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Speaker 2: Jack Armstrong, Joe, Katty Armstrong and Jettie and he Armsrong
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Speaker 3: And hey y'all, today, little Friday, we're under the tutelage
Speaker 3: of our general manager, the Firefighters of California on this
Speaker 3: day too.
Speaker 1: Of Greenlanders occupying our territory illegally count back from yesterday,
Speaker 1: we will, we will wait until we are reunited with
Speaker 1: our precious greenland, American land.
Speaker 2: I don't know if everybody's aware of. Up until really.
Speaker 1: Recently, in the history of mankind, fire was killing us
Speaker 1: and burning down our houses constantly. Well, that is the
Speaker 1: history of mankind in urban area specifically. I remember many
Speaker 1: many books that I've read throughout my life point this out.
Speaker 1: Uh oh, do you remember the gangs in the New
Speaker 1: York and gangs in New York? Remember that movie Martin
Speaker 1: Scorsese that was one of the big gangs. One of
Speaker 1: the big things the gangs did to uh, to curry
Speaker 1: favor is they would get there fast to help put
Speaker 1: out fires, because there were constantly fires breaking out. And
Speaker 1: if and if and if the little local fire department,
Speaker 1: you know, a horse drawn trolley full of water and hoses,
Speaker 1: didn't come there and put it out, it's going to
Speaker 1: burn everything down and kill people. And so that's how
Speaker 1: you would, you know, get people on your side. And
Speaker 1: I remember when I read the book Uh Devil in
Speaker 1: the White City about Chicago from the World Fair eighteen
Speaker 1: ninety three.
Speaker 2: Fantastic book if you've never.
Speaker 1: Read it, but they mentioned in there at that time,
Speaker 1: on average, there would be four deaths from fire per
Speaker 1: day in Chicago, even with that much smaller population per day.
Speaker 1: And I remember, more recently, during the incredibly stupid discussion
Speaker 1: of whether Trump's rally at Madison Square Garden was reminiscent
Speaker 1: of the Nazi rallies, a conversation so monumentally stupendously mind
Speaker 1: bogglingly idiotic it's hard to imagine any adult engaged in
Speaker 1: it with a straight face.
Speaker 2: Seriously, anyway, take.
Speaker 1: A moment, think about it anyway, Yeah, and reading about it,
Speaker 1: it wasn't even the same building because Madison Square Garden
Speaker 1: and its various incarnations has burnt down repeatedly. Excellent example,
Speaker 1: almost any time you're at a historic hotel, restaurant, whatever,
Speaker 1: if you read the little description on there, this is
Speaker 1: the version built on the spot where the original one
Speaker 1: was when it burnt down in eighteen something, early nineteen
Speaker 1: something whatever.
Speaker 2: Because it was just a fact of life.
Speaker 1: But we've become accustomed to, thank God, because of modern
Speaker 1: materials and firefighting and all kinds of different things, that
Speaker 1: that doesn't happen all the time, but the power of
Speaker 1: fire still exists. Is if you've seen any of these
Speaker 1: pictures from some of these neighborhoods in La, it's just
Speaker 1: mind boggling how these entire neighborhoods, modern neighborhoods of nice
Speaker 1: houses are completely gone. Everything gone catastrophic. Yeah, yeah, I wonder,
Speaker 1: And we will get into the looming home owners insurance
Speaker 1: crisis from coast to coast, I mean particularly in California,
Speaker 1: but coast to coast, and I wonder whether we will
Speaker 1: not evolve as a people into spending a great deal
Speaker 1: more on making our homes impregnable to the various threats
Speaker 1: we face. And that's the only way we're going to
Speaker 1: get around the fact that so many homes are nigh
Speaker 1: on uninsurable these days given the current market right and
Speaker 1: is going to be quite the story. I think it
Speaker 1: will help that, particularly in the Pacific Palisades area, you
Speaker 1: got a lot of people with money who have the
Speaker 1: ability to get the attention of the powerful, and in
Speaker 1: a way that a lot of communities that have burned
Speaker 1: down didn't. They are not going to just sit idly
Speaker 1: by and let current policy exist. So that'll be interesting
Speaker 1: for whatever reason and just the way the human mind works.
Speaker 2: I guess the.
Speaker 1: Big fire that's in the Pasadena Altadna area because I
Speaker 1: know that area really well, Like I know some of
Speaker 1: these places and streets and stores and everything like that,
Speaker 1: and them burning down just like really impactful. It's hard
Speaker 1: to wrap my head around that corner. I saw a
Speaker 1: picture of a corner just just as cool a community
Speaker 1: as exists anywhere on the earth. It's like a small
Speaker 1: town next to Los Angeles, just so nice, beautiful old houses.
Speaker 1: This little old hardware store. I've been there for forty years.
