Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joke.
Speaker 2: Kaddy Armstrong and Jackie and Key arms Range, thank you.
Speaker 1: This is my favorite comment, my favorite jokey comment on Twitter.
Speaker 3: I can't believe the United States is about to invade Gaza,
Speaker 3: but our government has zero dollars to put any transgender
Speaker 3: musicals there.
Speaker 1: That's hilarious. Wow, love, that's good. I know, live from
Speaker 1: studio scene, see save your dimly lit room be put
Speaker 1: in the bowels of the Armstrong in getting communications compounds,
Speaker 1: they were in the two ledge our general manager Cooh,
Speaker 1: my real estate agent. We are this close to getting
Speaker 1: me a beautiful beach front estate in Gaza, and I'm
Speaker 1: really excited about it. Wow. Just beautiful views and everything.
Speaker 1: There's a bit of a rubble we're just working through.
Speaker 1: Who's going to clear the rubble? But it is exciting.
Speaker 1: Here's my favorite.
Speaker 3: I don't even know who this person is, but here's
Speaker 3: my favorite comment that I can't believe is not.
Speaker 1: Before we go much further, there probably are people who
Speaker 1: had busy evenings, they have lives.
Speaker 3: You're listening to it and you haven't heard I can't.
Speaker 3: I don't have time for people like you. You've got
Speaker 3: to stay in two. You got to stay plugged in.
Speaker 3: Stay plugged in people. You need to be on your
Speaker 3: phone all the time. You need to sleep with your
Speaker 3: phone in your hand. Maybe set your alarm, wake up
Speaker 3: every hour and check what the latest Twitter threat is.
Speaker 1: Go to trending, folks. He's insane, he's a monster. Imagine
Speaker 1: working with him. See if you can pick up from
Speaker 1: the context what we're talking about. If you don't know yet,
Speaker 1: it'll be fun to play along it.
Speaker 3: So I like this, and I'm amazed that this isn't happening,
Speaker 3: having watched Fox this morning where they're chuckling NonStop, and
Speaker 3: watching MSNBC where they're practically crying. I mean, we're back
Speaker 3: to the old days of you take him literally but
Speaker 3: not seriously, or seriously but not literally. I mean, we're
Speaker 3: one hundred percent there. But anyway, this person I don't
Speaker 3: know who they are, but I thought this was really good.
Speaker 3: I generally don't understand how you don't all understand this yet.
Speaker 3: He makes an enormous ask or takes an enormous shocking position,
Speaker 3: the negotiates down to a moderate total victory. Gets everything
Speaker 3: he wants and keeps doing it, and everybody keeps freaking out.
Speaker 1: I'm assuming we'll find out what the Gaza things all
Speaker 1: about in the next twenty four hours or so. Reacting
Speaker 1: to the first gesture and some kind of deal we
Speaker 1: clearly know nothing about, would be pretty silly. Given this
Speaker 1: is like our fifth or sixth rodeo since last Monday.
Speaker 1: That's well crafted. Yeah, this is our fifth or sixth
Speaker 1: rodeo since last Monday. Is exactly right the present and
Speaker 1: having in an offhand manner at a press conference said
Speaker 1: we ought to take over the Gaza Strip, us ought
Speaker 1: to run the place. Everybody's freaking out in the manner
Speaker 1: described here's my prediction. And I will bet you remember
Speaker 1: how I bet my thumbs to Ian Bremmer in one
Speaker 1: but he did not. I can't remember what he was
Speaker 1: going to pay off and he never did. The chiseler. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I will bet my left arm that in roughly five
Speaker 1: years it'll go something like this. This is a reverse Gladys,
Speaker 1: this is into the future. Hey, you remember when Trump
Speaker 1: said that we ought to like take over the Gaza Strip. Oh, right,
Speaker 1: at the press conference. That's right, hilarious.
Speaker 3: Well, I commented on this one at the time. This
Speaker 3: was back when he was running. In twenty fifteen, he
Speaker 3: made an announcement at one of his stops to boycott Apple,
Speaker 3: which at that point was the most valuable company in
Speaker 3: the world, obviously an American company, and he said, We're
Speaker 3: going to buy everyone, to boycott Apple. It barely made
Speaker 3: the news. It was never mentioned again. I mean, that
Speaker 3: would be an enormous deal, obviously.
