February 13, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 4 of A&G features...
- The evil of Putin, the war & Trump's plan
- The new name for Greenland
- Galentine's Day responses & hard working beavers
- Final Thoughts!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and
Getty and no he.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
I'll be dealing with President Putin largely on the phone,
and we ultimately expect to meet. In fact, we expect
that he'll come here and I'll go there, and we're
going to meet also, probably in Saudi Arabia, the first
time we'll meet in Saudi Arabia see if we can get
something done. But we want to end that war. That
war is a disaster. It's a really bloody, horrible war.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
I don't know if we have this club. But Trump
was asked specifically, something like, you know, is there a
good guy and a bad guy in this war? Something
along those lines, and he stayed away from question. I
realize he's trying to negotiate with Putin and get him
to agree to something. But dang, I think we need
moral clarity on Putin's the bad guy. He's the evil guy.
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He's the worst guy. He's among the worst guys on.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Earth right right. I wouldn't want to throw out the
baby of Trump, the good things he's shaken up with
the bathwater of some of the stuff I don't like.
I think, as I said earlier, he's a little too
quick to get rid of Chesterton's fence and rebuild it
as Trump fence with solid gold. And I think some
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of the abandoning conventional thinking is probably too much, too
fast and lacks moral clarity. As you'd said, some of
it's great, but this one bothers me. Well, the idea
dealing with Putin the way he is.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
The idea of even suggesting that Putin could come sit
at the White House and meet the president after you know,
bombing schools full of kids as the intention to death intentionally, yeah,
what the hell?
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Or abduct We didn't even get to the.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Abducting the tens of thousands of Ukrainian kids that they've
taken back to Russia, taken them from their families.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Turning them into loyal little Russians. Yeah, Instead, and we
didn't even get to this story I think it was
in the Wall Street Journal about the systematic torture of
Ukrainian prisoners, how the guards were told take off your
body cameras were suspending that regulation, make it as hard
as possible on them, inflict pain whenever you can, for
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any reason, systematic torture with the goal of what breaking
their will, rendering them shells of human beings, kill them
without killing them.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
You can't have a guy like that sit down at
the White House with the President and being treated unless
we're unless we're luring him to a uh, you know,
a country like ours to arrest him. I don't think
he should be able to leave Russia.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Yeah, I don't think you need to worry about it
because Putin would never to it. Way too much security
risk for him, It'll never happen.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
How much does that help him, though, if he can
play if his news agency, because it's the Putin news
agency in Russia, gets to run a clip of President
Trump talking about Putin coming to visit the White House.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Yeah, I think Trump would tell you that stuff doesn't matter.
All that matters is the deal we strike. I'm working
on a deal.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
But well, if that's true, then why do you got
to flatter the guy. He's gonna do whatever is in
his best interest, whether you call him.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
The devil or your best friend, isn't he Yeah? I
think so. And again I'm not arguing this on my
own behalf. I'm just trying to understand the way Trump
might be approaching it. I think he's approaching it the
same way you'd approach trying to get a spit of
land on the coast of Ireland to build a golf
resort on. You're gonna flatter the mayor and the local
council people and the farmers and say nothing but great
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things about him and how excited you are, and how
we could really have a great deal, until you know,
it comes time to get down to breast tacks.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
God, how heartbreaking must it be for Zelensky, who's you know,
had to be at the top of all this, and
so many families in Ukraine if to hear that Putin
could be treated like that, treated with that level of
respect and dignity, Oh.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
My god, it's got to be astonishing and horrifying. Yeah,
real polititicket, it's absolutely worse now. I also think Trump
said something yesterday about when they was being asked about
Putin and Zelensky.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Well, Zelenski's pull numbers aren't very high. Have you seen
so like took a shot.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
At him while he was flattering Putin. I just that
whole act. I do not like if behind the scenes
Trump is communicating with Zelensky and saying, trust me on this.
It's going to look crazy, but trust me that okay, okay,
but yeah, it's tough to take to flip it around.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Though.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
We'll some more clips about this, because this was all
the talk yesterday. You had the SEC def HEGXETH saying
they're not going to get their land back, They're not
gonna get their twenty pre twenty fourteen land is not
coming back, and becoming part of NATO is off the table.
So we announced those things just flat out yesterday, which
is kind of interesting. From a negotiating standpoint. I would
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not use the word interesting. I'd use insane unless you've
got some crazy strategy I don't know about. You would
never take stuff off the table preemptively like that, even
if it's clearly true, just to get to the real negotiating.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
I'm trying to think of an example where I'd be
negotiating where we both know X isn't true, isn't gonna happen.
So there's no point in pretending it is leverage because
it's not.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Yeah, but even if you have a little uncertainty in
a negotiation, like that. You can exploit it and overplay
that hand intentionally to get other concessions. It happens all
the time.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
I'm trying to come up with the scenario where I
think it would make sense.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
But what was I saying?
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Oh, so this was the talk all day long yesterday,
Hexeth announcing that, and then Trump talking about meeting with
Putin there and here and everything else.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
So it's it's a big story.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Oh, I was thinking to be fair to Trump's point
of view on this, if I wanted to end of
the war, and I thought it was in the United
States best interest to end the war, do I believe
that this might be a separate topic if I thought
it was in the best interest in the United States
to get this war off the table.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Is there any point in bad mouth and Putin as
you head to the negotiating table?
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Probably not. You know, I could come up with a
rationale for it, But you know, my meanderings and musings,
who needs them. It's it's unconventional. I'll say that, and
I'll tell you what, And I don't believe this, but
I am willing to entertain the notion that as I've
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said before Trump's Gazza Lago idea, which is just flat
effing looney tunes. We'll take over Gaza, We'll clear out
the rubble, We'll rebuild it as a groovy Mediterranean resort.
The Palestinians can live in tracked homes over there, how lovely,
Will you build them a park? It'll be great.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
I mean it's just but I mean I don't believe that, right,
I mean, that's just no.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
No. But so as crazy as that is, though, all
of a sudden, the leaders in the region are saying, no,
we're not doing that. Let's come up with a good,
solid plan we can do. It's like, hey, welcome to
the party, boys, sixty seventy years down the line. Oh,
now you want to be productive and kick in some
money and actually solve this thing. Well lovely, and it
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took Trump's crazy ass idea to get them off the schneid.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
I would like to see some polling on this. The
support for Ukraine has dropped bit by bit. It's almost
it'll be three years, like a week that the war started,
and it began with very high support for helping defend Ukraine,
giving them what they need. Joe Biden said over and
over again to Zelenski's space, We're with you to the end.
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You can count on us, while he would hold back
the things they needed to keep their people alive. And
now it looks like we ain't with you to the
end at all. We're gonna wrap this thing up. You
ain't getting your land back.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
And you know my final thought, and then I'll shut up.
One of the more interesting things that really stuck with
me about a particular class I took years and years ago,
was we were talking about the difficulty democracies have in
ending wars because there will be political costs, often enormous
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political costs for the people who end the war, particularly
if it doesn't end in glorious victory, because if it
ends in glorious victory, it ends itself. And so a
dictator can end a war and say we've won so
glorious victory, even though clearly it's not. Nobody says anything
about it, and it is over. In a democracy, it
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is much much harder, which is perverse and counterintuitive, but
it's true if you think about it, no doubt, and
then that's a political price to pay if you didn't
end it in the right way right, exactly, yeah, Or
like Joe Biden, maybe it was time to get out
of Afghanistan, but the way he implemented it was horrifically stupid.
