Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty, I know he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1: So Trump had a press conference or around the plane
Speaker 1: crash for some reason I don't think he needed to.
Speaker 1: And then he said the pilot, the people on the
Speaker 1: plane should have seen that, the people on the helicopter
Speaker 1: should have been able to see that.
Speaker 2: Okay, what is that?
Speaker 3: I just there's no need for that. And he's one
Speaker 3: of his great sins is that he just doesn't know
Speaker 3: when to not talk.
Speaker 1: But well, he weighed in on everything his whole life,
Speaker 1: and people ate it up. But when you're president, you
Speaker 1: probably don't need to weigh in on what the pilots
Speaker 1: of the helicopter should have done hours after a crash
Speaker 1: when you don't really know much.
Speaker 2: And even if you're right, why say it?
Speaker 4: So?
Speaker 1: I don't know, but he did rip Obama and Biden
Speaker 1: for hiring unqualified FAA employees during the whole DEI thing,
Speaker 1: and there might be some truth to that, so we'll
Speaker 1: see if you can connect the dots on that. But
Speaker 1: just in general, why so much coverage of this I
Speaker 1: was surprised that The Today Show and Good Morning American
Speaker 1: and all those kind of things broke into their coverage
Speaker 1: and went live on every tidbit around this story.
Speaker 2: Those are very lucrative shows.
Speaker 1: And just our fascination with plane crashes has always been
Speaker 1: where it's so unlikely, like the least likely thing that's
Speaker 1: gonna happen to you in your life.
Speaker 2: Practically, that's why it's exciting. I think that doesn't make sense.
Speaker 1: Everybody always says that I've said that because it's because
Speaker 1: it's so.
Speaker 2: Rare that it's so but why, I'm not sure. I
Speaker 2: get that.
Speaker 1: What's even more rare If a meteor hit a guy
Speaker 1: in a head, you wouldn't have wall to wall coverage
Speaker 1: on a meteor just killed this guy.
Speaker 3: You would if it was in Washington, DC or Manhattan.
Speaker 3: I think that's part of it. Number One, in one
Speaker 3: of the great media centers. Number Two, they have great
Speaker 3: video that rules everything, the significance or how important it
Speaker 3: is to people's lives or what's best for the sacred union.
Speaker 3: That doesn't mean anything to TV producers. If it bleeds,
Speaker 3: it leads, If there's fire, it goes higher. If there's death,
Speaker 3: it's like it hit a mess. I made that one up.
Speaker 3: But they have great video and a lot of people
Speaker 3: are dead. That's just it's catnet for them. Number of people.
Speaker 1: So one guy getting hit with a meteor wouldn't matter
Speaker 1: because single engine planes crashing don't make news either, so
Speaker 1: it'd be a number five. So if a meteor came
Speaker 1: out of the sky and hit a greyhound bus with
Speaker 1: sixty people and it killed them all, I still wouldn't
Speaker 1: get this kind of coverage.
Speaker 2: I don't think it would be at the end of
Speaker 2: the moon that about plane crashes that fascinate people. Yes,
Speaker 2: and I've never quite grasped it. AnyWho, Well, I know all.
Speaker 3: I need to know until the investigation's done. At this point,
Speaker 3: I don't need never ending videotape in repeating over and
Speaker 3: over that those who may have survived the crash drowned
Speaker 3: in the river.
Speaker 2: I get it. Let's move on. What else is happening, right.
Speaker 1: And as you mentioned earlier in the program, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of news going on, So it's not a particularly
Speaker 1: good day to jump all over one story that doesn't
Speaker 1: have any new news when there are so many things
Speaker 1: actually happening. And we'll get back to some of the
Speaker 1: highlights from the hearings that are going on. Something cash Pattel, guy,
Speaker 1: you think he's going to end up being FBI director?
Speaker 1: What was your odds? Ten thousand dollars? Really so something big?
Speaker 1: He said around the January sixth Pardons. That's pretty dang
Speaker 1: big news. We'll get to that later this hour.
Speaker 2: Jd. Vance was on Hannity last night.
Speaker 1: They kind of had a friendly conversation that wasn't hardcore politics.
Speaker 2: For instance, this all.
Speaker 4: Right, hasn't sunk in yet? Hillbilly Elogy yep? Now the
Speaker 4: vice president of the United States of America. Yeah, it's
Speaker 4: kind of crazy. You know, it hasn't sunk in.
Speaker 5: And you know, I joke that I took two wrong
Speaker 5: turns and I ended up a hallway down from the
Speaker 5: Oval Office.
Speaker 4: And it's just an incredible thing. You know.
Speaker 5: The first time I'd ever actually been to the Oval
Speaker 5: Office was with President Trump as his vice president last Tuesday.
Speaker 4: Had never been to the Oval Office.
Speaker 5: The Oval Office just has a particular power and I
Speaker 5: certainly felt it, and it was just.
