December 2, 2024 • 36 mins
Hour 3 of A&G features...
- Vivek Ramaswamy is working on cutting the government waste!
- Jack went to the Chiefs game
- Pete Hegseth got kneecapped by his mom
- College football brawls
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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, Ketty arm Strong
and Jettie and he Armstrong and Yetty. You wa to
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the first question of the briefing.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
I know you said not a lot's changed this yesterday
and it's a personal matter. But from a presidential perspective,
is there any possibility that the president would end up
pardoning his son. Yeah, so you've probably heard a disability,
so let's quit talking about it. You probably heard that
Joe Biden did pardon Hunter going back ten years for
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anything he did, whether you've heard about it or not.
And we'll talk more about that later. And it's, uh,
it's quite a deal. I don't think it was shocking
to anybody, but it changes the landscape a little bit,
given the fact that Trump is on the war path
claiming the Justice Department is too political, and Joe Biden
stated in words that the Justice Department got political with
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his son.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Right right in the other direction too, heart on democrats. Okay,
speaking of political appointees, I want to talk a little
bit about Pete Hegseeth's nomination. Also Tulsey Gabbard and I
can't believe I've waited until now. I am so incredibly
happy that Trump has nominated Jay Battacharia of Stanford University
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to head the National Institutes of Health, one of the
signers of the Great Barrier Declaration, a dissenting voice during COVID.
He was picked on, he was banned, he was berated,
he was discredited when he was right about everything. So
more on that to come as well.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Since you mentioned Nih, I have become a big fan
of the vague Ramaswami, which I wouldn't have guessed, as
I've said horrible things about him, hated him as a
presidential candidate and some of the crazy crap he was
saying to try to get attention, like him as a businessman.
And he's working with Elon on doge right the Department
of Government Efficiency, and his Twitter feed is an endless
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stream of things they're finding and the federal budget and
federal government that are wastes of money, and it's just
absolutely amazing. But here's one of them, Nih who you
just mentioned, Trump's nominee for that. NIH grant distributions have
turned into a joke Vivek Rights.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
But the most ridiculous part is.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
That seventy percent of the federal funds granted to universities
goes to fund their overhead slush funds, which is all
DEI nonsense and stuff like that. It's just crap, with
none of it getting too, well, not none of it,
but very little of it getting to the actual research.
If there's a private donation, only ten percent goes to
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the crap. The rest of it goes to the actual research.
But for whatever reason, a government fund, taxpayer funds, seventy
percent is just wasted.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Wow Wow, Because it's other people's money, they don't care.
Speaking of the NIH, and then we'll move on back
to the question of Doge and saving money. They've also
become completely woke. They are riddled with DEI crap. You
cannot get a grant from the NIH unless you are
one minority or other. It takes some vow of wolkness.
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It's it's utterly corrupt.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Yet another tangent that I've got to go with. I
was reading this article about how awful it is that
Trump and Elon and Doge are taking a look at
Noah n oh whatever the acronym is for the the
weather people, the federal weather thing, and The point that.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Elon and others are making is.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Yeah, this thing is so shopped through and through with
people that are dedicated only to climate change and all
the crap that goes with that. They fully drank the
kool aid on that there's no like actual client's being done.
They have an agenda. They have a political agenda. And
so the left is claiming, you don't even want weather
forecast anymore, and Trump's crowd is claiming it's cause it's
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it's it's a now, a taxpayer funded scare people about
climate change organization is what.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
It is, in addition to just being a jobs program,
which is what all government turns into. Yeah, oh I
was I gonna say about Noah's Yeah, yeah, it doesn't matter.
So back to the main threat. So Elon Musk has
said he wants to save two trillion dollars cut two
trillion dollars worth of spending. That is ridiculous, practically laughable. However,
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and here's our thing. We want to be realistic to
help you understand the challenges and and some of the
promise of the thing. Do you want to say something
real quick?
Speaker 2 (04:54):
I don't understand. Look, I would like to know more
about Elon's life. I was watching him at the big
Thanksgiving gap at Maga at mar A Lago Maga logo,
and he's sitting there with Trump and they're dancing to
the YMCA and everything like that, and just he tweets
like a hundred times a day. So and then he
(05:14):
had another rocket take off. How what is his lifestyle? Yeah,
what in the hell is he doing? And then you know,
obviously he's not raising his twelve kids because he spent
his Thanksgiving with just sitting next to Donald Trump. I
don't know where your kids were on Thanksgiving anyway either.
Did he back to his efforts to rein in spending? Yeah, oh,
that reminds me. He tweeted something I just saw where
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is that? It was absolutely fabulous. I thought I sent
that to myself.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
It was a community note, you know where if somebody
tweets something that's inaccurate or whatever, there will be community
notes that are carefully researched and saying, hey, this is misleading,
because oh, there it is. And the tweet was it
was from Joe Biden back coming on Trump. No one
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is above the law, and the community notes says by
pardoning his son Hunter not merely for a single crime,
but for all actual and potential crimes he may or
may not have created over an eleven year period. Joe
Biden has made clear that some people are in fact
above the law. That's a good community note. Yeah, community
notes for the win anyway. So Elon Musk wants to
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save two trillion dollars, rather, that's going to be very,
very very hard for reasons that I think are pretty
damned interesting. The government spent a total of six point
seventy five trillion dollars in the most recent fiscal year,
which ended at the end of September, a year SOWA
six point seventy five trillion.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
So that means they took in about five point seventy
five trillion in revenue something like, because we spend about
a trillion more than we take in.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Yeah. In other words, they walked around handing twenty thousand
dollars to every human being within our borders, twenty thousand
for all three hundred and thirty seven million of us.
Let's get back to the reality of it. So of
that six and three quarter trillion dollars, you got one
and a half that's Medicare and Medicaid, and this is
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mandatory spending and interest payments. This is not stuff that
Congress can vote up or down year by year. It
is locked in unless they pass a massive restructuring of
these programs. So million and a half did you already
say half? No? Okay, no, million and a half, I'm sorry.
A trillion and a half dollars Medicare and Medicaid, one
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point four to five Social Security. That takes us to
what just under three There's another just under a trillion
dollars worth of net interest. Our credit card bill is
now approaching a trillion dollars a year because we spend
more than we take in. But nobody cares. Nobody talked
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about during the election. I'll stop talking about it now,
so we still have an audience. What the hell, America,
What is the matter with you? Other mandatory spending, which
includes a great deal of VA stuff or that might
be within defense, I'm not sure, is another one and
a quarter trillion dollars. So just in broad numbers, we're
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looking at three four five trillion dollars. Out of that,
six point seventy five is quote unquote mandatory spending and interest.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
So basically untouchable discretionary spending. Consists of nine hundred and
fifty billion dollars. I'm sorry, let's go with eight hundred
and fifty billion in defense. We spent about eight hundred
and fifty fifty billion dollars on defense. Whoa, Joe, that's
one hundred billion dollars less than we're spending on our
interest payments now, not available to defend this country against
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the commie hordes, the Aslamists.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Or a Putin or whomever. We don't have that much.