Reminds me of Trump of a bush and a rock. Anyway,
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to get back to the main thread of things, a
guy like Trump would say, he would ask his advisors
like he's asking his foreman building a golf resort. If
we hang in there and the Ukrainians hang in there
for another six months, then we go hard. Can we
materially change their prospects? And the negotiating board and his
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experts to tell him no, which is no, it's probably true, right,
it's a stalemate. Trump would say, all right, we end
it now, let's get to the table. Let's not have
any more bloodshed.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
What's the upside of MA making noises about standing up
for democracies and everything?
Speaker 1 (10:04):
If nothing's going to get better, that's right? Not a
horrible argument.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
No, No, it's a very cold hearted analysis of things
that sometimes can cut through democracies not wanting to end
a war when they should. For instance, I think Trump
goes too far sometimes he disrespects things that actually do matter.
But I am more than willing to let these things
play out and then say, wow, I didn't see that coming.
(10:28):
I was wrong. I know that makes me a bad
talk show host. But we'll all find out together.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
I want to hear how ABC summarized this last night.
Speaker 5 (10:39):
President Trump on the phone with Russian President Putin for
ninety minutes, agreeing to start negotiations immediately to end the
war in Ukraine. Trump choosing to talk with Putin first,
the President agreeing to meet with Putin, saying their first
sit down could be in Saudi Arabia in the near future,
but Trump also suggesting he may go to Russia and
that Putin might come here, Trump saying the Ukrainian president
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would likely be involved.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
In a second meeting.
Speaker 5 (11:03):
Zelensky posting this photo of their phone call today, saying,
together with the US, we are charting our next steps
to stomp Russian aggression and ensure a lasting, reliable peace.
As President Trump said, let's get.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
It done well.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
It's a very upbeat, positive spin on the story of
the day there for ABC Evening News.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
I just think Trump's trying to flatter Putin and say, hey,
I'm willing to work with you, I respect you, I
like you, I get you, let's work together. He's trying
to play putin, which is fine, but again it's like
complimenting an alligator on its scales so it doesn't chew
your leg off.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
One more clip. This is a second deaf pete hegzeth.
On the future of Ukraine.
Speaker 6 (11:41):
We want, like you, a sovereign and prosperous Ukraine, but
we must start by recognizing that returning to Ukraine's pre
twenty fourteen borders is an unrealistic objective. Chasing this illusionary goal,
we will only prolong the war and cause more suffering.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
So many lives lost and nothing accomplished by anyone good.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
I am mystified by this because Zelensky said something similar
himself lately. I don't understand why you go big and
blunt with it like that.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Well, there will be a book written in a couple
of years that will probably explain it.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Would be my guess.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
We got more on the way stay here. Too much
news needs to be some sort of federal law on
the amount of news every day.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Five stories a day, maybe five big ones and five
small ones and a sports story, right, and like one
puppy saved by brave fireman.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
That can be a bonus one and who won this
week's Westminster dog shows. It it seems to be a
weekly event, no kidding.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
I wonder if there's going to be a run on
those giant schnaus Well, of course there are, of course
the dignified giant Schnauzer they call it, is there like
an undignified giant Schnauzer breed as well, like the clowney,
you know, kind of loser giant Schnauzer that where's a
wife beater around the house and poops where it once?
(13:08):
I don't know. So this is one of my favorite
moments in legislative history. A House Republican representative Earl Buddy
Carter of Georgia. Natch, I'm gonna move to Georgia just
to vote for Earl Buddy Carter. He introduced a bill
this week that would enable President Trump's efforts to purchase
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Greenland and rename it red, White, and Blueland. The bill
would also require the federal government to refer to it
as such on official maps and documents, never mind what
the denmarkings and Greenlanders say. Let's see. As part of
the bill, America is back and will soon be bigger
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than ever with the addition of red, White and Blueland.
President Trump has correctly identified the purchase of what is
now Greenland is a national security priority, and we'll proudly
welcome its people joined. The freest nation ever exists when
our negotiator in chief inks this monumental deal. Also considered
as names for the new state, Cold af Sylvania, Polar Barrington,
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simply Ice, Ice Baby, and my favorite North North North Dakota.
Oh now, we're gonna have nice cooperation with Greenland. The
Arctic in those passageways are going to be incredibly important
in the next fifty years. And it's a good thing.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Do you remember?
Speaker 4 (14:30):
I should do it again in case anybody didn't hear it.
The biggest rumor in Washington, d C. According to Mark Calpern,
and he talks to all the players. Oh yeah, the
biggest rumor in the world, persistent and omnipresent, is the
talk of a grand bargain between the United States and
China that involves reduced tariffs, US access to Greenland, China's
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peaceful taking of Taiwan, all and several provisions and players
to be named later. It seems it's implausible to many
years and eyes, but the talk of this deal is everywhere,
says Mark Alpern.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
This sounds like it could be a moral horror to me,
but I'm trying to understand it. We won't fight you
on Taiwan. We concede, sorry, Vladimer. You get the rights
to the northern passage through the Arctic and the rest
of it as a zone of influence and security, and
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let's get it on and we call it a deal. Yeah. Yeah,
and a couple of players that be named later.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Yeah. I got a question. So yesterday was Lincoln's birthday? Yes, sir,
and Lincoln is on the penny. The penny was the
most my whole life. I'm the present piece of currency
that existed. It is since lost its usefulness. Yes, we
all agree with that. But if Lincoln isn't the greatest
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president of all time, he's number two. So I mean,
you know everybody agrees on that pretty much. Right, he'd
s either him or Washington. They're in the top two.
And do we move him to another? Doesn't it seem
I mean, we're eliminating the most dominant currency that existed
for my whole life with him on it. So that's
a lot of less Lincoln bouncing around and they're talking
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about putting you know, Harriet Tubman on the twenty or whatever.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
They've been talking about that for a long time. Does
it still got the fire? He's got the five dollar bill. Yeah,
that's a fine, you know, piece of currency, the fin
the five.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
It ain't like the penny. Though everybody had a penny
in their pocket. My whole life, Lincoln was in their pocket,
your whole life.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
No more. You got to move on. I just feel
like he's getting downgraded. Only I don't know what to
tell you, you know how, I'm always predicting a planet of
the beavers because human beings are going to die off
because we're not reproducing. Fascinating story. The Czech Republic was
trying to build a damn project for years and years
and years, and while they were arguing about it, Beaver's
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action damned off the river and accomplished what the government couldn't.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
That's a pretty funny story.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
They're ready to take over Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 7 (17:10):
The intensity really developed after the election. So what's important
to remember about Mark is that it's ten precedentent. He
was passed up for three prisoner swaps, two in twenty
twenty two and one in August first, twenty twenty four,
passed up by who, by the Russians or by by
by both sides at.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
The end of the day. Yeah, I don't know how
that all shook out.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
That's that teacher that got let loose by Russia, Okaya
this week, Fogel.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Yeah, from what I've gathered, the Biden administration did not
declare him a wrongful detainee because he was caught with
allegedly you never know, with Russia, the Hippi lets allegedly
seventeen grams of medicinal marijuana entering Russia. I say, if
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you smuggle a drug you know to be illegal into
a foreign land, man, you have made a terrible, terrible mistake.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
I don't know that your home country needs to trade
some super bad guy to that country to get you back,
because you couldn't be in Russia without getting high.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Well, right and again, if that is true. And I
was all prepared to be outraged because he was already
being held when Britney Griner did her thing, and immediately
all of America rushed to her aid because she's a
basketball player, although she just had trace amounts on her
vape pen evidently, and this dude had seventeen grams, which
is a significant amount of pod allegedly.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Happy Gallantine's Day. Still trying to wrap my head around this.
