Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Arm Strong and Jetty and he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3: Four Los Angeles residents are facing charges in a highly
Speaker 3: unusual case of insurance fraud. They allegedly donned a bear costume,
Speaker 3: vandalized their own luxury cars, captured it all on home surveillance,
Speaker 3: and then filed one hundred and forty thousand dollars in claims.
Speaker 3: Insurance investigators became suspicious, and it wasn't long before detectives
Speaker 3: made the grizzly discovery of a bear suit in the
Speaker 3: suspects home.
Speaker 1: So wow, any way to take all the fun out
Speaker 1: of it? Be nice joke?
Speaker 4: No, we had that story yesterday for you, noro reporting
Speaker 4: it in serious tones.
Speaker 1: I find odd, But go ahead. I'm sorry, I'm dispirited.
Speaker 1: I will try to get it back.
Speaker 2: Well, I don't know.
Speaker 4: I want to hear the details on this story because
Speaker 4: I haven't how good a bear costume wasn't Where do
Speaker 4: you get I have seen many bear costumes, and I
Speaker 4: will tell you this is your upper tier of bear costume.
Speaker 1: On the other hand, here's the scam. These guys take
Speaker 1: luxury cars, including a twenty ten Rolls Royce Ghost, and
Speaker 1: rip the hell out of the interior of it and
Speaker 1: claim a bear did the damage for the insurance money.
Speaker 1: I guess they're they're clever. Plot though, is not merely
Speaker 1: to take garden tools or carpentry items or.
Speaker 2: What have you and destroy the interior.
Speaker 1: By the way, we'll be getting too much more significant
Speaker 1: fare in a little bit, but particularly given the attention
Speaker 1: on our k and his hilarious dead bear prank, which
Speaker 1: to me in no way negates his validity as a nominee.
Speaker 2: Anyway, Joe was anti vax so these good good wait
Speaker 2: make that leaf. That's an Olympian leaf.
Speaker 1: Anyway, So these guys, clever, clever scamas, we're not just
Speaker 1: gonna rip it up and claim, hey, we're in tall
Speaker 1: with our Rolls Royce and I don't know a bear
Speaker 1: got and not just rip it up. But they were
Speaker 1: going to cleverly create evidence so their insurance claim would
Speaker 1: go through by having one of their buddies done a
Speaker 1: bear suit and be seen rummaging around the car. Well,
Speaker 1: two things tipped off authorities. Number One, they went to
Speaker 1: a biologist who said that's a guy in a bear
Speaker 1: suit number two. Number two. Further investigation unveiled two more
Speaker 1: claims involving other super luxury cars, all on the same
Speaker 1: day in location in Lake Arrowhead in the Tahoe region.
Speaker 4: Wow, it's amazing how dumb criminals often are. Oh yeah, wow,
Speaker 4: So the bear suit part is dumb. But so you
Speaker 4: were gonna do it multiple times in one day?
Speaker 2: Correct? Think that nobody would catch on?
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 2: It's pretty odds.
Speaker 4: It doesn't happen very often that animals get into cars
Speaker 4: and do damage and the insurance company has to pay out.
Speaker 4: But it happened to you multiple times in one day.
Speaker 4: I'll be danged. What a weird coincidence? Harry your checks?
Speaker 4: Is that how they thought it would play out?
Speaker 1: They rarely seen vandal bear, which is mostly seen in Canada.
Speaker 1: Right right, stop facing my luxury car. Beer?
Speaker 4: So I don't remember we talked about this yestherday. So
Speaker 4: did one of them pretend to catch it on video
Speaker 4: or did they park somewhere where they knew there would
Speaker 4: be video surveillance? Well, they they made the video. Yeah,
Speaker 4: has anybody seen the video? Has that been released?
Speaker 2: It? You've seen it? Katie? How's it. Look I did
Speaker 2: see the video.
Speaker 4: It looks like they parked the car right with an
Speaker 4: eyeshot of a ring camera.
Speaker 1: Okay, it's okay, so they all right, oh wait a minute,
Speaker 1: is that the actual video?
Speaker 2: But there it is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm gonna say now I'm watching it.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 1: There he is rampaging around in his bearra costume.
Speaker 2: Would have been funny. Oh you know, right, so funny.
Speaker 1: So he starts in a fairly convincing all fours ish
Speaker 1: scratching and.
Speaker 2: Pawing around thing.
Speaker 1: But then at one point he just sits down and
Speaker 1: turns in a way that is unmistakably human.
Speaker 2: Oh that is so funny.
Speaker 1: As yeah, re zips up the chest of beer suit
Speaker 1: and then goes back to work mauling the poor car.
