Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
Speaker 1: George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Jettie and he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3: Egg prices breaking records and set to soar even higher
Speaker 3: as restaurants and grocery stores are forced to pay more
Speaker 3: to get eggs because of bird flood growing across the US.
Speaker 3: It also comes as the famous breakfast chain waffle House
Speaker 3: announce still charge an extra fifty cents.
Speaker 2: Per egg until egg price is ease.
Speaker 1: The breathless coverage of the rising price of eggs is interesting.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not to downplay inflation, which we did not,
Speaker 1: but that was everything was going up, and you'd use
Speaker 1: eggs and bacon or whatever as an example. But everything
Speaker 1: is going up. But since it's just eggs, if I'm struggling,
Speaker 1: I just stop eggs. I don't need that many eggs.
Speaker 1: I could go a whole month without eating eggs, and
Speaker 1: pretty you enjoy the humble eggs certainly, Yeah, I like eggs,
Speaker 1: but I don't need it. Eggs now so expensive a
Speaker 1: family of four, it could be. Well, then don't eat eggs,
Speaker 1: eat something else until they come down.
Speaker 2: Half as many. It is.
Speaker 1: It is kind of funny, although the price increase is shocking.
Speaker 1: If that's a regular part of your diet, no doubt,
Speaker 1: a lot of good stuff to get to today. Perhaps
Speaker 1: you're thinking A and G. What's the latest down that
Speaker 1: whole crazy Gaza proposal. We have some excellent, really interesting
Speaker 1: perspectives on it.
Speaker 2: Don't worry.
Speaker 1: There's nobody who thinks the one hundred and first Airborne
Speaker 1: has head to Gaza anytime soon or ever, frankly, but
Speaker 1: it's absolutely worth discussing. Also, the doge boys are are
Speaker 1: ruffling feathers and whipping up angs to but more importantly,
Speaker 1: cutting budgets and uncovering all sorts of crap that we
Speaker 1: really ought to know. Unelected bureaucrat wanna be kings gutting
Speaker 1: the government. Wow, you people screaming at you're running a
Speaker 1: up that up the flagpole and nobody is saluting. So
Speaker 1: we'll talk about that more later on the hour and
Speaker 1: later on in the show. For show speaking of saluting things,
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Speaker 1: land stolen from the somebody.
Speaker 2: People now shut up.
Speaker 1: So speaking of consumer issues as we were a moment ago,
Speaker 1: and we didn't want to go super heavy politics this segment,
Speaker 1: because my god, the.
Speaker 2: Fire hose of.
Speaker 1: Announcements and policies and executive orders and all coming out
Speaker 1: of the Trump administration is mostly great. Guy cornered me
Speaker 1: in the lunch roomya Stane said he thinks it's a strategy.
Speaker 1: It's to cover up some of the really ones he
Speaker 1: wants to do because nobody has time to talk about everything.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's a strategy. It's certainly playing
Speaker 1: out that way. But I mean, it's not as if
Speaker 1: he had to invent a bunch of things that he
Speaker 1: and his administration wanted to do.
Speaker 2: What else I've only got two goals.
Speaker 1: We need to invent a bunch more to give a
Speaker 1: smoke screen for these secretive No, I don't think it's
Speaker 1: like that at all. It's whether it's intentional or not.
Speaker 1: That is the way it's playing out. But anyway, one
Speaker 1: of the things that they're looking to do is impose
Speaker 1: additional tariffs on China, which I'm sure you've heard about,
Speaker 1: but one thing that might actually hit consumers, especially folks
Speaker 1: like my partner Jack here, who is really into fast fashion.
Speaker 1: I mean really into the hottest fashion this week. He's
Speaker 1: got to be wearing it by Thursday. Do you know
Speaker 1: Shine and Tamuth. They are these Chinese fashion outlets that
Speaker 1: sell zillions of dollars worth of fast fashion at very
Speaker 1: very very low prices to Americans, particularly the women's Anyway,
Speaker 1: they are absolutely the beneficiaries of a law known as
Speaker 1: the Deminimus Exception to tariffs, which meant until twenty sixteen,
Speaker 1: if you're shipping less than two hundred dollars directly to
Speaker 1: an American household, you didn't have to worry about the
Speaker 1: tariffs in reporting and stuff like that. Well, Congress for
Speaker 1: whatever reason raised that number to eight hundred dollars in
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, and the Chinese economy has gone wild fulfilling
Speaker 1: our needs for super cheap Chinese crap really really fast,
Speaker 1: and they don't have to pay tariffs on it, but
Speaker 1: it's become an enormous amount of goods and potential tariff
Speaker 1: revenue lost. In twenty twenty three, there were six hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty seven million of these shipments, six hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty seven million the next year, last year, one.
Speaker 2: Point three billion.
