WEBVTT - Throw The Myrrh In His Eyes! It Burns! 0:00:11.080 --> 0:00:15.320 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:15.440 --> 0:00:19.400 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Kaddy. 0:00:19.400 --> 0:00:42.159 Armstrong and Jackie and Pee arm Why from Studio C. 0:00:43.680 --> 0:00:47.360 I don't see you, Senor. Yeah, well you will, Chorley. 0:00:47.920 --> 0:00:50.120 It's a dimly lit room deeper in the bowels of 0:00:50.200 --> 0:00:56.640 the Armstrong You Getty Communications Compound And hey y'all, midday week, hobday. 0:00:56.680 --> 0:00:58.720 We're under the putolage of our general manager. 0:00:59.160 --> 0:01:02.520 I was going to go with Greenland to come a USA, 0:01:03.200 --> 0:01:07.000 but instead, good Lord, the people of Los Angeles County. 0:01:07.040 --> 0:01:09.360 The apocalypse is upon La. 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:14.400 Man. If you haven't watched any of those videos, holy crap. 0:01:16.880 --> 0:01:21.240 I don't even know what you say about that. Hell 0:01:21.440 --> 0:01:25.759 descends upon you like that. One hundred times our winds 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:29.240 fired and traveling it like a mile every thirty seconds. 0:01:29.560 --> 0:01:33.399 And today could be every bit is bad or worse. Yeah, 0:01:33.560 --> 0:01:35.280 I was just hearing a report that they said that 0:01:35.360 --> 0:01:40.840 they might be worse. And there are many many fires 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:46.840 all over the area. The super fancy Hollywood type houses 0:01:46.920 --> 0:01:50.520 get the most attention always, but there's fires all over. 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:52.800 I was actually on the phone with a number of 0:01:52.800 --> 0:01:57.000 people last night who were fleeing for their lives, electricity off, 0:01:57.160 --> 0:02:02.680 pitch dark, can't see anything. Why there's so much traffic, 0:02:02.720 --> 0:02:04.000 You don't know if you're gonna be able to get 0:02:04.040 --> 0:02:07.200 out or stuck in traffic. People fleeing their cars and 0:02:07.280 --> 0:02:09.120 running for the ocean. Insane. 0:02:10.120 --> 0:02:12.400 And the minute that the dust settles on this and 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:16.640 we certainly pray that the loss of life is zero 0:02:17.280 --> 0:02:20.519 or certainly as little as possible. The big story is 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:23.120 going to be the fact that several of the big insurers, 0:02:23.240 --> 0:02:26.000 or at least one that I'm certain of, have dropped 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:30.040 fire coverage for that area, and people were scrambling to 0:02:30.080 --> 0:02:32.560 figure out what to do when the fires began. 0:02:34.120 --> 0:02:36.480 And this was as according to a friend of ours 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:38.480 who had to flee and doesn't even know if his 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:42.040 house is stole up or not. This was as recently 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:44.520 as a couple of weeks ago in that neighborhood. They 0:02:44.600 --> 0:02:50.120 dropped the fire coverage, right right, That is a problem. Well, 0:02:50.200 --> 0:02:52.240 you've been talking for a long time about this is 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:54.000 going to have to come to a head at some 0:02:54.160 --> 0:02:57.800 point with the banks and the insurance companies in various states, 0:02:57.800 --> 0:03:03.600 whether you're talking about fire's, hurricanes, whatever, How are we 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:07.280 going to deal with this because houses have to be insured. 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:10.440 The insurance has to be affordable enough that people can 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:12.240 buy houses. I don't know. 0:03:12.400 --> 0:03:14.640 I don't know how this all gets worked out, or 0:03:14.680 --> 0:03:17.720 it might just completely distort the housing market in a 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:21.799 way that will be take decades to untangle. 0:03:22.280 --> 0:03:25.480 If you've ever considered it. The very very short version. 