Speaker 2: Contest is funny. Oh my god, Oh my god.
Speaker 4: I want to know more about these people who came
Speaker 4: up with this hilarious idea and then thought they could
Speaker 4: pull it off multiple times in one day. And then,
Speaker 4: of course, because they got we're gonna get one hundred
Speaker 4: and forty thousand dollars, I think, okay, so how many
Speaker 4: others or four of you and you're so you're gonna
Speaker 4: go off and live your unbelievable life of your dreams
Speaker 4: on the forty.
Speaker 2: Thousand dollars each that you got out of the insurance company.
Speaker 2: I mean, what in the hell?
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, scumbags aren't much for long term planning in
Speaker 1: my experience.
Speaker 2: But yeah.
Speaker 1: Now, the way this is worded in LA magazine is
Speaker 1: that these subjects reportedly swindled insurance companies out of one
Speaker 1: hundred and forty and thirty nine dollars before being apprehended.
Speaker 2: Wow. So evidently their claims were paid.
Speaker 1: And then it got kicked up to the fraud department
Speaker 1: at the insurance companies.
Speaker 2: I guess I don't know.
Speaker 4: So you're telling me if you had looked at that
Speaker 4: video and didn't know the story, If you heard the
Speaker 4: story a bear broke into a car and rampage around,
Speaker 4: ruin it, which is not impossible, happens in cabins all
Speaker 4: the time. Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, would you have immediately said,
Speaker 4: wait a second if you hadn't known it was a
Speaker 4: guy in a bear costume, do you think.
Speaker 1: Hang on, I'm watching the Oh, the moment I'll make
Speaker 1: sure you see this during the commercials, But the moment
Speaker 1: he sits down and turns it also clearly shows that
Speaker 1: it's a bear suit loose bear suit because of the
Speaker 1: way that the as you like you're sitting but you turn,
Speaker 1: the way the fabric creases is so obviously somebody wearing
Speaker 1: it low rent bear.
Speaker 2: Costume, a loaded medium runt. They were not a particularly
Speaker 2: good letter costume. Is the problem.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well he doesn't fill it out because he's.
Speaker 2: That you needed a fat or dude.
Speaker 1: Oh no, that is just so funny way and when
Speaker 1: he sits and turns, oh, that's beautiful. We don't post
Speaker 1: this video at Armstrong Engeddi dot com so you can
Speaker 1: you can watch it and enjoy with your friends and family.
Speaker 4: And keeping with your axiom about people and their intelligence
Speaker 4: and crime.
Speaker 2: Ah. Yes, my old.
Speaker 1: Buddy Drew, the career FBI agent who once said to me, Joe,
Speaker 1: if you want proof that you're not smart enough to
Speaker 1: pull off a life of crime, it's that you're considering
Speaker 1: a life in crime, right, And like.
Speaker 2: You said, they're not usually in the long term planning.
Speaker 4: But I've been thinking since I was a kid, when
Speaker 4: I would ever hear about various robbery stuff like that,
Speaker 4: I thought, Okay, unless you keep committing these crimes, which
Speaker 4: you'll eventually get caught. You're not set for life because
Speaker 4: you got a thousand or ten thousand or fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 4: You're not set for life. What are you gonna do now,
Speaker 4: you idiot? You know you're set for a little while.
Speaker 4: Then you go and come up with your next kper.
Speaker 4: I guess that's got to be the thinking. I don't
Speaker 4: live and work among those people, so I don't know.
Speaker 4: But and or they're just junkies that are so desperate
Speaker 4: to score they will do anything. I've known a lot
Speaker 4: of people who live one weekend at a time. I mean,
Speaker 4: all you got to do is have a fun weekend.
Speaker 4: This you don't even think past Saturday night.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, Nancy Pelosi gets four pinocchios from the Washington Post.
Speaker 1: Then at the bottom of the hour, we will dive
Speaker 1: back into the cabinet appointments President former future president Trump
Speaker 1: has offered up and some of the controversies around it.
Speaker 1: I suspect I will offend everyone. But if you want panderin,
Speaker 1: go elsewhere. I just I can't do it. Not gonna
Speaker 1: do it.
Speaker 4: You see, kids, they went out and bought a bear costume.
Speaker 4: You have to spend money to make money. It's an investment.
Speaker 4: You'd put it down on your sheet as an investment
Speaker 4: in the corporation.
Speaker 1: Katie, I need your opinion on this. As always, whenever
Speaker 1: the show gets into aesthetics, I would like, you know,
Speaker 1: the womanly perspective for ages. As a kid, I dreamed,
Speaker 1: dreamed of having the full gorilla costume dream for Halloween.
