Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe, Katty arm Strong, and
Speaker 1: Jetty and he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 2: Honestly serious question, I should put this to the listeners.
Speaker 2: I don't even know if I want to be this
Speaker 2: kind of person or not. I'm not a boycott person.
Speaker 2: I'm not a well I'm not a boycott person. But
Speaker 2: I don't think I could have listened to that screed
Speaker 2: from Springsteen and stayed for the rest of the concert.
Speaker 1: It was just one step too.
Speaker 2: Far for me.
Speaker 1: For me, i'd held my breath and waited it out
Speaker 1: like a painful dental procedure, than when the second chapter began.
Speaker 1: That's when I would have said, all right, f this,
Speaker 1: pardon me, I'm out. The painful part is you can't
Speaker 1: boo them, because you'll think you're just saying Bruce well right.
Speaker 2: As I mentioned earlier, The part that bothers me the
Speaker 2: most is it's got that whole I'm cool and all
Speaker 2: you people are cool that agree with me, and we're
Speaker 2: the cool people, and people that don't agree with this
Speaker 2: are uncool people. That is enough to drive me out
Speaker 2: of the arena.
Speaker 1: Not just uncool but stupid and down with fascism. Right,
Speaker 1: oh good lord? And then you agree, of telecasters.
Speaker 2: Your point earlier just from a I mean, you know,
Speaker 2: just narrow Bruce Springsteen's audience thing, he used to be
Speaker 2: the champion of the working class, and the working class
Speaker 2: is clearly maga. I mean they're like sixty five percent
Speaker 2: of his audience is probably maga.
Speaker 1: Now, if you could take every character from every single
Speaker 1: Bruce Springsteen's song and animate them, they would vote in
Speaker 1: the eightieth percentile for Trump. Yeah that's correct. Yeah, what
Speaker 1: what he's just He is a very wealthy, creeative artist,
Speaker 1: a very old, very wealthy creative artist who's utterly out
Speaker 1: of touch with the people he thinks he represents. You know,
Speaker 1: the most annoying, pretentious thing is that ever happened? And
Speaker 1: this was how many Christmases a go, now, maybe five?
Speaker 2: When him and Obama Thank you gladys, When him and
Speaker 2: Obama did that DVD book set thanging Did you.
Speaker 1: Ever see any of that?
Speaker 2: And then the bookstores you could get this big, giant
Speaker 2: coffee table book and it had Bruce and Obama's faces
Speaker 2: on the cover, laughing, And then pictures of them together
Speaker 2: having a conversation about America, and then there's a video
Speaker 2: that goes with it and stories from Bruce. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's just it was the most over the top, two
Speaker 2: completely out of touch rich people.
Speaker 1: It was vomit worthy.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, what would be the example, like the reverse.
Speaker 1: For the other crowd.
Speaker 2: I mean it'd be like if Trump and I don't
Speaker 2: even know what it would be Obama springs to sitting
Speaker 2: around like bathed in their own self enjoyment is Ah,
Speaker 2: it's just too much.
Speaker 1: He either missed that or blotted it out because it
Speaker 1: was too terrible. I send you a Lincoln in white.
Speaker 2: It's got a real and he lebo. It's so artistic,
Speaker 2: you know, we're.
Speaker 1: A the whole thing. I hate everything about it.
Speaker 2: If I ever walked into somebody house and they got
Speaker 2: that on their coffee table, I'm not even gonna say
Speaker 2: anything about why I'm leaving.
Speaker 1: I'll just turn and walk out, like where'd he go?
Speaker 1: I'm setting fire to it. You're gonna make a stubber,
Speaker 1: all right. So Final hour of the Week, got a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff to squeeze in. You gonna have to
Speaker 1: choose carefully. There's fifteen pounds a show for a five
Speaker 1: pound bag. But let's kick it off with the Friday tradition.
Speaker 1: It's fun look back at the week that was. It's
Speaker 1: cow clips of the week. You're saying, he's dead. Lights
Speaker 1: are blinking, the sirens are turning. Whip the week.
Speaker 3: America, I love, that has been a beacon of hope
Speaker 3: and liberty for two hundred and fifty years is currently
Speaker 3: in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent and treesonistric administration.
Speaker 1: The drastic d escalation in the trade war between the
Speaker 1: United States and China, so there is a chance to
Speaker 1: rebalance together. This is not a political conference, this is
Speaker 1: a business conference. I want to make a deal with Iran.
