December 11, 2024 • 35 mins
Hour 4 of A&G features...
- Katie Green's flight from hell
- Bingo, Bango, Bongo
- More info on the United Healthcare CEO killer
- 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 arms Strong
and Jack Katie and no Key.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Armstrong and Jetty.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Frontier Airlines announced last week that it will add first
class seating, but don't get too excited at Frontier, that
just means oxygen masks. The Transportation Department announced last week
that it will look into a new rule that would
require airlines to compensate passengers for delays and rebook them
for free on later flights home, while Southwest will just
start forwarding your mail.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
So you flew the other day, Katie, and you said
you had some complaints. We're going to bring up on
the podcast. We haven't yet. What was your There a
short version of this or do you need the whole
podcast for that?
Speaker 4 (00:56):
I don't need the whole podcast, but it's it's a
little bit of a long story. It was like, well,
if you want it now, I can give it to
you now. I was flying to visit my parents in Boise.
So I flew out of Sacramento and was headed to Boise,
where dense fog is common. We were fifty feet off
(01:17):
the ground and all of a sudden, I just feel
the plane start to go right back up. So we
were about to land, and then we just start going
right back up. Mind you, the entire time this is happening,
the woman sitting next to me is hammer drunk, oh boy, hammer.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
And talking like this, leaning over my lap. She put
her drink on my tray table. I was ready. It
was it was. It was above and beyond.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
And happy, drunk, chatty, drunk, caty, drunk, chatty, drunk, singing
at the top of her lungs with her headphones in
drunk wow.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
When the when the flight attendant came by to take
all the trash, you know, before they land, she wouldn't
give him her cocktail because.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
She wasn't done yet, right and uh so was drink
or drink of choice? It was?
Speaker 4 (02:09):
It was some I don't know, it was hard liquor,
but it was not something I was fast.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Eddie is that's I.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Don't Oh that's a deep Eddie vodka.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Maybe yeah, I think it was Eddie vodka something like that.
So I get to enjoy more time with this woman
because we went back up into the sky and the
flight attendant comes on over and says.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
We saw some unexpected fog.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
We're gonna have to go refuel in Eugene, Oregon, which
is yeah, it's forty five minutes to an hour in
the opposite direction of where I'm trying to get.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
So we adventure that way.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Uh, no more beverages, no water, no snacks, no alcohol
because it was all gone.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Apparently you could have landed where you were a celebrity
because we're on kug y. N Oh, we did land
and we sat there for an hour and many letters
won too many letters, k there you go. So yeah,
we sat there for about an hour and a half they.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Quote unquote refuel and a half, yeah, because they had
to wait.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
For the fuel person to get there.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Meanwhile, this woman, it's like the alcohol was just really
starting to seep into our system because it was getting
worse and worse.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
You know, I got to rewind just briefly, so you
were you were within fifty feet of land. That sucks,
but but there wasn't enough fuel to circle a couple
of times.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
See I'm calling bull s on this one because when
we landed in Eugene.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
So you think the pilot's got a side piece in Oregon?
Is what you're thinking?
Speaker 4 (03:39):
I think that the pilot who just so happened to
be a she could not land the plane in the.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Fog and freaked out.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
What I think because there were a lot of apologies
going on as she was leaving the plane, and then
a new pilot came on.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
She had ad appointment in Eugene, as I so charmingly
heard that term for the first time the other day,
she she had what ad appointment? I'm using abbreviation, but
I heard somebody use that term in casual conversation like
that's a thing. Maybe it's a thing with the young people.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Yeah, she was to get some loving from a fella.
Is that? Oh lord?
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Yeah, she was gonna go.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Get the d D. Close your eyes and set this
jumbo down. All right, we're close enough, we appear to
be close to Boise.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Let's this is what you gotta say. You gotta say.
We're gonna give you the option. We'll be fifty feet
off the ground if you want to roll out the
door and just take your chances. Otherwise we're going to Eugene.
So im I want to jump out and just o't
roll for a while. I'll be okay, and then I'll
get up on my feet, does myself off. When we
were sitting there, I've never come.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
So close to pulling the emergency hatch and just going
down that slide, I was, I was over it.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Did they keep you on the plane the whole time? Yep,
that's the part that I understand. And Tim Sanders and
I talked about airlines last time he was on. His
whole thing was they're the safest they've ever ben And
I'm my argument is make them this much less safe
since I'm not the least bit worried about them crashing.
If it's going to improve, uh the whole airline thing
(05:10):
and the current system they've got where they don't get
dinged for uh late takeoffs or landings or this sort
of stuff. If they keep you on the plane is
a bad system. Let me off the freaking plain. I
understand things happen sometime, but let me off the damn plane.
But keeping you on the plane is torture. H Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
And after the fiasco, we were sitting on the on
the tarmac waiting to take off again. They get us refueled,
We get in the air and the drunk woman she
had fallen.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Asleep for a little bit so I thought we were safe.
She woke back up as a as a lifelong drunk,
that is the worst. Once you've yeah, yeah, you had
your you had your your buzz going. You'd peaked it
just for landing, and then you're gonna keep it going
where and you get home or whatever, and it's now,
it's now, it's now, you're past the side where it's
just you feel sick and your head hurts, and oh
that's the worst.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
See, I thought that it was over, but she woke
up peaked. She was still right all the way in it.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
She asked me if we were in Boise about three
hundred and eighty six times, and then she put her
headphones back in and for seated to wrap and drop
thirteen n bombs.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Wow, no, yeoh was this a person poc or was
it a cool Nope?
Speaker 1 (06:27):
She was just a white brunette lady.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
How old boy that's bold.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Mid forties maybe, And she had you know, the claw
nails and she was clicking them.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
The whole time, and I just never do that again.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Yeah, that was awesome, just you doing that there.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Yeah, So we landed and I promised everyone that I
love that I'm taking horseback whenever I trapple ever, whatever
it takes, all.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Those things that you mentioned about her, I think the
clicking the nails is the one that would have driven
me to she was.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
She was just everything awful, trying to look on an
emergency door so I can be arrested by the TSA
just to get away from her.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
I find the wrapping along and dropping in bombs to
be quite extraordinary. What were the other passengers doing?
Speaker 1 (07:13):
The guy in front of us was black. I was like, oh, wow,
is this gonna be Wow? Did he ever turn around, like, yo,
what's the deal here?
Speaker 2 (07:21):
He turned around and.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Looked at her like each time that it happened, but
didn't say anything.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Wow. That's because he was probably a reasonable song, said
trunk idiot. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6 (07:33):
I saw.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
I thought she was going to get us deep planed
and Eugene though, you know, they one person acts up
and then they get everybody off the plane and it
turns into old I thought that was coming to well.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
The air waitresses flying planes as they should know. I
was going to say to the pilots, not know how
miserable it is to be in a plane for an
hour and a half when you could be walking around
in an airport. I've done it for longer now. I
did it for three hours once at Burbank. It's just
it's just horrible sitting in everybody jammed in the summer.
