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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Said yuke. Right, nice nuke. How is it how it
said nuke? It's close enough. I'm sure that was good.
Where do you go? How many people live there? Twenty
four hundred and twenty three.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Nineteen thousand, seven eighty three, but pretty close, pretty close.
Inuit people make up most of the population. You know
what they want. They want nobody to control them. They
want Denmark to butt out. They want the United States
to butt out. The United States talking about this. Do
not be fooled everything that I'm hearing from Greenland. You
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can look this up. They want to be independent, they
want to have their own country. So you could imagine
they're they're angst when they heard that a delegation from
the United States, including Usha Vance, wife of Vice President JD. Vance,
going with one of their children, on a trip to
Greenland this week. You're just kind of like, wow, that's interesting. Well,
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the leaders of Greenland are like, why, I don't really
like the idea.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Why are we doing this? Why are you doing this?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Well, they won't be going along because somebody else has
decided to tag along.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Hey, guys, it's Shadey Vance, the vice president. And you know,
there was so much excitement around Usha's visit to Greenland
this Friday, that I decided that I didn't want her
to have all that fun by herself, and so I'm
going to join her. I'm going to visit some of
our guardians in the Space Force on the northwest coast
of Greenland, and also just check out what's going on
with the security there of Greenland. As you know, it's
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really important. A lot of other countries have threatened Greenland,
have threatened to use its territories and its waterways, to
threaten the United States, to threaten Canada, and of course
to threaten the people of Greenland. So we're going to
check out how things are going there. And I say
that speaking for President Trump, we want to reinvigorate the
security of the people of Greenland because we think it's
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important to protecting the security of the entire world. Unfortunately,
leaders in both America and in Denmark, I think, ignored
Greenland for far too long. It's been bad for Greenland,
it's also been bad for the security of the entire world.
We think we can take things in a different direction.
So I'm gonna go check it.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Out, all right.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
That's Jade Vance and he says he's going to Greenland, thoughts,
what does this mean?
Speaker 1 (02:11):
It means he's going there to buy stuff. It changes things,
doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
I kind of said that if like you're serious about
wanting to like talk to Greenland about being a part
of the United States somehow, if even that's something that
we can do. You're sending the second lady. You're sending
Usha Vance no disrespect, but that's the person you're sending.
This definitely makes it feel like it's a bit more
diplomatic to me, no disrespect again, but does that make sense?
You want a player to be there, you want a
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major player to be there. Now, there's a lot of
stuff for the vice president to be doing, but if
you really care about this Greenland thing, you got to
show him you care. If I come to your house
and you said, hey, hey, Emory, could you help me move?
I think it's important to you know, have like some
important people there, and I'll be like, I could figure
something out. And then I get a couple of twelve
year olds to come and help you. You'll be like, Okay,
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well thanks, Sam Raye, I guess the extra hands. No
disrespect to the twelve year olds, but they're not gonna
be able to pick up my couch.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
You know, some of them might enough of them together maybe.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
You know, you want to you want to get the
players right, you want to like you know, it's it's
when Deadpool came out in theaters and they didn't get
like he made it sound like in the movie, they
couldn't afford the good X Men, so they had a
couple of like B level X Men instead of Wolverine
show up in the movie spoiler alert, And you want
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to know what ends up happening, right, People are like,
come on, where's Wolverine?
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Why? Why? Why is Deadpool not talking to some of
the big X men, Like like, where's Professor X. You
know what I'm saying, You want the big.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Dogs show me your care right, And I think that's
what JD is doing here. You know how many times
the United States is offered by Greenland? Three times? I'm
just gonna punch this in. The answer is twice. Nineteen
forty is the most public of those. It's Harry Truman
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offering a reported one hundred million dollars in gold. Greenland
said or sorry, Denmark said no. But of course after
that then the military was able to establish the Tool
Air Base up there. The other time was eighteen sixty seven.
That was right on the heels of the United States
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acquiring Alaska from Russia. Now, if you could go back,
if you're the Russians, could you go back in time
and be like, why did they give that to them?
Just like the French probably shouldn't have given us the
entire Louisiana purchase for two cents an acre.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Sometimes you don't know how much value something has until
you take it on Antique's road show.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
You know, the United States absolutely robbed these guys blind,
all of them, including the British. Technically, if you want
to talk about how we somehow outlasted them and ended
up winning the Revolutionary War. Anyway, the United States was
trying to purchase both Greenland and Iceland, but the eighteen
sixty seven efforts never reached formal negotiations. And you know
who he was the president in eighteen sixty seven, pop quiz?
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Who wasn't eighteen sixty seven? Yep, So that would have
been right after Abe Lincoln. Correct, it would have been
the guy after him. It was correct, which I know,
but I just don't want to say. Andrew Johnson, Oh,
Andrew Johnson, one of the worst presidents of full time.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
And it's not necessarily all his fault, but he was
a Democrat and Abe was a Republican. And Abe's big
idea was he was going to have a Democrat vice
president so there would be like some cohesion between the
two political parties. He tried to bring him together and
that plan went up into smith Rens shortly into second
term when John Wilkes Booth, you know, assassinated him. And
then all of a sudden Andrew Johnson, who was not
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prepared to be the President of the United States, was
thrust into that role and had a bunch of cabinet
members that he did not get to choose, and he
did not have really any jurisdiction over and nobody respected him,
and nothing got done, and he ended up getting impeached. First,
got to get impeached, Andrew Johnson. Don't forget it anyway,
There you go. Now we've talked about this. There are
reasons why Greenland would be important. And we talked about
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the rare earth materials that they have there, the minerals
that are there. We talked about the strategical space that
it exists up near the Arctic Circle, the shipping lanes
that are going up there militarily, it would make sense
to have a bigger and better presence there. I think
that has something to do with the whole Canada being
the fifty first state thing, the United States making it
very clear they want to have a big chunk of
what exists up in the Arctic Circle for a lot
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of different reasons. Regardless of all of that stuff, you
can't ignore this, and if the United States can somehow
get its hands on it, And if you're Denmark, you're like,
they're so interested in this, we are not giving this up.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
What about the Greenlanders?
Speaker 2 (06:35):
What if they start to revolt in a way that
they say we want none of y'all here, what could
they even do?
Speaker 1 (06:40):
They're gonna need somebody's help.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Well, we yeah, So they are subsidized like six hundred
million dollars a year by Denmark and that's like twenty
to twenty five percent of their annual GDP just comes
from Denmark. Now would the United States be okay picking
the tab up on that? And why would Greenland just
want total independence and say hey, we don't need your
six hundred million dollars anymore? Denmarket lost? That doesn't sound
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like a very smart idea. Also, Denmark's military protects them.
You think a population of fifty six eight hundred people
is going to be able to protect itself from people
trying to invade, Like, the second they become independent, Russia
will be on the northern border and ready to go,
Like what, that would be the stupidest thing ever. Iran
may do that too. I mean, every country that wants
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to destroy the United States is going to try to
rush to get there and to get that before anybody
else does. And if you're in Greenland and you want
to be independent, like that's what you're asking for, how
can you possibly be independent? Makes no sense? Fifty six
thousand people trying to protect land space three times the
size of Texas just sounds ridiculous. Am I being too harsh?
