Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
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Speaker 3: The hostages, not the sausages, and not Joe Biden.
Speaker 1: OI say that speech last night.
Speaker 3: I tried to take one for the team, and I just,
Speaker 3: I just I tried what a.
Speaker 1: Good for you.
Speaker 3: I didn't even consider watching that we would be big
Speaker 3: on the return of the sausages today. Yeah, I assume
Speaker 3: the President looked and sounded like an old man. But
Speaker 3: the content I thought was damned interesting. I know you're
Speaker 3: really into beating up old people with dementia.
Speaker 1: I uh, I was interested in some of the content.
Speaker 1: So I do want to talk about that.
Speaker 3: I'm worried about my own brain, got to tell you.
Speaker 1: So let Yeah, I.
Speaker 3: Lost badly twice in chess to my son last night,
Speaker 3: like badly, like.
Speaker 1: And you were bringing it. I assume I was trying.
Speaker 3: I have to try now to to beat him, and uh,
Speaker 3: and I lost badly. Like I told him, I said,
Speaker 3: this is the worst defeat I've ever had in chests
Speaker 3: in my life. And I've played thousands.
Speaker 1: Of games of chess. Chest. You know, Michael, you have
Speaker 1: influenced me.
Speaker 3: I was texting somebody about chess yesterday and I accidentally
Speaker 3: texted Chest. I thought, that's Michael, that's Michael. Stop Michael anyway.
Speaker 3: And then, just like this morning, I get to the
Speaker 3: building to take my time, I leisurely time walk into
Speaker 3: the car. I'd been sitting in my car listening to
Speaker 3: news stuff like that. I get it there. I don't
Speaker 3: have my key things, so I gotta go all the
Speaker 3: way back to my car and I'm barely gonna make
Speaker 3: it because i just can't remember stuff. And when I'm
Speaker 3: playing chess and I'm sitting there and I just how
Speaker 3: did you do that?
Speaker 1: So I think I'm going down the road of Joe Biden. Wow.
Speaker 3: Wow, I certainly hope not. That's going to be inconvenient
Speaker 3: for business, not to mention, you know, maybe maybe it'll
Speaker 3: be hilarious though. Yeah, yeah, I had a moment like
Speaker 3: that the other night. But then I realized it was
Speaker 3: because I was just I was preoccupied.
Speaker 1: I was focused on other things.
Speaker 3: Although it involved an oven in this case, not like
Speaker 3: turning it on or extending the time or so it
Speaker 3: stayed on. But I thought, wow, that's the flip side
Speaker 3: of forgetting to turn it off, which is like a
Speaker 3: senior moment thing, right, like a worry about should dad
Speaker 3: be in managed care? He left the oven on? Blah blah,
Speaker 3: he should dad own a stove? Is that where you
Speaker 3: are now?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, yeah, anyway, that's a tough one.
Speaker 3: I was in the midst of complicated negotiations and that
Speaker 3: was thinking of other things.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I assumed Joe Biden sounded like that last night.
Speaker 1: But a couple of the.
Speaker 3: Things he said are outrageous, just freaking outrageous.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was.
Speaker 3: It was slowed paste, mumbly and stumbly, full of utter fictions, cliches,
Speaker 3: talking points and.
Speaker 1: What the hell's it was just it was a mess.
Speaker 3: Well, we are into a new era to where this
Speaker 3: sort of thing happens, So I don't think it's gonna
Speaker 3: land in such a way that it gets that much
Speaker 3: attention or whatever, because we're just.
Speaker 1: Into a new era.
Speaker 3: People say crazys all the time, even presidents. But if
Speaker 3: you went back twenty years, if a George W. Bush
Speaker 3: or a Bill Clinton had given a farewell speech and said,
Speaker 3: I have a warning for America. We are coming under
Speaker 3: the hold of an oligarchy that will make it impossible
Speaker 3: for people on the bottom to rise up.
Speaker 1: I mean, that would have been.
Speaker 3: Earth shattering, right if the outgoing president had said, we're
Speaker 3: falling under the fold of an oligarchy.
