Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong.
Speaker 2: And Joe Katty Armstrong and Jackie and he Armsrong get
Speaker 2: it from the studio seat. See it's a dimly lit room.
Speaker 2: You don't where and take with the bowels the.
Speaker 1: Bowels, i'd say, of the Armstrong and getting communications compound.
Speaker 2: And today we are under the Tutela job. Our general
Speaker 2: manager still Stobbald J. Trump commander in chief by God,
Speaker 2: shaking it up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, how about today we could focus on the immigration angle,
Speaker 1: which is one of the two biggest issues. He got
Speaker 1: elected on the immigration thing. As the ice officers are
Speaker 1: out there targeting violent offenders about four hundred people who
Speaker 1: have been arresto already who had horrible criminal records that
Speaker 1: were in our country, and the fact that they arrested
Speaker 1: him within like you know, two days of a new
Speaker 1: presidency means they knew who they were and where they
Speaker 1: were right and.
Speaker 3: The fact that they had been left to do whatever
Speaker 3: they wanted and stay in the country until now boggles
Speaker 3: the mind.
Speaker 1: It really does, it really does. They had been identified
Speaker 1: by the Justice Department. People knew exactly what sort of
Speaker 1: horrible things these people had done, and because of a
Speaker 1: variety of ridiculous policies at the federal, state, and city level,
Speaker 1: they were just.
Speaker 2: Hanging out waiting to commit their next crimes.
Speaker 1: And then you got the Lake and Riley Act, which
Speaker 1: passed the House easily by over one hundred votes with
Speaker 1: a forty six Democrats voting on it. That's the act
Speaker 1: that makes it easier for federal officials to detain and
Speaker 1: deport illegals who are charged with crimes. And prior to this,
Speaker 1: you know that would that gets around the sanctuary city right,
Speaker 1: because sanctuary city thing, because it's a it's a federal law.
Speaker 1: So in theory, the state of California or Los Angeles
Speaker 1: County or whoever can't just ignore that.
Speaker 2: In theory. We'll see. Yeah, that is going to be
Speaker 2: worked out at length.
Speaker 3: The question of can the federal government compel in any
Speaker 3: way a local employee to do their bidding. That's going
Speaker 3: to be knocking around the courts for a long time,
Speaker 3: but it ought to be decided. It's about time.
Speaker 1: Well, we know our public opinion is New York Times
Speaker 1: poll over the weekend, eighty five percent of Americans want
Speaker 1: illegals with criminal backgrounds out.
Speaker 2: In the other fifteen percent of I want to deport you.
Speaker 2: Are you insane? How does the world look to you?
Speaker 2: Because what sort of system?
Speaker 3: You need to explain your system top to bottom for me,
Speaker 3: because I'm fascinating.
Speaker 1: I agreed to port them. I don't care if they're
Speaker 1: sixteen generation may Flower Americans.
Speaker 2: They need to go, yeah place who cares? Give where?
Speaker 2: My side don't care.
Speaker 1: The other border thing, fifteen hundred troops headed to the border,
Speaker 1: and some marine was on the talk shows yesterday saying
Speaker 1: there might be as many as ten thousand soon doing
Speaker 1: a variety of different jobs. I don't know if you
Speaker 1: saw the pictures of the detention centers Mexico's building on
Speaker 1: the other side of the border, because they realized the
Speaker 1: jig is up and these people got to go somewhere.
Speaker 1: So they're trying to figure out where they're gonna put
Speaker 1: everybody since they're not going to be crossing anymore. Keeping
Speaker 1: in mind that eight million people crossed illegally during the
Speaker 1: Biden administration. Eight million people, as Bob Woodward said in
Speaker 1: his book Bob Freaking Woodward said, the greatest non war
Speaker 1: migration of humans in world history. In the history of
Speaker 1: the planet happened because of our stupid, stupid policies, utterly
Speaker 1: lawless for years and years in year, and shockingly so,
Speaker 1: so we've been discussing, and thank goodness, Trump, among other things,
Speaker 1: doesn't care if some fringe of activists says this.
Speaker 3: Is racist against Hispanics or something. It's an idiotic argument,
Speaker 3: but the bulk of the political world at least listens
Speaker 3: to that and thinks, hmm, I wonder how much influence
Speaker 3: and sway they have. I wonder if they would cost
Speaker 3: me votes and contributions. Trump's like, I don't care, be quiet,
Speaker 3: which is great. Now here's the problem with Trump, and
Speaker 3: there are a couple of stories like this. It's I
Speaker 3: finally came up with the correct metaphor. It's as if
Speaker 3: he's in the Oval Office unleashing these great executive vill
Speaker 3: orders and urging Congress to pass fantastic laws and returning
Speaker 3: so many policies back to sanity, and as he's doing that,
Speaker 3: he's just like casually sliding landmines around the Oval Office
Speaker 3: and saying, Oh, don't worry, I won't step on him.
