Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and
Speaker 1: Getty and no he.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3: I'll be dealing with President Putin largely on the phone,
Speaker 3: and we ultimately expect to meet. In fact, we expect
Speaker 3: that he'll come here and I'll go there, and we're
Speaker 3: going to meet also, probably in Saudi Arabia, the first
Speaker 3: time we'll meet in Saudi Arabia see if we can get
Speaker 3: something done. But we want to end that war. That
Speaker 3: war is a disaster. It's a really bloody, horrible war.
Speaker 4: I don't know if we have this club. But Trump
Speaker 4: was asked specifically, something like, you know, is there a
Speaker 4: good guy and a bad guy in this war? Something
Speaker 4: along those lines, and he stayed away from question. I
Speaker 4: realize he's trying to negotiate with Putin and get him
Speaker 4: to agree to something. But dang, I think we need
Speaker 4: moral clarity on Putin's the bad guy. He's the evil guy.
Speaker 4: He's the worst guy. He's among the worst guys on.
Speaker 2: Earth right right. I wouldn't want to throw out the
Speaker 2: baby of Trump, the good things he's shaken up with
Speaker 2: the bathwater of some of the stuff I don't like.
Speaker 2: I think, as I said earlier, he's a little too
Speaker 2: quick to get rid of Chesterton's fence and rebuild it
Speaker 2: as Trump fence with solid gold. And I think some
Speaker 2: of the abandoning conventional thinking is probably too much, too
Speaker 2: fast and lacks moral clarity. As you'd said, some of
Speaker 2: it's great, but this one bothers me. Well, the idea
Speaker 2: dealing with Putin the way he is.
Speaker 4: The idea of even suggesting that Putin could come sit
Speaker 4: at the White House and meet the president after you know,
Speaker 4: bombing schools full of kids as the intention to death intentionally, yeah,
Speaker 4: what the hell?
Speaker 2: Or abduct We didn't even get to the.
Speaker 4: Abducting the tens of thousands of Ukrainian kids that they've
Speaker 4: taken back to Russia, taken them from their families.
Speaker 2: Turning them into loyal little Russians. Yeah, Instead, and we
Speaker 2: didn't even get to this story I think it was
Speaker 2: in the Wall Street Journal about the systematic torture of
Speaker 2: Ukrainian prisoners, how the guards were told take off your
Speaker 2: body cameras were suspending that regulation, make it as hard
Speaker 2: as possible on them, inflict pain whenever you can, for
Speaker 2: any reason, systematic torture with the goal of what breaking
Speaker 2: their will, rendering them shells of human beings, kill them
Speaker 2: without killing them.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 4: You can't have a guy like that sit down at
Speaker 4: the White House with the President and being treated unless
Speaker 4: we're unless we're luring him to a uh, you know,
Speaker 4: a country like ours to arrest him. I don't think
Speaker 4: he should be able to leave Russia.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think you need to worry about it
Speaker 2: because Putin would never to it. Way too much security
Speaker 2: risk for him, It'll never happen.
Speaker 4: How much does that help him, though, if he can
Speaker 4: play if his news agency, because it's the Putin news
Speaker 4: agency in Russia, gets to run a clip of President
Speaker 4: Trump talking about Putin coming to visit the White House.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think Trump would tell you that stuff doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: All that matters is the deal we strike. I'm working
Speaker 2: on a deal.
Speaker 4: But well, if that's true, then why do you got
Speaker 4: to flatter the guy. He's gonna do whatever is in
Speaker 4: his best interest, whether you call him.
Speaker 2: The devil or your best friend, isn't he Yeah? I
Speaker 2: think so. And again I'm not arguing this on my
Speaker 2: own behalf. I'm just trying to understand the way Trump
Speaker 2: might be approaching it. I think he's approaching it the
Speaker 2: same way you'd approach trying to get a spit of
Speaker 2: land on the coast of Ireland to build a golf
Speaker 2: resort on. You're gonna flatter the mayor and the local
Speaker 2: council people and the farmers and say nothing but great
Speaker 2: things about him and how excited you are, and how
Speaker 2: we could really have a great deal, until you know,
Speaker 2: it comes time to get down to breast tacks.
Speaker 4: God, how heartbreaking must it be for Zelensky, who's you know,
Speaker 4: had to be at the top of all this, and
Speaker 4: so many families in Ukraine if to hear that Putin
Speaker 4: could be treated like that, treated with that level of
Speaker 4: respect and dignity, Oh.
Speaker 2: My god, it's got to be astonishing and horrifying. Yeah,
Speaker 2: real polititicket, it's absolutely worse now. I also think Trump
Speaker 2: said something yesterday about when they was being asked about
Speaker 2: Putin and Zelensky.
Speaker 4: Well, Zelenski's pull numbers aren't very high. Have you seen
Speaker 4: so like took a shot.