Speaker 1: What are you talking about?
Speaker 3: Because Elon Musk tweets a lot in favor of things
Speaker 3: Trump does, We're now an oligarchy.
Speaker 1: That's funny.
Speaker 3: He gave the Metal of Freedom to George Sorows last week,
Speaker 3: who was allowed to uh Marxist prosecutors to run our
Speaker 3: biggest cities.
Speaker 1: That was fine.
Speaker 3: But now that it's a billionaire on the other side,
Speaker 3: you have to give a speech about how America is over.
Speaker 1: It's over. I know, I know, I was gonna say.
Speaker 1: My responses are A, No, we're not. It might be.
Speaker 3: That's the response to that, No we're not, and B
Speaker 3: what were you talking about?
Speaker 1: God stop it?
Speaker 3: Well, And the other reason, obviously not much reaction is
Speaker 3: coming forth is that he is completely irrelevant and it's sad,
Speaker 3: and it's just it is so what's done. It is
Speaker 3: your last day of your senior class at high school,
Speaker 3: presuming you're the sort who looks forward not back. Mostly
Speaker 3: it's just and some teachers saying, you know, your desk
Speaker 3: is a little messy, or like what shut up? So, yeah,
Speaker 3: Biden's what Biden has to say is practically relevant. I
Speaker 3: have enjoyed very much a piece of reporting on how
Speaker 3: hurt Kamala Harris is that Joe Biden's walking around saying
Speaker 3: he could have beaten Trump, not because it's in any
Speaker 3: way irrelevant, but because it's just funny.
Speaker 1: Well it's not true. That not true also, but oh.
Speaker 3: It's the delusions of the rambling old brattle trap.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've been in this, We've all been in the
Speaker 1: situation before.
Speaker 3: I'm sure Kamala Harris would like to say, Look, dude,
Speaker 3: I mean, it's one thing you go around saying that,
Speaker 3: and it's annoying and you don't need to say it,
Speaker 3: and obviously it makes me look bad, but the fact.
Speaker 1: That it's so not true, it's just not true.
Speaker 3: Specifically is going around saying, you know, the poles I
Speaker 3: saw I could have beaten him. She's gotta want to
Speaker 3: sit him down and say, dude, come on, why do
Speaker 3: you think Nancy Pelosi, you're best friend of fifty years,
Speaker 3: that you've been talking about, cut your legs off at
Speaker 3: the knees. Jill Biden gave an interview to the Washington
Speaker 3: Post yesterday. The details came out in which she said
Speaker 3: she's very disappointed in what Nancy Pelosi did well and
Speaker 3: the other things Joe's running around saying is Look, the
Speaker 3: only reason I dropped out was to keep the party
Speaker 3: from being divided. I could have won. Wow, Hey, did
Speaker 3: you set a timer when you put the meat in
Speaker 3: the toaster oven? Grandpa Joe, you need to set a timer.
Speaker 3: You need one of those pillcases. It keeps track of
Speaker 3: have you taken your pill yet today?
Speaker 1: Hey? I have those, so take it easy there. Boy.
Speaker 3: He needs he needs that for a life. I remember
Speaker 3: when I had cancer. I was taken twenty one pills
Speaker 3: a day and a long sheet of I had to
Speaker 3: check gough. There's no way I could keep drag of
Speaker 3: what I was thinking.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, plus that fall down. I rattled like a Morocca.
Speaker 1: It's terrible.
Speaker 3: It's what I call the don't have a heart attack
Speaker 3: or stroke variety pack and it's working so far. I
Speaker 3: don't take a pill a week, thank god. Oh I
Speaker 3: do half a dozen in the morning. So we got
Speaker 3: lots to talk about. And then there's the Israel Israel
Speaker 3: Hamas situation that is being reported entirely one direction by
Speaker 3: most of the media, and one nugget on Fox that
Speaker 3: I hadn't seen anywhere else that would have colored my
Speaker 3: view of the story.
Speaker 1: Today.
