December 2, 2024 • 36 mins
Hour 2 of A&G features...
- Hunter Biden gets pardoned & making crack
- It's been how long since you pooped?
- Kash Patel for FBI director
- Word/Phrase of the year!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Arm Strong and he Armstrong and Yeddy or any possibility
that the president would end up hardening his son. No,
I just said no. I just answered, go ahead.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Will you accept the jury's outcome, their verdict no matter
what it is.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Yes? And have you ruled out a pardon for your son? Yes,
I'm extremely proud of my son Hunter.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
I'm not going to do it.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
I said, I buy by the jury decision. I will
do that. I'll not put Does the President have any
intention of pardoning him?
Speaker 4 (00:53):
We've been asked that question multiple times. Our answer stands,
which is now.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
President Biden says that he's not partner's son Hunter. Is
he going to ask Donald Trump.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
To do that. I don't have anything else to share
about that. I'm not going to get and go down
a rabbit hole on this. I've been very clear. The
present has been very clear when we've been asked this question.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Well, and then Hunter Biden had December, which it now
is circled on his calendar for quite some time, because
in the next couple of weeks he had two different
cases in which he was going to be sentenced for
things he was already found guilty of, and then he
had been shuffled off to jail for one to however
many years as a wealthy guy in his mid fifties
(01:31):
who's not used to that sort of lifestyle. And his
dad came through yesterday with a blanket pardon of the
last ten years, which he'll keep him out of jail
in any trouble from here on out. I was just
looking at a Hunter up on the TV. First of all,
it's interesting that every news channel I've got leading with
the Hunter Biden pardon story since getting a lot of attention.
And Hunter, a really good looking guy with good genetics
(01:54):
in his background, has meth mouth full meth mouth. Now, kids,
don't do the drugs. No matter what you look like,
you're gonna look like a meth head after you do it.
For a while, I learned from the Bob Woodward book
that I almost finished over vacation, that I either would
reminded or never knew that Hunter was actually making crack.
He learned how to make crack and was making.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Crack and resourceful, and he had accomplished what is known
as a bell ringer, cracks holy grail, which is the
ultimate feeling you can get from doing crack.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
And and he had and then he chased that for years.
Once you have a bell ringer, it's like your only
thing you want is to get another bell ringer. But
so that it's like when that that the first time
you brew up a batch of home brewed beer, and
it's just perfect. The way to go Hunter, way to
hang in there and tell you like you're like breaking
bad burn down your RV. You get you get to
(02:52):
exploded in the desert, but you hung in there, got
to go, but got himself a bell ringer. But it
doesn't matter whatever he did wrong around not pay any
eight taxes is a rich guy. The rich need to
pay their fresh share unless their names under Biden taxes, guns,
whatever else. Not registering is abort all that sort of stuff.
Don't have to worry about it anymore. Your dad pardoned you.
(03:13):
Now the Bidens are above the law. Just suck it up, America.
So the President has issued to pardon. I'm going to
read part of the official bit of it for reasons
that shall become obvious. A full and unconditional pardon for
Robert Hunter. Biden for those offenses against the United States
which he has committed or may have committed or taken
pardon during the period from January one, twenty fourteen, through
(03:37):
December one, twenty twenty four Why that was yesterday. So
presumably if he commits another crime today, they can go
ahead and prosecute him. But yes, that is a.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Decade long pardon for anything that ever comes up.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
I don't know about, y'all.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
I haven't committed that many felonies that I would need
that sort of blanket everything I did, pardon for it decade,
which dates from almost the week right that he took
the gig as a director at Barisma in Ukraine and
laundered millions of millions of dollars for the Biden family
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in ten percent of course for the big guy.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Wow. So pardon for things he is convicted of and
anything he could be convicted of, that's ending.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Yeah, yeah, So the statement from the President today, I
assigned a pardon for my son Hunter. From the day
I took office, I said I would not interfere with
the Justice Department's decision making, and I kept my word
even as I've watched my son being selectively and unfairly
prosecuted if you're if you're like a comedian or you're
doing a live show or something like that, you got
(04:44):
to pause for a second. It's called a laugh break, right,
isn't that what it's called? Uh, you got to pause
for the laugh. And then I go on the idea
that he was selectively and unfairly prosecuted without aggravating factors
like used in a crime. Oh, this is about the
gun charge. Multiple purchases or buying weapon as a straw purchaser.
People are almost never brought to trial on felony charges
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solely for how they filled out a gun for him.
The gun charge is actually interesting from a Second Amendment
point of view. We've discussed this a little bit, the
idea that I can't buy a gun if I have
used illegal drugs or end quote unquote an addict who
besides that, it's a fundamental right.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Yeah, you don't have to start quartering troops because you
were a drug addict at one point, right, I.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Mean, somebody could absolutely make the argument that I'm a
Scotch addict. I don't think I am, but and therefore
I give up my Second Amendment rights. Right, So we
we'll table that motion put it aside those who were
late paying their.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Titles because with that, but I am the problem with
that is he's not out there making some argument for
a change in the federal law.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
No, no, no, you're absolutely right. You're absolutely right. I
just I choose to focus on the other stuff because
it is unimpeachable part of the expression from any direction
on any level. The tax stuff is as solid as Gibraltar. Anyway,
(06:13):
here's a back to the mummified president's statement. Those who
are late paying their taxes because of serious addictions, but
paid them back subsequently with interest and penalties. If a
weird o rich guy you meeted a party donor decides
to pay off your bills psuge Democrat asked kisser and donor, Yes,
(06:34):
she paid off Hunter's penalties. Anyway, they're typically given non
criminal resolutions. It was clear that Hunter was treated differently.
The charges in this case came about only after several
of my political opponents in Congress instigated them to attack
me and oppose my election. That was your own Justice
department who prosecuted the guy that a carefully negotiated plea
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deal agreed to by the Department of Justice unraveled in
the courtroom, with a number of political opponents in Congress
taking credit.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
I would love to depart for a moment and talk
about that unholy sweetheart Plea deal that the judge said, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Wait a minute, am I reading this correctly?
Speaker 1 (07:16):
And then ask the prosecutors have you ever cut a
deal like this before?
Speaker 2 (07:21):
No, have you ever even heard of a deal like
this before?
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (07:26):
I guess not, your honor.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
So Joe Biden is now claiming that that Plea deal
was quote careful and negotiated, agreed to by the Department
of Justice.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Oh, my god, had the Plea deal healthy?
Speaker 5 (07:39):
Right?
Speaker 1 (07:39):
So it would have been a fair reasonable resolution of
Hunter's cases. No reasonable person who looks at the facts
of Hunter's cases can reach any other conclusion that that
Hunter was singled out because he is my son.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
And that is wrong.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
There's been an effort to break Hunter, who's been five
and a half years sober, even in the face of
unrelenting attacks and selective prosecution and trying to break Hunter.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
They've tried to break me. There's no reason to believe
it will stop here. Enough is enough for my entire career.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
I followed a simple, simple principle, just tell the American
people the truth. Excuse me for a moment. Full academic
law school scholarship. Only one to get the scholarship, graduated
top of his class, won the International Moot Court competition.
Graduated with three degrees. His son Bo died in a rock.