Speaker 1: Oh shock.
Speaker 3: You go back years earlier, the candidate for one of
Speaker 3: the major parties announcing that. You know, if Carter had
Speaker 3: said boycott GM I want all Democrats, that would have
Speaker 3: been the biggest news story in America.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah. And to make grand pronouncements like this
Speaker 1: is so strange, and so I'll just say a typical
Speaker 1: of any other president. On the other hand, I've been
Speaker 1: doing a bit of reading about the Panama Canal situation
Speaker 1: and the idea that we're going to retake the canal
Speaker 1: if necessary by force. It's just a crazy thing to
Speaker 1: say in the context of like every other president. But
Speaker 1: there are serious issues about Chinese incursion into places and
Speaker 1: things where they could have shut down the canal, they
Speaker 1: could run the canal, and the way it kind of
Speaker 1: got there inch by inch by inch. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: the boiling frog in terms of the Chinese control of
Speaker 1: the canal, and it was to a point that was
Speaker 1: completely unacceptable. And you know, the more I learn about it,
Speaker 1: the more I'm convinced of that. And Trump went in
Speaker 1: with his big We're just going to take it over,
Speaker 1: and even I said that would be like a decade
Speaker 1: long guerrilla war. We don't want that. But no, he's
Speaker 1: just making the point very very strongly to the Panamanians. Hey, look,
Speaker 1: this has gone way too far. We need to talk seriously,
Speaker 1: and we did, and it's moving in a great direction.
Speaker 3: So uh, I was reading my favorite political newsletter today
Speaker 3: in which she pointed out that Trump made all kinds
Speaker 3: of news yesterday other than this that is getting obliterated.
Speaker 3: He did his thing where he signs executive orders and
Speaker 3: takes questions and just rambles while he does it and
Speaker 3: says things, and as the newsletter said, he answered more
Speaker 3: questions yesterday than Joe Biden did in six months.
Speaker 1: It's no credit for that. But he mentioned that.
Speaker 3: He has a standing order that he signed that if
Speaker 3: he is assassinated by Iran, we will obliterate the country.
Speaker 1: Yes, I think that'd make the news. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: kind of a thing to say. It might be the
Speaker 1: Trump post mortem dead hand eating it's he's known. Yeah, yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: I know I reacted to that, right. You react to
Speaker 1: it initially with your uh normal president, Oh my god?
Speaker 1: What then you're oh, that's right? Is Trump okay? All right? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I get it anyway, So he's just trying to tell
Speaker 1: him it would be a very very bad idea. Right.
Speaker 1: So what do you think of the whole.
Speaker 3: Uh mainstream media freaking out about all these things.
Speaker 1: I think it's genuine to a certain extent.
Speaker 3: There's also you know, they're trying to get ratings, and
Speaker 3: their viewers want to freak out. They want to get
Speaker 3: up every day and say, oh my god, what did
Speaker 3: he do today? I know I personally have no people
Speaker 3: like that. First first Trump term. That was like, they
Speaker 3: get up every day, what did he do?
Speaker 1: Now? It was just part of their life. It gave
Speaker 1: him energy. Yeah, absolutely true. Yeah, it reinforced their tribal
Speaker 1: loyalties and enthusiasms. So the media complained to that, but
Speaker 1: they seem to be completely serious about it. Yeah, they do.
Speaker 1: I think partly we're gonna have a US troops in
Speaker 1: Gaza holding that land. Not a freaking chance. Probably right
Speaker 1: after the Super Bowl, but they talked about it for
Speaker 1: a full half hour on the MSNBC show.
Speaker 3: I was watching last night what it would be like
Speaker 3: having troops there and how difficult that would be, And.
Speaker 1: What are you talking about? He is the only thing
Speaker 1: keeping those stations alive. I suppose I should throw this in.
Speaker 3: On the other hand, I suppose it's not crazy if
Speaker 3: the President of the United States said something to take
Speaker 3: him at his word exactly, which brings me, brings us to.
