Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Arm Strong and Jetty and he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3: Israel says Iran will pay a price for its unprecedented
Speaker 3: ballistic missile attack last week.
Speaker 2: Look you fush along with you.
Speaker 1: Our attack will be deadly precise and above all surprising.
Speaker 2: They will not understand what happened and how it happened.
Speaker 4: Yes, deadly precise and above all surprising.
Speaker 2: Deadly precise and above all surprising.
Speaker 1: Oh, the whole pager and walkie talkie thing was surezille surprising.
Speaker 2: So I wonder what they have in mind.
Speaker 1: And it's going back a few years the Stucksnet cyber
Speaker 1: attack on Iran's nucle your centrifuges.
Speaker 2: That was us though, right, was it? I think it
Speaker 2: was us?
Speaker 1: Could be yeah, yeah, you may be right anyway, Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Israel has a history of being above all surprising.
Speaker 5: Biden and Yahoo talked for the first time in weeks yesterday,
Speaker 5: this on the heels of the Woodward Book leaks that
Speaker 5: have Biden calling bb nettan yah who blankn a hole?
Speaker 5: But you know, the politicians know that each other calls
Speaker 5: themselves that they all know that, right. You don't rise
Speaker 5: to that level of politics without expecting many, many people
Speaker 5: to call you those kind of names.
Speaker 2: I think, oh yeah, yeah, or yeah please.
Speaker 1: The guy was like special forces right to combat Yeah,
Speaker 1: and a veteran of the brutal Israeli political scene.
Speaker 2: It's like, yeah, yeah, anyway, that's what my mother calls me.
Speaker 1: He's thinking.
Speaker 4: Here's a little more on the report of how that
Speaker 4: phone call went.
Speaker 3: I guess the US has been pushing for a strike
Speaker 3: that is symbolic and avoids sparking a larger war, according
Speaker 3: to Israeli sources. With that President Biden had his first
Speaker 3: phone call with the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Nett and
Speaker 3: Yahoo since August.
Speaker 4: The two leaders were able to have a productive, straightforward
Speaker 4: on his conversation, as they tend to do.
Speaker 2: I don't have anything beyond that.
Speaker 5: Of course, Biden's pushing for a strike that's symbolic. It's
Speaker 5: in his genetics to just never do anything with any
Speaker 5: umph whatsoever.
Speaker 2: All right, Wow, if he.
Speaker 4: Had been president, ben Laden would still be alive.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, one hundred percent, yeah, and Israel would be
Speaker 1: besieged on all sides far worse than they are now.
Speaker 5: And Zelenski would have left Kiev and be in a
Speaker 5: hotel somewhere. Romanda Dorohn would have the bomb. Yeah, all
Speaker 5: these things are pretty documentably true. Yeah, that is sort
Speaker 5: of thing. Maybe it's just being a man or whatever,
Speaker 5: but that sort of thing is just, oh, finding so annoying.
Speaker 1: Just the we better not do anything, We better not
Speaker 1: do anything every single time.
Speaker 5: Right, Occasionally that's a good idea. This occasionally that's the
Speaker 5: smart thing to do, but always.
Speaker 1: No, Joe Biden has been wrong about every major foreign
Speaker 1: policy issue for the last fifty years. It's fifty five now,
Speaker 1: by the way. A couple of developments in the Middle
Speaker 1: East of note Yaya Sinoar, the lunatic, the violent megalomaniac
Speaker 1: who is in charge of HAMAS now he's the guy
Speaker 1: who organized the October seventh attacks and is now fully
Speaker 1: in charge of HAMAS, has sent a directive to senior operatives.
Speaker 1: Now is the time to revive suicide bombings. They had
Speaker 1: not done that for about twenty years. Wow, but there's
Speaker 1: already been One guy's bomb went off prematurely before he
Speaker 1: could kill any Jews, but he had posted in a
Speaker 1: video released later by the group. Quote, what bling it
Speaker 1: is that my bones become shrapnel that blow apart the
Speaker 1: usurping zionist jew Jews. He said, that's a perfectly sane
Speaker 1: way to look at life. And then this the US
Speaker 1: season opening to sideline Hesbola politically in Lebanon, the whole ceasefire.
Speaker 2: We don't want to escalate thing.
Speaker 1: I don't know if Joe Biden has become so old
Speaker 1: and senile now that he's not really a factor, But
Speaker 1: the other leaders like Blinken of the Foreign Policy Team
Speaker 1: are saying, look, Hesbela is so completely weakened. They are
Speaker 1: so disruptive and destabilizing. Lebanon doesn't have a chance with
Speaker 1: Hesbola being like the biggest, most important political party. Maybe
Speaker 1: now we empower the other guys in Lebanon to try to.
Speaker 2: Stabilize the country. So they're making a big effort at that.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 5: My reading of New Cold Wars by David Sanger, with
Speaker 5: all the behind the scenes on the Ukraine stuff, mostly
Speaker 5: is that Blincoln is much more AGGRESSI have been Biden.
