December 5, 2024 • 36 mins
Hour 3 of A&G features...
- The Pete Hegseth piece in the Wall Street Journal
- How does the first sip of coffee affect you?
- The French government collapse
- $100 for a picture with Santa?!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe, Katty arm Strong.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
And Jetty and now he Armstrong and Eddy.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
I'm considering voting yes on DeSantis if he finally admits
that he has lifts in his boots.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I'm sure he does.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
I think three inches for inches at least.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
That's a US senator and colleague of Marco Rubio, John
Fetterman of Pennsylvania saying he will vote for Marco Rubio
as Secretary of State.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Ron de Santis.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
N de Santis would vote for Ron DeSantis as Secretary
of Defense if he's nominated.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
If he admits he has lifts.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
In his boots Senator on Senator violence.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Yeah, I don't know if DeSantis would think that was
funny or not.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Definitely like the new Fetterman post stroke better than the
old one, yeah, which is no endorsement of that terrible
medical melody. But he sure is a different dude.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
So we're not there yet that that Trump needs to
name DeSantis as the nominee for Secretary of Defense, because
you still have old Pete Hegseth in there. He hasn't
gotten out yet here's a little on the reporting on
that from Bill Malusion on Fox.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
Heg Seth also met yesterday with Senator Roger Wicker. He's
the incoming chairman of the All Important Arms Services Committee.
Wicker says Hegseth pledged to him he would stop drinking
if he set death.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Issu was made about him being intoxicated several times, and
so the questions that everry member will be asking him led.
Speaker 6 (01:49):
To and hekill Stuftrina altogether if he becomes secretaries exactly,
and then the rest of the allegations in the New
York article on the like.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
How I will not I answered about that, and he
stated categorically they were untrue.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
So I hadn't thought about that. If you're a big drinker,
you can very easily. I just finished reading Bob Woodward's
War Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense. You get phone
calls at two thirty in the morning and have to
make some serious decisions very quickly. You can't be drunk
and or hungover. So it's not just do you drink
during work hours, because your work hours are literally twenty
(02:30):
four to seven when your secretary Defense, right, So.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
As Hegxsist said, he doesn't drink at all.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
He told Megan Kelly yesterday, doesn't he's not an alcoholic,
and he said, yeah, he would.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Be willing to give up alcohol entirely during his stay.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
As Pentagonchi, that's a good commitment.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
As Senator Wickers said, you know, so, I thought a
couple of days ago his nomination was shakier than I
think it is today. And Goodness knows, it could go
either way. But he is absolutely manfully and intelligently saying this.
This is a manufactured takedown. I am not going to
back down in the face of this crap. Okay, I
(03:06):
admire him for that.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Yeah, I want to hear that Wall Street Journal stuff
you have before you get to that. I think this
will set it up. So a little piece from the
New York Times. Trump has made clear to people close
to him that he believes Hegseth should have been more
forthcoming about the problems he would face getting confirmed, according
to two people with knowledge of his thinking, So it's possible.
You know, you never know if this stuff's true or not,
but it's possible. Trump's like, God, God, dude, you gotta
(03:27):
let us know so he can be ahead of this stuff.
Possible Politico is reporting. Well, actually it's a quote from
Hegzz's lawyer, whose name parlatory, defended Hegzev's communication with the
Trump team around all this stuff and why he didn't
tell him. Hegsat's lawyer said, it's not something you would
(03:49):
necessarily be expected to disclose. Were you ever falsely accused
of something that the police investigated and clear you of
That's not a question that comes up in any background check.
Uh yeah, I would, it kind of does. And that's
absolutely the sort of thing you would disclose. How many
of you have been investigated by the police and then
cleared and then you think, once you're cleared, that's a
(04:11):
non story. In my life, it's not worth you ever
mentioning to anybody.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Really, you don't follow politics much for one right, of course,
this is his attorney who also said that he wasn't
even the state for the alleged strip club incident where
he was hammered and wanted to get up on stage
with the dancers. Who knows what's true, but so one
the dynamic I've been aware of is that his current
colleagues and very recent past colleagues at Fox News has
(04:37):
said he's the stand upist guy they've ever worked with.
They never sensed any problem. He never maltreated anybody, And
so I was surprised to see this headline Pete Hexast
drinking worried? Is Fox News colleagues, sources tell NBC News. Right,
So I went to this story that happened to be
on MSNBC. Citing ten current and former Fox News employees,
(05:00):
NBC News reported that on more than a dozen occasions
they smelled alcohol on him before he went on air.
They don't say what time of day or why he
was on air or anything like that.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Right, So those are unnamed Fox employees. Doesn't mean it
didn't happen. But Brian Kilmeat on Fox and Friends said,
we've all worked with Pete for fourteen years and none
of us have been contacted by any reporters.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
That's what kill Meat said. I think it was yesterday
on Fox and Friends. So two of those people said
on more than a dozen occasions. But those same two
people who are not willing to put their names forward,
said that during his time there, he appeared on television
after they'd heard him mentioned being hung over. All right,
(05:44):
so he showed up to work slightly hungover and never
missed a que, never missed a day of work, never
missed anything, according to these same anonymous rumor mongers.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Well that gets the question I've been asking along. Shouldn't
we do you make a decision as a nation on
what our standards are for people that have some of
these jobs? Are you not allowed to go to strip clubs?
Are you not allowed to have affairs? Are you're not
allowed to ever be hungover? I mean that will have
eliminated a lot of people that like have statues in
parks for them in US history, Winston Churchill wouldn't have
(06:19):
been Prime Minister for instance.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Right, And, as one of our beloved listeners pointed it
out quite eloquently via email, this is really good. So
I want to mention his name. No, that's not it.
Uh never mind pointed out this stuff only runs one way.
Democrats always make like it's some big deal when a
guy was hung over once.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Oh, for god's sake, this bull shack And ask well,
I guess we have a clip about the strip club.
I want to hear this and I have a question.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
So how do you respond to those reports?
Speaker 6 (06:46):
All of those allegations are anonymous, All of them are unsubstantiated.
No one's putting their name on it. No one can
point to an actual incidence, an actual place, an actual
piece of evidence, none of it. I was at my
brother's house last night where I was talking about where
did this allegation come of me being in a strip club?
Speaker 1 (07:07):
That's one of the things that is in Louisiana that
not just in the strip club strict clus storming the state.
Speaker 6 (07:12):
On the stage at a strip club. Where did this
come from? And they said, Pete, don't you know what
happened there? I said, no, it was, there was an
incident at a strip club. Something happened that was addressed.
You were nowhere near there. You weren't even at the event.
You weren't even in the state. You're being accused of
something you weren't even at. So if they're making up
an instance of something where I didn't even attend, how
(07:35):
can you believe a single other thing that any of
these people are saying in any instance?
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Well, I assume that's one hundred percent true, because there's
no way you'd want to come out and say that
and have that turn out to be wrong, because then
you're doomed. So that must be true, And that's a
pretty good point. If you're going to make those claims
that I wasn't even in the state on the date
you're claiming this happened, the rest of the stuff falls apart,
and then what do you think about the whole Brian Kilmead,
(07:58):
who's on Fox and Friends daily but also worked with
him on the weekends, saying, we've all all the people
on the couch, like the biggest stars of Fox, said,
we've worked for Pete for fourteen years and nobody's asked
us and we never saw any of this stuff.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
What does that mean?
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Which is which is why I went to that headline
from NBC News thinking, oh wow, that contradicts what I've heard.
