Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Kaddy.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Jackie and Pee arm Why from Studio C.
Speaker 3: I don't see you, Senor. Yeah, well you will, Chorley.
Speaker 3: It's a dimly lit room deeper in the bowels of
Speaker 3: the Armstrong You Getty Communications Compound And hey y'all, midday week, hobday.
Speaker 3: We're under the putolage of our general manager.
Speaker 1: I was going to go with Greenland to come a USA,
Speaker 1: but instead, good Lord, the people of Los Angeles County.
Speaker 1: The apocalypse is upon La.
Speaker 3: Man. If you haven't watched any of those videos, holy crap.
Speaker 3: I don't even know what you say about that. Hell
Speaker 3: descends upon you like that. One hundred times our winds
Speaker 3: fired and traveling it like a mile every thirty seconds.
Speaker 3: And today could be every bit is bad or worse. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I was just hearing a report that they said that
Speaker 3: they might be worse. And there are many many fires
Speaker 3: all over the area. The super fancy Hollywood type houses
Speaker 3: get the most attention always, but there's fires all over.
Speaker 3: I was actually on the phone with a number of
Speaker 3: people last night who were fleeing for their lives, electricity off,
Speaker 3: pitch dark, can't see anything. Why there's so much traffic,
Speaker 3: You don't know if you're gonna be able to get
Speaker 3: out or stuck in traffic. People fleeing their cars and
Speaker 3: running for the ocean. Insane.
Speaker 1: And the minute that the dust settles on this and
Speaker 1: we certainly pray that the loss of life is zero
Speaker 1: or certainly as little as possible. The big story is
Speaker 1: going to be the fact that several of the big insurers,
Speaker 1: or at least one that I'm certain of, have dropped
Speaker 1: fire coverage for that area, and people were scrambling to
Speaker 1: figure out what to do when the fires began.
Speaker 3: And this was as according to a friend of ours
Speaker 3: who had to flee and doesn't even know if his
Speaker 3: house is stole up or not. This was as recently
Speaker 3: as a couple of weeks ago in that neighborhood. They
Speaker 3: dropped the fire coverage, right right, That is a problem. Well,
Speaker 3: you've been talking for a long time about this is
Speaker 3: going to have to come to a head at some
Speaker 3: point with the banks and the insurance companies in various states,
Speaker 3: whether you're talking about fire's, hurricanes, whatever, How are we
Speaker 3: going to deal with this because houses have to be insured.
Speaker 3: The insurance has to be affordable enough that people can
Speaker 3: buy houses. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know how this all gets worked out, or
Speaker 1: it might just completely distort the housing market in a
Speaker 1: way that will be take decades to untangle.
Speaker 3: If you've ever considered it. The very very short version.
Speaker 1: Of it is you have to keep in mind that
Speaker 1: a huge percentage of the personal property in the United
Speaker 1: States is mortgaged. And so you have banks, including some
Speaker 1: of the big banks or even Fanny May and organizations
Speaker 1: like that, that have billions trillions of dollars worth of
Speaker 1: mortgages out there, and if there's no insurance on those properties,
Speaker 1: well then the big banks would lose their arses and
Speaker 1: that's not acceptable for a number of reasons. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're definitely moving toward something like a homeowner's insurance crisis
Speaker 1: in the US, and not just like in Florida and
Speaker 1: California all over the place.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know, continuing with what you were just
Speaker 3: saying there, that's the interest the banks have, and then
Speaker 3: we the people as a society have, you know, a
Speaker 3: great interest in people being able to own homes. I mean,
Speaker 3: there has to be a thing. It can't be a
Speaker 3: only for you know, a tiny percentage of people that
Speaker 3: can afford homes and insurance.
Speaker 1: Right or self ensure my house burns down, I build
Speaker 1: it again, ho home. Yeah, that's that's a tiny percentage
Speaker 1: of people. It'll be interesting to see this play out,
Speaker 1: and it could well be. It's almost certainly going to
Speaker 1: be on Trump's watch, right, right, Chirst Why do I
Speaker 1: mention the president Congress rights laws or they used to.
Speaker 3: Yeah, people have been listening for a long time now.
Speaker 3: I had a fire. We had a fire on our
Speaker 3: farm about five years ago, and I got to experience
Speaker 3: in person with flames around me, which melted my shoes.
Speaker 3: How fast a fire travels when it's really windy outside.
Speaker 3: And until I had seen it in person, I had
Speaker 3: no idea. But it just it can go from a
Speaker 3: spark to your you can't see anything but smoking flames
Speaker 3: in seconds. It's just shocking. And that was happening all
Speaker 3: over La yesterday and today. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so fingers crossed the prayers whatever, uh, and on
Speaker 1: we go.
Speaker 4: I'm walking in the door, Michael, the door opened place
Speaker 4: there he is, Hey, everybody, how.
