Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2: Jack Armstrong, joke Getty arm Strong and Jetty and he
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3: That all the projects, the projects, the benefits. How do
Speaker 3: you lead the world with having that best instruction?
Speaker 2: How do you lead the world having been out him
Speaker 2: in the best healthcare role?
Speaker 3: How do you lead the world without having the best education?
Speaker 3: How do you lead the world and you don't have
Speaker 3: that done?
Speaker 2: Oh my god, is there a transcript?
Speaker 4: Okay, so we'll get back to our very very Catholic
Speaker 4: former president and just second, so we got some Pope
Speaker 4: stuff coming up this hour. We got a late night
Speaker 4: joke Pope off or Pope joke off, because they all
Speaker 4: make jokes about the Pope.
Speaker 2: I'm un comfortable with that phrase. Go on. Yeah, you
Speaker 2: gotta be very careful.
Speaker 4: I should say it's slower than for instance, Biden talked
Speaker 4: just a moment ago.
Speaker 2: Actually that was a Biden esque delivery.
Speaker 4: We won the Pope World Cup USA USA. So we
Speaker 4: got some stuff on that coming up a little bit later.
Speaker 4: But we brought you Mark Alpern's reporting last hour. Why
Speaker 4: is Joe Biden on the view why did he do
Speaker 4: it interview at the BBC last weekend? Why was he
Speaker 4: on the View yesterday talking about his memoirs. They are broke.
Speaker 4: The family is broke, the Biden crime family who got
Speaker 4: into government, probably for good reasons eventually and then decided, hey,
Speaker 4: we can all live like we're wealthy the.
Speaker 2: Rest of our lives.
Speaker 4: Apparently spent every set they made or had coming in
Speaker 4: and they are broke. So they're getting no speech offers.
Speaker 1: So the idea bet they had budgeted substantially. I mean,
Speaker 1: how much money did Hillary Clinton make? And Bill my god,
Speaker 1: they brought in tens of millions of Donald Well Halprin.
Speaker 4: Actually used the figure of eight hundred thousand dollars a speech.
Speaker 2: A speech offers.
Speaker 4: That's the sort of thing you get when you're an
Speaker 4: ex president.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, and yes, and he's.
Speaker 1: Getting better if you're running a phony foundation. Yes, all right, right,
Speaker 1: and he's getting zero of those.
Speaker 2: You're right.
Speaker 4: So they had counted on, oh, well, you know, my
Speaker 4: my retirement, I'll you know, I'll do ten of the
Speaker 4: easy year or whatever, and we'll continue to have our
Speaker 4: lakeside homes and ocean side this and that and.
Speaker 2: Play that clip again. So listen to this. This is
Speaker 2: the guy. So you got two things.
Speaker 4: You've got the damage he's doing to himself and the
Speaker 4: party and a reputation and all.
Speaker 2: That sort of stuff. But this is the This guy's
Speaker 2: gonna come give a speech.
Speaker 3: All the the project, the benefits. How do you lead
Speaker 3: the world having best instructions? How do you need the
Speaker 3: world having been out the best healthcare?
Speaker 2: Wow?
Speaker 3: How do you need the world without having the best education?
Speaker 3: How do you lead the world and you have that done?
Speaker 2: Wow? Yeah.
Speaker 1: So they're appears to be a triumvirate of motivations here.
Speaker 1: And I use that word to sound fancy. It means
Speaker 1: three of something after number one. They are desperate for
Speaker 1: the cash. That is fascinating. Smart Calprin does not make
Speaker 1: stuff you're so excited about that. I know that is
Speaker 1: a character flaws.
Speaker 4: It is it is, And now with a new American pope,
Speaker 4: I should be more magnanimous. But I'm going to enjoy
Speaker 4: this watching this unfold.
Speaker 1: Well, if you're gonna send, get your money's worth right anyway.
Speaker 2: So that is clearly one of the motivations.
Speaker 1: The second one is to shape his legacy, because if
Speaker 1: you look around and just kind of you know, put
Speaker 1: your nose in the air and your finger in the air,
Speaker 1: and then look and listen. How's how's the old legacy
Speaker 1: taking shape of You would not like what you're hearing
Speaker 1: at all, So they've decided to go on the offensive.
Speaker 1: And to that end, I think this is the best
Speaker 1: time for that. This is long, but I don't think
Speaker 1: you get a full appreciation of how sad it is
Speaker 1: without the length. So Michael, go ahead and enroll eighty three.
Speaker 1: This is from the Unwatchable the view the other.
Speaker 2: Day, mister President.
Speaker 5: Since you left office, there have been a number of
Speaker 5: books that have come out, deeply sourced from democratic sources,
Speaker 5: that claim in your final year there was a dramatic
Speaker 5: decline in your cognitive abilities in the final year of
Speaker 5: your presidency. What is your response to these allegations? Are
Speaker 5: these sources wrong?
Speaker 3: They are wrong. There's nothing to sustain that number one.
Speaker 3: Number two, You know, think.
Speaker 2: Of what we're left with.
