December 2, 2024 • 36 mins
Hour 4 of A&G features...
- The Jaguar ad
- Holiday travel & fat mice
- The big pardon
- Final Thoughts!
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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):
Arms Strong and he armstrong and Yetty. One thing is clear.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
We're all in for a lot of change in the
months to come, and that includes British carmaker Jaguar. Sales
have been flagging for Jaguar, so they're trying a rebrand. First,
they redid the logo. Here's the old one with the
badass kitty cat. Here's the new one. Jogguar looks like
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a luxury condom brand and an Eastern europe In an
Eastern European dance club. Oh don't worry, honey, baby.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Nikolai has Jaguar Juguar.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
So that's Stephen Colbert reacting to the new Jaguar ad
which we will talk about here in a second.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Here's a little more of Colbert.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Seriously, this video asks way more questions than it answers,
Like is the new Jaguar a yellow elevator that takes
you to a fashion model planet made of pink dust?
And if I have body hair? Am I allowed on
the Jaguar planet? Also, I have no idea what it
means to create exuberant.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
If I have body hair, am I allowed on the
Jaguar planet?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (01:34):
The reason being if you haven't actually seen it, maybe
you've just seen parodies of it. Is the whole thing
centers on these like luridly primary colorish, gender bending, shaved,
transgender gay, weirdly quafft people moving in odd ways, and
(01:59):
we building hammers and such of the hammers of course
in lord A primary colors as well.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
No car, by the way, there is no car in
the commercial whatsoever.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Yeah, the whole theme is copy nothing, break the mode,
and it was universally just who did at well, almost universe.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
If I have body hair, am I allowed to have
a jackwire? Oh that's funny.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Because everybody's like shaved and freakish looking in its obvious,
you know, transgender types in the reminiscent of the horrifying
Olympics opening ceremony, wolkendoctrination thing. But anyway, I thought this
is so interesting. Malcolm Clark, who's a filmmaker, was writing
about this and he writes that it was so bonkers.
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It's tempting to assume it was a joke or an accident,
But it wasn't It represents the culmination of a campaign
to groom a great British brand by the insane LGBTQ
plus lobby. And he's talking about Aude, which is a
lgb whatever Alphabet Soup magazine that reviewed the ad and
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said it was the best one of the year. And
because Nigel Farrag the conservative politician and Elon Musk.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Hated it, that proved it was genius.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Elon Musk tweeted out the ad and said, I'm selling
my Jaguar and I don't even own one.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
So the roots of the ad campaign can be traced
back to October twenty one when Jaguar tried out bold
primary colors and meaningless slogans and ads specifically for attitude
the Alphabet Soup magazine slash website. Then the slogan was
live loud hilariously. They claimed it was one of the
top UK ads ever. And the LGBTQ lobby can always
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be relied on to rope in its mates to tell
you anything you want to hear.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Cantar, that's the company that declared it great.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
Where themselves Alphabet soup lotus eaters whatever that matter means.
It's a British ism, but their claims were music to
Jaguar's marketing director Anthony Bradbury, who said that LGBTQ would
be the new focus for Jaguar, and evidently he wrote
a fair amount about how it was going to become
the new car of choice right for you know, your
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alphabet soup crowd. Keeping in mind that Jaguar land Rover
is the company, so they make the great land Rovers
as well. And so the CEO somehow got pulled into
this way of thinking by his marketing director, and like
it's possible to do if you like spend all of
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your time on left wing Twitter, the CEO of this
company became convinced that this was a great idea. They
were going to go Dylan mulvaney, Yeah, I'm not sure
in twenty twenty four, I'm not sure. This is a
horrible idea. I don't know if it's gonna work. But
as a guy in the advertising business, allegedly, if you
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could become the brand of the gay community, you know,
in a way that I've known some gay people, if
Madonna comes to town, it's considered like your obligation to
go to the Madonna concert or Melissa Etherage. It's just
something you have to do. The army, the gay army
is going to go. And I mean, if you could
become that car brand where it's kind of your obligation
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to drive this kind of car. Yeah, it's a big
difference between going to a concert and buying a car, obviously,
and it's generally been a fairly expensive car throughout the years.
I don't know, are they re I don't know if
they're remaking their cars or what they're going to look
like or right. Right, Well, here's the problem, and that's
that Jaguar got into bed No pun intended completely with this.
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Attitudes's magazine and website sponsored their awards show and all.
The problem is that these people are your hardest core
radical gender theory.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
JK.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Rowling is evil and should be hounded down and mocked
and be doxed in the rest of it. Anybody who
resists their agenda at all is a peddler of hate
and blamed for trans deaths.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
And so they went like beyond Dylan mulvaney.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
With their with their their their newfound partner and sis.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
It's it's just a bad move. Now.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
If you I'm a fan of the term LGB lesbian.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Gay bye whatever.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
That's a group of people with whom I got like,
no quarrel. Some of you have some biblical thing or
whatever that I can respect that.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
This fine. Just treat everybody civilly. Please.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
When it gets into the freaking alphabet soup portion of it,
that's when I have a problem.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
And that's Jaguar's problem. They got in bed thinking, oh,
gay rights. I remember gay rights. No, this is radical
gender theory. This is neo Marxism, postmodernism. This is little boys,
adolescent males having their their bodies mutilated. This is healthy
young women afraid of puberty getting the breasts cut off.
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This isn't gay dudes.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
I know Jaguar was hurting. I don't know how bad.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Maybe they were hurting to the point where like it
was gonna go away, so we might as well try
something different. But I mean, for my life, Jaguar was
like the go to if you're like a sixty year
old successful straight guy, and you lost those people, because
no sixty year old successful straight guy is gonna buy
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one of those now, So you cut all those people out.
So you must have been thinking, we're starting from scratch.
I guess see how it works.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Yeah, final note from Malcolm Clark, the guy who wrote
all this talking about Style Magazine that has also been
part of this whole thing. Style Magaine was also awarded
transactivist Dylan mulvaney Woman of the Year, like whenever it
was uh, And here's a quote. No matter how hard
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I try, or what I wear, or what surgeries I have,
I will never reach an acceptable version of womanhood by
those hateful people's standards. True at Dylan, it's Malcolm Clark.
That's exactly right. You can't become a woman, You're a man.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Did you see so?
Speaker 1 (08:29):
I tweeted this out with the Volvo ad? Did you
see the Volvo ad? They got attention to because it
came out the same week I don't think so. It's
a three minute plus ad made by some Oscar winning
director I don't remember who, and it's pretty over the top,
although it was very well done and touching. It was
this couple and I mean, it's it's like a modern movie.
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It's it's it's quite a three minutes. It's flashbacks cut
to where they meet and dating and getting together and
deciding to have kids and blah blah blah, go through
all the kids and at the end, there's a there's
a car wreck out of nowhere and they're in a
safe car and so their kid's okay. But it's I mean,
it's a pretty it's a pretty compelling ad. It maybe
it's you know, anytime there's a sales pitch attached to
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one of those, you always feel like, I don't know
if I like this particular part of my emotions, which
I agree with all the stuff you just add kids, love, marriage, commitment,
the meaning of life. I don't like it when there's
a so buy this at the end, you're gonna borrow
that to buy a car. Yeah, that's this and that.
But it is a really well done ad. It this
makes more sense than me. Uh, can I buy one
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of these? If I have any body hair ad?