Speaker 5: Is Biden is holding back his secretary of State as
Speaker 5: opposed the other way around.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Now I'm not very optimistic about the idea
Speaker 1: of bringing stability and democracy functioning democracy to Lebanon. But
Speaker 1: you know, I, having observed the last thirty years of
Speaker 1: Middle Eastern policy, I'm pretty damn convinced that you just
Speaker 1: are so big and scary nobody messes with you. Is
Speaker 1: the only thing that works in the region. You know,
Speaker 1: have a shot at getting rid of Hisbola by all
Speaker 1: means they're evil, they're disgusting, their maniacs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's lomist scum.
Speaker 5: I was listened to a great podcast the other day
Speaker 5: that included some historical views of this that it's just
Speaker 5: so easy to forget because the world has been stable
Speaker 5: all of our lives, right, everybody listening, your whole life,
Speaker 5: the world has been this kind of stable. The only
Speaker 5: reason there's ever any stability between countries is because one
Speaker 5: or more of them have has the power or to
Speaker 5: keep it that way that if you tried to change it,
Speaker 5: you would get obliterated. That's the only reason it's stable.
Speaker 5: If China could take what they wanted to take, they
Speaker 5: would have. If Russia could take it, they would Many
Speaker 5: many countries if they could take something, they would The
Speaker 5: only reason they haven't is because they would be obliterated
Speaker 5: by the United States or NATO or whoever. Right, that's
Speaker 5: the only thing that keeps things in places. Force, And
Speaker 5: you've got so much of a crowd out there that
Speaker 5: doesn't believe in force.
Speaker 1: Right, They're uncomfortable with it for reasons of I mean,
Speaker 1: they have lovely hearts, but they're misguided. And that doesn't
Speaker 1: excuse any sort of military adventurism or neoconism or anything
Speaker 1: like that. No, you build up awesome, terrifying power and
Speaker 1: then you use it extremely judiciously.
Speaker 5: One more thing on that before we switch gears. I
Speaker 5: was listening to No Comedy and Mirth to another thing
Speaker 5: yesterday with a polyci person, historian sort of person talking
Speaker 5: about there are eight billion people on planet Earth. There
Speaker 5: are really only about two billion that live in liberal democracies.
Speaker 5: So there are way more people that either will or
Speaker 5: at least hedge their bets on siding with the Rushes
Speaker 5: and China's of the world.
Speaker 1: Sure, the regimes, the guys with the guns and money
Speaker 1: in those countries. Absolutely, it's easy to forget we're the minority,
Speaker 1: not the majority. We are the majority of power currently,
Speaker 1: but not.
Speaker 2: The majority of people. Right.
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Speaker 5: So there's this comedy podcast that I watch now and
Speaker 5: then they usually have other comedians on and talk to
Speaker 5: them whatever, But they had Trump on yesterday and Trump
Speaker 5: got on a riff about Joe Biden and the beach
Speaker 5: and everything.
Speaker 6: That's pretty funny, funny or sad. I think it's more
Speaker 6: sad than funny. Yeah, he has one ability. I don't
Speaker 6: have sleeps. He can sleep. This guy goes on the
Speaker 6: beach and he lays down on one of those you know,
Speaker 6: six ounces they weighed six ounces and you can't lift it.
Speaker 2: You know, they're men.
Speaker 6: They're meant for children, young people and old people to lift.
Speaker 2: They wait very little and he can't lift.
Speaker 6: And somebody convinced him he looks good in a bathing suit,
Speaker 6: and when you're eighty two, typically bathing suits are gonna
Speaker 6: make you look great.
Speaker 2: You're not going to be enhanced. I can't be.
Speaker 6: Sure about that, but typically, you know, I don't know
Speaker 6: what the hell he's backing, but I don't want to
Speaker 6: and I don't want to know. I don't know, but
Speaker 6: he has an ability to fall asleep while on camera.
Speaker 2: He can lie.
Speaker 6: Down on one of those things and in minutes he's
Speaker 6: stone called out and he's got cameras because he's a resident,
Speaker 6: so they have cameras on him. And then they show
Speaker 6: him sleeping on the beach. Yeah, you'll never see me
Speaker 6: sleeping in front of camera.
Speaker 5: That is well, that's a guy who's incredibly old that
Speaker 5: can lay down there on the beach, age eighty with
Speaker 5: your belly hanging out and everything going on in the
Speaker 5: world and just doze off.
Speaker 2: Yeah, in the middle of the day. He's nearing the end,
Speaker 2: God bless him. Yeah, but.
Speaker 1: He's ready to go for another four years behind the scenes.
Speaker 1: I can't even keep up with him. Signed everybody in
Speaker 1: July or signed everybody still now. If they hadn't had
Speaker 1: that debate, possibly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: As I was predicting for like a year, solid year
Speaker 1: and a half that there's no way he could be
Speaker 1: the candidate because the trend line was just clearly going
Speaker 1: to be below the Mendoze line. I'm just saying they
Speaker 1: might have been able to hide it for another I
Speaker 1: wonder that would have been that would have been a
Speaker 1: hell of a deal to observe.
