November 22, 2024 • 35 mins
Hour 2 of A&G features...
- The history of pardoning the turkey & a vomit inducing article from the NY Times
- Chinese hack was the biggest in history & worse than we thought
- Re-trying Jussie Smollett
- Walking can save your life & the most important thing you can say
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack arms Strong and Joe, Katty arm
Strong and Jettie and he arms Strong and Yetty. It's
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essentially a buzzer that they're employing.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
This is especially important at American Airlines because it's the
biggest airline in the US. They have nine different boarding groups,
which makes it sort of especially confusing for folks. The
problem is people who are jumping the line. It's known
as date lice. That is the lies, and that is
the term that the airline uses in some cases. It's
primarily something that bloggers have come up with, people who
hang around the front of the human eye. It is
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kind of yes, I don't want to be allows either.
But the big thing here is that if you scan
your boarding pass that American is trying this new technology on,
it'll sound an alarm and make it so that you
go to the back of the line and they can
come back in when.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Your group is called okay. So this is you're already
through security, you're you're up there at your plane and
they say it's time to board, but you're group three,
and you try to get up there with group one,
and they call you gate lice, and Jake Tapper ridiculously says,
sort of dehumanizing whatever, Jake who worries about crap like that,
(01:22):
Just whatever, Yeah, okay, I just call you jerks or
a holes. It's the same thing. Get in when your
group is. If you want a better group, buy your
tickets earlier or pay more or whatever. The way it
works on gate licets, I'm referred to them as airport apes.
Who cares? It's it's bored annoyed employees who deal with
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the public all day long. Came up with a semi
amusing nickname to help, you know, cut into the drudgery
of their day a little bit. Jake, It'll be okay, right,
you know, it's the people. There's you know, the the
amount of jyvness in media has changed a little bit.
You know, back in the day you were utterly dignified
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and besuited and and and you know, obviously very clean
language and stuff like that and like that. But it's besuited.
It's fine. But like a Jake Tapper, what is it
in him that makes him think, well, because of the
nature of my job and the people looking in the
dignity of the profession. I need to say, well, that's
somewhat just do you humanizing? Who's worried about that? Seriously? Anyway,
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back to the lousy, lousy gait, who's worried about this
is another question? With Thanksgiving coming up, That's why we're
talking about all the travel. Hey, let me let me
just make a say a word in support of the
American airlines. We who are in group two don't wish
to rub elbows with you Group three paupers, all right,
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know your place Group three, four and five? All right En,
I've said, oh boy, comfort plus doesn't refer to plus.
You stay back in your group analysts. So I'm flying
on Tuesday now, Look Ford, But the point is we're
going to Grandma and Grandpa's for Thanksgiving and gonna have turkey.
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Well maybe you think that is a horror or not?
Guess essay. Opinion piece in the New York Times today,
What a lame duck president could do for lame turkeys?
Good start. We've wondered about the presidential partning of the
turkey for years. Boy, how's Biden gonna pull that off?
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All right? Anyway, he writes someone at the National Turkey
Federation once had an idea, let's send a live turkey
to Harry Truman for a presidential holiday feast. They thought,
we'll promote the turkey. Yeah, but was he stunt We'll
send a live turkey to President Truman. Previously, some individual
turkey producers had sent their products to the president to
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promote them, but the greater resources at the National Turkey
Federation that the story could be promoted more effectively. The
turkey that was sent to President Truman was killed and eaten.
I did go, Harry, give him hell, Harry, huh make
America great again? Back when presidents would get a life
turkey and just say cool and kill it, need it barbaric?
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And then turkeys were subsequently sent to President Dwight D. Eisenhower,
who also killed an h them. But in nineteen sixty three,
in one of his last official acts before his assassination,
all right, god, it would have been days before he
got his head blown apart. Right o November sixteenth, President
John F. Kennedy, when face to face with his live turkey,
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disregarded the sign hung around the bird's neck that read
good eating, mister President. How different is the country now
than then? That they would send a live turkey that
was gonna get killed and eating, and they put signer
on his neck, you know, happy eating. There were more
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realistic people, Yes, we were. Now you have essays in
the New York Times decrying the horror that people eat
turkeys at all. Anyway, John F. Kennedy, and face to
face with the live turkey, disregarded the sign hung around
his neck and said let's keep him going. Kennedy didn't
say anything about pardoning the turkey. If you excuse me,
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I am gonna go stuff and intent right. He didn't
say anything about partning the turkey, but the media referred
to his act as a pardon or reprieve. President George H. W.
Bush was the first to pretend that a turkey was
receiving an official part and we've been doing it for
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the last forty years where the president comes out and
bestows it really is pretty gruesome if you think about it,
cause it's I don't mean gruesome from a turkey standpoint,
but just the idea of a pardon of something being
put to death. There are people on death throw. There
is a big one this week where they appeal to
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governors or the president to try not to be executed
as a human being, and the governor president makes a
decision whether or not to do that to kind of enjoy.
They don't get the partner right to kind of joke
about that activity. I officially pardon you, turkey, not that
other guy earlier in the week, which they probably didn't
deserve a pardon. But you're not wrong. But to me,
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the pardoning the turkey shows weakness. This is why Putin
invaded Ukraine, because we're not even tough enough to execute
our guilty turkeys guilty of delicious I agree. This is
where the essay in the New York Times turns really stupid.
We pardon people for crimes they have committed. Modern law
has long abandoned the view that animals can commit crimes.
That makes it impossible to take seriously the idea that
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turkeys need to be pardoned no matter what they have done.
But the annual is it just me? Or are you
waiting for a punchline too? This can't possibly be serious
to me. I'm waiting for it, ah. But the annual
president pardon is doubly absurd because no one has ever
claimed the turkeys said to the president have done anything wrong,
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not even in the sense that your cat does something
wrong when she punishes you for going on vacation by
using your bed as her litter box. Now, this is
very dry humor, very very dry. How to avoid dry
turkey breasts at the table coming up next, stay with us,
And then it goes into how about these turkey producers
have received millions of dollars as a subsidy for something
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or other after sending the turkeys to It's just it's
all convoluted. I guess I'm supposed to be upset about
this in some way. Oh boy, let me pencil that
in in my list of things to be worried about.
Right after I don't even know. And then it gets
into the good reasons some people choose not to eat turkeys,
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turkeys eaten by Americans today or nothing like wild turkeys
eaten by the early European settlers, and how turkeys are
not treated well, and there are other things you could eat.
Remember our old newsman Marshall used to go to a
tofur tofu turkey thing that some toe tofurky, that's some
vegetarian friend of his put together. I don't doubt that
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the turkeys are not treated in the best way. It
doesn't surprise me. Okay, I've penciled in concern about this
right below. The laces in my golf shoes get dirty
and I have to take them out to launder them. Well,
i'll read you the last paragraph of this serious thing.
