Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Gatty and he.
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3: Correct, bringing you up on to the current with a
Speaker 3: bunch of different stories. So Siria has lost their evil
Speaker 3: dictator family, thank god. And we have nine hundred troops there.
Speaker 3: And we talked to a couple of people today, two
Speaker 3: of our favorite military analysts about that. And if you
Speaker 3: want to hear that, check in on hour two an
Speaker 3: hour three to see their opinions on all that sort
Speaker 3: of stuff. Daniel Penny is free and clear. Now, if
Speaker 3: you were following that trial, that's interesting. I actually was
Speaker 3: on a jury that appeared to be heading for being
Speaker 3: a hung jury. But then the equipped team won and
Speaker 3: so for a while they went to the judges and said,
Speaker 3: we can't find a verdict. He said, get back in there,
Speaker 3: you bastards, and they did, and finally the we gotta
Speaker 3: equitum crowd overcame the we gotta convictim crowd.
Speaker 1: And we don't know whether it was eleven to one
Speaker 1: or six to whatever.
Speaker 3: But updated in the New York Manhunt, a person fitting
Speaker 3: the suspects. Description was found out of McDonald's and Altoona,
Speaker 3: Pennsylvania and taken into custody. A source as a person
Speaker 3: has a similar gun to one being used in the
Speaker 3: deadly shooting which you've been following.
Speaker 1: Is a very very unique gun. So I think this
Speaker 1: is the person. Oh yeah, I haven't really followed the
Speaker 1: gun angle.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it's a really specific gun for euthanizing animals.
Speaker 3: It had a silencer on it. Wow, and I've heard
Speaker 3: the silencer part. But yeah, anyway, so it sounds like
Speaker 3: they got the guy, and I feel like there's one
Speaker 3: more to uh update you on, but I remember what
Speaker 3: it was.
Speaker 1: I'll think of it later. Yeah, that's why I always
Speaker 1: used mundane guns for my dirty work. Uh. So, let's
Speaker 1: to get to this hour including jay z roped into
Speaker 1: the whole. Diddy is a perv thing the gray to Mogo. Well,
Speaker 1: we'll take a quick look at that. I got a
Speaker 1: lot of good stuff. But so Kevin Kylie, congressman from
Speaker 1: Northern California. Many Northern Californians know him. He's been part
Speaker 1: of the loyal opposition in the state legislature for a
Speaker 1: long time. He is an absolutely righteous, down to earth,
Speaker 1: common sense conservative guy who represents the millions and millions
Speaker 1: and millions of Californians who are indeed conservative, moderate to conservative.
Speaker 1: It's a big red state with a couple of blue blotches,
Speaker 1: like so many states, especially with coasts. But Kevin took
Speaker 1: to the House floor the other day to take on Gavy.
Speaker 1: Newsom's ridiculous calling a special session to trump proof California
Speaker 1: to make sure we predict California values one of the
Speaker 1: most jivy and transparent parent maneuvers I've ever seen. As
Speaker 1: as Gavy is lusting for the presidency like he's lusted
Speaker 1: for all the women in his life.
Speaker 2: We're so all falls short sometimes.
Speaker 1: Was there any need to go there? That was That
Speaker 1: was the soft version of that. Okay, I almost brought it.
Speaker 1: That was the That was the easy going version of
Speaker 1: that thought. That was in my head. All right, what
Speaker 1: the hell.
Speaker 3: Is going on?
Speaker 1: You can handle the truth anyway. This is Kevin Kylie.
Speaker 1: It's a couple of minutes worth. Kali Unicornian's delight in
Speaker 1: this and non cal Unicornians who, as we always say,
Speaker 1: you have these policies being pitched in your state house
Speaker 1: right now or being taught in your school's arm yourself
Speaker 1: against them?
Speaker 4: Kevin Kyleie, what exactly is the governor aiming to protect?
Speaker 4: Is it California's national lead when it comes to homelessness,
Speaker 4: the fact that we have half the unshell are homeless
Speaker 4: in the entire country? Is that what Governor Newsom is
Speaker 4: aiming to protect. Is it our highest in the nation
Speaker 4: poverty rate? Is he looking to protect our lead when
Speaker 4: it comes to poverty? Or is it when it comes
Speaker 4: to retail crime? Does he want to maintain the number
Speaker 4: one record for the worst retail crime in the country,
Speaker 4: or the number one spot when it comes to anti
Speaker 4: business regulations, or when it comes to frivolous lawsuits, or
Speaker 4: when it comes to unemployment. Actually, we're now only second
Speaker 4: worst in the country when it comes to unemployment, So
Speaker 4: perhaps his protective measures are aiming us to get aiming
Speaker 4: to get us back in the lead. Is he looking
Speaker 4: to protect our standing as the worst state in the
Speaker 4: country when it comes to an increase in wages? Wages
Speaker 4: of stagnated in California more than any state in the country.
