Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Jettie and he.
Speaker 3: Arms drawn Dy.
Speaker 4: Here's a little insights for the listeners.
Speaker 3: You might not know.
Speaker 5: I have no idea who Joe is going to say
Speaker 5: as the general manager every day, and I.
Speaker 4: Find myself intrigued today that's what it's going to be.
Speaker 4: Live from a dimly lit room, Armstrong and Getty show,
Speaker 4: et cetera, et cetera. Today we're under the tutelage of
Speaker 4: our general manager.
Speaker 1: First of all, if you think the primary debates where
Speaker 1: you got eleven ninnies standing on stage carping at each other,
Speaker 1: we're complicated and difficult. The interview process for this morning's
Speaker 1: general manager was torturous, Jack Tortrius. But I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: with the positive. I'm loving what I'm hearing from the
Speaker 1: Doge boys, the Doge boys, our general manager.
Speaker 2: There you go.
Speaker 4: That's a good one.
Speaker 3: That's a good one.
Speaker 5: How about Alon's latest thing where he's gonna send everybody
Speaker 5: five thousand dollars or the government's going to or he's
Speaker 5: going to tell the government too, or however, that whole thing.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I'm in favor of it. I'm tired of
Speaker 1: other people being pandered to pander to me.
Speaker 5: That might be if five thousand dollars goes out to
Speaker 5: every adult in America, that might be the all time
Speaker 5: populist move, just like blow everything out of the water. Wow,
Speaker 5: everybody gets a five thousand milk check.
Speaker 2: And well they shook it loose.
Speaker 1: It was being the wasted or frauded or abused, and
Speaker 1: now we get it a little.
Speaker 5: I would save it a little closer to the midterm,
Speaker 5: maybe want to get into the full political benefit out
Speaker 5: of it. But anyway, we have more of the long
Speaker 5: lists of hilarious things money was being spent on. Not
Speaker 5: actually hilarious if you think about your taxpayer money being wasted,
Speaker 5: but hilarious.
Speaker 2: None the less. Here's my headline on that topic.
Speaker 1: It was odd and oddly funny how Chuck Schumer among others,
Speaker 1: and you know quite a few Democratic leaders were screeching
Speaker 1: on the steps of the Capitol or demonstrating with the
Speaker 1: Union or whatever that this.
Speaker 2: Is outrageous, it is horrible. It I can't continue.
Speaker 1: Well, if I were a party to just the things
Speaker 1: that have been uncovered so far, never mind that they've
Speaker 1: just gotten started. When the horrific squandering of the hard
Speaker 1: earned tax dollars of Americans.
Speaker 2: And I don't think sometimes that phrase trips off the
Speaker 2: tongue a little too.
Speaker 1: People bust their ass, they leave their family, they do
Speaker 1: things they don't want to do to make a living.
Speaker 1: Then the government takes a chunk of it and they
Speaker 1: wander it and bribe their fra Exactly, they squander it
Speaker 1: and they bribe their friends with it and laugh about
Speaker 1: it and laugh at you and me. If that were
Speaker 1: what I've been doing for the last quite a few years,
Speaker 1: I might be against what Doge is doing.
Speaker 4: Two or maybe it would be a good idea, I say.
Speaker 5: I think if I'm a Democrat and I'm in any
Speaker 5: of those meetings, I'd say, let's get on board with
Speaker 5: this crazy stuff and say we agree. Why not? Why
Speaker 5: wouldn't you acting like it's a horror that this is
Speaker 5: going on when every day there's there are lists of
Speaker 5: insane you know, expenditures. Just seems like bad politics to me.
Speaker 5: But again, like we've been saying, they overestimate how many
Speaker 5: people love giant, bloated government.
Speaker 2: I oh, oh, Billy who knows.
Speaker 1: But anyway, so he's shaking his head sadly because he's like,
Speaker 1: this is this is ABC one two three, scoop of
Speaker 1: an ill scoop chocolate. You join them and say, I
Speaker 1: love all these savings that have been done. So when
Speaker 1: the midterms come around and the Republicans run on the savings,
Speaker 1: you can say.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're in favor of that too. But you know
Speaker 2: what we're not in favor of obviously these things.
Speaker 1: You neutralism, you triangulate, you morons.
Speaker 5: Now show me that song.
Speaker 2: Tyar, shake it for me, baby, I still work.
Speaker 5: Yeah, oh wow, my eyes still work.
Speaker 2: That is something.
Speaker 1: It's stringed Katie, by the way, that was.
Speaker 3: That was five too early for that.
Speaker 5: My eyes still work. I wonder, I wonder if that's
Speaker 5: the whole, if this was a strategy to go with,
Speaker 5: you know, trans operas in Ireland and some of the
Speaker 5: most ridiculous stuff. First, then the Department of Education, which
Speaker 5: is pretty you know, pretty easy to arguement, at least
Speaker 5: for half the country, for why you got to cut
Speaker 5: expenditures before they take on the Pentagon, which is supposed
Speaker 5: to start happening in a couple of weeks, Because that's
Speaker 5: that's going to be a little less comfortable for I
Speaker 5: think a lot of the right, even though I'm sure
Speaker 5: the Pentagon is tremendous amounts.