Speaker 1: The point I wanted to make, and I sympathize somewhat
Speaker 1: with with like straight meat guys reporters, I as a
Speaker 1: something quasi commentator, humorist, I can get over this a
Speaker 1: lot more easily than they can. The idea that, oh,
Speaker 1: we have a president who says crazy stuff that we
Speaker 1: don't need to take seriously or literally, We just need
Speaker 1: to take it directionally. That's very hard for journalists to
Speaker 1: do because they have been trained, they have lived their
Speaker 1: entire lives to not only take presidents of the United
Speaker 1: States quite literally, but to look for hints and words,
Speaker 1: be to behind the words you know, the reading between
Speaker 1: the lines and then taking those tiny little hints completely seriously.
Speaker 1: It's the opposite. It's like you go from being nearsighted
Speaker 1: to far sided with Trump. They got to say, all right,
Speaker 1: he's talking about taking over Gaza. Of course nobody could.
Speaker 1: Nobody would want to do that. That's ridiculous, and relocating
Speaker 1: all the Palestinians would never happen, none of the countries
Speaker 1: around there. So Trump, it's either wildly ignorant of the situation.
Speaker 1: It's given the work on the Abraham Accords that kind
Speaker 1: of doubt, although he does have huge blind spots. But
Speaker 1: so he's either wildly insanely ignorant, or he's sending a
Speaker 1: signal of which way stuff ought to go. I'll tell
Speaker 1: you what the signal is.
Speaker 3: I think, to be perfectly serious for a moment, I
Speaker 3: think the signal is to hey, Egypt, Hey Jordan, Hey
Speaker 3: other countries around there. You need to start helping on
Speaker 3: this situation and being willing to take in Palestinians, or
Speaker 3: I'm going to make a mess for you. Because that
Speaker 3: has been the underreported story of the entire Palestinian thing,
Speaker 3: going back to when I was a tiny kid. Is
Speaker 3: the media never talks about how, hey there's a bunch
Speaker 3: of Arab countries around there.
Speaker 1: They don't love Pala countries, Muslim countries around there. They
Speaker 1: don't let Palestinians in. They have a couple of times,
Speaker 1: and it's caused revolution and death and blood in their countries.
Speaker 1: As one of the points I was going to make later,
Speaker 1: but let's make it no is you know what the
Speaker 1: problem is with the Palestinian territories, the Palestinians and their
Speaker 1: leadership and their ninth century Islam and their hatred of Jews.
Speaker 1: That's the issue. You get rid of that. They live
Speaker 1: in peace, harmony and wealth, wealth folks, not just no
Speaker 1: bombs falling on their heads. Wealth. If they could forget
Speaker 1: about their Mohammed directed loathing of the Jews, they'd be great.
Speaker 1: Back to the funny part. So when watching Benjamin Netanyahu
Speaker 1: stand there, I have no idea how much of that
Speaker 1: he was giving a heads up on or not, but
Speaker 1: I mean he was standing there at that press conference
Speaker 1: next to Trump when Trump's so Uncomfortab drops the United
Speaker 1: States is gonna take over Gaza and yeah, we'll send
Speaker 1: troops if we have to.
Speaker 3: Where the Palastini is gonna go I don't know, somewhere else,
Speaker 3: we'll we'll find him another spottle In and benjama I
Speaker 3: was just smiling and got of nodding along.
Speaker 1: And then when he gets asked questions he says things like,
Speaker 1: you know, Trump mixes things up and uh, you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: you have to consider these things. I mean, he allows
Speaker 1: an opportunity to think about things or phrases like that.
Speaker 1: On that score, I have the official White House statement
Speaker 1: on the proposal and all the people praising it. It
Speaker 1: is strange and hilarious. They're taking it serious, literally seriously
Speaker 1: while trolling everybody half serious. It's it's we're through the
Speaker 1: looking glass of presidential communications here. Yeah, it's seems like it.
Speaker 3: I mean, if you watch the news last night in
Speaker 3: this morning, it seems like a really big news cycle.
Speaker 1: I don't think it is. I mean it really it's
Speaker 1: it's it's uh, it's just another step in the whole
Speaker 1: world to a new world. Or Trump's a new guy
Speaker 1: that just a new way to follow things where he
Speaker 1: says wild things but he means something else. Just yeah,
Speaker 1: it's akin to And I was just reading about how
Speaker 1: the administration's doing wonderful things planning on doing just awe
Speaker 1: inspiring stuff on school choice. That just gladdens my heart.