Maybe you all knew about it.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
I didn't.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
I'd never heard about it in my life. We're still
getting text about it. Gallantine's Day. So it comes from
the TV show Parks and Recreation. It was a joke,
kind of like in the way Festivus was a joke
on Seinfeld.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
But people still talk about it.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
Gallantine's Day caught on and it seems to be a
combination of women who just want to get together for
drinks after work or Mimosa's for brunch or whatever, and
then we'll celebrate Valentine's Day with a dude. Or We've
gotten a number of text from people, say, those of
us who are widowed or divorced or have no man
in our lives, we like Gallentine Day to get together
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with the gals. I don't know, Katie, you celebrate Galentine's Days?
Speaker 8 (19:23):
I have before, and it's yeah, it's a good time
hang out with the girls, and it's a reason to
drink together early.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
Sure do we need more reasons? Or it is Thursday
not a good Thursday was always good enough reason for me.
That seems like a pretty damn good reason. It's Thursday
or Tuesday or Wednesday morning or whatever.
Speaker 8 (19:41):
You sound like, majorcas Tuesday, Wednesday.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
I will get together with friends to drink on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, well,
and so on, and we have.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
A very busy schedule. The first I heard about it
recently was from an email from a gal who said,
and she is a very Haiti like woman, Katie, very
down to earth practical, who said, now, this is just
more people aren't getting together. This is uh, nobody is
interested in Rome as what. I don't hell, I don't know,
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and I don't particularly care. I don't think we're headed
for a planet of the beavers, and I've come to
accept it, which reminds me so seriously. Now. For years,
officials in the Czech Republic, which is absolutely beautiful, it
pushed a dam project to protect a river south of
Prague and the critically endangered species living in it, but
the project, hamstrung by land negotiations stalled. In the meantime,
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a group of chiseltoothed mammals renowned for their engineering skills
and work ethic, an unencumbered by bureaucracy, decided to take
on the task. The Beavers of Prague simply built dams themselves.
The Rodents fast work. That's a band you follow around
and you smoke dope. Even if they go to Moscow.
The Beavers are prog. Yeah oh yeah, yeah, really rock hard.
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Dang dang ticket. That's sort of last I saw him.
They played a fifteen minute version of Czech River. It
was unbelievable. Yeah yeah, a twelve minute chainsaw solo. Anyway,
they simply built the dams themselves. The Rodents' fast work
saved the local authorities one point two million euros, according
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to a news release from somebody or other. Ah, so wait,
do they.
Speaker 8 (21:21):
Do anything else? And can we hire some of them
in California?
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (21:23):
No, kidding, Yeah, can they increase water storage in California?
Gavin Newsom hasn't. Jerry Brown didn't in generations as the
population doubled. Maybe we hire the Beavers of Prague.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
The Beavers of Prague, their original drummer choked on his
own vomit, but the new.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Guy's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
So hey, you know what I.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
Want to get this on. This is Elon Musk doing
a zoom call. Overnight for some place in the Middle East.
Does he ever sleep anyway? Between him and Trump? No
wonder their buddies that they need no rest. They run
twenty four hours a day.
Speaker 9 (22:01):
We do need to delete entire agencies as opposed to
leave part of them behind. Because you leave part of
them behind, it's easy. It's kind of like if they're
leaving a weed. If you don't remove the roots of
the weed, then it's easy for the weed to grow back.
But if you remove the roots of the weed, it
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doesn't stop weeds.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
From ever going back, but it makes it harder.
Speaker 9 (22:24):
So we have to really delete entire agencies.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Any of them clearly, clearly true.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
And I heard it described last night on MSNBC comparing
government workers to weeds. You know that sort of thing.
Shut up and that is the proper response. But other
than is you know, renaming himself Harry Balls. Every time
I hear him talk, it's in very measured, reasonable tones. No,
we need to look at these agencies and go through
the books and see what they're accomplishing, whether they're you know,
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the employees, all the employees are needed or not. How
is that not completely reasonable?
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Well, when you see the response that is frantic and
illogical and fake civil rights. See you understand that it's
not about principle. If it were, you know, you'd be
one hundred percent right. There's no way to object to it.
All of the things he've said on this topic have
been one hundred percent reasonable and patriotic and smart and
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the rest of it, which just shows you the true
nature of politics.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
But what's legal and all that sort of stuff, I
don't know, And that'll get worked out in the courts
now and again, what Trump defies the courts of constitutional crisis?
He has stated specifically he will abide by the court
rulings and they'll fight in the courts.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
He's set it out loud.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
But you still have a roundtable on CNN, And what
will we do if he ignores the courts?
Speaker 1 (23:41):
He just said he's not going to.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Do fine, you know, I wanted to get into the
whole fake who we're having a constitutional crisis when jd
Vance tweeted the other day that we will not allow
the judiciary to essentially intrude on legitimate executive power, and
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everybody went crazy on the CNN panels, Jack's talking about
and was talking about how oh Trump's going to defy
the court. So that's a construtional crisis and the rest
of it. When what Vance said is, well, it's the
stuff of a Yale law student. No, he was saying,
there are legitimate provinces of discretion within the executive branch,
and we plan to exercise them, and if a court
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limits us, we will fight that and we will win.
So it was a testament to respect for the system,
not defiance. I mean, you really had to stretch to
interpret that is. Yeah, let John Roberts come over here
and enforce his s himself.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Is that's not what he said.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
It all trying to figure out what's going on with
the giant aircraft carrier, the Truman, that crashed into a
pretty good sized ship in the Mediterranean Sea, and it
just happened like in the last hour or so. We're
broken last hour or so. I hope it's another not
another black eye for the Navy where it looks like
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we don't quite have her act together, like has happened
a few times in recent years.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Again, maybe it's a timely warning before the pooh has
hit the fan, we realize, hey, we're going to sharpen
up this, that and the other that's true. Maybe Pete
Haggszeth will get to the bottom ll if we're not sharp.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
It'd be better to find it out now than when
we try to stop China from taking Taiwan or something
like that.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
It's undeniable that the captain of the aircraft carrier's career
will be over unless it's a really, really weird circumstance.
On the other hand, the guy and the other ship,
how'd you miss a twelve hundred foot vessel? Right, it's
as big as a skyscraper. What are you doing in
the way?
Speaker 4 (25:45):
So I saw the headline yesterday people are rushing to
buy chickens around the United States, And then I googled
it and I started to google rush to buy chickens
to see and a whole bunch of different headlines came
up from Chicago and Seattle and you know, name wherever
in this in the country where people are buying chickens
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because egg prices are so high and you're all.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Of a sudden going to be a chicken farmer. It
just seems like a lot.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Do you need eggs that much?
Speaker 2 (26:12):
I don't know. You must need eggs more than I do.
