1 00:00:01,080 --> 00:00:05,400 Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 2 00:00:05,440 --> 00:00:09,960 Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm Strong 3 00:00:10,039 --> 00:00:23,239 Speaker 1: and Jackiatie and he Armstrong and Yeddy flesh out of 4 00:00:23,360 --> 00:00:26,960 Speaker 1: story or flesh out of story? Flesh out of story flesh. Yes, 5 00:00:27,080 --> 00:00:29,240 Speaker 1: that's one of those. I got several tis on the story, 6 00:00:29,280 --> 00:00:30,080 Speaker 1: I guess true. 7 00:00:30,120 --> 00:00:32,519 Speaker 2: I've got several of those in my lives that in 8 00:00:32,560 --> 00:00:36,440 Speaker 2: my life I only have one. Eh, you know, I've 9 00:00:36,479 --> 00:00:38,480 Speaker 2: got several those in my life. They're going way way back. 10 00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:42,600 Speaker 2: I had gotten confused, and now I can't remember going forward. 11 00:00:42,680 --> 00:00:45,360 Speaker 2: It's like spelling their t h E I R or 12 00:00:45,400 --> 00:00:47,920 Speaker 2: I E R. I've done it. I got confused sometime 13 00:00:48,040 --> 00:00:51,239 Speaker 2: like forty years ago, and I've never been able to 14 00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:53,760 Speaker 2: get nailed down on the right track. 15 00:00:55,720 --> 00:00:57,200 Speaker 3: Yeah, I've got a couple of those two. They don't 16 00:00:57,280 --> 00:00:59,080 Speaker 3: leap to mind. But I know what you're talking about. 17 00:00:59,080 --> 00:01:01,440 Speaker 3: It no matter how hard you try, it's still fifty 18 00:01:01,440 --> 00:01:02,360 Speaker 3: to fifty in your head. 19 00:01:02,520 --> 00:01:04,880 Speaker 2: I need to flesh out the story of the world's 20 00:01:04,880 --> 00:01:07,280 Speaker 2: oldest albatross becoming a mom again. 21 00:01:08,680 --> 00:01:11,520 Speaker 1: At age whatever. 22 00:01:11,560 --> 00:01:14,040 Speaker 2: You are going to guess on how old the world's 23 00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:20,160 Speaker 2: oldest albatross is you're low seventy four seventy four year 24 00:01:20,200 --> 00:01:21,200 Speaker 2: old albatross. 25 00:01:22,560 --> 00:01:27,119 Speaker 3: I admit to embarrassing ignorance about albatross life spans, but. 26 00:01:27,160 --> 00:01:31,280 Speaker 1: Still you wouldn't have guessed in the seventies. No, probably not. 27 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:37,760 Speaker 3: When do lady albatrosses generally burs little albatrosses. 28 00:01:37,880 --> 00:01:39,320 Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, that's a good point. 29 00:01:39,360 --> 00:01:41,759 Speaker 2: Not only I would have never guessed in albatross lives 30 00:01:41,760 --> 00:01:43,399 Speaker 2: to be in its seventies. I would have thought it's 31 00:01:43,480 --> 00:01:45,880 Speaker 2: birthing days were behind it. 32 00:01:45,880 --> 00:01:46,759 Speaker 1: It's dating and. 33 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:51,800 Speaker 2: Birthing days, dating and knocking, knocking web defeat with other 34 00:01:51,840 --> 00:01:54,160 Speaker 2: male albatrosses behind them her. 35 00:01:54,480 --> 00:01:59,360 Speaker 1: Yes, Katie, the life span of an albatross is fifty years. 36 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:02,520 Speaker 3: Okay, so this is an extra old, one, very old albatross. 37 00:02:02,520 --> 00:02:04,279 Speaker 3: In the fact that the old gal is still cranking 38 00:02:04,320 --> 00:02:06,480 Speaker 3: out chicks, I mean, what's going on there? You're going 39 00:02:06,560 --> 00:02:09,440 Speaker 3: to be there for your your chicks high school graduation, sweetheart, 40 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:12,720 Speaker 3: it's very selfish. Did they use the turkey baster, I'm sorry, 41 00:02:12,720 --> 00:02:16,240 Speaker 3: the albatross based or did she find some young albatross 42 00:02:16,280 --> 00:02:19,600 Speaker 3: jigglow to you know, run the albatross with two backs? 43 00:02:19,639 --> 00:02:21,280 Speaker 2: You're gonna go all JD. Vans and say that you 44 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:23,040 Speaker 2: shouldn't be allowed to have babies like this? Is that 45 00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:23,720 Speaker 2: what you're gonna do? 46 00:02:24,080 --> 00:02:24,200 Speaker 4: What? 47 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:28,040 Speaker 1: Wait a minute? What wisdom? Is the name of the bird? 48 00:02:28,040 --> 00:02:31,839 Speaker 2: A seventy four year old Laisin albatross just later first 49 00:02:31,919 --> 00:02:34,919 Speaker 2: egg in four years in Hawaii. According to US Wildlife, 50 00:02:35,080 --> 00:02:39,640 Speaker 2: it's the oldest known wild bird egg laying in history. 51 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:44,280 Speaker 3: So not only did the old gal you know live 52 00:02:44,360 --> 00:02:47,760 Speaker 3: this long, which is amazing, she's still knocking out chicks. 53 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:51,320 Speaker 1: Still having sex. Oh yeah, which is fine? Yeah cool, Hey, 54 00:02:51,480 --> 00:02:51,960 Speaker 1: I hope to. 55 00:02:52,040 --> 00:02:57,480 Speaker 3: Hey, good for her and her her partner, the albatross's 56 00:02:57,720 --> 00:02:58,560 Speaker 3: mate for life? 57 00:02:58,720 --> 00:03:02,440 Speaker 1: Or are they like more slutty than that? And one 58 00:03:02,480 --> 00:03:04,240 Speaker 1: more headline before we get the clips of the week. 59 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:06,919 Speaker 1: This is from ABC News One. 60 00:03:07,080 --> 00:03:11,200 Speaker 2: More than one million pair of oven mits are being 61 00:03:11,240 --> 00:03:18,240 Speaker 2: recalled due to the potential for burns, as in apparently. 62 00:03:17,800 --> 00:03:21,080 Speaker 1: End of the one thing you know, you had one job? 63 00:03:21,320 --> 00:03:22,720 Speaker 1: As apparently they don't work. 64 00:03:22,960 --> 00:03:25,480 Speaker 2: Yes, as I stomped around my kitchen, I would be 65 00:03:25,480 --> 00:03:28,839 Speaker 2: screaming at my oven mitt you had one job. 66 00:03:29,480 --> 00:03:31,440 Speaker 1: As the smoke comes off my palms. 67 00:03:32,080 --> 00:03:35,839 Speaker 2: Geez, I'm not a suing kind of guy, you sell 68 00:03:35,880 --> 00:03:38,720 Speaker 2: me an oven mitt that burns right through to my hand. 69 00:03:39,280 --> 00:03:40,760 Speaker 2: I'm suing you. 70 00:03:40,520 --> 00:03:43,160 Speaker 1: Right, and walk up to you in public. 71 00:03:43,240 --> 00:03:45,280 Speaker 3: We're in the mits, and just think of a thicket, 72 00:03:45,280 --> 00:03:48,960 Speaker 3: a thicket, a thicket of work out on your head. Huh. 73 00:03:49,160 --> 00:03:50,560 Speaker 3: Got a lot of good stuff to squeeze into the 74 00:03:50,600 --> 00:03:52,640 Speaker 3: final hour of the week. But first, friends, let us 75 00:03:52,680 --> 00:03:56,400 Speaker 3: pause and reflect each in our own way. Take a 76 00:03:56,440 --> 00:03:58,320 Speaker 3: fond look back at the week that was. It's cow 77 00:03:58,400 --> 00:03:59,360 Speaker 3: clips of the week on. 78 00:03:59,480 --> 00:04:01,240 Speaker 5: In the final weeks of my presence, and you don't 79 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:02,040 Speaker 5: have to collap through that. 80 00:04:02,160 --> 00:04:07,360 Speaker 1: Wow, I got nothing, employee on that. Which of the week? 81 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:11,360 Speaker 1: Have you ruled out a pardon for your son? Yes? 82 00:04:12,520 --> 00:04:15,200 Speaker 2: No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter's 83 00:04:15,280 --> 00:04:18,880 Speaker 2: cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled 84 00:04:18,920 --> 00:04:22,160 Speaker 2: out because he believes in the justice of sin. 85 00:04:23,360 --> 00:04:25,480 Speaker 1: Why don't you go ahead and pardon with Donald Trump? 86 00:04:26,720 --> 00:04:30,560 Speaker 2: They are the goats of this favorite form of corruption. 87 00:04:31,640 --> 00:04:34,520 Speaker 6: That if the hostages are not released prior to January 88 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:37,600 Speaker 6: twenty is twenty twenty five, there will be all hell 89 00:04:37,760 --> 00:04:40,360 Speaker 6: to pay in the Middle East. 90 00:04:39,839 --> 00:04:41,160 Speaker 1: Trump joked to him. 91 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:45,240 Speaker 3: Then maybe Canada should become the fifty first state and 92 00:04:45,320 --> 00:04:47,760 Speaker 3: Trudeau could become his governor. 