That's right, I said, I wasn't going to talk about
this anymore, okay a, and then non defense spending again.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
If the Sweet and Sour Chicken ever hits the fan
with China, we're really gonna notice this. Oh yeah, we
don't have that money available to spend on defense.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Well, and more to the point, we didn't have it
available when the ramping up was occurring. If we wait
until General Sao Unleasha's the unholy chicken of communist deceit
on us, he says, attempting to add on to Jack's
already questionable metaphor, it's way too late. Where was I? I
(09:34):
distracted myself with that crab? Oh? Okay, So all we've
got left of the enormous federal pie, then is about
nine hundred and forty eight billion dollars in non defense
discretionary spending. It's it's essentially nine hundred and fifty billion.
So since again, unless Congress has a major, major restructuring
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of our entitlement programs in mind, or we cut our
military to the bone, there's it's just nine hundred and
forty eight billion dollars to go after. So there's no
chance you're gonna get two trillion dollars in savings now
here is the on the other hand, on the other hand,
let's see how much we can do. Let's see how
much crap we can root out. As we often point out,
(10:17):
you know, you come across the stuff that Vivek is
tweeting about. That's like you pick some nice little town
in Kansas, Like you're in Solina where Jack and I
met years and years ago. You're in Salina, Kansas. Sounds
like we're sounds like we were on bumble when you
say it, like that, is bumble a bad one or
a good one? Or is it doesn't mattery? Find love
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wherever you can.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
But if every tax paying homo sapien in Solina Kansas.
We're a pool their money every there. I'm sorry, they're taxes,
every single red scent of that was squandered by the
nih for instance, in the way that VVEK was a
tweeting about. And that's obscene, that's horrifying, it's robbery. It's
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an American. So no, we're not not going to get
to two trillion dollars because Elon tends toward hyperbole. But
let's see how good we can do. Oh and by
the way, vote against deficit spending, please America. Now shut up.
Federal civilian and military retirements about one hundred billion.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
By the way, that reminds me of a fortune I
got at Panda Express the other night. We were very
my sons and I were very unhappy with modern fortunes.
Are not fortunes at all.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
No, no, they're terrible. Yes, Michael did say I ped
in your rights. It was handwritten. That's more a confession
than a fortune written pede in your right? What in
perverse and childish thing to say, Michael, Oh, thank you,
I'll thank you to keep those comments, dear, which you
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gotta laugh out of me.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
But yeah, I want to I want to talk about
a bunch of things, including Pete Hexit's mom.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
You don't expect to get.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Kneecapped by your own mom if you're about to get
the biggest job in your life.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Yeah, well, it's it's troubling. If you haven't heard this,
it's it's nasty. Stay duned YETI this is behind people.
Put it in. He pitched its touchdown. My it is
(12:39):
showtime in Buffalo.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Bowley Well, Josh Allen is a beast, the quarterback for
the Buffalo Bills. He has now beaten both last year's
Super Bowl teams back to back weeks, the Chiefs and
the forty nine Ers, on amazing plays of his own.
And it is the first time ever that an NFL
quarterback ran, caught, and threw a touchdown in a single game,
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which he did yesterday. As you heard there catching a
pass and running it in. It's easy to root for
the Bills and the Allions, which are both really really
great teams. The Chiefs the game I was at and
spent way too much money to be that cold. They
won NFL record. Our friend Dave, who does stats for
the Raiders, sent me this as the game ended. The
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Chiefs have won seven games this year on the last
play of the game. An NFL record, that's not They
could easily be a sub five hundred team. I mean easily,
but yeah, yeah, they've got the best record.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Yeah, I mean winning in crunch time is not exactly
a minor attribute as an athlete or a team's Yeah,
I'll tell you what. That would have had a lot
to do with how loud it was in there.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
So Arrowhead Stadium, Even if you're a non sports fan,
you might find this interesting. Arrowhead Stadium in Kennasaity is
allowed to stadium in America. And and it was getting
really loud there in the fourth quarter. And I thought,
you know, what's loud, But it's not as loud as
I thought it was. It was because I had a
beanie on and my hood over it. I pulled down
my hood and took off my beanie and it was like,
holy cow, it sounded like a jet engine in there,
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so loud. I was just in the bathroom. I mentioned
earlier that I gained three and a half pounds over
our Thanksgiving break.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
O Lord, where is this going.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
I just was in the bathroom and I looked in
the mirror. My head is so round, it's perfectly spherical.
Like the sort of perfect sphere they can only accomplish
in space. I've accomplished by eating. What did the drug
dealer calling in Mexico? Charlie Brown, Charlie Brown. Yeah, Hey,
Charlie bron you want some pot.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Charlie Brown, you want some pot? You want a girl?
You want a girl? Charlie Brown calling me, Charlie Brown.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Oh, we played ac DC music because they just announced
they're going to do a twenty twenty five tour, which
I'm gonna have to take Henry too.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
That would be really really cool.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
A bunch of old men stepping or stumping around, one
of them in short pants sounds good to me.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Yeah, I mean really old, Joe Biden old.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
And then I wanted to get to this among the
many things. I got so many notes from our week
off of things I came across in the news that
I found entertaining, but one of them a piece in
the New York Times from yesterday. A person wrote, I
don't have them from me. If it's basically leavings is
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not as as easy as you think, take it from me.
And it was someone who had left the country twice
and out of you know, some sort of anger over
something we're doing and then ended up coming back. This
person left once because we were funding somebody that didn't
like us funding in some war somewhere. So they moved
out of the country and then decided, yeah, I should
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go back.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
I liked it better there.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Then they moved out of the country when Trump won
in twenty sixteen, that's it. I can't live here anymore.