Speaker 3: You doing fine? How's Katie doing? That's what I want
Speaker 3: to know.
Speaker 1: Poor Katie ailing with one of the several bugs ravage.
Speaker 1: Oh stop it ravaging the country. I under sneeze a
Speaker 1: two call.
Speaker 3: I'm doing I'm doing better today.
Speaker 5: Yesterday, man, I had so much chest pain that I
Speaker 5: was married. I was going to end up in an
Speaker 5: urgent care because I didn't know, like if this was
Speaker 5: bird pneumonia or whatever.
Speaker 3: Exactly monkey bird box pneumonia, murder hornet pneumonia, I.
Speaker 1: Don't know exact right exactly, atmospheric river covid.
Speaker 5: Now I'm back and with a deeper voice than ever,
Speaker 5: so so.
Speaker 3: Okay. So I'm glad that that came up because I've
Speaker 3: been trying to figure out, like, did all of our
Speaker 3: brains get broken with the pandemic or is all climate
Speaker 3: stuff and diseases worse than they used to be. Does
Speaker 3: it just seem like it is, or or it just
Speaker 3: seems everything seems more extreme than it used to be.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. I think part of that is media.
Speaker 1: My wife had a cold last week and remarked it.
Speaker 1: I think she said, I haven't had a cold since
Speaker 1: the year twenty twenty.
Speaker 3: Good for her.
Speaker 1: So maybe it's just, you know, we're getting used to
Speaker 1: it again, the slog through the minor diseases that afflick humanity. Uh,
Speaker 1: I'm not diagnosing you as minor, Katie were concerned. Chest
Speaker 1: pain doesn't sound good to me.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 5: I when I would cough, I would double over, and
Speaker 5: I'm going, Okay, this is not working. But I got
Speaker 5: COVID a couple of years ago, and I said I
Speaker 5: had never been sick like that until I got COVID.
Speaker 5: And I can say that I have not ever had
Speaker 5: a flu like this. That wasn't COVID.
Speaker 3: I know my son has been sick for a week
Speaker 3: and sick in a way that was beyond what a
Speaker 3: normal cold is, like you're talking about, and we did
Speaker 3: the COVID test. It wasn't COVID. That he doesn't appear
Speaker 3: to have sexed up a bird or whatever you do
Speaker 3: to get bird pops. I believe that is it? Yes,
Speaker 3: all right, I didn't do that just to kill any rumor. Yeah,
Speaker 3: let's say internet settled down and he had La burning
Speaker 3: down and the mountains of North Carolina flooded and just
Speaker 3: I don't know, maybe it's just seems like things are
Speaker 3: worse because of media govern Just Michael way. Whoa, whoa? Who?
Speaker 3: Who is Jack Canning at the wog wrath of God? Oh? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm not. I'm not going down the climate change road,
Speaker 3: but it could be the wrap of God. Yes, Michael, oh,
Speaker 3: as I says absinentely January eighth, and look at what's
Speaker 3: already happened.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, so have you come up with a slogan,
Speaker 1: because stayin Alive in twenty five might be a good one.
Speaker 3: Whoa, boy, this seems a little close to the bone,
Speaker 3: doesn't everything it does? It does? Yeah, it does.
Speaker 1: I'd i'd prefer other choices, but that's your Uh, that's
Speaker 1: your committee.
Speaker 3: I'm a disc jockey. I don't know if I need
Speaker 3: to focus on staying that term again. Ever, right, let's
Speaker 3: start the show officially yourself. Then we'll get to similar
Speaker 3: news of the day. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Jo Getty
Speaker 3: on this It is Wednesday, January eighth, the year twenty
Speaker 3: twenty five.
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Speaker 6: Well, you see the the remnants of flames. Those were
Speaker 6: all homes and as you drive down pH you couldn't
Speaker 6: inceive the water because they were home after home after home.
Speaker 6: Now they are all gone, and it's he's gonna dan
Speaker 6: all the way over to those lights far down there.
Speaker 6: Those were all homes, you guys. They're gone.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like a whole street of homes. Just they're gone.
Speaker 3: They don't exist anymore. And people are going to come
Speaker 3: back and find that out. And so that's the Palisades area.
Speaker 3: And we have a friend who lives in that area
Speaker 3: and he doesn't know if his house still exists. And
Speaker 3: then I was talking to people in the Pasadena Altadina
Speaker 3: area where which I know very very well and I've
Speaker 3: hiked around those hills and everything many many times. And
Speaker 3: it's burning down a senior center that has burned completely
Speaker 3: to the ground in the Pasadena area. And for whatever reason,
Speaker 3: I think this comes out of the Paradise fire that
Speaker 3: also was in California, Northern California. Horrible death from that,
Speaker 3: the idea of trying to get away in your car
Speaker 3: and being stuck in traffic I find like the most
Speaker 3: terrifying of all things. Just right, oh my god.