Speaker 1: I want to do something of as possible.
Speaker 4: There's two steps. Is a very very nice step and
Speaker 4: there's a violent step. I don't want to do the
Speaker 4: second step.
Speaker 1: The equipment that we use, much of it, we can't
Speaker 1: buy parts for now. We have to go on eBay
Speaker 1: and buy parts.
Speaker 2: Any of the representatives that were there, you lay a
Speaker 2: finger on them, we are going to have a problem.
Speaker 1: You can intimidate me, come back, give me a break.
Speaker 4: I was one of a green uniform barbitu rel agent
Speaker 4: for five years before she was even born.
Speaker 1: The bottom line is the was lying. I think some
Speaker 1: of the criticism is fair. To be honest of me again,
Speaker 1: it makes me mental. It was clear with me. Now.
Speaker 1: Two of the heroic reporters were covering this intensely during
Speaker 1: the Biden years. We're coming up close to the one
Speaker 1: trillion dollar amount is lost every year a fraud. You
Speaker 1: saw it coming?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I mean it was like they threw money
Speaker 2: in the air and just let people run around and
Speaker 2: grab it.
Speaker 5: Sow.
Speaker 1: I'm Dinny Combs.
Speaker 2: The so called freak offs happened weekly, many of the
Speaker 2: sessions photographed and filmed. She even testified about him, you know,
Speaker 2: threatening to blow up Wrapper Kid Cutty's part.
Speaker 1: I think he convicted. Trump's gonna impart me President. Could
Speaker 1: I asked you a question.
Speaker 4: What I'm in London and I just paid for this
Speaker 4: damn fat drug I take?
Speaker 1: I said, it's not working.
Speaker 5: Lit more expensive than slower than a bus.
Speaker 1: Hanson has been working on AI songs about California's idiotic
Speaker 1: just spectacularly evil theft bullet train more expensive and slower
Speaker 1: than bus. That was the jingle. I wrote, Oh, that's fantastic,
Speaker 1: fleshed out via AI. That has to be that has
Speaker 1: to catch on. The bullet train more expensive and slower
Speaker 1: than a bus. They play fifteen for us right, bullet.
Speaker 6: Train borens expay a body down the drain, said, but
Speaker 6: it will make news.
Speaker 1: I'm not like less of a man. The bullet train.
Speaker 5: More expense, so man slower than a bus?
Speaker 1: Hop on d it? What was I saying before you laugh?
Speaker 1: I laughed. If it's hilarious, let's run that five million times? Please?
Speaker 1: I love I hear it again right now.
Speaker 7: I love that Hanson has become like the show's AI voice,
Speaker 7: like we can't hear him, but he just sends us
Speaker 7: all of these nuggets.
Speaker 2: Especially when Newsom finally announces and he's trying to make
Speaker 2: his way through the Democratic primary.
Speaker 1: Every time we mention him, it's got to be that hook.
Speaker 1: The bullet train.
Speaker 5: More expensive and slower than of us.
Speaker 1: Bullet train.
Speaker 6: Born tax, pay a bonnet down the train you won't
Speaker 6: see or.
Speaker 1: Said, but he will make news look.
Speaker 5: Like let's super Man.
Speaker 1: The bullet train.
Speaker 5: More expensive, that slow than a bus.
Speaker 1: That is just gold.
Speaker 2: Oh, I want to be the person who plays a
Speaker 2: tambourine on that song. All I do is I just
Speaker 2: hit it on my hip and shake it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Hey, it's good work if you can get it. Hey,
Speaker 1: let's uh is this is thirteen the Metal one Michael
Speaker 1: play that it's a.
Speaker 6: Scammaboon dogle, a waste of our time from Mercy Bakersfield.
Speaker 1: Who would say, right.
Speaker 6: Than a play more expensive than a bus? It's a
Speaker 6: song cost this fuss.
Speaker 2: I think it's interesting cost getting into economic principles in the.
Speaker 1: Middle of the ah. You don't hear that so much metal.
Speaker 1: I like the fact that AI, which is all knowing,
Speaker 1: pronounces Merced merst even though there is no word mersed
Speaker 1: the only way you would ever write me e r
Speaker 1: c ed in English languages. You know the town of Merced,
Speaker 1: But AI, with all its genius, doesn't know that.
