Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack arms Strong and Joe, Katty Armstrong
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Speaker 1: And he's yours. I was thinking about something, you're what.
Speaker 2: I was deep in thoughts.
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Speaker 2: It's gonna be deep in thoughts.
Speaker 1: Set of just firing words out of our mouths.
Speaker 3: We should think deeply about them before we thank you
Speaker 3: for the affirmation.
Speaker 2: We're in a dimly lit room deeper than the bowels
Speaker 2: of the Armstrong and Getty Communications Compounding. Today, on little Wednesday,
Speaker 2: we're under the two of our general manager.
Speaker 1: No, no, this is Wednesday.
Speaker 2: It stritch trash day. I put the cans out this week.
Speaker 2: I'm very glad good. Today we're under the tulage of
Speaker 2: our general manager.
Speaker 3: Chase Strangio. Who Chase Strangio is the lawyer who will
Speaker 3: be arguing in favor of states continuing to allow parents
Speaker 3: to allow their children to be fed powerful sex changing
Speaker 3: chemicals even though it's ridiculous and experimental and unhealthy and
Speaker 3: dangerous and the rest of it. Chase is a fellow
Speaker 3: with a thin mustache, and a bit of a goatee
Speaker 3: and a curiously high voice himself. Yes, I don't know
Speaker 3: when you're going to hear this, but the Supreme Court
Speaker 3: is about to hear in minutes arguments in a case
Speaker 3: challenging Tennessee's law on transgender care.
Speaker 1: They're calling it on CNN.
Speaker 2: Ah. Yes, yes, it's a huge moment. It is so
Speaker 2: finally this is going to get its day in the
Speaker 2: biggest court of whether or not this makes sense.
Speaker 1: And well we'll see.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, we can go over some of the basics
Speaker 2: of the case and the people involved in what's being said.
Speaker 2: Well this, Well, I'll ask a very dumb guy question then,
Speaker 2: which is easy for me to do. Man, I'll tell
Speaker 2: you what I slip into that like a warm bath.
Speaker 2: Falling off of the most obvious question, Will this make
Speaker 2: it illegal to have an operation on a kid to
Speaker 2: mutilate their body.
Speaker 1: Change an attempt to change their gender.
Speaker 3: It will make it, depending on which way it goes.
Speaker 3: If it goes the way of sanity and decency, it
Speaker 3: will make it possible for states to say no, you
Speaker 3: can't do this experimental mutilation on children. And wow, So
Speaker 3: it won't just be a blanket federal law because I assume, well,
Speaker 3: I don't know anything about this.
Speaker 2: Maybe these are all state laws. They are, indeed, but
Speaker 2: you can't well for but me, let me give this example. Like,
Speaker 2: if for some reason I think thought my kids having
Speaker 2: eight fingers would be really awesome, could I take them
Speaker 2: to a doctor and have their thumbs removed as a parent,
Speaker 2: have them mutilated? Yeah, that would be horrific. Honestly, that
Speaker 2: would be horrific. How is that any different than having
Speaker 2: your penis removed? Actually, it's probably not as bad in
Speaker 2: terms of your happiness in life. But a doctor wouldn't
Speaker 2: perform that. Why wouldn't a doctor? Why wouldn't a doctor
Speaker 2: remove the thumbs of my kid? And are there laws
Speaker 2: that would.
Speaker 1: Keep them from doing that? Are they? Okay?
Speaker 3: Two answers essentially number one just because I want to
Speaker 3: remember this and not forget to say it.
Speaker 2: If having a penis doesn't make me a male, how
Speaker 2: is having it removed make me a female?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I've seen that meme a few times and it's
Speaker 1: pretty airtight as far as I can see in terms
Speaker 1: of the logic.
Speaker 3: Well, because there is no logic between transsexual rat gender theory.
Speaker 3: But the more serious answer to your question is they
Speaker 3: would claim that.
Speaker 2: And actually this.
Speaker 3: Newly minted fella who is the lawyer involved, makes the
Speaker 3: argument that, well, mainstream medical associations have said this is
Speaker 3: good medical care, which points to and it's shocking how
Speaker 3: few people are aware of this, the ideological capture of
Speaker 3: the AMA and the American pediatrics. I want to get
Speaker 3: one of the big pediatrics associations has been utterly captured
Speaker 3: by its radical left, and now when the organization speaks,
Speaker 3: it is a puppet being controlled by the radical gender
Speaker 3: theory crowd. Now there's that other pediatrics association that says, whoa, dudes,
Speaker 3: there's zero scientific evidence that this helps people. There's loads
Speaker 3: that it harms people.
Speaker 2: Stop stop stop.
Speaker 3: So I don't want to get the names of the
Speaker 3: association's wrong, but they will claim, well, Jack, there's no
Speaker 3: mainstream medical association that says.