0:03:25.280 --> 0:03:26.799 Of it is you have to keep in mind that 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:30.360 a huge percentage of the personal property in the United 0:03:30.400 --> 0:03:34.000 States is mortgaged. And so you have banks, including some 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:36.800 of the big banks or even Fanny May and organizations 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:41.120 like that, that have billions trillions of dollars worth of 0:03:42.440 --> 0:03:46.279 mortgages out there, and if there's no insurance on those properties, 0:03:46.320 --> 0:03:49.120 well then the big banks would lose their arses and 0:03:49.160 --> 0:03:52.800 that's not acceptable for a number of reasons. So, yeah, 0:03:52.920 --> 0:03:58.400 we're definitely moving toward something like a homeowner's insurance crisis 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:00.800 in the US, and not just like in Florida and 0:04:01.000 --> 0:04:02.720 California all over the place. 0:04:03.960 --> 0:04:07.360 Yeah, and you know, continuing with what you were just 0:04:07.400 --> 0:04:10.240 saying there, that's the interest the banks have, and then 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:13.080 we the people as a society have, you know, a 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:16.040 great interest in people being able to own homes. I mean, 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:18.120 there has to be a thing. It can't be a 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:21.719 only for you know, a tiny percentage of people that 0:04:21.760 --> 0:04:24.760 can afford homes and insurance. 0:04:25.400 --> 0:04:28.000 Right or self ensure my house burns down, I build 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:30.919 it again, ho home. Yeah, that's that's a tiny percentage 0:04:30.920 --> 0:04:33.800 of people. It'll be interesting to see this play out, 0:04:33.839 --> 0:04:36.000 and it could well be. It's almost certainly going to 0:04:36.000 --> 0:04:40.599 be on Trump's watch, right, right, Chirst Why do I 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:43.560 mention the president Congress rights laws or they used to. 0:04:47.040 --> 0:04:52.080 Yeah, people have been listening for a long time now. 0:04:52.120 --> 0:04:53.760 I had a fire. We had a fire on our 0:04:53.800 --> 0:04:56.800 farm about five years ago, and I got to experience 0:04:56.880 --> 0:04:59.920 in person with flames around me, which melted my shoes. 0:05:01.120 --> 0:05:04.159 How fast a fire travels when it's really windy outside. 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:05.960 And until I had seen it in person, I had 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:08.400 no idea. But it just it can go from a 0:05:08.520 --> 0:05:12.560 spark to your you can't see anything but smoking flames 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:16.200 in seconds. It's just shocking. And that was happening all 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:18.880 over La yesterday and today. Yeah. 0:05:18.960 --> 0:05:22.560 Yeah, so fingers crossed the prayers whatever, uh, and on 0:05:22.600 --> 0:05:22.839 we go. 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:26.760 I'm walking in the door, Michael, the door opened place 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:36.520 there he is, Hey, everybody, how. 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:39.880 You doing fine? How's Katie doing? That's what I want 0:05:39.920 --> 0:05:40.080 to know. 0:05:40.160 --> 0:05:44.039 Poor Katie ailing with one of the several bugs ravage. 0:05:44.040 --> 0:05:48.760 Oh stop it ravaging the country. I under sneeze a 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:49.400 two call. 0:05:50.160 --> 0:05:51.680 I'm doing I'm doing better today. 0:05:51.760 --> 0:05:56.080 Yesterday, man, I had so much chest pain that I 0:05:56.240 --> 0:05:58.200 was married. I was going to end up in an 0:05:58.320 --> 0:06:00.279 urgent care because I didn't know, like if this was 0:06:01.160 --> 0:06:03.880 bird pneumonia or whatever. 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:08.359 Exactly monkey bird box pneumonia, murder hornet pneumonia, I. 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:13.359 Don't know exact right exactly, atmospheric river covid. 