But Michael, I know how busy you are. But how
many times have chickens been mentioned in the last week,
And there's one particular clip that has not been played,
not even once. Jack back to you.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
Well, when I went to Google rushed to buy chickens,
the suggestions that it put up there, you know, because
Google gives you. The most popular chicken related questions currently
being asked was why are so many people buying chickens?
Really a lot of you google that, h So you're
(26:49):
aware that people are buying chickens. You're not aware that
egg prices are up where you feel like to inquire
and you feel like you're missing out. All my friends
are buying chickens. Is this the hot thing? I feel
like I feel like I got.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
That's uh foamk fear of missing chickens. Yeah, I don't know.
That's that's very odd, that's very meta, that's very Internet age.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
It is it is. Yes, Michael, we do have.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
The infamous uh chicken clip.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
Here you go then on Fox five, Sky Guardian and
then check that seven day.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
To make your weekend glance.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
It takes a tough man to make a ten to
forecast nick.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Chicken. Okay, I'll do.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
We continue.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
It's so stupid.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
Let me continue. Did we ever nail down why he
said that or precisely what he said? Was that an
unnecessary censorship? No, that was real, but he actually said
it right.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Yeah, he actually said he wanted to say plucking.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
But he.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Dropped the F bomb. That's a that's an odd mistake
to make. I've been doing this job for men many
years and I've yet too fumble the ball quite that serious.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
Now that I know he actually said that, I would
like to hear it again so I can hear how
they all react and try to move on. Then on
Fox five Sky Guardian and then check that seven day
to make your weekend plans.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
It takes a tough man to make a tender forecast.
Speaker 6 (28:17):
Nick, okay, we continue.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
So the other guys, okay, I'll do that. You can
hear because the way it's bleep, we've got the f
in there, so yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Oh yeah, it's legit.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
You go to commercials Okay, hey, Jim, what the hell
was that?
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Oh? You know, well, and you'd think, wait a minute,
did I just hear that? Last night, I'm sitting there
with my son who's visiting, along with my oldest daughter.
The youngest soon to arrive. Uh and uh and and
Little D texted me a question and I answered it,
Nah an age and uh, that's my youngest daughter de lady.
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And I glanced down and I was like, wait a minute, wait,
what did my brain just do because it looked like
my iPhone wanted to autofill an n bomb? What And
I'm like, wait, wait, whoa wait, I didn't. I didn't
imagine that. That's too freaking weird. And so I did
it once or twice more, and for some reason, like
(29:20):
the third time I did it, it tried to autofill
nagger the infamous South Park bit, south Park bit, but
yeah it actually I typed nah, and my iPhone tried
to say nager, so an expression I have never used
in any concept, any context except describing the infamous South.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Park right boy?
Speaker 2 (29:47):
No like that. No, I was shocked. And again it
must have been like here in your coworker, drop an
F bomb? You'd be like, did I see? Did I
hear that?
Speaker 4 (29:56):
Have you had any experiences like we were talking about yesterday?
Of the AI suggestion replies to long text, I had
another one last hour, having fairly lengthy text conversation with somebody.
It was like it suggested. I say, I'm sorry to
hear that, maybe it'll work out or something like that.
I'm like, this is a heartfelt conversation. I shouldn't be
just taking your suggestions of how to continue it.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
It's weird. Yeah, Tim Cook. Maybe there are people who
actually want real human interaction removed from their lives completely.
I'm not one of them. I think that's really one
of the only things worth living for, so I'll I
handle it. Thank you. Wow. I don't know how I
feel about it.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
If I find out somebody's responding to me, if I
send a heartfelt, complicated dealing with kids or marriage or
whatever it is, and I find out the replies were
just I just went with the AI suggestions.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Jack, You'll live through this, You'll gain wisdom from it,
and you'll value these years. Trust me on that.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
Don't be a nagger, and I'll say, hey, thanks, that
really helped me in a hard say.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
I just pressed send.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
I didn't even look at it, but I'm glad to
hear it.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Come on, We'll finish strong next time, arm strong, hetty.
Speaker 10 (31:17):
I'm saying, isn't just a jilly famous Presidente Margarita.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Jilly says, my god, I know I'm sanging out man and.
Speaker 9 (31:33):
A great sound.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Frances say, song promoting.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
President Margarita. And it's as good as any actual pop
song because it.
Speaker 10 (31:42):
Says or click one hundred percent. It's one hundred percent
as good as Humphrey hips. It's the most I don't
know when the last time music was this homogeneous.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
I suppose as it always was, but no, no, no, no.
Speaker 8 (32:03):
No no.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
I ought to write a lengthy piece, it would be
like a thousand words if it's for National Review. It'd
be ten thousand if it was for the Atlantic. But
talking about how there was absolutely creativity and some anarchy
and just wild explorations within quote unquote pop music for
a while. But it's a commodity that's fairly valuable in
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the marketplace, and so it became commoditized. And now it's
just it's like corn.
Speaker 4 (32:36):
But you don't think like O wheat future, but you
don't think it makes its way through different genres like
I feel like all ninety early nineties hip hop sounded
exactly the same. And then there was a period of
like in the seventies, there was the kind of music
it was all sounded the same, and.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
Oh sure, yeah, and then somebody breaks through, whether it's
Nirvana or Elvis or whatever, and then quickly the corporate
go grab hold of that and commoditize it again. And
then you got to find your creativity elsewhere.
Speaker 4 (33:04):
But modern country. And I'm a country fan, so that
hurts more. But it Oh, it's hard to take it,
you know.
Speaker 8 (33:17):
Chadcarmstrong and j Getti.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
Now that's genre bending genius right there.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew
to wrap up today. There is our technical director, Michelangelo. Michael,
you know I'm still getting compliments about my cheese dip,
and I know I was, and get this much love.
I got to create another food because you know, I've
never felt so good.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
I never felt so good.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
We've known various DJs who've like sold their their barbecue
sauce or whatever made a few bucks. You ought to
do that, oh right, Katie Greener.
Speaker 4 (33:53):
Like Sammy Hagar's tequila is significantly different than anybody else's
plate man, Katie.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
Green arsteam to Newswoman as a final thought.
Speaker 8 (34:01):
Katie, Joe, I would love for you to go to
your lovely bride and pitch a golfing times Day'll take time, you.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Know, I'll jump again and say my final thought is,
I think one of the secrets to our happy marriage
is we're perfectly comfortable with We do us stuff, and
then I do me stuff and she does her stuff.
Then we come together and do us stuff again. It's great, Jack.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
Final thought, Well, the important thing is that the most
romantic times are the ones declared by the Hallmark card company.
Oh yeah, and that's when if it's not a perfect day,
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It's not efficiency.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
I'm strong and getty. Our message is clear. We're gonna stand.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
Up, We're gonna speak up, We're gonna we're gonna do
anything we.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
Need to do.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Who I got nothing for you on that, So let's
go with a bang. That's right, all right?
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Every time I don't know, is I pay no attention?
Speaker 2 (35:17):
Well, I was just surprised to find out you pay
no attention when it's not normal. But by Armstrong and
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Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and
Getty and no he.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
I'll be dealing with President Putin largely on the phone,
and we ultimately expect to meet. In fact, we expect
that he'll come here and I'll go there, and we're
going to meet also, probably in Saudi Arabia, the first
time we'll meet in Saudi Arabia see if we can get
something done. But we want to end that war. That
war is a disaster. It's a really bloody, horrible war.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
I don't know if we have this club. But Trump
was asked specifically, something like, you know, is there a
good guy and a bad guy in this war? Something
along those lines, and he stayed away from question. I
realize he's trying to negotiate with Putin and get him
to agree to something. But dang, I think we need
moral clarity on Putin's the bad guy. He's the evil guy.
