1 00:00:09,440 --> 00:00:13,680 Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 2 00:00:13,800 --> 00:00:17,200 Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joke. 3 00:00:17,160 --> 00:00:32,240 Speaker 2: Kaddy Armstrong and Jackie and Key arms Range, thank you. 4 00:00:32,280 --> 00:00:37,080 Speaker 1: This is my favorite comment, my favorite jokey comment on Twitter. 5 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:40,120 Speaker 3: I can't believe the United States is about to invade Gaza, 6 00:00:40,320 --> 00:00:43,280 Speaker 3: but our government has zero dollars to put any transgender 7 00:00:43,400 --> 00:00:45,160 Speaker 3: musicals there. 8 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:51,880 Speaker 1: That's hilarious. Wow, love, that's good. I know, live from 9 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:56,000 Speaker 1: studio scene, see save your dimly lit room be put 10 00:00:56,080 --> 00:00:59,040 Speaker 1: in the bowels of the Armstrong in getting communications compounds, 11 00:00:59,160 --> 00:01:01,720 Speaker 1: they were in the two ledge our general manager Cooh, 12 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:05,720 Speaker 1: my real estate agent. We are this close to getting 13 00:01:05,800 --> 00:01:09,440 Speaker 1: me a beautiful beach front estate in Gaza, and I'm 14 00:01:09,680 --> 00:01:14,920 Speaker 1: really excited about it. Wow. Just beautiful views and everything. 15 00:01:14,959 --> 00:01:17,520 Speaker 1: There's a bit of a rubble we're just working through. 16 00:01:17,520 --> 00:01:20,960 Speaker 1: Who's going to clear the rubble? But it is exciting. 17 00:01:21,560 --> 00:01:22,399 Speaker 1: Here's my favorite. 18 00:01:22,600 --> 00:01:24,080 Speaker 3: I don't even know who this person is, but here's 19 00:01:24,080 --> 00:01:26,240 Speaker 3: my favorite comment that I can't believe is not. 20 00:01:26,720 --> 00:01:30,560 Speaker 1: Before we go much further, there probably are people who 21 00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:32,600 Speaker 1: had busy evenings, they have lives. 22 00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:34,680 Speaker 3: You're listening to it and you haven't heard I can't. 23 00:01:34,680 --> 00:01:36,440 Speaker 3: I don't have time for people like you. You've got 24 00:01:36,440 --> 00:01:38,039 Speaker 3: to stay in two. You got to stay plugged in. 25 00:01:38,480 --> 00:01:39,959 Speaker 3: Stay plugged in people. You need to be on your 26 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:42,360 Speaker 3: phone all the time. You need to sleep with your 27 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:44,320 Speaker 3: phone in your hand. Maybe set your alarm, wake up 28 00:01:44,319 --> 00:01:46,679 Speaker 3: every hour and check what the latest Twitter threat is. 29 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:51,120 Speaker 1: Go to trending, folks. He's insane, he's a monster. Imagine 30 00:01:51,120 --> 00:01:54,520 Speaker 1: working with him. See if you can pick up from 31 00:01:54,560 --> 00:01:58,360 Speaker 1: the context what we're talking about. If you don't know yet, 32 00:01:58,520 --> 00:01:59,880 Speaker 1: it'll be fun to play along it. 33 00:02:00,480 --> 00:02:03,720 Speaker 3: So I like this, and I'm amazed that this isn't happening, 34 00:02:03,880 --> 00:02:08,200 Speaker 3: having watched Fox this morning where they're chuckling NonStop, and 35 00:02:08,240 --> 00:02:12,440 Speaker 3: watching MSNBC where they're practically crying. I mean, we're back 36 00:02:12,480 --> 00:02:15,920 Speaker 3: to the old days of you take him literally but 37 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:18,320 Speaker 3: not seriously, or seriously but not literally. I mean, we're 38 00:02:18,320 --> 00:02:20,280 Speaker 3: one hundred percent there. But anyway, this person I don't 39 00:02:20,280 --> 00:02:21,799 Speaker 3: know who they are, but I thought this was really good. 40 00:02:22,919 --> 00:02:26,120 Speaker 3: I generally don't understand how you don't all understand this yet. 41 00:02:26,560 --> 00:02:30,280 Speaker 3: He makes an enormous ask or takes an enormous shocking position, 42 00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:33,720 Speaker 3: the negotiates down to a moderate total victory. Gets everything 43 00:02:33,720 --> 00:02:36,000 Speaker 3: he wants and keeps doing it, and everybody keeps freaking out. 44 00:02:36,320 --> 00:02:38,480 Speaker 1: I'm assuming we'll find out what the Gaza things all 45 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:40,840 Speaker 1: about in the next twenty four hours or so. Reacting 46 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:42,720 Speaker 1: to the first gesture and some kind of deal we 47 00:02:42,760 --> 00:02:46,000 Speaker 1: clearly know nothing about, would be pretty silly. Given this 48 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:49,320 Speaker 1: is like our fifth or sixth rodeo since last Monday. 49 00:02:51,200 --> 00:02:54,840 Speaker 1: That's well crafted. Yeah, this is our fifth or sixth 50 00:02:54,919 --> 00:03:00,160 Speaker 1: rodeo since last Monday. Is exactly right the present and 51 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:02,919 Speaker 1: having in an offhand manner at a press conference said 52 00:03:02,919 --> 00:03:04,880 Speaker 1: we ought to take over the Gaza Strip, us ought 53 00:03:04,880 --> 00:03:08,720 Speaker 1: to run the place. Everybody's freaking out in the manner 54 00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:12,080 Speaker 1: described here's my prediction. And I will bet you remember 55 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:14,359 Speaker 1: how I bet my thumbs to Ian Bremmer in one 56 00:03:15,040 --> 00:03:17,800 Speaker 1: but he did not. I can't remember what he was 57 00:03:17,840 --> 00:03:20,919 Speaker 1: going to pay off and he never did. The chiseler. Anyway, 58 00:03:21,480 --> 00:03:27,080 Speaker 1: I will bet my left arm that in roughly five 59 00:03:27,160 --> 00:03:30,760 Speaker 1: years it'll go something like this. This is a reverse Gladys, 60 00:03:30,840 --> 00:03:34,040 Speaker 1: this is into the future. Hey, you remember when Trump 61 00:03:34,080 --> 00:03:39,400 Speaker 1: said that we ought to like take over the Gaza Strip. Oh, right, 62 00:03:39,560 --> 00:03:43,200 Speaker 1: at the press conference. That's right, hilarious. 63 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:46,520 Speaker 3: Well, I commented on this one at the time. This 64 00:03:46,680 --> 00:03:49,120 Speaker 3: was back when he was running. In twenty fifteen, he 65 00:03:49,160 --> 00:03:52,360 Speaker 3: made an announcement at one of his stops to boycott Apple, 66 00:03:53,640 --> 00:03:56,000 Speaker 3: which at that point was the most valuable company in 67 00:03:56,040 --> 00:03:59,040 Speaker 3: the world, obviously an American company, and he said, We're 68 00:03:59,080 --> 00:04:02,360 Speaker 3: going to buy everyone, to boycott Apple. It barely made 69 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:04,720 Speaker 3: the news. It was never mentioned again. I mean, that 70 00:04:04,760 --> 00:04:07,200 Speaker 3: would be an enormous deal, obviously. 71 00:04:07,640 --> 00:04:08,160 Speaker 1: Oh shock. 72 00:04:08,320 --> 00:04:10,800 Speaker 3: You go back years earlier, the candidate for one of 73 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:14,240 Speaker 3: the major parties announcing that. You know, if Carter had 74 00:04:14,280 --> 00:04:17,680 Speaker 3: said boycott GM I want all Democrats, that would have 75 00:04:17,680 --> 00:04:19,160 Speaker 3: been the biggest news story in America. 