But no, it's two anonymous crackpots making ridiculous who cares allegations?
Speaker 2 (08:25):
So did that answer your question?
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Or I think yeah, the fact that everybody works with
now says no, he's a great guy, there's no problem.
But his piece in the Wall Street Journal Pete Hexas
is there available today. I've faced fire before, I won't
back down. I look forward to an anonymous I'm sorry,
to an honest confirmation hearing, not a press show trial
(08:47):
based on anonymous accusations, and he says on these pages,
eighteen years ago, I penned an article titled more Troops Please.
I was a young US Army lieutenant who just complete
a combat tour in Iraq, and I believe we needed
more troops and a new strategy to turn the war around.
I had seen a lot, been through a lot, and
believed in my troops in the mission. Ever since then,
(09:08):
I've been fighting for our troops. And he goes into
his background of founding and advocating for organizations that are
all about the troops. A couple of different ones, including
one that overspent and went into debt, and he stayed
there at the Helm until they paid off all their debt.
Very stand up guy, at least by his description, and
(09:31):
he has volunteered over and over again to protect his guys.
Than he re enlisted, he'd missed the sense of purpose
of being in the military. Then he talks about when
he came back he founded Concerned Veterans for America. Is
his background as an organizer and worker and guy who
cares is really very very impressive. Then he talks about
(09:54):
his work at Fox News. He says, where I saw
my work as a continuation of my mission to fight
for America again, and the legacy Press has used anonymous
sources to try to discredit even that. Please see my
ex feed for all the on the record sources whom
I actually did work with and know what kind of
person I am and how I conduct myself. I've been
through a lot combat tours, job changes, divorces and family challenges. Yes,
(10:17):
I love my mom very much, and she loves me.
I've always led with honesty, integrity, and passion. Tragically, many
veterans never find the purpose for the next chapter and
so come to the bottled depression or worst of all, suicide.
I understood what they're facing because I've lived it. By
the grace of God, I took another path. My Lord
and Savior, Jesus Christ is renewed and restored my life.
I am saved by his grace. The press is peddling
(10:38):
anonymous story after anonymous story, all meant to smear me
and tear me down. It's a textbook manufactured media takedown.
They provide no evidence, no names, and they ignore the
legions of people who speak on my behalf. They need
to create a boogey man because they believe I threaten
their institutional insanity. That is the only thing they're right about.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
Yeah, So I don't really have an opinion on pedd
Exit being Secretary of Defense or not, other than some
of my favorite pundits are really in favor of him
getting the job, so it makes me think I'd be
in favor of it. But I definitely have an opinion
on these snowballing witch hunts that happen in Washington, d C.
Particularly around Republicans, like having Kavanaugh, like happen with Kavanaugh,
(11:21):
and that's not good. That's not the reason to get
rid of people. And I like the way the goal
pulse always move. So it started with he may have
like raped a woman or something, but that one kind
of fell apart or went away, and now we're down to.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
He was hungover at work.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
I mean, what are you would you disqualify anybody for
anything before because they were hung over at work a
couple of times.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
And you got all sorts of drunks and philanderers and
stolen valor punks in the Senate on the Democratic side,
for instance. Yeah, that's funny how these standards change case
by case.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
More on that.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Oh, my only concern about Pete is whether he would
be effective in taming a gigantic bureaucracy because that's a
specific that requires a specific skill set.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Yeah, and I feel like Ron DeSantis would have that
skill set.
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Speaker 2 (13:15):
And you don't appear to be What flavor of thing
do we want coming up?
Speaker 1 (13:23):
How that first sip of coffee? Oh affects you physiologically?
Speaker 2 (13:27):
I love that? Now, that's something in my wheelhouse on
the way Strong.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Just see how bright Venus was last night over the
moon and that was really cool?
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Did not notice?
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Check it out?
Speaker 4 (13:40):
It was at its peak last night. But it'll still
be really bright tonight and it's right like in the
crescent of the moon, like a some plan out of
a painting or something, and super bright.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
I was actually engaged in one of my beloved hobbies,
which I want to talk about later. Just that whole
doing a hobby because it makes you happy and it's
good for you, as opposed to having an end goal.
I struggle with that, and I think a lot of people. Yep,
everybody does. Anyway, more on that to come. So Coffee
Drinkers of the World Unite came across this rather interesting
(14:13):
piece about what actually happens when you have your coffee
in the morning or all day long in some folks case.
So let's say at eight o'clock you take here first
sip of coffee. They mentioned that there's there are significant
differences between the way people process between the ways people
process caffeine, and it's kind of understood, but only partly
(14:36):
gender differences.
Speaker 7 (14:38):
You know.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Of course there word as sex men and women, and genetics.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Of course there is.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
I've never thought about it before, but a courser is
and that explains me, my kids. People I know, and
the way they re you know, the way they handle
drinking coffee and the way I do.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
We react completely differently. Yeah, right, or alcohol or whatever.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Yeah, it's one of the most liberating things in the world, folks,
when you realize, oh, different people perceive the world differently
than I do. They come to different opinions, and that's okay.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Anyway, There's some things not get like the jag from
coffee that like you and I get, do some people
because it's like painkillers don't make me high and happy,
so I have no desire to take them. But I
know people they like the first time they ever had
any painkillers, like this is the greatest feeling I've ever had.
Do some people not get that from coffee?
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Uh? Yeah, I suppose to, and I know you and
I differ in that. I drink a fair amount of
coffee too, but I don't get headaches if I don't
get coffee. I just think, man, I'd like some coffee.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
I feel like a railroad spike has been driven through
my eyeball. So the first.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Mood alteration when you take that sip is likely placebo
rather than any biological change, especially if you're in the
routine of consuming caffeine every morning. To actually get any
effects from caffeine, it's got to get into your bloodstream,
which takes about twenty minutes or so.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
I've been aware of this from my drinking days. I
would get that feeling you get after having a beer
when I decided to have a beer before it even
opened it up, so the brain was like, Okay, we
know what's come and release the chemicals. And it does
the same thing with coffee. That doesn't surprise me.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Yes, I can attest to that phenomenon. You're not alone.
About twenty minutes in the first thing he experienced is
an increase in heart rate if you're in a low
state of arousal, not that kind of arousal.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Plain it up walking around and a cup of coffee.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Oh my god, he couldn't let folks.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
I begged him. I begged him.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Let's see, which is why people rely on the cup
of coffee in the morning. Within twenty minutes, your metal
performance has already improved. You feel more alert, switched on,
able to tackle cat tackle tasks. The flow of coffee
into the bloodstream causes adrenaline to be released.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Does it say less angry at any point, because that's
what happened for me, less likely to stop it data.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
It can actually sharpen your vision too, which probably explains
why morning paper, spreadsheets, whatever are easier to read after.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
A coffee or two. Wow, that's what you.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Need, Yeah, my mansters start drinking coffee in your vision
around twenty minutes. Come at the twenty minute mark comes
the old rush of euphotia. It's when you're feeling good,
you're feeling positive, you're greeting your colleagues, whatever it's the.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
R Everything's great, always has been, always will be.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
By eight thirty oh, nature calls literally because caffeine is
a diuretic, and so you gotta pee. If I tell
people all the time, we would get on get ready
to go on family vacations, and of course I would
be in charge of finishing packing the car and pushing
the rope, hurting the cats trying to get him in
the car, and the mood was always a little tense,
(17:37):
and then we go off down the road. But I
was never hard asked Dad about no, it's too soon
to stop to go to the bathroom, because I was
swinging out of coffee.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
I was the first guy who had to stop right anyway.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
By nine thirty am, an hour and a half later,
much sooner for other people. All of a sudden, your
your bowels say, well, good morning, haul, I'm feeling excellent
about the day, and there's something I would like to accomplish.
