Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Kaddy arm Strong
Speaker 1: and and He Armstrong.
Speaker 2: And from Studio ce Signor.
Speaker 1: It is a dimly lit room where Deep put them
Speaker 1: the bowels of the Armstrong in Getty Communications Compound. And
Speaker 1: hey y'all, today, brand new week, back from Thanksgiving vacation.
Speaker 3: We're under the tutelage of our general manager, Hunter Biden.
Speaker 3: Convicted criminal. Pardon me, Hunter Biden, model citizen, model, citizen
Speaker 3: zero discipline, Hunter Biden.
Speaker 1: Wow, Gali Gally, Gally got it.
Speaker 4: I do you know what my favorite aspect of this is,
Speaker 4: and it's I hate to get into the meat of it,
Speaker 4: but I've got to the fact that the pardon goes
Speaker 4: back to what is a December of twenty fourteen, going
Speaker 4: back at twenty three Yeah, yeah, yeah, to the very
Speaker 4: month Hunter became a director at Barismoin just coincidence.
Speaker 5: Ten year pardons are normal. Oh that's right, they aren't. Okay, sorry,
Speaker 5: I'm spoke.
Speaker 1: Before we get to that. I've got so many things
Speaker 1: to say about that. Did anybody beat me? And did
Speaker 1: anybody beat me? In weight gain?
Speaker 5: Since we were last on the air.
Speaker 1: I'm not me.
Speaker 5: I am a full three and a half.
Speaker 1: It comes three and a half pounds heavier than I
Speaker 1: was when I last joined you. There's more of me
Speaker 1: to love, is the way I look at it. Pretty good,
Speaker 1: pretty respected. Yeah, how three and a half pounds in
Speaker 1: a week is not bad. But like Wall Street, you'd
Speaker 1: failed to meet expectations.
Speaker 4: I thought I was gonna hear five honestly, little disappointment
Speaker 4: on the.
Speaker 1: Road travel failed to meet expectations. Your earnings were excellent,
Speaker 1: but failed. The good thing is that even though I
Speaker 1: was at Arrowhead Stadium on a cold winter day Friday
Speaker 1: for the Chiefs Raiders game, it's colder in the studio
Speaker 1: right now than it was there, so hopefully it will
Speaker 1: burn off some of these pounds. Trying to stay alive.
Speaker 5: Anyway.
Speaker 1: Yeah, three and a half pounds. My PI can feel it.
Speaker 1: My pants are tighter. Yeah, I got the whole thing going.
Speaker 1: That's a good start, though, that's a good start. I
Speaker 1: got several weeks now before Christmas and then a week
Speaker 1: in between New Year. I mean, I really I could
Speaker 1: hit double digits. I could easily gain ten pounds, So
Speaker 1: that's not the goal.
Speaker 4: But well, in a shocking revelation, I am down a
Speaker 4: pound and a half, which means either my practice of
Speaker 4: eating my big meal in the middle of the day
Speaker 4: and that are very light dinners paying off, or I'm
Speaker 4: dying because I don't quite get how I'm down, but
Speaker 4: I'm down.
Speaker 1: I don't want to have the darkest joke of all time,
Speaker 1: but there was a time when I thought, wow, I
Speaker 1: am really doing well with this that Oh I have cancer.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, that's why the way it's just melting away. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's hope it's not that. Let's hope it does exercised
Speaker 1: a lot. So back to Hunter Biden. So you're telling
Speaker 1: me that the party of the rich get away, particularly
Speaker 1: white males. I mean, it's the rich in general that
Speaker 1: get to abuse the system with all kinds of different
Speaker 1: ways and don't pay their taxes. And then guns, Oh
Speaker 1: my god, nobody should even be allowed to have a gun.
Speaker 1: But then the people breaking the lava gun. You're telling
Speaker 1: me the party of that just the president just pardoned
Speaker 1: a rich white guy so he doesn't go to jail
Speaker 1: over tax evasion because he was getting so rich, probably illegally,
Speaker 1: but in regard no conspiratory he didn't pay his taxes.
Speaker 1: He gets pardoned and doesn't have to pay a price
Speaker 1: for it, And you're gonna you were going to campaign
Speaker 1: on the rich don't pay their fair share, and then
Speaker 1: when what you want of your own rich and again
Speaker 1: white guys does it, he gets pardoned by the President.
Speaker 1: That's freaking, freaking unbelievable. Well, it's the truth laid there.