Speaker 2: You haven't walked into the mall and found yourself. You
Speaker 2: look around and I was mersed. No, no, I haven't
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 1: I like to medal, but I like the airy, dopey,
Speaker 1: poppy feel of the Heart Family issue. Yeah, it's just
Speaker 1: so relentlessly pleasant in describing the utterly indefensible theft of
Speaker 1: billions and billions of hundreds of billions of dollars bullied
Speaker 1: hop on, bore a body down the drink. I feel
Speaker 1: like I'm but it will make news.
Speaker 5: I'm not like less of a man, more expensive than
Speaker 5: slow than a bus.
Speaker 1: Bullboard, folks, the California Bullet Train coming to you in
Speaker 1: the year twenty seventy six.
Speaker 2: Well, that's the other part that was great is that
Speaker 2: they said most of it will be done in two decades.
Speaker 1: If I didn't even say all of it two decades
Speaker 1: from now, MERCE said to Gilroy, Palmdale, Gilroy to Palmdale,
Speaker 1: Oh all right right, all right, Palmdale. Yes, check out
Speaker 1: a map, folks, if you're not familiar with the sprawling
Speaker 1: geography of cal Unicornia.
Speaker 7: Because Hanson loves when I suggest things that give him
Speaker 7: more work.
Speaker 1: Could we get a shirt? Could we get a shirt?
Speaker 1: The bullet train more expensive and slower than a bus.
Speaker 1: I will wear that shirt. I will wear it all.
Speaker 1: I will wear it all the time. It's got to
Speaker 1: have the California the cal Unicornia state flag on it too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: walking billboard right here?
Speaker 2: Yeah, well I love that, fitting in with the Bruce
Speaker 2: Springsteen working man thing.
Speaker 1: I listened to a podcast yesterday with Senator Phil Graham.
Speaker 2: Anybody remember him? Senator from Texas Republican PhD in economics.
Speaker 2: I didn't remember that he ran for president a couple
Speaker 2: of times. Didn't get a whiff. You know why, because
Speaker 2: he was like a serious guy about small government and
Speaker 2: fiscal sanity. We want a game show host, yay. But
Speaker 2: he's got a new book out about the myths of
Speaker 2: he'd written a book called The Myth of American Inequality
Speaker 2: a couple of years ago, and he's got a new
Speaker 2: one out called The Triumph of Economic Freedom that point
Speaker 2: out some interesting things about kind of the whole Bruce
Speaker 2: Springsteen thing. Really that is I thought, really interesting. Maybe
Speaker 2: I'll pass that along among other things on the way,
Speaker 2: stay here.
Speaker 8: This guy's I read that the Denver Airport was recently
Speaker 8: hit with an outage and some pilots couldn't contact air
Speaker 8: traffic control for six minutes. Meanwhile Newer Airport was like
Speaker 8: six minutes, please cost when he hit six days that.
Speaker 1: Way six minutes?
Speaker 2: Yeah, air traffic controller in the Wall Street Journal today
Speaker 2: talking about how close call that he had a week
Speaker 2: or so ago at Newark and now he's really worried
Speaker 2: there's going to be a crash soon because of these
Speaker 2: various outages and he just barely caught one and was
Speaker 2: able to straighten it out two planes that were headed.
Speaker 1: Toward each other.
Speaker 2: He can't do this endlessly where you have you know,
Speaker 2: two minutes here, two minutes there, drop out at busy airports.
Speaker 1: No, No, there are problems top to bottom with the system.
Speaker 1: I believe that firmly, so I mentioned this.
Speaker 2: I was listened to a podcast interview with former Senator
Speaker 2: Phil Graham, who I did not have on my radar
Speaker 2: in my life. I wish I had because I actually
Speaker 2: saw our friend Tim Sanderfer, who he had on earlier
Speaker 2: in the show.
Speaker 1: If you missed that, get the podcast Armstrong and Getty
Speaker 1: on the Men.
Speaker 2: Tim Sanderfer changed his registration in California to Republicans so
Speaker 2: he could vote for Phil Graham when Phil Graham briefly
Speaker 2: ran for president back in the day, although he never
Speaker 2: got to because Phil Graham dropped out because he's one
Speaker 2: of those people, like a lot of politicians, it's like
Speaker 2: actually serious about governance and spending and dealing with things,
Speaker 2: and those people never.
Speaker 1: Get the nomination. Yeah, he's not a pandering whore. Yes,
Speaker 1: And he's got a book out right now and he's
Speaker 1: in his eighties. Now he's a very old guy. He
Speaker 1: was a senator from Texas.
