January 9, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 1 of A&G features...
- The L.A. wildfires & how politicizing the disaster doesn't help
- Mailbag!
- President Jimmy Carter's funeral
- Katie Green's Headlines!
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Jack Armstrong, Joe, Katty Armstrong and Jettie and he Armsrong
we live. We're from Studio C. See Senora.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
It's a dimly let room deep with them the bowels
of the Armstrong and Getty Communications Compound.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
And hey y'all, today, little Friday, we're under the tutelage
of our general manager, the Firefighters of California on this
day too.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Of Greenlanders occupying our territory illegally count back from yesterday,
we will, we will wait until we are reunited with
our precious greenland, American land.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
I don't know if everybody's aware of. Up until really.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Recently, in the history of mankind, fire was killing us
and burning down our houses constantly. Well, that is the
history of mankind in urban area specifically. I remember many
many books that I've read throughout my life point this out.
Uh oh, do you remember the gangs in the New
York and gangs in New York? Remember that movie Martin
(01:33):
Scorsese that was one of the big gangs. One of
the big things the gangs did to uh, to curry
favor is they would get there fast to help put
out fires, because there were constantly fires breaking out. And
if and if and if the little local fire department,
you know, a horse drawn trolley full of water and hoses,
didn't come there and put it out, it's going to
burn everything down and kill people. And so that's how
you would, you know, get people on your side. And
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I remember when I read the book Uh Devil in
the White City about Chicago from the World Fair eighteen
ninety three.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Fantastic book if you've never.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Read it, but they mentioned in there at that time,
on average, there would be four deaths from fire per
day in Chicago, even with that much smaller population per day.
And I remember, more recently, during the incredibly stupid discussion
of whether Trump's rally at Madison Square Garden was reminiscent
(02:22):
of the Nazi rallies, a conversation so monumentally stupendously mind
bogglingly idiotic it's hard to imagine any adult engaged in
it with a straight face.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Seriously, anyway, take.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
A moment, think about it anyway, Yeah, and reading about it,
it wasn't even the same building because Madison Square Garden
and its various incarnations has burnt down repeatedly. Excellent example,
almost any time you're at a historic hotel, restaurant, whatever,
if you read the little description on there, this is
the version built on the spot where the original one
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was when it burnt down in eighteen something, early nineteen
something whatever.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Because it was just a fact of life.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
But we've become accustomed to, thank God, because of modern
materials and firefighting and all kinds of different things, that
that doesn't happen all the time, but the power of
fire still exists. Is if you've seen any of these
pictures from some of these neighborhoods in La, it's just
mind boggling how these entire neighborhoods, modern neighborhoods of nice
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houses are completely gone. Everything gone catastrophic. Yeah, yeah, I wonder,
And we will get into the looming home owners insurance
crisis from coast to coast, I mean particularly in California,
but coast to coast, and I wonder whether we will
not evolve as a people into spending a great deal
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more on making our homes impregnable to the various threats
we face. And that's the only way we're going to
get around the fact that so many homes are nigh
on uninsurable these days given the current market right and
is going to be quite the story. I think it
will help that, particularly in the Pacific Palisades area, you
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got a lot of people with money who have the
ability to get the attention of the powerful, and in
a way that a lot of communities that have burned
down didn't. They are not going to just sit idly
by and let current policy exist. So that'll be interesting
for whatever reason and just the way the human mind works.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
I guess the.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Big fire that's in the Pasadena Altadna area because I
know that area really well, Like I know some of
these places and streets and stores and everything like that,
and them burning down just like really impactful. It's hard
to wrap my head around that corner. I saw a
picture of a corner just just as cool a community
as exists anywhere on the earth. It's like a small
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town next to Los Angeles, just so nice, beautiful old houses.
This little old hardware store. I've been there for forty years.
His mom and pop place burnt to a ground night
before it was open. Kid there closed it down, kid
of the dad who started it next day, completely gone,
just oh, awful, awful, awful. They found a guy dead
in his backyard holding a hose in his hand. And
(05:18):
I told the story when our field caught on fire,
I was out there with a hose, because when it's small,
you think, oh, i'll get a hose and I'll try
to start this. And then in the seconds I was
overcome with smoking flames and had to get the hell
out of there. I mean, it just it happened so
fast with the wind shot right. And I remember you
telling this story. When you say within seconds, you don't
mean forty fives.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
No, no, no.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
I looked like in my field, for instance, it was
a very very windy day, caught on fire, very dry,
and it was a tiny little Okay, if I get
a bucket, I can put it out. I turn around
to go to the hose, get a bucket, and so
this is twenty seconds.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
I turn around and it's just.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
A wall of flame behind me in that amount of time,
and you know, you amplify that by one hundred mile
an hour winds there having in La today only fifty
mile an hour gusts, which is helpful. Tomorrow they're expecting
it to be back up to seventy mile an hour gusts.
So good, Lord, that's not helpful. Absolutely amazing. Yeah, I
don't know what's going to come out of this in
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terms of insurance and where you're allowed to build homes
and all kinds of different stuff. You know, you can,
you can certainly relate to people of old talking about
the wrath of God or the vengeance of Satan or
what have you, and when such a cataclysm comes upon you,
I mean, it's just it's it's unfathomable to anybody who
hasn't lived through it. And I've been following a lot
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of the social media stuff about forest management, tree management,
all that different sort of stuff. Water management in California,
which has been horrible and people have been complaining about
it forever. There's a clip from a Joe Rogan podcast
floating around that's getting a lot of attention where he
was talking about that very sort of thing and he said, boy,
one of these days, the conditions are going to be right,
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and there's going to be a spark and it's it's
going to sweep through out and just burn everything to
the ground. So you can't really go at this from
a nobody could see this coming standpoint, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
We should start. On the other hand, a lot.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Of the politicization of it, a lot of the politics,
including this stuff Trump has said, is not at all helpful.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
It's just it's silly. Some of it. Trump's say, well,
talking about.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Forest management and stuff like that, in large part not
talking about forests, but and the water stuff that he's
commented on. It's just it's he has read half a
paragraph on it and is now making bold pronouncements. And
Gavin Newsom's an idiot. California is badly governed and ungovernable.
I'm not denying that for a second. It's just some
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of the conversation that's knocking around online is kind of
silly at this point. If you've spent any time with this,
Like the idea Trump was like, you.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Gotta take all the water from northern California.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Everybody knows this and send it to southern California, and
northern California for twenty five years has been saying, whoa, whoa, oh, whoa, we.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Kind of need that water. So it's not as simple
as that. LA schools are closed today except for.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
One caveat which I want to discuss after we start
the show Officially, I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on
this it is? How did it already get to be? Thursday,
January ninth, you're twenty twenty five? You're going with ain't
taken no jive in twenty five?
Speaker 2 (08:21):
No?
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Cut the jive in twenty five, cut the jib in
twenty kind no jive?
Speaker 2 (08:26):
What am I strutting through Harlem in nineteen seventy six?
What's happening here? We are Armstrong in Getty and we
approve of this program?
Speaker 1 (08:36):
All right, let's begin squirting the water of truth on
the lives of the evildoers precisely now, according to FCC
rules and the rags at mark.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Do you owe citizens and apology for being absent while
their homes were burning? Do you regret coming the fire
department budget by millions of dollars?
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Not in there?
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Have you nothing to say today?
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Fadam Mayor?
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Have you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today?
