Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe, Katty arm Strong and Jetty.
Speaker 2: And Key.
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Yeddy.
Speaker 3: Welcome to a brand new week live from studio. See
Speaker 3: Sometimes sometimes the bison of life flips you in the
Speaker 3: air and you land on your head. Sometimes the soccer
Speaker 3: ball of life hits you in the head and goes
Speaker 3: right in the goal and you move on to the
Speaker 3: next match.
Speaker 1: That's the way life is.
Speaker 3: This week, which is going to be You don't know
Speaker 3: how y'all doing. Deep within the bowels of the Armstrong
Speaker 3: and Getty Communications Compound and today toiling Under the title
Speaker 3: of the show well Bless his Soul, Lindsey Graham's death
Speaker 3: is a Loss for Freedom or alternate title frost bitten
Speaker 3: wounded by attacks from both bears and moose.
Speaker 1: Joe Getty returns from Alaska. There you go, people will
Speaker 1: be happy. Oh my god, I was beset by I
Speaker 1: was running from a bear when I was gored by
Speaker 1: the moose. It was a bad day where fang it
Speaker 1: tossed me into the water where I nearly escape being
Speaker 1: eaten by an orca. It was a long day that
Speaker 1: guy's okay, who landed on his head? Uh? He landed
Speaker 1: on his arse. As a matter of fact, Oh, it
Speaker 1: looked like he landed on his head. Now. As I
Speaker 1: watched him flipping, I thought, oh, oh arse, excellent. Good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean at his age, that makes all the difference
Speaker 1: in the world. Yeah, I think anybody's gone ass over
Speaker 1: tea kettle, whether you know, be set by bison, motorcyclerecs,
Speaker 1: sports whatever. As you're flipping around in the air, you're thinking,
Speaker 1: oh boy, I hope I don't land oh on my head?
Speaker 1: Oh not good, I am. I tweeted out a picture
Speaker 1: of a buffalo.
Speaker 3: We are that close to it, somewhere in South Coder,
Speaker 3: Montana or something like that summer before last.
Speaker 1: You think you're far enough away they're not going to
Speaker 1: run in.
Speaker 2: If they did, you could scurry off.
Speaker 1: But apparently not. Well, old Granddad, the flippy, not the whiskey.
Speaker 1: Old Granddad was not violating any of the guidelines because
Speaker 1: he was They say, be twenty five yards away. He
Speaker 1: seemed to be solid.
Speaker 3: I think so the guidelines there are guidelines for how
Speaker 3: far away you're supposed to be from a buffalo, are
Speaker 3: absolutely Apparently they're wrong. Apparently those guidelines need to be updated.
Speaker 1: Well, there are guidelines. Hilarious. Listen to the safety extremist, Michael,
Speaker 1: we're dealing with a millennial here. You want a world
Speaker 1: where you view buffalo from bison more properly from miles away,
Speaker 1: to make sure everybody's safe. Safety fuzz. He worships safety.
Speaker 1: I say, you commune with the beasts. Occasionally you get flipped.
Speaker 1: Do you worship guidelines from bureaucrats? La, it's on. I've
Speaker 1: been here for three minutes at already, he's at my throat. Hilarious, vicious.
Speaker 1: I didn't take long. Yeah, up, take those guidelines. If
Speaker 1: you're gonna have guidelines, apparently, no fifty million times that.
Speaker 3: If Grandpa gets flipped, I've never even heard of guidelines
Speaker 3: for this, I would ignore them.
Speaker 1: If I had heard them.
Speaker 3: I will get as close as I feel like getting
Speaker 3: on any given situation, looking at the buffalo and seeing
Speaker 3: how agitated he seems. This one seems fairly seemed fairly agitated,
Speaker 3: though the one I looked at them close was just
Speaker 3: laying there chewing its grass. This one looked wound up
Speaker 3: about something. Yeah, needed a girlfriend.
Speaker 1: Maybe that was it. That's exactly it. It's buffalo sexy
Speaker 1: time right now.
Speaker 3: Oh man, if you really need a girlfriend, the last
Speaker 3: thing you need is some old band staring at you.
Speaker 1: I've been the same way.
Speaker 3: What are you looking at you're really wanting someone, there's
Speaker 3: some old band staring at you taking pictures.
Speaker 1: You to worry for me, I'll chase you through the trees.
Speaker 1: I'm going to roll around in industrial ound trying to
Speaker 1: calm down. But if you were still looking at me,
Speaker 1: would not get up. I'll tell you what to be,
Speaker 1: old brot.
Speaker 3: Do you think these little trees is gonna work what.
Speaker 1: You need? That's what you need. Oh crappy landed on
Speaker 1: his butt. Boy, the things as big as a box car,
Speaker 1: though Agilus can be whoo. That's got to be a
Speaker 1: bad feeling. You got a bison chasing you. I bet
Speaker 1: that old man had moved that fast in twenty five
Speaker 1: years all but he hadn't either. He was a fat
Speaker 1: guy too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, old and fat has no situation for fighting a bison.
Speaker 1: Long beard flapping in the wind, Where were we all?
