I Don't Want You To Reach Your Potential

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• Feeling alive in 2025! Scales, bums & junkies...
• Mailbag! 
• The flu, dry January & Jack's visit to Washington D.C.
• Katie Green's Headlines! 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:39):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Gaddy.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
Arm Strong and He Armstrong and.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
He even I mean truly Live in twenty twenty five
live from Studio Sea Say signor a dimly let room where.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
Deep within the bowels.

Speaker 3 (01:09):
Of the Armstrong and Getting Communications compound. And today to
kick off a brand new year, we're under the tutelage
of our general manager.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
Indeed, the new year is our general manager, the year
in which you reach your potential. So I was thinking
about saying that. Then I realized, what if you're a
bad person and your potential is like to become a
serial killer or something like that. I don't want you
to reach your potentially.

Speaker 3 (01:32):
And change isn't always good. We're always talking about that,
just because you're gonna change. Like my brother's motto is
always new Year say me. But that's fine. He's a
good dude. But maybe change is a good thing. I'll
tell you my first thing for the new year. I
was walking toward the scale. I weigh myself every day.
This morning, the scales said, don't don't even get on. Yeah,
don't get on, dude, you have kids. What are you doing?

(01:59):
That's what the sci said to me. Don't even get on.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
Don't you step on me. It could be an assault.
I know the law.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
And it was nice to be greeted at the radio
station by some of my friends. Crazy meth guy Hanson.
What's that dude doing to his cars? He swapping out
of transmission. I mean it's like a full automotive thing
going on, got wind it up in the air, all
four tires off, the clothes everywhere, parts everywhere.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
Yes, Michael, maybe he can do an oil change for
me exactly as long as he's out there. Hey, could
you put new brick pads on my car during the show.
That'd be awesome.

Speaker 3 (02:30):
Here, I'll slip you a twenty. You're all tweaked up.
You can probably do it really fast. So it's nice
to see those people again. Huh, that's great.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
I am aggressive policies of cal Unicorneya continue to bear
the delicious fruits that they have borne.

Speaker 3 (02:45):
And I'll talk about this later. I spent a day
in San Francisco, New Year, New Town. They've had enough
and they're doing some stuff about it, and it was noticeable.
I do want to talk about that.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
Later.

Speaker 3 (02:56):
I am happy to be at work for a little relaxation,
as I've been parenting two children every second for two
weeks and I am frazzled and worn out.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
That is a tiring activity. Yeah, vacation from vacation, I
remember those days. Oh, yes, I am here. I have
control of my own little universe for a little bit. Here.
It's fantastic, right and speaking for myself and my own
offspring and not yours. Of course, nobody at work is
allowed to be a complete jackass. I mean we have

(03:26):
there are rules and traditions involving not being an a hole. Yeah, everybody.
Children sometimes act up a tat.

Speaker 3 (03:33):
Everybody that works on this show has some reason to
act somewhat enthused about what we're doing, but teenagers do
not right right, Well, I'm constantly thinking, do you have
any idea what it cost to get here and see this?
What could you at least act like you're somewhat entertained
by this?

Speaker 2 (03:52):
You know, it's funny. We enjoyed getting your text over vacation.
But was it Travis Kelsey's mentor somebody introduced into my
dome the idea of does a particular person add to
your energy? Or do they sap it right? And you
make decisions about who you want around you on that
basis well, and it is a blessing indeed to raise children,

(04:14):
one of the great, you know, experiences of anybody's life.
But for a few years it's like not even close.

Speaker 3 (04:20):
Oh yeah, for my oldest teenager, there's no doubt that
he is sapping the energy rather than adding to it.
But I mean that's part of your gig when you're
his age and being her family. I'll talk about that later.
But we did what we call cousin Christmas. We all
got together in the Midwest. Four of those people aren't
coming to work today because of the snowstorm that hit.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
They're still stuck there.

Speaker 3 (04:39):
But seeing all my nieces who are on the other
side of being teenagers, who are just fantastically grown human
beings that are nice and normal in every way.

Speaker 2 (04:48):
Mm hmm your hair.

Speaker 3 (04:49):
I left a day early, which turned out to be
a wise move, or I would still be in Kansas
where they got I was gonna fly out of Kansas
City yesterday. I would not hope they canceled every single flight,
but two feet of snow minus twelve with the windshill,
I mean, that's that's bad by that part of the
country standards.

Speaker 2 (05:12):
Yeah, that's that's just crazy both. I mean, that's a
hell of a lot of snow for.