Speaker 1: Well, and there are folks saying, hey, if you have
Speaker 1: to abandon your car, leave the keys in it so
Speaker 1: we can move it to let the emergency vehicles through,
Speaker 1: and blah blah blah. You know, the idea of leaving
Speaker 1: your keys in your car in LA is practically hilarious
Speaker 1: in any other context. But yeah, it's chaos. It's the
Speaker 1: disaster in the Maui style. Again, not the loss of
Speaker 1: life thus far, partly because you know, there are multiple
Speaker 1: roots in and out of everywhere in La. None of
Speaker 1: them will work ortho dam most times of the day.
Speaker 1: But thank god so far. Okay, from what I've heard.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so people were in the traffic jam, fire was
Speaker 3: getting closer. They're afraid they're going to burn up sitting
Speaker 3: in their cars like we've seen in other places in
Speaker 3: the country in the last couple of years. So they
Speaker 3: abandoned their cars, took off. There was no way to
Speaker 3: get the cars out of there, so they started bulldozing
Speaker 3: cars out of the way to try to get the
Speaker 3: fire trucks through. Then late in the day yesterday they
Speaker 3: put out the alert. I saw Bill Millusion of Fox
Speaker 3: tweet this out that they put out the alert. Hey,
Speaker 3: anybody who's a firefighter, whether you're on duty or not,
Speaker 3: need your help. And he said he's never seen that
Speaker 3: in any disaster in LA history, after decades of covering it,
Speaker 3: where they're like that desperate for more help. Then the
Speaker 3: wind was so many from we're talking about any town
Speaker 3: in county within earshot. Yeah, yeah, just La. And then
Speaker 3: last night they called off all like helicopter, plane rescue,
Speaker 3: dropping water, all that sort of stuff because the wind
Speaker 3: was too bad, so they couldn't fly anything. And also
Speaker 3: you couldn't see from the air get those kind of
Speaker 3: reports because nobody could fly. So yeah, and it's gonna
Speaker 3: be worse today, as you said, So that's quite the deal.
Speaker 3: We'll keep our eye on it. How does mailbag look outstanding?
Speaker 2: Cool?
Speaker 3: It's on the way. Here's our text line four one
Speaker 3: five two nine five k ftc Armstrong. So the Facebook
Speaker 3: No More fact Checkers story continues to get a lot
Speaker 3: of attention, mostly from the hold on quit trying to
Speaker 3: cover yourself in glory. Your main interest is making the
Speaker 3: America freer, better place to live, and not the fact
Speaker 3: that you're just trying to get your business have your
Speaker 3: business ruined by Trump and the incoming Republican Party so
Speaker 3: more on that coming up later.
Speaker 1: I have a nuanced view of the issue, Jack, which
Speaker 1: I will be sharing with you.
Speaker 3: I can wait to get to that.
Speaker 1: Also, some bonus mailbag coming up in a little bit,
Speaker 1: all having to do with Trump's ideas of annexing this,
Speaker 1: that and the other that controversy. We'll sprinkle a bit
Speaker 1: of that into mailbag proper. First to your freedom loving
Speaker 1: quote of the day. I love it when you bring
Speaker 1: nuance to a story. That's what I'm all about our
Speaker 1: series on beginnings. This from Jim Rowlan, who's work I
Speaker 1: do not know, and I didn't have time to look
Speaker 1: up who he is, but I like this. Learning is
Speaker 1: the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health.
Speaker 1: Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is
Speaker 1: where the miracle process all begins.
Speaker 3: Wow, that's really good. I say that like that. I
Speaker 3: say that not as well to my kids all the time. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there is never a downside to learning things, you
Speaker 1: know what. And that fits in with the controversial the
Speaker 1: veg Ramaswami tweet about American kids versus foreign kids and
Speaker 1: the culture and everything like that.
Speaker 3: They got so much attention during the break. We'll love
Speaker 3: to talk about that later. That's perfect, perfect, perfectly, we'll talk.
Speaker 1: We'll kind of touch on it right now during mailbag,
Speaker 1: and I'll tell.
Speaker 3: You why that's right.
Speaker 1: Jovias note mailbag at Armstrong and Getdy dot com. Michael
Speaker 1: in Washington State rights Well. He suggests he likes staying
Speaker 1: alive in twenty five giving out crazy the start of
Speaker 1: the year has been. But the most popular choice, though,
Speaker 1: is cut the jive in twenty five based on remember
Speaker 1: at the end of last year.
Speaker 3: My new slogan has cut the crap.
Speaker 1: And what I mean by that is there are so
Speaker 1: many things that have been foisted upon us off and
Speaker 1: by the progressive left and our universities and media. Crap.
