December 9, 2024 • 35 mins
Hour 4 of A&G features...
- Kevin Kiley takes on Gavin Newsom's special session to "Trump Proof" CA
- Jay Z facing rape allegations
- Assad is living in Moscow
- Ways to skin cats
- 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):
Armstrong and Gatty and he.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Correct, bringing you up on to the current with a
bunch of different stories. So Siria has lost their evil
dictator family, thank god. And we have nine hundred troops there.
And we talked to a couple of people today, two
of our favorite military analysts about that. And if you
want to hear that, check in on hour two an
hour three to see their opinions on all that sort
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of stuff. Daniel Penny is free and clear. Now, if
you were following that trial, that's interesting. I actually was
on a jury that appeared to be heading for being
a hung jury. But then the equipped team won and
so for a while they went to the judges and said,
we can't find a verdict. He said, get back in there,
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you bastards, and they did, and finally the we gotta
equitum crowd overcame the we gotta convictim crowd.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
And we don't know whether it was eleven to one
or six to whatever.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
But updated in the New York Manhunt, a person fitting
the suspects. Description was found out of McDonald's and Altoona,
Pennsylvania and taken into custody. A source as a person
has a similar gun to one being used in the
deadly shooting which you've been following.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Is a very very unique gun. So I think this
is the person. Oh yeah, I haven't really followed the
gun angle.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Oh yeah, it's a really specific gun for euthanizing animals.
It had a silencer on it. Wow, and I've heard
the silencer part. But yeah, anyway, so it sounds like
they got the guy, and I feel like there's one
more to uh update you on, but I remember what
it was.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
I'll think of it later. Yeah, that's why I always
used mundane guns for my dirty work. Uh. So, let's
to get to this hour including jay z roped into
the whole. Diddy is a perv thing the gray to Mogo. Well,
we'll take a quick look at that. I got a
lot of good stuff. But so Kevin Kylie, congressman from
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Northern California. Many Northern Californians know him. He's been part
of the loyal opposition in the state legislature for a
long time. He is an absolutely righteous, down to earth,
common sense conservative guy who represents the millions and millions
and millions of Californians who are indeed conservative, moderate to conservative.
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It's a big red state with a couple of blue blotches,
like so many states, especially with coasts. But Kevin took
to the House floor the other day to take on Gavy.
Newsom's ridiculous calling a special session to trump proof California
to make sure we predict California values one of the
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most jivy and transparent parent maneuvers I've ever seen. As
as Gavy is lusting for the presidency like he's lusted
for all the women in his life.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
We're so all falls short sometimes.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Was there any need to go there? That was That
was the soft version of that. Okay, I almost brought it.
That was the That was the easy going version of
that thought. That was in my head. All right, what
the hell.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Is going on?
Speaker 1 (03:27):
You can handle the truth anyway. This is Kevin Kylie.
It's a couple of minutes worth. Kali Unicornian's delight in
this and non cal Unicornians who, as we always say,
you have these policies being pitched in your state house
right now or being taught in your school's arm yourself
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against them?
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Kevin Kyleie, what exactly is the governor aiming to protect?
Is it California's national lead when it comes to homelessness,
the fact that we have half the unshell are homeless
in the entire country? Is that what Governor Newsom is
aiming to protect. Is it our highest in the nation
poverty rate? Is he looking to protect our lead when
it comes to poverty? Or is it when it comes
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to retail crime? Does he want to maintain the number
one record for the worst retail crime in the country,
or the number one spot when it comes to anti
business regulations, or when it comes to frivolous lawsuits, or
when it comes to unemployment. Actually, we're now only second
worst in the country when it comes to unemployment, So
perhaps his protective measures are aiming us to get aiming
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to get us back in the lead. Is he looking
to protect our standing as the worst state in the
country when it comes to an increase in wages? Wages
of stagnated in California more than any state in the country.
Or when it comes to restrictions on workers and the
right to earn a living. Is he looking to make
sure that California maintains its lead in gas prices well
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above the price of gas in any of the other
forty nine states. Well, we know he's looking to do
that because his own cardboard just passed regulations that are
going to raise gas prices about sixty cents a gallon more.
Is he looking to protect our standing as number two
in the country and housing costs, number two in the
country in water bills, number three in the country in
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energy and electricity costs, number three in the country in inequality,
number one in the country when it comes to income taxes,
certainly wants to protect California's lead in that respect. Does
he want to protect our number one in the country
budget deficit that was reported last year, Or are standing
third in the country in road disrepair? Or maybe it's
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the fact that California has the highest illiteracy rate in
the entire country. Perhaps that's what the value that Governor
Newsom is aiming to protect.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Or relatedly, the fact that we are.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
Second out of the fifty states when it comes to
educational inequity. If we were still in the COVID days,
he'd certainly be looking to protect our national lead when
it came to school shutdowns, business shutdowns.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
And COVID mandates. We know that he's looking to.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
Protect our national lead when it comes to illegal border crossings.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
For the first time in the nineties. Over the last year, the.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Highest level of illegal border crossings have been in the
San Diego border sector, because he's stood by California's standing
as a sanctuary state when it comes to funding for
illegal immigrants. Surely he's looking to protect our lead there
as California is the only state in the country that's
offering free medicaid to those who are here unlawfully. And
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most certainly, we know the governor is looking to extend
California's four peete in leading the nation in one way
U haul rentals and is looking through his protective special session.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
I'm sure to make that a five pepe.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Wow. That is quite the laundry list. Wow, you're working
him like the light bags a c a circuit. It'sock
at a cicket. That is rough. Yeah, yeah, hey, you know,
and all that's legit. Kevin is a careful man. But
my only question out of that was third in energy
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and electricity costs, where the poor sons of bitches who
were paying more? Seriously is it Hawaii, maybe gotta be
something like that. But who's paying more than California for
electricity home of the four figure electric bill per month? Yeah,
that's good, that was good, Kevin. Way to bring it, brother.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Before we take a break, like to say congratulations to
the Big ten champ Oregon Ducks.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
I don't even know.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
I don't even know what college football is anymore. But
they announced the playoffs, so first time ever. You know,
it was just a few years ago that there were
no playoffs whatsoever at college football, which was stupid.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
For a century.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
They'd play a season and at the end of the year,
they'd vote on who they thought the best team was,
which was just a dumb way to do it. Finally
got a playoff. Then it was just a one and
two team, but then every time it was a how'd
you pick those as one and two? What about this
undefeated team over here? Okay, so they expanded, Well, now
it's expanded clear to its twelve teams. There'll be eight
teams that play first, and then you get the winners
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and then they'll play the other four get a first
round by kind of like the NFL. There's still arguments
over who didn't get in but you know, at least
there will always be. But at least with twelve, you're
not leaving out any obvious people. Probably interesting thing is
that first round you actually get to play at home
if you have the right record, which that has not
been the history of college football either. It's always been
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a neutral location. So that'll be fun for some of
those big schools. I don't know if this is going
to kill college football or you know, it'll just take
a while to get used to it or not.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
I don't know. Certainly, all a lot of the big
rivalries are gone. There are huge changes in college footballs
football going on right now, including the name image and
like this, paying players, the transfer portal where they transmits
teams are in.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
The middle of the season between this past season in
the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Yeah, I know it's crazy, but I will tell you
this from experience. I know a bunch of big college
football fans and they are as into it as ever. Okay, cool. Yeah.
