April 18, 2024 • 35 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
From the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington
Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and Getty show.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Russian medley and espionage continues in Europe today here, this
time in Germany. Here's more from that headline in Reuters
Germany arrests two for allegedly military sabotage plot on behalf
of Russia and more from the report. It says, quote
two German Russian nationals have been arrested in Germany on
suspicion of plotting sabotage attacks, including on US military facilities,
(00:39):
an effort to undermine military support for Ukraine prosecutors set
on Thursday. Russia's been making advances on the battlefield in Ukraine.
President Biden's top diplomat in Italy for G seven meetings,
urged Congress to get more weapons into the country to
repel the Russian advance.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
The story in its current form could only go on
so long before Russia has just flat out one and
there's nothing you can do about it.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
In fact, we may already be there.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
I'm happy to see that at least one of the
national news broadcasts started this hour with how set to Vote?
Speaker 4 (01:11):
On foreign aid.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Too much of the media attention has been on will
House Speaker Johnson get ousted if he gets Democratic votes
or whatever. That's not the important thing here. The important
thing is perhaps world history changing events that we could
alter with some funding. As the Secretary of State talked
about yesterday, is urgent that all of.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
The friends and supporters of Ukraine maximize their efforts to
provide with Ukraine with what it needs to continue to
effectively defend itself against the Rusian aggression. If Putin is
allowed to proceed with impunity, we know he won't stop
at Ukraine, and we can safely predict that his aggression
will continue.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Other would be aggressors around the world will take note. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
I don't know if Putin will continue to try to
grab places if he wins, But I do know that
second part is true, that other aggressors around the world
will take note and say, Okay, you can roll the
United States, you.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Can roll the West right, or just outlast them. Yeah,
they'll stand up. You have to wait long.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Yeah, And so I was reading this political analysis from
the wide world of news today, Johnson seems to have
belatedly decided to risk his Speakership to make sure Russian
tanks don't roll through all of Ukraine. Speaker Johnson yesterday
coming out and giving a little speech and saying, look,
I'm a child to Ronald Reagan. I came up during
the Cold War era. We need to stop Russia now.
(02:42):
And he had not been that definitive in his statements.
He's decided, apparently, this is what I want to do,
and if I lose my job, fine, Back to the analysis.
At this point, the media seems obsessed with gaming out
what will happen to Johnson if the House passes something
when there are three other questions that are actually much bigger.
What if the gambit fails in the House then what
(03:04):
is there just no fun?
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Is this just it? Is there not gonna be any
fundy for Ukraine at all? Two?
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Will the Senate definitively pass whatever the House sends over?
In Three, if something like the House measure becomes law,
can Ukraine really win the war? There's almost no discussion
of that at a policy level or in the media. Really,
although this story is too processing for much of the
dominant media, what is unfolding on the Hill and at
the White House now is one of the most compelling
(03:33):
and important moments in recent memory, and no one, including Johnson,
has any idea how it will turn out. The exciting
story is not does Marjorie Taylor Green call for a vote?
The exciting story is do we actually after saying.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
As long as it takes, as long as it.
Speaker 6 (03:51):
Takes right, we're not going to permit a new era
of conquest on the European continent. That's rather a bigger
question than who's the speaker and what MGT has to say, right,
MTG whatever?
Speaker 3 (04:05):
And I don't know, I don't know where it's going
to go today. It might come up for a vote today.
Now they're packaging things in different ways on a moment
by moment basis. It would seem the Ukraine funding Israel
Taiwan throwing in some TikTok stuff.
Speaker 6 (04:22):
Yeah, I'm I'm definitely concerned about the Ukraine situation on
a number of different levels. I was rewatching the Gary
Oldman vehicle, the Churchill biopic The Darkest Hour. That's a
good movie. Watched the first half of it again last night.
I love it, and I was reminded how much how
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important it is that a sense of hope endors among
a people in an army and in Ukraine. I believe
that is waning point number one, point number two. It's
a lot of people are anti Ukraine funding. And there
you know, there's some reasonable opinions that lean that way.
There are also some idiotic opinions that lean that way.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
But they ask how can Ukraine win?
Speaker 6 (05:11):
As if it's a rhetorical question, and if I can't
come up with the answer, I'm stimied, and I must
repeat for the umpteenth time.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
The idea is, you make it so.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Incredibly painful and expensive to launch a war of conquest
on the European continent, especially in the twenty first century,
nobody ever does it.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Again.
Speaker 6 (05:32):
Now, maybe Ukraine gives up thirty percent of the territory,
of fifty percent or eighty percent of it, but if
you make it so horrifically expensive for the aggressor, that
is a victory. That's an enormous victory for the rest
of us, Sorry, Ukraine.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Let's hear from Speaker Johnson explaining how he split it
into four bills, why he split into four bills that
are going to go to the House floor at some
point this week, we got.
Speaker 7 (06:00):
The Senate supplemental several weeks back, and it was everything
sandwiched together. That's not the way that regular order is
supposed to work. And many of my conservative friends are
some of the most vocal advocates for their regular process
of the House, and that means that we look at
things in single subjects. And so I made the decision
that we should break this into four parts, so that
you evaluate Israel and Ukraine and the Indo Pacific funding measures,
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and then our separate national and foreign aid responsibilities separately.
So there's four separate bills. Everyone would be able to
give it an up or down vote based on.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Their own merits.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
And it'll be interesting to see if we go back
to the way things used to be and he passes
some of this stuff, at least with a whole bunch
of Republican votes and a whole bunch of Democratic votes.
There are plenty of votes to pass this stuff. It's
not even close.
Speaker 6 (06:49):
Right, It's just a question of the Republican caucus and
the dynamics there. So some of that intrigue stuff that
you are a little dismissive of, it is effect history
in a really annoying way to me. The politics over governance,
I mean obviously that's become ever present, to the point
(07:14):
that I don't know if we can continue functioning as
a democracy, honestly. But he makes a good point, you know,
speaking of those conservatives, do you mind if we listen
to the Chip Roy clip.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
I respect Chip a great deal.
Speaker 6 (07:25):
I agree with him a lot, not all the time,
but here are some of his concerns.
Speaker 8 (07:29):
My concern about this package is it's ninety five billion
dollars of foreign aid when A we're thirty four and
a half trillion dollars in debt, but b we're also
dealing with wider than borders, and central to our entire
debate over the last year, as you know, has been
the importance of making sure we secure the borders of
the United States. So the reality is we need to
do that and do our job. I would love to
do what we can to support Israeli, but in this
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ninety five billion dollar package, there's nine billion in humanitarian aid,
which if you go look at who it goes to,
that goes to fund Hamas. So we're funding Israel, which
I support, but we're also funding Israel's enemies and funding Hamas.
This is the kind of duplicit as crafty American people
are tired of. So I'd like to go back to
the drawing board, pass Israel standalone and not have this
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package that has that funding in it that I think
is nefarious, and focus on the border.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
First. I don't know anything about the nine billion that
funds some moss. What's that all about.
Speaker 6 (08:18):
Oh, it's humanitarian aid to Gaza, all right, which we
all know rights passed through Hamas.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
They run everything.
Speaker 6 (08:26):
There's no agency that's independent of Hamas operating in Gaza.
It's fanciful. So that what a great example of chip Roy.
