Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2: Jack Armstrong is Joe Getty.
Speaker 3: Armstrong and Jetty and he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 4: We need greenland for national security purposes.
Speaker 2: You look outside.
Speaker 4: You have China ships all over the place. You have
Speaker 4: Russian ships all over the place.
Speaker 2: We're not letting that happen.
Speaker 4: You get rid of that artificially drawn line, and you
Speaker 4: take a look at what that looks like, and it
Speaker 4: would also be much better for national security. We're spending
Speaker 4: hundreds of billions a year to take care of Canada.
Speaker 2: We lose in trade deficits.
Speaker 4: We're going to be changing the name of the Gulf
Speaker 4: of Mexico to trump the Gulf of America. Mexico has
Speaker 4: to stop allowing millions of people to pour into our country.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Gulf of America, Which, why why didn't we do
Speaker 5: this a long time ago? That's the only thing I
Speaker 5: thought when he said, Yeah, obviously we should call it
Speaker 5: the Gulf of America.
Speaker 1: We're going to plate the Bahamas in gold, gold plated islands.
Speaker 1: There'll be a mini People are saying they'll be the
Speaker 1: most beautiful islands. So just to summarize, we're annexing Greenland
Speaker 1: and Canada and renaming the Gulf of Mexico.
Speaker 2: And I'm in favor of all three.
Speaker 5: So I heard a Greenland politician on NPR today talking about, Yeah,
Speaker 5: we got Chinese ships right after our shore. They're surveilling,
Speaker 5: it's on a daily basis, and he was all for
Speaker 5: some sort of falling under the umbrella of the United States.
Speaker 2: It's absolutely necessary.
Speaker 1: We've talked about it a couple of times today, including
Speaker 1: it length I think during our one. But yeah, Greenland
Speaker 1: and the Arctic in general is going to be of
Speaker 1: enormous I mean, you can't even comprehend how enormous strategic
Speaker 1: significance in the next fifty years. And yeah, what is
Speaker 1: Denmark going to defend the free trade around the world.
Speaker 2: No, we are, And so we've.
Speaker 1: Got to reevaluate our relationship with Greenland in what form
Speaker 1: that takes.
Speaker 3: Who knows the deal with Grenmark.
Speaker 5: Denmark is fairly recent, that's what this politician was talking
Speaker 5: about on NPR. I didn't know about that, I think
Speaker 5: fifty six or something like that. The hell did Denmark
Speaker 5: end up Greenland?
Speaker 1: Yeah, and we'd looked at buying it or something to
Speaker 1: that effect a couple of times and it just didn't
Speaker 1: go through. But it's not that crazy. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: fifty six thousand people. It's an enormous mass of land
Speaker 1: and frozen fresh water, mostly of again, an incredible strategic importance,
Speaker 1: and it's not like we're gonna run rough shot in
Speaker 1: there and burn it like Sherman on his way to
Speaker 1: Atlanta or anything like that.
Speaker 3: The c ATV Park, it'd be awesome.
Speaker 1: Call Lord anyway. So more on that to come, I'm
Speaker 1: sure in the days ahead. But as usual Trump he
Speaker 1: left it vague enough. It sounded kind of loopy, but
Speaker 1: when you dig into the details, pretty great. Canada is
Speaker 1: not going to become part of the United States. He's
Speaker 1: just dicking with them. Pardon me, he's trolling them as
Speaker 1: part of going into trade negotiations.
Speaker 2: The Gulf of America, though, you got me a hundred.
Speaker 2: What the hell is it?
Speaker 1: The Gulf of Mexico. Please, we surrounded as much as
Speaker 1: they do. If there's oil drilling, we're doing it.
Speaker 2: Maybe you're not fair of that.
Speaker 1: But if something goes wrong in the Gulf of Mexico,
Speaker 1: if there's a natural disaster, a hurricane, an oil spell, whatever,
Speaker 1: who cleans it up? The car tells no, the United
Speaker 1: States government.
Speaker 5: As we said yesterday, when you change the name of
Speaker 5: something like that, who do you call the map people?
Speaker 5: Or I mean, what is the system for that?
Speaker 2: Well? And what does that mean exactly?
Speaker 1: I mean I could call it Jimmy the Golf or
Speaker 1: the Gulf of Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2: Or what significance does that have?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, anyway, So I don't like I'm against cynicism
Speaker 1: in general, because often it is laziness. It's the I
Speaker 1: reject everything. I'm smarter than everyone. Everything everybody says is stupid.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's like adolescent intellectual laziness. Yeah, I'm skeptical.
Speaker 1: You got to be a realist.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but that was you portrayed that as like an
Speaker 5: overall life philosophy.
Speaker 3: Obviously that would be bad.
Speaker 5: I'm pretty I'm pretty cynical about government. I mean, I'm
Speaker 5: past skeptical into My assumption is you're bad in a thief.
Speaker 1: You're already in Greenland ahead of the hundred and first
Speaker 1: airborne jack.
Speaker 2: That's exactly what I was going.
Speaker 1: To point out, and the oh my god, I gave
Speaker 1: up the classified plans they briefed me.
Speaker 2: I swore I wouldn't say anything. So I'm so sorry.