(01:10):
He's the worst guy. He's among the worst guys on.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Earth right right. I wouldn't want to throw out the
baby of Trump, the good things he's shaken up with
the bathwater of some of the stuff I don't like.
I think, as I said earlier, he's a little too
quick to get rid of Chesterton's fence and rebuild it
as Trump fence with solid gold. And I think some
(01:33):
of the abandoning conventional thinking is probably too much, too
fast and lacks moral clarity. As you'd said, some of
it's great, but this one bothers me. Well, the idea
dealing with Putin the way he is.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
The idea of even suggesting that Putin could come sit
at the White House and meet the president after you know,
bombing schools full of kids as the intention to death intentionally, yeah,
what the hell?
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Or abduct We didn't even get to the.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Abducting the tens of thousands of Ukrainian kids that they've
taken back to Russia, taken them from their families.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Turning them into loyal little Russians. Yeah, Instead, and we
didn't even get to this story I think it was
in the Wall Street Journal about the systematic torture of
Ukrainian prisoners, how the guards were told take off your
body cameras were suspending that regulation, make it as hard
as possible on them, inflict pain whenever you can, for
(02:28):
any reason, systematic torture with the goal of what breaking
their will, rendering them shells of human beings, kill them
without killing them.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
You can't have a guy like that sit down at
the White House with the President and being treated unless
we're unless we're luring him to a uh, you know,
a country like ours to arrest him. I don't think
he should be able to leave Russia.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Yeah, I don't think you need to worry about it
because Putin would never to it. Way too much security
risk for him, It'll never happen.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
How much does that help him, though, if he can
play if his news agency, because it's the Putin news
agency in Russia, gets to run a clip of President
Trump talking about Putin coming to visit the White House.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Yeah, I think Trump would tell you that stuff doesn't matter.
All that matters is the deal we strike. I'm working
on a deal.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
But well, if that's true, then why do you got
to flatter the guy. He's gonna do whatever is in
his best interest, whether you call him.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
The devil or your best friend, isn't he Yeah? I
think so. And again I'm not arguing this on my
own behalf. I'm just trying to understand the way Trump
might be approaching it. I think he's approaching it the
same way you'd approach trying to get a spit of
land on the coast of Ireland to build a golf
resort on. You're gonna flatter the mayor and the local
council people and the farmers and say nothing but great
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things about him and how excited you are, and how
we could really have a great deal, until you know,
it comes time to get down to breast tacks.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
God, how heartbreaking must it be for Zelensky, who's you know,
had to be at the top of all this, and
so many families in Ukraine if to hear that Putin
could be treated like that, treated with that level of
respect and dignity, Oh.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
My god, it's got to be astonishing and horrifying. Yeah,
real polititicket, it's absolutely worse now. I also think Trump
said something yesterday about when they was being asked about
Putin and Zelensky.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Well, Zelenski's pull numbers aren't very high. Have you seen
so like took a shot.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
At him while he was flattering Putin. I just that
whole act. I do not like if behind the scenes
Trump is communicating with Zelensky and saying, trust me on this.
It's going to look crazy, but trust me that okay, okay,
but yeah, it's tough to take to flip it around.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Though.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
We'll some more clips about this, because this was all
the talk yesterday. You had the SEC def HEGXETH saying
they're not going to get their land back, They're not
gonna get their twenty pre twenty fourteen land is not
coming back, and becoming part of NATO is off the table.
So we announced those things just flat out yesterday, which
is kind of interesting. From a negotiating standpoint. I would
(05:19):
not use the word interesting. I'd use insane unless you've
got some crazy strategy I don't know about. You would
never take stuff off the table preemptively like that, even
if it's clearly true, just to get to the real negotiating.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
I'm trying to think of an example where I'd be
negotiating where we both know X isn't true, isn't gonna happen.
So there's no point in pretending it is leverage because
it's not.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Yeah, but even if you have a little uncertainty in
a negotiation, like that. You can exploit it and overplay
that hand intentionally to get other concessions. It happens all
the time.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
I'm trying to come up with the scenario where I
think it would make sense.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
But what was I saying?
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Oh, so this was the talk all day long yesterday,
Hexeth announcing that, and then Trump talking about meeting with
Putin there and here and everything else.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
So it's it's a big story.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Oh, I was thinking to be fair to Trump's point
of view on this, if I wanted to end of
the war, and I thought it was in the United
States best interest to end the war, do I believe
that this might be a separate topic if I thought
it was in the best interest in the United States
to get this war off the table.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Is there any point in bad mouth and Putin as
you head to the negotiating table?
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Probably not. You know, I could come up with a
rationale for it, But you know, my meanderings and musings,
who needs them. It's it's unconventional. I'll say that, and
I'll tell you what, And I don't believe this, but
I am willing to entertain the notion that as I've
(07:03):
said before Trump's Gazza Lago idea, which is just flat
effing looney tunes. We'll take over Gaza, We'll clear out
the rubble, We'll rebuild it as a groovy Mediterranean resort.
The Palestinians can live in tracked homes over there, how lovely,
Will you build them a park? It'll be great.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
I mean it's just but I mean I don't believe that, right,
I mean, that's just no.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
No. But so as crazy as that is, though, all
of a sudden, the leaders in the region are saying, no,
we're not doing that. Let's come up with a good,
solid plan we can do. It's like, hey, welcome to
the party, boys, sixty seventy years down the line. Oh,
now you want to be productive and kick in some
money and actually solve this thing. Well lovely, and it
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took Trump's crazy ass idea to get them off the schneid.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
I would like to see some polling on this. The
support for Ukraine has dropped bit by bit. It's almost
it'll be three years, like a week that the war started,
and it began with very high support for helping defend Ukraine,
giving them what they need. Joe Biden said over and
over again to Zelenski's space, We're with you to the end.
(08:12):
You can count on us, while he would hold back
the things they needed to keep their people alive. And
now it looks like we ain't with you to the
end at all. We're gonna wrap this thing up. You
ain't getting your land back.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
And you know my final thought, and then I'll shut up.
One of the more interesting things that really stuck with
me about a particular class I took years and years ago,
was we were talking about the difficulty democracies have in
ending wars because there will be political costs, often enormous
(08:45):
political costs for the people who end the war, particularly
if it doesn't end in glorious victory, because if it
ends in glorious victory, it ends itself. And so a
dictator can end a war and say we've won so
glorious victory, even though clearly it's not. Nobody says anything
about it, and it is over. In a democracy, it
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is much much harder, which is perverse and counterintuitive, but
it's true if you think about it, no doubt, and
then that's a political price to pay if you didn't
end it in the right way right, exactly, yeah, Or
like Joe Biden, maybe it was time to get out
of Afghanistan, but the way he implemented it was horrifically stupid.