Speaker 1: Of bloat, right, well, yeah, absolutely, buying some goodwill by
Speaker 1: picking the lowest hanging fruit is a good strategy, certainly,
Speaker 1: I think, and I'm very confident that they'll be able
Speaker 1: to make this argument pretty successfully. I think that the
Speaker 1: approach with the Pentagon is to say, hey, we need
Speaker 1: to be efficient. We need to protect our fighting men
Speaker 1: and make sure they have what they need. We can't
Speaker 1: have bureaucrats wasting the money that's supposed to protect this country.
Speaker 2: It's a pretty easy argument to make.
Speaker 5: I think, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, we need to spend
Speaker 5: the money on M wraps, not DEI training or whatever
Speaker 5: they find that they can they can do away with.
Speaker 2: Yeah, raps, not trans wrappers. Huh. Then you'd cut to
Speaker 2: some sort of drag show, and then you know.
Speaker 5: You're seriously rolling today.
Speaker 2: I'm spitballing.
Speaker 5: We should start the show. Officially, I'm Jack Armstrong, He's
Speaker 5: Joe Getty on this It is Wednesday. It's a short
Speaker 5: week already, on February the nineteenth. For your twenty twenty
Speaker 5: five or Armstrong you geey, and we approve of this program.
Speaker 2: All right, let's swing in action.
Speaker 1: Then officially, according to FCC rules and rags, here we
Speaker 1: go at mark twenty million.
Speaker 6: On a Sessame street show in Iraq, fifty six million
Speaker 6: to boost tourism in Tunisia and Egypt, forty million to
Speaker 6: build schools in Jordan, eleven million to tell the Vietnamese
Speaker 6: to stop burning trash, forty five million for Dei scholarships
Speaker 6: in Burma, or transgender opera in Colombia or a trend.
Speaker 2: I was like, this sounds like it's like, how can
Speaker 2: these things be real?
Speaker 3: But this is actually what we've done.
Speaker 2: It sounds like a comedy schedule.
Speaker 3: I have pages, right, it's not.
Speaker 2: It's listen all long.
Speaker 5: Wow, uh pick your favorite there. I think I like
Speaker 5: trying to convince the Vietnamese not to burn their trash.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1: The only thing that concerns me is checking the bambino
Speaker 1: out with the bathwater, because there is some foreign ad
Speaker 1: that I think is useful, and there's some things that
Speaker 1: have been guffawed at online that I think you just
Speaker 1: don't understand the purpose of it. Yeah, yeah, well, go ahead,
Speaker 1: it hit me with the ears and then I'll bounce back,
Speaker 1: and then you know.
Speaker 5: Well, I'm sure there's plenty of waste, and I'm sure
Speaker 5: we found all kinds of really really stupid things. But
Speaker 5: I did hear the explanation the other day that a
Speaker 5: lot of times it's a it's a it's a way
Speaker 5: for us to get into a country, and it's a
Speaker 5: CIA operation. Okay, you want us to fund this ridiculous thing.
Speaker 5: We're gonna have a whole bunch of people there that
Speaker 5: are going to be in your you know, in your
Speaker 5: shorts and hanging around your communities and your buildings and
Speaker 5: your government offices and that sort of stuff to try
Speaker 5: to get the trans offer going, and we're gonna take
Speaker 5: off get a whole bunch of intel. Sometimes that's the deal,
Speaker 5: but I doubt that what's going on in Ireland. How
Speaker 5: much intel do we need on Ireland?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: And one thing that's really been assaulted online, I guess mostly,
Speaker 1: but is some of our funding of foreign media outfits,
Speaker 1: Like what are we doing funding at TV stations in Columbia.
Speaker 1: That's ridiculous, No, it's actually not, you see, influencing populations
Speaker 1: and oh can you play the door opening there, Michael,
Speaker 1: there is no Hey everybody, Hey, it's Jack. Everybody good
Speaker 1: to see. What I was starting to say is spending
Speaker 1: money is trying to influence populations because you know, depending
Speaker 1: on the country you're talking about, you got a bunch
Speaker 1: of yay who's running around with second great educations and
Speaker 1: the local witch doctor has told them that the US
Speaker 1: is evil and it's complicating our plans to have relations
Speaker 1: with the government, do trade, blah blah blah, whatever national
Speaker 1: priorities are there, and you've got to have a way
Speaker 1: to influence the populations in these countries, not to hate
Speaker 1: the US. It's actually, if it's done right, money well spent.
Speaker 2: Don't you think we.