Speaker 4: I mean, on the rank and file level of the
Speaker 4: college kids and the over educated gender studies, suburban moms
Speaker 4: who vote Democrats, they're sincere. They're deluded and dopey, but
Speaker 4: they're sincere. On the elite level, not a single word
Speaker 4: of that is sincere not a word. It's merely a brand.
Speaker 1: It means as much as always Coca cola? Does that
Speaker 1: mean how about sometimes Coca cola?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: No, always? So does that mean that for the rest
Speaker 1: of my life? When I hear a Democrat saying the
Speaker 1: rich don't pay their fair share?
Speaker 5: Why other rich gonna except for Honor Biden?
Speaker 1: Can we just chant that back at whoever's giving us
Speaker 1: the rich don't pay their fair share next time for
Speaker 1: Hunter Biden. That would be delightful.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's sort of like I've been saying.
Speaker 1: I'm happy that an entire new generation of young people
Speaker 1: coming out of the presidential election learned that, oh, it's
Speaker 1: all phony, since they went on and on about it
Speaker 1: was Hitler, and then as soon as he wins, they're like, oh, well,
Speaker 1: we'll get him next time and let's go down there
Speaker 1: and visit him. So okay, So you're just lying to
Speaker 1: me about the Hitler stuff. And then this another generation
Speaker 1: will think, oh, okay, they're all hypocrites. The rich don't
Speaker 1: pay their fair share. And when our guys who's rich,
Speaker 1: really rich, whole family is rich, doesn't pay his taxes,
Speaker 1: pays zero taxes, not only isn't paying a high enough
Speaker 1: tax rate, doesn't pay any taxes, we pardon him.
Speaker 4: And despite Joe Biden's claims that it was all about
Speaker 4: addiction and a bad habit and all, he signed all
Speaker 4: of those tax returns post sobriety, okay, worth mentioning.
Speaker 1: So to me, this is I didn't realize it.
Speaker 4: You know what, JT and Livermore, maybe a matthe Idaho farmhand, Jeff,
Speaker 4: some of our Jeff the honorary producer. I need you
Speaker 4: to remind me of this regularly place or maybe my
Speaker 4: wife can do it. I need to gamble on politics.
Speaker 4: I was dead certain he would pardon Hunter. I didn't
Speaker 4: even have any doubt, no doubt. This is the absolute
Speaker 4: definition of shocking yet unsurprising. It was a certainty, and
Speaker 4: I need to start profiting from that. But it is
Speaker 4: also and I'm heartened somewhat by the fact that the
Speaker 4: truce will.
Speaker 1: Absolutely come out at some point.
Speaker 4: It's not all about electoral cycles and and momentary political gains.
Speaker 4: I think historians will dig their teeth into this. Joe
Speaker 4: Biden's serial liar and money launderer will be exposed eventually
Speaker 4: as one of the most corrupt presidents in American history.
Speaker 4: It'll be eventually he'll be long, cold and dead in
Speaker 4: the grave, But yeah, soon enough.
Speaker 1: Is there anybody who wouldn't pardon their own kid if
Speaker 1: they had the chances they were heading out the door
Speaker 1: for the offenses before us. Specifically, if you assumed, as
Speaker 1: he does, that your kid had their act together. Now,
Speaker 1: it'd be pretty hard to not pardon mem go with
Speaker 1: the you know what, tough love. Everybody has to blah
Speaker 1: blah blah.
Speaker 5: It's my kid. Everybody's going to be mad.
Speaker 1: But I can let him get on with his life,
Speaker 1: or he can go to prison for maybe the rest
Speaker 1: of his life. I mean, he's in his mid fifties.
Speaker 1: If he gets fifteen twenty years, that could be the
Speaker 1: rest of your life. I'm Joe Biden. I'm about dead.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking to Hella, Oh you're mad at me. Okay,
Speaker 1: you know what. I'm going to be dead soon, so
Speaker 1: don't worry about it. Yeah, I could see No, if
Speaker 1: you know, God forbids somebody's kid like axe murdered eleven
Speaker 1: people or something like that. No, no, I wouldn't pardon them.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's it's it's hypocrisy laid there. It's practically
Speaker 1: a guilty plead of money laundering in my mind. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: that's interesting. I don't remember Jonathan Earli or somebody I
Speaker 1: heard say there's practically an admission here that there are
Speaker 1: more things we don't know about that he hasn't been.
Speaker 5: Charged with that are out there.
Speaker 1: If you're going with the whole, not specific to these
Speaker 1: you know charges, you're going just any and everything for
Speaker 1: ten years, right right, Well, there are a couple of
Speaker 1: reasons he played guilty eventually. Number one, he was guilty
Speaker 1: as sixteen dogs, as hunter Thompson would have put it.