Speaker 3 (05:16):
That bitterly cold a period gusts to fifty miles an
hour when it's freezing cold outside and snow.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
Yeah, it was just crazy.

Speaker 3 (05:26):
And that's why a lot of the country is is
frozen and stuck in. Lots of work canceled, and even Washington,
DC is canceled today they got everything closed.

Speaker 2 (05:34):
Good. Yeah, that's good. I mean, if we could have that,
have it more often, that'd be absolutely fantastic.

Speaker 3 (05:39):
I on one hand, I wish my kids could have
seen a real crazy snowstorm, because they've never seen one
in their lives.

Speaker 2 (05:48):
On the other hand, I would be I would be
stuck in the hotel we were in. Yeah, if I'd
had to fly solo today, I would have been unhappy,
very unhappy. I've got to ease back into the work thing.
You can't just dive in. That'd go one hundred percent.
You have a heart attack.

Speaker 3 (06:02):
My niece just texted me today. She texted me, I
got it. When I got up, she said, I got
to the airport, I got up at three thirty. I
needed to be the airport at four thirty. But now
my flight's delayed till nine. I guess I'll just sit here.
Then she text me a little bit later, flight canceled,
so she going nowhere and my other niece drove to
Kansas City, tried to beat the snowstorm had turned to ice.

(06:25):
Ended up with her rental car up against a fire hydrant,
So that was a I don't know how that's turned out.
That adds to your trip.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
The kind of soft rubbery fire hydrants are the metal
ones that do lots of tag, the normal metal ones.

Speaker 3 (06:38):
Yeah, and travel around. I was in Washington, d C.
I have had lots to talk about being in Washington,
d C. And all the cool stuff that we saw.
I hadn't been there since Trump's inauguration. But security was
crazy because partially because they've got the certification today and
I don't know if the date January sixth, the rings

(06:59):
a bell. They make a big deal out of it,
so of security for that and also security for the
inauguration which is coming up on the twentieth, and they're
building the platform all around the Capitol and everything like that,
and we saw that. But we were there over New
Year's Eve, and of course the next day after the
terrorist attack in New Orleans, security was insane in Washington,
d C.

Speaker 2 (07:18):
Oh my goodness, I guess. Yeah. Yeah, it's a huge,
huge month in DC and there's murder in the air.
So yeah, the teranoia is running hot.

Speaker 3 (07:25):
Yeah, you couldn't even I don't know what prompted this,
but I was looking forward to showing my kids the
White House because it's a cool thing to see.

Speaker 2 (07:33):
That's where the president lives.

Speaker 3 (07:34):
Joe Biden's in there, sleeping, you know, his last couple
of weeks as president, everything like that.

Speaker 2 (07:38):
I remember I went to the inauguration for.

Speaker 3 (07:41):
Trump the first time, and I remember walking by the
White House and thinking, while Barack Obama's sleeping in there
on his last night, I wonder what that feels like
and everything like that. You couldn't get close enough to
the White House to even see what it looked like
on it from any side.

Speaker 2 (07:53):
There were so many walls. I know, it's awful.

Speaker 3 (07:56):
There were so many walls and barriers and you had
to be so far out and I don't know if
they're prepared for a truck attack or I mean, this
was we got there before New Year's Eve, so this
was before New Orleans. We got there late at night,
but everything's lit up at night. Everything looks really cool
at night. We went out walking around at like midnight,
and I wanted to see the White House and you

(08:18):
couldn't get close enough to even see it at all.

Speaker 2 (08:21):
And I don't know what that is.

Speaker 3 (08:23):
I know it not only was uncool from a tourist
standpoy to thought, it's just not good. It is not
good on many levels.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
Yeah, we've gone from now, granted this is a couple
hundred years or not quite, but from when Abe Lincoln
was president, people would wander in, wander in and out
and say he is the president in I kind of
need a job to now this armed camp society. It's
not good. It's not healthy. No not. I wonder if
a Michael, I need your judgment on this. I was
going to make a joke about how they've got to

(08:53):
change the carpets in the White House like you do
when you've got you're moving out and you had lots
of cats and the carpet sustained because you know, the
cat's here and everything with Joe Biden and old and
incontinent and that sort of thing. I had a joke
forming up in my mind. Too much or or appropriate.
If it makes chagrin, you leave it in. That's the
motto for twenty twenty five. All right, well, I'll keep
working on that.

Speaker 3 (09:13):
Joe Biden's in continent. Are you suggesting Joe Biden's peeing
on the carpets?

Speaker 2 (09:17):
Yeah? Absolutely, that was the I was heading.