Speaker 2: The myth of American inequality came out a couple of
Speaker 2: years ago, and he's got a new one, the triumph
Speaker 2: of Economic Freedom, which sounds like very similar, like restructuring,
Speaker 2: hoping it gets attention again.
Speaker 1: But one of the things he pointed out, and I've
Speaker 1: never heard this before, that.
Speaker 2: For all kinds of different like artistic, cultural reasons and
Speaker 2: some economic reasons, the industrial Revolution gets a bad rap
Speaker 2: and always has and it continues till this to this
Speaker 2: day of this idea that there was before the the
Speaker 2: Industrial Revolution, there was some sort of man, it was
Speaker 2: great to be a farmer out in the fields, living
Speaker 2: the good life, free of you know, being bothered and
Speaker 2: and everything like that in exploitation. And then the Industrial
Speaker 2: Revolution came along and forced everybody into this exploitive world
Speaker 2: and all this poverty, and.
Speaker 1: That is the narrative.
Speaker 2: Yep. He points out that a lot of that has
Speaker 2: to do with Charles Dickens and a number of other
Speaker 2: people who wrote that story, and it just kind of
Speaker 2: caught on and has lived forever, ignoring the fact that
Speaker 2: the reason people flowed into the factories and everything like
Speaker 2: that is because the life they were living was incredibly
Speaker 2: exploitive and brutal on the farms, almost always farming mostly
Speaker 2: for someone else, and them getting all your work and
Speaker 2: you barely getting by, and you living with like fifteen
Speaker 2: people in one house and half the kids died, and
Speaker 2: all these other statistics that got so much better after
Speaker 2: the Industrial Revolution, right, and that prior to the Industrial Revolution,
Speaker 2: I thought this was really interesting.
Speaker 1: The idea of what do we do about the poor
Speaker 1: people started with the Industrial Revolution.
Speaker 2: It was the first time anybody had ever even considered
Speaker 2: the fact that maybe we could do away with people
Speaker 2: who are just so incredibly poor and have such miserable lives.
Speaker 1: Prior to that, it was just assumed.
Speaker 2: That most of us did and would and always will
Speaker 2: and because there was like a chance that maybe you
Speaker 2: could get out of that. Ever since then, there's been
Speaker 2: this weird belief that it's horrible that there are poor
Speaker 2: people that are being exploited and have rough lives and
Speaker 2: we need to have a war against that and eliminate it.
Speaker 2: It's only because things got so good that you could
Speaker 2: even have that conversation, So we've kind.
Speaker 1: Of have it completely backwards. Our view of that whole thing. Right,
Speaker 1: what's really interesting to me is the sort of person
Speaker 1: who becomes a scribbler hasn't changed a ton, I don't
Speaker 1: think in one hundred and fifty years. In that you
Speaker 1: have something built that's amazing and complex and incredibly productive,
Speaker 1: and it has some fairly serious flaws, and people point
Speaker 1: out those flaws, and to a very very large extent,
Speaker 1: they get fixed. But the view of history, because it's
Speaker 1: written by the very sort of person who is in
Speaker 1: the mainstream media today, lionizes the fixers of the problems
Speaker 1: who deserve credit, but it makes into monsters the designers
Speaker 1: of the giant system that was incredibly successful but just
Speaker 1: needed some tweaks. Life got so much better. If it
Speaker 1: was inevitable, all the good stuff would happen.
Speaker 2: Right, Life got so much better for the average human
Speaker 2: being ever since the Industrial Revolution.
Speaker 1: But it's portrayed as a horror mostly yes, because of
Speaker 1: its pretty notable imperfections.
Speaker 2: But yeah, but the imperfections and the imperfections they were
Speaker 2: dealing with before. Right, children are dying, they were being exploited,
Speaker 2: they were short life spans, et cetera, et cetera. Before
Speaker 2: the Industrial Revolution, are strong and getty, how are you
Speaker 2: feeling about Friday?
Speaker 1: Huh? Excited? Gonna party? I'm gonna party. I don't believe
Speaker 1: you're gonna party. Probably not party.
Speaker 2: Probably take care of my kids, figure out some meals,
Speaker 2: do some laundry, get to bed on time.