76 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:23,640 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah. And to make grand pronouncements like this 77 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:28,080 Speaker 1: is so strange, and so I'll just say a typical 78 00:04:28,120 --> 00:04:31,120 Speaker 1: of any other president. On the other hand, I've been 79 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:33,520 Speaker 1: doing a bit of reading about the Panama Canal situation 80 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:38,520 Speaker 1: and the idea that we're going to retake the canal 81 00:04:38,720 --> 00:04:44,159 Speaker 1: if necessary by force. It's just a crazy thing to 82 00:04:44,200 --> 00:04:47,599 Speaker 1: say in the context of like every other president. But 83 00:04:47,640 --> 00:04:51,360 Speaker 1: there are serious issues about Chinese incursion into places and 84 00:04:51,920 --> 00:04:54,480 Speaker 1: things where they could have shut down the canal, they 85 00:04:54,520 --> 00:04:56,919 Speaker 1: could run the canal, and the way it kind of 86 00:04:56,960 --> 00:04:58,960 Speaker 1: got there inch by inch by inch. I mean, it's 87 00:04:58,960 --> 00:05:01,520 Speaker 1: the boiling frog in terms of the Chinese control of 88 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:04,400 Speaker 1: the canal, and it was to a point that was 89 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:08,400 Speaker 1: completely unacceptable. And you know, the more I learn about it, 90 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:12,599 Speaker 1: the more I'm convinced of that. And Trump went in 91 00:05:12,640 --> 00:05:14,280 Speaker 1: with his big We're just going to take it over, 92 00:05:14,440 --> 00:05:17,400 Speaker 1: and even I said that would be like a decade 93 00:05:17,440 --> 00:05:20,520 Speaker 1: long guerrilla war. We don't want that. But no, he's 94 00:05:20,600 --> 00:05:23,320 Speaker 1: just making the point very very strongly to the Panamanians. Hey, look, 95 00:05:23,320 --> 00:05:25,640 Speaker 1: this has gone way too far. We need to talk seriously, 96 00:05:25,880 --> 00:05:28,600 Speaker 1: and we did, and it's moving in a great direction. 97 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:34,520 Speaker 3: So uh, I was reading my favorite political newsletter today 98 00:05:34,520 --> 00:05:38,360 Speaker 3: in which she pointed out that Trump made all kinds 99 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:41,640 Speaker 3: of news yesterday other than this that is getting obliterated. 100 00:05:41,920 --> 00:05:44,400 Speaker 3: He did his thing where he signs executive orders and 101 00:05:44,440 --> 00:05:47,080 Speaker 3: takes questions and just rambles while he does it and 102 00:05:47,120 --> 00:05:50,520 Speaker 3: says things, and as the newsletter said, he answered more 103 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:54,360 Speaker 3: questions yesterday than Joe Biden did in six months. 104 00:05:55,920 --> 00:05:58,600 Speaker 1: It's no credit for that. But he mentioned that. 105 00:06:00,279 --> 00:06:03,599 Speaker 3: He has a standing order that he signed that if 106 00:06:03,960 --> 00:06:07,280 Speaker 3: he is assassinated by Iran, we will obliterate the country. 107 00:06:07,880 --> 00:06:13,760 Speaker 1: Yes, I think that'd make the news. I mean, that's 108 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:15,520 Speaker 1: kind of a thing to say. It might be the 109 00:06:15,720 --> 00:06:21,479 Speaker 1: Trump post mortem dead hand eating it's he's known. Yeah, yes, yeah, 110 00:06:22,839 --> 00:06:26,600 Speaker 1: I know I reacted to that, right. You react to 111 00:06:26,640 --> 00:06:30,599 Speaker 1: it initially with your uh normal president, Oh my god? 112 00:06:30,720 --> 00:06:34,200 Speaker 1: What then you're oh, that's right? Is Trump okay? All right? Yeah, 113 00:06:34,240 --> 00:06:36,960 Speaker 1: I get it anyway, So he's just trying to tell 114 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:39,240 Speaker 1: him it would be a very very bad idea. Right. 115 00:06:40,360 --> 00:06:41,839 Speaker 1: So what do you think of the whole. 116 00:06:42,640 --> 00:06:47,680 Speaker 3: Uh mainstream media freaking out about all these things. 117 00:06:48,360 --> 00:06:50,520 Speaker 1: I think it's genuine to a certain extent. 118 00:06:50,560 --> 00:06:52,680 Speaker 3: There's also you know, they're trying to get ratings, and 119 00:06:52,760 --> 00:06:55,280 Speaker 3: their viewers want to freak out. They want to get 120 00:06:55,360 --> 00:06:58,000 Speaker 3: up every day and say, oh my god, what did 121 00:06:58,040 --> 00:07:00,400 Speaker 3: he do today? I know I personally have no people 122 00:07:00,480 --> 00:07:04,080 Speaker 3: like that. First first Trump term. That was like, they 123 00:07:04,080 --> 00:07:05,320 Speaker 3: get up every day, what did he do? 124 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:07,640 Speaker 1: Now? It was just part of their life. It gave 125 00:07:07,680 --> 00:07:12,240 Speaker 1: him energy. Yeah, absolutely true. Yeah, it reinforced their tribal 126 00:07:12,280 --> 00:07:16,600 Speaker 1: loyalties and enthusiasms. So the media complained to that, but 127 00:07:16,880 --> 00:07:21,120 Speaker 1: they seem to be completely serious about it. Yeah, they do. 128 00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:24,600 Speaker 1: I think partly we're gonna have a US troops in 129 00:07:24,760 --> 00:07:29,360 Speaker 1: Gaza holding that land. Not a freaking chance. Probably right 130 00:07:29,400 --> 00:07:31,160 Speaker 1: after the Super Bowl, but they talked about it for 131 00:07:31,200 --> 00:07:34,280 Speaker 1: a full half hour on the MSNBC show. 132 00:07:34,280 --> 00:07:36,040 Speaker 3: I was watching last night what it would be like 133 00:07:36,080 --> 00:07:38,280 Speaker 3: having troops there and how difficult that would be, And. 134 00:07:38,760 --> 00:07:41,760 Speaker 1: What are you talking about? He is the only thing 135 00:07:41,920 --> 00:07:44,600 Speaker 1: keeping those stations alive. I suppose I should throw this in. 136 00:07:44,720 --> 00:07:47,360 Speaker 3: On the other hand, I suppose it's not crazy if 137 00:07:47,360 --> 00:07:49,680 Speaker 3: the President of the United States said something to take 138 00:07:49,760 --> 00:07:53,400 Speaker 3: him at his word exactly, which brings me, brings us to. 139 00:07:53,200 --> 00:07:57,200 Speaker 1: The point I wanted to make, and I sympathize somewhat 140 00:07:57,240 --> 00:08:03,800 Speaker 1: with with like straight meat guys reporters, I as a 141 00:08:04,440 --> 00:08:08,200 Speaker 1: something quasi commentator, humorist, I can get over this a 142 00:08:08,200 --> 00:08:12,000 Speaker 1: lot more easily than they can. The idea that, oh, 143 00:08:12,120 --> 00:08:15,760 Speaker 1: we have a president who says crazy stuff that we 144 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:19,040 Speaker 1: don't need to take seriously or literally, We just need 145 00:08:19,080 --> 00:08:23,560 Speaker 1: to take it directionally. That's very hard for journalists to 146 00:08:23,640 --> 00:08:26,119 Speaker 1: do because they have been trained, they have lived their 147 00:08:26,280 --> 00:08:30,000 Speaker 1: entire lives to not only take presidents of the United 148 00:08:30,040 --> 00:08:35,080 Speaker 1: States quite literally, but to look for hints and words, 149 00:08:35,160 --> 00:08:38,720 Speaker 1: be to behind the words you know, the reading between 150 00:08:38,760 --> 00:08:44,040 Speaker 1: the lines and then taking those tiny little hints completely seriously. 151 00:08:44,960 --> 00:08:47,760 Speaker 1: It's the opposite. It's like you go from being nearsighted 152 00:08:47,800 --> 00:08:50,640 Speaker 1: to far sided with Trump. They got to say, all right, 153 00:08:50,640 --> 00:08:53,000 Speaker 1: he's talking about taking over Gaza. Of course nobody could. 154 00:08:53,080 --> 00:08:56,199 Speaker 1: Nobody would want to do that. That's ridiculous, and relocating 155 00:08:56,240 --> 00:08:59,000 Speaker 1: all the Palestinians would never happen, none of the countries 156 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:02,520 Speaker 1: around there. So Trump, it's either wildly ignorant of the situation. 