February 24, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 3 of A&G features...
- 3 years since the start of the Russia Ukraine war & the Russia/China relationship
- Hooters is going out of business & NY Yankees allow beards
- Maine fighting to keep men in women's sports & the Connecticut cannibal killer
- Jack's birthday trip & modern art!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio and the
George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong, Shoety arm Strong and
Jetty and he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
For some people here, the war has already begun. The
lifetime shelling in the east, where Ukrainian soldiers opposed Russian
backed separatists, has increased, with two Ukrainian soldiers killed. Saturday,
Separatist leaders ordered an evacuation with a dubious warning that Ukraine,
surrounded by one hundred and ninety thousand Russian soldiers, plans
(00:45):
to attack. We are taking enough food for one day,
she says. We don't know when we'll be back.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Three years ago today the war started. Russian invaded Ukraine. Evil,
absolutely evil, the worst major invasion of another country since
World War Two. Here's a little more on three years
ago today.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
It appears the Russians have targeted Ukraine's military infrastructure in
the capital Kiev. Ballistic missiles struck targets and the outskirts
of the city. Wasn't constant bombardment, but a boom every
so often. Ukraine's border guards said. Russian troops attacked from
the north and crossed from Belarus with artillery, tanks and
small arms. The Ukrainian military reported casualties, the first of
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what could be many in a conflict widely expected to
be bloody.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
We'll get into a little of the did Russia start
it or did Ukraine start? A talk that you knew
was going to happen over the weekend since Trump said
Ukraine started it, and I knew every Republican that went
on every Sunday talk show was going to be forced
to answer for that, which is in this case not
(01:52):
I don't think unfair. But here's a little Ian panel
on ABC some of the back and forth between Zelenski
and Trump and where we are now and the trying
to negotiate an end of this war.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Three years later, President Zelenski, under political attack, engaged in
a bitter war of words with President Trump, who called
him a dictator for not holding elections. It comes as
the White House presses Zelenski to accept a deal that
would require Ukraine to give billions back to the US
for the military aid already sent to Ukraine. Zelenski insisting
that money was a grant, not alone, but that he's
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ready to work with America on joint investments.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
A little more on the trying to get the money
back angle of this in a second, but more from Ian.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
You're under pressure from Moscow to step aside and Washington
to hold elections. Would you be willing to give up
the presidency if it meant peace for Ukraine? The Ukrainian
leader telling me he's ready to resign if it means peace,
and he altered to stand down if it meant membership
of NATO, saying I'll do it immediately without a long
conversation about it.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
I gotta believe President Zelensky's head is space and he's
having lots of meetings huddled together with his best advisors
to try to figure out how to handle this current
situation that landed at his feet three years into this awful,
awful war.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
Right right, this, this is, of all of the Trump's
Trump Administration's early actions, the one that bothers me the
most for a number of reasons, including that you know
he started it, he's a dictator. Both of those are
demonstrably false, and so how your putin's an actual dictator?
Speaker 1 (03:28):
How about this angle? Let's play this one and then
you can respond to this.
Speaker 6 (03:31):
Okay, sure, going.
Speaker 7 (03:34):
To get our money back because it's not fair. It's
just not fair. And we will see. But I think
we're pretty close to a deal. And we better be
close to a deal because that has been a horrible situation.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
That didn't include money. But the details. But yes, Donald
Trump saying we need to the half the money I
guess we're hoping to get from the rare earth minerals
that they've got in Ukraine to pay us back for
the money that we have loaned them. As you heard,
Zelensky thought it took it more as a grant than
a loone, the helping them defend themselves against Russia.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
I think he took it that way because it's never
been alone. It was never called alone, it was never
set up as alone. There were never any terms of repayment.
The idea that it was alone is silly. It wasn't.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
It was aid.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Well, I think it's going to happen. What's that the
US get in half of the rare Earth.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
There will probably be a deal struck, but it's going
to be very different than the one initially offered to Ukraine.
I was going to talk about how Trump, I mean,
everybody understands he promises ridiculously, you know, optimistic stuff. It's
a directional indicator, as they say these days. When he
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says I could settle it in twenty four hours, he
means I'm going to try very hard to settle it,
unlike the administration, which was terrible and wasn't really trying
to achieve victory or peaceful settlement.
Speaker 6 (05:07):
They were just kind of going along. So I get
directionally why it was a good idea.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
But on the one hand, you have Zelenski saying we're
not taking the extraction of our minerals because we accepted
foreign aid that wasn't alone, and now we have to
give it away. And as he said, I'm not gonna
sign a deal where ten generations later Ukrainians are still
paying for it.
Speaker 6 (05:28):
And the second thing is Vladimir.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
Putin and his people have come to the bargaining table
and made it pretty damn clear. Yeah, we appreciate your
peace making efforts, but we're doing pretty well on the battlefield.
We're gonna keep killing Ukrainians fast as we can. We're
gonna see if we can grab a few more inches
of land, no matter how many thousands of Russian lives
it takes.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
And thanks for the offer, but we're good.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
So are you surprised that Putin isn't more interested in
trying to end this thing, given the fact that he's
lost eight hundred thousand soldiers like half a million dead.
Speaker 6 (06:01):
I don't think his patience is infinite.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
But as you've vindicated, this has been Russian history over
and over again. We will kill as many young men
as it takes to gain whatever the Czar, the Kremlin,
Vladimir Putin decides they want to take. And as they
are on a little bit of the front foot on
the battlefield, they got mercenaries and North Koreans and more
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young men they're conscripting. No, they're gonna keep grinding away
for a little while longer at least well.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Plus, I don't know what's going on behind the scenes,
but in front of the scenes, if I'm Putin, I
would think it looks like Zalnsy's getting leaned on more
than I am.
Speaker 6 (06:38):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
Yeah, Trump is being much harder on Zelensky, at least
publicly than Putin, which is troubling to me.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
It gets complicated even on the Republican side of the
aisle with some of this stuff, because not all Republicans,
at various levels of leadership agree with Trump's tactics or
some of the things he's said. But Pete Haggzeth, who
is the Secretary of Defense, was on Fox News Sunday
yesterday and asked the question that I knew everybody'd be asked.
Speaker 8 (07:09):
I don't need to get into the characterization of we
know who invaded who, So standing here and saying you're good,
you're bad, You're a dictator, You're not a dictator.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
You invaded, you didn't.
Speaker 9 (07:19):
It's not useful, it's not productive. And so President Trump
isn't getting drawn into that in unnecessary.
Speaker 8 (07:24):
Ways, and as a result, we're closer to peace today.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
Than ever before.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
But fair to say Russia attacked unprovoked into Ukraine three
years ago tomorrow, fair to say it's a very complicated situation. Yeah,
so the second deaf can't just come out and say
Russia attacked Ukraine.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
Sorry, you guys pro Trump or your anti Trump, We're
pro the United States of America. You want to talk
about a complicated situation. Pete Heggzeth having to go on
shows after the President says something is ridiculous as Ziln
as you know, Ukraine started the war, and he's trying
to dance around it.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
Well.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Also on Fox, this isn't you know ABC News with
David Muir Muir This is on Fox. Maria bartar Romo
asked Walls, who's the National Security Advisor? Is that what
he is? Anyway, same question.
Speaker 6 (08:12):
Can you acknowledge that Russia is the aggressor here?
Speaker 8 (08:15):
Well, you know what, who would you rather have him
go toe to toe with the likes of Vladimir Putin,
Kim Jong un, she or who anyone else? Joe Biden
or Donald Trump. He's the deal maker in chief, He's
the commander in chief, and it's only because of his
strength that were even in this position. And President Trump's
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own words have been that Russia invaded a neighbor under Bush,
under Obama, under Biden, but not him. It didn't happen
his first term, and he's going to bring it to
an end his second term.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
So that's the position. A lot of his cabinet people
are in and trying to defend the whole Ukraine started
this thing and then slightly or.