He was a civil rights warrior, been to a rock
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forty times, appointed to the Naval Academy, Arrested with Nelson Mandela.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
I'm a truck driver. Spoke to the inventor of his insulin.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
His house burned down, raised in a Puerto Rican community,
visited the Tree of Life Synagogue, and track travels. Full
Professor at U Penn. Great grandpa was coal miner. Uncle
was eaten by cannibals. Stat's at creational baseball game. He's
a football start. He was shot at overseas. First to
graduate college in his family, Arrested to civil rights process,
number of tristed, a number of meetings, recision.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Paying trunk driver killed his family.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
That is not even the full list of all the
times Joe Biden has been caught lying like a rug
to the American people, but back to uncle.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Was eaten by cannibals and still get the laugh out
of me. Now I will tell you this list.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
This list also includes the battle with corn Pop. I
choose to believe that the story of corn Pop was
true because I enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
It's like believing in Santa. You don't want it to
not be true. Was a bad dude.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
So anyway, I've always told the American people the truth.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Then they'll be fair minded. Here's the truth.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
I believe in the justice system, but as I've wrestled
with this, I also believe raw politics has infected this
process and it led to a miscarriage of justice. And
once I made the decision this weekend.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
You've made that.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Decision the second your son was convicted, you lion mummy.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
There's no sense in delaying it further.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
I hope Americans will understand why a father and a
president would come to this decision.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Yeah, it's because your kids a hecke Well yeah, and
again people I suppose would do that. But that's a
heck of a phrase. The whole I believe in the
justice system, but it was corrupted by politics and came
to an unfair verdict. Okay, then you don't believe in
the justice system. Right, So go ahead.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
I was just going to say, Mike, the lawyer from
Chicago says, here's the thought. The Justice Department challenges the
validity on the pardon on the grounds that the president
lacks the mental capacity to understand the meaning of the war.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
He's a kindly old man with a bad memory, right exactly.
I love it The New York Times, Rights of all people.
Mister Biden's pardon will make it harder for Democrats to
defend the integrity of the Justice Department, of course, because
he just said they bend to political will sometimes and
stand against mister Trump's unapologetic plans to use it for
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political purposes, even as he seeks to install cash betel
blah blah blah. We all know that story, or we're
going to get to it later. It would also be
harder for Democrats to criticize mister Trump for his prolific
use of the pardon power to absolve friends and ally,
some of whom could have been witnesses against him in
previous investigations. Right, this does make it easier for Trump
to get away with a if he pardon. Obviously, even
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some supporters of mister Biden, writes The New York Times
said his decision opened the door for mister Trump to
further warp the system by pointing to his predeces sister's
own words and actions. Right, so, yeah, that's obviously true.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Prosecutors said Hunter Biden invaded taxes by claiming hundreds of
thousands of dollars in false deductions, including the infamous writing
off payments to horrors and dancers, sex club membership, his
daughter's law school tuition, his business expenses.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
And again, the president's.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Son filed these tax papers after he had become sober.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
And the party of the rich don't pay their fair share.
I mean, that's just too rich for me. I mean,
I yeah, like I'd have to scrape the frosting off
of this cake. It's too rich. I mean a cup
of coffee to cut it. You're the part of the
rich don't pay their fair share. But in this case,
the rich was paying nothing. He was paying zero on
his millions of dollars coming in, and his dad pardons
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him when he gets caught, right, right. Final note.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Noahrothman National Review points out that when it comes to
what he calls Hunter's sordid conduct, the voting public never
believed the president, despite the administration's protests and its defense
and Hunters, staggeringly large majorities believe the president's son was
guilty of the charges against him. A majority said they
thought the government had provided Hunter with more favorable treatment. Yeah,
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than a less well connected figure would receive when a
jerry convicted Hunter of the charges against him. Most voters,
in spite of the attempt at the backdoor sweetheart deal,
most voters approved of that outcome. They told polsters they
believed that the president had benefited from his son's indiscretions
and that his interventions on his son's behalf were inappropriate. Wow,
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majorities of all voters on all of those side issues.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Trump has got to be thinking, this is just awesome.
This is awesome. So you just made it clear to
everybody that this is a game of the Justice Department
goes after people they want to bring down, and then
the president can pardon whoever they want. Man, you just
played right into his whole bang. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
I am comforted by the notion that Hunter will be
alive when all of the Biden money laundering family truths
come out eventually.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
As I suspect you think the oil boy I think
it's dead and gone. I hope you're right. No, I
think it'll come out.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
In fact, I'm very very confident in that how much
attention it will get, given our fixation on the politics
of the moment, maybe not that much.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Happy Cyber Monday, everybody. We've got some interesting economic news
coming out of Black Friday and a bunch of other
stuff on the waistay here.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
Experts tell us that the steepest deals will likely be
on Cyber Monday, for things electronics and apparel, and because
the online sales for Black Friday were so strong, that
boats well for what could be another record breaking day
on Cyber Monday as well.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Yeah, sometimes, as we know through the years, sometimes money
just gets moved around. You're going to spend a certain amount,
and you spend it on these days as opposed to
closer to Christmas or whatever. So you gotta wait and
see how it turns out. What percentage of.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
The population do you believe still thinks the best deals
are like Black Friday to today.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
I don't know. I've never thought that. It doesn't make
any sense, so I don't know. I never ever thought
about it in my lived experience. No, I've just never
thought about the so called sales unless it's a doorbuster
to just get people in the door, in which you
have to roll around on the floor at the Walmart
and fight somebody for and there's usually some piece of
Chinese crap that you don't need anyway. But did you
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see some of the fight videos from around America. That's
a good time all we in American tradition. People rolling
on on the floor of their Walmart beating on each other.
It is silly me. I was spending time with family
and good friends. Oh so, I don't know if there
are more of the manius, but everybody's got a phone now,
so there's you know one that many years ago, you
could have one of those and it would disappear. Nobody
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would hear about it. Now, one fight one Walmart anywhere
in the country, there's gonna be twenty different angles of
it right as people screaming ye and bash their heads
against the floor. It's just absolutely amazing. People are animals
given the right circumstances. Speaking of Thanksgiving and sales and
all that sort of stuff. I just saw this. I'm
a doctor. This is the headline in the New York Post.
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I'm a doctor. What to do if you haven't pooped
since Thanksgiving? That holy that's in the paper today is
that there's a Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday four days later.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
You gotta go for the big e. I mean, you
gotta get things moving. That's wait, what you would since Thanksgiving?
Speaker 2 (15:54):
What did you eat? I guess and you're pretty well
maybe you ate. I don't know. Did you bring us this?
Last week? I saw the headline and over kale, there's
a new nutrient in town. Beans. So I saw the
headline and thought, oh yeah, Joe told us about the beans.
So that's all your hit friends are gonna be talking about.
Oh you don't eat beans, you gotta eat beans. They
do this and that whatever.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
As Yeah, I brought this story and completely forgot about it.
Every couple of years, Oh yeah, beans. Every couple of
years they come up with a new one. That's just
the Here's here's my tip as a guy who gained
three and a half pounds over the last week. Don't
eat so much pie and milkshakes and you'll be less
likely to gain weight.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Then that's what I've learned.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Yeah, my house is piloss for the first time since
last week, and we I finished off the pumpkin pie
last night.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Dang it, that's it. See, that's it. That's it's the
advantage or maybe you're dying. That's the advantage of hosting.
