WEBVTT - F.O.M.C. - Fear Of Missing Chickens 0:00:01.880 --> 0:00:06.200 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:10.920 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and 0:00:11.000 --> 0:00:12.520 Getty and no he. 0:00:15.440 --> 0:00:17.280 Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:25.440 --> 0:00:29.040 I'll be dealing with President Putin largely on the phone, 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:32.559 and we ultimately expect to meet. In fact, we expect 0:00:33.479 --> 0:00:35.760 that he'll come here and I'll go there, and we're 0:00:35.760 --> 0:00:38.840 going to meet also, probably in Saudi Arabia, the first 0:00:38.840 --> 0:00:40.920 time we'll meet in Saudi Arabia see if we can get 0:00:41.320 --> 0:00:43.960 something done. But we want to end that war. That 0:00:44.000 --> 0:00:47.640 war is a disaster. It's a really bloody, horrible war. 0:00:48.159 --> 0:00:49.800 I don't know if we have this club. But Trump 0:00:49.880 --> 0:00:54.240 was asked specifically, something like, you know, is there a 0:00:54.280 --> 0:00:56.120 good guy and a bad guy in this war? Something 0:00:56.120 --> 0:01:00.640 along those lines, and he stayed away from question. I 0:01:00.680 --> 0:01:03.680 realize he's trying to negotiate with Putin and get him 0:01:03.680 --> 0:01:06.600 to agree to something. But dang, I think we need 0:01:06.640 --> 0:01:10.880 moral clarity on Putin's the bad guy. He's the evil guy. 0:01:10.959 --> 0:01:13.160 He's the worst guy. He's among the worst guys on. 0:01:13.080 --> 0:01:17.120 Earth right right. I wouldn't want to throw out the 0:01:17.160 --> 0:01:20.039 baby of Trump, the good things he's shaken up with 0:01:20.080 --> 0:01:21.760 the bathwater of some of the stuff I don't like. 0:01:22.520 --> 0:01:24.400 I think, as I said earlier, he's a little too 0:01:24.440 --> 0:01:27.800 quick to get rid of Chesterton's fence and rebuild it 0:01:27.880 --> 0:01:33.120 as Trump fence with solid gold. And I think some 0:01:33.200 --> 0:01:37.119 of the abandoning conventional thinking is probably too much, too 0:01:37.160 --> 0:01:41.000 fast and lacks moral clarity. As you'd said, some of 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:43.520 it's great, but this one bothers me. Well, the idea 0:01:43.520 --> 0:01:44.800 dealing with Putin the way he is. 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:48.000 The idea of even suggesting that Putin could come sit 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:51.800 at the White House and meet the president after you know, 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:59.240 bombing schools full of kids as the intention to death intentionally, yeah, 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:00.320 what the hell? 0:02:00.440 --> 0:02:02.920 Or abduct We didn't even get to the. 0:02:02.720 --> 0:02:05.440 Abducting the tens of thousands of Ukrainian kids that they've 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:07.880 taken back to Russia, taken them from their families. 0:02:07.960 --> 0:02:11.360 Turning them into loyal little Russians. Yeah, Instead, and we 0:02:11.400 --> 0:02:13.240 didn't even get to this story I think it was 0:02:13.240 --> 0:02:16.239 in the Wall Street Journal about the systematic torture of 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:20.920 Ukrainian prisoners, how the guards were told take off your 0:02:20.919 --> 0:02:24.080 body cameras were suspending that regulation, make it as hard 0:02:24.120 --> 0:02:28.040 as possible on them, inflict pain whenever you can, for 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:33.760 any reason, systematic torture with the goal of what breaking 0:02:33.760 --> 0:02:38.320 their will, rendering them shells of human beings, kill them 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:39.120 without killing them. 0:02:40.720 --> 0:02:41.720 Uh. 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:43.960 You can't have a guy like that sit down at 0:02:44.000 --> 0:02:48.360 the White House with the President and being treated unless 0:02:48.360 --> 0:02:52.359 we're unless we're luring him to a uh, you know, 0:02:52.400 --> 0:02:55.000 a country like ours to arrest him. I don't think 0:02:55.040 --> 0:02:56.440 he should be able to leave Russia. 