1 00:00:01,920 --> 00:00:06,200 Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 2 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:10,600 Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty, arm. 3 00:00:10,440 --> 00:00:17,279 Speaker 2: Strong and Gatty and he Armstrong and Getty. 4 00:00:29,040 --> 00:00:29,920 Speaker 1: It's a little horse. 5 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:35,440 Speaker 2: Hope we don't crack. Yes, what are y'all doing? 6 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:41,320 Speaker 3: Yeah, you gotta go because. 7 00:00:41,320 --> 00:00:42,440 Speaker 2: We'll call the least for one. 8 00:00:43,240 --> 00:00:45,640 Speaker 1: So, uh, Michael found that charming. A couple of people 9 00:00:45,720 --> 00:00:48,639 Speaker 1: riding a horse through a target. Riding a horse through 10 00:00:48,680 --> 00:00:52,800 Speaker 1: a target? Why that's outrageous. Horses don't belong in target. 11 00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:58,800 Speaker 1: There's a horse in the hospital, right. I just, I just, 12 00:00:59,440 --> 00:01:02,560 Speaker 1: I'm just out by. I'm going to do something crazy. 13 00:01:02,960 --> 00:01:07,360 Speaker 1: You hold the phone. Then we'll post it and people 14 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:10,480 Speaker 1: will be slightly amused for two minutes as they scroll 15 00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:14,080 Speaker 1: through Instagram. I just I'm tired of maybe I'm an 16 00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:17,520 Speaker 1: old man. I just am tired of the genre. Let 17 00:01:17,600 --> 00:01:20,040 Speaker 1: it be heard, let it be said, let it be written. 18 00:01:20,319 --> 00:01:24,000 Speaker 1: At January the ninth of twenty twenty six was the 19 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:28,200 Speaker 1: day that America was amased for roughly ninety seconds by 20 00:01:28,280 --> 00:01:30,479 Speaker 1: a couple of yeay, who's riding a horse or target? 21 00:01:30,640 --> 00:01:32,080 Speaker 1: And it'll never be thought of again? 22 00:01:33,200 --> 00:01:35,840 Speaker 2: Sy, So this this is breaking news. 23 00:01:35,880 --> 00:01:37,240 Speaker 1: I don't know if there's anything to make of it, 24 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:42,480 Speaker 1: but the jobs numbers came out. Uh, weakness is evident. 25 00:01:42,520 --> 00:01:43,680 Speaker 1: I don't know if they're just looking at me or 26 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:47,480 Speaker 1: if they're talking about the jobs numbers. US hiring remains 27 00:01:47,480 --> 00:01:51,440 Speaker 1: at a modest pace, and weaknesses are evident. Employers added 28 00:01:51,480 --> 00:01:55,080 Speaker 1: fifty thousand jobs in December, but unemployment ticked down. Of course, 29 00:01:55,480 --> 00:01:58,800 Speaker 1: who knows what that number means really, because we have 30 00:01:58,920 --> 00:02:02,920 Speaker 1: whatever it is, a million able bodied men who have 31 00:02:03,080 --> 00:02:06,560 Speaker 1: just chosen not to work. So if they're not looking 32 00:02:06,600 --> 00:02:09,320 Speaker 1: for a job, they don't count as unemployed. So I 33 00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:11,120 Speaker 1: don't know what the raw number is, but let's just 34 00:02:11,160 --> 00:02:14,960 Speaker 1: all agree the highest number in American history, and it's 35 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:17,360 Speaker 1: just outside of a depression, and it kind of distorts 36 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:18,639 Speaker 1: what that number means. 37 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:20,560 Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know I'm supposed to do 38 00:02:20,560 --> 00:02:21,200 Speaker 2: with that information. 39 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:24,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, the unemployment number has become one of those statistics 40 00:02:24,480 --> 00:02:25,800 Speaker 1: that's utterly useless. 41 00:02:25,840 --> 00:02:26,480 Speaker 2: It's terrible. 42 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:30,880 Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm working on something behind the scenes. Maybe y'all 43 00:02:30,880 --> 00:02:35,680 Speaker 1: can help me. I've been reading about the Minnesota fraud 44 00:02:35,960 --> 00:02:39,280 Speaker 1: like everybody has, and actually the Wall Street. 45 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:41,160 Speaker 2: Journal, who is this writing? Oh? 46 00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:44,520 Speaker 1: The editorial board is talking about welfare grift from Minnesota 47 00:02:44,560 --> 00:02:50,480 Speaker 1: to Mississippi, and I'm working on a sarcastic definition for 48 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:54,720 Speaker 1: the word welfare, the gist of the joke being it 49 00:02:54,840 --> 00:02:58,960 Speaker 1: is a theft program that is occasionally exploited by the 50 00:02:59,040 --> 00:03:00,120 Speaker 1: poor to take money. 51 00:03:01,480 --> 00:03:04,839 Speaker 2: Something to that effect. You get what I'm driving at. 52 00:03:04,919 --> 00:03:09,200 Speaker 1: Yeah, And they pointed out the Babylon BE headline I 53 00:03:09,240 --> 00:03:11,000 Speaker 1: mentioned this last hour. This is one of my favorite 54 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:13,919 Speaker 1: Babylon B headlines in the recent memory. 55 00:03:13,919 --> 00:03:16,000 Speaker 2: Anyway, Republicans vowed. 56 00:03:15,720 --> 00:03:19,080 Speaker 1: To uncover all Somali fraud and then do nothing about 57 00:03:19,080 --> 00:03:20,200 Speaker 1: it except fundraise. 58 00:03:22,720 --> 00:03:22,960 Speaker 3: Cool. 59 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:25,280 Speaker 2: That one doubled me over. Yeah. 60 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:27,120 Speaker 1: I was listening to a podcast the other day. I 61 00:03:27,120 --> 00:03:30,880 Speaker 1: mentioned this yesterday with Neil Ferguson, the historian who has 62 00:03:30,880 --> 00:03:33,240 Speaker 1: written a lot about economics throughout his career as a 63 00:03:33,320 --> 00:03:36,560 Speaker 1: history professor and writer. And he is talking about he 64 00:03:36,600 --> 00:03:39,640 Speaker 1: was talking to a couple of Brits about their economic situation, 65 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:43,440 Speaker 1: which they are like several steps further down the road 66 00:03:43,800 --> 00:03:47,960 Speaker 1: in Britain and France from where we are, same doomed 67 00:03:48,120 --> 00:03:51,720 Speaker 1: path of this has got to come to an end. 68 00:03:51,880 --> 00:03:54,280 Speaker 1: You can't keep spending more than you take in at 69 00:03:54,280 --> 00:03:56,520 Speaker 1: this rate. And at some point you're gonna have to 70 00:03:56,520 --> 00:03:58,440 Speaker 1: make some adjustments. And they're further ahead, so we get 71 00:03:58,440 --> 00:04:01,600 Speaker 1: to watch them do it first in Europe. But they've 72 00:04:01,680 --> 00:04:04,800 Speaker 1: they've gone the further step of crushing the entrepreneurial spirit 73 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:07,680 Speaker 1: and the creativity of their people, so they don't have 74 00:04:07,720 --> 00:04:12,920 Speaker 1: the dynamic American economy that enables this awful, awful, you know, 75 00:04:13,040 --> 00:04:14,760 Speaker 1: way to live life to continue. 76 00:04:14,760 --> 00:04:15,920 Speaker 2: But that'll one soon enough. 77 00:04:15,960 --> 00:04:18,400 Speaker 1: Yeah, But his his point was there's only there's really 78 00:04:18,440 --> 00:04:21,280 Speaker 1: only three ways out of this. As we now have 79 00:04:21,520 --> 00:04:27,320 Speaker 1: the highest debt to whatever ratio that we've ever had 80 00:04:27,360 --> 00:04:29,920 Speaker 1: GDP ratio, and we're now spending more. 81 00:04:29,839 --> 00:04:33,640 Speaker 2: Time of peace and growing economy. 82 00:04:33,160 --> 00:04:36,120 Speaker 1: And now we're now spending more on servicing our debt 83 00:04:36,160 --> 00:04:38,480 Speaker 1: than we do on the military. And he came up 84 00:04:38,520 --> 00:04:42,279 Speaker 1: with a law he's calling Ferguson's law. He wanted to 85 00:04:42,279 --> 00:04:45,599 Speaker 1: have his own law that any power that spends more 86 00:04:45,680 --> 00:04:48,240 Speaker 1: on servicing its debt than its military will cease to 87 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:52,039 Speaker 1: be a power. That's a pretty good law. Yeah, hard 88 00:04:52,040 --> 00:04:53,920 Speaker 1: to argue with that, But there are only three things 89 00:04:53,960 --> 00:04:54,559 Speaker 1: that can happen. 