Speaker 1: It means mortan doubled in a year and the amount
Speaker 1: of money is again breathtaking. So the Trump administration is
Speaker 1: trying to claw back that whole demnimus thing. So order
Speaker 1: your what Cardi B Was learning wearing last week as
Speaker 1: quickly as you can. Different story particular interest to the
Speaker 1: folks in LA and those who just depend on the
Speaker 1: government to save their hide. In Altadena, California, where most
Speaker 1: of the deaths from the terrible wildfires occurred, half of
Speaker 1: the city got the warnings that fire was sweeping down
Speaker 1: upon their homes, and half didn't. You're on the west
Speaker 1: side of Lake Street, you did not get the alerts.
Speaker 1: You're on the east side, you got the alerts. Nobody's
Speaker 1: quite sure why they had multiple overlapping systems and everything failed.
Speaker 2: Just shocking.
Speaker 1: If you want to learn more about it, The Wall
Speaker 1: Street Journal has some really good coverage on that today.
Speaker 1: But it's it's crazy and it's scary. So many people
Speaker 1: who were a few blocks away. I mean literally, it's
Speaker 1: a five minute walk from where people were getting text alerts,
Speaker 1: phone alerts, you know, to do everything that is built
Speaker 1: by the government to alert people that there's a cataclysm.
Speaker 1: They were getting it three blocks away over there. People
Speaker 1: were going to bed at night thinking glad, it's not
Speaker 1: so bad because we haven't heard anything.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's interesting.
Speaker 1: I know, I know, it's crazy, and they're trying to
Speaker 1: figure out why. Of course, moving along, you to think
Speaker 1: I'm making this up, and I wish I were clever
Speaker 1: enough to be making this up. The murder of a
Speaker 1: US border patrol agent near the Canadian border appears to
Speaker 1: be linked to a radical leftist trans militant cult accused
Speaker 1: of killings across the country.
Speaker 2: Now you're using trans is in like transnational or trans
Speaker 2: is in different tansexual.
Speaker 1: Broka, Yeah, yeah, the case of the radical Zizian Vegan
Speaker 1: transgender cult. Around a week before the January twenty attack
Speaker 1: on this poor border patroller agent, God bless him, a
Speaker 1: young man with his life in front of the federal
Speaker 1: law enforcement, had been surveilling German national Felix Ophelia Bachhault
Speaker 1: and University of Washington student Teresa Milo Consuelo Young Blitt.
Speaker 1: Staff at a Vermont hotel alerted authorities about seeing the
Speaker 1: duo with a firearm and black tactical clothing. Law enforcement
Speaker 1: visited them, then they trailed them. They opened fire on
Speaker 1: the border patrol people and killed a young man. Crazy terrible, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: But authorities now say the guns used by these two
Speaker 1: loser nut jobs scumbags are owned by a person of
Speaker 1: interest in other murders and connected to a mysterious cult
Speaker 1: of transgender quote unquote geniuses who follow a trans leader
Speaker 1: named Jack Lesotto, also known by the alias Ziz.
Speaker 2: Believe it or not, this guy's.
Speaker 1: An a ward winning youth math genius from Freiburg, Germany.
Speaker 2: Who later graduated from university in Canada. Wow, a cult.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 1: We used to say semi regularly on the show that
Speaker 1: they're inventing a new brand of crazy every day. This
Speaker 1: is really crazy crazy, and it's you know, it is
Speaker 1: worth noting, For instance, I mentioned earlier that fifteen percent
Speaker 1: of federal inmates in women's prisons are dudes. Fifteen percent
Speaker 1: because under the Biden administration, all you have to do
Speaker 1: is say, I'm a chick and okay, I guess you
Speaker 1: got to go to the women's prison. So fifteen percent
Speaker 1: are our dudes who quote unquote claim to be women.
Speaker 1: And those guys I just think are self interested and smart.
Speaker 1: I'd rather be in the women's prison too. Number one
Speaker 1: is a straight guy. It'd be nice to be around gals.
Speaker 1: Number two, I'm much more likely to survive anyway. But
Speaker 1: apart from those people, if you are a dude presenting
Speaker 1: as a woman and living like that and calling yourself
Speaker 1: a name and insisting on some bizarre pronouns, you're a
Speaker 1: disturbed person. And you see a lot of the militant
Speaker 1: trans people just screeching, spit flying out of their mouths,
Speaker 1: attacking any woman who thinks locker rooms how to not
Speaker 1: have dudes in them. You're dealing with a pretty disturbed population.