You're dating this disaster? You no apology for them? Do
you think you should have been visiting Ghana while this
was unfolding back home? So?
Speaker 1 (09:16):
As the mayor of Los Angeles not answering some questions
from a reporter as she has come back to La
she was out of town.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
I don't know that that matters to me.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
The policy stuff matters, The policy stuff decisions made throughout
the years obviously matters. But the somebody's out of town
when something happens thing I've always thought it was over overblown. Yeah,
with all respect to patio furniture there the Irish reporter,
the cutting of seventeen million dollars from the fire budget,
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that is absolutely a serious topic. The fact that she
happened to be on some idiotic, paid for junket, I'm guessing.
I mean, that's just the politicians do that all the time.
I'm not in favor of it. But it's not like
the fire start and she said feach, don't fail me
now and headed to Ghana. I mean she just happened
to be there. Or if she happened to be in
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her office when the fire started, it would have unfolded
any differently. I doubt that, well exactly. And this is
it reminds me of going way back to Barack Obama.
He's not a Muslim, he's a socialist. Keep your eye
on the ball, don't worry. If she was in Ghana,
let's talk about the fact that La there was a
city councilman did an interview just a couple of days ago,
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said it's absolutely worth worth cutting the budget for services
to general city services to take care of our migrant population,
meaning illegal immigrants.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
And Karen Bass is one hundred percent on board that there.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Why did they have to cut the fire budgets so severely.
It's because they're a sanctuary city. Keep your eye on
the ball. Kind of doubt, kind of on that road
of socialism quickly, maybe we'll talk about it later. I
heard the schools in LA will be closed again to day, obviously.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Except for the lunch program. The food program will go on.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
And I heard the big announcement that they've got satellite
locations for all the meals for breakfast, lunch, and dinner
will continue to be served to all the residents. Our
schools became a three meal a day food program, government
food program, trying to convince a whole bunch of people,
and apparently they have that it's not your job to
feed your family, it's the government's job. The schools are closed,
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I don't think, oh my god, how are my kids
going to eat lunch?
Speaker 2 (11:25):
I take care of the lunch.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
I remember that great historic vote and the vote totals
in the House and the Senate when we voted on
becoming a socialist.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Oh that's right.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
No, we didn't vote on it at all. And that's
something that that will continue even with the fire. The
all day food program. All right, interesting? How does mailbag
look outstanding?
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Cool? That's on the way.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Our text line is four one five two nine five KFTC.
It's easy to hear you need to evacuate, but the reality,
ye it, I've never had to do that.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Where am I supposed to go?
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Exactly? For how long I'm supposed to get my kids
and my dogs in the car and go where?
Speaker 2 (12:09):
How it's not as easy as it sounds.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
And what do we take in the next five to
ten minutes or thirty seconds in some cases. And then
you got the whole angle of you know, you're thinking
about what might burn down, what will get stolen. They've
arrested I think eleven looters in the Pasadena Altadena area
this morning, and am staunchly against extra judicial punishment and
police brutality usually.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Now you got to send a message to looters that
ain't happening. Yeah, just don't tell us about it. Yes,
do what needs to be done.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Uh, here's your freedom loving quote of the day.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
From the Great C. S. Lewis, sent along by MJ.
Great call MJ.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
It's helping helping out along, Hello take two, helping us
out with our series of quotes about beginning. You can't
go back and change the beginning, but you can start
where you are and change the ending.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Boy, that's a true one. That's my favorite one in
a long time. Like I get that, can't.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Go back and change the beginning, but you can start
where you are and change the ending.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
That is a good one.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
I need to get that tattooed on my head in
reverse so when I look in the mirror I can
read it every morning. Wow, well you've got it planned
out wherever you want to get a tattooed. I think
that that is the sort of wisdom everybody out of
know by the time they're ten.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Isn't it. Apparently my ending includes a face tattoo.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Which will be the beginning that you wish you could
change down the road. Ironically, Mailbag, there's a little policy
advice from Lawrence. Oh, you can drop us a note
mail Bag at Armstrong and Giddy dot com governor knew
some of the Democrat control Senate and Assembly in California.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
You should partner with PGE. Put all the utility lines underground.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Tax dollars could be diverted from projects like and reparations,
planned ports of entry for immigrants, planned defense funds for
to fight Trump's deportation agenda, always getting there. This could
serve California better than the regular train to nowhere. These
fires caused by a griffin, that's absolutely right, produce fire
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risk would entice insurance companies continue to provide coverage in California.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
That's right, Lawrence. But that would take good leadership and not.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Being whores for public employee unions and the big special
interests with no discus making. That is rude, And I
apologize to whores. All you're doing is exchanging sex for money.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
I get it. You're in a tough spot.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
What the politicians are doing is considerably worse than that.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
From a mobile standpoint.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Oh yeah, a sex worker is a paragon of virtue
compared to these politicians. Sex occursn't selling me and my
interests in my tax dollars down the line. As far
as I can tell, I apologize to prostitute. I was unfair.
Is this worth going into? It's really good email from
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Jim and O Wahoo, some active duty military guy took
us to task for griping about Joe Biden's hastily announced
every federal employee gets Thursday off to mourn Jimmy Carter,
you know, to holiday. All the federal employees are off
today because Jimmy Carter has a funeral and we're paying
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for anything.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Why what is that?
Speaker 1 (15:30):
And some fine fella, but misguided said to think about
the military. Yeah, well, the military is a tiny fraction
of the government workers around the country. Nobody obviously, we're
not talking about the acted. Nobody means to be army
when they're talking about government workers. Well, longtime marine writes, well,
there are some fine patriots in the service. I feel
they're out numbered by parasitic morons who perform their roles
so poorly as to be counterproductive. Any doge worth its
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first should be licking its shops for all the tax
dollars we'll save when.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
We trim the fat to it.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
I can't count how many service member I service members
I encounter that brag over the money they plan on
fleecing Americans out of to collect phony disability.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
For the rest of their lives. Yeah, that's one.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Yeah, and he says, I'm not saying the pendulum needs
to swing back to spitting on service members and calling
his baby killers, but we definitely need to pump the
brakes on the reverence shown to military people.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
That's interesting.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
A lot of us are a holes and we do
get too many days, you know. And I've made this
point before. Respect for an appreciation for the members of
our military is absolutely appropriate.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
In fact, it's required.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Worshipfulness is not, and I think a lot of that
worshipfulness is performative, and it comes from the fact that
such a small percentage of our population ever serves in
the military.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
It's it's phony. It's making a.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Big flowery deal out of how you love the military
to kind of distract people from the fact that you
and your family have no interest in serving. Respect is good,
Worshipfulness is dangerous in all things. Some of my favorite
negative things, particularly about spending I've ever heard about the military,
have come from people I know who have been in
the military their whole lives, right, not from outsiders. I've
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got a big complaint about Carter's funeral, among other things
on the way.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Stay tuned, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
President Biden meanwhile, says he thinks he could have beaten
Donald Trump in the twenty twenty four election. But in
an interview with USA Today, one of the very few
interviews President Biden has granted as he prepares to exit
the White House, the President admitted he's not sure that
had he won, he would have had the stamina to
serve for another four years. Here's a quote from President Biden,
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who knows what I'm going to be when I'm eighty
six years old.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
As from CBS News, Joe Biden thinks he would have won. Okay, fine,
if that, If that helps you your last couple of
years on Earth, and I think you're in your final years, fine, fine, whatever.