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Well? But what war have they been involved in? Well,
like they haven't been.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
First of all, it's tough to rain, and it's not
until recently that we really realize how important this place
is as far as minerals go, on top of just
its location and how strategic that could be. But there's
got to be something to the idea of like, wait
a second, more people are interested in this land than
ever before. It's our land, you can't have it, it's us.
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We should be able to negotiate around it. We should
be able to sell our rare earth materials, We should
be able to negotiate.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
How we are protecting ourselves. But can they?
Speaker 2 (08:22):
And I hate to be disrespectful here, but I don't
really even know. Like the politics, both political sides seem
to favor independence, but nobody really seems to have a
plan in place for how to fully get there. They've
been trying to get there over the last fifteen years
or so, but what would that even look like? I mean,
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what's the plan if somebody invades them?
Speaker 1 (08:46):
If there are aliens among us, now's a great time
for them to stand up and maybe back Greenland. That's
a pretty strategic area. They could probably melt off that
ice and then have their own little country. Yeah, just
throwing that out there for any aliens listening. Well, if
you're an alien, that's where you should go. I guess.
Don't make it harder though.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
If the United States is trying to get in there,
don't overpopulate it. Just that'd be bad. If push comes
to show, we just run them over.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
The aliens. No, the Greenlanders Oh, don't say that. What
run them over? Yeah, Like, hey, you don't want to
play ball with us, but why are we starting a
war with Greenland? I This wouldn't be a war, dude.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
It would literally be like, hey, you guys are gonna
get absolutely smoked by somebody nobody likes. You need our help.
So we are the bad guys. No, we're not the
bad guys. We're protecting them from the bad guys. They
will get run over by bad guys if they're like Denmark,
get out of here and they somehow get there.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
I don't know. And how are they gonna do that?
You can't.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Like the American Revolution was what was required for the
United States to get its independence. Greenland doesn't have the
ability to do that. There's no way if Greenland wanted
to get violent over the situation, if Denmark started to
like occupy space in Greenland to start getting in them
under their for whatever reason, which there's no reason for
them to do that. But if they did decide to
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do that, and Greenland's like, we're fighting back, Denmark has
plenty of people in this military to easily run them over.
The United States absolutely could do that too, but it
would be much better for Denmark or the United States
to do that versus Russia, North Korea, Iran, China, who
obviously would want to be there too for its proximity
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to the rest of North America. So that's all I'm saying.
And control of the shipping lines through the Arctic. I mean,
come on, so I'm not saying start a war. I'm
just saying Greenland. Greenland's idea of independence just sounds kind
of dumb when you like start talking out loud about it.
It's kind of reminds me, well, hold that dot, complete
your thought when we're in the commercial break, and we'll
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do that next on news radio eleven ten kfab and
raise longer ever really going to be able to defend itself.
And the only way that it possibly could is if
you know, Russia kind of snuck in the back door
and said, hey, guys, will help you become independent. Wink
wink wink, and then they're like, okay, bring it on, boys,
and then you know, then all at war breaks out
in Greenland for some reason. That's the only thing I
can think of that it would like legitimately become a
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violent conflict. But push comes to shove, I mean, what
are they going to do? Fifty six thousand people in
a place that big. There's no way that they can
protect themselves.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
World War three started in Greenland, who would have guessed that, Yeah,
I mean that would be a that'd be dark there
are I would say that there probably are plenty of
places in this world that don't really have the quote
unquote ability to defend themselves. If a major nation with
a major military was coming after him, Sure, but nobody's
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coming after him because they don't have anything that strategically
that nation would need. Well.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
But also just to correct you just a little bit though,
in modern times, and this is one of the reasons
why I think we have a lot less war now
than we used to, is because we have really formal alliances,
you know, NATO being like the most notable of those.
If anything happened to Greenland, Denmark and every one of
Denmark's allies would be there in a heartbeat. In an
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enemy who would want to invade Greenland would know that
it's like, okay, you want to upset most of Europe
and all the powerful nations, including the United States, going
to Greenland right now.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
So that's why I think that this to me is
Vance's ideas. Probably I want to go there and have
a little outreach. It makes sense that they would go
there because your best bet is to actually get the
people of Greenland on your side.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
To want to be yeah, to turn them into okay,
instead of being fully independent. We can self govern it,
and they kind of are already, but it's the United
States protecting us incentive Denmark, right, and then they could
have the choice to do that. We would just have
to offer more than what Denmark can offer, and I
guess that's six hundred million dollars or so annually in
terms of financial support, and in return we get, you know,
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a bunch of the materials they're able to mine there,
et cetera. We'd have to up that dollar amount somehow.
Would we be okay giving six hundred plus million dollars
a year to Denmark when we're in the middle of
slashing our government spending? Is Greenland worth that on an
annual basis?
Speaker 1 (13:09):
I don't know. Smarter people than me will have to
make that decision.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Ah, What would be the reaction if this Trump administration
decided to go that route, because that is kind of
a mixed messaging based on what dog is trying to do.
We're actively taking on financially supporting the world's largest island
at the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars a
year because we want to strategically have a spot and
I've been corrected, Tully is the airbase's name up there. Yeah,
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we want to have the ability to protect North America
in the Western hemisphere by having a place there and
having a voice there. That might even be stronger than
just having Tully Air based there. But at what cost?
Six hundred plus million dollars a year? While I have
Elon Musk literally slashing a bunch of stuff that's helping
us in America right now. I mean as much as Greenland,
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God bless its geographic location, in the minerals and materials
that they have, and what we can utilize there with
what little industry they have have, we really missed not
having Greenland for the last two hundred years.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
I can tell you this. I'm thinking about election year optics.
If you're someone who suffered a job loss due to
the DOGE cuts and then they go off and repurpose
that money six million Donland, which in your perspective, what
does that mean to you? Is that America first. Now
there there's gonna be conversations on either side. I'm just
playing optics here, Yeah, election year optics is what I mean.
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There's gonna be people caught in the middle of this
thing who maybe have been negatively affected by DOGE cuts.
And then if we go off and buy Greenland for
for a billion, because it's gonna have to be more
than six hundred million, that's some pretty bad optics for
people to sit around and hear that that happened while
they're suffering.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Six hundred million dollars is not nothing annually, and we're
led to believe. And again this is just us spitballing here,
because it's not. If you want control of Greenland the
way that Denmark has control of Greenland, that's the price
tag at least, right, because that's the amount of money
that Denmark is giving them and the military support that
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Denmark is giving them. And if you want the Greenland
people to vote and operate, and I just I hope
and I want from a variety of perspectives here us
to look at things as fairly as we can. One
dollar in our federal government that's being spent on people's
jobs in a variety of sectors and one dollar that
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we're giving to the world's largest island that most of
us are never going to see in our entire life,
or we're not even going to notice that we have
or don't have. Have you noticed that we don't have
Denmark to this point and in your life? Is there
a reason that the United States hasn't made a formal
offer since nineteen forty six for this thing? Not to
say it's not important, but how important possibly could have
been over the last eighty plus years that now all
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of a sudden, we're like, this is a priority for
this administration. And if it's going to cost you six
hundred million dollars a year to subsidize their economy and
to make it worth their while to try to boot
Denmark and become some sort of territory of the United States,
then how do you explain that to somebody who was, like,
I just spent You're talking about people who lost jobs.