Speaker 2: At him while he was flattering Putin. I just that
Speaker 2: whole act. I do not like if behind the scenes
Speaker 2: Trump is communicating with Zelensky and saying, trust me on this.
Speaker 2: It's going to look crazy, but trust me that okay, okay,
Speaker 2: but yeah, it's tough to take to flip it around.
Speaker 1: Though.
Speaker 4: We'll some more clips about this, because this was all
Speaker 4: the talk yesterday. You had the SEC def HEGXETH saying
Speaker 4: they're not going to get their land back, They're not
Speaker 4: gonna get their twenty pre twenty fourteen land is not
Speaker 4: coming back, and becoming part of NATO is off the table.
Speaker 4: So we announced those things just flat out yesterday, which
Speaker 4: is kind of interesting. From a negotiating standpoint. I would
Speaker 4: not use the word interesting. I'd use insane unless you've
Speaker 4: got some crazy strategy I don't know about. You would
Speaker 4: never take stuff off the table preemptively like that, even
Speaker 4: if it's clearly true, just to get to the real negotiating.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 4: I'm trying to think of an example where I'd be
Speaker 4: negotiating where we both know X isn't true, isn't gonna happen.
Speaker 4: So there's no point in pretending it is leverage because
Speaker 4: it's not.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but even if you have a little uncertainty in
Speaker 2: a negotiation, like that. You can exploit it and overplay
Speaker 2: that hand intentionally to get other concessions. It happens all
Speaker 2: the time.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I'm trying to come up with the scenario where I
Speaker 4: think it would make sense.
Speaker 2: But what was I saying?
Speaker 4: Oh, so this was the talk all day long yesterday,
Speaker 4: Hexeth announcing that, and then Trump talking about meeting with
Speaker 4: Putin there and here and everything else.
Speaker 1: So it's it's a big story.
Speaker 4: Oh, I was thinking to be fair to Trump's point
Speaker 4: of view on this, if I wanted to end of
Speaker 4: the war, and I thought it was in the United
Speaker 4: States best interest to end the war, do I believe
Speaker 4: that this might be a separate topic if I thought
Speaker 4: it was in the best interest in the United States
Speaker 4: to get this war off the table.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: Is there any point in bad mouth and Putin as
Speaker 4: you head to the negotiating table?
Speaker 2: Probably not. You know, I could come up with a
Speaker 2: rationale for it, But you know, my meanderings and musings,
Speaker 2: who needs them. It's it's unconventional. I'll say that, and
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what, And I don't believe this, but
Speaker 2: I am willing to entertain the notion that as I've
Speaker 2: said before Trump's Gazza Lago idea, which is just flat
Speaker 2: effing looney tunes. We'll take over Gaza, We'll clear out
Speaker 2: the rubble, We'll rebuild it as a groovy Mediterranean resort.
Speaker 2: The Palestinians can live in tracked homes over there, how lovely,
Speaker 2: Will you build them a park? It'll be great.
Speaker 4: I mean it's just but I mean I don't believe that, right,
Speaker 4: I mean, that's just no.
Speaker 2: No. But so as crazy as that is, though, all
Speaker 2: of a sudden, the leaders in the region are saying, no,
Speaker 2: we're not doing that. Let's come up with a good,
Speaker 2: solid plan we can do. It's like, hey, welcome to
Speaker 2: the party, boys, sixty seventy years down the line. Oh,
Speaker 2: now you want to be productive and kick in some
Speaker 2: money and actually solve this thing. Well lovely, and it
Speaker 2: took Trump's crazy ass idea to get them off the schneid.
Speaker 4: I would like to see some polling on this. The
Speaker 4: support for Ukraine has dropped bit by bit. It's almost
Speaker 4: it'll be three years, like a week that the war started,
Speaker 4: and it began with very high support for helping defend Ukraine,
Speaker 4: giving them what they need. Joe Biden said over and
Speaker 4: over again to Zelenski's space, We're with you to the end.
Speaker 4: You can count on us, while he would hold back
Speaker 4: the things they needed to keep their people alive. And
Speaker 4: now it looks like we ain't with you to the
Speaker 4: end at all. We're gonna wrap this thing up. You
Speaker 4: ain't getting your land back.
Speaker 2: And you know my final thought, and then I'll shut up.
Speaker 2: One of the more interesting things that really stuck with
Speaker 2: me about a particular class I took years and years ago,
Speaker 2: was we were talking about the difficulty democracies have in
Speaker 2: ending wars because there will be political costs, often enormous
Speaker 2: political costs for the people who end the war, particularly
Speaker 2: if it doesn't end in glorious victory, because if it
Speaker 2: ends in glorious victory, it ends itself. And so a
Speaker 2: dictator can end a war and say we've won so
Speaker 2: glorious victory, even though clearly it's not. Nobody says anything
Speaker 2: about it, and it is over. In a democracy, it
Speaker 2: is much much harder, which is perverse and counterintuitive, but
Speaker 2: it's true if you think about it, no doubt, and
Speaker 2: then that's a political price to pay if you didn't
Speaker 2: end it in the right way right, exactly, yeah, Or
Speaker 2: like Joe Biden, maybe it was time to get out
Speaker 2: of Afghanistan, but the way he implemented it was horrifically stupid.
