Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty, Armstrong and
Speaker 1: Getty and he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2: I am saying this because I'm really afraid that my
Speaker 2: country's going to be further weakened by this. I think
Speaker 2: we're going to see the end of American empire. Obviously
Speaker 2: other nations would like to see that, and this is
Speaker 2: a perfect way to scuttle the USS America on the
Speaker 2: shoals of Iran. But it's also going to end, I believe,
Speaker 2: Trump's presidency and effectively end it.
Speaker 3: So there's Tucker Carlson on his very very viewed and
Speaker 3: influential podcast, and then he goes on Bannon Steve Bannon's podcast,
Speaker 3: and Bannon, who was, you know, a major advisor to
Speaker 3: Trump when he got elected first time around. I don't
Speaker 3: understands politics. I don't quite get that. Maybe we can
Speaker 3: talk about that more. But to that comment that war
Speaker 3: with Iran will destroy the American empire and Trump's presidency,
Speaker 3: Trump was asked about that on the plane flying back
Speaker 3: to the United States last night.
Speaker 4: Were Carlson criticizing You're saying that you're complicit.
Speaker 1: In the war.
Speaker 5: I don't know what Tucker Carlson is saying. Let him
Speaker 5: go get a television network and say it so that
Speaker 5: people listen.
Speaker 3: You let him go get a television network so people listen.
Speaker 3: There's an old man who doesn't understand times have changed. Ah, yes, exactly. Yeah,
Speaker 3: Tucker Carlson has more viewers than practically every single show
Speaker 3: on every cable.
Speaker 1: Channel combined at once, combined at once.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, yeah, name the Host or Meet the Press
Speaker 3: or any of those shows on the major networks. Tucker's
Speaker 3: audience is way bigger than Meet the Press.
Speaker 1: Sure, or even the you know the alphabet networks Evening
Speaker 1: news is Yeah.
Speaker 3: So that's just a guy who surprisingly or he's just
Speaker 3: trying to be because he understands modern media better than
Speaker 3: most people. He takes advantage of it all the time.
Speaker 3: See the fact that he announces things on Twitter. But uh,
Speaker 3: maybe he's just poking Tucker, which you know he has,
Speaker 3: he has a want to do. What is the Tucker
Speaker 3: Steve Bannon worldview? I used to watch Tucker was on
Speaker 3: Fox before he left. I'd watch every night, every single night.
Speaker 3: I often loved his opening segment, often loved it. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but I couldn't figure out his worldview, like a consistent
Speaker 3: state his worldview.
Speaker 1: I just couldn't. Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 6: I don't know if I have the energy to get
Speaker 6: into this, but I think there are certain people who have,
Speaker 6: uh have had crystallized in their mind. What does the
Speaker 6: approach look like that gets the attention and money of
Speaker 6: the clicks of the young, online, angry, hyper confident America first,
Speaker 6: but in an isolationist kind of nationalist, hypernationalist way. They've
Speaker 6: they've just crystallized that approach and it's been very, very PROFITGA.
Speaker 3: Well, so you think that's an act the world a
Speaker 3: large I figured out a niche to make a lot
Speaker 3: of money for both him and Steve Bannon. I feel
Speaker 3: like they believe it, and maybe Tucker is Tucker just
Speaker 3: really what huh believe what?
Speaker 1: Though? That's the problem.
Speaker 6: I can't, like you started, I don't get what they're
Speaker 6: pitching exactly, I think, and I don't know. Bannon is
Speaker 6: different from Tucker, is different than Candace Owen's, is different
Speaker 6: than you know, Matt Walsh, who intersects a little bit
Speaker 6: with that community.
Speaker 1: For instance.
Speaker 6: There are a bunch of names out there and they
Speaker 6: all have different approaches. They overlap a little bit. But yeah,
Speaker 6: there's there's a lot of grift there.
Speaker 3: Really. I I go back and forth on that. I've
Speaker 3: watched a fair amount of Tucker since he left Fox
Speaker 3: watching he seems sincere to me. I don't know if
Speaker 3: you went crazy or his claim is. I saw a
Speaker 3: great long interview with him where he claims that everything
Speaker 3: changed when he feels like he was lied to about
Speaker 3: the Iraq war. He pushed the war in Iraq really
Speaker 3: really hard, the weapons of mass destruction thing, on whichever
Speaker 3: show he had, and he's had a show on every network.
Speaker 3: He had a show on MSNBC, he had a show
Speaker 3: on CNN, and obviously he had a very successful show
Speaker 3: on Fox. He pushed the Iraq war hard. He feels
Speaker 3: like he was lied to. That kind of like broke
Speaker 3: his brain and then he went a different direction after that. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but he seems sincere to me, or he got so
Speaker 3: cynical he thought, these people don't care. I don't care anymore.