(08:05):
Oh yeah yeah, yeah, there's no fresh air in the
line for the bathroom gets long, and the bathroom gets
filled up and they won't they don't send the cart
out usually.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
It's just it's horrible, full flight. Baby's crying the whole nine.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
So yeah, all Oj said was ain't nobody leaving this
room and they got him for kidnapping to keep you
on a damn airplane for hours and say if you
get off, we're gonna arrest you. Come on and again.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Yeah, it's got it's got to do with stupid regulations
and rules that I just wish they would change so
it didn't have to happen.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
I have the wrong incentives and disself, so I understand
the logistics of completely unloading the plane and loading you again,
trying to find everybody and make sure everybody is who
they claim. You got to run the boarding passes again
and all that stuff. I get it, but you got
to figure it out.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I know. Pete boot edge
Edge is working on that right now, and I don't
know how I feel about that, because it's in theory
a free market where he could come, Heaton, but it
doesn't seem to be barrier of entry. Is too expensive
for for somebody to get in?
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (09:08):
I mean at some point you're not a free market
because of that, aren't you?
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Boot Edge Edge edge Edge? They say, will he vanish
from the national political landscape or is.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
He one of the rock stars to be nominee in
twenty eight on what basis?
Speaker 2 (09:25):
He's a good because he's known and he's a pleasant
looking fella.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
He's a he's a good talker, he's good in an
interview and that sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Our politics is so stupid.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Well, I have no doubt about that.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Boot Edge Edge, right edge Edge.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Katie was this plain full. You couldn't moved. It was
a one hundred percent full flight. Why don't almost every
flight I'm on is very rarely I'm not on a
flight that's not one hundre percent full anymore. Why don't
more people drinkers bring on the little bottles? I know
they make the announcement every time that you're not allowed
to do that. How they're gonna catch me or a pepsi.
(10:03):
I wait one minute for the person to walk go
in im port my pepsi. Does that happen a lot
among drinkers? I don't drink, so I don't know. Be
a lot cheaper, sure, yeah, I don't. You can't get
liquid through security, well, you a little. You'd have to
buy it once you're inside the Yeah, but you can
buy it when you're inside the whatever you call it, past.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Security by there in the terminal. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Just of crimes that I don't have a moral problem with.
That'd be one of them. If my passenger gets out
a little bottle and pours it in their coke to
save themselves eleven dollars on their drink, I don't care.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
No, I don't care, as long as they don't like
start singing along and rapping and.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Clicking your nails.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Oh oh, that's so awful. I'm not awful. Try that.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Try that for about five hours, guys. A couple of
news things to update you on, like little news items
maybe you haven't heard. South Korea continues to be interesting
after their near call last week.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
It's getting cou cou cook here in my opinion, and a.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Bunch of other stuff on the waist to hear.
Speaker 7 (11:08):
Home security cameras capture the crimes, but can't stop package
thieves from growing.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Boulder I Do consumer survey finds over the last year.
Speaker 7 (11:15):
Thieves stole at least fifty eight million packages delivered to
US homes, crimes adding up to twelve billion dollars. That's
inspired a new kind of insurance for ten dollars a month.
Porch Pals says it'll cover three stolen items a year
worth up to two thousand dollars each, or a free option.
UPS will ship your packages to a local CVS store,
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while Amazon will send packages to your closest Whole Foods.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Yeah, that's not a pain in the ass at all,
but might be the only thing you can do, depending
on the neighborhood you live in, and just my own
personal experience with insurance on some of those shipping companies,
good luck with that. They got like nine million reasons
they're not going to cover whatever happened that the all.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
That you heard blah blah blah blah blah or more hangings.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Yeah, yeah, just make it such a punishment to get
caught or keep people in jail. The sort of person
that's going to steal self off your porch has probably
committed lots of crimes in our life. You keep him
in jail and then you don't have to worry about
it anymore. There's that as an option also, or have
a lock box on every front porch.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
You hate to have to have that. I mean, that's
a sign of things gone on.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Well, like I said last week, that could be just
become a thing if we're all going to live this
lifestyle that we have of having so much stuff shipped
to us all the time.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Yep, yep.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
So in South Korea, the guy that advised the president
to declare martial law and pull off a coup got
thrown in jail and tried to kill himself last night,
so it wasn't successful.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
He was the Minister of Defense. He was one of
the highest ranking guys in the government.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
His idea was the coup, which didn't work out luckily
for South Korea and I think for Western civilization probably,
But yeah, he must not think his decision was so
good at this point, apparently not knowing they're going to
hold another impeachment vote.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
I think it's on Saturday, and this one might succeed.
And they've the Minister of Justice or somebody told the
president don't leave the country. You're not allowed to leave
the country. So that's a hell of a situation that
you talk about a constitutional crisis.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Yeah, I'd say we are the world's oldest democracy and
we're only a couple hundred years old. I am was
reading another thing about the history of France the other day.
I don't remember how it came up, but I mean,
they haven't been a working democracy that long. It's hard
to hang on to It ain't.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Easy right right indeed, especially if you have, say a
global adversary trying to ruin it for you. Chinese national
arrested for photographing Vandenberg Space Force Base with drone. This
is not the New Jersey drones. This is California drones.
This guy was surveilling the Space Force base and then
(14:01):
tried to get on a flight to China. Chinese national
and a lawful permanent resident of the US arrested at
San Francisco International Airport prior to his flight a few
days ago. Cool.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Well, not cool that he was surveilling US, but cool
that he got caught.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Yeah. Yeah, but there are people like this all over
the country. But yeah, we got to start arresting them
and understand they're not innocent researchers and students, a lot
of them.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
So even though the rebels now run Syria, they hadn't
taken every town. And I guess they just took the
oil rich city of deer Ezor, which I don't know
that town, And now it's pretty beautiful this time of year.
Every town of any sizes in the hands of the
rebels who are promising Jewish, Muslim, Christian they're all here.
We all want to live in peace and have a
(14:51):
space now, which is a nice sentiment. An interesting side
note to that, though in the nineteen forties Syria's Jewish
community was forty thousand, there are an estimated three, not three,
three hundred, but three. Good luck finding a Jew in
Syria to find for an interview to ask them if
they feel comfortable living there at this point.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Wow. Wow. One of the least covered stories of our
lifetime is the giant five hundred and twenty page report
put out by the Select Subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic.
Spent two years looking into the coronavirus the response to it.
All of the facets of it and what worked didn't
What was a good idea, what was a bad idea.
(15:33):
It's remarkable how little coverage it is getting. Zero yeah,
practically zero, including one of their major findings, quote unquote,
science never justified the prolonged closure of schools during the
coronavirus pandemic. Subcommittee concluded its investigation provide their five hundred
and twenty page report detailing the massive failures committed throughout
(15:54):
the pandemic, from mask in vaccine mandates to public health
officials suppressing and dismissing narratives such as the reality of
natural immunity that they did not like and that would
not support their draconian policies.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Man, I hope I never experienced anything like that again,
where there is such a fever for some ideas that
all logic goes out the window and horrible things are
done like that, because it's right, it's scary, it's clearly
human nature. It's happened in every civilization, sometimes leading to
their downfall, and it was something to have lived through.
(16:27):
I mean, oh my god, can't believe it. Just can't
believe it even happened.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
So one major point of controversy throughout the pandemic was
the so called science behind the prolonged school closures. As
it turns out, as many have already known, there was none. Quote.