Speaker 2: Reminds me of Trump of a bush and a rock. Anyway,
Speaker 2: to get back to the main thread of things, a
Speaker 2: guy like Trump would say, he would ask his advisors
Speaker 2: like he's asking his foreman building a golf resort. If
Speaker 2: we hang in there and the Ukrainians hang in there
Speaker 2: for another six months, then we go hard. Can we
Speaker 2: materially change their prospects? And the negotiating board and his
Speaker 2: experts to tell him no, which is no, it's probably true, right,
Speaker 2: it's a stalemate. Trump would say, all right, we end
Speaker 2: it now, let's get to the table. Let's not have
Speaker 2: any more bloodshed.
Speaker 4: What's the upside of MA making noises about standing up
Speaker 4: for democracies and everything?
Speaker 1: If nothing's going to get better, that's right? Not a
Speaker 1: horrible argument.
Speaker 2: No, No, it's a very cold hearted analysis of things
Speaker 2: that sometimes can cut through democracies not wanting to end
Speaker 2: a war when they should. For instance, I think Trump
Speaker 2: goes too far sometimes he disrespects things that actually do matter.
Speaker 2: But I am more than willing to let these things
Speaker 2: play out and then say, wow, I didn't see that coming.
Speaker 2: I was wrong. I know that makes me a bad
Speaker 2: talk show host. But we'll all find out together.
Speaker 4: I want to hear how ABC summarized this last night.
Speaker 5: President Trump on the phone with Russian President Putin for
Speaker 5: ninety minutes, agreeing to start negotiations immediately to end the
Speaker 5: war in Ukraine. Trump choosing to talk with Putin first,
Speaker 5: the President agreeing to meet with Putin, saying their first
Speaker 5: sit down could be in Saudi Arabia in the near future,
Speaker 5: but Trump also suggesting he may go to Russia and
Speaker 5: that Putin might come here, Trump saying the Ukrainian president
Speaker 5: would likely be involved.
Speaker 2: In a second meeting.
Speaker 5: Zelensky posting this photo of their phone call today, saying,
Speaker 5: together with the US, we are charting our next steps
Speaker 5: to stomp Russian aggression and ensure a lasting, reliable peace.
Speaker 5: As President Trump said, let's get.
Speaker 1: It done well.
Speaker 4: It's a very upbeat, positive spin on the story of
Speaker 4: the day there for ABC Evening News.
Speaker 2: I just think Trump's trying to flatter Putin and say, hey,
Speaker 2: I'm willing to work with you, I respect you, I
Speaker 2: like you, I get you, let's work together. He's trying
Speaker 2: to play putin, which is fine, but again it's like
Speaker 2: complimenting an alligator on its scales so it doesn't chew
Speaker 2: your leg off.
Speaker 4: One more clip. This is a second deaf pete hegzeth.
Speaker 4: On the future of Ukraine.
Speaker 6: We want, like you, a sovereign and prosperous Ukraine, but
Speaker 6: we must start by recognizing that returning to Ukraine's pre
Speaker 6: twenty fourteen borders is an unrealistic objective. Chasing this illusionary goal,
Speaker 6: we will only prolong the war and cause more suffering.
Speaker 4: So many lives lost and nothing accomplished by anyone good.
Speaker 2: I am mystified by this because Zelensky said something similar
Speaker 2: himself lately. I don't understand why you go big and
Speaker 2: blunt with it like that.
Speaker 4: Well, there will be a book written in a couple
Speaker 4: of years that will probably explain it.
Speaker 2: Would be my guess.
Speaker 4: We got more on the way stay here. Too much
Speaker 4: news needs to be some sort of federal law on
Speaker 4: the amount of news every day.
Speaker 2: Five stories a day, maybe five big ones and five
Speaker 2: small ones and a sports story, right, and like one
Speaker 2: puppy saved by brave fireman.
Speaker 4: That can be a bonus one and who won this
Speaker 4: week's Westminster dog shows. It it seems to be a
Speaker 4: weekly event, no kidding.
Speaker 2: I wonder if there's going to be a run on
Speaker 2: those giant schnaus Well, of course there are, of course
Speaker 2: the dignified giant Schnauzer they call it, is there like
Speaker 2: an undignified giant Schnauzer breed as well, like the clowney,
Speaker 2: you know, kind of loser giant Schnauzer that where's a
Speaker 2: wife beater around the house and poops where it once?