Speaker 2: Because that's Trump's thing.
Speaker 3: He creates his own land minds for the you know
Speaker 3: the other people who exploit. And some of you are like,
Speaker 3: why are you guys focusing on some of the negative
Speaker 3: stuff with Trump? He's doing so many good things. It's
Speaker 3: because I could I've seen this movie before. The only
Speaker 3: way that great stuff ends is if he steps on
Speaker 3: one of his own land mines.
Speaker 2: The Left can't take him.
Speaker 3: That was like Lincoln used to say about the country
Speaker 3: will never be taken over by some external force. If
Speaker 3: we are to fall apart, it'll be of our own making.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I like this border immigration stuff though, so yeah, can
Speaker 1: you explain to me? I meant to read the article yesterday.
Speaker 1: We're big fans of the Dispatch around here, and they
Speaker 1: put out a piece on why we need to continue
Speaker 1: birthright citizenship, and I didn't get around reading it.
Speaker 2: I wanted to hear the argument, and.
Speaker 1: I was asking, I've been asking for the last couple
Speaker 1: of days, what's the argument for continuing it? Because I
Speaker 1: hadn't heard one yet, but there must be one or several,
Speaker 1: and I'd like to know.
Speaker 3: The only one that's really leapt to my mind is
Speaker 3: that if you if you have a smart, orderly immigration system,
Speaker 3: and it takes a while for those people to become citizens.
Speaker 3: But they're here to stay to become Americans. Their kids
Speaker 3: ought to be Americans. There shouldn't be a long administrative
Speaker 3: process that their kids become Americans. But how do you
Speaker 3: deal with the whole citizenship tourism thing that's popular.
Speaker 2: Particularly among the rich in Asia.
Speaker 1: You know, you're going to have a baby, see a
Speaker 1: fly the United States and stay in a hotel or
Speaker 1: whatever you do, and have your kid born at a
Speaker 1: hospital here so you can they're a citizen.
Speaker 2: Why don't we What are we supposed to do? Put
Speaker 2: a pin in it now? Or park the car? Parks
Speaker 2: a car? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Have you heard any might say that? Hanson, Well, of course,
Speaker 1: we don't ever go to meetings either. How would we
Speaker 1: hear the lingo of meetings when we don't ever have
Speaker 1: to go to meetings? Thank god, thank god.
Speaker 3: It's one of the greatest developments of our long career.
Speaker 3: I said, we're at the point that I don't want
Speaker 3: to I hate.
Speaker 1: To even say this out loud because some of you
Speaker 1: will flip off the radio because you go to like
Speaker 1: five meetings a day.
Speaker 2: I think I go to three meetings a year. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and those are ones we want to go to. Yes, Hanson.
Speaker 1: Now, somebody threw a sales term at me yesterday that
Speaker 1: I'd never heard before, and I actually had to say, uh.
Speaker 2: No, I wasn't aware of that, And I gotta admit,
Speaker 2: I don't know what that means. What was it? I
Speaker 2: don't even know some some weird combination. Let's park the car.
Speaker 1: So let's let's park the car and we'll come back
Speaker 1: to that, see if we can figure out what it was.
Speaker 3: Yes, Joe, excellent, that's not a great metaphor. I don't
Speaker 3: park that, okay, I mean, how's that worse than put
Speaker 3: a pin in it? Well, it's there's no car.
Speaker 2: We haven't there's no pan. No, we're we're marking something
Speaker 2: we want to return to.
Speaker 3: But a car is a bad This discussion did not
Speaker 3: get us here. It's just something we want to come
Speaker 3: back to.
Speaker 2: Get I kind of get it.
Speaker 1: Let's quit driving around the parking lot or driving around.
Speaker 1: Let's stop, let's park the car.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's all right.
Speaker 3: I don't know what is it with you people in sales.
Speaker 3: Can I just say let's talk about this later when
Speaker 3: we have more time.
Speaker 2: Get out of here. He's not management material. You have
Speaker 2: read none of the hot books about bisiness vanishments.
Speaker 1: You don't know how tight your suit jacket is supposed
Speaker 1: to be now or not, or how how your pants
Speaker 1: are supposed to be. You're not in step with what
Speaker 1: everybody's doing. How do you sales marketing people know what
Speaker 1: the hot?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 1: First of all, why do you need to have a
Speaker 1: hot phrase to signify you're the cool people?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: Same reasons and teenagers do. The process is exactly the same.
Speaker 3: If you're not up on the hip lingo, that's why
Speaker 3: it's important to be up on it right.
Speaker 1: Social cachet exactly exactly that. And the coffee munk. You
Speaker 1: gotta have the right coffee munk. A Stanley mug now,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, you are so lame. It moved on
Speaker 1: to something else by Really, how does mailbag look? I
Speaker 1: spent seven hundred dollars on seven hundred dollars.
Speaker 3: We got to start the show out every color to
Speaker 3: match my ties.