0:06:13.800 --> 0:06:16.680 Now I'm back and with a deeper voice than ever, 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:17.800 so so. 0:06:19.520 --> 0:06:21.520 Okay. So I'm glad that that came up because I've 0:06:21.520 --> 0:06:24.000 been trying to figure out, like, did all of our 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:28.560 brains get broken with the pandemic or is all climate 0:06:28.640 --> 0:06:32.000 stuff and diseases worse than they used to be. Does 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:36.160 it just seem like it is, or or it just 0:06:36.200 --> 0:06:39.560 seems everything seems more extreme than it used to be. 0:06:40.400 --> 0:06:43.120 Yeah, I don't know. I think part of that is media. 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:47.200 My wife had a cold last week and remarked it. 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:49.839 I think she said, I haven't had a cold since 0:06:49.880 --> 0:06:51.200 the year twenty twenty. 0:06:51.560 --> 0:06:52.040 Good for her. 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:56.280 So maybe it's just, you know, we're getting used to 0:06:56.360 --> 0:07:00.920 it again, the slog through the minor diseases that afflick humanity. Uh, 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:04.840 I'm not diagnosing you as minor, Katie were concerned. Chest 0:07:04.839 --> 0:07:06.039 pain doesn't sound good to me. 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:06.680 No. 0:07:08.160 --> 0:07:10.680 I when I would cough, I would double over, and 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:13.560 I'm going, Okay, this is not working. But I got 0:07:13.600 --> 0:07:15.720 COVID a couple of years ago, and I said I 0:07:15.720 --> 0:07:17.880 had never been sick like that until I got COVID. 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:20.880 And I can say that I have not ever had 0:07:20.880 --> 0:07:22.560 a flu like this. That wasn't COVID. 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:26.800 I know my son has been sick for a week 0:07:26.880 --> 0:07:29.400 and sick in a way that was beyond what a 0:07:29.400 --> 0:07:31.560 normal cold is, like you're talking about, and we did 0:07:31.560 --> 0:07:33.760 the COVID test. It wasn't COVID. That he doesn't appear 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:36.400 to have sexed up a bird or whatever you do 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:38.920 to get bird pops. I believe that is it? Yes, 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:42.280 all right, I didn't do that just to kill any rumor. Yeah, 0:07:42.440 --> 0:07:45.320 let's say internet settled down and he had La burning 0:07:45.400 --> 0:07:49.160 down and the mountains of North Carolina flooded and just 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:51.720 I don't know, maybe it's just seems like things are 0:07:51.760 --> 0:07:55.080 worse because of media govern Just Michael way. Whoa, whoa? Who? 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:59.640 Who is Jack Canning at the wog wrath of God? Oh? Yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:02.000 I'm not. I'm not going down the climate change road, 0:08:02.040 --> 0:08:04.120 but it could be the wrap of God. Yes, Michael, oh, 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:06.720 as I says absinentely January eighth, and look at what's 0:08:06.720 --> 0:08:07.440 already happened. 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:11.880 Yeah, well, so have you come up with a slogan, 0:08:11.960 --> 0:08:14.600 because stayin Alive in twenty five might be a good one. 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:17.360 Whoa, boy, this seems a little close to the bone, 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:20.119 doesn't everything it does? It does? Yeah, it does. 0:08:20.360 --> 0:08:24.280 I'd i'd prefer other choices, but that's your Uh, that's 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:25.080 your committee. 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:26.840 I'm a disc jockey. I don't know if I need 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:31.880 to focus on staying that term again. Ever, right, let's 0:08:31.880 --> 0:08:34.559 start the show officially yourself. Then we'll get to similar 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:36.839 news of the day. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Jo Getty 0:08:36.920 --> 0:08:39.760 on this It is Wednesday, January eighth, the year twenty 0:08:39.800 --> 0:08:40.360 twenty five. 0:08:40.400 --> 0:08:42.520 Staying Alive in twenty five. We are Armstrong in Getty 0:08:42.600 --> 0:08:44.960 and we approve of this program a sleep in action. 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:47.520 Then officially, according to FCC rules and regulations, here we 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:48.280 go at Mark. 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:51.400 Well, you see the the remnants of flames. Those were 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:55.320 all homes and as you drive down pH you couldn't 0:08:55.360 --> 0:08:57.880 inceive the water because they were home after home after home. 0:08:58.280 --> 0:09:01.240 Now they are all gone, and it's he's gonna dan 0:09:01.360 --> 0:09:03.760 all the way over to those lights far down there. 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:07.080 Those were all homes, you guys. They're gone. 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:13.400 Yeah, like a whole street of homes. Just they're gone. 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:15.959 They don't exist anymore. And people are going to come 0:09:16.000 --> 0:09:19.240 back and find that out. And so that's the Palisades area. 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:22.120 And we have a friend who lives in that area 0:09:22.120 --> 0:09:24.360 and he doesn't know if his house still exists. And 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:26.840 then I was talking to people in the Pasadena Altadina 0:09:26.880 --> 0:09:28.800 area where which I know very very well and I've 0:09:28.840 --> 0:09:31.520 hiked around those hills and everything many many times. And 0:09:31.800 --> 0:09:34.880 it's burning down a senior center that has burned completely 0:09:34.920 --> 0:09:39.839 to the ground in the Pasadena area. And for whatever reason, 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:42.440 I think this comes out of the Paradise fire that 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:46.360 also was in California, Northern California. Horrible death from that, 0:09:47.120 --> 0:09:50.280 the idea of trying to get away in your car 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:52.680 and being stuck in traffic I find like the most 0:09:52.800 --> 0:09:57.040 terrifying of all things. Just right, oh my god. 0:09:57.520 --> 0:09:59.440 Well, and there are folks saying, hey, if you have 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:01.680 to abandon your car, leave the keys in it so 0:10:01.840 --> 0:10:04.560 we can move it to let the emergency vehicles through, 0:10:04.720 --> 0:10:06.800 and blah blah blah. You know, the idea of leaving 0:10:06.840 --> 0:10:10.119 your keys in your car in LA is practically hilarious 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:15.199 in any other context. But yeah, it's chaos. It's the 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:20.480 disaster in the Maui style. Again, not the loss of 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:24.280 life thus far, partly because you know, there are multiple 0:10:24.360 --> 0:10:26.280 roots in and out of everywhere in La. None of 0:10:26.360 --> 0:10:28.680 them will work ortho dam most times of the day. 0:10:29.520 --> 0:10:32.800 But thank god so far. Okay, from what I've heard. 0:10:32.840 --> 0:10:34.839 Yeah, so people were in the traffic jam, fire was 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:36.960 getting closer. They're afraid they're going to burn up sitting 0:10:36.960 --> 0:10:39.360 in their cars like we've seen in other places in 0:10:39.400 --> 0:10:41.400 the country in the last couple of years. So they 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:44.760 abandoned their cars, took off. There was no way to 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:46.719 get the cars out of there, so they started bulldozing 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:47.960 cars out of the way to try to get the 