93 00:04:48,680 --> 00:04:50,159 Speaker 1: Government is too. 94 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:52,080 Speaker 7: Big, there's too many things, and it does almost nothing 95 00:04:52,160 --> 00:04:54,560 Speaker 7: well and the taxpayers deserve better. 96 00:04:55,640 --> 00:04:57,640 Speaker 1: You do have too much regulation in this country. This 97 00:04:57,680 --> 00:05:01,280 Speaker 1: country is so set up to grow. 98 00:05:02,240 --> 00:05:04,680 Speaker 6: But when it came to trimming the fat out of Twitter, 99 00:05:04,960 --> 00:05:07,320 Speaker 6: what he basically did is just open the door for 100 00:05:07,440 --> 00:05:09,039 Speaker 6: Nazis and Hamas. 101 00:05:09,520 --> 00:05:13,520 Speaker 1: Pete Hegseeth is digging his heels in. I'm not gonna 102 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:14,360 Speaker 1: have a drink at all. 103 00:05:15,279 --> 00:05:18,919 Speaker 5: We really believe that he is not that man he 104 00:05:19,040 --> 00:05:22,440 Speaker 5: was seven years ago, Cash Patel. 105 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:27,440 Speaker 7: He is the most unfairly maligned person that I work with. 106 00:05:28,560 --> 00:05:33,279 Speaker 1: Trump's enemies quote should be very afraid. Yes, we're going 107 00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:35,760 Speaker 1: to come after the people in the media. 108 00:05:35,960 --> 00:05:38,120 Speaker 6: The court has to treat it like all other forms 109 00:05:38,279 --> 00:05:39,240 Speaker 6: of sex discrimination. 110 00:05:40,160 --> 00:05:42,200 Speaker 5: The countries that have been at the forefront of this 111 00:05:42,520 --> 00:05:44,200 Speaker 5: are pumping the brakes. 112 00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:49,360 Speaker 7: Every medical treatment has a risk, even taking aspirin. 113 00:05:50,440 --> 00:05:52,160 Speaker 8: These are young people who may have known since they 114 00:05:52,160 --> 00:05:54,520 Speaker 8: were two years old exactly who they are. 115 00:05:55,320 --> 00:05:59,840 Speaker 2: The possible message, which appears to include the words deny, depose, 116 00:06:00,279 --> 00:06:01,000 Speaker 2: and defend. 117 00:06:02,360 --> 00:06:05,000 Speaker 1: I can't tell you nobody enjoys flying in your airlines. 118 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:06,240 Speaker 1: It's a disaster. 119 00:06:07,440 --> 00:06:09,360 Speaker 7: Now go poop in a bucket, you beasts. 120 00:06:11,240 --> 00:06:13,839 Speaker 2: That reminds me of a fortune I got at Panda 121 00:06:13,839 --> 00:06:14,840 Speaker 2: Express the other night. 122 00:06:15,839 --> 00:06:20,320 Speaker 9: Say IPEd in your rights. It was handwritten. That's more 123 00:06:20,360 --> 00:06:31,600 Speaker 9: a confession than a fortune. Yeah, boy, madness everywhere. 124 00:06:32,240 --> 00:06:34,000 Speaker 2: The jocularity of earlier in the week. 125 00:06:34,080 --> 00:06:37,919 Speaker 3: Huh so a private on air meeting here, everybody go 126 00:06:37,960 --> 00:06:41,279 Speaker 3: about your business. So I was just reading Nelly Bowls 127 00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:46,440 Speaker 3: of the Free Press. She's the wife of Barry Weiss, 128 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:49,960 Speaker 3: a woman married to a woman. Good lord, anyway. Nelly's 129 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:53,120 Speaker 3: a terrific writer, and her column her. 130 00:06:54,120 --> 00:07:00,400 Speaker 10: Woman married to a woman. Good lord, good luck anyway. 131 00:07:02,720 --> 00:07:05,960 Speaker 3: Anyway, She's she writes this, thank god it's Friday column 132 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:10,239 Speaker 3: every week and it's terrific. But uh, she is going 133 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:16,560 Speaker 3: on and on and on about how the left from 134 00:07:16,720 --> 00:07:21,680 Speaker 3: MSNBC to all the big columnists and your made Meguz 135 00:07:21,720 --> 00:07:25,680 Speaker 3: brazizn Ski and everybody's going on and on and on 136 00:07:26,280 --> 00:07:30,239 Speaker 3: about how Joe Biden saying he would not pardon Hunter 137 00:07:31,160 --> 00:07:34,360 Speaker 3: as proof of what an Olympian champion of decency and 138 00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:35,160 Speaker 3: justice he. 139 00:07:35,160 --> 00:07:36,840 Speaker 1: Is and our whole party is. 140 00:07:37,080 --> 00:07:42,200 Speaker 3: He's George Washington, Abe Lincoln, Jesus and Arnold Palmer rolled. 141 00:07:41,920 --> 00:07:42,360 Speaker 1: Into the one. 142 00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:45,480 Speaker 3: He's the greatest you baby who has ever lived, and 143 00:07:45,560 --> 00:07:49,040 Speaker 3: she's just enjoying the crap out of how their their 144 00:07:49,080 --> 00:07:52,840 Speaker 3: pompous bull crap has gotten called out by their hero himself. 145 00:07:53,600 --> 00:07:55,160 Speaker 1: And that reminded me. 146 00:07:57,400 --> 00:08:03,360 Speaker 3: Of the nine minute super cut sizzle reel of that 147 00:08:03,560 --> 00:08:06,680 Speaker 3: sort of stuff that we played an excerpt of and 148 00:08:07,120 --> 00:08:10,880 Speaker 3: heard Sarah Isger of the Dispatch, is that who she 149 00:08:10,920 --> 00:08:14,560 Speaker 3: generally is with, but talking about how much she enjoyed that. 150 00:08:14,600 --> 00:08:16,520 Speaker 3: And there's part of me, just because it's Friday and 151 00:08:16,520 --> 00:08:19,400 Speaker 3: I'm lazy, that wants to play the whole thing because 152 00:08:19,440 --> 00:08:19,960 Speaker 3: it's art. 153 00:08:20,280 --> 00:08:23,400 Speaker 1: It is freaking good. It is freaking good. 154 00:08:24,280 --> 00:08:26,920 Speaker 3: Maybe we could just play another chunk of it that 155 00:08:26,960 --> 00:08:29,239 Speaker 3: we haven't played yet. 156 00:08:30,240 --> 00:08:32,360 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's amazing and it makes a heck of a 157 00:08:32,360 --> 00:08:38,560 Speaker 2: point over what I think will be the defining legacy 158 00:08:38,679 --> 00:08:42,400 Speaker 2: of Joe Biden's presidency. Yeah, and there were plenty that 159 00:08:42,440 --> 00:08:44,440 Speaker 2: could have been, but this is going to be the 160 00:08:44,440 --> 00:08:46,840 Speaker 2: one that's going to be remembered, I think. I mean, 161 00:08:46,920 --> 00:08:50,719 Speaker 2: and unless he issues these blanket pardons over the next 162 00:08:50,760 --> 00:08:53,480 Speaker 2: couple of weeks, then that will be more blanket party. 163 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:55,880 Speaker 2: And if you missed the screed from what was it 164 00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:58,440 Speaker 2: hour two we talked about this, I think it was yeah, 165 00:08:58,440 --> 00:09:01,959 Speaker 2: hour two via podcast Armstrong and getting on demand. You 166 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:03,880 Speaker 2: probably ought to subscribe. 167 00:09:04,160 --> 00:09:06,800 Speaker 3: But the thing I pointed out that I think is 168 00:09:07,400 --> 00:09:10,520 Speaker 3: brutally shockingly under discussed in all of this, the hunter 169 00:09:10,520 --> 00:09:14,520 Speaker 3: Biden pardon, the gun crime all right, the tax crimes, 170 00:09:14,840 --> 00:09:17,920 Speaker 3: the hypocrisy, the fact that Joe Biden lied over and 171 00:09:17,960 --> 00:09:20,160 Speaker 3: over knowing he was going to pardon him, the fact 172 00:09:20,160 --> 00:09:21,920 Speaker 3: that the Left made such a big deal over it. 173 00:09:21,920 --> 00:09:23,920 Speaker 1: It's really tempting and fun stuff. 