Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Arm Strong and Jettating and he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3: You look at their theories on tax You know, all
Speaker 3: my life, I've watched politics.
Speaker 2: I've always liked it. I've watched it.
Speaker 3: I participated, but from the standpoint of a donor. But
Speaker 3: I participated in all my life, I've watched politicians.
Speaker 2: We will cut your taxes.
Speaker 3: We will cut your These people say we're going to
Speaker 3: raise your taxes. This is the only time it's never said.
Speaker 3: I've never heard it. They say it, even if they
Speaker 3: don't meet it. We will cut you to These people
Speaker 3: say that we're going to give you the biggest tax
Speaker 3: grease increase you've ever had, and that's what they're running on.
Speaker 4: That is an interesting point. And I wonder if it's
Speaker 4: just the realization of half the country doesn't pay taxes,
Speaker 4: so they don't care.
Speaker 2: I mean, they want that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just it's just there's a bigger chunk of
Speaker 4: America than has ever been You can look at the
Speaker 4: charts that doesn't care if taxes go.
Speaker 5: Up, right, So maybe it's a winning issue. Now it's
Speaker 5: more services for them. Honestly, Yeah, keep that gravy train
Speaker 5: or rolling. Unlike the bullet train, the gravy train is
Speaker 5: a rolling.
Speaker 4: I feel like we found out in the last twenty
Speaker 4: four hours that this is absolutely true, that Trump's got
Speaker 4: a grand strategy to deal with China, knowing they think
Speaker 4: long term and we think short term, to try to
Speaker 4: bring manufacturing back to the United States because that's the
Speaker 4: direction the world is going.
Speaker 2: More on that in a second.
Speaker 4: As far as to the tariffs and how that's going
Speaker 4: to affect our economy, he has asked a the kind
Speaker 4: of questions speaking of presidents always sa they're going to
Speaker 4: lower taxes. Presidents always say no, there's not going to
Speaker 4: be a recession. But that's not what Trump said here.
Speaker 2: Look, I know that you inherited a mess, and you
Speaker 2: say I don't want to have been here.
Speaker 3: Are you expecting a recession this year? I hate to
Speaker 3: predict things like that. There is a period of transition
Speaker 3: because what we're doing is very big. We're bringing wealth
Speaker 3: back to America. That's a big thing, and there are
Speaker 3: always periods of it takes a little time. It takes
Speaker 3: a little time, but I don't I think it should
Speaker 3: be great for us.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think it should be great.
Speaker 4: And that's definitely not a no. I don't think there's
Speaker 4: gonna be a session. He was, you know, his mind's whirling.
Speaker 4: He understands the way the media works and politics works.
Speaker 4: If he says no, and then there is one he
Speaker 4: has that that's you know, running on a loop constantly
Speaker 4: sure right.
Speaker 5: For what it's worth, I thought this is interesting you
Speaker 5: if you ask a quote unquote expert, it's mostly going
Speaker 5: to be a professor, and professors are all lefties, as
Speaker 5: we've all realized in recent days. But when you ask
Speaker 5: like business slash financial experts about this sort of thing,
Speaker 5: I think it's a much better you know, gauge. For instance,
Speaker 5: the Journal asked economists at some of the global banks
Speaker 5: about the chance of US recession.
Speaker 2: The JP Morgan.
Speaker 5: Chase guys raised the risk of recession from thirty percent
Speaker 5: to forty percent from the start of the year till now,
Speaker 5: so they see it as less than half likely, but
Speaker 5: more than they did before the terroriffs.
Speaker 4: I meant to inject earlier because we've we've said this
Speaker 4: many times over the years. Recession gets thrown around like
Speaker 4: like do you even remember the last recession? Of course
Speaker 4: you do, because half your neighbor's starved to death.
Speaker 2: Sure of the bodies filed in the streets. So good figure.
Speaker 4: I've lived through so many recessions and I don't remember
Speaker 4: when the last one was. I mean, they're not enjoyable,
Speaker 4: and if you lose your job, obviously it's awful.
Speaker 2: But they come it's not it's not.
Speaker 5: Well, how does that get presented in the news, like
Speaker 5: it's I don't know, the COVID pandemic or like something
Speaker 5: so incredibly disruptive to your life? Oh yeah, they really
Speaker 5: ought to have a low voiced guy with lots of echo.
Speaker 2: Say recession, un shit, un shut, un should the way
Speaker 2: they talk about it. I mean, I don't want one,
Speaker 2: but they're not. They happen every now and then.
Speaker 5: Anyway, Golden Sachs said it's now twenty percent likely, up
Speaker 5: from fifteen percent, and Morgan Stanley folks say, yeah, growth
Speaker 5: around one and a half percent, kind of not a
Speaker 5: recession but minor growth.