Speaker 3: Can easily add this stuff back in the stuff? We
Speaker 3: go too far on having said that, gotta do a reset,
Speaker 3: gotta strip it down to the studs and then rebuild
Speaker 3: it according to modern needs and not just keep you know,
Speaker 3: flushing money down the toilet of foreign ad just because
Speaker 3: it's happened before.
Speaker 1: I don't want to throw out the baby with the bathwater.
Speaker 1: On the other hand, hold a baby. Let's drain the
Speaker 1: tub and fill it up again. Okay, I went from
Speaker 1: construction to babies and baths to witch doctors, and that's.
Speaker 3: The FOREM stuff. But unlike the laying off government workers,
Speaker 3: there's a mainstream media is I'm making a big deal
Speaker 3: laying off some of the workers that actually deal with
Speaker 3: our nuclear arsenal. Okay, so you're telling me it's impossible
Speaker 3: that we have more employees involved in our nuclear arsenal
Speaker 3: than we need. Why would you think that that is guaranteed.
Speaker 3: We've got exactly the right number of people, and they're
Speaker 3: all working very hard. Why why would you think that?
Speaker 2: Right, it's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: And the idea that they went too far too fast
Speaker 1: in some places and are re hiring people, you can't
Speaker 1: be like wildly stupidly too far, too fast. But the
Speaker 1: media acts as if any margin of error or any
Speaker 1: margin of screw up and whoops, we really need those
Speaker 1: two hundred people back.
Speaker 2: We got to rehire them.
Speaker 1: They act as if any any era whatsoever is just
Speaker 1: some sort of you know, fatal indictment of the entire enterprise.
Speaker 3: Especially after that, especially after decades of going not far
Speaker 3: enough and too slow, right, right, which is always the
Speaker 3: other option. Unfortunately, anyway, we got mail bag in Katie's headlines.
Speaker 3: To get to this hour. Oh wow, there's an I
Speaker 3: just learned this really interesting thing they're gonna try for
Speaker 3: the baseball preseason.
Speaker 2: Have you have you heard about this?
Speaker 5: Really?
Speaker 2: See if Jose appearance skeptic? What's going on here? What
Speaker 2: are you trying to all be on my back?
Speaker 3: Now that we are the morning show at this station
Speaker 3: that is the official home of the Oakland A's, we
Speaker 3: are heavily involved in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 2: Of course, tell you.
Speaker 1: What, if you so much as utter the phrase golden
Speaker 1: at bat, We're gonna drop gloves like US Canada hockey man.
Speaker 2: As I mix the sports.
Speaker 1: I finally watched the video tape of that game the
Speaker 1: other night where there are four three fights in the
Speaker 1: first nine seconds.
Speaker 3: Oh spectator, So do I understand we play them again?
Speaker 3: Is it tonight or tomorrow night for the champions?
Speaker 1: Fannal is tomorrow Night's Thursday night? Check your local listing,
Speaker 1: Sam Knnuckers are gonna get what they got coming.
Speaker 3: And there were three fights the first nine seconds the
Speaker 3: last time they played each other two days ago, whatever.
Speaker 1: It was, Yeah, I think there were three fights and
Speaker 1: two passes in the first nine seconds, more fights than passes.
Speaker 3: It glorious, awesome, so, man, that might be a big
Speaker 3: national spectacle. You're gonna have the America's hat. Huh.
Speaker 2: Let's bring our long time enemy, the Canadians.
Speaker 1: So we need to have our team handout maps with
Speaker 1: the fifty first state already attached. That'd be fantastic, and
Speaker 1: the Gulf of America down below.
Speaker 2: That's right, Michael, So we got a lot all the
Speaker 2: ways they here.
Speaker 3: Armstrong and Yetti.
Speaker 7: Scientists now saying the asteroid has a three point one
Speaker 7: percent probability of impact thanks to new observations. That is
Speaker 7: up about one percent from what we reported just a
Speaker 7: few days ago. Now, the astroid, known as twenty twenty
Speaker 7: four y R four, is roughly the size of the
Speaker 7: Statue of Liberty. Scientists will use the James Webb Space
Speaker 7: Telescope to get a better look before the asteroid disappears
Speaker 7: behind the Sun and out of view until twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 3: Now, if this asteroid did hit, it.
Speaker 7: Be large enough to wipe out a city, but still
Speaker 7: a ninety six point nine percent chance the asteroid will
Speaker 7: miss the Earth entirely, but scientists have over seven years
Speaker 7: to prepare for that three point one percent chance.
Speaker 3: But so it's gone from one in fifty to more
Speaker 3: like one in thirty three chances of the asteroid hitting
Speaker 3: the Earth, which could wipe out you know, Tokyo or
Speaker 3: New York or whatever.
Speaker 1: That's what it would sound like, scientists, so fair the
Speaker 1: simulation of what it would sound like.
Speaker 3: And that's in seven years, I think, twenty thirty two.
