February 6, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 2 of A&G features...
- The price of eggs is going up & the trans cult
- The Oscars & Netflix pull back from trans actor
- The left is losing their minds over cutting govt waste & Trump's plan for Gaza
- Sketchy home improvement situations
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Armstrong and Jettie and he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Egg prices breaking records and set to soar even higher
as restaurants and grocery stores are forced to pay more
to get eggs because of bird flood growing across the US.
It also comes as the famous breakfast chain waffle House
announce still charge an extra fifty cents.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Per egg until egg price is ease.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
The breathless coverage of the rising price of eggs is interesting.
I mean, I'm not to downplay inflation, which we did not,
but that was everything was going up, and you'd use
eggs and bacon or whatever as an example. But everything
is going up. But since it's just eggs, if I'm struggling,
I just stop eggs. I don't need that many eggs.
(01:02):
I could go a whole month without eating eggs, and
pretty you enjoy the humble eggs certainly, Yeah, I like eggs,
but I don't need it. Eggs now so expensive a
family of four, it could be. Well, then don't eat eggs,
eat something else until they come down.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Half as many. It is.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
It is kind of funny, although the price increase is shocking.
If that's a regular part of your diet, no doubt,
a lot of good stuff to get to today. Perhaps
you're thinking A and G. What's the latest down that
whole crazy Gaza proposal. We have some excellent, really interesting
perspectives on it.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Don't worry.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
There's nobody who thinks the one hundred and first Airborne
has head to Gaza anytime soon or ever, frankly, but
it's absolutely worth discussing. Also, the doge boys are are
ruffling feathers and whipping up angs to but more importantly,
cutting budgets and uncovering all sorts of crap that we
really ought to know. Unelected bureaucrat wanna be kings gutting
(01:54):
the government. Wow, you people screaming at you're running a
up that up the flagpole and nobody is saluting. So
we'll talk about that more later on the hour and
later on in the show. For show speaking of saluting things,
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Speaker 2 (02:34):
People now shut up.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
So speaking of consumer issues as we were a moment ago,
and we didn't want to go super heavy politics this segment,
because my god, the.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Fire hose of.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Announcements and policies and executive orders and all coming out
of the Trump administration is mostly great. Guy cornered me
in the lunch roomya Stane said he thinks it's a strategy.
It's to cover up some of the really ones he
wants to do because nobody has time to talk about everything.
I don't know if it's a strategy. It's certainly playing
out that way. But I mean, it's not as if
(03:11):
he had to invent a bunch of things that he
and his administration wanted to do.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
What else I've only got two goals.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
We need to invent a bunch more to give a
smoke screen for these secretive No, I don't think it's
like that at all. It's whether it's intentional or not.
That is the way it's playing out. But anyway, one
of the things that they're looking to do is impose
additional tariffs on China, which I'm sure you've heard about,
but one thing that might actually hit consumers, especially folks
(03:39):
like my partner Jack here, who is really into fast fashion.
I mean really into the hottest fashion this week. He's
got to be wearing it by Thursday. Do you know
Shine and Tamuth. They are these Chinese fashion outlets that
sell zillions of dollars worth of fast fashion at very
very very low prices to Americans, particularly the women's Anyway,
(04:03):
they are absolutely the beneficiaries of a law known as
the Deminimus Exception to tariffs, which meant until twenty sixteen,
if you're shipping less than two hundred dollars directly to
an American household, you didn't have to worry about the
tariffs in reporting and stuff like that. Well, Congress for
whatever reason raised that number to eight hundred dollars in
(04:25):
twenty sixteen, and the Chinese economy has gone wild fulfilling
our needs for super cheap Chinese crap really really fast,
and they don't have to pay tariffs on it, but
it's become an enormous amount of goods and potential tariff
revenue lost. In twenty twenty three, there were six hundred
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and thirty seven million of these shipments, six hundred and
thirty seven million the next year, last year, one.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Point three billion.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
It means mortan doubled in a year and the amount
of money is again breathtaking. So the Trump administration is
trying to claw back that whole demnimus thing. So order
your what Cardi B Was learning wearing last week as
quickly as you can. Different story particular interest to the
folks in LA and those who just depend on the
(05:21):
government to save their hide. In Altadena, California, where most
of the deaths from the terrible wildfires occurred, half of
the city got the warnings that fire was sweeping down
upon their homes, and half didn't. You're on the west
side of Lake Street, you did not get the alerts.
(05:41):
You're on the east side, you got the alerts. Nobody's
quite sure why they had multiple overlapping systems and everything failed.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Just shocking.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
If you want to learn more about it, The Wall
Street Journal has some really good coverage on that today.
But it's it's crazy and it's scary. So many people
who were a few blocks away. I mean literally, it's
a five minute walk from where people were getting text alerts,
phone alerts, you know, to do everything that is built
(06:11):
by the government to alert people that there's a cataclysm.
They were getting it three blocks away over there. People
were going to bed at night thinking glad, it's not
so bad because we haven't heard anything.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Wow, that's interesting.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
I know, I know, it's crazy, and they're trying to
figure out why. Of course, moving along, you to think
I'm making this up, and I wish I were clever
enough to be making this up. The murder of a
US border patrol agent near the Canadian border appears to
be linked to a radical leftist trans militant cult accused
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of killings across the country.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Now you're using trans is in like transnational or trans
is in different tansexual.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Broka, Yeah, yeah, the case of the radical Zizian Vegan
transgender cult. Around a week before the January twenty attack
on this poor border patroller agent, God bless him, a
young man with his life in front of the federal
law enforcement, had been surveilling German national Felix Ophelia Bachhault
(07:15):
and University of Washington student Teresa Milo Consuelo Young Blitt.
Staff at a Vermont hotel alerted authorities about seeing the
duo with a firearm and black tactical clothing. Law enforcement
visited them, then they trailed them. They opened fire on
the border patrol people and killed a young man. Crazy terrible, Yeah, yeah,
(07:39):
But authorities now say the guns used by these two
loser nut jobs scumbags are owned by a person of
interest in other murders and connected to a mysterious cult
of transgender quote unquote geniuses who follow a trans leader
named Jack Lesotto, also known by the alias Ziz.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Believe it or not, this guy's.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
An a ward winning youth math genius from Freiburg, Germany.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Who later graduated from university in Canada. Wow, a cult.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
You know.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
We used to say semi regularly on the show that
they're inventing a new brand of crazy every day. This
is really crazy crazy, and it's you know, it is
worth noting, For instance, I mentioned earlier that fifteen percent
(08:32):
of federal inmates in women's prisons are dudes. Fifteen percent
because under the Biden administration, all you have to do
is say, I'm a chick and okay, I guess you
got to go to the women's prison. So fifteen percent
are our dudes who quote unquote claim to be women.
And those guys I just think are self interested and smart.
(08:54):
I'd rather be in the women's prison too. Number one
is a straight guy. It'd be nice to be around gals.
Number two, I'm much more likely to survive anyway. But
apart from those people, if you are a dude presenting
as a woman and living like that and calling yourself
a name and insisting on some bizarre pronouns, you're a
(09:15):
disturbed person. And you see a lot of the militant
trans people just screeching, spit flying out of their mouths,
attacking any woman who thinks locker rooms how to not
have dudes in them. You're dealing with a pretty disturbed population.