A summary of the report reads, the science never justified
prolonged school closures. They explained that children were not likely
to contribute to the spread of the virus, were not
likely to suffer from severe illness or mortality. Quote. Instead,
as a result of school closures, children experienced hysteric historic
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learning loss, higher rates of psychological distress, and decreased physical
wal well being.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
He left out the giants, But but the teachers unions
were able to strong arm out of the government into
the taxpayer billions and billions and billions and billions and
billions and billions of dollars. And they care about that
more than kids. Apparently armstrong and getty. How like Christmas
cards and Christmas songs and give me wood? So is
(17:28):
this Jesus' birthday turned somewhat into a gift giving holiday
not related to Jesus? And then you put out a
second a thirst trap song.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
What exactly what's going on here? Anyway? Santa is going
to come down the chimney and really deliver huh uh?
Speaker 1 (17:50):
When last we left Joe Getty, he was telling us
about this new COVID report that nobody will pay any
attention to, even though it's incredibly important right Indeed, in
one of the most powerful points is that there was
no scientific basis for keeping the schools closed nearly, nearly
nearly as long as we did. In fact, not at all.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
And they go back to the even in the early
months in Wuhan, China, the results were known that children
were not vectors and did not suffer from the disease
very much at all. But and then they get into
the really unholy part, which is what I want to
talk about. The subcommittee found that the Biden administration CDC
broke its own presidents and rules and provided a political
(18:27):
teachers organization with access to its scientific school reopening guidance quote.
Former CDC director Rachelle Wallenski asked the American Federation of
Teachers to provide specific language for the guidance and even
went so far as to accept numerous edits made by
the AFT. The report itself states quote that many schools
(18:48):
remained closed because of AFT and Miss Randy winingartens political
interference into the CDC issuance of the Biden administration's first
school reopening guidance entitled Operational Strategy for Kate through twelvesco
go through phrase prevention blah blah blah, on February twelve,
twenty twenty one. Ultimately, these subcommittee said these schools closures
were simply not rooted in science, and what makes me
(19:12):
insane about that? And Randy Winegarten, who we quoted who
called her the most dangerous person in America, can't remember.
It was somebody you know, we respect, and I think
it's true. Here's the crazy part. Trump's nominee for Secretary
of Labor, who's a true Rhino or Republican name only
(19:35):
from Oregon, Lorie Chavez d Riemer is a close friend
of Randy Winingarten, a close associate of the Teachers Union,
and wants to make federal law outlaw all of the
red state reforms that govern like public employee unions. She
(19:55):
is a hardcore leftivist, leftist, union an activist hack and
I don't know what she did to kiss Trump's butt,
but she is not only a bad choice, she's a
bizarre choice. She's against everything Elon Musk wants to do
in the federal government or the Doge guys, the Doge brothers.
(20:15):
She is hardcore against everything they want to do. I
do not get this choice at all.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
It's crazy, team of rivals, team of people trying to
actively sabotage your top policies.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
She won't make it. The Republican Senate will get word
to Trump. Hey, I don't know how this chick fell
into your favor, but get her back out again.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Speaking of the Senate, we've got one of our favorite
senators out there, John Fetterman, weighed in on the nut
job killer of the United Healthcare CEO. Before we get
to that, here's a couple of news reports around that
whole Delio.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
Manjoni's case has become a cause, with admirers posting videos
on Instagram. A social media profile gained hundreds of thousands
of followers after his arrest, and the police department that
arrested Manchoni has been threatened. His lawyer's office has been
inundated with calls from people offering to pay his legal bills.
Speaker 8 (21:15):
It's not only in the digital world. We saw a
lookalike contest in New York. People are selling things, or
we're selling things with Manjoni's image on Etsy.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
So that's kind of an interesting angle. Some new information
about the killer out today. Oh, let's hear him rant
and Raven that little clip. This is him. He's being
led from like the police van into the courthouse and
he decides to do some screaming. He was kind of
(21:50):
not walking in the way he was supposed to, and
they jammed him up against the wall pretty hard, which
I didn't have any problem with.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Yelling about something being insult to the inteligence of the
American whatever.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Shut up anyway, More information from his notebook that he
had in his backpack while he's sitting there at the
McDonald's with his mask down eating his ash browns, which
is how he got caught. He had to pull down
his mask to eat. That's simple science right there. And
some people saw him say it looks like the guy
from the shooter, guy from the Starbucks, doesn't it the hostel?
(22:22):
And you know how that all went down. Inside his backpack,
he's got the gun, he's got a cell phone, and
he's got some sort of sophisticated blocking device that keeps
you from tracking the cell phone. So that that's why
I think the guy's some sort of crazy I mean
cause he was, you know, got to come up with
this batman style, hides my cell phone so the FEDS
(22:46):
can't follow me around. Meanwhile, I'll sit here to McDonald's
being one of the most famous, notorious people in America
in the middle of the day. I just I don't
know if that all fits together. Well, that's why certain
people think he's a fake. At Patsy forgot that. Yeah,
that's a big that's a big thing.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
You know.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Go on Twitter and search Luigi Patsy and follow all
the threads from lots of people, included people he may
have heard of. We think it's clearly a setup, all right.
They also released today that his fingerprints match, so of
course that's part of the deep state.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Oh yeah, they took the fingers off of an inmate
and planted them on this guy's hand to make him
a better Patsy.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
So CNN got a hold of stuff of some of
the stuff that was in his handwritten notebook, his to
do list of tasks before he went about murdering an
innocent man in cold blood. One of the things he
wrote in there man killing the CEO at his own
bean counting conference. Nothing could be better and noted that
a bomb would kill innocence, so I should better go
(23:52):
with a gun than a bomb. Interesting that he's like
journaling about this stuff. There's one other thing I wanted
to get on here, thought that was interesting. Blah blah
blah bah. The alleged manifesto included raging remarks about the
parasitic health insurance companies and express disdain for corporate greed
and power. He allegedly also wrote that the US has
the most expensive healthcare system in the world and that
(24:13):
profits of major corporations are rising while a life expectancy
is not. Then, he writes to the FEDS, I'll keep
this short because I do respect what you do for
our country. To save you a lengthy investigation, I state
plainly that I wasn't working with anyone. Interesting He, up
until days before he went to New York had been
(24:35):
living in a apartment slash condo in Honolulu, Hawaii, one
thousand square feet four thousand dollars a month. Not clear
how that was being paid for what he was doing
at that time. Well, he had eight k in cash
when they arrested him, too. Oh, let's play the tape
of his roommatee. Sure this is not really relevant, but
(24:58):
I thought was darkly funny in a way.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Thirty six Michael. Sorry, he did let.
Speaker 9 (25:06):
Me know that the severity of his back issue was
such that it was very difficult to have physical relationships
with women, that it made things painful.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
I admit, funny. I think that's been edited because I
saw that raw clip and he like hemmed and hawed,
Uh it too, well, it was painful to have sex. Dude,
just say it's okay, you can just say have sex?
Speaker 6 (25:34):
Well?
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Was he hemming and haweing over the idea of him
having relationships with women? I assumed the guy was gay
or is gay, and that his roommate was gay. I
was just assuming that. I was so assuming that that
I thought that I knew that. But I don't think
I do know that.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Wow, you're you're you're outing the guy now or something.
I don't super fit.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
I don't he just fits all the I don't know,
just came off as a gate. It doesn't matter talking now,
what doesn't make any gone down road?