Reminds me of Trump of a bush and a rock. Anyway,
(09:27):
to get back to the main thread of things, a
guy like Trump would say, he would ask his advisors
like he's asking his foreman building a golf resort. If
we hang in there and the Ukrainians hang in there
for another six months, then we go hard. Can we
materially change their prospects? And the negotiating board and his
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experts to tell him no, which is no, it's probably true, right,
it's a stalemate. Trump would say, all right, we end
it now, let's get to the table. Let's not have
any more bloodshed.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
What's the upside of MA making noises about standing up
for democracies and everything?
Speaker 1 (10:04):
If nothing's going to get better, that's right? Not a
horrible argument.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
No, No, it's a very cold hearted analysis of things
that sometimes can cut through democracies not wanting to end
a war when they should. For instance, I think Trump
goes too far sometimes he disrespects things that actually do matter.
But I am more than willing to let these things
play out and then say, wow, I didn't see that coming.
(10:28):
I was wrong. I know that makes me a bad
talk show host. But we'll all find out together.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
I want to hear how ABC summarized this last night.
Speaker 5 (10:39):
President Trump on the phone with Russian President Putin for
ninety minutes, agreeing to start negotiations immediately to end the
war in Ukraine. Trump choosing to talk with Putin first,
the President agreeing to meet with Putin, saying their first
sit down could be in Saudi Arabia in the near future,
but Trump also suggesting he may go to Russia and
that Putin might come here, Trump saying the Ukrainian president
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would likely be involved.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
In a second meeting.
Speaker 5 (11:03):
Zelensky posting this photo of their phone call today, saying,
together with the US, we are charting our next steps
to stomp Russian aggression and ensure a lasting, reliable peace.
As President Trump said, let's get.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
It done well.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
It's a very upbeat, positive spin on the story of
the day there for ABC Evening News.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
I just think Trump's trying to flatter Putin and say, hey,
I'm willing to work with you, I respect you, I
like you, I get you, let's work together. He's trying
to play putin, which is fine, but again it's like
complimenting an alligator on its scales so it doesn't chew
your leg off.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
One more clip. This is a second deaf pete hegzeth.
On the future of Ukraine.
Speaker 6 (11:41):
We want, like you, a sovereign and prosperous Ukraine, but
we must start by recognizing that returning to Ukraine's pre
twenty fourteen borders is an unrealistic objective. Chasing this illusionary goal,
we will only prolong the war and cause more suffering.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
So many lives lost and nothing accomplished by anyone good.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
I am mystified by this because Zelensky said something similar
himself lately. I don't understand why you go big and
blunt with it like that.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Well, there will be a book written in a couple
of years that will probably explain it.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Would be my guess.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
We got more on the way stay here. Too much
news needs to be some sort of federal law on
the amount of news every day.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Five stories a day, maybe five big ones and five
small ones and a sports story, right, and like one
puppy saved by brave fireman.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
That can be a bonus one and who won this
week's Westminster dog shows. It it seems to be a
weekly event, no kidding.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
I wonder if there's going to be a run on
those giant schnaus Well, of course there are, of course
the dignified giant Schnauzer they call it, is there like
an undignified giant Schnauzer breed as well, like the clowney,
you know, kind of loser giant Schnauzer that where's a
wife beater around the house and poops where it once?
(13:08):
I don't know. So this is one of my favorite
moments in legislative history. A House Republican representative Earl Buddy
Carter of Georgia. Natch, I'm gonna move to Georgia just
to vote for Earl Buddy Carter. He introduced a bill
this week that would enable President Trump's efforts to purchase
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Greenland and rename it red, White, and Blueland. The bill
would also require the federal government to refer to it
as such on official maps and documents, never mind what
the denmarkings and Greenlanders say. Let's see. As part of
the bill, America is back and will soon be bigger
(13:51):
than ever with the addition of red, White and Blueland.
President Trump has correctly identified the purchase of what is
now Greenland is a national security priority, and we'll proudly
welcome its people joined. The freest nation ever exists when
our negotiator in chief inks this monumental deal. Also considered
as names for the new state, Cold af Sylvania, Polar Barrington,
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simply Ice, Ice Baby, and my favorite North North North Dakota.
Oh now, we're gonna have nice cooperation with Greenland. The
Arctic in those passageways are going to be incredibly important
in the next fifty years. And it's a good thing.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Do you remember?
Speaker 4 (14:30):
I should do it again in case anybody didn't hear it.
The biggest rumor in Washington, d C. According to Mark Calpern,
and he talks to all the players. Oh yeah, the
biggest rumor in the world, persistent and omnipresent, is the
talk of a grand bargain between the United States and
China that involves reduced tariffs, US access to Greenland, China's
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peaceful taking of Taiwan, all and several provisions and players
to be named later. It seems it's implausible to many
years and eyes, but the talk of this deal is everywhere,
says Mark Alpern.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
This sounds like it could be a moral horror to me,
but I'm trying to understand it. We won't fight you
on Taiwan. We concede, sorry, Vladimer. You get the rights
to the northern passage through the Arctic and the rest
of it as a zone of influence and security, and
(15:29):
let's get it on and we call it a deal. Yeah. Yeah,
and a couple of players that be named later.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Yeah. I got a question. So yesterday was Lincoln's birthday? Yes, sir,
and Lincoln is on the penny. The penny was the
most my whole life. I'm the present piece of currency
that existed. It is since lost its usefulness. Yes, we
all agree with that. But if Lincoln isn't the greatest
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president of all time, he's number two. So I mean,
you know everybody agrees on that pretty much. Right, he'd
s either him or Washington. They're in the top two.
And do we move him to another? Doesn't it seem
I mean, we're eliminating the most dominant currency that existed
for my whole life with him on it. So that's
a lot of less Lincoln bouncing around and they're talking
(16:17):
about putting you know, Harriet Tubman on the twenty or whatever.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
They've been talking about that for a long time. Does
it still got the fire? He's got the five dollar bill. Yeah,
that's a fine, you know, piece of currency, the fin
the five.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
It ain't like the penny. Though everybody had a penny
in their pocket. My whole life, Lincoln was in their pocket,
your whole life.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
No more. You got to move on. I just feel
like he's getting downgraded. Only I don't know what to
tell you, you know how, I'm always predicting a planet of
the beavers because human beings are going to die off
because we're not reproducing. Fascinating story. The Czech Republic was
trying to build a damn project for years and years
and years, and while they were arguing about it, Beaver's
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action damned off the river and accomplished what the government couldn't.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
That's a pretty funny story.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
They're ready to take over Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 7 (17:10):
The intensity really developed after the election. So what's important
to remember about Mark is that it's ten precedentent. He
was passed up for three prisoner swaps, two in twenty
twenty two and one in August first, twenty twenty four,
passed up by who, by the Russians or by by
by both sides at.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
The end of the day. Yeah, I don't know how
that all shook out.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
That's that teacher that got let loose by Russia, Okaya
this week, Fogel.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Yeah, from what I've gathered, the Biden administration did not
declare him a wrongful detainee because he was caught with
allegedly you never know, with Russia, the Hippi lets allegedly
seventeen grams of medicinal marijuana entering Russia. I say, if
(17:59):
you smuggle a drug you know to be illegal into
a foreign land, man, you have made a terrible, terrible mistake.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
I don't know that your home country needs to trade
some super bad guy to that country to get you back,
because you couldn't be in Russia without getting high.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Well, right and again, if that is true. And I
was all prepared to be outraged because he was already
being held when Britney Griner did her thing, and immediately
all of America rushed to her aid because she's a
basketball player, although she just had trace amounts on her
vape pen evidently, and this dude had seventeen grams, which
is a significant amount of pod allegedly.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Happy Gallantine's Day. Still trying to wrap my head around this.