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Well, I can't drive or buy a Volvo because it's uh,
I'm uncomfortable saying the word it's too close to lady parts.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
It is very close. Yeah, it is very close. Sorry, Volvo,
change your name.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
I'll be It'll be interesting to watch to see if
they get any traction. I have a feeling that, similar
to bud Light, they're going to be abandoning this like
within days. Yes of its debut, realize we've made a
tragic mistake, and like spend the rest of their lives
trying to krag claw back anything they lost.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
Right, That's why awareness, which is why I'm so into
raising awareness. It's like, in the wake of the George
Floyd thing in Black Lives Matter, all these corporate people,
education people, well meaning people thought, I'm not a racist.
I'm not in favor of cops kneeling on people's necks,
so I must be down with Black Lives Matter. No,
they're neo Marxist lunatics. Of course, Black Lives Matter is
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a statement, it's perfectly true. But the organization is crazy,
and you know, the whole alphabet soup crew.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
All these people are thinking, I got nothing against gay people.
I guess I'm down with that.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
No, that's postmodern neo Marxist lunacy. That's damaging kids all
over the planet. Speaking of which, final note, did you
see San Jose State lost in the finals of the
Mountain West Volleyball Championships to Colorado. That had to be
a real kick in the balls to the women on
the Santa State team.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Well, I yeah, so I followed this a little over
the weekend. I was kind of excited. I was hoping
that they would win because that would have given him
the automatic berths of the NCAA tournament, and then the
NC DOUBLEA would have had to figure their rules out.
I mean they would have I think just had to
deal with that at that point. So I think the
NC DOUBLEA was hoping that they would lose. They made
it to the finals.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
They've got a.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Dude on the team. We kind of skipped the lead.
In case you're not familiar with this story.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
San Jose State made it to the finals with their
dude on their team because of a forfeit. And then
I thought, okay, when Colorado State decided to play, I thought,
you know, am I for this or against this? Because
I can understand. You get a chance to play in
the finals and go to the NCAA tournament. And these
girls have worked their whole lives and this is might
for the seniors, this is the culmination of their career.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
A whole bunch of their players, including their star player,
best player in the tournament, knelt for the national anthem
because they hate America.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
For some reason. So who do you root for in
that match?
Speaker 1 (11:56):
But San Jose State loss, and that's that's the end
of the person's career.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
Boise State, for what it's worth, pulled out instead of
playing after already boycotting the regular season matches with San
Jose State twice before. They said no, we're not gonna
play him in the tournament either. There's a dude on
their team. Good for you, Boise State.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
I would assume, like they did in the past, they
let the players vote because the past the players hadn't
voted to That's a tough one, though. You only get
to do those sports union you're never gonna do it again.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Yeah, of course, you catch a ball in the face
when a dude pounds it into your mush at eighty
miles per hour, that's that's uncomfortable.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Or do you think you know?
Speaker 1 (12:35):
I might have daughters someday and I don't want them
playing against guys, so you take a stance.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
That's why I congratulate them for their courage. They made
a sacrifice.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
And then that freaking on one side, you got a
dude playing on the girls team. On the other side,
they're kneeling for the national anthem. They've besmirched women's volleyball.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
It is time to tear down our universities to the
studs that they've gone no kidding, morloy.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
Millions of families make their way back home from Thanksgiving
the airport's across the country. Saturday, the TSA screen nearly
three million travelers, potentially the agency's busiest day ever, maybe.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
The busiest day ever. I wish.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
I think it'd be beneficial to us all if there
was a government program where all TSA workers flew around
for a week, just from airport to airport to realize
that the rules are different everywhere. So quit acting like
I should know what the rules are here. Maybe you
don't know that because you're only at this one airport
it's your job, But if you go from airport to airport,
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they're different everywhere. So don't use that tone about whether
or not my computer should be in the bag or whatever.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
That all right, right, right, And only an idiot would
not know that. How do you not know that? Leave
your watch on? Okay? Last guy made me take it off,
so I don't know.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
Yeah, like an hour and a quarter ago, I was
in a different airport and he yelled at me to
do the opposite.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
So why don't you here's his number. Call him. You
probably heard this already.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Wish we could have been the first to break the
story to you. But the tech billionaire that paid six
million dollars plus for the banana tape to the wall
ate the banana a. This story had multiple legs while
we were on vacation. First, the fruit vendor who's barely
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scraping by in life, working outside of that art museum,
who sold the banana to the artist, who then got
six million dollars port was horrified, And then somehow was
portrayed in the press that like somehow he had been wronged.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Which I found interesting.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
How does that work that this poor guy deserved some
of the six million dollars?
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Because I mean, could think of present.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
A humble working man who's only trying to get by
with two kids at home and blah blah blah and
selling fruit barely making more then okay, fine, but how
does he deserve some of the six million dollars that
some idiot.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Paid for this work art? Don't I'm not connecting the
dots here, all right? You got two things going on there.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
First of all, a desperate attempt to find a victimize
story to sell for clicks right, And secondly, an effort
to impose some sort of mathematical rigor to the concept
of somebody paying six million dollars for a banana tape
to a wall. Well, even if it does not flow logically,
even if his real art, whoever sold Michelangelo the paint
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doesn't deserve a cut of his, you know, half a
billion dollar work of art.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
It's just never the way it worked.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
But then the tech billionaire, because he's a smarty pants,
bought the thing and then peeled it off the wall
and ate it and then posted the video and got
a bunch of.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Clicks and yay for you, dude, yea for you. Uh,
the whole thing is annoying.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Yes, yes it is, and and difficult to understand. I mean,
if I had more money than I could possibly use,
I might think, you know what would be funny, but
then I wouldn't go through it.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Then I give it to charity, right, yeah, no kidding
or something. Yeah, I mean, yeah, it's a funny joke.
But this, Yeah, the whole thing stinks. Oh, speaking of
the whole thing stinks. Yet another study has has shown
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that what was thought to be true is true. Essentially,
you're fat.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
Being overweight leaves a lasting imprint on our fat cells.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
That can persist for years.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
Your cells remember the overweight state and can return to
the state more easily. Well, they thought, hey this I
am who I am? All right, I'm gonna do me.
I'm a fat cell and I'm full.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
I'm fat. Acceptance right, no shaming among us selves.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Yeah, yeah, so fat mice fat fat mice. They regained
the weight much faster than skinny mace mice could gain.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Man the pardon next Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Any possibility that the president would end up pardening his.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Son, I just said no, I just answered, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Will you accept the jury's outcome, their verdict, no matter
what it is.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (17:29):
And have you ruled out a pardon for your son? Yes,
I'm extremely proud of my son Hunter. I'm not going
to do it, I said, I said, I buye by
the jury decision. I will do that.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
I'm not put Does the president have any intention of
pardoning him?
Speaker 6 (17:44):
We've been asked that question multiple times. Our answer stands, which.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Is now President Biden says that he's not going to
pardon his son Hunter.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Is he going to ask Donald Trump to do that?