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Why around weird cliches? I don't know what sort of
bigotrees ready to spill out of your filthy mouths.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Is being super fit bigotry. But John Fetterman, Senator from Pennsylvania,
is asked about the whole Luigi being a folk hero
thing and said, yesterday, he's the a hole, except he
says the whole world, he's the a hole that's going
to die in prison. Congratulations. If you want to celebrate
that a sewer is going to sewer. That's what social
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media is about this. And I don't know why the
media wants to turn that into a story. Just with
these trolls saying these kinds of things anonymously like that,
I don't know why that's news. Remember, he has two children,
back to the guy that got murdered, he has two
children that are going to grow up without their father.
It's vile. And if you've gotten someone down that you
don't happen to agree with their views or their business
that they're in, Hey, you know what, guess what. I'm next.
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They're next, He's next, She's next, which is of.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Course John and if you need him, yeah, yeah, so true.
You know, maybe there's no way.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
I don't care how smart you think you are, you
can't come up with a worldview where vigilantes selectively get
to assassinate people and have a society function. It's impossible,
right right to.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
What extent are these many questions we've asked about society
and social media, and Bubba answered by, look, fifteen percent
of humanities here adeemable. Just live with it. They're scumbags,
they have scumbag ideas. They're a moral, immoral, or too
dopey to come up with any sort of moral code
for themselves. They say filthy, terrible, idiotic things. Just deal
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with it. I mean, all these, even somebody who's ostensibly intelligent,
like Taylor Lorenz, who is a moral monster. She's an
awful human being. She's part of that fifteen percent. I
guess keep them away from May, shipped them off to
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desert islands. I don't know, but so many things we
talk about are answered by yeah, about fifteen percent of humanity.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
This sucks, well, this particular crowd.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
And I picked that number out of nowhere. Maybe it's fifty.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
I've been thinking about this based on something Charles cw.
A Cook of National Review wrote about his least favorite
kind of person that thinks they're smarter than everybody else. Well,
you know, half of people are smarter than everybody else.
The old joke is, remember half the country's below average intelligence.
Remember that, but half the country is above average intelligence.
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So it's not just that, but it's that particular kind
of I'm smarter than everybody else, I'm smarter than the system,
I'm smarter than society. There's some aspect of that, and
I've known a few of those people.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
They're scary, yes, well, and they often have as like
the cousin their brother emotion, the fact that their anger
is so legitimate and so righteous it justifies virtually anything.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Our old producer Dominic had that view, kind of the
the you know, the only stupid people followed the rules.
He was just, you know, I'm smarter than the system,
I'm smarter than society. That crowd, and clearly this Luigi
guy was the same sort of guy. You know, I
see through the all of everything and get it in
a way that all you regular people don't.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Those people are scary, Yeah, I would agree.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
At least he's going to be in prison the rest
of his life. We will finish strong next.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
Thomas Hornel's a brit He he's involved in writing about
business and helping entrepreneurs and stuff like that, and he
just spent ten days in the USA for Business and
he wrote something really really interesting. And I read this
not to like brag about the US exactly, but to
remind us to be that he said, I discovered the
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ocean between US isn't all it's mindset. Here are seven
uncomfortable truths. One financial openness. Americans freely discuss salaries, deals, revenue.
Brits are guarded and awkward on money matters.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
That's interesting, interesting, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Number two belief and possibility. Discuss big plans in America,
people say why not in the UK? Why bother? One
culture expands the other stifles. Three Rising tide mentality. Americans
celebrate wins with genuine, infectious enthusiasm. It's all let's go
high five celebrations. BRIT's tut cringe with impotent envy and think,
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who does he think he is? One attitude lifts all boats,
the other sinks them. I think there is a lot
of the politics of env in the US that's creeping in,
Like we demonize people who become successful. It used to
be in the culture people really admired it. Well, the
only thing on my mind is how did Great Britain
end up here? What did they do exactly exactly. Point
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number four learning focus, every win, shared, trigger fired, rapid questions,
what worked? How'd you do it? Can you teach me?
Can you show me? American study success BRIT's suspect it.
Number five risk tolerance. Failure in America is proof you
took a big swing and missed. This time in the UK,
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it's like a generational stain. We tried scrubbing off quietly
behind closed doors, No wonder America's scales well, Britain stagnates.
That really gives a couple of examples. Yeah, yeah, I
love that idea. Though of failure in america's proof you
took a big swing and missed. I've met so many
people who said, and then I went broke, but then
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we and I think that's great even if you don't
have a comeback.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
I don't I don't knock anybody who like, tried to
open a restaurant and didn't work.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Yeah, right right, you tried the speed of execution. In
the USA, the attitude is let's make it happen, jump
on a call, refer through networks, action first mentality. In
the UK, let's be realistic. List all problems, first worst
case scenarios. Every reason not to try. They ship away
while we shuffle, and then the final I think it's fine. Yeah,
(32:16):
the final point follow the money. Britain will lose nearly
ten thousand millionaires this year. The US is forecast to
gain nearly four thousand capital flows where it's respected, not resented.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
So yeah, the only thing on my mind through that
is how did Great Britain end up there? Because they weren't.
They were the economic powerhouse of the world for a
very long time. Does taxation reach your point where people
are like, what's the point?
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Post WW two devastation socialism took hold because everybody was
so down and out and what was necessary at the
time then led to all of the inevitable results of socialism,
the shared misery of not achieving.
Speaker 6 (32:58):
This final thoughts, news soon, well your comments and yes,
closure all the show.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Here's yours for final thoughts. Joe Getty, it's gorgeous.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crewid
wrap things up for the day. Michael Angelow lead us off.
This was my interaction yesterday with a Target employee at
the cash register. I said, Hey, happy holidays, how are you?
I'm fine? You know, could I have a bag. I guess.
Speaker 4 (33:38):
So I'm thinking that they're getting beaten down with only
two minutes or two weeks away from Christmas.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
It reminds me I keep going to bring up Target
is abandoned. I'm sorry Walmart is abandoning their DEI programs.
Good for them. Katie Greener esteemed Newswan as a final thought, Katie.
Speaker 4 (33:53):
I saw this earlier, and I think it's brilliant. How
to politely tell someone they're stupid. Wisdom has been chasing you,
but you have always been found.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
That's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Jack. Final thought, breaking news Donald Junior has broken up
with Kimberly Gilfoyle newsome full team coverage next hour or
not on next hour like father, like son. Perhaps decided
he want to be a younger model. Or maybe too
many facelifts and he's starting to get frightened at night.
Or she seems like a long day. It's hard to say.
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It could be any of those things.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
Wow, Wow, you have many theories. Maybe you can do
a podcast on it. My final thought worked out in
the gym yesterday, strained my shoulder. Now I can do nothing.
I'm in terrible pain. The gym is too dangerous. I've
never been injured on the couch. Her choice is clear.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
He's like my son. I'm starting to getty wrapping up
another grueling four hour workday.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
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and Getty dot com. It's probably around the last day
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Speaker 1 (34:59):
See them on God Bless America.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
I'm strong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
What a personal privilege. That didn't make a lot of sense.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
I just didn't. Are you so a little too much?
Dotty dots?
Speaker 1 (35:11):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Okay, so let's go out with a bang. Shoot, damn,
I'm a woman. Now, I'm a woman. Did you hear that? God?
Speaker 1 (35:18):
You are not a fetching broad?
Speaker 2 (35:20):
That was a little blunt. I feel pretty well good.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Everyone should that I note.