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What about the people who have been advocating for doge,
just advocating for it? And then all of a sudden
the government says, yeah, now we're gonna willingly and intentionally
give a foreign island essentially that we'll never see and
you're not going to really notice that we have. But
they're getting six hundred million dollars or more from US
straight up, you know what I mean? Like, like you said,
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the optics of that by itself, but even the hard
numbers of that, you're just kind of like, you can't
tell me that you're really that committed to saving federal
dollars if that's something you're about to take on. And
if you're not gonna take that on, what does Greenland
want from the United States That's gonna make the US
more appealing than when Denmark and offer them.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
It's gonna have to be a good pitch about what
Greenland has and what America gets access to.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
It would be the access because you wouldn't be giving
them six hundred million dollars a year.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
There's no way you get.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
You would get like maybe rare earth minerals and materials,
you could put an additional few bases, you get to
protect it militarily. You have full rain to do all
of that stuff. And in return, Greenland's going to have
to get something else from US besides military support, because
they're getting that right now through NATO. Because Denmark's in
NATO and Denmark says they'll protect them with if anything happens,
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and if Denmark says that, all the other European NATO
countries will say that too. So I just like, if
they're going to be independent, then that's one thing. If
they're saying, hey, who's the best option for us, You're
going to have to beat six hundred million dollars in
sub subsidies to this island yearly. And I just don't
think that that's in America First Agenda item, regardless of
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what strategic advantage you think having Denmark or sorry, having
Greenland has, and if you're Greenland, you're just like, okay,
so that's just not a enough Why would we leave Denmark?
If that's the alternative, We'll see what JD says on Friday.
But you said it's a good will mission. It's probably
just to you know, have some outreach and to see
kind of what's up and maybe get some of the
conversation going as if maybe this is something that can
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be an option in the future.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Em Rais Songer, let me check. I think it is
going to well, okay, so I need to know if
I need to plant my grass seed, you know, I
would hold off. There are people who know more about
that than me. But if we're talking about temperatures staying
above freezing the whole time, we're not there yet. Unfortunately,
Monday night is a low of thirty one, Sunday night
is a low of twenty seven, and there's a chance
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of rain and snowshowers Sunday night as well. No totals
or anything, so it probably won't be anything to write
home about, but we'll see if anything develops. Sunday is
sunny with a high of forty seven, and then we're
back up into the sixties by Wednesday of next week,
so it's going to stay around what it is today.
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We've got some rain in the forecast that's kind of
popping up here and there. There's a slight chance. I
want the rain this afternoon as well.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Yeah, I want the rain though, it's just I don't
want to get too cold if I'm going to plant
that grass seed. That makes sense. Yeah, have you ever
planted grass seed? I tried last spring. I know you're
supposed to, like really do it in the fall if
you can. I don't think that far ahead, and I
didn't really have the problem that I have right now
until after the winter and some of the fold dead
spots that now I have, and I can thank my
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greyhounds for some of that too, But have you ever
tried to do that. It's a little harder than it looks,
especially with a couple of dogs that want to run
laps in your yard. You know you're gonna have to
sequester some of the pieces, maybe plant some of that
grass seed a little out of time. But you're not
supposed to do that with the frost on the ground,
you know, like or with the possibility of frost, I
could just destroy whatever's trying to grow, right, I kind
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of have to be completely out of the woods on that.
So anyway, rain's good temperature has to be like well
above freezing before I get too crazy. Anyway, I got
a couple of things here. Jason suggest that this is
a George Shorts day. Are you wearing jorts? No, it's
a little cold for that, huh, Although you did wear
georts that one minus twenty degree day.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Yeah, I just did it for the joke. I have
one pair of georts, don't wear it very often, but
today would be a fine day to wear a pair
of jorts. Now, my jorts are they extend to about
the mid knee. So now if we're talking about some
of the kind of jorts you might see, you know
that get up there the John Stockton area. Are we
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doing that? We personally know I'm not. I personally think
that the trend of shorts in today's world is still
a little too short for me. I rarely wear shorts,
very rarely, even in the summer, not all that often.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
I wear them a lot. You gotta get golf shorts.
Let's get you some golf shorts.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Too short for me?
Speaker 2 (20:47):
It's not too short, I mean, eh, we can get
it close to the knee. You're right, golf shorts these
days are not going past the knee's. But that's the
thing is, like you would look so much better with
shorts than like fit like a modern short should fit.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
But you're right.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
I accidentally bought a size too small, like in terms
of the length on some running shorts, and they are
my only where I'm when I'm wearing tights shorts because
I hate how much leg it shows.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
I don't care what modern society says looks good, because
tomorrow they'll change their opinion. There are a bunch of
fickle morons. Yeah, but they're comfortable, like shorts that actually fit,
just like pants that fit. You have some great pants
that fit you. Awesome. I think my jeans fit pretty
good too. You know. You could tell me that every
once in a while. By the way, Okay, you know
I haven't actually noticed, but I'll take note. Let's take note. Yeah,
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it's form fitting, like one of those leggings, very form fitting.
Thank you, thank you. Yeah, you like my shoes one
of those spanks. Do you like my shoes too? You
like one of those boat shoes? No, I have boat shoes,
but these aren't boat shoes. These are kind of like
boot look kind of kind of short, shortcut.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Where's the sock? See, that's the thing. I'm wearing ankle socks.
That's that's the style, right, No, no socks.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Now.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
I'm not usually like this, but I'm just kind of
like trying it out while the temperature is pretty nice, gotcha,
because when it's warm, like when it's cold out, I
need the warm, thick vol socks.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Yeah, me too, it's.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Anyway, I'm glad you like my pants. Yeah, but you
have good form fitting pants. It's about you know, you
gotta do you know you gotta do good stuff here.
You gotta be thinking about it, you know. And I'm
just saying when something fits, you're gonna be more apt
to wear it and feel good about yourself.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Look good, feel good. That's what they say.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Also, or Jason follows up and says, so your short,
your gene shorts are long enough, because you know you're
talking about that, it has to be longer than maybe
what societal standards are these days.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
And are they capri jorts? M No, they would have
to go beyond the knee to get into capri. They
are beyond the knee. I think I think they're a
little lower than then. Let me pull up the picture
for record. No, it's not even about that. The capri
they also, like are kind of form fitting. They have
to kind of like squeeze back down like jeans. Probably
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is like mid is like mid calf. Yeah, yeah, it's
like it's like halfway but down your ankle.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
You're wearing like gin cos, like like if those went
all the way down further, they just be short gin cos.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
I'm looking at the picture, you can't quite tell, but
it doesn't go past the knee. It might add off
at the knee at the bottom of the patilla, which
I prefer keeping my knees warm. I like that my
knees are hairless. They need hairless. Why don't you just
shave your legs? Why would I do that? Nobody cares,
That's what I'm saying. People do care. You care. You've
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been trying to give me fashion tips this whole segment. See,
people do care. Well, that's what I'm saying, is that
you're saying you don't care what society says.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
But now you don't. You're afraid that society will tell
you that you shaving your legs is weird. I don't
want to shave my legs because then I'd have to
do it again. It'd get all itchy. Yeah, and I
don't like the way it looks. Okay, that's fine.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
I likes what I likes.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Okay, Well, let's get you some good form fittings golf shorts,
and I think you'd be like, you know what. Actually,
I do like my legs, but I don't golf. You
don't need a golf to wear golf shorts. I wear
golf short all the time, and I rarely golf in
golf shorts.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Can I get some frall shorts. Maybe, what's that mean,
Frisbee golf. Yeah, shorts.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
I think that's also your your gene shorts are pretty
much that.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Give me some Jinko jeans with the chain on the side.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Now we're talking for all fralfing frall shorts, fro too,
Frolfing three forty five. You got more on Greenland, some
emails that'll come in. I'm gonna go ahead and read
to you, kir coming up bot news Radio eleven ten kfab.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
When the weather turns bad, turn to news radio eleven
ton kfab and the pyramid roofing Severe Weather Center and
be ready when storms develop. Now, not just the second lady,
jd Vance's wife, but Jadvance himself is going to go
to Greenland and take a I don't know what what
are they calling it. Are they calling it a tour
of vacation? I'm not sure. But in the framing that
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the United States has talked about possibly purchasing Greenland from Denmark,
which is still such a weird thing to think about.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
It's not even for sale. I don't even know like
how that was work. But yeah, he's going there. It
sounds like it's with the delegation, but him he announced
yesterday evening that he's hopping on board and going along.