Speaker 1: It's a beautiful dream and it has to do with
Speaker 1: my great affection for like the nineteen thirties comedies and
Speaker 1: like Abbot and Castello, the Marx Brothers, Three Stooges and
Speaker 1: stuff like that. A guy in a gorilla costume is
Speaker 1: just funny. Winter Home Run, I'm starting to feel like
Speaker 1: maybe bear costume is even more. I just is there
Speaker 1: more opportunity.
Speaker 4: For humor more? I think bear costume is funnier. Yeah,
Speaker 4: A really good bear costume really good because you're always
Speaker 4: on your hind legs walking around like a human.
Speaker 1: That's great, right, And you know, I could go to
Speaker 1: Halloween and Judy could be like a pot of honey
Speaker 1: or something like that.
Speaker 2: I mean, that would be kind of cute.
Speaker 1: Judy could be a singer that you're following around, or
Speaker 1: she could be a woman with a Kayak for folks
Speaker 1: you know familiar with that meme.
Speaker 2: I vote bear suit. Yeah, okay, let the gorilla dream go.
Speaker 2: I vote suit. You know what, You're right.
Speaker 1: That is one of the main parts of maturing in
Speaker 1: life is you've got to figure out which dreams to
Speaker 1: let go. There are going to be some tears tonight,
Speaker 1: but it's time to move on.
Speaker 2: You'll be okay.
Speaker 4: Joe says he's going to offend everyone in your opinions
Speaker 4: about Matt Gaets and other Trump picks. So that's fantastic
Speaker 4: for me. Straight business model.
Speaker 5: The way Divide administration announced this week that will find
Speaker 5: oil and gas companies for emitting methane. And now New
Speaker 5: Jersey is scrambling to come up with a new smell.
Speaker 4: New Jersey is stinky in places New Yorkers like. Making
Speaker 4: fun of New Jersey means nothing to the rest of
Speaker 4: the country, really.
Speaker 1: Correct, correct, If you have not tooled along the turnpike,
Speaker 1: it means nothing to you. And yet is it enough
Speaker 1: part of the culture that people chuckle.
Speaker 4: I don't know, only from watching sitcoms as a kid,
Speaker 4: where they'd make fun of New Jersey meant nothing to me.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Having spent a great deal of time in New Jersey.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you that it is stinky and urban in
Speaker 1: a lot of places, and absolutely gorgeous and rural in
Speaker 1: a lot of places too. But anyway, it's enough New
Speaker 1: Jersey talk. There's part of me that doesn't want to
Speaker 1: bother with this next story.
Speaker 2: But Nancy Pelosi.
Speaker 1: And your little dog too, Yeah, no kidding, just got
Speaker 1: fact checked by the Washington Post for pinotios, as I
Speaker 1: prefer to pronounce it. She was talking to the cackling,
Speaker 1: horrible hens of the View, which really, I'm willing to
Speaker 1: do a carve out on the First Amendment if we
Speaker 1: can get the View off the air. I am willing
Speaker 1: to risk my most dearest, my closely held principle.
Speaker 2: But anyway, so she's on the View the other day.
Speaker 1: Well, actually there are a couple of things she said.
Speaker 1: But she told The New York Times during a recent
Speaker 1: interview quote, I don't think we were clear enough by
Speaker 1: saying fewer people came in under President Biden than under
Speaker 1: Donald Trump.
Speaker 2: It's clarity the message.
Speaker 1: And if that's what Ernie's talking about, and that was
Speaker 1: Joe Manchin's talking about, we weren't clearing a message as.
Speaker 2: To what things are, then I agree with that.
Speaker 1: So she's saying they lost the election because they weren't
Speaker 1: clear enough about immigration, that fewer people and I quote
Speaker 1: came in under Biden then came in.
Speaker 4: Under Trump, and then she started shrieking, a melting, a melting.
Speaker 1: The Washington Post published a fact check on Wednesday and
Speaker 1: noted it was a documented fact and I quote that
Speaker 1: at least four times as many migrants. When did we
Speaker 1: start saying migrants, folks? Why do we let them change
Speaker 1: the language?
Speaker 2: Anyway?
Speaker 1: At least four times as many illegal immigrants entered the
Speaker 1: United States under Biden than under Trump. Well, she was
Speaker 1: quite fewer, more than four times, as Manny.
Speaker 2: Too.
Speaker 4: In her defense, I would say, uh, most people don't
Speaker 4: read the fact check column in the Washington Post. A
Speaker 4: lot more people God help us watch the view or
Speaker 4: read the New York Times or hear the quote from
Speaker 4: the New York Times or whatever.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So you know a lot of politicians have figured out
Speaker 4: say whatever you want to say.