Speaker 4: Amazing to stand in that room.
Speaker 5: And I remember at the time thinking I wish that
Speaker 5: I had something profound to say and I just stood
Speaker 5: in there saying, wow, this is crazy right.
Speaker 2: Good.
Speaker 1: I'm glad to hear that because it's one of Clinton's
Speaker 1: from the Clinton Orbit, one of his advisors.
Speaker 2: He's on TV all the time anyway.
Speaker 1: He said, if you don't have a little bit of
Speaker 1: imposter syndrome when you walk into the White House or
Speaker 1: the Oval Office, there's something wrong with you.
Speaker 2: And I was glad to hear JD. Vansfields that way. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'll bet Trump didn't though I'll bet Trump doesn't where
Speaker 2: I belong. I should be here. This place is a
Speaker 2: dump anywhere JD. Vans goes on.
Speaker 4: So we're just a mid conversation.
Speaker 5: I think we were with Senator Thun and Speaker Johnson,
Speaker 5: and he had this sort of beautiful ornate wooden box
Speaker 5: on his desk with a red button and he presses it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and he just kind of looks over at me
Speaker 4: and I'm like, sir, is that something bad? Just that Yeah,
Speaker 4: And he's like, no, I just ordered a diet coke.
Speaker 4: That's literally it's a diet cop Oh.
Speaker 1: So he's like, did you press the red button? Like
Speaker 1: we've attacked the Soviet Union? No, I pressed the diet
Speaker 1: coke red button, different red button. Got to keep them straight,
Speaker 1: very important.
Speaker 3: I would have a like pre nighttime button, which would
Speaker 3: probably be an Arnold Palmer. That would be my soft
Speaker 3: drinking choice half iced tea, half lemonade.
Speaker 1: I only drink water. I might have a pizza button.
Speaker 1: Slice of pizza on a on a paper plate. I needed,
Speaker 1: but that big slice of the cheese pizza.
Speaker 2: Please right away, mister president. Sir, by the way, how
Speaker 2: the hell did you get it like that?
Speaker 3: Then I would have a plaid button for like after
Speaker 3: eight thirty and I would touch in it.
Speaker 2: They'd bring me a nice scotch.
Speaker 1: Well, I've noticed so far there's a theme to your buttons.
Speaker 1: That beverage button liked like Trump. Hass Okay, you just
Speaker 1: don't want a childish beverages like a diet cot grown
Speaker 1: up but like know me j buttons huh real, real,
Speaker 1: real men, what I just drawn tea.
Speaker 2: I had one more thing to say about that.
Speaker 1: Oh, that is kind of interesting that Jade Advance had
Speaker 1: never been in the Oval Office till he goes down
Speaker 1: there to see the president as vice president, whereas a
Speaker 1: guy like Joe Biden had been in the Oval Office
Speaker 1: maybe a thousand times in his career.
Speaker 2: Through various administrations.
Speaker 3: A lot, certainly hundreds and presidents of both parties couldn't
Speaker 3: wait till he.
Speaker 2: Left, all right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, uh, this gets into some of the actual governing
Speaker 1: and what he sees with Donald Trump.
Speaker 5: Doesn't just ask like you know, his closest advisor or
Speaker 5: some policy person.
Speaker 4: You know, it's gonn affect a business.
Speaker 2: He'll call the.
Speaker 5: Business to CEO, so he'll go and try to talk
Speaker 5: to the workers. He tries to take inputs from everywhere.
Speaker 5: And I think it's one of the reasons why he's
Speaker 5: so in tune with where the American people actually are.
Speaker 4: And that's something, honestly.
Speaker 5: I could write a book just about the way that
Speaker 5: he gathers information from all sources.
Speaker 4: And it's very unusual. I mean, Washington.
Speaker 5: Most politicians, you know, they'll if it's a national security issue,
Speaker 5: they'll talk to their national security person and maybe you know,
Speaker 5: somebody else in their office. If it's a business issue,
Speaker 5: maybe they'll talk to a CEO. The President talks to everybody,
Speaker 5: and that's a very very profound thing about the way
Speaker 5: that he actually operates in Washington.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you saw that Bill Gates interview,
Speaker 1: I think it was in the Wall Street Journal a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago, because Bill Gates met with Trump
Speaker 1: down in mar A Lago, talking about how amazed he
Speaker 1: was at how widely informed. I was about to say red,
Speaker 1: but I think Trump mostly talks to people and watches stuff,
Speaker 1: which is a fine way to get information. Bill Gates
Speaker 1: was amazed at how widely informed Trump was on a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of issues that he brought up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I don't doubt it.
Speaker 2: I don't doubt either.