Speaker 1: I usually get to bed early on a Friday. See yes,
Speaker 1: every night of the week. For some reason, at this
Speaker 1: point in my life, I cannot say the same. So
Speaker 1: I started my day with a early morning jabbing. Had
Speaker 1: to have the standard of blood work done before my
Speaker 1: visit with my doctor, and got an appointment in all
Speaker 1: what you need to do these days, and my wife,
Speaker 1: who's like a week off on the cycle of going
Speaker 1: to see the doctor, had her blood work done at
Speaker 1: the same place, and she said, oh, I hope you
Speaker 1: get You know what's her name. She's the little gal.
Speaker 1: She's so bubbly and so cheery and so wonderful. So
Speaker 1: I got there today and there she is. Not only
Speaker 1: is she cute and bubbly and cherry Jesus, and she
Speaker 1: she let us know we are discussing the nice weather,
Speaker 1: et cetera, blah blah blah, And I thought, okay, great,
Speaker 1: Yeah that's the gal. Git. He was talking about and
Speaker 1: then out comes from the bowels of the building, a
Speaker 1: darker present, this big. There's no reason to go into
Speaker 1: description A large A woman of large.
Speaker 2: You know what's interesting years. I have no idea where
Speaker 2: the dis direction is this story is going. I don't
Speaker 2: know if we were about to get off on how
Speaker 2: Christian she was or now. I don't know we're going
Speaker 2: to got to hang out.
Speaker 1: For the ride. That's that's the brilliant that's the brilliance
Speaker 1: of my artistry. I'm hanging on. I'm hanging on. I
Speaker 1: don't know what it's about. The old gal radiating hatred
Speaker 1: for humanity from every pore. She was glowing with hatred
Speaker 1: of humankind, just visible on our face. And they're book
Speaker 1: for bottomists.
Speaker 7: Yes, uh, Joe, we we refer to those large margin
Speaker 7: charge So yes, well, large Marge was in charge and something.
Speaker 1: Oh give me the sweet little girl. I'll give me
Speaker 1: the sweet little girl. But no, no, I got the
Speaker 1: mountain of malevolence. You don't request, I request.
Speaker 2: Well, remember I used to have my guy Pong, my
Speaker 2: non Pong, and I liked Pong, and I would I would,
Speaker 2: I would show up and say I want Pong, So
Speaker 2: I'll wait however long it takes until Pong comes up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the place I go, you know, I only go
Speaker 1: like once every six months was a year. And they're
Speaker 1: not consistent. They're a bunch of different gals, and I
Speaker 1: think one dude wants who worked there. But and if
Speaker 1: I have the one that doesn't look like they've been
Speaker 1: in prison, you could say that, can I can I
Speaker 1: get the one who is gonna jab me with the
Speaker 1: needle whether I need it or not? Can I not
Speaker 1: have her? Yeah? She actually is pretty good. It was fine,
Speaker 1: but you know, I found myself like trying to manage
Speaker 1: the relationship with being really pleasant and upbeat without being gush,
Speaker 1: you know, because if you're in a foul mood, and
Speaker 1: she was clearly in a foul mood. If you're in
Speaker 1: a foul mood, the super chip or person who's trying
Speaker 1: to bring you out of it, that's not helping. So
Speaker 1: I said, all right, you just got to play your
Speaker 1: cards right. That my job. It's like, you know, you're
Speaker 1: being robbed and you're just trying to look you can
Speaker 1: have my wallet and all. It's just this. I'll end
Speaker 1: it here. Look at the lay back and think England. Well, exactly.
Speaker 1: I was getting jaded one way or the other, and
Speaker 1: I wanted it to be, you know, a good and
Speaker 1: turned out to be fine to her professionalism intact, more
Speaker 1: than any other job though. I mean, because we're all human.
Speaker 2: Beings and we have good days and bad days, and
Speaker 2: days when we're in good moods and bad moods, and
Speaker 2: that job it's got to be particularly difficult. You know,
Speaker 2: you have your I don't know, in argument with your
Speaker 2: husband or your teenager says something you hate when you
Speaker 2: drop off at school or whatever.
Speaker 1: And then you got to go in and be delicate,
Speaker 1: or you can take it out on your kid. Everything
Speaker 1: I do for that kid. No, No, I've been raising
Speaker 1: that kid and I feed him and everything, and they
Speaker 1: have no GODA. Plus you're dealing with the public for
Speaker 1: your entire shift, and anybody who's dealt with public knows
Speaker 1: that that alone will put your teeth on edge. But anyway,
Speaker 1: I worked out all right. I'm just so glad it's over. Anyway.