Speaker 3: I'm just gonna get rich. But man, he's good at it.
Speaker 6: Although the Iraq thing was in two thousand and three,
Speaker 6: and he changed completely again when he left Fox News.
Speaker 1: So I don't know.
Speaker 6: And again, just to make it clear, there are some
Speaker 6: of the list of ten or so of the people
Speaker 6: who are like the leaders in this thing that are
Speaker 6: probably ten percent grift in ninety percent and sincere. There
Speaker 6: are some that are ninety percent drift and ten percent sincere,
Speaker 6: some that are half and half. And y'all have to
Speaker 6: remember it's possible to be completely sincere. And your worldview
Speaker 6: is either just wrong the world doesn't work the way
Speaker 6: you think it ought to, or it's incoherent. Your prescriptions
Speaker 6: for the world are incoherent. So I don't know. It's
Speaker 6: a grab bag. For instance, Candace Owens saying, get ready,
Speaker 6: white American men, it's time for you to go die
Speaker 6: for Israel again. And then there's Tucker Carlson's favorite non historian,
Speaker 6: historian Daryl Cooper, offering prayerful words of consolation to his followers.
Speaker 1: Excuse me, don't worry, friends.
Speaker 6: As arrogant and invincible as he may seem, the end,
Speaker 6: the devil and all his children are cast into the
Speaker 6: lake of fire.
Speaker 1: He's talking about this the Jews, I guess.
Speaker 3: So I agree with this critique that I've heard many times.
Speaker 3: A number of the America First crowd seem to be
Speaker 3: America last. Really, they think everybody's better than us, and
Speaker 3: their decisions to do evil things is okay, but we
Speaker 3: shouldn't ever do anything right.
Speaker 6: Well, that's why they call him the woke right in
Speaker 6: some places, because the woke left says America's irredeemable. It
Speaker 6: was founded on racism. It needs to be terror torn
Speaker 6: apart for a brave Marxist future. And on the woke
Speaker 6: right it's America's irredeemable. It's become run by the Jews
Speaker 6: or the immigrants or whatever.
Speaker 1: There are all sorts of variations.
Speaker 6: Therefore, it needs to be torn apart and usher in
Speaker 6: a beautiful ultranationalist something or other future. So here you
Speaker 6: have one more. Here's Dave Smith, who was a comedian.
Speaker 6: Allegedly he's big in these circles. He's big on Israel
Speaker 6: committed genocide in gaz He was on Joe Rogan's podcast
Speaker 6: There is no bigger media in America than Joe Rogan's podcast.
Speaker 6: He referred to Trump reports that Trump is fully supporting
Speaker 6: Israel's action. He called Trump a trader to his own
Speaker 6: movement quote, if this is true, Trump is the most
Speaker 6: impotent bitch of a leader imaginable. He is allowing one
Speaker 6: side of a war who clearly wants to drag us
Speaker 6: in to lie about our involvement, while not correcting the record.
Speaker 6: Either way, Trump is betrayed MAGA and every principle of
Speaker 6: America First. He is no longer worthy of any of
Speaker 6: our support. He probably never was.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: So is this Trump's kind of weirdly sister soldier moment? Yesterday?
Speaker 3: He told The Atlantic we repeated this. He said, I
Speaker 3: invented American America first. It's my phrase. I get to
Speaker 3: define what it is. I'm I'm the definer on This
Speaker 3: is basically saying which is true, and you don't get to.
Speaker 6: Tell me it's true until it's not. Many a leader
Speaker 6: has been eclipsed by their own movement. But I'm betting
Speaker 6: on Trump.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he is not going to be eclipsed by his
Speaker 1: own movement.
Speaker 3: He's going to lose a chunk of it, Certainly, he's
Speaker 3: going to gain a whole bunch of more people. Though
Speaker 3: I think, I mean this makes Trump look more sane
Speaker 3: then than it doesn't, more help than harm because obviously
Speaker 3: letting a ran get a nuclear weapon, how is that
Speaker 3: America first?
Speaker 1: That makes no sense whatsoever.
Speaker 6: I think some of these people indulge themselves in a
Speaker 6: fantasy that if we just keep to ourselves the rest
Speaker 6: of the world, we'll just keep to themselves. I don't know,
Speaker 6: just be lied by every moment of human history. Right in,
Speaker 6: the world's smaller. The world's smaller than it's ever been
Speaker 6: in terms of our ability to reach out and touch
Speaker 6: someone and everybody. Else's one final note when Trump does
Speaker 6: leave the scene, whether to go to heaven or hell,
Speaker 6: or when he dies in short or just when he's
Speaker 6: through as a president. And you know, he's an old fella,
Speaker 6: so he might be a quote unquote kingmaker for a while,
Speaker 6: but not indefinitely obviously, But as soon as he is
Speaker 6: no longer the north star of Maga, it's going to
Speaker 6: be complete chaos.