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If we insist on sticking with the idea of pardoning
someone for Thanksgiving, it's the heads of the giant corporations
profiting from the industrial production of turkeys who are in
need of a pardon. But to deserve it, they would
first have to show remorse for what they have done. Okay, well,
you're fun at a party. How hilarious is that they're
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bothered by the pardoning of the turkey fun at a gathering?
This piece, it's actually a decent piece about how more
and more people seem to be a semi sober. They're
like drinking more mindfully or less frequently. As the medical
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establishment has said, you know, even one glass of wine.
It's not good for you. Alcohol is just not good
for you. And people are being more mindful. And this
woman is talking about, you know, I've actually enjoyed it
more and blah blah blah, And I was thinking of
the person who's just a drag at a party, like,
if that guy shows up, I'm leaving. Sorry, Grandma, I
know you've only got a week to live, but I'm
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not hanging out with that idiot. Sorry. Wow, If you're
an introvert, a little nip or two, that's how I
get through it. So is the Is it like sweeping
the nation that's being concerned about drinking or is it
just a no. I think it's absolutely on the increase.
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Young people are drinking less than all the generations before them,
partly because they're giving themselves psychoist with the not universally.
But I think attitudes on alcohol are evolving, no doubt. Interesting. Well,
it is after what a couple decades, certainly a decade
of being told, oh wow, by if you aren't drinking
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red wine, you're being awful to your children because it's
gonna make your heart so much healthier than they decided.
What a couple of years ago, we were wrong about
all that. Sorry, sorry, we's not gonna not gonna hurt
you the red wine, but any alcohol is bad. Yeah,
that was yet another reason why I ignore most studies
about any sort of hell thing anything. They changed their
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mind so many times in my life how do you
not roll your eyes at any study about this food
or diet or drink or whatever based on wait and see,
wait a long time and see. Speaking of which fruit
loops are going to be the center of the great
controversy of next year, A humble fruit loop, No damn
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fruit anywhere near him? By the way, RFK Junior is
really hammering on processed foods and artificial dies and that
sort of thing. Got some details on that, plus the
armstrung you getty Court of Justice. We'll swing into action
and rejudge. Juicy smolet hey Anson. CBS has an interview
with the first transgender congresswoman. Uh be kind of interested
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to hear what she's talking about. If they get into
that whole bathroom. Her fluffel that you can't become a
woman by taking hormones and getting surgeries. That's a medical impossibility. Well,
she's got long hair and female clothes on. I'm looking
at her up there. I've not personally looked under her skirt. Again,
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you can do anything you want under the skirt. It
does not change the sex of the person involved. How
recently did she transition? Do we know this?
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (11:53):
No, she didn't like run as a dude and is
now a chick or anything like that? Right, isn't that reason? Well? No,
if she was having dude, she's not a chick. Now,
I think you're missing the point. I think I can
get your point to. Yes, we got more in the way.
Stay here.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
McDonald's has announced that it will offer half gallon jugs
if it's McRib sauce for twenty dollars. It's a handy
option for parties, barbecues and of.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Course dares, no kidding, no kidding. Wait, Wow, that's funny.
That is a good one. My son and his friends,
my high schooler and his friends are super into the
dares of eating and drinking various things. It's a right
of passing. And my son especially and my son, for
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whatever reason, is dedicated daw never turning down a deer.
It's just way he's built. I don't know if you
heard when we had Josh Rogan to the Washington Post
on what like the day of the election or day
before the presidential election. Anyway, he declared that the Chinese
hat of all our cell phone companies and everything was
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a bigger story than the election, which is a heck
of a thing to say. Mm hmm. It's the biggest
hack in US history, maybe world history, and nobody talks
about it. And nobody talks about it nobody. I haven't
heard one person in my real life bring this up right.
I haven't heard it on I don't even think I've
even heard about it on any other show. Wow, is
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that something? Well? The New York Time are so under
attack currently by the Chinese Communist Party, and there's an
article about it in The New York Times today, Buried
beneath you know, a whole bunch of Trump stories about
things and personalities whatever that everybody's obsessed with and cries
for Turkey justice. As discussed in the previous segment, this
is a David Sanger article. He pays attention to the
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important stuff on the New York Times. Thank god somebody does.
But yesterday Senator Mark Warner, who is the Democratic chairman
of the Intelligence Committee, said this is significantly worse than
we even thought. So it's significantly worse than it was
back when Josh Rogan told us it's a bigger story
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than the election. Wow, is what he said yesterday. The
barn door is still wide open for China to do
whatever they want inside of all of our telecommunications, including
specifically listening to any phone call or reading any text
that they want to. It's been going on for at
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least a year, we don't know how long. And it's
still going on today. Isn't that amazing? It's mind boggling,
it is. I mean, we are walking the streets of
Rome saying, oh, look, barbarians. Anyway, shall we go to
the vomitorium?
Speaker 5 (14:46):
Eh?
Speaker 1 (14:48):
And we're just utterly unaware that we are being invaded
and they are fighting us. We're just not fighting them
because we're too content. And China had access to absolutely
listening to the phone calls or reading the texts of
any American who's got you know, any of the big
cell phone companies, which is practically every adult, including President
elect Donald J. Trump, Vice President elect JD. Vance, and
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anybody else you can think of. So it's impossible that
they didn't gain important intelligence from listening to Donald Trump's
private phone calls throughout the entire election. Are you kidding me? Wow? Wow?
And it turns out they exploited aging equipment and seams
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in the networks connecting disparate systems. I don't know anything
about that since the hack was exposed. The Chinese intruders
have seemingly disappeared, suspending their intrusion, so that their activity
is harder to figure out. But they do not conclude
that they have been ousted for the telecommunication system. They
still have the ability to do it. They've just like
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backed off, They've scurried off, so it's harder to figure
out how they're in there, how to get them out.
But it looks like they China could jump back in
any time they want to and listen to your phone
calls or read your texts. Wow, isn't that InCrest Yeah,
yeah it is. I mean they mean and if you
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let your mind run wild for a couple of minutes.
As to the sort of thing they're listening to, they're
absolutely given their interest in taking out our infrastructure when
and if the pooh hits the fan. They are absolutely
listening to technical discussions between the people who run the
power crop. Oh, absolutely no doubt about that. Or as
basic as they've heard Trump's private phone conversations where Trump
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says we ain't gonna defend Taiwan, There's no way the
American people would put up with that. It's quite possible
they heard that on a phone call him discussing it. Anyway,
they have intel like nobody's ever had intel. They know
exactly who Matt Gates has been boinking and what their
age is for instance. Probably how do we not pay
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more attention to this? I guess just because we're all
wealthy by modeling on world standards, fat and comfortable. Speaking
for myself, the Armstrong and getting caught of justice will
retry Juicy Smoley next Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 6 (17:14):
So the court's decision, it's important to remember, had nothing
to do with Smolette's actual guilt or innocence, but had
everything to do with Smolette's constitutional rights being violated when,
in the court's opinion, he was prosecuted a second time
after a valid plea agreement. It was almost six years
ago when Smolette called police claiming he was a victim
of a racist and homophobic attack.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
So is it just the double jeopardy thing we learn
about in grade school? Or yeah, yeah, single plea agreement?
