Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and
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Speaker 2: Arm drang edme Studio C fairly a senior.
Speaker 3: A dimly lit room deep with from the bowels of
Speaker 3: the Armstrong and Getty Communications Compound and Today Friday, heading
Speaker 3: into the weekend words the tutelage of our general manager,
Speaker 3: Leo the fourteenth, the new Pope, power to the papal
Speaker 3: U s A U s A.
Speaker 4: We won.
Speaker 1: Here is not a luckily? Will Ryan take that? South America, World, Africa? Huh?
Speaker 3: Now we dominate everything, bombs, popes, everything you can leave, economy, aircraft, carres,
Speaker 3: anything you can lead in. We're now number one, and
Speaker 3: not just an American, but a Chicagoan that's a real American.
Speaker 3: Here's my question. We've been doing this show for thirty years,
Speaker 3: good Lord, which is a long time. Will we be
Speaker 3: punished for ours ends? Is that your question? Now that
Speaker 3: we have an American pope, I think we're in trouble.
Speaker 3: Who may have heard the show? I don't think we've
Speaker 3: ever been more out of step with a dominant news
Speaker 3: story ever.
Speaker 1: Do you have any.
Speaker 3: Idea why we just from the amount of coverage we
Speaker 3: talked about it leading up to yesterday and then and
Speaker 3: then yesterday just I tuned in number other radio shows
Speaker 3: outside of a sports show, I don't think anybody covered
Speaker 3: the pope.
Speaker 1: Less than us. Do you have any idea why what pope?
Speaker 1: There wasn't a pope.
Speaker 3: Well, even when we landed yesterday it had it happened
Speaker 3: while we were on the air, we didn't go very
Speaker 3: big with it.
Speaker 1: I mean, even when it happened.
Speaker 3: So I mean just I mean, there's no getting around
Speaker 3: in the fact we covered it less than I think
Speaker 3: any news outlet in America. Do you have any idea why?
Speaker 3: I was just wondering myself. I'm surprised, more than the
Speaker 3: things I've already said about it.
Speaker 1: I just no, I don't know. I don't have.
Speaker 3: Any need to go with the herd. Perhaps to a fault,
Speaker 3: but I don't think so I had nothing to say.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's the why I don't.
Speaker 3: I do, I do, I am, I'll bet I know
Speaker 3: more about the Catholic Church than any non Catholic listening.
Speaker 3: I have attended a Catholic Mass in every major cathedral
Speaker 3: in America. La San Francisco, Chicago, New York, wherever I
Speaker 3: did on my birthday. If you'll remember, i've read about
Speaker 3: with the popes. I know are about Vatican two in
Speaker 3: nineteen sixty five.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know a.
Speaker 3: Lot about the athlic Church, but I didn't think most
Speaker 3: people were that interested, so I kept most of that
Speaker 3: to myself. And I would guess based on the amount
Speaker 3: of coverage this has gotten, well, I still think maybe
Speaker 3: they're wrong. So I think maybe there's some interesting thing
Speaker 3: going on with the seclarization of the country and this
Speaker 3: is like a a wanting reaction or something.
Speaker 1: I don't know what now I'm interested.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it could be, yeah, because I mean statistics show
Speaker 3: were less church going in less religious than we have
Speaker 3: ever been.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: By the way, I consider myself an honorary Lutheran. But
Speaker 3: back to the topic. Yeah, that's an interesting theory, you know,
Speaker 3: and I'm not You can talk about anything you want,
Speaker 3: as can I. It's worth batifully for a long time.
Speaker 3: hYP I would suggest that the very media you're talking
Speaker 3: about have no ratings and even worse quote unquote ratings
Speaker 3: for trust and reliability. Everybody dislikes them and doesn't watch
Speaker 3: them on the other hand, I'm more than happy to Yeah. Well,
Speaker 3: I didn't not talk about it because I didn't think
Speaker 3: we should. I just I honestly didn't think there was
Speaker 3: that many people that would be interested. But when Fox
Speaker 3: and MSNBC and News Nation and every radio show I
Speaker 3: tune on and all evening news dedicate like half their
Speaker 3: coverage to it, I think I missing something here is
Speaker 3: something going on. I just wonder if it's like a
Speaker 3: comfort food thing people kind of miss that, That's what
Speaker 3: I'd like. Maybe it's the wishes being the father of
Speaker 3: my thoughts. I kind of would like it if it
Speaker 3: were people thinking, you know, that whole tradition, having something
Speaker 3: to believe in bigger than.
Speaker 1: Yourself, kind of like that as a kid. That's what
Speaker 1: I'd like to think. Yeah, interesting theory, could be something
Speaker 1: to that.
Speaker 3: I happened to watch some news coverage of the speculation
Speaker 3: and the attempts to interview the cardinals and them not
Speaker 3: being interviewed and going on and on, and I thought,
Speaker 3: this is boring and stupid and just going through the motions.