Speaker 1: In my estimation.
Speaker 3: Well, since you're talking about the end of the Trump era,
Speaker 3: let's revisit the beginning of the Trump era. We missed
Speaker 3: this anniversary yesterday. It was ten years ago yesterday. He
Speaker 3: comes down the escalator.
Speaker 7: Ladies and gentlemen, I am officially running for president of
Speaker 7: the United States, and we are going to make our
Speaker 7: country great again.
Speaker 3: Not a person on planet Earth had any idea, how
Speaker 3: consequential that was going to be for a decade or more,
Speaker 3: as you were just laying out one of the biggest
Speaker 3: moments in political history, maybe in the world, depending on
Speaker 3: how things turn out, certainly in the United States of America. Yeah,
Speaker 3: And I'll always remember watching Fox Brett bar that night
Speaker 3: back when he used to have the amazing panel that
Speaker 3: included George Will and Charles Crodammer and Brett bhar asked
Speaker 3: them both played this clip about Trump's announcement. Kroudhammer said
Speaker 3: it was a stunt and nothing more. George Will said,
Speaker 3: I will not dignify it with a comment. That's how
Speaker 3: little they made of Trump's announcement. He took over politics
Speaker 3: in every way. He took over both parties. You're right,
Speaker 3: because everything the Democratic Party does is a reaction to Trump.
Speaker 3: He took over both parties for the next ten years.
Speaker 6: Right, And the Middle East at the least will be remade,
Speaker 6: I think in the next few years. And what's going
Speaker 6: to happen in Europe still mystifies the hell out of me.
Speaker 6: We haven't even gotten to Trump's just unhinged comments about
Speaker 6: Putin at the G seven yesterday, about he shouldn't have
Speaker 6: kicked him out.
Speaker 1: I can talk to him. You can't know. You can't
Speaker 1: talk to Putin.
Speaker 3: But anyway, obviously the last ten years he has dominated
Speaker 3: both parties. He's got three years at three and a
Speaker 3: half years left in his presidency, and as you just
Speaker 3: pointed out, he'll have some sway afterwards, depending on his
Speaker 3: health and everything.
Speaker 6: Right, I'm just I'm talking less about politics than the
Speaker 6: trajectory of world history. Sure, Middle East one hundred percent
Speaker 6: has changed. What's going to happen in Europe? I kind
Speaker 6: of derailed myself making the point what's going to happen
Speaker 6: in Europe is still utterly unclear to me. But he
Speaker 6: is an agent to change, no doubt.
Speaker 3: If you're a person that lean's Tucker Steve Bannon, what's
Speaker 3: your Let Iran get a nuclear weapon because it's.
Speaker 1: Not our war, not our job.
Speaker 3: I mean, canis owns suggesting white guys are gonna go
Speaker 3: die for Israel, gonna die to stop a rent The
Speaker 3: number one enemy of the United States for decades, has
Speaker 3: killed so many of our soldiers, has vowed to kill.
Speaker 1: Us all forever, my whole life. They want a nuclear weapon.
Speaker 3: That's why we'd be going to war if indeed we do,
Speaker 3: and I don't think we'll end up with a you know,
Speaker 3: American soldiers fight in a war anyway, right, well, anyway,
Speaker 3: I just wondered what your thoughts on that are on
Speaker 3: that text line four one five two nine five KFTC.
Speaker 6: Yes, Joe, I was just gonna say, we've got to
Speaker 6: play the Israeli ambassador clip again.
Speaker 1: Oh when we come back.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, if you haven't heard this, Holy Cows
Speaker 3: is not getting more enough attention, stay tuned.
Speaker 8: During a bill signing ceremony last week, President Chun said
Speaker 8: the quote, Unlike Biden, I stay awakened and I thinking
Speaker 8: about how to save our country. And as everybody knows,
Speaker 8: all the best ideas come from a seventy nine year
Speaker 8: old man.
Speaker 1: On no sleep.
Speaker 3: Dude doesn't need much sleep, as is a famously known.
Speaker 3: Can you imagine being almost eighty years old and dealing
Speaker 3: with all this stuff, as a Mark Alpern wrote today,
Speaker 3: he's in the midst of making the biggest decision of
Speaker 3: his life.
Speaker 6: Yeah, maybe it's easier when you're that age. Maybe I
Speaker 6: don't know, Maybe it is a couple of different things.
Speaker 3: But first, this, uh, this is the Israeli ambassador to
Speaker 3: the United States in an interview yesterday.
Speaker 4: When the dust settles, You're going to see some surprises
Speaker 4: on Thursday night and Friday that will make the deeper.