Speaker 5: So got everyone. Ranger is going to land in Greenland. Say,
Speaker 5: and now, what am I supposed to do?
Speaker 3: There's nobody.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, they're sailing right now. Oh no, I did
Speaker 2: it again. Oh I'm so sorry to fight.
Speaker 3: There's nobody here.
Speaker 1: One of the most telling, devastating, sickening parts of Mark
Speaker 1: Leivivich's brilliant book This Town. We've talked about this more
Speaker 1: than once, but when uh, he is talking to a
Speaker 1: couple of political consultants, avvyweight political guys, like campaign director
Speaker 1: type guys, as they're gonna do an appearance on a
Speaker 1: talk show and jaw with each other, argue with each
Speaker 1: other and call each other names and the rest of it.
Speaker 1: And they're good buddies. They're laughing and yucking it up
Speaker 1: in the green room. Then they're going to go off
Speaker 1: to the cocktail parties and the private schools and the
Speaker 1: you know, rich parts of DC Metro that they all
Speaker 1: live in. And one of them says, and this is
Speaker 1: the classic definition of a gaff.
Speaker 2: He says, accidentally says the truth out loud.
Speaker 1: He says something the effect of somebody's not in on
Speaker 1: the joke or they don't get the joke, and Leibovich
Speaker 1: has to try a couple of times to get them
Speaker 1: to admit what the joke is. And finally the guy says,
Speaker 1: the joke is that we're patriots.
Speaker 3: Okay, that is disturbing.
Speaker 1: That ought to disturb you. If it doesn't, well again,
Speaker 1: you're already there. And I congratulate you for your realism
Speaker 1: and so on. Of my missions. So one of my
Speaker 1: mini jihads is to help people understand that while morality
Speaker 1: and decency and patriotism and all those things are really
Speaker 1: important and I'm not cynical about them at.
Speaker 2: All, you've got to be aware that.
Speaker 1: Evil, cynical people use moral arguments because they know you
Speaker 1: are a moral person, and they use those to win
Speaker 1: the day and then do evil things. And you've got
Speaker 1: to be aware of when people are doing that. It's
Speaker 1: like the old saying, and it's been used about Islam
Speaker 1: around the world. When and you know, to paraphrase it,
Speaker 1: when we're in the minority, we will shout about free
Speaker 1: expression because we don't have the power. When we have
Speaker 1: the power, because that's your principles. When we have the power,
Speaker 1: we're gonna suppress free expression because that's our principles. You've
Speaker 1: just got to understand that as people are hitting you
Speaker 1: with arguments. For instance, Haakim Jeffries, very very bright guys,
Speaker 1: the minority leader of the Senate of the House. Now
Speaker 1: he took over from Nancy Pelosi, Liberal from New York.
Speaker 1: But he was speaking on the House floor after the
Speaker 1: election of Mike Johnson as a speaker a couple of
Speaker 1: days ago, and he said, and I quote two months ago,
Speaker 1: the American people elected Donald Trump as the forty seventh
Speaker 1: President of the United States of America. And then they
Speaker 1: the Republicans, clapped. He said, thank you for that very
Speaker 1: generous applause, which is kind of funny.
Speaker 2: Says, it's okay. There are no election deniers on our
Speaker 2: side of the aisle. You see.
Speaker 1: One should love America. One should love America when you
Speaker 1: win and when you lose. That's the patriotic thing to do.
Speaker 1: And that's the America that House Democrats will fight hard
Speaker 1: to preserve because we love this country.
Speaker 3: That sounds good.
Speaker 1: I agree with every word he said. And it's such
Speaker 1: an interesting to me moral dilemma, undrum, thought provoking situation.
Speaker 1: When you've got a gun drawn on a serial killer
Speaker 1: who's about to attack somebody, and he says, whoa murder
Speaker 1: is wrong? He's right, but you probably ought to shoot him.
Speaker 3: Well, I don't know where are you going with this,
Speaker 3: with the.
Speaker 1: Well, you've got somebody completely immoral expressing a moral argument
Speaker 1: that you agree with in order to get ahead. And
Speaker 1: what do you do? What do I do? Since I
Speaker 1: agree with every word Hakim Jeffrey said, but I know
Speaker 1: what a hypocrite he is to wit March twenty two
Speaker 1: to twenty seventeen, and I quote these happened to be tweets.
Speaker 1: With legitimacy of Trump's presidential election in doubt, his lifetime
Speaker 1: appointment of the Supreme Court can wait. Hashtag filibuster Gorsicic
Speaker 1: stop gorsicch Febs sixteen, twenty eighteen. The more we learn
Speaker 1: about the twenty sixteen election, the more illegitimate it becomes.
Speaker 1: America deserves to know whether we have a fake president
Speaker 1: in the Oval office. Hashtag Russian interference September twenty eighth,
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen lie more than any administration in the history
Speaker 1: of the public Cheat twenty sixteen election. Russian interference steal
Speaker 1: one or two Supreme Court seats. When will Republicans put
Speaker 1: country ahead of party? August thirteen, twenty twenty, It's now
Speaker 1: clear the effort to destroy the Post office is part
Speaker 1: of a continuing conspiracy to steal the election for the
Speaker 1: most corrupt administration in American history. Remember that the entire
Speaker 1: crime family must be held accountable. And November twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: history will never accept you as a legitimate president. Twenty fourteen.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, say.