Speaker 3: You know, I got to take what jd Vance says
Speaker 3: with a grain of salt because he's the man's veep
Speaker 3: and he ought to be, you know, loyal and be
Speaker 3: on the team. But there's absolutely zero question that Trump
Speaker 3: is the world's least elitist elitist. His understanding of basic
Speaker 3: working people in their needs and priorities is it's truly impressive.
Speaker 3: And if you want to run down some of his faults,
Speaker 3: but it's like the best I've seen.
Speaker 2: Clinton was incredible at that too. You know what part
Speaker 2: of that is?
Speaker 1: I wonder, because we've had this in our careers. If
Speaker 1: you're able to climb certain ladders, you get up to
Speaker 1: the higher on the ladder, and you look around and
Speaker 1: realize these people aren't nearly as impressive as I thought
Speaker 1: they were.
Speaker 2: I thought they'd be. Yeah, you thought they would be.
Speaker 1: And Trump has probably had that his whole wife, and
Speaker 1: so he's willing to ask, you know, the cook in
Speaker 1: the kitchen a question about something and take their word
Speaker 1: for it as somebody who's got a title of some sort.
Speaker 3: And I still say that Trump during his formative decades
Speaker 3: as a developer, he famously spent a lot of time
Speaker 3: on job sites and I can absolutely picture him talking
Speaker 3: to a foreman and thinking that guy's rock solid. I
Speaker 3: would trust him with anything. He's a guy can count on,
Speaker 3: and then running into the high flying elite of New
Speaker 3: York or government and thinking these people are slippery Putts's
Speaker 3: I can't trust him for a single second, and recognizing
Speaker 3: because he had to for the success of his business,
Speaker 3: it's not your station that dictates how much respect you
Speaker 3: ought to have or how you that much he can
Speaker 3: be counted on at all.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I, you know, always wondering how much of our
Speaker 1: audience can handle flattery of Trump and criticism of Trump,
Speaker 1: you know, in the same segment either side of it,
Speaker 1: Like I think he had no freaking business whatsoever as
Speaker 1: President of the United States going on TV today and
Speaker 1: saying they've made it. They screwed up on that helicopter.
Speaker 1: They should have been looking at the window.
Speaker 2: What are you talking about, dude? What the hell?
Speaker 1: He waited on it, like right after the crash last
Speaker 1: night with the same stuff in a tweet, like, what
Speaker 1: are you doing.
Speaker 2: Looking out the window?
Speaker 3: Anybody you can't figure that out on their own is
Speaker 3: in a coma and they can't hear you, sir, nobody
Speaker 3: needs you to tell us that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's I'm sure the family.
Speaker 1: I'm sure the families of the soldiers that are dead
Speaker 1: on the helicopter are pleased with that too. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: didn't do it on purpose. It was a mistake of
Speaker 1: some sort. Anyway, back to policy. Jd Evan's talking about
Speaker 1: the rounding up of all these criminal illegals, and now
Speaker 1: you know, we knew where they were and knew who
Speaker 1: they were for a long time.
Speaker 4: He asked, what is shocking to me.
Speaker 5: It's that many of these violent criminals, we knew their addresses,
Speaker 5: we knew their names. We just needed to send somebody,
Speaker 5: got to go to their house and get them.
Speaker 4: The hell out of the country. That really should shock
Speaker 4: the American people.
Speaker 5: Have known, we've known where they are exactly exactly, and
Speaker 5: we known they've had terroritized We've known at least that
Speaker 5: they had violent criminal backgrounds, and we haven't done anything
Speaker 5: until Donald Trump became the president of the United States. Again,
Speaker 5: it really should shock the conscience of the American people.
Speaker 1: It should be and it should be spelled out more
Speaker 1: clearly on your mainstream evening newscasts. This person they just arrested,
Speaker 1: We knew for the past year, two years, five years, whatever,
Speaker 1: they're a child rapist and they're here illegally and they
Speaker 1: lived over there, yes, and nobody did anything about it.
Speaker 3: Does that still occasionally run across people who say, how
Speaker 3: can you vote for Trump?
Speaker 2: How can you not understand this?
Speaker 3: For all of his flaws, he is fixing these gigantgantic,
Speaker 3: insane problems that progressives have brought us.
Speaker 2: Will take the flaws. Let's root out the DEI.
Speaker 3: Let's quit in doctrinating children, Let's boot out illegal immigrant
Speaker 3: child rapists.
Speaker 2: How can you not get that cash?
Speaker 1: Pattel flips script on dem senator after being grilled on
Speaker 1: J six pardons. Yeah, he did own him though did
Speaker 1: he own him? I hope somebody clapped back. Boy, If
Speaker 1: nobody clapped back, I'm gonna be highly disappointed. We'll have
Speaker 1: some of that testimony coming up.
Speaker 6: British woman recently said a Guinness World record by finishing
Speaker 6: an ice marathon in less than five hours while wearing
Speaker 6: a polar bear costume. It bein't the previous record of
Speaker 6: no one's ever done that?