Speaker 3 (09:19):
Yes, Yeah, we went to Ford's Theater and they did
talk about that. How when Lincoln was president on weekdays
you could walk up and knock on the door and
somebody would answer, and you might be able to go
in and talk to the president. You certainly could go
sit on the lawn anytime you onto. I was telling
my kids. With the big barrier around the US Capitol, now,
part of that is because they're building the infrastructure for

(09:40):
the inauguration, which is just what is sixteen days away,
the twenty fourteen days away. Part of that is that,
but you can't get as close to the Capitol. The
first time I went to Washington, DC, I walked up
to the Capitol and like wiped off the window and
peeked in all out of course and everything like that.

Speaker 2 (09:57):
You could just peek in like it was somebody's house, right,
And it's not like that. I was eighteen seventy. And
what makes me insane is the utter lack of curiosity.
Or maybe it's just people or they are curious, but
they're completely befuddled. What has changed and why has it
changed about the United States of America and our culture

(10:18):
and our people or the people we've imported in some
cases all the security stuff, so there are.

Speaker 3 (10:24):
Polls around everything in Washington, DC to stop the sort
of attack that happened in New Orleans. There'd be no
way to drive a truck or a car into a
building or a crowd or anything like that. But all
the different things that we've added, whether it's the stuff
at the airport, you can't see the White House or whatever,
that whole infrastructure just keeps growing and growing. And what
do we picture it being in fifty years or one

(10:46):
hundred years? And is that something anybody wants?

Speaker 2 (10:49):
Again?

Speaker 3 (10:49):
To your point, do you take a look at the
culture at some point and think that didn't used to
be this way?

Speaker 2 (10:55):
What changed somewhat of its technology but not all of it?

Speaker 3 (10:58):
No?

Speaker 2 (10:59):
I think you know, if you're going to go for
one generalized explanation. It's just going from a culture that
values duty in community to one that values individual what
not individual, just the individual. And you know, I'm certainly
a crusader for individual rights, but it's just the inevitable.
I don't know. Ripening and over ripening of a successful society,

(11:22):
I guess, but who knows? On we go. That's the
thing about fate, Jack, you never know what card you're
be about to be dealt.

Speaker 3 (11:29):
Speaking of overripening, we're overriped for the first official start
of the year. I'm Jack Armstrong. You's Joe Getty on this.
It is Monday, January sixth.

Speaker 2 (11:37):
It rings a bell.

Speaker 3 (11:37):
I can't think of what is it might be Fillmore's birthday, something, dear,
twenty twenty five. We are armstrong in getting we approve
of this program.

Speaker 2 (11:45):
All right, here we go. Let's start officially for the
year according to FCC rules and regulation, which as far
as I know, still exists. Here we go at Mark
American Dream Possible. We will fight hard, fight hard for
the freedom to vote.

Speaker 3 (12:03):
I don't remember what ended up being the clip of
the year, but we were talking about uh I brought
up at the breakfast the other day when the Prime
Minister of Great Britain said, we need to release the sausages.
That's still funny, you know, it's still really good. We're
eating sausages. I said, hey, did you hear one of
the clips here? You got to return the sausages. Sorry, hostages.

(12:24):
How does the first mail bag of the new year look? Insightful? Fantastic?
That's on the way and our text line has not changed.
It is four one, five, two nine five KFTC.

Speaker 2 (12:34):
The return of the sausage. There you go, Hostay.

Speaker 3 (12:42):
The NFL playoffs are set for this coming weekend, wild
Card weekend, which a lot of football fans, which I
don't know if I count my own self one, but anyway,
I really really like. But I want to talk about
the NFL and it's its cultural hold on America as
I witnessed that coast to coast.

Speaker 2 (12:58):
Excellent, looking forward to it. Here's your freedom loving quota
of today, reflecting on the new year from the great
thinker Seneca. Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. Yeah,
it's absolutely true, there's no denying it. I'm not sure
what to do with it. Well, it's that that which

(13:21):
is unproductive or or what have you has to end,
and that's okay. I don't know what is ending, though
no longer continuing certainly the words of Seneca always thought
provoking mailbag. Yeah, just a couple. We don't have time

(13:45):
to much. That's fine.

Speaker 3 (13:46):
I mean, that's clearly true if you're talking about I
don't know, a marriage, or a company, or a country
or a whatever. But things don't end on calendar dates.
They don't.