Speaker 2: A boy in a parallel universe.
Speaker 5: I would like to watch how that would have played out,
Speaker 5: because it would obviously have been become increasingly difficult to
Speaker 5: hide the fact that he was so out.
Speaker 1: Of it and increasingly hilariously desperate on the part of
Speaker 1: the mainstream media and the Democratic establishment to continue to
Speaker 1: claim that he was fine. I kind of feel like
Speaker 1: I missed out on a real comment.
Speaker 2: I know, I agree that would have been good.
Speaker 5: Joe Biden can't lift the little aluminum chairs that you
Speaker 5: sit in.
Speaker 2: Say it's made for a child and old people.
Speaker 4: But he can't lift a quick on air meeting.
Speaker 5: Because I just saw Bill O'Reilly on the screen, Hey Hanson,
Speaker 5: we got to get O'Reilly on, Bill O'Reilly on. So
Speaker 5: I was talking to our boss and I hadn't checked
Speaker 5: out Bill O'Reilly's latest act. Do you remember the last
Speaker 5: time we had Bill O'Reilly on? Joe how that was? Yeah,
Speaker 5: it's vaguely okay. So we had Bill O'Reilly on shortly
Speaker 5: after he left Fox, and he did his usual Bill
Speaker 5: O'Reilly thing where he just bulldozed us and would let
Speaker 5: us talk. And I got freaking mad. I hate that
Speaker 5: my name's on the show, not yours. Bill O'Reilly and
Speaker 5: I get to talk. So we haven't had him on since,
Speaker 5: but apparently his new thing is way different now that
Speaker 5: he's free from Fox. And our boss said, oh, it's
Speaker 5: a fantastic good guy's got to have him on.
Speaker 2: You'd love him.
Speaker 5: He's way close to where you are on the observation
Speaker 5: of politics now and everything. So really, yeah, sounds pretty cool.
Speaker 5: I'd be willing to give it a try. We'll do it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you don't think he's still you know, the hyper
Speaker 1: confident bulldozer O'Reilly.
Speaker 2: I like Bill by the way.
Speaker 1: I enjoyed talking to him because I'm a genial and
Speaker 1: welcoming fellow.
Speaker 2: But I'm not talking to anybody who doesn't let me
Speaker 2: speak anybody.
Speaker 4: I hate that. But I think he's calmed with age,
Speaker 4: lower t or something.
Speaker 2: I don't know. He's pretty old, isn't he all? Very Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 2: i'd and old.
Speaker 5: So we'll try him out maybe in the next And I,
Speaker 5: like I said to our boss, I said, that'd be
Speaker 5: great have him on once a week as we lead
Speaker 5: up to the election. That'd be fantastic. I always liked
Speaker 5: his insights. I watched him every night. I mean that
Speaker 5: was as regular as part of my daily news intake
Speaker 5: as anything for like twenty years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah, it was great back in the day.
Speaker 1: Talking Points says body language segment.
Speaker 5: We've got We've got more on the ways, stay here.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Yetti.
Speaker 7: This is a Nintendo soundclock, Alarmo. Let's see what it's
Speaker 7: like to wake up with alarmo. Oh do you hear
Speaker 7: that the alarm is going off? But Alarmo doesn't just
Speaker 7: play music to start your day, that's right, It responds
Speaker 7: to your body's movement with game sounds.
Speaker 2: All right, Alarmo is the worst name for a product
Speaker 2: I've ever heard. Is that a parody? I can't tell?
Speaker 2: Is that really respond to my body's movements with game sounds?
Speaker 2: For real? Is that gratifying some way? Or does that
Speaker 2: want to get off? I don't know.
Speaker 5: If you're a kid in your into video games and
Speaker 5: hearing those sounds sounds as it sounds as enjoyable or not,
Speaker 5: then the whatever other sound your alarm clocks making. I've
Speaker 5: had one most of my life. That was I don't
Speaker 5: know why I felt like I needed to be punished
Speaker 5: first thing in the morning.
Speaker 1: I don't know, can we can we talk about the name, sir,
Speaker 1: the concept I just don't really like alarmo.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I feel like we didn't spend a lot of
Speaker 5: time on that. Timing is everything in life. It's a
Speaker 5: common saying for lots of different things, meeting mister or
Speaker 5: missus wright, or certainly buying a house, or or lots
Speaker 5: of other things. I was just thinking of Garth Brooks
Speaker 5: and what's going on in his life. This might be
Speaker 5: a major moment for where we're going to settle as
Speaker 5: a culture on the whole.
Speaker 2: Me too thing.
Speaker 5: But if this were going on, if that accuser had
Speaker 5: come out at the height of me Too, all of
Speaker 5: his mus would already be pulled off of every radio
Speaker 5: station in the country, concerts would be canceled, and any
Speaker 5: other thing else that you could do to Garth Brooks
Speaker 5: would have already happened, true, don't you think?