He's right on every single count. Now the whole we're
worried about Ukraine's borders, not our borders. That's an interesting juxtaposition,
but it's not a good argument. I mean, the federal
government does fifty thousand different things, way more than it
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ought to, is an aside. But taking two of the
things that's either doing and not doing, and comparing them
and saying therefore we won't do the one, It's just
it's silly. On the other hand, from a bargaining perspective,
I totally get what he's saying. We said, Okay, you
want this so bad, we want the damn border seal.
Let's work something out, and the other side has been
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in transigent or at least the deal that they offered
wasn't good enough. The debt question, all right, you want
all this money, where are you going to get it from?
Asking that question is an incredibly principled stance, lash question.
I'm glad he's asking it. On the other hand, if
that allows, you know, Iran to continually attack Israel or
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Ukraine to fall to the monster Putin, it's a little frustrating.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Well right, And as the Secretary of State said, it's
not just Putin, it's what message does send to the world.
And now that this is my new thing is waking
up to a new Cold War, that is US against China, Russia,
Iran trying to change what has been three quarters of
(10:00):
a century a US led world order. They want that
to end. Do you remember that caught on Mike moment
between she and Putin where we all got to hear
them say out loud, and she said to Putin, We're
about to do something so big. This will change the
history of the world for the next one hundred years.
That's what they're trying to do, and they're having success.
Speaker 6 (10:20):
A russo Chinese led New World's order with their attack
dog Iran.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
It's straining at the leash.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Yeah, sounds wonderful, or at least a chaotic world order
where we're not in charge.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
They still feel like they benefit from that, which they would. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (10:37):
Absolutely, To quote a former producer Positive Sean, quoting Game
of Thrones character little Finger, chaos is a ladder.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
Yeah, never watched Game of Thrones. Oh still should good?
So much killing.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
So the Game of Thrones people are behind the three
body problem, right, correct, and similarly well done, That's what
I hear. Yeah, and that's about the cultural revolution in
China or just tangentially.
Speaker 6 (11:10):
Tangentially, it's a sci fi thing about saving humanity.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
And that's all I know.
Speaker 6 (11:14):
I've intentionally kind of avoided more information because I'm going
to watch it.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Oh right, man, my kids ever grow up. I assume
they will. It seems to be the way biology works.
I got some any TV shows to watch. The great
explosion of you know, paid series television happened while I'm
child rearing like a lot of you, and I'll have
to catch up on all these things. I mean, all
(11:38):
these different shows I've heard about that i've never seen
a minute.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Of someday I will watch.
Speaker 6 (11:42):
Yeah, just keep here four hundred and thirty seven streaming subscriptions,
and they'll be there for you when you're ready. I
was speaking of kids growing up. Just a quick aside
to longtime listeners of the show who remember when my
daughter Delaney was born and I came on the air
and talked about her being born. She graduated from college
a couple of years ago and has been working in
(12:03):
the legal profession for a couple of years, And just
shows what law school she's going to be attending.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
These went to law school.
Speaker 6 (12:13):
I did almost. I'm still threatening a Michael. You don't know,
look out, I might go tomorrow. But yeah, it's unbelievable.
Speaking of kids grown up.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Yeah, people can say, or you can say, they grow
up so fast as often as you want. It still
does not minimize the impact of how true it is.
It's just stunning. What is it about that it's like
its own thing? Like my car doesn't age that at
(12:43):
that rate, Like Mike, I don't look at a car
that it's ten years old. I can't believe it's been
ten years. It seems like it's been about ten years.
But with the kids, It's like, what the hell your child?
I think a lot of it is that they are
not the same car. They are only that car for
(13:04):
a very short time. It's like I walked in the
living room the other day and my son is laying
there and his cool guy teenager clothes, and I was.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
Like, there's a grown man on my couch. How did
that happen? What the hell? Yeah, we got more on
the way. Stay here. I suppose we should get to that.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Joe Biden claiming his uncle is eaten by Cannibal's story.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
That turns out no joke. Jack.
Speaker 6 (13:34):
Can you imagine the horror A couple other There you
are in the pots with the fire, I assume, and
some cleverer caption underneath.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
It's funny.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
I think most people of a certain age, their vision
version vision of cannibals is what happened in Bugs Bunny.
You kind of tied up and you're sitting there with
your head sticking out of a big pot of boiling water.
You're obviously the meat in a soup. Yes, a couple
of news items for you. O. J. Simpson has been
cremated in Las Vegas. If you were wondering what was
happening to his body. Somebody just got excused. A juror
(14:09):
just got excused because this is the Trump trial. Anytime
you hear the word juror right now, it's going to
be about the Trump Trump trial. The Trump trial. A
jur got excused for saying they're worried their name is
going to come out and what would happen to him?
And the judge let them go for that concern. If
you don't have the trouble of that way of getting out.
Is there anybody who doesn't have that concern. If you don't,
(14:31):
you're kind of dim I was going to say, you're
too stupid to serve on a jury. If you're unaware
that that could be an issue. I think it's absolutely
going to happen. But different topic that The headline is
that Colorado's governor signed a bill that would extend privacy
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rights to consumer neural data collected by technology companies. This
is the idea that any of the modern technology that
gets some of your brain waves or something like that,
that is your information and other and they can't sell
it and spread it around. Color out of the first
state to do that. I don't understand why we're so
behind Europe on this whole the data is well, I
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do know why, because Google and everybody lobbies Congress. But
the fact that we haven't risen up and demanded it
is amazing to me yet that all this data belongs
to us.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
But here's here inside the story. I found this interesting.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
They're talking about these headbands that you wear that have
brain waves and stuff like that. There is a popular
dating app I forget what the name of it is.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
That purports to provide better matches.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
By having your brain waves and matching you up with
people with similar brain waves.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
I had not heard about this.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
So you put on this headband, go to this dating app,
and then they monitor your brain somehow and get the
numbers and try to match you up with somebody else.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
And their slogans, their slogan, I know, oh wow, psychics
are like, what are you serious?
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Right?
Speaker 4 (16:07):
Psychics and chiropractors are you like please hold.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Mo oh hey hey hey? So the uh their slogan
is listen to your heart is not enough.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
I want to know the name of this. I'm working
on it. Sarah Bellove is it's on here somewhere I forgot.
I can't find them the name, but yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
I don't know if any of you done the dating
app where they use your brain waves to match you
up with somebody.
Speaker 6 (16:32):
Oh, that's ridiculous. Signed people who felt for lumps on
your head and predicted your future.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
Of the eighteen hut years. You know, who knows? Who knows?
There might be something to it.
Speaker 6 (16:44):
This sounds like a you know, somebody read an article
in a Wired dot com or something about brainwaves and thought,
you know, if we put some like some wires into
a tennis headband. I claim that we're actually let me
think about that.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
I'm not mocking the idea that there might be a
way to match people's brains. I'm mocking the idea that
their equipment does anything.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
That's what I'm mocking.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Tennis headband wire sticking out of it.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
Oh, we've found an excellent match for you.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
Yes, yes, China is invading Waight, what Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
So many nutty things going on in the world at
the same time.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
If you're just.
Speaker 6 (17:30):
Tuning in, we have talked about and will again the
new CEO of NPR and her utterly horrifying worldview. She
is an Orwellian nightmare. As I said a distillation of
she's a high priestess of the cult of woke conformity
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in a shocking way.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
And we'll get to that probably next hour. I hope
you can stay.
Speaker 6 (17:55):
Around if you can't, and I read the podcast later
Armstrong and Getty on demand.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
An emerging information that would lead one to believe that
MPR is not thinking, well, we need to change the
way we're doing things.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
We've been found out.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
It looks like they're going to double down on what
that guy resigned over the other day.