Speaker 1: There's a brutal crime in New York. A woman stabbed
Speaker 1: a postal worker. No, it was a dude, a delusional
Speaker 1: dude dressed as a woman.
Speaker 3: That's a dude.
Speaker 1: Well, the people keep telling me I need to say
Speaker 1: that crap, because it's rude not to say that crap. No,
Speaker 1: just cut the crap. You need to get back to
Speaker 1: common sense.
Speaker 3: I about the FBI saying this, we don't think this
Speaker 3: is a terrorist attack.
Speaker 1: Oh, she just stated this is not a terrorist event
Speaker 1: way before anybody could possibly draw anyclusion.
Speaker 3: Conclusion, that's garbage, that's crap. Uh. This is from JT
Speaker 3: and Livermore.
Speaker 1: OMG, Jack, who doesn't even understand how crypto works or
Speaker 1: why anybody would go to taco Bell is trying to
Speaker 1: explain the multiverse. Either it's a sign of the impending
Speaker 1: apocalypse or it is ironic proof that there is a multiverse,
Speaker 1: because it would take an infinite number of universes to
Speaker 1: have one where Jack doesn't understand many things but does
Speaker 1: understand one of the most complicated theories ever devised.
Speaker 3: Well, it's a matter that's on necessarily snide. It's a
Speaker 3: matter of things I'm interested or not. I assume I
Speaker 3: could understand crypto if I ever read about it, but
Speaker 3: I haven't because I don't know. I just don't care yet.
Speaker 3: I probably should.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't like cliches, particularly modern ones, but I
Speaker 1: don't have the bandwidth. There's a pretty good statement. I
Speaker 1: just I don't have time right right, moving along, I
Speaker 1: love this. Marina and San Diego frequent correspondent. My family
Speaker 1: just visited Grapevine, Texas, the Christmas capital of Texas. Main
Speaker 1: Street all decked out, just absolutely beautiful. It was like
Speaker 1: a Hallmark movie. We went over to the life sized
Speaker 1: Nativity waited for our turn to take a photo. Just
Speaker 1: then a man with his wife and kids started pushing
Speaker 1: their way to the front in front of us. Realizing
Speaker 1: this family maybe from a country or pushing and shoving
Speaker 1: is the norm, I said politely, excuse me, but you
Speaker 1: need to wait your turn.
Speaker 3: We were next. We then took our photo.
Speaker 1: And as I returned to the group, I realized I
Speaker 1: almost had to throw down in front of Baby Jesus.
Speaker 3: On Christmas Eve.
Speaker 1: Wow, rudeness not in my Americus there from San Diego.
Speaker 3: Man, the three wise guys would have been going tisk
Speaker 3: tisk tisk as you rolled around on the ground with
Speaker 3: that dude.
Speaker 1: Or get them, get them because they saw what was
Speaker 1: happening and they're wives.
Speaker 3: Here take my mirr. Hit him in the head, throw
Speaker 3: the mur in his eyes and turns. Maybe he does.
Speaker 3: Nobody knows. Swimmer is uh.
Speaker 1: Let's see Ted Wrights on Canada's the fifty first State,
Speaker 1: whoa not so fast? Yes, Canada is very very liberal progressive.
Speaker 1: So before Canada becomes a state, we need to have
Speaker 1: a little transition period to deprogram them. Off their current
Speaker 1: socialist government mindset. First, they need to be a protectorate
Speaker 1: like Guam or Puerto Rico. In fact, when you look
Speaker 1: at the definition of protectorate, Canada is practically one already.
Speaker 3: And I quote.
Speaker 1: A protectorate is a territory that is protected by a
Speaker 1: stronger state or entity, either militarily or diplomatically against third parties.
Speaker 1: The United States has several territories, including commonwealths and other territories.
Speaker 3: Well, is that what some in Greenland are wanting to
Speaker 3: have happen. I listened to a politician from Greenland on
Speaker 3: NPR this morning. He's all four coming under the umbrella
Speaker 3: of the United States. There's a lot to be said
Speaker 3: about this. It is not a crazy notion, and we're
Speaker 3: not going to conquer it. We're going to buy it
Speaker 3: or you know, enter into an agreement. I'd kind of
Speaker 3: like to conquerte. You're on a ship on shore and
Speaker 3: somebody runs up on the beach and plants a flag.
Speaker 3: The Greenlanders are like, okay, it's got a lot to
Speaker 3: do with China. At least the politician I heard this
Speaker 3: morning a lot more on the way, stay with us,
Speaker 3: armstrong and getdy.
Speaker 6: Just hear US tourists seeing it looks like an incredible place.
Speaker 6: We've been talking about going for a while.
Speaker 3: I was actually supposed to be.
Speaker 6: Here last spring for some of the stuff I do
Speaker 6: in my free time.