Let me throw out something to Hanson, our executive producer,
forget because I forgot to ask for this earlier. I
was just watching CBS News and to their credit, they're
(09:38):
covering this story. CBS News is where sixty minutes is
sixty Minutes being sued by Donald Trump. Forced to release
the full transcript. The full interview that they did with
Kamala Harris in the run up to the election. Now,
I haven't listened to it, but I was reading some
of the reports on it. Her answer on Israel, I
(10:01):
think was the question was like ten times as long
as the clip that they played on the interview, just
way more wordy, rambling Kamala Air's style. And if you
could grab that, Hanson, just that particular answer, I know,
it's floating around in social media a lot to an
example of what they what she actually said versus what
(10:21):
sixty minutes showed us. CBS is saying they did not
change the you know, the actual content of what she said. Hmmm. True,
But the fact that she rambles like crazy to say
one thing is important.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
The idea that she's a half wit who can't form
a coherence sentence was an actual campaign issue right on
the other hand, And I hate to defend sixty minutes.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
I rarely do. Man, you're interviewing somebody and they unleash just.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
A long, dull, stupid word salad, and you've got a
limited amount of time to er it.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
If you're a news organization and one of the biggest
knocks on the candidate. Is they unleash long crazy word salads.
You gotta ride that in. That's the news story. I'm
not gonna say you're wrong. So more tocom And this
makes me just breaks my heart. The absolutely idiotic self
(11:20):
declouting trends. Sexual movie that Hollywood was so proud of,
that's now just getting murdered all over the place. Another
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the brilliant Amelia Perez, which Hollywood was so proud of
the second most or damn near the most Oscar nominations
of any movie ever, tied for the most Oscar nominations
of all time. This trans movie that everybody hates. Oh yeah,
it's just a joke. We've done so many segments on it.
(12:50):
I wish we could repeat it all because it's so
much fun. Well, Netflix is taking the extraordinary step of
removing Best Actress Oscar nominee Carlos Sophia Gascone Fode from
its Academy Awards campaign after comments surfaced from the transgender
performer about George Floyd being a hustler and a drug addict,
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and Muslims and then black and Asian actors and.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Up with Hitler and all sorts of crap. Dang it,
this is ruining my fun.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
I was really looking forward to the Oscars going way
too far and finally ending their relevance completely by going
full up with trans for three hours on Oscar Night.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
But this is going to ruin it.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
We had them teed up like a golf ball and
we're gonna give him a good hard whacking. And they
they've they've they were so just egregiously ridiculous that that
you know that their cover was blown, Our cover was blown.
We'll dig up that Kamala Harris sixty minutes interview now
that they transcripted out Trump's soon him for ten billion
dollars among other things.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
On the way, stay here, Mama BLESTI shio blest, no blessing.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
So the final note for now on the Amelia Perez movie,
because we ran out of time in the last segments.
Netflix is taking the extraordinary step of removing this transgender
actor from the Academy Awards campaign because the studio spend
a tremendous amount of money on this sort of thing.
Rumor is they'd already poured thirty million dollars promoting this
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movie just to get oscars for it, And a number
of people are asking, how did you not like get
into this person's old tweets before he spends thirty million
dollars to promote him her I was getting an Oscar.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
I would prefer to look at the other way.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
I go to a movie, I don't really freaking care
what the background is of the person up on the
screen playing the cowboy or the clerk or whatever, or
what they tweeted about whatever at some point in their life.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
But do I like the movie or not? So why
would you look into anybody's background ever about what they said?
Who cares? Would be my preferred way to look at it.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
And can we, as the other side of that coin,
just have them not tell us what they think about
any issues? Right? Right?
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Right? I'm sure from the Oscar stage, you know, since
this is.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
A modern phenomenon knowing what people think about their politics,
I'm sure if you go back throughout history, whether it's
your you know, your favorite paintings or books or music
or some of your favorite composers, you know probably had
abhorrent views on.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
All kinds of things.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
We just do.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
We didn't think about it back then.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Either liked the music or you don't, all right, And
that's the beauty of not caring what they think.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Is if they think something of horrent, as long as they.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Are not like Bruce Springsteen, obnoxious about it, I just
ignore it.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
But you you had that.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
I think it was a text or email the other
day from somebody who knows how the Grammys work, and
I'm sure the Oscars is similar.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Everybody should be aware of the way these awards shows work.
That whether it's the tens of millions of dollars that
they spend on campaigning to get the right number of votes,
or in the Grammys example, you used where you trade
around votes for best album to get votes for this
from a different category, or maybe next year you help
me out if I help you this year, or whatever,
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as opposed to I'm just going to sit here, listen
to the albums and determine which one I think is
the best.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Oh no, please, no, no, it's also training. Well, even
if that was all it's going on, it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
I mean, the idea of a bunch of people sitting
down and listening to eight different albums of completely different
kinds of music and determining that one's the best is insane.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Right right.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
I can't stand awards for art early. I don't mind
the ten best that sort of thing. You know, it's
an opinion and you dig into it and you think, wow,
I really do like that album. Cool, I'll listen to
it some more. Okay, picking the best is just so
silly to got it as good a version of that
as you can get. Somebody put out a list yesterday
of the fifty greatest movies of all time, based on
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all of the current favorite internet ways of rating movies.
Rotten Tomatoes and a whole bunch of IMBD and all
these different things. Pile all the scores, and what are
the best movies? I'll hit you with the top ten
a little bit later. I thought it was an interesting
conversation starter, and I don't mind reserving a few slots
for like artsy stuff that pop audiences don't get, because
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that's you know, that's a thing. Uh, but yeah, I
love that better than asking one guy. Everybody sleeps, and
lots of people have trouble with sleeping. We got a
ton of great text recommendations or thoughts on the whole
sleeping thing, so maybe we'll get to that a little
bit later too, And some really interesting perspectives about Trump's
insane idea of the US taking over Gaza. Did he
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mean it?
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Did he not mean it?
Speaker 5 (17:37):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Not even really the important question what did he mean
by saying it? What was he going for? And what
has the result been so far? Really interesting?