Speaker 3: Funny twist on that if I could go back in time,
Speaker 3: he wins again.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: September of twenty one, Republicans hijacked the judiciary by stealing
Speaker 1: two Supreme Court seats, and now they want us to
Speaker 1: respect illegitimate decisions from these people. October of twenty two,
Speaker 1: right wing extremists are publicly plotting to steal the next
Speaker 1: presidential election.
Speaker 2: And on and on.
Speaker 1: He is an election denier extraordinay, he's one of the
Speaker 1: kings of it, making the moral argument to us that
Speaker 1: how dare you You should never ever do that.
Speaker 2: You can't be cynical enough about these people.
Speaker 3: No you can't, No, you can't.
Speaker 5: And I took in a fair amount of information about
Speaker 5: the founding and the Constitution and stuff over the break,
Speaker 5: and I was having those thoughts. I mean, were they
Speaker 5: just a better class of people than us. Did our
Speaker 5: culture decay to an extent where we can't have people
Speaker 5: that actually care more about the country than their party.
Speaker 2: Politicians have always been politicians.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I mean, and the podcast I was listening to, for instance,
Speaker 5: one example of how quickly things can turn.
Speaker 2: I mean, we had the Bill of Rights and.
Speaker 5: Free speech being number one, and it was just a
Speaker 5: couple of years later that the sitting president in Congress passed.
Speaker 3: The law outlawing saying anything bad about the.
Speaker 2: Country, right, it was the Alien and Sedition Acts.
Speaker 1: One of the worst things that's ever passed in the
Speaker 1: country was the Founding Generation themselves.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so, I don't know. Maybe that's just the state
Speaker 5: of humanity. It's the seduction of power. It's power makes
Speaker 5: you do perverse things. I think part of the answer.
Speaker 1: To your question, and that was the exception, but I
Speaker 1: still think part of the answer is they were so
Speaker 1: close to overcoming the crisis of oppression by Britain and
Speaker 1: fighting for freedom than the articles of the Confederation falling apart.
Speaker 1: Anybody who was like openly power hungry and damaging the country.
Speaker 1: I'm reminded of one of my favorite quotes from Lincoln
Speaker 1: and one of the great Supreme Court justices said, Look,
Speaker 1: if the Constitution doesn't live in the hearts of the people,
Speaker 1: there's no army, there's no laws, there's nothing that can
Speaker 1: save it. And if it does live in the hearts
Speaker 1: of the people, there's nothing that can end it. And
Speaker 1: we're at a point now where, especially in our political class,
Speaker 1: we are so rich and so comfortable, and there's so
Speaker 1: much power and money at stake, and we're so safe
Speaker 1: that that impulsive you dare not threaten the health of
Speaker 1: this country is given away to the opposite. Nobody cares
Speaker 1: about the health of the country. We're great, will always
Speaker 1: be great.
Speaker 5: Grab what you can, right, there's going to be a
Speaker 5: lot of money passed through my hands or my area.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna get mine.
Speaker 1: Like the Biden family, they got rich, got their twenty
Speaker 1: four LLC's going laundered, the money got away. What the
Speaker 1: hell the guy got elected to the White House?
Speaker 2: I am too.
Speaker 5: If you have any thoughts on that, because I wonder
Speaker 5: about that all the time. Is that just a different
Speaker 5: breed of people, or has it always been this way
Speaker 5: tax line four one KFTC.
Speaker 6: A nutrition study analyzed the health benefits of various ultra
Speaker 6: processed foods and drinks, and scientists have revealed that you
Speaker 6: lose twelve minutes of your life every time you drink
Speaker 6: a coke. What explains why Coca cola chants are slogan
Speaker 6: from taste the feeling to get your affairs in order?
Speaker 5: Wow, twelve minutes per coke, So four of them and
Speaker 5: I've lost to you an hour.
Speaker 3: Practically, I guess I.
Speaker 2: Have five minutes per cigarettes.
Speaker 1: So if I wash down my cancer stick with a coke, Wow,
Speaker 1: that's rough.
Speaker 5: I am trying to cut back on the ultra process
Speaker 5: anything that comes in a plastic bag I am. I'm
Speaker 5: making a definite effort to have lessen. Hey, Katie, I
Speaker 5: need you to do something because it's going to factor
Speaker 5: into the end of this little conversation. Will you get
Speaker 5: the Google definition or the Dictionary definition of neurotic for me?
Speaker 3: Because I think that's what I am.
Speaker 5: I don't know if I'm neurotic or a missingthroat more
Speaker 5: one of the two anyway, So I was gonna mention
Speaker 5: this this is all leading to that didn't watch the
Speaker 5: Golden Globes the other night, but one of the biggest
Speaker 5: winners was the movie The Brutalist, which I don't even
Speaker 5: know if I'd ever heard of, but I won a
Speaker 5: whole bunch of dang awards.
Speaker 2: Do you know about the Rutless or have you seen it?
Speaker 2: Just the headline? Okay, I had exactly the same reaction.