Speaker 6 (17:55):
I don't have anything else to share about that. I'm
not going to get 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 (18:03):
So that's the last weeks and months when KJP.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Or anybody in the attached to the White House was
ever asked about the possibility of partnering pardoning Hunter Biden,
even though I think we all assumed that he would
get pardoned by his dad because most of us were
a parent and we thought our kid had their act together.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
I mean, when.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
We heard the Decedent in chief himself making that same foul.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
If if if my kid were still, you know, a
mess in committing crimes, I wouldn't pardon. But I mean,
but if you know, I thought they had their act
together and everything like that, and I have that way
I can keep them out of prison and my grandkid's
dad out of prison.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Yeah, I'd probably do it.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Yeah, what there can be a lot of political ramifications
from this, no doubt about it. Yeah, Yeah, absolutely want
to get to that. I am reminded of my own
prediction of how this would be handled and how I
still think it would have been so much better just
so you know, Biden explains in excruciating, near hilariously unintentional
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detail how Hunter was treated so unfairly and singled out.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Which is of course the opposite of the truth.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
And he he Joe is taking a terrific beating from
most sides for the utterly warped, dishonest illogic of his statement,
which I'll read you in a second.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
I do not get why he didn't craft.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
Something a fairly short saying my son was an addict,
he screwed up, his life was a mess, he committed
some crimes. I love him, I'm his dad. I'm gonna
pardon him because he's my son.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
And just be.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
Honest, I'm pardoning him because he's my son and I
love him, and I can period and then announce some
sort of program, even the proposed legislation that you know
won't pass before Congress, the help having former addicts with
tax problems Act or something broaden it, make it a
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gesture toward hey, people screw up.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
We ought to have a little mercy, just as window dressing.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
But no, Instead, he goes with this this long letter
that it's worth mentioning, clears Hunter and pardons him of
all crimes those discovered and as yet undiscovered. From January
twenty fourteen through December one, twenty twenty four, virtually fifteen
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full years, including the period of which starting in twenty fourteen,
he was on the board of directors of Barisma, raking
in millions of dollars of money that was soon laundered.
In my opinion, so he'll never have to be questioned
over how you made your money and where it went well,
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he certainly can't be prosecuted for it. And if you
can't be prosecuted for it, what club What cudgel are
you going to use to convince him to talk to
speak under oath?
Speaker 2 (21:05):
You won't.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
He'll never say a word. I will let me quote
some of this. He talks about the gun charge and
how it's very rarely charged, and those who are late
paying their taxes because of serious addictions but paid them
back subsequently with interest and penalties are typically given non
criminal resolutions. It's clear that Hunter was treated differently, and of.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Course that whole thing is he ran into a rich
guy at a party or a fundraiser who was willing
to bail him out for who knows what reasons. But
that's another. That's another. If you're connected and wealthy, you
get you have a different life than.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
People who aren't.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
Right, And the idea that he was singled out and treated,
especially because he's Hunter Biden, is the opposite of what
is true. I was just rereading the details about that
unholy secret plea agreement that the judge threw out, how
they not only gave him immunity for all sins real
and imagined over a ten year period just like this does,
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which is utterly wildly out of bounds in a deal
for a gun charge and a handful of tax offenses.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
You wouldn't give a guy immunity for everything. That's just
it doesn't happen.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
And secondly, the fact, and I'd forgotten this momentarily, they
hid the pardon and well the immunity from the tax
charges in one of the obscure paragraphs of.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
The deal for the gun charge, which is.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
As the judge pointed out, something that's never been done
before and will never be done again. But here's the
part that I know, Jack, you want to talk about
that politically will be damaging going forward.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
He Biden says.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Today, I signed 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 have watched my son being
selectively on a fair prosecuted. The charges in this case
came about only after several of my political opponents in
Congress instigated them to attack.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Me and oppose my election.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Now the Justice Department instigated them, and the irs instigated them.
Then a carefully negotiated plea deal agreed to by the
Department of Justice yours, unraveled in the courtroom. Yeah, because
it was utterly corrupt. Had the plea deal held, it
would have been a fair reasonable resolution of Hunter's cases,
says no one except you.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
Then he so essentially that the Department of Justice is crooked,
and so he's got to let Hunter off. For my
entire career, I have followed a simple principle. Just tell
the American pupil the truth. They'll be fair minded to
that A joke that.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Is well to that.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
NBC reporting today, the President has discussed pardoning his son
with some of his closest aides, at least since hunder
Biden's conviction in June. Two people with direct knowledge of
discussions about the matter. They said it was decided at
the time that he would publicly say he would not
pardon his son, even though doing.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
So remained on the table.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
So that's just flat out reporting by NBC that they
were going out there and lying and trying to figure out,
you know, when and how to do the.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
Parton Well, if we had more staff and more time,
we'd dig up a tape I'm sure of when you said,
do you think he's going to pardon Hunter? And I'd say, oh, yeah,
he'll deny it until the last minute and pardon them
one hundred percent, sure enough.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
So Trump is coming into office talking about a corrupt
Justice Department that gets bent by politics, and there was
a lot of pushback against that over the last couple
of weeks, and now Joe Biden puts out a letter
where he basically says the Justice Department is crooked and
gets bent by politics. So obviously that helps Trump with
anything he's going to do in the future. It also
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helps Trump with any pardons that he lays out on
whether it's January sixth, hostages to use Trump's word or
anybody else where you can say, look, politics got involved.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
I mean that no doubt, it softens the what's the
right phrase?
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Something lays out the landscape in such a way that
it's easier for Trump to make that argument now.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
Right Well, and I hate to speak as an American
because it's all about partisanship these days, but I also
think all of this lays the groundwork for saying, hey,
how politicized is the Justice Department?
Speaker 2 (25:26):
And what can we do about it? Right?
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Well, having both presidents say it's not on the up
and up is not good for people's respect for the
Justice Department, no doubt.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
To that point, we have new news.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
KJP was at the podium today in her final couple
of months here of speaking for the White House of
Joe Biden, and who was asked about the pardon.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
I haven't heard this yet.
Speaker 7 (25:51):
You have said repeatedly yourself since the election. The President
has said for months no pardon was coming. I just
I wanted to ask you. Could those statements now be
seen as lives from the American people? Is there really
a credibility issue here given now this announcement.
Speaker 6 (26:06):
First of all, one of the things that the President
always believes is to be truthful to the American people.
That is, he always truly believes.
Speaker 8 (26:15):
And if you see the end of his I assume
that you've read his statement and you look at the
end of that statement, and he actually says that in
the first line in the last paragraph and respects the
thinking and how the American people will actually see this
in his decision making. And I would encourage everyone to
(26:38):
read it full of the president's statement. I think he
lays out his thought process, he lays out how he
came to this decision. He came to this decision this weekend.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
So let's be very clear about that. He says it himself,
it's in his voice. He said he came to.
Speaker 8 (26:53):
This decision this weekend, and he said he wrestled with
us and because he believes in the just but he
also believes that the war politics infected the process and
led to a miscarriage of justice.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
I don't know why they keep conducting these interviews in
the midst of their skydiving, but they do in a
wind tunnel.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
So that's interesting.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
That's got to be rough for her when NBC is
reporting that they'd made the decision but decided to say
out loud that they were you know, I mean, stating
the opposite of what she's saying. So she also says,
I've got the transcript here, and this is pretty interesting.
Jean Pierre fielded fiery questions aboard Air Force one from
journalists blah blah blah. Oh that's right. Biden's going to Angola,
(27:37):
so he's going to be gone for days. So he
drops this pardoning, leaves the country a classic president's been
doing that forever. The president took an action because of
how politically infected these cases were. Okay, our reporter pressed,
the system doesn't get corrupted by politics whose people Let
me get this right, because this is important. The system
(27:57):
doesn't get corrupted by politics for people whose name is
not Biden. Oh, you're twisting and misrepresenting what I'm saying.
I'm talking about a particular issue right now. John Brier,
the journalist, obviously making the point. Okay, So when Trump
says they're just doing this for politics, that's clearly wrong.
But when President Biden says this was only because of politics,
(28:17):
that makes sense. Yes, Okay, all right, obviously that does
not pass any anybody's smell test.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Well.