90 00:04:54,640 --> 00:04:54,880 Speaker 2: Really. 91 00:04:55,960 --> 00:05:01,599 Speaker 1: One of them is some sort of giant explosion of 92 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:04,280 Speaker 1: productivity that gets you out of this problem. 93 00:05:04,680 --> 00:05:07,240 Speaker 2: I've maybe you've done this in your own life. 94 00:05:07,240 --> 00:05:09,200 Speaker 1: You got you get some financial problems, but you start 95 00:05:09,240 --> 00:05:11,120 Speaker 1: making enough money, you can kind of cover it up, 96 00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:12,240 Speaker 1: you can kind of fix it. 97 00:05:13,880 --> 00:05:15,159 Speaker 2: Maybe the only problem is. 98 00:05:15,160 --> 00:05:17,200 Speaker 1: That it enables you to double down on the bad 99 00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:19,919 Speaker 1: behavior or later the birds come down a room. If 100 00:05:19,960 --> 00:05:22,560 Speaker 1: you don't, if you don't fix the behavior, it doesn't work. 101 00:05:24,160 --> 00:05:24,280 Speaker 3: Uh. 102 00:05:24,680 --> 00:05:27,039 Speaker 1: And that could happen with AI or whatever. So that's 103 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:29,320 Speaker 1: a possibility to get this out of this problem. The 104 00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:33,520 Speaker 1: other possibility is raising taxes quite a bit and cutting 105 00:05:33,560 --> 00:05:37,240 Speaker 1: services quite a bit. He sees that as a non 106 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:41,560 Speaker 1: starter for the United States, Britain and France, and pointing 107 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:46,560 Speaker 1: out that Macrone tried to just incrementally, just a tiny bit, 108 00:05:47,279 --> 00:05:49,920 Speaker 1: raise the age of when you get to your benefits 109 00:05:49,960 --> 00:05:52,760 Speaker 1: there in France, and he has been dead in the 110 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:55,000 Speaker 1: water as a political force ever since. 111 00:05:55,040 --> 00:05:55,240 Speaker 2: Then. 112 00:05:55,560 --> 00:05:58,360 Speaker 1: Look well, grandfather, it in over fifty years and the 113 00:05:58,400 --> 00:05:59,400 Speaker 1: people in crazy. 114 00:05:59,640 --> 00:05:59,919 Speaker 2: Yeah. 115 00:06:00,200 --> 00:06:02,680 Speaker 1: And he said the third way, which might be what 116 00:06:02,839 --> 00:06:06,320 Speaker 1: happens but will be awful, is you inflate your way 117 00:06:06,360 --> 00:06:08,839 Speaker 1: out of it. So if you have any debts, for instance, 118 00:06:08,880 --> 00:06:12,560 Speaker 1: like if you owed, say you bought a car five 119 00:06:12,680 --> 00:06:15,520 Speaker 1: years ago on payments for six years. 120 00:06:16,160 --> 00:06:19,159 Speaker 2: This has been great for you, the inflation because you know, sixty. 121 00:06:18,880 --> 00:06:21,359 Speaker 1: Thousand dollars on a car, this is can see thousand 122 00:06:21,400 --> 00:06:24,920 Speaker 1: dollars ain't worth what it used to be, right, as 123 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:27,400 Speaker 1: long as your wages a re but yeah, way back 124 00:06:27,400 --> 00:06:30,279 Speaker 1: to yeah. But so that's the way that works. You 125 00:06:30,279 --> 00:06:33,080 Speaker 1: can inflate yourself out of these situations where the debt 126 00:06:33,400 --> 00:06:35,520 Speaker 1: just doesn't it's not as big a number. The met 127 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:38,120 Speaker 1: number isn't as big as it seems because inflation is 128 00:06:38,200 --> 00:06:40,720 Speaker 1: hit so much. The problem of course being is all 129 00:06:40,760 --> 00:06:43,480 Speaker 1: of our savings and investments and everything that we've built 130 00:06:43,480 --> 00:06:46,799 Speaker 1: and everything like that just gets eaten up by inflation, 131 00:06:46,880 --> 00:06:50,240 Speaker 1: and we're miserable. Inflation is a tax, and it's intentional. 132 00:06:50,400 --> 00:06:52,400 Speaker 1: But he thinks that might be the most likely thing 133 00:06:52,400 --> 00:06:54,720 Speaker 1: that these three countries do to get themselves out of it. 134 00:06:55,080 --> 00:06:57,080 Speaker 1: I guarantee it their way out of it. And it 135 00:06:57,160 --> 00:07:01,880 Speaker 1: makes me We've we've used the term sangry again. It 136 00:07:01,920 --> 00:07:06,599 Speaker 1: makes you sad and angry, but I'm also sickened secangered, 137 00:07:08,600 --> 00:07:11,480 Speaker 1: because that's exactly what's happening. So you put away, you've 138 00:07:11,520 --> 00:07:13,160 Speaker 1: you've managed to put away a quarter million a half 139 00:07:13,160 --> 00:07:15,560 Speaker 1: million million whatever in your four one can investments or whatever. 140 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:17,560 Speaker 2: Through your whole life, you're to your house. 141 00:07:18,840 --> 00:07:21,720 Speaker 1: All that, and it's not worth there as much as 142 00:07:21,760 --> 00:07:23,240 Speaker 1: you thought it was a million dollars. Ain't when a 143 00:07:23,240 --> 00:07:26,120 Speaker 1: million dollars was even close by the time you retire. 144 00:07:26,280 --> 00:07:27,600 Speaker 2: So that's nice. 145 00:07:27,960 --> 00:07:30,080 Speaker 1: Here's a bitter pill to swallow, as if you haven't 146 00:07:30,080 --> 00:07:32,600 Speaker 1: given you enough. Well, it's not that bitter. It's it's 147 00:07:32,640 --> 00:07:36,920 Speaker 1: the it's the kind of neutral tasting pill of reality. 148 00:07:37,680 --> 00:07:40,360 Speaker 1: It's like you're a daily vitamin. It's not bad. I 149 00:07:40,360 --> 00:07:42,440 Speaker 1: wouldn't eat them like as a snack. Oh I do, 150 00:07:42,520 --> 00:07:45,280 Speaker 1: flintstone vitamins are delivered to you. Well, that explains why 151 00:07:45,320 --> 00:07:53,520 Speaker 1: you're so robust anyway. Uh, the founding Pappas absolutely did 152 00:07:53,560 --> 00:08:00,120 Speaker 1: not want a democracy because democracies don't work. Human being 153 00:08:00,920 --> 00:08:05,760 Speaker 1: as a whole don't have nearly the sense of responsibility 154 00:08:06,720 --> 00:08:09,840 Speaker 1: to do the right thing. If, for instance, they discovered 155 00:08:09,880 --> 00:08:12,440 Speaker 1: they can vote themselves money from the treasury, it won't work. 156 00:08:12,520 --> 00:08:16,800 Speaker 1: It can't work. Human nature doesn't change. That's why they 157 00:08:16,840 --> 00:08:19,840 Speaker 1: designed a republic. Yes, the sort that they did. I 158 00:08:19,880 --> 00:08:21,640 Speaker 1: was kind of thinking about this last night. I was 159 00:08:21,720 --> 00:08:24,720 Speaker 1: watching the What's the Lightning movie. I'm watching about Garfield 160 00:08:24,920 --> 00:08:28,200 Speaker 1: by Lightning, Yes, about the assassination of President Garfield, and 161 00:08:28,240 --> 00:08:30,840 Speaker 1: it's really really good so far. I'm several episodes end 162 00:08:31,200 --> 00:08:34,800 Speaker 1: really well put together, pretty interesting movie. And so I 163 00:08:34,840 --> 00:08:36,880 Speaker 1: was having the thought that a lot of people point out, look, 164 00:08:36,920 --> 00:08:39,400 Speaker 1: our politics have always been ugly, and the politics are 165 00:08:39,400 --> 00:08:43,079 Speaker 1: certainly ugly there. I mean Chester A Arthur, who ends 166 00:08:43,160 --> 00:08:46,480 Speaker 1: up president, was beaten people in the streets to get 167 00:08:46,559 --> 00:08:48,840 Speaker 1: them to donate money or come over to their side. 168 00:08:48,880 --> 00:08:53,160 Speaker 1: I mean, that's really something. But was the populace as 169 00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:57,800 Speaker 1: bad as it is now and as immoral or or 170 00:08:58,320 --> 00:09:04,840 Speaker 1: maybe if you don't like that term short term minded selfish? 171 00:09:05,200 --> 00:09:09,360 Speaker 1: Was the population of the country as selfish and self 172 00:09:09,400 --> 00:09:13,120 Speaker 1: centered and short term thinking back in the day as 173 00:09:13,120 --> 00:09:13,680 Speaker 1: they are now? 174 00:09:13,840 --> 00:09:15,320 Speaker 2: I don't think that's probably true. 175 00:09:16,080 --> 00:09:19,720 Speaker 1: Oh, I think it's probably I think we're probably a 176 00:09:19,760 --> 00:09:23,040 Speaker 1: better society of voters back in the day, even though 177 00:09:23,080 --> 00:09:26,599 Speaker 1: the government. My point being, the people always hit you 178 00:09:26,640 --> 00:09:29,080 Speaker 1: with politics has always been ugly. People like act like 179 00:09:29,120 --> 00:09:32,680 Speaker 1: it's new that politics are ugly. True, But has the 180 00:09:32,720 --> 00:09:37,720 Speaker 1: population the voters been better people throughout our nation's history 181 00:09:37,760 --> 00:09:38,320 Speaker 1: than they are now? 182 00:09:38,400 --> 00:09:39,600 Speaker 2: And I think that might be true. 183 00:09:40,160 --> 00:09:43,960 Speaker 1: Here's the way I would answer that that proposition I 184 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:47,960 Speaker 1: have in you know, certainly on the air with you, 185 00:09:48,720 --> 00:09:51,120 Speaker 1: and many many times in my personal life, made the 186 00:09:51,240 --> 00:09:56,520 Speaker 1: argument that spending our children and grandchildren's money through overspending 187 00:09:56,559 --> 00:09:59,560 Speaker 1: and accumulating more debt that they will have to take 188 00:09:59,600 --> 00:10:02,800 Speaker 1: care of, whether through inflation or higher taxes or whatever, 189 00:10:03,200 --> 00:10:06,400 Speaker 1: is utterly immoral. It is theft from the young and 190 00:10:06,440 --> 00:10:13,400 Speaker 1: the unborn. I have never once encountered anyone who's contradicted. 