Speaker 1: So I've been wanting to get to this, and I
Speaker 1: don't know why exactly, but I find the dynamics of
Speaker 1: this so interesting, speaking of managing a one on one
Speaker 1: relationship and that is the history of American presidents getting
Speaker 1: played by Vladimir Putin. And this is written by Tom Rogan.
Speaker 1: I don't know Tom, I know Joe Rogan, I know
Speaker 1: what's our Boddy from the Washington Post, Josh Josh Rogan, Right, well,
Speaker 1: this is yet another Rogan.
Speaker 2: But you read the David Sanger version of Putin and
Speaker 2: Bush and how they hung out together like friends back
Speaker 2: in the day.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it was rough to read in retrospect. Well,
Speaker 1: this Rogan leads with Donald Trump says he wants peace
Speaker 1: in Ukraine. The problem is that mister Trump sees Vladimir
Speaker 1: Putin for you who he wishes Putin to be. See
Speaker 1: if you agree with his friends. He wishes him to
Speaker 1: be a hardened but practical negotiator rather than who he is,
Speaker 1: a former KGB lieutenant colonel who revels in the dark
Speaker 1: art of ruthless manipulation. Mister Trump was shaped by the
Speaker 1: Wheeler Dealer New York City real estate scene. Mister Putin
Speaker 1: was shaped by the brutal maximalism of the KGB's Red
Speaker 1: Banner Institute. But mister Trump is not the first US
Speaker 1: president to take an unrealistic view of his Russian counterpart
Speaker 1: consider his predecessor's experiences, and I was reminded of the
Speaker 1: patheticness of this going through this. The first American president
Speaker 1: to deal with Putin was Bill Clinton, and he chose
Speaker 1: to remain largely silent on human rights concerns in Russia,
Speaker 1: including the incredible civilian casualties during the Second Chechen War.
Speaker 1: Mister Clinton instead focused on wooing mister Putin to join
Speaker 1: the post Cold War democratic international order. Mister Putin did
Speaker 1: nothing of the sort. He intimidated the Russian media, cultivating
Speaker 1: an inner circle of oligarchs, and took the crush down
Speaker 1: the road of totalitarianism all on. Mister Clinton stood idly by, hoping.
Speaker 1: But I don't know what Clinton was supposed to do, honestly.
Speaker 1: But next came George W. Bush, meeting Putin in June
Speaker 1: oh one. Bush said he quote look the man in
Speaker 1: the eye and found him be very straightforward and trustworthy,
Speaker 1: adding that he gained a sense of his soul as
Speaker 1: a human being. I have soft feelings for George W. Bush.
Speaker 1: That is one of the most ludicrous things I've ever heard,
Speaker 1: certainly in retrospect. That was wishful thinking of a Titanic scale. Yeah,
Speaker 1: mister Bush had been duped by mister Putin's KGB mind games.
Speaker 1: Mister Putin appealed to mister Bush, a born again Christian,
Speaker 1: with a story about his mother's Orthodox cross being rescued
Speaker 1: from a fire in her datcha. Mister Putin adopted a
Speaker 1: similar tactic with mister Trump's chief foreign affairs negotiator, Steve Whitcoff,
Speaker 1: telling mister Whitcroft that he had prayed for mister Trump
Speaker 1: when he learned of the assassination attempt against him in July.
Speaker 1: Putin has never prayed for anything in his life. No,
Speaker 1: the fact that.
Speaker 2: Some people, including many of our listeners, believe Putin's some
Speaker 2: sort of protector of Christianity, Good Lord.
Speaker 1: One more example, and then you know the main point,
Speaker 1: which which Jack is certainly hinting at. Then there was
Speaker 1: Barack Obama. Soon after taking office in on and I,
Speaker 1: and Obama essentially excused Russia's invasion of Georgia five months
Speaker 1: prior publicly seeking a reset in relations. At July, Obama
Speaker 1: travel Moscow to meet with Putin. Obama advisor Michael mcfollo's McFall,
Speaker 1: who served as ambassador to Russia for a number of years,
Speaker 1: recounts in his twenty eighteen book How Putin quickly asserted
Speaker 1: dominance over the American President. Putin quote Putin spoke uninterrupted
Speaker 1: for nearly the entire time schedule for the meeting documenting
Speaker 1: the injustices of the Bush administration. This was a guy,
Speaker 1: this is the Bush administration, that could see into his soul.