Speaker 1: His mom and pop place burnt to a ground night
Speaker 1: before it was open. Kid there closed it down, kid
Speaker 1: of the dad who started it next day, completely gone,
Speaker 1: just oh, awful, awful, awful. They found a guy dead
Speaker 1: in his backyard holding a hose in his hand. And
Speaker 1: I told the story when our field caught on fire,
Speaker 1: I was out there with a hose, because when it's small,
Speaker 1: you think, oh, i'll get a hose and I'll try
Speaker 1: to start this. And then in the seconds I was
Speaker 1: overcome with smoking flames and had to get the hell
Speaker 1: out of there. I mean, it just it happened so
Speaker 1: fast with the wind shot right. And I remember you
Speaker 1: telling this story. When you say within seconds, you don't
Speaker 1: mean forty fives.
Speaker 2: No, no, no.
Speaker 1: I looked like in my field, for instance, it was
Speaker 1: a very very windy day, caught on fire, very dry,
Speaker 1: and it was a tiny little Okay, if I get
Speaker 1: a bucket, I can put it out. I turn around
Speaker 1: to go to the hose, get a bucket, and so
Speaker 1: this is twenty seconds.
Speaker 2: I turn around and it's just.
Speaker 1: A wall of flame behind me in that amount of time,
Speaker 1: and you know, you amplify that by one hundred mile
Speaker 1: an hour winds there having in La today only fifty
Speaker 1: mile an hour gusts, which is helpful. Tomorrow they're expecting
Speaker 1: it to be back up to seventy mile an hour gusts.
Speaker 1: So good, Lord, that's not helpful. Absolutely amazing. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know what's going to come out of this in
Speaker 1: terms of insurance and where you're allowed to build homes
Speaker 1: and all kinds of different stuff. You know, you can,
Speaker 1: you can certainly relate to people of old talking about
Speaker 1: the wrath of God or the vengeance of Satan or
Speaker 1: what have you, and when such a cataclysm comes upon you,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just it's it's unfathomable to anybody who
Speaker 1: hasn't lived through it. And I've been following a lot
Speaker 1: of the social media stuff about forest management, tree management,
Speaker 1: all that different sort of stuff. Water management in California,
Speaker 1: which has been horrible and people have been complaining about
Speaker 1: it forever. There's a clip from a Joe Rogan podcast
Speaker 1: floating around that's getting a lot of attention where he
Speaker 1: was talking about that very sort of thing and he said, boy,
Speaker 1: one of these days, the conditions are going to be right,
Speaker 1: and there's going to be a spark and it's it's
Speaker 1: going to sweep through out and just burn everything to
Speaker 1: the ground. So you can't really go at this from
Speaker 1: a nobody could see this coming standpoint, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2: We should start. On the other hand, a lot.
Speaker 1: Of the politicization of it, a lot of the politics,
Speaker 1: including this stuff Trump has said, is not at all helpful.
Speaker 2: It's just it's silly. Some of it. Trump's say, well,
Speaker 2: talking about.
Speaker 1: Forest management and stuff like that, in large part not
Speaker 1: talking about forests, but and the water stuff that he's
Speaker 1: commented on. It's just it's he has read half a
Speaker 1: paragraph on it and is now making bold pronouncements. And
Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom's an idiot. California is badly governed and ungovernable.
Speaker 1: I'm not denying that for a second. It's just some
Speaker 1: of the conversation that's knocking around online is kind of
Speaker 1: silly at this point. If you've spent any time with this,
Speaker 1: Like the idea Trump was like, you.
Speaker 2: Gotta take all the water from northern California.
Speaker 1: Everybody knows this and send it to southern California, and
Speaker 1: northern California for twenty five years has been saying, whoa, whoa, oh, whoa, we.
Speaker 2: Kind of need that water. So it's not as simple
Speaker 2: as that. LA schools are closed today except for.
Speaker 1: One caveat which I want to discuss after we start
Speaker 1: the show Officially, I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on
Speaker 1: this it is? How did it already get to be? Thursday,
Speaker 1: January ninth, you're twenty twenty five? You're going with ain't
Speaker 1: taken no jive in twenty five?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: Cut the jive in twenty five, cut the jib in
Speaker 1: twenty kind no jive?
Speaker 2: What am I strutting through Harlem in nineteen seventy six?
Speaker 2: What's happening here? We are Armstrong in Getty and we
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Speaker 1: All right, let's begin squirting the water of truth on
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Speaker 4: Do you owe citizens and apology for being absent while
Speaker 4: their homes were burning? Do you regret coming the fire
Speaker 4: department budget by millions of dollars?
Speaker 1: Not in there?
Speaker 4: Have you nothing to say today?
Speaker 2: Fadam Mayor?
Speaker 4: Have you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today?
Speaker 4: You're dating this disaster? You no apology for them? Do
Speaker 4: you think you should have been visiting Ghana while this
Speaker 4: was unfolding back home? So?
Speaker 1: As the mayor of Los Angeles not answering some questions
Speaker 1: from a reporter as she has come back to La
Speaker 1: she was out of town.