Speaker 2: So you know, nobody's panicking.
Speaker 5: Everybody's thinking, yeah, it might be more likely, just a
Speaker 5: little perspective, but I think what Trump is hinting at
Speaker 5: and I think he might be better off if you'd
Speaker 5: just say it out loud.
Speaker 4: Is Look, the world is changing a lot. It's gonna
Speaker 4: be us versus China. China's gonna have their big chunk
Speaker 4: of the world. We're gonna have our big chunk of
Speaker 4: the world, and we got to make everything over on
Speaker 4: our chunk of the world, preferably in the United States,
Speaker 4: or we're doomed.
Speaker 2: He talks a little bit about that.
Speaker 6: Here, you said, look, we're going to have a disruption,
Speaker 6: but we're okay with that.
Speaker 4: Is that what you meant?
Speaker 3: The stock market going down is the disruption?
Speaker 2: What were you alluding to?
Speaker 3: Look, what I have to do is build a strong country.
Speaker 3: You can't really watch the stock market. If you look
Speaker 3: at China, they have one hundred year perspective. We have
Speaker 3: a quarter. We go by quarters. That's true, and you
Speaker 3: can't go by that. You have to do what's right.
Speaker 3: What we're doing is we're building a tremendous foundation for
Speaker 3: the future. Tremendous foundation. Everything's been taken away. We don't
Speaker 3: make ships anymore.
Speaker 2: We don't.
Speaker 3: You know, you just saw one of the biggest shipbuilders
Speaker 3: in the world, one of the biggest shipping people.
Speaker 2: In the whole world.
Speaker 3: In the Oval office, with you in the Oval office.
Speaker 3: He's announcing a twenty billion dollar investment in the United States,
Speaker 3: which you would have never done except for this.
Speaker 4: You know, Trump gets knocked a lot by people for
Speaker 4: just you know, doing whatever he's got to do to
Speaker 4: make his poll numbers go up with the economy good
Speaker 4: or whatever, so that he can you know, win the
Speaker 4: next election or stay in office. This is not something
Speaker 4: that's benefiting him personally. He's going to take a tremendous
Speaker 4: amount of political heat for this.
Speaker 2: If he tries to enact this entire plan that.
Speaker 5: He has, well, he can't run for reelection, So you know,
Speaker 5: maybe that insulates some phrase like a what's the opposite
Speaker 5: of a lame duck? A steroid crazed, huge, muscular duck.
Speaker 5: But is he opposating?
Speaker 4: Is he operating out of patriotism slash reality of he
Speaker 4: just thinks this is the direction of the world's going
Speaker 4: and somebody needs to do it, and it's going to
Speaker 4: be him.
Speaker 5: I think, yeah, clearly, Yeah, this is one of my
Speaker 5: favorite things he's doing, and it could well be a
Speaker 5: bumpy ride. But democracies are famously reactive. You just nobody
Speaker 5: solves a problem until it's a crisis because it's so
Speaker 5: easy to demagogue. They're trying to balance the budget on
Speaker 5: the backs of the poor or the old or whatever.
Speaker 5: And you know, you can't get elected doing the right thing.
Speaker 5: You get elected by giving out treats. And Trump is saying,
Speaker 5: we can't be reactive because China will stop us, because
Speaker 5: they are a evil, nasty, hateful, malevolent superpower. We need
Speaker 5: to change before you know, the barbarians are actually through
Speaker 5: the gate.
Speaker 2: And I think he's exactly right.
Speaker 5: I'm a little concerned even if he's one hundred percent right,
Speaker 5: he doesn't have time right in one term, because it
Speaker 5: could take thirty years to really really you know, get
Speaker 5: our ducks in a row.
Speaker 2: The second duck related metaphor in the segment.
Speaker 4: Well, I know most of you don't watch the Evil MSNBC,
Speaker 4: and for good reason, but even they seem to be
Speaker 4: understanding his overall plot at this point. Here's David Ignatius
Speaker 4: of The Washington Post on Morning Joe.
Speaker 7: He made a very interesting comment yesterday that I did
Speaker 7: pay attention to, where he said China works on one
Speaker 7: hundred year cycle of planning. In the United States, goes
Speaker 7: quarter to quarter, something I've heard from corporate CEOs for years.
Speaker 2: And I think he's right about that.
Speaker 7: I mean, that's not to endorse the policies, but we
Speaker 7: do tend to get so caught up in these short
Speaker 7: term movements that we forget about what would be good
Speaker 7: for the long run in the country. But in any event,
Speaker 7: Wall Street's got the jitters.