Speaker 2: Yes, Katie, Oh, she's got her Stanley book.
Speaker 4: And now I'm just sitting here drinking out of my Stanley.
Speaker 2: That's all.
Speaker 1: You know what I like about it? It holds liquids
Speaker 1: and you can drink out of it. That's the best
Speaker 1: part of it. You're an embarrassment, Katie. I'll get you
Speaker 1: with your yesterday's big dumb cup. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's
Speaker 1: Joe Getty on this It is Thursday, January twenty third,
Speaker 1: the year twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: We are armstrong in getting we approve of this program.
Speaker 3: Let's begin officially then, according to SCC rules and regulations,
Speaker 3: the show begins at Mark.
Speaker 5: This is not Fox, Congressman, you can't just spin a
Speaker 5: tail and pull the wool out of people's eyes.
Speaker 2: Now, this is CNN. This is the news. We're asking
Speaker 2: that's out and tell the truth.
Speaker 5: And that's why more people are watching the cartoon network
Speaker 5: SpongeBob reruns right now, Jim.
Speaker 3: That was beautiful. That was Congressman. Don't tell me it's
Speaker 3: here somewhere.
Speaker 2: CNN once again clowning themselves.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what a great comeback. Well it was the congressman's name.
Speaker 3: I want to give him credit.
Speaker 1: For instance that sort of thing. Axios's headline and I'm
Speaker 1: looking up at the Twitter Axios's headline today. America doesn't
Speaker 1: have a king, but we're dancing close to Kinglake Power. Okay,
Speaker 1: be afraid, be very afraid. How does mail bag look? Seriously,
Speaker 1: does this effing thing work? What's the name of the congressman?
Speaker 4: I don't uh, Representative timber Chet from Tennessee.
Speaker 2: Thank you well done. How does mail bag look? Oh?
Speaker 2: It's terrific.
Speaker 3: It's as if Cicero, Lincoln, and Moses himself had come
Speaker 3: together to craft the feature.
Speaker 1: I don't even think you're concerned that we're dancing close
Speaker 1: to king like powers. You just don't even seem to
Speaker 1: be bothered by that. Our text line is four one
Speaker 1: five two nine five KFTC. Some great headlines from various
Speaker 1: publications around the country around the immigration thing. They continue
Speaker 1: to find the most heart tugging examples in the world
Speaker 1: and portray them. You know, the one woman we had
Speaker 1: yesterday who was in Mexico crying because she was about
Speaker 1: to get across and now she's not, and she'd crying.
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, Well that's what.
Speaker 1: Happens after four years of telling the entire Southern hemisphere
Speaker 1: that anybody could come here, and then it's going to
Speaker 1: stop at some point. No, people didn't get in are
Speaker 1: gonna be unhappy? What am I supposed to do about it?
Speaker 2: Right? Right? Agreed much more to come on that topic
Speaker 2: in others.
Speaker 3: Here's your freedom loving quote of the day. We often know,
Speaker 3: oh it's from I don't know this person, and I
Speaker 3: just like the quote. Punit isar And if they are
Speaker 3: some sort of monster of history that I'm not aware of,
Speaker 3: I apologize for quoting them. But we often know only
Speaker 3: one version of the story, the version for trade by
Speaker 3: the person who wins a war and lives to tell
Speaker 3: the tale, and the one who loses the war is
Speaker 3: always remembered as the antagonist, making the victor the protagonist.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's one of the things that bothers me about reading
Speaker 1: history is that, to a certain extent, there's no such
Speaker 1: thing as accurate, perfectly accurate history, especially the further you
Speaker 1: go back, right.
Speaker 3: I mean, there are plenty of examples of quote unquote
Speaker 3: fair you know, chroniclers of what happened, But much more
Speaker 3: often anybody who would have expressed the point of view
Speaker 3: B is just gone yeah exactly, or in a prison
Speaker 3: or something and doesn't get to speak. Mailbag drop us
Speaker 3: note Mailbag at Armstrong and Getty dot com. I'm going
Speaker 3: to read this just because I appreciate Roberts taking the
Speaker 3: time to craft a joke that sounds as if it
Speaker 3: was taken from the pages of a joke book for
Speaker 3: eight year olds written in nineteen seventy six. We're discussing
Speaker 3: the Artinian Museum of Men's Suits, which has been closed
Speaker 3: down one of many cost cutting measures by Javier Milay.
Speaker 3: They're great new President, Robert says. Fun fact, the hall
Speaker 3: of suits.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, the.
Speaker 3: Suit museums all of zippers was always open, even right
Speaker 3: after it was closed.
Speaker 2: Wow, wow, thanks for taking this. You can have a
Speaker 2: museum like I screwed it up.
Speaker 1: But usually when you have a weirdo museum like that
Speaker 1: in the United States, it's privately funded. It's not tax trainers,
Speaker 1: and that's the problem. It was like like the government
Speaker 1: had a museum of suits.