In fact, one of my New Year's resolutions is pay
more attention of college football so I can be part
of those conversation. Huh, they're going on and on about
such and such and oh man, there are quarterbacks unbelievable,
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and I'm like, what I.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Saw most of Oregon, Penn State. It was number one
versus number three on Saturday night because we just happened
to be at a restaurant where it was on.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
But it's pretty cucy, And I tell him, you know
who's got a really good offense is the HTS rebel
group that's just taken over Syria. They look at me like,
it's the matter with you? Then they go back to
talking about Dabbo Sweeney.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Yeah, so we could hit on Syria a little bit.
I do want to hear this clip of jay Z
talking about he started dating beyond it. So starting with
he's being accused of underage sex with somebody.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
This story think of a thirteen year old.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Yes, this story burbled up over the weekend, and now
were find out he started dating Beyonce when she was
like sixteen.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
I didn't know that allegedly how old was he though?
Was he also sixteen? Twenty six?
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Really? Okay? Didn't know that? All right? A little more
on that among other things on the.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Way never struck me as a perv. Of course, neither
did Charlie Rose it turned out he was. But here's
jay Z on Charlie Rose and this will all make
sense here in a little bit.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Talking about how he met Beyonce. They mentioned Sony when
they talk about where you might.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
Go that that I mean obviously because Beyonce has a
deal there.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
I didn't know I know her, but I'll give you
I'm not her. Wow long? How long?
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Ten years?
Speaker 4 (10:48):
How long?
Speaker 1 (10:49):
How long?
Speaker 5 (10:49):
However long she's been recording when I met her?
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Don't you remember how long it was?
Speaker 5 (10:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:55):
When I met her? I mean was it five years ago?
Speaker 6 (10:58):
Was it?
Speaker 2 (10:58):
I met her ten years ago? But did you say
to yourself at that time, Wow.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
Yeah, she's that's a fantastic talent.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
That was that what you said? Yeah? Yeah, because you
saw talent.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
You saw talent before you saw anything.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Because she was singing like a rapper.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
It was the first song with y Cleft, and she
was singing really fast, and I was like, just why
she singing so fast and how she and she was
on tea and everything. I was like, oh, she's she
does a talented person right there?
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Ya have you seen the video where she Beyonce's wearing
the jeans and the cowboy hat and the T shirt
at the laundromat Oh my god, don't recall. It just
came out like a week or so ago on the
part of some mad holy cow. Anyway, I just thought
of that one.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Yeah. The first thing I noticed was her singing. Yeah,
I find that hurt to believe. What was all the
giggling there between the two of them.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
I'll tell you what it is. I used to watch
Charlie Rose every night. I really wish it was still on.
I love that show. But he tried so hard with
like young cool people, to act like he was young
and cool even though he was old and very not cool.
That sort of thing happened a lot, just like a
weird misplaced laughter to try to seem like he's on
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their left.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Yeah, that's right. Well so anyway, and he was hinting
at she Look, she's obviously a very beautiful woman, and
he's surely you noticed that first. Blah blah blah whatever.
But so he's being accused of drugging and raping a
thirteen year old girl with Sean Diddy Combs woirty And
this one.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Is completely different crime than seventeen. I mean, they're both
crimes and should be but thirteen, Wow, that's a kid.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Yeah, yeah, yes, so certainly emotionally, no matter the state
of their sexual development. But so, and that's one of
a number of suits that have popped up now since
Diddy got busted and it's become clear that he and
many people close to him were engaged in some pretty horrendous, exploitive,
drug fueled, sometimes compulsory, compulsory sex stuff. Now, this suit
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accuses Combs of raping a teenage girl alongside an anonymous
celebrity referred to as celebrity A at an after party
following the two thousand MTV Video Music Wards in New
York City, So we're talking twenty four years ago. The
suit was amended Sunday, specifically naming mister Carter aka jay
Z as the celebrity involved, and also said there was
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a female celebrity not named looking on. So I don't know.
There are a couple of things that are true at
the same time. Number one, there is a payday to
be had now in filing lawsuit and maybe getting it
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settled just to make all this stuff go away, because
jay Z is extremely deep pockets in an actual billionaire.
Well right, at the same time, and we've seen this
before for a very long time. You dare not go
up against him because nobody would believe you. There could
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be terrible repercussions or vengeance or whatever. But now that
the cracks in the facade have appeared, people are coming
forward with legitimate maybe allegation, So it's very, very difficult
to say what's legit.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
We can't go back twenty four years, can you? That
seems a lot to me. Yeah, I know what you're saying.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
But anyway, the reason that Charlie Rose clip is semi
relevant is.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Us who would have young women of age. We'd have
them come to his house to watch videos of his show,
which is like the lamest come on ever, and then
he would come out in his robe with no clothes on,
open and take a shower.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
In one of them to see whether they were a
game or not. Yeah, anyway, So I came across a
different description of mister Z and his life that pointed
out that, like each one of his serious girlfriends, he
started seeing when they were very very young. Beyonce was
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twelve years as Junior I said ten earlier, so he
was twenty eight when she was sixteen. Now, they have
at various times claimed that no, they didn't start dating
until she was eighteen, But the story keeps changing and
people are a little suspicious. And he was with Aliyah
is that her name, got with her when she was
a teenager. Then there was another girlfriend, and you know,
when he was in his mid twenties got with her
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when she was a teenager. So I don't know about you,
and I have no idea of the validity of any
of this, obviously, the idea that when I'm in my
early mid late twenties, I just keep ending up with teenagers.
That's a little weird.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
It is. Yeah, once, I don't know, you can look
a sideways at that, But multiple times, come on, dude,
how come all your girlfriends are under eighteen, barely out
of childhood.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
You haven't run into any nice twenty five year olds
at all. Oh, anyway, again, I don't know. That's sad
that all evidence is not proof. That to me suggests
he has a proclivity for very young women. Yeah, but
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
I gotta believe he cuts a check and this goes
away whether he did it or didn't do it.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
One of the best parts of living a reasonably moral
life is the simplicity of it. It's so easy. God,
it admite.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
It be harder if you're super wealthy and famous though,
and sing yes, yes, it'd be very handsome. O oh
for four a Nike, What are you gonna do? Is
it as big as Berlin Wall falling? Some people have
said it is the fall of Syria over the weekend,
certainly shakes up the Middle East. We'll talk a little
bit about that coming up, among other things.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 7 (17:15):
I think military analysts are going to focus initially on
what the hell happened here so fast? And it's kind
of a combination, right, It's corruption and conscription difficulties, long
running fuse and Siria. As David says, it's also the
distraction of Russia tied up in Ukraine and Iran flattened
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by Israel. And then thirdly, let's not underestimate the rise
of a charismatic leader. I think a lot of folks
are getting to know a Bu Muhammad al Jilani learned
that name, and we'll see.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Where this goes, whether it's Louis the sixteenth or Bashar Alissade.