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, it's like the height of the George Floyd madness.
Speaker 1: You dared not stand up against the neo Marxists, or
Speaker 1: you're done if you don't know the story.
Speaker 2: He did anyway, by the way, But yeah.
Speaker 5: More or less the kind of typical sort of story
Speaker 5: hairdresser for him. That was actually his wife, Tricia Yearwood's hairdresser,
Speaker 5: and then she started doing Garth stuff. And now she's
Speaker 5: claiming Garth was doing all kinds of horrible things that
Speaker 5: some guys do, and some famous guys that I never
Speaker 5: thought would do that have done. And so you never
Speaker 5: really know a celebrity. Although it seems unlikely to me
Speaker 5: that Garth Brooks at age fifty nine now whatever, he
Speaker 5: has started living this sort of lifestyle and got away
Speaker 5: with it all these years.
Speaker 2: But he's pushing back pretty hard.
Speaker 5: They put out the woman's name yesterday in a court
Speaker 5: filing for depends on.
Speaker 2: Who you ask why. Some belief that it was the
Speaker 2: pushback of it.
Speaker 5: You don't get to be anonymous and make all these
Speaker 5: kind of claims and get away with it. And I
Speaker 5: don't know, I don't know, but like I said, this
Speaker 5: might be a we're gonna We went with always believe women,
Speaker 5: So anything the woman said always you just believed it
Speaker 5: one hundred percent culturally anyway, and destroyed many many people's careers,
Speaker 5: even if it turned out later to not be anything.
Speaker 5: And then we've come back closer to sanity, and then
Speaker 5: maybe we've gone too far.
Speaker 2: I don't know that this woman should be named.
Speaker 5: Is that's gonna stop a lot of people from coming
Speaker 5: forward against anybody famous if you know your name is
Speaker 5: gonna come out.
Speaker 1: Right, because there is a history of victims being ruined, harassed,
Speaker 1: terrorized by the power, right.
Speaker 5: So I don't know if I dig that or not,
Speaker 5: but I think this might you know, this might be
Speaker 5: one of those things that gets Garth is very strongly
Speaker 5: denying it and going to fight really really hard.
Speaker 1: Well, and he's been extremely frank about the fact that
Speaker 1: this is an extortion attempt. She's been telling me to
Speaker 1: write giant checks now for for a long time, Yeah,
Speaker 1: threatening me if I don't pay her off.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: And he came out with this story last week. That
Speaker 5: seems to be the way to handle it. If you
Speaker 5: get extorted. Remember Letterman did it many years ago. Came
Speaker 5: out that night on the show. Look I'm being extorted,
Speaker 5: that she didn't know my wife. But I'm not going
Speaker 5: to be extorted. Here's what's going on. And that helped
Speaker 5: him a lot. Yeah, And that that and the and
Speaker 5: the story is going to come out anyways, he might
Speaker 5: as well get ahead of it. Also helps it helps
Speaker 5: you look more innocent, right.
Speaker 1: I would agree, Yeah, yeah. This is one of those
Speaker 1: examples of where your lawyer might tell you in a
Speaker 1: loyally way not to approach it in a certain way,
Speaker 1: but you have to.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 5: But if this had happened a few years ago, at
Speaker 5: the height of Me Too, Garth would be ruined. If
Speaker 5: you could ruin Garth books, I don't think you could
Speaker 5: ruin Garth Brooks, but his uh, he would have. He
Speaker 5: would have had no more cachet. He probably he might
Speaker 5: might not have ever been played on country music ever
Speaker 5: again on country radio if this had happened during Me Too,
Speaker 5: which is crazy.
Speaker 1: Ron DeSantis is showing his metal down in Florida.
Speaker 2: We'll have some audio from him. Stay with us, arm
Speaker 2: Strong and Getty.
Speaker 8: We've got fifty thousand linemen staged ready for rapid power restoration.
Speaker 8: We also have a full mobilization of the Florida National Guard,
Speaker 8: as well as receiving a lot of assets from other states.
Speaker 8: Everything we've asked for, we've gotten. I've been working constructively
Speaker 8: with President Biden. We're working, We've marshalled all state agencies,
Speaker 8: and we're working very constructively with our local partners. We
Speaker 8: know what we're doing here in Florida. We prepare for it.
Speaker 8: Floridians can rest assured you're gonna have a very robust response.
Speaker 2: We've been ramping up for this.
Speaker 8: We know there's a lot more ahead of us, but
Speaker 8: rest assured, we have not left anything on the floor.
Speaker 8: We're going out with everything we've got to make sure
Speaker 8: people are safe.
Speaker 5: You know what strikes me there, It's the same feeling
Speaker 5: I had when we were at the convention and DeSantis spoke.