Speaker 3: The current acting leader of Hamas put out a video
Speaker 3: yesterday saying we won.
Speaker 1: October seventh was a glorious day.
Speaker 3: We won, God willing there will be many more October sevenths.
Speaker 1: Yes yesterday he put that out.
Speaker 3: Now, NPR and MSNBC and the other media that I
Speaker 3: took in today is reporting Benjamin nettan Yahoo as usual
Speaker 3: scuttling a piece deal. Doesn't want peace, wants to stay
Speaker 3: in power. It's all about him, not even mentioning the
Speaker 3: Hamas side of the negotiation, in which, for one thing,
Speaker 3: they're demanding thirty three prisoners with life sentences to be
Speaker 3: released that are almost certainly dedicated have dedicated their lives
Speaker 3: to killing Israelis, and many many more prisoners to be released.
Speaker 3: Who knows what the situation is with the prisoner, with
Speaker 3: the hostages. They are going to give back, and your
Speaker 3: leader just said, ah Man, October seventh was the greatest
Speaker 3: day of my life. That was fantastic. I hope we
Speaker 3: can do it again sometime. My final note on this,
Speaker 3: and there's a great deal more to be said. Some
Speaker 3: solid analysis I've come across is that I watched two
Speaker 3: videos within an hour of each other last night, and
Speaker 3: they were utterly indistinguishable. They were the same video. The
Speaker 3: first one was the celebratory chanting and jumping up and
Speaker 3: down and cheering in the streets at the announcement of
Speaker 3: the ceasefire in Gaza, And the other video I watched
Speaker 3: was the chanting and cheering valuah Bar and the beating
Speaker 3: of the corpses and the beatings of the live hostages
Speaker 3: as they were taken on October seventh. Not a small
Speaker 3: band of militants, the people of Gaza doing this, and
Speaker 3: they participated wholesale in the taking, the torturing, the raping,
Speaker 3: and the holding of the hostages. Yeah boy, you talk
Speaker 3: about an underreported, completely not reported aspect of this story.
Speaker 3: The people of Gaza loved this. They thought it was awesome,
Speaker 3: A hell of a lot of them. And you know
Speaker 3: what the way geopolitics works, if there's a minority that
Speaker 3: hated it, I feel terrible for them.
Speaker 1: That's awful. It's awful.
Speaker 3: They live under a terrorist, Islamist, monstrous regime.
Speaker 1: It's awful.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, that's an interesting story. We've got a lot
Speaker 3: more on all of those coming up. Let's start the
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Speaker 3: good point. Ricky the Bricky says, good morning, gentlemen. I
Speaker 3: don't know about this ceasefire agreement. I've heard a lot
Speaker 3: of talk about several somewhat important aspects, but not one
Speaker 3: word about returning the sausages hashtag no deal, ah.
Speaker 1: The return of astle. I don't know.
Speaker 3: Martha Radditts of ABC, one thing she is is a
Speaker 3: pretty hard bit foreign correspondent, been in a lot of
Speaker 3: war zones. And she said, you know, the who knows
Speaker 3: what conditions some of these hostages are in or what
Speaker 3: stories they're going to tell when they're released, and man,
Speaker 3: public opinion could change very quickly. I think that's absolutely true,
Speaker 3: and the Israelis are preparing for a very difficult set
Speaker 3: of jobs, given the physical and emotional the situation the
Speaker 3: hostages are probably going to be in when they're released.
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Speaker 3: I think we should some more confirmation stuff going on today,
Speaker 3: but still not scheduled. The big one, I think, at
Speaker 3: least from a spectacle standpoint, is the RFK Junior one.
Speaker 1: That one could be very exciting.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, and definitely a big flashing question mark over
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Speaker 1: you or try is that a Joe? Oh? Thank you? So?
Speaker 3: Joe Biden finishes with a speech. Last night's walking off.
Speaker 3: Who gets credit for the ceasefire agreement as if? I mean,
Speaker 3: at that time it seemed like it.
Speaker 1: Was actually gonna happen.
