Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Jetty and he arms Yet live from Studio
Speaker 2: c C Signor.
Speaker 3: We are in a dimly lit room, deeput in the
Speaker 3: bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications Compound, protected by
Speaker 3: razor wire and dogs who when they bark, they shoot
Speaker 3: bees out of their mouths.
Speaker 2: And today we're under the tutelage of our general manager,
Speaker 2: the winds of change.
Speaker 1: What what I said, the winds of the change? You
Speaker 1: gotta do that with your fingers doing his head change?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 2: The general manager is the winds of change. Okay, wait,
Speaker 2: what does it struck be? Getting ready for the program today?
Speaker 1: How many fairly significant tectonic plates are shifting, especially in
Speaker 1: domestic politics, whether it be the much discussed and about
Speaker 1: to be much discussed Supreme Court oral arguments yesterday about
Speaker 1: gender bending, madness and mutilating children based on extremists bizarre experiments,
Speaker 1: or the doge guys Yea Elon and Vivek are talking
Speaker 1: about where they want to go, what they want to target,
Speaker 1: really intriguing, and I heard the point made that these guys,
Speaker 1: especially because they'll get a lot of attention, are refocusing
Speaker 1: Americans on we pay them money the government and they're
Speaker 1: supposed to do stuff. How much, what are they doing
Speaker 1: with our money? How effective is it?
Speaker 2: Why are they spending more than or taken in?
Speaker 1: It could refocus us on the most fundamental aspects of
Speaker 1: our relationship with the federal government, which I thought is great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've been thinking about this a lot.
Speaker 1: So the DOGE, which stands for Department of Government Efficiency,
Speaker 1: being run by Elon Muskin Vivek meeting with congressional people today.
Speaker 1: You know what, We're a couple months before, a month
Speaker 1: and a half before the administration even takes hold, but
Speaker 1: they're already meeting with people and they seem to be
Speaker 1: pretty serious. And like I said the other day, if
Speaker 1: you follow Vivik's Twitter feed or Elon, they keep putting
Speaker 1: out all kinds of things, Hey, here's a department that
Speaker 1: does nothing as a building and nobody works in it,
Speaker 1: and then just stuff like that.
Speaker 2: I don't like people.
Speaker 1: That are being critical of this because that's just the
Speaker 1: minor percentage of I don't care. I mean, I understand
Speaker 1: that you got to eventually get to the big stuff
Speaker 1: to really make a difference.
Speaker 2: But how think they will?
Speaker 1: How about we just get a culture of wasting taxpayers'
Speaker 1: money is really really bad. I would like that even
Speaker 1: if one hundred freaking dollars undred percent you don't get
Speaker 1: to do that. But did you see Mitt Romney's speech yesterday?
Speaker 2: I did not.
Speaker 1: It's pretty good. I thinking about grabbing. It's kind of
Speaker 1: long in the way that senators are, but it was
Speaker 1: his final speech. He's leaving as a US senator, and
Speaker 1: his political career is over, and he's an old man,
Speaker 1: and he's you know, he's basically retiring from public life.
Speaker 1: And the second half of his speech was about how
Speaker 1: great it was to serve the great state of Utah.
Speaker 1: But the first half of the speech was his only
Speaker 1: disappointment was that they didn't get any further in wrestling
Speaker 1: with our debt and that and that, and he wishes
Speaker 1: he could draw more attention in both parties to how
Speaker 1: big a deal this is. And he said a couple
Speaker 1: of things like, do you realize if we didn't have
Speaker 1: this debt? And he threw out the number whatever it
Speaker 1: is now, it's insane how much we're spending just on
Speaker 1: the interest payments, Like if you've ever matched out a
Speaker 1: credit card, you know what that's like, just the interest payments.
Speaker 2: He said, if we weren't paying off our debt.
Speaker 1: We could double the budget of the Pentagon, double it
Speaker 1: and not even notice because that's how much money where
Speaker 1: he's punny, he said. Or if you're not into that,
Speaker 1: if that's not your thing, we could double Social Security payments,
Speaker 1: and then he listened to a whole bunch of other
Speaker 1: you know, entitlement sort of things.
Speaker 2: We could double them.
Speaker 1: And have money left over if we opportunity has probably
Speaker 1: been squandered at this point, right, So I'm just thinking
Speaker 1: that from a strategic standpoint because the doge thing is
Speaker 1: running up against the corporate media, mainstream media, you know,
Speaker 1: not liking anything that's a cut back in government.
Speaker 2: The way it's presented all the time, it really is, it's.
Speaker 1: It's to look at it, you know, in a like
Speaker 1: a scientific way. It is bizarre that any citizen of
Speaker 1: any country would say, I am going to stand with
Speaker 1: the government wasting and abusing the taxpayers because of some
Speaker 1: vaguely felt opposition to the other side.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it seems to be into cutting the waste and abuse.