Speaker 1: This was a guy with a chip on his shoulder.
Speaker 1: Obama listened patiently, maybe too patiently. It was my assignment
Speaker 1: to read out this meeting to our press court later
Speaker 1: that day. I couldn't tell them that Obama merely listened
Speaker 1: the entire time. Then they go into the history of
Speaker 1: the appeasement of Obama. I think, what maybe our presidents
Speaker 1: under estimate, one after the other after the other, maybe
Speaker 1: for reasons of their own egos, is that they're up
Speaker 1: against a master, a master manipulator. Not just a hard
Speaker 1: ass negotiator and a cutthroat, but a guy whose gift
Speaker 1: in not coming off as a cutthroat, in anticipating what
Speaker 1: you want to hear and giving it to you.
Speaker 2: Maybe the first time, the first president, that's fine, you
Speaker 2: can get away with that, But since then, I don't
Speaker 2: see how you get manipulated by the guy.
Speaker 1: It seems obvious what he is.
Speaker 2: He's a ruthless he will he would murder your child
Speaker 2: if it benefited him.
Speaker 1: He's that yeah. Yeah, Or even if he thought there
Speaker 1: was one and four chance it would benefit him, Yeah,
Speaker 1: your child would be dead. Trump clearly is prone to
Speaker 1: being swayed by flattery. I mean, that's just beyond denial
Speaker 1: at this point. And it was. I've been watching special
Speaker 1: report with Brett Paar, especially this week, in which he's
Speaker 1: talked to various leaders in the countries that Trump's visited
Speaker 1: in the Middle East, in which he's done some really
Speaker 1: really interesting diplomas that might be like crazy beneficial for
Speaker 1: the next fifty years. There's some stuff that's bothered me,
Speaker 1: but I think a lot of it is really really
Speaker 1: impressive what Trump's been doing. But it's been unbelievable how
Speaker 1: every figure Brett Baar interviews goes way over above and
Speaker 1: beyond the call of duty in praising Trump, Like it's
Speaker 1: almost like they've got a timer going off every fourth
Speaker 1: sentence to make sure they throw in some lavish praise
Speaker 1: for Trump. And soon.
Speaker 2: Yeah, on that front, I'm concerned. Trump said earlier today,
Speaker 2: he said it's time. It's time Putin and I meet.
Speaker 2: We got to make that happen. And I'm really concerned
Speaker 2: about how that meeting goes. That Trump might just lavish
Speaker 2: praise on Putin to his face and bad They both
Speaker 2: sit there in bad mouth Selensky.
Speaker 1: And I don't know what we do with that. That
Speaker 1: would be tough to take. Yeah, in fact, I almost
Speaker 1: predict that's what's going to happen. But Putin will, like
Speaker 1: have a ten million dollar documentary of Joe Biden's deceit
Speaker 1: and dementia produced and show it to Trump. He will
Speaker 1: build a shrine to Malania's beauty. He'll cut off his
Speaker 1: own thumb. Maybe, if he needs to to convince Trump.
Speaker 1: They're on the same page, and they're the kind of
Speaker 1: guys who get it. Other people don't get it like
Speaker 1: we do, but we sure do.
Speaker 2: Maybe he can get some of those hair swinging dancers
Speaker 2: that they had in Abu Dhabi yesterday. Trump seemed to
Speaker 2: like those the girls that swung their hair. I gotta
Speaker 2: get the hair swinging dancer video. I missed that somehow something. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but we'll we'll have to see.
Speaker 1: I don't get it either, how one president after another
Speaker 1: after another makes the same set of mistakes. Well, even
Speaker 1: doesn't realize they're dealing with an alligator. They're dealing with
Speaker 1: a reptile.
Speaker 2: You don't need to meet with the CIA and have
Speaker 2: them you read the profile that they've dug up and
Speaker 2: put together for you.
Speaker 1: How about the fact that he.
Speaker 2: Burned all those people in that apartment building so he
Speaker 2: could blame the Chechens and start a war.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, that's who does that. Yeah, that's the
Speaker 1: kind of guy you're dealing with.
Speaker 2: He would burn a whole bunch of families of the
Speaker 2: Russians so he could blame it on the Chechens and
Speaker 2: start a war because he wanted to.
Speaker 1: Sure, Yeah, that's straight out of his philosophy and Hitler's
Speaker 1: and others. No, dang, Michael, this is not a gratuitous
Speaker 1: Hitler mentioned. This is a specific sighting of very different exactly.