Speaker 1: Operation almost seem simple.
Speaker 3: So the pagers exploding and killing everybody in hes Bla
Speaker 3: at once, which is considered one of the greatest logistics,
Speaker 3: military ingenius legence, Yeah, intelligence tricks in the history of
Speaker 3: the world, is going to pale in comparison to whatever
Speaker 3: Israel's got Thursday or Friday.
Speaker 6: The imagination runs wild. Is it going to be something
Speaker 6: incredibly clever like that? Will it be a preview of
Speaker 6: what I've been talking about a lot when China decides
Speaker 6: to bring the Great Satan to its knees us and
Speaker 6: China flips off all of our electrical systems and water
Speaker 6: systems and credit card processing and banks and the rest
Speaker 6: of it. Is it going to be something like that?
Speaker 6: Now Israel has implanted in Iran systems.
Speaker 3: We made a bunch of childish jokes earlier in the
Speaker 3: show about exploding.
Speaker 1: Beards and what you did place.
Speaker 3: I like the idea of constricting belts. All of a sudden,
Speaker 3: your belt just starts squeezing you like a python.
Speaker 1: Thinking outside the vibe.
Speaker 3: What if you know you hide a monkey in their treurban.
Speaker 3: There's all kinds of things you could do. But wow,
Speaker 3: if all the electricity just get shut off in terran
Speaker 3: cell phones stop, I'd be pretty big.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and again, and water and payment processing and banks
Speaker 6: and anything necessary to pump gas.
Speaker 3: I mean, ultimately I want them to not get a
Speaker 3: nuclear weapon. But in terms of just viewing the monkey
Speaker 3: in the turbine seems like pretty entertaining stuff.
Speaker 1: Wow, wow, wow, you see what I gotta work.
Speaker 3: How did they sneak the monkeys into their turbans without
Speaker 3: them even noticing they do that?
Speaker 1: Overnight?
Speaker 6: They took over a turbine manufacturer, right, found ways to
Speaker 6: crossbreed monkeys with those weird lungfish.
Speaker 1: That can be like dead in the dirt.
Speaker 6: For do you remember learning about African lungfish when you're
Speaker 6: a kid. Fascinating Google it folks, if you I'm.
Speaker 3: So they got their brand new don't look a new turbine, honey,
Speaker 3: and you put on your turban not knowing at all there's.
Speaker 1: A monkey and evil monkey hiding in there. It houses
Speaker 1: a dormant monkey, that's right. AnyWho, what the hell?
Speaker 3: Thursday or Friday and I was reading the National Review
Speaker 3: Andy McCarthy writing, He's his prediction is a quick US
Speaker 3: strike to destroy Ford, Oh, with the rest of the
Speaker 3: war war making left to the highly capable Israelis. That
Speaker 3: would be perfectly consistent with Trump's history, willing to act
Speaker 3: decisively but resistant to long term engagements. So we do
Speaker 3: the big stuff, bomb the crap out of that thing.
Speaker 3: Then we're out, and it's up for you. It's yours now, Israel.
Speaker 6: Trump has not shied away from the big traumatic hit
Speaker 6: and run. Solamony the obvious example taken out that general. Hey,
Speaker 6: for what it's worth, side miss this Trump truth doubt.
Speaker 6: Somebody please explain to Kookie Tucker Carlson that Iran cannot
Speaker 6: have a nuclear weapon. KOOKI why ayana uh so yew?
Speaker 6: That fracture continues to be very interesting. Coming up a
Speaker 6: couple of stories about the United States military that you
Speaker 6: may find interesting. For instance, Silicon Valley suddenly has rediscovered
Speaker 6: their patriotism in large measure.
Speaker 1: Love it, Bengetti.
Speaker 4: There's news in the case involving the death of actor
Speaker 4: Matthew Perry. You'll remember he died of a ketamine overdose
Speaker 4: in October of twenty twenty three, the Justice Department now
Speaker 4: saying doctor Salvador Placencia, one of two doctors accused of
Speaker 4: supplying the actor with the drug, has agreed to plead
Speaker 4: guilty to four counts of distribution of ketamine. To charge
Speaker 4: carries a maximum sentence of forty years in federal prison.
Speaker 3: Whoa maximum of forty you won't get the maximum, but
Speaker 3: even if he gets a percentage of that, that's.
Speaker 1: Quite a bit of time in jail.
Speaker 3: But then, you know, don't give drug addicts a drug
Speaker 3: that they obviously are using to get high, doctor.
Speaker 6: And don't give people drugs that you know might kill them.