191 00:10:12,720 --> 00:10:14,760 Speaker 2: That in any way. 192 00:10:15,280 --> 00:10:20,480 Speaker 1: It is perhaps the most black and white, irresistible, undeniable 193 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:23,160 Speaker 1: moral argument I have ever heard in politics. 194 00:10:23,600 --> 00:10:25,199 Speaker 2: And yet nobody cares. 195 00:10:26,480 --> 00:10:30,360 Speaker 1: Nobody either people don't think about that in a widespread way, 196 00:10:30,640 --> 00:10:32,280 Speaker 1: or nobody cares. 197 00:10:32,840 --> 00:10:36,360 Speaker 2: That says we are an immoral people. It doesn't. 198 00:10:36,880 --> 00:10:40,160 Speaker 1: You don't need a degree in economics to understand what 199 00:10:40,200 --> 00:10:41,240 Speaker 1: I'm trying to say. 200 00:10:41,800 --> 00:10:43,440 Speaker 2: Anybody can understand it. 201 00:10:43,840 --> 00:10:46,000 Speaker 1: If we lived in a system where when I die, 202 00:10:46,080 --> 00:10:49,040 Speaker 1: my debts are passed on to my children, and I 203 00:10:49,200 --> 00:10:53,840 Speaker 1: lived like a lunatic, greedy, selfish lunatic, and people would say, 204 00:10:53,840 --> 00:10:56,800 Speaker 1: over and over again, Joe, your kids and their children 205 00:10:56,840 --> 00:10:58,640 Speaker 1: are gonna have to take care of this, that you've 206 00:10:58,679 --> 00:11:02,560 Speaker 1: got to stop. One hundred percent of people would say I. 207 00:11:02,480 --> 00:11:03,240 Speaker 2: Was a monster. 208 00:11:03,800 --> 00:11:07,040 Speaker 1: But when it's on a societal level, people don't act 209 00:11:07,080 --> 00:11:09,520 Speaker 1: like they don't even comprehend it, or they get convinced 210 00:11:09,520 --> 00:11:12,480 Speaker 1: that you know, they're trying to bats the ballance the 211 00:11:12,520 --> 00:11:14,720 Speaker 1: budget on your back. You deserve all those stuff, the 212 00:11:14,720 --> 00:11:16,679 Speaker 1: things you're getting, and guess what my party will give 213 00:11:16,720 --> 00:11:20,480 Speaker 1: you more. People's greed overcomes any sense of morality that 214 00:11:20,520 --> 00:11:24,120 Speaker 1: they have. Your democracy can't work if your debt passed 215 00:11:24,160 --> 00:11:26,440 Speaker 1: on to your kids and you bought like a really 216 00:11:26,480 --> 00:11:30,000 Speaker 1: big house and you're seventy five years old and a 217 00:11:30,679 --> 00:11:33,679 Speaker 1: crazy fancy car you can't afford, knowing that they'll have 218 00:11:33,720 --> 00:11:36,680 Speaker 1: to pay for it, that would make you a really 219 00:11:36,800 --> 00:11:37,560 Speaker 1: bad person. 220 00:11:37,840 --> 00:11:39,760 Speaker 2: People would despise you. 221 00:11:39,679 --> 00:11:43,640 Speaker 1: Right, But we absolutely are doing that just as a generation. 222 00:11:44,600 --> 00:11:45,400 Speaker 2: It's the populous. 223 00:11:45,480 --> 00:11:50,439 Speaker 1: Yeah, we're buying whatever a dollar eighty worth of government 224 00:11:50,640 --> 00:11:54,960 Speaker 1: for a dollar's worth of taxes and helping the next 225 00:11:54,960 --> 00:11:58,120 Speaker 1: generations figure it out. You know, live in a crab 226 00:11:58,160 --> 00:12:01,240 Speaker 1: your country, that's your throw our way out of it, 227 00:12:01,320 --> 00:12:03,439 Speaker 1: or inflate our way out of it. Monarchy, Now that's 228 00:12:03,480 --> 00:12:06,360 Speaker 1: what I say. I'm ready to rule over you. As 229 00:12:06,400 --> 00:12:08,400 Speaker 1: your wives and benevolent King. Michael, you want to be 230 00:12:08,400 --> 00:12:11,120 Speaker 1: an ambassador to somewhere you name the place. 231 00:12:12,120 --> 00:12:14,079 Speaker 2: Hmm, how about Costa Rica. 232 00:12:14,200 --> 00:12:17,800 Speaker 1: It's a nun done. You'll love it. The beach is amazing. 233 00:12:17,800 --> 00:12:22,360 Speaker 1: The monkey's so many monkeys. I am going to vow 234 00:12:22,480 --> 00:12:23,920 Speaker 1: for the rest of the show since that was a 235 00:12:23,960 --> 00:12:25,880 Speaker 1: real downer that I'm not going to do any more 236 00:12:25,920 --> 00:12:28,520 Speaker 1: downerrism the rest of this show on a Friday. Yeah, 237 00:12:28,600 --> 00:12:32,119 Speaker 1: you go ahead, man, be pebby whistle past the Graveyard, Pollyanna. 238 00:12:32,600 --> 00:12:35,760 Speaker 1: I've got the complete list of organizations that the US 239 00:12:35,840 --> 00:12:38,200 Speaker 1: dropped out of Marco Rudi announced that the other day. 240 00:12:38,360 --> 00:12:39,960 Speaker 1: Some of them are going to be pretty sure I 241 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:41,640 Speaker 1: made up, but I swear I won't cool. 242 00:12:41,880 --> 00:12:47,880 Speaker 2: Lots of good stuff on the waist here breaking news. 243 00:12:47,920 --> 00:12:51,800 Speaker 1: The sheriff of Philadelphia said she will arrest ICE agents 244 00:12:51,960 --> 00:12:56,080 Speaker 1: for being in Philadelphia. You don't want this smoke, she says. 245 00:12:56,760 --> 00:13:00,840 Speaker 1: More on that, won't More on that coming up. We're 246 00:13:00,880 --> 00:13:06,720 Speaker 1: done here. We're through got local sheriffs threatening to arrest 247 00:13:06,760 --> 00:13:10,880 Speaker 1: federal agents. Sweet mother of God. If this was a 248 00:13:10,880 --> 00:13:12,880 Speaker 1: different country, I would be on the edge of my seat. 249 00:13:13,240 --> 00:13:15,040 Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, you would think and you would think 250 00:13:15,080 --> 00:13:18,520 Speaker 1: it was falling apart, definitely, speaking of insane. So Marco 251 00:13:18,640 --> 00:13:21,840 Speaker 1: Rubio announced in is one of his many capacities, this 252 00:13:21,880 --> 00:13:24,280 Speaker 1: is Secretary of State that the US was pulling out 253 00:13:24,280 --> 00:13:30,280 Speaker 1: of a bunch of globalist organizations, self important globalist drifters. 254 00:13:30,320 --> 00:13:36,120 Speaker 1: According to this author, sounds right, yeah, yeah, really. And 255 00:13:36,240 --> 00:13:41,160 Speaker 1: I don't have the typical red meaty, current right wing 256 00:13:41,320 --> 00:13:43,600 Speaker 1: view of foreign aid that a lot of people do, 257 00:13:44,880 --> 00:13:48,040 Speaker 1: because I have a real, real politic view of the world. 258 00:13:48,320 --> 00:13:51,560 Speaker 1: Some friends you have because of ideology, some because they're 259 00:13:51,600 --> 00:13:53,840 Speaker 1: scared of you, and some because you bribe them. And 260 00:13:53,880 --> 00:13:56,679 Speaker 1: that's part of foreign policy. And it's okay to bribe people. 261 00:13:56,679 --> 00:13:59,480 Speaker 1: It's part of the world anyway. But some of it's dumb. 262 00:14:00,200 --> 00:14:02,760 Speaker 1: A lot of it's just stupid and a way outlived 263 00:14:02,800 --> 00:14:06,400 Speaker 1: its usefulness as a bribe years ago. How many of 264 00:14:06,440 --> 00:14:09,160 Speaker 1: these organizations strike you as like the Human Fund from 265 00:14:09,200 --> 00:14:12,960 Speaker 1: Seinfeld or or just a joke, here we go, Here 266 00:14:13,120 --> 00:14:16,400 Speaker 1: are the global organizations the US has just pulled out 267 00:14:16,400 --> 00:14:19,840 Speaker 1: of the twenty four to seven carbon Free Energy Compact. 268 00:14:20,280 --> 00:14:22,480 Speaker 1: So maybe somebody can, on the fingers of one or 269 00:14:22,520 --> 00:14:26,800 Speaker 1: two hands, count how many like vaguely environmental organizations. I'm 270 00:14:26,840 --> 00:14:29,360 Speaker 1: sure they did lots of good. We've gotten off to 271 00:14:29,400 --> 00:14:35,720 Speaker 1: a good start. The Colombo Plan Council. What will we 272 00:14:35,760 --> 00:14:39,400 Speaker 1: do without them? The Commission for Environmental Cooperation. Oh, that's 273 00:14:39,440 --> 00:14:45,640 Speaker 1: two of the first three. Education cannot wait. The European Century. 