Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm Strong
Speaker 1: and Jackiatie and he Armstrong and Yeddy flesh out of
Speaker 1: story or flesh out of story? Flesh out of story flesh. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's one of those. I got several tis on the story,
Speaker 1: I guess true.
Speaker 2: I've got several of those in my lives that in
Speaker 2: my life I only have one. Eh, you know, I've
Speaker 2: got several those in my life. They're going way way back.
Speaker 2: I had gotten confused, and now I can't remember going forward.
Speaker 2: It's like spelling their t h E I R or
Speaker 2: I E R. I've done it. I got confused sometime
Speaker 2: like forty years ago, and I've never been able to
Speaker 2: get nailed down on the right track.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've got a couple of those two. They don't
Speaker 3: leap to mind. But I know what you're talking about.
Speaker 3: It no matter how hard you try, it's still fifty
Speaker 3: to fifty in your head.
Speaker 2: I need to flesh out the story of the world's
Speaker 2: oldest albatross becoming a mom again.
Speaker 1: At age whatever.
Speaker 2: You are going to guess on how old the world's
Speaker 2: oldest albatross is you're low seventy four seventy four year
Speaker 2: old albatross.
Speaker 3: I admit to embarrassing ignorance about albatross life spans, but.
Speaker 1: Still you wouldn't have guessed in the seventies. No, probably not.
Speaker 3: When do lady albatrosses generally burs little albatrosses.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, that's a good point.
Speaker 2: Not only I would have never guessed in albatross lives
Speaker 2: to be in its seventies. I would have thought it's
Speaker 2: birthing days were behind it.
Speaker 1: It's dating and.
Speaker 2: Birthing days, dating and knocking, knocking web defeat with other
Speaker 2: male albatrosses behind them her.
Speaker 1: Yes, Katie, the life span of an albatross is fifty years.
Speaker 3: Okay, so this is an extra old, one, very old albatross.
Speaker 3: In the fact that the old gal is still cranking
Speaker 3: out chicks, I mean, what's going on there? You're going
Speaker 3: to be there for your your chicks high school graduation, sweetheart,
Speaker 3: it's very selfish. Did they use the turkey baster, I'm sorry,
Speaker 3: the albatross based or did she find some young albatross
Speaker 3: jigglow to you know, run the albatross with two backs?
Speaker 2: You're gonna go all JD. Vans and say that you
Speaker 2: shouldn't be allowed to have babies like this? Is that
Speaker 2: what you're gonna do?
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 1: Wait a minute? What wisdom? Is the name of the bird?
Speaker 2: A seventy four year old Laisin albatross just later first
Speaker 2: egg in four years in Hawaii. According to US Wildlife,
Speaker 2: it's the oldest known wild bird egg laying in history.
Speaker 3: So not only did the old gal you know live
Speaker 3: this long, which is amazing, she's still knocking out chicks.
Speaker 1: Still having sex. Oh yeah, which is fine? Yeah cool, Hey,
Speaker 1: I hope to.
Speaker 3: Hey, good for her and her her partner, the albatross's
Speaker 3: mate for life?
Speaker 1: Or are they like more slutty than that? And one
Speaker 1: more headline before we get the clips of the week.
Speaker 1: This is from ABC News One.
Speaker 2: More than one million pair of oven mits are being
Speaker 2: recalled due to the potential for burns, as in apparently.
Speaker 1: End of the one thing you know, you had one job?
Speaker 1: As apparently they don't work.
Speaker 2: Yes, as I stomped around my kitchen, I would be
Speaker 2: screaming at my oven mitt you had one job.
Speaker 1: As the smoke comes off my palms.
Speaker 2: Geez, I'm not a suing kind of guy, you sell
Speaker 2: me an oven mitt that burns right through to my hand.
Speaker 2: I'm suing you.
Speaker 1: Right, and walk up to you in public.
Speaker 3: We're in the mits, and just think of a thicket,
Speaker 3: a thicket, a thicket of work out on your head. Huh.
Speaker 3: Got a lot of good stuff to squeeze into the
Speaker 3: final hour of the week. But first, friends, let us
Speaker 3: pause and reflect each in our own way. Take a
Speaker 3: fond look back at the week that was. It's cow
Speaker 3: clips of the week on.
Speaker 5: In the final weeks of my presence, and you don't
Speaker 5: have to collap through that.
Speaker 1: Wow, I got nothing, employee on that. Which of the week?
Speaker 1: Have you ruled out a pardon for your son? Yes?
Speaker 2: No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter's
Speaker 2: cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled
Speaker 2: out because he believes in the justice of sin.
Speaker 1: Why don't you go ahead and pardon with Donald Trump?
Speaker 2: They are the goats of this favorite form of corruption.