Speaker 6 (08:59):
Difflec obviously changed the top.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, slightly different topic, but again getting to
the there's a bit of a fisure in the at least,
I guess with Fox and Trump, and I know a
lot of you think Fox is evil for calling the
election for Arizona in twenty twenty and all that sort
of stuff, so you But anyway, brit Hume today talking
about the German elections and the fact that the AfD,
(09:23):
that's what they call the ultra right wing party, that
did better than it's ever done before. I'll read this
quote from brit Hume. Despite what you've heard from Elon
Musk and jd Vance, the AfD is an anti American
pro Russian party. Some eighty percent of German voters, including
the twenty nine percent who chose Fred Mertz, don't support
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the AfD. The pro American mister Mertz could could use
us support. But so that's the Seniors commentator on Fox saying, hey,
that right party is anti US, pro Russia right.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
And this returns to a theme I'm always harping on
that the polite, moderate conservative Germans were unwilling to say,
we have a bit of an immigration challenge and it's
tearing a part of our country and huge percentages of
Germans hate it. They were too polite and restrained to
say that they didn't want to stir up trouble, and
so these people whose lives in towns are just being
(10:22):
thrown as completely changed forever by this rampant immigration, are saying, Okay,
is anybody reflecting my concerns? The AfD is okay, there
are a bunch of lunatics, but at least they're reflecting
my concerns. This is the problem you run into, and
the so called moderate parties are being too politically correct
to reflect the reality of their voters, which is one
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of the things Jade Vance was talking about that I
thought was great.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Yeah, but as uh as we pointed out, he gets
it's complicated for Fox to cover it. It's complicated for
us to cover it. Just on the whole, I believe
Ukraine is the victim. Putin is one of the most
evil people on planet Earth, et cetera, et cetera. Are
we going to normalize relations with Russia? Oh, by the way,
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another thing I wanted to throw in. So some people
claim the behind the stream strategy scene strategy that the
seven dimensional Chess is Trump trying to break Russia away
from China, and that our biggest threat on the world
stage is Russian China together, which is bad definitely very
very bad from us, and that if he could, you know,
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kind of be friendly with Russia, maybe they'd get away
from China. She called Putin today on the three year anniversary,
to congratulate him on the peace talks, and blah blah blah,
which most people are seeing is just a message to
the world, Hey, you ain't separating us. We're together, Russian
China are in this together. We are taking on the
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rest of you all.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
Yeah, and again we'd rather have you understand what's going
on than pander to you. So I will say this,
the idea that Trump in the really three years or
so he has left of productive presidency, because that that
final year is very lame ducky for a variety of reasons.
But the idea that in the three years he has left,
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Trump could do enough for Putin that it would pry
Putin away from Shijin Ping, who is really kind of
the electrical outlet that's letting Russia run right now. The
idea that he could pry him away is a fantasy.
It won't happen. It can't happens. It's almost silly. I
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wish it weren't, because Jack, what you said is one
hundred percent correct. Russia and China together is awful.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
It's gonna be interesting to see how this plays out
over the coming days, weeks, months before we take a break.
You gotta quit prediction. You think Putin's just going to continue,
so there will be no peace deal?
Speaker 6 (12:51):
Uh, not for months?
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Not for months. Yeah, biggest drone attack on Kiev by
far last night.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
If the a three unquote peace deal, You've got to
look at Russia's history of breaking every deal they make, right,
every freaking deals they may.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Well, that's why Macrone's meeting with Trump right now at
the White House and mcron and fred Martz, is it
France and Germany or.
Speaker 6 (13:14):
Hope Macrone put on a nice clean pair of panties.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Have agreed to put tens of thousands of peacekeepers that'd
be soldiers in Ukraine to try to, you know, as
a guarantee that Russia won't reinvade. Obviously that would be
attacking NATO troops. And then you got Article five in
that whole thing. But hopefully we don't get there any
time soon. You got to comment on any of this
text line four nine five KFTC.
Speaker 6 (13:39):
I went to.
Speaker 10 (13:40):
Career day for my daughter's school. So I was hoping
to sit at a table alone. They put me at
a table with a surgeon, which I think they did
it on purpose, almost to show the kids here's the
difference between reading. They asked him how long did you
go to school to be a surge? And you know,
(14:01):
he's like fifty four years or whatever it's like. And
they asked me, They're like, how long to be a comedian.
I was like, you're good now, so look, finish elementary school,
make your parents happy.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
But then I'd get out.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
And get after it. Nate Bargati had career day with
his daughter. I wouldn't like that either. Don't sit me
with the surgeon. The hell hain't cool. I had that
problem at the career day at my son's high school.
What a couple of months ago I did that. Some
of the people that like could really accomplished things that
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tear actual pages from rock and roll history. It's like
being told, yeah, Jimmy Hendrix is going to open for you.
Speaker 6 (14:44):
What no, No, don't put me next to the surgeon.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
A couple of business notes for you. First business, Hooters
has declared they're going to file for bankruptcy. I'm kind
of shocked still works or is a thing or is
it barely working? They should put a Hooters in the coals,
see if that would work. Maybe have a in the
corner of the coals. You could have a Hooters. See
if they like you got a Starbucks in the target. Yeah,
(15:12):
have a Hooters and a Coles. They can both go
out of business together. And then the other business news
is the New York Yankees have announced they will allow
facial hair for the first time in their famous history,
raise their wielding fascists. They've had a bunch of very
famous players come there that were bearded or mustachioed and
they had to cut their beard and no more. I
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guess they're getting with the times, realizing almost all the
good players have beards.
Speaker 10 (15:38):
So.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
Literally nobody cares.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
I kind of liked it for some reason. I don't know.
I don't know what that means about me, but I
kind of liked theriar.
Speaker 6 (15:47):
We have rules.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
We we're a class organization here, and gonna have a
bunch of hoodlums with facial air.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
Hoodlums with facial air keep trying have those damn big
ear gauges where your ear loaves are all stretched out.
Speaker 6 (16:03):
That'd be my only rule.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Have you ever seen anybody when they've got them out?
Speaker 6 (16:08):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (16:10):
God, it's hard to not vomit. Yes, Kate's rough. Yes, Katie,
are you ready for a confession?
Speaker 6 (16:17):
Ok?
Speaker 1 (16:17):
You gauges?
Speaker 11 (16:18):
I did, and my dad one year at Christmas went,
the only thing that I want is for you to
take those out of your ears, And so I did.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
And then did you have to get an operation or anything?
I called them?
Speaker 11 (16:28):
I actually call them b whole ears because they're like
still kind of stretched out.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Okay, no, that they did. They retract like a rubber
band over time. Yeah, they went back. Oh I didn't
know that.
Speaker 11 (16:38):
But I can't wear certain kinds of ear rings because
it's still a little stretched.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
So who were you angry at at the time when
you got your ear gauges?
Speaker 11 (16:46):
The guy I was dating had gated gauged ears and
it was dumb.
Speaker 6 (16:50):
There you go, dumb date men.
Speaker 11 (16:53):
That's that's the end of the story, right there, You
guys lead to all the problems.
Speaker 6 (17:00):
Wait till you're twenty four.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
At least, Joe's gonna help us drink liberal tears? Coming
up next? Is that where we're doing?
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (17:10):
Oh, now I have no time, but yes, roughly speaking, yes,
armstrong and getty and this adi.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
You know what it means, because.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
That's heard somebody to say earlier.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Today they have substitute in these acronyms for the N word.