Speaker 3: I'm not so sure now, but anyway, who gets credit
Speaker 3: for the ceasefire agreement?
Speaker 1: Israel and Hamas? Is that a joke?
Speaker 3: Joe Biden said something similar. Not exactly sure why they're
Speaker 3: going with that. Since The New York Times is out today,
Speaker 3: Peter Baker big story top of the fold. How amazingly
Speaker 3: well two administrations that in theory hate each other, the
Speaker 3: Trump administration the Bide administration have been working hand in
Speaker 3: glove in the State Department to try to put this together.
Speaker 3: It's a cod putting it together. But Joe Biden went
Speaker 3: with his ad a joke that doesn't really matter. It's
Speaker 3: just odd. I think it's interesting that so almost all
Speaker 3: of the sound that we had put together from yesterday's
Speaker 3: newscasts and stuff like that about this no longer is
Speaker 3: operable because so many things have happened overnight. Israel bomba
Speaker 3: the but Jesus out of Gaza, the Gaza leader putting
Speaker 3: out a video saying, Oh God be praised, that was
Speaker 3: the greatest day ever. October seventh, May there be many
Speaker 3: more we declare victory. That's not a good way to
Speaker 3: get the whole ceasefire thing going. Yeah, I would say,
Speaker 3: and that was why, you know, yesterday and the day
Speaker 3: before I was expressing such skepticism about whether the joy
Speaker 3: was appropriate, and not in a cynical way, not in
Speaker 3: a mocking way. Certainly, if my loved one was held,
Speaker 3: I would be desperate for some sort of solution. But
Speaker 3: you are dealing with the devil. This is the snake
Speaker 3: you knew was a snake when you picked it up, Hamas.
Speaker 3: And they will remember it is only in their interest
Speaker 3: to seek peace and on accord of any sort if
Speaker 3: it serves their aim of wiping every Jew out of Israel,
Speaker 3: and if they can the face of the earth.
Speaker 1: That's what you're dealing with.
Speaker 3: Oh, one other thing to throw in, Secretary of State
Speaker 3: Blinken for a handful of more days said, Hamas is reconstituted,
Speaker 3: has replaced every member that has been killed. Why did
Speaker 3: he come out and say that? Was he trying to
Speaker 3: scuttle the deal? I mean, what an injury. I mean,
Speaker 3: if it's true, it's true. But one interesting thing to say.
Speaker 3: I have really conflicting thoughts about Anthony Blinken from day
Speaker 3: to day. I'll tell you this though, if you are
Speaker 3: serving at the pleasure of the president and executing his
Speaker 3: foreign policy, there will be times that a guy like
Speaker 3: Anthony Blinken disagrees with the president and is not getting
Speaker 3: his way.
Speaker 1: And in this the final.
Speaker 3: Week of the administration, you're starting to hear people say,
Speaker 3: here's what I really think. By the way, well, having
Speaker 3: read the David sangerbook and the Bob Woodward book, with
Speaker 3: all the behind the scenes of all this stuff Ukraine
Speaker 3: and Israel, Blincoln is way more of a hard ass
Speaker 3: than his boss, way more. He's got way more of
Speaker 3: a real politic view than his boss does. But anyway,
Speaker 3: the quote yesterday was the newspaper reporting Blincoln says new
Speaker 3: Hamas recruits have nearly replaced war losses.
Speaker 1: So why did he come out and say.
Speaker 3: That, I don't know. Interesting, I don't want to bury
Speaker 3: the lead. Just a few facts and then back to
Speaker 3: the analysis. Yesterday, Israel Hamas finally agreed to a truce
Speaker 3: as part of a six week ceasefire. Israel will withdraw
Speaker 3: from parts of Gaza, free hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, hundreds
Speaker 3: Hamas will receive, will release a few dozen a third
Speaker 3: of the hostages. It still holds well, and they're hoping
Speaker 3: of the one hundreds thirty three with life's sentences. And
Speaker 3: you've got to remember that Sinwar was a hostage, was
Speaker 3: a prisoner that was released by Israel in a swamp. Also,
Speaker 3: so you release those really bad guys, it can come
Speaker 3: back to Hanya. Israel's government must still ratify the agreement.