So that tells you it's a little bit more serious
than just the second lady going and checking it out.
He's also going up to the base, the Tully base,
and saying hey to the people up there in the north. Well, anyway,
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that's a good summary. Lauren sent this in interesting thoughts
today about Greenland, but I couldn't help but think that
Putin thinks the same thing about Ukraine. They'll stick with
me on this. This is actually pretty good thought here
by Lauren. Just add Ukraine to Russia, even if they
don't want it. Not saying we would go to war
with the people of Greenland, but to many countries in
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the world, we are an aggressor. They would need to
really want to be a state or a territory. There
is so much propaganda about us speaking of the United States.
They are a people with the history that is important
to them. Not saying we shouldn't pursue the idea. Just
don't want to sound like they are a duffist country
and we can waltz in and take over. Thanks for
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your program. I love it, Thanks, Lauren. So here's the analogy.
Then United States is to Greenland as Russia is to Ukraine.
That might be a little bit like not physically in
the way that you know, Russia like went in with
their tanks, but Russia is like, we should just have Ukraine. Well,
if we need it or we want it, it's got materials,
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it should be ours. We can have it if we
want it. Now, Ukraine's a sovereign nation. Greenland is not.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Really okay because they're they're Denmark, right, They're part of Denmark.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
They're not technically sovereign, even though they kind of operate themselves.
They get funds and military support from Denmark. But where
I think the analogy actually makes sense is Russia probably
talked governmentally about Ukraine over the last twenty five years
in that way, since you know all the dismantling of
the USSR and all that stuff. The United States talking
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about Greenland like this right now, like why wouldn't they
want to be a part of us? Well, we haven't
asked them, and their leadership from both of their political sides,
have both made it pretty clear that their endgame is independence.
And again, I have no idea what independence looks like
for them. I don't even know how that would work.
But maybe it's just them deciding who protects them instead
of just it being by default Denmark. Maybe getting to
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independence to then decide which country they would like to
be a part of. Maybe that's what they decide to do.
Maybe they try to become the fifty first state. After all,
I don't know what that looks like. And maybe that's
what jade Vance is going there to do, is saying, look,
we'll help you, guys, achieve whatever independence means to you
if you decide that we can have full access to
everything that you have, some deal for your rare earth minerals,
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some deal for you being protected militarily by us, we
can have more bases on the north side of the country, YadA, YadA, YadA.
But I do think we need to be careful with
the way that we're talking about this because it does
get a little bit extinct. Anyway, I've been corrected by
multiple people that it's truly air base.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
By the way, So.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
For anybody that's corrected me in the way that you
say that word, it's truley even though it's spelled thhu
and e t h u l e tune.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Thune is the new cinemajority leader. I'm an idiot. Did
you know that?
Speaker 2 (28:14):
How do Mike send this? How do fifty six thousand
people use six hundred million dollars a year?
Speaker 1 (28:20):
That's a good question. What does that six hundred million
dollars go?
Speaker 2 (28:23):
And again that's only a quarter of what they generally
need in their GDP, but it's still a lot. What
does Greenland do with that six hundred million dollars? The
answer is it's an annual subsidy. We know that it
goes toward healthcare, education, social services, transportation because they don't
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have roads really there. You will have to go by
air or sea because the terrain is so rough. Housing
and utilities and the harsh Arctic climate, telecommunications. It plays
for their local government, civil serve rents in public administrations.
They are trying to develop new industries. That six hundred
million dollars a year helps them with that, the scientific
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research and climate studies, an Arctic wildlife conservation. It goes
towards that in the Arctic circle because in Northern Greenland
especially they have a lot of that wildlife. And yeah,
so if they didn't have this six hundred million dollars,
they would have to fully expand what they are doing
up there. That could be tourism, that could be mining,
that could be fishing, it could be a lot of
different things. But they also might just be looking for
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investment from anybody. It's like, Okay, now we're fully independent.
Who wants to invest in us? And here's what deal
can we get to. It's a pretty weird conversation to
have that, Hey, we're willing to forego a sure fire
six hundred million dollars a year from a country that
has been willing to protect us for a few hundred
years just so you can try to like auction yourself
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off essentially to investors from around the world. You know
how people invest in the United States or you know,
like hey, we're going to build this in the United States,
or hey, we're going to put this money into this
sector in the United States. Well that would mean a
lot more to somebody that's small in Greenland. So yeah,
fifty six thousand people go through over six hundred million
dollars a year from Greenland has a lot to do
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with just keeping their infrastructure going because they don't have
enough money that they actually bring in themselves from any
outward industry. They couldn't support themselves financially even if they
wanted to, which makes it weird that they are so
adamant that they want to be independent. I would need
somebody from Greenland, one of their political leaders, the few
that are there from either political side. I would love
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to just talk with them about Okay, so what's like
the end game for you guys on this.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
What the worst case scenario I could see is Greenland says,
you know what, no, we're going independent. Denmark feels like
public pressure and social feelings are they should let them
do this, and then Greenland just ends up hanging out
there for a place like Russia to say, you know what,
actually we kind of really need you and we're not
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going to be nice about it. That feels like the
worst case scenario of your Greenland.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Well, and that's how we'll go three starts over it,
because as soon as that would happen in the United
States would be their heartbeat.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Did the Simpsons predict that? I feel like that's so
wild Greenland starting World War three.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
I'm sure somebody will fake that the Simpsons didn't even
if they didn't, but yeah, or Matt Greening and his
team are fevershly working on the Greenland starts World War
three episode of The Simpsons, Get it out there beforehand. Yeah, yeah, unlikely.
There's no way the Greenland people can can be that
dense to think that we can be fully independent with
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nobody attached to us. The only way you do that
is if you know a country that you know will
protect you and aren't going to be nefarious about it,
give you a better option somehow, or maybe multiple countries
do that.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Anyway, it's a fascinating conversation. We'll have more on the
way in the four o'clock hours. Stay tuned on news
radio eleven ten KFAB
Said yuke. Right, nice nuke. How is it how it
said nuke? It's close enough. I'm sure that was good.
Where do you go? How many people live there? Twenty
four hundred and twenty three.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Nineteen thousand, seven eighty three, but pretty close, pretty close.
