Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2: Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm Strong and Jetty and he.
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Yetty, the Artemist two crew welcomed back to
Speaker 1: Earth with standing ovations, the four astronauts speaking out for
Speaker 1: the first time since that textbook splash down off the
Speaker 1: coast of southern California, reflecting on their nearly seven hundred
Speaker 1: thousand mile journey around the Moon.
Speaker 3: No one down here is ever going to know what
Speaker 3: the four of us just went through, and it was
Speaker 3: the most special thing that will ever happen in my life.
Speaker 3: Uh great, certainly high ranking and a couple of the
Speaker 3: astronauts said some stuff about why can't we all just
Speaker 3: get along given the fact that, all right, whatever, we can't, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly we can't. Why can't we? I don't know,
Speaker 2: But here's the most interesting thing I heard.
Speaker 3: So we were watching the coverage on one of the
Speaker 3: news channels as the thing splashed down, and then they
Speaker 3: sat there bobbing in the ocean for a long long time.
Speaker 3: And first of all, I thought, if I could have
Speaker 3: handled the entire space trip, the part where they land
Speaker 3: in the ocean and bob around for like an hour.
Speaker 2: I would have thrown up everywhere.
Speaker 3: That would have been the worst part of the trip
Speaker 3: by far to me is the sitting there, rocking back
Speaker 3: and forth in that little thing, waiting for him to
Speaker 3: get me out of there. God, I would have vomited everywhere.
Speaker 3: But they had a former astronaut say something I'd never
Speaker 3: heard this before, how incredibly rank it gets inside the capsule, really,
Speaker 3: And he said, you don't notice it because of the
Speaker 3: zero gravity and because you're so intensely focused. He said,
Speaker 3: but when we land. I forget what moon mission or
Speaker 3: whatever he was on many many years ago, but he'd
Speaker 3: gotten out of a capsule and then he had to
Speaker 3: go back into the capsule for some reason, and he
Speaker 3: said it smelled so bad he almost threw up. Wow,
Speaker 3: from just the human bodies in there for all that time,
Speaker 3: I never I never considered that.
Speaker 2: That's so gross. Man.
Speaker 3: You know, you lock four or five six sweaty people
Speaker 3: in a tiny little room, super nervous for a really
Speaker 3: long period of time, inadequate bathroom situation.
Speaker 4: And I don't know how big a suitcase you're allowed
Speaker 4: to bring up, but I'll bet they wear the same
Speaker 4: stuff over and over again.
Speaker 3: Right, he said, it gets incredibly ranking there an aggressive scent.
Speaker 2: I had never considered that part of a moon mission.
Speaker 5: Yes, Katy, I was just gonna say they had a
Speaker 5: little floating coca problem too, right, probably didn't help.
Speaker 3: God, that bobbing around in the ocean. Oh, that was
Speaker 3: making me seasick just watching it. Get them out of there.
Speaker 3: They're gonna throw up block.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, plummet through space. Ye, crash into the ocean.
Speaker 4: Then you got to sit there getting seasick for an
Speaker 4: hour or however long it was.
Speaker 2: It was a long I remember that in past me. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so I'm not sure we have time to do this.
Speaker 2: Now we can start, certainly.
Speaker 4: I love Jason Riley, who writes for different publications, but
Speaker 4: mostly the Wall Street Journal. He was, well, I'll just
Speaker 4: I'll read the beginning. Capitalism is rigged, China's eating our lunch.
Speaker 4: The middle class is shrinking. This is the constant refrain
Speaker 4: from doom and gloom populists on the left and right.
Speaker 2: But is it true.
Speaker 4: Earlier this year, the Journal editorial page told you about
Speaker 4: a study from the American Enterprise Institute Stephen Rosen, Scott
Speaker 4: Winship that pushed back on that glum narrative, and this
Speaker 4: week the journal's news department followed up with the front
Speaker 4: page story highlighting the research of that research, which demonstrates
Speaker 4: upward mobility in the US is alive and kicking. In
Speaker 4: the study, they divided households into five categories poor or
Speaker 4: near poor, lower middle class, core middle class, upper middle.
Speaker 2: Class, and rich yont hitch.
Speaker 4: Technically, the middle class has been getting smaller, but that's
Speaker 4: only because more families have ascended the income ladder. They
Speaker 4: found that the core middle class has shrunk the middle quintile,
Speaker 4: but so too is the share of Americans with income
Speaker 4: too low to reach the middle class. The shrinking core
Speaker 4: middle class is due to a booming upper middle class.
Speaker 4: Only the relatively worse off parts of the middle class
Speaker 4: have shrunk, and by less than the upper middle class
Speaker 4: has grown.
Speaker 3: Right, So I don't need a ton of statistics which
Speaker 3: we have to prove it. But how about the fact
Speaker 3: that you know, if you're fifties or whatever whatever age
Speaker 3: you are, you're living in a house like twice as
Speaker 3: big as the one you grew up in. You grew
Speaker 3: up with akhar now you got two or three you
Speaker 3: flew nowhere as a kid.