Speaker 1: Lindsey Graham, God bless him.
Speaker 3: So we're certain that he did not die at the
Speaker 3: hands of Ladimir Putin at this point.
Speaker 1: Well, it's possible of Ladd Putin, insidious monster that he is,
Speaker 1: had some sort of clever device inserted in Lindsey Graham's
Speaker 1: They ordered to dissect it, but it seems unlikely. I've
Speaker 1: shared this with the crew of via text. Over the weekend,
Speaker 1: my neighbor had precisely that same thing happened and they
Speaker 1: barely got into his house and saved him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it does make it less likely. Although I was
Speaker 3: surprised by just tweeting out, you know, did Putin do it?
Speaker 3: The number of people who thought that was tinfoil hat stuff?
Speaker 1: Are you crazy?
Speaker 3: There's documented evidence of Putin killing lots of people.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and.
Speaker 3: There's hardly a bigger opponent on earth outside of maybe Zelensky.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 3: It's possible Lindsay Gram was more important than Zelensky in
Speaker 3: terms of who Putin would want to get rid of,
Speaker 3: as Lindsey Graham was definitely the most powerful person in government,
Speaker 3: advocating for the United States to take on Ukraine at
Speaker 3: the highest level and had the presidents here, right, So
Speaker 3: it's not at all tinfoil hat stuff to think Putin
Speaker 3: would want to poison him or get something sort of
Speaker 3: nerve agent in him or something like that.
Speaker 1: But look, if he had died mysteriously and said I
Speaker 1: can't see, I can't see, and then drop dead, well
Speaker 1: then yeah.
Speaker 3: Well his his PR people didn't help with their why
Speaker 3: didn't you put out he had a massive heart attack
Speaker 3: or whatever you'd call it, as opposed to after a
Speaker 3: short illness he died unexpectedly. Okay, that's just like setting
Speaker 3: up the world for wondering what the heck got a
Speaker 3: short illness.
Speaker 1: A brief and sudden illness. He was a auditor, he
Speaker 1: was talking at a podium like an hour ago. So
Speaker 1: this looks pretty weird. Yeah, so when we found out
Speaker 1: what actually happened, it was a little bit different. I
Speaker 1: was reminded of how the modern world works. Though, in
Speaker 1: the immediate aftermath of the announcement of his passing, I
Speaker 1: jumped on the Twitter for the first time in a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks, which was refreshing at the break, not
Speaker 1: going back to it, and was immediately struck by how
Speaker 1: many grifters were trying to sell their particular twisted conspiracy
Speaker 1: theory of how he died, and how that's such a
Speaker 1: fertile field. Now you got to get your grift out there.
Speaker 1: You got to get your framework out there, and of
Speaker 1: course half of them ended up with you know, it
Speaker 1: was the Jews for some reason, of course, But yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's such a fertile business these days, it's such
Speaker 1: a profitable business.
Speaker 3: Lindsey Graham only nine years and seven months older than me,
Speaker 3: so I got my attention. But when I found out
Speaker 3: that his dad had died heart blew up on him
Speaker 3: also at age sixty nine, I thought, oh, okay, that
Speaker 3: also makes it seem more likely.
Speaker 2: Just one of those things I've.
Speaker 1: Had a cardiologist to say to me personally, and I
Speaker 1: didn't appreciate it at the time. Joe. Often the first
Speaker 1: sign of heart disease is sudden mortality.
Speaker 3: That was something I was watching one of the speeches
Speaker 3: that Lindsay gave.
Speaker 1: Late what they did.
Speaker 3: He die Saturday night, late Saturday afternoon, and I thought,
Speaker 3: it's incredible.
Speaker 1: This guy has just only got like three hours to
Speaker 1: live watching this speech.
Speaker 3: Yeah, wild, it really could be a world history changing
Speaker 3: a orda explosion. Though Lindsey Graham was the hawk of
Speaker 3: hawks on Irand and Ukraine and had the ear of
Speaker 3: the president more than anybody on planet Earth.
Speaker 1: Though really really did I believe they're good friends.
Speaker 3: Those two things could add up to history change and
Speaker 3: sort of death there because there's not going to be
Speaker 3: another advocate that has the president's ear that way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I wonder boy. I hope that's not the case,
Speaker 1: but it sure could be. Now. I'll elaborate on the
Speaker 1: following point later, but here's the brief version. You're seeing
Speaker 1: commentary from various quarters, including some of the rotten pieces
Speaker 1: of crap at the Lincoln Project and others. They are
Speaker 1: rotten pieces of crap, Yeah, they really are. They're awful
Speaker 1: human beings. They're bad Americans. They're bad humans. Ah. I
Speaker 1: said that twice. The analysis being Lindsey Graham, who initially
Speaker 1: criticized Trump harshly later aligned with him, showing he's a
Speaker 1: hypocrite and he became a sycophant. That's some good, stupid
Speaker 1: analysis from evil people. And if if you're stupid, enjoy
Speaker 1: that stupid, stupid analysis. Here's an alternate analysis. He kept
Speaker 1: his eyes on what mattered, He kept his eyes on
Speaker 1: the policies he cared about, and thought, damn, I gotta
Speaker 1: work with Trump now. But we've got to do what's
Speaker 1: right for America. So I gotta work with Trump best
Speaker 1: I can. There you go, oh boy?