Speaker 1 (17:48):
How soon can I go to a rafa casino with
Trump on gold letters up on top. Well, as you know,
I've already put in my deposit for surfing lessons there
at Gaza, So I'm excited.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Muhammad, don't serve. We got more on the way to
stay with us.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Are strong and getdy. Elon Musk is seizing the power
that belongs to the American people.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
We are here to fight back. Anytime a person get
paid two hundred and fifty million dollars into a campaign
and they've been given access for access to the Department
of Treasury of the United States of America.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
We are more.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
I am gonna stand with you in this fight and
we will win were we well.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Win, we will win. We those performances. We won't rest
things are getting weird, and they getting weird fast.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
So that's the elon Musk is an unelected dictator ruining
America thingy that they're act.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
They're they think.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
I guess that most Americans, the majority of Americans hate
the idea of government employees losing their jobs or various
agencies shrinking.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
I think they're wrong. I hope they're jeez, I hope
they're wrong.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Right.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
But it's interesting.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
There's a fair amount of language, as you heard there,
and I've heard in a lot of other clips of
we are at.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
War, take to the streets.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Sounds a lot like the stuff Donald Trump said on
January sixth that you know, was being claimed to have
started an insurrection, were or anybody said to be peaceful
and patriotic there either, by the way, Yeah, just and
I've read a number of reasonable Democrats, some of like
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the axel Rod generations, some more modern guys, you're moderate
kind of classic Democrats saying, hey, we've got to have
a message, and.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
It can't be Trump is the devil.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
We've tried that for a very long time, and he
didn't mean we ought to go with on Musk is
the devil. So I mean, that's you know that there's
an old saying among lawyers. If the law is on
your side, pound on the law. If the facts are
on your side, pound on the facts. If neither is
on your side, pound on the table. Well there you
heard a bunch, and we've got multiple montages of that
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sort of Democrats screeching into microphones that Elon Musk and
Donald Trump are trying to.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Something something blah blah blah. They're pounding on the table.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Got that federal governments, which I think, if only is
there anyway where do I sign up for that? Who
do how do I vote to make sure we can
gut the government that's a threat. And imagine keeping your
tax dollars in your states and communities, having control over
your schools and the services you need closer to your home.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
What a nightmare that.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
What I don't understand is why they aren't going with
a Why wouldn't you say, yes, we're every bit as
interested as they are and making sure government program are
as efficient as possible in all departments, don't waste any taxpayers' money.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
And why wouldn't you say that.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Momentum and inertia practically the same thing, are on your
side anyway, as a Democrat, you're gonna eil.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
I never took physics, so I gotta take your word
for that.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
You're more or less gonna win in the end anyway,
because you know, we can nip around the edges of
trying to shrink this stuff down and it ain't gonna
be a lot.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
I just understand. I think because they believe.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
A big chunk of the country is on their side
with and I hope not of wanting to cut government.
Uh yeah, yeah, that they don't want to Uh yeah,
I don't know. I think honestly, if they took your
message that you just suggested, I'd be a lot more concerned.
Continuing to just screech elon Musk is gonna come into
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your nursery and eat your babies.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
I just that's not gonna win anything. It's ridiculous. They're
flailing desperately, a complete change of topic. Do we have
for this? I have time for this rather or should
we hold off? I can't decide.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Trump's idea that the US might like own or run
the Gaza strip and remove and relocate two million Palestinians
was derided as looney tunes and a lot of left
media a lot of folks on the right media were like,
(22:24):
what does he mean by that, which is a legitimate question.
But some of the analysis, now that we've gotten a
day or two past it, I think is really really interesting.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Jack, you want to take the first hack or what thing.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
So I was listening to the Commentary magazine podcast yesterday
and that's the leading publication publication in America, up with Jews,
up with Israel stuff. And I didn't realize my whole life,
I've not really understood what a Gordian not is. I
realized it was a like a difficult situation you got
to fix somehow, but that's about it. But the whole
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idea of a Gordian nott, I guess is it's not you.
It's a difficult situation. You can't untie it. The only
thing you can do is just to cut it right.
And I guess I missed that somewhere in my life.
But they were using this as an example of that.
We've been trying to untie this. You can't untie it,
not as the world for eighty years or whatever. And
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Trump's just gonna cut it, which is the only thing
you can do with a knot like that. If you
want to solve the problem, and New York Post writing
about that today. Saudi Arabian other Arab nations have publicly
rejected Trump's plan to evacuate two point three million Gozzens
and have the US quote takeover and redevelop the land,
(23:42):
but they may come to support it in secret because
it would finally solve decades of conflict and end Hamas's
iron grip. A former Israeli Palestine Palestine negotiator says, and
they quote this Avi Melahammed, who has been negotiating with
all these countries, that's what he's been doing throughout his life.
And he says he served as a senior Arab advisor
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to Jerusalem, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, dealing with all the
big players. That they might actually be interested in this quoting.
I wouldn't be surprised to know that in the back rooms,
the Saudis, the Egyptians, the Jordanians are very happy about
Trump's idea of the United States taking control of the
situation in Gaza. We have to remember that at the
end of the day, Hamas presents Egypt and Jordan and
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the Saudis and the Emirates a significant threat. They have
to show disdain in public, but behind the scenes they'd
be happy to have this taken care of. There needs
to be a big, significant game changer on the ground
to solve this problem, and that's what Trump's trying to do.
He's trying to cut the Gordian knut. Yeah. A couple
other perspectives fairly similar. Takes Wall Street Journal editorial board
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writing about Trump's taking a flyer on this, and the
reaction was predictably hyperbolic seth nik cleansing or whatever. M
But they write note that mister Trump expressed admirable sympathy
for the Palestinians in their plight. The Gaza strip quote
has been a symbol of death and destruction for so
many decades, and so bad for the people anywhere near it,
(25:12):
he said Tuesday. Who would disagree with that? He went
on to say, we should go to other countries of
interest with humanitarian hearts. There are many of them that
want to do this and build various domains that will
ultimately be occupied by the one point eight million Palestinians, etc.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Etc.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
This can be paid for by neighboring countries of great wealth,
but the people will be able to live in comfort
and peace, and the Journal editorial board rates It's easy
to dismiss this as the fantasy of a presidential huckster
who imagines Trump condos on a Gaza gold coast. But
is his idea so much worse than the status quo
that the rest of the world is offering the famous
(25:48):
two state solution with Palestinian state. A Palestinian state next
to Israel will not happen as long as Hamas still
runs Gaza and could run the West Bank, and the
Arabs states aren't exactly clamoring to send in peacekeeping forces
to eradicate Hamas or govern the Strip. The best the
world can come up with is to mouth the two
state platitude and let Gaza remain a hellhole while Hamas
(26:12):
will revive its rain of terror and Palestinians who want
something different will be tossed off buildings. Right, talk about
Gaza being a hell hole and how awful it is,
while as a neighboring country, you build giant walls to
make sure none of those people can get into your country. Right,
we're talking about Egypt and just all the countries in
the region. The last thing they want is any Palestinians
(26:32):
coming into their country, because you know, I could go
through the history of it, but all of these countries
have had horrific problems with all the Palestinians flowing in,
and all of a sudden they've got this giant Islamist
militant population. The revolution comes to their country, they have unrest,
they've got to put down rebellions, and you know it's
gone on for decades now. Well, Commentary magazine was making
(26:54):
the point that for people of other countries that have
had to escape war torn regions or the rubble of
destruction after a civil war, whatever, Syrians, for instance, Europe's.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Supposed to take all these people in.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
All these countries in Europe have taken in all of
these people from all of these awful places, but nobody's
expecting the surrounding countries of Gaza to take in refugees.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
That's pretty interesting.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Yeah, well, if I were the leader of one of
those countries, I'd say, yeah, how's Europe doing? Have not
taken in I don't think it's good and I wouldn't
want it, but we just think that's you know, that's
just the way it goes.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
The Syrians had to go somewhere.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
So they're in Germany and Italy and friends and wherever,
but Gazin's Nope, they can't go anywhere.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
They have to stay in that one tiny little piece
of land.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
One more note from Elliott Kaufman, who's been thinking and
writing about this stuff for years and years, that I
thought was absolutely terrific. And he starts, of course with
the President Trump shocked the world stuff. But few critics
disputest point that it would benefit the displace to escape
the demolition side of Gaza Gaza and live in peace
rather than his cannon fought. The real disturbance after decades
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to the contrary is to think seriously about what it
would mean to put Palestinian lives first, rather than sacrificing
them to the lost cause of Palestine, as their leaders
often do.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Just a little bit of history.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
On October nineteen twenty three, twenty twenty three, Hamas leader
Khaled Michal suggested that to achieve the dream of Israel's
destruction and with it an Arab Palestine from the river
to the sea, millions of Palestinians might have to die.
