emergency DEI initiatives. 659 00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:12,240 Speaker 1: Yeah, there's going to be a lot, As you said, 660 00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:14,560 Speaker 1: there's going to be a lot of looking over to 661 00:34:14,560 --> 00:34:17,759 Speaker 1: the policies and the rhetoric of a whole bunch of 662 00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:21,040 Speaker 1: different government officials, whether it's people of la or or 663 00:34:21,080 --> 00:34:27,080 Speaker 1: Governor Newsom himself on this whole thing. Yes, yeah, clearly, 664 00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:30,279 Speaker 1: but the dust can settle. In my opinion, some of 665 00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:32,520 Speaker 1: the sniping political stuff going back and forth right now 666 00:34:32,560 --> 00:34:33,560 Speaker 1: is not very productive. 667 00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:34,600 Speaker 2: But speaking of. 668 00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:39,480 Speaker 1: Political sniping, Elizabeth Warren versus Pete hegseeth, the whole hearings 669 00:34:39,520 --> 00:34:42,560 Speaker 1: for the cabinet story is about to heat up like crazy. 670 00:34:43,560 --> 00:34:48,040 Speaker 1: And she's just she is underestimated as an evil doer. 671 00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:50,800 Speaker 2: She is a hardcore Marxist. 672 00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:55,000 Speaker 1: So Hanson's claiming that none of the presidents who came 673 00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:57,240 Speaker 1: in shook hands with Trump. I'm sure I saw Bamba 674 00:34:57,280 --> 00:34:58,719 Speaker 1: shake hands with Trump. But you're saying none of the 675 00:34:58,719 --> 00:35:00,640 Speaker 1: other president shok because they're all she hands with each 676 00:35:00,680 --> 00:35:04,839 Speaker 1: other and everybody. Kamala Obama did not shake his hand. 677 00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:07,239 Speaker 1: Hanson is saying, Kamala just walked in. She's the only 678 00:35:07,320 --> 00:35:10,560 Speaker 1: other person besides Hillary who looks miserable. Is Kamala just 679 00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:13,640 Speaker 1: walked in with her husband. She took a hostile glance 680 00:35:13,680 --> 00:35:16,360 Speaker 1: at Trump. Trump didn't even look at her. She looked 681 00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:20,600 Speaker 1: down with disdain and began flipping through the program. Oh boy, 682 00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:24,480 Speaker 1: I'm loving body language segment. I'm loving reading the body language. 683 00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:25,279 Speaker 1: You've got more on the way. 684 00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:28,400 Speaker 2: Stay with us, Armstrong and Getty