Speaker 2: Now you fly everywhere.
Speaker 3: I mean, there's all kinds of examples of the different lifestyle,
Speaker 3: at least for me from when I was a kid.
Speaker 2: This stuff is a.
Speaker 4: Little hard to measure because of what we're always talking about,
Speaker 4: and that's the difference in the cost of living in
Speaker 4: income levels in various parts of the country. But in
Speaker 4: twenty twenty four, about thirty one percent of Americans were
Speaker 4: part of the upper middle class. Thirty one percent. That's
Speaker 4: up from ten percent in nineteen seventy nine. There's no
Speaker 4: single standard definition they get into that. They classified a
Speaker 4: family of three earning between one hundred and thirty three
Speaker 4: K and four hundred K as upper middle class. Households
Speaker 4: earning more were categorized as rich. Again, it's imperfect, but
Speaker 4: it's the best they've got. But the rise in influence
Speaker 4: is powering an American economy built on consumer spending and
Speaker 4: transforming the type of products and services companies offer. Even
Speaker 4: beyond what you were saying, Jack, these tend to be
Speaker 4: the people buying seventeen hundred dollars bassinettes to rock their
Speaker 4: babies to sleep, artisanal food for their dogs, pricey gym memberships,
Speaker 4: luxury cruises, and not only are people flying, but many
Speaker 4: are booking spots on business class airplane cabins. And they
Speaker 4: mentioned that that doesn't make you like you can just
Speaker 4: throw money around because you got bills and college expenses
Speaker 4: or whatever.
Speaker 2: But if you made.
Speaker 3: Most middle class people today go back and live like
Speaker 3: middle class people of the seventies, they would think they
Speaker 3: were very poor. Yeah, did you bring up or did
Speaker 3: I see someone like kids?
Speaker 2: You're sharing a bedroom and we got one car. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's the way everybody is living. I think I read
Speaker 2: this the other day.
Speaker 4: I should have grabbed it that you live better than
Speaker 4: Nelson Rockefeller hmm or any of the super magnates of
Speaker 4: the doubt that. Yeah, I mean between you know, air
Speaker 4: conditioning and TV and medical care and transportation and life
Speaker 4: expectancy and there's just there was one hundred different things,
Speaker 4: and it's it's you know, it makes you stop and
Speaker 4: think anyway, So yeah, you have to out and out
Speaker 4: lie to discredit the free market. It's a wonderful thing,
Speaker 4: is practically a miracle. Read Stephen Pinker's Enlightenment now, at
Speaker 4: least the first three chapters moving along, it's all not
Speaker 4: good news.
Speaker 1: That.
Speaker 2: Can I rephrase that, Michael take two? Yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 4: It's not all good news, though. Jack got some interesting
Speaker 4: shrink flation numbers here. The average family four now pays
Speaker 4: seven hundred and forty one dollars per year for the
Speaker 4: exact same groceries from twenty twenty to twenty twenty six.
Speaker 4: Handy's place to start the comparison. Seven hundred and forty
Speaker 4: one dollars per year. Buying the same Coca Cola mini
Speaker 4: cans costs one hundred and twenty seven percent more per
Speaker 4: ounce than the two liter bottle.
Speaker 2: Okay, what the hell? Well, let's see thanks for that's
Speaker 2: that's a stupid one. I should have asked that one off.
Speaker 2: Here's a fact that's actually interesting.
Speaker 4: The price per ounce increase on Eminem's since twenty twenty.
Speaker 4: It's the only product in the analysis to fully double
Speaker 4: Eminem's one hundred and two percent increase in six years.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 3: And so part of it is the price gone up,
Speaker 3: and part of it is the number of Eminems in
Speaker 3: the bag exactly. Box of frosted flakes, Oh tell me
Speaker 3: about cereal. Henry and I went through a box of
Speaker 3: Raisin brand the other day. In one day, I had
Speaker 3: a bowl, and he had a bowl box empty. Wow,
Speaker 3: two poles a serial lot of one box woof.
Speaker 4: A box of frosted flakes now costs fifty one percent
Speaker 4: more per serving than it did in twenty twenty, and
Speaker 4: there are fewer servings.
Speaker 2: Inside as you you indicate.
Speaker 4: So the data revealed a deliberate two step strategy across
Speaker 4: multiple brands. Raise the price. I had this backwards when
Speaker 4: I mentioned it earlier in the show. I apologize deeply
Speaker 4: and humbly raise the price first, shrink the package a
Speaker 4: year later, after consumers stopped paying attention.
Speaker 2: Dorito's did it that way?
Speaker 4: Frosted Flakes Eminem's says these senior analysts quote, no one's
Speaker 4: surprised by growing prices these days. But the issue with
Speaker 4: strenkflation is the silence around it. You can clearly see
Speaker 4: when gas prices grow or rent rises, but in this case,
Speaker 4: you don't notice when you start to overpay for less.