Speaker 3: But you know, if whatever, I don't know, it's an
Speaker 3: outlier in her career, and I just wondered why and
Speaker 3: I don't have an answer. Would you like to disclose
Speaker 3: the big secret?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I probably should, just so you typhoid Mary possibly put
Speaker 3: up with a listening to the show. I got diagnosed
Speaker 3: finally yesterday, I have whooping cough? Who gets whooping cough?
Speaker 3: I said to my son, I got whooping cough. He said,
Speaker 3: I do you have polio? What do you mean you
Speaker 3: got whooping cough? I got it down at the gold
Speaker 3: Mine right after the ice cream social. I hope I
Speaker 3: didn't get it from Mary Lou. I mean, who has
Speaker 3: whooping cough? Well, turtussis you know what?
Speaker 1: You know what's funny? Whoop is? Uh wooop? Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: Did you hear the whooping cough? Button?
Speaker 3: It's terrible? Well, I just I will later. I want
Speaker 3: to make sure you hear my whooping. Oh geez, you
Speaker 3: know at the so a couple of nights ago, Yes, Katie, Oh.
Speaker 1: No, I was just the phlegm and the hook.
Speaker 3: Oh, if you're close to me, the death rattle is
Speaker 3: quite amazing. But I was laying in bed the other
Speaker 3: day and I thought like my phone was making a
Speaker 3: noise or something, or like my pillow was squeaking. I
Speaker 3: couldn't figure it out until I got diagnosed. It was
Speaker 3: my It was my lungs doing this like whoo. It's
Speaker 3: more like a winnie. It should be called winny cough.
Speaker 3: It sounded like the winnie of a pony. When I
Speaker 3: lay down and bed and breathe, you'd be like inoculated
Speaker 3: against that.
Speaker 1: That's funny.
Speaker 3: My mom texted me, I got you inoculated for that
Speaker 3: when you were a baby. Well that was sixty years ago.
Speaker 3: M'st not a helb up or off war off or something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, it's funny.
Speaker 3: I was. My doctor was discussing with me various updates,
Speaker 3: two shots I needed at this point in my life,
Speaker 3: and he did mention the DPT shot. Yeah, the doctor
Speaker 3: told me pertussis. And doctor said I the other one,
Speaker 3: get it renewed. Yeah, the the detap I should get.
Speaker 3: I should have gotten renewed before and I wouldn't have
Speaker 3: gotten hooping cough.
Speaker 1: Yes, Michael, just don't bring smallpox into the studio.
Speaker 3: Smallpox, whooping cough. I get all your old timey diseases.
Speaker 1: Yeah, tetanus, there you go, diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis. Yeah,
Speaker 1: my son just got that.
Speaker 3: The other day because you get it in uh when
Speaker 3: you're born, and then you get another one in your age,
Speaker 3: like twelve or thirteen, and apparently I need another one.
Speaker 1: Go get one if you haven't had one. Oh, there,
Speaker 1: he goes. I'll tell you.
Speaker 3: I'll read about this later because there's some interesting stuff
Speaker 3: on this. It's not something you want, and I might
Speaker 3: be It's quite possible. I'm only half to a third
Speaker 3: way through the whole process. I might have this a
Speaker 3: newspaper column for a while. I might have this for
Speaker 3: another month or two. You can get all of our
Speaker 3: fastating content and print well, AI could transcribe it. Oh,
Speaker 3: so I didn't sleep one minute last night, about one
Speaker 3: minute because I'm on a new steroid thing. That's twice
Speaker 3: this week I've stayed up the entire night without a
Speaker 3: minute sleep. So if I go crazy, fasten your seat belts, everybody,
Speaker 3: staff and audience.
Speaker 1: I'm willing to take construction.
Speaker 3: If you say I'm really out of line, I will.
Speaker 3: I will take your word for it because I'm like
Speaker 3: out of my mind tired. The self driving car really
Speaker 3: helped today. But I got onto AI last night. Did
Speaker 3: some chat GPT that you were talking about yesterday can't
Speaker 3: wait to talk about that.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's amazing, isn't it.
Speaker 3: One thing about staying up all night long? The amount
Speaker 3: of research you can do is amazing. Got a lot
Speaker 3: of Pope stuff I.
Speaker 1: Know you do too. Excellent. Well he's dead to me.
Speaker 1: The Pope is dead to you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh yeah, yeah his My affection for him was
Speaker 3: short light. Indeed, does that fit in with the opening
Speaker 3: clip they're abot to play? Oh yeah, there we go.
Speaker 3: Maybe you ought to just get to it. I'm Jack Armstrong,
Speaker 3: he's Joe Getty on this. It is Friday, May ninth.