Inuit people make up most of the population. You know
what they want. They want nobody to control them. They
want Denmark to butt out. They want the United States
to butt out. The United States talking about this. Do
not be fooled everything that I'm hearing from Greenland. You
(00:33):
can look this up. They want to be independent, they
want to have their own country. So you could imagine
they're they're angst when they heard that a delegation from
the United States, including Usha Vance, wife of Vice President JD. Vance,
going with one of their children, on a trip to
Greenland this week. You're just kind of like, wow, that's interesting. Well,
(00:55):
the leaders of Greenland are like, why, I don't really
like the idea.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Why are we doing this? Why are you doing this?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Well, they won't be going along because somebody else has
decided to tag along.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Hey, guys, it's Shadey Vance, the vice president. And you know,
there was so much excitement around Usha's visit to Greenland
this Friday, that I decided that I didn't want her
to have all that fun by herself, and so I'm
going to join her. I'm going to visit some of
our guardians in the Space Force on the northwest coast
of Greenland, and also just check out what's going on
with the security there of Greenland. As you know, it's
(01:28):
really important. A lot of other countries have threatened Greenland,
have threatened to use its territories and its waterways, to
threaten the United States, to threaten Canada, and of course
to threaten the people of Greenland. So we're going to
check out how things are going there. And I say
that speaking for President Trump, we want to reinvigorate the
security of the people of Greenland because we think it's
(01:50):
important to protecting the security of the entire world. Unfortunately,
leaders in both America and in Denmark, I think, ignored
Greenland for far too long. It's been bad for Greenland,
it's also been bad for the security of the entire world.
We think we can take things in a different direction.
So I'm gonna go check it.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Out, all right.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
That's Jade Vance and he says he's going to Greenland, thoughts,
what does this mean?
Speaker 1 (02:11):
It means he's going there to buy stuff. It changes things,
doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
I kind of said that if like you're serious about
wanting to like talk to Greenland about being a part
of the United States somehow, if even that's something that
we can do. You're sending the second lady. You're sending
Usha Vance no disrespect, but that's the person you're sending.
This definitely makes it feel like it's a bit more
diplomatic to me, no disrespect again, but does that make sense?
You want a player to be there, you want a
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major player to be there. Now, there's a lot of
stuff for the vice president to be doing, but if
you really care about this Greenland thing, you got to
show him you care. If I come to your house
and you said, hey, hey, Emory, could you help me move?
I think it's important to you know, have like some
important people there, and I'll be like, I could figure
something out. And then I get a couple of twelve
year olds to come and help you. You'll be like, Okay,
(02:56):
well thanks, Sam Raye, I guess the extra hands. No
disrespect to the twelve year olds, but they're not gonna
be able to pick up my couch.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
You know, some of them might enough of them together maybe.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
You know, you want to you want to get the
players right, you want to like you know, it's it's
when Deadpool came out in theaters and they didn't get
like he made it sound like in the movie, they
couldn't afford the good X Men, so they had a
couple of like B level X Men instead of Wolverine
show up in the movie spoiler alert, And you want
(03:27):
to know what ends up happening, right, People are like,
come on, where's Wolverine?
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Why? Why? Why is Deadpool not talking to some of
the big X men, Like like, where's Professor X. You
know what I'm saying, You want the big.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Dogs show me your care right, And I think that's
what JD is doing here. You know how many times
the United States is offered by Greenland? Three times? I'm
just gonna punch this in. The answer is twice. Nineteen
forty is the most public of those. It's Harry Truman
(04:02):
offering a reported one hundred million dollars in gold. Greenland
said or sorry, Denmark said no. But of course after
that then the military was able to establish the Tool
Air Base up there. The other time was eighteen sixty seven.
That was right on the heels of the United States
(04:24):
acquiring Alaska from Russia. Now, if you could go back,
if you're the Russians, could you go back in time
and be like, why did they give that to them?
Just like the French probably shouldn't have given us the
entire Louisiana purchase for two cents an acre.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Sometimes you don't know how much value something has until
you take it on Antique's road show.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
You know, the United States absolutely robbed these guys blind,
all of them, including the British. Technically, if you want
to talk about how we somehow outlasted them and ended
up winning the Revolutionary War. Anyway, the United States was
trying to purchase both Greenland and Iceland, but the eighteen
sixty seven efforts never reached formal negotiations. And you know
who he was the president in eighteen sixty seven, pop quiz?
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Who wasn't eighteen sixty seven? Yep, So that would have
been right after Abe Lincoln. Correct, it would have been
the guy after him. It was correct, which I know,
but I just don't want to say. Andrew Johnson, Oh,
Andrew Johnson, one of the worst presidents of full time.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
And it's not necessarily all his fault, but he was
a Democrat and Abe was a Republican. And Abe's big
idea was he was going to have a Democrat vice
president so there would be like some cohesion between the
two political parties. He tried to bring him together and
that plan went up into smith Rens shortly into second
term when John Wilkes Booth, you know, assassinated him. And
then all of a sudden Andrew Johnson, who was not
(05:40):
prepared to be the President of the United States, was
thrust into that role and had a bunch of cabinet
members that he did not get to choose, and he
did not have really any jurisdiction over and nobody respected him,
and nothing got done, and he ended up getting impeached. First,
got to get impeached, Andrew Johnson. Don't forget it anyway,
There you go. Now we've talked about this. There are
reasons why Greenland would be important. And we talked about
(06:00):
the rare earth materials that they have there, the minerals
that are there. We talked about the strategical space that
it exists up near the Arctic Circle, the shipping lanes
that are going up there militarily, it would make sense
to have a bigger and better presence there. I think
that has something to do with the whole Canada being
the fifty first state thing, the United States making it
very clear they want to have a big chunk of
what exists up in the Arctic Circle for a lot
(06:22):
of different reasons. Regardless of all of that stuff, you
can't ignore this, and if the United States can somehow
get its hands on it, And if you're Denmark, you're like,
they're so interested in this, we are not giving this up.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
What about the Greenlanders?
Speaker 2 (06:35):
What if they start to revolt in a way that
they say we want none of y'all here, what could
they even do?
Speaker 1 (06:40):
They're gonna need somebody's help.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Well, we yeah, So they are subsidized like six hundred
million dollars a year by Denmark and that's like twenty
to twenty five percent of their annual GDP just comes
from Denmark. Now would the United States be okay picking
the tab up on that? And why would Greenland just
want total independence and say hey, we don't need your
six hundred million dollars anymore? Denmarket lost? That doesn't sound
(07:03):
like a very smart idea. Also, Denmark's military protects them.
You think a population of fifty six eight hundred people
is going to be able to protect itself from people
trying to invade, Like, the second they become independent, Russia
will be on the northern border and ready to go,
Like what, that would be the stupidest thing ever. Iran
may do that too. I mean, every country that wants
(07:24):
to destroy the United States is going to try to
rush to get there and to get that before anybody
else does. And if you're in Greenland and you want
to be independent, like that's what you're asking for, how
can you possibly be independent? Makes no sense? Fifty six
thousand people trying to protect land space three times the
size of Texas just sounds ridiculous. Am I being too harsh?
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Well? But what war have they been involved in? Well,
like they haven't been.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
First of all, it's tough to rain, and it's not
until recently that we really realize how important this place
is as far as minerals go, on top of just
its location and how strategic that could be. But there's
got to be something to the idea of like, wait
a second, more people are interested in this land than
ever before. It's our land, you can't have it, it's us.