Speaker 2: Your thumb removal is a good idea.
Speaker 3: Meanwhile, here at the MPATH or what was that, the
Speaker 3: big organization that supposedly dictates the policies for this around
Speaker 3: the world, which is again utterly captured by the radical left.
Speaker 2: So that would be their argument. The more I think
Speaker 2: about it, I'm surprised that this is even done for adults,
Speaker 2: so removing we didn't have to make it kids. It's
Speaker 2: obviously way worse when it's kids, But even for adults,
Speaker 2: I'm surprised that it's not against the law or the
Speaker 2: ethics or the am or something to remove the penis
Speaker 2: of a male. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I really believe it is a form of mental illness,
Speaker 3: and in all of it's like particular subcategories.
Speaker 2: And or even to the point that if somebody.
Speaker 3: Does have whatever rological you know, reality that makes them
Speaker 3: feel very very much like a man, but they really
Speaker 3: really don't want to have girl parts or whatever. I
Speaker 3: suppose as an adult you can do what you want
Speaker 3: to do. You see people getting all sorts of weird
Speaker 3: implants and tongue splits and whatever the hell else.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, that's an interesting point there. People do get weird.
Speaker 2: I mean, if you're getting your lips all puffed out
Speaker 2: and you look like a freak, why is that significantly
Speaker 2: different than lopping off of penis. There is a crapload
Speaker 2: of money in this these treatments.
Speaker 3: They're raking it into these clinics. They have zero interest
Speaker 3: in talking confused adolescents or mentally ill adults out of
Speaker 3: any of this stuff. And so this is what I'm
Speaker 3: about to say, isn't happening really much at all. I
Speaker 3: prize the liberty that we have in this country. And
Speaker 3: if you want to get like all sorts of tattoos
Speaker 3: and implants so you look like a lizard and the
Speaker 3: split tongue, I suggest you spend some time sunning yourself
Speaker 3: on rocks to keep your body temperature at the proper
Speaker 3: level what have Okay, but I believe any any medical
Speaker 3: facility or association worth its name, worth the respect given
Speaker 3: to it, would have serious guidelines for Hey, before you
Speaker 3: lop off someone's genitals, how about we do a serious,
Speaker 3: serious psychological work up and see if there's a way
Speaker 3: to find find a little more happiness for them that
Speaker 3: doesn't involve permanent disfigurement.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know where I am on this for
Speaker 2: the adult part. For the kids, it's pretty clear to me.
Speaker 2: But there's an adult part I don't because, yeah, I'm
Speaker 2: a personal freedom guy. But if you want to get
Speaker 2: your tongue split or your penis removed, why should the
Speaker 2: government make it against the law.
Speaker 1: It's hard for me to make an argument for.
Speaker 3: Oh, if I go to well and and again, there
Speaker 3: probably are instances and examples you could come up with,
Speaker 3: because it's you know, grades of gray. But if I
Speaker 3: went into a doctor's office, hospital emergency room and said, hey,
Speaker 3: you know what, my left arm sucks.
Speaker 2: I don't like it. It's not very attractive.
Speaker 3: I keep hitting my elbowing things. I want it out
Speaker 3: of here. I want you to saw offer it right
Speaker 3: there at mid femur. Okay, it's still like a little
Speaker 3: shoulder just to fill out my shirts. But yeah, I
Speaker 3: want you to saw my arm off. Do you think
Speaker 3: they would do it for me, Well, no, because it's
Speaker 3: a horrible, permanent disfigurement. Now you might say, well, you know, uh,
Speaker 3: transgenderism is recognized, blah blah blah. I would say that
Speaker 3: science is iffy at best. Let's not disfigure people.
Speaker 2: Although again, well I was hoping, and if it's a
Speaker 2: plastic surgery, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I was hoping that this was a federal thing. I'd
Speaker 1: never really thought about it.
Speaker 2: And I'm a long million miles away from a lawyer
Speaker 2: that the Supreme Court rule, no, nobody anywhere in the country,
Speaker 2: no doctors can do operations on kids changing their gender.
Speaker 1: That's the end.
Speaker 2: Of that. But you say it's a state by state thing,
Speaker 2: so then states like California will still be full speed ahead.
Speaker 3: Yeah, correct, Yeah, this is going in the opposite direction.
Speaker 3: There are twenty six states now that say, no, you
Speaker 3: can't conduct these cruel, horrifying experiments on kids just because
Speaker 3: they're freaking parents are nuts anyway, Sorry, get a little
Speaker 3: fired up there. Twenty six states now are on the
Speaker 3: sane side of this, and more and more moving in
Speaker 3: that direction. This lawsuit is attempting to prevent that. It's
Speaker 3: attempting to ensure that those cruel experiments can continue to
Speaker 3: be done interested in children.
Speaker 1: I didn't realize that either.