Speaker 2: Yeah, good gracious. Let's see.
Speaker 3: This is Mike from northern Minnesota. He says, guys, I
Speaker 3: have a similar story the one Joe told last week.
Speaker 3: I did about dropping my iPhone in my dog's pooh
Speaker 3: as I was trying to pick it up. Right, Mike,
Speaker 3: several years ago, I placed my thirty caliber semi automatic
Speaker 3: pistol in my pocket while I was doing my stand
Speaker 3: up business. I think he means urinating when I bent
Speaker 3: over to retrieve my gloves, said pistol fell out of
Speaker 3: my pocket, landed on the hammer, sending the bullet into
Speaker 3: my right butt cheek. Oh my god, the whole story
Speaker 3: is too long for mailback.
Speaker 2: Oh my god. Wow. Wow, Hey Mike, when's your birthday?
Speaker 2: I'm gonna buy you a holster.
Speaker 1: My first thought if that happened to me would be,
Speaker 1: h I'm really lucky to be alive.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: Number two, I gotta get a gun that's less sensitive
Speaker 3: to being dropped.
Speaker 2: But anyway, let's see.
Speaker 3: Jay from San Jose writes Trump has just executive ordered
Speaker 3: a battlefield strategy that covers so many fronts that Democrats
Speaker 3: seem bewildered and scattered. No one is leading their party,
Speaker 3: and Trump is going to walk through them because on
Speaker 3: several different important issues, he knows some dams must vote
Speaker 3: with him if they hope to get re elected, or
Speaker 3: just for common sense, overwhelm and overtake.
Speaker 1: Dang it. I came across a term yesterday. I meant
Speaker 1: to write it down. I didn't know what I was.
Speaker 1: I never did debate in my life. I guess it's
Speaker 1: a debating term. You throw so many things at your
Speaker 1: opponent they can't respond to all of them and that
Speaker 1: right kind of what Trump is doing. There's just no
Speaker 1: way to respond to all the things he's doing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think you and jayf Sanjo's air exactly right. Let's
Speaker 1: see on the topic of people not having.
Speaker 3: Sex anymore again, If this was the giraffe or the
Speaker 3: will to beast or something, every biologist in the world
Speaker 3: would be shouting about how important and dangerous this is.
Speaker 3: But people not having sex is another way of saying
Speaker 3: not reproducing rights, Arnie. Think about animal populations in the wild.
Speaker 3: When there are too many for the available area, they
Speaker 3: naturally reduce the rate of reproduction. Could that be what
Speaker 3: is happening to us humans? Perhaps there is enough food
Speaker 3: available but not enough space. I'm just saying, Arnie, I
Speaker 3: have always responded in the same way to this theory.
Speaker 3: Drive from Kansas City, Missouri to Sacramento, California, and then
Speaker 3: tell me there's not enough room for the people. You
Speaker 3: will not see another living soul for twelve hundred miles.
Speaker 1: Well ever, since I was about eleven, I understand the
Speaker 1: relationship between sex and having children, but I didn't think
Speaker 1: they'd be tied together like this if people decided not
Speaker 1: to have kids. I didn't think they'd stop having sex,
Speaker 1: very pleasurable experience. It doesn't need to result in a child.
Speaker 1: I mean, in the modern world of birth control, you
Speaker 1: don't have to have stop having sex.
Speaker 3: So people just losing the desire to have sex is unbelievable.
Speaker 3: Charles points out to dating these days is much more
Speaker 3: fraught with potentially dire consequences than in any previous decade
Speaker 3: I've ever experienced, especially for men, legal consequences, civil lawsuits,
Speaker 3: claims of rape, whatever. Yeah, I don't know. I think
Speaker 3: there are many factors and they've come together.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I never did online dating, but I know a
Speaker 1: lot of people that did for years and they've soured
Speaker 1: on it because of bad experiences.
Speaker 2: And I wonder if people don't know.
Speaker 1: How to or don't want to go back to the
Speaker 1: old way, so you go from online dating it didn't work,
Speaker 1: you just stop.
Speaker 3: Or let's face it, the young are the kings and
Speaker 3: queens of hooking up right, getting it on the beast
Speaker 3: with two.
Speaker 2: Bags, et cetera.
Speaker 1: Not necessarily according to that pole, but right exactly.
Speaker 3: And they're not like capable of meeting people and enduring
Speaker 3: the stress and the rejections.
Speaker 1: So you know, its true if you can't call a
Speaker 1: pizza place to order a pizza. You're not gonna ask
Speaker 1: somebody out on a date, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 6: This hasn't happened in seventy years. A blanket of snow
Speaker 6: covered the beach the Florida Panhandle. There were snow from
Speaker 6: Tallahassee to Pensacola. Children were voluntarily being swallowed by alligators
Speaker 6: just to stay warmed.
Speaker 2: Hioh.
Speaker 1: We'll talk more about what's going on immigration wise now
Speaker 1: that Trump has hit the ground running around immigration and
Speaker 1: everything like that in hour two.