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Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
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and Jack Katie and no Key.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Armstrong and Jetty.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Frontier Airlines announced last week that it will add first
class seating, but don't get too excited at Frontier, that
just means oxygen masks. The Transportation Department announced last week
that it will look into a new rule that would
require airlines to compensate passengers for delays and rebook them
for free on later flights home, while Southwest will just
start forwarding your mail.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
So you flew the other day, Katie, and you said
you had some complaints. We're going to bring up on
the podcast. We haven't yet. What was your There a
short version of this or do you need the whole
podcast for that?
Speaker 4 (00:56):
I don't need the whole podcast, but it's it's a
little bit of a long story. It was like, well,
if you want it now, I can give it to
you now. I was flying to visit my parents in Boise.
So I flew out of Sacramento and was headed to Boise,
where dense fog is common. We were fifty feet off
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the ground and all of a sudden, I just feel
the plane start to go right back up. So we
were about to land, and then we just start going
right back up. Mind you, the entire time this is happening,
the woman sitting next to me is hammer drunk, oh boy, hammer.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
And talking like this, leaning over my lap. She put
her drink on my tray table. I was ready. It
was it was. It was above and beyond.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
And happy, drunk, chatty, drunk, caty, drunk, chatty, drunk, singing
at the top of her lungs with her headphones in
drunk wow.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
When the when the flight attendant came by to take
all the trash, you know, before they land, she wouldn't
give him her cocktail because.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
She wasn't done yet, right and uh so was drink
or drink of choice? It was?
Speaker 4 (02:09):
It was some I don't know, it was hard liquor,
but it was not something I was fast.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Eddie is that's I.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Don't Oh that's a deep Eddie vodka.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Maybe yeah, I think it was Eddie vodka something like that.
So I get to enjoy more time with this woman
because we went back up into the sky and the
flight attendant comes on over and says.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
We saw some unexpected fog.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
We're gonna have to go refuel in Eugene, Oregon, which
is yeah, it's forty five minutes to an hour in
the opposite direction of where I'm trying to get.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
So we adventure that way.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Uh, no more beverages, no water, no snacks, no alcohol
because it was all gone.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Apparently you could have landed where you were a celebrity
because we're on kug y. N Oh, we did land
and we sat there for an hour and many letters
won too many letters, k there you go. So yeah,
we sat there for about an hour and a half they.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Quote unquote refuel and a half, yeah, because they had
to wait.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
For the fuel person to get there.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Meanwhile, this woman, it's like the alcohol was just really
starting to seep into our system because it was getting
worse and worse.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
You know, I got to rewind just briefly, so you
were you were within fifty feet of land. That sucks,
but but there wasn't enough fuel to circle a couple
of times.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
See I'm calling bull s on this one because when
we landed in Eugene.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
So you think the pilot's got a side piece in Oregon?
Is what you're thinking?
Speaker 4 (03:39):
I think that the pilot who just so happened to
be a she could not land the plane in the.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Fog and freaked out.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
What I think because there were a lot of apologies
going on as she was leaving the plane, and then
a new pilot came on.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
She had ad appointment in Eugene, as I so charmingly
heard that term for the first time the other day,
she she had what ad appointment? I'm using abbreviation, but
I heard somebody use that term in casual conversation like
that's a thing. Maybe it's a thing with the young people.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Yeah, she was to get some loving from a fella.
Is that? Oh lord?
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Yeah, she was gonna go.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Get the d D. Close your eyes and set this
jumbo down. All right, we're close enough, we appear to
be close to Boise.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Let's this is what you gotta say. You gotta say.
We're gonna give you the option. We'll be fifty feet
off the ground if you want to roll out the
door and just take your chances. Otherwise we're going to Eugene.
So im I want to jump out and just o't
roll for a while. I'll be okay, and then I'll
get up on my feet, does myself off. When we
were sitting there, I've never come.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
So close to pulling the emergency hatch and just going
down that slide, I was, I was over it.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Did they keep you on the plane the whole time? Yep,
that's the part that I understand. And Tim Sanders and
I talked about airlines last time he was on. His
whole thing was they're the safest they've ever ben And
I'm my argument is make them this much less safe
since I'm not the least bit worried about them crashing.
If it's going to improve, uh the whole airline thing
(05:10):
and the current system they've got where they don't get
dinged for uh late takeoffs or landings or this sort
of stuff. If they keep you on the plane is
a bad system. Let me off the freaking plain. I
understand things happen sometime, but let me off the damn plane.
But keeping you on the plane is torture. H Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
And after the fiasco, we were sitting on the on
the tarmac waiting to take off again. They get us refueled,
We get in the air and the drunk woman she
had fallen.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Asleep for a little bit so I thought we were safe.
She woke back up as a as a lifelong drunk,
that is the worst. Once you've yeah, yeah, you had
your you had your your buzz going. You'd peaked it
just for landing, and then you're gonna keep it going
where and you get home or whatever, and it's now,
it's now, it's now, you're past the side where it's
just you feel sick and your head hurts, and oh
that's the worst.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
See, I thought that it was over, but she woke
up peaked. She was still right all the way in it.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
She asked me if we were in Boise about three
hundred and eighty six times, and then she put her
headphones back in and for seated to wrap and drop
thirteen n bombs.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Wow, no, yeoh was this a person poc or was
it a cool Nope?
Speaker 1 (06:27):
She was just a white brunette lady.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
How old boy that's bold.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Mid forties maybe, And she had you know, the claw
nails and she was clicking them.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
The whole time, and I just never do that again.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Yeah, that was awesome, just you doing that there.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Yeah, So we landed and I promised everyone that I
love that I'm taking horseback whenever I trapple ever, whatever
it takes, all.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Those things that you mentioned about her, I think the
clicking the nails is the one that would have driven
me to she was.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
She was just everything awful, trying to look on an
emergency door so I can be arrested by the TSA
just to get away from her.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
I find the wrapping along and dropping in bombs to
be quite extraordinary. What were the other passengers doing?
Speaker 1 (07:13):
The guy in front of us was black. I was like, oh, wow,
is this gonna be Wow? Did he ever turn around, like, yo,
what's the deal here?
Speaker 2 (07:21):
He turned around and.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Looked at her like each time that it happened, but
didn't say anything.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Wow. That's because he was probably a reasonable song, said
trunk idiot. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6 (07:33):
I saw.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
I thought she was going to get us deep planed
and Eugene though, you know, they one person acts up
and then they get everybody off the plane and it
turns into old I thought that was coming to well.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
The air waitresses flying planes as they should know. I
was going to say to the pilots, not know how
miserable it is to be in a plane for an
hour and a half when you could be walking around
in an airport. I've done it for longer now. I
did it for three hours once at Burbank. It's just
it's just horrible sitting in everybody jammed in the summer.
(08:05):
Oh yeah yeah, yeah, there's no fresh air in the
line for the bathroom gets long, and the bathroom gets
filled up and they won't they don't send the cart
out usually.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
It's just it's horrible, full flight. Baby's crying the whole nine.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
So yeah, all Oj said was ain't nobody leaving this
room and they got him for kidnapping to keep you
on a damn airplane for hours and say if you
get off, we're gonna arrest you. Come on and again.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Yeah, it's got it's got to do with stupid regulations
and rules that I just wish they would change so
it didn't have to happen.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
I have the wrong incentives and disself, so I understand
the logistics of completely unloading the plane and loading you again,
trying to find everybody and make sure everybody is who
they claim. You got to run the boarding passes again
and all that stuff. I get it, but you got
to figure it out.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I know. Pete boot edge
Edge is working on that right now, and I don't
know how I feel about that, because it's in theory
a free market where he could come, Heaton, but it
doesn't seem to be barrier of entry. Is too expensive
for for somebody to get in?