Speaker 1: A spokeshole for the soulless lying Old Hag said that
Speaker 1: Wousey was refording to deportations during the interview, not illegal
Speaker 1: immigrants coming into the country, as she unequivocally stated, but
Speaker 1: she meant deportations.
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness.
Speaker 4: Sold RFK juniors up for HHS secretary. I was just
Speaker 4: looking up at Fox News and I assume this is
Speaker 4: what they're talking about. They got a stat up there,
Speaker 4: according to the CDC, forty percent of kids have at
Speaker 4: least one chronic condition.
Speaker 2: Now it is shocking, it is shy.
Speaker 4: So here's where RFK Junior gets some purchase and probably
Speaker 4: why so many of the MAGA crowd or just people
Speaker 4: in general are willing to listen to him.
Speaker 2: Joe, and I've been saying this for years.
Speaker 4: Why isn't it like the biggest story in America that
Speaker 4: everybody with kids has like at least one kid that
Speaker 4: has anxiety or ADHD or is on the autism spectrum
Speaker 4: or something like every family.
Speaker 1: I know, Why isn't that a bigger crisis. Something's causing
Speaker 1: that And or is obese. Yeah, new stats out on
Speaker 1: obesit yesterday that were horrific. But that was like nobody
Speaker 1: when I was a kid, and you always get the
Speaker 1: pushback of well they just didn't diagnose it, which is
Speaker 1: true a little, but not near enough to cover everything
Speaker 1: that's going on now. Yeah, So That's where RFK Junior
Speaker 1: gets a lot of attention because he at least raises
Speaker 1: it to the you know, four a long fire level
Speaker 1: that it should be at. I don't know if his
Speaker 1: you know prescriptions are anywhere close to correct, but something's
Speaker 1: causing it, and I don't know if it's microplastics like
Speaker 1: he talks about all the time, or elastic in your
Speaker 1: underwear as I hear, or all kinds of different things
Speaker 1: right right, And we're getting very, very close to the
Speaker 1: very thing I wanted to talk about next hour, So
Speaker 1: I won't weigh in here. I'm sorry, not next hour,
Speaker 1: next segment in which I will offend everybody, but I
Speaker 1: want to talk about Trump's various appointments and the discussion
Speaker 1: around them. Speaking of dietary stuff, though big news study
Speaker 1: has come out, take it as seriously as you like.
Speaker 2: It's from the University of Chicago.
Speaker 1: Intermittent fasting is not the health hack many people hoped
Speaker 1: it would make.
Speaker 4: It's the greatest thing I've ever done and I will
Speaker 4: never stop it. Why Because it's the only diet that's
Speaker 4: ever worked for me.
Speaker 1: Bingo Gringo. They said it's actually pretty effective for losing weight.
Speaker 1: It's the only girl ever worked in my life. And
Speaker 1: it's so simple. I'm a very simple person. So I
Speaker 1: don't start eating till two.
Speaker 4: I quit it seven I've lost weight and kept it
Speaker 4: off for three years.
Speaker 2: Then you eat like a malnourished lion.
Speaker 4: Then, unfortunately, I have an incredibly awful diet. If I
Speaker 4: if I ate better food during that period of time,
Speaker 4: I would be quite healthy.
Speaker 2: But I do not. Yeah, actually, science agrees with you completely.
Speaker 1: It's a pretty effective way to lose weight for a
Speaker 1: lot of folks for a limited time. But you know
Speaker 1: that's if you get the weight off. You got the
Speaker 1: weight off. But there is like everything these days online.
Speaker 1: A cult grew around it that it could lower your
Speaker 1: inflammation levels, lengthen your life span, blah blah.
Speaker 2: Blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: Some evidence suggests fasting can make it harder to build
Speaker 1: and retain muscle.
Speaker 4: But I'm in the best shape I've been in my
Speaker 4: entire life right now. That's all I can say by
Speaker 4: anecdotal evidence. One man says, I sure eat crap during
Speaker 4: that period of time. If I could straighten that out, man,
Speaker 4: would I feel good? Two o'clock comes and I eat
Speaker 4: garbage for five hours which is horrible. Joe offends everyone.
Speaker 4: That's our new segment coming up.
Speaker 2: Next, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1: Trump is really filling out his administration at a rapid
Speaker 1: pace now. He made seven of these announcements yesterday alone,
Speaker 1: the last of which happened last night right.
Speaker 2: Here in Florida. Regarding North Dakota Governor Doug Bergham, I
Speaker 2: won't tell you the name of is the exact name.
Speaker 2: I think he's an incredible person.
Speaker 5: Might be something like Burgham Burgham.