Speaker 6: That if the hostages are not released prior to January
Speaker 6: twenty is twenty twenty five, there will be all hell
Speaker 6: to pay in the Middle East.
Speaker 1: Trump joked to him.
Speaker 3: Then maybe Canada should become the fifty first state and
Speaker 3: Trudeau could become his governor.
Speaker 1: Government is too.
Speaker 7: Big, there's too many things, and it does almost nothing
Speaker 7: well and the taxpayers deserve better.
Speaker 1: You do have too much regulation in this country. This
Speaker 1: country is so set up to grow.
Speaker 6: But when it came to trimming the fat out of Twitter,
Speaker 6: what he basically did is just open the door for
Speaker 6: Nazis and Hamas.
Speaker 1: Pete Hegseeth is digging his heels in. I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: have a drink at all.
Speaker 5: We really believe that he is not that man he
Speaker 5: was seven years ago, Cash Patel.
Speaker 7: He is the most unfairly maligned person that I work with.
Speaker 1: Trump's enemies quote should be very afraid. Yes, we're going
Speaker 1: to come after the people in the media.
Speaker 6: The court has to treat it like all other forms
Speaker 6: of sex discrimination.
Speaker 5: The countries that have been at the forefront of this
Speaker 5: are pumping the brakes.
Speaker 7: Every medical treatment has a risk, even taking aspirin.
Speaker 8: These are young people who may have known since they
Speaker 8: were two years old exactly who they are.
Speaker 2: The possible message, which appears to include the words deny, depose,
Speaker 2: and defend.
Speaker 1: I can't tell you nobody enjoys flying in your airlines.
Speaker 1: It's a disaster.
Speaker 7: Now go poop in a bucket, you beasts.
Speaker 2: That reminds me of a fortune I got at Panda
Speaker 2: Express the other night.
Speaker 9: Say IPEd in your rights. It was handwritten. That's more
Speaker 9: a confession than a fortune. Yeah, boy, madness everywhere.
Speaker 2: The jocularity of earlier in the week.
Speaker 3: Huh so a private on air meeting here, everybody go
Speaker 3: about your business. So I was just reading Nelly Bowls
Speaker 3: of the Free Press. She's the wife of Barry Weiss,
Speaker 3: a woman married to a woman. Good lord, anyway. Nelly's
Speaker 3: a terrific writer, and her column her.
Speaker 10: Woman married to a woman. Good lord, good luck anyway.
Speaker 3: Anyway, She's she writes this, thank god it's Friday column
Speaker 3: every week and it's terrific. But uh, she is going
Speaker 3: on and on and on about how the left from
Speaker 3: MSNBC to all the big columnists and your made Meguz
Speaker 3: brazizn Ski and everybody's going on and on and on
Speaker 3: about how Joe Biden saying he would not pardon Hunter
Speaker 3: as proof of what an Olympian champion of decency and
Speaker 3: justice he.
Speaker 1: Is and our whole party is.
Speaker 3: He's George Washington, Abe Lincoln, Jesus and Arnold Palmer rolled.
Speaker 1: Into the one.
Speaker 3: He's the greatest you baby who has ever lived, and
Speaker 3: she's just enjoying the crap out of how their their
Speaker 3: pompous bull crap has gotten called out by their hero himself.
Speaker 1: And that reminded me.
Speaker 3: Of the nine minute super cut sizzle reel of that
Speaker 3: sort of stuff that we played an excerpt of and
Speaker 3: heard Sarah Isger of the Dispatch, is that who she
Speaker 3: generally is with, but talking about how much she enjoyed that.
Speaker 3: And there's part of me, just because it's Friday and
Speaker 3: I'm lazy, that wants to play the whole thing because
Speaker 3: it's art.
Speaker 1: It is freaking good. It is freaking good.
Speaker 3: Maybe we could just play another chunk of it that
Speaker 3: we haven't played yet.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's amazing and it makes a heck of a
Speaker 2: point over what I think will be the defining legacy
Speaker 2: of Joe Biden's presidency. Yeah, and there were plenty that
Speaker 2: could have been, but this is going to be the
Speaker 2: one that's going to be remembered, I think. I mean,
Speaker 2: and unless he issues these blanket pardons over the next
Speaker 2: couple of weeks, then that will be more blanket party.
Speaker 2: And if you missed the screed from what was it
Speaker 2: hour two we talked about this, I think it was yeah,
Speaker 2: hour two via podcast Armstrong and getting on demand. You
Speaker 2: probably ought to subscribe.