They moved to Europe, and then he said, ah, maybe
I should go back. Date I say, says they moving
back anyway. So they're writing a piece about how it's
more difficult than it sounds.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Yeah, you freaking more on no kidding you give. Given
the New York Times readership, that's probably a pretty useful
point of view for those people to see and hear. Ah.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
You would think though, that you would be embarrassed to
say out loud that twice you've pulled up stakes and
taken your family to another country over the news of
the day.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Maybe it's one of those things where the fact that
you did it twice is proof that you can't be embarrassed. Yeah,
by that, you don't realize how how adolescents you're coming off.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Yeah, So a lot of Trump's nominees are the fraut
fraud situations and Pete Hegzeth for Secretary of Defense's mom
kneecapped him over the weekend.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Kind of unintentionally, well, absolutely unintentionally.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
And we've got to remention the uh Hunter Biden being
pardoned by his dad.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Too, absolutely shocking yet completely unsurprised.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
And Hunter, you're a loser and we'll have political ripples
for quite some time too.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Armstrong and Geeddy, you have.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
To admire the raw hutzpah of Biden lying for months
about partning Hunter and then concluding his statement about partning
Hunter with the line, for my entire career have followed
a simple principle, just tell the American people the truth.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Yeah, well, I mean, it's it's comedy. It that is something.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Uh, we'll talk more about the Hunter Biden pardon, but
that is something. I mean. NBC is reporting that he
had planned to pardon Hunter all along, wasn't sure, but
was leaning that direction, but it decided to say out
loud that absolutely not, he wouldn't pardon Hunter. That's what
NBC is reporting. Yeah, sure, so that is a of
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we've decided to lie. And then you end your letter
about the pardon by saying one thing, you can always
count on me for me as I tell the truth.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
That's hilarious. It is hilarious. Like I said, it's comedy.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
I mean, the one thing he is not known for
is honesty, the opposite. It's like I'll never cheat on
you while you're kissing a girl or something. I mean,
it's just it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Yeah, is one way to put it. It's just absurd.
So more on that. And if you didn't hear our
previous discussions in some depth and with wit and intelligence,
of course you could grab it later via podcast Armstrong
and getting on demand. We talked about it hours one,
two and whatever. So speaking of government seats of power,
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of the president's elect making a number of nominations for
various cabinet posts and and some I think are rock solid,
some are intriguing, and some are probably a bad idea
witness Matt Gates. But Pete Hegseeth is definitely in the
intriguing category for me. Lack of experience running any big enterprise.
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Yet he is a military man. He's a very very
bright man. He's incredibly well educated. There's nobody on earth
who doubts that he has the best interests of A
are fighting men and women in mind, and b the
success of our military enterprises. And maybe we need a
little more of that and a little less of I'm
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a big bureaucrat. Maybe not, but maybe. And the incoming
guy gets to make his nominations. We hold hearings. This
came out in the last few days. Pete, who is married,
I believe at this point to his third wife. He's
got a couple of divorces in his background, and in
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twenty eighteen, in the midst of one of those divorces,
his mom absolutely laid the wood to him in an email.
I will tell you right now the take on the
right is, uh, it's and actually I believe the old
missus Hegseth has said the same thing. Mom. It's despicable
that the New York Times published this email?
Speaker 2 (20:12):
How did anybody get it? She emailed her own son,
how's that? How's that public?
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Ever, I believe somebody else I read this over the weekend.
It recall specifically, I think it was another another relative.
Was C Seed on it? Blind? C Seed? It was?
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It was another relative who had it and submitted it
to the New York Times. I'll dig that up few times,
obtained a copy of the email from another person with
ties to the Hegseth family. Bummo, Okay, people who never
email or text for these reasons are closer to right
than wrong, because yeah, any electronic communication is out there. Yeah,
uh so at any rate. In twenty eight eighteen, uh
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she described how he'd routinely mistreated women for years and
displayed lack of character. Quote on behalf of all the women,
and I know it's many you have abused in some way.
I say, get some help and take an honest look
at yourself. I have no respect for any man that belittles, lies, cheats,
sleeps around, and uses women for his own power and ego.
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You are that man and have been for years. And
as your mother, it pains me and embarrasses me to
say that, but it is the sad, sad truth. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
If he was living that lifestyle, and it sounds like
he was, you can understand why a mom would say that.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Now, she says now because she's asked about it and
said She sent her son an immediate follow up email
at the time apologizing for what she had written, and
said she might produce that email but hasn't at this moment.
She said she had fired off the original email quote
in anger with emotion time when he and his wife,
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who she was very fond of, were going through a
very difficult divorce. That's horrible. In an interview, she defended
her son disavowed the sentiments expressed in the original email.
It is not true. It has never been true. I
know my son. He is a good father and husband.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
See the problem I have with this? You know what
I just said, It sounds like it is true. I
think he sure seems like he's that kind of guy.
What's that got to do with being Secretary of Defense?
When did that become the standard that you have to
be good in your private sexual relationships or relationships or whatever.
If that is the new standard, then take John F.
Kennedy's name off all the middle schools and all the statues,
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and same with Martin Luther King Junior and.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
A whole bunch of other people. Yeah. I'm not in
favor of a wholesale throwing out of all questions of
character comportment.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Definitely, I'm pro morality and higher the character the better.
But did we decide this is a country that the
standards we didn't hold those people I just mentioned to
now apply.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Well, and let's let's face it, and I've got the
complete email here, let's go ahead and say what needs
to be said. Old lady hegsath, that's that's unnecessarily a
disrespectful sounding his mom missus exit. I'm just trying to
differentiate between his exes and his mom the old battle ax.
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Now that'd be his wife. Uh so, uh, mom, Hegxeth
wrote this email quite well, it's again, I've I've read
the whole thing. It is coherent, well structured in a
rather eloquent prosecution. If she believes none of it's true,
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in fact, the opposite is true. And she wrote it
in haste and immediately wrote back and apologized, she's an
effing psycho. To use the parlance of today's youth, that's
that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
That is uh, which is the parlance of youth of
fifteen years ago.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Good enough, that is absolutely true.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
If you wrote that email to your son and it's
not true, you're a nut job.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
I mean, if you I could see writing something on
the with the feel of I'm through with you. I
don't even want to talk to you. Don't call me.
Blah blah, blah. You could say, hey, my emotions were
out of hand while I was expressing my emotions, but
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she is claiming that her emotions were out of hand.
Therefore she wildly mistated the facts of the case, which
again makes for a cuckoo bird. I don't know, you
made me feel bad about something I said.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Uh so, Uh, Well, I don't like this kind of
guy their personal life. Yeah, I don't like people who
live like that, you know. And if his mom is
really upset, she likes their family and his wife and
they have kids, and is horrified that he's out sleeping
around blowing up their family and everything like that, I'd
(25:30):
be mad too and disappointed and hurt and all kinds
of bad feelings if I were her, right, Yeah, So
I just, you know, I don't want to completely blow
that off as a as.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
A I don't know, way of life or whatever.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
But again, Martin Luther King Junior had a different woman
in every city he went to. That's the way he
lived his life, and we have statues of him. Every
city in America has a road named after him. So,
I mean, I just I get caused by that.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Well, yeah, there's a wild lack of consistency. If the
guy is the guy to bring the Pentagon to heel,
to eliminate all the waste, the intransigence, the prostituting itself
for various powerful Congress people, as opposed to doggedly pursuing
our aims of preparedness in serving our troops in battle.
(26:22):
Blah blah blah blah. You know what I'm talking about.
I mean, if he's that guy, I'm willing to overlook
a hell of a lot. But it goes into the stoop.
So anyway, for the half dozen times as we've talked
about these various nominees, we have checks and balances, we
have hearings, we have questions, and the opportunity to present answers.