Speaker 2: I don't know that that matters to me.
Speaker 1: The policy stuff matters, The policy stuff decisions made throughout
Speaker 1: the years obviously matters. But the somebody's out of town
Speaker 1: when something happens thing I've always thought it was over overblown. Yeah,
Speaker 1: with all respect to patio furniture there the Irish reporter,
Speaker 1: the cutting of seventeen million dollars from the fire budget,
Speaker 1: that is absolutely a serious topic. The fact that she
Speaker 1: happened to be on some idiotic, paid for junket, I'm guessing.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's just the politicians do that all the time.
Speaker 1: I'm not in favor of it. But it's not like
Speaker 1: the fire start and she said feach, don't fail me
Speaker 1: now and headed to Ghana. I mean she just happened
Speaker 1: to be there. Or if she happened to be in
Speaker 1: her office when the fire started, it would have unfolded
Speaker 1: any differently. I doubt that, well exactly. And this is
Speaker 1: it reminds me of going way back to Barack Obama.
Speaker 1: He's not a Muslim, he's a socialist. Keep your eye
Speaker 1: on the ball, don't worry. If she was in Ghana,
Speaker 1: let's talk about the fact that La there was a
Speaker 1: city councilman did an interview just a couple of days ago,
Speaker 1: said it's absolutely worth worth cutting the budget for services
Speaker 1: to general city services to take care of our migrant population,
Speaker 1: meaning illegal immigrants.
Speaker 2: And Karen Bass is one hundred percent on board that there.
Speaker 1: Why did they have to cut the fire budgets so severely.
Speaker 1: It's because they're a sanctuary city. Keep your eye on
Speaker 1: the ball. Kind of doubt, kind of on that road
Speaker 1: of socialism quickly, maybe we'll talk about it later. I
Speaker 1: heard the schools in LA will be closed again to day, obviously.
Speaker 2: Except for the lunch program. The food program will go on.
Speaker 1: And I heard the big announcement that they've got satellite
Speaker 1: locations for all the meals for breakfast, lunch, and dinner
Speaker 1: will continue to be served to all the residents. Our
Speaker 1: schools became a three meal a day food program, government
Speaker 1: food program, trying to convince a whole bunch of people,
Speaker 1: and apparently they have that it's not your job to
Speaker 1: feed your family, it's the government's job. The schools are closed,
Speaker 1: I don't think, oh my god, how are my kids
Speaker 1: going to eat lunch?
Speaker 2: I take care of the lunch.
Speaker 1: I remember that great historic vote and the vote totals
Speaker 1: in the House and the Senate when we voted on
Speaker 1: becoming a socialist.
Speaker 2: Oh that's right.
Speaker 1: No, we didn't vote on it at all. And that's
Speaker 1: something that that will continue even with the fire. The
Speaker 1: all day food program. All right, interesting? How does mailbag
Speaker 1: look outstanding?
Speaker 2: Cool? That's on the way.
Speaker 1: Our text line is four one five two nine five KFTC.
Speaker 1: It's easy to hear you need to evacuate, but the reality,
Speaker 1: ye it, I've never had to do that.
Speaker 2: Where am I supposed to go?
Speaker 1: Exactly? For how long I'm supposed to get my kids
Speaker 1: and my dogs in the car and go where?
Speaker 2: How it's not as easy as it sounds.
Speaker 1: And what do we take in the next five to
Speaker 1: ten minutes or thirty seconds in some cases. And then
Speaker 1: you got the whole angle of you know, you're thinking
Speaker 1: about what might burn down, what will get stolen. They've
Speaker 1: arrested I think eleven looters in the Pasadena Altadena area
Speaker 1: this morning, and am staunchly against extra judicial punishment and
Speaker 1: police brutality usually.
Speaker 2: Now you got to send a message to looters that
Speaker 2: ain't happening. Yeah, just don't tell us about it. Yes,
Speaker 2: do what needs to be done.
Speaker 1: Uh, here's your freedom loving quote of the day.
Speaker 2: From the Great C. S. Lewis, sent along by MJ.
Speaker 2: Great call MJ.
Speaker 1: It's helping helping out along, Hello take two, helping us
Speaker 1: out with our series of quotes about beginning. You can't
Speaker 1: go back and change the beginning, but you can start
Speaker 1: where you are and change the ending.
Speaker 2: Boy, that's a true one. That's my favorite one in
Speaker 2: a long time. Like I get that, can't.
Speaker 1: Go back and change the beginning, but you can start
Speaker 1: where you are and change the ending.
Speaker 2: That is a good one.
Speaker 1: I need to get that tattooed on my head in
Speaker 1: reverse so when I look in the mirror I can
Speaker 1: read it every morning. Wow, well you've got it planned
Speaker 1: out wherever you want to get a tattooed. I think
Speaker 1: that that is the sort of wisdom everybody out of
Speaker 1: know by the time they're ten.