Speaker 6: Drug dealers all over the world giving people of for instance,
Speaker 6: you kill somebody, you pay for it. So I keep thinking,
Speaker 6: all right, let's get away from the Iran thing. I
Speaker 6: just saw the headline in Washington. Lawmakers are continuing their
Speaker 6: efforts to limit Trump's authority to use forces to engage
Speaker 6: in hostilities against Iran. But it's like ro Kana Democratic
Speaker 6: California and Thomas Massey, Republican of Kentucky introducing a measure.
Speaker 6: There's a couple of senators who are down with this
Speaker 6: idea too, of essentially recapturing Congress's role in declaring war right,
Speaker 6: and I'm not hostile to that idea by any means,
Speaker 6: but the concept of declaring war has become so muddled
Speaker 6: in the last seventy five years.
Speaker 1: I don't even know what it means.
Speaker 3: Every president since nine to eleven is still using the
Speaker 3: same authorization for all this.
Speaker 6: Stuff right right in a way that you know, you
Speaker 6: look at it seriously.
Speaker 1: It's just it's silly.
Speaker 3: There is some breaking news Bloomberg is reporting Russia has
Speaker 3: said they will not help Ran.
Speaker 1: Wow. So that's interesting. Yeah, I wonder.
Speaker 6: If Trump was working that angle when he made those
Speaker 6: statements at the G seven. Very soft on putin. You know,
Speaker 6: we've mentioned this a couple of times. Why don't we
Speaker 6: go ahead and hit that, uh put the play thirty
Speaker 6: one for us, Michael, the G seven used.
Speaker 1: To be the G eight.
Speaker 5: Barack Obama and a person named Trudeau didn't want to
Speaker 5: have Russia in. Then I would say that there was
Speaker 5: a mistake, because I think you wouldn't have a war
Speaker 5: right now if you had Russia in, and you wouldn't
Speaker 5: have a war right now if Trump were president four
Speaker 5: years ago. But it didn't work out that way. But
Speaker 5: it used to be the G eight and now it's
Speaker 5: I guess what's that nine years ago? Eight years ago
Speaker 5: and switched over the They threw Russia out, which I
Speaker 5: claimed was a very big mistake, even though I wasn't
Speaker 5: in politics and I was very loud about it. It
Speaker 5: was a mistake in that you spent so much time
Speaker 5: talking about Russia no longer at the table, so it
Speaker 5: makes life more complicated, But you wouldn't.
Speaker 1: Have had the work.
Speaker 6: That's just an odd, odd statement. The G seven is
Speaker 6: a group of industrialized Western countries that see the world
Speaker 6: and trade and civilization more or less the same. And
Speaker 6: then you've got Russia annexing parts of Ukraine, invading crimea,
Speaker 6: taking crimea annexing.
Speaker 3: It's too soft a word. I know, it's the word
Speaker 3: everybody uses. But he invaded a country and took part
Speaker 3: of their land, and so yeah, I get to be
Speaker 3: in the G seven anymore. So yeah, you kick him
Speaker 3: out of the we follow the rules group. Yeah again,
Speaker 3: I don't know what Trump is doing there. I hope
Speaker 3: it all becomes clear at some point. But this is
Speaker 3: so interesting. This is another aspect of this that I
Speaker 3: didn't see coming. Neither did anybody else.
Speaker 6: And it's the Wall Street Journal editorial board talking about
Speaker 6: how recent events, including the current mayhem in the Middle East,
Speaker 6: just haven't really shaken prices that much.
Speaker 1: They call it the oil price spike that wasn't.
Speaker 6: And the longest short of it is, there's so much
Speaker 6: production of oil and it's so dispersed that it's well,
Speaker 6: it's like a free market economy is supposed to function.
Speaker 6: Something crazy happens here knocks this amount of oil production offline.
Speaker 6: These people over there say, no, we'll crank out more
Speaker 6: of it. It'll be fine, and they go through all
Speaker 6: sorts of different examples and sanctions and Russians selling discounted
Speaker 6: oil to the Chinese. But the Chinese have the option
Speaker 6: of blankety blankets. So there's too many moving parts for
Speaker 6: everything to go nuts.
Speaker 1: Probably at this point.
Speaker 3: Wow, So is that era over the idea of you know,
Speaker 3: a problem in one spot causes people in California you
Speaker 3: have to wait in line for gas.
Speaker 6: Barring a catastrophic disruption, as they point out, Yeah, there
Speaker 6: just won't be that much instability.
Speaker 1: Like there used to be. Interesting.
Speaker 6: If you want to geek out on that, we can
Speaker 6: post that at Armstrong and Giddy dot com. So this
Speaker 6: is a really good piece from the National Review talking
Speaker 6: about how in politics and government, clever is not always
Speaker 6: the same thing as good. Sometimes you use cleverness to
Speaker 6: deceive and to pull off crap that shouldn't be happening.