Speaker 2: He's from North Dakota. He's going to be announced tomorrow
Speaker 2: for a very big position. He's going to head the
Speaker 2: Department of Interior, and he's going to be fantastic. That's
Speaker 2: a Trump doing a joke. I think it's interesting the way.
Speaker 4: I think it's interesting the way Fox treats all of
Speaker 4: the nominees with roughly the same weight as if the
Speaker 4: rest of the country. He is not saying holy crap
Speaker 4: to Matt Gates, Tulci Gabbard to a certain extent, the
Speaker 4: Defense Secretary, and certainly RFK Junior. But on a lot
Speaker 4: of their news shows they just announced Monnie also Menjie.
Speaker 2: He mentioned RFK.
Speaker 4: Junior for AHHS secretary and Doug Burgham to run Interior
Speaker 4: and other news.
Speaker 2: Whoa, whoa, whoa, Wait a second, this is a big story.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I feel very lucky liberated to not have
Speaker 1: to I don't worry about that sort of stuff. I mean,
Speaker 1: they obviously don't want to ruffle any white house feathers.
Speaker 1: Nobody's no white house feathers. Give a damn what I say.
Speaker 1: So it's fun.
Speaker 4: One thing before it just starts talking to you should
Speaker 4: know about the AHHS. Thing is we talked to who
Speaker 4: was the secretary of HHS.
Speaker 1: That we had on I couldn't remember, but I just
Speaker 1: told this story to some friends last night because we
Speaker 1: had them. I remember my opening, Joe, We'll go ahead.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I was just gonna say. I said, yeah,
Speaker 1: we were really hoping for the Secretary of Defense, but
Speaker 1: you know, we'll talk to you.
Speaker 2: And he said, my budget's a lot bigger.
Speaker 4: Which it is, two trillion dollar budget for HHS that
Speaker 4: RFK Junior would be running if he gets a jump
Speaker 4: two trillion dollar budget.
Speaker 2: Wow, Medicare and medicaid.
Speaker 1: That's why it's an enormous department with enormous responsibilities for
Speaker 1: health and food and drugs and all sorts of stuff.
Speaker 2: So I want to talk about.
Speaker 1: The nominations in general, and some of the more controversial ones,
Speaker 1: and some of the conversation that's going out going on
Speaker 1: out there, including Donald J. Trump pushing the Senate had
Speaker 1: better be ready to just go ahead and do recess
Speaker 1: appointments for me.
Speaker 2: So, yes, the.
Speaker 1: President gets to appoint his cabinet, and the Senate advises
Speaker 1: and consents and in short approves his nominees. Given a
Speaker 1: great deal of deference to the president because he got
Speaker 1: elected to head up the executive branch, and he gets
Speaker 1: to choose who he wants to help him within reason,
Speaker 1: and if especially senators of his own party say yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I kind of see what you're going with with a
Speaker 1: Matt Gates or something. But he's a scumbag and he's
Speaker 1: dangerous for the country. And sorry, but I'll bet you
Speaker 1: got somebody else back there you could, you could nominate.
Speaker 1: Why don't you do that. That's exactly what they're gonna do,
Speaker 1: and that's exactly what they should do.
Speaker 2: It's irresponsibility.
Speaker 1: Now we could get into the hole as Trump sincerely
Speaker 1: nominating gets or is this three to five dimensional chess,
Speaker 1: depending on who's describing it. I was trying to understand
Speaker 1: what five dimensional chests might be. I mean, you got
Speaker 1: back for it up down through time, yes, and then
Speaker 1: and I don't throw a wormhole and you end up on.
Speaker 2: Saturday and all quantum mechanics.
Speaker 1: Oh lord, well, I'm I'm a wasted don't include me
Speaker 1: in the conversation.
Speaker 2: But that's it's absolutely appropriate. And nobody knows that yet either.
Speaker 2: What's that? Nobody knows that yet.
Speaker 4: Whether it was a sincere nomination or a sacrificial lamb
Speaker 4: or whatever everybody's guessing.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I could turn out to be wrong, but I think
Speaker 1: the Gates thing will will end before it begins. He
Speaker 1: will either voluntarily withdraw his name at Trump's behest, or
Speaker 1: the Trump administration will just get winned. He's gonna get
Speaker 1: four votes, I mean total, and Trumpell withdraw it. It's
Speaker 1: a terrible nomination. And Gates is an idiot. Oh, he's
Speaker 1: probably not an idiot, but he's morally reprehensible.
Speaker 2: He was barely a lawyer.
Speaker 4: I mean, he did go to law school and pass
Speaker 4: the bar, but he was a lawyer for like a
Speaker 4: year and did almost nothing at this firm. And then
Speaker 4: his rich family, well connected dad was in government, already
Speaker 4: started him on his path to being a congress person.