Speaker 2: So I am far wasted abuse.
Speaker 1: As an aside, on the walk from my car to
Speaker 1: the building, I was reading about the Simpson Bowls Commission
Speaker 1: back from twenty ten.
Speaker 2: Aren't I a fun guy?
Speaker 1: And that was the biggest effort in our lifetime to
Speaker 1: try to do something about our debt and our spending.
Speaker 1: And they put together, Barack Obama put together a commission,
Speaker 1: two highly respected senators who were out of office, so
Speaker 1: they had, you know, no reason to politics. But all
Speaker 1: the people that were that had to vote on it
Speaker 1: were in office. Where's the problem. But anyway, they came
Speaker 1: up with a combination of spending cuts and taxes that
Speaker 1: was something for everyone to love and or hate.
Speaker 2: I mean, the tax stuff really were me the wrong way.
Speaker 1: The spending cuts part was awesome for a lot of
Speaker 1: for half of america'd be the other way around.
Speaker 2: But that's what's going to have to happen at some point.
Speaker 1: And they put this thing together, and the way the
Speaker 1: law was written, there were eighteen members of this commission,
Speaker 1: and when they put it to the vote, it didn't
Speaker 1: get the number of votes necessary to even get to
Speaker 1: Congress to get voted on, because when it came to
Speaker 1: an individual vote, a bunch of Republicans didn't want to
Speaker 1: have their their hand in the air on a vote
Speaker 1: having voted for a tax increase on anything, because they
Speaker 1: would get booted out of office. And the Democrats couldn't
Speaker 1: have their hand up in the air to vote for
Speaker 1: anything that would be a you know, a cut in
Speaker 1: an entitlement, or they would get booted out office. And
Speaker 1: so it didn't get anywhere. And that's what's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: Went over you'll like this. It went over for like
Speaker 1: a call for a prayer at a Diddy free call.
Speaker 2: Wow. Wow, No, I feel like that was a lot.
Speaker 1: But what excuse me before we get all oiled up
Speaker 1: and participate in this orgy with some unwilling members as well.
Speaker 2: Can we all join our hands now in prayer?
Speaker 1: But so, what I was thinking about on the way
Speaker 1: in here, because I want this to work, I really
Speaker 1: want to work, and the only way it's gonna work
Speaker 1: is if we're all all in it together.
Speaker 2: Or in agreement or something like that.
Speaker 1: And I was thinking about with one person that I
Speaker 1: have parented, I'll just be vague about it, like that
Speaker 1: who had as a youngster emotional difficulties and really really
Speaker 1: difficult time making decisions, and somebody suggested to me, and
Speaker 1: if I was a better parent, I would have figured
Speaker 1: this out myself. But whenever we're trying to do anything,
Speaker 1: always bring it down to two things.
Speaker 2: So do you want this or this? Because then he
Speaker 2: could make a decision.
Speaker 1: But if it was just wide open, he just fall
Speaker 1: apart and just to become a crisis and just everything
Speaker 1: would go apets. But if you could get it down
Speaker 1: to this or this, and I think we've got to
Speaker 1: do that with this whole doge thing for everyone. Look,
Speaker 1: it's this or this. These are the two options. The
Speaker 1: not doing it is not an option. It's this or this.
Speaker 1: And now, okay, on this one, it's this or this.
Speaker 1: It's the only way we're going to get through this.
Speaker 1: If you realize you have to choose one of these
Speaker 1: two things. Yes, absolutely, and one of the choices is
Speaker 1: being chosen by not making the decision. I'm reminded of
Speaker 1: the line by the genius Neil Peirtiff, you choose not
Speaker 1: to decide, you've still made a choice. And as a
Speaker 1: matter of fact, and this is a full blown segment
Speaker 1: on this topic now, but we'll wrap it up in
Speaker 1: a moment. France I know there's a lot of wacky
Speaker 1: stuff going on geopolitically right now within government's South Korea's meltdown.
Speaker 1: France is having a serious political meltdown. And here's the reason.
Speaker 1: Their debt service. They're over spending. How many times have
Speaker 1: we said we don't want to become France through socialism
Speaker 1: and then have a moribund economy, over regulated, sapped by
Speaker 1: government pensions and the rest of it. Well, France has
Speaker 1: truly become France at this point. They have such a
Speaker 1: fiscal nightmare on their hand. Any sane suggestion for how
Speaker 1: to fix it is immediately shouted down. They lack the
Speaker 1: discipline and character as a people to recognize what they
Speaker 1: have wrought and do it's necessary to fix it.
Speaker 2: And we're close.