Speaker 3: So I don't know what to do about that. We'll
Speaker 3: keep our eye on that story for you. So we
Speaker 3: are going to talk about what Trump said about the
Speaker 3: war between Russia and Ukraine, and I guess it comes
Speaker 3: up in mail Bag, which is next segment. A couple
Speaker 3: of things that I thought were interesting kind of around that.
Speaker 3: First of all, Marco Rubio tweeting out yesterday is he's
Speaker 3: dealing with Putin and his people. There many in the
Speaker 3: West still don't understand that Putin is an expert liar.
Speaker 3: He doesn't care about humanitarian relief in fact, a ceasefire.
Speaker 3: If he agrees to a ceasefire, it's because he sees
Speaker 3: some strategic or tactical benefit and beware of attacks on
Speaker 3: refugees that Russia blames on Ukraine and NATO. So there's
Speaker 3: the Secretary of State saying if there's a ceasefire, don't
Speaker 3: be surprised if Russia's attacking Ukrainians trying to get back
Speaker 3: into their country, right and blaming it on NATO. At
Speaker 3: the same time, his boss is saying Ukraine started the war,
Speaker 3: which again we're going to get into later. I thought
Speaker 3: that was interesting. I don't know how that's going to
Speaker 3: play out their relationship there. And then these statistics that
Speaker 3: came out yesterday around the war in Russia's military in
Speaker 3: twenty twenty four, just last year suffered over a half
Speaker 3: million casualties just last year. It's been going on for
Speaker 3: three years. As of next week, Russia's casualty count total
Speaker 3: is now eight hundred and thirty seven thousand killed and
Speaker 3: wounded in three years. Eight hundred and thirty seven thousand.
Speaker 3: Unimaginable numbers. If you had eight thousand US soldiers killed somewhere,
Speaker 3: it would be the biggest political crisis we've had since
Speaker 3: Vietnam for whatever party was involved.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we haven't endured anything like that in so long
Speaker 1: I can't even remember.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's just it would be horrible, right.
Speaker 3: It's just absolutely astounding those numbers of what's going on
Speaker 3: over there.
Speaker 1: Neil Ferguson wrote a great response to the JD Vance
Speaker 1: flap that I'll share some of at some point during
Speaker 1: the show. But one of the points he makes, and
Speaker 1: it's worth repeating, is that this is Putin's greatest blunder.
Speaker 1: He talks big, and he's gained some territory and the
Speaker 1: Ukrainians are definitely in a tough spot, and Trump said
Speaker 1: something absolutely unforgivable about Ukraine that they started the war. Essentially,
Speaker 1: I don't know what he's at or thinking about. We'll
Speaker 1: get to that a little bit later on, but it
Speaker 1: absolutely is a horrible blunder that Putin is trying to
Speaker 1: extricate himself from. And there's part of me that thinks
Speaker 1: Trump understands that and is trying to play Putin's weakness
Speaker 1: against him. On the other hand, Putin is a crocodile.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's a master tactician, utterly amoral, and will
Speaker 1: gain any advantage he can do.
Speaker 3: You think Putin thinks it's a blunder. I mean, he
Speaker 3: doesn't care about eight hundred and thirty seven thousand soldiers.
Speaker 3: That means nothing to him. He knows he's been weakened.
Speaker 3: But if he gets if he ends up with which
Speaker 3: what seems to be on the table if he ends
Speaker 3: up with twenty percent of Ukraine and a guarantee they're
Speaker 3: not going to be a NATO, and then there's some
Speaker 3: talk of us pulling troops out of various countries. If
Speaker 3: he gets that, you think he's gonna feel like this
Speaker 3: was a failure.
Speaker 1: Uh No, not exactly. But again he has been badly,
Speaker 1: badly weakened, which going forward is not a state he
Speaker 1: wants to be in. He thought he had an easy
Speaker 1: win and it is just beat the crap out of
Speaker 1: his military and exposed them as being incredibly weak. No,
Speaker 1: it's a win, but it's a pyrrhic victory, as they say,
Speaker 1: I mean he got a twenty dollars bicycle for five
Speaker 1: thousand dollars.
Speaker 3: We've got mail bag on the way, Katie's headlines, news
Speaker 3: of the day, and a lot of controversial stuff.
Speaker 5: So stay done, Armstrong and Geeddy.
Speaker 3: We're about to live in a pennyless world. Ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 3: are you prepared.
Speaker 2: For that to be pennyless? After all, this work.
Speaker 1: Got some great email to get to, some of it
Speaker 1: during a mail bag in a moment, some of it
Speaker 1: later on, including Rick's extremely thoughtful pointing out of some
Speaker 1: downstream issues with ending the penny. Okay, that was really interesting,
Speaker 1: so please do stay tuned. First freedom loving quote of
Speaker 1: the day, plunging on after a brief break yesterday with
Speaker 1: our great quotes from Abraham Lincoln birthday just passed. This
Speaker 1: has always been one of my favorites.