Speaker 1: Let me throw out something to Hanson, our executive producer,
Speaker 1: forget because I forgot to ask for this earlier. I
Speaker 1: was just watching CBS News and to their credit, they're
Speaker 1: covering this story. CBS News is where sixty minutes is
Speaker 1: sixty Minutes being sued by Donald Trump. Forced to release
Speaker 1: the full transcript. The full interview that they did with
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris in the run up to the election. Now,
Speaker 1: I haven't listened to it, but I was reading some
Speaker 1: of the reports on it. Her answer on Israel, I
Speaker 1: think was the question was like ten times as long
Speaker 1: as the clip that they played on the interview, just
Speaker 1: way more wordy, rambling Kamala Air's style. And if you
Speaker 1: could grab that, Hanson, just that particular answer, I know,
Speaker 1: it's floating around in social media a lot to an
Speaker 1: example of what they what she actually said versus what
Speaker 1: sixty minutes showed us. CBS is saying they did not
Speaker 1: change the you know, the actual content of what she said. Hmmm. True,
Speaker 1: But the fact that she rambles like crazy to say
Speaker 1: one thing is important.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: The idea that she's a half wit who can't form
Speaker 1: a coherence sentence was an actual campaign issue right on
Speaker 1: the other hand, And I hate to defend sixty minutes.
Speaker 2: I rarely do. Man, you're interviewing somebody and they unleash just.
Speaker 1: A long, dull, stupid word salad, and you've got a
Speaker 1: limited amount of time to er it.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: If you're a news organization and one of the biggest
Speaker 1: knocks on the candidate. Is they unleash long crazy word salads.
Speaker 1: You gotta ride that in. That's the news story. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna say you're wrong. So more tocom And this
Speaker 1: makes me just breaks my heart. The absolutely idiotic self
Speaker 1: declouting trends. Sexual movie that Hollywood was so proud of,
Speaker 1: that's now just getting murdered all over the place. Another
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Speaker 1: the brilliant Amelia Perez, which Hollywood was so proud of
Speaker 1: the second most or damn near the most Oscar nominations
Speaker 1: of any movie ever, tied for the most Oscar nominations
Speaker 1: of all time. This trans movie that everybody hates. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just a joke. We've done so many segments on it.
Speaker 1: I wish we could repeat it all because it's so
Speaker 1: much fun. Well, Netflix is taking the extraordinary step of
Speaker 1: removing Best Actress Oscar nominee Carlos Sophia Gascone Fode from
Speaker 1: its Academy Awards campaign after comments surfaced from the transgender
Speaker 1: performer about George Floyd being a hustler and a drug addict,
Speaker 1: and Muslims and then black and Asian actors and.
Speaker 2: Up with Hitler and all sorts of crap. Dang it,
Speaker 2: this is ruining my fun.
Speaker 1: I was really looking forward to the Oscars going way
Speaker 1: too far and finally ending their relevance completely by going
Speaker 1: full up with trans for three hours on Oscar Night.
Speaker 2: But this is going to ruin it.
Speaker 1: We had them teed up like a golf ball and
Speaker 1: we're gonna give him a good hard whacking. And they
Speaker 1: they've they've they were so just egregiously ridiculous that that
Speaker 1: you know that their cover was blown, Our cover was blown.
Speaker 1: We'll dig up that Kamala Harris sixty minutes interview now
Speaker 1: that they transcripted out Trump's soon him for ten billion
Speaker 1: dollars among other things.
Speaker 2: On the way, stay here, Mama BLESTI shio blest, no blessing.
Speaker 1: So the final note for now on the Amelia Perez movie,
Speaker 1: because we ran out of time in the last segments.
Speaker 1: Netflix is taking the extraordinary step of removing this transgender
Speaker 1: actor from the Academy Awards campaign because the studio spend
Speaker 1: a tremendous amount of money on this sort of thing.
Speaker 1: Rumor is they'd already poured thirty million dollars promoting this
Speaker 1: movie just to get oscars for it, And a number
Speaker 1: of people are asking, how did you not like get
Speaker 1: into this person's old tweets before he spends thirty million
Speaker 1: dollars to promote him her I was getting an Oscar.
Speaker 2: I would prefer to look at the other way.
Speaker 1: I go to a movie, I don't really freaking care
Speaker 1: what the background is of the person up on the
Speaker 1: screen playing the cowboy or the clerk or whatever, or
Speaker 1: what they tweeted about whatever at some point in their life.
Speaker 2: But do I like the movie or not? So why
Speaker 2: would you look into anybody's background ever about what they said?
Speaker 2: Who cares? Would be my preferred way to look at it.
Speaker 1: And can we, as the other side of that coin,
Speaker 1: just have them not tell us what they think about
Speaker 1: any issues? Right? Right?
Speaker 2: Right? I'm sure from the Oscar stage, you know, since
Speaker 2: this is.
Speaker 1: A modern phenomenon knowing what people think about their politics,
Speaker 1: I'm sure if you go back throughout history, whether it's
Speaker 1: your you know, your favorite paintings or books or music
Speaker 1: or some of your favorite composers, you know probably had
Speaker 1: abhorrent views on.