0:02:57.440 --> 0:02:58.959 Yeah, I don't think you need to worry about it 0:02:58.960 --> 0:03:03.240 because Putin would never to it. Way too much security 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:05.320 risk for him, It'll never happen. 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:08.440 How much does that help him, though, if he can 0:03:08.520 --> 0:03:11.320 play if his news agency, because it's the Putin news 0:03:11.320 --> 0:03:13.720 agency in Russia, gets to run a clip of President 0:03:13.800 --> 0:03:16.200 Trump talking about Putin coming to visit the White House. 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:20.560 Yeah, I think Trump would tell you that stuff doesn't matter. 0:03:20.639 --> 0:03:22.640 All that matters is the deal we strike. I'm working 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:23.119 on a deal. 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:26.079 But well, if that's true, then why do you got 0:03:26.080 --> 0:03:30.079 to flatter the guy. He's gonna do whatever is in 0:03:30.160 --> 0:03:32.040 his best interest, whether you call him. 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:37.920 The devil or your best friend, isn't he Yeah? I 0:03:37.960 --> 0:03:41.000 think so. And again I'm not arguing this on my 0:03:41.040 --> 0:03:43.320 own behalf. I'm just trying to understand the way Trump 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:45.360 might be approaching it. I think he's approaching it the 0:03:45.400 --> 0:03:47.600 same way you'd approach trying to get a spit of 0:03:47.720 --> 0:03:49.600 land on the coast of Ireland to build a golf 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:52.840 resort on. You're gonna flatter the mayor and the local 0:03:52.920 --> 0:03:56.200 council people and the farmers and say nothing but great 0:03:56.240 --> 0:03:58.160 things about him and how excited you are, and how 0:03:58.200 --> 0:04:00.280 we could really have a great deal, until you know, 0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:01.840 it comes time to get down to breast tacks. 0:04:02.200 --> 0:04:06.560 God, how heartbreaking must it be for Zelensky, who's you know, 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:10.760 had to be at the top of all this, and 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:15.440 so many families in Ukraine if to hear that Putin 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:18.360 could be treated like that, treated with that level of 0:04:18.360 --> 0:04:20.599 respect and dignity, Oh. 0:04:20.400 --> 0:04:25.880 My god, it's got to be astonishing and horrifying. Yeah, 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:29.839 real polititicket, it's absolutely worse now. I also think Trump 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:32.760 said something yesterday about when they was being asked about 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:33.960 Putin and Zelensky. 0:04:34.000 --> 0:04:36.320 Well, Zelenski's pull numbers aren't very high. Have you seen 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:39.080 so like took a shot. 0:04:38.800 --> 0:04:41.520 At him while he was flattering Putin. I just that 0:04:41.600 --> 0:04:46.400 whole act. I do not like if behind the scenes 0:04:46.680 --> 0:04:49.680 Trump is communicating with Zelensky and saying, trust me on this. 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:53.920 It's going to look crazy, but trust me that okay, okay, 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:58.960 but yeah, it's tough to take to flip it around. 0:04:59.040 --> 0:04:59.280 Though. 0:04:59.720 --> 0:05:02.599 We'll some more clips about this, because this was all 0:05:02.640 --> 0:05:05.560 the talk yesterday. You had the SEC def HEGXETH saying 0:05:06.200 --> 0:05:07.880 they're not going to get their land back, They're not 0:05:07.880 --> 0:05:10.400 gonna get their twenty pre twenty fourteen land is not 0:05:10.440 --> 0:05:13.159 coming back, and becoming part of NATO is off the table. 