Speaker 5: Escaping post war Europe, a visionary architect comes to America
Speaker 5: to rebuild his life, his career, and his marriage on
Speaker 5: his own in a strange new country. He settles in Pennsylvania,
Speaker 5: where a wealthy and prominent industrialist recognizes his talent.
Speaker 3: It's all in the execution, right.
Speaker 5: So welcome to our country. Yeah, all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 5: So it sounds like it is really really good. Denzel
Speaker 5: Washington ended up losing. He set some sort of record
Speaker 5: by being nominated for a certain number of times for
Speaker 5: his role in a Gladiator two, which I have seen
Speaker 5: and I saw with my kids. Over the break, Henry
Speaker 5: and I watched the first Gladiator, which I'd forgotten how
Speaker 5: great it is, and it is now in my top
Speaker 5: certainly my top five all time movies. What an amazing
Speaker 5: movie that is. But Gladiator two not as good in
Speaker 5: a whole bunch of different ways. Denzel Washington was fantastic.
Speaker 5: The really great actors they like stand out against the
Speaker 5: other pe and I don't even know what it is.
Speaker 2: I would agree, and it's amazing.
Speaker 1: Particularly that doesn't mean I want to hear their opinion
Speaker 1: about anything other than acting.
Speaker 5: Although I would agree with most of what Denzel Washington
Speaker 5: has to say.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Well a lot of movie acting is so
Speaker 1: weird because it's just you and the camera and it's
Speaker 1: just you're not reacting to people just anyway.
Speaker 2: But it's an art form certainly.
Speaker 5: Yeah, But here's what happened going to the theater. Well,
Speaker 5: what's a neurotic? Tell me what a neurotic is.
Speaker 7: Well, you would have something called neurosis, which is a
Speaker 7: mental condition that is not caused by organic disease, involving
Speaker 7: symptoms of stress, depression, or anxiety, but also not a
Speaker 7: radical loss of touch with reality.
Speaker 1: The way I always heard it described in psych class
Speaker 1: was that if you're a psychotic, you do not perceive
Speaker 1: reality as it is. If you're neurotic, you perceive it correctly,
Speaker 1: but you come to the wrong conclusions.
Speaker 5: And I don't think that's what I am I'm a missanthrope.
Speaker 5: I hate all humanity. Maybe that's it. But anyway, so
Speaker 5: for this movie theater, you had to, like I have
Speaker 5: book your seats.
Speaker 3: Ahead of time or whatever.
Speaker 5: Okay, fine, we get to the movie theater and there's
Speaker 5: nobody there. It's literally empty. We go in, we sit down.
Speaker 5: Shortly before the movie starts. You know where I'm going here,
Speaker 5: three people come in in an empty movie theater and
Speaker 5: walk in and sit.
Speaker 3: Right in front of us.
Speaker 2: Oh my lord.
Speaker 5: So I wanted to ask the guy if we could
Speaker 5: go outside, not to fight him, but to interview him,
Speaker 5: because I want to know more about his life. I
Speaker 5: want to know, what do you do for a living?
Speaker 5: Are you married, do you pay taxes? What other views
Speaker 5: do you have that makes you so freaking insane that
Speaker 5: in an empty movie theater you would sit right in
Speaker 5: front of the only people in there.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, I'm the same. First, I would be just
Speaker 1: insane with annoyance. Then I would think I want to
Speaker 1: know more.
Speaker 5: Right, just what the hell goes on in your mind
Speaker 5: that you did that?
Speaker 2: And it makes me crazy.
Speaker 5: I mean, it makes me more crazy that he exists
Speaker 5: and wondering about him than the fact he was sitting
Speaker 5: right in front of me.
Speaker 1: I'll send spitballs in the back of the neck Cake
Speaker 1: Cure and Getty.
Speaker 8: The technology is head turning, allowing your car to come
Speaker 8: to you from anywhere in the parking lot through Tesla's
Speaker 8: phone app and the touch of a button.
Speaker 2: No driver inside. But the National Highway Traffic.
Speaker 8: Safety Administration is raising concerns about the actually smart sum
Speaker 8: in feature in an estimated two and a half million Teslas,
Speaker 8: saying it is launching a probe over reported problems of
Speaker 8: failing to detect posts or parked vehicles resulting in a
Speaker 8: crash and the operator not having enough time to react.
Speaker 5: Well, that would suck if I press the button for
Speaker 5: my Tesla to come to me and it backs into somebody.
Speaker 5: Now that has changed my afternoon. First of all, they're
Speaker 5: what do you say, two million Teslas in the whole country.
Speaker 5: That's a tiny number at that being the most popular
Speaker 5: electric car out there. The new software update on the
Speaker 5: self driving really good, smoother than it's ever been. But
Speaker 5: somehow I got it on an old lady setting. Today
Speaker 5: it's coming to work. It's like, how slow were we
Speaker 5: gonna go?
Speaker 1: How much?
Speaker 5: How many car links do we need? To leave here
Speaker 5: the old lady I got to change it. Or it
Speaker 5: was a student driver with the teacher with them, that's
Speaker 5: what it was driving.
Speaker 2: Like currently taking driving tech.
Speaker 5: I need to set up for aggressive man on the
Speaker 5: way to work, That's what it needs to be said up.