Speaker 3: We left for the circumstance where we had an insurrection,
Speaker 3: I started nonsense of civil war. We had a circumstance
Speaker 3: where we are in a position that well in the
Speaker 3: pandemic because of the incompetence of the last out fit
Speaker 3: end up over a million people dying, million people dying.
Speaker 3: And we're also in a situation where we found ourselves
Speaker 3: unable to deal with a lot of just basic issues.
Speaker 3: And I won't go into him in interest thoughts. And
Speaker 3: so we went to work and we got it done.
Speaker 3: And you know, one of the things that that well, I'm.
Speaker 6: Well and listen, you know, one of the things I
Speaker 6: think is that the people who wrote those books were
Speaker 6: not in the White House with us, and they didn't
Speaker 6: see how hard Joe worked every single day. I mean
Speaker 6: he'd get up, he put in a full day, and
Speaker 6: then at night he would I'd be in bed, you know,
Speaker 6: reading my book, and he was still on the phone.
Speaker 1: She has to take over answering. Everybody says, you're senile,
Speaker 1: what's the story? Because he can't answer.
Speaker 4: It, well, he launches into some completely irrelevant things that
Speaker 4: have nothing to do with the question.
Speaker 2: And while he's talking some of the.
Speaker 1: Go to cliches. We got the job done, we got
Speaker 1: to work. We did the work, all right, We'll last outfit.
Speaker 4: So not to lean on this too much, but Mark
Speaker 4: Calpernon went on in his commentary on this on the view,
Speaker 4: Joe Biden denied that she limited access to her husband
Speaker 4: while he was president. Her denials quote are just not
Speaker 4: true on the face of it, but that's what she said.
Speaker 4: Joe Biden said if he would have won, if he'd
Speaker 4: ha stayed on the ticket. There's no evidence of that anywhere,
Speaker 4: says Mark Calprin. Did he help whatever goals he has
Speaker 4: by going on the View? I can see no discernible
Speaker 4: way in which that appearance helped him. That's the crazy
Speaker 4: part that there's nobody to tell them you're only making
Speaker 4: things worse. It made things worse on BBC than three
Speaker 4: days later you go on the View and he made
Speaker 4: things worse again. And if you're planning to do sixty
Speaker 4: minutes or I don't know what your next plan is,
Speaker 4: you're gonna make it even worse.
Speaker 1: So the third leg of this stool of delusion, as
Speaker 1: pointed out by JT and Livermore, Joe Biden has zero
Speaker 1: remaining loyalty to the Democratic Party after he is backstabbed
Speaker 1: by all his closest friends Pelusy and Pelosi, Schumer, Obama, Clooney,
Speaker 1: et cetera.
Speaker 2: Backstabb I don't know if that's fair. I mean, it's
Speaker 2: it's somewhat accurate.
Speaker 4: But they would have been really bad Americans to that
Speaker 4: force him out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a fair point, right, And then he writes, Oh,
Speaker 1: and he sent along this headline from Radar Online. Joe
Speaker 1: Biden's thirty million dollar revenge explosive secret White House Diaries
Speaker 1: could be turned into tell all book with Joe's enemies
Speaker 1: in her sights.
Speaker 2: Dear Diary. Joe wandered off again tonight.
Speaker 1: Yeah, even absence the enemy's list, nobody in the Biden
Speaker 1: family seems to have any limit on what they'll do
Speaker 1: for money. This embarrassing array of interviews is just a
Speaker 1: shameless Blney stunt designed to increase interest in the behind
Speaker 1: the scenes details of the Biden train wreck that was
Speaker 1: the Biden presidency. And if you need further proof, JT writes,
Speaker 1: look at Jill's first prepared statement following one of Biden's
Speaker 1: many failed utterances. Jill claimed the quote, none of the
Speaker 1: books to date were from people in the White House.
Speaker 2: I was in that clip we just played. That's a
Speaker 2: pretty odd.
Speaker 1: Thing to say, especially since some of the details have
Speaker 1: come from people like ron Klain, Biden's chief of staff.
Speaker 1: And he points out that is also something you might
Speaker 1: say if you're planning to endorse or write an insider's
Speaker 1: account saying none of these other accounts were from insiders.
Speaker 2: Even though they all were.
Speaker 1: So Yeah, so it's greed slash desperation for cash, legacy shaping,
Speaker 1: and the final vengeance from beyond the grave.
Speaker 2: I'm oh, I'm told still short of the grave? All right?
Speaker 1: Come on, vengeance from just short of the grave. That's
Speaker 1: the three legged stool of Biden delusion, vengeance grave adjacent.
Speaker 4: Exactly if I can let go of my glee for
Speaker 4: a little bit and bring out some humanity which must
Speaker 4: be in there somewhere, it is wondered. Is it is
Speaker 4: really kind of sad? I mean he worked hard every day.
Speaker 4: I'm sure he did. There are a lot of dementia
Speaker 4: ridden old people getting up and trying their hardest. They
Speaker 4: just can't function because brains don't work anymore.