157 00:09:03,080 --> 00:09:05,559 Speaker 1: It's given the work on the Abraham Accords that kind 158 00:09:05,559 --> 00:09:08,720 Speaker 1: of doubt, although he does have huge blind spots. But 159 00:09:08,880 --> 00:09:12,040 Speaker 1: so he's either wildly insanely ignorant, or he's sending a 160 00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:14,600 Speaker 1: signal of which way stuff ought to go. I'll tell 161 00:09:14,640 --> 00:09:15,440 Speaker 1: you what the signal is. 162 00:09:15,480 --> 00:09:17,880 Speaker 3: I think, to be perfectly serious for a moment, I 163 00:09:17,920 --> 00:09:21,560 Speaker 3: think the signal is to hey, Egypt, Hey Jordan, Hey 164 00:09:21,600 --> 00:09:23,960 Speaker 3: other countries around there. You need to start helping on 165 00:09:24,040 --> 00:09:26,679 Speaker 3: this situation and being willing to take in Palestinians, or 166 00:09:26,720 --> 00:09:28,720 Speaker 3: I'm going to make a mess for you. Because that 167 00:09:28,840 --> 00:09:32,680 Speaker 3: has been the underreported story of the entire Palestinian thing, 168 00:09:32,720 --> 00:09:35,320 Speaker 3: going back to when I was a tiny kid. Is 169 00:09:35,480 --> 00:09:38,360 Speaker 3: the media never talks about how, hey there's a bunch 170 00:09:38,360 --> 00:09:39,480 Speaker 3: of Arab countries around there. 171 00:09:39,679 --> 00:09:42,400 Speaker 1: They don't love Pala countries, Muslim countries around there. They 172 00:09:42,400 --> 00:09:46,480 Speaker 1: don't let Palestinians in. They have a couple of times, 173 00:09:46,480 --> 00:09:49,280 Speaker 1: and it's caused revolution and death and blood in their countries. 174 00:09:49,559 --> 00:09:51,680 Speaker 1: As one of the points I was going to make later, 175 00:09:51,679 --> 00:09:53,320 Speaker 1: but let's make it no is you know what the 176 00:09:53,360 --> 00:09:57,240 Speaker 1: problem is with the Palestinian territories, the Palestinians and their 177 00:09:57,320 --> 00:10:02,080 Speaker 1: leadership and their ninth century Islam and their hatred of Jews. 178 00:10:02,400 --> 00:10:04,880 Speaker 1: That's the issue. You get rid of that. They live 179 00:10:04,920 --> 00:10:09,480 Speaker 1: in peace, harmony and wealth, wealth folks, not just no 180 00:10:09,679 --> 00:10:13,080 Speaker 1: bombs falling on their heads. Wealth. If they could forget 181 00:10:13,160 --> 00:10:18,240 Speaker 1: about their Mohammed directed loathing of the Jews, they'd be great. 182 00:10:19,040 --> 00:10:23,520 Speaker 1: Back to the funny part. So when watching Benjamin Netanyahu 183 00:10:23,600 --> 00:10:25,920 Speaker 1: stand there, I have no idea how much of that 184 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:28,160 Speaker 1: he was giving a heads up on or not, but 185 00:10:28,280 --> 00:10:30,319 Speaker 1: I mean he was standing there at that press conference 186 00:10:30,360 --> 00:10:32,920 Speaker 1: next to Trump when Trump's so Uncomfortab drops the United 187 00:10:32,960 --> 00:10:34,960 Speaker 1: States is gonna take over Gaza and yeah, we'll send 188 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:35,800 Speaker 1: troops if we have to. 189 00:10:36,600 --> 00:10:38,760 Speaker 3: Where the Palastini is gonna go I don't know, somewhere else, 190 00:10:38,800 --> 00:10:42,120 Speaker 3: we'll we'll find him another spottle In and benjama I 191 00:10:42,240 --> 00:10:43,720 Speaker 3: was just smiling and got of nodding along. 192 00:10:43,840 --> 00:10:45,960 Speaker 1: And then when he gets asked questions he says things like, 193 00:10:46,520 --> 00:10:50,120 Speaker 1: you know, Trump mixes things up and uh, you know, yeah, 194 00:10:50,240 --> 00:10:53,320 Speaker 1: you have to consider these things. I mean, he allows 195 00:10:53,320 --> 00:10:57,080 Speaker 1: an opportunity to think about things or phrases like that. 196 00:10:57,840 --> 00:11:02,120 Speaker 1: On that score, I have the official White House statement 197 00:11:02,200 --> 00:11:05,680 Speaker 1: on the proposal and all the people praising it. It 198 00:11:05,760 --> 00:11:14,920 Speaker 1: is strange and hilarious. They're taking it serious, literally seriously 199 00:11:16,240 --> 00:11:20,520 Speaker 1: while trolling everybody half serious. It's it's we're through the 200 00:11:20,600 --> 00:11:26,200 Speaker 1: looking glass of presidential communications here. Yeah, it's seems like it. 201 00:11:26,520 --> 00:11:28,319 Speaker 3: I mean, if you watch the news last night in 202 00:11:28,360 --> 00:11:30,520 Speaker 3: this morning, it seems like a really big news cycle. 203 00:11:30,679 --> 00:11:33,240 Speaker 1: I don't think it is. I mean it really it's 204 00:11:33,360 --> 00:11:37,680 Speaker 1: it's it's uh, it's just another step in the whole 205 00:11:37,760 --> 00:11:39,920 Speaker 1: world to a new world. Or Trump's a new guy 206 00:11:40,320 --> 00:11:42,440 Speaker 1: that just a new way to follow things where he 207 00:11:42,440 --> 00:11:45,680 Speaker 1: says wild things but he means something else. Just yeah, 208 00:11:45,720 --> 00:11:48,120 Speaker 1: it's akin to And I was just reading about how 209 00:11:48,440 --> 00:11:52,280 Speaker 1: the administration's doing wonderful things planning on doing just awe 210 00:11:52,360 --> 00:11:58,319 Speaker 1: inspiring stuff on school choice. That just gladdens my heart. 211 00:11:59,600 --> 00:12:01,839 Speaker 1: For all all of his flaws, the other guys weren't 212 00:12:01,840 --> 00:12:05,240 Speaker 1: doing this. It's as if Trump said, We're gonna fire 213 00:12:05,240 --> 00:12:08,000 Speaker 1: every school teacher in America. That's the only way to 214 00:12:08,040 --> 00:12:10,319 Speaker 1: clean out the system. That's the way to start fresh 215 00:12:10,320 --> 00:12:13,400 Speaker 1: with government schools. We're gonna fire every teacher in America. 216 00:12:14,080 --> 00:12:18,680 Speaker 1: That is a signal. You beaches think I'm playing. You 217 00:12:18,800 --> 00:12:24,680 Speaker 1: think I'm Bush over here. You think he Jeff I'm 218 00:12:24,679 --> 00:12:31,319 Speaker 1: not Joe Bucha I am. You think I'm playing about 219 00:12:31,320 --> 00:12:34,480 Speaker 1: reforming schools. He here's a little shot across your bow. 220 00:12:35,679 --> 00:12:37,480 Speaker 3: Let's start to show officially we're running out of time. 221 00:12:37,480 --> 00:12:39,920 Speaker 3: I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty with a funny clip 222 00:12:39,960 --> 00:12:43,280 Speaker 3: from the press conference. Yes today, Uh where Armstrong and Giddy? 223 00:12:43,360 --> 00:12:43,679 Speaker 1: What is it? 224 00:12:43,679 --> 00:12:46,840 Speaker 3: It's Wednesday, February fifty or twenty twenty five. We're Armstrong 225 00:12:46,840 --> 00:12:48,719 Speaker 3: in Getty and we approve of this program. 226 00:12:48,760 --> 00:12:50,960 Speaker 1: When Mike Gasa House is built, I'm gonna learn to surf. 227 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:53,199 Speaker 1: I'm just decided New Year's resolution. All right, here we 228 00:12:53,240 --> 00:12:56,959 Speaker 1: go officially according to FCC rules regulations at Mark Honey 229 00:12:56,960 --> 00:13:01,600 Speaker 1: comment about and what's your future plan for I have 230 00:13:01,640 --> 00:13:05,080 Speaker 1: a little hard time understanding Q. Where are you from? 231 00:13:07,480 --> 00:13:10,199 Speaker 2: Actually it's a beautiful voice and a beautiful accent. 232 00:13:10,280 --> 00:13:13,280 Speaker 1: The only problem is I can't understand the word you're saying. 233 00:13:14,240 --> 00:13:19,040 Speaker 1: But I just say this, good luck, living piece. Go ahead, 234 00:13:19,120 --> 00:13:24,560 Speaker 1: this you go. I can't understand you, but good luck, 235 00:13:25,440 --> 00:13:30,319 Speaker 1: good luck, living piece. What's hilarious? Yeah, I have a 236 00:13:30,360 --> 00:13:33,240 Speaker 1: lovely voice, but I can't understand you, so I can't 237 00:13:33,320 --> 00:13:38,840 Speaker 1: understand it works good say. I kind of deal with 238 00:13:38,880 --> 00:13:42,120 Speaker 1: that that way myself. How does mailbag look? It's too 239 00:13:42,120 --> 00:13:44,520 Speaker 1: bad too, because it was a great question, but it's outstanding. 240 00:13:44,559 --> 00:13:47,600 Speaker 1: We may have to squeeze it in later. Oh boy, jeeze, 241 00:13:47,720 --> 00:13:50,120 Speaker 1: things are already out of control. Six pound shoe, a 242 00:13:50,120 --> 00:13:56,120 Speaker 1: five pound bag. Stay tuned, getty. Oh thank god. The 243 00:13:56,200 --> 00:13:57,200 Speaker 1: US Postal. 244 00:13:56,880 --> 00:13:59,959 Speaker 3: Service just said it will resume accepting parcels from China. 