I think you got things under control to the moment.
You don't in these revolutions, it would seem apparently all
the action happens under the ability to see it, and
then all of a sudden they fall.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Right, I'm reminded of the predictions that the Afghanistan government
would last for at least a couple more years. No,
when it goes, it goes quickly. Yeah, that sure does.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Uh So. Bashar al Sad, who is running Syria is
living in Moscow with his wife right now because he
fled the country or he would have been brutally murdered,
which I wish would have happened, because he is an awful,
awful guy. He was running the civil war for the
past what is a dozen fourteen years, in which half
a million of his own country people died. That's nearly
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the number we had died during our civil war with
a much larger population than they've got in Syria. So
I mean, that's a lot of dead people. And he
did all that with the help primarily of Russia but
also of Iran to be able to kill people and
just an awful human being. But what's going to replace him?
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That's always a question with revolutions. Very seldom does a
revolution happen and then you get like some sort of
benevolent governing body takeover and things calm down. I mean,
like almost never.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Does that happen. Yeah, most of the time, opposite, the
opposite of that. And then inevitably, after the revolution the
revolutionaries start killing each other for a prolonged period of
time too, bringing more chaos and horror. Yeah, sometimes it
settles down eventually, but it's a gamble.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
That was James.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Travitas, you just heard from former NATO commander and he
actually talked about that on MSNBC this morning. He said,
what unites various factions when you overthrow a king or
a dictator or a government is we want to overthrow
these people as soon as they're overthrown, though all of
your differences all of a sudden matter a lot. And
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the current leader of the opposition group, this rebel leader,
Mohammed what's his name, who gave a speech in the
most important mosque in Syria and Damascus yesterday. He gave
a very good speech about wanting to allow everybody to
participate in this is the dawn of a new era.
And he's distancing himself from al Qaida. The United States
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currently has a ten million dollar bounty on his head
because we see him as the same way we see
ISIS or al Qaeda. But here's the latest today on that,
which I find very interesting. The latest reporting. This is
from Josh Rogan's Twitter feed and we really like him.
From the Washington Post. Here's the state of affairs on
day one of the HTS led government in Damascus. HTS
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is the main rebel group.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Not to be confused with BTS. Is that the K
pop group BTK. Now that's the bound torture Killer Killer
from No, that's a different thing. Here's the state of
affairs on day one.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Central Bank operating commercial banks reopen Thursday. Do you remember
when we went into Iraq and overthrew Sadam Hussein. Weren't
nothing working the next day or for a very long time.
Everything got looted, destroyed everything. We weren't able to keep
anything together. They have their bank, Their central Bank operating
commercial banks reopen Thursday. Mohammad al Bashir has been appointed
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to former temporary government by the rebels. The main rebel
met with Bashir and Assad's prime minister to rage a
power transfer. I don't remember that happening in any of
these revolutions either, where there's some sort official power transfer
with like paperwork and will and peace. Aleppo Airport to
resume domestic flights later today.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
State employees told to return to work. Government officials say
women free to wear what they wish, harmed to journalists
punishable by prison, General amnesty to all Syrian Middle military conscripts,
as opposed to hunting them down and killing them all.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Because they're just poor sons of guns who got hired
by the military. So who knows.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
But I don't remember this happening in well, I know
it didn't happen in Iraq or Afghanistan, or Egypt or
Tunisia or any of these other places.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
I will point out that the Taliban in Afghanistan actually
did plant a pledge to be much much more moderate
and preserve the rights of women and girls and blah
blah blah, than step by step by step they went
back on the word and back to their roots. I
want to be optimistic that this al Jilani guy is
for real and actually intends to bring an era of
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you know, trading minorities in religious sects with that's sects
with respect and mercy. But I gotta I gotta wait
and see. The guy was once you know, affiliated with
al Qaeda, and alnus or front and what could.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Be he was because that was the best toughest gang
out there on his head of a side of you
know what you wanted possible. Or he's a hard kre
Islamist who believes the same thing Isis and Algaida believes
and the tally Ban.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
We'll see. If I'm a hardcore Islamist, how do I
prevent these other factions from opposing me and foiling my
rise to power by telling them I'm not going to
hurt him, telling them We're going to be buddies. No,
You've got nothing to fear for me. Any absolutely, one
hundred percent could be that guy. A lot of these
Islamas so they can't get those words they ever come
out of their mouth Hamas and Hesboala and a lot
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of the people they just they can't say anything but
death to all infidels, which I always thought, why don't
you lie? Well, see that's the thing. This guy might
just be more sophisticated. I hope he is what he
claims to be. That would be an incredible gift to
the poor people of that region. I just I've seen
it before.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Even if it goes south though, I've seen a lot
of interviews in these various countries. I don't think I've
ever seen one where they say I wish the dictator
was still in charge. They always seem to prefer their
chances now versus when Sodom Hussein was running the place,
or Momar Kadafi or there's a bunch examples.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Right, let's give it a try. Yeah, why not? So
a couple of thoughts that tie into this from an
interview I heard with a woman who is Irani and
her family left just before I think the revolution in
the seventies, when the Shah was overthrown and Ayatola Coromanian
is band of religious lunatic mulos came into power and
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then the Revolutionary Guard and all that she pointed out
to your point, Jack or whichever one of us made
it that the Marxists in Iran, in the universities in particular,
formed this alliance with the Islamists because they both wanted
to overthrow the Shah, and the Marxists were convinced that
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the Islamists agreed with them that they needed to build
a workers paradise and blah blah blah. The minute the
mulos got controlled, they executed all of the Marxists right
up against the wall, by the hundreds, by the thousands.
Nobody's really sure. So yeah, that's the way the revolutions go.
And the second thing she said that was interesting, and
she was more or less lecturing Americans. She said, you
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can't negotiate with religious fanatics. Their only goal is the
glory of Allah and achieving wiping out the Jews and
bringing forward, you know, Mohammad's vision of whatever. She said.
They will pretend to be interested in this, They will
feign that they have only one goal, and you can't
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negotiate with them. You can try to box them in,
you can fight them, you can bribe them for a while.