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:16.240 So we announced those things just flat out yesterday, which 0:05:16.240 --> 0:05:19.839 is kind of interesting. From a negotiating standpoint. I would 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:24.520 not use the word interesting. I'd use insane unless you've 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:26.840 got some crazy strategy I don't know about. You would 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:31.440 never take stuff off the table preemptively like that, even 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:35.760 if it's clearly true, just to get to the real negotiating. 0:05:36.200 --> 0:05:36.760 I mean, I don't know. 0:05:36.760 --> 0:05:38.280 I'm trying to think of an example where I'd be 0:05:38.320 --> 0:05:43.520 negotiating where we both know X isn't true, isn't gonna happen. 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:46.200 So there's no point in pretending it is leverage because 0:05:46.200 --> 0:05:46.479 it's not. 0:05:47.160 --> 0:05:49.680 Yeah, but even if you have a little uncertainty in 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:54.120 a negotiation, like that. You can exploit it and overplay 0:05:54.120 --> 0:05:59.640 that hand intentionally to get other concessions. It happens all 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:00.200 the time. 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:00.640 I don't know. 0:06:00.720 --> 0:06:02.640 I'm trying to come up with the scenario where I 0:06:02.640 --> 0:06:03.720 think it would make sense. 0:06:03.760 --> 0:06:05.200 But what was I saying? 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:08.239 Oh, so this was the talk all day long yesterday, 0:06:08.279 --> 0:06:12.520 Hexeth announcing that, and then Trump talking about meeting with 0:06:12.600 --> 0:06:14.960 Putin there and here and everything else. 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:19.480 So it's it's a big story. 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:23.599 Oh, I was thinking to be fair to Trump's point 0:06:23.600 --> 0:06:25.520 of view on this, if I wanted to end of 0:06:25.560 --> 0:06:27.000 the war, and I thought it was in the United 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:30.279 States best interest to end the war, do I believe 0:06:30.279 --> 0:06:34.159 that this might be a separate topic if I thought 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:35.480 it was in the best interest in the United States 0:06:35.480 --> 0:06:36.760 to get this war off the table. 0:06:38.760 --> 0:06:39.240 I don't know. 0:06:39.680 --> 0:06:42.280 Is there any point in bad mouth and Putin as 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:43.680 you head to the negotiating table? 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:48.080 Probably not. You know, I could come up with a 0:06:48.200 --> 0:06:51.960 rationale for it, But you know, my meanderings and musings, 0:06:51.960 --> 0:06:56.040 who needs them. It's it's unconventional. I'll say that, and 0:06:56.240 --> 0:07:00.240 I'll tell you what, And I don't believe this, but 0:07:00.320 --> 0:07:03.720 I am willing to entertain the notion that as I've 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:08.440 said before Trump's Gazza Lago idea, which is just flat 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:12.320 effing looney tunes. We'll take over Gaza, We'll clear out 0:07:12.360 --> 0:07:15.720 the rubble, We'll rebuild it as a groovy Mediterranean resort. 0:07:15.920 --> 0:07:19.360 The Palestinians can live in tracked homes over there, how lovely, 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:21.120 Will you build them a park? It'll be great. 0:07:21.440 --> 0:07:24.280 I mean it's just but I mean I don't believe that, right, 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:26.240 I mean, that's just no. 0:07:26.240 --> 0:07:30.120 No. But so as crazy as that is, though, all 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:32.200 of a sudden, the leaders in the region are saying, no, 0:07:32.280 --> 0:07:34.440 we're not doing that. Let's come up with a good, 0:07:34.520 --> 0:07:37.080 solid plan we can do. It's like, hey, welcome to 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:41.040 the party, boys, sixty seventy years down the line. Oh, 0:07:41.160 --> 0:07:43.480 now you want to be productive and kick in some 0:07:43.680 --> 0:07:47.080 money and actually solve this thing. Well lovely, and it 0:07:47.120 --> 0:07:50.400 took Trump's crazy ass idea to get them off the schneid. 