Speaker 9 (17:29):
My message to young men is, don't allow this broken
culture to send you a message that you're a bad
person because you're a man, because you like to tell
a joke, because you like to have a beer with
your friends, or because you're competitive. O. Our message, the
cultural message, and I think the presidents in mine is
the exact opposite. But our cultural message is I think
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that it wants to turn everybody into whether male or female,
into androgynous idiots who think the same, talk this same,
and act the same. We actually think God made male
and female for a purpose, and we want you guys
to thrive as young men and as young women, and
we're going to help with our public policy to make
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it possible to do that.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
Just a little contrast there of James Cliburn, who got
the Mummy Joe Biden elected by backing in South Carolina
back in the day, saying that to even use the
term DEI is to drop an N bomb. If you're
saying it's bad. If you're saying it's good, you get
to and then JD. Van saying, hey, men don't be
ashamed of being men. Go ahead and be a man.
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We were talking earlier about how a number of states,
including Maine, are fighting to keep boys playing in girls'
sports because they really like to see boys win all
the girls medals.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
I guess even though the New York Times has pulling
out today that eighty percent of Americans don't agree with that.
Speaker 5 (18:55):
Yeah, I'm tempted to play Trump's screed about the main governor, well,
go ahead nineteen Michael Ena.
Speaker 7 (19:00):
Maine yesterday, right, the governor of May.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
She's fighting to keep men.
Speaker 7 (19:11):
In women's sports. You ever see what happens to a
woman when a woman boxes a man who transitioned to womanhood.
Did you ever see what happens? It's not pretty, it's
not pretty.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Let her do that fight.
Speaker 7 (19:28):
Let them all do that fight, because I think that's
about a ninety ten issue, and I can't figure out
who the ten percent are.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Don't nobody can?
Speaker 5 (19:36):
Yeah, Yeah, he's damn near right. It's certainly an eighty
twelve issue. And then the inevitable, you know, four to
eight percent who'd no opinion.
Speaker 6 (19:46):
I don't know. Wait wait, wait, wait.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
We're talking about a young man donning a skirt saying
I'm now a girl and beating the hell out of
girls on a sports field. Are you in favor of
that or against it? I don't know, no opinion.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Not sure.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
How about a man who just like physically beats a
woman down on a sports field in favor against him?
Speaker 6 (20:09):
Maybe? Not not sure? You people, please don't vote.
Speaker 5 (20:17):
Branda Devine, who is so nasty but funny in The
New York Post, writing about a couple of different topics,
including the fact that Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers, who is
a prominent.
Speaker 6 (20:29):
Democrat and is a decent weather van.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
For which way the Democratic Party is going because they
are leaderless rudderless philosophy lists about half.
Speaker 6 (20:45):
A Democrat say the woke thing killed us, and I
think it's sick anyway, and the other half are like,
we're not woken enough. That's our problem anyway.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
Tony Evers just backed legislation that redefines mothers as and
I quote inseminated persons. Wow, happy in seminated person's day
or some flowers, Hey, inseminated person. I was just calling
because we haven't talked for a while, and I miss you.
Speaker 6 (21:15):
How are you? And Dad? Good? God? Seriously, I mean
it's not.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Like just wrong, it's perverse, it's bizarre, it's radical, and
it's like ninety ten.
Speaker 6 (21:28):
And yet go.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
To your local school and see if they're teaching about
the genderbread person. Anyway, as a proud mother of two,
writes Congresswoman Amanda Nednuski of Kenosha, Wisconsin, as a proud
mother of two, it is absolutely insulting that the governor
and his budget would reduce me in millions of other
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mothers across Wisconsin to inseminated persons. Yeah, I would agree,
and for some reason, and I'm just going to throw
this in not because zapropos.
Speaker 6 (22:03):
I think it actually distracts from a really important argument.
Speaker 5 (22:07):
But Miranda Devine also writes about how in deep blue Connecticut,
because they have well you know what, I guess this
is related cal Unicornians, Illinoisans New Yorkers will recognize this
attitude of we've got to turn everybody loose from the
prisons if we possibly can, because we've overincarcerated people disproportionately,
people of color, blah blah blah, and enforcing laws racist.
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We should let the crime run wild in the streets,
so all of our products are locked up behind glass.
Speaker 6 (22:36):
Connecticuts.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
Democrat appointed socially worker social worker Heavy Psychiatric Security Review
Board approved.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
The early release the early release from.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
A secure metal hospital a cannibal X murderer who ate
his victim's brain and eyeball with chopsticks and washed it
down with a glass of sucke. Forty eight year old's
Tyreese Smith who killed an eight angel Tun Gonzalez It's
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probably ana Hell was deemed not guilty by reason of insanity,
but they said, yeah, he's more or less fixed, so
we're gonna turn him loose. The board concluding the Smiths
was not experiencing cravings to eat human flesh anymore, and
that he had agreed to reach out to the hospital
if he felt like killing anybody and eating them.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Wonder what that feels like when you're overwhelmed with the
desire to kill somebody to eat them.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
I have a number of verges, some of which I
worked at. Well, that's not one of them.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
You know what sounds good today, gym in accounting, Hey,
ain't sounds delicious.
Speaker 5 (23:50):
I'd first have to hack him to death with an
axe and then consume his brain. But let's see, I've
got the staff meeting at ten thirty. Oh, I'm booked
for lunch. Gotta wait till this evening.
Speaker 6 (24:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
Yeah, And actually, one of the Republicans apparently there are
a few in Connecticut asked, is this Smith guy likely
to reoffend if he fails to take his medicand medications?
And they said yeah, he was more than likely to
do so, but that he'd pledged to take his medication
and again reach out to the hospital if he was,
you know, seized by the desire to pick up his
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act and do again what he did.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Like, you can't count on the pledges of a maniac.
I mean, what is there to believe in?
Speaker 5 (24:31):
So that is you know, granted that is a semi
nut picking, Yeah, I suppose, But when you've got that
alongside what appears to be the only unifying message at
this point, which is Elon is a dick and f Trump.
This is why it makes me nuts when Trump does
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crazy stuff that's not necessary or says crazy stuff that's
not necessary. I mean, we're head by five and a
half touchdowns in the fourth quarter, Just don't throw.
Speaker 6 (25:05):
Any deep pass. How we throw a deep pass? Oh no, no, no,
So we'll see how it goes.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
But James Carbal, the Democratic strategists, he's ancient at this point,
and I think kind of out of touch with where
things have gone. But he says, hey, Democrats, play powsome.
Things are going to fall apart soon around all of
this stuff that Trump's doing. Just play powsome, stay away
from all this crap. But I ain't gonna listen to him.
I think he's right. If I'm a Democrat, that's what
I would want to do. I don't know if he's
right that the whole Trump thing's going to fall apart,
(25:35):
but I do think he's right that playing possum is
a better strategy than doubling down on some of this nonsense.
Speaker 6 (25:42):
Right right in.
Speaker 5 (25:43):
No other conservative authority than Jake Tapper had HAKEM.
Speaker 6 (25:49):
Jeffries on the other day.
Speaker 5 (25:51):
And you know, Jeffries is as close to a leader
as I think Democrats have. He's the House Minority leader.
He's a very very bright young man. I mean, he's
utterly dishonest and progressive in a way that makes me
but he's a very smart guy. And he went on
CNN to Jake Tapper's show as saying that, hey.
Speaker 6 (26:07):
We're regrouping, We're on our way up.
Speaker 5 (26:08):
The Republicans are going to collapse, and even Tapper said,
you know, congressional Republicans are pulling it about forty percent
and Democrats are twenty percent.
Speaker 6 (26:17):
So that's an issue for you. We just need to
not screw it up.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
So I left town Thursday and I did a little
birthday thing I want to talk about next to all
these art museums I went to in Los Angeles. But
because I was out of town, I missed the USA
Canada hockey match on ESPN on Wednesday night, which set
records for ESPN's most watched something or other they've ever
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had in their history on ESPN. Who won? I don't
know anything.