Speaker 3: They're twenty twelve, twenty five. We are Armstrong in Getty.
Speaker 3: We have whooping coughin. We approve of this program, so
Speaker 3: called Pope. Anyway, let's start the show officially now according
Speaker 3: to FCC rules of regulations.
Speaker 1: Here we go at Mark.
Speaker 4: Clear up the thing about the Cubs and White Sox.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he was never ever a Cubs fan, so I
Speaker 5: don't know where that came from. He was always a
Speaker 5: Sox fan. Our mother was a Cubs fan, I don't know.
Speaker 5: Maybe that clute in there, and our dad was a
Speaker 5: Cardinals fan, So I don't know where that all came
Speaker 5: from Our mom's family was from North Side, so that's
Speaker 5: why they were Cubs fans.
Speaker 4: But he rooted for the whites.
Speaker 1: That's right. His mother was a mother, his father was
Speaker 1: a cardinal. That's odd.
Speaker 3: Yes, a divided family, mixed race if you will. As
Speaker 3: a Chicagoan lifelong Cobbies fan, I have died have nothing
Speaker 3: more to say about this sick, sick individual. My favorite
Speaker 3: part of this story is that whoever ABC or whoever
Speaker 3: decided to jump the gun and claim he was a
Speaker 3: Cubs fan and have that run around the world for
Speaker 3: an hour before it got corrected by everybody who's ever
Speaker 3: known him, who said right, talk and he's like the
Speaker 3: biggest white Sox fan in the world. So nice job
Speaker 3: to the trust in regard people have for the mainstream media. Right,
Speaker 3: so you're gonna cover this story for nineteen hours a
Speaker 3: week but then just run with crap that's not true.
Speaker 3: Shout out to my brother in law, Hank, by the way,
Speaker 3: lifelong Socks fan, the hell of a good guy. Uh So, Yeah,
Speaker 3: this guy's interesting background and the rest of it, and
Speaker 3: everybody's kind of guessing about what doctrines he might take
Speaker 3: based on the name he's chosen.
Speaker 1: Blah blah blah. But it's another speculation of song. Well.
Speaker 1: I talked about it a week or so ago.
Speaker 3: It is actually right after Francis died that I was
Speaker 3: reading a couple of articles in National Review by a
Speaker 3: couple of the Catholic writers.
Speaker 1: Founded by William F.
Speaker 3: Bubbley, one of the biggest Catholics in America. The whole
Speaker 3: perception of the mainstream media that Francis was some liberal
Speaker 3: gay marriage loving guy pro abortion or something was so wrong,
Speaker 3: I mean, was absolutely one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: So he'll be like Francis and a very liberal.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, Francis wasn't as liberal as y'all claimed at all.
Speaker 3: He was hardcore no gay marriage and no women in
Speaker 3: the church, abortion, absolutely wrong. He didn't budge on any
Speaker 3: of that stuff. So all of that was misinterpreted by
Speaker 3: our mainstream media because he just loved the idea of it.
Speaker 3: And I think they're doing some of the same thing.
Speaker 1: With this guy, right right.
Speaker 3: They're bad at their jobs in and they lie one
Speaker 3: more reasonable tune at ABC News tonight with David Muir.
Speaker 3: But he's got great air, his jaw is perfectly square,
Speaker 3: and he's got guns to die for. Oh is that right,
Speaker 3: David Muir, Oh, I thought you meant the new pope
Speaker 3: Pope is sorry Pope. I got whooping cough and I
Speaker 3: could push the pope over. Sorry, I got distracted thinking
Speaker 3: about the new Pope udly anyway, So we congratulate him
Speaker 3: on his pope tum and we wish him nothing but
Speaker 3: the best. Got a number of interesting things. Like I said,
Speaker 3: if you stay up all night long, you can do
Speaker 3: a lot of research. We got Katie's headlines on the way.
Speaker 3: We got mail bag Trump some news broken the New
Speaker 3: York Post yesterday that he might call off the China
Speaker 3: tariff thing like in a.
Speaker 1: Call of days.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's backpedaling, uh pretty hard, which may have been
Speaker 3: the plan all along.
Speaker 1: I'm not criticizing, but that's it's unmistakable. What's happening.
Speaker 3: That's interesting, that's huge. Anyway, a lot of stuff on
Speaker 3: the way. I hope you can stay here. Let me
Speaker 3: jump in with the most interesting headline I've seen before
Speaker 3: Katie gets to hers.
Speaker 1: This is from Mark Alprin.
Speaker 3: To me, he is the most trusted political news reporter
Speaker 3: in America. He's right, more often and less partisan than
Speaker 3: anybody I read or follow, and many examples to prove
Speaker 3: that his head motivations are those of the traditional reporter.
Speaker 1: He's the seeker of truth. I love him.