Donald j is going to be halfway through the of
office when all of Biden's aides are going to be
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running to the media to describe exactly how it was.
So Joe Biden is the only ex president who has
a speaking role at Jimmy Carter's funeral, which is today.
We are doing full team coverage in ours three, four,
and then a special bonus hour five in which we
will cover the funeral in its entirety.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Wow, you better have a gun be ready to point
it at me.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
So I'm watching it live on TV, and everybody is
filed into the National Cathedral in Washington, DC. And if
you've never made that part of your Washington, d C. Tour,
you should. It's a bit of a train ride out there,
but just an unbelievable church. Everybody who's anybody in national
government is there. And as the camera's panning around looking
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at him, just saw a good view of why John F.
Carey didn't win the presidency as he walked in, and
he's got this big, bright blue silk scarf around his
neck along with his suit. And I just thought, you
the windsurfing, the scarf, the wood that it were, that's
why you couldn't get elected president. Dude. Everybody else just
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in a dark suit. Apparently all the vice presidents are
sitting together. You got uh, Mike Pence sitting it there
and yucking it up with the most relaxed man in
the building.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Al Gore.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
We're talking about this yesterday. Al Gore went off about,
you know, screw this whole politics thing.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
I almost won. I should have won. Maybe I shouldn't
be proud.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
I'm not going to spend the rest of my life
saying it was stolen or or or my feeling's hurt,
like a Hillary Clinton or whoever.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Forever.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
I'm just gonna go off in a different direction and
pretend that climate change is important and become a billy
make a billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Yeah, he's happier and they whip up fear over climate change.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
That sounds like fun.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
But he's throwing back his head and laughter talking to
Mike Pence and over on the other side, also yucking'
up is a old gray haired senator from Indiana, Dan Quayle,
who was vice, You're gonna you're gonna kill me.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
You are, You're gonna hate me.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
You're gonna cuss me out on the air live, and
I deserve it for various reasons that are not terribly interesting.
I totally forgot to tell the story that when I
was playing golf with friends in October at a particular
golf course in California that will remain nameless, I came
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within six inches of getting t boned in my golf
cart by a fast driving dan quail.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
We met in an intersection.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
He wasn't paying attention and about about put me in
the hospital?
Speaker 2 (20:48):
How did you not tell the story in the air?
Speaker 1 (20:52):
It was it was days later because I'd take it
a couple of days off because it was a big
news story or something, and I just I just didn't
think of it because you got pushed down a flight
of stairs by Walter Mondale and it's coming up for
another story.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Yeah, exactly, a ghost of Spiro actor haunted my dreams.
I don't know anyway, is that the end of the story.
Is that the whole that's your whole day?
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Sorry, and drove on honey, you spelled tomato um one
fair so uh oh. The other thing sitting behind the
Vice presidents is a meth mouthed hunter Biden.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
He's so got the meth mouth.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Just I mean that really Distray is a good looking
guy with a family lineage of good looking guys. His
dad is a good looking guy when he was young.
And uh, he's just got that full jaw, weird face
thing that meth users get. Poor guy sitting next to
his super hot hot wife thirty five year old wife
or whatever she is. Yeah, but Biden is speaking today.
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See how that goes. Here's the part I want to
complain about that. You know what Hunter Biden's got to do,
then you can get to your complaint. He's got to
open up a string of laundromats called money laundering, you know,
just dollar signs in the name, because that'd go big.
Like in the city where most laundromats are. People respond
to dollar signs. You know, is sure money laundering?
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Come on money.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
There are a couple of eulogies given today by the
sons of people who wrote the eulogies because Jimmy Carter
lived so freaking long. For instance, Gerald Ford, former president,
the one who proceied, who lost to Jimmy Carter nineteen
seventy six, had written a eulogy thinking he's got to
be dying soon. But uh, Ford died and Carter lives on,
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and so his son is going to read the speech
that he wrote. There's another one of those examples, I guess.
So they're gonna have a song. I'm sure there'll be
some music. And Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood. Garth Brooks,
who seems to be omnipresent at all national events at
this point because he's beloved and a good singer, is
gonna sing freaking Imagine by John Lennon. Now, I'm fine
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with that as just a tune. I loved it as
a wide eyed, ignorant child. I mean, seriously, you have
to be a child to like really take in those
lyrics and get starry eyed about it because they're moronic.
They're just mooring. And the only reason that bothers me
because it's a funeral. You don't have whatever kind of
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music you want. That was actually Carter's foreign policy, and
that's why a lot of the things that happened happened.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Ben you should read our friend Tim Sanderfir's Twitter thread.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
He's been linking all these various articles about how Jimmy
Carter's policies abandoning the shaw led to the Molas and
everything we've been dealing with in Iran for the forty years.
Jimmy Carter actually believed the song imagine and the imagine
there's no war bs and we're all gonna be friends.
That's not reality. And we can't have presidents who believe
the John Lennon lyrics. Great tie into Justin Trudeau, who
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was on the outs in Canada. As you've probably heard
more on that.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Later that's one thing. The because it's hard to.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Get into arguments about counterintuitives in the same way that
you can. For instance, you can criticize George Bush for
going into orac really easy to do. You know, you
see what happens, lives lost, money spent, what were the results.
It's more difficult to criticize a Barack Obama or a
Jimmy Carter for things that they didn't do. But if
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you're smart enough, or you listen to and read the
right smart people, they can get into it pretty well.
But Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama get great credit for
not getting involved in all kinds of things where we
maybe should have or stayed more involved, and it led
to really really difficult, expensive things see the war in Ukraine,
for instance. By not pushing back back when you had
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the chance drives me out. I don't think it's at
all shocking for me to point out that national the
United States passivity. Being passive was praised roundly by the
media and academia, the great oversized bullhorn of the far
left through the years. Now, certainly there are examples of
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being overactive or doing the right thing in a terrible,
stupid way, so witness a rock. On the other hand,
you get what I'm saying, though passivity is praised uniformly
in the media always.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Yeah, that was that was my point.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
It's just it's it's it's it's more complicated to push
back on that. And uh And as I mentioned from
a Bob Woodward book, he quotes Joe Biden in the
Oval office getting off the phone with Putin right before
the invasion, when Biden realized, damn it, Putin's actually going
to evade.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
He said, Brock, f this all up.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
He's fed this all up when he didn't do anything
when Putin went into Crimea, Georgia, whichever one it was, Crimea.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
I guess. Uh.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
So it's Joe Biden's view of the whole thing is
that Barck not pushing back led to the invasion of Ukraine,
not just you know, maga right winger Jack Armstrong.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Yeah, I was just.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Reading something else about Biden and not running and resentment
and is the bitterness that's pouring out of him right now.
He hates Barack Obama, he resents him so much, and
his campaign team and David Ploff and all those people.
He will go to his grave cursing their names. Now,
I wanted to bring that up my finish, my final Yeah,
(26:18):
that's the point. My final funeral note is so you
got a funeral today for a Jimmy Carter who hasn't
been in office.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
For forty five years. Forty five years, I mean, so
that's a long time.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
So you know, bygones, be bygones, a lot of the
hot rhetoric of the day way back then.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
You know, as you can have a decent funeral.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
If Joe Biden dies next year, and he very easily could,
well everything is still very fresh on both sides of
the aisle. Be interesting to see what that funeral is like. Yeah,
that's funny. That kind of anticipates my next point. Part
of me thinks, you know what, just why don't you
you do the Carter funeral and then have lunch and
hang around the church for a while because Biden doesn't
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look good to me?