Speaker 2: All kinds of things.
Speaker 1: We just do.
Speaker 2: We didn't think about it back then.
Speaker 1: Either liked the music or you don't, all right, And
Speaker 1: that's the beauty of not caring what they think.
Speaker 2: Is if they think something of horrent, as long as they.
Speaker 1: Are not like Bruce Springsteen, obnoxious about it, I just
Speaker 1: ignore it.
Speaker 2: But you you had that.
Speaker 1: I think it was a text or email the other
Speaker 1: day from somebody who knows how the Grammys work, and
Speaker 1: I'm sure the Oscars is similar.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah.
Speaker 1: Everybody should be aware of the way these awards shows work.
Speaker 1: That whether it's the tens of millions of dollars that
Speaker 1: they spend on campaigning to get the right number of votes,
Speaker 1: or in the Grammys example, you used where you trade
Speaker 1: around votes for best album to get votes for this
Speaker 1: from a different category, or maybe next year you help
Speaker 1: me out if I help you this year, or whatever,
Speaker 1: as opposed to I'm just going to sit here, listen
Speaker 1: to the albums and determine which one I think is
Speaker 1: the best.
Speaker 2: Oh no, please, no, no, it's also training. Well, even
Speaker 2: if that was all it's going on, it's crazy.
Speaker 1: I mean, the idea of a bunch of people sitting
Speaker 1: down and listening to eight different albums of completely different
Speaker 1: kinds of music and determining that one's the best is insane.
Speaker 2: Right right.
Speaker 1: I can't stand awards for art early. I don't mind
Speaker 1: the ten best that sort of thing. You know, it's
Speaker 1: an opinion and you dig into it and you think, wow,
Speaker 1: I really do like that album. Cool, I'll listen to
Speaker 1: it some more. Okay, picking the best is just so
Speaker 1: silly to got it as good a version of that
Speaker 1: as you can get. Somebody put out a list yesterday
Speaker 1: of the fifty greatest movies of all time, based on
Speaker 1: all of the current favorite internet ways of rating movies.
Speaker 1: Rotten Tomatoes and a whole bunch of IMBD and all
Speaker 1: these different things. Pile all the scores, and what are
Speaker 1: the best movies? I'll hit you with the top ten
Speaker 1: a little bit later. I thought it was an interesting
Speaker 1: conversation starter, and I don't mind reserving a few slots
Speaker 1: for like artsy stuff that pop audiences don't get, because
Speaker 1: that's you know, that's a thing. Uh, but yeah, I
Speaker 1: love that better than asking one guy. Everybody sleeps, and
Speaker 1: lots of people have trouble with sleeping. We got a
Speaker 1: ton of great text recommendations or thoughts on the whole
Speaker 1: sleeping thing, so maybe we'll get to that a little
Speaker 1: bit later too, And some really interesting perspectives about Trump's
Speaker 1: insane idea of the US taking over Gaza. Did he
Speaker 1: mean it?
Speaker 2: Did he not mean it?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 2: Not even really the important question what did he mean
Speaker 2: by saying it? What was he going for? And what
Speaker 2: has the result been so far? Really interesting?
Speaker 1: How soon can I go to a rafa casino with
Speaker 1: Trump on gold letters up on top. Well, as you know,
Speaker 1: I've already put in my deposit for surfing lessons there
Speaker 1: at Gaza, So I'm excited.
Speaker 2: Muhammad, don't serve. We got more on the way to
Speaker 2: stay with us.
Speaker 1: Are strong and getdy. Elon Musk is seizing the power
Speaker 1: that belongs to the American people.
Speaker 5: We are here to fight back. Anytime a person get
Speaker 5: paid two hundred and fifty million dollars into a campaign
Speaker 5: and they've been given access for access to the Department
Speaker 5: of Treasury of the United States of America.
Speaker 1: We are more.
Speaker 5: I am gonna stand with you in this fight and
Speaker 5: we will win were we well.
Speaker 2: Win, we will win. We those performances. We won't rest
Speaker 2: things are getting weird, and they getting weird fast.
Speaker 1: So that's the elon Musk is an unelected dictator ruining
Speaker 1: America thingy that they're act.
Speaker 2: They're they think.
Speaker 1: I guess that most Americans, the majority of Americans hate
Speaker 1: the idea of government employees losing their jobs or various
Speaker 1: agencies shrinking.
Speaker 2: I think they're wrong. I hope they're jeez, I hope
Speaker 2: they're wrong.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 2: But it's interesting.
Speaker 1: There's a fair amount of language, as you heard there,
Speaker 1: and I've heard in a lot of other clips of
Speaker 1: we are at.
Speaker 2: War, take to the streets.