245 00:14:00,920 --> 00:14:03,760 Speaker 1: If you got that alert yesterday last. 246 00:14:03,600 --> 00:14:05,480 Speaker 3: Night that they canceled and I had, I got a 247 00:14:05,480 --> 00:14:07,520 Speaker 3: bunch of Fortune cookies on the way and I need them. 248 00:14:08,440 --> 00:14:12,160 Speaker 1: What was that like twelve hours? Yeah, policy existed. Yeah, 249 00:14:12,960 --> 00:14:15,679 Speaker 1: I know. Here's your freedom loving quote of the day. 250 00:14:19,800 --> 00:14:26,600 Speaker 1: Our series on change, Victor Hugo. Change your opinions, keep 251 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:29,720 Speaker 1: to your principles, change your leaves, keep intact your. 252 00:14:29,680 --> 00:14:34,560 Speaker 3: Roots, change your leaves, keep intact your roots. In metaphor 253 00:14:34,600 --> 00:14:37,520 Speaker 3: from a writer, Yeah, old Victor. 254 00:14:37,360 --> 00:14:40,400 Speaker 1: Hugo knew his way around a sentence. Ehh, that's a 255 00:14:40,440 --> 00:14:42,320 Speaker 1: thought provoking one. That's why I liked it so much. 256 00:14:42,440 --> 00:14:46,680 Speaker 1: Change your opinions, but keep to your principles that does exist. 257 00:14:46,800 --> 00:14:50,480 Speaker 1: Change your leaves, keep intact your roots. Think about it. 258 00:14:51,600 --> 00:14:56,320 Speaker 1: Mail bag woo, let's see drops a note mail bag 259 00:14:56,320 --> 00:14:58,880 Speaker 1: at Armstrong and Giddy dot com. This is from John 260 00:14:58,920 --> 00:15:02,280 Speaker 1: with no age. Sorry they got to you. Your tortured 261 00:15:04,960 --> 00:15:07,120 Speaker 1: in our two of Today's show Yesterday is funny and 262 00:15:07,120 --> 00:15:09,280 Speaker 1: a little sad. He's talking about when I was discussing 263 00:15:09,360 --> 00:15:14,200 Speaker 1: the gender bending Madness movie Emilia Perez. Oh more news 264 00:15:14,240 --> 00:15:18,280 Speaker 1: on that. Yeah, I saw that Hollywood has beclowned itself 265 00:15:18,560 --> 00:15:23,560 Speaker 1: beyond all the clown mins. This is a beautiful thing anyway, 266 00:15:24,400 --> 00:15:26,480 Speaker 1: But he says it was funny and a little sad. 267 00:15:26,560 --> 00:15:28,880 Speaker 1: Not long ago, you had vowed many times not to 268 00:15:28,920 --> 00:15:31,240 Speaker 1: call a man or woman. I guess someone had big 269 00:15:31,360 --> 00:15:35,080 Speaker 1: enough leverage to drag that out of you. Whatendolences? Oh, 270 00:15:35,080 --> 00:15:38,400 Speaker 1: I love it when listeners try to shame us. First 271 00:15:38,440 --> 00:15:42,440 Speaker 1: of all, unless that was tongue in cheek, I really 272 00:15:42,480 --> 00:15:45,560 Speaker 1: don't like you and we can never be friends. Low 273 00:15:45,680 --> 00:15:49,120 Speaker 1: level trolling. I think so too. The problem I ran 274 00:15:49,320 --> 00:15:51,360 Speaker 1: to us I was trying to describe who was doing 275 00:15:51,480 --> 00:15:55,560 Speaker 1: what in a scene involving bunch of transgender people, and 276 00:15:55,600 --> 00:15:57,040 Speaker 1: I was trying to get it through my head. This 277 00:15:57,080 --> 00:16:01,960 Speaker 1: will be completely unfollowable no matter how I discribe it. Anyway. 278 00:16:02,560 --> 00:16:06,440 Speaker 1: Moving along, David on the topic of China taking over 279 00:16:06,440 --> 00:16:09,400 Speaker 1: the United States. She is really gonna be disappointed when 280 00:16:09,440 --> 00:16:11,640 Speaker 1: he takes over the US and enslaves the Americans and 281 00:16:11,680 --> 00:16:14,480 Speaker 1: finds out they won't do farm labor, clean motel rooms, 282 00:16:14,560 --> 00:16:19,760 Speaker 1: or work in slaughterhouses. It's just too beneath them. Yeah, 283 00:16:19,800 --> 00:16:23,120 Speaker 1: I'm sorry. She's in pang. We're very lazy and entitled here. 284 00:16:22,960 --> 00:16:25,520 Speaker 3: But in China to take to take all the fun 285 00:16:25,560 --> 00:16:26,800 Speaker 3: out of it, which is what I do. But in 286 00:16:26,880 --> 00:16:29,480 Speaker 3: China they would starve you until you work, because that's 287 00:16:29,480 --> 00:16:32,560 Speaker 3: the way they roll as the Communist Chinese Party exactly. 288 00:16:32,640 --> 00:16:36,640 Speaker 1: Yeah, ah, and it works. Another Jay in San Jose writes, 289 00:16:37,640 --> 00:16:40,720 Speaker 1: Musk's in charge. Lol, Dems now think Musk is taking 290 00:16:40,760 --> 00:16:44,640 Speaker 1: over the government from Hitler, the fascist dictator. Well wait 291 00:16:44,680 --> 00:16:47,120 Speaker 1: a minute, let's count the number of dictator fascists who 292 00:16:47,120 --> 00:16:50,160 Speaker 1: willingly gave up all their power. I'll wait, they wanted 293 00:16:50,200 --> 00:16:52,760 Speaker 1: both ways. Maybe we can call them by democrats. I 294 00:16:52,760 --> 00:16:55,840 Speaker 1: don't know. I get his point. Though, he's Hitler, he's 295 00:16:55,840 --> 00:16:58,200 Speaker 1: a fascist. He's willingly giving up all of his power, 296 00:16:58,600 --> 00:17:02,680 Speaker 1: and that's worse. Man. There are a bunch of stories 297 00:17:02,680 --> 00:17:03,320 Speaker 1: to update you on. 298 00:17:03,400 --> 00:17:07,840 Speaker 3: And then obviously we're sending our troops to Gaza to 299 00:17:07,880 --> 00:17:11,280 Speaker 3: take that piece of blend as MAGA had promised, getting 300 00:17:11,280 --> 00:17:12,760 Speaker 3: involved in more Middle Eastern wars. 301 00:17:13,600 --> 00:17:16,520 Speaker 1: No, that's not a long, long term Yes, that was 302 00:17:16,560 --> 00:17:17,240 Speaker 1: part of the promise. 303 00:17:17,359 --> 00:17:20,200 Speaker 3: That's not going to happen. It'll never even come close 304 00:17:20,240 --> 00:17:22,000 Speaker 3: to happening, so don't worry about it. 305 00:17:22,320 --> 00:17:23,680 Speaker 1: More news on the way stay here if you miss 306 00:17:23,680 --> 00:17:28,399 Speaker 1: a segment, get the podcast. Armstrong and Getty. 307 00:17:29,680 --> 00:17:32,919 Speaker 4: The FBI searching this pawn shop in Manhattan's Diamond District, 308 00:17:32,920 --> 00:17:35,360 Speaker 4: where they say they track some of the luxury items 309 00:17:35,400 --> 00:17:38,280 Speaker 4: stolen in a rash of recent burglaries at the homes 310 00:17:38,280 --> 00:17:42,680 Speaker 4: of professional athletes, including Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow. Two 311 00:17:42,680 --> 00:17:46,080 Speaker 4: men are under arrest, charged with brokering the sale of watches, jewelry, 312 00:17:46,080 --> 00:17:49,400 Speaker 4: and handbags that prosecutors say were stolen by South American 313 00:17:49,480 --> 00:17:53,160 Speaker 4: gangs targeting athletes and other wealthy homeowners across the country 314 00:17:53,280 --> 00:17:56,920 Speaker 4: for nearly five years. Authority say Dimitri Nazinski and Juan 315 00:17:57,040 --> 00:17:59,920 Speaker 4: Vollar were the middlemen, buying the loot from the burglary 316 00:18:00,480 --> 00:18:03,199 Speaker 4: and then selling it at their pawn shop. Officers and 317 00:18:03,240 --> 00:18:05,760 Speaker 4: agents raiding the place, they say they sees dozens of 318 00:18:05,840 --> 00:18:07,639 Speaker 4: high end watches and pieces. 319 00:18:07,240 --> 00:18:11,560 Speaker 1: Of jewelry Gee a pawn shop that specializes in NFL 320 00:18:11,680 --> 00:18:14,280 Speaker 1: Stars stuff. I hope there aren't any others, and if 321 00:18:14,320 --> 00:18:18,320 Speaker 1: there are, I hope somebody will send me the address. 322 00:18:18,400 --> 00:18:19,719 Speaker 1: That had to be a good store. 323 00:18:20,119 --> 00:18:22,440 Speaker 3: So much thievery going on over the last couple of 324 00:18:22,480 --> 00:18:25,159 Speaker 3: years by by all kinds of people, including plenty of 325 00:18:25,280 --> 00:18:27,399 Speaker 3: US citizens as we made crime legal. 