174 00:09:25,080 --> 00:09:30,280 Speaker 3: The idea that you would pardon someone, anyone for anything 175 00:09:30,400 --> 00:09:33,959 Speaker 3: they might have done, known or unknown, over a period 176 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:39,199 Speaker 3: of eleven years, is a horror, an obscenity against the constitution, 177 00:09:39,760 --> 00:09:43,880 Speaker 3: so unthinkable. There should be a half million people marching 178 00:09:43,920 --> 00:09:49,240 Speaker 3: on the White House right now to declare any human 179 00:09:49,280 --> 00:09:53,960 Speaker 3: being completely above the law, not tax law, not gun 180 00:09:54,040 --> 00:09:59,440 Speaker 3: lawst all laws, every law for a long period of time. 181 00:10:00,400 --> 00:10:05,000 Speaker 3: Wait a minute, what Why are people not shocked by this? 182 00:10:05,080 --> 00:10:09,280 Speaker 3: If they just not thought it through? I guess because Trump, well, 183 00:10:09,320 --> 00:10:14,000 Speaker 3: and as I pointed out earlier, any president could realize, Okay, 184 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:18,160 Speaker 3: this is a tool I have and order their cabinet, 185 00:10:18,200 --> 00:10:22,679 Speaker 3: there underlings, their cronies whatever to commit all manner of unholy, 186 00:10:22,960 --> 00:10:24,720 Speaker 3: unconstitutional acts. 187 00:10:25,240 --> 00:10:26,800 Speaker 1: But he's got a written agreement with them. 188 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:28,880 Speaker 3: I will pardon you in advance for anything you might 189 00:10:28,880 --> 00:10:30,560 Speaker 3: have done during the period that you work for me. 190 00:10:30,640 --> 00:10:30,840 Speaker 2: Yeah. 191 00:10:30,880 --> 00:10:33,120 Speaker 3: Like, so if you have to murder people, you have 192 00:10:33,200 --> 00:10:37,120 Speaker 3: to form an alliance with China, loot the treasury, anything 193 00:10:37,160 --> 00:10:37,960 Speaker 3: you do anything. 194 00:10:38,120 --> 00:10:40,120 Speaker 2: Yeah, Nixon could have told the plumbers the break in 195 00:10:40,679 --> 00:10:44,760 Speaker 2: crew your pardoned. So here's the plan, is what I 196 00:10:44,760 --> 00:10:46,000 Speaker 2: want you to do, but you'll be pardoned, So don't 197 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:46,520 Speaker 2: worry about it. 198 00:10:47,120 --> 00:10:47,400 Speaker 1: Yeah. 199 00:10:47,960 --> 00:10:51,640 Speaker 3: Yeah, and do that on a massive scale going forward, 200 00:10:51,840 --> 00:10:54,360 Speaker 3: because once you realize you have that power, you will 201 00:10:54,360 --> 00:10:56,280 Speaker 3: think about, Okay, what can I do with this power? 202 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:01,520 Speaker 3: And the answer is limitless and absolutely horrifying. 203 00:11:01,640 --> 00:11:03,079 Speaker 1: All kinds of nobody talking about this. 204 00:11:03,240 --> 00:11:05,120 Speaker 2: All kinds of people that answer to you, that have 205 00:11:05,880 --> 00:11:09,600 Speaker 2: nothing to lose by following your illegal orders. 206 00:11:10,200 --> 00:11:12,760 Speaker 1: Right, imagine it on a personal level. 207 00:11:14,200 --> 00:11:17,199 Speaker 3: Chief of police of your town or whoever would conceivably 208 00:11:17,240 --> 00:11:20,600 Speaker 3: have this power, goes to you and says, hey, get 209 00:11:20,640 --> 00:11:26,920 Speaker 3: wild this weekend. Nothing you do will be prosecuted. Here. 210 00:11:26,960 --> 00:11:30,680 Speaker 1: It is in writing, nothing you do, I don't care. 211 00:11:30,800 --> 00:11:34,920 Speaker 3: If you are mother Teresa, your mind might go toward wow, 212 00:11:35,480 --> 00:11:40,800 Speaker 3: nothing I do hmm, and imagine that sort of power 213 00:11:40,880 --> 00:11:43,360 Speaker 3: to be lawless invested in the executive branch of the 214 00:11:43,440 --> 00:11:44,640 Speaker 3: United States Government. 215 00:11:45,760 --> 00:11:46,320 Speaker 2: What the hell? 216 00:11:46,520 --> 00:11:46,840 Speaker 1: People? 217 00:11:48,880 --> 00:11:51,160 Speaker 2: So I was up late last night taking in the 218 00:11:51,920 --> 00:11:58,800 Speaker 2: deep philosophy of Jim Carrey, the rubber faced comedian. So 219 00:11:58,880 --> 00:12:01,839 Speaker 2: many movies we all loved. I want to talk a 220 00:12:01,840 --> 00:12:05,120 Speaker 2: little bit about that. Spent a lot of time pondering 221 00:12:05,160 --> 00:12:06,880 Speaker 2: it last night. I didn't know he was this kind 222 00:12:06,920 --> 00:12:09,560 Speaker 2: of guy. Actually, among other things, We've got coming up 223 00:12:09,559 --> 00:12:10,000 Speaker 2: to stay with. 224 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:12,080 Speaker 1: Us Armstrong and. 225 00:12:18,920 --> 00:12:21,760 Speaker 11: They had the National Christmas Tree lighting at the White House. 226 00:12:21,840 --> 00:12:22,560 Speaker 1: It was a fun night. 227 00:12:22,559 --> 00:12:24,440 Speaker 11: When President Biden came out, all the kids were like, 228 00:12:24,520 --> 00:12:26,440 Speaker 11: let the gost to Christmas past. 229 00:12:27,880 --> 00:12:28,320 Speaker 1: Forget this. 230 00:12:28,400 --> 00:12:30,920 Speaker 11: After strong winds knock last year's tree to the ground, 231 00:12:31,080 --> 00:12:34,000 Speaker 11: this year's tree will be supported by eight steel cables. Yeah, 232 00:12:34,080 --> 00:12:36,240 Speaker 11: these are the same cables the White House uses to 233 00:12:36,280 --> 00:12:37,560 Speaker 11: walk Biden around the front lawn. 234 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:43,000 Speaker 1: And that's exact same Wow, the same ones. Wow. 235 00:12:46,960 --> 00:12:51,199 Speaker 2: So why was I up last night late watching Jim 236 00:12:51,280 --> 00:12:55,280 Speaker 2: Carrey pontificate about the meaning of life? I didn't even 237 00:12:55,360 --> 00:12:58,280 Speaker 2: know actor Jim Carrey did that sort of thing. I've 238 00:12:58,320 --> 00:13:01,960 Speaker 2: never been a Jim Carrey fan. I like dumb and dumber, 239 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:04,400 Speaker 2: and I pet detective and all that, but I like 240 00:13:04,440 --> 00:13:06,720 Speaker 2: to stand up. But I just I hated the Truman Show. 241 00:13:06,760 --> 00:13:08,400 Speaker 1: I just I don't know. I've never been into him. 242 00:13:09,040 --> 00:13:11,559 Speaker 2: I thought he was a pompous ass until last night 243 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:14,800 Speaker 2: when I clicked on a Jim Carrey short and he 244 00:13:14,920 --> 00:13:18,959 Speaker 2: was talking about actually was talking about forgiveness and Jesus 245 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:20,480 Speaker 2: and all kinds of different stuff. I didn't know he 246 00:13:20,520 --> 00:13:24,520 Speaker 2: was such a believer, but he is. And the reason 247 00:13:24,679 --> 00:13:27,440 Speaker 2: I got sucked into that probably was stuff I was 248 00:13:27,480 --> 00:13:28,000 Speaker 2: looking for. 249 00:13:28,320 --> 00:13:29,160 Speaker 1: I am uh. 250 00:13:30,559 --> 00:13:33,440 Speaker 2: I got divorced three and a half years ago, and 251 00:13:33,520 --> 00:13:35,679 Speaker 2: I am not happy with where my life is. I 252 00:13:36,040 --> 00:13:38,440 Speaker 2: don't like the fact that I am a single dad 253 00:13:38,640 --> 00:13:41,040 Speaker 2: and my kids are living up in a living growing 254 00:13:41,120 --> 00:13:42,160 Speaker 2: up in a split household. 255 00:13:42,280 --> 00:13:42,760 Speaker 1: I hate that. 256 00:13:42,840 --> 00:13:45,080 Speaker 2: I hate it so much, and I haven't been able 257 00:13:45,120 --> 00:13:47,400 Speaker 2: to accept it and let it go at it all 258 00:13:47,679 --> 00:13:50,080 Speaker 2: since the day I found out about it, which is 259 00:13:50,160 --> 00:13:51,960 Speaker 2: which is not healthy, because. 260 00:13:53,480 --> 00:13:55,560 Speaker 1: You got no choice with certain things that come your 261 00:13:55,600 --> 00:13:58,800 Speaker 1: way in life. You got no choice. You You you 262 00:13:58,880 --> 00:14:00,040 Speaker 1: got to accept him and move on. 263 00:14:00,040 --> 00:14:03,240 Speaker 2: And I've done that with everything in my life, everything 264 00:14:03,280 --> 00:14:05,160 Speaker 2: every in my life, all kinds of bad things that 265 00:14:05,160 --> 00:14:07,720 Speaker 2: happened in my life except for this one. And I 266 00:14:07,760 --> 00:14:10,240 Speaker 2: haven't been able to nudge an inch on this one 267 00:14:10,640 --> 00:14:11,320 Speaker 2: for some reason. 268 00:14:11,480 --> 00:14:12,560 Speaker 1: And it drives me nuts. 269 00:14:12,880 --> 00:14:15,640 Speaker 3: Probably because you're reminded of the effects of it all 270 00:14:15,679 --> 00:14:16,000 Speaker 3: the time. 271 00:14:16,080 --> 00:14:18,439 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's part of it. Yeah, is the effects of 272 00:14:18,480 --> 00:14:20,320 Speaker 1: it are all day, every day. 273 00:14:20,480 --> 00:14:23,960 Speaker 2: But anyway, so I got into this this somehow I 274 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:26,440 Speaker 2: was fed through the algorithm this stuff about Jim Carrey, 275 00:14:26,720 --> 00:14:29,080 Speaker 2: and it was bigger than even that. It was just 276 00:14:29,280 --> 00:14:33,360 Speaker 2: the idea of you know, now is all we've got, 277 00:14:33,440 --> 00:14:36,840 Speaker 2: and accepting life for what it is and not having expectations. 