Speaker 4: Or when it comes to restrictions on workers and the
Speaker 4: right to earn a living. Is he looking to make
Speaker 4: sure that California maintains its lead in gas prices well
Speaker 4: above the price of gas in any of the other
Speaker 4: forty nine states. Well, we know he's looking to do
Speaker 4: that because his own cardboard just passed regulations that are
Speaker 4: going to raise gas prices about sixty cents a gallon more.
Speaker 4: Is he looking to protect our standing as number two
Speaker 4: in the country and housing costs, number two in the
Speaker 4: country in water bills, number three in the country in
Speaker 4: energy and electricity costs, number three in the country in inequality,
Speaker 4: number one in the country when it comes to income taxes,
Speaker 4: certainly wants to protect California's lead in that respect. Does
Speaker 4: he want to protect our number one in the country
Speaker 4: budget deficit that was reported last year, Or are standing
Speaker 4: third in the country in road disrepair? Or maybe it's
Speaker 4: the fact that California has the highest illiteracy rate in
Speaker 4: the entire country. Perhaps that's what the value that Governor
Speaker 4: Newsom is aiming to protect.
Speaker 2: Or relatedly, the fact that we are.
Speaker 4: Second out of the fifty states when it comes to
Speaker 4: educational inequity. If we were still in the COVID days,
Speaker 4: he'd certainly be looking to protect our national lead when
Speaker 4: it came to school shutdowns, business shutdowns.
Speaker 2: And COVID mandates. We know that he's looking to.
Speaker 4: Protect our national lead when it comes to illegal border crossings.
Speaker 2: For the first time in the nineties. Over the last year, the.
Speaker 4: Highest level of illegal border crossings have been in the
Speaker 4: San Diego border sector, because he's stood by California's standing
Speaker 4: as a sanctuary state when it comes to funding for
Speaker 4: illegal immigrants. Surely he's looking to protect our lead there
Speaker 4: as California is the only state in the country that's
Speaker 4: offering free medicaid to those who are here unlawfully. And
Speaker 4: most certainly, we know the governor is looking to extend
Speaker 4: California's four peete in leading the nation in one way
Speaker 4: U haul rentals and is looking through his protective special session.
Speaker 2: I'm sure to make that a five pepe.
Speaker 1: Wow. That is quite the laundry list. Wow, you're working
Speaker 1: him like the light bags a c a circuit. It'sock
Speaker 1: at a cicket. That is rough. Yeah, yeah, hey, you know,
Speaker 1: and all that's legit. Kevin is a careful man. But
Speaker 1: my only question out of that was third in energy
Speaker 1: and electricity costs, where the poor sons of bitches who
Speaker 1: were paying more? Seriously is it Hawaii, maybe gotta be
Speaker 1: something like that. But who's paying more than California for
Speaker 1: electricity home of the four figure electric bill per month? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's good, that was good, Kevin. Way to bring it, brother.
Speaker 3: Before we take a break, like to say congratulations to
Speaker 3: the Big ten champ Oregon Ducks.
Speaker 1: I don't even know.
Speaker 3: I don't even know what college football is anymore. But
Speaker 3: they announced the playoffs, so first time ever. You know,
Speaker 3: it was just a few years ago that there were
Speaker 3: no playoffs whatsoever at college football, which was stupid.
Speaker 1: For a century.
Speaker 3: They'd play a season and at the end of the year,
Speaker 3: they'd vote on who they thought the best team was,
Speaker 3: which was just a dumb way to do it. Finally
Speaker 3: got a playoff. Then it was just a one and
Speaker 3: two team, but then every time it was a how'd
Speaker 3: you pick those as one and two? What about this
Speaker 3: undefeated team over here? Okay, so they expanded, Well, now
Speaker 3: it's expanded clear to its twelve teams. There'll be eight
Speaker 3: teams that play first, and then you get the winners
Speaker 3: and then they'll play the other four get a first
Speaker 3: round by kind of like the NFL. There's still arguments
Speaker 3: over who didn't get in but you know, at least
Speaker 3: there will always be. But at least with twelve, you're
Speaker 3: not leaving out any obvious people. Probably interesting thing is
Speaker 3: that first round you actually get to play at home
Speaker 3: if you have the right record, which that has not
Speaker 3: been the history of college football either. It's always been
Speaker 3: a neutral location. So that'll be fun for some of
Speaker 3: those big schools. I don't know if this is going
Speaker 3: to kill college football or you know, it'll just take
Speaker 3: a while to get used to it or not.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Certainly, all a lot of the big
Speaker 1: rivalries are gone. There are huge changes in college footballs
Speaker 1: football going on right now, including the name image and
Speaker 1: like this, paying players, the transfer portal where they transmits
Speaker 1: teams are in.