326 00:18:27,760 --> 00:18:30,560 Speaker 1: But I've been umb because George Floyd died. 327 00:18:31,040 --> 00:18:32,840 Speaker 3: I was thinking about buying the Apple Vision pro I 328 00:18:32,840 --> 00:18:34,880 Speaker 3: mentioned this a while back, a couple of weeks ago, 329 00:18:34,920 --> 00:18:37,560 Speaker 3: and I'm on Facebook marketplace looking for a used one. 330 00:18:37,640 --> 00:18:43,560 Speaker 3: There's a high number of Apple watches, the expensive headphones 331 00:18:43,600 --> 00:18:46,840 Speaker 3: that I have the Apple Vision Pro unopened in boxes 332 00:18:46,920 --> 00:18:49,719 Speaker 3: for sale at Like, what is that? 333 00:18:49,760 --> 00:18:51,919 Speaker 1: Are those all day? They fill off the back of 334 00:18:51,920 --> 00:18:54,280 Speaker 1: a truck. What's going on there? It's got to be, 335 00:18:54,359 --> 00:18:58,840 Speaker 1: doesn't it gotta be? Yeah, Apple doesn't discount like that. No, 336 00:19:00,560 --> 00:19:03,000 Speaker 1: uh yeah, that's gotta be stolen stuff I want. 337 00:19:03,200 --> 00:19:05,040 Speaker 3: And you know, I've I've always wondered, you know, when 338 00:19:05,040 --> 00:19:07,439 Speaker 3: people clear off those shelves of stuff, whether it's an 339 00:19:07,440 --> 00:19:10,440 Speaker 3: Apple store or Walgreens, where are they selling this stuff? 340 00:19:10,440 --> 00:19:13,639 Speaker 1: Well? I guess some point christ Tim Cook doesn't have 341 00:19:13,800 --> 00:19:16,160 Speaker 1: a team of people who just go through those ads 342 00:19:16,160 --> 00:19:19,159 Speaker 1: every single day, and then a private army right of 343 00:19:19,920 --> 00:19:21,879 Speaker 1: thugs that he's hired from around the globe to go 344 00:19:21,920 --> 00:19:24,680 Speaker 1: in ext you know, East German Stazi or whatever, the 345 00:19:25,040 --> 00:19:27,320 Speaker 1: storm into places and get their stuff back and crack 346 00:19:27,400 --> 00:19:27,800 Speaker 1: some heads. 347 00:19:27,920 --> 00:19:30,560 Speaker 3: You're shooting between the eyes with the Cupertino death ray. 348 00:19:30,920 --> 00:19:34,760 Speaker 1: Wow, what I thought? That just ruins my battery life 349 00:19:34,760 --> 00:19:37,760 Speaker 1: and kills people too. Wow. So anyway back to the 350 00:19:37,760 --> 00:19:41,640 Speaker 1: idea of Venezuelan gang members perpetrating crime waves and it's 351 00:19:41,680 --> 00:19:44,160 Speaker 1: not them, it's the Chileans and whatever. And as Jack 352 00:19:44,160 --> 00:19:46,879 Speaker 1: makes the point, there's plenty of domesticated criminals who have 353 00:19:46,960 --> 00:19:49,920 Speaker 1: been setting the message from progressives that it's fine and dandy. 354 00:19:50,320 --> 00:19:55,679 Speaker 1: But if I might blow aside the smoke of the 355 00:19:55,720 --> 00:19:58,359 Speaker 1: Trump Gaza stuff for the moment, and we'll go big 356 00:19:58,400 --> 00:20:00,400 Speaker 1: on it next hour and play you some the tape 357 00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:03,919 Speaker 1: from the press conference, because it was it was like 358 00:20:04,040 --> 00:20:09,960 Speaker 1: satisfying on every level. It was are you serious and important? 359 00:20:10,320 --> 00:20:14,920 Speaker 1: It was bizarre, it was hilarious, it was thought provoking. 360 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:18,360 Speaker 1: It was like a like one of those seven layer cakes. Anyway, 361 00:20:19,640 --> 00:20:23,560 Speaker 1: our Secretary of State actually used the phrase. I was 362 00:20:23,600 --> 00:20:24,880 Speaker 1: trying to find it to make sure I can get 363 00:20:24,880 --> 00:20:26,639 Speaker 1: it wrong, but I'm pretty sure this right. He actually 364 00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:32,679 Speaker 1: used the phrase make Gaza great again. Yes, yes, exactly, Marco, 365 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:35,399 Speaker 1: showing that he is fully on board with the Trump method, 366 00:20:35,600 --> 00:20:39,080 Speaker 1: which I think is going to be good. I hope. Anyway, 367 00:20:39,160 --> 00:20:41,600 Speaker 1: some more statements to that effect next hour as well. 368 00:20:41,760 --> 00:20:44,760 Speaker 1: The White House put out pages of people, many of 369 00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:50,560 Speaker 1: whose names you know, from foreign policy, senators, whatever, congressman 370 00:20:50,800 --> 00:20:53,080 Speaker 1: saying this is a great idea. I love this idea, 371 00:20:53,200 --> 00:20:55,879 Speaker 1: So stay tuned. But anyway, we're going to clear the 372 00:20:55,880 --> 00:20:59,440 Speaker 1: smoke of that way and talk about something seriously important 373 00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:02,560 Speaker 1: that is one of the many stories Jack reference that 374 00:21:03,080 --> 00:21:06,000 Speaker 1: are getting covered up with the oh my god, can 375 00:21:06,040 --> 00:21:09,399 Speaker 1: you believe he said that bluster, which never seems to 376 00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:13,040 Speaker 1: get old on the left, and that is Trump wants 377 00:21:13,080 --> 00:21:17,119 Speaker 1: to add the Mexican cartels. I always want to call 378 00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:21,199 Speaker 1: them drug cartels, but they're giant criminal syndicates that do 379 00:21:21,440 --> 00:21:24,560 Speaker 1: a lot of different crimes. Anyway, he wants to add 380 00:21:24,600 --> 00:21:27,159 Speaker 1: them to a list of terrorist groups that include the 381 00:21:27,280 --> 00:21:31,040 Speaker 1: likes of al Qaeda and Hamas the White House laid 382 00:21:31,080 --> 00:21:35,320 Speaker 1: out the executive order actually last month, it's going to 383 00:21:35,320 --> 00:21:37,679 Speaker 1: increase pressure on the cartels by directing more money to 384 00:21:37,720 --> 00:21:41,480 Speaker 1: intelligence gathering. And departing from the text of the article here, 385 00:21:42,760 --> 00:21:45,760 Speaker 1: the stuff going on in the shakeup in the CIA 386 00:21:45,920 --> 00:21:50,280 Speaker 1: is really interesting too, and that the new director wants 387 00:21:50,359 --> 00:21:55,679 Speaker 1: to devote significant time and energy of the CIA to 388 00:21:55,800 --> 00:22:00,639 Speaker 1: penetrating the cartels. The reasoning being there a direct and 389 00:22:00,800 --> 00:22:03,600 Speaker 1: imminent threat to the lives and happiness of America and 390 00:22:03,640 --> 00:22:09,560 Speaker 1: its citizens. So what they're off bounds, out of bounds 391 00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:14,400 Speaker 1: just because they operate in Mexico, which is putatively an 392 00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:18,600 Speaker 1: ally Anyway, I think it's a great move. It could 393 00:22:18,600 --> 00:22:21,760 Speaker 1: also lead the groundwork for going after cartel financiers and 394 00:22:21,800 --> 00:22:25,439 Speaker 1: allied businesses, and for unilateral US military actions such as 395 00:22:25,520 --> 00:22:29,320 Speaker 1: drone strikes on drug labs. According to officials and security experts, 396 00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:32,080 Speaker 1: We've talked about this in the past. See when the 397 00:22:32,119 --> 00:22:37,640 Speaker 1: CIA gets empowered to actually like do the taking out 398 00:22:37,640 --> 00:22:40,280 Speaker 1: of the drug labs, things can get a little crazy. 399 00:22:41,560 --> 00:22:45,879 Speaker 1: But I don't mind a little bit of it. But 400 00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:50,840 Speaker 1: that risks straining ties with Mexico. Jack thoughts, ah good 401 00:22:53,240 --> 00:22:56,520 Speaker 1: straining ties with Mexico. Whatever. The two countries are in 402 00:22:56,560 --> 00:23:00,840 Speaker 1: a delicate, indelicate talks overending drug smug in migration to 403 00:23:00,840 --> 00:23:03,040 Speaker 1: avoid a trade war. I don't think it's that delicate 404 00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:06,240 Speaker 1: a talk from our point of view. I think Mexico's 405 00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:08,560 Speaker 1: in terrible trouble. We talked about this yesterday towards the 406 00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:13,520 Speaker 1: end of the show. How President Shinbaum reacted with horror? 