(26:43):
Telsea Gabbett, I think is going to be a great
example of that. It's funny this is getting so little
attention in Maga world. She systematically opposed and belittled virtually
all of Trump's policies in his first term. Eloquent and
unmistakably they disagree about everything.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
But now she's coming since she was hardcore against the
strike on Sulamani.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Yeah, yeah, for instance, So anyway, we can talk about
that a little bit later on. But my hair is
neither on fire nor spouting rainbows. Shooting rainbows obviously the atmosphere.
If you could do that, that'd be awesome. What's the Oh,
speaking of rainbows, we got to talk about that idiotic
jaguar ad that's making getting so much attention. I have
the backstory. Oh, oh it's so off. Oh did you
(27:34):
see Colbart's riff on that that I tweeted? I did not.
Oh that's funny, it's really really funny. We should talk
abound her bending idiocy. Any say, anyway, where was I
jaguar Telsey gabber? Oh, so my hair is neither on
fair nor shooting rainbows out We all have hearings. We'll
(27:55):
ask questions. Well, we'll have those questions answered. The Senate
will think, you know what, she has changed your mind.
I've changed my mind on stuff. Good enough or not? Fine,
it's the process. I got a question for hearing, but
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Speaker 2 (29:13):
So when they have the hearing for hegzeth is a
lot of it going to be about his personal life.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Do you think some of it. I think the Democrats
who don't like him or just want to decap Trump
every chance they get, they'll they'll lean on it pretty hard.
They'll have a couple of women who will go big
on that, a couple of ladies senators. Hmmm. Is that
gonna work? Depends how strong the rest of it is.
(29:44):
I think if it's one more note in the cord
of this is not a great nominee, then it'll hurt him.
But if in other ways he impresses but he shakes
it off, Yeah, I don't like it being about that. Again.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
I just I don't know unless we've changed our mind
as a country that we expect well, I mean, see
Bill Clinton, see Donald Trump. Sure, I don't know what
you're talking about. We should talk about the Jaguar commercial,
among other things. Of course, the hunter Biden getting pardoned
thing for anything he may have done over the last
ten years.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
That's a heck of a bardon. And I am anti
violence in almost all circumstances, but I'm pro the violence
at college football over the weekend. You're talking about that
as well. Stay tuned.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
The Big Ten finding both Ohio State and Michigan won
one hundred thousand dollars after a postgame brawl send one
officer to the hospital, a coach bloodied, and several players
pepper sprayed. Players storming the field after the wolverines surprise
thirteen to ten upset win over the number two Buckeyes,
a Michigan player attempts to plant the team's flag into
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the buck guy's logo, a player for Ohio State ripping
it away. Several players knocked to the pushing and shoving,
escalating into punches and pepper spray. It was a full
day of college football conflict across the country, from a
small skirmish in Arizona to UNC and NC State players
brawling after another attempted flag planting, and FSU players and
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their head coach outraged after the University of Florida opponents
planted their flag too.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
They're outraged, but did they throw a punch? Mean? Outraged
is one thing? You gotta punch people so they know
you're outraged. Exactly. Excuse me, I'm outraged. No, no fists
gotta meat face. But so is this a new thing?
The flag planting? It's not new new, but it's certainly
new in the span of the last several decades of
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American sporting tradition. Yes. Yeah, it's a hell of a
thing to do. You win on somebody else's field and
you stick your your flag and their logo. I'd fight
you too, I would go I won't the smallest guy
on the team. I'm the water boy. I'd run out
there and start throwing haymakers. I don't care. That is
way over the line. Oh boy. I was thinking about
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that while is at the Chiefs game.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
It's just it's amazing, and not just from a sports standpoint,
really that there's anything that tens of thousands. I mean,
in the case of the Chiefs game, there's eighty thousand
people there. You go to Michigan, it's one hundred thousand
people people getting together, emotionally worked up about supporting a
thing together and the time and money invested in making
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that happen.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
It's an evolutionary thing that we all know about. You know.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
It's got all the war analogies and all that sort
of stuff. That's what it all ties into. It's just
it's interesting that it occurs.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Yeah, and it always occurs and always will yeah. Yeah, yeah,
because that's why the way we're built.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
I mean, it's a heck of a thing to get
one hundred thousand people to say, I know, it's fifteen
degrees outside, and we're gonna charge you, you know, five
hundred three thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
To do this.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
But it'll be full and they will be there because
of you know, evolutionary stuff I say.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
And you will be there in the garb of your
tribe as well that you spent a fair amount of
money on. Perhaps in the case of Buffalo Bills, fans
naked from the waist up moves of flappen. So, but
congratulations to the Bills and their man boobed fans.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
So the long and short of the Hunter Biden pardon,
which everybody knew was coming at some point, I figured
it was.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Jocking and completely unsurprising.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
I figured it might be at the end, but sentencing
was going to happen this week, in the next couple
of weeks or two cases. And I think the President
didn't want his kid to spend a day in jail,
and you know, blame him. Jail's not a good place
to be. I wouldn't want my son to be in
jail either.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Couple of great things next hour number one, we will
go over the actual statement for the president. It is
an unintentional comedic masterpiece. It is so drenched in hypocrisy
you gotta you know, you got to put it bucket
under it because it's dripping with it. Plus the backstory
(34:15):
behind that bizarro jaguar failing to read the room ad
campaign that you may or may not have seen. It's
become semi legendary. Of the parodies are everywhere.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Yeah, but so the the main crux of the pardoning
to me is well, like I said, I could see
why you do it as a father, As a parent,
I absolutely see how how you you would get there.
But the reception of it in the media, given the
fact that a lot of it has to do with
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not paying your fair share of taxes. You're a super
rich guy, and beyond that, a white male, super rich guy, well,
doesn't feel like you need to pay taxes and you
aren't outraged about that. On the left, no, doesn't bother you.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Okay, no, again, the principles that are used to badger
and beat down your opponents are merely tools of the moment. There.
As I've said many times, it's like a jacket you
put on, then you take off again when it's no
longer useful. A lot of these things they claim are
the most sacred, sacred principles. Please, they don't give a
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crap about them. Some of the rank and file might,
you know, the college kids are dopey and deluded, but
they're sincere. But at the highest levels, No, they don't
mean any of this stuff. Nancy Pelosi hasn't spoken a
sincere sentence since Ike was in the White House.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
I wonder if Hunter can stay sober. I hope he can.
But he's got an interesting life. Yeah, his jaw don't work, right,
you got the meth jaw?
Speaker 1 (35:54):
Yeah, you don't. Kids don't do the drugs. And then
you know it ties into the whole laptop think.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
I mean, he has to be pardoned for a whole
bunch of things that we would have known way more
about if the Deep State hadn't gone out of their
way to hide that laptop, including money laundering.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Right. If you don't get Next Hour, grab it via
pard podcast Armstrong, you Getty on demand.