Speaker 2 (13:58):
They don't end at midnight on this number thirty first.
And yet this is the time of year when we
think of such things. Right, for some reason having to
do with the calendar which was arbitrarily institute one hundreds
of years ago. Right, Why not start out with a
great JT from Livermore, who points out a couple of
things about how the Democrats still haven't figured out why
the election happened the way it did. But then he

(14:18):
makes a point that I thought was really really good.
Still as powerful as the DNC remains, I take comfort
in knowing that, at least for now, the shiny veneer
of the self proclaimed Party of Enlightenment has been ripped
off to expose the vast majority of the news media
as blindly loyalist, partisan hacks of the d NC the
trust quote unquote that the news media loss will not
be easy to establish, and he gets into how that

(14:41):
will affect the left side of the aisle going forward.
I think he is right. I think the last half
of twenty twenty four, well, post the Joe Biden debate debacle,
I think the media's you know, kind of cold on
the trust of the American people was significantly damaged by

(15:05):
all of their dishonesty.

Speaker 3 (15:06):
Oh absolutely, I wouldn't. I wouldn't necessarily make it a
left or right thing.

Speaker 2 (15:09):
I just.

Speaker 3 (15:11):
That's the biggest change that has happened. Uh geez, I
don't know in decades. Probably we're into a new world
of where people get information and that effect everything, absolutely everything.
I think the mainstream media took its death blow, not
not you know, an immediate death blow, but sort of
you know, they died later of their injuries. Joe Rogan

(15:34):
is a bigger deal than whoever the hell the anchor
of the CBS.

Speaker 2 (15:37):
News is not even close. Yeah, let's see. I love
this rich and beautiful green Oregon. Welcome back, big freedom
and an old simple jack. Hope you had a great
time off I did, indeed, I'll talk about that a
little bit. As a hog. I'm fat as a like
slimmish hog. Didn't do a ton of damage. Good for you.

(15:57):
One of President Biden's last acts giving George Soros the
Medal of Freedom. Are you king me? Do we now
think socialism means freedom? Yeah, that's a good point. That
got a lot of attention. We will talk about that.
And finally, a pronouncer from Evan in Canada, well, we
got a real goat roping up here in Canada. Liberal
Party mountain of mutiny against their boy dust and dust

(16:18):
Bin Doo doo to try to get him gone a sap.
It's talking about Justin Trudeau. I think dust Bin do
do who's resigning today? Right, that's the rumor. Yeah. Meanwhile,
the Conservatives are on track to win about seventy percent
of the seats in Parliament. By the way, the last
name of the Conservative leader, Pierre, is best pronounced best

(16:40):
pronounced Poliev. For the record, the French like their silent
letters even more than English Poliev. Interesting to see a
rejection of woke from an entire country.

Speaker 3 (16:53):
America's had Canada, and Trump has talked about being the
fifty first stage. So maybe we can get that going.
We have much talk about the things that are going
on in the world, things that happen in our own lives.
To catch up after being gone for two weeks, I
got a new water bottle. I retired my twenty twenty
four water bottle, which was getting pretty funky, and now
I'll brand new water bottle for twenty twenty five.

Speaker 2 (17:11):
I'm very excited about this plastic water bottle. I held
it up expected some big Stanley vic Dum compers.

Speaker 3 (17:17):
I buy one water bottle out of the vending machine,
and then I use it the entire year where you're
filling it.

Speaker 2 (17:21):
My god, you've got a new one, Armstrong and Getty.

Speaker 1 (17:25):
The new warning from the CDC, The agency says flu
season is ramping up after a slower than usual start.
It says emergency room visits for the flu are quote
very high nationwide. States in the South and the West
are seeing the highest flu activity.

Speaker 2 (17:39):
The CDC is.

Speaker 1 (17:40):
Also reminding people it is not too late to get
a flu shot.

Speaker 3 (17:44):
The good thing is so many of us traveled, a
record number of people travel around the countries. Who could
really spread all that stuff around, spend a lot of
time in an airport or a little tube in whether
it's a you know, a bus or a shuttle or whatever,
and then the plane and just really get to spread
around the country. My son is sick with something right now,
feeling absolutely horrible, and uh yeah, it's that time of year.

Speaker 2 (18:06):
What are you going to do? Could be the flu, covid,
or there's some new virus that China's working on right now.
Probably leapt out of a lab. Sure, hopefully it's the
travel season. It reminds me of the chicken pox parties
they used to have when we were kids. To make sure,
just get it over with, Just get get it done with.
Everybody's got the flu? Is anybody on the show doing

(18:26):
dry January? We welcome Katie Green to the proceedings or
beloved news woman.

Speaker 4 (18:33):
Hello Katie, Hello, speaking of the flu. That's why I
sound like hell oh.