I don't have time to explain to you the metaphysics
of it, but it's unmistaken.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Why do your bowels have an English accent? More to
come Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 8 (18:14):
Between twenty eighteen and twenty twenty three junk fees alone
allowed airlines to pocket billions of dollars.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
This is all.
Speaker 8 (18:21):
Detailed in a multi year Senate study, and the chair
of the committee says this report pulls back the curtain
on tactics like dynamic pricing. Of course, the curtain is
then quickly closed by the first class flight attendant.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
If you don't fly.
Speaker 8 (18:36):
Delta one, you don't get to see Delta one. Now
go poop in a bucket, you beasts.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Reminding me of how funny Colbert is when it's not
just prick pardon me, sorry, folks.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Sir, like a seller.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
I think about that for ever when I'm in coach
where I mostly am poop, you beast.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
That is really funny.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
So Senator Josh Holly laid into the CEOs of the
big airlines yesterday in a very populist way that maybe
we'll play.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Some of that coming eyes.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Yeah, okay, so I thought this was so interesting. Getting
back to the coffee discussion, then I want to move
on to France. Roughly sixteen to ninety minutes after consumption.
Your results may vary. All of us feel.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
Strange rumblings below, and they point out they used to
make that joke on friends all the time about coffee
making you poop, and it always struck me his word,
because it doesn't me and not that you probably want
to hear this much about it, but it just does.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
It never, it's never had, never been a correlation for me.
Definitely mobilizes the troops in my case.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
But wow, what's more interesting discussion we've ever had?
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Only if you make it childish, well more than capable
of carrying this on in an adult way.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
What makes you poop? Katie?
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Oh? So many? Oh lord, what I gotta work with? Kid?
Don't as if you're going to dignify as stupidity, I
don't have.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Does coffee have it? Do you drink coffee?
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Katie?
Speaker 4 (20:13):
I don't even know if I paid attention, I do
you do? And does it have the effect on your
bowels that Joe's mentioning? No, now it doesn't perfect and
women don't do that.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Jack's right, women don't keep it that way.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
That is that's an excellent point, Katie, thank you. Uh So, Anyway,
what's interesting is though coffee is a vasodilator, and I've
heard that it dilates your veins eventually, and and everything
just gets going more. Uh, there are also compounds in coffee,
including decalf that cause those rumblings. But no, please, again,
(20:46):
the adult in the room says, coffee drinking has been
pretty strongly associated with a lower risk of colorectal cancer,
and one view is because of those compounds effects on
gut motility, as they say, getting things up. Going coffee
also has been shown to lower the risks the type
two diabetes, among other things. And then they talk about
(21:07):
the crash and the headache, and then you want more
and all. But we all know that. So anyway, let's see.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
Now, A long time ago, some radio doctor, I don't
remember who it was, I remember them saying, the only
downside of being a coffee addict is you're a coffee addict.
Other than that, there's not really a problem. Still mostly
true as far as I can tell. Yeah, as far
as I've observed.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
One more somewhat interesting thing I came across was this
doctor who's a neurobiology stea coined the term the ninety
minute rule about coffee, suggesting the best time to drink
your morning coffee for optimal productivity is ninety to one
hundred and twenty minutes after waking up.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Not a chance. Not This is set clip and chance.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Who's going to wait an hour and a half for
their first sip of coffee after they get up?
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Good lord?
Speaker 1 (21:52):
This is said to help you avoid the dreaded mid
morning energy crash and cortisol spike which will affect your sleep.
Mind his own, damn kidding. We're agreed on that. So
complete change of topic here, Michael. We haven't played transition
music in a long time. Do you have something good
handy there at your fingertips? When we veer wildly from
(22:14):
topic topics, sometimes it helps to put the palt cleanse
the palate.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
There we go. That's us. I ain't got no cigarettes.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
That groove is just intoxicating. The great Roger Miller love
it anyway. This is certainly the co finalist for the
most important story any American could pay attention to. With
the you know, small group of stories about how China
(22:54):
is constantly attacking us. We're in a full on cold
war as they're hacking into our phone systems and stealing
our technology, and the America is lousy with Chinese spices.
But the other one is the problem going on right
now in France. Don't get hung up on the particulars
of parliament and prime ministers and presidents. And wait a second,
(23:17):
I thought Macrone was the president, but they have a
parliamentary system.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Well they just had a no confidence vote, essentially throwing
out their prime minister, even though he might stay in
office because of some of the rules and REGs. But again,
that's not the important part. The important part is this.
They are in complete political gridlock because they have overspent
(23:42):
their revenue so much and they are so saddled with debt.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
And expensive interest.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Payments that they are going broke, and the measures it
would take to fix the problem are so politically unpopular.
The whole thing is crumbling and nobody knows what to do.
Nobody can form a coalition, nobody can get elected. Telling
the truth, France is nigh on screwed and we're about
two strides, you know behind them.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
Well, how did you go broke? Gradually? Then suddenly one
of the best things ever written about that, because that
is what happens. It feels gradual till the point that
it's just okay, now we're screwed. I'm screwed, the family screwed, whatever,
the country's screwed.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
And then and then there's no fixing it.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
There's no coming back saying oh wait a second, I
didn't know or something.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
It's no, you're done.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Maybe you prefer the metaphor of the boiling frog, which
is especially appropriate because we're talking about French people. There
surely are their nickname on anybody. Yeah, anyway, So putting
aside the particular parties and personalities, Marine la Penn, you've
heard of her, the right winger and unruly alliances of
leftist parties and Macron's so called moderates and all the
(25:00):
worry about that, here's the deal. La Penn joined with
leftist lawmakers backing the no confidence vote for the current
prime minister dude after he said, look, here's sixty billion euros.
It's about sixty three billion dollars. It's quaint by US
monetary foolishness standards, but France is a much smaller country.
(25:23):
He produced about seventy three billion dollars in spending cuts
and tax increases. What he's trying to do is narrow
France's deficit, which is going to reach more than six
percent of their gross domestic product this year, which is
double the European Union's limit because they have rules to
keep everybody from going broken, then making everybody else bail
them out like Grease did. But this Barnier is this
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guy's name. We just got voted out. He spoke to
the Lower House as people were shouting at him. He
had a solemn look on his face, and he said, look,
we need to fix our finances. Spending more on servicing
our debt than our entire defense budget. Quote, listen to me,
this reality is here to stay and it won't disappear
(26:09):
by the magic of emotion of censure. In other words, Okay,
get rid of me. Get the next guy in. He's
gonna have exactly the same problem and they're politically paralyzed.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Well.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
I started the show talking about Mitt Romney's speech yesterday,
his leaving the Senate speech, when he talked about the
thing that bothered him the most, he couldn't make any
movement on bringing the parties together and doing something about
our debt. And he mentioned, you realize that if we
didn't have so much we are spending on just the
interest payments on our debt, we could double our defense budget,
(26:43):
or double our Social Security payments in Medicare payout, or
double lots of things, he realized if we didn't have
to pay, But we do, and nobody has any interest
in doing anything about it, and it's only gonna get worse.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Our spend thrift ways are a choice and they have
re consequences, but there is zero political gain in putting
that out. That is, so you're gonna eat your spinach,
and we do not have an electric that is willing
to eat spinach at this point. Just one more note
on the French thing, and it's gonna be frustrating. And
I know y'all are with us on this, but when
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the pooh hits the ventilation device, a huge percent of
the population and a lot of the politicians are going
to say.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
How did this happen? Right?