Speaker 2: Like I saw Charlie's thereon the Incredibly Beautiful Actress one
Speaker 2: an Academy Award many many years ago. She's got two
Speaker 2: little kids that she both says, she says both there transgender.
Speaker 1: It's both really young.
Speaker 2: I mean, there's just no way obviously they came to
Speaker 2: that conclusion without being pushed that direction. It's a bunch
Speaker 2: of virtue signaling crazy people. I think we get emails
Speaker 2: all the time from folks who who talk about how, yeah,
Speaker 2: guess whose kid is transgender in school? The most woke.
Speaker 3: Progressive out there, pea hat wearing rainbow sign on the front,
Speaker 3: lawns sporting since I've known them, person, Wow, that's a
Speaker 3: funny coincidence.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll be interesting to follow the arguments in the
Speaker 2: Supreme Court on this.
Speaker 1: Are they up on this issue? Are some of those
Speaker 1: old just is gonna say people are doing what?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I wonder, I wonder, just gonna say, wait to
Speaker 2: say it. Hold on, you're telling me there are people
Speaker 2: that are yeah, yeah, And this is is so wild
Speaker 2: to watch, As I often say, it's almost worth being
Speaker 2: able to watch it. A social contagion like this that
Speaker 2: is utterly looney tunes catching on because of the social pressure.
Speaker 2: Asked JK.
Speaker 3: Rowling about the social pressure. I've got some stuff with
Speaker 3: her later on. And people are just afraid to call
Speaker 3: it for what it is. It's insanity, Yeah, I got.
Speaker 3: And it's a shait that has claimed so many victims.
Speaker 2: I got on a rabbit hole the other day about
Speaker 2: back when they used to bind feet in China.
Speaker 1: Sure, just the same sort of thing.
Speaker 2: It just became a cultural thing for it was really
Speaker 2: cool for women to have these tiny, little, weird looking feet.
Speaker 2: Horrible torturous situation, but it went on for centuries, I think,
Speaker 2: and then you've got the whole anarexia craze there for
Speaker 2: a while where it was a social contagion as well
Speaker 2: as being a terrible psychological disease. But a little girls
Speaker 2: who are very, very impressionable, you know, saw it around
Speaker 2: them and thought, wow, maybe that's for me. People are
Speaker 2: getting a lot of attention. I'm super thin, blah blah blah,
Speaker 2: and just it came and it mostly went. And I'm
Speaker 2: hoping this madness goes in the same way. We got
Speaker 2: to start to show officially, we're running out of time.
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Speaker 4: also made Twitter kind of assess pool.
Speaker 2: I want to talk about that more later.
Speaker 1: We don't have time.
Speaker 2: Not I use Twitter every day. It might be my
Speaker 2: number one news source, and I just don't have that
Speaker 2: reaction to it that a lot of your big time
Speaker 2: lefties do that. It's just and the old Twitter wasn't
Speaker 2: exactly a treat night. Let's go through that history. Anyway,
Speaker 2: more on that later. How does mailbag look? It's quite good,
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Speaker 2: According to the Wall Street Journal, the only question around
Speaker 2: Pete Hegseeth is does he get out in twenty four
Speaker 2: hours or forty eight hours?
Speaker 1: Is the only question.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they're saying Ron the Santis will be the
Speaker 2: next guy, which is pretty interesting.
Speaker 1: Any Who.
Speaker 2: We got more on that because Pete Heggsit's mom's doing
Speaker 2: an interview with Fox as we speak, and she really
Speaker 2: laid the wood to him once and then said she
Speaker 2: didn't mean it or something, So more on that later. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's rare when the wind is blowing so audibly in
Speaker 2: one direction that it doesn't end up blowing over its target.
Speaker 2: If you'll forgive thee brether Messi metaphor, here's your freedom
Speaker 2: love A quote of the day. It's continuing on with
Speaker 2: her serious about the law. This is from a guy
Speaker 2: I've never heard of in my life, but I like
Speaker 2: to quote. Do you know Jack? Do you know B R. M.
Speaker 2: Bedcar or not? Neither do I?
Speaker 3: I hope he's not loathsome anyway. He says law and
Speaker 3: order are the medicine of the body politic, and when
Speaker 3: the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we hope he didn't run Auschwitz or something like that.
Speaker 2: Well, right, yeah, yeah, right, yeah.
Speaker 3: I usually check these out, but I'm running the hind
Speaker 3: today so overwhelmed with great stuff to talk about. I'm
Speaker 3: trying to organize it. Anyway, here's your mail bag and
Speaker 3: drop us a note.
Speaker 2: What's your mail bag? At Armstrong and Getty? Got come,
Speaker 2: let's see Russ from Portland. I should have had you
Speaker 2: get this ready, Michael. He is nominating Michaelangelo's clip yesterday
Speaker 2: of I pede in your Rice as Clip of the Year.