0:10:47.960 --> 0:10:51.840 fire trucks through. Then late in the day yesterday they 0:10:52.160 --> 0:10:55.120 put out the alert. I saw Bill Millusion of Fox 0:10:55.280 --> 0:10:57.520 tweet this out that they put out the alert. Hey, 0:10:57.520 --> 0:10:59.760 anybody who's a firefighter, whether you're on duty or not, 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:01.760 need your help. And he said he's never seen that 0:11:02.040 --> 0:11:05.360 in any disaster in LA history, after decades of covering it, 0:11:05.400 --> 0:11:07.840 where they're like that desperate for more help. Then the 0:11:07.880 --> 0:11:10.320 wind was so many from we're talking about any town 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:14.280 in county within earshot. Yeah, yeah, just La. And then 0:11:14.360 --> 0:11:17.960 last night they called off all like helicopter, plane rescue, 0:11:18.080 --> 0:11:19.960 dropping water, all that sort of stuff because the wind 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:21.880 was too bad, so they couldn't fly anything. And also 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:25.080 you couldn't see from the air get those kind of 0:11:25.080 --> 0:11:27.480 reports because nobody could fly. So yeah, and it's gonna 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:29.600 be worse today, as you said, So that's quite the deal. 0:11:30.280 --> 0:11:33.800 We'll keep our eye on it. How does mailbag look outstanding? 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:34.200 Cool? 0:11:34.240 --> 0:11:36.040 It's on the way. Here's our text line four one 0:11:36.120 --> 0:11:50.120 five two nine five k ftc Armstrong. So the Facebook 0:11:51.000 --> 0:11:53.800 No More fact Checkers story continues to get a lot 0:11:53.840 --> 0:11:57.760 of attention, mostly from the hold on quit trying to 0:11:57.840 --> 0:12:02.120 cover yourself in glory. Your main interest is making the 0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:06.400 America freer, better place to live, and not the fact 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:09.040 that you're just trying to get your business have your 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:13.920 business ruined by Trump and the incoming Republican Party so 0:12:14.200 --> 0:12:15.320 more on that coming up later. 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:18.280 I have a nuanced view of the issue, Jack, which 0:12:18.280 --> 0:12:19.720 I will be sharing with you. 0:12:19.800 --> 0:12:20.920 I can wait to get to that. 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:23.520 Also, some bonus mailbag coming up in a little bit, 0:12:23.800 --> 0:12:26.920 all having to do with Trump's ideas of annexing this, 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:30.760 that and the other that controversy. We'll sprinkle a bit 0:12:30.800 --> 0:12:33.640 of that into mailbag proper. First to your freedom loving 0:12:33.760 --> 0:12:36.080 quote of the day. I love it when you bring 0:12:36.200 --> 0:12:42.200 nuance to a story. That's what I'm all about our 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:47.480 series on beginnings. This from Jim Rowlan, who's work I 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:48.920 do not know, and I didn't have time to look 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:50.960 up who he is, but I like this. Learning is 0:12:51.000 --> 0:12:54.640 the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:58.640 Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is 0:12:58.679 --> 0:13:00.960 where the miracle process all begins. 0:13:01.120 --> 0:13:03.400 Wow, that's really good. I say that like that. I 0:13:03.440 --> 0:13:08.559 say that not as well to my kids all the time. Yeah. 0:13:08.760 --> 0:13:13.920 Yeah, there is never a downside to learning things, you 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:16.719 know what. And that fits in with the controversial the 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:20.840 veg Ramaswami tweet about American kids versus foreign kids and 0:13:20.880 --> 0:13:22.160 the culture and everything like that. 