Speaker 2: Isn't it. Apparently my ending includes a face tattoo.
Speaker 1: Which will be the beginning that you wish you could
Speaker 1: change down the road. Ironically, Mailbag, there's a little policy
Speaker 1: advice from Lawrence. Oh, you can drop us a note
Speaker 1: mail Bag at Armstrong and Giddy dot com governor knew
Speaker 1: some of the Democrat control Senate and Assembly in California.
Speaker 2: You should partner with PGE. Put all the utility lines underground.
Speaker 1: Tax dollars could be diverted from projects like and reparations,
Speaker 1: planned ports of entry for immigrants, planned defense funds for
Speaker 1: to fight Trump's deportation agenda, always getting there. This could
Speaker 1: serve California better than the regular train to nowhere. These
Speaker 1: fires caused by a griffin, that's absolutely right, produce fire
Speaker 1: risk would entice insurance companies continue to provide coverage in California.
Speaker 2: That's right, Lawrence. But that would take good leadership and not.
Speaker 1: Being whores for public employee unions and the big special
Speaker 1: interests with no discus making. That is rude, And I
Speaker 1: apologize to whores. All you're doing is exchanging sex for money.
Speaker 2: I get it. You're in a tough spot.
Speaker 1: What the politicians are doing is considerably worse than that.
Speaker 2: From a mobile standpoint.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, a sex worker is a paragon of virtue
Speaker 1: compared to these politicians. Sex occursn't selling me and my
Speaker 1: interests in my tax dollars down the line. As far
Speaker 1: as I can tell, I apologize to prostitute. I was unfair.
Speaker 1: Is this worth going into? It's really good email from
Speaker 1: Jim and O Wahoo, some active duty military guy took
Speaker 1: us to task for griping about Joe Biden's hastily announced
Speaker 1: every federal employee gets Thursday off to mourn Jimmy Carter,
Speaker 1: you know, to holiday. All the federal employees are off
Speaker 1: today because Jimmy Carter has a funeral and we're paying
Speaker 1: for anything.
Speaker 2: Why what is that?
Speaker 1: And some fine fella, but misguided said to think about
Speaker 1: the military. Yeah, well, the military is a tiny fraction
Speaker 1: of the government workers around the country. Nobody obviously, we're
Speaker 1: not talking about the acted. Nobody means to be army
Speaker 1: when they're talking about government workers. Well, longtime marine writes, well,
Speaker 1: there are some fine patriots in the service. I feel
Speaker 1: they're out numbered by parasitic morons who perform their roles
Speaker 1: so poorly as to be counterproductive. Any doge worth its
Speaker 1: first should be licking its shops for all the tax
Speaker 1: dollars we'll save when.
Speaker 2: We trim the fat to it.
Speaker 1: I can't count how many service member I service members
Speaker 1: I encounter that brag over the money they plan on
Speaker 1: fleecing Americans out of to collect phony disability.
Speaker 2: For the rest of their lives. Yeah, that's one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and he says, I'm not saying the pendulum needs
Speaker 1: to swing back to spitting on service members and calling
Speaker 1: his baby killers, but we definitely need to pump the
Speaker 1: brakes on the reverence shown to military people.
Speaker 2: That's interesting.
Speaker 1: A lot of us are a holes and we do
Speaker 1: get too many days, you know. And I've made this
Speaker 1: point before. Respect for an appreciation for the members of
Speaker 1: our military is absolutely appropriate.
Speaker 2: In fact, it's required.
Speaker 1: Worshipfulness is not, and I think a lot of that
Speaker 1: worshipfulness is performative, and it comes from the fact that
Speaker 1: such a small percentage of our population ever serves in
Speaker 1: the military.
Speaker 2: It's it's phony. It's making a.
Speaker 1: Big flowery deal out of how you love the military
Speaker 1: to kind of distract people from the fact that you
Speaker 1: and your family have no interest in serving. Respect is good,
Speaker 1: Worshipfulness is dangerous in all things. Some of my favorite
Speaker 1: negative things, particularly about spending I've ever heard about the military,
Speaker 1: have come from people I know who have been in
Speaker 1: the military their whole lives, right, not from outsiders. I've
Speaker 1: got a big complaint about Carter's funeral, among other things
Speaker 1: on the way.
Speaker 2: Stay tuned, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 5: President Biden meanwhile, says he thinks he could have beaten
Speaker 5: Donald Trump in the twenty twenty four election. But in
Speaker 5: an interview with USA Today, one of the very few
Speaker 5: interviews President Biden has granted as he prepares to exit
Speaker 5: the White House, the President admitted he's not sure that
Speaker 5: had he won, he would have had the stamina to
Speaker 5: serve for another four years. Here's a quote from President Biden,
Speaker 5: who knows what I'm going to be when I'm eighty
Speaker 5: six years old.