Speaker 2 (27:04):
But my god, I mean.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
You're all set up, the priest is there, the minister whatever,
we got our dark suits on the flowers and garth
theory can sing a different song summer I.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Car tuned up exactly, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Anyway, trying to get some sort of two for one thing, going,
how you feeling okay? Because we can while we're all here,
I'm just saying, don't hold out for our you know benefit, Yes, Michael,
I think the casket will fit.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Oh my god, you gotta go too far fresh.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
That was distactly exactly See what Joe said was in
perfectly good taste, and then you took it into the
realm of absurdity.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Right.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
What I was going to say is, and you know,
I remember growing up as a kid with the pictures
of the presidents around the top of the classrooms, and
and and there was a certain worshipfulness that was taught
to us, or at least I got out of it.
And I think in some cases, uh, respect and admiration
on the highest level is Oh. And I could name
(28:04):
the usual names, but you can guess what they are,
Polk Fillmore.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
You got me at the same time.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Now that I'm old and bitter and recognize the various
paths people take to the presidency and the very sorts
of people who have become president, and the utter dishonesty, skullduggery,
terrible policies, et cetera they've unleashed upon our country, the
incursions against the Constitution, the accumulating of executive power, the
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rest of it. I don't feel worshipful toward those who've.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Held the highest office.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
It's a hell of a job and wears you down,
and so I have respect for people who take on
that challenge, but I am not worshipful.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
No, no, no, no, They're not kings. It feels a
little monarchical. Yeah, uh so that's that.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Maybe we won't do our three four and then at
bonus hour five of Carter funeral coverage. Then we've got
unless you know, the buy one, get one thing that.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Would be historic. We've got Katie's headlines on the way
stay here.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
So now Trump and Mlanie are walking and I guess,
as the president elect will be president in just a
few days. He walks in last he's the last person
that looks like to be walking in, shaking hands with
Al Gore and Mike Pence, who he was going to
allow to be hung.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
I believe this is the first time they've touched and
quite some time.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Well, that's nice that they're coming back together. And I
did that looking like an aging model. Mark Leivivich's brilliant
book This Town opens at the funeral of Tim Russert.
I may reread that first chapter to remind myself of
what's really happening there in the nation's capital. Yeah, let's
(29:56):
figure out who's reporting what today. It's the week's story
with Katie Green. Oh, by the way, next hour, Jack.
What I'd really like to do is finally get to
the analysis of DOGE. What can it accomplish, what are
the roadblocks going to be? And can it get rid
of a federal agency for instance? So stay tuned if
you can. Right now, Katie Barrock just walked in. He
(30:16):
had the big time Trump, So he walked in. Whatever,
mister professors and everybody's shaking hands. The man back to you, Katie.
As I watched the funeral. Oh right, blah blah, lead story,
Katie Green, go kt LA.
Speaker 6 (30:31):
Hundreds of thousands without power in Los Angeles as the
fire enters.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Day three gonna be not as wendy today, but still
very windy, and the winds are supposed to pick up tomorrow.
So like the fifty mile an hour gusts is the
window to try to get this under control.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
It's still all zero percent contained, I believe.
Speaker 6 (30:48):
From the Washington Post. As La burns Trump blames Newsome,
and California governor.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Pushes back, all right, there'll be plenty of time for that.
Speaker 6 (30:59):
From Fox News, Biden approves five hundred million dollars in
Ukraine security package eleven days before Trump takes office.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
I gotta tell you, I'm watching the funeral live and
I'm distracted by that. Barack is sitting next to Donald Trump,
and they look as comfortable with each other. They're kind
of like whispering to each other, not and then laughing
a little bit. They're having a good conversation. I would
love to know what two guys who know how the
whole thing works better than anybody, what they're saying to
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each other about the whole affair, right, because they are
a couple of rich guys that have fabulous to east
a fabulous East Coast real estate for instance.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Uh yeah, yeah, I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
It looks like there's a little snark going on between
the two about the whole affair, and I just love
to know what they're saying.
Speaker 6 (31:48):
From CNN, is bird flu the next pandemic? What to
know after the first first age five and one death
in the US.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
No, it's not, and stop it and that fear mind
and that person died with bird flu kind of like
the whole COVID thing. They were an old sick person
already and had bird flu.
Speaker 6 (32:09):
From the New York post congestion pricing advocate attacked in
New York City subway station as a new nine dollars
toll pushes people into mass transit.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Of course, to be fair, everyone's attacked at New York
subway stations now that crime has been legalized.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Touchez.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Yeah, that's a lot of the point though, So you've
made it so expensive, you're trying to get people more
people to take mass transit, and the person's idea, what's
got attacked on mass transit, drawing attention to the fact
that that's a lot.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Of the reason people don't want to ride mass transit.
From Breitbart dot com.
Speaker 6 (32:41):
ABC is launching a weekend edition of The View. It'll
be hosted by Joey Behar and will be basically the
hens of The View will be joining her, except all
of them, except for whoopee.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
If that's the way you want to spend your Saturday morning,
can I buy your time? Is this to torture the
few remaining Al Qaeda guys in guantanamo or something who
asked for this. Good lord, I have breaking news. The
only person who's not smiling and looking happy with George W.
Speaker 5 (33:16):
Bush.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
He's looking happy and he and his wife and Bill
is sitting there kind of a smile on his face,
yucking it up with the owl. And and Trump and
Brock are still chatting up NonStop. They can't stop talking
to each other. The only person that looks miserable Hillary
Rodham Clinton. She looks angry, well she always does. She's
sitting there thinking, I can't believe Trump's gonna be president again.
(33:39):
I'm in the front row as a potus or as
a wife, not a potus.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
This sucks.
Speaker 6 (33:43):
Yeah, we have a couple more from ABC. Eternal Attorney
General Merrick Garland informs Congress Special Counsels Donald Trump investigation
has concluded.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Yeah, we gathered that.
Speaker 6 (34:00):
And finally the Babylon Bee Newsome assures wildfire victims that
he's diverting millions of dollars to emergen Emergency DEI initiatives.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Yeah, there's going to be a lot, As you said,
there's going to be a lot of looking over to
the policies and the rhetoric of a whole bunch of
different government officials, whether it's people of la or or
Governor Newsom himself on this whole thing. Yes, yeah, clearly,
(34:28):
but the dust can settle. In my opinion, some of
the sniping political stuff going back and forth right now
is not very productive.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
But speaking of.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Political sniping, Elizabeth Warren versus Pete hegseeth, the whole hearings
for the cabinet story is about to heat up like crazy.
And she's just she is underestimated as an evil doer.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
She is a hardcore Marxist.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
So Hanson's claiming that none of the presidents who came
in shook hands with Trump. I'm sure I saw Bamba
shake hands with Trump. But you're saying none of the
other president shok because they're all she hands with each
other and everybody. Kamala Obama did not shake his hand.
Hanson is saying, Kamala just walked in. She's the only
other person besides Hillary who looks miserable. Is Kamala just
walked in with her husband. She took a hostile glance
(35:13):
at Trump. Trump didn't even look at her. She looked
down with disdain and began flipping through the program. Oh boy,
I'm loving body language segment. I'm loving reading the body language.