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:24.120 They got so much attention during the break. We'll love 0:13:24.200 --> 0:13:27.160 to talk about that later. That's perfect, perfect, perfectly, we'll talk. 0:13:27.360 --> 0:13:30.360 We'll kind of touch on it right now during mailbag, 0:13:30.360 --> 0:13:30.920 and I'll tell. 0:13:30.760 --> 0:13:32.600 You why that's right. 0:13:32.679 --> 0:13:35.319 Jovias note mailbag at Armstrong and Getdy dot com. Michael 0:13:35.360 --> 0:13:39.840 in Washington State rights Well. He suggests he likes staying 0:13:39.880 --> 0:13:41.960 alive in twenty five giving out crazy the start of 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:45.480 the year has been. But the most popular choice, though, 0:13:46.000 --> 0:13:48.800 is cut the jive in twenty five based on remember 0:13:48.840 --> 0:13:49.760 at the end of last year. 0:13:49.800 --> 0:13:52.360 My new slogan has cut the crap. 0:13:53.000 --> 0:13:54.600 And what I mean by that is there are so 0:13:54.679 --> 0:13:56.960 many things that have been foisted upon us off and 0:13:57.000 --> 0:14:01.040 by the progressive left and our universities and media. Crap. 0:14:01.800 --> 0:14:05.400 There's a brutal crime in New York. A woman stabbed 0:14:05.400 --> 0:14:08.480 a postal worker. No, it was a dude, a delusional 0:14:08.600 --> 0:14:10.640 dude dressed as a woman. 0:14:10.880 --> 0:14:11.760 That's a dude. 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:15.160 Well, the people keep telling me I need to say 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:18.320 that crap, because it's rude not to say that crap. No, 0:14:18.520 --> 0:14:21.040 just cut the crap. You need to get back to 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:22.800 common sense. 0:14:23.120 --> 0:14:25.200 I about the FBI saying this, we don't think this 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:26.240 is a terrorist attack. 0:14:27.080 --> 0:14:29.720 Oh, she just stated this is not a terrorist event 0:14:30.760 --> 0:14:33.400 way before anybody could possibly draw anyclusion. 0:14:33.800 --> 0:14:38.000 Conclusion, that's garbage, that's crap. Uh. This is from JT 0:14:38.080 --> 0:14:38.640 and Livermore. 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:42.480 OMG, Jack, who doesn't even understand how crypto works or 0:14:42.640 --> 0:14:45.040 why anybody would go to taco Bell is trying to 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:47.720 explain the multiverse. Either it's a sign of the impending 0:14:47.720 --> 0:14:50.560 apocalypse or it is ironic proof that there is a multiverse, 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:53.280 because it would take an infinite number of universes to 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:55.920 have one where Jack doesn't understand many things but does 0:14:56.080 --> 0:14:58.680 understand one of the most complicated theories ever devised. 0:14:58.760 --> 0:15:01.720 Well, it's a matter that's on necessarily snide. It's a 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:05.080 matter of things I'm interested or not. I assume I 0:15:05.080 --> 0:15:07.840 could understand crypto if I ever read about it, but 0:15:07.880 --> 0:15:10.520 I haven't because I don't know. I just don't care yet. 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:11.240 I probably should. 0:15:12.120 --> 0:15:15.480 Yeah, I don't like cliches, particularly modern ones, but I 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:18.640 don't have the bandwidth. There's a pretty good statement. I 0:15:18.720 --> 0:15:21.920 just I don't have time right right, moving along, I 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:25.320 love this. Marina and San Diego frequent correspondent. My family 0:15:25.360 --> 0:15:28.920 just visited Grapevine, Texas, the Christmas capital of Texas. Main 0:15:28.960 --> 0:15:31.560 Street all decked out, just absolutely beautiful. It was like 0:15:31.640 --> 0:15:34.720 a Hallmark movie. We went over to the life sized 0:15:34.800 --> 0:15:36.880 Nativity waited for our turn to take a photo. Just 0:15:36.880 --> 0:15:39.040 then a man with his wife and kids started pushing 0:15:39.080 --> 0:15:41.840 their way to the front in front of us. Realizing 0:15:41.880 --> 0:15:44.320 this family maybe from a country or pushing and shoving 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:46.560 is the norm, I said politely, excuse me, but you 0:15:46.600 --> 0:15:47.520 need to wait your turn. 0:15:47.600 --> 0:15:50.080 We were next. We then took our photo. 