Speaker 3: Are there many quotes from Washington? Is his birthday? What
Speaker 3: this Saturday?
Speaker 5: Ah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's correct? Sure, yeah, oh yes, some incredible quotes. Wonderful.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he wasn't the quote machine Lincoln was, though not
Speaker 3: quite Lincoln. Lincoln loved to talk to people. Washington very
Speaker 3: dignified and reserved man anyway, But yeah, we'll go with
Speaker 3: Washington next. But this is one of my all time
Speaker 3: favorite Abe Lincoln quotes. An apropos as apropos today as
Speaker 3: it was then and will be in a thousand years.
Speaker 3: How many legs does a dog have if you call
Speaker 3: his tail a leg? The answer is four. Saying that
Speaker 3: a tail is a leg doesn't make it a leg.
Speaker 3: That's a good one, That is a great one.
Speaker 1: Yes, there are many examples in the contemporary world. One
Speaker 1: might sight of saying something that is clearly not something
Speaker 1: is indeed that's something. And if you don't say so,
Speaker 1: you're a person. And then finally this, Oh, we could
Speaker 1: certainly go with government of the people by the people,
Speaker 1: for the people shall not perish from the earth unless
Speaker 1: you screw it up so bad it does. I added
Speaker 1: that last part on mail bag.
Speaker 3: Having an unelected billionaire takeover the pot crown.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, somebody slapping drop us.
Speaker 1: A note mail bag at Armstrong and Getty dot com
Speaker 1: anytimes like what's with all the cocaine? Writes Jay and
Speaker 1: San Jose. What with the daily doge revelations? I'm seeing
Speaker 1: a trend where we pay researchers to give cocaine and
Speaker 1: other illicit drugs to animals for a variety of reasons.
Speaker 2: What's that all about?
Speaker 3: Good question?
Speaker 1: Cocaine monkeys, cocaine dogs, cocaine ducks. What's the story the
Speaker 1: infamous cocaine bear.
Speaker 3: The other thing I like these government agencies doing are
Speaker 3: the mainstream media pushing it? Is this idea that there
Speaker 3: was a meeting on Tuesday with the cancer Board that
Speaker 3: had to be canceled. Oh and act like Tuesday at
Speaker 3: two o'clock they were gonna cure cancer, but now the
Speaker 3: meeting had to be canceled. Damn it when back timing.
Speaker 1: Oh, because of the world's richest men, causing them to
Speaker 1: cancel the meeting. Scott pelling Is introduction to the sixty Minutes.
Speaker 2: Piece Sunday was hilarious.
Speaker 1: It was like the voice over to a nineteen forties
Speaker 1: Frankenstein movie. What a jack Assay, Morning Boys, writes Josiah
Speaker 1: in Utah. I'm imagining what it'll be like when every
Speaker 1: household receives a DOGE dividend. Check How then will the
Speaker 1: media and the Dems cry to the American people about
Speaker 1: their loss of funding because of the evil Elon Musk.
Speaker 1: This idea from Elon is effing checkmate. It will increase
Speaker 1: support for more DOGE cuts in the future. The overwhelming
Speaker 1: majority will vote in favor of DOGE type audits.
Speaker 2: In the future.
Speaker 1: We could be looking at the era of fiscal responsibility
Speaker 1: that we've been dreaming of. Wow, Josiah, don't don't raise
Speaker 1: my hopes that high, brob.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I tell you what though, And you know, I gotta
Speaker 1: admit I'm kind of ashamed of this occurred to me.
Speaker 1: The way you get it going in a people that's
Speaker 1: realized that they can vote themselves money from the treasury
Speaker 1: which of course is the doom of a democracy is say, hey,
Speaker 1: there's wall starts of this bloat and waste and redundancy
Speaker 1: and fraud.
Speaker 2: I tell you what every buck we save will carve out.
Speaker 2: We'll say thirty.
Speaker 1: Five cents for the American people were all right yet,
Speaker 1: checks bingo. So we save sixty five percent of the
Speaker 1: waste they found and then dole.
Speaker 2: Out the rest everybody. People keep getting doge.
Speaker 1: Checks, cutting the government checks. It's brilliant. It's a perpetual
Speaker 1: motion machine. Thirty years from now, the federal budget's going
Speaker 1: to be one hundred and seventy five dollars.
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness. Moving along.
Speaker 1: Is actually a great point from doctor b. We're discussing
Speaker 1: Kanye West in a Super Bowl commercial and talk to
Speaker 1: a little bit about it in the One More Thing
Speaker 1: podcast yesterday. You ought to subscribe anyway, he writes, I
Speaker 1: think Kanye West would have been canceled already if he
Speaker 1: were a white guy. He wouldn't have gotten those ads
Speaker 1: on any TV stations. As a racist, anti semi white guy.