Speaker 2: Today, is well, you know, and that's Trump's point.
Speaker 4: So they got the jetters today, they'll really have the
Speaker 4: jitters in ten years if we don't, if we don't
Speaker 4: start preparing for the direction the world is going. Wow,
Speaker 4: Is Trump actually like thinking long term what's good for
Speaker 4: the country at great personal harm to himself? That's not
Speaker 4: his brand for a lot of Trump aids. Yeah, momentary popularity.
Speaker 4: There's a lot of damage he could do to himself.
Speaker 4: But if he truly believes this, I think he's trying
Speaker 4: to set him up, set himself up to be remembered
Speaker 4: as a great president who made an incredibly difficult, controversial
Speaker 4: decision and reordered the world. Elon, I don't have it
Speaker 4: in front of me, but he made some comment on Friday,
Speaker 4: I think about having to take a look at social
Speaker 4: security and of course that was attacked hard from the left.
Speaker 4: You see it, he said it out loud. He said
Speaker 4: the quiet part out loud. They want to take away
Speaker 4: your social security. That is the most childish, moronic discussion.
Speaker 4: I mean that that makes me just works every time.
Speaker 4: That's the part that makes me desponded in both parties.
Speaker 4: It makes me sad for the idea of self governance.
Speaker 4: It makes me think democracy actually can't work. That there
Speaker 4: aren't grown ups in both parties to say, whoa, whoa, whoa,
Speaker 4: this is dumb. Look we got a program here you like,
Speaker 4: but as it's currently constituted, it won't last, so we
Speaker 4: have to change it. It's just math, people, This isn't politics,
Speaker 4: all right, I don't I don't have a dog in
Speaker 4: this fight.
Speaker 2: It's just it's just math.
Speaker 4: We can't keep giving out this much for taking, so
Speaker 4: we have to change it.
Speaker 2: But you can't do that, and it's nuts. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 2: And it's frustrating.
Speaker 5: And this change from a global free trade you know
Speaker 5: utopia to you know whatever is in the future, it's
Speaker 5: going to be really really bumpy ride, and it's going
Speaker 5: to be super easy to demagoge it. And there will
Speaker 5: also be legitimate programs or problems. Rather, I'm sorry, I'm
Speaker 5: always trying to read while I talk. So you've got
Speaker 5: people pointing out that if we are indeed going to change, well,
Speaker 5: we'll just say away from global free trade is the model.
Speaker 5: Not that it exactly was, but it was as close
Speaker 5: as we've ever come. That's going to bring in a
Speaker 5: whole new set of problems about picking winners and losers.
Speaker 5: For instance, what industries do we protect? What industries do
Speaker 5: we give giant text incentives to onshore them, because in
Speaker 5: the long term it's going to be great for the
Speaker 5: American people. You know what industries don't get that treatment.
Speaker 5: And I'm reminded of the utterly unholy lit of gigantic
Speaker 5: handouts that the Biden administration did in their final hours
Speaker 5: in office. I mean, there's just graft, corruption of the
Speaker 5: highest level. But the beautiful thing about the free market
Speaker 5: is that the money just chases the best deal and
Speaker 5: the best goods and you know, the most productive relationships.
Speaker 5: If we indeed start to engage in more and more protectionism,
Speaker 5: you're going to see more and more corruption of that sort.
Speaker 5: It's just it's trading one set of problems for another.
Speaker 5: But I just the idea that we could continue on
Speaker 5: the current course with China being our manufacturer of virtually everything.
Speaker 5: That just won't work, obbs Obs.
Speaker 2: We have a new Prime Minister of Canada.
Speaker 4: His name is Mark Karney, and he's going to be
Speaker 4: the one that tries to keep Trump from making Canada
Speaker 4: the fifty first state. I guess I'm sure that name
Speaker 4: will become familiar to most of us at some point.
Speaker 4: I had a bunch of other stuff on the way
Speaker 4: you stay here, all right? So I look up at
Speaker 4: CBS Early Show today and they do a long hands
Speaker 4: it actually timed at five and a half minute segment
Speaker 4: Dylan Mulvaney. Do you remember him? That's the bud Light spokesman.
Speaker 4: Because Dylan mulvaney has a new book out about her transgender.
Speaker 2: Journey.
Speaker 4: And uh, CBS gave this person this sort of time
Speaker 4: like you usually give Bruce Springsteen.
Speaker 2: If he's got a memoir out or something.
Speaker 4: I mean, like five minutes on the that's a that's
Speaker 4: a big chunk of time.
Speaker 5: Yet more proof that the media subculture is a weird
Speaker 5: little representative.
Speaker 2: Yes, very fewer, And I thought, who do you think
Speaker 2: your audience is?