Speaker 3: Officials are treating it as complete. The truth will go
Speaker 3: into effect on Sunday. Hamas will release thirty three hostages
Speaker 3: in waves over six weeks. They'll include women, children, older men,
Speaker 3: and sicker wounded people. About a hundred hostages remain in Gaza,
Speaker 3: although about thirty five are believed to be dead. So
Speaker 3: they're releasing a third of the hostages. These fine fellas.
Speaker 3: I suppose you have to release them in waves just
Speaker 3: to see that Israel's holding up their end of the
Speaker 3: bargain by allowing in aid trucks and stopping bombing and all.
Speaker 1: That sort of stuff.
Speaker 3: Otherwise you've lost every bit of leverage you have that
Speaker 3: way that were yes, yeah, absolutely on both sides in
Speaker 3: different aspects of it. But I can't help but thing
Speaker 3: given the nature of Hamasis we're just discussing and the
Speaker 3: history of this thing. Israel gets a handful of the
Speaker 3: hostages back, turns loose some Palestinians, events will transpire, and
Speaker 3: it's on again, and this is very short lived.
Speaker 1: Well, I realize I'm very one sided on this. But
Speaker 1: so you got Israel. They're supposed to give back.
Speaker 3: Scumbag criminals who have dedicated their lives to killing Israelis.
Speaker 1: They're supposed to give them back.
Speaker 3: Hamas is going to give back college kids who were
Speaker 3: at a concert, children and old people who had nothing
Speaker 3: to do with nothing and never would have harmed a
Speaker 3: hair on anybody's head.
Speaker 1: But the peace activists.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I don't even understand how that's a
Speaker 3: deal in any way. Again, like I said yesterday, the
Speaker 3: only way I can see Israel wanting to make this deal, well,
Speaker 3: there is a lot of public pressure to get the
Speaker 3: hostages back, and also I think they want to get
Speaker 3: this off the table because they're planning on a major
Speaker 3: attack of Iran. I think couldn Yeah, absolutely, So the
Speaker 3: whatever is I gonna jump in?
Speaker 1: Ah?
Speaker 3: Yes, some really interesting analysis in the Wall Street Journal,
Speaker 3: Rory Jones summersade the broad terms agreed to Wednesday after
Speaker 3: a year fruitless negotiations are not substantially different from those
Speaker 3: that were available to both sides.
Speaker 1: Eight months ago. What changed is everything else.
Speaker 3: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Nettniel, who spent the first half
Speaker 3: of the year fighting with political rivals. He was stuck
Speaker 3: in a war of attrition with Hamas, facing ominous threats
Speaker 3: from iran sallied militia Lebanon hes Bulah.
Speaker 1: Then the tables turned.
Speaker 3: Israel killed Hamas leader Yaya Sinwar, battered hes Bulah with
Speaker 3: a series of operations, including one of the cleverest ever,
Speaker 3: the famous and infamous pagers and walkie talkies Attack Struck
Speaker 3: on Iran destroyed most of the country's air defenses. The
Speaker 3: Assad regime collapsed in Syria, punching a hole in Iran's
Speaker 3: network of militias.
Speaker 1: And Donald J.
Speaker 3: Trump, Yeah, and his iven in return to office has
Speaker 3: galvanized both sides. Who's the most absolutely true? Who the
Speaker 3: latest polling? Who's the most popular politician in Israel right now?
Speaker 1: By far?
Speaker 3: Donald Trump not surprising polls higher than anybody. I think
Speaker 3: there is a pretty good dividing line among Americans voters
Speaker 3: humanity in general. If you had asked the question, are
Speaker 3: there times when a leader must act with swift, fair brutality,
Speaker 3: and a fair number of human beings would say no,
Speaker 3: there's never a reason for that. You can always choose peace,
Speaker 3: And a certain number of us who would say, you know,
Speaker 3: war is to be avoided at all costs. Loss of
Speaker 3: human life, human suffering is to be avoided at virtually
Speaker 3: any cost.