Speaker 3: But the thing I pointed out that I think is
Speaker 3: brutally shockingly under discussed in all of this, the hunter
Speaker 3: Biden pardon, the gun crime all right, the tax crimes,
Speaker 3: the hypocrisy, the fact that Joe Biden lied over and
Speaker 3: over knowing he was going to pardon him, the fact
Speaker 3: that the Left made such a big deal over it.
Speaker 1: It's really tempting and fun stuff.
Speaker 3: The idea that you would pardon someone, anyone for anything
Speaker 3: they might have done, known or unknown, over a period
Speaker 3: of eleven years, is a horror, an obscenity against the constitution,
Speaker 3: so unthinkable. There should be a half million people marching
Speaker 3: on the White House right now to declare any human
Speaker 3: being completely above the law, not tax law, not gun
Speaker 3: lawst all laws, every law for a long period of time.
Speaker 3: Wait a minute, what Why are people not shocked by this?
Speaker 3: If they just not thought it through? I guess because Trump, well,
Speaker 3: and as I pointed out earlier, any president could realize, Okay,
Speaker 3: this is a tool I have and order their cabinet,
Speaker 3: there underlings, their cronies whatever to commit all manner of unholy,
Speaker 3: unconstitutional acts.
Speaker 1: But he's got a written agreement with them.
Speaker 3: I will pardon you in advance for anything you might
Speaker 3: have done during the period that you work for me.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Like, so if you have to murder people, you have
Speaker 3: to form an alliance with China, loot the treasury, anything
Speaker 3: you do anything.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Nixon could have told the plumbers the break in
Speaker 2: crew your pardoned. So here's the plan, is what I
Speaker 2: want you to do, but you'll be pardoned, So don't
Speaker 2: worry about it.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and do that on a massive scale going forward,
Speaker 3: because once you realize you have that power, you will
Speaker 3: think about, Okay, what can I do with this power?
Speaker 3: And the answer is limitless and absolutely horrifying.
Speaker 1: All kinds of nobody talking about this.
Speaker 2: All kinds of people that answer to you, that have
Speaker 2: nothing to lose by following your illegal orders.
Speaker 1: Right, imagine it on a personal level.
Speaker 3: Chief of police of your town or whoever would conceivably
Speaker 3: have this power, goes to you and says, hey, get
Speaker 3: wild this weekend. Nothing you do will be prosecuted. Here.
Speaker 1: It is in writing, nothing you do, I don't care.
Speaker 3: If you are mother Teresa, your mind might go toward wow,
Speaker 3: nothing I do hmm, and imagine that sort of power
Speaker 3: to be lawless invested in the executive branch of the
Speaker 3: United States Government.
Speaker 2: What the hell?
Speaker 1: People?
Speaker 2: So I was up late last night taking in the
Speaker 2: deep philosophy of Jim Carrey, the rubber faced comedian. So
Speaker 2: many movies we all loved. I want to talk a
Speaker 2: little bit about that. Spent a lot of time pondering
Speaker 2: it last night. I didn't know he was this kind
Speaker 2: of guy. Actually, among other things, We've got coming up
Speaker 2: to stay with.
Speaker 1: Us Armstrong and.
Speaker 11: They had the National Christmas Tree lighting at the White House.
Speaker 1: It was a fun night.
Speaker 11: When President Biden came out, all the kids were like,
Speaker 11: let the gost to Christmas past.
Speaker 1: Forget this.
Speaker 11: After strong winds knock last year's tree to the ground,
Speaker 11: this year's tree will be supported by eight steel cables. Yeah,
Speaker 11: these are the same cables the White House uses to
Speaker 11: walk Biden around the front lawn.
Speaker 1: And that's exact same Wow, the same ones. Wow.
Speaker 2: So why was I up last night late watching Jim
Speaker 2: Carrey pontificate about the meaning of life? I didn't even
Speaker 2: know actor Jim Carrey did that sort of thing. I've
Speaker 2: never been a Jim Carrey fan. I like dumb and dumber,
Speaker 2: and I pet detective and all that, but I like
Speaker 2: to stand up. But I just I hated the Truman Show.
Speaker 1: I just I don't know. I've never been into him.
Speaker 2: I thought he was a pompous ass until last night
Speaker 2: when I clicked on a Jim Carrey short and he
Speaker 2: was talking about actually was talking about forgiveness and Jesus
Speaker 2: and all kinds of different stuff. I didn't know he
Speaker 2: was such a believer, but he is. And the reason
Speaker 2: I got sucked into that probably was stuff I was
Speaker 2: looking for.
Speaker 1: I am uh.
Speaker 2: I got divorced three and a half years ago, and
Speaker 2: I am not happy with where my life is. I
Speaker 2: don't like the fact that I am a single dad
Speaker 2: and my kids are living up in a living growing
Speaker 2: up in a split household.
Speaker 1: I hate that.