0:15:49.840 --> 0:15:52.040 And as I returned to the group, I realized I 0:15:52.040 --> 0:15:55.440 almost had to throw down in front of Baby Jesus. 0:15:55.040 --> 0:15:56.120 On Christmas Eve. 0:15:56.400 --> 0:16:01.240 Wow, rudeness not in my Americus there from San Diego. 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:03.040 Man, the three wise guys would have been going tisk 0:16:03.200 --> 0:16:05.120 tisk tisk as you rolled around on the ground with 0:16:05.160 --> 0:16:05.760 that dude. 0:16:06.320 --> 0:16:09.400 Or get them, get them because they saw what was 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:10.400 happening and they're wives. 0:16:10.600 --> 0:16:14.320 Here take my mirr. Hit him in the head, throw 0:16:14.360 --> 0:16:18.160 the mur in his eyes and turns. Maybe he does. 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:20.480 Nobody knows. Swimmer is uh. 0:16:20.560 --> 0:16:24.400 Let's see Ted Wrights on Canada's the fifty first State, 0:16:24.440 --> 0:16:28.120 whoa not so fast? Yes, Canada is very very liberal progressive. 0:16:28.200 --> 0:16:30.160 So before Canada becomes a state, we need to have 0:16:30.200 --> 0:16:32.960 a little transition period to deprogram them. Off their current 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:36.200 socialist government mindset. First, they need to be a protectorate 0:16:36.320 --> 0:16:38.960 like Guam or Puerto Rico. In fact, when you look 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:41.920 at the definition of protectorate, Canada is practically one already. 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:42.600 And I quote. 0:16:42.800 --> 0:16:45.280 A protectorate is a territory that is protected by a 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:49.600 stronger state or entity, either militarily or diplomatically against third parties. 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:53.440 The United States has several territories, including commonwealths and other territories. 0:16:53.440 --> 0:16:56.200 Well, is that what some in Greenland are wanting to 0:16:56.240 --> 0:16:58.560 have happen. I listened to a politician from Greenland on 0:16:58.640 --> 0:17:01.880 NPR this morning. He's all four coming under the umbrella 0:17:01.920 --> 0:17:04.320 of the United States. There's a lot to be said 0:17:04.320 --> 0:17:06.680 about this. It is not a crazy notion, and we're 0:17:06.680 --> 0:17:09.360 not going to conquer it. We're going to buy it 0:17:09.640 --> 0:17:13.119 or you know, enter into an agreement. I'd kind of 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:14.879 like to conquerte. You're on a ship on shore and 0:17:14.920 --> 0:17:17.040 somebody runs up on the beach and plants a flag. 0:17:18.200 --> 0:17:22.680 The Greenlanders are like, okay, it's got a lot to 0:17:22.760 --> 0:17:24.639 do with China. At least the politician I heard this 0:17:24.680 --> 0:17:28.840 morning a lot more on the way, stay with us, 0:17:28.960 --> 0:17:30.040 armstrong and getdy. 0:17:34.600 --> 0:17:37.600 Just hear US tourists seeing it looks like an incredible place. 0:17:37.600 --> 0:17:38.800 We've been talking about going for a while. 0:17:38.840 --> 0:17:39.800 I was actually supposed to be. 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:41.879 Here last spring for some of the stuff I do 0:17:41.920 --> 0:17:42.560 in my free time. 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:47.639 As Donald Trump junior. Landing in Greenland yesterday being asked, 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:53.879 asked obviously about his dad's speculation about Greenland becoming a 0:17:53.920 --> 0:17:56.320 state or something like that, and he said, oh, no, no, 0:17:56.560 --> 0:17:58.720 just coincidence. I've always wanted to come to Greenland, and 0:17:59.000 --> 0:18:00.320 what come on, there's. 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:05.280 A tourist what in my Trump jet? 0:18:06.000 --> 0:18:07.600 Right? Just a coincidence. 