This is the Palestinian leader said, Yeah, millions will probably
have to die, but that's okay. The prospect did not
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trouble him. Years earlier, the Palestine liberation organizations Yaser, ara
Fat and Mahmudabas turned down turned down Israeli offers of statehood,
the two state solution, which no national liberation movement does.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
You say, you're a national liberation movement. They say, okay,
you can have your country. We don't want it.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
And the Palestinian leader from the twenties through the forties,
Hitler ally Amin al Husseini, did much the same before
and at Israel's founding. Reimagining the failed Arab drive to
wipe out the Jews after only a few years after
the Holocaust is a story of Palestinian victimization and valiant
resistance is the essence of the lost cause. This is
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the worst kind of nationalism, an eliminationist, one that brings
its people only misery. And yah Sir Arafat turned down
all those deals for variety of reasons, including he felt
like he'd be assassinated if he ever agreed to any
of them, which he would have been right.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
By the even more crazy hardcore Islamis.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Types God, by the people on his side, he would
have been assassinated by Yeah. Yeah, well, let's keep doing
the same and mouthing the same bull crap, says a
lot of the establishment.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
It's because it's comfortable for them. But they're such phonies.
Can I be interesting to see how this plays out?
Speaker 5 (29:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Probably chaotically and with a lot of bloodshed, honestly.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Well as opposed to my entire life. Chaotically and bloodshed. Well, exactly,
let's try something different. You could go back to when
I was a little kid and my dad would be
sitting in his lazy boy recliner with the footstool up,
reading the paper with the news on, and they'd have
had Palestinians throwing rocks at her relea. Isn't exactly the
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same thing going on, same conversation?
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Yep, something, isn't it?
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Well? Speaking of giant, interesting earth shaking ideas, what about
El Salvador taking not only our immigration deporties but our
hardcore criminals as well, ship them to El Salvador.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Crazy idea. We can talk about that later on.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Wall Street Journal has a story today on how the NFL,
while the rest of America is abandoning DEI, the NFL
remains all in.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
And we'll see it on display in the Super Bowl.
I'm all over it.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
I got that and a great story about why companies
like to hire XFN NFL players.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Huh, well, that's cool. I hadn't never heard it. Bunch
stuff on the way. I hope you can stay here
to this.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
To the rising cost of eggs, more Americans are now
investing in backyard chickens. Oh yeah, people really want eggs.
This morning I saw New Yorker squeezing a pigeon like
a ketchup broduct.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
The egg shortage is so severe that at the waffle
house they have a fifty cent.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Surcharge per egg.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
Now, I never thought I'd live in a time where
they'd be surge pricing on eggs.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
This is gonna be a tough Easter.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Kiss get ready to start hunting sweetish meatballs. I like
squeezing a pigeon like it's a ketchup container. Try to
get another egg out of there. Wow, So I got
a question for you. I dealt with this yesterday. I've
dealt with this many times in the homeowner world over
my life. Now we have and will endorse many home
(31:59):
and companies that are very, very good in a variety
of spheres of home improvement that be completely reputable for
your name to pass our lips. Yeah, we work really
really hard at that because there are so many sketchy
home improvement things out there. What is to deal with
that industry? This has happened to me more often than not.
(32:24):
Had an emergency. I'm not going to be specific because
I don't want to get any trouble with somebody. But
storm happens, something occurred, need to get a homeowner repaired
sort of company out there fast, So I just Google
come up with some names, pick somebody, and what happens
the most often in the last twenty years of my life,
happens somebody who speaks no English shows up at your
(32:49):
house in a fifteen dollars car or truck go boy
with no signage on it, and you don't know if
they're the people that are coming or not. You can't
understand them. See, you don't have any idea. This has
happened to me multiple times, not like just the other day,
two days yesterday, but like over and over and over again.
(33:09):
And this has happened several times too, where after using
Google Translate on their phone, see'd have any idea what
in to communicate, They ask if I have a ladder
because they didn't bring a ladder.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
This has happened to me multiple times. This is what
you do for a living.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
You show up in your crappy car. That makes me
want to where's my gun? When I see this car
coming to down the driveway and you ask me for
a ladder? Anyway, he's got a he's got a small ladder,
but he wanted a bigger ladder, and I wasn't. I
have a bigger ladder, but I wasn't gonna give it
to him. I don't know what's going on here anyway.
He's the latter. He's up on the roof. When he's
(33:48):
crawling down off the roof, he's asking in the best
English he can. He asked me to come over and
hold the ladder for him because he doesn't know if
he can get down off the roof.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
And he's actually saying, he's actually saying, where's my foot?
Do you have my foot?
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Have to grab his foot and help him put it
on the ladder so we can get down off the
roof and get back into his dentist crappy car, and
then send me a text later of how much I'm
gonna have to pay to get something fixed. That I understand,
But this happens over What is it with that industry?
There's tens of not only equipment, you're his assistant. How
(34:27):
is this industry, since there's so much money on the line,
not have more reputable like professional people involved. I just
I don't get it. I've never understood it. It's been
this way my entire life as a homeowner. And maybe
it's just California. I don't know if the rest of
you around the country are like, what are you talking about?
And it's not that way where you live.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Nesasito on the Escalara mas Grande, this was I need
a bigger ladder. That was a decent guess, but this
was a way more in the Eastern European, Ukrainian, Russian world.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
Oh, I see, but it'll take me a while. Yeah,
I think part of it.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
It's such a it can be such a boom and
bus trade various home improvement things that when it's booming
you just grab people wherever you can.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
And the other element to it is you rarely.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
I mean, this isn't entirely true, but like say you
need a roofer, for instance, and you need him in
a hurry. You're not gonna need a roofer again next
year and next year and the year after that. And
so if they hit and run and get your money
and give you crappy service, they don't care. Got some
people doing some other work and now can't wait till
(35:41):
they're done to get him out of there and try
somebody different. Although I keep trying different people and it's
always the same, but they don't show up until like eleven.
They quit it three and they take an hour for lunch.
Excuse me, that's like three hours of work every day.
This will take you know, five hundred years to get done.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Yes, that's the idea.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
Why I tried to get I need a bigger letter
in Ukrainian and it's a bunch of letters. I don't
know they got a different alphabet. Oh my god, that
whole world is so nut speaking nuts. The NFL is
sticking with DEI will explain it in much more next hour.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
I hope you can stay with us. Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Armstrong and Jettie and he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Egg prices breaking records and set to soar even higher
as restaurants and grocery stores are forced to pay more
to get eggs because of bird flood growing across the US.