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (09:08):
I mean at some point you're not a free market
because of that, aren't you?
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Boot Edge Edge edge Edge? They say, will he vanish
from the national political landscape or is.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
He one of the rock stars to be nominee in
twenty eight on what basis?
Speaker 2 (09:25):
He's a good because he's known and he's a pleasant
looking fella.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
He's a he's a good talker, he's good in an
interview and that sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Our politics is so stupid.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Well, I have no doubt about that.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Boot Edge Edge, right edge Edge.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Katie was this plain full. You couldn't moved. It was
a one hundred percent full flight. Why don't almost every
flight I'm on is very rarely I'm not on a
flight that's not one hundre percent full anymore. Why don't
more people drinkers bring on the little bottles? I know
they make the announcement every time that you're not allowed
to do that. How they're gonna catch me or a pepsi.
(10:03):
I wait one minute for the person to walk go
in im port my pepsi. Does that happen a lot
among drinkers? I don't drink, so I don't know. Be
a lot cheaper, sure, yeah, I don't. You can't get
liquid through security, well, you a little. You'd have to
buy it once you're inside the Yeah, but you can
buy it when you're inside the whatever you call it, past.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Security by there in the terminal. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Just of crimes that I don't have a moral problem with.
That'd be one of them. If my passenger gets out
a little bottle and pours it in their coke to
save themselves eleven dollars on their drink, I don't care.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
No, I don't care, as long as they don't like
start singing along and rapping and.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Clicking your nails.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Oh oh, that's so awful. I'm not awful. Try that.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Try that for about five hours, guys. A couple of
news things to update you on, like little news items
maybe you haven't heard. South Korea continues to be interesting
after their near call last week.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
It's getting cou cou cook here in my opinion, and a.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Bunch of other stuff on the waist to hear.
Speaker 7 (11:08):
Home security cameras capture the crimes, but can't stop package
thieves from growing.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Boulder I Do consumer survey finds over the last year.
Speaker 7 (11:15):
Thieves stole at least fifty eight million packages delivered to
US homes, crimes adding up to twelve billion dollars. That's
inspired a new kind of insurance for ten dollars a month.
Porch Pals says it'll cover three stolen items a year
worth up to two thousand dollars each, or a free option.
UPS will ship your packages to a local CVS store,
(11:36):
while Amazon will send packages to your closest Whole Foods.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Yeah, that's not a pain in the ass at all,
but might be the only thing you can do, depending
on the neighborhood you live in, and just my own
personal experience with insurance on some of those shipping companies,
good luck with that. They got like nine million reasons
they're not going to cover whatever happened that the all.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
That you heard blah blah blah blah blah or more hangings.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Yeah, yeah, just make it such a punishment to get
caught or keep people in jail. The sort of person
that's going to steal self off your porch has probably
committed lots of crimes in our life. You keep him
in jail and then you don't have to worry about
it anymore. There's that as an option also, or have
a lock box on every front porch.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
You hate to have to have that. I mean, that's
a sign of things gone on.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Well, like I said last week, that could be just
become a thing if we're all going to live this
lifestyle that we have of having so much stuff shipped
to us all the time.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Yep, yep.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
So in South Korea, the guy that advised the president
to declare martial law and pull off a coup got
thrown in jail and tried to kill himself last night,
so it wasn't successful.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
He was the Minister of Defense. He was one of
the highest ranking guys in the government.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
His idea was the coup, which didn't work out luckily
for South Korea and I think for Western civilization probably,
But yeah, he must not think his decision was so
good at this point, apparently not knowing they're going to
hold another impeachment vote.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
I think it's on Saturday, and this one might succeed.
And they've the Minister of Justice or somebody told the
president don't leave the country. You're not allowed to leave
the country. So that's a hell of a situation that
you talk about a constitutional crisis.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Yeah, I'd say we are the world's oldest democracy and
we're only a couple hundred years old. I am was
reading another thing about the history of France the other day.
I don't remember how it came up, but I mean,
they haven't been a working democracy that long. It's hard
to hang on to It ain't.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Easy right right indeed, especially if you have, say a
global adversary trying to ruin it for you. Chinese national
arrested for photographing Vandenberg Space Force Base with drone. This
is not the New Jersey drones. This is California drones.
This guy was surveilling the Space Force base and then
(14:01):
tried to get on a flight to China. Chinese national
and a lawful permanent resident of the US arrested at
San Francisco International Airport prior to his flight a few
days ago. Cool.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Well, not cool that he was surveilling US, but cool
that he got caught.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Yeah. Yeah, but there are people like this all over
the country. But yeah, we got to start arresting them
and understand they're not innocent researchers and students, a lot
of them.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
So even though the rebels now run Syria, they hadn't
taken every town. And I guess they just took the
oil rich city of deer Ezor, which I don't know
that town, And now it's pretty beautiful this time of year.
Every town of any sizes in the hands of the
rebels who are promising Jewish, Muslim, Christian they're all here.
We all want to live in peace and have a
(14:51):
space now, which is a nice sentiment. An interesting side
note to that, though in the nineteen forties Syria's Jewish
community was forty thousand, there are an estimated three, not three,
three hundred, but three. Good luck finding a Jew in
Syria to find for an interview to ask them if
they feel comfortable living there at this point.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Wow. Wow. One of the least covered stories of our
lifetime is the giant five hundred and twenty page report
put out by the Select Subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic.
Spent two years looking into the coronavirus the response to it.
All of the facets of it and what worked didn't
What was a good idea, what was a bad idea.
(15:33):
It's remarkable how little coverage it is getting. Zero yeah,
practically zero, including one of their major findings, quote unquote,
science never justified the prolonged closure of schools during the
coronavirus pandemic. Subcommittee concluded its investigation provide their five hundred
and twenty page report detailing the massive failures committed throughout
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the pandemic, from mask in vaccine mandates to public health
officials suppressing and dismissing narratives such as the reality of
natural immunity that they did not like and that would
not support their draconian policies.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Man, I hope I never experienced anything like that again,
where there is such a fever for some ideas that
all logic goes out the window and horrible things are
done like that, because it's right, it's scary, it's clearly
human nature. It's happened in every civilization, sometimes leading to
their downfall, and it was something to have lived through.
(16:27):
I mean, oh my god, can't believe it. Just can't
believe it even happened.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
So one major point of controversy throughout the pandemic was
the so called science behind the prolonged school closures. As
it turns out, as many have already known, there was none. Quote.
A summary of the report reads, the science never justified
prolonged school closures. They explained that children were not likely
to contribute to the spread of the virus, were not
likely to suffer from severe illness or mortality. Quote. Instead,
as a result of school closures, children experienced hysteric historic
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learning loss, higher rates of psychological distress, and decreased physical
wal well being.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
He left out the giants, But but the teachers unions
were able to strong arm out of the government into
the taxpayer billions and billions and billions and billions and
billions and billions of dollars. And they care about that
more than kids. Apparently armstrong and getty. How like Christmas
cards and Christmas songs and give me wood? So is
(17:28):
this Jesus' birthday turned somewhat into a gift giving holiday
not related to Jesus? And then you put out a
second a thirst trap song.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
What exactly what's going on here? Anyway? Santa is going
to come down the chimney and really deliver huh uh?