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Ketty arm Strong
and Jettie and he Armstrong and Yetty. You wa to
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the first question of the briefing.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
I know you said not a lot's changed this yesterday
and it's a personal matter. But from a presidential perspective,
is there any possibility that the president would end up
pardoning his son. Yeah, so you've probably heard a disability,
so let's quit talking about it. You probably heard that
Joe Biden did pardon Hunter going back ten years for
(00:46):
anything he did, whether you've heard about it or not.
And we'll talk more about that later. And it's, uh,
it's quite a deal. I don't think it was shocking
to anybody, but it changes the landscape a little bit,
given the fact that Trump is on the war path
claiming the Justice Department is too political, and Joe Biden
stated in words that the Justice Department got political with
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his son.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Right right in the other direction too, heart on democrats. Okay,
speaking of political appointees, I want to talk a little
bit about Pete Hegseeth's nomination. Also Tulsey Gabbard and I
can't believe I've waited until now. I am so incredibly
happy that Trump has nominated Jay Battacharia of Stanford University
(01:34):
to head the National Institutes of Health, one of the
signers of the Great Barrier Declaration, a dissenting voice during COVID.
He was picked on, he was banned, he was berated,
he was discredited when he was right about everything. So
more on that to come as well.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Since you mentioned Nih, I have become a big fan
of the vague Ramaswami, which I wouldn't have guessed, as
I've said horrible things about him, hated him as a
presidential candidate and some of the crazy crap he was
saying to try to get attention, like him as a businessman.
And he's working with Elon on doge right the Department
of Government Efficiency, and his Twitter feed is an endless
(02:13):
stream of things they're finding and the federal budget and
federal government that are wastes of money, and it's just
absolutely amazing. But here's one of them, Nih who you
just mentioned, Trump's nominee for that. NIH grant distributions have
turned into a joke Vivek Rights.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
But the most ridiculous part is.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
That seventy percent of the federal funds granted to universities
goes to fund their overhead slush funds, which is all
DEI nonsense and stuff like that. It's just crap, with
none of it getting too, well, not none of it,
but very little of it getting to the actual research.
If there's a private donation, only ten percent goes to
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the crap. The rest of it goes to the actual research.
But for whatever reason, a government fund, taxpayer funds, seventy
percent is just wasted.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Wow Wow, Because it's other people's money, they don't care.
Speaking of the NIH, and then we'll move on back
to the question of Doge and saving money. They've also
become completely woke. They are riddled with DEI crap. You
cannot get a grant from the NIH unless you are
one minority or other. It takes some vow of wolkness.
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It's it's utterly corrupt.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Yet another tangent that I've got to go with. I
was reading this article about how awful it is that
Trump and Elon and Doge are taking a look at
Noah n oh whatever the acronym is for the the
weather people, the federal weather thing, and The point that.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Elon and others are making is.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Yeah, this thing is so shopped through and through with
people that are dedicated only to climate change and all
the crap that goes with that. They fully drank the
kool aid on that there's no like actual client's being done.
They have an agenda. They have a political agenda. And
so the left is claiming, you don't even want weather
forecast anymore, and Trump's crowd is claiming it's cause it's
(04:11):
it's it's a now, a taxpayer funded scare people about
climate change organization is what.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
It is, in addition to just being a jobs program,
which is what all government turns into. Yeah, oh I
was I gonna say about Noah's Yeah, yeah, it doesn't matter.
So back to the main threat. So Elon Musk has
said he wants to save two trillion dollars cut two
trillion dollars worth of spending. That is ridiculous, practically laughable. However,
(04:42):
and here's our thing. We want to be realistic to
help you understand the challenges and and some of the
promise of the thing. Do you want to say something
real quick?
Speaker 2 (04:54):
I don't understand. Look, I would like to know more
about Elon's life. I was watching him at the big
Thanksgiving gap at Maga at mar A Lago Maga logo,
and he's sitting there with Trump and they're dancing to
the YMCA and everything like that, and just he tweets
like a hundred times a day. So and then he
(05:14):
had another rocket take off. How what is his lifestyle? Yeah,
what in the hell is he doing? And then you know,
obviously he's not raising his twelve kids because he spent
his Thanksgiving with just sitting next to Donald Trump. I
don't know where your kids were on Thanksgiving anyway either.
Did he back to his efforts to rein in spending? Yeah, oh,
that reminds me. He tweeted something I just saw where
(05:38):
is that? It was absolutely fabulous. I thought I sent
that to myself.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
It was a community note, you know where if somebody
tweets something that's inaccurate or whatever, there will be community
notes that are carefully researched and saying, hey, this is misleading,
because oh, there it is. And the tweet was it
was from Joe Biden back coming on Trump. No one
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is above the law, and the community notes says by
pardoning his son Hunter not merely for a single crime,
but for all actual and potential crimes he may or
may not have created over an eleven year period. Joe
Biden has made clear that some people are in fact
above the law. That's a good community note. Yeah, community
notes for the win anyway. So Elon Musk wants to
(06:26):
save two trillion dollars, rather, that's going to be very,
very very hard for reasons that I think are pretty
damned interesting. The government spent a total of six point
seventy five trillion dollars in the most recent fiscal year,
which ended at the end of September, a year SOWA
six point seventy five trillion.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
So that means they took in about five point seventy
five trillion in revenue something like, because we spend about
a trillion more than we take in.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Yeah. In other words, they walked around handing twenty thousand
dollars to every human being within our borders, twenty thousand
for all three hundred and thirty seven million of us.
Let's get back to the reality of it. So of
that six and three quarter trillion dollars, you got one
and a half that's Medicare and Medicaid, and this is
(07:10):
mandatory spending and interest payments. This is not stuff that
Congress can vote up or down year by year. It
is locked in unless they pass a massive restructuring of
these programs. So million and a half did you already
say half? No? Okay, no, million and a half, I'm sorry.
A trillion and a half dollars Medicare and Medicaid, one
(07:32):
point four to five Social Security. That takes us to
what just under three There's another just under a trillion
dollars worth of net interest. Our credit card bill is
now approaching a trillion dollars a year because we spend
more than we take in. But nobody cares. Nobody talked
(07:55):
about during the election. I'll stop talking about it now,
so we still have an audience. What the hell, America,
What is the matter with you? Other mandatory spending, which
includes a great deal of VA stuff or that might
be within defense, I'm not sure, is another one and
a quarter trillion dollars. So just in broad numbers, we're
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looking at three four five trillion dollars. Out of that,
six point seventy five is quote unquote mandatory spending and interest.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
So basically untouchable discretionary spending. Consists of nine hundred and
fifty billion dollars. I'm sorry, let's go with eight hundred
and fifty billion in defense. We spent about eight hundred
and fifty fifty billion dollars on defense. Whoa, Joe, that's
one hundred billion dollars less than we're spending on our
interest payments now, not available to defend this country against
(08:46):
the commie hordes, the Aslamists.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Or a Putin or whomever. We don't have that much.