Speaker 1: We happen to have the de you know, the currency
Speaker 1: of record for a mankind, which helps we can print
Speaker 1: as much of it as we want. But even that
Speaker 1: strategy is wearing thin now well with the bond markets.
Speaker 1: I won't bore you with the details. Or a guy
Speaker 1: or a family that makes a lot of money, and
Speaker 1: so you get yourself into credit card debt, but you
Speaker 1: can just earn your way out of it and keep
Speaker 1: up all the time, but you just keep spending more.
Speaker 1: At some point that ends. I think we just I
Speaker 1: think it's just got to be presented psychologically, to the news,
Speaker 1: to the voter, to everyone, Okay, cut this or increase that,
Speaker 1: cut this or increase that. Not an option of not
Speaker 1: doing it. That's not on the table. I don't know
Speaker 1: if we can get there. I'll given the incentives and
Speaker 1: disincentives that politicians deal with. I am bitterly pessimistic. It's
Speaker 1: going to be really interesting when Elon and Viveik present
Speaker 1: this to the world. I just feel like the all
Speaker 1: of the media is gonna be so lined up against them,
Speaker 1: just ideologically because they hate them, regardless of what they say.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be really a tough cell. It's frustrating. We
Speaker 2: need and I wish Trump was this guy. I don't
Speaker 2: think he is.
Speaker 1: We need a charismatic, persuasive ruler. Ruler Why did I
Speaker 1: use that term leader who can communicate? Because communication skills
Speaker 1: matter a lot. Is the president who can communicate how
Speaker 1: dire the situation is in a way that activates people.
Speaker 1: It's a tough ask, though, because we have been trained
Speaker 1: for decades to get I want more, you got to give.
Speaker 2: Me more to get my vote.
Speaker 1: And if you ask me for anything, including sanity, I'll
Speaker 1: say you go to hell. You're trying to balance the
Speaker 1: budget on the backs of the poor or whatever. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess to wrap up this conversation for now. It
Speaker 1: doesn't help that both presidential candidates vowed to never cut
Speaker 1: any entitlements. I mean, because you have to. I mean,
Speaker 1: it just absolutely has to happen. So increase the age
Speaker 1: or something. Anyway, let's start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong.
Speaker 1: He's Joe Getty on this It is Thursday, December fifth,
Speaker 1: the year twenty twenty four. We are armstrong in getting
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Speaker 5: These are young people who may have known since they
Speaker 5: were two years old exactly who they are, who suffered
Speaker 5: for six seven years before they had any relief.
Speaker 1: There was the lady posing as a fella before the
Speaker 1: Supreme Court arguing that two year olds know they want
Speaker 1: to change their sex and if they reach age seven
Speaker 1: having not changed their sex, they've been suffering. And that's
Speaker 1: the tragedy. Why was an insane person allowed in the
Speaker 1: Supreme Court. That's my question. Well, some of the justices
Speaker 1: that made sense to based on the comments I saw,
Speaker 1: and we'll place more of those a little bit later
Speaker 1: in the Supreme Court yesterday.
Speaker 2: They're wacky toodles and may they never hold a majority. Amen.
Speaker 2: How does mailbag look? Oh?
Speaker 1: It's full of dry and delicious humor. Boy uh, people,
Speaker 1: I knew this was gonna happen. The hatred slash glee
Speaker 1: about that insurance ceo getting murdered in New York. Yeah,
Speaker 1: from the crazies. I knew that would happen. Anyway, We
Speaker 1: got that on the way too. Here's our text line
Speaker 1: four one two nine five KFTC. I'll tell you what
Speaker 1: the general manager should have been. I didn't even want
Speaker 1: to talk about it. Freaking bitcoin since election day could
Speaker 1: have changed your life, my life if we had gotten
Speaker 1: into bitcoin I did day of the election, knowing.
Speaker 2: What was going to happen.
Speaker 1: Damn it could have what a should have. Here's your
Speaker 1: freedom loving quote of the day, oddly from Groutow Marx
Speaker 1: set along by in Texas.
Speaker 2: I love this.
Speaker 1: Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere,
Speaker 1: diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong.
Speaker 2: Remedies might be the might be what talk radio.
Speaker 1: Is also although uh with with politics, all of it
Speaker 1: results in raiding the treasury to hand out money to
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Speaker 1: GMOs equals bad, chemical castrations equals good. I love that.
Speaker 1: That's a good sarcasm. The progressives have no philosophy, only slogans.
Speaker 1: And then he signs off, Katie. He signs off with
Speaker 1: keep up the fight boys and the assigned female at
Speaker 1: birth boy too.
Speaker 2: There you go, well played boy.
Speaker 1: Speaking of dry humor, guys, your discussion of people whose
Speaker 1: stories stay the same versus those who changed constantly, we're
Speaker 1: talking about the irs, whistle blowers versus the Biden family.