Speaker 3: The middle of the season between this past season in
Speaker 3: the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know it's crazy, but I will tell you
Speaker 1: this from experience. I know a bunch of big college
Speaker 1: football fans and they are as into it as ever. Okay, cool. Yeah.
Speaker 1: In fact, one of my New Year's resolutions is pay
Speaker 1: more attention of college football so I can be part
Speaker 1: of those conversation. Huh, they're going on and on about
Speaker 1: such and such and oh man, there are quarterbacks unbelievable,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, what I.
Speaker 3: Saw most of Oregon, Penn State. It was number one
Speaker 3: versus number three on Saturday night because we just happened
Speaker 3: to be at a restaurant where it was on.
Speaker 1: But it's pretty cucy, And I tell him, you know
Speaker 1: who's got a really good offense is the HTS rebel
Speaker 1: group that's just taken over Syria. They look at me like,
Speaker 1: it's the matter with you? Then they go back to
Speaker 1: talking about Dabbo Sweeney.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so we could hit on Syria a little bit.
Speaker 3: I do want to hear this clip of jay Z
Speaker 3: talking about he started dating beyond it. So starting with
Speaker 3: he's being accused of underage sex with somebody.
Speaker 1: This story think of a thirteen year old.
Speaker 3: Yes, this story burbled up over the weekend, and now
Speaker 3: were find out he started dating Beyonce when she was
Speaker 3: like sixteen.
Speaker 1: I didn't know that allegedly how old was he though?
Speaker 1: Was he also sixteen? Twenty six?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Really? Okay? Didn't know that? All right? A little more
Speaker 1: on that among other things on the.
Speaker 3: Way never struck me as a perv. Of course, neither
Speaker 3: did Charlie Rose it turned out he was. But here's
Speaker 3: jay Z on Charlie Rose and this will all make
Speaker 3: sense here in a little bit.
Speaker 1: Talking about how he met Beyonce. They mentioned Sony when
Speaker 1: they talk about where you might.
Speaker 5: Go that that I mean obviously because Beyonce has a
Speaker 5: deal there.
Speaker 1: I didn't know I know her, but I'll give you
Speaker 1: I'm not her. Wow long? How long?
Speaker 2: Ten years?
Speaker 4: How long?
Speaker 1: How long?
Speaker 5: However long she's been recording when I met her?
Speaker 2: Don't you remember how long it was?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 1: When I met her? I mean was it five years ago?
Speaker 6: Was it?
Speaker 2: I met her ten years ago? But did you say
Speaker 2: to yourself at that time, Wow.
Speaker 5: Yeah, she's that's a fantastic talent.
Speaker 1: That was that what you said? Yeah? Yeah, because you
Speaker 1: saw talent.
Speaker 2: You saw talent before you saw anything.
Speaker 1: Because she was singing like a rapper.
Speaker 5: It was the first song with y Cleft, and she
Speaker 5: was singing really fast, and I was like, just why
Speaker 5: she singing so fast and how she and she was
Speaker 5: on tea and everything. I was like, oh, she's she
Speaker 5: does a talented person right there?
Speaker 3: Ya have you seen the video where she Beyonce's wearing
Speaker 3: the jeans and the cowboy hat and the T shirt
Speaker 3: at the laundromat Oh my god, don't recall. It just
Speaker 3: came out like a week or so ago on the
Speaker 3: part of some mad holy cow. Anyway, I just thought
Speaker 3: of that one.
Speaker 1: Yeah. The first thing I noticed was her singing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I find that hurt to believe. What was all the
Speaker 1: giggling there between the two of them.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you what it is. I used to watch
Speaker 3: Charlie Rose every night. I really wish it was still on.
Speaker 3: I love that show. But he tried so hard with
Speaker 3: like young cool people, to act like he was young
Speaker 3: and cool even though he was old and very not cool.
Speaker 3: That sort of thing happened a lot, just like a
Speaker 3: weird misplaced laughter to try to seem like he's on
Speaker 3: their left.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right. Well so anyway, and he was hinting
Speaker 1: at she Look, she's obviously a very beautiful woman, and
Speaker 1: he's surely you noticed that first. Blah blah blah whatever.
Speaker 1: But so he's being accused of drugging and raping a
Speaker 1: thirteen year old girl with Sean Diddy Combs woirty And
Speaker 1: this one.