Speaker 4: Land's hardest on those who can afford the least. Yeah,
Speaker 4: what if your local gas station started to give you, like,
Speaker 4: you know, eight ounces less than a gallon for every
Speaker 4: quote unquote gallon? You know?
Speaker 3: The cereal thing is hilarious. A box of cereal is
Speaker 3: like a book on a shelf. Now the box is
Speaker 3: smaller to start with, just in the biggest dimensions. But
Speaker 3: that sounds so thin. That's a very funny trick that
Speaker 3: they pulled off and making the box so thin.
Speaker 4: You pick up the bag of chips and it feels
Speaker 4: like there are three chips in there and a lot
Speaker 4: of air.
Speaker 3: Come on, Will that ever go back? Will we slowly
Speaker 3: go back eventually? Because inflation was the most recent inflation
Speaker 3: reading was a little kind of high.
Speaker 4: So yeah, there's a long answer to that, involving wage
Speaker 4: growth and tolerating high prices better and blah blah blah.
Speaker 3: Assume at some point out of convenience, okay, instead of
Speaker 3: you grabbing five of the little boxes of Raisin brand,
Speaker 3: here's one great, big box and here's.
Speaker 4: What it costs. I would assume at some point we
Speaker 4: get there. Yeah, a lot of it's consumer psychology, like
Speaker 4: they were talking about. So yeah, you're right, absolutely we'll
Speaker 4: get back there. But at what got awful price? I
Speaker 4: can't even can't even guess.
Speaker 2: Maybe Trump and his Jesus robes can lay his hand
Speaker 2: on the cereal industry.
Speaker 4: At the point that you have to buy two boxes
Speaker 4: of Raisin brands to have one bowl of cereal. I
Speaker 4: think people will revolt. Empty one box, all right, empty
Speaker 4: the other box.
Speaker 3: Or the raisin comes in one box and ab brand
Speaker 3: comes in another box.
Speaker 2: You gotta buy him per piece exactly? Eh? Boy? What
Speaker 2: was the thing I wanted to check in on? I know,
Speaker 2: you know we need to Oh, I know what it is?
Speaker 3: I got to ask you because I wasn't here the
Speaker 3: other day. Okay, what you know about the Malania Epstein speech?
Speaker 3: Because I missed that whole thing? What the what the
Speaker 3: free is going on there?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 4: And the other thing we need to talk about is
Speaker 4: the whole Christinome's perfo husband and his bimboification porn girlfriend's
Speaker 4: conversations have been leaked.
Speaker 2: Oh boy, ethically, wow, how do we feel about this? Excited?
Speaker 4: I knew I could count on you, you know, Trump,
Speaker 4: Jesus lots on the way stay here.
Speaker 6: Of course, the email they released audio of Brian Nome's dominatrix.
Speaker 6: Apparently he was very much the confidante of this This
Speaker 6: is who we really talked to about this dominatrix, and
Speaker 6: he had been telling her that he very much wanted
Speaker 6: to take the the surgery and get the hormones and
Speaker 6: become a woman. He is now leading in the polls
Speaker 6: for the Democratic nomination for some and uh except you know,
Speaker 6: I fail for this day. It's a nice guy at
Speaker 6: weird life.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 6: One time she told Brian Noms to drink from the
Speaker 6: dog bowl and he said, that's a little dangerous around here.
Speaker 2: I get it.
Speaker 3: So I missed this. So he was thinking about transitioning.
Speaker 2: Well, at least.
Speaker 4: That's what he was telling his bimboification model girlfriend.
Speaker 2: Okay, I don't know if he's serious or not. And
Speaker 2: then I assume because we're about to hear a little
Speaker 2: bit of their conversations, are we Is that what we're
Speaker 2: gonna hear?
Speaker 4: Yeah, So he would get dressed up in his like
Speaker 4: gigantic balloon breasts, tight outfit, makeup, nipples point in different
Speaker 4: directions for some reeh, you gotta consult your plastic surgeon.
Speaker 4: I can get your money back anyway. And so he
Speaker 4: would dress up like that and like talk to this
Speaker 4: this pro about his fantasis and all. Who was recording
Speaker 4: this though, Katie's got the handle on this.
Speaker 5: She was She had another recording device on her phone
Speaker 5: and had him on speaker.
Speaker 2: Does she record everybody?
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Problem. Do they hold on to him to blackmail you
Speaker 2: later or what? Do they hang on to it.
Speaker 4: To ensure excellent customer service? This call may be recorded. Now,
Speaker 4: put the balloons under your shirt and let's get started.
Speaker 2: What are your nipples? Is pointing straight north? What's the deal? Eh?
Speaker 2: What are you gonna do?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 2: So?
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, indeed, and these incredibly important recordings have come
Speaker 4: to light.