Speaker 6: They're talking about the Trump administration, the Department of Defense
Speaker 6: renaming nine major military bases. You remember, back in twenty three,
Speaker 6: the Biden Department of Defense changed the names of all
Speaker 6: of these forts because they were named after Confederates.
Speaker 1: So that happened in twenty three.
Speaker 3: It's interesting because that happened It started under George Floyd,
Speaker 3: where all kinds of things were getting taken off schools
Speaker 3: and rivers and statues and everything like that.
Speaker 1: But it took the twenty three that they changed the forts.
Speaker 6: Well right exactly, and so they named they renamed Fort Benning,
Speaker 6: Fort Braggfort go Jordon, Fort ap Hill, Fort Hood, Fort Lee,
Speaker 6: Fort Pickett, Fort Polk, and Fort Rucker. And then some
Speaker 6: of the new Biden era installation names were worthy individuals
Speaker 6: General hal Moore and his wife Julia Compton Moore, who
Speaker 6: were the same namesakes of Fort Moore, and some of
Speaker 6: the other ones they named for some pretty good people.
Speaker 6: Others were less inspired. Fort Bragg merely became Fort Liberty,
Speaker 6: whatever that means. I mean, I'm in favor of Liberty, certainly.
Speaker 6: But so now the Army has announced and this is
Speaker 6: the clever part. And I want to dislike this because
Speaker 6: I think the editors in National Review want to dislike
Speaker 6: it too.
Speaker 1: But I think I like it.
Speaker 6: The Army has announced it will redesignate these installations back
Speaker 6: to their previous names, but with a twist. Fort Benning
Speaker 6: is going back to Fort Benning, but this time it's
Speaker 6: named for Corporal Fredgie Benning, a first no you idiot,
Speaker 6: Fred Benning, a First World War hero, instead of Henry Benning,
Speaker 6: a general in the Confederate Army. Fort Gordon is back
Speaker 6: to being Fort Gordon. It's now named to Honor Master
Speaker 6: Sergeant Gary Gordon, a Delta for sniper, awarded the Medal
Speaker 6: of Honor posthumously for his actions at the Battle of Mogadishu.
Speaker 6: It's her Blackhawk down Mayhem. So they've found great admirable
Speaker 6: Americans in the list. I mean, it gives you a chill,
Speaker 6: it warms your heart. Distinguished Service Cross the recipient Colonel
Speaker 6: Robert B. Hood, who showed extraordinary heroism in France during
Speaker 6: WW two. Oh I'm sorry he was WW one. Fort
Speaker 6: Hood is now named after Robert B. Hood, So they
Speaker 6: found great loyal Americans with the same last names and changed.
Speaker 1: The fort's back.
Speaker 3: Fort Lee now named after Peggy Lee, Who's sang?
Speaker 1: How much? Is that Doggie in the window? A timeless classic,
Speaker 1: no doubt? All right, So Jack, come on, what do
Speaker 1: you think of this maneuver? Don't make it.
Speaker 6: Seems jyvy as hell if but Fort Bragg is now
Speaker 6: Fort Bragg again.
Speaker 1: But it's a different brag.
Speaker 3: Okay, So I guess I have to start at the
Speaker 3: premise that we need the forts to have the same name,
Speaker 3: because I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: I'd buy that. I get what you're saying.
Speaker 3: And then but if I accept that, it still doesn't
Speaker 3: it still doesn't it change the fact that if you
Speaker 3: are an actual racist and or fan of the Confederacy
Speaker 3: and believe something should be named for Robert E.
Speaker 1: Lee, that you know. Okay, I know what we're doing.
Speaker 3: You got to say this for the other people, but
Speaker 3: we know, we know that you named him after the Confederates.
Speaker 1: So cool, cool, We're with you, I mean, is it?
Speaker 1: I mean?
Speaker 3: I hate the term dog whistle. I think of the
Speaker 3: time when I heard dog whizzle. It's inaccurate or over bolown,
Speaker 3: but smitcho actually be one.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I don't know. They mentioned in the National
Speaker 6: Review that very few Americans who resisted the changing names
Speaker 6: in twenty three did it out of affection for the Confederacy.
Speaker 1: Right. They resisted because of the.
Speaker 6: Spate of renaming seemed to be part of the whole
Speaker 6: woke cultural recruit.
Speaker 3: It all came with taking Thomas Jefferson's name off of
Speaker 3: the school and everything.
Speaker 1: It was all happening at the same time.
Speaker 6: Right, which is why at the beginning of the show
Speaker 6: I think it is, we have a recording saying from
Speaker 6: the Abraham Lincoln Studios that the George Washington you know,
Speaker 6: broadcast complex. That was a reaction to that, and the
Speaker 6: idea was that no, no, no, if we let you
Speaker 6: start with the Confederate generals, you're gonna end up turning
Speaker 6: the Washington Monument into the transsexual Monuments or whatever.