You've got more on the way.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
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Speaker 3 (00:39):
And hey y'all, today, little Friday, we're under the tutelage
of our general manager, the Firefighters of California on this
day too.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Of Greenlanders occupying our territory illegally count back from yesterday,
we will, we will wait until we are reunited with
our precious greenland, American land.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
I don't know if everybody's aware of. Up until really.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Recently, in the history of mankind, fire was killing us
and burning down our houses constantly. Well, that is the
history of mankind in urban area specifically. I remember many
many books that I've read throughout my life point this out.
Uh oh, do you remember the gangs in the New
York and gangs in New York? Remember that movie Martin
(01:33):
Scorsese that was one of the big gangs. One of
the big things the gangs did to uh, to curry
favor is they would get there fast to help put
out fires, because there were constantly fires breaking out. And
if and if and if the little local fire department,
you know, a horse drawn trolley full of water and hoses,
didn't come there and put it out, it's going to
burn everything down and kill people. And so that's how
you would, you know, get people on your side. And
(01:54):
I remember when I read the book Uh Devil in
the White City about Chicago from the World Fair eighteen
ninety three.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Fantastic book if you've never.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Read it, but they mentioned in there at that time,
on average, there would be four deaths from fire per
day in Chicago, even with that much smaller population per day.
And I remember, more recently, during the incredibly stupid discussion
of whether Trump's rally at Madison Square Garden was reminiscent
(02:22):
of the Nazi rallies, a conversation so monumentally stupendously mind
bogglingly idiotic it's hard to imagine any adult engaged in
it with a straight face.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Seriously, anyway, take.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
A moment, think about it anyway, Yeah, and reading about it,
it wasn't even the same building because Madison Square Garden
and its various incarnations has burnt down repeatedly. Excellent example,
almost any time you're at a historic hotel, restaurant, whatever,
if you read the little description on there, this is
the version built on the spot where the original one
(02:59):
was when it burnt down in eighteen something, early nineteen
something whatever.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Because it was just a fact of life.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
But we've become accustomed to, thank God, because of modern
materials and firefighting and all kinds of different things, that
that doesn't happen all the time, but the power of
fire still exists. Is if you've seen any of these
pictures from some of these neighborhoods in La, it's just
mind boggling how these entire neighborhoods, modern neighborhoods of nice
(03:27):
houses are completely gone. Everything gone catastrophic. Yeah, yeah, I wonder,
And we will get into the looming home owners insurance
crisis from coast to coast, I mean particularly in California,
but coast to coast, and I wonder whether we will
not evolve as a people into spending a great deal
(03:49):
more on making our homes impregnable to the various threats
we face. And that's the only way we're going to
get around the fact that so many homes are nigh
on uninsurable these days given the current market right and
is going to be quite the story. I think it
will help that, particularly in the Pacific Palisades area, you
(04:10):
got a lot of people with money who have the
ability to get the attention of the powerful, and in
a way that a lot of communities that have burned
down didn't. They are not going to just sit idly
by and let current policy exist. So that'll be interesting
for whatever reason and just the way the human mind works.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
I guess the.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Big fire that's in the Pasadena Altadna area because I
know that area really well, Like I know some of
these places and streets and stores and everything like that,
and them burning down just like really impactful. It's hard
to wrap my head around that corner. I saw a
picture of a corner just just as cool a community
as exists anywhere on the earth. It's like a small
(04:54):
town next to Los Angeles, just so nice, beautiful old houses.
This little old hardware store. I've been there for forty years.
His mom and pop place burnt to a ground night
before it was open. Kid there closed it down, kid
of the dad who started it next day, completely gone,
just oh, awful, awful, awful. They found a guy dead
in his backyard holding a hose in his hand. And
(05:18):
I told the story when our field caught on fire,
I was out there with a hose, because when it's small,
you think, oh, i'll get a hose and I'll try
to start this. And then in the seconds I was
overcome with smoking flames and had to get the hell
out of there. I mean, it just it happened so
fast with the wind shot right. And I remember you
telling this story. When you say within seconds, you don't
mean forty fives.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
No, no, no.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
I looked like in my field, for instance, it was
a very very windy day, caught on fire, very dry,
and it was a tiny little Okay, if I get
a bucket, I can put it out. I turn around
to go to the hose, get a bucket, and so
this is twenty seconds.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
I turn around and it's just.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
A wall of flame behind me in that amount of time,
and you know, you amplify that by one hundred mile
an hour winds there having in La today only fifty
mile an hour gusts, which is helpful. Tomorrow they're expecting
it to be back up to seventy mile an hour gusts.
So good, Lord, that's not helpful. Absolutely amazing. Yeah, I
don't know what's going to come out of this in
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terms of insurance and where you're allowed to build homes
and all kinds of different stuff. You know, you can,
you can certainly relate to people of old talking about
the wrath of God or the vengeance of Satan or
what have you, and when such a cataclysm comes upon you,
I mean, it's just it's it's unfathomable to anybody who
hasn't lived through it. And I've been following a lot
(06:36):
of the social media stuff about forest management, tree management,
all that different sort of stuff. Water management in California,
which has been horrible and people have been complaining about
it forever. There's a clip from a Joe Rogan podcast
floating around that's getting a lot of attention where he
was talking about that very sort of thing and he said, boy,
one of these days, the conditions are going to be right,
(06:57):
and there's going to be a spark and it's it's
going to sweep through out and just burn everything to
the ground. So you can't really go at this from
a nobody could see this coming standpoint, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
We should start. On the other hand, a lot.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Of the politicization of it, a lot of the politics,
including this stuff Trump has said, is not at all helpful.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
It's just it's silly. Some of it. Trump's say, well,
talking about.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Forest management and stuff like that, in large part not
talking about forests, but and the water stuff that he's
commented on. It's just it's he has read half a
paragraph on it and is now making bold pronouncements. And
Gavin Newsom's an idiot. California is badly governed and ungovernable.
I'm not denying that for a second. It's just some
(07:43):
of the conversation that's knocking around online is kind of
silly at this point. If you've spent any time with this,
Like the idea Trump was like, you.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Gotta take all the water from northern California.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Everybody knows this and send it to southern California, and
northern California for twenty five years has been saying, whoa, whoa, oh, whoa, we.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Kind of need that water. So it's not as simple
as that. LA schools are closed today except for.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
One caveat which I want to discuss after we start
the show Officially, I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on
this it is? How did it already get to be? Thursday,
January ninth, you're twenty twenty five? You're going with ain't
taken no jive in twenty five?
Speaker 2 (08:21):
No?
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Cut the jive in twenty five, cut the jib in
twenty kind no jive?
Speaker 2 (08:26):
What am I strutting through Harlem in nineteen seventy six?
What's happening here? We are Armstrong in Getty and we
approve of this program?
Speaker 1 (08:36):
All right, let's begin squirting the water of truth on
the lives of the evildoers precisely now, according to FCC
rules and the rags at mark.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Do you owe citizens and apology for being absent while
their homes were burning? Do you regret coming the fire
department budget by millions of dollars?
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Not in there?
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Have you nothing to say today?
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Fadam Mayor?
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Have you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today?
You're dating this disaster? You no apology for them? Do
you think you should have been visiting Ghana while this
was unfolding back home? So?