278 00:14:36,880 --> 00:14:40,960 Speaker 1: And really his main thing is just getting rid. 279 00:14:40,920 --> 00:14:44,080 Speaker 2: Of your idea of who you are, because it's all 280 00:14:44,120 --> 00:14:46,880 Speaker 2: made up in your head anyway, and just living your life, 281 00:14:47,800 --> 00:14:51,840 Speaker 2: you know, moment by moment best you can by your 282 00:14:52,080 --> 00:14:54,600 Speaker 2: morals and visions of what you want, but just letting 283 00:14:54,640 --> 00:14:55,840 Speaker 2: go of your whole. 284 00:14:57,320 --> 00:14:58,120 Speaker 1: Vision of yourself. 285 00:14:58,680 --> 00:15:02,360 Speaker 2: His belief is everybody's torment, depression and all kinds of 286 00:15:02,360 --> 00:15:06,960 Speaker 2: different stuff comes from a vision they have of who 287 00:15:06,960 --> 00:15:08,960 Speaker 2: they are, who they wanted to be, and it's not 288 00:15:09,280 --> 00:15:13,480 Speaker 2: meeting up with reality and if you just let go 289 00:15:13,560 --> 00:15:17,000 Speaker 2: of all of that because you created it in your 290 00:15:17,040 --> 00:15:19,400 Speaker 2: own mind. It wasn't like, you know, God said, this 291 00:15:19,480 --> 00:15:20,880 Speaker 2: is who you have to pretend to be the rest 292 00:15:20,920 --> 00:15:24,360 Speaker 2: of your life, if you just let go of all 293 00:15:24,400 --> 00:15:29,200 Speaker 2: of that. He said he had the kind of like 294 00:15:29,320 --> 00:15:32,320 Speaker 2: gift of becoming rich and successful and all these different 295 00:15:32,320 --> 00:15:34,800 Speaker 2: things and realizing it didn't make him happy before he 296 00:15:34,840 --> 00:15:36,360 Speaker 2: was able to let go of all that stuff. Not 297 00:15:36,400 --> 00:15:38,760 Speaker 2: everybody has that opportunity. But just to really realize that 298 00:15:38,800 --> 00:15:40,520 Speaker 2: didn't do anything. That didn't help me at all. 299 00:15:44,040 --> 00:15:44,240 Speaker 1: Yeah. 300 00:15:44,280 --> 00:15:46,880 Speaker 3: Boy, there are a million directions to go with this discussion. 301 00:15:46,920 --> 00:15:48,400 Speaker 3: It's very deep and very interesting. 302 00:15:48,400 --> 00:15:51,680 Speaker 2: And I had like a brief five minute period of 303 00:15:51,720 --> 00:15:53,720 Speaker 2: like really understanding it while I was laying in bed 304 00:15:53,800 --> 00:15:56,080 Speaker 2: last night and thinking, I think I can do this. 305 00:15:56,080 --> 00:15:56,920 Speaker 1: This is the answer. 306 00:15:57,160 --> 00:16:00,120 Speaker 2: Let going, letting go of the vision of what I 307 00:16:00,120 --> 00:16:01,240 Speaker 2: I thought life was going to. 308 00:16:01,160 --> 00:16:02,560 Speaker 1: Be because it's not going to be that. 309 00:16:02,640 --> 00:16:05,520 Speaker 2: It's stupid to stay nailed to that and try to 310 00:16:05,560 --> 00:16:07,440 Speaker 2: force a square pagan too a round hole. 311 00:16:07,640 --> 00:16:10,120 Speaker 1: It'll never work. But then I lost it when I 312 00:16:10,120 --> 00:16:13,440 Speaker 1: got up this morning. Well that's disappointed. 313 00:16:13,520 --> 00:16:15,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe I'll maybe I'll get it back later today, 314 00:16:15,360 --> 00:16:16,680 Speaker 2: or maybe you have to work at it over time. 315 00:16:16,720 --> 00:16:17,400 Speaker 2: I don't know. 316 00:16:17,560 --> 00:16:19,480 Speaker 3: This is silly and trivial compared to that question. But 317 00:16:19,520 --> 00:16:22,160 Speaker 3: I ran into somebody the other day who somebody said, 318 00:16:22,160 --> 00:16:23,720 Speaker 3: it is what it is, and they expressed that I 319 00:16:23,760 --> 00:16:24,160 Speaker 3: hate that. 320 00:16:24,400 --> 00:16:25,720 Speaker 1: They said, I hate that expression. 321 00:16:25,800 --> 00:16:28,400 Speaker 3: And then and I realize any expression, if it's overused, 322 00:16:28,440 --> 00:16:29,360 Speaker 3: becomes very annoying. 323 00:16:29,440 --> 00:16:31,480 Speaker 1: But it is what it is. 324 00:16:31,480 --> 00:16:34,280 Speaker 3: Is the expression of an ancient, ancient piece of wisdom. 325 00:16:34,280 --> 00:16:37,080 Speaker 3: It'shist it is saying yeah, it's straight out of Buddhism, 326 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:40,840 Speaker 3: it's straight of Christianity. It is saying amen, it is saying, 327 00:16:40,920 --> 00:16:43,480 Speaker 3: so be it. I have accepted it. 328 00:16:43,800 --> 00:16:45,080 Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. 329 00:16:45,160 --> 00:16:49,440 Speaker 2: And I always like this phrase of if something doesn't 330 00:16:49,480 --> 00:16:52,400 Speaker 2: have a solution, it's not a problem. Dealing with everything 331 00:16:52,440 --> 00:16:54,920 Speaker 2: like it's a problem doesn't make any sense. Things without 332 00:16:54,920 --> 00:16:58,000 Speaker 2: a solution are a fact, they're not a problem. And 333 00:16:58,080 --> 00:16:59,640 Speaker 2: so now I just go on with your life. 334 00:17:01,080 --> 00:17:05,480 Speaker 3: Yeah, well, it does help to kind of stop and 335 00:17:05,600 --> 00:17:10,240 Speaker 3: contemplate this stuff and try to figure out which is which. Right, 336 00:17:10,520 --> 00:17:12,399 Speaker 3: Like you had your moment of clarity, then it was 337 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:14,480 Speaker 3: time to go to work, and didn't I had it 338 00:17:14,560 --> 00:17:16,080 Speaker 3: up here a second ago. 339 00:17:16,760 --> 00:17:17,600 Speaker 1: That's the tough part. 340 00:17:18,520 --> 00:17:22,320 Speaker 5: Armstrong and Getty got a lot of interesting texts, as 341 00:17:22,359 --> 00:17:27,919 Speaker 5: you might imagine, around that whole acceptance, you know, dealing 342 00:17:27,920 --> 00:17:29,080 Speaker 5: with life, letting go of. 343 00:17:29,040 --> 00:17:32,639 Speaker 2: Your self and just living in the moment, all that 344 00:17:32,680 --> 00:17:34,320 Speaker 2: sort of stuff. Oh, all of them very interesting and 345 00:17:34,359 --> 00:17:37,359 Speaker 2: I have read them, so appreciate you weighing on the 346 00:17:37,359 --> 00:17:39,960 Speaker 2: text line at four one nine five k FDC. 347 00:17:41,520 --> 00:17:43,359 Speaker 3: Indeed, Yeah, at the risk of going off on that 348 00:17:43,400 --> 00:17:48,240 Speaker 3: tangent because it's such an interesting topic, well we won't, 349 00:17:48,240 --> 00:17:50,399 Speaker 3: but drop us an email as well, mail bag at 350 00:17:50,480 --> 00:17:52,119 Speaker 3: Armstrong and Geeddy dot com if you want, maybe, well 351 00:17:52,160 --> 00:17:55,200 Speaker 3: we'll knock them around on Monday. So was just reading 352 00:17:55,240 --> 00:17:58,440 Speaker 3: Nelly Bowls with the Free Press, who writes a fabulous 353 00:17:58,480 --> 00:18:03,280 Speaker 3: column on Fridays, and she goes into gives many, many 354 00:18:03,320 --> 00:18:08,679 Speaker 3: examples of media commentators, various folks who said that Joe 355 00:18:08,680 --> 00:18:11,720 Speaker 3: Biden saying he would not pardon his son was such 356 00:18:11,720 --> 00:18:15,520 Speaker 3: an incredible sign of virtue, and how he's so different 357 00:18:15,560 --> 00:18:20,480 Speaker 3: from Republicans and blah blah blah blah blah, and how 358 00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:22,639 Speaker 3: grandiose it all was. I won't go on because we're 359 00:18:22,680 --> 00:18:24,919 Speaker 3: about to play a ton of examples, but there is 360 00:18:24,960 --> 00:18:29,520 Speaker 3: a punchline. A punchline to be enjoyed after those examples 361 00:18:29,560 --> 00:18:33,199 Speaker 3: are played that I've just become really aware of, So 362 00:18:33,240 --> 00:18:34,400 Speaker 3: we'll share that with some a minute. 363 00:18:34,520 --> 00:18:37,000 Speaker 2: So this is many minutes of this, And we kind 364 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:39,160 Speaker 2: of debated during the commercials how much we would play, 365 00:18:39,200 --> 00:18:41,240 Speaker 2: but we all felt like, since we listened to the 366 00:18:41,240 --> 00:18:43,080 Speaker 2: whole nine minutes, we're not gonna play the whole nine minutes. 