Speaker 3: Jack, Yeah, there's no reason we should hear these. We're
Speaker 3: about to, but there's no reason.
Speaker 2: That's what I was I was up.
Speaker 4: For a careful and heartfelt ethical discussion.
Speaker 3: You apparently want to leap forward. Well if other people
Speaker 3: are playing them, but it is it is awful. I mean,
Speaker 3: it's like I it's like my thing about the you know,
Speaker 3: d UI cop footage. We don't need to see this
Speaker 3: and we don't need to hear this, but we're about to.
Speaker 2: I vote no for the record.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well I'll vote. We need two people at least
Speaker 3: to vote yes. Somebody yes, Katie do it?
Speaker 2: Yes? That's three. Why was she recording it? Though? That?
Speaker 2: I get it both ways.
Speaker 4: I can pretend to be virtuous and hear it yeah, yeah, win,
Speaker 4: here we go.
Speaker 2: He answer is I've heard of it. I've seen some
Speaker 2: art articles on it.
Speaker 7: M h I think we should go there for dessert and.
Speaker 8: To you, mm, what if people saw us together? I
Speaker 8: don't give him, not even if you got recognized.
Speaker 2: I don't care. What did be with you?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: M hmmmm, I don't give anything else. Yeah? Is he
Speaker 2: and be seen together? Is he working his man during
Speaker 2: this conversation?
Speaker 4: Oh lord, sir, I have no idea. The conversation was
Speaker 4: killing me.
Speaker 3: So she knows who he is. She knows he's a
Speaker 3: high profile person. That's why she's recording it. That makes
Speaker 3: her an awful human being. Her name is Shy Soda
Speaker 3: mayor any relation. Admiring minds want to know she's recording
Speaker 3: this because he's high pro file, so she can extort
Speaker 3: him or something. It ain't whatever her reason is, it
Speaker 3: ain't good. You expect more out of your bimblification hired
Speaker 3: whatever she is?
Speaker 4: Whatever happened to professionalism?
Speaker 2: There's more? But wait, it gets worse.
Speaker 8: You told me you loved me, didn't you.
Speaker 2: I do love you?
Speaker 9: Are you.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
Speaker 8: So much better than your wife? Aren't I?
Speaker 10: No?
Speaker 2: Not cool? You're so much better.
Speaker 8: I can't live without me, can you?
Speaker 2: I can't? Oh my god, this is way more seconding
Speaker 2: than I and desperate for me.
Speaker 1: Yes, God, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2: You think you see?
Speaker 3: I don't know how, boy, I don't know how this
Speaker 3: is being portrayed.
Speaker 5: H boy, I'm having a physical, awful reaction to listen.
Speaker 3: But I don't know how this is being portrayedble. I
Speaker 3: don't know how it's being portrayed other places. But I'm
Speaker 3: coming away from this not in more in judgment of him.
Speaker 3: I'm an in judgment of her. She's a horrible human being,
Speaker 3: and she was dragging that out, you love me more
Speaker 3: than your wife? She had a game going on, she
Speaker 3: had a plan for this. Yeah, that was a big question.
Speaker 3: And she's recording it and she's going to extort him
Speaker 3: or something. She's an awful human being. She should be.
Speaker 3: If anybody's going to be embarrassed and doxed and outed,
Speaker 3: it should be her.
Speaker 4: So this does not square with your experiences of good
Speaker 4: ethical bimboification talks.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, so that you love me more than you?
Speaker 3: Maybe that's a standard part of it. I have no idea.
Speaker 3: I don't know you tell us. I can't say you're
Speaker 3: wrong on that angle, but I have no idea or what.
Speaker 2: I don't fully understand what the bimblification thing is.
Speaker 3: But the good boy you that part was rough.
Speaker 2: Arm Strong and getty.
Speaker 11: Anyone who has done this for a living is very
Speaker 11: familiar with the spouse who sits on Twitter and sees
Speaker 11: random accounts saying negative things that they don't think are
Speaker 11: true and says, I want to go out and defend this,
Speaker 11: and you're like, no, ma'am, we are not doing that.
Speaker 11: That would step on the message, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 11: What you saw was the team lose. You know, if
Speaker 11: the striisand effect is when you file a lawsuit that
Speaker 11: brings more attention to something, the Milennia effect is when
Speaker 11: finally Epstein is out of the news. You have an
Speaker 11: entire war in the Middle East and you're like, no, no, please,
Speaker 11: let's talk more about Epstein.
Speaker 3: So that's Sarah is Ger of the Dispatch, who's really good.
Speaker 3: She used to work in the Trump administration. But so
Speaker 3: I was out of town over the weekend, went to
Speaker 3: visit my parents' kids grandparents in Kansas, and was checked
Speaker 3: out of the news. But I didn't see the headline
Speaker 3: that Malania came out and gave a speech about Epstein.