Speaker 1: I don't know if there's an antonym for shibbaleth, but
Speaker 1: a white guy acting like Kanye West should serve as
Speaker 1: a decent example, black Kanye West gets a pass.
Speaker 2: That's true, That's absolutely true.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a white guy who said a third of what
Speaker 1: Kanye said would be well, he'd be persona non grata
Speaker 1: in like every aspect of society.
Speaker 3: His music could be pulled off all streaming services and
Speaker 3: all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's you know, it's who Tyris on Fox
Speaker 1: News unleashed a he's off and on with Greg Guttfeldt.
Speaker 1: If you don't know a big, strong wrestler guy blackfella.
Speaker 1: And he made the point a couple of years ago
Speaker 1: with a screen that went semi viral that he has
Speaker 1: black privilege. And he talked about all the things he
Speaker 1: could say and do work and people will just grumble
Speaker 1: uncomfortably and go about their business. But if a white
Speaker 1: dude did it may be fired immediately. He said, that's
Speaker 1: the reality right now. I never saw that.
Speaker 3: That's an interesting angle, but of course there is black
Speaker 3: privilege around that stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And like Kanye, I mean, what he said about Jews
Speaker 1: is absolutely abhorrent. He's also mentally ill, I mean, like
Speaker 1: seriously mentally ill. So, but that doesn't mean therefore we
Speaker 1: will run his commercials and play his songs in the
Speaker 1: rest of it, moving along, Do we have time for this?
Speaker 1: We have Jack, I'll let you choose. We have Paolo
Speaker 1: with some really good kind of dissent difficult questions about
Speaker 1: the peace talks slash diplomacy towards Ukraine. And then you've
Speaker 1: got a nice German couple that love the show and
Speaker 1: the podcast, and she wanted to respond to our arguments
Speaker 1: about free speech in Germany.
Speaker 2: Quite intriguing.
Speaker 3: I really think we ought to get into the Ukraine thing.
Speaker 2: Right now at a lot of time.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, Well Powow writes a few speculations about
Speaker 1: the war in the Ukraine.
Speaker 2: Maybe you can have fun contradicting them. Maybe.
Speaker 1: I actually haven't read them all because I thought let's
Speaker 1: just take them cold, because Powlo's great.
Speaker 2: He always writes great emails.
Speaker 1: It's pretty much impossible for Ukraine to win the war
Speaker 1: because we won't give them what it takes to win
Speaker 1: for fear of escalation. The status goo will result in
Speaker 1: more casualties and destruction and perhaps more territory loss for Ukraine,
Speaker 1: with no hope better results.
Speaker 2: I would agree with that.
Speaker 3: Yeah at this point, yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, without dredging up the past or go ahead if
Speaker 1: you like you're a dreager. No, it's absolutely Biden was
Speaker 1: a terrible president in every single way, including this putting on.
Speaker 2: The cynical hat.
Speaker 1: Maybe the US strategy is to let it drag on
Speaker 1: as long as possible, with the intent to week in
Speaker 1: Russia by maximizing the cost of the war for him.
Speaker 1: That cynical strategy might not even really care what happens
Speaker 1: to Ukraine as long as the cost of righte is
Speaker 1: high enough to stop them from trying it again. I
Speaker 1: think there is certainly an element to that, even if
Speaker 1: it wasn't intended. It's just a fortunate consequence of an
Speaker 1: unfortunate situation. Russian Putin are weakened terribly militarily. The idea
Speaker 1: that talking to Putin is a bad thing is flawed.
Speaker 1: How does the war come to a negotiated end without
Speaker 1: talking to Putin? His cooperation is needed for a negotiated
Speaker 1: end to the war. The only way a battle of
Speaker 1: attrition ends on the battlefield is with Russia winning. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would agree, No, I think, and again the stuff.
Speaker 3: That's not true. We really got behind Ukraine. Russia wouldn't
Speaker 3: win that battle, but for that now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you've got the problem with Ukraine is so
Speaker 1: depleted itself, and there's just no will among Europeans to
Speaker 1: do anything.
Speaker 2: Europe is a weak, spent force.
Speaker 1: It's moribund, it's it's living on its reputation, it's it's teetering.
Speaker 3: Seriously, you don't want to get to there'ciating with Putin
Speaker 3: thing is a very interesting topic because he is a
Speaker 3: war criminal at the highest level, at the very highest level.
Speaker 2: And you could list many, many things.
Speaker 3: But the Armed Services Chairman yesterday said Putin should be
Speaker 3: in jail for the rest of his life if not executed.
Speaker 3: That's a Republican the chairman of the Armed Services Committee.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And while I find Trump's some of the things Trump
Speaker 1: says about Ukraine abhorrent, like they started the war, he
Speaker 1: said yesterday, we'll talk about that later on or you know,
Speaker 1: we can play it now, I guess. But I also,
Speaker 1: on the other hand, I should say I agree that
Speaker 1: engaging Putin and his people directly and saying all right,
Speaker 1: what are you looking for, what do you want?