It also comes as the famous breakfast chain waffle House
announce still charge an extra fifty cents.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Per egg until egg price is ease.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
The breathless coverage of the rising price of eggs is interesting.
I mean, I'm not to downplay inflation, which we did not,
but that was everything was going up, and you'd use
eggs and bacon or whatever as an example. But everything
is going up. But since it's just eggs, if I'm struggling,
I just stop eggs. I don't need that many eggs.
(01:02):
I could go a whole month without eating eggs, and
pretty you enjoy the humble eggs certainly, Yeah, I like eggs,
but I don't need it. Eggs now so expensive a
family of four, it could be. Well, then don't eat eggs,
eat something else until they come down.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Half as many. It is.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
It is kind of funny, although the price increase is shocking.
If that's a regular part of your diet, no doubt,
a lot of good stuff to get to today. Perhaps
you're thinking A and G. What's the latest down that
whole crazy Gaza proposal. We have some excellent, really interesting
perspectives on it.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Don't worry.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
There's nobody who thinks the one hundred and first Airborne
has head to Gaza anytime soon or ever, frankly, but
it's absolutely worth discussing. Also, the doge boys are are
ruffling feathers and whipping up angs to but more importantly,
cutting budgets and uncovering all sorts of crap that we
really ought to know. Unelected bureaucrat wanna be kings gutting
(01:54):
the government. Wow, you people screaming at you're running a
up that up the flagpole and nobody is saluting. So
we'll talk about that more later on the hour and
later on in the show. For show speaking of saluting things,
I just wanted to give a quick shout out to
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for talk. Reference to the PD region of South Carolina
named after the river, which is named after a Native
American tribe. Anyway, glad to be a board with you,
good folks, and hope you're enjoying the show, and thanks
for having us on. We broadcast on that station and
land stolen from the somebody.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
People now shut up.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
So speaking of consumer issues as we were a moment ago,
and we didn't want to go super heavy politics this segment,
because my god, the.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Fire hose of.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Announcements and policies and executive orders and all coming out
of the Trump administration is mostly great. Guy cornered me
in the lunch roomya Stane said he thinks it's a strategy.
It's to cover up some of the really ones he
wants to do because nobody has time to talk about everything.
I don't know if it's a strategy. It's certainly playing
out that way. But I mean, it's not as if
(03:11):
he had to invent a bunch of things that he
and his administration wanted to do.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
What else I've only got two goals.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
We need to invent a bunch more to give a
smoke screen for these secretive No, I don't think it's
like that at all. It's whether it's intentional or not.
That is the way it's playing out. But anyway, one
of the things that they're looking to do is impose
additional tariffs on China, which I'm sure you've heard about,
but one thing that might actually hit consumers, especially folks
(03:39):
like my partner Jack here, who is really into fast fashion.
I mean really into the hottest fashion this week. He's
got to be wearing it by Thursday. Do you know
Shine and Tamuth. They are these Chinese fashion outlets that
sell zillions of dollars worth of fast fashion at very
very very low prices to Americans, particularly the women's Anyway,
(04:03):
they are absolutely the beneficiaries of a law known as
the Deminimus Exception to tariffs, which meant until twenty sixteen,
if you're shipping less than two hundred dollars directly to
an American household, you didn't have to worry about the
tariffs in reporting and stuff like that. Well, Congress for
whatever reason raised that number to eight hundred dollars in
(04:25):
twenty sixteen, and the Chinese economy has gone wild fulfilling
our needs for super cheap Chinese crap really really fast,
and they don't have to pay tariffs on it, but
it's become an enormous amount of goods and potential tariff
revenue lost. In twenty twenty three, there were six hundred
(04:50):
and thirty seven million of these shipments, six hundred and
thirty seven million the next year, last year, one.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Point three billion.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
It means mortan doubled in a year and the amount
of money is again breathtaking. So the Trump administration is
trying to claw back that whole demnimus thing. So order
your what Cardi B Was learning wearing last week as
quickly as you can. Different story particular interest to the
folks in LA and those who just depend on the
(05:21):
government to save their hide. In Altadena, California, where most
of the deaths from the terrible wildfires occurred, half of
the city got the warnings that fire was sweeping down
upon their homes, and half didn't. You're on the west
side of Lake Street, you did not get the alerts.
(05:41):
You're on the east side, you got the alerts. Nobody's
quite sure why they had multiple overlapping systems and everything failed.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Just shocking.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
If you want to learn more about it, The Wall
Street Journal has some really good coverage on that today.
But it's it's crazy and it's scary. So many people
who were a few blocks away. I mean literally, it's
a five minute walk from where people were getting text alerts,
phone alerts, you know, to do everything that is built
(06:11):
by the government to alert people that there's a cataclysm.
They were getting it three blocks away over there. People
were going to bed at night thinking glad, it's not
so bad because we haven't heard anything.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Wow, that's interesting.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
I know, I know, it's crazy, and they're trying to
figure out why. Of course, moving along, you to think
I'm making this up, and I wish I were clever
enough to be making this up. The murder of a
US border patrol agent near the Canadian border appears to
be linked to a radical leftist trans militant cult accused
(06:44):
of killings across the country.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Now you're using trans is in like transnational or trans
is in different tansexual.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Broka, Yeah, yeah, the case of the radical Zizian Vegan
transgender cult. Around a week before the January twenty attack
on this poor border patroller agent, God bless him, a
young man with his life in front of the federal
law enforcement, had been surveilling German national Felix Ophelia Bachhault
(07:15):
and University of Washington student Teresa Milo Consuelo Young Blitt.
Staff at a Vermont hotel alerted authorities about seeing the
duo with a firearm and black tactical clothing. Law enforcement
visited them, then they trailed them. They opened fire on
the border patrol people and killed a young man. Crazy terrible, Yeah, yeah,
(07:39):
But authorities now say the guns used by these two
loser nut jobs scumbags are owned by a person of
interest in other murders and connected to a mysterious cult
of transgender quote unquote geniuses who follow a trans leader
named Jack Lesotto, also known by the alias Ziz.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Believe it or not, this guy's.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
An a ward winning youth math genius from Freiburg, Germany.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Who later graduated from university in Canada. Wow, a cult.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
You know.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
We used to say semi regularly on the show that
they're inventing a new brand of crazy every day. This
is really crazy crazy, and it's you know, it is
worth noting, For instance, I mentioned earlier that fifteen percent
(08:32):
of federal inmates in women's prisons are dudes. Fifteen percent
because under the Biden administration, all you have to do
is say, I'm a chick and okay, I guess you
got to go to the women's prison. So fifteen percent
are our dudes who quote unquote claim to be women.
And those guys I just think are self interested and smart.
(08:54):
I'd rather be in the women's prison too. Number one
is a straight guy. It'd be nice to be around gals.
Number two, I'm much more likely to survive anyway. But
apart from those people, if you are a dude presenting
as a woman and living like that and calling yourself
a name and insisting on some bizarre pronouns, you're a
(09:15):
disturbed person. And you see a lot of the militant
trans people just screeching, spit flying out of their mouths,
attacking any woman who thinks locker rooms how to not
have dudes in them. You're dealing with a pretty disturbed population.