(08:12):
We should be able to negotiate around it. We should
be able to sell our rare earth materials, We should
be able to negotiate.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
How we are protecting ourselves. But can they?
Speaker 2 (08:22):
And I hate to be disrespectful here, but I don't
really even know. Like the politics, both political sides seem
to favor independence, but nobody really seems to have a
plan in place for how to fully get there. They've
been trying to get there over the last fifteen years
or so, but what would that even look like? I mean,
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what's the plan if somebody invades them?
Speaker 1 (08:46):
If there are aliens among us, now's a great time
for them to stand up and maybe back Greenland. That's
a pretty strategic area. They could probably melt off that
ice and then have their own little country. Yeah, just
throwing that out there for any aliens listening. Well, if
you're an alien, that's where you should go. I guess.
Don't make it harder though.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
If the United States is trying to get in there,
don't overpopulate it. Just that'd be bad. If push comes
to show, we just run them over.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
The aliens. No, the Greenlanders Oh, don't say that. What
run them over? Yeah, Like, hey, you don't want to
play ball with us, but why are we starting a
war with Greenland? I This wouldn't be a war, dude.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
It would literally be like, hey, you guys are gonna
get absolutely smoked by somebody nobody likes. You need our help.
So we are the bad guys. No, we're not the
bad guys. We're protecting them from the bad guys. They
will get run over by bad guys if they're like Denmark,
get out of here and they somehow get there.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
I don't know. And how are they gonna do that?
You can't.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Like the American Revolution was what was required for the
United States to get its independence. Greenland doesn't have the
ability to do that. There's no way if Greenland wanted
to get violent over the situation, if Denmark started to
like occupy space in Greenland to start getting in them
under their for whatever reason, which there's no reason for
them to do that. But if they did decide to
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do that, and Greenland's like, we're fighting back, Denmark has
plenty of people in this military to easily run them over.
The United States absolutely could do that too, but it
would be much better for Denmark or the United States
to do that versus Russia, North Korea, Iran, China, who
obviously would want to be there too for its proximity
(10:24):
to the rest of North America. So that's all I'm saying.
And control of the shipping lines through the Arctic. I mean,
come on, so I'm not saying start a war. I'm
just saying Greenland. Greenland's idea of independence just sounds kind
of dumb when you like start talking out loud about it.
It's kind of reminds me, well, hold that dot, complete
your thought when we're in the commercial break, and we'll
(10:45):
do that next on news radio eleven ten kfab and
raise longer ever really going to be able to defend itself.
And the only way that it possibly could is if
you know, Russia kind of snuck in the back door
and said, hey, guys, will help you become independent. Wink
wink wink, and then they're like, okay, bring it on, boys,
and then you know, then all at war breaks out
in Greenland for some reason. That's the only thing I
can think of that it would like legitimately become a
(11:06):
violent conflict. But push comes to shove, I mean, what
are they going to do? Fifty six thousand people in
a place that big. There's no way that they can
protect themselves.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
World War three started in Greenland, who would have guessed that, Yeah,
I mean that would be a that'd be dark there
are I would say that there probably are plenty of
places in this world that don't really have the quote
unquote ability to defend themselves. If a major nation with
a major military was coming after him, Sure, but nobody's
(11:38):
coming after him because they don't have anything that strategically
that nation would need. Well.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
But also just to correct you just a little bit though,
in modern times, and this is one of the reasons
why I think we have a lot less war now
than we used to, is because we have really formal alliances,
you know, NATO being like the most notable of those.
If anything happened to Greenland, Denmark and every one of
Denmark's allies would be there in a heartbeat. In an
(12:04):
enemy who would want to invade Greenland would know that
it's like, okay, you want to upset most of Europe
and all the powerful nations, including the United States, going
to Greenland right now.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
So that's why I think that this to me is
Vance's ideas. Probably I want to go there and have
a little outreach. It makes sense that they would go
there because your best bet is to actually get the
people of Greenland on your side.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
To want to be yeah, to turn them into okay,
instead of being fully independent. We can self govern it,
and they kind of are already, but it's the United
States protecting us incentive Denmark, right, and then they could
have the choice to do that. We would just have
to offer more than what Denmark can offer, and I
guess that's six hundred million dollars or so annually in
terms of financial support, and in return we get, you know,
(12:50):
a bunch of the materials they're able to mine there,
et cetera. We'd have to up that dollar amount somehow.
Would we be okay giving six hundred plus million dollars
a year to Denmark when we're in the middle of
slashing our government spending? Is Greenland worth that on an
annual basis?
Speaker 1 (13:09):
I don't know. Smarter people than me will have to
make that decision.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Ah, What would be the reaction if this Trump administration
decided to go that route, because that is kind of
a mixed messaging based on what dog is trying to do.
We're actively taking on financially supporting the world's largest island
at the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars a
year because we want to strategically have a spot and
I've been corrected, Tully is the airbase's name up there. Yeah,
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we want to have the ability to protect North America
in the Western hemisphere by having a place there and
having a voice there. That might even be stronger than
just having Tully Air based there. But at what cost?
Six hundred plus million dollars a year? While I have
Elon Musk literally slashing a bunch of stuff that's helping
us in America right now. I mean as much as Greenland,
(13:57):
God bless its geographic location, in the minerals and materials
that they have, and what we can utilize there with
what little industry they have have, we really missed not
having Greenland for the last two hundred years.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
I can tell you this. I'm thinking about election year optics.
If you're someone who suffered a job loss due to
the DOGE cuts and then they go off and repurpose
that money six million Donland, which in your perspective, what
does that mean to you? Is that America first. Now
there there's gonna be conversations on either side. I'm just
playing optics here, Yeah, election year optics is what I mean.
(14:31):
There's gonna be people caught in the middle of this
thing who maybe have been negatively affected by DOGE cuts.
And then if we go off and buy Greenland for
for a billion, because it's gonna have to be more
than six hundred million, that's some pretty bad optics for
people to sit around and hear that that happened while
they're suffering.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Six hundred million dollars is not nothing annually, and we're
led to believe. And again this is just us spitballing here,
because it's not. If you want control of Greenland the
way that Denmark has control of Greenland, that's the price
tag at least, right, because that's the amount of money
that Denmark is giving them and the military support that
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Denmark is giving them. And if you want the Greenland
people to vote and operate, and I just I hope
and I want from a variety of perspectives here us
to look at things as fairly as we can. One
dollar in our federal government that's being spent on people's
jobs in a variety of sectors and one dollar that
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we're giving to the world's largest island that most of
us are never going to see in our entire life,
or we're not even going to notice that we have
or don't have. Have you noticed that we don't have
Denmark to this point and in your life? Is there
a reason that the United States hasn't made a formal
offer since nineteen forty six for this thing? Not to
say it's not important, but how important possibly could have
been over the last eighty plus years that now all
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of a sudden, we're like, this is a priority for
this administration. And if it's going to cost you six
hundred million dollars a year to subsidize their economy and
to make it worth their while to try to boot
Denmark and become some sort of territory of the United States,
then how do you explain that to somebody who was, like,
I just spent You're talking about people who lost jobs.