Speaker 7: Well.
Speaker 1: And if you take the gig of lotus, yeah, you're
Speaker 1: gonna do some work you ought to.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sure he was off to my neck.
Speaker 4: I'm sure he was up late reading and it made
Speaker 4: no dent in his brain because his brain no longer
Speaker 4: can hold onto this stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what was the clip we played? Yesterday to get
Speaker 1: into the deal. Michael, the angry Biden.
Speaker 3: Work unless you want to.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm gonna get a tattoo of that on my chest.
Speaker 2: It's probably that's probably an that's probably like two years ago.
Speaker 1: Also, yeah, come it.
Speaker 2: Mesh for them.
Speaker 3: Wa unless you want to.
Speaker 2: Get a get a tattoo of that with an eagle.
Speaker 2: It's probably enough of that. Let's turn to godliness. Huh
Speaker 2: that we got to talk about the Pope.
Speaker 4: And I want to tell you about whooping cough because
Speaker 4: I don't want you to get whooping off.
Speaker 1: No, and and listen there's mentioning babies die of it.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's ain't good for children, infants. It's a
Speaker 1: horrifying disease from adult for adults. It's no bargain.
Speaker 4: Clearly you don't want it, and it's out there for
Speaker 4: a variety of reasons more than it has been in
Speaker 4: the past.
Speaker 2: I got it.
Speaker 4: Uh, some of the details on it are kind of interesting.
Speaker 4: And we've got pope stuff.
Speaker 2: Stay here and honor Mother's Day.
Speaker 8: KFC is offering free delivery on all digital orders, so
Speaker 8: why not give the gift that will have her saying
Speaker 8: where did I go wrong?
Speaker 1: Hey?
Speaker 3: Mom?
Speaker 2: Your chickens here, I love you, and delivery was free. So,
Speaker 2: oh boy.
Speaker 4: I sent my son to the store on his bike yesterday,
Speaker 4: went and got a gallon of milk we needed, and
Speaker 4: I let him keep the change on the money I
Speaker 4: gave him, and I said I would adoor dashed it.
Speaker 4: I'd rather give the money to you. So he rode
Speaker 4: the bike over there. I had a really good time,
Speaker 4: like making a little money. It worked out just great.
Speaker 1: Sounds like the beginning of a beautiful relationship. I wanted
Speaker 1: to mention this because we haven't mentioned this yet.
Speaker 4: Trump it looks like is backing off the whole Chinese
Speaker 4: tariffs thing. Exclusive story from the New York Post broke yesterday.
Speaker 4: Now there's some reporting to back it up. The Trump
Speaker 4: administration is weighing a plan to slash the one hundred
Speaker 4: and forty five percent tariff by more than half as
Speaker 4: soon as Monday.
Speaker 2: Oh boy.
Speaker 4: So, like Joe said earlier, maybe this was the plan
Speaker 4: all along. And you know, when you're negotiating, you have
Speaker 4: to keep your cards closed. Or it wasn't and he's
Speaker 4: getting rattler who knows what. But so it doesn't look
Speaker 4: like we're gonna be doing this for long.
Speaker 1: They are making a hell of a lot of noise
Speaker 1: about a very low hanging fruit deal with the Brits
Speaker 1: another example of maybe some rethinking going on.
Speaker 2: But more on that to come.
Speaker 4: So I got whooping cough. I got diagnosed by the
Speaker 4: doctor yesterday. I have heard of whooping cough, and when
Speaker 4: my kids were little, I was really aware that it's
Speaker 4: a really bad thing for your kids to get.
Speaker 2: But I've never thought about whooping cough in my life.
Speaker 4: I don't think I've ever known in another adult who
Speaker 4: had whooping cough. It's got kind of an old timey
Speaker 4: I'm a gold pantered sound to it, you know, from
Speaker 4: the eighteen.
Speaker 2: Fifties, whooping cough.
Speaker 4: But I got whooping cough, and so I got some
Speaker 4: information on it from the doctor from you know, your
Speaker 4: best site, CDC, and uh, what's that the doctor up
Speaker 4: the place up there in Minnesota. I've actually been Thereo Clinic,
Speaker 4: Mayo Clinic. You're whooping cough incredibly contagious, and we got
Speaker 4: a lot more of it here in twenty two, twenty
Speaker 4: five than we do have most years. Unfortunately, it's really
Speaker 4: really contagious. I'm past the contagious part to thank God.
Speaker 4: So I'm glad Michael you didn't get it three weeks
Speaker 4: ago when I was contagious.
Speaker 2: I've had it for over a month.
Speaker 4: Most people who say it's the worst cough of their lives, well,
Speaker 4: that's fantastic. H can last for up to ten weeks,
Speaker 4: so two and a half months, so I'm over a
Speaker 4: month in, but.
Speaker 2: I might be not even halfway there. Here's the best
Speaker 2: part that I like.
Speaker 4: The cough generally gets worse and becomes more common as
Speaker 4: you go along, So my cough is going to get
Speaker 4: stronger and more prevalent as I get further.