Then they changed their mind. Essentially, there's no no judgment
whatsoever on the guilt or innocence, the verdict itself, just
the trial taking place at all. So he's out. This
Jesse Smolette, who as an actor, hired a couple of
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guys to pretend to attack him. And I'd either forgotten
or didn't know that was all part of his contract
and go he thought he was gonna get more money.
They offered him less money for that TV show he
was on, and he thought he would get more money
if he had been the victim of a crime. That's
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it makes an extra dumb. So your your your plan
was dumb, and then you're gonna that's how your nati
evil dumb and evil true because it does add to
the idea of a race war or that sort of thing,
racial tension in the United States, right, And he was
more than willing to pitch racial hatred to make himself
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more money and and to portray white people in the
way he did. And and he just continued to elevate
the idea of victimhood is the greatest status in American life.
It's just awful, right, So, yeah, it's bad for racial
relations and also portraying once again that Trump supporters are
obviously racists, violent racists, as we all know. So after
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he was attacked and called the police and a lot
of people were super skeptical, right, off the bat, but
not your mainstream media, and not Kamala Harris, not a
lot of celebrities who believed his story immediately. Here's him
on I think Good Morning America, explaining a little bit
about the attack in the aftermath. Why did you hesitate
to want to call the police?
Speaker 7 (19:28):
You know, there's a level of pride there. We live
in a society where as a gay man, you were
considered somehow to be weak and I'm not weak. I'm
not weak. It feels like if I had said it
was a Muslim or a Mexican or someone black, I
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feel like the doubters would have supported me a lot
much more, a lot more. And that says a lot
about the place that we are in our country right now.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Man, you are a freaking scumbag. Yes to go on
television and talk about the state this country is in
because of the way I was attacked and oh my god,
because I'm gay. At anybody who doubts your ridiculous, laughable story,
it's just because they're such racists that they would believe
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me if I'd set a Mexican or a Muslim attack me.
You're a scum bag. I hate And when I'd forgotten it.
He also cast himself as a victim because he's gay, right,
He couldn't come forward because he knows how gay men
are treated in the United States. God, you are the
worst kind of person. The only thing that's comforting since
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he got out is that his careers over. I think
he's been out for a while, hasn't he. I mean,
he didn't get sentenced too much time. But his career's over.
Oh yeah. Still he should be in He should be
in some sort of jail. That is horrible. It's absolutely horrible.
And you know, even when people found out the truth,
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that leaves the you know, there's the echo in people's
brains of confirmation for a certain crowd of the whole
Trump voter racial relations thing, even though it wasn't true. Anyway,
here's another throwback. After we all found out what was happening,
he hired these bodybuilders to attack him and yell, you know,
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this is Trump country, and they threw bleach on him
and everything like that. Here's them on the very street
corner where they attacked him, explaining the attack.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
This is where we waited for Jesse to come. So
I saw him out the corner of my eye and
I was.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Like, Okay, that's him, let's go.
Speaker 5 (21:44):
He turned around, looked at us, and that's when we
started yelling the famous slurs he wanted us to yell.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
I threw the first punchadow.
Speaker 5 (21:55):
I held the blow because I didn't want to hurt him,
of course, and then.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
I threw him to the ground. It to look like
he fought back.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
That was very important for him.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Wow, you looked though you are an idiot. You're an
absolute idiot. I held back because I didn't hurt him.
If you've never seen these guys, they're super jacked, bodybuilder dudes. Anyways,
they'd knock you in the next week. Oh my, crush
your face he wanted to look like. And then I
remember the throwing the bleach on him. I think this
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is from now them explaining what they think of the
whole deal. And the bleach is some sort of implied
what we're going to make you white? Or just bleach?
Is that just a caustic chemical? I guess I don't know.
I remember back in my racist days, well, I would
walk the streets of Chicago all the time a gallon
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of bleach in my left hand. And you're missing right,
and my maga hat, just waiting and this was the seventies,
just waiting for some port unfortunate, wealthy black gay man
from the TV to come walking down the street, because
by god, if one did, we were ready for them.
Not on my watch, you would say, she man. So
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here's the Bodybuilders explaining more of the plot. I guess he.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Made it seem like this is what Hollywood does. He
mentioned Kim Kardashian during that time, she had a incident
where she got robbed and kidnapped in France, and he
said that was made up, that was fake. So that's
what I was thinking, like, Oh, this is what Hollywood does.
My brother and our professional actors, and we thought, oh,
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this is our introduction into Hollywood.
Speaker 8 (23:41):
And actually we go further in our book that we
just released Bigger Than Jesse. The reason why Jesse might
have actually performed this, hopes and who.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
That's a very important question that leads us to the
why who is it?
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Oh it's funny. I'm reading one hundred Years of Solitude.
I was hoping to finish it during the Thanksgiving break,
but I better put that aside and read the new
book from these Bodybuilders, Bigger than Jesse Yeth Michael, Honey,
if you're listening, I want this book. Oh yeah, I
want it in hardcover for future generations. You know what
(24:20):
I love about one hundred bucks? They'd come read it
to you your home. Oh god, no kidding, one hundred
between them. You know what I love about those two
guys is though they were involved in that ridiculous escapade,
they seem really self aware. Oh yeah, yeah, because they're giggling. Yeah,
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we thought this was our you know, our inroad. In fact,
why were we dumb? They have a book? Oh my god,
that's hilarious. Ah how many? I mean? I suppose you know,
we can't condemn Juicy for being a rotten human as
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we were and not include these guys in some way.
But I don't know. For some reason, I just I
feel like that they're not a premeditated perpetrator of evil dishonesty.
They're more like, you'll give us five hundred bucks to
do what? And they thought not a famous guy? Whatever?
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Money's money. I don't know. I just I can't judge
these guys in the same way. You want me to
punch you in the head and poor believe you on
you do you want me to say what this is
Magga Country in Chicago. I don't we have another funny clip? Here,
another funny clip. Okay, here we go.
Speaker 8 (25:40):
We have not spoken to him since. Yes, he did
pay us at first. He still owes us five hundred dollars.