Speaker 2: But here's one of my favorite things. It's getting attention.
Speaker 1: The president's reversal on sensitive locations that free agents are
Speaker 1: not allowed to go into has been done away with,
Speaker 1: like churches, schools, hospitals, colleges, funerals, and rallies. You're going
Speaker 1: to show up at a funeral and arrest people. That's wow, Ah,
Speaker 1: that's aggressive.
Speaker 2: That would be a little insensitive.
Speaker 1: I suppose now you stand there for a second, say,
Speaker 1: and they seemed like a nice person.
Speaker 2: Anyway, come with me. Yeah, yeah, they'll be missed, and
Speaker 2: so will you because you're leaving the country.
Speaker 3: I all, uh, yeah, yeah, I get I get some
Speaker 3: of those locations, but it's it's got end. We've gone way, way, way,
Speaker 3: way too far in the other direction, and everyone knows it.
Speaker 2: More on the immigration situation.
Speaker 3: There's a lot to report today in a little bit,
Speaker 3: but I thought this was so interesting. One of the
Speaker 3: things that the Trump administration is going to roll back
Speaker 3: completely is the and this is editorializing, I know, the
Speaker 3: completely phony, ridiculous, expensive subsidies for pie in the sky
Speaker 3: green energy stuff and or trying to well, it's not
Speaker 3: even that trying to reduce climate change, is what I
Speaker 3: going to say. But as we all know, so many
Speaker 3: of these measures are just purely symbolic. I mean, they'll
Speaker 3: have no significant, you know, effect whatsoever, unless China and
Speaker 3: India all of a sudden stop existing and then, you know,
Speaker 3: maybe we could lower the temperatures by about a fourth
Speaker 3: of a degree in one hundred years. Anyway, I thought
Speaker 3: this was so interesting. This is actually from the New
Speaker 3: York Post, but it's headline kind of tells the story.
Speaker 3: Climate change fanatics want to bankrupt the entire world for
Speaker 3: little to no reward, and they've quantified a lot of
Speaker 3: the costs and benefits of the things that have been
Speaker 3: proposed and again, this is probably the greatest example I've
Speaker 3: ever seen of something needs to be done. This is something,
Speaker 3: so this needs to be done around climate change. So
Speaker 3: across the world, public finances stretch dangerously thin per person
Speaker 3: growth continues dropping while costs for aging populations grow. These
Speaker 3: urgent priorities could easily require an additional three to six
Speaker 3: percent of GDP. Yet green campaigners are loudly calling for
Speaker 3: governments to spend up to twenty five percent of our
Speaker 3: GDP on climate change. If climate armageddon were imminent, they
Speaker 3: would have a point, but the truth is far more prosaic.
Speaker 3: Two major new scientific estimates of the total global cost
Speaker 3: of climate change have been published recently. And these are
Speaker 3: not individual studies which can vary greatly. These are These
Speaker 3: are meta studies based on the entirety of peer reviewed literature.
Speaker 3: It's a study of studies, and the people behind them
Speaker 3: are Nobel Prize winners and often cited that sort of thing. Anyway,
Speaker 3: the studies suggests that a three degree celsius temperature increase
Speaker 3: by the end of the century, which is pretty pessimistic.
Speaker 3: That's a big increase a lot. Oh yeah, yeah, that's
Speaker 3: more than they're talking about. But they went with that
Speaker 3: for some reason because it made the figures easier. I
Speaker 3: don't know, but we'll have a global cost equivalent to
Speaker 3: between two and three percent of global GDP. It will
Speaker 3: be a two to three percent hit while global.
Speaker 1: GDP, and I don't even need to know to be
Speaker 1: certain that the proposals that are out there for trying
Speaker 1: to stop that from happening are many multiples of that.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, ruin the punchline, Yeah, of course. Yeah.
Speaker 3: To put this into context, the United Nations estimates with it,
Speaker 3: by the end of the century, the average person, because
Speaker 3: standards of living have been rising now for one hundred
Speaker 3: and seventy five years and continue to the average person
Speaker 3: will be four hundred and fifty percent.
Speaker 2: As rich as he or she is today.
Speaker 3: Because of climate change, they will feel only four hundred
Speaker 3: and thirty five to four hundred and forty percent as
Speaker 3: rich as they are today. Now, why is that so
Speaker 3: different from the word we get from the media constantly?
Speaker 3: A lot armists and credulous journalists fail to account for
Speaker 3: the simple fact that people are remarkably adaptable and tackle
Speaker 3: most climate problems at low cost. The idea that gets
Speaker 3: foistered or thrown at us over and over again.
Speaker 2: Is that we will just except.
Speaker 3: We'll like passively like sheep, except the changing climate and
Speaker 3: do nothing about it. We will not adjust. We'll just
Speaker 3: sit here and be drowned. We'll just well, the water's
Speaker 3: up to our navels will say oh, and the water's
Speaker 3: up to our nipples will say, oh, it's too bad.