As I went to my parents' house and it was
fabulous with the kids and my brother was there and
stuff like that, but you know, no leftovers to bring home,
So disappointing.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Coming up, the Oxford University Press is named It's phrase
or word of the Year.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
And I actually think it's a pretty good one.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Plus, let's take a look at some of Trump's recent
nominations or would be appointees in an unbiased, non mainstream
media hysterical way.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Yeah, the new FBI director getting the most attention, so
we'll talk about that, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 6 (17:19):
President elect Donald Trump announcing he plans to nominate Cash
Patel as the next director of the FBI, A longtime
Trump ally, Patel rising to prominence as a congressional aid
pushing back against the Russia investigation during Trump's first term.
But Patel's nomination still needs to be approved by the Senate.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Yeah, I guess you start with naming a new FBI
director is not a thing, really like it is having
an attorney general or a Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
The FBI director has a ten year term, and if
it's up, you pick somebody, but if it's not, you
usually let it run its course, which is part of
the whole wanting the FBI to be separate from politics thing.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Right worth noting that the president of letting the guy
you know run out his term was broken by Trump
the last time when he fired Comy who needed to
be fired that one in favor of Chris Ray, he
was currently in the gig. Yeah, firing Comy perfectly justifiable.
Ray is somebody Trump picked and is respected and liked.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
By a fair number of people. But having bounced around
a lot of social media over the last forty eight hours,
a lot of you, if you're a maga Trump person,
are really excited about Cash Pattel taking on the FBI
and doing his thing. A couple of let me hit
you with a positive thing before I get into some
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of the negatives that the mainstream media are putting out
about Patel.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Yeah, And if I might just jump in and say
we are I am speaking for myself just in a
finding out, appraising and weighing mode. A lot of the media,
and a lot of humanity immediately leaps to because Trump
appointed him, and here's why. Or he's the hero that
America needs because Trump appointed him, and here's why. And
we're just going to take a look at Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
I don't know if i'd ever heard the guy's name before,
so I went in with no opinion. I still have
no opinion at this point. I think Mars Halpern writes
in his newsletter today, there are definitely and we'll get
to some of the troubling stuff. There are definitely some troubling,
questionable aspects of Patel's background that must get scrutiny and explanation.
But approximately seventy five percent of what Ruth Marcus and
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the New York Times reporters have seized on appears to
be just nitpicky. Mccarthuried establishment opposition thought that was interesting.
That's shock. No, Patel might not make it through the confirmation,
but the rallying around him by both MAGA and most
Republicans on the Hill is quite a bit different than
it was with Matt Gates when he was named for
Attorney General. So there's much more rallying going on already. Now.
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Some of the things that Patel. Well, first we'll play
this clip. This was a Patel on Steve Bannon's radio
show whenever it was back in the day. He said this,
we will go out and.
Speaker 6 (20:03):
Find the conspirators, not just in government, but in the media. Yes,
we're going to come after the people in the media
who lied about American citizens who.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections. We're going to come
after you.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Whether it's criminal or civilly, we'll figure that out.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
But yeah, we're putting you all on noticing. So he's
going to go after people in the media who said
things that were true untrue according to him about the
whole rush oaks and there was a lot, but that's
not really a thing we do where we.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
You know, put ingregious examples of deliver it to slander
and that sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Yeah, one more of these before I, uh, what do
I what's that when you a caveat to this, I
guess Patel, I'm reading from the Wall Street Journal here. Patel,
one of the FBI's sharpest attackers, said in a September
interview on a conservative podcast or show. So this was
just a couple of months ago that if he were
FBI director, he would shut down the FBI Hoover Building
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on day one and reopen it the next day as
a museum of the deep State. He suggested that the
bureau had become too powerful and that he would strip
out of its intelligence gathering role and purge of it employees.
We refuse to go along with Trump's agenda. My caveat
would be that in the modern world, politicians and certainly
just regular guests say all kinds of crazys that they
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don't mean or plan to follow through on whatsoever. But
he had definitely got to ask the guy about that
in a confirmation hearing. Obviously, is your plan if your
FBI director in day one to close the building, lock
the doors, and turn it into a museum of the
deep state the next day?
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Just confirming right, and again the reason my hair isn't
on fire in either direction for a lot of these nominees,
and Patel reminds me a little bit of Tulsey Gabbard
in some ways, which I'll explain a minute, but to
your point, because I was thinking the same thing in.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
The modern world of.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Media, and I just don't mean mainstream media here, but
the alternative media podcasts and the rest of it as
you move from one role to another to another. From
he was a top eight on the House, which one
of the investigative committees looking into the Russia collusion hoax.
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He had a very specific role and he measured his
speech in specific ways. And then he was a private
citizen and Trump campaign advisor and surrogate and went on
these talk shows and he couched his phrases in his
speaking as a guy in that role. If he became
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FBI director, and you know, I'm sure you're tracking with me, fine,
but what I mean is he said stuff in a
really entertaining it'll cut through the clutter way.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Then if he's.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Sitting in the big chair, I'm sure, as a very
bright guy, he will readjust again. But I'm glad there's
going to be hearing. But you know, somebody said something
wild on a podcast. Therefore dot dot no sorry, Well.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Yeah, he'll have the opportunity there in the hearing in
front of a bunch of senators to come off as
a know, a different sort of guy or not, and
we'll get the chance to see that. Patel, who worked
in Trump's first administration, according to the Washington Post, has
publicly mused about targeting journalists and government officials, as we
just heard, and he published a list of deep state
names in a book last year called Government Gangsters. Promotional
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materials for the book included a quote from Trump who
called it a roadmap highlighting every corrupt actor and a
blueprint to help us take back the White House and
remove these gangsters from all of government. I'm fine with that.
Appearing last night last year in the war Room, that's
the clip we just played where he was on Steve
Bannon's show and vowed to go and find the conspiracies,
not just in government, but in the media. We're going
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to come after these people. We're going to come after you,
either criminally or civilly. And we'll see if he stands
by that. He has very little management or law enforcement experience.
Getting back to what we were saying about hegxeth and
Department of Fence. I don't know defense. I don't know
what I think about that either.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Well, the fact that administrative or law enforcement, to me,
that's that's a troubling, you know, aspect of this, because
the FBI, for all of its sins, does incredibly important
work protecting all of us from organized crime, from Chinese
intelligence agents, from drug traffickers, from just all sorts of stuff.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Yeah, and then I was trying to find I've got
it here somewhere. The quote from Bill Barr, the former
Attorney at General, who people on the left think was
a you know, a toady of trumps. When Cash Patel
was put up to be the second in command at
the FBI, Barr said, over my dead body, this guy
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is not going to be involved in the FBI. So
that was Barr's feeling about Patel.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Is he a reformer or is he there to lay
waste to it out of sheer meanness and retribution?
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Let's ask him. Ah, you know that whole struck and
his girlfriend and you know, we've got a backup plan
and all that stuff that came out that was all
bad stuff. There's a lot of people that seem pretty
politically motivated the lying about information, so you could get
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a warrant to spy on people and stuff. There are
some bad stuff that happened there over several years. Is
that common? Is our way to root that out? I
would like to know that.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
And I could certainly defend the idea, and I'm not
defending Patel in particular because I'm not sold on him,
but the idea that somebody might come in for a
limited period of time and see as his brief his
mandate to fix what's wrong, to really go after what
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had gotten twisted within the FBI.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Maybe he's not long term leader. Maybe as it turns out,
he will just.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Be the the angel of change and reform and and
you know, opening the window and letting the sunshine disinfect.