Speaker 4 (28:24):
Little KJP, who defends the indefensible on a daily basis
and has lasted far longer in her job than I
expected her to. Is just a you know, one last
hurrah of trying to mumble through a bunch of convoluted
bull crap to defend the indefensible. I do want to
mention this very quickly, as KJP reseaid it the first
(28:44):
paragraph or the first sentence in the last paragraph of
the President's statement. For my entire career, I have followed
a simple principle, just tell the American people the truth
the way he told us the truth about the full
academic law school scholarship. Is the only one to have
a scholarship graduate on the top of his class when
the International Moot Court competition, graduating with three degrees. Bo
died in a rock. Joe's a civil rights warrior. He's
(29:06):
been to a rock forty times. He fought cornpop and
wrapped a chain around his neck. He was appointed to
the Naval Academy. Arrested with Nelson Mandela. He was a
truck driver. His house burned down. He was raised into
Puerto Rican community. Visited the Tree of Life Synagogue. He
traveled on Amtrak three point seven million. Mouse full Professor
at U Penn. Great grandpa was a coal miner. Uncle
was eaten by cannibals. Us his stats at the Congressional
(29:28):
baseball game. He's a football star, shot at overseas, first
to graduate college, and his family arrested at civil rights protests,
been to China, actual number of times meeting maches and ping,
and his family was killed by a drunk driver.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
And Cornpop was a bad dude.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
For my entire career, I have followed a simple principle,
just tell the American people the truth.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
So that clip we played came from this question. Journalist asked,
does the president believe now and agree with President Trump
that the justice system has been weaponized for political purposes
and it needs a root and branch reform.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
That's a damn good question.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
No, read the president's statement seriously. Read a statement he
said he believes in the Department of Justice. He also
believes that war politics infected the process and led it
to a miscarriage of justice. Okay, those two sentences can't
go together.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Well, they don't sit comfortably together. Hmmm.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
It's like when you and your buddy get squeezed under
the couch during Thanksgiving and you're like, wow, dude, this
is weird. You can't sentences don't get along.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
You can't say that one and didn't save that one.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
I believe in the Justice department, which has become completely
perverted with politics.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
You mentioning that I got squeezed on the plane as
on a non stop flight clear across half the country
three and a half hours, and the guy sitting in
the middle row.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
I had an aisle row hoping.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Nobody's sit there, hoping it in Like right at the end,
he walks in with shoulders as wide as two men.
So I was pushed out into the aisle. I mean
there was no other way to sit unless I was
gonna like sit way forward and rest my elbows.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
On my knees for three and a half hours.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
If I sat up straight, his shoulders pushed me out,
and the air waitress kept coming by and tapping my show,
I need you to move in.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
You can't be blocking the aisle. What am I supposed
to do? Like dislocate my bones like some sort of magician?
Did you ask her?
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Nah?
Speaker 2 (31:25):
I should have said something that's just so annoyed.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Hey, man, mountain over here is taking up a seat
and a half.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
What do you want me? Didn't no offense by.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
And then the woman on the other side of him
took her shoes off. I both flights there and back.
People next to me had their shoes off. People are
disgusting and you should be put in prison. Speaking of
the Justice department, wow.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
Wow, it appears Jack's anger has infected the justice system.
Kjp Any comments, we will finish strong next.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Shot, he says.
Speaker 9 (32:00):
Black Friday online sales total nearly eleven billion dollars. That's
up more than ten percent from a year ago. Strong
sales of toys, jewelry, and appliance has helped drive that growth,
and Adobe predicts online sales on Cyber Monday will be
even bigger than.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Fridays, and that's for people buying online. I was at
the local outlet mall yesterday. Was the busiest I've ever
seen it. I've been going there for twenty five years.
It was insane how busy it was people inside the store.
Once I finally found a place to park, I told
the kids were leaving. I said I can't park. I
dropped them off, was going to go find a parking spot.
I text him and said, come on out, I can't park.
(32:35):
We're going home. I can't put up with this. Then
we found a spot on the way out and we
end up saying so I asked the retailers. They said,
it's been nuts for three days. So I don't know
what's going on there.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
I know it's anecdotal, it's one spot, but we also
just heard that that sales are up ten percent is
a pretty big jump year to.
Speaker 4 (32:51):
Year, it is, and last year was pretty thoroughly post COVID.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
Everybody still had their stemmi money.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Yeah, because I remember last it was all this is
all the pent up after COVID, blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
And we're up ten percent from that, So what's going on?
Speaker 4 (33:05):
We all feeling rich saves and have nots jack from
what I understand, although where that line is drawn, I
don't know a similar story yet. A big outleant mall
closer to my house. It was just there are people's
parking on the streets, like parking illegally, just hoping they
didn't get towed, for a chance to snatch up some
of America's consumer goods.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Yeah, that are going to be available tomorrow or next week,
also at that price or lower if they don't sell them.
So I don't know what drives that exactly. Some of
you enjoy shopping. I'm not one of you, poof I
enjoy buying. I enjoyed buying too. But I'm waiting in
line and parking and everybody squeezed together.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Oh it was horrifying.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
Jackie Clark kiss time Stop.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Jack and Joe got go And if they don't give,
Candy'll be back.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Here's your host for final thoughts, first time back after
a week's vacation, Joe get Let's get.
Speaker 4 (34:07):
A final thought from everybody on the crew to wrap
up the show. There he is Michael Angelo, pressing the buttons. Michael,
which final thought?
Speaker 2 (34:12):
I hope I haven't been too rude with you guys.
Speaker 8 (34:15):
I'm just a little irritated because I go pick up
my mom and my brother.
Speaker 5 (34:18):
They're sitting outside of best Buy since two am and
a tent go because it's Cyber Monday.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
Really to get what a cheap DVD player? There you go? Okay?
Speaker 4 (34:28):
I thought Cyber Monday, you're supposed to shop online? Well,
who am out of question? Katie Greener seemed to use
woman as a final thought.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Katie, I was invited to go Black Friday shopping, to
which I sat a big hellna.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
Right, yeah, yeah, jack a final thought for us.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Maybe the highlight to my week off. We went for
a walk after Thanksgiving dinner. Me Henry, my son, and
my dad went for a good long walk. My dad's
eighty seven going for a long.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Walk after Thanksgiving dinner.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
You're lucky to lived eighty seven, let alone be able
to go for long walks at full speed.
Speaker 4 (35:02):
Yeah, boy, I have so many final thoughts to Jack's
mom's birthday today. My daughter Kate celebrated her birthday yesterday.
One of the sweetest, kindest, bravest people I've ever met
in my life.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Happy birthday, Kate.
Speaker 4 (35:13):
Also, I beat my brother at golf when he was
here visiting, and that is fairly rare.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
He's ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (35:21):
He would be under the ocean in a submarine for
six months, pop up, grab his clubs, blow the dust off,
shoot a seventy four, then go back onto the ocean,
cackling to himself that he'd beat me.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
I finally got my vengeance.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Armstrength. Vengeance is what the Holidays is all about. I'm
strong and getty right pick up another grueling four hour workday.
The sweetest dish. Vengeance is on our table.
Speaker 4 (35:43):
So many people, thanks so little time and go a
Armstrong a getty dot Com pick up an ang T shirt,
cot the Crab T shirt twenty percent off Cyber Monday.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
The discount coat has cut the crap see tomorrow. God
bless the mark up. I'm strong and Gette. It's time
to do something different than that. Time is every day?