Speaker 2: I don't know. So this is one of my favorite
Speaker 2: moments in legislative history. A House Republican representative Earl Buddy
Speaker 2: Carter of Georgia. Natch, I'm gonna move to Georgia just
Speaker 2: to vote for Earl Buddy Carter. He introduced a bill
Speaker 2: this week that would enable President Trump's efforts to purchase
Speaker 2: Greenland and rename it red, White, and Blueland. The bill
Speaker 2: would also require the federal government to refer to it
Speaker 2: as such on official maps and documents, never mind what
Speaker 2: the denmarkings and Greenlanders say. Let's see. As part of
Speaker 2: the bill, America is back and will soon be bigger
Speaker 2: than ever with the addition of red, White and Blueland.
Speaker 2: President Trump has correctly identified the purchase of what is
Speaker 2: now Greenland is a national security priority, and we'll proudly
Speaker 2: welcome its people joined. The freest nation ever exists when
Speaker 2: our negotiator in chief inks this monumental deal. Also considered
Speaker 2: as names for the new state, Cold af Sylvania, Polar Barrington,
Speaker 2: simply Ice, Ice Baby, and my favorite North North North Dakota.
Speaker 2: Oh now, we're gonna have nice cooperation with Greenland. The
Speaker 2: Arctic in those passageways are going to be incredibly important
Speaker 2: in the next fifty years. And it's a good thing.
Speaker 1: Do you remember?
Speaker 4: I should do it again in case anybody didn't hear it.
Speaker 4: The biggest rumor in Washington, d C. According to Mark Calpern,
Speaker 4: and he talks to all the players. Oh yeah, the
Speaker 4: biggest rumor in the world, persistent and omnipresent, is the
Speaker 4: talk of a grand bargain between the United States and
Speaker 4: China that involves reduced tariffs, US access to Greenland, China's
Speaker 4: peaceful taking of Taiwan, all and several provisions and players
Speaker 4: to be named later. It seems it's implausible to many
Speaker 4: years and eyes, but the talk of this deal is everywhere,
Speaker 4: says Mark Alpern.
Speaker 2: This sounds like it could be a moral horror to me,
Speaker 2: but I'm trying to understand it. We won't fight you
Speaker 2: on Taiwan. We concede, sorry, Vladimer. You get the rights
Speaker 2: to the northern passage through the Arctic and the rest
Speaker 2: of it as a zone of influence and security, and
Speaker 2: let's get it on and we call it a deal. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and a couple of players that be named later.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I got a question. So yesterday was Lincoln's birthday? Yes, sir,
Speaker 4: and Lincoln is on the penny. The penny was the
Speaker 4: most my whole life. I'm the present piece of currency
Speaker 4: that existed. It is since lost its usefulness. Yes, we
Speaker 4: all agree with that. But if Lincoln isn't the greatest
Speaker 4: president of all time, he's number two. So I mean,
Speaker 4: you know everybody agrees on that pretty much. Right, he'd
Speaker 4: s either him or Washington. They're in the top two.
Speaker 4: And do we move him to another? Doesn't it seem
Speaker 4: I mean, we're eliminating the most dominant currency that existed
Speaker 4: for my whole life with him on it. So that's
Speaker 4: a lot of less Lincoln bouncing around and they're talking
Speaker 4: about putting you know, Harriet Tubman on the twenty or whatever.
Speaker 2: They've been talking about that for a long time. Does
Speaker 2: it still got the fire? He's got the five dollar bill. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's a fine, you know, piece of currency, the fin
Speaker 2: the five.
Speaker 4: It ain't like the penny. Though everybody had a penny
Speaker 4: in their pocket. My whole life, Lincoln was in their pocket,
Speaker 4: your whole life.
Speaker 2: No more. You got to move on. I just feel
Speaker 2: like he's getting downgraded. Only I don't know what to
Speaker 2: tell you, you know how, I'm always predicting a planet of
Speaker 2: the beavers because human beings are going to die off
Speaker 2: because we're not reproducing. Fascinating story. The Czech Republic was
Speaker 2: trying to build a damn project for years and years
Speaker 2: and years, and while they were arguing about it, Beaver's
Speaker 2: action damned off the river and accomplished what the government couldn't.
Speaker 1: That's a pretty funny story.
Speaker 2: They're ready to take over Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 7: The intensity really developed after the election. So what's important
Speaker 7: to remember about Mark is that it's ten precedentent. He
Speaker 7: was passed up for three prisoner swaps, two in twenty
Speaker 7: twenty two and one in August first, twenty twenty four,
Speaker 7: passed up by who, by the Russians or by by
Speaker 7: by both sides at.
Speaker 2: The end of the day. Yeah, I don't know how
Speaker 2: that all shook out.
Speaker 4: That's that teacher that got let loose by Russia, Okaya
Speaker 4: this week, Fogel.