Speaker 4: Did I get the record?
Speaker 2: Of course you did. That's funny.
Speaker 1: Seth Myers was a big fan of Norm McDonald, and
Speaker 1: that is a Norm MacDonald joke right there.
Speaker 3: The way that's worded, well, that reminds me. It's one
Speaker 3: of my favorite weird experiences. And it's hard to explain
Speaker 3: exactly why it was so delightful. But when we were
Speaker 3: walking back and forth to the convention hall in Milwaukee
Speaker 3: this past summer, and we walked going in opposite directions
Speaker 3: on the sidewalk, walked past these climate protesters who were
Speaker 3: clearly not pleased to be there and weren't really enthusiastic
Speaker 3: about their work. But they were walking around with their
Speaker 3: polar bear costume that they were going to don to
Speaker 3: make some vague point about climate change. And the guy
Speaker 3: walking around with walking by with the big polar bear
Speaker 3: head under his arm, looking miserable, like anybody going off
Speaker 3: to their crop, crappy job, not to day. It was
Speaker 3: your day, another friggin day. We're in the polar bear
Speaker 3: head in the heat.
Speaker 2: To make some point about climate change. I guess they
Speaker 2: all just looks so miserable anyway.
Speaker 3: A couple of stories from the world of health. This
Speaker 3: is interesting, and I've my mom used to talk about this.
Speaker 3: God Rest your soul. And I remember in college how
Speaker 3: like finals week, everybody would get sick either that week
Speaker 3: or after it or whatever.
Speaker 2: And what was it? Working too art, staining up too late?
Speaker 2: What was it?
Speaker 3: Scientists are getting more are getting closer to understanding how
Speaker 3: psychological stress hijacks the body's immune defenses. And they're talking
Speaker 3: specifically about allergies and skin diseases here, but it applies
Speaker 3: to a lot of different things. Psychological stress impairs specialized
Speaker 3: immune cells and called microphages by making them forget quote
Speaker 3: unquote how to clean up certain scales cells in the skin,
Speaker 3: leading to worse allergy symptoms that can persist for up
Speaker 3: to a week after the stressful event. Researchers discover the
Speaker 3: stress hormones again, with the hormones underappreciated create a kind
Speaker 3: of cellular memory and immune cells, offering the first molecular
Speaker 3: explanation for why stress can worsen allergic skin conditions like
Speaker 3: ezema after stress.
Speaker 1: That it's interesting and I remember the same experience too,
Speaker 1: final as week at getting sick. It's interesting that a
Speaker 1: moderate level of stress does this and it breaks down
Speaker 1: our immune system and we get sick. But people were
Speaker 1: under tremendous stress their body goes into some sort of
Speaker 1: Superman mode. Because I've seen this, I've known people who
Speaker 1: have done this scene this before, Like a guy who
Speaker 1: was taking care of his wife when she was like
Speaker 1: at the end of her life, and he was taking
Speaker 1: care of her all the time, and then she died
Speaker 1: and he immediately is in the hospital. Was some sort
Speaker 1: of liver disease thing that his body had been completely
Speaker 1: ignoring the whole time because he was needed. I mean,
Speaker 1: he was in a very stressful and I've heard of
Speaker 1: that sort of thing before.
Speaker 3: So yeah, yeah, really interesting. Moving along quickly, the ability
Speaker 3: to detect spoiled food, which is a particular interest, probably
Speaker 3: to Katie.
Speaker 2: You had no such thing to me. Cold enough, hot
Speaker 2: enough you keep eating it.
Speaker 3: Oh boy, Katie got some funk it I can yesterday
Speaker 3: and it made her sick. But this electric tongue can
Speaker 3: taste spoiled milk before a humans can, or do I
Speaker 3: get one of these?
Speaker 2: I tell you what.
Speaker 3: You give the old lady the electric tongue, It'll make
Speaker 3: a bigger young again.
Speaker 2: Huh. Now I bring up this story, I nearly use
Speaker 2: the term electric tongue. Sure can I plug it into
Speaker 2: my cigarette lighter? Bring it in the car.
Speaker 7: Don't.
Speaker 3: It'll distract you while you're driving. You're liable to have
Speaker 3: a fatal wreck. They're detecting spoiled food electronically.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 3: But you get to say electric tongue. And then finally,
Speaker 3: major new study shows that sedentary work is linked to
Speaker 3: about a forty percent increase in insomnia symptoms. The problem
Speaker 3: being eighty percent of the workforce has does sedentary work,
Speaker 3: non physically demanding work.
Speaker 2: And I found one that's battery powered. I can take
Speaker 2: it hiking.
Speaker 3: Oh boy, oh boy, I'm not going to look in
Speaker 3: your tent nikes.
Speaker 1: Cash Battel said, darn interesting things being grilled about being
Speaker 1: the FBI director. We've got some of that coming up.