Speaker 6 (18:12):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely true. So stay tuned. I hope you
can keep listening. I hope you're doing well. The excellent
Mike Tobin of Fox News is going to bring us
the following brief report.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Have you seen Mike Tobin lately? He is enormous.
Speaker 6 (18:29):
His neck is as thick as an NFL offensive guards.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
I need to start paying attention to the next size
of more of my TV bulls.
Speaker 6 (18:38):
Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no, obviously you
haven't seen him lately. His neck is thicker than his head.
He's one of those guys who has kind of that
pyramid thing going. I mean, he looks to be strong
as an ox and there's no downside to that.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
But there's a card shock. There's a cartoon character built
like that. Is that from Dilbert or somebody in a
cartoon had a head like that kind of a bullet shape.
Speaker 6 (18:59):
That's the cone headed boss I think you're referring to.
But Adia's wasn't a neck thing anyway. Imagine if you will, folks,
and this is a strictly hypothetical mental exercise. Imagine there
were a country of significant might and wealth, well thought
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of around the world, a history of making mistakes but
also doing enormous good. And imagine there were a geopolitical
adversary that rose up and openly wanted to challenge the
first country mentioned. And imagine if that first country were
so stupid they were to allow thousands of military age
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young men from their geopolitical foe to come into their country.
Willy nilly, clip eighty please, Michael.
Speaker 9 (19:47):
Here in the OPASO sector, we have seen a recent
spike with the illegal crossings. But it's that dramatic spike,
a dramatic increase of Chinese nationals crossing the border illegally
that is drawing national security concerns. A border patrol says
they have apprehended some twenty four thousand, two hundred ninety
six Chinese nationals crossing illegally. Eighty five percent of them
are single adults. So the catch is, we're only six
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months into the fiscal year and the number of Chinese
nationals apprehended has already exceeded the total from fiscal year
twenty twenty three. And if you compare those numbers to
fiscal year twenty one, the start of the Biden administration,
there were three hundred and twenty four So the number
of Chinese nationals marching into the US has increased by
more than seven thousand percent.
Speaker 6 (20:32):
You know, I will never despair for the country, I
don't think.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
But at the point that we're doing something that.
Speaker 6 (20:45):
Astonishingly unwise, an idiotic, I'm reminded of I've had a
couple of friends. Some of you've probably had a relative,
maybe a close relative, maybe you loved very much, who
is so screwed up their life, had shown so little
interest in straightening it out. You think, all right, I'm
not going to let this keep me up at night anymore.
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If you don't care, I'm not going to care anymore.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
I can't. It's dragging me down.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Well, so what's your concern with these single, young Chinese
nationals coming into our country illegally?
Speaker 4 (21:21):
What do you now think they're up to.
Speaker 6 (21:23):
I realize you're saying that you're asking that to prompt
me as your co host.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
And I've got a thinneck. My neck's not thick at all.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
And yet, and yet I will answer your question.
Speaker 6 (21:35):
Now, I almost feel silly answering your question, because it
is self evident those who are not bent on espionage,
and certainly a lot of these people just think China sucks.
I want to live in the US. It's the land
of opportunity. There are many Chinese Americans who are having
great lives. It's absolutely true.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
It's the true of everybody comes to this country because
it's a great country anyway. But there are, if not
thousands of those twenty five thousand Chinese nationals who crossed
the United States border in the first half of fiscal
twenty twenty four, there are thousands of those people who
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are bent on either espionage or destruction, whether physical destruction
or the sort of psychological and social destruction from within
that hostile intelligence agencies perpetrate. Again, it's like my imaginary brother,
I have a brother. He's one of the most upstanding
people I've ever run into. But if he were like
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to say, you know, I'm tired of sobriety, I'm going
to go back to being on meth, I would think, Okay, no,
I'm sorry, I'm done. I'm done.
Speaker 6 (22:44):
What do you do with your country doing something this
is suicidal?
Speaker 4 (22:50):
The border is secure, and there's more.
Speaker 6 (22:55):
To it than the national security concerns that I was
mentioning just a bit more for Mike Tobin here on Michael.
Speaker 9 (23:00):
While we still have seen what we have seen the
Chinese migrants pride crossing, primarily in California, Senator Susan Collins
of Maine has been directing attention to Chinese nationals showing
up in her state and starting marijuana growing operations.
Speaker 10 (23:14):
Why it's China sending its citizens, sneaking them into the
country to open illegal marijuana operations and rural main communities.
Speaker 6 (23:28):
So we're importing huge numbers of foreign nationals, including once
again from our greatest geopolitical adversaries, and allowing them to
set up criminal enterprises.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
I don't even know what to say.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Yeah, we were so concerned about Soviet spies back during
the Cold war days, China is the equal, if not
greater uh foe. And yet we're not concerned at all
about Chinese names coming in. We don't have any idea
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who they are, why they're coming in, or whatever.
Speaker 6 (24:04):
I would say, because corporate America and the term globalist
is overused these days. But the global free trade crowd
was so enamored with the Chinese markets and cheap manufacturing
and cheap labor and the rest of it, they spent
a hell of a lot of time and money and
effort on padding down any sort of Hey, these people
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are communists, and they say all the time they want
to overthrow us, And I just think we've been lulled
into this consumerist sleepiness that yeah, we're kind of dimly
aware that China's a hostile power, but I don't know,
I like this cheap crap in Walmart. So a couple
of quick numbers. In fiscal year twenty one, just sixty
five Chinese nationals were encountered by border patrol.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
Sixty five.
Speaker 6 (24:50):
It's enough to make your Starbucks crowded, but sixty five people.
By the first half of fiscal twenty two, Chinese crossings
had increased to four hundred and.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Thirty two, four hundred and thirty two.
Speaker 6 (25:00):
That's you know what, quintupling, you know, sextupling of that
original number. For the full twenty three fiscal year, the
Biden administration set a record where twenty four thousand had
crossed into the US and were on pace for fifty
thousand Chinese nationals crossing the nation's borders by September. Many
of them apprehended, they claim asylum, They seek the asylum,
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and are turned loose to show up never at some
imaginary court date in the future.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
But there are a lot of getaways too. I just.
Speaker 6 (25:29):
And the impeachment of Mayorcis, which I think was mostly
symbolic because it's a Biden administration policy, went nowhere. The
Senate just said, we're not even going to hold the hearings.
It's profoundly frustrating. So what do you do with this frustration?
Because we don't want you to tune in and be
angry all the time. I mean, who would listen to
that show win elections? I suggest very strongly you craft
(25:53):
policies people like and win elections. I would seem to
be in one's best interest. Neither that it gets lost
in the mix. A lot in the modern world. It
seems that to get whatever you want, you have to
have the majority yes, yes, and the idea that you
can if you just try hard enough or yell loud enough,
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or raise enough money, you'll get that whole loaf. That
is a fantasy. You need to win majorities, get the
best deal you can, and take it. It's the way
it's always worked, the way it always will work. Sorry
to be a pragmatist in the modern era of people's
screeching slogans at each other.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
A couple of notes before we take a quick break.
Google fired those employees who protested their policy the other day.
Speaker 6 (26:43):
Hey, yep, now it's a private instinctution's done that I've
liked in a long time.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
But they're saying private institutions a little different than a university.
Although what university was that we were playing the other
day where they basically just came in and said, look,
either leave right now, you're kicked out of school.