Speaker 1 (27:32):
And I'm gonna be slapping my forehead. But anyway, so
Marine La Penn, who I agree with on a fair
amount about immigration that sort of thing, said she was
prepared to vote in favor of an extension. She was
railing against Barnier's measures as an assault on working in
middle class households that have borne the brunt of the
cost of living crisis. This budget takes the French people hostage,
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she said.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Good luck, well, good luck to us.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Yeah, no kidding.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
And you know that's not good for the United States either,
because France is one of our main allies. We end
up in a full on war with China, France will
be on our side and we'll need them.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
And if they're broke, they're less help.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Oh yeah, yeah, I don't know. I just I think
I'm resigned to the disaster. I just feel I think
I am too. I think I am too.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
They're going to grow up in a different country than
I did, a much weaker country with much higher taxes
and lower services, which I don't care that much about.
But it'll be a different it'll be a different country.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Yeah. I'm looking for the energy that would be behind
a reckoning with the problem and a summoning the will
to fix it. And don't I don't find that energy anywhere.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
There are lots of people, slash families that do the
same thing. You know, you got to get your act together.
It could be your weight, it could be your credit card,
it could be lots of different things. You know, you
got to eat your act together. And when do you
after the disaster hits, after the heart attack, after you
actually get your car repossessed or lose your job after
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the disaster, and we are gonna have to have a.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Disaster before we'll do anything about it.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
Well, not looking forward to super no kicking the gut.
I'll just mention this briefly before we take a break.
Did you see the pictures of Hunter Biden at Arby's.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
I missed that somehow.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
I don't think I've ever seen anybody look so happy.
And when I saw the look on his face, I thought,
you know, I get it, it makes sense.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
I hate it.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
But he was facing a miserable end to his life,
he says, his early fifties. He's gonna spend five, ten, fifteen,
twenty years in prison, right be broke forever. Well, and
that's just the existing convictions, never mind all the crimes
(29:53):
he may have, money laundering, Faarah violations, everything that his
daddy preemptively pardoned him. His daddy declared that for an
eleven year period, Hunter Biden was not subject to the
laws of the United States, and if he broke a
single one, all is forgiven preemptively, no matter what he did.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Treason, murder, well that's a local church as well. But
just it's o scene.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
So that guy who is facing prison and a whole
bunch of other stuff getting uncovered and made his life
even more miserable and ending up broke. As of Sunday
Night is a fifty something, rich guy who's never going
to jail. Every imagine the weight lifted off of his shoulders.
Kind of funny that I ended up at the Arby's
and Ventura.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
But the meats. They have the meats, So huh, where
you're gonna go. You're gonna go where they have the meats.
Got and so then the other story. If you haven't
heard this, have you heard about who Joe Biden's talking about? Partning?
Speaker 4 (30:52):
I mean, this was reported yesterday by the great political
reporter Jonathan Martin. We should tell you about that when
we come back up on other things.
Speaker 7 (31:01):
I saw that as shopping mall in Los Angeles is
charging one hundred and sixty five dollars for kids to
meet Santa. Oh yeah, these kids are so rich Santa
ask them for presents. Normally, if sitting on someone's lap
costs one hundred and sixty five dollars, you're not.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
At the mall, you know.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
Yeah, So this is a Los Angeles mall. If you
know LA, it's a Westfield Mall in Century City, where
I've been many times, not far from Beverly Hills. They
have three pricey photo options for parents who want to
have their kids take a photo and meet Santa. The
get in price. The cheapest price called an Elf pass,
is one hundred and nine dollars, which is just a
regular ticket one hundred and nine bucks for the cheapo version.
(31:41):
For parents that don't have time to wait as much
as the peasants next to them, the Reindeer Express passes
available for one hundred and twenty five. Then you got
the VIP option one hundred and sixty five dollars, which
comes with complimentary cookies and the elves will check you.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
In and you don't have to wait in line very long.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
You can't take any of your own photo, by the way,
you can't stay there with your standard if your phone
and click a picture of your kid on them saying
his lap. You got to buy their official photos of course.
Oh no, they'll tasy.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
If you try to do that, one of the elves
will run at you with a taser and bring you
to your knees.
Speaker 4 (32:12):
Take that, as Will Ferrell said, an Elf Santa sits
on the throne of lies.
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Speaker 4 (32:42):
So Jonathan Martin's one of your top political reporters in America,
and he put this out yesterday and it got a
lot of attention. Top Biden aids are conducting a vigorous
internal debate. So they're actually debating this over whether to
issue preemptive pardons, which would be an extraordinary step to
inoculate potential Trump targets from prosecution. At issue, whether to
(33:05):
err on the side of protecting figures like Anthony Fauci.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
Freaking shift.
Speaker 4 (33:14):
Uh, the mister Russiagate Liz Cheney in case Trump pursues him.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Hey, yours a people who engage in law fare. The
Republicans don't do that, you scum bags, ye um.
Speaker 4 (33:32):
And the debate is over whether or not Biden should
issue a pardon like he did with his son or
avoid any suggestion of impropriety by handing out pardons. Such
individuals are not even seeking over things they haven't nobody's
even I mean, there haven't been pardons like this before.
I was reading through a bunch of those the legal
people jumping in as soon as this news broke yesterday.
(33:54):
This would be a new territory for the pardon power
of just there's a person that might somebody might come
after them over something so their part and.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
I like them.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Yeah, I'll just put them above the law whatever might
have seen. It is horrifying. If this gets through, I
don't there will be a reckoning over the pardon power.
One hundred percent.
Speaker 4 (34:14):
Yeah, there has been a fair amount of talk among
various legal people of whether or not we ought to
rein that in or do away with it completely.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
And then.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
Who's the guy who got shot in the duel Alexander Hamilton.
He wrote the federal's paper arguing for the pardon power.
But it perhaps relied on I'm stealing this from others
smarter than me. It perhaps relied on certain kinds of
people in the presidency that weren't going to abuse it.
(34:44):
And then if you get a certain kind of person
in the presency that's going to abuse it and it
doesn't work anymore.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Yeah, honorable moral people don't need as many rules. Is
not honorable people like an entire family that sells influence
and there's money for instance. Oh boy, yeah, I can't
imaginate it.
Speaker 4 (35:06):
I almost want Biden to do it kind of practically,
like taking a page from the whole Marxist playbook of
let's make things so awful they have to be rebuilt.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
Just you know, go.
Speaker 4 (35:18):
Go whole hog with this, do it, do just crazy pardons,
and then let's have a real conversation of whether or
not presidents ought to be able to do this or not,
and in what way.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Yeah, if the media were not the lapdogs that they were,
everybody would be talking about this all the time. It's
an enormously important story. The idea of preemptively declaring people
above the law for a decade or more of their lives.
What the hell? The Founding fathers would be loading their
muskets And this is not a call for any sort
(35:50):
of violence. It's merely a phantasmagorical fantasy. They would be
loading their muskets and saying time for another one round two?
Here we go.
Speaker 4 (35:59):
What but they're vigor sleep debating it inside the White
House right now. So who knows which direction they go
or you know, they don't have to do all of them.