Speaker 2: Well, it's a grudge against humidity exactly.
Speaker 5: The car thing reminded me a term I heard yesterday.
Speaker 5: You're gonna want to know this, you know how put
Speaker 5: a pin in It has been big for a while.
Speaker 5: If you're in your boardroom setting or whatever, you got
Speaker 5: to talk the lingo. We're going to park the car
Speaker 5: on that and come back to it later. I guess
Speaker 5: that's a thing now park in the too many metaphors,
Speaker 5: no longer putting a pennant. We're going to park that car.
Speaker 5: We'll come back to it. So if you want to,
Speaker 5: I know, I don't want to.
Speaker 2: I don't want to be in the meeting. I didn't
Speaker 2: want any of it.
Speaker 1: Hey, speaking of cars, though, I wanted to get this
Speaker 1: on and this is getting no attention. I'm glad CBS
Speaker 1: News touched on it. But the FBI, who has currently
Speaker 1: covered itself in glory and others, had been telling the
Speaker 1: City of New Orleans for years. You have got to
Speaker 1: put up the ballards, those stout columns that stop people
Speaker 1: from driving vehicles up on sidewalks.
Speaker 2: Washington, DC is full of them.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 5: We were riding those scooters around to go everywhere last week.
Speaker 5: But you have to weave in and out of those
Speaker 5: things because they're in a building in at least the
Speaker 5: touristy part of Washington, DC that doesn't have those on
Speaker 5: every sidewalk.
Speaker 1: Right, But a twenty seventeen report by the City of
Speaker 1: New Orleans identify Bourbon Street as a potential terrorism target,
Speaker 1: citing FBI warning excuse me, and they installed some but
Speaker 1: over an again they've been told you've got to do this,
Speaker 1: and the local and state government really is. The city
Speaker 1: and county that are in charge of it have been terribly,
Speaker 1: terribly slow about it, have ignored the recommendations, have had
Speaker 1: money not spent it. I haven't been that all those
Speaker 1: people got run down. I haven't been to Bourbon Street
Speaker 1: in years. One of the great party districts in the world.
Speaker 5: But I had two people after that attack say yeah,
Speaker 5: the last time I was at Bourbon Street, I.
Speaker 3: Thought, wow, they don't have any of those polls here.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure I would have noticed that. It's not
Speaker 3: the sort of thing that's on my radar.
Speaker 5: But two different people said that they had been there
Speaker 5: and thought, Wow, they don't have any of those polls here.
Speaker 2: That's tony. I noticed that.
Speaker 1: Either I don't think and it's a damned shame that
Speaker 1: anybody ever does think that.
Speaker 2: But we live in the world live well.
Speaker 5: Going further down that conversation, as listened to a podcast
Speaker 5: about this, and it's clearly true. And whenever you have
Speaker 5: these conversations you get accused of giving terrorists ideas. But
Speaker 5: I have a feeling there pretty good at it on
Speaker 5: their own. If you're gonna start using cars as weapons, man.
Speaker 3: No, there's no stop in that.
Speaker 5: You could have a coordinated drive through school parking lots,
Speaker 5: attack in twenty different cities this afternoon if you wanted to,
Speaker 5: and there's nothing there's no way you could ever stop.
Speaker 5: All the things are every local parade or fair or
Speaker 5: wedding or I mean just there are endless gathered crowds.
Speaker 3: Is my point.
Speaker 5: That you could drive a car through anytime. There's no
Speaker 5: stop in that. What stops it is, thank god, hardly
Speaker 5: anybody is murderous.
Speaker 2: Thank god, right, it's murderous intent.
Speaker 1: That's what changed in society, not guns, although there are
Speaker 1: a hell of a lot of guns. But I got
Speaker 1: this note from Todd that I enjoyed. I think you
Speaker 1: will too.
Speaker 2: Guys.
Speaker 1: You're absolutely right that the choice of vehicle for the
Speaker 1: New Orleans terrorist attack was not random.
Speaker 2: That's weird. The FBI said immediately after you attack. This
Speaker 2: is not a terrace and intent incident. Oh on.
Speaker 1: Anyway, the use of the vehicle is not random. It
Speaker 1: was indeed no ordinary truck. It was a four to
Speaker 1: f one to fifty lightning, a fully automatic electric assault
Speaker 1: truck that delivers twice the kinetic force of an ordinary
Speaker 1: civilian truck. It has as much mass and makes as
Speaker 1: much power as military trucks designed for the battlefield. In
Speaker 1: states like Texas, you can rent these trucks without any
Speaker 1: kind of background check or waiting period, just like the
Speaker 1: terrorists did. I was surprised, said witness Dan mcpee. I
Speaker 1: was surprised that vehicle was able to get as far
Speaker 1: as it did. That's because he's thinking of ordinary vehicles,
Speaker 1: not military grade assault trucks. Until we have common sense
Speaker 1: truck control, until we prioritize people's safety instead of appeasing
Speaker 1: the powerful truck lobby. We can expect more such deadly attacks, right,
Speaker 1: I think, good sir.
Speaker 3: I get the parody there.
Speaker 5: It is something that these electric vehicles, like my Sedan
Speaker 5: weighs as much as a big suv and has a
Speaker 5: thousand horsepower. I mean, if you're gonna want to ram
Speaker 5: a crowd from a short distance, that's a vehicle for it.