Speaker 4: First of all your audience is old, which tends not
Speaker 4: to be super into, you know, young transgender people. Anyway,
Speaker 4: let's hear a little bit of the interview with mulvaney.
Speaker 2: I have been to lose.
Speaker 1: As she blew up online, the trans influencer became a
Speaker 1: regular on red carpets. Performers she idolized as a child,
Speaker 1: like Kristin Chenowith, became allies. You told your mom at
Speaker 1: just four years old. God made a mistake.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I knew I was a girl.
Speaker 8: That was one of the purest thoughts and intentions I've
Speaker 8: ever had throughout my entire life, was to be brought
Speaker 8: into this world and to so clearly know who I was,
Speaker 8: and then to be told otherwise.
Speaker 2: It's very conflicting. I've raised a couple of kids through
Speaker 2: that age. Just four year olds say lots of crazy stuff.
Speaker 5: Interestingly, and we don't have much time for this, but
Speaker 5: the old gender dysphoria world was almost entirely adult then
Speaker 5: who'd felt they were women their entire lives and that
Speaker 5: was it. The idea of adolescent girls deciding I'm a
Speaker 5: dude is like out of nowhere and all of.
Speaker 4: A sudden, a huge social contagion I want to hear
Speaker 4: a little about the bud Light thing.
Speaker 8: It took a lot to not feel guilty about that
Speaker 8: experience because I felt like it was my fault and
Speaker 8: in that me taking this one brand deal was affecting
Speaker 8: trans people globally. I think extremists and transphobic media needed
Speaker 8: a poster child, but I would have never taken any
Speaker 8: deal that I thought could negatively impact me or the community.
Speaker 2: Not right, I just I can't believe the CBS gave.
Speaker 4: First of all, I can't believe somebody gave a book
Speaker 4: deal to Dylan mullivayny for paper Doll. Who's going to
Speaker 4: read that? And then CBS giving five and a half
Speaker 4: minutes to it. But I'm kind of interested in what
Speaker 4: the answer is on this question, and.
Speaker 1: What do you say to those those who do question
Speaker 1: gender affirming care, believing that it could be irreversible and
Speaker 1: lead to problems later in life, even cause regrets.
Speaker 8: I don't have the lived experience of a trans child
Speaker 8: that was able to seek out that care, But I
Speaker 8: ultimately do believe that parents know their child better than
Speaker 8: a government does. We should let those families figure out
Speaker 8: what is best for them.
Speaker 2: Wow, at least goes that far.
Speaker 4: School shouldn't be doing this the parents figure out, you know,
Speaker 4: but I appreciate that it should be against the law
Speaker 4: to get any sort of medical treatment for someone under age,
Speaker 4: regardless of what the parents think.
Speaker 2: That is really interesting.
Speaker 4: That CBS feels like one they need to feature Dylan
Speaker 4: mulvaney for having him five and a half minutes, and
Speaker 4: then need to present that question in kind of a
Speaker 4: there are those out there that think that transitioning a
Speaker 4: child could have negative repercussions.
Speaker 2: What do you think of that? I mean, who do
Speaker 2: you think your audience is? That is how bubbled and
Speaker 2: strange they are? Right?
Speaker 5: Have you looked at the polling on this stuff? Wow,
Speaker 5: the blindness is amazingly. There's a great new piece out
Speaker 5: from this finished doctor. This gal's a psychiatrist, child psychiatrist
Speaker 5: and was one of the leading lights in trying to
Speaker 5: deal with adolescent gender dysphoria back in the day, and
Speaker 5: she is completely against it. She and like all of Europe,
Speaker 5: used the Dutch model, which I could bore you to
Speaker 5: death with how that developed and how it went sideways
Speaker 5: and how it's completely disavowed now in Europe because they've
Speaker 5: worked through all this stuff, and they are astounded and
Speaker 5: amazed that so many medical professionals in the United States
Speaker 5: are ignoring them. They can't shout out loud enough. This
Speaker 5: doesn't work. It's a bad idea, and the captured Far
Speaker 5: Left Ama, for instance, continues to ignore them.
Speaker 2: That's pretty damned interesting. Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 6: Scientists hoping to revive the extinct wooly manmoth have taken
Speaker 6: a first step by genetically engineering a long haired wooly mouse.
Speaker 6: Now it's on to step two, getting it drunk enough
Speaker 6: to have sex with an elephant.
Speaker 4: Wow, we have a little piece of breaking news to
Speaker 4: hit you with. Marco Rubio, Secretary of State, said eighty
Speaker 4: three percent of the US AID programs funded by his
Speaker 4: agency are being.