Speaker 2: What was that all about. Nobody's sure. Nobody's sure.
Speaker 4: Some author is doing a couple of podcasts and claims
Speaker 4: that Epstein introduced her to Trump, or that she modeled
Speaker 4: for him or might have been one of his victims.
Speaker 4: But nobody believed it. Nobody was talking about it. So
Speaker 4: the whole world, including the White House, apparently was blindsided.
Speaker 4: And it's like, why are you talking about Epstein?
Speaker 3: Well, I did see like a cup of her where
Speaker 3: she's you know, this has got to stop.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, what adamant?
Speaker 4: What has to stop these false stories which are nobody knew?
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, well that is one hundred percent the strike'sund effect.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: She literally came out to deny something nobody had heard
Speaker 4: or was talking about. She looked great, though, lovely, hew, lovely,
Speaker 4: affluent in several languages. Anyway, here's a woman who's not
Speaker 4: fluent in any languages whatsoever. Late in the week last week,
Speaker 4: she thrilled us with this.
Speaker 10: Listen, I might, I might, I'm thinking about him.
Speaker 2: I'm thinking about him.
Speaker 3: And then we played some really good words answering what question.
Speaker 2: Will you run? Sorry, will you run for president? See?
Speaker 2: I might?
Speaker 4: I am.
Speaker 3: I I think she's just trying to keep her book
Speaker 3: to her alive. Is there any indication she's more serious
Speaker 3: than that about running for president?
Speaker 2: If so, how she's so crazy? Well that was.
Speaker 4: At Al Sharpton's outfit in New York City, their big rally.
Speaker 4: She was there, invited guests, and the crowd went crazy,
Speaker 4: just really really happy about that.
Speaker 2: Right, But you know they find that crowd. Did you
Speaker 2: see the polls?
Speaker 3: But you do know that you're dead as an interest
Speaker 3: of any to anybody the moment you say I'm not running,
Speaker 3: It's like everybody just gets about their and leaves. Why
Speaker 3: would I listen to you?
Speaker 2: Right? Well, and then Jack, you were out, I think.
Speaker 4: But she followed up at seventy two Michael with this
Speaker 4: thought about if she runs.
Speaker 10: Look, the American people have right to expect that anyone
Speaker 10: who wants to run for off is and be a leader,
Speaker 10: that it can't be about themselves and what they want
Speaker 10: for themselves has got to be about the American people.
Speaker 10: And that's how I think of it, and I am
Speaker 10: thinking about it in the context of then you know,
Speaker 10: is who and where and how can the best job
Speaker 10: be done for the American people.
Speaker 3: God, you forget her whole meandering parentheses, comma semi colon
Speaker 3: way of talking.
Speaker 4: She has no capacity to end a thought, does not
Speaker 4: a rama.
Speaker 2: Manuel will chew her up and spit her out.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely, And then the crack a g.
Speaker 4: Staff came up with this gem I was unfamiliar with.
Speaker 4: This goes back a couple of years. But she's attempting
Speaker 4: next to Michael, attempting to talk about inflation.
Speaker 2: Well, let's start with this.
Speaker 10: Prices have gone up, and families and individuals are dealing
Speaker 10: with the realities of that bread costs more, the gas
Speaker 10: costs more, and we have to understand what that means.
Speaker 10: That's about the cost of living going up. That's about
Speaker 10: having to stress and stretch limited resources. That's about a
Speaker 10: source of stress for families that is not only economic,
Speaker 10: but is on a daily level, something that is a
Speaker 10: heavy weight to carry. So it is something that we
Speaker 10: take very seriously, very seriously, and we know from the
Speaker 10: history of this issue in the United States that when
Speaker 10: you see these prices go up, it has a direct
Speaker 10: impact on the quality of life for all people.
Speaker 2: In our country.
Speaker 10: So it's a big issue and we take it seriously.
Speaker 4: And that was right around when the Biden administration, of
Speaker 4: which she was VEEP, was flooding America with borrowed printed
Speaker 4: currency trillions of dollars.
Speaker 3: I you know, you forget how bad she was and
Speaker 3: all that. And she always has had that thing that
Speaker 3: drives me crazy. Each phrase she acts like, oh, blew
Speaker 3: your mind. I'll give you a second to take that
Speaker 3: in because that was some heavy stuff.
Speaker 4: Yeah, kind of a Her tone of voice implies touchdown
Speaker 4: dance after she makes the most.
Speaker 2: Mundane point, right, Captain banw just nothing.
Speaker 10: I'm thinking about it in the context of then, you know,
Speaker 10: is who and where and how.
Speaker 2: Exactly? Pardon me? Oh?
Speaker 3: She she seriously can't be thinking on running, oh she.
Speaker 3: I mean, even if she's thinking of running, no money,
Speaker 3: people are going to come to it say I'm in.
Speaker 3: I'll give you a million dollars. Right, That's that's the thing.