Speaker 5: He made the right choice.
Speaker 2: A couple other follow ups via email.
Speaker 1: Polly went to the French laundry not long ago, and
Speaker 1: the server came up and said, hey, there's a twenty
Speaker 1: percent service charge already, so the tip is taken care of.
Speaker 1: Because I had this discussion. I was at the Gordon
Speaker 1: Ramsay restaurant in Washington, d C. It had the twenty
Speaker 1: percent charge on there, and I asked the question, do
Speaker 1: you tip on not I've gotten I've spent a fair
Speaker 1: amount of time googling this. There is no agreement on
Speaker 1: this whatsoever among people who work at restaurants. Don't work
Speaker 1: at restaurants. People that are regular goers to nice restaurants. Now,
Speaker 1: by law, if it says we've added to twenty percent gratuity,
Speaker 1: they have to share that with the people. But if
Speaker 1: it just says twenty percent service charge, I might just
Speaker 1: go to the restaurant in some cases, and you got
Speaker 1: a tip on top of that. Obviously, if that's going
Speaker 1: to the restaurant and I tipped twenty percent on top
Speaker 1: of it, you've added forty percent to my meal.
Speaker 3: And I ain't eating here under any circumstances.
Speaker 1: I don't care how big your food is, right unless
Speaker 1: you're going to serve me a stake for eleven dollars
Speaker 1: and go ahead and heep another forty percent on top
Speaker 1: of that. But that is not happening right. On another topic,
Speaker 1: the jack you were railing yesterday about Biden on a
Speaker 1: week's notice giving the entire federal workforce Thursday off to
Speaker 1: more in the passing of Jimmy Carter, who's God bless him,
Speaker 1: been in Heavens waiting room for now several years.
Speaker 5: I know he can't explain anything at this point, but
Speaker 5: a younger Joe Biden explain to me why federal workers
Speaker 5: get the day off and taxpayers go to work to
Speaker 5: honor Jimmy Carter.
Speaker 3: I mean, what's the theory behind that?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Two notes on that. Number One Kevin from Plasterville with
Speaker 1: a great point. Hey, big freedom is simple, Jack. You
Speaker 1: discussed Biden's right. My issue with it isn't the cost
Speaker 1: is we will be paying for those workers, whether they're
Speaker 1: at work or not. No, my issues My issue is
Speaker 1: with what this action reveals about what those workers were
Speaker 1: doing such that a pop up holity like this even
Speaker 1: makes sense or is even possible. Imagine your local mom
Speaker 1: and pop small business learning all their workers would be
Speaker 1: out sick one day next week.
Speaker 3: No way. Yeah, let be a.
Speaker 1: Major financial hardship. Losing even one day's revenue in a
Speaker 1: month could put them under Even for a larger business,
Speaker 1: it would be an issue. Imagine the CEO of home
Speaker 1: Depot announced they'll be closed next Thursday. Bet the CEO
Speaker 1: is fired by the board before the end of the
Speaker 1: day Friday. You see the point, and you won't be
Speaker 1: able to make any You won't be able to see
Speaker 1: any difference in all in what the federal government accomplishes.
Speaker 2: Isn't that revealing? Doge can't come soon enough?
Speaker 5: I got a Jimmy Carter nugget. I will park the
Speaker 5: car and get back to here in a little bit.
Speaker 1: Stop saying that, and then Rich in Groton, Connecticut says,
Speaker 1: can you let Jack know that if he wants to
Speaker 1: take Thursday off for morning the president, and he has
Speaker 1: my permission last time I checked, you guys aren't hourly
Speaker 1: and you're not going to get docked if you miss
Speaker 1: Thursday from the radio ranch.
Speaker 2: True.
Speaker 1: Then he says, meanwhile, I'm going to let some members
Speaker 1: of my crew off. But seeing how I work in
Speaker 1: a field in which we rotate a third of the
Speaker 1: crew to be on watch twenty four seven three sixty five,
Speaker 1: I can only do so much. He is in a
Speaker 1: military type profession. Then he says, and I don't this
Speaker 1: is okay. I agree with you guys. The federal government's
Speaker 1: too bloated. People get away with essentially doing nothing. When
Speaker 1: you go on your rants about all the time off
Speaker 1: we get. The military hears you. And for me, I'm
Speaker 1: listening to two guys complaining about how cold or hot
Speaker 1: it is in the studio hidden behind the veneer of
Speaker 1: a microphone and ragging about how much time I get off.
Speaker 1: I'll remember that next time I'm deployed over Christmas, or
Speaker 1: I have to help my buddy because he just missed
Speaker 1: the birth of his child overseas.
Speaker 5: I don't think when we talk about federal employees working,
Speaker 5: we're talking about the military.
Speaker 3: That's not what's in my mind.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Rich, somebody sitting at a desk who's doing nothing
Speaker 5: of any good whatsoever.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Rich, I will tell you this, my friend.
Speaker 1: First of all, you're right, I mean in what you're saying,
Speaker 1: certainly saying about the military. But if you think when
Speaker 1: we rail against government workers we're talking about active duty military,
Speaker 1: you don't know us very well.