Speaker 2: Canceled or in his agency are being candled.
Speaker 4: So you know, there was a lot of talk on
Speaker 4: whenever it was Elon, can't come do this, and Marco's
Speaker 4: mad that you're blah blah blah money. Marco announced today
Speaker 4: that eighty three percent of the programs being funded are
Speaker 4: being canceled, So there you go. New York Times was
Speaker 4: going big with the various things that were being canceled
Speaker 4: or defunded. That everybody's in favor of and are wonderful,
Speaker 4: which is obviously going to be what they tend to
Speaker 4: did share. Some of them included, you know, cutting edge
Speaker 4: experiments on healthcare for veterans and that sort of thing,
Speaker 4: and I certainly hope that sort of thing is reinstated
Speaker 4: as quickly as possible. But it's just it's very, very
Speaker 4: difficult to trust the message. I'm not worried about it.
Speaker 4: We throw around so much money to so many things.
Speaker 4: Let's let's go way too far the other direction, just
Speaker 4: for once, let's just.
Speaker 2: For a little while. Yeah, Yeah, it's got to happen.
Speaker 4: I am going to read the rest of this article
Speaker 4: I started during the commercial break.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you saw this.
Speaker 4: There's a piece in the Wall Street Journal about Gloria
Speaker 4: already the great champion of.
Speaker 2: Women and how mean she is to women behind the scene.
Speaker 2: I've got it right in front of you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, oh, the champion of the me too move and
Speaker 5: fighting for women and sexual this and that and the other.
Speaker 2: Oh no, those women were they were just grist for
Speaker 2: her mill.
Speaker 4: Well we've been saying that forever, but having it proven
Speaker 4: or validated is making me feel good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And they.
Speaker 5: All had to sign non disclosure agreements, which she condemns
Speaker 5: in public all the time, but non disclosure against her
Speaker 5: in her law firm, so they could treat them anyway
Speaker 5: they wanted and abuse them and use them and the
Speaker 5: rest of it, and the women could never speak out
Speaker 5: or they'd get sued by that same law firm.
Speaker 4: They got audio tapes too, of phone calls and that
Speaker 4: sort of stuff, including one where this twenty four year
Speaker 4: old and I don't know, you know, in what way
Speaker 4: something horrible happened to her issues raped by somebody or something.
Speaker 4: Gloria Allred seas an opportunity to sue a big corporation or.
Speaker 2: Something like that.
Speaker 4: And you know you've seen this, if you've listened to
Speaker 4: our show, you know we talk about it a lot.
Speaker 4: Gloria Alredchell hug these people on Cameron put in front
Speaker 4: of a microphone and have tears in her eyes. Anyway,
Speaker 4: behind the scenes, this girl was crying and Gloria Red
Speaker 4: seck cry and grow up.
Speaker 2: She said to her, how old are you? Twenty four?
Speaker 2: Grow up? So you're rate get over it? Yeah, wow, wow,
Speaker 2: wow wow. Oh crazy.
Speaker 5: So, speaking of sexual activity, consensual and otherwise, a couple
Speaker 5: of stories you might enjoy here, boy, people are people
Speaker 5: are digging this, and I don't approve of it. I
Speaker 5: don't think schadenfreud is a healthy, uh.
Speaker 2: You know, emotion at all.
Speaker 5: But Hunter Biden has fallen on tough financial times.
Speaker 2: Oh you hate to hear that.
Speaker 5: I mean his legal woes and his dad's departure from
Speaker 5: the White House. I don't understand how that's related, since
Speaker 5: all of Hunter's earnings were completely legitimate. But uh, the
Speaker 5: former first son and following you with federal court this week,
Speaker 5: said he's struggling to sell his artwork and his book
Speaker 5: sales have plummeted as well. He lost his rental home
Speaker 5: in the California wildfires, can't find a place to live.
Speaker 5: He's told the judge he's in such financial straits that
Speaker 5: he has to drop us a law drop a lawsuit
Speaker 5: he'd filed against a former Trump aid, and hinted some
Speaker 5: other civil lawsuits he's filed may also have to come
Speaker 5: to an end.
Speaker 4: I can't believe that he actually had his lawyer state
Speaker 4: in the paperwork, my art isn't selling since my dad
Speaker 4: left the White House. Wow, Oh that's how would that
Speaker 4: haven't enough? I mean because arts art I.
Speaker 2: Do totally unrelated, totally unrelated, and Van Goh isn't worth
Speaker 2: more or less based on what his dad, the pastor
Speaker 2: was doing.
Speaker 5: Yeah well for again reasons that are completely unrelated. During
Speaker 5: his mummified father's term in the White House, he sold
Speaker 5: twenty seven pieces of art for an average of nearly
Speaker 5: fifty five thousand dollars a piece.