Just know this, never forget they have one goal. This
all happened so fast.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
I mean over Thanksgiving break I took notes on the
fall of Aleppo and just never got around to really
talking about it, and partially because I thought, man, whatever,
it's probably gonna go back to Assad at some point. Anyway, No,
in two weeks, ten days, the whole country fell. Did
you see the videos out of the airport, and those
are almost hilarious. Everybody at the airport, and then people
(26:05):
were starting to get and hear the word the news,
and then like the people who worked at the airport,
the TSA equivalent, they were like scanning baggage and they
all were looking around and they kind of got up
out of their chairs and started walking toward the gates,
then started running. Then so then the passengers started looking
around because the rumor was spreading so fast, and they
all started running. Everybody just left. Then the airport was empty,
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and that happened all across the country. Then on TV
you had the people, there are rumors in the streets
that the military has laid down their arms. Those are
all Western lies. It is not true, but shar Alisade
is in conplete control.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
And that went on for a while and then all
of a sudden.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
He'll be addressing the nation at six o'clock night and
all of a sudden, this woman gets up out of
her chair, walks off. This other bald hair guy sits
down and basically says, I, for one, welcome the ant
or for lords. I mean, he just sat down and
immediately said we are now a free country, and I
couldn't be more excited about it.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
And that's how quickly it changed. Wow, Yeah, yeah, that's nuts.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
You remember we used to have Liz Sly on regularly, yeah,
with Washington Post. I don't know who she was with
at the time, but anyway, she just texted this out
statement on the HTS channels. They have their own TV
channels going right now with information it is strictly forbidden
to interfere with women's dress or impose any request related
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to their clothing or appearance, including requests for modesty. That's
what they're saying. Anyway, it's possible that they think, you know,
we play this right, We're going to get the backen
of the United States and the European Union and money
will be flowing our way in arms, and we can
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run this country for a long time.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
I hope I get to see this play out, because
they're one of two, well several, but at least two results. One,
this guy is what he claims to be, and it's
an incredible gift of freedom and moderation in that region
for the people of Syria. That's a long shot. Secondly,
is we get to see the playbook of the modern
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Islamist extremist and how they claim moderation to get the
cooperation of other groups and tribes and whatever, and then
they bring the hammer down isis style, and we live
and we learn one of those two things is going
to happen.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
The difference with the Taliban example you used, is they
mean that would have been really they had shown what
they were for decades. This group, who's ever even heard
of HST or whatever. They were untild yesterday, so we'll
see what they're all about.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Yeah, I was telling my kids yesterday how thankful anybody
who lives in a organized, safe society should be that
they do, because it doesn't have to be that way.
I was watching some YouTube videos over the weekend about
entropy and how it applies to in nature and rocks
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the same way it applies to civilizations. The pulling force
is toward chaos. It takes a lot to keep that
from being that way disintegration. Yeah, speaking of which, and
this gladdens my heart speaking of the Mullahs in the
Revolutionary Guard of Iran.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
They are screwed and tattooed by this whole thing. They're
proxies hamas Hesbelah are terribly battered. They're battered. The Israelis
expose them for having no air defenses to speak of,
and their ability to resupply Hesbelah has been seriously disrupted,
so they are looking weak, weak, weak. Russia is the
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looser in this as well, which gladdens my heart too. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
Nettnyah who made a little speech over the weekend taking
a lot of credit for this having he says the
devastation of hesbol is what led to this, and he
might be right.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Yeah, and indeed Russia getting bogged, don you crane as well?
They have a couple of important military bass in Siria.
I should explain that for people who don't follow this
all the time.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Yeah, one to port won a regular military base. The
port very important, so we'll see what happens there. The
phrase you just used, which I don't approve of, for
the record, screwed and tattooed?
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Where does that? Where does that phrase come from? I mean,
I I'm afraid to even ask that question. I don't know.
It's like when I mentioned there's more than one way
to skin a cat in front of my nieces and
they reacted with horror, And it occurred to me, who
is skinning cats for what purpose? How many ways do
you need become a popular?
Speaker 3 (30:34):
Say somebody had been skinning skinning cats I assume you
can always skin a cat. Once somebody had been skinning
cats same way, every day, every cat, and somebody said, look, Jim,
I hate to butt in. I hope I'm not overstepping
my bounds. But there's more than one way to skin
a cat.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Right.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
You're wearing out your knife, you're nicking your thumb. Whatever
Jim's problems. But there's a faster, easier way. You gotta
think outside the box of cats skinning.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
I mean, if your goal is to get as many
skins off as many cats as pumps, right, exactly in
a timely reasons, right right, right, in.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
A timely man, there are other ways. It was his point.
We will finish strong. Next, we need some black visialities.
Speaker 7 (31:26):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
People want to jump up and choke.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
Us and kill us for being loud.
Speaker 5 (31:35):
How about we do the same when they attempt to
oppress us.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Right, I'm tie it, tie it well. Hawk Newsome, the
leader of New York Black Lives Matter BLM, who are
Marxists who want to overthrow the system. Therefore they want
a race war. That's what BLM has been from the beginning,
calling for violence. Nice.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
So those of you and I know a couple of
institutions that still have BLM signs in their windows.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
You're still on board with that.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
The people who ran BLM took your money and bought houses.
They're in jail, a lot of them. Now, you got
this guy, the leader of BLM in New York, calling
for violence after a court made a decision. I mean,
this is the legal justice system. So you're basically unhappy
with the ruling, and you're calling for violence in the streets.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Nice in the name of communism. Yeah, keep flying those
BLM flags. Use soft heads, no kidding, crumb. When I
see that, I think, I think, I think you're an idiot. Yeah,
me too. Or you're certainly ignorant. You're an ignorant virtue
signaling fool the ready.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Yeah, here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew
to wrapp things up for the day. There is our
technical director, Michael Angelo in the controller of Michael. What's
your final thought? Yeah, it's time for me to do
my annual public service of reminding people that Amazon times
are slipping and the last day for free shipping is
December fourteenth. From my arm reading Okay, yep, oh, that's
a timely reminder. Thank you, Michael. Katie Green As a
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final thought, Katie.
Speaker 6 (33:26):
Thinking about Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. I had a friend
go to one recently and she sent me a video
a bunch of thirty five year old women crying, baffling
to me bathfully.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Yeah, yeah, me too, unbelievable. Jack a final thought for us.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
Joe used a course expression earlier screwed into two, and
it made me wonder what does that mean? I looked
it up. It's damned interesting.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Huh. And we'll talk about that on the One More
Thing podcast. Yeah, you can subscribe to that along with
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Speaker 3 (34:20):
Cool Armstrong and Getty wrapping up an other grueling four
hour work to have a feeling we're gonna know a
lot more about that. Perhaps shooter her in New York,
because it looks like they've got the guy nabbed so
many people.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Thanks so little time. Go to Armstrong Geddy dot com.
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Oh my god, I've got so much to do to
get ready for Christmas. It's making me tired thinking about it.
I got to restart my Scotch cabinet so we all
have things to worry about.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
Jack, We'll see you tomorrow. God bless America.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
I'm strong and Getty. I want it. Give it to me.
I don't care how long it is.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
What hell is that?
Speaker 1 (35:00):
That was quite entertaining for No Joe. It's outrageous, it
is dangerous. It's so good as this.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Is an amazing geopolitical disaster. What the hell happened here
so fast?
Speaker 1 (35:11):
I'm gonna call my lawyer, gun if you you know
you have such potential? No, no, that's not what I
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Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
Armstrong and Gatty and he.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Correct, bringing you up on to the current with a
bunch of different stories. So Siria has lost their evil
dictator family, thank god. And we have nine hundred troops there.