Speaker 3: And as the water covers our nostrils will simply drown.
Speaker 1: Well, there's only so much water, so if it rises somewhere,
Speaker 1: it's got to go down somewhere else.
Speaker 2: We're not going to make new water. So isn't that true?
Speaker 2: I mean, it's.
Speaker 3: They talk about the the all the ice on earth.
Speaker 1: Oh, gotcha, melting, gotcha. But like for the whole temperature thing,
Speaker 1: I'm from really cold parts.
Speaker 2: Of the country.
Speaker 1: It's not as miserable now as it was when I
Speaker 1: was a kid. Now Florida is gonna have to buy
Speaker 1: some of Kansas's snowplows because Kansas doesn't need him anymore
Speaker 1: and Florida does.
Speaker 2: For the first time. But whatever gonna do.
Speaker 3: Right, Like I said, they're gonna be waving fields of
Speaker 3: corn in the Yukon. Anyway, Let's talk about food climates.
Speaker 3: Nuts insist that will starve. But research shows that instead
Speaker 3: of a fifty one percent increase in food availability by
Speaker 3: the year twenty one hundred, if there were no climate change,
Speaker 3: we're on track for only a forty nine percent increase,
Speaker 3: so dropping two percent. Weather disasters killed half a million
Speaker 3: people annually in the nineteen twenties, whereas the last decades
Speaker 3: saw fewer than nine thousand fatalities each year, ninety seven
Speaker 3: and a half percent reduction mortality because people are more resilient,
Speaker 3: were richer, and can access better technology.
Speaker 1: You know, I have made it very clear over the years,
Speaker 1: I have never looked into this story for some reason,
Speaker 1: So I don't, you know, have a lot of facts
Speaker 1: and figures at my fingertips. Be So what's the end
Speaker 1: of the sentence when people talk about climate chang by
Speaker 1: the end of the century, it's going to be three
Speaker 1: degrees warmer or whatever.
Speaker 2: And what will happen? What is the next part that
Speaker 2: people always claim?
Speaker 3: They often point out that low lying cities and countries
Speaker 3: and island chains will be overrun and will be uninhabitable.
Speaker 2: Okay, we'll move to higher ground, then.
Speaker 3: Move to the Yukon. Yeah, where was I? Because the
Speaker 3: rest of this is really interesting two. Extremist climate enthusiasts
Speaker 3: reveal their true colors when they push for d growth
Speaker 3: to cut emissions. You will hear that if you pay
Speaker 3: attention to this stuff, making people worse off and reversing
Speaker 3: gains against extreme poverty would be a tragic mistake and
Speaker 3: laughable blah blah. More responsible politicians only want to achieve
Speaker 3: net zero carbon emissions by the year twenty fifty, but
Speaker 3: this approach still means slow in growth in the name
Speaker 3: of climate change. By forcing businesses and individuals to use
Speaker 3: less efficient green energy instead.
Speaker 2: Of fossil fuels.
Speaker 3: The total costs would be enormous fifteen to seven I'm sorry,
Speaker 3: fifteen to thirty seven trillion dollars each year throughout the century,
Speaker 3: equivalent to between fifteen and forty percent of global GDP today,
Speaker 3: depending on how adjustments are made. Given wealthier countries will
Speaker 3: foot most of this bill, the price tag will be
Speaker 3: the equivalent to each person in the better off nations
Speaker 3: paying north of ten thousand dollars every single year for
Speaker 3: net zero emission growth, et cetera. The real cost of
Speaker 3: inefficient climate policy is that it distracts resources and attention
Speaker 3: from other priorities and They use the example of the
Speaker 3: European Union that now invests nothing in R and D.
Speaker 3: They don't come up with anything new. They just pour
Speaker 3: all of their money into these fanciful climate change programs.
Speaker 1: And India don't give a crap. China and India don't
Speaker 1: give a crap. Has always been the problem with this.
Speaker 1: Even if you had everybody on board, you'd have the
Speaker 1: problems you're talking about.
Speaker 2: But you don't have everybody on board.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they point out the EU switched focus with a
Speaker 3: to a near myopic climate obsession, opting for a sustainable
Speaker 3: economy over a sound one, a growing one, an innovative one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's leave them in our rearview mirrors. As Trump
Speaker 1: said the other day, take advantage of the liquid gold
Speaker 1: under our feet.
Speaker 3: Right, and at the same time, for what it's worth.
Speaker 3: And it's not crazy that these two things, I mean,
Speaker 3: I'm not bringing up two different things.
Speaker 2: They're really kind of intermeshed.
Speaker 3: Britain in particular, and it's so shocking because there are
Speaker 3: old Dad, good old Dad. Great Britain has abandoned free speech.
Speaker 3: They have abandoned the right to express yourself without fear
Speaker 3: of retribution in a way that's just horrifying.