Speaker 1 (17:50):
When last we left Joe Getty, he was telling us
about this new COVID report that nobody will pay any
attention to, even though it's incredibly important right Indeed, in
one of the most powerful points is that there was
no scientific basis for keeping the schools closed nearly, nearly
nearly as long as we did. In fact, not at all.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
And they go back to the even in the early
months in Wuhan, China, the results were known that children
were not vectors and did not suffer from the disease
very much at all. But and then they get into
the really unholy part, which is what I want to
talk about. The subcommittee found that the Biden administration CDC
broke its own presidents and rules and provided a political
(18:27):
teachers organization with access to its scientific school reopening guidance quote.
Former CDC director Rachelle Wallenski asked the American Federation of
Teachers to provide specific language for the guidance and even
went so far as to accept numerous edits made by
the AFT. The report itself states quote that many schools
(18:48):
remained closed because of AFT and Miss Randy winingartens political
interference into the CDC issuance of the Biden administration's first
school reopening guidance entitled Operational Strategy for Kate through twelvesco
go through phrase prevention blah blah blah, on February twelve,
twenty twenty one. Ultimately, these subcommittee said these schools closures
were simply not rooted in science, and what makes me
(19:12):
insane about that? And Randy Winegarten, who we quoted who
called her the most dangerous person in America, can't remember.
It was somebody you know, we respect, and I think
it's true. Here's the crazy part. Trump's nominee for Secretary
of Labor, who's a true Rhino or Republican name only
(19:35):
from Oregon, Lorie Chavez d Riemer is a close friend
of Randy Winingarten, a close associate of the Teachers Union,
and wants to make federal law outlaw all of the
red state reforms that govern like public employee unions. She
(19:55):
is a hardcore leftivist, leftist, union an activist hack and
I don't know what she did to kiss Trump's butt,
but she is not only a bad choice, she's a
bizarre choice. She's against everything Elon Musk wants to do
in the federal government or the Doge guys, the Doge brothers.
(20:15):
She is hardcore against everything they want to do. I
do not get this choice at all.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
It's crazy, team of rivals, team of people trying to
actively sabotage your top policies.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
She won't make it. The Republican Senate will get word
to Trump. Hey, I don't know how this chick fell
into your favor, but get her back out again.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Speaking of the Senate, we've got one of our favorite
senators out there, John Fetterman, weighed in on the nut
job killer of the United Healthcare CEO. Before we get
to that, here's a couple of news reports around that
whole Delio.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
Manjoni's case has become a cause, with admirers posting videos
on Instagram. A social media profile gained hundreds of thousands
of followers after his arrest, and the police department that
arrested Manchoni has been threatened. His lawyer's office has been
inundated with calls from people offering to pay his legal bills.
Speaker 8 (21:15):
It's not only in the digital world. We saw a
lookalike contest in New York. People are selling things, or
we're selling things with Manjoni's image on Etsy.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
So that's kind of an interesting angle. Some new information
about the killer out today. Oh, let's hear him rant
and Raven that little clip. This is him. He's being
led from like the police van into the courthouse and
he decides to do some screaming. He was kind of
(21:50):
not walking in the way he was supposed to, and
they jammed him up against the wall pretty hard, which
I didn't have any problem with.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Yelling about something being insult to the inteligence of the
American whatever.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Shut up anyway, More information from his notebook that he
had in his backpack while he's sitting there at the
McDonald's with his mask down eating his ash browns, which
is how he got caught. He had to pull down
his mask to eat. That's simple science right there. And
some people saw him say it looks like the guy
from the shooter, guy from the Starbucks, doesn't it the hostel?
(22:22):
And you know how that all went down. Inside his backpack,
he's got the gun, he's got a cell phone, and
he's got some sort of sophisticated blocking device that keeps
you from tracking the cell phone. So that that's why
I think the guy's some sort of crazy I mean
cause he was, you know, got to come up with
this batman style, hides my cell phone so the FEDS
(22:46):
can't follow me around. Meanwhile, I'll sit here to McDonald's
being one of the most famous, notorious people in America
in the middle of the day. I just I don't
know if that all fits together. Well, that's why certain
people think he's a fake. At Patsy forgot that. Yeah,
that's a big that's a big thing.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
You know.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Go on Twitter and search Luigi Patsy and follow all
the threads from lots of people, included people he may
have heard of. We think it's clearly a setup, all right.
They also released today that his fingerprints match, so of
course that's part of the deep state.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Oh yeah, they took the fingers off of an inmate
and planted them on this guy's hand to make him
a better Patsy.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
So CNN got a hold of stuff of some of
the stuff that was in his handwritten notebook, his to
do list of tasks before he went about murdering an
innocent man in cold blood. One of the things he
wrote in there man killing the CEO at his own
bean counting conference. Nothing could be better and noted that
a bomb would kill innocence, so I should better go
(23:52):
with a gun than a bomb. Interesting that he's like
journaling about this stuff. There's one other thing I wanted
to get on here, thought that was interesting. Blah blah
blah bah. The alleged manifesto included raging remarks about the
parasitic health insurance companies and express disdain for corporate greed
and power. He allegedly also wrote that the US has
the most expensive healthcare system in the world and that
(24:13):
profits of major corporations are rising while a life expectancy
is not. Then, he writes to the FEDS, I'll keep
this short because I do respect what you do for
our country. To save you a lengthy investigation, I state
plainly that I wasn't working with anyone. Interesting He, up
until days before he went to New York had been
(24:35):
living in a apartment slash condo in Honolulu, Hawaii, one
thousand square feet four thousand dollars a month. Not clear
how that was being paid for what he was doing
at that time. Well, he had eight k in cash
when they arrested him, too. Oh, let's play the tape
of his roommatee. Sure this is not really relevant, but
(24:58):
I thought was darkly funny in a way.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Thirty six Michael. Sorry, he did let.
Speaker 9 (25:06):
Me know that the severity of his back issue was
such that it was very difficult to have physical relationships
with women, that it made things painful.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
I admit, funny. I think that's been edited because I
saw that raw clip and he like hemmed and hawed,
Uh it too, well, it was painful to have sex. Dude,
just say it's okay, you can just say have sex?
Speaker 6 (25:34):
Well?
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Was he hemming and haweing over the idea of him
having relationships with women? I assumed the guy was gay
or is gay, and that his roommate was gay. I
was just assuming that. I was so assuming that that
I thought that I knew that. But I don't think
I do know that.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Wow, you're you're you're outing the guy now or something.
I don't super fit.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
I don't he just fits all the I don't know,
just came off as a gate. It doesn't matter talking now,
what doesn't make any gone down road?
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Why around weird cliches? I don't know what sort of
bigotrees ready to spill out of your filthy mouths.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Is being super fit bigotry. But John Fetterman, Senator from Pennsylvania,
is asked about the whole Luigi being a folk hero
thing and said, yesterday, he's the a hole, except he
says the whole world, he's the a hole that's going
to die in prison. Congratulations. If you want to celebrate
that a sewer is going to sewer. That's what social
(26:32):
media is about this. And I don't know why the
media wants to turn that into a story. Just with
these trolls saying these kinds of things anonymously like that,
I don't know why that's news. Remember, he has two children,
back to the guy that got murdered, he has two
children that are going to grow up without their father.