Speaker 2: Yeah, from what I've gathered, the Biden administration did not
Speaker 2: declare him a wrongful detainee because he was caught with
Speaker 2: allegedly you never know, with Russia, the Hippi lets allegedly
Speaker 2: seventeen grams of medicinal marijuana entering Russia. I say, if
Speaker 2: you smuggle a drug you know to be illegal into
Speaker 2: a foreign land, man, you have made a terrible, terrible mistake.
Speaker 4: I don't know that your home country needs to trade
Speaker 4: some super bad guy to that country to get you back,
Speaker 4: because you couldn't be in Russia without getting high.
Speaker 2: Well, right and again, if that is true. And I
Speaker 2: was all prepared to be outraged because he was already
Speaker 2: being held when Britney Griner did her thing, and immediately
Speaker 2: all of America rushed to her aid because she's a
Speaker 2: basketball player, although she just had trace amounts on her
Speaker 2: vape pen evidently, and this dude had seventeen grams, which
Speaker 2: is a significant amount of pod allegedly.
Speaker 4: Happy Gallantine's Day. Still trying to wrap my head around this.
Speaker 4: Maybe you all knew about it.
Speaker 2: I didn't.
Speaker 4: I'd never heard about it in my life. We're still
Speaker 4: getting text about it. Gallantine's Day. So it comes from
Speaker 4: the TV show Parks and Recreation. It was a joke,
Speaker 4: kind of like in the way Festivus was a joke
Speaker 4: on Seinfeld.
Speaker 2: But people still talk about it.
Speaker 4: Gallantine's Day caught on and it seems to be a
Speaker 4: combination of women who just want to get together for
Speaker 4: drinks after work or Mimosa's for brunch or whatever, and
Speaker 4: then we'll celebrate Valentine's Day with a dude. Or We've
Speaker 4: gotten a number of text from people, say, those of
Speaker 4: us who are widowed or divorced or have no man
Speaker 4: in our lives, we like Gallentine Day to get together
Speaker 4: with the gals. I don't know, Katie, you celebrate Galentine's Days?
Speaker 8: I have before, and it's yeah, it's a good time
Speaker 8: hang out with the girls, and it's a reason to
Speaker 8: drink together early.
Speaker 4: Sure do we need more reasons? Or it is Thursday
Speaker 4: not a good Thursday was always good enough reason for me.
Speaker 4: That seems like a pretty damn good reason. It's Thursday
Speaker 4: or Tuesday or Wednesday morning or whatever.
Speaker 8: You sound like, majorcas Tuesday, Wednesday.
Speaker 4: I will get together with friends to drink on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, well,
Speaker 4: and so on, and we have.
Speaker 2: A very busy schedule. The first I heard about it
Speaker 2: recently was from an email from a gal who said,
Speaker 2: and she is a very Haiti like woman, Katie, very
Speaker 2: down to earth practical, who said, now, this is just
Speaker 2: more people aren't getting together. This is uh, nobody is
Speaker 2: interested in Rome as what. I don't hell, I don't know,
Speaker 2: and I don't particularly care. I don't think we're headed
Speaker 2: for a planet of the beavers, and I've come to
Speaker 2: accept it, which reminds me so seriously. Now. For years,
Speaker 2: officials in the Czech Republic, which is absolutely beautiful, it
Speaker 2: pushed a dam project to protect a river south of
Speaker 2: Prague and the critically endangered species living in it, but
Speaker 2: the project, hamstrung by land negotiations stalled. In the meantime,
Speaker 2: a group of chiseltoothed mammals renowned for their engineering skills
Speaker 2: and work ethic, an unencumbered by bureaucracy, decided to take
Speaker 2: on the task. The Beavers of Prague simply built dams themselves.
Speaker 2: The Rodents fast work. That's a band you follow around
Speaker 2: and you smoke dope. Even if they go to Moscow.
Speaker 2: The Beavers are prog. Yeah oh yeah, yeah, really rock hard.
Speaker 2: Dang dang ticket. That's sort of last I saw him.
Speaker 2: They played a fifteen minute version of Czech River. It
Speaker 2: was unbelievable. Yeah yeah, a twelve minute chainsaw solo. Anyway,
Speaker 2: they simply built the dams themselves. The Rodents' fast work
Speaker 2: saved the local authorities one point two million euros, according
Speaker 2: to a news release from somebody or other. Ah, so wait,
Speaker 2: do they.
Speaker 8: Do anything else? And can we hire some of them
Speaker 8: in California?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: No, kidding, Yeah, can they increase water storage in California?
Speaker 2: Gavin Newsom hasn't. Jerry Brown didn't in generations as the
Speaker 2: population doubled. Maybe we hire the Beavers of Prague.
Speaker 4: The Beavers of Prague, their original drummer choked on his
Speaker 4: own vomit, but the new.
Speaker 1: Guy's pretty good.
Speaker 2: So hey, you know what I.
Speaker 4: Want to get this on. This is Elon Musk doing
Speaker 4: a zoom call. Overnight for some place in the Middle East.