274 00:14:45,920 --> 00:14:49,320 Speaker 1: They spelled center wrong, The European Center for Excellence for 275 00:14:49,400 --> 00:14:55,240 Speaker 1: Countering Hybrid Threats. The Forum of Europe, European National Highway 276 00:14:55,280 --> 00:15:00,280 Speaker 1: Research Laboratories, the Freedom Online Coalition. Oh, that's the Human 277 00:15:00,560 --> 00:15:04,720 Speaker 1: Human Fund right there. The Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund, 278 00:15:05,280 --> 00:15:09,000 Speaker 1: the Global counter Terrorism Forum, the Global Forum on Cyber Expertise, 279 00:15:09,040 --> 00:15:12,200 Speaker 1: the Global Forum on Migration and Development. That one might 280 00:15:12,240 --> 00:15:16,280 Speaker 1: be worth studying. Inter American Institute for Global Change Research. 281 00:15:17,920 --> 00:15:21,080 Speaker 1: These could be really these It could be groups that 282 00:15:21,120 --> 00:15:22,640 Speaker 1: do a lot of good and really mean it, or 283 00:15:22,640 --> 00:15:27,600 Speaker 1: they could just be complete fraud and it'd be very Yeah, 284 00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:29,280 Speaker 1: they're like five dozen of these things, so I'm gonna 285 00:15:29,280 --> 00:15:32,800 Speaker 1: have to skip around a little bit. The Intergovernmental Panel 286 00:15:32,840 --> 00:15:33,640 Speaker 1: on Climate Change. 287 00:15:33,640 --> 00:15:35,120 Speaker 2: Whoops, there's all. There's another one. 288 00:15:35,560 --> 00:15:40,560 Speaker 1: The inter Governmental Science Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. 289 00:15:42,360 --> 00:15:44,560 Speaker 1: None of this is at all redundant. Of course, all 290 00:15:44,600 --> 00:15:47,800 Speaker 1: of these have to exist in as independent entities with 291 00:15:47,840 --> 00:15:49,520 Speaker 1: their own staff and building and the rest of it. 292 00:15:49,800 --> 00:15:52,560 Speaker 1: International Center for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration 293 00:15:52,600 --> 00:15:59,240 Speaker 1: of Cultural Property, International Cotton Advisory Committee, International Development Law Organization, 294 00:15:59,320 --> 00:16:03,400 Speaker 1: International Energy Forum, International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies, 295 00:16:03,680 --> 00:16:07,640 Speaker 1: International Institute of Democracy and Electoral Assistance. It's the International 296 00:16:07,640 --> 00:16:10,280 Speaker 1: Institute for Justice in the Rule of Law. Here's one 297 00:16:10,320 --> 00:16:12,960 Speaker 1: of my favorites. I applied to these people like four times. 298 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:17,240 Speaker 1: Couldn't get a gig. The International Led and Zinc Study Group. 299 00:16:20,120 --> 00:16:21,320 Speaker 1: I'm a zinc specialist. 300 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:22,200 Speaker 2: Man. 301 00:16:22,400 --> 00:16:24,960 Speaker 1: If all of these just disappeared overnight, would anybody on 302 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:27,840 Speaker 1: the planet other than the people who work there notice? 303 00:16:28,240 --> 00:16:32,000 Speaker 1: And just environmental crap? Phony environmental crap. The International Renewable 304 00:16:32,040 --> 00:16:35,760 Speaker 1: Energy Agency, the International Solar Alliance. Why don't you do something? Still, 305 00:16:35,800 --> 00:16:39,280 Speaker 1: start a restaurant or something, do something. International Union for 306 00:16:39,320 --> 00:16:41,920 Speaker 1: Conservation of Nature, which I'm in favor of. But come on, 307 00:16:42,720 --> 00:16:46,280 Speaker 1: let's see there, oh, a Renewable Energy Policy Network for 308 00:16:46,320 --> 00:16:51,560 Speaker 1: the twenty first century. Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environmental 309 00:16:51,600 --> 00:16:55,360 Speaker 1: Program program spelled with two MS and an E and 310 00:16:55,400 --> 00:16:57,720 Speaker 1: how many total did we pull out of I just 311 00:16:57,760 --> 00:16:59,720 Speaker 1: got like a third of the way. I think it 312 00:16:59,760 --> 00:17:01,600 Speaker 1: was sixty six or something. 313 00:17:01,680 --> 00:17:05,040 Speaker 2: That's awesome. That's awesome. God, it goes on and on 314 00:17:05,080 --> 00:17:05,480 Speaker 2: and on. 315 00:17:05,920 --> 00:17:08,760 Speaker 1: I'm sure Trump Peters portray that as just awful that 316 00:17:08,760 --> 00:17:12,920 Speaker 1: we're no longer involved in those organizations isolationists. So no boy, 317 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:15,919 Speaker 1: Russia did something provocative yesterday, among other things on the way. 318 00:17:16,320 --> 00:17:20,639 Speaker 4: And President Trump telling the New York Times that the 319 00:17:20,760 --> 00:17:24,479 Speaker 4: US will be running Venezuela for quote much longer than 320 00:17:24,520 --> 00:17:27,480 Speaker 4: a year. He also is not ruling out putting American 321 00:17:27,560 --> 00:17:28,680 Speaker 4: troops on the ground. 322 00:17:29,640 --> 00:17:31,399 Speaker 2: How does MAGA feel about that? 323 00:17:31,640 --> 00:17:34,639 Speaker 1: Peggy Noonan and the Wall Street Journal has some interesting 324 00:17:35,040 --> 00:17:41,439 Speaker 1: thoughts we'll get to in just a second. We just 325 00:17:41,600 --> 00:17:47,080 Speaker 1: grabbed a couple more oil tankers that are involved with 326 00:17:47,240 --> 00:17:50,880 Speaker 1: Russia getting oil from Venezuela. That is making Russia really mad. 327 00:17:50,960 --> 00:17:56,280 Speaker 1: So all of this stuff ties together. And speaking of Russia, 328 00:17:56,400 --> 00:17:59,320 Speaker 1: this was the breaking news last night. Russia appears to 329 00:17:59,440 --> 00:18:03,720 Speaker 1: use new capable missile in Ukraine. If confirmed, the use 330 00:18:03,760 --> 00:18:06,199 Speaker 1: of the missile would be an ominous threat to Ukraine 331 00:18:06,240 --> 00:18:10,080 Speaker 1: and its Western allies, according to writers for The New 332 00:18:10,160 --> 00:18:11,119 Speaker 1: York Times. 333 00:18:13,359 --> 00:18:15,440 Speaker 2: Is it a big deal or not? I guess. 334 00:18:16,720 --> 00:18:21,960 Speaker 1: The noises they're making out of Russia would lead me 335 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:23,480 Speaker 1: to believe that they're hoping. 336 00:18:23,240 --> 00:18:23,960 Speaker 2: It's a big deal. 337 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:27,199 Speaker 1: I mean, they did that on purpose, is to make it, 338 00:18:27,280 --> 00:18:30,800 Speaker 1: you know, seem all threaty and whatnot. Yeah, I guess 339 00:18:30,840 --> 00:18:33,480 Speaker 1: it's the second use of that hypersonic missile that they've 340 00:18:33,480 --> 00:18:37,159 Speaker 1: been working on. The Russian Defense Ministry said that it 341 00:18:37,359 --> 00:18:41,240 Speaker 1: had struck Ukraine with a nuclear capable intermediate range ballistic 342 00:18:41,320 --> 00:18:45,680 Speaker 1: missile and ominous warning by President Putin of Russia as 343 00:18:45,840 --> 00:18:49,000 Speaker 1: US led negotiations to end the war have gained steam, 344 00:18:49,800 --> 00:18:55,040 Speaker 1: with Witkoff and Jared Kushner seeming to be more in 345 00:18:55,080 --> 00:18:59,560 Speaker 1: favor of the United States getting involved in some sort 346 00:18:59,560 --> 00:19:01,639 Speaker 1: of secure guarantee, which seemed like it was off the 347 00:19:01,640 --> 00:19:03,960 Speaker 1: table to me a couple of weeks ago. Russia said 348 00:19:04,160 --> 00:19:07,119 Speaker 1: that it used this missile, known as the Orshnik, and 349 00:19:07,200 --> 00:19:10,520 Speaker 1: other weapons to hit drone making and energy infrastructure in Ukraine. 350 00:19:10,720 --> 00:19:14,520 Speaker 1: Explosions were reported early today near the western city of 351 00:19:14,680 --> 00:19:19,520 Speaker 1: Lev after the Ukrainian military warned of a potential missile launch. 352 00:19:20,080 --> 00:19:22,679 Speaker 1: The Russian Defense Ministry called to strike a response to 353 00:19:22,720 --> 00:19:25,960 Speaker 1: an attempted Ukrainian attack last month on one of mister 354 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:28,480 Speaker 1: Putin's homes. Now, I don't know if you've been following 355 00:19:28,480 --> 00:19:30,680 Speaker 1: this story. This was going on during the whole Christmas 356 00:19:30,720 --> 00:19:32,639 Speaker 1: break thing, and maybe you missed it or and we 357 00:19:32,640 --> 00:19:36,440 Speaker 1: weren't on the air. But Putin claimed that Ukraine tried 358 00:19:36,440 --> 00:19:39,720 Speaker 1: to hit his house. When I first heard that, I thought, okay, 359 00:19:39,960 --> 00:19:42,600 Speaker 1: if they did, was that off limits? You hit everybody's 360 00:19:42,600 --> 00:19:45,159 Speaker 1: houses if you could hit right. I mean, you had 361 00:19:45,240 --> 00:19:49,840 Speaker 1: hot houses, schools, people waiting to bus stops, maternity wards, 362 00:19:49,880 --> 00:19:51,760 Speaker 1: all kinds of things, So why would it be out 363 00:19:51,800 --> 00:19:53,320 Speaker 1: of bounds to try to hit your house. 