Speaker 6 (27:00):
Oh yeah, that was Pomona College, which is part of
Claremont University in California.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 6 (27:05):
You got ten minutes to get out or you're suspended,
probably kicked out of school. And the kids are like
their eyes get big, woo oh oh, and they all leave.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
At Columbia, a whole bunch of protesters took over a
particular area of the college and locked arms and said
they would not leave until the university met their demands.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
And they're still there. How do you Why do you
put up with that?
Speaker 6 (27:29):
I'm picturing the people fired from Google. They're probably astonished.
Ya can you fire us?
Speaker 4 (27:36):
Well, yeah, we were, We're right. It's a genocide. How
can you? Because they're so used to no repercussions.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
It's interesting that in the Silicon Valley tech world, we've
had Netflix said that to that to their employees after
the David Chappelle thing, well, if you don't like our
content or don't like our channel, work somewhere else. And
then Google fired these people. So the tech companies, fine,
you think whatever you want, go protest on the weekends,
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but you can't be here at work.
Speaker 6 (28:08):
I just think they're ahead on the timeline that they
were so active in creating the monster. The monster has
turned on them earlier, and so they're having to deal
with the reality like Google is woke, man, They are
absolutely progressive, sure nut jobs, and so the monster and
so they permitted the monster to grow and grow, and
(28:29):
now it's turned on them first because it's gotten so big,
and so they've.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
Had to say whoops, well good.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
Maybe they can lead the way back the other direction,
at least on this front, because culturally, we've sent the
message that if you want to, you know, stop a bridge,
traffic on a bridge all day long, you can because
you're upset. If you want to shut down this college
for a couple of days, you can because you're upset.
We need to quickly push back on that, saying no,
you can't, not all. But so you're fired or arrest
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is it or kicked out of school?
Speaker 4 (28:56):
Is it too late? I'm going to bring it and
find out.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
And one other thing, Prince Harry has given up his
residency completely in England. Is now a US citizen or
gonna live in the United States? I do I don't
think he's a citizen. Another unfortunate immigration story in my opinion,
that was a splashy headline in certain quarters yesterday. Who Flippin'
(29:23):
stars hermer gird Right. The flap over what w NBA
players continues both directions. I'm sorry the flap over one
what w NBA players get paid. I think I left
out a phrase, just I left out the predicate. I
(29:46):
had the subject but no predicate in that sentence, and
he needed both. Really to have any idea what's being communicated,
but a lot of things to talk about.
Speaker 4 (29:53):
Stay here.
Speaker 11 (30:01):
The Toronto Raptors Johntay Porter has been banned from the
sport for life because of a gambling scandal and NBA
investigation finding he bet on at least thirteen NBA games,
gave confidential information to betters, and bet on his own
team to lose.
Speaker 6 (30:16):
That's David Muir from ABC tonight. You probably heard that story.
It goes with a couple of others recently show Hey,
Otana's Otani's ex interpreter who gambled away sixteen million dollars.
You think after you gambled away like I don't know,
twelve million, you might call one eight hundred gambler, but
he didn't. Jason Gaining the Wall Street Journal with a
(30:37):
good piece today saying, hey, get used to this. Sports
betting is now ubiquitous all sports pro college These prop
bets on individual players performances, which some leagues are trying
to get banned. I mean, they're just such a clear
incentive for players to cheat, and they'll get better at it,
and the mobs that are behind the cheating will get
(30:59):
that hiding it.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
And getting to people.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
So like show Hey Otani's interpreter, there's no there's no
whiff of or wrongdoing around show Hey Atani, the Dodgers star
most valuable player of any sport in America right now,
but his interpreter says he never bet on baseball. Really,
you were that far upside down ungambling, as desperate for
(31:28):
the end of ruining your life as you can get,
and you just stood by You're not gonna bet on baseball.
Speaker 4 (31:35):
I find that very hard to believe.
Speaker 6 (31:37):
If you've ever heard Michael Francis I think that's his name,
is any former mobster who is big into sports betting?
Speaker 4 (31:43):
You explained it.
Speaker 6 (31:44):
He said they look for athletes who are degenerate gamblers,
because once the guy owes you thousands.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
Or millions of dollars, you can get him to do
whatever you want. All right, That's what I mean about
that interpreter.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
There's no chance you've gotten that desperate asstrait and didn't
think the easiest way out of this is I know
all about the baseball situation.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
I know who's hurt, I know right exactly.
Speaker 6 (32:05):
And you don't have to like, you know, poke show
Hee Otani in the iowall he sleeps or.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
Anything like that.
Speaker 6 (32:11):
All you have to do is be a source of
information so that the betters can win, you know, fourteen
out of twenty five instead of thirteen out of twenty five. Right, anyway,
another sports note, I want and I know you want
to play the Jason Whitlock sound clip.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
The Caitlyn So Caitlin Clark, most famous women's basketball player
in America. We've all found out she is gonna make
seventy seventy six thousand dollars next year, her first year
in the WNBA, being compared to the number one pick
in the draft for the for the NBA, who made
five and a half million dollars this year, And just
how outrageous.
Speaker 4 (32:49):
That is in inequity and.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
Bias against women, misogyny and all these different sorts of things.
Here's Jason Whitlock, who we've had on before, haven't we
very smart?
Speaker 12 (33:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (33:00):
At least once. Yeah, here's him talking about the situation.
Speaker 12 (33:03):
In more than thirty years of history, the WNBA has
never once turned a profit. What business overpays. They're already
they're overpaid at seventy five thousand dollars a year, and
some of the I think the top veteran players make
like two hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year. They're
overpaid already. And so what they're trying to create in
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these women is a sense of entitlement. Oh, you're old something,
you're mistreated, you know what you should be, just like
all the angry feminists that have dominated the WNBA and
led it to thirty plus years of no profit and
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total irrelevance.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
So I don't feel like I need to state it
in the way that he did and that was made
it around the sports world as controversial yesterday. I don't
blame these these women.
Speaker 4 (33:57):
They're not. It's not their fault.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
It's people who don't understands telling these women that you're
getting ripped off, instead of saying, well, the NBA makes
and I had the numbers yesterday, but two hundred million
dollars per year and the WNBA makes sixty million. I mean,
it's just it's apples to oranges.
Speaker 4 (34:16):
I think it was like two billion, wasn't it? Or something?
Speaker 3 (34:18):
It was not even an elephant in a mouse. Yeah,
it was not even close. That's the reason. And there's
nothing you can do about that. It's got nothing to
do with fairness or whatever. If the WNBA brought in
the revenue the NBA did and it was reversed, the
salaries would be reversed.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
It's just a profit thing.
Speaker 6 (34:36):
The Rolling Stones sold more tickets than my band. Is
that discrimination and some sort of hate or is that
just one entertainment products a hell of a lot more
popular than the other. Speaking of Caitlin Clark, though, in
the time that we have, the good folks at Nike
are prepared to pen her a a ten figure check.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
I'm sorry, an eight figure check.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
Good as I said that because I saw the other
day that she has three point two million dollars in
endorsements already. I thought, how is it only that hows
no shoe company hit her with like fifty million already.