Speaker 1: For all all of his flaws, the other guys weren't
Speaker 1: doing this. It's as if Trump said, We're gonna fire
Speaker 1: every school teacher in America. That's the only way to
Speaker 1: clean out the system. That's the way to start fresh
Speaker 1: with government schools. We're gonna fire every teacher in America.
Speaker 1: That is a signal. You beaches think I'm playing. You
Speaker 1: think I'm Bush over here. You think he Jeff I'm
Speaker 1: not Joe Bucha I am. You think I'm playing about
Speaker 1: reforming schools. He here's a little shot across your bow.
Speaker 3: Let's start to show officially we're running out of time.
Speaker 3: I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty with a funny clip
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Speaker 1: Hugo knew his way around a sentence. Ehh, that's a
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Speaker 1: I love it when listeners try to shame us. First
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Speaker 1: don't like you and we can never be friends. Low
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Speaker 1: what in a scene involving bunch of transgender people, and
Speaker 1: I was trying to get it through my head. This
Speaker 1: will be completely unfollowable no matter how I discribe it. Anyway.
Speaker 1: Moving along, David on the topic of China taking over
Speaker 1: the United States. She is really gonna be disappointed when
Speaker 1: he takes over the US and enslaves the Americans and
Speaker 1: finds out they won't do farm labor, clean motel rooms,
Speaker 1: or work in slaughterhouses. It's just too beneath them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. She's in pang. We're very lazy and entitled here.
Speaker 3: But in China to take to take all the fun
Speaker 3: out of it, which is what I do. But in
Speaker 3: China they would starve you until you work, because that's
Speaker 3: the way they roll as the Communist Chinese Party exactly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, ah, and it works. Another Jay in San Jose writes,
Speaker 1: Musk's in charge. Lol, Dems now think Musk is taking
Speaker 1: over the government from Hitler, the fascist dictator. Well wait
Speaker 1: a minute, let's count the number of dictator fascists who
Speaker 1: willingly gave up all their power. I'll wait, they wanted
Speaker 1: both ways. Maybe we can call them by democrats. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I get his point. Though, he's Hitler, he's
Speaker 1: a fascist. He's willingly giving up all of his power,
Speaker 1: and that's worse. Man. There are a bunch of stories
Speaker 1: to update you on.
Speaker 3: And then obviously we're sending our troops to Gaza to
Speaker 3: take that piece of blend as MAGA had promised, getting
Speaker 3: involved in more Middle Eastern wars.
Speaker 1: No, that's not a long, long term Yes, that was
Speaker 1: part of the promise.
Speaker 3: That's not going to happen. It'll never even come close
Speaker 3: to happening, so don't worry about it.
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Speaker 4: The FBI searching this pawn shop in Manhattan's Diamond District,
Speaker 4: where they say they track some of the luxury items
Speaker 4: stolen in a rash of recent burglaries at the homes
Speaker 4: of professional athletes, including Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow. Two
Speaker 4: men are under arrest, charged with brokering the sale of watches, jewelry,
Speaker 4: and handbags that prosecutors say were stolen by South American
Speaker 4: gangs targeting athletes and other wealthy homeowners across the country
Speaker 4: for nearly five years. Authority say Dimitri Nazinski and Juan
Speaker 4: Vollar were the middlemen, buying the loot from the burglary
Speaker 4: and then selling it at their pawn shop. Officers and
Speaker 4: agents raiding the place, they say they sees dozens of
Speaker 4: high end watches and pieces.
Speaker 1: Of jewelry Gee a pawn shop that specializes in NFL
Speaker 1: Stars stuff. I hope there aren't any others, and if
Speaker 1: there are, I hope somebody will send me the address.
Speaker 1: That had to be a good store.
Speaker 3: So much thievery going on over the last couple of
Speaker 3: years by by all kinds of people, including plenty of
Speaker 3: US citizens as we made crime legal.
Speaker 1: But I've been umb because George Floyd died.
Speaker 3: I was thinking about buying the Apple Vision pro I
Speaker 3: mentioned this a while back, a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 3: and I'm on Facebook marketplace looking for a used one.