Speaker 3: His headline yesterday, tweeted it out yesterday afternoon, and then
Speaker 3: I'll get into the details later.
Speaker 1: The headline is the Biden family is broke.
Speaker 3: That's his what his sources say, what I know, that's
Speaker 3: why they're on the view, That's why they're doing all
Speaker 3: this stuff. They are broke. More details to come. Wow,
Speaker 3: I know what a tantalizing clue. Also, was there a
Speaker 3: highly cynical reason for selecting the new Chicago Pope?
Speaker 1: Stay with us? Mmm? Is right?
Speaker 3: Let's figure out who's reporting what it's the lead story
Speaker 3: with Katie Green.
Speaker 6: Katie, Well, because it's all everybody's talking about NBC. Catholic
Speaker 6: Americans rejoice for Poplo.
Speaker 1: That's also interesting.
Speaker 3: Trad Cats as they call them, traditional Catholics are bigger
Speaker 3: in America than anywhere else in the world of like
Speaker 3: bringing back Latin Mass and all that sort of stuff,
Speaker 3: more than traditional Catholic Church. I don't know if that's
Speaker 3: going to fit in with the new pope or not.
Speaker 3: That is interesting. Although the highly you know, joyous celebrations
Speaker 3: of American Catholics, which Katie is referring to.
Speaker 1: What do highly joyous people do at churches?
Speaker 3: Often they donate a lot that is well more than
Speaker 3: one person has suggested the Catholic CHURCHIP, which like the
Speaker 3: Biden family, has some serious financial challenges, may have been
Speaker 3: thinking in terms of.
Speaker 1: The cash box. Actually, cynical view are realistic.
Speaker 6: From the New York Post, chaos breaks out as anti
Speaker 6: Israel activists erected tents at Brooklyn College in New York City.
Speaker 1: Eighty arrested.
Speaker 3: Gotta charge these people with something, though, If it's just
Speaker 3: I got arrested and I can brag about it, and
Speaker 3: I'm at the bar that night to tell people, it
Speaker 3: doesn't do any good. Yeah, here's the Getty doctrine. If
Speaker 3: people break the law, punish them for it. If I
Speaker 3: can repeat that, if you'd like to jot it down.
Speaker 6: From ABC, Trump says eighty percent tariffs on China.
Speaker 1: Quote seem right.
Speaker 3: And more pre negotiation posturing fine.
Speaker 6: From the Financial Times, Chinese companies are offering original washing
Speaker 6: services to avoid Trump's tariffs or in washing.
Speaker 3: So, yeah, figure out a way to make it look
Speaker 3: like it came from somewhere other than China.
Speaker 6: Yeah, they're doing export forwarding services to Vietnam and Thailand
Speaker 6: to get around.
Speaker 1: That's the way all getting around sanctions work. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6: From Breitbart dot com, New York PD reports members of
Speaker 6: migrant quote little Devil's gang arrested two hundred and forty times.
Speaker 6: These are the little kids being groomed to be trend
Speaker 6: de arragua and those two hundred and forty arrests were
Speaker 6: divided amongst thirty seven people.
Speaker 1: Wow, wow, what have we imported?
Speaker 3: Speaking of Biden, the worst president, Trump was probably right.
Speaker 3: He's definitely in your bottom three or four of all time.
Speaker 6: From Yahoo News, Chinese tech company exploring how AI can
Speaker 6: translate pet sounds into words.
Speaker 3: Oh right, now AI is getting into the psychic business.
Speaker 6: This one, also from the New York Post. Metallica rocked
Speaker 6: Virginia Tech concert so hard it registered as a small earthquake.
Speaker 1: There you go, that's a way to rock.
Speaker 6: Study finds just thirty nine percent of Americans would donate
Speaker 6: an organ for a loved one.
Speaker 1: What wow? Which organ is it? My heart? I need
Speaker 1: it or never used it that I've seen?
Speaker 6: And finally, the Babylon Bee Eagle firing AR fifteen emerges
Speaker 6: from Vatican indicating an American pope has been selected.
Speaker 1: Yes, America. Did you guys see on NBC.
Speaker 6: When they cut to the live shot when the white
Speaker 6: smoke came out, there was just a seagull standing there
Speaker 6: looking around.
Speaker 3: Why is everybody looking at me? This is weird and
Speaker 3: to making me uncomfortable? What are you looking at?
Speaker 1: Never seen a seagull before? Good lord?
Speaker 3: So again, speaking of the Biden family, more and more
Speaker 3: evidence of how the green energy scam worked coming out,
Speaker 3: and it is galling. Well.
Speaker 1: I got to hit you at the details on them
Speaker 1: being broke. It's really something.