Maybe they do Liz Cheney or just Adam Shift or whatever,
but it will still be extraordinary.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
If they'll declare what they think they're guilty of, they
need to be pardoned. I might be more patient with it.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
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Speaker 3 (00:24):
I'm considering voting yes on DeSantis if he finally admits
that he has lifts in his boots.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I'm sure he does.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
I think three inches for inches at least.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
That's a US senator and colleague of Marco Rubio, John
Fetterman of Pennsylvania saying he will vote for Marco Rubio
as Secretary of State.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Ron de Santis.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
N de Santis would vote for Ron DeSantis as Secretary
of Defense if he's nominated.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
If he admits he has lifts.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
In his boots Senator on Senator violence.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Yeah, I don't know if DeSantis would think that was
funny or not.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Definitely like the new Fetterman post stroke better than the
old one, yeah, which is no endorsement of that terrible
medical melody. But he sure is a different dude.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
So we're not there yet that that Trump needs to
name DeSantis as the nominee for Secretary of Defense, because
you still have old Pete Hegseth in there. He hasn't
gotten out yet here's a little on the reporting on
that from Bill Malusion on Fox.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
Heg Seth also met yesterday with Senator Roger Wicker. He's
the incoming chairman of the All Important Arms Services Committee.
Wicker says Hegseth pledged to him he would stop drinking
if he set death.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Issu was made about him being intoxicated several times, and
so the questions that everry member will be asking him led.
Speaker 6 (01:49):
To and hekill Stuftrina altogether if he becomes secretaries exactly,
and then the rest of the allegations in the New
York article on the like.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
How I will not I answered about that, and he
stated categorically they were untrue.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
So I hadn't thought about that. If you're a big drinker,
you can very easily. I just finished reading Bob Woodward's
War Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense. You get phone
calls at two thirty in the morning and have to
make some serious decisions very quickly. You can't be drunk
and or hungover. So it's not just do you drink
during work hours, because your work hours are literally twenty
(02:30):
four to seven when your secretary Defense, right, So.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
As Hegxsist said, he doesn't drink at all.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
He told Megan Kelly yesterday, doesn't he's not an alcoholic,
and he said, yeah, he would.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Be willing to give up alcohol entirely during his stay.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
As Pentagonchi, that's a good commitment.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
As Senator Wickers said, you know, so, I thought a
couple of days ago his nomination was shakier than I
think it is today. And Goodness knows, it could go
either way. But he is absolutely manfully and intelligently saying this.
This is a manufactured takedown. I am not going to
back down in the face of this crap. Okay, I
(03:06):
admire him for that.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Yeah, I want to hear that Wall Street Journal stuff
you have before you get to that. I think this
will set it up. So a little piece from the
New York Times. Trump has made clear to people close
to him that he believes Hegseth should have been more
forthcoming about the problems he would face getting confirmed, according
to two people with knowledge of his thinking, So it's possible.
You know, you never know if this stuff's true or not,
but it's possible. Trump's like, God, God, dude, you gotta
(03:27):
let us know so he can be ahead of this stuff.
Possible Politico is reporting. Well, actually it's a quote from
Hegzz's lawyer, whose name parlatory, defended Hegzev's communication with the
Trump team around all this stuff and why he didn't
tell him. Hegsat's lawyer said, it's not something you would
(03:49):
necessarily be expected to disclose. Were you ever falsely accused
of something that the police investigated and clear you of
That's not a question that comes up in any background check.
Uh yeah, I would, it kind of does. And that's
absolutely the sort of thing you would disclose. How many
of you have been investigated by the police and then
cleared and then you think, once you're cleared, that's a
(04:11):
non story. In my life, it's not worth you ever
mentioning to anybody.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Really, you don't follow politics much for one right, of course,
this is his attorney who also said that he wasn't
even the state for the alleged strip club incident where
he was hammered and wanted to get up on stage
with the dancers. Who knows what's true, but so one
the dynamic I've been aware of is that his current
colleagues and very recent past colleagues at Fox News has
(04:37):
said he's the stand upist guy they've ever worked with.
They never sensed any problem. He never maltreated anybody, And
so I was surprised to see this headline Pete Hexast
drinking worried? Is Fox News colleagues, sources tell NBC News. Right,
So I went to this story that happened to be
on MSNBC. Citing ten current and former Fox News employees,
(05:00):
NBC News reported that on more than a dozen occasions
they smelled alcohol on him before he went on air.
They don't say what time of day or why he
was on air or anything like that.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Right, So those are unnamed Fox employees. Doesn't mean it
didn't happen. But Brian Kilmeat on Fox and Friends said,
we've all worked with Pete for fourteen years and none
of us have been contacted by any reporters.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
That's what kill Meat said. I think it was yesterday
on Fox and Friends. So two of those people said
on more than a dozen occasions. But those same two
people who are not willing to put their names forward,
said that during his time there, he appeared on television
after they'd heard him mentioned being hung over. All right,
(05:44):
so he showed up to work slightly hungover and never
missed a que, never missed a day of work, never
missed anything, according to these same anonymous rumor mongers.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Well that gets the question I've been asking along. Shouldn't
we do you make a decision as a nation on
what our standards are for people that have some of
these jobs? Are you not allowed to go to strip clubs?
Are you not allowed to have affairs? Are you're not
allowed to ever be hungover? I mean that will have
eliminated a lot of people that like have statues in
parks for them in US history, Winston Churchill wouldn't have
(06:19):
been Prime Minister for instance.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Right, And, as one of our beloved listeners pointed it
out quite eloquently via email, this is really good. So
I want to mention his name. No, that's not it.
Uh never mind pointed out this stuff only runs one way.
Democrats always make like it's some big deal when a
guy was hung over once.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Oh, for god's sake, this bull shack And ask well,
I guess we have a clip about the strip club.
I want to hear this and I have a question.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
So how do you respond to those reports?
Speaker 6 (06:46):
All of those allegations are anonymous, All of them are unsubstantiated.
No one's putting their name on it. No one can
point to an actual incidence, an actual place, an actual
piece of evidence, none of it. I was at my
brother's house last night where I was talking about where
did this allegation come of me being in a strip club?
Speaker 1 (07:07):
That's one of the things that is in Louisiana that
not just in the strip club strict clus storming the state.
Speaker 6 (07:12):
On the stage at a strip club. Where did this
come from? And they said, Pete, don't you know what
happened there? I said, no, it was, there was an
incident at a strip club. Something happened that was addressed.
You were nowhere near there. You weren't even at the event.
You weren't even in the state. You're being accused of
something you weren't even at. So if they're making up
an instance of something where I didn't even attend, how
(07:35):
can you believe a single other thing that any of
these people are saying in any instance?
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Well, I assume that's one hundred percent true, because there's
no way you'd want to come out and say that
and have that turn out to be wrong, because then
you're doomed. So that must be true, And that's a
pretty good point. If you're going to make those claims
that I wasn't even in the state on the date
you're claiming this happened, the rest of the stuff falls apart,
and then what do you think about the whole Brian Kilmead,
(07:58):
who's on Fox and Friends daily but also worked with
him on the weekends, saying, we've all all the people
on the couch, like the biggest stars of Fox, said,
we've worked for Pete for fourteen years and nobody's asked
us and we never saw any of this stuff.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
What does that mean?
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Which is which is why I went to that headline
from NBC News thinking, oh wow, that contradicts what I've heard.