Oh wow, but I.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Don't think we're ever going to see that.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
It wasn't.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Yeah, so it wasn't about the money. It was not
about the money at all. It was more so us
helping out a friend.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
See he didn't even pay him. God, what what a
piece of work. Wow, helping out a friend Jack that
can know what they say? A friend with bleach is
a friend in reach. That Kim Kardashian thing, I'd forgotten
about that, but that turned out to be real, didn't
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it horrifying? She actually got kidnapped because she had all
those She had so much jewelry with her and everything. Yeah,
and Jesse believed that was phony. It was just a
publicity thing. I suppose it could have been. Kim Kardashian's
pretty good at that. I have to google that if
I remember right. That was an actual thing. But uh,
oh wow, you go ahead. I'll be looking into tariff
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policy and their implications. I'll be reading bigger than Jesse.
Maybe I can get it an audiobook. Well, that's hell
of an enjoyable read. That'd be a fun travel read. Honestly,
I can't even imagine how many pages is it? Four?
I think phil pages would cover it. I was just
gonna say, please, don't try to stretch into like three
hundred page just know what you are, No, stay in
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your lane, unpronounceable brothers. And then second grade I got
a new pencil sharpener. I don't know what they would
fill it in with, but yeah, oh please don't do
the background st right, that's what you do to fill
in I've read some of those ridiculous books like that
just for the show, like we're gonna have guests on,
they fill in with all kinds of meaningless background crap.
(27:24):
And then I was in Little League. I enjoyed the games,
but even more so the friendships. Okay, all right, although
I tell you what these guys I mean. They are
an interesting story about people coming to the United States
and making a life. Now, granted, this was a bit
of an hot cul de sac they went down, but
you know they're immigrants from Nigeria, right, and they're they're
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bodybuilders and fitness trainers, and obviously they speak beautiful English,
although there's a lot of English book in Nigeria, come
to think of it. But I don't know. I always
enjoy the immigrant stories. And then you know it's not
just in. Then we open the dry cleaners and business
has been pretty good now and the juicy smole this
ridiculous plot. Maybe maybe you could include some foreshadowing. I
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was in the Little League and I knocked this kid
down and said, you're in Clinton country, and I kicked
him in the testicles, and I knew that somehow in
the future. Well, okay, let's put that in the rough
draft and we can talk about it. I feel like
we ought to tell you the whole Pete Hegseeth story,
his version of it, and that's gonna be big. Yeah,
(28:33):
it is. Now that Matt Gates is gone. If the
the attention has gone to Hexath potential Secretary of Defense,
not a good night for him and that woman. Uh either,
either version of the story is is not not the
best look if you haven't heard it. So we'll get
to that on the way and a bunch of other stuff.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
Has it in By hosted the Boston Celtics today at
the White House, Biden said it reminded him of his
younger days when he met with the actual Celtics. I
had a lot of riddles. I was trying to trick you.
I'm not sure I get that joke. I don't get
(29:17):
the reference like Celtics. Is it Celtics, it's a it's
a culture, not a costume.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
By the way, it was going to be more of
a Where's John Halachek sort of thing? But yeah, a
mystifying joke, too sophisticated for us. Obviously, speaking of Ireland,
one of a couple of stories about fascinating the fascinating foreigners.
Ireland is rolling in dough right now. As a country.
They can't they can't spend all the money they have
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the source uses. In hour three, we'll also run through
the scandal that might derail Pete Heggzeth becoming Secretary Defense.
I don't know if it will or not, but it's
certainly gonna be a big topic of conversation, and you
should know what the facts are around that. I would
say so, yeah, absolutely, because you cannot trust the mainstream
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media as usual. So a couple of life hacks, if
you will. This first one is self evident to Jack
just mentioning how cynically is about various medical announcements on this,
that or the other. But this one is just undeniable.
The best return on any investment since bitcoin when it
was ten dollars is just walking a half hour a day,
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an hour if you can manage it, they say, he
could easily yield up to six hours of six years
rather of life six hours. I'm gonna walk in to
get an extra six hours, so I'll die at a
five pm instead eleven the morning. Do you think you
can hold on to dinner? Honey? Yeah, I think so.
All that walk and has done me a lot of good.
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If every American over the age of forty was as
physically active as the most active quarter of the population, again,
that's not that active, they could expect to live an
extra five years to eleven years depending, but just take
a walk. My mom and dad and this this instilled
it in me. My mom and dad have been committed
to walking since jeez, I don't know, early eighties. They
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did that every night after dinner, no matter the weather,
they went to for a long, long walk, and it
was just something they would not skip. And I think
it's one of the reasons they're both in significantly better
shape than Joe Biden. Yeah, and again this is six
six hours or six days. Rather, there's a misprint in
this article and was stuck in my head. But years
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of life is amazing and uh and those who walk
even more have even better uh you know, reards. But anyway,
you know, it's I'm revided the young, the young and
the strong. They like to mock the old and weak,
and that's why we must be clever and cheat them
out of their money or get our vengeance however we can.
But the making fun of mall walkers very very right
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there at one point. Now it's it's people are smart
and keeping their bodies active and getting more out of life.
So good for y'all. You are almost every night yeah,
me too. I listen to news while I'm doing it
or whatever. Oh yeah, I try to get exercise, break
a sweat every single day. I will tell you this.
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My old dog, my old cancery dog, packsy uh, he's
getting slower and slower. So Judy and I have conceded
walking the dog is kind of a trudge for us.
It's a shuffle for us, so that no longer counts
as exercise. But anyway, it's the eCos circle of life.
Do you do You're exercising an indoor, on a machine
or outdoor, all of the above. I just machines don't
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do it for me. I'd rather walk in the rain
in the cold for half an hour than do on
a machine. I just don't. I don't know whatever. I
just won't get on a machine. I've gotten in grooves
where I watch news on the elliptical or whatever. I
got my earbuds. It makes sense. I kill a couple
of birds with one stone because I hate birds. I
get murder enough birds, and I love rocks, so I
hate to waste them on multiple birds. But yeah, I'd
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much rather walk outside than on a treadmill anyway. So
that was a physical hack This is an emotional psychological hack.
This is a study from the University of Illinois where
I attained my degree to the surprise of my parents
and mentors. One of the most positive beneficial things you
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can say in any family setting is any expression of
appreciation for the good things we do for each other
is incredibly valuable. And where it is lacking, you've got
a serious problem, interesting relationship. And you know, you could
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get into the statistics, but it's because it to include
like a card or a fruit bouquet, or a long,
flowery speech, or just a simple thank you. Just wow,
this meal is delicious. Thanks for taking the time. That's
a good That's it. That's a good example right there. Yeah,
and and and again take a look at yourself and
your relationships. And again, if that ain't happening, you got
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more going on than maybe just a lack of manners.
Good because it's more than manners. So anyway, think about
this as we give thanks for you know, various stuff
what we do for each other. Anyway, there you go.