367 00:18:43,080 --> 00:18:47,720 Speaker 2: But it builds it like it makes up its length, 368 00:18:47,840 --> 00:18:49,320 Speaker 2: makes a point on its own. 369 00:18:50,040 --> 00:18:52,560 Speaker 1: It's like the guitar solo and free bird. 370 00:18:53,280 --> 00:18:56,040 Speaker 2: It wouldn't be the same thing if it were shorter, right, 371 00:18:56,200 --> 00:18:57,240 Speaker 2: So dig this. 372 00:18:57,640 --> 00:18:59,920 Speaker 8: I think Joe Biden has a chance here to stay 373 00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:02,200 Speaker 8: up for the rule of law, to say the rule 374 00:19:02,359 --> 00:19:04,879 Speaker 8: the law is the law, no matter who it is, 375 00:19:04,920 --> 00:19:08,240 Speaker 8: no matter if it's Trump or Biden. And remember, part 376 00:19:08,240 --> 00:19:12,840 Speaker 8: of trump ISM's dangerousness is that it tears down institutions, 377 00:19:12,880 --> 00:19:16,560 Speaker 8: important institutions of our democracy. So there is an opportunity 378 00:19:16,600 --> 00:19:19,720 Speaker 8: here for Biden to say, you know, the jury found 379 00:19:19,760 --> 00:19:24,639 Speaker 8: him guilty. This is how it's supposed to work. Period paragraph, 380 00:19:24,840 --> 00:19:25,359 Speaker 8: end of story. 381 00:19:25,480 --> 00:19:27,879 Speaker 1: Have you ruled out a pardon for your son? Yes? 382 00:19:28,200 --> 00:19:30,399 Speaker 4: As I said last week, I will accept the outcome 383 00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:33,200 Speaker 4: of this case and will continue to respect the judicial 384 00:19:33,200 --> 00:19:36,159 Speaker 4: process as Hunter considers an appeal. You know, the President 385 00:19:36,160 --> 00:19:37,040 Speaker 4: said he won't touch it. 386 00:19:37,040 --> 00:19:38,160 Speaker 1: He said he's not going. 387 00:19:38,160 --> 00:19:40,880 Speaker 4: To pardon his son, and it seems that Mayor Garland let. 388 00:19:40,840 --> 00:19:41,320 Speaker 1: It go through. 389 00:19:41,520 --> 00:19:44,880 Speaker 4: How can the Justice Department be weaponized against Trump when 390 00:19:44,880 --> 00:19:45,200 Speaker 4: all of. 391 00:19:45,119 --> 00:19:45,760 Speaker 1: That is happening. 392 00:19:45,800 --> 00:19:48,200 Speaker 6: But Democrats stand for the rule of law, remember law 393 00:19:48,240 --> 00:19:51,520 Speaker 6: and order, you know, and we've been saying that Trump's 394 00:19:51,520 --> 00:19:53,439 Speaker 6: not above the law. Hunter Biden's not above the law. 395 00:19:53,560 --> 00:19:56,240 Speaker 6: No one is above the law. And it is amazing 396 00:19:56,280 --> 00:20:00,320 Speaker 6: to see the stark contrast between how Democrats handled today 397 00:20:00,600 --> 00:20:03,280 Speaker 6: and how Republicans handled this whole thing over the last 398 00:20:03,320 --> 00:20:03,919 Speaker 6: couple of weeks. 399 00:20:04,040 --> 00:20:07,680 Speaker 12: Their latest attack has been that Joe Biden has politicized 400 00:20:07,760 --> 00:20:10,719 Speaker 12: and weaponized the DOJ. Right, that was the whole argument 401 00:20:10,920 --> 00:20:14,240 Speaker 12: around Donald Trump's conviction. And this week, of course, Hunter 402 00:20:14,320 --> 00:20:17,760 Speaker 12: Biden is found guilty and Joe Biden has very clearly 403 00:20:17,880 --> 00:20:20,280 Speaker 12: said he would not pardon his son, he would not 404 00:20:20,320 --> 00:20:24,320 Speaker 12: commute his sentence. How stark is this difference? I mean, 405 00:20:24,440 --> 00:20:27,480 Speaker 12: how can Republicans keep making this argument now that note, 406 00:20:27,480 --> 00:20:29,440 Speaker 12: now that Joe Biden has really put it out there, 407 00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:33,960 Speaker 12: where's Hunter? And he stood there in a courtroom flanked 408 00:20:33,960 --> 00:20:36,280 Speaker 12: by his family, and he's accepted his sentence. 409 00:20:36,359 --> 00:20:40,479 Speaker 7: He is not pardoning his son, which he could do. 410 00:20:40,560 --> 00:20:41,920 Speaker 7: These are federal charges. 411 00:20:42,119 --> 00:20:42,959 Speaker 2: He is not doing that. 412 00:20:43,040 --> 00:20:45,840 Speaker 7: He is not doing it because he is living what 413 00:20:45,920 --> 00:20:49,440 Speaker 7: it means to have a rule of law in this country, 414 00:20:49,560 --> 00:20:50,439 Speaker 7: and that it is. 415 00:20:51,119 --> 00:20:52,160 Speaker 1: I mean, if you want. 416 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:55,639 Speaker 7: To know if he believes it, you could actually see 417 00:20:55,960 --> 00:20:58,480 Speaker 7: what is happening with his own son. 418 00:20:58,640 --> 00:20:59,240 Speaker 1: The president. 419 00:20:59,280 --> 00:21:03,480 Speaker 3: Anderson has been really clear that he is going to accept. 420 00:21:03,080 --> 00:21:05,720 Speaker 1: The outcome of the trial no matter what happens. 421 00:21:05,880 --> 00:21:08,720 Speaker 8: So Joe Biden's gotten asked about, you know, talking about 422 00:21:08,760 --> 00:21:09,200 Speaker 8: line order. 423 00:21:09,240 --> 00:21:11,359 Speaker 1: He's gotten asked if he would pardon his son. He 424 00:21:11,359 --> 00:21:11,879 Speaker 1: has said no. 425 00:21:12,119 --> 00:21:14,960 Speaker 8: On the other side, you've got Donald Trump who has 426 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:18,480 Speaker 8: said that he will pardon the January sixth insurrectionist. 427 00:21:18,680 --> 00:21:20,120 Speaker 1: They're not even his sons, They're. 428 00:21:19,920 --> 00:21:20,880 Speaker 8: Just sons of bitches. 429 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:23,960 Speaker 7: Washington said, I am not running again because he understood 430 00:21:24,040 --> 00:21:28,040 Speaker 7: the self restraint was absolutely essential to this country. 431 00:21:28,080 --> 00:21:29,240 Speaker 1: So you don't have a king. 432 00:21:29,560 --> 00:21:31,160 Speaker 2: He did not pardon his son. 433 00:21:31,240 --> 00:21:34,160 Speaker 7: He did not order the Department of Justice to say, 434 00:21:34,280 --> 00:21:35,640 Speaker 7: don't prosecute my son. 435 00:21:36,080 --> 00:21:37,600 Speaker 1: So impressive could have. 436 00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:41,760 Speaker 4: Ordered the Justice Department to halt the prosecution of Hunter Biden. 437 00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:44,480 Speaker 4: According to this court, everyone understands he's a decent man. 438 00:21:45,080 --> 00:21:45,359 Speaker 1: Hunter. 439 00:21:45,520 --> 00:21:50,040 Speaker 3: You're a loser, Michael. You threw that in on your own, 440 00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:50,439 Speaker 3: didn't you. 441 00:21:50,520 --> 00:21:50,760 Speaker 1: There. 442 00:21:51,880 --> 00:21:58,440 Speaker 3: So what's delightfully horrifying about all this is how eloquently 443 00:21:58,720 --> 00:22:03,520 Speaker 3: they built the case that to do as Joe Biden 444 00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:08,400 Speaker 3: was doing was a sign of his greatness and Democrats 445 00:22:08,520 --> 00:22:11,000 Speaker 3: regard for law and order, and how anybody who would 446 00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:15,280 Speaker 3: do otherwise is a horror and an America hater and 447 00:22:15,320 --> 00:22:18,320 Speaker 3: should probably be put into an iron mask, throught to 448 00:22:18,359 --> 00:22:20,760 Speaker 3: the Tower of London or something like one of those things, 449 00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:22,520 Speaker 3: the Iron Maiden, and squashed one of. 450 00:22:22,440 --> 00:22:24,639 Speaker 2: Those helmets with the rats run around and eat your 451 00:22:24,640 --> 00:22:25,680 Speaker 2: eyes out, one of those deals. 452 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:30,560 Speaker 3: At least that'd be letting them off easy, anybody who 453 00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:35,800 Speaker 3: would pardon their kid. Here's the punchline, as Nelly Bowles 454 00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:40,000 Speaker 3: points out, and she gave a ton of great examples, 455 00:22:40,040 --> 00:22:42,160 Speaker 3: just like you just heard from, you know, and it's 456 00:22:42,160 --> 00:22:46,560 Speaker 3: worth naming some names from the Lincoln Project and John 457 00:22:46,640 --> 00:22:49,800 Speaker 3: Harwood of CNN and the Bulwark and whatever. 458 00:22:49,640 --> 00:22:50,240 Speaker 1: Just went on. 459 00:22:50,960 --> 00:22:52,800 Speaker 3: So she writes, I wonder if these folks would feel 460 00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:55,879 Speaker 3: a little pang of regret. Do you think they feel 461 00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:58,520 Speaker 3: pain like mine when they look at their old takes. 462 00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:02,040 Speaker 3: In fact, they do not, because as soon as the 463 00:23:02,080 --> 00:23:06,639 Speaker 3: pardon went through, a new consensus arose. It's good, Biden 464 00:23:06,720 --> 00:23:12,360 Speaker 3: partning Hunter was always good. It's familiar obligations, familial obligations. 