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:53.360 I would like to see some polling on this. The 0:07:53.520 --> 0:07:56.800 support for Ukraine has dropped bit by bit. It's almost 0:07:56.840 --> 0:07:59.960 it'll be three years, like a week that the war started, 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:05.080 and it began with very high support for helping defend Ukraine, 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:08.680 giving them what they need. Joe Biden said over and 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:12.000 over again to Zelenski's space, We're with you to the end. 0:08:12.480 --> 0:08:15.320 You can count on us, while he would hold back 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:19.400 the things they needed to keep their people alive. And 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:21.480 now it looks like we ain't with you to the 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:23.040 end at all. We're gonna wrap this thing up. You 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:24.040 ain't getting your land back. 0:08:24.080 --> 0:08:27.160 And you know my final thought, and then I'll shut up. 0:08:27.160 --> 0:08:29.400 One of the more interesting things that really stuck with 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:34.080 me about a particular class I took years and years ago, 0:08:36.640 --> 0:08:40.920 was we were talking about the difficulty democracies have in 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:45.800 ending wars because there will be political costs, often enormous 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:50.760 political costs for the people who end the war, particularly 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:53.120 if it doesn't end in glorious victory, because if it 0:08:53.200 --> 0:08:56.920 ends in glorious victory, it ends itself. And so a 0:08:57.120 --> 0:09:01.240 dictator can end a war and say we've won so 0:09:01.360 --> 0:09:03.800 glorious victory, even though clearly it's not. Nobody says anything 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:06.720 about it, and it is over. In a democracy, it 0:09:06.800 --> 0:09:10.320 is much much harder, which is perverse and counterintuitive, but 0:09:10.360 --> 0:09:12.160 it's true if you think about it, no doubt, and 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:14.120 then that's a political price to pay if you didn't 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:16.800 end it in the right way right, exactly, yeah, Or 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:18.560 like Joe Biden, maybe it was time to get out 0:09:18.600 --> 0:09:23.400 of Afghanistan, but the way he implemented it was horrifically stupid. 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:26.800 Reminds me of Trump of a bush and a rock. Anyway, 0:09:27.240 --> 0:09:30.720 to get back to the main thread of things, a 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:35.280 guy like Trump would say, he would ask his advisors 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:39.760 like he's asking his foreman building a golf resort. If 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:41.880 we hang in there and the Ukrainians hang in there 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:44.120 for another six months, then we go hard. Can we 0:09:44.200 --> 0:09:48.440 materially change their prospects? And the negotiating board and his 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:52.360 experts to tell him no, which is no, it's probably true, right, 0:09:52.400 --> 0:09:54.840 it's a stalemate. Trump would say, all right, we end 0:09:54.880 --> 0:09:57.160 it now, let's get to the table. Let's not have 0:09:57.200 --> 0:09:58.199 any more bloodshed. 0:09:58.360 --> 0:10:02.000 What's the upside of MA making noises about standing up 0:10:02.040 --> 0:10:03.880 for democracies and everything? 0:10:04.200 --> 0:10:06.960 If nothing's going to get better, that's right? Not a 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:08.280 horrible argument. 0:10:08.480 --> 0:10:12.199 No, No, it's a very cold hearted analysis of things 0:10:12.240 --> 0:10:15.400 that sometimes can cut through democracies not wanting to end 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:17.560 a war when they should. For instance, I think Trump 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:21.360 goes too far sometimes he disrespects things that actually do matter. 