That's right, I said, I wasn't going to talk about
this anymore, okay a, and then non defense spending again.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
If the Sweet and Sour Chicken ever hits the fan
with China, we're really gonna notice this. Oh yeah, we
don't have that money available to spend on defense.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Well, and more to the point, we didn't have it
available when the ramping up was occurring. If we wait
until General Sao Unleasha's the unholy chicken of communist deceit
on us, he says, attempting to add on to Jack's
already questionable metaphor, it's way too late. Where was I? I
(09:34):
distracted myself with that crab? Oh? Okay, So all we've
got left of the enormous federal pie, then is about
nine hundred and forty eight billion dollars in non defense
discretionary spending. It's it's essentially nine hundred and fifty billion.
So since again, unless Congress has a major, major restructuring
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of our entitlement programs in mind, or we cut our
military to the bone, there's it's just nine hundred and
forty eight billion dollars to go after. So there's no
chance you're gonna get two trillion dollars in savings now
here is the on the other hand, on the other hand,
let's see how much we can do. Let's see how
much crap we can root out. As we often point out,
(10:17):
you know, you come across the stuff that Vivek is
tweeting about. That's like you pick some nice little town
in Kansas, Like you're in Solina where Jack and I
met years and years ago. You're in Salina, Kansas. Sounds
like we're sounds like we were on bumble when you
say it, like that, is bumble a bad one or
a good one? Or is it doesn't mattery? Find love
(10:39):
wherever you can.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
But if every tax paying homo sapien in Solina Kansas.
We're a pool their money every there. I'm sorry, they're taxes,
every single red scent of that was squandered by the
nih for instance, in the way that VVEK was a
tweeting about. And that's obscene, that's horrifying, it's robbery. It's
(11:05):
an American. So no, we're not not going to get
to two trillion dollars because Elon tends toward hyperbole. But
let's see how good we can do. Oh and by
the way, vote against deficit spending, please America. Now shut up.
Federal civilian and military retirements about one hundred billion.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
By the way, that reminds me of a fortune I
got at Panda Express the other night. We were very
my sons and I were very unhappy with modern fortunes.
Are not fortunes at all.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
No, no, they're terrible. Yes, Michael did say I ped
in your rights. It was handwritten. That's more a confession
than a fortune written pede in your right? What in
perverse and childish thing to say, Michael, Oh, thank you,
I'll thank you to keep those comments, dear, which you
(12:00):
gotta laugh out of me.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
But yeah, I want to I want to talk about
a bunch of things, including Pete Hexit's mom.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
You don't expect to get.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Kneecapped by your own mom if you're about to get
the biggest job in your life.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Yeah, well, it's it's troubling. If you haven't heard this,
it's it's nasty. Stay duned YETI this is behind people.
Put it in. He pitched its touchdown. My it is
(12:39):
showtime in Buffalo.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Bowley Well, Josh Allen is a beast, the quarterback for
the Buffalo Bills. He has now beaten both last year's
Super Bowl teams back to back weeks, the Chiefs and
the forty nine Ers, on amazing plays of his own.
And it is the first time ever that an NFL
quarterback ran, caught, and threw a touchdown in a single game,
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which he did yesterday. As you heard there catching a
pass and running it in. It's easy to root for
the Bills and the Allions, which are both really really
great teams. The Chiefs the game I was at and
spent way too much money to be that cold. They
won NFL record. Our friend Dave, who does stats for
the Raiders, sent me this as the game ended. The
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Chiefs have won seven games this year on the last
play of the game. An NFL record, that's not They
could easily be a sub five hundred team. I mean easily,
but yeah, yeah, they've got the best record.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Yeah, I mean winning in crunch time is not exactly
a minor attribute as an athlete or a team's Yeah,
I'll tell you what. That would have had a lot
to do with how loud it was in there.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
So Arrowhead Stadium, Even if you're a non sports fan,
you might find this interesting. Arrowhead Stadium in Kennasaity is
allowed to stadium in America. And and it was getting
really loud there in the fourth quarter. And I thought,
you know, what's loud, But it's not as loud as
I thought it was. It was because I had a
beanie on and my hood over it. I pulled down
my hood and took off my beanie and it was like,
holy cow, it sounded like a jet engine in there,
(14:13):
so loud. I was just in the bathroom. I mentioned
earlier that I gained three and a half pounds over
our Thanksgiving break.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
O Lord, where is this going.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
I just was in the bathroom and I looked in
the mirror. My head is so round, it's perfectly spherical.
Like the sort of perfect sphere they can only accomplish
in space. I've accomplished by eating. What did the drug
dealer calling in Mexico? Charlie Brown, Charlie Brown. Yeah, Hey,
Charlie bron you want some pot.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Charlie Brown, you want some pot? You want a girl?
You want a girl? Charlie Brown calling me, Charlie Brown.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Oh, we played ac DC music because they just announced
they're going to do a twenty twenty five tour, which
I'm gonna have to take Henry too.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
That would be really really cool.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
A bunch of old men stepping or stumping around, one
of them in short pants sounds good to me.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Yeah, I mean really old, Joe Biden old.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
And then I wanted to get to this among the
many things. I got so many notes from our week
off of things I came across in the news that
I found entertaining, but one of them a piece in
the New York Times from yesterday. A person wrote, I
don't have them from me. If it's basically leavings is
(15:31):
not as as easy as you think, take it from me.
And it was someone who had left the country twice
and out of you know, some sort of anger over
something we're doing and then ended up coming back. This
person left once because we were funding somebody that didn't
like us funding in some war somewhere. So they moved
out of the country and then decided, yeah, I should
(15:53):
go back.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
I liked it better there.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Then they moved out of the country when Trump won
in twenty sixteen, that's it. I can't live here anymore.
They moved to Europe, and then he said, ah, maybe
I should go back. Date I say, says they moving
back anyway. So they're writing a piece about how it's
more difficult than it sounds.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Yeah, you freaking more on no kidding you give. Given
the New York Times readership, that's probably a pretty useful
point of view for those people to see and hear. Ah.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
You would think though, that you would be embarrassed to
say out loud that twice you've pulled up stakes and
taken your family to another country over the news of
the day.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Maybe it's one of those things where the fact that
you did it twice is proof that you can't be embarrassed. Yeah,
by that, you don't realize how how adolescents you're coming off.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Yeah, So a lot of Trump's nominees are the fraut
fraud situations and Pete Hegzeth for Secretary of Defense's mom
kneecapped him over the weekend.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Kind of unintentionally, well, absolutely unintentionally.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
And we've got to remention the uh Hunter Biden being
pardoned by his dad.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Too, absolutely shocking yet completely unsurprised.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
And Hunter, you're a loser and we'll have political ripples
for quite some time too.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Armstrong and Geeddy, you have.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
To admire the raw hutzpah of Biden lying for months
about partning Hunter and then concluding his statement about partning
Hunter with the line, for my entire career have followed
a simple principle, just tell the American people the truth.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Yeah, well, I mean, it's it's comedy. It that is something.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Uh, we'll talk more about the Hunter Biden pardon, but
that is something. I mean. NBC is reporting that he
had planned to pardon Hunter all along, wasn't sure, but
was leaning that direction, but it decided to say out
loud that absolutely not, he wouldn't pardon Hunter. That's what
NBC is reporting. Yeah, sure, so that is a of
(18:00):
we've decided to lie. And then you end your letter
about the pardon by saying one thing, you can always
count on me for me as I tell the truth.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
That's hilarious. It is hilarious. Like I said, it's comedy.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
I mean, the one thing he is not known for
is honesty, the opposite. It's like I'll never cheat on
you while you're kissing a girl or something. I mean,
it's just it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Yeah, is one way to put it. It's just absurd.