465 00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:15,880 Speaker 3: Here's the publisher of fellow upstart publication, The Bulwark, which 466 00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:18,600 Speaker 3: positions itself as an independent, initially staked out that the 467 00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:22,200 Speaker 3: publication thinks it's bad. Sarah Longwello runs the Bulwarks and tweeted, 468 00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:25,600 Speaker 3: we think it's bad. Thanks for reading. But then a 469 00:23:25,640 --> 00:23:28,640 Speaker 3: new message was received, update sent out over the Wi 470 00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:32,920 Speaker 3: Fi through the fluoride and sprints via air freshener, and 471 00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:36,720 Speaker 3: we got from the Bulwark in defense of the Hunter 472 00:23:36,880 --> 00:23:37,719 Speaker 3: Biden pardon. 473 00:23:38,880 --> 00:23:39,320 Speaker 1: That's right. 474 00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:42,280 Speaker 3: No sooner was it decided that the pardon was good. 475 00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:45,280 Speaker 3: And she capitalizes good, which is a nice touch. Then 476 00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:47,520 Speaker 3: it was just as if it was from the Lord Almighty. 477 00:23:47,760 --> 00:23:52,080 Speaker 3: Then it was decided that pointing out any inconsistency was 478 00:23:52,200 --> 00:23:53,640 Speaker 3: naturally bad. 479 00:23:54,160 --> 00:23:55,920 Speaker 1: We always said the pardon was good. 480 00:23:56,160 --> 00:23:58,440 Speaker 3: We always said the pardon was happening, And to bring 481 00:23:58,480 --> 00:24:02,840 Speaker 3: it all up negatively like this two pounce like you're 482 00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:05,879 Speaker 3: a strong, mean cat and a tiny innocent bird, like 483 00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:08,440 Speaker 3: you're a cop trying to imprison the tiny little boy 484 00:24:08,520 --> 00:24:12,440 Speaker 3: named Hunter. And indeed she shows the headlines like Politico 485 00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:16,119 Speaker 3: Republicans pounce on Biden pardoning his son Hunter. 486 00:24:16,280 --> 00:24:19,000 Speaker 2: So the story is the Republican's pouncing, not the fact 487 00:24:19,040 --> 00:24:22,240 Speaker 2: that the president pardoned his son after saying he would 488 00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:23,960 Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty times. 489 00:24:24,280 --> 00:24:28,919 Speaker 3: And more importantly, as I keep pointing out, gave an unprecedented, 490 00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:35,200 Speaker 3: insane immunity from all laws for an eleven year period, 491 00:24:36,280 --> 00:24:40,440 Speaker 3: which is dangerous, beyond dangerous. 492 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:44,640 Speaker 2: And argued that the Justice Department was corrupted by politics 493 00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:47,680 Speaker 2: only in the case of Hunter, not in the case 494 00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:50,000 Speaker 2: of going after Donald Trump. Of course, they were all 495 00:24:50,119 --> 00:24:52,840 Speaker 2: those cases that happened to come in an election year, 496 00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:56,280 Speaker 2: completely on the up and up. Politics played no role. 497 00:24:56,280 --> 00:24:58,960 Speaker 2: But in Hunters, oh my god, it played. Politics played 498 00:24:58,960 --> 00:25:00,639 Speaker 2: such a role that I'm going to pardon him for 499 00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:01,680 Speaker 2: eleven years. 500 00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:04,560 Speaker 3: Right, And if you want, you know the final evidences, 501 00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:07,520 Speaker 3: if you needed it, of who these people are. When 502 00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:11,399 Speaker 3: the Alvin Bragg case first burbled up, do you remember that, 503 00:25:11,840 --> 00:25:14,320 Speaker 3: and they were going over the indictment and the charges 504 00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:18,440 Speaker 3: and everything. Even on MSNBC they were saying, Uh, this 505 00:25:18,520 --> 00:25:23,760 Speaker 3: is it, this is the case. This is really weird. 506 00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:26,359 Speaker 3: But then by the time the trial rolled around, they realized, 507 00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:28,239 Speaker 3: all right, we panned her for a living. We're not 508 00:25:28,280 --> 00:25:31,440 Speaker 3: pandering very well. Let's pretend like this is a serious thing. 509 00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:34,840 Speaker 3: And then when the jury quite appropriately given the law 510 00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:37,879 Speaker 3: as described by the judge, and again this will not 511 00:25:37,920 --> 00:25:41,960 Speaker 3: withstand a five minute scrutiny by the appeals court, when 512 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:44,960 Speaker 3: the jury found him guilty of these the very charges 513 00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:48,080 Speaker 3: that they'd all said were really fishy before they all 514 00:25:48,119 --> 00:25:51,119 Speaker 3: started bellowing about twenty nine or thirty one or whatever 515 00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:52,480 Speaker 3: it was, felony convictions. 516 00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:55,560 Speaker 1: These people are a joke. Wow, is this new? 517 00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:59,480 Speaker 2: I hadn't said it myself, so we mentioned Joe Manchin, 518 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:02,880 Speaker 2: Democratic senator, said Biden should pardon Trump. The other day 519 00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:07,159 Speaker 2: Fetterman of Pennsylvania says Trump should be pardoned. The New 520 00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:08,680 Speaker 2: York cases garbage. 521 00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:10,760 Speaker 1: Yeah, I saw, I actually saw that. 522 00:26:10,960 --> 00:26:17,760 Speaker 2: Wow, that's two well known, household name Democratic senators saying 523 00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:18,760 Speaker 2: you got to pardon Trump. 524 00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:21,440 Speaker 1: That New York case is ridiculous. 525 00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:24,280 Speaker 2: That's the one where for the first time ever in 526 00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:27,920 Speaker 2: the history of the law, with nobody complaining. New York 527 00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:30,920 Speaker 2: brought forward a Trump misled people on the value of 528 00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:32,679 Speaker 2: his hotels. Yeah, I loaned the money. I didn't have 529 00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:34,159 Speaker 2: a problem with it. He's making it fine with it 530 00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:36,400 Speaker 2: and it worked out great for everybody. Yeah, exactly, Yeah, 531 00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:37,080 Speaker 2: we're all happy. 532 00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:41,199 Speaker 1: This is not over this story. 533 00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:45,720 Speaker 3: No, no, And I would love love love for the 534 00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:49,320 Speaker 3: purpose is not a partisanship because the idea of Republicans 535 00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:53,560 Speaker 3: wielding this power to grant a you can violate any 536 00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:57,000 Speaker 3: law you want while you're working for me, and I 537 00:26:57,080 --> 00:26:59,879 Speaker 3: will blanket pardon you for anything you could conceive it. 538 00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:00,679 Speaker 1: We have done. 539 00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:03,320 Speaker 3: Don't even tell me what you're gonna do, because don't worry, 540 00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:06,919 Speaker 3: I will pardon you for anything. I'm the idea that 541 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:11,080 Speaker 3: Republicans could we let powers horrifying to me, horrifying. But 542 00:27:11,119 --> 00:27:14,199 Speaker 3: I would love, for reasons of love of constitution, not partisanship, 543 00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:15,800 Speaker 3: that this be brought to the court. 