Speaker 3: Is completely different crime than seventeen. I mean, they're both
Speaker 3: crimes and should be but thirteen, Wow, that's a kid.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yes, so certainly emotionally, no matter the state
Speaker 1: of their sexual development. But so, and that's one of
Speaker 1: a number of suits that have popped up now since
Speaker 1: Diddy got busted and it's become clear that he and
Speaker 1: many people close to him were engaged in some pretty horrendous, exploitive,
Speaker 1: drug fueled, sometimes compulsory, compulsory sex stuff. Now, this suit
Speaker 1: accuses Combs of raping a teenage girl alongside an anonymous
Speaker 1: celebrity referred to as celebrity A at an after party
Speaker 1: following the two thousand MTV Video Music Wards in New
Speaker 1: York City, So we're talking twenty four years ago. The
Speaker 1: suit was amended Sunday, specifically naming mister Carter aka jay
Speaker 1: Z as the celebrity involved, and also said there was
Speaker 1: a female celebrity not named looking on. So I don't know.
Speaker 1: There are a couple of things that are true at
Speaker 1: the same time. Number one, there is a payday to
Speaker 1: be had now in filing lawsuit and maybe getting it
Speaker 1: settled just to make all this stuff go away, because
Speaker 1: jay Z is extremely deep pockets in an actual billionaire.
Speaker 1: Well right, at the same time, and we've seen this
Speaker 1: before for a very long time. You dare not go
Speaker 1: up against him because nobody would believe you. There could
Speaker 1: be terrible repercussions or vengeance or whatever. But now that
Speaker 1: the cracks in the facade have appeared, people are coming
Speaker 1: forward with legitimate maybe allegation, So it's very, very difficult
Speaker 1: to say what's legit.
Speaker 3: We can't go back twenty four years, can you? That
Speaker 3: seems a lot to me. Yeah, I know what you're saying.
Speaker 1: But anyway, the reason that Charlie Rose clip is semi
Speaker 1: relevant is.
Speaker 3: Us who would have young women of age. We'd have
Speaker 3: them come to his house to watch videos of his show,
Speaker 3: which is like the lamest come on ever, and then
Speaker 3: he would come out in his robe with no clothes on,
Speaker 3: open and take a shower.
Speaker 1: In one of them to see whether they were a
Speaker 1: game or not. Yeah, anyway, So I came across a
Speaker 1: different description of mister Z and his life that pointed
Speaker 1: out that, like each one of his serious girlfriends, he
Speaker 1: started seeing when they were very very young. Beyonce was
Speaker 1: twelve years as Junior I said ten earlier, so he
Speaker 1: was twenty eight when she was sixteen. Now, they have
Speaker 1: at various times claimed that no, they didn't start dating
Speaker 1: until she was eighteen, But the story keeps changing and
Speaker 1: people are a little suspicious. And he was with Aliyah
Speaker 1: is that her name, got with her when she was
Speaker 1: a teenager. Then there was another girlfriend, and you know,
Speaker 1: when he was in his mid twenties got with her
Speaker 1: when she was a teenager. So I don't know about you,
Speaker 1: and I have no idea of the validity of any
Speaker 1: of this, obviously, the idea that when I'm in my
Speaker 1: early mid late twenties, I just keep ending up with teenagers.
Speaker 1: That's a little weird.
Speaker 3: It is. Yeah, once, I don't know, you can look
Speaker 3: a sideways at that, But multiple times, come on, dude,
Speaker 3: how come all your girlfriends are under eighteen, barely out
Speaker 3: of childhood.
Speaker 1: You haven't run into any nice twenty five year olds
Speaker 1: at all. Oh, anyway, again, I don't know. That's sad
Speaker 1: that all evidence is not proof. That to me suggests
Speaker 1: he has a proclivity for very young women. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I gotta believe he cuts a check and this goes
Speaker 3: away whether he did it or didn't do it.
Speaker 1: One of the best parts of living a reasonably moral
Speaker 1: life is the simplicity of it. It's so easy. God,
Speaker 1: it admite.
Speaker 3: It be harder if you're super wealthy and famous though,
Speaker 3: and sing yes, yes, it'd be very handsome. O oh
Speaker 3: for four a Nike, What are you gonna do? Is
Speaker 3: it as big as Berlin Wall falling? Some people have
Speaker 3: said it is the fall of Syria over the weekend,
Speaker 3: certainly shakes up the Middle East. We'll talk a little
Speaker 3: bit about that coming up, among other things.