And then he gives way to somebody who's a more
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I think, is there anything else important about the mixed response?
You got a couple of senators saying, yeah, I'm not
sold on this guy, in a couple of saying now
it seems like a good guy to me.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
I say, just we hold earrings. Yeah. Well, as Halpin wrote,
the entire audience for all of this is the Republican senators.
Because you just you need fifty Republican senators to say,
he's okay with me, and so you can you lose
four and you're done. So that's the whole ballgame right there.
How many Republican senators are going to say, nah, I
(28:08):
don't want this guy to be the FBI director. Does
Trump fire Ray, which again is unprecedented except for Trump
doing it one time to fire the FBI director because
the way it looks, Does Trump fire Ray before the hearing?
And then so you've got an opening you got to
get somebody? Is that the way it works? Hmm? Interesting question.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
One more note for me from the quoting the Wall
Street Journal editorial board, we'll paraphrasing anyway. They pointed out
that and this, I mean this flows directly from Joe
Biden absolutely perverting the Justice Department or clouding its reputation
by his own Justice Department, convicts his own lawless, tax
(28:56):
evating money laundering son, and then he pardons the boy
for all sins real and imagined over a ten year period,
including money laundering and failing to register as a foreign
agent and the rest of it, and then claims in
the pardon notice as we were discussing that I had
to do this because the Justice apartment is so corrupt
and perverted.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
I mean, so come on.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
But the idea that the Wall Street Journal is putting
forth is the country doesn't need a GOP version of
the worst of the excesses of the Democrat run Justice
Department because it's bad for the country. And I know
that the temptation among a lot of people is they
hit us in the mouth.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
We got to hit them out of the mouth. That's
Chicago way.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
But I think a better idea is let's do it right,
show America how this is better, and then win elections.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Yeah, so a number of things. I followed the news
a lot more than I probably should over vacation. I
got a whole bunch of different, tiny little things. I'd
like to get to ging the what is it the
word or phrase of the year? Yeah, definitely want to
hear that. I love End of the Year lists. I
don't know why I've loved him since I was a kid.
(30:10):
I also give my son a speech that you gave
your son one time years ago and probably used the
same words over the break, which was handy. I never
had to really go already have it in my pocket
since you'd given it. I'm intrigued among other things on
the way stay here. I was straight across from Taylor
Swift at Arrowhead Stadium on Friday. I waved to her.
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I don't know if she saw me or not.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
She's probably trying to play it coold, you know, the
way celebrities do.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
She's like, hey, there's Jack. Yeah, it's cool about it.
I don't want Travis. Oh, it's coolest, freezing. I'm not
used to cold weather. I don't think that would have
bothered me back in the day. But it was like
thirty degrees and then when the sun went down behind
it and it got cloudy, I mean when it was
getting dark, it was cold in there. There's no question.
As a former Chicago boy, you acclimate to cold weather. Absolutely. Yeah.
(31:03):
The other locals seem to be fine, but I was
dying my sons yeah oof ah.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
So the good folks at Oxford University Press have as
is their wont declared their phrase or word of the Year.
It is a term that captures concerns. Well, that's you're
giving away the punchline. The phrase that won this year
is brain rot. Brain rot. It is a term that
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captures concerns about the impact of consuming excessive amounts of
low quality online content, especially on social media.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Well, I don't know if I've heard anybody use that,
but that is a good phrase slash term that we
should all be aware of because I know people who
suffer from it. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Now, granted this is Oxford, they're in England, they don't
even speak our language, corners, but they apparently usage of
the term saw an increase of two hundred from twenty
twenty three to twenty twenty four. The praise I tell
you who doesn't have brain rot is my daughter, who
is home with us all Thanksgiving week. But she was
(32:12):
studying for nine ten hours a day for her law
school finals, her first law school finals. And we told her, look,
we're on team Delaney. We're gonna do nothing to distract you.
We're not gonna guilt you into coming down to do
this that you tell us.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
How we can help and what did? She work? Like crazy?
Speaker 1 (32:29):
But anyway, turns out actually going to law school is
a lot more work.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Than thinking about it, which is what I did.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Anyway, brain rot beat five beat out five other phrases
on the short list, which included demure. I have no
idea why that would be on the list's you know,
it's kind of restrained in appearance or behavior, not showy.
Speaker 7 (32:56):
Yes, Katie, this this trans guy made me your takeoff
on TikTok about a month ago.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Oka's why that's back? And what did he do now?
Speaker 7 (33:05):
He was sitting in his car and said, of course, yeah,
right where all videos are shot apparently, so I'm mindful
and demure, and was talking about how he puts his
makeup on, and for whatever ungodly reason, it took.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
Off, right, gotcha, all right, sir.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Dynamic Pricing also made the short list.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Which a right, that's a good one. Yeah. I found
that out when I got the uh bacon eator at
Wendy's and it was twelve bucks because we bought it
during dinner time.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Yeah. I still don't know what I think about it.
I mean, I know what I think about it intellectually, but.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Your story or whatever you want, all right?
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Yeah, And if I don't like it, I won't come anymore.
But in my gut, pun intended. If I get there
and they've jacked up the sandwich because this is the
time of day when people are hungry, I'm like dudes.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Lore was on the list.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Romantic a genre of fiction combining elements of romantic fiction
and fantasy, typically featuring themes of magic, the supernatural, or
adventure alongside the central romantics.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Or something I would hate and run from as if
I were on fire. You're not very well rounded.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
And finally, slop, which is art, writing or other content
generated using AI, shared and distributed online in an indiscriminate
or intrusive way, and characterized as being of low quality, inauthentic,
or inaccurate.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
Okay, slop, Huh? How much time I got, Michael depends
on you keep eating like that about two minutes. Okay.
So I mentioned I gave my son a speech that
you gave your son once. I'm trying to remember if
you said this on the air, and I hope you did.
Was it the same.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Speech Pete Hegseth's mother gave him. Oh, we have to
do that in our speaking of nominees. I still want
to talk about him and Telsea Gabbard and a couple others.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
We have to do that in our three. So I
think you said thus in the air, but your your
son had a certain hairstyle once and then you talk
to him about You are fine with that, but you
know you're portraying a certain sort of person and you're
gonna get treated that way, and you just need to
understand that. And I had that conversation with my son
(35:18):
as he always gets pulled out of line at the
airport and the full frisk down, which I've never happened.
He's had it happen like ten times in his life.
And he also talks about people follow him around the stores.
When he goes in the store, they follow him around.
I said, well, dude, if you're gonna I won't explain
his look, but he has a certain look because he
(35:38):
thinks it looks cool, the Kim Jong yell look. If
you're gonna go with that look, people are gonna keep
an eye on you. They're gonna think you might be
there to steal or maybe you're a terrorist. And it's
just I mean, you say, you can do it if
you want, but you're projecting a certain look. And so
when people react to that look, the way you're projecting,
you can't blame them.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Is the juice or the squeeze is worth the trouble
whatever you're expressing. That that changes through a person's life.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
Right right, right, right right, So I'll see how that
lands suggests to be more demure. Exactly exactly, Yeah, Hexet's
mom weighed in on his uh whether or not he
ought to be Secretary of Defense. That's odd speak tuned
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Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Arm Strong and he Armstrong and Yeddy or any possibility
that the president would end up hardening his son. No,
I just said no. I just answered, go ahead.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Will you accept the jury's outcome, their verdict no matter
what it is.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Yes? And have you ruled out a pardon for your son? Yes,
I'm extremely proud of my son Hunter.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
I'm not going to do it.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
I said, I buy by the jury decision. I will
do that. I'll not put Does the President have any
intention of pardoning him?