544 00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:17,919 Speaker 1: The concept of this sort of blanket immunity. 545 00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:21,240 Speaker 2: A number of people have texted, I don't know whose 546 00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:26,240 Speaker 2: idea this was originally The fantastic troll of Trump takes 547 00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:30,520 Speaker 2: office Day one, he pardons Hillary of any crime she 548 00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:32,880 Speaker 2: may have committed since twenty fifteen. 549 00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:38,440 Speaker 1: That means such a troll of the whole thing, of 550 00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:39,320 Speaker 1: the whole thing. 551 00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:43,600 Speaker 3: You know, I'm thinking about it because I agree. I 552 00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:48,879 Speaker 3: agree completely. He could even do it, like once a month. 553 00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:53,000 Speaker 3: He could pardon Jill Biden for any offenses she may 554 00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:55,920 Speaker 3: have committed during June of twenty twenty one. Yeah, I mean, 555 00:27:56,040 --> 00:27:59,119 Speaker 3: just do it until it's so absurd. 556 00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:00,679 Speaker 1: Right talking about it? 557 00:28:00,760 --> 00:28:03,879 Speaker 2: No, kid, I've pardoned Joy read of any crime she 558 00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:07,080 Speaker 2: may have committed. I haven't heard this, So here's Fetterman 559 00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:08,040 Speaker 2: talking about it. 560 00:28:08,040 --> 00:28:12,760 Speaker 13: It's undeniable that the case against Hunter Biden was really 561 00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:17,159 Speaker 13: politically motivated. But I also think it's true that the 562 00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:21,240 Speaker 13: trial in New York for Trump that was political as 563 00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:21,720 Speaker 13: well too. 564 00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:22,520 Speaker 1: Now is that? 565 00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:23,560 Speaker 10: And in both. 566 00:28:23,359 --> 00:28:27,000 Speaker 13: Cases I think a pardon is appropriate, And I really 567 00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:32,240 Speaker 13: think collectively, you know, America's confidence in these kinds of 568 00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:35,040 Speaker 13: institutions have been damaged by these kinds of cases. 569 00:28:35,560 --> 00:28:37,639 Speaker 1: Boy, I don't know what to think of that. 570 00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:40,520 Speaker 2: Does that move us further down the road of people 571 00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:44,880 Speaker 2: rebelieving in the Justice Department? If we say, yeah, the 572 00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:49,240 Speaker 2: Hunter one was political and the Trump is political, does 573 00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:50,440 Speaker 2: that fix anything. 574 00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:53,720 Speaker 1: I don't think it does. No, an increases cynicism. 575 00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:55,840 Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, we're warring a bad spot by having gone 576 00:28:55,880 --> 00:29:02,440 Speaker 2: down this road. Of course, Joe ruined it by claiming 577 00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:05,960 Speaker 2: this was because it was a political which hunt, which 578 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:07,160 Speaker 2: it wasn't. 579 00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:09,520 Speaker 1: Right now, I've. 580 00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:12,200 Speaker 3: Heard people who I sympathize with make the case that 581 00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:17,920 Speaker 3: the gun charge thing may have been pursued because Hunter 582 00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:22,560 Speaker 3: is Hunter, but also because the Justice Department felt like 583 00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:26,440 Speaker 3: this is an incredibly high profile person who committed this 584 00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:29,200 Speaker 3: offense and then bragged about it in a book. 585 00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:37,480 Speaker 2: Admits to it, right, bragged about it in a book. Yeah, 586 00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:40,280 Speaker 2: I don't know. Well, that's the problem with tearing down 587 00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:47,440 Speaker 2: institutions or losing credibility. It's really really hard to get 588 00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:49,160 Speaker 2: back and it takes a long time. 589 00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:55,560 Speaker 3: So here's an email excoriating me for pronouncing one of 590 00:29:55,560 --> 00:30:00,640 Speaker 3: my favorite thinker's name Strassel instead of Strassel. Ry. 591 00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:03,400 Speaker 1: Come on, Joe, get it right. 592 00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:05,120 Speaker 2: I'll let you all argue about that. 593 00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:10,840 Speaker 1: So it's not Strassel Strassel. Okay, how about if I 594 00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:13,880 Speaker 1: donate to your favorite charity is a show of penance? 595 00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:17,840 Speaker 1: What the freak? You should do this for a living folks? 596 00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:19,960 Speaker 1: For a week and just see how crazy people are. 597 00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:23,240 Speaker 2: Leave me alone, Cliff, leave me alone. We will finish 598 00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:33,120 Speaker 2: strong next time. I did not watch the Patriot Awards 599 00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:34,160 Speaker 2: on Fox last night. 600 00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:35,720 Speaker 1: It looks like it was quite the big. 601 00:30:37,160 --> 00:30:42,880 Speaker 2: Production, but in a not shock, Patriot of the Year 602 00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:45,960 Speaker 2: went to Donald Trump. Anyone else got the award and 603 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:51,080 Speaker 2: gave a speech and there you go, hosted by Sean Hannity. 604 00:30:51,680 --> 00:30:53,720 Speaker 2: There you go, big flag is the ward? 605 00:30:53,880 --> 00:31:02,640 Speaker 1: All right, that's that's okay. Sorry boy. 606 00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:07,160 Speaker 3: So one of the cabinet nominees that has gotten practically 607 00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:09,680 Speaker 3: no discussion I think might be one of the most 608 00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:15,120 Speaker 3: important ones, and that's Jay Badacharia, whose name I have 609 00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:18,760 Speaker 3: just learned to prouse correctly speaking of pronunciation of people's names. 610 00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:21,600 Speaker 3: But he was We actually talked to him at one point. 