Speaker 6 (35:09):
Well, keeping in mind that a nine million dollar pay
day would still be a seven figure check, so it's
a minimum of ten million bucks.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
I think she'll do okay, Yeah, yeah, she'll be all right,
armstrong and getty
From the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington
Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and Getty show.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Russian medley and espionage continues in Europe today here, this
time in Germany. Here's more from that headline in Reuters
Germany arrests two for allegedly military sabotage plot on behalf
of Russia and more from the report. It says, quote
two German Russian nationals have been arrested in Germany on
suspicion of plotting sabotage attacks, including on US military facilities,
(00:39):
an effort to undermine military support for Ukraine prosecutors set
on Thursday. Russia's been making advances on the battlefield in Ukraine.
President Biden's top diplomat in Italy for G seven meetings,
urged Congress to get more weapons into the country to
repel the Russian advance.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
The story in its current form could only go on
so long before Russia has just flat out one and
there's nothing you can do about it.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
In fact, we may already be there.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
I'm happy to see that at least one of the
national news broadcasts started this hour with how set to Vote?
Speaker 4 (01:11):
On foreign aid.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Too much of the media attention has been on will
House Speaker Johnson get ousted if he gets Democratic votes
or whatever. That's not the important thing here. The important
thing is perhaps world history changing events that we could
alter with some funding. As the Secretary of State talked
about yesterday, is urgent that all of.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
The friends and supporters of Ukraine maximize their efforts to
provide with Ukraine with what it needs to continue to
effectively defend itself against the Rusian aggression. If Putin is
allowed to proceed with impunity, we know he won't stop
at Ukraine, and we can safely predict that his aggression
will continue.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Other would be aggressors around the world will take note. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
I don't know if Putin will continue to try to
grab places if he wins, But I do know that
second part is true, that other aggressors around the world
will take note and say, Okay, you can roll the
United States, you.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Can roll the West right, or just outlast them. Yeah,
they'll stand up. You have to wait long.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Yeah, And so I was reading this political analysis from
the wide world of news today, Johnson seems to have
belatedly decided to risk his Speakership to make sure Russian
tanks don't roll through all of Ukraine. Speaker Johnson yesterday
coming out and giving a little speech and saying, look,
I'm a child to Ronald Reagan. I came up during
the Cold War era. We need to stop Russia now.
(02:42):
And he had not been that definitive in his statements.
He's decided, apparently, this is what I want to do,
and if I lose my job, fine, Back to the analysis.
At this point, the media seems obsessed with gaming out
what will happen to Johnson if the House passes something
when there are three other questions that are actually much bigger.
What if the gambit fails in the House then what
(03:04):
is there just no fun?
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Is this just it? Is there not gonna be any
fundy for Ukraine at all? Two?
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Will the Senate definitively pass whatever the House sends over?
In Three, if something like the House measure becomes law,
can Ukraine really win the war? There's almost no discussion
of that at a policy level or in the media. Really,
although this story is too processing for much of the
dominant media, what is unfolding on the Hill and at
the White House now is one of the most compelling
(03:33):
and important moments in recent memory, and no one, including Johnson,
has any idea how it will turn out. The exciting
story is not does Marjorie Taylor Green call for a vote?
The exciting story is do we actually after saying.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
As long as it takes, as long as it.
Speaker 6 (03:51):
Takes right, we're not going to permit a new era
of conquest on the European continent. That's rather a bigger
question than who's the speaker and what MGT has to say, right,
MTG whatever?
Speaker 3 (04:05):
And I don't know, I don't know where it's going
to go today. It might come up for a vote today.
Now they're packaging things in different ways on a moment
by moment basis. It would seem the Ukraine funding Israel
Taiwan throwing in some TikTok stuff.
Speaker 6 (04:22):
Yeah, I'm I'm definitely concerned about the Ukraine situation on
a number of different levels. I was rewatching the Gary
Oldman vehicle, the Churchill biopic The Darkest Hour. That's a
good movie. Watched the first half of it again last night.
I love it, and I was reminded how much how
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important it is that a sense of hope endors among
a people in an army and in Ukraine. I believe
that is waning point number one, point number two. It's
a lot of people are anti Ukraine funding. And there
you know, there's some reasonable opinions that lean that way.
There are also some idiotic opinions that lean that way.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
But they ask how can Ukraine win?
Speaker 6 (05:11):
As if it's a rhetorical question, and if I can't
come up with the answer, I'm stimied, and I must
repeat for the umpteenth time.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
The idea is, you make it so.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Incredibly painful and expensive to launch a war of conquest
on the European continent, especially in the twenty first century,
nobody ever does it.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Again.
Speaker 6 (05:32):
Now, maybe Ukraine gives up thirty percent of the territory,
of fifty percent or eighty percent of it, but if
you make it so horrifically expensive for the aggressor, that
is a victory. That's an enormous victory for the rest
of us, Sorry, Ukraine.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Let's hear from Speaker Johnson explaining how he split it
into four bills, why he split into four bills that
are going to go to the House floor at some
point this week, we got.
Speaker 7 (06:00):
The Senate supplemental several weeks back, and it was everything
sandwiched together. That's not the way that regular order is
supposed to work. And many of my conservative friends are
some of the most vocal advocates for their regular process
of the House, and that means that we look at
things in single subjects. And so I made the decision
that we should break this into four parts, so that
you evaluate Israel and Ukraine and the Indo Pacific funding measures,
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and then our separate national and foreign aid responsibilities separately.
So there's four separate bills. Everyone would be able to
give it an up or down vote based on.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Their own merits.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
And it'll be interesting to see if we go back
to the way things used to be and he passes
some of this stuff, at least with a whole bunch
of Republican votes and a whole bunch of Democratic votes.
There are plenty of votes to pass this stuff. It's
not even close.
Speaker 6 (06:49):
Right, It's just a question of the Republican caucus and
the dynamics there. So some of that intrigue stuff that
you are a little dismissive of, it is effect history
in a really annoying way to me. The politics over governance,
I mean obviously that's become ever present, to the point
(07:14):
that I don't know if we can continue functioning as
a democracy, honestly. But he makes a good point, you know,
speaking of those conservatives, do you mind if we listen
to the Chip Roy clip.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
I respect Chip a great deal.
Speaker 6 (07:25):
I agree with him a lot, not all the time,
but here are some of his concerns.
Speaker 8 (07:29):
My concern about this package is it's ninety five billion
dollars of foreign aid when A we're thirty four and
a half trillion dollars in debt, but b we're also
dealing with wider than borders, and central to our entire
debate over the last year, as you know, has been
the importance of making sure we secure the borders of
the United States. So the reality is we need to
do that and do our job. I would love to
do what we can to support Israeli, but in this
(07:50):
ninety five billion dollar package, there's nine billion in humanitarian aid,
which if you go look at who it goes to,
that goes to fund Hamas. So we're funding Israel, which
I support, but we're also funding Israel's enemies and funding Hamas.
This is the kind of duplicit as crafty American people
are tired of. So I'd like to go back to
the drawing board, pass Israel standalone and not have this
(08:10):
package that has that funding in it that I think
is nefarious, and focus on the border.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
First. I don't know anything about the nine billion that
funds some moss. What's that all about.
Speaker 6 (08:18):
Oh, it's humanitarian aid to Gaza, all right, which we
all know rights passed through Hamas.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
They run everything.
Speaker 6 (08:26):
There's no agency that's independent of Hamas operating in Gaza.
It's fanciful. So that what a great example of chip Roy.
He's right on every single count. Now the whole we're
worried about Ukraine's borders, not our borders. That's an interesting juxtaposition,
but it's not a good argument. I mean, the federal
government does fifty thousand different things, way more than it
(08:49):
ought to, is an aside. But taking two of the
things that's either doing and not doing, and comparing them
and saying therefore we won't do the one, It's just
it's silly. On the other hand, from a bargaining perspective,
I totally get what he's saying. We said, Okay, you
want this so bad, we want the damn border seal.