Speaker 4: Armstrong and Getty's.
Speaker 1: One of our favorite sayings is you don't start the
Speaker 1: show with a show stopper. It's a show business rule.
Speaker 1: We are going to hear this is the show stopper,
Speaker 1: I think from Cash Battel as he's being grilled still
Speaker 1: up on Capitol Hill to see if he meets the
Speaker 1: Senate standards to be the FBI director.
Speaker 2: But you knew this question was coming.
Speaker 1: Was President Donald Trump wrong to you have blanket clemency
Speaker 1: to the January sixth defendants?
Speaker 2: Thank you, Ranking Member.
Speaker 8: A couple of things on that one, the power of
Speaker 8: the presidential part.
Speaker 2: It is just that the.
Speaker 6: President climate I can see he has the authority.
Speaker 4: I'm asking was he wrong to do it?
Speaker 8: And as we discussed in our private meeting, Senator, I
Speaker 8: have always rejected any violence against law enforcement, and I
Speaker 8: have including in that group is specifically addressed any violence
Speaker 8: against law enforcement on January sixth, and I do not
Speaker 8: agree with the commutation of any sentence of any individual
Speaker 8: who committed violence against law enforcement.
Speaker 2: That's pretty clear cut and declarative.
Speaker 1: Some of you who have beaten us up for suggesting
Speaker 1: that some of those people shouldn't have been pardoned and
Speaker 1: did the very thing he just described.
Speaker 2: How do you react to that? Is cash ptel in
Speaker 2: on it too, like we are Zier Rhino.
Speaker 3: I think that was an incredibly principled statement. I wonder
Speaker 3: whether he had gotten with Trump and told him, hey, look,
Speaker 3: I got to say this. I wonder if they had
Speaker 3: communicated about it.
Speaker 2: I heard Trump.
Speaker 1: Yesterday ask about it, and he really got into that. Well,
Speaker 1: there are just so many of them. I mean, it
Speaker 1: would have been so difficult to go through one by one
Speaker 1: with sixteen hundred people and all the lawyers we'd have
Speaker 1: to be involved in how long it would so I
Speaker 1: just decided, what the heck, I'll just do them all.
Speaker 1: Sounded a little more like he was edging toward Okay,
Speaker 1: some of these people shouldn't have been I doubt he'll
Speaker 1: ever say that.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: That's that's a Trumpian confession right there. Right, he could
Speaker 3: have appointed a commissioner. So it was a misstep and
Speaker 3: a mistake.
Speaker 1: Or even if you just held out a couple of
Speaker 1: them that were clearly not people right that should have
Speaker 1: been pardoned or community m.
Speaker 3: Yeah, agreed one hundred percent. But I appreciate him saying
Speaker 3: that out loud. That was an honorable move. He was
Speaker 3: asked by an ancient Chuck Grassley whether he was a
Speaker 3: follower of Q and on. He said no, absolutely not,
Speaker 3: And Derbott really tried you. I don't think he is,
Speaker 3: but not that you would say yes. I don't think
Speaker 3: if you were right.
Speaker 2: You gotten me. Damn it. I was hoping you wouldn't
Speaker 2: ask me. But now I'm in a pickle.
Speaker 3: I think most people who are would say yes, because
Speaker 3: all of that is right and it's important to know it.
Speaker 2: But he's not.
Speaker 3: He's a much more reasonable guy than the Democrats are
Speaker 3: trying to paint him as. He's also a much more
Speaker 3: reasonable guy that he came off as when he was
Speaker 3: simply an online provocateur and media surrogate for Trump.
Speaker 1: And but that's the problem with our modern era, our
Speaker 1: modern era of getting on cable TV or getting clicks
Speaker 1: on Twitter, you got to be so provocative to get
Speaker 1: any attention. That people do all do and say all
Speaker 1: kinds of provocative things, and that are way beyond their
Speaker 1: actual level of seriousness.
Speaker 3: Right, right, But it would be so easy. And maybe
Speaker 3: the reason I'm so sympathetic to this is what we
Speaker 3: do for a living. And if I were to be uh,
Speaker 3: you know, suggested appointed for some serious posts somewhere, and
Speaker 3: somebody you know, went through all the ridiculous jokes I've
Speaker 3: made in silly hyperbolic comments just purely, and longtime listeners
Speaker 3: of the show know when it's a joke and when
Speaker 3: it's a hyperbole. But if you type of out in
Speaker 3: the cold, black and white, it would I would come
Speaker 3: off as a nut job.
Speaker 2: But I actually I like these hearings.
Speaker 3: I like the fact that they take place, even though
Speaker 3: they're grand standing in a little phony in that if
Speaker 3: a guy says, look, I was just being hyperbolic to
Speaker 3: get attention. Here's what I believe, and he comes off
Speaker 3: as credible, all right, that settles that. Let's move along.