407 00:23:13,520 --> 00:23:17,159 Speaker 1: How dare you slander saying that the Mexican government is 408 00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:22,480 Speaker 1: in bed with the cartels. I would say the most 409 00:23:22,520 --> 00:23:26,000 Speaker 1: innocent description I can give you of the relationship, the 410 00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:30,800 Speaker 1: most innocent. Now it's too innocent. I'll go aheadhead, I'll 411 00:23:30,880 --> 00:23:36,080 Speaker 1: say it anyway. Mexico, legitimate Mexico is in a situation 412 00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:41,240 Speaker 1: that is very much like the Israelis surrounded by Hamas 413 00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:46,480 Speaker 1: and Hezbolah and other militant Palestinian and Iranian BacT factions. 414 00:23:47,240 --> 00:23:50,280 Speaker 1: At times like prior to October seventh, they had this 415 00:23:50,600 --> 00:23:53,560 Speaker 1: uneasy truce going on. All right, we're not going to 416 00:23:53,640 --> 00:23:57,720 Speaker 1: slaughter yours. You're not going to slaughter ours. Everybody keep cool. 417 00:23:57,920 --> 00:24:00,359 Speaker 1: Maybe we can live side by side. But then it 418 00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:04,159 Speaker 1: always goes to blowy just because it's not a relationship 419 00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:08,840 Speaker 1: that can work, and then you're back to open warfare. 420 00:24:09,080 --> 00:24:13,760 Speaker 1: The difference being Gaza or I'm sorry that Gaza, Hamas 421 00:24:14,040 --> 00:24:19,680 Speaker 1: and Hezbollah haven't like deeply penetrated Israeli politics and Israeli 422 00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:23,600 Speaker 1: politicians and mayors and governors and maybe even up to 423 00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:27,160 Speaker 1: Nettnya who himself like is happening in Mexico. 424 00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:30,720 Speaker 3: Well, part of the deal Trump's deal with the to 425 00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:35,439 Speaker 3: end the tariff standoff at the other day was Okay, 426 00:24:35,480 --> 00:24:38,120 Speaker 3: they're gonna put ten thousand troops on the border and 427 00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:41,640 Speaker 3: try to stop ventanyl from getting across. We're gonna try 428 00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:44,720 Speaker 3: to help stop guns from crossing down into there. 429 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:45,920 Speaker 1: Is that a big thing? 430 00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:47,560 Speaker 3: I mean, do we are there a lot of guns 431 00:24:47,560 --> 00:24:48,879 Speaker 3: that go from the United States and New Mexico. 432 00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:50,080 Speaker 1: Do you have any sense of that. I don't know. 433 00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:53,880 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's huge, huge. I mean, it's just so 434 00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:57,360 Speaker 1: easy to get guns here illegally and illegally, and then 435 00:24:57,359 --> 00:24:59,399 Speaker 1: you just bring them across the border because, as you know, 436 00:24:59,480 --> 00:25:01,359 Speaker 1: having gone for from the US to Mexico and nobody 437 00:25:01,359 --> 00:25:02,480 Speaker 1: gives a crap which you bring in. 438 00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:07,119 Speaker 3: To Mexico, right, I just buy man, that's a dicey job. 439 00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:09,160 Speaker 3: That's a dicey way to make a living, going down 440 00:25:09,160 --> 00:25:11,959 Speaker 3: there and hooking up with cartel people and selling them guns. 441 00:25:14,320 --> 00:25:17,480 Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, I would watch my whatever the Spanish word 442 00:25:17,520 --> 00:25:20,480 Speaker 1: for back is at all times. But if you're providing 443 00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:22,719 Speaker 1: a service, you know they'll they'll be here for your 444 00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:26,280 Speaker 1: buddy for now told they're not, Yeah, no kidding, But anyway, 445 00:25:26,359 --> 00:25:30,720 Speaker 1: So the beauty of this is that, especially with the 446 00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:33,600 Speaker 1: help of the CIA, if you could really nail down 447 00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:37,159 Speaker 1: where the money goes. I've told this story before, but 448 00:25:37,880 --> 00:25:40,359 Speaker 1: got word that the CIA was on campus when I 449 00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:45,159 Speaker 1: was in college and I was a I was a 450 00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:49,640 Speaker 1: student of foreign governments and government systems and foreign relations 451 00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:52,560 Speaker 1: and stuff like that, and I thought, Wow, the CIA. 452 00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:56,680 Speaker 1: Wait a minute, maybe that's my path. And I looked 453 00:25:56,720 --> 00:26:00,159 Speaker 1: into it, and they're like, only accounting majors all we 454 00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:04,960 Speaker 1: want our accountants. It was like, what anyway, Ah, if 455 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:09,320 Speaker 1: you can unleash the CIA's accountants figuring out where do 456 00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:12,240 Speaker 1: all the dollars flow from and to with the Mexican 457 00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:15,639 Speaker 1: drug cartels and anybody who's involved with that, you are 458 00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:18,760 Speaker 1: aiding and abetting a terrorist organization, and we are gonna 459 00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:22,959 Speaker 1: shut you down. That has an effect. That's what I 460 00:26:23,080 --> 00:26:23,480 Speaker 1: love this. 461 00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:26,480 Speaker 3: That's what Jason Bateman was doing for the cartel in Ozark. 462 00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:28,000 Speaker 3: He was the accountant that was figuring out a way 463 00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:29,720 Speaker 3: to launder the money and hide it and all that 464 00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:30,399 Speaker 3: sort of stuff. 465 00:26:31,359 --> 00:26:35,040 Speaker 1: Right, it's all right while while trying to maintain an 466 00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:38,760 Speaker 1: uneasy marriage and and his adolescent kids, who are a 467 00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:42,560 Speaker 1: teenager writes a passage teenagers, Are they difficult or what? Oh? 468 00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:44,880 Speaker 1: They're hard as hell. You got the cartel over here, 469 00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:47,520 Speaker 1: you got your bitchy daughter over there. It's like, oh, 470 00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:49,680 Speaker 1: my god, give me a break. They're so spoiled the 471 00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:53,040 Speaker 1: field base, they're so entitled, right, the cartels are the kids? 472 00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:54,800 Speaker 1: Do you entire the kids? Now? I gotta go deal 473 00:26:54,840 --> 00:26:58,240 Speaker 1: with the cartels again, right exactly, will probably kill me 474 00:26:58,280 --> 00:27:01,560 Speaker 1: soon any moment now. So anyway, that's a huge move 475 00:27:01,560 --> 00:27:06,159 Speaker 1: and important move both for Mexico and the US, but 476 00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:09,240 Speaker 1: it's getting over shadowed by some of the other USA 477 00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:11,560 Speaker 1: We're not gonna be able to cure AIDS anymore. Yeah, 478 00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:13,520 Speaker 1: I think we will. I think it'll be fine. 479 00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:17,320 Speaker 3: I've mentioned no wine February that I'm trying to do. 480 00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:22,320 Speaker 3: It's very very difficult, dry January, not drinking alcohol, very simple, 481 00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:26,040 Speaker 3: no wine February as in w hi. 482 00:27:26,119 --> 00:27:29,439 Speaker 1: Any No whining is hard for me. But I was 483 00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:34,360 Speaker 1: thinking this yesterday because somebody told me about their teenagers. 