Speaker 1: Remember Trump renamed Britain bad teeth America.
Speaker 2: That's right, that's right.
Speaker 3: But the woke thing and the climate that thing in
Speaker 3: the collective action, and if you're not with us, we're
Speaker 3: going to put you in jail or run you out
Speaker 3: of your career or cancel you or it's all part
Speaker 3: of the same ugly collectivist monster.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's see. This is the stuff that to me.
Speaker 1: Allowed people to vote for Trump who otherwise found him unpalatable.
Speaker 1: It's like, do you want to scream four years further
Speaker 1: down the road of all this climate change stuff and
Speaker 1: let China and India get over by claiming that they
Speaker 1: care about it while we, you know, failed to utilize
Speaker 1: our resources or do crap like banning straws.
Speaker 2: And all kinds of different things for no reason.
Speaker 3: And the you know, wildly emoting, teary eyed nineteen year
Speaker 3: old girls who are shouting this stuff, they're sincere.
Speaker 2: They mean it.
Speaker 3: They've been misled and deluded, and they're they're sem cultists,
Speaker 3: but at least they're sincere. The government types that are
Speaker 3: pushing this are either fools or they're just spreading out
Speaker 3: the money, because that's the point to spend the money.
Speaker 3: That's your power, that's your influence, that's your turf in government.
Speaker 3: The more money you spend, the more power you spend,
Speaker 3: or the more power you have. So you invent these
Speaker 3: needs to spend enormous amounts of money, and you become
Speaker 3: enormously powerful.
Speaker 1: Sell your parka, buy some shorts. That's been your stance
Speaker 1: for years.
Speaker 2: Hell, yeah, that's I'm sure. Just mitigate.
Speaker 1: I just saw this headline, and I have to read
Speaker 1: the story during the break because this could be fun
Speaker 1: New York Post headline, Nancy Pelosi's husband made thirty eight
Speaker 1: million dollars with the stock trades in the weeks leading
Speaker 1: up to the Trump inauguration.
Speaker 2: Oh that's funny. I have a bunch of other examples
Speaker 2: of that.
Speaker 1: Now, could be just they're so super rich that that
Speaker 1: sort of thing happens on a fairly regular basis.
Speaker 2: I don't know, but.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I want to be fair, because the stock
Speaker 3: market did go up a lot. But I have some
Speaker 3: examples of congress people who served on the Mining Committee,
Speaker 3: essentially it's shortening of the name, and oh boy, did
Speaker 3: they make some great bets on what mining companies would
Speaker 3: benefit from legislation.
Speaker 2: It's utterly corrupt. Wow.
Speaker 1: Wow, we've got Key's headlines on the way, a bunch
Speaker 1: of other stuff. Stay here trying to wrap our heads
Speaker 1: around the whole birthright citizenship thing, which did some of
Speaker 1: my right leaning friends say no, no, no, we need
Speaker 1: to keep that and here's why. And I still don't
Speaker 1: quite understand it. But we can talk more about that later. Also,
Speaker 1: I flit it out of my head. I got to
Speaker 1: start taking gin saying, or some of those late night
Speaker 1: talk radio ads revage and old people pills. I don't
Speaker 1: need a direction, but I do need my brain to
Speaker 1: work better.
Speaker 3: As long as you can remember which one of those
Speaker 3: remedies you should be taking, you don't need it, that's
Speaker 3: the irony.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I can't remember, so I'm really in a hole.
Speaker 1: Not talk about you t and then it'll pop into
Speaker 1: my head.
Speaker 2: That's my plan as well.
Speaker 3: So while you're thinking about that, the one thing I
Speaker 3: didn't have time for in our discussion about climate change
Speaker 3: and the enormous amount of money that would have to
Speaker 3: be invested to he have even a minuscule effect. They
Speaker 3: in the study, they explore an alternate reality where Europe
Speaker 3: hadn't spent you know, they're trillions of euros on these
Speaker 3: phony climate change methods, and how much more they would
Speaker 3: have for pensions, education, healthcare, defense, like everything. They've squandered
Speaker 3: so much money on a symbolic losing cause.
Speaker 2: It's just shocking.
Speaker 1: I remember what it was, So remember the guy who
Speaker 1: ran the Silk Road thing. It was the dark net
Speaker 1: like Facebook, marketplace of the dark net, and people were
Speaker 1: buying selling guns and drugs and all kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: And he was running out of coffee shops in San Francisco.
Speaker 1: He just go to the coffee shop and sit there
Speaker 1: with his website with his laptop and use their WiFi
Speaker 1: and any who, he got a life sentence. Trump pardoned him,
Speaker 1: let him out, and he got out yesterday and he
Speaker 1: was smiling ear to ear. Reason. The libertarian Rag pointed
Speaker 1: out yesterday that Trump ran on that. When he went
Speaker 1: and spoke to the libertarians, he said he was going
Speaker 1: to do that. It's a libertarian cause. Wanted to talk
Speaker 1: a little more about that later. Yeah, that's an interesting topic.