Maybe you all knew about it.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
I didn't.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
I'd never heard about it in my life. We're still
getting text about it. Gallantine's Day. So it comes from
the TV show Parks and Recreation. It was a joke,
kind of like in the way Festivus was a joke
on Seinfeld.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
But people still talk about it.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
Gallantine's Day caught on and it seems to be a
combination of women who just want to get together for
drinks after work or Mimosa's for brunch or whatever, and
then we'll celebrate Valentine's Day with a dude. Or We've
gotten a number of text from people, say, those of
us who are widowed or divorced or have no man
in our lives, we like Gallentine Day to get together
(19:19):
with the gals. I don't know, Katie, you celebrate Galentine's Days?
Speaker 8 (19:23):
I have before, and it's yeah, it's a good time
hang out with the girls, and it's a reason to
drink together early.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
Sure do we need more reasons? Or it is Thursday
not a good Thursday was always good enough reason for me.
That seems like a pretty damn good reason. It's Thursday
or Tuesday or Wednesday morning or whatever.
Speaker 8 (19:41):
You sound like, majorcas Tuesday, Wednesday.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
I will get together with friends to drink on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, well,
and so on, and we have.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
A very busy schedule. The first I heard about it
recently was from an email from a gal who said,
and she is a very Haiti like woman, Katie, very
down to earth practical, who said, now, this is just
more people aren't getting together. This is uh, nobody is
interested in Rome as what. I don't hell, I don't know,
(20:11):
and I don't particularly care. I don't think we're headed
for a planet of the beavers, and I've come to
accept it, which reminds me so seriously. Now. For years,
officials in the Czech Republic, which is absolutely beautiful, it
pushed a dam project to protect a river south of
Prague and the critically endangered species living in it, but
the project, hamstrung by land negotiations stalled. In the meantime,
(20:33):
a group of chiseltoothed mammals renowned for their engineering skills
and work ethic, an unencumbered by bureaucracy, decided to take
on the task. The Beavers of Prague simply built dams themselves.
The Rodents fast work. That's a band you follow around
and you smoke dope. Even if they go to Moscow.
The Beavers are prog. Yeah oh yeah, yeah, really rock hard.
(20:56):
Dang dang ticket. That's sort of last I saw him.
They played a fifteen minute version of Czech River. It
was unbelievable. Yeah yeah, a twelve minute chainsaw solo. Anyway,
they simply built the dams themselves. The Rodents' fast work
saved the local authorities one point two million euros, according
(21:16):
to a news release from somebody or other. Ah, so wait,
do they.
Speaker 8 (21:21):
Do anything else? And can we hire some of them
in California?
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (21:23):
No, kidding, Yeah, can they increase water storage in California?
Gavin Newsom hasn't. Jerry Brown didn't in generations as the
population doubled. Maybe we hire the Beavers of Prague.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
The Beavers of Prague, their original drummer choked on his
own vomit, but the new.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Guy's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
So hey, you know what I.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
Want to get this on. This is Elon Musk doing
a zoom call. Overnight for some place in the Middle East.
Does he ever sleep anyway? Between him and Trump? No
wonder their buddies that they need no rest. They run
twenty four hours a day.
Speaker 9 (22:01):
We do need to delete entire agencies as opposed to
leave part of them behind. Because you leave part of
them behind, it's easy. It's kind of like if they're
leaving a weed. If you don't remove the roots of
the weed, then it's easy for the weed to grow back.
But if you remove the roots of the weed, it
(22:21):
doesn't stop weeds.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
From ever going back, but it makes it harder.
Speaker 9 (22:24):
So we have to really delete entire agencies.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Any of them clearly, clearly true.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
And I heard it described last night on MSNBC comparing
government workers to weeds. You know that sort of thing.
Shut up and that is the proper response. But other
than is you know, renaming himself Harry Balls. Every time
I hear him talk, it's in very measured, reasonable tones. No,
we need to look at these agencies and go through
the books and see what they're accomplishing, whether they're you know,
(22:53):
the employees, all the employees are needed or not. How
is that not completely reasonable?
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Well, when you see the response that is frantic and
illogical and fake civil rights. See you understand that it's
not about principle. If it were, you know, you'd be
one hundred percent right. There's no way to object to it.
All of the things he've said on this topic have
been one hundred percent reasonable and patriotic and smart and
(23:18):
the rest of it, which just shows you the true
nature of politics.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
But what's legal and all that sort of stuff, I
don't know, And that'll get worked out in the courts
now and again, what Trump defies the courts of constitutional crisis?
He has stated specifically he will abide by the court
rulings and they'll fight in the courts.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
He's set it out loud.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
But you still have a roundtable on CNN, And what
will we do if he ignores the courts?
Speaker 1 (23:41):
He just said he's not going to.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Do fine, you know, I wanted to get into the
whole fake who we're having a constitutional crisis when jd
Vance tweeted the other day that we will not allow
the judiciary to essentially intrude on legitimate executive power, and
(24:05):
everybody went crazy on the CNN panels, Jack's talking about
and was talking about how oh Trump's going to defy
the court. So that's a construtional crisis and the rest
of it. When what Vance said is, well, it's the
stuff of a Yale law student. No, he was saying,
there are legitimate provinces of discretion within the executive branch,
and we plan to exercise them, and if a court
(24:26):
limits us, we will fight that and we will win.
So it was a testament to respect for the system,
not defiance. I mean, you really had to stretch to
interpret that is. Yeah, let John Roberts come over here
and enforce his s himself.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Is that's not what he said.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
It all trying to figure out what's going on with
the giant aircraft carrier, the Truman, that crashed into a
pretty good sized ship in the Mediterranean Sea, and it
just happened like in the last hour or so. We're
broken last hour or so. I hope it's another not
another black eye for the Navy where it looks like
(25:04):
we don't quite have her act together, like has happened
a few times in recent years.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Again, maybe it's a timely warning before the pooh has
hit the fan, we realize, hey, we're going to sharpen
up this, that and the other that's true. Maybe Pete
Haggszeth will get to the bottom ll if we're not sharp.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
It'd be better to find it out now than when
we try to stop China from taking Taiwan or something
like that.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
It's undeniable that the captain of the aircraft carrier's career
will be over unless it's a really, really weird circumstance.
On the other hand, the guy and the other ship,
how'd you miss a twelve hundred foot vessel? Right, it's
as big as a skyscraper. What are you doing in
the way?
Speaker 4 (25:45):
So I saw the headline yesterday people are rushing to
buy chickens around the United States, And then I googled
it and I started to google rush to buy chickens
to see and a whole bunch of different headlines came
up from Chicago and Seattle and you know, name wherever
in this in the country where people are buying chickens
(26:06):
because egg prices are so high and you're all.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Of a sudden going to be a chicken farmer. It
just seems like a lot.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Do you need eggs that much?
Speaker 2 (26:12):
I don't know. You must need eggs more than I do.
But Michael, I know how busy you are. But how
many times have chickens been mentioned in the last week,
And there's one particular clip that has not been played,
not even once. Jack back to you.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
Well, when I went to Google rushed to buy chickens,
the suggestions that it put up there, you know, because
Google gives you. The most popular chicken related questions currently
being asked was why are so many people buying chickens?