484 00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:37,200 Speaker 1: I think it might be better if more parents whined 485 00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:39,840 Speaker 1: about their teenagers, so all the other parents are dealing 486 00:27:39,840 --> 00:27:41,720 Speaker 1: with their teenagers can think, oh, okay, good, I'm not 487 00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:44,320 Speaker 1: the only one because I find it relaxing when I 488 00:27:44,359 --> 00:27:47,760 Speaker 1: hear some other parents talk about their teenagers. It's not 489 00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:50,960 Speaker 1: whining to me. It's like, oh, thank god, my kid's 490 00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:53,960 Speaker 1: not an outlier. Your kid's doing exactly the same thing 491 00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:57,720 Speaker 1: I thought I had completely failed. Yes, yes, we call 492 00:27:57,800 --> 00:28:03,840 Speaker 1: that sharing jack sharing good life lord. Oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah. 493 00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:07,840 Speaker 1: There's an empty nest version of that that would make 494 00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:11,159 Speaker 1: you happy. Is there anything un planet Earth at this 495 00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:12,840 Speaker 1: moment that would put a smile on your face? Because 496 00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:16,800 Speaker 1: I can't imagine what it would be. No, no, no, Indeed, 497 00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:22,720 Speaker 1: expressing my discontent is my rais o dietrea. The only 498 00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:25,639 Speaker 1: reason I draw breath is to expel it bitching about things. 499 00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:28,560 Speaker 1: That's the only reason I bother. So a quick word 500 00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:31,919 Speaker 1: from our friends at Prize Picks. 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I'll get a hat printed up today. I 531 00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:57,720 Speaker 1: might actually just some people would ask make gods of 532 00:29:57,760 --> 00:30:01,160 Speaker 1: beautiful again? Are you not on board? You must have 533 00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:07,640 Speaker 1: voted for Kamala Harris. I admire religious conviction generally speaking, 534 00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:13,680 Speaker 1: although it's undeniable. I don't quite have the fully turgid 535 00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:18,000 Speaker 1: for the real estate distraction that Trump does because he 536 00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:21,200 Speaker 1: sees a spin land like that and he just he's 537 00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:23,160 Speaker 1: like an eighteen year old next to a beautiful woman. 538 00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:26,000 Speaker 1: He just can't help himself. On the other hand, it 539 00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:31,280 Speaker 1: is undeniable. It is a true fact that if you 540 00:30:31,440 --> 00:30:35,080 Speaker 1: take away the nutjob brand of Islam that runs so 541 00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:38,360 Speaker 1: hot through that region of the globe, the Gaza Strip 542 00:30:38,520 --> 00:30:44,320 Speaker 1: would be incredibly wealthy, comfortable. The kids would be educated, 543 00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:49,160 Speaker 1: the old folks would recline in their chairs at the shore, 544 00:30:49,680 --> 00:30:52,240 Speaker 1: and or they'd sell their places for a zillion dollars 545 00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:53,120 Speaker 1: and move somewhere else. 546 00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:55,480 Speaker 3: Yes, half the people you know would have vacation there 547 00:30:55,520 --> 00:30:57,160 Speaker 3: at some point in their lives and talked about how 548 00:30:57,160 --> 00:30:57,920 Speaker 3: wonderful it was. 549 00:30:58,320 --> 00:31:01,200 Speaker 1: Oh and it'd been a torture you with their Instagram 550 00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:04,440 Speaker 1: pictures of the perfect lives from Gaza. Yeah, exactly right, 551 00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:06,840 Speaker 1: it'd be that kind of play. We've got Katie's headlines 552 00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:12,640 Speaker 1: on the way stay here. I just realized I've got 553 00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:14,440 Speaker 1: mud on my pants, which is a kind of a 554 00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:18,960 Speaker 1: low rent look. You got muddy pants. A giant dog 555 00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:22,640 Speaker 1: with muddy paws jumped on me. Man, I was dealing 556 00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:25,240 Speaker 1: with a guy I think highly of, but he had 557 00:31:25,240 --> 00:31:29,640 Speaker 1: the cracked phone glass. Yeah, I mean, like really clacked sketch. 558 00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:32,640 Speaker 1: I almost told him that is the missing front tooth 559 00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:35,760 Speaker 1: of the digital era, right, really is don't It's just 560 00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:38,960 Speaker 1: it's it's a low class Look, what are you gonna do? Wow? 561 00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:43,400 Speaker 3: You guys are hey, you see somebody crack phone and 562 00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:44,760 Speaker 3: I've I've been cracked phone guy. 563 00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:47,040 Speaker 1: You're like, you don't have your act together? Right then? 564 00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:49,400 Speaker 1: If you got the cracked phone, now things are not 565 00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:52,200 Speaker 1: going well? Yeah, exactly. All right, let's figure out who's 566 00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:54,400 Speaker 1: reporting what. It's the lead story with Katie Green. 567 00:31:54,520 --> 00:32:00,360 Speaker 5: Katie starting with NBC quote, deranged and problematic, bipartisan group 568 00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:03,480 Speaker 5: of lawmakers bashes Trump's gaza proposal. 569 00:32:03,560 --> 00:32:05,360 Speaker 3: That was our original air names. We were doing a 570 00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:07,520 Speaker 3: soft a S show. Deranged and problematic. 571 00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:13,360 Speaker 1: Yeah, it is a poor match with the music. Really. Yeah. 572 00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:16,840 Speaker 1: Maybe you know, as we've been discussing in will soon 573 00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:22,520 Speaker 1: going crazy over Trump, is a profitable cottage industry, and 574 00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:25,520 Speaker 1: I get why it endures. But in terms of if 575 00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:27,200 Speaker 1: you are the sort of person who just wants to 576 00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:30,160 Speaker 1: understand the exactly what's going on and where it's probably headed, Yeah, 577 00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:32,080 Speaker 1: don't don't worry about the crazy stuff. 