Speaker 2: It was a that's a good, whimsical and.
Speaker 3: Somewhat distasteful joke about Jack.
Speaker 2: Be anything at the and Express right.
Speaker 1: That was a good joke, Michael, thank you is yeah,
Speaker 1: you got a bad fortune cookie?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, how dumb the fortunes are. And Michael was
Speaker 2: speculating that perhaps a discrimbled employee would put a note
Speaker 2: to Jack informing them that he had indeed, and I
Speaker 2: quote Pete in his right and the key to the
Speaker 2: jet being, Michael said, a handwritten note which lets you
Speaker 2: know it's current. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Anyway, Rus from Portland says that should be the clip
Speaker 3: of the year. Hear me out, I pede in your
Speaker 3: rice is basically a culmination of everything that's happened in
Speaker 3: the last election cycle. Biden Justice Department going after Trump
Speaker 3: time and time again, multiple indictments, law fair, Biden just
Speaker 3: saying to Trump, Iden, peen and your rice, Trumps successfully
Speaker 3: wiggling out of it. Is Trump saying to Biden, I
Speaker 3: peed in your rice, the back and forth of it,
Speaker 3: until finally, collectively the American people saying to Kamalain and
Speaker 3: Biden on November fifth, we just peed in your rice.
Speaker 3: And now with Biden pardoning his criminal loser son and
Speaker 3: flying off to Africa to give away seven hundred and
Speaker 3: twenty eight skillion dollars to some s whole country's never
Speaker 3: any one's ever heard of. After Kamlin, Nancy Pete and
Speaker 3: his rice finally out the door with two middle fingers
Speaker 3: held high, saying to all of America, I just peed
Speaker 3: in your rice.
Speaker 2: It's poetic. Michaelangelo is truly a national treasure. F You
Speaker 2: China Rus from Portland, Ah, hey, she'll take there, think
Speaker 2: all of us. There will be blood. Fans would prefer
Speaker 2: the I drink your milkshake as a little classier version
Speaker 2: of that, But same little class same idea.
Speaker 1: I drink your milkshake. One of the greatest scenes ever.
Speaker 2: Uh, Doctor Cy says listening to Grandpa's Biden's new reasoning
Speaker 2: for the pardon of his boy.
Speaker 3: You'd think since they lie twenty four to seven, they'd
Speaker 3: be better at it. Wow, that's some fine sarcasm. How
Speaker 3: about this from Aaron. I personally know a few commi
Speaker 3: Antifa level leftists. They're actually talking about this like it's
Speaker 3: a major victory for their side, if only because it
Speaker 3: made the right melt down or clutch their pearls, et cetera.
Speaker 3: But you have to understand is that these are the
Speaker 3: simple folk, soft headed grad degree zero children at forty
Speaker 3: type folks.
Speaker 2: The people of the cities.
Speaker 3: You know, morons Aaron, that's practically poetry.
Speaker 2: It's a little rambling and odd, but I kind of
Speaker 2: enjoyed it. So we're about out of time, huh, Michael, Yeah,
Speaker 2: get some more fine, fine witty and why sprinkled them in? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Oh my god, you get an existential on us now?
Speaker 2: It is is pete Hagzeth being kavanad a verb that
Speaker 2: Fox and Friends use today.
Speaker 1: That I think is pretty good.
Speaker 2: Well, I think the answer is no, but I appreciate question.
Speaker 1: You think it's no. I think it's no.
Speaker 2: Also, the big difference of being Kevanaugh didn't do anything,
Speaker 2: and I think Heath probably did a lot. But more
Speaker 2: on that. Who's who's the secretary? Defense matters? I think
Speaker 2: a lot. Absolutely, get backup choices are pretty compelling. God,
Speaker 2: i'd say DeSantis. Yeah, more on that coming up.
Speaker 5: Stay here, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1: I want to talk about the hot stuff people.
Speaker 2: Are buying or not buying for Christmas is it's getting
Speaker 2: pretty dang close. I, for one my own personal life,
Speaker 2: am happy that we're only a couple of weeks away
Speaker 2: from the days starting to get longer again, because this
Speaker 2: whole getting dark at four point thirty is a drag.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh man, no kidding. You combine that with
Speaker 2: the cold and much of the country and it's just
Speaker 2: the afternoon. What happened to the afternoon. One of the
Speaker 2: things I hate about politics a lot, I guess there's
Speaker 2: just no getting away from it. Is the whole. If
Speaker 2: we can make you unhappy, we've somehow won something. Thing
Speaker 2: that happens in politics that drives me nuts and normal
Speaker 2: and normal people pay no attention to. So for instance,
Speaker 2: in all these nominations, a president gets elected and then
Speaker 2: he picks some people, and then the other side tries
Speaker 2: to get them, you know, off the list and feel
Speaker 2: like if somehow they can dig up a scandal or
Speaker 2: create enough controversy around them, then the whoever got elected
Speaker 2: president will pull their name and yeah, we won something,
Speaker 2: and no you didn't.