But no, it's two anonymous crackpots making ridiculous who cares allegations?
Speaker 2 (08:25):
So did that answer your question?
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Or I think yeah, the fact that everybody works with
now says no, he's a great guy, there's no problem.
But his piece in the Wall Street Journal Pete Hexas
is there available today. I've faced fire before, I won't
back down. I look forward to an anonymous I'm sorry,
to an honest confirmation hearing, not a press show trial
(08:47):
based on anonymous accusations, and he says on these pages,
eighteen years ago, I penned an article titled more Troops Please.
I was a young US Army lieutenant who just complete
a combat tour in Iraq, and I believe we needed
more troops and a new strategy to turn the war around.
I had seen a lot, been through a lot, and
believed in my troops in the mission. Ever since then,
(09:08):
I've been fighting for our troops. And he goes into
his background of founding and advocating for organizations that are
all about the troops. A couple of different ones, including
one that overspent and went into debt, and he stayed
there at the Helm until they paid off all their debt.
Very stand up guy, at least by his description, and
(09:31):
he has volunteered over and over again to protect his guys.
Than he re enlisted, he'd missed the sense of purpose
of being in the military. Then he talks about when
he came back he founded Concerned Veterans for America. Is
his background as an organizer and worker and guy who
cares is really very very impressive. Then he talks about
(09:54):
his work at Fox News. He says, where I saw
my work as a continuation of my mission to fight
for America again, and the legacy Press has used anonymous
sources to try to discredit even that. Please see my
ex feed for all the on the record sources whom
I actually did work with and know what kind of
person I am and how I conduct myself. I've been
through a lot combat tours, job changes, divorces and family challenges. Yes,
(10:17):
I love my mom very much, and she loves me.
I've always led with honesty, integrity, and passion. Tragically, many
veterans never find the purpose for the next chapter and
so come to the bottled depression or worst of all, suicide.
I understood what they're facing because I've lived it. By
the grace of God, I took another path. My Lord
and Savior, Jesus Christ is renewed and restored my life.
I am saved by his grace. The press is peddling
(10:38):
anonymous story after anonymous story, all meant to smear me
and tear me down. It's a textbook manufactured media takedown.
They provide no evidence, no names, and they ignore the
legions of people who speak on my behalf. They need
to create a boogey man because they believe I threaten
their institutional insanity. That is the only thing they're right about.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
Yeah, So I don't really have an opinion on pedd
Exit being Secretary of Defense or not, other than some
of my favorite pundits are really in favor of him
getting the job, so it makes me think I'd be
in favor of it. But I definitely have an opinion
on these snowballing witch hunts that happen in Washington, d C.
Particularly around Republicans, like having Kavanaugh, like happen with Kavanaugh,
(11:21):
and that's not good. That's not the reason to get
rid of people. And I like the way the goal
pulse always move. So it started with he may have
like raped a woman or something, but that one kind
of fell apart or went away, and now we're down to.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
He was hungover at work.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
I mean, what are you would you disqualify anybody for
anything before because they were hung over at work a
couple of times.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
And you got all sorts of drunks and philanderers and
stolen valor punks in the Senate on the Democratic side,
for instance. Yeah, that's funny how these standards change case
by case.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
More on that.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Oh, my only concern about Pete is whether he would
be effective in taming a gigantic bureaucracy because that's a
specific that requires a specific skill set.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Yeah, and I feel like Ron DeSantis would have that
skill set.
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How that first sip of coffee? Oh affects you physiologically?
Speaker 2 (13:27):
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Speaker 4 (13:34):
Just see how bright Venus was last night over the
moon and that was really cool?
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Did not notice?
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Check it out?
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It was at its peak last night. But it'll still
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Speaker 2 (13:50):
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Speaker 1 (13:51):
I was actually engaged in one of my beloved hobbies,
which I want to talk about later. Just that whole
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good for you, as opposed to having an end goal.
I struggle with that, and I think a lot of people. Yep,
everybody does. Anyway, more on that to come. So Coffee
Drinkers of the World Unite came across this rather interesting
(14:13):
piece about what actually happens when you have your coffee
in the morning or all day long in some folks case.
So let's say at eight o'clock you take here first
sip of coffee. They mentioned that there's there are significant
differences between the way people process between the ways people
process caffeine, and it's kind of understood, but only partly
(14:36):
gender differences.
Speaker 7 (14:38):
You know.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Of course there word as sex men and women, and genetics.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Of course there is.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
I've never thought about it before, but a courser is
and that explains me, my kids. People I know, and
the way they re you know, the way they handle
drinking coffee and the way I do.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
We react completely differently. Yeah, right, or alcohol or whatever.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Yeah, it's one of the most liberating things in the world, folks,
when you realize, oh, different people perceive the world differently
than I do. They come to different opinions, and that's okay.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Anyway, There's some things not get like the jag from
coffee that like you and I get, do some people
because it's like painkillers don't make me high and happy,
so I have no desire to take them. But I
know people they like the first time they ever had
any painkillers, like this is the greatest feeling I've ever had.
Do some people not get that from coffee?
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Uh? Yeah, I suppose to, and I know you and
I differ in that. I drink a fair amount of
coffee too, but I don't get headaches if I don't
get coffee. I just think, man, I'd like some coffee.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
I feel like a railroad spike has been driven through
my eyeball. So the first.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Mood alteration when you take that sip is likely placebo
rather than any biological change, especially if you're in the
routine of consuming caffeine every morning. To actually get any
effects from caffeine, it's got to get into your bloodstream,
which takes about twenty minutes or so.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
I've been aware of this from my drinking days. I
would get that feeling you get after having a beer
when I decided to have a beer before it even
opened it up, so the brain was like, Okay, we
know what's come and release the chemicals. And it does
the same thing with coffee. That doesn't surprise me.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Yes, I can attest to that phenomenon. You're not alone.
About twenty minutes in the first thing he experienced is
an increase in heart rate if you're in a low
state of arousal, not that kind of arousal.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Plain it up walking around and a cup of coffee.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Oh my god, he couldn't let folks.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
I begged him. I begged him.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Let's see, which is why people rely on the cup
of coffee in the morning. Within twenty minutes, your metal
performance has already improved. You feel more alert, switched on,
able to tackle cat tackle tasks. The flow of coffee
into the bloodstream causes adrenaline to be released.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Does it say less angry at any point, because that's
what happened for me, less likely to stop it data.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
It can actually sharpen your vision too, which probably explains
why morning paper, spreadsheets, whatever are easier to read after.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
A coffee or two. Wow, that's what you.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Need, Yeah, my mansters start drinking coffee in your vision
around twenty minutes. Come at the twenty minute mark comes
the old rush of euphotia. It's when you're feeling good,
you're feeling positive, you're greeting your colleagues, whatever it's the.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
R Everything's great, always has been, always will be.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
By eight thirty oh, nature calls literally because caffeine is
a diuretic, and so you gotta pee. If I tell
people all the time, we would get on get ready
to go on family vacations, and of course I would
be in charge of finishing packing the car and pushing
the rope, hurting the cats trying to get him in
the car, and the mood was always a little tense,
(17:37):
and then we go off down the road. But I
was never hard asked Dad about no, it's too soon
to stop to go to the bathroom, because I was
swinging out of coffee.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
I was the first guy who had to stop right anyway.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
By nine thirty am, an hour and a half later,
much sooner for other people. All of a sudden, your
your bowels say, well, good morning, haul, I'm feeling excellent
about the day, and there's something I would like to accomplish.