Speaker 4: Does he ever sleep anyway? Between him and Trump? No
Speaker 4: wonder their buddies that they need no rest. They run
Speaker 4: twenty four hours a day.
Speaker 9: We do need to delete entire agencies as opposed to
Speaker 9: leave part of them behind. Because you leave part of
Speaker 9: them behind, it's easy. It's kind of like if they're
Speaker 9: leaving a weed. If you don't remove the roots of
Speaker 9: the weed, then it's easy for the weed to grow back.
Speaker 9: But if you remove the roots of the weed, it
Speaker 9: doesn't stop weeds.
Speaker 2: From ever going back, but it makes it harder.
Speaker 9: So we have to really delete entire agencies.
Speaker 1: Any of them clearly, clearly true.
Speaker 4: And I heard it described last night on MSNBC comparing
Speaker 4: government workers to weeds. You know that sort of thing.
Speaker 4: Shut up and that is the proper response. But other
Speaker 4: than is you know, renaming himself Harry Balls. Every time
Speaker 4: I hear him talk, it's in very measured, reasonable tones. No,
Speaker 4: we need to look at these agencies and go through
Speaker 4: the books and see what they're accomplishing, whether they're you know,
Speaker 4: the employees, all the employees are needed or not. How
Speaker 4: is that not completely reasonable?
Speaker 2: Well, when you see the response that is frantic and
Speaker 2: illogical and fake civil rights. See you understand that it's
Speaker 2: not about principle. If it were, you know, you'd be
Speaker 2: one hundred percent right. There's no way to object to it.
Speaker 2: All of the things he've said on this topic have
Speaker 2: been one hundred percent reasonable and patriotic and smart and
Speaker 2: the rest of it, which just shows you the true
Speaker 2: nature of politics.
Speaker 4: But what's legal and all that sort of stuff, I
Speaker 4: don't know, And that'll get worked out in the courts
Speaker 4: now and again, what Trump defies the courts of constitutional crisis?
Speaker 4: He has stated specifically he will abide by the court
Speaker 4: rulings and they'll fight in the courts.
Speaker 2: He's set it out loud.
Speaker 4: But you still have a roundtable on CNN, And what
Speaker 4: will we do if he ignores the courts?
Speaker 1: He just said he's not going to.
Speaker 2: Do fine, you know, I wanted to get into the
Speaker 2: whole fake who we're having a constitutional crisis when jd
Speaker 2: Vance tweeted the other day that we will not allow
Speaker 2: the judiciary to essentially intrude on legitimate executive power, and
Speaker 2: everybody went crazy on the CNN panels, Jack's talking about
Speaker 2: and was talking about how oh Trump's going to defy
Speaker 2: the court. So that's a construtional crisis and the rest
Speaker 2: of it. When what Vance said is, well, it's the
Speaker 2: stuff of a Yale law student. No, he was saying,
Speaker 2: there are legitimate provinces of discretion within the executive branch,
Speaker 2: and we plan to exercise them, and if a court
Speaker 2: limits us, we will fight that and we will win.
Speaker 2: So it was a testament to respect for the system,
Speaker 2: not defiance. I mean, you really had to stretch to
Speaker 2: interpret that is. Yeah, let John Roberts come over here
Speaker 2: and enforce his s himself.
Speaker 1: Is that's not what he said.
Speaker 4: It all trying to figure out what's going on with
Speaker 4: the giant aircraft carrier, the Truman, that crashed into a
Speaker 4: pretty good sized ship in the Mediterranean Sea, and it
Speaker 4: just happened like in the last hour or so. We're
Speaker 4: broken last hour or so. I hope it's another not
Speaker 4: another black eye for the Navy where it looks like
Speaker 4: we don't quite have her act together, like has happened
Speaker 4: a few times in recent years.
Speaker 2: Again, maybe it's a timely warning before the pooh has
Speaker 2: hit the fan, we realize, hey, we're going to sharpen
Speaker 2: up this, that and the other that's true. Maybe Pete
Speaker 2: Haggszeth will get to the bottom ll if we're not sharp.
Speaker 4: It'd be better to find it out now than when
Speaker 4: we try to stop China from taking Taiwan or something
Speaker 4: like that.
Speaker 2: It's undeniable that the captain of the aircraft carrier's career
Speaker 2: will be over unless it's a really, really weird circumstance.
Speaker 2: On the other hand, the guy and the other ship,
Speaker 2: how'd you miss a twelve hundred foot vessel? Right, it's
Speaker 2: as big as a skyscraper. What are you doing in
Speaker 2: the way?
Speaker 4: So I saw the headline yesterday people are rushing to
Speaker 4: buy chickens around the United States, And then I googled
Speaker 4: it and I started to google rush to buy chickens
Speaker 4: to see and a whole bunch of different headlines came
Speaker 4: up from Chicago and Seattle and you know, name wherever
Speaker 4: in this in the country where people are buying chickens
Speaker 4: because egg prices are so high and you're all.