Speaker 6 (26:47):
The Knuckers won in overtime.
Speaker 5 (26:49):
Overtime crazy, Oh yeah, sounds exciting and mincingly little Justin
Trudeau tweeted, you can't have our country and you can't
take our game.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Wow overtime And do they do the shootout in that?
Is that the way they did how they do over there?
Speaker 6 (27:05):
No?
Speaker 5 (27:05):
No, they play for a while first and they actually
scored a goal, which is the sort of you know,
provocative attack that often inspires an invasion.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
So it causes bellay or something.
Speaker 6 (27:18):
Exactly the annexation.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Huh. I continue to stand with Hitler when I say, oh, Man,
that modern art is crap. Oh he would have said shite,
But I'd say he's right about this, as I saw
a bunch of modern art in some of the best
museums in the world over the weekend. I want to
tell you about some of the things I saw, among
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other things on the way stay here. So I went
to downtown Los Angeles. I stayed in downtown Los Angeles
for my birthday on Friday. I'd never stayed downtown before.
And if you don't know, a Los Angeles is very
spread out, so they're downtown. Isn't like New York or
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Chicago where there's like gazillions of people walking around and
everything like that and doing their thing, so many people
working all all are flung areas. It's not like that
at all. But I went to a bunch of museums
and that sort of thing. First I went to I
went to Rodeo Drive on Thursday afternoon. I was gonna
do some shopping for my birthday, which I thought better
of after I saw some of the prices on these things,
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I was kind of interested in what a freak show
that is? What a freak show. It's just you should
go if you ever have the opportunity, just to like
walk the streets and look at the people and see
that this exists. The thing you think is only on
TV actually exists. Women with faces so distorted by boatox
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and operationals and they hardly look like human beings wearing
the craziest clothes you can possibly imagine, struggling to get
an in and out of Lamborghini's because they're an inch
off the ground and they you know, I'm fifty years
old and I've had a lot of botox and everything, and.
Speaker 5 (29:03):
I'm I'm wearing twenty five thousand dollars worth a clothes.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Right and I'm trying to get out of this Lamborghini
and it's just it's and then they're everywhere. It's really something.
And then who buys all that stuff? Who buys these
twenty thousand dollars jackets and eleven thousand dollars purses? Are
there enough people? There must be, or the stores wouldn't
be there. But there are obviously enough people to buy
those things to keep the places open, the lights on.
Speaker 5 (29:27):
A lot of things that used to be signs of
wealth now are accessible to a lot of people, or
knockoffs are, and so people who are looking for status,
is a rich person have to really go to extremes.
Speaker 6 (29:40):
To prove that they're better.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Right, That is part of it. So it's getting late
that things are closing down, and I'm hungry, and so
then I just go on my little app on my phone.
Restaurant open near me, and right over there was Spago,
which if you're old enough you know the name, because
it was like the most famous restaurant in the world
for I don't know a decade or so. It's where
all the stars went and you had to get a
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reservation two years out and all that sort of stuff.
So unless you were somebody, yeah, well you don't have
to be somebody anymore because I just I just walked
over and walked in. But you know, I was hoping
to see Cindy Lauper and the stars of Knots Landing,
but they weren't there because it's not the eighties or
the nineties. And I had their famous salmon pizza and
looked all the pictures on the wall and had a
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wonderful time. Yes, Katie, I saw the picture of.
Speaker 11 (30:28):
The salmon pizza and I was I was very confused.
I what did that entail.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
It's a pizza crust with cream cheese with salmon on top,
and then some sort of fish egg thingy on top
of that, which I tried to pretend wasn't there because
it kind of grosses me out.
Speaker 6 (30:42):
But it was delicious.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
I think the pizza thing is what threw me.
Speaker 11 (30:45):
So it's kind of like a locks bagel sort of pizza.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
I guess this is what the stars of the eighties
and the early nineties wanted to eat, because it's their
signature thing. I saw that picture and I went, what
the hell right? I like to hit all the trendy
spots forty years after they.
Speaker 5 (30:59):
Were That's good. It looks fairly appetizing. I really like fish.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
It was great anyway. So the on Friday, I went
to a whole bunch of museums. I went to a
Catholic Mass at the big Giant Cathedral they have downtown
I'm not Catholic, but big Giant Cathedral they have Downtown,
LA which they rebuilt after the worst earthquake they had
back in the day. Stunning church, absolutely stunning. It's where
they have like if police die or firefighters die or whatever,
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that's where they have the funerals. It's the go to
politicians blah blah blah sort of church, and just absolutely stunning.
I don't tend to like modern architecture, but really like that.
But going to the museum, so much of it was
modern art, which I just, I honestly think is dumb.
I mean not just I don't have an appreciation for
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it or something like that. I actually think it's dumb.
I think you're being hoodwinked. I think it's a ruse.
I think you think you're supposed to go along with
it for some reason. It's just so dumb. Well, it's
like the banana tape to the wall from a couple
of weeks ago, you know, it's that sort of thing.
And there's just a lot of it that's like that.
So they had this new special display in one of
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your fancy museums, The working Man or something like that
was the title. If you have to do a whole
bunch of writing, in my opinion, to explain your art,
then the writing, what is the art. Then do you
need a whole bunch of writing to enjoy most of
the great pieces throughout history. No, you just look at
him and they are what they are, and it's amazing
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that somebody painted that or sculpted that or whatever. But
if you have to explain to me what the banana
tape to the wall means, I feel like, Okay, so
the art is in your description. They had a pair
of multiple pairs of work boots and a long description
of how this was a symbol of a worn through
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a lifetime of work in man's dedication to blah blah
blah whatever.
Speaker 5 (32:54):
I would have had the caption left over when the
mall was looted.
Speaker 6 (32:58):
Work boots.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
I just and they looked like a lot of the
boots I have in my closet. I thought, okay, so
I got plenty of these in my closet. Can I
bring in set them here on the Yeah, worn out
work boots, man's dedication to toiling with his the earth
or some capitalist society something or other. Bs Just like, really,
this is just crap, It's absolutely crap. Or the this
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is fairly famous. Maybe you've seen it before. The giant
table and chairs I took a picture of myself under that.
They're huge. The table is like fifteen feet tall. Did
the chairs match it? Okay, that's like a but anybody
could do that and your comment and symbolizes how we're
all oppressed by trying to figure out what to have
for dinner tonight. Man's in humanity demand. That's what I
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assume everything is. But something about oversized expectations in a
capitalist society once again or something or I just crap,
it's just crap. I don't know who you're trying to
cool with this stuff.
Speaker 6 (33:57):
Go back to the work boots, see if they fit?
Speaker 4 (34:00):
Did you?
Speaker 1 (34:00):
But did you see? I tweeted out the picture. I
guess this is the famous sculpture of Michael Jackson with
bubbles the chimp.
Speaker 6 (34:08):
It's a it's a museum of Modern Art in San
Francisco back in the day.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
What the hell is that?
Speaker 6 (34:16):
Ugly as hell?
Speaker 1 (34:18):
And it's supposed to symbolize the Michael Jackson's love of chimps.
I believe something with our obsession with celebrity or I
don't know, I don't know, I don't.
Speaker 5 (34:33):
Yeah, you'd lack the sophistication to appreciate I mean there's
there's a gold plated Michael Jackson reclining on a rug
with a chimp in his lap, hugging him lovingly.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
I will admit that, like a lot of things like opera,
a lot of classical music, stuff like that, it's my
lack of sophistication that I don't appreciate it. I honestly
believe this is crap and you're being fooled, and it's
a ruse and it has no meaning whatsoever. I honestly
believe is wearing the same outfit as Jacko.
Speaker 6 (35:03):
What don't you get it?
Speaker 5 (35:06):
Come on, man, clothing Jacko.