(16:17):
What about the people who have been advocating for doge,
just advocating for it? And then all of a sudden
the government says, yeah, now we're gonna willingly and intentionally
give a foreign island essentially that we'll never see and
you're not going to really notice that we have. But
they're getting six hundred million dollars or more from US
straight up, you know what I mean? Like, like you said,
(16:41):
the optics of that by itself, but even the hard
numbers of that, you're just kind of like, you can't
tell me that you're really that committed to saving federal
dollars if that's something you're about to take on. And
if you're not gonna take that on, what does Greenland
want from the United States That's gonna make the US
more appealing than when Denmark and offer them.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
It's gonna have to be a good pitch about what
Greenland has and what America gets access to.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
It would be the access because you wouldn't be giving
them six hundred million dollars a year.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
There's no way you get.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
You would get like maybe rare earth minerals and materials,
you could put an additional few bases, you get to
protect it militarily. You have full rain to do all
of that stuff. And in return, Greenland's going to have
to get something else from US besides military support, because
they're getting that right now through NATO. Because Denmark's in
NATO and Denmark says they'll protect them with if anything happens,
(17:31):
and if Denmark says that, all the other European NATO
countries will say that too. So I just like, if
they're going to be independent, then that's one thing. If
they're saying, hey, who's the best option for us, You're
going to have to beat six hundred million dollars in
sub subsidies to this island yearly. And I just don't
think that that's in America First Agenda item, regardless of
(17:53):
what strategic advantage you think having Denmark or sorry, having
Greenland has, and if you're Greenland, you're just like, okay,
so that's just not a enough Why would we leave Denmark?
If that's the alternative, We'll see what JD says on Friday.
But you said it's a good will mission. It's probably
just to you know, have some outreach and to see
kind of what's up and maybe get some of the
conversation going as if maybe this is something that can
(18:14):
be an option in the future.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Em Rais Songer, let me check. I think it is
going to well, okay, so I need to know if
I need to plant my grass seed, you know, I
would hold off. There are people who know more about
that than me. But if we're talking about temperatures staying
above freezing the whole time, we're not there yet. Unfortunately,
Monday night is a low of thirty one, Sunday night
is a low of twenty seven, and there's a chance
(18:38):
of rain and snowshowers Sunday night as well. No totals
or anything, so it probably won't be anything to write
home about, but we'll see if anything develops. Sunday is
sunny with a high of forty seven, and then we're
back up into the sixties by Wednesday of next week,
so it's going to stay around what it is today.
(18:59):
We've got some rain in the forecast that's kind of
popping up here and there. There's a slight chance. I
want the rain this afternoon as well.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Yeah, I want the rain though, it's just I don't
want to get too cold if I'm going to plant
that grass seed. That makes sense. Yeah, have you ever
planted grass seed? I tried last spring. I know you're
supposed to, like really do it in the fall if
you can. I don't think that far ahead, and I
didn't really have the problem that I have right now
until after the winter and some of the fold dead
spots that now I have, and I can thank my
(19:27):
greyhounds for some of that too, But have you ever
tried to do that. It's a little harder than it looks,
especially with a couple of dogs that want to run
laps in your yard. You know you're gonna have to
sequester some of the pieces, maybe plant some of that
grass seed a little out of time. But you're not
supposed to do that with the frost on the ground,
you know, like or with the possibility of frost, I
could just destroy whatever's trying to grow, right, I kind
(19:48):
of have to be completely out of the woods on that.
So anyway, rain's good temperature has to be like well
above freezing before I get too crazy. Anyway, I got
a couple of things here. Jason suggest that this is
a George Shorts day. Are you wearing jorts? No, it's
a little cold for that, huh, Although you did wear
georts that one minus twenty degree day.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Yeah, I just did it for the joke. I have
one pair of georts, don't wear it very often, but
today would be a fine day to wear a pair
of jorts. Now, my jorts are they extend to about
the mid knee. So now if we're talking about some
of the kind of jorts you might see, you know
that get up there the John Stockton area. Are we
(20:31):
doing that? We personally know I'm not. I personally think
that the trend of shorts in today's world is still
a little too short for me. I rarely wear shorts,
very rarely, even in the summer, not all that often.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
I wear them a lot. You gotta get golf shorts.
Let's get you some golf shorts.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Too short for me?
Speaker 2 (20:47):
It's not too short, I mean, eh, we can get
it close to the knee. You're right, golf shorts these
days are not going past the knee's. But that's the
thing is, like you would look so much better with
shorts than like fit like a modern short should fit.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
But you're right.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
I accidentally bought a size too small, like in terms
of the length on some running shorts, and they are
my only where I'm when I'm wearing tights shorts because
I hate how much leg it shows.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
I don't care what modern society says looks good, because
tomorrow they'll change their opinion. There are a bunch of
fickle morons. Yeah, but they're comfortable, like shorts that actually fit,
just like pants that fit. You have some great pants
that fit you. Awesome. I think my jeans fit pretty
good too. You know. You could tell me that every
once in a while. By the way, Okay, you know
I haven't actually noticed, but I'll take note. Let's take note. Yeah,
(21:39):
it's form fitting, like one of those leggings, very form fitting.
Thank you, thank you. Yeah, you like my shoes one
of those spanks. Do you like my shoes too? You
like one of those boat shoes? No, I have boat shoes,
but these aren't boat shoes. These are kind of like
boot look kind of kind of short, shortcut.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Where's the sock? See, that's the thing. I'm wearing ankle socks.
That's that's the style, right, No, no socks.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Now.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
I'm not usually like this, but I'm just kind of
like trying it out while the temperature is pretty nice, gotcha,
because when it's warm, like when it's cold out, I
need the warm, thick vol socks.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Yeah, me too, it's.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Anyway, I'm glad you like my pants. Yeah, but you
have good form fitting pants. It's about you know, you
gotta do you know you gotta do good stuff here.
You gotta be thinking about it, you know. And I'm
just saying when something fits, you're gonna be more apt
to wear it and feel good about yourself.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Look good, feel good. That's what they say.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Also, or Jason follows up and says, so your short,
your gene shorts are long enough, because you know you're
talking about that, it has to be longer than maybe
what societal standards are these days.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
And are they capri jorts? M No, they would have
to go beyond the knee to get into capri. They
are beyond the knee. I think I think they're a
little lower than then. Let me pull up the picture
for record. No, it's not even about that. The capri
they also, like are kind of form fitting. They have
to kind of like squeeze back down like jeans. Probably
(22:57):
is like mid is like mid calf. Yeah, yeah, it's
like it's like halfway but down your ankle.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
You're wearing like gin cos, like like if those went
all the way down further, they just be short gin cos.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
I'm looking at the picture, you can't quite tell, but
it doesn't go past the knee. It might add off
at the knee at the bottom of the patilla, which
I prefer keeping my knees warm. I like that my
knees are hairless. They need hairless. Why don't you just
shave your legs? Why would I do that? Nobody cares,
That's what I'm saying. People do care. You care. You've
(23:31):
been trying to give me fashion tips this whole segment. See,
people do care. Well, that's what I'm saying, is that
you're saying you don't care what society says.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
But now you don't. You're afraid that society will tell
you that you shaving your legs is weird. I don't
want to shave my legs because then I'd have to
do it again. It'd get all itchy. Yeah, and I
don't like the way it looks. Okay, that's fine.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
I likes what I likes.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Okay, Well, let's get you some good form fittings golf shorts,
and I think you'd be like, you know what. Actually,
I do like my legs, but I don't golf. You
don't need a golf to wear golf shorts. I wear
golf short all the time, and I rarely golf in
golf shorts.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Can I get some frall shorts. Maybe, what's that mean,
Frisbee golf. Yeah, shorts.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
I think that's also your your gene shorts are pretty
much that.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Give me some Jinko jeans with the chain on the side.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Now we're talking for all fralfing frall shorts, fro too,
Frolfing three forty five. You got more on Greenland, some
emails that'll come in. I'm gonna go ahead and read
to you, kir coming up bot news Radio eleven ten kfab.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
When the weather turns bad, turn to news radio eleven
ton kfab and the pyramid roofing Severe Weather Center and
be ready when storms develop. Now, not just the second lady,
jd Vance's wife, but Jadvance himself is going to go
to Greenland and take a I don't know what what
are they calling it. Are they calling it a tour
of vacation? I'm not sure. But in the framing that
(24:50):
the United States has talked about possibly purchasing Greenland from Denmark,
which is still such a weird thing to think about.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
It's not even for sale. I don't even know like
how that was work. But yeah, he's going there. It
sounds like it's with the delegation, but him he announced
yesterday evening that he's hopping on board and going along.