Speaker 2 (18:38):
Yeah, sorry about that. I'm all right.

Speaker 4 (18:40):
That was fine all break and then something just hit
me on Saturday.

Speaker 3 (18:43):
Yeah, it's going back to work virus, That's what it is, totally.

Speaker 2 (18:47):
I mean, you always have a bit of a husky voice,
but now you definitely sound like maybe your transition husky. Yeah, yes,
my dad. Yeah, have you always had a husky voice.

Speaker 4 (18:58):
Katie, I have I have big the late year old
girl to do something like it was. It was a
point of bullying actually growing up, and now it pays
my bills.

Speaker 2 (19:06):
So there you go. I'm sorry, sorry, take that little
Jenny in the school yard. I didn't mean to bring
up a point of contention. Yeah, thanks a lot. You
always had that weird big eye. Yeah, way to dig deep.
Yeah to go, Jack. Anybody doing guy January? An answer

(19:27):
to your question, yes, yeah, you and sober now for
going on a week. Yes, I'm doing.

Speaker 3 (19:31):
I'm doing dry lifetime, as everybody knows at this point.
But Katie Michael, no, that's fine. I just wondered if
anybody was. And Joe is and I know you're going
to talk about that big alcohol study.

Speaker 2 (19:41):
That they're released over the weekend. Yeah, indeed, the Surgeon
General out with a well, he's urging that the warning
be placed on every alcohol label that it can give
you cancer. As usual. The Vec Mercy is full of crap.
He's a Charlottean. The actual numbers someone analysis for you
next hour. And I say that not as a boozehound,

(20:04):
because I was really curious booze Well, let's let's call
a spade a spade. I was really curious to know
what the science was that had prompted such a change.
Well prepared to be underwhelmed, Okay, I haven't, but overwhelmed
with the stupidity of government. I have a friend who's

(20:24):
doing dry January.

Speaker 3 (20:25):
And they showed up to some work thing over the
weekend that where everybody normally drinks and drinks with this person,
and they said they're doing dry January.

Speaker 2 (20:33):
Now they're friends, Like, what have you? They're so angry. Yeah, well,
I'm not committed to the months or anything. I just
say I'm gonna take a while reseat.

Speaker 3 (20:43):
What does that mean if your friends are angry if
you do dry January?

Speaker 2 (20:47):
I don't know. I don't know. Is that good sign
or bad sign or no sign? Maybe it's no sign whatsoever.
I don't know. Sure that's the one. It's not the
crabs in the bucket or anything like that.

Speaker 3 (20:57):
So I was in Washington, d C. For several days
with my kids. We were going to drive to Kansas.
Had a problem with the Rendell car. Maybe I'll talk
about later.

Speaker 2 (21:06):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (21:06):
I don't know what the word confirmation means in an email,
I said. I even said to the clerk, what is
the what is the dictionary definition of confirmation? What does
it mean in your head?

Speaker 2 (21:16):
What do you mean? You don't have my vehicle?

Speaker 3 (21:18):
I mean, why did I get this email saying to
come pick it up at seven o'clock? Anyway, so I
don't have my car. It was going to be a mess.
I'm trying to figure out how to scram it. I
just said, maybe we'll go somewhere else, Maybe I don't
want to drive. I decided at midnight the night before
the kids are sound asleep, they're expecting a road trip
to Kansas. That were going to Washington, d C. Wow,
book the flights and we took off the next day.

(21:39):
And that's crazy. That's way to be spontaneous. That's why
I've always done things. That's not new for me. That's
why I do every trip of my life. So but
I know it's it's odd for most people anyway. So
we went to Washington, D C. And we were We
were there for several days, and I hadn't been there
since Trump's inauguration. The famous pictures of me dressed up

(21:59):
like a spy when I was had really good seats
for the inauguration January twentieth of twenty seventeen.

Speaker 2 (22:07):
Yes, I used to make the dot that he spent
the entire day with a red Secret Service dot on
his forehead, just in case, because he looked so suspicious.
But now, of course we know that he could have
climbed up on the Washington Monument with a giant banner
that said I'm here to assassinate the president and unloaded
a rifle.

Speaker 3 (22:23):
That it would have been fine. But the big difference
this time around. For first of all, it's January sixth.
The idea that they're going to go in there and
Kamala Harris is going to certify Trump being president of
the United States on January sixth, eight years later, was

(22:44):
four years later. Four years later. Is absolutely amazing. I mean,
what a turn of history. It's absolutely incredible. But bouncing
around Washington, DC, all the Trump stuff, he's being treated
like any other president would be coming in, And that's
not the way it was when I was there for
the first Trump term. There was no Trump stuff in
my memory other than like you know, off market third

(23:06):
party swag you sell on the corner to the tourists,
But there was nothing in the official like if you
went into the.