Speaker 3 (36:00):
Say it with me riding on a pony calling Macaronie.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
What the hell was that? That was quite entertaining for
no joke. So everybody, chill words, let's go out with
the buying. Modern fortunes are not fortunes at all. No,
they're terrible. Yes, Michael does say IPEd in your rights.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
It was handwritten and on that possibly nightmare inducing note
Speaker 2 (36:22):
Arm Strong and Geeddy
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Arms Strong and he armstrong and Yetty. One thing is clear.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
We're all in for a lot of change in the
months to come, and that includes British carmaker Jaguar. Sales
have been flagging for Jaguar, so they're trying a rebrand. First,
they redid the logo. Here's the old one with the
badass kitty cat. Here's the new one. Jogguar looks like
(00:45):
a luxury condom brand and an Eastern europe In an
Eastern European dance club. Oh don't worry, honey, baby.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Nikolai has Jaguar Juguar.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
So that's Stephen Colbert reacting to the new Jaguar ad
which we will talk about here in a second.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Here's a little more of Colbert.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Seriously, this video asks way more questions than it answers,
Like is the new Jaguar a yellow elevator that takes
you to a fashion model planet made of pink dust?
And if I have body hair? Am I allowed on
the Jaguar planet? Also, I have no idea what it
means to create exuberant.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
If I have body hair, am I allowed on the
Jaguar planet?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (01:34):
The reason being if you haven't actually seen it, maybe
you've just seen parodies of it. Is the whole thing
centers on these like luridly primary colorish, gender bending, shaved,
transgender gay, weirdly quafft people moving in odd ways, and
(01:59):
we building hammers and such of the hammers of course
in lord A primary colors as well.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
No car, by the way, there is no car in
the commercial whatsoever.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Yeah, the whole theme is copy nothing, break the mode,
and it was universally just who did at well, almost universe.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
If I have body hair, am I allowed to have
a jackwire? Oh that's funny.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Because everybody's like shaved and freakish looking in its obvious,
you know, transgender types in the reminiscent of the horrifying
Olympics opening ceremony, wolkendoctrination thing. But anyway, I thought this
is so interesting. Malcolm Clark, who's a filmmaker, was writing
about this and he writes that it was so bonkers.
(02:44):
It's tempting to assume it was a joke or an accident,
But it wasn't It represents the culmination of a campaign
to groom a great British brand by the insane LGBTQ
plus lobby. And he's talking about Aude, which is a
lgb whatever Alphabet Soup magazine that reviewed the ad and
(03:09):
said it was the best one of the year. And
because Nigel Farrag the conservative politician and Elon Musk.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Hated it, that proved it was genius.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Elon Musk tweeted out the ad and said, I'm selling
my Jaguar and I don't even own one.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
So the roots of the ad campaign can be traced
back to October twenty one when Jaguar tried out bold
primary colors and meaningless slogans and ads specifically for attitude
the Alphabet Soup magazine slash website. Then the slogan was
live loud hilariously. They claimed it was one of the
top UK ads ever. And the LGBTQ lobby can always
(03:47):
be relied on to rope in its mates to tell
you anything you want to hear.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Cantar, that's the company that declared it great.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
Where themselves Alphabet soup lotus eaters whatever that matter means.
It's a British ism, but their claims were music to
Jaguar's marketing director Anthony Bradbury, who said that LGBTQ would
be the new focus for Jaguar, and evidently he wrote
a fair amount about how it was going to become
the new car of choice right for you know, your
(04:16):
alphabet soup crowd. Keeping in mind that Jaguar land Rover
is the company, so they make the great land Rovers
as well. And so the CEO somehow got pulled into
this way of thinking by his marketing director, and like
it's possible to do if you like spend all of
(04:37):
your time on left wing Twitter, the CEO of this
company became convinced that this was a great idea. They
were going to go Dylan mulvaney, Yeah, I'm not sure
in twenty twenty four, I'm not sure. This is a
horrible idea. I don't know if it's gonna work. But
as a guy in the advertising business, allegedly, if you
(05:00):
could become the brand of the gay community, you know,
in a way that I've known some gay people, if
Madonna comes to town, it's considered like your obligation to
go to the Madonna concert or Melissa Etherage. It's just
something you have to do. The army, the gay army
is going to go. And I mean, if you could
become that car brand where it's kind of your obligation
(05:22):
to drive this kind of car. Yeah, it's a big
difference between going to a concert and buying a car, obviously,
and it's generally been a fairly expensive car throughout the years.
I don't know, are they re I don't know if
they're remaking their cars or what they're going to look
like or right. Right, Well, here's the problem, and that's
that Jaguar got into bed No pun intended completely with this.
(05:46):
Attitudes's magazine and website sponsored their awards show and all.
The problem is that these people are your hardest core
radical gender theory.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
JK.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Rowling is evil and should be hounded down and mocked
and be doxed in the rest of it. Anybody who
resists their agenda at all is a peddler of hate
and blamed for trans deaths.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
And so they went like beyond Dylan mulvaney.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
With their with their their their newfound partner and sis.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
It's it's just a bad move. Now.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
If you I'm a fan of the term LGB lesbian.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Gay bye whatever.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
That's a group of people with whom I got like,
no quarrel. Some of you have some biblical thing or
whatever that I can respect that.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
This fine. Just treat everybody civilly. Please.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
When it gets into the freaking alphabet soup portion of it,
that's when I have a problem.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
And that's Jaguar's problem. They got in bed thinking, oh,
gay rights. I remember gay rights. No, this is radical
gender theory. This is neo Marxism, postmodernism. This is little boys,
adolescent males having their their bodies mutilated. This is healthy
young women afraid of puberty getting the breasts cut off.
(07:16):
This isn't gay dudes.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
I know Jaguar was hurting. I don't know how bad.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Maybe they were hurting to the point where like it
was gonna go away, so we might as well try
something different. But I mean, for my life, Jaguar was
like the go to if you're like a sixty year
old successful straight guy, and you lost those people, because
no sixty year old successful straight guy is gonna buy
(07:41):
one of those now, So you cut all those people out.
So you must have been thinking, we're starting from scratch.
I guess see how it works.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Yeah, final note from Malcolm Clark, the guy who wrote
all this talking about Style Magazine that has also been
part of this whole thing. Style Magaine was also awarded
transactivist Dylan mulvaney Woman of the Year, like whenever it
was uh, And here's a quote. No matter how hard
(08:10):
I try, or what I wear, or what surgeries I have,
I will never reach an acceptable version of womanhood by
those hateful people's standards. True at Dylan, it's Malcolm Clark.
That's exactly right. You can't become a woman, You're a man.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Did you see so?
Speaker 1 (08:29):
I tweeted this out with the Volvo ad? Did you
see the Volvo ad? They got attention to because it
came out the same week I don't think so. It's
a three minute plus ad made by some Oscar winning
director I don't remember who, and it's pretty over the top,
although it was very well done and touching. It was
this couple and I mean, it's it's like a modern movie.
(08:49):
It's it's it's quite a three minutes. It's flashbacks cut
to where they meet and dating and getting together and
deciding to have kids and blah blah blah, go through
all the kids and at the end, there's a there's
a car wreck out of nowhere and they're in a
safe car and so their kid's okay. But it's I mean,
it's a pretty it's a pretty compelling ad. It maybe
it's you know, anytime there's a sales pitch attached to
(09:09):
one of those, you always feel like, I don't know
if I like this particular part of my emotions, which
I agree with all the stuff you just add kids, love, marriage, commitment,
the meaning of life. I don't like it when there's
a so buy this at the end, you're gonna borrow
that to buy a car. Yeah, that's this and that.
But it is a really well done ad. It this
makes more sense than me. Uh, can I buy one
(09:31):
of these? If I have any body hair ad?