Speaker 3: There's a high number of Apple watches, the expensive headphones
Speaker 3: that I have the Apple Vision Pro unopened in boxes
Speaker 3: for sale at Like, what is that?
Speaker 1: Are those all day? They fill off the back of
Speaker 1: a truck. What's going on there? It's got to be,
Speaker 1: doesn't it gotta be? Yeah, Apple doesn't discount like that. No,
Speaker 1: uh yeah, that's gotta be stolen stuff I want.
Speaker 3: And you know, I've I've always wondered, you know, when
Speaker 3: people clear off those shelves of stuff, whether it's an
Speaker 3: Apple store or Walgreens, where are they selling this stuff?
Speaker 1: Well? I guess some point christ Tim Cook doesn't have
Speaker 1: a team of people who just go through those ads
Speaker 1: every single day, and then a private army right of
Speaker 1: thugs that he's hired from around the globe to go
Speaker 1: in ext you know, East German Stazi or whatever, the
Speaker 1: storm into places and get their stuff back and crack
Speaker 1: some heads.
Speaker 3: You're shooting between the eyes with the Cupertino death ray.
Speaker 1: Wow, what I thought? That just ruins my battery life
Speaker 1: and kills people too. Wow. So anyway back to the
Speaker 1: idea of Venezuelan gang members perpetrating crime waves and it's
Speaker 1: not them, it's the Chileans and whatever. And as Jack
Speaker 1: makes the point, there's plenty of domesticated criminals who have
Speaker 1: been setting the message from progressives that it's fine and dandy.
Speaker 1: But if I might blow aside the smoke of the
Speaker 1: Trump Gaza stuff for the moment, and we'll go big
Speaker 1: on it next hour and play you some the tape
Speaker 1: from the press conference, because it was it was like
Speaker 1: satisfying on every level. It was are you serious and important?
Speaker 1: It was bizarre, it was hilarious, it was thought provoking.
Speaker 1: It was like a like one of those seven layer cakes. Anyway,
Speaker 1: our Secretary of State actually used the phrase. I was
Speaker 1: trying to find it to make sure I can get
Speaker 1: it wrong, but I'm pretty sure this right. He actually
Speaker 1: used the phrase make Gaza great again. Yes, yes, exactly, Marco,
Speaker 1: showing that he is fully on board with the Trump method,
Speaker 1: which I think is going to be good. I hope. Anyway,
Speaker 1: some more statements to that effect next hour as well.
Speaker 1: The White House put out pages of people, many of
Speaker 1: whose names you know, from foreign policy, senators, whatever, congressman
Speaker 1: saying this is a great idea. I love this idea,
Speaker 1: So stay tuned. But anyway, we're going to clear the
Speaker 1: smoke of that way and talk about something seriously important
Speaker 1: that is one of the many stories Jack reference that
Speaker 1: are getting covered up with the oh my god, can
Speaker 1: you believe he said that bluster, which never seems to
Speaker 1: get old on the left, and that is Trump wants
Speaker 1: to add the Mexican cartels. I always want to call
Speaker 1: them drug cartels, but they're giant criminal syndicates that do
Speaker 1: a lot of different crimes. Anyway, he wants to add
Speaker 1: them to a list of terrorist groups that include the
Speaker 1: likes of al Qaeda and Hamas the White House laid
Speaker 1: out the executive order actually last month, it's going to
Speaker 1: increase pressure on the cartels by directing more money to
Speaker 1: intelligence gathering. And departing from the text of the article here,
Speaker 1: the stuff going on in the shakeup in the CIA
Speaker 1: is really interesting too, and that the new director wants
Speaker 1: to devote significant time and energy of the CIA to
Speaker 1: penetrating the cartels. The reasoning being there a direct and
Speaker 1: imminent threat to the lives and happiness of America and
Speaker 1: its citizens. So what they're off bounds, out of bounds
Speaker 1: just because they operate in Mexico, which is putatively an
Speaker 1: ally Anyway, I think it's a great move. It could
Speaker 1: also lead the groundwork for going after cartel financiers and
Speaker 1: allied businesses, and for unilateral US military actions such as
Speaker 1: drone strikes on drug labs. According to officials and security experts,
Speaker 1: We've talked about this in the past. See when the
Speaker 1: CIA gets empowered to actually like do the taking out
Speaker 1: of the drug labs, things can get a little crazy.