Speaker 1: As from CBS News, Joe Biden thinks he would have won. Okay, fine,
Speaker 1: if that, If that helps you your last couple of
Speaker 1: years on Earth, and I think you're in your final years, fine, fine, whatever.
Speaker 1: Donald j is going to be halfway through the of
Speaker 1: office when all of Biden's aides are going to be
Speaker 1: running to the media to describe exactly how it was.
Speaker 1: So Joe Biden is the only ex president who has
Speaker 1: a speaking role at Jimmy Carter's funeral, which is today.
Speaker 1: We are doing full team coverage in ours three, four,
Speaker 1: and then a special bonus hour five in which we
Speaker 1: will cover the funeral in its entirety.
Speaker 2: Wow, you better have a gun be ready to point
Speaker 2: it at me.
Speaker 1: So I'm watching it live on TV, and everybody is
Speaker 1: filed into the National Cathedral in Washington, DC. And if
Speaker 1: you've never made that part of your Washington, d C. Tour,
Speaker 1: you should. It's a bit of a train ride out there,
Speaker 1: but just an unbelievable church. Everybody who's anybody in national
Speaker 1: government is there. And as the camera's panning around looking
Speaker 1: at him, just saw a good view of why John F.
Speaker 1: Carey didn't win the presidency as he walked in, and
Speaker 1: he's got this big, bright blue silk scarf around his
Speaker 1: neck along with his suit. And I just thought, you
Speaker 1: the windsurfing, the scarf, the wood that it were, that's
Speaker 1: why you couldn't get elected president. Dude. Everybody else just
Speaker 1: in a dark suit. Apparently all the vice presidents are
Speaker 1: sitting together. You got uh, Mike Pence sitting it there
Speaker 1: and yucking it up with the most relaxed man in
Speaker 1: the building.
Speaker 2: Al Gore.
Speaker 1: We're talking about this yesterday. Al Gore went off about,
Speaker 1: you know, screw this whole politics thing.
Speaker 2: I almost won. I should have won. Maybe I shouldn't
Speaker 2: be proud.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to spend the rest of my life
Speaker 1: saying it was stolen or or or my feeling's hurt,
Speaker 1: like a Hillary Clinton or whoever.
Speaker 2: Forever.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna go off in a different direction and
Speaker 1: pretend that climate change is important and become a billy
Speaker 1: make a billion dollars.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's happier and they whip up fear over climate change.
Speaker 2: That sounds like fun.
Speaker 1: But he's throwing back his head and laughter talking to
Speaker 1: Mike Pence and over on the other side, also yucking'
Speaker 1: up is a old gray haired senator from Indiana, Dan Quayle,
Speaker 1: who was vice, You're gonna you're gonna kill me.
Speaker 2: You are, You're gonna hate me.
Speaker 1: You're gonna cuss me out on the air live, and
Speaker 1: I deserve it for various reasons that are not terribly interesting.
Speaker 1: I totally forgot to tell the story that when I
Speaker 1: was playing golf with friends in October at a particular
Speaker 1: golf course in California that will remain nameless, I came
Speaker 1: within six inches of getting t boned in my golf
Speaker 1: cart by a fast driving dan quail.
Speaker 2: We met in an intersection.
Speaker 1: He wasn't paying attention and about about put me in
Speaker 1: the hospital?
Speaker 2: How did you not tell the story in the air?
Speaker 1: It was it was days later because I'd take it
Speaker 1: a couple of days off because it was a big
Speaker 1: news story or something, and I just I just didn't
Speaker 1: think of it because you got pushed down a flight
Speaker 1: of stairs by Walter Mondale and it's coming up for
Speaker 1: another story.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, a ghost of Spiro actor haunted my dreams.
Speaker 2: I don't know anyway, is that the end of the story.
Speaker 2: Is that the whole that's your whole day?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: Sorry, and drove on honey, you spelled tomato um one
Speaker 1: fair so uh oh. The other thing sitting behind the
Speaker 1: Vice presidents is a meth mouthed hunter Biden.
Speaker 2: He's so got the meth mouth.
Speaker 1: Just I mean that really Distray is a good looking
Speaker 1: guy with a family lineage of good looking guys. His
Speaker 1: dad is a good looking guy when he was young.
Speaker 1: And uh, he's just got that full jaw, weird face
Speaker 1: thing that meth users get. Poor guy sitting next to
Speaker 1: his super hot hot wife thirty five year old wife
Speaker 1: or whatever she is. Yeah, but Biden is speaking today.
Speaker 1: See how that goes. Here's the part I want to
Speaker 1: complain about that. You know what Hunter Biden's got to do,
Speaker 1: then you can get to your complaint. He's got to
Speaker 1: open up a string of laundromats called money laundering, you know,
Speaker 1: just dollar signs in the name, because that'd go big.
Speaker 1: Like in the city where most laundromats are. People respond
Speaker 1: to dollar signs. You know, is sure money laundering?
Speaker 2: Come on money.