364 00:19:53,880 --> 00:19:55,760 Speaker 2: But anyway, Ukraine says to me, you. 365 00:19:55,680 --> 00:19:58,800 Speaker 1: Don't see a lot of even handedness among these bulligerent dictators. 366 00:20:00,160 --> 00:20:03,680 Speaker 1: But Ukraine said that they didn't try to hit Putin's house. 367 00:20:03,880 --> 00:20:07,119 Speaker 1: That's a lie, And US intelligence agencies have concluded that 368 00:20:07,160 --> 00:20:10,440 Speaker 1: there's no evidence that there was an attack on Putin's house. Also, 369 00:20:10,560 --> 00:20:13,199 Speaker 1: so he's just going around saying that to you know, 370 00:20:13,359 --> 00:20:17,639 Speaker 1: it's what he does to have reasons for things. But 371 00:20:18,359 --> 00:20:21,200 Speaker 1: in a statement today, the Ukrainian Air Force reported the 372 00:20:21,240 --> 00:20:24,480 Speaker 1: threat of a launch from a Russian strategic nuclear testing 373 00:20:24,640 --> 00:20:28,600 Speaker 1: site near the Caspian Sea. So, as always, this thing 374 00:20:28,640 --> 00:20:30,760 Speaker 1: seems like it could be heating up and getting really 375 00:20:30,760 --> 00:20:34,480 Speaker 1: really jazzy. So that leads me to this between whether 376 00:20:34,600 --> 00:20:37,239 Speaker 1: we get whether we're getting involved in Ukraine, Russia, or 377 00:20:37,280 --> 00:20:40,240 Speaker 1: what we're doing in Venezuela or whatever. Peggy Noonan wrote this, 378 00:20:40,280 --> 00:20:44,239 Speaker 1: and I thought it was pretty darned interesting, because what 379 00:20:44,320 --> 00:20:46,840 Speaker 1: Trump get about eighty million votes, something like seventy two 380 00:20:46,880 --> 00:20:49,320 Speaker 1: million votes, whatever he got, I don't think a single 381 00:20:49,480 --> 00:20:55,120 Speaker 1: voter was thinking. And I sure hope we start attacking Venezuela. 382 00:20:53,880 --> 00:20:54,800 Speaker 2: When they do it. 383 00:20:54,920 --> 00:20:58,159 Speaker 1: And Trump's been famously a you know, we can't get 384 00:20:58,240 --> 00:21:00,960 Speaker 1: involved in these fever wars sort of guy Peggy Newton, 385 00:21:01,040 --> 00:21:07,160 Speaker 1: right Newton writing Trumpian Republicans came to hate what they 386 00:21:07,200 --> 00:21:10,919 Speaker 1: call forever wars. What they really hated is what we 387 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:15,840 Speaker 1: have called them in this space, long unwon wars, which 388 00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:17,959 Speaker 1: is a better right. That's a much better term than 389 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:22,080 Speaker 1: forever wars. Long unwon wars that bled blood and treasure 390 00:21:22,119 --> 00:21:24,760 Speaker 1: for years and yielded nothing. That was what they hated, 391 00:21:24,960 --> 00:21:27,040 Speaker 1: All that loss and nothing good coming out of it. 392 00:21:27,119 --> 00:21:31,320 Speaker 1: Capped off by Afghanistan, where our aircraft and vehicles abandoned 393 00:21:31,320 --> 00:21:33,440 Speaker 1: to the people. We went there to fight the Taliban 394 00:21:33,680 --> 00:21:37,080 Speaker 1: as they took charge. That is what Donald Trump supporters hate. 395 00:21:37,440 --> 00:21:40,399 Speaker 1: If this is a war in Venezuela, for instance, if 396 00:21:40,480 --> 00:21:44,960 Speaker 1: this works in quotes, however that looks Trump voters will 397 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:45,800 Speaker 1: be happy about that. 398 00:21:45,920 --> 00:21:46,399 Speaker 2: It wasn't. 399 00:21:46,480 --> 00:21:50,600 Speaker 1: The act of being in a military involvement knows whether 400 00:21:50,640 --> 00:21:51,800 Speaker 1: or not we are getting anything out. 401 00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:54,240 Speaker 2: Of it, which I think she's right. Yeah, I think 402 00:21:54,280 --> 00:21:56,560 Speaker 2: the whole Oh they voted against Forever Wars. 403 00:21:56,680 --> 00:21:59,720 Speaker 1: Wait a minute, they had a special operations operation that 404 00:21:59,760 --> 00:22:02,200 Speaker 1: went in, went out, accomplished its mission. No one was lost. 405 00:22:02,480 --> 00:22:05,239 Speaker 1: What are you talking about, even m I just tell 406 00:22:05,400 --> 00:22:07,960 Speaker 1: dumb a lot of our politics and journalism are I 407 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:13,040 Speaker 1: will tell you the future of Venezuela is wildly uncertain. 408 00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:15,800 Speaker 1: And you know, one interesting aspect of this is Trump 409 00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:17,679 Speaker 1: says it's all about the oil. We're gonna bring in 410 00:22:17,680 --> 00:22:20,800 Speaker 1: the American companies. We're gonna make of Venezuelan oil great again. 411 00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:23,280 Speaker 1: Blah blah blah. All the big oil companies are like 412 00:22:23,600 --> 00:22:25,600 Speaker 1: have now rushed to the White House. I think today 413 00:22:25,640 --> 00:22:27,560 Speaker 1: they have a meeting with Trump where they're going to 414 00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:31,560 Speaker 1: tell them, Uh, that would take like billions of dollars 415 00:22:31,560 --> 00:22:35,919 Speaker 1: in a decade or two to really get going and 416 00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:39,280 Speaker 1: the commedies are still in charge, so we have no 417 00:22:39,440 --> 00:22:42,000 Speaker 1: interest in that. And that sort of oil is a 418 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:45,040 Speaker 1: little more difficult to extract and refine in the rest 419 00:22:45,040 --> 00:22:45,199 Speaker 1: of it. 420 00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:49,160 Speaker 2: Two. But they're like a no, thank you. So where 421 00:22:49,160 --> 00:22:50,160 Speaker 2: that goes nobody knows. 422 00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:55,600 Speaker 1: So the Senate voted yesterday fifty two forty seven that 423 00:22:56,240 --> 00:22:58,960 Speaker 1: Trump shouldn't be able to do more military operations in 424 00:22:59,040 --> 00:23:01,159 Speaker 1: Venezuela without congressional approval. 425 00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:02,639 Speaker 2: That's got to go to the House. 426 00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:06,879 Speaker 1: But you did have five Republicans joined the Democrats yesterday 427 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:10,160 Speaker 1: in the Senate for that to pass. And Trump called 428 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:13,120 Speaker 1: them traders and that said that they should somebody should 429 00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:15,520 Speaker 1: run against them and all that sort of stuff. I 430 00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:17,080 Speaker 1: don't know if it passes the House or not. And 431 00:23:17,080 --> 00:23:18,840 Speaker 1: then I suppose Trump would veto what even if it 432 00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:23,840 Speaker 1: even if it did pass. In a different country, Iran, 433 00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:25,879 Speaker 1: you got this going on overseas. 434 00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:30,480 Speaker 5: Iranian protesters have intensified nationwide demonstrations over the past twenty 435 00:23:30,520 --> 00:23:33,560 Speaker 5: four hours. They are directly appealing to President Trump while 436 00:23:33,640 --> 00:23:37,399 Speaker 5: chanting anti regime slogans. Video now shows a protester in 437 00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:42,360 Speaker 5: Tehran symbolically renaming a street after Trump. Other videos captured 438 00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:46,119 Speaker 5: handwritten appeals reading don't let them kill us. 439 00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:46,480 Speaker 2: Yeah. 440 00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:49,199 Speaker 1: I was listened to a reporter and Iranian reporter yesterday 441 00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:53,560 Speaker 1: and he's anti the government there on a British podcast 442 00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:55,880 Speaker 1: that I really really like, and he said there are 443 00:23:55,960 --> 00:23:59,040 Speaker 1: lots of towns around Iran that have named streets after Trump. 