Speaker 2: I hate it so much, and I haven't been able
Speaker 2: to accept it and let it go at it all
Speaker 2: since the day I found out about it, which is
Speaker 2: which is not healthy, because.
Speaker 1: You got no choice with certain things that come your
Speaker 1: way in life. You got no choice. You You you
Speaker 1: got to accept him and move on.
Speaker 2: And I've done that with everything in my life, everything
Speaker 2: every in my life, all kinds of bad things that
Speaker 2: happened in my life except for this one. And I
Speaker 2: haven't been able to nudge an inch on this one
Speaker 2: for some reason.
Speaker 1: And it drives me nuts.
Speaker 3: Probably because you're reminded of the effects of it all
Speaker 3: the time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's part of it. Yeah, is the effects of
Speaker 1: it are all day, every day.
Speaker 2: But anyway, so I got into this this somehow I
Speaker 2: was fed through the algorithm this stuff about Jim Carrey,
Speaker 2: and it was bigger than even that. It was just
Speaker 2: the idea of you know, now is all we've got,
Speaker 2: and accepting life for what it is and not having expectations.
Speaker 1: And really his main thing is just getting rid.
Speaker 2: Of your idea of who you are, because it's all
Speaker 2: made up in your head anyway, and just living your life,
Speaker 2: you know, moment by moment best you can by your
Speaker 2: morals and visions of what you want, but just letting
Speaker 2: go of your whole.
Speaker 1: Vision of yourself.
Speaker 2: His belief is everybody's torment, depression and all kinds of
Speaker 2: different stuff comes from a vision they have of who
Speaker 2: they are, who they wanted to be, and it's not
Speaker 2: meeting up with reality and if you just let go
Speaker 2: of all of that because you created it in your
Speaker 2: own mind. It wasn't like, you know, God said, this
Speaker 2: is who you have to pretend to be the rest
Speaker 2: of your life, if you just let go of all
Speaker 2: of that. He said he had the kind of like
Speaker 2: gift of becoming rich and successful and all these different
Speaker 2: things and realizing it didn't make him happy before he
Speaker 2: was able to let go of all that stuff. Not
Speaker 2: everybody has that opportunity. But just to really realize that
Speaker 2: didn't do anything. That didn't help me at all.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Boy, there are a million directions to go with this discussion.
Speaker 3: It's very deep and very interesting.
Speaker 2: And I had like a brief five minute period of
Speaker 2: like really understanding it while I was laying in bed
Speaker 2: last night and thinking, I think I can do this.
Speaker 1: This is the answer.
Speaker 2: Let going, letting go of the vision of what I
Speaker 2: I thought life was going to.
Speaker 1: Be because it's not going to be that.
Speaker 2: It's stupid to stay nailed to that and try to
Speaker 2: force a square pagan too a round hole.
Speaker 1: It'll never work. But then I lost it when I
Speaker 1: got up this morning. Well that's disappointed.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe I'll maybe I'll get it back later today,
Speaker 2: or maybe you have to work at it over time.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: This is silly and trivial compared to that question. But
Speaker 3: I ran into somebody the other day who somebody said,
Speaker 3: it is what it is, and they expressed that I
Speaker 3: hate that.
Speaker 1: They said, I hate that expression.
Speaker 3: And then and I realize any expression, if it's overused,
Speaker 3: becomes very annoying.
Speaker 1: But it is what it is.
Speaker 3: Is the expression of an ancient, ancient piece of wisdom.
Speaker 3: It'shist it is saying yeah, it's straight out of Buddhism,
Speaker 3: it's straight of Christianity. It is saying amen, it is saying,
Speaker 3: so be it. I have accepted it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And I always like this phrase of if something doesn't
Speaker 2: have a solution, it's not a problem. Dealing with everything
Speaker 2: like it's a problem doesn't make any sense. Things without
Speaker 2: a solution are a fact, they're not a problem. And
Speaker 2: so now I just go on with your life.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, it does help to kind of stop and
Speaker 3: contemplate this stuff and try to figure out which is which. Right,
Speaker 3: Like you had your moment of clarity, then it was
Speaker 3: time to go to work, and didn't I had it
Speaker 3: up here a second ago.
Speaker 1: That's the tough part.
Speaker 5: Armstrong and Getty got a lot of interesting texts, as
Speaker 5: you might imagine, around that whole acceptance, you know, dealing
Speaker 5: with life, letting go of.
Speaker 2: Your self and just living in the moment, all that
Speaker 2: sort of stuff. Oh, all of them very interesting and
Speaker 2: I have read them, so appreciate you weighing on the
Speaker 2: text line at four one nine five k FDC.