Speaker 2 (23:14):
National Archives.

Speaker 3 (23:15):
We went and saw the Constitution and the Declaration and
all that sort of stuff, which is so faded at
this point. They could just put a blank, white piece
of paper in there and you wouldn't know the difference.

Speaker 2 (23:24):
I don't think anyway, I just change it out with
various things written on there that are hilarious and or
you know, Tawdrey, it'd be a funny, funny prank. But
it is. To me. It's incredibly moving to see the docuity.
The point is not to read them, Jack, you can
read them else. It's the actual duck. It's amazing. I agree,
very very cool.

Speaker 3 (23:42):
But anyway, the store that they have there at the
National Archives where they keep all that stuff, had all
kinds of Trump stuff, you know, legitimate forty seventh president
Donald Trump, and you could get a pin or a
hat or whatever. They did not have that stuff in
twenty seventeen when I was there, because the whole country,
the whole country, people who were excited about Trump didn't
fill his way, but the entire media and half the

(24:04):
country felt like, well, this is a mistake. He's not
supposed to be president. The Russians did this, and he'll
be out in just a few days. I can't believe
we're actually pretending he's going to be president this time around.
He's being accepted completely, like it's you know, Jimmy Carter
coming into office, or or George Bush or anybody else.

Speaker 2 (24:20):
And if I might interject worth remembering that one of
the reasons for that perception that he was a Russian
stooge that would soon be in Levenworth was because of
the Steele dossier and the Trump collusion hoax perpetrated by
the campaign of Hillary Rodham Clinton, who got the Presidential
Medal of Freedom just a few days ago, right, right, right.

Speaker 3 (24:39):
Whatever, that's hilarious, whatever all that stuff's supposed to mean.
At this point, those medals of freedom a man, you know,
like everything else, I think it's gotten so watered down
it barely has any meaning. Right Anyway, I thought it
was interesting that Trump was being treated with such dignity.
Reverence is the wrong word, but respector or just treated

(25:00):
like any other president coming into office. Acceptance, acceptance, there's
a good word. That's a good word. And I'll be
interested to see what the crowd is like. I was
telling the kids. How as we're walking across them all
and all that sort of stuff, how.

Speaker 2 (25:14):
It was just full of people.

Speaker 3 (25:15):
There's several hundred thousand people here and talking about what
it was like getting out of there. I'd never been
in a crowd that big in my entire life. And
when would you ever be in a crowd with two
hundred and fifty thousand people or whatever it was. I
wonder what the turnout's going to be like this time around,
since he's being accepted, as you.

Speaker 2 (25:31):
Said, I suspect it will be enormous. I think it
will be too. I think the silent majority, if you will,
to pairphrase Nixon will show up in force, working class America,
those who feel abandoned by the elite, because they have
been abandoned by the elite, I think they will turn
out in force. I certainly hope.

Speaker 3 (25:51):
So. One of the reasons I went to Washington, d C.
Is I was bouncing around on the map as my
other trip was falling apart and thinking where where is?

Speaker 2 (25:59):
Where is good?

Speaker 3 (25:59):
I thought, maybe go to Florida. Let's be warm, And
it just wasn't gonna be that warm in Florida. I
don't wanna fly allway there to be in sixty eight degrees.
That's not hot enough for me.

Speaker 2 (26:07):
Just look around. And it was oddly going to be
nice in Washington, d C.

Speaker 3 (26:11):
In December, and I thought, freaking awesome, I'll go because
it's the lowest tourism month of the year for DC.
Because there's a decent chance if you plan ahead, which
I never do for your trip, they're gonna get there
and it's gonna be five degrees below zero and you're
gonna be miserable. So very few people go. And we
went and we're able. It was sixty and sixty and
sunny the first day we got there, and we're traveling

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around all the museums and everything like that, and there
were practically empty.

Speaker 2 (26:34):
So it was very very cool, best of both worlds. Yeah,
I'm a huge believer in off season visiting of the
sort of place with an attraction. I mean, you don't
want to do it on a beach. You're lying there
shivering it's forty three degrees. No, that's not what I'm
talking about. But if it's like zoos and museums and
that sort of thing, absolutely go in the off season.
I did not.

Speaker 3 (26:55):
I did Miami in Key West in August one time,
and it was horribly hot, but there are no people,
and that was I was happy.