Speaker 4: You know, you're right, Joe Biden. This close to the
Speaker 4: same condition Gene Hackman was found in.
Speaker 5: But the December of twenty three he sold just one
Speaker 5: for thirty six thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: Wow. What was that person thinking?
Speaker 5: And his sales of his memoir Beautiful Things dropped from
Speaker 5: five hundred books a month to fewer than two.
Speaker 2: Who's not I can't even imagine.
Speaker 5: Oh oh, Plus, he was really expecting to obtain paid
Speaker 5: speaking engagements and paid appearances, but that has not happened.
Speaker 2: He thought he is going to go around and speak
Speaker 2: to people. Wow, or so claims.
Speaker 4: Anyway, you know, if Kamala had won, though, I could
Speaker 4: see where they could have perhaps made it kind of
Speaker 4: a you know, him standing up to Maga and overcoming
Speaker 4: his addiction and turning it into some sort of ted
Speaker 4: talk sort of thing goes around and gets paid to do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's.
Speaker 4: His art though, was so obviously it was just a
Speaker 4: different way of buying access. Yeah, then what the Ukrainian
Speaker 4: oil company did? I mean is this is the same thing.
Speaker 4: It's just a slight different Okay, I'll buy you the
Speaker 4: expensive painting and you're gonna get me on a phone
Speaker 4: call with your dad, all right, and.
Speaker 5: Or my hastily created social justice green energy empowerment group
Speaker 5: will receive fifty million dollars as you go out the door,
Speaker 5: which might have happened ran as the Thieving Mummy anyway,
Speaker 5: this'd be an interesting It's like it's like the Mummy
Speaker 5: meets the Godfather. We got a mummy who's a thief.
Speaker 5: He's like a gangster mummy. That was Joe Biden a
Speaker 5: gangster mummy.
Speaker 2: Well, and how did Joe? What is hunter? In his
Speaker 2: mid fifties?
Speaker 4: He's got a lot of life left to live if
Speaker 4: he's broke, and no obvious means of making more money.
Speaker 2: Right, right? How old is he?
Speaker 5: Usually they give an age for people in every news
Speaker 5: article about them, but for whatever reason, the Washington Times
Speaker 5: does not engage in that.
Speaker 2: Katie, what do you have for us. He he is
Speaker 2: fifty five years old.
Speaker 5: Okay, Yeah, it's a little young to be highly in
Speaker 5: debt with no way to make any money. And I'm
Speaker 5: sure not a dollar saved, all right, Right, and speaking
Speaker 5: of sexual activity again, the FBI is investigating a secret
Speaker 5: honeypot operation that targeted President Trump's twenty sixteen presidential campaign.
Speaker 2: According to a recent report.
Speaker 5: Apparently, Cash Bettell and Dan Bongino are looking for two
Speaker 5: female agents who took part in an off the book's
Speaker 5: investigation that former FBI Director James Coby launched in twenty fifteen.
Speaker 5: According to The Washington Times, the agents who were undercover
Speaker 5: and again this was off the books, were so called
Speaker 5: honeypot agents, a term that refers to an undercover operative,
Speaker 5: usually a woman who feigns sexual romantic interest to obtain
Speaker 5: information from a target.
Speaker 2: That would make me so mad I can find out. Ah,
Speaker 2: you just want to that you get some secret information
Speaker 2: on me. Ah crap, you're not hot for me. Dang it.
Speaker 5: I thought this was from a big comeback as a stud.
Speaker 5: So this comes after The Times reported in early or
Speaker 5: in October twenty four that the House Judiciary Committee was
Speaker 5: looking in to whistleblowers claim that the agency, the FBI,
Speaker 5: targeted Trump quote soon after he announced his presidential campaign
Speaker 5: in June twenty fifteen, and what was described as a
Speaker 5: phishing expedition to find something which is a little bit redundant.
Speaker 5: But in a protected disclosure, the whistle blower, an FBI agent,
Speaker 5: claimed that two undercover agents had infiltrated Trump's presidential campaign
Speaker 5: and ben instructed to act as honeypots while traveling with Trump.
Speaker 5: According to the outlet, and this whistleblower personally knew that
Speaker 5: Komi had ordered an FBI investigation against Trump and personally
Speaker 5: directed it. Wow and again, it did not appear to
Speaker 5: target a specific crime, but was more of what agents
Speaker 5: would describe as a fishing expedition to find something incriminating
Speaker 5: about Trump.
Speaker 2: I don't like the term honey pot. We'll come up
Speaker 2: with a different one, too, Sticky hot, babe.