We tease a whole bunch of good stuff that we
will have in hours three and four. If you missed
our get the podcast Armstrong and Getting on demand. You
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he's wrong about everything. Stay with us. Wow, that is
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Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack arms Strong and Joe, Katty arm
Strong and Jettie and he arms Strong and Yetty. It's
(00:26):
essentially a buzzer that they're employing.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
This is especially important at American Airlines because it's the
biggest airline in the US. They have nine different boarding groups,
which makes it sort of especially confusing for folks. The
problem is people who are jumping the line. It's known
as date lice. That is the lies, and that is
the term that the airline uses in some cases. It's
primarily something that bloggers have come up with, people who
hang around the front of the human eye. It is
(00:49):
kind of yes, I don't want to be allows either.
But the big thing here is that if you scan
your boarding pass that American is trying this new technology on,
it'll sound an alarm and make it so that you
go to the back of the line and they can
come back in when.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Your group is called okay. So this is you're already
through security, you're you're up there at your plane and
they say it's time to board, but you're group three,
and you try to get up there with group one,
and they call you gate lice, and Jake Tapper ridiculously says,
sort of dehumanizing whatever, Jake who worries about crap like that,
(01:22):
Just whatever, Yeah, okay, I just call you jerks or
a holes. It's the same thing. Get in when your
group is. If you want a better group, buy your
tickets earlier or pay more or whatever. The way it
works on gate licets, I'm referred to them as airport apes.
Who cares? It's it's bored annoyed employees who deal with
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the public all day long. Came up with a semi
amusing nickname to help, you know, cut into the drudgery
of their day a little bit. Jake, It'll be okay, right,
you know, it's the people. There's you know, the the
amount of jyvness in media has changed a little bit.
You know, back in the day you were utterly dignified
(02:05):
and besuited and and and you know, obviously very clean
language and stuff like that and like that. But it's besuited.
It's fine. But like a Jake Tapper, what is it
in him that makes him think, well, because of the
nature of my job and the people looking in the
dignity of the profession. I need to say, well, that's
somewhat just do you humanizing? Who's worried about that? Seriously? Anyway,
(02:29):
back to the lousy, lousy gait, who's worried about this
is another question? With Thanksgiving coming up, That's why we're
talking about all the travel. Hey, let me let me
just make a say a word in support of the
American airlines. We who are in group two don't wish
to rub elbows with you Group three paupers, all right,
(02:52):
know your place Group three, four and five? All right En,
I've said, oh boy, comfort plus doesn't refer to plus.
You stay back in your group analysts. So I'm flying
on Tuesday now, Look Ford, But the point is we're
going to Grandma and Grandpa's for Thanksgiving and gonna have turkey.
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Well maybe you think that is a horror or not?
Guess essay. Opinion piece in the New York Times today,
What a lame duck president could do for lame turkeys?
Good start. We've wondered about the presidential partning of the
turkey for years. Boy, how's Biden gonna pull that off?
(03:34):
All right? Anyway, he writes someone at the National Turkey
Federation once had an idea, let's send a live turkey
to Harry Truman for a presidential holiday feast. They thought,
we'll promote the turkey. Yeah, but was he stunt We'll
send a live turkey to President Truman. Previously, some individual
turkey producers had sent their products to the president to
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promote them, but the greater resources at the National Turkey
Federation that the story could be promoted more effectively. The
turkey that was sent to President Truman was killed and eaten.
I did go, Harry, give him hell, Harry, huh make
America great again? Back when presidents would get a life
turkey and just say cool and kill it, need it barbaric?
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And then turkeys were subsequently sent to President Dwight D. Eisenhower,
who also killed an h them. But in nineteen sixty three,
in one of his last official acts before his assassination,
all right, god, it would have been days before he
got his head blown apart. Right o November sixteenth, President
John F. Kennedy, when face to face with his live turkey,
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disregarded the sign hung around the bird's neck that read
good eating, mister President. How different is the country now
than then? That they would send a live turkey that
was gonna get killed and eating, and they put signer
on his neck, you know, happy eating. There were more
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realistic people, Yes, we were. Now you have essays in
the New York Times decrying the horror that people eat
turkeys at all. Anyway, John F. Kennedy, and face to
face with the live turkey, disregarded the sign hung around
his neck and said let's keep him going. Kennedy didn't
say anything about pardoning the turkey. If you excuse me,
(05:21):
I am gonna go stuff and intent right. He didn't
say anything about partning the turkey, but the media referred
to his act as a pardon or reprieve. President George H. W.
Bush was the first to pretend that a turkey was
receiving an official part and we've been doing it for
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the last forty years where the president comes out and
bestows it really is pretty gruesome if you think about it,
cause it's I don't mean gruesome from a turkey standpoint,
but just the idea of a pardon of something being
put to death. There are people on death throw. There
is a big one this week where they appeal to
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governors or the president to try not to be executed
as a human being, and the governor president makes a
decision whether or not to do that to kind of enjoy.
They don't get the partner right to kind of joke
about that activity. I officially pardon you, turkey, not that
other guy earlier in the week, which they probably didn't
deserve a pardon. But you're not wrong. But to me,
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the pardoning the turkey shows weakness. This is why Putin
invaded Ukraine, because we're not even tough enough to execute
our guilty turkeys guilty of delicious I agree. This is
where the essay in the New York Times turns really stupid.
We pardon people for crimes they have committed. Modern law
has long abandoned the view that animals can commit crimes.
That makes it impossible to take seriously the idea that
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turkeys need to be pardoned no matter what they have done.
But the annual is it just me? Or are you
waiting for a punchline too? This can't possibly be serious
to me. I'm waiting for it, ah. But the annual
president pardon is doubly absurd because no one has ever
claimed the turkeys said to the president have done anything wrong,
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not even in the sense that your cat does something
wrong when she punishes you for going on vacation by
using your bed as her litter box. Now, this is
very dry humor, very very dry. How to avoid dry
turkey breasts at the table coming up next, stay with us,
And then it goes into how about these turkey producers
have received millions of dollars as a subsidy for something
(07:27):
or other after sending the turkeys to It's just it's
all convoluted. I guess I'm supposed to be upset about
this in some way. Oh boy, let me pencil that
in in my list of things to be worried about.
Right after I don't even know. And then it gets
into the good reasons some people choose not to eat turkeys,
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turkeys eaten by Americans today or nothing like wild turkeys
eaten by the early European settlers, and how turkeys are
not treated well, and there are other things you could eat.
Remember our old newsman Marshall used to go to a
tofur tofu turkey thing that some toe tofurky, that's some
vegetarian friend of his put together. I don't doubt that
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the turkeys are not treated in the best way. It
doesn't surprise me. Okay, I've penciled in concern about this
right below. The laces in my golf shoes get dirty
and I have to take them out to launder them. Well,
i'll read you the last paragraph of this serious thing.