Speaker 1: And secondly, to put this all on trial, you get
Speaker 1: into where did the money come from and where did
Speaker 1: it go, which is what I was hankering for the
Speaker 1: whole time. Yeah, and he does get to go with
Speaker 1: the uh who what father wouldn't pardon their son and
Speaker 1: ignore the fact that it was going to bring down
Speaker 1: the whole family.
Speaker 4: Then final brief irony, and I will read you the
Speaker 4: utterly vomit inducing letter of pardon from the President in
Speaker 4: a minute. But the fact that a couple of Trump
Speaker 4: aids got charged with the operating is undeclared unlicensed lobbyists
Speaker 4: for foreign powers during the Russian collusion hoax, and Hunter
Speaker 4: labored for millions of dollars for a variety of loathsome
Speaker 4: foreign regimes and was clearly lobbying for them. But he
Speaker 4: doesn't get so much as a traffic ticket for it.
Speaker 4: And then the great irony, sorry, the sickening irony and
Speaker 4: the letter of pardon is that is that Biden makes
Speaker 4: it clear that his son's been treated unfairly. This is
Speaker 4: gotten noney, even treatment he'd been treated more harshly than.
Speaker 1: Anyone else would have without his name. It's absurd yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: one sentence on that. But after we start the show
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Speaker 4: Leaping into action at Mark, Have you.
Speaker 5: Ruled out a pardon for your son? Yes, but the
Speaker 5: commute his.
Speaker 1: Son, I was very clear and I said no.
Speaker 5: I've been very clear. The President has been very clear
Speaker 5: when we've been asked us question, and he.
Speaker 1: Said he would not pardon his son. Always made up.
Speaker 5: It's still a no.
Speaker 1: It will be a no. It is a no. And
Speaker 1: I don't have anything else to add. Will he pardon
Speaker 1: his son?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 1: Breaking news tonight.
Speaker 2: President Biden has made a decision to pardon his son Hunter.
Speaker 1: Okay, so's going to read from Biden's letter, But including
Speaker 1: that letter, Biden talks about how politics corrupted the justice system.
Speaker 1: Oh wit a second, that's interesting. So Trump's bringing all
Speaker 1: these people in saying you got to clean out the
Speaker 1: justice department because it's been corrupted, corrupted by politics. Oh no, no,
Speaker 1: you all been claiming he's a fascist for one to
Speaker 1: do that. Now you say Hunter Biden wrongly attacked because
Speaker 1: politics corrupted the justice department? How are you gonna square
Speaker 1: that circle? Convicted by a jury of his peers.
Speaker 5: Have some more on that coming up in a little bit.
Speaker 5: Three and a half.
Speaker 1: Pounds of square anything the lying thief and hypocrites.
Speaker 5: Three and a half pounds.
Speaker 1: I'm not happy about it, that's right.
Speaker 5: Joe and I used to live in Salina, Kansas.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you remember this place called Bogi's Burgers,
Speaker 1: who had like one hundred and fifty different flavors of
Speaker 1: shakes too.
Speaker 4: I remember it, blueberry cheesecake. That's my I should have
Speaker 4: texted you. Yeah, that's getting people what their favorite was.
Speaker 4: Because I got peanut butter one night and the next night,
Speaker 4: because I went back again because who doesn't have a
Speaker 4: milkshake two nights in a row, even though they're eating
Speaker 4: Thanksgiving style meals.
Speaker 1: In additions of growing ass man, Yes, right, child, So
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Speaker 3: I understand must be by metabolism.
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Speaker 4: Wow, Well it's the new tearing down the goldposts apparently. Yeah,
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Speaker 4: Let's see, this is John Obviously Hunter made a deal
Speaker 4: with his dad. Daddy promised to pardon if you would
Speaker 4: plead guilty to tax charges, then Joe would avoid accountability
Speaker 4: for receiving ten percent of the dirty millions.
Speaker 1: Let's go, Brandon.
Speaker 2: We got this text.
Speaker 5: I think I've seen this in a couple of lames.
Speaker 5: So Joe Biden pardoned three turkeys.
Speaker 1: Hauh, what I got it? That's kind of an old
Speaker 1: timey con there, you're a loser. Calling somebody a turkey
Speaker 1: not exactly modern insult. Yeah, that's rather mild by today's standards.
Speaker 1: Let's see.
Speaker 4: This is from jishn Wright's Glad you lazy bastards are
Speaker 4: back to work.