I don't have time to explain to you the metaphysics
of it, but it's unmistaken.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Why do your bowels have an English accent? More to
come Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 8 (18:14):
Between twenty eighteen and twenty twenty three junk fees alone
allowed airlines to pocket billions of dollars.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
This is all.
Speaker 8 (18:21):
Detailed in a multi year Senate study, and the chair
of the committee says this report pulls back the curtain
on tactics like dynamic pricing. Of course, the curtain is
then quickly closed by the first class flight attendant.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
If you don't fly.
Speaker 8 (18:36):
Delta one, you don't get to see Delta one. Now
go poop in a bucket, you beasts.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Reminding me of how funny Colbert is when it's not
just prick pardon me, sorry, folks.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Sir, like a seller.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
I think about that for ever when I'm in coach
where I mostly am poop, you beast.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
That is really funny.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
So Senator Josh Holly laid into the CEOs of the
big airlines yesterday in a very populist way that maybe
we'll play.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Some of that coming eyes.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Yeah, okay, so I thought this was so interesting. Getting
back to the coffee discussion, then I want to move
on to France. Roughly sixteen to ninety minutes after consumption.
Your results may vary. All of us feel.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
Strange rumblings below, and they point out they used to
make that joke on friends all the time about coffee
making you poop, and it always struck me his word,
because it doesn't me and not that you probably want
to hear this much about it, but it just does.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
It never, it's never had, never been a correlation for me.
Definitely mobilizes the troops in my case.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
But wow, what's more interesting discussion we've ever had?
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Only if you make it childish, well more than capable
of carrying this on in an adult way.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
What makes you poop? Katie?
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Oh? So many? Oh lord, what I gotta work with? Kid?
Don't as if you're going to dignify as stupidity, I
don't have.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Does coffee have it? Do you drink coffee?
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Katie?
Speaker 4 (20:13):
I don't even know if I paid attention, I do
you do? And does it have the effect on your
bowels that Joe's mentioning? No, now it doesn't perfect and
women don't do that.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Jack's right, women don't keep it that way.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
That is that's an excellent point, Katie, thank you. Uh So, Anyway,
what's interesting is though coffee is a vasodilator, and I've
heard that it dilates your veins eventually, and and everything
just gets going more. Uh, there are also compounds in coffee,
including decalf that cause those rumblings. But no, please, again,
(20:46):
the adult in the room says, coffee drinking has been
pretty strongly associated with a lower risk of colorectal cancer,
and one view is because of those compounds effects on
gut motility, as they say, getting things up. Going coffee
also has been shown to lower the risks the type
two diabetes, among other things. And then they talk about
(21:07):
the crash and the headache, and then you want more
and all. But we all know that. So anyway, let's see.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
Now, A long time ago, some radio doctor, I don't
remember who it was, I remember them saying, the only
downside of being a coffee addict is you're a coffee addict.
Other than that, there's not really a problem. Still mostly
true as far as I can tell. Yeah, as far
as I've observed.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
One more somewhat interesting thing I came across was this
doctor who's a neurobiology stea coined the term the ninety
minute rule about coffee, suggesting the best time to drink
your morning coffee for optimal productivity is ninety to one
hundred and twenty minutes after waking up.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Not a chance. Not This is set clip and chance.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Who's going to wait an hour and a half for
their first sip of coffee after they get up?
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Good lord?
Speaker 1 (21:52):
This is said to help you avoid the dreaded mid
morning energy crash and cortisol spike which will affect your sleep.
Mind his own, damn kidding. We're agreed on that. So
complete change of topic here, Michael. We haven't played transition
music in a long time. Do you have something good
handy there at your fingertips? When we veer wildly from
(22:14):
topic topics, sometimes it helps to put the palt cleanse
the palate.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
There we go. That's us. I ain't got no cigarettes.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
That groove is just intoxicating. The great Roger Miller love
it anyway. This is certainly the co finalist for the
most important story any American could pay attention to. With
the you know, small group of stories about how China
(22:54):
is constantly attacking us. We're in a full on cold
war as they're hacking into our phone systems and stealing
our technology, and the America is lousy with Chinese spices.
But the other one is the problem going on right
now in France. Don't get hung up on the particulars
of parliament and prime ministers and presidents. And wait a second,
(23:17):
I thought Macrone was the president, but they have a
parliamentary system.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Well they just had a no confidence vote, essentially throwing
out their prime minister, even though he might stay in
office because of some of the rules and REGs. But again,
that's not the important part. The important part is this.
They are in complete political gridlock because they have overspent
(23:42):
their revenue so much and they are so saddled with debt.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
And expensive interest.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Payments that they are going broke, and the measures it
would take to fix the problem are so politically unpopular.
The whole thing is crumbling and nobody knows what to do.
Nobody can form a coalition, nobody can get elected. Telling
the truth, France is nigh on screwed and we're about
two strides, you know behind them.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
Well, how did you go broke? Gradually? Then suddenly one
of the best things ever written about that, because that
is what happens. It feels gradual till the point that
it's just okay, now we're screwed. I'm screwed, the family screwed, whatever,
the country's screwed.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
And then and then there's no fixing it.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
There's no coming back saying oh wait a second, I
didn't know or something.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
It's no, you're done.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Maybe you prefer the metaphor of the boiling frog, which
is especially appropriate because we're talking about French people. There
surely are their nickname on anybody. Yeah, anyway, So putting
aside the particular parties and personalities, Marine la Penn, you've
heard of her, the right winger and unruly alliances of
leftist parties and Macron's so called moderates and all the
(25:00):
worry about that, here's the deal. La Penn joined with
leftist lawmakers backing the no confidence vote for the current
prime minister dude after he said, look, here's sixty billion euros.
It's about sixty three billion dollars. It's quaint by US
monetary foolishness standards, but France is a much smaller country.
(25:23):
He produced about seventy three billion dollars in spending cuts
and tax increases. What he's trying to do is narrow
France's deficit, which is going to reach more than six
percent of their gross domestic product this year, which is
double the European Union's limit because they have rules to
keep everybody from going broken, then making everybody else bail
them out like Grease did. But this Barnier is this
(25:47):
guy's name. We just got voted out. He spoke to
the Lower House as people were shouting at him. He
had a solemn look on his face, and he said, look,
we need to fix our finances. Spending more on servicing
our debt than our entire defense budget. Quote, listen to me,
this reality is here to stay and it won't disappear
(26:09):
by the magic of emotion of censure. In other words, Okay,
get rid of me. Get the next guy in. He's
gonna have exactly the same problem and they're politically paralyzed.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Well.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
I started the show talking about Mitt Romney's speech yesterday,
his leaving the Senate speech, when he talked about the
thing that bothered him the most, he couldn't make any
movement on bringing the parties together and doing something about
our debt. And he mentioned, you realize that if we
didn't have so much we are spending on just the
interest payments on our debt, we could double our defense budget,
(26:43):
or double our Social Security payments in Medicare payout, or
double lots of things, he realized if we didn't have
to pay, But we do, and nobody has any interest
in doing anything about it, and it's only gonna get worse.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Our spend thrift ways are a choice and they have
re consequences, but there is zero political gain in putting
that out. That is, so you're gonna eat your spinach,
and we do not have an electric that is willing
to eat spinach at this point. Just one more note
on the French thing, and it's gonna be frustrating. And
I know y'all are with us on this, but when
(27:20):
the pooh hits the ventilation device, a huge percent of
the population and a lot of the politicians are going
to say.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
How did this happen? Right?