Speaker 1: But not any cost.
Speaker 3: Sometimes you gotta you gotta kill people and hurt people
Speaker 3: and break stuff to prevent much more widespread death and destruction.
Speaker 1: It saves lives. It bothers me that I haven't seen
Speaker 1: anywhere but Fox.
Speaker 3: The fact that the current leader, Hope Mass put out
Speaker 3: a video last night saying, you know, being basically doing
Speaker 3: a touchdown dance.
Speaker 1: We won, We won, We defeated you. Who hope we
Speaker 1: can do it again? What? Why would you agree with
Speaker 1: that guy?
Speaker 3: So nobody but Fox has mentioned that it's only being
Speaker 3: covered as Net and Yah, who once again scuttling a
Speaker 3: peace deal, doesn't like peace warmonger, He likes dead Palestinians.
Speaker 3: But to be fair, Fox did their reporting today was
Speaker 3: Net and Yahoo. Hamas says they're willing to go forward
Speaker 3: with the deal the the way Joe just laid it
Speaker 3: out in the agreement. Hamas is still willing to go
Speaker 3: forward with it. Net and Yah who is not? And
Speaker 3: they and Net Yahho is not said specifically. Why so
Speaker 3: fair to point that out. I guess one final thoughts,
Speaker 3: which might re buy one more thing, might be because
Speaker 3: the right wing of his coalition is threatening to blow
Speaker 3: up the government. The people to the right of Net
Speaker 3: and Yahoo are saying, no freaking way we're doing a
Speaker 3: deal with these monsters will blow up the government. And
Speaker 3: you know, the way their government works, the whole thing
Speaker 3: could fall with ally that support. So he might just
Speaker 3: be kind of pretending to I don't know about this.
Speaker 3: I don't trust these guys to keep them happy.
Speaker 1: Pop right right.
Speaker 3: The journal also quotes this fellow is the director of
Speaker 3: the Middle East and North Africa Program at Chathamhouse Say
Speaker 3: think tank in London.
Speaker 1: Well thought of quote us.
Speaker 3: Pressure coming from President Trump directly think has been a
Speaker 3: huge motivator, particularly on Prime Minister Net Yahoo.
Speaker 1: But this deal is very fragile. I would agree it helps.
Speaker 3: You just said this, It helps to be people be
Speaker 3: scared of you. Nobody was scared of Joe Biden. They
Speaker 3: knew when push came to shove, your main thing was
Speaker 3: going to be don't escalate. But I just shoved you down.
Speaker 3: I'm not going to escalate. Yeah, we know you've said
Speaker 3: it a thousand times.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And if you're laying there on the ground, as Joe Biden,
Speaker 3: they just shoved you down, your response is going to
Speaker 3: be don't. If you're thinking you're shoving me again, don't embarrassing,
Speaker 3: freaking embarrassing. Oh, it's incredibly weak and invited aggression and
Speaker 3: illegals to come across.
Speaker 1: Don't. Here's my message to illegals thinking of coming to
Speaker 1: our border. Don't.
Speaker 3: How can any human being be that in a factual
Speaker 3: and continue to do and say the same things and
Speaker 3: not just be so horrifically mortifyingly embarrassed you would change
Speaker 3: your tech.
Speaker 1: I don't get that. Well, I don't know.
Speaker 3: We've all seen parents at the store having that sort
Speaker 3: of conversation with their child who continues to do whatever
Speaker 3: they want. You better stop or I always want to say,
Speaker 3: or what it looks like it looks like they can
Speaker 3: do whatever they want. Yeah, but hundreds of millions of
Speaker 3: people didn't vote for them to become the parent. I mean, anyway,
Speaker 3: a couple more thoughts. Very quickly, the editorial board of
Speaker 3: the journal is wondering whether Trump will break from the
Speaker 3: Biden's script to end Hamasa's rule of Gaza, because that's
Speaker 3: got to happen. Oh boy, otherwise there will be no
Speaker 3: lasting piece. It's an idiot fantasy that there could be. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you talk about the next stage of this. Who's gonna
Speaker 3: run that place? That's a complicated one. One more perspective,
Speaker 3: here's a conservative Israeli wrote an editorial. Trump forced net
Speaker 3: Yahoo to make a deal with the devil. Some hostages
Speaker 3: will come home, but Hamas survives, which means more Israelis
Speaker 3: and Americans will die.