Speaker 4 (00:53):
We've been asked that question multiple times. Our answer stands,
which is now.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
President Biden says that he's not partner's son Hunter. Is
he going to ask Donald Trump.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
To do that. I don't have anything else to share
about that. I'm not going to get and go down
a rabbit hole on this. I've been very clear. The
present has been very clear when we've been asked this question.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Well, and then Hunter Biden had December, which it now
is circled on his calendar for quite some time, because
in the next couple of weeks he had two different
cases in which he was going to be sentenced for
things he was already found guilty of, and then he
had been shuffled off to jail for one to however
many years as a wealthy guy in his mid fifties
(01:31):
who's not used to that sort of lifestyle. And his
dad came through yesterday with a blanket pardon of the
last ten years, which he'll keep him out of jail
in any trouble from here on out. I was just
looking at a Hunter up on the TV. First of all,
it's interesting that every news channel I've got leading with
the Hunter Biden pardon story since getting a lot of attention.
And Hunter, a really good looking guy with good genetics
(01:54):
in his background, has meth mouth full meth mouth. Now, kids,
don't do the drugs. No matter what you look like,
you're gonna look like a meth head after you do it.
For a while, I learned from the Bob Woodward book
that I almost finished over vacation, that I either would
reminded or never knew that Hunter was actually making crack.
He learned how to make crack and was making.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Crack and resourceful, and he had accomplished what is known
as a bell ringer, cracks holy grail, which is the
ultimate feeling you can get from doing crack.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
And and he had and then he chased that for years.
Once you have a bell ringer, it's like your only
thing you want is to get another bell ringer. But
so that it's like when that that the first time
you brew up a batch of home brewed beer, and
it's just perfect. The way to go Hunter, way to
hang in there and tell you like you're like breaking
bad burn down your RV. You get you get to
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exploded in the desert, but you hung in there, got
to go, but got himself a bell ringer. But it
doesn't matter whatever he did wrong around not pay any
eight taxes is a rich guy. The rich need to
pay their fresh share unless their names under Biden taxes, guns,
whatever else. Not registering is abort all that sort of stuff.
Don't have to worry about it anymore. Your dad pardoned you.
(03:13):
Now the Bidens are above the law. Just suck it up, America.
So the President has issued to pardon. I'm going to
read part of the official bit of it for reasons
that shall become obvious. A full and unconditional pardon for
Robert Hunter. Biden for those offenses against the United States
which he has committed or may have committed or taken
pardon during the period from January one, twenty fourteen, through
(03:37):
December one, twenty twenty four Why that was yesterday. So
presumably if he commits another crime today, they can go
ahead and prosecute him. But yes, that is a.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Decade long pardon for anything that ever comes up.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
I don't know about, y'all.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
I haven't committed that many felonies that I would need
that sort of blanket everything I did, pardon for it decade,
which dates from almost the week right that he took
the gig as a director at Barisma in Ukraine and
laundered millions of millions of dollars for the Biden family
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in ten percent of course for the big guy.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Wow. So pardon for things he is convicted of and
anything he could be convicted of, that's ending.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Yeah, yeah, So the statement from the President today, I
assigned a pardon for my son Hunter. From the day
I took office, I said I would not interfere with
the Justice Department's decision making, and I kept my word
even as I've watched my son being selectively and unfairly
prosecuted if you're if you're like a comedian or you're
doing a live show or something like that, you got
(04:44):
to pause for a second. It's called a laugh break, right,
isn't that what it's called? Uh, you got to pause
for the laugh. And then I go on the idea
that he was selectively and unfairly prosecuted without aggravating factors
like used in a crime. Oh, this is about the
gun charge. Multiple purchases or buying weapon as a straw purchaser.
People are almost never brought to trial on felony charges
(05:05):
solely for how they filled out a gun for him.
The gun charge is actually interesting from a Second Amendment
point of view. We've discussed this a little bit, the
idea that I can't buy a gun if I have
used illegal drugs or end quote unquote an addict who
besides that, it's a fundamental right.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Yeah, you don't have to start quartering troops because you
were a drug addict at one point, right, I.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Mean, somebody could absolutely make the argument that I'm a
Scotch addict. I don't think I am, but and therefore
I give up my Second Amendment rights. Right, So we
we'll table that motion put it aside those who were
late paying their.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Titles because with that, but I am the problem with
that is he's not out there making some argument for
a change in the federal law.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
No, no, no, you're absolutely right. You're absolutely right. I
just I choose to focus on the other stuff because
it is unimpeachable part of the expression from any direction
on any level. The tax stuff is as solid as Gibraltar. Anyway,
(06:13):
here's a back to the mummified president's statement. Those who
are late paying their taxes because of serious addictions, but
paid them back subsequently with interest and penalties. If a
weird o rich guy you meeted a party donor decides
to pay off your bills psuge Democrat asked kisser and donor, Yes,
(06:34):
she paid off Hunter's penalties. Anyway, they're typically given non
criminal resolutions. It was clear that Hunter was treated differently.
The charges in this case came about only after several
of my political opponents in Congress instigated them to attack
me and oppose my election. That was your own Justice
department who prosecuted the guy that a carefully negotiated plea
(06:55):
deal agreed to by the Department of Justice unraveled in
the courtroom, with a number of political opponents in Congress
taking credit.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
I would love to depart for a moment and talk
about that unholy sweetheart Plea deal that the judge said, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Wait a minute, am I reading this correctly?
Speaker 1 (07:16):
And then ask the prosecutors have you ever cut a
deal like this before?
Speaker 2 (07:21):
No, have you ever even heard of a deal like
this before?
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (07:26):
I guess not, your honor.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
So Joe Biden is now claiming that that Plea deal
was quote careful and negotiated, agreed to by the Department
of Justice.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Oh, my god, had the Plea deal healthy?
Speaker 5 (07:39):
Right?
Speaker 1 (07:39):
So it would have been a fair reasonable resolution of
Hunter's cases. No reasonable person who looks at the facts
of Hunter's cases can reach any other conclusion that that
Hunter was singled out because he is my son.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
And that is wrong.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
There's been an effort to break Hunter, who's been five
and a half years sober, even in the face of
unrelenting attacks and selective prosecution and trying to break Hunter.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
They've tried to break me. There's no reason to believe
it will stop here. Enough is enough for my entire career.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
I followed a simple, simple principle, just tell the American
people the truth. Excuse me for a moment. Full academic
law school scholarship. Only one to get the scholarship, graduated
top of his class, won the International Moot Court competition.
Graduated with three degrees. His son Bo died in a rock.