Speaker 4: She's at the top of the poles just because they're
Speaker 4: name recognition polls.
Speaker 3: So was Jeb Bush, So was Rudy Giuliani, So was
Speaker 3: Hillary Clinton in two thousand and eight.
Speaker 2: So were lots of people with name recognition But.
Speaker 4: Let's not lose sight of the goal here, Jack. We're
Speaker 4: not talking about her winning. We're talking about her running
Speaker 4: for our entertainment tad, right, So just get her to
Speaker 4: the starting line. She won't make it Iowa again, but
Speaker 4: just get her to the starting line place.
Speaker 3: I don't know if I was on the as part
Speaker 3: of the deal anymore.
Speaker 2: Is it South Carolina? I guess now that you mentioned it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, If ancient Jim Clyburn has any say, yeah,
Speaker 4: and he'll try to fix the game again. So let's
Speaker 4: conclude the discussion with the little greatest Tits package here, Michael, I.
Speaker 10: Grew understanding the children of the community are the children.
Speaker 2: Of the community. I need to get to go.
Speaker 10: I need to be able to get where you need
Speaker 10: to go to do the work and get home. I
Speaker 10: don't know what's wrong with you, young people.
Speaker 2: You think you just fell.
Speaker 10: Out of a coconut tree.
Speaker 2: I do believe that we.
Speaker 10: Should have rightly believed, But we certainly believed that certain
Speaker 10: issues are just settled, certain issues are just settled.
Speaker 2: Clearly we're not.
Speaker 10: No, that's right, and that's why I do believe that
Speaker 10: we are living sadly in real unsettled times. I can
Speaker 10: imagine what can be and be unburdened by what has been.
Speaker 3: You know, her all time best when she thought worked
Speaker 3: in all settings, unburdened by what has been and will
Speaker 3: whatever that is phrase, she says.
Speaker 4: I remember so vividly talking to people who'd worked with
Speaker 4: her in California, and I'm saying, Joe, she's an idiot,
Speaker 4: and me saying, no, come on, she's a liberal. I
Speaker 4: get you disagree. No, seriously, she's a dope. And they
Speaker 4: couldn't convince me.
Speaker 2: Classinay Mara.
Speaker 3: Before we take a break, I got the latest from
Speaker 3: open source intelligence on what's going on with the US
Speaker 3: versus Iran and the blockade and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 3: According to Axios, there is continued engagement between the US
Speaker 3: and Iran and Ford Motion on trying to get an agreement,
Speaker 3: even with this last weekend's failed peace talks. Now Ian
Speaker 3: Bremmer cynically says that was put out just before the
Speaker 3: market's opened today to try to calm the markets rather
Speaker 3: than any actual peace talks.
Speaker 2: I don't know which is true, could be.
Speaker 3: And Donald Trump has stated that thirty four ships transited
Speaker 3: the Straight of Horror Moves yesterday, which he says is
Speaker 3: the highest number since the start of the war and
Speaker 3: has something to do with the blockade being the day
Speaker 3: where zero ships are going to go through.
Speaker 2: Is anybody signed up to help us yet on the blockade? No, no,
Speaker 2: he said.
Speaker 3: There's a coalition of the willing that are going to
Speaker 3: help us, but there is nobody helping us currently. And
Speaker 3: still the open question is if a ship goes through,
Speaker 3: what are we going to do about it? We have
Speaker 3: fifteen warships there that are either going to blast them
Speaker 3: out of the water or sail up next to them
Speaker 3: and commandeer the thing, or.
Speaker 2: Who knows what, you got to take it and confiscate
Speaker 2: the cargo, sell it at auction.
Speaker 3: I'll be interesting to watch. I would assume somebody's going
Speaker 3: to send a ship through a day. It's like a test.
Speaker 3: It's not going to be some company. I mean, they're
Speaker 3: not going to do that. The companies already are no. No,
Speaker 3: no, no no.
Speaker 2: It'd have to be a ran sending one through.
Speaker 4: Right, you know what, Whether they'll do it today or soon,
Speaker 4: you would think they've got a test it. I'm just
Speaker 4: I'm trying to think through what their strategy is at
Speaker 4: this point, What would bring the most economic pain to
Speaker 4: the most countries, who then will tell America to call
Speaker 4: off the dogs.
Speaker 2: That's the Iranian strategy obviously. Yeah.
Speaker 3: My theory earlier today was this is what I'd do
Speaker 3: if I was Iran. I just say, Okay, let's keep
Speaker 3: it closed and see how long China and Europe are
Speaker 3: willing to put up with that. Not very long, I'm guessing,
Speaker 3: and let that happen rather than try to force your way.
Speaker 2: Through and take on the United States.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they'll probably have their pr people making around saying, hey,
Speaker 4: we had a system for opening up. You just pay
Speaker 4: a little reasonable toll, and the US is blockading it.
Speaker 4: Now their maniacs, what are you going to do? Yeah,
Speaker 4: and the Macrones of the world will say a zero point.