Speaker 3: And did he influence the government the direction he wanted? Absolutely?
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh. He hadn't been in office, he wouldn't
Speaker 3: have been able to.
Speaker 1: So if you'd taken his toys and stomped off, gone home,
Speaker 1: that's a tough one, bok. Not everybody can do that.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't be able to just Okay, I'm gonna make
Speaker 3: friends with this person I hate.
Speaker 2: I don't have that in me. But yeah, if you.
Speaker 3: Want to accomplish things in politics, you need to have
Speaker 3: that in you.
Speaker 1: A couple of things that really struck me on that
Speaker 1: topic about Lindsey Graham was number one. He was a
Speaker 1: lot like me. I can't remember who's saying this, but
Speaker 1: oh Tim Scott said this. He is gay fellow senator
Speaker 1: from from South Carolina who said Lindsey just didn't hold grudges.
Speaker 1: He couldn't remember who he was supposed to be mad at,
Speaker 1: and he liked people, so he figured, oh, we'll work together,
Speaker 1: we'll find a way. He was just a sweet human
Speaker 1: being in that way. And I don't mean gay, I
Speaker 1: mean pleasant, you idiot. And the other thing was on Twitter,
Speaker 1: the part that didn't make me want to vomit immediately
Speaker 1: and smash my smartphone with a hammer. Was Several people
Speaker 1: came up and said I had a bitter disagreement with him.
Speaker 1: I said terrible things about him. Ben Dominich was one
Speaker 1: I remember. And what's the other guy's name? Doesn't matter,
Speaker 1: and they said. And I ran into him a week
Speaker 1: later and he was completely friendly and welcoming, and I said,
Speaker 1: you know, I'd said some harsh things about you. And
Speaker 1: he said, oh, everybody gets to have an opinion. That's fine.
Speaker 1: I get it. I can respect that. And he just
Speaker 1: didn't hold grudges.
Speaker 3: Remember when Trump gave out his phone number, gave out
Speaker 3: lundsy Gum's phone number.
Speaker 2: Yes, that was a funny moment.
Speaker 3: Anyway, we should start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong,
Speaker 3: He's Joe getting on this. It is Monday, July thirteenth,
Speaker 3: or almost halfway through July. Already to your twenty twenty
Speaker 3: six or Armstrong, you getting we approve of this program.
Speaker 1: All right, let's start running away from the Bison of
Speaker 1: Faith as fast as we can, precisely according to FCC rules.
Speaker 1: Rags at Mark. But I just want to make it
Speaker 1: really clear.
Speaker 4: I'm in the Hitler Sucks wing of their Revolgan Party.
Speaker 1: What is this Hitler? I don't know. Anyway, he was
Speaker 1: also hilariously funny.
Speaker 3: I've got a funny quote from Al Franken, the former
Speaker 3: Saturday Night Live writer who went on to be a
Speaker 3: US Senator. He was asked who in government is funny
Speaker 3: and he said nobody except for Lindsay Graham. He said,
Speaker 3: Lindsay Graham is hilarious, like truly hilarious from Al Franken.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll get.
Speaker 3: To headlines with Heather Meyers coming up. Do we have
Speaker 3: Hather today or no we do not, sir?
Speaker 1: Okay, wow, self generated, home grown headline in summertime. It's
Speaker 1: hard to have everybody working at the same time, or
Speaker 1: at school at the same time, or at your whatever
Speaker 1: at the same time. I've noticed with various meanings.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to have stuff like that because everybody's you know,
Speaker 3: different schedule. Anyway, we'll get to headlines other things that
Speaker 3: are going on in the world, and there's lots of
Speaker 3: stuff going on, things that Lindsey Graham cared about that
Speaker 3: will no longer have an influence on, which is interesting.
Speaker 1: All on the way, stay hear.
Speaker 3: Got two quotes for you that can tell you where
Speaker 3: we are with the Iran war. Just with two quotes,
Speaker 3: scent Com said today Iran does not control the straight
Speaker 3: of hor moves. Ran said, the straight of hor moves
Speaker 3: is our territory and we will not allow a rogue
Speaker 3: and child killing army from the other side of the
Speaker 3: world to continue its illegal interference in it.
Speaker 1: That's a real contrast there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a point of difference that it is going
Speaker 3: to have to be. That bridge is good good, The
Speaker 3: space is going to get bridged.
Speaker 1: With some sort of yes, some excellent excellent now there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: ah so a handful of headlines. That's certainly one big
Speaker 1: new strikes on Iranian targets throughout the weekend, according to Scentcom,
Speaker 1: retaliation tit for tat, et cetera, Iran lashing out at
Speaker 1: all the Gulf states, including Oman, which was going to
Speaker 1: be their buddy in charging tolls in the Strait right.