Speaker 3: As Donald Trump junior. Landing in Greenland yesterday being asked,
Speaker 3: asked obviously about his dad's speculation about Greenland becoming a
Speaker 3: state or something like that, and he said, oh, no, no,
Speaker 3: just coincidence. I've always wanted to come to Greenland, and
Speaker 3: what come on, there's.
Speaker 1: A tourist what in my Trump jet?
Speaker 3: Right? Just a coincidence.
Speaker 1: I meant to come earlier but didn't get around till
Speaker 1: till like the day after my dad gave a big
Speaker 1: speech about having Greenland. So Trump made a handful of
Speaker 1: really intriguing statements that his long press conference yesterday. News
Speaker 1: conference you call them these days because the press is irrelevant,
Speaker 1: like the printing press, because that's where that term comes from.
Speaker 1: I think that's why they call it a news conference
Speaker 1: these days. Anyway, it's like not saying I'll play you
Speaker 1: some tape. No, there's no tape anyway. Ah.
Speaker 3: So he said a couple of things.
Speaker 1: Number one, we're gonna change the name of the golf
Speaker 1: of Mexico to the Gulf of America. I'm down change
Speaker 1: the maps. I don't care. I'll pay for it. It's
Speaker 1: our golf, now give it back. And besides, we just
Speaker 1: surrounded as much as Mexico does. We drill, we maintain it.
Speaker 1: If something goes crazy, we cleaned it up. It's our golf.
Speaker 3: Does any Is there any pushback on that? I assume
Speaker 3: the people that hate Trump were laughing at it, like
Speaker 3: it's ridiculous, but it makes Why has it always been
Speaker 3: to Gulf of Mexico.
Speaker 1: From America hating weasels? There's probably pushback. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: just the name, all right, that's our name now, Okay,
Speaker 1: Having said that, no blood has been spilled, We're just
Speaker 1: going to change the names. And also the idea of
Speaker 1: turning Canada into a state, which I don't think is
Speaker 1: going to happen. As JT pointed out in mailbag, it
Speaker 1: practically is a protectorate. Now we're going to table that
Speaker 1: motion for now. It is a sovereign country with functioning government.
Speaker 3: It says we don't have a treaty or anything. I
Speaker 3: don't think with Canada. But obviously if China assaulted Canada,
Speaker 3: we'd be all over it. Oh yeah, not like we
Speaker 3: would allow that to happen.
Speaker 1: In spite of the over long tenure of woke Elvis
Speaker 1: Weenie Justin Trudeau, who's ruined Canada with his woke politics
Speaker 1: and economics and the rest of it. Canada is a
Speaker 1: very close ally huge trading partner, etc. And just really
Speaker 1: good people, so we will not be annexing Canada in
Speaker 1: my opinion. On the other hand, the Greenland thing to
Speaker 1: me is really intriguing. And no, Trump's not gonna take
Speaker 1: it by force. That's just are you not used to
Speaker 1: Trump yet? He makes outlandish opening offers or threats or whatever.
Speaker 1: Then it gets down to negotiating and you figure out
Speaker 1: what he actually wants. Is it the most responsible way
Speaker 1: for a president to talk? Perhaps not, but it is
Speaker 1: what it is. He got elected.
Speaker 3: Now because I'm of medium IQ, I can't help. But
Speaker 3: when I picture Greenland, picture a big green country, because
Speaker 3: it's in the name, the Land of green. But it's
Speaker 3: not right, it's not it's ice, as they famously say.
Speaker 3: Just remember, Iceland is green and Greenland is icy. Greenland
Speaker 3: is actually a fascinating place, and we don't have time
Speaker 3: to do the full boring geography lesson, but it is
Speaker 3: of growing strategic importance, and I'm gonna hit you with
Speaker 3: a couple of emails like Andrew in the Bay Area.
Speaker 3: Trump is one hundred percent right on Greenland, not just
Speaker 3: because of the ten trillion dollars plus of energy resources
Speaker 3: and rare earth minerals it's estimating to hold, but also,
Speaker 3: as a Navy jag officer with a little knowledge of
Speaker 3: operational law, because of its geographic significance with respect to
Speaker 3: future sea lanes. The earth warming, whatever the cause, means
Speaker 3: sea lanes are opening in the Arctic, and transiting those
Speaker 3: new roots between Asia, Europe and America takes a fraction
Speaker 3: of the time compared to the Panama or Suez Canals. Wow,
Speaker 3: I didn't know that.