Speaker 5: He sounds better there than he ever did while he
Speaker 5: was running for president.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know why that is. Yeah, it's frustrating.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 1: Charlie Cook at the National Reviews, one of my faves, said,
Speaker 1: if he just run like he ran for governor of Florida, well,
Speaker 1: you know, the Trump phenomenon is the Trump phenomenon. But yeah,
Speaker 1: it is a little frustrating if you're a fan of Disantus,
Speaker 1: and I am. He's just an incredibly competent guy. Hurricane
Speaker 1: Milton did, in fact hit Florida, not as disastrous as
Speaker 1: it could have been in the Tampa area, missed a
Speaker 1: little to the south in the horrific storm surge that
Speaker 1: was predicted for the Tampa area didn't materialize fully. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's unbelievable damage. There are three point two million people
Speaker 1: without power right now, one hundred and twenty tornadoes in Florida,
Speaker 1: quite a few dead.
Speaker 2: The reckoning has just begun.
Speaker 1: But I was absolutely struck by the interview he did
Speaker 1: with Ronda Santus did with Brett Bher last night. This
Speaker 1: is what leadership sounds like, and it's lacked in recent
Speaker 1: politics in my mind. Let's go ahead with forty Michael.
Speaker 4: What's your biggest concern at this hour?
Speaker 8: Well, we want people to be safe. We've had a
Speaker 8: massive evacuation. Most people heeded those calls. When you start
Speaker 8: talking about ten to fifteen feet of storm serves, that's
Speaker 8: just mother nature.
Speaker 2: You're not going to win that. But we are prepared.
Speaker 8: We have the largest National Guard mobilization in the history
Speaker 8: of the state to respond for search and rescue. We
Speaker 8: also have our county and local first responders so that
Speaker 8: effort will be robust should it be necessary. We've also
Speaker 8: staged over fifty thousand utility workers, so they are in
Speaker 8: the state of Florida. They've been brought from all over
Speaker 8: the country and so as soon as this storm passes.
Speaker 8: They are going to be a beginning power restoration. We
Speaker 8: did a very quick restoration after Helen two point four million.
Speaker 8: We're likely to have more power outages on this one.
Speaker 8: This storm is likely going to arrive quicker than what
Speaker 8: we were advised a day ago, probably between eight and
Speaker 8: nine o'clock yesterday was maybe one. It is going to
Speaker 8: cut across the state of Florida. So I would just
Speaker 8: tell Faridians obviously on that west coast, that's been the focus,
Speaker 8: but this is going to have impacts broader than that.
Speaker 8: We've already seen a rash of tornadoes that have spun off.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's good on that, Michel. Let's just talking about
Speaker 1: the weather. I'm reminded of JD. Vance's piece in the
Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal the other day entitled Biden Harris mismanaged
Speaker 1: Hurricane Helene.
Speaker 2: And on its.
Speaker 1: Face, you know, you could say, well, that's just politics
Speaker 1: as usual, but he got into the incredibly the incredible delays,
Speaker 1: the foot dragging, the bureaucratic nonsense that prevented aid from
Speaker 1: getting to where it was needed in North Carolina, and
Speaker 1: part of that's on the state.
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 1: Although there's no denying the hurricane the damage inland snuck
Speaker 1: up on most people.
Speaker 2: But the point jd Vance makes in his peace is that.
Speaker 1: With Kamala on the campaign trail and Joe Biden on
Speaker 1: the beach, they weren't making the calls to the Pentagon,
Speaker 1: to the governors, to the agencies saying you've got to
Speaker 1: the end of the day. I don't want to hear
Speaker 1: any excuses. They were not cutting through the red tape.
Speaker 1: That is inevitable in a big government. And I think
Speaker 1: he's right. And Ron DeSantis is such a contrast.
Speaker 7: So is it.
Speaker 5: We've had this conversation ten times, But is there any
Speaker 5: pushback to the idea that if DeSantis was the nominee
Speaker 5: he'd be winning by ten points?
Speaker 2: I don't think so. I don't think something either.
Speaker 1: I think he'd win in the landslide. He'd obliterate Kamala
Speaker 1: hers I think so too.
Speaker 2: Or Biden.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, it's impossible to know. You have to
Speaker 1: go through it. That's why they play the games, as
Speaker 1: they say. But a couple of more I like this.
Speaker 1: This is some more classic Ronde Santa's forty two.
Speaker 8: There are some people who did not want to evacuate
Speaker 8: because they were worried about the security of their property.
Speaker 8: We're a law in or state. We will hold looters accountable.
Speaker 8: You're not going to want to mess with this. We've
Speaker 8: brought in massive numbers of law enforcement officers from out
Speaker 8: of state to supplement our local municipal and county sheriff's departments,
Speaker 8: and they are going to be present and people are
Speaker 8: not going to get away with messing with anyone's property.
Speaker 8: I also in my executive order for this one over
Speaker 8: the weekend, I said you have a right to return
Speaker 8: to your property. We've had issues with local governments saying, oh,
Speaker 8: you can't go back to your house until we say so. No,
Speaker 8: you have a right to go back if there's some
Speaker 8: major hazard, like a bridge is not safe for something.