Speaker 1: Sounds a lot like the stuff Donald Trump said on
Speaker 1: January sixth that you know, was being claimed to have
Speaker 1: started an insurrection, were or anybody said to be peaceful
Speaker 1: and patriotic there either, by the way, Yeah, just and
Speaker 1: I've read a number of reasonable Democrats, some of like
Speaker 1: the axel Rod generations, some more modern guys, you're moderate
Speaker 1: kind of classic Democrats saying, hey, we've got to have
Speaker 1: a message, and.
Speaker 2: It can't be Trump is the devil.
Speaker 1: We've tried that for a very long time, and he
Speaker 1: didn't mean we ought to go with on Musk is
Speaker 1: the devil. So I mean, that's you know that there's
Speaker 1: an old saying among lawyers. If the law is on
Speaker 1: your side, pound on the law. If the facts are
Speaker 1: on your side, pound on the facts. If neither is
Speaker 1: on your side, pound on the table. Well there you
Speaker 1: heard a bunch, and we've got multiple montages of that
Speaker 1: sort of Democrats screeching into microphones that Elon Musk and
Speaker 1: Donald Trump are trying to.
Speaker 2: Something something blah blah blah. They're pounding on the table.
Speaker 1: Got that federal governments, which I think, if only is
Speaker 1: there anyway where do I sign up for that? Who
Speaker 1: do how do I vote to make sure we can
Speaker 1: gut the government that's a threat. And imagine keeping your
Speaker 1: tax dollars in your states and communities, having control over
Speaker 1: your schools and the services you need closer to your home.
Speaker 2: What a nightmare that.
Speaker 1: What I don't understand is why they aren't going with
Speaker 1: a Why wouldn't you say, yes, we're every bit as
Speaker 1: interested as they are and making sure government program are
Speaker 1: as efficient as possible in all departments, don't waste any taxpayers' money.
Speaker 2: And why wouldn't you say that.
Speaker 1: Momentum and inertia practically the same thing, are on your
Speaker 1: side anyway, as a Democrat, you're gonna eil.
Speaker 2: I never took physics, so I gotta take your word
Speaker 2: for that.
Speaker 1: You're more or less gonna win in the end anyway,
Speaker 1: because you know, we can nip around the edges of
Speaker 1: trying to shrink this stuff down and it ain't gonna
Speaker 1: be a lot.
Speaker 2: I just understand. I think because they believe.
Speaker 1: A big chunk of the country is on their side
Speaker 1: with and I hope not of wanting to cut government.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, yeah, that they don't want to Uh yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think honestly, if they took your
Speaker 1: message that you just suggested, I'd be a lot more concerned.
Speaker 1: Continuing to just screech elon Musk is gonna come into
Speaker 1: your nursery and eat your babies.
Speaker 2: I just that's not gonna win anything. It's ridiculous. They're
Speaker 2: flailing desperately, a complete change of topic. Do we have
Speaker 2: for this? I have time for this rather or should
Speaker 2: we hold off? I can't decide.
Speaker 1: Trump's idea that the US might like own or run
Speaker 1: the Gaza strip and remove and relocate two million Palestinians
Speaker 1: was derided as looney tunes and a lot of left
Speaker 1: media a lot of folks on the right media were like,
Speaker 1: what does he mean by that, which is a legitimate question.
Speaker 1: But some of the analysis, now that we've gotten a
Speaker 1: day or two past it, I think is really really interesting.
Speaker 2: Jack, you want to take the first hack or what thing.
Speaker 1: So I was listening to the Commentary magazine podcast yesterday
Speaker 1: and that's the leading publication publication in America, up with Jews,
Speaker 1: up with Israel stuff. And I didn't realize my whole life,
Speaker 1: I've not really understood what a Gordian not is. I
Speaker 1: realized it was a like a difficult situation you got
Speaker 1: to fix somehow, but that's about it. But the whole
Speaker 1: idea of a Gordian nott, I guess is it's not you.
Speaker 1: It's a difficult situation. You can't untie it. The only
Speaker 1: thing you can do is just to cut it right.
Speaker 1: And I guess I missed that somewhere in my life.
Speaker 1: But they were using this as an example of that.
Speaker 1: We've been trying to untie this. You can't untie it,
Speaker 1: not as the world for eighty years or whatever. And
Speaker 1: Trump's just gonna cut it, which is the only thing
Speaker 1: you can do with a knot like that. If you
Speaker 1: want to solve the problem, and New York Post writing
Speaker 1: about that today. Saudi Arabian other Arab nations have publicly
Speaker 1: rejected Trump's plan to evacuate two point three million Gozzens
Speaker 1: and have the US quote takeover and redevelop the land,
Speaker 1: but they may come to support it in secret because
Speaker 1: it would finally solve decades of conflict and end Hamas's
Speaker 1: iron grip. A former Israeli Palestine Palestine negotiator says, and
Speaker 1: they quote this Avi Melahammed, who has been negotiating with
Speaker 1: all these countries, that's what he's been doing throughout his life.