It's vile. And if you've gotten someone down that you
don't happen to agree with their views or their business
that they're in, Hey, you know what, guess what. I'm next.
(26:54):
They're next, He's next, She's next, which is of.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Course John and if you need him, yeah, yeah, so true.
You know, maybe there's no way.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
I don't care how smart you think you are, you
can't come up with a worldview where vigilantes selectively get
to assassinate people and have a society function. It's impossible,
right right to.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
What extent are these many questions we've asked about society
and social media, and Bubba answered by, look, fifteen percent
of humanities here adeemable. Just live with it. They're scumbags,
they have scumbag ideas. They're a moral, immoral, or too
dopey to come up with any sort of moral code
for themselves. They say filthy, terrible, idiotic things. Just deal
(27:42):
with it. I mean, all these, even somebody who's ostensibly intelligent,
like Taylor Lorenz, who is a moral monster. She's an
awful human being. She's part of that fifteen percent. I
guess keep them away from May, shipped them off to
(28:02):
desert islands. I don't know, but so many things we
talk about are answered by yeah, about fifteen percent of humanity.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
This sucks, well, this particular crowd.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
And I picked that number out of nowhere. Maybe it's fifty.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
I've been thinking about this based on something Charles cw.
A Cook of National Review wrote about his least favorite
kind of person that thinks they're smarter than everybody else. Well,
you know, half of people are smarter than everybody else.
The old joke is, remember half the country's below average intelligence.
Remember that, but half the country is above average intelligence.
(28:37):
So it's not just that, but it's that particular kind
of I'm smarter than everybody else, I'm smarter than the system,
I'm smarter than society. There's some aspect of that, and
I've known a few of those people.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
They're scary, yes, well, and they often have as like
the cousin their brother emotion, the fact that their anger
is so legitimate and so righteous it justifies virtually anything.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Our old producer Dominic had that view, kind of the
the you know, the only stupid people followed the rules.
He was just, you know, I'm smarter than the system,
I'm smarter than society. That crowd, and clearly this Luigi
guy was the same sort of guy. You know, I
see through the all of everything and get it in
a way that all you regular people don't.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Those people are scary, Yeah, I would agree.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
At least he's going to be in prison the rest
of his life. We will finish strong next.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
Thomas Hornel's a brit He he's involved in writing about
business and helping entrepreneurs and stuff like that, and he
just spent ten days in the USA for Business and
he wrote something really really interesting. And I read this
not to like brag about the US exactly, but to
remind us to be that he said, I discovered the
(29:58):
ocean between US isn't all it's mindset. Here are seven
uncomfortable truths. One financial openness. Americans freely discuss salaries, deals, revenue.
Brits are guarded and awkward on money matters.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
That's interesting, interesting, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Number two belief and possibility. Discuss big plans in America,
people say why not in the UK? Why bother? One
culture expands the other stifles. Three Rising tide mentality. Americans
celebrate wins with genuine, infectious enthusiasm. It's all let's go
high five celebrations. BRIT's tut cringe with impotent envy and think,
(30:40):
who does he think he is? One attitude lifts all boats,
the other sinks them. I think there is a lot
of the politics of env in the US that's creeping in,
Like we demonize people who become successful. It used to
be in the culture people really admired it. Well, the
only thing on my mind is how did Great Britain
end up here? What did they do exactly exactly. Point
(31:01):
number four learning focus, every win, shared, trigger fired, rapid questions,
what worked? How'd you do it? Can you teach me?
Can you show me? American study success BRIT's suspect it.
Number five risk tolerance. Failure in America is proof you
took a big swing and missed. This time in the UK,
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it's like a generational stain. We tried scrubbing off quietly
behind closed doors, No wonder America's scales well, Britain stagnates.
That really gives a couple of examples. Yeah, yeah, I
love that idea. Though of failure in america's proof you
took a big swing and missed. I've met so many
people who said, and then I went broke, but then
(31:43):
we and I think that's great even if you don't
have a comeback.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
I don't I don't knock anybody who like, tried to
open a restaurant and didn't work.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Yeah, right right, you tried the speed of execution. In
the USA, the attitude is let's make it happen, jump
on a call, refer through networks, action first mentality. In
the UK, let's be realistic. List all problems, first worst
case scenarios. Every reason not to try. They ship away
while we shuffle, and then the final I think it's fine. Yeah,
(32:16):
the final point follow the money. Britain will lose nearly
ten thousand millionaires this year. The US is forecast to
gain nearly four thousand capital flows where it's respected, not resented.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
So yeah, the only thing on my mind through that
is how did Great Britain end up there? Because they weren't.
They were the economic powerhouse of the world for a
very long time. Does taxation reach your point where people
are like, what's the point?
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Post WW two devastation socialism took hold because everybody was
so down and out and what was necessary at the
time then led to all of the inevitable results of socialism,
the shared misery of not achieving.
Speaker 6 (32:58):
This final thoughts, news soon, well your comments and yes,
closure all the show.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Here's yours for final thoughts. Joe Getty, it's gorgeous.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crewid
wrap things up for the day. Michael Angelow lead us off.
This was my interaction yesterday with a Target employee at
the cash register. I said, Hey, happy holidays, how are you?
I'm fine? You know, could I have a bag. I guess.
Speaker 4 (33:38):
So I'm thinking that they're getting beaten down with only
two minutes or two weeks away from Christmas.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
It reminds me I keep going to bring up Target
is abandoned. I'm sorry Walmart is abandoning their DEI programs.
Good for them. Katie Greener esteemed Newswan as a final thought, Katie.
Speaker 4 (33:53):
I saw this earlier, and I think it's brilliant. How
to politely tell someone they're stupid. Wisdom has been chasing you,
but you have always been found.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
That's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Jack. Final thought, breaking news Donald Junior has broken up
with Kimberly Gilfoyle newsome full team coverage next hour or
not on next hour like father, like son. Perhaps decided
he want to be a younger model. Or maybe too
many facelifts and he's starting to get frightened at night.
Or she seems like a long day. It's hard to say.
(34:25):
It could be any of those things.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
Wow, Wow, you have many theories. Maybe you can do
a podcast on it. My final thought worked out in
the gym yesterday, strained my shoulder. Now I can do nothing.
I'm in terrible pain. The gym is too dangerous. I've
never been injured on the couch. Her choice is clear.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
He's like my son. I'm starting to getty wrapping up
another grueling four hour workday.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
So many people thanks so a little time good Armstrong
and Getty dot com. It's probably around the last day
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Speaker 1 (34:59):
See them on God Bless America.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
I'm strong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
What a personal privilege. That didn't make a lot of sense.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
I just didn't. Are you so a little too much?
Dotty dots?
Speaker 1 (35:11):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Okay, so let's go out with a bang. Shoot, damn,
I'm a woman. Now, I'm a woman. Did you hear that? God?
Speaker 1 (35:18):
You are not a fetching broad?
Speaker 2 (35:20):
That was a little blunt. I feel pretty well good.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Everyone should that I note.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
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