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 7: I think military analysts are going to focus initially on
Speaker 7: what the hell happened here so fast? And it's kind
Speaker 7: of a combination, right, It's corruption and conscription difficulties, long
Speaker 7: running fuse and Siria. As David says, it's also the
Speaker 7: distraction of Russia tied up in Ukraine and Iran flattened
Speaker 7: by Israel. And then thirdly, let's not underestimate the rise
Speaker 7: of a charismatic leader. I think a lot of folks
Speaker 7: are getting to know a Bu Muhammad al Jilani learned
Speaker 7: that name, and we'll see.
Speaker 3: Where this goes, whether it's Louis the sixteenth or Bashar Alissade.
Speaker 3: I think you got things under control to the moment.
Speaker 3: You don't in these revolutions, it would seem apparently all
Speaker 3: the action happens under the ability to see it, and
Speaker 3: then all of a sudden they fall.
Speaker 1: Right, I'm reminded of the predictions that the Afghanistan government
Speaker 1: would last for at least a couple more years. No,
Speaker 1: when it goes, it goes quickly. Yeah, that sure does.
Speaker 3: Uh So. Bashar al Sad, who is running Syria is
Speaker 3: living in Moscow with his wife right now because he
Speaker 3: fled the country or he would have been brutally murdered,
Speaker 3: which I wish would have happened, because he is an awful,
Speaker 3: awful guy. He was running the civil war for the
Speaker 3: past what is a dozen fourteen years, in which half
Speaker 3: a million of his own country people died. That's nearly
Speaker 3: the number we had died during our civil war with
Speaker 3: a much larger population than they've got in Syria. So
Speaker 3: I mean, that's a lot of dead people. And he
Speaker 3: did all that with the help primarily of Russia but
Speaker 3: also of Iran to be able to kill people and
Speaker 3: just an awful human being. But what's going to replace him?
Speaker 3: That's always a question with revolutions. Very seldom does a
Speaker 3: revolution happen and then you get like some sort of
Speaker 3: benevolent governing body takeover and things calm down. I mean,
Speaker 3: like almost never.
Speaker 1: Does that happen. Yeah, most of the time, opposite, the
Speaker 1: opposite of that. And then inevitably, after the revolution the
Speaker 1: revolutionaries start killing each other for a prolonged period of
Speaker 1: time too, bringing more chaos and horror. Yeah, sometimes it
Speaker 1: settles down eventually, but it's a gamble.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: That was James.
Speaker 3: Travitas, you just heard from former NATO commander and he
Speaker 3: actually talked about that on MSNBC this morning. He said,
Speaker 3: what unites various factions when you overthrow a king or
Speaker 3: a dictator or a government is we want to overthrow
Speaker 3: these people as soon as they're overthrown, though all of
Speaker 3: your differences all of a sudden matter a lot. And
Speaker 3: the current leader of the opposition group, this rebel leader,
Speaker 3: Mohammed what's his name, who gave a speech in the
Speaker 3: most important mosque in Syria and Damascus yesterday. He gave
Speaker 3: a very good speech about wanting to allow everybody to
Speaker 3: participate in this is the dawn of a new era.
Speaker 3: And he's distancing himself from al Qaida. The United States
Speaker 3: currently has a ten million dollar bounty on his head
Speaker 3: because we see him as the same way we see
Speaker 3: ISIS or al Qaeda. But here's the latest today on that,
Speaker 3: which I find very interesting. The latest reporting. This is
Speaker 3: from Josh Rogan's Twitter feed and we really like him.
Speaker 3: From the Washington Post. Here's the state of affairs on
Speaker 3: day one of the HTS led government in Damascus. HTS
Speaker 3: is the main rebel group.
Speaker 1: Not to be confused with BTS. Is that the K
Speaker 1: pop group BTK. Now that's the bound torture Killer Killer
Speaker 1: from No, that's a different thing. Here's the state of
Speaker 1: affairs on day one.
Speaker 3: Central Bank operating commercial banks reopen Thursday. Do you remember
Speaker 3: when we went into Iraq and overthrew Sadam Hussein. Weren't
Speaker 3: nothing working the next day or for a very long time.
Speaker 3: Everything got looted, destroyed everything. We weren't able to keep
Speaker 3: anything together. They have their bank, Their central Bank operating
Speaker 3: commercial banks reopen Thursday. Mohammad al Bashir has been appointed
Speaker 3: to former temporary government by the rebels. The main rebel
Speaker 3: met with Bashir and Assad's prime minister to rage a
Speaker 3: power transfer. I don't remember that happening in any of
Speaker 3: these revolutions either, where there's some sort official power transfer
Speaker 3: with like paperwork and will and peace. Aleppo Airport to
Speaker 3: resume domestic flights later today.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: State employees told to return to work. Government officials say
Speaker 3: women free to wear what they wish, harmed to journalists
Speaker 3: punishable by prison, General amnesty to all Syrian Middle military conscripts,
Speaker 3: as opposed to hunting them down and killing them all.