Speaker 1: But I don't mind a little bit of it. But
Speaker 1: that risks straining ties with Mexico. Jack thoughts, ah good
Speaker 1: straining ties with Mexico. Whatever. The two countries are in
Speaker 1: a delicate, indelicate talks overending drug smug in migration to
Speaker 1: avoid a trade war. I don't think it's that delicate
Speaker 1: a talk from our point of view. I think Mexico's
Speaker 1: in terrible trouble. We talked about this yesterday towards the
Speaker 1: end of the show. How President Shinbaum reacted with horror?
Speaker 1: How dare you slander saying that the Mexican government is
Speaker 1: in bed with the cartels. I would say the most
Speaker 1: innocent description I can give you of the relationship, the
Speaker 1: most innocent. Now it's too innocent. I'll go aheadhead, I'll
Speaker 1: say it anyway. Mexico, legitimate Mexico is in a situation
Speaker 1: that is very much like the Israelis surrounded by Hamas
Speaker 1: and Hezbolah and other militant Palestinian and Iranian BacT factions.
Speaker 1: At times like prior to October seventh, they had this
Speaker 1: uneasy truce going on. All right, we're not going to
Speaker 1: slaughter yours. You're not going to slaughter ours. Everybody keep cool.
Speaker 1: Maybe we can live side by side. But then it
Speaker 1: always goes to blowy just because it's not a relationship
Speaker 1: that can work, and then you're back to open warfare.
Speaker 1: The difference being Gaza or I'm sorry that Gaza, Hamas
Speaker 1: and Hezbollah haven't like deeply penetrated Israeli politics and Israeli
Speaker 1: politicians and mayors and governors and maybe even up to
Speaker 1: Nettnya who himself like is happening in Mexico.
Speaker 3: Well, part of the deal Trump's deal with the to
Speaker 3: end the tariff standoff at the other day was Okay,
Speaker 3: they're gonna put ten thousand troops on the border and
Speaker 3: try to stop ventanyl from getting across. We're gonna try
Speaker 3: to help stop guns from crossing down into there.
Speaker 1: Is that a big thing?
Speaker 3: I mean, do we are there a lot of guns
Speaker 3: that go from the United States and New Mexico.
Speaker 1: Do you have any sense of that. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's huge, huge. I mean, it's just so
Speaker 1: easy to get guns here illegally and illegally, and then
Speaker 1: you just bring them across the border because, as you know,
Speaker 1: having gone for from the US to Mexico and nobody
Speaker 1: gives a crap which you bring in.
Speaker 3: To Mexico, right, I just buy man, that's a dicey job.
Speaker 3: That's a dicey way to make a living, going down
Speaker 3: there and hooking up with cartel people and selling them guns.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, I would watch my whatever the Spanish word
Speaker 1: for back is at all times. But if you're providing
Speaker 1: a service, you know they'll they'll be here for your
Speaker 1: buddy for now told they're not, Yeah, no kidding, But anyway,
Speaker 1: So the beauty of this is that, especially with the
Speaker 1: help of the CIA, if you could really nail down
Speaker 1: where the money goes. I've told this story before, but
Speaker 1: got word that the CIA was on campus when I
Speaker 1: was in college and I was a I was a
Speaker 1: student of foreign governments and government systems and foreign relations
Speaker 1: and stuff like that, and I thought, Wow, the CIA.
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, maybe that's my path. And I looked
Speaker 1: into it, and they're like, only accounting majors all we
Speaker 1: want our accountants. It was like, what anyway, Ah, if
Speaker 1: you can unleash the CIA's accountants figuring out where do
Speaker 1: all the dollars flow from and to with the Mexican
Speaker 1: drug cartels and anybody who's involved with that, you are
Speaker 1: aiding and abetting a terrorist organization, and we are gonna
Speaker 1: shut you down. That has an effect. That's what I
Speaker 1: love this.
Speaker 3: That's what Jason Bateman was doing for the cartel in Ozark.
Speaker 3: He was the accountant that was figuring out a way
Speaker 3: to launder the money and hide it and all that
Speaker 3: sort of stuff.