Speaker 2: Into the two and a half months.
Speaker 4: If it ends up going that direction, y it's called
Speaker 4: whooping cough because you make a high pitched woof when
Speaker 4: you inhale after a coughing fit, and I have done that.
Speaker 4: I mentioned I was laying in bed the other day
Speaker 4: and I kept hearing this weird wi wei and I
Speaker 4: was like, where is that coming from? It was my lungs.
Speaker 4: I didn't even realize it.
Speaker 2: And many people you have.
Speaker 1: A horse who lives in your guest bedroom, sometimes he winies.
Speaker 4: Many people vomit during or after a coughing fit, so
Speaker 4: that's fun. If you're at somebody's house and you go
Speaker 4: to coughing like crazy and then vombit all over.
Speaker 2: That's a funny.
Speaker 4: Guest tech, thanks for coming by. It makes you very
Speaker 4: tired after a coughing fit. You'll have difficulty sleeping at night.
Speaker 4: I did not sleep one minute last night. People struggled
Speaker 4: to breathe. It's not uncommon at all to break a
Speaker 4: rib while you're doing this.
Speaker 2: You should. I just found this out yesterday.
Speaker 4: If you haven't had your tea DAP since you were
Speaker 4: like twelve years older the last time you got it
Speaker 4: that shot because my son just had his couple of
Speaker 4: weeks ago.
Speaker 2: Actually, you should get another one.
Speaker 4: I'm supposed to get another one and I'll keep you
Speaker 4: from getting this freaking whooping cough.
Speaker 2: You don't want it. It's really unpleasant.
Speaker 1: Yeah, my doc mentioned it to me the last time
Speaker 1: I saw him, and I just have dragged my feet
Speaker 1: just you know, it's just the right time to call
Speaker 1: up and didn't get you right.
Speaker 4: That's just I mean, it's just the way you live
Speaker 4: your life, Joe. You're not running into people all the time.
Speaker 4: We have freaking whooping cough, at least I'm not.
Speaker 2: I never have Yeah, it's funny.
Speaker 1: I dragged my feet on getting these shingles vaccine as
Speaker 1: an older fellow until a good friend of mine got
Speaker 1: an absolutely tortuous case of it. So that's that's the
Speaker 1: function my friends have for me. I use my friends
Speaker 1: like miners use canaries in colt. Let me know what
Speaker 1: terrible diseases are about, right to protect me.
Speaker 2: That's right. I almost went down the other day. I
Speaker 2: had a coughing fit and I just could not stop.
Speaker 2: But I haven't vomited yet.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, what a horrible symptom that is hanging
Speaker 4: around in a backyard barbecue. Don't worry, I'm not contagious.
Speaker 4: Cough cough, cough, cough, cough, cough, some more vomit.
Speaker 1: Wow, and then pick comes out or something. Yeah, it's interesting.
Speaker 1: It's it's combined with diphtheria and titanus, which is uh.
Speaker 1: I mean, tetanus is obviously not you know, some sort
Speaker 1: of it's a disease, I guess, but it's so different anyway.
Speaker 2: Uh, I gotta go get jabs. Thanks for the recommendation. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I who knew? And do you?
Speaker 1: CDC recommends adults get follow up doses every decade.
Speaker 4: Well, I haven't had one since I was My mom said,
Speaker 4: I got you the shot when you were a baby,
Speaker 4: which I'm glad you did. That was sixty years ago,
Speaker 4: so apparently I'm behind you said. There's more of it
Speaker 4: going on right now, though, So why is that? Yeah,
Speaker 4: the cases have doubled in the last year.
Speaker 1: Whooping cough tends to peek in the spring and fall,
Speaker 1: usually spread through respiratory droplets. Experts say the outbreaks of
Speaker 1: vaccine preventable illnesses again that word is provincial, like measles
Speaker 1: and whooping cough, could be indicative of changing attitudes toward vaccines.
Speaker 1: US kindergarten vaccination rates fell last year and the number
Speaker 1: of children with vaccine exemptions.
Speaker 2: Hitting all time high.
Speaker 1: So, yeah, you got measles and pertussis, which is the
Speaker 1: real name for ooping cough.
Speaker 4: I think I'm going to call pertussis. That sounds better
Speaker 4: than whooping cough.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is kind of an old timy nickname because
Speaker 1: back in the in the Prairie they didn't know exactly
Speaker 1: how to describe it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, the whoop or you can get coughed on
Speaker 4: by a disc jockey, that might be the way you
Speaker 4: get it.
Speaker 2: I hope. I didn't get it to anybody.
Speaker 1: Interestingly, if you ever use that term again, I'll give
Speaker 1: you something'll whoop about. Here's this doctor at the Children's
Speaker 1: Hospital of Philadelphia pointing out when you fall below a
Speaker 1: ninety five percent for vaccinations, you lose herd immunity protection.
Speaker 2: Wow. Keep it in mind, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 9: I don't think you can have comparison to a sporting event,
Speaker 9: a concert, a political rally. There was nothing like that.