0:18:07.640 --> 0:18:10.040 I meant to come earlier but didn't get around till 0:18:10.119 --> 0:18:12.440 till like the day after my dad gave a big 0:18:12.480 --> 0:18:18.760 speech about having Greenland. So Trump made a handful of 0:18:19.000 --> 0:18:24.879 really intriguing statements that his long press conference yesterday. News 0:18:24.920 --> 0:18:28.040 conference you call them these days because the press is irrelevant, 0:18:28.080 --> 0:18:30.879 like the printing press, because that's where that term comes from. 0:18:30.920 --> 0:18:32.560 I think that's why they call it a news conference 0:18:32.560 --> 0:18:34.879 these days. Anyway, it's like not saying I'll play you 0:18:34.960 --> 0:18:37.960 some tape. No, there's no tape anyway. Ah. 0:18:38.280 --> 0:18:39.320 So he said a couple of things. 0:18:39.400 --> 0:18:41.480 Number one, we're gonna change the name of the golf 0:18:41.480 --> 0:18:44.120 of Mexico to the Gulf of America. I'm down change 0:18:44.160 --> 0:18:46.200 the maps. I don't care. I'll pay for it. It's 0:18:46.280 --> 0:18:51.200 our golf, now give it back. And besides, we just 0:18:51.240 --> 0:18:54.639 surrounded as much as Mexico does. We drill, we maintain it. 0:18:54.680 --> 0:18:57.359 If something goes crazy, we cleaned it up. It's our golf. 0:18:57.480 --> 0:19:00.560 Does any Is there any pushback on that? I assume 0:19:00.800 --> 0:19:02.480 the people that hate Trump were laughing at it, like 0:19:02.560 --> 0:19:06.000 it's ridiculous, but it makes Why has it always been 0:19:06.080 --> 0:19:07.320 to Gulf of Mexico. 0:19:07.520 --> 0:19:11.400 From America hating weasels? There's probably pushback. I mean, it's 0:19:11.440 --> 0:19:13.959 just the name, all right, that's our name now, Okay, 0:19:14.080 --> 0:19:15.840 Having said that, no blood has been spilled, We're just 0:19:15.920 --> 0:19:20.399 going to change the names. And also the idea of 0:19:20.680 --> 0:19:24.159 turning Canada into a state, which I don't think is 0:19:24.200 --> 0:19:27.520 going to happen. As JT pointed out in mailbag, it 0:19:27.600 --> 0:19:30.960 practically is a protectorate. Now we're going to table that 0:19:31.040 --> 0:19:34.119 motion for now. It is a sovereign country with functioning government. 0:19:34.160 --> 0:19:36.320 It says we don't have a treaty or anything. I 0:19:36.359 --> 0:19:40.440 don't think with Canada. But obviously if China assaulted Canada, 0:19:40.760 --> 0:19:43.800 we'd be all over it. Oh yeah, not like we 0:19:43.840 --> 0:19:45.000 would allow that to happen. 0:19:45.760 --> 0:19:49.480 In spite of the over long tenure of woke Elvis 0:19:49.680 --> 0:19:53.879 Weenie Justin Trudeau, who's ruined Canada with his woke politics 0:19:53.880 --> 0:19:56.399 and economics and the rest of it. Canada is a 0:19:56.480 --> 0:19:59.560 very close ally huge trading partner, etc. And just really 0:19:59.560 --> 0:20:02.600 good people, so we will not be annexing Canada in 0:20:02.640 --> 0:20:05.639 my opinion. On the other hand, the Greenland thing to 0:20:05.720 --> 0:20:09.760 me is really intriguing. And no, Trump's not gonna take 0:20:09.800 --> 0:20:12.520 it by force. That's just are you not used to 0:20:12.600 --> 0:20:17.959 Trump yet? He makes outlandish opening offers or threats or whatever. 0:20:18.160 --> 0:20:20.960 Then it gets down to negotiating and you figure out 0:20:20.960 --> 0:20:23.600 what he actually wants. Is it the most responsible way 0:20:23.640 --> 0:20:26.199 for a president to talk? Perhaps not, but it is 0:20:26.240 --> 0:20:27.520 what it is. He got elected. 0:20:27.680 --> 0:20:32.520 Now because I'm of medium IQ, I can't help. But 0:20:32.560 --> 0:20:37.479 when I picture Greenland, picture a big green country, because 0:20:37.520 --> 0:20:41.000 it's in the name, the Land of green. But it's 0:20:41.000 --> 0:20:44.480 not right, it's not it's ice, as they famously say. 0:20:44.840 --> 0:20:50.879 Just remember, Iceland is green and Greenland is icy. Greenland 0:20:51.040 --> 0:20:53.040 is actually a fascinating place, and we don't have time 0:20:53.080 --> 0:20:56.280 to do the full boring geography lesson, but it is 0:20:56.480 --> 0:21:00.399 of growing strategic importance, and I'm gonna hit you with 0:21:00.400 --> 0:21:03.879 a couple of emails like Andrew in the Bay Area. 0:21:03.960 --> 0:21:06.359 Trump is one hundred percent right on Greenland, not just 0:21:06.400 --> 0:21:09.520 because of the ten trillion dollars plus of energy resources 0:21:09.600 --> 0:21:12.400 and rare earth minerals it's estimating to hold, but also, 0:21:12.800 --> 0:21:15.199