Speaker 3: Armstrong and Geeddy, the Biden families broke, according to Mark
Speaker 3: Halprin's reporting. Will have the details on that. There's not
Speaker 3: a lot, but that's a dang interesting story. We'll have
Speaker 3: that in just a moment. And then also the New
Speaker 3: York Post broke this yesterday with an exclusive on they
Speaker 3: had a source in the White House. They claim that
Speaker 3: Trump's really ready to back pedal on the Chinese tariffs.
Speaker 1: We'll have the details on that in just a moment.
Speaker 3: Also, m m yeah, some of the signals coming out
Speaker 3: of the White House sure sound like that, all right? Fabulous,
Speaker 3: But first it's the Friday tradition. Let's take a fond
Speaker 3: look back at the week that was. It's cow clips
Speaker 3: of the week.
Speaker 1: I'm in contrast of your contrast. We like that. I'll
Speaker 1: say this as well. You can have that product which
Speaker 1: the weak. Is it okay in the short term to
Speaker 1: have our session? Yes, everything's okay.
Speaker 3: I don't think a beautiful baby girl needs that's eleven
Speaker 3: years old, needs to have thirty dollars.
Speaker 1: How do you lead the world having ambitsin instructional? How
Speaker 1: do you leave the world? Have been out him the
Speaker 1: best healthcare ineral. Hes't hiding somewhere.
Speaker 5: I didn't have him, you know, sequestered in.
Speaker 1: Some place where she had You know, Canada loves us
Speaker 1: and we love Canada. But we'll see, I mean, over time,
Speaker 1: we'll see what happens to me.
Speaker 3: Having met with the owners of Canada over the course
Speaker 3: of the campaign, it's not for sale.
Speaker 1: Won't be for sale ever.
Speaker 6: Don't you've ab gaud you Manu man a baby most stop.
Speaker 1: Because he's a Cubs fans. He is well acquainted with suffering.
Speaker 3: At least one hundred flights have been canceled today.
Speaker 1: I discuss auld it approach lost all the radars. Three
Speaker 1: of the four radar screens was black, and it's because
Speaker 1: of Trump and Doge.
Speaker 3: If there's any place where Trump chaos can really cause
Speaker 3: loss of life, it's at the FAA Alcatraz. It sort
Speaker 3: of represents something that's both horrible and beautiful and strong
Speaker 3: and miserable.
Speaker 1: Week crews called most Diablos day forty two. It's basically
Speaker 1: the minor league gang for Trende Ragway. This is made
Speaker 1: up of kids.
Speaker 3: Meanwhile, a large crowd of protesters gathered outside near the campus,
Speaker 3: where they clashed with New York City police.
Speaker 4: This latest mishaf occurring when the pilot of an Fa
Speaker 4: eighteen super Hornet was attempting at nighttime tale with blending,
Speaker 4: but the jet ended up pulling off the end of
Speaker 4: the flight deck instead. After six decades fleeting Berkshire halfway,
Speaker 4: Buffett said he'll step down as CEO.
Speaker 3: Its lawyers are aiming to convince the jeury the government
Speaker 3: is trying to police consensual sex by a swinger who
Speaker 3: they say invited others into his bedroom. You've got thirty
Speaker 3: two million followers, so you're one of the most followed people.
Speaker 3: See wait now, look right now, you're not going to
Speaker 3: take inches off my bro I thought you were talking
Speaker 3: about the fly hole.
Speaker 1: What. I don't understand the things I say.
Speaker 3: Oh boy, wow, what a week it's been. No wonder,
Speaker 3: I'm tired, no humor. May be one of the most
Speaker 3: cynical human beings has ever lived on Earth, blaming the
Speaker 3: air traffic control problems on Trump and Doge after he's resisted.
Speaker 3: He's opposed every meaningful reform to the air traffic control
Speaker 3: system over the last couple of decades.
Speaker 1: You pretty much have to be to be a career politician.
Speaker 1: I don't think it.
Speaker 3: I don't think it's possible to be a career politician
Speaker 3: without being a cynical, cynical bastard who lies regularly.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's you can do it. I would agree.
Speaker 1: You often say, how do these people sleep?
Speaker 3: I wonder if Chuck in Chuck Schumer's mind, he's like,
Speaker 3: He's like, I don't know, what's a good example.
Speaker 1: Maybe a soldier. He's there to win a battle. He's
Speaker 1: not there.
Speaker 3: In contrast to some of our nation building projects in
Speaker 3: flight to build buildings or to put out fires, or
Speaker 3: to put bread on the shelves, or any of a
Speaker 3: thousand other purposes. He is there to kill people, break stuff,
Speaker 3: and win battles. Let other people worry about that other stuff.
Speaker 3: I wonder if that's how he sees himself. So here's
Speaker 3: here's the biggest story come across today.
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 3: How consequential it is. But so what in the hell
Speaker 3: we're gonna play? Hour two will play some more clips
Speaker 3: of Joe Biden and Joe Biden on the view.