Speaker 1: Ah.
Speaker 4: I've read multiple articles now in regard to Trump's appointees.
Speaker 4: They all talk about how these people are going to
Speaker 4: bring a campaign of retribution. But they failed to tell
Speaker 4: me what the retribution is for. If I'm seeking retribution
Speaker 4: because it's someone has wronged me, are they saying he
Speaker 4: was wronged?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 4: If I'm seeking retribution it's because someone has wronged me.
Speaker 4: Are they saying he was wronged and is now going
Speaker 4: to seek retribution. Well, if he was wronged, why shouldn't
Speaker 4: he seek retribution? Get these people out of government. Please
Speaker 4: tell me what the retribution is for. Maybe he should
Speaker 4: be seeking it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. The New York Times writes about that today. We'll
Speaker 1: talk about that later. There's a paragraph in there that
Speaker 1: says this is going to make it more difficult for
Speaker 1: Democrats to complain about Donald Trump going after the Justice Department,
Speaker 1: since the current Democratic president just said the Justice Department
Speaker 1: has been doing things for political reasons.
Speaker 4: All right, In cash Patel, who's been nominated to run
Speaker 4: the FBI.
Speaker 1: Very controversial choice. We'll talk about that some. He will
Speaker 1: just quote Jo.
Speaker 4: Widen please you wrote him hisistimony, right right, A total
Speaker 4: change of topic.
Speaker 1: I'd like this.
Speaker 4: David and Umquah, a beautiful organ who's supplied to a
Speaker 4: number of interesting things about education. Parents write to know
Speaker 4: solution to teachers grooming children and doctrinating them, sexualizing them,
Speaker 4: and man, we have stories about all that stuff in
Speaker 4: different ways. The cure for that is parents' access to classrooms,
Speaker 4: video proof, real time proof of what school are teaching.
Speaker 4: Government teachers need to be monitored by parents. Should the
Speaker 4: government schools be operating without scrutiny? I mean, I realized
Speaker 4: there are children involved, and you can't, you know, have
Speaker 4: generally available videotapes of children doing stuff. It's just it's
Speaker 4: full of problems. But our justice system famously is absolutely
Speaker 4: ironclad in its openness. Everything happens in front of the people,
Speaker 4: and you're judged by a jury of your peers.
Speaker 5: Why wouldn't your schools.
Speaker 4: Are a darklyistered environment where are secrets unfolded.
Speaker 1: Why wouldn't you have a nannycam in every classroom? You
Speaker 1: can just log on and seeing what's going on in
Speaker 1: your kid's class. Why wouldn't it be that way?
Speaker 4: I get the logistical problems in the modern age, teachers
Speaker 4: would go viral and like the so called Karen who
Speaker 4: had a legitimate complaint or it was out of context
Speaker 4: or whatever, all of a sudden, they'd be and doxed
Speaker 4: and terrified or whatever.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe it would it's a conundry. Maybe
Speaker 1: it would protect you as a teacher if everybody got
Speaker 1: to see how unruly students are out of control. Blah
Speaker 1: blah blah.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 1: The other to absolutely be an upside, that's an interesting question.
Speaker 1: We've got a lot of news to catch up on.
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Speaker 1: I have to mention the most embarrassing part of the
Speaker 1: whole milkshake fiasco that probably helped me gain.
Speaker 5: Three and a half pounds over the last week. I'll
Speaker 5: get to that in a minute.
Speaker 1: Uh, Joe is going to read from Joe Biden's letter
Speaker 1: explaining his pardon, in which he is getting beaten up
Speaker 1: by lots of people on the left also on how
Speaker 1: this opens the door for Trump and a lot of
Speaker 1: arguments that Trump makes, So we'll get to.
Speaker 5: That coming up a little bit later.
Speaker 1: I can't believe we're a half hour into the show
Speaker 1: and we haven't mentioned cyber Monday. Everybody, It's cyber Monday.
Speaker 1: But I don't know if we need that sound hopefully
Speaker 1: he's lost his mind. That seems like an odd sound
Speaker 1: for cyber Monday. It's like, oh, is that a warning?
Speaker 1: It's like when there's a tornado or a train coming
Speaker 1: or something. Uh, it's cyber Monday's ever been very stressed today?
Speaker 1: Cyber Monday. Up, It's cyber Monday. Of course this follows
Speaker 1: Black Friday. Yes, Michael, I'm surprised we're not running best
Speaker 1: of I thought cyber Monday we'd be off to Why
Speaker 1: aren't we home holding our children and singing cyber Monday songs? Well,
Speaker 1: because cyber Monday is when you buy a lot of
Speaker 1: stuff online at work, because you have a faster internet
Speaker 1: connection at work than you do at home. Heading back
Speaker 1: to nineteen eighty nine, cyber Monday stopping.