Speaker 3: Indeed, Yeah, at the risk of going off on that
Speaker 3: tangent because it's such an interesting topic, well we won't,
Speaker 3: but drop us an email as well, mail bag at
Speaker 3: Armstrong and Geeddy dot com if you want, maybe, well
Speaker 3: we'll knock them around on Monday. So was just reading
Speaker 3: Nelly Bowls with the Free Press, who writes a fabulous
Speaker 3: column on Fridays, and she goes into gives many, many
Speaker 3: examples of media commentators, various folks who said that Joe
Speaker 3: Biden saying he would not pardon his son was such
Speaker 3: an incredible sign of virtue, and how he's so different
Speaker 3: from Republicans and blah blah blah blah blah, and how
Speaker 3: grandiose it all was. I won't go on because we're
Speaker 3: about to play a ton of examples, but there is
Speaker 3: a punchline. A punchline to be enjoyed after those examples
Speaker 3: are played that I've just become really aware of, So
Speaker 3: we'll share that with some a minute.
Speaker 2: So this is many minutes of this, And we kind
Speaker 2: of debated during the commercials how much we would play,
Speaker 2: but we all felt like, since we listened to the
Speaker 2: whole nine minutes, we're not gonna play the whole nine minutes.
Speaker 2: But it builds it like it makes up its length,
Speaker 2: makes a point on its own.
Speaker 1: It's like the guitar solo and free bird.
Speaker 2: It wouldn't be the same thing if it were shorter, right,
Speaker 2: So dig this.
Speaker 8: I think Joe Biden has a chance here to stay
Speaker 8: up for the rule of law, to say the rule
Speaker 8: the law is the law, no matter who it is,
Speaker 8: no matter if it's Trump or Biden. And remember, part
Speaker 8: of trump ISM's dangerousness is that it tears down institutions,
Speaker 8: important institutions of our democracy. So there is an opportunity
Speaker 8: here for Biden to say, you know, the jury found
Speaker 8: him guilty. This is how it's supposed to work. Period paragraph,
Speaker 8: end of story.
Speaker 1: Have you ruled out a pardon for your son? Yes?
Speaker 4: As I said last week, I will accept the outcome
Speaker 4: of this case and will continue to respect the judicial
Speaker 4: process as Hunter considers an appeal. You know, the President
Speaker 4: said he won't touch it.
Speaker 1: He said he's not going.
Speaker 4: To pardon his son, and it seems that Mayor Garland let.
Speaker 1: It go through.
Speaker 4: How can the Justice Department be weaponized against Trump when
Speaker 4: all of.
Speaker 1: That is happening.
Speaker 6: But Democrats stand for the rule of law, remember law
Speaker 6: and order, you know, and we've been saying that Trump's
Speaker 6: not above the law. Hunter Biden's not above the law.
Speaker 6: No one is above the law. And it is amazing
Speaker 6: to see the stark contrast between how Democrats handled today
Speaker 6: and how Republicans handled this whole thing over the last
Speaker 6: couple of weeks.
Speaker 12: Their latest attack has been that Joe Biden has politicized
Speaker 12: and weaponized the DOJ. Right, that was the whole argument
Speaker 12: around Donald Trump's conviction. And this week, of course, Hunter
Speaker 12: Biden is found guilty and Joe Biden has very clearly
Speaker 12: said he would not pardon his son, he would not
Speaker 12: commute his sentence. How stark is this difference? I mean,
Speaker 12: how can Republicans keep making this argument now that note,
Speaker 12: now that Joe Biden has really put it out there,
Speaker 12: where's Hunter? And he stood there in a courtroom flanked
Speaker 12: by his family, and he's accepted his sentence.
Speaker 7: He is not pardoning his son, which he could do.
Speaker 7: These are federal charges.
Speaker 2: He is not doing that.
Speaker 7: He is not doing it because he is living what
Speaker 7: it means to have a rule of law in this country,
Speaker 7: and that it is.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you want.
Speaker 7: To know if he believes it, you could actually see
Speaker 7: what is happening with his own son.
Speaker 1: The president.
Speaker 3: Anderson has been really clear that he is going to accept.
Speaker 1: The outcome of the trial no matter what happens.
Speaker 8: So Joe Biden's gotten asked about, you know, talking about
Speaker 8: line order.
Speaker 1: He's gotten asked if he would pardon his son. He
Speaker 1: has said no.
Speaker 8: On the other side, you've got Donald Trump who has
Speaker 8: said that he will pardon the January sixth insurrectionist.
Speaker 1: They're not even his sons, They're.
Speaker 8: Just sons of bitches.
Speaker 7: Washington said, I am not running again because he understood
Speaker 7: the self restraint was absolutely essential to this country.
Speaker 1: So you don't have a king.
Speaker 2: He did not pardon his son.