Speaker 2 (27:01):
With the trade off. Interesting. Yeah, we were semi joking
about Ford's Theater, which you've visited, and how it's a
big tourist attraction. Yeah, and you know it's on the
one hand, you have people filing in and out and
buying souvenirs and taking smiling selfies there in front of
a place where a one of the greatest Americans to
ever live and a loving father had his brains blown

(27:24):
out right was on the other hand, Yeah, it was
the murder scene of an innocent man, but it does
make it very real in a way. It humanizes Lincoln.
To see the chair, to see the box, to see
the leap that John Wilkspooth made down the stage. I
found it very moved.

Speaker 3 (27:43):
How many days, weeks, months, years have to go by
before something goes from here's a father and husband who
got murdered for no good reason to let's take a
selfie in a spot where they got shot.

Speaker 2 (28:00):
Yeah. The weird the weirdness of time, the way that works. Well,
it's like, how long does a body have to be
in the ground before you're not a ghoul. You're an archaeologist.
If you dig it up.

Speaker 3 (28:10):
Right, right, If this person was buried last week and
you dig it up and open up their coffin, you're
a real weirdo.

Speaker 2 (28:16):
Hey, look, I found an artifact from twenty twenty four.
It's several gold rings. No, no, that's not allowed.

Speaker 3 (28:23):
But if it's five thousand years We were at the
Natural History Museum where they got a whole bunch of
Egyptian monies and they put it on display, and yeah,
you're some sort of superhero for finding them and open them.

Speaker 2 (28:32):
That's pretty funny.

Speaker 3 (28:34):
I had another point in the Lincoln A hotel, not
very crowded, walking around seeing the stuff.

Speaker 2 (28:40):
I'll pop into my head later while you're thinking about that.
Not only are we going to talk about the alcohol thing,
but at some point today I want to go semi
big on the absolutely horrific story of the systematic cover
up of the systematic rape of young English girls by
primarily Pakistani immigrants in that country and how the authorities

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and I've touched on this, We've talked about this a
handful of times through the years, but the absolute refusal
to recognize it or talk about it in the mainstream
media in either our country or Great Britain has been
so uniform, so astonishing that you feel like you're like

(29:23):
out on a limb or something. Or is this really true?
It's so horrific. Everybody ought to be talking about it,
but nobody is. Maybe I ought a soft pedal lit
you know, I didn't. But anyway, Yeah, there's Muslim men
have had these rape gangs in Britain who have committed
horrific crimes, and in the name of not tearing the
country apart and leading to racial strife, the justice system,

(29:45):
the cops, the government has played it down like crazy
in Britain. More on that to come.

Speaker 3 (29:50):
Yeah, I do want to talk about the amazing thing
that is our peaceful transfer of power that we do
in the United States of America. Looking at all those
buildings and the fact that a whole new administration's about
to come in, and I spend a lot of time
reading about the Constitution and the riding the Constitution and
the founding Fathers and all that sort of stuff.

Speaker 2 (30:07):
So I'll talk about that later.

Speaker 3 (30:08):
We traveled around DC on those scooters, mostly the Lime scooters.
Oh my god things. It would take you half an
hour to walk a couple of miles. You just zip
over there.

Speaker 2 (30:19):
Fantastic.

Speaker 3 (30:20):
The only downside is the price. First one we jumped on,
me and the kids. We get me and Sam and Henry.
We get on there and we ride from the middle
of the mall where we are from, across the Natural
Stry Museum, past the Washington Monument, all the way to
the Lincoln Monument.

Speaker 2 (30:34):
Parker things walk in. I get my ding on my phone.

Speaker 3 (30:36):
It costs forty five bucks for the three of us
to scoot over there. I thought, Ah, that's why everybody's walking.
I thought, why is everybody walking when they's scooters everywhere?
I mean they're absolutely everywhere. You can lay one down,
walk over there, pick up another one, and take off.
It's a little pricey. You do that several times per day.
I think I spent two hundred bucks a day on scooters.

Speaker 2 (30:54):
Yes, Michael, are these things easy to ride?

Speaker 3 (30:56):
Very easy to ride? Incredibly easy to ride? Ye see,
is famous. Anybody knows who's been there and knows this
DC is famous for. You'll be there at the Lincoln
Memorial and you say, look, it's the Washington Monument. It's
right there. Yeah, and you start walking toward it.

Speaker 2 (31:10):
Then you realize, oh, it's immense, and it's actually a
mile away. And by the end of the day you're
so tired you can barely function. And the poor Jefferson
Memorial over there, there's nobody there. Hello. Yeah, well it's
kind of off the beaten path. What did he do?