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Well, I can't drive or buy a Volvo because it's uh,
I'm uncomfortable saying the word it's too close to lady parts.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
It is very close. Yeah, it is very close. Sorry, Volvo,
change your name.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
I'll be It'll be interesting to watch to see if
they get any traction. I have a feeling that, similar
to bud Light, they're going to be abandoning this like
within days. Yes of its debut, realize we've made a
tragic mistake, and like spend the rest of their lives
trying to krag claw back anything they lost.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
Right, That's why awareness, which is why I'm so into
raising awareness. It's like, in the wake of the George
Floyd thing in Black Lives Matter, all these corporate people,
education people, well meaning people thought, I'm not a racist.
I'm not in favor of cops kneeling on people's necks,
so I must be down with Black Lives Matter. No,
they're neo Marxist lunatics. Of course, Black Lives Matter is
(10:30):
a statement, it's perfectly true. But the organization is crazy,
and you know, the whole alphabet soup crew.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
All these people are thinking, I got nothing against gay people.
I guess I'm down with that.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
No, that's postmodern neo Marxist lunacy. That's damaging kids all
over the planet. Speaking of which, final note, did you
see San Jose State lost in the finals of the
Mountain West Volleyball Championships to Colorado. That had to be
a real kick in the balls to the women on
the Santa State team.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Well, I yeah, so I followed this a little over
the weekend. I was kind of excited. I was hoping
that they would win because that would have given him
the automatic berths of the NCAA tournament, and then the
NC DOUBLEA would have had to figure their rules out.
I mean they would have I think just had to
deal with that at that point. So I think the
NC DOUBLEA was hoping that they would lose. They made
it to the finals.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
They've got a.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Dude on the team. We kind of skipped the lead.
In case you're not familiar with this story.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
San Jose State made it to the finals with their
dude on their team because of a forfeit. And then
I thought, okay, when Colorado State decided to play, I thought,
you know, am I for this or against this? Because
I can understand. You get a chance to play in
the finals and go to the NCAA tournament. And these
girls have worked their whole lives and this is might
for the seniors, this is the culmination of their career.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
A whole bunch of their players, including their star player,
best player in the tournament, knelt for the national anthem
because they hate America.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
For some reason. So who do you root for in
that match?
Speaker 1 (11:56):
But San Jose State loss, and that's that's the end
of the person's career.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
Boise State, for what it's worth, pulled out instead of
playing after already boycotting the regular season matches with San
Jose State twice before. They said no, we're not gonna
play him in the tournament either. There's a dude on
their team. Good for you, Boise State.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
I would assume, like they did in the past, they
let the players vote because the past the players hadn't
voted to That's a tough one, though. You only get
to do those sports union you're never gonna do it again.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Yeah, of course, you catch a ball in the face
when a dude pounds it into your mush at eighty
miles per hour, that's that's uncomfortable.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Or do you think you know?
Speaker 1 (12:35):
I might have daughters someday and I don't want them
playing against guys, so you take a stance.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
That's why I congratulate them for their courage. They made
a sacrifice.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
And then that freaking on one side, you got a
dude playing on the girls team. On the other side,
they're kneeling for the national anthem. They've besmirched women's volleyball.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
It is time to tear down our universities to the
studs that they've gone no kidding, morloy.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
Millions of families make their way back home from Thanksgiving
the airport's across the country. Saturday, the TSA screen nearly
three million travelers, potentially the agency's busiest day ever, maybe.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
The busiest day ever. I wish.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
I think it'd be beneficial to us all if there
was a government program where all TSA workers flew around
for a week, just from airport to airport to realize
that the rules are different everywhere. So quit acting like
I should know what the rules are here. Maybe you
don't know that because you're only at this one airport
it's your job, But if you go from airport to airport,
(13:40):
they're different everywhere. So don't use that tone about whether
or not my computer should be in the bag or whatever.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
That all right, right, right, And only an idiot would
not know that. How do you not know that? Leave
your watch on? Okay? Last guy made me take it off,
so I don't know.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
Yeah, like an hour and a quarter ago, I was
in a different airport and he yelled at me to
do the opposite.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
So why don't you here's his number. Call him. You
probably heard this already.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Wish we could have been the first to break the
story to you. But the tech billionaire that paid six
million dollars plus for the banana tape to the wall
ate the banana a. This story had multiple legs while
we were on vacation. First, the fruit vendor who's barely
(14:30):
scraping by in life, working outside of that art museum,
who sold the banana to the artist, who then got
six million dollars port was horrified, And then somehow was
portrayed in the press that like somehow he had been wronged.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Which I found interesting.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
How does that work that this poor guy deserved some
of the six million dollars?
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Because I mean, could think of present.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
A humble working man who's only trying to get by
with two kids at home and blah blah blah and
selling fruit barely making more then okay, fine, but how
does he deserve some of the six million dollars that
some idiot.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Paid for this work art? Don't I'm not connecting the
dots here, all right? You got two things going on there.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
First of all, a desperate attempt to find a victimize
story to sell for clicks right, And secondly, an effort
to impose some sort of mathematical rigor to the concept
of somebody paying six million dollars for a banana tape
to a wall. Well, even if it does not flow logically,
even if his real art, whoever sold Michelangelo the paint
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doesn't deserve a cut of his, you know, half a
billion dollar work of art.
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It's just never the way it worked.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
But then the tech billionaire, because he's a smarty pants,
bought the thing and then peeled it off the wall
and ate it and then posted the video and got
a bunch of.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Clicks and yay for you, dude, yea for you. Uh,
the whole thing is annoying.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Yes, yes it is, and and difficult to understand. I mean,
if I had more money than I could possibly use,
I might think, you know what would be funny, but
then I wouldn't go through it.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Then I give it to charity, right, yeah, no kidding
or something. Yeah, I mean, yeah, it's a funny joke.
But this, Yeah, the whole thing stinks. Oh, speaking of
the whole thing stinks. Yet another study has has shown
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that what was thought to be true is true. Essentially,
you're fat.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
Being overweight leaves a lasting imprint on our fat cells.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
That can persist for years.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
Your cells remember the overweight state and can return to
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I'm a fat cell and I'm full.
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I'm fat. Acceptance right, no shaming among us selves.
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Yeah, yeah, so fat mice fat fat mice. They regained
the weight much faster than skinny mace mice could gain.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Man the pardon next Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Any possibility that the president would end up pardening his.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Son, I just said no, I just answered, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Will you accept the jury's outcome, their verdict, no matter
what it is.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (17:29):
And have you ruled out a pardon for your son? Yes,
I'm extremely proud of my son Hunter. I'm not going
to do it, I said, I said, I buye by
the jury decision. I will do that.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
I'm not put Does the president have any intention of
pardoning him?
Speaker 6 (17:44):
We've been asked that question multiple times. Our answer stands, which.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Is now President Biden says that he's not going to
pardon his son Hunter.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Is he going to ask Donald Trump to do that?