Speaker 3: We had a conversation on Friday, why as long as
Speaker 3: you say for tat afterwards, you can say the other word,
Speaker 3: but if you don't say for tat after it, you
Speaker 3: can't say that word.
Speaker 1: It's interesting, isn't it. It is? And in similar fashion,
Speaker 1: I can say you're an ass, Michael. I could say
Speaker 1: I dug a hole yesterday. But it's best that the
Speaker 1: two be kept. A bart or the fabulous dog, the
Speaker 1: shit zoo. Oh it's a fine breed, loyal oil. Gotta
Speaker 1: have the zoo. Yes, must must be, must be there. Anyway,
Speaker 1: where were we? Ah? Yes, you've probably heard this. Preliminary
Speaker 1: medical examination determined lens Graham died of an aortic dissection,
Speaker 1: a tear along the inner layer of the main artery
Speaker 1: due to arteriosclerootic cardiovascular disease. A stabbing pain for your
Speaker 1: back to your chest and back again. That's the symptom
Speaker 1: called nine one one right now.
Speaker 3: According to Politico, on Friday evening, hours before he died,
Speaker 3: he said he didn't feel very good.
Speaker 1: He's going to go to the doctor. Right after his appearance.
Speaker 2: On Meet the Press yesterday morning.
Speaker 3: Oh, since I get done with meat the price, I'm
Speaker 3: going to the doctor. I do not feel good, and
Speaker 3: he actually set out loud, I can't die now. I'm
Speaker 3: so close to getting the thing done with Iran.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, and the sanctions against the the Ruski
Speaker 1: higher ups. He was finally going to get that through
Speaker 1: finally had Trump's support. Yeah, oh my gosh. Yeah, Yanick
Speaker 1: Sinner won his second straight Wimbledon championship. Jack Rawl sinners
Speaker 1: Man Wimbledon. Nothing else on that not get the attention
Speaker 1: it used to get.
Speaker 3: I watched more soccer over the weekend than I have
Speaker 3: watched cumulatively in my entire life.
Speaker 1: So soccer has entered my world, and we do have.
Speaker 3: We're down to the final four and you got France
Speaker 3: Spain today and Argentina England tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Did you hear that? That's epic Argentina Egypt battle that
Speaker 1: was lost by Egypt has launched age new anti Semitic
Speaker 1: conspiracy theory online. No.
Speaker 3: They call it one of the great games in the
Speaker 3: history of soccer.
Speaker 1: And I watched it and it was amazing. And we'll
Speaker 1: tell you about exciting, absolutely moronic attempt to blame the
Speaker 1: Jews for everything. What the hell? People? Never again is now?
Speaker 1: Later on in the show, you got your mirror of
Speaker 1: cold Never mind, nobody cares about that. Mitch McConnell showed
Speaker 1: up again. He's very old. He fell, he had the pneumonia.
Speaker 3: Well, I think that was a I think that was
Speaker 3: a Lindsey Graham died the Senates so close to fifty
Speaker 3: to fifty. I got to come out and he's been
Speaker 3: in the hospital for a long time. Come out and
Speaker 3: say I'm still alive. Money Python like, yeah, is he
Speaker 3: what's his status electorally? He's not running for reelection, is he?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: But he is in the Senate and needs to be
Speaker 3: a vote if they're going to vote on anything.
Speaker 1: Yeah. South Cakilac needs a new senator now, and there'll
Speaker 1: be a temporary one. But former Congressman I think is
Speaker 1: who's seventy eight years old, has said yes, I'll serve
Speaker 1: out the term and then I'll run for a new term. No,
Speaker 1: just no. Well, and Nancy Mace came out and said
Speaker 1: she might run. If anybody's looking for a cree'sy senator,
Speaker 1: she'd be a good choice. We'll catch up on some
Speaker 1: other stuff that happened over the weekend. Though.
Speaker 3: There's a new dating app that apparently is a caught
Speaker 3: hold among young people. Lots of stuff, hard news, soft news,
Speaker 3: and everything in between.
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 4: This latest route of air strikes came after Iran fired
Speaker 4: on a Cypress flag.
Speaker 1: Cargo ship crossing the Strait.
Speaker 4: It was traveling outside of the route designated by Iran
Speaker 4: and following the route encouraged by the US. One sailor
Speaker 4: is now missing and the ship was disabled. President Trump
Speaker 4: says Iran triggered this round of violence.
Speaker 3: So I wanted to play that to get into a
Speaker 3: little feature I'm going to do, called me asking Joe
Speaker 3: questions since he's back from vacation. Joe was that old
Speaker 3: guy who got flipped by the bison man.
Speaker 1: If you've seen that VI hurt.
Speaker 3: Oh, Luckily he's okay and he's back from vacation. That
Speaker 3: clip there about Iran firing the ships. I can't figure
Speaker 3: out what i ran strategy is. What are they trying
Speaker 3: to do? They had like the greatest The reason everybody left,
Speaker 3: right and center hated the MoU the deal Trump made
Speaker 3: was because it was so good for Ran.
Speaker 1: You got a great deal.
Speaker 3: The money spicket was turned back on. You're dragging your
Speaker 3: feet on your nuclear negotiations. You won, So why did
Speaker 3: you start firing on ships? What is their flipping strategy?