Speaker 1 (09:16):
As the mayor of Los Angeles not answering some questions
from a reporter as she has come back to La
she was out of town.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
I don't know that that matters to me.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
The policy stuff matters, The policy stuff decisions made throughout
the years obviously matters. But the somebody's out of town
when something happens thing I've always thought it was over overblown. Yeah,
with all respect to patio furniture there the Irish reporter,
the cutting of seventeen million dollars from the fire budget,
(09:45):
that is absolutely a serious topic. The fact that she
happened to be on some idiotic, paid for junket, I'm guessing.
I mean, that's just the politicians do that all the time.
I'm not in favor of it. But it's not like
the fire start and she said feach, don't fail me
now and headed to Ghana. I mean she just happened
to be there. Or if she happened to be in
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her office when the fire started, it would have unfolded
any differently. I doubt that, well exactly. And this is
it reminds me of going way back to Barack Obama.
He's not a Muslim, he's a socialist. Keep your eye
on the ball, don't worry. If she was in Ghana,
let's talk about the fact that La there was a
city councilman did an interview just a couple of days ago,
(10:27):
said it's absolutely worth worth cutting the budget for services
to general city services to take care of our migrant population,
meaning illegal immigrants.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
And Karen Bass is one hundred percent on board that there.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Why did they have to cut the fire budgets so severely.
It's because they're a sanctuary city. Keep your eye on
the ball. Kind of doubt, kind of on that road
of socialism quickly, maybe we'll talk about it later. I
heard the schools in LA will be closed again to day, obviously.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Except for the lunch program. The food program will go on.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
And I heard the big announcement that they've got satellite
locations for all the meals for breakfast, lunch, and dinner
will continue to be served to all the residents. Our
schools became a three meal a day food program, government
food program, trying to convince a whole bunch of people,
and apparently they have that it's not your job to
feed your family, it's the government's job. The schools are closed,
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I don't think, oh my god, how are my kids
going to eat lunch?
Speaker 2 (11:25):
I take care of the lunch.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
I remember that great historic vote and the vote totals
in the House and the Senate when we voted on
becoming a socialist.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Oh that's right.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
No, we didn't vote on it at all. And that's
something that that will continue even with the fire. The
all day food program. All right, interesting? How does mailbag
look outstanding?
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Cool? That's on the way.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Our text line is four one five two nine five KFTC.
It's easy to hear you need to evacuate, but the reality,
ye it, I've never had to do that.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Where am I supposed to go?
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Exactly? For how long I'm supposed to get my kids
and my dogs in the car and go where?
Speaker 2 (12:09):
How it's not as easy as it sounds.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
And what do we take in the next five to
ten minutes or thirty seconds in some cases. And then
you got the whole angle of you know, you're thinking
about what might burn down, what will get stolen. They've
arrested I think eleven looters in the Pasadena Altadena area
this morning, and am staunchly against extra judicial punishment and
police brutality usually.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Now you got to send a message to looters that
ain't happening. Yeah, just don't tell us about it. Yes,
do what needs to be done.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Uh, here's your freedom loving quote of the day.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
From the Great C. S. Lewis, sent along by MJ.
Great call MJ.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
It's helping helping out along, Hello take two, helping us
out with our series of quotes about beginning. You can't
go back and change the beginning, but you can start
where you are and change the ending.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Boy, that's a true one. That's my favorite one in
a long time. Like I get that, can't.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Go back and change the beginning, but you can start
where you are and change the ending.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
That is a good one.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
I need to get that tattooed on my head in
reverse so when I look in the mirror I can
read it every morning. Wow, well you've got it planned
out wherever you want to get a tattooed. I think
that that is the sort of wisdom everybody out of
know by the time they're ten.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Isn't it. Apparently my ending includes a face tattoo.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Which will be the beginning that you wish you could
change down the road. Ironically, Mailbag, there's a little policy
advice from Lawrence. Oh, you can drop us a note
mail Bag at Armstrong and Giddy dot com governor knew
some of the Democrat control Senate and Assembly in California.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
You should partner with PGE. Put all the utility lines underground.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Tax dollars could be diverted from projects like and reparations,
planned ports of entry for immigrants, planned defense funds for
to fight Trump's deportation agenda, always getting there. This could
serve California better than the regular train to nowhere. These
fires caused by a griffin, that's absolutely right, produce fire
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risk would entice insurance companies continue to provide coverage in California.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
That's right, Lawrence. But that would take good leadership and not.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Being whores for public employee unions and the big special
interests with no discus making. That is rude, And I
apologize to whores. All you're doing is exchanging sex for money.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
I get it. You're in a tough spot.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
What the politicians are doing is considerably worse than that.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
From a mobile standpoint.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Oh yeah, a sex worker is a paragon of virtue
compared to these politicians. Sex occursn't selling me and my
interests in my tax dollars down the line. As far
as I can tell, I apologize to prostitute. I was unfair.
Is this worth going into? It's really good email from
(15:07):
Jim and O Wahoo, some active duty military guy took
us to task for griping about Joe Biden's hastily announced
every federal employee gets Thursday off to mourn Jimmy Carter,
you know, to holiday. All the federal employees are off
today because Jimmy Carter has a funeral and we're paying
(15:28):
for anything.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Why what is that?
Speaker 1 (15:30):
And some fine fella, but misguided said to think about
the military. Yeah, well, the military is a tiny fraction
of the government workers around the country. Nobody obviously, we're
not talking about the acted. Nobody means to be army
when they're talking about government workers. Well, longtime marine writes, well,
there are some fine patriots in the service. I feel
they're out numbered by parasitic morons who perform their roles
so poorly as to be counterproductive. Any doge worth its
(15:53):
first should be licking its shops for all the tax
dollars we'll save when.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
We trim the fat to it.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
I can't count how many service member I service members
I encounter that brag over the money they plan on
fleecing Americans out of to collect phony disability.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
For the rest of their lives. Yeah, that's one.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Yeah, and he says, I'm not saying the pendulum needs
to swing back to spitting on service members and calling
his baby killers, but we definitely need to pump the
brakes on the reverence shown to military people.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
That's interesting.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
A lot of us are a holes and we do
get too many days, you know. And I've made this
point before. Respect for an appreciation for the members of
our military is absolutely appropriate.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
In fact, it's required.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Worshipfulness is not, and I think a lot of that
worshipfulness is performative, and it comes from the fact that
such a small percentage of our population ever serves in
the military.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
It's it's phony. It's making a.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Big flowery deal out of how you love the military
to kind of distract people from the fact that you
and your family have no interest in serving. Respect is good,
Worshipfulness is dangerous in all things. Some of my favorite
negative things, particularly about spending I've ever heard about the military,
have come from people I know who have been in
the military their whole lives, right, not from outsiders. I've
(17:12):
got a big complaint about Carter's funeral, among other things
on the way.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Stay tuned, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
President Biden meanwhile, says he thinks he could have beaten
Donald Trump in the twenty twenty four election. But in
an interview with USA Today, one of the very few
interviews President Biden has granted as he prepares to exit
the White House, the President admitted he's not sure that
had he won, he would have had the stamina to
serve for another four years. Here's a quote from President Biden,
(17:44):
who knows what I'm going to be when I'm eighty
six years old.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
As from CBS News, Joe Biden thinks he would have won. Okay, fine,
if that, If that helps you your last couple of
years on Earth, and I think you're in your final years, fine, fine, whatever.
Donald j is going to be halfway through the of
office when all of Biden's aides are going to be
(18:12):
running to the media to describe exactly how it was.