611 00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:23,760 Speaker 1: He was the. 612 00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:29,160 Speaker 3: Stanford University scientist who with another scientist from Harvard and 613 00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:34,480 Speaker 3: I can't remember the third place, signed the Great Barrington Declaration, 614 00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:40,520 Speaker 3: among well, among other things, just pointing out the stupidity 615 00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:43,000 Speaker 3: and uselessness and damage done by COVID policies. 616 00:31:43,040 --> 00:31:45,800 Speaker 1: And for that he was banned. 617 00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:50,320 Speaker 3: From Twitter, excoriated as a crank and reckless and he 618 00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:54,440 Speaker 3: would kill people. He was right about everything, and I'll 619 00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:57,080 Speaker 3: go through the list next week for you. He was 620 00:31:57,320 --> 00:32:01,040 Speaker 3: right about everything, and if people listened to the guy, 621 00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:05,120 Speaker 3: the terrible damage done to millions of children in the 622 00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:09,320 Speaker 3: United States would not have been nearly as severe. Anyway, 623 00:32:09,520 --> 00:32:12,960 Speaker 3: he has been elected or nominated rather by Donald Trump 624 00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:17,400 Speaker 3: to lead the National Institutes of Health, and what he 625 00:32:17,480 --> 00:32:23,040 Speaker 3: wants to do is take on the dei politically correct 626 00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:28,040 Speaker 3: anti science culture at elite universities, wielding the power of 627 00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:32,400 Speaker 3: tens of billions of dollars in scientific grants. It's going 628 00:32:32,440 --> 00:32:36,720 Speaker 3: to be all about science and excellence. And anybody who 629 00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:41,840 Speaker 3: violates federal law which discriminates racial which I'm sorry makes 630 00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:45,040 Speaker 3: it legal to discriminate based on race, he will be 631 00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:48,920 Speaker 3: aware of it and will take care of it, so 632 00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:53,200 Speaker 3: he could be the physician, as it were. That's going 633 00:32:53,280 --> 00:32:57,280 Speaker 3: to really be the first end of the university system 634 00:32:57,280 --> 00:32:59,480 Speaker 3: and try to heal their craziness. 635 00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:09,680 Speaker 1: Anyway, more on that next week. I'm strong, I'm strong, 636 00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:12,000 Speaker 1: Get ready with Katie. 637 00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:12,000 Speaker 6: Green and. 638 00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:15,560 Speaker 4: Strong. 639 00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:19,520 Speaker 2: Here's your host. The final finish. It is just perfect, 640 00:33:19,560 --> 00:33:21,600 Speaker 2: it's really great. Here's your host, Joe Getty. 641 00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:23,680 Speaker 3: Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew. 642 00:33:23,760 --> 00:33:26,200 Speaker 3: Michael Angelow in the control room pressing the buttons. Michael, 643 00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:27,080 Speaker 3: what's your final thought? 644 00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:29,320 Speaker 9: True story, I added, typing teacher who on the first 645 00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:31,400 Speaker 9: day of school looked at the class and said, just 646 00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:33,640 Speaker 9: when you think life can't get any worse, I found 647 00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:35,000 Speaker 9: out in my experience that it can. 648 00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:39,840 Speaker 1: I dropped the class and went to homack at that point. 649 00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:42,400 Speaker 1: First day. 650 00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:48,840 Speaker 2: Yeah, optimism, Oh my god, Katie Green are esteemed Newswoman. 651 00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:51,360 Speaker 3: As a final thought, Katie, I'm proud to announce I 652 00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:53,920 Speaker 3: am back down to the weight that I was before Thanksgiving. 653 00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:55,280 Speaker 1: Oh good for you, Thank you. 654 00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:56,040 Speaker 2: Very Muda girl. 655 00:33:56,160 --> 00:33:59,600 Speaker 1: I'm close. I'm about halfway there. Wait to go, Jack. 656 00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:01,640 Speaker 2: A final thought for us man, it's a busy time 657 00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:05,640 Speaker 2: of the year. My son has got like a band 658 00:34:05,800 --> 00:34:09,200 Speaker 2: performance Friday night as tonight, and then there's a play 659 00:34:09,239 --> 00:34:11,000 Speaker 2: he has to go to for extra credit. I'm going 660 00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:13,719 Speaker 2: to with and then another parade he's got to march in, 661 00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:15,799 Speaker 2: and then you know, the shopping and the meals and 662 00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:18,640 Speaker 2: the friends and this. It gets so busy this time here. 663 00:34:18,640 --> 00:34:19,960 Speaker 2: Why do we do this to ourselves? 664 00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:20,719 Speaker 1: Yeah? 665 00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:23,839 Speaker 3: Practically frenzied. That's a charming and relatable final note. 666 00:34:23,920 --> 00:34:25,719 Speaker 1: Mine is not. I don't think it finally. 667 00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:28,799 Speaker 3: Occurred to me how to illustrate where we are in 668 00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:33,759 Speaker 3: the whole DEI postmodern, neo Marxist, politically correct, woke thing. 669 00:34:34,520 --> 00:34:38,319 Speaker 3: Most Americans have realized we've been invaded. A lot of 670 00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:41,080 Speaker 3: people are still confused as to who the invaders are 671 00:34:41,120 --> 00:34:44,239 Speaker 3: and what they're trying to accomplish, but they're aware that. 672 00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:47,239 Speaker 1: There's a problem. Now we start rooting it out, and 673 00:34:47,239 --> 00:34:48,359 Speaker 1: that's going to take a long time. 674 00:34:48,680 --> 00:34:51,760 Speaker 2: Armstrong in Geddy wrapping up another grueling four hour workday. 675 00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:55,560 Speaker 3: Your favorite ang fan would love a T shirt, a hat, 676 00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:59,880 Speaker 3: the fabulous high quality Adidas hoodie some Armstrong and Getty 677 00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:01,600 Speaker 3: go to Armstrong and Giddy dot com. 678 00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:07,080 Speaker 2: We'll see you Monday. God bless America, Armstrong and Getty. 679 00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:08,000 Speaker 12: This is the kind of guy. 680 00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:11,880 Speaker 1: You're like, a smacking ass, a all beautiful thing. And 681 00:35:11,960 --> 00:35:14,440 Speaker 1: I'll just say this, you know what I mean. It's 682 00:35:15,239 --> 00:35:20,080 Speaker 1: in particularly a woman married to a woman. 683 00:35:20,160 --> 00:35:24,320 Speaker 10: Good Lord, A woman married to a woman, Good Lord, 684 00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:27,439 Speaker 10: good Lord. 685 00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:30,200 Speaker 2: And again, thank you so much for saying bye bye 686 00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:32,000 Speaker 2: a great Friday 687 00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:34,720 Speaker 1: Mother, Armstrong and Getdy