Speaker 1: Reminded of a phrase Elizabeth Warren of all people once
Speaker 1: said that we should all know and remember in terms
Speaker 1: of the credulity of a consistent story compared to.
Speaker 2: A changing one.
Speaker 1: In a storm, some menner the bran are branches clinging
Speaker 1: to leaves and others are a trunk tied to its roots?
Speaker 2: Is truth found in the wind or the earth? Now?
Speaker 1: He writes paint with all the colors of the wind
Speaker 1: and wow, reference of course to Elizabeth Warren's Native American
Speaker 1: culture or background heritage. Let's see Jim from Kansas City, right, Jack, Joe,
Speaker 1: Jack is right on the peat hegxeth story.
Speaker 2: Joe is out to launch.
Speaker 1: Real issue is whether we're going to have a consistent
Speaker 1: standard of behavior for our public servants and have so
Speaker 1: what the standards to be? And he gives a couple
Speaker 1: of examples, including Kamala Harris sleeping her way to the top.
Speaker 1: As he puts it, well, Katie Grimes puts it the
Speaker 1: same way. It's well known anyway, if Democrats gave an
Speaker 1: airborne fornication about extramarital affairs, Gavin Newsom would be on
Speaker 1: the library board in San Francisco instead of governor of
Speaker 1: the largest state. I fear you're right that this issue
Speaker 1: will be mooted soon by Hegsath's withdrawal. I'm like Joe, however,
Speaker 1: I'm just made by the withdrawal because it robs us
Speaker 1: of the opportunity to.
Speaker 2: Highlight the blatant double standard here.
Speaker 1: Once again, soft headed Republicans let the Democrats act as
Speaker 1: judge and jury, then wonder why it's only their people
Speaker 1: who get convicted. Then he says he really likes the show. Jim,
Speaker 1: I think that's an excellent point, and thanks for making it.
Speaker 2: I concede the point.
Speaker 1: Now, Hegseth is not going to borrow Lago today. That
Speaker 1: doesn't seem like a good sign. No, He's got a
Speaker 1: piece in the Wall Street Journal that is really really good.
Speaker 1: I mean it's an A plus defending himself and his
Speaker 1: candidacy or his appointedment sey or whatever you call it.
Speaker 1: More on that to New York Times, says Trump is
Speaker 1: pretty angry that Hegsath wasn't more forthcoming with the stuff
Speaker 1: that was gonna come out, like just just a heads up,
Speaker 1: you're probably gonna hear about this. Let's see, we have
Speaker 1: a lot of thoughts on the transgender Supreme Court thing,
Speaker 1: Amani rights with the way the left leaning media, social
Speaker 1: media giants, and Democrat politicians handled stories like alternative COVID theories,
Speaker 1: lab League, Russia Gate, evidence of Biden influenced pedaling, and
Speaker 1: the Hunter Biden laptop I can't see why anyone would
Speaker 1: think these people should be in charge of determining what
Speaker 1: is fake news and disinformation. Then he asked, will Old
Speaker 1: Joe pardon any more families in the final days for
Speaker 1: financial crimes? Blah blah blah, an eleven year pardon for
Speaker 1: anybody named Biden? Maybe not, maybe so. But the rumor
Speaker 1: that's hanging heavy in the air right now is Biden
Speaker 1: is gonna pre emptively pardon Fauci and Francis Collins and
Speaker 1: all of the monstrous things Adam Schiff right, anybody Trump
Speaker 1: could conceivably investigate who he is ever named, including the
Speaker 1: monster Fauci, Biden is going to preemptively pardon, which we're
Speaker 1: not exactly sure if that's a thing or not, so
Speaker 1: that's got to be figured out by someone.
Speaker 2: Also, we have a lot to talk about.
Speaker 4: Stay here, arm Strong and Getty. How much have you
Speaker 4: paid people to pull out customers who are in line
Speaker 4: with a bag that's two centimeters too big because a
Speaker 4: shorter Well.
Speaker 1: We recognize this as a hard job, and so therefore
Speaker 1: we incentivize them to do that.
Speaker 2: How much it's ten dollars per bag? Wow?
Speaker 4: Ten dollars per bag? I mean you guys, do appreciate
Speaker 4: that flying on your airlines is a disaster, don't you.
Speaker 4: I'm slightly amazed by the general attitude of all of
Speaker 4: you here. Flying on your airlines is horrible. It's terrible experience.
Speaker 4: I mean, I say this as a father of three
Speaker 4: young children, but I can't tell you nobody enjoys flying
Speaker 4: on your airlines. It's a disaster.
Speaker 2: You know. Sometimes I go back and forth on this.