Speaker 3 (31:21):
Anyway, let's go back over here. I don't know whose idea.
How was that he got he got shafted? Yeah, interesting
history of the Jefferson memorial, But we have no time.
If you're interested, perhaps you could bring it.

Speaker 2 (31:34):
Forgot about it.

Speaker 3 (31:35):
My son was watching a funny Simpsons episode in which
Lisa goes over to the Jefferson Memorial to talk to
Jefferson's statue, and Jefferson says, I know you're only here
because the Lincoln memorials do crowded. We've got Katie's headlines
coming up next.

Speaker 2 (31:52):
Katie probably has a headline or two about this.

Speaker 3 (31:54):
But we do need to talk about that terrorist attack
and what was going on there. Is that a a
glimpse into a bigger problem or what clearly is but
a current problem in the United States or not? What
was going on with this dude? I hadn't heard that
he traveled around the Middle East the way he did
so More on that later.

Speaker 2 (32:14):
Yeah, that's a fairly complex situation, I think. But let's
figure out who's reporting what it's the weak story with Katie.

Speaker 4 (32:21):
Green Katie starting with NBC, Biden to deliver two major
speeches in his final.

Speaker 2 (32:27):
Days in office.

Speaker 3 (32:28):
Is anybody paying any attention to what he has to
say about anything?

Speaker 2 (32:31):
Major? In what sense? Silently? Yeah? Yeah, who's calling it major? NBC?
All right? From ABC?

Speaker 3 (32:39):
It would be impossible, unlet's see it now. I mean,
he announced I'm gonna set the Constitution on fire as
a prank. I mean, I don't think he could say
anything that would really.

Speaker 2 (32:50):
Get drumming Iowa out of the Union. I don't think
he could say anything that would get much attention from anybody. No,
just go away from ABC.

Speaker 4 (33:00):
North Korea tests ballistic missile as Blanken visits South Korea.

Speaker 2 (33:05):
Boy boy, South Korea screwed up. Holy cow. I was
following that story over the vacation. More on that to Kumbut.
They've got an actual constitutional crisis going on.

Speaker 4 (33:17):
From the Washington Post, Israel pledges heavy punishment after gunmen
kill three in West Bank.

Speaker 2 (33:24):
Show trouble in the Middle East? Is that what you're saying? Yep,
more of it as afraid of that?

Speaker 4 (33:29):
From the New York Times. Congress is set to certify
Trump's victory as memory of riot looms.

Speaker 2 (33:36):
Yeah. Boy, the media just loves bringing that up, don't they.
Oh yeah yeah. Can you imagine as memory looms, you
bring it up every ten minutes. That's why the memory's looming.
It wasn't looming until you brought it up again.

Speaker 3 (33:49):
And the guy involved was put to a vote, and
most people voted for him, so they like him.

Speaker 2 (33:57):
They can't stand you shut up. From CBS News.

Speaker 4 (34:02):
Winter storm causes massive flight and Amtrak train disruptions, snarling
US travel.

Speaker 3 (34:09):
God, I got lucky getting out when I did. So
many people had weren't flying when I was flying. We
were on a big, giant Southwest plane with forty seven
total people on it.

Speaker 2 (34:17):
It was so awesome. Wow.

Speaker 4 (34:20):
From the New York Post. LGBTQ liberals start arming themselves
over baseless fear being placed in concentration camps.

Speaker 2 (34:28):
Oh my god, you are so crazy.

Speaker 3 (34:30):
If you actually believe that, you are so nuts softthead.

Speaker 4 (34:35):
Too go ahead, and finally the Babylon Bee Biden honors
Kamala Harris with Presidential Medal of Participation.

Speaker 2 (34:47):
Oh that's great.

Speaker 3 (34:48):
That was my favorite Babylon B headline I saw over
the weekend that said White House says behind the scenes,
President Carter is active and doing fine, as sharp as
the hair.

Speaker 2 (34:58):
Right. That was good, unbelievable. Oh my god. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (35:04):
So the guy who rammed his car and all those
people had been to Egypt and other places in the
Middle East.

Speaker 2 (35:09):
I hadn't heard that, and to Canada, which is a
hotbed of jihadism in certain quarters as well.

Speaker 3 (35:16):
And the guy in Vegas who blew up is Tesla.
It was just a nut. Is that the deal there? Mostly?

Speaker 2 (35:24):
I wouldn't be that dismissive for reasons we can get into.

Speaker 3 (35:27):
Okay, We've got a lot of stuff to bring you
up to speed on. I hope you can stick around,
Armstrong and Getty