Speaker 8: That's one thing.
Speaker 2: But we're going to get people back to.
Speaker 8: Their homes and so the folks that are concerned about
Speaker 8: their property who did evacuate, just know we're going to
Speaker 8: have law enforcement there. We are not going to let
Speaker 8: the inmates run the asylum on the heels of this storm,
Speaker 8: and you will be able to go back to your
Speaker 8: property and inspected as soon as possible.
Speaker 5: Obviously, the stuff about the looters is great, but I
Speaker 5: like that other thing, because I've known people in California.
Speaker 5: You bug out because there's going to be a fire, Okay,
Speaker 5: fires over in the local whoever doesn't let you go.
Speaker 1: Back right right out of an excess of caution. That's
Speaker 1: the thing, And that's the part of that clip that
Speaker 1: I liked so much. If you have law in order,
Speaker 1: you can have more liberty, if you have trust in
Speaker 1: people to behave responsibly and not this paternalistic you know,
Speaker 1: it's that weird permissive paternalism that the left has where
Speaker 1: they want punish wrongdoing, but they will punish honest citizens
Speaker 1: because they have you under their control. It makes me insane.
Speaker 1: Final note on this, the whole Kamala phone call thing.
Speaker 1: Do you want to set this up, Jack or is
Speaker 1: that hole back and forth?
Speaker 5: Well, the crux of it is Kamala Harris wanting to
Speaker 5: get involved in the hurricane because she's running for president,
Speaker 5: and the SENTI is making the point that why do
Speaker 5: I need to talk to you?
Speaker 4: You've never called for any other hurricane.
Speaker 1: On yes, she called him and then accused him of
Speaker 1: not picking up thereby not caring for the people.
Speaker 5: Of Florida and him not wanting to talk to her.
Speaker 5: Politicizing the hurricane. Where he's saying, who's politicizing hurricane You
Speaker 5: never called.
Speaker 2: For any of the other hurricanes. Well in forty four
Speaker 2: here Michael Brettbaar asks him about that.
Speaker 4: I heard what you said about Vice President Harris and
Speaker 4: the phone call.
Speaker 2: Did she ever get through you know, Brett?
Speaker 8: Like I said, my job is to marshal resources and
Speaker 8: work with everybody to have an effective response. And she
Speaker 8: thinks it should be about her. If I honestly thought
Speaker 8: that there was something to be gained, I would pick
Speaker 8: up the phone and call her. The fact of the
Speaker 8: matter is she has no role in this process. She's
Speaker 8: not part of the chain of command. I am working
Speaker 8: with President Biden and FEMA and our state and local partners,
Speaker 8: and we're getting the job done. She has never been
Speaker 8: interested in any of the storms we've had in the
Speaker 8: state of Florida for entire time as Vice president. Now
Speaker 8: she's out there attacking me because I'm not catering to
Speaker 8: her whims. All she's trying to do is inject herself
Speaker 8: to be a part part of her political campaign. I
Speaker 8: don't have time for political games. We've got a job
Speaker 8: to do. We got people's lives. On the line, and
Speaker 8: that is our sole focus.
Speaker 5: I don't know the term catering to your whims.
Speaker 2: He's catering.
Speaker 5: Oh okay, I thought it was a fancy term I
Speaker 5: should learn. Yeah, I mean it goes. I can look
Speaker 5: at both ways. I mean, it wouldn't kill him to
Speaker 5: pick up the phone. I'm sure he's very busy, but
Speaker 5: talking to her for a few minutes what he's trying
Speaker 5: to avoid.
Speaker 4: Also, I mean he's right on the merits that she.
Speaker 5: Never called before because vice presidents don't call governors when
Speaker 5: a hurricane comes.
Speaker 4: That's not a thing.
Speaker 5: So she's calling now because there's a when you when
Speaker 5: you run for president or vice president, they have to
Speaker 5: all of a sudden include you in everything and act
Speaker 5: like you're more important than you are.
Speaker 2: So that's what she's doing.
Speaker 5: He doesn't want to have the Chris Christie Obama hug
Speaker 5: moment that doomed Chris Christie when when Chris Christy as
Speaker 5: governor of New Jersey and they had a hurricane got
Speaker 5: caught hug and Obama and then one to run for president,
Speaker 5: and that got hung around his neck and ads over
Speaker 5: and over again.
Speaker 4: So DeSantis doesn't want anything that smells like that.
Speaker 1: Well, right, And plus, given her utter lack of any
Speaker 1: concern for the people of Florida every other storm, he's
Speaker 1: not going to give her the legitimacy the platform of
Speaker 1: taking her call so she can help. What a crack
Speaker 1: because she would have been out later that day.
Speaker 5: I just spoke to Governor DeSantis of Florida and we
Speaker 5: are marshaling and blah blah blah, and then she gets
Speaker 5: to sound like she's leading in charge and blah.