Let me throw out something to Hanson, our executive producer,
forget because I forgot to ask for this earlier. I
was just watching CBS News and to their credit, they're
(09:38):
covering this story. CBS News is where sixty minutes is
sixty Minutes being sued by Donald Trump. Forced to release
the full transcript. The full interview that they did with
Kamala Harris in the run up to the election. Now,
I haven't listened to it, but I was reading some
of the reports on it. Her answer on Israel, I
(10:01):
think was the question was like ten times as long
as the clip that they played on the interview, just
way more wordy, rambling Kamala Air's style. And if you
could grab that, Hanson, just that particular answer, I know,
it's floating around in social media a lot to an
example of what they what she actually said versus what
(10:21):
sixty minutes showed us. CBS is saying they did not
change the you know, the actual content of what she said. Hmmm. True,
But the fact that she rambles like crazy to say
one thing is important.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
The idea that she's a half wit who can't form
a coherence sentence was an actual campaign issue right on
the other hand, And I hate to defend sixty minutes.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
I rarely do. Man, you're interviewing somebody and they unleash just.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
A long, dull, stupid word salad, and you've got a
limited amount of time to er it.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
If you're a news organization and one of the biggest
knocks on the candidate. Is they unleash long crazy word salads.
You gotta ride that in. That's the news story. I'm
not gonna say you're wrong. So more tocom And this
makes me just breaks my heart. The absolutely idiotic self
(11:20):
declouting trends. Sexual movie that Hollywood was so proud of,
that's now just getting murdered all over the place. Another
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the brilliant Amelia Perez, which Hollywood was so proud of
the second most or damn near the most Oscar nominations
of any movie ever, tied for the most Oscar nominations
of all time. This trans movie that everybody hates. Oh yeah,
it's just a joke. We've done so many segments on it.
(12:50):
I wish we could repeat it all because it's so
much fun. Well, Netflix is taking the extraordinary step of
removing Best Actress Oscar nominee Carlos Sophia Gascone Fode from
its Academy Awards campaign after comments surfaced from the transgender
performer about George Floyd being a hustler and a drug addict,
(13:11):
and Muslims and then black and Asian actors and.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Up with Hitler and all sorts of crap. Dang it,
this is ruining my fun.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
I was really looking forward to the Oscars going way
too far and finally ending their relevance completely by going
full up with trans for three hours on Oscar Night.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
But this is going to ruin it.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
We had them teed up like a golf ball and
we're gonna give him a good hard whacking. And they
they've they've they were so just egregiously ridiculous that that
you know that their cover was blown, Our cover was blown.
We'll dig up that Kamala Harris sixty minutes interview now
that they transcripted out Trump's soon him for ten billion
dollars among other things.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
On the way, stay here, Mama BLESTI shio blest, no blessing.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
So the final note for now on the Amelia Perez movie,
because we ran out of time in the last segments.
Netflix is taking the extraordinary step of removing this transgender
actor from the Academy Awards campaign because the studio spend
a tremendous amount of money on this sort of thing.
Rumor is they'd already poured thirty million dollars promoting this
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movie just to get oscars for it, And a number
of people are asking, how did you not like get
into this person's old tweets before he spends thirty million
dollars to promote him her I was getting an Oscar.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
I would prefer to look at the other way.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
I go to a movie, I don't really freaking care
what the background is of the person up on the
screen playing the cowboy or the clerk or whatever, or
what they tweeted about whatever at some point in their life.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
But do I like the movie or not? So why
would you look into anybody's background ever about what they said?
Who cares? Would be my preferred way to look at it.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
And can we, as the other side of that coin,
just have them not tell us what they think about
any issues? Right? Right?
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Right? I'm sure from the Oscar stage, you know, since
this is.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
A modern phenomenon knowing what people think about their politics,
I'm sure if you go back throughout history, whether it's
your you know, your favorite paintings or books or music
or some of your favorite composers, you know probably had
abhorrent views on.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
All kinds of things.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
We just do.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
We didn't think about it back then.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Either liked the music or you don't, all right, And
that's the beauty of not caring what they think.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Is if they think something of horrent, as long as they.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Are not like Bruce Springsteen, obnoxious about it, I just
ignore it.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
But you you had that.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
I think it was a text or email the other
day from somebody who knows how the Grammys work, and
I'm sure the Oscars is similar.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Everybody should be aware of the way these awards shows work.
That whether it's the tens of millions of dollars that
they spend on campaigning to get the right number of votes,
or in the Grammys example, you used where you trade
around votes for best album to get votes for this
from a different category, or maybe next year you help
me out if I help you this year, or whatever,
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as opposed to I'm just going to sit here, listen
to the albums and determine which one I think is
the best.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Oh no, please, no, no, it's also training. Well, even
if that was all it's going on, it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
I mean, the idea of a bunch of people sitting
down and listening to eight different albums of completely different
kinds of music and determining that one's the best is insane.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Right right.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
I can't stand awards for art early. I don't mind
the ten best that sort of thing. You know, it's
an opinion and you dig into it and you think, wow,
I really do like that album. Cool, I'll listen to
it some more. Okay, picking the best is just so
silly to got it as good a version of that
as you can get. Somebody put out a list yesterday
of the fifty greatest movies of all time, based on
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all of the current favorite internet ways of rating movies.
Rotten Tomatoes and a whole bunch of IMBD and all
these different things. Pile all the scores, and what are
the best movies? I'll hit you with the top ten
a little bit later. I thought it was an interesting
conversation starter, and I don't mind reserving a few slots
for like artsy stuff that pop audiences don't get, because
(17:12):
that's you know, that's a thing. Uh, but yeah, I
love that better than asking one guy. Everybody sleeps, and
lots of people have trouble with sleeping. We got a
ton of great text recommendations or thoughts on the whole
sleeping thing, so maybe we'll get to that a little
bit later too, And some really interesting perspectives about Trump's
insane idea of the US taking over Gaza. Did he
(17:34):
mean it?
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Did he not mean it?
Speaker 5 (17:37):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Not even really the important question what did he mean
by saying it? What was he going for? And what
has the result been so far? Really interesting?