Speaker 1: That's Josh Holly, Senator yelling at the people that run
Speaker 1: the airlines. I go back and forth between absolutely loving
Speaker 1: populism because of the way it makes me feel. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's yell at the people that run the airlines and
Speaker 1: just tell them it sucks and how populism is bad
Speaker 1: and not a way to accomplish anything, and it's a
Speaker 1: trans For some reason, I took great joy as also
Speaker 1: a father, a father of two and the difficulties flying
Speaker 1: just over the last week.
Speaker 2: Just haven't getting a chance, he yelled those people, saying
Speaker 2: it sucks, it sucks.
Speaker 1: What is fatherhood a greater factor than just in terms
Speaker 1: of your slepping kids around and they get searched and stuff,
Speaker 1: or just just you know, the slepping through the airport
Speaker 1: with the kids and all the stuff, and it's just
Speaker 1: it's a pain in the ass and you're mad about it.
Speaker 1: And does you need to yell at someone about it?
Speaker 1: I mean, that's populism and it's best great, feel better, super.
Speaker 2: Is brilliant. I'm not offering a solution. I'm not even
Speaker 2: saying there's any way.
Speaker 1: To do any better. And it's a free market, and
Speaker 1: you know, you get to compete against each other. But
Speaker 1: this makes me feel good. It sucks.
Speaker 2: I forget hate this.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 2: Wow, oh my god.
Speaker 1: I was watching the airport because my kids are older now.
Speaker 1: I was watching people at the airport with the little kids.
Speaker 1: That is a chore flying with small children. And I
Speaker 1: was actually seeing somebody with the baby, and I was
Speaker 1: thinking to myself, you think it's bad with the baby.
Speaker 1: You know when it gets really hard when they get
Speaker 1: out of diapers. You think it's harder the baby. It's
Speaker 1: actually harder when they need to use the bathroom all
Speaker 1: the time. Oh boy, the chance to yell at the
Speaker 1: people that run all the airlines and just tell them
Speaker 1: I hate this, it would be uh, I get it. Well,
Speaker 1: Thank goodness, Jack, they don't have men's and women's bathrooms
Speaker 1: on airplanes. Otherwise you'd have to go the bathroom determined
Speaker 1: by your assigned sex at birth, gender something or other.
Speaker 2: The Supreme Court.
Speaker 1: You may have heard this, had a oral argument session
Speaker 1: about a Tennessee law seeking to end the mutilation of
Speaker 1: little children based on a radical gender theory held only
Speaker 1: by lunatics. And we will talk about that at length
Speaker 1: and play you some really interesting audio next hour as
Speaker 1: a and let you know how it went down.
Speaker 2: It's looking good for sanity. Cool.
Speaker 1: So I will tell you this though, before we get
Speaker 1: into it. Got this email from Aaron, frequent correspondent all
Speaker 1: the gender cult conspirators, and he named several of them,
Speaker 1: including J. B. Pritzker spokespeople, government sponsors, child butchers, and
Speaker 1: all of the menglosurgeons should get the chair. Ride the
Speaker 1: lightning straight to hell, you disgusting evil monsters.
Speaker 2: Ride the lightning fairly strong.
Speaker 1: Right. Here's the United States Senator Mike Lee on Twitter.
Speaker 1: He retweets the audio that we played.
Speaker 2: Well, you know what, I.
Speaker 1: Tell you what just for chuckles, not chuckles, but our
Speaker 1: enlightenment to where the heck is it?
Speaker 2: We've got so.
Speaker 1: Much audio today. Give me, please, Michael clip number. Where
Speaker 1: the heck is it? Where's the two year olds know
Speaker 1: their trans clip? I thought we had that still, somebody
Speaker 1: anybody there it is, got it?
Speaker 2: Hit it.
Speaker 5: These are not doctor team forced to provide this medication.
Speaker 5: These are doctors who are wanting to treat their patients
Speaker 5: in the best way that they know how, based on
Speaker 5: the best available evidence to us. And these are young
Speaker 5: people who may have known since they were two years
Speaker 5: old exactly who they are, who suffered for six seven
Speaker 5: years before they had any relief. And what's happening here.
Speaker 5: It's not the kids who are consenting to this treatment.
Speaker 5: It's the parents who are consenting to the treatment. And
Speaker 5: as a parent, I say we when our children are suffering,
Speaker 5: we are suffering. And these are parents.
Speaker 1: You got a situation where poor, confused parents are in
Speaker 1: some doctor's office because their kid claims to be the
Speaker 1: opposite sex, and the doctor tells them, you've got to
Speaker 1: go along with this or they'll kill themselves. And yes,
Speaker 1: then the parents consent quote unquote yeah I never noticed
Speaker 1: the first five times I heard that. But she does
Speaker 1: the switch arooo in the middle of that little sentence
Speaker 1: from And that's the parents that make the decision, not
Speaker 1: the children. But you just said the children make the
Speaker 1: decision and you have to follow that. Yes, so you,
Speaker 1: as a parent must follow the wishes of your three
Speaker 1: year old. So you're switched there at the end too,
Speaker 1: And that's the parents making the decision. That doesn't make sense.