Speaker 5: It's it's very much it's not a law enforcement it's
Speaker 5: an espionage, political espionage. I wonder if they'll find anything
Speaker 5: on this, and if you know, they'll identify the honeypot agents,
Speaker 5: and whether they'll pose provocatively and skimpy aware.
Speaker 2: I'm just asking the.
Speaker 5: Questions everybody's thinking, Oh my god, how sweet as the honey.
Speaker 4: So tawdry on both ends. Just there, you're pretending I'm
Speaker 4: giving up secrets because I think I might, you know,
Speaker 4: get some friction from you.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's a that's a romantic to put so, so
Speaker 2: that's my point. It's just tawdry on both ends.
Speaker 5: Wow wow, yeah, no kidding, you're pretending to want me
Speaker 5: to like well, and let let's not forget all of
Speaker 5: this is completely inappropriate or of course that you're you're
Speaker 5: doing this at all, but you're gonna pretend to be
Speaker 5: hot for me to get some sort of incriminating information
Speaker 5: against the guy who's like unindicted, and you know there
Speaker 5: are no warrants or.
Speaker 2: Anything like that.
Speaker 5: And in the meantime, I'm gonna go ahead and spill
Speaker 5: the beans, hoping I'm I'm gonna get my uh blank
Speaker 5: blank or whatever. Yeah, I know.
Speaker 2: Let's be better than that, America.
Speaker 5: Yes, let's be better than that, says Hunter Biden with
Speaker 5: a schlong out and a gun in his hand. Let's
Speaker 5: do better in that America. And by my out on
Speaker 5: one of my paintings, would you is he gonna be
Speaker 5: able to stay on the right side of sobriety. Now
Speaker 5: that he's broke, and and and and and it starts
Speaker 5: to become more more obvious to him that the days
Speaker 5: of driving around in a one hundred and eighty thousand
Speaker 5: dollars Porsche and having hot chicks at my side are
Speaker 5: over and are never coming back.
Speaker 2: Has he been disbarred after his convictions?
Speaker 5: Because I mean he could open up personal injury shop
Speaker 5: or something like that, you know, big billboards by the
Speaker 5: side of the highway.
Speaker 2: I give you my word as a Biden, We'll get
Speaker 2: the top settlement. Gotta do something that's pretty funny. Been
Speaker 2: rear ended. Does your neck hurt, well, it certainly should.
Speaker 2: Call hunter. We'll hunt for the best settlement the law allows. Exactly.
Speaker 2: We'll finish strong next time.
Speaker 9: Strong Vans with his three year old daughter approached on
Speaker 9: the sidewalks of Cincinnati on Saturday by protesters supportive of
Speaker 9: Ukraine Dance, posting that the protesters followed us around in
Speaker 9: shouted as my daughter grew increasingly anxious and scared, though
Speaker 9: noting it was a mostly respectful conversation.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was on NBC News. Even I appreciate that.
Speaker 4: I don't like that new thing that we do in
Speaker 4: America on either side. So let's stop doing that. God,
Speaker 4: especially when they got the kid with them.
Speaker 5: Oh my god, Oh yeah, be rating somebody loudly angry
Speaker 5: and public will or with their children. You're you're a
Speaker 5: monster speaking of me, and like he's going to say,
Speaker 5: you know, you know, your loud, unhinged yelling is really
Speaker 5: convinced me that I've been wrong all along.
Speaker 2: Thank you for sharing.
Speaker 4: Well, it's an attempt to scare you into doing it,
Speaker 4: that you'll be physically scared to go a certain direction,
Speaker 4: which is not a good way to run a country.
Speaker 4: My speaking of kids, I was with my son had
Speaker 4: his birthday on Friday. I talked a lot about that,
Speaker 4: and we went and did something maybe I'll talk about tomorrow,
Speaker 4: but we Saturday did his birthday meal and I was
Speaker 4: kind of making plans and then I decided, well I
Speaker 4: had it.
Speaker 2: I want to ask him what he wants to eat.
Speaker 4: So if you could eat anywhere, you know, when close
Speaker 4: enough we can get to where would you like to
Speaker 4: eat for your birthday? He said, can I choose whatever
Speaker 4: I want? And I said, yeah, I think so if
Speaker 4: it's a legitimate restaurant. Kentucky Fried Chicken m I said, really,
Speaker 4: I said, I mean, you know, I know you like Kentucky,
Speaker 4: but of all the places we could eat, that's what
Speaker 4: you said.
Speaker 2: That's what I want more than anything. So sounds like
Speaker 2: you're trying to put a greasy thumb on the scales here. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I was.
Speaker 5: I can't even I can't even wolf that down anymore.