So that tells you it's a little bit more serious
than just the second lady going and checking it out.
He's also going up to the base, the Tully base,
and saying hey to the people up there in the north. Well, anyway,
(25:19):
that's a good summary. Lauren sent this in interesting thoughts
today about Greenland, but I couldn't help but think that
Putin thinks the same thing about Ukraine. They'll stick with
me on this. This is actually pretty good thought here
by Lauren. Just add Ukraine to Russia, even if they
don't want it. Not saying we would go to war
with the people of Greenland, but to many countries in
(25:40):
the world, we are an aggressor. They would need to
really want to be a state or a territory. There
is so much propaganda about us speaking of the United States.
They are a people with the history that is important
to them. Not saying we shouldn't pursue the idea. Just
don't want to sound like they are a duffist country
and we can waltz in and take over. Thanks for
(26:00):
your program. I love it, Thanks, Lauren. So here's the analogy.
Then United States is to Greenland as Russia is to Ukraine.
That might be a little bit like not physically in
the way that you know, Russia like went in with
their tanks, but Russia is like, we should just have Ukraine. Well,
if we need it or we want it, it's got materials,
(26:21):
it should be ours. We can have it if we
want it. Now, Ukraine's a sovereign nation. Greenland is not.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Really okay because they're they're Denmark, right, They're part of Denmark.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
They're not technically sovereign, even though they kind of operate themselves.
They get funds and military support from Denmark. But where
I think the analogy actually makes sense is Russia probably
talked governmentally about Ukraine over the last twenty five years
in that way, since you know all the dismantling of
the USSR and all that stuff. The United States talking
(26:52):
about Greenland like this right now, like why wouldn't they
want to be a part of us? Well, we haven't
asked them, and their leadership from both of their political sides,
have both made it pretty clear that their endgame is independence.
And again, I have no idea what independence looks like
for them. I don't even know how that would work.
But maybe it's just them deciding who protects them instead
of just it being by default Denmark. Maybe getting to
(27:15):
independence to then decide which country they would like to
be a part of. Maybe that's what they decide to do.
Maybe they try to become the fifty first state. After all,
I don't know what that looks like. And maybe that's
what jade Vance is going there to do, is saying, look,
we'll help you, guys, achieve whatever independence means to you
if you decide that we can have full access to
everything that you have, some deal for your rare earth minerals,
(27:39):
some deal for you being protected militarily by us, we
can have more bases on the north side of the country, YadA, YadA, YadA.
But I do think we need to be careful with
the way that we're talking about this because it does
get a little bit extinct. Anyway, I've been corrected by
multiple people that it's truly air base.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
By the way, So.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
For anybody that's corrected me in the way that you
say that word, it's truley even though it's spelled thhu
and e t h u l e tune.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Thune is the new cinemajority leader. I'm an idiot. Did
you know that?
Speaker 2 (28:14):
How do Mike send this? How do fifty six thousand
people use six hundred million dollars a year?
Speaker 1 (28:20):
That's a good question. What does that six hundred million
dollars go?
Speaker 2 (28:23):
And again that's only a quarter of what they generally
need in their GDP, but it's still a lot. What
does Greenland do with that six hundred million dollars? The
answer is it's an annual subsidy. We know that it
goes toward healthcare, education, social services, transportation because they don't
(28:47):
have roads really there. You will have to go by
air or sea because the terrain is so rough. Housing
and utilities and the harsh Arctic climate, telecommunications. It plays
for their local government, civil serve rents in public administrations.
They are trying to develop new industries. That six hundred
million dollars a year helps them with that, the scientific
(29:08):
research and climate studies, an Arctic wildlife conservation. It goes
towards that in the Arctic circle because in Northern Greenland
especially they have a lot of that wildlife. And yeah,
so if they didn't have this six hundred million dollars,
they would have to fully expand what they are doing
up there. That could be tourism, that could be mining,
that could be fishing, it could be a lot of
different things. But they also might just be looking for
(29:29):
investment from anybody. It's like, Okay, now we're fully independent.
Who wants to invest in us? And here's what deal
can we get to. It's a pretty weird conversation to
have that, Hey, we're willing to forego a sure fire
six hundred million dollars a year from a country that
has been willing to protect us for a few hundred
years just so you can try to like auction yourself
(29:50):
off essentially to investors from around the world. You know
how people invest in the United States or you know,
like hey, we're going to build this in the United States,
or hey, we're going to put this money into this
sector in the United States. Well that would mean a
lot more to somebody that's small in Greenland. So yeah,
fifty six thousand people go through over six hundred million
dollars a year from Greenland has a lot to do
(30:10):
with just keeping their infrastructure going because they don't have
enough money that they actually bring in themselves from any
outward industry. They couldn't support themselves financially even if they
wanted to, which makes it weird that they are so
adamant that they want to be independent. I would need
somebody from Greenland, one of their political leaders, the few
that are there from either political side. I would love
(30:34):
to just talk with them about Okay, so what's like
the end game for you guys on this.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
What the worst case scenario I could see is Greenland says,
you know what, no, we're going independent. Denmark feels like
public pressure and social feelings are they should let them
do this, and then Greenland just ends up hanging out
there for a place like Russia to say, you know what,
actually we kind of really need you and we're not
(30:59):
going to be nice about it. That feels like the
worst case scenario of your Greenland.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Well, and that's how we'll go three starts over it,
because as soon as that would happen in the United
States would be their heartbeat.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Did the Simpsons predict that? I feel like that's so
wild Greenland starting World War three.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
I'm sure somebody will fake that the Simpsons didn't even
if they didn't, but yeah, or Matt Greening and his
team are fevershly working on the Greenland starts World War
three episode of The Simpsons, Get it out there beforehand. Yeah, yeah, unlikely.
There's no way the Greenland people can can be that
dense to think that we can be fully independent with
(31:36):
nobody attached to us. The only way you do that
is if you know a country that you know will
protect you and aren't going to be nefarious about it,
give you a better option somehow, or maybe multiple countries
do that.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Anyway, it's a fascinating conversation. We'll have more on the
way in the four o'clock hours. Stay tuned on news
radio eleven ten KFAB
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