Speaker 2: Parents.
Speaker 1: Have you ever heard anything as bat spit crazy as
Speaker 1: that a gal masquerading as a man said that if
Speaker 1: you're two year old has a whim, you must give
Speaker 1: them powerful chemicals and surgeries.
Speaker 2: That is a thing, not How in the hell even if.
Speaker 1: Your kid has gender dysphorier or whatever it is that
Speaker 1: happens in one out of a million people, how would
Speaker 1: that manifest itself at age two? I can't even tell
Speaker 1: they want to play with a doll. These people are insane.
Speaker 1: Two year olds are just all over the place. I apologize,
Speaker 1: I went off. I hadn't intended to. But this is
Speaker 1: all leading up to Mike Lee, the senator from Utah,
Speaker 1: who tweeted, there's a place where people who mutilate kids belong.
Speaker 2: It's called prison. Yeah.
Speaker 1: These people aren't crusaders for good. They're criminals. They're monsters.
Speaker 1: They've been swept away by this bizarre ideology to do
Speaker 1: unforgivable things to confuse children. So we're gonna hear some
Speaker 1: of the Supreme Court actual or arguments, probably an hour
Speaker 1: or two, and it's pretty darn interesting. I'm always interested
Speaker 1: in hearing stuff going on at the Supreme Court. I've
Speaker 1: mentioned Bitcoin hit one hundred thousand dollars for the first
Speaker 1: time for an d visual bitcoin, which this is one
Speaker 1: of the many things in the modern world that I
Speaker 1: don't understand it all. And I was thinking about, you
Speaker 1: wouldn't have to go back very many years where I
Speaker 1: think I understood pretty much everything that was going on
Speaker 1: in the world, even if I didn't specifically know how
Speaker 1: to do brain surgery. I mean, I got the basics
Speaker 1: of what it was, yes, But now with.
Speaker 2: Bitcoin and AI.
Speaker 1: And a number of other things, I don't even know.
Speaker 1: I don't have the slightest idea of what's happening. I
Speaker 1: do know this that bitcoin hitting the record high of
Speaker 1: one hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 1: Two weeks ago that bitcoin had skyrocketed so much after
Speaker 1: the presidential election.
Speaker 2: I was saying, why didn't I invest in bitcoin? Damn it?
Speaker 1: And it's gone up twenty percent since then. If I
Speaker 1: hadn't gotten in that day, I would have made a mint.
Speaker 1: Well you should have, or maybe I should get in today.
Speaker 1: I don't know, or that's the worst idea you've ever had. Absally,
Speaker 1: that is the problem with the whole bitcoin thing is
Speaker 1: timing it. That is definitely the problem. You're saying the
Speaker 1: problem with investing is risk. Well, this I agreed completely.
Speaker 1: This is different than other normal risk though. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is they're not waiting for the the report is
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Speaker 1: It is that CEO of United Healthcare getting gunned down.
Speaker 1: I want to talk about that some too. A little
Speaker 1: bit later, and it's getting way too much coverage. Could
Speaker 1: have happened in New York, but there's some interesting stuff
Speaker 1: going on around that.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: You could make a one of those nine o'clock at
Speaker 1: night CBS crime things around this Who done it?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Or forty eight hours that strings you along commercial
Speaker 1: break after commercial break and never gets to the good stuff.
Speaker 1: But yeah, because there's something going on here, clearly. Number
Speaker 1: one most forwarded story we got and folks, I love this.
Speaker 1: You see something, you say, the fella's got to talk
Speaker 1: about this, and the fella assigned female at birth as well, Katie,
Speaker 1: and people forward it to mail bag at Armstrong and
Speaker 1: giddy dot com, which is appreciated.
Speaker 2: It's great.
Speaker 1: You guys have very great eyes and ears and awareness
Speaker 1: of good stuff to talk about anyway. Number one story
Speaker 1: today by Far British rock band robbed at gunpoint on
Speaker 1: day one of their US tour because they started their
Speaker 1: tour in San Francisco. Oh, they hit the shores, they
Speaker 1: load the van, they stop for coffee, and gunmen loot
Speaker 1: their van that quick. Welcome to America, Welcome to the
Speaker 1: Bay Area of California, fellas well. Yeah, technically true, Welcome
Speaker 1: to America, but most of America is not like that.