Speaker 2: What does it?
Speaker 1: Take down the carnage and saying all right, here's the
Speaker 1: way we see it, here's the only way We'll back
Speaker 1: that sort of peace deal. I don't have any problem
Speaker 1: with that, as long as we stand firm on principles,
Speaker 1: and not just like moral principles, but national security principles,
Speaker 1: in the principle of not wanting another giant land war
Speaker 1: in Europe.
Speaker 3: Joe Biden did call MBS a pariah and then fist
Speaker 3: bumped him when he went over to Saudi Arabia when
Speaker 3: we needed their oil. So those kind of things.
Speaker 1: Happen well, and mob bosses get together all the time
Speaker 1: in the midst of bloody wars and say, all right,
Speaker 1: what's it going to take.
Speaker 2: To stop this?
Speaker 3: So I don't know if you caught this on Friday,
Speaker 3: since you were having a good time with your birthday
Speaker 3: and your family and everything like that. We had Mike
Speaker 3: Lines on. But first of all, so the conversation last
Speaker 3: week on the Secretary of Defense giving up too much
Speaker 3: at the beginning of the negotiation, I find that interesting
Speaker 3: because I've heard smart people on both sides of that
Speaker 3: saying what you said, that why would you ever give
Speaker 3: up anything before the negotiation started, versus other people who
Speaker 3: have said things that absolutely can't happen. Get them off
Speaker 3: the table right away so you can get to the
Speaker 3: real stuff. I mean, there's no chance under any any
Speaker 3: world whatsoever, the Ukraine gets their land back. So why
Speaker 3: pretend like that's on the table or anything at all?
Speaker 3: Get it off the table so she can get to
Speaker 3: the real negotiation. I don't know which is the best
Speaker 3: approach in this sort of thing. I mean, if it's
Speaker 3: a car or a house, I think I do, But
Speaker 3: if it's a land war, I'm not exactly sure.
Speaker 1: Anyway, Yeah, I could explain why you keep that on
Speaker 1: the table, but go ahead.
Speaker 2: You had a greater point to make.
Speaker 3: That apparently wasn't the position anyway. It was a Hegxeth's position,
Speaker 3: and apparently he shouldn't have done that, And as Mike
Speaker 3: Lyons said on Friday, Hegseth got out over his skis.
Speaker 3: Is why jd Vance did that interview at the Wall
Speaker 3: Street Journal on Friday which he said, we're not absolutely
Speaker 3: we're absolutely not giving anything, and we might put American
Speaker 3: troops in there. So that was Trump and Dvance I
Speaker 3: think saying to the sect, def whoa whoa, whoa, whoa whoa,
Speaker 3: that's not our position at all. I don't know how
Speaker 3: that happened. That's a fairly it seems like major misstep
Speaker 3: in the first couple of weeks of the new sect
Speaker 3: def to say that, yeah, it reminds me a little bit.
Speaker 1: Of the first Trump term, where there was some real
Speaker 1: lack of messaging discipline from the White House for a while,
Speaker 1: and people would get ahead of the White House and
Speaker 1: speak out of turn a lot. They've been much more
Speaker 1: discipline this time. This is a pretty high level one though.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, Oh yeah, the secretary are events should
Speaker 3: have the bullet points on what we're willing to give
Speaker 3: up before you start talking about what we're willing to
Speaker 3: give up? Was he just completely freelancing on that.
Speaker 1: It looks like that, But my degree of certainty in
Speaker 1: decreeing that is flowerish.
Speaker 2: I don't know what happened.
Speaker 3: There is this part of the Trump strategy of just
Speaker 3: be all over the place Sectev says this. Three days later,
Speaker 3: Vance says, no, none of that is true. Well, put
Speaker 3: troops in the in Ukraine if we have to. Maybe
Speaker 3: it's just the whole you know, crazy man theory.
Speaker 1: Wow, if that was orchestrated, that is some really creative
Speaker 1: foreign policy.
Speaker 2: Probably, I see your point.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, what's what's interesting, or at least that's
Speaker 1: what I'm shooting for interesting.
Speaker 2: Is what I was going to say.
Speaker 1: In the negotiation, where you're putting some things on the
Speaker 1: table that are highly unlikely, like Ukraine getting all of
Speaker 1: its land bag, for instance, one of the reasons you
Speaker 1: do that is too is because the other side doesn't
Speaker 1: know how serious you are, and you leave ambiguity about
Speaker 1: how serious you are, and they waste time and energy
Speaker 1: and concessions on stuff that you're willing to throw away anyway,
Speaker 1: but they don't know that.
Speaker 2: And maybe they're.
Speaker 1: Five percent uncertain that you really want it, maybe they're
Speaker 1: fifty percent uncertain. But that's part of negotiating to have
Speaker 1: stuff that you're willing to throw away, but you'll make
Speaker 1: them work to make you throw it away.