Speaker 1: And he says he served as a senior Arab advisor
Speaker 1: to Jerusalem, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, dealing with all the
Speaker 1: big players. That they might actually be interested in this quoting.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised to know that in the back rooms,
Speaker 1: the Saudis, the Egyptians, the Jordanians are very happy about
Speaker 1: Trump's idea of the United States taking control of the
Speaker 1: situation in Gaza. We have to remember that at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, Hamas presents Egypt and Jordan and
Speaker 1: the Saudis and the Emirates a significant threat. They have
Speaker 1: to show disdain in public, but behind the scenes they'd
Speaker 1: be happy to have this taken care of. There needs
Speaker 1: to be a big, significant game changer on the ground
Speaker 1: to solve this problem, and that's what Trump's trying to do.
Speaker 1: He's trying to cut the Gordian knut. Yeah. A couple
Speaker 1: other perspectives fairly similar. Takes Wall Street Journal editorial board
Speaker 1: writing about Trump's taking a flyer on this, and the
Speaker 1: reaction was predictably hyperbolic seth nik cleansing or whatever. M
Speaker 1: But they write note that mister Trump expressed admirable sympathy
Speaker 1: for the Palestinians in their plight. The Gaza strip quote
Speaker 1: has been a symbol of death and destruction for so
Speaker 1: many decades, and so bad for the people anywhere near it,
Speaker 1: he said Tuesday. Who would disagree with that? He went
Speaker 1: on to say, we should go to other countries of
Speaker 1: interest with humanitarian hearts. There are many of them that
Speaker 1: want to do this and build various domains that will
Speaker 1: ultimately be occupied by the one point eight million Palestinians, etc.
Speaker 2: Etc.
Speaker 1: This can be paid for by neighboring countries of great wealth,
Speaker 1: but the people will be able to live in comfort
Speaker 1: and peace, and the Journal editorial board rates It's easy
Speaker 1: to dismiss this as the fantasy of a presidential huckster
Speaker 1: who imagines Trump condos on a Gaza gold coast. But
Speaker 1: is his idea so much worse than the status quo
Speaker 1: that the rest of the world is offering the famous
Speaker 1: two state solution with Palestinian state. A Palestinian state next
Speaker 1: to Israel will not happen as long as Hamas still
Speaker 1: runs Gaza and could run the West Bank, and the
Speaker 1: Arabs states aren't exactly clamoring to send in peacekeeping forces
Speaker 1: to eradicate Hamas or govern the Strip. The best the
Speaker 1: world can come up with is to mouth the two
Speaker 1: state platitude and let Gaza remain a hellhole while Hamas
Speaker 1: will revive its rain of terror and Palestinians who want
Speaker 1: something different will be tossed off buildings. Right, talk about
Speaker 1: Gaza being a hell hole and how awful it is,
Speaker 1: while as a neighboring country, you build giant walls to
Speaker 1: make sure none of those people can get into your country. Right,
Speaker 1: we're talking about Egypt and just all the countries in
Speaker 1: the region. The last thing they want is any Palestinians
Speaker 1: coming into their country, because you know, I could go
Speaker 1: through the history of it, but all of these countries
Speaker 1: have had horrific problems with all the Palestinians flowing in,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden they've got this giant Islamist
Speaker 1: militant population. The revolution comes to their country, they have unrest,
Speaker 1: they've got to put down rebellions, and you know it's
Speaker 1: gone on for decades now. Well, Commentary magazine was making
Speaker 1: the point that for people of other countries that have
Speaker 1: had to escape war torn regions or the rubble of
Speaker 1: destruction after a civil war, whatever, Syrians, for instance, Europe's.
Speaker 2: Supposed to take all these people in.
Speaker 1: All these countries in Europe have taken in all of
Speaker 1: these people from all of these awful places, but nobody's
Speaker 1: expecting the surrounding countries of Gaza to take in refugees.
Speaker 2: That's pretty interesting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, if I were the leader of one of
Speaker 1: those countries, I'd say, yeah, how's Europe doing? Have not
Speaker 1: taken in I don't think it's good and I wouldn't
Speaker 1: want it, but we just think that's you know, that's
Speaker 1: just the way it goes.
Speaker 2: The Syrians had to go somewhere.
Speaker 1: So they're in Germany and Italy and friends and wherever,
Speaker 1: but Gazin's Nope, they can't go anywhere.
Speaker 2: They have to stay in that one tiny little piece
Speaker 2: of land.