(08:30):
If we insist on sticking with the idea of pardoning
someone for Thanksgiving, it's the heads of the giant corporations
profiting from the industrial production of turkeys who are in
need of a pardon. But to deserve it, they would
first have to show remorse for what they have done. Okay, well,
you're fun at a party. How hilarious is that they're
(08:52):
bothered by the pardoning of the turkey fun at a gathering?
This piece, it's actually a decent piece about how more
and more people seem to be a semi sober. They're
like drinking more mindfully or less frequently. As the medical
(09:12):
establishment has said, you know, even one glass of wine.
It's not good for you. Alcohol is just not good
for you. And people are being more mindful. And this
woman is talking about, you know, I've actually enjoyed it
more and blah blah blah, And I was thinking of
the person who's just a drag at a party, like,
if that guy shows up, I'm leaving. Sorry, Grandma, I
know you've only got a week to live, but I'm
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not hanging out with that idiot. Sorry. Wow, If you're
an introvert, a little nip or two, that's how I
get through it. So is the Is it like sweeping
the nation that's being concerned about drinking or is it
just a no. I think it's absolutely on the increase.
(09:54):
Young people are drinking less than all the generations before them,
partly because they're giving themselves psychoist with the not universally.
But I think attitudes on alcohol are evolving, no doubt. Interesting. Well,
it is after what a couple decades, certainly a decade
of being told, oh wow, by if you aren't drinking
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red wine, you're being awful to your children because it's
gonna make your heart so much healthier than they decided.
What a couple of years ago, we were wrong about
all that. Sorry, sorry, we's not gonna not gonna hurt
you the red wine, but any alcohol is bad. Yeah,
that was yet another reason why I ignore most studies
about any sort of hell thing anything. They changed their
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mind so many times in my life how do you
not roll your eyes at any study about this food
or diet or drink or whatever based on wait and see,
wait a long time and see. Speaking of which fruit
loops are going to be the center of the great
controversy of next year, A humble fruit loop, No damn
(10:57):
fruit anywhere near him? By the way, RFK Junior is
really hammering on processed foods and artificial dies and that
sort of thing. Got some details on that, plus the
armstrung you getty Court of Justice. We'll swing into action
and rejudge. Juicy smolet hey Anson. CBS has an interview
with the first transgender congresswoman. Uh be kind of interested
(11:20):
to hear what she's talking about. If they get into
that whole bathroom. Her fluffel that you can't become a
woman by taking hormones and getting surgeries. That's a medical impossibility. Well,
she's got long hair and female clothes on. I'm looking
at her up there. I've not personally looked under her skirt. Again,
(11:42):
you can do anything you want under the skirt. It
does not change the sex of the person involved. How
recently did she transition? Do we know this?
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (11:53):
No, she didn't like run as a dude and is
now a chick or anything like that? Right, isn't that reason? Well? No,
if she was having dude, she's not a chick. Now,
I think you're missing the point. I think I can
get your point to. Yes, we got more in the way.
Stay here.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
McDonald's has announced that it will offer half gallon jugs
if it's McRib sauce for twenty dollars. It's a handy
option for parties, barbecues and of.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Course dares, no kidding, no kidding. Wait, Wow, that's funny.
That is a good one. My son and his friends,
my high schooler and his friends are super into the
dares of eating and drinking various things. It's a right
of passing. And my son especially and my son, for
(12:39):
whatever reason, is dedicated daw never turning down a deer.
It's just way he's built. I don't know if you
heard when we had Josh Rogan to the Washington Post
on what like the day of the election or day
before the presidential election. Anyway, he declared that the Chinese
hat of all our cell phone companies and everything was
(13:04):
a bigger story than the election, which is a heck
of a thing to say. Mm hmm. It's the biggest
hack in US history, maybe world history, and nobody talks
about it. And nobody talks about it nobody. I haven't
heard one person in my real life bring this up right.
I haven't heard it on I don't even think I've
even heard about it on any other show. Wow, is
(13:26):
that something? Well? The New York Time are so under
attack currently by the Chinese Communist Party, and there's an
article about it in The New York Times today, Buried
beneath you know, a whole bunch of Trump stories about
things and personalities whatever that everybody's obsessed with and cries
for Turkey justice. As discussed in the previous segment, this
is a David Sanger article. He pays attention to the
(13:49):
important stuff on the New York Times. Thank god somebody does.
But yesterday Senator Mark Warner, who is the Democratic chairman
of the Intelligence Committee, said this is significantly worse than
we even thought. So it's significantly worse than it was
back when Josh Rogan told us it's a bigger story
(14:10):
than the election. Wow, is what he said yesterday. The
barn door is still wide open for China to do
whatever they want inside of all of our telecommunications, including
specifically listening to any phone call or reading any text
that they want to. It's been going on for at
(14:32):
least a year, we don't know how long. And it's
still going on today. Isn't that amazing? It's mind boggling,
it is. I mean, we are walking the streets of
Rome saying, oh, look, barbarians. Anyway, shall we go to
the vomitorium?
Speaker 5 (14:46):
Eh?
Speaker 1 (14:48):
And we're just utterly unaware that we are being invaded
and they are fighting us. We're just not fighting them
because we're too content. And China had access to absolutely
listening to the phone calls or reading the texts of
any American who's got you know, any of the big
cell phone companies, which is practically every adult, including President
elect Donald J. Trump, Vice President elect JD. Vance, and
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anybody else you can think of. So it's impossible that
they didn't gain important intelligence from listening to Donald Trump's
private phone calls throughout the entire election. Are you kidding me? Wow? Wow?
And it turns out they exploited aging equipment and seams
(15:32):
in the networks connecting disparate systems. I don't know anything
about that since the hack was exposed. The Chinese intruders
have seemingly disappeared, suspending their intrusion, so that their activity
is harder to figure out. But they do not conclude
that they have been ousted for the telecommunication system. They
still have the ability to do it. They've just like
(15:54):
backed off, They've scurried off, so it's harder to figure
out how they're in there, how to get them out.
But it looks like they China could jump back in
any time they want to and listen to your phone
calls or read your texts. Wow, isn't that InCrest Yeah,
yeah it is. I mean they mean and if you
(16:14):
let your mind run wild for a couple of minutes.
As to the sort of thing they're listening to, they're
absolutely given their interest in taking out our infrastructure when
and if the pooh hits the fan. They are absolutely
listening to technical discussions between the people who run the
power crop. Oh, absolutely no doubt about that. Or as
basic as they've heard Trump's private phone conversations where Trump
(16:37):
says we ain't gonna defend Taiwan, There's no way the
American people would put up with that. It's quite possible
they heard that on a phone call him discussing it. Anyway,
they have intel like nobody's ever had intel. They know
exactly who Matt Gates has been boinking and what their
age is for instance. Probably how do we not pay
(16:59):
more attention to this? I guess just because we're all
wealthy by modeling on world standards, fat and comfortable. Speaking
for myself, the Armstrong and getting caught of justice will
retry Juicy Smoley next Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 6 (17:14):
So the court's decision, it's important to remember, had nothing
to do with Smolette's actual guilt or innocence, but had
everything to do with Smolette's constitutional rights being violated when,
in the court's opinion, he was prosecuted a second time
after a valid plea agreement. It was almost six years
ago when Smolette called police claiming he was a victim
of a racist and homophobic attack.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
So is it just the double jeopardy thing we learn
about in grade school? Or yeah, yeah, single plea agreement?