Speaker 6 (35:11):
It's all there.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
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Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio and the
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
For some people here, the war has already begun. The
lifetime shelling in the east, where Ukrainian soldiers opposed Russian
backed separatists, has increased, with two Ukrainian soldiers killed. Saturday,
Separatist leaders ordered an evacuation with a dubious warning that Ukraine,
surrounded by one hundred and ninety thousand Russian soldiers, plans
(00:45):
to attack. We are taking enough food for one day,
she says. We don't know when we'll be back.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Three years ago today the war started. Russian invaded Ukraine. Evil,
absolutely evil, the worst major invasion of another country since
World War Two. Here's a little more on three years
ago today.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
It appears the Russians have targeted Ukraine's military infrastructure in
the capital Kiev. Ballistic missiles struck targets and the outskirts
of the city. Wasn't constant bombardment, but a boom every
so often. Ukraine's border guards said. Russian troops attacked from
the north and crossed from Belarus with artillery, tanks and
small arms. The Ukrainian military reported casualties, the first of
(01:27):
what could be many in a conflict widely expected to
be bloody.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
We'll get into a little of the did Russia start
it or did Ukraine start? A talk that you knew
was going to happen over the weekend since Trump said
Ukraine started it, and I knew every Republican that went
on every Sunday talk show was going to be forced
to answer for that, which is in this case not
(01:52):
I don't think unfair. But here's a little Ian panel
on ABC some of the back and forth between Zelenski
and Trump and where we are now and the trying
to negotiate an end of this war.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Three years later, President Zelenski, under political attack, engaged in
a bitter war of words with President Trump, who called
him a dictator for not holding elections. It comes as
the White House presses Zelenski to accept a deal that
would require Ukraine to give billions back to the US
for the military aid already sent to Ukraine. Zelenski insisting
that money was a grant, not alone, but that he's
(02:27):
ready to work with America on joint investments.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
A little more on the trying to get the money
back angle of this in a second, but more from Ian.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
You're under pressure from Moscow to step aside and Washington
to hold elections. Would you be willing to give up
the presidency if it meant peace for Ukraine? The Ukrainian
leader telling me he's ready to resign if it means peace,
and he altered to stand down if it meant membership
of NATO, saying I'll do it immediately without a long
conversation about it.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
I gotta believe President Zelensky's head is space and he's
having lots of meetings huddled together with his best advisors
to try to figure out how to handle this current
situation that landed at his feet three years into this awful,
awful war.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
Right right, this, this is, of all of the Trump's
Trump Administration's early actions, the one that bothers me the
most for a number of reasons, including that you know
he started it, he's a dictator. Both of those are
demonstrably false, and so how your putin's an actual dictator?
Speaker 1 (03:28):
How about this angle? Let's play this one and then
you can respond to this.
Speaker 6 (03:31):
Okay, sure, going.
Speaker 7 (03:34):
To get our money back because it's not fair. It's
just not fair. And we will see. But I think
we're pretty close to a deal. And we better be
close to a deal because that has been a horrible situation.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
That didn't include money. But the details. But yes, Donald
Trump saying we need to the half the money I
guess we're hoping to get from the rare earth minerals
that they've got in Ukraine to pay us back for
the money that we have loaned them. As you heard,
Zelensky thought it took it more as a grant than
a loone, the helping them defend themselves against Russia.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
I think he took it that way because it's never
been alone. It was never called alone, it was never
set up as alone. There were never any terms of repayment.
The idea that it was alone is silly. It wasn't.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
It was aid.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Well, I think it's going to happen. What's that the
US get in half of the rare Earth.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
There will probably be a deal struck, but it's going
to be very different than the one initially offered to Ukraine.
I was going to talk about how Trump, I mean,
everybody understands he promises ridiculously, you know, optimistic stuff. It's
a directional indicator, as they say these days. When he
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says I could settle it in twenty four hours, he
means I'm going to try very hard to settle it,
unlike the administration, which was terrible and wasn't really trying
to achieve victory or peaceful settlement.
Speaker 6 (05:07):
They were just kind of going along. So I get
directionally why it was a good idea.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
But on the one hand, you have Zelenski saying we're
not taking the extraction of our minerals because we accepted
foreign aid that wasn't alone, and now we have to
give it away. And as he said, I'm not gonna
sign a deal where ten generations later Ukrainians are still
paying for it.
Speaker 6 (05:28):
And the second thing is Vladimir.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
Putin and his people have come to the bargaining table
and made it pretty damn clear. Yeah, we appreciate your
peace making efforts, but we're doing pretty well on the battlefield.
We're gonna keep killing Ukrainians fast as we can. We're
gonna see if we can grab a few more inches
of land, no matter how many thousands of Russian lives
it takes.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
And thanks for the offer, but we're good.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
So are you surprised that Putin isn't more interested in
trying to end this thing, given the fact that he's
lost eight hundred thousand soldiers like half a million dead.
Speaker 6 (06:01):
I don't think his patience is infinite.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
But as you've vindicated, this has been Russian history over
and over again. We will kill as many young men
as it takes to gain whatever the Czar, the Kremlin,
Vladimir Putin decides they want to take. And as they
are on a little bit of the front foot on
the battlefield, they got mercenaries and North Koreans and more
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young men they're conscripting. No, they're gonna keep grinding away
for a little while longer at least well.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Plus, I don't know what's going on behind the scenes,
but in front of the scenes, if I'm Putin, I
would think it looks like Zalnsy's getting leaned on more
than I am.
Speaker 6 (06:38):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
Yeah, Trump is being much harder on Zelensky, at least
publicly than Putin, which is troubling to me.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
It gets complicated even on the Republican side of the
aisle with some of this stuff, because not all Republicans,
at various levels of leadership agree with Trump's tactics or
some of the things he's said. But Pete Haggzeth, who
is the Secretary of Defense, was on Fox News Sunday
yesterday and asked the question that I knew everybody'd be asked.
Speaker 8 (07:09):
I don't need to get into the characterization of we
know who invaded who, So standing here and saying you're good,
you're bad, You're a dictator, You're not a dictator.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
You invaded, you didn't.
Speaker 9 (07:19):
It's not useful, it's not productive. And so President Trump
isn't getting drawn into that in unnecessary.
Speaker 8 (07:24):
Ways, and as a result, we're closer to peace today.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
Than ever before.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
But fair to say Russia attacked unprovoked into Ukraine three
years ago tomorrow, fair to say it's a very complicated situation. Yeah,
so the second deaf can't just come out and say
Russia attacked Ukraine.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
Sorry, you guys pro Trump or your anti Trump, We're
pro the United States of America. You want to talk
about a complicated situation. Pete Heggzeth having to go on
shows after the President says something is ridiculous as Ziln
as you know, Ukraine started the war, and he's trying
to dance around it.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
Well.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Also on Fox, this isn't you know ABC News with
David Muir Muir This is on Fox. Maria bartar Romo
asked Walls, who's the National Security Advisor? Is that what
he is? Anyway, same question.
Speaker 6 (08:12):
Can you acknowledge that Russia is the aggressor here?
Speaker 8 (08:15):
Well, you know what, who would you rather have him
go toe to toe with the likes of Vladimir Putin,
Kim Jong un, she or who anyone else? Joe Biden
or Donald Trump. He's the deal maker in chief, He's
the commander in chief, and it's only because of his
strength that were even in this position. And President Trump's
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own words have been that Russia invaded a neighbor under Bush,
under Obama, under Biden, but not him. It didn't happen
his first term, and he's going to bring it to
an end his second term.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
So that's the position. A lot of his cabinet people
are in and trying to defend the whole Ukraine started
this thing and then slightly or.