Speaker 1: A couple of things. Number One, I've read some some
Speaker 1: learned analysis that suggests they have sided that the straight
Speaker 1: and or Straits of Hormuz is their nuclear weapon. And
Speaker 1: so they are going to control it period, and they
Speaker 1: are going to wear the US and the West down
Speaker 1: till we say, okay, okay, you can charge tolls and
Speaker 1: control it, just please let the economy function. So they
Speaker 1: wanted more than the deal. And second thing, if I
Speaker 1: was advising them, I'd say you won. Well, see here's
Speaker 1: the one, here's the I agree with you. The other
Speaker 1: part of the problem is and John Bolton, who by
Speaker 1: the way, makes Lindsey Graham look like JD. Vance. John
Speaker 1: Bolton is saying we were too successful in decapitating the
Speaker 1: Iranian leadership. They don't have anybody who can make a
Speaker 1: decision and make it stick. Across the government. They are
Speaker 1: still trying to figure out how to run the place
Speaker 1: and who's in charge. They can't make a deal. They're
Speaker 1: too weak, which I thought was interesting.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so they announced the lateen week might even have
Speaker 3: been over the weekend the government announced, Hey, that wasn't
Speaker 3: us that fired on those ships in the Strait. It's
Speaker 3: some rogue people we have no control over. Is that
Speaker 3: them just jerking the world around or is that true?
Speaker 3: Could be true.
Speaker 1: Also could just be Hey, you can't blame me, that
Speaker 1: was some crazy guy well exactly, but scenarios are entirely possible.
Speaker 1: But it accomplished what they wanted.
Speaker 3: As ships start stopped going through the strait because once
Speaker 3: again insurance companies are saying, no, no, you're not going.
Speaker 1: Through there, right. Yeah, well, god, I just I just so,
Speaker 1: since you weren't here.
Speaker 3: Last week of Wall Street Journals reporting on Friday was
Speaker 3: that zero had been had happened so far in the
Speaker 3: nuclear negotiation in the talks for a couple of weeks. Zero,
Speaker 3: No single thing had been accomplished.
Speaker 1: Nope, hadn't even like you decided how to set up
Speaker 1: chairs in the table and whether we'll have coffee or
Speaker 1: just like multiple beverages or nothing. Nothing.
Speaker 3: He had cut off the money Stickott, Secretary of Treasurer,
Speaker 3: came out and said, ducky, that's over. You don't get
Speaker 3: to trade in US dollars and sell oil and all
Speaker 3: that sort of stuff. So we're back going to say.
Speaker 3: It's scary to one on that.
Speaker 1: It struck me that nothing had changed in the last
Speaker 1: two and a half weeks, but I guess that changed.
Speaker 1: A lot happened in between.
Speaker 3: But yeah, ultimately you come back after vacation and you're
Speaker 3: in the same spot as when you.
Speaker 1: Left, which yea more of the same sort of things happened. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I thought Iran was going to get away with making
Speaker 3: lots of money and dragging their feet on the war
Speaker 3: getting a nuclear weapon thing for until they got one.
Speaker 3: But I don't know where we are now. I was
Speaker 3: listening to Jim Vandahi. I think easy got his started
Speaker 3: political or something many ways journalist with a lot of connections.
Speaker 3: He said, by far the most likely direction this thing
Speaker 3: goes now is exploding conflagation in terms of the war
Speaker 3: getting really big, that's by far the most likely thing
Speaker 3: that happens at this point.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think he made a really good point
Speaker 1: thirty seconds ago. I've been predicting more or less what
Speaker 1: you are, that Aaron would pretend to agree to something,
Speaker 1: drag their feet developed nuclear arms, that's what they've always done.
Speaker 1: But shooting at the ships in the Strait that is
Speaker 1: contradictory to that, and it brings it back to my
Speaker 1: other point. The Strait is the new nuclear weapon must
Speaker 1: be their strategy.
Speaker 3: Wall Street Journal and New York Times today arguing that
Speaker 3: we've got to open the Strait. We need to militarily
Speaker 3: force open the Strait. New York Times and the Wall
Speaker 3: Street Journal. Yeah, so are we going to do that
Speaker 3: or not, because that's that's going to require, like a
Speaker 3: real war with.
Speaker 1: Loss of life. Yes, yes, may Jack you good folks,
Speaker 1: And God forgive me for bringing up the year after next.
Speaker 1: I'm not even going to name it. Marco Rubio really
Speaker 1: clearly ascendant.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: Jd Vance is struggling.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, jd Vance getting killed everywhere, and he should
Speaker 3: in my opinion, for that whole You know what's really
Speaker 3: cool is the iron GC realizes they were making a
Speaker 3: mistake all those years. That was one of the dumbest
Speaker 3: things anybody that level or higher as ever said.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're just embarrassing things. And with all due respect
Speaker 1: to the missteps that have happened when America has projected
Speaker 1: a strong and forceful foreign policy Iraq, for instance, the
Speaker 1: idea that we should, we just need, we need to
Speaker 1: pay attention to our own neighborhood. And let's just let
Speaker 1: the Pax Americana, the American generated and enforced peace and
Speaker 1: prosperity the world has enjoyed for seventy five years. Let's
Speaker 1: just let that go away and try something new. I'm
Speaker 1: back again to tell you that's dumb. It's so dumb.