Speaker 6 (17:55):
I don't have anything else to share about that. I'm
not going to get 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 (18:03):
So that's the last weeks and months when KJP.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Or anybody in the attached to the White House was
ever asked about the possibility of partnering pardoning Hunter Biden,
even though I think we all assumed that he would
get pardoned by his dad because most of us were
a parent and we thought our kid had their act together.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
I mean, when.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
We heard the Decedent in chief himself making that same foul.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
If if if my kid were still, you know, a
mess in committing crimes, I wouldn't pardon. But I mean,
but if you know, I thought they had their act
together and everything like that, and I have that way
I can keep them out of prison and my grandkid's
dad out of prison.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Yeah, I'd probably do it.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Yeah, what there can be a lot of political ramifications
from this, no doubt about it. Yeah, Yeah, absolutely want
to get to that. I am reminded of my own
prediction of how this would be handled and how I
still think it would have been so much better just
so you know, Biden explains in excruciating, near hilariously unintentional
(19:06):
detail how Hunter was treated so unfairly and singled out.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Which is of course the opposite of the truth.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
And he he Joe is taking a terrific beating from
most sides for the utterly warped, dishonest illogic of his statement,
which I'll read you in a second.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
I do not get why he didn't craft.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
Something a fairly short saying my son was an addict,
he screwed up, his life was a mess, he committed
some crimes. I love him, I'm his dad. I'm gonna
pardon him because he's my son.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
And just be.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
Honest, I'm pardoning him because he's my son and I
love him, and I can period and then announce some
sort of program, even the proposed legislation that you know
won't pass before Congress, the help having former addicts with
tax problems Act or something broaden it, make it a
(20:06):
gesture toward hey, people screw up.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
We ought to have a little mercy, just as window dressing.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
But no, Instead, he goes with this this long letter
that it's worth mentioning, clears Hunter and pardons him of
all crimes those discovered and as yet undiscovered. From January
twenty fourteen through December one, twenty twenty four, virtually fifteen
(20:32):
full years, including the period of which starting in twenty fourteen,
he was on the board of directors of Barisma, raking
in millions of dollars of money that was soon laundered.
In my opinion, so he'll never have to be questioned
over how you made your money and where it went well,
(20:52):
he certainly can't be prosecuted for it. And if you
can't be prosecuted for it, what club What cudgel are
you going to use to convince him to talk to
speak under oath?
Speaker 2 (21:05):
You won't.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
He'll never say a word. I will let me quote
some of this. He talks about the gun charge and
how it's very rarely charged, and those who are late
paying their taxes because of serious addictions but paid them
back subsequently with interest and penalties are typically given non
criminal resolutions. It's clear that Hunter was treated differently, and of.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Course that whole thing is he ran into a rich
guy at a party or a fundraiser who was willing
to bail him out for who knows what reasons. But
that's another. That's another. If you're connected and wealthy, you
get you have a different life than.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
People who aren't.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
Right, And the idea that he was singled out and treated,
especially because he's Hunter Biden, is the opposite of what
is true. I was just rereading the details about that
unholy secret plea agreement that the judge threw out, how
they not only gave him immunity for all sins real
and imagined over a ten year period just like this does,
(22:05):
which is utterly wildly out of bounds in a deal
for a gun charge and a handful of tax offenses.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
You wouldn't give a guy immunity for everything. That's just
it doesn't happen.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
And secondly, the fact, and I'd forgotten this momentarily, they
hid the pardon and well the immunity from the tax
charges in one of the obscure paragraphs of.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
The deal for the gun charge, which is.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
As the judge pointed out, something that's never been done
before and will never be done again. But here's the
part that I know, Jack, you want to talk about
that politically will be damaging going forward.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
He Biden says.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Today, I signed 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 have watched my son being
selectively on a fair prosecuted. The charges in this case
came about only after several of my political opponents in
Congress instigated them to attack.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Me and oppose my election.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Now the Justice Department instigated them, and the irs instigated them.
Then a carefully negotiated plea deal agreed to by the
Department of Justice yours, unraveled in the courtroom. Yeah, because
it was utterly corrupt. Had the plea deal held, it
would have been a fair reasonable resolution of Hunter's cases,
says no one except you.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
Then he so essentially that the Department of Justice is crooked,
and so he's got to let Hunter off. For my
entire career, I have followed a simple principle. Just tell
the American pupil the truth. They'll be fair minded to
that A joke that.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Is well to that.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
NBC reporting today, the President has discussed pardoning his son
with some of his closest aides, at least since hunder
Biden's conviction in June. Two people with direct knowledge of
discussions about the matter. They said it was decided at
the time that he would publicly say he would not
pardon his son, even though doing.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
So remained on the table.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
So that's just flat out reporting by NBC that they
were going out there and lying and trying to figure out,
you know, when and how to do the.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
Parton Well, if we had more staff and more time,
we'd dig up a tape I'm sure of when you said,
do you think he's going to pardon Hunter? And I'd say, oh, yeah,
he'll deny it until the last minute and pardon them
one hundred percent, sure enough.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
So Trump is coming into office talking about a corrupt
Justice Department that gets bent by politics, and there was
a lot of pushback against that over the last couple
of weeks, and now Joe Biden puts out a letter
where he basically says the Justice Department is crooked and
gets bent by politics. So obviously that helps Trump with
anything he's going to do in the future. It also
(24:51):
helps Trump with any pardons that he lays out on
whether it's January sixth, hostages to use Trump's word or
anybody else where you can say, look, politics got involved.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
I mean that no doubt, it softens the what's the
right phrase?
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Something lays out the landscape in such a way that
it's easier for Trump to make that argument now.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
Right Well, and I hate to speak as an American
because it's all about partisanship these days, but I also
think all of this lays the groundwork for saying, hey,
how politicized is the Justice Department?
Speaker 2 (25:26):
And what can we do about it? Right?
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Well, having both presidents say it's not on the up
and up is not good for people's respect for the
Justice Department, no doubt.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
To that point, we have new news.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
KJP was at the podium today in her final couple
of months here of speaking for the White House of
Joe Biden, and who was asked about the pardon.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
I haven't heard this yet.
Speaker 7 (25:51):
You have said repeatedly yourself since the election. The President
has said for months no pardon was coming. I just
I wanted to ask you. Could those statements now be
seen as lives from the American people? Is there really
a credibility issue here given now this announcement.
Speaker 6 (26:06):
First of all, one of the things that the President
always believes is to be truthful to the American people.
That is, he always truly believes.
Speaker 8 (26:15):
And if you see the end of his I assume
that you've read his statement and you look at the
end of that statement, and he actually says that in
the first line in the last paragraph and respects the
thinking and how the American people will actually see this
in his decision making. And I would encourage everyone to
(26:38):
read it full of the president's statement. I think he
lays out his thought process, he lays out how he
came to this decision. He came to this decision this weekend.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
So let's be very clear about that. He says it himself,
it's in his voice. He said he came to.
Speaker 8 (26:53):
This decision this weekend, and he said he wrestled with
us and because he believes in the just but he
also believes that the war politics infected the process and
led to a miscarriage of justice.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
I don't know why they keep conducting these interviews in
the midst of their skydiving, but they do in a
wind tunnel.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
So that's interesting.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
That's got to be rough for her when NBC is
reporting that they'd made the decision but decided to say
out loud that they were you know, I mean, stating
the opposite of what she's saying. So she also says,
I've got the transcript here, and this is pretty interesting.
Jean Pierre fielded fiery questions aboard Air Force one from
journalists blah blah blah. Oh that's right. Biden's going to Angola,
(27:37):
so he's going to be gone for days. So he
drops this pardoning, leaves the country a classic president's been
doing that forever. The president took an action because of
how politically infected these cases were. Okay, our reporter pressed,
the system doesn't get corrupted by politics whose people Let
me get this right, because this is important. The system
(27:57):
doesn't get corrupted by politics for people whose name is
not Biden. Oh, you're twisting and misrepresenting what I'm saying.
I'm talking about a particular issue right now. John Brier,
the journalist, obviously making the point. Okay, So when Trump
says they're just doing this for politics, that's clearly wrong.
But when President Biden says this was only because of politics,
(28:17):
that makes sense. Yes, Okay, all right, obviously that does
not pass any anybody's smell test.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Well.