So Joe Biden is the only ex president who has
a speaking role at Jimmy Carter's funeral, which is today.
We are doing full team coverage in ours three, four,
and then a special bonus hour five in which we
will cover the funeral in its entirety.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Wow, you better have a gun be ready to point
it at me.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
So I'm watching it live on TV, and everybody is
filed into the National Cathedral in Washington, DC. And if
you've never made that part of your Washington, d C. Tour,
you should. It's a bit of a train ride out there,
but just an unbelievable church. Everybody who's anybody in national
government is there. And as the camera's panning around looking
(18:58):
at him, just saw a good view of why John F.
Carey didn't win the presidency as he walked in, and
he's got this big, bright blue silk scarf around his
neck along with his suit. And I just thought, you
the windsurfing, the scarf, the wood that it were, that's
why you couldn't get elected president. Dude. Everybody else just
(19:18):
in a dark suit. Apparently all the vice presidents are
sitting together. You got uh, Mike Pence sitting it there
and yucking it up with the most relaxed man in
the building.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Al Gore.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
We're talking about this yesterday. Al Gore went off about,
you know, screw this whole politics thing.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
I almost won. I should have won. Maybe I shouldn't
be proud.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
I'm not going to spend the rest of my life
saying it was stolen or or or my feeling's hurt,
like a Hillary Clinton or whoever.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Forever.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
I'm just gonna go off in a different direction and
pretend that climate change is important and become a billy
make a billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Yeah, he's happier and they whip up fear over climate change.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
That sounds like fun.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
But he's throwing back his head and laughter talking to
Mike Pence and over on the other side, also yucking'
up is a old gray haired senator from Indiana, Dan Quayle,
who was vice, You're gonna you're gonna kill me.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
You are, You're gonna hate me.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
You're gonna cuss me out on the air live, and
I deserve it for various reasons that are not terribly interesting.
I totally forgot to tell the story that when I
was playing golf with friends in October at a particular
golf course in California that will remain nameless, I came
(20:33):
within six inches of getting t boned in my golf
cart by a fast driving dan quail.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
We met in an intersection.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
He wasn't paying attention and about about put me in
the hospital?
Speaker 2 (20:48):
How did you not tell the story in the air?
Speaker 1 (20:52):
It was it was days later because I'd take it
a couple of days off because it was a big
news story or something, and I just I just didn't
think of it because you got pushed down a flight
of stairs by Walter Mondale and it's coming up for
another story.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Yeah, exactly, a ghost of Spiro actor haunted my dreams.
I don't know anyway, is that the end of the story.
Is that the whole that's your whole day?
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Sorry, and drove on honey, you spelled tomato um one
fair so uh oh. The other thing sitting behind the
Vice presidents is a meth mouthed hunter Biden.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
He's so got the meth mouth.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Just I mean that really Distray is a good looking
guy with a family lineage of good looking guys. His
dad is a good looking guy when he was young.
And uh, he's just got that full jaw, weird face
thing that meth users get. Poor guy sitting next to
his super hot hot wife thirty five year old wife
or whatever she is. Yeah, but Biden is speaking today.
(21:51):
See how that goes. Here's the part I want to
complain about that. You know what Hunter Biden's got to do,
then you can get to your complaint. He's got to
open up a string of laundromats called money laundering, you know,
just dollar signs in the name, because that'd go big.
Like in the city where most laundromats are. People respond
to dollar signs. You know, is sure money laundering?
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Come on money.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
There are a couple of eulogies given today by the
sons of people who wrote the eulogies because Jimmy Carter
lived so freaking long. For instance, Gerald Ford, former president,
the one who proceied, who lost to Jimmy Carter nineteen
seventy six, had written a eulogy thinking he's got to
be dying soon. But uh, Ford died and Carter lives on,
(22:37):
and so his son is going to read the speech
that he wrote. There's another one of those examples, I guess.
So they're gonna have a song. I'm sure there'll be
some music. And Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood. Garth Brooks,
who seems to be omnipresent at all national events at
this point because he's beloved and a good singer, is
gonna sing freaking Imagine by John Lennon. Now, I'm fine
(22:59):
with that as just a tune. I loved it as
a wide eyed, ignorant child. I mean, seriously, you have
to be a child to like really take in those
lyrics and get starry eyed about it because they're moronic.
They're just mooring. And the only reason that bothers me
because it's a funeral. You don't have whatever kind of
(23:20):
music you want. That was actually Carter's foreign policy, and
that's why a lot of the things that happened happened.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Ben you should read our friend Tim Sanderfir's Twitter thread.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
He's been linking all these various articles about how Jimmy
Carter's policies abandoning the shaw led to the Molas and
everything we've been dealing with in Iran for the forty years.
Jimmy Carter actually believed the song imagine and the imagine
there's no war bs and we're all gonna be friends.
That's not reality. And we can't have presidents who believe
the John Lennon lyrics. Great tie into Justin Trudeau, who
(23:53):
was on the outs in Canada. As you've probably heard
more on that.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Later that's one thing. The because it's hard to.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Get into arguments about counterintuitives in the same way that
you can. For instance, you can criticize George Bush for
going into orac really easy to do. You know, you
see what happens, lives lost, money spent, what were the results.
It's more difficult to criticize a Barack Obama or a
Jimmy Carter for things that they didn't do. But if
(24:25):
you're smart enough, or you listen to and read the
right smart people, they can get into it pretty well.
But Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama get great credit for
not getting involved in all kinds of things where we
maybe should have or stayed more involved, and it led
to really really difficult, expensive things see the war in Ukraine,
for instance. By not pushing back back when you had
(24:46):
the chance drives me out. I don't think it's at
all shocking for me to point out that national the
United States passivity. Being passive was praised roundly by the
media and academia, the great oversized bullhorn of the far
left through the years. Now, certainly there are examples of
(25:08):
being overactive or doing the right thing in a terrible,
stupid way, so witness a rock. On the other hand,
you get what I'm saying, though passivity is praised uniformly
in the media always.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Yeah, that was that was my point.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
It's just it's it's it's it's more complicated to push
back on that. And uh And as I mentioned from
a Bob Woodward book, he quotes Joe Biden in the
Oval office getting off the phone with Putin right before
the invasion, when Biden realized, damn it, Putin's actually going
to evade.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
He said, Brock, f this all up.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
He's fed this all up when he didn't do anything
when Putin went into Crimea, Georgia, whichever one it was, Crimea.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
I guess. Uh.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
So it's Joe Biden's view of the whole thing is
that Barck not pushing back led to the invasion of Ukraine,
not just you know, maga right winger Jack Armstrong.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Yeah, I was just.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Reading something else about Biden and not running and resentment
and is the bitterness that's pouring out of him right now.
He hates Barack Obama, he resents him so much, and
his campaign team and David Ploff and all those people.
He will go to his grave cursing their names. Now,
I wanted to bring that up my finish, my final Yeah,
(26:18):
that's the point. My final funeral note is so you
got a funeral today for a Jimmy Carter who hasn't
been in office.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
For forty five years. Forty five years, I mean, so
that's a long time.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
So you know, bygones, be bygones, a lot of the
hot rhetoric of the day way back then.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
You know, as you can have a decent funeral.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
If Joe Biden dies next year, and he very easily could,
well everything is still very fresh on both sides of
the aisle. Be interesting to see what that funeral is like. Yeah,
that's funny. That kind of anticipates my next point. Part
of me thinks, you know what, just why don't you
you do the Carter funeral and then have lunch and
hang around the church for a while because Biden doesn't
(27:03):
look good to me?