Speaker 1: It's the thing that I hate. It's just nobody ever
Speaker 1: remembers this stuff. I'm old enough now to have lived
Speaker 1: through a whole bunch of I could give you a
Speaker 1: list of names if I wikipedia them, of people that
Speaker 1: were nominated and got pulled, and it made no difference
Speaker 1: whatsoever to anybody's life, right, you knowin anything, a big deal.
Speaker 3: I could explain why you're quote unquote wrong. I think
Speaker 3: that doesn't amount to a hill of beans eventually. I mean,
Speaker 3: it's just like you say, you wait six months and
Speaker 3: then ask me again. Yeah, everybody's gonna care. Well, he
Speaker 3: had to spend a lot of political capital, and he
Speaker 3: had to call in favors, and then when it.
Speaker 2: Didn't happen, blah blah blah. Yeah, Okay, six months from now,
Speaker 2: nobody's gonna care. It's not gonna have a measurable effect.
Speaker 2: It's a point zero zero one on the Richter scale
Speaker 2: before we get to Pete, the Secretary of Defense. I
Speaker 2: do think it's interesting that a guy got driven out
Speaker 2: by the MAGA crowd instead of by the left, a
Speaker 2: Trump's choice to be the head of the DEEA who was.
Speaker 1: A Florida County sheriff.
Speaker 2: The MAGA crowd really got a lot of information out
Speaker 2: there fast about how he was mister shutdown of the
Speaker 2: sheriff and hardcore early on and throughout COVID and way
Speaker 2: too long and riskway ministers, etc.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and no way we're gonna let that guy.
Speaker 2: So I was happy to see that it might be
Speaker 2: the only person yet far thus far, that has paid
Speaker 2: any price for COVID. But yeah, yeah, well, there is
Speaker 2: one other choice that I want to talk about at length.
Speaker 2: The Trump made that is horrible, horrifying, awful.
Speaker 3: It's this woman who's supposed to be Secretary of Labor,
Speaker 3: who's anti right to work, hard core pro teachers union,
Speaker 3: hard core pro public employee union, collective bargaining, and oh
Speaker 3: my god, what was Trump thinking?
Speaker 2: Anyway, more on that, I don't know much about that
Speaker 2: person other than Elizabeth Warren came out in support, So.
Speaker 1: That tells you a lot.
Speaker 2: So Pete Hegzath, who Nora O'Donnell on the CBS News
Speaker 2: described last night as a weekend Fox host, she used
Speaker 2: that tone of voice too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he went to two different Ivy League schools and
Speaker 1: has multiple degrees and served in combat and blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: But you're gonna go with the description of him a
Speaker 1: weekend Fox host.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Wow, You guys really don't understand how you lost, do
Speaker 1: you that you pushed so many voters toward Trump with
Speaker 1: that sort of crap.
Speaker 3: No, they don't have any idea. They are going in
Speaker 3: the opposite direction, which gratifies me.
Speaker 2: Now, Pete Heggzeth may have been chosen because he was
Speaker 2: a weekend Fox host and Trump had zeen him on
Speaker 2: Fox a lot.
Speaker 3: But he has more you know what, I've got to
Speaker 3: jump in there because you've said that many times. He
Speaker 3: saw him on Fox News speaking incredibly powerfully and eloquently
Speaker 3: about important issues. Heg Zeth is great at that stuff.
Speaker 3: It's not like he was doing the freaking weather.
Speaker 2: Right, But there's a lot of smart people that aren't
Speaker 2: on TV, and Trump has a tendency to pick people
Speaker 2: he's only seen on TV. All Right, I just wanted
Speaker 2: to flesh it out a little. It sounds and dismissive. Sounded. Luckily,
Speaker 2: I'm working with a bald headed male mita over here.
Speaker 2: It's terrible. Imagine the stress folks. Oh my god. Anyway, there,
Speaker 2: So they're trying to Kavanaugh Hegzeth with all these stories
Speaker 2: about his private life and divorces and women and supposed
Speaker 2: aggression toward women and all these different sorts of things.
Speaker 2: NBC had a long list of them yesterday. It's interesting
Speaker 2: on Fox and Friends today and they made a prettydamn
Speaker 2: good point.
Speaker 1: Think about this people.
Speaker 2: So I was looking at the host of Fox and
Speaker 2: Friends today and they said, we've worked with Pete for
Speaker 2: fourteen years. We don't know anybody here at Fox it's
Speaker 2: been contacted by a media outlet. Not one of us
Speaker 2: has been contacted by a media outlet to ask what
Speaker 2: we think of him?