Speaker 4: And so, yeah, I don't know how much law experience
Speaker 4: you need to have to be attorney general, but it
Speaker 4: seems like it'd.
Speaker 2: Be pretty good to have a fair amount.
Speaker 1: And then the other thing that I've heard that really bob,
Speaker 1: and there are some people taking this seriously, is what
Speaker 1: Trump said. And this is from the moment he came
Speaker 1: down the escalator. What I've been saying a lot of
Speaker 1: good ideas. He doesn't get the importance of adhering to
Speaker 1: the Constitution.
Speaker 2: Neither did Biden.
Speaker 1: For what it's worth, Biden knowingly constantly crapped on the Constitution,
Speaker 1: discore political points like the it's a metaphor.
Speaker 2: To score points like on the student loan forgiveness that.
Speaker 1: He knew from moment one the Supreme Court would have
Speaker 1: to smack down. But he and this is disgusting, even
Speaker 1: more disgusting than my metaphors to score political points, forced
Speaker 1: the courts to knock down his utterly unconstitutional policies, and
Speaker 1: then bad mouthed to courts, thereby undermining America's faith in
Speaker 1: what is a brilliant judicial system, for all its flaws.
Speaker 1: Utterly unforgivable. Okay, so it's absolutely both sides. But Trump,
Speaker 1: do you know what recess appointments are. It's mostly a
Speaker 1: historical you know, what's the word artifact, anomaly, throwback, an achronism.
Speaker 1: That's that an acronism back when the Senate was only
Speaker 1: in session like half the year and it took three
Speaker 1: weeks on horseback to get from you know, Georgia to
Speaker 1: d C to cast a vote. If the Secretary of
Speaker 1: Defense died or something, and we're at war with the
Speaker 1: Indians or Britain or both, or France or whatever, the
Speaker 1: president could make a temporary recess appointment, and traditionally those
Speaker 1: people have served like up to two years. But that
Speaker 1: was an an achronism of a vanished age, and it
Speaker 1: gets around the constitutional check and or balance that says, look,
Speaker 1: the Senate has to approve these important appointments. And a
Speaker 1: lot of Ultramaga type people are saying the president won big,
Speaker 1: he won a mandate, he gets who he wants, and
Speaker 1: if the Senate doesn't like it, they can pound sand
Speaker 1: all right, First of all, do you understand, as Jack
Speaker 1: often points out, if you establish this precedent, what you
Speaker 1: have done the next time a Democrat wins, and a
Speaker 1: democrat is going to win down the road, I mean,
Speaker 1: would you like to fill in the blank or I can,
Speaker 1: or I would hope most of our folks listening are
Speaker 1: understand the system well enough to understand. You let some
Speaker 1: lunatic democrat, you know, appoint Rachel or what was the
Speaker 1: Dylan mulvaney secretary of Education, and yeah, for instance, and
Speaker 1: you know whatever Hollywood to George Clooney's the secretary of Defense,
Speaker 1: and it just no, no, by God odd cherish the
Speaker 1: checks and balances?
Speaker 2: Are they inconvenient to your guy? Sometimes? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, in the same way, you know, being honest and principle,
Speaker 1: it's kind of an inconvenience when you see a guy
Speaker 1: drop one hundred dollar bill. You know what, you could
Speaker 1: have one hundred dollars if it wasn't for your stinking mortals.
Speaker 1: But listen, it's an inconvenience. It's a it's a hill
Speaker 1: Trump has to climb to get his nominees through. And
Speaker 1: is it possible that the swamp can slow down Trump's
Speaker 1: righteous efforts to clean up the swamp by rejecting some
Speaker 1: of his most righteous swamp cleaners.
Speaker 2: Yep, that's true.
Speaker 1: That's not a good enough excuse to chuck the constitution.
Speaker 4: Please, I haven't spent a fair amount of time last
Speaker 4: night in social media and going from super maga to
Speaker 4: super maga person who was so excited about Matt Gates
Speaker 4: being the Attorney General. My question would be, and maybe
Speaker 4: you can text if you're that sort of person, because
Speaker 4: I was sincerely asking, is it because you don't believe
Speaker 4: that he's the scumbag that he's being portrayed to be,
Speaker 4: or you don't care.
Speaker 2: Maybe you don't care.
Speaker 4: You think if he'd take a wrecking ball to the
Speaker 4: Justice Department, his personal life doesn't matter to you.
Speaker 2: Or do you think it's a deep state.
Speaker 4: Fake news attempt to tear him down, these stories about
Speaker 4: the young girls and the way too much sex and
Speaker 4: drugs and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd be curious to hear. I am interested. I
Speaker 2: don't actually know the answer.