Speaker 1: Right, it's all right while while trying to maintain an
Speaker 1: uneasy marriage and and his adolescent kids, who are a
Speaker 1: teenager writes a passage teenagers, Are they difficult or what? Oh?
Speaker 1: They're hard as hell. You got the cartel over here,
Speaker 1: you got your bitchy daughter over there. It's like, oh,
Speaker 1: my god, give me a break. They're so spoiled the
Speaker 1: field base, they're so entitled, right, the cartels are the kids?
Speaker 1: Do you entire the kids? Now? I gotta go deal
Speaker 1: with the cartels again, right exactly, will probably kill me
Speaker 1: soon any moment now. So anyway, that's a huge move
Speaker 1: and important move both for Mexico and the US, but
Speaker 1: it's getting over shadowed by some of the other USA
Speaker 1: We're not gonna be able to cure AIDS anymore. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think we will. I think it'll be fine.
Speaker 3: I've mentioned no wine February that I'm trying to do.
Speaker 3: It's very very difficult, dry January, not drinking alcohol, very simple,
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Speaker 1: Any No whining is hard for me. But I was
Speaker 1: thinking this yesterday because somebody told me about their teenagers.
Speaker 1: I think it might be better if more parents whined
Speaker 1: about their teenagers, so all the other parents are dealing
Speaker 1: with their teenagers can think, oh, okay, good, I'm not
Speaker 1: the only one because I find it relaxing when I
Speaker 1: hear some other parents talk about their teenagers. It's not
Speaker 1: whining to me. It's like, oh, thank god, my kid's
Speaker 1: not an outlier. Your kid's doing exactly the same thing
Speaker 1: I thought I had completely failed. Yes, yes, we call
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Speaker 1: capital letters. Okay, mam maga magabu mcbaah, make gods of
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Speaker 1: voted for Kamala Harris. I admire religious conviction generally speaking,
Speaker 1: although it's undeniable. I don't quite have the fully turgid
Speaker 1: for the real estate distraction that Trump does because he
Speaker 1: sees a spin land like that and he just he's
Speaker 1: like an eighteen year old next to a beautiful woman.
Speaker 1: He just can't help himself. On the other hand, it
Speaker 1: is undeniable. It is a true fact that if you
Speaker 1: take away the nutjob brand of Islam that runs so
Speaker 1: hot through that region of the globe, the Gaza Strip
Speaker 1: would be incredibly wealthy, comfortable. The kids would be educated,
Speaker 1: the old folks would recline in their chairs at the shore,
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Speaker 3: Yes, half the people you know would have vacation there
Speaker 3: at some point in their lives and talked about how
Speaker 3: wonderful it was.
Speaker 1: Oh and it'd been a torture you with their Instagram
Speaker 1: pictures of the perfect lives from Gaza. Yeah, exactly right,
Speaker 1: it'd be that kind of play. We've got Katie's headlines
Speaker 1: on the way stay here. I just realized I've got
Speaker 1: mud on my pants, which is a kind of a
Speaker 1: low rent look. You got muddy pants. A giant dog
Speaker 1: with muddy paws jumped on me. Man, I was dealing
Speaker 1: with a guy I think highly of, but he had
Speaker 1: the cracked phone glass. Yeah, I mean, like really clacked sketch.
Speaker 1: I almost told him that is the missing front tooth
Speaker 1: of the digital era, right, really is don't It's just
Speaker 1: it's it's a low class Look, what are you gonna do? Wow?
Speaker 3: You guys are hey, you see somebody crack phone and
Speaker 3: I've I've been cracked phone guy.
Speaker 1: You're like, you don't have your act together? Right then?
Speaker 1: If you got the cracked phone, now things are not
Speaker 1: going well? Yeah, exactly. All right, let's figure out who's
Speaker 1: reporting what. It's the lead story with Katie Green.
Speaker 5: Katie starting with NBC quote, deranged and problematic, bipartisan group
Speaker 5: of lawmakers bashes Trump's gaza proposal.
Speaker 3: That was our original air names. We were doing a
Speaker 3: soft a S show. Deranged and problematic.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is a poor match with the music. Really. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Maybe you know, as we've been discussing in will soon
Speaker 1: going crazy over Trump, is a profitable cottage industry, and
Speaker 1: I get why it endures. But in terms of if
Speaker 1: you are the sort of person who just wants to
Speaker 1: understand the exactly what's going on and where it's probably headed, Yeah,
Speaker 1: don't don't worry about the crazy stuff.