Speaker 3: And if he's not credible, that also settles that, and
Speaker 3: he'll move along.
Speaker 1: What about the fact that it's gone from everybody including
Speaker 1: Supreme Court justices would get confirmed like ninety eight nothing
Speaker 1: two Now it's almost part party line exclusive.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a measure of our hyperpartisan politics and how
Speaker 3: you can never admit the other team is anything but monsters.
Speaker 3: It would be helpful to me if they'd stop acting
Speaker 3: like monsters, by the way, and stop you know, foisting
Speaker 3: perverse philosophies on the kids. Anyway, I liked what he
Speaker 3: said to inclip forty.
Speaker 8: Five, and anyone that thinks my sixteen years of service
Speaker 8: is an exemplar, And how I would proceed if confirmed
Speaker 8: as FBI is intentionally putting false information into the public
Speaker 8: ether and creating more public discourse. The only thing that
Speaker 8: will matter if I'm confirmed as a Director of the
Speaker 8: FBI is a de weaponized, depoliticized system of law enforcement,
Speaker 8: completely devoted to rigorous obedience of the Constitution and a
Speaker 8: singular standard of justice.
Speaker 1: Now you you don't know him, and I don't know him.
Speaker 1: Why would I take him at his word on that?
Speaker 1: But like Joe said earlier, Trey Goudi, who knows the guy, Well,
Speaker 1: we're big Trey Goudi fans vouches for him one hundred percent,
Speaker 1: and that's all I need.
Speaker 3: Right, I could spend years researching the guy. But if
Speaker 3: somebody like Trey Goudy, believing what he believes in knowing
Speaker 3: him like he knows him, says that, that's good enough
Speaker 3: for me. Frankly, so I'm sure he will get confirmed,
Speaker 3: and then we'll see what kind of job he does.
Speaker 3: What people need to always remember and Jack, you know
Speaker 3: this very very well. And I have had the privilege
Speaker 3: of knowing and being friends with a number of folks
Speaker 3: in the FBI who are rock ribbed American patriots, love
Speaker 3: this country, staunch defenders of the Constitution, put themselves in
Speaker 3: dangerous way constantly to bring down organized criminals and scumbags
Speaker 3: and foreign spies and communists that are.
Speaker 2: Great, great freaking people.
Speaker 3: Given the powers of the FBI, or the Intelligence Services
Speaker 3: for that matter, by the very nature of their work,
Speaker 3: they are absolutely the most likely organizations to become excessive
Speaker 3: or to bruise the Constitution, not defend it, because they're
Speaker 3: given such awesome and sometimes secret powers. To hold them
Speaker 3: to an extremely high standard of scrutiny is not to
Speaker 3: be anti FBI.
Speaker 2: It's to be pro constitution.
Speaker 3: It's to understand, as the founding fathers did, Oh, we're
Speaker 3: going to give these people awesome powers and let them
Speaker 3: do it in secret. Who would be Thomas Jefferson's response,
Speaker 3: or Madison or Washington.
Speaker 4: Or any of them.
Speaker 1: Human nature being what it is, FBI always goes too
Speaker 1: far from its inception. Eventually, not every time, I didn't
Speaker 1: mean every time they do anything. They go too far,
Speaker 1: but get grows and grows and grows and grows further,
Speaker 1: pushing the limits until it gets like way on a whack.
Speaker 1: I think it's rained back in. Maybe that's the best
Speaker 1: you can do.
Speaker 3: If you want to read something really interesting. Oh I
Speaker 3: wish I could remember specifically where I learned this. I'll
Speaker 3: try to figure it out. Read the history of the CIA,
Speaker 3: specifically when the CIA has been allowed to conduct kinetic operations,
Speaker 3: meaning they don't just figure out where the jihadist is,
Speaker 3: they also have control of the guns that will take
Speaker 3: care of him. Because there is kind of an ebb
Speaker 3: and flow in our country's history, certainly since CIA became
Speaker 3: a thing, whereas there's a division between intelligence and then
Speaker 3: kinetic action. And at times we've thought, well, this is
Speaker 3: too cumbersome and slow. If the CIA has one hundred
Speaker 3: percent rock solid information, they need to be lacked on it.
Speaker 3: That always gets excessive. Always, it's inevitable as part of
Speaker 3: human you know, the human condition, and it always has
Speaker 3: to be rained back in.
Speaker 2: And then people start to.
Speaker 3: Think, well, this is too slow and cumbersome, maybe we
Speaker 3: should let them.
Speaker 2: Do it, and then it gets too excessive again. I
Speaker 2: got a question for you they'll put you in a pickle.
Speaker 1: Oh so when when when someone is qan on, what
Speaker 1: does that mostly mean to you? And I don't mean
Speaker 1: the origin story of q and his access and blah
Speaker 1: blah blah. Like if you hear somebody's q and on,
Speaker 1: what does that mostly mean?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 2: Wow? Can I have a minute to compose my answer? Well?