Then they changed their mind. Essentially, there's no no judgment
whatsoever on the guilt or innocence, the verdict itself, just
the trial taking place at all. So he's out. This
Jesse Smolette, who as an actor, hired a couple of
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guys to pretend to attack him. And I'd either forgotten
or didn't know that was all part of his contract
and go he thought he was gonna get more money.
They offered him less money for that TV show he
was on, and he thought he would get more money
if he had been the victim of a crime. That's
(18:21):
it makes an extra dumb. So your your your plan
was dumb, and then you're gonna that's how your nati
evil dumb and evil true because it does add to
the idea of a race war or that sort of thing,
racial tension in the United States, right, And he was
more than willing to pitch racial hatred to make himself
(18:41):
more money and and to portray white people in the
way he did. And and he just continued to elevate
the idea of victimhood is the greatest status in American life.
It's just awful, right, So, yeah, it's bad for racial
relations and also portraying once again that Trump supporters are
obviously racists, violent racists, as we all know. So after
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he was attacked and called the police and a lot
of people were super skeptical, right, off the bat, but
not your mainstream media, and not Kamala Harris, not a
lot of celebrities who believed his story immediately. Here's him
on I think Good Morning America, explaining a little bit
about the attack in the aftermath. Why did you hesitate
to want to call the police?
Speaker 7 (19:28):
You know, there's a level of pride there. We live
in a society where as a gay man, you were
considered somehow to be weak and I'm not weak. I'm
not weak. It feels like if I had said it
was a Muslim or a Mexican or someone black, I
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feel like the doubters would have supported me a lot
much more, a lot more. And that says a lot
about the place that we are in our country right now.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Man, you are a freaking scumbag. Yes to go on
television and talk about the state this country is in
because of the way I was attacked and oh my god,
because I'm gay. At anybody who doubts your ridiculous, laughable story,
it's just because they're such racists that they would believe
(20:23):
me if I'd set a Mexican or a Muslim attack me.
You're a scum bag. I hate And when I'd forgotten it.
He also cast himself as a victim because he's gay, right,
He couldn't come forward because he knows how gay men
are treated in the United States. God, you are the
worst kind of person. The only thing that's comforting since
(20:43):
he got out is that his careers over. I think
he's been out for a while, hasn't he. I mean,
he didn't get sentenced too much time. But his career's over.
Oh yeah. Still he should be in He should be
in some sort of jail. That is horrible. It's absolutely horrible.
And you know, even when people found out the truth,
(21:05):
that leaves the you know, there's the echo in people's
brains of confirmation for a certain crowd of the whole
Trump voter racial relations thing, even though it wasn't true. Anyway,
here's another throwback. After we all found out what was happening,
he hired these bodybuilders to attack him and yell, you know,
(21:27):
this is Trump country, and they threw bleach on him
and everything like that. Here's them on the very street
corner where they attacked him, explaining the attack.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
This is where we waited for Jesse to come. So
I saw him out the corner of my eye and
I was.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Like, Okay, that's him, let's go.
Speaker 5 (21:44):
He turned around, looked at us, and that's when we
started yelling the famous slurs he wanted us to yell.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
I threw the first punchadow.
Speaker 5 (21:55):
I held the blow because I didn't want to hurt him,
of course, and then.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
I threw him to the ground. It to look like
he fought back.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
That was very important for him.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Wow, you looked though you are an idiot. You're an
absolute idiot. I held back because I didn't hurt him.
If you've never seen these guys, they're super jacked, bodybuilder dudes. Anyways,
they'd knock you in the next week. Oh my, crush
your face he wanted to look like. And then I
remember the throwing the bleach on him. I think this
(22:27):
is from now them explaining what they think of the
whole deal. And the bleach is some sort of implied
what we're going to make you white? Or just bleach?
Is that just a caustic chemical? I guess I don't know.
I remember back in my racist days, well, I would
walk the streets of Chicago all the time a gallon
(22:50):
of bleach in my left hand. And you're missing right,
and my maga hat, just waiting and this was the seventies,
just waiting for some port unfortunate, wealthy black gay man
from the TV to come walking down the street, because
by god, if one did, we were ready for them.
Not on my watch, you would say, she man. So
(23:13):
here's the Bodybuilders explaining more of the plot. I guess he.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Made it seem like this is what Hollywood does. He
mentioned Kim Kardashian during that time, she had a incident
where she got robbed and kidnapped in France, and he
said that was made up, that was fake. So that's
what I was thinking, like, Oh, this is what Hollywood does.
My brother and our professional actors, and we thought, oh,
(23:38):
this is our introduction into Hollywood.
Speaker 8 (23:41):
And actually we go further in our book that we
just released Bigger Than Jesse. The reason why Jesse might
have actually performed this, hopes and who.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
That's a very important question that leads us to the
why who is it?
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Oh it's funny. I'm reading one hundred Years of Solitude.
I was hoping to finish it during the Thanksgiving break,
but I better put that aside and read the new
book from these Bodybuilders, Bigger than Jesse Yeth Michael, Honey,
if you're listening, I want this book. Oh yeah, I
want it in hardcover for future generations. You know what
(24:20):
I love about one hundred bucks? They'd come read it
to you your home. Oh god, no kidding, one hundred
between them. You know what I love about those two
guys is though they were involved in that ridiculous escapade,
they seem really self aware. Oh yeah, yeah, because they're giggling. Yeah,
(24:41):
we thought this was our you know, our inroad. In fact,
why were we dumb? They have a book? Oh my god,
that's hilarious. Ah how many? I mean? I suppose you know,
we can't condemn Juicy for being a rotten human as
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we were and not include these guys in some way.
But I don't know. For some reason, I just I
feel like that they're not a premeditated perpetrator of evil dishonesty.
They're more like, you'll give us five hundred bucks to
do what? And they thought not a famous guy? Whatever?
(25:23):
Money's money. I don't know. I just I can't judge
these guys in the same way. You want me to
punch you in the head and poor believe you on
you do you want me to say what this is
Magga Country in Chicago. I don't we have another funny clip? Here,
another funny clip. Okay, here we go.
Speaker 8 (25:40):
We have not spoken to him since. Yes, he did
pay us at first. He still owes us five hundred dollars.