Speaker 1: What the hell are they doing?
Speaker 3: Nobody can figure out how they're so wrong thinking they're
Speaker 3: going out there making their lives better. Desperation makes you
Speaker 3: do crazy things, and that's what Mark Helpern is reporting
Speaker 3: starting yesterday afternoon. He said a source very familiar with
Speaker 3: the Bidens, and he wouldn't say this if it weren't
Speaker 3: true that Biden Inc. The family business that generated millions
Speaker 3: of dollars in revenue to support their lifestyle, has dried up.
Speaker 3: The trough is empty, the spigot has turned off. Biden Inc.
Speaker 3: Needs a source of revenue. Joe's earning power is not sufficient.
Speaker 3: Hunter does not have earning capacity anymore. And it's all
Speaker 3: about so they claim they're going to write a book.
Speaker 3: They're trying to get some they're trying to show that
Speaker 3: he's got the chops for speaking engagements because currently he's
Speaker 3: getting offered none. Oh boy, oh boy. It's like you
Speaker 3: were talking about yesterday. We're talking about a rock star,
Speaker 3: but just the idea of like, you're wealthy, but you
Speaker 3: craft a lifestyle that's too rich even for you when
Speaker 3: you're wealthy, and you can't sustain it.
Speaker 1: And some rich people do that.
Speaker 3: I mean, like you live within your means as the
Speaker 3: Biden family and not have quite as many ocean side
Speaker 3: houses and everything else, and you probably had plenty of money,
Speaker 3: but they just they crafted a lifestyle that required a
Speaker 3: great deal of revenue. And he no longer gets any boy.
Speaker 3: I hear all the financial planners in the audience all
Speaker 3: thinking the same thing, which is, how, given their revenue
Speaker 3: stream for as long as it lasted, how did they
Speaker 3: not have twenty million dollars stashed away in the bank
Speaker 3: just a nice mutual funds or something like that, just
Speaker 3: two index funds. I think they lived. I mean the
Speaker 3: entire extended family. That's a lot of people. Yeah, he
Speaker 3: got like posse. They're like a you know, a rapper,
Speaker 3: an NFL wide receiver. I mean, you got twenty five
Speaker 3: people and some ex wives in there and everything, and
Speaker 3: you can go through a lot of money.
Speaker 1: Jill likes name brands. Jill likes name brands.
Speaker 3: Huh yeah eh, as coach persons don't buy themselves, do they, Michael,
Speaker 3: that's a amazing I think it's awesome if you're going
Speaker 3: to be a grifter and run a crime family business
Speaker 3: and get away with it, going broke publicly it's like
Speaker 3: the best pedalleetic and we can't nail you criminally, going
Speaker 3: broke publicly is the next best thing.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm practically a grifter.
Speaker 3: Look what I do for a living, and I saved
Speaker 3: my money anyway, good for those crooks.
Speaker 1: Oh speak in a witch. Unbelievable. You know what? Now, now,
Speaker 1: what might be a perfect time to hit you with this?
Speaker 1: Or do we have time?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Why not?
Speaker 3: Let me scan over and find it there is So
Speaker 3: the Trump Department of Energy just canceled a four and
Speaker 3: a half million dollar contract the Biden administration had awarded
Speaker 3: to this allegedly Native American owned firm four and a
Speaker 3: half million dollars to create a new logo for the
Speaker 3: Department of Energy highlighting the transition to green energy and
Speaker 3: to design a websit site for them four and a
Speaker 3: half million dollars, folks, to design a logo which you
Speaker 3: could do with AI in the next ten minutes.
Speaker 1: And it would be really really good for free, right,
Speaker 1: and to develop a website. Well.
Speaker 3: That was assigned in March of twenty three. However, the
Speaker 3: project fell behind schedule, and by late twenty four the
Speaker 3: firm had only delivered a logo and failed to make
Speaker 3: progress on the website redesign. Having been paid two point
Speaker 3: three million dollars, the American taxpayer got nothing but a
Speaker 3: logo we could have made for free with AI for
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Speaker 1: That is how the scam works.
Speaker 3: There's another example too, uns Hunter's going to be like
Speaker 3: at a tourist place painting pictures of people with the
Speaker 3: big head and the dune buggy.
Speaker 1: He's gonna be doing that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And Joe is going to be I'll snip your
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Speaker 3: texted me that she has seen adults break the ribs
Speaker 3: with whooping cough from coughing. So yes, act and it's
Speaker 3: see that the number of cases is exploding around the
Speaker 3: country too.