Speaker 7: He did not order the Department of Justice to say,
Speaker 7: don't prosecute my son.
Speaker 1: So impressive could have.
Speaker 4: Ordered the Justice Department to halt the prosecution of Hunter Biden.
Speaker 4: According to this court, everyone understands he's a decent man.
Speaker 1: Hunter.
Speaker 3: You're a loser, Michael. You threw that in on your own,
Speaker 3: didn't you.
Speaker 1: There.
Speaker 3: So what's delightfully horrifying about all this is how eloquently
Speaker 3: they built the case that to do as Joe Biden
Speaker 3: was doing was a sign of his greatness and Democrats
Speaker 3: regard for law and order, and how anybody who would
Speaker 3: do otherwise is a horror and an America hater and
Speaker 3: should probably be put into an iron mask, throught to
Speaker 3: the Tower of London or something like one of those things,
Speaker 3: the Iron Maiden, and squashed one of.
Speaker 2: Those helmets with the rats run around and eat your
Speaker 2: eyes out, one of those deals.
Speaker 3: At least that'd be letting them off easy, anybody who
Speaker 3: would pardon their kid. Here's the punchline, as Nelly Bowles
Speaker 3: points out, and she gave a ton of great examples,
Speaker 3: just like you just heard from, you know, and it's
Speaker 3: worth naming some names from the Lincoln Project and John
Speaker 3: Harwood of CNN and the Bulwark and whatever.
Speaker 1: Just went on.
Speaker 3: So she writes, I wonder if these folks would feel
Speaker 3: a little pang of regret. Do you think they feel
Speaker 3: pain like mine when they look at their old takes.
Speaker 3: In fact, they do not, because as soon as the
Speaker 3: pardon went through, a new consensus arose. It's good, Biden
Speaker 3: partning Hunter was always good. It's familiar obligations, familial obligations.
Speaker 3: Here's the publisher of fellow upstart publication, The Bulwark, which
Speaker 3: positions itself as an independent, initially staked out that the
Speaker 3: publication thinks it's bad. Sarah Longwello runs the Bulwarks and tweeted,
Speaker 3: we think it's bad. Thanks for reading. But then a
Speaker 3: new message was received, update sent out over the Wi
Speaker 3: Fi through the fluoride and sprints via air freshener, and
Speaker 3: we got from the Bulwark in defense of the Hunter
Speaker 3: Biden pardon.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 3: No sooner was it decided that the pardon was good.
Speaker 3: And she capitalizes good, which is a nice touch. Then
Speaker 3: it was just as if it was from the Lord Almighty.
Speaker 3: Then it was decided that pointing out any inconsistency was
Speaker 3: naturally bad.
Speaker 1: We always said the pardon was good.
Speaker 3: We always said the pardon was happening, And to bring
Speaker 3: it all up negatively like this two pounce like you're
Speaker 3: a strong, mean cat and a tiny innocent bird, like
Speaker 3: you're a cop trying to imprison the tiny little boy
Speaker 3: named Hunter. And indeed she shows the headlines like Politico
Speaker 3: Republicans pounce on Biden pardoning his son Hunter.
Speaker 2: So the story is the Republican's pouncing, not the fact
Speaker 2: that the president pardoned his son after saying he would
Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty times.
Speaker 3: And more importantly, as I keep pointing out, gave an unprecedented,
Speaker 3: insane immunity from all laws for an eleven year period,
Speaker 3: which is dangerous, beyond dangerous.
Speaker 2: And argued that the Justice Department was corrupted by politics
Speaker 2: only in the case of Hunter, not in the case
Speaker 2: of going after Donald Trump. Of course, they were all
Speaker 2: those cases that happened to come in an election year,
Speaker 2: completely on the up and up. Politics played no role.
Speaker 2: But in Hunters, oh my god, it played. Politics played
Speaker 2: such a role that I'm going to pardon him for
Speaker 2: eleven years.
Speaker 3: Right, And if you want, you know the final evidences,
Speaker 3: if you needed it, of who these people are. When
Speaker 3: the Alvin Bragg case first burbled up, do you remember that,
Speaker 3: and they were going over the indictment and the charges
Speaker 3: and everything. Even on MSNBC they were saying, Uh, this
Speaker 3: is it, this is the case. This is really weird.
Speaker 3: But then by the time the trial rolled around, they realized,
Speaker 3: all right, we panned her for a living. We're not
Speaker 3: pandering very well. Let's pretend like this is a serious thing.
Speaker 3: And then when the jury quite appropriately given the law
Speaker 3: as described by the judge, and again this will not
Speaker 3: withstand a five minute scrutiny by the appeals court, when
Speaker 3: the jury found him guilty of these the very charges
Speaker 3: that they'd all said were really fishy before they all
Speaker 3: started bellowing about twenty nine or thirty one or whatever
Speaker 3: it was, felony convictions.