Speaker 4 (28:24):
Little KJP, who defends the indefensible on a daily basis
and has lasted far longer in her job than I
expected her to. Is just a you know, one last
hurrah of trying to mumble through a bunch of convoluted
bull crap to defend the indefensible. I do want to
mention this very quickly, as KJP reseaid it the first
(28:44):
paragraph or the first sentence in the last paragraph of
the President's statement. For my entire career, I have followed
a simple principle, just tell the American people the truth
the way he told us the truth about the full
academic law school scholarship. Is the only one to have
a scholarship graduate on the top of his class when
the International Moot Court competition, graduating with three degrees. Bo
died in a rock. Joe's a civil rights warrior. He's
(29:06):
been to a rock forty times. He fought cornpop and
wrapped a chain around his neck. He was appointed to
the Naval Academy. Arrested with Nelson Mandela. He was a
truck driver. His house burned down. He was raised into
Puerto Rican community. Visited the Tree of Life Synagogue. He
traveled on Amtrak three point seven million. Mouse full Professor
at U Penn. Great grandpa was a coal miner. Uncle
was eaten by cannibals. Us his stats at the Congressional
(29:28):
baseball game. He's a football star, shot at overseas, first
to graduate college, and his family arrested at civil rights protests,
been to China, actual number of times meeting maches and ping,
and his family was killed by a drunk driver.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
And Cornpop was a bad dude.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
For my entire career, I have followed a simple principle,
just tell the American people the truth.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
So that clip we played came from this question. Journalist asked,
does the president believe now and agree with President Trump
that the justice system has been weaponized for political purposes
and it needs a root and branch reform.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
That's a damn good question.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
No, read the president's statement seriously. Read a statement he
said he believes in the Department of Justice. He also
believes that war politics infected the process and led it
to a miscarriage of justice. Okay, those two sentences can't
go together.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Well, they don't sit comfortably together. Hmmm.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
It's like when you and your buddy get squeezed under
the couch during Thanksgiving and you're like, wow, dude, this
is weird. You can't sentences don't get along.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
You can't say that one and didn't save that one.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
I believe in the Justice department, which has become completely
perverted with politics.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
You mentioning that I got squeezed on the plane as
on a non stop flight clear across half the country
three and a half hours, and the guy sitting in
the middle row.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
I had an aisle row hoping.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Nobody's sit there, hoping it in Like right at the end,
he walks in with shoulders as wide as two men.
So I was pushed out into the aisle. I mean
there was no other way to sit unless I was
gonna like sit way forward and rest my elbows.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
On my knees for three and a half hours.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
If I sat up straight, his shoulders pushed me out,
and the air waitress kept coming by and tapping my show,
I need you to move in.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
You can't be blocking the aisle. What am I supposed
to do? Like dislocate my bones like some sort of magician?
Did you ask her?
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Nah?
Speaker 2 (31:25):
I should have said something that's just so annoyed.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Hey, man, mountain over here is taking up a seat
and a half.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
What do you want me? Didn't no offense by.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
And then the woman on the other side of him
took her shoes off. I both flights there and back.
People next to me had their shoes off. People are
disgusting and you should be put in prison. Speaking of
the Justice department, wow.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
Wow, it appears Jack's anger has infected the justice system.
Kjp Any comments, we will finish strong next.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Shot, he says.
Speaker 9 (32:00):
Black Friday online sales total nearly eleven billion dollars. That's
up more than ten percent from a year ago. Strong
sales of toys, jewelry, and appliance has helped drive that growth,
and Adobe predicts online sales on Cyber Monday will be
even bigger than.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Fridays, and that's for people buying online. I was at
the local outlet mall yesterday. Was the busiest I've ever
seen it. I've been going there for twenty five years.
It was insane how busy it was people inside the store.
Once I finally found a place to park, I told
the kids were leaving. I said I can't park. I
dropped them off, was going to go find a parking spot.
I text him and said, come on out, I can't park.
(32:35):
We're going home. I can't put up with this. Then
we found a spot on the way out and we
end up saying so I asked the retailers. They said,
it's been nuts for three days. So I don't know
what's going on there.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
I know it's anecdotal, it's one spot, but we also
just heard that that sales are up ten percent is
a pretty big jump year to.
Speaker 4 (32:51):
Year, it is, and last year was pretty thoroughly post COVID.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
Everybody still had their stemmi money.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Yeah, because I remember last it was all this is
all the pent up after COVID, blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
And we're up ten percent from that, So what's going on?
Speaker 4 (33:05):
We all feeling rich saves and have nots jack from
what I understand, although where that line is drawn, I
don't know a similar story yet. A big outleant mall
closer to my house. It was just there are people's
parking on the streets, like parking illegally, just hoping they
didn't get towed, for a chance to snatch up some
of America's consumer goods.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Yeah, that are going to be available tomorrow or next week,
also at that price or lower if they don't sell them.
So I don't know what drives that exactly. Some of
you enjoy shopping. I'm not one of you, poof I
enjoy buying. I enjoyed buying too. But I'm waiting in
line and parking and everybody squeezed together.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Oh it was horrifying.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
Jackie Clark kiss time Stop.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Jack and Joe got go And if they don't give,
Candy'll be back.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Here's your host for final thoughts, first time back after
a week's vacation, Joe get Let's get.
Speaker 4 (34:07):
A final thought from everybody on the crew to wrap
up the show. There he is Michael Angelo, pressing the buttons. Michael,
which final thought?
Speaker 2 (34:12):
I hope I haven't been too rude with you guys.
Speaker 8 (34:15):
I'm just a little irritated because I go pick up
my mom and my brother.
Speaker 5 (34:18):
They're sitting outside of best Buy since two am and
a tent go because it's Cyber Monday.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
Really to get what a cheap DVD player? There you go? Okay?
Speaker 4 (34:28):
I thought Cyber Monday, you're supposed to shop online? Well,
who am out of question? Katie Greener seemed to use
woman as a final thought.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Katie, I was invited to go Black Friday shopping, to
which I sat a big hellna.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
Right, yeah, yeah, jack a final thought for us.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Maybe the highlight to my week off. We went for
a walk after Thanksgiving dinner. Me Henry, my son, and
my dad went for a good long walk. My dad's
eighty seven going for a long.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Walk after Thanksgiving dinner.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
You're lucky to lived eighty seven, let alone be able
to go for long walks at full speed.
Speaker 4 (35:02):
Yeah, boy, I have so many final thoughts to Jack's
mom's birthday today. My daughter Kate celebrated her birthday yesterday.
One of the sweetest, kindest, bravest people I've ever met
in my life.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Happy birthday, Kate.
Speaker 4 (35:13):
Also, I beat my brother at golf when he was
here visiting, and that is fairly rare.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
He's ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (35:21):
He would be under the ocean in a submarine for
six months, pop up, grab his clubs, blow the dust off,
shoot a seventy four, then go back onto the ocean,
cackling to himself that he'd beat me.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
I finally got my vengeance.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Armstrength. Vengeance is what the Holidays is all about. I'm
strong and getty right pick up another grueling four hour workday.
The sweetest dish. Vengeance is on our table.
Speaker 4 (35:43):
So many people, thanks so little time and go a
Armstrong a getty dot Com pick up an ang T shirt,
cot the Crab T shirt twenty percent off Cyber Monday.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
The discount coat has cut the crap see tomorrow. God
bless the mark up. I'm strong and Gette. It's time
to do something different than that. Time is every day?
Speaker 3 (36:00):
Say it with me riding on a pony calling Macaronie.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
What the hell was that? That was quite entertaining for
no joke. So everybody, chill words, let's go out with
the buying. Modern fortunes are not fortunes at all. No,
they're terrible. Yes, Michael does say IPEd in your rights.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
It was handwritten and on that possibly nightmare inducing note
Speaker 2 (36:22):
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