Speaker 1: Sure, just's a next thing, you know. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know. This is clever, but is it smart?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 6: Well, it's just yeah, they'll just go you know what, Yeah,
Speaker 6: that's that's kind of a head scratcher.
Speaker 1: Different people have different opinions.
Speaker 6: Do you want to email us about this mail bag
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Speaker 6: note four one five two nine f KFTC to the idea.
Speaker 3: That it wasn't actually you know, fans of the Confederacy
Speaker 3: or racists that were fighting this. How many people ever
Speaker 3: thought for a second about who Fort Bragg was named after?
Speaker 1: He just referred to it as Fort Bragg because that's
Speaker 1: what you knew it was called. I mean, it's just
Speaker 1: I didn't do they look back on it?
Speaker 3: And then how how many buildings, bridges, whatever do you
Speaker 3: encounter every day in your life?
Speaker 1: You know, across the Robinson Bridge? As back up today? Robinson?
Speaker 1: Who Robinson? I don't know why it's the Robinson Bridge?
Speaker 1: Nobody ever asks or cares.
Speaker 6: Right, Yeah, Judy and I'll actually occasionally search on that
Speaker 6: sort of thing when we're taking road trips.
Speaker 1: Well, the John G. Robinson Bridge, Why don't you figure
Speaker 1: out who John G. Robinson was?
Speaker 6: Just to make the miles go by, And it's kind
Speaker 6: of fun. Actually, here's another fun thing. You're you're driving
Speaker 6: through a town, it's got like a big gaudy water
Speaker 6: tower or something like that. You search on that town's name,
Speaker 6: and and we've done this a couple of times, and.
Speaker 3: I must stay in bed. Now, that's with fortune cookie.
Speaker 1: That's your porn name. No, no, totally different thing.
Speaker 6: No.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 6: And and usually the Wikipedia entry has notable people who've
Speaker 6: come from that town. And it'll be a couple of
Speaker 6: running backs in the NFL, it'll be a Supreme Court justice,
Speaker 6: it'll be a mass murderer, a porn star. And and
Speaker 6: you know the guy who invented the penicillin or something.
Speaker 1: That's a heck of a town makes them up.
Speaker 6: Well, that's the virtually every town in America, honestly cool.
Speaker 6: It's a it's a great way to make the miles
Speaker 6: go by, go bye. Speaking of military acts, and oh,
Speaker 6: back to your point about the whole Fort Brawd thing.
Speaker 1: Two things.
Speaker 6: It's worth reminding people over and over again that a
Speaker 6: lot of that stuff wasn't named that in eighteen sixty six.
Speaker 6: It was named that during the nineteen tens and twenties,
Speaker 6: when pushes for real civil rights for Americans, ending the
Speaker 6: Jim crowe are African Americans was being pushed, and a
Speaker 6: lot of avowed racists wanted to celebrate the Confederacy. A
Speaker 6: lot of that stuff was born for the worst possible motives.
Speaker 6: Second thing is, you know, to your point, nobody knows
Speaker 6: what Fort Bragg is. Anyway, I had another point that
Speaker 6: got me back to fifty one forty nine in favor
Speaker 6: of this. Yeah, it doesn't matter, let's move on. Well not,
Speaker 6: I got distracted by my own Yeah, yeah, what was
Speaker 6: it going to be is for bragged and named after?
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. I'm back to that. This is unequivocally good.
Speaker 1: I love this.
Speaker 6: Executives from a bunch of big tech companies have joined
Speaker 6: a new innovation Corps in the Army Reserve. It's a
Speaker 6: new Army Reserve unit that enlists Silicon Valley executives to
Speaker 6: upgrade the technical capabilities of the American Armed Forces.
Speaker 3: It's a great idea, and you know, now that you
Speaker 3: say it, it seems like OBS should have done this a
Speaker 3: long time ago.
Speaker 1: This is a great idea.
Speaker 6: Yeah, they're referring to it as the nerd Corps. I
Speaker 6: think is that what they're calling. Yeah, Executives from Metapallaneer
Speaker 6: open AI are set to join the new Army Innovation
Speaker 6: Corps bringing tech upgrades to the military. These tech reservists
Speaker 6: will serve one hundred and twenty hours a year as
Speaker 6: lieutenant colonels advising on AI in commercial tech acquisition. And
Speaker 6: there is a real vein of patriotism and up with
Speaker 6: America running through some of the higher reaches of Silicon
Speaker 6: Valley right now, and an understanding that they're good buddies
Speaker 6: from China, aren't their buddies whatsoever? Let's see, you know,
Speaker 6: I could name these people. If you know them, you
Speaker 6: know them. But here's this forty three year old guy
Speaker 6: who wanted to be a fighter pilot.