Speaker 4: I just don't understand because I saw an awful lot
Speaker 4: of you know, Christian Cross's prayer included thank God for
Speaker 4: Matt Gates.
Speaker 2: He's a freaking scumbag. He's a bad guy.
Speaker 4: You don't want him around your family or your church,
Speaker 4: or your wife or your daughter.
Speaker 2: Or anybody. Tell your sons and your granddad.
Speaker 4: Now if you hear them away from my dog is
Speaker 4: I don't care about his personal life. I just want
Speaker 4: the Justice Department to, you know, have an outsider comman.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, brace yourselves. Here's the deal.
Speaker 1: And we're not going to agree on Matt Gates if
Speaker 1: you love the guy, We're just never going to. But
Speaker 1: I will tell you this, those of you who are
Speaker 1: saying there's going to be huge pushback on any Trump nominee,
Speaker 1: that's actually going to effect change true one hundred percent tury.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah that.
Speaker 1: And am I willing to accept a little loose canonism,
Speaker 1: like a term I just made up being a loose cannon.
Speaker 1: I mean, like RFK Junior. There are times I thought
Speaker 1: he's come off as a nut job, but some of
Speaker 1: his core messages about big pharma, about big food, about
Speaker 1: what our kids eat and the way our kids eat,
Speaker 1: he's right about that stuff. I'm looking forward to the
Speaker 1: hearings on RFK Junior because he's an interesting case for me.
Speaker 2: Pete Hagsath, Department of Defense.
Speaker 1: His orientation isn't lobbyists and the military industrial complex. His
Speaker 1: orientation is our heroes and our success as a military,
Speaker 1: pairing it down, making it twenty first century, you know,
Speaker 1: fast moving, light on our feet, embracing technological change. I
Speaker 1: don't know that he's the right guy for the job,
Speaker 1: but yeah, they're incredibly powerful forces that don't want any
Speaker 1: of that, and I'm intrigued by his choice. So yeah,
Speaker 1: Trump got a mandate to shake things up. But the
Speaker 1: way I look at it, it's like a Venn diagram.
Speaker 1: Trump chose him, you know, and then you got a
Speaker 1: circle that will shake things up, and then there's a
Speaker 1: circle of is not a reprehensible human being or a
Speaker 1: crack pot? And sorry if he's a Trump choice and
Speaker 1: he would shake up DC. But he's a crackpot or
Speaker 1: a reprehensible human being. No, he doesn't have my support.
Speaker 1: And I thank God for the Constitution.
Speaker 2: And I want to tell you what.
Speaker 1: We can find people who are going to do the
Speaker 1: first couple of things who aren't the second couple.
Speaker 2: Of guys or women.
Speaker 1: It can be done.
Speaker 4: There's gonna be a lot of reporting around all of
Speaker 4: these big candidates, particularly Gates, RFK Junior and Tulsea Gabbard.
Speaker 4: All your big uh anti Donald publications are going to
Speaker 4: be digging into their lives a lot.
Speaker 1: Oh the final thing, A lot of people point to
Speaker 1: George W. Busher did a recess appointment that was back
Speaker 1: when pre Harry Reid there was a filipbuster against appointments,
Speaker 1: and they just wouldn't vote.
Speaker 2: They refuse to.
Speaker 1: Vote on his guy that doesn't exist anymore. Fifty one
Speaker 1: gets her done.
Speaker 4: Fifty one gets her done. I like the way you
Speaker 4: rhymed it. The I'm saying really good, thanks, thank you,
Speaker 4: uh you those of you from Matt Gates. You either
Speaker 4: don't believe the stuff or you don't care. Text line
Speaker 4: four one five two nine five KFTC.
Speaker 5: He's angry.
Speaker 2: He's angry, little elf. Mike Tyson. I thought that was
Speaker 2: a q slab, buddy, But tomorrow you're gonna knock the
Speaker 2: fuck out.
Speaker 4: Part That sounds are way more WWE than actual boxing.
Speaker 2: So Mike Olaora out of my mouse.
Speaker 4: So Mike Tyson slapped Jake Paul at the way in,
Speaker 4: and then that's Jake Paul's reaction.
Speaker 2: It's personal. Now, okay, so how do you watch this thing?