Speaker 1 (27:32):
And I'm gonna be slapping my forehead. But anyway, so
Marine La Penn, who I agree with on a fair
amount about immigration that sort of thing, said she was
prepared to vote in favor of an extension. She was
railing against Barnier's measures as an assault on working in
middle class households that have borne the brunt of the
cost of living crisis. This budget takes the French people hostage,
(27:53):
she said.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Good luck, well, good luck to us.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Yeah, no kidding.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
And you know that's not good for the United States either,
because France is one of our main allies. We end
up in a full on war with China, France will
be on our side and we'll need them.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
And if they're broke, they're less help.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Oh yeah, yeah, I don't know. I just I think
I'm resigned to the disaster. I just feel I think
I am too. I think I am too.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
They're going to grow up in a different country than
I did, a much weaker country with much higher taxes
and lower services, which I don't care that much about.
But it'll be a different it'll be a different country.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Yeah. I'm looking for the energy that would be behind
a reckoning with the problem and a summoning the will
to fix it. And don't I don't find that energy anywhere.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
There are lots of people, slash families that do the
same thing. You know, you got to get your act together.
It could be your weight, it could be your credit card,
it could be lots of different things. You know, you
got to eat your act together. And when do you
after the disaster hits, after the heart attack, after you
actually get your car repossessed or lose your job after
(29:04):
the disaster, and we are gonna have to have a.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Disaster before we'll do anything about it.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
Well, not looking forward to super no kicking the gut.
I'll just mention this briefly before we take a break.
Did you see the pictures of Hunter Biden at Arby's.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
I missed that somehow.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
I don't think I've ever seen anybody look so happy.
And when I saw the look on his face, I thought,
you know, I get it, it makes sense.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
I hate it.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
But he was facing a miserable end to his life,
he says, his early fifties. He's gonna spend five, ten, fifteen,
twenty years in prison, right be broke forever. Well, and
that's just the existing convictions, never mind all the crimes
(29:53):
he may have, money laundering, Faarah violations, everything that his
daddy preemptively pardoned him. His daddy declared that for an
eleven year period, Hunter Biden was not subject to the
laws of the United States, and if he broke a
single one, all is forgiven preemptively, no matter what he did.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Treason, murder, well that's a local church as well. But
just it's o scene.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
So that guy who is facing prison and a whole
bunch of other stuff getting uncovered and made his life
even more miserable and ending up broke. As of Sunday
Night is a fifty something, rich guy who's never going
to jail. Every imagine the weight lifted off of his shoulders.
Kind of funny that I ended up at the Arby's
and Ventura.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
But the meats. They have the meats, So huh, where
you're gonna go. You're gonna go where they have the meats.
Got and so then the other story. If you haven't
heard this, have you heard about who Joe Biden's talking about? Partning?
Speaker 4 (30:52):
I mean, this was reported yesterday by the great political
reporter Jonathan Martin. We should tell you about that when
we come back up on other things.
Speaker 7 (31:01):
I saw that as shopping mall in Los Angeles is
charging one hundred and sixty five dollars for kids to
meet Santa. Oh yeah, these kids are so rich Santa
ask them for presents. Normally, if sitting on someone's lap
costs one hundred and sixty five dollars, you're not.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
At the mall, you know.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
Yeah, So this is a Los Angeles mall. If you
know LA, it's a Westfield Mall in Century City, where
I've been many times, not far from Beverly Hills. They
have three pricey photo options for parents who want to
have their kids take a photo and meet Santa. The
get in price. The cheapest price called an Elf pass,
is one hundred and nine dollars, which is just a
regular ticket one hundred and nine bucks for the cheapo version.
(31:41):
For parents that don't have time to wait as much
as the peasants next to them, the Reindeer Express passes
available for one hundred and twenty five. Then you got
the VIP option one hundred and sixty five dollars, which
comes with complimentary cookies and the elves will check you.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
In and you don't have to wait in line very long.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
You can't take any of your own photo, by the way,
you can't stay there with your standard if your phone
and click a picture of your kid on them saying
his lap. You got to buy their official photos of course.
Oh no, they'll tasy.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
If you try to do that, one of the elves
will run at you with a taser and bring you
to your knees.
Speaker 4 (32:12):
Take that, as Will Ferrell said, an Elf Santa sits
on the throne of lies.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
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Speaker 4 (32:42):
So Jonathan Martin's one of your top political reporters in America,
and he put this out yesterday and it got a
lot of attention. Top Biden aids are conducting a vigorous
internal debate. So they're actually debating this over whether to
issue preemptive pardons, which would be an extraordinary step to
inoculate potential Trump targets from prosecution. At issue, whether to
(33:05):
err on the side of protecting figures like Anthony Fauci.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
Freaking shift.
Speaker 4 (33:14):
Uh, the mister Russiagate Liz Cheney in case Trump pursues him.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Hey, yours a people who engage in law fare. The
Republicans don't do that, you scum bags, ye um.
Speaker 4 (33:32):
And the debate is over whether or not Biden should
issue a pardon like he did with his son or
avoid any suggestion of impropriety by handing out pardons. Such
individuals are not even seeking over things they haven't nobody's
even I mean, there haven't been pardons like this before.
I was reading through a bunch of those the legal
people jumping in as soon as this news broke yesterday.
(33:54):
This would be a new territory for the pardon power
of just there's a person that might somebody might come
after them over something so their part and.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
I like them.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Yeah, I'll just put them above the law whatever might
have seen. It is horrifying. If this gets through, I
don't there will be a reckoning over the pardon power.
One hundred percent.
Speaker 4 (34:14):
Yeah, there has been a fair amount of talk among
various legal people of whether or not we ought to
rein that in or do away with it completely.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
And then.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
Who's the guy who got shot in the duel Alexander Hamilton.
He wrote the federal's paper arguing for the pardon power.
But it perhaps relied on I'm stealing this from others
smarter than me. It perhaps relied on certain kinds of
people in the presidency that weren't going to abuse it.
(34:44):
And then if you get a certain kind of person
in the presency that's going to abuse it and it
doesn't work anymore.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Yeah, honorable moral people don't need as many rules. Is
not honorable people like an entire family that sells influence
and there's money for instance. Oh boy, yeah, I can't
imaginate it.
Speaker 4 (35:06):
I almost want Biden to do it kind of practically,
like taking a page from the whole Marxist playbook of
let's make things so awful they have to be rebuilt.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
Just you know, go.
Speaker 4 (35:18):
Go whole hog with this, do it, do just crazy pardons,
and then let's have a real conversation of whether or
not presidents ought to be able to do this or not,
and in what way.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Yeah, if the media were not the lapdogs that they were,
everybody would be talking about this all the time. It's
an enormously important story. The idea of preemptively declaring people
above the law for a decade or more of their lives.
What the hell? The Founding fathers would be loading their
muskets And this is not a call for any sort
(35:50):
of violence. It's merely a phantasmagorical fantasy. They would be
loading their muskets and saying time for another one round two?
Here we go.
Speaker 4 (35:59):
What but they're vigor sleep debating it inside the White
House right now. So who knows which direction they go
or you know, they don't have to do all of them.
Maybe they do Liz Cheney or just Adam Shift or whatever,
but it will still be extraordinary.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
If they'll declare what they think they're guilty of, they
need to be pardoned. I might be more patient with it.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
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