Speaker 2 (27:04):
But my god, I mean.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
You're all set up, the priest is there, the minister whatever,
we got our dark suits on the flowers and garth
theory can sing a different song summer I.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Car tuned up exactly, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Anyway, trying to get some sort of two for one thing, going,
how you feeling okay? Because we can while we're all here,
I'm just saying, don't hold out for our you know benefit, Yes, Michael,
I think the casket will fit.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Oh my god, you gotta go too far fresh.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
That was distactly exactly See what Joe said was in
perfectly good taste, and then you took it into the
realm of absurdity.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Right.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
What I was going to say is, and you know,
I remember growing up as a kid with the pictures
of the presidents around the top of the classrooms, and
and and there was a certain worshipfulness that was taught
to us, or at least I got out of it.
And I think in some cases, uh, respect and admiration
on the highest level is Oh. And I could name
(28:04):
the usual names, but you can guess what they are,
Polk Fillmore.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
You got me at the same time.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Now that I'm old and bitter and recognize the various
paths people take to the presidency and the very sorts
of people who have become president, and the utter dishonesty, skullduggery,
terrible policies, et cetera they've unleashed upon our country, the
incursions against the Constitution, the accumulating of executive power, the
(28:37):
rest of it. I don't feel worshipful toward those who've.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Held the highest office.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
It's a hell of a job and wears you down,
and so I have respect for people who take on
that challenge, but I am not worshipful.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
No, no, no, no, They're not kings. It feels a
little monarchical. Yeah, uh so that's that.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Maybe we won't do our three four and then at
bonus hour five of Carter funeral coverage. Then we've got
unless you know, the buy one, get one thing that.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Would be historic. We've got Katie's headlines on the way
stay here.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
So now Trump and Mlanie are walking and I guess,
as the president elect will be president in just a
few days. He walks in last he's the last person
that looks like to be walking in, shaking hands with
Al Gore and Mike Pence, who he was going to
allow to be hung.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
I believe this is the first time they've touched and
quite some time.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Well, that's nice that they're coming back together. And I
did that looking like an aging model. Mark Leivivich's brilliant
book This Town opens at the funeral of Tim Russert.
I may reread that first chapter to remind myself of
what's really happening there in the nation's capital. Yeah, let's
(29:56):
figure out who's reporting what today. It's the week's story
with Katie Green. Oh, by the way, next hour, Jack.
What I'd really like to do is finally get to
the analysis of DOGE. What can it accomplish, what are
the roadblocks going to be? And can it get rid
of a federal agency for instance? So stay tuned if
you can. Right now, Katie Barrock just walked in. He
(30:16):
had the big time Trump, So he walked in. Whatever,
mister professors and everybody's shaking hands. The man back to you, Katie.
As I watched the funeral. Oh right, blah blah, lead story,
Katie Green, go kt LA.
Speaker 6 (30:31):
Hundreds of thousands without power in Los Angeles as the
fire enters.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Day three gonna be not as wendy today, but still
very windy, and the winds are supposed to pick up tomorrow.
So like the fifty mile an hour gusts is the
window to try to get this under control.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
It's still all zero percent contained, I believe.
Speaker 6 (30:48):
From the Washington Post. As La burns Trump blames Newsome,
and California governor.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Pushes back, all right, there'll be plenty of time for that.
Speaker 6 (30:59):
From Fox News, Biden approves five hundred million dollars in
Ukraine security package eleven days before Trump takes office.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
I gotta tell you, I'm watching the funeral live and
I'm distracted by that. Barack is sitting next to Donald Trump,
and they look as comfortable with each other. They're kind
of like whispering to each other, not and then laughing
a little bit. They're having a good conversation. I would
love to know what two guys who know how the
whole thing works better than anybody, what they're saying to
(31:28):
each other about the whole affair, right, because they are
a couple of rich guys that have fabulous to east
a fabulous East Coast real estate for instance.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Uh yeah, yeah, I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
It looks like there's a little snark going on between
the two about the whole affair, and I just love
to know what they're saying.
Speaker 6 (31:48):
From CNN, is bird flu the next pandemic? What to
know after the first first age five and one death
in the US.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
No, it's not, and stop it and that fear mind
and that person died with bird flu kind of like
the whole COVID thing. They were an old sick person
already and had bird flu.
Speaker 6 (32:09):
From the New York post congestion pricing advocate attacked in
New York City subway station as a new nine dollars
toll pushes people into mass transit.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Of course, to be fair, everyone's attacked at New York
subway stations now that crime has been legalized.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Touchez.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Yeah, that's a lot of the point though, So you've
made it so expensive, you're trying to get people more
people to take mass transit, and the person's idea, what's
got attacked on mass transit, drawing attention to the fact
that that's a lot.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Of the reason people don't want to ride mass transit.
From Breitbart dot com.
Speaker 6 (32:41):
ABC is launching a weekend edition of The View. It'll
be hosted by Joey Behar and will be basically the
hens of The View will be joining her, except all
of them, except for whoopee.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
If that's the way you want to spend your Saturday morning,
can I buy your time? Is this to torture the
few remaining Al Qaeda guys in guantanamo or something who
asked for this. Good lord, I have breaking news. The
only person who's not smiling and looking happy with George W.
Speaker 5 (33:16):
Bush.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
He's looking happy and he and his wife and Bill
is sitting there kind of a smile on his face,
yucking it up with the owl. And and Trump and
Brock are still chatting up NonStop. They can't stop talking
to each other. The only person that looks miserable Hillary
Rodham Clinton. She looks angry, well she always does. She's
sitting there thinking, I can't believe Trump's gonna be president again.
(33:39):
I'm in the front row as a potus or as
a wife, not a potus.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
This sucks.
Speaker 6 (33:43):
Yeah, we have a couple more from ABC. Eternal Attorney
General Merrick Garland informs Congress Special Counsels Donald Trump investigation
has concluded.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Yeah, we gathered that.
Speaker 6 (34:00):
And finally the Babylon Bee Newsome assures wildfire victims that
he's diverting millions of dollars to emergen Emergency DEI initiatives.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Yeah, there's going to be a lot, As you said,
there's going to be a lot of looking over to
the policies and the rhetoric of a whole bunch of
different government officials, whether it's people of la or or
Governor Newsom himself on this whole thing. Yes, yeah, clearly,
(34:28):
but the dust can settle. In my opinion, some of
the sniping political stuff going back and forth right now
is not very productive.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
But speaking of.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Political sniping, Elizabeth Warren versus Pete hegseeth, the whole hearings
for the cabinet story is about to heat up like crazy.
And she's just she is underestimated as an evil doer.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
She is a hardcore Marxist.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
So Hanson's claiming that none of the presidents who came
in shook hands with Trump. I'm sure I saw Bamba
shake hands with Trump. But you're saying none of the
other president shok because they're all she hands with each
other and everybody. Kamala Obama did not shake his hand.
Hanson is saying, Kamala just walked in. She's the only
other person besides Hillary who looks miserable. Is Kamala just
walked in with her husband. She took a hostile glance
(35:13):
at Trump. Trump didn't even look at her. She looked
down with disdain and began flipping through the program. Oh boy,
I'm loving body language segment. I'm loving reading the body language.
You've got more on the way.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
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