Speaker 9: And there was a moment where you found folks who
Speaker 9: were and they're dealing with a mix of emotions. You
Speaker 9: have people are still feeling Pope Francis's laws, so they're
Speaker 9: in tears and yet smiles all at the same time.
Speaker 9: It was it's difficult still to describe it.
Speaker 4: The reaction of people, and then the reaction of the
Speaker 4: media to the whole Pulpe story has got me somewhat perplexed.
Speaker 4: I just wonder if there's a longing out there for
Speaker 4: something like this, whether it's God or religion or tradition
Speaker 4: or something more solid than a tweet.
Speaker 2: I don't I don't know what it is. Such an
Speaker 2: intriguing question. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I guess I had just been attributing the enormous amount
Speaker 1: of attention to it. Well, Catholicism is still you know,
Speaker 1: the world's just religion, and the mainstream media full of
Speaker 1: lemmings who just do what they think they're supposed to do.
Speaker 1: And and you've always covered pope choosings and the rest
Speaker 1: of it people conclaves whatever, or.
Speaker 2: Pope choosings if you prefer.
Speaker 1: But I think you strike at a really really interesting question.
Speaker 2: I don't know, I need to contemplate it perfectly.
Speaker 4: How does the rest of the world feel about an
Speaker 4: American pope? I was just watching some video up there
Speaker 4: of like kids in.
Speaker 2: Don't feel what we tell them to feel. That's the
Speaker 2: way that was belligerent. That that was belligerent and appropriate.
Speaker 4: So I was watching kids in Catholic schools across the
Speaker 4: United States just cheering like crazy and waving flags and
Speaker 4: stuff like that. And one of the reasons there's never
Speaker 4: been an American pope one we're very new country by
Speaker 4: Catholic Church standards, since.
Speaker 2: It's been around for over two thousand years, and.
Speaker 4: Just the idea of the United States dominating everything, military, economy, culture,
Speaker 4: and now you got the pope.
Speaker 2: I think just often seemed like too much, but here
Speaker 2: we are. Yeah, I get that.
Speaker 4: Of course, it was the big news of the day
Speaker 4: for the late night comics. Also an exciting day for
Speaker 4: Joe's got to make up the rules to the rules?
Speaker 4: Well right, yeah, it's a late night joke off. We've
Speaker 4: got multiple comedians doing jokes on the same topic. I
Speaker 4: joke Eddy will grade each of their efforts in the
Speaker 4: bottom grade. Getter will be banned from comedy for life, deservedly,
Speaker 4: let's hear it.
Speaker 10: An exciting day for Catholics and for America. We have
Speaker 10: a new pope, and against all odds, here is one
Speaker 10: of us Hurrican pope. The popemobile is now a Ford
Speaker 10: F two fifty truck up.
Speaker 8: The Catholic Church today elected a new Pope, a sixty
Speaker 8: nine year old American cardinal named Robert Pramos, who was
Speaker 8: born in Chicago. So that white smoke might have just
Speaker 8: been from the brats on the grill.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 8: An American cardinal from Chicago was chosen today to be
Speaker 8: the next Pope. You can tell he's from Chicago because
Speaker 8: he entered to this music.
Speaker 7: Oh why not?
Speaker 11: The new prope actually graduated from villan Nova University, it's
Speaker 11: it's wild that we have a pope who might have
Speaker 11: done a cake stand outside an Eagles game, and that
Speaker 11: I might have.
Speaker 7: It's not just that that Leo is an American.
Speaker 2: He was born in Chicago.
Speaker 7: This means this means officially, I couldn't no longer imitate
Speaker 7: the Pope.
Speaker 2: Using an Italian accent.
Speaker 7: From now on, the Pope's gonna sound like this, Hey, Air,
Speaker 7: is your buddy Leo the deep dish popa just talk
Speaker 7: to God and not even he can help the White Sox. Sorry,
Speaker 7: first order of business, I will be canonizing Michael Jordan.
Speaker 7: Now let's end by saying, duh prayers.
Speaker 2: You know what this is.
Speaker 1: This is tough Fallon with a B minuses in the
Speaker 1: bottom and he's a likable chap, but he has to
Speaker 1: be banned for life. Kimmel with an A minus, Myers
Speaker 1: with a solid bee, Colbert with a B plus. He
Speaker 1: saved it at the end as a native Chicago in
Speaker 1: his Chicago accent.
Speaker 2: Was slightly annoying, but he saved it at the end.
Speaker 2: He's from Chicago, Colbert, is I think? Yeah? He's also
Speaker 2: he's also a devout Catholic. Oh is that right? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Which is prayers. That's pretty funny. It is canonizing Michael Jordan.
Speaker 2: Well done, sir.
Speaker 4: So how did this guy end up being pope? An
Speaker 4: American and everything like that? I thought this from ABC
Speaker 4: News last night, from people that have known him, whether
Speaker 4: classmates or family.
Speaker 2: I thought this was interesting.