Speaker 3: I thought I hated JD Vance going to Hungary and
Speaker 3: campaigning for urban Yeah.
Speaker 2: Last we hated that a lot. Thought that was absolutely awful.
Speaker 2: But I thought what.
Speaker 3: JD said coming out of the twenty one hours of
Speaker 3: failed peace talks, saying they agree to anything. Look, this
Speaker 3: is a bigger problem for them than it is for us,
Speaker 3: so we're going home. I thought that was a good
Speaker 3: thing to say, this is a you problem. You're not
Speaker 3: like stalling. This doesn't help you. It helps it hurts you.
Speaker 2: We're fine. I thought that was a good way to
Speaker 2: approach it.
Speaker 4: Will China put the squeeze on her end to tell
Speaker 4: them to cooperate, to come to some sort of settlement,
Speaker 4: because China is not going to sacrifice its economy to Well,
Speaker 4: you know, the Mullas are good friends of ours and
Speaker 4: have been for a long time, and they really want
Speaker 4: a nuke, So I guess we got to stay on
Speaker 4: their side.
Speaker 2: There's no way. Sheeson pings, thinking that, no way. I
Speaker 2: hope it breaks that.
Speaker 3: Well, it'll be something to watch today and tomorrow. We
Speaker 3: will finish strong. Next.
Speaker 12: Hunter Biden, who said in December that he's about fifteen
Speaker 12: million in debt and there's no generational wealth in his family,
Speaker 12: is looking to make some money.
Speaker 2: How would you do that if you were Hunter Biden?
Speaker 2: A man of a.
Speaker 12: Great education, yeah, law school, great creativity, got what I
Speaker 12: call the barsma a retainer fifty grand a month. Here's
Speaker 12: Hunter's newest idea.
Speaker 7: Hunter Biden here, I just got a call from Andrew Callahan.
Speaker 7: He asked me to come out on the Channel five
Speaker 7: Carnival tour at the end of the month. I think
Speaker 7: we start in Phoenix and then we go to San Diego,
Speaker 7: and we end in Albuquerque, and I think he's trying
Speaker 7: to organize a cage match me versus Eric and Don Junior.
Speaker 7: I told him I'd do it.
Speaker 2: Mark, is that ai or is that real? I think
Speaker 2: it's weird enough to be real. Yeah, sadly, that's real.
Speaker 2: That's from Mark Alprin's news program over the weekend. Uh.
Speaker 3: First of all, he was reporting over the weekend that
Speaker 3: the Biden family just in general, not just Hunter because
Speaker 3: it's all one thing, or they're broke. They're in really
Speaker 3: bad financial situation. They they had a you know, their
Speaker 3: monthly nut was probably a lot with all the different homes,
Speaker 3: their lifestyle and all the different kids and cars and
Speaker 3: stuff like that.
Speaker 2: And I don't want.
Speaker 3: Help her and say Hunters in debt to the tune
Speaker 3: he alone is fifteen million dollars in debt.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 3: But the whole Hunter family thing, with all their different
Speaker 3: homes and cars and trips and the way they've lived,
Speaker 3: they're really really hurting and they got zero way to
Speaker 3: make money.
Speaker 2: Is doctor Jill going to have to start seeing patients again? Doc?
Speaker 2: It hurts when I do this ever, forget.
Speaker 3: So if you you know, if you needed some sort
Speaker 3: of karma to catch up to them after their years
Speaker 3: of running a crime family syndicated, Apparently it is happening.
Speaker 3: But how does Hunters sit there with a straight face
Speaker 3: and think the Trump kids are making lots of money
Speaker 3: in office also and wealthy and you know, in the
Speaker 3: thick of the.
Speaker 2: Best part of their lives.
Speaker 4: Probably, why would they traveling the world making zillions at home?
Speaker 2: Why would they do a cage match with you loser? Biden?
Speaker 4: It certainly couldn't be a drug addict relapsing when he's
Speaker 4: under enormous pressure.
Speaker 2: Man, is he on drugs? You'd have to be on drugs?
Speaker 2: Suggest that? Or is that his dry humor that we
Speaker 2: all love so much? Oh my god?
Speaker 3: And it turned out nobody's as interested in his art
Speaker 3: as he originally thought. That had to be hurtful.
Speaker 4: Uh so, Yeah, his art, which was the hottest thing
Speaker 4: on the planet until the second that Joe Biden had
Speaker 4: no influence.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that whole thing unbelievable. And Hunters to the all
Speaker 3: get in a cage match with Eric or Don Junior
Speaker 3: and how much, Well, I.
Speaker 2: Guess if you did pay per view. It could make
Speaker 2: a lot of money.
Speaker 3: The last who are the YouTubers who do the energy
Speaker 3: drink and one guy that fights j the last Jake
Speaker 3: Paul fight, he made like eighty ninety million dollars.