Speaker 1: So that point of view is absolutely alive.
Speaker 3: And well, you would never know it from the mainstream
Speaker 3: liberal media, but yes, that point of view is not
Speaker 3: only alive, but it's valid. And then finally this, and
Speaker 3: it's a sobering thought. Indeed, Israel has medical teams, psychological teams,
Speaker 3: nutritionists all standing by because the hostages that were released
Speaker 3: more than a year ago were in tear ruble shape,
Speaker 3: many of them physically and psychologically.
Speaker 1: And that was a year ago. Hard to imagine.
Speaker 3: Yeah, serious emotional mental issues, malnutrition, weight loss, lice, skin diseases,
Speaker 3: you name it. I struggle to see why Israel would
Speaker 3: want to do this deal other than well, my theory
Speaker 3: that they're trying to fixate on attacking Iran and just
Speaker 3: to get you know, try to change world public opinion
Speaker 3: because Israel does need the world not to hate them
Speaker 3: even more.
Speaker 1: Doesn't do them any good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I just I think if they can get
Speaker 3: some of the hostages back, that's an obvious victory on
Speaker 3: a humanitarian level, and then the a fresh new can
Speaker 3: of whoop ass will be produced the moment it's needed.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 3: It's also always pointed out by the people over at Commentary,
Speaker 3: which is a Jewish publication' that's the Jewish thing. I mean,
Speaker 3: that's the Israeli thing. That's their law. We will do
Speaker 3: anything to get a hostage back, right, which is why
Speaker 3: they have to give one hundred Palestinians for every Jew.
Speaker 3: Frequently in these trades, they value life much more highly
Speaker 3: than Hamas, which doesn't value it at all. No, trust me,
Speaker 3: I value my dog's life more than the leaders of
Speaker 3: Hamas value the lives of any individual Palestinian citizen, because
Speaker 3: their death is a pr victory. They as it's said,
Speaker 3: the only thing they like better than a dead Jew
Speaker 3: is a dead Palestinian.
Speaker 1: See isful? Yeah, which is a horrifying situation.
Speaker 3: You'll be interesting to see how this plays out and
Speaker 3: the coverage of it and what Trump does and says.
Speaker 1: Maybe even today. So we got a lot more on
Speaker 1: the way.
Speaker 3: Katie's headlines coming up to stay here. Too much news,
Speaker 3: too much news happening.
Speaker 1: There needs to be a limit on the news.
Speaker 3: Only three things can happen per day, and only two
Speaker 3: of them can be unpleasant.
Speaker 1: Right, that needs to be the new rule.
Speaker 3: As I mentioned, we decided we're going to work on
Speaker 3: Monday because it's an on garation day and Trump becomes president,
Speaker 3: and there'll be a bunch of speech of fying and
Speaker 3: pageantry that we can comme out.
Speaker 1: If you enjoyed our play by play of.
Speaker 3: The Carter funeral, you'll enjoy our play by play of
Speaker 3: the Trump inauguration.
Speaker 1: Regrettable.
Speaker 3: Ah, So let's get to today. Can't wait to get started.
Speaker 3: Let's figure out who's reporting what it's the lead story
Speaker 3: with Katie Green.
Speaker 4: Katie starting with CNN, Hamas says it is quote committed
Speaker 4: to the truce. Several details of the timeline of the
Speaker 4: full deal remain unclear.