Speaker 4: So.
Speaker 1: I just wanted to mention this relating to I went
Speaker 1: to an outlet mall yesterday and I was so frustrated.
Speaker 1: There was not a parking spot anywhere. There were just
Speaker 1: cars circling around this gigantic place, everybody frustrated, so many
Speaker 1: people walking you could barely draw. I have never in
Speaker 1: my life, I've been going to this same giant outlet
Speaker 1: mall for twenty five years, never seen a crowd like this,
Speaker 1: even close yesterday afternoon. So I mean that is as
Speaker 1: anecdotal as anecdotal evidence can get about where people are
Speaker 1: with shopping and consumer confidence and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1: But it was nuts, absolutely nuts, And all the stories
Speaker 1: in there, I said, has it been like this the
Speaker 1: whole weekend? When I finally got the park and go in,
Speaker 1: So oh yeah, it's been crazy Friday, Saturday and today
Speaker 1: just crazy.
Speaker 5: So I don't know, I don't know. I don't know
Speaker 5: what's happening.
Speaker 4: You know, Black Friday, the name of it is ridiculous,
Speaker 4: but it is a time.
Speaker 1: It's the first time that kmart goes into the black
Speaker 1: for the year because so many people got in shop
Speaker 1: after Thanksgiving.
Speaker 4: But you know, after Thanksgiving you do think start thinking
Speaker 4: about Christmas shopping and the rest of it. But as
Speaker 4: an informal measure, Black Friday sales were up significantly from
Speaker 4: last year. So boys, trying to get your wrap your
Speaker 4: arms around this economy and who it's good for and
Speaker 4: who it's not for. It's it's definitely not a simple picture. No.
Speaker 1: I was watching all this and thinking about all those
Speaker 1: stats we've heard about people have run out of money
Speaker 1: and they've maxed out their credit cards, and thinking, so,
Speaker 1: did you open a new credit card? Did you get
Speaker 1: a raise? I mean, is what is going on with everybody?
Speaker 1: But I mean, it's just nuts. I didn't declare to
Speaker 1: my kids this is the last time I will be
Speaker 1: at a retail outlet until January. I will not do
Speaker 1: that under any circumstances. Again, it was miserable, Absolutely miserable.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, I have no doubt whatsoever. But that's
Speaker 1: consumer spending is two thirds of the economy, So that's
Speaker 1: good for the economy. Although if everybody's putting on their
Speaker 1: credit cards and can't actually afford it, it's not so.
Speaker 5: I don't have any idea.
Speaker 4: I read a pretty detailed and persuasive account a few
Speaker 4: weeks ago from the Wall Streets Journal that said, there's
Speaker 4: a real demarcation between homeowners and owners of stocks and
Speaker 4: mutual funds and stuff like that who feel very, very wealthy,
Speaker 4: and the other chunk of the economy that does not
Speaker 4: feel wealthy at all and is struggling to keep their
Speaker 4: heads above water and running up their credit cards, not
Speaker 4: on lavish gifts for each.
Speaker 1: Other, but indeed for you know, the basics. And they've said,
Speaker 1: yesterday Sunday, come home day from Thanksgiving, with the busiest
Speaker 1: travel day in US history.
Speaker 5: Wow, so people were getting out and about there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it could it be going on at the same
Speaker 1: time that we're all shocked and horrified by inflation.
Speaker 5: I was talking to my family about this or my
Speaker 5: brother about this anyway.
Speaker 1: And yet I don't think enough of us, including myself,
Speaker 1: recognize that unless you've got to raise in the last
Speaker 1: couple of years, you've taken.
Speaker 5: Like a twenty five to thirty percent pay cut.
Speaker 1: But I think we all ignore that that we've taken
Speaker 1: a thirty percent pay cut.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I think we sense it our in our bones.
Speaker 4: But yeah, that's absolutely a correct way to put it.
Speaker 4: And that's why inflation is a tax. It's the way
Speaker 4: the government gets to spend out more money than they
Speaker 4: have send out more money they have to their cronies,
Speaker 4: thereby reducing the value of your dollars, and all of
Speaker 4: a sudden you have to pay, you know, twenty thirty
Speaker 4: percent more for stuff over the span of a couple
Speaker 4: of years, making you that much poorer.