Speaker 1: Because they're just poor sons of guns who got hired
Speaker 1: by the military. So who knows.
Speaker 3: But I don't remember this happening in well, I know
Speaker 3: it didn't happen in Iraq or Afghanistan, or Egypt or
Speaker 3: Tunisia or any of these other places.
Speaker 1: I will point out that the Taliban in Afghanistan actually
Speaker 1: did plant a pledge to be much much more moderate
Speaker 1: and preserve the rights of women and girls and blah
Speaker 1: blah blah, than step by step by step they went
Speaker 1: back on the word and back to their roots. I
Speaker 1: want to be optimistic that this al Jilani guy is
Speaker 1: for real and actually intends to bring an era of
Speaker 1: you know, trading minorities in religious sects with that's sects
Speaker 1: with respect and mercy. But I gotta I gotta wait
Speaker 1: and see. The guy was once you know, affiliated with
Speaker 1: al Qaeda, and alnus or front and what could.
Speaker 3: Be he was because that was the best toughest gang
Speaker 3: out there on his head of a side of you
Speaker 3: know what you wanted possible. Or he's a hard kre
Speaker 3: Islamist who believes the same thing Isis and Algaida believes
Speaker 3: and the tally Ban.
Speaker 1: We'll see. If I'm a hardcore Islamist, how do I
Speaker 1: prevent these other factions from opposing me and foiling my
Speaker 1: rise to power by telling them I'm not going to
Speaker 1: hurt him, telling them We're going to be buddies. No,
Speaker 1: You've got nothing to fear for me. Any absolutely, one
Speaker 1: hundred percent could be that guy. A lot of these
Speaker 1: Islamas so they can't get those words they ever come
Speaker 1: out of their mouth Hamas and Hesboala and a lot
Speaker 1: of the people they just they can't say anything but
Speaker 1: death to all infidels, which I always thought, why don't
Speaker 1: you lie? Well, see that's the thing. This guy might
Speaker 1: just be more sophisticated. I hope he is what he
Speaker 1: claims to be. That would be an incredible gift to
Speaker 1: the poor people of that region. I just I've seen
Speaker 1: it before.
Speaker 3: Even if it goes south though, I've seen a lot
Speaker 3: of interviews in these various countries. I don't think I've
Speaker 3: ever seen one where they say I wish the dictator
Speaker 3: was still in charge. They always seem to prefer their
Speaker 3: chances now versus when Sodom Hussein was running the place,
Speaker 3: or Momar Kadafi or there's a bunch examples.
Speaker 1: Right, let's give it a try. Yeah, why not? So
Speaker 1: a couple of thoughts that tie into this from an
Speaker 1: interview I heard with a woman who is Irani and
Speaker 1: her family left just before I think the revolution in
Speaker 1: the seventies, when the Shah was overthrown and Ayatola Coromanian
Speaker 1: is band of religious lunatic mulos came into power and
Speaker 1: then the Revolutionary Guard and all that she pointed out
Speaker 1: to your point, Jack or whichever one of us made
Speaker 1: it that the Marxists in Iran, in the universities in particular,
Speaker 1: formed this alliance with the Islamists because they both wanted
Speaker 1: to overthrow the Shah, and the Marxists were convinced that
Speaker 1: the Islamists agreed with them that they needed to build
Speaker 1: a workers paradise and blah blah blah. The minute the
Speaker 1: mulos got controlled, they executed all of the Marxists right
Speaker 1: up against the wall, by the hundreds, by the thousands.
Speaker 1: Nobody's really sure. So yeah, that's the way the revolutions go.
Speaker 1: And the second thing she said that was interesting, and
Speaker 1: she was more or less lecturing Americans. She said, you
Speaker 1: can't negotiate with religious fanatics. Their only goal is the
Speaker 1: glory of Allah and achieving wiping out the Jews and
Speaker 1: bringing forward, you know, Mohammad's vision of whatever. She said.
Speaker 1: They will pretend to be interested in this, They will
Speaker 1: feign that they have only one goal, and you can't
Speaker 1: negotiate with them. You can try to box them in,
Speaker 1: you can fight them, you can bribe them for a while.
Speaker 1: Just know this, never forget they have one goal. This
Speaker 1: all happened so fast.