So more on that. And if you didn't hear our
previous discussions in some depth and with wit and intelligence,
of course you could grab it later via podcast Armstrong
and getting on demand. We talked about it hours one,
two and whatever. So speaking of government seats of power,
(18:46):
of the president's elect making a number of nominations for
various cabinet posts and and some I think are rock solid,
some are intriguing, and some are probably a bad idea
witness Matt Gates. But Pete Hegseeth is definitely in the
intriguing category for me. Lack of experience running any big enterprise.
(19:09):
Yet he is a military man. He's a very very
bright man. He's incredibly well educated. There's nobody on earth
who doubts that he has the best interests of A
are fighting men and women in mind, and b the
success of our military enterprises. And maybe we need a
little more of that and a little less of I'm
(19:30):
a big bureaucrat. Maybe not, but maybe. And the incoming
guy gets to make his nominations. We hold hearings. This
came out in the last few days. Pete, who is married,
I believe at this point to his third wife. He's
got a couple of divorces in his background, and in
(19:50):
twenty eighteen, in the midst of one of those divorces,
his mom absolutely laid the wood to him in an email.
I will tell you right now the take on the
right is, uh, it's and actually I believe the old
missus Hegseth has said the same thing. Mom. It's despicable
that the New York Times published this email?
Speaker 2 (20:12):
How did anybody get it? She emailed her own son,
how's that? How's that public?
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Ever, I believe somebody else I read this over the weekend.
It recall specifically, I think it was another another relative.
Was C Seed on it? Blind? C Seed? It was?
(20:37):
It was another relative who had it and submitted it
to the New York Times. I'll dig that up few times,
obtained a copy of the email from another person with
ties to the Hegseth family. Bummo, Okay, people who never
email or text for these reasons are closer to right
than wrong, because yeah, any electronic communication is out there. Yeah,
uh so at any rate. In twenty eight eighteen, uh
(21:03):
she described how he'd routinely mistreated women for years and
displayed lack of character. Quote on behalf of all the women,
and I know it's many you have abused in some way.
I say, get some help and take an honest look
at yourself. I have no respect for any man that belittles, lies, cheats,
sleeps around, and uses women for his own power and ego.
(21:23):
You are that man and have been for years. And
as your mother, it pains me and embarrasses me to
say that, but it is the sad, sad truth. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
If he was living that lifestyle, and it sounds like
he was, you can understand why a mom would say that.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Now, she says now because she's asked about it and
said She sent her son an immediate follow up email
at the time apologizing for what she had written, and
said she might produce that email but hasn't at this moment.
She said she had fired off the original email quote
in anger with emotion time when he and his wife,
(22:01):
who she was very fond of, were going through a
very difficult divorce. That's horrible. In an interview, she defended
her son disavowed the sentiments expressed in the original email.
It is not true. It has never been true. I
know my son. He is a good father and husband.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
See the problem I have with this? You know what
I just said, It sounds like it is true. I
think he sure seems like he's that kind of guy.
What's that got to do with being Secretary of Defense?
When did that become the standard that you have to
be good in your private sexual relationships or relationships or whatever.
If that is the new standard, then take John F.
Kennedy's name off all the middle schools and all the statues,
(22:36):
and same with Martin Luther King Junior and.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
A whole bunch of other people. Yeah. I'm not in
favor of a wholesale throwing out of all questions of
character comportment.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Definitely, I'm pro morality and higher the character the better.
But did we decide this is a country that the
standards we didn't hold those people I just mentioned to
now apply.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Well, and let's let's face it, and I've got the
complete email here, let's go ahead and say what needs
to be said. Old lady hegsath, that's that's unnecessarily a
disrespectful sounding his mom missus exit. I'm just trying to
differentiate between his exes and his mom the old battle ax.
(23:25):
Now that'd be his wife. Uh so, uh, mom, Hegxeth
wrote this email quite well, it's again, I've I've read
the whole thing. It is coherent, well structured in a
rather eloquent prosecution. If she believes none of it's true,
(23:55):
in fact, the opposite is true. And she wrote it
in haste and immediately wrote back and apologized, she's an
effing psycho. To use the parlance of today's youth, that's
that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
That is uh, which is the parlance of youth of
fifteen years ago.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Good enough, that is absolutely true.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
If you wrote that email to your son and it's
not true, you're a nut job.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
I mean, if you I could see writing something on
the with the feel of I'm through with you. I
don't even want to talk to you. Don't call me.
Blah blah, blah. You could say, hey, my emotions were
out of hand while I was expressing my emotions, but
(24:50):
she is claiming that her emotions were out of hand.
Therefore she wildly mistated the facts of the case, which
again makes for a cuckoo bird. I don't know, you
made me feel bad about something I said.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Uh so, Uh, Well, I don't like this kind of
guy their personal life. Yeah, I don't like people who
live like that, you know. And if his mom is
really upset, she likes their family and his wife and
they have kids, and is horrified that he's out sleeping
around blowing up their family and everything like that, I'd
(25:30):
be mad too and disappointed and hurt and all kinds
of bad feelings if I were her, right, Yeah, So
I just, you know, I don't want to completely blow
that off as a as.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
A I don't know, way of life or whatever.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
But again, Martin Luther King Junior had a different woman
in every city he went to. That's the way he
lived his life, and we have statues of him. Every
city in America has a road named after him. So,
I mean, I just I get caused by that.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Well, yeah, there's a wild lack of consistency. If the
guy is the guy to bring the Pentagon to heel,
to eliminate all the waste, the intransigence, the prostituting itself
for various powerful Congress people, as opposed to doggedly pursuing
our aims of preparedness in serving our troops in battle.
(26:22):
Blah blah blah blah. You know what I'm talking about.
I mean, if he's that guy, I'm willing to overlook
a hell of a lot. But it goes into the stoop.
So anyway, for the half dozen times as we've talked
about these various nominees, we have checks and balances, we
have hearings, we have questions, and the opportunity to present answers.