Speaker 1: Can we should we twist Europe's arms to be worth
Speaker 1: a crap and actually be an ally? Yes, one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: Should we tweak the projection of American power and constantly
Speaker 1: reassess how it's being used and how expensive it and
Speaker 1: what benefits were getting from it?
Speaker 3: Yes, one hundred percent. But isolationism is stupid. Wow, the
Speaker 3: ghost of Lindsey Graham is inhabited of Joe's body. I
Speaker 3: believe I am being possessed by Lindsay Graham. God, bless
Speaker 3: my behind, my soul, bless my soul. Another question about
Speaker 3: something that happened while you were gone. That woman came
Speaker 3: forward with the very believable rape accusations against Plattner. She
Speaker 3: was part of that New York Times article that buried
Speaker 3: it for some reason. Nobody's quite sure what was going
Speaker 3: on there, but Platner getting out good thing for Susan Collins,
Speaker 3: the sitting Republican senator or bad thing that's kind of
Speaker 3: interesting now drove them out of the race. Is that
Speaker 3: a good thing or a bad thing? Is that help
Speaker 3: her or herd her?
Speaker 1: Oh boy, that's a that's a good question because the
Speaker 1: faux oysterman, the gruff yet eloquent fau oysterman. He had charisma, undeniably,
Speaker 1: he was a political force.
Speaker 3: Well, he'll force his way into your house in rapeia, right, right,
Speaker 3: even if you said repeatedly don't come over or don't
Speaker 3: touch me, he'll do it anyway. Of course, you break
Speaker 3: into his house, he'll take his sharpened axe and then
Speaker 3: also rape you.
Speaker 1: Well that's right, yeah, to show his dominance. Right, I'd
Speaker 1: forgotten not a gay thing. Remember he said that it's
Speaker 1: not a game thing. You's gonna show the dominant thing,
Speaker 1: right exactly? Yeah, uh yeah, I you know, my first
Speaker 1: my quick answer is, yeah, it's better for Susan Collins
Speaker 1: that he's out because whoever gets in barring some sort
Speaker 1: of you know, uh LOUI Garrick six sits down and
Speaker 1: Cal Ripken comes in scenario or whatever. I can't remember
Speaker 1: how all that transpired. Oh, I guess Ernie Brolio sat
Speaker 1: down Cal and it doesn't matter anyway. The point is,
Speaker 1: if you know, some superstar emerges, uh, well, okay, great,
Speaker 1: but that's unlikely to happen. So yeah, him being out
Speaker 1: is a good thing. Although he's a communist wackydoodle but
Speaker 1: communist wacked doodles are ascendant. I've got some great analysis
Speaker 1: on that too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's highly excited.
Speaker 3: Did you see a picture of uh Tim Sanderfer with
Speaker 3: James Lindsay. Tim sent that out. He's with him in
Speaker 3: some event here the and I texted back to him.
Speaker 1: I said, the two of you could save America. Certainly
Speaker 1: could Tim?
Speaker 2: Send?
Speaker 3: For going around talking about the Declaration independ it's what
Speaker 3: it actually means versus the crazy forces of the sixteen
Speaker 3: ninety project and James Lindsay America's leading anti communist.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, and James wanted to say hello to us apparently,
Speaker 1: or at least that's what Tim said. And I'm gonna
Speaker 1: choose to bleed. I got one more question for you,
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Speaker 3: Wolf Ooh, my local Imax is going to show The
Speaker 3: Odyssey on the Imax. The Odyssey comes out Friday, I
Speaker 3: think is the date, the seventeenth, and my son's going
Speaker 3: with his friends. I was hoping to take go out there.
Speaker 3: I guess I'll sit there by myself like some sort
Speaker 3: of sad person who wants to see the Odyssey.
Speaker 1: I'm an iliad guy. But if you want to waste
Speaker 1: your time to go ahead.
Speaker 3: I feel like it's I've never read it. I feel
Speaker 3: like this will help me along and I can kind
Speaker 3: of quote it for the rest of my life, having
Speaker 3: never had to read it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, pretending that you're familiar with it.
Speaker 3: The same guy that made Oppenheimer and you know, a
Speaker 3: bunch of other really amazing movies.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and there's the usual argument online about is it
Speaker 1: woke or not? I just I just don't worry about
Speaker 1: that much, not paying any attention to that conversation. Well,
Speaker 1: what was I going to say, though? I had a
Speaker 1: comment on that. The odessit it is a lily ads
Speaker 1: is a quoting to that never mind.
Speaker 3: So quick soccer question before we take a break and
Speaker 3: then we get the mailbag. The four number one seeds
Speaker 3: have made it to the final four? Is that wasted time?