Let's work something out, and the other side has been
(09:10):
in transigent or at least the deal that they offered
wasn't good enough. The debt question, all right, you want
all this money, where are you going to get it from?
Asking that question is an incredibly principled stance, lash question.
I'm glad he's asking it. On the other hand, if
that allows, you know, Iran to continually attack Israel or
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Ukraine to fall to the monster Putin, it's a little frustrating.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Well right, And as the Secretary of State said, it's
not just Putin, it's what message does send to the world.
And now that this is my new thing is waking
up to a new Cold War, that is US against China, Russia,
Iran trying to change what has been three quarters of
(10:00):
a century a US led world order. They want that
to end. Do you remember that caught on Mike moment
between she and Putin where we all got to hear
them say out loud, and she said to Putin, We're
about to do something so big. This will change the
history of the world for the next one hundred years.
That's what they're trying to do, and they're having success.
Speaker 6 (10:20):
A russo Chinese led New World's order with their attack
dog Iran.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
It's straining at the leash.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Yeah, sounds wonderful, or at least a chaotic world order
where we're not in charge.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
They still feel like they benefit from that, which they would. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (10:37):
Absolutely, To quote a former producer Positive Sean, quoting Game
of Thrones character little Finger, chaos is a ladder.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
Yeah, never watched Game of Thrones. Oh still should good?
So much killing.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
So the Game of Thrones people are behind the three
body problem, right, correct, and similarly well done, That's what
I hear. Yeah, and that's about the cultural revolution in
China or just tangentially.
Speaker 6 (11:10):
Tangentially, it's a sci fi thing about saving humanity.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
And that's all I know.
Speaker 6 (11:14):
I've intentionally kind of avoided more information because I'm going
to watch it.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Oh right, man, my kids ever grow up. I assume
they will. It seems to be the way biology works.
I got some any TV shows to watch. The great
explosion of you know, paid series television happened while I'm
child rearing like a lot of you, and I'll have
to catch up on all these things. I mean, all
(11:38):
these different shows I've heard about that i've never seen
a minute.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Of someday I will watch.
Speaker 6 (11:42):
Yeah, just keep here four hundred and thirty seven streaming subscriptions,
and they'll be there for you when you're ready. I
was speaking of kids growing up. Just a quick aside
to longtime listeners of the show who remember when my
daughter Delaney was born and I came on the air
and talked about her being born. She graduated from college
a couple of years ago and has been working in
(12:03):
the legal profession for a couple of years, And just
shows what law school she's going to be attending.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
These went to law school.
Speaker 6 (12:13):
I did almost. I'm still threatening a Michael. You don't know,
look out, I might go tomorrow. But yeah, it's unbelievable.
Speaking of kids grown up.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Yeah, people can say, or you can say, they grow
up so fast as often as you want. It still
does not minimize the impact of how true it is.
It's just stunning. What is it about that it's like
its own thing? Like my car doesn't age that at
(12:43):
that rate, Like Mike, I don't look at a car
that it's ten years old. I can't believe it's been
ten years. It seems like it's been about ten years.
But with the kids, It's like, what the hell your child?
I think a lot of it is that they are
not the same car. They are only that car for
(13:04):
a very short time. It's like I walked in the
living room the other day and my son is laying
there and his cool guy teenager clothes, and I was.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
Like, there's a grown man on my couch. How did
that happen? What the hell? Yeah, we got more on
the way. Stay here. I suppose we should get to that.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Joe Biden claiming his uncle is eaten by Cannibal's story.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
That turns out no joke. Jack.
Speaker 6 (13:34):
Can you imagine the horror A couple other There you
are in the pots with the fire, I assume, and
some cleverer caption underneath.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
It's funny.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
I think most people of a certain age, their vision
version vision of cannibals is what happened in Bugs Bunny.
You kind of tied up and you're sitting there with
your head sticking out of a big pot of boiling water.
You're obviously the meat in a soup. Yes, a couple
of news items for you. O. J. Simpson has been
cremated in Las Vegas. If you were wondering what was
happening to his body. Somebody just got excused. A juror
(14:09):
just got excused because this is the Trump trial. Anytime
you hear the word juror right now, it's going to
be about the Trump Trump trial. The Trump trial. A
jur got excused for saying they're worried their name is
going to come out and what would happen to him?
And the judge let them go for that concern. If
you don't have the trouble of that way of getting out.
Is there anybody who doesn't have that concern. If you don't,
(14:31):
you're kind of dim I was going to say, you're
too stupid to serve on a jury. If you're unaware
that that could be an issue. I think it's absolutely
going to happen. But different topic that The headline is
that Colorado's governor signed a bill that would extend privacy
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rights to consumer neural data collected by technology companies. This
is the idea that any of the modern technology that
gets some of your brain waves or something like that,
that is your information and other and they can't sell
it and spread it around. Color out of the first
state to do that. I don't understand why we're so
behind Europe on this whole the data is well, I
(15:13):
do know why, because Google and everybody lobbies Congress. But
the fact that we haven't risen up and demanded it
is amazing to me yet that all this data belongs
to us.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
But here's here inside the story. I found this interesting.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
They're talking about these headbands that you wear that have
brain waves and stuff like that. There is a popular
dating app I forget what the name of it is.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
That purports to provide better matches.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
By having your brain waves and matching you up with
people with similar brain waves.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
I had not heard about this.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
So you put on this headband, go to this dating app,
and then they monitor your brain somehow and get the
numbers and try to match you up with somebody else.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
And their slogans, their slogan, I know, oh wow, psychics
are like, what are you serious?
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Right?
Speaker 4 (16:07):
Psychics and chiropractors are you like please hold.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Mo oh hey hey hey? So the uh their slogan
is listen to your heart is not enough.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
I want to know the name of this. I'm working
on it. Sarah Bellove is it's on here somewhere I forgot.
I can't find them the name, but yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
I don't know if any of you done the dating
app where they use your brain waves to match you
up with somebody.
Speaker 6 (16:32):
Oh, that's ridiculous. Signed people who felt for lumps on
your head and predicted your future.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
Of the eighteen hut years. You know, who knows? Who knows?
There might be something to it.
Speaker 6 (16:44):
This sounds like a you know, somebody read an article
in a Wired dot com or something about brainwaves and thought,
you know, if we put some like some wires into
a tennis headband. I claim that we're actually let me
think about that.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
I'm not mocking the idea that there might be a
way to match people's brains. I'm mocking the idea that
their equipment does anything.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
That's what I'm mocking.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Tennis headband wire sticking out of it.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
Oh, we've found an excellent match for you.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
Yes, yes, China is invading Waight, what Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
So many nutty things going on in the world at
the same time.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
If you're just.
Speaker 6 (17:30):
Tuning in, we have talked about and will again the
new CEO of NPR and her utterly horrifying worldview. She
is an Orwellian nightmare. As I said a distillation of
she's a high priestess of the cult of woke conformity
(17:52):
in a shocking way.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
And we'll get to that probably next hour. I hope
you can stay.
Speaker 6 (17:55):
Around if you can't, and I read the podcast later
Armstrong and Getty on demand.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
An emerging information that would lead one to believe that
MPR is not thinking, well, we need to change the
way we're doing things.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
We've been found out.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
It looks like they're going to double down on what
that guy resigned over the other day.