Speaker 1: Isn't that something?
Speaker 2: None of us have any stories about drunkenness or coming
Speaker 2: on to women or anything like that, but nobody's asked us. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that is well, it's it is utterly clear what that means.
Speaker 2: I don't think we need to explain it to anybody, right,
Speaker 2: all they want is one thing? Did they just want
Speaker 2: dirt to hurt Trump? Well, and as someone else made
Speaker 2: the point of, uh, I don't know what you're gonna
Speaker 2: win if you don't get Pete and it ends up
Speaker 2: being Ron DeSantis, which is the name is floated if
Speaker 2: you're a person of the left, because I think Rondasantis
Speaker 2: is going to be a lot of the stuff that
Speaker 2: Pete Hegseth would be. But anyway, back to Pete, the
Speaker 2: current nominee to be the Secretary Defense, the Wall Street
Speaker 2: Journal is basically saying, is it twenty four hours or
Speaker 2: forty eight hours before he gets out? I mean they're
Speaker 2: saying his chances are very, very low. Lindsey Graham made
Speaker 2: a lot of very wishy washy statements yesterday in front
Speaker 2: of microphones about Pete and now we need to have
Speaker 2: somebody that women can join the military in respect, and
Speaker 2: just sounded like the sort of thing you say if
Speaker 2: you're a Lindsay Graham who's already decided no, and it
Speaker 2: only takes four Republican senators to say no and you're done.
Speaker 1: It does nothing else matters. That's the whole ballgame.
Speaker 2: But we've talked to Fairmount over the last week about
Speaker 2: Pete Hegzett's mom, who wrote a letter to him or
Speaker 2: an email to him after one of his divorces and
Speaker 2: really laid the wood to him about him being a
Speaker 2: bad guy and a bad husband and a bad dad
Speaker 2: and all this different sort of stuff, but then retracted it.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, she says.
Speaker 3: She immediately wrote a follow up saying I was out
Speaker 3: of my mind. I'm sorry, I didn't mean that stuff, which,
Speaker 3: as you said, if she said that and it wasn't true,
Speaker 3: makes her a crazy person. Yeah, yeah, it does, especially
Speaker 3: when you read the whole email. It is not unhinged ranting.
Speaker 3: It is a carefully constructed indictment.
Speaker 2: Well, she was on Fox today, and first time I've
Speaker 2: heard her voice here she is.
Speaker 6: Let me make two statements first, and one is to
Speaker 6: President Trump, and I want to say thank you for
Speaker 6: your belief in my son.
Speaker 5: We all believe in him.
Speaker 6: We really believe that he is not that man he
Speaker 6: was seven years ago. I'm not that mother, and I
Speaker 6: hope people will he'll hear that story today and the
Speaker 6: truth of that story.
Speaker 1: I probably talk too much about the media.
Speaker 2: In fact, I'm sure I do, but I know I've
Speaker 2: already heard criticism on the left of of course, she says,
Speaker 2: I'm talking to Donald Trump because Donald Trump watches Fox
Speaker 2: and Friends every day.
Speaker 1: Yet Joe Biden watched his Morning.
Speaker 2: Joe every day and people know that he can talk
Speaker 2: directly to him. So what's the difference. But anyway, here's
Speaker 2: a little more of So.
Speaker 6: The other thing I want to say is I am
Speaker 6: here to tell the truth, to tell the truth to
Speaker 6: the American people, and tell the truth to the senators
Speaker 6: on the Hill, especially our female senators. I really hope
Speaker 6: that you will not listen to the media and that
Speaker 6: you will listen to Pete.
Speaker 2: I think she just wants to ride in an F
Speaker 2: thirty five. I think that's what she's doing. That is
Speaker 2: not taking this seriously. Yeah could all right, here's just
Speaker 2: a hypothetical. The guy who is ridiculously handsome and manly.
Speaker 2: If I swung the other way, please, I'd have a
Speaker 2: poster of them up on my wall anyway.
Speaker 1: All right, But he's an interesting admission.
Speaker 2: There, combat Vett. He enjoyed the drink in, lived a
Speaker 2: bit of a wild life, skirt chaser, blah blah blah, but.
Speaker 3: Now he's on in life. That email was in twenty
Speaker 3: eight teen. The guy said, Yeah, you know what, I
Speaker 3: lived a wildlife. I came on to women, they came
Speaker 3: on to me. I had sex with a lot of
Speaker 3: different women. It was terrible for my marriages. I regret
Speaker 3: it all. But you know what, I've matured. I'm a
Speaker 3: different guy.
Speaker 2: Now. Does that exclude the guy not to me? Well,
Speaker 2: I mean I don't.
Speaker 3: I would never praise it, and I don't condone it
Speaker 3: the way he used to live allegedly, But if he's
Speaker 3: not that anymore, I don't know.