0:10:22.320 --> 0:10:26.000 But I am more than willing to let these things 0:10:26.040 --> 0:10:28.640 play out and then say, wow, I didn't see that coming. 0:10:28.720 --> 0:10:30.600 I was wrong. I know that makes me a bad 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:33.760 talk show host. But we'll all find out together. 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:37.959 I want to hear how ABC summarized this last night. 0:10:39.400 --> 0:10:42.080 President Trump on the phone with Russian President Putin for 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:46.200 ninety minutes, agreeing to start negotiations immediately to end the 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:49.400 war in Ukraine. Trump choosing to talk with Putin first, 0:10:49.640 --> 0:10:52.200 the President agreeing to meet with Putin, saying their first 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:54.760 sit down could be in Saudi Arabia in the near future, 0:10:54.960 --> 0:10:57.520 but Trump also suggesting he may go to Russia and 0:10:57.559 --> 0:11:00.959 that Putin might come here, Trump saying the Ukrainian president 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:02.400 would likely be involved. 0:11:02.040 --> 0:11:02.920 In a second meeting. 0:11:03.120 --> 0:11:06.280 Zelensky posting this photo of their phone call today, saying, 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:08.880 together with the US, we are charting our next steps 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:12.600 to stomp Russian aggression and ensure a lasting, reliable peace. 0:11:12.800 --> 0:11:14.920 As President Trump said, let's get. 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:15.480 It done well. 0:11:15.520 --> 0:11:18.640 It's a very upbeat, positive spin on the story of 0:11:18.640 --> 0:11:20.199 the day there for ABC Evening News. 0:11:21.280 --> 0:11:23.680 I just think Trump's trying to flatter Putin and say, hey, 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:25.600 I'm willing to work with you, I respect you, I 0:11:25.679 --> 0:11:28.120 like you, I get you, let's work together. He's trying 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:31.240 to play putin, which is fine, but again it's like 0:11:31.320 --> 0:11:34.760 complimenting an alligator on its scales so it doesn't chew 0:11:34.800 --> 0:11:35.520 your leg off. 0:11:36.280 --> 0:11:39.479 One more clip. This is a second deaf pete hegzeth. 0:11:39.840 --> 0:11:42.240 On the future of Ukraine. 0:11:41.960 --> 0:11:48.320 We want, like you, a sovereign and prosperous Ukraine, but 0:11:48.440 --> 0:11:52.080 we must start by recognizing that returning to Ukraine's pre 0:11:52.240 --> 0:11:59.680 twenty fourteen borders is an unrealistic objective. Chasing this illusionary goal, 0:12:00.000 --> 0:12:02.400 we will only prolong the war and cause more suffering. 0:12:03.040 --> 0:12:07.839 So many lives lost and nothing accomplished by anyone good. 0:12:09.400 --> 0:12:13.160 I am mystified by this because Zelensky said something similar 0:12:13.280 --> 0:12:17.160 himself lately. I don't understand why you go big and 0:12:17.240 --> 0:12:18.520 blunt with it like that. 0:12:18.720 --> 0:12:20.440 Well, there will be a book written in a couple 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:22.200 of years that will probably explain it. 0:12:22.240 --> 0:12:23.120 Would be my guess. 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:28.280 We got more on the way stay here. Too much 0:12:28.360 --> 0:12:30.520 news needs to be some sort of federal law on 0:12:30.559 --> 0:12:31.720 the amount of news every day. 0:12:32.920 --> 0:12:35.560 Five stories a day, maybe five big ones and five 0:12:35.600 --> 0:12:39.200 small ones and a sports story, right, and like one 0:12:39.600 --> 0:12:41.160 puppy saved by brave fireman. 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:43.520 That can be a bonus one and who won this 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:45.760 week's Westminster dog shows. It it seems to be a 0:12:45.760 --> 0:12:47.760 weekly event, no kidding. 