Speaker 6 (18:12):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely true. So stay tuned. I hope you
can keep listening. I hope you're doing well. The excellent
Mike Tobin of Fox News is going to bring us
the following brief report.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Have you seen Mike Tobin lately? He is enormous.
Speaker 6 (18:29):
His neck is as thick as an NFL offensive guards.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
I need to start paying attention to the next size
of more of my TV bulls.
Speaker 6 (18:38):
Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no, obviously you
haven't seen him lately. His neck is thicker than his head.
He's one of those guys who has kind of that
pyramid thing going. I mean, he looks to be strong
as an ox and there's no downside to that.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
But there's a card shock. There's a cartoon character built
like that. Is that from Dilbert or somebody in a
cartoon had a head like that kind of a bullet shape.
Speaker 6 (18:59):
That's the cone headed boss I think you're referring to.
But Adia's wasn't a neck thing anyway. Imagine if you will, folks,
and this is a strictly hypothetical mental exercise. Imagine there
were a country of significant might and wealth, well thought
(19:19):
of around the world, a history of making mistakes but
also doing enormous good. And imagine there were a geopolitical
adversary that rose up and openly wanted to challenge the
first country mentioned. And imagine if that first country were
so stupid they were to allow thousands of military age
(19:41):
young men from their geopolitical foe to come into their country.
Willy nilly, clip eighty please, Michael.
Speaker 9 (19:47):
Here in the OPASO sector, we have seen a recent
spike with the illegal crossings. But it's that dramatic spike,
a dramatic increase of Chinese nationals crossing the border illegally
that is drawing national security concerns. A border patrol says
they have apprehended some twenty four thousand, two hundred ninety
six Chinese nationals crossing illegally. Eighty five percent of them
are single adults. So the catch is, we're only six
(20:09):
months into the fiscal year and the number of Chinese
nationals apprehended has already exceeded the total from fiscal year
twenty twenty three. And if you compare those numbers to
fiscal year twenty one, the start of the Biden administration,
there were three hundred and twenty four So the number
of Chinese nationals marching into the US has increased by
more than seven thousand percent.
Speaker 6 (20:32):
You know, I will never despair for the country, I
don't think.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
But at the point that we're doing something that.
Speaker 6 (20:45):
Astonishingly unwise, an idiotic, I'm reminded of I've had a
couple of friends. Some of you've probably had a relative,
maybe a close relative, maybe you loved very much, who
is so screwed up their life, had shown so little
interest in straightening it out. You think, all right, I'm
not going to let this keep me up at night anymore.
(21:09):
If you don't care, I'm not going to care anymore.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
I can't. It's dragging me down.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Well, so what's your concern with these single, young Chinese
nationals coming into our country illegally?
Speaker 4 (21:21):
What do you now think they're up to.
Speaker 6 (21:23):
I realize you're saying that you're asking that to prompt
me as your co host.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
And I've got a thinneck. My neck's not thick at all.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
And yet, and yet I will answer your question.
Speaker 6 (21:35):
Now, I almost feel silly answering your question, because it
is self evident those who are not bent on espionage,
and certainly a lot of these people just think China sucks.
I want to live in the US. It's the land
of opportunity. There are many Chinese Americans who are having
great lives. It's absolutely true.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
It's the true of everybody comes to this country because
it's a great country anyway. But there are, if not
thousands of those twenty five thousand Chinese nationals who crossed
the United States border in the first half of fiscal
twenty twenty four, there are thousands of those people who
(22:13):
are bent on either espionage or destruction, whether physical destruction
or the sort of psychological and social destruction from within
that hostile intelligence agencies perpetrate. Again, it's like my imaginary brother,
I have a brother. He's one of the most upstanding
people I've ever run into. But if he were like
(22:35):
to say, you know, I'm tired of sobriety, I'm going
to go back to being on meth, I would think, Okay, no,
I'm sorry, I'm done. I'm done.
Speaker 6 (22:44):
What do you do with your country doing something this
is suicidal?
Speaker 4 (22:50):
The border is secure, and there's more.
Speaker 6 (22:55):
To it than the national security concerns that I was
mentioning just a bit more for Mike Tobin here on Michael.
Speaker 9 (23:00):
While we still have seen what we have seen the
Chinese migrants pride crossing, primarily in California, Senator Susan Collins
of Maine has been directing attention to Chinese nationals showing
up in her state and starting marijuana growing operations.
Speaker 10 (23:14):
Why it's China sending its citizens, sneaking them into the
country to open illegal marijuana operations and rural main communities.
Speaker 6 (23:28):
So we're importing huge numbers of foreign nationals, including once
again from our greatest geopolitical adversaries, and allowing them to
set up criminal enterprises.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
I don't even know what to say.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Yeah, we were so concerned about Soviet spies back during
the Cold war days, China is the equal, if not
greater uh foe. And yet we're not concerned at all
about Chinese names coming in. We don't have any idea
(24:01):
who they are, why they're coming in, or whatever.
Speaker 6 (24:04):
I would say, because corporate America and the term globalist
is overused these days. But the global free trade crowd
was so enamored with the Chinese markets and cheap manufacturing
and cheap labor and the rest of it, they spent
a hell of a lot of time and money and
effort on padding down any sort of Hey, these people
(24:24):
are communists, and they say all the time they want
to overthrow us, And I just think we've been lulled
into this consumerist sleepiness that yeah, we're kind of dimly
aware that China's a hostile power, but I don't know,
I like this cheap crap in Walmart. So a couple
of quick numbers. In fiscal year twenty one, just sixty
five Chinese nationals were encountered by border patrol.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
Sixty five.
Speaker 6 (24:50):
It's enough to make your Starbucks crowded, but sixty five people.
By the first half of fiscal twenty two, Chinese crossings
had increased to four hundred and.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Thirty two, four hundred and thirty two.
Speaker 6 (25:00):
That's you know what, quintupling, you know, sextupling of that
original number. For the full twenty three fiscal year, the
Biden administration set a record where twenty four thousand had
crossed into the US and were on pace for fifty
thousand Chinese nationals crossing the nation's borders by September. Many
of them apprehended, they claim asylum, They seek the asylum,
(25:21):
and are turned loose to show up never at some
imaginary court date in the future.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
But there are a lot of getaways too. I just.
Speaker 6 (25:29):
And the impeachment of Mayorcis, which I think was mostly
symbolic because it's a Biden administration policy, went nowhere. The
Senate just said, we're not even going to hold the hearings.
It's profoundly frustrating. So what do you do with this frustration?
Because we don't want you to tune in and be
angry all the time. I mean, who would listen to
that show win elections? I suggest very strongly you craft
(25:53):
policies people like and win elections. I would seem to
be in one's best interest. Neither that it gets lost
in the mix. A lot in the modern world. It
seems that to get whatever you want, you have to
have the majority yes, yes, and the idea that you
can if you just try hard enough or yell loud enough,
(26:15):
or raise enough money, you'll get that whole loaf. That
is a fantasy. You need to win majorities, get the
best deal you can, and take it. It's the way
it's always worked, the way it always will work. Sorry
to be a pragmatist in the modern era of people's
screeching slogans at each other.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
A couple of notes before we take a quick break.
Google fired those employees who protested their policy the other day.
Speaker 6 (26:43):
Hey, yep, now it's a private instinctution's done that I've
liked in a long time.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
But they're saying private institutions a little different than a university.