Speaker 2: No, it's horrible. I hate that kind of guy, especially
Speaker 2: when you got kids. You're not cheating on your wife,
Speaker 2: you're cheating on your family. And I just find that horrific.
Speaker 2: But if we're gonna make that the standard, as I
Speaker 2: keep saying, for being in government or a leader, something
Speaker 2: like that. So we wish Martin Luther King Junior had
Speaker 2: been discredited and John F.
Speaker 1: Kennedy Jr. And you could list so many.
Speaker 2: People throughout American history even than the modern era Bill Clinton,
Speaker 2: you know, depending on what your politics are. So I
Speaker 2: actually don't know what I think about this. I really
Speaker 2: can't come to a conclusion on what I think about this.
Speaker 2: But I am kind of interested in the mom writing
Speaker 2: that scathing email and then changing her mind.
Speaker 1: I guess she gets into that.
Speaker 6: Here they were going through. Pete and his wife at
Speaker 6: the time, we're going through a very difficult divorce. It
Speaker 6: was a very emotional time, and I'm sure many of
Speaker 6: you across the country understand how difficult divorce is on
Speaker 6: a family. There's emotions, we say things, and I wrote
Speaker 6: that in haste. I wrote that with deep emotions. I
Speaker 6: wrote that as a parent, and about two hours later
Speaker 6: I should I should. My husband tells me I should
Speaker 6: think through things a little bit more. But Pete and
Speaker 6: I are both very passionate people. I wrote that out
Speaker 6: of love and about two hours later, I retracted it
Speaker 6: with an apology email, but nobody's seen that.
Speaker 2: I think soon this will be moot because he's going
Speaker 2: to find it.
Speaker 1: He's going to get the Gate speech.
Speaker 2: He's going to say I'm a distraction, and the last
Speaker 2: thing I want to be in this turbulent time is
Speaker 2: a distraction to the Trump administration.
Speaker 1: Well I stand behind one or something like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I find it interesting on a human level,
Speaker 2: and also as I am the consumer of politics, as
Speaker 2: a as a citizen and as a voter, never mind
Speaker 2: what I do for a living, I like to sort
Speaker 2: through this stuff and decide, all right, am I being
Speaker 2: a jobbed here?
Speaker 3: Am I being tricked? Am I being defrauded? What's the truth?
Speaker 3: And so I'm intrigued by this story. I'm intrigued by
Speaker 3: the email, her retraction of it to heat himself, his lifestyle,
Speaker 3: his qualifications, his intelligence, his comic expert all of it
Speaker 3: is very very interesting to me. But I'm torn between
Speaker 3: that and the fact that I think in about forty
Speaker 3: eight hours is going to be completely moved right.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, Because you look back on all the words
Speaker 2: and breath spent on Matt Gates, and it seems kind
Speaker 2: of ridiculous in retrospect, since it seemed doomed from the beginning.
Speaker 3: Just you know, a couple of sentences. You are an
Speaker 3: abuser of women, that is the ugly truth. And I
Speaker 3: have no respect for any man that belittles, lies, cheap,
Speaker 3: sleeps around, and uses women for his own power and ego.
Speaker 3: You are that man and have been for years, and
Speaker 3: as your mother, it pains me and embarrasses.
Speaker 2: Me to say that, but that is the sad, sad truth.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry all that stuff about to be littling and
Speaker 3: power in me.
Speaker 2: I don't know what I was thinking. Yeah, that's some
Speaker 2: pretty rough stuff that I mean. That's we don't ever
Speaker 2: speak again stuff. Well, and I can see and I
Speaker 2: have not spent a single minute inside old lady. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: Why would I.
Speaker 3: Say that, mom, sense, I'm trying to differentiate her from
Speaker 3: like the wives, but it's it's rudeer the other I'm
Speaker 3: apologizing here, all right, the senior missus head seth. You
Speaker 3: might phrase it differently when you calm down.
Speaker 1: I don't know which one was more accurate.
Speaker 3: But well, right again, you might phrase it differently, but
Speaker 3: you would think the same.
Speaker 1: Thing, right, Yeah, exactly, Yeah, good point.
Speaker 3: You know, if if, for instance, I thought Michael was
Speaker 3: slacking off on his job, and he is absolutely not.
Speaker 2: It's the last thing. That's what I'm picking it as
Speaker 2: a ridiculous sounds like a dog whistle Michael, because that's
Speaker 2: what I was thinking.
Speaker 3: So that nobody will take it seriously for a single second,
Speaker 3: I'm picking something ridiculous. I might say to Michael, you
Speaker 3: are a lazy slacker. I don't know why we continue
Speaker 3: to work with you. I don't know why anybody would
Speaker 3: work with you. The show's not only a lack of professionalism,
Speaker 3: but a lack of character. Then I would think, two
Speaker 3: hours later, having not hit send, you know that's too much,
Speaker 3: and I would write, Michael, it sure would be great
Speaker 3: if we could get a little more effort from you,
Speaker 3: especially during the blah blah.