Speaker 1: One more note from Elliott Kaufman, who's been thinking and
Speaker 1: writing about this stuff for years and years, that I
Speaker 1: thought was absolutely terrific. And he starts, of course with
Speaker 1: the President Trump shocked the world stuff. But few critics
Speaker 1: disputest point that it would benefit the displace to escape
Speaker 1: the demolition side of Gaza Gaza and live in peace
Speaker 1: rather than his cannon fought. The real disturbance after decades
Speaker 1: to the contrary is to think seriously about what it
Speaker 1: would mean to put Palestinian lives first, rather than sacrificing
Speaker 1: them to the lost cause of Palestine, as their leaders
Speaker 1: often do.
Speaker 2: Just a little bit of history.
Speaker 1: On October nineteen twenty three, twenty twenty three, Hamas leader
Speaker 1: Khaled Michal suggested that to achieve the dream of Israel's
Speaker 1: destruction and with it an Arab Palestine from the river
Speaker 1: to the sea, millions of Palestinians might have to die.
Speaker 1: This is the Palestinian leader said, Yeah, millions will probably
Speaker 1: have to die, but that's okay. The prospect did not
Speaker 1: trouble him. Years earlier, the Palestine liberation organizations Yaser, ara
Speaker 1: Fat and Mahmudabas turned down turned down Israeli offers of statehood,
Speaker 1: the two state solution, which no national liberation movement does.
Speaker 2: You say, you're a national liberation movement. They say, okay,
Speaker 2: you can have your country. We don't want it.
Speaker 1: And the Palestinian leader from the twenties through the forties,
Speaker 1: Hitler ally Amin al Husseini, did much the same before
Speaker 1: and at Israel's founding. Reimagining the failed Arab drive to
Speaker 1: wipe out the Jews after only a few years after
Speaker 1: the Holocaust is a story of Palestinian victimization and valiant
Speaker 1: resistance is the essence of the lost cause. This is
Speaker 1: the worst kind of nationalism, an eliminationist, one that brings
Speaker 1: its people only misery. And yah Sir Arafat turned down
Speaker 1: all those deals for variety of reasons, including he felt
Speaker 1: like he'd be assassinated if he ever agreed to any
Speaker 1: of them, which he would have been right.
Speaker 2: By the even more crazy hardcore Islamis.
Speaker 1: Types God, by the people on his side, he would
Speaker 1: have been assassinated by Yeah. Yeah, well, let's keep doing
Speaker 1: the same and mouthing the same bull crap, says a
Speaker 1: lot of the establishment.
Speaker 2: It's because it's comfortable for them. But they're such phonies.
Speaker 2: Can I be interesting to see how this plays out?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Probably chaotically and with a lot of bloodshed, honestly.
Speaker 1: Well as opposed to my entire life. Chaotically and bloodshed. Well, exactly,
Speaker 1: let's try something different. You could go back to when
Speaker 1: I was a little kid and my dad would be
Speaker 1: sitting in his lazy boy recliner with the footstool up,
Speaker 1: reading the paper with the news on, and they'd have
Speaker 1: had Palestinians throwing rocks at her relea. Isn't exactly the
Speaker 1: same thing going on, same conversation?
Speaker 2: Yep, something, isn't it?
Speaker 1: Well? Speaking of giant, interesting earth shaking ideas, what about
Speaker 1: El Salvador taking not only our immigration deporties but our
Speaker 1: hardcore criminals as well, ship them to El Salvador.
Speaker 2: Crazy idea. We can talk about that later on.
Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal has a story today on how the NFL,
Speaker 1: while the rest of America is abandoning DEI, the NFL
Speaker 1: remains all in.
Speaker 2: And we'll see it on display in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2: I'm all over it.
Speaker 1: I got that and a great story about why companies
Speaker 1: like to hire XFN NFL players.
Speaker 2: Huh, well, that's cool. I hadn't never heard it. Bunch
Speaker 2: stuff on the way. I hope you can stay here
Speaker 2: to this.
Speaker 4: To the rising cost of eggs, more Americans are now
Speaker 4: investing in backyard chickens. Oh yeah, people really want eggs.
Speaker 4: This morning I saw New Yorker squeezing a pigeon like
Speaker 4: a ketchup broduct.
Speaker 1: The egg shortage is so severe that at the waffle
Speaker 1: house they have a fifty cent.
Speaker 2: Surcharge per egg.
Speaker 1: Now, I never thought I'd live in a time where
Speaker 1: they'd be surge pricing on eggs.
Speaker 2: This is gonna be a tough Easter.