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Speaker 1: You see the pictures that came out of Trump's Thanksgiving
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Speaker 1: I mean, that whole toga He's president again. Thing is
Speaker 1: just on fire.
Speaker 4: I have never seen a higher profile transition than Trump's.
Speaker 4: I mean, he's the president at this point, he's meeting
Speaker 4: with foreign dignitaries, he's got him on the phone, or
Speaker 4: they're coming to mar A Lago.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Trudeau from Canada went down there to talk to him.
Speaker 1: Zuckerberg from Facebook went and had dinner with Trump.
Speaker 2: Isn't that interesting?
Speaker 4: I mean, occasionally he's got to have to say, look,
Speaker 4: I can't help you. You got to talk to the corpse.
Speaker 4: He's still in office or whatever. He calls him, the Mummy.
Speaker 5: I'm not actually president. Yeah, the Mummy's president.
Speaker 1: He's gonna talk to the corpse. The way people are
Speaker 1: coming down there to meet with him to try to
Speaker 1: get on his good side before he takes office has
Speaker 1: got to be making him feel pretty good about himself.
Speaker 4: Yes, to the extent that he needs a bollstring of
Speaker 4: his eg Oh yeah, Oh, speaking of which, next hour.
Speaker 4: I'm sure we will get into this in earnest Trump's
Speaker 4: appointees or his nominees nominating appointees, and there are a
Speaker 4: variety of them.
Speaker 1: The pattern has continued. About fifty percent seem rock solid.
Speaker 1: About twenty five percent are huh, that's interesting. But I'll
Speaker 1: look forward to the hearings and about twenty five percent
Speaker 1: are badass nuts if you ask me. But you know,
Speaker 1: the Senate is there to advise and consent, and they
Speaker 1: will get together and chat behind the scenes and say, hey,
Speaker 1: we have these concerns. And to quote who was it,
Speaker 1: was it Janet Yellen? What was her name? The system worked,
Speaker 1: The system's working. It's gonna be fine. So polling from
Speaker 1: last Sunday, CBS News, and this is another one of
Speaker 1: those don't get your feeling about the electorate through the
Speaker 1: media because you'll be misled. This was last Sunday, So
Speaker 1: I don't know if the polls have changed since his
Speaker 1: FBI nomination at all, which just happened on Saturday. I
Speaker 1: guess sixty percent of Americans approved of Trump's choices, his
Speaker 1: cabinet picks. So that's the CBS News poll. So after
Speaker 1: all of the you know, oh my God, he's so
Speaker 1: crazy and out of control. Can you believe he's doing
Speaker 1: these awful things? Or on a RFK Junior and Telsea Gabbard,
Speaker 1: everything like that. As of last Sunday, after all those
Speaker 1: names are out and through the whole Matt Gates is
Speaker 1: a thing with Caman went and everything like that. Sixty
Speaker 1: percent of Americans approved of Trump's choices. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: you're risty forty. That's a pretty big win when you
Speaker 1: hear that's on our media against you, right, Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: a good point.
Speaker 4: Once again, the media representing a tiny swath of weird America.
Speaker 1: But I think it.
Speaker 4: Also is an expression of what I was talking about
Speaker 4: people and maybe they think this consciously, but they thought, yeah,
Speaker 4: I've heard there's some good, some bad, but the Senate
Speaker 4: and that's a couple of months from now, and I'm
Speaker 4: not worried about it. That's an expression of I have
Speaker 4: faith in this country and our systems, which I think
Speaker 4: you should. And I say that having said that, about
Speaker 4: a quarter of his nominations or nuts to my mind.
Speaker 4: But they'll get weeded out, or they'll try and they'll
Speaker 4: fail and and and we'll move on as a country.
Speaker 4: I'm not I refuse to act as if my heart
Speaker 4: is on fire every news story that comes out, like
Speaker 4: most of the media.
Speaker 5: Oh, we got to take a break and come back
Speaker 5: with eighties headlines. I'm sory.
Speaker 1: I'm a little choked up because it's Cyber Monday and
Speaker 1: it always gets to me and what it means to
Speaker 1: the Cyber Monday memories and the Carrol's times with my
Speaker 1: grandparents on Cyber Monday, long before.
Speaker 4: Day, my dad put his arm around my shoulders and said, son.
Speaker 1: You got a double click.
Speaker 4: Yeah, just.
Speaker 5: Becoming a man, right right. We got a lot of
Speaker 5: the way.
Speaker 1: I hope you can stay with us text line four ONEFTC.