Speaker 1: These people are a joke. Wow, is this new?
Speaker 2: I hadn't said it myself, so we mentioned Joe Manchin,
Speaker 2: Democratic senator, said Biden should pardon Trump. The other day
Speaker 2: Fetterman of Pennsylvania says Trump should be pardoned. The New
Speaker 2: York cases garbage.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I saw, I actually saw that.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's two well known, household name Democratic senators saying
Speaker 2: you got to pardon Trump.
Speaker 1: That New York case is ridiculous.
Speaker 2: That's the one where for the first time ever in
Speaker 2: the history of the law, with nobody complaining. New York
Speaker 2: brought forward a Trump misled people on the value of
Speaker 2: his hotels. Yeah, I loaned the money. I didn't have
Speaker 2: a problem with it. He's making it fine with it
Speaker 2: and it worked out great for everybody. Yeah, exactly, Yeah,
Speaker 2: we're all happy.
Speaker 1: This is not over this story.
Speaker 3: No, no, And I would love love love for the
Speaker 3: purpose is not a partisanship because the idea of Republicans
Speaker 3: wielding this power to grant a you can violate any
Speaker 3: law you want while you're working for me, and I
Speaker 3: will blanket pardon you for anything you could conceive it.
Speaker 1: We have done.
Speaker 3: Don't even tell me what you're gonna do, because don't worry,
Speaker 3: I will pardon you for anything. I'm the idea that
Speaker 3: Republicans could we let powers horrifying to me, horrifying. But
Speaker 3: I would love, for reasons of love of constitution, not partisanship,
Speaker 3: that this be brought to the court.
Speaker 1: The concept of this sort of blanket immunity.
Speaker 2: A number of people have texted, I don't know whose
Speaker 2: idea this was originally The fantastic troll of Trump takes
Speaker 2: office Day one, he pardons Hillary of any crime she
Speaker 2: may have committed since twenty fifteen.
Speaker 1: That means such a troll of the whole thing, of
Speaker 1: the whole thing.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm thinking about it because I agree. I
Speaker 3: agree completely. He could even do it, like once a month.
Speaker 3: He could pardon Jill Biden for any offenses she may
Speaker 3: have committed during June of twenty twenty one. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 3: just do it until it's so absurd.
Speaker 1: Right talking about it?
Speaker 2: No, kid, I've pardoned Joy read of any crime she
Speaker 2: may have committed. I haven't heard this, So here's Fetterman
Speaker 2: talking about it.
Speaker 13: It's undeniable that the case against Hunter Biden was really
Speaker 13: politically motivated. But I also think it's true that the
Speaker 13: trial in New York for Trump that was political as
Speaker 13: well too.
Speaker 1: Now is that?
Speaker 10: And in both.
Speaker 13: Cases I think a pardon is appropriate, And I really
Speaker 13: think collectively, you know, America's confidence in these kinds of
Speaker 13: institutions have been damaged by these kinds of cases.
Speaker 1: Boy, I don't know what to think of that.
Speaker 2: Does that move us further down the road of people
Speaker 2: rebelieving in the Justice Department? If we say, yeah, the
Speaker 2: Hunter one was political and the Trump is political, does
Speaker 2: that fix anything.
Speaker 1: I don't think it does. No, an increases cynicism.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, we're warring a bad spot by having gone
Speaker 2: down this road. Of course, Joe ruined it by claiming
Speaker 2: this was because it was a political which hunt, which
Speaker 2: it wasn't.
Speaker 1: Right now, I've.
Speaker 3: Heard people who I sympathize with make the case that
Speaker 3: the gun charge thing may have been pursued because Hunter
Speaker 3: is Hunter, but also because the Justice Department felt like
Speaker 3: this is an incredibly high profile person who committed this
Speaker 3: offense and then bragged about it in a book.
Speaker 2: Admits to it, right, bragged about it in a book. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't know. Well, that's the problem with tearing down
Speaker 2: institutions or losing credibility. It's really really hard to get
Speaker 2: back and it takes a long time.
Speaker 3: So here's an email excoriating me for pronouncing one of
Speaker 3: my favorite thinker's name Strassel instead of Strassel. Ry.
Speaker 1: Come on, Joe, get it right.
Speaker 2: I'll let you all argue about that.
Speaker 1: So it's not Strassel Strassel. Okay, how about if I
Speaker 1: donate to your favorite charity is a show of penance?
Speaker 1: What the freak? You should do this for a living folks?
Speaker 1: For a week and just see how crazy people are.