Speaker 1: There are a couple of eulogies given today by the
Speaker 1: sons of people who wrote the eulogies because Jimmy Carter
Speaker 1: lived so freaking long. For instance, Gerald Ford, former president,
Speaker 1: the one who proceied, who lost to Jimmy Carter nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy six, had written a eulogy thinking he's got to
Speaker 1: be dying soon. But uh, Ford died and Carter lives on,
Speaker 1: and so his son is going to read the speech
Speaker 1: that he wrote. There's another one of those examples, I guess.
Speaker 1: So they're gonna have a song. I'm sure there'll be
Speaker 1: some music. And Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood. Garth Brooks,
Speaker 1: who seems to be omnipresent at all national events at
Speaker 1: this point because he's beloved and a good singer, is
Speaker 1: gonna sing freaking Imagine by John Lennon. Now, I'm fine
Speaker 1: with that as just a tune. I loved it as
Speaker 1: a wide eyed, ignorant child. I mean, seriously, you have
Speaker 1: to be a child to like really take in those
Speaker 1: lyrics and get starry eyed about it because they're moronic.
Speaker 1: They're just mooring. And the only reason that bothers me
Speaker 1: because it's a funeral. You don't have whatever kind of
Speaker 1: music you want. That was actually Carter's foreign policy, and
Speaker 1: that's why a lot of the things that happened happened.
Speaker 2: Ben you should read our friend Tim Sanderfir's Twitter thread.
Speaker 1: He's been linking all these various articles about how Jimmy
Speaker 1: Carter's policies abandoning the shaw led to the Molas and
Speaker 1: everything we've been dealing with in Iran for the forty years.
Speaker 1: Jimmy Carter actually believed the song imagine and the imagine
Speaker 1: there's no war bs and we're all gonna be friends.
Speaker 1: That's not reality. And we can't have presidents who believe
Speaker 1: the John Lennon lyrics. Great tie into Justin Trudeau, who
Speaker 1: was on the outs in Canada. As you've probably heard
Speaker 1: more on that.
Speaker 2: Later that's one thing. The because it's hard to.
Speaker 1: Get into arguments about counterintuitives in the same way that
Speaker 1: you can. For instance, you can criticize George Bush for
Speaker 1: going into orac really easy to do. You know, you
Speaker 1: see what happens, lives lost, money spent, what were the results.
Speaker 1: It's more difficult to criticize a Barack Obama or a
Speaker 1: Jimmy Carter for things that they didn't do. But if
Speaker 1: you're smart enough, or you listen to and read the
Speaker 1: right smart people, they can get into it pretty well.
Speaker 1: But Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama get great credit for
Speaker 1: not getting involved in all kinds of things where we
Speaker 1: maybe should have or stayed more involved, and it led
Speaker 1: to really really difficult, expensive things see the war in Ukraine,
Speaker 1: for instance. By not pushing back back when you had
Speaker 1: the chance drives me out. I don't think it's at
Speaker 1: all shocking for me to point out that national the
Speaker 1: United States passivity. Being passive was praised roundly by the
Speaker 1: media and academia, the great oversized bullhorn of the far
Speaker 1: left through the years. Now, certainly there are examples of
Speaker 1: being overactive or doing the right thing in a terrible,
Speaker 1: stupid way, so witness a rock. On the other hand,
Speaker 1: you get what I'm saying, though passivity is praised uniformly
Speaker 1: in the media always.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was that was my point.
Speaker 1: It's just it's it's it's it's more complicated to push
Speaker 1: back on that. And uh And as I mentioned from
Speaker 1: a Bob Woodward book, he quotes Joe Biden in the
Speaker 1: Oval office getting off the phone with Putin right before
Speaker 1: the invasion, when Biden realized, damn it, Putin's actually going
Speaker 1: to evade.
Speaker 2: He said, Brock, f this all up.
Speaker 1: He's fed this all up when he didn't do anything
Speaker 1: when Putin went into Crimea, Georgia, whichever one it was, Crimea.
Speaker 2: I guess. Uh.
Speaker 1: So it's Joe Biden's view of the whole thing is
Speaker 1: that Barck not pushing back led to the invasion of Ukraine,
Speaker 1: not just you know, maga right winger Jack Armstrong.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was just.
Speaker 1: Reading something else about Biden and not running and resentment
Speaker 1: and is the bitterness that's pouring out of him right now.
Speaker 1: He hates Barack Obama, he resents him so much, and
Speaker 1: his campaign team and David Ploff and all those people.
Speaker 1: He will go to his grave cursing their names. Now,
Speaker 1: I wanted to bring that up my finish, my final Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the point. My final funeral note is so you
Speaker 1: got a funeral today for a Jimmy Carter who hasn't
Speaker 1: been in office.
Speaker 2: For forty five years. Forty five years, I mean, so
Speaker 2: that's a long time.
Speaker 1: So you know, bygones, be bygones, a lot of the
Speaker 1: hot rhetoric of the day way back then.