Speaker 3: I mean over Thanksgiving break I took notes on the
Speaker 3: fall of Aleppo and just never got around to really
Speaker 3: talking about it, and partially because I thought, man, whatever,
Speaker 3: it's probably gonna go back to Assad at some point. Anyway, No,
Speaker 3: in two weeks, ten days, the whole country fell. Did
Speaker 3: you see the videos out of the airport, and those
Speaker 3: are almost hilarious. Everybody at the airport, and then people
Speaker 3: were starting to get and hear the word the news,
Speaker 3: and then like the people who worked at the airport,
Speaker 3: the TSA equivalent, they were like scanning baggage and they
Speaker 3: all were looking around and they kind of got up
Speaker 3: out of their chairs and started walking toward the gates,
Speaker 3: then started running. Then so then the passengers started looking
Speaker 3: around because the rumor was spreading so fast, and they
Speaker 3: all started running. Everybody just left. Then the airport was empty,
Speaker 3: and that happened all across the country. Then on TV
Speaker 3: you had the people, there are rumors in the streets
Speaker 3: that the military has laid down their arms. Those are
Speaker 3: all Western lies. It is not true, but shar Alisade
Speaker 3: is in conplete control.
Speaker 1: And that went on for a while and then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden.
Speaker 3: He'll be addressing the nation at six o'clock night and
Speaker 3: all of a sudden, this woman gets up out of
Speaker 3: her chair, walks off. This other bald hair guy sits
Speaker 3: down and basically says, I, for one, welcome the ant
Speaker 3: or for lords. I mean, he just sat down and
Speaker 3: immediately said we are now a free country, and I
Speaker 3: couldn't be more excited about it.
Speaker 1: And that's how quickly it changed. Wow, Yeah, yeah, that's nuts.
Speaker 3: You remember we used to have Liz Sly on regularly, yeah,
Speaker 3: with Washington Post. I don't know who she was with
Speaker 3: at the time, but anyway, she just texted this out
Speaker 3: statement on the HTS channels. They have their own TV
Speaker 3: channels going right now with information it is strictly forbidden
Speaker 3: to interfere with women's dress or impose any request related
Speaker 3: to their clothing or appearance, including requests for modesty. That's
Speaker 3: what they're saying. Anyway, it's possible that they think, you know,
Speaker 3: we play this right, We're going to get the backen
Speaker 3: of the United States and the European Union and money
Speaker 3: will be flowing our way in arms, and we can
Speaker 3: run this country for a long time.
Speaker 1: I hope I get to see this play out, because
Speaker 1: they're one of two, well several, but at least two results. One,
Speaker 1: this guy is what he claims to be, and it's
Speaker 1: an incredible gift of freedom and moderation in that region
Speaker 1: for the people of Syria. That's a long shot. Secondly,
Speaker 1: is we get to see the playbook of the modern
Speaker 1: Islamist extremist and how they claim moderation to get the
Speaker 1: cooperation of other groups and tribes and whatever, and then
Speaker 1: they bring the hammer down isis style, and we live
Speaker 1: and we learn one of those two things is going
Speaker 1: to happen.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: The difference with the Taliban example you used, is they
Speaker 3: mean that would have been really they had shown what
Speaker 3: they were for decades. This group, who's ever even heard
Speaker 3: of HST or whatever. They were untild yesterday, so we'll
Speaker 3: see what they're all about.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was telling my kids yesterday how thankful anybody
Speaker 3: who lives in a organized, safe society should be that
Speaker 3: they do, because it doesn't have to be that way.
Speaker 3: I was watching some YouTube videos over the weekend about
Speaker 3: entropy and how it applies to in nature and rocks
Speaker 3: the same way it applies to civilizations. The pulling force
Speaker 3: is toward chaos. It takes a lot to keep that
Speaker 3: from being that way disintegration. Yeah, speaking of which, and
Speaker 3: this gladdens my heart speaking of the Mullahs in the
Speaker 3: Revolutionary Guard of Iran.
Speaker 1: They are screwed and tattooed by this whole thing. They're
Speaker 1: proxies hamas Hesbelah are terribly battered. They're battered. The Israelis
Speaker 1: expose them for having no air defenses to speak of,
Speaker 1: and their ability to resupply Hesbelah has been seriously disrupted,
Speaker 1: so they are looking weak, weak, weak. Russia is the
Speaker 1: looser in this as well, which gladdens my heart too. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Nettnyah who made a little speech over the weekend taking
Speaker 3: a lot of credit for this having he says the
Speaker 3: devastation of hesbol is what led to this, and he
Speaker 3: might be right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and indeed Russia getting bogged, don you crane as well?
Speaker 1: They have a couple of important military bass in Siria.
Speaker 1: I should explain that for people who don't follow this
Speaker 1: all the time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, one to port won a regular military base. The
Speaker 3: port very important, so we'll see what happens there. The
Speaker 3: phrase you just used, which I don't approve of, for
Speaker 3: the record, screwed and tattooed?