Speaker 6 (08:59):
Difflec obviously changed the top.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, slightly different topic, but again getting to
the there's a bit of a fisure in the at least,
I guess with Fox and Trump, and I know a
lot of you think Fox is evil for calling the
election for Arizona in twenty twenty and all that sort
of stuff, so you But anyway, brit Hume today talking
about the German elections and the fact that the AfD,
(09:23):
that's what they call the ultra right wing party, that
did better than it's ever done before. I'll read this
quote from brit Hume. Despite what you've heard from Elon
Musk and jd Vance, the AfD is an anti American
pro Russian party. Some eighty percent of German voters, including
the twenty nine percent who chose Fred Mertz, don't support
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the AfD. The pro American mister Mertz could could use
us support. But so that's the Seniors commentator on Fox saying, hey,
that right party is anti US, pro Russia right.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
And this returns to a theme I'm always harping on
that the polite, moderate conservative Germans were unwilling to say,
we have a bit of an immigration challenge and it's
tearing a part of our country and huge percentages of
Germans hate it. They were too polite and restrained to
say that they didn't want to stir up trouble, and
so these people whose lives in towns are just being
(10:22):
thrown as completely changed forever by this rampant immigration, are saying, Okay,
is anybody reflecting my concerns? The AfD is okay, there
are a bunch of lunatics, but at least they're reflecting
my concerns. This is the problem you run into, and
the so called moderate parties are being too politically correct
to reflect the reality of their voters, which is one
(10:45):
of the things Jade Vance was talking about that I
thought was great.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Yeah, but as uh as we pointed out, he gets
it's complicated for Fox to cover it. It's complicated for
us to cover it. Just on the whole, I believe
Ukraine is the victim. Putin is one of the most
evil people on planet Earth, et cetera, et cetera. Are
we going to normalize relations with Russia? Oh, by the way,
(11:10):
another thing I wanted to throw in. So some people
claim the behind the stream strategy scene strategy that the
seven dimensional Chess is Trump trying to break Russia away
from China, and that our biggest threat on the world
stage is Russian China together, which is bad definitely very
very bad from us, and that if he could, you know,
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kind of be friendly with Russia, maybe they'd get away
from China. She called Putin today on the three year anniversary,
to congratulate him on the peace talks, and blah blah blah,
which most people are seeing is just a message to
the world, Hey, you ain't separating us. We're together, Russian
China are in this together. We are taking on the
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rest of you all.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
Yeah, and again we'd rather have you understand what's going
on than pander to you. So I will say this,
the idea that Trump in the really three years or
so he has left of productive presidency, because that that
final year is very lame ducky for a variety of reasons.
But the idea that in the three years he has left,
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Trump could do enough for Putin that it would pry
Putin away from Shijin Ping, who is really kind of
the electrical outlet that's letting Russia run right now. The
idea that he could pry him away is a fantasy.
It won't happen. It can't happens. It's almost silly. I
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wish it weren't, because Jack, what you said is one
hundred percent correct. Russia and China together is awful.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
It's gonna be interesting to see how this plays out
over the coming days, weeks, months before we take a break.
You gotta quit prediction. You think Putin's just going to continue,
so there will be no peace deal?
Speaker 6 (12:51):
Uh, not for months?
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Not for months. Yeah, biggest drone attack on Kiev by
far last night.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
If the a three unquote peace deal, You've got to
look at Russia's history of breaking every deal they make, right,
every freaking deals they may.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Well, that's why Macrone's meeting with Trump right now at
the White House and mcron and fred Martz, is it
France and Germany or.
Speaker 6 (13:14):
Hope Macrone put on a nice clean pair of panties.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Have agreed to put tens of thousands of peacekeepers that'd
be soldiers in Ukraine to try to, you know, as
a guarantee that Russia won't reinvade. Obviously that would be
attacking NATO troops. And then you got Article five in
that whole thing. But hopefully we don't get there any
time soon. You got to comment on any of this
text line four nine five KFTC.
Speaker 6 (13:39):
I went to.
Speaker 10 (13:40):
Career day for my daughter's school. So I was hoping
to sit at a table alone. They put me at
a table with a surgeon, which I think they did
it on purpose, almost to show the kids here's the
difference between reading. They asked him how long did you
go to school to be a surge? And you know,
(14:01):
he's like fifty four years or whatever it's like. And
they asked me, They're like, how long to be a comedian.
I was like, you're good now, so look, finish elementary school,
make your parents happy.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
But then I'd get out.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
And get after it. Nate Bargati had career day with
his daughter. I wouldn't like that either. Don't sit me
with the surgeon. The hell hain't cool. I had that
problem at the career day at my son's high school.
What a couple of months ago I did that. Some
of the people that like could really accomplished things that
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tear actual pages from rock and roll history. It's like
being told, yeah, Jimmy Hendrix is going to open for you.
Speaker 6 (14:44):
What no, No, don't put me next to the surgeon.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
A couple of business notes for you. First business, Hooters
has declared they're going to file for bankruptcy. I'm kind
of shocked still works or is a thing or is
it barely working? They should put a Hooters in the coals,
see if that would work. Maybe have a in the
corner of the coals. You could have a Hooters. See
if they like you got a Starbucks in the target. Yeah,
(15:12):
have a Hooters and a Coles. They can both go
out of business together. And then the other business news
is the New York Yankees have announced they will allow
facial hair for the first time in their famous history,
raise their wielding fascists. They've had a bunch of very
famous players come there that were bearded or mustachioed and
they had to cut their beard and no more. I
(15:33):
guess they're getting with the times, realizing almost all the
good players have beards.
Speaker 10 (15:38):
So.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
Literally nobody cares.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
I kind of liked it for some reason. I don't know.
I don't know what that means about me, but I
kind of liked theriar.
Speaker 6 (15:47):
We have rules.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
We we're a class organization here, and gonna have a
bunch of hoodlums with facial air.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
Hoodlums with facial air keep trying have those damn big
ear gauges where your ear loaves are all stretched out.
Speaker 6 (16:03):
That'd be my only rule.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Have you ever seen anybody when they've got them out?
Speaker 6 (16:08):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (16:10):
God, it's hard to not vomit. Yes, Kate's rough. Yes, Katie,
are you ready for a confession?
Speaker 6 (16:17):
Ok?
Speaker 1 (16:17):
You gauges?
Speaker 11 (16:18):
I did, and my dad one year at Christmas went,
the only thing that I want is for you to
take those out of your ears, And so I did.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
And then did you have to get an operation or anything?
I called them?
Speaker 11 (16:28):
I actually call them b whole ears because they're like
still kind of stretched out.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Okay, no, that they did. They retract like a rubber
band over time. Yeah, they went back. Oh I didn't
know that.
Speaker 11 (16:38):
But I can't wear certain kinds of ear rings because
it's still a little stretched.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
So who were you angry at at the time when
you got your ear gauges?
Speaker 11 (16:46):
The guy I was dating had gated gauged ears and
it was dumb.
Speaker 6 (16:50):
There you go, dumb date men.
Speaker 11 (16:53):
That's that's the end of the story, right there, You
guys lead to all the problems.
Speaker 6 (17:00):
Wait till you're twenty four.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
At least, Joe's gonna help us drink liberal tears? Coming
up next? Is that where we're doing?
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (17:10):
Oh, now I have no time, but yes, roughly speaking, yes,
armstrong and getty and this adi.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
You know what it means, because.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
That's heard somebody to say earlier.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Today they have substitute in these acronyms for the N word.
Speaker 9 (17:29):
My message to young men is, don't allow this broken
culture to send you a message that you're a bad
person because you're a man, because you like to tell
a joke, because you like to have a beer with
your friends, or because you're competitive. O. Our message, the
cultural message, and I think the presidents in mine is
the exact opposite. But our cultural message is I think
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that it wants to turn everybody into whether male or female,
into androgynous idiots who think the same, talk this same,
and act the same. We actually think God made male
and female for a purpose, and we want you guys
to thrive as young men and as young women, and
we're going to help with our public policy to make
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it possible to do that.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
Just a little contrast there of James Cliburn, who got
the Mummy Joe Biden elected by backing in South Carolina
back in the day, saying that to even use the
term DEI is to drop an N bomb. If you're
saying it's bad. If you're saying it's good, you get
to and then JD. Van saying, hey, men don't be
ashamed of being men. Go ahead and be a man.