And we talked to a couple of people today, two
of our favorite military analysts about that. And if you
want to hear that, check in on hour two an
hour three to see their opinions on all that sort
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of stuff. Daniel Penny is free and clear. Now, if
you were following that trial, that's interesting. I actually was
on a jury that appeared to be heading for being
a hung jury. But then the equipped team won and
so for a while they went to the judges and said,
we can't find a verdict. He said, get back in there,
(01:04):
you bastards, and they did, and finally the we gotta
equitum crowd overcame the we gotta convictim crowd.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
And we don't know whether it was eleven to one
or six to whatever.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
But updated in the New York Manhunt, a person fitting
the suspects. Description was found out of McDonald's and Altoona,
Pennsylvania and taken into custody. A source as a person
has a similar gun to one being used in the
deadly shooting which you've been following.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Is a very very unique gun. So I think this
is the person. Oh yeah, I haven't really followed the
gun angle.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Oh yeah, it's a really specific gun for euthanizing animals.
It had a silencer on it. Wow, and I've heard
the silencer part. But yeah, anyway, so it sounds like
they got the guy, and I feel like there's one
more to uh update you on, but I remember what
it was.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
I'll think of it later. Yeah, that's why I always
used mundane guns for my dirty work. Uh. So, let's
to get to this hour including jay z roped into
the whole. Diddy is a perv thing the gray to Mogo. Well,
we'll take a quick look at that. I got a
lot of good stuff. But so Kevin Kylie, congressman from
(02:16):
Northern California. Many Northern Californians know him. He's been part
of the loyal opposition in the state legislature for a
long time. He is an absolutely righteous, down to earth,
common sense conservative guy who represents the millions and millions
and millions of Californians who are indeed conservative, moderate to conservative.
(02:36):
It's a big red state with a couple of blue blotches,
like so many states, especially with coasts. But Kevin took
to the House floor the other day to take on Gavy.
Newsom's ridiculous calling a special session to trump proof California
to make sure we predict California values one of the
(02:57):
most jivy and transparent parent maneuvers I've ever seen. As
as Gavy is lusting for the presidency like he's lusted
for all the women in his life.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
We're so all falls short sometimes.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Was there any need to go there? That was That
was the soft version of that. Okay, I almost brought it.
That was the That was the easy going version of
that thought. That was in my head. All right, what
the hell.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Is going on?
Speaker 1 (03:27):
You can handle the truth anyway. This is Kevin Kylie.
It's a couple of minutes worth. Kali Unicornian's delight in
this and non cal Unicornians who, as we always say,
you have these policies being pitched in your state house
right now or being taught in your school's arm yourself
(03:48):
against them?
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Kevin Kyleie, what exactly is the governor aiming to protect?
Is it California's national lead when it comes to homelessness,
the fact that we have half the unshell are homeless
in the entire country? Is that what Governor Newsom is
aiming to protect. Is it our highest in the nation
poverty rate? Is he looking to protect our lead when
it comes to poverty? Or is it when it comes
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to retail crime? Does he want to maintain the number
one record for the worst retail crime in the country,
or the number one spot when it comes to anti
business regulations, or when it comes to frivolous lawsuits, or
when it comes to unemployment. Actually, we're now only second
worst in the country when it comes to unemployment, So
perhaps his protective measures are aiming us to get aiming
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to get us back in the lead. Is he looking
to protect our standing as the worst state in the
country when it comes to an increase in wages? Wages
of stagnated in California more than any state in the country.
Or when it comes to restrictions on workers and the
right to earn a living. Is he looking to make
sure that California maintains its lead in gas prices well
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above the price of gas in any of the other
forty nine states. Well, we know he's looking to do
that because his own cardboard just passed regulations that are
going to raise gas prices about sixty cents a gallon more.
Is he looking to protect our standing as number two
in the country and housing costs, number two in the
country in water bills, number three in the country in
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energy and electricity costs, number three in the country in inequality,
number one in the country when it comes to income taxes,
certainly wants to protect California's lead in that respect. Does
he want to protect our number one in the country
budget deficit that was reported last year, Or are standing
third in the country in road disrepair? Or maybe it's
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the fact that California has the highest illiteracy rate in
the entire country. Perhaps that's what the value that Governor
Newsom is aiming to protect.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Or relatedly, the fact that we are.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
Second out of the fifty states when it comes to
educational inequity. If we were still in the COVID days,
he'd certainly be looking to protect our national lead when
it came to school shutdowns, business shutdowns.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
And COVID mandates. We know that he's looking to.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
Protect our national lead when it comes to illegal border crossings.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
For the first time in the nineties. Over the last year, the.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Highest level of illegal border crossings have been in the
San Diego border sector, because he's stood by California's standing
as a sanctuary state when it comes to funding for
illegal immigrants. Surely he's looking to protect our lead there
as California is the only state in the country that's
offering free medicaid to those who are here unlawfully. And
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most certainly, we know the governor is looking to extend
California's four peete in leading the nation in one way
U haul rentals and is looking through his protective special session.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
I'm sure to make that a five pepe.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Wow. That is quite the laundry list. Wow, you're working
him like the light bags a c a circuit. It'sock
at a cicket. That is rough. Yeah, yeah, hey, you know,
and all that's legit. Kevin is a careful man. But
my only question out of that was third in energy
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and electricity costs, where the poor sons of bitches who
were paying more? Seriously is it Hawaii, maybe gotta be
something like that. But who's paying more than California for
electricity home of the four figure electric bill per month? Yeah,
that's good, that was good, Kevin. Way to bring it, brother.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Before we take a break, like to say congratulations to
the Big ten champ Oregon Ducks.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
I don't even know.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
I don't even know what college football is anymore. But
they announced the playoffs, so first time ever. You know,
it was just a few years ago that there were
no playoffs whatsoever at college football, which was stupid.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
For a century.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
They'd play a season and at the end of the year,
they'd vote on who they thought the best team was,
which was just a dumb way to do it. Finally
got a playoff. Then it was just a one and
two team, but then every time it was a how'd
you pick those as one and two? What about this
undefeated team over here? Okay, so they expanded, Well, now
it's expanded clear to its twelve teams. There'll be eight
teams that play first, and then you get the winners
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and then they'll play the other four get a first
round by kind of like the NFL. There's still arguments
over who didn't get in but you know, at least
there will always be. But at least with twelve, you're
not leaving out any obvious people. Probably interesting thing is
that first round you actually get to play at home
if you have the right record, which that has not
been the history of college football either. It's always been
(08:34):
a neutral location. So that'll be fun for some of
those big schools. I don't know if this is going
to kill college football or you know, it'll just take
a while to get used to it or not.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
I don't know. Certainly, all a lot of the big
rivalries are gone. There are huge changes in college footballs
football going on right now, including the name image and
like this, paying players, the transfer portal where they transmits
teams are in.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
The middle of the season between this past season in
the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Yeah, I know it's crazy, but I will tell you
this from experience. I know a bunch of big college
football fans and they are as into it as ever. Okay, cool. Yeah.