Speaker 2: You know, as you can have a decent funeral.
Speaker 1: If Joe Biden dies next year, and he very easily could,
Speaker 1: well everything is still very fresh on both sides of
Speaker 1: the aisle. Be interesting to see what that funeral is like. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's funny. That kind of anticipates my next point. Part
Speaker 1: of me thinks, you know what, just why don't you
Speaker 1: you do the Carter funeral and then have lunch and
Speaker 1: hang around the church for a while because Biden doesn't
Speaker 1: look good to me?
Speaker 2: But my god, I mean.
Speaker 1: You're all set up, the priest is there, the minister whatever,
Speaker 1: we got our dark suits on the flowers and garth
Speaker 1: theory can sing a different song summer I.
Speaker 2: Car tuned up exactly, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: Anyway, trying to get some sort of two for one thing, going,
Speaker 1: how you feeling okay? Because we can while we're all here,
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, don't hold out for our you know benefit, Yes, Michael,
Speaker 1: I think the casket will fit.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, you gotta go too far fresh.
Speaker 1: That was distactly exactly See what Joe said was in
Speaker 1: perfectly good taste, and then you took it into the
Speaker 1: realm of absurdity.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: What I was going to say is, and you know,
Speaker 1: I remember growing up as a kid with the pictures
Speaker 1: of the presidents around the top of the classrooms, and
Speaker 1: and and there was a certain worshipfulness that was taught
Speaker 1: to us, or at least I got out of it.
Speaker 1: And I think in some cases, uh, respect and admiration
Speaker 1: on the highest level is Oh. And I could name
Speaker 1: the usual names, but you can guess what they are,
Speaker 1: Polk Fillmore.
Speaker 2: You got me at the same time.
Speaker 1: Now that I'm old and bitter and recognize the various
Speaker 1: paths people take to the presidency and the very sorts
Speaker 1: of people who have become president, and the utter dishonesty, skullduggery,
Speaker 1: terrible policies, et cetera they've unleashed upon our country, the
Speaker 1: incursions against the Constitution, the accumulating of executive power, the
Speaker 1: rest of it. I don't feel worshipful toward those who've.
Speaker 2: Held the highest office.
Speaker 1: It's a hell of a job and wears you down,
Speaker 1: and so I have respect for people who take on
Speaker 1: that challenge, but I am not worshipful.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, They're not kings. It feels a
Speaker 2: little monarchical. Yeah, uh so that's that.
Speaker 1: Maybe we won't do our three four and then at
Speaker 1: bonus hour five of Carter funeral coverage. Then we've got
Speaker 1: unless you know, the buy one, get one thing that.
Speaker 2: Would be historic. We've got Katie's headlines on the way
Speaker 2: stay here.
Speaker 1: So now Trump and Mlanie are walking and I guess,
Speaker 1: as the president elect will be president in just a
Speaker 1: few days. He walks in last he's the last person
Speaker 1: that looks like to be walking in, shaking hands with
Speaker 1: Al Gore and Mike Pence, who he was going to
Speaker 1: allow to be hung.
Speaker 2: I believe this is the first time they've touched and
Speaker 2: quite some time.
Speaker 1: Well, that's nice that they're coming back together. And I
Speaker 1: did that looking like an aging model. Mark Leivivich's brilliant
Speaker 1: book This Town opens at the funeral of Tim Russert.
Speaker 1: I may reread that first chapter to remind myself of
Speaker 1: what's really happening there in the nation's capital. Yeah, let's
Speaker 1: figure out who's reporting what today. It's the week's story
Speaker 1: with Katie Green. Oh, by the way, next hour, Jack.
Speaker 1: What I'd really like to do is finally get to
Speaker 1: the analysis of DOGE. What can it accomplish, what are
Speaker 1: the roadblocks going to be? And can it get rid
Speaker 1: of a federal agency for instance? So stay tuned if
Speaker 1: you can. Right now, Katie Barrock just walked in. He
Speaker 1: had the big time Trump, So he walked in. Whatever,
Speaker 1: mister professors and everybody's shaking hands. The man back to you, Katie.
Speaker 1: As I watched the funeral. Oh right, blah blah, lead story,
Speaker 1: Katie Green, go kt LA.
Speaker 6: Hundreds of thousands without power in Los Angeles as the
Speaker 6: fire enters.
Speaker 1: Day three gonna be not as wendy today, but still
Speaker 1: very windy, and the winds are supposed to pick up tomorrow.
Speaker 1: So like the fifty mile an hour gusts is the
Speaker 1: window to try to get this under control.
Speaker 2: It's still all zero percent contained, I believe.
Speaker 6: From the Washington Post. As La burns Trump blames Newsome,
Speaker 6: and California governor.
Speaker 2: Pushes back, all right, there'll be plenty of time for that.
Speaker 6: From Fox News, Biden approves five hundred million dollars in
Speaker 6: Ukraine security package eleven days before Trump takes office.