(18:37):
We were talking earlier about how a number of states,
including Maine, are fighting to keep boys playing in girls'
sports because they really like to see boys win all
the girls medals.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
I guess even though the New York Times has pulling
out today that eighty percent of Americans don't agree with that.
Speaker 5 (18:55):
Yeah, I'm tempted to play Trump's screed about the main governor, well,
go ahead nineteen Michael Ena.
Speaker 7 (19:00):
Maine yesterday, right, the governor of May.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
She's fighting to keep men.
Speaker 7 (19:11):
In women's sports. You ever see what happens to a
woman when a woman boxes a man who transitioned to womanhood.
Did you ever see what happens? It's not pretty, it's
not pretty.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Let her do that fight.
Speaker 7 (19:28):
Let them all do that fight, because I think that's
about a ninety ten issue, and I can't figure out
who the ten percent are.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Don't nobody can?
Speaker 5 (19:36):
Yeah, Yeah, he's damn near right. It's certainly an eighty
twelve issue. And then the inevitable, you know, four to
eight percent who'd no opinion.
Speaker 6 (19:46):
I don't know. Wait wait, wait, wait.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
We're talking about a young man donning a skirt saying
I'm now a girl and beating the hell out of
girls on a sports field. Are you in favor of
that or against it? I don't know, no opinion.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Not sure.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
How about a man who just like physically beats a
woman down on a sports field in favor against him?
Speaker 6 (20:09):
Maybe? Not not sure? You people, please don't vote.
Speaker 5 (20:17):
Branda Devine, who is so nasty but funny in The
New York Post, writing about a couple of different topics,
including the fact that Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers, who is
a prominent.
Speaker 6 (20:29):
Democrat and is a decent weather van.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
For which way the Democratic Party is going because they
are leaderless rudderless philosophy lists about half.
Speaker 6 (20:45):
A Democrat say the woke thing killed us, and I
think it's sick anyway, and the other half are like,
we're not woken enough. That's our problem anyway.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
Tony Evers just backed legislation that redefines mothers as and
I quote inseminated persons. Wow, happy in seminated person's day
or some flowers, Hey, inseminated person. I was just calling
because we haven't talked for a while, and I miss you.
Speaker 6 (21:15):
How are you? And Dad? Good? God? Seriously, I mean
it's not.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Like just wrong, it's perverse, it's bizarre, it's radical, and
it's like ninety ten.
Speaker 6 (21:28):
And yet go.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
To your local school and see if they're teaching about
the genderbread person. Anyway, as a proud mother of two,
writes Congresswoman Amanda Nednuski of Kenosha, Wisconsin, as a proud
mother of two, it is absolutely insulting that the governor
and his budget would reduce me in millions of other
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mothers across Wisconsin to inseminated persons. Yeah, I would agree,
and for some reason, and I'm just going to throw
this in not because zapropos.
Speaker 6 (22:03):
I think it actually distracts from a really important argument.
Speaker 5 (22:07):
But Miranda Devine also writes about how in deep blue Connecticut,
because they have well you know what, I guess this
is related cal Unicornians, Illinoisans New Yorkers will recognize this
attitude of we've got to turn everybody loose from the
prisons if we possibly can, because we've overincarcerated people disproportionately,
people of color, blah blah blah, and enforcing laws racist.
(22:30):
We should let the crime run wild in the streets,
so all of our products are locked up behind glass.
Speaker 6 (22:36):
Connecticuts.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
Democrat appointed socially worker social worker Heavy Psychiatric Security Review
Board approved.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
The early release the early release from.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
A secure metal hospital a cannibal X murderer who ate
his victim's brain and eyeball with chopsticks and washed it
down with a glass of sucke. Forty eight year old's
Tyreese Smith who killed an eight angel Tun Gonzalez It's
(23:08):
probably ana Hell was deemed not guilty by reason of insanity,
but they said, yeah, he's more or less fixed, so
we're gonna turn him loose. The board concluding the Smiths
was not experiencing cravings to eat human flesh anymore, and
that he had agreed to reach out to the hospital
if he felt like killing anybody and eating them.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Wonder what that feels like when you're overwhelmed with the
desire to kill somebody to eat them.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
I have a number of verges, some of which I
worked at. Well, that's not one of them.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
You know what sounds good today, gym in accounting, Hey,
ain't sounds delicious.
Speaker 5 (23:50):
I'd first have to hack him to death with an
axe and then consume his brain. But let's see, I've
got the staff meeting at ten thirty. Oh, I'm booked
for lunch. Gotta wait till this evening.
Speaker 6 (24:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
Yeah, And actually, one of the Republicans apparently there are
a few in Connecticut asked, is this Smith guy likely
to reoffend if he fails to take his medicand medications?
And they said yeah, he was more than likely to
do so, but that he'd pledged to take his medication
and again reach out to the hospital if he was,
you know, seized by the desire to pick up his
(24:24):
act and do again what he did.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Like, you can't count on the pledges of a maniac.
I mean, what is there to believe in?
Speaker 5 (24:31):
So that is you know, granted that is a semi
nut picking, Yeah, I suppose, But when you've got that
alongside what appears to be the only unifying message at
this point, which is Elon is a dick and f Trump.
This is why it makes me nuts when Trump does
(24:53):
crazy stuff that's not necessary or says crazy stuff that's
not necessary. I mean, we're head by five and a
half touchdowns in the fourth quarter, Just don't throw.
Speaker 6 (25:05):
Any deep pass. How we throw a deep pass? Oh no, no, no,
So we'll see how it goes.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
But James Carbal, the Democratic strategists, he's ancient at this point,
and I think kind of out of touch with where
things have gone. But he says, hey, Democrats, play powsome.
Things are going to fall apart soon around all of
this stuff that Trump's doing. Just play powsome, stay away
from all this crap. But I ain't gonna listen to him.
I think he's right. If I'm a Democrat, that's what
I would want to do. I don't know if he's
right that the whole Trump thing's going to fall apart,
(25:35):
but I do think he's right that playing possum is
a better strategy than doubling down on some of this nonsense.
Speaker 6 (25:42):
Right right in.
Speaker 5 (25:43):
No other conservative authority than Jake Tapper had HAKEM.
Speaker 6 (25:49):
Jeffries on the other day.
Speaker 5 (25:51):
And you know, Jeffries is as close to a leader
as I think Democrats have. He's the House Minority leader.
He's a very very bright young man. I mean, he's
utterly dishonest and progressive in a way that makes me
but he's a very smart guy. And he went on
CNN to Jake Tapper's show as saying that, hey.
Speaker 6 (26:07):
We're regrouping, We're on our way up.
Speaker 5 (26:08):
The Republicans are going to collapse, and even Tapper said,
you know, congressional Republicans are pulling it about forty percent
and Democrats are twenty percent.
Speaker 6 (26:17):
So that's an issue for you. We just need to
not screw it up.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
So I left town Thursday and I did a little
birthday thing I want to talk about next to all
these art museums I went to in Los Angeles. But
because I was out of town, I missed the USA
Canada hockey match on ESPN on Wednesday night, which set
records for ESPN's most watched something or other they've ever
(26:43):
had in their history on ESPN. Who won? I don't
know anything.
Speaker 6 (26:47):
The Knuckers won in overtime.
Speaker 5 (26:49):
Overtime crazy, Oh yeah, sounds exciting and mincingly little Justin
Trudeau tweeted, you can't have our country and you can't
take our game.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Wow overtime And do they do the shootout in that?