Speaker 1: You're not going to get robbed ever, let alone moments
Speaker 1: after you arrive. But there's a good chance of that
Speaker 1: happening in San Francisco. On happen to your brother? Yeah,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, they stopped to see the Golden gate Bridge,
Speaker 1: walked around for half an hour. All their stuff has gone,
Speaker 1: all of it, their kids' backpacks, their stuffed animals today.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, broad daylight, crowded place. But the guys they
Speaker 1: pull up, they smash it into cars or vans.
Speaker 2: In this case, somebody tries to stop them.
Speaker 1: They wave a gun at them, They take what they want,
Speaker 1: they drive off with no repercussions. Anyway, as the band tweeted,
Speaker 1: just been robbed at gunpoint ten minutes into the US tour,
Speaker 1: up for coffee, man runs in saying guys are smashing
Speaker 1: into a van.
Speaker 2: You know what, let me make sure I got this right.
Speaker 1: Where were they specifically Vallejo, California. Yeah, beautiful Valleto I
Speaker 1: impugned San Francisco, and properly I apologize. The streets of
Speaker 1: San Francisco are so select with pooh. The robbers can't
Speaker 1: get good enough footing to rob rock bands, so they've
Speaker 1: moved out to Vallejo. Again, I apologize to the great
Speaker 1: city and county of San Francisco, well part of the.
Speaker 2: Whole Bay Area thing.
Speaker 1: Sure, sure, yeah, indeed. Luckily they didn't steal the instruments.
Speaker 1: They just wanted laptops and backpacks and then game boys
Speaker 1: or switches or whatever, and they left the guy's guitars
Speaker 1: and drums.
Speaker 2: So they play their show.
Speaker 1: But welcome to the Bay Area of California. You can
Speaker 1: stop sending it. Here's a random thing for me to
Speaker 1: take a break. One of my favorite musical groups you've
Speaker 1: never heard of, and I can't remember the name of
Speaker 1: it's got frogs in the title.
Speaker 2: Anyway, You heard of them, Yeah, I have. I listened
Speaker 2: to them all the time. Uh.
Speaker 1: They're like really like bluegrassy acoustic fiddles and guitars sort
Speaker 1: of band. They were a speed metal band, but they
Speaker 1: had their van broken into and all of their equipment stolen,
Speaker 1: and they didn't have any money, so they started playing
Speaker 1: acoustic music and it caught on and they became a
Speaker 1: thing that way.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: One of their songs was featured in the TV show
Speaker 1: that Henry and I watch all the time, so I
Speaker 1: got back on their bandwagon. But huh, we're relating frogs,
Speaker 1: Box of Frogs, Plague of Frogs.
Speaker 2: I have to have Frogman, Henry, take me two seconds
Speaker 2: to find it here, Frogman, the O. J. Simpson, Frog Classics, Frogs.
Speaker 1: It's Turtles Trampled by Turtles, Trampled by Turtles fan But
Speaker 1: they were a speed metal band and they got all
Speaker 1: their stuff stolen, so well, we still have acoustic guitars.
Speaker 2: Let's try into something with that.
Speaker 1: You gotta make a proof of the old saying when
Speaker 1: God closes the door and sticks his gun in your.
Speaker 2: Face or something, he opens a window.
Speaker 1: So the number of heky things going on around the
Speaker 1: CEO of United Healthcare getting gunned down. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: just it's a perfect setup for a network crime drama.
Speaker 1: Just all these little clues of Oh my god, it
Speaker 1: gets more and more interesting. So we'll get to that
Speaker 1: a little bit later, we got all the Supreme Court stuff.
Speaker 1: I got Katie's headlines coming up next.
Speaker 3: I'm looking at the headline and the Federalist there is
Speaker 3: no historical precedent for Hunter Biden's pardon.
Speaker 2: Well, you ain't seen nothing yet. As Joe mentioned earlier,
Speaker 2: it's being floated out.
Speaker 1: There that they're talking about pardoning Liz Cheney and Adam
Speaker 1: Schiff and all these different people that they think Trump
Speaker 1: might go after for who knows what. Just kind of
Speaker 1: like a blanket could be anything. Pardon that is really unprecedented.
Speaker 1: It would be easy and fairly accurate to describe Hunter's pardon,
Speaker 1: for instance, and those proposed ones says the law did
Speaker 1: not apply to you and will not apply to you
Speaker 1: for the stated period, because that's what he did for
Speaker 1: a Hunter. Nothing you did illegal applies to you thanks
Speaker 1: to this stroke of a pen.
Speaker 2: That's a hell of a thing in America, folks.
Speaker 1: From the president who's going to re establish norms after
Speaker 1: the out of control Trump administration.
Speaker 2: Wow, Trump trying.
Speaker 1: To destroy our democratic institutions. Swear to God, people swear.