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Speaker 3: Yes, it is unclean people like yourself. No, we'll get
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Speaker 3: Department of Labor and the Department of Government Efficiency just
Speaker 3: cut twenty five diversity equity inclusion grants, saving eight and
Speaker 3: a half million dollars that would have been spent on
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Speaker 3: in quotes and other woke initiatives. A lot of it
Speaker 3: has to do with the Department of Energy underrepresented this, that,
Speaker 3: and the other. It is simply spraying cash on supporters
Speaker 3: in the name of utterly amorphous bull ass, and I
Speaker 3: wish I could use the word including equity summits to
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Speaker 3: individuals in the Gulf Coast region.
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Speaker 3: the streets, but we don't because we have jobs. That's
Speaker 3: the disadvantaged Conservatives have. Joe and Jell are going to
Speaker 3: be in some sort of assisted living that they can
Speaker 3: barely afford, maybe taxpayer supported. Not even getting named brand
Speaker 3: Jello just sitting there. Wow, Generic Jello have a mighty fallen.
Speaker 3: I'd say, we've got mail bag on the way stare.
Speaker 3: We've got a lot of stuff to get to on
Speaker 3: a Friday. So we haven't even really talked about the
Speaker 3: pope yet. There's some interesting stuff about the Pope that
Speaker 3: I learned yesterday.
Speaker 1: The new Pope.
Speaker 3: We will profile him and talk about the Biden. I'm
Speaker 3: still riff and you give me money tour, so stay
Speaker 3: with us. Here's your freedom loving quote of the day.
Speaker 3: It is in a way, it's also just a well
Speaker 3: aimed shot from the great Thomas Sewell, and so I'm
Speaker 3: going with it.
Speaker 1: You don't like it, assume me and I quote.
Speaker 3: There have always been ignorant people, but they haven't always
Speaker 3: had college degrees to make them unaware of their ignorance.
Speaker 3: Some people imagine that they are well informed because they
Speaker 3: have memorized the whole galaxy of trendy dogmas and fashionable attitudes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, got a lot of that going on. Yeah.
Speaker 3: They memorize the Marxist tripe. Their professors feed them and
Speaker 3: imagine they're educated. Quote unquote, mailbag drop us a note.
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Speaker 3: it as short as you can. Continuing on with our
Speaker 3: four days of Cliff Cliff, who wrote a multi part
Speaker 3: email the other day. I forgot day two of four
Speaker 3: days with Cliff yesterday, so we're already a day behind.
Speaker 1: Wow. Sorry, Cliff, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3: Anyway, yes, sorry, I hate to repeat myself, he says, Well,
Speaker 3: please stop calling the Wall Street Journal a conservative news source.
Speaker 3: You keep making that claim despite all the evidence to
Speaker 3: the contrary, all contraire Cliff, multi day Cliff. We put
Speaker 3: it out many times that their editorial board is quite chrisconservative,
Speaker 3: but their reporters, and this is the reason I'm reading this,
Speaker 3: are skewing further and further left because as the years
Speaker 3: go by, they're replacing the old hands with the products
Speaker 3: of America's journalism. Schools who are I mean, to a
Speaker 3: horrific extent way left. Yeah, I've got to believe it's
Speaker 3: a challenge for the editors to rein them in. There's
Speaker 3: also a law and axiom that our friend Tim Sanderfer
Speaker 3: said one time on the air that I always remember
Speaker 3: any organization that's not specifically devoted conservatism will draw drift
Speaker 3: left over time. And I think that seems to be true.
Speaker 3: For whatever reason. What's the nickel explanation for that, I
Speaker 3: don't know, but it just seems to be true. Collectivism
Speaker 3: benefits them as a bureaucracy.
Speaker 1: I don't know. That's a fascinating thought.
Speaker 3: Cliff goes on, Yes, they're better than the WAPO in
Speaker 3: New York Times, but that's like saying Kamala's smarter than
Speaker 3: a beaver.
Speaker 1: Definitely unfair to Beaver's what a powerful metaphor.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Cammy baby. Here's a note from Steve on
Speaker 3: the new American Pope. My first reaction is, since Catholic
Speaker 3: Church is so far in the red, the new pope
Speaker 3: was chosen from America in order to get the Americans
Speaker 3: to donate more money.
Speaker 1: I'm not that cynical. He could be right, but I
Speaker 1: just I'm not that cynical about it. Realism is not cynicism,
Speaker 1: my lad.
Speaker 3: Although I tell you what, I'm running a rock and
Speaker 3: roll band and we need a new singer.
Speaker 1: And you got two guys who just sing like birds.
Speaker 1: They're fabulous.
Speaker 3: They're accommodation of Elvis and Robert plant one's really good looking.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's a situation with the pope could be. But
Speaker 1: and we'll play this later.
Speaker 3: But the number of people throughout his life who knew
Speaker 3: him in school or you know, in seminary or whatever.
Speaker 3: He said he's gonna be pope someday he's just one
Speaker 3: of those guys.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh, interesting, plunging, plunging on.