Although what university was that we were playing the other
day where they basically just came in and said, look,
either leave right now, you're kicked out of school.
Speaker 6 (27:00):
Oh yeah, that was Pomona College, which is part of
Claremont University in California.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 6 (27:05):
You got ten minutes to get out or you're suspended,
probably kicked out of school. And the kids are like
their eyes get big, woo oh oh, and they all leave.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
At Columbia, a whole bunch of protesters took over a
particular area of the college and locked arms and said
they would not leave until the university met their demands.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
And they're still there. How do you Why do you
put up with that?
Speaker 6 (27:29):
I'm picturing the people fired from Google. They're probably astonished.
Ya can you fire us?
Speaker 4 (27:36):
Well, yeah, we were, We're right. It's a genocide. How
can you? Because they're so used to no repercussions.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
It's interesting that in the Silicon Valley tech world, we've
had Netflix said that to that to their employees after
the David Chappelle thing, well, if you don't like our
content or don't like our channel, work somewhere else. And
then Google fired these people. So the tech companies, fine,
you think whatever you want, go protest on the weekends,
(28:04):
but you can't be here at work.
Speaker 6 (28:08):
I just think they're ahead on the timeline that they
were so active in creating the monster. The monster has
turned on them earlier, and so they're having to deal
with the reality like Google is woke, man, They are
absolutely progressive, sure nut jobs, and so the monster and
so they permitted the monster to grow and grow, and
(28:29):
now it's turned on them first because it's gotten so big,
and so they've.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
Had to say whoops, well good.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
Maybe they can lead the way back the other direction,
at least on this front, because culturally, we've sent the
message that if you want to, you know, stop a bridge,
traffic on a bridge all day long, you can because
you're upset. If you want to shut down this college
for a couple of days, you can because you're upset.
We need to quickly push back on that, saying no,
you can't, not all. But so you're fired or arrest
(28:54):
is it or kicked out of school?
Speaker 4 (28:56):
Is it too late? I'm going to bring it and
find out.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
And one other thing, Prince Harry has given up his
residency completely in England. Is now a US citizen or
gonna live in the United States? I do I don't
think he's a citizen. Another unfortunate immigration story in my opinion,
that was a splashy headline in certain quarters yesterday. Who Flippin'
(29:23):
stars hermer gird Right. The flap over what w NBA
players continues both directions. I'm sorry the flap over one
what w NBA players get paid. I think I left
out a phrase, just I left out the predicate. I
(29:46):
had the subject but no predicate in that sentence, and
he needed both. Really to have any idea what's being communicated,
but a lot of things to talk about.
Speaker 4 (29:53):
Stay here.
Speaker 11 (30:01):
The Toronto Raptors Johntay Porter has been banned from the
sport for life because of a gambling scandal and NBA
investigation finding he bet on at least thirteen NBA games,
gave confidential information to betters, and bet on his own
team to lose.
Speaker 6 (30:16):
That's David Muir from ABC tonight. You probably heard that story.
It goes with a couple of others recently show Hey,
Otana's Otani's ex interpreter who gambled away sixteen million dollars.
You think after you gambled away like I don't know,
twelve million, you might call one eight hundred gambler, but
he didn't. Jason Gaining the Wall Street Journal with a
(30:37):
good piece today saying, hey, get used to this. Sports
betting is now ubiquitous all sports pro college These prop
bets on individual players performances, which some leagues are trying
to get banned. I mean, they're just such a clear
incentive for players to cheat, and they'll get better at it,
and the mobs that are behind the cheating will get
(30:59):
that hiding it.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
And getting to people.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
So like show Hey Otani's interpreter, there's no there's no
whiff of or wrongdoing around show Hey Atani, the Dodgers star
most valuable player of any sport in America right now,
but his interpreter says he never bet on baseball. Really,
you were that far upside down ungambling, as desperate for
(31:28):
the end of ruining your life as you can get,
and you just stood by You're not gonna bet on baseball.
Speaker 4 (31:35):
I find that very hard to believe.
Speaker 6 (31:37):
If you've ever heard Michael Francis I think that's his name,
is any former mobster who is big into sports betting?
Speaker 4 (31:43):
You explained it.
Speaker 6 (31:44):
He said they look for athletes who are degenerate gamblers,
because once the guy owes you thousands.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
Or millions of dollars, you can get him to do
whatever you want. All right, That's what I mean about
that interpreter.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
There's no chance you've gotten that desperate asstrait and didn't
think the easiest way out of this is I know
all about the baseball situation.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
I know who's hurt, I know right exactly.
Speaker 6 (32:05):
And you don't have to like, you know, poke show
Hee Otani in the iowall he sleeps or.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
Anything like that.
Speaker 6 (32:11):
All you have to do is be a source of
information so that the betters can win, you know, fourteen
out of twenty five instead of thirteen out of twenty five. Right, anyway,
another sports note, I want and I know you want
to play the Jason Whitlock sound clip.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
The Caitlyn So Caitlin Clark, most famous women's basketball player
in America. We've all found out she is gonna make
seventy seventy six thousand dollars next year, her first year
in the WNBA, being compared to the number one pick
in the draft for the for the NBA, who made
five and a half million dollars this year, And just
how outrageous.
Speaker 4 (32:49):
That is in inequity and.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
Bias against women, misogyny and all these different sorts of things.
Here's Jason Whitlock, who we've had on before, haven't we
very smart?
Speaker 12 (33:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (33:00):
At least once. Yeah, here's him talking about the situation.
Speaker 12 (33:03):
In more than thirty years of history, the WNBA has
never once turned a profit. What business overpays. They're already
they're overpaid at seventy five thousand dollars a year, and
some of the I think the top veteran players make
like two hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year. They're
overpaid already. And so what they're trying to create in
(33:25):
these women is a sense of entitlement. Oh, you're old something,
you're mistreated, you know what you should be, just like
all the angry feminists that have dominated the WNBA and
led it to thirty plus years of no profit and
(33:46):
total irrelevance.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
So I don't feel like I need to state it
in the way that he did and that was made
it around the sports world as controversial yesterday. I don't
blame these these women.
Speaker 4 (33:57):
They're not. It's not their fault.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
It's people who don't understands telling these women that you're
getting ripped off, instead of saying, well, the NBA makes
and I had the numbers yesterday, but two hundred million
dollars per year and the WNBA makes sixty million. I mean,
it's just it's apples to oranges.
Speaker 4 (34:16):
I think it was like two billion, wasn't it? Or something?
Speaker 3 (34:18):
It was not even an elephant in a mouse. Yeah,
it was not even close. That's the reason. And there's
nothing you can do about that. It's got nothing to
do with fairness or whatever. If the WNBA brought in
the revenue the NBA did and it was reversed, the
salaries would be reversed.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
It's just a profit thing.
Speaker 6 (34:36):
The Rolling Stones sold more tickets than my band. Is
that discrimination and some sort of hate or is that
just one entertainment products a hell of a lot more
popular than the other. Speaking of Caitlin Clark, though, in
the time that we have, the good folks at Nike
are prepared to pen her a a ten figure check.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
I'm sorry, an eight figure check.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
Good as I said that because I saw the other
day that she has three point two million dollars in
endorsements already. I thought, how is it only that hows
no shoe company hit her with like fifty million already.
Speaker 6 (35:09):
Well, keeping in mind that a nine million dollar pay
day would still be a seven figure check, so it's
a minimum of ten million bucks.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
I think she'll do okay, Yeah, yeah, she'll be all right,
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