0:12:48.200 --> 0:12:49.520 I wonder if there's going to be a run on 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:52.079 those giant schnaus Well, of course there are, of course 0:12:52.080 --> 0:12:55.600 the dignified giant Schnauzer they call it, is there like 0:12:55.640 --> 0:12:59.559 an undignified giant Schnauzer breed as well, like the clowney, 0:13:00.280 --> 0:13:05.280 you know, kind of loser giant Schnauzer that where's a 0:13:05.360 --> 0:13:07.880 wife beater around the house and poops where it once? 0:13:08.760 --> 0:13:10.959 I don't know. So this is one of my favorite 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:16.320 moments in legislative history. A House Republican representative Earl Buddy 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:20.800 Carter of Georgia. Natch, I'm gonna move to Georgia just 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:25.680 to vote for Earl Buddy Carter. He introduced a bill 0:13:26.920 --> 0:13:30.000 this week that would enable President Trump's efforts to purchase 0:13:30.040 --> 0:13:39.199 Greenland and rename it red, White, and Blueland. The bill 0:13:39.240 --> 0:13:41.319 would also require the federal government to refer to it 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:43.880 as such on official maps and documents, never mind what 0:13:43.960 --> 0:13:49.360 the denmarkings and Greenlanders say. Let's see. As part of 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:51.360 the bill, America is back and will soon be bigger 0:13:51.400 --> 0:13:53.600 than ever with the addition of red, White and Blueland. 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:56.320 President Trump has correctly identified the purchase of what is 0:13:56.360 --> 0:13:59.120 now Greenland is a national security priority, and we'll proudly 0:13:59.160 --> 0:14:01.480 welcome its people joined. The freest nation ever exists when 0:14:01.480 --> 0:14:05.880 our negotiator in chief inks this monumental deal. Also considered 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:13.040 as names for the new state, Cold af Sylvania, Polar Barrington, 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:21.760 simply Ice, Ice Baby, and my favorite North North North Dakota. 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:25.200 Oh now, we're gonna have nice cooperation with Greenland. The 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:28.320 Arctic in those passageways are going to be incredibly important 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:30.120 in the next fifty years. And it's a good thing. 0:14:30.200 --> 0:14:30.840 Do you remember? 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:33.040 I should do it again in case anybody didn't hear it. 0:14:33.600 --> 0:14:36.880 The biggest rumor in Washington, d C. According to Mark Calpern, 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:39.920 and he talks to all the players. Oh yeah, the 0:14:39.960 --> 0:14:44.200 biggest rumor in the world, persistent and omnipresent, is the 0:14:44.280 --> 0:14:46.640 talk of a grand bargain between the United States and 0:14:46.720 --> 0:14:52.800 China that involves reduced tariffs, US access to Greenland, China's 0:14:52.880 --> 0:14:57.320 peaceful taking of Taiwan, all and several provisions and players 0:14:57.360 --> 0:15:00.960 to be named later. It seems it's implausible to many 0:15:01.000 --> 0:15:03.960 years and eyes, but the talk of this deal is everywhere, 0:15:04.400 --> 0:15:05.360 says Mark Alpern. 0:15:07.080 --> 0:15:11.960 This sounds like it could be a moral horror to me, 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:15.600 but I'm trying to understand it. We won't fight you 0:15:15.880 --> 0:15:22.360 on Taiwan. We concede, sorry, Vladimer. You get the rights 0:15:22.400 --> 0:15:24.960 to the northern passage through the Arctic and the rest 0:15:24.960 --> 0:15:29.200 of it as a zone of influence and security, and 0:15:29.280 --> 0:15:32.840 let's get it on and we call it a deal. Yeah. Yeah, 0:15:33.000 --> 0:15:34.800 and a couple of players that be named later. 