Speaker 1: Think one hundred billion dollars of goods being shipped every year,
Speaker 1: taking half as long to reach their destination by ship,
Speaker 1: and the billions that would save in costs. The first
Speaker 1: areas expected to open up are the lanes between the
Speaker 1: islands of Canada and Greenland. Grabbing Greenland would ensure having
Speaker 1: a hand in sending the policies on those new routes
Speaker 1: and maintaining freedom of the seas Moreover, Russia is positioned
Speaker 1: as the nation with the most land mass bordering the Arctic,
Speaker 1: thus the most likely to try to control them. And
Speaker 1: in Greenland, coupled with Alaska, our friends in America's hat
Speaker 1: and our Scandinavian friends in Finland and Sweden, means we
Speaker 1: could rival Russia for who controls these new roots.
Speaker 3: Well, And as I said, I was listening to NPR
Speaker 3: today and they had on a some high level Greenland
Speaker 3: politician who is four coming under the umbrella somehow of
Speaker 3: the United States. And I couldn't quite figure out what
Speaker 3: they were getting at there, and weren't talking about being
Speaker 3: a state. And he said absolutely no to the idea
Speaker 3: of the United States purchasing Greenland, although they at least
Speaker 3: this guy hates the fact that they ended up somehow
Speaker 3: attached to Denmark and the EU by extension, which is
Speaker 3: all sorts of screwed up. But he was talking about China.
Speaker 3: He said, Chinese ships are regularly about and they're surveilling
Speaker 3: us constantly, and we don't like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So to get serious about this because a serious topic.
Speaker 3: And again, if you get hung up on Trump's.
Speaker 1: Specific nomenclature, you're going to get dragged off of what
Speaker 1: you ought to be talking about. Those sea roots for
Speaker 1: the reasons that Burr Andrew is spelled out so beautifully
Speaker 1: are going to be incredibly important geopolitical targets in the
Speaker 1: next fifty years, I mean like crazy important. And the
Speaker 1: idea that Greenland and we do have I was about
Speaker 1: to get to this. We have a significant military base
Speaker 1: on Greenland. But the idea that Greenland and the might
Speaker 1: of Denmark and again the awesome power of the EU
Speaker 1: would be sufficient to project the power of the free
Speaker 1: world on those sea roots is not realistic. It will
Speaker 1: take the United States and Trump's point of view on this,
Speaker 1: as so many things, is all right, Look, if we
Speaker 1: are going to be in charge of protecting it and
Speaker 1: projecting the power of the free world around it, we
Speaker 1: got to get a better deal. We're not gonna do
Speaker 1: it just because we're nice guys. So what that treaty
Speaker 1: looks like, I don't know, but it's of enormous geopolitical importance.
Speaker 1: And anybody gets hung up on making fun of Trump
Speaker 1: as an idiot. A couple more thoughts is Alvin and Berkeley.
Speaker 3: Yes, So would they become anything official? Would they be
Speaker 3: like the Virgin Islands or anything like that, or I
Speaker 3: don't know. I have no idea.
Speaker 1: There are a number of different options, but the whole
Speaker 1: frozen tundra practically uninhabitable. Most of it ain't gonna be
Speaker 1: true if the warming continues, and it probably won't.
Speaker 3: Who knows. The Earth moves in cycles.
Speaker 1: But I liked this. Oh oh, here is on Greenland.
Speaker 1: I think no one's talking about our military base in Thule,
Speaker 1: which I hope I'm pronouncing that correctly. Perhaps I am
Speaker 1: probably not, which was put there to watch out for
Speaker 1: the Ruskies back in the day. I don't know what
Speaker 1: the US does there now. Also of note is that
Speaker 1: Greenland is a It really is really a string of
Speaker 1: islands with a big canyon slash frozen lake in the middle.
Speaker 1: The earth really starts heating up, it will be a
Speaker 1: good source of fresh water rises up when the ice melts.
Speaker 3: Let's see, Greenland should be the fifty first state.
Speaker 1: And then Joe from Dayton says, I laughed at Trump
Speaker 1: talking about invading Greenland.
Speaker 3: Greenland. We already have a base there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true, formerly an Air Force base and now
Speaker 1: a space Force base Pititufic Space Base Bidofik has a
Speaker 1: ballistic missile early warning system mission to detect inbound to ICBMs.
Speaker 1: So yeah, we're already a big presence on Greenland.
Speaker 3: Okay, did not know? Yeah? He learned something every day,
Speaker 3: don't you, Michael?
Speaker 1: You got to learn one more thing. In eighteen sixty seven,
Speaker 1: William H. Swords, Secretary of State, Swords folly the purchase
Speaker 1: of Alaska. Remember that he wanted to buy Greenland and
Speaker 1: perhaps Iceland, but opposition in Congress ended the project.
Speaker 3: And then we tried.
Speaker 1: I think they're under Kennedy or somebody. Somebody talked about buying.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 1: In nineteen fifty Denmark allowed the US to have a base.
Speaker 1: We tried to buy it and they said no, thank you.