Speaker 2: Of a sudden going to be a chicken farmer. It
Speaker 2: just seems like a lot.
Speaker 1: Do you need eggs that much?
Speaker 2: I don't know. You must need eggs more than I do.
Speaker 2: But Michael, I know how busy you are. But how
Speaker 2: many times have chickens been mentioned in the last week,
Speaker 2: And there's one particular clip that has not been played,
Speaker 2: not even once. Jack back to you.
Speaker 4: Well, when I went to Google rushed to buy chickens,
Speaker 4: the suggestions that it put up there, you know, because
Speaker 4: Google gives you. The most popular chicken related questions currently
Speaker 4: being asked was why are so many people buying chickens?
Speaker 4: Really a lot of you google that, h So you're
Speaker 4: aware that people are buying chickens. You're not aware that
Speaker 4: egg prices are up where you feel like to inquire
Speaker 4: and you feel like you're missing out. All my friends
Speaker 4: are buying chickens. Is this the hot thing? I feel
Speaker 4: like I feel like I got.
Speaker 2: That's uh foamk fear of missing chickens. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2: That's that's very odd, that's very meta, that's very Internet age.
Speaker 1: It is it is. Yes, Michael, we do have.
Speaker 2: The infamous uh chicken clip.
Speaker 4: Here you go then on Fox five, Sky Guardian and
Speaker 4: then check that seven day.
Speaker 2: To make your weekend glance.
Speaker 1: It takes a tough man to make a ten to
Speaker 1: forecast nick.
Speaker 2: Chicken. Okay, I'll do.
Speaker 4: We continue.
Speaker 2: It's so stupid.
Speaker 4: Let me continue. Did we ever nail down why he
Speaker 4: said that or precisely what he said? Was that an
Speaker 4: unnecessary censorship? No, that was real, but he actually said
Speaker 4: it right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he actually said he wanted to say plucking.
Speaker 1: But he.
Speaker 2: Dropped the F bomb. That's a that's an odd mistake
Speaker 2: to make. I've been doing this job for men many
Speaker 2: years and I've yet too fumble the ball quite that serious.
Speaker 4: Now that I know he actually said that, I would
Speaker 4: like to hear it again so I can hear how
Speaker 4: they all react and try to move on. Then on
Speaker 4: Fox five Sky Guardian and then check that seven day
Speaker 4: to make your weekend plans.
Speaker 1: It takes a tough man to make a tender forecast.
Speaker 6: Nick, okay, we continue.
Speaker 4: So the other guys, okay, I'll do that. You can
Speaker 4: hear because the way it's bleep, we've got the f
Speaker 4: in there, so yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's legit.
Speaker 4: You go to commercials Okay, hey, Jim, what the hell
Speaker 4: was that?
Speaker 2: Oh? You know, well, and you'd think, wait a minute,
Speaker 2: did I just hear that? Last night, I'm sitting there
Speaker 2: with my son who's visiting, along with my oldest daughter.
Speaker 2: The youngest soon to arrive. Uh and uh and and
Speaker 2: Little D texted me a question and I answered it,
Speaker 2: Nah an age and uh, that's my youngest daughter de lady.
Speaker 2: And I glanced down and I was like, wait a minute, wait,
Speaker 2: what did my brain just do because it looked like
Speaker 2: my iPhone wanted to autofill an n bomb? What And
Speaker 2: I'm like, wait, wait, whoa wait, I didn't. I didn't
Speaker 2: imagine that. That's too freaking weird. And so I did
Speaker 2: it once or twice more, and for some reason, like
Speaker 2: the third time I did it, it tried to autofill
Speaker 2: nagger the infamous South Park bit, south Park bit, but
Speaker 2: yeah it actually I typed nah, and my iPhone tried
Speaker 2: to say nager, so an expression I have never used
Speaker 2: in any concept, any context except describing the infamous South.
Speaker 1: Park right boy?
Speaker 2: No like that. No, I was shocked. And again it
Speaker 2: must have been like here in your coworker, drop an
Speaker 2: F bomb? You'd be like, did I see? Did I
Speaker 2: hear that?
Speaker 4: Have you had any experiences like we were talking about yesterday?
Speaker 4: Of the AI suggestion replies to long text, I had
Speaker 4: another one last hour, having fairly lengthy text conversation with somebody.
Speaker 4: It was like it suggested. I say, I'm sorry to
Speaker 4: hear that, maybe it'll work out or something like that.
Speaker 4: I'm like, this is a heartfelt conversation. I shouldn't be
Speaker 4: just taking your suggestions of how to continue it.
Speaker 2: It's weird. Yeah, Tim Cook. Maybe there are people who
Speaker 2: actually want real human interaction removed from their lives completely.