Speaker 3: Here's a note from SI guys mentioned maybe someday these
Speaker 3: spoiled college cry babies will finally get it. They don't
Speaker 3: live in the real world, so no, they don't pay
Speaker 3: a mortgage rent because they live in mommy's spare bedroom.
Speaker 3: No car loan, no insurance premiums, no utility bills, no
Speaker 3: food bills, no gasoline bills, no healthcare premiums, no maintenance costs.
Speaker 1: I could go on forever.
Speaker 3: They never encounter life outside a safe room on an
Speaker 3: insulated college campus, with the exception of maybe riding a
Speaker 3: bus to a protest. There are perpetual children and totally
Speaker 3: oblivious to the concept of reality. But is it their
Speaker 3: fault or their woosy parents who enable to hold GDS show. Well,
Speaker 3: that's a couple of great questions. The real world has
Speaker 3: a way of a batting last side. Reality tends to
Speaker 3: slap you until you come round in a lot of cases,
Speaker 3: not in all cases. We all know people, generally of
Speaker 3: the far left, who are utterly divorced from reality and
Speaker 3: completely confident in their judgments.
Speaker 1: My thirteen year old tried that out yesterday.
Speaker 3: We were having a little discussion about screen time and
Speaker 3: why is a good idea or a bad idea.
Speaker 1: For your future? And that's really got into you know,
Speaker 1: what are you're gonna do when you're older?
Speaker 3: You said, I'll just live with you. I said, no,
Speaker 3: you're not well. I said maybe if you're paying rent,
Speaker 3: but you'll still need to have a job, And so
Speaker 3: I was. I was eye opening for him. Great note
Speaker 3: from JT and livermore about the Bidens and what they're
Speaker 3: attempting right now by their rehabilitation tour. Going to save
Speaker 3: that for when we'd play some great audio next hour
Speaker 3: got this. I thought it was interesting from Pat, gentlemen,
Speaker 3: and I use that term loosely. Greetings from Afar.
Speaker 1: There. I was somewhere near the.
Speaker 3: Aiden Atta excuse my pronunciation, international Airport in beautiful Mogadishue, Somalia,
Speaker 3: minding my own business and listening to A ANDNG discuss
Speaker 3: Afghanistan's good economic times, specifically the fact that the Teleban
Speaker 3: is raking in billions of dollars selling American armaments to
Speaker 3: terrorist groups. We were discussing yesterday. Left behind by which
Speaker 3: president was it? I'm senile mummy. Oh yeah, Joe Biden.
Speaker 3: My word is a Biden right exactly. Anyway, So there
Speaker 3: is our friend Pat by the airport and beautiful Mogadishue
Speaker 3: listening to you guys discussing this. Shortly afterward, I see
Speaker 3: an Mi I twenty four helicopter as seen in Red
Speaker 3: Dawn flying overhead even attached to video. Wow, I'm purchased
Speaker 3: recently by some group of some bench or another. Please
Speaker 3: keep up the good work and never retire, even if
Speaker 3: Jack is on his dB. And now it's time for
Speaker 3: me to get back to work, guys, for it is
Speaker 3: time for us to do what we have been doing,
Speaker 3: and that time is every day.
Speaker 1: That's absolutely right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he says says, ps, please don't hesitate to
Speaker 3: reach out if you ever want to use my time
Speaker 3: sharing kabul.
Speaker 1: I'm busy that weekend, Pat, but thank you. Our global
Speaker 1: reach and power is startling. Nobody's more surprised than us. Ah,
Speaker 1: what was I gonna say? Well, that'll do for now.
Speaker 3: Okay, so we'll get to a little Joe Biden on
Speaker 3: the View with his wife making up all kinds of
Speaker 3: crap about how they would win and she didn't hide
Speaker 3: him and all that. We've got some information on the
Speaker 3: new pulp that I think is pretty damned interesting. Yeah,
Speaker 3: also reading the tea leaves of Trump's trade negotiations. As
Speaker 3: Jack has put it many times, sir, this will be
Speaker 3: the only story in America if our economy goes kurbluey.
Speaker 1: Which is going to hit in just a few days.
Speaker 1: But looks like he's going to dodge the bullet.
Speaker 3: And I'm going to tell you about whooping cough what
Speaker 3: I learned yesterday because you don't want to get it,
Speaker 3: and it's out there, so it's probably worth knowing something
Speaker 3: about because this is a miserable freaking disease. Deadly illness
Speaker 3: spreading twice as fast in twenty twenty five, surpassing nine
Speaker 3: thousand cases. It has doubled since last year. Yeah, but
Speaker 3: it only lasts two or three months if you catch it.
Speaker 3: So I got them, We got a lot on the way.
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Speaker 3: like a really good idea, Armstrong and Getty