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, I'm watching the funeral live and
Speaker 1: I'm distracted by that. Barack is sitting next to Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: and they look as comfortable with each other. They're kind
Speaker 1: of like whispering to each other, not and then laughing
Speaker 1: a little bit. They're having a good conversation. I would
Speaker 1: love to know what two guys who know how the
Speaker 1: whole thing works better than anybody, what they're saying to
Speaker 1: each other about the whole affair, right, because they are
Speaker 1: a couple of rich guys that have fabulous to east
Speaker 1: a fabulous East Coast real estate for instance.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, yeah, I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1: It looks like there's a little snark going on between
Speaker 1: the two about the whole affair, and I just love
Speaker 1: to know what they're saying.
Speaker 6: From CNN, is bird flu the next pandemic? What to
Speaker 6: know after the first first age five and one death
Speaker 6: in the US.
Speaker 1: No, it's not, and stop it and that fear mind
Speaker 1: and that person died with bird flu kind of like
Speaker 1: the whole COVID thing. They were an old sick person
Speaker 1: already and had bird flu.
Speaker 6: From the New York post congestion pricing advocate attacked in
Speaker 6: New York City subway station as a new nine dollars
Speaker 6: toll pushes people into mass transit.
Speaker 1: Of course, to be fair, everyone's attacked at New York
Speaker 1: subway stations now that crime has been legalized.
Speaker 2: Touchez.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a lot of the point though, So you've
Speaker 1: made it so expensive, you're trying to get people more
Speaker 1: people to take mass transit, and the person's idea, what's
Speaker 1: got attacked on mass transit, drawing attention to the fact
Speaker 1: that that's a lot.
Speaker 2: Of the reason people don't want to ride mass transit.
Speaker 2: From Breitbart dot com.
Speaker 6: ABC is launching a weekend edition of The View. It'll
Speaker 6: be hosted by Joey Behar and will be basically the
Speaker 6: hens of The View will be joining her, except all
Speaker 6: of them, except for whoopee.
Speaker 1: If that's the way you want to spend your Saturday morning,
Speaker 1: can I buy your time? Is this to torture the
Speaker 1: few remaining Al Qaeda guys in guantanamo or something who
Speaker 1: asked for this. Good lord, I have breaking news. The
Speaker 1: only person who's not smiling and looking happy with George W.
Speaker 5: Bush.
Speaker 1: He's looking happy and he and his wife and Bill
Speaker 1: is sitting there kind of a smile on his face,
Speaker 1: yucking it up with the owl. And and Trump and
Speaker 1: Brock are still chatting up NonStop. They can't stop talking
Speaker 1: to each other. The only person that looks miserable Hillary
Speaker 1: Rodham Clinton. She looks angry, well she always does. She's
Speaker 1: sitting there thinking, I can't believe Trump's gonna be president again.
Speaker 1: I'm in the front row as a potus or as
Speaker 1: a wife, not a potus.
Speaker 2: This sucks.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we have a couple more from ABC. Eternal Attorney
Speaker 6: General Merrick Garland informs Congress Special Counsels Donald Trump investigation
Speaker 6: has concluded.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we gathered that.
Speaker 6: And finally the Babylon Bee Newsome assures wildfire victims that
Speaker 6: he's diverting millions of dollars to emergen Emergency DEI initiatives.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's going to be a lot, As you said,
Speaker 1: there's going to be a lot of looking over to
Speaker 1: the policies and the rhetoric of a whole bunch of
Speaker 1: different government officials, whether it's people of la or or
Speaker 1: Governor Newsom himself on this whole thing. Yes, yeah, clearly,
Speaker 1: but the dust can settle. In my opinion, some of
Speaker 1: the sniping political stuff going back and forth right now
Speaker 1: is not very productive.
Speaker 2: But speaking of.
Speaker 1: Political sniping, Elizabeth Warren versus Pete hegseeth, the whole hearings
Speaker 1: for the cabinet story is about to heat up like crazy.
Speaker 1: And she's just she is underestimated as an evil doer.
Speaker 2: She is a hardcore Marxist.
Speaker 1: So Hanson's claiming that none of the presidents who came
Speaker 1: in shook hands with Trump. I'm sure I saw Bamba
Speaker 1: shake hands with Trump. But you're saying none of the
Speaker 1: other president shok because they're all she hands with each
Speaker 1: other and everybody. Kamala Obama did not shake his hand.
Speaker 1: Hanson is saying, Kamala just walked in. She's the only
Speaker 1: other person besides Hillary who looks miserable. Is Kamala just
Speaker 1: walked in with her husband. She took a hostile glance
Speaker 1: at Trump. Trump didn't even look at her. She looked
Speaker 1: down with disdain and began flipping through the program. Oh boy,
Speaker 1: I'm loving body language segment. I'm loving reading the body language.
Speaker 1: You've got more on the way.
Speaker 2: Stay with us, Armstrong and Getty