Speaker 2: I'm not one of them. I think that's really one
Speaker 2: of the only things worth living for, so I'll I
Speaker 2: handle it. Thank you. Wow. I don't know how I
Speaker 2: feel about it.
Speaker 4: If I find out somebody's responding to me, if I
Speaker 4: send a heartfelt, complicated dealing with kids or marriage or
Speaker 4: whatever it is, and I find out the replies were
Speaker 4: just I just went with the AI suggestions.
Speaker 2: Jack, You'll live through this, You'll gain wisdom from it,
Speaker 2: and you'll value these years. Trust me on that.
Speaker 4: Don't be a nagger, and I'll say, hey, thanks, that
Speaker 4: really helped me in a hard say.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I just pressed send.
Speaker 2: I didn't even look at it, but I'm glad to
Speaker 2: hear it.
Speaker 1: Come on, We'll finish strong next time, arm strong, hetty.
Speaker 10: I'm saying, isn't just a jilly famous Presidente Margarita.
Speaker 1: Jilly says, my god, I know I'm sanging out man and.
Speaker 9: A great sound.
Speaker 1: Frances say, song promoting.
Speaker 2: President Margarita. And it's as good as any actual pop
Speaker 2: song because it.
Speaker 10: Says or click one hundred percent. It's one hundred percent
Speaker 10: as good as Humphrey hips. It's the most I don't
Speaker 10: know when the last time music was this homogeneous.
Speaker 1: I suppose as it always was, but no, no, no, no.
Speaker 8: No no.
Speaker 2: I ought to write a lengthy piece, it would be
Speaker 2: like a thousand words if it's for National Review. It'd
Speaker 2: be ten thousand if it was for the Atlantic. But
Speaker 2: talking about how there was absolutely creativity and some anarchy
Speaker 2: and just wild explorations within quote unquote pop music for
Speaker 2: a while. But it's a commodity that's fairly valuable in
Speaker 2: the marketplace, and so it became commoditized. And now it's
Speaker 2: just it's like corn.
Speaker 4: But you don't think like O wheat future, but you
Speaker 4: don't think it makes its way through different genres like
Speaker 4: I feel like all ninety early nineties hip hop sounded
Speaker 4: exactly the same. And then there was a period of
Speaker 4: like in the seventies, there was the kind of music
Speaker 4: it was all sounded the same, and.
Speaker 2: Oh sure, yeah, and then somebody breaks through, whether it's
Speaker 2: Nirvana or Elvis or whatever, and then quickly the corporate
Speaker 2: go grab hold of that and commoditize it again. And
Speaker 2: then you got to find your creativity elsewhere.
Speaker 4: But modern country. And I'm a country fan, so that
Speaker 4: hurts more. But it Oh, it's hard to take it,
Speaker 4: you know.
Speaker 8: Chadcarmstrong and j Getti.
Speaker 2: Now that's genre bending genius right there.
Speaker 1: Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew
Speaker 2: to wrap up today. There is our technical director, Michelangelo. Michael,
Speaker 2: you know I'm still getting compliments about my cheese dip,
Speaker 2: and I know I was, and get this much love.
Speaker 2: I got to create another food because you know, I've
Speaker 2: never felt so good.
Speaker 1: I never felt so good.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 2: We've known various DJs who've like sold their their barbecue
Speaker 2: sauce or whatever made a few bucks. You ought to
Speaker 2: do that, oh right, Katie Greener.
Speaker 4: Like Sammy Hagar's tequila is significantly different than anybody else's
Speaker 4: plate man, Katie.
Speaker 2: Green arsteam to Newswoman as a final thought.
Speaker 8: Katie, Joe, I would love for you to go to
Speaker 8: your lovely bride and pitch a golfing times Day'll take time, you.
Speaker 2: Know, I'll jump again and say my final thought is,
Speaker 2: I think one of the secrets to our happy marriage
Speaker 2: is we're perfectly comfortable with We do us stuff, and
Speaker 2: then I do me stuff and she does her stuff.
Speaker 2: Then we come together and do us stuff again. It's great, Jack.
Speaker 4: Final thought, Well, the important thing is that the most
Speaker 4: romantic times are the ones declared by the Hallmark card company.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, and that's when if it's not a perfect day,
Speaker 4: your relationship is, or at least should be ruined and ended. Yes,
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Speaker 2: It's not efficiency.
Speaker 1: I'm strong and getty. Our message is clear. We're gonna stand.
Speaker 2: Up, We're gonna speak up, We're gonna we're gonna do
Speaker 2: anything we.
Speaker 1: Need to do.
Speaker 2: Who I got nothing for you on that, So let's
Speaker 2: go with a bang. That's right, all right?
Speaker 1: Every time I don't know, is I pay no attention?
Speaker 2: Well, I was just surprised to find out you pay
Speaker 2: no attention when it's not normal. But by Armstrong and
Speaker 2: Getty