Speaker 3: Do we need to restructure something? Is that a good
Speaker 3: thing a bad thing?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: It just feels no big upside. It's like it's like
Speaker 1: the first time ever or the first time or something
Speaker 1: moderning history, whatever that means. Yeah, exactly. So yeah, it's
Speaker 1: just it's it happened. It's quirky, it's nutty, but don't
Speaker 1: worry about it. I gotta tell you, soccer has really
Speaker 1: grown on me. I didn't think it was possible. I've
Speaker 1: been mocking soccer my entire life.
Speaker 3: I think the announcers helped to He had a sports
Speaker 3: guy on last week. The announcers, at least on some
Speaker 3: of the matches I've watched, have done what they do
Speaker 3: during the Super Bowl every year, where they dumb it down,
Speaker 3: knowing there's a bunch of people watching who don't understand
Speaker 3: the game. Yeah, and they did that, and it helped
Speaker 3: me out, so I knew what the watch because that's
Speaker 3: the way it is with the all sports. Went to
Speaker 3: the Oakland A's game with my son, who doesn't know
Speaker 3: anything about baseball, and he was so bored. If you
Speaker 3: don't know what's going on, sports is incredibly boring. If
Speaker 3: you really know what's going on, every second is interesting.
Speaker 1: Right. Plus the more you watch, the more you see. Okay,
Speaker 1: they've moved the ball across the field, hoping to get
Speaker 1: a mismatch in an alignment so they could get the
Speaker 1: ball forward to Oh, look, they've reversed field. Now I'll
Speaker 1: bet they're gonna You start to anticipate and understand the
Speaker 1: rhythm and the structure of the game.
Speaker 3: It's exploded online as the selfiest, most selfish play in
Speaker 3: soccer history.
Speaker 1: Have you been following that one?
Speaker 3: Holland, the big star for Norway that I'm sure soccer
Speaker 3: was hoping he would go on as he's become the
Speaker 3: face of soccer worldwide. They got to see the giant,
Speaker 3: the striking Viking, the giants, but ponytailed striking Viking. Yes,
Speaker 3: Eric Holland, and he's running down the field. He beats
Speaker 3: his guy. He's all alone in the middle of the
Speaker 3: field with another guy coming down, and the other guy
Speaker 3: decides to take on three dudes, gets the ball kicked
Speaker 3: away from him.
Speaker 1: Rather than easily I could have done it.
Speaker 3: Passing it over to the biggest star on the planet
Speaker 3: and letting him do his thing was just awful.
Speaker 1: Not familiar with that controversy, but I'm willing to get
Speaker 1: angry about it online. I hope he feels bad about himself.
Speaker 1: Wanted to be the star. I guess he got a
Speaker 1: star right over there as I'm the ball boy. Did
Speaker 1: the US get passed by Belgium? Imagine that pantsed by Belgians.
Speaker 3: The best thing about Holland was his sister putting out
Speaker 3: a video on Instagram over the weekend mocking her brother
Speaker 3: because she does an impersonation of him. That is so funny. Wow,
Speaker 3: with her head sticking out in her chin walking, very
Speaker 3: very funny. Okay, we got mail bag up next.
Speaker 1: Stay here.
Speaker 3: Two years ago today Donald Trump almost had his head
Speaker 3: blown off two years ago.
Speaker 2: Wow. Crazy.
Speaker 1: Here's your freedom loving quote of the day. Milton Friedman,
Speaker 1: the Great Milton Friedman. The fundamental threat to freedom is
Speaker 1: power to coerce, be it in the hands of a monarch,
Speaker 1: a dictator, an oligarchy, or a momentary majority. Hurt An
Speaker 1: Australian woman given a speech about men masquarining as women,
Speaker 1: invading women's spaces, the whole transgender madness slash idiocy. And
Speaker 1: she points where she points out, we're told that these
Speaker 1: people are the downtrodden. How about I stand up for
Speaker 1: women in front of them? Who's going to get trampled them?
Speaker 1: Are me? If I say no? Women are women and
Speaker 1: men are men. Who's going to have the power in
Speaker 1: that situation? They're the most powerful people in our society,
Speaker 1: she said, And she's right. Mailbag who momentary majority drops
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Speaker 1: handful of notes like this from Anna Luisa and Muggy
Speaker 1: La mesa great to hear everyone together last Friday. I
Speaker 1: can't believe Joe he came back to the circus of
Speaker 1: real life. What with a full time sleeve boy Cadillac
Speaker 1: Margarita's in a twelve year old bottle of Scotch to
Speaker 1: sip every evening, you might have found a way to stay,
Speaker 1: hide out, find a lifeboat big enough to hide in.
Speaker 1: That's because Bison flipped him on his head and he thought,
Speaker 1: I've had enough of the wilderness. Yeah, getting the hell
Speaker 1: beat out of me. I gotta go home.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was an interesting experience having that much freedom
Speaker 1: for that long. I'm not I'm not. Maybe we'll talk
Speaker 1: about it later. Our dear Tan rested and ready and Jack,
Speaker 1: Welcome back, Joe. I remember when Jack abandoned the show
Speaker 1: after nine to eleven happened? When nine to eleven happened,
Speaker 1: Joe leaves the show and senators start dropping never leave again.