Speaker 12: The youngest of three boys, Robert Prevost, knew early on
Speaker 12: he would be a priest.
Speaker 2: Some people play school or some people play army. He
Speaker 2: played priest and we had to go to mass.
Speaker 12: Woman down the street said he would be the first
Speaker 12: American pope in first grade.
Speaker 2: They said that first grade. Huh. Lou says. They used
Speaker 2: to tease him about it. We used to, you know,
Speaker 2: tease him, You're going to be the pope one day? Haha?
Speaker 2: Is that? You know? It just had it about him.
Speaker 12: Pope Leo graduated from Villanova University. Jim Priestley went to
Speaker 12: high school and college with the new Pope. Back then,
Speaker 12: they called him Bob.
Speaker 3: Bob is the one guy that if you were going
Speaker 3: to pick a person in your class who was going
Speaker 3: to become the Pope, Bob would be the person.
Speaker 2: His buddy's name is Priestley.
Speaker 4: I just find that's interesting that he knew people throughout
Speaker 4: his life, who thought, Oh yeah, I mean, if and
Speaker 4: he's gonna be anybody I know is gonna.
Speaker 2: Be a pope, it's gonna be him. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4: I mean there's lots of stories of you know, us
Speaker 4: presidents we've had that had similar uh backgrounds, where people's all,
Speaker 4: he's gonna be president someday.
Speaker 2: It's just I don't I don't know what that is.
Speaker 4: I don't know that I've known somebody like that, but
Speaker 4: it must be something, hope.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's that's Uh, I want to use
Speaker 1: the term weird.
Speaker 2: It's uh, that'd be a good idea to use the
Speaker 2: term weird. Well, no, it makes you wonder.
Speaker 1: Well, I tell you, what did he have? Was it
Speaker 1: the spark of the divine? And that's what I'm mean
Speaker 1: telling Yeah, I do believe it's a calling. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's a vocation, a calling of some sort, clearly, uh,
Speaker 1: and he felt it young. The fact that he was
Speaker 1: the sort of guy that not.
Speaker 4: Only people thought, you know, of course you're going to
Speaker 4: be a priest, you're gonna be the pope is really interesting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no kidding, m he does.
Speaker 4: So I brought this up ler in the week. I'm
Speaker 4: still surprised that as secular as we've become and cynical
Speaker 4: as the media is, and as much as the media
Speaker 4: hates mainstream religion and the sort of people who are
Speaker 4: religious in general, that there hasn't been more talk about
Speaker 4: the Catholic Church sex scandal during this whole couple of
Speaker 4: weeks of one pope, guys, and we get another pope.
Speaker 4: But this new pope has like all, like everybody at
Speaker 4: a high level in the Catholic Church pretty much it's
Speaker 4: almost impossible to not be tainted at some point by
Speaker 4: the whole thing.
Speaker 2: I was going through his Wikipedia page yesterday.
Speaker 4: He's got some stuff in his background where he kept
Speaker 4: the guy around. It looks like and just kind of
Speaker 4: hit a person and you know, swept it under the rug,
Speaker 4: because that's what every big did for so long. There's
Speaker 4: really nobody over the age of probably fifty in the
Speaker 4: Catholic Church it's not tainted by the scandal somehow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, to a little extents or a lot. Yeah, that's interesting,
Speaker 1: just the whole view that well, it's it's a sin
Speaker 1: and a weakness. But let's not let's not get all
Speaker 1: criminal justice ses to me about let's not get hysterical
Speaker 1: about pressions.
Speaker 2: Yes exactly. Anyway, what do you think this?
Speaker 4: There's a lot of predictions yesterday about how the whole
Speaker 4: thing will go down between the Pope and Trump, that
Speaker 4: there might be a lot more direct uh conversation through
Speaker 4: the media with each other because it is the American Pope.
Speaker 4: Although the American Pope I don't think he said a
Speaker 4: word of English yesterday. He spoke Italian, he spoke Latin
Speaker 4: and something else. Oh, Spanish, Spanish app but he did
Speaker 4: not Spanish.
Speaker 2: Spent much of his career in the U in Central
Speaker 2: and South America. I guess. Yeah. Interesting.
Speaker 1: I wonder what the over under for miracles is. It
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Speaker 4: One more thing in the Pope for me is there's
Speaker 4: a great need in the mainstream media for Francis and
Speaker 4: any new pope to be really liberal, you know, socially
Speaker 4: liberal sort of people and change the church. And they
Speaker 4: always act like that's happening or hope that that's happening.
Speaker 4: But here's a little background on the new American Pope.
Speaker 13: The new Pope does not believe in the ordainment of women.
Speaker 13: He supported a declaration by the late Pope Francis to
Speaker 13: permit blessings for same sex couples, although he says it
Speaker 13: needs to act in unison with local contacts and cultures.
Speaker 13: He has called on the Church to take greater action
Speaker 13: against climate change, and his stance on communion for the
Speaker 13: divorce and on restricting the traditional Latin mass remain unclear
Speaker 13: at this point.