Speaker 3: I would imagine ridiculous. Why wouldn't they be committed to
Speaker 3: the truce? Again, I don't see what Israel. What Israel
Speaker 3: gets out of it? Of course, so you're gonna get
Speaker 3: back a whole bunch of fighters, hardened fighters. You're gonna
Speaker 3: get more aid in, and you get to reconstitute so.
Speaker 1: That you can attack anytime you want to. Again, what's
Speaker 1: the downside for you?
Speaker 4: The New York post La Mayor Karen Bass failed to
Speaker 4: deploy highly trained, one million dollar crisis response team to
Speaker 4: help the wildfire victims.
Speaker 3: So he is busy in Ghana, eating, drinking, having a
Speaker 3: big time. So many questions around this. I hope they
Speaker 3: are followed up upon.
Speaker 4: From ABC. Biden in farewell address warns about the dangers
Speaker 4: of unchecked power in the ultra wealthy.
Speaker 3: Oh again, you gave George Soros the Medal of Freedman,
Speaker 3: the Medal of Freedom last week. But now that there's
Speaker 3: a right wing billionaire, that's one of the big.
Speaker 1: Crisises in America history. A sterify.
Speaker 3: Please come for the the idiocy, as he Jack points out,
Speaker 3: stay for the incoherence.
Speaker 1: That was something last night. If you didn't see it,
Speaker 1: good for you.
Speaker 3: But we'll play a couple of quote unquote highlights just
Speaker 3: to give you the flavor of it.
Speaker 4: From the Free Beacon, Rubio breezes through confirmation hearing pledges
Speaker 4: to confront Iran's nuclear program and combat the.
Speaker 1: SEFCP no market.
Speaker 3: There are even some Democrats saying this is a good
Speaker 3: choice from Trump. So that's as an easy one.
Speaker 4: From Meta's pivot to the right sparks boycotts and a
Speaker 4: user exodus.
Speaker 1: Did he pivot to the right? Is that what is
Speaker 1: going on here? By merely saying.
Speaker 3: We're gonna stop acting the fact that Biden mentioned that
Speaker 3: in his speech last night.
Speaker 1: Oh, social media companies no longer fact checking?
Speaker 3: Please Wow, It's just I can't even Oh the best
Speaker 3: news of the day.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna save it for you the best news of
Speaker 1: the day next hour. At the beginning of the hour.
Speaker 1: From a conservative point of view from.
Speaker 4: The Wall Street Journal, Wall Street thinks US homes are overpriced.
Speaker 4: Are saying housing could be overvalued anywhere from ten to
Speaker 4: thirty five percent based on how investors are acting.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I got a friend who's in the home business.
Speaker 1: I want to say, you what, but he said in.
Speaker 3: Our area, he said, everything needs to come down by
Speaker 3: about half wow to be wow. Yeah, there are such
Speaker 3: distortions in the market to the fallout from COVID and
Speaker 3: the jacking up of the interest rates and everything. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's it's absolutely gonna filter down ten to thirty percent.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's far off. Wow. And I would
Speaker 1: guess closer to thirty than ten. I would agree.
Speaker 4: From Popular Science, the Gateway to the Grand Canyon fossilized
Speaker 4: bug farts, t rex poop and more ancient artifacts.
Speaker 1: It fossilized the passing of wind.
Speaker 4: I don't know, but it's called the pooseum.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 3: They're trying to because kids like dinosaurs and stuff, so
Speaker 3: they're trying to. Oh, I see what they're doing. Yes,
Speaker 3: and any reference to Pooh.
Speaker 1: And finally the Babylon bee.
Speaker 4: In effort to improve Senate confirmation hearings, Democrat women replaced
Speaker 4: by rabbit hyenas.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, Wow, that's that's unkind. We played yesterday the
Speaker 3: near cat fight on the floor or the house between
Speaker 3: Nancy Mason what's her face? From Texas who almost fought
Speaker 3: the mergery Tale of Green does Joe Biden think that
Speaker 3: liberal fact checking is real? Like, it's not just check facts. Okay,
Speaker 3: we got a lot more to get to the senile.
Speaker 1: That's true, Armstrong and Getty