Speaker 2: Blah in command.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly so well, and as he said, if she
Speaker 1: could do us a lick of good, yeah, I'd pick
Speaker 1: up the phone.
Speaker 2: But she can't. So why would I bother. She's not
Speaker 2: in the chain of command in any way.
Speaker 1: Right, right, What a ridiculous exercise.
Speaker 2: She's a ridiculous person.
Speaker 7: You know, we have aspirations, we have dreams, you're right
Speaker 7: about that.
Speaker 5: So OURFK Junior's mom has died Ethel Kennedy. If you're
Speaker 5: into the whole Camelot Kennedy thing, that because she was
Speaker 5: the wife of obviously RFK Senior who was assassinated and
Speaker 5: blah blah blah, that whole story. But so RFK Junior's
Speaker 5: mom died before she had a chance to see him
Speaker 5: elected president, but luckily lived long enough to see him
Speaker 5: hid a dead bear in Central Park.
Speaker 2: So there's two ways to look at it.
Speaker 1: Right, right, I'm sure she's proud of him either way,
Speaker 1: looking down from heaven Ethel Kennedy was ninety six.
Speaker 2: Okay, more on the way.
Speaker 5: So here's something I didn't know. For something, we did
Speaker 5: know that Iran uh was trying to kill Trump. They
Speaker 5: had an assassination plot that was foiled.
Speaker 2: Hold on, gonna sneeze. Probably COVID. Oh, there's probably COVID.
Speaker 5: I just found out a friend of mine who had
Speaker 5: bad long COVID from back in the day, got COVID
Speaker 5: again recently. I don't know what COVID do anything to
Speaker 5: you if you had. Of course, the modern versions are
Speaker 5: so much a different than the original version.
Speaker 1: Yeah, true, they are thinking though it increases the risk
Speaker 1: of heart attack because it thickens up your blood, makes
Speaker 1: it more sticky in the parlance of cardiologists.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's no way this was not created in a lab.
Speaker 5: I mean the things that it does. I was talking
Speaker 5: to somebody the other day, who what is their whole thing?
Speaker 5: Something that smells like onions all the time, their smell
Speaker 5: and taste got all messed up, and the way I
Speaker 5: can't taste sweet anymore, you know, in the various things,
Speaker 5: that's no normal disease, no powerful neurological effects from.
Speaker 2: A respiratory illness. Please a nice job, doctor Fauci.
Speaker 1: If you need a function gained man, go with Fauci's
Speaker 1: Woohan House of virus alteration.
Speaker 2: Anyway, That's not what I was going to talk about.
Speaker 2: I was going to talk about Iran.
Speaker 5: So we know that Iran had a plot to try
Speaker 5: to kill a president Trump. They had a plot to
Speaker 5: try to assassinate Bolton Old what's his name, Bolton John Bolton,
Speaker 5: and the current administration has said almost nothing about that.
Speaker 5: That came up on the Sunday talk shows. Hey, how
Speaker 5: about the president or the vice president call out Iran
Speaker 5: for wanting to assassinate a former president. I mean, that
Speaker 5: would be a full on act of war. You couldn't
Speaker 5: consider it an act of war that they have a plot,
Speaker 5: let alone that the fact that they pulled it off anyway,
Speaker 5: and also the intelligence community, this has been reported over
Speaker 5: and over again. The intelligence community believes that Iran prefers
Speaker 5: a Harris victory to a Trump Win, Well, why might
Speaker 5: be in the extended version of sixty minutes.
Speaker 4: I didn't watch it.
Speaker 5: At the end of sixty minutes the other night when
Speaker 5: Kamala Harris was on there, they said for more go
Speaker 5: to the extended BLUBB and I thought, you know, I
Speaker 5: should watch it. There might be some good stuff there,
Speaker 5: but I got distracted and get around to it.
Speaker 4: Well, the dispatch has some of it.
Speaker 5: When CBS News is Bill Whittaker asked Vice President Kamala
Speaker 5: Harris which country she believed to be America's greatest foreign adversary,
Speaker 5: she said, Ran. I think I said that the other
Speaker 5: day too. I think they're our biggest admosphere. I think
Speaker 5: there's an obvious one in mind, which is a Ran.
Speaker 5: She replied. Iran has American blood on their hands, but
Speaker 5: when asked whether she would take military action if there
Speaker 5: was proof Iran was building a nuclear weapon, she said,
Speaker 5: I'm not going to talk about hypotheticals at this moment.
Speaker 4: If we had.
Speaker 5: Proof that they were building a nuclear weapon as the
Speaker 5: number one adversary, you just said it yourself to the
Speaker 5: United States.
Speaker 4: I don't want to talk about hypotheticals. That's freaking weak.
Speaker 1: It's certainly a change from we will do whatever it
Speaker 1: takes to prevent that.
Speaker 5: Well, that's been the stated policy over three or four
Speaker 5: different administrations, Republican and Democrat, sure, including Joe Biden and
Speaker 5: Barack Obama.