Speaker 4: Touch so hardcore life begins at conception. I'm probably not
Speaker 4: going to budge on that, So I wouldn't if I'm
Speaker 4: a certain sort of person, I wouldn't get too excited
Speaker 4: that he's about to like really redo the way Catholics
Speaker 4: look at some of the big issues.
Speaker 1: Uh no, no, nor should he in my opinion. But yeah, interesting,
Speaker 1: a lot of those other doctrinal things, you know, sacraments
Speaker 1: for the divorced and all just serious, could not care
Speaker 1: less but for the fundamental issues of what is life.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's let's go ahead and hang with the traditional
Speaker 2: let's serve us pretty well in my opinion.
Speaker 4: But Yeah, he's not a fan of what's the thing
Speaker 4: they're doing up in Canada?
Speaker 2: You subsisted suicide suicide, which may be the greatest.
Speaker 1: Example of unintended consequences I've ever witnessed, and I've witnessed
Speaker 1: a few how that tends to creep and become perverse
Speaker 1: and it's it reminds me of like the decriminalization of
Speaker 1: hard drugs that from a strictly libertarian point of view,
Speaker 1: sounds promising or at least worth, you know, exploring in practice,
Speaker 1: it's a miserable failure, miserable with repercussions and an infection
Speaker 1: that spreads throughout society.
Speaker 4: I'm glad our fifty first state Canada was able to
Speaker 4: be a laboratory of democracy there on the whole assistant
Speaker 4: suicide and we can see how it's playing.
Speaker 2: Out not well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but nobody's paying attention. You don't think, No, it's
Speaker 1: growing in the United States. There are more states considering
Speaker 1: it really assistant SUICIDEA absolutely wow. I don't have the
Speaker 1: list in front of me, but yeah. That's the thing
Speaker 1: about a progressive policies in particular, is the facts, the history,
Speaker 1: the precedents, the experiences of other folks who've tried it
Speaker 1: are they're not even entering. They don't even enter into
Speaker 1: the picture. It's merely a question of does this sound
Speaker 1: good and does it make me feel enlightened. That's one
Speaker 1: of the things that makes me insane about progressivism.
Speaker 4: So if I can throw out one annoying thing for you,
Speaker 4: if you're too not annoyed enough about the whole Pope deal.
Speaker 4: The Pope, the new Pope did have some tweet apparently
Speaker 4: in the last couple of years, unhappy with Trump's America
Speaker 4: first cutting back on a sort of thing, so he
Speaker 4: might get into that battle with Trump, which I will
Speaker 4: find highly annoying.
Speaker 1: Yeah, not everything in world is Trump versus not Trump.
Speaker 4: I left out my point, my point being I sure
Speaker 4: hope he wasn't elected to be a counterbalance to Trump.
Speaker 4: That that was I hope it's because everybody has ever
Speaker 4: known him thought, man, you ought to be the Pope.
Speaker 4: You're a good guy, and not because we need somehow
Speaker 4: to battle Trump.
Speaker 1: And it's like TDS got into the Vatican right right,
Speaker 1: final and we probably don't need all of this. But
Speaker 1: I got to here at Michael thirty five.
Speaker 14: Please, Terry, you know something you said struck me that
Speaker 14: he was a Cubs fan from the South side of Chicago,
Speaker 14: and yet you hear him the Vatican described for his quiet,
Speaker 14: humble way. That's that's perhaps how you survived being a
Speaker 14: Cubs fan from the south side.
Speaker 2: That's a great point, David. And another thing to it, No,
Speaker 2: because he's.
Speaker 1: A coup killed acquit. And then thirty six this is
Speaker 1: his damn brother.
Speaker 2: The one oppressing question people here in Chicago want to
Speaker 2: know seven sorry, thirty seven.
Speaker 3: The Cubs and White Sox.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was never ever a Cubs fan, So I
Speaker 2: don't know where that came from.
Speaker 1: ABC News continues to cover itself with glory.
Speaker 4: Wait, wait to be there on the ground at the
Speaker 4: Vatican for an entire week with Waald Wall coverage and
Speaker 4: then just jump the conclusions and.
Speaker 2: Be really wrong.
Speaker 1: Yeah, find that hilarious. It's interesting though. He did come
Speaker 1: from a mixed race household. His mother was a Cubs
Speaker 1: fan and his father was a White Sox fan. If
Speaker 1: you're a Chicago and you get that, h yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it's amazing they kept the marriage together.
Speaker 4: Hey, Pop Bias, quick, first miracle, get rid of my
Speaker 4: whooping cough. That'd be cool. Did you do that, just
Speaker 4: like lay your hand on my shoulders or anything. Whatever
Speaker 4: it takes exactly, maybe punching the jar.
Speaker 12: Today's agreement with the UK is the first and a
Speaker 12: series of agreements on trade that my administration has been.
Speaker 3: Negotiating over the past four weeks.
Speaker 2: With this deal, the UK joins the United.
Speaker 12: States and affirming that reciprocity and fairness is an essential
Speaker 12: and vital principle of internet trade.