578 00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:39,200 Speaker 5: For maybec Trump to sign executive order banning transgender athletes 579 00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:40,400 Speaker 5: from women's sports. 580 00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:44,120 Speaker 1: Love it to the extent that is possible from his seat. 581 00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:46,760 Speaker 1: Love it. Yeah, So what would that cover? Can he 582 00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:50,320 Speaker 1: do that for your local grade school or community colleges 583 00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:52,640 Speaker 1: or what does he have the power to ban check 584 00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:57,560 Speaker 1: your local listings. That's a long and complicated answer, and 585 00:32:57,640 --> 00:33:00,680 Speaker 1: I could not do it accurately. He can do some 586 00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:03,680 Speaker 1: stuff on the collegiate level, anything that gets federal funding. 587 00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:06,200 Speaker 1: Blah blah blah from Fox News. 588 00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:11,840 Speaker 5: Trump Education Department launches probe into quote explosion of anti 589 00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:14,680 Speaker 5: semitism at five US universities. 590 00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:18,560 Speaker 1: This is another great thing flying under the radar. We 591 00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:20,560 Speaker 1: can tell you about it in detail later on in 592 00:33:20,560 --> 00:33:26,720 Speaker 1: the show. But he's making the universe. Universities enforce their 593 00:33:26,760 --> 00:33:31,320 Speaker 1: own standards if they're getting federal funding, because they're allowing 594 00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:35,120 Speaker 1: stuff against Jews they would never allow against anybody else, 595 00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:36,040 Speaker 1: and he's calling them on it. 596 00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:41,560 Speaker 5: From Breitbart dot com, The Biden administration wasted two hundred 597 00:33:41,640 --> 00:33:46,440 Speaker 5: and thirty six billion dollars in improper payments throughout seventy 598 00:33:46,480 --> 00:33:47,520 Speaker 5: one federal. 599 00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:49,640 Speaker 1: Programs in twenty twenty three h That surprise. 600 00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:57,640 Speaker 5: From study fines, Daily talk time plummets three thousand words 601 00:33:57,680 --> 00:34:00,920 Speaker 5: since two thousand and five as text takes over. 602 00:34:01,560 --> 00:34:03,200 Speaker 1: So what was that stat What are we What are 603 00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:03,920 Speaker 1: we measuring here? 604 00:34:04,080 --> 00:34:07,880 Speaker 5: Daily talk time has gone down by three hundred three 605 00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:10,160 Speaker 5: thousand words a day because we're texting. 606 00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:11,080 Speaker 1: Ah. 607 00:34:11,120 --> 00:34:14,800 Speaker 3: God, the other day I was texting with my oldest 608 00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:17,680 Speaker 3: friend and he free of my phone rings. 609 00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:19,759 Speaker 1: He said, what are we doing? You're right, how are 610 00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:22,120 Speaker 1: we doing? And we just talked. It was so dumb. 611 00:34:22,160 --> 00:34:25,080 Speaker 1: I mean, we were on like our fifteenth text, Like, 612 00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:30,640 Speaker 1: what are we doing? That's so croaky. Yeah, call it 613 00:34:30,680 --> 00:34:33,040 Speaker 1: word count, not talk time. That's just confusing. 614 00:34:34,239 --> 00:34:38,000 Speaker 5: From CNN, one hundred thousand eggs were stolen from a 615 00:34:38,040 --> 00:34:39,640 Speaker 5: trailer in Pennsylvania. 616 00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:43,680 Speaker 1: How many thousand eggs? One hundred thousand? It's the new 617 00:34:43,719 --> 00:34:49,840 Speaker 1: gold bars. That's a logistical nightmare. Yeah. 618 00:34:49,920 --> 00:34:54,480 Speaker 5: From the Wall Street Journal, Mewing, Beta Maxing, Jigga, Chad 619 00:34:54,680 --> 00:34:58,760 Speaker 5: and Battie parents are drowning in teenage new Lingo. 620 00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:02,280 Speaker 1: We're gonna dive into that later on. Boy, I need help. 621 00:35:02,320 --> 00:35:06,760 Speaker 1: So it's a it's a part time job, no kidding, 622 00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:09,440 Speaker 1: keeping it up. We keep it up with all of it. 623 00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:11,960 Speaker 1: So your meme of the day is not a meme. 624 00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:13,560 Speaker 5: But if you go to Armstrong and Getty dot com 625 00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:15,800 Speaker 5: and you click on my new section called Katie's Corner, 626 00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:19,400 Speaker 5: I found a video of people driving by these deportation 627 00:35:19,600 --> 00:35:23,080 Speaker 5: protests blasting Vanilla ICE's ice Ice baby. 628 00:35:23,200 --> 00:35:28,839 Speaker 1: I saw that. I feel like you're looking for a fight, 629 00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:31,680 Speaker 1: but I did laugh, I must admit, so yeah, for 630 00:35:31,719 --> 00:35:36,279 Speaker 1: our country, that's right. Jeez, oh my god, Luck, it's 631 00:35:36,360 --> 00:35:38,319 Speaker 1: you a shame to be American or something or other. 632 00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:40,239 Speaker 1: I'm on the offense now. I'm just gonna keep saying 633 00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:43,240 Speaker 1: stuff here, Trader, and what is your vehicle for justice? 634 00:35:43,320 --> 00:35:46,279 Speaker 1: Vanilla Ice? Yes, American hero. 635 00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:53,800 Speaker 5: Finally, the babbylon Bee, taxpayer funded illegal immigrant gender surgeon 636 00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:55,600 Speaker 5: is having a really bad week. 637 00:35:55,880 --> 00:36:00,600 Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, uh yeah. That thing on the the slang 638 00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:04,439 Speaker 3: for the high schoolers, I'll catch on to one because 639 00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:07,560 Speaker 3: I'll hear my son and his friend's using it. Then 640 00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:10,040 Speaker 3: I'll use it. What seems to me like a week later, 641 00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:13,120 Speaker 3: where nobody says that anymore. Dad, that is so lame. 642 00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:14,959 Speaker 3: What he used it like a month ago? 643 00:36:15,320 --> 00:36:18,280 Speaker 1: And the journal articles talking about nine year olds, I mean, parents, 644 00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:20,400 Speaker 1: little kids are trying having to keep up with this, 645 00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:23,160 Speaker 1: mostly to figure out if they're being insulted or not 646 00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:26,520 Speaker 1: in a casual conversation. Right, He's right, we've had that problem. 647 00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:28,680 Speaker 1: If you missed a segment of the podcast Armstrong and 648 00:36:28,719 --> 00:36:31,520 Speaker 1: Getty on the Man Armstrong and Getty