In fact, one of my New Year's resolutions is pay
more attention of college football so I can be part
of those conversation. Huh, they're going on and on about
such and such and oh man, there are quarterbacks unbelievable,
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and I'm like, what I.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Saw most of Oregon, Penn State. It was number one
versus number three on Saturday night because we just happened
to be at a restaurant where it was on.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
But it's pretty cucy, And I tell him, you know
who's got a really good offense is the HTS rebel
group that's just taken over Syria. They look at me like,
it's the matter with you? Then they go back to
talking about Dabbo Sweeney.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Yeah, so we could hit on Syria a little bit.
I do want to hear this clip of jay Z
talking about he started dating beyond it. So starting with
he's being accused of underage sex with somebody.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
This story think of a thirteen year old.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Yes, this story burbled up over the weekend, and now
were find out he started dating Beyonce when she was
like sixteen.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
I didn't know that allegedly how old was he though?
Was he also sixteen? Twenty six?
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Really? Okay? Didn't know that? All right? A little more
on that among other things on the.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Way never struck me as a perv. Of course, neither
did Charlie Rose it turned out he was. But here's
jay Z on Charlie Rose and this will all make
sense here in a little bit.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Talking about how he met Beyonce. They mentioned Sony when
they talk about where you might.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
Go that that I mean obviously because Beyonce has a
deal there.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
I didn't know I know her, but I'll give you
I'm not her. Wow long? How long?
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Ten years?
Speaker 4 (10:48):
How long?
Speaker 1 (10:49):
How long?
Speaker 5 (10:49):
However long she's been recording when I met her?
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Don't you remember how long it was?
Speaker 5 (10:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:55):
When I met her? I mean was it five years ago?
Speaker 6 (10:58):
Was it?
Speaker 2 (10:58):
I met her ten years ago? But did you say
to yourself at that time, Wow.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
Yeah, she's that's a fantastic talent.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
That was that what you said? Yeah? Yeah, because you
saw talent.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
You saw talent before you saw anything.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Because she was singing like a rapper.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
It was the first song with y Cleft, and she
was singing really fast, and I was like, just why
she singing so fast and how she and she was
on tea and everything. I was like, oh, she's she
does a talented person right there?
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Ya have you seen the video where she Beyonce's wearing
the jeans and the cowboy hat and the T shirt
at the laundromat Oh my god, don't recall. It just
came out like a week or so ago on the
part of some mad holy cow. Anyway, I just thought
of that one.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Yeah. The first thing I noticed was her singing. Yeah,
I find that hurt to believe. What was all the
giggling there between the two of them.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
I'll tell you what it is. I used to watch
Charlie Rose every night. I really wish it was still on.
I love that show. But he tried so hard with
like young cool people, to act like he was young
and cool even though he was old and very not cool.
That sort of thing happened a lot, just like a
weird misplaced laughter to try to seem like he's on
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their left.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Yeah, that's right. Well so anyway, and he was hinting
at she Look, she's obviously a very beautiful woman, and
he's surely you noticed that first. Blah blah blah whatever.
But so he's being accused of drugging and raping a
thirteen year old girl with Sean Diddy Combs woirty And
this one.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Is completely different crime than seventeen. I mean, they're both
crimes and should be but thirteen, Wow, that's a kid.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Yeah, yeah, yes, so certainly emotionally, no matter the state
of their sexual development. But so, and that's one of
a number of suits that have popped up now since
Diddy got busted and it's become clear that he and
many people close to him were engaged in some pretty horrendous, exploitive,
drug fueled, sometimes compulsory, compulsory sex stuff. Now, this suit
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accuses Combs of raping a teenage girl alongside an anonymous
celebrity referred to as celebrity A at an after party
following the two thousand MTV Video Music Wards in New
York City, So we're talking twenty four years ago. The
suit was amended Sunday, specifically naming mister Carter aka jay
Z as the celebrity involved, and also said there was
(13:34):
a female celebrity not named looking on. So I don't know.
There are a couple of things that are true at
the same time. Number one, there is a payday to
be had now in filing lawsuit and maybe getting it
(13:55):
settled just to make all this stuff go away, because
jay Z is extremely deep pockets in an actual billionaire.
Well right, at the same time, and we've seen this
before for a very long time. You dare not go
up against him because nobody would believe you. There could
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be terrible repercussions or vengeance or whatever. But now that
the cracks in the facade have appeared, people are coming
forward with legitimate maybe allegation, So it's very, very difficult
to say what's legit.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
We can't go back twenty four years, can you? That
seems a lot to me. Yeah, I know what you're saying.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
But anyway, the reason that Charlie Rose clip is semi
relevant is.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Us who would have young women of age. We'd have
them come to his house to watch videos of his show,
which is like the lamest come on ever, and then
he would come out in his robe with no clothes on,
open and take a shower.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
In one of them to see whether they were a
game or not. Yeah, anyway, So I came across a
different description of mister Z and his life that pointed
out that, like each one of his serious girlfriends, he
started seeing when they were very very young. Beyonce was
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twelve years as Junior I said ten earlier, so he
was twenty eight when she was sixteen. Now, they have
at various times claimed that no, they didn't start dating
until she was eighteen, But the story keeps changing and
people are a little suspicious. And he was with Aliyah
is that her name, got with her when she was
a teenager. Then there was another girlfriend, and you know,
when he was in his mid twenties got with her
(15:44):
when she was a teenager. So I don't know about you,
and I have no idea of the validity of any
of this, obviously, the idea that when I'm in my
early mid late twenties, I just keep ending up with teenagers.
That's a little weird.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
It is. Yeah, once, I don't know, you can look
a sideways at that, But multiple times, come on, dude,
how come all your girlfriends are under eighteen, barely out
of childhood.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
You haven't run into any nice twenty five year olds
at all. Oh, anyway, again, I don't know. That's sad
that all evidence is not proof. That to me suggests
he has a proclivity for very young women. Yeah, but
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
I gotta believe he cuts a check and this goes
away whether he did it or didn't do it.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
One of the best parts of living a reasonably moral
life is the simplicity of it. It's so easy. God,
it admite.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
It be harder if you're super wealthy and famous though,
and sing yes, yes, it'd be very handsome. O oh
for four a Nike, What are you gonna do? Is
it as big as Berlin Wall falling? Some people have
said it is the fall of Syria over the weekend,
certainly shakes up the Middle East. We'll talk a little
bit about that coming up, among other things.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 7 (17:15):
I think military analysts are going to focus initially on
what the hell happened here so fast? And it's kind
of a combination, right, It's corruption and conscription difficulties, long
running fuse and Siria. As David says, it's also the
distraction of Russia tied up in Ukraine and Iran flattened
(17:39):
by Israel. And then thirdly, let's not underestimate the rise
of a charismatic leader. I think a lot of folks
are getting to know a Bu Muhammad al Jilani learned
that name, and we'll see.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Where this goes, whether it's Louis the sixteenth or Bashar Alissade.