444 00:23:59,560 --> 00:24:01,880 Speaker 2: Yeah, isn't that something? It really is. 445 00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:05,439 Speaker 1: It helps the leadership to a certain extent, you know, 446 00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:10,119 Speaker 1: claim that it's United States belligerents leading this protests or whatever. 447 00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:10,440 Speaker 2: The hell. 448 00:24:10,880 --> 00:24:13,639 Speaker 1: Trey yinst of Fox with more on what's going on 449 00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:14,080 Speaker 1: in Iran. 450 00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:17,960 Speaker 6: Internet service was cut off or partially restricted in major 451 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:22,520 Speaker 6: Iranian cities, including the capital of Tehran, as leadership there 452 00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:27,200 Speaker 6: tried to quell growing protests. Further East, Iranian protesters destroyed 453 00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:31,000 Speaker 6: their country's flag in Iran's second largest city, Mashad. 454 00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:33,720 Speaker 2: I know. 455 00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:37,520 Speaker 1: Elon said that he was going to get starlink in 456 00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:39,879 Speaker 1: there so that they would have internet. 457 00:24:40,080 --> 00:24:41,920 Speaker 2: I don't know if that hasn't. 458 00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:43,679 Speaker 1: Worked or not worked as well as he wanted, or 459 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:46,679 Speaker 1: he failed or what, but that was his plan. He 460 00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:50,119 Speaker 1: announced that earlier in the week to because you know, 461 00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:53,720 Speaker 1: obviously that's what all regimes do. They shut off the internet. 462 00:24:53,840 --> 00:24:59,360 Speaker 1: So that's up in space. How can the Mullason revolutionary 463 00:24:59,359 --> 00:25:01,840 Speaker 1: cards stop that. They can't even stop Israeli agents from 464 00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:04,439 Speaker 1: coming to their homes and snatching them up and putting 465 00:25:04,440 --> 00:25:05,359 Speaker 1: bullets in their heads. 466 00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:07,720 Speaker 2: Right. It's something, isn't it? 467 00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:10,240 Speaker 1: That there's one guy on planet Earth that can say, nah, 468 00:25:10,280 --> 00:25:13,760 Speaker 1: you're going to have Internet and do it in Ukraine 469 00:25:13,840 --> 00:25:15,879 Speaker 1: or Iran or wherever he decides to do it. And 470 00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:18,160 Speaker 1: there are a couple of big name competitors. I think 471 00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:22,840 Speaker 1: Amazon and Google are both going hardcore into competing with 472 00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:25,600 Speaker 1: starlink as well, so that's sort of system's going to 473 00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:29,719 Speaker 1: be pretty ubiquitous. China's one. I'm interested in what happens 474 00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:32,400 Speaker 1: when people can just get a little clandestine receiver there 475 00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:34,960 Speaker 1: and hook up to the old starlink roney. I'm sure 476 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:37,720 Speaker 1: the Chinese commedies will crack down on that as hard 477 00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:39,879 Speaker 1: as they can, but they're afraid of the Internet and 478 00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:43,520 Speaker 1: they're terrified of AI going forward. Before we get to 479 00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:46,480 Speaker 1: what Trump said again about Iran, here's Richard Engele of 480 00:25:46,560 --> 00:25:50,240 Speaker 1: NBC News on the hopefully revolution that's happening in Iran. 481 00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:53,919 Speaker 7: Hundreds of thousands of anti government demonstrators are on the 482 00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:58,080 Speaker 7: streets in multiple cities, including the capital Tehran, and they're 483 00:25:58,080 --> 00:26:02,560 Speaker 7: pushing hard and tearing up in flags, setting fires, and 484 00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:07,119 Speaker 7: in some cases confronting the feared security forces. The economy 485 00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:11,240 Speaker 7: is collapsing with inflation and a currency crisis. The Internet 486 00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:14,200 Speaker 7: appears to have been completely blacked out across large parts 487 00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:16,879 Speaker 7: of Iran, a sign of how seriously the government is 488 00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:17,240 Speaker 7: taking this. 489 00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:21,400 Speaker 1: It always worth pointing out, I think to our and 490 00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:24,400 Speaker 1: none of this crowd is listening to our show. Probably, 491 00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:30,919 Speaker 1: But you flipping pampered, grew up rich, went to a 492 00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:35,320 Speaker 1: fancy college American college students who bravely go on the 493 00:26:35,359 --> 00:26:38,040 Speaker 1: streets and get in the face of cops or ice agents, 494 00:26:38,440 --> 00:26:41,760 Speaker 1: knowing that they can't do anything or won't do anything. 495 00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:45,120 Speaker 1: How about you look at some real, real, actual revolutionaries 496 00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:47,840 Speaker 1: who are risking at all, like the women on the 497 00:26:47,840 --> 00:26:51,199 Speaker 1: street in Iran. They're risking being tortured and raped to 498 00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:55,760 Speaker 1: death because they care about changing their system. They're not 499 00:26:55,840 --> 00:26:59,240 Speaker 1: cost playing. You get the oppression, You got the terrible 500 00:26:59,280 --> 00:27:01,919 Speaker 1: economy which is getting worse and worse and worse. And 501 00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:05,000 Speaker 1: then after thirty five years of the powers that be 502 00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:09,480 Speaker 1: in Iran spending like all the GDP's money on building 503 00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:12,399 Speaker 1: up their proxies around the region, your hesbalas and your 504 00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:15,719 Speaker 1: hamasas and the rest of it, and explaining how we 505 00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:19,119 Speaker 1: have an ironclad regime and we'll hold off the Zionist 506 00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:23,000 Speaker 1: Jews and the American pigs and blah blah blah, and 507 00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:25,520 Speaker 1: then it turned out to be a paper tiger, just 508 00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:27,280 Speaker 1: a national humiliation. 509 00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:29,720 Speaker 2: Whether you like the regime or not, you're like, we 510 00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:31,560 Speaker 2: suck at the military too. 511 00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:34,080 Speaker 1: That people are like, you have nothing to offer us, 512 00:27:34,359 --> 00:27:38,120 Speaker 1: and it's over from their point of view. But when 513 00:27:38,119 --> 00:27:42,479 Speaker 1: the crackdown comes, it could be horrific or there are 514 00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:43,800 Speaker 1: other possibilities. 515 00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:44,720 Speaker 2: Which we can discuss at some point well. 516 00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:47,359 Speaker 1: And how much do we get involved when the crackdown comes, 517 00:27:47,359 --> 00:27:48,160 Speaker 1: which might be today. 518 00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:49,480 Speaker 2: Here's CNN's reporting. 