Speaker 3: So I'm watching more NFL football than I've watched in
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Speaker 3: Just a few here and there. Yeah, I'm I'm I'm
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Speaker 3: How do you not root for the Detroit Lions and
Speaker 3: that coach in that fan base that has been without
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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, very exciting stuff anyway, got the playoffs coming
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Speaker 3: I just heard from another person that I know that
Speaker 3: has a fire coming down upon them apparently and has
Speaker 3: a mandatory evacuation order in the LA area. So it
Speaker 3: is going to be a long rough day for that.
Speaker 3: And again, the long term over arching store, as we mentioned,
Speaker 3: is how are we going to fashion the relationship between banks, mortgages,
Speaker 3: homeowners and insurance Because at least one big insurance company
Speaker 3: had dropped a bunch of these homes with their fire
Speaker 3: coverage just weeks ago. I don't know if they knew
Speaker 3: the fire was coming or what.
Speaker 1: And if you are, you know, thinking, well, you know,
Speaker 1: to hell with the coasts. They're liberals and they have expensive,
Speaker 1: beautiful real estate, and the good good for them. We
Speaker 1: mentioned at the end of last year. Actually I brought
Speaker 1: you the story that the south central US has seen
Speaker 1: an enormous building boom, and there's so there are so
Speaker 1: many thunderstorms and hailstorms there. That's been one of the
Speaker 1: big loss sources loss whatever of the sources of losses
Speaker 1: of the big insurance companies. And so between the hurricanes
Speaker 1: and the wildfires and flooding and the hail in the
Speaker 1: middle of the country. You know, it's a lot of
Speaker 1: the country now with building costs as high as they
Speaker 1: are that it's just it doesn't make sense for corporations
Speaker 1: to offer insurance there. They're losing too much money. Yet
Speaker 1: it does make sense for people to be able to
Speaker 1: buy homes. So how do you make all that fit
Speaker 1: together that.
Speaker 3: I don't know what the way is out of this,
Speaker 3: but California is going to be the leading edge of that,
Speaker 3: and probably this whole la thing that's happening right now,
Speaker 3: you're gonna have to fire something out.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I hope there are a couple of really
Speaker 1: smart senators and or congress people on both sides of
Speaker 1: the aisle that have this on their radar and are
Speaker 1: talking seriously about it because it could be a national
Speaker 1: financial crisis.
Speaker 3: Yeah, those homes that got dropped in their fire coverage
Speaker 3: just weeks ago. Are some of these homes burning down
Speaker 3: with no insurance coverage?
Speaker 1: That's correct? Wow dropped this month? Are now burning down
Speaker 1: in La County?
Speaker 3: That'd be a life changing experience. Holy crap. We got
Speaker 3: Katie's headlines on the way stay here. Got a couple
Speaker 3: of nieces I got texts from. They missed three days
Speaker 3: of work because of the snowstorm that hit the Midwest.
Speaker 3: Finally got home. Airport's finally opened up after several days
Speaker 3: in the Midwest. I'm not flying. And then I just
Speaker 3: saw on TVA McDonald's I know well in the Pasadena
Speaker 3: area that is burnt to the ground. Mother Nature, man,
Speaker 3: Mother Nature, all powerful.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would say, all sorts of good stuff to
Speaker 1: get to next hour, including some really good commentary and
Speaker 1: incredibly idiotic commentary about Facebook's move away from professional fact checkers.
Speaker 1: I can barely spit those words out of my mouth.
Speaker 1: It's orwelly into the extreme, and all sorts of other
Speaker 1: good stuff. Anything you want to mention, Jack or uh
Speaker 1: up to you. No, Okay, we'll move along. Then let's
Speaker 1: figure out who's reporting what. It's the lead story with
Speaker 1: Katie Green and Katie Well as you.
Speaker 3: Guys now the fires are the big stories.
Speaker 5: Starting with NBC, three fires grow, forcing more than eighty
Speaker 5: thousand evacuations around Los Angeles area.
Speaker 3: So three thousand acres for one firewdred for another, five
Speaker 3: hundred for another, and then a bunch of smaller ones.
Speaker 5: Yeah, another small one just started north and the winds
Speaker 5: have been pushing south, which is worrying a lot of
Speaker 5: people in the Tarzana area.
Speaker 3: One hundred mile an hour winds all day they're expecting.
Speaker 3: It's hard to even imagine.
Speaker 5: And from KTLA severe drought conditions fueling dangerous Palisades fire,
Speaker 5: you're saying it hasn't rained there in eight months, a fraction.
Speaker 1: Of the normal rainfall, even as the northern part of
Speaker 1: the state, which is enormous and ungovernable and ought to
Speaker 1: be at least two different states, if not three, they've
Speaker 1: Northern California's gotten plenty of.
Speaker 3: Ring from ABC.