He was a civil rights warrior, been to a rock
(08:29):
forty times, appointed to the Naval Academy, Arrested with Nelson Mandela.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
I'm a truck driver. Spoke to the inventor of his insulin.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
His house burned down, raised in a Puerto Rican community,
visited the Tree of Life Synagogue, and track travels. Full
Professor at U Penn. Great grandpa was coal miner. Uncle
was eaten by cannibals. Stat's at creational baseball game. He's
a football start. He was shot at overseas. First to
graduate college in his family, Arrested to civil rights process,
number of tristed, a number of meetings, recision.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Paying trunk driver killed his family.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
That is not even the full list of all the
times Joe Biden has been caught lying like a rug
to the American people, but back to uncle.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Was eaten by cannibals and still get the laugh out
of me. Now I will tell you this list.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
This list also includes the battle with corn Pop. I
choose to believe that the story of corn Pop was
true because I enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
It's like believing in Santa. You don't want it to
not be true. Was a bad dude.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
So anyway, I've always told the American people the truth.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Then they'll be fair minded. Here's the truth.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
I believe in the justice system, but as I've wrestled
with this, I also believe raw politics has infected this
process and it led to a miscarriage of justice. And
once I made the decision this weekend.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
You've made that.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Decision the second your son was convicted, you lion mummy.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
There's no sense in delaying it further.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
I hope Americans will understand why a father and a
president would come to this decision.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Yeah, it's because your kids a hecke Well yeah, and
again people I suppose would do that. But that's a
heck of a phrase. The whole I believe in the
justice system, but it was corrupted by politics and came
to an unfair verdict. Okay, then you don't believe in
the justice system. Right, So go ahead.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
I was just going to say, Mike, the lawyer from
Chicago says, here's the thought. The Justice Department challenges the
validity on the pardon on the grounds that the president
lacks the mental capacity to understand the meaning of the war.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
He's a kindly old man with a bad memory, right exactly.
I love it The New York Times, Rights of all people.
Mister Biden's pardon will make it harder for Democrats to
defend the integrity of the Justice Department, of course, because
he just said they bend to political will sometimes and
stand against mister Trump's unapologetic plans to use it for
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political purposes, even as he seeks to install cash betel
blah blah blah. We all know that story, or we're
going to get to it later. It would also be
harder for Democrats to criticize mister Trump for his prolific
use of the pardon power to absolve friends and ally,
some of whom could have been witnesses against him in
previous investigations. Right, this does make it easier for Trump
to get away with a if he pardon. Obviously, even
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some supporters of mister Biden, writes The New York Times
said his decision opened the door for mister Trump to
further warp the system by pointing to his predeces sister's
own words and actions. Right, so, yeah, that's obviously true.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Prosecutors said Hunter Biden invaded taxes by claiming hundreds of
thousands of dollars in false deductions, including the infamous writing
off payments to horrors and dancers, sex club membership, his
daughter's law school tuition, his business expenses.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
And again, the president's.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Son filed these tax papers after he had become sober.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
And the party of the rich don't pay their fair share.
I mean, that's just too rich for me. I mean,
I yeah, like I'd have to scrape the frosting off
of this cake. It's too rich. I mean a cup
of coffee to cut it. You're the part of the
rich don't pay their fair share. But in this case,
the rich was paying nothing. He was paying zero on
his millions of dollars coming in, and his dad pardons
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him when he gets caught, right, right. Final note.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Noahrothman National Review points out that when it comes to
what he calls Hunter's sordid conduct, the voting public never
believed the president, despite the administration's protests and its defense
and Hunters, staggeringly large majorities believe the president's son was
guilty of the charges against him. A majority said they
thought the government had provided Hunter with more favorable treatment. Yeah,
(12:35):
than a less well connected figure would receive when a
jerry convicted Hunter of the charges against him. Most voters,
in spite of the attempt at the backdoor sweetheart deal,
most voters approved of that outcome. They told polsters they
believed that the president had benefited from his son's indiscretions
and that his interventions on his son's behalf were inappropriate. Wow,
(12:56):
majorities of all voters on all of those side issues.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Trump has got to be thinking, this is just awesome.
This is awesome. So you just made it clear to
everybody that this is a game of the Justice Department
goes after people they want to bring down, and then
the president can pardon whoever they want. Man, you just
played right into his whole bang. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
I am comforted by the notion that Hunter will be
alive when all of the Biden money laundering family truths
come out eventually.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
As I suspect you think the oil boy I think
it's dead and gone. I hope you're right. No, I
think it'll come out.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
In fact, I'm very very confident in that how much
attention it will get, given our fixation on the politics
of the moment, maybe not that much.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Happy Cyber Monday, everybody. We've got some interesting economic news
coming out of Black Friday and a bunch of other
stuff on the waistay here.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
Experts tell us that the steepest deals will likely be
on Cyber Monday, for things electronics and apparel, and because
the online sales for Black Friday were so strong, that
boats well for what could be another record breaking day
on Cyber Monday as well.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Yeah, sometimes, as we know through the years, sometimes money
just gets moved around. You're going to spend a certain amount,
and you spend it on these days as opposed to
closer to Christmas or whatever. So you gotta wait and
see how it turns out. What percentage of.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
The population do you believe still thinks the best deals
are like Black Friday to today.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
I don't know. I've never thought that. It doesn't make
any sense, so I don't know. I never ever thought
about it in my lived experience. No, I've just never
thought about the so called sales unless it's a doorbuster
to just get people in the door, in which you
have to roll around on the floor at the Walmart
and fight somebody for and there's usually some piece of
Chinese crap that you don't need anyway. But did you
(14:51):
see some of the fight videos from around America. That's
a good time all we in American tradition. People rolling
on on the floor of their Walmart beating on each other.
It is silly me. I was spending time with family
and good friends. Oh so, I don't know if there
are more of the manius, but everybody's got a phone now,
so there's you know one that many years ago, you
could have one of those and it would disappear. Nobody
(15:13):
would hear about it. Now, one fight one Walmart anywhere
in the country, there's gonna be twenty different angles of
it right as people screaming ye and bash their heads
against the floor. It's just absolutely amazing. People are animals
given the right circumstances. Speaking of Thanksgiving and sales and
all that sort of stuff. I just saw this. I'm
a doctor. This is the headline in the New York Post.
(15:33):
I'm a doctor. What to do if you haven't pooped
since Thanksgiving? That holy that's in the paper today is
that there's a Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday four days later.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
You gotta go for the big e. I mean, you
gotta get things moving. That's wait, what you would since Thanksgiving?
Speaker 2 (15:54):
What did you eat? I guess and you're pretty well
maybe you ate. I don't know. Did you bring us this?
Last week? I saw the headline and over kale, there's
a new nutrient in town. Beans. So I saw the
headline and thought, oh yeah, Joe told us about the beans.
So that's all your hit friends are gonna be talking about.
Oh you don't eat beans, you gotta eat beans. They
do this and that whatever.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
As Yeah, I brought this story and completely forgot about it.
Every couple of years, Oh yeah, beans. Every couple of
years they come up with a new one. That's just
the Here's here's my tip as a guy who gained
three and a half pounds over the last week. Don't
eat so much pie and milkshakes and you'll be less
likely to gain weight.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Then that's what I've learned.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Yeah, my house is piloss for the first time since
last week, and we I finished off the pumpkin pie
last night.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Dang it, that's it. See, that's it. That's it's the
advantage or maybe you're dying. That's the advantage of hosting.