Oh wow, but I.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Don't think we're ever going to see that.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
It wasn't.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Yeah, so it wasn't about the money. It was not
about the money at all. It was more so us
helping out a friend.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
See he didn't even pay him. God, what what a
piece of work. Wow, helping out a friend Jack that
can know what they say? A friend with bleach is
a friend in reach. That Kim Kardashian thing, I'd forgotten
about that, but that turned out to be real, didn't
(26:20):
it horrifying? She actually got kidnapped because she had all
those She had so much jewelry with her and everything. Yeah,
and Jesse believed that was phony. It was just a
publicity thing. I suppose it could have been. Kim Kardashian's
pretty good at that. I have to google that if
I remember right. That was an actual thing. But uh,
oh wow, you go ahead. I'll be looking into tariff
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policy and their implications. I'll be reading bigger than Jesse.
Maybe I can get it an audiobook. Well, that's hell
of an enjoyable read. That'd be a fun travel read. Honestly,
I can't even imagine how many pages is it? Four?
I think phil pages would cover it. I was just
gonna say, please, don't try to stretch into like three
hundred page just know what you are, No, stay in
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your lane, unpronounceable brothers. And then second grade I got
a new pencil sharpener. I don't know what they would
fill it in with, but yeah, oh please don't do
the background st right, that's what you do to fill
in I've read some of those ridiculous books like that
just for the show, like we're gonna have guests on,
they fill in with all kinds of meaningless background crap.
(27:24):
And then I was in Little League. I enjoyed the games,
but even more so the friendships. Okay, all right, although
I tell you what these guys I mean. They are
an interesting story about people coming to the United States
and making a life. Now, granted, this was a bit
of an hot cul de sac they went down, but
you know they're immigrants from Nigeria, right, and they're they're
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bodybuilders and fitness trainers, and obviously they speak beautiful English,
although there's a lot of English book in Nigeria, come
to think of it. But I don't know. I always
enjoy the immigrant stories. And then you know it's not
just in. Then we open the dry cleaners and business
has been pretty good now and the juicy smole this
ridiculous plot. Maybe maybe you could include some foreshadowing. I
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was in the Little League and I knocked this kid
down and said, you're in Clinton country, and I kicked
him in the testicles, and I knew that somehow in
the future. Well, okay, let's put that in the rough
draft and we can talk about it. I feel like
we ought to tell you the whole Pete Hegseeth story,
his version of it, and that's gonna be big. Yeah,
(28:33):
it is. Now that Matt Gates is gone. If the
the attention has gone to Hexath potential Secretary of Defense,
not a good night for him and that woman. Uh either,
either version of the story is is not not the
best look if you haven't heard it. So we'll get
to that on the way and a bunch of other stuff.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
Has it in By hosted the Boston Celtics today at
the White House, Biden said it reminded him of his
younger days when he met with the actual Celtics. I
had a lot of riddles. I was trying to trick you.
I'm not sure I get that joke. I don't get
(29:17):
the reference like Celtics. Is it Celtics, it's a it's
a culture, not a costume.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
By the way, it was going to be more of
a Where's John Halachek sort of thing? But yeah, a
mystifying joke, too sophisticated for us. Obviously, speaking of Ireland,
one of a couple of stories about fascinating the fascinating foreigners.
Ireland is rolling in dough right now. As a country.
They can't they can't spend all the money they have
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follow depending on the terminology your favorite download uth on
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I don't know if it will or not, but it's
certainly gonna be a big topic of conversation, and you
should know what the facts are around that. I would
say so, yeah, absolutely, because you cannot trust the mainstream
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media as usual. So a couple of life hacks, if
you will. This first one is self evident to Jack
just mentioning how cynically is about various medical announcements on this,
that or the other. But this one is just undeniable.
The best return on any investment since bitcoin when it
was ten dollars is just walking a half hour a day,
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an hour if you can manage it, they say, he
could easily yield up to six hours of six years
rather of life six hours. I'm gonna walk in to
get an extra six hours, so I'll die at a
five pm instead eleven the morning. Do you think you
can hold on to dinner? Honey? Yeah, I think so.
All that walk and has done me a lot of good.
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If every American over the age of forty was as
physically active as the most active quarter of the population, again,
that's not that active, they could expect to live an
extra five years to eleven years depending, but just take
a walk. My mom and dad and this this instilled
it in me. My mom and dad have been committed
to walking since jeez, I don't know, early eighties. They
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did that every night after dinner, no matter the weather,
they went to for a long, long walk, and it
was just something they would not skip. And I think
it's one of the reasons they're both in significantly better
shape than Joe Biden. Yeah, and again this is six
six hours or six days. Rather, there's a misprint in
this article and was stuck in my head. But years
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of life is amazing and uh and those who walk
even more have even better uh you know, reards. But anyway,
you know, it's I'm revided the young, the young and
the strong. They like to mock the old and weak,
and that's why we must be clever and cheat them
out of their money or get our vengeance however we can.
But the making fun of mall walkers very very right
(32:22):
there at one point. Now it's it's people are smart
and keeping their bodies active and getting more out of life.
So good for y'all. You are almost every night yeah,
me too. I listen to news while I'm doing it
or whatever. Oh yeah, I try to get exercise, break
a sweat every single day. I will tell you this.
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My old dog, my old cancery dog, packsy uh, he's
getting slower and slower. So Judy and I have conceded
walking the dog is kind of a trudge for us.
It's a shuffle for us, so that no longer counts
as exercise. But anyway, it's the eCos circle of life.
Do you do You're exercising an indoor, on a machine
or outdoor, all of the above. I just machines don't
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do it for me. I'd rather walk in the rain
in the cold for half an hour than do on
a machine. I just don't. I don't know whatever. I
just won't get on a machine. I've gotten in grooves
where I watch news on the elliptical or whatever. I
got my earbuds. It makes sense. I kill a couple
of birds with one stone because I hate birds. I
get murder enough birds, and I love rocks, so I
hate to waste them on multiple birds. But yeah, I'd
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much rather walk outside than on a treadmill anyway. So
that was a physical hack This is an emotional psychological hack.
This is a study from the University of Illinois where
I attained my degree to the surprise of my parents
and mentors. One of the most positive beneficial things you
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can say in any family setting is any expression of
appreciation for the good things we do for each other
is incredibly valuable. And where it is lacking, you've got
a serious problem, interesting relationship. And you know, you could
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get into the statistics, but it's because it to include
like a card or a fruit bouquet, or a long,
flowery speech, or just a simple thank you. Just wow,
this meal is delicious. Thanks for taking the time. That's
a good That's it. That's a good example right there. Yeah,
and and and again take a look at yourself and
your relationships. And again, if that ain't happening, you got
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more going on than maybe just a lack of manners.
Good because it's more than manners. So anyway, think about
this as we give thanks for you know, various stuff
what we do for each other. Anyway, there you go.
We tease a whole bunch of good stuff that we
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