Speaker 1: Kiss get ready to start hunting sweetish meatballs. I like
Speaker 1: squeezing a pigeon like it's a ketchup container. Try to
Speaker 1: get another egg out of there. Wow, So I got
Speaker 1: a question for you. I dealt with this yesterday. I've
Speaker 1: dealt with this many times in the homeowner world over
Speaker 1: my life. Now we have and will endorse many home
Speaker 1: and companies that are very, very good in a variety
Speaker 1: of spheres of home improvement that be completely reputable for
Speaker 1: your name to pass our lips. Yeah, we work really
Speaker 1: really hard at that because there are so many sketchy
Speaker 1: home improvement things out there. What is to deal with
Speaker 1: that industry? This has happened to me more often than not.
Speaker 1: Had an emergency. I'm not going to be specific because
Speaker 1: I don't want to get any trouble with somebody. But
Speaker 1: storm happens, something occurred, need to get a homeowner repaired
Speaker 1: sort of company out there fast, So I just Google
Speaker 1: come up with some names, pick somebody, and what happens
Speaker 1: the most often in the last twenty years of my life,
Speaker 1: happens somebody who speaks no English shows up at your
Speaker 1: house in a fifteen dollars car or truck go boy
Speaker 1: with no signage on it, and you don't know if
Speaker 1: they're the people that are coming or not. You can't
Speaker 1: understand them. See, you don't have any idea. This has
Speaker 1: happened to me multiple times, not like just the other day,
Speaker 1: two days yesterday, but like over and over and over again.
Speaker 1: And this has happened several times too, where after using
Speaker 1: Google Translate on their phone, see'd have any idea what
Speaker 1: in to communicate, They ask if I have a ladder
Speaker 1: because they didn't bring a ladder.
Speaker 2: This has happened to me multiple times. This is what
Speaker 2: you do for a living.
Speaker 1: You show up in your crappy car. That makes me
Speaker 1: want to where's my gun? When I see this car
Speaker 1: coming to down the driveway and you ask me for
Speaker 1: a ladder? Anyway, he's got a he's got a small ladder,
Speaker 1: but he wanted a bigger ladder, and I wasn't. I
Speaker 1: have a bigger ladder, but I wasn't gonna give it
Speaker 1: to him. I don't know what's going on here anyway.
Speaker 1: He's the latter. He's up on the roof. When he's
Speaker 1: crawling down off the roof, he's asking in the best
Speaker 1: English he can. He asked me to come over and
Speaker 1: hold the ladder for him because he doesn't know if
Speaker 1: he can get down off the roof.
Speaker 2: And he's actually saying, he's actually saying, where's my foot?
Speaker 2: Do you have my foot?
Speaker 1: Have to grab his foot and help him put it
Speaker 1: on the ladder so we can get down off the
Speaker 1: roof and get back into his dentist crappy car, and
Speaker 1: then send me a text later of how much I'm
Speaker 1: gonna have to pay to get something fixed. That I understand,
Speaker 1: But this happens over What is it with that industry?
Speaker 1: There's tens of not only equipment, you're his assistant. How
Speaker 1: is this industry, since there's so much money on the line,
Speaker 1: not have more reputable like professional people involved. I just
Speaker 1: I don't get it. I've never understood it. It's been
Speaker 1: this way my entire life as a homeowner. And maybe
Speaker 1: it's just California. I don't know if the rest of
Speaker 1: you around the country are like, what are you talking about?
Speaker 1: And it's not that way where you live.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Nesasito on the Escalara mas Grande, this was I need
Speaker 1: a bigger ladder. That was a decent guess, but this
Speaker 1: was a way more in the Eastern European, Ukrainian, Russian world.
Speaker 2: Oh, I see, but it'll take me a while. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I think part of it.
Speaker 1: It's such a it can be such a boom and
Speaker 1: bus trade various home improvement things that when it's booming
Speaker 1: you just grab people wherever you can.
Speaker 2: And the other element to it is you rarely.
Speaker 1: I mean, this isn't entirely true, but like say you
Speaker 1: need a roofer, for instance, and you need him in
Speaker 1: a hurry. You're not gonna need a roofer again next
Speaker 1: year and next year and the year after that. And
Speaker 1: so if they hit and run and get your money
Speaker 1: and give you crappy service, they don't care. Got some
Speaker 1: people doing some other work and now can't wait till
Speaker 1: they're done to get him out of there and try
Speaker 1: somebody different. Although I keep trying different people and it's
Speaker 1: always the same, but they don't show up until like eleven.
Speaker 1: They quit it three and they take an hour for lunch.
Speaker 1: Excuse me, that's like three hours of work every day.
Speaker 1: This will take you know, five hundred years to get done.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's the idea.
Speaker 1: Why I tried to get I need a bigger letter
Speaker 1: in Ukrainian and it's a bunch of letters. I don't
Speaker 1: know they got a different alphabet. Oh my god, that
Speaker 1: whole world is so nut speaking nuts. The NFL is
Speaker 1: sticking with DEI will explain it in much more next hour.
Speaker 2: I hope you can stay with us. Armstrong and Getty