Speaker 2: And she says that's a hypothetical. I won't get it
Speaker 2: in h.
Speaker 1: You know, I have a little sympathy just because they
Speaker 1: don't want to be specific. But you've got to make
Speaker 1: a statement of strength.
Speaker 5: You don't at least say Iran is not getting a
Speaker 5: nuclear weapon?
Speaker 2: Well would you do?
Speaker 4: Well, I'm not going to get into that, but Iran
Speaker 4: is not getting a nuclear weapon. You won't even say that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, she's incompetent, and having learned at the knee
Speaker 1: of the Great equivocator, Biden's probably not inclined to do
Speaker 1: anything either.
Speaker 2: God help us.
Speaker 1: So on a completely different topic, because I'd really like
Speaker 1: to get into some Lebanon stuff, speaking of the Middle
Speaker 1: East and that sort of thing.
Speaker 2: But we have no time.
Speaker 1: The point, I'll give you the five second version. They
Speaker 1: will never have stability because it's all about their ethnic groups,
Speaker 1: it's all about their sect and that's what Progressive America
Speaker 1: is trying to turn us into. Just a bunch of
Speaker 1: different ethnicities who hate each other. I like sex ah sects,
Speaker 1: I'm afraid. So we congratulated the high school in New
Speaker 1: Hampshire earlier for the girls soccer team refusing to play
Speaker 1: a local rival high school that has a dude on
Speaker 1: their soccer team because it's a dude in girls sports
Speaker 1: and they're not going to do that. And the players
Speaker 1: and the moms and the dad said, that's enough. We're
Speaker 1: not participating in this madness anymore. And I appreciate that
Speaker 1: you got four colleges in a row refusing to play
Speaker 1: San Jose State because they've got a dude on their
Speaker 1: women's volleyball team, even though it's a women's volleyball team.
Speaker 2: Very odd.
Speaker 1: And Riley Gaines in her organization, the great swimmer who
Speaker 1: protested against the Leah Thomas madness, out with this brand
Speaker 1: new ad.
Speaker 2: It is terrific.
Speaker 4: Dear Nike, Nike, Dear.
Speaker 2: Nike, why won't you stand up for me?
Speaker 7: Why won't you stand up for me?
Speaker 2: Why do you claim to support women and girls? Yeah?
Speaker 2: What we need you most, you remain silent.
Speaker 7: Today males are claiming our identity, our sports, our spaces.
Speaker 2: Men and boys are stealing opportunities, medals, trophies, and our future.
Speaker 2: It is not there or just. In fact, it's often dangerous.
Speaker 2: Yet you refuse to use your platform to stand up.
Speaker 4: You say you're for social justice and progress.
Speaker 2: So why do you allow men's rights to come before arms? See?
Speaker 1: You?
Speaker 4: With a big platform comes an even bigger responsibility.
Speaker 2: You have a chance to do the right thing, not
Speaker 2: just do the easy thing. So we're asking you, Nike,
Speaker 2: as the biggest voice in all of sports, will you
Speaker 2: stand up for me? Will you stand up for me?
Speaker 2: Will you stand up for me? Will you stand up
Speaker 2: for me? Will you? Will you?
Speaker 5: Will you?
Speaker 8: Just do it?
Speaker 2: Go get them girls? Really good. I hope that gets
Speaker 2: lots of play. I do too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, zap it around? Do we have that post at
Speaker 1: an armstrong in getty dot com. I retweeted it if
Speaker 1: you follow us on Twitter.
Speaker 5: I wish Elon would buy a flight of that and
Speaker 5: put it everywhere, put it in the super Bowl.
Speaker 1: I think I retweeted his tweet of it. Come to
Speaker 1: think of it.
Speaker 5: Oh, really, he's on it, Okay, I don't think so.
Speaker 5: He has two hundred million followers on Twitter.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's it's about the same as us.
Speaker 7: No.
Speaker 1: Oh, we read hosted Riley Gaines tweet of it doing
Speaker 1: our best though, that is really fantaslon Bee that you
Speaker 1: reposted from a genius. Kamala Harris announced his plan to
Speaker 1: tell Hurricane Milton don't just don't.
Speaker 2: That's beautiful. I know, I know that is funny.
Speaker 5: That night that shot at Nike in this came up
Speaker 5: earlier the whole because Joe and I are staunch corporations
Speaker 5: should shut up about politics. People, Yeah, just shut up
Speaker 5: about politics, corporations. But when they've been as out and
Speaker 5: proud as they've been the other direction for so long,
Speaker 5: and they probably will continue to be, and then you
Speaker 5: ought to have to respond to this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, not only are they weak on confused men trampling
Speaker 1: women's rights, they're encouraging They've been encouraging it right. And
Speaker 1: as I've said before, as a longtime coach of both
Speaker 1: boys and girls' sports, the speed and violence of boys
Speaker 1: sports is so different. I don't care if the boy
Speaker 1: puts on a skirt or has been taking hormones for
Speaker 1: a little bit.
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