(26:43):
Telsea Gabbett, I think is going to be a great
example of that. It's funny this is getting so little
attention in Maga world. She systematically opposed and belittled virtually
all of Trump's policies in his first term. Eloquent and
unmistakably they disagree about everything.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
But now she's coming since she was hardcore against the
strike on Sulamani.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Yeah, yeah, for instance, So anyway, we can talk about
that a little bit later on. But my hair is
neither on fire nor spouting rainbows. Shooting rainbows obviously the atmosphere.
If you could do that, that'd be awesome. What's the Oh,
speaking of rainbows, we got to talk about that idiotic
jaguar ad that's making getting so much attention. I have
the backstory. Oh, oh it's so off. Oh did you
(27:34):
see Colbart's riff on that that I tweeted? I did not.
Oh that's funny, it's really really funny. We should talk
abound her bending idiocy. Any say, anyway, where was I
jaguar Telsey gabber? Oh, so my hair is neither on
fair nor shooting rainbows out We all have hearings. We'll
(27:55):
ask questions. Well, we'll have those questions answered. The Senate
will think, you know what, she has changed your mind.
I've changed my mind on stuff. Good enough or not? Fine,
it's the process. I got a question for hearing, but
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Speaker 2 (29:13):
So when they have the hearing for hegzeth is a
lot of it going to be about his personal life.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Do you think some of it. I think the Democrats
who don't like him or just want to decap Trump
every chance they get, they'll they'll lean on it pretty hard.
They'll have a couple of women who will go big
on that, a couple of ladies senators. Hmmm. Is that
gonna work? Depends how strong the rest of it is.
(29:44):
I think if it's one more note in the cord
of this is not a great nominee, then it'll hurt him.
But if in other ways he impresses but he shakes
it off, Yeah, I don't like it being about that. Again.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
I just I don't know unless we've changed our mind
as a country that we expect well, I mean, see
Bill Clinton, see Donald Trump. Sure, I don't know what
you're talking about. We should talk about the Jaguar commercial,
among other things. Of course, the hunter Biden getting pardoned
thing for anything he may have done over the last
ten years.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
That's a heck of a bardon. And I am anti
violence in almost all circumstances, but I'm pro the violence
at college football over the weekend. You're talking about that
as well. Stay tuned.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
The Big Ten finding both Ohio State and Michigan won
one hundred thousand dollars after a postgame brawl send one
officer to the hospital, a coach bloodied, and several players
pepper sprayed. Players storming the field after the wolverines surprise
thirteen to ten upset win over the number two Buckeyes,
a Michigan player attempts to plant the team's flag into
(30:54):
the buck guy's logo, a player for Ohio State ripping
it away. Several players knocked to the pushing and shoving,
escalating into punches and pepper spray. It was a full
day of college football conflict across the country, from a
small skirmish in Arizona to UNC and NC State players
brawling after another attempted flag planting, and FSU players and
(31:15):
their head coach outraged after the University of Florida opponents
planted their flag too.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
They're outraged, but did they throw a punch? Mean? Outraged
is one thing? You gotta punch people so they know
you're outraged. Exactly. Excuse me, I'm outraged. No, no fists
gotta meat face. But so is this a new thing?
The flag planting? It's not new new, but it's certainly
new in the span of the last several decades of
(31:42):
American sporting tradition. Yes. Yeah, it's a hell of a
thing to do. You win on somebody else's field and
you stick your your flag and their logo. I'd fight
you too, I would go I won't the smallest guy
on the team. I'm the water boy. I'd run out
there and start throwing haymakers. I don't care. That is
way over the line. Oh boy. I was thinking about
(32:06):
that while is at the Chiefs game.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
It's just it's amazing, and not just from a sports standpoint,
really that there's anything that tens of thousands. I mean,
in the case of the Chiefs game, there's eighty thousand
people there. You go to Michigan, it's one hundred thousand
people people getting together, emotionally worked up about supporting a
thing together and the time and money invested in making
(32:31):
that happen.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
It's an evolutionary thing that we all know about. You know.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
It's got all the war analogies and all that sort
of stuff. That's what it all ties into. It's just
it's interesting that it occurs.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Yeah, and it always occurs and always will yeah. Yeah, yeah,
because that's why the way we're built.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
I mean, it's a heck of a thing to get
one hundred thousand people to say, I know, it's fifteen
degrees outside, and we're gonna charge you, you know, five
hundred three thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
To do this.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
But it'll be full and they will be there because
of you know, evolutionary stuff I say.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
And you will be there in the garb of your
tribe as well that you spent a fair amount of
money on. Perhaps in the case of Buffalo Bills, fans
naked from the waist up moves of flappen. So, but
congratulations to the Bills and their man boobed fans.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
So the long and short of the Hunter Biden pardon,
which everybody knew was coming at some point, I figured
it was.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Jocking and completely unsurprising.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
I figured it might be at the end, but sentencing
was going to happen this week, in the next couple
of weeks or two cases. And I think the President
didn't want his kid to spend a day in jail,
and you know, blame him. Jail's not a good place
to be. I wouldn't want my son to be in
jail either.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Couple of great things next hour number one, we will
go over the actual statement for the president. It is
an unintentional comedic masterpiece. It is so drenched in hypocrisy
you gotta you know, you got to put it bucket
under it because it's dripping with it. Plus the backstory
(34:15):
behind that bizarro jaguar failing to read the room ad
campaign that you may or may not have seen. It's
become semi legendary. Of the parodies are everywhere.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Yeah, but so the the main crux of the pardoning
to me is well, like I said, I could see
why you do it as a father, As a parent,
I absolutely see how how you you would get there.
But the reception of it in the media, given the
fact that a lot of it has to do with
(34:49):
not paying your fair share of taxes. You're a super
rich guy, and beyond that, a white male, super rich guy, well,
doesn't feel like you need to pay taxes and you
aren't outraged about that. On the left, no, doesn't bother you.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Okay, no, again, the principles that are used to badger
and beat down your opponents are merely tools of the moment. There.
As I've said many times, it's like a jacket you
put on, then you take off again when it's no
longer useful. A lot of these things they claim are
the most sacred, sacred principles. Please, they don't give a
(35:25):
crap about them. Some of the rank and file might,
you know, the college kids are dopey and deluded, but
they're sincere. But at the highest levels, No, they don't
mean any of this stuff. Nancy Pelosi hasn't spoken a
sincere sentence since Ike was in the White House.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
I wonder if Hunter can stay sober. I hope he can.
But he's got an interesting life. Yeah, his jaw don't work, right,
you got the meth jaw?
Speaker 1 (35:54):
Yeah, you don't. Kids don't do the drugs. And then
you know it ties into the whole laptop think.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
I mean, he has to be pardoned for a whole
bunch of things that we would have known way more
about if the Deep State hadn't gone out of their
way to hide that laptop, including money laundering.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
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