Speaker 3: When?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah sure.
Speaker 1: But like when Patel was asked, are you qan on?
Speaker 1: I wonder what most people are mostly thinking? That means
Speaker 1: you are what?
Speaker 2: Or aren't what?
Speaker 9: Wow?
Speaker 2: Ah again off the top of my head.
Speaker 1: I know, I know my answer just brushing up with
Speaker 1: a handful of quan on people, But I don't know
Speaker 1: if I'm right? Is it mostly mostly Democratic?
Speaker 2: Party?
Speaker 1: Is a party of pedophiles that they've been hiding it
Speaker 1: for decades? That's a lot of the whole thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would characterize those people having received dreams of
Speaker 3: emails and looked into it personally myself and just I'm
Speaker 3: not an expert, but I'm reasonably acquainted with it. It
Speaker 3: is people who love this country are concerned about some
Speaker 3: evil doers doing evil things, and they are overly enamored
Speaker 3: with the idea that we have discovered the secret evil
Speaker 3: doer cabal and are bravely fighting against it to the
Speaker 3: point of like Wackado conspiracy theories and the term conspiracy
Speaker 3: theory is way over use these days. I mean, I
Speaker 3: hear conspiracy theory and I think, yeah, it's probably sixty
Speaker 3: percent going to be true.
Speaker 2: The chances are because it's been used to.
Speaker 3: Cast dispersions on so many things that are one hundred
Speaker 3: percent true. So I hate to use that term, honestly,
Speaker 3: you know, I don't. There's a certain way of manipulating
Speaker 3: people in their beliefs and their emotions and their concerns
Speaker 3: that various people behind the q Noon phenomenon are very
Speaker 3: very good at. I remember the very early introduction I
Speaker 3: had to it, where one of our beloved listeners says, Dude, Joe,
Speaker 3: you've got to get on this, look into this. This
Speaker 3: person is deep within the state, they know what's going on,
Speaker 3: they have secret information. They're telling you this is going
Speaker 3: to happen. And so I thought, wow, that's interesting. It
Speaker 3: sounds a little funky to me, but I'm gonna follow it.
Speaker 3: And then it got into that whole pattern of if
Speaker 3: something like that happened, it was proof that they're right
Speaker 3: and if nothing at all like that happened, it was
Speaker 3: explained that, yeah, the evil doors got onto it, and
Speaker 3: the fact that nothing happened is proof that we're right
Speaker 3: all along and here's what's actually going on. And it
Speaker 3: was like a never ending chasing the carrot, a tantalizing
Speaker 3: mystery slash crusade thing. And I don't have the personality
Speaker 3: that tends to be drawn along by that. You call
Speaker 3: you make three predictions in a row, and they're all wrong,
Speaker 3: and they're all like super exciting spy novel stuff.
Speaker 2: I know you're a crackpot. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was privy to a conversation with some QAnon people
Speaker 1: between each other the other day and became aware that
Speaker 1: they were because somebody brought up somebody is completely unaware
Speaker 1: of the origin. So I'm not sure the original q'on
Speaker 1: thing how much it has to do with the current
Speaker 1: QAnon thing, kind of like the way the term ocon
Speaker 1: changed over the years or tea party or whatever. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure how much it has to do with the
Speaker 1: original q andon thing. A lot of people that are
Speaker 1: into it don't have any clue of the original deep State,
Speaker 1: you know, anonymous secret source thing.
Speaker 2: Now it's Adam, I don't know.
Speaker 1: You tell me if you're it's evolved text line four one,
Speaker 1: five two nine kftc.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and yet horrible plane crash. I mean they're all horrible.
Speaker 1: First time in twenty years you got a commercial flight
Speaker 1: crash in America. I crossed paths with a Blackhawk helicopter
Speaker 1: over Riggan Airport in DC and the air traffic controller
Speaker 1: audio is out and this is what it sounds like,
Speaker 1: you do that both.
Speaker 9: The helicopter and the plane crash in the river. It's
Speaker 9: of the post end of runway three three. I just
Speaker 9: saw a fireball then it was just gone, so since
Speaker 9: they hit the river. But it was a CRGA and
Speaker 9: a helicopter that hit. I would say maybe a half
Speaker 9: mile off the approach in the three three.
Speaker 7: I don't know if goot earlier what happened, but there
Speaker 7: was a cuision on the a person of three three.
Speaker 7: We're going to send that operation for the indefinite future.
Speaker 7: If you want to go back to the gate. I
Speaker 7: to guess you guys coordinated company, But I.
Speaker 9: Know what you wanted was talking to them right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we witnessed the whole thing of.
Speaker 4: The air pasion for a lone boy.