Speaker 2: It would be the same truth though.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, so you wouldn't. You wouldn't.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it wouldn't be. Let mean that it's just worded differently, right,
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Speaker 2: We'll have to talk more about this later because I
Speaker 2: think the interesting question is the what standards are we
Speaker 2: going to have for people in public life?
Speaker 1: I mean, is this personal stuff matter to us at all.
Speaker 2: That's the overall conversation because I think exits is going
Speaker 2: to go away, So more on that later. We've got
Speaker 2: Katie's headlines next.
Speaker 1: I really like this, so I listened to it a
Speaker 1: lot in my car. I'd diget not to like.
Speaker 2: I am on it.
Speaker 1: This is how you know when you've gained weight.
Speaker 2: I'm on a different hole on my belt than I
Speaker 2: was before Thanksgiving. Warning, warning, all right, so much to
Speaker 2: get to today, including that, And I've got a special
Speaker 2: choice for Jack on what we're going to kick off
Speaker 2: next hour with because we've got so much great stuff
Speaker 2: to talk about, but let's figure out who's reboarding what first.
Speaker 2: It's lead story with Katie Green.
Speaker 5: Katie, thank you guys.
Speaker 7: Starting with CNN North Korea, Russia, and China watch on.
Speaker 5: As crisis unfolds in South Korea.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what a weird deal that was yesterday.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree, speaking of great stuff to talk about. Wow,
Speaker 3: other countries politics are so messed up.
Speaker 2: It's good thing ours are so great and cool.
Speaker 5: From ABC, Russia sees quote no grounds for negotiations with Ukraine.
Speaker 2: As their gaining ground. Yeah, and you know, and that's
Speaker 2: the kind of position sometimes you take in a negotiation,
Speaker 2: Nam we walk away from the boat or whatever. Yeah.
Speaker 1: See what happened.
Speaker 2: USA today.
Speaker 7: FBI investigating mystery drones flying over central New Jersey during
Speaker 7: recent weeks.
Speaker 2: Forget about it. You see the pictures.
Speaker 5: They're saying these things to the size of cars.
Speaker 7: Really Yeah, and they've been very close to the Trump
Speaker 7: golf course and to a military base.
Speaker 2: Wait a minute, Katie, you need to work the mysterious
Speaker 2: Jersey drones desk. I want to know more.
Speaker 7: Washington Post Supreme Court to weigh in on bands on
Speaker 7: puberty blockers and hormones for trans teams.
Speaker 2: I guess that's one of the choices to kick off
Speaker 2: next hour the big Supreme Court hearing. Will we continue
Speaker 2: to allow sick people to mutilate children because they're confused? Oh?
Speaker 2: I'm sorry? Was that prejudicial?
Speaker 1: Or because the parents it makes them feel cool?
Speaker 2: Right? Yeah? Well said from the New York Times.
Speaker 7: McDonald's e coli outbreak finally declared over.
Speaker 2: Okay, I didn't realize it was ongoing, but the quarter
Speaker 2: pounder with cheeses back.
Speaker 5: Everybody from the New York Post only fans.
Speaker 7: Top Earner is a virgin and a devout Christian and
Speaker 7: hauled in forty three million dollars last year.
Speaker 1: WHOA.
Speaker 3: Everybody's asking the same question, so I'll voice it doing what?
Speaker 1: Yeah, what does she do?
Speaker 7: These are pictures and videos just of herself. She doesn't
Speaker 7: do anything with anyone else.
Speaker 2: We talked about this some yesterday with somebody asking you
Speaker 2: a question. I don't understand how this scales the whole
Speaker 2: only fans thing, but apparently it does.
Speaker 3: But of herself wearing demure outfits and smiling prettily or
Speaker 3: showing her pretty privots or what. I gotta talk about
Speaker 3: this more later because it's a weird psychological defect that
Speaker 3: we're gonna have to see play out.
Speaker 7: And finally, the Babylon Bee Santa's elves complaining of declining
Speaker 7: wages as undocumented elves flood the North Pole.
Speaker 1: That's pretty funny.
Speaker 2: That's really good. Yeah, now the world is better for
Speaker 2: the existence of the Babylon Bee and and all those guys,
Speaker 2: guys from the it's better, true, but it's definitely worse
Speaker 2: for the development of the Internet. Like that OnlyFans thing,
Speaker 2: I meant a psychological defect among humans, not that woman.
Speaker 2: If you're an attractive woman and you can make that
Speaker 2: kind of money doing basically nothing whom I judge you,
Speaker 2: but got a great note from one of our listeners
Speaker 2: about that. Stay with you dudes who are throwing the money.
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