Speaker 2: Leave me alone, Cliff, leave me alone. We will finish
Speaker 2: strong next time. I did not watch the Patriot Awards
Speaker 2: on Fox last night.
Speaker 1: It looks like it was quite the big.
Speaker 2: Production, but in a not shock, Patriot of the Year
Speaker 2: went to Donald Trump. Anyone else got the award and
Speaker 2: gave a speech and there you go, hosted by Sean Hannity.
Speaker 2: There you go, big flag is the ward?
Speaker 1: All right, that's that's okay. Sorry boy.
Speaker 3: So one of the cabinet nominees that has gotten practically
Speaker 3: no discussion I think might be one of the most
Speaker 3: important ones, and that's Jay Badacharia, whose name I have
Speaker 3: just learned to prouse correctly speaking of pronunciation of people's names.
Speaker 3: But he was We actually talked to him at one point.
Speaker 1: He was the.
Speaker 3: Stanford University scientist who with another scientist from Harvard and
Speaker 3: I can't remember the third place, signed the Great Barrington Declaration,
Speaker 3: among well, among other things, just pointing out the stupidity
Speaker 3: and uselessness and damage done by COVID policies.
Speaker 1: And for that he was banned.
Speaker 3: From Twitter, excoriated as a crank and reckless and he
Speaker 3: would kill people. He was right about everything, and I'll
Speaker 3: go through the list next week for you. He was
Speaker 3: right about everything, and if people listened to the guy,
Speaker 3: the terrible damage done to millions of children in the
Speaker 3: United States would not have been nearly as severe. Anyway,
Speaker 3: he has been elected or nominated rather by Donald Trump
Speaker 3: to lead the National Institutes of Health, and what he
Speaker 3: wants to do is take on the dei politically correct
Speaker 3: anti science culture at elite universities, wielding the power of
Speaker 3: tens of billions of dollars in scientific grants. It's going
Speaker 3: to be all about science and excellence. And anybody who
Speaker 3: violates federal law which discriminates racial which I'm sorry makes
Speaker 3: it legal to discriminate based on race, he will be
Speaker 3: aware of it and will take care of it, so
Speaker 3: he could be the physician, as it were. That's going
Speaker 3: to really be the first end of the university system
Speaker 3: and try to heal their craziness.
Speaker 1: Anyway, more on that next week. I'm strong, I'm strong,
Speaker 1: Get ready with Katie.
Speaker 6: Green and.
Speaker 4: Strong.
Speaker 2: Here's your host. The final finish. It is just perfect,
Speaker 2: it's really great. Here's your host, Joe Getty.
Speaker 3: Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew.
Speaker 3: Michael Angelow in the control room pressing the buttons. Michael,
Speaker 3: what's your final thought?
Speaker 9: True story, I added, typing teacher who on the first
Speaker 9: day of school looked at the class and said, just
Speaker 9: when you think life can't get any worse, I found
Speaker 9: out in my experience that it can.
Speaker 1: I dropped the class and went to homack at that point.
Speaker 1: First day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, optimism, Oh my god, Katie Green are esteemed Newswoman.
Speaker 3: As a final thought, Katie, I'm proud to announce I
Speaker 3: am back down to the weight that I was before Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1: Oh good for you, Thank you.
Speaker 2: Very Muda girl.
Speaker 1: I'm close. I'm about halfway there. Wait to go, Jack.
Speaker 2: A final thought for us man, it's a busy time
Speaker 2: of the year. My son has got like a band
Speaker 2: performance Friday night as tonight, and then there's a play
Speaker 2: he has to go to for extra credit. I'm going
Speaker 2: to with and then another parade he's got to march in,
Speaker 2: and then you know, the shopping and the meals and
Speaker 2: the friends and this. It gets so busy this time here.
Speaker 2: Why do we do this to ourselves?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Practically frenzied. That's a charming and relatable final note.
Speaker 1: Mine is not. I don't think it finally.
Speaker 3: Occurred to me how to illustrate where we are in
Speaker 3: the whole DEI postmodern, neo Marxist, politically correct, woke thing.
Speaker 3: Most Americans have realized we've been invaded. A lot of
Speaker 3: people are still confused as to who the invaders are
Speaker 3: and what they're trying to accomplish, but they're aware that.
Speaker 1: There's a problem. Now we start rooting it out, and
Speaker 1: that's going to take a long time.
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Speaker 12: This is the kind of guy.
Speaker 1: You're like, a smacking ass, a all beautiful thing. And
Speaker 1: I'll just say this, you know what I mean. It's
Speaker 1: in particularly a woman married to a woman.
Speaker 10: Good Lord, A woman married to a woman, Good Lord,
Speaker 10: good Lord.
Speaker 2: And again, thank you so much for saying bye bye
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