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:38.720 Yeah. I got a question. So yesterday was Lincoln's birthday? Yes, sir, 0:15:39.400 --> 0:15:43.160 and Lincoln is on the penny. The penny was the 0:15:43.160 --> 0:15:48.360 most my whole life. I'm the present piece of currency 0:15:48.400 --> 0:15:53.160 that existed. It is since lost its usefulness. Yes, we 0:15:53.200 --> 0:15:57.480 all agree with that. But if Lincoln isn't the greatest 0:15:57.480 --> 0:15:59.320 president of all time, he's number two. So I mean, 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:01.760 you know everybody agrees on that pretty much. Right, he'd 0:16:01.800 --> 0:16:04.000 s either him or Washington. They're in the top two. 0:16:04.320 --> 0:16:07.240 And do we move him to another? Doesn't it seem 0:16:07.280 --> 0:16:11.840 I mean, we're eliminating the most dominant currency that existed 0:16:11.880 --> 0:16:14.760 for my whole life with him on it. So that's 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:17.800 a lot of less Lincoln bouncing around and they're talking 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:20.240 about putting you know, Harriet Tubman on the twenty or whatever. 0:16:21.640 --> 0:16:23.840 They've been talking about that for a long time. Does 0:16:23.880 --> 0:16:27.720 it still got the fire? He's got the five dollar bill. Yeah, 0:16:28.040 --> 0:16:31.840 that's a fine, you know, piece of currency, the fin 0:16:32.040 --> 0:16:32.440 the five. 0:16:33.000 --> 0:16:34.880 It ain't like the penny. Though everybody had a penny 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:37.240 in their pocket. My whole life, Lincoln was in their pocket, 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:37.960 your whole life. 0:16:38.160 --> 0:16:40.640 No more. You got to move on. I just feel 0:16:40.680 --> 0:16:42.680 like he's getting downgraded. Only I don't know what to 0:16:42.720 --> 0:16:46.120 tell you, you know how, I'm always predicting a planet of 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:48.920 the beavers because human beings are going to die off 0:16:48.920 --> 0:16:53.520 because we're not reproducing. Fascinating story. The Czech Republic was 0:16:53.560 --> 0:16:55.720 trying to build a damn project for years and years 0:16:55.720 --> 0:16:59.680 and years, and while they were arguing about it, Beaver's 0:16:59.720 --> 0:17:02.600 action damned off the river and accomplished what the government couldn't. 0:17:02.800 --> 0:17:04.119 That's a pretty funny story. 0:17:04.200 --> 0:17:09.159 They're ready to take over Armstrong and Getty. 0:17:10.480 --> 0:17:15.359 The intensity really developed after the election. So what's important 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:19.639 to remember about Mark is that it's ten precedentent. He 0:17:19.840 --> 0:17:22.480 was passed up for three prisoner swaps, two in twenty 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:25.360 twenty two and one in August first, twenty twenty four, 0:17:25.480 --> 0:17:28.480 passed up by who, by the Russians or by by 0:17:28.640 --> 0:17:30.000 by both sides at. 0:17:29.880 --> 0:17:32.520 The end of the day. Yeah, I don't know how 0:17:32.520 --> 0:17:33.320 that all shook out. 0:17:33.359 --> 0:17:37.560 That's that teacher that got let loose by Russia, Okaya 0:17:37.680 --> 0:17:38.560 this week, Fogel. 0:17:38.840 --> 0:17:45.080 Yeah, from what I've gathered, the Biden administration did not 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:49.200 declare him a wrongful detainee because he was caught with 0:17:49.480 --> 0:17:53.600 allegedly you never know, with Russia, the Hippi lets allegedly 0:17:53.680 --> 0:17:59.040 seventeen grams of medicinal marijuana entering Russia. I say, if 0:17:59.080 --> 0:18:01.720 you smuggle a drug you know to be illegal into 0:18:01.760 --> 0:18:05.400 a foreign land, man, you have made a terrible, terrible mistake. 0:18:05.880 --> 0:18:08.280 I don't know that your home country needs to trade 0:18:08.320 --> 0:18:11.080 some super bad guy to that country to get you back, 0:18:11.440 --> 0:18:15.120 because you couldn't be in Russia without getting high. 0:18:15.160 --> 0:18:19.159 Well, right and again, if that is true. And I 0:18:19.200 --> 0:18:21.280 was all prepared to be outraged because he was already 0:18:21.320 --> 0:18:24.719 being held when Britney Griner did her thing, and immediately 0:18:24.760 --> 0:18:27.320 all of America rushed to her aid because she's a 0:18:27.359 --> 0:18:31.480 basketball player, although she just had trace amounts on her 0:18:31.560 --> 0:18:34.960 vape pen evidently, and this dude had seventeen grams, which 0:18:35.000 --> 0:18:38.960 is a significant amount of pod allegedly. 