Speaker 5: For maybec Trump to sign executive order banning transgender athletes
Speaker 5: from women's sports.
Speaker 1: Love it to the extent that is possible from his seat.
Speaker 1: Love it. Yeah, So what would that cover? Can he
Speaker 1: do that for your local grade school or community colleges
Speaker 1: or what does he have the power to ban check
Speaker 1: your local listings. That's a long and complicated answer, and
Speaker 1: I could not do it accurately. He can do some
Speaker 1: stuff on the collegiate level, anything that gets federal funding.
Speaker 1: Blah blah blah from Fox News.
Speaker 5: Trump Education Department launches probe into quote explosion of anti
Speaker 5: semitism at five US universities.
Speaker 1: This is another great thing flying under the radar. We
Speaker 1: can tell you about it in detail later on in
Speaker 1: the show. But he's making the universe. Universities enforce their
Speaker 1: own standards if they're getting federal funding, because they're allowing
Speaker 1: stuff against Jews they would never allow against anybody else,
Speaker 1: and he's calling them on it.
Speaker 5: From Breitbart dot com, The Biden administration wasted two hundred
Speaker 5: and thirty six billion dollars in improper payments throughout seventy
Speaker 5: one federal.
Speaker 1: Programs in twenty twenty three h That surprise.
Speaker 5: From study fines, Daily talk time plummets three thousand words
Speaker 5: since two thousand and five as text takes over.
Speaker 1: So what was that stat What are we What are
Speaker 1: we measuring here?
Speaker 5: Daily talk time has gone down by three hundred three
Speaker 5: thousand words a day because we're texting.
Speaker 1: Ah.
Speaker 3: God, the other day I was texting with my oldest
Speaker 3: friend and he free of my phone rings.
Speaker 1: He said, what are we doing? You're right, how are
Speaker 1: we doing? And we just talked. It was so dumb.
Speaker 1: I mean, we were on like our fifteenth text, Like,
Speaker 1: what are we doing? That's so croaky. Yeah, call it
Speaker 1: word count, not talk time. That's just confusing.
Speaker 5: From CNN, one hundred thousand eggs were stolen from a
Speaker 5: trailer in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1: How many thousand eggs? One hundred thousand? It's the new
Speaker 1: gold bars. That's a logistical nightmare. Yeah.
Speaker 5: From the Wall Street Journal, Mewing, Beta Maxing, Jigga, Chad
Speaker 5: and Battie parents are drowning in teenage new Lingo.
Speaker 1: We're gonna dive into that later on. Boy, I need help.
Speaker 1: So it's a it's a part time job, no kidding,
Speaker 1: keeping it up. We keep it up with all of it.
Speaker 1: So your meme of the day is not a meme.
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Speaker 5: I found a video of people driving by these deportation
Speaker 5: protests blasting Vanilla ICE's ice Ice baby.
Speaker 1: I saw that. I feel like you're looking for a fight,
Speaker 1: but I did laugh, I must admit, so yeah, for
Speaker 1: our country, that's right. Jeez, oh my god, Luck, it's
Speaker 1: you a shame to be American or something or other.
Speaker 1: I'm on the offense now. I'm just gonna keep saying
Speaker 1: stuff here, Trader, and what is your vehicle for justice?
Speaker 1: Vanilla Ice? Yes, American hero.
Speaker 5: Finally, the babbylon Bee, taxpayer funded illegal immigrant gender surgeon
Speaker 5: is having a really bad week.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, uh yeah. That thing on the the slang
Speaker 3: for the high schoolers, I'll catch on to one because
Speaker 3: I'll hear my son and his friend's using it. Then
Speaker 3: I'll use it. What seems to me like a week later,
Speaker 3: where nobody says that anymore. Dad, that is so lame.
Speaker 3: What he used it like a month ago?
Speaker 1: And the journal articles talking about nine year olds, I mean, parents,
Speaker 1: little kids are trying having to keep up with this,
Speaker 1: mostly to figure out if they're being insulted or not
Speaker 1: in a casual conversation. Right, He's right, we've had that problem.
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