As I went to my parents' house and it was
fabulous with the kids and my brother was there and
stuff like that, but you know, no leftovers to bring home,
So disappointing.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Coming up, the Oxford University Press is named It's phrase
or word of the Year.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
And I actually think it's a pretty good one.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Plus, let's take a look at some of Trump's recent
nominations or would be appointees in an unbiased, non mainstream
media hysterical way.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Yeah, the new FBI director getting the most attention, so
we'll talk about that, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 6 (17:19):
President elect Donald Trump announcing he plans to nominate Cash
Patel as the next director of the FBI, A longtime
Trump ally, Patel rising to prominence as a congressional aid
pushing back against the Russia investigation during Trump's first term.
But Patel's nomination still needs to be approved by the Senate.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Yeah, I guess you start with naming a new FBI
director is not a thing, really like it is having
an attorney general or a Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
The FBI director has a ten year term, and if
it's up, you pick somebody, but if it's not, you
usually let it run its course, which is part of
the whole wanting the FBI to be separate from politics thing.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Right worth noting that the president of letting the guy
you know run out his term was broken by Trump
the last time when he fired Comy who needed to
be fired that one in favor of Chris Ray, he
was currently in the gig. Yeah, firing Comy perfectly justifiable.
Ray is somebody Trump picked and is respected and liked.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
By a fair number of people. But having bounced around
a lot of social media over the last forty eight hours,
a lot of you, if you're a maga Trump person,
are really excited about Cash Pattel taking on the FBI
and doing his thing. A couple of let me hit
you with a positive thing before I get into some
(18:44):
of the negatives that the mainstream media are putting out
about Patel.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Yeah, And if I might just jump in and say
we are I am speaking for myself just in a
finding out, appraising and weighing mode. A lot of the media,
and a lot of humanity immediately leaps to because Trump
appointed him, and here's why. Or he's the hero that
America needs because Trump appointed him, and here's why. And
we're just going to take a look at Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
I don't know if i'd ever heard the guy's name before,
so I went in with no opinion. I still have
no opinion at this point. I think Mars Halpern writes
in his newsletter today, there are definitely and we'll get
to some of the troubling stuff. There are definitely some troubling,
questionable aspects of Patel's background that must get scrutiny and explanation.
But approximately seventy five percent of what Ruth Marcus and
(19:28):
the New York Times reporters have seized on appears to
be just nitpicky. Mccarthuried establishment opposition thought that was interesting.
That's shock. No, Patel might not make it through the confirmation,
but the rallying around him by both MAGA and most
Republicans on the Hill is quite a bit different than
it was with Matt Gates when he was named for
Attorney General. So there's much more rallying going on already. Now.
(19:52):
Some of the things that Patel. Well, first we'll play
this clip. This was a Patel on Steve Bannon's radio
show whenever it was back in the day. He said this,
we will go out and.
Speaker 6 (20:03):
Find the conspirators, not just in government, but in the media. Yes,
we're going to come after the people in the media
who lied about American citizens who.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections. We're going to come
after you.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Whether it's criminal or civilly, we'll figure that out.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
But yeah, we're putting you all on noticing. So he's
going to go after people in the media who said
things that were true untrue according to him about the
whole rush oaks and there was a lot, but that's
not really a thing we do where we.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
You know, put ingregious examples of deliver it to slander
and that sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Yeah, one more of these before I, uh, what do
I what's that when you a caveat to this, I
guess Patel, I'm reading from the Wall Street Journal here. Patel,
one of the FBI's sharpest attackers, said in a September
interview on a conservative podcast or show. So this was
just a couple of months ago that if he were
FBI director, he would shut down the FBI Hoover Building
(20:59):
on day one and reopen it the next day as
a museum of the deep State. He suggested that the
bureau had become too powerful and that he would strip
out of its intelligence gathering role and purge of it employees.
We refuse to go along with Trump's agenda. My caveat
would be that in the modern world, politicians and certainly
just regular guests say all kinds of crazys that they
(21:23):
don't mean or plan to follow through on whatsoever. But
he had definitely got to ask the guy about that
in a confirmation hearing. Obviously, is your plan if your
FBI director in day one to close the building, lock
the doors, and turn it into a museum of the
deep state the next day?
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Just confirming right, and again the reason my hair isn't
on fire in either direction for a lot of these nominees,
and Patel reminds me a little bit of Tulsey Gabbard
in some ways, which I'll explain a minute, but to
your point, because I was thinking the same thing in.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
The modern world of.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Media, and I just don't mean mainstream media here, but
the alternative media podcasts and the rest of it as
you move from one role to another to another. From
he was a top eight on the House, which one
of the investigative committees looking into the Russia collusion hoax.
(22:19):
He had a very specific role and he measured his
speech in specific ways. And then he was a private
citizen and Trump campaign advisor and surrogate and went on
these talk shows and he couched his phrases in his
speaking as a guy in that role. If he became
(22:40):
FBI director, and you know, I'm sure you're tracking with me, fine,
but what I mean is he said stuff in a
really entertaining it'll cut through the clutter way.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Then if he's.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Sitting in the big chair, I'm sure, as a very
bright guy, he will readjust again. But I'm glad there's
going to be hearing. But you know, somebody said something
wild on a podcast. Therefore dot dot no sorry, Well.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Yeah, he'll have the opportunity there in the hearing in
front of a bunch of senators to come off as
a know, a different sort of guy or not, and
we'll get the chance to see that. Patel, who worked
in Trump's first administration, according to the Washington Post, has
publicly mused about targeting journalists and government officials, as we
just heard, and he published a list of deep state
names in a book last year called Government Gangsters. Promotional
(23:28):
materials for the book included a quote from Trump who
called it a roadmap highlighting every corrupt actor and a
blueprint to help us take back the White House and
remove these gangsters from all of government. I'm fine with that.
Appearing last night last year in the war Room, that's
the clip we just played where he was on Steve
Bannon's show and vowed to go and find the conspiracies,
not just in government, but in the media. We're going
(23:49):
to come after these people. We're going to come after you,
either criminally or civilly. And we'll see if he stands
by that. He has very little management or law enforcement experience.
Getting back to what we were saying about hegxeth and
Department of Fence. I don't know defense. I don't know
what I think about that either.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Well, the fact that administrative or law enforcement, to me,
that's that's a troubling, you know, aspect of this, because
the FBI, for all of its sins, does incredibly important
work protecting all of us from organized crime, from Chinese
intelligence agents, from drug traffickers, from just all sorts of stuff.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Yeah, and then I was trying to find I've got
it here somewhere. The quote from Bill Barr, the former
Attorney at General, who people on the left think was
a you know, a toady of trumps. When Cash Patel
was put up to be the second in command at
the FBI, Barr said, over my dead body, this guy
(24:54):
is not going to be involved in the FBI. So
that was Barr's feeling about Patel.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Is he a reformer or is he there to lay
waste to it out of sheer meanness and retribution?
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Let's ask him. Ah, you know that whole struck and
his girlfriend and you know, we've got a backup plan
and all that stuff that came out that was all
bad stuff. There's a lot of people that seem pretty
politically motivated the lying about information, so you could get
(25:32):
a warrant to spy on people and stuff. There are
some bad stuff that happened there over several years. Is
that common? Is our way to root that out? I
would like to know that.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
And I could certainly defend the idea, and I'm not
defending Patel in particular because I'm not sold on him,
but the idea that somebody might come in for a
limited period of time and see as his brief his
mandate to fix what's wrong, to really go after what
(26:03):
had gotten twisted within the FBI.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Maybe he's not long term leader. Maybe as it turns out,
he will just.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Be the the angel of change and reform and and
you know, opening the window and letting the sunshine disinfect.