0:18:41.200 --> 0:18:43.760 Happy Gallantine's Day. Still trying to wrap my head around this. 0:18:43.840 --> 0:18:44.919 Maybe you all knew about it. 0:18:44.960 --> 0:18:45.320 I didn't. 0:18:45.359 --> 0:18:46.920 I'd never heard about it in my life. We're still 0:18:46.920 --> 0:18:50.520 getting text about it. Gallantine's Day. So it comes from 0:18:50.560 --> 0:18:53.600 the TV show Parks and Recreation. It was a joke, 0:18:53.760 --> 0:18:55.640 kind of like in the way Festivus was a joke 0:18:55.680 --> 0:18:56.359 on Seinfeld. 0:18:56.359 --> 0:18:57.480 But people still talk about it. 0:18:57.720 --> 0:19:02.000 Gallantine's Day caught on and it seems to be a 0:19:02.000 --> 0:19:04.680 combination of women who just want to get together for 0:19:04.760 --> 0:19:09.959 drinks after work or Mimosa's for brunch or whatever, and 0:19:10.000 --> 0:19:12.680 then we'll celebrate Valentine's Day with a dude. Or We've 0:19:12.680 --> 0:19:14.280 gotten a number of text from people, say, those of 0:19:14.359 --> 0:19:16.360 us who are widowed or divorced or have no man 0:19:16.400 --> 0:19:19.399 in our lives, we like Gallentine Day to get together 0:19:19.440 --> 0:19:23.280 with the gals. I don't know, Katie, you celebrate Galentine's Days? 0:19:23.600 --> 0:19:26.440 I have before, and it's yeah, it's a good time 0:19:26.600 --> 0:19:28.280 hang out with the girls, and it's a reason to 0:19:28.359 --> 0:19:29.320 drink together early. 0:19:29.560 --> 0:19:32.040 Sure do we need more reasons? Or it is Thursday 0:19:32.040 --> 0:19:34.119 not a good Thursday was always good enough reason for me. 0:19:35.160 --> 0:19:37.280 That seems like a pretty damn good reason. It's Thursday 0:19:37.359 --> 0:19:40.560 or Tuesday or Wednesday morning or whatever. 0:19:41.200 --> 0:19:44.200 You sound like, majorcas Tuesday, Wednesday. 0:19:44.640 --> 0:19:49.000 I will get together with friends to drink on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, well, 0:19:49.040 --> 0:19:51.240 and so on, and we have. 0:19:51.200 --> 0:19:55.359 A very busy schedule. The first I heard about it 0:19:55.400 --> 0:19:58.680 recently was from an email from a gal who said, 0:19:59.080 --> 0:20:02.320 and she is a very Haiti like woman, Katie, very 0:20:02.359 --> 0:20:05.280 down to earth practical, who said, now, this is just 0:20:05.440 --> 0:20:09.280 more people aren't getting together. This is uh, nobody is 0:20:09.280 --> 0:20:11.359 interested in Rome as what. I don't hell, I don't know, 0:20:11.400 --> 0:20:13.920 and I don't particularly care. I don't think we're headed 0:20:13.920 --> 0:20:15.720 for a planet of the beavers, and I've come to 0:20:15.760 --> 0:20:20.119 accept it, which reminds me so seriously. Now. For years, 0:20:20.160 --> 0:20:22.720 officials in the Czech Republic, which is absolutely beautiful, it 0:20:22.760 --> 0:20:25.240 pushed a dam project to protect a river south of 0:20:25.280 --> 0:20:28.679 Prague and the critically endangered species living in it, but 0:20:28.720 --> 0:20:33.000 the project, hamstrung by land negotiations stalled. In the meantime, 0:20:33.080 --> 0:20:36.439 a group of chiseltoothed mammals renowned for their engineering skills 0:20:36.440 --> 0:20:40.080 and work ethic, an unencumbered by bureaucracy, decided to take 0:20:40.119 --> 0:20:44.000 on the task. The Beavers of Prague simply built dams themselves. 0:20:44.520 --> 0:20:48.280 The Rodents fast work. That's a band you follow around 0:20:48.320 --> 0:20:50.320 and you smoke dope. Even if they go to Moscow. 0:20:51.240 --> 0:20:55.800 The Beavers are prog. Yeah oh yeah, yeah, really rock hard. 0:20:56.080 --> 0:21:00.640 Dang dang ticket. That's sort of last I saw him. 0:21:00.720 --> 0:21:04.480 They played a fifteen minute version of Czech River. It 0:21:04.600 --> 0:21:10.440 was unbelievable. Yeah yeah, a twelve minute chainsaw solo. Anyway, 0:21:10.920 --> 0:21:13.920 they simply built the dams themselves. The Rodents' fast work 0:21:13.960 --> 0:21:16.639 saved the local authorities one point two million euros, according 0:21:16.680 --> 0:21:20.720 to a news release from somebody or other. Ah, so wait, 0:21:20.760 --> 0:21:21.240 do they. 0:21:21.080 --> 0:21:23.000 Do anything else? And can we hire some of them 0:21:23.000 --> 0:21:23.639