Speaker 2: That was a lot of money.
Speaker 3: So he's probably thinking one of those kind of deals.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, okay, great, Well, and if I went on
Speaker 4: pay per view and severed my head and then had
Speaker 4: it reattached successfully, I'd probably make even more than that.
Speaker 2: But it ain't never gonna happen. You're gonna sever your
Speaker 2: own head. Well, no, I would. I would task colors
Speaker 2: with that job.
Speaker 3: Because you said so. I just the way you presented it,
Speaker 3: it made it sound like you're severing your head well
Speaker 3: and reattacking.
Speaker 2: It's just.
Speaker 3: I would pay a lot in payer exactly if you're
Speaker 3: gonna sever your own ahead and restack.
Speaker 4: Hey, we're just at the spitball in phase. But that's
Speaker 4: the that's the rough outline.
Speaker 3: Yeah, how does he see where to put the suitures?
Speaker 2: That's why it's so amazing.
Speaker 3: That's not a lot more outlandish though than Hunter biting
Speaker 3: fighting Don Junior in a cage match.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's only slightly more likely than my scenario.
Speaker 2: Literally, yes, Katie.
Speaker 5: What, No, nothing, I'm just enjoying this ridiculous conversation that.
Speaker 2: That was my point. Ridiculous is the word. Yes, Wed
Speaker 2: Jake Paul fight, last fight. It was actually a good fight,
Speaker 2: Anthony Joshua.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it was a guy he was like a
Speaker 3: serious fight or anything. That was a heck of a
Speaker 3: good fight. He got his jaw broken several times. But yeah,
Speaker 3: he made eighty ninety million dollars from it. So I'm
Speaker 3: surprised we're going to see more celebrities do that sort
Speaker 3: of thing. If you're the kind of name that can
Speaker 3: generate interest, there's a ton of money to be made.
Speaker 2: Celebrity boxing is back.
Speaker 9: I'd say yes, kiss Tom stop, Jack and Joe they've
Speaker 9: got to go, and if they don't get can be beats.
Speaker 9: In my.
Speaker 3: He seems to be a little wobbly this in between
Speaker 3: part where he doesn't have the head on his shoulders.
Speaker 2: The suturing is not going well. Jim. Here's your host
Speaker 2: for final thoughts, Joe Getty. Oh, I'll stop there.
Speaker 4: Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew
Speaker 4: to I have to show up for the day.
Speaker 2: Michael Agelow in the control room with lead us off.
Speaker 4: I'm just saying, if this actually were to happen, I'd
Speaker 4: pay probably twenty nine thirty nine dollars to see that
Speaker 4: the Trump kids versus Hunter Biden.
Speaker 2: Yeah, i'd pay.
Speaker 4: I would have a hillatious party at my path. Everybody's invited.
Speaker 4: Katie Green are Esteemed Newswoman. As final thought, Katie.
Speaker 2: I'll up that Michael.
Speaker 5: I would pay probably the typical fight price of almost
Speaker 5: one hundred bucks.
Speaker 2: I might go four figures. Oh, I was thinking about
Speaker 2: Joe cutting off his head and so of back on
Speaker 2: No One and nowhere Ron Hunter Biden. Jackie final thought.
Speaker 3: You know, we got a text about that sex worker
Speaker 3: tape we played between Christy Nomes's husband and the Bimblification
Speaker 3: woman who I call her scumbag because I think she
Speaker 3: taped it to blackmailing.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: I might agree with our just to sell it. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I might agree with a texture. That might be the
Speaker 3: worst thing we've ever played. I probably have more regret
Speaker 3: about that than anything.
Speaker 2: We've ever done.
Speaker 4: It's it's certainly in the very top tier of the
Speaker 4: bottom tier.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, indeed my final thought. Great Masters over the weekend.
Speaker 4: Rory McElroy triumphant over a field of excellent players. My
Speaker 4: boy Brian Campbell made the cut and finished I think
Speaker 4: tied for twenty seventh something like that. So well done, Brian, Great, dude,
Speaker 4: great your boy meaning he's a friend?
Speaker 2: Oh okay, cool Yeah.
Speaker 3: Armstronging Geeddy wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.
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Speaker 2: We'll see tomorrow.
Speaker 3: God bless America.
Speaker 2: Strong and Getty. All this hemming and hawing just makes
Speaker 2: no sense to me.
Speaker 12: Look, I don't think this is something that people need
Speaker 12: to be generally worried about.
Speaker 2: Let me tell you what people care about. I have resting,
Speaker 2: open mouthface. That's the real problem Europe. If you don't
Speaker 2: know a damn thing about it, don't talk about it. Okay.
Speaker 3: For a person toting a penis, person toting a penis,
Speaker 3: you say, he.
Speaker 2: Kind of totes itself honestly and is.
Speaker 6: The boldest package in US history.
Speaker 2: They sell very much. Armstrong and Getty