Speaker 1: Don't don't get me started. We have so much to
Speaker 1: talk about today. Let's get started by figuring out who's reporting.
Speaker 1: What's the lead story with Katie Green.
Speaker 6: Katie, thank you guys starting with USA today, please identify
Speaker 6: writing on the shell casings and the murder of CEO
Speaker 6: of United Healthcare.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so this nut job who shot the guy wrote
Speaker 1: things on the.
Speaker 6: Bullets denies, all, go ahead, deny, defend, and depose.
Speaker 1: Yeah, clothes written on the shell casing happens in movie
Speaker 1: mystery right in real life, it's some idiot who decides
Speaker 1: his life would be better if somebody else is dead.
Speaker 1: He kills them stupidly. He's apprehended usually and goes to
Speaker 1: jail for a very long time. And all you have
Speaker 1: is a dead person. It's not mistakes or fun or cool.
Speaker 1: But the guy's got he's got a knicks, he's got
Speaker 1: a He and his wife haven't lived in the same
Speaker 1: place for years. She got something going on there. He
Speaker 1: was involved some some hinky stock trades. So you got,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe friends there that don't want certain stories
Speaker 1: to come out. Well, and just for instance, and I
Speaker 1: have zero information to this in this direction, but if
Speaker 1: my if somebody I loved very much died of something
Speaker 1: because United Healthcare dragged its feet and dragged its feet
Speaker 1: and dragged its feet.
Speaker 2: I would be killing mad.
Speaker 6: Sure you got that from the Washington Times Defense nominee
Speaker 6: Pete haig Seth confronting misconduct allegations threatening his confirmation.
Speaker 1: So I haven't read the Wall Street Journal piece. You
Speaker 1: say that's good, it's a plus.
Speaker 2: Yep, yep. We'll share some of that with you later on.
Speaker 2: From the Washington Post.
Speaker 6: Musk and Ramaswami headed to Capitol Hill to promote Trump's
Speaker 6: cost cutting.
Speaker 2: Group, like do it, boys, do it?
Speaker 1: I feel like they go got to go early and
Speaker 1: big on that while there's still the kind of honeymoon
Speaker 1: Trump thing going on, and they need to use the
Speaker 1: strategy that you kind of touched on earlier. We've been
Speaker 1: saying this for years to progressive sweather in California or
Speaker 1: across the country. Do you want unlimited money practically to
Speaker 1: do the things you think are important.
Speaker 2: Become a fiscal conservative.
Speaker 1: Stop throwing it at crap to free it up for
Speaker 1: that which is important.
Speaker 6: Join us from NBC. Rebel Army Seize as one of
Speaker 6: Syria's biggest cities as government forces retreat.
Speaker 2: What that is something?
Speaker 1: And Iran in Russia being involved in trying to help
Speaker 1: asad like they're not busy enough with their own wars
Speaker 1: and turkeys back in this group that's fighting the groups
Speaker 1: that we back, And who's an Islamist and an isis
Speaker 1: style nutjob and who's really I'm a moderate over here.
Speaker 1: I just want better governance. I'm not gonna throw gay
Speaker 1: people off hours anymore.
Speaker 2: I know I used to. It's a mess.
Speaker 6: ABC News Daniel Penny trial jury asks for footage and
Speaker 6: testimony as it deliberates the verdict.
Speaker 1: Wow, so they're going into day three and need to
Speaker 1: look at the footage again.
Speaker 2: Interesting.
Speaker 1: I finally become aware of what a radical leftist the
Speaker 1: prosecuting attorney is radical lesbian activists. Not that lesbian has
Speaker 1: that much to do with it, but her wife is
Speaker 1: also a radical lefty activist.
Speaker 2: Drives a Subaru, probably from Yahoo News.
Speaker 6: Biden falls asleep at meeting with African presidents.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I heard this. I thought, Okay, did he
Speaker 2: really Katie sent us a video? He did? He's sound
Speaker 2: asleep out.
Speaker 1: He's ancient in Seniles, so that's not very surprising. Wow.
Speaker 1: And they're also discussing Angol and fiscal policy, so I
Speaker 1: would have been not nodding off. I would have liked
Speaker 1: put all my pajamas, climbed up on the table and
Speaker 1: had a pillow for that one. Well, and in the
Speaker 1: guy's defense, he's like a dozen time zones away from
Speaker 1: where he lives.
Speaker 6: Right and finally from the Babylon b Anthony Fauci announced
Speaker 6: his plans to flee Trump's America and spend the rest
Speaker 6: of his life making little chocolate fudge cookies in a tree.
Speaker 2: Short get it because he looks like a kebler elf.
Speaker 1: All the shots you could take it, Anthony Fauci, You
Speaker 1: go with these kind of elfin so much to get
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