I think you got things under control to the moment.
You don't in these revolutions, it would seem apparently all
the action happens under the ability to see it, and
then all of a sudden they fall.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Right, I'm reminded of the predictions that the Afghanistan government
would last for at least a couple more years. No,
when it goes, it goes quickly. Yeah, that sure does.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Uh So. Bashar al Sad, who is running Syria is
living in Moscow with his wife right now because he
fled the country or he would have been brutally murdered,
which I wish would have happened, because he is an awful,
awful guy. He was running the civil war for the
past what is a dozen fourteen years, in which half
a million of his own country people died. That's nearly
(18:44):
the number we had died during our civil war with
a much larger population than they've got in Syria. So
I mean, that's a lot of dead people. And he
did all that with the help primarily of Russia but
also of Iran to be able to kill people and
just an awful human being. But what's going to replace him?
(19:04):
That's always a question with revolutions. Very seldom does a
revolution happen and then you get like some sort of
benevolent governing body takeover and things calm down. I mean,
like almost never.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Does that happen. Yeah, most of the time, opposite, the
opposite of that. And then inevitably, after the revolution the
revolutionaries start killing each other for a prolonged period of
time too, bringing more chaos and horror. Yeah, sometimes it
settles down eventually, but it's a gamble.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
That was James.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Travitas, you just heard from former NATO commander and he
actually talked about that on MSNBC this morning. He said,
what unites various factions when you overthrow a king or
a dictator or a government is we want to overthrow
these people as soon as they're overthrown, though all of
your differences all of a sudden matter a lot. And
(19:57):
the current leader of the opposition group, this rebel leader,
Mohammed what's his name, who gave a speech in the
most important mosque in Syria and Damascus yesterday. He gave
a very good speech about wanting to allow everybody to
participate in this is the dawn of a new era.
And he's distancing himself from al Qaida. The United States
(20:17):
currently has a ten million dollar bounty on his head
because we see him as the same way we see
ISIS or al Qaeda. But here's the latest today on that,
which I find very interesting. The latest reporting. This is
from Josh Rogan's Twitter feed and we really like him.
From the Washington Post. Here's the state of affairs on
day one of the HTS led government in Damascus. HTS
(20:38):
is the main rebel group.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Not to be confused with BTS. Is that the K
pop group BTK. Now that's the bound torture Killer Killer
from No, that's a different thing. Here's the state of
affairs on day one.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Central Bank operating commercial banks reopen Thursday. Do you remember
when we went into Iraq and overthrew Sadam Hussein. Weren't
nothing working the next day or for a very long time.
Everything got looted, destroyed everything. We weren't able to keep
anything together. They have their bank, Their central Bank operating
commercial banks reopen Thursday. Mohammad al Bashir has been appointed
(21:17):
to former temporary government by the rebels. The main rebel
met with Bashir and Assad's prime minister to rage a
power transfer. I don't remember that happening in any of
these revolutions either, where there's some sort official power transfer
with like paperwork and will and peace. Aleppo Airport to
resume domestic flights later today.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
State employees told to return to work. Government officials say
women free to wear what they wish, harmed to journalists
punishable by prison, General amnesty to all Syrian Middle military conscripts,
as opposed to hunting them down and killing them all.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Because they're just poor sons of guns who got hired
by the military. So who knows.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
But I don't remember this happening in well, I know
it didn't happen in Iraq or Afghanistan, or Egypt or
Tunisia or any of these other places.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
I will point out that the Taliban in Afghanistan actually
did plant a pledge to be much much more moderate
and preserve the rights of women and girls and blah
blah blah, than step by step by step they went
back on the word and back to their roots. I
want to be optimistic that this al Jilani guy is
for real and actually intends to bring an era of
(22:31):
you know, trading minorities in religious sects with that's sects
with respect and mercy. But I gotta I gotta wait
and see. The guy was once you know, affiliated with
al Qaeda, and alnus or front and what could.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Be he was because that was the best toughest gang
out there on his head of a side of you
know what you wanted possible. Or he's a hard kre
Islamist who believes the same thing Isis and Algaida believes
and the tally Ban.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
We'll see. If I'm a hardcore Islamist, how do I
prevent these other factions from opposing me and foiling my
rise to power by telling them I'm not going to
hurt him, telling them We're going to be buddies. No,
You've got nothing to fear for me. Any absolutely, one
hundred percent could be that guy. A lot of these
Islamas so they can't get those words they ever come
out of their mouth Hamas and Hesboala and a lot
(23:24):
of the people they just they can't say anything but
death to all infidels, which I always thought, why don't
you lie? Well, see that's the thing. This guy might
just be more sophisticated. I hope he is what he
claims to be. That would be an incredible gift to
the poor people of that region. I just I've seen
it before.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Even if it goes south though, I've seen a lot
of interviews in these various countries. I don't think I've
ever seen one where they say I wish the dictator
was still in charge. They always seem to prefer their
chances now versus when Sodom Hussein was running the place,
or Momar Kadafi or there's a bunch examples.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Right, let's give it a try. Yeah, why not? So
a couple of thoughts that tie into this from an
interview I heard with a woman who is Irani and
her family left just before I think the revolution in
the seventies, when the Shah was overthrown and Ayatola Coromanian
is band of religious lunatic mulos came into power and
(24:23):
then the Revolutionary Guard and all that she pointed out
to your point, Jack or whichever one of us made
it that the Marxists in Iran, in the universities in particular,
formed this alliance with the Islamists because they both wanted
to overthrow the Shah, and the Marxists were convinced that
(24:47):
the Islamists agreed with them that they needed to build
a workers paradise and blah blah blah. The minute the
mulos got controlled, they executed all of the Marxists right
up against the wall, by the hundreds, by the thousands.
Nobody's really sure. So yeah, that's the way the revolutions go.
And the second thing she said that was interesting, and
she was more or less lecturing Americans. She said, you
(25:08):
can't negotiate with religious fanatics. Their only goal is the
glory of Allah and achieving wiping out the Jews and
bringing forward, you know, Mohammad's vision of whatever. She said.
They will pretend to be interested in this, They will
feign that they have only one goal, and you can't
(25:29):
negotiate with them. You can try to box them in,
you can fight them, you can bribe them for a while.