Speaker 1: But the great Man view of history is, if you
Speaker 1: are not willing to sacrifice tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands,
Speaker 1: maybe millions of lives, you will not be one of
Speaker 1: the great men of history. If you blanche at sacrificing
Speaker 1: all those lives, you don't deserve the gig you're in
Speaker 1: the wrong job. Chum. That's what Vladimir Putin would say.
Speaker 1: Oh that going in. Man, if they meet, that is
Speaker 1: gonna be some high steaks drama. I'll tell you that. Wow,
Speaker 1: we'll finish strong. Next, here's a headline. I think you
Speaker 1: brought us Katie the other day. And I finally dug
Speaker 1: into the story. The US engineers found rogue communication devices
Speaker 1: and Chinese solar panels.
Speaker 7: Yeah, which I said, someone who has solar I'm a
Speaker 7: little concerned.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've got to admit I thought, okay, heck, devices
Speaker 1: in solar panels. I don't spend a lot of time
Speaker 1: like spilling national secrets on my roof or anything. So
Speaker 1: what's the significance of this? Because I'm a bit of
Speaker 1: a dim wit. But so these Chinese made solar power
Speaker 1: inverters and batteries had these undocumented communication channels that could allow,
Speaker 1: according to a source Reuter's talk to the rogue components
Speaker 1: provide additional undocumented communication channels. They could allow firewalls to
Speaker 1: be circumvented remotely, with potentially catastrophic consequences. The story illustrates
Speaker 1: the security issue that's haunted analysts since the dawn of
Speaker 1: the Internet of things, the sudden craze for adding Internet
Speaker 1: connectivity to all manner of devices, from household appliances to
Speaker 1: industrial machinery. I was thinking about that the other day.
Speaker 7: So I have a fountain in my backyard that is
Speaker 7: connected to an app where I can control the schedule
Speaker 7: that it runs. But I was sitting there going, dude,
Speaker 7: even my fountain runs through the Internet.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that is the thing. I've resisted this. Very
Speaker 1: early on in the Internet of Things era, I ran
Speaker 1: into an article that explained how, you know, the Mark
Speaker 1: Zuckerberg's of the world were exploiting the fact that they
Speaker 1: are now in your thermostat, in your ring, doorbell or whatever. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I was so off put by that. I haven't
Speaker 1: really dug into it. But so in the case of
Speaker 1: these vicious Chinese power and vergers, the devices were designed
Speaker 1: to connect solar panel rays and windmills to power grids,
Speaker 1: and they have Internet capability, mostly allegedly, so their performance
Speaker 1: can be monitored and their software can be updated easily.
Speaker 1: But these these people set up firewalls, or these companies
Speaker 1: set up firewalls and their technology teams to prevent the
Speaker 1: devices from sending on authorized signals, and they physically inspect
Speaker 1: equipment from China to look for bugs, and they find
Speaker 1: them with shocking regularity. This is so obviously an effort
Speaker 1: by the Chinese to get into our power grids and
Speaker 1: our systems and our circuits, both individual homes and in
Speaker 1: mass areas so they can like simultaneously send signals that
Speaker 1: then f up the grids. That's what the nastiness is
Speaker 1: going to look like. Everything shuts down. That's what we need.
Speaker 1: On a Friday way, this is well, we are so
Speaker 1: asleep anyway. Let's get a final thought from everybody on
Speaker 1: the crew to wrap things up for the day, beginning
Speaker 1: with our technical director Michael Angelow. Michael final thought. This
Speaker 1: means I can now hack into my neighbor's thermostat and
Speaker 1: make it ninety degrees in their house just because I
Speaker 1: don't like him or something. Oh good call then make
Speaker 1: it fifty.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 1: Jack has had to dash off to an appointment Katie
Speaker 1: Green or esteemed to Newswoman.
Speaker 7: As a final thought, Katie, I have sneezed twenty three
Speaker 7: times during the course of the show.
Speaker 1: I just want to let you guys know. Yeah, wow,
Speaker 1: allergies coast to coast are are terrible. Is it climate
Speaker 1: change and if so, what the hell are you gonna
Speaker 1: do about it? Anyway? Get some tissues? Have you taste?
Speaker 2: Hey, you've stolen my dreams, You've made me sneeze a lot.
Speaker 1: Anyway. My final thought is heavy, great weekend. I'll be
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