Speaker 5: You just can't because you know what's coming. Wow.
Speaker 2: I didn't need that. Nobody needed that. Why did you say?
Speaker 2: Who's listening that wants to hear you say that?
Speaker 5: Honesty is my hallmark and accuracy. But yeah, so we
Speaker 5: went to Kentucky Fried Chicken for his birthday meal. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I gotta admit I would be somewhat disappointed. I was.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought we were gonna go eat a you know,
Speaker 2: a decent meal somewhere. That's kind of excited about it.
Speaker 5: But I was talking in meatballs at home. That was
Speaker 5: my choice, as you recalled just a few weeks ago.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't. I can't cook really, so that's that's
Speaker 2: what limits that I don't.
Speaker 4: That's it's an unfortunate and I hate the fact that
Speaker 4: that's true, that I don't have some meal that I
Speaker 4: craft for them.
Speaker 2: That is one of their favorite meals. But I don't,
Speaker 2: and I don't suppose at this point I'm going to
Speaker 2: change that was I gonna say?
Speaker 5: I soid, Oh, well you can, I mean doing pasta
Speaker 5: is not. Surely you can cook pasta, right, yeah, but
Speaker 5: not in a way that's going to make it your
Speaker 5: favorite meal. Probably a good sauce out of a jargon,
Speaker 5: meatballs out of the whatever, a meat case, good meatballs
Speaker 5: out of the meat case.
Speaker 2: Wherever you get meat falls.
Speaker 4: We had some good pizza the other night, and I
Speaker 4: was talking to my kids about pizza and how pizza
Speaker 4: has stayed roughly the same price since I was his age.
Speaker 4: And that's why it's so crappy now, is that they
Speaker 4: must have just decided that they couldn't go up with
Speaker 4: inflation over the years, so they kept using And there's
Speaker 4: a bunch of chains that have done this. I mean,
Speaker 4: this is documented using crappier and crappier ingredients over the
Speaker 4: years to try to keep the prices sort of the same.
Speaker 4: And you know a lot of pizza that I used
Speaker 4: to love is now not edible. I mean various houses
Speaker 4: of pizza, if you know what I would I'm saying, Yeah,
Speaker 4: huts of pizza. I like my pizza to come in hunts.
Speaker 4: I used to love their pizza.
Speaker 2: And I'm assuming huts of pizza.
Speaker 4: Somehow they managed to have the same price now as
Speaker 4: they did in nineteen ninety five.
Speaker 2: Some had to give rare. Oh wait, what that sausage?
Speaker 2: I'm sure I approve of this fireworks. There's even a
Speaker 2: fireworks display at the end.
Speaker 4: Oh Ja, here's your host for final thoughts, Joe who getting.
Speaker 5: Let's get a finals out from everybody on the crew
Speaker 5: to wrap of the day, Michael Angelow, do you have
Speaker 5: a final thought for us?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 7: You know, this morning the elevators were broken and I
Speaker 7: got really winded.
Speaker 2: If I had to go up another floor or two,
Speaker 2: I would have just got on my cellphone and called
Speaker 2: in sick. I think yeah from the stairway. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: slumped on down the stairs. He came up.
Speaker 5: Katie Greener seemed to use woman is giggling. Do you
Speaker 5: have a title thought, Katie?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 8: I had every intention of following my diet this weekend,
Speaker 8: but one of you guys last week mentioned a barbecue
Speaker 8: chicken pizza, so I went for it this weekend.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, so good? Ooh little onion on there barbecue
Speaker 2: so jack.
Speaker 4: Final thought for us, Yeah, funny you should mention diet Michael.
Speaker 4: I need to use the stairs every single day. I
Speaker 4: should walk to work actually carrying a heavy weight. The
Speaker 4: scale was not kind to me this morning. The scale
Speaker 4: really showed me some tough love this morning. Technically, you
Speaker 4: are walking door carrying a heavyweight. It's your ass.
Speaker 5: My final thought, and I can't be the only one
Speaker 5: between the time change and allergies. I can't keep my
Speaker 5: eyes open. I just want to curl up and take
Speaker 5: a nap. I am off man. Allergies are bad right now,
Speaker 5: and it's just your eyes feel like they feel when
Speaker 5: you're super tired. So the combination of the thing. So oh,
Speaker 5: I just want to take a nap.
Speaker 4: Armstrong and Getty wrapick up. Another grueling four hour workday.
Speaker 2: So many people to thanks, so little time.
Speaker 8: Good.
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Speaker 6: Huh.
Speaker 2: Too much news every day somebody needs to do something
Speaker 2: about that.
Speaker 4: But whatever happens in the next twenty hours, we'll have
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