Speaker 2: I would not make too much of the UK deal.
Speaker 1: It was extremely low hanging fruit with a country that's
Speaker 1: a longtime friend and ally we have a trade surplus
Speaker 1: with them.
Speaker 4: They have very very low tariffs for much I was
Speaker 4: worried about my figgy putting doubling in price.
Speaker 1: Well, now you don't have to worry about it, so
Speaker 1: markets chairs.
Speaker 2: The US strikes a deal with the UK. Interesting.
Speaker 1: The Wall Street Journal editorial board headline was Trump stages
Speaker 1: a trade war retreat, walking back his trade war by degrees,
Speaker 1: getting together with China to lower the heat, cut the
Speaker 1: tariffs on China, maybe as early as Monday.
Speaker 2: You know, if all of this is what.
Speaker 1: I've been thinking, it is for a long time, a
Speaker 1: maybe unnecessarily chaotic way to hammer out more equitable trading
Speaker 1: deals around the globe. I think it could come out
Speaker 1: to be a very good thing and the cast will
Speaker 1: be forgotten.
Speaker 4: I ordered ten pounds of spotted dick and it was
Speaker 4: going to be four quid more per pound.
Speaker 2: How frustrating for you. So it's interesting.
Speaker 1: It'll be interesting to see this going forward, endless speculation.
Speaker 1: You're not going to get that out of us, generally speaking,
Speaker 1: we'll all find out together.
Speaker 2: But I thought it was interesting.
Speaker 1: Britain does have non tariff barriers to American beef and chicken.
Speaker 1: They will not allow imports of American chicken that's been
Speaker 1: disinfected in chlorine washed despite.
Speaker 2: The lack of any health risk. There's no evidence that
Speaker 2: it's any trouble whatsoever. So I don't know if I've
Speaker 2: followed this.
Speaker 4: So are we more strict with our chickens in Great
Speaker 4: Britain or they're more strict than us.
Speaker 1: Oh, they won't take American chickens if they've been disinfected
Speaker 1: in the chlorine wash, so they bear strict there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they put up barriers to protect their farmers.
Speaker 2: It's fine, we're working that stuff out, but they care
Speaker 2: about a delicious chicken.
Speaker 1: I eat chicken all the time, and it's plenty delicious
Speaker 1: chlorin so.
Speaker 2: Much.
Speaker 1: My criticism of Trump is that I'm afraid it's motivated.
Speaker 1: In part well, number one, we called him as we
Speaker 1: sees him around here. That's just what we do. Secondly,
Speaker 1: there are things that are going on right now in
Speaker 1: the Trump administration that are so unbelievably great. I lie
Speaker 1: awake at night worrying that somehow the excesses are mistakes
Speaker 1: of Trump will end the progress. And I hate that
Speaker 1: idea because so much good stuff is happening. This is
Speaker 1: an example you probably won't hear anywhere else, but I
Speaker 1: found it really interesting. Kim Strassel, the fabulous writer again
Speaker 1: for the Journal, is talking about what Doug Bergham is
Speaker 1: doing as the Secretary of the Interior. And let me
Speaker 1: see if I can explain this briefly. He is he's
Speaker 1: a businessman, as.
Speaker 2: I think you know, with an unbelievable head of hair.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, this hair, so we all wish we
Speaker 2: could have his head of hair.
Speaker 1: Anyway, he is refocusing the Department of the Interior to
Speaker 1: look at a America's assets in a way that's really interesting.
Speaker 1: He's pitching Washington voters on a better way to look
Speaker 1: at the country's financial picture via America's balance sheet. Federal
Speaker 1: scribes minutely document everything the country owes, kim wrights, entitlements,
Speaker 1: debt payments, employee pensions, tax credits. Everyone knows the liability side,
Speaker 1: the national debt, the trillions of dollars, blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: But what about the value of what we the people own?
Speaker 1: Enormous stores of oil, coal, minerals, timber, geothermal power, all
Speaker 1: held within a vast property portfolio. Washington pretends it's only
Speaker 1: means of generating revenue is taxation. Yet if the Interior
Speaker 1: Department were a going concern, mister Burgham noted at a
Speaker 1: big conference last week, it would have the largest balance
Speaker 1: sheet in the world.
Speaker 2: Wow, our holdings. No Democrat would ever look at it
Speaker 2: that way.
Speaker 1: I know our holdings in compass four hundred and eighty
Speaker 1: million surface acres, more than two billion offshore acres, seven
Speaker 1: hundred fifty million acres of subsurface minerals. Saudi Princes, eat
Speaker 1: your hearts out, she writes, And she goes on to
Speaker 1: describe the project to unleash American energy, and it goes
Speaker 1: well beyond drill, Baby, drill, Birgham's Mantra's Map, Baby Map.
Speaker 1: He's working to get the US Geological Survey refocused on
Speaker 1: pinpointing and estimating resources rather than obsessing.
Speaker 2: Over climate change.
Speaker 1: It's a great change, it's good innovative leadership.
Speaker 2: I love it.
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