Is that the way they did how they do over there?
Speaker 6 (27:05):
No?
Speaker 5 (27:05):
No, they play for a while first and they actually
scored a goal, which is the sort of you know,
provocative attack that often inspires an invasion.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
So it causes bellay or something.
Speaker 6 (27:18):
Exactly the annexation.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Huh. I continue to stand with Hitler when I say, oh, Man,
that modern art is crap. Oh he would have said shite,
But I'd say he's right about this, as I saw
a bunch of modern art in some of the best
museums in the world over the weekend. I want to
tell you about some of the things I saw, among
(27:40):
other things on the way stay here. So I went
to downtown Los Angeles. I stayed in downtown Los Angeles
for my birthday on Friday. I'd never stayed downtown before.
And if you don't know, a Los Angeles is very
spread out, so they're downtown. Isn't like New York or
(28:03):
Chicago where there's like gazillions of people walking around and
everything like that and doing their thing, so many people
working all all are flung areas. It's not like that
at all. But I went to a bunch of museums
and that sort of thing. First I went to I
went to Rodeo Drive on Thursday afternoon. I was gonna
do some shopping for my birthday, which I thought better
of after I saw some of the prices on these things,
(28:24):
I was kind of interested in what a freak show
that is? What a freak show. It's just you should
go if you ever have the opportunity, just to like
walk the streets and look at the people and see
that this exists. The thing you think is only on
TV actually exists. Women with faces so distorted by boatox
(28:46):
and operationals and they hardly look like human beings wearing
the craziest clothes you can possibly imagine, struggling to get
an in and out of Lamborghini's because they're an inch
off the ground and they you know, I'm fifty years
old and I've had a lot of botox and everything, and.
Speaker 5 (29:03):
I'm I'm wearing twenty five thousand dollars worth a clothes.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Right and I'm trying to get out of this Lamborghini
and it's just it's and then they're everywhere. It's really something.
And then who buys all that stuff? Who buys these
twenty thousand dollars jackets and eleven thousand dollars purses? Are
there enough people? There must be, or the stores wouldn't
be there. But there are obviously enough people to buy
those things to keep the places open, the lights on.
Speaker 5 (29:27):
A lot of things that used to be signs of
wealth now are accessible to a lot of people, or
knockoffs are, and so people who are looking for status,
is a rich person have to really go to extremes.
Speaker 6 (29:40):
To prove that they're better.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Right, That is part of it. So it's getting late
that things are closing down, and I'm hungry, and so
then I just go on my little app on my phone.
Restaurant open near me, and right over there was Spago,
which if you're old enough you know the name, because
it was like the most famous restaurant in the world
for I don't know a decade or so. It's where
all the stars went and you had to get a
(30:04):
reservation two years out and all that sort of stuff.
So unless you were somebody, yeah, well you don't have
to be somebody anymore because I just I just walked
over and walked in. But you know, I was hoping
to see Cindy Lauper and the stars of Knots Landing,
but they weren't there because it's not the eighties or
the nineties. And I had their famous salmon pizza and
looked all the pictures on the wall and had a
(30:25):
wonderful time. Yes, Katie, I saw the picture of.
Speaker 11 (30:28):
The salmon pizza and I was I was very confused.
I what did that entail.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
It's a pizza crust with cream cheese with salmon on top,
and then some sort of fish egg thingy on top
of that, which I tried to pretend wasn't there because
it kind of grosses me out.
Speaker 6 (30:42):
But it was delicious.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
I think the pizza thing is what threw me.
Speaker 11 (30:45):
So it's kind of like a locks bagel sort of pizza.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
I guess this is what the stars of the eighties
and the early nineties wanted to eat, because it's their
signature thing. I saw that picture and I went, what
the hell right? I like to hit all the trendy
spots forty years after they.
Speaker 5 (30:59):
Were That's good. It looks fairly appetizing. I really like fish.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
It was great anyway. So the on Friday, I went
to a whole bunch of museums. I went to a
Catholic Mass at the big Giant Cathedral they have downtown
I'm not Catholic, but big Giant Cathedral they have Downtown,
LA which they rebuilt after the worst earthquake they had
back in the day. Stunning church, absolutely stunning. It's where
they have like if police die or firefighters die or whatever,
(31:28):
that's where they have the funerals. It's the go to
politicians blah blah blah sort of church, and just absolutely stunning.
I don't tend to like modern architecture, but really like that.
But going to the museum, so much of it was
modern art, which I just, I honestly think is dumb.
I mean not just I don't have an appreciation for
(31:49):
it or something like that. I actually think it's dumb.
I think you're being hoodwinked. I think it's a ruse.
I think you think you're supposed to go along with
it for some reason. It's just so dumb. Well, it's
like the banana tape to the wall from a couple
of weeks ago, you know, it's that sort of thing.
And there's just a lot of it that's like that.
So they had this new special display in one of
(32:09):
your fancy museums, The working Man or something like that
was the title. If you have to do a whole
bunch of writing, in my opinion, to explain your art,
then the writing, what is the art. Then do you
need a whole bunch of writing to enjoy most of
the great pieces throughout history. No, you just look at
him and they are what they are, and it's amazing
(32:29):
that somebody painted that or sculpted that or whatever. But
if you have to explain to me what the banana
tape to the wall means, I feel like, Okay, so
the art is in your description. They had a pair
of multiple pairs of work boots and a long description
of how this was a symbol of a worn through
(32:50):
a lifetime of work in man's dedication to blah blah
blah whatever.
Speaker 5 (32:54):
I would have had the caption left over when the
mall was looted.
Speaker 6 (32:58):
Work boots.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
I just and they looked like a lot of the
boots I have in my closet. I thought, okay, so
I got plenty of these in my closet. Can I
bring in set them here on the Yeah, worn out
work boots, man's dedication to toiling with his the earth
or some capitalist society something or other. Bs Just like, really,
this is just crap, It's absolutely crap. Or the this
(33:21):
is fairly famous. Maybe you've seen it before. The giant
table and chairs I took a picture of myself under that.
They're huge. The table is like fifteen feet tall. Did
the chairs match it? Okay, that's like a but anybody
could do that and your comment and symbolizes how we're
all oppressed by trying to figure out what to have
for dinner tonight. Man's in humanity demand. That's what I
(33:43):
assume everything is. But something about oversized expectations in a
capitalist society once again or something or I just crap,
it's just crap. I don't know who you're trying to
cool with this stuff.
Speaker 6 (33:57):
Go back to the work boots, see if they fit?
Speaker 4 (34:00):
Did you?
Speaker 1 (34:00):
But did you see? I tweeted out the picture. I
guess this is the famous sculpture of Michael Jackson with
bubbles the chimp.
Speaker 6 (34:08):
It's a it's a museum of Modern Art in San
Francisco back in the day.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
What the hell is that?
Speaker 6 (34:16):
Ugly as hell?
Speaker 1 (34:18):
And it's supposed to symbolize the Michael Jackson's love of chimps.
I believe something with our obsession with celebrity or I
don't know, I don't know, I don't.
Speaker 5 (34:33):
Yeah, you'd lack the sophistication to appreciate I mean there's
there's a gold plated Michael Jackson reclining on a rug
with a chimp in his lap, hugging him lovingly.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
I will admit that, like a lot of things like opera,
a lot of classical music, stuff like that, it's my
lack of sophistication that I don't appreciate it. I honestly
believe this is crap and you're being fooled, and it's
a ruse and it has no meaning whatsoever. I honestly
believe is wearing the same outfit as Jacko.
Speaker 6 (35:03):
What don't you get it?
Speaker 5 (35:06):
Come on, man, clothing Jacko.
Speaker 6 (35:11):
It's all there.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
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