Speaker 1: Where does that? Where does that phrase come from? I mean,
Speaker 1: I I'm afraid to even ask that question. I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's like when I mentioned there's more than one way
Speaker 1: to skin a cat in front of my nieces and
Speaker 1: they reacted with horror, And it occurred to me, who
Speaker 1: is skinning cats for what purpose? How many ways do
Speaker 1: you need become a popular?
Speaker 3: Say somebody had been skinning skinning cats I assume you
Speaker 3: can always skin a cat. Once somebody had been skinning
Speaker 3: cats same way, every day, every cat, and somebody said, look, Jim,
Speaker 3: I hate to butt in. I hope I'm not overstepping
Speaker 3: my bounds. But there's more than one way to skin
Speaker 3: a cat.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: You're wearing out your knife, you're nicking your thumb. Whatever
Speaker 1: Jim's problems. But there's a faster, easier way. You gotta
Speaker 1: think outside the box of cats skinning.
Speaker 3: I mean, if your goal is to get as many
Speaker 3: skins off as many cats as pumps, right, exactly in
Speaker 3: a timely reasons, right right, right, in.
Speaker 1: A timely man, there are other ways. It was his point.
Speaker 1: We will finish strong. Next, we need some black visialities.
Speaker 7: That's right.
Speaker 2: People want to jump up and choke.
Speaker 1: Us and kill us for being loud.
Speaker 5: How about we do the same when they attempt to
Speaker 5: oppress us.
Speaker 1: Right, I'm tie it, tie it well. Hawk Newsome, the
Speaker 1: leader of New York Black Lives Matter BLM, who are
Speaker 1: Marxists who want to overthrow the system. Therefore they want
Speaker 1: a race war. That's what BLM has been from the beginning,
Speaker 1: calling for violence. Nice.
Speaker 3: So those of you and I know a couple of
Speaker 3: institutions that still have BLM signs in their windows.
Speaker 1: You're still on board with that.
Speaker 3: The people who ran BLM took your money and bought houses.
Speaker 3: They're in jail, a lot of them. Now, you got
Speaker 3: this guy, the leader of BLM in New York, calling
Speaker 3: for violence after a court made a decision. I mean,
Speaker 3: this is the legal justice system. So you're basically unhappy
Speaker 3: with the ruling, and you're calling for violence in the streets.
Speaker 1: Nice in the name of communism. Yeah, keep flying those
Speaker 1: BLM flags. Use soft heads, no kidding, crumb. When I
Speaker 1: see that, I think, I think, I think you're an idiot. Yeah,
Speaker 1: me too. Or you're certainly ignorant. You're an ignorant virtue
Speaker 1: signaling fool the ready.
Speaker 3: Yeah, here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 1: Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew
Speaker 1: to wrapp things up for the day. There is our
Speaker 1: technical director, Michael Angelo in the controller of Michael. What's
Speaker 1: your final thought? Yeah, it's time for me to do
Speaker 1: my annual public service of reminding people that Amazon times
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Speaker 1: December fourteenth. From my arm reading Okay, yep, oh, that's
Speaker 1: a timely reminder. Thank you, Michael. Katie Green As a
Speaker 1: final thought, Katie.
Speaker 6: Thinking about Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. I had a friend
Speaker 6: go to one recently and she sent me a video
Speaker 6: a bunch of thirty five year old women crying, baffling
Speaker 6: to me bathfully.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, me too, unbelievable. Jack a final thought for us.
Speaker 3: Joe used a course expression earlier screwed into two, and
Speaker 3: it made me wonder what does that mean? I looked
Speaker 3: it up. It's damned interesting.
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Speaker 3: Cool Armstrong and Getty wrapping up an other grueling four
Speaker 3: hour work to have a feeling we're gonna know a
Speaker 3: lot more about that. Perhaps shooter her in New York,
Speaker 3: because it looks like they've got the guy nabbed so
Speaker 3: many people.
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Speaker 1: Oh my god, I've got so much to do to
Speaker 1: get ready for Christmas. It's making me tired thinking about it.
Speaker 1: I got to restart my Scotch cabinet so we all
Speaker 1: have things to worry about.
Speaker 3: Jack, We'll see you tomorrow. God bless America.
Speaker 1: I'm strong and Getty. I want it. Give it to me.
Speaker 1: I don't care how long it is.
Speaker 2: What hell is that?
Speaker 1: That was quite entertaining for No Joe. It's outrageous, it
Speaker 1: is dangerous. It's so good as this.
Speaker 2: Is an amazing geopolitical disaster. What the hell happened here
Speaker 2: so fast?
Speaker 1: I'm gonna call my lawyer, gun if you you know
Speaker 1: you have such potential? No, no, that's not what I
Speaker 1: was told that I know. Bye bye, Armstrong and Getty