Speaker 4: The Jake Paul Mike Tyson fight won't air like most
Speaker 4: boxing pay per views. It'll take place tonight. It's at
Speaker 4: at and T Stadium in Texas on Netflix. If you
Speaker 4: have Netflix, you get to watch. That's the way that
Speaker 4: works for net flicks subscribers. The entirety of the event
Speaker 4: will be free. If you don't have Netflix, then you
Speaker 4: will need one to watch the fight. It's just whether
Speaker 4: you have Netflix or not. Now we were just discussing. Now,
Speaker 4: Usually like this sort of thing, there's like all kinds
Speaker 4: of these preliminaries. They try to drag it out to
Speaker 4: get in as many commercials as possible.
Speaker 2: But Netflix doesn't have.
Speaker 4: Commercials like that, so there's no reason to drag it
Speaker 4: out to make more money, right, don't you think it's
Speaker 4: all about subscriptions?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, or so you'd think they would.
Speaker 1: It would be in their interest to have a good,
Speaker 1: punchy no pun intended event. So in the future the
Speaker 1: next one, people say, yeah, that last one was great.
Speaker 4: I would assume they're gonna do a lot of promotions
Speaker 4: for other shows that they have on or coming up,
Speaker 4: like you know, internal Netflix stuff, like to remind you
Speaker 4: the comedy special with Nate Bargatzi. He's got a new
Speaker 4: one coming out Friday night on Netflix. I gotta believe
Speaker 4: there's gonna be a lot of that sort of stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 4: but yeah, i'd believe him wanting more rather than wear
Speaker 4: people out and think I wish I hadn't done this.
Speaker 2: I have no idea.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so is there an undercart I mean, is like
Speaker 1: mister Beast gonna beat up George Foreman, I don't know.
Speaker 2: That's pretty of.
Speaker 1: TikTok is gonna fight Joe Fraser. Joe Fraser even with us,
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I think he's past that is pretty funny.
Speaker 1: Jordan Peterson's gonna fight mam and Ali's daughter. I'm betting
Speaker 1: on Layla. So if I as I've mentioned several times
Speaker 1: this week.
Speaker 4: I'm speaking at my son's high school today for career Day,
Speaker 4: and I've wrestled a little bit with how much I should,
Speaker 4: you know, encourage people to get into basically show business,
Speaker 4: because while one, it is very fun and can be
Speaker 4: lucrative if you're successful at it, it, it isn't.
Speaker 2: For most people.
Speaker 4: And uh, and it's a long slog and a and
Speaker 4: a in a bit of a gamble, but that aside.
Speaker 4: I was trying to I was going put together an
Speaker 4: outline of what I'm going to talk about, and uh,
Speaker 4: because I got to kill thirty minutes somehow. And my
Speaker 4: son is really concerned about how I'm gonna dress. He said,
Speaker 4: don't wear a suit, Dad, Please don't wear a suit.
Speaker 4: So I'm not wearing a suit.
Speaker 2: I told him. I said, I'm gonna come in. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna wear a hat backward.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna come in with my hat on and then
Speaker 4: turn around backwards so everybody knows I'm cool.
Speaker 1: He was really groaning over these ideas, and I've come
Speaker 1: up with a rap, so I know how I know
Speaker 1: how kids your age, I corryt so you really like
Speaker 1: to talk, but but you want to make money, be
Speaker 1: kind of smart, to make sure you're funny, yeah, or
Speaker 1: something like that.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 4: So with the hat on backwards in my wrap, I
Speaker 4: think I'll really bring the high school kids to me, which,
Speaker 4: of course it horrified my son.
Speaker 2: Did he express to you why he was anti suit?
Speaker 4: He wants to look like a cool job, not like
Speaker 4: a you know, because when you're young, I did.
Speaker 2: Were in a suit. Seems kind of stayed or something.
Speaker 2: I don't know what it is. I don't remember what
Speaker 2: it was when I was I don't remember being young.
Speaker 4: One weird thing about talking to high schoolers is as
Speaker 4: an older parent, I graduated high school forty years ago,
Speaker 4: so it's not like a lot of the parents who
Speaker 4: were there, who graduated high school, you know, twenty some
Speaker 4: years ago. You can kind of remember it and relate
Speaker 4: to these people. I mean, life is so much different
Speaker 4: than when I went to high school. It's like being
Speaker 4: in a different planet. What if you were like really
Speaker 4: tight warm up pants in a tank.
Speaker 2: Top tank top and be a good look. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: give the there's the door speech. That's my plan. I'm
Speaker 2: going to walk in. There's the door. No, there's the door.
Speaker 1: You hear me? If you're not serious about this, there's
Speaker 1: the door. Oh wait, wow, you're making my skin crawl.
Speaker 2: The whole class gets up. The whole class gets up
Speaker 2: and leaves. Cool.
Speaker 4: They just say cool, we get a study hall or
Speaker 4: a break or something. We'll go to the lunch room
Speaker 4: and have milkshakes.
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