Speaker 5: Biden administration seeks stay a plea deal for alleged nine
Speaker 5: to eleven mastermind.
Speaker 3: Biden's stuck in LA. Right, he was in LA to
Speaker 3: fundraise or speak or something like that, and he couldn't
Speaker 3: get out because of the fires, so he spent the night. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I have no idea.
Speaker 5: From Fox News, Biden admits he might not have lasted
Speaker 5: another term.
Speaker 3: If you had been re elected. Quote, who the hell knows?
Speaker 3: I do? You wouldn't have if you're too old? Well, yes,
Speaker 3: say now, then that wasn't really the problem you're dying
Speaker 3: in office is your brain didn't work. Dude, doesn't work.
Speaker 3: From CNN.
Speaker 5: Green beret who exploded cybertruck in Las.
Speaker 3: Vegas used chat GPT to plan the blast. Is there
Speaker 3: any greater significance to this story or is this a
Speaker 3: guy who just for a variety of reasons, went crazy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the greater significance is our troops that have traumatic
Speaker 1: brain injury in PTSD, that sort of thing.
Speaker 3: That's what the story's about.
Speaker 5: From Reuters, made a shelves fact checking in policy reversal,
Speaker 5: head of Trump administration.
Speaker 3: Ran everybody's catching on to the fact that you're just
Speaker 3: trying to stay out of trouble with a Republican Congress
Speaker 3: and president coming in and pretending that you're some sort
Speaker 3: of free speech warrior.
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, Well, I have a nuanced view,
Speaker 1: as I mentioned earlier, I believe on the topic. I
Speaker 1: think that's a tad unfair and I'll explain why I'd
Speaker 1: sure hate to be unfair to Mark Zuckerberg. Boy, would
Speaker 1: I feel bad about it?
Speaker 3: Bomb Well said he was wearing a one million dollar
Speaker 3: watch in that video yesterday. Did you see what I did?
Speaker 3: I saw that?
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 3: Oh? Yeah, people zoomed in on it. He's a he's
Speaker 3: a watch collector, and you know there are expensive watches,
Speaker 3: but then there's a one million dollar wise actually nine
Speaker 3: hundred and fifty thousand dollars, but close enough million dollars exactly.
Speaker 5: From the New York Post quote face bb els can
Speaker 5: undo horrid ozembic face side effect, and people are spending thousands.
Speaker 3: Okay, what's what's face bbal Uh?
Speaker 5: It's fillers and all because when you when you go
Speaker 5: on ozempic and you lose weight so quickly, your face starts.
Speaker 3: To get this sunken in.
Speaker 1: Lagging skin lifts while for your skin to catch up
Speaker 1: to your weight loss.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so people are getting fillers and all sorts of
Speaker 5: stuff to bring their faces back to life.
Speaker 3: All right, Sure that looks perfectly normal. What does what
Speaker 3: does BBL mean? Is that what you said? Beautiful lady? Uh,
Speaker 3: there you go.
Speaker 5: It's a but it's a butt lift a Brazilian butt
Speaker 5: lift on where it stands.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're getting face butt lifts. Okay.
Speaker 5: And finally from the Babylon Bee, Trump announces plan to
Speaker 5: rename the Moon quote Space America.
Speaker 3: Go ahead, I just showed it. John Fetterman, demoocratic senator
Speaker 3: from Pennsylvania doing an interview, saying this whole Greenland conversation
Speaker 3: is absolutely responsible, which I appreciate. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Fetterman was on Special Report with Brett Bear last night.
Speaker 1: We'll play you a couple of clips. I don't know, honestly,
Speaker 1: if it's the stroke, or if he's just now able
Speaker 1: to show his true colors or what. I've never misjudged
Speaker 1: a politician as much as I've misjudged Fetterman. Oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I will say that. He was talking about how Trump's
Speaker 1: cabinet nominees. He said, I'm talking to all of them.
Speaker 1: And the idea that that's controversial I don't get. He said,
Speaker 1: that's my job, so I'm going to do that and
Speaker 1: he and he gave a couple other examples.
Speaker 3: He said, in what way?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 1: He said, aliens, illegal aliens who've committed crimes ought to
Speaker 1: be booted out. He said, how can that be controversial?
Speaker 1: They came into our country illegally then committed crimes. We
Speaker 1: want them out.
Speaker 3: Who's against that? I'm like, dude, wow, wow. It seems
Speaker 3: controversial that a Democrat out of saying that, But that's
Speaker 3: the mainstream of the Democratic Party. It's just we've lost
Speaker 3: that fact through Facebook and Twitter, I guess.
Speaker 1: Well, and because of the incredible volume of the far left,
Speaker 1: progressive woke winging the Democratic Party. They have volume, loudness,
Speaker 1: an influence so far beyond what it ought to be.
Speaker 3: It's time to get rid of that. Right, those were
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