Speaker 1 (17:48):
How soon can I go to a rafa casino with
Trump on gold letters up on top. Well, as you know,
I've already put in my deposit for surfing lessons there
at Gaza, So I'm excited.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Muhammad, don't serve. We got more on the way to
stay with us.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Are strong and getdy. Elon Musk is seizing the power
that belongs to the American people.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
We are here to fight back. Anytime a person get
paid two hundred and fifty million dollars into a campaign
and they've been given access for access to the Department
of Treasury of the United States of America.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
We are more.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
I am gonna stand with you in this fight and
we will win were we well.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Win, we will win. We those performances. We won't rest
things are getting weird, and they getting weird fast.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
So that's the elon Musk is an unelected dictator ruining
America thingy that they're act.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
They're they think.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
I guess that most Americans, the majority of Americans hate
the idea of government employees losing their jobs or various
agencies shrinking.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
I think they're wrong. I hope they're jeez, I hope
they're wrong.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Right.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
But it's interesting.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
There's a fair amount of language, as you heard there,
and I've heard in a lot of other clips of
we are at.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
War, take to the streets.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Sounds a lot like the stuff Donald Trump said on
January sixth that you know, was being claimed to have
started an insurrection, were or anybody said to be peaceful
and patriotic there either, by the way, Yeah, just and
I've read a number of reasonable Democrats, some of like
(19:44):
the axel Rod generations, some more modern guys, you're moderate
kind of classic Democrats saying, hey, we've got to have
a message, and.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
It can't be Trump is the devil.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
We've tried that for a very long time, and he
didn't mean we ought to go with on Musk is
the devil. So I mean, that's you know that there's
an old saying among lawyers. If the law is on
your side, pound on the law. If the facts are
on your side, pound on the facts. If neither is
on your side, pound on the table. Well there you
heard a bunch, and we've got multiple montages of that
(20:17):
sort of Democrats screeching into microphones that Elon Musk and
Donald Trump are trying to.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Something something blah blah blah. They're pounding on the table.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Got that federal governments, which I think, if only is
there anyway where do I sign up for that? Who
do how do I vote to make sure we can
gut the government that's a threat. And imagine keeping your
tax dollars in your states and communities, having control over
your schools and the services you need closer to your home.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
What a nightmare that.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
What I don't understand is why they aren't going with
a Why wouldn't you say, yes, we're every bit as
interested as they are and making sure government program are
as efficient as possible in all departments, don't waste any taxpayers' money.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
And why wouldn't you say that.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Momentum and inertia practically the same thing, are on your
side anyway, as a Democrat, you're gonna eil.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
I never took physics, so I gotta take your word
for that.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
You're more or less gonna win in the end anyway,
because you know, we can nip around the edges of
trying to shrink this stuff down and it ain't gonna
be a lot.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
I just understand. I think because they believe.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
A big chunk of the country is on their side
with and I hope not of wanting to cut government.
Uh yeah, yeah, that they don't want to Uh yeah,
I don't know. I think honestly, if they took your
message that you just suggested, I'd be a lot more concerned.
Continuing to just screech elon Musk is gonna come into
(21:49):
your nursery and eat your babies.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
I just that's not gonna win anything. It's ridiculous. They're
flailing desperately, a complete change of topic. Do we have
for this? I have time for this rather or should
we hold off? I can't decide.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Trump's idea that the US might like own or run
the Gaza strip and remove and relocate two million Palestinians
was derided as looney tunes and a lot of left
media a lot of folks on the right media were like,
(22:24):
what does he mean by that, which is a legitimate question.
But some of the analysis, now that we've gotten a
day or two past it, I think is really really interesting.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Jack, you want to take the first hack or what thing.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
So I was listening to the Commentary magazine podcast yesterday
and that's the leading publication publication in America, up with Jews,
up with Israel stuff. And I didn't realize my whole life,
I've not really understood what a Gordian not is. I
realized it was a like a difficult situation you got
to fix somehow, but that's about it. But the whole
(22:58):
idea of a Gordian nott, I guess is it's not you.
It's a difficult situation. You can't untie it. The only
thing you can do is just to cut it right.
And I guess I missed that somewhere in my life.
But they were using this as an example of that.
We've been trying to untie this. You can't untie it,
not as the world for eighty years or whatever. And
(23:22):
Trump's just gonna cut it, which is the only thing
you can do with a knot like that. If you
want to solve the problem, and New York Post writing
about that today. Saudi Arabian other Arab nations have publicly
rejected Trump's plan to evacuate two point three million Gozzens
and have the US quote takeover and redevelop the land,
(23:42):
but they may come to support it in secret because
it would finally solve decades of conflict and end Hamas's
iron grip. A former Israeli Palestine Palestine negotiator says, and
they quote this Avi Melahammed, who has been negotiating with
all these countries, that's what he's been doing throughout his life.
And he says he served as a senior Arab advisor
(24:04):
to Jerusalem, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, dealing with all the
big players. That they might actually be interested in this quoting.
I wouldn't be surprised to know that in the back rooms,
the Saudis, the Egyptians, the Jordanians are very happy about
Trump's idea of the United States taking control of the
situation in Gaza. We have to remember that at the
end of the day, Hamas presents Egypt and Jordan and
(24:26):
the Saudis and the Emirates a significant threat. They have
to show disdain in public, but behind the scenes they'd
be happy to have this taken care of. There needs
to be a big, significant game changer on the ground
to solve this problem, and that's what Trump's trying to do.
He's trying to cut the Gordian knut. Yeah. A couple
other perspectives fairly similar. Takes Wall Street Journal editorial board
(24:49):
writing about Trump's taking a flyer on this, and the
reaction was predictably hyperbolic seth nik cleansing or whatever. M
But they write note that mister Trump expressed admirable sympathy
for the Palestinians in their plight. The Gaza strip quote
has been a symbol of death and destruction for so
many decades, and so bad for the people anywhere near it,
(25:12):
he said Tuesday. Who would disagree with that? He went
on to say, we should go to other countries of
interest with humanitarian hearts. There are many of them that
want to do this and build various domains that will
ultimately be occupied by the one point eight million Palestinians, etc.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Etc.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
This can be paid for by neighboring countries of great wealth,
but the people will be able to live in comfort
and peace, and the Journal editorial board rates It's easy
to dismiss this as the fantasy of a presidential huckster
who imagines Trump condos on a Gaza gold coast. But
is his idea so much worse than the status quo
that the rest of the world is offering the famous
(25:48):
two state solution with Palestinian state. A Palestinian state next
to Israel will not happen as long as Hamas still
runs Gaza and could run the West Bank, and the
Arabs states aren't exactly clamoring to send in peacekeeping forces
to eradicate Hamas or govern the Strip. The best the
world can come up with is to mouth the two
state platitude and let Gaza remain a hellhole while Hamas
(26:12):
will revive its rain of terror and Palestinians who want
something different will be tossed off buildings. Right, talk about
Gaza being a hell hole and how awful it is,
while as a neighboring country, you build giant walls to
make sure none of those people can get into your country. Right,
we're talking about Egypt and just all the countries in
the region. The last thing they want is any Palestinians
(26:32):
coming into their country, because you know, I could go
through the history of it, but all of these countries
have had horrific problems with all the Palestinians flowing in,
and all of a sudden they've got this giant Islamist
militant population. The revolution comes to their country, they have unrest,
they've got to put down rebellions, and you know it's
gone on for decades now. Well, Commentary magazine was making
(26:54):
the point that for people of other countries that have
had to escape war torn regions or the rubble of
destruction after a civil war, whatever, Syrians, for instance, Europe's.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Supposed to take all these people in.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
All these countries in Europe have taken in all of
these people from all of these awful places, but nobody's
expecting the surrounding countries of Gaza to take in refugees.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
That's pretty interesting.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Yeah, well, if I were the leader of one of
those countries, I'd say, yeah, how's Europe doing? Have not
taken in I don't think it's good and I wouldn't
want it, but we just think that's you know, that's
just the way it goes.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
The Syrians had to go somewhere.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
So they're in Germany and Italy and friends and wherever,
but Gazin's Nope, they can't go anywhere.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
They have to stay in that one tiny little piece
of land.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
One more note from Elliott Kaufman, who's been thinking and
writing about this stuff for years and years, that I
thought was absolutely terrific. And he starts, of course with
the President Trump shocked the world stuff. But few critics
disputest point that it would benefit the displace to escape
the demolition side of Gaza Gaza and live in peace
rather than his cannon fought. The real disturbance after decades
(28:02):
to the contrary is to think seriously about what it
would mean to put Palestinian lives first, rather than sacrificing
them to the lost cause of Palestine, as their leaders
often do.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Just a little bit of history.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
On October nineteen twenty three, twenty twenty three, Hamas leader
Khaled Michal suggested that to achieve the dream of Israel's
destruction and with it an Arab Palestine from the river
to the sea, millions of Palestinians might have to die.