Speaker 3: That's not what anybody's talking about when they talk about.
Speaker 2: Go No, Rich, come on, buddy.
Speaker 1: And then I went to the trouble of looking it
Speaker 1: up when you include state and county governments, and there
Speaker 1: are twenty four million government workers in the United States,
Speaker 1: twenty four million. There are one point three million active
Speaker 1: duty military.
Speaker 2: When we say.
Speaker 1: Government workers, we're not talking about freaking active duty military.
Speaker 2: Obviously, that is a category all its own.
Speaker 1: And I will take off my glove and slap you
Speaker 1: on both sides of your face for daring.
Speaker 2: To suggest otherwise. I agree with you, But come on,
Speaker 2: that's just hurtful, dude.
Speaker 5: So I'm not a hater of Jimmy Carter. I didn't
Speaker 5: like his policies, but seemed like a nice.
Speaker 1: Guy, incredibly misguided, and he really interfered with American foreign
Speaker 1: policy post office. Someday I'll bore you with the details,
Speaker 1: but it was way out of line, way way.
Speaker 2: Way out of line.
Speaker 5: Really a low point for our country though that period,
Speaker 5: having I would live through it as a child, just
Speaker 5: so much about it. So you had Nixon and Watergate,
Speaker 5: so that was, you know, obviously rough to find out
Speaker 5: your president could do that sort of stuff. And then
Speaker 5: whatever was going on in the nation that Jimmy Carter
Speaker 5: kind of symbolized.
Speaker 3: It was the beginning of men being wooses.
Speaker 5: Became very popular for like your actors, singers to be
Speaker 5: very woosy, androgynous, feminine types. And if you're not old enough,
Speaker 5: you don't know that this is when it really started.
Speaker 1: And traditional masculinity was shamed, which is the other side that.
Speaker 3: Called singers actors. That sort of stuff got very feminine.
Speaker 5: There's so much like soft rock that was like the
Speaker 5: limpest must There's no way you could possibly ever get
Speaker 5: an erection listen to those songs.
Speaker 3: I mean, it was just it just sucked the man.
Speaker 2: Listening to.
Speaker 3: Their own our our our cars were awful.
Speaker 5: I mean, just horrible pieces of crap, starting like in
Speaker 5: the late seventies, and then Jimmy Carter gave his famous
Speaker 5: Malaise speech they call it, even though he never used
Speaker 5: the word malaise, but the country was in a malays
Speaker 5: and he's he sat there and talked about turning your
Speaker 5: thermostat up and sitting in a cold house in the
Speaker 5: in the winter, in a hot house in the summer,
Speaker 5: and pay Laura bills. And the actual term that he
Speaker 5: used was the age of limits and how we all
Speaker 5: need to have more limits on the various things that
Speaker 5: we do. But it was really a hey, the good
Speaker 5: times are over, you have we all have to live
Speaker 5: kind of sad lives from here on out speech. Actually
Speaker 5: watched the speech the day after he died, UH to
Speaker 5: revisit it and just how how did we get that
Speaker 5: far off track? Just in just in kind of just
Speaker 5: we lost our mojo as a country. Oh yeah, did
Speaker 5: that happen again under Biden? Is one of my questions,
Speaker 5: UH might have.
Speaker 1: Was heading in that direction, I would agree, I mean,
Speaker 1: in the wake of Vietnam and then Watergate and race
Speaker 1: riots and assassinations and crappy economy, the Arab boil and bargo,
Speaker 1: the gas crisis, rampant inflation. We were down and out.
Speaker 2: We were, you.
Speaker 1: Know, we were sleeping outside the bus station, living rough
Speaker 1: as a country.
Speaker 5: I had one of the museums in DC, at the Smithsonian,
Speaker 5: they had a picture of Carter with the fifty five
Speaker 5: mile an hour sign. Harry was smiling the age of limits.
Speaker 5: We're only going to drive fifty five miles an hour
Speaker 5: on interstates. And they had one of the old speedometers
Speaker 5: from cars back then. The speedometers back then only went
Speaker 5: up to eighty five to try and encourage you to
Speaker 5: drive slower.
Speaker 2: I mean, just one federal mandated woosey ah. I hate
Speaker 2: that whole thing.
Speaker 1: Well, and again, Carter's leadership style, which Jack can attest
Speaker 1: to having watched the speech, was yes, things are crappy,
Speaker 1: they will be crappy.
Speaker 2: We're crappy. I'm crappy. Let's I'll be crappy.
Speaker 1: And then Reagan came on and he's like, no way,
Speaker 1: we're a great country. Let's turn this bitch around. And
Speaker 1: you know what, the bitch was turned.
Speaker 3: Now that's the famous turn this bitch around speech that
Speaker 3: we've all heard.
Speaker 5: Right, we will finish strong next We're talking to Ian
Speaker 5: Bremer tomorrow after the show. And Ian Bremer puts out
Speaker 5: his risks lists every year and we always enjoy.
Speaker 3: Talking about it. Was it last year or the year
Speaker 3: before that?
Speaker 5: One of his risks slash predictions was the explosion of AI.
Speaker 5: I don't know if he feels like that came true
Speaker 5: or not, but it is going to in the future.