Speaker 1: It's Ryan in Houston who mentions he's taking his fourteen
Speaker 1: year old son to the Railroad Museum in scenic Sacramento, California,
Speaker 1: which is if you even like like looking at trains
Speaker 1: go by, I know it sounds The Railroad Museum it
Speaker 1: does not sound after the first time anybody ever to me.
Speaker 3: It's a fantastic guy to tell my brother about that.
Speaker 3: Who is in town for the A's game? Is where
Speaker 3: the major League Baseball team? The A's play is right
Speaker 3: by the Railroad Museum more or less. What an amazing
Speaker 3: place that is to go.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, here's an argument for guys to go if
Speaker 1: you're into machines at all. They have some of the
Speaker 1: most amazing machines ever time. That giant steam engine, the
Speaker 1: locomotive that's like the size of a city block, and
Speaker 1: you look at all the connections and machinery and pumps
Speaker 1: and valves and all. It's hard to believe it ever existed. Anyway, Yeah,
Speaker 1: go to it.
Speaker 2: It's great.
Speaker 1: Moving along, let's see. Kevin the Texas Marine set mentions
Speaker 1: that every guest on Friday knocked it out of the park,
Speaker 1: especially hearing from Katie and that Anastasia Boden. Anastasia Boden
Speaker 1: is now one of his favorite human beings and needs
Speaker 1: a regular invite to the show from the Pacific Legal Foundation.
Speaker 1: She is a gem.
Speaker 3: She is really good and with a couple of big
Speaker 3: Supreme Court rulings coming down, it was great to have her.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, terrific. That's you know, I missed some of
Speaker 1: the great interviews. That's how well. I'll never take a
Speaker 1: vacation again. A couple of messages for Jack from Julie. First,
Speaker 1: I hope Jack. I hope Joe brought Jack a nice
Speaker 1: souvenir moose hat or something, because that was an awfully
Speaker 1: long stretch for him to have to do the show
Speaker 1: on his own. Second, that he thinks he's reached Jack said,
Speaker 1: you said you reached an age where people are no
Speaker 1: longer annoyed by his incompetence and are happy to help
Speaker 1: him figure things out. Yes.
Speaker 3: I didn't do a lot e segment about that, because
Speaker 3: it's true, and I kept pointing out to my son,
Speaker 3: It's so funny. I now have problems with anything or
Speaker 3: can't find something, and people are, oh my gosh, that
Speaker 3: poor old man is lost or can't figure this out,
Speaker 3: and people gather around to help me.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I've reached that age. Wow. But Julie
Speaker 1: suggests I think it's more likely that people are generally
Speaker 1: just friendly and helpful because he's only now experiencing this,
Speaker 1: not because he's over sixty, but because he finds worked
Speaker 1: to ditches, resting murder face. That's true. I do have
Speaker 1: a different face.
Speaker 3: Now, could be both, could be, could be the new face,
Speaker 3: no doubt about it. The new face has helped I
Speaker 3: purposefully changed my face.
Speaker 1: You can do it. Wow. Ah, Let's see Greg the
Speaker 1: army guy with a positive epiphany. Multiple explanation points. I
Speaker 1: had an epiphany, and it's wonderful. I'm a crusty old effort.
Speaker 1: As one gets old, as you know, and one becomes
Speaker 1: more and more conservative slash cynical, slash based in reality
Speaker 1: slash rage feeled angry at the world. I am that guy. However,
Speaker 1: I also have a weird part of my personality that
Speaker 1: is insanely optimistic. And he says, maybe the advancements in
Speaker 1: healthcare are coming. We will live much longer than what
Speaker 1: we thought was possible. We will in the next five
Speaker 1: to ten years, escape reach, escape velocity for aging. Healthcare
Speaker 1: will advance so much that at some point in our
Speaker 1: lifespan it will increase faster than we age. Therefore, there
Speaker 1: will be way more old, crusty old F's result, conservatism
Speaker 1: will rain, and all will be right with the world.
Speaker 1: Stop being the most depressing show in the world for
Speaker 1: about three minutes. Read this to your audience. It might
Speaker 1: be funny, but it's also true. Read this again five
Speaker 1: years from now. Yeah, te positive a fithe Yeah they have.
Speaker 3: You know, all the advancements we're making and keeping the
Speaker 3: body and the brain going, they have not changed anything
Speaker 3: about how you get worn down by life in cynical
Speaker 3: I don't know how that we're gonna deal with that.
Speaker 1: Or or disillusioned, which I've for years now I've thought
Speaker 1: is a weird word because people act like that's a
Speaker 1: bad thing. Walking around with illusions is good. No, disillusioned
Speaker 1: is good. Be a realist, understand how the world works,
Speaker 1: and find your happiness in reality in fantasies about how
Speaker 1: human beings behave anyway, But what.
Speaker 3: If you can't enjoy any new this or that because
Speaker 3: you've been around so long you've seen them all and
Speaker 3: it's like one another one of those what reach for
Speaker 3: the bottle?
Speaker 1: I don't know and Getty