Speaker 1: A number of texts about the idea. I don't remember
Speaker 1: how we got on the topic of cameras in the classroom.
Speaker 5: We got a number of interesting texts about that. Maybe
Speaker 5: we'll get back into that later.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Great upside, huge downside. It's an intriguing idea.
Speaker 1: We did it for Slash two Cops and it seems
Speaker 1: to be accepted.
Speaker 5: And there was all the hue and cry before it happened.
Speaker 1: So again, three and a half pounds over Thanksgiving, and
Speaker 1: at least part of it was my back to back
Speaker 1: milkshake nights in addition to a lot of ridiculous family
Speaker 1: eating where I drove across town and went to this
Speaker 1: famous milkshake place in the town I was in on
Speaker 1: the trial. And the first night we all ate there
Speaker 1: because we just rolled into town, and my kids got
Speaker 1: milkshakes also. But then the second night, when I was
Speaker 1: going to go back, who wants to get a milkshake?
Speaker 1: Both my teenage boys said no, Nah, that's too unhealthy.
Speaker 5: I just I don't think I should do a milkshaking.
Speaker 1: So I went by myself because young who are not
Speaker 1: famous for their judgment, decided, Nah, that's just overdoing it
Speaker 1: to have milkshake after today.
Speaker 5: So what does that say about me?
Speaker 6: I still don't understand how you're not on that my
Speaker 6: six hundred pound life show.
Speaker 5: I'm working on it.
Speaker 4: I'm making a chapter of overeaters anonymous or something.
Speaker 1: I don't know. My kids. I think it was practically
Speaker 1: an intervention for my kids to try to convince me
Speaker 1: not to go and get I did any so much
Speaker 1: sugar well, and then I appreciated.
Speaker 4: Jack sent me a picture of the truck stop by
Speaker 4: the highway that we used to sneak off to grab
Speaker 4: a slice of pie and plan what would become the
Speaker 4: Armstrong e Getty Show. When we were working for competing stations,
Speaker 4: we had to slink around like we're having an affair
Speaker 4: and good times if they have not updated the decor.
Speaker 1: No, but why would you? Had some pie is good
Speaker 1: and had some pie?
Speaker 5: Had some pie, which is why I'm three and a half.
Speaker 1: There's more of me to love as I keep saying,
Speaker 1: yeah pie as well, Yes, of course lots of pie. Jack,
Speaker 1: You're amazing. Let's figure out who's reporting what it's the
Speaker 1: leak story with Katie Green. All right, let me start
Speaker 1: with NBC News.
Speaker 6: President Biden pardons his son Hunter Biden, despite saying he wouldn't.
Speaker 5: So that part people are making a big deal out of.
Speaker 1: I didn't. Most people assume he would pardon him, and
Speaker 1: that's just something he had to say.
Speaker 5: So that part doesn't bother me much.
Speaker 1: But the politics around it and the message it sends man,
Speaker 1: some of the critics in the mainstream media really interesting.
Speaker 5: We'll read from some of that a little bit later.
Speaker 1: Also, it was a full throated statement that yes, some
Speaker 1: people are above the law. Are people period?
Speaker 6: Bengo ABC News IDF confirms death of another US Israeli hostage.
Speaker 1: Oh, I didn't hear that.
Speaker 6: From CNN, Putin approves record defense spending a third of
Speaker 6: Russia's entire budget.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're spending thirty some percent of their GDP on
Speaker 1: the military. To weigh your war against a country that
Speaker 1: they don't need to be fighting, right.
Speaker 4: Right, with enormous loss of life and the brain drained
Speaker 4: of the country. What this looks like ten years from
Speaker 4: now will be really interesting to observe.
Speaker 6: From The New York Times, Germany pledges extra six hundred
Speaker 6: and eighty million dollars to Ukraine in effort at reassurance.
Speaker 1: It's been a bad week for Ukraine. Russia's taken a
Speaker 1: bunch of land. We'll talk more about that later.
Speaker 6: From Politico, delete cfpv Elon Musk calls for elimination of
Speaker 6: Consumer Bureau.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, that's the Liz Warren project, right. Yeah, I
Speaker 4: haven't done me any good as far as I can tell,
Speaker 4: but don't feel strongly about it.
Speaker 6: CBS News postgame fights erupt across Rivalry Reek Right, Wow,
Speaker 6: rivalry week as four teams attempt to plant flags on
Speaker 6: opponents field.