Speaker 3: Anyway.
Speaker 5: It reminds me. I heard from somebody yesterday. I wish
Speaker 5: I didn't have to be this vague. I wish I
Speaker 5: wish I could have I wish I could play the
Speaker 5: video they sent me or have them on the air
Speaker 5: to describe this. It was someone with a group of
Speaker 5: men well apparently are single, talking about how much they
Speaker 5: like the chat GPT female relationships in completely sincere tones.
Speaker 5: I mean then this person was blown away, like they
Speaker 5: called to tell me about it.
Speaker 3: I just got out of a meaning it's.
Speaker 5: Unbelievable, like really regular assault of the earth people too,
Speaker 5: not talking about we're talking about I got to be
Speaker 5: so vague, but like very very normal crowd. Uh yeah,
Speaker 5: and uh who were super into the chat GPT. Oh
Speaker 5: the voice is so soothing and you know they're always
Speaker 5: there for me and we have conversations and and uh
Speaker 5: and and I missed them when we're when we when
Speaker 5: we don't talk, and I can't wait to get home
Speaker 5: and you know, have another conversation and all that sort
Speaker 5: of stuff. And they were just blown.
Speaker 3: Away by the bye, by the fact that there was
Speaker 3: there was a group.
Speaker 2: Of them.
Speaker 3: In in in.
Speaker 5: Not the kind of world I would have expected it
Speaker 5: would latch onto.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we're tracking with you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, wow. And whatever it is now, it's gonna
Speaker 5: be a thousand times better by June.
Speaker 2: Quote unquote better. Sure, yeah, more effective.
Speaker 1: I certainly care about the future because I have kids
Speaker 1: and someday grandkids, I think, but I hope. But if
Speaker 1: you want to know who's going to be running the world,
Speaker 1: not in twenty years, but in like a hundred years,
Speaker 1: don't look at who's got bombs, look at who's making babies,
Speaker 1: oh untos. People will run the world in terms of
Speaker 1: the culture, well right, and just running the world. That's
Speaker 1: who will be on the world.
Speaker 2: Sure. People who have babies, yeah, And.
Speaker 1: People who are getting with porn and chat GPT aren't
Speaker 1: having babies.
Speaker 3: They are not, And that's gonna that's that's going the
Speaker 3: wrong way. No, doubt Jack, you Clark, GISs time.
Speaker 2: Stop.
Speaker 8: Jack and Joe They've got go and if they don't
Speaker 8: give cane, they'll be bats tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 1: Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew
Speaker 1: to wrap up the show for the day. There is
Speaker 1: our technical director to lead us off, Michaelangelow.
Speaker 2: Michael, I am the luckiest guy in the world.
Speaker 9: One of our cats, says now, got a habit of
Speaker 9: as soon as I wake up, he mows lays down
Speaker 9: unless we rub his belly purs pets. It is the
Speaker 9: greatest way to start your day. Is very first thing
Speaker 9: I do each morning.
Speaker 5: Fantastic. I had no idea where that sentence was gone.
Speaker 2: I trade there's going to be peanut burn falls. Oh
Speaker 2: my god, I'm not a cat.
Speaker 1: Katie Green as a final thought for us, if she
Speaker 1: can recover, Katie.
Speaker 7: I'm gonna recover and just say, I'm very grateful for
Speaker 7: all of our firefighters handling this situation ins out in California.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I hope you guys are safe.
Speaker 5: Jack a final thought, Yeah, I was thinking about that
Speaker 5: whole thing with people getting into relationships with chat GPT people.
Speaker 5: I feel like I want to try it, but I'm
Speaker 5: almost scared to because I just to learn about it.
Speaker 5: What if I like it? What if I try it
Speaker 5: and like it? Think, you know what, this is a
Speaker 5: kind of scratching me where.
Speaker 3: I mentioned and and it's uh, you know, it ain't
Speaker 3: gonna cost me anything.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, speaking of babies and that sort of thing.
Speaker 1: Most dangerous thing to be in the world is the
Speaker 1: world's oldest person. Tamika Utuka died last Sunday at the
Speaker 1: age of one hundred and sixteen. Japanese woman born in
Speaker 1: May of eight, lived through twenty one American presidencies.
Speaker 2: She was married for fifty one years and a widow
Speaker 2: for forty five.
Speaker 3: Wow, who's killing the oldest people in the world off?
Speaker 5: Because they always got Armstrong and Getty wronging up another
Speaker 5: grueling four hour work day.
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Speaker 3: World keep spinning. We'll have plenty of news for you tomorrow.
Speaker 5: God bless America.
Speaker 2: I'm strong and Getti the country is on edge. I mean,
Speaker 2: if anyone think that's bonker, it's like, well, lighting up, Francis,
Speaker 2: it's true, are you?
Speaker 3: And you know?
Speaker 2: We really need to pace ourselves if we're going to
Speaker 2: freak out.
Speaker 9: We also need to be stronger together by overcoming an
Speaker 9: addiction to divisiveness and negativity.
Speaker 2: Shut up, Thank you very much, appreciate it. And that
Speaker 2: high note. The chair declares this joint Session dissolved.
Speaker 1: Thank you, But why Armstrong and Getty