Speaker 1: That's some people staying very calm, even though they know
Speaker 1: exactly what happened. In all likelihood, everybody's dead. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm sure they felt that. Here's Trump this morning for
Speaker 1: some reason saying this.
Speaker 2: But we had a.
Speaker 10: Situation where you had a helicopter that had the ability
Speaker 10: to stop.
Speaker 2: I have helicopters.
Speaker 10: You can stop a helicopter very quickly.
Speaker 2: It had the ability to go up or down.
Speaker 10: It had the ability to turn, and the turn it
Speaker 10: made was not the correct turn, obviously, and it did
Speaker 10: somewhat the opposite of what.
Speaker 1: It was told.
Speaker 4: We don't know that that would have been.
Speaker 10: The difference because the timing was so tight, it was
Speaker 10: so it was so little, there was so little time
Speaker 10: to think.
Speaker 2: Why. Yeah, I don't know why.
Speaker 3: It's a terrible tragedy. Our hearts go out to the victims.
Speaker 3: We will investigate thoroughly so it can never happen again.
Speaker 4: That's it.
Speaker 1: Well, it hasn't happened in twenty years, Very very rare.
Speaker 1: It will never be perfect. This might be as good
Speaker 1: as it can get.
Speaker 3: It's possibly the answer, right, Yeah, one time in a million,
Speaker 3: somebody's going to make a mistake because they're humans.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's terrible.
Speaker 1: Though, Is there any talk about you know, there's so
Speaker 1: much talk about cars becoming self driving and self driving
Speaker 1: semi trucks and all that sort of stuff, are they
Speaker 1: Is there any self driving?
Speaker 2: I mean, I realize there's already autopilot.
Speaker 1: We call it autopilot in cars because it started on
Speaker 1: planes because it's a pilot. But is there any like
Speaker 1: the whole thing land and taken off all that sort
Speaker 1: of stuff like my Tesla will do for driving.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna wait till the beta testing is done and
Speaker 3: then maybe another five years before I fly on it.
Speaker 3: But yeah, that sort of thing absolutely, I would think
Speaker 3: that's absolutely doable. I just worry sometimes that the software
Speaker 3: doesn't quite get it right and you end up driving
Speaker 3: around in a parking lot honking at the other self
Speaker 3: driving car or whatever.
Speaker 11: Yeah, admit me coordus to this history, who prologue like
Speaker 11: your humble patients, Pray gently to hear, kindly to judge
Speaker 11: the final thoughts of Armstrong and Getty Classy.
Speaker 2: Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 3: Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew
Speaker 3: to wrap things up for the day, Starting with our
Speaker 3: technical director, Michael Answell.
Speaker 2: Michael final thought. You know, sometimes it's the little things
Speaker 2: that make you happy.
Speaker 8: I was just trying to bring a happy moment to
Speaker 8: the show. So I found an old Subway gift garden
Speaker 8: that I didn't know I had, So I'll get lunch
Speaker 8: this afternoon.
Speaker 2: So oh, how old is a lot? It's probably a
Speaker 2: year old or more, but they have to honor him forever. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's a current low.
Speaker 3: So make mine that chicken, the chicken one with the sauce.
Speaker 3: Although Katie got bad chicken yesterday and might heat mentioned
Speaker 3: Katie Greeners.
Speaker 2: Do you just to get that foot long chocolate chip cookie?
Speaker 2: Have you seen that? That's some good stuff?
Speaker 3: America's obesity, the epidemic, what's caused it?
Speaker 1: Well, my final thought is Subway is severely underrated.
Speaker 2: I love Subway, really, I feel like it's a poor
Speaker 2: man's Togos. I love it. I eat there, but Togos
Speaker 2: is a step above. We'll take your calls. Never Jack
Speaker 2: a final blow. How about Quiznos? Where's Quiznos? Is it
Speaker 2: above or below?
Speaker 3: It's a fabulous sandwich, is no doubt it's step above.
Speaker 2: Okay, there you go.
Speaker 1: That's my final thought, go to go to Togos instead.
Speaker 3: My final thought is Telsea Gabbard hearings. There're gonna be
Speaker 3: a fireworks show. We'll bring you the highlights and low
Speaker 3: lights and see what the senators get to the bottom
Speaker 3: of could be. She clarifies and explains and gets through.
Speaker 3: I kind of doubt it, but we'll see.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I just realized the main reason I like Togo's
Speaker 1: better is a person that works there speaks English and
Speaker 1: the person at the subway does not, and I can't
Speaker 1: converse with Armstrong and Getty. Wrapping up another grueling four
Speaker 1: hour workday.
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Speaker 2: We'll see tomorrow. God bless America. I'm Strong and Gette.
Speaker 3: This is a message for the people of America.
Speaker 2: Wow wow, I got nothing for you on that, so
Speaker 2: let's go with it.
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Speaker 3: Bring in the car on that high note, Thanks all
Speaker 3: very much, arm Strong and Getty.