Speaker 1: It is really not super clear cut. Let's figure out
Speaker 1: who's reporting what. It's the lead story with Katie Green
Speaker 1: and Katie.
Speaker 7: Starting with ABC News New La County fire explodes to
Speaker 7: over ten thousand acres.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's bad.
Speaker 1: Another fire and crazy windy today, so who knows where
Speaker 1: it's going to go. It grew five thousand acres and
Speaker 1: two hours or something like that.
Speaker 2: Just incredible.
Speaker 3: Yeah, much more rural area than the previous ones, but
Speaker 3: with these conditions.
Speaker 2: Who knows where it goes from?
Speaker 7: NBC relief, revenge, but little repentance. Trump's pardons delight January sixth,
Speaker 7: Violent Offenders Boy.
Speaker 3: The Wall Street Journal editorial board went into detail what
Speaker 3: some of these guys did on that day. They'd vowed
Speaker 3: to make the blood run, and then they were feeding
Speaker 3: and stent torturing cops virtually.
Speaker 2: It's just horrific behavior.
Speaker 1: Or think my question to you who support those guys,
Speaker 1: what were the cops supposed to do? I was all
Speaker 1: a false flag operation the FBI ran at all, So
Speaker 1: you don't think they were real cops.
Speaker 2: I don't know what these people think.
Speaker 7: From Fox News, Putin reportedly concerned over Russia's economy ahead
Speaker 7: of possible Trump tariffs.
Speaker 1: How about Trump? We read it yesterday. Trump's a message
Speaker 1: to Putin. We can do this the hard way or
Speaker 1: the easy way, and the easy way is always better
Speaker 1: in the war now as something.
Speaker 7: Well, if this doesn't work out, guys, there's always Walmart
Speaker 7: Wall Street Journal. Some Walmart managers get a raise, lifting
Speaker 7: their max pay above six hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 4: A year as a as a Walmart manager?
Speaker 3: Are those the regional guys? I was just reading it.
Speaker 3: I just glanced through it. But yeah, well, gosh, the
Speaker 3: revenue that company has if you do a good job
Speaker 3: of keeping it flowing, you just.
Speaker 2: Heert a reward. I don't have any idea.
Speaker 1: Like a giant super Walmart that's busy all day long
Speaker 1: and open twenty four hours a day, I have no
Speaker 1: idea how many gazillions of dollars did they make a month?
Speaker 2: And run in that thing efficiently, I might pay pretty well.
Speaker 7: This is from the Sun tragedy as Romanian dog owner
Speaker 7: is eaten by her pet pugs after dying in her apartment.
Speaker 1: Oh, after she died, because it'd be hard for a
Speaker 1: pug to take you down. You are not very hearty
Speaker 1: if you're taken down by a pug. But she had
Speaker 1: died and then the pugs eater Okay.
Speaker 3: And I'm sure the pugs said, hey, look, none of
Speaker 3: us is pleased with this, This is sickening. She was
Speaker 3: good to us our whole lives, but we can't starve
Speaker 3: here in this apartment.
Speaker 2: So we all agreed, all right.
Speaker 1: I don't care what happens to me after my di
Speaker 1: I die. So that's that's supposed to be, you know,
Speaker 1: a troublesome story once I'm dead.
Speaker 2: Whatever, I don't get to be a plug snack.
Speaker 1: Set me out with the old Christmas tree by the
Speaker 1: curb for the trash to go.
Speaker 2: I don't care. Don't make it a difference at that.
Speaker 4: Point from the Washington Post.
Speaker 7: Elephants can't sue to leave the zoo court rules. Ah, yes, folks, Yeah,
Speaker 7: Colorado's highest court said that five elderly elephants don't have
Speaker 7: any legal standing to sue a local zoo.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: More important story than it sounds like at first. Blush,
Speaker 1: because if they had decided they have the rights, then
Speaker 1: all kinds of weird things happen with cattle and beef
Speaker 1: and chickens and all kinds of things.
Speaker 2: Well, the elephant's.
Speaker 3: Mistake was they hired chimps to be their attorneys. Hey, oh,
Speaker 3: what they threw their pooh? I don't know, there's a
Speaker 3: joke there somewhere back to you, Katie already.
Speaker 7: And finally brace yourselves from the Babylon Bee fire survivors
Speaker 7: drive back towards the flames after hearing Kamala speak again.
Speaker 2: O oh boy.
Speaker 1: We're going to get into a whole bunch of the
Speaker 1: immigration stuff in hour two that Trump is doing that
Speaker 1: has tremendous public support, even though all of media is
Speaker 1: picking out negative stories around it. The polling is people
Speaker 1: are way in favor of this stuff, right, Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: And it's happening. It's happening fast, and it could have
Speaker 1: happened fast under Biden but didn't.
Speaker 2: Why. I don't know.
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