Speaker 1: So is this a new thing where you win the
Speaker 1: game on the road and you take your team's flag
Speaker 1: and you try to stick it in the middle of
Speaker 1: the field, and then the other teams says, yes, no way,
Speaker 1: and they start pulling out numbchucks and knives and bottles,
Speaker 1: and there's a pull on fight and the cops come in.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's happened a handful of times across the recent years,
Speaker 4: and with the obvious response. If I was a college
Speaker 4: football player somebody tried that s on my field, I'd
Speaker 4: beat them down.
Speaker 1: I would go out there and fight them. You're right,
Speaker 1: And it was at Michigan, Ohio State the cops were
Speaker 1: actually pepper spraying players. Wow.
Speaker 6: From the New York Post, women including only fans model
Speaker 6: are getting sterilized and blaming Trump for their.
Speaker 5: Decision sharelie so they can't have kids.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're getting their tubes tied.
Speaker 5: Because of Trump.
Speaker 1: M hmm, whatever, you nutjobs. You got more on I've
Speaker 1: got more on the number of people that are threatening
Speaker 1: to leave or actually leaving or adjusting their lifestyles because
Speaker 1: of the fear of Trump. Get to that we're getting
Speaker 1: their tubes tied? What lest Eric mountain them or what?
Speaker 1: And what is the fear? What is that you know what.
Speaker 4: In spite of myself, Katie, I would like to hear
Speaker 4: more about this story later.
Speaker 1: NBC was fear mongering yesterday at I couldn't believe it
Speaker 1: with this idea that gay couples are rushing to the
Speaker 1: altar to get married before Trump is inaugurated. If you
Speaker 1: think the right for gay people to get married is
Speaker 1: gonna go away because Trump is president, you're a crazy person.
Speaker 1: You need to acknowledge the you've gone nuts, and or
Speaker 1: you need to acknowledge that, like so many of those
Speaker 1: people who fell apart completely in the way of the election,
Speaker 1: you have believed the most ridiculous hyper believe your side
Speaker 1: the stuff, it's crap. Don't believe it, it's made up.
Speaker 5: And finally, the.
Speaker 6: Babylon b quote, don't let anyone take your power. Tipsy
Speaker 6: at Kamala tells confused five year olds at Thanksgivings.
Speaker 1: Kids table, that's a funny scenario. So did you see
Speaker 1: Rob Reiner, the actor director. He is in some sort
Speaker 1: of like mental rehab thingy. He posted over the weekend.
Speaker 1: He said, I need a break to be able to
Speaker 1: recover from this blow to blah blah blah because of
Speaker 1: Trump's election. So he's in some sort of take space
Speaker 1: healing thingy for crazy people, lots of puppies and coloring books,
Speaker 1: and an actual human being in my real life said
Speaker 1: and they said it like it made sense that a
Speaker 1: friend of theirs had had their phone on notifications only
Speaker 1: since the election, but because they just couldn't take any
Speaker 1: calls or texts. Wow, wow, I pity you. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: know you're right. Instead of calling people crazy, I should
Speaker 1: I should embrace the fact that you just believed the
Speaker 1: media that you take in and if you believe it.
Speaker 1: If the media you believe in, you know, is saying
Speaker 1: this stuff, you should be very upset because they're saying
Speaker 1: some crazy, crazy ass.
Speaker 4: But it's it's a Venn diagram. You got crazy over here,
Speaker 4: you got believed the hype over here. You got a
Speaker 4: fair amount of overlap, but not you know, that's not
Speaker 4: all craziness.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Alec Baldwin, who's now in another country, gave some
Speaker 1: big speech about how stupid the Electric electorate is. Whatever.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and perhaps you'd like to pick up a hot
Speaker 4: Dogs Are Dogs t shirt in honor of the Colorado Buffalo's.
Speaker 4: I think who beat the mixed San Jose State team
Speaker 4: that has both boys and girls?
Speaker 1: So I followed this. I was on a plane, but
Speaker 1: I was getting updates. San Jose State women's volleyball lost
Speaker 1: in the finals. So they got to the finals because
Speaker 1: of a boycott one team that wasn't going to play
Speaker 1: against a dude, but they made the finals lost and
Speaker 1: the team that one though the star player and the
Speaker 1: other players kneeled at the national anthem.
Speaker 4: So hard to find a team to root for in
Speaker 4: that one. I had such a great joke ready to
Speaker 4: go too, but you ruined it with that.
Speaker 1: Just gonna say, I would say San Jose State's loss
Speaker 1: was a real kick in the balls, besmirching the name
Speaker 1: of women's college volleyball, which you hate to see done.
Speaker 1: Come on, Colorado, you're all chicks, but you're woke. Come on,
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