519 00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:52,639 Speaker 3: So for the first time that we now see the 520 00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:56,520 Speaker 3: United State of America's president taking a strong action saying 521 00:27:56,560 --> 00:27:59,520 Speaker 3: that he is ready to save the lives of your audience. 522 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:03,240 Speaker 3: Panias are welcoming that. I want to see action. Otherwise, 523 00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:06,600 Speaker 3: empty wards are not going to save lives. Let's be 524 00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:09,439 Speaker 3: very clear, people of your own are better allies compared 525 00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:12,639 Speaker 3: to these backward moll laws for America, for the rest 526 00:28:12,640 --> 00:28:16,280 Speaker 3: of the world. An iron without Islamic republic will guarantee 527 00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:17,760 Speaker 3: global security. 528 00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:23,159 Speaker 1: Oh shoot, that was Jake Tapper's head exploding because somebody 529 00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:26,760 Speaker 1: said something positive about Trump. First time a US president 530 00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:30,280 Speaker 1: is taking strong action. Barack Obama famously and even people 531 00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:32,720 Speaker 1: on the left criticized him for this. Did not get 532 00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:35,199 Speaker 1: behind the Green Revolution when that was going on in 533 00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:38,440 Speaker 1: Iran because he had that whole policy of don't do stupidness, 534 00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:41,640 Speaker 1: And as you were talking about the other day, sometimes 535 00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:43,720 Speaker 1: doing nothing is a decision. 536 00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:45,280 Speaker 2: How does everybody not know that? 537 00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:49,520 Speaker 1: How does everybody not know that choosing to stay with 538 00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:54,320 Speaker 1: the status quo is a decision as much as changing Yes. 539 00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:56,800 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a specific course of action. 540 00:28:57,120 --> 00:28:59,400 Speaker 1: Think about it like that, and deciding not to support 541 00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:03,440 Speaker 1: the protest is not staying away from stupidest necessarily, it's 542 00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:08,360 Speaker 1: making a decision anyway. Trump is, at least the verbally, 543 00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:10,840 Speaker 1: is supporting the Rangians. He was on Hugh Hewitt Show, 544 00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:13,160 Speaker 1: We don't really like people around here. I have the 545 00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:15,320 Speaker 1: same name, first name and last name or something going 546 00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:16,760 Speaker 1: on there, you Hewett? 547 00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:19,720 Speaker 2: Eric ericson who's the other one? The other talk shows? 548 00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:20,400 Speaker 2: There's a top of one. 549 00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:23,240 Speaker 1: Steve Stevens and all kinds of people like that don't 550 00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:25,720 Speaker 1: like him. So Trump's on Hugh Hewitt and said this. 551 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:28,560 Speaker 8: And I have let them know that if they start 552 00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:31,280 Speaker 8: killing people, which they tend to do during their riots, 553 00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:34,160 Speaker 8: they have lots of riots, if they do it, we're 554 00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:36,440 Speaker 8: going to hit them very hard. And they know, and 555 00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:39,360 Speaker 8: they've been told very strongly, even more strongly than I'm 556 00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:41,240 Speaker 8: speaking to you right now, that if they do that, 557 00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:42,360 Speaker 8: they're going to. 558 00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:42,840 Speaker 1: Have to pay. 559 00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:45,360 Speaker 2: So does he mean that or not? 560 00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:50,400 Speaker 1: So many way, If I'm the moullus, I got my 561 00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:52,920 Speaker 1: beard in a twist right now because they are up 562 00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:56,680 Speaker 1: against it. Well, they've been hit hard before. He talked 563 00:29:56,760 --> 00:29:59,520 Speaker 1: this way and then did hit Iran harder than they've 564 00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:02,280 Speaker 1: ever been in the entire time that they've been in charge. 565 00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:02,520 Speaker 7: There. 566 00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:03,960 Speaker 2: See that is correct. 567 00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:07,480 Speaker 1: Oh, thank you, President Meduro him weighing in whether Trump 568 00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:11,560 Speaker 1: lives up to threats, and somebody made the point yesterday, well, 569 00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:13,640 Speaker 1: I don't think that's gonna happen because we haven't moved 570 00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:16,320 Speaker 1: any resources into the area. 571 00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:18,320 Speaker 2: That's because we already have so. 572 00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:22,760 Speaker 1: Many resources in the area. We don't need to move 573 00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:27,360 Speaker 1: more resources into the area. Here's a hint they're under 574 00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:30,960 Speaker 1: the ocean and nobody knows they're there, and they rhyme 575 00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:37,680 Speaker 1: with flubfaren is, you've actually have the world's third strongest military. 576 00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:42,120 Speaker 1: Every time one of our boomers sails by your home country. 577 00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:45,840 Speaker 1: You've been in a submarine because your brother was a 578 00:30:45,840 --> 00:30:48,640 Speaker 1: submarine guy. They have a great and they wanted me 579 00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:52,400 Speaker 1: to consult. They have a great submarine thing at the 580 00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:54,840 Speaker 1: World War Two Museum where you used to simulator and. 581 00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:56,880 Speaker 2: Everything like that. It's very very cool about the silent 582 00:30:56,880 --> 00:31:00,520 Speaker 2: a fleet. You got to get there, but boy, that'd 583 00:31:00,560 --> 00:31:01,040 Speaker 2: be something. 584 00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:06,040 Speaker 1: So this reporter I was listening to yesterday said, what 585 00:31:06,120 --> 00:31:11,200 Speaker 1: Iran has been doing because they are worried about a 586 00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:15,120 Speaker 1: reaction from Trump, is they are not killing people in 587 00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:19,160 Speaker 1: the streets. They're beating them down in the streets to 588 00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:21,480 Speaker 1: the point that they go to the hospital. Then when 589 00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:23,920 Speaker 1: you go to the hospital, the security forces go and 590 00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:25,840 Speaker 1: snatch you out of the hospital and take you to 591 00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:28,520 Speaker 1: the prison and torture you. So you don't have the 592 00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:30,239 Speaker 1: people getting shot in the streets. He just grab them 593 00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:31,920 Speaker 1: out of the hospital after you broke their leg and 594 00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:33,240 Speaker 1: broke their kneecap in the street. 