Speaker 3: Yeah, apparently, now back.
Speaker 2: To your thing.
Speaker 1: If that was some genius plot to make them uncertain
Speaker 1: what we're willing to throw away.
Speaker 3: Well it worked, yeah, including for the American people. Okay,
Speaker 3: we've got Katie's headlines on the way, and we'll get
Speaker 3: to an hour or two. Trump saying Ukraine started the war, don't,
Speaker 3: which is an awful thing to say. Freaking off, Stay tuned.
Speaker 3: It just came across something so damned interesting because I've
Speaker 3: been really into this whole Trump's take on the war
Speaker 3: and Ukraine thing in the last twenty four hours. For instance,
Speaker 3: the New York Post, which is the friendliest Trump public
Speaker 3: major Trump publication out there, blasting Trump for saying Ukraine
Speaker 3: started the war their editorial board today. But here he is,
Speaker 3: and I'll get to it an hour or two. But
Speaker 3: here's a former member of Zelensky's administration tweeting out Trump's
Speaker 3: just doing what Biden and Obama wanted to do but
Speaker 3: didn't have the guts to. He's just saying out loud
Speaker 3: what Biden and.
Speaker 1: Obama did right right, which they wouldn't say or said
Speaker 1: contrary to, but their actions pour it out nice, yes.
Speaker 3: Right, So he's just following through on what the past
Speaker 3: two democratic presidents have done for better or what.
Speaker 2: But it's not unique really the parameters of the deal.
Speaker 1: But but not saying Ukraine started the war?
Speaker 3: Not that inspected. No, I don't, I don't know what
Speaker 3: that is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's craziness, all right, we'll talk about it in
Speaker 1: uh in full next hour. Stay tuned if you can.
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Speaker 1: Right now, Let's figure out who's reporting what It's the
Speaker 1: lead story with Katie Green and.
Speaker 8: Katie thank you guys from the Associated Press. Hamas says
Speaker 8: it will free six living hostages and hand over four bodies,
Speaker 8: accelerating Gaza releases.
Speaker 2: Okay, there's a.
Speaker 3: Lot of complaints among people. Well, I don't know on
Speaker 3: the right. I just think decent moral people of all
Speaker 3: the headlines that are are leaving out the fact that
Speaker 3: Hamas is giving back people they murdered. They didn't die
Speaker 3: of natural causes in custody, including small children. All the
Speaker 3: headlines are returning people who died as opposed to were
Speaker 3: murdered by Hamas.
Speaker 1: Right, like they've died of old age and nice Hamas
Speaker 1: retirement home.
Speaker 3: Please, they got cancer in the last year and a
Speaker 3: half and we tried our best.
Speaker 8: From NBC US condemns quote dangerous Chinese maneuvers after close
Speaker 8: encounter with Philippine plane.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that is just a tinderbox. More on that
Speaker 1: next hour as well. I have a grand unifying theory
Speaker 1: of global politics.
Speaker 3: I've just come Joe's grand unifying theory. You're not gonna
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Speaker 8: Model Annie Knight, who plans to sleep with one thousand men,
Speaker 8: revealed she's.
Speaker 3: Looking for a super secure boyfriend. What she ought to
Speaker 3: be looking for is mental health treatment, right, just more
Speaker 3: of parading the mentally ill out there for all our
Speaker 3: our entertainment. I don't find that entertaining.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I just I'm here for some reason.
Speaker 1: The fragment of a Bible verse jumped into my head
Speaker 1: and Jesus wept.
Speaker 2: I mean, that is a troubled.
Speaker 3: Woman, severely damaged now, but I'm sure her life story
Speaker 3: is horrific.
Speaker 8: And finally, the Babylon Bee Delta crash caused by failure
Speaker 8: of passenger in seat to B to put his seat
Speaker 8: in the.
Speaker 3: Full upright position back. Why if you put your tray up,
Speaker 3: we wouldn't have landed on our top.
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 1: You know, boy, that that video that's emerged of that
Speaker 1: plane flipping and everything.
Speaker 3: I haven't seen it.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's it's super dramatic. And the aviation expert on a.
Speaker 1: Evidently he got done vomiting at having to work with
Speaker 1: David Muir, and he gave a really good report in
Speaker 1: which he pointed out the saving grace of the thing
Speaker 1: was as it flipped and the fuel is in the wings.
Speaker 1: As that burst into flames, the wings busted off and
Speaker 1: were left behind, and so the fire threat to the fuselage,
Speaker 1: which miraculously held together, was much much less than if
Speaker 1: the plane had remained intact.
Speaker 3: I didn't know the fuels in the wings on a plane,
Speaker 3: didn't know it. I guess it's got to be somewhere
Speaker 3: where else would it be? Yeah? Interesting, Yeah, we got
Speaker 3: a lot in no how ur two. I hope you
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