Speaker 1: He was too tall.
Speaker 6: He went off to do other things, but he's never
Speaker 6: lost his desire to serve the country. He's the chief,
Speaker 6: the tech chief at Meta. Zuckerberg's going wow. He says,
Speaker 6: there's a lot of patriotism that's been under the covers
Speaker 6: that I think is coming to light in the valley.
Speaker 6: And these guys will have to do.
Speaker 1: Some physical fitness tests.
Speaker 3: Indicating this for a while. Don't make them do a
Speaker 3: certain number. Keep the guy out he can't do enough
Speaker 3: push ups fast enough. Who freaking cares right?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 6: For the army, the deepening ties can help it prepare
Speaker 6: for the wars of the future. Obviously it's all going
Speaker 6: to be technology.
Speaker 3: So I mentioned this was a mom of one of
Speaker 3: my son's friends. They moved to Austin, Texas, like so
Speaker 3: many people I now have have left California for the
Speaker 3: obvious reasons. But anyway, she had been in the military.
Speaker 3: I think she's FBI since then.
Speaker 1: Anyway, she had to do all this physical fitness stuff.
Speaker 3: She was a computer person like this that she was
Speaker 3: super smart with computers, and that's what she did in
Speaker 3: the military. And she never could understand the physical fitness
Speaker 3: stuff or being able to shoot a gun. That's what
Speaker 3: she talked about. If it ever gets to the point
Speaker 3: where I need to shoot a gun, we're screwed. I
Speaker 3: mean just sitting sitting in a building somewhere running a computer.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we get. We got to change the requirements for
Speaker 1: some of these jobs.
Speaker 6: A lot of folks listening in Silicon Valley, you want
Speaker 6: to keep the freedom that's given you the opportunity to innovate,
Speaker 6: Like y'all, are you gotta protect this country. I love
Speaker 6: this trend. Love it, love it, love it. Let's see
Speaker 6: more of it, more of the way.
Speaker 1: Here's our first one.
Speaker 9: Peloton seemed like a good idea during the pandemic. Baked Lays,
Speaker 9: you're gonna want to lubricate these things somehow.
Speaker 1: That's true, Taco Bell. They don't have to be drug
Speaker 1: but like.
Speaker 9: Big loss, like if a giant picked up a target
Speaker 9: and shook it, like a game of boggling. Grape nuts
Speaker 9: because breakfast should hurt and finally funians. There aren't enough listerine.
Speaker 3: Strips in the world to say to you now, baked lays,
Speaker 3: you do need some water handy.
Speaker 1: They are a bite full of the sahara to grape nuts.
Speaker 3: Breakfast should hurt my son because I hate grape nuts
Speaker 3: fairly regularly, and they're pretty healthy cereal. I mean there's
Speaker 3: no sugar or fat in them or anything like that,
Speaker 3: and lots of fiber, which I need incredibly bland, like
Speaker 3: most healthy stuff is. My son had his first bowl
Speaker 3: because he sees me eat him all the time.
Speaker 1: He said, do you eat these things? He said, I
Speaker 1: gotta throw them away.
Speaker 3: I said, make a small bowl because you might not
Speaker 3: like it because it is eating a little box or
Speaker 3: a bowl of rocks.
Speaker 1: Well, and it's dense as uranium.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, very filling. That's the other thing
Speaker 3: I like about it. A couple of spoonfuls and I
Speaker 3: am full.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 3: And the Peloton thing, which the crowd laughed at for
Speaker 3: quite a while. I guess a lot of people did that,
Speaker 3: but butcher exercisements.
Speaker 1: Did you do that, kiddie? You're one of them? Yeah, guilty.
Speaker 1: What is a Peloton? It's just a brand?
Speaker 3: Or is it the recumbent bike that has the screen
Speaker 3: and you can go on and take classes with people?
Speaker 6: Well, and the poor folks at Peloton Peloton said, we're
Speaker 6: growing like crazy and it'll keep happening, so let's expand
Speaker 6: like crazy and invest.
Speaker 1: All the money we're making into growing even more. And
Speaker 1: then it all went kurb bluey.
Speaker 3: I'm not mocking it because I've done it myself, but
Speaker 3: it's amazing our ability to convince ourselves that if we
Speaker 3: have the right piece of expensive equipment, we will exercise regularly.
Speaker 6: That's the multon was pretty good good. It had some
Speaker 6: real appeal to it because you'd take classes with the
Speaker 6: screens and all sorts of stuff and have landscapes go.
Speaker 1: By A missing link.
Speaker 3: Is not my ambition or getting over laziness or I
Speaker 3: just don't want to. Nope, it's the right equipment. That's
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