595 00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:35,440 Speaker 2: How about that for a policy. 596 00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:38,480 Speaker 1: Trump will hear that by this afternoon and it will 597 00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:42,760 Speaker 1: anger him, isn't that something? Yeah, so they'll break your 598 00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:44,920 Speaker 1: ankles you're no longer protesting in the street. 599 00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:46,440 Speaker 2: Then they go to the hospital and grab you. 600 00:31:46,960 --> 00:31:49,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, so that you don't have a stack of bodies 601 00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:51,440 Speaker 1: in the street like happened with Tienman Square or whatever. 602 00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:54,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, they're evil, They're evil, evil human beings. 603 00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:56,840 Speaker 1: This could be something to watch this weekend because the 604 00:31:56,840 --> 00:31:59,640 Speaker 1: protests are really growing in the last twenty four hours. Anyway, 605 00:31:59,840 --> 00:32:07,520 Speaker 1: a lot more to comes here. Excited about n NFL 606 00:32:07,520 --> 00:32:10,760 Speaker 1: playoff football this weekend, Excited about the college game tonight. 607 00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:11,760 Speaker 2: Something to watch? 608 00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:17,920 Speaker 1: Excellent, excellent. I do love the foots ball coming up. 609 00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:22,880 Speaker 1: The Immigration forces v. Local authorities thing in Blue cities 610 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:26,400 Speaker 1: is heating up. Boy, A couple of the sheriff in 611 00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:29,320 Speaker 1: Philadelphia said she they're going to arrest ice agents there. 612 00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:32,040 Speaker 2: No, you're not my favorite. 613 00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:34,760 Speaker 1: What the hell story of the week after a couple 614 00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:37,880 Speaker 1: of head scratchers, I'm trying to figure out you young people. 615 00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:42,440 Speaker 1: Here are two stories back to back. Number one from 616 00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:46,240 Speaker 1: the New York Times, A New Generation, Oh oh, it's 617 00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:52,760 Speaker 1: the Sober Party girl Revelation. A New generation gives up alcohol, 618 00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:56,400 Speaker 1: but not the party at a member's only club in Manhattan. 619 00:32:56,520 --> 00:33:00,400 Speaker 1: A new generation rejects alcohol. Blah blah blah. It's all 620 00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:03,440 Speaker 1: about these fashionable A lot of them are like Instagram 621 00:33:03,560 --> 00:33:08,640 Speaker 1: influencers who really like to party but don't drink. They're sober. 622 00:33:10,360 --> 00:33:15,560 Speaker 1: I'm known as Sober party Girl. And this other influencer, 623 00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:18,640 Speaker 1: another cutie and a low cut thing is called more 624 00:33:18,680 --> 00:33:23,000 Speaker 1: fun without it. They're sober influencers anyway, So that's hot 625 00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:27,040 Speaker 1: than this article the Wall Street Journal why twenty somethings 626 00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:29,880 Speaker 1: are trading their vapes for cigarettes. More and more young 627 00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:32,560 Speaker 1: people are thinking it, and they just smoke cigarettes. Really, 628 00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:35,480 Speaker 1: cigarette smoking is on the rise for the first time 629 00:33:35,760 --> 00:33:37,400 Speaker 1: since the Surgeon General is warning. 630 00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:38,040 Speaker 2: That's interesting. 631 00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:41,560 Speaker 1: I just read the other day that stopping vaping now 632 00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:45,200 Speaker 1: is like the number one New Year's resolution in America. 633 00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:50,040 Speaker 1: It used to be stopping smoking every year, not stopping vaping. 634 00:33:50,520 --> 00:33:51,240 Speaker 2: Yeah. 635 00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:54,480 Speaker 1: Interesting, But a lot of people who dig the nicotine 636 00:33:54,480 --> 00:33:56,960 Speaker 1: are thinking, why am I sucking on what looks like 637 00:33:57,000 --> 00:33:59,960 Speaker 1: a USB drive when I could look like Steve McQueen 638 00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:02,760 Speaker 1: or they used the example of Joan Didion or one 639 00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:05,480 Speaker 1: of your heroes of the sixties, seventies, whatever, has always 640 00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:08,280 Speaker 1: got to sing in their in their their myts. 641 00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:09,240 Speaker 2: So go figure. 642 00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:12,600 Speaker 1: Now we're completely thuburb but we do suck down twenty 643 00:34:12,640 --> 00:34:13,680 Speaker 1: cancer sticks the day. 644 00:34:14,080 --> 00:34:17,040 Speaker 2: Okay, go figure, all right, here's my favorite story. 645 00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:23,359 Speaker 1: The main based Maine, the State Apparel Companies phones had 646 00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:26,920 Speaker 1: been ringing off the hook after a shackled Nicholas Maduro 647 00:34:27,480 --> 00:34:29,960 Speaker 1: was snapped wearing one of its hoodies when he was 648 00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:32,640 Speaker 1: hauled to the Big Apple. According to the company, the 649 00:34:32,680 --> 00:34:37,279 Speaker 1: OUs did Venezuelan dictator wore the origin company's attire in 650 00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:41,160 Speaker 1: the company's patriotic blue shade, in a now infamous photo 651 00:34:41,200 --> 00:34:43,360 Speaker 1: of him flashing two thumbs up while surrounded by the 652 00:34:43,440 --> 00:34:45,080 Speaker 1: DEA agents as they. 653 00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:46,439 Speaker 2: Touched down in New York. 654 00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:50,040 Speaker 1: Unclear how the dictator ended up in the hoodie, uh, 655 00:34:50,160 --> 00:34:52,440 Speaker 1: but everybody looked at it and said, Wow, that's a. 656 00:34:52,360 --> 00:34:53,440 Speaker 2: Good looking hoodie. 657 00:34:54,360 --> 00:34:57,239 Speaker 1: That's funny. I did research on the hoodie yesterday. It 658 00:34:57,239 --> 00:34:59,200 Speaker 1: came up in a conversation with my son about like, 659 00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:00,680 Speaker 1: how long is the hood been around? 660 00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:01,920 Speaker 2: I looked at it, I. 661 00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:03,759 Speaker 1: Thought, and I actually said to him, I think it 662 00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:06,000 Speaker 1: became popular about the time I started wearing them. When 663 00:35:06,040 --> 00:35:08,560 Speaker 1: I was in junior high. It turns out that's right 664 00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:10,440 Speaker 1: for people. Joe and I say, do you know what 665 00:35:10,560 --> 00:35:13,040 Speaker 1: made the hoodie popular? It's been around since the forties, 666 00:35:13,080 --> 00:35:15,560 Speaker 1: but it was only a military thing really. It became 667 00:35:15,640 --> 00:35:19,680 Speaker 1: popular in the seventies because of the movie Rocky Rocky 668 00:35:19,719 --> 00:35:21,640 Speaker 1: Wearing the hoodie's exploded ever since. 669 00:35:21,640 --> 00:35:25,120 Speaker 2: The people wore hoodies like grapies, Armstrong and Getdy.