Really a lot of you google that, h So you're
(26:49):
aware that people are buying chickens. You're not aware that
egg prices are up where you feel like to inquire
and you feel like you're missing out. All my friends
are buying chickens. Is this the hot thing? I feel
like I feel like I got.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
That's uh foamk fear of missing chickens. Yeah, I don't know.
That's that's very odd, that's very meta, that's very Internet age.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
It is it is. Yes, Michael, we do have.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
The infamous uh chicken clip.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
Here you go then on Fox five, Sky Guardian and
then check that seven day.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
To make your weekend glance.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
It takes a tough man to make a ten to
forecast nick.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Chicken. Okay, I'll do.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
We continue.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
It's so stupid.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
Let me continue. Did we ever nail down why he
said that or precisely what he said? Was that an
unnecessary censorship? No, that was real, but he actually said
it right.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Yeah, he actually said he wanted to say plucking.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
But he.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Dropped the F bomb. That's a that's an odd mistake
to make. I've been doing this job for men many
years and I've yet too fumble the ball quite that serious.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
Now that I know he actually said that, I would
like to hear it again so I can hear how
they all react and try to move on. Then on
Fox five Sky Guardian and then check that seven day
to make your weekend plans.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
It takes a tough man to make a tender forecast.
Speaker 6 (28:17):
Nick, okay, we continue.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
So the other guys, okay, I'll do that. You can
hear because the way it's bleep, we've got the f
in there, so yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Oh yeah, it's legit.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
You go to commercials Okay, hey, Jim, what the hell
was that?
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Oh? You know, well, and you'd think, wait a minute,
did I just hear that? Last night, I'm sitting there
with my son who's visiting, along with my oldest daughter.
The youngest soon to arrive. Uh and uh and and
Little D texted me a question and I answered it,
Nah an age and uh, that's my youngest daughter de lady.
(28:58):
And I glanced down and I was like, wait a minute, wait,
what did my brain just do because it looked like
my iPhone wanted to autofill an n bomb? What And
I'm like, wait, wait, whoa wait, I didn't. I didn't
imagine that. That's too freaking weird. And so I did
it once or twice more, and for some reason, like
(29:20):
the third time I did it, it tried to autofill
nagger the infamous South Park bit, south Park bit, but
yeah it actually I typed nah, and my iPhone tried
to say nager, so an expression I have never used
in any concept, any context except describing the infamous South.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Park right boy?
Speaker 2 (29:47):
No like that. No, I was shocked. And again it
must have been like here in your coworker, drop an
F bomb? You'd be like, did I see? Did I
hear that?
Speaker 4 (29:56):
Have you had any experiences like we were talking about yesterday?
Of the AI suggestion replies to long text, I had
another one last hour, having fairly lengthy text conversation with somebody.
It was like it suggested. I say, I'm sorry to
hear that, maybe it'll work out or something like that.
I'm like, this is a heartfelt conversation. I shouldn't be
just taking your suggestions of how to continue it.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
It's weird. Yeah, Tim Cook. Maybe there are people who
actually want real human interaction removed from their lives completely.
I'm not one of them. I think that's really one
of the only things worth living for, so I'll I
handle it. Thank you. Wow. I don't know how I
feel about it.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
If I find out somebody's responding to me, if I
send a heartfelt, complicated dealing with kids or marriage or
whatever it is, and I find out the replies were
just I just went with the AI suggestions.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Jack, You'll live through this, You'll gain wisdom from it,
and you'll value these years. Trust me on that.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
Don't be a nagger, and I'll say, hey, thanks, that
really helped me in a hard say.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
I just pressed send.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
I didn't even look at it, but I'm glad to
hear it.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Come on, We'll finish strong next time, arm strong, hetty.
Speaker 10 (31:17):
I'm saying, isn't just a jilly famous Presidente Margarita.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Jilly says, my god, I know I'm sanging out man and.
Speaker 9 (31:33):
A great sound.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Frances say, song promoting.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
President Margarita. And it's as good as any actual pop
song because it.
Speaker 10 (31:42):
Says or click one hundred percent. It's one hundred percent
as good as Humphrey hips. It's the most I don't
know when the last time music was this homogeneous.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
I suppose as it always was, but no, no, no, no.
Speaker 8 (32:03):
No no.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
I ought to write a lengthy piece, it would be
like a thousand words if it's for National Review. It'd
be ten thousand if it was for the Atlantic. But
talking about how there was absolutely creativity and some anarchy
and just wild explorations within quote unquote pop music for
a while. But it's a commodity that's fairly valuable in
(32:30):
the marketplace, and so it became commoditized. And now it's
just it's like corn.
Speaker 4 (32:36):
But you don't think like O wheat future, but you
don't think it makes its way through different genres like
I feel like all ninety early nineties hip hop sounded
exactly the same. And then there was a period of
like in the seventies, there was the kind of music
it was all sounded the same, and.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
Oh sure, yeah, and then somebody breaks through, whether it's
Nirvana or Elvis or whatever, and then quickly the corporate
go grab hold of that and commoditize it again. And
then you got to find your creativity elsewhere.
Speaker 4 (33:04):
But modern country. And I'm a country fan, so that
hurts more. But it Oh, it's hard to take it,
you know.
Speaker 8 (33:17):
Chadcarmstrong and j Getti.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
Now that's genre bending genius right there.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew
to wrap up today. There is our technical director, Michelangelo. Michael,
you know I'm still getting compliments about my cheese dip,
and I know I was, and get this much love.
I got to create another food because you know, I've
never felt so good.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
I never felt so good.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
We've known various DJs who've like sold their their barbecue
sauce or whatever made a few bucks. You ought to
do that, oh right, Katie Greener.
Speaker 4 (33:53):
Like Sammy Hagar's tequila is significantly different than anybody else's
plate man, Katie.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
Green arsteam to Newswoman as a final thought.
Speaker 8 (34:01):
Katie, Joe, I would love for you to go to
your lovely bride and pitch a golfing times Day'll take time, you.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Know, I'll jump again and say my final thought is,
I think one of the secrets to our happy marriage
is we're perfectly comfortable with We do us stuff, and
then I do me stuff and she does her stuff.
Then we come together and do us stuff again. It's great, Jack.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
Final thought, Well, the important thing is that the most
romantic times are the ones declared by the Hallmark card company.
Oh yeah, and that's when if it's not a perfect day,
your relationship is, or at least should be ruined and ended. Yes,
Armstrong and Giddy rabi about other grueling four hour workday.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Elon Musk has to come and pull your relationship out
of the ground like a weed. So many people that
thanks a little time go to Armstrong and Giddy dot com.
Pickups me and g swag at store. You can listen
to the podcast the link at Armstrong Giddy dot com.
Check out the hotlinks we'll see tomorrow. God bless America.
It's not efficiency.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
I'm strong and getty. Our message is clear. We're gonna stand.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
Up, We're gonna speak up, We're gonna we're gonna do
anything we.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
Need to do.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Who I got nothing for you on that, So let's
go with a bang. That's right, all right?
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Every time I don't know, is I pay no attention?
Speaker 2 (35:17):
Well, I was just surprised to find out you pay
no attention when it's not normal. But by Armstrong and
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