This is the Palestinian leader said, Yeah, millions will probably
have to die, but that's okay. The prospect did not
(28:34):
trouble him. Years earlier, the Palestine liberation organizations Yaser, ara
Fat and Mahmudabas turned down turned down Israeli offers of statehood,
the two state solution, which no national liberation movement does.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
You say, you're a national liberation movement. They say, okay,
you can have your country. We don't want it.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
And the Palestinian leader from the twenties through the forties,
Hitler ally Amin al Husseini, did much the same before
and at Israel's founding. Reimagining the failed Arab drive to
wipe out the Jews after only a few years after
the Holocaust is a story of Palestinian victimization and valiant
resistance is the essence of the lost cause. This is
(29:16):
the worst kind of nationalism, an eliminationist, one that brings
its people only misery. And yah Sir Arafat turned down
all those deals for variety of reasons, including he felt
like he'd be assassinated if he ever agreed to any
of them, which he would have been right.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
By the even more crazy hardcore Islamis.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Types God, by the people on his side, he would
have been assassinated by Yeah. Yeah, well, let's keep doing
the same and mouthing the same bull crap, says a
lot of the establishment.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
It's because it's comfortable for them. But they're such phonies.
Can I be interesting to see how this plays out?
Speaker 5 (29:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Probably chaotically and with a lot of bloodshed, honestly.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Well as opposed to my entire life. Chaotically and bloodshed. Well, exactly,
let's try something different. You could go back to when
I was a little kid and my dad would be
sitting in his lazy boy recliner with the footstool up,
reading the paper with the news on, and they'd have
had Palestinians throwing rocks at her relea. Isn't exactly the
(30:16):
same thing going on, same conversation?
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Yep, something, isn't it?
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Well? Speaking of giant, interesting earth shaking ideas, what about
El Salvador taking not only our immigration deporties but our
hardcore criminals as well, ship them to El Salvador.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Crazy idea. We can talk about that later on.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Wall Street Journal has a story today on how the NFL,
while the rest of America is abandoning DEI, the NFL
remains all in.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
And we'll see it on display in the Super Bowl.
I'm all over it.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
I got that and a great story about why companies
like to hire XFN NFL players.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Huh, well, that's cool. I hadn't never heard it. Bunch
stuff on the way. I hope you can stay here
to this.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
To the rising cost of eggs, more Americans are now
investing in backyard chickens. Oh yeah, people really want eggs.
This morning I saw New Yorker squeezing a pigeon like
a ketchup broduct.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
The egg shortage is so severe that at the waffle
house they have a fifty cent.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Surcharge per egg.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
Now, I never thought I'd live in a time where
they'd be surge pricing on eggs.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
This is gonna be a tough Easter.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Kiss get ready to start hunting sweetish meatballs. I like
squeezing a pigeon like it's a ketchup container. Try to
get another egg out of there. Wow, So I got
a question for you. I dealt with this yesterday. I've
dealt with this many times in the homeowner world over
my life. Now we have and will endorse many home
(31:59):
and companies that are very, very good in a variety
of spheres of home improvement that be completely reputable for
your name to pass our lips. Yeah, we work really
really hard at that because there are so many sketchy
home improvement things out there. What is to deal with
that industry? This has happened to me more often than not.
(32:24):
Had an emergency. I'm not going to be specific because
I don't want to get any trouble with somebody. But
storm happens, something occurred, need to get a homeowner repaired
sort of company out there fast, So I just Google
come up with some names, pick somebody, and what happens
the most often in the last twenty years of my life,
happens somebody who speaks no English shows up at your
(32:49):
house in a fifteen dollars car or truck go boy
with no signage on it, and you don't know if
they're the people that are coming or not. You can't
understand them. See, you don't have any idea. This has
happened to me multiple times, not like just the other day,
two days yesterday, but like over and over and over again.
(33:09):
And this has happened several times too, where after using
Google Translate on their phone, see'd have any idea what
in to communicate, They ask if I have a ladder
because they didn't bring a ladder.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
This has happened to me multiple times. This is what
you do for a living.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
You show up in your crappy car. That makes me
want to where's my gun? When I see this car
coming to down the driveway and you ask me for
a ladder? Anyway, he's got a he's got a small ladder,
but he wanted a bigger ladder, and I wasn't. I
have a bigger ladder, but I wasn't gonna give it
to him. I don't know what's going on here anyway.
He's the latter. He's up on the roof. When he's
(33:48):
crawling down off the roof, he's asking in the best
English he can. He asked me to come over and
hold the ladder for him because he doesn't know if
he can get down off the roof.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
And he's actually saying, he's actually saying, where's my foot?
Do you have my foot?
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Have to grab his foot and help him put it
on the ladder so we can get down off the
roof and get back into his dentist crappy car, and
then send me a text later of how much I'm
gonna have to pay to get something fixed. That I understand,
But this happens over What is it with that industry?
There's tens of not only equipment, you're his assistant. How
(34:27):
is this industry, since there's so much money on the line,
not have more reputable like professional people involved. I just
I don't get it. I've never understood it. It's been
this way my entire life as a homeowner. And maybe
it's just California. I don't know if the rest of
you around the country are like, what are you talking about?
And it's not that way where you live.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Nesasito on the Escalara mas Grande, this was I need
a bigger ladder. That was a decent guess, but this
was a way more in the Eastern European, Ukrainian, Russian world.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
Oh, I see, but it'll take me a while. Yeah,
I think part of it.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
It's such a it can be such a boom and
bus trade various home improvement things that when it's booming
you just grab people wherever you can.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
And the other element to it is you rarely.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
I mean, this isn't entirely true, but like say you
need a roofer, for instance, and you need him in
a hurry. You're not gonna need a roofer again next
year and next year and the year after that. And
so if they hit and run and get your money
and give you crappy service, they don't care. Got some
people doing some other work and now can't wait till
(35:41):
they're done to get him out of there and try
somebody different. Although I keep trying different people and it's
always the same, but they don't show up until like eleven.
They quit it three and they take an hour for lunch.
Excuse me, that's like three hours of work every day.
This will take you know, five hundred years to get done.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Yes, that's the idea.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
Why I tried to get I need a bigger letter
in Ukrainian and it's a bunch of letters. I don't
know they got a different alphabet. Oh my god, that
whole world is so nut speaking nuts. The NFL is
sticking with DEI will explain it in much more next hour.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
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