Just know this, never forget they have one goal. This
all happened so fast.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
I mean over Thanksgiving break I took notes on the
fall of Aleppo and just never got around to really
talking about it, and partially because I thought, man, whatever,
it's probably gonna go back to Assad at some point. Anyway, No,
in two weeks, ten days, the whole country fell. Did
you see the videos out of the airport, and those
are almost hilarious. Everybody at the airport, and then people
(26:05):
were starting to get and hear the word the news,
and then like the people who worked at the airport,
the TSA equivalent, they were like scanning baggage and they
all were looking around and they kind of got up
out of their chairs and started walking toward the gates,
then started running. Then so then the passengers started looking
around because the rumor was spreading so fast, and they
all started running. Everybody just left. Then the airport was empty,
(26:28):
and that happened all across the country. Then on TV
you had the people, there are rumors in the streets
that the military has laid down their arms. Those are
all Western lies. It is not true, but shar Alisade
is in conplete control.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
And that went on for a while and then all
of a sudden.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
He'll be addressing the nation at six o'clock night and
all of a sudden, this woman gets up out of
her chair, walks off. This other bald hair guy sits
down and basically says, I, for one, welcome the ant
or for lords. I mean, he just sat down and
immediately said we are now a free country, and I
couldn't be more excited about it.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
And that's how quickly it changed. Wow, Yeah, yeah, that's nuts.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
You remember we used to have Liz Sly on regularly, yeah,
with Washington Post. I don't know who she was with
at the time, but anyway, she just texted this out
statement on the HTS channels. They have their own TV
channels going right now with information it is strictly forbidden
to interfere with women's dress or impose any request related
(27:29):
to their clothing or appearance, including requests for modesty. That's
what they're saying. Anyway, it's possible that they think, you know,
we play this right, We're going to get the backen
of the United States and the European Union and money
will be flowing our way in arms, and we can
(27:50):
run this country for a long time.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
I hope I get to see this play out, because
they're one of two, well several, but at least two results. One,
this guy is what he claims to be, and it's
an incredible gift of freedom and moderation in that region
for the people of Syria. That's a long shot. Secondly,
is we get to see the playbook of the modern
(28:13):
Islamist extremist and how they claim moderation to get the
cooperation of other groups and tribes and whatever, and then
they bring the hammer down isis style, and we live
and we learn one of those two things is going
to happen.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
The difference with the Taliban example you used, is they
mean that would have been really they had shown what
they were for decades. This group, who's ever even heard
of HST or whatever. They were untild yesterday, so we'll
see what they're all about.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Yeah, I was telling my kids yesterday how thankful anybody
who lives in a organized, safe society should be that
they do, because it doesn't have to be that way.
I was watching some YouTube videos over the weekend about
entropy and how it applies to in nature and rocks
(29:06):
the same way it applies to civilizations. The pulling force
is toward chaos. It takes a lot to keep that
from being that way disintegration. Yeah, speaking of which, and
this gladdens my heart speaking of the Mullahs in the
Revolutionary Guard of Iran.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
They are screwed and tattooed by this whole thing. They're
proxies hamas Hesbelah are terribly battered. They're battered. The Israelis
expose them for having no air defenses to speak of,
and their ability to resupply Hesbelah has been seriously disrupted,
so they are looking weak, weak, weak. Russia is the
(29:46):
looser in this as well, which gladdens my heart too. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
Nettnyah who made a little speech over the weekend taking
a lot of credit for this having he says the
devastation of hesbol is what led to this, and he
might be right.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Yeah, and indeed Russia getting bogged, don you crane as well?
They have a couple of important military bass in Siria.
I should explain that for people who don't follow this
all the time.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Yeah, one to port won a regular military base. The
port very important, so we'll see what happens there. The
phrase you just used, which I don't approve of, for
the record, screwed and tattooed?
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Where does that? Where does that phrase come from? I mean,
I I'm afraid to even ask that question. I don't know.
It's like when I mentioned there's more than one way
to skin a cat in front of my nieces and
they reacted with horror, And it occurred to me, who
is skinning cats for what purpose? How many ways do
you need become a popular?
Speaker 3 (30:34):
Say somebody had been skinning skinning cats I assume you
can always skin a cat. Once somebody had been skinning
cats same way, every day, every cat, and somebody said, look, Jim,
I hate to butt in. I hope I'm not overstepping
my bounds. But there's more than one way to skin
a cat.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Right.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
You're wearing out your knife, you're nicking your thumb. Whatever
Jim's problems. But there's a faster, easier way. You gotta
think outside the box of cats skinning.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
I mean, if your goal is to get as many
skins off as many cats as pumps, right, exactly in
a timely reasons, right right, right, in.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
A timely man, there are other ways. It was his point.
We will finish strong. Next, we need some black visialities.
Speaker 7 (31:26):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
People want to jump up and choke.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
Us and kill us for being loud.
Speaker 5 (31:35):
How about we do the same when they attempt to
oppress us.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Right, I'm tie it, tie it well. Hawk Newsome, the
leader of New York Black Lives Matter BLM, who are
Marxists who want to overthrow the system. Therefore they want
a race war. That's what BLM has been from the beginning,
calling for violence. Nice.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
So those of you and I know a couple of
institutions that still have BLM signs in their windows.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
You're still on board with that.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
The people who ran BLM took your money and bought houses.
They're in jail, a lot of them. Now, you got
this guy, the leader of BLM in New York, calling
for violence after a court made a decision. I mean,
this is the legal justice system. So you're basically unhappy
with the ruling, and you're calling for violence in the streets.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Nice in the name of communism. Yeah, keep flying those
BLM flags. Use soft heads, no kidding, crumb. When I
see that, I think, I think, I think you're an idiot. Yeah,
me too. Or you're certainly ignorant. You're an ignorant virtue
signaling fool the ready.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Yeah, here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew
to wrapp things up for the day. There is our
technical director, Michael Angelo in the controller of Michael. What's
your final thought? Yeah, it's time for me to do
my annual public service of reminding people that Amazon times
are slipping and the last day for free shipping is
December fourteenth. From my arm reading Okay, yep, oh, that's
a timely reminder. Thank you, Michael. Katie Green As a
(33:24):
final thought, Katie.
Speaker 6 (33:26):
Thinking about Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. I had a friend
go to one recently and she sent me a video
a bunch of thirty five year old women crying, baffling
to me bathfully.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Yeah, yeah, me too, unbelievable. Jack a final thought for us.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
Joe used a course expression earlier screwed into two, and
it made me wonder what does that mean? I looked
it up. It's damned interesting.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Huh. And we'll talk about that on the One More
Thing podcast. Yeah, you can subscribe to that along with
Armstrong and Getty on demand. One more thing. Speaking of
the website, Armstrong Egetdy dot com, you can still get
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Speaker 3 (34:20):
Cool Armstrong and Getty wrapping up an other grueling four
hour work to have a feeling we're gonna know a
lot more about that. Perhaps shooter her in New York,
because it looks like they've got the guy nabbed so
many people.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Thanks so little time. Go to Armstrong Geddy dot com.
If you see something we ought to have been talking about,
send it along mail bag at Armstrong Yetdy dot com.
Oh my god, I've got so much to do to
get ready for Christmas. It's making me tired thinking about it.
I got to restart my Scotch cabinet so we all
have things to worry about.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
Jack, We'll see you tomorrow. God bless America.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
I'm strong and Getty. I want it. Give it to me.
I don't care how long it is.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
What hell is that?
Speaker 1 (35:00):
That was quite entertaining for No Joe. It's outrageous, it
is dangerous. It's so good as this.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Is an amazing geopolitical disaster. What the hell happened here
so fast?
Speaker 1 (35:11):
I'm gonna call my lawyer, gun if you you know
you have such potential? No, no, that's not what I
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