And then he gives way to somebody who's a more
you know, a conventional leader that might actually be useful.
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I think, is there anything else important about the mixed response?
You got a couple of senators saying, yeah, I'm not
sold on this guy, in a couple of saying now
it seems like a good guy to me.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
I say, just we hold earrings. Yeah. Well, as Halpin wrote,
the entire audience for all of this is the Republican senators.
Because you just you need fifty Republican senators to say,
he's okay with me, and so you can you lose
four and you're done. So that's the whole ballgame right there.
How many Republican senators are going to say, nah, I
(28:08):
don't want this guy to be the FBI director. Does
Trump fire Ray, which again is unprecedented except for Trump
doing it one time to fire the FBI director because
the way it looks, Does Trump fire Ray before the hearing?
And then so you've got an opening you got to
get somebody? Is that the way it works? Hmm? Interesting question.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
One more note for me from the quoting the Wall
Street Journal editorial board, we'll paraphrasing anyway. They pointed out
that and this, I mean this flows directly from Joe
Biden absolutely perverting the Justice Department or clouding its reputation
by his own Justice Department, convicts his own lawless, tax
(28:56):
evating money laundering son, and then he pardons the boy
for all sins real and imagined over a ten year period,
including money laundering and failing to register as a foreign
agent and the rest of it, and then claims in
the pardon notice as we were discussing that I had
to do this because the Justice apartment is so corrupt
and perverted.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
I mean, so come on.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
But the idea that the Wall Street Journal is putting
forth is the country doesn't need a GOP version of
the worst of the excesses of the Democrat run Justice
Department because it's bad for the country. And I know
that the temptation among a lot of people is they
hit us in the mouth.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
We got to hit them out of the mouth. That's
Chicago way.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
But I think a better idea is let's do it right,
show America how this is better, and then win elections.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Yeah, so a number of things. I followed the news
a lot more than I probably should over vacation. I
got a whole bunch of different, tiny little things. I'd
like to get to ging the what is it the
word or phrase of the year? Yeah, definitely want to
hear that. I love End of the Year lists. I
don't know why I've loved him since I was a kid.
(30:10):
I also give my son a speech that you gave
your son one time years ago and probably used the
same words over the break, which was handy. I never
had to really go already have it in my pocket
since you'd given it. I'm intrigued among other things on
the way stay here. I was straight across from Taylor
Swift at Arrowhead Stadium on Friday. I waved to her.
(30:32):
I don't know if she saw me or not.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
She's probably trying to play it coold, you know, the
way celebrities do.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
She's like, hey, there's Jack. Yeah, it's cool about it.
I don't want Travis. Oh, it's coolest, freezing. I'm not
used to cold weather. I don't think that would have
bothered me back in the day. But it was like
thirty degrees and then when the sun went down behind
it and it got cloudy, I mean when it was
getting dark, it was cold in there. There's no question.
As a former Chicago boy, you acclimate to cold weather. Absolutely. Yeah.
(31:03):
The other locals seem to be fine, but I was
dying my sons yeah oof ah.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
So the good folks at Oxford University Press have as
is their wont declared their phrase or word of the Year.
It is a term that captures concerns. Well, that's you're
giving away the punchline. The phrase that won this year
is brain rot. Brain rot. It is a term that
(31:35):
captures concerns about the impact of consuming excessive amounts of
low quality online content, especially on social media.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Well, I don't know if I've heard anybody use that,
but that is a good phrase slash term that we
should all be aware of because I know people who
suffer from it. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Now, granted this is Oxford, they're in England, they don't
even speak our language, corners, but they apparently usage of
the term saw an increase of two hundred from twenty
twenty three to twenty twenty four. The praise I tell
you who doesn't have brain rot is my daughter, who
is home with us all Thanksgiving week. But she was
(32:12):
studying for nine ten hours a day for her law
school finals, her first law school finals. And we told her, look,
we're on team Delaney. We're gonna do nothing to distract you.
We're not gonna guilt you into coming down to do
this that you tell us.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
How we can help and what did? She work? Like crazy?
Speaker 1 (32:29):
But anyway, turns out actually going to law school is
a lot more work.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Than thinking about it, which is what I did.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Anyway, brain rot beat five beat out five other phrases
on the short list, which included demure. I have no
idea why that would be on the list's you know,
it's kind of restrained in appearance or behavior, not showy.
Speaker 7 (32:56):
Yes, Katie, this this trans guy made me your takeoff
on TikTok about a month ago.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Oka's why that's back? And what did he do now?
Speaker 7 (33:05):
He was sitting in his car and said, of course, yeah,
right where all videos are shot apparently, so I'm mindful
and demure, and was talking about how he puts his
makeup on, and for whatever ungodly reason, it took.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
Off, right, gotcha, all right, sir.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Dynamic Pricing also made the short list.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Which a right, that's a good one. Yeah. I found
that out when I got the uh bacon eator at
Wendy's and it was twelve bucks because we bought it
during dinner time.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Yeah. I still don't know what I think about it.
I mean, I know what I think about it intellectually, but.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Your story or whatever you want, all right?
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Yeah, And if I don't like it, I won't come anymore.
But in my gut, pun intended. If I get there
and they've jacked up the sandwich because this is the
time of day when people are hungry, I'm like dudes.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Lore was on the list.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Romantic a genre of fiction combining elements of romantic fiction
and fantasy, typically featuring themes of magic, the supernatural, or
adventure alongside the central romantics.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Or something I would hate and run from as if
I were on fire. You're not very well rounded.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
And finally, slop, which is art, writing or other content
generated using AI, shared and distributed online in an indiscriminate
or intrusive way, and characterized as being of low quality, inauthentic,
or inaccurate.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
Okay, slop, Huh? How much time I got, Michael depends
on you keep eating like that about two minutes. Okay.
So I mentioned I gave my son a speech that
you gave your son once. I'm trying to remember if
you said this on the air, and I hope you did.
Was it the same.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Speech Pete Hegseth's mother gave him. Oh, we have to
do that in our speaking of nominees. I still want
to talk about him and Telsea Gabbard and a couple others.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
We have to do that in our three. So I
think you said thus in the air, but your your
son had a certain hairstyle once and then you talk
to him about You are fine with that, but you
know you're portraying a certain sort of person and you're
gonna get treated that way, and you just need to
understand that. And I had that conversation with my son
(35:18):
as he always gets pulled out of line at the
airport and the full frisk down, which I've never happened.
He's had it happen like ten times in his life.
And he also talks about people follow him around the stores.
When he goes in the store, they follow him around.
I said, well, dude, if you're gonna I won't explain
his look, but he has a certain look because he
(35:38):
thinks it looks cool, the Kim Jong yell look. If
you're gonna go with that look, people are gonna keep
an eye on you. They're gonna think you might be
there to steal or maybe you're a terrorist. And it's
just I mean, you say, you can do it if
you want, but you're projecting a certain look. And so
when people react to that look, the way you're projecting,
you can't blame them.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Is the juice or the squeeze is worth the trouble
whatever you're expressing. That that changes through a person's life.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
Right right, right, right right, So I'll see how that
lands suggests to be more demure. Exactly exactly, Yeah, Hexet's
mom weighed in on his uh whether or not he
ought to be Secretary of Defense. That's odd speak tuned
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